The Ukrainians fired a Tochka-U missile at a port where three large landing ships were offloading their freight, the Tochka-U was intercepted by Russian air defenses, but its parts did enough to start a major fire on one of the ships whom the Russians decided to sink in the port to avoid a detonation of the ammo it carried. This is the first Ukrainian strike which we can consider as a major success of the Ukie military.
Other than that, the major development of the day is the fallout of Putin’s announcement that Russia would only sell energy to hostile countries in Rubles. Biden is in Europe now to discuss energy and the Polish idea of invading the western Ukraine.
Oh, and China backing Russia and really pissing off Uncle Shmuel has been a daily ritual and the Eurolemmings are very upset: https://www.rt.com/news/552565-nato-china-misinformation-ukraine/
Here is a pretty decent map of the current situation as found on Telegram:
See you later!
Andrei
Anglo-zionist ‘media’ will be crowing for Days about how Ukrops “Sank a Russian Warship” . That Captain was Quick-Thinking to Scuttle his Ship, you can find Videos from WWII of Ammo Transports taking a Single Hit and Blowing Up like a small Nuclear Weapon. He should get an Award for that Action.
Yeah but they reported for a week that a Ukrop militia sank a Russian warship that wasn’t hit..Not even as so much as scratched, and they report all manner of (often contradictory) lies non stop all day. The problem with lying all the time is the occasional truth or partial truth just gets lost in the noise. Eventually no one in the west will be paying attention to the Ukraine..
… and if it had blown up like a small nuclear weapon, then guess how Uncle Sam would have spun it.
Google “Port Chicago 1944” for the dangers of ammo storage areas catching fire.
Or Halifax harbor explosion. The largest non-nuclear explosion before WW2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
There is a good video of the explosion and immediate aftermath including the other two large landing ships hastily departing, one with a fire on deck here: https://southfront.org/breaking-russian-large-landing-ship-exploded-in-ukrainian-port-of-berdyansk-videos/
One of the interesting things the video inadvertently shows is the capture of the port with virtually no damage to the port facilities or any of the buildings in the foreground of the video, indicating the Ukie military abandoned the port without a fight.
Good Observation!
Not a strategic asset. Russia has the sea.
The video showed clearly ammunition being cooked off, sinking it in water to snuff the flames out prevented far worse damage. They will eventually salvage it with heavy damage.
There was a fire on the deck that spread to the ship. The was no Ukie missile or attack on the ship.
I was going to comment that it is a rather moderate success, since it isn’t a destroyer, cruiser, aircraft carrier, or other attack/defense naval ship.
Logistics are important, vital, to a successful war, going back through history. Napoleon’s quote that an army travels on its stomach is no less true today.
If the landing craft still had most of its cargo onboard at the time, that is more significant than if it was mostly empty. So now Russia has lost those supplies as well as being able to use that particular ship to move more supplies next week, next month, etc.
Hardly on the order of taking out a wing of MiGs or decimating a division, but I guess the Ukies and the complete ignoramuses in the western press probably consider this a major victory. Like claiming your child is a brilliant scholar after they finally got a perfect score on the daily quiz in elementary school.
I’m curious how did the Ukies know of this ship? Was it on-the-ground intelligence, or U$ satellite-derived intelligence? The answer could determine the solution.
@ larry, dfh
Allegedly, from a picture published by Russia’s MoD. Cannot remember where I read that this morning, searching for info about same question.
Lone Wolf
Sounds like a cover story to me.
It was broadcast on RT in a piece of Russian triumphalism. As Russia only has 3 landing craft this is a huge reduction in their abilities to land at Odesa. That is presmably part of the reason for pulling back to the LNR/DNR.
I believe Russian TV reported it which if true was a bloody stupid thing to do.
Loose lips sink ships.
Could just have been an Ukie loyalist with a smartphone calling the army tipline.
All it really takes is one guy and a drone these days.
US has admitted it is supplying intel to Ukraine .. good guess would be that this was a result of that
They never hit it.
If you go to monkeywerx on youtube or his blog he streams all the air traffic with an emphasis military movements forom the air..dozens of special ..Ukraine doesn’t have an airforce so relies on the sat data and air reports on movement on land and sea..its VERY congested up there.
That is one BDK gone, another 5 to go.
Time will tell
the link to nato-china-misinformation campaign is blocked with “403” message. So much for the freedom of information in USA
Bystander, we stand by it!
All perceptions, freedom, choice (2fer1 Party), markets, military strength, are just that.
Use the browser ‘brave’, not chronme. I had similar problems.
Brave won’t connect, here in Ireland, neither will Yandex.
Anyone got any others ideas?
You should try to use some good VPN
Mozilla, whenever I need to get around a Joogle block, always works for me.
whereabouts in Ireland are you Sean? I’m in Dublin
Freedom of information in USA? You must be new here.
use hidemyass.com (please don’t moderate, this is the real name of the site)
I use it to read rt in france, it works just fine
entire domain names (.ru and .su) are blocked
Russian media is blocked everywhere
Telegram is the only place to go to if you are in Zone A.
They are blocked only in ZOG-lands
Use Yandex browser. It s very good.
I get that 403 screen every time I try to log onto RT, Sputnik or the Saker blog. Usually have to keep trying to log on periodically until I finally make a connection….which can be lost at any time. Never had a problem before the “war” so it is clearly interference from hackers or American intel agency meddling. Even Consortium News, which is totally American in origin and operations went black for an entire day. The people in charge obviously have no regard for the Bill of Rights.
In many EU countries the telecom operators have started to filter out RT and Sputnik, for example.
In Scandinavia, Norway has not done that, but in Sweden all internet distributers have, except one (Bahnhof, which is now very much pressured to comply).
In Denmark I don’t know.
This is on recommendation from EU, so you could check if it is your operator that is blocking the pro-Russian sites.
that is imperialist crap, I recieve anything i want on my broadband 1000/ 1000 connection.
Piss of with your lies and innuendo. Baghdad bob…..
Live from Malmoe and all is well :)
Got a strong feeling that Russia should just take off the gloves concerning these encircled (?) UKR units east of the Dnjepr. How much longer do they want to play around with these existing or non-existing cauldrons? Flatten them with all there is. Russia needs to free up the troops involved there to finally get to the Dnjepr, plus prepare for the second phase of the war in Western Ukraine. Russia is losing time now.
I read that it wasn’t just the Azov battalion that was bombing the Donbass for 8 years but also the regular Ukrainian forces. So maybe the time has come to flatten the cauldrons in east Ukraine.
Or all over Ukraine
Certainly the Russians could do what you suggested by aerial bombardment of the caldrons. Tu 160s and Tu 22M carry massive bomb loads that would decimate anyone under the bomb path. The US did such in Yugoslavia using B1s and B52s but not to the effect the Americans were hoping for. After 78 days and 35,000 tons of HE, cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells, the NATO bombing had little effect on the Serbian Army but it did result in massive civilian and infrastructure damage. However the Serbian Army was not out in the open where they were exposed as much as the Ukrainian Army is very exposed by on the ground Russian intelligence.
You can find video of the Tu 160s in action over Syria where the Russians were unconcerned about not killings ISIS as they are concerned about killing as few Ukrainians as necessary.
Tu-160s are set up to carry cruise missiles in rotating launchers, not regular bombs. Tu-22s are configured to drop regular bombs but I would assume the Ukie artillery, MLRS, and tanks are pulled into towns and villages now using the civilians for cover against air attack and Russian artillery, MLRS, and tanks.
Russia wants to minimize civilian casualties in eastern and southern Ukraine as that is where the population mostly supports them – or did before the fighting started, at least. Carpet bombing is not an option.
The Western MSM has been able to make good use of the horrific fighting and WW II type damage to buildings in Mariupol in their propaganda worldwide; no need to give them further ammo. Russia needs to – and no doubt is – make good use of their helicopter gunships to take out the Ukie artillery, MLRS, and tanks one at a time with precision strikes to minimize damage to civilian infrastructure, all of which they will be stuck with rebuilding in their areas of control when the war ends.
The Ukies still have significant air defence forces, particularly at low altitude with Manpads, and maybe BUK and S-300s in the west of the country. It’s a big country and Ukraine started the war with a huge number of former Soviet air defence systems most of which are still operable against high altitude bombers like the Tu-160 or Tu-22. It is a slow process indentifying all those mobile AA threats and destroying them. Think of the US bombing of North Vietnam in the 1960’s. They never did defeat the NVA air defences and lost thousands of aircraft over North Vietnam despite the most horrific carpet bombing since the Korean War and the use of specialized HARM and similar missiles specifically targeting and homing in on air defence radars.
There are lots of populated villages where the ukies are dug in. I suppose a leaflett drop, “Run because the Vaporizers are coming in 2 days” would be fair warning, but that kinda too vicious for anyone other than The US to consider as an option.
I would guess many of those living in the villages are elderly and poor. Living of their small farm and in their community. The people who had the ability to move are likely long gone years ago. If they have lived through 8 years of bombing, I doubt some leafletts falling from the sky is gonna make much difference.
Yeah you can imagine old mother Hubbard shitting on the throne, realising there’s no toilet paper and calling old father Hubbard to fetch those leaflets that fell yesterday.
The RF army needs to hunt down Zelensky and make him an offer he can’t refuse to unconditionally surrender. Otherwise this BS goes on for months or even years with attendant casualties.
It also needs to hermetically seal the western border with Poland where all the weapons are entering the country. I hope the RF has real-time satellite surveillance and the means to hit anything crossing the border with pinpoint missiles. It is essential to instantly convert the millions of dollars worth of arms that Biden is continuously exporting into millions of dollars worth of scrap metal.
Western propaganda says continuous shipment is the plan because they expect much or even most of it to be intercepted and destroyed but they want the entire country armed to the hilt to conduct a massive resistance until the Russian occupation is driven out, just like the Americans from Vietnam and Afghanistan. They view it as an open-ended project that will probably take years. I should say they HOPE it takes years. Think of the gun running profits!
How about West of the Dnieper?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_iEXyqItDw
Father of All Bombs will send a message.
Part of the program is to get AFU that isn’t nazified to take over denazification. Accordingly the regular AFU forces should be preserved as much as possible.
In Iraq, Wolfowitz disbanded the Iraqi military, which led to numerous problems ranging from massive unemployment and the looting of the country to disaffected former soldiers joining “terrorist” (anti-US) groups. This was a huge blunder, as the surrendered Iraqi army was the obvious and ideal force to provide security and stability within Iraq.
In an ever-increasing number of cases, AFU soldiers are surrendering after being given untenable orders by nazi commanders that are dispersed throughout the AFU. These orders range from committing civilian atrocities to execution of AFU and mercenaries for not following these orders. These crimes are being reported to RF forces by rescued civilians.
I read somewhere that a war crimes trial is being prepared in Crimea.
” This was a huge blunder, as the surrendered Iraqi army was the obvious and ideal force to provide security and stability within Iraq.”
No blunder, they knew perfectly well what they where doing.
Got a strong feeling that Russia should just take off the gloves concerning these encircled (?) UKR units east of the Dnjepr.
From Intel Slava Z telegram channel, Russian forces, spearheaded by Chechen special forces, have been doing exactly that in Mariupol. Yesterday Chechen governor Ramzan Kadyrov gave the Nazis in Mariupol a final ultimatum: surrender by 23:59 (Moscow time), or be destroyed. It appears Russian forces have been so successful that Donetsk leadership is ready to declare sovereignty over Mariupol. The videos show many apartment buildings littered with dead and mutilated Nazis.
Once LDNR forces assume full control over Mariupol it is safe to assume the Chechen shock troops can reinforce the other Russian forces to collapse the cauldron near Kramatorsk (i.e. in between Donetsk & Lughansk cities.)
Russia has a timeline for this. When it doesn’t get what it is demanding, it will up the ante, and then everyone will listen.
The POS in chief gives a press conference in Dutrouxville aka Brussels …
https://youtu.be/36BpQgLi0VE
As an American, I apologize to the world for Biden. Worse, I voted for him. The U.S. has no good choices for leaders these days, and certainly no person worthy of being called a statesman.
How do you expect to have good choices when it is killed immidiately after it shows up?!
If you were stupid enough to hang around in Mariupol , having had 8 years to get out as the Azov Nazi’s were digging in then you’re not worth saving, especially the last 3 months when hostilities picked up before the SMO. Tells me you were content to live under Nazi rule (even if you have Russian connections, worse so ).
From the tone of your comment it sounds like you would be content to live under Nazi rule.
I, too, Cesar was born here. Everyone knows we don’t really elect anyone and that our choices are between one maggot brain that’s crazier than a sh!t house rat or another. Cheers.
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/01/blew-no-matter-who-didnt-you.html
Of course if this was a major Ukrainian victory, one has to ask where were all the others in the past month?
there were none
@ Saker
Thanks for the update.
Cluster munition attached to the Tochka-U is a killer, when interception takes place at low altitudes. The massacre in Donetsk happened in the same way.
And it is a war, the enemy also shoots. Losses in men and materiel are part of the trade. Glad it was only one ship, Colonel Cassad mentioned two.
Lone Wolf
@Lonewolf
The damage was to 2 of the 3 ships.
1 of them got so bad, that the russians sunk it to reduce further explosive damage.
The other ship was sent for repair i think.
3rd ship was undamaged.
(I think i got the info through southfront).
Of course I am in the EU so cannot see the linked rt article Ursula von der Leyen deems too truthful for her underlings to read. Thanks for all your efforts Andrei and amarynth.
Get Brave Browser. It has ToR built in and you can likely get to rt.
Doesn’t work, nor does Yandex or DuckDuckGoGo.
You’re going to need a vpn. Brave offers one but I have not used it, only their browser. For vpn I already have Windscribe pro, and works just great. The have 3 proxys in Russia, though I can usually get RT & Southfront via Athens or Belgrade. Any vpn should work if you can access via Asia.
Mozilla has some free VPN add-ons but use them at your own risk. I jump around testing a few of them activating or deactivating the add-ons as needed. I have an old laptop that I only use for that purpose. Don’t use it for anything else but looking at sites deemed not ‘correct’ or to read some government white papers and reports. Don’t use it to make comments or join any website. No email or other apps that require logins. Just all freeware.
To be honest I am amazed at some of the sites we still have access to where I am.
Proptip for everyone not running a VPN or russian proxy: Wayback Machine. It’s not just for archiving old pages, but takes captures of popular sites on a daily basis.
The only catch is: Major russian newssites are under constant DDOS attack, so half the captures are borked. On the upsite: There’s about 6 captures every day, so if you go to the list of timestamps for a given day, usually at least one works.
To reach RT from the 3rd Reich I mean from the EU, use a VPN like Windscribe and choose Hong Kong or Turkey as location.
Why are the russians so soft on ukranians soldiers? This tip toing will cost russian lives. The ukranians know full well that they are losing but still act like assholes. The russians need to turn up the heat. Bomb the living shit out of them,in the Donbass carpet bomb them till they are ash. Enough with this shit.
Because the Ukrainian soldiers (or their families) will be there after the war. They may well have family in Russia. Because Russia is apparently attempting a modern war of the surgical variety that the US proclaims to wage but doesn’t. Have you ever noticed how the US ends up hated everywhere its military goes? Russia appears to be trying to avoid that fate.
U.S. being hated doesn’t stop countries from cooperating and doing what they U.S. wishes in most cases. Meanwhile Ukrainians have already been thoroughly brainwashed to hate Russians.
Russia can repopulate it again with the Ukrainians which have fled or live in Russia (there are millions of them.)
The US doesn’t do this in neighboring countries. And since most of the fighting is currently in ethnic Russian areas, massive firepower will impact ethnic Russian civilians and infrastructure that will be needed after the conflict. Maybe Russian leadership doesn’t want to be like the US?
Yes, good point. Also, Ukrainian armed forces have a history of hiding in hospitals and other civilian buildings. Back in 2016, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported:
“Ukrainian armed forces and armed groups maintained their positions and further embedded their weapons and forces in populated areas, in violation of their obligations under international humanitarian law… OHCHR documented extensive use of civilian buildings and locations by the Ukrainian military and the Azov regiment, and looting of civilian property, leading to displacement … Armed groups and Ukrainian armed forces also continued to position military forces in or near hospitals … ” (p. 11)
From: UN Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine 16 November 2015 to 15 February 2016
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/UA/Ukraine_13th_HRMMU_Report_3March2016.pdf
I believe this is why Russia is showing restraint.
A valid question and having recently gone back to watch documentaries covering 2014-2015 and the start of the ATO you notice many conscripts initial hesitation to shoot at “their own” citizens from the East (Slavyansk, Mariupol, etc) but once the radical nationalists arrived and joined the armed units things rapidly changed and open shelling began to the dismay of the population.
The rare footage of captives show many were coerced through money or radicalization with 8 years of foreign training and advisers as well as radicals from the Western regions festering resentment and open hatred for Russia!
It amazes me how quickly the Ukronazi’s managed to suppress the local populations in area’s that were openly Pro-Russian so don’t be surprised that soldiers don’t surrender in masses as much of the guys in the trenchers are either scared, intimidated, radicalised and clueless to their overall situation with communication limited out of fear of being detected and destroyed. Not to mention the criminal treatment of those looking to surrender or escape.
It helps that Russia supplies humanitarian aid and payments to the locals as I am convinced the vast majority East of the Dnieper river just want peace and an end to the suffering if afforded a chance to express their true opinions without threat of death or persecution.
Brother,
Maybe this explains things better…
https://youtu.be/CpV16BQfbrQ
It amazed me as well, how quickly the ‘Maidan’ shifted the Ukraine culturally.
But then, I watched as the ‘plandemic’ shifted culture here. It stopped short of an armed civil war, but just. I did not believe it, and never thought everyone would be such sheep. Also, the ‘election’ of 2020. But believe it, because it happened.
And that is why I think Russia (maybe not the army, but whatever information warriors y’all can find) should immediately start publishing and broadcasting in the Ukraine, another point of view which is not fabricated by the Ministry of Truth at Foggy Bottom.
Are we sure this was a missile? Based on this video that shows the start of the fire no missile is visible instead it looks like an accident on board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkfzmglTxyM
I saw video where “something” hit and exploded on the bow of the ship as it was already burning. The question I have is how did the Ukie’s do this considering the area was under Russian control.
I don’t know about you, but I am growing tired of Russia suffering losses due to their careful and gentle approach, while the Ukrops are incredibly arrogant and aggressive. OK, they have the Ukropistani military surrounded. They have no intention of surrendering. Everything is going to get flattened anyhow, if Mariupol is a template for the future. Just blast them with thermobaric weapons and be done with them already.
“Just blast them with thermobaric weapons and be done with them already.”
I don’t think you can look into the eye of a child or mother, or innocent people and say that at the same time can you?
You say “innocent people”. From what I’ve seen in some liberated areas, the Ukrainians are berating the Russian soldiers and act arrogantly, the way they were used to during the Banderist reign, while the local Russians behave basically the way I would expect if they were seriously abused during the 8 years of terror. I don’t know how this country can be “denazified”, especially the parts like Kramatorsk, that are essentially vipers’ nests. The more is revealed about the Ukrainians, the less I like them, to be honest. Those are the people who cheered while burning Russians alive in Odessa. I am sure there are in fact lots of good and innocent people there, who were suffering under the Nazis. It’s a hard decision, and I’m glad I don’t have to make it – go easy and have to face the crying mothers of dead Russian soldiers who died trying to save some hate-filled Ukrop who then shot him in the back, or face the crying mothers of innocents who died as human shields to the Ukrops, if you went in hard.
Ideally, if the Russian losses are exaggerated and they are not seriously threatened now, it makes sense to be careful and spend more time trying to save lives, if the victory is already certain.
I neither like the Ukrainian banderits, but the main problem is that those arrogant people are mixed with the Russian ucranians.
And moreover even if some of them are stupid, they are civilians.
If you kill them you don’t behave better than the US.
Leaders will be judge, people will be shown their crimes and nazification will be completed.
This is the Russian plan and soldiers are ready for it.
Moreover I hardly believe the supposed number of Russian deaths. Those numbers are simply unrealistic and come from people who lie literally all the time.
I’m very glad too that you dont have to make any decision, luckly Putin is in charge 😉
Your sentiment echoes many I’ve been reading here and elsewhere.
The thing is, we don’t actually know what Russian losses are.
Maybe they’re not as high as the MSM is screaming about, and Russia wants to keep it that way while everything is going to plan? No need to rush things and cause unnecessary suffering and destruction. Maybe if casualties were high and the pressure was on to end this thing only then would Russia be pulling out all the stops?
It seems to me that you are mostly correct. are you familiar with the Telegram channel “Colonel Cassad” ?
( t.me/s/boris_rozhin ). It publish a lot of videos of Russian / DPR / LPR forces in the field.
Most usually, the grunts are calm, relaxed and totally composed. The opposite of the “demoralized” -and I guess also invisible- RF troops evoked 24/7 by MSM. By the way, It’s not a “fan channel”. It covers without censure setbacks as today’s strike on the ship and the strike of a Russian airfield near Kherson some days ago.
If the western MSM wants to drink its own Kool-aid, I guess that it´s fine for Russia. Another unforcedd mistake of the Empire of Lies
Thanks didn’t have that Telegram link. I find the BEST information/sources are on Telegram. Another good one I like to check is to see how the Chechen’s are doing. They are always posting action videos.
https://t.me/RKadyrov_95
I wonder.. will Nikolaev and Odesa learn anything from the fate that has beset Mariupol? Or are the locals so suicidal that are willing to let their city and their lives be destroyed. So far the citizens or perhaps the administration of Berdyansk, Melitopol and Kherson and Starobilesk ( north of Lugansk ) were a tad smarter and saved their cities and likely their life too. Time will tell how the administration and the citizenes of the other cities in the south and east cities will be meet the Russians and the Chechens.
Die hard ukranio-nazi may be in Khramatorks and Sloyainsk which I am afraid will suffer the same devastation as Volnavokha and Mariupol. However Nikolaiev and Odesa did not have that many troops at the onset of hostilities an certainly not that many western Ukrainian among the local population.
I think you are overwhelmed by fascist propaganda. Mariupol shows you how much Russia is holding back. The Russian army has been restrained by its own corruption.
Many Americans support Russia in this conflict. Don’t be fooled by the MSM (Main Stream Media).
what is your evidence for that?
but
if they do, they have my gratitude!
Saker,
There are some thirty folks among my friends and relatives, including me, who are praying for the Russian effort because we know that the hegamon, the empire, the globalists are not only the enemies of the Russian people but are also our enemies. We pray and carry on passive resistance; Russia is able to take it directly to our common enemy!
also, i look through comment sections on different websites. there is a popular right dissident website called CITIZENFREEPRESS. the comments seem to go 80% pro-russian. maybe more. because of the ukie-bots, itś hard to tell .
Hello Mr. Peters. Didn’t think I’d see you here. — a fellow Chronicles reader
Saker, you live in zone A – even though as a guest – so i would have expected you’re aware that US big media viewership is rock-bottom. It’s not even “mainstream media” anymore, because the “mainstream” no longer watches this shit. They watch political satire tubers like Salty Cracker, read bloggers like you, and get their news-aggregation from alt-media like the Gateway Pundit.
In other words: The booming readership of your blog is not exceptional. It’s how the majority of people now get their news. Only a minority still watches “old media”, so alt-media is now mainstream. I mean fuck, clowns like Demolition Ranch get more views a day than CNN, and that’s just a guy blowing shit up on his gunrange.
Or to put it in really simple: Joe Rogan is the new mainstream.
I am Australian and couldn’t be more thankful for being made aware of The Saker. I have never found such like minded people as I’ve found here.
Great to see another Aussie in the Comment section.
If only more people would open their eyes to what’s been happening as the Saker and Andrei Martyanov have been covering the events in great detail for what seems ages!
I am truly stunned by academics(who should know better)being sucked in by the Empire of Lies propaganda. Too many people are deeply entrenched in the Ukraine good, Russia bad nonsense which can only mean their eyes will stay closed, sadly!
We Aussies are here mate, supporting Vladimir, those of us who can see. If Russia falls as will the world. We have out own Nazies like Vic police who have shone over the last 2 years. Denazify the planet, remove the NWO tools.
I am American. I despise our government, it’s corrupt intelligence agencies, DOJ, the censoring social media like uTube, Facebook, and Twitter, etc. I hate the constant war mongering and complete hypocrisy. If Putin succeeds with the result of the elimination of the Petro Dollar (in addition the use of Ukraine for destabilization by our immoral Military Industrial Complex) our standard of living will decline dramatically and we will know privation like we have never seen. I fear for my children and grandchildren. However, I recognize that Russia has been forced to take this action and is the only country in the world with a chance to thwart the globalists plans. I hope Russia fully succeeds and thwarts the bankers plans.
Saker…..just go to The conservative tree house…and you will see 80- 90% readers are with VVP…. Sundance give away fairly good info..and have been against DS for very long time..
Mariupol taken at least east bank. City hall taken by Chechen who hoisted flag upon it.
Seems that most Azov-Nazis eliminated very few prisoners taken.
Lots of vids on Telegram.
https://t.me/intelslava/23432
https://t.me/donbassinsider/6051
https://t.me/intelslava/23433
https://t.me/intelslava/23419
Mariupol people happy:
https://t.me/donbassinsider/6047
https://t.me/donbassinsider/6063
23 years ago NATO murderers stared Bombing Serbia civilians.
https://t.me/intelslava/23426
It’s as if they refused to vacate a Chicago martini lounge when the wrecking ball tore through it, staying with the rubble all the way to the scrap yard and not skipping a beat under a desolate moonlit sky.
Take a look at Milosevic’s Serbian Congressional speech in February 2000, and his rather embarrassing presentation in The Hague tribunal In March 2002, particularly his reference to the phrase “new world order”:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-targeted-assassinations-by-induced-heart-attack-and-cancer/5326382
Milosevic wrote a letter one day before his death claiming he was being poisoned to death in jail. An autopsy verified his claim as it showed that Milosevic’s body contained a drug that rendered his usual medication for high blood pressure and his heart condition ineffective, causing the heart attack that led to his death.
If Milosevic was murdered, who would ultimately be responsible? NATO. Why NATO? Because, though the ICTY (or ‘Hague Tribunal’) presents itself to the world as a UN body, NATO officials have themselves made clear, in public, that it really belongs to NATO. NATO appointed the prosecutors, and the judges who ruled out investigating any war crimes accusations against NATO. It follows that Slobodan Milosevic, who was a prisoner of the Hague Tribunal’s Scheveningen prison when he died, was a prisoner of NATO. NATO had both motive and opportunity to kill him.
In March 2002, Milosevic presented the NATO controlled Hague tribunal with ****FBI documents proving that both the United States government and NATO provided financial and military support for Al-Qaeda to aid the Kosovo Liberation Army in its war against Serbia.**** This didn’t go down too well at the Pentagon and the White House, who at the time were trying to sell a war on terror and gearing up to justify invading Iraq.
During Milosevic’s trial for war crimes NATO alleged that the Serbs had committed a massacre of Albanian civilians in the Kosovo town of Racak. Evidence presented in the court showed that ****NATO’s claim was a hoax.**** This is especially embarrassing because the allegation of a massacre at Racak was the excuse that NATO used to begin bombing the Serbs on 24 March 1999 (the carpet bombing were done by the United States Air Force -authorized by then president Bill and Hillary Clinton). Then NATO claimed that the Serbs had supposedly been murdering 100,000 Albanian civilians. However, NATO’s own forensics reported that they ****could not find even one body of an Albanian civilian murdered by Milosevic’s forces.**** The failure to find any bodies eventually led to NATO’s absurd claim that the Serbs had supposedly covered up the genocide by moving the many thousands of bodies in freezer trucks deep into Serbia (while Bill Clinton was carpet bombing the place) without leaving a single trace of evidence. But the Hague tribunal showed these accusations to be entirely fraudulent as well.
Milosevic made several speeches in which he discussed how a group of shadowy internationalists had caused the chaos in the Balkans because it was the ****next step on the road to a “new world order.”****
During a February 2000 Serbian Congressional speech, Milosevic stated,
“Small Serbia and people in it have demonstrated that resistance is possible. Applied at a broader level, it was organized primarily as a moral and political rebellion ****against tyranny, hegemony, monopolism, generating hatred, fear and new forms of violence and revenge against champions of freedom**** among nations and people, such a resistance would stop the escalation of modern time inquisition. ****Uranium bombs, computer manipulations, drug-addicted young assassins and bribed of blackmailed domestic thugs, promoted to the allies of the new world order****, these are the instruments of inquisition which have surpassed, in their cruelty and cynicism, all previous forms of revengeful violence committed against the mankind in the past.”
Evidence linking Milosevic to genocides like Srebrenica, in which ****7,000 Muslims died, was proven to be fraudulent.**** In fact, Srebrenica was a ‘UN safe zone’, yet just like Rwanda, UN peacekeepers deliberately withdrew and allowed the massacre to unfold, then blamed Milosevic. Milosevic’s exposure of UN involvement in the Srebrenica massacre was another reason why tribunal transcripts were heavily edited and censored by NATO, and another contributing factor for NATO to murder him while he was in their custody.NATO’s Hague Tribunal was clearly a ****kangaroo court whose sole purpose was to convince ordinary people all over the world that NATO’s destruction of Yugoslavia was justified.**** Since NATO failed to show this in its own court (a total absence of evidence did make this difficult), there is indeed a powerful NATO motive to murder Milosevic – to prevent his acquittal. In this way, NATO can continue to claim that Milosevic was guilty, and nobody would begin to look into the mountain of evidence that showed that it was ****NATO leaders (particularly US president Bill Clinton) who committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Yugoslavia.****
Gleb Bazov is reporting that DNR forces have secured the City Administration in Mariupol and raised the DNR flag above it. Also, the City Council was taken.
It is ironic that the liberation of Mariupol has occurred on the same date that NATO began bombing Serbia. A great example of Synchronicity…….. the Universe is Intelligent.
The Universe? No God? Using the term Universe is very athiestic. It’s used to replace God.
Frank, I did not mean to offend anyone. I was just being exuberant. In the future, I will try to avoid saying anything that has metaphysical implications.
I understand but what I want you to keep in mind is that the powers that have given us War, Azov, Nazis, all sorts of Horrors are Godless and when you use the term ‘Universe’ you are denying God. I was recently reminded of this the other day.
God enjoys Synchronicity!
Thanks
… and then there are those of us who don’t believe in an imaginary deity, but in The Laws of The Creation. Try theyfly.com, see Contact #18.
Deep guys….. Intelligent Universe, Intelligent God, Intelligent Life…..okay, we’re still working on the Intelligent life part. Are they not one and the same? Does one exist outside the other?
Cheers M
Thanks, Sean. Can’t put God/universe in our small-brain box.
Great and fierce Zen master Huang Po, a big guy with a tiny hat, was once asked why he wore such a small hat. He responded “although my hat is small the whole universe is in it”. As above so below – Hermes Trismegistus
No, but they do exist inside themselves very well.
I use omniverse. I don’t imagine God as an old dood in a beard and bath towel. I’m an apathetic agnostic. I believe in something but don’t care what it is.
And Madeleine Albright died yesterday on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of Nato’s bombing.
“I didn’t attend his funeral but I did send a very nice letter saying I approved” – Mark Twain
Believe it or not, I’ve never met an American who even has a clue what their country committed in 1999 against Serbia. They have this absolute blank look on their face when I tell them about the US-NATO bombing in 1999. Even the ones who were adults in 1999.
Slava! A long time coming. And it’s not over yet.
Thats great,i had seen reports today that the battle was just about over,but no confirmation.
They say he who laughs last laughs best. But, hark! Now is not the time to laugh, but to mourn the intervening years of suffering and despair that brought us to this unwished for war and this bitter triumph. To look to the work done today and to remember. To look across the ages and nod to those who perished too soon in the brutal past too bloody. And salute them, saying: You are avenged.
Biden announced in his press conference in Europe that if Ukraine wants to make territorial concessions as a condition for peace with Russia, that’s up to them.
Now the fun begins as we speculate on what the new map may look like: Northern Bukovina (> Romania), Transcarpathia (> Hungary), and Novorossiya (> Russia) … as territories seized by Stalin are returned to their original owners. If this comes to pass, Ukraine will be reduced to its ethic core plus Galicia, which was Polish until Stalin seized it as part of the Molotov-Ribbontrop Pact. But somehow, I can’t get rid of the mindset that Lvov is a Polish city. I sense that a lot of Poles also feel that way. Moldova (> Romania) is another floater. Reunification talks betwee Romania and Moldova, I understand, have been ongoing for some time.
Stalin must be turning over in his grave as the last vestiges of his WWII territorial acquisitions are undone. His handiwork was a multi-ethnic bomb waiting to go off. It just did!
Yeah sure,
This is Biden boasting how rigged the judges in Ukraine
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-dbG4pFfDbA
Nothing happens without US say so.
If Poland truly wants to re-incorporate Galicia with all of its Nazis and fascists, well good luck to them. It would be tantamount to inciting a civil war in your own country.
They wouldnt last long without NATO, ZioAmerican, and Khazarian help. Many Poles still remember what happened in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia .
Nah, Poland taking Lvov right now would be like Germany retaking Szczecin or Wroclaw. The city is now almost entirely Ukrainian.
I agree with the assessment… likewise Chernowiz ( Cernatuti).. 95% self hating Russian ( aka Ukrainian) now.
Hello Saker
About the strike at the ship on Berdyansk, I think that like the ukro strike at the airfield near Kherson, that destroyed / damaged some russian helicopters, It will be a manageable setback, of minor consequences in the great picture. Lessons surely will be learned. Of course, the ukros, MSM and western twitterers will milk the visuals of the strike for all is worth, and then some.
The special military operation, as suggested by many commentators, and even by Russian officials, seems to be a medium / long time effort, probably planned until at least May 9th, probably beyond that. It has been useful to me to get used, in te meantime, to the unending deluge of 99 % unsubstantiated hype in the MSM, as inevitable background noise. Your site, Martyanov, MoonofA, and many Telegram channels, among others, provide a most beneficial antidote to all that BS.
I guess you know the hispanic saying “the dogs bark while the caravan advances”. According to Russian sources, today the “caravan” took control of Izyum / Raisins. It seems a pretty significant “advance”.
Hope yor fell better of your hand, also healthy in body and soul. Sincere regards.
Most of the helicopters hit iN Kherson airfield were in fact Ukrainian as I already reported a week ago. The airfield was captured and was filled with DOZENS of Ukrainian aircraft as can clearly be seen in the satellite photos where an entire section of the airfield had a bunch of biplanes and other old planes junked together. Now new photos coming out prove that the airfield was filled with mostly Ukrainian captured choppers
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1507064544421629952
There was a video showing Russians towing 2-3 damaged choppers afterwards so I think about 3 RF choppers were in fact hit and lightly damaged, and were towed to be repaired, so they were not losses. The attack in fact was greatly exaggerated and as per usual Ukies destroyed their own equipment and tried to flip the script.
If the main issue was a fire that was quickly extinguished (even by sinking the ship), then the ship is repairable and the flooded ammunition will need to be thrown away, but that was meant to be destroyed anyway.
Many Americans are awoken to the corruption in our governmental bodies, intelligence agencies, NGO’s, MSM, judicial branches, and military senior officers (perfumed princes}.
This is one of many reasons why Russia must push the envelope in regards to NATO. Russia needs to pacify all of Ukraine, not just the east and south.
The American Empire must end and make the long hard march back to embrace the advice of our first President George Washington:
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake,since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Where’d the missile come from? Zaporozhye?
I’d take it this means the Russians must clear the area up North to secure the coast.
Stalin Line 2.0?
I don’t see the goons moving anything out any time soon, but nato’s need to move in still exists.
Why is Russia not using its bomber aviation?
They did that in Syria.
I’d say that’s a higher number on their pain dial. Russia is holding a lot back now, waiting for a response.
I love the way Stoltenberg knows in advance what the meeting will decide. That’s always a sign that says “Democracy At Work”, when someone can come and tell you before the meeting exactly what will be agreed on by the meeting of ‘leaders’.
I can’t imagine that a spokesperson could have stated during WW2 exactly what the Big 3 at Yalta would agree to before they had their discussions. You can like or dislike the three leaders, but there is no doubt that they were independent and must hold their discussions before anyone could go in front of the newsreel cameras and announce the results.
But, I can imagine German spokesmen telling you exactly what Hitler and Mussolini would agree to at an upcoming meeting.
One is a system of power, and the powerful telling the weaker exactly what is going to occur. And we can tell today that nato fully fits that type of system.
What that suit stoltenburg says is NOT what the uniforms may chose or think or would prefer to do….
The Uniforms KNOW well that Russia is bac and not to be challenged but ……
The pathetic suits and their elected from different nations under NATO are virtue signaling…. Quite frankly they all look absurd – some hiding behind useless face diaphers which is appropriate.
My biggest concern is that Russia will have to teach these illiterates a bloody harsh lesson ie perhaps a missile strike of significance on one of their military establishments residing well inside “NATOSTAN”.
Would that prompt US to go nuclear or would cool heads prevail… Living near a EU military base has me wondering wont even have time to boil the kettle if …. ..
I have ZERO faith or trust or belief in these elected idiots (we get to vote for ) placed in electoral position by big business funding politicaL parties over decades. This is the pay back for most sleep walking sheep.
These are Mostly men who are incapable of leadership quality and 100% inept in at least making the right sensible decisions… (Try talking to Russia is it that difficult?)
Fools the lot of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fOsIY9ioQQ
Graham Phillips in N Ukraine showing Russians providing humanitarian aid to the locals.
I saw it yesterday, nice.
Fantastic video. Bravo Russia!
The Halifax explosion comes to mind. Any fire was too big of a fire.
The counter offensive has kicked into high gear, they are not kidding ………… run for your lives!!!!
https://www.rt.com/russia/552655-ukrainian-witches-putin-coven/
LMAO!!!!
I think the Ukraine is well experienced in the heat of the cauldron by now 😁
Seriously though, I wonder what they’ll chant.
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, Putin burn and cauldron bubble?
But in other news, i understand that Putin has vowed to counter this witches brew by unleashing the Holy Kalibr of Antioch ….
The grannies from Macbeth v Russian Federation!
The Kremlin must be bricking itself…
Too bad Madeline Albright wont be there to lead the witch ritual. But Again, Victoria Nuland is always ready with a bag full of cookies.
What is the current situation of the so called cauldron? It seems pretty open? I have heard rumors that mariupol has been seized definitely by Russian troops, is that correct? Last thing, are there updates on mykolaiv and kharkiv? In theory once these 2 cities have fallen the war can be considered finished as the eastern part would be completely taken. Is that correct?
All of the roads out off the cauldron are under Russian control especially since today and the capture of Izyum but they have still to start ‘boiling “the cauldron to the max.
As far as for it being open the opening is just geographical because the area that isn’t closed it’s farmland where you can’t move big formations because there are no suitable roads.
The war was over from day 1. Russia has too many options to hurt Ukraine for it to be a fair fight (think of a champion boxer fighting a skilled, mid-level boxer).
Absent massive external intervention (i.e. nuclear attack on Russian cities), the outcome was never in doubt.
Mykolaiv and Kharkiv don’t matter except that by threatening them the Russians are tying down Ukrainian forces that could otherwise come to the relief of the Ukrainian units dug in along the Donbas front.
The real lynchpin is Izyum, because one of the main roads OUT of that frontline goes through there.
And…… Izyum fell today.
Not only 100% secured, but an attempted Ukrainian counter-attack went disastrously for them.
So it is possible that the territory south of Izyum is now wide open to a further push south.
It that is so then the Ukrainian situation is hopeless: their forces around near Mykolaiv and Kharkiv can’t come to the rescue, and the forces around Donbas can’t retreat.
The Russians are poised to bag them. All 60,000 of them.
The Ukrainians can’t possibly recover from that.
Mariupol is surrounded and will probably fall. Russia is falling back from Mykolayev. Kharkiv is still too hot for a southward push to form a cauldron and the supply chain is far to weak to provision it so things are likely to be stuck until the thaw dries out in mid April.
Zdravstvuyte Dorogoy Andrey! Maybe I missed something in your recent posts, but I didn’t see any commentary from you about Chubais leaving (or being run out of) Russia. That seems like a very positive development in terms of excising the toxic influence of the Atlantacist/Western Integrationalist faction within Russia’s government. And in spite of Putin’s reappointment of Nabiullina (for reasons that are not completely clear to me, but I am confident that it is part of a larger strategic plan), it seems that she is already being marginalized to some extent as well. Do you think that these developments have resulted from Russia’s apparent recent resolve to decouple economically and culturally from the “West”? I certainly hope that Russia has discarded all illusions about the possibility of rapprochement with the West under our current vile ruling class. Maybe the time has come when Russia’s leadership will finally be acting in accordance with their long-held realization that US and its band of satrapies are недоговороспособные.
its not just Chubias
there is a flow of liberals packing
not a day too soon!
Excellent news Andrei
It is certainly satisfying to see the rats scurrying for the exits now that the tomcat has awakened and is not in a very tolerant mood. As you have pointed out previously, the greatest threat to Russia is internal rather than external. I truly hope that one of the consequences of Russia’s actions in Ukraine will be to dislodge the remaining WEF/neoliberal-aligned comprador class from Russia’s government and financial institutions. It is no easy task in the real world to purge these types of parasitic vermin from their entrenched positions within the body politic, but maybe now the Eurasian sovereigntists will have the momentum they need to carry out some long overdue housecleaning.
Will you or one of your guest posters do a list/tally of all the liberals who’ve left, along with how bad each one was (like a rating of how much harm they’ve done or been doing)?
I’m surprised no one is connecting the probable dots.
Dot 1: China refuses to toe the line against Russia per ZioAmerican dictates, and gets warnings from the US. Several days later, a Chinese airliner dives nose first into the ground. The plane was a Boeing ( remote control anyone ? ).
Dot 2: Biden arrives in Europe for several high profile meetings. Russian ship explodes.
Coincidences ? Maybe or maybe not.
You can go far in these signals. So earthquakes in Japan and Taiwan recently.
Although timing is everything.
Dot 1. A bit like Egyptair 990 out of LA to JFK, that, IMO was remotely hijacked. The Capt and Copilot, by pulling massive force on the control columns, managed to briefly level off, as did the Chinese, then it dove into the Atlantic. Natch the mad Murikan investigators had no idea what happened.
Please, I’m brazilian and unfortunately I don’t speak Russian, but I get information here every day. Russian websites are being blocked. Can you please translate the legend (colors) of the map?
Sorry if this is off topic, but is anyone else wondering why the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” hasn’t moved the “doomsday clock” closer to “midnight” – in light of the Satanists’ escalating provocations against Russia and their obvious intention to destroy Russia? What are they waiting for, a nuclear first strike?
And where are all the psychiatrists (e.g. Bandy Lee and the “World Mental Health Coalition”) who were quick to point out the danger to the world posed by Trump? Yes, Trump was dangerous, but is Biden any less dangerous?
What would the senile servant of Satan in the White House have to do (or fail to do) to get the notoriety he deserves?
Loads of Americans already having fun in battle in Ukraine:
https://twitter.com/spriter99880/status/1507126208911355904
https://twitter.com/spriter99880/status/1507126038920417281
Why aren’t they being bombed?
Not bomb-worthy.
I’ll be honest I’m wondering the same thing. But it’s hard to say due to the very little context we have. For instance, as far as we know they did get bombed, or were in the process of doing so but quickly retreated to cover. Not saying that’s what happened but it’s just hard to know with so little context. With that said the few things we know are this is near Kiev which is the fortress with the most powerful anti-air units still supposedly remaining in the entire Ukrainian arsenal. Not only Manpads everywhere, but Kiev still has actual real anti-air assets that gets hidden in and around the city in places like that Grad unit was hidden in the sports center / Mall the other day.
So on one hand we know flying in that area could be dangerous. But I don’t see why other types of “safe” air strikes are not possible on them, for instance high altitude guided munitions of some sort whether its Kaliber missiles or PGM’s which are laser guided to the target. They’re clearly hiding behind cover from presumably some sort of Russian forces on the other side. So the question is why can’t those Russian forces call in a missile strike with a laser designator pointing in the rough direction/street where those Ukies are. The only possible explanation I have is that this is a heavily suburbanized area, as you can see nice homes, many of which are destroyed on this street, and Russia is too afraid to launch missiles there for fear of slaughtering civilians still stuck in those homes. We’ve seen that general area (outskirts of Kiev) is already turning into a wasteland and from what I hear, most of it is from Ukrainian indiscriminate shelling. And perhaps Russia is really not wanting to contribute to that. Here’s an example from that region today https://www.bitchute.com/video/Aouq0JZc2bAY/
Honestly, the turning point seemed to me, when Russia was first already actually penetrating Kiev, and had forces literally inside the city. And then we saw (a possibly deliberate falseflag) attack by Ukie forces that shot the missile at the high-rise. (talking about this event a few weeks ago https://youtu.be/zfILFGpMQRo) and ever since this happened, I noticed Russia immediately pulled out of Kiev towards the outskirts as if it got “spooked” in the sense of, I personally think Putin really hates civilian casualties and seeing those haunting images of that highrise destroyed like that, really gave this grim aura of how the huge capital city of Kiev could turn into Grozny very quickly. And ever since then Russia has never really tried to enter Kiev again and has adopted a circling tactic instead. Now this could just be my own personal wrong feeling but that’s what it felt like to me.
And so now in these suburbs Russia could fear bombing them. Detractors will say “But Russia freely bombed the Mall the other day in north Kiev!” But if you listened to the actual Russian MOD announcement of the strike, they said they hit a “DEFUNCT mall”. That’s the exact terminology they used. (I have no clue what it means, whether the mall was closed or out of business or what). But my point being that, they knew the mall was “defunct” which allowed them to strike it, but these suburban streets here look quite different, and as you can see from the video I posted from today, the drone shot shows cars on freeways blown up etc so clearly there are civilians still all over the place.
With that said I could be completely wrong on this assessment but logically speaking it’s the only reason I can possibly think of why Russian forces are not utilizing CAS / airstrikes on these groups which appear to be out in the open. I’d love to hear other people’s opinions on the matter, and wish we had more context because in these videos you never see Russian forces, it’s always somewhere out of frame, or an alleged “destroyed tank” and so who knows if they’re even anywhere nearby.
Because for the record, in that first video where the cowboy yankee says he destroyed a Russian tank — first of all that’s not a tank, that’s a BMP-2, you can clearly see its turret next to it. And secondly, it seems to have an improvised anti-cumulative cage around it which I’ve only seen Ukrainian BTR’s etc using exclusively so far in this far, i.e. things like these https://i.postimg.cc/QNvk4hCN/R.jpg
So for all we know they’re full of crap as usual and that’s Ukie destroyed armor, and may very well be destroyed by airstrikes. It’s too hard to really say without more context and seeing a broader picture of the particular battlefield engagement.
The cowboy yankee appears to be a total poser. Likely a desk jockey spook.
Be sure to automatically say “Thank You For Your Service” if you see them at Walmart.
By the way, no American “advisers” or trainers in any image or video that I’ve ever seen have been black or hispanic.
That’s odd, considering that black and hispanic races combined contribute nearly half of all members.
Could it be because they don’t like the cold? Yes that must be it.
U.S. special forces are almost all white. For the blacks and hispanics, the army is a job and they prefer support services.
God help them when they screw up and their Azov buddies shoot them in the back or when the Chechens show up. It looks like Mariupol is almost taken 100%. The Chechens and DPR forces seems to have done much of the fighting. Not many Ukie or any Azov survivors. The Azov scum make sure they kill and deface any mercenaries who are fighting with them.
Hold on American and other foreign mercs up in Kyiv. The Chechens will be coming to the party soon. It will nt be a nice time.
I feel sorry for the average foolish Ukie fighting for scum like Zelensky-Kolomoisky-Pinchuk and Azov batallion. The powers that be in Ukraine made sure the average Ukrainian never had weapons to fight back against oligarchs and Azov. It is a prison country,
Isn’t the full liberation of Mariupol a little more newsworthy then the loss of one old cargo ship?
If, in fact, Ukraine bombed a Russian ship that was not bomb worthy, maybe the sole motive was to distract the Western public from today’s liberation of Mariupol.
And the loss of Izyum, which is a disaster for the Ukrainians.
The loss of one landing ship should not come as a shock, and the Ukies have been trained up to NATO standards over 8 years so is not a total second/third tier military that the U.S. prefers to face like against Iraq (who still presented some problems). Some losses are to be expected and before the U.K. press starts celebrating, seven Royal Navy ships were sunk in the Falklands War.
honestly, I am more lamenting the BTR-82’s that were on board that ship than the 1967 ship itself. Hopefully they managed to offload most of the good stuff already.
Saker,
Really appreciate the map and the update.
Here are a couple questions for you:
1) Who was Anatoly Chubais and why was he an aide to Putin when he sounds like a CIA plant or a traitor?
https://news.yahoo.com/western-official-encouraged-resignation-russian-163726435.html
2) Why did Putin elect to keep the Atlantic-Integrationist Elvira Nabiullina at her post as head of the Russian Central Bank when she is rumored to have been responsible for Russia’s failure to protect the country’s foreign reserves? According to Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, Russia has been deprived of about $300 billion of its foreign currency holdings. Wouldn’t this justify firing her for incompetence? I’m not sure what Putin’s thinking is on this, but it is a mystery to me. So any clarification would be helpful.
Thanks again and keep up the great work!
There is a recently posted article on this site analyzing Russian politics.
Short summary : while there is some overlap between atlantic-integrationnists and fifth column in Russia especially as traitors don’t introduce themselves as such, those are two clearly different groups. Most atlantic integrationnists in Russia are decent Russian citizens whose valid perspectives deserve a friendly counter-proposal rather than a totalitarian purge.
Mariupol “resistance” is history, Chechen brothers are now having a parade with trucks, raising flags, praying and thanking Allah for the victory. More Chechens are coming to Ukraine to join the frey. Overall, excellent day, great news, great videos for us to share in the happiness. There is still work to do, but the nazi spine is broken, victory is at the gates.
Subhanallah! Alhamdulillah! La illaha illah la! Allahu Aqbar!
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/dlja_armii_ukrainy_segodnja_mnogo_plokhikh_novostej_karta_boevykh_dejstvij_na_vecher_24_marta_video_poslednego_chasa_25_video_2022/60-1-0-11702
For the army of Ukraine today there is a lot of BAD news. Map of the fighting as of the evening of 24 March. Last hour video (25 videos, 2022)
Us and British intelligence transmitted information to the General Staff that a new group of Russian troops of 70-90 thousand people was assembled in the Crimea-Belarus and the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation. The information is not confirmed by anyone, when the group will enter the battle is unknown.
Finally, the Russian army will receive volunteers – tens of thousands have been asking for Ukraine for a month and today Putin allowed them to be sent to the special operation zone.
NATO has banned Poland from introducing its troops into Ukraine.
The Russian side decided to create civil-military administrations – CAA, as cases when Ukrainian enclaves appeared in the rear of Russian groups of troops became more frequent. In the east, the Armed Forces of Ukraine withdrew from Kamenka to Sukhoi Kamenka (2 km), regrouped, there will be a counterattack again. Ukrainian resources claim that Russian troops began an assault on the city of Slavutych near Chernihiv.
To the west of Kiev, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to cross the Irpin River and the reservoir at the Zolotoy Karas fishing farm north of the Chaika autodrome in order to enter the rear of the Russian group. They write that the concentration of the troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is large, They are hit by Russian artillery.
Kiev has requested U.S. assistance in transferring Soviet-made ammunition and military equipment that are in service in NATO countries. Jens Stoltenberg rejected Poland’s proposal to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, and also refused to transfer to Ukraine the Israeli Spike ATGMs, which are the most advanced in the world.
Analysts of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine predicted for Zelensky several scenarios of a long war with Russia. The most optimal of them is that the fighting will last 3 months, and we will be able to hold the eastern front and prevent the encirclement of Kiev. In a negative scenario, the war will last 7-10 months and may lead to the occupation of the entire Left-bank Ukraine.
In Mariupol for today separately: “The defense of Azov in Mariupol HAS COLLAPSED! Today the regiment suffered the greatest losses in its history – the houses are LITTERED with their corpses…” (2022).
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Lone Wolf
Also of significance is the order has been made by the government to evacuate form Kiev. Lvov is probably where most will go. So much for pushing the Russians 70km back and encircling all their forces. Does anyone believe a single thing that comes out of Ukraine?
The news gets worse and worse for the Ukronazis. Tonight the government has announced plans to evacuate Kiev. Meaning they can disperse to whatever city they see fit. Now this seems very strange to me. All we have heard from Zelensky is how Russian forces have been thrown 70km back and the Russian forces are surrounded, out of fuel, surrendering. How do we square that circle?
Never seen a government lie like this about everything. When Ukraine left the Soviet Union they had everything. Heavy Industry, ship building, space industry, aircraft design. They had it all. Look what they have done. Just look how they have desolated their lands. Poorest Country in Europe. Most Corrupt. It is a shame really. I take no delight in seeing people suffer. Maybe with Ukraine as a neutral country some kind of new start for a better future.
oxymoron “British Intelligence”
As I reported earlier, there’s strong chance that the Berdiansk ship fire was not a “Tochka” strike or any sort of “strike” at all. More reports are coming out to support this, such as:
“(autotranslate from Russian) As it turned out, the fire in the port of Berdyansk was not connected either with the hit of the Tochka-U OTRK in the landing ship, or with any military actions by the Ukrainian side in general.
The fire broke out in the berth fuel storage facilities, according to CCTV footage, and then the fire spread to the property stored on the quay wall and spread to the moored landing craft, which completed unloading.”
As someone else posted this video https://youtu.be/IkfzmglTxyM around the 0:25 or so mark, you can see smoke start rising very gradually but there is no clear sign of any major explosion. Any explosions AFTER the fact that were seen were merely ammo detonations which were on board the ship as the whole point of the ship was to transport arms.
A Tochka missile is a giant 4500lbs ballistic missile, the precursor to the Iskander. It can level a city block and the plume/mushroom cloud from its hit would be seen miles away. What I see in that video is no where in the magnitude of any Tochka missile strike so for now to me the above theory is far more likely that it was caused by some sort of fire in the fuel tanks near the ship.
Only question is how: the obvious answer can only be either 1. sabotage or 2. negligence.
Negligence SEEMS unlikely simply because transportation of such flammable/explosive objects is typically done in such a way as to be foolproof from even a momentary lapse of judgment. But ofcourse in a ‘war’ type scenario under heavy pressure/stress anything is possible. But to me the chances are quite low. It seems much more in the profile of an act of sabotage of some sort.
Keep in mind there is not a single shred of proof that a Tochka missile hit, or any missile or Ukrainian strike of any sort. Nor has the MOD confirmed or denied anything in relation to this, so we don’t know for certain. Hopefully MOD might release a statement on this to confirm.
@ Nightvision
Thanks for that research.
Guess we will have to wait for the official word to really know what happened. I had not read down to when you say “sabotage” and I was wondering already it that was the case. Either one of the two, sabotage or negligence, or a combination of both. No major damage was done, the presstitutes had a field day about the Ukronazis sinking the entire Russian navy (what’s new), it is sort of irrelevant at this point.
It is war, and it comes with the trade. Hopefully there were no casualties, or not many. I am sure some heads will roll, after an investigation determines responsibilities.
Lone Wolf
Btw one report said that Ukies claimed a TB2 Turkish drone shot the ship. But this sounds even less plausible. At least Tochka is more believable because a Tochka can be very hard to shoot down for air defense. But can’t imagine a TB2 drone getting within vicinity of that port, and plus Ukraine would have released the gloating footage by now from the TB2 strike.
Two days ago there was report with photo of flightmap showing a Turkish transport plane headed to Reznow base in Poland, from a Turkish base close to the TB2 manufacturing plant. This would suggest that 2 days ago Ukraine likely got a brand new delivery of fresh batch of TB2’s, so that’s one thing to think about.
As for casualties, I heard unconfirmed reports up to 8-13 died but this could be fake as it came from pro-Ukie OSINT accounts who changed their tune a variety of times, like from reporting the aforementioned Tochka to then reporting TB2 to then growing silent. See for yourself these bipolar Ukies can’t make up their mind which B.S. to stick to https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1507015282467885068
“OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
Ukraine Military Sources are now Claiming that the Explosions this morning at the Russian Occupied Port of Berdyans’k were caused by Missiles Fired from a Ukrainian Navy Bayraktar TB-2 Drone, these Explosions caused Fires which completely destroyed a Alligator-Class Landing Ship.”
But yea you bring up a good point, someone else mentioned along the lines of: “It’s funny how 1 Russian ship sinks and media goes crazy, but in the first day of the operation, Russia sank the ENTIRE UKRAINIAN NAVY and not a single article came out about it from Western media.”
Someone posted this in a Southfront comment (most of the posts are just vile arguments) but this stood out:
” According to Russian officials a Tochka-U missile was intercepted.” This is a stupid thing to say. They intercepted the missile but pieces of it still hit its target? Highly unlikely. And I doubt that it was a Ukraine sabotage group. Much more likely a US special operation. Russian is really embarassing itself by making such mistakes. They seem to lack common sence and not take even basic measures to protect thier forces. They also seem to have the opinion that when they are in friendly territory they can let their gaurd down and act like this is a routine training exercise.
“Tochka intercepted but fell on our ship” sounds like a face saving cope. I say fake news. As for sabotage, I meant more someone on the inside, not an actual Ukrainian “Seal Team”, that’s unlikely. I think you make a lot of assumptions on Russian security mistakes and common sense etc given the fact that you know literally nothing about the event or how it happened, so it’s pretty much speculation and conjecture. The other thing you must be aware of is that Russia in Ukraine is unlike any war effort you’ve seen before. It sounds to me like you’re comparing (in your head) these conflicts to the previous U.S. efforts you’ve seen against Iraq or Afghanistan, and they seem “sterling” by comparison and now you expect Russia to function in a similar way. But the major thing you’re missing is that the entire western world is backing Ukraine, the largest Military Industrial Complex in the history of Man is actively pouring itself out into Ukraine with infinite funding, logistics, weapons, ELINT, etc etc. U.S. has never in its history faced such an environment. Imagine for a second if when U.S. invaded Iraq, the entire global world order, all of Europe, Russia, China were all pouring billions of dollars into Iraq, giving it nonstop 24/7 satellite surveillance capabilities, intelligence of every sort, infinite weapons and mercenaries. You really think in such a scenario, the U.S. wouldn’t lose a ship here or there?
You forget how easily U.S. (which has admitted multiple times already to feeding Ukraine with 24/7 live satellite data etc) can give pinpoint satellite info and intercepted intelligence to give Ukies a real one-up on any sabotage project. Russia is really fighting against the entire Western world order here, so I think you need to understand and respect that a little more.
-Oh and by the way, Russia is winning, in case you haven’t noticed. Against them all.
In light of US admissions, and other proof, that they are providing the criminal Ukie regime with nonstop 24/7 satellite surveillance capabilities, intelligence of every sort, it’s mystifying to me why RuF doesn’t target US satellite capabilities.
Any thoughts?
Combat swimmers and a limpet mine?
Well Russia did say Ukrainian mines were floating all over the black sea now after a current pushed them out from near Odessa. Anything’s possible I guess.
Could it be a USA DEW directed energy weapon strike from a satellite? Similar “warning” like downing of the Chinese airplane few days ago?
I doubt it. I don’t know of any weapon with such a capability. Laser weapons notoriously have a very short range only a few kilometers at most.
Plus think about it, this ship was an old, insignificant hunk of junk from 1967 that didn’t have much of importance on board (we know this because the same ship literally published a video 2 days ago showing what it was offloading, a few BTR-82’s etc, nothing too crazy).
So if you had a “miracle” wunderwaffen weapon like you describe, why would you use it on such a lousy target? Russia literally has its flagship of the whole fleet nearby anchored in the black sea, that thing is worth everything, and is of extreme importance, one of a kind, why wouldn’t you strike that instead etc. Plus there was 3 other landing ships all next to each other, why would such a weapon only hit one of them. And for that matter, if it was a TB2 drone or any other Ukrainian type of strike, why didn’t they hit all 3 ships? (yes I realize one of the ships had a minor fire on it as well but it was quickly put out).
So this to me simply looks much more like an accident of some sort, or an act of sabotage like we were saying.
American military scientists are very stupid, they don’t have the brains to make such a weapon. Don’t forget that North America only makes toilet paper with Washington’s face on it.
Looks like Youtube is trying to silence Gonzalo Lira. They pulled his two videos from today off not long after he posted them.
Is he on Bitchute, Rumble, or Odyssey?
I checked his YouTube this morning and no videos were posted. The last 2 videos were from yesterday.
We need to download his videos and share it on Rumble. Do you know what they were titled?
The only 2 that are most recent are ‘US committing suicide’.
Thanks
I would like to share an article
Gonzalo Lira — the Ukrain Thing is Jewish
https://www.academia.edu/74138569/
Abstract: There is a whole panoply of Jewish intrigues that contributed to the provocation for the invasion by Russia: the stealing of Crimea for a 2nd Jewish homeland, the indoctrination of Ukrainians into the Western mindset and the destruction of authoritarian Russia.
Some videos for today.
Mariupol refugee talks about being abandoned and used as human shield (MUST SEE):
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/mariupol-refugee:b
Russian Marines in street fighting for Mariupol:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/mariupol-fighting:b
Strike takes out a Kiev regime anti-aircraft missile system:
https://rutube.ru/video/da953c776ac7c7528c89021b91c865eb/
That first video link should be shared for the whole world to view
Ukrop soldiers are dropping like flies everywhere
https://www.bitchute.com/video/w7QdqTh3K0w1/
Azov cowards constantly caught fleeing Mariupol https://www.bitchute.com/video/MSZzx2XrpIV1/
@ Nightvision
They all look so meek and submissive, the “pure race” MoFos. There was one in another video that was playing the macho man, and was promptly subdued by two guys with a lock to his tied up arms. Chechens are no nonsense.
Lone Wolf
Proud of my Muslim brothers, the Chechens, who are shedding their blood next to the Russians for the liberation of Ukraine from the claws of nazism. This video is a celebration, a truck parade in downtown Mariupol, with them driving their trucks and other vehicles.
https://ok.ru/video/3349455833728
Lone Wolf
Then please enjoy these as well:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cEtPz5T33Hnm/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/573h5B7sqHbQ/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RvOXDgZztJaZ/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9uObxQK5RvMm/
@ Nightvision
Thanks, I had watched a couple, impossible to see them all.
Chechens are invading Ukraine!!! They are coming by the thousands. Second phase is about to start, and Putin just opened the gates for volunteers joining the Russian army. It’s going to be an army as diverse as the Red Army in WWII. South Ossetians just joined the frey, and soon many other Russian allies will start sending their “delegations.”
Why not? It’s the only war around, time to test those Spetsnaz in real combat, they cost so much money to train!
Lone Wolf
I saw videos of South Ossetian and Abkhazian mechanized units deployed
into Ukraine weeks ago. I haven’t seen anything about them since or where
in Ukraine they were sent.
Did I read that Kyiv is evacuating out? Or I just mis-read.
I THINK it was a declaration to draw up plans for the government to potentially evac in future, not the city/civilians themselves. Someone correct me if I’m wrong
Спасибо.
Btw I thought Ukraine was “winning” and Russian forces around Kiev were being “destroyed daily”, why would they need to evacuate Kiev?
Nightvision,
What’s happening with the plan to make your ( and others ) observations a daily SITREP article ?
Take the load off Saker plus some real viral influence. Your observations are the best I‘ve seen in decades.
@ Exile
The Saker knows how to manage his blog, and most of us are very happy with it. SITREPs are posted by Amarynth when needed, and he does a great job at that. I don’t understand your repeated suggestions of others doing SITREPs. You and those others could start your own blog, and if good, people will flock to read it. How about that?
Lone Wolf
I hope it’s true. Can anyone confirm?
it remain me HEZBOLLAH(spell.)fighters who liberated Christians villages in the Syria…….praying together to St. Mary with them in their churches….
Слава Русији! До коначне побједе, напријед….
MOD: From now on please insert your own translation as Saker asked. Moderation is to busy to always post translations for people.
Glory to Russia! Until the final victory, forward….
Brothers and Sisters,
Forgive me, but I found this too good to miss on Sky News Australia, after the anchor, Andrew Bolt, tried to dirten the Russian pranksters who interviews UK secretary on Nuclear weapons for Ukraine. After Blaming Russia, these are the comments he got. I have copied and pasted them without editing anything. This is the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT8ZEeuVhVg
Michael Just
Michael Just
2 days ago
It was just a bloke with a sense of humour, having a laugh .
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Internet W4nk3r
Internet W4nk3r
2 days ago
Well, they pull a prank, or hoax, unsurprisingly. Prankster job.
Also media pull pranks every day, also unsurprisingly. Not your job.
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Tigereye Wong
Tigereye Wong
2 days ago
What concerns me is that UK Govt is mysteriously silent about UK citizens going off to fight in Ukraine, only to be killed by Russian cruise missile attack (hit last week).
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Jaqalena Brooks
Jaqalena Brooks
2 days ago
Hahaha…. caught out by the Russians, I’ll bet that really pisses you off Bolt 😆
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Sounds of life
Sounds of life
2 days ago
There are hoaxers in every country- it’s the scammers I’m more concerned about. I like your tie btw Andrew.
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USMC1998
USMC1998
2 days ago
I’m no fan of anything Putin is doing, but I’m at the point where I believe the opposite of whatever corporate news orgs want me to.
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mrtea
mrtea
2 days ago
I’m quickly losing respect for sky news
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Robert Wilcock
Robert Wilcock
2 days ago
Watching the leader of an Eastern state of Ukraine being interviewed, he made it plain that following the 2014 decision to stay with Russia, the eastern States came under massive heavy artillery bombardment, targeting domestic areas, schools, and Kindergartens.
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Tom Bown
Tom Bown
2 days ago
And Ukraine governments have not honoured the Minsk agreements which, France and Germany were supposed to have monitored in the meantime nato progressing to Russian borders, results are what you see. UK to take a hit with 250,000 refugees when welfare struggling ourselves. Ukraine needs to be neutral
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Ashley Hayes
Ashley Hayes
1 day ago
@Carla Broderick Biden said America was going to make Ukraine’s bid for EU Membership a priority.
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The Motorsport Archives
The Motorsport Archives
1 day ago
Guys let’s all use some western names as our profile name, they will think we’re one of them and believe what we write. Gtfo
Dean Vernon
Dean Vernon
1 day ago
@A K What “Proofs?” Show you evidence. Hearsay doesn’t cut it.
A K
A K
21 hours ago
@Dean Vernon are you talking to me? Watch UN sessions
rey Pogi
rey Pogi
2 days ago
Hoax? I see that everyday. It’s called news.
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Paul Wright
Paul Wright
1 day ago
To be fair, Priti Patel has been hoaxing us Brits that she is the Home Secretary for years!
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Ben Fenrir
Ben Fenrir
2 days ago
Sky you should put up the symbol for the Azov battalion to show solidarity.
(Lol)
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frank harte
frank harte
2 days ago
What about getting Sky News to be use for Ukraine Propaganda??Right!!
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Tora Black
Tora Black
2 days ago
when I see stories like this I feel like I’m living in a cartoon
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Bob Smith
Bob Smith
2 days ago
Bolt you flip flop like no tomorrow . One day Ukraine is winning the next Russia is flattening the place .
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Elisabeth Taylor
Elisabeth Taylor
2 days ago
Watching cretin Bolt for a laugh.
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VG
VG
2 days ago
At this point Bolt lurches between the illogical and the ridiculous.
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Mark Christiansen
Mark Christiansen
2 days ago
Usually I like u Bolt but your now just pushing narrative .
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Gemthetics
Gemthetics
2 days ago
“Call on the Lord in the day of trouble,
and He will deliver you.”
– Psalm 50 :15
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geoh7777
geoh7777
1 day ago
A “world leader” engaging in a lie? No.
Engaging in a never-ending stream of lies — Yes.
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Emperor Jahrome
Emperor Jahrome
2 days ago
Russia trying to prank the UK that has mastered pranks, humour and talent on god-tier mode levels was expecting us Brits to get spoofed and do what exactly? Roll over and do whatever they demand.
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S N
S N
8 hours ago
It’s a prank I think Wallace handled himself well… Laugh and move on.
EasyLeopard525
EasyLeopard525
2 days ago (edited)
So Russia bad guys Ukraine good guys. Media 1 sided view not helpful.
Ukraine PM dodgy and playing a part that going end in tears.
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Grandpa Vince
Grandpa Vince
2 days ago
I remember when old vincey pulled a hoax on his neighbour grandpa terry and told everyone he had mated with a kangaroo.
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Shane Brbich
Shane Brbich
2 days ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dunno what’s funnier, the hoax or Bolts overreacting and gas lighting!
Get a grip flacid!
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Healing Humanity
Healing Humanity
1 day ago
As soldiers fiercely fight against invading armies, the rest of us should attack the thoughts in our minds that create wars & misery—“me first,” “my people first,” “my country above all,” & “my religion is the only true one.” These thoughts divide humanity & create hatred.
Oliver Tremayne
Oliver Tremayne
2 days ago
Bolt, you really turned after they jabbed you.
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Adam Saarinen
Adam Saarinen
2 days ago
Long live Putin! 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💪💪💪💪💪💪
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Sean Delap
Sean Delap
2 days ago
I would be much more concerned about the Azov Battalion tbh they are the ones Russia is fighting and good for Russia i say.
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Hello World
Hello World
2 days ago
You prank all Australians every day.
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Jon Johnson
Jon Johnson
2 hours ago
Sounded nothing like Zelenskyy – we’ve all heard his voice and English nuances enough over the last month to know it’s not him, it’s embarrassing that Ben Wallace fell for it.
supernovaaust
supernovaaust
2 days ago
Bolt… you might want to tell your audience why Murdoch corp are moving away from the old narrative. They seem a bit confused. Cant you make some kind of story up and blame it on the democrats? Would be a lot easier for them to digest.
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Fox Meow
Fox Meow
2 days ago
I’m still more concerned about China
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Max Strength
Max Strength
2 days ago
The Leprauchan was playing mind games for the saviour of sanity
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Elisabeth Taylor
Elisabeth Taylor
2 days ago
BOLT, get real The Russian Hoaxster much right to be called Prime Minister as the highly respectable person who has been appointed to the position by the comedian in chief! Zelensky ran a movie production company ffs. And he appointed all his cronies to the hovernment jobs! Even the Head of Intel. Ffs
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Servius M
Servius M
2 days ago
Russia should have been prepared to coordinate everything during this war. The delay in cyber and information warfare shows they underestimated Ukrainian defences.
Marta gomez espinoza
Marta gomez espinoza
2 days ago
THANKS GOD.
GOD’S BLESS ON UKRAINIANS.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY YOU ARE DAVID, MOISES, THE GOD’S SOLDIER, UKRAINIANS ARE HEROES’S LAND. 🙏🇺🇦❤️
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Union Jack Jackson
Union Jack Jackson
2 days ago
Hang on if this was being face timed you must see the person your talking too ? If it wasnt face time who the hell films themselves whilst on the fone in a taxi to the “ukranian prime minister ?
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MA 292
MA 292
2 days ago
Haha 😂 Headline should be” Russia makes UK look like idiots”… since were generalising an entire country for the decision of one person.
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lappo253
lappo253
1 day ago
Ha ha ha even admitting it: lost the PR war!!!!
Have y’all seem the proper gander camera crews in Ukraine and how they film this crap???
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Anita Sharma
Anita Sharma
2 days ago
old story which I watched 2 days ago in Indian media
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simon w
simon w
2 days ago
it’s ironic how you didn’t go on like this when america did the same things, killing civilians in other countries ???
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Andrey Guskov
Andrey Guskov
1 day ago
Mr Bolt, with all due respect, this is a pathetic attempt to cover your ‘strategic partner’. A major political figure got caught saying some worrying stuff on tape and it’s all over the news now.
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Gruffles
Gruffles
2 days ago
Watching all this misinformation from Ukraine/Russia really reminds me CNN, MSNBC, BBC and ABC.
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Charlotte Wyttle
Charlotte Wyttle
2 days ago
Zelensky creeps me out.
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NayChaBoy
NayChaBoy
2 days ago
sky news..
I really like u guys so I’ll give you this ..
has it occurred to you that option 3 may be that these pranksters are actually pranksters and when they smell bullshit… they decide to exploit it for the public to see?
there are WAY BIGGER things going on
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Peppolo Buondelmonte
Read almost every comment.
Thanks for the laugh.
I really do wonder when we are going to pull the media down. It is no longer ‘useful’ for anything important in life.
Latest news: Russia has now completely cleared Izyum, and destroyed an attempted Ukrainian counter-attack.
The territory south of Izyum is now open and the Russians are flooding into it.
Far bigger news than a strike on a cargo ship.
The Ukrainian army (over 60,000 strong, apparently) arrayed against the Donbas republics now have an agonizing choice: drop their heavy equipment now and flee the encirclement, or sit tight and wait for the bag to be put over their head.
There are not other options: flee now, or surrender later.
It’s been reported that Sergei Driga, a commander of Azov has been captured in Kherson.
How’d he get that far?
Dressed like a woman? ;)
https://www.nairaland.com/7044267/russian-forces-captures-ukraines-brutal
This is from 2days ago however… Maybe waiting for legit confirmation.
Was this the Russian Patrol Boat Vasily Bykov? Or is this a new ship that the Ukranians destroyed?
Any news from the Russian troops from the 35th and 36th CAAs? Asking for a friend.
The fire in the port of Berdyansk happened on the large landing ship “Saratov” – https://clck.ru/eRvMp part of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia – https://clck.ru/eRvWc
Sorry for civilian question.
NATO logistics and weapons come through the Polish border.
Why can’t Russia seal that border with sub-munition bombs and subsequent minefields ? Especially as after the conflict, this will incline post-war Ukraine to look eastward, even as opportunistic (and beloved by me) Poles might leverage the opportunity to push the border ?
Is there any valid reason (other than cost of capacity) for an AI operated Russian drone swarm system not to engage anything moving eastward into Ukraine as a target ?
P.S : thanks for your reporting, including on the ukie achievement.
Mariupol, March 25, 2022
Source
There shouldn’t be any confusion or second guessing about the resolve of Russia’s leaders to win against Ukraine completely, and that there is zero chance of any other outcome:
Recently, on an interview on an American TV channel, Peskov cited Russia’s nuclear doctrine and did not rule out the use of nuclear weapons. This means that to avoid using nuclear bombs, Russia could deal with Ukraine militarily like they dealt with Chechnya, even like they dealt with Germany. There’s also Putin’s remark that if things become too hard for Russia, Ukraine will lose its statehood. Putin would rather erase Ukraine as a country from the map than lose. I think there is a third factor with regard to how far Russia is willing to go to win, and it’s Chechnya, whose leader pressed Putin for a more aggressive attack early on. Chechnya also must exert pressure because of how Russia subdued it (some twenty years ago), and because Chechen soldiers are fighting in Ukraine. If victory turns elusive, Putin could attack as in a “war” against an enemy country because of the Chechnya pressure too. I think Western media pundits and even Ukraine are guessing on how firm is the Russian resolve by looking for other indicators that are insignificant next to these three larger ones.
Let’s not forget how much media and even military hype there are in modern warfare. According most studies casualty figures are lower than estimated and warfare not at all as fast and fascinating Blitzkrieg spectacle as believed.
The twelfth of Trevor Dupuy’s Timeless Verities of Combat is:
“Combat activities are always slower, less productive, and less efficient than anticipated.”
From Understanding War (1987):
“This is the phenomenon that Clausewitz called “friction in war.” Friction is largely due to the disruptive, suppressive, and dispersal effects of firepower upon an aggregation of people. This pace of actual combat operations will be much slower than the progress of field tests and training exercises, even highly realistic ones. Tests and exercises are not truly realistic portrayals of combat, because they lack the element of fear in a lethal environment, present only in real combat. Allowances must be made in planning and execution for the effects of friction, including mistakes, breakdowns, and confusion.
While Clausewitz asserted that the effects of friction on the battlefield could not be measured because they were largely due to chance, Dupuy believed that its influence could, in fact, be gauged and quantified. He identified at least two distinct combat phenomena he thought reflected measurable effects of friction: the differences in casualty rates between large and small sized forces, and diminishing returns from adding extra combat power beyond a certain point in battle. He also believed much more research would be necessary to fully understand and account for this.
Dupuy was skeptical of the accuracy of combat models that failed to account for this interaction between operational and human factors on the battlefield. He was particularly doubtful about approaches that started by calculating the outcomes of combat between individual small-sized units or weapons platforms based on the Lanchester equations or “physics-based” estimates, then used these as inputs for brigade and division-level-battles, the results of which in turn were used as the basis for determining the consequences of theater-level campaigns. He thought that such models, known as “bottom up,” hierarchical, or aggregated concepts (and the prevailing approach to campaign combat modeling in the U.S.), would be incapable of accurately capturing and simulating the effects of friction.”
——
There are several examples. During WW2 RAF ground attack aircraft pilots tested rockets to hit area similar to size of German tank. The rest result: one of 40 rockets hit the area. In real combat the pilots needed more than 800 rockets to got one direct hit to target. Using bombs was ever more desperate try. Just one of 3000 bombs (ground attack aircraft) hit the target.
Armies also have changed a lot. Very small minority of all soldiers are ground combat. Sometimes even as few than 5-10% are combatants.
So the main reason for slow RF advance is quite normal. The land warfare is still rather slow. I also suggest that the numbers of Ukie soldiers especially those called real fighters are likely much much lower than claimed 260,000 or 600,000. Most of their armed forces are actually garrison type 2nd 3 rd class mostly rear units.
Russia’s Investigative Committee opens case on Ukraine’s development of biological arms
https://tass.com/society/1427151
“We requested available documents from the Russian Defense Ministry and we are ascertaining circumstances of what happened within the framework of the criminal case opened by us under the article of development and production of mass casualty biological arms,” Bastrykin said.
The West denies their presence in the information space now, he noted. “However, we remember statements of US representatives saying the opposite when speaking about presence of biological facilities in Ukraine. It is difficult to image what could occur if these sites continued their operations,” Bastrykin added.”
Russia makes Hunter Biden biolab claim
https://www.rt.com/russia/552638-ukraine-biolabs-us-funding/
“The available materials make it possible to trace the scheme of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian biological objects,” Kirillov said, presenting an elaborate scheme purporting to show the flow of funding.
Pay attention to the involvement in he financing of such activities by structures close to the current US leadership, in particular the investment fund Rosemont Seneca, which is headed by Hunter Biden. The Fund has significant financial resources of at least $2.4 billion.
It was not immediately clear which company Kirillov was specifically referring to because Rosemont Seneca is a decentralized investment fund, comprised of several entities sharing similar names. President Joe Biden’s youngest son Hunter headed the now-defunct DC-based Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, but his legal team has denied his involvement with other branches of the fund, namely the Delaware-based Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC.
The Rosemont Seneca fund is closely affiliated with top Pentagon contractors, Kirillov explained, explicitly naming Metabiota, as well as the Black and Veach companies he described as “the main supplier of equipment for Pentagon biolaboratories around the world.”
The latter concern has been named as a contractor in a 2015 deal between the US government and Ukraine, publicized by the Russian military during the briefing.
According to the document, a nearly $32-million program was aimed at “organizing work of the laboratories, built and modernized with the help of the donor [the US government],” as well as “monitoring infectious diseases” and conducting work to “react rapidly” to outbreaks. The program also listed the “safe collection, processing, temporary storage and transportation of clinical samples” as its goals.
The Ukrainian biolaboratories network has been funded by other US agencies as well, Kirillov said, describing the scale of the biolabs program as an “impressive” one.
“Apart from the military, the US Agency for International Development, the George Soros Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are directly involved in its implementation. Scientific supervision is carried out by leading research organizations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which develops nuclear weapons,” the official said.”
I doubt the hunter biden flake has any active role, he’s a party boy. Most likely he gets a cut from them using his name, like a sports star promoting a tennis shoe brand. Political corruption in israel’s american colony works that way.
The Orsk is a dated 1960s landing ship type of 3-4000 tons with carrying capacity of about 1000 tons. Not a significant naval asset, an obsolete vessel being used as an ordinary cargo ship. The loss is equivalent to the loss of an american liberty freighter in WW2.
Why is BBC Steve Rosenburg still spreading anti Russian propaganda from St. Petersburg and London? I though there was a law against that? If RT is burned from Moscow why is BBC in Russia?
The US plans seems a simple one. Drag things out and make sure spring sowing does not happen, and then blame the resulting food shortages/famine on Russia.
West Has Declared a Hybrid, All-Out War on Russia, Lavrov Says
https://sputniknews.com/20220325/west-has-declared-a-hybrid-all-out-war-on-russia-lavrov-says-1094178805.html
“Today a real hybrid war, a total war has been declared against us. This term, which was used by Nazi Germany, is now used by many European politicians when they explain what they want to do to the Russian Federation. And their goals are not hidden: to destroy, to break, to strangle the Russian economy, and Russia as a whole,” Lavrov said, speaking at a diplomatic forum on Friday.
“Here, when we see this sanctions free-for-all, it is of course clear that all of these values that our Western colleagues had constantly preached to us about the freedom of expression, a market economy, the inviolability of private property and the presumption of innocence, all of these values are worthless,” he said.
The diplomat said most countries outside the collective West don’t want to “engage in a one-sided game,” notwithstanding “enormous pressure” and “propaganda juggling the numbers of votes cast for provocative UN resolutions.”
Lavrov also promised to make the recent Russian revelations about US-funded biolabs in Ukraine a constant theme at the Security Council, “because it is directly related to risks and threats to international peace and security.” Russia, he said, would continue to bring up this theme not just as it relates to Ukraine, but to murky biolab activity across the globe, particularly across the former USSR, where Washington has set up or financed dozens of such facilities after the end of the Cold War.”
yesterday on 24.03. a nato meeting took place.
On the evening of the same day, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said:
“It stressed that there was no other option for Ukraine than to take appropriate steps towards the Minsk Action Plan. Otherwise, the country will fall apart, which is happening now, Zakharova said.”
Source:
https://de.news-front.info/2022/03/24/sacharowa-kiew-hat-seine-chance-auf-einen-souveranen-staat-verpasst/
This morning I found this map from Polish tv.
Source:
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/36225
No context? It seems that the division of Ukraine has been decided. but at least very likely.
I see an interesting thing in the early morning briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry:
And then a few reports later:
But no more information given.
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🇺🇦🇬🇧The Russian army destroyed the base of foreign mercenaries
https://t.me/anna_news/25908
The Russian military attacked the base of foreign mercenaries fighting on the side of the regime in Kiev with an OTRK 9K720 Iskander-M missile.
@anna_news
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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇧Here are those who were hit by the Iskander-M missile from the last post
https://t.me/anna_news/25909?single
by the armed formations of American mercenaries during the battles with the Russian army in the village of Lukyanovka in the Kiev region.
@anna_news
Sputnik News Telegram channel now available in English with up to date news from Ukraine front:
https://t.me/sputnik
Clarin (Buenos Aires) reports from Kyiv today with the headline “smoke from the bombings begins to flood the city.”
https://www.clarin.com/mundo/alerta-kiev-aire-contaminado-humo-bombardeos-empieza-inundar-ciudad_0_GwlEjR3qhj.html
deepl translator
“The authorities are unable to explain what causes a fungus to expel pollution. Undoubtedly, they are fires unleashed by bombings but there remains uncertainty about what is burning.”
“The authorities ask the population to close the windows during the afternoon and evening, and avoid being outdoors.”
“They should regulate these walks, judging by what the following statement from the authorities suggests:
‘Attention! Kievans are urged to close the windows: the districts of Svyatoshynsky and Golosiivsky are affected by a fire in the Kiev region. City authorities urge citizens to keep windows closed, especially at night and in the afternoon. Also, if possible, do not stay outdoors. Air conditioning and air purification systems should be turned on if available.
Experts also advise doing a wet cleaning. You can place containers filled with water around the room to increase humidity. Adults are advised to increase water intake to 2-3 liters per day. If you experience a cough and shortness of breath, call your doctor.'”
“‘Stay calm and follow the official sources of information!’ the statement concluded.”
https://syrianews.cc/russian-military-operation-in-ukraine-is-not-slow-it-is-planned-to-end-on-9-may-victory-day/
10 wks to Victory Day, what do you think of this theory?
“Baghdad Bob” writes copy for Reuters.
The front page main headline for Reuters and for readers wiping the sleep from their eyes,
is …
Ukrainian forces advance east of Kyiv as Russians fall back
Black hat Russian forces have been:
“The Russians instead have been bombarding, encircling and besieging cities, laying waste to residential areas and driving around a quarter of the 44 million population from their homes.”
While the white hat Ukrainians would have seen even greater victories if not for their concern over civilian populations:
“Ukrainian forces had recaptured a village from Russian troops the previous day between Boryspol and Brovary, and would have pushed on further but had halted to avoid putting civilians in danger, he said.”
Baghdad Bob reporting:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ukraine-urges-halt-russias-assault-biden-heads-poland-2022-03-25/
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What is most troubling about this reporting is that it could be suggestive of an upcoming narrative.
A false-flag is more believable if the Russians are seen as is a losing position. They would have no need to shoot themselves in the foot with a war crime use of chemical or bio weapon if they are winning. But if they begin to lose ground, fall back or stalemate then the use of chemical or bio weapons is much more saleable to the western sheep.
So, headlines like the one at Reuters make give me pause.
You make perfect sense.
And now this from Southfront:
MEDIA PIVOTS BACK TO COVID – PRELUDE TO A UKRAINE FALSE FLAG?
https://southfront.org/media-pivots-back-to-covid-prelude-to-a-ukraine-false-flag/
Regarding the biolabs, please take a look at this and reflect upon it for another perspective
US bio labs in Ukraine
Politically explosive – scientifically irrelevant
18.03.2022
Very readable automatic DeepL translation from German
https://ia601506.us.archive.org/12/items/us-bioweapons-in-ukraine-18032022-russia/us%20bioweapons%20in%20ukraine%2018032022%20russia.pdf
Original article in German
US-amerikanische Biolabore in der Ukraine
politisch brisant – wissenschaftlich irrelevant
https://projekt-immanuel.de/us-amerikanische-biolabore-in-der-ukraine/
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/36350
I found this on his Telegram account this morning. If correct it should lay to rest all the pro-Ukie nonsense of ten’s of thousands of Russians killed.
It translates to:
Official losses of the RF Ministry of Defense as of March 25, 2022
Killed – 1 351
Wounded – 3 825
I don’t know if that would include the figures from the Donbass Republics or not.
It doesn’t include the republics, the guards, the Chechens or other irregulars. With these adjustments it seems rather consistent with the Ukrainian claims of 15,000 Russian casualties (dead, wounded, prisoners and desertions). Russia is not revealing POWs and deserters.
You can’t see that figure is insane? No point wasting time reading your posts
Interesting interview with former CIA analyst Larry C Johnson which presents a very different picture of the Ukraine conflict to that presented by the Western imperialist media:
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/larry-c-johnson-the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up/
If Poland invades ukraine, then they will have to worry about the banderite armed gangs much more so than the Russians. The banderites hate Poles with a passion. So it will be interesting to see what happens. I doubt they will come in, unless they get fooled into going it alone, without NATO. Will Polish Messianism get the best of them again?
Glenn Beck says this morning on his radio show that Defense Minister Shoigu is nowhere to be seen, and I see other media saying that today’s footage of him is undated, and so this story continues.
I’ll say this: It would not be surprising if he is sacked like the FSB head reportedly was but with house arrest. It would be a tradition of the Russian army. If the results are not as good as expected, the leader changes the commanders or Generals quickly, like in WWII. This spurs the whole army to a higher level of performance, which the leader must demonstrate too . Beck and his aide were wondering when a military coup against Putin will happen. If he keeps firing people for incompetence, he gets stronger by showing a leader in command. Also, you may have the ribbons, the titles, the will, but war is the real test (for them) and commanders may flounder. Maybe Gen. Shoigu is still there, but chances are strong – in a Russian army – that he could get changed.
How serious are reports of encircled Russian troops round Irpin? What about the rumored constant attacks on the Kherson airport? Wondering when Russia will up the ante. Or maybe Russia doesn’t want to risk losing more troops?
I am asking questions really just because I want to understand what is happening on the ground. Mariupol seems to be mostly secured by Russian and DPR troops. But the rest of the operation seems to be exhausted. Maybe I am wrong here.
“How serious are reports of encircled Russian troops round Irpin?”
I don’t think this is serious because the New York Times, too, says the Russians control the skies, flying some 200 sorties per day while Ukraine flies only between 5 and 10. I think it must be too hard to be encircling large numbers of troops if you have no control of the skies.
It seems like it’s gonna be over soon for Russia – defeat is inevitable as per the latest reports, and morale is at levels never seen before in the history of the Red Army. If this is the case, Putin will be ousted within a couple of weeks, with the likes of Navalny liberated from jail and put in power.
The map is wrong. For example, Russian forces to the North of Nikolayev have been defeated by frostbite/trench foot (aka corruption), hunger and Ukrainian peasants. There is no Russian army there any more.
Now Russia is withdrawing from Kiev and trying to regroup at Kherson in the West, will the soldiers now in position be abandoned or withdrawn? It is now the thaw and rain is falling. No one is moving much until mid April. That gives 3 weeks to defeat Ukraine in the East with a new (2nd grade) army. Airpower won’t help much. The Ukrainians have been dug in for 8 years.
Russia will probably have to declare victory by gaining Mariupol through vast civilian slaughter. Compare this to 25 civilians deaths a year on both sides in the Donbass. Russia’s name will be dirt for a generation.
“Russia’s name will be dirt for a generation.”
No. The U.S. name did not become dirt after Hiroshima and Nakasaki.
If they lose, yes. If they win, no. That’s how it goes, doesn’t it?
In the third world there’s a lot of sympathy for Russia. A Moscow Times columnist was saying this about the support which it enjoys in Asia and the Middle East. The New York Times, too, had a story on the large support that Russia enjoys in Latin America, with several interviews of people down there who explained their support. (One of them said it was odd for this invader to be judging another’s invasion.)
I truly don’t know what you are reading and it is too wrong and will take too long to even worry about it. Russians suffering from frost bite? Wow. That makes me laugh.
And where is your 25 civilian deaths number coming from?
Anyway, read this – it is a better story. http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/larry-posted-some-good-stuff-about.html
You know nothing about the Russian army supply chain. I do.
But I have clever friends that know this backwards. And we have Syria as a real-life example.
Go and read SmoothieX12.
Why were you a supporter before?
If you believe in 15 000 RF casualties you know nothing and are not too bright.
Civilian deaths are from the United Nations site. https://ukraine.un.org/en/168060-conflict-related-civilian-casualties-ukraine Download the PDF. The deaths split about 60/40 Occupied territory/Ukraine. So about 15 a year in the occupied territories. Not all the deaths are from shelling. Some are people having heart attacks and strokes waiting at a check point or mines.
On this Putin builds claims of genocide. That should give you some idea of how to scale his other Orthodox Facist rantings.
Your numbers are wrong by massive orders of magnitude. Your source is tainted.
Putin says more civilians died, but I want to tell that two or three shellings of civilians in their city is enough to claim genocide. Imagine someone shelling your city one day. That’s genocide.
Dear Amarynth,
I’m quite sure this wonderful blog is getting infiltrated by NATO propagandists. This ranges from the more or less subtle (“I care so much for Russia but I fear Russia is losing”) to outright lies about Russian loss of morale, soldiers, options…Why should these defaitists visit this site if not to push the ridiculous NATO narrative? I do hope you can weed them out: they are a nuisance and make polite and adult conversation difficult. But please continue your own superb work, it is what serious people visit this blog for!
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With apologies from the mod who allowed that drivel through – but really, I expected you’all to annihilate him, a prize example to any more who tried. Perhaps I expected too much? Sorry.
Yeah, we have them today for sure – trolls that storm the gates and concern trolls – we have them all.
Mods are very busy. Forgive them …
A disillusioned troll
The disillusion part is his ‘beard’.
I think that there are a lot of idiots complaining. I Live in Sweden and my Iternet 1000/1000 is perfectly fine.
Maybe you forgot to pay your bills?
Den Lille Abe,
Most of the western world is cut off from Russian media sources. And this is known. They did not all forget to pay their bills.
Biden just told the 82nd Airborne that they are going to Ukraine. Saying the quiet part aloud.
John1, I see he is eating pizza with them, but where does he say they’re going to Ukraine. If you say something like this, you have to make a little linky OK.
Amarynth, I apologize for no link, I didnt know how to do it on my phone, but the story is now picked up by the New York Post, there is video of Biden saying this while addressing the 82nd in Poland.
Here’s one link to the story. It’s put in the context of American forces already/still on the ground in Ukraine as part of the ongoing training mission.
As to how reliable that all is, your guess is as good as mine.
https://trendingpolitics.com/biden-tells-82nd-airborne-theyre-going-to-ukraine-youre-going-to-see-when-youre-there-knab/
This American claims to be taking out Russians and their tanks. Pretty compelling. Millions of views.
https://twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1507054421334757382
No it isn’t. At least not to me.
First, he doesn’t know the difference between a tank and an IFV.
Secondly, the BMP in question has cage armor attached to it. There’s no proof that it’s Russian. In fact, the only side I’ve seen deploy cage armor on their BMP’s have been the Ukrainians.
Thirdly, he’s not claiming to have taken out the vehicle himself. He’s merely posing for the cameraman (and appears to have been directed to that spot), simply repeating what he’s been told (that it’s a Russian tank that’s been taken out).
Finally, both he and the guy next to him scream amateur to me.
So please, enlighten me, what is supposed to be so compelling about this?
Harry, good points. Looks like the cretin posed with just destroyed Ukrainian armor. Yes, that he couldn’t tell the difference between a tank and an IFV speaks volumes.
The propaganda war is strong alright.
The trick is to differentiate between what you are seeing/hearing and what you are being told you are seeing/hearing.
Here, I simply tuned out what was claimed and focused on what I could see/hear for myself. And to be clear, I’m not saying that it is a Ukrainian BMP either, I merely suspect it is. There’s no clear evidence either way.
True that!
Further:
https://t.me/intelslava/23571
The progressive globalists do not stand with Israel.
Soros works against a secure Jewish homeland.
Recalculate…