WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/anon_candanga/st...22567296913416

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
https://twitter.com/Hawkeye1745/stat...62205990543367

This is so astonishing (and just might be true, as well), that I've transcribed the whole text so it can be easily copied.



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Inside the AZOVSTAL tunnels

There is a secret NATO facility PIT-404 and a secret NATO biological weapons
laboratory. They are NATO officers at facility PIT-404. The tunnels are equipped with
an armored bunker system.

About 240 foreigners are in the building, including officers from NATO and the French
Foreign Legion, as well as biolab staff. Their guards, funded by Akhmetov, number up
to 3,000 people.

The biolab under the Azovstal plant in Mariupol at what is known as the PIT-404
facility - built and operated by Metabiota, a company with ties to Hunter Biden, Rinat
Akhmetov and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Bioweapons testing was conducted in the labs at this facility. Thousands of Mariupol
residents became "guinea pigs” in these horrific tests. And it was mainly Western
"specialists" who took part in these inhumane experiments.

French intelligence officers and special forces officers could not get their comrades
out of Mariupol. That's why Macron has called the Kremlin so many times, asking for
“humanitarian corridors."

Some French intelligence officials died in the rescue operation. The head of French
intelligence, Eric Videaux, was fired on March 31, 2022 over failures by French
intelligence in the war in Ukraine.

Officers from the US, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, Poland and
Greece are now trapped in the Azovstal dungeons. The US Lieutenant General Roger
Clothier, who was recently captured by the DNR people's militia from a downed
helicopter, has been tracked down by the Russian GRU and SVR in Mariupol from the
external surveillance of his loved ones in Turkey in Izmir.

The Ukrainian national, known to the secret service as Klute, had always accompanied
the general as a traveling wife, confidante and interpreter. As soon as information
was received that this woman had arrived in Mariupol, Russia launched a military
operation and blocked the city.

[Ravenlocke]

In regards to the post directly above this one in reference to “Klute” this is what journalist George Webb tweeted earlier today,
https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/...86117234876424

https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/...77090203570181

Klute Female...Barbara Cloutier...
https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/...22147186380801

[Ravenlocke]

Also this but unconfirmed,
https://twitter.com/semper_vincit/st...41470429401090

https://twitter.com/semper_vincit/st...42369763598339

https://twitter.com/semper_vincit/st...42370833215488

https://twitter.com/semper_vincit/st...42371856605190

[Bill Ryan]

Two new reports from Russia Today:

1) https://rt.com/russia/553667-right-sector-commander-killed

Top Neo-Nazi commander killed in Ukraine – Russia

Taras Bobanich, a senior figure in the Right Sector group, was killed by Russian commandos, the Russian defense ministry said



Russian commandos have killed a prominent member of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector group, the Russian defense ministry claimed on Monday. Taras Bobanich was accused by Moscow of causing hundreds of civilian deaths in eastern Ukraine during hostilities in 2014.

A Russian recon team killed the top Neo-Nazi while on patrol about 5km south from the city of Izium in Ukraine’s Kharkov region, the ministry statement explained. It said he was a deputy commander of the Right Sector responsible for reserve operations.

The ministry didn’t disclose the circumstances of Bobanich’s death. The Right Sector’s social media reported that he was killed on Friday near Izium, calling him a “legendary nationalist”.

The 33-year-old, whose nickname was “Hummer”, came originally from western Ukraine. He rose to national prominence during the mass protests and armed coup of 2013-2014, during which Western-backed Ukrainian nationalists served as a street fighting force against law enforcement.

The coup ended with the toppling of Ukraine’s democratically elected president and a rebellion in the east of the country, which the new authorities in Kiev tried to quash with military force. The nationalists formed so-called “volunteer battalions” to participate in the fighting.

According to Russia, Bobanich had personally ordered the indiscriminate artillery shelling of cities in eastern Ukraine during the hostilities, which allegedly resulted in hundreds of deaths.

In addition to serving as a nationalist military commander, Bobanich played a prominent role in the blockade of trade between Ukraine and Crimea in the autumn 2015. The blockade was organized by nationalist forces who wanted to punish people living on the peninsula for breaking away from Ukraine a year prior and voting to rejoin Russia.

Moscow attacked its neighbor in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements signed in 2014, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.

Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.

2) https://rt.com/russia/553662-s300-mi...raine-slovakia

‘EU-supplied’ S-300 launchers obliterated – Russia

Slovakia reported delivering its only S-300 weapons system to Ukraine last week



S-300PS missile systems during a military parade in Kiev.

Russian forces have destroyed foreign-supplied S-300 anti-aircraft launchers in a number of precision strikes on Ukraine, the Defense Ministry, in Moscow, claimed on Monday. Days earlier, Slovakia reported the donation of a battery of old Soviet-made S-300 air defense missiles to Kiev.

In its regular briefing on the ongoing military action in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reported hitting a hangar “on the southern outskirts of the city of Dnepropetrovsk,” where “equipment from an S-300 battery supplied to the Ukrainian regime by one of the European nations” was hidden.

The barrage of sea-launched Kalibr missiles destroyed four S-300 launchers and as many as 25 Ukrainian troops in the Sunday strike, ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov claimed. He used the old name of the city, which Ukrainian authorities renamed Dnepro in 2016 to distance it from the Soviet period of the country’s history.

The Russian official also reported destroying an S-300 targeting radar in a separate overnight precision airstrike near Uspenovka. The general didn’t specify which of the multiple villages of that name in Ukraine he was referring to, and didn’t say whether the radar was part of the battery supplied by the foreign nation.

Last Friday, Slovakia announced that it had donated its only S-300 battery to Ukraine. The weapon system was part of the NATO member’s legacy from the Warsaw Pact days, when it formed part of Czechoslovakia. It was not clear how many vehicles were sent to Ukraine. A regular S-300 battery can have as few as four and as many as 12 launchers using a single radar to identify targets, and is controlled by a single command post.

Prime Minister Eduard Heger assured citizens that the country’s national security would not be compromised since “allies” agreed to boost its air defense in return. US President Joe Biden said his country would provide American Patriot missile battery as a replacement and thanked Bratislava for agreeing to give the S-300 to Kiev. Elements of the Patriot system started arriving in Slovakia three weeks ago, according to its defense minister.

Washington reportedly wanted another NATO member, Turkey, to strike a similar deal with Ukraine and send it a Russian-supplied S-400, which is more advanced than the S-300. Ankara rejected the idea, saying the system would remain in its possession. In 2020, the US imposed sanctions on Turkey for buying the S-400s from Russia under a deal signed in 2017.

Moscow attacked its neighbor in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements signed in 2014, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.

Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.

[ExomatrixTV]

• Bad News From Ukraine: Is There A Secret Nato Base With A Bio Lab Under This Industrial Area?

Several journalists draw attention to strong reports from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol , where the infamous Azov battalion has entrenched itself in an industrial area. Under Azovstal, which is owned by Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, is said to be a 24 kilometer long tunnel system that is up to 30 meters deep.

According to various sources, that system contains a secret NATO base, called PIT-404, as well as a biolab where biological weapons are made. NATO officers are said to be in the buildings.

• Guinea Pigs

The biolab is said to be run by Metabiota, a firm linked to Hunter Biden, Akhmetov and Ukrainian President Zelensky. The lab would be experimenting with bioweapons, using the inhabitants of Mariupol as guinea pigs. Western 'specialists' in particular took part in these inhumane experiments, writes German journalist Alina Lipp on Telegram.

Many people wonder why the Russians don't bomb Azovstal. This could be a reason. Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett writes that more than 3000 nationalists from the Ukrainian army are hiding in the industrial area. She refers to a report by journalist Alexei Akutin from the Donetsk People's Republic.

• Caught

Journalist Joost Niemoller also draws attention to the factory complex. “What is going on in the Azov enclave in Mariupol?” he asks.
Lipp further writes that officers from the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, Poland and Greece are trapped in the tunnel system.

• source (Dutch 🇳🇱 + Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

Hard news is coming from Mariupol:

• Translated from German to English:

"Under the Azovstal industrial zone, owned by oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, the alleged illegitimate son of former Ukrainian President Kuchma, there are 24 km of tunnels up to 30 m deep.

There is a secret NATO facility PIT-404 and a secret NATO biological weapons laboratory. They are NATO officers at facility PIT-404. The tunnels are equipped with an armored bunker system.

About 240 foreigners are in the building, including officers from NATO and the French Foreign Legion, as well as biolab staff. Their guards, funded by Akhmetov, number up to 3,000 people.

The biolab under the Azovstal plant in Mariupol at what is known as the PIT-404 facility - built and operated by Metabiota, a company with ties to Hunter Biden, Rinat Akhmetov and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Bioweapons testing was conducted in the labs at this facility. Thousands of Mariupol residents became "guinea pigs" in these horrific tests. And it was mainly Western "specialists" who took part in these inhumane experiments.

French intelligence officers and special forces officers could not get their comrades out of Mariupol. That's why Macron has called the Kremlin so many times, asking for "humanitarian corridors."

Some French intelligence officials died in the rescue operation. The head of French intelligence, Eric Videaux, was fired on March 31, 2022 over failures by French intelligence in the war in Ukraine.

Officers from the US, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, Poland and Greece are now trapped in the Azovstal dungeons. The US Lieutenant General Roger Clothier, who was recently captured by the DNR people's militia from a downed helicopter, has been tracked down by the Russian GRU and SVR in Mariupol from the external surveillance of his loved ones in Turkey in Izmir.

The Ukrainian national, known to the secret service as Klute, had always accompanied the general as a traveling wife, confidante and interpreter. As soon as information was received that this woman had arrived in Mariupol, Russia launched a military operation and blocked the city.

• source (Journalist Alina Lipp)
• neuesausrussland

• source

News from Donezk 23/02/22 # Alina Lipp:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_jS0GDQQ7kY

[Bill Ryan]

Scott Ritter is on with Gonzalo Lira in a new livestream, just started. (10 minutes in at the time of posting)

Scott Ritter and the Battle of the Donbas

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w5RKNoIhE40

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/...88632463638535

https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/...66675001274371

https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/...04083990167554

https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/...90663014346753

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/realGonzaloLira/...32097503203328

[Ravenlocke]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
https://twitter.com/anon_candanga/st...22567296913416

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/...28167256006660

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/...25543353921541

By Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 143
https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/s...29073821274114

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1513506903468691463

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/realGonzaloLira/...13648408481795

https://twitter.com/MaxvanderWerff/s...04600812568579

[Ravenlocke]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Scott Ritter is on with Gonzalo Lira in a new livestream, just started. (10 minutes in at the time of posting)

Scott Ritter and the Battle of the Donbas

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w5RKNoIhE40

https://twitter.com/Navsteva/status/1513543571441389569

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/stat...04188550029319

https://twitter.com/NuestraIraSLG/st...23055837990912

https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/statu...62277785612293

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/NuestraIraSLG/st...78650561568769

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/...53285059330056

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/...39985546735617

https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/...40427777400835

[graciousb]

I am totally dubious about the whole thing. I put nothing past TPTB. I was in Iran in 1979 post revolution and nothing reported in Western news was accurate. The hostage thing was an intelligence set up. Russian /Putin is likely a fake enemy put out there to deflect attention and create sides. The areas on the globe where true horrors are happening? Crickets....

[shaberon]

New order to attack Russia:

On April 10, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky ordered to attack the territory of Russian Federation.

The commander of the unit specifies the task for his fighters to advance to the territory of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, if possible.


Shortly, P. Lancaster's wife finds a Tochka crater in the backyard:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7qgRqYtuHC8

Near the Izyum advance:


“The task was to take the settlements and provide a corridor for our armed forces to pass further to the south. When we advanced towards the village of Kamyshevakha, , and we come in ahead on our tanks. When took the settlement there, they (note: the AFU) were running away and shouting that they needed artillery help, they needed phosphorus to burn us out, because they could not do anything anymore. When they saw us, our tanks, they just raised their guns up and there was no firing. The tanks were new, minimum mileage, they were evidently out of storage. BC (combat kit) was full. Everyone was glad that they did not have to fire and people just surrendered, because they saw us, they saw our tanks, they saw our equipment and they did not want to fight with us anymore.”



And one of the examples from a criticism on the arms supply:


“Although these missiles are used by the British only as ship-based, however, if desired, the rearrangement of their transport and launch containers with the appropriate equipment on land-based wheeled chassis for shore-based is unlikely to pose a serious technical problem. Previously, one variant of such adaptation was already known, when in the early 1990s the Danish Navy rearranged four four-container launchers with Harpoon Block 1C missiles from two Peder Skram-type frigates decommissioned from the Danish fleet to 8×8 commercial wheeled automobile chassis, the two batteries of semi-improvised mobile missile systems thus obtained were in service with coastal defense Denmark until 2003.”

Aha, now! Well, you understand — the Kiev army, in fact, is offered such a Do-it-yourself kit from which, with the help of improvised means in Ukraine, they will be able, if possible, to compose something remotely similar to the indescribable beauty mentioned above.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1513691493495885826

https://www.rt.com/russia/553716-ukr...-weapons-azov/

US, UK investigating Ukraine ‘chemical attack’ claims

Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has accused Russian forces of deploying a chemical weapon against its fighters during the siege on Mariupol, potentially creating a pretext for the US and its Western allies to step up efforts to punish Moscow over the conflict.

An unidentified chemical agent was dropped from a drone on Monday, leaving several Ukrainian fighters in the area struggling to breathe, according to unverified accusations posted on Telegram by the ultranationalist Azov Battalion.

“A poisonous substance of unknown origin” was used, the militants claimed, allegedly leaving three fighters suffering mild respiratory issues, dizziness and headaches.

However, an aide to Mariupol Mayor Petro Andryushchenko noted that the allegations of a chemical attack hadn’t been confirmed, according to Reuters.

Separately, the Ukrainian parliament accused Russian forces of “firing on nitric acid tanks” in the Donetsk region. “This was reported by the patrol police,” according to a post on the parliament’s Twitter account on Monday night. “Locals are urged to prepare protective face masks soaked in soda solution.”

Western officials quickly pounced on the allegations, warning of severe consequences for Moscow. “We are working urgently with partners to verify the details,” UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said. “Any use of such weapons would be a callous escalation in this conflict, and we will hold Putin and his regime to account.”

In Washington, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said US officials are monitoring the situation in Mariupol. “These reports, if true, are deeply concerning and reflective of concerns that we have had about Russia’s potential to use a variety of riot control agents, including tear gas mixed with chemical agents, in Ukraine,” he added.

US confirms dispatch of chemical weapons protection READ MORE: US confirms dispatch of chemical weapons protection
US, UK and Ukrainian leaders have claimed for weeks that Russia might deploy chemical or biological weapons in its military operation in the former Soviet republic. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated those concerns on Monday, calling for stronger sanctions against Russia to deter the use of such weapons.

“It is time to make this [sanctions] package in such a way that we would not hear even words about weapons of mass destruction from the Russian side,” Zelensky said. “An oil embargo against Russia is a must.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki first set the stage for an alleged Russian chemical or bioweapon attack last month – while responding to reports from Moscow on US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. She called the charges “an obvious ploy” and said “we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, or to create a false flag operation using them.”

US clarifies position on use of chemical weapons READ MORE: US clarifies position on use of chemical weapons
Also last month, US President Joe Biden said NATO members would respond “in kind” if Russia used weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine.

Moscow launched a large-scale offensive against its neighbor in late February, following Ukraine's failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, and Russia's eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, where the city of Mariupol is located. The German and French brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.

Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military alliance. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two rebel regions by force.

[shaberon]

This may be a better context for one of the quotes I found earlier:


Moscow, SANA-The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces fought a battle in the Tobolsky district of Kharkiv province, where Ukrainian forces surrendered and abandoned new tanks with full ammunition on the battlefield.

The commander of the tank division that participated in the battle said “They had new tanks that were taken out of the warehouses with full ammunition… the Ukrainian forces surrender just because they see us, our tanks and our equipment… They don’t want to fight us .”

The commander indicated that his division’s mission was limited to establish control over nearby residential gatherings and securing a passageway for Russian units to the south.


Russian forces destroyed with missiles ammunition depot and aircraft hangar in Khmelnytskyi and Kyiv, Ukraine last night.

[Bill Ryan]

This was posted by Doug Hillman on https://www.moonofalabama.org's comments section. Unverifiable right now, of course, but it's very detailed and has the air of being well-informed.

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There are now about 200 NATO officers and foreign instructors…[remaining] in the underground concrete premises of Azovstal.
...

In Mariupol there was a large intelligence center of the French Armed Forces, acting in the interests of the alliance and the Kiev regime … but by the time the battle for the city began, there were 53 officers of the French military intelligence DGSE … they could not leave, because the Azov militants … the Nazis decided to use them as a guarantee that they themselves would be pulled out of the boiler.

In addition to the French, there is a group of mercenaries in Mariupol … officers from Canada, Sweden and the UK, as well as a detachment of Syrian Turkomans… [and] among them there may be career intelligence officers from the Canadian CSIS, the Swedish MUST and the British MI-6, who like to use the status of a mercenary as a cover. In general, they, too, were in a trap.
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On March 18, Chancellor Scholz came to help Macron, and on March 20, with the consent of Moscow, a rescue team was sent to Mariupol from officers of the German military intelligence BND. But the “Azov”, believing that this was the only hope for them to escape … turned the Germans into hostages, despite guarantees from the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the representative office of the Azov regiment located in Kyiv.
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This was followed by attempts to evacuate the French and Germans with the help of helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which … [resulted] in five downed helicopters. In one of those helicopters that fell into the sea, there were supposedly two Frenchmen… According to radio interception, 21 Frenchmen died on the territory of Azovstal.
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Now all living (if there are still any) foreign intelligence officers and military specialists held in Mariupol are concentrated at Azovstal to serve as human shields for the Nazis. Since the intelligence officers of the NATO countries and Sweden are of great operational interest to the Russian special services, and the very fact of their capture can have a huge propaganda effect, as well as become a serious trump card for pressure on the Western countries, efforts were made to take them alive.

This circumstance greatly hampered the assault on Azovstal and did not allow powerful bombing and artillery strikes … But judging by the fact that now the intensity of the work of artillery and aviation has seriously increased, either information has appeared that the foreigners were liquidated by the “Azov” in order to avoid their detention by Russian special services, or, in order not to put the lives of our soldiers at unnecessary risk, they simply waved their hand at them.