Sorry tired grammar. By “propagandists here” I meant the BBC propagandists in the linked article.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Apr 30 2023 14:48 utc | 3

MOD clobber report has a mention of another missile strike (most likely with several missiles) in Konstantinovka on 24th mech brigade reserve concentration near Konstaninovka.
💥 More than 200 Ukrainian troops have been eliminated and around 280 more have been evacuated with injuries of varying severity as a result of a missile strike on temporary deployment areas of the 24th Mechanised Brigade and a unit of the AFU Special Operations Forces close to Konstantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 30 2023 15:00 utc | 5

SO THIS IS IT THEN ON EVE OF MAY 2023 The counteroffensive starting point was clear from the beginning and it’s getting confirmed now.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Zaporozhye direction
situation as of 16.00 April 30, 2023
Ukrainian formations are finishing preparations for the announced offensive. In the Zaporozhye region, a comprehensive training was held with reserve units to enter the designated area and organize communications in the field.
🔻A battalion of the 116th mechanized brigade of the 10th army corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived at the Orekhovsky section . In addition, the command of the 128th Guards Rifle Brigade began moving assault groups to the front line. One of the units of the brigade arrived in Shcherbaki .
▪️In Omelnik, a forward command post for a group of troops was equipped. The other day, Ukrainian signalmen established a closed communication channel between the 108th troop unit and the country’s leadership in Kiev for interaction during the offensive.
🔻Paratroopers of the 46th airborne brigade of the Airborne Forces of Ukraine were deployed to the Gulyai-Polye sector . At least one battalion of the formation was understaffing in Pavlograd in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
▪️A group of special operations forces of Ukraine arrived at the Belogorye-Charivnoe line. SSO sniper crews equip firing points on the front line.
🔻Over the past few days, fuel, ammunition and military equipment have been actively transported through the island of Khortytsya to the Zaporozhye direction .
❗️Also, additional tactical aircraft Su-25 and MiG-29 from the base in Starokonstantinov flew to the airfields Shirokoe and Dolgintsevo near Zaporozhye and Krivoy Rog .

Posted by: Geraint ap Iorwerth | Apr 30 2023 15:05 utc | 7

Bahkmut is all but lost to ukraine now so it would make sense to start fighting elsewhere so as to reduce the negative impact of that news. Fighting it at the eastern edge of the city, then ukraine can fight the glide bombs from their trench systems outside the city along the supply routes.
Frankly I’m thinking they’ll carry on from their too depending on how effective the bombs are with dirt – guessing by belograd mistake it’s about a 65 foot crater.
Anyways it makes sense to start a new thing when the old thing runs out.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Apr 30 2023 15:18 utc | 9

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Apr 30 2023 14:44 utc | 2
If the EU are equating the success of the Eurovision Song Contest with the Ukraine’s success in the field, then they are really in trouble – but we know they are both shit.
And this is something I haven’t heard before:
“. . . on Thursday [13 April] Russian intelligence revealed their own assessment of Zelensky’s trip to Poland. They concluded that in the event of a severe defeat of the Ukrainian army Western Ukraine would effectively be folded into a Polish-Ukrainian Confederation (The Warsaw Union). Were this to happen then that part of Ukraine would become part of NATO and the EU. Any subsequent attack on Ukraine would represent an attack on NATO dragging in Europe and escalating the conflict into a true European war.”
Brian Green
https://theplanningmotive.com/2023/04/15/so-this-is-how-great-empires-fail-then-fall/

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Apr 30 2023 15:49 utc | 11

They concluded that in the event of a severe defeat of the Ukrainian army Western Ukraine would effectively be folded into a Polish-Ukrainian Confederation
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Apr 30 2023 15:49 utc | 11
—
Ukraine comes with debts attached that would ruin Poland. Can’t pay. Won’t pay.

Posted by: too scents | Apr 30 2023 15:55 utc | 13

Wagner’s Prigozhin Issues Most Dire Warning Yet Ahead of Ukrainian Counterattack
@ https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/wagners-prigozhin-issues-most-dire
This is a really damning statement against the Russian military and controlling bureaucrats. He’s quoting Wagner’s Prigozhin.
Is roloslavskiy legitimate?
One thought is that this is deliberate misinformation, to encourage the Ukrainians to make their long-anticipated attack, get creamed by the Russians, and then come to the negotiating table.
It’s certainly not the sort of thing I hear from McGregor, Ritter, and Larry Johnson.

Posted by: metamars | Apr 30 2023 16:00 utc | 15

NATO is Raging and Crying! The Liberation of ‘MARYINKA’ may Take Place in the Next Few Days!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznYtvdd4_I
⚔️Battle for Maryinka
situation by the end of April 29, 2023 — RYBAR
🔻Tankers of the Southern Military District @tankistrossii100 report that in the center of Maryinka, Russian soldiers managed to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Druzhby Avenue and knock them out from two blocks along Polygraphic and Kashtanova streets. Low-rise buildings in the western part of the city remained under the control of Ukrainian formations.
▪️On the southern outskirts, Russian military personnel, supported by artillery, are storming the positions of the 79th Airborne Brigade of Ukraine near the territories of Gorgaz and a wood processing enterprise.
▪️The losses of the 79th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the past few days amounted to 33 people killed. Reinforcements, as well as ammunition, were transferred from Zhytomyr to replenish them.
▪️Ukrainian paratroopers are actively using small-sized copters with a grenade drop system, as well as FPV drones to strike Russian positions.
https://t.me/sonar_21/2404

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 30 2023 16:07 utc | 17

Thanks so much for the cascade of views Barflies. I know how much you love Victoria “Fuck the Eu” Nuland:
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the

Posted by: Doim | Apr 30 2023 16:28 utc | 19

After watching pretty much all of the Russian media coverage via
https://yandex.ru/search/ интервью пригожина
I’m a little shocked by the allegations mentioned there.Longhorn has put in some of what Prigoshin mentioned in the interview.
Prigoshin had prepared well for the interview (see the many scripts on the table in front of him).
If even 1/3 of his allegations are true, then it would be time to clean out the Russian Ministry of Defence.
The next few days (the Ukrainians are preparing to attack) will show whether Prigoshin is bluffing or really holding the better hand than the Kremlin.
His statements on Russia’s foreign intelligence service are particularly damning.
…
Ich denke, b wird sich mit dem Thema auch intensiv beschäftigen und vielleicht mehr Licht ins Dunkel bringen.

Posted by: Oberbayer | Apr 30 2023 16:39 utc | 21

Re: Posted by: Longhorn | Apr 30 2023 16:00 utc | 14

Prigozhin asks why Russia continues to sell oil to the West through India? Says this is treachery. The elites in Russia are in secret negotiations with the Western elite. [A word-for-word Strelkov talking point].

Yes, I’ve wondered this myself.
Why does Russia continue to send supplies to aid the West in its fight against – RUSSIA?
Seems an incredibly stupid way to fight a war.

Posted by: Julian | Apr 30 2023 16:58 utc | 23

@ Geraint ap Iorwerth | Apr 30 2023 15:05 utc | 7
SO THIS IS IT THEN ON EVE OF MAY 2023 The counteroffensive starting point was clear from the beginning and it’s getting confirmed now.
Maybe it is just a good place to start offensive, and RF might just want them there. Although probably any other place will do.
It is a hideous way to start an offensive under heavy aerial, rockets, and artillery attacks, as RF is denying a lot to AFU at the moment.
@ Longhorn | Apr 30 2023 16:00 utc | 14
On the issue of Vagner’s CEO as a main big mouth behind dissing RF’s military structures, I would look at it as a typical Russian habit of discussions and ranting various stuff, like two babushkas.
Of course that Vagner had upped the ante in certain standards towards RF military affairs in fighting ability, innovation in various fields and such. Changing rigid structures to flexible ones is a difficult task.
But I have no doubt that this knowledge transfer will happen throughout RF Army Military Academies and such, faster than we think.
Regardless what ideas Pegov promotes as in a War Gonzo’s interview or a talk with Prigozin is just a good psy-op concerning both sides.
It serves its purpose, as it consolidates troublesome issues within RF bureaucracy, ranks, and hierarchy that are certainly present there ever since. Very good that this is mentioned, even better if tackled fast.
For the AFU side such troll-talk lures it into believing of dismay and incompetence of RF military. It is very difficult task for Ukrainian side to draw the correct conclusions.
It took almighty Stalin’s infrastructure around 3 years to get the Soviet Army where he wanted it to be, to counter Nazis hard and properly in a unison.
Admitting that is better than being so outrageously arrogant, as Russian Western counterparts are.

Posted by: whirlX | Apr 30 2023 17:02 utc | 25

Prigozhin’s has sold you all a silk purse…that is actually a sow’s ear!

Posted by: donten | Apr 30 2023 17:09 utc | 27

It’s game over for ukraine … poland ‘the hyena’ is waiting on the sidelines…

Posted by: AI | Apr 30 2023 17:19 utc | 29

@Oberbayer | Apr 30 2023 16:39 utc | 21
Das “Licht” wird in den von Wagner erzielten Ergebnissen liegen – und ich habe lange vermutet, dass Prigozhin psychologische Spielchen spielt
How are Habermas and Streeck these days – are they still banned from the German MSM?

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 30 2023 17:22 utc | 31

Frau Merkel voiced what we painted many times back in 2022, emphasizing that if Zelensky had fulfilled the Minsk agreements, Ukraine would not have turned into ruins, hundreds of thousands of people would have survived and there would have been no broken destinies, Ukraine would not have lost new territories , but acquired Donbass, but as part of autonomy.
But Zelensky chose a different path. Everyone can see the result, but this is not the end, everything can end much worse.
In any case, the Ukrainian people have already “lost”, as each time it only gets worse and worse.

https://t.me/legitimniy/15238

Posted by: Down South | Apr 30 2023 17:26 utc | 33

unimperator | Apr 30 2023 16:14 utc | 18
`Ocunteroffensive`….. Love it, thank you. Much love from France x

Posted by: extremebuilder | Apr 30 2023 17:28 utc | 35

Our source in the OP said that the General Staff provided Zelensky with all the negative scenarios for the failure of the counteroffensive, which they modeled together with the Pentagon.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine may lose all the most trained units, and the Russian army will occupy the southern regions, in which administrative work is already underway in case our counteroffensive fails.
In the most negative scenario, the entire front may collapse and the enemy will occupy Kharkov, the Donetsk region and come out near Poltava.
The Azov operation is the largest battle of this war in terms of its scale, and the outcome of the battle may cost too much for Ukraine.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/17527

Posted by: Down South | Apr 30 2023 17:32 utc | 37

Our source reports that in the Office of the President, one of several plans for a future offensive includes an “invasion” of Russian territory (capture of border regions). A couple of villages
This action will:
– morale boost
– it will be a Mega informational victory
– raising the stakes in the game, which is necessary for the Western lobby in the case of a “nuclear, man-made” strike or catastrophe
– public humiliation of the Russian Federation in order to provoke certain actions
– an attempt to shake the Russian Federation from the inside
– diverting attention from a real offensive in another main direction.
Many in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine consider this a too dangerous step, which will give more trump cards to the Kremlin than to the Office of the President. But Zelensky did not abandon this plan, they simply made him a backup in case everything did not go according to plan “A”.
Therefore, some reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have recently been accumulating in the Sumy region, which the Russians covered with their planning 500-kilogram bombs.

https://t.me/legitimniy/15236

Colleagues, the General Staff, with the support of MI6, has already developed an operation to capture Belgorod; for these purposes, a special group of troops was created in Kharkov. Such a blow is needed for the psychological effect to take the war into enemy territory and cause panic.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/17530

Posted by: Down South | Apr 30 2023 17:37 utc | 39

Written by Павел Владимирович:
Of Ukraine’s glorious counter-offensive
Zaluzhny now insists on postponing the long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive to the end of June, because he thinks better weather, warmer Dnieper river and dry soil will help Ukraine and be “more comfortable for its soldiers”. To me, this translates to “I don’t want to deal with this, please appoint someone else to orchestrate this debacle”.
It is clear now that Russia is no longer fighting the same Ukrainian army that it did a year and some ago. That army has been annihilated and so has the second one during another glorious counter-offensive, namely that around Kharkov. Now, with a third Ukrainian army, full of untrained men who don’t want to be there, Ukraine is pressed to venture on another great adventure. We’ve seen many videos of people being caught on various streets of what is still Ukraine (although it is getting increasingly silly to call it a country, even objectively) and many of them show less than enthusiasm. We’ve seen a guy fainting, a fella fighting the police (not just one, by the way) and these people will now be sent against the six layers deep Russian defences, protected by the actual Russian army. There was some talk that Ukrainians are hoping to rout the Russian army and throw it into panic (I’m assuming upon seeing their grand armada, carrying the banners of Odin or whatever), which I hope, for their own sake, isn’t true.
The insane mechanics’s dream that is Ukrainian heavy equipment garage is about as wonky as their personnel too. The many nations of the global West chipped in for this fight for the American dollar and so Ukrainians now have a bit of everything. As pretty as all this equipment looks with a swastika painted on it, it can’t do much without ammunition, which Ukraine has very little of now as well.
Another thing to point out now is the shortage of air-defence ammunition, which allows the Russian air-force to pummel the aryans to Valhalla daily.
In summary, the Third Ukrainian Army (I capitalise because it’s funnier that way) is a Frankenstein’s monster of equipment that has only been raised a bit. The monster knows it’s there, but can’t do much, in reality.
All of the things I mentioned aren’t getting any better, it’s all getting worse and worse daily and only accelerating. If this is clear to someone like me, who’s only military strategy experience comes from video games, I’m pretty sure it is clear to Zaluzhny.
I don’t like making predictions, but please allow me to make one: the Ukrainian counter-offensive won’t happen, at least not the way we imagine it. I know some highly knowledgeable people would disagree with me, but what the hell… The Western pressure on Ukraine will force them to do ‘something’ and that ‘something’ will be presented as a great counter-offensive, but it won’t be that at all. Instead it will be a desperate attempt at making it look like a counter-offensive, while throwing the too young and the too old with no experience or training against Russian artillery to please the Western masters.
This post is somewhat more snarky than my usual writings, please forgive me, I couldn’t help myself.
Thank you for reading.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/43912

Posted by: Down South | Apr 30 2023 17:43 utc | 41

Longhorn @ 14
If Prigozhin did say what you reported in your post at 14 and if he really meant it, this explains why the Wagners are quickly rapping up Bakhmut.
They will desperately be needed to help contain and to destroy the coming Ukrainian offensive.
It does look like the Surovikin, Prigozhin bond is in tact. That is goodness. Also, it appears that incompetent commanders are being shuttled out of the Russian ranks on the front lines.
I think Putin knew it would take some time and some losses to start tuning up the Russian army. Ukraine has provided that opportunity.
Despite their corruption, the Russians are starting to clean house with the Wagners being the head butler making the master aware of incompetence within his castle.
Russia is a beast like the other 3 beasts spoken of in Daniel 7. Like the beast before it and the two following it, the bear is still a beast which will have its share of corruption like the others.
So, it is no surprise that corruption lies within it.

Posted by: young | Apr 30 2023 18:22 utc | 43

@16 Longhorn
“McGregor, Ritter, and Larry Johnson and DD are Western psyops. Look at what you wrote…you believe Western grifters over Prigozhin. Talk about propagandized.”
Lol. I love how people still listen to Prighozin. Prighozin is just a sly “entrepreneur” who is trying to milk the Wagner participation in the SMO in order to advance his huge political ambitions. He has no military experience nor is he in command of Wagner’s military operations. I’m not even sure he is the one that actually spills the money needed to keep Wagner afloat.
Honestly, the Russian MoD has been much too patient with him. The more I look at the Russian nationalist environment, the more I’m confronted with a segment of the Russian population that is so suspicious of their own government and so traumatized by the lac of communication before the Izyum retreat that they are ready to believe any private (that is, not State-related) conman that successfully managed to depict himself like a hero by leveraging Wagner’s soldiers military successes.

Posted by: Leonardo | Apr 30 2023 18:28 utc | 45

I notice the perplexing ‘news’ contradictions regarding the musicians.
I just judge them by their fruit production-:)

Posted by: Robert Hope | Apr 30 2023 18:36 utc | 47

Prigozhin is on the ammo warpath….
Most likely, Suvrokin is husbanding ammo for his counter offensive after the Ukies shoot their wad…
INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Apr 30 2023 18:38 utc | 49

Has putin not yet expired?
The guy has been falling down stairs, off balconies, pooping his britches, dying of cancer and about to be assassinated so much now that some idiots don’t even believe it’s all true anymore-:)

Posted by: Robert Hope | Apr 30 2023 18:51 utc | 51

@bevin
here it is [h/t nakedcapitalism]
Meeting of the Defense Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Delhi
There were a couple of outstanding and newsworthy developments at the SCO gathering in India today. One was the speech delivered by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Several minutes from this speech were carried on Russian news channels and what we heard was Shoigu declaring that from the start of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine the Collective West was throwing all of its military assets against Russia.
The other noteworthy development was the side meeting of Shoigu and his Chinese counterpart Li Shangfu. They were shown on television walking side by side to that meeting. Russian news tells us that Li used their meeting to extend an invitation to Shoigu to visit him in Beijing, and that Shoigu accepted.
The impact on the other SCO member states, observers and dialogue partners of these close and fast developing relations between the Russian and Chinese defense ministries cannot be overstated. Today they were all direct witnesses of this fact. Among other things, this spells the end of opportunities for Central Asian states to play Russia off against China in obtaining favors, as Western media believed they were doing. It completely vitiates all efforts by U.S. Secretary of State Blinken over the past several months to pressure these same Central Asian countries into loosening or breaking ties with Moscow. These states are now all caught between a rock and a hard place.
The drama of the Russian-Chinese entente also will bear on the future conduct of India and Pakistan. Here, too, the options for playing games or fence sitting are fast disappearing. For their part, Iran and Saudi Arabia will surely be among the countries taking great comfort in the bloc forming between the states they rely on to pursue a foreign policy independent of diktat from Washington.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2023/04/28/meeting-of-the-defense-ministers-of-the-shanghai-cooperation-organization-in-delhi/

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 30 2023 19:12 utc | 53

“Russia has the resources to win, but the leadership keeps the resources away from the people who need it on purpose.” Posted by: Longhorn | Apr 30 2023 16:00 utc | 14

This gets to the heart of the matter. Russian nationalist patriots inside the military/corporate/finance/media/bureaucracy complex are few. The likes of Vicky Nuland have an army of minions handing out bribes so people will commit small acts of treason disguised as incompetence. Unless Russians depose their globalist elites and their middle management minions, they are finished, same as the west. The front lines are not in the Donbass, they are in Moscow and St Petersburg.

Posted by: Drifter | Apr 30 2023 19:31 utc | 55

Happening: “Ukrainian telegram channels report the presence of fourteen Tu-95MS strategic bombers in the air”

Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 30 2023 19:55 utc | 57

More FUD, particularly the latter–Distortion–from today’s crop of trolls. Their desperation increases at the same pace as Ukraine’s losses. I wonder when they’ll switch to China, whcih they know even less about.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 30 2023 20:02 utc | 59

I wondered when the first deep fake would be used as a weapon of war .perhaps its this one!!

Posted by: WRFB | Apr 30 2023 20:07 utc | 61

young @ 43
The bear in Daniel 7 refers to the Medo-Persian Empire. Daniel 7 has nothing to do with Russia except they both are referred to as “bears”. I am a son of a mother. You are a son of a mother. But that doesn’t make us brothers or the same person. Stop with your unsupported Bible commentary. If you would just take a moment and research what Bible scholars say about the meaning of the bear in Daniel 7 you would do yourself and others a favor. People with an ignorant understanding of the Bible has dragged a lot of good men to hell. Don’t be that person.

Posted by: Dferg | Apr 30 2023 20:13 utc | 63

@55 it is true and not particularly welcome to say here. Russia has a big problem with wanna be Europeans 5th columnists especially in the central bank and military.
Nonetheless Bidens handlers have been quite helpful in shoring up the nationalists case. Seems like the 5th columnists are being used up to prosecute this war. After all the ethnic based hate I don’t think they’ll have as many people who will belive the narrative of the free world. The people they do pick will be pretty mercenary and much more likely to be double agents
First though Putin, the central bank people and Shoigu’s people would be best used supporting front line units. And if they sabotage russias defences against the next Ukrainian attack, it might happen and a replay of the russian Civil War after ww1 can take place.
Using up the assets indeed. Imagine selling out your country and then being betrayed in turn. It’s inevitable.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Apr 30 2023 20:18 utc | 65

Posted by: Drifter | Apr 30 2023 19:31 utc | 55
I would like to add Brussels, London, New York and Washington DC to your list.

Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 30 2023 20:32 utc | 67

Missile attack in Pavlohrad that appears to have destroyed UKR AD
All those Tu-95s
Reports of 2 RUS subs leaving Sevastopol into Black Sea
Big night…

Posted by: Gengar | Apr 30 2023 20:39 utc | 69

“Prigozhin is on the ammo warpath….
Most likely, Suvrokin is husbanding ammo for his counter offensive after the Ukies shoot their wad…
Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Apr 30 2023 18:38 utc | 49”
Astute comment.

Posted by: osi | Apr 30 2023 20:48 utc | 71

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 30 2023 20:00 utc | 58
Bombing some ukro groupings in the Zaporizhe front line perhaps. It’s been proved that missiles are no longer only for high-value rear targets but front line units. While the area is large, the ukros must have staged some full battalion size units here and there in expectation to attack soon.
“[ Album ]
‼️Russian Aerospace Forces “smart bombs” destroy bases and clusters of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south before the counteroffensive
An accurate blow destroyed hangars with equipment in the Kherson region.
Reconnaissance reveals, and aviation continues to destroy enemy targets with gliding bombs.”
https://t.me/NovichokRossiya/29298
[ Album ]
‼️💥Ukraine is under attack: explosions and a huge fire in Pavlograd
In the sky, “Shahids”, strategic bombers took off from distant bases, in Ukraine there was an air raid.
The first arrivals in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region, there was a terrible fire on the site, local sources write.
https://t.me/NovichokRossiya/29313
Pavlograd is a/the major railway junction leading to Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka and rest of Artemovsk area. Maybe they put it out of commission for good, usually those junctions have a certain switch table which might be impossible to repair if they are hit well.

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 30 2023 20:49 utc | 73

” Russia Minister of Defense Shoigu
The US is purposely provoking China and Russia, it is their plan for world domination.
Here https://twitter.com/AbrahamStein8/status/1652679454643089409?s=20
Posted by: Dave Oneil | Apr 30 2023 14:22 utc | 1 ”
Sounds like Shoigu just stated that ZioAmerica thinks it can win those conflicts. How, would that be possible however ?

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 30 2023 20:51 utc | 75

Anyone know why Russia hasn’t taken out the RR lines in Ukraine? Over 1 year into the “SMO” and Ukraine can still import weapons via rail and move them around Ukraine. Maybe they just want Dementia Joe to visit Zelensky once a year?
Posted by: Dulles_Did_Dallas | Apr 30 2023 20:48 utc | 72
Yes, I can tell you why. Russia wants to destroy as many expensive NATO military equipment as possible, because it wants to destabilize the NATO member states and wants to demilitarize NATO. It’s quite simple, actually. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 30 2023 20:57 utc | 77

” Russia has been hit hard from sanctions they absolutely need to sell to India, people in Russia need to eat.
India takes a lot of risk dealing with Russia, allowing India to make sweet cash keeps them trading with Russia.
Posted by: OohCanada | Apr 30 2023 17:19 utc | 30 ”
If ZioAmerica wanted India to stop selling, India would be hit with massive sanctions as its economy is totally depended on supplying services to the US and the EU. At that point India would simply comply or suffer massive economic consequences.
So here’s option two:
India is allowed to sell so that the EU doesnt suffer too much.
Option three: Its all theater with purposely built in loop holes.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 30 2023 21:03 utc | 79

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 30 2023 21:07 utc | 80
*Russia is making dough and Ursula VDL hasn’t done anything but lied about sanctions for the past 15 months
They have supposedly placed 11000 sanctions.

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 30 2023 21:08 utc | 81

⚡️Unprecedented attack on enemy air defense by 10 Russian TU-95MC Heavy Bombers. A number of Ukrainian S-300 systems were destroyed at a railway junction in Pavlograd.
❗️According to Readovka, after last night’s strike of the Russian Armed Forces on the railway junction of Pavlograd, eyewitnesses report a mass detonation of anti-aircraft missiles for the S-300 complex.
❗️According to our information, two divisions (up to 16 installations) of S-300P were destroyed. In addition, supply vehicles with reserve ammunition were hit.
💥The shockwave from the explosion was so powerful it broke windows throughout the whole city of Pavlograd.
⚡️Such a massive Russian missile sortie has happened only twice before: On February 24 (the beginning of the SMO) and October 10, 2022, in revenge for the Ukrainian attack on the Crimean bridge.
https://t.me/AussieCossack/6905
Also, apparently a chemical enterprise was hit, hosting among others fuel tanks. There were also rumors that British DU ammunition was stored in Pavlograd.
Donbass

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 30 2023 21:29 utc | 83

“In Kiev, Major General Volodymyr Oleinik, who commanded the territorial defense units, was shot dead near his home.”
Intel Slava Z

Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 30 2023 21:45 utc | 85

@ LightYearsFromHome | Apr 30 2023 21:29 utc | 84
the Pentagon wants them out in the open, the steppe west of the Dnieper, spread out and far from home, or, Russia can’t hit the railroad lines and bridges all that easily or effectively, or most likely a practical mix of both.
Oh, no. Nobody from the Collected West wants to see RF approaching it, but that is inevitable, and their nightmares will come true soon.
The way up to Polish border is rather open, so that is why, if one wants to go there, the one doesn’t blow big bridges ove the wide rivers. Might want to use those.
Railroad is repairable in, like, a day and for very little money/cost. So to blow 100 m of the railroad is not cheap and has no real effect.
It is more effective to destroy large traffic and transportation knots, and apparently this is happening, less often we would like to see it, but it seems it is under the control.
Put it another way, Russia is doing the best they can
Well, it is funny how after every bitching session by Vagner CEO onto RF Army, the very same Army does a few hours of amazing “shock and awe” that one can only wish for.
I think they can do much better. I am not so sure, but as of today it seems that Putin’s ‘not starting in earnest’ quote is not valid anymore.

Posted by: whirlX | Apr 30 2023 21:57 utc | 87

Don Firineach @ 53

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2023/04/28/meeting-of-the-defense-ministers-of-the-shanghai-cooperation-organization-in-delhi/

Most important write up of the day, maybe the month, maybe the year. Sides are being drawn up, less and less gray area, soon it’ll be black and white, and world war. That how it always goes. Maybe with a little luck this time it’ll go different, this time one of the sides is coalescing to avoid war.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 30 2023 22:04 utc | 89

I speculated, but definitely didn’t predict today’s mass effort by Russia. Ukraine couldn’t begin its well-publicized major offensive until the ground dries, which looks likely to happen soon. The longer that Russia waited, the more NATO equipment that will have been delivered and waiting to be destroyed. Finishing clearing Artemovsk freed one of their urban-warfare forces. (I’ll try to not call it Bakhmut any more since it is back in Russian hands.)
I don’t know if Russia will take this opportunity to destroy weapons that are still in other countries. I expect them to destroy any with DU in those countries if they can. Will Russia sink other’s ships transporting weapons, especially DU ones? We’ll see.

Posted by: barstool | Apr 30 2023 22:13 utc | 91

The Poseidon is gone.

Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 30 2023 22:24 utc | 93

@LGB! | Apr 30 2023 22:40 utc | 95
Trump wants what’s best for Trump, it’s as simple as that. He might end the war – if it suited him. No strategic vision – just blind self interest.

Posted by: the pessimist | Apr 30 2023 22:44 utc | 95

the pessimist: true dat. At some point, however, blind self-interest is more likely to intersect with the survival of humanity than Derp State imperialism.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 30 2023 22:49 utc | 97

@ Posted by: barstool | Apr 30 2023 22:13 utc | 91
Weather forecast for the week is lots of sun and warming temperatures.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Apr 30 2023 22:56 utc | 99