By Nighvision for the Saker Blog
Russia continues grinding down the Ukrainian infrastructure, and that has been the theme of the last few days. There has been a huge uptick in aerial assaults and missile strikes on various infrastructural objects all over. As of this writing a huge amount of missiles are recorded flying over Ukraine, and Tu-95MS bombers are said to be in the air to contribute their KH-101’s.
Pavlograd railways were hit:
Many objects in Dnieperpetrovsk, Kremenchug, Druzhkovka, Poltava, Kharkov, Odessa and elsewhere were all hit with very powerful strikes, multiple missiles at each location. Not only Kalibers from both submarines and ships in the Black Sea, but KH-101 Missiles from Tu-95MS’s as well.
“According to Russian military spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov, in the afternoon, “high-precision long-range air-launched missiles” hit a logistics terminal located on a military airfield near Odessa, where “a large batch of foreign weapons received from the United States and European countries was stored.”
Ukraine is extremely low on fuel to the point that secret trains have been discovered delivering enormous emergency fuel supplies from Moldova. Video:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/N8jsolmAY8ik/
One note on this: sometimes it’s hard to quantity military success when we hear of these strikes because they seem ‘abstract’ and once they start adding up, the numbers begin to feel more and more abstracted and inconsequential. Each day the Russian MOD announces the destruction of hundreds of new AFU objects. And soon enough one’s mind naturally begins to question, ‘how much damage are these strikes really doing if Ukraine continues to operate?’ etc.
And it’s a good question, we know in military reasoning that you can’t win a war by airstrikes alone, boots on the ground need to make large strategic victories in the old fashioned way. There’s too many examples to list (most of them American) of vast bombing campaigns over long periods of time not doing much to eradicate a resolute insurgent force.
With that said, it’s often easy to fall into a trap of extremes where one begins to think that strikes are not doing anything at all. In fact they are doing a huge amount, but suffice it to say they’re not going to single-handedly make the AFU surrender.
Also, it only reinforces my position that the real Phase 2 has not really begun yet, and this big uptick in strikes is a continuation of a softening pre-phase. Other analysts like Colonel Cassad agree:
“Let me remind you that a few days ago Ukraine already announced that the Russian Armed Forces had launched a general offensive, after which the next day the Pentagon announced that the offensive had not yet begun and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine urgently began to change shoes.
So far, Russia has only announced the start of the 2nd phase of the operation in Ukraine, but has not announced the start of a general offensive.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine warns of an imminent large-scale offensive by the Russian Armed Forces
The GUR says that the Russians are finishing the regrouping of troops and are now focusing on identifying the most vulnerable places of the Ukrainian armed formations. And in the near future will begin a “full-scale offensive”
Despite the absence of a general offensive, the RF Armed Forces nevertheless continue to conduct offensive operations in the Izyum direction (there is an advance in the direction of Slavyansk, the front is approaching Krasny Liman, Yampol and Seversk), as well as in the Zaporozhye direction east of Gulyaipol. But it is obvious that most of the forces have not yet been put into action.”
So the important distinction above is that Russia announced a 2nd phase, they did not specifically announce a new general offensive. The two are not necessarily interoperable. The fact of the matter is, there are still large regroupings being done and we are not seeing much large-scale offensive operations in most of the theaters on the Russian side – most of the larger advances are being done in the LPR at the moment.
Just yesterday, the Russian Naval Infantry / Marines detachment from Mariupol had only begun to redeploy, and were visible driving on the road north of Mariupol. It could be days before they reach their new positions – which we don’t know what they are yet. https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1517879620384837638
And now we hear other confirmation such as the following: “@anna_news
Regarding the general offensive of the RF Armed Forces, sources are coming out, citing British sources, that the offensive will begin within 72 hours.”
And: “The head of the administration of Krivoy Rog Alexander Vilkul said that Russian troops are preparing for an attack on Krivoy Rog.”
So these indications appear to point to a much larger grand offensive starting sometime soon.
With that said, there were some good/significant battlefield updates and advances, mostly in the LPR direction:
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1518275384487428096
Novotoshkovske was captured, south of Severodonetsk (NE of Popasna).
https://twitter.com/AggregateOsint/status/1518264681466531840
Zarichne was reportedly captured as well, which is right next to Torske which we reported captured last time:
https://twitter.com/HN_Schlottman/status/1518260082659713024
And now there is reported fighting in Yampol which means it will soon fall as well. If you look on the map that means Lyman is being slowly surrounded, and that is the final large obstacle before Slavyansk itself.
Here’s a good overall map of this area: https://twitter.com/Denyo666/status/1518255454106828800
We reported Lozove falling last time, but now the small settlement of Ridkodub just east of it has reportedly been captured as well, which creates a slowly enveloping unified front that’s pushing southward towards Slavyansk.
South of Izyum, it’s now being reported that Russian forces captured the small settlement of Kurulka, east of Barvinkove.
These are small, incremental gains but will add up soon, particularly if a larger offensive begins.
Here’s some footage of the capture of Kreminna a few days ago: https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/1518294606546411523
Alt link: https://www.bitchute.com/video/ubok2NtCSCQl/
Also, in the far north, AFU attempted an offensive towards the Russian border. Another one of their psychological ops to try and keep morale afloat. It ended badly for them and photos/videos emerged showing the loss of several armored units and up to 30 KIA:
(18+) https://www.bitchute.com/video/DU7i1L9EXmUv/
(18+) https://www.bitchute.com/video/lzpgcqAbP1dP/
There’s even more gruesome photos of a few dead AFU in this escapade with their heads blown off, which are not included in the above.
Here’s what one analyst wrote of the attempt:
“The bloody failure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this case will force them to draw conclusions and prepare the next such attempt more carefully.
She definitely will. It does not have any military purposes. The task is to invade the territory of the Russian Federation with infantry and equipment at least a few hundred meters at any cost and announce the “transfer of war” to the territory of the Russian Federation. Even if they are then driven back, it will not hurt to promote the victory in social networks to raise the morale of the troops.
Well, the fact that such PR will be expensive hardly confuses his customers. They have repeatedly demonstrated their real attitude towards the killed and captured UAF soldiers.”
On the southern front, no real advances but some interesting updates. Firstly there’s been a lot of troop captures, including some near Malinovka just east of Hulipole. 17 were captured, pictured here:
Reportedly 2 of them were Azovs, 1 a foreign instructor, and one Croat. What’s interesting is that more and more we’re seeing foreign fighters among the AFU troop compositions. There’s been 3 different new videos showing fighters with British flags, this being one of them: https://www.bitchute.com/video/o1FbzFu0hRsa/
I posted last time a British flag on a liquidated fighter. Now also in the north Russians recovered a chevron that is said to be of a Sergeant in the French Foreign Legion:
https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1518040454096637953
Everywhere you look now on the battlefield there are foreign flags. Here’s an earlier video of the storming of Rubizhnoe, with American flags visible for some reason:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/X30y3VWkwNNZ/
Now there’s reports that a Canadian General may be one of the high value targets trapped in Azovstal:
https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1518188990364778502
There is no real details about him being in Azovstal, and this appears speculation partly stemming from reports he hasn’t been “heard from” in Ukraine. However his departure to Ukraine is a 100% confirmed fact reported in Canada’s own press: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/retired-canadian-general-under-police-investigation-for-alleged-sexual-misconduct-is-now-in-ukraine
In fact the general was under fire for sex crimes and appeared to have “retired” and quickly fled to Ukraine to dodge repercussions. He’d make a good bedfellow to the Azovites in Azovstal. Some have even speculated that, since the alleged ‘American general’ who was purported to be trapped in Azovstal also has a similar last name that starts with a ‘C’ (Cloutier), that perhaps a mistake was made and all this talk of a trapped general is in fact this Canadian named Cadieu.
Now, a Turkish newspaper is claiming Macron abandoned over 50 French officers who are trapped in Azovstal:
https://twitter.com/iakfirat/status/1517549881015078912
“According to the source, these are high-rank French officers. They’re on the ground to ensure that Ukrainian military & neo-Nazis are able to use the weapons handed over by the Western countries. They are entrapped now and only way out to go through the corridor by Russian side.”
You can translate the article here: https://www.aydinlik.com.tr/haber/macron-subaylarini-mariupolde-olume-terk-etti-312526
On the topic of Azovstal, some interesting updates:
Firstly, more light is being shone on the insides of it, leaked pictures showing wounded Azov fighters and some of their milieu. https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1518207023502217216
A video has also emerged showing the rotting Azov wounded festering in their subterranean dwellings:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QqAaXiVm6i0N/
Some Azov fighters manage to sneak out and are caught by the allied cordon around the plant. Here’s one who points out his own dead commander to the Chechens who caught him: https://www.bitchute.com/video/ecEJtPRZ8TBy/
Here’s an Azov fighter captured by Chechens who begins showing them the maps of where the Azov group is hidden in the factory:
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1518278965709922305
And a video of an ex-employee of the Azovstal who was once a shift supervisor there, who has volunteered his expertise to show the likely place where the main Azov group is hiding in the complex:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YlQ47l42TFzR/
“An underground pedestrian tunnel passes under the plate shop, right under it the exit goes inside the shop, two exits – in the TLC itself. If the workshop is hot, then there is a powerful water supply system for cooling equipment and metal, and then there are necessarily powerful reinforced concrete sedimentation tanks there,” Chuprin said.”
As you can see, the operation to root the Azovites out still continues despite Putin’s decree to not ‘storm’ the complex. They are abiding by the decree but are simply going about it the smart way, figuring out exactly where Azov is in the complex and then finding a solution to root them out.
In fact Alexander Sladkov continues to show the advances into the north of the complex, the “cement factory’ grounds:
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1518185847153176576
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1518166203742699520
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1518168031297425409
And here’s a map: https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1518305324633100289
The captured cement factory is the northernmost part of the Azovstal complex, with the orange dotted lines you see above.
Here’s how Azov is apparently eating down there: https://twitter.com/CanadianUkrain1/status/1518274778846609409
A few random updates:
Zelensky commented on the Bayraktar drones, admitting their futility against Russian AD: “But with all due respect, I will honestly say that this is a different war, experts say, it cannot be compared with any other in the 21st century. Those or other drones can help, but do not affect the result.”
In fact there’s one account on Twitter who is counting each day since Bayraktar’s last appearance in the form of any footage, and we’re somewhere past 36-40 day mark since the last footage of any kind of Bayraktar attack has appeared.
Advanced American Harris-Falcon encrypted battlefield comms systems were captured by Russian forces:
https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1517878944292294656
(alt link) https://www.bitchute.com/video/b0P03XkrKNkn/
Last time we mentioned how the corrupt OSCE was outed, its employee arrested for espionage. And I spoke of stories how OSCE was even doing artillery fire correction for the AFU.
Now: “the Ministry of State Security of the LPR found documents confirming the interaction of the OSCE SMM with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Among other things, a “list of infrastructure facilities in the Luhansk region that may be subject to fire damage” was found, indicating their location.”
“Information was collected by the head of the OSCE Severodonetsk team, a citizen of Poland, Yaroslav Kurak. The order to start collecting information was given
Deputy Head of the OSCE Lugansk Human Rights Team Pilar Castro Moto, a Spanish citizen.”
OSCE Employee Admits To Passing Information To Foreign Intelligence Services – LPR
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/osce-employee-admits-to-passing-information-t-1500886.html
“The Interior Ministry of the LPR has shown documents confirming that the OSCE special monitoring mission has been working for a long time in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1518280141985697795
Also it’s been discovered that France has been supplying ammunition to the AFU “by diplomatic mail possibly on board civilian aircraft. Boxes with cartridges of 12.7 mm caliber were found at one of the positions of Ukrainian security forces in Donbass, where the addressee is the French Embassy in Kiev.”
And a new poll has reportedly found:
“75% of Chinese residents support the Russian operation in #Ukraine. The corresponding data is provided by the U.S — China Perception Monitor study. 60% of respondents believe that #China should support the Russian operation in Ukraine. 16% were in favor of providing weapons for the Russian army, if necessary. 70% of respondents consider the information about American biological laboratories in #Ukraine reliable. #China has already said that the main culprit of all recent events is the United States and #NATO, and arms supplies to #Kiev will not bring peace to #Ukraine. 3/3”
https://uscnpm.org/2022/04/19/chinese-public-opinion-war-in-ukraine/
First appearance of Polish suicide drones called Warmate in Ukraine: https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1518284891766636546
By the way, some in the West are apparently slowly starting to come around to the reality, and new excuses are fast being forged:
A few last random videos:
Russian BM-27 Uragan MLRS in action again: https://www.bitchute.com/video/SU3atvVPVAmz/
Reporter infiltrates Manhattan, NYC pro-Azov rally to ask some searing questions: https://www.bitchute.com/video/fr0p8gTOQ1vc/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8tyh9Pv3v8wy/
Chechens now fighting in Popasna: https://www.bitchute.com/video/AZSsVSJu7jdN/
Something interesting (for nerds) was revealed today by Sergey Karakaev, commander of russia’s strategic missile force.
Per Intel Slava Z:
“The new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile RS-28 Sarmat (Satan-2), which should be put into service this year, can be equipped with several hypersonic warheads Avangard.”
This is interesting because AFAIK all those brandnew “Parity”-weapons so far have been presented seperately. Yes, they strategically complement each other, but in terms of tactical deployment they were depicted as completely seperate technologies. This AFAIK is the first time it’s being said they technically a compatible with another.
In this case (Sarmat ICBM loaded with Avantgarde hypersonic stratosphere gliders), it combines the infinite range of Sarmat with the ability to “dodge” missile defenses (and possibly detection, when the enemy’s warning network already has holes in it).
Any thoughts on this Nightvision?
Well, on the surface it’s no real difference because the term ‘Avangarde’ really refers to the glide vehicle itself, not the delivery/boost rocket which can be ANY ICBM really. So the fact that they announced it can be used on a new type of ICBM on its own is not big news because the big “thing” about Avangarde is not its delivery vehicle but rather the actual Avangarde glider itself, and its own inherent characteristics.
But with that said, Sarmat is said to be a gamechanger because it is capable of FOBS – Fractional Orbital Bombardment System. It’s a deep rabbit-hole to truly understand why this is important so if not familiar I’d suggest looking up the difference between standard ICBM with ballistic missile trajectories over the north pole and FOBS capable technologies, but basically it allows the system to have unlimited range and approach the U.S. from the south pole if necessary (bypassing early warning ballistic missile radars which are all pointed north) as well as other things like much shorter boost phase (since it goes into much lower orbit than typical ballistic trajectory ICBM’s) which means less time for early warning IR satellites to detect its heat plume.
And also the fact that you mentioned it can carry multiple Avangards which is something I didn’t know, so that could be pretty significant on its own.
Some might claim that’s no difference than previous MIRV’d warheads since they have plenty countermeasures (at least the Russian systems) to dodge enemy defenses as well but the Avangard glide vehicle should theoretically be even harder to hit with its purported maneuver capabilities.
So on one hand I want to say that this could be significant but on the other hand the U.S. already had no real answer to previous Russian systems and normal MIRV’d warheads either, and those would never get intercepted anyway so I’m not sure how much this actually adds.
My understanding was that the whole appeal of the Avangard system was not in its nuclear capabilities which is redundant but rather that it can strike conventionally but in a hypersonic undefendable mode similar to nuclear ICBM’s. But with that said, now that I think of it, I’m not sure how this could ever be used conventionally on the U.S. (maybe on other countries it can) simply because NO nuclear power can ever fire an ‘ICBM’ at the other without risking the beginning of nuclear war. Even if the vehicle on top of the ICBM is conventional and nonnuclear, the other power will always assume the ICBM is nuclear and may then initiate a ‘nuclear exchange’ ending in armageddon. So I’m not sure how Avangard is really supposed to be used on that account.
Thanks for the well thought-out and informative answer, Nightvision. You rock!
(Rhetorical) Putin to Biden: “Would you like a live demonstration targeting an unpopulated spot on US territory?”
Yeah like Yellowstone ROFL
How about Washington DC, or Wall Street – no humans there.
Wall Street neo-liberal economic majors and their MBA’s have been destroying America with Reaganomics. What most mistake as Keynesian economics or MMT. Reaganomics is neither.
Globalists want no super-power in existence. That is why they have been working to loot and destroy the US after 1992. Prior to 1992, Wall Street supplied China with the investments. After 1992, Wall Street convinced American corporations to move abroad, to the point of shipping factories and factory tooling to China. Clinton – in reality the best Republican President that America (despite the D after his name) ever had, and Republicans in Congress along with Democrats… were bought off by Wall Street to allow those moves.
A multi-polar world is more to globalist liking, one without a super-power. That way they – the globalists – can play regional powers off against each other using finance. This means more financial wars and regional conflicts in the future. If China becomes to labor- and regulatory- expensive? Corporations will simply move their businesses elsewhere to a cheaper country or countries. Leaving China to hold the bag.
What about SDR (synthetic drawing rights) issued by IMF and others? SDR’s insure the globalists dream that no currency will ever become supreme again. If one does? Make financial moves to devalue that currency.
A super-power is the 800-kilogram gorilla in the globalist room. The globalists don’t want that. Hence, the current favorable timing to destroy the United States as an economic- and military- superpower. What is even more ironic? It’s American business leadership that is doing that destruction. Because businessmen and businesswomen have only one allegiance – to MONEY. Along with their multiple passports and multiple properties in multiple countries.
it can strike conventionally but in a hypersonic undefendable mode similar to nuclear ICBM’s. But with that said, now that I think of it, I’m not sure how this could ever be used conventionally on the U.S.
It could be used as a completely conventional (or hybrid) first strike to knock out US nuclear capabilities. They could also launch massive numbers of the things without any risk of nuclear-winter-from-their-own-strikes – and if completely successful, without any nuclear blasts at all.
It could be used as a completely conventional (or hybrid) first strike to knock out US nuclear capabilities….
No, not really. The South Pole takes more time. IR satellites will instantly detect the launch of Sarmats. It has long been understood between The US and Russia that any attack against either country’s early warning satellites is akin to a first strike. With the response being that the launch of either country’s entire nuclear arsenal is guaranteed. That’s is something that most people do not know.
And then there are the Ohio-class submarines where one is enough to annihilate Russia, China, etc.
And then there is the global fallout that will land on everyone. Good luck consuming radiation contaminated wheat.
Bigger toys only matter to teenage boys. MAD is still the only result of launching the Sarmat with Avangarde.
Having bigger toys does not matter, except to teen boys.
Without the ability to destroy ballistic missile submarines, the Sarmat is just having a bigger ***k. SLBMs would finish off Russia and China. For propaganda value, the Sarmat is great. Consider the MX Peacekeeper, now retired. 10 warheads with countermeasures.
As for the heat plumes from a Sarmat (or any ICBM) launch, would instantly be detected by early warning satellites utilizing IR. From detection of IR signatures on launch to traveling over the South Pole, a longer trajectory? Plenty of advanced warning to launch US ground-based ICBM’s. Then the SLBM’s come into play.
Since warheads from even Minuteman III missiles travel up to Mach 25, there will be no interception of those warheads. Not even by S-500’s or the future S-1000’s. Not without utilizing nuclear warheads as interceptors (see Safegaurd missile defense system – a hypersonic interceptor produced by the US in the 1970’s).
Avangarde is a pure glide system. Much like the retired US space shuttle had to glide back to Earth. The way to detect Avangarde is to use polar satellites using radar or IR (detecting the heat from multiple glide bodies re-entering the atmosphere). Simple and easy to do. Again, the longer time for Sarmats and Avangardes having to travel from the Northern hemisphere all the way to The South Pole to then reach back into the Northern Hemisphere…
Gives plenty of time for the US to launch ground-based ICBM’s and sea-based SLBM’s. Resulting in the annihilations of The Russian Federation, China, and other adversaries.
Russia can rest assured that their nuclear deterrent, even with Sarmat/Avangarde, still insures MAD (mutual assured destruction).
As for Sarmat/Avangarde being a FOBS? LOL!!!! It’s still an ICBM with MIRVs (Avangarde). Which offers no safety or assured first strike to decapitate US leadership. Which is why US leadership is taking their time in developing true hypersonic vehicles that are powered. Something the Russian Federation has so far been incapable of. Even China is ahead in that regard.
MAD is not dead. Even with Sarmat/Avangarde. There is no “winning” a nuclear war. Everyone is still a loser. Having Sarmat/Avangarde does not change the nuclear equation in any meaningful way.
That is correct. No one would win a nuclear war and that includes the USA and its first strike lunatics. Russia would wipe the USA off the face of the earth in minutes! Remember that all you crazy American hegmonists. It needs constantly repeating for all the airheads in the USA. Your deaths will be assured come armageddon.
The purpose of Avangard is twofold: First, be available for taking out US anti-missile denfenses to clear the way for non-hypersonic missiles. (Non-hypersonic here means not maneuvering (very much) at hypersonic speeds.) That’s were the name ‘Avangard’ comes from. The second purpose is to be available as a guaranteed response in case the US attempts nuclear blackmail, i.e. striking Russia with only a small number of warheads, counting on that, anti-missile defense will prevent Russia from striking back in a similar way. What it means is that Avangard does change the nuclear equation in a most meaningful manner, namely, by bringing it back to where it was before the US embarked aggressively on trying to obtain a first-strike capability.
Nightvision…
As it regards the idea of the Avangard glider technologies being a game changer as it pertains to earlier MIRV technologies and the lack of US capabilities against them is that with earlier technologies a number of MIRVs would be decoys making it impossible for any missile defense system to determine which were the decoys and which were the real munitions. As a result, any defense system would have to destroy 100% of the incoming munitions in order to guarantee that no active warhead gets through. This is of course impossible; especially with current US technologies.
Carrying decoys of course meant using up valuable warhead space in the launch vehicle.
With new hypersonic technologies, the use of decoys are no longer required due to the capabilities of such weapons allowing for full, active payloads on a launch vehicle, making the overall delivery system far more lethal.
As to initiating a nuclear response from the United States, I suggest that Russian engineers are working on a way to suppress such a response by for example, striking all of the US military ICBM silos at once, while also taking out the US nuclear sub fleet at the same time.
Given the technologies the Russians are developing and the poor state of US weapons procurement in recent years, this avenue of technical design is increasingly becoming a possibility.
And given that winning the conflict in Ukraine by no means in any way eliminates the source of the original problems that Russia is facing from the US and NATO, this avenue of engineering I suggest is in active development.
The idea is to make a first strike so complete and devastating to any US response along with the decapitation of the US federal government that the US states would have to take over governance.
I just hope that Russia does not target the Social Security and Medicare Administrations as I am retired. But considering that Russia appears to be very Clausewitzian in its military tactics, I don’t see US civilian centers being harmed…
The Avangards themselves have a significant range, right? Perhaps you could just send the Sarmat part way, separating the Avangards far out to sea when, with the low Sarmat trajectory, it’s still around the earth’s curve a bit and not yet detected. So all that gets detected are the Avangards, in a still lower trajectory that doesn’t look anything like an ICBM and is probably detected pretty late anyway. By the time anyone figures out what’s going on, it’s already hit and been revealed as a conventional munition.
Not that I think that would be a politically smart thing to do, but it might be technically feasible.
There are increasing numbers of Americans who are (1) supporting Russia and (2) want our corrupt and incompetent government to focus on the southern border with Mexico instead of babbling about “the territorial integrity” of “Ukraine” while arming Islamists and Nazis.
You’ll see them en masse in November. It is all we can do yo offset the mainstream medias oral fixation with Zelenskyy, but more Americans are starting to call this the Burisma War. Even legislative members are questioning why——as always—— American men and women might be sent to die in this war.
America will not be able to vote our way out of this mess. That was made crystal clear in November 2020.
In case some people missed it, the Republicans are making doubly sure to be even more war-mongering than the Democrats over Ukraine.
Exactly! Republicreeps and DemoRATS are, as in the words of Pat Buchanan, two wings of the same bird of prey. Nothing will change if the Republicreeps sweep congress, or win the presidency.
The US is telling the Ukraine refugees to come in through Mexico, that’s how my neighbor got his Daughter and Granddaughter here (in the USA).
Such deterrents have little or no effect to monsters that care not for their own cities. Only if targeting Greenbriar and Storm Mountain type tunnel complexes might the scum become concerned.
The answer to that is that with such high precision and undefendable missiles the whole point of nuclear warheads becomes vanishingly small. Why use nuclear when conventional will take out the military asset comprehensively without affecting civilians and without causing a nuclear winter? Whilst for psychopathic genocidal monsters from the US/UK would love to wipe out whole cities, there are more civilised countries where the desire is to wipe out existential genocidal threats with as little collateral damage to innocent civilians as possible.
In the past missiles were not so accurate, using a large nuclear warhead increased the chances of wiping out the military target even if the missile “missed”. Today that is irrelevant and unnecessary.
My belief is that the Russians aim to use conventional to make nuclear obsolete.
That’s what they’re meant for.
“Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!””
The Book of Revelation 6:15-16
Thank you for report. It is interesting some voices on Telegram say Russians have only two military observation satellites(?) and overall not that good satellite intelligence capability. Hard to believe, but what do you think?
Even english Wikipedia states:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Reconnaissance_satellites_of_Russia
I’m not a big expert in the field but Russia has at least 5 early warning missile launch satellites in orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKS_(satellite_system)
Recon satellites they have at least a few of the following, split between commercial ones used partly by Roscosmos but also can be used for military purposes, and the purely military recon variety: Persona, Razdan, Resurs-P recon. You can look them up yourself for details but I think they have a bit more than just 2 total. These are just publicly known ones, I’m sure there’s secret ones as well.
And news of new ones that launched a few months ago also about which not much is known but is surely to be highly advanced as it’s the latest in their designs
https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/02/07/soyuz-launches-russian-military-spy-satellite/
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/02/soyuz-neitron/
“According to a database maintained by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a respected U.S. nongovernmental organization, Russia currently has around 100 military or dual-purpose satellites. Nineteen of them are classified as remote sensing satellites, with technology allowing either optical photography or radio signal surveillance. The others serve other purposes.”
Of course I’m sure Russia can’t compete with all of 5 Eyes and NATO combined when it comes to optical and recon sats
what do you think of this article? Usually this site is trustworthy
https://strategika51.org/2022/04/22/starlink-vs-russie-1-0/
Russia lost the cyber war in the early stages of the conflict in Eastern Europe to the Starlink constellation. The Russians failed to shut down or at least block the Internet in Ukraine and all their attempts to limit or intercept data flows failed.
The new Starlink system includes secret technologies that allow the Azovstal entrenched to have access to GSM and internet networks even underground.
Many analysts have not paid close attention to the fact that a power such as Russia has not used cyber warfare in a conflict where cyber warfare and artificial intelligence play a prominent role. Some have attributed this shortcoming to a certain traditionalist mindset within the Russian general staff, but in reality, it was the SpaceX company that would have knocked Russia out technically in terms of network warfare.
From the very first hours of the Russian operation, relay stations, transmission towers and the entire Ukrainian telecommunications infrastructure were targeted by the Russians with high-precision weapon systems. It is after this ephemeral deactivation of the Ukrainian telecommunications system that a miracle occurred: Starlink. In less than twenty minutes, the whole of Eastern Ukraine, as far as Vinitsya, was connected to the fastest network that has ever existed since the appearance of the Internet. This network gradually expanded and coexisted without any interference with the Russian network.
In Western Ukraine, where Starlink has not been fully activated, the Internet connection leaves much to be desired. In the East, Starlink offers a new network that seems to outperform the best networks currently in operation, to the point where it jokingly gets the nickname 10G+.
Elon Musk provided Starlink to the Ukrainians to guarantee their access to communications and information while refusing to block access to Russian systems. Space X has thus replaced the existing infrastructure of an entire country with its own digital infrastructure in low earth orbit. It was through Starlink that the Azov Brigade was able to defeat Russia’s powerful electromagnetic jamming systems and continue to be connected to NATO headquarters in Poland, Romania and elsewhere. Observers also suspect that Starlink is a component in the real-time detection, tracking, and identification of every Russian soldier, vehicle, and equipment with a microprocessor and access to GSM/Internet networks, including, in addition to dedicated systems, every cell phone in human possession in eastern Ukraine and western Russia.
The Starlink equipment offered to Ukraine is part of the US military assistance to that country. Given the secretive nature of Starlink’s real nature, it has proven extremely difficult if not impossible to neutralize this system. The Russians who are trying to “break” the Starlink protocol keys and codes now believe they are dealing with an unknown type of quantum technology. Only the Chinese are able to map the Starlink network at the moment and this explains why the Pentagon considers China the most formidable rival to US hegemony and not Russia.
Russian strategists will ponder this cyber defeat to SpaceX and Starlink for a long time. They are paying the price for not heeding China’s warnings on this issue and the fact that they never sought to break free from the US internet and digital giants (GAFAM+). This has resulted in a defeat in cyber warfare, infowarfare and electronic warfare.
The result of the race: Starlink 1- Russia 0.
This precedent will serve as a lesson to other powers. As so often in human history, war has changed its nature thanks to a major innovation of the T type.
My guess is that Starlink’s triumph is temporary. The Russian radio experts have probably already seen these things:
https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1517878944292294656
They just need to get ahold of a working Starlink ground station.
Once the spreading codes and channel structure are known, it’s pretty easy to jam a digital radio channel. It isn’t easy to listen in without the crypto keys, but jamming can be done.
Eventually it will be a matter of adding Starlink band(s) and channel type(s) to those of 5g, WiFi, GPS, and military channels etc., for the EW transmitter.
Of course there is another possibility, in a time of war: disabling or destroying enemy satellites as they fly over your territory.
That one can turn ugly, fast.
How do you propose to destroy tens of thousands of small sattelites?
The problem with Starlink with those 10’s of thousands of satellites? Orbital clutter and the exponential risk of even getting into space to deploy other satellites. The hazards from space junk are already none. The Chinese manned station had to maneuver to avoid the present space junk, recently. Add in 10,000 Starlink satellites that have to be constantly adjusted due to atmospheric heating and cooling… and getting humans into space just became that much harder. It will be interesting to see one of Musk’s manned rockets taken out by one of Musk’s Starlink satellites due to an error.
I hope the have a plan to de-orbit non-functional Starlink satellites. Otherwise they become just more hazardous space junk that sooner or later will result in tragedy involving a manned mission.
Money does not substitute for brains. Musk is proof of that. The only thing Musk can do is hire smart people. Smart people frequently become the dumbest people in the room when money and greed are involved. However, Starlink is Musk’s grandiose decision and very lacking in intelligence. Musk is also a billionaire thanks to US government spending. Bezos to. Thiel also. Without government support? Their value would collapse by orders of magnitude.
Sounds like an ad for Elon. And no documentatiin to back it up, the kind of boisterous take we’re used to seeing from our lousy
Government officials.
Sounds like AD because it probably is. Quite proffesionaly written.
Having said that, I am glad someone finally raised the issue of Starlink that was ignored here and other pro-Russian blogs for more than a year. It is impossible to know is it also ignored by Russian generals OR they still have no viable solution to talk about.
Problem is more serious than internet connection. Pentagon didn’t help Elon to become richest man on the Earth just to provide free porn to Azov in Mariupol underground. Starlink is part of drone-swarm strategy that should enable attacks with 100 000+ weaponised mini drones simultaneously. This is hi-tech version of proven Russian artilery salvo attack, but with orders of magnitude larger salvos. (Imagine “Grad” that launches 100000 high-precission rockets in a minute.) Luckily, this is still impossible with current networking technology, but soon it won’t be the problem.
Russia MUST address this immediately, and I hope it already did.
Presently, locations of land based antenna can be detected from reconaisance planes when they are online. Multiple antennas can be at distance from user (at a length of optical cable), so pinpointing is tricky.
Better aproach would be taking out satellites, the problem is their number again. How to fish 10000+ satellites out of the sky, still have to be solved.
Or everything can be ignored and continue to wage war the old way. Every new tech is extremely quirky and expensive. Let Americans stumble through development. They will have limited success here and there, so what? When technology matures, Russians will make their own, more reliable, less expensive. Along with countermeasures.
Today, what’s the point of giving space tech to Ukraine army if there is no more Ukraine army? Nor Ukraine.
Nah. This is huge fantasy written by someone with a creative imagination, sounds like Sorcha Faal level stuff. Starlink has not worked that well in Ukraine and there have been entire regions like Kharkov recently that have been completely without internet. In fact earlier on I saw videos posted on telegram of Ukrainians trying to connect to Starlink and complaining how it was failing and the connection was weak/not working.
As for places like Azovstal Russia has allowed the Azovites to conduct their communications it is intercepting all of it and learning a lot of things in their communications with Kiev (this is how they knew of all the foreign mercs trapped there as Russian military sources stated numerous times that they overheard them talking in 6 different languages on all the intercepted communications, etc).
In short – this is all fantasy, Starlink didn’t “win” anything and Russia could destroy all of Starlink in moments if it really wanted to.
Also Russia has satellite jamming systems in Ukraine like the Murmansk which was showcased in previous videos here, but I don’t know how effective it is exactly and what types of satellites it can jam as most of that type of stuff is heavily classified and we’d never know the truth from one side or the other.
The question is how will this affect the results of the war? They are not and they will not. Information is all fine and well but if you do not have the capacity to implement it then it does not matter.
The thing is, Is the Russian truly want to shut down internet in Ukraine? If they want, iIm sure there are tons of ways for them to do so. More over, Starlinks, at the end of the day, is still a commercial intended network, so i think they can be interrupted or screwed up by Military grade system
Observers also suspect that Starlink is a component in the real-time detection, tracking, and identification of every Russian soldier, vehicle, and equipment with a microprocessor and access to GSM/Internet networks, including, in addition to dedicated systems, every cell phone in human possession in eastern Ukraine and western Russia.
Ha ha ha! Yea, and the Ghost of Kiev has already shot down 20 million Russian fighter jets, don’t you know!
If the above fantasy were true, Kiev must be winning the war hands down.
Yea, right.
On the other hand when Russia wants to listen in, she can make really effective use of the intelligence she gathers!
Les constellations de satellites ne sont pas fiables, elles ont des soucis de coordonnées et c’est un problème majeur avec des satellites en réseaux à basse altitude (grande vitesse) qui communiquent entre eux par laser. Coupures de réseau, débit bas, chute de satellites et durée de vie écourtée, le “cauchemar financier” des propriétaires qui envoient des milliers de satellites ne fait que commencer.
Thank you very much for your answers. I am feeling much better.
How do you go about connecting to a satellite communications system from underground? Satcoms always requires line of sight to the satellite. This article sounds like a combination of fantasy and marketing literature for Starlink.
This new is bullshit, just some fairy tail of people who know nothing about technology.
Starlink provide internet through a signal. Nothing new. If you electronically disrupt the signal Starlink does not provide anything.
Moreover the antenna can be localised. As easy as any other antenna
Starlink is actually quite slow and with limited bandwith compared to 4g networks , not to speak of glass fiber networks. That said, it is at a minimum a dual purpose network (military civilian), if not predominantly a military one. It probably can compensate for a lot of destroyed command and control centres and allows ukrainian units to connect with the high command or local command centres. It could be quite useful for certain military tasks. It has literally zero impact on the civilian internet for lack of bandwith and terminals.
That said, the article cited reads like an advertorial for starlink/Musk and a poor one at that. A cursory glance at the technical specifications of starlink (not to speak of real user experiences in the Us and elsewhere) renders most of the article moot as completely fabricated bs.
In electronic warfare and signals intelligence, any new system will be – at first – be effective. After collecting the necessary SIGINT from Starlink satellite broadcasts, digital signal processing by RF forces will come into play. Then Starlink is jammed.
The RF has already issued an aviation warning in Europe that GPS signals may be affected. Which indicates that RF SIGINT collection has been successful and Starlink is now – mostly if not completely – jammed in certain areas.
Thank you very much!
Absurd info.
Russia is the second country in total number of satellites after the U.S.
Of course I don’t have militar secrets, but it is evident that they have satelllites.
Also to create a satellite is not “rocket science”. The difficult part is the launcher (the rocket) And we all know that Russia is capable enough in this aspect
You really believe that BS? please… Russia is the 3rd Country next to China and US to launch orbital satellites every year, this is from 2021.
Please stop buying into this garbage that Russia is a third world country and believing the lie! its ‘dis-information’!
Its really getting tiring why people believe this BS every day! do your own research…. its a few keyboard key-strokes away.
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_chr/lau2021.htm
Never believed stuff about two satellites myself. Thing is, what perplexed me that Russians who debunked Bucha massacre story had to resort to Maxar satellite pictures, which Maxar did not want to sell to customers from Russia. If Russian satellite coverage is good, how come they never provided their own data regarding this event?So it may be Russian space optoelektronic component is not that good.
Why make an argument with your own evidence, when you can make the same argument with enemy or independent evidence?
Too many people here seem to suffer from confirmation bias: Tunnel vision focussed on validating their own theory, while missing obvious things outside the narrow beam.
TWS: Track-while-scan. Look it up folks. It’s useful.
Russian military isn’t going to disclose the numbers of their satellites. That would be like telling the public where the keys to your house are hidden in the back yard.
hahaha hahaha no. they have many more. they had been launching Americans into space over the last decade! u don’t think they have more than 2 crappy spy satellites?
Once again a comprehensive and informative report Nightvision. The AFU do not seem to be anywhere in this fight so morale must be very low. Am I right in thinking that a General Offensive is much much larger on scope in terms of territorial acquisition in Ukraine other than the Donbass? The other thing is those images from Avosthal of the wounded Azov are desperately upsetting. Yes they are war criminals and have committed gross atrocities against civilians but, it seems Zelensky is truly an animal if he’s not even willing to give Orders for the wounded to be surrendered so they can receive medical care. The Azov soldier captured by the Chechens sensibly chose life I hope others do too. There time will come at Trial to stand accountable for their atrocities but to be left like that by the President of the Ukraine is inhumane. One other thing I pray every night for the incredibly brave RF soldiers and Chechen forces who, as can be seen from the videos, are in the direct firing line every day. They truly are heroes, truly and, in time Uki civilians will realise the debt of gratitude they owe them for their liberation. God Bless President Putin the RF Armed forces and the Chechen Forces for their humanity.
Lets not forget the LDPR fighters who have lain their lives on the line and sacrificed during the last 8 years. Many of them are there, too.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine warns of an imminent large-scale offensive by the Russian Armed Forces
More “feints” by the clever Russkies, perhaps? Maybe they want to entice more reinforcements from Kiev into brand new cauldrons, complete with copious supplies of new super-duper-wunderwaffen to add to Russian stocks.
Somewhat related, I am starting to wonder whether one of the explicit objectives of the Russian General Staff is to deplete US/NATO weapons reserve stocks to critical level prior to Phase 4 [* substitute preferred digit according to taste] of the Special Operation. According to this scenario, the more weapons supplied to Ukraine the better, even if a tiny proportion do get through to the battlefield. US arms manufacturers make high profits, but according to what I read recently their productivity is rather low, plus of course they need lots of critical resources that Russia and China can block. Plus, maybe Russia might decide to precision-guided-switch-off production lines during Phase 4, which might not be quite so profitable. Personally I would not invest in US arms manufacturers at any time, but if I was already so invested this would be a good time to be selling. If their manufacturing assets were prescision-turned to dust it would not have a very good effect on their stock values.
“I am starting to wonder whether one of the explicit objectives of the Russian General Staff is to deplete US/NATO weapons reserve stocks to critical level”
That is obviois. One more thing. Just look at the shape of the battleground. If Ukraine army exit big towns, and reinforce Donbas cauldron, Pincer will close. Nothing worthy will be left to defend western part.
Looks like Ukies are aware of it.
The Ukrainian strategy seems to be to use long range artillery placed in cities and towns (“fortresses”) to shell any Russian troops moving forward or attempting to close cauldrons. I doubt it will succeed but that strategy is not completely without merit, especially when your primary objective is to prolong the war and raise the cost to Russia, no matter what happens top your own army/civilians.
MLRS can strike from 5-90 kilometres, regular artillery has a range of 5-40 km. This does pose a lot of headaches and complications for the Russians, especially when you run rather low on manpower and need to avoid casualties. It’s a lot harder for Russia to replace dead soldiers than for Ukraine unless the Kremlin opts for general mobilization of troops which will be a tough sell at home, especially as long as Putin calls this war a “special operation”. Imho it’s long overdue that Moscow calls a spade a spade – this is all-out war by Nato against Russia with ukraine the battlefield and chief provider of cannon fodder to Nato.
@ BM
‘Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home. Thy house is on fire and thy children are gone.’
The objective of this war/operation is simpler and more complex than depleting NATO.
The objective of this war is the war itself. The primary battle field is time.
Russia entered Ukraine knowing extreme sanctions would result.
Russia and the west / G6 know that these sanctions could have caused revolt in Russia in the short term but are suicidal in the long term. They have failed to affect Russia which was well prepared for them. Now the longer term outcome is on the table.
Time, as Cardinal Richelieu said, is the ultimate weapon. The west, which thinks and plans in weeks and at most months, which has surrendered its planning to corporations whose globalism has left nations without means or productive personnel, each country of the G6 finds its food production, its financial system, its debt payments and all stretched further and further on the Russian rack. It is an old tactic of European war that is lost on Americans.
Clausewitz was more or less correct that war is the continuation of policy by other means, but sometimes war is the policy.
The objective of this war is the war – as long as needs be – to sustain resulting sanctions as long as possible causing privation in the G6 which will force political change on the west.
The west, particularly London and Washington, in attempting to ‘bog Russia down in Ukraine, like we did in Afghanistan’ are, in their senility and outright inbred stupidity, assisting Russia in prolonging this war and guarantee their own destruction.
Read Aldous Huxley ‘The Grey Eminence’, a profile of Father Joseph de Tremblay who, on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu, advocated the systematic exploitation of time (and thereby privation) for destruction of Friedrich Wilhelm I in Pomerania/Germany.
From that time of carefully constructed starvation and cannibalism by Germans of Germans we get:
‘Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home. Thy house is on fire and thy children are gone.’
This nursery rhyme is what Russia will sing to the west in a while. This is the goal.
@Proper Gander
-> “The objective of this war is the war – as long as needs be – to sustain resulting sanctions as long as possible causing privation in the G6 which will force political change on the west.”
That is it! But there is a problem.
Certainly the impact on Europe of the blowback of economic sanctions against Russia will be felt more and more.
The trend is social and political deterioration in many European countries, starting with their main economy: Germany.
In this sense, time is in Russia’s side. But who can actually overcome the voracity of time?
This is why the problem lies in the expression: “as long as it needs to be”.
Imperium will not accept a soft and resigned fall. It will fight back with violence, trying to drag us to its grave.
So this war is fated to escalate. Soon or even sooner, the escalation of this war is inexorable.
For it is, and always has been since before, a war of Imperium to annihilate Russia.
It is up to Russia to manage this escalation, in time and intensity, so that it takes place according to its strategic objectives.
Either way, we will reach the brink of nuclear war. Either Imperium will be defeated, or there will be no more world to mourn.
PS: Since February, five Russian oligarchs have been found dead in their homes
https://observador.pt/2022/04/22/coincidencia-ou-purga-de-putin-desde-fevereiro-cinco-oligarcas-russos-foram-encontrados-mortos-em-casa/
Any news around Kherson? So much BS propaganda around there gets spread on Western social media and I can’t figure out why. Things seem stable but I feel like we’ll keep hearing about counteroffensives there until Russian tanks roll into Nikolaev…
Please give yourself a name (Anon/Anonymous is not allowed at the site. One has been allocated. Mod.
The Kherson counter-offensives are all fake. It’s a bunch of ragged Ukrops driving around in a pickup truck pretending to capture empty villages no one cares about, which RF was never in to begin with or abandoned a month ago. They can’t even come close to Kherson or they get obliterated instantly by artillery.
With that said, according to these new “rumors” a large offensive may start in that direction soon, perhaps towards Krivoy Rog or even Nikolayev, so we’ll see. These Ukrops goofing off near Kherson may get what they wished for soon, a one way ticket to visit Bandera.
I see this one Ukrainian account on FB,the person lives in the north of Zaporozhe.Who was saying that the military (which military I don’t know,Ukie or RF) came by the houses in her area and told them to evacuate their homes in a few days. She and the people commenting were saying they were worrying there was going to be an attack that way. She lives on a farm,and I can’t tell if it is in the liberated area or not.I get the feeling it’s still in the “no mans land” between Russian held and Ukie held positions.Parts of the far north of Zaporozhe is the last part of the Oblast still held by the Ukie’s,and is the road to Dnipro.I’m wondering if that might also be a part of this 2nd Phase,to free those regions.
Farmers are always on their own land, so as long as there’s life to be tended to, they will not leave.
Any counteroffensive by Ukies means abandoning benefits of defensive posture and going into much more costly attacking mode.
Plain stupid from the point of attacking forces.
Smart as soulless PR. Establishing normal life in cities under Russian control is disastrous for Ukraine enforcers in other parts.
NAZIlensky is stuck between a rock and a hard place, with the ‘Muricuns fighting his battles, and the Ukra nazis probably wanting him dead. The iiiinbreeders who control the “west” must be losing their s**t over the Russians’ handing them their a***s in Ukraine. LOL. I wish to live to see the day, when the morally degenerate “elites” of the Empire of Lies stand trial, with their sycophants of the lying M.S.M. Then to be hung by their necks until expired, or encouraged to ensure masses jump off tall buildings. :)
I meant to say “encouraged to commit mass suicide”. So long as they don’t hurt innocent bystanders when they hit the pavement.
We’ll know our disinformation program is complete, when everything the American public believes is false.
William Casey – C.I.A Director
Just that… the American public got out of their psycho war of propaganda and see the truth very very clear. Many saw it before, but a small percentage. Yet, during the Pandemic, their numbers increased a lot! Americans more than 60% now know the truth, but Social media and MSM is in the same ”elites” hands. So their pushing for lies lies lies had the opposite effect.
I would say UK public is still believing the lies. The majority of them at least, but not a 50+ majority, but maybe a 70+ one.
I too almost wait for the Empire of Lies to colapse. But maybe only the puppests that are in sight will, ahile the others will regroup, including supporting opposition politicians. We will not get rid of the Satanic ones the ones that make the games too soon, they are doing it for centuries already and from time to time they get to have lots of power as now and are more visible, today they are out in the open too visible. But they will regroup. The only good news is that they don’t have at this moment too many ”brains” real brains, not these so called ”business mens or politicians” that are nulities and that were recruited and put to play a role but are far away of being bright. They thought putting mediocre minds in charge in front of the people they will be able to maneuver them but they made lots and lots of mistakes.
These elites will be done when a second ”french Revolution” will start globally and the target will be them in each country. But this will not happen too soon.
But in time it will.
Anyway now the ”western civilised world” lost the game. Fake currencies supported by nothing will collapse more or less, fake economies the same. Now they need to get back on truck and the fight now is for the areas of influence. i hope EU will not get into US one, but stay independent
Also, this group was in charge with the French Revolution, Russian revolutions and many other ”redesigning the world”. You can see the pattern: they always cull the children as well. Entire family with children included.
Now they did it with a mrna jab… for children as well.
They are Evil.
All wars are won (to a certain level) when the enemy is forced to make moves in desperation not in their strategic interests.
Russia just has to target the infrastructure in areas they want limited movement and leave alone corridors where they want the enemy to move.
They can cause this movement by ground attacks forcing the enemy to realign their troops over damaged infrastructure thus breaking them up.
Its a slow process but the end result will be in Russia’s favour.
I don’t know why the Ukrainians didn’t deal with Zalenski instead of letting him fight a U.S war in Ukraine?
How do Ukrainians think of him now?
The Ukrainians have nothing to do with what is going on in Ukraine. Their country is controlled completely by the USA – monetarily through the IMF and the EU, politically through puppets like Zelensky, and military/police controlled through neo-nazi groups like Azov and Right Sector. The people serve only two purposes – to vote so that it looks like Ukraine is a democracy, and to die as cannon fodder in their army.
To be fair, not only the Ukrainians are ruled from Russia.
Literally each member of NATO and some others lines are moved from the US.
There is one interesting book in Spanish, Patria Honrada y Rey Servido.
This book was written by one ex supreme commander of the Spanish army. It express a disgusting and totally servile pro NATO view, even literally saying in some chapters that “NATO countries are morally above the rest of the world”.
Although the book is disgusting it is strangely sincere and explain lot of the stuff that happens in Europe.
It is says basically that most of the militaries in Europe have bigger affinity with the militaries of USA than with their own governments. That they train together in the NATO command body, they have mission together. Militaries of NATO are “friends” between them.
So you can imagine what happens when politicians disagree with the US or want to follow a different politic. The US move some connection in the military and the military threaten its own government.
Politicians are nevertheless not really independent, since the U.S. controlled media is everywhere. But even if a politician became to independent the military is there for pit him in his place.
“Some have even speculated that, since the alleged ‘American general’ who was purported to be trapped in Azovstal also has a similar last name that starts with a ‘C’ (Cloutier), that perhaps a mistake was made and all this talk of a trapped general is in fact this Canadian named Cadieu.”
Then why hasn’t Cloutier come out just to say, “Here I am”? The fact is the empire hasn’t even attempted any kind of photo-op which would produce him, just some lame story about a faceless online contact.
Therefore I’ve assumed for weeks now that he’s either dead or down in the bunker. (Well, I suppose he could be in captivity as the rumors said, but as much as I try I really can’t imagine why any rational Russian political leadership would be keeping that a secret. Even Stalin, with I figure even more dimensions of pseudo-Machiavellian chess than Putin, quickly decided to publicize the fact that the Russians had captured the generals at Stalingrad.)
Clothier’s old man had top secret clearence at the highest level and was involved, I believe, in biochemistry. This is from George Webb on twitter. Was Clothier in charge or involved with the Hunter Biden-Ukie-US DOD bioweapons labs?
The biolabs & Hunter Biden laundering $$ to them might be the biggest aspect of this war that the history books & documentaries will highlight.
If it’s true racially specific GMO microorganisms were being produced in secret US biolabs & son of the POTUS was channeling money to them – it’s a story for the ages.
I’m hopeful Truth comes to light even if it’s a while yet.
I also wonder why we don’t hear anything anymore about the foreigners in Azovstal. Nothing at all and for sure they are or were many!
So what happened? Also with Cloutier: is dead, or prisoneer or was delivered to US or what? And not only him but all those French, UK etc officials and intelligence in Azovstal.
A Truikish tv report said Macron abandoned 50 renc French intelligence officers at Azovslat. This means they are still there or they are dead by now, to prevent them from being held hostage by Russia, meaning they were told to ”honorable eliminate themselves”?
Because the reports in the front now mention 0 things about foreigners caught trying to escape Azovstal. 0 nada.
I am very curious about this issue
Any westerner down there probably has family etc. who don’t know his fate. Are they all really so well disciplined that none of them are on social media whining about how their government needs to “do something”?
The families know they can stay days, weeks without having contact with the ones in mission. So a certain period of ”silence” is nothing out of the ordinary. If they are 50 fron France, 70 from other country etc… it is really easy for the authorities to approach each of them and keep them silent. Give some money, protection and hasta la vista, if they speak…
I think it is possible all those to be at this point self eliminated so they don’t fall into the Russian hands. Also the labs down there to be destroyed – I doubt the labs don’t have something like self distruction. Also officers in intelligence have some ”medicine” or others to be able to terminate in case of need, so maybe that report from Turkey (it was a video shared in some comments here but in another blog post with one Turkish saying Macron abandoned the 50 French intelligence), to translate into: give them the order to ”end things”.
So maybe this is why the assault on Azovstal catacombes was lifted, as it is nothing interesting there anymore?
It is a possibility.
As even the 36 batallion commendor now said in TV that best is to have peace, so they are not in the mood of ”fighting till the end”. it was today on Intel Slava Z.
Also Mr. Putin dissapointment in that meeting with Mr. Shoigu.
It is possible.
As for Social Media and families, so many families of people with different vax injuries were silences in Australia and elewhere, as if they keep quiet they get treatment and some compensations, if they speak…
25000 migrant children dissapeared in EU in 2 years time, it is official and no one is asking for them. Many more dissapeared last year in US, no one asks for them.
Everything can be covered up.
I reached a point that now I am doubting of everything we were told about hystory (the story of the west), as seeing how easy is nowdays to lie and cover and change the narrative with a fake one… I am wondering what about the times when people majority of them were illeterate and they had so limited communications tools, only the official ones :) The reality is that the winners write hystory, letțs see who will writting it now.
Very vivid sitrep. Thank you so much @NightVision. Every western nation is hand in gloves with the ukronazis. These scums must be dealt firmly one by one starting with the Poles. U
No mention of them Rooskies forcing the West into using something other than the US Dollar to buy energy? The Ruble going up as much as the Euro going down? The new Wikipedia edit denoting the Cold War was actually won by them Rooskies by way of the Chinese asset-in-place Joe-Bama Biden. (You think the ChiComs gave Hunter Biden one and a half BILLION for nothing?)
Don’t forget the crashing Yen while you’re at it!
The yen crashing was really strange. Japan’s debt to GNP is very high. I almost believe that Japan and America are technically insolvent and trade US and Japanese govt bonds back and forth to keep the scam going. Japan very recently came out and said their energy plans with Russia near Sakalin are still on. Japan reaffirmed that they will be working with Russia on energy.
Japan is heavily reliant on Russia oil and nat gas.
The yen is crashing because Japan is throwing the kitchen sink to keep the yields on government bonds from going up in this inflationary environment. They have a choice of either letting yields rise or save the currency.they have chosen yields to this point.
The Japan finance minister basically begged Janet yellen for the USA to intervene and buy the yen at the recent G20 meeting. Not sure if USA will intervene.
https://emini-watch.com/emini-trading/japanese-yen-carry-trade/
Not strange at all. They lost their usefulness and are low on the totempole. USA and the EU are in Japan’s spot. This is how youknow the West is in trouble.
You understand the modern religion of economics (one has to believe). I learned about the carry trade from Max Keisers “Money Geysir” on Al Jazeera, just-in-time for Icesave.
How big IS the forex marked again?
I’m not a gold-bug though- I’m a farmer
It’s huge along with Yellen telling the EU not to boycott Russian energy since it will
Cause prices to skyrocket. They see the brick wall they’re about to hit at 100 mph.
Yesterday a Conservative MP talked about supplying Ukraine with a different calliber of shells which he said would enable the Ukraine army to out range the Russian artillery. He thought this could change the course of the war to Ukraine’s favour. Any thoughts anyone?
Yeah, it’s bullshit as usual.
Why even repeat the verbal diarrhea from NAZI puppet overlords?
Tory Trash MPs are more preoccupied at the moment with sharpening their knives and slicing up BoJo like a Christmas turkey.
The Russian 152 mm gun has a somewhat higher muzzle velocity than the comparable American 155 mm gun and therefore inherently somewhat longer range. The slightly better exterior ballistics of the Russian gun are more important. American artillery fire projectiles that have base bleed or rocket boost to increase range. Russia does the same. America has the Excalibur glide projectile with greatly extended range. I don’t know if Russia has comparable ammunition.
My suspicion is that these imbeciles who are “supplying ammunition” to Ukraine probably just figured out that a 155 mm projectile will not fit in a 152 mn tube. Putting new 155 mm barrels on Ukrainian artillery is not an easy thing to do unless some were developed to retrofit legacy artillery for Poland and other former Warsaw Pact countries..
The range of legacy 155 mm artillery used to be 23 km?
While BM-21 has range 20-30+ km
Two US soldiers took out a strategic bridge with a row boat filled with dynamite during a night special operation in a movie with Clint Eastwood.
A couple of Moslems with beards took out the Twin Towers and Pentagon only with bone knives and brilliant cover up, tactical and strategic visions and superb coordination.
The course of the war in Ukraine could thus easily be changed only by using more than two brain cells!!
If you think the towers was taken down by some “Moslems” with box-cutters, I’ve got some dancing Israelis to show you.
We know it’s true because they left their passports behind, … (/sarc)
And, don’t forget they also took out the audit office in the Pentagon with an invisible unphotographed ‘stealth’ plane just a day after Rumsfeld’s (9/10) “We cannot track 2.3 TRILLION dollars”. Very smart and informed Arabs there helping out the USA’s audit operations (not).
You believe 19 arabs/muslims were behind the ”false flag” attack on US on sept 11 2001? What are you doing in this site? you are supposed to watch CNN and BBC.
Anyone who still believes the official story sept 11 2001, might as well believe, might as well believe that Russia invaded ukraine and will continue to invade the rest of europe. And tha putin is another hitler.
I wish them luck in out-ranging this – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2S7_Pion
I don’t think NATO or the UK has anything like this, and certainly NO artillery with a significantly greater “reach”.
Incidentally, Russia still has about 1000 of these monsters – which were mothballed but rapidly brought back into service. Rather immune from counter-battery weapons too, since the time of flight is such that the gun can relocate comfortably well before the fired round hits the target, so negating the effects of counter battery radar.
As to Russian 203mm ammunition, I suspect they don’t have any supply problem, unlike NATO (which as we now know, might VERY WELL be running “rather low” on all their fancy-but-ineffective-yet-costly weapons). Wonder who will end up paying for the (equally ineffective) replacements? :-)
Wonder who will end up paying for the (equally ineffective) replacements? :-)
But how many replacements can they produce before the factory gets precision-flattened?
Hopefully; u will not give offense by sharing this interview:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/24/sunday-talks-interventionist-marie-yovanovitch-admits-if-trump-won-election-putin-would-never-have-invaded-ukraine/
This war could have been avoided if the United States hadn’t insisted on provoking Russia.
They will say anything to buy the votes, Trump had four years and did nothing, why would anyone in their right mind thank that things would have been any different, Trump was put in there to be a divider, and he did his job very well even when he was hiding out in his bunker while the BLM was running amok destroying everything in sight, well except for his one photo shoot which showed running to a church probably the first time in his life that he ever got close to a church.
This conversation is going off-topic. Please take to the Cafe. Mod.
My problem with the “no war if Trump was still POTUS” canard is that there is no evidence that the US agencies stopped their plans, training and arming of the Ukies, paused bio warfare research, etc.
It was all still happening during Trump’s term. Maybe it was kept from him as many other aspects of US skullduggery were.
In many ways Trump was a babe in the woods at the geopolitical level.
It wouldn’t have happened during the Trump presidency because he relied on military intelligence rather than the civilian intelligence agencies and the former is a whole different animal than the latter. When Zelensky visited the White House Trump said in front of the press “go work it out with Putin” per the Minsk Agreements. He was serious about that; he wasn’t interested in Ukraine until he found out what a cesspool it was and even then it was only to gather dirt on his political enemies who were neck deep in the corruption there. What do you think he was impeached anyway?
So you think that the US military are knights in shining armour? Who do you think trains the Ukies, funds the bio-warfare labs, runs the guns to Ukraine?
Granted Drumpf had some white hat generals on his side, but the majority, the war mongers were against him 100%.
As for Trump’s bevy of warmongers, you can’t beat Gina Haspel (CIA), Pompeo (Sec State), and Bolton (Nat Sec Advisor).
Trump did what he was told, and appointed who he was told to appoint. There has been no significant change in US military posture for many, MANY election cycles.
No. The U.S. Your final statement is irrelevant to my reponse.
This ^
It doesn’t matter who is president. Neocons and Permanent Washington will make the required events happen. A president may resist is all. If he does resist, they just force a different event until they find one that works.
Ukraine was a long term project for America, but literally torn from the pages of various Rand studies.
Rand:
“This brief summarizes a report that comprehensively examines nonviolent, cost-imposing options that the United States and its allies could pursue across economic, political, and military areas to stress—overextend and unbalance—Russia’s economy and armed forces and the regime’s political standing at home and abroad. ”
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
When your long term goal is to ‘overextend and unbalance’ a peer, you just might be the asshole.
When the Scorpions did ‘Wind of Change’, in America, the average person breathed a sigh of relief. ‘We could be like brothers’. It was what the average American wanted, and assumed was the plan. In that moment, NATO could have been safely dissolved. Then the Neocons decided that their brother needed to be treated as lesser, and that the MIC needed to be fed.
That was my point. Washington DC is more the equivalent to Nero’s Rome than 99.9% of US citizens realize. Listen to this interview by the democratically elected president of the Philippines, he says the same thing: “it doesn’t matter who is president”. And who does Duterte fear?
‘US, EU meddle in other countries & kill people under guise of human rights concerns’ – Duterte
“If I survive the CIA, I have five more years to go.” (quote @ t = 10:52)
https://www.rt.com/shows/rt-interview/389163-philippines-duterte-interview/
Why would the United States care if Duterte’s main focus was to clear the drug cartels out of the Philippines? (unless they were their friends? maybe?) And if you listen carefully to Catherine Austin Fitts it is obvious why they want a porous US Southern border. That “industry” is bigger than the US auto industry and it is all tax free.
Once you begin using this “lens” to look at world events then all of the “little things” fit right into place. Who was the first Israeli official to call on the Biden Administration? Yossi Cohen. Why waste time with US politicians over an existential issue like JPOAC?
Is there any doubt what happened to Imran Khan in Pakistan?
The Empire of Lies is the perfect sobriquet; and it needs to be turned into a epitaph, one way or another, or the world is headed into a very dark place. IMHO
US wars of aggression & coups did slow down during Trump’s term. The Russiagate hoax hamstrung his attempts to work with Putin. I agree he was a babe in woods amongst the neocons & Intel agencies of the DeepState.
I think he did have 2020 stolen.
The US people tried to have a Democracy.
Exposing Russiagate up to Hillary going to jail, Hunter Biden, Biden dealings in Ukraine & the bioweapons labs could flip the situation but needs a big effort in face of the media propaganda.
In Latin America they have learned that D. Trump (or the Republican Party) and J. Biden (or the Democratic Party) are two sides of the same coin: “the bad detective and the good detective”, exchanging roles from time to time and Also, that the presidents are not the ones who actually govern.
And I think that, in the current case, both Trump and Biden, they were put there to sign the death certificate of the empire…by those who really govern…
Elmer Fudd,
I think you could be right, however it has nothing to do with Trump’s desires or personality per se, but a little known executive order he implemented (NSAM57) at the tail end of his administration.
Most people in the US don’t understand what transpired in 2020. First, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had the same anti-Globalist / anti-Progressive-Liberal world view. It does not get anymore explicit that this:
Vladimir Putin interviewed by the Financial Times | FT
“You really are on the same page as Donald Trump.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbY0VpyjtuI&t=5073s
Second, Putin understands that the American voter does not run the United States. The US Intelligence Community does. Here the Senate Majority leader tells Trump who the Top Dog is in Washington, DC, it does not get anymore explicit than this:
Schumer Warns Trump: Intel Community Has Many Ways to ‘Get Back at You’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYyXv2l4-I
Third, John Mearsheimer says that Trump was the only president since Kennedy to run and win against every aspect of the Liberal Hegemony / Regime Change foreign policy of the United States:
John J. Mearsheimer, “The Roots of Liberal Hegemony”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSj__Vo1pOU&t=582s
Thus, Trump was a direct threat to the American Empire. And the CIA fought him every step of the way. Remember Russia Gate? Mueller? That Trump was impeached for simply DELAYING an arms shipment to Ukraine. And John Bolton sabotaging Trump’s talks with Kim Jung-un by demanding the “Libya Option” for North Korea.
And this battle between the POTUS and CIA goes as far back as John F. Kennedy, not supporting the CIA Bay of Pigs Invasion and not getting involved in Vietnam:
KENNEDY
“Kennedy’s disavowal of official US involvement in the De Gaulle coup came with a disturbing addendum — the American president could not vouch for his own intelligence agency. Kennedy told Alphand that “the CIA is such a vast and poorly controlled machine that the most unlikely maneuvers might be true.”
“French press accounts referred to the CIA as a “reactionary state within a state” that operated outside of Kennedy’s control.”
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/jfk-assassination-plot-mirrored-in-france-part-2/
TRUMP
Trump realized too late who his real enemy was and how ruthless they are. Had he had a second term the CIA would have been COMPLETELY NEUTERED:
Trump Implements Kennedy’s NSAM 57 to Cut CIA Out of Power
http://americanpatriotcontacttracers.com/trump-implements-kennedys-nsam-57-to-cut-cia-out-of-power-video/
And here is the public announcement / press conference:
Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller announces implementation of NSAM 57
And thanks to the US Corporate media, no one saw this press conference. Did you see it? (It has 8217 views.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2eIG38t4i0&t=172s
And NSAM 57 would have taken these forces in Ukraine (and their BioLabs) out of CIA control and stopped the escalation in Ukraine:
CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central role if Russia invades Ukraine
https://news.yahoo.com/cia-trained-ukrainian-paramilitaries-may-take-central-role-if-russia-invades-185258008.html
And had Putin seen Trump decapitate the CIA/Deep State, along with Trump’s similar political views and non-regime change foreign policy, he likely would have not invaded as Trump would have negotiated with Lavrov.
Whether you personally like Trump or not, the above was what the last 5 years were all about… ALL OF IT, including COVID19 being used to change all of the election laws.
The globalist faction that runs the American Empire saw to it that Biden was elected in 2020 and were planning to “run the tables” and take Putin and Xi out as well. The got rid of Trump and have now moved on the Putin.
So, no matter who wins in 2024, if NSAM 57 is not implemented, the United States Intelligence Community will run the country, not the elected politicians. And my guess is that as Trump will implement NSAM 57, he will not be allowed to win a 2nd term, no matter what. IMHO
Please stop the Trump talk. You are on a sitrep on Operation Z.
What Trump says has no relevance or bearing.
…yes.. but many commentators non citizens of USA do not know what really happen in the USA 2016-2021….
OK, this is the wrong thread for Americans to try and make it all about themselves.
So, I’ll repeat. Stop the Trump Talk. You are on a sitrep on Operation Z.
Friend – there is a connection. The people who pushed these wars are Victoria Nuland aka Nudelman. The same NeoCons who have been controlling America at least since Reagan. The same Khazarian mafia that controls central banks around the world. Russia has been fighting these monsters on and off for 1,100 years. Putin and Russia today may hopefully be the final battle to destroy these demons.
These are the same demons in control of the USA. Nulan, Wolfowitz, Kagin, Bidens, Obama, Bushes, Soros, Clintons, kolomoisky, Pinchuk, Rothschilds and more. We are in the same fight together. These monsters tried to wipe out the west and other countries with Covid.
The bioweapons labs in the Ukraine were connected to Hunter and Joe Biden plus Kolomoisky and Zelensky. The plan was to use them against the people of Donetsk, Lughansk and Russia. We are fighting the same satanic demons. They are the same demons who have also enslaved the Ukrainian people.
Someone who understands.
They Brought us the Scamdemic
They have brought us War
They are finalising Famine…….
Seems like there is a script they are working to but although they will hurt / kill many – they can not win. Sad that they bother instead of being humble and working for the betterment of humanity. Only thing I can think of is this is a Spring Clean as we enter into the new age of existence. Much to think on but – not to dwell too much but acknowledge the Kingdom within.
Humanity will prevail along with Creation. There is much theater and distraction but fear not.
It’s not offensive, only sad.
Trump only made Israel greater, not the US.
I had some hopes for him, but it turned out he ran the White House like it was “The Apprentice”.
He only kept the yes-men.
Trump withdrew the US from two security agreements with Russia: Open Skies and Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces. Everything written in the west about Trump’s love of Putin somehow ignores this. Sure, Trump wanted some kind of bullshit free hotel deal or something like that, but the Neocons drove policy in his administration and funding for Nazis never stopped. If we’re being really honest here, the Biden administration is basically Trump’s second term because there have been no significant policy changes to anything Trump did.
Joyeuse Paque
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/23/the-moskva-riddle/
Anders Åslund has a “humble advice” to OTAN: “bomb relevant Russians cities”. However, the tweet was deleted.
He is one of those responsible for the brutal drop in life expectancy in Russia in the 1990s, with neoliberal devastation.
Assassins! Serial killers of Peoples and Nations!
We are facing a repulsive case of collective psychosis.
Is there any way to regain a modicum of sanity?
Perhaps the only remote chance is to lead them cunningly towards the abyss, into which they intend to throw us all.
The world needs to come to the brink of nuclear war.
And then make the final decision.
https://t.me/vicktop55/3409
Aslund is almost hysterically “anti-Putin”, and a very well-established Atlanticist. A VERY keen supporter of the Western model of Crony Capitalism (that has obviously served him VERY well), and one who would very much love a return to the “good old days” under Yeltsin where the West could steal Russian resources for essentially nothing.
“Knows all the “right” people” and has used his connections very well. It would be a fitting end for him if he was “teaching” (or rather indoctrination the Western version of economic reality) in Georgetown University if and when the first Russian warheads start arriving.
You want to “bomb relevant Russian cities”? How about YOU seeing what it’s like to be on the receiving end.
All indications are that Anders Åslund’s “humble advice” has been heeded: the Russian town of Bryansk, 100km from the Ukrainian border, has been attacked.
Sooner or even sooner, the escalation of this war is inexorable. For it is, and always has been since before, a war of Imperium to annihilate Russia.
It is up to Russia to manage this escalation, in time and intensity, so that it takes place according to its strategic objectives.
Either way, we will reach the brink of nuclear war. Either Imperium will be defeated, or there will be no more world to mourn.
Would it be a reasonable assumption to consider that the said “general offensive” has not started as the current Russian incremental advance (various directions) may have for objective to determine what may be the “single point of failure” which may lead to a whole reaction chain leading basically to a total and prompt UKR debacle?
There seems to be an “obvious” logic when following moves/advances – like encirclement of various pockets – yet since the beginning, Russia has proven that apparences are just that > apparences with the “obvious” being a cover for the actual goal(s).
Asking as looking at the various maps, while they might not be an actual representation of the real on-the-ground situation, it gives the impression that RUS forces seem actually “poking” here and there in various directions for the potential breaking point allowing to open the gates for a full-blown offensive on several axis. There seems to be more (and faster) movements than expected than assumed (rightly or not) just recently – and that in various directions.
So is it for confusion/deception purposes or in order to determine where/when the announced great offensive should start and lead to a definitive game-over? It doesn’t look (currently and based on the maps…i.e. my view here right or wrong) that said offensive would be a traditional one with one main axis/direction: seems they are going for smth more total and definitive.
Am I deluded thinking so?
i.e. : a far larger offensive in scope and amplitude with Odessa meant to fall prior to Kharkov, and the whole Central Ukraine being taken over then Kharkov – basically a line from Odessa to Kharkov cutting Ukraine prior to either decimating the Eastern/Donbasse cauldrons or a mass surrender.
As since the beginning this cauldron has been assumed to be main target: might it be at the end the greatest deception?
Good points.
I’d focus on personnel and equipment more than territory (that’s why this part of the war is a slow grind in terms of ground taken). When the elite, motorized forces are greatly reduced in capabilities and only reserves/conscripts are left to plug holes for the Ukrainians, the offensive will begin.
As far as where it will be, I’d take the best territory first (Black Sea coast to Moldova). Leave the “Cauldron” for last, like the Maginot Line in 1940.
When it comes to the west, i’ve come to operate under two assumptions: 1. Always assume malice, rather than ignorance. 2. Always assume the inverse is true of what they state. (This is why everything coming outta their mouths sounds like projection).
As for the russians, i’ve come to operate under the following assumptions: 1. Keep it simple, but not stupid. 2. The so-called russian hacker and propaganda conspiracy theory is a myth. In fact the russians don’t even know basic PR. Those guys are all work, no bullshit.
With the above in mind, i would assume the SMO is simply doing what it appears to be doing: Soften up the enemy with remote strike, while preparing for a major offensive. What type of offensive? Dunno, but apparently it requires more forces and careful setup, since again: That’s what they’re doing.
Russians had enough BS during the last century, so they wont put up with it anymore.
That’s not even an assumption.
It’s based on hours watching Russian activists confronting the spirits of the past, on city sidewalks.
No need for propaganda, when reality is better.
https://youtu.be/Gh7Ji521po8
It would make for an excellent study in human behavior.
Yes, this is the most common tactic where before an offensive the attacking force first does a series of ‘probing actions’ with a lighter recon force that could be a reconnaissance-in-force where you basically find weaknesses in the enemy’s defensive lines and then your main force exploits those weaknesses for breakthroughs through the lines.
And you’re right the coming offensive may be in several different axes/fronts because we know there will be at the minimum a north (Izyum) front, a south front around Hulipole (west of Donetsk), but now there’s indications there may even be an unexpected western front around Kherson either towards Krivoy Rog, Nikolayev or even the back-door of Dnipro.
Part of the game is also for Russia to deliberately offset the western analysts and trick/mislead them so that the true direction of the thrusts is kept hidden. So we don’t know yet where they will pour the most of their energies and forces quite yet. Most people assume it’s to enclose the cauldron of Donbass, but there has been some people that still think Russia could be misleading everyone and will instead strike to take Odessa first and then finish the cauldron afterwards, etc.
Thanks.
It’s actually what is going on in the Kherson area which made me ponder as until recently it was basically assumed that it was locked or at least in slow motion (i.e. no move towards Nikolayev and even less Odessa) now it seems not only activity has quickly increased and accelerated, but it may also go towards Krivoy Rog.
So based on what was just assumed or expected just couple of days ago: it gave a feeling that that the Donbass cauldron might not be the main meal. Plus does not seem that all the forces in Mariupol which are now available are moving direction East (so going West rather than full move towards East as assumed?).
Odessa would certainly be the jewel of the crown if UKR focus all on the East until it’s too late. Those hits on railways, supply lines, etc… both in Center and East area certainly limit access to the Donbass cauldron but also seriously limit the options southward if an actual move is made towards Odessa as I fail to see in such case in which way any reinforcement/supply could reach it – as it automatically implies that Nikolayev fell, and no access is possible from any direction.
As for confusing western analysts, seems working as obviously Brits and US ones are not on the same page regarding the Donbass cauldron: Brits advising retreat back on second defense lines, US more advising to hold – so excluding ulterior motives unrelated to the pure military field – rather peculiar such different reading/approach.
All together those reasons got me asking. Thank you for the reply.
Main trust to be Targu Fromus.
“before an offensive the attacking force first does a series of ‘probing actions’ ”
So simple, yet so easily forgotten by many.
“Russia could be misleading everyone and will instead strike to take Odessa first and then finish the cauldron afterwards”
Another excelent observation. But it seams that prevailing strategy is to cut of logistics first, than to wait till supplies are depleted. While constantly monitoring and destroying stashes. It is too early for Odessa. Only if population openly rebels against Ukies.
Not at all. Even in Soviet times, the Russian army and it’s leadership were the masters of deception. It is prudent to mask one’s intentions and not telegraph your intent to a prospective opponent. Sun TZu himself councils that one should keep one’s plans secret, and when ready, strike like a thunderbolt from the sky. He also said that to know oneself and one’s enemy, a thousand battles, a thousand victories. Clearly, neither the us, nato or the ukrops have any idea where/when the Russian forces will strike next. Wittling away their support base, removing fuel, ammunition and the ability to reinforce/rearm/restock is seriously degrading the ukrop/nato forces ability to defend, let alone strike back in any meaningful way.
Enjoy your day.
Bob Valdez.
As I said in a previous Post. The RF are masters of patience particularly in military strategy. Their philosophy seems to be: Sit and Wait. Observe and See. Think and Act. Whereas the USA and the West’s response has been purely driven by intensive hatred and malice 2wards Russia, by high stakes emotional responses without thought or due diligence as to consequences of these decisions made out of pure ignorance, evil, vengeance and extreme hubris. Go RF Go!
I would think they’re about to do what they did the last time they were fighting in this area, during Operation Uranus. They’ll have to modify it somewhat since NATO is probably calling the shots and won’t repeat all the tactical mistakes of 1943. But the primary one has already been made – the failure to withdraw in the face of a double encirclement.
I think the original plan was for the Donbas forces to hold out long enough for NATO to change the dynamic on the ground, but the politics didn’t go as planned and this thing started five years late. Oleksiy Arestovych laid it all out in 2019, but you could tell he was already starting to question things since it was two years overdue by that time. See part of his interview here:
https://bombardsbodylanguage.com/2022/03/18/body-language-zelenskys-advisor-oleksiy-arestovych-in-2019-interview/
The Axis seige of Odessa was a costly affair that required more than two months and four attempts before success, and I would expect the Russians will simply isolate it from the north and northeast with a covering force when they go into Kiev. And they will go into Kiev before this is done, though they won’t face much opposition by the time they do.
In short, expect another encirclement. This time of Dnipropetrovsk from the southwest, once the Donbas cauldron has been reduced.
“single point of failure”
Like a chord change in music via transfinite dissonance.
https://usawatchdog.com/world-economic-forum-a-failing-criminal-organization-clif-high/
Clif High analysis of the globalist-WEF-NWO criminals, Ukraine, Covid BS and more. One of the most interesting parts is at 24:00 minutes. Clif talks about how Russia and friends had coup or counter coup in Kazakistan. about 45 days before Russia entered Ukraine. Kazakstan is supposedly where Russia and Putin learned about the Ukie’s plan to attack Donetsk and Lughansk. Russia then beat the Ukies to the punch.
Kazakistan is where the NWO wanted to set uo their headquarters. They built all these increible buildings with New World Order, Illuminati, Masonic imagery and symbols. It is also the central asia hub that many experts say is where one controls the world plus it has amazing oil and gas resources.
Russia
Clif said Russia does not want to kill Ukrainians just get rid of nazis and Khazarian Mafia (including Kolomoisky). The World Economic Forum (WEF) is behind Ukraine.
Interesting stuff from American journalist on Twitter George Webb. He is in Kosovo, was in Poland, going to Serbia. He is good at connecting dots. He said Russians bombed a shipment of Switchblade drones near Lyiv recently and British weapons are coming through Northern Kosovo.
He also said he may have made a mistake. He thinks some of the officers in Ukraine with Azov are veterans from Serian war of 1999. He thinks they may be Kosovars and Croats who are on George Soros payroll going back to 1999. Just like Azov gets money from Igor Kolomoisky. These Kosovars and Croats are acting as officers for Azov. I doubt there are any Serbs as they are Orthodox Christians. George thought all of Azov were Ukrainians but he thinks he may be wrong?
Well firstly let me say that, as a long time follower of George Webb, he is extremely detailed (more than anyone) BUT you can’t take everything he says at face value because sometimes he goes way too deep into his own rabbit holes and creates very intricate fantasies out of his own wild imagination with very little real proof. Also keep in mind there’s strong evidence he either works for or used to work for Mossad, including his own statements on the fact. You can look up videos where he talks about it and one where he was asked directly if he still works for Mossad and he claims the transmission of the interview began to get faulty and refuses to answer the question – very suspicious stuff. But I still think he does some good work either way I just don’t know who he really works for and what his ultimate purpose is.
With that said, he’s probably right on some of those counts. After all, just in this very sitrep I stated how the group of new prisoners included an Azov and Croat amongst them. But also there’s some that believe Azov has very strong Finno-Uralic leanings as many of the top Azovites appear to have some Scandinavian origins, most notably the Azov leader Prokopenko who literally fights Russia because of his Finnish ancestry and the Finno-Russian war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Prokopenko
“Denis Prokopenko is of ethnic Finnic Karelian ancestry.[1] His grandfather was the sole member of his family to survive serving in the Finnish Defence Forces when the Soviet Union invaded Finland in the Russo–Finnish Winter War of 1939 and 1940.[4] The Finns fought off the Red Army to preserve national independence, but the resulting Moscow Peace Treaty forced Finland to cede to Russia much of historic Finnish Karelia—leaving the displaced inhabitants and their descendants with questions about the return of their lost homeland.[8][9] Consequently, the young Prokopenko today considers his fight to defend Ukraine against Russian imperialism from Moscow a personal matter, closely intertwined with his own family history:[4]
“It feels like I continued the same war, only on another section of the front, a war against the occupation regime of the Kremlin. My grandfather had such a terrible hatred for communism, for Bolshevism, for the Sovok… Can you imagine what it’s like to lose your family? I mean, all his brothers perished, his kinfolk…”.”
Prokopenko is the best proof that u must send them ALL (mama, daddy, child, grandmama,…) to Bandera.
Otherwise they or their kids will come back to in the form of Prokopenko, Freeman, Soros, ……
Thanks NV. Yes – I am suspicious of who George works for or is paid by. I know he does not like Kolomoisky and Pinchuk. I would love to know what NATO and non Ukie officers and fighters were under Avovstal and who is still there. Thanks for all your work.
Interesting that he was born the year Ukraine became independent. And will probably die the year Ukraine as we know it ends.
How poignant and ironic considering he doesn’t give 3 craps about Ukraine and is really fighting for Finnish revanchsim, Heh Heh…
“But also there’s some that believe Azov has very strong Finno-Uralic leanings as many of the top Azovites appear to have some Scandinavian origins…”
Nightvision, you might be a good military analyst, but don’t write about the issues you have no real knowledge.
Scandinavia is a geographic location and even though Finns are located in Scandinavia, we are not Scandinavians. We are “Finno-Uralic”, whatever that means. For example, our language differs completely from Nordic languages speaken in other parts of Scandinavia, Finnish is not an Indo-European language. Above claim is absurd, at least. Scandinavian appearance refers more so to Swedes, Brits, Germans etc. In short: Nordics.
I´m ethnic Finnish Karelian, from my fathers and mothers side. The allusion that Azov is somehow connected to Karelia is absolutely senseless and groundless. I’ve noticed before how delusional are the views of foreigners about the relationship between Russia and Finland in general, but this is a bit too much.
After the war relationship between Soviet Union and Finland was excellent, that time was so good that I could cry when I think back it. Even though there was, from time to time, speak about getting Karelia back, only some over zealous and sentimental ”patriots” took the debate seriously.
Why? Because the life was good in Finland, as a result of the Soviet Unions wise approach to us. Think about current Chechenia and you get a hint. Even the most hateful and bloody war can turn to good – and also surprisingly fast. Today Chechens are heroes of Mother Russia, a bit like cossacks were during the times of the Tsars.
Finland is one of those countries where Nazism face difficulties to gain foothold, I don’t know exactly why, but it is so. Could be partly because of the mindset of Finns, which is close to Russians, especially in Karelia.
The hatred against Russia has been imported from the West, always, mostly from Sweden and Great Britain. What happens in Ukraine is a very similar procedure, as the West wanted/wants to fight Russia to the last Finn, last Ukrainian, last Pole etc.
Because of our geopolitical location, I would say that (artificial) nationalist and patriotic winds are blowing always from the West. Like in Ukraine in recent years.
I´ve never before heard about this Prokorov and I guess that same applies to my compatriots. But I can assure you that I in no way feel connected to him, regardless of his Karelian ancestors.
“Kosovars” are Albanians, and their para military group is known as UCK (KLA in English). Kosovo’s Northern border is with Serbia, itself, so I don’t see that as a weapons transport link into Kosovo. I do think that something is cooking in BiH and possibly Kosovo, as that is where US Camp Bondsteel is.
Kosovars don’t exist, any more than Bosniaks, these are invented names in an attempt to make a claim to a territory the claimant colonial group has no claim to. Albanians in Kosovo are Kosovo Albanians, simple, if “Kosovar” means something, then Kosovo Serbs are “Kosovars” as well, just as Serbs in Bosnia would qualify to be “Bosniaks” but of course we do not fall for that game, this in imperialism/colonialism plain & simple. Bosnian muslims actually have no ethno-national identity at all, a fact that insenses many of them & drives their political leadership into a frenzy. Serbs used to refer to them as “poturice” (Turkified) or simply “Turci” (Turks), which in Podrinja region, most Serbs still refer to them that way. These are Islamicised Serbs who know who they are, but deny it, & then invent names for themselves to claim territory that doesn’t belong to them, because here is the key – they want to live in the Ottoman Empire…..but it doesn’t exist, they want it back, so they thought a war (1992-95) against their brothers to create a scenario to re-create the Ottoman Empire, that is what the so-called Bosnian muslims were fighting for, in essence, Turkey, & Pan-Turanism. It is insane, & I mention it, because it is closely related to the Banderite ideology in Ukraine, essentially the same thing, these are people who have been converted away from their authentic identity & now fight against their true identity on behalf of the imperial master. They are the lowest form of filth on this Earth. They are also a manifestation of true unadulterated evil, which is why you see them doing the things they do on the battlefield, mutilation, throat cutting, eye gouging, rape, & the like.
Thanks again Nightvision and Saker! Great and timely reporting. I know how difficult it is to assemble this kind of information and you are doing an excellent job.
A couple of additions to the general milieu. Trump came out swinging, saying he would keep Putin from using the word nuclear in his statements to the West (link below). How would he accomplish this? According to RT, Trump says: ““Putin uses the ‘N-word’…the nuclear word, all the time… That’s a no-no, you’re not supposed to do that. He uses it on a daily basis. And everybody’s so afraid… And as they’re afraid, he uses it more and more. That’s why he’s doing the kind of things he’s doing right now.”
Trump goes on to threaten Putin and Russia: “I’d say ‘we have far more than you do, far more powerful than you, and you can’t use that word ever again…. You cannot use the nuclear word ever again, and if you do, we’re gonna have problems.”
https://www.rt.com/news/554446-trump-putin-nuclear-word/
I find it annoying that somehow Trump has been favored by some. I’m not sure why or how this took place. Yes he was accused without evidence of being in league with the Russians during the 2016 election. The bogus charge resulted in impeachment, revealing how dysfunctional and absurd the USA political system has become.
Trump also launched 100 or so Tomahawks at Russia’s ally Syria based on a chemical weapons false flag blamed on Syria, despite Russian objections that no investigation had been made to confirm that any chemical weapons had even been used. To this day, these charges remain unproven. Trump also put USA troops on the ground in Syria and they remain there to this day to, in Trump’s words, steal Syria’s oil.
Furthermore, Trump withdrew from the INF treaty which governed mid-range nuclear missiles in Europe after his administration accused Russia of violating the terms of the treaty – again with no evidence. This has raised nuclear tensions throughout the European theater.
Trump’s administration also accused Russia of using Novichok, a nerve agent (and chemical weapon), on British double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. This resulted in sanctions on Russia. His administration also accused Russia of using the same nerve agent on a political nemesis of Putin, Navalny, but Trump himself was non-committal.
Also on the bio-weapons lab, Tulsi Gabbard has been accused of treason by Mitt Romney, the Republican 2012 presidential nominee and current senator from Utah. Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii and a Democratic presidential candidate, was gaslighted by Romney because she is speaking out about the USA-Ukranian bio-weapons labs. Let us hope that Russia will have a series of hearings on these labs and that they receive TV coverage (in English) so that the world can learn of what Russia has uncovered.
Here’s a link to Gabbard-Carlson courtesy of Jackson Hinkle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDiNcFi1j_4
As far as I can tell, the cancel culture is alive in the USA on both sides of the political spectrum. However, I don’t believe this extends to large portions of the general population primarily because they are more concerned with how to survive in an increasingly difficult economy.
Exactly! People, please get off the Trump Chump Wagon!
I cannot understand how you people believe that you have an alternate government. Trump is a Jew first and foremost, as he stated, and Biden is a latent Jew. All in the past belong to AIPAC,and hoping that somehow you have an alternative is as foolish as the “American dream”.
It seems to me that America was always doomed to expire for so many other reasons. Obviously, they put a lot of resources into Jew-Nazi Ukraine to fight against Russia. For many reasons this is the last gasp at white control over the world. The irony is that Jews control it.
Thanks to Night Vision’s very informative and knowledgeable experience; I can get a sense of the real time facts. I firmly believe that Russia will take and secure the entire Eastern Ukraine. Blowing the hell out of Western Ukraine might be a secondary option and the West left to fix it back.
Both Russia and China have never promoted wars but never ever backed down throughout history. I sense a real desperation in the air, but the end is coming sooner than the West thinks.
P.S. Biden might have made money from the Chinese, but why has his links to the bio-labs in Ukraine so conveniently been silenced? They give you scraps to bite on, but the Chinese play the “game” ,like with Zionist Musk, and all the rest of them.
Putin/Russia gave you the last chance of retaining White supremacy but you blew it based on your system of White hierarchy. Truth is a hard thing to swallow.
Dont forget when you see the empty EU shelves in the supermarket, your bank account and ATM’s dont funktion, your visa card with your e-money is hacked or epo’ed and your local civil defense organisation is spaghetti with women and libtards in charge, it was all Putin’s and Russia’s fault because they invaded Ukraine……..:-D.
(not our fault)
Another excellent sitrep keep us well informed. Keep up the good work.
There are more and more rumors that Poland is soon going to intervene against Russia. Poland has big populations and they are eager to fight. What can Russia do in that case?
Not much, other than this:
https://www.overtdefense.com/2021/03/31/wargame-study-shows-polish-armed-forces-obliterated-just-5-days/
As a Pole I can tell you that Polish army is a paper tiger. We don’t have multilayered anti aircraft and anti ballistic missile defense. We don’t have artillery or missles, which is able to engage with enemy on ranges above +80km (all Point systems are scrapped) and list of problems goes on and on.
Those just a rumors and nothing else. Rumors spread by some retired nutty generals, who don’t know how to fight against modern army like Russia. Shooting at peasants in Afganistan it all these generals know.
Rydz-Smigly comes to mind as Polish Politician.
From what I read his position made the Army completely autonomous, free from any public control.
«As a Pole I can tell you that Polish army is a paper tiger. We don’t have multilayered anti aircraft and anti ballistic missile defense.»
All NATO protectorate military are like this: they are meant to just supply bodies to a force where only the USA have all the weapons that matter. The romans called those “foederati”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foederati “used to describe foreign states, client kingdoms or barbarian tribes to which the empire provided benefits in exchange for military assistance.”
In particular I think that no USA protectorate is allowed to have any significant anti-aircraft defenses, because they could protect them against an USA “bomb bomb bomb” “humanitarian intervention” if their governments stepped out of line.
My guess is that if any USA protectorate dared to plan to build a strong anti-aircraft capability such that it would be hard for the USA air force to establish air superiority over them if needed, their government would be in (euphemism) deep trouble. Not that they would ever dare…
I think the USA strategists consider three things as fatal challenges to the “liberal order”: fuel and cereals exports not under control of USA corporates or military, and strong anti-aircraft defenses.
The author H.G. Wells understood well with other the enormous power of air superiority, even before the power of nuclear weapons, and proposed (pointlessly) international control of them:
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html
George Orwell, “WELLS, HITLER AND THE WORLD STATE” (1941)
“he is now especially concerned with federal world control of air power, it is the same gospel as he has been preaching almost without interruption for the past forty years, always with an air of angry surprise at the human beings who can fail to grasp anything so obvious. What is the use of saying that we need federal world control of the air? The whole question is how we are to get it.”
Do you remember when Poland offered to give Ukraine its jets, them proposed flying them to Germany so NATO could make the actually delivery? That should tell you everything you need to know about “Polish spirit.” Apparently they learned something from 80 years ago and aren’t as dumb as they act.
I believe it is called ‘assisted suicide’.
If those Polenuts want to go toe-to-toe with the Russian Bear I would only make one suggestion to them:
Start mass producing body bags- you’re gonna need them.
Poland is in no shape yet to enter any war. They are unloading old T72 tanks to Ukraine and just put in order for 200 Abram tanks. It will take time for them to be trained on this new equipment. However they are being trained to be a proxy force against Russia.
“What can Russia do in that case?”
Change the name of Lviv to Lwow and throw the keys to the Poles.
Thank you Nighvision,
The Australian community is surrounded/drowning in a sea of Anglo propaganda.
Your reports are a tremendous boost to morale; they inspire “faith” that maybe Truth and Justice can be brought back into the world.
Yes, I was so fed up with it that I cancelled my Australian newspaper subscription. Always look to what you are not allowed to say to know where the truth probably lies. On that “conservative” paper the topics that always rejected subscriber comments was questioning covid vaccines and any pro Russia comment on the war. The irony being that on two major alt blogs they fully accepted the vaccines meme but are pro Russian. They never saw censorship on the former as a problem or suspicious at all, just the latter.
Our views are not shaped and manipulated on one topic alone, of interest is that on those two banned topics US corporations have or are making billions in profits. Geopolitics may have its own agenda, but seems there is always a corporate partner standing by to cash in. Green of course is another one.
I ensure these colonial rags get zero of my money.
I might briefly scan an online site or two, or browse throught the paper in the local cafe, but not for news — there is usually a 3-day lag from events listed on the internet in any case — but simply to check the public insanity fever temperatures and what distorted sewage they ‘bigs’ are pumping out atm etc.
News “down under” is mere public flatulence.
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Basically we are being subjected to a continuous barrage via all media. Add in the very obvious “political upset” over the Solomon Islands decision (on the basis of a complete lack of Australian assistance), and it is just non-stop one-sided only reporting.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/the-awful-truth-is-dawning-putin-may-win-in-ukraine-the-result-would-be-catastrophe/ar-AAWwBdM
Apart from the “horror” that Russia “might” win (rather than acceptance that Russia HAS ALREADY won), with all the associated (yet completely fictitious, “fantasy-land” Doom’n’Gloom hyperbole) our “Defence Minister” is now telling us to prepare for war – probably someone’s a bit sore over being (easily) out-smarted by the Chinese!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10749427/Australia-prepare-war-Peter-Dutton-gives-Anzac-Day-warning.html
Then, just to underline Australia’s completely obsequious attitude to the “Shining Light on the Hill” – ScoMo tells us that China building a “military base” in the Solomons is an Australian “red line”.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/scott-morrison-says-chinese-military-base-in-solomon-islands-would-be-red-line-for-australia-us/ar-AAWw3P1
Breaking news, Mate – China will do whatever China likes, and there is nothing Australia can do about it (apart from whinge). Try any “funny business” and the consequences for us all will be most unpleasant.
U missed the latest wowser. Dutton the defence minister (who fully supports ukraine nazis ) likened china and russia to nazi germany. On anzac day of course. This guy is beyond help.
Our south pacific politicians are pissing themselves in the sand pit, still playing white colonel overlords, not much changes.
Can’t stand any MSM anymore. Not even the ABC which I once was addicted to. Thanks Nightvision for excellent reports & Saker for hosting & your reports as well.
Christ is Risen! a the greeting for today. Hopefully peace will come & making the Truth known, which Jesus when asked by Pilate what his mission was, will happen.
Agreed! I have virtually stopped watching or reading any Australian MSM out of disgust. SBS News is the most blatantly pro-Ukrainian biased (surely that breaks some code of practice?). Sites such as this one are now a solace.
Mate its soo much worse here in the UK
Yesterdays papers were headlining how the plucky Ukies had beat back the phase 2 assault – even though the phase 2 assault hasn’t even started yet.
I once subscribed to a number of papers here, I cancelled all of them a few weeks ago and rarely even visit the websites any more – its that bad.
Overwhelming force saves lives – on both sides!
As the war in Ukraine goes on, the Western regimes that created the problem have run into another problem of their own making. They have so dumbed down their own populations, deliberately wrecking their attention spans and thinking abilities, that said populations’ anger and hatred against Russia can’t be sustained without constant and ever more brazen and bizarre media provocations. Even these are dropping towards diminished returns since the exigencies of survival in imploding economies take precedence over invented anger. We already saw that Bucha didn’t rouse anywhere near the amount of artificial rage it was supposed to and the Kramatorsk false flag was of course a dud.
This article from April analyses the propaganda campaign:
https://readingjunkie.com/2022/03/27/russia-is-not-losing-the-information-war/
However, this does not mean that the west, of course, will abandon its Ukranazi project until it has squeezed every drop of Russian and Ukrainian blood from the war. This will get more difficult not only as prices rise but as the nazi behaviour of Ukrainian “refugees” gets more difficult to conceal or explain away. This is another reason why the next false flag needs to be a gigantic one, that can’t be ignored. And I see “opinion columnists” like Pat Buchanan on antiwar already laying the ground by claiming that Putin will use nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons may well be used, but it won’t be by Putin.
Unless its a nuclear blast in Texas or Missouri Americans won’t care. We know the playbook and we know the players.
Simon Tisdall : “A Russian victory would herald a new age instability, economic fragmentation, hunger for millions, and social unrest”..
Wow. Lets parse that, “A Russian victory would herald a new age” – WILL herald a new age. Simon Tisdalls hope will probably die slowly. ” of instabillity” – for western military and political hegemony .. .”economic fragmentation” – of global finance capitalism …. “hunger for miilions” – of Africans and Asians and others denizens of the global south who have been slaving for food, for generations due to their status as imperial untermechen.”and social unrest” – especially where millions are starving…It doesn’t look good for the empire of lies. But there is hope for the future. Much more than there was on Feb. 23
That Harris system includes components made by Elbit Sytems Ltd. An Israeli company. They have a US division that owns one of the last two remaining nightvision suppliers.
Juicy stuff, Russian engineers can’t wait to get their hands on it. I’m sure it’s on first class mail back to Moscow institutes as we speak
This could be as important as the captured Enigma machine.
Great own goal JUSA.
The other nightvision supplier is L3Harris. I got to get my hands on the latest ENVG-B goggle plenty of times. It’s pretty sweet. You can Google it to see the kit and some images of the internal display.
Language Police reporting –
Towns are not being ‘capitured’ they are being ‘liberated’
Note – when the SMO began Croatian newspapers were full of stories that 300 or 500 Croatian regular army ‘volunteers’ had gone to suppprt the Kiev Regime.
Thank you, Nightvision.
Ukrainian analyst Illia Ponomarenko on what it means for Ukraine if Russia succeeds in the Donbass:
“If Russia succeeds, the largest military group of Ukraine’s most combat-capable formations, the Joint Forces, could get trapped in a big pocket in Donbas, cut off from the rest of the country, exhausted, destroyed, or forced to surrender. Such an outcome would be catastrophic to Ukraine’s position in talks with Russia, let alone the nation’s morale. It could also leave the door open to Russia’s further advancement inside Ukraine towards Zaporizhia and Dnipro, with Ukraine’s military power seriously diminished.” -The Kyiv Independent
Thanks.
What’s interesting is, if you think about it, all the ‘propaganda’ from Ukraine’s side, Zelensky, et al, actually works for Russia because, if the Donbass cauldron grouping actually believed they were losing, they would make the smart decision to retreat to 2nd and 3rd echelon defensive lines. But the fact that the Ukrainian leadership drills them daily with the fake impression of victory to artificially boost their morale, they must truly think they’re capable of winning which means it keeps them in the cauldron which actually works for Russia because it turns into a ‘boiling frog’ effect. Rather than realizing early that they’re going to lose, they are going to keep letting Russia slowly surround them (as the south of Izyum salient is currently doing) but they’ll continue to believe their victory to be eventual due to the incessant propaganda from Bankova Street. And when they do finally realize they’re surrounded and actually defeated, it will be too late to retreat. So I say keep up the great work to Zelensky, you’re really helping Russian efforts to defeat the vast majority of Ukraine’s main, worthy troops. If it wasn’t for the work of Ukie propaganda, the cauldron may have retreated towards the Dnieper which would have greatly complicated Russia’s work, making them chase the most largest and most battle-hardened force towards the west where massive reserves would be able to reinforce them.
This is really an ideal situation for Russia’s war planning, Zelensky is doing their work for them.
The 200,000 will defeat 600,000
because War, like Nature,
is not a Democracy.
Trumplethinskin still speaks Scooby-Doo language, like super-duper.
As senile a doormat as Biden is (and despite him stealing the election ) Trump by now would’ve made Tehran the capital of Greater Israel. When Bibi knifed him in the back it cut him deep. He thought that to play to the Zionist gallery meant an iron-dome around him.
Drain The Swamp (he added; handed Treasury to Goldman ) & Lock Her Up (plays a foursome with her hubby Bill at Martha’s Vineyard good ol’ boys country club; badly, and like Obama cheats ) – serve as great jingles for the Deplorables, for idiot consumption.
Russia is playing ‘ 3D Musical Chairs ‘, now you see them, now you don’t. They’re Behind You! Oh no they’re not; Oh yes they are, and in front of you, with the Full House, on both flanks.
It’s like building up for a cup final, the adrenalin oozing, but due to weather the game’s postponed. Your energy gets sapped. The dupes sitting in fortifications are being bounced around in a whirlwind set and subset of mindfucks. I bet half those Ukie guys are unable to tie their own shoelaces at present. It’ll only get worse, waiting to die. Some more enlightened regular troops will be planning to kill Azov & Commanders to escape. Who of sound mind wouldn’t see this as their only chance of survival? The Taliban for example are born and bred to endure rugged terrain, it’s barely different to living in Kabul, just inside a mountain. However, a European can’t remain sane in a bunker for 6 months without his smartphone or play station or tending his garden or or or or .
So Phase 1 & 2 & 3 can have no timeframes and may even overlap as witnessed. The narrative’s changing from Certain Victory to Possible Defeat and Bad News travels fast and is a morale killer.
Sun Tzu said ‘The height of military skill is to defeat your enemy without firing a shot’ – Putin and his generals are disciples.
These retards at the pro-ukraine rallies are the same type of ignoramuses who 40 years ago cheered on the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. And how did that work out? It created the Taliban and Al Qaeda and other such groups who went on to do what they did. So ignoring how dangerous and unhinged these asov ukronaiz are is a very bad move that may blow up in the west’s face.
I predict that after the Russian operation is over, a lot of these nazis are going to be out of work, very upset, despondent, resentful, and furious. They will lease themselves out to criminal groups and shady government outfits worldwide and commit terrorist acts all over the place, since there won’t be a place for them in ukraine anymore where they can terrorize and abuse people as thye have been.
”These retards at the pro-ukraine rallies are the same type of ignoramuses who 40 years ago cheered on the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. And how did that work out? It created the Taliban and Al Qaeda and other such groups who went on to do what they did.”
There is no comparaison here…The soviets invaded Afghanistan and afghans HAD all right to defend their country.
US exploited it the situation… It did not the expansion of the soviet union….no comparaison here.
You are wrong and have your facts back to front. The US did not just “exploit” the situation. They made the situation.
The CIA organised a coup against the socialist and Soviet friendly Afghan govt.
The Soviet Union invaded for that reason.
If you don’t believe me then listen to the architect of that debacle, the Polish Jew Russia hating imbecile, Zbigniew Brzezinski, admit to exactly that:
Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs that the American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahiddin in Afghanistan six months before the Soviet intervention. Is this period, you were the national securty advisor to President Carter. You therefore played a key role in this affair. Is this correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahiddin began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the reality, closely guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention [emphasis added throughout].
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into the war and looked for a way to provoke it?
B: It wasn’t quite like that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q : When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against secret US involvement in Afghanistan , nobody believed them . However, there was an element of truth in this. You don’t regret any of this today?
B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.” Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime , a conflict that bought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Brzezinski Family is Galicia origins.
Galicians are craziest of all.
Is source much of Ukr radicals.
Soviet only intervened after moderate leader was murdered.
Russians civilians and Afghans murdered in streets.
Soviet was already there, Russian workers built infrastructure, schools. Girls attended school in dresses.
More Women teachers than male, Women had rights.
Trouble was from outside to damage Soviet, recruiting, training, arming for pay fighters
many of which not native Afghans, but radicalized Arabs.
This was kickoff of world terrorism, thanks of plan of Brezezinski.
You appear ignorant of Afghans struggle. Here is a true Afghan testimony:
Afghan Freedom Fighter in Donbass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc2KeSkl5H0
Call name “Abdul” Later lost both lower legs mine detonation.
Taliban were not formed until 2004.
Taliban are enemy of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Daesh, et al. which are Arab, SA, Uighur, other
Taliban are predominately Pashtun and other native Afghan tribes.
Taliban ruled over Afghanistan from 1996-2001. Not sure where you’re getting your info from??
Nightvision,
I was thinking Russia should invite the amazing patriotic Babushka whose image is now famous and symbolic of Operation Z, to the May 9th Great Patriotic War celebration and she should be standing beside Putin, flag in hand.
Can you make some calls?
Happy Easter
I hope to see some Chechens marching. If Ramzan was leading that would be a bonus. I don’t expect them to be perfectly in step, indeed I would be disappointed if they were. But they deserve some pride of place.
That’s actually a great idea. There’s been supposed reports that the Russian Duma acknowledged her and that she might be in danger and was going to expedite a Russian passport/citizenship for her, and some are claiming she’s already been evacuated to Russia so your wish may very well become reality. Also Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s “Nasa” Roscosmos, reportedly said that in an upcoming rocket launch, she will be honored with her image placed on the rocket. They already launched a rocket with a giant “Z” on it, so I don’t doubt they’ll put one of her image on it as well: https://youtu.be/48dO5AfXl6g
So the May 9 rally idea could really happen.
Here’s a little video showcasing how her cultic figure has taken off in Russia, showing some of the art work and representations that are everywhere https://www.bitchute.com/video/9ttm23dLLNbU/
I don’t know if Russia realizes just how powerful the Babushka image/story is. The Good Lord provided her as the ‘Poseidon/Avangard’ against Western Media anti-Russian PR. That one video simply destroys every Western media anti-Russian/pro-Ukrainian story out there.
BTW, how can I get a photo to you? My neighbor took a photo of my visiting bear but within the photo was a very clear symbol that almost had me fall out of my chair.
Thanks!
You’ll like this:
https://tass.com/science/1442131
The last video is a kick. Looks quite lively with the Chechens.
Thank you for the sit-rep Nightvision.
A few videos for today.
Mariupol locals call out Zelensky (MUST SEE video — it totally repudiates Western propaganda):
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/mariupol-locals-zelensky:d
Russian humanitarian aid was delivered to Kharkov oblast:
https://rutube.ru/video/bffb91ed04733e52c59416b745df1285/
Russian girls showing their support for the troops on the front:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9zg96e5AOm2y/
Thank you Night vision.
T-Man on April 24, 2022 · at 5:28 pm EST/EDT
NAZIlensky is stuck between a rock and a hard place, with the ‘Muricuns fighting his battles, and the Ukra nazis probably wanting him dead.
The Nazi’s can’t kill Zalenski just yet. He is vital to the UA side because NATO can’t ship weapons directly to the Nazi’s yet. Once the MSM has finished normalizing and rehabilitating Nazism, then he will no longer be needed.
Folks in Manhattan were chanting ‘Azov’ yesterday, so normalization of Neo-Nazism in America is happening.
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/the-msms-ukraine-amnesia?s=w
The American people do not give two sh*ts about the Ukraine, never have and never will.
True, but they’re well trained to hate Russians. And that hatred will continue until they start having difficulty affording basic necessities.
The longer this goes on the more apparent it becomes that Ukraine is not about to capture Moscow. Seriously, the “huge RF losses”, “running out of fuel and ammo”, and all the myraid bullshit lies propagated by Ukraine and western media become more obvious every day.
Which leads to the desperate necessity of the US to keep escalating in the hope of turning bullshit into reality. The attacks on Chernobyl (power to the facility) and warnings against the use of tactical nukes are an indication that things are going to get much, much worse.
The grandparents of the reptilians that Zelenskiy represents and those who support him had a huge hand in the following Soviet losses in the Second World War, Source: Louis L. Snyder, The War 1939-45 (New York).
* 27 million military and civilian dead
* 25 million homeless civilians
* 800,000 square miles of productive land destroyed
* 13,000 railroad bridges destroyed
* 4,100 railroad stations destroyed
* 186,000 railway cars and locomotives destroyed
* most major cities in European Russia destroyed or badly damaged
* major industrial sites and regions destroyed by retreating German Army
OPERATION BARBAROSSA [German Invasion of Soviet Union]
Origin of attack: staging areas in eastern Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania.
Attacking forces: German army with important support from allies — Hungary, Romania, Italy, (Volunteers from Poland, the Baltics, Italy, Croatia, Spain, Bulgaria, France. Holland and other European countries-basically a European Army).
A 1945 U.S. intelligence report listed Soviet military weaknesses and, after each one, the time required to correct each problem. The report assumed that the Soviets would not risk a major war until these weaknesses had been corrected. Their conclusion was that the Soviets would not risk getting into a war for about fifteen years.
1. War losses in manpower and industry: 15 years
2. Lack of technicians: 5 years
3. Lack of long-range bombers to reach Europe or the United States: 5-10 years
4. Lack of a modern navy: 15-20 years for a war involving major naval operations (for example, an attack on the United States)
5. Poor condition of railway and military transportation systems and equipment: 10 years
6. Adequate preparation of oil, rail, and industrial centers against long-range bombers: 5- 10 years
7. Lack of an atomic bomb: 5 years
8. Resistance in occupied countries: 5 years or less
9. Military weakness in Asia: 15-20 years
Two huge fires in Bryansk. Oil depot and possibly military tanks at the tank farm are on fire, the regional government said.
Seems to be lots of spontaneous fires breaking out at juicy military/infrastructure targets deep inside Russia – DEW perhaps being used?
They need to beef up security at all important infrastructure sites. Not with security guards but with military personnel.
I think more than just military personnel at key points are needed. If all important facilities are protected, civilian locations will be subject to sabatage. There seems to be a lack of internal security that needs to be addressed in a serious way.
This from Intel Slava:
“FSB officers detained a group of members of a neo-Nazi terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, who were planning the assassination of Vladimir Solovyov on the instructions of the SBU.
During the searches, a home-made explosive device, 8 home-made Molotov cocktails, 6 PM pistols, a sawn-off hunting rifle, an RGD-5 grenade, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, drugs, fake Ukrainian passports, nationalist literature and paraphernalia were seized.
Members of the criminal group give confessions about the preparation of the murder of Solovyov, after which they planned to hide abroad”
So it appears internal security has fairly good intel, But they do need to be more vigilant.
Simon Tisdall is a real person with a real home.
I’m reminded of a famous quote from Ww2. Allow me to paraphrase from memory.
“Hitler had this rather childish view that he would bomb and wage war with words causing deaths versus everybody else but no one would bomb him in return”
Evil grows exponentially because they feel safe to expose themselves and act openly.
This is why there us so much propaganda in the west about keeping opposition to tyranny peaceful.
A question for those more knowledgeable: what’s the deal with Igor Girkin and his commentary on the SMO?
The deal is he’s been sitting without a job or any relevance for many years now, and as each year goes by and the glory of his past successes fade into memory, he gets increasingly more and more bitter with each passing year. For someone who’s followed his exploits since the beginning, and was a big fan of him at first, I watched as he got progressively more bitter, cynical, and egotistical. His condemnation of Russian leadership, Putin, etc, got more and more bold, loud, and hysterical.
He’s hated by many in Donbass and Russia now for deserting his troops in Slavyansk and running away, and for generally ruining his own reputation with his conduct over the years. He has some good points in his commentary and criticisms, but they are related with such obvious egotistical rancor and disrespect that it becomes difficult to take him seriously. But don’t take it from me, listen to someone who actually lives in Donetsk https://youtu.be/vQ7LYcR1iA0
But the main problems with his commentary on the SMO are:
1. he’s not a general. The highest rank he’s allegedly held is colonel or whatever, and he’s never commanded a true combined arms army, with land air and sea force. So for him to second guess people who have way more experience than him is a little questionable, as everything he says is filtered through only the lens of his limited experience/capabilities.
2. he doesn’t know (or even care about) the political consequences of anything, and thus can’t appreciate them, which is why he can second guess Putin’s decisions constantly but has no real idea of the types of repercussions that could be incurred if Putin were to simply implement some of the half-baked gungho strategies Girkin espouses.
3. he claims to be so smart and accurate yet many of his predictions have been proven wrong. In 2017 he said the Putin government would “soon collapse” (you can find his article/interview to prove it) because of the so-called bad decisions Putin was making. Here we are 5 years later and Putin’s support has never been stronger. Early in the SMO he said “70% of the Russian army has covid and is freezing” and other ludicrous, nigh treasonous claims.
4. he’s hugely hypocritical. He whined and cried in the opening of the SMO that Russia was doing everything wrong and they should withdraw their forces and concentrate only on the Donbass. Russia literally did exactly that and now he’s crying/whining that everything is still wrong and there’s no way Russia can win. Notice not once does he ever give a prescriptive answer of the “right strategy” apart from the laughably amateurish constant harping for “more troops”. For instance he says attacking Avdiivka head-on like DPR troops have been doing for weeks is a bad strategy but not once has he proposed how a ‘genius’ like himself would do it. His only solution is “blah blah mobilize millions of troops”, which is like I said an amateurish solution for amateur larpers like him.
5. Now he cries that Russia’s “offensive has stalled” when in reality the offensive hasn’t even begun yet and they’re just doing light recon probing for now. Meanwhile, he admits openly he has no details of the SMO whatsoever, and is just guessing at things, and gets all his info from the same sources as the rest of us.
In short, he has some general good points/ideas but they’re drowned in such bitter miserable cynicism and pessimism that it makes listening unbearable. Much more experienced and actual GENERALS completely disagree with Girkin. People like General Konstantin Pulikovsky which Andrei Martynov has posted before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Pulikovsky there’s an interview series with him on youtube where every week he gives updates and his views which you can try to autotranslate via youtube. His take is completely opposite to that of Girkin.
He is the epitome of what The Saker refers to as “6th column”
I had back then seen written that Girkin was ordered out, left for Moscow.
Does anyone know the mine “for for” Bentley mentioned about murders?
I am curious and can’t find anything search from such spelling.
I believe this https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/10691/Memorial-Complex-Mine-Pit-4-4-Kalinovka.htm
I think it would be a great service if folks could recommend those with constructive criticism. If Strelkov is a member of the 6th column or simply too bitter and pessimistic, then set him aside. I find that Oleg Tsarev often says useful things.
The harsh reality is that the policies of the Kremlin and Russian elite over the last 20 years have failed. Instead of blaming the greedy nature of Ukrainians or the cynical approach of Anglo-Americans, how about shining some light on what Russia did wrong?
Western propaganda is far more believable when the pro-Russian side is unwilling to even admit obvious realities. As an example, whatever the idea was behind the first couple of weeks of this non-war, well, something was off.
I agree, by now I’m wishing for a site free of all propaganda. By now the “cauldron” line is just the mirror image of the empire’s “Russia is losing” propaganda (just like the MOD’s ever more-detailed proclamations about imminent “false flags”, two of which were supposed to happen on sunday and never did, are sounding more like chicken little all the time).
First we were told there would never be an “invasion” since “stand-off” weapons from within Russia would easily obliterate the Ukro forces which were shelling the Donbass.
Since the SMO began we’ve been told for months now that the cauldron is effectively sealed off and is dying on the vine.
Now the cauldron is admittedly very much intact and holding its form well and therefore needs the full direct attention of “Phase Two”, even at the expense of forcibly halting the necessary westward momentum and retreating from the captured positions around Kiev which later will have to be recaptured, and the entire westward momentum rebuilt, unless of course the political leadership decides to completely slink away from its proclaimed war goals.
That is, if the retrenchment eastward really is a military adjustment and not, as Lavrov and Peskov testified, a purely politically-dictated move because Putin was sucking up to Zelensky trying to prove the “bona fides” of the Russian good faith at the “negotiations” which any self-respecting Russian who believed he was winning the war never would have undertaken in the first place, at least not without complete Kiev acquiescence to the Russian war principles in advance, so that the talks would be only on how to implement total demilitarization, denazification etc.
But of course this is impossible anyway since the Zelensky government is not sovereign, so any talking to it is as worthless and self-demeaning as can be.
(And of course no one wants to talk about how the Russia-friendly civilians of Bucha and probably elsewhere were abandoned to the vengeance of the nazis.)
Well, I’d like for there to be more acknowledgement of these problems, not because we’re “better” than the imperialists (the way the Putin sycophants always immediately claim, in order to try to stifle all questions), but because we’re at least supposed to be smarter and therefore more cognizant of reality. And the reality is that, whether out of self-restraint on the part of the Russians and/or out of actual incapacity, the Russians are having a much harder time operationally and in terms of conceiving what they even want to accomplish than the propaganda has said.
And all the while the clock is ticking while the empire recovers its composure, organizes its plans with all ruthless intent, and psychologically prepares itself for a nuclear exchange which it will then trigger at a time and in a fashion of its own choosing.
But again, the pro-Putin propaganda denies this and asserts in the most flat-earth manner that Russia has the luxury of infinite time. Yeah, that’s reality-based all right.
https://anti-empire.com/ Accurately predicted the Russian invasion, down to the day. Plenty of criticism, but clearly this is a pro-Russia site (used to be called Russia Insider). Some interesting analysis of psychological / political realities of Russia.
https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/ Very interesting takes on Russian society, from a guy that actually lives (at least part of the time in Russia, not Florida).
Nightvision, thank you for your response. I wonder at this point if it’s all ego or if he might have accepted some foreign funding to be such a mouthpiece.
Girkin/Strelkov used to be viewed as a hero by many Serbs, for having thought with other Russian volunteers in the Bosnia war 1992-95. A few years back, I read an interview with Grikin/Strelkov where he was asked about his experience in the Bosnia war & he went into a rant about how cowardly & unprofessional the Serbian soldiers were. It was unbelievable. In that same interview though, he goes on to contradict himself by saying that until 1992, his only experience of warfare had been in Transniestr/Pridnestrovlie, & yet, according to him, that war had nothing at all on Bosnia, which he described as a high intensity conflict or, a “real war”. So, Girkin fights on the Serb side, but Serbs are cowards according to him, but he stays & fights there anyway, then he describes the war as high intensity or a “real war” which – how can cowards be fighting such a war? Serbs were, like Russian today in Ukraine, fighting in a proxy war against NATO, & this was when the west was at its height of power. Girkin totally contradicted himself in this interview, & what he said was a disgrace. Veterans who fought at Slaviansk in 2014/15 basically accused him of treason, of ordering a withdrawal & ceding territory to Ukraine which was unnecessary. Was he paid off? No idea, there is a rumour….
Yes there’s more than rumor:
https://www.stalkerzone.org/3252-2/
I think that Russia went into Ukraine with a light footprint to minimize deaths and the destruction of infrastructure. Putin attempted to utilize minimal force in an attempt to seize Ukraine’s government. The restraint might have been motivated by the fear that Ukraine didn’t have or wasn’t working on nukes. This strategy didn’t work well enough.
Now Russia is waging war the American way. There will be weeks of bombing to destroy Ukraine’s infrastructure. Railways, bridges, oil refineries, oil storage will all be destroyed. Ukraine will cease to have the ability to fuel, feed or resupply an army. The army will be immobilized tactically as well as strategically. Ukraine will also loose the ability to feed its own population much less export food. I expect that Putin will even bomb railroad yards in Moldova that have shipped oil to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the mud is drying out. This will enable mobile tank warfare. No more staying on the roads to be ambushed by missile crews. (BTW, I noticed that most Russian tanks that get hit by missiles drive away.). Artillery will be more disbursed and less vulnerable.
Two objectives will be to destroy the Ukrainian army and seize the entire coastline including Odessa.
.. Putin attempted to utilize minimal force in an attempt to seize Ukraine’s government. ..” your version.. how about a reality check, eh?
https://www.newsweek.com/putins-bombers-could-devastate-ukraine-hes-holding-back-heres-why-1690494
Today, destroying railroad bridges is not smart. Better to take out stretches of track. Positions known for repeat attacks. Repair crews are adjuncts of the military and legal targets.
Simon Tisdall : “A Russian victory would herald a new age instability, economic fragmentation, hunger for millions, and social unrest”..
What Tisdall really fears is that Russia’s victory will herald a new age of instability, fragmentation, hunger, and unrest … for the American Empire and its beloved neo-Fascist/Nazi allies around the world.
Too bad, so sad.
It is long overdue that America receive its geopolitical comeuppance and be punished for its unending crimes against humanity.
The AmeriNazis will of course lie and deny these crimes–as is their instinct–but they will not escape their day of reckoning.
The American Rome will burn.
I don’t think the reporter at the NY Ukie rally asked searing questions at all. He could have shown the photos and video of NAZI violence during 2014 Maidan, of UN condemnation of Ukie NAZIsm, of captured Azov covered with NAZI tattoos etc etc. instead he talked about patches?
The evil that has reared it’s ugly head again. That Russia is having to deal with:
Norman J.W. Goda writes in “U.S. Intelligence and The Nazis” (2):
“In its work to destabilize the Polish state, the OUN’s ties with Germany extended back to 1921. These ties intensified under the Nazi regime as war with Poland drew near. Galicia was allotted to the Soviets under the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, and the Germans welcomed anti-Polish Ukrainian activists into the German-occupied General Government. In 1940 and 1941, in preparation for what would become the eastern campaign, the Germans began to recruit Ukrainians, particularly from Bandera’s wing, as saboteurs, interpreters, and police, and trained them at a camp at Zakopane near Cracow [Kraków]. In the spring of 1941, the Wehrmacht also developed two Ukrainian battalions with the approval of the Banderists, one code named ‘Nightingale’ (Nachtigall) and the other code named ‘Roland’.”
Breitman and Goda write (5):
“When the war turned against the Germans in early 1943, leaders of Bandera’s group believed that the Soviets and Germans would exhaust each other, leaving an independent Ukraine as in 1918. Lebed proposed in April to ‘cleanse the entire revolutionary territory of the Polish population,’ so that a resurgent Polish state would not claim the region as in 1918. Ukrainians serving as auxiliary policemen for the Germans now joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)… On a single day, July 11th, 1943, the UPA attacked some 80 localities killing… 10,000 Poles…The Banderists and UPA also resumed cooperation with the Germans.”
“How the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement Post-WWII was Bought and Paid for by the CIA”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/04/how-ukrainian-nationalist-movement-post-wwii-was-bought-and-paid-for-by-cia/
Censored here in UK.
Against community standards!
You can also find that one at the author’s Substack archive:
“How the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement Post-WWII was Bought and Paid for by the CIA”
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/how-the-ukrainian-nationalist-movement-f4f
Well all thos military talk is hard for me to follow. I dont know much but I do know Russia is winning and is the new light of the world and for sure zionist America and the west will fail. The jews ruling America are incompetent. Look tbey stole Russia, murdered the czar and family, and then thanks to Stalin he dealt with them. Tbey are demons and snakes. Tbey are corrupt more the. Any otner ecuase tbey believe tneyre the chosen ones still. Jesus never said remember to always bless the jews and isreal. Jews will fail again. America and the west may be totally destroyed but it’ll always be becuase of the jews.
Praise God for beautiful Russia, honorable President Putin, and the beuatiful Russian people. God bless all God fearing people everywhere.
What is the history of when the propaganda is totally exposed? What happened in Germany, France, and other countries that were being defeated and the propaganda just became untenable, when the lies are massively exposed?
So NATO have hit Bryansk 100km into Russia. Interesting.
Why do we even have to see this kind of derangement?
Russian hero:
A Russian armored personnel carrier ran into a mine, stood up, and Ukrainians are shooting at it from RPGs in order to burn it completely.
A tank drives up to the beshka, a very young boy runs out of it, under the fire of the Ukrainians, he throws a cable over the beshka, machine gunners cover him, and the tank drags the car behind the building.
There are three grenade hits on the beshka, a side mine was blown up, but the crew is still alive, although the commander is already wounded.
This young boy with the cable put me to shame. Adult and lazy (https://vk.com/wall708727565_7282).
He did not throw snowballs at the police, filming his feat on an iPhone, he did not leave for Israel, making his face indignant, but he pulled a heavy cable to the armored personnel carrier under bullets in order to save its crew.
Or maybe you walked down the street and did not notice his unsightly figure and rustic face next to him.
The face of a simple Russian guy from contract soldiers.
His pants were not tight, and his bare ankles were not visible.
But today it was he who, under the bullets, carried this fucking heavy cable to the armored personnel carrier in order to save its crew.
Amazing.
Incredible. So, why risk yourself like that?
But who will understand them, these Russian soldiers.
https://t.me/OpenUkraine/14887
He attached the cable wears tanker helmet. He is tankman.
Another kind of proof Russian army has psychological strengths and self resilience….are vids on telegram of Russian tanks etc with front painted white of the complete latin alphabet.A to Z…try banning that EU.
Many thanks, Nighvision, for your accurate and professional explanations.
On Trump, without cheating in Joe Biden no Victoria Nuland back in the State Department.
smart ass remark removed … mod
Had to happen –
“Operation Thermostat”: Energy-Rationing & The Pivot From Ukraine To Climate?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/operation-thermostat-energy-rationing-pivot-ukraine-climate
So now ration energy to save the Planet … and Ukraine!
Italy showing the way, led by ex-GoldmanSachs banker Prime of Minister of Italy Draghi.
So turn down the AC, cool off and Ukraine will be saved! Peace will reign, the planet will acclimatize.
The Empire of Lies outclasses itself!
The Ukrops have a major satellite downlink station at 48°51’27.89″N 26°42’27.97″E with about a dozen clusters of paired satellite antennae. It is officially part of UKraine’s “Space exploration center” but it is most likely dual or military use as their space exploration is next to zero. They could be picking up direct feeds from US military satellites assuming there are CIA/US military on site. I am surprized the site hasn’t been kalibrated.
There is a well hidden military factory at 50°43’24.19″N 29°32’4.97″E reportedly producing guidance and taergetting for the Neptun missiles. There was supposedly a visit by a high level delegation a few days ago, which suggests something is cooking.
https://t.me/rustroyka1945/1725
Thanks Arfur Mo – but Yandex translation of article is confusing and/or misleading!!!
**There is a secret factory near the Warsaw highway !!! on the border of Kiev and Zhitomir regions.
They make guidance and targeting systems for Neptune missiles in the depths there.
And yesterday a huge!!! convoy with some VIPs and equipment was brought there**
Huge convoy – !!! would be detected by Russian surveillance satellite/drone/ground..
**В районе Варшавской трассы на границе Киевской и Житомирской областей есть секретный завод.Делают там на глубине системы наведения и целеуказания для ракет Нептун.А вчера туда привезли огромную колонну с какими-то випами и оборудованием**
Nightvision: Just wanted to thank you for yet another excellent sitrep. I really look forward to these reports of yours.
Any thoughts or further insights on the Ukr attacks at Bryansk (RF)? Nasty fires there, according to SouthFront:
https://southfront.org/bryansk-region-of-russia-attacked-by-ukraine-breaking-video/
Most likely sabotage, or a civilian car made it through with a portable missle launcher, since those are readily available and easy to sneak I think.
There was a report of an air siren, and 2 uavs being shot down over Kursk.
The flow of weapons needs to be addressed ASAP. It’ll only keep getting worse, not just for Europe but also Russian assets, airlines etc etc.
There may also be Russian sympathizers, or Uky agents, who really knows. It is being investigated. All that is for sure is it will only further aggravate Russia to increase its missle attacks and the inevitable complete destruction of Ukraine as a functioning state.
Probably sabotage or a small drone like the new suicide drones being supplied to Ukraine, Polish ‘Warmate’ and Switchblades. After the Belgorod attacks, Russia was said to have moved in a new S-400 system near Kharkov (north, on Russian border) to guard against it and suddenly attacks in those directions stopped and now the attacks are much farther north towards the border with Kiev. In the past day Russia shot down several drones over Russian city of Kursk including a Bayraktar TB2 which were likely probing defenses there https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1518587015608025089
And this is in the general direction of Bryansk so it’s looking like they’re increasing drone activity there. Although the smaller loitering drones like switchblade/warmate have a range of about 40km and Bryansk is about 100km from the border, but they could have used something else I’m not aware of or did it from within the Russian border after a saboteur group hypothetically snuck over the border into Russian territory etc. At least that’s my assumption for now until further info/videos come out. Unless it was just once again Tochka-U missiles
Russian Mod – half an hour ago:
⚡️ Emergency statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response
▫️The leadership of the Russian Federation once again confirms the previously opened and permanently operating for the 36th day (from March 21, 2022) round-the-clock humanitarian corridor from Azovstal metallurgical plant for the evacuation of civilians (workers, women and children), whose alleged presence in the underground structures of the plant is publicly announced by the Kiev authorities.
▫️At the same time, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic from 14:00 (Moscow time) on April 25, 2022 unilaterally cease any hostilities, units are withdrawn to a safe distance and ensure the withdrawal of the specified category of citizens in any directions they choose.
▫️The actual readiness of the Ukrainian side to launch a humanitarian operation is indicated by raising white flags around the perimeter or in certain directions of Azovstal.
▫️The Russian Federation publicly and officially declares that there are no obstacles to the exit of civilians from Azovstal, except for the principled decision of the Kiev authorities themselves and the commanders of nationalist formations to continue to hold civilians as a “human shield”.
▫️If civilians are still at the metallurgical plant, then we demand that the Kiev authorities immediately give the appropriate order to the commanders of nationalist formations for their release.
▫️This statement will be continuously brought to the Ukrainian formations at Azovstal via radio channels at intervals of every 30 minutes.
▫️Through operational communication channels, this statement is immediately brought to the Ukrainian side through the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk.
Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the Russian Federation Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response – Head of the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation
ABC Internacional from Spain today (deepl translate):
“Antonio Guterres travels today to Moscow where he will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, with Putin and on Wednesday with Zelenski, which has provoked complaints from the latter, for relegating him. This is the first move by the United Nations since the war began.”
“Putin speaks live
The Russian president tells the media that there are 10,000 Ukrainian refugees in Russia.”
alongside the disgraced canadian commander, i suspect there are some mossad hold up in the steel plant & foolhardy the helicopter rescue attempts were to protect them, rather than french/canadian/brit or american assets. speculation o/c.
Thanks as always for the strep. I live in S. China and the findings on Chinese attitudes seems quite correct to me.
From theAl Mayadeen correspondent in Moscow:
“The Russian state-owned arms manufacturing company Almaz-Antey says Saudi Arabia is interested in the S-400 air defense system”
Thank you for your daily updates. they provide a level headed and documented counterpoint to the deranged hysterical propaganda spewing out of every MSM orifice on a daily basis. You should be the suggested reading for every American to be served with coffee in the morning. I’m sure this country would feel very differently about this conflict.
“[S]ometimes it’s hard to quantity [sic?] military success when we hear of these strikes because they seem ‘abstract’ and once they start adding up, the numbers begin to feel more and more abstracted and inconsequential.”
So true.
As an American, experienced in endless war and endless warmongering, I can tell you, you become de-sensitized to all of it after a while. War is peace. Peace is war. It all seems the same after a while.
If a proxy war is just war by other means, and sanctions are just war by other means, then so are the lockdowns just war by other means. If bringing all manufacturing and trade to a complete stop, thereby destroying supply lines; how is that not war by other means. Destroying trade is war through other means. And on and on, until nuclear war becomes war by other means.
“Meh” by other means.
It’s that simple.
Beware of the consequences you are looking for.
A couple of things about that train of tanker cars. Do we know whether the cars were full or empty? Moldova doesn’t produce any oil; so, if they were full, the oil (or gasoline) probably came from Romania. If they were empty (and two engines would seem insufficient to pull such a long train, if full), then perhaps they were being moved to Ukraine to be filled up and sent back to Moldova (or Romania). Also, if it was oil (or gasoline) being delivered to Ukraine, much of it was perhaps destined for the civilian market, which Russia claims it does not attack. Therefore, they would have to wait until the cargo destined for a military tank farm was delivered before blowing it up.
As the Ukraine is now targeting Russian oil storage and weapons depots in Russia it seems like a new form of escalation from the Ukrainians. Russia needs to cut off all supply lines, rail, road and air. Not sure if Russia can close the entire area and protect infrastructure in Russia. How long before it’s bridges and air fields in Russia getting hit. And if NATO tanks are showing up in the Donbas the RF MOD needs to step up it’s game…..becasues it’s beginning to look like ‘a game’. Except f’n people are dying. For a game? Dear Lord I hope not.
Cheers M
That’s all nice and fine but judging by the past 10 weeks the British and Americans seem to have some well-connected moles within the Russian high command.
But maybe these moles are exactly the folks doing the deception going forward, knowingly or not.
Time will tell…
Nightvision: You appear to be a realist. Try reading this:
https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/the-great-russian-restoration-iii?s=r
This from a very knowledgeable source on global fund flows 2 below seems to conflict with other reports
Can anyone rationalize the conflicting reports?
UPDATE ON THE PLANTING SEASON IN UKRAINE
Crucially important for the global food security from our contacts on the ground there:
• amazingly, Ukrainian farmers would still be able to plant ~68% of pre-war fields (wheat, corn, sunflower)
• for the planting season of 2022, access to about 30% of the field areas is not available due to combat
Bottlenecks:
1. Logistics: historically, most of the crops were shipped via the Black Sear seaports, which are currently tightly blocked by the Russian Navy.
Therefore, exports will be carried out by rail through western borders.
Rail is far more expensive and presents tons of bottlenecks. effectively reducing export capacity throughput by 10-15%.
2. Interestingly and encouragingly, no fuel shortages: i.e. diesel for tractors and trucks is abundant.
3. Shortage of labor is acute: 12 million of ppl are displaced and workers volunteered for the armed forces or moved to other regions
That’s good to hear because here in Canada’s bread basket it is frozen and cold. This time last year planting was taking place. Not this year, the ground is still frozen, or covered in snow, or under 6″ of water with ice on top.
Cheers M
Former U.S. ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute made statements in an interview that I think are more harmful to his country than any number of columns by any columnist, because of that high rank and because it allows “adversaries” to pass a judgment on his knowledge and judgment, and make further deductions. If several great ones are all wrong in what they say, this disorientation does not enhance “national security” in any way, shape, or form. One great authority said some things about this that are still ringing in my ears, “I want to speak”; “I have a right to speak.”
“…problems that the Russian army demonstrated in phase one of this fight, in and around Kyiv…those same shortfalls by the Russian military I think will be on display again in the Donbas.”
“You can’t reform an army in a matter of a couple weeks. This is the same Russian army, so I expect many of the same failures”. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-cant-seize-kyiv-replace-zelensky-ukraine-ex-ambassador-1700417
Wikipedia: “Lt. Gen. Douglas Edward Lute is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and public servant who served as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 2013 to 2017.”
Pundits can say whatever they want and be wrong and nobody may care. Generals and great authorities are in a different position! I think there ought to be a law against their dubious punditry.
This is really really really worrying:
Blinken Declares Russian Operation Has “Failed” During Zelensky Meeting – Says US Diplomats Returning To Ukraine
“…among the most significant announcements from Blinken is the planned return of American diplomats to the country.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-declares-russian-operation-has-failed-during-zelensky-meeting-says-us
It sets up the false flag => Russia is losing and is desperate and will use WMDs.
It also gives the US/NATO reason to intervene, to protect diplomats or to set up some US governed proxy state.
It is also completely crazy. The US closed its embassy before the operation started because they felt Ukraine was not safe and now in the middle of the operation they are asking the diplomats to return?
On what planet?
I think there was a time when a statement like this was Top Secret:
“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” Mr. Austin said Monday after the highest-level visit of U.S. officials to Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.” -Wall Street Journal.
Why is Russia accepting this behaviour of the West? No counter-sanctions, no “hidden” attacks against US-bases etc.. they only hope to destroy Western weapons inside Ukraine, what is totally against putin’s threats..??
Now, why Russia did not blast every bridge, every railyard, every depot, every railway switch, every electrical substation, every coal-fired power plant, every oil storage facility, etc. baffles me.
For that matter, knock out every runway, every anti-aircraft installation, and hunt trains and vehicles both night and day. Destroy TV and radio stations, telephone relays, etc..
If Russia really wants to get nasty, hit water and sewer facilities in cities.
Hello. According to Putin, it may all become Russian territory later. He indicated this before the war and during it. Separately, he said it was part of historic Russia.
That may be, but first he has to seize it. Rebuild later, but first, he must ensure that he takes it. Similarly, if the goal is NOT to seize territory, then make sure it cannot be used to station missiles, etc..
Further along those lines, where have the Russian anti-aircraft and anti-missile units been? Way too many Ukrainian aircraft and rockets have slipped through or under coverage, leading to setbacks and embarrassing failures.
I am not a big believer in “yay for my team!” if it is not obvious.
Putin has said that all is going according to “plan” more than once. And the body language of the guy is in harmony with that, right? He looks calm and confident. He is not under stress if we go by the TV images. Well, would you be? Yesterday’s experts would say that Putin is right and the outcome certain. I gather you are on his side and that you are impatient about it. (If it’s not over by August, okay.) I am not sure that you have read the Sitrep above. Why don’t you quote something from it to write with more propriety? From this Sitrep, it’s clear why Putin looks confident indeed.
“A Look Back — How Long Did it Take the Nazis to Capture Ukraine?”
https://www.survivethenews.com/a-look-back-how-long-did-it-take-the-nazis-to-capture-ukraine/#:~:text=It%20took%20Army%20Group%20South%20six%20weeks%20to,comparing%20Putin%E2%80%99s%20progress%20in%20defanging%20the%20Ukrainian%20military.
I pay little attention to such things. I pay attention to results.
That Russia is changing tactics indicates that the initial tactics did not deliver the intended results. Which is a good reason to change tactics.
Get the results.
Man, you are deluded. RF “changed tactics” as the first phase was mostly, or entirely completed. Not for the infantile reason of yours.
Maybe start “paying attention to such things” and cure your ignorance.
Good heavens, which results? The immediate or the long term? The two can be completely contradictory, like feeling good you’ve bombed Iraq into the 15th century and destroyed their civilization only to discover you’ve created a long term guerilla war that drives you out of the country. Good results for you?
I hope you live in the USA.
Russia is not the USA znd doesn’t relish pointless slaughter and destruction. Half of Ukraine will become Russia, why upset people if you don’t need to.
It’s the west that seems to think Russia needs to hurry. The longer this draws out the more economic damage the west does to itself
Why do we even have to see this kind of derangement?
Is that why Railways were bombed in Western Ukraine today?
What I’m curious about is how that stream of Western officials is getting to Kiev.
Via air? Rail? Diplomatic Limo?
Wouldn’t a “safe passage” agreement with the Russians be an absolute requirement?
Considering the fact that their meetings are primarily concerned with accomplishing Russia’s destruction, one wonders what calculus would result in the Russians granting safe passage. No media coverage I’ve come across even mentions at how those meetings were possible.
It doesn’t add up for me. Are these meetings actually being held in Lvov? Or not even in Ukraine at all, but some studio in Poland/Moldova/Romania? Or even London?
Absolutely, no doubt someplace; most likely not within Ukraine.
Its a pity the infrastructure is having to be destroyed but Ukrainians can blame Zelensky, Soros, EU and US Biden – Obama for all this.
Ukraine’s War Aims
Did Ukraine seriously believe they could reconquer Donbass? Do they think they can win this war? Ukrainian strategic planning seems not to make sense. I reasonable commander would have pulled troops to defendable positions instead of allowing them to be defeated and obliterated.
Up to now I have believed that Ukraine never intended to win. Many people in Ukraine actually wanted to lose. A military defeat and the loss of Novorossiya or Donbass would allow Ukraine to build a linguistically purified, ethnically cleansed, fully nazified ethnostate and be fully integrated into the West.
In recent weeks Ukraine has turned from battles to information war. Their only aim seems to be to get NATO and the US involved in the war.
What is said about Ukraine may not apply to the Azov Battalion. They may have their own aims that are quite separate from Ukrainian and even US aims.
Juan Sinmiedo has published a long thread on Twitter on Azov and their links to Nazi accelerationism.
Juan Sinmiedo uses text references and videos to make a strong argument that Azov is an accelerationist terror organization. Accelerationists want to accelerate chaos and drive organized society into collapse with acts of violence and terror.
It may be that Azov is not interested in winning or losing. They want to accelerate the war, so that it turns into a nuclear World War 3, that destroys Russia along with the liberal West.
At the core of Accelerationism is “Siege Culture”, based on the “Collected Writings” of neo-Nazi James Mason published in book form in 1992.
Azovstal must be a wet dream for Siege Culture cultists. Almost like Valhalla on Earth! The last defenders of the White Race are about to be overrun by Mongol hordes. Like the Siege of Masada, it will be worshipped for millennia.
Petri,
The War Party has pursued a Grand Strategy since 1991 of sowing instability in Europe. The war party fears a stable and prosperous Europe.
They do not Ukraine to win. All the war party wants is for Ukraine to fight Russians for as long as possible.
10 million Ukrainian refugees flooding Eurooe and causing chaos in Europe ? Great !
Ukraine turned into a destroyed barren wasteland ? Great !
Europe squanders trillions in trying to save Ukraine ? Even better !
Thanks for some great reporting.
I hope rusia does a class “A” job of rolling up the jewish neonazis and for a capstone they receive zelensky as guest of honor of the russian govt so he can make his court date in moscow where we can find out alll abouit all the shady underhanded backdoor stuff that’s been going on in ukraine these last 8 years or so, biolabs and hunter biden included