WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/st...34406778101762

Ukrainian grain export routes

The first ship loaded with Ukrainian grain left the port of Odessa on August 1. The vessel, as well as subsequent ones, will follow a route agreed by the parties. Another six foreign-flagged ships departed from Ukrainian ports on August 7-8, including a tanker from Turkey, two cargo ships from Liberia and two cargo vessels and a tanker flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. Russia and Ukraine signed documents regulating grain exports with Turkey and the UN. The ships will sail from three ports - Odessa, Yuzhny and Chernomorsk - towards the Mediterranean Sea. The Joint Coordination Center is responsible for the safe transportation of grain. According to an informed UN source, the parties at the center are neither monitoring the movement of ships beyond the Black Sea nor determining their destinations.

Ukraine is one of the world’s largest grain exporters. According to the UN, the country accounted for about nine percent of the global wheat trade in 2020. The Turkish Defense Ministry estimated the total amount of grain exports at over 25 mln tonnes.

[Ravenlocke]

Col Douglas Macgregor - Will Biden Stumble into a New World War?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mZIQEu_tZ1g

[Ravenlocke]

I am a Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the one hundred and sixty seventh day of the war.

Day 167: August 09

In the south, the Russians continue trying to develop their offensive operation. Today there was an important update regarding who controls the villages around Snihurivka. New reports suggest that the Russians did not manage to consolidate control over the village of Blahodatne, because the fights there are still taking place. And when it comes to the village of Partyzanske, the Russians continue storming this settlement, but so far with no confirmed success. It looks like the fights here are very tough because the Ukrainians have a strong position around the Pervomaiske agglomeration and are able to supply and reinforce Blahodatne and Pervomaiske, while the Russians have a strong position near Snihurivka and can support continuous assaults.

Today the Russians also responded to the threat of a flank attack, and conducted an airstrike near Lozove and Andriivka, where the Ukrainians have established an important bridgehead on the southern bank of the Inhulets river.

British Intelligence continues to issue warnings to the Ukrainians, and reported that the Russians have gathered two main attack groups: one near Kherson, and one closer to Kryvyi Rih. Both groups seem to be in full preparation mode to being engaged. What also signals about their preparation for an attack is the fact that the Russians have gathered all of their air assault forces that are currently used in Ukraine in one place – Kherson region.

In order to prevent a rapid-paced development of the Russian attack, the Ukrainians continue targeting Russian military positions and ammunition depots in Zaporizhia and Kherson regions. Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov also reported that Ukrainian HIMARS strikes destroyed a “significant amount of” Russian military equipment and manpower concentrations in industrial districts throughout Melitopol over the last several days. Ukrainian officials also confirmed that Ukrainian forces struck the Antonivsky and Kakhovka bridges previous night, which resulted in further postponement of reopening of the Antonivskyi bridge. It seems like these actions indeed cause a lot of trouble for the Russians because, as noted by Melitopol Mayor, Russian forces transferred a significant part of their air defense systems from Melitopol to Kherson over the last week. Simultaneously, the Ukrainians are going to receive anti-radar missiles, which may render Russian air defense systems that guard these important bridges useless.

In the east, there are a lot of important updates.

In the Barvinkove-Sloviansk direction, the Ukrainians continue developing their offensive operation. Right now they are clearing the forests and returning the territories that were previously under their control. The fights in Bohorodychne are still being reported, therefore, it seems like the Ukrainians still struggle to consolidate their control over this settlement. From here, I do not think that the Ukrainians will move further and attack Dovhenke, for example. The main goal was to return and refine the defense line Dibrivne-Bohorodycnhe, and create some buffer in the forestall area in front of this defense line. It is much more productive to strengthen current positions, than try to move further and have more territory which is under weaker control.

In the Siversk direction, there are several interesting updates. Firstly, despite continuous attempts of the Russians to immobilize Ukrainian forces in this region by shelling, the Ukrainians have gradually moved their forces to the south towards Soledar and Bakhmut, where the Russians have lately focused their efforts. Secondly, in the aftermath of the fight that took place to the north of Verkhnokamianske, the Ukrainians did not manage increase the territory under their control, even though they successfully repelled the attack. Today the Russians also conducted a limited attack on Ivano-Darivka, possibly for reconnaissance, but the Ukrainians spotted them on approaches, opened fire and pushed back.


In the Soledar direction, the situation did not change much. The Russians continued trying to push the Ukrainians out of Yakovlivka, but the Ukrainians continue to stubbornly hold this position. When it comes to the fights in Soledar, it was reported that the Russians still have not established full control over the factory Knauf, even though they indeed control most of it. The absence of progress can partially be explained by the reinforcement that the Ukrainian forces received from Siversk.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s5hNxXNsTrM

[Ravenlocke]

Col Macgregor: UKRAINE WAR UPDATE & SURPRISES

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=goHs6xNQx_0

[Ravenlocke]

More on the Covid and monkey pox,


https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/...00329350610955

https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/...04026482778118

https://www.republicworld.com/world-...ticleshow.html

Russian MoD investigating role of US in 'creation' of COVID, Monkeypox virus

Russia's MoD accused United States of carrying out activities to create drugs that, when introduced into the body for a short time, cause chronic diseases.

Russia’s Defense Ministry on Thursday, August 4, announced that Moscow has been assessing whether the United States was behind the research and experiment that leaked the novel SARS-CoV-2 that causes the COVID-19 disease as well as the monkeypox virus as several Pentagon-operated Biolabs were discovered in Ukraine. It is possible that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was behind the creation of the COVID-19 virus that claimed millions of lives worldwide.

Speaking at a presser, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, claimed that during the course of Moscow's special military operation in Kyiv, its troops found documents indicating that since 2019 USAID and its main contractor, Labyrinth Ukraine, have been participating in the US military biological program.

"I would like to note that within the framework of the US Department of Defense program to reduce the biological threat, one of the areas of research at Labyrinth Global Health was the study of coronaviruses and the monkeypox virus," said Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov.

On July 23, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of monkeypox a global health emergency. The contagious disease has now spread to as many as 76 states and there are now more than 26,000 patients, Russia's MoD reminded. There were official communication documents retrieved between the head of the sanitary and epidemiological department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the director of the company "Labyrinth Ukraine" Karen Sailors about such experiments from the US-operated bio lab, Russia's Lieutenant-General Kirillov stressed, sharing the evidence.

[Ravenlocke]

The Duran from Athens Greece, a 13 minute video, to discuss Blinken’s visit to South Africa, he is visiting DPR Congo, Rwanda, and South Africa.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1lqsg5aBtL8

[norman]

Posted by Spiral (here)

Posted by norman (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Bumping the summary (condensed here to the core essentials) from my post #1016 here. (For all serious observers here, I'd recommend not to miss that, and the Consortium News 4 March video livestream it's all based on.)

I'm convinced all this is accurate, and the whole thing now makes much more sense. And the military analysis in the video is the best I've yet seen.

• The big-picture bottom line is that it's a CIA/MI6 operation to try to bring down Putin by stirring up resistance in Russia.
• That's why the western media propaganda is so exceptionally extreme.
• Scott Ritter (former UN weapons inspector in the Iraq war), who's totally familiar with that kind of thing, states the plan is sure to fail, and also says that Russia's careful military strategy is going to be the case study of future textbooks.
  
  (My own personal summary from other analyses)
• All this is going to rebound on to the west like a big financial wrecking ball, combined with major food supply issues.
• It has to be possible that this was the plan of the globalists/WEF (using the CIA/MI6 plan for their own ends), to usher in the 'Great Reset' after the melt-down of society and economy in the US, with a Russia-China alliance left standing to clean up and pick up all the pieces.

This isn't a question to you Bill, it's a question to everyone who reads this.

Where are Britain's 2 brand new Navy carriers and their support fleets right now ?

They spent a fortune on those carriers and just about got them into service for this time right now.

Fishy, or what ?

From their own site, one is just off the Eastern US Coast https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/

This is interesting https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-an...ltic-protector

ACTION ALERT: American Sovereignty Threatened by NATO Incursion – YOUR ATTENTION IS URGENTLY NEEDED (1of2)
https://podbay.fm/p/business-game-changers/e/1660084325
SHOW NOTES
Renee Parsons joins the program to discuss NATO's take over of the largest, and most important, NAVAL base for the U.S. Navy, the US Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia. As it stands, the base is currently led by French General Philippe Lavigne who was appointed to the post of Supreme Allied Commander Transformation by the North Atlantic Council on May 28, 2021. You can help with this urgent action


A video version [ the conversation starts at 6 minutes 27 seconds, but they only get on topic at 14 minutes ]

Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/0wTWmIxQq0mE


a short READ about same:
https://sarahwestall.com/action-aler...gently-needed/


The agencies and NATO and the UN ( the NWO, basically ) are acting behind the back of any kind of representational government. It was clear to me for a long time that there would be no such thing as ground up political representation in a New World Order. What has been quite breathtaking in recent times is that the ground up representation has already gone and those people already are acting as a New World Order, even before the official livery has been unveiled.

NATO is a brand that has changed hands, and the new ownership is what NATO used to be there to protect us from.

Renee Parsons suggests Trump was never told about the changover, and that's why he instantly sacked the defence secretary ( Mark Esper ) as soon as the polling stations closed in November 2020. That seems insane, but tell me what isn't insane these days ?

[Vicus]

MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE 9 AUG, 13:47
Russian forces wipe out Ukrainian Air Force command post in Vinnitsa Region — top brass

Igor Konashenkov said that the strike destroyed over 300 rockets of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and a large amount of ammunition rounds for American M777 howitzers

MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. Russian forces obliterated by precision weapons a Ukrainian Air Force dug-in command post in the Vinnitsa Region, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Tuesday.

"The strikes by air-launched long-range precision missiles destroyed an operational dug-in command post of the Ukrainian Air Force in the area of the settlement of Voronovitsa in the Vinnitsa Region," the spokesman said.

Russia’s sea-launched precision weapons also struck a large ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army near the settlement of Uman in the Cherkassy Region, the general added.

"The strike destroyed over 300 rockets of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and a large amount of ammunition rounds for American M777 howitzers," Konashenkov reported.

HIMARS rocket system
The M142 HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) is a highly mobile multiple launch rocket system developed by the US-based defense technology corporation, Lockheed Martin. The launcher with six tubes of 227mm rockets or one ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) ballistic missile is mounted on a five-tonne six-wheel chassis of FMTV (Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle) transporters.

The launcher fires over 20 types of munitions with a strike range of 30 km to 80 km (for rockets) and 300 km and more (for a tactical missile). The system has been accepted for service in some countries, including the United States, Singapore, the UAE, Canada, Poland, Romania and Jordan.

M777 howitzer
The M777 is a 155mm towed howitzer developed by the UK-based defense firm, BAE Systems, which replaced the US Army’s heavier M198 artillery guns. The M777 can fire conventional shells at a distance of about 25 km and special munitions at a range of 40 km.

The howitzer features a high-precision digital fire control system (Towed Artillery Digitization) that uses GPS and drone data for directing the weapon at the target. The gun’s upgraded A2 version can fire M982 Excalibur guided shells with an extended flight range.

The M777 howitzer is used by the ground forces of the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine. The howitzer was first employed in combat during the war in Afghanistan.

The US, Canadian and Australian militaries earlier reported the delivery of M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.


https://tass.com/politics/1491387

[Ravenlocke]

https://tass.com/politics/1491705

Russia requests UN Security Council meeting over Ukraine’s shelling of NPP — source

Russia has requested participation of International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi, who is to make a report on the issue

UNITED NATIONS, August 10. /TASS/. Russia has requested a UN Security Council meeting on August 11 in connection with Ukraine’s attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP), a source in Russia’s mission to the UN told reporters on Tuesday.

"Russia requested a UN Security Council briefing to be held in the afternoon of August 11, in connection with Ukraine’s latest attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP and their possible catastrophic consequences," the source said.

According to information obtained by a TASS correspondent, Russia has requested participation of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi, who is to make a report on the issue.

The Kiev government forces have repeatedly launched strikes targeting the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe with six operating reactors. On August 7, the Ukrainian military shelled the plant, targeting, in particular, the spent nuclear fuel repository. The military-civilian administration of Energodar where the nuclear power station is located, said that the Kiev regime had fired a 220mm Uragan rocket with a cluster warhead. Its striking elements damaged the station’s administrative buildings and the repository’s adjacent territory. Prior to that, the Ukrainian military bombarded the Zaporozhye NPP on August 5 and 6.

In March 2022, the Zaporozhye NPP was placed under the Russian army’s control. Currently, the NPP operates at 70% capacity as the area of the Zaporozhye Region liberated from the Ukrainian army has a surplus of electricity power. There are plans to direct part of electricity generated at the Zaporozhye NPP to Crimea.


‘Fake news’ — Russian envoy on Kiev’s claims that Russia ‘mined’ Zaporozhye NPP

Mikhail Ulyanov noted that a significant part of Western media outlets and the public on social networks actually believed it
MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. Ukraine’s claims that Russia allegedly rigged the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with mines are false, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov told the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Wednesday.

"There is another bit of fake news. They announced that Russians allegedly mined the Zaporozhye NPP and, if anything happens, will blow it up, creating a catastrophe which would also affect Russia. Of course, all of this is nonsense. Yet such primitive propaganda is working. A significant part of Western media outlets and the public on social networks actually believe it," he noted.

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https://twitter.com/colonelhomsi/sta...69035271831552

https://twitter.com/colonelhomsi/sta...70385942532096

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status...00849268137984

[ExomatrixTV]

• New instructions from Kiev to EU states: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demands that Europe ban all Russian citizens from leaving their own country – “until they change their way of thinking”, ie until Putin is overthrown. Estonia and Finland were in favor of this, Express.at reports
  

No Russian entrepreneur, no Russian tourist should be able to stay in Europe in the future – at least that's what the Ukrainian president wants. In an interview with the Washington Post, Volodymyr Zelensky justified this initiative by stating that all Russian citizens would in fact share responsibility for the war against Ukraine: “This would be one of the most important sanctions against Russia. Russians should not be allowed to leave their own country as long as they do not change their way of thinking. Leave them in Russia.”
Zelensky therefore thinks that the broad mass of the Russian population will argue against this measure: “This war has nothing to do with us, they will say. But: yes, the entire population is responsible for what is happening now. They elected this government in Russia – and they are not fighting it.”

• No statement from Austria yet on Kiev's demand

And the Ukrainian president then addresses Russian citizens directly in the interview: “If you don't want isolation, don't tell the whole world to live by your rules. You can live in Russia as you wish, according to your rules.”

The first positive reactions to this travel ban demanded by Kiev for all Russian citizens came from Finland and Estonia: Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is in favor of a drastic restriction on the granting of tourist visas to Russian citizens. She says: “To be able to visit Europe is a privilege.”

And Sanna Marin, the Finnish Prime Minister, also supports Ukraine's initiative: "It is simply wrong, now that Russia is waging a brutal war in Europe, that Russian citizens can travel through Europe, as they have always been able to do, and also here as tourists can stay. That's not fair."

It is still unclear how the federal government of Austria will behave. After all, many (also wealthy) Russian citizens live in Austria. And Russian tourists were and are highly appreciated as guests in Vienna, Salzburg and in the ski resorts.

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[9ideon]

Pushing and pushing and pushing those Yanks do.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7FGs6lRvyfc

[O Donna]

Chess match:

For the game to be played, the white pieces designate the black pieces ‘bad’ and trash talk i.e. propagandize those pieces. But wait! There’s more! Mirrored exactly in opposite by the black pieces as they designate the white pieces ‘bad’ and trash talk i.e. propagandize those pieces.

The pawns are the ones who believe one side vs. the other and the ones who pay the heaviest price in the game. At least initially and mid game.

The trick is everyone exists on the larger board (earth) including kings and queens and could be why the whole game has not degraded to all or nothing, yet.

It is laughable that enlighten individual buy the propaganda fed unless that propaganda in monetized and rewards are funneled for that support.

The world we live in is first and foremost Psychological warfare and both ‘sides’ look to a critical mass of belief support for their agenda, their crusade.

The power of this world, it matters not their outward nationality, history of support, or where their homes are for they are chameleons in a moment’s notice.

Most career soldiers (overtly or secretly) realized that in the end they were ‘played’ with just hope they survive long enough to enjoy the spoils of war. The kicker is in that most of it (the spoils) is found wanting in the end anyways.

Watching these video reminds of the play-by-play of talking heads in a control booth during televised sporting events. Do you ever get tired of listening to their drivel and turn the TV sound off?

Guess this post was my play-by-play,

O Donna, signing off.

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Reread my post, my apologies, I meant ----
>>>>> CORRECT: Psychological warfare <<<<<<

Cannot believe I missed that error before posting

[Ravenlocke]

UK Admits Russian Advance on Bakhmut; Prospects for Ukraine's Kherson Offensive Fade
Also there is still a risk of nuclear accident at the Zaporozhye NPP

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rUFRrP4dQ34

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/stat...58691594518530

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/stat...59990708998144

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/stat...61059019177985

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1557472313704169479

[ExomatrixTV]

• Gravitas: US Announces largest Military package yet for Ukraine:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Su5w5kjxGHw

[ExomatrixTV]

• Another Brick In The Wall, Roger Waters Destroys CNN Ukraine Propaganda:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eyfD7IC0qJs

Rock legend Roger Waters shows CNN exactly why people hate them and pokes all kinds of holes in their propaganda right to their face. It's artful.

[O Donna]

Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)

• Gravitas: US Announces largest Military package yet for Ukraine:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Su5w5kjxGHw

Only an example as western news products do the same thing, probably invented it:

Propaganda mixed with facts. Intermix facts are the hook.

<Imperatively spoken propaganda video>

: switch it up now.... :

And btw, we have a product for you...

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Stay with us "on the move", in our bubble, the more you are in our bubble the bigger the chance we can sway you. The more we sway you the more likely you will stick with our product. Vicious cycle ensues.

Eyes open people, eyes open.

[shaberon]

Posted by norman (here)
ACTION ALERT: American Sovereignty Threatened by NATO Incursion – YOUR ATTENTION IS URGENTLY NEEDED (1of2)

NATO is a brand that has changed hands, and the new ownership is what NATO used to be there to protect us from.

Well, I think we have found two sides in this: USA #1, or, US as just another flunky in NATO.


I am not on either one, so, they can have Norfolk. Virginia and the US are foreigners as far as I am concerned. The US can take its -$30T and go rot navies somewhere else.

Following the link, they told us:


Unbeknownst to most Americans, in June of 2018, NATO’s thirty Defense Ministers (representing all of its member nations) agreed to establish a NATO command structure at the US Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia. Since then, the administration and operation of the Norfolk Base has reported directly to NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander.



Allright, there are some "reports", but what does that do? Shock someone?



...how this desecration of American sovereignty as a scandalous alliance with NATO occurred remains a mystery...



We might have blasphemed their altar or something. You can Trespass Sovereignty, but I think desecration is a big ugly smear, and we already have that. Then we get the compelling:


Do you know if your Member of Congress has been aware that what was once the US’s largest and most important at the Norfolk Naval Station has been signed over to NATO?



"Signed over"? Well, again, if practically anything happens in terms of property, courts, etc., there are records of this. I may be missing what we are aware of. I would have preferred if both of these bickering sides had tossed themselves over a cliff seventy years ago. What they have done is managed to lose the arms race and a whole lot more.


I signed away my sovereignty to Social Security and all matters pertaining to citizenship. That is where the outcry should be. We are struggling against the same power Russia warned us about back then. Are we to the "existential" point yet?