First, since Boris Rozhin did take the time to write up a summary for the day, I will begin by sharing with you a machine translation of his summary of the day:
1. Negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine will be held tomorrow on the territory of Belarus. Moscow has made it clear once again today that if Kiev does not accept the conditions (without any concessions), the consequences for Ukrainian statehood will be severe. The United States says that the second phase of the operation may begin on Monday, including operations to establish control over Odessa and Kiev, as well as the encirclement of the AFU group in the Donbas. In the statements of Zelensky’s gang, there are more and more hysterical notes and accusations against the West that he threw (there has never been such a thing).
2. Humanitarian corridors in Mariupol and Volnovakha are still being disrupted by the Nazis from Azov, despite all agreements. Is anyone surprised? I’m not. So far, it has been possible to free about 300 people from the hands of terrorists who were holed up in Mariupol. Several dozen more were able to escape from Volnovakha. Ukrainian terrorists do not want to get rid of their human shield in any way. Which condemns many people to death when the counter-terrorist operation begins in Mariupol itself and the active cleaning of Volnovakha continues.
3. Misunderstandings continue with Zelensky’s real whereabouts, and Ukrainian and American sources are dispersing the news about Zelensky’s impending evacuation to the West, and the search for spies and traitors is also continuing. Kivu was accused of “high treason” and put on the wanted list. They’ll catch him, probably kill him like Kireev. And there they will already think who he is a “traitor” or a “hero”. Zelensky himself said today that the West wants Ukrainians to be killed (woke up) and that “we are fighting for where the new border will be.” The old border will obviously no longer exist. The borders will change in any case – the question of course is interesting, where they will pass.
4. Anti-war rallies are taking place in the Russian Federation today, with the help of which Zelensky called for stopping the operation in Ukraine. Judging by the number of people gathered, even the arrest of Navalny (who is this, by the way?) and coronavirus restrictions (by the way, where is covid?) they worried citizens more. But let’s see, maybe by the evening the number will grow up. In the meantime, everything is pretty pathetic, which was apparently facilitated by a fierce information sweep, which continued today.
5. The enforcement of the law on fakes on the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has begun today. The first lucky person got off with a fine of 60,000 rubles. I had the idea to write about the problems in the offensive operation (of course, they also exist), but I’ll wait for now – we need to see how the law works in practice. Well, or after the end of the operation there will be material when military censorship will not be so fierce.
With regard to the operation itself, it is worth noting that even in the West there are discrepancies regarding the plans of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, although the progress on the map gives some idea of what they are striving for. From a subjective point of view, priority No. 1 is the destruction of the AFU group in the Donbas by encircling and defeating this group, which will deprive Ukraine of most of the armed forces and heavy equipment.
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Yesterday Putin had a most interesting conversations with members of what look like members of an flight attendant union. We hope to bring the the whole thing subtitled in English later today, but here is the key sentence made by Putin during that conversation:
Translation: If the leadership of Ukraine continues to do what they are doing, it will call into question the future of Ukrainian statehood, and that will be entirely their responsibility
I think that it is important to understand the context in which Putin made this statement. As a reminder
- The Ukronazi armed forces are down to less than 25% of its original size.
- Almost all the remaining forces are in some type or another of cauldrons.
- Russia has full air supremacy
- The Ukronazi fleet does not exist anymore
- In spite of all the propaganda, no help from abroad will affect the outcome of this war
- It appears that Russia will surround Odessa and eventually take control of the entire Ukrainian Black Sea coast
In other words, what seems to be shaping up is that Russia will soon have control over the entire Ukraine except for the western provinces (west of Vinnitsa and Zhitomir). In other words, the war is over, at least militarily. There will be a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators tomorrow, and it shall be interesting to see if something, anything, will come out of it.
The West is clearly determined to heroically fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. Russia wants to stop this operation as soon as possible, but only after her double goals of 1) disarmament and 2) denazification are achieved.
Right now the big question is Kiev. It’s a big city with plenty of civilians and probably 30-50 thousand combatants of all different kinds (VSU, SBU, Volkssturm, deathsquads, looters, etc.). The logical solution would be to offer the combatants (and the civilians) corridors to exit the city, but the West can’t have that.
Now if the Ukies won’t vacate Kiev, then some rather serious fighting will take place inside the city and clearing the city from the Nazis will demand the involvement of a major Russian force. It appears that these forces are now in their staging areas all around the city (except for the south).
Think about it this way: the frontline (line of contact) is now very long and the Ukies don’t have enough forces to even try to hold any frontline in such a context.
However, remember the number of Russian forces deployed along the Ukrainian border – about 100’000+ or so soldiers? It appears that there are currently not enough Russian forces to fully exploit the Russian advances over the past ten days. Alternatively, we could say that the Russian force is big enough, but that now it has to sharply increase its use of firepower to further develop its operations.
For all these reasons, here is what I suppose is in the making:
- If the Ukrainian delegation agrees to a surrender, then things can be resolved with the least amount of needless deaths and suffering. However, the West will not allow the Ukrainians to surrender and those Ukrainians who might agree to talk will get shot by their own (it is happening all over Banderastan right now).
- Having received a Ukrainian rejection, I believe that Russia will bring in more forces and will begin by clearing out the Mariupol and Odessa cauldrons (or “soon to be cauldrons”).
- In at least one case (near Voznesensk) a Ukrainian counter-attack did break through the Russian defensive lines. This shows that the Russian lines are thinning out as a consequence of their own successes, and that then allows the Nazi forces to mount successful counter-attacks.
- It is also quite clear that the US/NATO is offering the Ukrainians its full reconnaissance/intelligence support and that while their own networks and command posts are gone, the US/NATO continue to support Ukie operations.
For all these reasons, and failing some kind of ceasefire, the next 7-10 days ought to see a sharp increase in Russian operations not only in the air and on the ground, but also on the sea where the Black Sea Fleet will be engaged to secure the Ukrainian coast line. The Russians might also have to do something about NATO’s intel/recon support for Ukrainian forces, either overtly or with a modicum of plausible deniability.
Which begs one question: how far west are the Russians willing to go?
I don’t know. But I know that during his talk yesterday Putin indicated that “only” supporting and defending the LDNR would not be enough because the Ukrainian forces in the Donbass would receive a constant flow of support from the West.
Hence the Russian General Staff decided that it needed to do two things first: destroy the Ukrainian defense infrastructure and 2, encircle the Ukronazi forces in the Donbass by a envelopment/pincer movement from the south and the north. I still am waiting for a confirmation that this operational-level cauldron is locked, but nobody (that I know of) produced any recent map for today. Still, I think that we can safely assume that cauldron will be locked very soon (or has already been locked).
Still, major (relatively speaking) Ukrainian force concentrations have dug in and are ready for long urban combat operations in at least the following cities: Odessa, Dnepr and Kiev. Could the Russian military evict the Nazis from these cities? Yes, Mariupol is being cleaned up as we speak, but only at a high human cost (on all sides) and by bringing in more firepower (on the ground and in the air).
My guess is that the Russians have decided to clear the entire south front first. Russian forces are already in between Nikolaev and Odessa, and the Black Sea Fleet has reportedly conducted strikes southwest of Odessa. Right now the Black Sea Fleet is keeping the Ukrainians guessing whether there will be an amphibious assault and if yes, where.
I am no prophet, but a securing a bridgehead southwest of Odessa to then land an amphibious assault force and develop it all from there seems like a reasonable idea to me.
Once both Odessa and Nikolaev are either taken or, at least, solidly surrounded then Russia can free more forces to move north. Likewise, as soon as the operational cauldron in the Donbass is locked, this will also free more forces to then move west. If this is successful, then Russia will have achieved a strategic cauldron encompassing the entire Ukraine west of the Vinnitsa-Zhitomir line.
If this is not successful and Russians lose their tempo, then the only solution left will be to sharply increase the intensity of the entire operation. I think that this is exactly what Putin had in mind when he said “If the leadership of Ukraine continues to do what they are doing, it will call into question the future of Ukrainian statehood, and that will be entirely their responsibility“.
So, to sum it all up:
- Russia would prefer to end this war at the negotiations table
- The West wants to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian
- and the Ukrainians… …actually, I have no idea what they are up to, what they still hope for, what they understand or not, but the best thing they could do would be to rise up against the Nazis, disarm them and declare their cities open. Either that, or emigrate.
This is a totally depressing thought, but I see no other option for Russia but to turn up the “pain dial” on both the Ukrainians and the West and see if they are now willing to stop this war.
If not, then turn it up again, and then repeat as many times as needed until either 1) the West capitulates or 2) the Ukraine is unilaterally disarmed and denazified by Russia.
Here is what is also crucial to understand:
Russia was willing, when forced, to intervene in the Ukraine. If forced, Russia will take on any country, including any NATO member country, which will assist the Ukrainians militarily. If forced, Russia will even fight all of NATO and the USA together and, if forced, she will use all her weapons, including nuclear ones. And if that means that the entire planet is nuked then, as Putin said, “we have no need for a planet without Russia”. All this is to say that Russia is not bluffing, Putin will not back down and that there is no price which Russia would not be willing to pay to prevail in this existential war.
Russia will not stop until her existence is made safe again.
What about the West?
I believe that the West has a “smartass policy”: we do fight down the the last Ukie, and we get as many Steppe Niggers and Snow Niggers to kill each other, but then we stop just short of nuclear war with Russia.
Question: do you trust the geniuses in power in the West to successfully walk this tightrope?
I sure don’t.
Reach your own conclusions.
Andrei
Obviously, if you are going to supply combat aircraft, you are a defacto participant.
It will be interesting to see how Russia interprets this very clear and continuous provocation.
Only when the US finally gets what it wants, will it realize just how much it does not want it.
Any ideas that they will precipitate a wider conflict and then sit it out is clearly misplaced nostalgia from WW2.
AS far as I know, nobody is supplying aircraft to the Ukies
I have no doubt it is nothing more than the usual US lip service.
I was only pointing out that IF you supply combat aircraft, you’re basically opting in.
https://www.rt.com/news/551375-blinken-fighter-jets-ukraine/
That’s the article I was referencing, as always, RT can be a little ‘clickbaitey’.
This whole “supplying weapons and aircraft” thing is confusing to me. What good is a plane, gun or ship on its own? You need a crew, base, spare parts, training, etc. Is it all a ruse then, to do the minimum necessary to say that the West “did all it could”? Or will Poland join the war and serve as a base to attack Russian columns from the north?
I’m thinking of a bunch of AT weapons and small arms dropped off in a street near my home with a note saying “good luck”! That would liven up my neighborhood…
we think fighter jets but they might mean drones that act like fighter jets ?
no such drones in the West
and they would be shot down anyway
Andrei
MQ-9 reaper drone is not a fighter jet but several armies in Europe bought them. And they are only shot down if the Russian army protect the sky by activating the air defenses. In Syria Pantsir-S air defense was destroyed when they were inactive.
@Tom,
I read that Poland will not be involved in supplying aircraft to Ukraine. Same with Romania and Bulgaria. Makes you wonder if this whole narrative is simply more USA corporate driven propaganda.
the whole “we will provide planes to the Ukies that can start from abroad” was a brainchild from the EU president alone and was hard rejected by ALL of the states he mentioned, because every state known that IF they provide landing strips for the planes they are participants and therefore legit targets under any law. And Russia had made it absolute obvious and clear that anybody how participates get attacked by not only conventional weapons but very likely nuclear. So everybody opted out. and i am very sure Russia meant this even for reaper drone that can also act as bombers and fighter aircraft.
Thanks for the reply. That makes sense. Western PR and no actual contribution.
Seriously, my biggest fear now is that Poland or another NATO country will decide to intervene. That would quickly spiral out of control.
Le Figaro: Bulgarian Defense Minister dismissed for unwillingness to talk about “war” – https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/bulgarie-le-ministre-de-la-defense-limoge-pour-des-propos-juges-prorusses-20220228
“Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov announced on Monday, February 28, the dismissal of his defense minister.”
So aircraft deliveries can take place.
I doubt it – the bulgarians don’t have enough operational planes for their own use, much less to give any. Mostly thanks to the US influence over various governments in Bulgaria since 2004.
April 4, 2022. Pay close attention to that date. The West has gone mad, is delusional and completely disconnected from reality. The entire West has become a tantrum child. God help us!
April 4th, keep an eye on Hungary as well. If the psychopath other than Viktor Orbán is elected, be ready for brainless acts and statements. God help us, indeed!
Agrees 100%
I’m ashamed of my country. A bunch of spiteful bitches.
The US is considering an option in which Poland would provide Kiev will receive a certain number of MiG-29s and Su-25s in exchange for American-made fighters. At the moment, the deal is being discussed between the United States and its partners in NATO – https://lenta.ru/news/2022/03/06/sdelka / . There is a link to an American source.
Fighter jets require intense prep – service teams, parts, fuel infrastructure, mechanics, etc. If the capacity isn’t there already, sending extra planes isn’t of much use, unless it’s for 1 time kamikaze exercises. This is all bullshit, because the air bases are being systematically destroyed. Soon there won’t be enough runways to land and takeoff.
Poland has F-16C “Jastrząb” and F-16D “Jastrząb” in service, so their pilots are familiar with American technology, there is an infrastructure for their maintenance. The presence of entire airfields in Ukraine is not critical – the plane can land on the highway. Also, Ukrainian aircraft can receive maintenance on the adjacent territory – Russia has not declared war, their equipment will not be interned.
Be realistic.
You do not actually need airbases to land or take of planes.
You only need any strip that has a decent length, and not to high buildings etc in the way.
Basicly any long straight roads can do.
Refuelling etc of airplanes that is another story.
But the fantasy of that airplanes can only be at officiall airbases… that is very squarebox way of thinking.
But airplanes are very vulnerable while grounded, without any nearby anti-air defenses etc.
@HPR
Hier in Switzerland we do indeed land our fighters on the highway.
Of course those parts of the road need to be reinforced if you want to land more then one plane.
Did not know Poland had any SU-25s and cannot see why they would. They have 29 MiG 29s two-seaters and some Su-22 but radar is problematic. Why would a UKR pilot go to Poland to fly N unarmed plane back into a war zone ?
I doubt that the Americans will just give those fighters to the Poles in exchange for the old Soviet hardware. I expect that the US shall make Poland to pay dearly for those fighters.
https://twitter.com/dw_ukrainian/status/1500538451900485632
https://twitter.com/PremierRP_en/status/1500345167211114497
It seems it is the U.S. that keeps pushing a fake psyop about the planes when the actual countries involved repeatedly say it is FAKE
Yes, I had seen that Poland had refuted it.
When in doubt, assume US lip service I guess ;)
I read that US Navy seals are standing by to rescue the Ukrainian President. What do you think will happen if those seals end up killing a bunch of Russian soldiers in order to achieve their mission? Will that mean the US will become participants in the war?
Zelensky is under heavy guard in Poland. One of the Ukie negotiators has already been killed. I suspect Zelensky may be approaching the ‘more useful dead than alive’ condition to his owners.
If the Anglos have their way Zelensky will end up in Berlin – provided he stays alive. Having him in Berlin as “Ukrainian government in exile” will make it almost impossible for Berlin to normalize relations with Russia.
make sense to me. given how hard the US has beat up germany here that would be the logical solution.
zelensky is in american ambasy in poland from Czech aeronet -alternative news
yes I am inclined to agree, Ze knows too much and he is obviously unpredictable and overwrought, not to mention the drink/drug rumours. Better for CIA to do him in and dump the body in Kiev, ‘fighting to the end brave martyr Zelensky etc’ of course every Ukrainian in the world will know the reality but it isn’t aimed at them its aimed at the western proles.
De jure No, de facto Yes.
Formally, this is a casus belli, a way out of the agreements.
Then the Middle East will automatically go to Russia and NATO will be destroyed in Europe.
Of course, Taiwan will join the PRC in a moment.
He’s in Warsaw at US embassy now.
Poland has said it will but I am not sure how they will do it if Russia has secured the skies. Perhaps NATO recon support can elude the Russians?
US is already preparing plans in case Zelensky is captured or killed (statements like this obviously is a hint he will be eventually eliminated by his handlers). We know how the the west dispose their
disposable puppets into the trash bin 6 ft under. The west may have already another puppet to replace Z for a protracted fight run by a government in exile.
Blinken did try drag Polish airforce to conflict with Russia ….Poland rejected not soo diplomatic way…
Sakar, what do you make of Putin being part of the World Economic Forum? Does he have any loyalty to the WEF or is he working to help usher in the Great Reset? Many people believe Putin is working with the west due to his being involved with the WEF and even Klaus Schwab mentioned Putin being with them.
poland wants to kill the ukranisan pilots:
https://linkezeitung.de/2022/03/08/usa-geben-gruenes-licht-fuer-lieferung-polnischer-kampfflugzeuge-an-die-ukraine/
When USA supplied UK in 1940, it was not a casus belli for Germans.
When USSR supplied Nord Vietnam, it was not a casus belli for USA
When USA supplied openly Afghan Moudjahidines, it was not a casus belli for USSR.
Then Putin just talk about no fly zone or sending troops .
However…. how does he consider a country wich gathered troop of several thousands of ” volonteers”, equip them, arm then and bring them at Ukrain fronteer ???
Because during all these wars the victims of the USA could not effectively retaliate.
Russia can.
That changes everything.
I ld say, they have to go a looong way, them volunteers. And Russia owns the skies. So them volunteers have not the best chance to even get there, before meeting with their Maker. So good luck arming and sending them…
I presume all the guesses are (again) correct by The Saker, and that there is no bluffing on the Russian side. I am grateful someone pointed it out already.
Also, the – must admit – upfront and nobel charcteristic of the whole operation gives me a delightful shock and awe, but this time certainly different as the Gulf War I followed as a kid.
That was michael bay, this is at least tarkovsky…
Someone asked if the mercenaries would fall under the Geneva convention. Only theoretical, but good question, could you, anyone share his thoughts about it?
It is a good question. I would also wonder whether the formation of armed civilian units and sending them into a meat grinder might be considered either a war crime or a crime against humanity. I haven’t found evidence that such charges were raised at Nuremburg, but then, they had so many others to choose from. But given the historical lack of success of such units in the past, I would ask any future Court that ends up adjudicating this affair (fully aware that this will likely not happen at the Hague) consider this as a crime against humanity.
igor konashenkov says no Geneva convention for mercenaries, so … Ive seen some dead mercenaries around Mariupol, Poles and Serbs apparently but no way for me to validate that. Some of them died in battle but some of them certainly didn’t. There will be no quarter given.
As long as it’s even soldiers in cobat fatigues going for “holiday”, Russian Federation can do anything about it.
These things tended to happen with Russian “vacationists”, too.
U-Boats simply waited in Atlantic to sink British oil tankers and freighters
US admiral King refused escorts to British as Anglophobe
Merchant Navy losses were horrendous
Germany had no ability to strike at USA during 1939-45 war
One report I read stated the US plan is for Poland to send Ukraine its Migs, which the US would replace with F-16s. Let’s you and him fight! But Poland’s response, paraphrased: “you’re out of your effing mind!” US wants Poland’s kamikaze sacrifice as tripwire for Nato, but the Pollocks deserve some credit for self preservation.
I wonder if the genius US strategists figured out how to get those fighter jets into Ukraine, anyway. Clearly, a stupid idea was floated only to confirm US unwavering support for Ukraine.
No, not really. If you allow your military airfields to be used to fly combat sorties from then, yes, you are definitely a belligerent.
But if you dust off your old aircraft and allow them to be flown to a combat zone to be used by Someone Else’s Air Force then you are not.
The USAF hastily repainted F-4 Phantom II fighters in IDF colors and handed them over to the Israelis to replace their losses in the Yom Kippur War, and the Egyptians didn’t take that to mean that they were at war with the USA.
The problem is simply that any repainted Polish MiG-29 is that the Russians have a really strong incentive to make an example of them: they are simply going to be bombed the moment they land inside Ukraine (even assuming that there are any airfields still in operation).
But there is no way the Poles are going to allow Ukraine pilots to fly combat sorties from Polish air bases. That really would be asking for trouble.
Why doesn’t Russia use this?
http://fullafterburner.weebly.com/next-gen-weapons/s-400-the-impenetrable-shield
06.03.2022 (18:00 Msk)
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson
http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12411939@egNews
…We have received documentation from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories on the emergency destruction of especially dangerous pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases on February 24: https://function.mil.ru/files/morf/dokumentsmukr.pdf
Now the documents are being analyzed by Russian specialists of NBC protection troops.
It is obvious that with the beginning of a special military operation, the Pentagon had serious concerns about the disclosure of conducting secret biological experiments on the territory of Ukraine.
The received documents confirm that the development of biological weapons components was carried out in Ukrainian biological laboratories, in the immediate vicinity of the territory of Russia.
In order to prevent the disclosure of facts of violation by the United States and Ukraine of Article 1 of the UN Convention on the Prohibition of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons, the Ukrainian Ministry of Health sent an instruction to all biological laboratories on the emergency liquidation of stored stocks of dangerous pathogens.
In the near future we will present the results of the analysis of the received documents.
These links are blocked…
Try with a VPN. But everything in Google opens without VPN and Proxy
https://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12411939@egNews
https://function.mil.ru/files/morf/dokumentsmukr.pdf
Having tried multiple browsers and multiple VPN routes, the sites are still not reachable. Could you please put the pdf up on a reliable document sharing site (yandex?) as Saker did with the Russian war crimes documents?
Try on telegram https://t.me/realCRP/3473 the documents contain orders from Ukraine ministry of health about destroying pathogens to me it seems regular research that many countries do on all kinds of viruses and bacteria but you never know what the Russians will uncover here never trust US funded labs.
The ready for English translation document is viewable on VT’s – Russian Defense Ministry: Documents/Evidence Proves US Developed Bio-Weapons in Ukraine (COVID?) page. Six pages worth of something is there to behold.
One of the big reasons for the Empire to censor out the Russian media is because all these stories are going to come out. Biological warfare is almost the least of it. Torture to death of thousands of people, most of them civilians, by Ukrainian SBU (secret police) and by the Nazi battalions. Mass shootings, too. I’ve heard that 1200 people were massacred in Slavyansk in July 2014 after Strelkov’s forces bugged out. These are exceedingly dramatic stories, and people in the West might wake up if they learn about it.
Dear Cosimo,
Very good point! And beyond that, I wouldn’t be surprised that the Russians could tell the world a few additional factoids about November 22, 1963 and September 11, 2001.
We will also demonstrate the Chancellor Act
Dear Andrey,
Good one! I thought I knew a thing or two about German history, but your mention today of the Chancellor Act is the very first time I heard about it – had to look it up. So, after all Russia’s effort during WWII, they ended up with northern Ostpreussen; Poland got the southern half plus Hinterpommern and Schlesien, but the Empire got everything else that was within Germany’s 1937 borders.
And the so called ”moon landings”.
No fan of the US, but the moon landings were real. Apart from many other factors, the Soviets would have blown the whistle if for no other reason than to call out the US.
No, the “manned moon landings” were totally faked. Do you really think the USA would have scrapped the rocket engines with the biggest specific impulse ever made (claimed) if they has really worked (first stage engines of the Saturn 5)? Several Soviet scientific papers appeared showing the claimed performance of the Saturn 5 was nowhere near what was claimed and the landings were faked.
The trouble was, the Soviet Union was hiding more than a few skeletons in its space program closet too. The Americans never mentioned those and as a professional courtesy the Soviets didn’t advertise the American fakery.
The Soviets were also handsomely rewarded for the silence by the US
Ram, I have done extensive reading about the Space Race for a story I’m writing. There can be no doubt the Russians won it hands down. The day before Neil Armstrong’s crew launched there are videos of him not being able to control the lunar landing module. The landings are entirely faked.
Were real? How did they get enough fuel to make it up to the moon and back again? It seems rather unreal to me. Have you considered gravity? The earth keeps the moon in orbit by gravity. People seem to forget about that.
Not to mention the November ’20 “election” of the Kidsniffing Puppet.
I share this thought.
“If” is the key word. The West is very adept at narrative control, so I would not bet on inconvenient facts coming to the attention of the broad Western public.
Yep, good luck trying to dig the west out of propaganda PSYOP… the damage is irreparable.
Yuri Bezmenov warned the west about it…whether you agree with that traitor or not it is quite clear some of the active measures thrived and were effective. — This does NOT mean current Russia has anything to do with the Soviet Union or it’s practices anymore. Putin inevitably inherited this cold war ideology that Lenin, Stalin and Gorbachev helped establish. It is a real shame.
“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to access true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I showered him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures — even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him a concentration camp — he will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom. When a military boot crashes his butt, then he will understand, but not before that. That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.”
This also does not condone the west’s actions, they have literally had a fetish for the 3rd Reich, and act as if they are the successors of Hitler’s ideology.
This is big..if Russia can prove Ukraine had biological WMDs, that would turn the narrative on its head. Especially coming off Covid…
I believe there is a UN article prohibiting the development of biological WMD…? Article 1. Mod.
USA went to war in Iraq based on a claim of WMD (turned out to be a lie).
Not only is it a big story in and of itself regarding the existence of such facilities, but of even greater impact, is with regards to who was sponsoring / organising / pushing for this?
We know the answer, and we have the primary reason for the media embargo on Russia.
https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/1500557487665299461
As may have been mentioned before in the comments section, the presence of US biolabs near Russia’s borders (and elsewhere) has been extensively researched and reported by Mrs. Dilyana Gaytandzhieva http://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/
“The DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded 11 bio-laboratories in the former Soviet Union Country Ukraine, bordering on Russia.”
The US has also been collecting Chinese DNA. Several US NGOs were kicked out of the country for doing so without consent. Both Russia and China have officially spoken out about the US bioweapons research. When covid appeared, Russia and China met and decided it wasn’t (clearly) a bioweapon, but decided to start building isolation hospitals “just in case”.
The US didn’t rescue the heads of Japan’s Unit 731 bioweapons reach unit at the end of WW II, saving them from war crimes trials, out of the kindness if their hearts. It was refuge in exchange for everything they knew about the use of insects as vectors for disease transmission. Some of the DTRA research projects revolved around sand flies (Dr. Fauci’s speciality) so they are still working on that.
Yes, … would it not be ironic (although probably never reported in western MSM) if Serge Lavrov (or whom ever is the relevant Russian official) could stand up in the UN and do a Colin Powell vile but this time with the real thing.
“Colin Powell Addresses United Nations Security Council On Iraq”
https://youtu.be/DhWlPo3qxak
“It is all a web of lies…” — [1:14] … wht he forgot to mention was it was the USA with the web of lies.
Yes, mod, art 1.
Here are text of articles 1 – 10
https://www.un.org/disarmament/biological-weapons/
Here is an article that claims that the demilitarisation campaign by Russia in Ukraine will include biolabs
https://www.opindia.com/2022/02/russia-ukraine-invasion-bioweapons-labs-patrushev-putin-wuhan-coronavirus/
Serbian Girl, oh so right. I’m thinking about not just Covid and the repeated leaked from a lab theory (and a group of Taiwanese and Japanese scientists tracked it back to a lab in the USA and had articles about it here on the Saker) but also, the Skripal fiasco – the false flat that led to the attack on Syria.
Haven’t the Russians blown up the sites? That would make it much harder to prove Ukraine was up to bad things.
The encircled Ukrainian forces are not getting resupplied with ammunition.
How much do they have, when will it run out?
Soviet arsenal is limitless.
Спасибо, Мод, дай Бог здоровья! )))
Not true.
Also, the Ukies are ACTIVELY FIGHTING in the Donbass, so they are going through their supplies very very quickly.
And its the weakest link in the chain thing: once ONE of the elements needed for military operations is compromised, then so is the entire operation.
The longer, the better !
The longer the special operation to liberate/de-occupy the national-fascist foothold of the aggressive NATO (Ukraine is NATO’s Enhanced Opportunities Partner), the faster the natural process of denazification of the population takes place.
People themselves are convinced of inhumanity and misanthropy of the neo-Nazi regime established by the West/USA in the historical territory of Russia.
Very perceptive observation.
The end result should be stable and with genuine support.
Delivering fighter aircraft to Ukraine looks to me like a face-saving measure for the US. On its face, it looks like meaningful assistance, but without missiles, fuel, trained pilots, spare parts and airfields, those aircraft aren’t going to be of any real use.
Don’t even dream – USA/NATO are not suicidal, they are cowards!
All they can do now is lie, lie, lie, …
correct
at most they can send a few Ukies on a suicide mission in an old aircraft.
that’s about it.
NATO’s military doctrine is based on two things:
i) the opponent is sub-peer or defenseless
ii) total air superiority so ground forces can call in the air support to blast the opposition to smithereens.
Neither condition applies here.
They are also totally reliant on total availability of satellite comms. If one key satellite goes poof, then ooops, NATO is operating in untried territory.
Andrey: As an American citizen i can tell you that the government of the US is suicidal. My government has been provoking a war in Ukraine since at least 2014 with a country that has nuclear weapons. The media in the US is all in for war with Russia. We have US Senators calling for the assassination of Putin and media calling for no fly zones and bombing of Russian forces. If this is not crazy I do not know what is.
No us government not suicidal
When facing russia
They only bark not bite
US government only bite puppies
Even us government not dare to bite puppy with guts like nort korea
The only chance US government can destroy Russia is in the time of yeltsin but US government still afraid some nationalist in Russia go MAD
The U.S. “government” is controlled by a cult of demon-possessed, theistic Satanists. They’re fighting a spiritual war against all of humanity – seeking the fulfillment of the Satanic agenda set forth in Isaiah 14:13,14 – and they’re desperate because their evil empire is going down. I believe they will try murder-suicide with nukes rather than graciously accept defeat.
“puppy with fangs like North Korea”
Did you consider, Andrey, that the US/NATO, or the world elites running them, lying up a better casus belli is also on the table? This will, of course, take time, but it has happened before. This was true in the previous world wars when the US “officially” entered the wars “late,” but unofficially was involved in the years or decades worth of sanctions, provocations, and aggressive military maneuvers which prompted the wars in the first place. American Major General Smedley “War is a Racket” Butler was part of the American military build-up in the Philippines and China, and Japan’s leaders appreciated that about as much as Russia’s leaders appreciate the American military build-up in Ukraine. Federal Reserve Act America “looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific” was a lie.
This was true in the First Gulf War when American Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam, “We have no opinion on your Arab – Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait.” When the Saddam admin tried to resolve the dispute by invading Kuwait, we learned that was a lie. Remember “Nayirah”? The young woman selling the Gulf War by crying that “[Iraqi soldiers] took the babies out of the incubators”? We later learned that was a lie. And these lies justified American military deployment.
Do you think the world elites could be working the same strategy now? Sure, today’s Russia is not Japan or Iraq, but since when has a challenge ever stopped the empire…?
06.03.2022 (21:00 Msk)
Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
(March 6, 2022) https://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12411952@egNews
Today, as part of the humanitarian operation, the Russian Federation once again attempted to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, while the routes, time and place of meeting of the humanitarian convoy were worked out in detail and agreed with the Ukrainian side. Russia has fulfilled all the conditions for the creation of a humanitarian corridor.
We are forced to state that the Ukrainian side has not fulfilled its obligations.
According to the results of objective control, including the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, we found that no humanitarian convoys were formed in Mariupol.
Moreover, the Ukrainian authorities, using Internet resources and television, are actively misinforming the residents of Mariupol about the postponement of the evacuation, due to the alleged non-compliance by the Russian side with the promised silence regimes. This is a total deception and betrayal of their people. At the same time, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at the positions of the Russian Armed Forces at the time specified for the humanitarian corridor.
All these provocations make it clear that the Kiev authorities deliberately evade the implementation of the agreements reached and continue their criminal actions to use the civilian population as a human shield.
In addition, to date, the Ukrainian side categorically rejects any interaction on the evacuation of a large number of people from Kharkiv and Sumy, where thousands of civilians, including foreign states, are being held.
It is reliably known that since the beginning of the special military operation, thousands of people, including foreigners, are ready to leave the territory of Ukraine and go to the Russian Federation, but the Kiev authorities flatly refuse to release them, fearing that the whole truth about the atrocities against civilians by neo-Nazis will become known worldwide.
This information is confirmed by 17 residents of Mariupol, who on March 5 managed to independently, by secret paths along the coast of the Sea of Azov, to leave the city occupied by nationalists.
They said that thousands of people want to leave the city along the humanitarian corridor in the direction of the east, towards the Russian Federation, but the Nazis are severely suppressing any attempts to do this, up to the use of weapons to kill.
The same orders of the Kiev regime have been forwarded and are unquestioningly carried out by neo-Nazis in all settlements of Ukraine, primarily in the cities of Kharkiv and Sumy, blocking the passage of refugees to safe places on the territory of the Russian Federation.
We do not understand why the Western “civilized world” does not react to all these humanitarian atrocities in any way.
In Mariupol, the neo-Nazis of the territorial defence battalions are once again using the tactics of terrorists to conduct combat operations. Hiding behind civilians as a human shield, they place heavy weapons in apartment buildings, while some residents are forcibly kept in houses.
Yesterday, during the evacuation of Indian citizens, nationalists, threatening physical violence with the use of weapons, intimidated foreign citizens who refused to evacuate along unsafe routes towards the western borders of Ukraine.
In order to demoralize civilians and foreigners, reports appeared in the Ukrainian media about the creation of camps by Kiev for citizens who do not support the current regime, as well as people who are not citizens of Ukraine. Radicals carry out ethnic cleansing, break into houses and apartments of the civilian population, check documents on the streets. All persons who do not have Ukrainian passports are taken away by the militants in an unknown direction.
All the necessary conditions have been created in the Russian Federation to welcome refugees. Rest rooms are equipped at checkpoints and temporary accommodation places, hot meals are provided, mobile medical centers are deployed, logistics for departure to the regions of Russia is organized, and their delivery to their homeland is provided for foreign citizens.
In the regions of Russia, temporary accommodation facilities have been increased to 9 thousand. All of them are ready to work individually with citizens arriving from Ukraine.
More than 163 thousand (163,218) people were evacuated from the zones of the special military operation, including 42,729 children, including 6,897 per day, of which 1,133 children.
18,356 units of personal vehicles crossed the state border of the Russian Federation, including 991 units per day.
Federal executive authorities, together with the subjects of Russia, from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, various public organizations, patriotic movements have already prepared more than 13.5 thousand tons of humanitarian cargo.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Rosreestr and Rosrezerv, Tula, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov regions, as well as the Republic of Crimea have been most actively involved in this important work.
557 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 80 humanitarian actions have been carried out in 123 settlements of the Zaporozhye, Kiev, Kharkiv and Kherson regions, as well as in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, including 18 humanitarian actions carried out over the past day, during which 60 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
As of today, 28 humanitarian actions have been planned and carried out in the Kiev region, Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, during which 323 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food have been transferred to the civilian population.
Directorate of Media service and Information
Front page NYT today: picture of dead civilians “killed by Russian troops”surrounded by Ukrainian soldiers. Maybe nationalists killed them, or Ukrainian soldiers, or the armed gangs that we have seen in cell videos murdering civs. But it’s the NYT, and there is a picture, the caption must be true!
With a near-lock on dissemination of (dis)information the west makes it all but impossible for anyone to see what is really happening.
I’ll bet that the vast majority of people involved in this disinfo campaign believe their own bulls#!t. In partnership with the psychopaths anything is possible. And that scares the hell out of me.
why the FUCK are we still paying attention to what these genocidal maniacs print?????
What would you expect them to print?
The truth??
Saker, what they print and spin, is what will rally nearly the entire population of the west, to swallow the lie, and support their gubmint, which will be necessary when they are all freezing next winter.
I saw it all re the reporting of the Balkans in the 90’s. Is it that they are so good at lying, or is it that the public is so gullible. Either way, you ain’t seen anything yet. The preposterousness and scale of the lying will reach ever greater heights, and you will be shocked at what people will just swallow and believe. The significance of this, is that western governments will have a public mandate to push ever harder and ever more recklessly against Russia.
Same propaganda methods as in the Balkans in the 90’s indeed.
I remember pictures of croatian soldiers in black uniforms near the corpses of dead civilians. They were in fact slaughtered by the ustashi killers presented while the press presented them as victims of the serbian army. Serbian victims where systematically identified as muslims or croats.
for documented cases of this propaganda see Peter Brock “Media cleansing dirty reporting” and Philip Hammond and Edward Herman “Degraded capability. The media and the Kosovo crises”
I am very angry about the western media lies about for example Mariupol humanitarian corridors it is shocking to read the headlines and news articles. Sadly there is not much video and photo material and “explainer” maps from the Russian side to expose these lies. We are barehanded and empty handed to fight this. It is frustrating because they have unlimited access to all kinds of sources to pile it on the ordinary population. If you speak facts you are seen as a traitor and Putin apologist and canceled.
That I agree.. when it come to reporting from Russian southern lands ( also know to some as Ukraine)best to keep the TV switched off these days better watch some animal or travel channel.
The devil himself will roll the red carpet for the western media once this mother f… ers go to hell. He will bow before them for them all and thank them for the satanic work they have ” accomplished” in his name on earth.
Due to western media are so many self hating Russians (known to some as Ukrainians) so thoroughly brainwashed after 8 years of non stop western propaganda.
Exactly. Don’t cast your pearls unto swine & conversely don’t listen to swine.
I had the same reaction to the photo in the NYT. No evidence is provided that the people were killed by Russian troops. It is more likely that the killers were on the Ukrainian side.
I agree with Saker 110%, there is absolutely NO REASON to even listen or read any Western affiliated media as a
source of ‘valid’ information. Please ignore everything that is coming from Western media with regards to the war. Do not even entertain it. By looking at it, you are giving into the lie, and regurgitating that lie on this site, as if it needs to be validated as false.
Since the war started on Feb 24th, I have not opened 1 single link of western networks.
My advice, is to do the same. You will benefit more.
Believe the peacekeepers will simply surround the big cities and wait for intercine fighting among the bandits to solve the situation.
and then enter and finish them off
Russian have special “urban assault groups” (remember Grozny in the 2nd war?)
He stormed Dzhokhar-Gala (the city of Dzhokhar Dudayev) / Terrible special forces of the Internal Troops of the Russian Federation under the control of the Army.
Directly for the special operation to liberate Grozny, three operational groupings of troops of the “special district of the city of Grozny” were created “West” (Mr. Malofeev, died during the assault) “North” (p-k VV Grudnov) and “South” VV Kukarin), headed, then, by Colonel-General (today Army General) V.V. Bulgakov. Which cut Grozny into three sectors.
Then a masterpiece of operational art, the special operation “Hunting for wolves”, planned by the commander of the federal group, then, Colonel General V.G. Kazantsev, now deceased.
Then the sheep were provided with a corridor to the Sheikh-Mansurovsky district – Alkhan-Kala – Goyty (through a recruited intelligence officer who, for $100,000, promised the militants / Basaev to ensure an exit from Grozny and handed over a map of minefields))). In parallel, disinformation was launched on the air: a false radio exchange about gaps in the encirclement. Undercover intelligence “suggested” the Nokhchi field commanders the way out of the encirclement. At the junctions between the regiments, combat activity was reduced to a minimum.
From January 29 to January 30, 3,000 Salafis began to exodus from the city, we hurried them with a massive air and artillery strike. 2,000 militants reached Zakan-Yurt from Grozny.
On the way of the terrorists, a layered system of mine-explosive obstacles and firing positions was created in advance. Russian machine gunners and mortars strengthened from the flanks, and dozens of helicopters were raised into the air. The militants ended up in fire bags … Those who did not give up died, although a few managed to escape across the Sunzha River.
I think this precisely what the russians did in Kiev – they’ve entered the city proper, then withdrew, spreading rummors behind about russian Spetznaz in Ukro uniforms operating in the city, and leaving all those armed Ukro-thugs to shoot at each other.
The Russian nation fights like their Spetsnaz. They fight to the death because in war that it the best way to survive. It is a national characteristic to take losses in order to protect the Motherland.
All Russians know, understand and feel that the homeland is at war, made by the US and waged by NATO through the proxy Ukraine.
Perfect clarity. And they trust Putin and Shoigu and their military (sons and fathers, brothers and uncles) who do the fighting and dying to be victorious.
Russia will prevail. Ukraine will cease to exist. NATO will talk like they are unscarred but they have shown how terrified they truly are.
The US will prolong the agony of all. That is their pathology.
They have had to gut NATO, cannibalise EU, destroy Ukraine all in order to attempt to harm Russia.
Before it is all over, the Russians will have broken the Atlantic Alliance and liberated the world from US hegemony.
This battle in Ukraine is about that war between US and Russia that began in 1917, intensified in 1945 and culminated in 2022 as a Special Operation to demilitarize and denazify the Ukies.
Putin and Shoigu have turned that 105-year war against the US who are impaled on their own spear, and the Hegemon will bleed out in time, economically and geopolitically.
Question: If it comes to direct contact with Nato, and escalating friction with the USA, then how does that relate to the Russian-Alaska region? Or is it mainly just provincial waste land and fishing rights etc?
nah
you are safe in Alaska
the Russians are not stupid or petty the way the US is
Yes, safe as anywhere, for now…
In the fullness of time it may come to pass, as the power of Zone AZE contracts, that Alaska may have referendum and become “neutral”… I note that when declining empires lose a major war they tend to accelerate their own collapse. A “neutral” Alaska may even request to reunite with Russia…though when that happens Hawaii and the West Coast of North America may be inviting Chinese and Russian forces in to bring order…again, in fullness of time. There has been chatter about Alaska for years now, and in the Cold War the US was worried that Alaskan people would not be loyal to the US…crafted “stay-behind” cadres…aka suicide gangs, of reliable white fellas. I believe philosopher Panarin once spoke to the matter of Alaska, and there was a map illustrating OBOR rail under Bering Strait and extending South through NA and the isthmus and thence South through all of SA…bigbiglongtermplan. Most existing NA rail runs E/W.
None of this plan involves violence. All of it involves constructive work toward reasonable prosperity.
@Saker
For the overall territory of Alaska it will remain safe but the US Aif Force strike bases with F22’s and F35’s
They’re turned into burning rubble.
The pipeline from the north shore and refinery in Valdez could be targeted.
Overland routes through Canada also.
There is also Elmendorf AFB near Fairbanks which is strategic.
There is also the Clear AFB. This will be the first target in event of war. I am sure that a Russian sub lurks in the area.
“Clear Air Force Station is one of the most strategically important installations in the United States. The location of the base places it in an invaluable position for defensive monitoring of the west coast and Untied States as a whole. The station is one of the first in a series of early detection installations that monitor for enemy ballistic missile and intercontinental nuclear ballistic missile (ICBM) launch. In addition to playing a vital defensive role, the base also plays a role in Untied States space operations, with cutting edge radar and satellite capabilities
Clear AFB will be priority one take out. It will need to be destroyed in the first strike.
https://militarybases.com/alaska/clear-station/
The “US” has been cannibalizing the American people too, by shipping our jobs overseas and shipping in massive numbers of immigrants to keep our wages down. And more recently with the crazy “woke” social justice agenda which is destroying our family structure — our birth rates will probably be lower than Russia’s by 2030.
Trump’s 2016-2020 term and the “red states” are a rebellion against the hegemonic regime, which is currently represented by all of the Democrat party and the neocon pro-war “old guard” of the Republican party — the term “Uniparty” has taken off in the last few years over here. It’s a very imperfect rebellion, but occurring nonetheless. We’re not even allowed to state our opinions about what happened in the 2020 election, when the hegemon regained power, without getting censored.
Then there’s the Canadian trucker protest. Trudeau and Freeland (who needs no introduction in these parts) made it obvious that they are just as dictatorial as anyone on the planet, by de-banking the truckers and any Canadian who donated to them. And the protest was very popular among common Americans, as the vaccine mandates have alarmed millions of us.
Any country that forces its people to take a medication which has completely unknown long-term side effects cannot be considered free in any sense of the word. Our courts blocked the worst — and even that was only thanks to Trump.
NATO doesn’t need to exist at all. I’m not sure why Trump didn’t completely withdraw us from it rather than complain about how few countries were contributing their 2%, but he is a Boomer after all and IMO rather naive about certain things.
Trump is a zionist. Republicans just like democrats are warmongers and just as guilty as their ruling elite.
That’s the #1 thing hobbling the American rebellion… Zionism on the part of the GOP base. You can’t properly rebel if you’re still venerating the enemy as part of your religion.
However, from the sense of things on the ground here, Evangelical Protestantism, which is almost always Zionist, had its heyday during the years of Dubya and is falling out of fashion — Mormonism too, although it peaked somewhat later, in the mid-2010s — and Eastern Orthodoxy and (to a lesser extent) dissident “sedevacantist” Catholicism are becoming much more popular. The most prominent dissident Right YouTube channels I follow are actually sympathetic to Russia, such as Salty Cracker (Catholic) or Steve Turley (Orthodox). Lotus Eaters (irreligious British) are still mildly stumping for Ukraine, but their commenters are making plenty of snide remarks at them about it.
@larchmonter,
this is like a certain fashionable disease. The public believes anything their media tells them. They don’t want to be liberated, because they think they are already free, and have moral high ground, and they ‘know’ they are right.
Yes; hubris meets nemesis, but don’t expect a citizen push-back in the west over this.
There is a sadness within a vast majority of citizens in the US. They can see they are losing to China, losing to Russia and the only weapon they have is The Lie from the Empire of Lies that they are Exceptional.
They also feel their government has turned on them. Their Bill of Rights is no more.
These are psychological signs of weakness. It permeates Society.
A good percentage, and it doesn’t take anywhere near a majority, is on the verge of taking local action. This is an awakening.
They will blame Biden and Blinken for losing Ukraine. Americans are programmed to blame others.
But this story can be told afterward with truth and evidence that NATO, directed by the US, was about to start a war that could and would go nuclear.
The Trials in Moscow and Donetsk have to live, streaming war crimes trials presented with all the live testimony and hard evidence like Nuremberg.
And a moveable replica of the Museum of Horrors the Nazis brought down on Donbass must travel around the globe to all major cities for people to face the facts.
This is not good enough to blog about it or build a website.
Let them touch and smell and feel the objects of genocide against women and children and the old.
Bring Donbass, blood-stained and all to the world.
Then, minds and hearts will change.
and they’ll be a hell of alot sadder when they gas up their cars and try to feed their families. It’s like the black streaks emanating from storm clouds: the rain has left the clouds, but hasn’t reached the ground. It is OVER!
I’m from a country under sanctions that suffers xenophobia in all Latin America. Everyone treat us like shit. Ask me if I care if people in the US have to pay a little bit more for their gas XD.
If war is inevitable uncle Vlad needs to nuke USA first.
The Clinton Administration was giving military secrets/info to China. Chinese delegations were invited over to visit defense plants and just handed over info. The U.S. also promoted China, gave them most favored nation status, still subsidizes their exports to the U.S., as well as handing them manufacturing technical info and licensing. So it was U.S. government’s own design to build up China at the expense of their own American workers. U.S. also promotes people from India to take U.S. IT jobs. This is due to some agenda and design by those who hold the reigns of power, perhaps to sink the U.S. down into a global government.
U$ gives alot of armaments to pisrael, which sells them to China.
L445, how credible would you say is Azarov’s contention that NATO was going to start a war?
And when Hubris meets Nemisis, the result is Predicament.
Predicament is a situation where the outcome is known, undesireable, and inevitable.
Our western, zionist owned media are lying to us 24/7 and more and more people are waking up to that fact because the Zionist owned media does actually have competition, it is just not commercial, only factual. When that “awake to the lies” portion starts rapidly increasing along the exponential curve, as it will, the outcome will be that the west becomes pretty much ungovernable. The endless lies around a certain mild cold like virus and the responses to it will have much responsiblity for driving that outcome. The lies about Russia and the intervention in Ukraine will be the petrol on that fire.
A data point of desperation: Peter Dutton, Australian Liberal partty politician and most likely candidate to shove the knife in Prime Minister Scott Morrisons back yesterday suggested on national television that the Russians were likely to use “chemical weapons”. No evidence, no logic, just a statement, unquestioned by the wet behind the ears journo from the govt propaganda agency, the ABC.
But, I could just be wishfully thinking.
I agree the wall to wall propaganda is starting to where thin. But the overwhelming majority of Australians are sheep and very easily manipulated. Australia and New Zealand are in desperate need of a new political alternative along the lines of a nonaligned and peaceful South Pacific able to trade freely with all nations and not locked into slavery to the MIC and other nasty corporate interests. The Morrison government has done nothing but paint a nuclear target on our nation and the Labor opposition party is equally foolish. The biggest hurdle is this insidious MSM and the strangle hold it has over alternate points of view. However there is a growing feeling of dissatisfaction we just need access to the correct alternatives, the south pacific is in the best position to lead by example. As it stands we are in a lifeboat unnecessarily hitched to a hegemonic sinking ship. The likes of Dutton are curse upon the earth dumb enough to believe false comments like that will make them more electable. Hopefully the end result in Ukraine will be to convince all the US vassals that nonalignment for peace is better option.
larchmonter445, your comments, grounded in long research & knowledge, are a godsend. you are an archangel in your calm clarity & insight. i follow you on smoothie’s site (a pupil i read, learn, pay great attention & never comment) as i do your comments here on the saker & cafe. i firmly believe as i have all my life that russia truly will safe the planet from the axis of evil & restore our world once more to peace & harmony. we have been preparing our entire lives to recognize good from false & to hold russia & her fight in our hearts. thank you.
Larch is a world treasure. His comments should be published one day.
From your keyboard onto Lord’s TFT screen. Amen.
Perhaps not so strongly encircled Ukie forces at all? 100,000 men forces are absolutely not much enough.
Counting soldiers and not including firepower makes no sense whatsoever.
100’000 are more than enough IF they are authorized to use their full military might.
Your fallacy is due to the fact that you don’t understand warfare.
Andrei
Andrei, while 100000 men and their equipment is more than enought, at this moment their hands are tied due to the requirement to minimize civilliam casualties as much as possible. And yet, despite the rather severe restrictions on what they can do, for less than 2 weeks they’ve managed to neutraize Ukrainian military as coherent fighting force (if they ever were, that is), leaving scattered units under encirclement. I wouldn’t want to be in Ukie’s shoes, when Vladimir Vladimrovitch decides that enough is enough and orders the velvet gloves off.
“as coherent fighting force (if they ever were, that is)”
George Kovachev,
Please, let’s not downplay the achievements of the Russia’s army. Intentionally or unintentionally.
The Ukrainian army has been organized and motivated.
Every day in the news we watch different kind of NATO standards technical devices in captured and destroyed Ukrainian military equipment.
And yesterday they even showed us the computer equipment for receiving intelligence information from NATO/US in the captured mobile command center in DPR.
Therefore, the Ukrainian army, although less organized now, but still is dangerous and motivated.
I don’t downplay them – I admire them. Despite the restrictions they have to work under, for less than two weeks russians achieved more than NATO would’ve achieved for months in the same circumstances. And not to mention the fact that, unlike the russians, NATO wouldn’t care at all about civilians; they would’ve bombed the cities to ruins.
As for the coherence of the ukrainians – I’m sure there were cracks developing between the regular ukrainian army and the Nazi batallions even before the russian intervention (if I’m not mistaken, it was ukrainian TBM that hit Azov at Mariupol). I wonder if the russians could work on that theme…
“Humanitarian corridors in Mariupol and Volnovakha are still being disrupted by the Nazis from Azov, despite all agreements.”
So what is it now? I would suspect that Russia has no interest in bombing fleeing civilians, but it seems to me that CGTN English has fully adopted the western narrative. Of course, the journalists are all anglo in the international News except for their African programming. They without a doubt in their reporting accuse Russia of doing the dirty.
Is China a 5th column for USA interests now? Is China ready to help the USA to carve up Russia with a friendly stab in the back, should it come to a direct confrontation? The revenge against the USSR?
Or is it that the journos are permitted to spout BS without editorial control?
No idea what you’re talking about regarding CGTN. There are certainly libs in the Chinese media (or merely lazy and/or incompetent people), but the overall stance of China, as well as the mood among Chinese people, has been pretty clear.
As for your questions about China overall, if they’re in good faith…No.
I agree with Peter M in general; I watch CGTN for many years now and wonder sometime about their reporters and their reporting: for example, why would CGTN use two women with seemingly Jewish names report from European or Middle Eastern regions. (is quoting Jewish names antisemitic by itself?) – these reporters are Michal Bardavid reporting from Istanbul and Stephanie Freid reporting from Russia and Ukraine. Mrs. Freid is not doing an objective job in reporting from Ukraine. Another example is just from last day or so, on the program “The Agenda”. The host, Stephen Cole gives platform to obscure professors from United Kingdom, one of them a retired professor Frank Furedi from Kent U., I forgot the name of the other one. Both were pushing the Western mantra about Russia/Ukraine. Mr. Furedi – is not expert on Russia or Ukraine, but a scholar of African affairs! (I looked him up in Wikipedia).
Otherwise, I like CGTN for their worldwide reporting and especially on Africa. No Western media can match that.
Furedi is a charlatan. He led the Revolutionary Communist Party which turned Right after 1991 into The Institute of Ideas/Spiked-online. They are controversialists, that’s all. Right wing ideas in pseudo-left rhetoric. One of their lot even elevated to the House of Lords for her help with Brexit – I remember her when she was calling to occupy our college canteen every day !
>if they’re in good faith
I find it odd that people on the blog can’t take genuine questions about China. China charts its own policy and has its own ideas.
Yes, and some of that “charting its own course” makes it an unreliable partner.
“…how far west are the Russians willing to go?”
In this special operation – to Uzhgorod, that is, to the border with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
Further variants of the plan for the denazification of Poland and Romania are possible. Well, how it goes – time will tell
I have said early and often…. This special operation…..
IS……
Operation Bagration II……!!
Which….
Went to Berlin…..!!
Read Putin’s lips…… “We will use military-technical means…. to restore the NATO frontier to that of 1997”
What does that mean…. EXACTLY……!
It means no NATO east of the Oder River… no NATO in the Balkans…. no NATO in Finland, Sweden……
How does Russia enforce that???
All one need do is look at a list of NATO imports…..
Oil…. Gas…. Titanium… rare earths…. noble gases…. Cobalt…. Nickel…. aluminum…..
Which cannot be made up for in ROW…. because…. they don’t exist….
New News…. Vestas… other Renewable Companies in NATO countries …. going bankrupt
BECAUSE….
Component pricing is 6-7 X a year ago….
EXCEPT….
China….
INDY
That’s my view as well. Yesterday, the RuAF shelled the Vinnitsa airfield and destroyed it. A few days back, Russian ‘Hinds’ were taking out enemy positions in Brody, which lies just 103 km from Lvov.
These actions give signs for an impending attack towards the western direction. Once the Russians are done with the Nazis in Mariupol, the cauldron of Donbass, they will probably start the drive westwards. A the major cities are surrounded and pose a minimum threat in the rear.
Russia has to capture the entire Ukraine to avoid the possibility of the NATO occupying any area left untouched by the RuAF and recognizing it as the legitimate Ukrainian state.
Dear Andrei,
Thanks very much for your summary – it sounds pretty accurate to me.
I’m sure you know much better than I that Russia also has some economic weapons available. The US economic structure is in an unsustainable position. Russia, especially working together with China in the background, may have a good shot at taking down the US Dollar, at which point it’s game over.
“I’m sure you know much better than I that Russia also has some economic weapons available. ”
Indeed, many, one would think.
OIl, gas, grain, minerals sanctions to the USA and any supporting entities etc.
Already the screws are on the Iran-USA negotiations and US delegations have suddenly forgotten “Random Guaidó” and are trotting down to Venezuela to talk oil etc.
Nothing like $5/gal to make the mid-terms a Republican route.
All Trump has to do is sit back and let them shoot themselves in both feet — and avoid his strategic silence being another “Putin Stooge” BS game plan.
fFed can print money but no one knows yet to print oil gas and grians!!1
Marian, you are right about iFed “print money” not being the same as real goods. iFed expect that money to be eventually repaid in real goods, because every printed U$ Dollar is a Loan from Global Bankers who Own the Fed. Uncle $cam has to repay his standing debt to the Fed for permission to use their printed U$Dollars by taxing or stealing from his citizens up to the seventh generation. The seventh generation has arrived, and these days Uncle’s debt security rating is far from AAA. Going to War on my Credit Card is no longer the easy option for Uncle $cam.
“Nothing like $5/gal to make the mid-terms a Republican route.”
Actually, in US it already hit $4/gal. I guess $5/gal is not far.
We are with Russia.
C mon, start trimming down the Ukies in the Donbass line by the outer edges.
As to communication is it still safe to spill scattering down a million leaflets in the surrounded cities with aim at clarifying their options for the civilian population. Either that or cell messages.
Didn’t quite get whether you mean Zhitomir and Vinnitsa would be in Russia or out. I have been looking at the map and wondering the same thing. and also how to make a corridor to also take Zakarpatiya
Thank you, Andrei, for this sober and sobering analysis.
For the first time, I have arrived at a similar conclusion.
I don’t see any other outcome.
Russia is acting in a totally sane and humane manner.
The Empire of Lies couldn’t behave any other way than psychopathic.
There was a twisted cartoon for adults years ago.called Ren and Stimpy.
In the episode titled “Space Madness”, Stimpy was admonished by Ren to, no matter what, Do Not Push The Red Button, as it would result in the entire Universe being sucked into a giant Black Hole.
Guess what happened……
It seems to me that The Lies of The Empire create their own momentum.
Many of us can see that The Empire can not resist escalating every single minute of every single day…..
Polish MIG 29’s?!?
Increasingly obvious evidence of full NATO involvement(ex.targeting RF assets)?!?
A No Fly Zone?!?!!
Big Red Shiny Buttons, all
So, I’m focusing on being kind and struggling to be ‘present’, to be in state of Grace as much as I can.
What else can I do but get ready to shuffle off this mortal coil.
I pray that God’s will be done.
If it’s a negotiatied surrender, blessed be.
If it’s nukes over Denver, I’ll try to be ready
May you and all whom you care for know every blessing and may sorrow never darken your door.
In Gratitude,
L
I too agree, thank you Andrei for bring it all together and spelling it out, i will attempt to get others to read this one in particular as, as you say it’s depressing but an honest assessment of where this is headed and how the constant warnings from VVP are ignored or indeed most likely laughed at by the utterly corrupt and delusional so called ‘leaders’ of the west.
Yes Lauren, being extra kind, understanding and patient with people in everyday life seems extra important right about now. Perhaps we can get a few more to understand the grave ramifications of where this appears to be heading and we can all make a difference before it’s too late.
Some how i doubt it though as the blind stupidity of the masses jumping on and trumpeting the call for a ‘no fly zone’ is utterly bewildering to me, (I thought that i’d reached the point of not being able to be stunned by the stupidity of these people any more….. Apparently not) these people are either too stupid to understand what a 5 year old should be able to work out, or are deliberately deluding themselves…..
Lets hope more sane and rational voices are able to make themselves heard, above the mass hysteria.
Hi Saker
What do you think the chances this will end in full nuclear war with US / NATO? 1-10 10, being certain.
Right now, 50/50 at best
Andrei
Andrei, are you serious?! 50/50? Billionaires don’t want to die, surely? That goes for ALL billionaires!
If they are a billionaire, then they got there by bending the knee to a higher power, and one that is quite satanic in nature.
They are powerless in the grand scheme of things; evil is not run by committee.
My two cents.
I think it’s a miscalculation that we have to fear the most.
Many pundits say things like ‘The US wants a war with Russia’, if the last 11 days have shown us anything, the US quite clearly does not want a war with Russia, they want a quagmire between the Ukraine and Russia (which it does not look like they will get).
Putin has wrecked the USA’s credibility as a reliable ally (whatever there was), anyone counting on US support in the face of a legitimate adversary will be disappointed.
The problem, is that their are so many fools in western governments and as much as I agree that they value their collective wealth and power, all it will take is one miscalculation that is misread by the other side, and we could be in a full scale exchange.
The chance of ‘miscalculation’ would raise the nuclear odds to 9 out of 10.
Thanks for that cheerful assessment! I’d suggest fellow Aussies re-watch “On The Beach” to see what’s in store for us, however with the mutual defence agreement between China and Russia, along with significant US presence here (Darwin, and the notorious Pine Gap Facility), a chunk of the fallout may be somewhat “homegrown”.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/
Well, we all know who our politicians answer to, so this was hardly a surprise. Increasing the risk of Australia being a nuclear target is “just part of the job”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-30/cph-us-plans-upgrades-to-runways-in-australia/100661190
I’m in Perth & hope no USA Nuclear Subs are in Garden Island Sub Base ( Perth ) when/If thing go Nuclear. I hope Russia inmmediately removes Pine Gap which is a covert USA listening post. Apart from Pine Gap & Darwin ( base for USA ) Australia is just a midget player ( Barking puppy ).
Andrei, I think you need to get some rest. Trust in the Russian leadership not to do anything that would trigger a nuclear war. Also, I don’t think that the puppet masters pulling Biden’s strings would either. I suppose it requires a leap of faith to believe that, but not a very big one IMO.
I hope the cover picture isn’t a portent of things to come.
As an aside (and a demonstration of the total Western disconnect between reality, and “MSM Reality”), a colleague was mentioning yesterday that the Western embargoes will lead to severe food shortages in Russia, since “Russia imports a lot of wheat from Australia” . . . .
His view was exactly that parroted by the Western MSM – Russia’s “only” export (and thus only revenue stream) is petrochemical export – and only partially refined at that, so a continuation of the “Gas Station masquerading as a Country” meme.
Most “down under” neither know, or want to know, the reality. Most are happy to be told what to think, whilst obtaining all the “important news” via State-approved channels. The vast majority have no idea of Russia’s capabilities and resolve, however I suspect they will become far more informed in due course.
” Russia’s “only” export (and thus only revenue stream) ”
Is sheer ignorance.
Who needs a revenue stream when you can create the ruble out of thin air. Russia can create as many rubles out of thin air than it needs.
The only constraint Russia has on Ruble creation from thin air are
a) Real Resources
b) People ( their skills)
They have plenty of both.
Should weapons or mercenaries arrive from/through any neighbouring country’s border then a strike should happen at source. Eliminate a dozen cross border military bases to make a point. If it’s necessary to move past Kiev and keep moving west then so be it. Roll on if need be through Poland, through Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Czech, Austria and into Germany itself, but don’t stop there cleanse Holland, Belgium and France. Free us all!
Just blockade the UK, nothing gets in, nothing leaves and leave our bought and paid for politicians to us.
God Speed with the demise of the remaining 25% of neo-Liberals, err, Nazis.
We have already liberated Europe from national fascism, and what have we got? Now we are reaping the fruits of our humanity and kindness, Christian милосердия.
You yourself do not regret “getting free”? – and then all Russian blood, well done!
That’s a tad harsh Andrey. You don’t know me and yet you make judgements. Don’t be an arrogant ass like the western governments. Yes, from experience, escaping the bombs, I lost my father and many family members through a 5 Eye inspired war. Still hurts! If you yourself are on the front line I’ll except your criticisms.
Sweden, Finland and Norway (10 bases) in particular.
Don’t tell everybody, but it seems to be possible to get access to RT youtube videos via a VPN exiting in India.
Are the warplanes supposed to start from Poland since all airfield in UA probably unusable? If so, this would make Poland a war party. This could easily and rapidly going downhill from there.
Language is critical in propaganda. The poison running through the Anglo/Saxon/UK/EU/USA/Canada/Australia/NZ “western democracies is ultimately designed to incite tribes of white people to genocide other tribes of white people. That poison is the Khazarian Mafia and their ZOG governments. The peoples of the ZOG states are fed a constant stream of propaganda that recently convinced them to commit mass suicide by bio-serum the deadly effects of which can kill suddenly or slowly. Within days of this Ukraine incursion, the same people are fed a new narrative and have forgotten the covid depopulation scam, and are now condemning Russia. The constant running through it all is the WEF a front for the KM.
A cynic might suggest that c19 was the warmup to establish a mass formation psychosis environment (except in Sweden and few other outliers) and now that pre-conditioning has made this shift very easy.
I have good freinds, including senior level academics, who just slipped straight into it as if the 2014 coup did not exist. Very disappointing. As India’s Ashis Nandy said in mid-2019 (pre-c19) — “best left alone”.
“Express Adda with Ashis Nandy (Author and Political Thinker)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4R3gXKZgA [28:00 to 35:00]
He mentioned that hysteria (in India) had long gone in Europe. Six months later this was no longer true. And now definitely way above the Indian levels.
Totally agree
Russia, stop delivering the crude to the US and disclose at least some critical facts from a huge cache of information on the US misdeeds. The senile American idiots are happy to see humanity destroyed. Expose them mercilessly.
https://turcopolier.com/ukraines-army-is-using-a-nimble-game-changing-drone-called-the-punisher-that-has-completed-scores-of-successful-missions-against-the-russians-say-reports-ttg/#comments
The US Govermoment has a track record of creating fake casus beli to justify entering wars in the past. The Maine, Lucitania, and Pearl Harbor all come to mind.
Is this war going to be an exception to the rule?
We are the Victorious-People, unlike the USNA marauders.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Saker, thanks for these updates. I’ve been sharing them, and linking back here. That said, we need to be careful about being overly militaristic. Ukrainians are victims of this tragedy, and Russia’s war is not against them.
What I said yesterday:
Here’s the cold, hard truth. We don’t care about Ukraine. That country doesn’t even cross our minds except when it involves Russia somehow. If you go on Google with an American IP address, “Russia news today” and “Ukraine news today” will get you exactly the same top news stories, which is really pathetic when you think about it.
We don’t care about Ukraine, but Russians do. They love Ukraine, and this is a very easy feeling to pick up. It’s just the simple fact that Americans don’t talk about Ukraine at all, but Russians talk about her constantly. Ukraine’s people, politics, culture, history, and celebrity gossip are all a big deal in Russia.
If a Ukrainian actor gets arrested for drunk driving or cheats on his wife, do you think American news outlets would report it? Of course not. But Russian news outlets would. They would all know who he is and gossip to each other about it for days or weeks. Maybe an embarrassing photo from his mishap would also hit the internet, like his wife throwing all of his things outside. It would become a meme that Russians, and Ukrainians, would poke fun at and instantly recognize, even years later.
That’s because Ukrainians and Russians watch and star in the same movies. Movies that we don’t even know exist, and wouldn’t care enough to watch even if we did know about them. They’re the same people. This idea of Ukrainians and Russians being totally separate and antagonistic ethnic groups is not their idea and never was. It’s an American idea, and we have spent a huge amount of time and money convincing them of it. It’s just as absurd as telling people in Nevada they’re a completely different race than people in California. It’s an absurd, vile, and malicious thing to do, and it was entirely deliberate on our part.
If Americans created the idea of Ukrainian nationalism, how are we totally unaware of our role in it? That’s because we are completely and irredeemably divorced from reality. Just look at what our news cycle has been like for the past weeks, months, and years. We are obsessed with the idea of an overwhelming, powerful enemy that, at the same time, is very easy to defeat. Our adversary must be simultaneously weak and strong, and we must have evidence of that, even if we have to invent it ourselves. Every major news development from this war, every single one, was fake. The 13 Spartans of Serpent Island, the sunflower seeds babushka, the evil Russian tankers running over people for no reason, evil Russian missiles blowing up nuclear plants for no reason, all fake, and really stupid to believe in the first place.
https://readingjunkie.com/2022/03/05/fake-news-killed-the-ukrainians-and-it-is-our-fault/
Again, thanks for the info, but let’s not stoop to the West’s tactics of dehumanization.
You raise a good point here. I know from my Ukrainian friends just how strongly they admire and look to Russian arts, culture, literature, celebrity gossip…some are a little ‘wary’ about the politics of the Kremlin but i put that down to the CIA-created TV propaganda
To think that the US∕NATO are willing to risk this when by agreeing to Russia’s reasonable requests/demands could have led to keeping Ukraine out of NATO but at least as an intact country. However, the neo Nazi Army influence and its support by the USA would have intensified. The present conflict was probably necessary to ensure at least neutrality of whatever remains of Ukraine. Surely now, at least some of the other members of NATO can detect its powerlessness/unwillingness to help them, and especially the USA’s lack of solidarity with the EU, whatever that means now we see Scholtz and von der Leyen ensuring the EU disintegrates under sanctions they enforce.
“how far west are the Russians willing to go?”
Well, if they’re serious about denazification – it has to be all the way to the Polish border.
True, but this is the one of the tasks of this of the special operation in the Ukrainian Theater of War .
And it can be replaced by another strategic operational plan, that is, it can develop further.
Therefore, we save strength / resources, while we dispose of one unnecessary junk of the domestic military industry, according to the USA and EuroNATO algorithm))).
There are a lot of Nazis right here in the U.S.A……….who is going to get rid of them?
‘First, we take Berlin, then we take Manhattan.’
Cheers
What are Blinken & Co. (Hitlers and nazis all) thinking in their plush offices as they ponder the billions of people, including themselves, that they may have to kill in order to extend the life of a dying Empire for just a bit longer?
Albert Speer — Hitler’s architect — lived to write about his last meeting with Hitler, deep down in the Führerbunker, shortly before Hitler’s supposed suicide. The conversation between the two was re-enacted in a short scene in the 2004 movie “Downfall”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsn6B3OHOr8
Speer: But please spare the people, my Fuhrer.
Hitler: If my people cannot endure this ordeal, I won’t shed a tear. They get what they deserve. They called this fate upon themselves.
I think that pretty much expresses what must be going through the “minds” of Blinken & Co. and their slave Zelensky and his neo-Nazi murderers, don’t you? After all, they know the truth of what’s going on and what’s in store for them in the future, right? By continuing the humanitarion disaster and risking nuclear war rather than agreeing to a very reasonable peace treaty — one that would ensure everyone’s security — what else could they possibly be thinking?
Seems smacking the west in the mouth (covert is better) would free up the Ukrainians to make up their own minds , saving many lives.
Official Russian Embassy statement:
Russian Embassy, UK@RussianEmbassyRussia government organization
#Lavrov: While categorically refusing to establish a verification mechanism in keeping with Biological Weapons Convention, #US built military biol. facilities along 🇷🇺border. Now 🇺🇸 is worried about losing control of those in 🇺🇦, incl 2 labs in #Kiev & #Odessa creating pathogens.
https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/1500557487665299461
Sunday 6 March 2022:
18:40 Employees of Ukraine’s defense industry enterprises are being forced to repair damaged Ukrainian military equipment, Russia will launch strikes against such facilities, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.
18:31 Russian Air Force fighter aircraft and air defence forces have shot down three more Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jets and three unmanned aerial vehicles in the air. In total, Ukraine’s air force lost 11 combat aircraft and two helicopters in yesterday and incomplete today. Virtually all of the Kiev regime’s combat-ready aircraft have been destroyed, the Russian Defence Ministry has said.
FWIW – I do not believe that the Ukies even had 4 airworthy Su-27s.
This might be fake news, pro Russia in its intention, probably
but I think it is fake
Andrei
That’s a lot of thinking Frankie, careful, you’ll tire yourself out. 5000 pieces of fake news a day being spewed by 5 Eyes + Israel and you have to pick out one definitely maybe Russian fake news. Brilliant Sherlock!
4 Su-27 and one Mig-29 shot down. Statement of official Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LrQ_aDiVk&t=62s
FWIW, what Putin said yesterday regards future Ukrainian statehood gives even more credence to the view that his real intention all along has been to create a new federated state of Novorossija on the Left Bank of Dnieper and Chernomorye. Long term this looks like the best solution for the strategic security of Russia. This would be also the full repayment for the dismemberment of Serbia (Kosovo, Montenegro).
I wish that I could help Putin destroy these assholes. If and when the time comes, I will answer the call.
There’s reports that many volunteers in Moscow/St Petersburg go to the official army headquarters to volunteer and they are being turned away and told to go home and that “help is not needed.” This proves that Russia has more than enough man power to handle this situation, and flies in the face of theories that “Russian army is depleted and desperate for more manpower” etc.
Sunday 6 March 2022:
19:50 RIA Novosti: People’s militia of the DPR reported that 104 Ukrainian soldiers laid down their arms and went over to the side of the republic, 11 of them receive medical care
19:40 RIA Novosti: A resident of Kostroma was fined 30 thousand rubles for a single picket with a poster, the inscription on which was recognized by the court as discrediting the Russian military, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kostroma region
I think the main loci of Russia’s war with NATO will soon shift to the diplomatic and economic fronts. Russia will probably go on a peace offensive and re-present the security guarantees treaty proposed in December, now that the world is listening. On the economic front, I read that the US has sent a delegation to Venezuela and there is also talk of the US coming to terms with Iran. Obviously, the US is desperate to cut the price of oil/gas by increasing supply and using Venezuelan heavy crude to replace the Russian heavy crude it has been buying to replace Venezuela’s sanctioned oil. But Russia and China have been very busy on the diplomatic front the past months and years and probably will work closely with Iran and Venezuela in this matter to foil US plans. They can drive hard bargains, insist on giving priority to customers who worked with them when they were under sanctions “from hell”, and agree to terms with the US to lift sanctions but slow-walk supplies (US needn’t be the only one who fails to abide by its agreements). Meanwhile Russia can reduce or cut the flow of oil and gas to the West, so that by the end of summer Western economies are locked in a deep recession and gas reservoirs are only half full with winter the offing.
@Midge,
Totally agree: “Meanwhile Russia can reduce or cut the flow of oil and gas to the West, so that by the end of summer Western economies are locked in a deep recession and gas reservoirs are only half full with winter the offing.”
Very curious to see what goes down between US and Venezuela, in particular what price Venezuela will demand. Or will the US go full on to overthrow the Maduro government and grab the oil? I see huge trouble brewing there. Could go either way. Russia is committed to Venezuela’s defence, but is too far away to help if the balloon goes up. On the other hand, if the US wants to reset relations so that they have access to the oil, what sweet revenge that would be for Venezuela. They could start by asking for their gold back, and their assets in the US, and Guaido delivered in fetters. Imagine the shrieks from the US hawks if that happens.
If there is a possibility for Russia to stay out of range of air defenses and patrol and scout Ukrainian skies they should increase this 100 fold. They should revisit every military airfield and also destroy the runways of most civil airfields to prevent drones taking of there. Also find any remaining radar/air defenses and hunt down operators of MANPAD’s. I believe it would extremely smart of Russia to map Mariupol and Odessa and Kiev in fine detail from air and find every military presence and do some pinpoint strikes on them. Even with some helicopters just gunning down soldiers. Because going in on the ground without a proper air campaign will be bloody. And i am worried about the long military column shown in some satellite images close to Kiev the should spread out from the road and make it more defensive and activate their air defenses you never know if some idiots think it is a good opportunity to start ww3 this way.
Saker,
Again thanks for the spot-on analysis.
I’ve stated my viewpoint previously regarding how far Russia should go in Ukraine. My hope is that:
1) Russia eliminates forever the potential for a NATO naval base on the Black Sea by taking over the entire coastline. Whether it needs to administrate control over it post war is unclear. Much will be come known once Russia unseats the USA puppet Zelinsky and puts in someone who is more friendly to its interests.
2) Russia eliminates all Ukrainian forces involved in hostility up to the Polish border. They simply have no choice but to do this to prevent weapons from NATO from reaching so called “resistance” forces that could undermine the new government or sponsor another coup.
3) Russia encourages all Ukranians who feel that living under a different government more deposed to neutrality than becoming a NATO puppet state to leave.
4) Russia should supply the Ukranian military and its new government with the means to fight against terrorists resistant forces and protect its borders from NATO weapon shipments.
5) Russia should consider establishing two military bases. The first base I would think should go on the Black Sea near Odessa. The second base should be in western Ukraine, somewhere like Drohobych or Sambir. This second base would be tasked with supporting Ukraine’s military with data necessary to eradicate or eliminate NATO weapon shipments. The base would be strategic enough to command the most sophisticated air defense systems Russia can muster. I do not believe it necessary to station offensive weapons there though, but it should contain an airfield and jets for the Ukraine air force.
I truly hope that the cities of Ukraine can be taken with a minimal loss of civilian life. I also hope that the Ukraine military will surrender quickly and that foreign and Nazi forces within the Ukraine are dispatched. We will see how this all turns out, but ultimately I believe like you, that the country is now effectively under Russian control.
Or maybe simply creating friendly/neutral Novorussia (Donbass + Black Sea shore + central part of current Ukraine + Kiev). The remaining part (west non-orthodox part of current Ukraine) can still call itself Ukraine and keep all (if any) remaining Nazis.
each oblast could be recognized as their own republic, with russian military providing anti air defense in exchange for land for a russian military base.
Transcript of the meeting with stewardesses and other crew from Aeroflot – read http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67913
Can’t get this anywhere in the west. Not even with TOR.
Total block.
#metoo it feels like rape. the west with all her democracy and free press and moral values. No the west is a secular left wing deathcult.
It was the same for me for many days until Friday, but it seems nowadays – sometimes – to be better. I am sitting in the Central Europe (Prague). DoD is only one reason. The other one is the active mesures of international as of home “censorship” (warship).
The problem with the Empire is their ownership of money worldwide + their fascist demand of submission to their will, no matter resistance they never give up… because there’s money in it.
Since their beginning they’ve never had to fight at home, foreign destruction who cares – never suffering the dreadful loss & destruction personally, their banking just makes money from loans to & rebuilding of foreign lands. War is a huge money maker in so many ways, eh Rockefeller&Rothschild et al, Germany & Israel’s mates.
I fear that lacking an open mind to see other peoples as human , the Empire will not concede till the WhiteHouse, the Pentagon & Congress + New York & London are rubble.
I had hoped that Russia’s alliance with China & Eurasia would separate the world, weakening the Empire into submission & cooperation, but pretty sure that China still wants yankee money – if so let the Chinese be world peace makers, or lose… Or, wait for nature to delete humanity
In the mean time Russian ethnic’s are suffering terrible losses to fascism. I’m so sorry
What about the ‘War for Independence’ against the British? And that bloody awful Civil War, between the Northern and the Southern states that lasted about 5 years, immediately come to mind.
Ukraine is deep state headquarters. It’s a safe space for them right on the border of prize #1. It’s no accident that Biden is up to his eyes in Ukraine shenanigans.
According RT: The EU will not be able to find a complete replacement for gas from Russia, says the head of the French energy company Engie.
“The resources we currently have are limited. They are not enough to replace all the gas that we now receive from Russia,” Catherine MacGregor said in an interview with Les Echos.
About 40% of the gas used in the EU is Russian, she noted. And in some countries the dependence is 100%.
Suprise, suprise, a NATO-labbeled laptop was found at the headquarters of the Right Sector (in Donbass, I suppose):
https://sputniknews.com/20220306/nato-labelled-laptop-with-intelligence-found-at-ukrainian-nationalists-hq-dpr-head-says–1093639199.html
I wonder if RF could take a page out of Genghis Kahn’s book:
Give the UKR forces in Donbass area 24 hours to overthrow their Nazi controllers and frogmarch them to a designated area for processing. If not, they will be subject to MASSIVE bombardment which will kill all military combatants in their zone. RF picks a zone with highest known concentration of military-only personnel. It can be a single brigade or whatnot to serve as an example. Either it works and mass casualties are avoided or it doesn’t work and mass casualties ensue in that particular zone as promised serving as an example ‘pour encourager les autres.’
“If the leadership of Ukraine continues to do what they are doing, it will call into question the future of Ukrainian statehood, and that will be entirely their responsibility.” I think this statement means something different than what Saker implied.
Russia wants Ukraine to agree to 3 specific demands by Monday. 1) Acknowledge that Crimea is Russian 2) acknowledge the independence of LPR and DPR with their full borders 3) agree they won’t join NATO. These demands are simple and have no room for negotiations, while demilitarization and denazification (expel? extradite? ban?) can be worked out later.
Telegram implies that Ukraine will lose the south coast if Ukraine can’t agree to those 3 demands. Ukraine will not be allowed to agree, so partition could be imminent.
This article covered the potential outcomes and has a very interesting map – https://www.kp.ru/daily/27371.3/4552402/
I don’t think the West ever wanted to win the war militarily.
The obvious strategy is to bog Russia down, drain it, and pile on the propaganda to effect a color revolution back in Moscow.
This is still a very worrying prospect.
I think Russia will have to bomb at least one western city before the west will back off. Make it London or DC.
Boobies Johnson deserves some attention.
At the tactical level the low cloud cover over the past few days does not help much the Russian air force. It forces the SU-25 used to cut off Ukrainian supply lines and destroy equipment close to the front line to fly lower than they would normally do and get hit by Ukrainian MAPADS.
The helicopters are in even greater predicament as they can not fly at altitudes that SU 25 can, and still be operational useful. A few of them have been shot down by Ukrainian while flying relatively low ( 50 meters or so)
I think Russia ought to be using a lot more drones all over the place… Orion & Altius to do the job SU- 25 and that of helicopters, Yak- Pchela as decoys ( already being used apparently) and tactical( Orlan, drones to guide Krasnopol artillery fire.
I think one aspect that this war would reveal in the end is that in this day and age, close support aircraft and attack helicopters are can only be successfully employed against rag-tag 3rd world armies, not much against near peers let alone against a superior air force.
Time will tell , however Russian air force can not afford to lose 1-2 SU -25 and the same amount of helicopters for more than 30 days.
Either they take drastic action and win that war in the next 2-3 weeks or they will have to use other means to deal with the real threat of MANPADS which the Ukrainian are likely to be able to smuggle in ever greater numbers in the near future.
a) They have to achieve their goals first. Get rid of all Nazis and weapons.
b) Decide were the new border will be.
Before they sign any peace deal.
Since 2014 it has been shown any agreement is not worth the paper it is written on. The Ukrainians will renage on the peace deal. If the Ukranian army had surrendered and turned on The Nazis in the first few days of The operation. That would be different but they didn’t they kept fighting side by side with The Nazis.
The West will keep on funding and supplying arms to Western Ukraine. We will all be here again in a few years time. If they don’t achieve their objectives before any deal is made.
The perfect solution would be a new Ukraine built on the model of Belarus. Creating a buffer between Russia and NATO.
That will never happen if a peace deal is signed this week. If the objectives are not met. Signing any peace deal this week for the reasons listed above would be a mistake in my opinion.
NATO have shown their true face over the last 10 days and should be treated as such. Putin needs to carry on and then be able to create a peace deal on his own terms in a week or two.
Humanitarian corridors out of Mariupol are being blocked by continued artillery attack by the Russians, despite the temporary ceasefire.
The latter is what the MSM is selling in the US.
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This is America,
the people are never allowed to know what is going on.
Unless, of course, they search out periscopes like this website.
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What does the CIA, MI6, etal, have up their sleeve?
Russia was blamed for a near disaster at a nuclear plant.
There are many hazards to go, including biolabs and their contents.
Once Russia touches the biolabs they own them and any problems
with their contents no matter how many thousands of miles away that
they turn up.
There are signals that Zelensky will be thrown by his Handlers to the waiting wolves. See article in RT titled, “US hints what happens if Zelensky is killed. His absence will make way for a New hand picked Ukraine Leader in Exile. Remember, Victoria Nuland selected ‘Yats’.
Why is it that everyone keeps putting all sides of this war on national bases when, for at least a century, the whole of what is called “the west” is totally owned, operated and controlled by the Rothschild cabal out of its City of London? This includes especially the U.S. government which has been the cabal kneecapper ever since they used up the British empire as the parasites they are. The country is obviously run by a bunch of satanic/talmudic cabal members who hold the burned out idiot ,Biden, as a cardboard front.
The answer of course is that people see the surface, the occult is …. and in fact history can only be understood in relation to the hidden. The superficial explanations make no sense , but are blithely accepted as the truth by those with neither the capability or interest to look . Its easier that way if they dont have to think . Especially those that have a lot invested in the status quo.
I do not know if this has been shared before, but this is a most amazing map of the Ukraine conflict:
https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/The-War-in-Ukraine/091194
I have been watching this map ‘evolve’ over the conflict, and it seems to match Saker’s maps fairly well. The difference is that it presumes to show lines of conflict right down to the town/village level. (I have no idea as to their ultimate accuracy, of course.)
The author(s) update this map fairly frequently, with dates of comments displayed. The comments seem to appear first in Russian, with an English translation added below it later. Lately, these comments include both the Russian and Ukrainian ‘claims’ about an area.
(To actually use this map, I have found it most useful to back-out to the overall view, center the map over an area in which I am interested, then move-in to read the comments and scope-out the offensive/defensive lines in that area.)
The comments are in Finnish and English. No Russian used.
..when the Ukros wake up to the fact that they are being used as cattle, and left to the predilections of the nazi militias, then and only then, will they turn and fight their real oppressors…
one wonders if there are signs that villages near the contact line-both sides- are being removed sufficiently so that FOAB ‘s can be used on the deeply embedded ukrops affecting the DNRLNR advance.. ?
Where possible, the Air Force uses “chug” (OFAB) there. And in populated areas with a civilian population – only high-precision, up to loitering ammunition.
Не “чуг”, а “чугуний”, что на военном сленге “свободнопадающие бомбы”, чуг.
Google translation,MOD:
Not “chug”, but “cast iron”, which in military slang is “free-falling bombs”, chug.
Fact of the matter is US/Nato is in no position to confront Russia, in Europe or anywhere else. Hence the economic response to a military action. Yes, sure some may argue that direct military clashes between Nato and Russia could lead to nuclear war; likely, but who wants nuclear bombs exploding in their storage bunkers in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland and perhaps Turkey as a prelude, dirty bombs popping all over the place. Russia doesn’t even have to employ tactical nuclear weapons to destroy these American bombs. Euro Nato knows this.
Nato has been geared up for fighting counter-insurgency (COIN) operations for the past 20 years in Afghanistan; peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa. They are only now shifting gears to fight a conventional war in Europe whereas the RF armed forces have always maintained and improved their conventional war capability ever since Georgia in 2008. Any decent analyst can tell you that fighting COIN is very different from fighting the type of war that is now unfolding in the Ukraine, involving large concentrations of tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery supported by overwhelming air power and sea power. It involves change of mindset, retraining — do all Nato soldiers or officers speak English? — and large scale exercises to gain a level of proficiency; not to mention equipment — tanks, artillery, rockets in large numbers. The US possesses these things but they’re ‘over there’, not in Europe, certainly not in sufficient numbers.
All this talk about supplying planes and heavy weapons to the Ukraine is balderdash, nonsense. Euro Nato is in actuality sh***ing its pants despite the jingoistic language used by various civilian officials in Nato. Thinking about the relative ease with which RF invested Kiev must keep people in Warsaw and the Baltics awake at night.
The Portuguese head of the UN is out of his depth and about as useless as Stoltenberg.
How far West are the Russians willing to go?
I’d say they’d go West all the way around the globe to Vladivostok, if need be.
Russia had to have contingency to fight NATO and the US anywhere should that occur.
So, into East Europe, into West Europe, in North America, across the Pacific until the war was won, thus, into any place they were confronted. Of course, they would send missiles not men.
They had bulked up in the East Med and inside Syria. They secured Kazakhstan and Central Asia. They have warned-off Japan. The globe is secured in the Northern Hemisphere. And in the Southern Hemisphere, they are in Cuba, Venezuela and have taken diplomatic relations with Argentina and Brazil to new heights.
Russia is a global Super Power and there are few limits. Its missiles can reach anywhere and there are no defenses for them.
So, what Generals will opt for getting himself, his family, his armed forces and his country turned to ashes?
Russia has escalation dominance and the US understands that. Everything else is B.S. and should be ignored in critical analysis of the situation.
The US and NATO made a serious error based on their arrogance. They thought they could roll an attack against Donbass into a spillover war in Crimea and into the southern district of Russia.
This strategy the US and NATO tried is called ‘poking the bear with a twig’. The bear has just bitch-slapped the twig holder. The twig holder won’t survive the bear slap. And those that devised the strategy won’t be intact either. They have to bury the twig holder, care for its surviving relatives, and deal with the costs that will cripple their economies for years to come.
“The US and NATO made a serious error”
– No, the US and NATO made a fatal mistake! Now they can’t be saved.
And the countries of the Eurozone still have a chance. Illusory, but a chance.)))
I noted that when VVP issued the several manifestos immediately proximate to open combat that the denazification goal was not limited by geography. This alerted me instantly.
This has rather awkward implications. The implication, taking things altogether, is that the cryptonazi junta running Zone AZE is on the “to-do” list.
Last time, the Red Army was stopped by the “allied landings” in France, and had to stop at Berlin…this time, I suspect, there will not be any half-measures or doubt about who the nazis are and where their bases are.
BTW, the fine gentleman who crafted the nazi treaty, er, sorry, nato treaty, was Dean Acheson – here’s the soviet understanding of that good man>
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Flh4.ggpht.com%2F_F94UifNStk8%2FTDEKHGNy-VI%2FAAAAAAAAEHU%2F78vx4ArJEj8%2Fs800%2F5.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
We may expect the tactics of the Ukienazis to be repeated everywhere the nazis get caged or kettled…yeah, it’s global.
Saker said 50/50 nuke. At best. I would not argue. Only add that these nazi “people” who’s god is money, worship death. And everybody knows what Opie said at Trinity. “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Every indication is they worship death for others. They all want to be immortal, not like the born agains who long for the Rapture.
I believe they reject God and Nature in order to achieve immortality. David Rockefeller had six heart transplants and lived to over 100.
The entire transhumanist cult is about living not dying. Living forever.
They dish out death to everyone else. They worship Satan. But they want to live.
That’s also why they want to own everything, on Earth, the Moon, Mars, everywhere. They see themselves as Feudal Lords here and demigods in Space.
They will never choose nuclear war. Other psychopaths will. But that’s a different story.
“The US and NATO made a serious error based on their arrogance.”
On the contrary, they got the war they wanted to distract the sheep from the collapse of the Covid story, and get to blame Russia for the free-falling economy.
The fact that Putin (perhaps) outmaneuvered them in Ukraine, is simply another crisis for them to exploit. You can bet the powers behind the Western thrones will walk away from this with even more wealth, and even more power, and a new-old ready-made boogeyman.
The global arrangement of Pax American with all the international institutions is dead.
China and Russia are building a multipolar world.
Rules based hegemony is dead.
Four great civilizations and nearly all the Global South are agreed. Russia, China, India and Iran plus all non-Western countries except a few are vast majority of humanity.
What was is over. They know it and are scrambling to control the aftermath. It won’t happen.
If the rather well organized military operation (lets not mince words here) in Ukraine is any indication, I’d say the russians do indeed have contingency plans to deal with NATO.
To quote the late and not very lamented Tom Clancy – The russians don’t go even to the bathroom without a plan ;-)
One interesting point to me is that a lot of the “big economic war” on Russia currently is being exaggerated, intentionally of course by the U.S. in order to make it seem that much more damage is being done than the reality.
For instance take some examples.
-Visa/mastercard/amex purportedly cancel service in Russia. But not quite. It is being reported by actual Russians on the ground the following: “Visa and master card are not gone. Just cards issues inside Russia are not going to work abroad. Same case for cards issues abroad. So you can still get rubles back to your Visa card from your binance account”
“Basically if your card is visa/Mastercard and it’s Russian it’ll only work in Russia.
If your card visa/Mastercard is a foreign one it won’t work in Russia. Plus any online payments you attempt for certain websites might be declined.”
So in short, all these credit cards will still work just fine for Russians, and only is a problem if your card was issued elsewhere. Doesn’t seem like much of a big “hit” to me.
Here is confirmation from AMEX of how this works: “Globally issued American Express cards will no longer work at merchants or ATMs in Russia, while cards issued locally by Russian banks will no longer work outside of the country on the American Express global network, the company said in a statement Sunday.”
So cards for these major companies that are issued in OTHER countries won’t work in Russia. And cards issued in Russia won’t work in other countries. But the vast majority of Russian citizens whose cards are issued AND used in Russia will continue working just fine……..
-Other reports state that Wallstreet is trading and behaving like the entire Russian economic situation will be resolved in 6 months max. Many top fund managers are advising their people to buy Russian stocks https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wall-street-quietly-trading-return-russia-sparking-liz-warrens-outrage
-Many Russian banks already switched or switching to Chinese equivalents of SWIFT https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-banks-switch-chinese-card-system-amex-joins-visa-mastercard-suspending-russian
-Visa also stated this: “On Saturday Visa said that customers in Russia who have a card issued there can still pay for goods and services in the country, but the company won’t process the transactions. Processing will be left to Russia’s National Payment Card System, or NSPK, according to Bloomberg.”
So Visa cards will work just fine but the Russian banks will simply have to clear the purchases not through SWIFT but through the new Chinese and Russian MIR systems…sounds like not a big problem.
-Only 7 banks are being cut from SWIFT, contrary to propaganda that entire Russian country will be cut off from it: “The EU put out a statement listing the banks to be cut off from SWIFT. According to the press release, they are Bank Otkritie, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Rossiya Bank, Sovcombank, VEB and VTB Bank.”
-Russian oil continues to be purchased, though at discounted rates. However the rates are equivalent to what the oil was being priced at only a few weeks ago anyway …….so it’s only a “discount” if you consider the very recently hyper-inflated prices, but for Russia it’s mostly business as usual.
This report claims that Russian S-400 is confirmed as having had its first kill on the 2nd day of combat 2/25, at a whopping 150km. Fired from Belarussian border, it shot a Ukrainian Su-27 near Kiev.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russia-s-s-400-missile-system-gains-first-blood-in-ukraine-su-27-shot-down-150km-away-reports
“The S-400’s kill reportedly set a world record for the longest range ever for an aircraft shootdown, with the Russian air defence system until 2021 holding the record for the longest engagement range in the world until it was surpassed by the S-500 system that year.”
Take all reports with grain of salt as it’s pretty much unconfirmed as far as I can see, but interesting to note nonetheless.
Actually what’s interesting is I’m now seeing that even respected sources are reporting this, such as Aviationist.com
https://theaviationist.com/2022/03/01/col-oksanchenko-shot-down/
Apparently the Su-27 shot down in question belonged to this famous pilot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Oksanchenko
What kind of crazy nonsense is this?! Guaranteed and regularly reaffirmed, the maximum range of the 40N6 S-400 air defense missile is 400 kilometers, fake gun !
Please stop the attacks. Mod.
Has Slavyansk been liberated yet?
Ironing slowly, this is the Manerheim line: Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Severodonetsk and Mariupol. In addition, there are people there, in the sense of civilians / “peaceful”, there are no other people there. Only neo-Nazis.
ЗРС С-400 “Триумф” ракетой 40Н6 сбивает цели на дальности 480 км, чайник!
В ВКС России их 56 дивизионов ЗРС C-400, а С-500 … )))
Google translation,MOD:
The S-400 “Triumph” air defense system with a 40N6 missile shoots down targets at a distance of 480 km, teapot!
In the Russian Aerospace Forces, there are 56 divisions of the C-400 air defense system, and the S-500 …)))
The cleansing of Kharkov has begun.
Putin has issues several warnings and nobody took them seriously enough, a superpower bogged down in a war to protect civilians doesn’t command respect as a superpower and does not protect civilians, Nazis use negotiations to corral more civilians and slaughter them to blame Russia, any kind of civilians, ukrainians or foreigners alike. The blow-up of a building buried hundreds of civilians under the ruble, indluding children hiding in the basement. nazis continue to shell the rebel provinces, a negotiator is murdered by nazi terrorists embedded in Ukrop security services, and the propaganda assault coninues unabated. TIme to act Russia, there will be unavoidable casualties, but such is war. Russia is at war with the empire of lies, you cannot tell truth to it, it’s useless, it is in their nature, the only thing they understand is violence, which must be swift, relentless and cruel as needed.
Saker asked: do you trust the geniuses in power in the West to successfully walk this tightrope?
The tightrope of sacrificing all steppe niggers and snow niggers, but short of reaching nuclear war with Russia. Saker doesn’t think so, meaning he thinks they’ll resort to nukes. I agree with Saker for the long run. As Albright cynically opined once: that’s what they’re for!
But for the short run, the impression in the west is one that they still think they are well off, better off than the Polar Bears. So, for now nuclear war with Polar Bear is a losing gambit; ain’t worth it, period. They’ll patiently watch their last steppe/snow nigger slump down in agony and then raise their hands to ask for talks. Afterwards they’ll switch over to use their raghead and brown yellow niggers to open other fronts against Russia and China. This is how they operate in sustaining their domain, the one belonging to MIC/Oligarchy; this is how they make money and live like there is no tomorrow.
It’s true there is no tomorrow for them, but the end is some 20 years away. They have stored up plenty of fat to last a while, and psychology of their victims are slow to change. Their victims, white or black or brown or yellow or LBGT or XYZZZZ, would willingly or foolishly hand over hard-earned money and resources to them for the next 10-20 years. Human beings are basically stupid!
But the words of the prophets are long ago written all over, on subway walls and on tenant hall corridors. They will reach their pits. That’s when they’ll think of using their nukes, because by then the Ruskies and Chinos are viewed as being much better off than they are. It would then be worth it to blow it all up. What the hell do they have to lose? That’s the psychology of the western ruling class.
So, Russian and Chinese have a generation or so to perfect their technologies of interception of nuclear rain. Let’s roll up the sleeves and get to it!
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin
Meeting with female aircrew members of Russian airlines
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67913
March 5, 2022
16:35
Moscow Region
Meeting with female aircrew members of Russian airlines
Vladimir Putin visited the Aeroflot aviation training centre and met with female aircrew members of Russian airlines.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, friends,
Minister of Transport Vitaly Savelyev, who headed the Aeroflot Group just recently, has been asking me for quite a while to come here and to see this training and simulator centre. By coincidence, the well-known events are taking place, and March 8 is approaching. Therefore, he and I decided not to put off the visit any further and to see the facilities you have here, to find out how they are used and to evaluate this centre’s prospects.
I should say that all this is quite impressive. Maria Kasyanik has shown me how to control the aircraft, and I moved the joysticks under her guidance. This is really great, all the more so as next-generation simulators are available, the chief has also discussed them, and I have had a look.
But, of course, we should use this opportunity to discuss the sector’s development prospects. We will probably also talk about the current situation because, naturally, it is impossible to avoid it.
First of all, I would like to congratulate you all on the upcoming International Women’s Day and to wish you and your colleagues all the best. I will be able to address all women of Russia a bit later.
But I would like to say that the sector which we are talking about and where you work and with which you are affiliated employs over 70,000 women, including over 200 pilots and co-pilots, as well as flight attendants, of course, who are a special category and caste.
The people in Russia have always treated aviation with great respect and interest, especially for ladies in aviation. I think the first female Russian aviators emerged in the early 20th century, and they won a reputation for themselves during the Great Patriotic War. We know all those famous names of female aviation regiments and their combat record. Today, women work in all positions, including flight controllers, engineers, technicians, and I repeat once again, flight attendants and pilots. On the whole, this is a substantial female force that supplements the aviation sector’s male section.
I think that is all for opening remarks since it would be more useful and to the point if I answer your questions. So, let’s go over to that part now.
Once again, congratulations on the upcoming International Women’s Day.
Remark: Thank you.
Do you have any questions? Or shall we just have some tea?
Maria Kotova: We have questions.
Good afternoon, Mr President,
My name is Maria Kotova. I am the co-pilot of the Airbus A320 airliner operated by Aeroflot.
My question concerns the current situation in Ukraine. We all support your actions and the special operation underway there. Of course, the most important question that, one way or another, each of us has been asking ourselves lately is: why did this special operation begin? Could it not have been avoided?
In our minds, we understand and strongly support your actions, but as women we worry about our families and loved ones who live in Ukraine. We are aware that the civilians are not impacted. But still, we would like you to reassure us: what is in store for us at the end of this road? What is the military operation in Ukraine supposed to end with?
Thank you.
Vladimir Putin: I will provide a brief overview and start, as they say in such cases, from the “centre of the field.” I mentioned this at the beginning of the operation and even before this decision was made, which was undoubtedly a difficult decision to make.
What is this about? The fact of the matter is that after the anti-constitutional coup in Ukraine, which was, unfortunately, strongly supported by Western countries… Let us face it. They are not hiding the fact that they spent US$5 billion on it, handing out cookies on Maidan and so on. And then, instead of bringing the situation back on track, even if it spiralled out of control, even if it was what is known as an excessive act – there is such a legal concept, that is, they planned one thing, but did another. Anyway, they could and should have brought this situation back onto the political track. Moreover, right before the coup, three foreign ministers came to Kiev in 2014, signed an agreement with the incumbent authorities and acted as guarantors of these agreements to the effect that the situation would remain within the political track.
Nothing of the kind. They carried out a coup d’état and supported the perpetrators. Then followed the well-known events related to Crimea and southeastern Ukraine, Donbass, whose residents refused to support the coup.
As you know, Crimea made a decision, people came to the referendum and voted to once again become part of the Russian Federation. Naturally, we could not but support this, all the more so since they were threatened by nationalists and neo-Nazis. There is a great deal of evidence that they were right.
Later on, or practically in parallel, events started in Donbass. What was the outcome? People who began to resist these developments were persecuted. The Kiev authorities started conducting military operations on that territory. They conducted two large-scale punitive operations with the use of heavy weapons and combat aircraft. They attacked Donetsk directly with tanks and bombed its squares from aircraft.
Both military campaigns failed. They sustained defeat. This was followed by the emergence of the so-called Minsk Agreements or the Package of Measures, to use its official name. They showed the way to a peaceful settlement of this conflict. And we did everything we could to let the developments follow in this vein to restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity and protect the interests of the people who live on these territories.
And what did they demand? Basic things: the right to speak their mother tongue, this is the Russian language, and follow their traditions and culture. There were no special demands. Nothing special.
But no. These territories were put under siege and switched off from the banking system, food supplies and payments of pensions and other benefits. Sometimes, some handouts were thrown in. But to receive those benefits and pensions people had to cross the delimitation line.
Now listen carefully. Maybe this will sound rough but the situation compels me to say such things. You see yourselves that stray dogs attack people in different regions. They injure and even kill people (this is a separate problem and the local authorities must deal with it). Then we see how these dogs are poisoned and shot dead. But, look, people in Donbass are not stray dogs. From 13,000 to 14,000 people have been killed over these years. Over 500 children were killed or mutilated.
But what is most intolerable is that the so-called civilised West preferred to turn a blind eye to these events during all these years. Over eight years!
Moreover, recently the Kiev authorities began to say bluntly that they are not going to fulfil these agreements. They are saying this from TV screens and online. They are saying on the record: “We don’t like them, we won’t do anything.”
Meanwhile, Russia continued to be accused of failing to fulfil these agreements. This is simply nonsense, the theatre of the absurd: the white is called black and the black is called white.
It has been getting worse lately. Suddenly, there has been renewed talk about admitting Ukraine to NATO. Actually, it has been on for a long time, but has intensified lately. Do you understand what this could lead to or even can still lead to? If Ukraine is a NATO country, then in accordance with the North Atlantic Treaty, all other members must support that country in the event of a military conflict.
No one is recognising Crimea as a part of Russia, except for you and me. They carry out military operations in Donbass, and they will also move into Crimea, and we will have to fight with the entire NATO organisation. Do you see what that means?
Are the consequences clear enough? I think that everyone understands.
Now they are talking about gaining a nuclear status, that is, acquiring nuclear weapons. We cannot ignore such things either, especially because we know how the so-called West acts with regard to Russia. First, Ukraine has had nuclear competencies since the Soviet times. As far as enrichment and nuclear materials are concerned, they are capable of launching such projects. They have missile competencies. Suffice it to mention Yuzhmash – it created intercontinental ballistic missile equipment for the Soviet Union. They can boost it and do it. And they will also receive help with that from across the ocean. And then they will say that we do not recognise their nuclear status, that they did it themselves, and they will put these systems under control, and from that moment, from that very second, Russia’s future will change dramatically. From then on, our strategic adversaries would not even need to have intercontinental ballistic missiles. They would be able to keep us at the nuclear gunpoint, and that would be it.
But how can we let this go unnoticed? These are absolutely real threats, not some far-fetched nonsense. And our young men who are fighting there now are giving their lives, they are giving their lives to fight for our future, for the future of our children. This is a completely obvious thing.
People who do not want to understand this, especially among today’s leadership, must understand that if they continue to do what they are doing – I have already said this too – they will call into question the very future of Ukrainian statehood. And if this happens, it will be entirely on them.
What is happening now? I have already spoken about the goals we have identified.
The first is to protect the people who live in Donbass, of course. How? By demilitarising and denazifying Ukraine and giving it a neutral status. Why? Because a neutral country will not be planning on joining NATO. Right now, their Constitution says they are planning to join NATO. You understand, they included this in the Constitution.
What is meant by denazification? I have spoken with my Western colleagues about this: “So what? You also have radical nationalists.” Yes, we do, but we do not have people with extreme views in the Government. And everyone admits that they have them. Yes, maybe we have some idiots who are running around with the swastika, but do we support this at the government level? Do we have thousands of people parading with torches in Moscow or in our other regional capitals, with the swastika and with torches, like in the 1930s in Germany? Do we have this? But they do, and they support it. Do we support those who killed Russians, Jews, and Poles during the war? Do we hail them as heroes? But they do.
What is happening now is also very important. Look, foreign citizens have been taken hostage in Sumy and Kharkov – over 6,000 young people, students. They were driven to a railway station and have been kept there for three days. We told everyone about this and sent this information to the current leadership of Ukraine. “Yes, yes, of course, we will deal with it now.” We informed the leaders of major European countries about this. I spoke to them personally. “Yes, yes, we will influence them right now.” We told the UN Secretary-General about this: “Yes, yes, we will settle this problem now.” But nobody is doing anything about it.
They treat even worse those people whom they consider their own citizens. They are simply using them as a human shield.
This is taking place in Mariupol now as we are talking with you. They called us from the government, from Kiev and spoke with our military: “Provide humanitarian corridors so that people can leave.” Of course, our people responded instantly and even suspended hostilities. They looked at what was happening. Nobody was allowed out. Do you understand what they are doing? They do not let anyone leave but are using people as a human shield. Who are they? The neo-Nazis, of course.
We note the presence of militants from the Middle East and some European countries there. We know about them, we hear them in the air. They are using so-called Jihad mobiles – they stuff cars with explosives and drive them towards the troops. But they fail to achieve anything and they won’t reach their aims.
Who are they if not neo-Nazis? It is by these actions that they are destroying their own country and their statehood.
Therefore, one of our key demands is demilitarisation. In other words, we are helping people, residents of Donbass to achieve a neutral status and demilitarisation of the country because we must understand clearly what weapons are there, where they are deployed and who controls them.
Different options are possible here. We are discussing them now, in particular, with representatives of the Kiev government during the talks in Belarus. We are grateful to President Lukashenko for organising this work and helping us conduct them. Our proposals are on the negotiating table. We hope a group of negotiators from Kiev will respond positively to them. This is more or less what I wanted to say. Let’s go on.
Yulia Shvidkaya: Yulia Shvidkaya, co-pilot with Aeroflot Airlines.
Good afternoon, Mr President.
I have a question about the current situation. The thing is that there are so many rumours about the possibility of martial law, the enlistment of volunteers, the call-up of reservists, and that the new conscripts will be sent to Ukraine.
Can you tell us precisely if martial law will be declared and if conscripts will be sent to Ukraine?
Vladimir Putin: Much of what is taking place now, of what we can see and what we come up against are methods of fighting Russia. Incidentally, the sanctions that are imposed on us are like a war. Thankfully, it has not got to that yet.
I think that our so-called partners understand what this can lead to and how much is at stake, despite their reckless statements, for example, like the statement made by the UK Foreign Secretary, when she blurted out that NATO could get involved in the conflict. And we immediately had to take a decision to put our deterrence forces on high alert.
Their reaction was instantaneous: they said that it was a misunderstanding. But nobody rebuffed her (the UK Foreign Secretary is a woman), and nobody has disavowed those statements. They could have told us something like, “You know, it’s her personal opinion, take no notice.” But nobody uttered a single word! What should we think about this? How should we regard it? Of course, we took that statement as a warning and acted accordingly.
And now I will answer your question about volunteers, conscripts, martial law and the like. Under the law, martial law is declared by a Presidential executive order, which should be approved by the Federation Council, in case of foreign aggression, in particular, in the zones of hostilities.
This is not the case now, and I hope it will not come to that. This is the first point.
Second, about the state of alert. There are several options: martial law or the state of alert, which is also declared by a presidential executive order and approved by the Federation Council in case of large-scale internal threats.
There is also the state of emergency. It is usually declared in a specific region or throughout the country in the event of manmade disasters, natural disasters, etc. Thankfully, this is not the case either.
We are not planning to declare a state of alert on the territory of the Russian Federation. There are no such plans and no necessity for this now.
Yes, we see that attempts are being made to stir up our society. Incidentally, this is further proof of what I have said – that we are dealing not with ordinary radicals but with neo-Nazis. Our people can freely express their opinions of what they like or do not like about our actions in Ukraine. But in Ukraine those who express views such as members of the so-called liberal part of our society do are grabbed on the street and shot. We have proof of that. Our security services are collecting this information and will provide it later on. They are simply shot dead. In our country, some of our liberal intellectuals hold protest rallies, but those who say similar things about Russia in Ukraine are simply executed straightaway, without charge or trial.
Now, about the martial law. To reiterate, it is usually imposed in case of an external aggression, a military threat. I hope this will not happen, despite irresponsible statements by certain officials.
We are hearing voices that a no-fly zone should be imposed over Ukraine. It is impossible to do this in Ukraine. It can only be done from the territory of neighbouring states. However, we will consider any move in this direction as participation in the armed conflict of the country from whoseterritory a threat to our servicemen is created. We will consider them participants in hostilities that very second. Their membership in any organisation will not matter then. So, I hope the understanding of this is there and it will not come to this, either.
Only professional servicemen – officers and contract soldiers – are taking part in this operation. There are no conscripts, and we are not planning to get them involved. To reiterate, only men who made a very responsible voluntary choice to take part in this operation and to defend their Motherland are participating in this operation. They are carrying out this mission honourably. In my answer to your first question, I provided the reason why this is so and why we are entitled to say this.
The same applies to those who are called up to the training camps. We do not plan to do this with this category, either. They are regularly called up to training camps. They were called up before and they will be called up afterwards. But we are not going to have this category participate in this conflict, in this operation. We have enough forces and means to address the tasks that we have set for ourselves with the use of the professional army.
By the way, speaking of the operation itself I know there are many speculations about it. Frankly, I have no time to get into that, but they report to me that there is much chitchat about what is going on. All analysts are seeing what is happening, so I will not reveal any secret to you. We could have acted in a variety of ways. We could simply (by the way, this answers your question, in part) help the republics of Donbass right on the line of contact, at the frontline, so to say, and simply reinforce them with our army. But in this case, the other side, I mean reckless support for nationalists and radicals coming from the West, would have provided endless support with the material resources, ammunition, equipment, and so on.
Therefore, our General Staff and the Defence Ministry took a different road. The first thing they did was destroy all the military infrastructure. Not completely but most of it: arms and ammunition depots, aircraft and air defence systems. Destroying air defence systems takes some time (you are civilians, yet you are connected with aviation) – they must be identified and then hit. This work has been practically finished. Hence the demand to impose a no-fly zone. However, doing so would have tremendous and disastrous consequences not only for Europe but also globally. I think those on the other side who are not completely at sea understand that.
That is why we chose that road, and it turned out to be absolutely correct. Our servicemen are working without haste and are doing everything to ensure the safety of civilians. Unfortunately, those bandits, neo-Nazis do not spare people. They shoot dead even their own service personnel who do not want to offer armed resistance. We know about such facts, too. Nationalists, Banderites, neo-Nazis – it is hard to call them anything else – shoot their own servicemen. These nationalists were put in nearly every military unit, up to several dozen in each, and they act in exactly that cruel way.
But I repeat that we are not engaging and are not going to engage conscripts or reservists in this military operation. I presume that our army will fulfil all the tasks it is facing, and I do not have the slightest doubt about that. The very course of the operation proves that. It is going according to schedule, and everything is being done according to the General Staff’s plan.
As for volunteers and those young people who come to military recruiting stations, we are grateful to them for this patriotic impulse and the desire to support the country and the Armed Forces. The very fact of their coming does matters, for sure. However, their assistance is not needed for now, and I believe it will not be needed.
I am turning to the cameras so that they will see and hear me say, “Thank you.”
Let us proceed.
To be continued.
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Lone Wolf
The link to English website was all that was needed.
People can click and read.
@ Larchmonter
Your suggestion is appreciated, but if you read the thread below the first link that was posted, posters complained they couldn’t access it, reason I posted it. Pay attention before you issue misinformed opinions.
Lone Wolf
If you set your computer to use solely yandex nameservers ( 77.88.8.8 77.88.8.1) you can open pages in Russia, with no issues. Important is to excluse automatic nameservers.
How to do this?
Saker, you may find a good (daily) military map of ukraine here: https://dragon-first-1.livejournal.com/
Also, regarding the Tochka ballistic missiles fired at the Donbass, I think there have been about 6, some failed to explode, others were shot down, but with what, do you know?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-officials-meet-with-regime-in-venezuela-to-discuss-oil-exports-to-replace-russias-11646591752
We’re now learning about U.S.’s next cheap groveling move. Apparently to offset the massive disruption to oil markets, the U.S. will now be humiliating itself by prostrating in front of Maduro in order to try and coerce him into replacing Russian oil. The U.S. stands to offer Maduro the ‘privilege’ of exporting his oil to the U.S. gulf refineries. Funny how during times of desperation, the U.S. is forced to scurry back to countries they backstabbed and beg them for deals to keep U.S. economy from collapsing.
If the desperation is all one way like that, why wasn’t Maduro in a position to say “Bring with you the gold you stole from us and hand it over, then we can talk”?
Well, I suppose Venezuela isn’t in a position to be more counter-assertive than the Russians themselves, where Putin clearly still wants to stop well short of a complete challenge to and break with the West.
Remember Hugo Chavez? He offered long-term contracts pegged at $50 per barrel. A fair price, but the USers love their casino system.
It seems to me that Russia urgently needs to install advanced air defense systems in Kiev. It is openly discussed in the West that Western or Soviet-made aircraft owned by NATO members are used to transport weapons and troops to Ukraine. If Russia does not gain complete control of the airspace, it will face serious problems and suffer heavy losses. Not to mention the need to provide satellite images in real time throughout Ukraine, in addition to the use of drones not only for observation but also as attack weapons. NATO continues to operate in the country.
It seems to me that Russia urgently needs to install advanced air defense systems in Kiev. It is openly discussed in the West that Western or Soviet-made aircraft owned by NATO members are used to transport weapons and troops to Ukraine. If Russia does not gain complete control of the airspace, it will face serious problems and suffer heavy losses.
Russia has essentially issued the terms of Ukraine’s surrender ahead of talks. Hmm … to what degree, we may wonder, will Ukraine’s negotiators be willing to discuss such terms — under threat of execution for failure to uphold US dictates, i.e. to never surrender and to fight to the last Ukrainian in service to the Outlaw Empire of Lies.
The talks appear destined to fail under such conditions. What if Russia were to grant immediate amnesty and protection to any members of Ukraine’s team who wished it?
“What if Russia were to grant immediate amnesty and protection to any members of Ukraine’s team who wished it?”
If the Russians announced such an offer ahead of time the Ukronazis wouldn’t let the delegation depart in the first place. (That’s assuming the formerly-of-Kiev “authorities”, Ze and so on, still are in the Ukraine and not already relatively safe in Poland. I just got up and haven’t yet heard the latest on that question.)
But if the offer was made at the meeting and accepted there, the Ukronazis and the West would say Russia is holding them hostage and cease to recognize them as legitimate representatives. So it would make no difference either way.
The broader issue of terms makes the whole idea of “negotiations” absurd. Any competent Russian negotiator who had any belly for this war would long since have insisted that the Kiev scum agree in principle ahead of time to the clearly stated Russian demands (demilitarization, denazification, neutrality, recognize the Crimea as part of Russia), so that the talks would ONLY be about how to put these into practice.
But the Ukronazis and their US handlers would never allow anyone who did agree to this to set out as any legitimate delegation.
Therefore any negotiation will automatically be a farce.
While Putin himself seems willing to hold endless worthless self-humiliating talks with Ukroscum who never will talk in good faith and never do anything but take advantage of his endless patience in order to buy more time for the US to organize a quagmire, surely the Russian military and political leaders around Putin must be insisting by now that enough is enough with the retarded “negotiations” and that there’s nothing left but to step up the prosecution of the war unto its most forcible end.
(Nor do the Russians have limitless time the way lots of commenters claim. The longer this drags out, the greater the chance the US will figure out how to turn this into a quagmire for the Russians. No, the Russians are on the clock and it’s ticking.)
This Uke operation is a big , Side Show , So let’s not forget the original objective. Russia demanded security guarantees , pull back to 1997 borders and U.S. nukes out of Europe . Next phase after this is cleaned up wil be back to security. This time minimal to no talks with U.S. Ultimatum directly to each individual state ; Poland ,Romania etc. “If you want to maintain sovereignty ,expel Foreign troops, exit NATO declare neutrality. This offer is Time Sensitive!! After that Ultimatum to U.S. out with nukes again time sensitive! Now let’s live peacefully and in harmony.
I haven’t heard mention of the infamous ‘rasputitsa’ mentioned (“the season of no roads”), and this has to be a large factor in the largely, at this point, Russian war of maneuver across the Ukraine. Far less a factor one can assume for the Ukies with CC smashed and the sky belonging to Russia, they are now are consigned to hedgehog defences wherever they can.
Well, here is the news from sputniknews about bio weapon labs in Ukraine and documents.
https://sputniknews.com/20220306/kiev-regime-sought-to-scrub-evidence-of-pentagon-backed-biowarfare-programme-russian-mod-reveals-1093637704.html
BREAKING: nuke fase flag alert
Ukrainian military to blow up experimental nuclear reactor at Kharkov Institute – ministry
The Russian Defense Ministry noted that “on March 6, foreign journalists arrived in Kharkov to register the consequences of the provocation, followed by accusing Russia of creating an environmental disaster”
tass tonight
and just like clockwork, the falseflag has already begun https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-kharkiv-nuclear-reactor-rocket-b2029663.html
I believe that phase 2 is only a part of the fight against Zion controlled west. It will be bloody, thanks to the sick evil Zionist s that control the west, but Russia has been given no choice. However, they will pay for this, along with their evil plans to subjugate Russia, when they had control under Yelstin.
After this they will have to move back to the 1997 borders, so clearly stated ,(Dec 2021), for it will be the best weapons facing Europe/North America, on this planet Earth. Then it is on to Syria & Iraq where those people ask them to leave, and no more help from Russia. It will also happen in Africa, and no more “color” revolution s allowed in central Asia.
This is the key to the future of this world and China and Russia will bring a more just world, for all “non-international” countries, and this Zion controlled racist cabal will be left on the outside- looking in!
P.S. How ironic it is that Jews support Ukn-NAzis, but that is left to you all to see where the evil is. Guess what? It is even here in Canada, all encompassing.
Russia must continue until they ELIMINATE the enemy and the enemy’s system.
So, Mr Saker, who are the enemies and the leaders of the enemy camp?
Prime suspects: Anglo european Royal families, aristocrats and their bankers.
And what is the nature of their system in comparison to the system of Russia and China?
Until we all eliminate both, Russia, China, et. al. will have no peace and neither will we.
So, I suspect that this operation may go all the way to London. Finish the job they started in 1941!
Notice Putin changed the rhetoric from the USA to the Empire (of Lies).
On the subject of traitors.
Genghis Khan believed traitors carried a genetic inheritance and so when he discovered one, he killed every single living family member. You know, for the avoidance of doubt.
Just sayin’
Nice article
The Saker,
Isn’t the situation in and around Kharkiv similar to that of Kiev? Or, had Russian military got Kharkiv under control? The Nazi murderous gang is expected to put up a fierce resistance using the city dwellers as human-shields.
MSM is the most potent weapon of the Zionist imperialists – time and again I feel that RF.government could have deployed more effective propaganda machinery…. People living in ex-colonies of UK are being bombarded with non-stop BS round the clock.
Not the Saker here but the more I am watching the maelstrom of bile spewed by the Empire morlocks, the more I think that Russia has wisely adopted a rope-a-dope strategy by letting the wave of hatred slowly peter out and self-extinguish on the hard indisputable results on the ground.
Why waste your time fighting (a very expensive contest) that you can’t? Instead, make sure you can deliver that massive punch and shatter the whole edifice at once. The most important thing for Russia is to neutralise a loud pro-Western minority and their Western string pullers. That as far as I can see has been accomplished with a stroke of a pen. The rest will come when the odious, hateful and absurd propaganda starts to sound… well absurd even to the zombified Westerners. This is a global war and everybody has to play to their strengths. I for once am very impressed with the way Russia has been dealing with this.
Kharkiv is the 2nd largest city in all of Ukraine after Kiev, so it won’t be fully cleaned out any time soon. They are simply surrounding it, and taking their time in doing so because it represents a part of the unified front connected to the overall huge cauldron forming in the Donbas. So basically as soon as the front moves up a bit more with that cauldron, then Kharkiv boiler will naturally close up. As of right now they are just conducting precision strikes on many important areas of military industry inside the city, but most walk on egg shells and not dispense too much destructive damage to the civil infrastructure.
Harkov has been turned into one solid fortified area with organized defense areas. The buildings of educational buildings and campuses have been converted for military needs, and the territory of military schools has turned into full-fledged military bases, where command posts, communication centers, barracks, and warehouses are deployed. Equipment and firing points … air defense systems, artillery (including MLRS and mortars) ….
At the moment, the following military facilities continue to operate in full-fledged mode:
▪️ National University of Civil Protection of Okraine (94 Chernyshevskaya str.)
▪️ Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the National Police in Harkov (Vesnina St. 14)
▪️ Harkov Aviation Institute (Chkalova street 17)
All these bases are located on the main routes of advance of Russian troops. And next to them in residential buildings, mortar nests and firing positions are equipped. From there, the actions of local detachments of both national battalions and territorial defense detachments are coordinated.
List of the main formations of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, located in harkov and harkov region.
If some parts are not destroyed, then this will happen in the near future.
HARKOV
A1215 – 302nd anti-aircraft missile regiment (S-300PT).
A1451 – 164th radio engineering brigade.
A7041 – 113th separate territorial defense brigade.
A1361 – 218th joint support center.
A3074 – 1658th center for providing armored equipment.
A0785 is the metrological center for military standards of the Armed Forces of Okraine.
A1121 – 22nd military cartographic unit.
Military Law Institute.
Military Institute of Tank Troops.
Harkov National Air Force University.
Kharkov zonal department of VSP.
2240 – Eastern Territorial Administration of NSU.
3017 – 3rd operational brigade of NGU.
3005 – 5th Sloboda brigade.
National Academy of NSU.
1470 – Eastern Regional Office of the State Border Guard Service.
9951 – 4th border detachment of the State Border Guard Service
1467 – 26th separate aviation squadron of the State Border Guard Service.
2nd territorial node of government communications.
CHUGUEV
A0501 – 92nd separate mechanized brigade.
A4104 – 203rd training aviation brigade (An-26, L-39, Mi-8).
Chuguev branch of the Kharkov ZO VSP.
ROBIN
A2647 – 3046th Central Engineering Munitions Base
BALAKLEYA
A1352 – 65th arsenal.
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