Arch Bungle | Oct 10 2022 9:05 utc | 296
Postage stamps?
I think Putin is just marking everything “return to sender”.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 10 2022 9:11 utc | 303

re: Arch Bungle | Oct 10 2022 9:05 utc | 296
“I wonder if there will be postage stamps?…..”
Arch, here it is:
https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1579396254416916480
The famous stars take pictures again…From Kiev

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 10 2022 9:14 utc | 305

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 10 2022 9:13 utc | 301
Sky News (Ozzie News) on youtube is still in shock about the bridge attack as of 30 minutes ago.
Things take a while to percolate down under …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 10 2022 9:19 utc | 307

The massive blow to the Ukrainian infrastructure testifies to a radical change in the nature of the SMO.
However, it is obvious that what happened is not only a military move. It is also an argument for stimulating the negotiation process. About which statements are increasingly being made in the United States, and in Europe, and in Turkey.
After such a large-scale attack, the patrons of the Kyiv regime will not be able to pretend that nothing happened. The choice, by and large, of two alternatives. Either détente or support escalation.
It is getting harder and harder for the West to raise the stakes. To hand over back – the concepts of prestige interfere. According to the laws of the information society, it is unacceptable to delay the pause. Therefore, you won’t have to wait long for a response.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/13213

Posted by: Down South | Oct 10 2022 9:21 utc | 309

Something tells me there’ll be a marked drop off in EU leaders visiting Kiev for photo ops from now on …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 10 2022 9:24 utc | 311

I still think Russia is too constrained and afraid to act.
Ukrainians are fanatics, just like the whole EU population, they can survive without electricity.

Posted by: marko | Oct 10 2022 9:27 utc | 313

“I spoke to soon. “How was Russia under attack when it invaded Ossetia in 2008?”
UN agreed peacekeepers killed.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 10 2022 8:30 utc | 261
“According to Georgian intelligence, and several Russian media reports, parts of the regular (non-peacekeeping) Russian Army had already moved to South Ossetian territory through the Roki Tunnel before the Georgian military action.
Russia accused Georgia of “aggression against South Ossetia”, and launched a large-scale land, air, and sea invasion of Georgia with the pretext of a “peace enforcement operation” on 8 August 2008. Russian airstrikes against targets within Georgia were also launched.” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ossetia#1989–2008, accessed 10/10/22.

Posted by: Cережа | Oct 10 2022 9:28 utc | 315

Posted by: marko | Oct 10 2022 9:27 utc | 310

I still think Russia is too constrained and afraid to act.

What action would it please you to see Russia take?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 10 2022 9:32 utc | 317

@305 BearishPanda
I’m all for love and peace, honest, but sometimes you have to kill scum
Yeah, right. Killing kids is always the best route to world peace.

Posted by: Tom UK | Oct 10 2022 9:34 utc | 319

Posted by: Tom UK | Oct 10 2022 9:34 utc | 316

Yeah, right. Killing kids is always the best route to world peace.

“I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”
— Madeleine Albright (now burning in hell)

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 10 2022 9:37 utc | 321

❗❗Ukro channel Rezident reports :
⚡️⚡️⚡️#Inside
Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President is asking Britain and the United States to request an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation with missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
🤣🤣

Posted by: Down South | Oct 10 2022 9:38 utc | 323

Are these massive missile strikes another sign that Putin is losing since he is giving away the last (TM) rockets of Russia?

Posted by: Goingo | Oct 10 2022 9:39 utc | 325

Igor Girkin aka Strelkov:
“Numerous attacks on critical infrastructure of the so-called “Ukraine” will definitely have an effect and will affect the state of the front and the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a whole. But the effect will be by no means instantaneous and will begin to affect not earlier than in a few weeks (and then only on the condition that the strikes continue and systematically knock out the surviving objects).
And now the enemy, on the contrary, will be forced, on the contrary, to hurry with offensive operations – as long as his rear infrastructure remains capable. I continue to predict the enemy’s attempts to carry out 1-2 large-scale offensive operations by the end of October.
Now every day without an enemy offensive is “working for us,” since the flow of mobilized people arriving at the front is growing every day, and the time remaining before the preparation and commissioning of urgently formed reserves is shortening. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also understands all this very well.” – Strelkov’s telegram channel

https://t.me/battleinsights/6060

Posted by: Down South | Oct 10 2022 9:41 utc | 327

Re 316 Tom from UK
Should have thought about that 8 years ago when the nazi filth started the war, shouldn’t they.
Action have consequences.

Posted by: eagle eye | Oct 10 2022 9:44 utc | 329

Cережа | Oct 10 2022 9:40 utc | 323
Georgia….. as a U$ Puppet… fucked around and found out.
Ukraine is experiencing a little of the same “wake up” call today.
Note: NATO and U$ has recently cajoled Georgia to have another crack.
They aren’t at all keen….

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 10 2022 9:44 utc | 331

Russian telegram channels report that the warehouse of a Ukrainian cosmetic brand that publicly “rejoiced at the attack on the Crimean bridge” was destroyed by a rocket today.
This suggests that the Russian attacks went much deeper than just “critical infrastructure”

https://t.me/battleinsights/6062

Posted by: Down South | Oct 10 2022 9:49 utc | 333

❗️ In Kyiv, a panic began at the gas station. Residents fill the tanks of their cars to urgently leave the city.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/13231
Video of the queues embedded

Posted by: Down South | Oct 10 2022 9:52 utc | 335

@318 Arch Bungle
Thank you for emphasising my point.
@319 Night Tripper
It has nothing to do with fairness. War is never fair. Random killing of civilians is dumb and counter productive. The West will send more air defences to Ukraine, it hardens civilian (and Western) resolve and the military position in key areas is unchanged.
The Ukrainians attack a military supply bridge. The Russians attack a playground in a park. This negates the damage done to Ukrainian infrastructure as the media focus is directed towards the civilian attacks and Ukraine picks up more aid and weapons.
It is obvious that Russia cannot destroy Ukraine or its people, so all Russia does is add generations of enmity towards it from Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and Ukraine itself. You also have three bordering states declining to take part in scheduled military exercises with Russia and signs that China is starting to cosy up to the US because of how badly Russia has screwed up.

Posted by: Tom UK | Oct 10 2022 9:55 utc | 337

@ Tom UK
So why were the Ukrs terror bombing Donbass for eight years then, to harden them up? No to enable their version of Operation Storm when the time came.
Hitting critical may harden some people, but their indignation is pointless if they cant do anything with it. You can ask the Palestinians about that.
No electricity = no logistics, worse communications & puts Kiev’s ”winning” into perspective.
Also people will flee the cities buggering Ukraines economy worse than it is already.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Oct 10 2022 10:00 utc | 339

@Arch Bungle | Oct 10 2022 9:49 utc | 331
I´m sure he will be on his knees to get them accept his unconditional surrender.

Posted by: Goingo | Oct 10 2022 10:04 utc | 341

Preliminary targets of missile strikes on Ukraine according to OSINT and telegram channels
The following cities were hit:
– Kyiv
– Dnepropetrovsk
– Kharkiv
– Zaporozhye
– Ternopil
– Odessa
– Krivoy Rog
– Lviv
– Zhytomyr
– Rivne
– Nikolaev
– Krapivnitsky
– Kremenchug
– Konotop
Attacks on critical infrastructure:
– Glavk SBU (Kyiv)
– CHPP-5 (Kyiv)
– CHPP-6 (Kyiv)
– Lvovskaya CHPP (Lviv)
– Burshtynska TPP (Ivano-Frankivsk region)
– EU Advisory Mission (Kyiv)
– Department of Law Enforcement Agencies (Kyiv) Kyiv and Kharkov
Total loss of power:
– Lviv
– Zhytomyr
– Sumy
– Kharkiv
– Khmelnitsky
– Poltava
– Ternopl
– Lutsk
Partial loss of power and full/partial loss of water supply: basically all over Ukraine.

https://t.me/battleinsights/6063

Posted by: Down South | Oct 10 2022 10:06 utc | 343

It seems that the first wave, which started around 3.00 local, was over 80 missiles most of them Kalibre and Kh-101. Also there is no let up, they are still arriving.
Major target the combined heat and power power stations so most large cities will be rather cold this winter. This probably means another flood of refugees west which I doubt will be welcomed at the borders this time. Maybe armed rejection as the EU is short of power and energy as well.
Apparently a quote from the new Russian military leader Army General S.V. Surovikin:
“For the enemies of Russia, the morning does not start with coffee.”
It certainly didn’t today. Not in Brussels/London/Berlin/Paris or Washington either, where there were no doubt many rudely awakened and dragged out of bed in the middle of the night.
The attack on the Kersh bridge certainly lit the blue touch paper. It is clear that Surovikin is a different kind of General. After this is over he will be a shoe in to, about to retire, Gerasimaov’s job.

Posted by: JohninMK | Oct 10 2022 10:07 utc | 345

⚡️The Kiev regime has long used terrorist methods – Putin
⚡️SBU has already committed 3 terrorist attacks against the Kursk nuclear power plant – Putin
⚡️Ukraine tried to undermine Turkish Stream – Putin
⚡️Russia is not allowed to investigate explosions at Nord Stream – Putin
⚡️Putin: Kyiv put itself on a par with the most odious terrorist groups
⚡️Putin: it is simply impossible to leave the crimes of the Kyiv regime unanswered
⚡️This morning, a massive strike with precision-guided weapons was carried out on Ukrainian infrastructure facilities, Putin said
He warned that if Kyiv continued to attack Russia in Russia, Moscow’s response would be harsh.
⚡️The strikes were carried out on the objects of the military administration of Ukraine, communications and energy – Putin

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/13238

Posted by: Down South | Oct 10 2022 10:09 utc | 347

❗Why did Lukashenko decide to support Russia ?
Belarusian mercenaries are being trained in Ukraine to seize power in Minsk
Earlier, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced the deployment of a joint regional group of troops with Russia. Lukashenka noted that the day before, through unofficial channels, Minsk was warned about a strike on Belarus from the territory of Ukraine.
Indeed, Belarus has serious reasons for concern. According to “Strana V”, units of Belarusian nationalists are being trained in Ukraine to seize power in the country.
“The Belarusian group is being formed in Kyiv and the Zhytomyr region and is closely connected with Azov (banned in the Russian Federation),” the source of the channel said.
According to him, the informal leader of the organization is the Belarusian militant Yankee (Igor Yankov). This is an active participant in the protests in Belarus in 2020. He is directly linked to Ukrainian fighters from Azov.
“The goal of the planned coup will be to create a buffer zone from Belarus, and the coup itself will have a military character. Demoralization of the army and a strike by motivated mercenaries, the scenario will be similar to the Ukrainian Maidan,” the source said.
We are waiting for the full entry of Belarus into the NWO. There is no other choice.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/13239

Posted by: Down South | Oct 10 2022 10:10 utc | 349

The Western MSM is so powerful that they can really control the minds In USA and all vassal states.
In this way, Ukrainians and the rest would find moral strength to endlessly resist to Russia.

Posted by: marko | Oct 10 2022 10:10 utc | 351

Tom UK @ 281
The old bandit UK is next in line.

Posted by: Paulg | Oct 10 2022 10:13 utc | 353

Posted by: Tom UK | Oct 10 2022 9:55 utc | 334
Literally yesterday, a UK aligned, funded and trained nazi uploaded a video of rolling “collaborator” bodies in a ditch, grave. You know, what their ancestors did at Babi Yar and Volyn.
https://twitter.com/VasilijProzorov/status/1579110067181301762

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 10 2022 10:14 utc | 355

🇪🇺🇧🇾 Lukashenka’s accusations against Ukraine are unacceptable, EU calls on Belarus to refrain from aggressive actions – European Commission

https://t.me/intelslava/38838

Posted by: Down South | Oct 10 2022 10:17 utc | 357

Vasco Valente | Oct 10 2022 10:08 utc | 342
Re: Parkovy Bridge…Kiev glass bridge.
I prefer to see it as “people with glass bridges shouldn’t …. throw stones…. (or detonate truck bombs) …

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 10 2022 10:19 utc | 359

Here’s another angle of the explosion near the Glass Bridge.
Bridge not impacted at all.
https://twitter.com/censor_net/status/1579372865484300288
Comment:
>The probable target was not the bridge itself, but the building of the European Union advisory assistance located nearby.
Notice the bridge appears undamaged, but a building below is destroyed.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 10 2022 10:30 utc | 361

Literally yesterday, a UK aligned, funded and trained nazi uploaded a video of rolling “collaborator” bodies in a ditch, grave. You know, what their ancestors did at Babi Yar and Volyn.
https://twitter.com/VasilijProzorov/status/1579110067181301762
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 10 2022 10:14 utc | 351
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One wonders how upstanding Brits take it when their own government laughingly pisses on the graves of their WWII vets.

Posted by: Nobody | Oct 10 2022 10:35 utc | 363

Posted by: Goingo | Oct 10 2022 10:04 utc | 343

I´m sure he will be on his knees to get them accept his unconditional surrender.

If he is on his knees, they’ll be on their faces. That’s how it goes in Judo.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 10 2022 10:41 utc | 365

@366 Arch Bungle
If all Russia has is an iron fist then it is doomed to isolation and economic destitution. Basically, a larger North Korea.
Also, at some point Russians are going to have to wonder why everyone around them loathes them and perhaps reflect that it may have something to do with them and their behaviour? We could all do with some self-reflection from time to time.

Posted by: Tom UK | Oct 10 2022 10:51 utc | 367

Down South | Oct 10 2022 10:06 utc | 345
Reading that laundry list.
Seems Russia can do “shock and awe” when it decides to.
Russia: Don’t fuck with our bridge
U$UK/raine: You won’t do shit, pussy.
Russia: Meet our new guy. “No more go slo SMO 4 yo.”
Ukraine: cyka blyat

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 10 2022 10:59 utc | 369

Also, at some point Russians are going to have to wonder why everyone around them loathes them…
Tom UK @ 369
Have you ever wondered why everyone loathes Britain? The bandit country and people.

Posted by: Paulg | Oct 10 2022 11:11 utc | 371

It looks to be over for now. In Putin’s announcement this morning he made it clear that it was in response to Ukraine’s “terrorists actions”. In particular and this seems to be news, he said that Ukraine had attempted attacks on the Turk Stream/South Stream pipeline as well as on the Kursk NPP.
If they try anything else “attacking Russia in Russia” there will be another “harsh” response. Notwithstanding Russia’s ability to turn more washing machines into Kalibres!!!
So it looks to be now back to the slow and careful military build up to the main event in a few weeks. With chunks of the Internet down and the Russians apparently getting a handle on Skynet it will be increasingly difficult for Ukrainian planners and tactical operations.

Posted by: JohninMK | Oct 10 2022 11:14 utc | 373

Vladimir Putin held an extraordinary meeting with the Security Council. The Russian leader openly compared the Kyiv regime to international terrorists.
– Yesterday, the chairman of the Investigative Committee reported on the first results of the investigation into the sabotage on the Crimean bridge. Expertise data say that the explosion on October 8 is a terrorist attack. Critical civilian infrastructure has been affected, the president said.
– Kyiv has been using terrorist methods for a long time: murders of politicians, scientists, journalists. The shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is an act of nuclear terrorism. The special services of Ukraine carried out three terrorist attacks against the Kursk nuclear power plant, blew up high-voltage power lines. The damage was quickly eliminated, no serious consequences were allowed. But there have been other attempts to damage infrastructure, such as the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. Representatives of Russia are not allowed to investigate the causes of explosions in the Baltic Sea, – the head of the country listed.
Putin said that “by its actions, the Kyiv regime has actually placed itself on the same level as international terrorists.”
The Russian leader told how we responded to the blowing up of the Crimean bridge.
– This morning, a massive air, sea and land-based high-precision long-range weapon delivered a massive strike on energy, military command and communications facilities of Ukraine.
– If attempts to carry out terrorist attacks on our territory continue, Russia’s responses will be tough and in scale will correspond to the level of threats posed by Russia. No one should have any doubts about this, the president threatened.

Posted by: Paulg | Oct 10 2022 11:22 utc | 375

Posted by: Tom UK | Oct 10 2022 11:13 utc | 374

Yes. Putin, not Russia.

Wrong. This was a consensus decision.

From the Ukrainian perspective,

Are you Ukrainian? What gives you the right to speak on their behalf?

Putin launched a war of aggression

Wrong. It was Ukraine that attacked Donbas first.

and annexed territory so they will not negotiate with Putin.

You’re contradicting yourself again. Are you a schizo?

Ukrainians have agency in this war.

So do the Russians. It comes down to who has the greater agency.
Since Ukraine is a puppet NATO state, it’s clear they have less.

Ukrainians decide on what basis they will negotiate.

False. Victoria Nuland will decide that.

Putin does not control this situation,

You’re contradicting yourself again. I thought you said “Putin, not Russia”.
Which is it?

nor is he in a position to dictate.

So he is not a dictator after all? Nice to know.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 10 2022 11:26 utc | 377

We’ll see if this is a one night stand or just the beginning of some serious offensive.
If its 24th February all over again for the sake of Moscow TV shows Russia is as well as being lost.
Big tank roll to Odessa and Tiraspol needed now, no skirmishes neither drone videos, please. Send all in or go home and have a nap.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Oct 10 2022 11:37 utc | 379

All we can do is pray that the soul of Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovski will watch over the sleep of General Surovikhin.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Oct 10 2022 11:40 utc | 381

@378 Arne Hartmann
Ukraine was never joining NATO. NATO still won’t let Ukraine join. All Putin did was expand NATO borders to Finland.
The idea that the Ukraine was ever joining NATO is a delusion wrapped in a fantasy.

Posted by: Tom UK | Oct 10 2022 11:57 utc | 383

Posted by: the pessimist | Oct 9 2022 21:16 utc | 146
Thanks for the pictures, closeup of the road deck from nearer to the point of explosion shows pockmarks, presumably from bits of truck turned into shrapnel. I hadn’t seen this type of damage in other images so far.
Trigger from a vehicle in front makes sense as there is more chance of being able to drive away. A telescope from the shoreline and a longer range transmitted would also work (hard to jam a simple trigger frequency that operates so quickly). Unlikely alternatives: texting GPS coordinates to a bomb trigger device (assumes a stationary target) or planting a radio beacon on the target train (some RF missiles can apparently home in on planted beacons).

Posted by: anon2020 | Oct 10 2022 12:33 utc | 385

@anon2020 #387
A simple GPS-controlled trigger would do. Truck crosses certain coordinates—the trigger activates. The presence of the fuel train, in my opinion, was a coincidence. Clearly, they wanted to align the operation with Putin’s birthday (but couldn’t, because the driver decided to take a nap), not with the train.
I’d like to remind the bar again that the truck driver wasn’t in on the plan. A completely innocent person that had nothing to do with anything was deliberately sacrificed to commit this act of sabotage. You may call the family from St. Petersburg that was driving in a Cadillac “collateral damage”, but Makhir Yusubov was not there accidentally—the plotters have deliberately sacrificed him, a random man they knew nothing about.

Posted by: S | Oct 10 2022 13:27 utc | 387

@386 Arne Hartmann
No, it would not have settled the matter. Ukraine was not getting into NATO. NATO was not going to allow Ukraine into NATO while Ukraine was involved in a conflict with Russia and in dispute over territory. Allowing Ukraine in after 2014 would have made the Donbas conflict a NATO conflict and there was no way they wanted involvement in that.
Ukraine cannot get into NATO now for the same reasons. NATO currently only supplies limited range of weapons, it even limits HIMARS ordinance. It will not supply planes, or the latest tanks. NATO does not want an open conflict with Russia, nor does Russia want one with NATO.
The NATO argument is a false one and has no credibility. I mean, Putin went on TV to talk about Russian destiny and Russia’s historic lands. The invasion of Ukraine was about Russian ambitions and nationalism.

Posted by: Tom UK | Oct 10 2022 14:17 utc | 389

Cережа | Oct 10 2022 8:15 utc | 256 & 317 &
“How was Russia under attack when it invaded Ossetia in 2008?
How was Russia under attack when it invaded Crimea, Luhansk and Donbass in 2014?”
Perhaps you are, like your moniker, young and naive; totally mistaken in the idea that you are “independent”. You obviously have either no actual knowledge due to your youth and indoctrinations or you are just ingenuous with your “fractured history” from Western Wikipedia.
Like any juvenile, the reasoning process is poorly developed and the tactics of two year olds sometimes hold sway long past their normal development range. Selective listening becomes highly selective highlighting in their choices for verbal interchanges and they strive most diligently to bolster their internalized distortions of reality. Just another bit of evidence they choose to ignore of them being far from “independent”, like Cережа wanted to be seen.

Posted by: DoesItReallyMatter | Oct 10 2022 15:55 utc | 391

Posted by: Tom UK | Oct 10 2022 9:55 utc | 339
You’ve gone from “Think of the children” to through the looking-glass in record-time.
Have another drink.
The Phoney War is ending.

Posted by: John Kennard | Oct 10 2022 16:28 utc | 393

A simple GPS-controlled trigger would do. Truck crosses certain coordinates—the trigger activates. The presence of the fuel train, in my opinion, was a coincidence. …
Posted by: S | Oct 10 2022 13:27 utc | 389
I agree with all the rest but the length of the bridge vs the length of the freight train …. sure, it could be coincidence, perhaps the RF investigation will clarifying the trigger, but I wouldn’t make that assumption on the limited information we have right now and the very small chance of setting off an explosion anywhere on that bridge and just happening to also hit a freight train.

Posted by: anon2020 | Oct 10 2022 18:31 utc | 395

@anon2020 #397
Let’s assume the reverse: that Putin’s birthday was a coincidence, and that the plotters were targeting the fuel train. Let’s further assume that Russian Railways have a regular schedule for fuel trains to Crimea, and that the plotters somehow got ahold of that schedule, making the operation possible. Given that the truck driver wasn’t in on the plan, how would they ensure that he would drive onto the bridge when the fuel train was there⁠—not 10 minutes earlier, not 10 minutes later? Such precise timing would only be possible with a suicide driver, but we know he wasn’t one. Hence my thinking the presence of the fuel train was a coincidence.

Posted by: S | Oct 10 2022 20:25 utc | 397

Posted by: Ursula Zandt | Oct 10 2022 21:58 utc | 324
Better, Meade has been soft-demoted in favor of Grant.

Posted by: John Kennard | Oct 10 2022 22:23 utc | 399