@james
I don’t think that they’re doing much thinking.
Besides, I suspect that the Russian strategy is not reactive. Losing a fuel depot stinks, but they keep to the process of destroying military equipment and personnel near the front, making Schrodingers’ counteroffensive even more difficult.

Posted by: Chris | May 1 2023 17:27 utc | 3

If one side controls the narrative then all the the lowly will hear are the sonic boom of their destruction. In parsing that out in my head, not sure that can actually happen. Oh well, Happy May Day

Posted by: Tmike | May 1 2023 17:29 utc | 5

While the Western media write about the problems of the upcoming counter-offensive, none of them focused on negative scenarios that could happen to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We will give an interesting analogy that everyone can consider from the perspective of history and learn more.
The Battle of Kursk during the Second World War, then both armies were waiting for the offensive, and the Soviet army took advantage of the fact that the Germans started first and, having defeated them, received operational space right up to Kyiv. For the Russian army, the preservation of the land corridor to the Crimea is, among other things, the safety of the Kerch bridge, which means that the battle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not be for life, but for death.
When the Armed Forces of Ukraine reach the shore of the Sea of Azov, the latter falls under the blow of long-range systems, which is why such a system of defensive structures was erected by the enemy. The command of the Russian army understands that it is the attack on the Crimea that is the main task for Zaluzhny, which the Americans set before us.
That is why you need to be sure that the Russian army is ready to counterattack the Armed Forces of Ukraine when they hit the defensive line. A mistake during the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can cost Ukraine dearly, according to the models of the General Staff, we can lose all the most trained units, we can lose the Zaporozhye region, and in a negative scenario, the entire front can collapse and the enemy will occupy Kharkov, Donetsk region and go near Poltava.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/17556

Posted by: Down South | May 1 2023 17:34 utc | 7

Kayaks in battle? Hmm….much prefer the Canadian Navy’s up armoured Dorys. They are stealthy when fully loaded. With two occupants and all their gear they ride low on the water line, they also have anti wave inhibitors, in the event of a capsize…….
And Russia has no answer for the newly installed FOOLS system, a highly guarded secret of Canada’s Navy, although it may have civilian applications ….
Cheers M
…it’s been long rumored Canada wants NATO to redesignate the Forward Operating Oar Launching System….semantics!

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | May 1 2023 17:39 utc | 9

OT: May 1st in Paris: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/44126

Posted by: Apollyon | May 1 2023 18:14 utc | 11

Ukrainian counteroffensive over before it starts?
https://t.me/bioclandestine/1620
https://t.me/bioclandestine/1621
And the following post in sane Telegram channel.

Posted by: PJB | May 1 2023 18:23 utc | 13

Exile @ 4
In Kiev, Major General Volodymyr Oleinik, who commanded the territorial defense units, was shot dead near his home.”
RESPONSE: Interesting report. If he was killed for having his hand in pressing conscripts into service and throwing them into the battle without proper support nor training, I would not call this an “assassination”.
Maybe his life was taken in blood revenge which does have a rightful place in the laws of Moses.

Posted by: young | May 1 2023 18:26 utc | 15

Posted by: james | May 1 2023 17:16 utc | 1
“i wnder if the lowly folks stuck in ukraine see any connection with the bombs today and the attack the other day on the oil tank in russia? probably they remain in the dark about these things..”
Hmm, so what you are implying is that if Ukraine would not attack Russian military targets in Ukrainian territory, Russians would go back to pre 2014 borders? Maybe with an apology and reparations?
That is so sweet of you, hope there are people like you on the Russian command, and they let Ukrainians know.

Posted by: Membrum Virile | May 1 2023 18:44 utc | 17

I saw yesterday that some of the barflies claimed there will be 20-25 mill ukrainians after the war. I found this list in the UA newspaper ZN.UA. They claim that there are 10 mill. pensioners in Ukraine. That means that there will only be 10 mill of younger age.
”
Period Total number of pensioners
4st quarter 2022 10 687 921
1st quarter 2023 10 697 170
Source: SFedU
According to the Pension Fund of Ukraine, before indexation, the average pension in Ukraine reached UAH 4,622. At that time, the pension for men is almost 1.5 times – 45% – higher than the pension for women: UAH 5,701 versus UAH 3,926.”
Then we are talking about a destroyed country.
https://zn.ua/ukr/ECONOMICS/pidrakhovana-kilkist-pensioneriv-v-ukrajini-jaki-navit-islja-indeksatsiji-zhivut-za-mezheju-bud-jakikh-sotsialnikh-standartiv-.html

Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 1 2023 18:55 utc | 19

@ 3 chris.. thanks.. that is most likely.. i tend to be reactive myself, but i don’t think russian command is..
@ 17. membrm virile.. have a nice nap, lol

Posted by: james | May 1 2023 19:01 utc | 21

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 1 2023 18:48 utc | 18

I absolutely hate, loathe, despise, and rebuke the strategic Culture Foundation and I utterly disagree with this analysis. There can be no point to Ukraine telegraphing their upcoming offensive in such a puzzling way unless they have no intention of going through with it. The offensive-talk is meant for exclusively for Western media consumption; it’s grift, plain and simple. “Send us your money, send us your weapons, we have this offensive going on, you know.” It is a highly cynical ploy.
Ukraine has no army and no air defense. Ukrainian soldiers and NATO mercs will be massacred if the attack. It’s never going to happen.

Posted by: Intelligent Dasein | May 1 2023 19:02 utc | 23

Some articles of interest:
Ivan Katchanovski: The far right, the Euromaidan, and the Maidan massacre in Ukraine (2020)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337947623_The_far_right_the_Euromaidan_and_the_Maidan_massacre_in_Ukraine
Volodymyr Ishchenko: Far right participation in the Ukrainian Maidan protests: an attempt of systematic estimation (2016)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298422104_Far_right_participation_in_the_Ukrainian_Maidan_protests_an_attempt_of_systematic_estimation
They detail the shaping of events in Ukraine by neo-Nazis and violent nationalists during the overthrow of the Yanukovych government, with material relevant to ethics, criminal justice, political theory, history, perception management and media.
Both articles emphasize the importance of Svoboda and Right Sector (Praviy Sektor or RS). Svoboda, founded by the Social National Party of Ukraine, is now branded as the “Freedom Party.” Right Sector now operates as UAF’s 67th Mechanized Brigade. The links below provide some additional information. If anyone would like to add to the list below, please do so.
_________
Militaristic and anti-democratic, Ukraine’s far-right bides its time (CSM): https://t.ly/OsRz
Hero of Ukraine Dmytro Kotsiubailo killed in action near Bakhmut (Kiev Independent): https://t.ly/_QIS
Right Sector: Structure and Leadership (Gordon M. Hahn): https://t.ly/HF64 [dated but still useful]

Posted by: HeyHeyHey | May 1 2023 19:11 utc | 25

Exile @ 4
“In Kiev, Major General Volodymyr Oleinik, who commanded the territorial defense units, was shot dead near his home.”
If my 16 yr old son had been press-ganged into the army then killed as cannon fodder, his mother would devote the rest of her life to finding and ending those responsible. She is a dead-eye shot with a 9mm and she would not care about the consequences to herself. The mothers and fathers could end the conscription madness. And even when the war is over, those responsible would never be safe from their vengeance.
I struggle to understand why there is not more resistance to this murderous conscription.
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said:
“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, polkers, or whatever else was at hand?”
— The Gulag Archipelago – Part 1 The Prison Industry

Posted by: Thor Odinson | May 1 2023 19:15 utc | 27

Pavlograd is a sevastopol response, the Russians know more than they do.
A lot of people here at the bar don’t understand that, and not only at the bar in the Russian army, too.
The SMO is, the use of military means for political purposes.
The SMO is Putin, and a diplomacy of first force.(without equal)
Prigogine is close to Putin, he is neither military nor diplomatic.
His role is at the forefront, rolling everyone in the flour to take them off.
Putin does not want to destroy the Ukr or its citizens.

Posted by: la bouteille | May 1 2023 19:28 utc | 29

@JustAMaverick
“According to numerous Telegram channels, there is no Major General Volodymyr Oleinik in the Ukrainian Army. This is prank news.”
See posting #22

Posted by: Apollyon | May 1 2023 19:40 utc | 31

i’m fairly certain the “lowly folks stuck in ukraine” heard thru the grapevine that putin said Crimea was a red line. (hey that rhymes)

Posted by: annie | May 1 2023 20:02 utc | 33

Posted by: la bouteille | May 1 2023 19:28 utc | 29
“Pavlograd is a sevastopol response”
For sure. Russians would stop attacking, if the damn Ukrainians would just give up and die. How unsportsmanlike of Ukrainians to refuse to submit to raping.

Posted by: Membrum Virile | May 1 2023 20:43 utc | 35

Posted by: Membrum Febrile | May 1 2023 20:43 utc | 35
Why is it so hard to get it through your febrile mind that Russia is only attacking the territories being used to attack the Russian territories of Crimea, Donbass and Russia itself? If the Ukro-Nato-Nazis would stop shelling those areas including the ones they’ve been shelling for 9 years now and sit down for good faith peace talks, Russia would stop attacking.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 1 2023 20:57 utc | 37

@ Mikkael | May 1 2023 19:00 utc | 20
Prigozhin complaining about indiscipline is rich.

Posted by: John Kennard | May 1 2023 21:22 utc | 39

Membrum Virile, Ukraine didn’t get raped in Crimea. Ukraine got raped by the coup and the people in Crimea didn’t want the new government, they wanted to be part of Russia again, still do. They are who matter here, the people of Crimea. even before the coup who didn’t know Ukraine was one of the most if not the most corrupt countries on the continent? they were done, you can’t hold them captive. Who’s the rapist?

Posted by: annie | May 1 2023 21:28 utc | 41

@Srbin, #38, my guess would be that they would have to respond with a nuclear strike on whomever they can determine did attack them with a nuke. Russia would have little choice but to respond with nukes.
More likely than making a nuke, they (Ukraine), would find it easier to purchase one on the black market. If they did manage to make a nuke(s), God help the world.
The USA would have little commentary on the matter, but they would absolutely have little problems with such an attack.

Posted by: Firefly | May 1 2023 21:34 utc | 43

@Posted by: Membrum Virile | May 1 2023 20:43 utc | 35
Hohols will die regardless of whether they give up or not. It’s a situation they could have avoided if they had not been stupid, but now it is too late for them. Hoholstan will be toast.

Posted by: FVK | May 1 2023 21:44 utc | 45

Posted by: Membrum Virile | May 1 2023 20:43 utc | 35
Well, up is down and black is white in your world. Ukraine ‘refuses to submit to raping’ by refusing to leave a region whose people have made clear that they want Ukraine out of their lands and prefer being governed by Russia. I guess 9 years of shelling and other abuse from a Kiev government that considers the residents of the Donbass region as subhuman will do that to a people. Is Ukraine being raped because it is being denied the opportunity to crap all over an ethnicity that the Kiev fascists view as untermenschen? Should we all be more considerate of the tender feelings of the Ukronazis?

Posted by: Mike R | May 1 2023 21:55 utc | 47

GoFast | May 1 2023 19:12 utc | 26
Did any big names in the independent social media ecosystem predict that AFU would run out of missiles this spring before the Pentagon leak?
Yes.
Brian Berletic. New Atlas yt.
His analysis [and it *is* analysis] extends back many months, certainly into Q3 last year, where he demonstrated that, even with USNATO “resupply”, Ukraine was doomed.
There was also this June 17 2022”Return of Industrial Warfare”
article from a UK think tank that had data showing Ukraine would eventually suffer ammo starvation.
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare
Both, of course, were mocked stridently.
And here we are.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 1 2023 22:08 utc | 49

Alexander Dugin’s words on Yevgeny Prigozhin and PMC Wagner (with a link to their motion picture)
One quote: “PMC “Wagner” is not a private military company. The money has nothing to do with it.”
https://www.thepostil.com/the-wagner-factor-and-the-fairness-principle/
Courtesy from “The Postil Magazine”

Posted by: Luís Borges | May 1 2023 22:13 utc | 51

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/04/28/us-corporations-ukraine-oil-gas/
As Ukraine sells off public assets in a privatization spree, US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton are in talks to run its oil and gas industry, and the IMF is imposing the Washington Consensus.
Which nobody, I mean nobody predicted would happen! Then there’s all that great farmland. I’m sure a lot of it has already been sold or seized by the corrupt Ukie gov’t for Cargill, Monsanto et. al.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 1 2023 22:16 utc | 53

Here’s a home security camera or similar, catching an explosion from the latest “arrivals”.
Not sure of location. Possibly Pavlograd. It’s not often you can clearly see the colour of grass at 11pm.
https://files.catbox.moe/k83a1t.mp4

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 1 2023 22:28 utc | 55

Tom_Q_Collins | May 1 2023 22:16 utc | 53
I’m actually genuinely surprised there’s anything left to sell in Ukraine.
The U$ multinationals have been there since before 2014, but certainly after 2014, went on an rampage to buy Ukraine assets for pennies.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 1 2023 22:42 utc | 57

Johnycomelately | May 1 2023 22:14 utc | 52
Turkiye certainly is vulnerable to election interference and malfeasance.
What *may* help Erdogan is the failed U$ assassination attempt in 2016.
Surviving, he conducted a thorough cleansing of his military and intel, and U$ assets inside Turkiye.
Agree, that if he goes, the Montreux Convention is abandoned.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 1 2023 22:49 utc | 59

I simply can’t understand why he hasn’t been arrested and shot for treachery.
Posted by: Tim @42

Prigozhin only appears to be criticizing the Russian military “bureaucracy” (without giving names). In essence, he states: “Look, my boys, although critically under-supplied and outnumbered, have been kicking ass of the entire NATO establishment. Slowly but surely.” And then, when he says that it can’t go on forever and he is about to quit, he is essentially urging his rivals to be more active, before it’s too late. It’s most likely a trap.

Posted by: Nomad | May 1 2023 23:07 utc | 61

One cannot, on the one hand, condone an uprising or revolution in Kiev in 2014, whilst on the other hand codemn an uprising or revolution in Crimea.
Its illogical to do so.

Posted by: HERMIUS | May 1 2023 23:15 utc | 63

“How unsportsmanlike of Ukrainians to refuse to submit to raping.”
Posted by: Membrum Virile
Is this Nuland-Kagan’s Host of Kiev?
When suffering from retrograde amnesia, read! Below are some key moments in the recent history of Banderism.
Immediately after the victorious 2014 putsch run by Mrs. Nuland-Kagan, the leading Zionist from the US State Department, in collaboration with Andrii Parubyj (the founder of the Ukrainian Nazi Party and c0mmandant of the Nuland-Kagan putsch) and other Banderites, Kiev was visited by the CIA Director Brennan, who instructed Banderites about a “proper” initiation of a civil war in eastern Ukraine. The auto-da-fe in Odessa followed. Remember the smell of the burnt flesh? Your Zionist masters in D. C. were elated.
Along with the Straussians (neo-talmudists) like the Kagans clan, Sullivan, Gershman, et al, there were also active neocon Nazifiers of Ukraine such as Lindsey Graham and his late friend, Tokyo Rose McCain (a traitor). Their strenuous efforts at the Nazification of Ukraine are well documented.
Do you still want to whine about Zio-Nazis’ sufferings? Your Jewish Fuehrer Zelensky has become one of the richest persons in the collective west. He was named a Jew Numero One by the Time magazine and the Jerusalem Post. His wife adores shopping in Paris. What is your problem? There are no sufferings among this cohort of jolly war profiteers making fortunes on Ukrainian blood. Does not Melnik’s son prefer to live in comfort in Germany? Also, Zelensky confessed to the Atlantic Council about his dream of turning Ukraine into a “big Israel.” Are you learning Hebrew already?
Banderites, out of rabid Russophobia, became the loyal servants of the rabidly Russophobic ziocons, who firmly prefer to use Ukrainians as cannon fodder in a war against the Russian Federation. This is the true legacy of Stepan Bandera.
Who founded and financed four self-proclaimed Nazi battalions, including the Azov Battalion which is loved by Israelis and the Jewish Lobby? – The President of the Jewish Community of Ukraine, Mr. Kolomojsky. Your White Fuehrers like Biletsky sold Ukraine and Ukrainian youth to American ziocons/neocons and war profiteers. The dishonorable MIC is deeply satisfied with Banderites’ enthusiasm for fighting the Russians to the last Ukrainian. And then what? Begging the US/UK bankers for money and ammunition to restore the Lenin-Stalin borders of Ukraine?

Posted by: Cerena | May 1 2023 23:19 utc | 65

One wonders how long he would’ve lasted on either side of the Russian Front, or if he’d been able to reach the rank of general on either side.
Posted by: karlof1 | May 1 2023 22:25 utc | 54
Karl I have a different take on him, that Wagner is not simply a private army but also an arm of Russian internal propaganda. The good cop bad cop routine. I think the “bluster” is 100% state sanctioned. and it appears to be working for the desired outcomes too.

Posted by: K | May 1 2023 23:28 utc | 67

The RF celebrated an important anniversary with the missile attack on April 30.
April 30 is the anniversary of Hitler’s suicide.

Posted by: Richard Whitney | May 1 2023 23:47 utc | 69

I think we do not help by letting the US and MSM narrative prevail, if only by error of omission, too lazy to bother correcting it. It all IS a war of propaganda and letting public believe it truly IS ‘Russian aggression against Ukraine’ just helps continue the slaughter and the madness.
So I’ve got into the habit of posting this after any of my post on YT channels and opinion sites and whatever and I would urge others to consider doing something similar in the hopes that the truth may begin to seep out…
=====
Don’t let the way anyone talks make you think this is ‘Russia v Ukraine’ because it is NOT.
When he says ‘Russian’ forces he really means ‘Ukrainian And Russian’ forces.
DONBAS Ukrainians and Russians.
They fight together, side by side.
The Russians helping the Donbas Ukrainians repel the invading Kiev Ukrainians.
The Kiev Ukrainians (those are the ones the Americans call ‘the Ukrainians’ and the ones who are the invaders, the aggressors, the extremists and the Nazis, the Stefan Bandera (look him up) worshippers, have been occupying Donbas Ukrainian land since 2014.
When he says ‘Ukrainian’ he just about always means only the Kiev Ukrainians. This is in line with the lying USA and Kiev narrative which wants you to think there are only two players: Ukraine and Russia. Everyone talks like this. It is a propaganda coup.
No. There are three players:
‘North’ Ukraine we might call it which is Kiev Ukraine and extremist Ukraine and ‘nationalist’ Ukraine which is sworn to building a ‘pure’ Ukrainian State after the style of the Nazis building a ‘pure’ Aryan German state. The decided to do that by oppressing, re-educating, victimising the Southern, Donbas Ukrainians who traditionally have much Russian connection.
‘South’ Ukraine we might call it which are the Donbas Ukrainians the North decided to ‘ethnically cleanse’ and exterminate for the crime of having Russian connections.
And Russia.
Three players. At the centre. And a host of malignant evil manipulators, leeches, provocateurs and profiteers on the side extending from USA to Kiev and encompassing the whole Western world.
Now the Russians are helping the Donbas Ukrainians because someone should and we won’t, we ignored them for eight years and longer and because of the Russian connection and because the whole thing is an attack on Russia anyway after the style of putting missiles in Cuba was an ‘attack’ on the USA and we know what the Americans thought of that: they were willing to have a global nuclear war rather than tolerate it.
So okay? ‘Russian’ when he says it means ‘Donbas Ukrainians and Russian help’
‘Ukrainian’ when he says it means Kiev Ukrainians ( and USA help and every pusillanimous stinking little lapdog of theirs doing their bidding. )
And the Donbas Ukrainians just don’t figure in his narrative generally. But they should. Because that’s what started it all.
And the fact that the fighting is ALL ON Donbas land that Kiev/USA has invaded generally doesn’t figure either.
The fact that there’s not one Russian boot on Ukrainian land where it was not invited and welcomed generally doesn’t get a mention either.
Just saying. Because without forewarning listening/watching could give you the impression this is simply ‘Ukraine’ fighting off ‘Russian’ aggression.
Which is what the evil empire wants you to think. And which is entirely what it is NOT.
If you want to help Ukraine and Ukrainians help bring it to a STOP. Keep Ukrainians – on BOTH sides – ALIVE.
Kiev and Washington want dead bodies. Let them fight each other. The world will be well rid of them.

Posted by: abrogard | May 1 2023 23:54 utc | 71

Some videos for today.
RT follows Russian artillery crews on the frontline:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/FOLLOWING_RUSSIAN_ARTILLERY_CREWS_0105:9
Russian drones ‘smoke out’ Kiev regime trenches
https://odysee.com/@SputnikInternational:c/29734695934:1
Russian T-72 tank in action:
https://rutube.ru/video/962ea864526ede42690252d2bd0a829c/
Russian howitzer strikes Kiev regime military targets:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/giatsint_01:a

Posted by: Nate | May 2 2023 0:25 utc | 73

K | May 1 2023 23:28 utc | 67–
Thanks for your reply and the idea you convey. I share your possibility, which is one of the reasons why I ignore his gibberish–he’s similar to a very inconsistent Telegram channel. Soon Bakhmut will be completely liberated and Wagner will be out of the limelight as I would imagine it likely needs R&R.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 2 2023 0:38 utc | 75

Peter AU1 | May 2 2023 0:29 utc | 74–
… a calling to the Russian people that if they want their culture and values to remain they will have to fight for it.
Putin’s been expressing that very idea since the SMO began and earlier when it came to defense of Russian values versus those of a failing Liberalism he clearly expressed in 2019. And there’re probably earlier instances I could dig up as Woke and Multigenderism surfaced. Nazi Russophobia began to escalate with the Nazi takeover of Ukraine in 2014, but similar things were said earlier in relation to Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine even earlier in 2004. I recall the battle between Yeltsin and Russian democrats and others in 1993 which Yeltsin crushed by calling out the army and used tanks against the Duma’s “White House” where traditional values were also seen as being under attack by Godless Capitalism. As has been said by many including Putin, Russians are generally very polite, patient people, but you don’t want to risk insulting or inciting them as they will become just as determined and resolute as they were polite and patient. Escobar’s comments about the atmosphere he’s encountered in Moscow are informative: there’s no sense of war or existential threat as life continues normally, although the war is discussed in media daily. He expresses puzzlement and wants to get outside Moscow to see if other regions have the same demeanor. Putin’s talks with the governors of frontline regions also provide some insight. As we get closer to V-E Day, more might become noticeable.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 2 2023 1:01 utc | 77

Prigozhin is something. Nobody can be quite sure what, and I suspect that’s the point. There’s a lot of Russian humor in the stuff he says: dry, dark and sarcastic. But in the end, he’s the pitch man not the brains behind the operation. He’s almost certainly not the funding either. He’s a one man maskirovka show, which isn’t to say he never tells the truth. Just that telling the truth is not necessarily part of his job description.
His brilliance is in his ability to let people see what they want. So Dugin sees the new Russian and the west sees splits in the elite and continued incompetence in the Russian MoD. Putin played this trick on them already and then unveiled a much more powerful military than the west assumed was possible. It’s quite possible that Prigozhin does get over his skies at times, but Putin has a pretty long leash. Peskov says stupid things all the time and always keeps his job.

Posted by: Lex | May 2 2023 1:10 utc | 79

Karl, you posted your 77 as I was writing @78. I very much agree with what you wrote there.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 2 2023 1:19 utc | 81

CBC reporting two more Cdn. mercs killed in Ukraine. Say that makes five in total? Seems low given graph I’ve seen but now can’t locate. Anyone…..?

Posted by: Drinky Crow | May 2 2023 1:41 utc | 83

@83 Here they are. Looks like they were having fun. For a while.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/2-canadians-killed-ukraines-bloodiest-164838187.html

Posted by: dh | May 2 2023 1:46 utc | 85

Best video of Pavolgrad explosion. Over 4:30 and still burning when stopped. Note at 47 and 50 sec there are two other impacts to the left of the main one, but no secondary explosion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1352dnq/ua_pov_full_video_of_explosions_in_pavlograd/

Posted by: BroncoBilly | May 2 2023 2:07 utc | 87

It’s simple enough…Prigozhin is a Jewish actor on this largely Jewish stage…
Posted by: John Kennard | May 1 2023 21:22 utc | 39
It seems to me Prigozhin is a classic manipulative narcissist. Everything he says has the aim of Prigozhin look good. He says the Ukrainians are disciplined and well armed because that make his victory look better than if he said they were schoolboy conscripts. He says he is not given enough ammo in order to blame others for his defeats. He says the Russian Army are a bunch of losers in order to make himself seem like a hero.
I simply can’t understand why he hasn’t been arrested and shot for treachery. But Putin knows best.
Posted by: Tim | May 1 2023 21:31 utc | 42

Posted by: Wokechoke | May 2 2023 2:26 utc | 89

@ Posted by: HeyHeyHey | May 1 2023 19:11 utc | 25
Thanks for those references. It sounds like the Right Sector with a number of similar groups and PR professionals together have achieved one of their objectives and they are now in full control of Ukraine like they said they would do some years ago. They are very well organised and Prigozhin certainly knows very well who he is fighting against as much as Putin does.

Posted by: Richard L | May 2 2023 2:47 utc | 91

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 2 2023 2:48 utc | 92
This is one of the escapees from UNZ. He managed to get out when one of the mental hospital orderlies fell asleep.
UNZ is one of the last refuges/asylums where simplistic blame-the-other-guy rants are still tolerated. Personally I believe it is the place where those ne’er-do-wells get to vent their anger at everybody else but themselves, and take solace in at least being born to a superior race.

Posted by: littlereddot | May 2 2023 3:00 utc | 93

The elbow room that Prigozhin gets can’t be explained without reference to his ethnicity.
It’s quite possible that the promotion he gets in the western media, as a sort of grim beastly looking tough guy, is designed to position him for power in a post-Putin Russia. A warlord who gets to inherit a great deal of power in Moscow after the much older Putin retires. His Jewish background does him no harm in this regard.
Certainly Zelenskyy has used his ethnicity to give himself distance from Banderite and Nazi elements in Ukraine while he’s also sponsored and patronised Neo Nazi groups like Azov and Right Sector militias.
Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland have ridden their Jewish identities and origins in the Pale to ultimately exercise great influence over European affairs.
Wilfully Ignoring these coincidences when you muse about how Prigozhin escapes punishment from internal rivals is obfuscation.

Posted by: Wokechoke | May 2 2023 3:21 utc | 95

Old Fat Guys making a Motorcycle Tour celebrating WWII defeat of Fascism starts . German Press reports
Eine Gruppe von Putin-loyalen Motorradfahrern ist von Moskau zu einer Rallye aufgebrochen, die sie bis nach Berlin führen soll. Wie eine Journalistin der Nachrichtenagentur AFP beobachtete, startete die Kolonne am Samstag im Südosten der russischen Hauptstadt. Sie bestand aus Hunderten Mitgliedern des Clubs Nachtwölfe, der Kreml-Chef Wladimir Putin vehement unterstützt.
Mehrere Teilnehmer der Rallye trugen russische und sowjetische Fahnen. Einige hatten auf ihren Motorrädern den Buchstaben Z angebracht, der die vom Kreml offiziell als „militärische Spezialoperation” bezeichnete Offensive in der Ukraine symbolisiert. Die Rallye trägt den Namen „Die Routen des Sieges”. Angeführt wird die Rallye von Alexander Saldostanow, dem Chef und Gründer der Nachtwölfe, der sich als „Freund” Putins bezeichnet. Saldostanow ist wegen seiner Unterstützung für Russlands Annexion der ukrainischen Krim-Halbinsel im Jahr 2014 mit westlichen Sanktionen belegt.
Die Rallye soll zunächst nach Wolgograd – dem früheren Stalingrad – führen. Der Sieg der Roten Armee über Hitlers Wehrmacht in der dortigen fast sechsmonatigen Schlacht stellte im Zweiten Weltkrieg einen Wendepunkt im Kampf der Sowjetunion gegen Nazi-Deutschland dar. Am 2. Februar war in Anwesenheit Putins in Wolgograd der 80. Jahrestag dieses Siegs begangen worden.
Die Rallye soll danach in die ostukrainische Region Donezk weiterführen, wo die Teilnehmer humanitäre Hilfe an Zivilisten und russische Soldaten verteilen wollen. Die Rallye soll schließlich am 9. Mai in Berlin enden. Der 9. Mai ist in Russland der Jahrestag des Weltkriegsendes, in Deutschland und anderen europäischen Ländern wird dieser Jahrestag bereits am 8. Mai begangen.
https://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ukraine-liveticker-putin-treue-nachtwoelfe-starten-rallye-nach-berlin-faz-18495964.html

Posted by: Exile | May 2 2023 3:42 utc | 97

Re: Posted by: Johnycomelately | May 1 2023 22:12 utc | 50

The real news is Turkey’s election, if Erdogan falls the Montreux treaty will be bypassed and the newly elected government will allow Western ships to sail through the Bosphorus.
Perfidious Albion is biting at the bit to get its naval forces through the straits, the potential scenarios are mind boggling.

This is why Russia is taking it slow in the SMO.
Russia has no concerns about the potential replacement of Erdogan and the possibility of US/UK warships in the Black Sea.
They are in no hurry because such a scenario is something they are quite happy to confront in future.

Posted by: Julian | May 2 2023 3:45 utc | 99