Posted by: unimperator | May 7 2023 20:59 utc | 103
Leopards go boom? The Ukrainians might still be smart enough to put them all in a few warehouses.

Posted by: unimperator | May 7 2023 21:00 utc | 104

Posted by: Petri Krohn | May 7 2023 20:48 utc | 98

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 7 2023 21:02 utc | 106

Prigozhin and Kadirov are powerful Warlords and as always there is a certain amount of rivalry, competition and/or jealousy between such charismatic figures. As long as they don’t start fighting each other (like in some other war torn countries) things should remain at a theatrics level….

Posted by: Adam Troy | May 7 2023 21:04 utc | 108

Tom_Q_Collins @ 96
You’re confused because you’re a jackass who posts knee-jerk reactions to emotives without reading first.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | May 7 2023 21:06 utc | 110

Posted by: Dacian | May 7 2023 17:31 utc | 45
Enjoyed several of the articles on the agora. Com blog. Thxs.

Posted by: Scorpion | May 7 2023 21:15 utc | 112

@ Taras 77 | May 7 2023 17:53 utc | 52
“..the assessments of the threat that Kiev posed to the leadership of our country.”
Those assessments must be made clear, precise, and public for all to know and understand. Also, we must know what the doctor prescribed against those.
Ukraine is stealing RF’s role in “denazification” of Europe’s WWII by being and behaving right out of the book on how to set up the Nazi state. It is on the offensive, eradicating everything Russian out of Ukraine, probably the only one they can put up.
Current Ukrainian set up will not give up on going after Russian soft targets as journalists, intellectuals, and prominent people supporting SMO including those who run current tackle.
Ukrainians will try to terrorize in depth regions that belong to the new Russia and to the old Russia. Those will never be peaceful areas.
So length around 1200 km and 10-30 km in depth is endangered. That is a huge surface area.
Also, it is very expensive to protect and very difficult to have any sort of development or bettering for the population living there.
So, to counter this RF must delete such attitudes which is really hard since Soviet Union couldn’t neuter OUN and Banderists. But what USSR (CCCP) did is they at least managed to contain it to a small Western region, to where it questionably belongs.
So to pacify the region and protect its own ‘Russian sphere’, RF now and onwards must understand that it has to reverse this ‘offensive against everything Russian’.
This ‘terrorist offensive’ from MH-17, Kerch Bridge to Tatarsky and Dugina and so forth is, as we all know, supported and planned by the known and clearly named and people and agencies – and those need to be pacified.
Some people can see no other way than to reconquer Ukraine up to where the ‘Russian sphere’ reaches. For that it is better to be tough, hard and take a deep breath and do it once then to wiggle with all kind of excuses and reluctant attempts to fully commit.
There must be a reason why RF is seen being as such.
To militarily liberate this ‘Russian sphere’, RF would need to mobilize probably another 300,000+ of its manpower, spend a mountain of money, and vast amounts of technical and human potential without any guarantees of a long term success.
That is not rational at all and would play along the Western narrative.
I think that RF should blow few such Western points and claim that is not seeking the conflict with the West. That is exactly what the West is doing via Ukraine.
The rationale behind that is that if a few decision-making centres outside of Ukraine are taken out, those efforts would be a clearest message to Ukraine RF can send.
Those kinetic actions can trigger changes as in Ukraine so as in the West. It can be a start of getting rid of the current neo-Nazi order that flourishes there under the auspices of Sneaky Weak West, as it should be seen.
For everyone to see, the very West is made helpless in front of Ukrainian expectations of the might and omni power of the imaginary West.
RF has long arms and an elephant’s memory, and showing that it can indeed delete such planning, plotting and terror supporting centres might cut Ukrainian ideas of a prolonged conflict very quickly.
What would that really do to the West?
Probably the West would scream its lungs out, but so what?
In its current position – it is a way too weak to confront RF in any conventional shape or form. And they know it.
Except for going nuclear, but that is even questionable and the Western military probably renders such actions as not really enough to go nuke on the planet.
One never knows, but it might be well worth taking the risk.
To end the conflict in Ukraine, RF has to challenge the West in an open, straight manner.
Threaten twice, strike once. Ask for more? Strike again. No more. Ok. Now let us talk.
I do not see any other manner of getting it done, right now.

Posted by: whirlX | May 7 2023 21:17 utc | 114

Regarding the Ukrainian “Offensive” coming up. With no other information other than reading every TG post I can find about the crazy amount of Jaw-jacking about said “offensive”, my wild speculation is that they will attack in the Uhgledar (sp?) direction, but will also try an amphib landing in Sevastopol to try to wipe out the bases there and the NATO air assets will come to help them. If they can land one of the “grain deal” ships in the harbor and sink it, it may block the Russian navy. They might even start with a nuclear false flag at ZNPP or even Energodar with their “dirty bomb” so as to set off the supposed radiation detectors installed by the USA a bit ago. Russia command and control would have multiple disasters to respond to all at once. Not saying it has a remote chance, Russia is very capable, but it would make for an interesting week, say in June, when the weather may be nicer. They need the media hype, it’s almost all they have been winning lately save a few terrorist bombings. All this mowing the lawn with 50-60 troops and a half dozen technicals getting shelled to oblivion all around the front are feints imo.
That looks pretty thin re-reading my brain droppings, but it would be my idea if allowed to “plan” the offensive of the AFU. Multiple avenues at once, push all the buttons at once, so to speak. I believe that the AFU has no other choice, if they lose, they lose all. If they gain Sevastopol, even for a day, that will probably enable the AFU to get even more Western help. If they merely plug a dozen holes and fart around like the Kherson “offensive” last summer/fall, the front will collapse by this winter imho, and then it all goes pear shaped and I think that is the most dangerous for a WW3 scenario.

Posted by: Fudup | May 7 2023 21:26 utc | 116

re: kupkee | May 7 2023 21:05 utc | 109
I take it you did not read my post (see Perimetr | May 7 2023 19:20 utc | 71 ) stating that I did not make the post at 42, some scumbag used my MoA name.
Imitation may be the sincerest from of flattery, but these a**holes can piss off.

Posted by: Perimetr | May 7 2023 21:30 utc | 118

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | May 7 2023 21:06 utc | 110
Tom_Q_Collins @ 96
That was not me – another troll poster assuming identities.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | May 7 2023 21:39 utc | 120

If people aren’t checking the TG channels today they should, Russia is hitting hard all along the front, and moving harder than ever in Artemovsk, plus this last week of Prigozhin hyper focus has seen consistent heavy missile strikes all over behind the AFU lines. Given months of talk of the big Ukrainian offensive either Russia is trying hard to bust that up or we are witnessing the softening up barrage before the big Russian offensive, something everyone seems to have written off. Whatever, there’s a notable uptick in energy on the RF side. I sense a movement in the Force.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 7 2023 21:44 utc | 122

If the West had a competent drone program it would be scary. But even though it’s been obvious for a decade that unmanned vehicles are superior to manned ones..(quickly..provided secure commschannel Achilles heel, no pilot loss so the highly trained dudes don’t die and no G force problems amo st many others)..Maerica in her deep intelligence opted for the giant military industrial ‘scam the public’ turkey the F35.
Bravo take a bow Pentagon. So yeah I expect more amateurish drone attacks indeed, since they dont ha e anything else to fly. Maybe some semtex strapped to civve drones.
As noted earlier it’s all improvisation and tactics and desperation now from NATO. Strategic noose closed long ago. Nuclear? If they do it we are all fucked.
I wish I could be optimistic but those in charge of this shitshow from the West are deeply hubristic and cannot accept they are and were wrong and their strategy has utterly failed by any available metric. So..

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 7 2023 21:46 utc | 124

@unimperator | May 7 2023 21:36 utc | 119

I think Nato is far more invested in this offensive than they admit publicly or most people realize. Hence they would throw every dirty trick in the bag you can imagine.

NATO wants Russia to go nuclear.

Posted by: Petri Krohn | May 7 2023 21:48 utc | 126

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | May 7 2023 21:06 utc | 110
Now I’m even more confused. Which of you is the handle thief? Awfully strange tactic to get more followers at your Substack if that’s really you, RSH. If it is, I suggest lithium. Might tamp down the “emotives” and resultant childish name calling.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 7 2023 21:50 utc | 128

The good thing in this Patriot vs. Kinzhal debacle (categorically fake news) is that it may result in euronato buying and relying more on useless Patriot systems. Pretty much similar as the hyper super duper fifth gen F-35 “Flying turkey” program which has no parallels in the Milkyway galaxy. Whole Nato will now have to life with it well past 2050.

Posted by: unimperator | May 7 2023 22:13 utc | 130

Unimperator, 119
Petri Krohn, 126
I also think that the West is very invested in the attack coming up, they pay billions of $$ and their reputations are on the line even with Western media to hide any mis steps, but they need a win, even a pyrrhic one. Russia should fly fighters in force when anything not Russian flies anywhere even close to Crimea over the Black Sea. Drone attacks controlled by NATO awacs from across the Black Sea or other treachery.
As far as a nuclear strike by Russia, if the West wants that, they are fools. None of the assumptions of Russias actions and/or capabilities has been correct yet, they would be bringing doom to their own. I think the West (British thugs or otherwise) wait to strike on their terms when they think Russia cannot respond effectively, which is also insane, but entirely believable of Western arrogance. The fixation on Crimea could be a huge weakness in their ultimate stategy, whatever it is.
Turkey is a big wildcard IMO, with elections coming up, that could create conditions for some other NATO trickery with the grain deal fiasco. I still think this “deal” will be used to attack Crimea.

Posted by: Fudup | May 7 2023 22:20 utc | 132

Why does NATO want Russia to go nuclear? I see that also, but why? Is that not dangerous, even for western elites?

Posted by: srbin | May 7 2023 22:29 utc | 134

Prigozhin has motivated the destruction of Chasov Yar it seems.

Something very terrible now in Chasov Yar”: “smart bombs” hit the back of the Bakhmut group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Previously, we showed videos clearly showing that the Armed Forces of Ukraine filled the city of Chasov Yar with tanks and other armored vehicles hiding behind residential buildings.

And this:

Rybar writes:
Simultaneously with the defeat of reinforcements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the reserve defense lines, according to reports from open sources, the Russian Aerospace Forces processed enemy positions at Chasov Yar with FABs from the UMPC.
Given that Chasov Yar is located on a hill, artillery positions will also be deployed there, from which fire will be fired in the direction of the Wagner PMC offensive to the west of Bakhmut. At night, the “Orchestra” units went on another attack that could be decisive in the Battle of Bakhmut.

The cynic in me thinks this rear supply extinguishment might have been carried out a month or two ago and repeated every few days. The same Uke army destruction rate would likely have been achieved and the clearance of Artyomovsk would have proceeded at lower Russian lives lost.
Scott Ritter – Again observes:

“Odessa: a strike at Lighthouses, there is a road bridge across the Dniester.
If the strike on the railway bridge in Zatoka and the automobile bridge are successful then they are cut off from Romania.

So perhaps the western supply is finally being throttled down in the east.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 7 2023 22:32 utc | 136

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 7 2023 15:16 utc | 18

Wagner is an organ of the Russian State. Always has been.
Prigozin is merely “head of sales and marketing” in the corporate sense of the term …

This has always been my understanding, the group started in the Donbass 2014 as a plausibly deniable arm of RF mil intervention in the UA civil war led by ‘former’ Spetsnaz GRU officer ‘Wagner’ and remains led by ‘former’ Spetsnaz GRU officer … is Lotus still the military commander?
In that sense Wagner is a ‘private’ military arm of the RF Military Intelligence Directorate independent of the other military commands but completely integrated into Putin’s post-Soviet national security state.
And as far as I know, just like once you’re CIA you can never ‘leave’, no one is ever ‘former’ GRU.

Posted by: Zeug Gezeugt | May 7 2023 22:36 utc | 138

People who get agitated by Prighozin’s theatrics (thanks Arch Bungle) are likely the same people who watch WWE and think it is real.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 7 2023 22:48 utc | 140

@vec 101
Going from the the mere presence of something on the moon assuming humans placed it there is a huge leap. Anything up there could have been remotely placed. I’m a believer of Bart Sibrel and his interviews and evidence. There’s a lot that needs to be addressed about the Apollo missions. Maybe Medvedev will call out building 7 next.

Posted by: NJH | May 7 2023 23:09 utc | 142

Things seem to blow up bigger with after explosions this last month, more accurate hits, more valuable targets, maybe just more and bigger piles of western munitions, a more target rich environment? Maybe the new satellites the RF launched couple months back?

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 7 2023 23:13 utc | 144

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 7 2023 21:44 utc | 122
Or a bit of both. Weaken the Ukrainian offensive, whilst preparing the ground for your own counter.

Posted by: Milites | May 7 2023 23:47 utc | 146

Posted by: Zeug Gezeugt | May 7 2023 22:36 utc | 138

once you’re CIA you can never ‘leave’, no one is ever ‘former’ GRU.

Mercouris said something to this effect (and more) based on an email he claimed to have received from an ‘anonymous person in the know’. While it could all be fantasy it sounded very plausible: the upshot was basically that Wagner was formed as a public-private enterprise between two GRU divisions and an unnamed public partner.
Which makes me wonder about Prigozhin: Is he as much a civilian as he’s made out to be or a true native of the Russia intelligence apparatus …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 7 2023 23:54 utc | 148

Can we just leave this issue of Pregorzhin now? There is no conspiracy, maskirova or whatever. He has a tendency to shoot his mouth off and has acquired some serious narcissistic tendencies. The RF Military or Government do not play these kind of stupid gaines. He is being allowed to complete the liberation of Bakhmut. After that, I doubt we will hear much from him because he is a serious liability to the RF Government and Military. At a time when RF is fighting the entire collective West, nay sayers like Pregorzhin have no place on the battlefield. Stability, Unity and solidarity of purpose is what is required.

Posted by: Jo Dominich | May 7 2023 23:58 utc | 150

LightYearsFromHome #145

They didn’t have the missile inventory, they need to keep stocks up to defend pre SMO Russian territory, ward off a genuine NATO/USA attack from the Baltic Sea, Poland, and from the USA in the Pacific. Looks like they got their stocks back up and I assume a steady supply at a higher rate now. Put some fear in NATO before going on the offensive would be a good idea.

I am fairly confident that Russia has an immense inventory. They likely planned for the SMO stage a year before they actioned it. I can see that for the past couple of decades Russia has been frenetic in developing missile weapons advantage over the westies and finally achieved that stage. BUT as for conventional weapons like artillery and short range mobile systems, drone attack systems they are copiously endowed. Chassov Yar is well within range of the Russian firing positions. PLUS the Russians savagely police their no fly zone on the battle front that has crushed the Uke large war planes. The Russians have an airforce too!
If there is a logic behind all this then perhaps it falls back to the meat grinder tactic but grinding your own while ignoring the annihilation of an enemy staging point 10 to 20 kilometers away begs questions.
There is no crime in challenging the ossified mindset of the Russian Army when your nation has taken the dramatic step to crush the hegemon threat.
Time will tell.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 8 2023 0:09 utc | 152

Big things happening. Slavyangrad is reporting the largest missile strike of the entire SMO taking place tonight in central Ukraine. NASA Lance Firms showing the center of the country ablaze. Open Source Intelligence Monitor is reporting destruction of the Pidyomnyy Mist Bridge, completely isolating Ukrainian Bessarabia from Odesa. Faytuks is reporting the largest drone attack of the war concentrated against Kiev. Intel Slava is reporting a major missile attack against Odesa tonight. Spiriter is reporting unusual aerial phenomena observable from Melitipol. TASS and RIA are reporting major movements in Bahkmut. Black Sea Ship Traffic Map is showing one Turkish vessel hightailing it out of Odesa. I cannot find any accurate information for Black Sea flights at the moment. Whatever this is, it is substantively different from anything that has happened since the first month of the SMO.

Posted by: Hitch | May 8 2023 0:21 utc | 154

TASS reports, “Kiev’s counteroffensive to ‘pave the way’ for dialogue with Russia — WSJ”: ‘The Wall Street Journal points out that this “shift in Western thinking” is occurring amid Western countries’ serious concern that they won’t be able to maintain the necessary level of military aid to Ukraine in the future.’

The Kiev regime’s ostensibly possible counteroffensive may “pave the way” for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine by the end of the year with China being one of the mediators, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing European officials.
According to the newspaper, key representatives from the US National Security Council support the idea of holding the negotiations between Kiev and Moscow. That said, the US Department of State and the CIA are skeptical of the idea and would like to see the result of the potential Ukrainian counteroffensive before taking any diplomatic steps.
The Wall Street Journal also points out that this “shift in Western thinking” is occurring amid Western countries’ serious concern that they won’t be able to maintain the necessary level of military aid to the Kiev regime in the future. That said, some Western states want to see whether China is capable of defusing the conflict which also indicates a change in the way the West sees Beijing’s role.
Media conjecture about a potential counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops has been rife for several months running, with various potential trigger dates being publicly mooted. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry highlighted that such open speculation within Western countries about expectations for an upcoming Ukrainian counteroffensive only serves to confirm these countries’ direct involvement in the conflict.
On April 23, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Secretary Alexey Danilov rejected calls for dialogue on settling the conflict with Russia demanding more weapons from the West. Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow always supported holding negotiations but dialogue on the situation around Ukraine is possible only if Russia’s legitimate interests and concerns are taken into account.

Contradictions abound within NATO’s posture as serious doubts are clearly apparent. However, China isn’t going to bailout NATO as the Bloc must deal with Russia’s 2021 security proposals it’s ignored, belittled or dismissed to-date. Team Biden will continue to stonewall and intone its As long as it takes mantra, but some EU NATO members have a better grip on reality. One critically important aspect Team Biden never seemed to grasp is the extreme difficulty in amassing forces for an offensive without them being decimated before they can be committed to battle. The time to have done that was during Winter when the skies were overcast most of the time and thus blinded Russian satellites. And of course, that meant all available means needed to be shipped to Ukraine in November/December, not delayed until March/April. It would be much better for Ukraine to try and keep the FEBA stable while building and training up its forces so they can be deployed under the cover of weather for an offensive this Winter. But even then, without AD and CAS, any offensive is going to need a great deal of luck to attain its objective. And of course, Russia might change the game with its own offensive later this Spring or Summer.
IMO, by the D-Day anniversary, NATO will be even more skeptical. EU NATO members must somehow overcome Team Biden Neocon’s doubling down penchant and force it to move on the political issues that must be solved if peace is to be obtained. And that will be no easy task as those Neocons have already said Fuck the EU once at the beginning of this crisis.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 8 2023 0:32 utc | 156

Caveat emptor re my taking down drones comment, it maybe they are used to dry up missile availability so the cruise stuff gets through.

Posted by: Oh | May 8 2023 0:35 utc | 158

Hitch | May 8 2023 0:21 utc | 154–
The recent attacks on Crimea originated from Odessa, thus the return fire. Lots of reserves around Kiev being the likely targets there. IMO, the civilian evacuations around Zaporozhye could also be in preparation for an offensive moving through there. Overall, my suspicions are raised high in expectation of Russia’s action on 9 May besides Putin’s speech at the parade.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 8 2023 0:41 utc | 160

HEADLINES
AGGRESSIVE Polish fighter plane, panics, and is chased out of Black Sea by Russian SU25

Posted by: HERMIUS | May 8 2023 0:47 utc | 162

Russia says high waters threaten dam near Ukrainian nuclear plant, TASS reports
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-high-waters-threaten-dam-near-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-tass-2023-05-05/

Posted by: Arrnon | May 8 2023 1:25 utc | 164

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | May 7 2023 18:07 utc | 58

You can provide your children with the necessary vaccinations only for money. To fully vaccinate a child up to a year comes out at $1000
For example, an imported analogue of adsorbed pertussis-diphtheria-tetanus vaccines costs $120 . Only a few can afford to be vaccinated, and they need to be done at least three times before a year.

It used to be commonly accepted that vaccinations only start being effective at the age of 2. Before that the immune system isn’t functioning fully yet and won’t create immunity. I only got them starting from 2 years old. And way less then is common today. Medical professionals have occasionally admitted that jabs given in the first 2 years are to condition the parents to vaccinate their child. And for profit I would add.

Posted by: GoverntheMente | May 8 2023 1:29 utc | 166

143.
This is solipism essentially as political science. Spare us this sophomoric idiocy, won’t you?
No, the war in Ukraine is not a fake. Sometimes a cigar is just a fucking cigar.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 8 2023 1:37 utc | 168

Hitch | May 8 2023 1:42 utc | 171–
Yes, that too. Nobody said the vaunted offensive had to be directed at the current FEBA.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 8 2023 1:58 utc | 170

“Latter means, Russia needs human resources from neighbor countries to withstand against long term threat from China.”
All The hallmarks of another alphabet soup troll who cannot resist playing the “evil China threat to Russia”.

Posted by: Surferket | May 8 2023 2:17 utc | 172

In general, judging by the reports on the Network, the Russian Armed Forces struck at logistics centers and areas of concentration of AFU reinforcements along the line of contact. Hence the blows on the Chasiv Yar and Ugledar.
The targets for fire damage in the Sumy, Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions could be the concentration areas and landfills where parts of the 9th and 10th AK of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which form the backbone of the counteroffensive and the spring-summer campaign, are now being coordinated.
As for the Odessa region, the most likely target is warehouses with UAVs and transferred weapons. Blazing in Odessa is loud now.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/45041

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ A powerful artillery strike on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chasov Yar
There is information that artillery of all calibers is actively working on the positions of the 112th, 127th and 241st territorial defense brigades, the 228th troop battalion, as well as on the positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine north of Chasov Yar in the Bogdanovka area and the Valianovka railway station .
According to reports from the field, a number of shells and rockets are being used that no one has seen in the area before.

https://t.me/intelslava/47469

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 3:11 utc | 174

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦🤚 Military Expert Boris Rozhin on the Situation in the #Artyomovsk (#Bakhmut) Sector as of 23:35 Moscow Time on 07 May 2023⚡️
🔹 1. In the City, the Wagner PMC continues its assault on a block of highrise buildings on the western outskirts.
Strikes on the last strongholds of the AFU intensified today + by evening, in addition to #Artyomovsk, they started to cover #Bogdanovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Chasov Yar and other settlements to the west of the city. Also during the day there were strikes on the #Slavyansk – #Kramatorsk agglomeration.
The fighting in the city is in the nature of pushing the enemy out of the city house by house.
According to Prigozhin, no prisoners were taken. Shells for Wagner seem to have been allocated, which is also noted by the enemy, complaining about the intensified shelling of the AFU grouping in the city and to the west of #Artyomovsk.
🔹 2. From a logistical Point of View, there is still a situation of operational encirclement of the AFU grouping in the city. All roads into the city are shot through, leading to regular losses in equipment to the west of the city. Nevertheless, the enemy, despite its losses, is trying to hold supplies and is even driving additional equipment into the city to replace those that have been destroyed.
Rumours that the AFU has run out of equipment in #Artyomovsk are untrue. There are still tanks and armoured personnel carriers.
🔹 3. #Khromovo, #Bogdanovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, #Krasnoye, #Novomarkovo are all under the control of the AFU. Our stormtroopers have not yet entered these settlements.
Syrsky said today that the task is to hold #Artyomovsk at least until 9 May. In essence, it repeats the situation with the agony of the remnants of the #Mariupol grouping of the AFU at Azovstal, which was also tasked last year not to capitulate until 9 May, after which it capitulated shortly after the holidays.
However, Prigozhin has already reported that there is no task to take the city exactly by the date. The primary objective is to grind down as many AFU forces as possible while the Battle for #Artyomovsk is under way.
📜 Boris Rohzin

https://t.me/sitreports/8329

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 3:22 utc | 176

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the #SMO for 6-7 May 2023⚡️
🔹#Russia’s Hinterland:
▪️ In Nizhny Novgorod region, there was an assassination attempt on Zakhar Prilepin. His car was blown up with a landmine planted in the ground. His comrade-in-arms was killed. Prilepin sustained multiple wounds, regained consciousness and his condition is stable.
🔹#Russia’s Border Areas:
▪️ In the #Kursk region, the villages of #Krasnooktyabrsky and #Tetkino were shelled. Residential buildings and civilian infrastructure were damaged. Civilians were not injured.
▪️ In the #Belgorod region, AFU shelled the town of #Shebekino on Saturday. A school building, a shopping mall and an industrial facility were damaged. One civilian was wounded.
➖ On Sunday, the enemy struck the villages of #Spodaryushino, #Murom and #Ustinka, Residential buildings, power lines and a gas pipeline were damaged. One woman was seriously wounded.
🔹#Starobelsk (#Svatovo) Direction:
▪️ No significant changes on the front line. Position fighting and artillery duels continue.
➖ According to some reports, AFU DRGs are conducting roadside mines in places where vehicles stop.
🔹#Soledar (#Bakhmut) Direction (MAP):
▪️ In #Bakhmut, Wagner PMC units are engaged in fierce fighting along Donbass Liberators Street.
➖To the northwest, Russian forces managed to break through the enemy defences along Pobedy Street and Tolbukhin Street.
➖ Southwards, the “Wagnerians” are methodically advancing in the direction of the Pobeda Cinema west of Chaykovsky Street.
🔹#Donetsk Direction:
▪️ In the #Avdeyevka sector, Russian servicemen continue their operation to cover the AFU grouping in the city.
▪️ AFU again shelled residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in #Donetsk agglomeration. At least two civilians were killed.
▪️ In #Maryinka, Russian units continue fierce fighting with the enemy in the western districts.
🔹#Zaporozhye Direction (MAP):
▪️ Ukrainian forces continue to prepare for an offensive, moving equipment and personnel. A convoy of over 70 units of various equipment passed through #Dnepropetrovsk.
▪️ In the #Orekov section, where the enemy is attempting reconnaissance by combat, tank and assault units of the AFU’s 10th Army Corps are being amassed.
▪️ Ukrainian formations are continually shelling the territories liberated by the RF Armed Forces. Evacuations are underway in a number of settlements.
🔹#Kherson Direction on #SouthFront (MAP):
▪️The situation has not changed significantly. The sides are engaged in mutual artillery shelling, while the Russian side is actively employing aviation.
▪️ The AFU command is noving additional forces to the right bank of the #Dnieper, preparing for a possible crossing. At the same time, communication base stations in the vicinity of #Kherson are being turned off and mobile devices are being taken away for camouflage purposes.
🔹#Crimea (MAP):
▪️ On Saturday, Russian air defence assets intercepted two missiles launched by Ukrainian formations from a Grom-2 MLRS near the village of #Privetnoye. No casualties or damage.
▪️ On Sunday, the enemy launched 23 drones to attack the Crimean peninsula: all drones were hit or landed with the help of Signals Intelligence near #Sevastopol and #Gvardeyskoye, no damage.
🔸Political and other Events:
▪️ Another prisoner exchange has taken place. 2 lieutenant colonels and a major of the Aerospace Forces have returned to #Russia, while 45 militants have departed in the opposite direction.
▪️ Zelensky met with US businessmen and volunteers from #Utah.
▪️ Ukraine’s Culture Minister Aleksandr Tkachenko said that the Soviet coat of arms on the Motherland sculpture in Kiev will be replaced with a Ukrainian trident.
▪️ The first 3 of 16 Israeli radars by RADA Electronic Industries have arrived in #Ukraine.
▪️ Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s GUR head, K. Budanov, said in an interview with Yahoo News that he intends to continue killing Russians anywhere in the world for the victory of the AFU.

https://t.me/sitreports/8330

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 4:11 utc | 178

Posted by: karlof1 | May 8 2023 0:32 utc | 156
Biden and the Nuland clan knew perfectly well about the dangers of conducting offensive operations under Russian ISR, they just downplayed its ever-increasing capabilities to proxy and public, so as to cynically give them false hope to continue the conflict. This technique of spinning fake narratives, perfected during their journey to power, was also used to manage the myths and expectations, after the failed autumn offensives largely destroyed Second Ukrainian Armies offensive operational capabilities. A winter offensive was therefore never feasible, a fact they were all too aware of, hence the careful news management about a ‘winter lull, before fighting in spring resumed.
They will undoubtably attempt to rewrite the history books, and this argument will be deployed in a similar fashion as General Winter was blamed for German defeats, during the initial stages of Barbarossa. The end is near, so managing expectations and the marshalling of excuses is the name of the game for the key-players, not realistic war-planning.

Posted by: Milites | May 8 2023 6:06 utc | 180

181 read the thread ukraine has denied it ever happened. seems only western media is going with the tripe.
on another note , Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon I am sure that millions of Ukrainians on May 9 will watch a live broadcast from the parade in Moscow, in the hope that something will happen there.

Posted by: hankster | May 8 2023 6:08 utc | 182

The last stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to be razed to the ground in Bakhmut, and the military is already openly declaring that it makes no strategic sense to keep a piece of the city.
After the arrival of artillery or air bombs, there is practically nothing left of the house, everyone understands one thing, that when going to Bakhmut, the chances of surviving are minimal, and there is practically no real battle, the enemy simply hits with artillery, which we cannot suppress.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/17663

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 6:16 utc | 184

I have seen no discussion of the Patriot missile shooting down the Khinzal. Is this BS? Seems obvious but quite silence.
Posted by: Battenmountain | May 8 2023 3:00 utc | 175
Check up on the ghost of Kiev. I am very sure he shot it down. Snowman dusting off his nose is a great actor and good for children’s fairy tails and dressing in drag, but far distanced from fact.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 8 2023 6:18 utc | 186

Posted by: Dacian | May 7 2023 23:10 utc | 143
Nonsense there are literal mirror arrays on the moon placed there TWICE. No other major power denies that the US landed there. GTFO.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 8 2023 6:21 utc | 188

While the SloMO continues at a snail’s pace, drama queens Prigozhin and Lira provide some entertainment on the sidelines. With the Russians having dug in so extensively in especially Zaporizhzhia it doesn’t look like the Russians want to push on much further. All is not doom and gloom however as the SloMO does have some redeeming features, its at least beginning to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator for one.
https://t.me/engpravda/3513
The first video with the skull is the best, its even got some of that red at the side of the eye like the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 in the movie.

Posted by: gT | May 8 2023 6:41 utc | 190

Re downed Kinzhal:
Only in this thread this was discussed and confirmed to be a hoax several times.
Same for the last 3-5 threads.
Re:
Posted by: karlof1 | May 8 2023 0:32 utc | 156
The problem i see for any one EU-Nato member state is the internal contradictions of the EU itself.
Those contradictions run too deep, especially regarding political economy, to be solved within the EU itself.
The whole project was planned and executed on the flawed assumption that RoW wouldn’t ever be able to loosen the shackles of globalist imperialism.
The whole project was based on the flawed assumption that you can shape physical reality by will for eternity. Pure idealism.
Thanks to neoliberal financialization and deindustrialization ye olde oxident is toast, simple as that.
You can run your empire for exactly that long until those you put your boots in their necks realize: it is us who control the means of production making the lavish lifestyles of the west possible in the first place.
It all comes down in shambles now, as every house of cards built on quick sand has to, eventually.
Here i think the analysis you shared to be to optimistic.
We do not deal in reality, here in the west. Panicked animals will not act rationally. Panicked animals will lash out against everyone near. Panicked animals we poor Europeans will be.
And furious the panicked animals will have to rage and exhaust themselves one another to come to terms with reality finally.
Until then, no honest diplomacy will be possible with any of the current EU-memberstates.

Posted by: kspr | May 8 2023 6:46 utc | 192

The West continues to publish the reasons for postponing the counteroffensive, but in reality the problem is that too much is at stake for Ukraine, with negative scenarios.
We wrote that Zaluzhny pointed out at Headquarters about the problems that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would face during the counteroffensive: artillery / Black Sea Fleet / defensive structures / total enemy advantage in aviation / missiles, and now air bombs.
The Telegraph: Russia’s newest weapon – guided bombs – is changing the course of the war in Ukraine and could force Kyiv to reconsider its counteroffensive plans.
Once these bombs arrive, Ukraine will need “significant air defense” on the front lines, especially in places like river crossings or fortified Russian positions, where the UAF becomes vulnerable to air attacks. Also, points of collection of Ukrainian troops, control and logistics centers may fall under the blows.
Ukrainian officials estimate that Russian forces are dropping at least 20 glide bombs a day on the battlefield. And this has been happening for a month now. Most strikes are carried out from a distance of 25-30 miles (up to 48 kilometers) from the Ukrainian border.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/17664

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 6:51 utc | 194

Our source reports that the authorities on the night strike in Odessa and the region showed only what could be shown. Hotel and warehouse.
The object that was blazing for a long time between Dachny and Usatovo was not shown, there is “tin”. No one showed the iron either. Plus, a hit in the Nikolaev region / Chernihiv region also remains in the shadows.
There was a massive UAV raid in Kyiv, most likely the Russians are luring the air defense / radar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Or they are trying to force the Armed Forces of Ukraine to use up the entire supply of air defense missiles.
Let’s say one thing about the fact that fragments hit the apartment of a high-rise building in Kyiv. Perhaps there are hundreds of options for why this happened.
We know and everyone knows that the Kiev military administration and the Office of the President gave permission to the Armed Forces of Ukraine back in the spring of 2022 to install crews with MANPADS on the roofs of residential buildings. Sometimes equipment (missiles) fails, as was the case with Bayraktar, who got lost in Kyiv …

https://t.me/legitimniy/15291

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 6:53 utc | 196

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 6:51 utc | 196

Russia’s newest weapon is changing the course of Ukraine war – The Telegraph
“The most basic of glide bombs are modified weapons fitted with wings and navigational systems that allow for a flight path to the target to be established.
It can be as simple and crude as converting unguided weapons with the Russians mostly overhauling old Soviet FAB-500 aerial bombs.
However, some glide bombs, such as the UPAB‐1500B‐E, are specifically designed with these features included.
It appears that the winged bombs, which are cheaper and easier to produce than ballistic and cruise missiles, have become Russia’s weapon of choice as it reportedly runs out of more hi-tech precision munitions.
The specification and capabilities of each gliding weapon – modified or manufactured – differ drastically, with some reported to have operating ranges of up to 75 miles and able to hit a target within a 10-metre radius.”
Western media can’t help themselves and must say that “Russia is running out of missiles”. The funny thing is the article was published about 8 hours before a massive missile and drone raid on AFU positions.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/61329

Posted by: Down South | May 8 2023 6:54 utc | 198

gT | May 8 2023 6:41 utc | 192
The SloMO. That term conjures up the thought that so many know so little. The Hoi polloi in the west can only think in terms of yank shock and awe. Russia has settled in to destroy anything that comes at it.
So we are eyeing off China. Ah yes we can take the chinks. Five-eyes are the mightiest in the world.
I guess I am uncouth but those clowns that think anglostan will and should rule the world forever should be taken out behind the shed and shot. So much death and destruction they have caused. More death to come before this is over.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 8 2023 7:01 utc | 200