By Amarynth for the Saker Blog
We abandon our usual format for a different take.
How long can we stare into this carnage of killing without losing part of one’s own soul. https://t.me/mod_russia_en/1969
Missile troops and artillery have hit 128 command posts, 169 firing positions of artillery and mortar batteries, as well as 623 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration. The attacks have resulted in the elimination of up to 200 nationalists,
Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aviation have hit 61 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration. ▫️The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 140 nationalists,
This is in one day, a snippet from the Russian MoD report, not counting the night.
How long can we stare into the masks falling off the evil and foolish faces of all in the hegemonic declining powers, selling lies.
Moscow Warns Biden’s Ukraine Missile Backtrack – Risks “Direct Confrontation”
Just 24 hours after insisting he wouldn’t supply Kiev with long-range missile systems, Joe Biden has flip-flopped and now pledged “more advanced” anti-tank, anti-aircraft and precision systems after being pressured by officials – including Obama’s ambassador to Russia.
Biden claimed the US was not “encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders” and didn’t want to prolong the war or enter conflict against Russia, but his move was viewed “extremely negatively” by Moscow.
And
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told RIA Novosti Wednesday that the supply of missiles and further weaponry would increase the risk of direct confrontation.
And
China Conducts “Necessary” Military Drills Near Taiwan After US “Collusion”
Chinese military commanders have confirmed recent seaborne and airborne military drills near Taiwan as a “necessary action” following what they call “collusion” between the US and Taipei.
Last week President Biden reiterated American intentions to back Taiwan militarily in the event of an invasion, while Senator Tammy Duckworth arrived for a surprise 3-day visit on Monday.
PLA Commander Shi Yi insisted Washington’s support “will push Taiwan into a dangerous situation” and the US “itself will face serious consequences.”
How long can we stare at Zelenski the dick on the televisions and newspapers and internet of the day without remaining nauseous?
How long can we stare at the ludicrousness of Ukie coping while all around are dying.
Paul Gray has been associated with four US Nazi groups, which was left unmentioned in this 6 times he was featured by Fox News. The network took steps to conceal his identity and celebrated him as a hero as he took out Russians with US-made Javelins https://t.co/3zkGHAznhN pic.twitter.com/wcWVaTsmQp
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) May 31, 2022
How long can we stare at the videos of a small girl killed by Ukies, convinced that she is their enemy. https://t.me/EurasianChoice/14503
How long can we stare into this abyss of dead human beings and the continuing supply of weapons.
https://t.me/EurasianChoice/14507
How long can we stare into the projections of the western madness onto Russia, saying Russia did something, while it is their own actions being projected.
How long before people understand that Russia is rebuilding in the footsteps of the SMO, fixing what is broken. First ship leaves port after liberation of Mariupol — Southern Military District https://tass.com/economy/1458209?utm_source=startpage.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=startpage.com&utm_referrer=startpage.com
How long before people stop saying: Russia Should …..
- Russia is picking up her own dead and injured and wounded, as well as Ukrainian dead and injured and wounded because the Ukrainians do not even pick up their own dead and injured. Even that! Russia must do for them.
- Russia is feeding the people with emergency aid.
- Russia is rebuilding areas, farming, villages and cities to a functioning state (Unlike the US NATO and partners in Afghanistan for example).
- Russia is the only one that stood up against the odious Nazi ideology and its excesses against humankind, and again is clearing the world of that.
- Russia and China are calling out the hypocrisy underneath the ugly and foolish faces of all in the hegemonic declining powers selling lies, by every method that is possible. They mock the evil, they speak against it, they expose it, and they are and will fight against it. That is why the ugly and foolish-faced are running the Cancel Russia campaign because they are being driven into a corner and cannot stand it any longer.
“There is no Russian culture without Russian tanks, #cancel Russia”
In my email box, I receive interesting solicitations. This one came in from the Ukraine:
Hello,
Please can you help me secure my wife and three kids in your country that are currently in danger here in Ukraine? I have enough money available to perfect the mission!
God bless you and Your help to us will reward you 30%.
Thanks.
Name and Rank (which I will not post).
Spam you say? This is a legitimate High Level Ukrainian commander who was even awarded the title of a Hero of the Ukraine and even on Wikipedia, the details fit. A shallow forensics show up that the IP is correct, there are no spam tracks and without detailed forensics, this looks legitimate. If it is, he is asking Russian oriented people for help! Fancy that! Those brave Ukrainian fighters ….
But where is the opposition? We start here — this video is the sitrep for today. Larry took time and recorded a professional video. The most important sentence in there, is: “We Have To Stop This” and it was a cry from the heart.
This is my cry today. How Long? And We have to Stop This!
More opposition: A little about CELAC, the new and building Latin American organization, that stepped up and are stopping it, in the face of Biden’s Summit for the Americas. You all remember the Summit for Democracy?
The hegemon is being shot down, brought down, talked down, financed down, and downing itself. These young people are saying We Have to Stop This!
“We don’t have to go along with the charades of what they call ‘democracy’. We can defend our own project of integration in the region.” @AbeMarquez3 hears from @manolo_realengo ahead of next week’s @PeoplesSummit22 pic.twitter.com/Sh3jD07uwj
— Kawsachun News (@KawsachunNews) June 1, 2022
To answer the question: How Long? Just a little longer until we start talking about
404-CollectiveWest.
Enjoy your discussion.
“How long….how long….how long….”
This war with its daily carnage will continue until Putin and his policymaking team either:
1. Escalate dramatically, using a much more intense level of force to crush the Ukronazi regime’s military machine OVER THE ENTIRETY OF UKRAINE as quickly as possible, thus making the war ruthless and brutal but short, like several Western supporters of Russia – such as Paul Craig Roberts and others – as well as many dissident Russian patriots labelled “6th columnists” have been urging from the beginning;
OR, failing that, at the least
2. Systematically go after and wipe out as many as they can of the top echelon – Zelensky and all prominent others – of the Ukronazi regime, in effect decapitating the regime, instead of trying to preserve these people for a “negotiated solution” (as if a country where these people or their future acolytes remain in power would EVER turn into a normal, peaceful, and non-hostile neighbor of Russia!)
If the Putin government does not do one of these two things, but keeps insisting on the “slow, steady, pinpoint” approach, then in that case this so-called “special operation” will drag on and on interminably, with continuously mounting military and civilian casualties on both sides. Eventually, the total number of casualties will far surpass that which would have been incurred, had the war been brought to a swift and ruthless conclusion without regard to casualties on the Ukraine side in the short term. It is a foolish and wan hope, to expect the U.S., NATO and Russophobic EU governments to “come to their senses” by seeing how badly the nation of Ukraine is suffering and stop pushing the Ukronazi regime to continue the war; or to expect increasing economic difficulties to result in public uprisings in the West forcing Western ruling elites to change their pro-war position. The U.S. and EU leaders don’t really give a damn how many Ukrainians die or how badly the Ukrainian society and population are ravaged, so long as Ukraine keeps fighting Russia; they only care that as many Russians are killed as possible and Russia sustains as much damage of all sorts as possible.
Indeed. But ultimately the fight will be need to be brought to the puppeteer itself: US/NATO.
The clock is ticking, a direct confrontation is a given, probably sooner rather than later. I hope that Putin made all the preparations for a real showdown against NATO itself, because there’s absolutely no indication that the west will back down and let things settle towards an acceptable outcome for Russia.
When the certain clash with NATO arrives I hope the multi billion dollar NATO HQ is obliterated along with all occupants.
Now that would be a very blunt message.
Looks like a really big battle is taking shape with the capture of Sevrodonesk. Across the river commanding the high ground, Ukrainians are dug in. Lisichansk I believe, just from what I read, has a large group of foreign Mercs. A link was on moa to a Ukie blogger, giving his overview. Great topographical maps, showing elevations, the landfills, (garbage tips) are higher than Lisichansk, so a commanding view is available. Gonna be a slog to take the area. Getting across the river will be a task, it is the area of the famous ‘pontoon crossing, not a pontoon crossing’.
Will be interesting to see the results of the eight Kalibar missile strike on the train tunnel. Also other sites were hit in the same area.
Cheers M
Very thoroughly discussed in Military Summary channel on Rumble as well.
https://rumble.com/v16zgpr-ukraine.-military-summary-and-analysis-01.06.2022.html
@ sean the leprechaun on June 02, 2022 · at 8:52 am EST/EDT
Looks like a really big battle is taking shape with the capture of Sevrodonesk. Across the river commanding the high ground, Ukrainians are dug in. Lisichansk I believe, just from what I read, has a large group of foreign Mercs…
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Just FYI, Severodonetsk was supposed to be the “Stalingrad” of the Donbass. Wonder how they are calling the Lisichansk entrenchment, “Stalingrad II”?
None of these battles are easy, however, so far Russians have shown extreme efficiency to kick the UkroWehrmacht of their dugouts, the main enemy for the Ukronazis being their mindset.
For eight years, the UkroWehrmacht prepared the terrain with concrete/steel bunkers, trenches, dugouts, pillboxes, etc., right in the middle of inhabited areas, all done to prepare themselves for a counterattack after their planned invasion of the Donbass. First surprised was, their invasion plans were frustrated, they were invaded first. Second surprise was, and I have said this before, not knowing the kind of enemy they were facing. “Know your enemy…” says Sun Tzu, but the Ukronazis, caught in their arrogance believing Western training made them invincible, had no idea about Russian weaponry, logistics, and strategies.
The final surprise is about to come to them, a byproduct of their attachment to their pre-planned field of battle. UkroWehrmacht is fighting a combination of WWI/WWII tactics, hoping to stop the Russian offensive from fixed positions, with the support of artillery (self-propelled guns) and armor (tanks, armor vehicles). The defeat of the Ukros in Severodonetsk and other places, is precisely their fixation to this mindset, which makes them, in a way, sitting ducks.
Russian army counts on speed, mobility, overwhelming force, and superior fire power, and the combination of these factors is unstoppable.
Let’s see how long it takes for the Russian army to enter Lisichansk. This will be a real test of what the both armies are capable of.
Lone Wolf
All battles, especially artillery duels are won and lost by commanding the high ground. That has been evident throughout the SMO. Thats how fire control is achieved. From the topographical maps, Lisichansk is the high ground, flat plane along the river, east/south east towards Sevrodonesk. Forested hills to the north/northwest. Won’t be a cake walk unless Orcs retreat.
Cheers M
sitting ducks……..with teeth.
Basically if the Ukis stay out of residential areas, there’s nothing that could stop the Russian military from punching a hole through their defenses using long range artillery. So they would have to abandon their trenches, go back to residential neighborhoods and the human shield strategy again.
@ Shep on June 02, 2022 · at 12:45 am EST/EDT
Imagine how the Palestinians feel. They have to endure generational suffering and yet they continue to persist and the world continues to state helplessly unable to make a difference.
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Exactly.
Any time someone starts thinking their burden is too heavy to carry, think Palestine. Having shared many Ramadan with my brothers and sisters in Palestine, I am a witness to their suffering in absolute and permanent defiance. Having nothing to fight with, other than rocks, they fight day in and day out without ever wondering how long will they keep on fighting.
Once I was trapped inside Al-Aqsa mosque, after a fight developed between the Palestinians and the occupiers’ police. We were getting concussion bombs inside the mosque, while the Palestinian “rock brigades” where attacking the police outside the mosque, those inside were blocking the mosque’s doors to keep the police from entering, while throwing back the gas canisters falling close to them.
They wear thick prayer rugs as “armor,” tied up at the top of their shoulders, covering their heads with whatever they can find to protect them from rubber bullets. Many of them show scars in their bodies, a memory of the many battles they have fought against the Israeli bastards since childhood. Most of them are young, between 15 and 20, a few between 10 and 15.
Women play their role in the struggle, up at the Dome of the Rock, while the fight goes on all around, they start their ululating, so loud we could hear it down in Al-Aqsa mosque despite the explosion of the concussion bombs. Women have their own “combat ready” brigades, an organized women network that responds to any invasion and provocation of the bastard oppressor. Some women live almost permanently at the Dome of the Rock, making sure there is always someone on alert in case the bastards violate the sacred grounds of “Haram al-Sharif.”
Going to prayer every day, I can see the results of the bastard Israelis repression on young people, many on crutches or wheelchairs, crippled for life by the bastards. They have done their job fighting the bastards, a new generation takes over, and the same cycle runs from generation to generation. Fighting oppression is in the Palestinian DNA, they will never wonder for how long. It will stop when it stops, with the liberation of Palestine, the return of the refugees, the expulsion of Israeli Jews from Palestine, when justice rules over what they can call their land.
Personally, any time I feel overwhelmed by life’s circumstances, all I need to do is to remember my Palestinian brothers and sisters, an example of resilience, resourcefulness, defiance, steadfastness, an indomitable, unconquerable, invincible, spirit.
How long will Palestinians continue to fight the occupiers?
One day longer than the last Israeli bastard.
Lone Wolf
Thank you, Lone Wolf, for this reminder.
I feel much respect for you and your Palestinian brothers and sisters.
And the way you persevere during this horrible oppression is, in a way, an inspiration, which should wake us up from our (relatively speaking) complacency.
When it is our turn to endure oppression, we will be reminded of your struggle, and take courage.
In the meantime, we should try our best to spread info about your situation, hopefully opening the eyes of the “blind/sleeping” persons.
Respect my brother
Thank you for that account.
It’s my understanding that 40% of Palistinians are Christians – correct ?
@ KRL
@ Exile
Thanks to both of you for your kind words.
Not as many Christians, see link below,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Christians
However, they are as persecuted and repressed as their Muslim brothers, regardless of their denomination, Orthodox, Catholics, etc. Putin recently demanded the return to Russia of an Orthodox church in the Old City.
Also, been a witness to their repression in Bethlehem.
Religion will not save you from the Israeli bastards, as long as you’re Palestinian.
Lone Wolf
My impression is the Zionists are even more brutal to Arab Christians.
UNR 181 still remains the sole internationally recognized boundries of the 2 states. Edward Said had a lot to say on the theme.
It’s truely befuddling because the Zionists could have had a perfectly normal nation-state within those 181 boundries. Instead, the Zionist dream is now a dystopian nightmare. My impression is the current round of atrocities are a sign of weakness. It all has a stench of guilty desperation about it.
My problem or yours? Could not turn to Page 2!!!
Thanks. Now works.
Both NATO and DC are controlled by London. Why should they hurry when Russia is selling them its gold at a bargain price? This will let them replenished their emptied fake gold reserves, and keep the gold price at bay, a must to prevent the fake stock markets from skydiving. This are today’s news, I am not making anything up.
MOSCOW, June 2 – RIA Novosti, Irina Krasikova. Russian banks in February-March reduced gold reserves by more than 20 percent – by April, only about 44 tons remained in vaults. In anticipation of sanctions, credit institutions increased exports, analysts explain. What threatens the “leakage” of the precious metal, understood RIA Novosti.
The main importer is the UK. In 2021, almost $15.5 billion worth of precious metal was shipped there. The main intermediaries of supply are large banks that operate with physical gold in the interests of clients – gold miners and refineries.
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Thomas Aquinas
Not a Sitrep per se but a well expressed Opinion piece. Thank you.
Red Army failed in Finnish Russo Winter War 1939-40 when foolishly thinking Finns were not really fighting back and operated in 850 miles front line. After 60 days disaster (with 530,000 troops) Kremlin rethink and concentrated troops of 730,000 (of total over 900,000) to frontline just 100 miles. The lock was opened.
Something very similar needed now. Much more troops, less than half of them just holding Ukies and big break through were Ukies has weakest points in Donbas.
North of Finland is the coldest place on Earth next to Siberia. Mumansk is warmer than North of Finland. The Ukrainian soldiers froze to death.
The collective west should be severely punished for all of the evil and degeneration sowed around the world. No export and no trade, no participation in any of their affairs. Just nothing with them for a thousand years.
WTH,Finland is importing Russian gas anyway. They are buying Russian LNG and it’s not being bought with Rubles. For goodness sake if you are going to say you only will take Rubles for your gas. Don’t pretend LNG isn’t gas and take Euros and Dollars that you can’t use for it. In fact Russia,why on earth are you selling “any” of your products for currency that you can’t use.Is there something we are missing? Are you able to use that money are not? What’s the truth here about that?
EU state skirts gas-for-ruble requirements
https://www.rt.com/business/556477-eu-gas-ruble-requirements/
Its RT. Take with a grain of salt.
As Jorge wrote here recently, cheating is the way!
/europe-now-cheats-or-suffers/
Uncle Joe Biden: “The US is not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders.”
Medic: “Of course not, Uncle Joe. Now get in the ambulance. Your psychiatrist is waiting.”
Brave Russians: Please RE-LIBERATE and DE-NAZIFY Berlin. Then continue with Brussels, London, Paris, and the rest of the West. People of the West are too obese, too stupid, too dumbed-down, and too neutered to do it themselves.
There is not need for going futher than South Ukraine. Then let the Ukrainian “attack”
What will happen to economy is more important.
Colonel Cassad SitRep for 06/01/2022.
Note he points out that “The myth of the “fortress of Severodonetsk” collapsed,” but it has now moved across the Siverskyi Donetsk river to Lisichansk.
Nice map.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7651814.html
The war in Ukraine. Summary 01.06.2022
1. Severodonetsk.
More than 80% of the city is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. The enemy is being held in the area of the Azot plant and industrial zone. Ukrainian sources explain the benefits of the retreat to Lisichansk, which partially took place – the Russian Armed Forces occupied some quarters of Severodonetsk without serious fighting in the sweep mode. The enemy expects that due to the terrain in Lisichansk, they will be able to hold out longer. The myth of the “fortress of Severodonetsk” collapsed.
2. Avdiivka.
Fighting north of Avdiivka in the direction of Krasnohorivka. There is no operational environment of the Avdiivka group. The enemy, after losing the Avdiivka—Konstantinovka highway, retains 2 roads through Orlovka to supply Avdiivka. Fighting on the southern outskirts of New York and near Novobakhmutovka.
3. Svitlodarsk.
Fighting in the area of Dolomitnoye, Novoluganskoye, Vozdvizhenka, Uglegorskaya TPP. No significant progress was reported in this area today. The key position here is the Uglegorsk Thermal power plant.
4. Artemivsk.
Fighting for the fortified area in Pilipchatino. The enemy has moved several dozen pieces of equipment to the city, and is strengthening its defenses on the outskirts.
5. Soledar.
Battles for the Artemivsk—Lisichansk highway. The enemy threw part of the reserves withdrawn from Artemovsk into battle, trying to push our troops back from Berestovoye and Belogorovka. Due to the fire damage, it is difficult to use the Artemovsk—Lisichansk highway, and part of the supply of the Severodonetsk group has been transferred to the Artemovsk-Seversk-Lisichansk road. Fighting near Verkhnyaya Kamenka.
6.Golden.
More than 80% of Kamyshevakha is released. The enemy is strengthening the defense of Vrubovka, trying to prevent our troops from developing an offensive from the area of Toshkovka and Ustinovka.
7. Slavyansk.
Battles for Svyatogorsk. Most of the northern bank of the Seversky Donets River in the direction of Raigorodok has been cleared. Part of Shchurovo is occupied, moving towards Bogorodichnoye. Fighting on the outskirts of Ozernoye.
8. Raisin.
Without changes. Positional battles in the area of Velikaya Kamyshevakha, Kurulka, and Dolgenky.
9. Kharkov.
The Russian Armed Forces again seized the initiative here, methodically pushing the APU away from the border to Kharkiv. Today, the enemy left several small villages after a long fire defeat, including Tsupovka. In the area of Ternovaya, after repelling the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian Armed Forces advanced towards Old Saltov, including the road from Old Saltov to Kharkiv. In general, the “great counteroffensive near Kharkiv” ended in nothing for the Ukrainian Armed Forces – significant forces were spent to capture insignificant villages, some of which have to be given back. An offensive on Kharkiv and Chuguev can not be expected yet, as well as large-scale operations in the Chernihiv and Sumy directions, where the Russian Armed Forces are limited to firing at AFU facilities.
10. Ugledar.
The enemy launched a counterattack in the direction of Pavlovka, suffered losses and did not achieve success. The battles near Novomikhailovka and Velikaya Novoselovka did not bring any changes in the situation at the front. In Marinka, no changes, the front froze in the area of the garbage dump.
11. Nikolaev.
Attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to launch attacks in the direction of Kherson from the Mykolaiv and Kryvyi Rih directions ended with heavy losses for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in people and materiel. It was not possible to break through the defense of the Russian Armed Forces at Snegirevka and Davydov Brod. Attempts to achieve tactical success with a rush turned out to be a failure. You can expect that the next attempts will be prepared more thoroughly. It is possible to note the use of the Kinburn Spit by Russian MLRS for shelling Ochakov, where 2 small missile boats of the Ukrainian Navy were hit.
12. Odessa.
The enemy transferred part of the reserves to Nikolaev, revising the system of defense of the city. In the center dismantled part of the barriers. Preparations are underway for a second attack on Zmeiny Island, which will be carried out with the support of American MLRS HIMARS, which the United States plans to transfer from Romania. The Russian Black Sea Fleet is taking measures to strengthen the island’s defense.
13. Zaporozhye.
On the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyai-Pole – Velikaya Novoselovka front-positional battles.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/51730 -zinc
PS. Technical information based on reports.
From June 1, reports on the front will be published in the format of the title ” War in Ukraine. Summary + Date” to separate them from the usual “short” style notes.
Ideally, they should go out every day, but if nothing super-important happened during the day, then they will be double in a couple of days. There is no point in pouring water “if only it was”.
As before, the summary is published first in the TG https://t.me/boris_rozhin, then in LiveJournal. For the duration of combat operations, TG remains a priority resource due to the ongoing broadcast.
After the end of the war, the number of publications in TG will drop sharply, to 5-6 per day, and LJ will work in normal peacetime mode. Meanwhile, priority is given to round-the-clock broadcasting.
I also remind you that due to the fighting and the wartime regime, there will be no amnesty this year. The next amnesty in this LiveJournal will be held only on December 31, 2023. So think what you write. No one will understand now – they will be slapped according to the laws of wartime and the whole thing will not last long.
I don’t need to write about any technical issues related to TG. Write to the moderator. Pinned link https://t.me/boris_rozhin/35100
PS2. The main desire by June 1 is not to go online for about a week and not to write anything anywhere. The effect of emotional burnout is like this.
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Lone Wolf
Geez, the lies are flying rampant.
This, from Russians with an Attitude.
“Presidential advisor Arestovych, currently the most popular source of information regarding the war among Ukrainians: “We trapped the Russian troops in Severodonetsk by pretending to ‘surrender’ the city. Now the Russian command is in shock.”
The serious among us, you may now sit down and laugh loudly for a long time! while you watch the Russians prepare the battlefield. Oh man … what a maroon! Perhaps the Russians are only pretending to be in shock.
The kia numbers that we generally talk about, i.e., roughly and crudely as 500 Ukrainian soldiers kia per day, is being projected by Zelensky on various talks shows. He knows the number but projects .. 100 kia and 500 wounded.
All those with the span of attention of a midget say AYE!
“Just 24 hours after insisting he wouldn’t supply Kiev with long-range missile systems, Joe Biden has flip-flopped and now pledged “more advanced” anti-tank, anti-aircraft and precision systems”
Putin has spoken only once or twice about the general issue of the U.S. providing weapons to kill Russian soldiers. He spoke much more about sanctions, comparing them to “war.” This relative silence is ominous. He talked before about how “the bear” is not even allowed to eat his honey. I wish he would give his thoughts about long-range weapon deliveries in a column for the New York Times, but I don’t think he will.
The question of “how long” reflects the strangeness of “sleepwalking” into war, but it’s not Russia that is sleepwalking. Since some of us are involuntary sleepwalkers, we hope that maybe the real sleepwalkers who say Ukraine can achieve a military stalemate, sort of like Goering and Hitler were hoping for in 1944-1945, will wake up to the obvious reality that Russia defeats Ukraine in war handily (always). Even though Trump as president negotiated with countries as if they were building contractors (“you give me all that I want first and only then will I start giving you anything”), and even though Trump could not even conclude a successful negotiation with an eager North Korea in Vietnam, where he and Pompeo could not even see the Nobel-prize winning deal with which now N. Korea would not be testing intercontinental ballistic missiles, it’s a pity he is not the president instead of Biden. He would be criticizing the lack of “negotiations” to end this war that “should never have happened”, like he says. However, he probably would have already told Zelensky that he is an idiot (the way he says things, he might have even mentioned the dance video), and that he cannot count with help from the U.S. if he does not get real.
The “how long” question also reflects our impotence regarding the things that happened incredibly, like Zelensky becoming president just 5 years after the 2014 dance video. I figure he must have had no opposition or something. Did President Biden really win the 2020 election? Although there’s some small possibility he won, I never believed so – you have to accept being naive to believe it. Legally, he should not have been allowed to win like he did, with one-third of the votes arriving by mail in key contested states. Only in the United States is this allowed. I think only in the United States “cheating” becomes the issue. I think in the rest of the world “lack of guarantees against electoral fraud” becomes the issue for which the result is not accepted. Trump must have won, of course. It’s admirable how firmly Trump rejected the questionable result from the start. To beat Trump, Biden “won” more votes than any Democrat or Republican in history. Would Trump be “sleepwalking” into war like pres. Biden? I don’t think so. He would have known that Ukraine does not stand a chance against Russia. He would have sent weapons like he says should be done; he would have bragged about weapons that “nobody else has.” However, I think he would have pressured Zelensky into negotiating and surrendering the Donbass and Crimea. Since Trump is not about to knowingly choose to be on the losing side, he would have moved towards neutrality at the beginning of the controversy, and then he surely would have bowed to the pressures to condemn Russia’s attack (as he has), but by now he would be back to neutrality. We can imagine that he also would have had more conversations with Putin on the phone, leading to a different scenario than this one.
I believe the real problem is that the Russian ‘strategy’ is an unmitigated disaster, for this reason, they have attacked the periphery of the country, while leaving the capital and the command structure untouched. What in hell incentive does Zelensky have to stop the war, he is entertaining foreign visitors and dining on caviar.
If, or when, Russia prevails in Donbass, what will happen then? The war will not be over, and the ‘west’ will no doubt double down on its assistance to Ukraine. Of course this is speculation, but there is a high probability it is correct.
How do the Putinologists think this war is going to end?
It is my feeling that the Russians should have gone after Kiev and Zelensky from day 1. Let’s say that the reason they did not is that they did not want to destroy Kiev, which seems reasonable to me. So, why not surround it and starve them into submission? Leaving them to do whatever they want means they will continue the war as long as possible, with the west’s full support, IMO.
Why do you think Russia has left Kiev and Zelensky untouched?
You sleep under what stone?
Everyone here knows the decision center is D.C. and London.
Guess where the Yars cross-hairs are painted?
Putin just ordered a full Yars exercise – if you do not know what that means go back to CNN.
– I believe the real problem is that the Russian ‘strategy’ is an unmitigated disaster,
I think your real problem is you have no clue about the real world after having read “Ukraine is winning” for 3 months. Russia’s goal is not about conquering Ukraine, then the Baltics / Poland / Sweden. That is junk Media narrative.
bonbon says the real leaders are in Washington and the Ukrainian leaders are only puppets, nothing more. It’s a “puppets only” school. Somebody said Zelensky was a “ventriloquist doll.” Another one said that there were so many Ukrainians more responsible than Zelensky for the war that it was a very long list where Zelensky was among the least relevant. It’s as if they were defending Zelensky, but it’s not that. They are political theorists. If we followed their thinking, they would be “Zelensky’s puppets.” The “puppet masters” are ready to say the “puppet” does things on his own. The “puppet” is ready to also. As you can imagine, that’s no problem. It’s this school that assigns the roles of who is who.
How long indeed, not until they have marched us into another Global conflict
Here are two up to date reports from the liberated territories:
This one is an extremely interesting and informative report on DNR garrison troops stationed in Kherson. It goes into a lot of detail (maybe a little bit too much detail for security reasons I think) on the living conditions,equipment,and make-up of the troops. It seems they are in need of some more modern equipment. And in fact some equipment that the Russians should have given them a while back already. Why that is they haven’t I have no idea. For what they have to work with they are doing wonders. It never ceases to happily amaze me how well Russians are able to ” make a silk purse from a sow’s ear”,and make do with little.But they still need that equipment,they should have it already:
How Pro Russian Troops Live While Fighting In Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN6I9IJMxtY
This second video is of Patrick investigating up close a downed Ukrainian fighter plane in a field in a liberated area of Kherson Oblast:
Ukrainian SU 25 Shot Down Over Kherson (Crash Site Special Report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGeBtl7eHvM
The Ukrainian military lost about 70 people trying to break out of the encirclement in the Avdiivka area, said Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People’s Militia Department of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
“Two such cases were in the Avdiivka area. The enemy suffered enormous losses for the first time. Three tanks were destroyed, two were knocked out. Up to 70 soldiers were destroyed,” Basurin said on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel, TASS reports .
He added that 15 Ukrainian soldiers were killed during an attempt to break through in the Novomikhailovka area.
Earlier Thursday, Basurin reported that DPR forces had repulsed attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Avdiivka, south-west of Donetsk and Novomikhailovka.
Before that, it became known that the combined detachments of the People’s Militia of the DPR and the Russian Armed Forces repelled an attack by Ukrainian troops in the area of the village of Sladkoe, an infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) and up to 15 personnel were destroyed.
The Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR is reporting as of 26 May that they had 1,912 soldiers killed and 7,919 wounded (4.14-to-1 wounded-to-killed ratio). If their real strength has been 50,000 the losses (9,831 without MIA) have been almost 20% of strength.
How long?
Well, how long as needed. Russia is in no hurry anymore. I think, even at the start, Russia was in no hurry — remember, the 40 mile long Russian army vehicle column, near Kiev standing there for a long time? And, it’s ‘sudden’ disappearance? Why Russians didn’t take Sumy or Chernihov? Russia waited nearly 8 years, so the campaign is planned to go slow, after a while. The Russian soldiers are not getting killed too. So, it is a slow, but sure grind. It also gives a chance to check and take out the much touted US and NATO armament. The NATO training is losing too.
Biden has much less time now, for the midterm elections are on the corner. Inflation is rocketing up in the US and EU. A fertilizer crisis is looming, so less food will be grown. The food prices are already steadily going up in the EU countries, maybe except in Hungary. Heating season is starting in 4-5 months. There’s already a lack of coal and natural gas in the EU. Price of petrol had gone up ~51% in many EU countries from the same time last year, except in Hungary (same prices since last June).
So, the EU is in for a lot of trouble prolonging this war, for this unusual Ukraine-love, Zelensky-love. The Europeans were always late to fathom. Yes, Russia can go slow.
And, today June 3rd, the western MSM (BBC, CNN, etc) is repeating that in their own way.
As Pepe Escobar wrote here, the Multipolar World was born with the Twins recognized by Russia in Feb 2022.
Any parent must know childbirth is no joke!
We have a major fundamental change going on as Glazyev reports.
Looks like Kiev is trying to abort Twins, and NATO doctors are aborting thousands of UAF servicemen.
Pro-life, anyone?
Ukies need to stay in Ukie and fix their broken sh**hole, not seek refuge elsewhere. If that guy has enough money to move his family he has enough money to help his neighbors.
Voenkor Kitten Z
Military expert Boris Rozhin with a brief summary of the results of the operation for denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Severodonetsk at 22.42 June 02, 2022 especially for the Voenkor Kotenok channel Z @voenkorKotenok :
According to the situation in Severodonetsk.
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Most of the city is under the control of Russian troops.
A significant part of Severodonetsk was liberated from the Ukrainian invaders without much resistance. The enemy, having suffered losses on the outskirts of Severodonetsk, quickly began to retreat to the bridges to Lisichansk and to the industrial zone of the Azot plant.
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A full-fledged supply of the remnants of the Severodonetsk garrison has long been difficult, and the Azot plant itself is not as convenient for defense as Azovstal. It is closer to the plant named after Ilyich, where the remnants of the 36th Marine Brigade capitulated. Nevertheless, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are showing in every possible way that they intend to hold on to the Azot plant for some time in order to slow down the preparation of the Russian Armed Forces for an attack on Lisichansk.
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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was held hostage by its own propaganda, which for more than a month was broadcasting about the impregnable fortress of Severodonetsk, while after the start of the assault on the city, most of the “impregnable fortress” was handed over in a few days.
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In order to somehow explain the discrepancy between previous statements and reality, a propaganda smokescreen is being staged about the “cunning plan”, “trap” and “counterattacks” in Severodonetsk. In fact, they are trying to pass off local street battles in city blocks near the industrial zone and artillery shelling of the city from Lisichansk as a “cunning strategy.”
There can be no rapid counterattacks in the conditions of modern urban combat, but at least some activity must be shown so that the public is less likely to wonder why most of the city has been surrendered.
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Gauleiter of the occupied territories of the LPR announced the loss of more than 80% of the city, which was followed by shouts from the Zelensky gang that in fact things are much better. Again, reports from the field did not coincide with propaganda reality.
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As for the prospects for fighting in Severodonetsk, it seems that now they will gradually put pressure on the Azot industrial zone, waiting for the troops to break through the enemy’s defenses in the Ustinovka and Privolye area, so that, having reached the outskirts of Lisichansk, they will cover it from three sides.
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Of key importance for the battles for Lysichansk will be the ongoing battles in the area of the Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway, where the enemy has thrown part of the reserves accumulated in the Artemovsk area.
Also of great importance will be the potential development of the offensive of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Seversk. Now these operations require the solution of tactical tasks related to the crossing of the Seversky Donets (the same problem exists during the attack on Slavyansk)
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The Russian army is located 11 kilometers from Slavyansk. The Seversky Donets River is the last line of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Bakhmut-Severodonetsk. According to preliminary information, units of the RF Armed Forces completely took control of Kamyshevakha north of Popasnaya and approached the western outskirts of Zolote. Ukrainian units were completely knocked out of the building and went into the surrounding forests. Also, there was confirmation of the capture of the village of Pilipchatino, west of Popasna, and the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located around it by Wagner PMC assault detachments. The fields around the settlement are mined, which affects the pace of advancement to Klinovoye and Pokrovsky.
According to Svetlogorsk, also a Slavic direction. They report that ours have entrenched themselves on the outskirts of the city but do not enter the city, because. it is located below the opposite bank of the occupied APU. The enemy retreated across the river. The bridge is intact.
Basurin said that the boiler for the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk grouping would be closed in a few days. He also said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to break through in the Avdiivka area, but were suppressed, losing 70 people and three tanks.
The Kyiv regime is counting on the stabilization of the situation on the eastern front in July. Bankovaya is confident that Western weapons will stop the offensive campaign of Russian troops along the Slavyansk/Kramatorsk/Druzhkovka/Konstantinovka/Toretsk line. The main battles will unfold for Bakhmut, which will become a new symbol of resistance to Russian aggression. Now there are less than 200 prisoners of war of the Russian army left in the location of Ukraine.
It is reported from the field that one of the batches of American M777 howitzers, which ended up in the arsenal of units stationed in the Nikolaev region, will no longer be able to enter the position. The blows of the Russian army on the enemy’s positions in the settlement. Zhovtnevoe was destroyed about ten guns. Losses in manpower of the Ukrainian side are also measured in dozens.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in the near future, the city of Shostka, Sumy region, is expected to receive long-range missile systems from the United States, with the help of which militants of the armed formations of Ukraine, on the orders of the SBU, plan to strike at the border territory of the Russian Federation directly from residential areas of the city.
Poland will transfer another 54 Krab 155-mm self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine in addition to the 18 already shipped. For the first time they were noted in the Zaporozhye direction. Half of the heavy weapons transferred by the West have to be repaired and brought to mind. First of all, this concerns Soviet-style military equipment, which often breaks down and fails.
According to the RF Ministry of Defense, today the total number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine has almost halved from 6.6 to 3.5 thousand people. At the same time, the number of mercenaries in the combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard in Donbass has decreased by orders of magnitude.
It is reported that Dmitry Kuzmenko, the commander of the 124th Kherson defense battalion, whose fighters were unwound by the Russian military in the park during the capture of Kherson, plans to apply for Russian citizenship.
Hang in Amarynth, it is probably going to get quite a bit rougher in short order here.
Now this British (I agree,but a bit overboard wording,MOD) mercenary stirred up a hornet’s nest, the Chechen brothers, by killing Sergeant Adam Bisultanov, video taping the killing, then beam it online.
Kadyrov is capable of creating a special group to go after this bastard child of a British parliament whore, wherever he is. Inshallah he will bite the dust before the British decide to extract him back to bastard Britain.
https://m.vz.ru/news/2022/6/2/1161386.html
In Chechnya promised to take revenge on the son of a British MP for the death of his countryman in Ukraine
Foreign mercenaries who need PR will find a grave in Ukraine, former Chechen MP Sultan Denilkhanov told VZGLYAD newspaper. This is how he reacted to the death of Sergeant Adam Bisultanov as a result of an attack by a group of foreign mercenaries, among whom was the son of a British MP Ben Grant.
“The death of Adam Bisultanov is a great tragedy not only for the military family, but also for the entire republic. For us, people like Bisultanov are the nation’s gene pool. In any case, he was following the orders of the Supreme Commander – in-Chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin and head of the republic Ramzan Akhmatovich,” said Sultan Denilkhanov, a former member of the Chechen parliament and head of the local branch of A Just Russia.
Denilkhanov calls foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine, including the son of British MP Ben Grant, “migratory geese”. It was Grant who attacked the APC where Bisultanov and his colleagues were staying. “I don’t think this ‘goose’ has long to live, even if it hasn’t been killed yet. The mercenaries are delaying what is happening now in Ukraine. These people are trying to bleed Russia dry, but this is unlikely to happen. We understand best what Nazis and terrorists are. Over the past eight years, terrorism has flourished in Ukraine, but no one, except Russia, cared about the fact that people were dying in the Donbass,” the source stressed.
Denilkhanov is convinced that Grant and other mercenaries did not go to Ukraine to defend democracy, PR is important for them and they will “be the first to run away from there” when they feel a real threat from the offensive of Russian troops. He recalled that the United States and its Western allies destroyed Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Libya. “If they wanted democracy, the British should have demanded an end to the genocide of the residents of Donbass long ago. Now they need to push our country into a corner, but this will not happen. The course will not be changed. The United States and its allies will find in Ukraine what they are looking for-a grave, ” Denilkhanov is sure.
According to him, now the two Slavic peoples are set against each other. “We made one mistake – we should have finished off the nationalists in 2014, and everything would have been fine. Unfortunately, we gave them eight years to strengthen themselves. But ordinary Ukrainian people are not at all to blame for what is happening now. We can’t live without each other, but certain people in Ukraine don’t want to understand this. But once what has happened has happened, it means that we must go to the end, we cannot stop, ” the politician believes.
The death of the commander of the separate operational brigade of the North Caucasus District of the Rosgvardiya, Sergeant Adam Bisultanov, was announced on Thursday. The tragic events occurred on May 26. A unit of the Russian Guard engaged in a battle with a group of mercenaries from the UK and the USA. Ben Grant was filming the scene with a GoPro camera. In the video, which appeared on the Internet on May 28, one of the mercenaries comes out of an ambush in the forest and aims a shoulder-mounted Matador anti-tank missile at the armored personnel carrier where Bisultanov and his colleagues were staying. A total of three strikes were delivered. Bisultanov was fatally wounded.
According to the British media, Grant has been in Ukraine since March. His mother is Helen Grant, a member of the British Parliament from Maidstone, special envoy of Prime Minister Boris Johnson on girls ‘ education. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Grant saidthat he went to Ukraine of his own free will and “didn’t even tell my mother about it.”
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Lone Wolf
[b]What is going to happen after Donbass fails?[/b]
As I previously said recently, the course of events will depend entirely on globalists decision about Ukraine : let it fall and get Poland involved, and by extent NATO, and fight Russia inside former Ukraine (at first) and in Eastern Europe afterwards, or NOT let Ukraine fell, and fight Russia as much as possible inside Ukraine, before Eastern Europe gets the brunt.
Russia’s response will be a reactive one to such scenarios.
The only possible way that Russia will initiate, is if Ukraine, which is rebuilding their army in Poland, Romania and Germany, being armed with enough NATO hardware, will get to the point of threatening the newly conquered territories.
If such scenario happens, Russia will call for mobilization of reservists, which won’t take very long, and strike the Ukrainian training bases and personnel in Poland, Germany and Romania.
But I believe that such a scenario, while possible, doesn’t have much chances of happening. Russia will rather present the situation to their people, call for reservists mobilization, deploy, but will NOT strike the training bases, rather using this threat for widening the conflict in Ukraine past Donbass, towards 4 main axis : Dnieprpetrovsk – Zaporoje (Dniepr river part that is most easily to defend, due to widening of the river between the 2 cities), Krivoy Rog industrial conurbation (back door to Dniepr river, in case first axis attack fails), Mykolaiv ->Odessa -> Transnistria, and Kharkiv metro area.
Once they achieved that, and NATO will still not initiate a direct or indirect attack (using Polish-Lithuanian “peace” keepers), Russia will STOP.
If NATO gets involved, it’s WW3, so…yeah. It’s WW3.
My personal belief is that Russia will do everything possible to avoid being the FIRST who strikes NATO, unless the Ukrainian army that is rebuilding outside Ukraine is strong enough, and able to start a counteroffensive BEFORE Russia is able to consolidate their current front lines.
No matter how much trust level Putin have (and it is A LOT, over 90%), he, his staff and his generals cannot risk the opening salvo, without having a SERIOUS REASON, otherwise those trust levels will quickly drop, and even risk popular uprising.
So, Russia will take it to the chin, before they answer.
Thing is, it doesn’t really matter what Russia does after Donbass, WW3 is 100% inevitable, be it June, July or August, at the latest.
I believe that unless Russia preempts in Poland, Germany and Romania, the forces currently training and arming in the above 3 countries will be ready for a counter offensive in August.
Excellent analysis!
And from this we should understand the terrible impasse that Russia is facing: what is the possible strategy to achieve its objectives in Ukraine, without triggering World War III?
And from this there is a crucial consequence: it is not enough for Russia to be reactive towards the US/NATO, it is necessary to actively determine the course of events.
At some point Russia will find itself in the unavoidable situation of attacking the Decision Centers.
Medvedev has addressed this possibility.
👉🏼 https://t.me/rtnews/25166
Some may claim the Decision Center is in Washington. It is true. It is also true that every decision, until it is realized, needs to go through a hierarchical chain of command.
And the local Decision Center in Ukraine is in Kiev.
The war is fated to escalate. It is up to Russia to guide how and when the escalation takes place.
In the Donbass the Russia is fighting a war of attrition, and they are slowly but surely bleeding out US/NATO manpower, weapons and their economic future. Moscow is well aware that US/NATO has declared war and in the Donbass they are fighting for the Russian world which includes the Ukraine, and winning.
I think you need to make a reassessment of what the Russian Federation is actually doing in the Donbass. Why do you think they changed course and withdrew from Kiev? They withdrew from Kiev to start a war of attrition not against Ukraine but against the US/NATO Nazified West.
The Russian Federation has only committed 10% of their contract military to maintain a huge reserve should US/NATO do anything stupid. The Russian Federation had obviously been preparing for this for some years and are in a very good position to maintain the war effort for a substantial time.
The US is funding the war and the costs in manpower, weapons and $ must be horrific. As i expected the propaganda war is hitting a reality brick wall and people world wide are waking up.
You need to consider that Europe is totally dependent on Russia for Oil, Gas, Wheat etc etc etc while Russia is basically self sufficient. Hence Russia can operate fine without Europe. Russia can and will continue this war of attrition until the Nazified West collapses. Note i said until the Nazified West collapses, i did not say until they conquer Ukraine. The Russian Federations goal was never to conquer Ukraine, it was to disarm and DeNazify Ukraine et al.
In reality the US/NATO has no options in the Donbass, its called checkmate. Russia is in the process of conquering the Donbass while bleeding out the Nazified West, and US/NATO can do very little to stop it.
Part of this is a propaganda war and Russia is fighting it badly.
At the beginning of the year Biden was going around Europe warning that Russia was about to attack Ukraine. Russia could have reacted by accusing the US and Ukraine of planning to attack the LPR/DPR and clearly stating that that was not acceptable. Instead Russia withdrew to its minimum demand: Ukraine shouldn’t become part of NATO.
Russia made many mistakes this way:
– It largely ignored America’s diplomatic offensive to get European countries promise sanctions if Russia invaded Ukraine. It probably assumed that as it had no intention to attack there was no problem. But then when it felt it had to attack the Europeans saw it as evidence that Biden had been right with his warnings.
– It didn’t state its red lines clearly. So its attack came as a surprise and that fed the impression that it was the aggressor.
– “No NATO membership” had been an implicit part of the Minsk Agreements. But when Russia formulated it separate from Minsk that allowed the US to frame it as a new demand. And that new demand could be countered with empty talk about countries having the right to choose their own alliances.
The other day I heard Lavrov defending the annexation of part of Ukraine by talking about language rights. He seems to forget that some European countries had in the past restrictive language rights too. Specially Spain and France had assimilationist policies. And while it is nowadays frowned upon it is not seen as a valid reason for war. By leaving out human rights issues Lavrov lost the discussion. Of course Ukraine dominates the discussion about human rights with its daily dose of accusations and it will require major efforts to have Russia’s story heard. But that is not a reason not to invest effort.