The Guardian published a selfie video from Shitenskyy saying, in short, that they’ll attack ZNPP and kill everyone working there and they’ll also “block” the whole Russian nuclear energy.
During the 1 minute video he moves from saying Russia is inside the NPP to Russia attacks the NPP multiple times. He is high as hell. Go watch it, it’s on all social media too

Posted by: rk | Aug 14 2022 12:38 utc | 3

Catherine Viner is a disaster as editor at The Grauniad. She has made the rag complete Cultist like AppleTV. If you don’t inject the drugs you cannot enter the paradigm.
As for The Rodent in Kiev – he has really run out of show runners

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Aug 14 2022 12:59 utc | 5

The guardianistas have such hard ons for death and destruction it’s actually quite alarming.
Wonder how long does that cheer leading last when it’s landing on you and your family?

Posted by: Jpc | Aug 14 2022 13:12 utc | 7

Re post no 6:
So the Guardian wants to march into Moscow and lock up Putin- feel free to go, dear military-political-universal expert from that “news” outlet….

Posted by: daniel_s | Aug 14 2022 13:35 utc | 9

Thanks for the link,
The Guardian : “Ukraine will target Russian forces at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, says Zelenskiy”
same vid here on youtube : https://youtu.be/paUpw5Rznpw
This is much stronger then the vogue footage fail and the Amnesty International condamnation,
when you keep posting video every moments while using too much drugs, fail will happen and this is what just happened : zel gone (way) too far, check the vid and pray or not, if you live in Europe…

Posted by: act | Aug 14 2022 13:59 utc | 11

Posted by: Alessandro Cagliostr | Aug 14 2022 13:43 utc | 10
Pero’ un traduttore lo puoi anche usare ogni tanto oppure anche quello funziona a gasolio?

Posted by: LuBa | Aug 14 2022 14:28 utc | 13

act | Aug 14 2022 13:59 utc | 11
I think Zelensky has reached the teleprompter stage. Eyes fixed on one point. Is the teleprompter also high?
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Jpc | Aug 14 2022 13:02 utc | 6
The gruardian is completely woke. It cannot be wrong, and there is no such thing as a change in thought processes. Since the days of Assange /Wikipedia and the data that it suppressed under the orders of the UK Government, it has become a rubbish source.
The final paragraph is calling more for assassination than “locking Putin up”.
**
Now the US doesn’t know how to change the course of the SMO, and the slow destruction of the exploitative system used by the west, so they expect to be able to find a “short-cut”. Less super-dooper weapons and more “special squads and terrorists”.
I suggest they send in the cookie monster as a last ditch effort. (Well, I’m sure they could find a ditch for her to fill up) (PS, a big ditch)
****
The total from the “butterfly mines” in Donetsk is now 41 including children.
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Out of 375,000 tons of food exported from Ukraine, European buyers have already received 217,000.
Not the poor African countries about which the American zionist empire feinted concerns.
*
We may not be warm
but we got something to eat
/s
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Latvia is going full Ukraine (FU) and is trying to pas a bill that will stop Russian being used as a language.

Posted by: Stonebird | Aug 14 2022 14:41 utc | 15

@Stonebird | Aug 14 2022 14:41 utc | 15
Not only language in Latvia. They also want to cancel the residence permit for “pro-Kremlin” citizens. Finland wants to stop visas, Czech will ban students from Russia and Belarus (those who already are there will have to be evaluated for pro-Putin behavior, including the family – though those people must be really strange to want to study in Czech republic) and Pooland proposed that EU closes the borders for all Russians.
Natoland knows sanctions didn’t work and now they try to provoke the regular people against Putin. They do that while shooting at an npp. Great plan!

Posted by: rk | Aug 14 2022 15:03 utc | 17

Is this latest Zelenski public insanity/delusion shaping up to give US/ZATO an excuse to remove him, or at least allow claims of “how could we have known he would blow up a NPP?”. When Amnesty International starts hinting that Zelly may be less than squeaky-clean, even with the inevitable back-tracking, you know there are cracks forming in the US/ZATO propaganda edifice.
The NPP idiocy only makes the masses more likely to think the other rumours they have heard about the literal slaughter of Ukraine soldiers and civilians due to US/ZATO policy just MIGHT be true. The attempt to paint the Russian military as the bogey man has not fared well outside US/ZATO, and is even taking a fair beating in the US-vassal states. See how many Canadians post here at MoA.
As Kissinger said, “To be a US enemy is dangerous. To be a US friend is deadly.” Like Saddam found out the hard way, doing as the US/ZATO wants works until you be come a “liability” for doing exactly what the US/ZATO handlers told you to. I think Zelly is too high/stupid to know he is the next Saddam. Another former “staunch ally” who has shaken hands with top US/ZATO officials. Saddam’s most famous handshake was with Donny (Gilead/Tamiflu) Rumsfeld.
The usual US/ZATO trick is to get the locals to do the CIA/Mossad dirty work. But the top CIA/Mossad “approved” Ukie-nazis may have decided they LIKE the current arrangement, and will protect Zelly for as long as he is useful to them, US/ZATO agenda be damned. Where else would these miscreants find a ready-made, already placed, psychologically malleable coke-head who publicly plays victim in Vogue on-cue and cons idiots in the US/ZATO gov’ts to send literal $billions for them to launder, hide and otherwise steal.
The US can’t suddenly dethrone Zelly to change horses midstream. Not after he appeared on the cover of Vogue, making him the darling of the celebrity class.
But the sanctions are boomeranging and the US/EU/ZATO public is not buying “it’s all Russia and China’s fault”. As the COVID Plandemic becomes increasingly revealed as a conspiracy-truth, the more people in US/ZATO countries get the uneasy feeling their gov’ts will and did lie about anything and everything Ukraine.
Interesting times indeed.

Posted by: Old canadian | Aug 14 2022 15:33 utc | 19

Posted by: Jpc | Aug 14 2022 13:02 utc | 6
Re the Grauniad piece, which I just read, well not all of it, it kept sticking in my throat.
What’s very apparent as its hysterical tone shows, is that the cretin Tisdall, is first, desperately trying to convince himself that 404 will ultimately win if only we sell them enough weapons before they run out of Ukrainians to sacrifice on the alter of Capital.

Posted by: Barofsky | Aug 14 2022 15:58 utc | 21

1- Western Europe should stop funding Eastern Europe if they continue their lunatic provocations against Russia
2- Leyen/Borrel should be deposed and replaced by true diplomats, that save what’s possible to save of Europe-Russia relations
3- Western Europe should stop delivering weapons to NAZIS, condemn Ukraine’s dictatorship, and block weapon deliveries from anglo-saxons through their territories
4- end the illegal sanctions and apologize to the Russian people, and to the anti-Nazi Ukrainians of the Donbass and all of Novorussia and Crimea
5- open Nordstream 2 and stop importing USA’s LNG, close coal power plants, and stop the crazy anti-nuclear power plant “green” ideology
6- create European army, without USA interference, and start a forced NATO-exit for USA in Europe. Step one: get rid of USA bases/soldiers is Europe.
7- block Sweden and Finland from entering NATO. Apply sanctions to Turkey amd USA for their current invasion of Syria, theft of Syrian oil and cereals, and bombing of Kurdish people
8- threaten to cut finantial/humanitarian support to Ukraine if the regime keeps violating Mindk peace agreements (by bombing anti-Nazi Ukrainians in Donbass)
9- cancel Ukraine’s EU process if it doesn’t start peace negotiations with Russia
10- recognize Crimea selfdetermination referendum, recognize the independent Donetsk and Lugansk Republics
11- threaten complete blockade of Ukraine if they continue shelling a nuclear power plant
12- threaten to expell Poland and the Baltics from EU if they continue escalating the conflict (Kaliningrad, Schengen visas, etc) just to please their emperor overseas…
These are the first steps to end the War in Ukraine, save European economy, and actualy fight for Democracy and against imperialism (USA’s NeoCon warmongers and corrupt “elite” sponsored by Raytheon, Lockeed Martin, and others).
NONE of these points will be implemented anytime soon. Therefore, Europe is doomed and Ukraine is no more.
I’m from Portugal and I support 100% the pro-Democratic and anti-Nazi people of Novorussia (South+East Ukraine). If the only way for them to get peace and get rid of Kiev’s dictatorship and Nazi battalions, is the Russian intervention, then I cannot condemn the Russian actions.
If I was in Russia, I would support the SMO, but would be in the opposition against Putin, because I’m not a Conservative, and I’m Left-wing (the actual Left wing in economics (Social-Democratic Nordic Model, or what idiots in USA call “communism” and “far-left”), not the “left” wing in USA (‘woke’ fanatics that are all right-wing in economics, i.e. NeoLib).

Posted by: Carlos Marques | Aug 14 2022 16:05 utc | 23

The head of Ukraine’s largest TV conglomerate says the door is wide open for Zelensky’s return to its comedy channel. His experience throughout in running the UAF should stand him in good stead for a prime time slot.

Posted by: WTFUD | Aug 14 2022 16:42 utc | 25

I have been giving serious thought over the past months about the Donbass, Crimea and the South and East of Ukraine and also the fact that the UAF is shelling, consistently and daily, civilians, using them as human shields and arresting anyone who speaks Russian or expresses even a pro-Russian opinion. Firstly, I am sick and tired of the industrial levels of propaganda and censorship of any other point of view other than the ‘official’ narrative which is total lies and distortion. There is no truth whatsoever in it. Secondly, whilst I get the issue of the GDP with regards to the East and South of Urkaine which is crucial, I mean really crucial, to the Ukranian economy, I am struggling to find reasons as to why the UKR Govt are so desperate to hang on to Donbass and south and east urkaine since they consider them to be ubermenscen not worthy of any consideration other than to be killed, tortured, starved, blockaded and treated as vermin. This smacks of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Why is the UKR Govt so intent on recapturing this territory when it is not interested in the Minsk Accords, when they are daily shelling and killing civilians in these areas and are banning the Russian Language and Russian language from these areas. The collective West seem to be unable to answer these questions. I have never, never, in my lifetime, seen such blatant excuse making to cover up for excessive UAF War Crimes, for the genocide over 8yrs of anything up to 22,000 Donbass inhabitants, of the torture by Azov of residents in these areas, of the almost near deification of a President who is a Nazi, a Tyrant and a ruthless Dictator and a coke addict to boot. My Goodness, I hope the collective West rot in hell and I live in the UK. Once I get my Pension I’m moving to a country in Africa which I shall not name (in one year’s time) to escape this industrial level of censorship, propaganda and outright lies perpetrated by our Govt and the collective West. The British people deserve everything that’s coming to them because they are totally ignorant, judgemental, don’t question anything and are so self-absorbed they don’t even want to know the truth. Thank God for Putin, Xijing Pin, the President of India, Imran Khan, Victor Orban, the President of Georgia and Vucic. I’m going to include the President of Austria here who is talking a whole lot of sense also. God knows that one day, in the very near future, when the Pan Eurasian Collusus Pompeo talked about recently is reality and it won’t be so long coming and BRICS expands as does the SCO, the collective West will sooner, rather than later, be desperate for a trading relationship with Eurasia, China, Russia etc. The answer will be a resounding NO! A bunch of WEF fanatics who are, ultimately, going nowhere will have no answers other than an attempt to impose an uber collective West dictatorship which will fail. There can be no doubt, the stock markets are on the brink of collapse, the USD$ is in decline and will be eradicated by BRICS, the petro dollar is rapidly becoming worthless and the countries the USA has sanctioned will not give a damn about them as they are illegal. Go Dutch farmers, go!! Oust Rutte by revolutionary means, France, oust Macron in the same manner. The people of the UK will just be seduced by the propaganda, censorship and lies and do nothing until the Weimar Republic levels of poverty hit. Only then, will they do something. As Karl Marx said, the only revolution in the UK will be in Gardening!1 How true!!

Posted by: Jo Dominich | Aug 14 2022 16:57 utc | 27

Abe | Aug 14 2022 16:43 utc | 26
The Latvians have been abusing the 25-30% of the population which is Russian speaking for years-they are, for example, deprived of the vote, their schools are shut down and every May 9th, with the approval of the NATO allies, including the UK Canada and US, Soviet war memorials are desecrated. They are currently scheduled for total demolition.
I gather that Estonia and Lithuania are both equally bad- run by fanatical anti-communists and russophobes.
Simon Tisdall could run for office in any one of them.

Posted by: bevin | Aug 14 2022 17:08 utc | 29

Jo Dominich no. 27
I hope the African country you are going to doesn’t have brit ex-pats. I know from experience they are worse than the brits in the UK. Good luck.

Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Aug 14 2022 17:11 utc | 31

@Old canadian | Aug 14 2022 15:33 utc | 19

But the sanctions are boomeranging and the US/EU/ZATO public is not buying “it’s all Russia and China’s fault”. As the COVID Plandemic becomes increasingly revealed as a conspiracy-truth, the more people in US/ZATO countries get the uneasy feeling their gov’ts will and did lie about anything and everything Ukraine.

Very true. People must and will have to connect the dots. The truth is not selectable from a menu. Truth comes from evidence and reason.

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 14 2022 17:14 utc | 33

The thing with the Guardian’s Tisdall, and many others like him in the West’s commentariot, is a naive conviction in the force superiority of NATO which hinders the ability to apply escalation logics to battlefields.
NATO’s actual professional military people have been among the steadiest voices warning against direct conflict with the Russian Federation. In Tisdall’s imaginings, NATO could have / should have imposed a “no-fly zone” over Ukraine, and used that factor to essentially pummel the advancing Russian armies. It never seems to occur to him that the RF forces would fight to prevent a no-fly zone or that the RF forces were likely to prevail in such effort.
At the highest levels of NATO – beyond the bloviating politicians and opinion columnists – it is acknowledged that direct conflict with Russia might inadvertently expose Western armaments as overpriced and underperforming and effectively pop the bubble on a critical industry – the maintenance of which is the key “aim” for senior military officials.
Tisdall’s piece, though, is another reminder that the ongoing 8 year proxy war was and remains a regime-change operation directed at Putin, which has been visibly ineffective,

Posted by: jayc | Aug 14 2022 17:17 utc | 35

bevin | Aug 14 2022 17:08 utc | 29
Yes, and it will only get worse with time, with rabid nazi elements and their masters get even angrier due to loss of Ukraine. Russia will not permit abuse of their people right over the border. Something will have to give in.

Posted by: Abe | Aug 14 2022 17:21 utc | 37

@37 Seems ethnic Russians can and do vote in Latvia (mainly for Harmony party). But they are still a 25% minority so lack real power.
https://apnews.com/article/28cde561b5f8432e9521b2771a7da223

Posted by: dh | Aug 14 2022 17:41 utc | 39

Norwegian | Aug 14 2022 17:23 utc | 38
I don’t see how any of Baltic states can offer any meaningful military resistance. And Article 5 is not obligatory so they will only receive moral support from rest of NATO if Russia decides to roll in.

Posted by: Abe | Aug 14 2022 17:58 utc | 41

Clearly, Biden’s offer of a military alliance not only had no takers in the Arab world but they seem petrified. If as the Bible says, there are three brands of deception — vanity, flattery, and blasphemy — and Satan uses all three, Biden’s offer contains elements of all three. And if the SCO offers an antidote to the poisoned chalice, why not?
Read on M. K. Bhadrakumar’s take.

Posted by: rp | Aug 14 2022 18:08 utc | 43

August 9 Saky Event Assessment
Saky Air Base, near the village of Novofedorivka, Crimea, is operated by the Russian Navy. This airbase experienced multiple explosions on August 9th, 2022. The site of the airbase airport is 45.09292618398976, 33.587008454887524 (Google)
Google shows a second military airfield Aeroport Imeni A.koltunovoy at co-ordinates 44.69203910366254, 33.57033561670696. This appears to be fully functioning military field with numerous fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft on the aprons. It exhibits the ring road typical of military installations, ammunition storage bunkers, and hardened fully enclosed aircraft shelters.
Google also shows what appears to be an abandoned military airfield at 44.785669934319216, 33.572956716880064. This is midway between the other two.
Examination of the Saky facility shows the perimeter fencing to be incomplete with free access from adjacent public roads and no observable gatehouses. There are a series of disused hard-stands with protective berms to the east of the main runway with traces of a taxi way connecting these locations to the East end of main runway 22 L. There exists a second set of dispersed hard-stands with protective berms connecting to a semi-circular taxi way to the Northwest. A number of these hard-stands appear used to store junk.
A search of Saky imagery did not reveal any ammunition storage bunkers such as may be observed at Aeroport Imeni A.koltunovoy. The Saky facility does not give the impression of being an active military airbase; it looks to be a secondary facility lacking upkeep. The expected military security such as gatehouses and full perimeter fencing is not found. The Google imagery is dated 2022 date but gives no indication of the month.
To the Northwest of the flight line is another semi-circular taxi way. This appears to have its own perimeter fence. It also has a series of dispersal hard-stands protected by earth berms. The damage is concentrated in this area.
Google imagery shows base immediately adjacent to a civilian residential area. While this suggests ease of covert access, the reverse is true. The presence of civilians, long term residents presumably known to each other, and who know the normal patterns of neighbourhood activity, presents a threat to any sabotage group.
Historical records of SAS activity in North Africa (WWII) and at Pebble Island (Falkland Island conflict) suggests a team of between 12 and 45 men would have been needed. A sabotage group approaching by vehicle would stop and disembark the vehicle and then proceed on foot (If Paddy Mayne had been present he would have simply driven onto the airfield, destroying all aircraft from his moving vehicle before driving off). A group of men walking single file while carrying weapons and bulky packs would be suspicious. The same group moving in bounds down the street while maintaining an over-watch position and making maximum use of natural cover would be even more suspicious. Since Crimea hosts a pro-Russia population it is believed any suspicious behaviour would be immediately reported.
The explosions occurred at 3:20pm local time (12:20 GMT) but the placement of sabotage materials would likely have occurred at night. Darkness facilitates covert activity and a delay timer on the explosive device affords an opportunity to ex-filtrate before mayhem ensues. A 12 hour delay is excessive and gives the enemy an opportunity to locate and defuse the explosive devices.
The moon phase on the date of the attack was two days before full moon i.e. maximum illumination. A sabotage party would prefer to operate in the dark new moon period to permit maintaining concealment while the use of night vision equipment permits identification of opposing forces.
SOURCE:
https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/@45.0852,33.5962
Video and still images show the local beach to be heavily populated by people on vacation. Someone needs to explain how a sabotage group could possibly arrive on a crowded beach while evading detection. The same imagery shows long rows of beach cabanas. These cabanas are sizeable structures large enough to contain sleeping arrangements but unlikely to contain toilet facilities. This implies a significant night time population on the beach some of whom would make a late night walk to the nearest toilet. This random movement creates a threat of discovery to any sabotage group arriving from the water.
The New York Times has reviewed satellite imagery of the Saki Air Base, collected by Planet Labs hours before and a day after the explosions. The pictures show what appear to be three large craters and at least eight destroyed aircraft, both Su-24 and Su-30 warplanes
SOURCE:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/10/world/ukraine-russia-news-war#explosions-at-a-base-in-crimea-destroyed-about-a-dozen-russian-jets-satellite-photos-indicate
Russian losses at Saky airbase updated with:
– 4 Su-30SM multirole aircraft (destroyed)
– 6 Su-24M/MR strike/tactical reconnaissance aircraft (5, destroyed, 1x damaged)
SOURCE:
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1557469739835969541
The SU-24 is an all weather attack aircraft produced until 1993. The latest aircraft are therefore 30 years old. The first production aircraft are today 55 years old. The aircraft reported destroyed are Su-24M(R), a dedicated tactical reconnaissance variant.
SOURCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-24#2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Tactical reconnaissance is also conducted by drones; drones are less likely to be detected by the enemy and have the capacity to loiter overhead for an extended period. It is therefore unclear why the UAF would risk military resources to destroy aircraft already being supplanted in the reconnaissance role by drones.
SU-30 and its enhanced derivative, dubbed SU-30SM2, is primarily aimed at meeting Russian Naval Aviation requirements.
SOURCE:
https://www.key.aero/article/depth-look-russias-enhanced-sukhoi-su-30sm2
The Su-30M2 is a long-range strike aircraft based on the Su-30 fighter design optimized for precision strikes on ground and naval targets.
SOURCE:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110724100244/http://sukhoi.org/eng/news/company/?id=3633
Saky Naval Air Base is reported to have engaged in ground attack strikes in support of the SMO. This implies the use of aircraft, and personnel, not normally employed in the ground strike role. It also implies the need to store ground attack armaments at a base which may lack appropriate storage facilities and whose ground personnel may be unfamiliar with ground attack armament. It is also likely RF is drawing down its armament stockpile and using weapons made unstable due to aging.
SOURCE:
https://www.rferl.org/a/crimea-russian-air-base-attacked-satellite-images/31982540.html
Multiple news reports give significant photographic evidence of fire.
SOURCE:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/9/large-explosions-rock-russian-military-air-base-in-crimea
BBC reporting presents civilian video of the event as seen from the crowded beach front.
SOURCE:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62500560
The BBC video gives evidence of the following:
1) Long rows of beach cabanas fronting the beach and making covert access difficult.
2) The size of the structures. Note the unit on the left of the frame. This structure sits ahead of a larger structure. The close caption translation has the little girl stating “the house will not protect us” confirming some “cabanas” are large house like structures.
3) The presence of large numbers of people on the beach.
4) The fact of an existing oil fed fire (the plume of black smoke moving to frame right) which is followed by an explosion plume of white smoke which rises vertically into the air to a height well above the black smoke. The colour and height of this plume suggest it is associated with an explosion not burning fuel.
The suggested sequence of events is: 1) Ignition of a fuel store on the airbase 2) The fuel fire “cooked off” stored armaments which exploded creating the dramatic white explosion plume; 3)The explosion distributed other armaments at random. These also cooked off and resulted in the dispersed craters seen in satellite imagery.
The damaged and destroyed aircraft are all naval variants. This serves to explain the fact of two closely situated airbases. The Aeroport Imeni A.koltunovoy is likely a VKS air defence airbase while Saky is a naval airbase. RF is a continental power and naval forces are not the foremost priority of continental powers. The decrepit appearance of the base, suggests this is a low priority underfunded facility. This interpretation is supported by the loss of the Moskva which, to a practised mariner’s eye, appeared a decrepit derelict prior to its sinking.
The final item of evidence is the layout of the Saky airbase itself. Runways are always positioned with regard to the prevailing winds to give the benefit of natural wind speed to landing or departing aircraft.
Infra red imagery on Intel Slava shows the base before and after the explosions. The initial fire caused a grass fire that expanded to the Northeast in alignment with the Saky main runway. The same set of IR images also shows high heat in structures located both on the airfield and in the nearby residential area.
SOURCE:
https://t.me/intelslava/35299
Assessment
Saky is a Navy airfield hosting naval variants of the SU-24 and SU-30. It was in poor condition. Personnel and equipment unfamiliar with the ground attack role were pressed into service to support the SMO. It is likely they used expedient storage for ground attack armaments.
A large sheet metal structure (located top extreme left in the BBC website imagery for August 9th and 10th) and its internal contents became extremely hot due to the current hot and dry conditions across Europe.
The ambient heat, an errant spark, or careless machine operation, triggered a fuel fire. Armaments co-located adjacent to the fuel source, and already hot due to climactic conditions, then cooked off. These armaments may have been unstable due to long term storage. (In this respect the event is very similar to the 1967 Forrestal (CV-59) fire.) The initial explosion dispersed armaments across the base resulting in further cook off explosions and igniting a grass fire.
The frame front moved to the Northeast and aircraft in the path of the flame front were destroyed or damaged. Aircraft located on the main ramp were damaged due to secondary explosions caused by ejecta from the initial explosion.
The 404 government did not immediately claim credit for a sabotage attack.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, also suggested Russian incompetence as a possible cause of the blasts. but blamed RF carelessness.
SOURCE:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/9/large-explosions-rock-russian-military-air-base-in-crimea
The UK’s Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, suggested that the fact there were two separate explosions points to an attack.
SOURCE:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62500560
Russia has blamed the blasts on a fuel leak, or ammunition exploding in one of the two storage sheds, and said fire safety rules were being flouted on the base.
SOURCE:
ibid
The RF is assessed to be correct in its reporting of the incident while the UK and Z regime seek a PR victory.

Posted by: Sushi | Aug 14 2022 18:15 utc | 45

@40 “Russia will finish off Ukraine and absolutely obliterate Baltic states if they force it.”
If the Baltic States, including Finland, do get ‘obliterated’ NATO will want to drag Denmark and Sweden in so as to close the Baltic to Russian shipping altogether. Hard to imagine things getting to that point.

Posted by: dh | Aug 14 2022 18:28 utc | 47

@ Sushi | Aug 14 2022 18:15 utc | 45
thanks sushi.. much appreciated..

Posted by: james | Aug 14 2022 18:36 utc | 49

dh | Aug 14 2022 18:28 utc | 47
How, by force? Using what? Closing the passage is crazy talk from Estonia. They only want to please their master by buying more weapons

Posted by: rk | Aug 14 2022 18:46 utc | 51

Posted by: Old canadian | Aug 14 2022 15:33 utc | 19
See how many Canadians post here at MoA
I happen to have been keeping an informal tally.
I now count in excess of 30 Canadians posting on MoA on a regular basis. This strikes me as a significant contingent.
For many of them I can identify the province of residence and in a number of cases the city.
I am not revealing the MoA handles but was a little taken aback by the ease with which a state agency might begin to target those who fail to repeat prescribed “truths.”
Just for the record, I am an infirm and near blind Brazilian national located on the island of Lihou who needs to hand crank his Internet connection.

Posted by: Sushi | Aug 14 2022 19:01 utc | 53

I am not a Muslim, but I am for Iran to acquire nuclear bomb/missile capacity. It’d acquire that capacity anyway, whatever the US illegal sanctions. With all the might the US claim to have, it didn’t attack North Korea.
North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests, first in October 2006 and then in May 2009 and four nuclear tests in February 2013, January and September 2016, and September 2017. The exact size and strength of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal are unclear. Its alleged that North Korea has tested more than 100 ballistic missiles with the ability to carry nuclear warheads, including short, medium, intermediate, and intercontinental-range missiles and submarine-launched ones.
Since 2018, after Trump talks, North Korea hadn’t tested any nuclear explosions, but could have started again in 2021. Its alleged that North Korea has 40-50 nuclear weapons, and might have more than 200 by 2027.
Once, Iran achieves that ability, US will stop blackmailing Iran. Now, that Iran has one satellite Khayyam-1 in orbit with the help of Russia, and will have 3 more in the near future, Iran would be able to spy on the US/NATO as it likes, when it likes.

Posted by: rp | Aug 14 2022 19:12 utc | 55

>> Posted by: Sushi | Aug 14 2022 18:15 utc | 45
Great summary and analysis, much appreciated.

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 14 2022 19:23 utc | 57

@51 ‘Closing the passage is crazy talk from Estonia.’
I agree. Estonia will do nothing unless they get support from Finland. Attempting a blockade of St. Petersburg is madness and I don’t think the Finns are that crazy. I don’t know what the Baltic states hope to gain from all the tough talk.

Posted by: dh | Aug 14 2022 19:51 utc | 59

rk | Aug 14 2022 17:16 utc | 34
Then all countries that abuse local Russian population will get Ukraine treatment.
NATO tried to remake 1940, but Russians were ready this time, and jumped straight to 1944 remake – red tide obliterating one after another nazi/fascist state toward west.

Posted by: Abe | Aug 14 2022 20:11 utc | 61

With the Trump Mar-a-lago debacle in the US, by November this year, maybe a civil war might start in the US. It’d be quite hard to convince the huge amount of Trump supporters on a ban for Trump to run again. Even though secession is sort of illegal, who is going to stop US states breaking away? The national guard? Nothing is permanent, so there’s chance for the US to break into 5-6 portions. Biden’s foolish attack on Trump might help that happen.😏

Posted by: rp | Aug 14 2022 20:21 utc | 63

the west is behind the targeting of the plant. they have bunkers. we don’t.

Posted by: polarbear4 | Aug 14 2022 20:35 utc | 65

Yes, it stinks, it stinks of rotting soldiers and civilians thanks to the weapons supplied by hostile countries transported thanks to the diesel supplied by the Russians,
A jack for the ass,
Posted by: Alessandro Cagliostr | Aug 14 2022 14:48 utc | 16
Thanks for the translation, now I must try to figure if you are a troll or not. So, should Russia stop selling diesel, and other fuels? What is your point?

Posted by: Guernica | Aug 14 2022 21:00 utc | 67

Posted by: Sushi | Aug 14 2022 19:01 utc | 53
I also am pleasantly surprised by the large contingent of Canucks here. It makes me rethink my opinion of Canadians being much too nice and earnest for their own good.
I am also from a former Dominion , and like truth and peace in the world. Good to see that many Canadians do not fall for the ordure spread out by their Southern Neighbour .
Pity the British weren’t able to retake the 13 States all those centuries ago. I like to think that if they had , we would have had much more peace now.
I am not churchy, but Jesus did say, “Be as gentle as doves and as wise as serpents” .
Our resident Canadians match that to a tee and that is good thing. Go Canada.

Posted by: Brother Ma | Aug 14 2022 21:19 utc | 69

Posted by: Sushi | Aug 14 2022 19:01 utc | 53
I happen to have been keeping an informal tally.
I now count in excess of 30 Canadians posting on MoA on a regular basis. This strikes me as a significant contingent.
For many of them I can identify the province of residence and in a number of cases the city.
Sushi, you can add one more Canadian to your informal tally. Infrequent poster from Southern Ontario here.
All the best.

Posted by: Peter Hegger | Aug 14 2022 21:20 utc | 71

Yes, it stinks, it stinks of rotting soldiers and civilians thanks to the weapons supplied by hostile countries transported thanks to the diesel supplied by the Russians,
A jack for the ass,
my opinion: the west lives and thrives on cheap energy from russia, if the flow stops, the west stops, no money for the Ugronazis, no weapons,
inexplicably russia continues to supply its enemies, this presupposes an under-the-table deal with the americans and the war in ukraine is a big show, the dead a price to pay to satisfy their purposes,
you may think i’m a troll
but I would never give a stick to my enemy knowing that he will use it to hit me.

Posted by: Alessandro Cagliostr | Aug 14 2022 21:33 utc | 73

The Russian forces took Energodar NPP on the 28th February and since then it is under their control. The rhetoric maintained by the West/Ukraine that Russia is bombing themselves, where they are since 28th February is just nonsense.

Posted by: rp | Aug 14 2022 21:38 utc | 75

Artemovsk (Bakhmut) might fall tomorrow.

Posted by: rp | Aug 14 2022 21:46 utc | 77

Current momentum will see Donbass liberated mid to late August. In the last few weeks alone there must be upwards of 20k KIA (many among the UAF elite Nazis )- wounded and desertions
The Military Summary gave the reason to the question I put forward regarding holding Referendums when civilians were in danger. He states that an early Referendum will enable Russia to draw upon conscripts, thus releasing troops for the frontlines/mobilisations.

Posted by: WTFUD | Aug 14 2022 21:50 utc | 79

The New York Times has reviewed satellite imagery of the Saki Air Base, collected by Planet Labs hours before and a day after the explosions. The pictures show what appear to be three large craters and at least eight destroyed aircraft, both Su-24 and Su-30 warplanes
SOURCE:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/10/world/ukraine-russia-news-war#explosions-at-a-base-in-crimea-destroyed-about-a-dozen-russian-jets-satellite-photos-indicate
Russian losses at Saky airbase updated with:
– 4 Su-30SM multirole aircraft (destroyed)
– 6 Su-24M/MR strike/tactical reconnaissance aircraft (5, destroyed, 1x damaged)
SOURCE:
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1557469739835969541
The SU-24 is an all weather attack aircraft produced until 1993. The latest aircraft are therefore 30 years old. The first production aircraft are today 55 years old. The aircraft reported destroyed are Su-24M(R), a dedicated tactical reconnaissance variant.
SOURCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-24#2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Tactical reconnaissance is also conducted by drones; drones are less likely to be detected by the enemy and have the capacity to loiter overhead for an extended period. It is therefore unclear why the UAF would risk military resources to destroy aircraft already being supplanted in the reconnaissance role by drones.
SU-30 and its enhanced derivative, dubbed SU-30SM2, is primarily aimed at meeting Russian Naval Aviation requirements.
SOURCE:
https://www.key.aero/article/depth-look-russias-enhanced-sukhoi-su-30sm2
The Su-30M2 is a long-range strike aircraft based on the Su-30 fighter design optimized for precision strikes on ground and naval targets.
SOURCE:
http://sukhoi.org/eng/news/company/?id=3633“>https://web.archive.org/web/20110724100244/http://sukhoi.org/eng/news/company/?id=3633″>https://web.archive.org/web/20110724100244/http://sukhoi.org/eng/news/company/?id=3633″>http://sukhoi.org/eng/news/company/?id=3633″>https://web.archive.org/web/20110724100244/http://sukhoi.org/eng/news/company/?id=3633
Saky Naval Air Base is reported to have engaged in ground attack strikes in support of the SMO. This implies the use of aircraft, and personnel, not normally employed in the ground strike role. It also implies the need to store ground attack armaments at a base which may lack appropriate storage facilities and whose ground personnel may be unfamiliar with ground attack armament. It is also likely RF is drawing down its armament stockpile and using weapons made unstable due to aging.
SOURCE:
https://www.rferl.org/a/crimea-russian-air-base-attacked-satellite-images/31982540.html
Posted by: Sushi | Aug 14 2022 18:15 utc | 45
While that all looks sound and neat, it essentially is still just truths (wikipedia sources re the plane types) mingled with assumptions, not least from sources that are by no means known for being correct.
While you might well be able to assume the type of plane seen in the satellite images, in this case Su-24s and planes that might be Su-27 or Su-30, giving the exact specification is nigh impossible. What this twitter channeller and his website* does is a lot of guess-work, in this case speaking of 4 Su-30SM and 6 Su-24M/MR. While it might be known what sort of planes the Russian Aerospace Forces or Navy uses, you can`t simply go on and say that those on the sat-images are exactly that. When you double check his list in the link below, various samples listed yield the same photographs of fully burned wrecks or debris falling from the sky, which essentially can by anything from either war party.
And what analysts from the NYT (of all people) think or have concluded from the sat images is well, hardly anything better than what the British Security Service thinks.
The above is not to say that nothing was destroyed up at Saky Airfield, but one should be wary to determine what exactly happened and what was destroyed.
* https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/03/list-of-aircraft-losses-during-2022.html

Posted by: CM of Berlin | Aug 14 2022 22:02 utc | 81

Here is some news on Ukrainian war crimes:
https://johnmenadue.com/eva-bartlett-the-west-is-silent-as-ukraine-targets-civilians-in-donetsk-using-banned-butterfly-mines-bd-check-bio-taken-from-fast-mail-above-article/
Given that ‘news’ is something someone wishes to suppress this qualifies as news.

Posted by: Paul | Aug 14 2022 22:13 utc | 83

PavewayIV Thanks
A primitive hoax.
But such an obvious fake that it’s awesome how stupid they think we are

Posted by: mac99 | Aug 14 2022 22:31 utc | 85

Original coat of arms of the Wagner group
.
https://www.belltower.news/gruppe-wagner-putins-rechtsextreme-schattenarmee-128487/

Posted by: mac999 | Aug 14 2022 22:37 utc | 87

Outlaw US Empire escalation using Baltics as proxy began with blockade of Kaliningrad transport followed by Latvia’s trial balloon of calling Russia state terrorism sponsor, which is also being considered by US Congress as I related yesterday. Those hoping Baltics will be “obliterated” are quite wrong and are likely ignorant of the Russian laws aimed at protecting out-of-country compatriots. Any attacks on the Baltics will follow the example made in Ukraine. Why they remain when so many opportunities are available within Russia is a perplexing question. Perhaps the “This too shall pass” sentiment remains very strong. It would be excellent to hear some testimony from ethnic Russians living in the Baltics on this issue.
Domestically within the Outlaw US Empire, the very notable decline in media trust across the political spectrum is actually good news as fewer and fewer believe the Establishment Narrative. The same is true for the very huge lack in confidence in the federal government as pocketbook worries spike. Those sentiments are reflected in this Gallup Poll published July 5, with the results likely lower now that another month has elapsed with zero improvement.
I haven’t provided anything from Shadowstats since last month, so here’s a snippet:

• FLASH (August 7th – Updated from August 5th): What was not headlined in the Payroll Employment “Recovery” was that the seasonally adjusted recovery gain was just 0.02% (which rounds to 0.0%) or 32,000 +/-116,000 jobs [90% confidence interval], in the context of heavily shifting and suspect seasonal adjustment revisions, and subject to pending Benchmark Revisions on August 24, 2022 and February 3, 2023.
Yet, the headline July 2022 Payrolls also held shy by about 3.6% (-3.6%) or by 5.8 (-5.8) million jobs of where they would be, had the U.S. economy continued its relatively stable trends in place before the externally driven Pandemic shut it down.
• FLASH (August 5th): A separate, but related issue, which should be of some concern to those following the health, stability and general condition of the U.S. Economy (i.e. a nascent new Recession) and related labor conditions, is that the total Civilian Labor Force (Employed plus Unemployed persons) is in decline; where the seasonally adjusted 163.96 million in July 2022, was down from a near-term peak of 164.41 million in May 2022, which had rallied off the Pandemic Trough of 156.36 million in April of 2020, after having collapsed from a Pre-Pandemic Peak of 164.58 million in February 2020.
• How can the U.S. Economy be fully “Recovered” and booming, as so heavily touted by the Federal Reserve in its hiking of Interest Rates, given the headline contraction in First-Quarter 2022 GDP, along with strong indications for a contraction in Second-Quarter 2022 GDP [a formal recession]?
• FLASH (August 5th): Separately, what was not headlined with the U.3 Unemployment Rate, where it dropped to 3.46% in July from 3.60% in June, is that the broader, headline U.6 Unemployment (including those marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part-time for economic reasons), increased from 6.67% to 6.73%, while the still-broader ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate (including long-term discouraged workers) widened to 24.4% from 24.3%.

There’s a big government disconnect within the second bullet point that tells us they’re lying about the unemployment rate. Worldometer says US population is 335,155,993 as of today, while BLS cited by Shadowstats says the workforce is just under 164 million, meaning over 50% of the population is either retired, in school, or not seeking employment. So, which unemployment number do you believe: BLS 3.46% or Shadowstats 24.4%?
How much longer can the Neoliberal Parasites running the federal government continue plundering US citizens? IMO, the cover-up must escalate for it to continue at its current pace. Thus, the escalation we’re seeing in the Baltics as Ukraine will be used up by November elections and something new needs to be ready to take its place. As I wrote back in February, Ukrainians will be exhausted first, then a cascade of different Europeans will follow beginning with the Balts.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 14 2022 23:06 utc | 89

Perhaps the Russian population in the Baltic states should start doing what Israel does in Palestine: build their own state. That would be fun to watch…
There are around 24% Russians both in Latvia and in Estonia. Russia should start funding a massive program to make Russians the ethnic majority, and then lead those countries out of EU and NATO, and then into EAEU and CSTO, or even into Union State (like Belarus).
All it takes is 700k Russians entering Estonia and 1M entering Latvia (or fewer than those if we consider the amount of abstention in elections in the Baltic states). Then wait 5 years for citizenship, and vote, according to the interests of motherland.
I’m sure the Kremlin can find 1.7M Russians (or Ukrainian refugees that are pro-Russia and would find it easier to enter the Baltic countries if the Russian visas really are blocked) willing to implement such a plan in exchange for a few extra $motivation$ on top of the motivation they already have in this moment of Western attack against their motherland.
Let’s imagine a $motivation$ of 500€/month forever (on top of the salaries those Russians/Ukrainians find in the Baltic states). That would be an expense of 10 billion/years, or just 0.5% of Russia’s GDP. If I was in the Kremlin, this operation would have started already the day Kaliningrad was blocked. It’s an investment that will pay for itself in the long run.
This leads to Lithuania. Since there are only 5% Russians there, and a much bigger population (like Estonia and Latvia combined), the strategy would be different. Just concentrate the new arriving Russians in that sweet corridor between Belarus and Kaliningrad. Then do to Lithuania what Kosovo is doing to Serbia. #KarmaForNATO
Probably there is someone already thinking about this both in Russia and in the Baltic states, and only that can explain why the Baltic governments decided to start talking about the cancellation of visas for Russians, using Ukraine as an excuse.
In the end, this is similar to what Russia is doing in the liberated territories of Novorussia: the pro-Nazi/pro-NATO/pro-West Ukrainians have already ran away, so now it’s the time to make those sweet referendums with all the pro-Russian residents that stayed courageously in Kherson, Zaporizhia, and Kharkiv during the conflict/SMO, and after 8 years of waiting for Russia’s intervention.
And in addition to those civilians, we have to add those that are already coming back to those territories, after seeing Russians are the good guys in this conflict, and establish better living conditions that the Ukrainian dictatorship. And this is why Zelensky+Nazis are now shelling the nuclear power plant: to try to terrorize those civilians before the inevitable (selfdetermination referendum) happens.

Posted by: Carlos Marques | Aug 14 2022 23:15 utc | 91

@Petri, @Paveway, yep. Think you guys are right, apologies for sharing bad info and good eye. Saw that was retweeted by an OSINT account that is usually solid but not in this case.
These images of the damage from RSOTM look more legit:
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1558852348646248449

Posted by: Yenwoda | Aug 14 2022 23:50 utc | 93

Posted by: Peter Hegger | Aug 14 2022 21:20 utc | 71
Done!
You are number 35.
Welcome to the bar. The first wee dram is on me.
Time for a little F-demented. Beats the hell out of the F-35!
https://youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ

Posted by: Sushi | Aug 15 2022 0:07 utc | 95

Shushi no. 94
Thankx for the blues.

Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Aug 15 2022 0:25 utc | 97

@96 Sushi
Great cover of All Along the Watchtower!!!
Thanks.

Posted by: TheHourIsGettingLate | Aug 15 2022 0:51 utc | 99