WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

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US sanctions against Russian media are another 'orchestrated campaign' - Russian Foreign Ministry

Washington's new sanctions targeting Russian media, including the Rossiya Segodnya international media group, are seen as an orchestrated campaign, and will not go unanswered, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.

"In essence, this is yet another orchestrated campaign, a 'witch hunt' … We have no illusions that the rampant censorship in the US will receive proper assessment from relevant international organizations, whose activities are orchestrated by Washington," Zakharova said in a statement published by the ministry.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1835287828902641936

[Ravenlocke]

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American journalist exposes Western media lies about the Donbass

Unlike “extremely deceptive” Western press, Russian media show diligence when it comes to “checking information to see if it's true or false,” independent US journalist and blogger who came to Russia in 2023 and traveled to Donbass, Tofurius Maximus Crane, tells Sputnik.

"When we first arrived in Donetsk, I realized how resilient everybody was," Crane explains. "I've traveled to many places in Russia and the LPR, the DPR - the flags everywhere, the patriotism. It's extremely heartwarming. How would I compare the real situation with Western media? You know, Western media doesn't report about any of this… Western media is just about control and deception."

Crane adds that while he himself “has never seen any falsehoods come out of Russian media” and notes that Western media publish articles with anonymous sources, or “sources within the government who must remain anonymous.”

The US earlier slapped sanctions on Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya and several other Russian media companies over their purported efforts to influence the upcoming US election, allegations that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected as nonsense.

Russia previously denied running information operations to meddle in America’s elections or other parts of the country’s politics.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1835266158838063299

[Ravenlocke]

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Biden bullies reporter during meeting in UK

“I say you be quiet until I speak, okay? That's what I say. Good idea?” the US president said, refusing to respond to a question about possible consequences for allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike deep into Russian territory.

“You go be quiet and I'm going to make a statement, okay?” he chided.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1835153896991322177

[Ravenlocke]

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Over 270,000 weapons have disappeared or been stolen in Ukraine since February 2022

In the first months of 2024, 78.2 thousand "guns" went missing. This is more than in 2023, and four times more than in 2022, Ukrainian media report.

The leaders in "disappearance" are hunting rifles, AK-74 assault rifles and SKS carbines.
- AN

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1835326525891301785

[Ravenlocke]

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‼️🇺🇦 Ukraine faces health crisis — Independent

▪️The World Health Organization has warned of a potential health crisis in Ukraine as the country enters its third winter of conflict.

▪️The UN says there is a risk of contamination of the water supply due to persistent power outages and increased signs of antimicrobial resistance due to antibiotic abuse.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1835248036626206741

[Ravenlocke]

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Former US intelligence officer Bustamante on the Ukrainian attack on the Kursk region: Do I think Ukraine is using this attack simply to get media attention? Yes, absolutely. What a stupid tactical decision! Strategically, you are not going to invade Russia. Strategically, there is no value in the territory you invaded. Tactically, it is also very stupid. There is no good reason to do this. Why would you remove troops from the front lines to move them north? The only tactical reason to do this is simply to get attention. Russia can look at Ukraine now and say, “Ukraine attacked us. They are using the electrical grid as a weapon of war. That means we can now attack them without any problem. Even if we have already attacked them, we can expand our attacks.” And they have plenty of room to do that.

@Slavyangrad

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1835326068015939952

[Ravenlocke]

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺The enemy continues to try to break through the border from a new direction in the Kursk region

▪️Heavy fighting in this area does not stop, as can be seen from the report of the Ministry of Defense, the enemy is throwing considerable forces into the offensive.
▪️Our troops, with the support of army aviation and artillery fire, repelled 6 enemy attempts to break through the Russian border in the direction of the settlements of Novy Put, Medvezhye and Vesyoloye in the Glushkovsky district, the Ministry of Defense reports.

▪️The enemy lost up to 60 people killed and wounded, 3 tanks, an armored personnel carrier and 5 combat armored vehicles.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1835284930051371416

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Near Sudzha, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are deploying swarms of drones and a wide range of NATO-supplied equipment. However, a special forces unit under the command of "Aida," from the Akhmat group, is actively countering these efforts, successfully destroying enemy weapons. Correspondents from RIA Novosti were on the ground to observe the operations of the fighters.

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1835284850246361098

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1835282321508794733

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1835268053262541305

[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Artemovsk direction: successes of Russian troops in the area of ​​Kalinovo and Kleshcheyevka

Situation by the end of September 15, 2024

In the Artemovsk direction, Russian troops are "biting" into the enemy's defenses at several sections of the front at once. Units of the Russian Armed Forces have managed to expand the zone of control both in the Grigorovka area in the north and to the west of Kleshcheyevka.

▪️Russian troops have driven the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of several positions north of Zheleznodorozhny (Zaliznyansky), reviving the "frozen" section of the front. Given the geographical features of the area and information from our sources, we can say that at the moment the advance of Russian troops is significantly greater than what can be confirmed by the available footage.

▪️To the southwest of Grigorovka, Russian attack aircraft have made significant progress, taking control of a forest area and physically cutting off one of the roads leading to the village. The Russian Defense Ministry also announced the liberation of the settlement, which, apparently, will be confirmed by the relevant personnel in the near future.

▪️To the south, Russian troops crossed the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal and liberated a significant part of Kalinovo , entrenching themselves in apartment buildings. The village became the site of fierce fighting due to its importance for the Ukrainian Armed Forces - the occupation of positions in this area by the Russian Armed Forces will allow them to launch an offensive to the south, bypassing the enemy's defensive lines in the Oktyabrsky microdistrict in Chasovy Yar.

❗️Russian attack aircraft are methodically clearing the positions of Ukrainian formations, using all available means for this. During one of these operations, a Russian Armed Forces soldier destroyed personnel at a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold, equipped in a pipe under a railway bridge, by throwing a backpack with an anti-tank mine inside.

Despite the certain danger of using AT mines in this way, the tactic is becoming increasingly widespread among Russian assault groups.

▪️To the northwest of Kleshcheyevka, the Russian Armed Forces command is conducting an offensive with the aim of dislodging the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the left bank and reaching the canal bed on a broad front. During a series of battles in this area, Russian troops displaced Ukrainian formations from several forest belts. Now they are faced with the task of storming enemy positions in the forest to the west, control over which is necessary to cross the canal in several places.

▪️At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces regularly strike military infrastructure in the enemy's rear. Yesterday, the Russian Aerospace Forces hit the territory of a wagon depot in Konstantinovka. According to some reports, the facility was used as a repair base and storage site for Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1835402084310749601

[Ravenlocke]

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The #UnitedStates believes that #Ukraine️ could lose the war this winter, Politico reports, citing the White House.

The reason for such forecasts was the new tactics of air strikes on energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials believe that the paralysis of the three nuclear power plants could destroy the economy and weaken Kyiv's position in the event of peace talks.

The US sees no point in allowing Ukraine to use long-range weapons to strike deep into Russian territory under such conditions, Politico notes.

https://x.com/MichaelAshura/status/1835377428283187280

https://x.com/dana916/status/1835383852283367717

[Ravenlocke]

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A soldier from the Russian "Vostok" Group, known by the call sign "Petrovich," has shown remarkable composure and skill in evacuating damaged armored vehicles. In footage, "Petrovich" is seen retrieving a damaged Russian tank under fire north of Vodyanoye. Reports state that he has personally recovered over 30 armored vehicles

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1835350775075131886

[Ravenlocke]

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⚡️🇸🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦Other good quality IFVs that have already been delivered to Ukraine are the Swedish CV90 line.

In this case a HEAT warhead of an anti-tank grenade (like an RPG) or a 9M133-1 ATGM from a Kornet crew of the 200th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade successfully hit the weakened rear projection of the turret of the Swedish heavy infantry fighting vehicle CV9040C "Stridsfordon-90". The disabled vehicle then was captured by Russian soldiers.

The first CV9040C was hit by an RPG-7 on the Svatovsky Front back in 2023, thanks to which specialists from the Research Institute of Steel and the Ministry of Defense were able to get acquainted with the key element of the IFV's armament:
The 40mm Bofors L70 automatic cannon, as well as the 40mm APFSDS-T Mk 1 armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot projectiles included in its ammunition set with an armor penetration of 120 mm at a distance of 1.5 km at an initial velocity of 1480 m/s, as well as APFSDS-T Mk 2 with an armor penetration of 160 mm at a similar distance.

https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1835398970366947526

[Ravenlocke]

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#British #StormShadow missiles will not help Kiev change the strategic situation in the conflict in Ukraine, writes the Financial Times.

It is noted that aircraft from Russian airfields, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces consider one of the priority targets, have already been moved beyond the range of Storm Shadow and ATACMS.

https://x.com/MichaelAshura/status/1835372528321302783

[ThePythonicCow]

Perhaps if NATO missiles fired from the Ukraine hit Russia hard, then Russia will do as Medvedev warns - "melt" the Ukraine capital city Kyiv:

From Former Russian president threatens to turn Kyiv into ‘melted spot’ if long-range missiles approved (the UK Independent):

The former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned that the Kremlin could reduce Kyiv to a “giant melted spot” if Ukraine’s allies give the green light for them to fire long-range missiles deep into Russia.

This outcome, Russia escalating in response by hitting the Ukraine much harder with its larger, conventional, missiles, rather than (for the most part anyway) hitting NATO facilities elsewhere in Europe, seems more likely to me.

Such a response seems more likely to hasten the end of the war, while remaining focused on destroying the Deep State Globalist intelligence, bio-weapon labs, trafficking in money, humans, organs and adrenochrome, and other evil operations that have become overgrown in the Ukraine, which I suspect both Trump and Putin can agree on as necessary ... (very) nasty business but (very) needed.

[shaberon]

Posted by AutumnW (here)
Maybe someone who understands Ukraine better than I do could explain to me how being part of Russia's sphere of influence, was hard on the Ukrainian people? I can't seem to get answers anywhere.

Do you mean as part of the U. S. S. R.?

I am also still trying to figure out how it constitutes a "national identity". To a certain extent, they have a language and branch of a church. I'm not quite sure "who" they are, but, I *do* have a degree of sympathy, because it seems to me that for anyone who lives in the area, it has rarely been anything but hard.

Paradoxically, if you are Russian, then you are naming yourself for the establishment of Kiev by the Kievan Rus. This was by invitation from the Ukrainian area, because it was not a "country", because there were no laws and it was plagued by constant feuding, primarily by brothers fighting over an inheritance.

What happened during the Middle Ages was a kind of a slide, from around the 1300s there is a Jewish madness that goes around western Europe, causing a drain and bad reputation, and making their population bulk up in the east, that is, mainly in the Ukrainian region.

The geopolitics of the east pushed the Russian domain towards St. Petersburg and Moscow, while the Ukrainian and Baltic regions were scenes of conflict between them, Poland-Lithuania, and Sweden.

By the 1600s, it is nothing but a boiling cauldron of conflicts of imperial, Jewish, and Catholic maneuvers.

Finally -- I forget the name, but it was one of the Habsburgs -- was assigned to an office in Poland. However he went out and discovered he liked "Ukrainian culture" better and became a different person. I think it is based from him that there is a drive for statehood.

It is not terribly difficult to imagine the early days of the U. S. S. R. were particularly favorable to anyone, but, from what I have seen, this changes in the 1960s, and then we find for example that the majority if the infrastructure, 80% or so, that is still used by Ukraine today, was built by the Soviet system through the 1960s-80s. So with its independence, it appears to have actually stagnated.

When I look at remarks that are more racist in nature, I see something more like "aggression directed at something identified as 'other'", than anything that helps me understand the complaint, compared to for example Hamas, which is pretty clear.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by AutumnW (here)
Maybe someone who understands Ukraine better than I do could explain to me how being part of Russia's sphere of influence, was hard on the Ukrainian people? I can't seem to get answers anywhere.

The Crimean peninsula and the Ukraine east of the Dnipro River are traditionally Russian, in culture, religion and language, not Ukraine. Only because Stalin redrew the borders on internal USSR provinces to include Russian areas and Ukraine areas within the same province, which then became what is marked as the Ukraine on our maps today are those two distinct quite regions labeled as the one country of Ukraine.

Imagine:

(1) Quebec had remained a separate French speaking nation for a couple of centuries.
(2) In the 1930's U.S. President FDR had invaded and conquered all of English speaking Canada and French speaking Quebec,
(3) combining them into another U.S. state he called Canada.
(4) Then in the 1990's that U.S./Canada combination collapsed and separated again,
(5) leaving Quebec as but one province within the reconstituted nation of Canada.
(6) Then in the 2010's, the U.S. Central Intelligence and State Department installed an American puppet government in Ottawa,
(7) which proceeded to bomb, bomb, bomb Quebec, banning the French language and the Catholic religion ...

Can you imagine that the people of Quebec might be a tad pissed off?

If you can imagine the above ... then stretch your imagination a tad further:

Imagine further, in all the above imagined events, that the U.S. had been a nation of French origins, language, religion and culture, rather than primarily British origins as it actually ended up being, while the rest of what's now called Canada, outside of Quebec had always been a British crown colony (as it actually is), and imagine it was the Brits who ran the coup in the 2010's in Ottawa and who then funded and provoked the bombing and destruction of Quebec, as part of expanding their British presence north of French U.S., and if it was the French U.S. who came in in the early 2020's, to rescue their French comrades in Quebec, then I'm sure that Quebec would welcome their French comrades (and often family relations) from the south, to save them from the British Crown red coats.

[ExomatrixTV]

• All weapons delivered by the US to Ukraine will be destroyed — Russian deputy FM:

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v5ceooq/?pub=ir01b

[ExomatrixTV]

• Polish Politician RIPS U.S. For Starting More Wars! w/ Drea de Matteo:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jAHyokStAt8

Grzegorz Braun, a Polish member of the European Parliament, recently made a strong statement opposing Poland’s alignment with the United States in the ongoing war in Ukraine. He expressed his dissatisfaction with the U.S. Secretary of State's involvement, stating, "Blinken, go home as soon as possible. Get lost! We don't want you here. We don't want Polish people paying and dying for your wars."

Jimmy and The Sopranos actress Drea de Matteo discuss this outburst running counter to the narrative that Poland and other European countries are 100 percent on board with NATO pushing us to the brink of World War III over the Ukraine conflict.

[ExomatrixTV]

• We Think That Ukraine Already Has Permission To Fire Western Missiles At Russia! Lavrov:

Russia is sure that the West has already given Ukraine permission to fire their missiles at Russia! Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov during the embassy round table on the topic of resolving the situation around Ukraine.

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v5ct162/?pub=ir01b

[Rizotto]

Interesting comments by Col. Douglas MacGregor

"Russia is warning today that Ukraine is about to launch a massive false flag operation... where they would strike children's hospitals using Russian weapons in order to rally support from the west... "

"Putin is preparing a MASSIVE invasion to end this war" Col. Douglas MacGregor | Redacted News

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5y493pJQhD0

[Rizotto]

- Scott Ritter provides startling information on how close an all out war was almost 'officially' declared by Russia couple of days ago against NATO members in view of USA's recent proposal to give permission to Ukraine to strike deep into Russia.
- The Houtis used a hypersonic missile in their recent attack on Tel Aviv. That's why the Iron Dome couldn't intercept it.
- Military ships are just sitting ducks in the face of an incoming hypersonic missile attack. (Personally, I wonder if that's really the reason a USA military ship left the Persian Gulf in recent days.)
- Modern day warfare, and where escalation could end up in total nuclear destruction.

INTERVIEW: Seventy-two minutes to end the world

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G4B-Cs51S34