Open Thread (only topic: the Ukraine)

Right on cue the USA mainstream media is spinning Vladimir Putin’s approval to increase the size of the Russian army as “Putin’s Ukraine disaster” :

https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-08-25/putin-orders-russian-army-to-increase-size-amid-mounting-death-toll-in-ukraine

What I’m curious to know: will these recruits go through Chechen training?

In another forum someone recently published a picture of smoke rising from somewhere, and talked about the NPP at Energodar being damaged. Another forum talked of electricity grid outages in Zaporozhye Oblast.

Can that place be protected from the individuals trying to damage it??

Can’t wait for the liberation of Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk!

“reverse” Vietnam
Let me explain: the collective West thought they could drag RU into the quagmire (Russia’s Vietnam) by forcing “Ze” to fight to the last Ukrainian.
But now it’s the collective West that is bogged down to that quagmire, forced to pump $$$ and deplete their own weapon stockpile, and go into economic depression by all their own sanctions! And RU is not at all in a hurry to finish up this conflict; she needs time to consolidate the partners for the new world order.
So, it looks like …. reverse Vietnam!

He run out og time to spent the money from his illicit busness with the crimal pharma and the criminal US government

The train that got all busted up Wednesday may have been carrying grain to starving Africans. That tanks and stuff were also mangled shouldn’t be viewed as suspicious as they were only a deterrent against Somalian pirates operating between Kiev & Lviv.

Scott Ritter says “Once Avdeevka falls everything will fall into place”. If he is correct (and I think he is), it will be the beginning of the end of the war!!!

I wonder if the money the US is constantly giving to Ukraine and the latest commitment to continue funding it, is about blackmail and extortion from the Ukrainians (who have a lot of dirt on American politicians) and not about all this BS about “democracy” and “freedom”? These American politicians are stealing from their own country to cover their own crimes. Some day all will be revealed.

https://www.rt.com/business/561555-germans-toilet-paper-shortage/
Interesting times! No toilet paper, no showers! Germany racing to be the stinkiest of the EU countries!

The US or Nato will refuse to extradite those who are guilty of any violations of intl. law, we’ve seen it many times, they doent care about intl. law.

Andrei,
There is an article in the August issue of Marine Corps Gazette by somebody writing under the nom de guerre Marinus’ – presumably a retired senior Marine officer – brazenly laying out the realities of the SMO and applying the blowtorch of truth to the Kiev / Langley / western media psy-op.
Although he felt obliged to use a pseudonym, it’s very encouraging that it got published at all. Needless to say, the usual media suspects have studiously ignored it.
I had to set up a Marine Corps Association account and make a small ‘donation’ before I could download the PDF. It starts near the end of the issue on page 90. I don’t have the software to cull just those pages, but happy to share the whole PDF with anyone who wants it.
‘Marinus’ claims that Russian doctrine borrowed the English term ‘raid’ in the late 1800s (he transcribes the Russian as ‘reyd’ so I assume it’s рейд) but that the Russian concept is broader than the USMC usage. He never uses the word ‘feint’ but he might as well have.
Key passage:
‘In the early days of the maneuver warfare debate, maneuverists often presented their preferred philosophy as the logical opposite of “firepower / attrition warfare.” … In the Russian campaigns in Ukraine, however, a set of operations made mostly of movement complemented one composed chiefly of cannonades.
‘One way to resolve this apparent paradox is to characterize the raids of the first five weeks of the war as a grand deception that, while working little in the way of direct destruction, made possible the subsequent attrition of the Ukrainian armed forces.
‘In particular, the threat posed by the raids delayed the movement of Ukrainian forces into the main theater of the war until the Russians had deployed the artillery units, secured the transporting network, and accumulated the stocks of ammunition needed to conduct a long series of big bombardments. This delay also ensured that, when the Ukrainians did deploy additional formations to the Donbass region, the movement of such forces, and the supplies needed to sustain them, had been rendered much more difficult by the ruin wrought upon the Ukrainian rail network by long-range guided missiles. In other words, the Russians conducted a brief campaign of maneuver in the north in order to set the stage for a longer, and, ultimately, more important, campaign of attrition in the east.
‘From the start, Russian propaganda insisted that the “special military operation” in Ukraine served three purposes: the protection of the two pro-Russian protostates, “demilitarization,” and “denazification.” All three of these goals required the infliction of heavy losses upon Ukrainian formations fighting in the Donbass. None, however, depended upon the occupation of parts of Ukraine where the vast majority of people spoke the Ukrainian language, embraced a Ukrainian ethnic identity, and supported the Ukrainian state. Indeed, the sustained occupation of such places by Russian forces would have supported the proposition that Russia was trying to conquer all of Ukraine.’

Voenkor Kitten Z
Military expert Boris Rozhin on the situation at 00-30 Moscow time on August 27, 2022 during the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine especially for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel – part I:
1.
Avdiivka.
Positional battles in the industrial zone and north of the village along the Avdeevka-Konstantinovka highway. There has been no significant progress in recent days. The artillery of the Avdiivka group continues shelling Donetsk and other settlements.
The fighting at the Donetsk airport is in a positional vein. Experienced – completely under the enemy. Fights with the aim of advancing to Experienced have not yet yielded decisive results.
2.
Sands.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the DPR are entrenched in the occupied fortified area and are methodically pushing the enemy away from the outskirts of Peski from the nearest forest plantations, although the enemy continues to claim that he is still fighting for Peski. He has already lost the main fortifications here. Our troops are applying pressure in the direction of Pervomaisky and Nevelskoye (there is a slight advance) and in the direction of Vodyany, with the aim of advancing towards the Orlovka-Avdeevka highway and trying to take them under fire control from the south. The enemy understands this, so he fortifies himself in Vodyany, transfers reserves to Orlovka in case of an unfavorable development of events. The main advance of our troops in this direction becomes possible mainly due to the overwhelming artillery destruction of enemy positions, which in a significant part of cases ensures the success of the assault groups.
3.
Marinka.
There is little progress in the village. The enemy is holding the western part of the settlement behind a waste heap and has not yet demonstrated readiness to withdraw. The current activity of the assault groups and the factor of artillery destruction of enemy positions is still not enough to knock the enemy out of positions.
Attempts to advance south of Maryinka between Maryinka and Novomikhailovka have so far not yielded decisive results.
4.
Carbon.
On the outskirts of Novomikhailovka – positional battles, as in the Shevchenkovo ​​area. Pavlovka is still under the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ugledar-Marinka road has not yet been cut. The enemy periodically makes counterattacks with forces up to 1-2 companies, but to no avail. Positional tendencies continue to dominate.
5.
Artemovsk.
The main battles were for the Zaitsevo-Kodema line. Zaitsevo (not to be confused with the captured Gorlovsky Zaitsevo) is still under the enemy, the fighting is on the near approaches, but ours have not yet entered the village itself. Kodema is partially covered by our troops, the fighting has moved to the village itself, although it is too early to talk about control, the enemy is stubbornly resisting. Attempts to counterattack the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not lead to success and ended in losses without any results.
On the outskirts of Artemovsk – no change. It has not yet been possible to advance to the Artyomovsk-Soledar road.
Regular attacks on concentrations and locations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk, in the area of ​​Chasov Yar and other settlements. The artillery group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in addition to supporting the troops, continues to launch missile strikes on the territory of the DPR and LPR.
6.
Soledar.
Fighting in the industrial zone to the west of the Knauf plant and in the area of ​​​​the quarry, from where the APU was ousted. The enemy is stubbornly defending himself and is clearly counting on a long-term defense of the western part of Soledar. The assault on Bakhmutsky continues, but the village has not yet been taken.
To the north of Soledar – battles near Belogorovka and Yakovlevka (not yet completely taken).
In the area of ​​Seversk, as a whole, there are no changes – fighting at Serebryanka, Grigorovka, Verkhnekamensky, Ivano-Daryevka. The Seversk-Soledar highway is still under enemy control.
7.
Slavyansk.
Here tendencies to positionality triumph. In addition to a slight advance in the Bogorodichny area, the last days were marked by fighting near the ruins of Mazanovka. Attempts to counterattack the Armed Forces of Ukraine ended in heavy losses for them. Here the front has stabilized.
The Russian Armed Forces continue to strike at concentrations of troops in the Slavyansko-Kramatorsk agglomeration and at the communications of the Donbass group, the most striking evidence of which was the destruction of a train with reservists in the Chaplino area (more than 200 – “200”), whom the enemy tried to pass off as “civilians”.

The second part is in the link .

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Voenkor Kitten Z
Military expert Boris Rozhin on the situation at 00-30 Moscow time on August 27, 2022 during the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine especially for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel – part II (first part – link ):
8.
Raisins.
In the area of ​​Kurulka and Bolshaya Kamyshevakhi – in general, no changes. The mutual activity of the DRG parties in the forests and the lack of forces on both sides keep the positional front unchanged, which was formed back in April-May. Attempts by the RF Armed Forces to achieve tactical success in the Gusarovka area and advance in the direction of Barvenkovo ​​and the Barvenkovo-Slavyansk highway did not produce decisive results.
9.
Kharkov.
Fighting near the village of Udy in the direction of Zolochiv. The enemy reinforced this direction with reserves after the withdrawal last week. Fighting at Dementyevka, south of Borshcheva in the direction of Cherkassy Tishok. The enemy continues shelling the border settlements of the Russian Federation.
The RF Armed Forces carry out regular strikes on Kharkov, Chuguev, in the Zolochev area. Despite the recent tactical shifts in favor of the RF Armed Forces, positional tendencies dominate here.
10.
Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka – without significant changes. The activity of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the area of ​​Gulyaipol and Velikaya Novoselovka, as well as the activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​Ravnopol, did not bring success to the parties.
The enemy is shelling Energodar and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant – Ukraine has actually disconnected itself from one of the main sources of generation. In response to the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the RF Armed Forces delivered strikes against targets in the area of ​​Nikopol and Marganets. It is expected that the head of the IAEA will soon arrive at ZNPP, but much is not expected from this visit.
Preparations for a referendum on the annexation of the liberated territories to Russia have officially started in Zaporozhye, which forces the Zelensky gang to speed up terrorist attacks in order to disrupt the referendum. Nuclear blackmail around the ZNPP is also aimed at disrupting the referendum, which should ensure the irreversibility of Ukraine’s loss of new territories.
11.
Nikolaev.
After the defeat of the enemy in the battles for Blagodatnoye and the occupation of the settlement by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the enemy sat on the defensive. Our troops continue to probe the enemy defenses near the Kherson-Nikolaev highway, expand the control zone on the coast near Aleksandrovka in the direction of Golitsyno. Our troops have good tactical progress, but they should not be confused with a full-fledged attack on Nikolaev. There is also no attack on Kherson, it was actually thwarted by the RF Armed Forces in mid-August and now remains only in outdated propaganda clichés.
12.
Krivoy Rog.
The enemy continues unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold on the bridgehead in the area of ​​Belogorka and Andreevka, where he has already suffered heavy losses in people and equipment. The terrain here is not conducive to the offensive activity of the parties, and the RF Armed Forces, taking advantage of the advantage in artillery, regularly inflict serious losses on the enemy in manpower during attempts to attack by forces of reservists and Volkssturm. The front on the Ingulets River was never able to provide the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the necessary foothold for an attack on Berislav. Similarly, repeated attempts at attacks in the Vysokopolye and Potemkino regions ended in failure. The front here is quite stable.
The enemy continues shelling bridges across the Dnieper. Arrivals on the Antonovsky bridge and the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station are regular. Despite numerous blows, the enemy has not yet been able to bring down the supports and spans, but he has done a lot of holes in the bridges. Missile strikes continue on the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in Kherson and Nova Kakhovka. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation regularly strike at Nikolaev and the rear of the Krivoy Rog grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13.
Dzerzhinsk, Odessa, Sumy – no significant changes.

P.S. you don’t have to post my Fauci comment. If you want to just read it and keep it under your hat, that’s fine.

Perhaps you should resubmit under the Moveable Feast Cafe, mod

Today I read a FB message from an Ukranian woman married with a Dutchman, who was begging for help. Many wounded soldiers from the UAF are being sent to EU hospitials & nursing-homes, where they are in dire need of translators and even more of buddies. The woman mentioned two young men who both had lost their legs. They have gone through of a true hell in the Donbass, but now they are facing another kind of hell: hellish boredom in the surroundings of Dutch hospitals and nursing-homes. The woman asks if someone (with knowledge of Ukranian language) wants to become a buddy for them.

After WWI the streets of Europe got flooded with a generation of young people who were mutilated by the war, having lost limbs, eyesight, or being shell-shocked. This tragedy is presently being repeated. The fact that Ukraine is sending its wounded abroad tells a lot about how sizeable the number of wounded on the Ukranian side is.

A few videos for today.

RT follows tank brigade in DPR as it strikes Kiev regime positions:

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Kosarev_Maryinka_27:2

Russian airborne units repel breach attempt by Kiev regime troops:

https://rutube.ru/video/1dfe18cf12654fbe0bc5314dad0d5459/

The Kiev regime shelled the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant 10 times in single day – officials:

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/NPP_2708:b

The US State Department has admitted to the death of another US mercenary in the Ukraine:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/cD92ooIm6WIt/

Russian TOS-1A system in action:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/iED78eyeL7LN/

Kazakhstan double crossing Russia exporting arms to Ukraine, and lying about it. Contemptible & despicable ingrate

Anti-NATO Coalition [ZOV]
⚡️🇰🇿🇷🇺🇺🇦The Rybar team congratulates the Beregini hacker group with a powerful joint victory: Kazakhstan officially announced the suspension of military arms exports abroad until the end of 2023 after the scandal we created.

Thanks to our joint work, it was possible to prove that the Kazakhs were actively supplying weapons to Ukraine, supporting open aggression against their own CSTO ally.

The government of Kazakhstan had to announce a complete suspension of arms exports abroad to offset the consequences of the scandal.

Let us recall the chronology of our publications:

▪️The Beregini hacker group published information about shipments of APCs, ATGMs and ammunition from Kazakhstan through Jordanian intermediaries to Ukraine under an order from the UK. Technoexport was the contractor.

The Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan tried to deny this information, stating that the company “Technoexport” did not apply for any licenses. And no deliveries are out of the question.

▪️The Rybar team published a document directly confirming the lies of the Kazakh side. Technoexport has all the licenses for supplying unused or stored military equipment. And the licenses are fresh.

▪️The Rybar team found confirmation of how Kazakhstan’s Technoexport is supplying weapons to Ukraine through a Jordanian firm, Blue Water Supplies.

▪️The Beregini hacker group found out that Technoexport is not the only company involved. Through an allegedly Bulgarian firm owned by Ukrainians, an agreement was reached with Kazspetsexport on the purchase of Kazakh Su-27 aircraft, aircraft engines, and Mi-24 helicopters. According to the documents it was to be delivered to the USA, but in fact it was to end up in Ukraine.

As a result, the Kazakh side received a powerful kickback.

t.me/rybar/37802

Russia Today cites a report in the English Daily Express that British fighter planes are to be moved out of military airports and dispersed to a number of Civilian airports as a precautionary measure.

Is the UK going to declare war on Russia, or participate in an extreme provocation?

In any event it shows that the Nazis are in charge, hiding the military inside civilian infrastructure.

Any war between Russia and the UK will be extremely short.