https://t.me/ukraina_ru/137144
Humanitarian aid in Ukrainian depot. A manager offers to smuggle anything out for a reasonable fee. Nothing interesting, actually, stereotypical украинский прапорщик, kind of those who corrupt Soviet army and armed LDPR armies in 2014, because they “know what real life is”.
Curios thing is dried peas bags. They are western humanitarian aid to Ukraine… And they are “made in Ukraine”. Aidy aid 😉

Posted by: Arioch | Mar 12 2023 14:32 utc | 3

@2 outraged, bahkmut is stalled. Ukrainian reinforcements have stabilized the line there and russia should really, really be ready for anything. Ukraine didnt throw conscripts to tie up Russian troops just for fun, it was for time for a counter strike.
I also believe russia is looking to envelop ugledar and mariinka as well by pushing through the open fields. Not tomorrow but ukraine is lacking troops to cover the space between them. Defending ugledar hasnt been all russians dying in the fields. Theres been a lot of ranged strikes there and its not a big town.

Posted by: neofeudalfuture | Mar 12 2023 14:46 utc | 5

Ukraine didnt throw conscripts to tie up Russian troops just for fun, it was for time for a counter strike.
Posted by: neofeudalfuture | Mar 12 2023 14:46 utc | 5
They couldnt “counter strike” after retreating first and saving thousands of life’s?
What happened to “if it saves even one life its worth it”?

Posted by: Vikichka | Mar 12 2023 15:02 utc | 7

It is important for all to remember that the gleaning of facts in war is to establish pattern above all else – evidence that can make predictions. The prediction of the current war in Ukraine is that it will end in world war, and we may already be in the early stages (making it even harder to stop). History does have a constant: wars are fought for power and all empires eventually face the conflict they are trying to avoid. Another constant is: they never see it coming. To change the course of history it is necessary to see its true nature.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/

Posted by: peter mcloughlin | Mar 12 2023 15:06 utc | 9

Colleagues – this is UPAB-1500B-E, flies for 40 km, in other words, the strike on Avdeevka was somewhere beyond Khartsyzsk.
Add an interesting feature here, that for the last three to five months, the RF Armed Forces have been hunting for air defense / radar in the first line of defense. We wrote about this often. The Russians did this so that the planes could safely reach the maximum height and drop such bombs.
They hit well-fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which they set up over the last 8 years of the war in Donbass, but they are almost useless against such bombs.
Here is the answer to why the APU has recently increased losses.

https://t.me/legitimniy/14932

Posted by: Down South | Mar 12 2023 15:14 utc | 11

◾ Ukrainian War Crimes:
◾Only a few days ago, a group of Ukrainian conscripted soldiers decided to surrender to the DPR troops, but they were shoot in the back by their own colleagues.
◾In the video 4 Ukrainian soldiers advance towards Russian positions with their hands up, one of them is holding a white flag. Suddenly heavy machine gun fire from the Ukrainian side hits the group killing them. The footage has been posted in Ukrainian channels as a warning for other Ukrainian deserters.

https://t.me/sitreports/5709
Same video in Twitter
https://twitter.com/EliasHaimbili/status/1634935207521570817

Posted by: Down South | Mar 12 2023 15:20 utc | 13

@peter mcloughlin | Mar 12 2023 15:06 utc | 9

The prediction of the current war in Ukraine is that it will end in world war, and we may already be in the early stages (making it even harder to stop).

We have a new doomsday troll.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 12 2023 15:21 utc | 15

Curios thing is dried peas bags [in] western humanitarian aid to Ukraine… And they are “made in Ukraine”. Aidy aid 😉
Posted by: Arioch | Mar 12 2023 14:32 utc | 3
As you can imagine, tax revenues in Ukraine are much lower than expenditures, economy contracted by ca. 50%, and taxable profits/incomes probably even more. So purchases of Ukrainian products with aid funds is necessary. At least half of the aid is for daily expenses of the government.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Mar 12 2023 15:27 utc | 17

AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 @AZgeopolitics
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦AFU militants show one of the last dirt road for moving equipment and supplying Bakhmut, which is under fire control of “Wagner”,demilitarised vehicles can be seen on the road

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1634898309247795202
Video embedded in Tweet

Posted by: Down South | Mar 12 2023 15:28 utc | 19

We have a new doomsday troll.
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 12 2023 15:21 utc | 15
How do you think this will end? With Biden giving Putin a hug on live TV and saying this was all just a big misunderstanding?

Posted by: Vikichka | Mar 12 2023 15:29 utc | 21

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Mar 12 2023 15:21 utc | 14
I used the Translate function on Telegram.
Below is the original Russian
3. Пытается зачистить информационное и общественно-политическое поле страны, чтобы выиграть выборы.

Posted by: Down South | Mar 12 2023 15:34 utc | 23

Burn them all
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=159419

Posted by: Andrew | Mar 12 2023 15:46 utc | 25

@ jo6pac | Mar 12 2023 15:05 utc | 8
AFU prospects minimal. They retreat across open muddy fields, without vehicles or heavy arms, under RF harassing fire, or as per @ Down South | Mar 12 2023 15:15 utc | 12 & Down South | Mar 12 2023 15:28 utc | 19
Cannot find the image, maybe another poster can assist. Cheers.
Followup to my @ Outraged | Mar 12 2023 15:00 utc | 6
The first episode of an intended animation series, apparently:

An insulting cartoon about Zelensky was released in Europe
The media write that French animators have launched a new animated series Ukraine. Inc, in which the president of “Ukraine” Vladimir Zelensky became the main character. The cartoon reflects the grim realities of the political regime in Ukraine. Zelensky, in order to increase his own rating and increase financial capital, as shown in the cartoon (in episode 1), throws his people into a meat grinder. Everyone is sent for slaughter without exception: men, women, children and the elderly.

Meta: seems suddenly a flood of telegram channel posts, hard to keep up/sift through ’em …

Posted by: Outraged | Mar 12 2023 15:52 utc | 27

I also think it is likely the end of NATO and EU.
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 12 2023 15:34 utc | 22
—
Which is the exact opposite of doomsday. 🙂

Posted by: Nobody | Mar 12 2023 16:06 utc | 29

Posted by: Vikichka | Mar 12 2023 15:29 utc | 21
It will NOT end. There is no ending.
This is the New Normal. There will be two Armed Camps in Europe – the US in its Occupation Zone and the Russian Federation. Ukraine will be a de-populated wasteland without electricity or infrastructure except in the Novorossiya regions.
No doubt Chinese officers are in Russia observing and learning NATO tactics.
This is THE NEW WORLD. There will be reduced living standards across the US Empire as energy and food costs drive down real wages and cause a collapse in the price level as Consumption is skewed towards necessities……….politics will become more unstable and European countries will break up
US has basically destroyed the EU and NATO and its vassal states in Europe which will implode as social tensions cannot be bought off.

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Mar 12 2023 16:10 utc | 31

Posted by: Vikichka | Mar 12 2023 15:57 utc | 28
“Forget Ukraine, now the problem is about Taiwan” is a possibility.

Posted by: Colin | Mar 12 2023 16:13 utc | 33

@ Down South | Mar 12 2023 15:28 utc | 19
Here’s the same clip re the only partial, under RF direct Fire Control, Bahkmut MSR on Telegram (Public/open browse-able)
Recommend viewing either. The Bahkmut Muddy Track of Death ?
&

German authorities do not sign contracts with factories for the production of ammunition for Ukraine – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba
He also urged to start training pilots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “already now”, so as not to waste time on this later (if Germany provides aircraft to Ukraine at all).

&

In the near future, Ukraine will not receive planes from the West, said Foreign Minister of the Kyiv regime Kuleba.
According to him, deliveries are impossible due to logistical and technical difficulties.

No linked source refs. F6.

Posted by: Outraged | Mar 12 2023 16:19 utc | 35

Posted by: Vikichka | Mar 12 2023 15:57 utc | 28
Don’t we have plenty of examples of what the “Empire of Lies” does when it loses in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan among others? We still have idiots wandering around certain we “won” those engagements.

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Mar 12 2023 16:23 utc | 37

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Mar 12 2023 16:23 utc | 37
Well yes, but none of those led to the end of NATO and the EU.

Posted by: Vikichka | Mar 12 2023 16:28 utc | 39

Looking at TG reports today, it seems Kamyanka (NE of Avdeevka) and almost Krasnogorivka (N of Avdeevka) are almost taken. They say the Ukrainian defense line north of Avdeevka is nominal or non-existant. But to cut off Avdeevka, they still need Orliivka to the west, after that it’s fields only as a supply route.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2023 16:40 utc | 41

It amuses me to see people here refer to the “USA”, the “Collective West” when this is really about a battle for resources between Nation States such as Russia and China and Corporate States acting through their proxies in NATO and the US Military Intelligence Complex.
Those Corporate States asre who were behind the “Trans Pacific Partnership” which would have formalised the De Facto Sovereignty of Corporate States in The USA and Western Europe.
In my view Ukraine is a proxy of a proxy, if you disagree please tell me how the inhabitants ( Not Citizens, that went away when Habeas Corpus did) of the USA benefit from the current insanity…
The USA and Western Europe are ruled byn the same people that ran Russia in the 1990’s, the USA has had 17% of the World’s Covid deaths with a little more than 4% of the World’s population, 20
% of those imprisoned World Wide are in the “Land of the Free” and life expectancy is dropping for all but the rich in almost a straight line.
Joe Biden is President, a viciously corrupt racist warmonger with dementia who delights in cruelty and who molests young girls on Camera to prove what a big man he is.
I have followed Kamala Harris since Herb Caen first mentioned her as Willie Brown’s mistress, protecting child raping priests, trying to cover up a lab scandal as DA which resulted in hundreds sof convictions being reversed, jailing single Mom’s whose kids missed too much school, sometimes because of chronic serious illness…
And as Attorney General deciding not to prosecute Steve Mnuchin and One West Bank when they got caught red handed fabricating the documents used to foreclose (Steal) 1,000 California Homes.
It is not an accident that these two are “In Charge”, this is what “Neoliberalism” results in.
Marianne Williamson said it well when she said that there is a “deep spiritual darkness at the root of Neoliberalism, it does not care”.
It is in Biblical terms the worship of Mammon, of greed without limit or constraint.
And it will destroy all life on Earth unless stopped.

Posted by: Tom Stone | Mar 12 2023 16:48 utc | 43

Posted by: Vikichka | Mar 12 2023 16:28 utc | 39
Difference is that this time there will be Zircons, Khinzals, Islanders, Sarmats and others, right on the Polish and Romanian borders. Few minutes flight time to all European capitals. US, as principal owner of NATO, will have nothing to counter this. At the same time, deep deflation, worst that the Great Depression, will rage. Governments will fall one by one, and minority neocon elite will be chased out. That will practically be the end of NATO.

Posted by: Milos | Mar 12 2023 16:50 utc | 45

Do you remember the ‘Debaltseve Cauldron’in 2015 when the forces of the Donbass surrounded 20-30000 Ukropa soldiers? When ‘Porky’ Poroshenko ran to mama Merkel & Macron for help stopping his army smashed? This resulted in the ceasing of hostilities as ordered by the deceived Vladmirovich Putin and the ‘Mirsk I Agreement’..Now I know why Putin will not talk to the ‘French midget’at all, he even regrets stopping Givi and Motorolla from finishing off the problem that grew bigger and complex as witnessed by the resistance of the ‘nato trained and equiped 404 army.
Back to my point.
The commander of the operation that resulted in the heavy casualties and the cauldron, is none other that the current commander ‘Oleksandr Syrskyi’ This is the current commander of Bakmut hahahahahah! Now Bakmut is about to be sewn-up in a cauldron but not just that, but a ‘meat mincer/grinder’
Credit telegram channel: @AZgeopolitics with the following link
https://espreso.tv/u-bakhmuti-mozhlive-povtorennya-debaltsevogo-komandir-pidrozdilu-zsu-yaroslavskiy
On another interesting article
2nd Kinzhal Attack Hits NATO’s Western Command Center 80 meters Underground, 40 Killed
written by INTEL-DROP March 9, 2023
This should explain the usage of the ‘Kinzhal’ in the latest raids.

Posted by: Stalinwasagenius | Mar 12 2023 17:01 utc | 47

Good read, 3 days old. [True?] – Some excerpts:

IN western Ukraine a Russian Forces Kinzhal struck a bunker extending to 80 metres deep. The RF believes this bunker near Lvov was a NATO strategic command point used to control anti-aircraft systems. It’s still early days but the RF assumes there were up to 300 personnel in the bunker, 40 of which were high ranking foreign specialists…
Four battalions comprising largely international fighters have entered the service of the RF. The RF forces are being supplied with long-range equipment including modernised tanks. The RF tank operators are becoming bored and are complaining that the long overdue Abrams and Leopard tanks are taking their time. They are looking forward to the target practice.
It appears that the replacement troops entering Bakhmut are fresh from NATO training camps in Poland. Their uniforms are squeaky clean. The Germans are operating the self-propelled tanks as they are non user-friendly complex equipment. The Ukro forces comprise a majority of Polacks and a mix of German, Canadian, US and French mercs. The Ukros have been thinned out. The German government is paying 5000 marks to return the bodies dead Germans but the Euro is no longer being accepted. [/s]
[AND FROM ANOTHER THEATER]: The Turks and the Iranians want to build a railroad to the emirates and China wants to become involved.

Posted by: OttoE | Mar 12 2023 17:15 utc | 49

We have a new doomsday troll.
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 12 2023 15:21 utc | 15

If you believe there isn’t going to be world war 3 then you’re not paying attention.
The world is already at war at the economic level. Between the South American countries proposing a continents own currency as alternative to the dollar, Russia-China, Russia-India doing non-dollar trade through currency swaps, Iran getting closer to Russia, China offering the gulf states to buy oil in Yuan at the gulf summit, Saudi-Iran-China peace deal, the proposal from BRICS for an alternate precious metal backed basket of currencies as an alternative to the dollar, the expansion of BRICS involving all the mentioned countries, China openly supporting Russia and officially declaring the US hegemony as a threat to world peace, the WHOLE non-western world is waging a coordinated and concerted war against the US global hegemony.
Try as they might, the deep state, the neo-cons, whatever they’re called, can’t take them all. They’re hardly/barely (depending on how it goes) able to overthrow the Georgian government to continue the proxy war against Russia. They can’t pull off color revolutions in so many countries from Turkey to India to Saudi to Iran especially when that strategy is beginning to be openly called out.
It’s only a matter of time, when the US hegemony is faced with a checkmate in economic terms. At that point the deep state has only one move left: flip the chess board than accept defeat.
One could always hope that once that checkmate is placed, rather than flipping the chess board so to speak, the deep state from Nuland to Bolton to Soros to Pompeo to Burns to Blinken and the whole cabal would pack up and find work at McDonalds serving fries.
But who would think, that is realistic.
PS. I don’t think world war 3 will end in human extinction, just a 100 to 400 million dead out for 8 billion . As for the rest of the 7.5+ billion, life goes on after recovery.

Posted by: FieryButMostPeaceful | Mar 12 2023 17:24 utc | 51

Irish MEP Mick Wallace sums up US/NATO – must view – very brief
Is that Terrorism? When are you going to grow up and start living in the real world?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rSshfYwvftM
Hi sidekick Irish MEP Clare Daly is not bad either

Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 12 2023 17:40 utc | 53

@ John Kennard #52
Canadian/Ukrainian rabid Banderite supporter Freedland being lined up for that job.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 12 2023 17:42 utc | 55

Posted by: DakotaRog | Mar 12 2023 17:24 utc | 50
With all the recording equipment available all the horrors of war are there for the world to see. At the beginning of the operation I was shocked by a soulless SOB who phones the mother of a dead soldier and begins the conversation with the slava ukraine salute, using the dead soldier’s phone. From that day on I’ve tried not to watch gory stuff of which there is plenty going around. It is just plain scary how cruelty to the nth degree is a feature of the sad human condition. I could post the link to that MF evil guy but it is not worth watching.

Posted by: Paco | Mar 12 2023 17:45 utc | 57

Mexico has applied to join BRICS+ which now surpasses the G7 in levelized GDP.

Posted by: Hermit | Mar 12 2023 17:53 utc | 59

@Paco | Mar 12 2023 17:45 utc | 57
I had an interesting conversation with a young Ukrainian man yesterday. He is out of the country but spent two years there in Kiev a couple years back. He said the price for a contract killing in Kiev then was $100. The economy has been deteriorating for years and the employment prospects for young men in legitimate enterprises making a living wage were not plentiful. It wouldn’t surprise me if, before the war, a third of the male population (particularly in urban areas) was under or unemployed or was working for a criminal enterprise. Drug use and alcohol abuse were common and the overall level of corruption had been increasing since 2014. He has seen the videos of Ukrainian soldiers having Russian POWs dig their own graves before being executed (as well as others of the same ilk) and he likened the war to a couple of fighting dogs that have been starved and teased and then set at each other to explain the level of brutality seen in some of the videos.

Posted by: the pessimist | Mar 12 2023 18:04 utc | 61

Mariupol was taken within twelve weeks.
After seven months, Artyomovsk hasn’t been fully-occupied yet.
I thought PMC Wagner was competent forces but seems like not.

Posted by: Clémence | Mar 12 2023 18:19 utc | 63

I had an interesting conversation with a young Ukrainian man yesterday. He is out of the country but spent two years there in Kiev a couple years back. He said the price for a contract killing in Kiev then was $100. The economy has been deteriorating for years and the employment prospects for young men in legitimate enterprises making a living wage were not plentiful. It wouldn’t surprise me if, before the war, a third of the male population (particularly in urban areas) was under or unemployed or was working for a criminal enterprise. Drug use and alcohol abuse were common and the overall level of corruption had been increasing since 2014. He has seen the videos of Ukrainian soldiers having Russian POWs dig their own graves before being executed (as well as others of the same ilk) and he likened the war to a couple of fighting dogs that have been starved and teased and then set at each other to explain the level of brutality seen in some of the videos.
Posted by: the pessimist | Mar 12 2023 18:04 utc | 61

Some basic truths that the average ignorant Westerner out there doesn’t understand at all:
1) Putin has such support in Russia because of the experience of the 90s. Which was in many ways more traumatic than even the Great Depression in the USA in the 1930s, but nobody in the West really grasps that, nor do they want to learn about it, because they are quite directly responsible for it — their prosperity during that time was directly linked to the deprivation of Eastern Europeans, as the resources that supported the modest by quite comfortable lifestyle under communism were redirected to refloat Western economies (which were going bankrupt in the 1970s due to resource shortages). The idea that Western prosperity is the result of ideological superiority is much more attractive than having to face the stark reality that it was in fact achieved on the back of bribing elites elsewhere to sell out their people.
2) However, while Russia recovered somewhat, in Ukraine the 90s never ended.
3) This is directly linked to the rise of Ukrainian nationalism — in Russia the oligarchs were placed under some degree of state control, in Ukraine the oligarchs got in cahoots with the West and pushed Ukrainian nationalism precisely in order to not allow anything like that to happen there.
So the barbarity, atrocities and complete disregard for human life that you see in Ukraine now are what Russia escaped from. And conversely, it is what the West has in store for Russia too if the war is lost.

Posted by: shadowbanned | Mar 12 2023 18:21 utc | 65

What’s happening in Moldova:
“Months of rallies, organised by the party of the fugitive pro-Russian oligarch Ilan Shor, have been condemned by the government as a Kremlin-sponsored campaign to destabilise the country. The oligarch is believed to have fled to Israel after being convicted for involvement in the theft of $1bn (£830m) from Moldova’s banks.”
At Sunday’s protests, Shor party leaders shouted “Down with Maia Sandu”, Moldova’s pro-European president, “Down with dictatorship” and “Down with the police” on the microphones, as they encouraged demonstrators to break police cordons.

Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Mar 12 2023 18:23 utc | 67

A delicious bit of irony.
So I was following news stories back to their sources to check the details, as one does in these days of propaganda and censorship, and I found that the story is misrepresenting the source. Big surprise right? But I also found something amusing.
So google news aggregator had some stories about Putin losing control of the Russian information sphere due to Kremlin infighting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/03/12/ukraine-russia-war-live-updates/11459301002/
Source ISW (Institute for the Study of War) So I hunt down the ISW story, which wasn’t linked:
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-11-2023

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova confirmed that there is infighting in the Kremlin inner circle, that the Kremlin has ceded centralized control over the Russian information space, and that Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently cannot readily fix it.
..
During a panel discussion Zakharova stated that the Kremlin cannot replicate the Stalinist approach of establishing a modern equivalent to the Soviet Information Bureau to centrally control Russia’s internal information space due to fighting among unspecified Kremlin “elites.”[3]

Now, since ISW is open source intelligence, OSINT, it lists its sources at the bottom of the page. So I scroll down to find links [2], [3], and [4].
[3]
https://kazan.bezformata.com/listnews/rosinformbyuro-net-edinoy-informatcionnoy/115103152/
Machine translation:

You propose to do the same as the Kyiv regime, where there is only one channel, – Zakharova was indignant.
“No, I propose to do what Stalin did,” Ashmanov answered.
“Then we will turn into exactly what we are opposed to” said the the representative of the foreign ministry.

So ostensibly independent ISW is a western propaganda machine that is deliberately misrepresenting the Russians. Yeah, I know, everyone is shocked. Now here is the funny bit. The links at the bottom for the Russian sources are all broken.
The USA friendly links are all correctly formatted like this:
http://www.goteamgo.com/subfolder/story
But the Russian links:
http://www.ruskie/ dot /subfolder/story
It took me awhile to figure out why. I can easily type the link in manually so that’s not much of a deterrent. Oh, ISW can’t put Russian links in its posts or the search algorithms will shadow ban it.
ISW had to use a workaround to prevent the censorship bots from sending its pro-western, 180 degree misrepresentation of the facts, propaganda to the bottom of the search queue.
It kind of made my day in a funny sad sort of way.

Posted by: team10tim | Mar 12 2023 18:26 utc | 69

Mariupol was taken within twelve weeks.
After seven months, Artyomovsk hasn’t been fully-occupied yet.
I thought PMC Wagner was competent forces but seems like not.
Posted by: Clémence | Mar 12 2023 18:19 utc | 63

Mariupol was cut off within a couple weeks of the initial invasion, and that was greatly helped by the fact that it is on the coast. It didn’t have to be surrounded from all four sides.
The better comparison is Lisichansk/Severodonetsk. Those were taken in about a month without having a coast to provide half of the encirclement, and together they are triple the size of Bakhmut. And yet it was a very efficient and well executed operation.
That is where things stalled.
Bakhmut is only one symptom of the more general problem — it taking so long is the result of the geniuses in the Russian high command deciding that the West pouring 100B+ worth of weaponry into Ukraine is no big deal and not much is necessary to be done to stop it, while also refusing to mobilize. When Mariupol and Severodonetsk/Lisichansk were being taken, the first Ukrainian army was largely defeated. But the next one was being assembled and that was not prevented.
Well, these are the results.
And they still haven’t mobilized properly — 300,000 is nowhere near sufficient, they need 5X that.

Posted by: shadowbanned | Mar 12 2023 18:28 utc | 71

” The world is already at war at the economic level. Between the South American countries proposing a continents own currency as alternative to the dollar
Posted by: FieryButMostPeaceful | Mar 12 2023 17:24 utc | 51 ”
That is exactly what those in control wanted from the get go. Divide the world into regional blocks as they will be easier to take over and dominate then dozens of separate nations. At first each block will use its own , digital, currency. Once each block is fully taken over, they will all be integrated into a single entity with one global , digital, currency and with one global government/ control structure. Yet, the peons keep on cheering these ” fortunate ” developments.
Problem, reaction, solution. Look it up.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Mar 12 2023 18:33 utc | 73

🇺🇸🇬🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺The Georgian Prime Minister said that the authorities will not allow the opening of a second front
Georgian Prime Minister Garibashvili: the ruling government will not allow the opening of a second front for Kiev
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said that the ruling Georgian Dream government will not allow the opening of a second military front in the country.
Earlier, the Deputy speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Gia Volski, said that against the background of the protests, a group of supporters of ex-President Mikhail Saakashvili who fought on the side of Ukraine arrived in the country to implement a revolutionary scenario.
“I know that several dozen people have come from Ukraine. I want to address them – let you have no illusions and expectations that something will happen here. Nothing will happen, brothers. I want to wish all the fighters in Ukraine to return to their families healthy, but I urge you not to succumb to dirty provocations. We know a lot more than they can imagine. The state is at the highest level today… as long as the Georgian Dream is in power, we will not allow a second front, it is excluded,” Garibashvili said in an interview with Imedi TV company.
Ukraine has sent former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to his homeland to destabilize the situation in Georgia and involve the country in military operations, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Sunday on the Imedi TV channel.
“The beginning of the war in Ukraine was expected back in November [2021], maximum in December. We had information about this, including I knew from our colleagues, partners. When did Saakashvili arrive in Georgia? The first of October. Saakashvili was sent in an organized manner, the main goal was to arrange a coup here and include the countries in the war at the right time. We have no doubt about it today,” Garibashvili said. According to the prime minister, “it would probably be a kind of relief for Ukraine if Russia shifted its attention” towards Georgia. According to Garibashvili, if the opposition party “United National Movement” founded by Saakashvili had been in power, Georgia “would have turned into a landfill” and the country would have received a “second Mariupol”.
🇬🇪Georgian Prime Minister Garibashvili:
The decision we made to revoke the law on foreign agents was the most correct and reasonable state in this situation. The goal of the instigators was chaos, the preservation of constant destabilization, unrest. They might have killed a few young people themselves for their own purposes. We said that with this step we are worried about the most important thing for all of us, about the stability of our country, the world.

https://t.me/azmilitary11/40602

Posted by: Down South | Mar 12 2023 18:36 utc | 75

Posted by: MervRirchie | Mar 12 2023 16:21 utc | 36
Such a very western-centric viewpoint to adopt. Maybe try looking outside your diminishing bubble for a more realistic outcome?
Posted by: irish al | Mar 12 2023 16:39 utc | 40
That is what is commonly called “as-hominem”, not addressing any details or debate of my statements. Most reply with a further insult of the commenter. My comment reflects the evidence all can observe. Please tell me what specific statement you have an issue with, which I can then defend, should I choose.

Posted by: MervRitchie | Mar 12 2023 18:48 utc | 77

The thing is, in the grand scheme of things, this war is cheap for Washington, economically and politically. All to do is support Kiev until Russian soldiers leave – Sooner that happens is better but equally training and hardware would take time, that’s going to feel like that’s dragging at points. Especially at times like now when Kievan forces couldn’t do much maneuver warfare due to the mud – Hence a petty city to fight and tie enemy resources up.
Why is this cheap ? In 2014, Washington screwed up and let Moscow successfully use salami-slice strategy, again. When Kievan forces wiped them out at Hostomel, when Russian logistics was a traffic jam visible from space… An irresistable opportunity arose, one which would demonstrate to authoritarian regimes, now and tomorrow, that salami-slice strategy wouldn’t work. All this takes is pushing Russian soldiers back to Russia’s official borders.
In the beginning of 2022, no one was even close of sending M142 HIMARS, joint direct attack munitions or tanks to Kiev but FIM-92 Stinger and FGM-148 Javelin. For a while, Washington and its vassals discussed not sending things and now, Kievan forces had those. These days, Washington is discussing what jets that couldn’t be sent to Kiev – Which would mean Kievan forces might have F-16 Fighting Falcon soon, if previous trends are followed.
These days, Russian officials are talking about peace and how the other side won’t come to the peace table. Why would Washington ? Everyone already knows that Moscow won’t give the territories up – Anytime wasted talking about peace or ceasefires is just time for Moscow to repair and resupply, whether that’s a few weeks of peace talks or another eight years of ceasefire, the peace won’t last and Washington knew that.
So, for Western officials, keeping the war going until the last Russian soldier in Ukraine is dead or captured is the only solution. Sooner is the war ends, better is for everyone but if that’s to Moscow’s advantage, the war would end but pause and everyone knew that now.

Posted by: Firebirdharris | Mar 12 2023 18:53 utc | 79

“Well, Syrsky is ethnic Russian, and not even ethnic Russian born in Ukraine (which is what the majority of Ukrainians really are), but ethnic Russian born in Russia…
So it is a Russian commander failing here once again…”
Posted by: shadowbanned | Mar 12 2023 18:10 utc | 62
Now this is a commitment to Doomerism not often seen outside the Strelkov corners of the Russian blogosphere. Maybe he’s a Russian asset, still after all these years. Not only are those ethnic Russians incompetent and generally failures but they’re incredibly devious too. Look at their dear leader, Putin, and they way he alternates between ham-fisted, violent incompetence and being a Bond villain able undermine American democracy with just 1,000 internet trolls.

Posted by: Lex | Mar 12 2023 18:56 utc | 81

Posted by: the pessimist | Mar 12 2023 18:04 utc | 61
“I had an interesting conversation with a young Ukrainian man yesterday. He is out of the country but spent two years there in Kiev a couple years back. He said the price for a contract killing in Kiev then was $100.”
People say the darnedest things. I hope you don’t believe everything you hear.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Mar 12 2023 19:06 utc | 83

@team10tim #69
One of the directors of ISW is a certain Mr. Kagan, brother-in-law of a certain Toria Nuland … the latter married to arch-neocon Robert Kagan

Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 12 2023 19:08 utc | 85

Avdiivka is in the process of being encircled. THIS IS HUGE. Once Avdiivka is liberated, Ukraine will no longer be able to shell Donetsk City.
I predict that once Avdiivka falls, the entire Ukraine front line will collapse quickly!

Posted by: Anton Gorbatow | Mar 12 2023 19:14 utc | 87

Avdiivka is in the process of being encircled. THIS IS HUGE. Once Avdiivka is liberated, Ukraine will no longer be able to shell Donetsk City.
I predict that once Avdiivka falls, the entire Ukraine front line will collapse quickly!
Posted by: Anton Gorbatow | Mar 12 2023 19:14 utc | 87

It will not stop.
They’ve been shelling deep into the LNR with HIMARS, including today when they struck near Alchevsk.
Now they got JDAMs too though they haven’t yet dropped one on Donetsk, but that day isn’t far off. Meanwhile it remains a mystery where the hell the S-400s that are supposed to make sure any JDAM drop is the last flight for that plane are.
The shelling of Donetsk will only stop when the front line reaches beyond the DNR border. It is about 70 km to it. In other words, another year perhaps.
P.S. No idea what the plan is for Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod given that there is no indication there is any intention of taking Chernigov, Sumy and Kharkov any time soon.

Posted by: shadowbanned | Mar 12 2023 19:21 utc | 89

mhh I hope Avdiivka, bakhmut and ugledar are not the 3 bones :3

Posted by: Macpott | Mar 12 2023 19:22 utc | 91

@shaddowbanned #90
NO self-respecting Russian would ever refer to “fatherland” …
Think this might have been written by some sh1tstirring MOTHER-fu€ker in the arze hole of South Dakota …

Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 12 2023 19:31 utc | 93

Think this might have been written by some sh1tstirring MOTHER-fu€ker in the arze hole of South Dakota …
Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 12 2023 19:31 utc | 93

P.S. this is the person who wrote it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Alksnis

Posted by: shadowbanned | Mar 12 2023 19:37 utc | 95

@ team10tim | Mar 12 2023 18:26 utc | 69
Hohoho. LOL. 🙂
@ Lex | Mar 12 2023 18:56 utc | 81
Touche’. Salut!
@ Don Bacon | Mar 12 2023 19:09 utc | 86
Quite. Yet human resilience & the ability to recover can often be remarkable. Biggest problem is with extended/repeated overexposure … the trauma & flight or fight response to triggers (trauma associations), becomes … embedded … permanent.
@ shadowbanned | Mar 12 2023 19:22 utc | 90
Back to spamming the thread heh ? Oh just f*ck right off with that sh*t. GTFOTH. 🙁
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China believes Russia will win the Ukraine conflict
Behind Ukraine peace proposal, China foresees end to war in summer – Nikkei Asia

Simulation by military academy prompts Beijing to push cease-fire plan
BEIJING — After avoiding getting too deeply involved in Russia’s war in Ukraine over the past year, China suddenly offered a peace proposal last month. Chinese military experts’ prediction that the war will come to an end this summer is likely behind this about-face.
When over 200 world leaders and senior officials gathered in Munich for last month’s security conference, Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, told the attendees that China would soon announce a plan to become a mediator in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The Academy of Military Sciences reports directly to the People’s Liberation Army. Although it cannot be found on a map, the institution is located in Beijing’s Haidian district, which itself is home to the ruins of Yuanmingyuan, a palace destroyed by Western armies in the 19th century.
The AMS regularly issues recommendations and reports to the Communist Party’s Central Military Commission, the highest decision-making body for China’s armed forces. A cabinet-level official heads the academy.
In December, the AMS completed a simulation on the Ukraine conflict, resulting in an astonishing finding, according to sources close to the Chinese government. The war will draw to a close around summer 2023, the simulation indicated, with Russia having the upper hand.

Posted by: Outraged | Mar 12 2023 19:41 utc | 97

@Posted by: shadowbanned | 65
Some basic truths that the average ignorant Westerner out there doesn’t understand at all:
I think your post points to something that is very important for the US to understand. We have no idea what happened in Russia after 1991. It is almost impossible to find any reliable history/documentation/analysis of what actually happened and the degree to which the disaster was the result of American Policy.
It’s not established if it was general US policy to damage Russia or if was a faction attempting to corrupt otherwise well intentioned US efforts.
But Americans need to understand what happened during that 10 years and the impression it left in the minds of many Russians and the degree to which people in Russia accept that it was Putin who pulled them out of it.
It also says something about the underlying resiliance of Russian society.

Posted by: Dan Farrand | Mar 12 2023 19:42 utc | 99