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    Here's a short 4 minute video published just three weeks before Olga Kachura was killed.

    It's worth watching simply because from this one can understand how the Russian/DPR forces are devastating the Ukrainian troops with sheer artillery firepower, spectacular (and frightening) to watch. One can see how they often retreat against orders, surrender, or simply flee.

    Those shells and missiles are all aimed with precision. No-one anywhere near their targets would have a chance.

    This video is all about the brutality of war, and the interview with Olga that I copied abovehighly recommended — is about the humanity of at least some of the wartime leaders. This is the paradox.

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    https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status...11961695866882


    The shelling disrupted the Farewell ceremony to Colonel Olga “Korsa” Kachura who died the day before.

    https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/statu...77801090752513


    https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/st...62467667304449



    https://readovka.world/news/107020

    Ukrainian most brutal and cynical shelling of Donetsk 18+

    There are many victims and wounded in the center of the city
    Revenge for practically losing Pisky hit the civilians of Donetsk on August 4. At least six victims are known: a grandmother and granddaughter died on Pushkin Boulevard, their family member found their torn bodies right on the sidewalk. Two more bodies were lying next to them: a woman and a man in a military uniform, a shrapnel hit him in the head. Two people, a girl and a man, died in the shelling of the Donbass Palace Hotel, on Gurov Avenue.

    WARNING! SHOCK CONTENT!

    Viewer discretion is advised.

    The shelling was carried out in the center of Donetsk from M777 howitzers coming from the direction of the village of Pervomayskoye. A Readovka military correspondent has discovered shell fragments near the Donbass Palace, a hotel in the city center, right on the site of the «impact». The Ukrainian Army attacked civilians while retreating, apparently deciding to take revenge for the advance of our troops near Avdiivka and the settlement of Pisky.

    The shelling began in the morning. Ukrainian militants, with their usual cynicism, decided to disrupt the ceremony of saying goodbye to Guard Colonel Olga «Korsa» Kachura, who died the day before. At least two attacks have been reported near the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theater, where the ceremony was held. The event has been postponed due to shelling by the Ukrainian forces. The theater has come under fire for the first time in eight years.

    Then the Ukrainian military shelled the Donbass Palace hotel and residential buildings nearby. One girl was killed and at least six others are known to have been wounded. Among them were two ambulance staff and a little boy who suffered shrapnel wounds to the head. Journalists, including Readovka military correspondents Igor Chekanov, Rostislav Shorokhov, and Alisa Zinchenko, have also come under fire.


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    https://readovka.world/news/106968

    Korsa posthumously awarded Hero of Russia title
    For courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty.


    Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded posthumously the Hero of Russia title to Colonel Olga Kachura for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty.

    Since 2014, Kachura was in command of the DPR's rocket artillery battalion in Horlivka, one of the most dangerous regions.

    Olga Kachura's friend Natalia Khim in a conversation with Readovka said that the commander of the MLRS (multiple rocket launcher system) division died while driving on duty. She was returning from Horlivka to Donetsk, but on the way her convoy was shelled by the Ukrainian artillery. Korsa died of her wounds on the way to the hospital in Yasynuvata. According to Natalia, Olga is likely to be buried in Horlivka.

    «Olga said in her last phone conversation that she missed me very much. On my last trip, I could not visit her in person, so I passed the humanitarian aid through the guys. Olga was very angry that I did not come, and gave me the order to ‘move my ass.’ Today I spoke to her, discussing humanitarian aid and joking, and she was cheerful. And then that was it – the connection was cut off. Some time later, I find out that her convoy was destroyed. My head hurts from a thought when I talk to a person, and then, in a second, she is gone», – Natalia Khim told Readovka.
    Her two children are left without a mother. As Natalia noted, the last wish of the commander of the DPR artillery unit was to raise money for ARCHER thermal imaging scopes, KESTREL weather stations and drones for her division's work.


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    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europ...8-6C51FC756850

    Ukraine war: IAEA says Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant out of control

    A huge nuclear power plant occupied by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine is "completely out of control", the head of the UN's nuclear agency says.

    Rafael Grossi was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying the Zaporizhzhia plant needed an inspection and repairs.

    "You have a catalogue of things that should never be happening in any nuclear facility," he said.

    Europe's biggest nuclear plant is dangerously close to the fighting.

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia earlier this week of using the plant, which it overran in March, as a military base to launch attacks on Ukrainian forces.

    Ukrainian officials have said Russians station troops and store military hardware on the grounds of the power station on the Dnipro river in the south of Ukraine.

    But a Russian-installed official in the region told Reuters news agency that Ukrainian forces were using Western-supplied weapons to attack the plant.

    Yevgeny Balitsky said officials were ready to show Mr Grossi's agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), how Russians were guarding the nuclear facility while Ukrainians were allegedly attacking it.

    When Russia seized the plant, its shelling of buildings there caused an international outcry.

    The plant is still operating, with Ukrainian staff under Russian control.

    At a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York, Mr Grossi said: "The situation is very fragile. Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated one way or the other and we cannot allow that to continue."

    The IAEA's director-general said he was trying to put together a mission as soon as possible to visit the plant but this required the approval of both the Ukrainian and Russian sides, as well as UN authorisation, given the risks involved in visiting the war zone.

    In June, Ukraine's state nuclear company said Ukraine had not invited the IAEA - and any visit would legitimise Russia's presence there.

    This week, Mr Grossi said he and his team needed protection to reach Zaporizhzhia - which meant the co-operation of both Russia and Ukraine. "I'm pleading to both sides to let this mission proceed," he said.

    IAEA contacts with staff at the plant had been "patchy" and the supply chain of equipment and spares had been disrupted, Mr Grossi explained to AP. There was also a lot of nuclear material which needed to be inspected, he added.

    "While this war rages on, inaction is unconscionable," he said. "If an accident occurs at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, we will not have a natural disaster to blame - we will have only ourselves to answer to. We need everyone's support."

    Accusing the Russians of using the plant as a "nuclear shield", Mr Blinken said: "Of course the Ukrainians cannot fire back lest there be a terrible accident involving the nuclear plant."

    In 1986, northern Ukraine was the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded.

    Russian forces also seized Chernobyl soon after the invasion on 24 February this year but withdrew after five weeks. Computers at the site were looted or damaged but actual nuclear equipment at the decommissioned plant was not affected.


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    Russian Foreign Ministry: Russia rejects insinuations about nuclear threats in Ukraine

    MOSCOW: United Nations: Igor Vishnevetsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, said that a detailed reaction of the authorities to these accusations would be given later

    Russia rejects insinuations about nuclear threats and actions aimed at undermining nuclear security in Ukraine. Igor Vishnevetsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, stated this on Tuesday, speaking at the review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

    "Our detailed response to insinuations about alleged threats of nuclear weapons and actions aimed at undermining nuclear and physical nuclear security in Ukraine, we will give later, exercising our right to reply said diplomat.[COLOR="red"][COLOR="red"]
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    • Senate Votes to SIDESTEP Congressional WAR POWERS And Expand NATO To Finland And Sweden:

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    https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/sta...39593091407873


    ANOTHER PoW Camp Hit. Ukraine Shells A FUNERAL In Donetsk.
    400 UA Soldiers Killed.
    3 Brigades FLEE



    https://ria.ru/20220804/obstrel-1807...medium=desktop


    The Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled a correctional colony in Donetsk

    Two people were killed in the shelling of a correctional colony in Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine


    DONETSK, August 4 - RIA Novosti. A correctional colony was shelled in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, an employee of the institution was killed, two prisoners were wounded, said Mayor Alexei Kulemzin.
    "In the Kirovsky district, when shelling the territory of the correctional colony on the street. Ivan Susanin, 35, an employee of the institution died. Two prisoners were injured. Questionnaire data are being specified," Kulemzin wrote in the Telegram channel. Later, the mayor reported that one of the injured prisoners died of his injuries.


    https://military.pravda.ru/news/1732918-specoperacija/


    Ministry of Defense: The Russian Armed Forces liquidated up to 400 Ukrainian military in Konstantinovka

    Representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that during a military special operation to force peace in Donbass and Ukraine, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation killed about 400 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the department, they were located on the territory of Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

    "The temporary location point of units of the 95th Air Assault Brigade was affected," the ministry stressed.

    At the same time, the Ministry of Defense told about the liquidation of 20 units of military equipment of the Ukrainian army.

    Earlier, the Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of three platoons of Grad multiple rocket launchers and four platoons of Carnation guns.
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    • Senate Votes to SIDESTEP Congressional WAR POWERS And Expand NATO To Finland And Sweden:


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    Senate Votes 95-1 to Expand NATO Into Sweden and Finland


    Josh Hawley (R-MO) voted 'no,' Rand Paul (R-KY) voted 'present'
    The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a resolution approving Sweden and Finland’s bids for NATO membership, demonstrating the bipartisan consensus on expanding the military alliance further on Russia’s border.

    The measure passed the Senate in a vote of 95-1-1, with only Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) voting “no,” and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) voting “present.”

    In an op-ed published in The National interest, Hawley explained that he was against expanding NATO into Sweden and Finland because he believes the US should be expanding its military resources into the Asia Pacific to counter China.

    An amendment that Paul tried to add to the resolution would have emphasized that Article 5, NATO’s mutual defense clause, does not supersede congressional authorization for war. But the amendment failed in a vote of 10-87.

    The Senate vote was needed to ratify US approval for Sweden and Finland to join the military alliance. All 30 NATO members need to approve the Nordic nations’ memberships, and according to The Hill, the Senate vote makes the US the 20th country to do so.

    In July, the House voted on a resolution supporting Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids that passed in a vote of 394-18, with only Republicans voting against the measure.

    Turkey is the only NATO member that has said its legislature might block Sweden and Finland from joining the alliance. Ankara initially blocked the Nordic countries from applying but lifted the objection after signing a memorandum at the NATO summit in June.

    Turkey accused Sweden and Finland of supporting the PKK, a Kurdish militant group Ankara considers a terrorist organization. Under the memorandum, the two Nordic nations agreed to respond to Turkey’s extradition request for suspected PKK members and other alleged “terrorists.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the Turkish parliament could block Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids if they don’t comply.
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    Did I miss something? Around 2:50 mins he addresses that the Russians have found evidence somewhere in Rubizhanskyy, that the US spread the Corona virus and the Monkeypox (are there Russians whom can verify this news?) around the World.

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    Default Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

    Quote Posted by 9ideon (here)
    Did I miss something? Around 2:50 mins he addresses that the Russians have found evidence somewhere in Rubizhanskyy, that the US spread the Corona virus and the Monkeypox (are there Russians whom can verify this news?) around the World.

    He must be referring to the latest Russian briefing about the Biolabs in Ukraine.
    Here is a tweet about this from Hawkeye1745, Rubezhnoye is highlighted in one of the pictures.

    https://twitter.com/Hawkeye1745/stat...36171285946368


    https://twitter.com/Hawkeye1745/stat...36201128402952


    https://twitter.com/Hawkeye1745/stat...46768690003969


    Also this,

    https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/sta...36889327263744


    Also check the telegram channel for Intel Slava Z,

    https://twitter.com/PA150M250/status...02254289997826
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    On average, it takes about ten minutes from the moment a task is received to its completion.


    Spoken by the late commander of artillery. But this is exactly what we saw in the retreat a few pages ago. Ukrainian column exited the city and it took about ten minutes to start eating these rounds and they basically stopped.

    This does not come without costs and Ukraine must have some halfway decent intel if they were able to peg her service the next day.


    It must be from the U. S. because, according to the people in charge, they do most of what they do because Ukrainians are stupid:


    Adviser to the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky, Alexey Arestovich, described the Ukrainian people in one of his interviews.

    ” Those in power in Ukraine despise the people. I assure you. Despise. They do not think of them as human. And have every reason to do so. Except for one thing, that they (Ukrainians) are people after all. The Ukrainian people, activists, the public, all these businessmen and all these patriots and so on. They are stupid, impotent, brainless, emotional, controlled, poor in spirit, but still people. All. Normal people who understand what is happening can be counted on the fingers of two hands. (Including me). The rest are a misfortune, uneducated, stupid, without experience of civilian life. Thank God that these people have no power. If the people come to power, I will run away from this country. Do you understand?”

    Ukrainian actor, Evgeny Koshevoy who is a close friend of Vladimir Zelensky also once shared his opinion about the Ukrainian people.

    “I don’t give a f*ck about Ukraine. I think they are total idiots and I officially declare this!”




    That sounds about like Victoria Nuland and at least ninety-five of our Senators gleefully "expanding" NATO to Finn Land and that miscegenated husk next door to it.


    However if part of the front around Avdivka has bugged out then it seems to me the rest will follow.

    At this point we can pretty confidently say 3-400 KIA every day. With the additional confidence that these are useless idiots who must be prevented from having any say about what happens to them. You knew that, right, but now you know. They just said it.



    Here come a few other deliveries:


    In a statement, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said that it had approved the possible sale of 300 Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical Ballistic Missiles (GEM-T) and related equipment to Saudi Araba for an estimated $3.05 billion.

    Separately, the agency approved the possible sale of 96 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) System Missiles, two THAAD Launch Control Stations (LCS), two THAAD Tactical Operations Stations (TOS) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2.245 billion to the UAE.

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    Default Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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    This video is all about the brutality of war, and the interview with Olga that I copied abovehighly recommended — is about the humanity of at least some of the wartime leaders. This is the paradox.


    Not necessarily.






    He says slaughter half a million of your relatives.

    Huxley, the guy who overnighted us "the plan" about how world wars would make a monopolar order, is also famous for writing an introduction to Bhagavad Gita, one of the first--and then, perhaps, only--things the English wanted to extract from India (ca. 1750). There he gets to the point that even some Catholics realized that eventually you have to quit fixating on "the incarnation" to probe the higher aspects of the Trinity, what is it an incarnation of?


    I suggest thinking about the difference between a Warrior Caste and a warhawk political party.

    Also that such a caste is bound to the principles of what used to be called a Good King, and how our knowledge and memory has been erased. Even though it is supposed to be plain in the Bible since the Deists were aware of it.


    There, we have the twist, the Puritans probably did "Biblically" invent modern capitalism, even though it teaches the opposite.

    Pretty slick huh? Is there someone who would like to celebrate Thanksgiving again?

    And this is important to exactly who that was not raised under some distorted Bible message?

    Sometimes when millions of your neighbors are agitated, you have to kill them, or die trying. It takes a certain kind of person, i. e., a caste, to be any good at this. The militaries of most warhawks are loaded with psychological abortions.

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