Posted by: b | May 8 2025 13:33 utc | 1
b
I am in Canada and the site is blocked

Posted by: ld | May 8 2025 13:49 utc | 4

@newbie – Add the certificate and let me know
Added the certs. Didn’t change a thing.

Posted by: b | May 8 2025 14:13 utc | 6

@newbie – Add the certificate and let me know
Added the certs. Didn’t change a thing.
Posted by: b | May 8 2025 14:13 utc | 6
See above, even yandex cache dead since may 3rd
traceroute fails (as does ping)
Novel block?

Posted by: Newbie | May 8 2025 14:17 utc | 8

Something is deciding on the fit news to allow people read.
Posted by: jpc | May 8 2025 14:26 utc | 9
As long as tass posts the updates …

Posted by: Newbie | May 8 2025 14:29 utc | 10

B.
Dein Englisch ist unglaublich fließend. Muttersprache niveau. Respekt.

Posted by: Exile | May 8 2025 14:42 utc | 12

The internet is a privately owned and operated public utility. I am a bit surprised we have not seen more traffic manipulation than we are seeing. The internet is a theatre of our civilization war but a lot of the battles are hidden so far. I don’t doubt that traffic to individual IP addresses can have their packets, routes and such corrupted in ways hard to trace.
At some point the whole private web will go down and hopefully come back up as sovereign pockets and then networks of countries…..communication is a public utility just like finance…..the US founding fathers made the pony express a socialist part of America.

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 8 2025 14:50 utc | 14

The Russian MOD site has been getting harder and harder to access for at least 3 months now.
I guess a continued DoD attack.
Rumour has it that 100 pcs and laptop all connected with a site called moonofalabama.org are spamming it at this very moment.

Posted by: Michael Droy | May 8 2025 15:17 utc | 16

Carney’s General Jennie…
https://x.com/ksfopenukraine/status/1920410021663224315
“The Canadian Forces are honoured to support Ukraine in your struggle by assisting with training and equipment. Supporting you in this fight is the responsibility of all nations,’ said General Jennie Carignan, Chief of the Defensive Staff.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 15:22 utc | 18

Lmao Russian lives are very cheap. Like wheat.
Im sorry for Ukraine tho, We have such good lifes here that we have become lazy dogs. Keep grinding them, and if you survive this ordeal, everything points to Ukraine becoming Europe’s new spear thanks to Trump, ensuring future investment of trillions of euros in its military infrastructure.

Posted by: Evil Sohel | May 8 2025 15:28 utc | 20

Posted by: Passerby | May 8 2025 15:23 utc | 19
Do a trace route / tracert and check that even using the IP I posted @8 it fails
In my case it ended in California and Amsterdam (then routed to private network IP)

Posted by: Newbie | May 8 2025 15:33 utc | 22

Posted by: karlof1 | May 8 2025 14:47 utc | 13
Do a whois AS61280 and send them a mail. Maybe it helps if you do it “pa ruski”

Posted by: Passerby | May 8 2025 15:48 utc | 24

reply to 24
Thank You for posting that ! Finally, we have a credible analysis of the endgame in Ukraine. Comparing Odessa to Sherman’s March To The Sea is excellent, if Russia can do the logistics.

Posted by: Eighthman | May 8 2025 16:30 utc | 26

I understand that in Moscow they have downgraded it to the point of closing it completely to avoid attacks by drones that use sim cards,
this is to avoid unpleasant incidents in view of the May 9th parade

Posted by: Cagliostro | May 8 2025 17:21 utc | 28

Does anyone else have problems reaching https://eng.mil.ru/en/special_operation.htm?
I can’t get eng.mil.ru or even mil.ru even though I tried through a bunch of international proxies. Anyone else has the problem or solved it?
Posted by: b | May 8 2025 13:33 utc | 1
Hallo b,
if you want the daily reports from the Ru Mod: you find those (I think they are the official reports or at least summaries) also on the following page. It is in Russian, but you can right click and translate (full side translation).
https://mskvremya.ru/article/2023/1520-poteri-ukrainy-za-vremya-spetsoperatsii

Posted by: NoName | May 8 2025 17:44 utc | 30

Posted by: Cagliostro | May 8 2025 17:21 utc | 28
Pretty smart by the Russians. The fact that the cheap Ukr drones rely on commercial cell networks to navigate is a vulnerability. Cell tower “spoofing” could also be used in some applications.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | May 8 2025 18:46 utc | 32

(I think they are the official reports or at least summaries)
Posted by: NoName | May 8 2025 17:44 utc | 30
Some purists will say it is not
but as i explained, close enough

Posted by: Newbie | May 8 2025 18:56 utc | 34

fico arrived in moscow. saw a picture with his flight path that he had to take thanks to the friendly eu nations blocking their airspaces. if the picture was real, then he had to basically fly around the whole european subcontinent.
the eu is as petty as it gets.

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 8 2025 20:07 utc | 36

15 – Well, Israel was at least in part founded by terrorist acts. Two movers and shakers in them, Begin and Shamir, went on to be prime ministers.
Strip away the girls and the gadgets, basically tinsel, and James Bond is a sort of state terrorist, with a “licence to kill”.

Posted by: Waldorf | May 8 2025 20:28 utc | 38

It would be kind if any who airily claim right click and translate could give actual instructions on how this miracle is accomplished. I can get as far as clicking on English (US) and sometimes, not with regularity, getting a single word or a headline translated. Past that all is mystery.
Some of us are not computer gods.
Posted by: oldhippie | May 8 2025 20:15 utc | 37
1) open the website
2) click “ctrl” and “a” (click first “ctrl” and stay on “ctrl” and then click on “a”) – now every word on the website should be highlighted
3) now click on the right mouse-button and a pop opens, with different choices to click, one should read “translate selection into english” or something similiar to that, I translated it from German
4) another pop up opens and the translation start in this pop up.
5) by click in this pop up on “translate entire page” or similiar (again translate form German), the translation pop up closes and the whole site is now in the language of your choice
This is how it works with my pc. If you have different system / release etc. it may differ. Furthermore, English is not my first language, so I apologize for the clumsy explanation. Maybe someone can explain it better.

Posted by: NoName | May 8 2025 20:57 utc | 40

Inspired by Moscow’s 72-hour ceasefire, Zelensky now wants to get in on the action by calling for a 30-day ceasefire *beyond* the 72 hours-?
A bid for Minsk 3.0 is a losing bid.
Ceasefires energize the neo-Nazi elements of the Kiev regime.
Efforts to pre-empt Russia’s battlefield gains are performative. The Euro-supported neo-Nazis beliee that if they just hold the line they’ll be able to fend off Russia. They don’t want to quit too soon.
Too little. Too late. Too opportunistic.
Russia cannot allow rump-Ukraine to be a threat on Russia’s doorstep.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 8 2025 22:07 utc | 42

Posted by: Cagliostro | May 8 2025 17:21 utc | 28

That sounds like the kind of thing the Ukranazis would claim in order to make them feel better about their imminent collapse and total lack of options to halt it. Limp dicked blowhards and coward terrorists to boot. What a combo.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | May 8 2025 22:16 utc | 44

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 8 2025 22:07 utc | 42
30 days really wouldn’t do much for AFU — it’s not enough time to recruit & train significant personnel nor make a difference on armor & munitions since they’re already getting everything NATO can give them.
The ulterior motive has always been “quiet time” to introduce EU troops as a trip-wire. It’s the only hope Z has left.
Russia sees right through it. Brilliant move announcing a 3-day truce, again catching EU flat-footed and exposing the clown Zelensky.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 8 2025 22:23 utc | 46

trump on his personal mouthpiece twitter alternative:

Talks with Russia/Ukraine continue. The U.S. calls for, ideally, a 30-day unconditional ceasefire. Hopefully, an acceptable ceasefire will be observed, and both Countries will be held accountable for respecting the sanctity of these direct negotiations. If the ceasefire is not respected, the U.S. and its partners will impose further sanctions. Thousands of young soldiers are dying on a weekly basis, and everybody should want it to STOP. I do, and the United States of America does, also. As President, I will stay committed to securing Peace between Russia and Ukraine, together with the Europeans, and a Lasting Peace it will be! This ceasefire must ultimately build toward a Peace Agreement. It can all be done very quickly, and I will be available on a moment’s notice if my services are needed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

i bolded the relevant parts.
he still pushed that 30day unvonditional ceasefire, as usual. only their narrative matters.
both countries will be held accountable if that imaginative ceasefire happens? is he starting to get bidens dementia? since when did the us held ukraine for anything accountable? pathetic clown.
more sanctions as usual, and highly likely only on russia and probably on the rest of the world as some secondary sanctions or tariffs or whatever this clown does next.
and lastly, “with the europeans”. does this also include the russians, as they are also “europeans”? i bet this idiot doesnt get it.
biden 2.0.

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 8 2025 22:31 utc | 48

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 8 2025 22:31 utc | 48
#######
It is important to remember that NATO is unified in fighting Russia.
This idea that the Europeans are working independently is a farce, IMO.
Trump will never leave NATO. The Senate and MIC won’t stand for it.
Trump is trying to feed NATO troops into the conflict. That, IMO, is obvious.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 22:39 utc | 50

That Project Ukraine is a *bone* DJT can’t stop worrying probably tells us something about it–Project Ukraine–or the pressure he is under.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 8 2025 22:47 utc | 52

I mean, DJT’s public statements—in the absence of any comment coming out of Moscow—represent unforced errors.
He’s continuing to dig a deeper hole for himself.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 8 2025 22:49 utc | 54

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 8 2025 22:49 utc | 54
######
True but no one cares. People don’t care about the genocide. They hardly care that Trump is a compulsive liar.
And he knows it. He is a master of distraction, as soon as he screws up something, he creates a scandal over something trivial to change the conversation.
People will care when their quality of life takes a hit.
It’s not like a lame duck President can be recalled. The Don is untouchable now, and he knows that too.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 22:58 utc | 56

It is notable that scarcely a day goes by without DJT or one of his surrogates, like Sec Bessent or JD, weighing in substantially on Project Ukraine.
Even now, in a Russian-fronted *ceasefire* DJT cannot seem to pivot to other political matters, even if only for a couple of days. It’s not as if domestic issues aren’t clamoring for his attention, right-? Two days, maybe three. Is it too much to ask-?
World leaders have descended upon Moscow in anticipation of a sterling celebration of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism in the U.S., so obviously the Kremlin will *back-burner* any statements coming from the U.S., not out of disrespect of course but simply to acknowledged that more pressing matters command attention in the Russian capitol right now.
It is distinctly odd to see DJT continue to worry this bone.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 8 2025 23:15 utc | 58

not out of disrespect of course
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 8 2025 23:15 utc | 58
It’s both a solemn occasion PLUS a statement that they’re putting the “collective west” on hold… because they can.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 8 2025 23:23 utc | 60

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 8 2025 20:07 utc | 36
“fico arrived in moscow. saw a picture with his flight path that he had to take thanks to the friendly eu nations blocking their airspaces. if the picture was real, then he had to basically fly around the whole european subcontinent”.
Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vučić had to do the same thing. It was reported in RT English news last night. Security is high, Russia has some very important guests in Moscow as you would know which was a smart idea raising the stakes against any attackers resolve to execute their plans, but at the same time I’m sure Putin and the Kremlin don’t want any of those people to be harmed.

Posted by: George | May 9 2025 0:18 utc | 62

except for VPN termination inside RF
Just an FYI, I don’t follow that site.
Posted by: BillB | May 8 2025 22:18 utc | 45
Sure? Yandex as no saved reports after may 3rd

Posted by: Newbie | May 9 2025 0:23 utc | 64

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 8 2025 20:07 utc | 36
“fico arrived in moscow. saw a picture with his flight path that he had to take thanks to the friendly eu nations blocking their airspaces. if the picture was real, then he had to basically fly around the whole european subcontinent”.
Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vučić had to do the same thing. It was reported in RT English news last night. Security is high, Russia has some very important guests in Moscow as you would know which was a smart idea raising the stakes against any attackers resolve to execute their plans, but at the same time I’m sure Putin and the Kremlin don’t want any of those people to be harmed.

Posted by: George | May 9 2025 0:33 utc | 66

Forget Ukraine, Trump the neocon in disguise is off on the newest war against China. A sheet of brown paper will be laid over the Ukraine story and off on another mindless and pointless war that will fail. Nothing learned at all since the Korean War. United States of Chaos already trying to cause problems between Pakistan and India – Who might that affect: China? https://sonar21.com/did-western-intelligence-play-a-role-in-the-latest-terrorist-attack-in-kashmir/
THE NEWEST UNDERPANTS GNOMES PLAN
1. Create fear and enemy because they might rival the US’s hegemonic power over the world. Also good for distracting the US people.
2. Off on the next pointless psychopathic war and kill thousands or even millions of people. Hopefully not many US personnel.
3. Leave the mess behind for everyone else to clean up, clear out and try to grab profits $$$ to cover the massive losses from the last war.

Posted by: George | May 9 2025 0:50 utc | 68

the content at the link is full of interesting content
https://www.unz.com/plawrence/germany-in-crisis-part-4-wanderers-and-seekers/
The article marks March 18 as the end of Germany’s democracy, it says, in effect, the will of the people will no longer be relevant.. IMO, removing voters from input to government has already happened or is in advanced stages of happening in many Westernized Nation State governments.. do what the powerful few say or else. Is the Israeli government an example of such a government?
According to my read, constitutional limits on government debt have been removed..” German leadership will force Germany’s 83 million people into a NATO war against Russia and on and on..
IMO, Putin’s slow go in Ukraine, and Germany’s recent election, has enabled the powerful few to organize the entire western NATO and European world against Russia.
very interesting article.

Posted by: snake | May 9 2025 2:03 utc | 70

Trump is isolated. No big beautiful trade deals are forthcoming (the UK doesn’t count because it’s irrelevant economically in the 21 century.)
He’s about to lose the midterms and cave on tariffs. He’s a lame duck. He has no cards and can be safely ignored by Putin now.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | May 9 2025 3:11 utc | 72

Via Hal
As of about 10:00 PM Thursday evening, 08 May 2025, there are 244 Helicopters airborne over the United States, with 111 of them being MILITARY.
This is amazingly unusual – and quite worrisome. Who is going where in these Helicopters at this hour????
Are the “Bigshots” being “bugged-out?” Taken to secure locations????
With “Victory Day” beginning in Russia today, along with its annual massive gathering of troops and dignitaries in Moscow’s Red Square, Ukraine has soured the day with word they “cannot guarantee the safety of Red Square for the Victory Day celebration.”
It is already well-known that Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federations Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said “if Red Square is attacked on May 9, there won’t be a May 10 in Kiev.”
It is also well known that NATO has said, if Russia uses a nuclear weapon against Ukraine, and radiation drifts through the air into a NATO country, they will consider that to be an “attack upon NATO” and enter the Ukraine war.
Russia has said that if NATO declares Article 5 collective self defense against Russia, the people of the West “will die so fast they won’t have time to pray.”
As this story publishes, it is 10:52 PM eastern US time and 5:53 AM, May 9, in Moscow. Just hours away from the start of Russia’s annual “Victory Day.”
Today could be . . . . . . historic.

Posted by: Merv Ritchie | May 9 2025 3:23 utc | 74

“Trump wants a 30 day unconditional ceasefire he said today.
Z said he was all for it. More sanctions if things do not work out.”
Posted by: Acco Hengst | May 9 2025 2:48 utc | 71
Just enough time for the erratic Orange man to slip in more weapons, US officers and intelligence, and be as duplicitous as he has always been with the Russians and efforts for genuine peace. Something like this is clearly why Zelensky suddenly agrees out of the blue. Ordinary Russians are scathing of the marmalade man now.

Posted by: George | May 9 2025 3:42 utc | 76

Russia apologizes for having weakened the internet to the point of completely suppressing it during the 2 days of the demonstration to prevent the ukrainians and their employers, cia and mi6 from using the internet to direct their armed drones, equipped with sim cards, towards moscow and similar cities where demonstrations are taking place for the 80th anniversary of the patriotic war,
in russia today the internet is absent

Posted by: Cagliostro | May 9 2025 4:41 utc | 78

Victory Day live on RT
https://www.rt.com/on-air/rumble/

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 9 2025 5:05 utc | 80

Posted by: Nobody Special | May 9 2025 3:20 utc | 74
RE: Stabbed in the back
<< Good synthesis in your write-up. Interestingly, the UK’s retired Col Richard Kemp does in fact see “backstabbers” hovering over Project Ukraine, and purporting to speak for all Europeans, he knows exactly who Stabbed Ukraine In The Back the hardest—-and that was Joe-! In an interview w/ the BBC, Joe Biden accused President Trump of appeasing Russia over Ukraine. “Well,” Col Kemp explains, “Biden certainly knows all about appeasement. It was the hallmark of his presidency and accounts for much of the instability in Europe today. Before Putin invaded, Biden sent the worst possible signal, seeming to suggest that a “minor incursion” might not be too big a deal.” The chatteratti in various substack threads & blog posts have fretted that the *loss* in Project Ukraine will be laid squarely @ DJT’s doorstep, but Col Kemp is vigorously engaged in shaping what seems the outline of a criminal indictment against Joe instead: “He gave Ukraine just enough to enable the AFU to defend against Russia but far from sufficient to achieve much more than prolonging the bloodbath. Biden may have treated Zelensky nicely in the White House but every plea for battle-winning weapons was met by months of procrastination and delay. That included tanks, ATACMS long-range missiles and F16 combat planes, all of which, if delivered rapidly and in sufficient quantities, could have turned the tide." Note the wishcasting in the phrase "could have turned the tide." Endemic to those who Finger The Backstabbers is the need to cling bitterly to the notion that 'things would have been different if only, if only...' Had Joe done such & such, had Joe sent blah-blah equipment: “Furthermore, every offensive weapon that was provided was grudgingly handed over with the caveat that it couldn’t be used against targets on Russian soil, a restriction only partially eased late last year.  With Putin launching assault after assault from his side of the border, that really did force Ukraine to fight with one hand tied behind its back. And it was all down to appeasement and fear in the White House in the face of never-ending bombast from the Kremlin.” So for Col Kemp, the backstabbing came in the form of negligence, doing too little and always too late. Moreover, Col Kemp accuses Joe of knee-capping NATO: “Biden’s record brought Nato to a lower point than at any time since its creation after the Second World War.  It began with his catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Not only was that one of the worst military humiliations the US has ever known, it also resoundingly demonstrated Nato’s impotence. Despite efforts by Britain to persuade other alliance members to remain in place, there was not a single taker. And that display of weakness on both sides of the Atlantic encouraged Putin to launch his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” Notice in the above statement, Col Kemp casts his fellow Brits in a heroic light, further distancing his countrymen from the Backstabbing Debacle of Biden. Still, the future looks bleak indeed: “Today Nato is staring down the barrel of yet another defeat. Despite repeated public commitments to the defence of Ukraine, it has shown its powerlessness during three years of war as Russia continues to push forward on European soil.” Wowza-! The Blame Game is on, and Col Kemp is launching his strident opening salvo: Joe Did Too Little. This is a sentiment I’ve heard voiced in Regime Media stateside since DJT won the 2024 election. The NY-er magazine has done a series of in-depth articles expressing the outrage Ukrainian citizens felt @ the slow/measured support they received militarily from Joe, so Col Kemp is boosting a storyline that is already implanted within the legacy media. In light of Joe’s demonstrable negligence over nearly 3 years—-“demonstrable” in the view of those who subscribe to Col Kemp’s narrative, which is that Joe did too little—DJT’s chaotic & peripatetic arm-flappingly constant attention to *peace talks* is going to emerge on the ‘up’ side when deciding who the actual Backstabber was.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 9 2025 6:36 utc | 82

Asked during a presser in the Oval after signing the UK economic deal whether a meeting w/ VVP will happen next week in Riyadh, DJT replied, “I don’t think so. But we’re having very good conversations. Very, very good.”
Perhaps phone-based jaw-jaw is happening somewhere… Witkoff’s last sit-down w/ VVP was on 25 April, and Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov characterized the 3-hour conversation as “constructive and very useful.”
Hmmm.
JD told Fox News that Ukraine wants a ceasefire, because the prospects on the battlefield are not in Kiev’s favor. Lavrov has cautioned, however, against a ceasefire merely to allow the AFU to re-arm and regroup: they’re losing; why would the winner agree to this-? It would be a faux ceasefire in essence.
Peskov said on 8 May that Russia wants its national interests to be taken into account “so that the root causes of the conflict are eliminated. This is very important, because it is directly related to guarantees of our security.”
Although JD says this is “Moscow asking for too much,” we see Russia playing a longer game—-by which I mean w/ a need to provide for its future security on the line—and a more thorough game.
Russia is best positioned right now to push through on its SMO objectives. Russia of course does not expect the U.S. to help because the U.S. is a belligerent—-neither does Russia ask for help, by the way.
The *asking* Russia is doing on the battlefield *is* the ‘ask’—and that amounts to an alfa-sierra-sierra kicking.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 9 2025 7:44 utc | 84

While DJT says he will ask China to help w/ Ukraine conflict resolution, Xi, speaking in Moscow, has called for the “root causes” of the conflict to be eliminated.
Perhaps DJT notices that his Diplomacy Cupboard is bare and he needs to tap some next-level expertise, which China’s foreign ministry certainly represents.
VVP “highly appreciated” Xi’s approach, according to RT, and reiterated that Russia remains open to peace talks without preconditions.
To which Xi said, that “as long as China and Russia adhere to strategic cooperation, no force can stop the two countries from achieving their own development and revitalization.”
Sounds like great vibes coming from Red Square.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 9 2025 8:02 utc | 86

So both Russia and Ukraine new recruits are being given two weeks of shit training before being sent to slaughter
Posted by: Fit Rice | May 9 2025 10:08 utc | 88
Hilarious. You’ve been consuming too much Western propaganda. To what does the “so” refer? It must mean something, no?

Posted by: acementhead | May 9 2025 10:30 utc | 88

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, Victory Day, 9th May 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-75d

Posted by: The Busker | May 9 2025 10:59 utc | 90

Ceasefire? Tell Ukraine and Trump that you’ll ceasefire for a week when Zelensky holds elections.

Posted by: Eighthman | May 9 2025 12:17 utc | 92

No DS report for 08MAY.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 9 2025 12:19 utc | 94
Another poor day for Ukraine then, with 0 sq. km recaptured.

Posted by: 5thcolumn | May 9 2025 12:23 utc | 94

NoName @ 40
Thanks for trying. Absolutely nothing happens with control a.
There is a translation widget in there somewhere because it will, randomly, translate individual words. Hiding the translation software is plain odd. If you are going to have it, show it. But then everything about the digital universe is cryptic and for the initiated only.

Posted by: oldhippie | May 9 2025 15:20 utc | 96

Turnip refers to what in the UK we call a “swede”, not bad to eat but mostly water and not something you put on weight with.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 9 2025 15:34 utc | 98

@ rk | May 9 2025 17:02 utc | 99
If narcofurher would win elections so easily then _why_ don’t they hold elections then? I eagerly await the mental acrobatics required to explain that one delusional lie, let alone the rest of fantasies you never expand on.

Posted by: boneless | May 9 2025 17:05 utc | 100