Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 2 2023 0:07 utc | 100
> Belarus towards Jitomir then Vinnitsia to cut off Ukraine forces supplies to the east.
Jitomir. LOL, nice, I like it!

Posted by: hopehely | Apr 2 2023 0:34 utc | 103

1. Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 504
2. 504th Infantry Regiment (United States)
Contest time – Challenge 504th
number to beat is 2
Posted by: LGB! | Apr 1 2023 22:49 utc | 88
Romper Room Time – My magic mirror
2 of 4 frames – I see 2 x V + 1 V. Is that in Nuk-ranian or is that in Frussian with an (” Farcasm or Sarcasam) in it? #I ask only out of curiosity. I speak Latin and Anglo. Always awake not awoke.
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1642151326485303296/photo/2

Posted by: Angelo | Apr 2 2023 0:49 utc | 105

@Angelo – Sorry amigo, I haven’t the foggiest notion what you are trying to say to me.

Posted by: LGB! | Apr 2 2023 0:55 utc | 107

It all seems so utterly unlikely, but those soldiers, in turn, seem to be so utterly believable.
We desperately need to find, somewhere, unbiased and trustworthy witnesses to each of the various levels that are said to be involved. This has to be resolved, and quickly.
Posted by: AntiSpin | Apr 1 2023 22:44 utc | 87
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AntibSpin, you ate the whole worm, try your best to not swallow, it is a bunch of shit.

Posted by: Ed | Apr 2 2023 1:17 utc | 109

” Are you sure ‘your people’ want to be ‘liberated’? Maybe they are quite happy being ‘occupied’…
Wouldn’t be easier for you to move to some place where you won’t be a misfit?
Posted by: hopehely | Apr 2 2023 0:45 utc | 105 ”
Unless one goes to those nations, and talks to the people, once cant understand. Its mainly the quisling governments that are happy to be part of the conflicts and not most of the people. Take Serbia for instance, If it recognizes Kosovo that wont be the Serbian people’s will at all.
” Wouldn’t be easier for you to move to some place where you won’t be a misfit? ”
At this point I would be a misfit in most places as they are occupied, either way, the time for running is over. Now is the time to wait, observe, and prepare.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 2 2023 1:32 utc | 111

@ Ken Tucky 2:
1. Bentley has turned from being a Putin cultist to a knee jerk critic of everything the Russian government does, so it isn’t necessarily true that what he says is to be uncritically swallowed. Also, in recent days he’s been showing since distinctly Martyanov-like tendencies to ban people from his Telegram channel for dissent (not me, I’m a long term personal friend, but others who dissented less than I did).
Also, he’s been predicting an imminent all out assault on Donetsk by the nazis for months now; this must be the seventh or eighth time by my reckoning.
2. I agree about Azov: how many times have I heard that Azov has been “destroyed”? Yet anyone who was paying attention to the news knew that the siege of Mariupol was a tremendous stimulus to Azov recruitment in West Ukranazistan. It is only the Martyanov tribe of reeking brainless gasbags that still pretends – as the Faker and others did until the nazi offensive at Kharkov – that Ukranazistan can’t move or gather enough forces for an offensive.
3. I see no reason to believe the idea that 80000 Ukranazistani troops could sweep away the Wagner and Russian troops at Artëmovsk. When one side has massive artillery superiority, the other would have to gather their forces and advance under relentless artillery barrage (not to mention FAB 1500 glider bombs that Russia has been using more and more now and which can be dropped from 40 km away).
4. Officer shortages.
What proof is there of these shortages? All indicators are in any case that the Russian army now gives platoon level officers and noncoms freedom of action and initiative far more than any NATO army – let alone the Red Army, where sergeants were merely conscripts with extra training and whose function was to relay orders to the lower ranks. And if there is a shortage of officers, what prevents the Russian government from mobilising retired officers to conduct the training only?
5. The bridges.
The number of creative copes to try to explain the failure to even damage the bridges is ludicrous. Some I have seen:
“Russia will need those bridges to advance.” (Oh, right, the nazis won’t just blow them up while retreating.)
“Bridges are too difficult to destroy.” (And? Are they difficult to damage to the point of unusability for heavy equipment? The blowhard Martyanov keeps puffing about Russian wonder missiles on his blog and about the stratospheric heights of Russian military planning. Is he saying Russian military abilities and planning never extended to destroying bridges? Even WWII Allies could do that.)
“Bridges can be easily repaired.” (The same argument was being made to explain the Russian failure to knock out the Ukranazi railway network until Surovikin began hitting the railway network.)
“It would take too many missiles to destroy them and keep them wrecked.” (I thought Russia had an inexhaustible supply of missiles?)
“The West is already sending the Ukranazis pontoon and other bridging equipment.” (And that’s because they have had a full year to do that.)
Of course the bridges have been left intact so that Putin’s oligarch cronies who still have massive business interests in Ukranazistan can make money. The whole conduct of this conflict is based on the economic interests of Putin’s oligarch cronies.
6. “Human wave assaults…DNR commanders see the Russian conscripts as cannon fodder.”
Has there been a single video of an actual Russian/LDNR “human wave assault” on anybody? Jihadi Julian Röpcke posted a video of a 3 or 4 man Russian trench clearing party walking up to and neutralising a Ukranazi trench and called it a “human wave attack”. Even blueyellow ragwagging Ukranazi worshippers mocked him for that.
Also, what “conscripts”? The mobilised? And yet this same article says that the mobilised are “painting grass” across the prewar border because there is nobody to train them.
7. “Putin never fires his buddies.”
Tell Medvedev.
Overall, a mix of facts, speculation, and outright rubbish.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Apr 2 2023 1:41 utc | 113

Bakhmut babuska explains why Ukraine voted for Zelensky.
“Poroshenko had already been in power… so we voted for a clown. Well, now we are entertained”
https://twitter.com/Trollstoy88/status/1642319813807620097

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 2 2023 1:43 utc | 115

” Has there been a single video of an actual Russian/LDNR “human wave assault” on anybody? ”
Does this qualify ? At least 30 Russians attacking a trench, through an open field, without artillery, air, or armored support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLWqxChQAxY

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 2 2023 1:59 utc | 117

By Russia’s performance on the ground Mr. Ed. There’s a reason why Berhard and Saker decided to disappear. They either got offers they couldn’t refuse or they know whats coming.
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 1 2023 18:30 utc | 35
Saker was going strange a few years before the SMO. He was already ordering people not to trash the U.S. because he and his family live there. He also shut down debate on Covid and the vax, as he believed in the government propaganda regarding that, and he was disrespectful of those who thought otherwise.
With the SMO he became very out of touch, claiming that Russia had won the war after just a few days. When it became clear that Russia had severely underestimated Ukraine, had sent far too few troops in and was then stalled, he abused people who pointed that and other problems out as “concern trolls”. He was even dismissive of Russian Telegram even if it was the channels of Donbass reporters-fighters on the ground who were in the middle of the fighting.

Posted by: MiniMo | Apr 2 2023 2:13 utc | 119

Friendly reminder.
” When Ukraine Was Run by Jews:
Once upon a time, a king decided Judaism was the one true religion. But the Khazar Kingdom didn’t last long. ”
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2014-03-19/ty-article/.premium/when-ukraine-was-jewish/0000017f-ea19-d4a6-af7f-fedf24430000

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 2 2023 2:28 utc | 121

bevin @107 & 109
it is heartbreaking how deft tptb are at manipulating events, and how ruthless and fast and vicious.
was it harari, the davos seer, who said something like we no longer believe in souls, you are all hackable machines.
i thought i was pretty savvy, but since coming here and especially seeing brian berletic’s work at the new atlas, i understand more about modern “revolutions” and it’s so just awful.

Posted by: polarbear4 | Apr 2 2023 2:44 utc | 123

I want to state appreciation
To all who toil posting critical thoughts, links, opinions
And individual insights.
A stark difference to the plastic, fear driven, pharmaceutical ridden
Thoughts from the western masses and media.
I give thanks everyday.

Posted by: Dingo | Apr 2 2023 2:53 utc | 125

@ Deplorable Commissar | Apr 2 2023 2:57 utc | 127
Too soon to say. Maybe by September it will be clearer.

Posted by: the pessimist | Apr 2 2023 3:08 utc | 127

Some videos for today.
Zelensky dictatorship has turned Orthodox clergyman into arrested dissident:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/lavra_bn_0104:3
New Kiev regime law allows banning of critical media outlets without court ruling:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/ukraine_media_0104:f
Wall Street Journal “reporter” arrested in Russia for espionage:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/WSJ_3003:4
Russian airborne troops capture enemy positions:
https://rutube.ru/video/d5f213d02675237c87854e65fa5cd2e4/
Russian airborne troops use mortar to pound enemy position:
https://rutube.ru/video/b830289346f8d875cc9b06a92569e897/
Russian incendiaries light up Kiev-occupiers’ positions near the DPR’s Ugledar:
https://odysee.com/@Overthrown:6/video_2023-04-01_13-45-20:2
Russian ATGM destroys enemy infantry fighting vehicle:
https://odysee.com/@Overthrown:6/video_2023-04-01_13-55-44:9
TOS-1A ‘Solntsepyok’ filmed on combat duty:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Solntsepyok_3103:d
Russian Su-25 attack aircraft on combat duty amid ongoing hostilities:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Su-25_0104:c

Posted by: Nate | Apr 2 2023 3:19 utc | 129

Elbereth @94:
Very kind, friend. Thank you.

Posted by: Paul Damascene | Apr 2 2023 3:25 utc | 131

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 1 2023 21:14 utc | 73
No problem

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 3:54 utc | 133

◾A Ukrainian militant explains how rotation works in the frontlines: From a platoon of 30, 5 men will go to the line of contact at the time, then after 5 days they will be replaced by 5 new men.
◾But in his platoon 18 men have been already sent to the line of contact to never return, there is no rotation, you only go and never came back.

https://t.me/sitreports/6601

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 3:57 utc | 135

⚡️🇲🇩🇷🇴🔎 What is happening in #Moldova – Situation for March 25 – 31 2023; Part 1⚡️
🇷🇴 “Romanianisation” of the Country
Last week Moldovan authorities celebrated the anniversary of Romania’s annexation of the country in 1918 – the so-called “uniri”.
▪️ Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Nicolae Popescu has called the takeover of Bessarabia by Romania in 1918 “a historic moment of reunification” which allegedly allowed the Moldovan people to escape “war, terror and communist dictatorship”.
▪️ President Maia Sandu took part in the celebration of the annexation of her native country, calling the day “important for all Romanians”. She noted the symbolism of the “celebration” because of the ever-closer rapprochement between #Romania and #Moldova today.
▪️ Against this background, Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă actually called for supporting the “European way” of #Moldova and for eliminating the consequences of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, which #Russia “hinders” so far.
In fact, the elimination of the above-mentioned pact means the takeover of #Moldova by #Romania, of which it was a part from 1918 to 1940, before joining the USSR with the status of a Union republic.
▪️ The “National Moldovan Party” has submitted a petition to the parliament to rename the legislative body the Sfatul Tsarii, which recognised the annexation of the country in 1918 and then ceased to exist.
▪️ On 26-27 March, a rally of “unionists” – supporters of the takeover of #Moldova by #Romania – took place in #Chisinau. Supporters of “unionists” brought a map of “Great Romania” and waved the flag of the neo-Nazi “Azov” regiment, shouting pro-Ukrainian slogans.
Nearby, supporters of Moldovan independence from the Haiduk movement gathered and demanded that the Azov flag be removed.
▪️ The Party of Socialists has asked the Constitutional Court to check the constitutionality of the adopted law on renaming the Moldovan language “Romanian”.
Politicians consider it to be unconstitutional and note that a referendum is needed for such a decision. However, the changes in the Fundamental Law have already been enshrined.
Meanwhile, Minister of Culture Sergiu Prodan has already called for Moldovan libraries to hand over all books in Cyrillic to museums.
▪️ A bust of the Romanian monarch Ferdinand the First, under whom #Bessarabia was ceded to #Romania, has been unveiled in Balti.
🔹European Integration Attempts and Relations with the #USA
▪️ On 29 March, Maia Sandu spoke at a summit for democracy organised by the US authorities. She declared that “stability” in #Moldova is in the interest of the west and asked for help in fighting disinformation and #Russia.
▪️ Maia Sandu is scheduled to meet with Romanian President Klaus Johannis and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Bucharest on 3 April to discuss Euro-integration and Moldovan security against the background of a “hybrid war”.
▪️ On March 28, EU Council President Charles Michel arrived in #Chisinau and said the #EU would decide on another “very substantial” cash tranche by summer.
Michel also said that the #EU has allotted #Moldova about 1 billion euros over the last year.
▪️ At the same time, Foreign Minister Nicolae Popescu said in an interview that he tries to convey the message to the German government that without infrastructure projects between #Romania and #Moldova, the latter cannot ensure stability.
The politician pointed to the need to create common power grids that would ensure a “reliable energy supply” for the country.
🔹Domestic Politics
▪️ Moldovan authorities have re-extended the state of emergency regime in the country, explaining this by “internal and external threats” as well as “hybrid warfare”.

⚡️🇲🇩🇷🇴🔎 What is happening in #Moldova – Situation for March 25 – 31 2023; Part 2⚡️
▪️ Parliament has also approved a package of laws to once again extend the powers of the Information and Security Service (ISS), despite opposition protests.
The draft envisages the installation of audio and video surveillance equipment in the homes of citizens without their knowledge. The Venice Commission had earlier criticised the bill.
▪️ The ruling PAS party wants to ban MPs from the Shor faction from making statements in the briefing room following Marina Tauber’s statement on Chisinau and Bucharest’s preparations for a provocation in #Transnistria.
🔹Protests and Socio-Economic Crisis
▪️ Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean called “criminals” who protest against the country being dragged into war and the economic crisis. The politician said the discontent was caused by a sharp rise in prices, but “the government cannot go along with the criminals”.
▪️ The Moldovan police are drawing up protocols against protesters in #Edinet who expressed dissatisfaction with Maia Sandu’s policies. The protesters are accused of blocking roads and “beating up motorists”.
▪️ Minister of Labour and Social Protection Alexei Buzu said that all pensions will be indexed by 15% from 1 April. Opposition MPs, for their part, called the indexation of pensions “a mockery of the authorities over the people”.
The socialists have asked the Constitutional Court to review the lawfulness of the decision to reduce the indexation of pensions to 15% when inflation and price rises exceed 30%, which contradicts the law on the state pension system.
▪️ Commenting on the country’s gas supply problems, Energy Minister Viktor Parlikov said that the gas factor did not have as much impact on the economy as it was portrayed in the media.
The statement angered ex-Prime Minister Ion Kiku, who suggested asking citizens whether their family budgets were being affected by the multiplication of the gas tariff.
He pointed out that a huge number of businesses have closed due to high prices and the country is now “paying the price for the government’s unprofessionalism”.
At the same time it turned out that #Moldova overpays for gas almost three times as much as compared to the European countries. And the head of Moldovagaz company Vadim Cheban refused to answer the question whose gas Moldova bought from Europe this winter. Apparently, it was Russian gas at an inflated price.
▪️ #PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky has invited the FBI to join the investigation into the terrorist attacks being prepared in Transnistria by the SBU against the OSCE delegation, which included a US citizen and Head of Mission to Moldova Kelly Keiderling.
🔹Gagauz Autonomy
▪️ Member of the People’s Assembly of #Gagauzia Sergei Cimpoes has expressed the opinion that the autonomy is concerned about the prospect of a possible unification of #Moldova with #Romania.
He said a referendum should be held in #Gagauzia and he is sure that the Gagauz voters will vote against the merger with a #NATO country.

https://t.me/sitreports/6606

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 4:00 utc | 137

🇷🇺 Specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Ministry of Defense, on behalf of the President of Russia, continue to implement a project that is unique in terms of complexity and timing to build a new water conduit to provide water to the residents of Donbass.
The new hydraulic structure will pass through the territory of the Rostov region and the Donetsk People’s Republic to the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal. The capacity of the conduit will be up to 300,000 cubic meters of water per day.
The project provides for the laying of two lines of the main pipeline, 200 km each, the construction of pumping stations, electrical substations and water storage facilities for 10,000 cubic meters. More than 3.5 thousand people and 1.3 thousand pieces of equipment were involved in the round-the-clock work.
Military builders began to draw water from the Don River to fill storage tanks. To do this, dredging was carried out in the area of ​​Rostov-on-Don – the Kalancha River, a special floating water intake station was towed to the installation site and began to work. Next is a complex step-by-step process of filling the water conduit system with water.
“Today, the first of the pumping stations has been launched. The heart of the conduit Rostov-on-Don – the Seversky Donets – Donbass canal began to beat. These are 2 threads (branches) of 200 km each, as well as 7 pumping stations. Ahead is the phased filling of storage tanks with water, the launch of a cleaning system, hydraulic tests, a comprehensive adjustment of all equipment and its testing in operating mode.
To implement the Big Water project, not only military builders worked around the clock and seven days a week, but, in fact, the whole of Russia. The pipes were manufactured by the Zagorsk, Chelyabinsk, Volzhsky and Khartsyzsky pipe-rolling plants. Russian railways delivered 170,000 tons of pipe products to the facility. ROSSETI provided the construction site with electricity.
This is a labor feat of tens of thousands of workers, engineers, installers and builders. Together we are building a new life,” said Alexei Leonov, Project Manager of the Military Construction Complex of the RF Ministry of Defense.
During the construction, the special conditions of the area were taken into account – an impenetrable floodplain with many canals and small rivers. The first 16 kilometers of the conduit are laid along an artificial embankment through flooded areas.
63 artificial crossings have been built across roads, railways and water barriers. In a particularly difficult area, horizontal directional drilling was carried out under the railway bed and the branch of the river. Don with a length of 1.5 km.
In addition, by the start of work, a third of the route of the new conduit was mined by Ukrainian nationalists, which required a complete demining of the area.
Active participation and support in the implementation of the project is provided by the leadership of the regions of the country. 450 organizations, 35 large industrial enterprises and manufacturers of building materials, the power grid holding Rosseti Group were involved in the work. Russian Railways delivered 170,000 tons of pipe products.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense has already commissioned 7 hydraulic structures to provide water to residents of new regions, including the Chernovsky water conduit near Debaltseve, in Volnovakha, Rovenki, Dokuchaevsk, a line from the Khanzhenkovsky reservoir to the Seversky Donets canal and others.

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/51973

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 4:07 utc | 139

While the Ukrainians are threatening a counteroffensive, a heavy snowfall has begun along the entire line of contact…
General Frost struck

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/39999

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 4:10 utc | 141

@ hopely 105
Move to somewhere where you won’t be a misfit.
The straight path remains straight , however much the majority deviate into ignorance. Much though it would suit your employers if everybody would bend to their deviant lies.
Deplorable Commissar requires an understanding of satire. They didn’t teach you satire at drama school?

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 2 2023 4:17 utc | 143

121 If you are going to dish out dirt about Patrick Armstrong, the least you could do is buttress your argument with some sources. Yeah, I am sure that (add sarcasm tags here) that the main reason he posted well thought out articles a was that he wanted to make money.
To be blunt, I do not remember a lot of sources with most of your posts. Please feel free to change your moniker to MrAdHominem.

Posted by: paxmark1 | Apr 2 2023 5:06 utc | 145

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 2 2023 4:17 utc | 143
“The straight path remains straight , however much the majority deviate into ignorance. Much though it would suit your
employers if everybody would bend to their deviant lies.
Deplorable Commissar requires an understanding of satire. They didn’t teach you satire at drama school?”
What are you doing in the whiskey bar? Aren’t you a Muslim?

Posted by: hopehely | Apr 2 2023 5:41 utc | 147

These threads illustrate one thing: that you are all along for the ride.
In Western states you have as little control over the regimes in power as Ukrainians do over Zelensky
Like Germans in 1943 you realise it will not end until someone lets you first experience Dresden or Hamburg or Tokyo firestorms and you wonder which weapons Russia will use to free you

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Apr 2 2023 6:08 utc | 149

What is going on?

Posted by: Catilina | Apr 2 2023 3:59 utc | 137
This conflict is bigger than just Ukraine. For this reason Orlov calls it the Goldilocks War

Russia has achieved several of its strategic objectives already; the rest can wait. How long should they wait? To answer this question, we need to look outside the limited scope of Russia’s special operation in the Ukraine. Russia has bigger fish to fry, and frying fish takes time because eating undercooked fish can give you nasty parasites such as tapeworm and liver fluke. And so, I would like to invite you to Mother Russia’s secret kitchen, to see what’s on the cutting board and to estimate how much thermal processing will be required to turn it all into a safe and nutritious meal.
Mixing our food metaphors, allow me to introduce Goldilocks with her three bears and her porridge not to hot and not too cold. What Russia seems to be doing is keeping their special military operation moving along at a steady pace—not to fast and not too slow. Going too fast would not allow enough time to cook the various fish; going too fast would also increase the cost of the campaign in casualties and resources. Going too slow would give the Ukrainians and NATO time to regroup and rearm and prevent the proper thermal processing of the various fish.

https://thesaker.is/the-goldilocks-war/

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 6:18 utc | 151

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/51986
…well RoW is still waiting for the collective West to condemn Elensky and gang for religious suppression. Perhaps Joe Biden spoke the truth, that trans crowds are indeed “shaping” the US nation and its vassals into godless pits of depravity.

Posted by: _newbie_ | Apr 2 2023 6:59 utc | 153

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Apr 2 2023 6:22 utc | 152
If you live in the west, your family’s in the west, your site is irritating the Empire of Lies that the Alphabet trolls literally camp there, your domain name is with a western company, your web host is with a western company, then eventually you’ll be shut down one way or another.
Enjoy MOA while it’s still up.

Posted by: Surferket | Apr 2 2023 7:01 utc | 155

@127 the smo is a strategic victory by securing the land bridge as it stands now. The quality will be improved if they can use secure the annexed boundaries of course.
But putin is on record saying russia doesn’t need more territory, so they can just use it as spring board for another invasion later, maybe after China gets sorted out.
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Apr 2 2023 4:13 utc | 142

The current situation is a catastrophic strategic loss.
Go back to the December 2021 ultimatums. Which of the demands in those have been met? None. Exactly the opposite has happened in fact.
Finland and Sweden are in NATO, Europe is remilitarizing, and there is no intention whatsoever to withdraw nukes from right at Russia’s borders. Not at all, if anything, the day they will start placing IRBMs with nukes on them in Finland, the Baltics and Ukraine are not far off.
Also, look at the officially stated goals of the SMO? Which of them has been fulfilled? Demilitarization? North Korea pales in comparison to current Ukraine in terms of militarization — Ukraine right now exists for the sole purpose of funneling materiel and bodies towards the front line. Denazification? Even before the SMO, between 2014 and 2022, the Russian areas of Ukraine were being rapidly taken over by Banderites. After the SMO, all of Ukraine will be irretrievably lost in a decade at most if it remains under Banderite control.
Remember that for centuries Russia fought many very bloody wars to recover these lands. They are historically Russian, this isn’t giving up Turkmenistan, which was only conquered in the 1890s and was never really Russian, losing Kharkov forever is not much different from losing Rostov or Voronezh. But those were feudal times, before the 19th century and the invention of nationalism. The aristocracy was happy to collect the rent and didn’t care all that much about the identity of the peasantry, so Poland could rule over Ukraine for a few centuries and not turn the people living there into anti-Russians. In the modern world, that becomes both an objective and something that can be achieved in mere decades.
Then we have the biggest issue, which is that, as Putin himself has openly discussed on numerous occasions, missiles fly from Kharkov to Moscow in minutes.
That means either Russia will have to surrender, or the “Perimetr” dead hand system will have to be on fully automatic 24/7. The latter means it will eventually be triggered by mistake even if there is no actual launch by the US, i.e. the mere act of encircling Russia like that will guarantee the end of the world. It’s either that, or the end of Russia without a fight. Might just as well launch a first strike yourself if you are the Russians.
The world narrowly avoided annihilation by mistake on dozens of occasions over the years, but that was only possible because if it’s only ICBMs that have to be considered, there is time — about half an hour — to assess the situation. There won’t be time with missiles right on the border 500 km from Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Either Ukraine will be fully taken over, or Russia will lose the war. And Ukraine being fully taken over is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition. Those December 2021 demands were for a lot more than that — for the US to move back its bases to behind the Cold War line of separation. Ukraine being annexed was not originally required for that to be achieved, but right now it is an absolute prerequisite. A lot more than that is needed though, but the situation worsened in the other direction — US planes are now flying reconnaissance missions along the Russian border within Finland, B-52 bombers are simulating nuclear attacks on St. Petersburg, etc. unthinkable prior to the SMO things.

Posted by: shadowbanned | Apr 2 2023 7:26 utc | 157

Posted by: shadowbanned | Apr 2 2023 7:26 utc | 157
It is somewhat wrong to conclude Baltic a Nato lake. Russian can exert control from St. Petersburg or Kaliningrad with ground launcher Zircon missiles. Finland and Baltic states would be really easy to cut off from the rest of the Baltic. They can sink whatever fleet Nato has in the bay of Finland and anywhere in the Baltic, provided they have the location data.

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 2 2023 7:57 utc | 159

shadowbanned | Apr 2 2023 7:26 utc | 157
…”US planes are now flying reconnaissance missions along the Russian border within Finland, B-52 bombers are simulating nuclear attacks on St. Petersburg, etc.
…> unthinkable prior to the SMO things.
I mostly ignore your posts, but that last claim is an absolute doozy of bullshit .
Surveillance ond provocation of Russia has been happening for decades.
And in the past 10 years each summer has seen larger and more elaborate “training” and “war games” across Europe.
I was lurking a plane-watching thread in Dec 21 and we watched as 2 B52s took off from UK, crossed low over Sweden and performed a convincing “practice” run at StPete.
U$ and UK “provocations” toward Russia have been conducted for decades and were getting significantly more brazen in 2021.
U$ and UK surveillance planes ran a 24-7 lap across Ukraine, a toenail off the Donbass Line of Control from 2014.
The loss of a drone has seen the U$ withdraw its surveillance runs back out of the declared restricted airspace near Sevastopol.
While Finland is now officially NATO it’s been affiliated / partnering with NATO for the past decade and longer.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 2 2023 8:04 utc | 161

Cornelius Pipe @ 162
Thers a major flaw in your comment.
As the perpetrator, America, England and Israel have already committed the crime.
The punishment they will receave is not within their choice.
The western perpetrators of this conflict will be delt with as and when the ‘New free world order’ sees fit.
The days of America writing the rule book are gone.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 2 2023 8:33 utc | 163

@ Down South | Apr 2 2023 6:18 utc | 151
Lol at the wonderful extended fish-frying simile.
Thanks for the Moldovan sitreps as well.
The American regime seems to be pushing its colonial project to the utmost, regardless of consequences.
A final desperate fury?

Posted by: John Kennard | Apr 2 2023 9:03 utc | 165

@ bevin 109
Thank you for this description of modern Western “”” modernising of economies “”””.
With views like this, no wonder Z was instructed to get rid of as many Ukies as possible. The cat being out of the bag is not the end of the war. They spun out Syria for 10 more years after the cat was out of the bag there. But it is the end of the argument. The whole world can take benefit from this personal witness exposure.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 2 2023 9:22 utc | 167

…”US planes are now flying reconnaissance missions along the Russian border within Finland, B-52 bombers are simulating nuclear attacks on St. Petersburg, etc.
…> unthinkable prior to the SMO things.
I mostly ignore your posts, but that last claim is an absolute doozy of bullshit .
Surveillance ond provocation of Russia has been happening for decades.
And in the past 10 years each summer has seen larger and more elaborate “training” and “war games” across Europe.
I was lurking a plane-watching thread in Dec 21 and we watched as 2 B52s took off from UK, crossed low over Sweden and performed a convincing “practice” run at StPete.
U$ and UK “provocations” toward Russia have been conducted for decades and were getting significantly more brazen in 2021.
U$ and UK surveillance planes ran a 24-7 lap across Ukraine, a toenail off the Donbass Line of Control from 2014.
The loss of a drone has seen the U$ withdraw its surveillance runs back out of the declared restricted airspace near Sevastopol.
While Finland is now officially NATO it’s been affiliated / partnering with NATO for the past decade and longer.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 2 2023 8:04 utc | 161

When did US strategic bombers fly over Estonia prior to NATO expanding to the Baltics?

Posted by: shadowbanned | Apr 2 2023 9:30 utc | 169

unimperator @ 26 / Mary @ 95

there were also claims that Kraken guys had welded Ukrainian tank crews inside their tanks / I saw 2 separate videos of this at intel slava z.

I saw this way back too, I filed it also under “babies dumped out of incubators,” and have to call it out here. The Russians aren’t immune to BS and poor propaganda.
A tank is a multi-million dollar machine, needs a well trained expert crew to operate, it needs to be fueled and munitioned frequently, it must be used in coordination with other tanks, and mechanized infantry, and communications from command. If it gets hit you want to the crew to escape or be rescued as fast as possible seeing how valuable they are, maybe second to fighter pilots.
Seeing how valuable tanks are in this infantry war and to the AFU’s dwindling supplies at worse the Kraken guys would have hopped in themselves and driven off to fight as best they could.
They very suggestion that you could toss 3-4 unwilling stooges inside, weld it shut, and off they go to support the battle is idiotic.
Maybe too many drinks, but I expect better reasoning from bar crowd.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 2 2023 9:45 utc | 171

A note that you were at “zero” and after a piece of paper about writing you off to the reserve for health reasons costs $ 50,000 – source.
The more the government shuts the mouths of the soldiers using them as expendables, the more it causes a riot.
Our next insider was confirmed again. Military rear officials, “ratting money” on soldiers, inscribing dead souls, earning from $30 to $50,000.
Soldiers pay with their lives and blood for corruption in the OP and MOU. Ukraine of the future will consist entirely of the “monaco battalion” in power.

https://t.me/legitimniy/15075

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 9:54 utc | 173

⚡️ American fighter pilots complain about Russian air defense systems
Pilots patrolling the airspace near the borders of the Russian Federation said that the equipment installed on their F-35 is not always able to recognize objects located nearby.
“We saw the SA-20 (the designation of the S-300 in NATO countries), we knew that it was the SA-20, but my fighter could not identify it,” US Air Force pilot Craig Andrle was indignant.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/40042

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 9:56 utc | 175

Cochineal ? Where did spellchecker get that from? Cocaine

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 2 2023 9:59 utc | 177

🔴 Crowds gathered near the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra after the arrest of Metropolitan Pavel
Parishioners gathered near the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra after the conclusion of Metropolitan Pavel under house arrest. The fact is that many people did not fit in the church where the service is being held.
❗️ The footage shows how people who did not get into the service stand near the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, listening to a sermon coming from the temple. At the same time, citizens continue to listen, despite the rain.
🔹 Earlier, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the Ukrainian leader, announced Kyiv’s desire to “destroy” the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Metropolitan Pavel himself was sent under house arrest by the decision of the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/40055

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 10:02 utc | 179

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1. Bentley has turned from being a Putin cultist to a knee jerk critic of everything the Russian government does, so it isn’t necessarily true that what he says is to be uncritically swallowed. Also, in recent days he’s been showing since distinctly Martyanov-like tendencies to ban people from his Telegram channel for dissent (not me, I’m a long term personal friend, but others who dissented less than I did).
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Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Apr 2 2023 1:41 utc | 114
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Bentley’s appraisal of you, BP, would be interesting.

Posted by: Ново З | Apr 2 2023 10:03 utc | 181

Posted by: John Kennard | Apr 2 2023 9:03 utc | 165
No problem

Posted by: Down South | Apr 2 2023 10:04 utc | 183

https://vk.com/wall701885602_66976

Conducting a second wave of mobilization is not in the plans of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, since there are enough volunteers and already called-up citizens to carry out the tasks of the NWO. This was stated by the head of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate (GOMU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Rear Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky.
“I want to assure you all that the plans of the General Staff do not include a second wave of mobilization. Those who have already been called up for military service, as well as citizens who have voluntarily expressed a desire to participate in the operation, are quite enough to fulfill the assigned tasks,” he said during a briefing. dedicated to the spring call.
https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/17413401
To bitter regret, judging by our General Staff, no conclusions have been drawn from the defeats, tragedies and disgrace of the year of the special operation in Ukraine. And this means that this year we will have to experience it all again.
How many last year all more or less versed in the situation people shouted about the significant superiority of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in manpower, which led to our defeats and serious losses. And finally, by the fall, the leadership of the country recognized this and carried out a partial mobilization, which made it possible to increase the size of our group, stabilize the defense, and at least move on to positional warfare.
There was even no talk of a strategic offensive, since for this it is necessary to ensure numerical superiority over the enemy.
But even after the partial mobilization, the numerical superiority of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remained. And given the technological superiority of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that is increasing every month due to the supply of weapons and military equipment from the West, the situation as a whole is deteriorating for us, the strategic initiative has passed to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and we are in for very serious tests during the spring-summer campaign.
And let’s estimate on the fingers the number of groupings of the parties.
Ukraine claims that, as a result of total mobilization, it managed to ensure the size of its grouping in ONE MILLION TWO Hundred THOUSAND PEOPLE.
The size of the Russian group is a state secret, but with large assumptions, without taking into account the losses incurred during the year, it can be assumed that today it is about SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE. Where did this number come from? It is well known that on the day the NWO began, the number of our group was about TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE. Three hundred thousand people were mobilized in autumn. Suppose that in addition to this, about 100,000 volunteers and PMC fighters arrived at the front. I repeat in this calculation on the fingers, the losses incurred by us during the year are not taken into account. In total, we have at the front a grouping of approximately SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE. But rather because of losses, it is less.
In total, 600,000 of our servicemen are opposed by 1,200,000 Ukrainians. Those. the ratio in manpower is TWO to ONE in favor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Although for a successful offensive, the theory of military art requires a ratio of at least three to one, and preferably more, but even such a ratio gives the Armed Forces hope for the success of their spring-summer campaign. Especially given their superiority in intelligence, command and control, communications and precision weapons. For us, this ratio means that there is no talk of any counteroffensive.
And in such a situation, the General Staff declares that everything is going well and there is no need to increase the size of our group. Are there really no people who can adequately assess the situation?
Or there everyone serves according to the principle: “I have my own opinion, but I categorically disagree with it!”.

Posted by: shadowbanned | Apr 2 2023 10:31 utc | 185

The authorities of Ukraine and the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine collect “reproductive material” from soldiers in case of death or injury. The corresponding decree has already been issued and is being distributed among commanders at various levels. Due to high losses, the Zelensky regime is going to avoid a demographic catastrophe in Ukraine in this way. The cynicism of the Kyiv authorities knows no bounds.
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/52025
It may be cynical, but it’s about the only sensible thing the post-2014 Ukrainian regime has ever done. But it’s a sad old thing to do. As the song about Gallipoli goes
“Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head,
And when I awoke in my hospital bed
And war what it had done, why, I wished I was dead,
Never knew there were worse things than dying”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Band_Played_Waltzing_Matilda

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 2 2023 10:43 utc | 187

reply to 187
Was Zelensky thinking of keeping Ukr. females captive in pens for breeding? What’s the point of storing sperm if women run away also?

Posted by: Eighthman | Apr 2 2023 11:39 utc | 189

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 2 2023 10:41 utc | 186
Capturing Avdeevka would also pose a huge headache for the planners of any offensive toward Crimea, who would have to devote significant resources on protecting its exposed left flank, from attacks aimed at severing supply lines.

Posted by: Milites | Apr 2 2023 11:48 utc | 191

@shadowbanned 185:
A full mobilisation, which is necessary if the idea is to advance and take over all of Ukranazistan or even most of it, will mean Putin’s oligarch cronies’ profits being adversely affected. From the start he’s been fighting a neoliberal war on the cheap.
@Light Years From Home 171:
It was absurd propaganda for the simple reason that any crew welded into a tank would have immediate motive to turn their gun on the people doing the welding. Ridiculous.
@HOBO 3 182
He regularly reposts my comics and before the start of the SMO I had a standing invitation to visit him and have his father in law’s moonshine. Does that count?

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Apr 2 2023 11:51 utc | 193

Minimum, incomplete, low-ball KIA(only)(FEBA only) 395+ … Translated:

Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of a special military operation (02.04.2023)
◽️ In the Kupyansk direction, army air strikes and artillery fire of the Western Group of Forces defeated Ukrainian armed forces units in the areas of Sinkovka, Olshany and Krakhmalnoye in Kharkiv Oblast.
💥 Up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored fighting vehicles, two vehicles, as well as a D-30 howitzer were destroyed during the day. In addition, the actions of six Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were suppressed in the areas of Stelmakhivka of the Luhansk People’s Republic, Dvurechnaya, Pershotravneve, and Sinkovka of the Kharkiv region.
◽️ In the Krasno-Limansky direction, strikes by assault and army aviation, artillery fire, heavy flamethrower systems and active actions of units of the Center troop group struck enemy units in the areas of Yampolovka, Hryhorovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Makiivka and Chervona Dibrova of the Luhansk People’s Republic.
💥 The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, four pickup trucks, an Acacia self-propelled howitzer, and one D-30 howitzer.
◽️ In the Donetsk direction as a result of active actions of units of the “Southern” group of troops, strikes of operational-tactical aviation and artillery fire, over 210 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries, three Turkish-made Kirpi armored personnel carriers, three armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, three pickups, as well as one Msta-B howitzer were destroyed during the day.
◽️ On the South Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya directions, air strikes and artillery fire of the Vostok Group of Forces hit AFU units near the settlements of Shevchenko in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Levadnoye and Orekhov in the Zaporizhzhya region.
💥 In addition, two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Ukrainian armed forces were destroyed near Nikolskoye, Donetsk People’s Republic, and Vyshneve, Zaporizhzhia region.
💥 More than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored vehicles, three pickup trucks, a D-30 howitzer and a D-20 howitzer were destroyed in these areas over the past 24 hours.
💥 Also, a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station was destroyed near the village of Uspenovka, Zaporozhye region.
◽️ In the Kherson direction, up to 15 Ukrainian servicemen, seven vehicles and one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer were destroyed in the course of firing.
💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day struck 92 artillery units of the AFU at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 103 areas.
💥 A warehouse of artillery ammunition of the AFU was destroyed near the settlement of Stelmakhovka in the Luhansk People’s Republic.
💥 The command post and communications center of the 58th AFU motorized infantry brigade were hit near Krasny Liman in Donetsk People’s Republic.
💥 The command and observation posts of battalions of the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade and the 25th Airborne Brigade of the AFU were hit near Petrovske and Terny settlements of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
◽️ The anti-aircraft defense forces destroyed 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of Vladimirovka, Kirillovka, Verhnetoretske of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Novokrasnyanka, Varvarovka, Kreminna of the Luhansk People’s Republic and Novaya Kakhovka of the Kherson Region, Velyki Vyselki of the Kharkiv Region.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation destroyed (losses over previous 24hrs(+?)):
405 aircraft, (Daily avg 1.1)
228 helicopters, (Daily avg 0.6)
3,641(+11) unmanned aerial vehicles, (Daily avg 8.9)
415 surface-to-air missile systems, (Daily avg 1.1)
8,510(+13) tanks and other armored combat vehicles, (Daily avg 21.8)
1,077 multiple rocket launchers, (Daily avg 2.8)
4,485(+7) field artillery and mortars, (Daily avg 11.4) and
9,270(+23) special military vehicles. (Daily avg 23.3)

Posted by: Outraged | Apr 2 2023 12:09 utc | 195

Apr 2 2023 9:56 utc | 175
that f-35 needs a new engine, the more they fly the more engines go back to pratt and ahitney for long expensive rebuild.
and their computer is 1990’s version!
$90000 bucks per each hour the bat flies! not incuding the tankers to gas the low mileage hog or the support aircraft to tell it where to go.
wonder what the s-300 operators thought!

Posted by: paddy | Apr 2 2023 12:32 utc | 197

Biswapriya Purkayast @ 114
And the lights are still on all over Ukraine.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 2 2023 12:38 utc | 199