This is an open thread for today as I see many threads go seriously off-topic. Use as commentary for everything Saker Blog related that does not fit into currently running essays, sitreps, updates and threads.
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Amarynth
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it,but Gonzalo Lira turned up on the George Galloway show on Sunday,he was arrested by the Ukrainian security,don’t think they harmed him but took computer away etc,sorry if someone already posted it,interview starts at about two hours twenty on the video.
https://youtu.be/Hvc0E-SOlEo?t=2
@ Englishman
Not my intention to be a party pooper, however, from the moment I learned Gonzalo Lira had been freed, my antennas went up. SBU is a criminal organization, they have killed in daylight even a Ukraine-Russia negotiator, they are Ukraine’s death squads, why would anyone think they care about “international pressure?” They don’t give a damn about that, the $64K question is, under what conditions did they let Lira go?
IMHO, he is still a prisoner, in a more subtle manner. I was always surprised at the brazen and open way in which Lira work his way to his 15 minutes of fame, and was just waiting for the hammer to fall upon him at any moment. He was hit, and luckily, he survived, I am not so convinced about his “freedom.” We will have to wait and see what he can do within his limitations. SBU might be waiting for a moment to smear him and “cancel” him out of the news circuit, or for a better opportunity to get rid of him.
Either way, he’s a marked man…..unless, he sticks to the conditions of his “freedom” set by the SBU.
As always, let’s hope for the best…personally, I wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole.
Just remember how the German nazis turned hundreds, if not thousands, of Soviet prisoners, into collaborators with the nazi regime.
Lone Wolf
He ain’t free. He said as much during his interview with Duran. That he’s not allowed to discuss/give details of his arrest and release. He is not allowed to leave Kharkov until completion ‘of investigation..’ His phones and computers confiscated.
SBU should be busy with war issues, not loudmouth foreign journalists who can easily be deported and chapter closed. Wonder why they keep him ‘there to investigate..’
I have read some charlatans argue that Lira faked his arrest to gain popularity. But then Leftists wished him dead anyway.
I’m no charlatan, nor am I a leftie.
What I am is hyper suspicious. I already thought Lira is a dubious character with a nice line in patter and spiel. Now I think he’s a snake oil peddler.
Why would the SBU have set him free? They’ve offed people for far less.
I call bs.
There may be bs but far more likely Gonzalo Lira is alive because of his US connections. Of course that doesn’t mean he is safe, but it does rein in just what he can say without the CIA signing his death warrant.
Yeah u am wondering if Lira faked his arrest for pr purposes.
Thanks for that Lone Wolf,yes anything is possible only time will tell.
I was not a fan of Lira in the past. When someone describes himself as a ‘life coach’, I hear ‘bullshit artist’. I am also not a fan of Galloway. But they should be free to say what’s on their minds.
It was ballsy of him to take up residence in a place like Kharkov. Not quite like Patrick Lancaster or Graham Phillips, but ballsy.
It’s good to hear that the SBU thinks he’s worth more alive. And it’s always sad to have someone censored for truth telling, whether they are Lira, or Assange, or Trump.
Americanski – you think scornfully of Gonzalo because he is a life coach – with a reach of perhaps millions because of his wonderful personality and intelligence.
You’d make a good soldier
“SBU is a criminal organization, they have killed in daylight even a Ukraine-Russia negotiator, they are Ukraine’s death squads, why would anyone think they care about “international pressure?”
Yes, they are criminal (though not in Ukraine where they operate) but they are run by those working with US and oligarchs etc. It’s one thing for SBU to be killing Ukrainian civilians as reported in media which 99% of Westerners don’t access, it’s another for Ukraine to kill an American journalist!!
My bet is that Lira is alive because:
A: he has a U.S. passport
B: he has established media presence and online
C: the SBU probably picked him up and asked their handlers in the CIA what to do with him, and they said they don’t need the shit storm of killing an American journalist right now. RT did an article on him and there would have been more shit coming down the pipeline if he stayed disappeared.
Is he screwed? Yes, probably. This war ends at some point and he is a political prisoner of the losing side. He is going to end up disappearing at some point and not re-appearing most likely, or more likely making some announcent, forced announcement, that he is done with journalism and then they’ll kill him. But not now when it could be problematic.
If I were him I wouldn’t have done a lot of the things he did, but he did those things. If I were him right now I’d be seeking out ways to run. He should stop smoking and start doing exercises and planning an escape.
He has / had a US passport but is / was he an American? Not really. My guess is that he was ‘disappeared’ like many other Chileans and will never be seen again.
From the start that dude seemed like a “change of soul” plant. Useful character to play “how wrong I was” narrative., at time it will become useful or necessary. It seems to me he got “arrested” to have his gigantic ego reconfigured as his “role” was in risk. That social outcry, his citizenship or other motives are irrelevant – specifically given the interesting collection of characters being marinated in a certain steelworks. Dont eat paint.
I smell fish.
If you are hiding in a hot spot with bombs and artillery around you, and you know the Secret Police are torturing and murdering civilians and opponents for trifles in the same place, you dont expose yourself so openly and freely to the world “because I believe “truth” should be said”.
Only a Goofy would be that stupid. Is Gonzales a Goofy? He sounds too intelligent for that.
I tend to agree. I did enjoy his posts as they seemed factual and were well delivered. Still, broadcasting a pro Russian point of view in a place locked down by the SBU is extremely risky. Getting caught was pretty much guaranteed. I am glad that he is OK but somewhat suspicious of his motives. I don’t mean that as a negative swipe at him as I am not aware of any bad actions on his part.
How is he now broadcasting if the SBU took his phone and laptop? 🤔
Desktop PC :)
Sorry, could not resist this obvious joke!
And “all I have is Twitter” , Youtube coming soon. Are that the ideal “come with security sevice backend access” honeypots he is ordered to set up?
For a guy restricted by the thuggish SBU, he gets to do remarkably free and cheery interviews. After the galloway interview, he talked for over an hour with Medhurst.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tk4EgGSfatpn/
Something is not right about this whole arrest/capture scenario. His speech does not seem to be restricted at all.
Anyway, grant victory to Russia in this struggle, O Lord God!
I wanna be the first to comment first one time so here goes.
Not sure what to say now. Heck I always got something to say. Okay. Here’s somethings I notice. Everyone, I’m I’m serious, it’s basically eceryone I engage with refuse or just say tbeyre not interested in talking about the Russia/Ukraine SMO. Peopke who months ago were like yeah the Russians and Putin are really gonna get it and this and tnat tbese same people are noticeably silent. I love it. Theyre fools for buying into the lying jewish media. Theyre suckers. Now to be fair I was one once myself but by the grace of God I now see. You know just like the famous song amazing Grace. Yes God has opened my eyes.
So interesting to think how people will accept or react once beautiful Russian light shines and shines even brighter in the world and zionist America fades.
Well hopefully I’m first to comment. My day off from washing dishes so I’m spending my day reading. Yes I love reading Dostoyevsky and watching videos and all.
Good day to everyone. God bless. Glory to Russia.
Noticeable dialing down here, gone are the ads for body armour and weapons, news on Ukraine is three four pages in now, not Marquee billing, government ads, we’ll match donations, gone. Mostly Red Cross appeals now, easier for them to buy be the guns and body armour, they have ‘free pass’ shipping. Living in the heart of ex pat Orcville it’s surprisingly muted here. While MSM can spew fake shit all day long, it only takes one tweet or face book post for cousin Olga to get the truth from the front lines……the internet still works there.
Cheers M
Good day to you Chuck. Nice to see Saker has readers in Pennsylvania.
Similar here Chuck, in the semi rural UK. The virtue hunting outrage has been replaced by a determination to avoid the topic. I put that down to one thing: refuals to confront the many aparent truths, probably the most significant being that ‘the west’ seems prepared, even determined, to suicide its citizens economic outlook for what was already a failed state, gangsters financial laundromat.
Yup, they’re getting ‘bored’ with it now. Like they got bored with brexit, bored with covid, bored with Afghanistan, bored with Iraq, bored with ‘austerity is temporary’, bored with zero-flexi hour contracts, bored by rising poverty, homelessness, personal debt levels, Libya, Syria, Xinjaing cotton boycott etc etc etc
What a boring bunch of assho…
Prince Andrew,
Americans ( Brits included) in general, get bored rather quickly. Their attention span is extremely short. The American people are also easily impressed and convinced. They are quite gullible. Top that with the new wokity- wokes always longing for National/ international ‘situations’ to bring out their Hollywood show style of virtue signaling and grandstanding and what you end up is teenagers in adult bodies cheering the latest ‘fad’ until another ‘situation’/ ‘fad’ comes along. In other words, they can become very dangerous to others and themselves.
Unfortunately, all I mentioned above includes American/ British politicians. Perhaps Europeans too but I don’t know their mindset enough to comment if they are as gullible too.
Kübler-Ross’ anticipatory (DABDA) grief process = denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
One wonders what sentiments the cold, hungry, fuel-less winter of “acceptance” will bring in due course.
“‘the west’ seems prepared, even determined, to suicide its citizens economic outlook for what was already a failed state,”
I would carefully choose the word `genocide` instead of `suicide`. Destroying what was formerly the cradle of Christianity after the Holly Land is the aim of these NWO puppets that were `elected` in the West but only follow orders from Satan via the PTB in the backstage. Go ask Klaus `Swab`. I do believe the French people will not swallow a second Macron mandate that easily… lets wait and see what happens there.
I think the truth is finally sinking in. I spent the first few weeks outlining everything from the Russo-Swedish War of 1788 to the nationalities conflict between Stalin & Lenin in the construction of the USSR to what went down in 2014 in Kiev in addition to all of the other US regime change operations. I came of as pro-Russian, but I would not be on Putin’s side had he laid waste to most of the Middle East and was behaving like the US over the last 70 years. For the first couple of weeks they would not listen to me and stuck with the MSM but now I see them educating others and quoting a lot of what I said in the first few weeks.
There is something about the truth that just won’t go away. Even Joseph Goebbels had to admit that when the majority of Germans stopped buying newspapers. And eventually that same phenomenon has to happen in the West as well. I don’t know exactly what caused the shift, because I ditched the MSM years ago, but they screwed up big somewhere. All a person needs to do is sit down for two hours with Oliver Stone’s “Ukraine on Fire” or Andrei Nekrasov’s “The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes” and then remember people falling off of fuselages at the Kabul Airport and it becomes obvious the amount of pure horse sh_t the MSM is spewing.
IMHO
Up here in Toronto, the condominium (huge – 400 large units) social committee is sponsoring a raffle to help “Ukraine.” The women had their table set up, selling tickets, and people were standing in line to be part of the goodness as I passed. I asked the women where the money was actually going. The head woman said the money was going to Global Medic. She was really put out that I even asked. “Where else would we donate it?” she said, defensively. “It’s all going to Ukraine,” said another, “we’re not keeping any here.” I guess she thought I was going to accuse them of fraud. Actually, that it is all going to “Ukraine” is the problem. (Just take that apart for a minute. What is Ukraine? Is Donbass Ukraine? Who is suffering? Why get involved now and not anytime over the past eight years?) And that so many people wanted to donate was disappointing. So, I’m afraid, in my experience, they are more brainwashed than ever up here. Removed. No promotions. Mod.
Amen brother. Jesus said: ” If ye continue in my word, then ye are my deciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Does someone else think that Russia goes so slow to justify itself against its own population?
We all know that population of Russia and Ukraine are very related. There is lot of mixed families between the 2 people, and I am not talking only about the Eastern Ukraine (that are Russians) but also about Western Ukraine.
With this in mind, a total destruction of railways (that is also bad for civil) could have been impopular at the beggining, so Russia didn’t do it.
However, now that is obvious for the people that they West use this lines for send Weapons, and that that the Russian society was practically begging to destroy that railways, Russia start to do it.
Is there someone who share this opinion?
Well I don’t know much but I’m of the opinion Russia knows what is is doing and we should have and be failthfull to that by and tbrough God. Russia is fighting evil. Russia stands for good, God will honor all who stand and fight for what is good and holy.
Just my opinion. God bless.
YES, Think this is necessary. Shipments must be stopped . Russia may even have to start stopping civilian vehicles on Roads since they are being used to transport equipment .
On the news this morning they showed the huge queue of cars at the west Ukraine border checkpoint waiting to get INTO Ukraine.
Strange I thought most would expect the other way round in a war zone people trying to get out.
Then I read a few days before that many of these larger weapons like artillery pieces can be dismantled smuggled in cars and put back together in the field.
It all suddenly made perfect sense.
Fear not, Cid, the Russian MoD is on the case. This from Zerohedge:
“The Russian military is ramping up efforts to thwart Western arms deliveries into Ukraine, on Monday striking at least six railway stations and facilities. In a statement late in the day the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed it attacked the locations, including taking out train tracks and transport lines, as they were being used “to supply Ukrainian forces with foreign weapons,”
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/russia-ramps-attacks-ukraine-rail-lines-thwart-nato-arms-shipments
mainly hit transformer supplies for overhead wired system for electric engines. Now will have to use diesel locos…depends how many still used eg freight or in reserve…and fuel supplies for them.
Moonofalabama reports:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/ukraine-railway-hits-us-war-aims-ops-report.html#more
“Some traffic will continue by using diesel locomotives. However, those are relatively rare as the Wikipedia entry for Ukrainian railways explains:
Number of locomotives – 1,944 (electric – 1,627, diesel – 301)
Diesel locomotives are slower than electrified ones. They also need a lot of diesel which has become rare in Ukraine and must be imported by rail(!) from Slovenia.
Supplying additional diesel locomotives from other countries in eastern Europe will not be possible. The Ukraine has, like Russia, wide gauge tracks of 1,524 mm (5 ft). Most other European countries use a normal gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in).”
Oops!
It’s high time for Russia to stop arm transports from west.
Attacking transducer-stations for electric locomotives is a good start ( two months late though).
Next repair depots for railways.
Bridges over Dnieper (25), railway bridges (21) in Western-Ukraine, many more road bridges.
All these should be cut by Russians.
BTW, Ukraine will cut them anyway later, if thus could hinder the Russian advance.
I would suggest leaving train and road infrastructure intact anywhere you are not active allows food and basic materials to be available for the population. It allows people to eat as long as possible.
Okay here’s something not a single freakin news is talking about. My investment in Gazprom is still frozen. Yes the filthy greasy American government drove the price down and then frozen the stock so a little man like me can not do nothing. Not that I would have sold it. I’m wondering come July will my dividend be paid and frozen. Basically stolen by filthy you know what.
Sanctions are just noce legal talk for stealing. God have mercy on America for all our country has done.
A d I fell you I’m embarrassed to think I ever even owned stock like chevron or Occidential. I dont want to profit off of Jewish times. And yes every American corporation is guilty.
God bless you all. Glory to Russia.
Oh one more thing. Those who want to write letters to Russia. Like this su day I wrote one to the embassy in Washington saying not all Americans are ignorant and hate Russia and to just say a few words of encouragement. At least the filthy ones censoring and monitoring the internet will know not everyone buys the crap tbey spew.
Good day. God bless. Work hard people God honors hard work, no matter what it is.
A lot of people are in the same boat. Here’s an interesting video that goes into this:
https://youtu.be/g3_7wEAGh0g
It comes down to sitting and waiting or transfer to the Moscow Exchange.
It will be a gift to your grandchildren. May be worth a lot by then.
For sure – at the minimum a good story.
Agreed. These shares were already way undervalued before the SMO. The idea was to hold them for the long term.
They own the digital plane for now. But you can still own the physical one. Secure what isn’t locked down and physically punish those who try to take it from you. They can have the bits and bytes. They aren’t getting what’s dear to me.
I highly suspect Gazprom dividends will be paid in a real currency, Rubles.
The same problem Gazprom for me in Italy!
Да (yes), here I am in Southwest Russia and my Social Security pension in on the other side of the exchange freeze in an American bank…such is life.
Looks like NATO want to open another front in transnistria.. For that, Poland and Romania may engage as peacekeeping mission. How about that? Can Belarus or Syrian army engage there? I think this is a new provocation, though Russian navy is slightly far (now, don’t know, but after moscova incident, it may happen) from odessa…
NATO volunteer (secret army) now changing their tactics to create some diversion or disturbance… This is a new chessboard. Hope Russia understand it.
I also think, now it is a best time to Chinese bold statement or real valid military threat to NATO, Auckus
Waiting for Saker analysis and prediction
NATO together with their supporters from Romania are activelly trying to involve Romania in the proxi war US is having with Russia.
Initially they wanted to fight – their plan – till the last Ukrainian AND the last Romanian.
Romanians didn’t wanted it, they backed up, but still don’t give up the plans, they don’t get the message. Thet the Romanians don’t want this war.
Our President signed last year a deal with Ukrainian army that takes ourselves out of NATO, so a direct treaty between Romania and Ukraine army, without informing the Parliament, or the population, we found out about this (we the people) when the SMO started in ukraine!!!
Like a common army! An article in Romanian language, can be translated using google translate.
https://www.national.ro/dezvaluiri/iohannis-a-semnat-armata-comuna-cu-ucraina-729363.html
Yep, they did it, but it is not Constitution, YET, this doesn’t matter much for them – the Constitution we saw in the last years this very clear!
They thought will be very convenient for NATO to let another country in and not interfere, leading another proxi war.
Anyway, we still dont want this war and if they will do this a Revolution can start in Romania and this time a real one. Romanians (90%) dont want the war, they know they are used, they know the country is sold piece by piece and dont want to fight for a war that is not ours, to defend some interests that are not ours.
But they keep trying yet they will fail again and again
Don’t take what I am about to say the wrong way — I have deep affection for Romanians and sincere admiration for all they gave the world, like Brancusi, Dr. Gerota, Coanda, and the discovery of insulin, to cite a few examples.
But I take heart from the knowledge that Romania is on NATO’s side in this conflict as a guarantee that Russia will win.
The US/NATO, seem unaware that Romania’s siding with them is the kiss of death. The Germans are understandably reluctant to talk about it, but that is the sole reason they lost WWII! It is the “Romanian support curse!”
This runs deep. Their ancestors in Dacia fought the Roman soldiers and kept the Roman empire at bay for close to 200 years but what happened when the Romans won and Dacia became a pacified part of the empire? What happened to the Roman legions of occupation? They just melted in the subcarpathian hills never to be seen again, the Dacians began speaking a Latin dialect, and soon after the Roman empire crumbled…
@ ariadna
I admire your deep stock of historical allegories to embellish a polite slur. We all have it, mostly on periphery: those embarrassing periods when our colours were dragged through the mud and stepped on by the victorious Eastern hordes of Moors, Mongols, Turks, and, more recently, insidious turncoats ostensibly “Europeans” coming from West but infected with an Eastern/Judaic creed of chosenness and exceptionalism.
Continuing your allegory, perhaps what is happening now is the Hegemon’s “European curse” denouement.
Si hanno cominciato in transistria poi continueranno in kosovo.
La federazione Russa dovrebbe arrivare fino al confine con l’Ungheria, per avere un collegamento diretto con la Serbia.
Per il Mokba il favore sarà ricompensato prima o poi in qualche parte del mondo oppure con un aumento dei prezzi del gas.
Le opzioni ci sono.
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Google-translate from mod:
They started in transistria then they will continue in Kosovo.
The Russian Federation should go to the border with Hungary, to have a direct connection with Serbia.
For Mokba, the favor will be rewarded sooner or later somewhere in the world or with an increase in gas prices.
The options are there.
According to the BBC just now, there are thousands of civilians trapped in the steel plant in Mariupol. They conceded there are few Ukrainian troops there too and Russia won’t let the civilians evacuate.
BBC = British Bullsh*tting Crap
Main stream media keeps quoting SBU figs on Rus. casulties…armaments etc…..which of course is totaly unbelievable….why believe it? Everything everyone in Ukraine is a lie.
The BBC would make Goebbels blush.
Is it true they only recruit through ads in the Guardian?
I haven’t read the Guardian since 2003 (or any other British tabloid-broadshit for that matter). If they are posting ads it’s probably for low level staff recruitment.
The ‘higher ups’, purely by coincide of course, seem to be recruited from the same two sources members of the security intelligence services are recruited from- Oxford and Cambridge. Same goes for the majority of those spivs sitting in Westminster and pretty much everyone in the high echelons of the Civil Service operating out of Whitehall.
The Guardian itself, round our neck of the woods anyway, has for a long time been referred to as the ‘daily GCHQ newsletter’. Former editor Alan Rusbridger was rumoured to be a MI5 plant and we all know what they did to Assange.
If you take out the old public school boys network- Oxbridge being top of the pyramid- you effectively take out 90% of the ruling-political-media class in Blighty.
@ Your Highness
(With deferential respect and high regard, bow and all). Same here! Me too!
It so happens that Palm Sunday 2003 was the day I turned off the telly, permanently, and never again read a newspaper or magazine. I was brought up on a steady diet of Economist, Guardian, Time, Newsweek, etc. but on that road to Damacus revelation day, I cut my life entirely from that sewer of indoctrination.
It has been like the discovery of freedom, the critical awareness and the search for truth; and a new person was born, a bit old though…
-Parfois
Iraq was the final straw that broke this particular camel’s back. Enough. No more, and I haven’t looked back- and never will.
And it’s really gone downhill since the pedol Jimmy Saville left the BBC management blackmail team. (/sarc)
The BBC is lying. Every day the Russian military organize what they call a regime of silence meaning they retreat and will not shoot at anyone coming out of the Azov plant. The problem is that no civilians have so far used these humanitarian corridors and no nazis have surrendered during these regimes of silence. What the nazis really want is to be extracted by some Western power from there but it’s not gonna happen.
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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the withdrawal of troops from the Azovstal plant and the opening of a humanitarian corridor for civilians
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The allied forces of the RF Armed Forces and the NM DPR will open another humanitarian corridor, enabling civilians (if any remain there) to leave the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. According to the head of the National Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, at 14:00 Moscow time, our military unilaterally ceased hostilities and retreated to a safe distance from the plant, thereby enabling civilians who may be in the underground communications of the plant to safely leave its territory. At the same time, the Ukrainian side must indicate its readiness to start a humanitarian operation by raising a white flag in the directions in which people will leave.
It should be noted that in connection with the almost hopeless situation in which the Ukrainian nationalist formations found themselves in Mariupol, the Kyiv authorities and their Western partners are trying hard to speculate on the supposedly critical humanitarian situation in the city. At the same time, as Mizintsev said, the corridors for the exit of civilians from Azovstal have been operating for 36 days.
Regarding the representatives of the Azov Regiment itself (an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation), who settled in the underground shelters of the Azovstal plant, in recent days they have been regularly posting videos in which they appeal to their command with a request to save them from imminent destruction.
Speaking of destruction. Earlier, President Vladimir Putin gave the order not to storm the underground communications of the plant, but at the same time to take the plant into a tight ring. This will significantly reduce the losses among our military.
At the same time, the barricaded nationalists were asked to surrender and thus save their lives.
However, this option is unlikely. According to the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, more than 400 foreigners, including military personnel from the countries of the NATO bloc, may be under Azovstal along with Ukrainian militants. It is unlikely that the nationalists, relying on the unspoken order of the Kyiv authorities and their Western curators, will allow the latter to be captured by the RF Armed Forces.
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https://topwar.ru/195443-v-minoborony-rf-zajavili-ob-otvode-vojsk-ot-zavoda-azovstal-i-otkrytii-gumanitarnogo-koridora-dlja-grazhdanskih.html
Why is there still electricity in the Avov plant? They should only turn it on when there is an official evacuation/surrender/ceasefire window.
I’m assuming if they’ve amassed/stockpiled food and water provisions to last a certain number of months (how many months, who knows) they’ve also got electricity generators down there. They may be sick, but not that stupid….then again..
Fuel to generators will run out, too, eventually, but probably not before the food…
Wonder which 3rd country they wanted evacuation to..
Turkey ?????
yup Pushilin confirms that.
Yes thats typical lies from those scumbags,they have no shame.
BBC…..
What a freakin’ joke.
Since I have now established a good record, sanctioned by VVP, of giving sensible advice to the higher orders, here does another one:
The Russian High Command should call a credible international humanitarian organization (say Red Cross, personnel carefully vetted) to witness, observe and co-ordinate the reception of civilian and military evacuees from the Azovstat steel plant.
I’m not going to give the obvious PR benefits from that action; it would also deter, hopefully, the Banderanites from exacting vengeance and inflict cruelties on the trapped civilians.
I trust the Russian higher echelons are still getting my advice – I’m on a roll!
How sweet. No one would ever guess the British smart tricks.
There is still a BBC correspondent in Russia, who is sprouting his frankly racist bullsh*t and should be deported ASAP. His latest missive was about how he no longer recognises Russia after the start of the conflict. Well if you confine your circle to English speaking 5th columnists then you will be in for a shock
Also the BBC does employ some Russian citizens, these people are traitors and should be treated as such
Russia finally decided to hit the railway network that Nato uses to provide more weapons to nazi Ukraine.
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The Ministry of Defense confirmed the destruction of six traction substations on the railway by high-precision weapons.
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Well, now to the summary. The Ministry of Defense confirmed the strikes on the railway stations of Ukraine in order to disable traction substations. The blows were inflicted by high-precision weaponslong-range stations Krasnoe, Zdolbunov, Zhmerinka, Berdichev, Kovel and Korosten. According to the military department, foreign weapons and equipment are being supplied through these stations for the APU grouping in the Donbass.
In addition, during the day, high-precision air-launched missiles were fired at Ukrainian military facilities. It is reported about the destruction of the headquarters of the terrorist group “Right Sector” * banned in Russia in Novogrodovka, an ammunition depot and 4 command posts in the Slavyansk region. Also, strikes were carried out on the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ground-based missile systems delivered 15 strikes, destroying the starting position of the Tochka-U tactical missile system, three command posts and an artillery battery. In addition, 10 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment fell under the blows of the Iskanders. Reported heavy losses of the Ukrainian army.
Operational-tactical and army aviation continues to “iron” the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroying two fuel and lubricant depots in one. Anti-aircraft gunners shot down four different drones in the areas of the settlements of Izyum, Donetsk and Kharkov.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 141 aircraft, 110 helicopters, 570 unmanned aerial vehicles, 265 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2554 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 283 multiple rocket launchers, 1104 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 2380 units of special military vehicles
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https://topwar.ru/195464-minoborony-podtverdilo-unichtozhenie-vysokotochnym-oruzhiem-shesti-tjagovyh-podstancij-na-zhd-stancijah-ukrainy.html
Not being an expert on things military, I assumed a much quicker pace of the war. But I remain sure that when the time comes — when European economies are imploding from spiraling inflation and unemployment, and the war in Ukraine is winding down to mainly mop up operations (four to six months from now?) — Russia will reiterate its December demands for security guarantees. This could be done when Putin speaks at the UN or some other venue where he can be assured worldwide attention. At that point everyone, especially the populations of Europe, may be ready to listen to Russia. When they learn that the price of peace boils down to a return to NATO’s 1997 military dispositions and the removal of all nuclear weapons to their owners’ territory, they may hopefully start to pressure their governments to make a deal: mass demos, peace candidates competing for office, etc. It will take time, but maybe Russian pressure combined with economic desperation and war fatigue will see the winds go out of the necons’ war sails over the next couple of years.
Of course, none of this is to reckon with the fact that China is the next target, whereupon the nature of the war will then change dramatically: US navy may try to cut off trade to and from China at the various choke points it controls around the globe. The economic hits peoples around the globe will suffer will dwarf those they are taking now.
Another point to consider: if things escalate in Europe to the verge of hot war, the appearance of 500,000 Chinese troops on the Polish border alongside Russia’s army could change a lot of minds in NATO countries. That’s Russia’s ace in the hole. China cannot afford to see Russia go down, leaving it to face a victorious combined West alone. Before that happens, they may well announce a full-on military alliance.
You mean 5,000,000 Chinese troops..at a minimum..:)
Next to Syria or Afghanistan this is going like a rocket.
It took 6 weeks and 100000 casualties for army group south to capture Odessa in 1941.
Blitzkrieg.
And it took five months to take and lose rostov.
Ukraine is a big territory and RF is outnumbered at least two to one and receiving massive amounts of globalist weapons.
Safe and steady. Grinding down the puppets armies through mass indirect fire
@ Midge
“When they learn that the price of peace boils down to a return to NATO’s 1997 military dispositions…”
That would appear to be a considerable improvement for deconfliction in Europe, but the kernel for more trouble would remain: the recalcitrant and revengeful Hegemon’s presence in Europe.
It has been said repeatedly that NATO was created to “keep the US in, the Russians out and the Germans down” when the “victorious” Western powers set up the “iron curtain” (copyright Churchill) while cooking up the plans for the incineration of Russian cities, which was prevented by Stalin’s foresight of the “allies” treachery and ordered the Soviet atomic programme. The purpose was not to defend Europe from an imaginary “Russian invasion” when the USSR and Eastern Europe was half destroyed and their main concern was the postwar reconstruction which was an enormous burden on the Soviets while the Western half (hardly touched by the war, except Germany) was given a Marshall Plan on generous terms, probably the bribe to “keep the US in”.
There is no logic nor reason behind NATO other than keeping Europe in subservience and a foot in the door for more of the Hegemon’s wars and conflicts. The Russians caused no wars in Europe (at least since 1790s) and the recent wars in Yugoslavia were NATO’s wars.
Since I am in the mood to liberally dispense advice to the Kremlin, here is another one: Russia should not stop at 1997, she should go as far back as 1947 when there was no NATO.
From now on, Gonzalo is a hostage awaiting exchange with a bunch of fat Azov fighters in Russian captivity. He ceased being interesting, just moralising tasteless discourse as at the Galloway´s show on Sunday.
Whatever happened he has to be regarded as compromised as of now.
It may be unfair, but that the rule of the game.
I believe I’ve encountered him before – maybe on Yves Smith’s blog.
And then there’s this bizarre story
https://australianpropertyforum.com/steve-keen-39-s-debunking-economics-website-stolen-t13019.html
Making a prisoner exchange for Gonzalo would be interesting. He himself has no value to Russia, it’s not like he is privy to some super duper secret info or fought for Russia. What is his value?
Well: he is a western journalists who went against the grain and is somewhat well known in dissident circles in the west. It will be interesting to see if there is a prisoner exchange for him because it might signal Russia being willing to protect dissenting western journos. Although Snowden is in Russia right now, so the record looks good.
There is also a Florida-cop who claims to sit on some juicy video-tapes (pardon pun), from the first time Epstein went to jail.
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/ex-cop-has-700-epstein-blackmail-videos/
Shaun Attwood made an interview with Dougan on JooTube, but it’s gone now.
Would highly recommend Jacques Baud’ “The Military Situation In The Ukraine.” Baud, was a former colonel of the General Staff, and an ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries, trained in the American and British intelligence services. “He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations. As a UN expert on rule of law and security institutions, he designed and led the first multidimensional UN intelligence unit in the Sudan. He has worked for the African Union and was for 5 years responsible for the fight, at NATO, against the proliferation of small arms. He was involved in discussions with the highest Russian military and intelligence officials just after the fall of the USSR.”
Most informative as he verifies and supports much of what we have seeing on the saler blog.
https://labourheartlands.com/jacques-baud-the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine-update/
What I am baffled by is these visits to Kiev by Boris Johnson and now Blinken and Lloyd Austin. Why would the Russians allow these men (who are actively training, arming and sharing Intel with the AFU and the Nationalist Brigades) to set foot in Ukraine? These men are responsible for the deaths of scores of Russian servicemen and Ukrainian Civilians. These are War Criminals. The Russians should have told them that once they cross the border into Ukraine that they are legetimate targets. The Russians need to take a page out of the NATO playbook and declare all of Ukraine to be a No Fly Zone and enforce it.
Now maybe I’m reading this wrong. Maybe Boris the Clown and the Washington Dumb and Dumber Duo didn’t cross that border. Maybe they met with Zelensky somewhere in Poland and called it Kiev. I know Russian missiles (according to the latest Southfront Map) are still striking targets in and around Kiev. I tried to find pictures on CNN or Fox of Blinken and Austin walking around Kiev. I couldn’t find it so there’s still doubt in my mind that they were actually there. Can anyone here confirm without a doubt that Johnson, Blinken and Austin were actually in Kiev (and so is Zelensky for that matter)?
He was a Kiev subway yesterday or so for giant pressconference….I imagine journos etc would be still present in Kiev for the Blinken and the other guy big up meeting….not checked if press conf post reporting by journos after though which might prove it.
Are there still flights going in and out of Kiev?
Press conf by Pentagon held in Poland just over the border after meeting held in Kiev….apparently
Hmm smells fishy to me.
I’ve thought about this. I think I have an answer.
I’ll start with this: A Russian victory in Ukraine is a foregone conclusion. It’s going to happen regardless of what NATO & Co. do.
NATO exists to threaten Russia. So if you’re Russia, how do you best confront NATO? On a battlefield that isn’t Russia, but favours the Russian side. That would be Ukraine. Here Russia is fighting to it’s strengths. Ukraine is close, and it falls within the range of Russian area denial assets.
Then there’s the fact that the Ukrainian army is simply outmatched, no matter what the west provides. So let them provide. Let them proffer up their weapon stocks for a lost cause. Let them deplete their armouries.
Lastly, let their politicians into Ukraine. It’s important the world sees just how intertwined Ukraine and the west are. Because when Ukraine is conquered, the world will see the true worth of western support. The world will see just how impotent the west really is. Like Afghanistan, the west will be associated with another embarrassing defeat.
It may not have started that way, but that’s where it stands now.
This is existential for Russia. She has to win. This is true for the west also, because they’ve made it so. They’ve involved themselves in a war they could never win.
There’s a close analogy between the current war and World War I that hasn’t been much remarked. In 1914, Germany, faced with a two-front war, had a plan to take out France quickly so that it could turn its full might against the greater power, Russia. When the plan failed, the logical thing would have been to come to terms with the allies and bring the war to an end. Instead, each side persisted in the hope that the other’s war-fighting ability would eventually collapse. So too with the US vs. Russia/China war we are in now: the Empire’s plan was to take out Russia fast via a military quagmire in Ukraine combined with economic blitzkrieg, so that it could turn its full might against China. It’s clear now that the key part of the plan has failed: Russia will destroy Ukraine’s military at its own pace in its own way, with a substantial but far from unbearable cost to itself, while Russia’s economy seems set to take the full brunt of Western sanctions in stride as it reorients its economy from the Eurasian West to the East and South. With the failure of the initial plan now clear, the logical thing for the Empire of Lies to do would be to come to terms with Russia and China. But that won’t happen. Instead, each side will dig in until the ability of one or the other to continue the war collapses. This may take longer than many of us have years yet to live.
How did you go bankrupt?
— slow at first, and then all at once.
To paraphrase what I think is Hemingway.
Exactly, when failure occurs the US knows only one thing – double down – and in this case it is Europe which will pay the price with their seemingly willing economic suicide by stupidity. The US’s ‘pivot to asia’ policy, a mainstay policy since Obama days in 2008, still hasn’t been implemented and the US is now bogged down in Europe for years. I still think that RF will win this war decisively eventually. I don’t think that many ukrainians want zelensky as a president anyway – he was hated enough before the SMO – he is doubly hated now. Only those in the west of Ukraine, the traditional Nazi heartlands who have been mostly uneffected by the operation so far, will want to fight but then I’m sure the Russians can deal with that. Most Ukrainians will take the side of their country against nazis, corrupt oligarchs and politicians against the gaician fascists. At least thats what the RF will be hoping.
Glad to hear in this thread that many Americans have already tuned out the endless propaganda poured by the military industrial complex. Also now known to 99% of Americans with a reading level beyond fourth grade (Which leaves out vast swatches of the Democrat party), until another crisis can be manufactured (CoVid long dead…global warming long dead…) Ukraine is THE distraction which Joe and Hunter Biden will wrap themselves with.
Added by request:
I forgot to mention that “assassination” false flags were widespread during the Obama years–they go all the way back to Ted Kennedy in 1970s Massachusetts— they are actively under consideration in the Biden White House, most likely involving a visit to the border in Texas (to embarass Governor Abbott) or to Florida (to embarass Governor Disantis) and in both cases to coddle the hispanic vote.
US tax payers should see this
Russia captures an insane blockbuster stash of Ukrainian weapons left in a factory.
An estimated 100,000 tons!!
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhad82NKsZE
The capture was covered in a recent sitrep:
/sitrep-operation-z-13/
— more videos of the arsenal in that article.
As one commenter said, the missile had Cyrillic markings on it. The video also shows stacks of empty artillery brass, reloading work stations, and stacked boxes of mortars and ammo. Lots of stuff in that arsenal, some Western and some old Soviet.
It will probably make a dent in the Ukies’ ability to shell Donetsk.
Why US tax payers Andrew ?
Taxes do not fund government spending.
The US treasury gives the people the $’s that they then use to pay their taxes.
There is no such thing as tax payers money.
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=31604
They issue the currency then collect. They NEVER collect then issue.
If the US treasury announced that it was going to stop spending at midnight tonight Andrew.
How long would it take before the people of America could no longer pay their taxes ?
It would depend on how much savings they had and how much they could borrow from a bank.
Once there savings were gone and could no longer borrow and sold all their assets. They wouldn’t be able to pay their taxes. They would run out of $’s.
DIAGRAMS & DOLLARS: modern money illustrated (Part 1)
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/01/diagrams-dollars-modern-money-illustrated-part-1.html
DIAGRAMS & DOLLARS: modern money illustrated (Part 2)
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/01/diagrams-dollars-modern-money-illustrated-part-2.html
Unless of course you think Macdonalds prints the $ which is ridiculous. Macdonalds gets their $’s from the same place as everyone else the US treasury. It is written on every bank note where they come from.
@midge
Not attempting to be inflammatory ….
But “peace candidates competing for office?”
Zelensky ran for office under a “peace platform” 😂😂😂
Anyone “competing for office” nowadays needs the kosher stamp of approval. (Candidates who have dark and lurid “dirt” in their private lives that they don’t want the entire world to know about….,making them very easy to control)
“Mass revolutions” are only effective (or only have a chance at being effective) if they are orchestrated “color revolutions”……
At least “color revolutions” are the only “revolutions” that the media will cover 😂😂😂
The yellow jackets made quite a bit of noise in France….and Macron was re-elected 😂😂😂
Citizens don’t “pressure governments” ….it’s the other way around.
Long gone are the days of voting and/or pressuring governments to facilitate any change away from their narrative.
If voting worked …they wouldn’t let us do it.
The will of the majority had been ignored for quite some time.
The will of the minority in actuality reigns supreme in a “democracy”…..
Everything else is window dressing.
Perhaps “democracy” is the problem?
“Perhaps “democracy” is the problem?”
You are paraphrasing Plato: “Pericles was filling Athens with marble, ivory and gold when he should have been filling it with Truth, Justice and Temperance.”
Plato lived long enough to see all the bad fruits of democracy ripening, one after the other: Popularism, Exceptionalism, Imperialism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Tyranny, Injustice and Suicidal Militarism.
Unfortunately, he failed to find a practical alternative; though he emphasized the importance of choosing competent leaders. Competent leadership seems to me more important than system: Putin in Russia, Roosevelt in U$A, Attlee in UK, DeGaulle in France, Castro in Cuba, Lee in Singapore, Assad in Syria, Nasr’Allah in Lebanon, Khomeini in Iran, Mao in China are all examples of great Leadership though different systems.
Democracy is not the problem. The problem is that we have oligarchy, not democracy. Plato was a supporter of oligarchy, which is what all modern states are. Recall that Aristotle affirms that election of leaders by ballot is the mark of an oligarchy,as the rich will usually win thanks to their superior wealth. Democracy is selection of the government by lot, which of course benefits the Hoi aporoi i.e. those without resources that thus have to work to live.; Such people as Plato hated.
Platon, in fact, hated tyranny in all its forms (be it the tyranny of one, few, or many), and his abhorrence of tyranny runs through his entire work.
He does distinguish two kinds of democracy, and only in the deviant kind the selection of governors would be done randomly with diregard to their actual skills “as if by lot”.
To study Platon takes at least a decade, and the best introduction to Platonic though is, in my opinion, Plutarch.
Unfortunately many people are so intellectually lazy, that will only bother to read the opinions of badly educated ‘academics’ rather than the original works themselves.
And no, you don’t learn Platon by reading one or two of his works, with a fragmented approach. The entire corpus should be studied in an integrated manner.
Sorry.
Pericles was called a ‘tyrant’ back then, so nothing to do with democracy in the first place.
Platon himself distinguishes the two democracies in his works, the right one and a deviant kind where tyrants and demagogues were loose and the people no longer formed a Demos but a mob.
Later, Aristoteles employes two different terms to refer to the right and the deviant forms of ‘the rule of many’.
Pericles was called a ‘tyrant’ back then, so not much to do with democracy in the first place.
Platon distinguishes two kind of democracy in his works, a right and a deviant one, where tyrants and demagogues are loose and people no longer constitute an organised Demos but a mob (ochlos).
Later on, Aristoteles uses two different terms to distinguish between the right and the deviant forms of the ‘rule of the many’, and similarly for the right and deviant forms of ‘the rule of the few’ and ‘the rule of one’.
Platon did not ‘fail to find a practical alternative’, he actually came up with the best solution ever.
Because every political system, no matter how well made in the beginning, will gradually deteriorate, he understood that besides the political model, it is people who are the most important factor.
When both the people and their political leaders are educated, this is the decisive factor that will keep away the evils of deterioration and tyranny.
Aristoteles does observe later on, that tyrants require their subjects to be poor in spirit, and only by breaking down their learning -as well as the social, friendship, and family bonds- tyrants can be in power.
Platon’s discoveries and proposals are indeed timeless, and provide the primary forms of politics and good governing.
OK seriously something needs to be done about this crap,and quickly. In response to the Ukrainians openly announcing they are running death squads to kill people that side with Russia. Either in Russia or in the LDNR republics they need to form and publicly announce they have formed SMERSH units to operate in all the liberated (and occupied) areas of the former Ukraine. That they will be authorized to capture or kill all Ukrainian terrorists,using any and all means needed for the job. And recruit informants to provide information on these terror squads. To show that they and their handlers aren’t safe anywhere in Ukraine. And start by bringing to justice the gauleiter of Nikolayev who is bragging about the Ukrainian terror groups killing those supporting Russia. A strong harsh object lesson is required. If the Ukrainians get away with terror attacks against supporters of Russia. Supporters of Russia will be afraid to show their support out of fear.And the liberated territories can’t be pacified:
‘Traitors’ will be executed – Ukrainian governor
https://www.rt.com/russia/554475-ukraine-governor-traitors-extrajudicial-executions/
“‘Traitors’ will be executed – Ukrainian governor”
Ah, and once again we hear the classic slogan of democracy.
— and yes, that was sarcasm, so nobody please take that wrong. :)
Seriously, I’ve been playing a little game lately. When something happens, I ask myself, which world leader from the last fascist crisis would have done something like that? Franklin Delano Roosevelt, or Adolf Hitler?
With this course, it is of course easy. I’m not sure FDR ever expressed an opinion of wanting to execute someone, although some of the Republicans of the day who were hating FDR and funding Hitler may have provoked him to it when discussing the world alone with Eleanor. But even then, its a big stretch to picture FDR demanding the execution of anyone. I’m not even sure FDR called directly for the death of Hitler, even if ‘unconditional surrender’ is close.
I started playing this game with the banning of various people because they have in the past been a Russian or known a Russian. Again, which world leader from the 1930’s would have been banning artists and others from their country based on race? Again, doesn’t sound much like FDR? But its of course right up Adolf’s alley, although the road does seem to lead to Joe McCarthy’s neighborhood as well.
Of course, these days, there are so few real democrats left in this world, and by using the small d I express that I mean ‘believers in democracy’, that one has to go back to the first half of the last century to find an example. Certainly, most of today’s “elected leaders of democracies” act much more like authoritarians and totalitarians.
I still say we should settle this like democrats.
A binding referendum of a poll question that is asked in each country. Pick one leader that must go, and the other that stays.
So, people in Russia and America all get asked to pick one of these choices….
a) Biden goes and Putin stays
b) Biden stays and Putin goes
When Americans were asked that by a pollster, the majority preferred that Biden just go away. And it wasn’t particularly close.
Meanwhile Putin has approval numbers that are unimaginable for any American President of recent times. The last to be anywhere near that range was President John F. Kennedy …. who averaged 70% approval while in office …. before they shot him.
“‘Traitors’ will be executed – Ukrainian governor”
He should do the honourable thing and down a bottle of bleach then.
Russia has called on trading partners to switch to national currencies! Russia will strengthen its geopolitical position and power by selling its energy resources and commodities in RUBLES.
Any update on the unfriendly nations making payments in Rubles for their gas purchases, particularly Germany, Australia, & Italy. Is Russia still selling commodities to the U$A and UK?
There is no sovereignty without monetary sovereignty. Nations need to trade using their respective national currencies.
https://www.rt.com/business/554431-russia-dump-dollar-currencies-trade/amp/
Pardon me if this has been explained elsewhere on the Saker but i just heard the Pridnestrovian Maldavia Republic has been recognized by Russia. Any further info?
Just heard there was a RPG attack on a security building in Transnistria,looks like the Reich is trying to start something there.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/25/explosions-hit-security-ministry-in-breakaway-transnistria-a77485
Its just another suppressed population who have had enough and wants their freedom back from a dictatorship government.
KGarliv on April 25, 2022 · at 2:42 pm EST/EDT
“…SBU should be busy with war issues, not loudmouth foreign journalists who can easily be deported and chapter closed. Wonder why they keep him ‘there to investigate..’”
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“…not loudmouth foreign journalists…”
Really?
Don’t be so sure about that.
FSB just arrested an SBU-trained neo-nazi cell in Russia in charge of assassinating “loudmouth” Russian journalists, the most popular ones, among them Vladimir Solovyov.
https://m.vz.ru/politics/2022/4/25/1155522.html
“…Neo-Nazis trained by the SBU prepared attempts in Moscow to assassinate TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, presenters Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeeva, and other TV journalists…
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Read on.
Lone Wolf
As Gilbert Doctorow writes, the assasination squad is a very serious escalation. It is highly likely they were aproved by Zelensy’s handlers. Thank heavens they were caught, well done the SBU. The Russian media will be rightly outraged and I think, even more supportive of the need to purge the Nazi & Nato controlled provocateur elements from their neighbouring territories. Any doubt that there are also multiple Uki sabotage groups at large in Russia should now be evaporated. The SBU are going to be busy.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/
UK and France have special forces in the Ukraine…to train up sabotage units and maybe probably initiate plans targets…maybe accompany them.
The OSCE was used to gather information for the Ukrainian forces. If Russia ever sets up a war crimes court in the Donbass, the OSCE and their personnel should be considered as active participants in the attacks – part of a joint conspiracy with Ukrainian government and military.
“Ukrainian formations used data from the cameras of the OSCE mission to strike at the territory of the Republic. Earlier, the Ministry of State Security of the LPR discovered documents confirming the interaction of the OSCE SMM with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. In particular, a list of infrastructural objects of the LPR was found, indicating their location.”
https://t.me/s/voenkorKotenok
From 5:59 of the video
What they’re doing is correcting their coordinates of fire, based on the data coming from the OSCE! So what am I trying to say – this is not the phone of some secret agent. This is OSCE data available for the officer on the ground, this officer headed the battalion Kharkov-1, these are Nazis
Who was he? Maxim Koksharov, Commander of Kharkov-1 (deceased)
Detained staffer, Vadim Golda, ex-assistant for OSCE in Donbass: ‘The video surveillance system was fully to assist Kiev, the data from the frontline was supplied only to Kiev, and straight away. There was a team who analysed this data, who then turned it into action. Which took the form of a report about the positions fired on – as recorded by the cameras.’
The OSCE has long been suspected of this kind of activity but never proven. Now we have phone, laptop camera – flash drives with information on them. This is all evidence that forms the case that has been stood up in the DPR against the OSCE.
https://vk.com/wall253484185_806
Before the Ukraine war I would’ve told you it’s impossible for me to despise shitlibs any more than I already do and impossible for me to have less respect for their foam-brained worldview. But I would have been wrong. Very, very wrong.
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/04/you-are-carbon-they-want-to-reduce.html
Yes, we are, they told this over and over and over and over. 500 million people, beautiful Earth, with lots of green and animals etc.
They seriously started this in th 80’s.
They say: ooo population increased, yes, but on a so much slower rate:
1950 – 1980 (early 80’s) population doubled, from 2,5 up to 5 billion.
Then, 80’s till now, almost 40 yers population almost 8 billion, nout double and a quarter. Natality rate decreased a lot, meanwhile the life expectancy increased, so the structure of population nowdays is older, with less people in the fertile years and much less babies and children.
Now the population will start to idle and in a few years to drop. Drasically if they make new pandemics so to create new fake ”vaccines” that are not as the old ones were, clasic, but ”enhaced” and aimed at the children and teens. They vaccinated last year over 100 million children in Africa with a polio vaccine that is intended to end the polio vaccine induced polio. Wild polio is over in Africa, the one circulating is induced by polio vaccine for which they created a new vaccine!
https://www.afro.who.int/news/over-80-million-reached-africa-trailblazes-novel-polio-vaccine – delivered in 2011, now 2022 another 80 will be delivered
They had polio spread by the polio vaccine!
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/02/vaccine-derived-polio-spreads-in-africa-after-defeat-of-wild-virus
Miracle: Nigeria, the country with the highest natality rate in Africa (or the second but anyway the most populated and that adds the most new people) rejected the polio vaccine since the early 20’s!!!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831725/ – What Led to the Nigerian Boycott of the Polio Vaccination Campaign?
So… no connection. Afghanistan also didn’t do the WHO vaccines and has one of the highest natality rate, also other countries that rejected WHO poisons.
Of course a high living standard also makes people having less babies, as they don’t need them to ”take care of them” or to work the field etc. And also they want more time to enjoy life. The single and most ethical way to stabilise the population (if needed) is to create opportunities and prosperity for the people around the world. But without the Big Pharma issue, that makes people clients and unhealthy. Also this backfired, as more people are vulnerable also lots of children: autism, astma, autominune diseases, cancers and so on. Also decreased IQ which they noticed.
If everybody has shelter, clean water, hygiene etc opportunities, people would live long lifes without the need to vaccinate much, look at the Amish people
Without the Satanists that try to destroy people by lots of things including the trans pushing agenda on children and with prosperity for all, things will be so perfect!
I recommend a few articles, but there are so many! And they are official, not in a ”conspiracy site”:
https://en.unesco.org/courier/november-1991/interview-jacques-yves-cousteau-0
Jacques Custeau, the part with What are the main dangers that threaten the Earth today? and then the rest, till:
Getting rid of viruses is an admirable idea, but it raises enormous problems. In the first 1,400 years of the Christian era, population numbers were virtually stationary. through epidemics, nature compensated for excess births by excess deaths.
I talked about this problem with the director of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences. He told me that scientists were appalled to think that by the year 2080 the population of Egypt might reach 250 million.
What should we do to eliminate suffering and disease? It’s a wonderful idea but perhaps not altogether a beneficial one in the long run. If we try to implement it we may jeopardize the future of our species.
It’s terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn’t even say it. but the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.
Jane Godall: at Davos, again DAVOS:
Jane Goodall @ Davos: “All these [environmental] things we talk about wouldn’t be a problem if there was the size of population that there was 500 years ago.”
The world population 500 years ago is estimated btwn 420 and 540 million — 6.7 billion fewer people than today.
https://www.chicagoreporter.com/why-we-should-be-wary-of-blaming-overpopulation-for-the-climate-crisis/
Boris Johnson, some years ago, before he ended up having at least 7 children (known :)
How the hell can we witter on about tackling global warming, and reducing consumption, when we are continuing to add so relentlessly to the number of consumers? The answer is politics, and political cowardice.
https://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/03/mayor-of-london-global-overpopulation-is-the-real-issue/
And there are so much more… so much more!
I would say there are three forces at play. 1. Rationality. This is about the past and the present. 2. Spirit and science. They are about the present, the future and the unknown. 3. There is jugment and action and that is a synthesis of the known facts, rationality and the spirit. So the solution to over-population involves means to control fertility, managing the work opportunities and creativity and allowing for alternative social systems, all peacefully. The fertility is very much self controlled as we can see happening spontaneously in developed societies. So even if children won’t die from an epidemic in the advanced countries, the women having their own career will settle for two children at the most if they have any at all. This behavior could not be predicte fifty years ago. This is where we face the limits of rationality in social and environmental system modeling. Basically one has to try a system before one knows how the system will behave.
JUST IN – Russia’s FM Lavrov says “the danger [of a nuclear war] is serious, it is real, it cannot be underestimated.” (RIA)
If Russia takes out the right places then I dont think anyone will complain.
W DC, NATO & EU HQ, Switzerland
Where the devils are.
Might even get an award. Nobel Peace Prize for Putin 2022.
You forgot the root of the tumor, City of London. See? How easy and stupid it is to kill billions of people and then discover you got it all wrong and hit all the wrong places………:-D.
Thats why God banned us all from revenge, “the revenge is mine”. He knew we would just fool again.
I do not know what you guys make of it, but I have an impression that current lockdown in Shanghai (and very likely in Beijing in the next days) is a sort of China revenge for the US sanctions imposed on her during Trump term through further disruption of already fragile global supply chains and implicit sign of support of Russia on the backdrop of sanctions imposed on her by the collective West. Do you think it might really be the case or my imagination has gone too far astray?
Probably true
Speaking of supply chains I’m worried that we here in the U.S.A. will not getting enough American Flags (as China is our main supplier for such things) in time for the Fouth of July if this war and sanction business keeps on going on for much longer.
It is time for our Politicians here in the U.S. get serious about making Peace instead of stoking for greater war.
There is another angle to that affair. There has been a long standing power struggle within the party between two partisans in China. One from Beijing another from Shanghai. The lockdown could generate a huge backlash against Xi who is the one holding the supreme power. Who knows?
China treats the virus as a Bioweapon attack. Reflect on that.
Probably true, but what does it change? Viruses have been living with humankind for ages. One cannot stop them. Now it is highly likely they are tailor made / engineered to target specific ethnicity. Lockdowns, mask mandates, etc are only smoke and mirror measures. Ineffective, aimed at populace control to pursue specific policy as opposed to real eradication of alleged public danger. Power and greed, greed and fear……….until people will finally figure out that consent of the governed has its limits………….. Unless they don’t which is a base case of all “the powers that be”
I’m not convinced about Shanghai.
When the virus kicked off two years ago it was people dropping dead in vids out of China which spooked the west. This could be the virus (vaccination required) horror show 2.0.
Not sure if anyone is going to read my response as this is a bit late, but…
China might be doing economic war via back door with the US. “Sorry, we cannot trade with you right now because of COVID-19.”
China can take an economic hit. US cannot.
It just looks really crazy on paper when you write. The civilized Western world is backing a regime that is run by Nazis in a world war against Russia! Look how far we’ve come.
In one of his latest videos Andrei Martyanov – Medvedev he is actually more of a hardliner in terms of being ready to use military options – he cited an example of this, can’t recall what it was. (some of your comment was removed as it was untrue. Please stick to facts. Mod.)
I do remember that Medvedev remarked during the Syria crisis in 2013 that RF was close to war with the United States. It was an unusual remark by a top RF politician at the time, kind of refreshing. But Medvedev is known for being West-oriented, and an opportunist. Also a bit of a cynic who has fallen out of favor with ordinary people through making arrogant remarks.
Is he forever trying to compensate for the damning impression made by his UN abstention that threw Libya to the Western wolves? Corrected. Mod.
Putin may be overly cautious but there is little doubt that he is an actual good person.
Sorry, my recollection may have been incorrect, it was some anecdotal reference to a readiness for an armed option.
Russia is finally moving to the end game.
Limiting Ukraines ability to move troops and arms and destroying fuel dumps means Ukraine is now vulnerable to a breakthrough splitting its eastern front.
Russia is at the probing stage. Using mobile troops to probe the enemies lines to find weak spots to exploit, once this process is finished then its time to use larger forces on theses points to cause panic and a redeployment by Ukraine which exposes the troops to destruction.
Yes the result is inevitable, you can see it on the faces of the “winning” side, if this is winning then I hate to see what they are like when losing?
FRENCH ELECTION
Substantial evidence of election fraud involving Macron at weekend.
Recount and audit should happen.
Those voting areas controlled by Macron and related parties showed results well out of odds with others.
French Military should place Macron and his backer in custody until it is completed.
I saw a report somewhere today that NATO HQ and EU HQ were both very nervous about the thought of a Macron defeat.
But of course, we know that these organizations are staffed with highly moral and highly ethical people who are reverent believers in democracy and who would never, ever dream of interfering with the right of the people to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
I fear the West will find a way to stage a horrific false flag, but I don’t know what good that would do at this point—everyone is against Russia anyways and if they want a full on NATO war, I don’t even have words for that.
it seems proved that the usa ara funding a web f bio labs in europe. germany is the mastermind of the european project funded via Victoria Nuland for about U$$ 200 millions with participation of Hunter Biden. This should be investigate and turn public. We know there is (was) 25 such laboratories in 404 ukaine
so , they are producing WMD all over europe with US funding. it was the reason of the syria war of 2003
THEY ARE CRIMINALS
Please stop using so many capitals, breaks site policy. Some changed. Mod.
What if forces in Azovstal try to break out and Ukraine help them with some kind of landing operation?
From the picture posted by Aljazeera* it looks like the Russians are opting to smoke the varmints out of their hole in Maripol.
*https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/25/ukraine-russia-un-humanitarian-corridor-mariupol-azovstal
I think that Russia would give in, under UN pressure, allowing Azovs to go.
In that case they are idiots !
Ukraine-backed radicals considered assassinating RT editor-in-chief – Moscow
https://www.rt.com/russia/554498-jornalists-target-group-murder/
Ukraine is a terrorist state. The Kyiv authorities killed those who did not agree with the Bandera ideology and the ban on the Russian language in the Donbass. Let’s remember Alexander Zakharchenko, Givi, Motorola. Ukraine killed its own journalists and writers. Let’s remember Oles Buzina. Now Ukraine authorities has decided to kill Russian journalists. The terrorists arrested today in Moscow testify that Vladimir Solovyov was only the first on the list for destruction, which was approved by the SBU. The group had the task of liquidating Margarita Simonyan, Dmitry Kiselev, Olga Skabeeva, Artem Sheinin, Evgeny Popov, Tigran Keosayan – the best Russian journalists. Why? Because they reveal the truth that is unpleasant for Kyiv.
Such terrorist attacks are impossible without Zelensky’s direct instructions and without the assistance of the American embassy in Moscow, and without the approval of the European Union. On April 22, the President of Ukraine was awarded the German Media Prize for Freedom. It does not matter that during his presidency, Vladimir Zelensky closed all (!) opposition media. The fantastic empire of lies must get everyone who prevents it from zombifying humanity out of the way. And there is no problem to give an award even to the bloodiest dictator. And there is no problem compiling lists of those journalists who, in the opinion of the curators of Nazi Ukraine, should be destroyed. But there is one problem. In Russia, the FSB works very well.
I am so sorry that Julian Assange did not apply for asylum in Russia.
https://www.rt.com/russia/554472-russia-ukraine-plot-journalist/
A description from the Izyum front yesterday.
(Telegram @vysokygovorit )
( machine translation)
From “Older than Edda”
“In general, tactics in the Izyum direction have not changed. Parts are moving from settlement to settlement, leaving units to control key points.
The First Tank Army continues its steady advance westward from Izyum on both sides of the Seversky Donets River. Plants and Chervony Miner were taken, Velyka Kamyshevakha, which is a major defense center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is visible through binoculars.
The heroic 20th army, having taken Sukha Kamenka and Suligovka, attacks the enemy in the direction of the village of Dolgenka and Kurulki, cutting off the supply routes to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine throughout the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
Parts of the 41st Army reached the line of the Oskol River.
The low rate of advance, instead of moving in long columns at the beginning of the war, made it possible to reduce losses in personnel to a minimum, while at the same time inflicting huge damage on the enemy.
For example: the 39th brigade, which stormed Suligovka, has a couple of dozen dead and several dozen wounded during the entire period of hostilities, while only the 95th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 100 people killed in battles with them, while being in a well-prepared defense. And in addition to the 95th brigade, units of the 93rd mechanized and 25th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were also defeated there.
As many have rightly noted, they stopped showing Russian prisoners, and the reason for this is simple, they simply do not exist. On the other hand, fresh batches of captive vushniks are sent to Russia every day.
We have problems, the war forced us to look at and evaluate many things differently, but what I can say for sure is that now we see a completely different army than on February 24, 2022. And this can be best described in the words of A.S. Pushkina:
But in the temptations of a long punishment,
Having endured the blows of fate,
Russia has grown stronger. So heavy mat, crushing glass, forges damask steel.”
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Will somebody please explain to me why Russia is still shipping gas to Europe when they are not being paid.
They are being paid, exchanging physical currency with GazpromBank, which is then converted into Roubles. Russia most likely have been asked not to gloat about it as Uncle Scam will be upset.
I’m just wondering myself if America is flying in dollars like they did in Iraq & Afghanistan for the 700,000 monthly barrels of oil it was importing from Russia pre SMO.
You’ll find a few recent articles on RT or Tass on the subject.
Deliveries to the US should be illegal though, oil, rocket engines, any other commodities/products. I suppose though, Russia has a few friends/long term trading partners in these hostile countries.
Some Polish officials have been bragging about not paying in rubels for gas and look what have happened:
https://russian.rt.com/business/news/995681-gaz-system-potok-gaza-rossii
Russia set the deadline and this is it. No more negotiations.
The West isn’t everyone, in fact, they’re a minority.
We are the golden billion. We are the light on the hill. We are the exceptional, the only ones the world cant live without (Obama).
You are the useless eaters. You are the third class world, you are the black spot in the butt.
“You think you are so clever and classless and free, but you are still fucking peasants as far as I can see”.
(John Lennon played by Marianne Faithful) https://youtu.be/3N_rNz2oAGA ).
Some videos for today.
RT examines Donbass schools used as Kiev-regime military bases on the conflict’s front line:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/military-bases-ukraine:d
Great video showing Iskander launch at Kiev-regime forces:
https://rutube.ru/video/ea2a14e8f5f5e934613abf6e3a9a0f39/
Shows a position taken from Kiev-regime troops in a Donbass settlement:
https://rutube.ru/video/4c1eea6663aab2726c7ee37f1d581a9f/
Russia’s Mi-8 helicopters provide air cover for military column:
https://rutube.ru/video/5f97508908c152dc9b1a525d3f8583d9/
Pretty sure this is saker-blog-related, but if not, apologies in advance:
But I REALLY got a kick out of this Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry’s statement about withdrawing from the OAS, shutting down the building, expelling all the diabolical
This guy pulls absolutely NO punches:
“We ratify our unwavering decision to leave the OAS…, and by confirming our irrevocable denunciation and resignation, before this calamitous, truculent and lying dependency of the State Department of Yankee Imperialism. We also communicate that as of this date, we cease to form part of all the deceitful Mechanisms of this monstrosity, be it the Permanent Council, Commissions, Meetings or Summit of the Americas.
https://kawsachunnews.com/nicaragua-expels-the-oas
In fact, Anna, it is very related. It is a part of real GWO (Global War on Terror), not a fake one designed by and advertised by Bush adm. around year 2000. I expect many other countries, will find courage and support by China, RF, Iran, Syria, … , and start expelling deep state, in all its forms and shapes (NGO’s, selected foreign banks, mining/oil corporations) from its territories.
I think of this cleansing (denazification) process, specially in Africa and South America, as essential to restoring economical health and national self esteem.
Best regards, Spiral
It seems that Phase II is being very deliberately slowed down by VVP, beyond the constraints of required troop re-deployment … et cetera. Why? Because the slow, inexorable grind is having a huge psychological impact on the adversary, which will work out to Russia’s great advantage. Part of the impact is having to guess and guess again what Russia’s next military move will be; another part is having to see the huge arms shipments essentially being wasted; yet another part is proving the total hollowness of verbal promises. While sometimes a lightning strike may be the right strategy — sometimes its exact opposite.
Additionally, the current pace is likely the optimal operational tempo. It is deliberate systematic destruction of enemy personnel. 100s of Ukies are being killed each day. They are well dug-in after 8 years, with layered and deep fortifications.
Imagine a black thundercloud raining metal moving along on top of them, sector by sector. A hell storm. Russians enjoy air dominance, artillery dominance, almost unlimited resupply and logistics and missiles. After each sector is blotted out, the ground forces move in for mop up duty.. so not a sexy fast phase, but guaranteed victory with minimal losses.
https://youtu.be/WSogX3qyidk?t=1m49s
The odds are high NATO will intervene somehow in the agony of watching their largest European proxy get ground into burnt metallic dust. Yet they are not conventionally ready. Bleeding out Russians with Ukrainians has proven woefully ephemeral and insufficient. The time has come for Anglo-Zionists to put up more [European] sacrificial proxies or fold. The problem is their arrogance and ideology doesn’t permit them a retreat.
https://www.rt.com/russia/554512-lavrov-nuclear-war-ukraine/
News from Lugansk: GF tells me men are “drafted” from all places. There was a video of PMs volunteering for war duty over a week ago. Literally the whole city is being run by women. I have not heard casuality rate so …. here is to the troops of LPR “may you find your way home free!”
I’m inclined to agree. He wanted to disappear himself as he works to find a way out of Ukraine. The distraction of a fake arrest keeps him incognito and alone. Possibly with some trusted friends.
nobody really knows but after the last developments I reckon:
– The quick regime change flash Kiev surrender failed
– It took some time for the Russians to redeploy for plan B
– A new legal formula is being drafted in order to handle the new territorial gains such as the Kherson, the Kharkov and the Zaporihye oblasts. Very likely Odessa and Nikolaev will be included in this formula, but not Dnipr.
– Both sides are now agreeing on a procastinating scenario. NATO to make the Russians (and the Ukros) bleed. Russia, to purge the soil off Maidanists.
– Politically Putin seems to be more solid than Biden and this is pushing NATO forward. Time is on the Russian side.
– No data available about the effects of the sanctions and Russian plans to twart them. Appatently, the Russian gas keeps flowing west which is very bizarre.
– New deals approved in Russia for Astra Zeneca and other vaccine production, which is also bizarre.
– Putin will probably make some move by 9 May victory day.
Yes, many odd/bizarre occurrences.
Others to ponder in regard to developed weaponry (Russia and US and?) but not yet officially acknowledged to exist or having been used even when effects of use have been witnessed at various locations around the world.
Ionic heaters – map
http://climateviewer.org/history-and-science/atmospheric-sensors-and-emf-sites/maps/haarp-ionospheric-heaters-worldwide/
Tesla offense/defense scalar weaponry
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Tesla_Weapons_Scalar_Potential_Interferometer.html
Moray – radiant energy
http://www.cheniere.org/books/excalibur/moray.htm
It would be interesting to view what is displayed at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/serbia/belgrade/attractions/nikola-tesla-museum/a/poi-sig/448053/360674
The US is buying more Russian oil than ever, in fact Russias sales of oils are up to 1.6 million barrels per day (up from 1.3 last week) it seems there is no limit to what the west needs, added to a lot lesser imports the Russians are running a trade surplus of $58 billion in the first quarter. Estimates are that the RF will have a $220 billion surplus this year. Oil and Gas prices are paying for this war in effect and the US and Europeans are paying the bills – in rubles – including the UK who made a huge song and dance about refusing to do so. The Ruble is rock stead in the mid 70s to the dollar, better than pre SMO. The economy is in good order but I suspect trouble will come later in the year with job losses and some higher inflation but not to a debilitating degree. Either way Russia will be better off than Europe. I think shortages will be in the technical field for Russia, less in the form of food shortages
I’ve seen reports stating that 15000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine. If this is correct I would assume that maybe 30000 Russian soldiers have been injured. This sounds like pretty heavy losses if it is the truth, but it might as well be just propaganda. Are there any official Russian numbers on this subject.
Generally KIA to Wounded ratio these days is 1:15 even 1:20.
Therefore, the war party is suggesting Russian casualties are between 225,000 and 300,000.
Kinda amazingly high casualty rate for a force that’s estimated to be 125,000.
Russian figures were less than 3000 for combined RF and LDPR loses and about 25000 ukie dead with another 20,000 injured. RF haven’t released any casualty figures for a couple of weeks though. In reality there is no way to tell until the fog of war subsides. I think RF losses are well withing limits of the expected for an operation like this, its why slow and steady works in some ways but it does leave Rusia open to NATO infiltration and terrorist attacks, we are seeing this now in Transnistria/Moldova. NATO – the US wants Russia to bleed on many fronts. They are really just cowards who are afraid to fight themselves, this whole thing has been massively humiliating for NATO, after all the whole organisations existence was for one thing and one thing only, keeping Russia down and they chickened out and ran away when the enemy showed up.
Russia needs to find a way to make Nato bleed.
15000? Why Not 14999? How they ve counted russian casualties ? personally with sticking a number on every russian victim?
That report was fake. It was a Russian Readovka site that was HACKED and the hackers uploaded a fake 15,000 KIA. It was later admitted that it was hacked. Russian losses are under 2000
NATO suspected in attack on a Airport in Transdistria (sp?)
https://readovka.news/news/95071
I‘m telling you NATO is already full on involved in fighting.
I think US and NATO allies have expressed it clearly now that they will not stop until they weaken Russia to the point where it cannot resist anymore. That means loosing its sovereignty and kowtowing to West’s policies. More plans are being hatched at Security Consultative Group meeting currently in progress hosted by US Defense Secretary Austin at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
https://www.airforcemag.com/u-s-and-allies-overcome-barrier-to-providing-sophisticated-weapons-to-ukraine-ahead-of-ramstein-meeting/
The torture and sadism by nationalists toward civilians in Ukraine is shocking, this really is a sectarian war on the Ukrainian side:
https://twitter.com/CamillaLebed/status/1518472257953316865
I hope Nightvision addresses this with today’s Sitrep:
ANNA-NEWS|News|Syria|Donbass|Nagorno-Karabakh
forwarded from
Older than Edda
I will not be at all surprised that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will go on the attack on Transnistria. It is extremely important for Kyiv to reduce the pressure on its grouping in the Donbass (this is a military necessity), as well as to withdraw the remnants of the militants from Azovstal (this is a political expediency).
In order to achieve these two goals, the Armed Forces of Ukraine can attempt to invade the PMR and bring the war to a new level, after all, a third party will be attacked, and in international law, which the West loves to squeal about, this will be an attack on Moldova.
The question is, what will the Moldovan army do and will it participate in the attack on Transnistria, drawing NATO member Romania into the war?
It seems NATO would attack Transnistria now.
I think Russia cannot defend Transnistria.
Why not?
That was to be expected, in the detail however foreseeable, for once again the saying proves to be true that it first
comes always differently and secondly, never as you think. The enemy makes us of terrorist operations.
We can only hope the persons in charge of this russian theatre realize that its not a chess game but real brutal war. In order to win the war against USA and their terror ukros, russia needs a strong fist and maximum firepower.
So today Poland has thrown down the gauntlet to Russia,they refuse to pay for the gas in Rubles. Now we will see if Russia has the will to win or not. The only correct answer will be to cut off their gas supply. If they don’t then the EU will have won the Rubles for gas battle:
EU country rejects ruble gas payments
https://www.rt.com/business/554534-eu-country-rejects-ruble-gas/
Poland and all other russian haters are not paying in rubels but in Euro. They ve two accounts in Gasprombank. One euro account and one rubles account. Poland transfers euro for gas to their euro bank account in Gasprombank. With The euro amount on euro bank account Gasprombank buys rubles and then transfers those rubles to the customer’s ruble account.
Its only Polish Psyops propaganda show
It is already announced in Polish media that Russia has closed valves of Yamal pipeline, which provides natural gas for Poland. Crazy rusophobe Kaczynski does everything to destroy this country. More than a thousand years of fine history has been thrown to the dumpster, unless people finally will open their eyes and remove this maniacal dictator and his corrupted cronies from power.
now its official. Russias favorite Western Partner Germany will supply Ukros with GEPARD anti aircraft tank.
This will be a game changer.
“Life punishes the latecomer”.
But Russia just continue with the slow sleeping pill nice humanitarian war.
LOL … went and looked up what a Gepard is/was.
Its an AA ‘tank’ build on the Leopard 1 chassis.
AA as in WW2 AA, not modern warfare AA.
It has a turret with twin 35mm cannons.
Someone at some point came up with a plan to duct-tape a Stinger missile to its side to give it a minimal missile capability. But this was never implemented due to ‘financial considerations.’
So, if any Russian pilots are flying low and slow and might be in danger of getting hit by 35mm cannon fire, well, they’d better watch out. But, if they are launching stand-off missiles from even 10 to 15 miles away …. this thing is just a ‘target’.
They were originally build for the Belgians, Dutch and Germans. By the time of the article I found (which was really an advert for a plastic model kit), the Belgiums and the Dutch had replaced these things, and the Germans were scheduled to replace them by 2013.
Well, that remains to be seen in combat. Gepard can be used effectively to combat russian helicopters, drones and especially infantry, including lightly armored vehicles. In combination with battle tanks, armored personnel carriers / infantry and artillery, the Russian troops can be pushed back in the more open terrain of the south and south-east of Ukraine. Further deliveries from the existing stocks of the industry will be:
88 Leopard 1A5 (Rheinmetall, FFG), 100 Marder (Rheinmetall) and 120 M113 (FFG).
All of this will help Ukraine significantly in the medium term, and since this material does not come from current Bundeswehr stocks, this delivery does not affect German defense capability in any way
The original task – air defense of vehicle columns – seems to be omitted due to the lack of the Russians’ corresponding capabilities. Allegedly, the Russian Air Force hardly dares to enter Ukrainian airspace anymore.
U ve to operate with Gepard then u would understand what beast it is. Tunguska is hopelessly outmatched by Gepard. The air defense purpose of Gepard is one thing but the other combat surface targets up to a distance of 5km. Combat missions in Somalia and Kosovo were impressive. The combination Gepard with Manpads in a battle put the fear of death in the enemy army. Gepard in Urban warfare is a game changer. Serbs in Kosovo ve made their deadly experiances. I think Romania has approx 40 Gepards fully operational. They will use them against the russian troops in Transnistra or send them to Ukraine.
Btw Dozens of Gepards were extensively upgraded immediately before they were taken out of service (at Siemens Defense Electronics and its successor organization after the sale to DASA).
In conjunction with state-of-the-art AHEAD ammunition (developed for MANTIS), the system is more effective than ever, especially against cruise missiles, drones, etc.
A missing HaFla guidance system is not a knockout criterion.
Gepard is still excellent for urban warfare as i already mentioned but also for securing marches and defending HVAs such as command posts, bridges, supply and logistics centers. However, the level of training of the crew (commander, gunner) is of course decisive for every war: no more than a few seconds are available for target detection, classification and combat. The Moskva is a prime example of what can happen when your own SHORAD is caught with your pants down.
Leo 1 and also Gepard were originally ordered for a conscript army. They are therefore designed in such a way that they can be operated by conscripts after a “short” briefing – high school diploma is not a precondition
Ok the system is logistically supply-intensive. The ammunition consumption is enormous, corresponding quantities have to be procured and transported. According to my information, there is more than enough ammunition in stock. What is it worth the Neutrality of Switzerland we have already learned during the Bosnien and Kosovo theater.
They will find a way how to declare the 35mm-Munition for the Oerlikon-cannon. No problem.
Due to my informations the western partners of Russia are already (last two three weeks) educating ukro soldiers in Slovakia near Poprad with Gepard and other equipment. At the Poprad base are 2 Gepard for training purpose with losts of howitzers from France, Germany, USA,……
They re training Gepard in combination with ManPads.
Slovakia has been turned to trainings and weapon hub for ukraine.
In Michalovce daily arriving hundrets of tank fuel trucks with austrian and german tables on their way to the slovak ukraine border.
Not only fuel trucks also trucks with military equipment.
Never ever seen so many trucks in this part of slovakia.
but no ammunition since that is Made in Switzerland and that nation knows what NEUTRALITY involves
Yandex translate
Genocide in the Donbass.
PCO (Workers’Cause Party) participates in interview on Russian TV; read in full
Causa Operaria (Workers’Cause) team in Russia speaks to communication network with audience of 40 million Russians
Rafael Dantas and Eduardo Vasco from Rostov-On-Don
Last Saturday (23), the special envoys of the Causa Operaria (Workers’Cause) to Russia, Rafael Dantas and Eduardo Vasco, participated in a program of the Don 24 channel. The station is the main station in Rostov Oblast and serves an audience of 40 million viewers, both from the Oblast and other regions of Russia and the Donbass, and has a communication network that includes TV, FM radio, print newspaper, internet portal, news agency, producer and advertising agency.
The interview, which also featured a refugee from the Lugansk People’s Republic, Ludmila Korsakova, had as its central theme the fight against fascism and will be broadcast on Channel Don 24 next weekend. The workers ‘ cause TV will also broadcast the interview,subtitled in Portuguese, later this week.
Vsevolod Gimbut: we would like to thank you for being here. The topic of our conversation is fascism and antifascism. First let’s give the floor to Ludmila, who came to Russia from Lugansk.
Ludmila Korsakova: Hello. Yes, in Lugansk I was a deputy of the regional Council and fought against fascism and NATO. I also promoted the Russian language. However, I had to flee from there because the Ukrainian regime began to arrest those who did this kind of work. I took my children and grandchildren with me, with the help of the Russian Cossacks.
Eduardo Vasco: was that in 2014?
Ludmila Korsakova: Yes, at the beginning of 2014. But that did not stop me from continuing to fight for my ideas here in Russia and I have gathered other refugees who want to fight fascism.
Eduardo Vasco: did you participate in the founding of the Lugansk People’s Republic?
Ludmila Korsakova: yes, because the idea of creating an independent republic first appeared in the Slaviansk regional assembly. At that time Donetsk and Lugansk were still regions within Ukraine. In this Assembly 47 representatives of different parties and organizations participated, such as left-wing parties, Communist parties and anti-fascist and pro-Russian organizations. And I organized that assembly. Still in that year 2014, we asked international organizations to help stop Ukraine’s aggression against the Donbass, but they ignored us. This year 2022 we will celebrate the seventh
people’s Assembly and we invite you to participate. And since we created our organization, we have asked organizations in Europe and around the world to help us, but they do not respond to us. We also sent official documents signed by US and people from more than 40 countries and we know that even NATO received these documents, but all our petitions were ignored. For 8 years Europe has been hiding what is happening in the Donbass. All this time the Donbass keeps saying that
it wants to speak Russian and that it wants to have good relations with Russia, and Europe is not even there for the carnage that is being promoted by Ukraine in the Donbass. They prefer a Nazi Ukraine than a pro-Russian Donbass.
Eduardo Vasco: we interviewed the Secretary of Economy of Rostov-On-Don and he told us that the Red Cross and the UN are doing absolutely nothing to help refugees from the Donbass. What do you think about it?
Ludmila Korsakova: this is true. International Organizations Act only on the Ukrainian side. For example, when these organizations know that the Ukrainian military is going to attack some city, they do nothing to warn and help the population and abandon it to their own fate.
Vsevolod Gimbut: what is known in Brazil about this situation?
Rafael Dantas: in Brazil the media are aligned with the press of the USA, NATO and the European Union. They say that Russia has become the enemy of all and democracy. There is no mention of the crimes of the fascists.
Vsevolod Gimbut: why?
Rafael Dantas: because in the first place there is a great political and economic dependence of the press, the regime, the government, on US imperialism. In addition to an ideological alignment, which says that democracy is one thing above all, although “democracy” is a fascist regime.
Eduardo Vasco: in Brazil there is also a large concentration of the media, which are almost totally controlled by a few bourgeois families. Therefore, there is a monopoly of the media and a single line of thought and information, which causes only the opinion of the rich, the big capitalists, the fascists and the US government to be transmitted to the public.
Ludmila Korsakova: since 1946 the US has maintained the School of the Americas, which provided the tools for the fascist dictatorships of Pinochet in Chile, of Somoza in Nicaragua, for example. She trained the military who later took power in these countries.
Eduardo Vasco: yes, the School of the Americas trained the military that participated in the dictatorships of Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Latin American countries. It is a US Army School for training torturers and the entire apparatus of US puppet fascist regimes on our continent.
Ludmila Korsakova: Manuel Noriega, Omar Torrijos, Rodriguez Lara. These are some of the dictators who went through the School of the Americas. The propaganda says it serves to bring security to the continent but is not true. We see the same now in Ukraine. The US provokes a coup d’etat in a particular country, then promotes its candidate to lead that country.
Already in 2004 the US tried to deliver such a coup in Ukraine, organizing the Orange Revolution, then promoting a candidate named Viktor Yushenko. It was public that his wife had relations with the US. What do you mean? The wife of the president of one country work for another country? However, the US failed to implement this plan at that opportunity. I, as a deputy of the Lugansk Regional Council, have seen how the US intervention has developed over the past 10 years.In
Lugansk, for example, the US promoted anti-Russian policies, such as language cancellation. For example, once we proposed in the Regional Council a program of financing the promotion of the Russian language, and the US gave 86 cents of contribution. At the same time, in order to propagate NATO ideas in the press, the US contributed 2 thousand grevnias (Ukrainian currency) per person.
Eduardo Vasco: we see some similarities between the coup in Ukraine and the coup in Brazil in 2016. In this coup participated many important politicians who have close relations with the US. For example, the president who took over after the overthrow of Dilma Rousseff, Michel Temer, was an informant at the US embassy. The current president, Jair Bolsonaro, salutes the US flag and US officials, is a US puppet. The main party of the Brazilian right, the PSDB, had among its candidates the governor of Rio Grande do Sul who went to the US to receive instructions from US businessmen, and also former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso has a foundation that is funded by the Ford Foundation. So Brazilian politics is almost totally dominated by US propaganda, Information, economic and military apparatuses. Another former Brazilian presidential candidate, former judge Sergio Moro, was trained in the US to carry out the 2016 coup as a judge in
Operation Lava Jato, which led to the fall of Dilma Rousseff and the arrest of former President Lula. It was an operation promoted by the US government through its employees in Brazil.
Vsevolod Gimbut: in recent years we have seen how US politics works. Being Russians, we have already managed to understand a little how this domain works in Brazil, but what do the common people think about what is happening in Ukraine? Do people understand the reasons why Russia is promoting the denazification of Ukraine?
Rafael Dantas: I don’t think so. The denazification operation of Ukraine is presented by the press as a war of conquest of Russia. Ukrainian Nazis are presented as “nationalists”, as defenders of their homeland, as if they are not murdering children and breaking into people’s homes.
Vsevolod Gimbut: but at the same time doesn’t the fact that you two are here reflect a different opinion of events, by aportion of society?
Rafael Dantas: Yes, of course. But the majority of the population believes what the media, controlled by the ruling classes, say. However, there is an increasing share of the population that is beginning to understand reality. We are here to help with this understanding.
Ludmila Korsakova: I once attended an anti-fascist meeting in Venezuela organized by President Nicolas Maduro. At this meeting, I was asked what I understand as fascism. Nowadays there are many interpretations of what fascism would be. But for me the best is that of former Bulgarian leader Jorge Dimitrov, who said that fascism is when one nation destroys another nation. Then we think of the history of the USA: more than 240 years destroying other nations, starting with the
Indians in South America, millions of people in Africa, or for 20 years in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Vsevolod Gimbut: at the time of World War II, many members of the American regime not only supported Nazi Germany, but also financed it, as was the case with Henry Ford.
Ludmila Korsakova: soon, the US participated in the financing of Nazism in Germany. And Germany was a nation that considered itself Aryan and that was decimating the Slavs. When I was asked in Venezuela what fascism is, I said that fascism was born at the same time that the United States was founded. The governments that support the U.S. are somehow supporting and funding fascism. Ukrainian Nazism exists because some governments support American fascism. Soon, the
origins of Ukrainian fascism lie in the USA. Europe and the entire “West”, supporting what the US does, are therefore supporting fascism. Fascism promotes hatred among people. In the Twenty-First Century, many people around the world no longer believe what the Press says about the Donbass, but in Europe there are still many people who do not want to see that the Ukrainian Nazis are committing atrocities.
Eduardo Vasco: we believe that there are many governments in the world that are kneeling before the U.S. government, but the peoples of the world are beginning to rise up against imperialism. In Brazil, for example, a lot of people watch RT, Telesur, read Sputnik News, although there is no Russian channel in Portuguese, but people watch it in Spanish. And on social networks they follow alternative vehicles, from Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, or else the vehicles of our party, our newspaper, our TV channel. And many people on social media or even in street demonstrations lend support to Russia and show outrage against what the US does in Brazil and around the world.
Ludmila Korsakova: Europe signed a series of documents against the ill-treatment of prisoners of war, but tears them up to hide what is being done in the Donbass. We need to tell the truth to Europeans. Europe is so small compared to Brazil or United Latin America, China, etc. If we add up the other countries of the world, and use the work of their journalists to show the truth, then this can defeat all the misinformation promoted by European newspapers in 24 hours.
Vsevolod Gimbut: for example, when European journalists talk about the Azov Battalion on social networks, they treat them as defenders of their homeland. I, as a journalist, cannot treat them as if they were my colleagues. Another example: when there are any denunciations about biological laboratories in Ukraine in an official speech, the media censor this part of the speech. Journalists do not question the contradictions in the speeches of Joe Biden, for example, who sometimes says
that Putin is a genocidal, sometimes says that he is of no use. If there is anyone who is provoking a genocide in Ukraine, it is the US and the countries that support them. And, as we said before, this is not the first case in history.
Ludmila Korsakova: Why does the US say that this is a war “to the last Ukrainian”” The US promoted a war against Russia on the territory of Ukraine, and for them it does not matter either Ukraine as a country, and not even Ukrainians. This has been going on for eight years. That is why starting the Russian military operation was a necessity of ours, because now we see that they are bombing Russian border regions and cities like Belgorod. Organizations like Azov Battalion, Aidar
battalion, Pravy Sektor etc are product of us who are in Ukraine to terrorize and manipulate Ukrainians. In social networks it is only said that Russia is the aggressor, but this is not true. Our main goal is to clarify and show the truth.
Eduardo Vasco: you spoke of the Azov Battalion. The big media in Brazil say that there may be some Nazis in the Azov Battalion, but this is not the way the Russians say it. We do not consider these “journalists” as colleagues. They are propagandists of imperialism, they are mercenaries of manipulation.
Ludmila Korsakova: the main war at this time is not the war in the Donbass, but information war. In this war, journalists who tell the truth will triumph. As Ernesto Che Guevara said: Until Victory, Always!
Eduardo Vasco: in our opinion, Russia is not only defending itself, but also freeing Ukraine and all of Eastern Europe from imperialism. That is why we are on the side of the Russians.
Vsevolod Gimbut: it is no coincidence that President Vladimir Putin called What is taking place in Ukraine a military operation. Russia did not start any war. What it is doing is ending with a war that has lasted eight years, ending with the genocide in Ukraine. And we’ll make it. We are sure that when all this is over, the whole world will know the truth.
Thank you very much.
https://www.causaoperaria.org.br/rede/jornal-partido/atividades-do-partido/pco-participa-de-entrevista-na-tv-russa-leia-na-integra/
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Diario da Causa Operaria (Worker’s Cause Daily)is the press of the PCO (Worker’s Cause Daily) that is in Russia covering the struggle against Nazism and imperialism.
The headlines are becoming ominous.
From today’s New York Times:
U.S. Pushes Allies to Pledge More Military Support to Ukraine
The United States marshaled allies on Tuesday to pledge more military support to Ukraine, accelerating the drive to deter Russia’s offensive and degrade its war machine, as Moscow accused the West of pursuing a proxy war and ignoring the “considerable” risk that it could spiral into a nuclear conflict.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/26/world/ukraine-russia-war-news
Once the nukes start flying, all bets are off. The psychopathic idiots running the U.S. think that they will control the outcome, but as Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
The U.S. power elite has systematically looted the world (including the U.S.) for many decades, as they have killed, maimed and displaced millions of human beings. They seriously miscalculated in Ukraine (while looting it), believing that they could use it as a springboard to break up the Russian Federation (so they can loot it) by suckering Russia into attacking then putting an economic noose around Russia’s neck since, of course, the world would follow the lead of the U.S.. The problem is, they are still thinking this is the 1990s while the rest of the world has moved on. All they’ve succeeded in doing is weakening the Dollar’s position as the world’s reserve currency and exposed western Europe to the possibility of Russia cutting off natural gas and throwing it into an economic depression. Now, to cover their tracks, these psychopaths will actually push the Ukraine situation into WWIII, hoping that the chaos and destruction that follows will permanently obscure their monumental thievery and global mass murder as they slink away into their luxury underground bunkers – not understanding that they will eventually go mad and turn on one another. They just don’t think that far ahead. This is the disease of monumental greed.
Worth noting is the brilliant 2005 Nobel acceptance speech by Harold Pinter:
“I have said earlier that the United States is now totally frank about putting its cards on the table. That is the case. Its official declared policy is now defined as ‘full spectrum dominance’. That is not my term, it is theirs. ‘Full spectrum dominance’ means control of land, sea, air and space and all attendant resources…
The United States possesses 8,000 active and operational nuclear warheads. Two thousand are on hair trigger alert, ready to be launched with 15 minutes warning. It is developing new systems of nuclear force, known as bunker busters. The British, ever cooperative, are intending to replace their own nuclear missile, Trident. Who, I wonder, are they aiming at? Osama bin Laden? You? Me? Joe Dokes? China? Paris? Who knows? What we do know is that this infantile insanity – the possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons – is at the heart of present American political philosophy. We must remind ourselves that the United States is on a permanent military footing and shows no sign of relaxing it.”
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/25621-harold-pinter-nobel-lecture-2005/
May God save us all from this “infantile insanity”.
Great moments in American military history
“Gen William Westmoreland says North Vietnam has not won a single victory during the last year”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0XmRMEvTlc
“General Westmoreland on the Tet Offensive (February 1, 1968)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdsEpby7p04
I can’t seem to find a video clip of his infamous ‘Light at the end of the Tunnel’, statement, but the above should give you an idea of the great American leadership in the War of Denying Dominoes the Freedom to Fall.
Funny to see the imperial battle ensign of Ivan IV “Banner of the Most Merciful Savior” – it is good – and the use of the hammer and sickle “Victory Banner”
These should become battle ensigns of the Russian Army
Operation Z: Military commissars of the Russian Spring
‼️🇵🇱Poland was left without Russian gas
Russia suspended gas supplies to Poland under the Yamal contract after Warsaw failed to pay for deliveries in rubles on Friday
@ IGOR VUKSANOVIĆ on April 25, 2022 · at 2:00 pm EST/EDT
Good day to you Chuck. Nice to see Saker has readers in Pennsylvania.
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That depends on your location.
If you are in Pittsburgh or Philly, then you are in Pennsylvania. If you are in between, you can be in Pennabama or Pentucky, your choice between Deep South Alabama or the Appalachians’ Kentucky.
Either choice, you’re not in PA, you’re in Greater Trumpistan.
:-)
No offense to Chuck, wherever he is.
Lone Wolf
Thanks for clarification :-)
@ mario2 on April 26, 2022 · at 9:09 am EST/EDT
It seems NATO would attack Transnistria now.
I think Russia cannot defend Transnistria.
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A statement without data to support it, is a non-statement. You don’t provide any data to back up your assertion. As invaluable A. Martyanov keeps on saying, Russia’s Army General Staff brainstorms 24/7, making provisions for the unexpected. You can be sure Russia’s Army had already contemplated Transnistria, and seeing an opportunity in every crisis, Russia had plans to meet any attempts from US/NATO/404 to exploit what they consider a weak flank in Russia’s armor.
Read on.
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https://m.vz.ru/politics/2022/4/26/1155650.html
Why is Transnistria being dragged into the Ukrainian conflict
During the day, three terrorist attacks occurred on the territory of Transdniestria, which, presumably, are the responsibility of the Ukrainian special services. The republic has introduced a” red ” level of terrorist danger and canceled the military parade on May 9. Why has Transnistria become the target of attacks, what consequences can they lead to, and what does this mean for Russia?
“…It’s not even a question of what has already happened. We need to understand what will happen next. After all, the airfield that is being operated by the operational group of Russian troops was attacked. And if we proceed from the current logic, then the strikes were mainly carried out on those objects that are in operation and maintained by the Russian troops. That is, the next target may be large ammunition depots in the village of Kolbasna, ” admits Alexander Shcherba, a former speaker of the Supreme Council of Pridnestrovie..”
“…Apparently, the West is directly interested in drawing Transnistria into the Ukrainian conflict. If this happens, another front line will appear,” Stanislav Tkachenko, Professor of the Department of European Studies at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University, an expert of the Valdai Club, told VZGLYAD newspaper.
“The US Secretary of Defense frankly statedthat the United States intends to weaken Russia’s military potential as much as possible. And the more fronts there are, the more forces you will have to spend on them. This is the logic of pinning down Russian forces, including those involved in the operation in Ukraine.”,
– the expert explained. “Another thing is that this is a very risky game for both Ukraine and Moldova. Kiev, for example, has no military advantage in either the Kherson or Mykolaiv regions. And if Russia is provoked, it can reach Transnistria. And then it will affect the whole of Moldova, ” Tkachenko said.
“But despite the fact that Pridnestrovie has a very weak geographical position, the management system is well organized there, and there are also effective armed forces, including our peacekeeping contingent. Therefore, the West, if they want to take control of this territory, will have to launch a whole special operation, which will lead to a direct clash with Russia. And this is not in their interests, ” Tkachenko concluded.
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Lone Wolf
Poland Confirms Russia To Halt All Gas Delivery Wednesday If Payment Not Settled In Rubles
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/russia-halts-natural-gas-supplies-poland-european-energy-prices-spike-local-reports
If all information that I read at The Saker website, and few others is true, then any serious reader / analyst will conclude that Romania (with proactive push by the NATO) is seriously contemplating occupying Moldova to fulfil its long-term goal of the so-called “unification”. In such scenario, Transnistria will not be able to avoid getting involved in hot war.
Russian military should take necessary actions (as a separate plan) for storming Odessa and open a land route to Transnistria so that denazification of Odessa can proceed in parallel with ensuring safety of Transnistria population.
Is there any Russian plan (under development) about Moldova ? Could anybody throw light on that?
We’re late for the show here but stellar musician Klaus Schulze has passed on.
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/04/arming-nazis-on-remembrance-day-with.html