The continued campaign of western lies about china sending weapons/ammo to Russia is designed to give the impression Russia NEEDS weapons. I.e. Russia is “running out of ammo”.
This in turn is to bolster morale of ukraine army – who fell for the western miscalculation of russia running out of missiles way back in April 2022.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 26 2023 22:19 utc | 103

I have noticed also that ukraines “spring offensive” is now “mid to late spring offensive”. So the planned date is being pushed back.
Dont be surprised if soon we hear that it will be a “summer offensive”

Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 26 2023 22:24 utc | 105

Posted by: West of England Andy | Feb 26 2023 22:22 utc | 104
Unfortunately, Donbass areas are most likely still sown with petal mines. Ukraine can launch some “package” of mine from a MLRS type launcher which disperses them across the landscape.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 26 2023 22:19 utc | 103
Agreed that MSM probably wants to present Russia out of ammo. In reality it’s not true, but seems to me they will be getting a lot more of these self propelled artillery systems and compatible ammo anyway. They can be used to bring all those artillery units to full strength if needed, or saturate Belarus.

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 26 2023 22:29 utc | 107

jgalt | Feb 26 2023 22:19 utc | 102
Stop spreading false information. As fake as Zelenskyy’s foreskin.

Posted by: Sektion2B | Feb 26 2023 22:35 utc | 109

“Imo there will be an increase in pushback against more aid to Ukraine once the battles over the upcoming Republican formulated budget proposals get started. And those battles will have had a running start due to the battles over raising the debt limit, as Republicans seem to have drawn a line in the sand, and the Democrats will be under pressure to agree to some cuts to the stimulus package that was recently passed, so as to be seen as making a mature compromise in order to get the debt ceiling raised.”
Posted by: Babel-17 | Feb 26 2023 20:44 utc | 76
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Biden will give away Social Security and Medicare before we will give fund his mew cold war legacy. The bastard is a menace to the whole world, but Americans most of all.

Posted by: Ed | Feb 26 2023 22:40 utc | 111

The official comment of the CPC of Belarus about the “shootout” at the border:
A number of sources on the Internet, primarily of a destructive nature, are spreading reports with reference to Ukrainian resources about an alleged shootout on the border with Ukraine on February 25 of this year.
The information replicated by extremists has nothing to do with reality. There were no incidents involving the use of weapons, border guards did not open fire.
Units of the border service bodies serve in places of permanent deployment.
The crackdown on the launch of “6 UAVs” on the territory of Belarus is fake. Have patience and do not believe the authors of channels that have nothing to do with Belarus or any information from law enforcement agencies.

Posted by: Belarus | Feb 26 2023 22:48 utc | 113

I think Zelensky came close to saying the unspeakable – US is not actually calling shots in global assault on Russia. US just plays that role, Zelensky has direct line to the top.

Posted by: jared | Feb 26 2023 22:49 utc | 115

@ Posted by: unimperator | Feb 26 2023 22:06 utc | 99
Not any news at all.
Follow Southfront. They publish a map of US carrier groups location every 2 weeks or so.
Only 2 are actively deployed. 1 S China Sea. 1 in Mediterranean to support Syria actions. 10 months ago there was discussion about US carrier support in Ukraine. Too many countries airspace to fly over, too far, would need refueling to there and back. Poorly defined missions, no guarrante they wouldn’t be targeted by Ukraine by mistake.
The rest of the groups are either in US ports, or sailing close to US waters. A shadow force at best right now. I think 2 are in dry dock, and 1 is in floating maintenance upgrade.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Feb 26 2023 22:56 utc | 117

Posted by: Blissex | Feb 26 2023 22:45 utc | 112
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The International Business Times. Humm, that explains a lot about you and your postings on MoA. Do you really think that anybody at the MoA, except the trolls and some very stupid people, are impressed with your sources; the IBT. Why not the NYTs or the WP? What difference does it make where you get your lies and half-truths from?
It is a fact that President Putin tried very, very, hard (e.g. the Minsk accords) to keep most of Ukraine whole, apart from Crimea which was vital to Russia’s national security. So what?
By the way, who the fuck was Poroshenko, and by what athority, could he give the Donbass away without the people’s consent. Poroshenko was nothing but a handpicked American stooge, his “presidency” was not legitimate, and his authority was not recognized by Russia, the people of the Donbass, or the people of Crimea.

Posted by: Ed | Feb 26 2023 23:20 utc | 119

In the light of western claims that maidan was a “revolution” which overthrew the established powers in 2014, so, then, the peoples of luhansk, donetsk and crimea had the same right of “revolution” to overthrow the established powers in their regions.
But the west/kiev declared those “revolutionaries” as terrorists and kiev commenced an “anti terrorist operation” against those regions.
So note: the maidan was a “revolution of dignity” whilst the uprising in luhansk, donetsk and crimea were treated as terrorist acts.
But, What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 26 2023 23:32 utc | 121

@ RSH 101 “Denied means nothing.”
Not surprised at the reaction from a guy who is himself a denier.!!!!!
WTF. FFS.
Who the hell is Simplicius? Curious commenters at L.J. and here (at MoA), have been asking. No one appears to know anything about him/her as is normal media blogging ethics. You know like creds, background from which came forth contacts, in the know at the highest levels.!!!
Considering you are requiring of us to accept what he/she writes as the only truth can you disclose the innards since you promote yourself as this person’s guarantor?

Posted by: Likklemore | Feb 26 2023 23:42 utc | 123

But, What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 26 2023 23:32 utc | 121
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Exactly, very well stated. But those who try to defend the 2014 US backed coup have a very big problem. The fascist and the Maidan coup plotter who, with US money and assistance, overthrew a democratically elected government are, and can never be anything less than, traitors to the Ukrainian people. What else can you call them? They (the coup plotters) acted with a foreign power to overthrow a legitimate government.
On the other hand, the people who refused to just roll over and accept this treachery by the coup plotters are the real heroes. They, even while they were at a great disadvantage, said “not no, but HELL NO to the US backed trechery.
The difference is so obvious that I just don’t understand how the trolls on this site can look at themselves in the mirror every morning. Come on trolls, tell me how I am wrong?

Posted by: Ed | Feb 27 2023 0:00 utc | 125

@122 Darren
You are correct sir. About 8 years ago I was a Canon service tech working on laptops and desktops from Dell as part of my duties. When I went to a small repair shop in Toronto to get a panel I was told that every laptop display and most of the TV’s in existence are made by only 3 or 4 panel manufacturers. One in South Korea, one in Malaysia somewhere and two in China. That’s it.

Posted by: safe | Feb 27 2023 0:04 utc | 127

Posted by: HERMIUS | Feb 26 2023 23:32 utc | 121
«So note: the maidan was a “revolution of dignity” whilst the uprising in luhansk, donetsk and crimea were treated as terrorist acts.»
That is the famous “difference” between (“our”) “freedom fighters” and (“their”) terrorists: the USA therefore are the “defenders of freedom”, their enemies are “evil autocrats”).
I was reading recently an article by UK ex-minister and ex-PM Gordon Brown (who was enthusiastically complicit in the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, …) in which he advocates a NATO court against Putin but with one interesting limitation as to the NATO court’s authority:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/feb/24/people-ukraine-vladimir-putin-trial-war-crimes
“The crime of aggression is Putin’s original and foundational crime, the one that has been the starting point for all the other atrocities. […] Neither Russia nor Ukraine have signed up to the anti-aggression statute of the ICC, so the court does not have the power to prosecute the crime of aggression, and this jurisdictional loophole should be closed.
[…] The US military will probably be advising Biden to resist, worried that such a tribunal would open the door to attempts to prosecute it for actions elsewhere. But the proposed tribunal would not only owe its existence to a request from the Ukrainian government, it would be rooted in the country’s law and lean on customary international law. The crime of aggression would be being applied in the Ukrainian context only.”
So the court would be composed setup by and composed entirely of enemies of the RF, and operating under ukrainian law, which has already declared Putin guilty, and without the authority to examine any war of aggression by the USA or the UK.
So convenient.

Posted by: Blissex | Feb 27 2023 0:05 utc | 129

@ 120 124 spare_truth(?)
I would be able to enjoy your commentary better if you just submitted it in your own language and I could then translate it myself. It would be clearer in it’s delivery!!

Posted by: safe | Feb 27 2023 0:08 utc | 131

@ Sektion29 109
No, the foreskin is real enough, but the rest of Zelensky has been grafted onto it like Frankenstein.

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 27 2023 0:10 utc | 133

Things I found out today:
“Moldovan” president Maia Sandu is a Romanian citizen.
https://awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/2023/02/26/ukraine-war-day-368-transnistria-the-next-front/

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Feb 27 2023 0:18 utc | 135

Sorry – I’m staying and consist of that of my statement between the lines, of comment @120 ..
Why all of “them” are still being “alive”, or non-jailed ..
I do not understand that, thouph I’ve stood a long while what’s “ging-on” ..
Next in UKR ..!
Pls. note: only the Rockets/Missiles will decide the further ongoing strikes on either side. So that’s may be, ‘Mr. Belarus’ will going to China next week. Mr Xi will hear what to have proclaimed due to closed transport passages.
Is China still tioday, even ready to “miss” its Road & Belt roads across western countries .. you now (as an MoA guy) what that countries could have been affected ..
So, let’s US (Biden, Nuland, Stolzenberg, Scholz, Macron, EU-Leyen, etc.) + Lavalls of US in EU continue what have decided to launch the 10th package, but not forget, that RF has “launched” another package for “you” – ok ?
Dear Mrs. Baerbock (Forein Minister of Germany) – make only a half of your 360 degree turnaround (minus 180 Grad/degree) to find Yourself back into another hopefully “NEW” peaceful direction, that You would be able to follow-up. Otherwise you’re subjebt of any Snipers …
Think about – even Your Grand-Pa J.F. Kennedy …

Posted by: spare_truth | Feb 27 2023 0:31 utc | 137

in addition to Turner on the “encirclement of Bakhmut”, Larry Johnson has this up -a Sitrep with maps from today.
Is Russia Closing The Cauldron Around Bakhmut?

[.]Here is an update from today describing the developing situation:
There are reports of Wagner approaching Bogdanovka (west of Bakhmut) which increases the threat of encirclement.
The 2nd map shows approximate number of Ukrainian units in the same area.
The ones in yellow circle would be able to withdraw (unless they decide otherwise)
The ones in the red circle will be in a difficult position.
It’s said that General Slursky arrived in Bakhmut to oversee the withdrawal of the more combat ready units, leaving territorial defence units to hold the rear.
After months of predictions of Ukraine retreating from Bakhmut it appears the moment is nigh. One of the key unanswered questions is how many Ukrainian soldiers will be captured and how many will escape. Regardless, this will mark another phase for Russia in its Ukrainian campaign to demilitarize and denazify. Ukraine’s next line of defense to the west (Kramatorsk and Seversk) is problematic because it sits in low ground and will be more vulnerable to Russian artillery.
In normal times the setback in Bakhmut would cause the U.S. and NATO to reassess the wisdom of its continued support for Ukraine and look for an escape route. But these are not normal times.[.]
https://sonar21.com/is-russia-closing-the-cauldron-around-bakhmut/

Posted by: Likklemore | Feb 27 2023 0:33 utc | 139

@BroncoBilly | Feb 26 2023 22:56 utc | 117
The actual location (within days) of US carriers is here — one carrier group (out of eleven) in the Adriatic Sea (near Serbia).

Posted by: Don Bacon | Feb 27 2023 0:36 utc | 141

Colonel Macgregor states that now over 2,500 Polish mercenaries have died fighting in the Ukraine:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qU2dpVO314j4/

Posted by: Nate | Feb 27 2023 0:58 utc | 143

Posted by: malenkov | Feb 27 2023 1:02 utc | 144

Nate: In which Poland needs to send more mercenaries! Hell, Poland should decommission its entire army and send it. “Poland Is Not Yet Lost”—but give Poland a good opportunity to lose!

Is there any country that likes to lose more than Poland lately, Lech Walesa excepted?
The Polish folks must wonder – when will we get a break from pathetic leadership….
Poland….seems clueless and hapless and really Poland could have ended up in such a better situation had they played their hand in the interest of Polish citizens is how it seems to me….but for what….a couple centuries it seems – Poland has just been a bouncing ball of pathetic leadership even though the Poles have some tremendous folks who reside there – consider the Polish resistance in WWII after so many of their kin were slaughtered.

Posted by: Buffalo_Ken | Feb 27 2023 1:07 utc | 145

@ Posted by: Don Bacon | Feb 27 2023 0:41 utc | 142
Of course it isn’t a democracy, it is a Republic.
I hate when the word democracy is incorrectly used, which is 99% of the time.
We Democratically elect Representatives and Senators, (Legislative branch) who decide on the FUNDS and LAWS in which the country is run.
We Democratically elect a President (Executive branch), who enforces the laws and uses the provided funds to run the country.
No where in the constitution does it say that general elections would be held for foreign policy, funding levels, new laws, etc etc.
It is what it is. Finding a Representative that agrees 100% with you is probably impossible. Settling for one that maybe agrees 55% is what we get, if that person actually gets elected.
Senators for 6 years is a crap shoot.
Presidents are controlled by (Biden), or fighting the deep state (Trump) for 4 years.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Feb 27 2023 1:15 utc | 147

NOMAD @30 posits an excellent question:
Time to ask who wants this war.
It’s been quite clear that those moving the chess pieces for the Outlaw US Empire have wanted this war and their subordinates of course. But I also think those in Novorossiya also wanted this war as it promised liberation from the Ukronazis and reunification with Russia. Then there are geopolitical thinkers like me who have long seen/opined that the only way to neuter the Outlaw US Empire was via a conflict of some sort. It’s not that we “wanted” war, but that we expected some force to intervene in one of the Empire’s attempts to plunder another nation after the rape of Libya, and that came in Syria. So the current act in our longstanding drama is just that–a segment, a scene, a microcosm within the ever-changing Big Picture. Personally, I’ve long asked when is the world going to gather together and arrest the Outlaw US Empire; how many more millions will die before the Empire’s rapine is halted? So, what we have is the sort of war that never erupted during the Cold War (the Arab-Zionist conflict doesn’t apply), although the Korean and Vietnam Anti-Colonial Wars come close, the latter resulting in the Genocide of Southeast Asians.
Those that want to be free of the Outlaw US Empire want the struggle but not the war as too many die; yet, the war is tacitly supported. IMO, most Realists support the war because it’s part of the overall struggle, although they loathe the human cost. And that’s one of the main points being brought forward by the war is the use of other’s lives to further the Outlaw US Empire’s interests–the war is being fought to further the Outlaw US Empire’s interests not those of Ukraine, yet Ukies are the ones dying.

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 27 2023 1:38 utc | 149

A remark on comments of above to (of whether or not by-UKR so-called “Backmuth” a la Artomowsk..):
Al that about nowadays “Backmuth” PLC-Wagner’s battle – whether forcing-more-in to capture that town, or leaving it as is with the UKR-engaged Mercanieres from Poland, UK and Germany (!) – should be a signal to Mr. Scholz/Macron/Biden what now newly have to make a new propaganda that we’ll fight until “the latest ‘UKR’ Soldier”.
There are still today no-more UKR-Soldiers fighting !
This in regard, the MSM is still reporting of a “successfully defensed Backmuth town”. ?
What’s the ‘sense’ of those TV/MSM/Telgram messages could be – anymore yet failed on true facts? ::
– That town is not a target of RF-Strategy, even interesting to ensuresome support ways.
– That town already has still today really take down to rubble – is there any casulaties being alive, after flooding basements etc. for the refugees ..?
I don’t think so.
In Ughledar, the RF may have chaged its “strategigal” on-going with 140mm Mortars etc. ..
So RuAF is no more “interested” in civilian losses ? .. ? OR ?
I do not hink so, but Ugledar and then so-called Backmuth will going to prove the same earth-level like town.
Nethertheless, pls. all may note herto:
The so-called “Ukranian War initiated by Russia” (SMO) will be continued (as also China said today) until any foreign guys/girls of NATO members will go to knees .!
That’s it (vice verca the USA-Statement of Stoltzenberg, copied by a poor school-gil named A. Baerbock not understanding 360 degrees, and to be shot ! asap).

Posted by: spare-truth | Feb 27 2023 1:45 utc | 151

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaPhLZaU1RI
Prigozhin goes to the active fighting repeatedly, putting himself in physical danger. Meanwhile Putin regime functionaroes criticise people for pointing out that Shoigu’s daughter is holidaying in the UAE.
Who do you think has more credibility in the eyes of the Russian people these days?
No wonder they tried to sabotage Wagner. Whether Prigozhin has political ambitions or not, people in the Russian MoD act as though he is a potential threat to their positions.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Feb 27 2023 1:59 utc | 153

@151 – self
Sorry, I’m a little too much drunken today to have posted that on @151 remarks.
I’ll try to learn, not only to express an own current mis-understanding rathern than presentintg a real new facts based infos, that I’ve not been the right man to do that.
All presenting of the so-called “suggestiions” to this conflict are further being matter of discussion.
But ONE thing, all MoAs may be sure of:
The technical side of UKR/US against RF (possibly China as well) will further on ONLY be fought by ROCKETS – and not on the “grounds”, as many commentaters may believe.
The few “yellow-painted” armed vehicles just delivered via Poland – today the just arrived with high MSM hype – 4x German Leopard-2 Tanks (old types) ..
Pls. have in remind on next months:
There will be a fight between NATO and RF only on the basis of Rocketsw & Drones guided by the “BEST” having in-before surveillaqnce SAT/SCAM – orAny swuch devices ..
Tanks is an old-style fighting – look at Your children – what are playing on PC?
Same in war – or not?
Thanks for listening – be aware – Berlin is close to Moscow …

Posted by: spare-truth | Feb 27 2023 2:08 utc | 155

BK:
“Is there any country that likes to lose more than Poland lately, Lech Walesa excepted?”
Lech Walesa excepted? You’re joking, aren’t you?

Posted by: malenkov | Feb 27 2023 2:12 utc | 157

Lurking the pro-Ukraine yootoobs and twitter as Bakhmut falls.
Comments:
“Land/territory/towns can be retaken. What’s irreplaceable are soldiers…..”

Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 27 2023 2:15 utc | 159

@ 160
It might be time for a little taste of Nordstream treatment for the anglosaxons.
What about those fibre optic cables connecting London to ground zero?

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 27 2023 2:22 utc | 161

Bad Deal Motors @96
What you have posted about the enflorated Russian tank in front of their embassy in Berlin is probably far more powerful a peace demonstration than many of the “organized” ones. It is a prime example of populist people’s jiu-jitsu against a dominatrical enemy’s own symbol of imperial power. Bingo!
The Shift has just begun. Thus, we may expect a significant false-flag event in the fairly near future. The PERPS are getting a bit nervous…demonstrations in Berlin, in Vienna, in Paris, in London and even in the Di$trict of Corruption. More and more the common people, who are suffering under the current WEF regime’s depopulation and re-enserfdom agendas, are awakening, many in a very pissed-off mood and the more thoughtful into a Ghandian form of peaceful resistance.
Ironically, the internet was first brought into existence by the U$$A military. Ironic because until that development, the mass of the people who were not major book readers and whose only previous information sources had become almost totally under control by the usual suspects. There now are sufficient awakening wonders (Russell Brand’s line) that their discoveries via independent internet sources, are now “trickling down” to family, clan, neighbors, co-workers and many more victims of the fear propaganda. The Covid scam and the horrific JABS are now being questioned by many who gave into the pressures which seemed to be coming from everywhere. If the jabs they received were not the “loaded” ones, they are becoming energized against all those sources of high-pressure. Interviewer Aubrey Marcus did a two hour special with Dr. Robert Malone, one of the world’s outstanding virologists….I listened to it TWICE….and passed the link along to a good number of fellow “Awakening Wonders”…the word is spreading like an out of control prairie fire.
In fact the three most feared words to those enemies of humanity are precisely “OUT OF CONTROL”.
The Greatest Awakening is rapidly reaching that particular stage. A looming Russian victory will massively speed up the process. Truly, the Empire has no clothes.

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 27 2023 2:31 utc | 163

@159 melaleuca
To be fair this was exactly the Putin cult cope at the abandonment of Kharkov, Izyum, and Kupyansk.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Feb 27 2023 2:34 utc | 165

More bullshit on Prigozhin…

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Feb 27 2023 2:35 utc | 167

Posted by: rjb1.5 | February 27, 2023 at 02:38
“it’s not the law that is important, it is the punishment,” M. Othon, “the plague”.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Feb 27 2023 2:41 utc | 169

@ BroncoBilly | Feb 27 2023 1:15 utc | 147
Of course it isn’t a democracy, it is a Republic.
They are not exclusively separate.
The oft-repeated claim is that the US is a democracy.
That is: a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
However there is no constitutional mechanism to make this work.
The government of course includes the State and Defense departments.
And while the congress is elected by the people, the relationship ends there.
Congress then consists of the Congress-critters operating to serve their financial supporters, not the voters.
It’s a bum system.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Feb 27 2023 2:43 utc | 171

@ Biswapriya P.
Poland is nothing if not predictable.

Posted by: malenkov | Feb 27 2023 2:48 utc | 173

jgalt | Feb 26 2023 22:19 utc | 102
Stop spreading false information. As fake as Zelenskyy’s foreskin.
Posted by: Sektion2B | Feb 26 2023 22:35 utc | 109
Show why you feel it is false. I think maybe you are a Zelinski NAZI.
China has now opened all its weapon warehouse to Russia.
All you UkoNazi’s will get rubbed out now.
Major rejection of Biden and US Threats.
China has entered the war with Ukraine with Russia.
Chinese PLA has opened the largest weapons depot in China to Russia.
Russian team has been there 8 days now shopping. Shipments of Chinese Artillery systems has began already.
massive lift of equipment
China has joined the War on Russia’s side.
Bye Bye Ukraine, Bye Bye Coke Head Mayor of Kiev. Bye Bye UkoNazi’s.
https://warnews247.gr/afixi-roson-se-kineziki-vasi-o-pla-paradidei-systimata-pyrovolikou-plz-05-kai-mlrs-ar1a-ston-rosiko-strato-ti-akolouthei/

Posted by: jgalt | Feb 27 2023 2:54 utc | 175

@ BK
I graciously accept your admission of defeat in re Walesa.

Posted by: malenkov | Feb 27 2023 2:58 utc | 177

Milos @ 57
Not a chance of that happening unless the US institutes a draft and the body bags start coming home in large quantities. Most US citizens I know are quite happy with the propaganda. They are being moved out into the metaverse. Soon they will be living thought their googles.

Posted by: circumspect | Feb 27 2023 3:16 utc | 179

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 25-26 Feb 2023⚡️
🔹#Russia’s Border Areas:
▪️ In the #Kursk region, Ukrainian terrorist formations shelled Korenevsky and Glushkovsky districts, disrupting power supply in the village of #Alexeyevka.
▪️ In the #Belgorod region and #Belgorod on Saturday morning, air defence equipment was triggered, intercepting all the shells fired by the Ukrainian Terrorist Forces.
🔹#Kharkov Region (MAP):
▪️ The enemy continues to fortify the territories bordering the #Belgorod region. Concurrently, brigades are being re-staffed and new formations are being formed.
▪️ Local sources speak of plans by the Ukrainian army to conduct an offensive operation in late February and early March, but its direction is unknown. However, this may turn out to be deliberate misinformation.
▪️ Along the border with #Russia, manoeuvre Signals Intelligence Teams are deployed and small quadcopters regularly conduct reconnaissance.
▪️ In #Starovrovka, near #Kupyansk, a maintenance station has been set up for the AFU heavy armoured vehicles damaged in the #Starobelsk direction.
🔹#Starobelsk Direction:
▪️ There are no significant changes in this section of the front, with artillery duels and positional battles along the line of contact.
🔹#Soledar (#Bakhmut) Direction (MAP 1); (MAP 2):
▪️ Northwest of #Bakhmut, Wagner PMC assault squads liberated and cleared the village of #Yagodnoye and later Dubovo-Vasilyevka after fierce fighting.
📌 Russian forces expand their control zone around the town, disrupting the supply of the AFU garrison in #Bakhmut along all routes except the country road to #Khromovo.
▪️ The Ukrainian militants, trying to slow down the advance of the Wagner PMC fighters, blew up a dam in the northwest of #Bakhmut, which, however, will not have much effect on the situation in the city, and may even 👉 harm the AFU.
▪️ In the east of #Bakhmut, the “Wagnerians” have entrenched themselves in a residential area on Kooperativnaya Street, not far from the crossing over the Bakhmutka River.
▪️ Southwest of the city there is fighting on the outskirts of #Krasnoye. Russian forces managed to regain some of the lost positions near the #Bakhmut – #Konstantinovka road.
▪️ Amid the rapid advance of the Wagner PMC, Ukrainian forces are hurriedly setting up defensive positions in Chasovy Yar, #Grigorovka, Belaya Gora and #Dyleyevka.
🔹#Donetsk Direction (MAP):
▪️ The RF Armed Forces once again launched an offensive on the positions of the 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade near #Pervomayskoye.
➖ After occupying heights north of #Vodyanoye, the Somali battalion fighters advanced from #Opytnoye towards #Avdeyevka.
▪️ South of #Vodyanoye, the Russian fighters surrounded a stronghold of the 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade and managed to advance between #Pervomayskoye and #Vodyanoye.
▪️ The Ukrainian terrorist formations, in turn, continue shelling civilian infrastructure in #Donetsk agglomeration.
🔹#Kherson Direction on #SouthFront:
▪️ Artillery duels continue along the line of contact, with the RF Armed Forces striking AFU facilities in and around #Kherson, while the enemy terrorists shell liberated towns in the #Kherson region.

https://t.me/sitreports/5070

Posted by: Down South | Feb 27 2023 3:23 utc | 181

🇺🇦👊🇷🇺 There will be no truce with Russia in the next 100 years —  Prime Minister of Ukraine
“Reconciliation, cooperation—no, not in the next hundred years.” “Russia must first change, be democratized, demilitarized, and denuclearized,” said Denis Shmygal.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/35177

Posted by: Down South | Feb 27 2023 3:30 utc | 183

I’ve no idea whether this is true or not, but I do recall the initial stories of Iran supplying drones to Russia were denied by all sides…
China Reportedly Negotiating with Russia To Supply Kamikaze Drones

According to that information, the Russian military is engaged in negotiations with Chinese drone manufacturer Xi’an Bingo Intelligent Aviation Technology over the mass production of kamikaze drones for Russia. The revelations create a new urgency in the debate over possible Chinese military support for Russia.
Bingo has reportedly agreed to manufacture and test 100 ZT-180 prototype drones before delivering them to the Russian Defense Ministry by April 2023. Military experts believe the ZT-180 is capable of carrying a 35- to 50 kilogram warhead.
Sources believe that the design of the unmanned aerial vehicle could be similar to that of Iran’s Shaheed 136 kamikaze drone. …
In a further step, Bingo reportedly plans to deliver components and know-how to Russia so that the country can produce around 100 drones a month on its own.

While this could well be Western propaganda to tar China with involvement in the war in order to dissuade China from pursuing a peace plan, as well to comport with the West’s usual anti-China stance, the suggestion that China plans to license the drone manufacture to Russia parallels what Iran allegedly did.
The alleged motivation is that the West has spurned China’s offer to negotiate a peace settlement, so the Chinese supposedly intend to abandon that and support Russia more directly than they have up to now.
As I say, YMMV. The Chinese have repeatedly denied all this stuff. But then again, so did Iran.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Feb 27 2023 3:31 utc | 185

Ukraine’s eastern and southern oblasts weren’t as developed as North Caucasus. I get that Russian officials might’ve been reluctant in the project of Novorossiya and preferred both of DNR and LNR to become autonomous republics within Ukraine.
By the way, despite all of Moscow’s investments in Crimea, the republic wouldn’t be as developed as Ingushetia, yet, because Kievite officials let Crimea in a pitiful state and hadn’t bothered to take care of Crimea and its people for two decades. Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporozhye are now devastated by the war and Moscow wouldn’t be as wealthy. This would be challenging to rebuild and develop these territories. Moscow might’ve to prostitute itself to Beijing and New Delhi, while China and India are less developed than Russia with poorer populations, to do so – That’s quite humiliating.

Posted by: La Beauté Prenante | Feb 27 2023 3:36 utc | 187

Blissex @129
Quite confident here that most MoA posters realize that the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC) is strictly a criminal enterprise. Why: Their totally egregious “finding”, in cahoots with the Dutch government and others, that Russia or the Donbass patriots were in any way connected with the Ukrainian fighter jet which shot down that Malaysian airliner…shortly after the doomed aircraft was redirected over the then battlefront by Kiev air-control.
Internationally, when one considers the RoW, most astute observers have come to the understanding that that that control institution in Den Haag, is absolutely corrupt and unjust. THEY need to be brought before a genuine international tribunal. My take is that those “judges” would be found guilty on all charges.

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 27 2023 3:40 utc | 189

B.P. @135
So Maia Sandu is a Romanian as well as being the same type of WEF “future leader” conniving cunt like that party girl currently running things in Finland. Old Klaus sure knows how to pick em. Oops. Forgot to mention Friedland up in Canuckistan. If she and the late Pierre Arrogant Trudeau’s alleged son had something going, it would be hardly up to question that the Banderistani Bitch would be the one wearing the pants.
Sorry if I browned-off any dominatrix favorers who may be posting here. Can’t say whether I’m more down on the Dominatrixy types or those who prefer them. Role reversals are so Wokie P.C. these days that one never knows who will be pinioned in the process.

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 27 2023 3:53 utc | 191

David Levin @138
True enough. The mass of the American people have been immersed within a goldfish bowl of lies and disinformation for generation after degeneration. Most of them are too lazy and disabused that they simply don’t wanna know the depths of their cultural deracination.
Imagine the roles that Hollywood and Madison Avenue ad and p.r. agencies have played in these unending deceptions.

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 27 2023 3:59 utc | 193

Posted by: safe | Feb 27 2023 0:08 utc | 131
Beside remark – not relevant anyway to any issue ..

@ 120 124 spare_truth(?)
I would be able to enjoy your commentary better if you just submitted it in your own language and I could then translate it myself. It would be clearer in it’s delivery!!

Ok, thanks for that note. I’ll try to avoid spelling errors that today.
Two reasons to explain:
1st: Defect keyboard using, 2nd: Drunken a little. Thanks for notice at me.

Posted by: spare_truth | Feb 27 2023 4:05 utc | 195

Colin @146
From what I have read, I$raelis get free medical care and university educations courtesy of the American taxpayer. On the Animal Farm, some are more equal than others.

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 27 2023 4:10 utc | 197

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 26 2023 22:06 utc | 99
Dont worry about US aircraft carriers. They are floating coffins. If PRC ever assists the RF with arms their anti-ship ballistic missile on their H-6 bombers would wipe out the US carriers in a morning. The H-6 is a Chinese iteration of the Tupolev TU-16 bomber still in service. The most formidable capability seen on the H-6 is an anti-ship ballistic missile. This massive weapon is the largest air-launched missile in the world. A single round has to be slung underneath the fuselage. And its primary prey is US and British aircraft carriers. For this reason, it has been widely dubbed a ‘carrier killer’. As far as strategic bombers go this capability is unique.It consists
of a large rocket booster approximately 9 meters (33 feet) long. This is mated to a hypersonic missile which can maneuver to make it harder to counter and adjust for terminal guidance. The exact form of the terminal phase has not been confirmed. PRC also has a hypersonic glide body with its DF-17 land based missile. The hypersonic payload includes a maneuvering reentry vehicle which allows it to hit a moving target. And it means that it much harder to counter because it’s flight trajectory is unpredictable. Even without an explosive warhead the kinetic energy alone is enough to destroy an aircraft carrier. No wonder the US military is terrified of an arms supply from PRC to the RF.

Posted by: Paul McGrory | Feb 27 2023 4:18 utc | 199