WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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⚡️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed three "Leopard" and the British "Stormer" air defense systems in the South-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions in a day , the Russian Defense Ministry reported

⚡️ Over the past day, the armed forces of Ukraine continued unsuccessful attempts at offensive operations in the South-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions .

In the area of ​​​​the Vremevsky ledge, strikes from operational-tactical and army aviation inflicted a defeat on accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 1st brigade of the President of Ukraine, the 110th territorial defense brigade, the 72nd mechanized and 1st tank brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of settlements Novodonetskoye, Neskuchnoye , Storozhevoe and state farm "October" DPR.

⚡️ In the Zaporizhzhia direction, decisive and competent actions of the defending units, air strikes and artillery fire of the Air Defense Forces repelled three enemy attacks in a day from the directions of the settlements of Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Novopokrovka of the Zaporozhye region.

In addition, an armored column of the 128th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was defeated in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Lukyanovskoye, Zaporizhia region.

The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in these directions amounted to more than 50 nationalists, one "Stormer" air defense system made in Great Britain, one 155-mm howitzer M777 made in the USA, 11 tanks, including three "Leopards", 17 infantry fighting vehicles, 16 armored vehicles and 4 vehicles.

⚡️ In the Donetsk direction, the most active hostilities were carried out in the areas of the settlements of Maryinka and Avdeevka of the DPR .

During the day, the Southern Military District successfully repelled eight attacks by units of the 110th mechanized, 1st tank, 59th motorized infantry and 79th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the directions of the settlements of Novobakhmutovka, Krasnogorovka, Pervomayskoye and Maryinka of the DPR. Wedging in our defense is not allowed.

In addition, ammunition depots of the 63rd motorized infantry and 53rd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Krasnoye and Lastochkino of the DPR.

Destroyed up to 310 nationalists, two 152-mm howitzers "Msta-B", one 122-mm howitzer D-30, 2 tanks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armored vehicles, 3 pickup trucks and 2 cars.

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The Russian Armed Forces drove the Banderas out of the village of Neskuchnoye and regained control over it.

The enemy is trying to evacuate his wounded, our aircraft are working.

Orekhovskoe direction:

The enemy poked his head at the junction of our positions, got it with AGS and heavy machine guns. I tried to enter with only infantry with a house curtain.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine withdrew with losses, judging by the radio intercepts 8-200 (dead), 11-300 (wounded).

/ Archangel Spetsnaz /

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[Ravenlocke]

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Yesterday at 21:00 a meeting was held for the commanders of the units of the 10th Special Guards Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the building of the Rai-Aleksandrovka Lyceum. At 21:15 a missile strike was launched , as a result of which 9 officers were killed and 7 officers were injured in varying degrees of severity.

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▪️After the 4th unsuccessful offensive attempt along the Orekhov-Rabotino line, the Ukrainian forces changed tactics and stopped frontal assaults.

▪️AFU disperse units to test Russian defensive orders

▪️While the war has temporarily moved into a positional phase. The artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is actively working, the Russian army is conducting a counter-battery fight.

▪️ DRGs are climbing the landings, conducting reconnaissance and waiting for an opportunity to attack unexpectedly.

▪️The enemy will foresee a regrouping for a new breakthrough attempt.

▪️There are low-intensity positional battles in the neighboring Gulyai-Polye direction.

▪️Hiding units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were noticed in the landings (perhaps they are pretending to distract that they are concentrating for attacks).

▪️Thus, a day ago, the Rabotino-Verbovaya sector, which was ablaze from the war, greatly decreased the intensity of hostilities. The Ukrainian forces builds up strength, pulls up reinforcements and chooses a new point to strike.

Masno

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1667743695481741312

[Ravenlocke]

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⚡️☢️ Fragments of shells from US-supplied M777 howitzers found in Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant’s spent fuel pool.

Plant workers say pieces of shells have been found in storage pool, used to cool spent nuclear fuel to reduce dangerous radiation and heat before being disposed of.

Kiev regime repeatedly strikes plant in reckless attacks, tempting nuclear CATASTROPHE.

IntelRepublic

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In Ukraine, they refused the IAEA proposal to create a security zone around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and continue to shell it. This was stated by the Director General of the state corporation "Rosatom" Alexei Likhachev.

“ They de facto did not support Grossi’s proposals, in fact they reserved for themselves the right to behave as they wish ,” Likhachev said.

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⚡️Ukrainian terrorists blow up train tracks in Crimea’s Kirovsky district.

Crimea Chief Aksyonov states no casualties in blast, with several hours required to repair damage caused by attack.

Unverified reports claim blast occurred directly in front of moving train, with driver managing to emergency brake and avoid being derailed.

IntelRepublic

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⚡️Russia’s Kherson region (ex-Ukraine) recognizes Ukrainian among official languages.

Chief Saldo (pictured) signs decree stating Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar are all official languages in region.

Russia showing Ukrainian language utmost respect while Kiev regime furiously tramples all over Russian language, culture and history.

IntelRepublic

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Along with Haiti and Libya, Ukraine is one of the three world leaders in child trafficking

❗️According to a report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), from 1991 to 2015, more than 160,000 men, women and children in Ukraine were used for labor, sex, forced begging and organ harvesting.

🇺🇸📰 The American edition Huff Post in the same 2015 stated that children in Ukrainian orphanages are very vulnerable to human trafficking, since the employees of the institutions themselves contribute to this process.

At the same time, over the past 9 years, the Ukrainian government has adopted many laws that facilitate organ transplantation. Among these laws there was a document No. 5831, according to which Ukrainians, including children, can become organ donors posthumously without their notarized consent and without the consent of their relatives. Since the passage of such legislation, coupled with military actions, there has been an increase in the rate of missing people in Ukraine who may be related to illegal operations.

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Bill Ryan]

We've seen this video quite a few times now — and the dogpile of abandoned Ukrainian tanks and others vehicles keeps getting larger.

A 10-second video showing the carnage:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-NuXZAT1ego

But this is how the Russians lay these very dense minefields. What this 18-second video shows looks like a missile launcher, but it's launching anti-tank land mines. (And by international law, the mines are set to self-destruct after a certain length of time so that civilians aren't injured after the war has ended.) The new system is nicknamed 'Agriculture'.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/50421



For those unable to see this thing in action, this is what it looks like:



Interestingly, there's been some debate about how well (or not) the Ukrainian forces are managing to handle all this. Simplicius the Thinker argues that the Ukrainians, under huge political pressure to do something, had little choice.

Bernhard at The Moon of Alabama, who is a former tank commander, argues the opposite. He points out that NATO and Russia both have their own clear protocols ('doctrine') about how to deal with threatening minefields, and that the Ukrainians are following neither. Their tactics appear to be chaotic. And in Alexander Mercouris' video update today he reports a private email from a former NATO official stating that Bernhard is correct.

[Ravenlocke]

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Ukr Offensive Standstill, Rains Clog Attacks; Pentagon "Freaking Out" over Possible Defeat by China

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cijq-pSGQE8

[Ravenlocke]

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US/NATO launches powerful air force demonstration near Russian borders.

250 combat aircraft are deployed on German military airfields. 100 units of strike aircraft, mainly F-35s, were transferred by the Americans from their air bases.

The advanced elements of this air group are hastily transferred from Germany to Estonian airfields.

The NATO command expects that this will divert part of the forces and means of the Aerospace Forces of Russia from carrying out tasks to suppress the Ukrainian offensive on the Eastern Front from the air.

Pictured is of attack "Apache" at the airbase in Tapa (Estonia)

zimovskyAL

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1667936444503949313

[Ewan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Interestingly, there's been some debate about how well (or not) the Ukrainian forces are managing to handle all this. Simplicius the Thinker argues that the Ukrainians, under huge political pressure to do something, had little choice.

Bernhard at The Moon of Alabama, who is a former tank commander, argues the opposite. He points out that NATO and Russia both have their own clear protocols ('doctrine') about how to deal with threatening minefields, and that the Ukrainians are following neither. Their tactics appear to be chaotic. And in Alexander Mercouris' video update today he reports a private email from a former NATO official stating that Bernhard is correct.

Leads me to consider that the Ukranians are being deliberately given bad advice? To what end, in the bigger picture?

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Ewan (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Interestingly, there's been some debate about how well (or not) the Ukrainian forces are managing to handle all this. Simplicius the Thinker argues that the Ukrainians, under huge political pressure to do something, had little choice.

Bernhard at The Moon of Alabama, who is a former tank commander, argues the opposite. He points out that NATO and Russia both have their own clear protocols ('doctrine') about how to deal with threatening minefields, and that the Ukrainians are following neither. Their tactics appear to be chaotic. And in Alexander Mercouris' video update today he reports a private email from a former NATO official stating that Bernhard is correct.

Leads me to consider that the Ukrainians are being deliberately given bad advice? To what end, in the bigger picture?

Well, that's an interesting question. Regarding 'bad advice', I lean to incompetence and confusion over conspiracy, but one possibility is that the US/NATO neocon faction wants the 'counteroffensive' to fail so that they can justify NATO/American (or at least Polish) boots on the ground.

This was all discussed very seriously in The Duran's video yesterday. Both Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris see all the signs of Ukraine's military failure leading paradoxically but inevitably to WW3.

This is a half hour video, but for those concerned about all this and interested to hear some compelling argument, I'd recommend it.

(This is exactly why I'm following these developments so closely every day myself. I'm pretty concerned about WW3 too. )

Security guarantees, then Polish troops, and finally US troops

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ifP1HK-hWV4

[Bruce G Charlton]

I agree that "bad" advice is being given; yet this is (I believe) not "bad" from the point of view of those who are ultimately responsible for escalating the Ukraine conflict into WWIII.

As I argue here: I believe that we need to frame this war as being driven by those whose core motives are not about One World under totalitarian control -- but are 'merely' spitefully destructive.

In other words; the escalation is ultimately (and contrary to the belief of the Western politicians, billionaire financiers, media people etc. who are supposedly making the decisions and implementing the plans - who deludedly think this is about 'winning' a war against Russia) intended to cause uncontrollable chaos as widely as possible; leading to death, destruction and contamination on a truly massive scale.

[Bill Ryan]

I saw this image yesterday, but I never quite knew what I was looking at. Here, the destroyed Ukrainian vehicles are all identified. (This is happening everywhere. There are only a few Bradleys left now, and Ukraine has already begged Germany for more Leopard tanks.)

[grapevine]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

This is a half hour video, but for those concerned about all this and interested to hear some compelling argument, I'd recommend it.

(This is exactly why I'm following these developments so closely every day myself. I'm pretty concerned about WW3 too. )

Security guarantees, then Polish troops, and finally US troops

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ifP1HK-hWV4

Where Alex Mercouris talks about lack of ammunition, which seems to be an ongoing problem, I was minded of old Pathe Newsreels where all the railings in England were taken down to melt into bullets, etc. So far we haven't seen any inkling of that, which is good, but seeing Boris giving his notice in suddenly makes me wonder whether he's gone to secure his place in the bowels of Pindar. And btw it's never been revealed why Boris gallivanted over to Ukraine in the first place and not Richie Sunak or our Defence Minister, Ben Wallace.

[Ravenlocke]

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Ukraine may strike with large forces in Donbas in the coming days - head of the British parliamentary committee Tobias Ellwood on Sky News.
"In the next few days, we should expect a big attack in one part or another of the Donbass," Ellwood said.
He noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting probing and formative operations "in search of a weak spot in the Russian defense, and "the main forces of Ukraine are still in reserve, ready for this attack."
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🇷🇺 Donetsk for the first time together with the whole country celebrates Russia Day.

Thematically decorated public transport took to the streets of the city, graffiti depicting the territory of the Russian Federation along with new subjects appeared in the center of the embankment, however, festive events were canceled due to the high risk of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/st...43571714007040

[Ravenlocke]

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‼️💥Orekhov was hit by "smart bombs"
▪️ Bases and command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine brigades advancing on the Zaporizhia Front are located in this city.
▪️ Yesterday it was reported that in the area of ​​the city of Orekhov, the command post of the 47th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit - the very one that has already lost almost all Bradleys and lost a bunch of Leopard tanks.
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[Ravenlocke]

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[Vicus]

Largest-ever NATO air drill underway 12 Jun, 2023

Some 10,000 service members and 250 aircraft are involved in the exercises this June


A US F-35 fighter jet is pictured during an event at the Danish Airbase Fighter Wing Skrydstrup in Jutland, Denmark, on March 10, 2023.

NATO embarked on the largest air force exercises in the alliance’s history on Monday amid heightened tensions with Russia over the Ukraine conflict.

According to Berlin’s military, the drills – which have been dubbed ‘Air Defender 23’ and are being hosted by Germany – will play out mostly in the nation’s airspace between June 12 and 23, with some operations taking place in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. The mass exercises will involve some 10,000 service members and 250 aircraft, with 100 planes fielded by the US alone.

Apart from the US, the operation would be attended by 24 other nations, including not only NATO members, but also Sweden and Japan. The focus of the exercises is to optimize and expand cooperation between participating countries, with plans to model a NATO Article 5 assistance scenario. The latter clause, which lies at the heart of the US-led bloc, stipulates that an attack on one member of the alliance would constitute an attack on all of them.

US Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann said that she “would be pretty surprised if any world leader was not taking note of what this shows in terms of the spirit of this alliance,” adding that this included Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to Germany’s Bundeswehr, the drills, which are meant to last up to four hours a day, will result in several air zones being restricted to military use at specific times of the day, possibly causing certain air traffic disruptions.

While German authorities insisted that they would try to minimize the impact of Air Defender 23 on the population, Matthias Maas, the head of German air traffic controllers’ union GdF, warned that the exercises could have “massive effects on the operation of civilian aviation.”

Speaking to the TV station ZDF, German air force chief Ingo Gerhartz said that the exercises were first conceived in 2018 as part of NATO’s response to Russia’s actions in the Crimea peninsula, which overwhelmingly voted to join the country in 2014 after a Western-backed coup in Kiev. At the same time, the general insisted that the exercises were “not targeted at anyone.”

https://www.rt.com/news/577903-large...-air-exercise/