do you really need to ask that zorge?

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jan 21 2024 14:38 utc | 3

“Why is Ukraine committing these attacks on the civilian population?”
Clearly because USA, NATO and EU condones it!
What I fail to understand is that Russia does not simply irradicate them!
Ruthlessly. It has been going on for 10 years in Donetsk.
I just don’t get it.

Posted by: g wiltek | Jan 21 2024 15:08 utc | 5

Why is Ukraine commiting these attacs on civilian population?
Posted by: zorge | Jan 21 2024 14:36 utc | 2
The reason has been speculated for a long time…, as well. It’s possible that Ukraine no longer has capability of doing counter-artillery warfare
Posted by: unimperator | Jan 21 2024 14:52 utc | 4
Could be the troops slacking off. Perhaps they are given so many rounds and need to create the impression they are doing something useful. So they pick the easiest target and get it over with quickly, the better to avoid counterbattery fire. Shoot and scoot.

Posted by: Jmaas | Jan 21 2024 15:12 utc | 7

The situation in Ukraine will become ever more bizarre as their soft coup develops. My feeling is the tragedy at the Donetsk market is part and parcel of the leadership shadow play.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 21 2024 15:17 utc | 11
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Or ?
Provoke at all costs!
What THEY (The West) have always done.
If there were a hard-line general at the helm instead of Putin… different red lines would apply.
The West should be grateful that it is Putin, although he will also clearly show the red lines at some point.
THE West has always been provocative, for example shooting down Syria… everything is a provocation for actions that then give the WEST the reason.

Posted by: ossi | Jan 21 2024 15:23 utc | 9

Hey guys, propaganda runs both ways, you have no idea what the Ukies are firing at in Donetsk, both sides play the same game…..that civilians get killed……chosing to live in a conflict zone has risks.
That said, looking at some Russian strikes on the 404 rear, regular Joe’s Jane’s in the Ukraine are also dying…..lost to the fog of war.
Pray for an end to this carnage…..the human toll alone is sickening.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 21 2024 15:31 utc | 11

“Why is Ukraine commiting these attacs on civilian population?
Posted by: zorge | Jan 21 2024 14:36 utc | 2”
They can’t get close enough to any military or strategic targets without being interdicted so they strike unprotected civilian areas. This tactic provides no real value to the Ukraine side of the equation and only further degrades their reputation.

Posted by: jr | Jan 21 2024 15:34 utc | 13

personally, from a total uninformed position, i would say the greatest mistake was to incorporate the new regions into russia at that point.
and i mean this in purely military view:
if they wanted to retaliate against nato targets, they should have simply supplied, just as nato, weapons, “not mercenraies but civilians that we cannot tell to not go there”, and intel and then launch from “donetsk” as “revenge” against say that polish or lithuanian military fields where nato weapons are beeing accumulated.
in hindsight, it is clear that “the ukraine” *cough nato cough* was/is not deterred about attacking those now russian territories.
on the other hand, if they would have done that, then nato would further escalate sooner with more ballistic missiles and so on.
it is absolutely clear now that we are “slowly” heading into another major war in central europe, because one side is utterly desperate. and its not the evil dastardly russians that want to steal our socks and washingmachines.
nato wants its war, and it will get its war. im am absolutely convinced. at this point it does not matter if russia strikes first or not, the outcome will be the same for europe thanks to the absolute negligence of our eu “governments” and vassal behaviour that is on open display for everyone with a working brain.
i am now going to propose to my family to leave germany for good.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jan 21 2024 15:45 utc | 15

Everyone knows that the Ukraine is run by fadcists.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 21 2024 15:42 utc | 17
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Yes, but Zelinsky’s time is up. Behind the curtain levers are being pulled to replace him. There is bound to be some collateral damage.

Posted by: too scents | Jan 21 2024 15:49 utc | 17

Krynky has effectively fallen and AFU remnants kicked out of the village. For the duration of 4 months, 4 elite marine brigades of AFU were completely defeated, and significant concentrations of fire support on the opposite bank of the river.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 21 2024 15:53 utc | 19

Regarding adviika and the shelling of donetsk
Man, you guys just never get it. Adviika where it is is good for russia as they can just keep bombing the same area to increase Ukrainian casualties. If it’s just bombs and shells russia gets a war winning attrition ratio.
Those dead civilians are acceptable losses for the Russians to keep a bead on natos gun men for killing.
Attrition doesn’t care where it takes place, ukraine is bombing donetsk out of desperation because the military losses are making it crazy.
Does everyone get it now?!?!?

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jan 21 2024 15:54 utc | 21

More on Krynky.
According to Military Summary, the soldiers themselves made the decision to withdraw to the southern shore of Dnieper. Since it is heavily freezing, the narrow river was completely frozen enabled to do it. Another reason is there is no more cover in Krynky, everything is basically destroyed.
The AFU drone operators, who were force deployed to the immediate northern bank of the river were discovered and wiped out by artillery and drone strikes, thus losing valuable assets. RUAF will soon be able to deploy bulk of those forces in Krynky to Rabotyne, which can lead to the collapse of that front as well. After that they can deploy forces from Rabotyne-Verbove to more eastern direction to Urozhaine/Staramayorsk/Novomikhalovka, etc.
So it’s a chain-reaction event that will only snowball into more defeats. Zugzwang, regardless of from where they redeploy reserves from will always lead to a gap forming in one place.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 21 2024 16:13 utc | 23

ossi 12: Actually they can’t achieve much on the battlefield, so they try to expand the war by provoking counterattacks. It’s always been that way, it’s the trademark of the Anglo-Saxons. Hitler presented a whole list in his declaration of war on the USA. But if they can’t win without expanding the war, how can they win against an enemy like Russia, which cannot be provoked?

Posted by: Oliver Krug | Jan 21 2024 16:20 utc | 25

And where ?
So where would it be safe?
Posted by: ossi | Jan 21 2024 15:51 utc | 23
it has nothing to do with “safety” at this point, every country on this planet has issues, some more some less. somewhere in asia would be my honest opinion of where to go.
it has everything to do with the future in the eu. i am NOT going to give my children to this “democratic” monster that is openly supporting 2 ethnic cleansings/genocides (russian/slavic people, palestinensian people).
no more tax money spent in this economy here.
no future children/grandchildren for these governments that openly side with nazism.
no rist of my children beein conscripted to serve for these eu oligarchs and their fascist views.
von der leien kann mich kreuzweise.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jan 21 2024 16:21 utc | 27

Gepostet von: English Outsider | 21. Januar 2024 16:13 UTC | 29
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I recommend this site, where you can read hours of analysis from a German who lives in Petersburg and is now so well known in Russia that the Foreign Minister’s spokeswoman meets with him…HE himself goes live to the front to verify statements.
Chrome browser will translate it for you
Link :
https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/category/aktuelles/

Posted by: ossi | Jan 21 2024 16:28 utc | 29

TIf there were a hard-line general at the helm instead of Putin… different red lines would apply.
Posted by: ossi | Jan 21 2024 15:23 utc | 12

Thankfully in Russia the Duma has war powers and Putin and the generals are given rules of engagement to follow. The only countries where the head of state has unlimited war powers are North Korea and the USA.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 21 2024 16:41 utc | 31

Re the the empires strikes against civilians and the behind the lines attacks within Russia.
In Ukraine, the strikes against civilian targets occur each time a nato army has been destroyed and ammo stocks are low. Strikes into civlian areas don’t have to dead on so each shell does damage. So many in the US just want to kill Russians regardless of who they are. From the ex cia Director in the Charlie Rose interview to Lindsay Graham and many others. They speak about it publicly. They just want to kill Russians.
And then there is the UK ‘strategy’. That clown show believes that the behind the lines attacks within Russia as well as the likes of the strikes on Belgarod will cause enough dissent within Russia that Putin will be ousted. On top of that, UK is desperate to pull the US back into the war against Russia, so the attacks will no doubt have the intention of trying to provoke Russia into widening the war.
But overall, the two main reasons for the attacks on civilians is the US motto “Kill Russians”, and the UK belief that they can cause enough dissent that Putin will be ousted.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 21 2024 16:44 utc | 33

Posted by: ossi | Jan 21 2024 15:23 utc | 12
Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 21 2024 16:41 utc | 36
As a defense for the option of having an actual hard-liner in power – the west has already used all of its tricks in the propaganda bag of accusing (already) Russia having done what they haven’t done (but Ukraine has). In this case, since those are already exhausted, there would be nothing to lose going full Gaza mode on Kiev, or perhaps rather Lwow. Of course, for reasons they will not, and it’s respectable and probably for the better, anyway.
Albeit, no one would probably mind Lwow being burnt to the ground, since it will obviously be a pilgrimage for all eastern European nazi’s.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 21 2024 16:46 utc | 35

too scents | Jan 21 2024 15:49 utc | 21
Zelensky has never been anything more than the front man. If he is replaced, surely, it will be by the fascists with a fascist.
pyrrhus | Jan 21 2024 16:40 utc | 35
Argentina has only recentle emeged from military dictatorship and is now headed by a man who supported the military then and is veey likely to employ it, internally, now.
This is a country where dissidents disappear, detainees are dropped into the antarctic waters by helicopter and they do so with relative impunity.
As to Chile it has recently begun to emerge from its own dictatorship period during which dissidents of all kinds and workers defending their living standards were murdered at will. The current “communist’ President hardly dares to smile at Venezuelans, he certainly dare not offend the US Ambassador.
As to Peru and Uruguay or Brazil: all teeter on the brink of fascism. All have governments serving at the pleasure of the Military which is trained, indoctrinated, and commanded by the US.
If you feel comfortable there, good luck, but I would imagine that posting to a blog like this one could be extremely hazardous when the shit gets within light years of the fan.

Posted by: bevin | Jan 21 2024 16:54 utc | 37

What I fail to understand is that Russia does not simply irradicate them!
Ruthlessly. It has been going on for 10 years in Donetsk.
I just don’t get it.
Posted by: g wiltek | Jan 21 2024 15:08 utc | 7
I also think they should have gone after Avdiivka right away to stop it, but it is a heavily fortified area that is proving very hard to conquer. But you would think they could have instead cut off the supply routes to it.
Posted by: Simon | Jan 21 2024 15:47 utc | 20
Clearly neither of you have any concept of military operations from the tactical level on up.
10 years: Yes, the Ukronazis have been committing horrendous war crimes since they took power as western proxies. They have been trying to provoke the war that we now have- but which Russia, still recovering from 1991, was not in good condition to fight. Russia has been building up for a SUCCESSFUL war for at least fifteen years, because it’s obvious to anyone with two neurons to rub together that the west is committed to the ultimate destruction and pillage of Russia, Soviet or not. They put it off as long as they could, and acted only when they had to to prevent a Ukronazi invasion of the Donbass Republics.
Yes, the civilians of Donbass continue to take casualties from Ukie war crimes, but they are nothing like the casualties that would have resulted from a nazi invasion of Donbass and the seizure of more cities, let alone the war that would have to follow to expell the nazis.
Russia has worked diligently since Putin came to power to restore the Russian military, to build diplomatic and economic relationships with other nations, to make the Russian economy sanction-resistant, and to create very tight alliances with China, Iran, and DPRK. These were only in their infancy ten years ago, Russia was much more vulnerable. The Ukie invasion of Donbass was scheduled because the Russians weren’t taking the bait, and the west could see that soon Russia would be too strong to defeat. The war aims of the US were not, in the current cycle, to defeat Russia, but to weaken Russia and slow its development down, while enriching its own MIC, destroying the last vestiges of European sovereignty, and transferring German and other European technology and manufacturing capacity to the US. Creating a captive market for American-produced goods is also a goal.
The US is very successful in its war aims so far, but the Russians, Chinese, etc have planned for this, and are taking advantage of it to break the west loose from much of Africa and the ME. In responding to this, the US is completely overextended, its weakness exposed, and even the currently successful European strategy of the US is endangered.

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 21 2024 17:06 utc | 39

Why is Ukraine commiting these attacs on civilian population?
Posted by: zorge | Jan 21 2024 14:36 utc | 2

Why did the grandfathers of the people doing this slaughter more than a million Poles, Jews, Russians and Belorussians?
Following from that, why were those grandfathers allowed to have kids and grandkids? Khrushchev has a lot to answer for here.
But it isn’t even Ukraine doing it a lot of the time. If it’s NATO PGMs, often it is actual NATO personnel carrying out the strikes. And they are doing it for the same reasons Israel is mass murdering Palestinians, and US soldiers were killing civilians in Iraq and many other places just for fun.
First, because they are psychopaths
Second, because they don’t fear any consequences for themselves.
But this isn’t defenseless Iraqis being slaughtered, it is the citizens of the largest nuclear power in the world.
I know I am a broken record on the issue, but this can all be stopped in a day.
If it’s Ukraine doing it, you start taking out the Ukrainian elites one by one until they stop. They will stop.
And if it’s NATO doing it, you start taking out Western elites. Not even the politicians — go directly after the billionaires, and you don’t even have to strike the US mainland, you can catch them slipping while they’re on their private islands in the Caribbean or while their private planes are over international waters. Then it will stop very quickly because nobody wants to escalate to the point of total annihilation.
As long as the people responsible for this do not fear for their lives, it will continue.
But in order for those people to start fearing for their own lives Putin has to go, because his loyalties are with the elites, not with the regular people (let’s never forget the decades in which the dream of Russian elites was to merge with the Western elites; Putin epitomizes that era, and people don’t change at age 70). The problem is him being replaced in the middle of the war will be hugely destabilizing on its own…

Posted by: shаdοwbanned | Jan 21 2024 17:08 utc | 41

Thankfully in Russia the Duma has war powers and Putin and the generals are given rules of engagement to follow. The only countries where the head of state has unlimited war powers are North Korea and the USA.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 21 2024 16:41 utc | 36

This is ridiculous nonsense.
If missiles are flying towards Moscow, will the Duma gather to allow Putin to press the red button in response? They will have all of five to ten minutes to do so.

Posted by: shаdοwbanned | Jan 21 2024 17:09 utc | 43

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 21 2024 16:46 utc | 40
Among the political objectives of the Russian SMO is to liberate the majority Russian speaking oblasts that want to be free from Ukraine.
How does destroying cities achieve the objective of liberating Russian speaking Ukrainians?
It’s been long known that the theory of “terror bombing” tends to galvanize a population against the attacker and makes them want to fight on instead of terrorizing them into surrender.
I believe the other objectives are the destruction of the Ukraine military, the de-nazification of Ukraine and forcing NATO into a new security agreement that doesn’t include Ukraine in NATO.
None of these objectives can be achieved by indiscriminent destruction of cities or civilian infastructure.
Remember the logic of the Americans in Vietman “we had to destroy the Hamlet in order to save it” … Do you really think the Russians should step on that rake?

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 21 2024 17:16 utc | 45

👆 🥱

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Jan 21 2024 17:16 utc | 47

This is ridiculous nonsense.
If missiles are flying towards Moscow, will the Duma gather to allow Putin to press the red button in response? They will have all of five to ten minutes to do so.
Posted by: shаdοwbanned | Jan 21 2024 17:09 utc | 48
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10 mins ??
Incorrect !
Putin made it clear several times that this is automated in Russia!!
If the KAI or whatever other program (PC) it may be?
If Russia is determined to be under attack, the counterattack will occur automatically…
It doesn’t come from me but from a speech by Putin on the West’s nuclear strategy and the difference between it and Russia
In any case, the Duma would be excluded…it would only be included if Russia wanted to attack ONE-SIDED!

Posted by: ossi | Jan 21 2024 17:19 utc | 49

Well, folks, I’ve taken to scrolling up from the bottom, so I don’t have to bother reading shadowbanned’s post except the signature. There are a few others I skip as well. I’m an old man, I don’t have time for the same repetitive nonsense over and over again.
It might be helpful if b upgraded the site mechanics to at least allow down-voting. Not to block posts, but perhaps to use something like Rumble’s approach of ‘hiding’ the post, but leaving a notification that it’s there and you can read it if you click.
I fully support shadowbanned’s right to troll, but I would appreciate better tools to ignore him with.

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 21 2024 17:35 utc | 51

Is the bombing of civilians in Donetck a sign that Ukraine is still very strong or a a sign of weakness?
Or is it a threat coming directly form The collective West? A sign that Russians are considered to be sub humans by USA and EU nations.

Posted by: zorge | Jan 21 2024 17:35 utc | 53

“Since 1945 the US elites attempts to “get their money back”…..”
Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Jan 21 2024 17:35 utc | 57
Your anti- Empire passion, although well justified , tends for you to way over simplify complex geopolitical events.
The US Elites’ (actually controlled by the City) prime purpose – ‘world domination’ has nothing to do with “getting their money back”; they can simply print more.
What they Elites want is power. Power to repress the Serfs, power to control resources, power to ethnically cleanse Serfs they don’t want.
It has nothing to do with ‘money’.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 21 2024 17:45 utc | 55

Russian speaking Ukrainians?
Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 21 2024 17:16 utc | 50
Russia is not concerned about Russian speaking Ukrainians. Perhaps they will end up as a rump state but time will tell what becomes of them. At the moment they are just cannon fodder being fed into the slaughter.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 21 2024 17:45 utc | 57

https://t.me/boriskarpovblog/18544
Regarding the French officers killed in Kharkov: according to a source at the French general staff, the French Ministry of Defense has given very strict instructions for a complete blackout, saying that, possibly, perhaps, mercenaries but in no case military and especially not officers.
And to add “anyway it will come out, we will not be able to muzzle widows and orphans for a long time”.
According to one of our correspondents in France, another source, a French officer at NATO, confirmed half-heartedly that it was indeed French soldiers and not mercenaries in the sense that we understand it. “Officially, nothing happened, but at the sound of his voice… it’s serious. ”
It seems that the list is not yet fully established but the dissemination of identities is only a matter of time.

Posted by: Naive | Jan 21 2024 17:54 utc | 59

Posted by: the pessimist | Jan 21 2024 17:45 utc | 61
Krasnogorovka is actually W of Donetsk, and even further away WSW of Avdeevka. It would be well within conventional artillery, so it seems that the Avdeevka direction itself is neutralized from being able to hit Donetsk.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 21 2024 17:57 utc | 61

unimperator | Jan 21 2024 17:57 utc | 66
I’m sure google maps used to have a ruler thingo for mesuring strait line distances but cannot find it now. Just looking at the scale, the distance looks to be around 20k the edge of donetsk and 25k to the center.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 21 2024 18:16 utc | 63

go directly after the billionaires, and you don’t even have to strike the US mainland, you can catch them slipping while they’re on their private islands in the Caribbean or while their private planes are over international waters. Then it will stop very quickly because nobody wants to escalate to the point of total annihilation.
Posted by: shаdοwbanned | Jan 21 2024 17:08 utc | 46
Everything, every time, you post anything, it serves to convince me that you are a NATO troll, and not a smart one at that. What you advocate here under the pretence of supporting Russia, is a recipe for international terrorism, which would alienate the African, Asian and South American countries which are poised to become part of the BRICS axis, and give retroactive justification all previous such murderous illegalities from the US/NATO. Either up your game or get lost.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 21 2024 18:21 utc | 65

Unmarked Ukrainian soldier’s grave in the forest, being buried with a tractor.
The reason is they will be listed as MIA, to prevent families from receiving payments and to enable commanders to ‘withhold’ their salaries.
https://t.me/otryadkovpaka/34190

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 21 2024 18:32 utc | 67

Posted by: ossi | Jan 21 2024 16:28 utc | 34
Thanks very much. I’ve not read it for a long time and obviously should have done.
I got Germany wrong at the start of the SMO. That is because I have a circle of connections and acquaintances there and all, Green or Die Linke or SPD – I don’t know any CDU/CSU voters – were quite horrified by the Russian invasion and were anti-Russian, often vehemently so.
Should have kept my eyes open more. Kujat’s always been a sceptic and very publicly so. Others raised doubts. But even the more sceptical German politicians and public figures seemed to dodge the issue. The speeches I heard from Wagenknecht and Weidel – only a few admittedly – failed on the main issue.
Neither of them, nor any other German politician I heard, stated plainly that the Russian invasion was a pre-emptive attack to deal with the threat of the Kiev forces getting into the Donbass. Neither explained what the Donbass had been going through for the past eight years. Unless that’s understood any assessment of the reasons for the SMO is valueless. And both seemed to go along with the general silence from German politicians about the North Stream sabotage.
So not impressed overall. And the lack of public protest against the legal action against German citizens who spoke out was also unimpressive. Add to that my settled belief that the Germans as a whole trust their politicians far too much and there was, for me, a decided “back to the ’30’s feel” about the way German politics was going.
Back to the ’30’s indeed, for such as Scholz or Merz or Baerbock. With the slight difference that this time round we in the UK also intend to be part of the revived Festung Europa:-
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-munich-security-conference
So I wrote scathingly on English web sites about Scholz’s mini-Barbarossa turning into Scholz’s DIY Morgenthau plan. With us Brits this time round part of the team and kicking up a hell of a racket into the bargain.
Got it wrong. There’s more sense in Germany about this disastrous venture than I see in England. More prepared to speak out. Not enough by the looks of it, as our respective politicians steer us determinedly towards the lunatic Cold War II that’ll follow on from the Ukrainian defeat, but more than I had known of.
On the article in question, one does not expect a magazine to be like an academic publication but they could provide many more references and links to sources. A lot of commentators, including our own invaluable Mercouris, are very weak on that. “b” always links and it’d be nice if others did.

Posted by: English Outsider | Jan 21 2024 18:38 utc | 69

“Ukraine commits atrocities against civilians because that is the US modus operandi. They believe that killing civilians will make the remaining citizens rise up and overthrow their leaders and allow the US to pick them.
It worked in Nicaragua, for a while.”
Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 21 2024 18:07 utc | 67
Quite right, it is the “US operandi to commit atrocities” against civilians.
The US MO resembles those of the Aztecs. They committed atrocities (human sacrifice, slavery, torture) to their own ‘allied tribes(who also paid tribute to the Aztecs) as well as their enemies.
Cortez small band of Conquistadors should never been able to beat the numerous Aztecs on their home turf. However, the neighbouring tribes hated the Aztecs for their historical exploitation and they-gladly and enthusiastically- allied with the Spanish. Without those tribes allying themselves with Cortez we would never have heard about him in the history books. (1)
Cortes today is Putin/Russia with the ROW (excluding the die hard West: EU, Canada, Australia, US, UK) joining against their oppressor.
1. The Aztecs ruled from 1300-1521; the US rules from 1800-2024(?).

Posted by: canuck | Jan 21 2024 18:41 utc | 71

s—o-b—– is an “agent-provocateur”. He wants that Putin will do exactly what nato and the ukronazis want: to be the first to use a nuclear weapon.
I absolutely do not understand why he is allowed to publish here his attacks against Russia.

Posted by: Naive | Jan 21 2024 18:54 utc | 73

Zelensky is trying to sack Zaluzhny. Earlier reports claimed that Zaluzhny would be held personally responsible in the case of losing Avdeevka.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 21 2024 18:57 utc | 75

“Ukraine is bombing donetsk out of desperation because the military losses are making it crazy.”
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jan 21 2024 15:54 utc | 26
You hit the nail on its proverbial head with that one.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 21 2024 18:59 utc | 77

…. and thank you.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 21 2024 18:59 utc | 79

HB_Norica | Jan 21 2024 18:59 utc | 76
The level of ignorance by some here is astounding. Ukraine is a synthetic state. A Frankenstein, a Chimera. It was put together by Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev. Lenin jioned Ukraine to a section of Russia to make it a viable SSR. Stalin the added Galicia and sections of Romania, Hungary and I think another state. Khrushchev the Ukrainian then added Russian Crimea.
Most Ukrainians are Russian speakers. Very few speak in their original dialects. Galicians speak in their dialect which has been made the Ukraine official language even though none other than the Galician could speak it. I assume the Hungarians and Romanians also use their languages but speak Russian as a second language. Ukrainians are the Rus people that spent some centuries under polish rule and influence so they could be called the Polish Rus. Galicians are Rus people that came under Austrian Rule and German influence and they are called Nazi’s. And then there are the Russians which Russia is protecting.
Referring to the Russians simply as Ukrainian Russian speaker is nothing more than propagating wesztern propaganda. Ethnic Russians is the accurate term.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 21 2024 19:16 utc | 81

Why is Ukraine commiting these attacs on civilian population?
Posted by: zorge | Jan 21 2024 14:36 utc | 2
Each time Russia has a winning strategy, Ukraine does something outrageous. This seems to be in the hope that this will provoke Russia to stop doing what it’s doing and strike back instead. So far, the gambit does not seem to work.

Posted by: Passerby | Jan 21 2024 19:17 utc | 83

In fact, mobilization in Ukraine has failed – even despite roadblocks, the use of administrative resources and a general tightening of recruitment measures. Even the fact that law enforcement and judicial authorities turn a blind eye to the lawlessness of military commissars did not help.
That is why we observed Zelensky’s hysterical statements in Davos. And we remind you that he said that now in Ukraine “you can’t just breathe the air.” “We are at war. And that’s why you work or fight. And that’s a fact,” Zelensky said, adding that Ukraine will never have enough mobilized people.
However, the authorities still have a chance to “push through” the scandalous bill on mobilization, which, even after changes and amendments are made, will remain anti-people.
After all, the “Electronic account of conscripts, conscripts, and reservists” has already been “pushed through,” and this is a rather exciting innovation that will start working in the second quarter of 2024.
Thus, the following information will be entered into the Register of Conscripts and stored in its database:
▪️personal data of conscripts, military personnel and reservists;
▪️service data of conscripts, military personnel and reservists;
▪️data on the need to staff the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations formed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, except for information constituting a state secret.
At the same time, it is also proposed to include the following as personal data of conscripts, conscripts and reservists:
▪️communication numbers and email addresses;
▪️date and number, summary of the protocol and/or resolution regarding the person in the case of an administrative offense, provided for in Articles 210, 210-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses;
▪️information about the status of a war veteran;
▪️information on knowledge of foreign languages;
▪️information about permits for the right to own and use weapons;
▪️information about completing educational courses and advanced training courses;
▪️information about documents giving a citizen of Ukraine the right to leave Ukraine and enter Ukraine;
▪️information on documents issued for traveling abroad for permanent residence, or leaving for permanent residence abroad, or returning to Ukraine;
▪️information about a driver’s license for the right to drive vehicles;
▪️information on decisions subject to enforcement – executive documents;
▪️information about missing persons, etc.
In general, “Big Brother is watching you” is no longer a dystopia, but the reality of Ukraine today, especially when the authorities, realizing the failure of the mobilization processes in the country, do not give up trying to drag as many people to the front as possible.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/21266

Posted by: Down South | Jan 21 2024 19:23 utc | 85

Very interesting take.
And not without merit!
Militarily the Red Army won the World War. Politically the Nazis won. No sooner had the fighting stopped than the campaign against Bolshevism recommenced in top gear in the United States.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 21 2024 15:42 utc | 14

Posted by: jpc | Jan 21 2024 19:26 utc | 87

Zelensky comments on the case of mobilization as it suits him, placing emphasis in a way that is convenient, while shifting responsibility to the people, pitting people against each other.
He says that people are needed to replace those who are at zero and those who have been fighting for a long time (there are not many of them left, maybe 10%).
Let’s break down the thesis right away:
1. The authorities should have immediately saved manpower and not wasted it in meat assaults, as people’s deputy from SN Bezuglaya said.
2. It was necessary to train soldiers longer, more, and better. Then there would be fewer losses. There would be no need for a new mobilization.
3. It was necessary not to steal from the diagrams, but to provide the soldiers with better personal safety equipment. And so the people collected donations, and the decision-makers stole, the soldiers went “barefoot.”
4. It was necessary to provide all the wounded with good medical treatment, recovery and maintenance. Do not write them off on the balance sheet of a military unit with a salary of 2000 hryvnia.
5. It was necessary to treat the relatives of the dead/wounded/missing as their “families.” By providing them all at once. Then everyone would go to war, knowing that their families would be taken care of, and not like now, they are tossed around from office to office and forgotten.
6. We should have immediately mobilized hard workers in the rear for production facilities for the army, and not dreamed that the West would help us and give us everything. After a year and a half and a critical situation, Ze began to talk about it. It’s probably too late… but we’ll see. Perhaps this is just another PR for Bankova.
This is just a small part where Zelensky’s government made strategic mistakes. Now Ze and Ermak want to shift responsibility onto people. Although the blame is entirely on them!
Think!

https://t.me/legitimniy/17094

Posted by: Down South | Jan 21 2024 19:29 utc | 89

Paul from Norway | Jan 21 2024 19:27 utc | 88
Big bang theory coming to a screen near you in the near future… rit and European elites desperate and doubling down, US elite the same but on a global scale.
Now I just sit back watching the forest instead of studying the trees as the forest fire is about to start.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 21 2024 19:33 utc | 91

Our source in the OP said that a large opposition has formed against Zelensky from the elites who are interested in weakening his power. The front included oligarchs, businessmen and the majority of political leaders who believe that Zelensky should leave after 01/31/24.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/21270

Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President will continue to purge the opposition and the media controlled by them. Bankova continues to prepare for a power vacuum, which is why attacks on investigative journalists began.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/21277

Our source reports that Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny and his entire team will be removed at the moment when Zelensky and Ermak realize that they will not see new Western loans, which means it’s time to turn on the “total dictatorship” regime, otherwise they will lose everything.
They will also begin to harshly purge all Sorosites, anti-corruption officials, opponents and the opposition.
The bickering may intensify to such a force that it will tear the country apart from the inside, and all this is to blame for the political egoism and delusions of grandeur of Zelensky, who puts his own interests above national ones.

https://t.me/legitimniy/17100

Everyone began to write that the West was preparing to replace Zelensky with “two” players at once.
Zaluzhny and Razumkov or Zaluzhny and Ermak appear.
We were the first to get inside information about Razumkov and Zaluzhny. We know that they even had a meeting.
Zaluzhny and Ermak are not a realistic union, since they are competitors and this will only strengthen the split in the country, overwhelming it with intrigues and squabbles.
We would add that Zaluzhny + Razumkov + Klitschko + oligarchs Akhmetov + Fiala + Pinchuk. Here is a real behind-the-scenes alliance of the future, where some of the nishtyaks will be received by Fiala and his “circle of Soros” with Pritula.

https://t.me/legitimniy/17101

Posted by: Down South | Jan 21 2024 19:34 utc | 93

@65 James o donnell
“What you advocate here under the pretence of supporting Russia, is a recipe for international terrorism”
Yes you are both correct. It is interesting to note both Iran and Israel both bombed enemy commanders in homes outside their countries.
So yes targeted executions anywhere is now real. Who knows who watches you go home at night?
As for assainating some cabal of billionaires, well it is fair to say that yes it’s possible but so far hasn’t really stopped it. Tactically a failure, but strategically might help if they pull back afterwards.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jan 21 2024 19:37 utc | 95

Mobilization in Finland, Poland and preperation in Sweeden. Dutch and German officers are promoting mobilization.

Posted by: Paul from Norway | Jan 21 2024 19:27 utc | 88
War will redirect peoples anger from their leadership to Russia

While farmer protests and discussions about banning the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Germany continue unabated, another hotbed of social tension in the country is quietly brewing.
This time, one of the most sensitive categories of Germans is under threat – industrial workers. The country’s industry, about 30% of GDP, contracted by 2% in 2023, according to a report by Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).
An indicator of these processes is the reduction of enterprises and jobs. The Meyer Burger plans to close a solar panel plant in Freiberg. 500 employees will lose their jobs. Other German solar component makers also complain about lower prices from Chinese rivals and point to more favorable conditions in the United States. Last December, we reported on the closure of the Vallourec pipe plant in Düsseldorf, with the loss of jobs of 2.5 thousand Germans.
According to the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), in August 2023, 43% of all industrial companies with more than 500 employees were considering moving their production abroad .
The reason for this is primarily the energy and climate policy promoted by the ruling coalition (Traffic Light). As a result, the harmful energy transition (to “green” sources of electricity) is driving industrial enterprises out of the country.
⭐️ The question of completely curtailing production is not on the table, but Germany, following the lead of transnational corporations, is already losing its leading position in the EU. This is reflected in the closure of enterprises and the dismissal of workers. It is enough to look at how agriculturalists, of whom there are about 940 thousand, have been preventing Scholz and his friends from the “traffic light” from sleeping peacefully for more than a week to understand what the angry 7.4 million industrialists will be capable of if the policy in the interests of international capital continues.

https://t.me/two_majors/17829

Posted by: Down South | Jan 21 2024 19:40 utc | 97

Posted by: Urban Fox | Jan 21 2024 19:43 utc | 98 “On another subject. Has anyone got any insight on the rumours of the Ukr army chief getting sacked & replaced by that ball-headed, droog Budanov?”
As with many things in this war of the worlds, it is a wait and watch situation. Possibly something in it, possibly ‘internet rumor’.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 21 2024 19:50 utc | 99