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Egypt planned to covertly send 40,000 rockets to Russia: report
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Africa North
Egypt planned to covertly send 40,000 rockets to Russia: report
[FoxNews] Russia has already turned to Iran and North Korea to replenish its supply of weapons amid the war in Ukraine.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It would seem that el-Sisi has a longer memory than Biden. From July 3, 2014:

How Obama Sided with the Muslim Brotherhood


Anti-Morsi protesters at Tahrir Square in Cairo, July 3, 2014. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/11/2023 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  So Sisi is going to do business with the Moslem Brotherhood's Patron because he's angry about how the US also supported the Moslem Brotherhood.

He's going to get back at the US by making Shadow President Obama happy.

The amount of kayfabe on this planet is staggering.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/11/2023 12:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Putin might not be terribly concerned about Iranian sponsored terrorism, as long as it's not directed at Russia. But Obama is flat out in favor of it to the point of having shipped pallets of cash to the Mad Mullahs. Yes, there are inconsistencies in Obama's policies such as, why is he antagonistic against Russia when he gives Iran, Russia's ally, a pass. Hard to understand that one.

But sending 40,000 rockets to Russia is an indication that el-Sisi knows who his friends are and who is not his friend.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/11/2023 13:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Surprising to me that Egypt manufactures rockets. But another possibility is that el-Sisi is just looking to do a business deal.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/11/2023 13:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, there are inconsistencies in Obama's policies such as, why is he antagonistic against Russia when he gives Iran, Russia's ally, a pass. Hard to understand that one.

Or, he's a lying two faced a_____e.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/11/2023 14:09 Comments || Top||

#6  "...Nothing personal. Just business."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/11/2023 16:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Moslem Brotherhood's Patron

Eh? The Mad Mullahs are Shiite competitors of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, it seems to me.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/11/2023 21:18 Comments || Top||


Britain
British TV people are upset that the truth got out into the public plain
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

"We are in talks with Twitter to resolve this issue as soon as possible. The BBC has always been and remains independent. We are funded by the British public through a license fee," the broadcaster said in a comment to CNN.

When Facebook put the inscription "the publication is funded by the state of Russia" for RT, it was normal. And the BBC is kind of independent, just like Deutsche Welle.
Deutsche Welle is about as independent as the Egyptian government’s Al Ahram, as far as I can tell.
It's funny ...

By the way, funding the BBC from a license fee just directly means that this is state funding, since only the state can take a license fee - this is a type of tax. If the "license fee" were voluntary, then we could talk about public funding.

And so this is a state tax of 159 pounds per year from each owner of a television receiver, which directly goes entirely to finance the BBC. The TV channel receives from citizens a year at the level of 3.7-3.8 billion pounds (about 4.5 dollars) , which is approximately 75% of the budget, the rest (but this is less than 25%) is obtained mainly by advertising.

Since last year, negotiations have been underway to abolish this fee from 2028 and change the funding scheme. The company is negotiating with the UK GOVERNMENT. And at the same time brazenly claim that they live on private donations?

Posted by: badanov || 04/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...NPR is having kittens for the same reason.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/11/2023 6:32 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
WSJ Reporter still held in Lefortovo Prison- USA demanding release
[MSN] The State Department on Monday officially determined that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been "wrongfully detained" by Russia; allowing the US greater authority to pressure the Kremlin to free the journalist.
Because the Kremlin will definitely give extra weight to a US State Department Determination about anything. Guys, may I suggest y’all never try to become professional poker players?
The move means the State Department's Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs will take over Gershkovich's case and will have greater ability to monitor intelligence and push for regular consular access. ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service claimed it caught the reporter "red-handed" but has not released any evidence to justify his arrest. The Biden administration called the spy accusation "ridiculous" and noted that the journalist never worked for the US government.

Gershkovich — who is accredited by Russia’s Foreign Ministry to work as a journalist there — is behind bars at Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo jail, a pretrial detention center run by the Federal Security Service. He is reportedly in good health and grateful for the outpouring of support from the US and countries across the world, according to Journal lawyers representing him.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/11/2023 00:36 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'The Biden administration called the spy accusation "ridiculous" and noted that the journalist never worked for the US government.'

Putin finally did the world a favor...

Posted by: Clem Pholuque8480 || 04/11/2023 4:54 Comments || Top||

#2  When more than 50% of people believe the media is full of lies, sympathy for "journalists" is thin on the ground.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/11/2023 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Tyrannical regimes will oftentimes act tyrannically.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2023 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Gershkovich is now a bargaining chip. The question is: What bargaining chips does Washington have to exchange for him?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/11/2023 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Hunter's "Artwork"?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2023 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Give'm back Griner.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2023 13:39 Comments || Top||

#7  How about Julian Assange
Posted by: Glomose Platypus9858 || 04/11/2023 18:23 Comments || Top||


Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 10th, 2023
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:48 "Authorities" of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region announced the detention of "an agent of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine", who allegedly transmitted data on the location of "military and civilian objects" in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. The occupiers also report that the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly fired at the city of Tokmak, "presumably from HIMARS", two people were injured.

22:28 In Avdiivka, despite the forced evacuation, there are still two children, said the head of the city military administration Vitaliy Barabash: "Legally, the forced evacuation of children from Avdiivka has begun, in fact, no. We are looking for children. Now we have two children left. Over the weekend we still took out the two children we found. Parents hide the children who remain in the city. They don’t want to say under any pretext why they are hiding them. We are looking for."

21:52 Zelensky met with the founder of the Virgin Group and the Virgin Unite Foundation, British entrepreneur Richard Branson, who joined the team of ambassadors of the United24 fundraising platform, the president's press service reported.

9:47 pm The White House cannot yet say whether the leak of classified Pentagon materials has been stopped, or whether the publication of new data is possible, said John Kirby, national security adviser to the Biden administration.

21:43 Billionaires and philanthropists Howard Buffett and Richard Branson are visiting Ukraine - together with First Lady Elena Zelenskaya, they opened the construction of Ukraine's first kitchen factory in Bucha. The kitchen factory project is part of the school food reform launched in 2022.

21:32 The Pentagon is still studying the causes, scope and consequences of the leakage of classified information, which, in particular, related to the combat capability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the actions of American allies, said Chris Meagher, assistant to the head of the US Department of Defense. According to him, the head of the department, Lloyd Austin, was first informed about the "drain" on April 6.

Meagher noted that the leak revealed "extremely secret, classified" information, which poses a "very serious national security risk" to the US. "These are highly classified classified materials that employees of the Department of Defense and, of course, other US authorities use for their work," he said.

21:24 More than a year after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, thousands of our citizens continue to travel to different parts of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian carriers organize a round trip transfer several times a week. You can leave, in particular, for Moscow from almost every regional center of Ukraine - Kyiv, Rivne, Lvov or Dnipro. More details in the material Simple route.

21:18 The leak of "secret documents" of the Pentagon should not undermine Ukraine's relations with Western partners, Podolyak said: "This is a normal analytics. And I don't see that this should somehow undermine our mutual relations with partners. This does not confuse any plans, because they are being developed, they are still operationally and tactically being worked out. According to him, some of the data that is reflected in the documents has already been voiced before - for example, the fact that Ukraine does not have enough air defense systems.

20:57 Zelensky appointed Ruslan Kravchenko head of the Kiev Regional State Administration.

20:41 In one of the settlements of the Berislav community of the Kherson region, the Russians attacked a boat with civilians from a drone - two people were seriously injured, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.

19:39 Ukraine will start receiving Leopard-1 tanks from Denmark before the summer, the acting official said. Kingdom Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen. He clarified that we are talking about about 100 tanks. Poulsen also added that next month Kyiv may receive CAESAR self-propelled guns - the Ukrainian military is already trained on them at training grounds in Denmark.

19:07 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis: "He spoke about the situation on the battlefield and about the current defense challenges facing Ukraine. We agreed to continue cooperation in the field of security."

18:28 Danilov said that the counter-offensive is already underway: "The Ukrainian counter-offensive is going on every day. We are not waiting for magical dates, we are acting calmly, systematically and consistently destroying the Russian occupiers. The information hype is not in favor of the plans of the Defense Forces of Ukraine."

17:46 Brazilian President Lula da Silva will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on April 14, the parties plan to discuss, in particular, the war in Ukraine, writes The Guardian.

17:07 Ukraine handed over five more seriously wounded prisoners of war to the Russian side, the Coordinating Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war said. Among them was the only woman who was in Ukrainian captivity. According to international humanitarian law, the repatriation took place without any conditions for the Russian side.

In addition, in Ramadan, Ukraine handed over two Muslim prisoners of war who fought in the Russian army. This was done in support of Kyiv's proposal to exchange Muslims "all for all" from both sides as a sign of respect for culture and traditions.

The headquarters noted that on March 24, the Ukrainian side had already repatriated five transportable, seriously wounded Russian soldiers, but Russia still holds much more wounded prisoners of war, which, according to the Geneva Conventions, should have been immediately returned without preconditions.

16:40 Ukraine returned another 100 of its citizens from Russian captivity
Good.
- these are the military, sailors, border guards, national guardsmen, Yermak said. He specified that among them there are defenders of Mariupol, Azovstal, Gostomel. Some have been seriously injured or have illnesses.

16:36 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia As-Sudani: "Noted that Ukraine is ready for a new page of bilateral cooperation. We agreed to activate all existing mechanisms of interaction and launch new ones. We also discussed the Ukrainian formula for peace."

16:19 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that 106 Russian servicemen returned from Ukrainian captivity.

16:16 The Rada appealed to the NATO member states and to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly regarding the acceleration of Ukraine's entry into the alliance, People's Deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko said. In particular, people's deputies call for the implementation of the decision of the 2008 NATO Bucharest summit on Ukraine's membership, as well as to promote the adoption of joint documents in support of Kiev's approach to future membership in the alliance during the spring session of the NATO PA in Luxembourg and during the July summit in Vilnius.

16:05 The Rada supported the exemption from VAT and duties on the import of goods for security and defense, said MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak. The document also proposes exemption from VAT taxation of operations for the supply of services related to military software.

15:26 The Rada voted for the return of payments of 30,000 hryvnias to military personnel, as well as to employees of the National Police and the State Emergency Service who serve in the rear, MP Oleksiy Goncharenko said. These payments were canceled on February 1, which caused a public outcry.

15:20 In April, an international event will be held in Ukraine with the participation of Zelensky, Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki and head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the Polish agency PAP reports, citing a high-ranking source in the EU. One of the main topics of the talks will be the issue of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.

14:53 The Rivne Regional Council voted to ban the activities of the UOC-MP in the region, and in Rivne itself, deputies terminated the right to use land plots on the territory of the community that the UOC-MP uses.

14:32 Germany handed over to Ukraine another package of military assistance, which, according to the German government, included four more Dachs armored engineering vehicles (three units were previously transferred); 60 Zetros trucks under the Mercedes-Benz brand; 42 mobile antenna mast systems; 34 reconnaissance drones; more than 83 thousand 40 mm ammunition.

13:57 The Russians launched another air strike on Avdiivka, Donetsk region, destroyed another multi-storey building. There were no casualties, since all the residents of the house were evacuated in a timely manner, said the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, about 1,800 people now remain in Avdiivka. Kirilenko stressed that they are constantly risking their lives, and called on all civilians to leave the front-line settlements - local authorities provide assistance with evacuation.

13:25 The Russians fired at the territory of the bakery in Orekhov, Zaporizhia region, there were no casualties previously, the President's Office reported.

13:06 At a meeting with Lukashenko, Shoigu said that he would discuss the further stay of the Russian military in Belarus and the possible "expansion of the scope" of cooperation.

13:04 Peskov said that the main parade on Red Square on May 9 "is being prepared and planned to be held." At the same time, he added that decisions on holding parades in the regions are made by local authorities - "the safety of citizens is a priority."

12:59 Ukrenergo held the first auction for the export of electricity to Moldova (delivery day - April 11), and is also preparing an auction for the supply to Poland (for April 12). In addition, the possibility of opening exports to Slovakia is being agreed. Given the war in Ukraine and the risks associated with it, exports are planned only for a short period - at daily auctions, and only if Ukrainian consumers are provided with priority and electricity production is in excess, Ukrenergo stressed.

12:52 During a meeting with Shoigu in Minsk, Lukashenko said that Belarus needs guarantees of protection from Russia "as its own territory in the event of external aggression."

12:44 Ukraine has returned another 24 children whom the Russians illegally took out of the Kherson region,
Very good.
said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. According to him, it was one of the most difficult rescue missions. The Russians gave the children a 13-hour interrogation and later forced them to participate in a propaganda report. The children were returned thanks to the volunteers of the Save Ukraine Charitable Foundation.

12:18 SBU reported suspicion to a collaborator - the owner of one of the Crimean travel agencies, which helped the Russian Federation to illegally deport Ukrainian children. Investigators have documented the facts of the forcible removal by the Russians of more than a thousand Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied regions in the south and east of Ukraine. Minors were taken to Sevastopol during September-October last year under the guise of "voluntary evacuation". Among the victims are orphans and hundreds of children whose parents were illegally detained by the invaders while trying to leave the war zone. The suspect is hiding in the temporarily occupied territory of southern Ukraine.

11:43 Germany may ban Russian athletes from entering the country if the IOC allows them to compete, German Interior Minister Nancy Feather said. In her opinion, the opening of international competitions for representatives of Russia is "a slap in the face of Ukrainian athletes," and offering Putin a stage for propaganda would mean betraying all the values ​​of sport.

"Countries hosting major sporting events are not powerless. They are able to control whether Russians can take part in them by issuing visas. If we organize international competitions in Germany, we will be able to act accordingly. Here we will always act with a clear position " Feather explained.

11:35 Ukraine is gathering an international coalition to return Ukrainian orphans, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said. She recalled that Russia illegally detains 4,396 orphans. "In this matter, the help of the world community is very important for us. Now a pool of international leaders is already being formed who have expressed their public support for such a coalition. Among them are Ursula von der Leyen, Mateusz Morawiecki and others. There must also be an intermediary. It can be anyone: International Committee of the Red Cross, UNHCR, UNICEF, etc. I hope that such a platform will start to operate soon," Vereshchuk added.

10:44 In Belgorod, they also decided not to hold a parade on May 9, "so as not to provoke the enemy," Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

10:27 A parade on May 9 will not be held in Kursk "for security reasons," Governor Roman Starovoit said.

09:58 Reuters, citing two American officials, reports that the Pentagon's "secret data" leaked to the network was made public by an American, and not by any of the allies. According to them, documents that only the United States had got into the network. It is also possible that the documents could have been forged.

09:49 British intelligence reports that over the past week, the Russian military has stepped up tank attacks around the city of Marinka, 20 km from Donetsk, so this area has become another hot spot on the front. Analysts note that the battles for Marinka have been going on since 2014, the city was destroyed as a result of artillery skirmishes. The settlement is important because it allows you to control the approaches to Donetsk and the key road H15.

Russia continues to prioritize operations in the broader sector of Donetsk, including the Marinka and Avdiivka areas, and spend significant resources for minimal gain, intelligence says.

09:26 On April 9, the commander of the Eastern Group of Forces, Alexander Syrsky, visited the hottest sectors of the front in the Bakhmut direction, made operational decisions on the spot and set tasks. According to Syrsky, the Defense Forces have exhausted the Wagnerites in this direction, so the enemy is forced to involve special forces and air assault units in the battles for Bakhmut.

"The fighting is tough on both sides. The enemy has switched to the so-called Syrian scorched earth tactics. They are destroying buildings and positions with air strikes and artillery fire. The defense of Bakhmut continues. The situation is difficult, but controllable," Syrsky stressed.

09:02 The Russians are evicting an entire village in the Mariupol region to accommodate their military. We are talking about the village of Lesnoye, located right in the middle of the forest near the village of Nikolskoye, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. According to him, people are literally evicted to the streets, with the "nationalization" of houses. The formal reason is the alleged lack of confirmation of the right of ownership and identity (since the house books burned down in the forestry office in Mariupol). There are seven families left in the village who have lived there for a long time, mostly pensioners, there are also several families who have moved from Mariupol.

08:43 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of April 10.

  • personnel - about 178,820 (+670) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 3637 (+1),

  • armored combat vehicles - 7028 (+4),

  • artillery systems - 2750 (+10),

  • MLRS - 534 (+1),

  • air defense systems - 282 (+0),

  • aircraft - 307 (+0),

  • helicopters - 292 (+0),

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 2323 (+11),

  • cruise missiles - 911 (+0),

  • ships/boats - 18 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 5607 (+5),

  • special equipment - 311 (+2).

08:26 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. Over the past day, 58 enemy attacks were repulsed in the indicated directions, the General Staff reported in the morning report .

05:54 The military-political command of Ukraine has changed some of its military plans due to the leak of secret American documents, CNN reports, citing a source close to Zelensky.

03:22 Photocopies of "classified Pentagon documents" were posted on the Discord server dedicated to the popular video game Minecraft (a messaging platform among online players) back in January, investigators from the international group Bellingcat found out. According to them, from the Discord network, the photos spread to other sites, after which they appeared on several Russian channels in Telegram, and only after that - in The New York Times.

The photo showed maps of hotspots in Ukraine, such as Bakhmut and Kharkiv, a schedule for the delivery of Western ammunition to Ukraine, as well as maps and catalogs of Ukrainian air defense equipment, including a calendar of ammunition expenditures. According to these data, by May 23, Ukraine will allegedly have completely exhausted the possibilities of providing medium-range air defense, and the country can withstand two or three more waves of strikes.

At the same time, Bellingcat reports that changes were made to the photos - this is evidenced, in particular, by resolution indicators, differences in numbers, spacing between them and letters, etc.

01:20 Ukrainian children who were returned from Russia say that they were beaten and punished for refusing to sing the Russian anthem and mentioning that they are Ukrainians, said Daria Gerasimchuk, presidential commissioner for children's rights. She clarified that the appeal to children depended on the specific place where they were detained, but in some places they were punished: they were not allowed to go for walks, they were forced to write and rewrite some Russian texts, to sing the anthem of the Russian Federation and the song “Russia, forward” every morning. " etc.

Gerasimchuk stressed that a total Russification of Ukrainian children is taking place in Russia: they are set against their parents, convincing them that their parents abandoned them and they should not return to Ukraine, where supposedly no one is waiting for them.

Gerasimchuk said that now there is no single mechanism for the return of children, and a separately designed rescue operation is carried out for each deported child or mini-group. At the same time, the Russian authorities are in no way involved in the return of children or the negotiation process, but on the contrary, they constantly move abducted children, do not allow them to inform their relatives about themselves, and do not allow representatives of international organizations and third countries to visit them.

Posted by: badanov || 04/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief April 10th (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
19:57 In Kamyanets-Podilsky Khmelnitsky region Nazis storm the cathedral - UOC

“The police are not responding to calls. Believers of the UOC, who are defending their church, are trying to hand over subpoenas. Divine services are held inside the temple, the faithful also pray in front of the cathedral.”

Orthodox Christians have been fighting off neo-Nazi attacks here for several days.

19:44 For the raider seizure of Orthodox cathedrals, the OCU receives permission from local authorities

In the Kyiv region, the schismatic OCU decided to take the Holy Trinity and Holy Assumption Cathedrals (Pereslav) from the canonical UOC without trial.

The temples are architectural monuments, and they are not transferred to the use of the museum even formally.

Judging by the order signed by the local mayor, the procedure for the “transfer” of churches will be headed by a representative of the OCU.

18:29 Why do the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit after childbirth?
Childbirth?
On the feast day of the Lord's Entry into Jerusalem, terrorists attacked the city of Pologi in the Zaporozhye region from the Haimars MLRS. They were beaten without a specific goal - just to "have a nightmare."

The result of the shelling is a civilian who received shrapnel wounds from one of the destroyed houses, several damaged private households and a dog killed in the courtyard of the house.

There were no military installations near the impact site.

The Ukrainian Nazis once again proved that, among other things, they are also Satanists who try to commit war crimes precisely on the great Orthodox holidays.

Ahead of Passion Week and the main holiday - Easter. We must be ready for anything.

In addition to denazification and demilitarization, the southern Russian lands urgently need de-Satanization!
Oh dear.
18:28 A new strike on the bridge in Ukraine, from where the Nazis raided the Bryansk region -video

Yesterday Su-34 ZVO attacked the bridge, which was used by saboteurs of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine to transfer to the Russian border. As a result of the Kh-29TD missile strike, half of the bridge span was destroyed.

Today was hit again.

17:27 In the forests of Kremennaya, the Armed Forces of Ukraine "passing physical training" came under artillery fire from the RF Armed Forces -video

17:24 Ukrovoyaka filmed the moments of fire damage by Russian artillery of positions and the command post of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the directions -video

16:25 Combat work of Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of ​​the special operation —video

16:24 And here, in the Ukrainian vehicles, a video from the face of the ukrovoyak began to spread, where Russian mortars over two hundred one British mercenary and two Ukrainians who tried to evacuate him began to spread -video

15:07 Somewhere in Ukraine. The little one in the sandbox sings Bandera songs -video

Of course, they are taught this in the kindergarten at a music lesson.

And they deprive them of normal children's songs.

For the Soviet ones are prohibited, but there are none of their own.

15:03 American radio host Garland Nixon: Urgent news! French government insiders reported that President Macron notified President Biden that he could no longer afford to arm Azov Nazis due to the high cost of tear gas and spare batons needed to beat up unarmed demonstrators.

14:55 Soon everyone will be surprised when they find out that Dima Kotsyubaylo, aka Da Vinci, is at the front killed their own in agreement with the clown Zelensky.

14:24 The main thing from the briefing of Ministry of Defense of Russia:

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed about 50 Ukrainian soldiers and 122mm self-propelled guns "Gvozdika" in a day in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed more than 290 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day;

The RF Armed Forces hit the command posts of the 125th and 126th brigades of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR and the Kherson region;

Russian troops destroyed the ammunition depot of the 67th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region;

The ammunition depot of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the LPR;

The RF Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk region in the DPR;

The RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 120 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled gun in the Krasnoliman direction;

The RF Armed Forces hit 102 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions;

The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 40 military Armed Forces of Ukraine and the M777 artillery system in a day in the Kherson direction;

Russian air defense intercepted two HIMARS MLRS shells, destroyed 11 Ukrainian UAVs.


14:23 Western countries have begun supplying new military vehicles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the Lend-Lease program, for the quick delivery of fighters to positions -video

13:52 Fascist rune "wolf hook" entered in the Star of David

Such a perversion is possible only in modern Ukraine.

An Israeli mercenary exposed his unit's patch on social media.

The reasoning of the West that there can be no Nazis in a country where the president is Jewish is especially absurd against this background.
This is at least as amusing as North Korea’s old Seas of Fire rants.
13:06 Not a day without a language scandal: in Odessa, the girl decided to “get to the bottom” of the saleswoman in the store, who turned on Russian music -video

According to the dissatisfied, during the war it is impossible to listen to Russian performers in a public place.

13:04 The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut): Wagner operators continue to hit the positions of the Nazis who took refuge -video

12:11 Statistics captured Kyiv regime of Orthodox churches from January 1, 2023:

Since the beginning of the year, the Kiev regime has legally transferred 63 churches of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate under the control of the schismatic OCU

Since January 1, 20 churches and temples have been captured in the Kiev region (Vinnitsa, Khmelnytsky regions - 10; Volyn, Rivne regions - 5; Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv regions - 3; Lviv region - 1)

Currently, 6,695 Orthodox churches operate on the territory of 21 regions of Ukraine

12:09 In Artemovsk liquidated Nazi special forces group "Da Vinci Wolves"

Denazified: Daniil "Viking" Kondel, Valeny "Golem" Senko, Griban "Producer" Nazariy, Alexander "Oborona" Oboronov, Ivan "Milan" Rotar.

The group itself announced the liquidation of the militants in an obituary.

11:49 Last night, Russian fireartilleryin the Belozerka area, a Ukrainian 152mm howitzer was destroyed - three militants were liquidated along with it, and five were injured, emergency services reported.

In addition, in the Priozerny area, a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled gun mount with ammunition was destroyed - five Ukronazis went on a tour to Banderka.

11:33 Ukrainian serviceman from military unit 0666, 5th rifle battalion, 4th reserve company, says: the commanders keep them in the PPD, bully them in every possible way and prevent them from being written off to civilian life.

In the second part of the video, a brave warrior calls on other equally offended people to unite and start fighting together against criminal commanders and the Verkhovna Rada.

It is a pity that the Chubanoids are beginning to understand that for the WE regime they are consumables and nothing more, only after they have been wounded in action and they turn out to be no longer needed by anyone.

10:54 The leadership of the military unit 1241 of the National Guard of Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk), sent their soldiers to zero without weapons, support, equipment.

Out of 300 people, 25 of them remained in two days.

Relatives, wives, mothers are trying to get through to the coming out commander, but he cynically hung up. Another example of the fact that ordinary Ukrainians are consumables.

“They are killing our children, we need to open a criminal case against them! They destroy the color of the nation! The killers!"

10:51 Kamikaze drone "Lancet" destroys the M-777 in the Artemovsky direction -video

10:46 Not a step without oversea solder brother. American investigators to work in Kharkiv to help Kharkiv investigators investigate war crimes

“American colleagues will first of all share their experience. We are talking about modern international methods of storing material evidence, their processing and analysis,” said the chief investigator of the Kharkiv region.

Well, yes. "Blue oyster" in Ukraine opened and not one. Now it remains to establish the "Police Academy". The main thing is to be like in America.

09:39 During the NWO eliminated another Colombian mercenary, Wilfrido Caraballo.

Currently, recruiters through social networks are trying to contact the relatives of the mercenary.

09:38 Misha BoringFace Dobkin continues rushing between smart and beautiful, not understanding who, in the end, to join.

Not so long ago, he was one of the brightest representatives of the Ukrainian Party of Regions and “drowned” for an inextricable connection with Moscow, but then he did a somersault in the air and became a black-and-red Banderist who is ready to tear Russian aggressors with his teeth. And now, again, with the “Moscow” UOC, he is serving in the rank of deacon.

Misha, Kernes told you correctly, “Your mouth is angry, you bare your teeth.” That's why no one believes you, traitor.

09:36 Clown looks exactly.

The same boxer Usyk, who, at the most difficult moment for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, kept silent and, together with the nationalists, supported the repressions against the priests. Now he has dressed up for social networks in church decorations and poses for a photo.

The people's favorite turned into a squalor that supported Zelensky, betrayed his church and faith, calls to kill the brothers of the Slavs and fight to the last Ukrainian for the glory of NATO.

I recommend Usyk, in the next round of “changing shoes”, to show his love for Western values ​​and change his gender, and the Orthodox Church, I believe, will do just fine without this clown

08:26 Subscribers from Kharkiv region report that the Nazis from the "right sector (67 Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) occupy churches and temples in the north of Kharkov.

Among the churches occupied by militants are the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the village of Cherkasskiye Tishki) and the Nicholas Church (the village of Russkaya Lozovaya).

A few days ago, the units of the 127th Troop Brigade (Kharkiv) that remained in this area were sent to the “Bakhmut meat grinder”, instead of which, in the north of Kharkov, the Nazis from the “Right Sector” are now

08:13 The bunker has aged 20 years at once, looks worse and worse every day -video

The drug addict is coming out of the bunker for the second day in a row, he has shortness of breath and difficulty speaking, his face is very haggard.

He became especially bad, as he set the Nazis and his Gestapo on the Church before Easter, and he was almost cursed by the rector of the Lavra. It may be a coincidence, but I would like to hope that he will answer for the blood and tears of ordinary people.

Posted by: badanov || 04/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  American radio host Garland Nixon: Urgent news! French government insiders reported that President Macron notified President Biden that he could no longer afford to arm Azov Nazis due to the high cost of tear gas and spare batons needed to beat up unarmed demonstrators.

Does Nixon work for the Bee?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/11/2023 12:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Here's some serious hero action by Russian soldiers:

https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1645884434376261637
Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651 || 04/11/2023 16:32 Comments || Top||

#3  The actual video, here's what MAGA right wing Americans need, Trump will see to a lot more of this, can you guys imagine how fun life can be knowing this is really happening?

https://twitter.com/cossackgundi/status/1645886176232890368

https://twitter.com/cossackgundi/status/1645886176232890368
Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651 || 04/11/2023 16:38 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Here's some serious hero action by Russian soldiers:

Don't forget that Akhmat group, a pro Russian Chechen military group have done nearly all the atrocities in the Ukraine-Russia war.
Posted by: badanov || 04/11/2023 16:47 Comments || Top||


Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: April 10th, 2023
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:56 Video- Unsuccessful attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to evacuate a wounded foreign mercenary under mortar fire, corrected from the UAV, as a result two KIAs, including the mercenary and one wounded.

21:30 Video— Sladkov's interview with DPR Minister of Internal Affairs Diky about the work of the Kaskad OBTF. Wild is indeed an infrequent guest in the public field, although he did and does a lot of real work.

20:45 Video- Fighting in the western part of Artemovsk. Promotion of assault groups of PMC "Wagner".

20:15 Video- Tankers of the 127th Motorized Rifle Division destroyed a Ukrainian stronghold in the Novoselki area of the Zaporozhye region

19:45 Mortarmen in the Svatovsky direction gave tribute respect for the murdered Vladlen. Nobody is forgotten. Nothing is forgotten.

19:20 Battle for Avdievka April 10, 2023

- In the north of Avdievka, servicemen of the 132nd Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the RF Armed Forces (formerly the 3rd Gorlovskaya brigade of the NM of the DPR) continued their local advance from Novobakhmutovka, expanding the zone around the settlement.

- During the battles, the Russian fighters managed to move a little towards Novokalinovo and Keramik, where the forces of the 68th and 69th rifle battalions of the TPO of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hold the defense.

- At the moment, additional units of Ukrainian 59th Separate Mechanized Rifle Brigade brigade from Bogatyr and 110 Separate Mechanized Rifle Brigade brigade from Pokrovsk are being transferred to the Avdeevsky sector. Clashes continue along the H20 road and the railway line near Novokalinovo.

- To the south, positional battles are going on north of Vodyany. The Russian troops managed to dislodge units of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade from the stronghold. Ukrainian artillerymen conduct indiscriminate barrage fire on the areas of advance of the RF Armed Forces.

- To strengthen the grouping of troops near Avdiivka, the arrival of marines from the 35th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy is expected in the area of Orlovka and Ocheretino.


18:36 Video- Joint work of tankers and artillery, under the control of military intelligence

18:00 Video— Our guys clear the German anti-tank mines AT2

17:41 Video– A total of 106 Russian soldiers released from Ukrainian captivity – first footage

Before that, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the exchange of 106 fighters who were in mortal danger in captivity. Personnel of Deputy Shamsail Saraliyev

17:23 Video- Artillerymen of the 132nd Brigade of the Donetsk 1st Army Corps discovered a detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the UAV and hit them with fire.

16:46 Video— Denis Pushilin from Artyomovsk

16:24 Video— A report on the combat work of artillerymen armed with 152mm self-propelled guns "Hyacinth-S" in the NVO zone

16:02 Video- In the Kremennaya area, RIA Novosti filmed a report from the positions of the defense of the Akhmat special forces.

15:29 Video- Another "Lancet" and another M-777 in the Bakhmut direction.

14:55 Video– artillery attack of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Russian artillery in the area of Spornovo.

14:38 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (04/10/2023)

- In the Kupyansky direction, strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the "Western" group of troops defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Rozovka, Luhansk People's Republic, Sinkovka, Timkovka, Krakhmalnoye and Pershotravnevo, Kharkiv region.

The losses of the enemy amounted to more than 30 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, and a 152mm D-20 howitzer.

- In addition, an ammunition depot of the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the village of Staritsa, Kharkiv region.

- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the "Center" group of troops hit enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Terny, Torskoye, Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic.

More than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount and a 152mm D-20 howitzer were destroyed.

- Also, in the area of \the settlement of Novolyubovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, an ammunition depot of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.

- In the Donetsk direction, as a result of active actions of units, strikes by operational-tactical aviation and artillery fire from the "Southern" group of forces, more than 290 Ukrainian military personnel, five armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, as well as howitzers were destroyed in a day. 152mm Msta-B" and D-20.

An ammunition depot of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.

- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, operational-tactical aviation strikes and artillery fire from the Vostok group of troops defeated units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Tokmachka, Chervonaya Krinitsa, Omelnyk and Preobrazhenka of the Zaporozhye region.

Enemy losses per day in these areas amounted to up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, two pickup trucks, as well as a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.

- In the Kherson direction, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, fifteen vehicles, one US-made M777 artillery system, a 122mm D-30 howitzer, as well as a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed during a fire attack.

- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated the 102nd Artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 134 districts.

- In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Novoberislav of the Kherson region, the command posts of the 125th, as well as the 126th Territorial Defense Brigades, were hit.

During the day, air defense systems intercepted two rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.

- In addition, 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Naugolnoye, Chervonopopovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Tokarevka of the Kharkov Region, Vesyoloye, Peski, Blagoveshchenka and Opytnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 406 aircraft, 228 helicopters, 3,727 unmanned aerial vehicles, 415 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,608 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,078 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,554 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 9,414 units of special military vehicles.


13:53 Video- The sniper of the 1st Slavic Brigade showed his awesome Lobaev rifle to the man on the other side, from which his turret was demolished.
Literally.

13:27 Video- Footage of the combat work of Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in the NVO zone.

12:56 Video- A touching story about two brothers of servicemen who ended up in the NVO zone after partial mobilization.

The older brother refused to leave for civilian life, saying that their mother asked him to look after the younger one.

12:35 Video- Report of the VGTRK and Alexander Valeryevich Sladkov from the positions of the OBTF Cascade in the Ugledar direction.

12:19 Video- Trophy M113 at the Wagners in the Bakhmut direction

11:41 Captured position of VSUshnikov on Avdeevsky direction

11:15 Video- Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle received a carrot from an RPG into a caterpillar, after which it had to be finished off by dropping it from Mavik, Ugledar direction

10:49 Video- Avdievka...

10:25 Video- Pushilin said that he visited Bakhmut/Artemovsk

10:09 Consequences of shelling Kramatorsk.

10:03 Video- 122mm Grads of Ivanovo paratroopers at work

09:33 The defeat of the positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with incendiary rockets from the Grad MLRS in the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction -video

09:30 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 04/09/2023 to 00:00 04/10/2023

Over the past day, the Representation reported 20 facts of firing by the AFU.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made six artillery attacks from 155mm and 122mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 12 artillery attacks from MLRS, artillery 155mm.
On Yasinovatsky two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.

Having fired 111 units of various ammunition.

Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Verkhnetoretskoye, Panteleimonovka, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky districts), Yelenovka.

Over the past day, information was received about the injury of four civilians in the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka.

Five residential buildings were damaged in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka and Yelenovka, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.

In the previous day, 17 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.


08:31 Chronicle of blows and mutualshellingin the NWO zone for the night from 9 to 10 April 2023

Russian troops hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the villages of Gremyach and Yasnaya Polyana in the Chernihiv region, as well as in Baranivka, Volfino and Zapselye in the Sumy region.

In the Kharkiv region, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy targets in Veterinary, Gatishche, Ustinovka and Melovoe.

In the Starobelsky direction, the Russian troops worked on the concentrations of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Makeevka, Novoselovsky and Torsky.

In the Bakhmut (Artyomovsky) direction, Russian missile troops and artillery hit the concentration sites of Ukrainian units in Bakhmut, Chasovoy Yar, Krasny and Khromovo.

In the Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Avdievka, Lastochkino, Severny and Novokalinovo.

In turn, Ukrainian formations from barrel artillery fired at residential buildings in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.

In the Yuzhnodonets direction, Russian troops worked on targets in Novomikhailovka, Zolotoy Niva and Shakhtyorskoye.

In the Zaporozhye region, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Malaya Tokmachka, Novoandreevka and Kamenksom.

On the southern sector of the front, the RF Armed Forces struck concentrations of Ukrainian units in Kherson, Kachkarovka and Lvov.

At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked civilian targets in Nova Kakhovka.


08:11 Frontline summary on the morning of 04/10/2023
There were no active hostilities on the Uludar site on the ground. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation shelled the city itself, as well as Novopol, Novosyolka, Vremovka, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Zolotoy Niva, Shakhtyorskoye and Prechistovka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at Novomayorskoye.

On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, supported by artillery, carried out assault operations in the western part of Maryinka and in the Pervomaisky area. They also launched a ground attack at Severny and Keramik. Everywhere without advance.

Artillery hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomikhailovka, Paraskovyivka, Pobeda, the city of Krasnogorovka, Karlovka, Netaylov, Orlovka, Lastochkino, Avdeevka, Stepnoy and Druzhba.

In Bakhmut, the Wagner PMC, after massive artillery strikes, advanced in the southern and central regions of the city. The Ukrainian garrison repulsed the attack in the northern part.

Wagner operators also led an attack on Bogdanovka, and units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Verkhnekamenskoye. In these areas without success.

Russian artillery hit Belaya Gora, Stupochki, Novodmitrovka, Ivanovsky, Chasov Yar, Khromovoy, Grigorovka, Markov, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Minkovka, Vasyukovka, Disputed and Seversk.

In the Lugansk direction, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the support of artillery, attacked in the direction of Torsky, Yampolevka, Nevsky and Makeevka. Failed to advance. Under the blows of the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kolodezy, Berestovo, Peschanoe, Starch, Kondrashovka, Zapadny, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Krasny Pervoi and Kolodeznoy.


08:09 A serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign "Chief" is serving in the zone of the special military operation. Previously, he worked in a restaurant that was famous for Michelin stars -video

The “chef” said that now they have to learn how to cook again, because the civilians had special equipment, and here they have a field kitchen KP-130. However, he added,

“I am here - in my place, I feel needed. It is most important".

08:05 Summary on the morning of April 10, 2023
Prigozhin said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine “have collected about 200,000, according to some sources, up to 400,000 personnel,” referring to the enemy’s impending counteroffensive.

The liberation of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) by the PMC "Wagner" continues. The Avangard stadium and several other important facilities are occupied. To the south-west, battles for the road to Konstantinovka do not stop.

Active actions of both sides continue in the Svatovsky direction. The stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at a height of 79.8 is occupied.

In the Avdeevsky sector, the enemy acknowledged the loss of control of the forest area and the advance of the Russian Armed Forces from Krasnogorovka to the railway near Novokalinovoe

In the Kherson direction yesterday they reported on the work of our aviation along the enemy bank of the Dnieper. Attacks were made on Novoberislav, Berislavsky district, and Kizomys, Belozersky district.

Explosions were reported in Kherson and the airport in Kherson. Probably, gliding bombs are used, which can be launched from our aircraft without them entering the zone of action of enemy air defense systems.

In the Belgorod region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the settlement. Voznesenovka, Shebekinsky district, and n.p. Tishanka Volokonovsky district

The enemy fired 111 rounds of ammunition in the DPR. Gorlovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Panteleimonovka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk, Yelenovka were under fire. Four civilians were wounded.


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The Nord Stream blasts cover story is crumbling. Cockamamie yarns like the one involving the yacht suggest not nefarious cunning but simple incompetence.
[AsiaTimes] Reports that nongovernmental pro-Ukrainians were behind the Nordstream gas pipeline explosions last year appear to be losing traction, as illustrated by a new Reuters report quoting skeptical remarks by a Swedish official.

As originally put forth on March 7 by the New York Times (quoting unnamed US officials with access to intelligence) and by a consortium of German media (quoting unnamed police sources), the theory held that the otherwise unidentified culprits had carried out the Baltic Sea operation from a rented 50-foot charter sailing yacht named Andromeda.

Some analysts (including me) found the tale highly improbable from the start and suggested — or, in the case of investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, flat-out asserted — that it was a cover story concocted by spooks to counter Hersh’s February 8 report, based on the Pulitzer Prize winner’s own anonymous sourcing, that US divers working for the CIA did the deed.

This week, Washington Post reporters revisited the yacht tale, apparently trying to keep it afloat even as they acknowledged the story’s holes. One big hole: The reporters learned that the perps would have needed more of a base than a single sailing yacht for their operations at sea:

US and European officials said they still don’t know for sure who is behind the underwater attack. But several said they shared German skepticism that a crew of six people on one sailboat laid the hundreds of pounds of explosives that disabled Nord Stream 1 and part of Nord Stream 2, a newer set of pipelines that wasn’t yet delivering gas to customers.

Experts noted that while it was theoretically possible to place the explosives on the pipeline by hand, even skilled divers would be challenged submerging more than 200 feet to the seabed and slowly rising to the surface to allow time for their bodies to decompress.

Such an operation would have taken multiple dives, exposing the Andromeda to detection from nearby ships. The mission would have been easier to hide and pull off using remotely piloted underwater vehicles or small submarines, said diving and salvage experts who have worked in the area of the explosion, which features rough seas and heavy shipping traffic.
The Russians bombed the pipeline, dummy. We went over this extensively when it happened, and all signs pointed to Putin.
Posted by: Hupainter Peacock1045 || 04/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Re the editorial comment. I recall our conversation very differently. There was considerable discussion regarding the Kearsarge, the underwater sound sensors in that area to detect submarines, the previous discovery of an attempt to disrupt the pipeline and a host of other open source information. I believe the consensus was that the information available at the time was not congruent with the Russians deliberately destroying their multi billion dollar asset. Presumably the Russians, Americans, Germans & Brits each know what actually transpired. When it suits one of their needs we may find out. Apparently the SEALs didn’t do it or else there would already be three books on the subject
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 04/11/2023 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Apparently the SEALs didn’t do it or else there would already be three books on the subject

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2023 6:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Due to the lack of actual evidence having been released (other than a lot of finger-pointing and conjecture), I'm still stuck in the 'Pipe-Pig' camp.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/11/2023 9:50 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Hupainter Peacock1045 || 04/11/2023 9:51 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ That makes no sense, as it precludes re-opening the tap to reward pro-Russian behavior by the eurines.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/11/2023 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  The Russians bombed the pipeline, dummy.

Russians: Do what we want or we will cut off the gas.
Germany: OK, OK. We'll do it. Now turn the gas back on.
Russians: Uhhh.... oopsie!

Thinking about the "some guys in a boat" theory the other day...
Limits for recreational scuba diving seem to be around 40 meters. The pipeline is at 80-110 meters. Commercial and military divers work at that depth but you need some technical things like gas mixtures and decompression chambers to do it practically.

For blowing up the pipeline itself, you need explosives in larger quantity than you might find at Home Depot and some experience handling them. Let's not forget some way to trigger the detonation remotely.

tl;dr: It may have been "some guys in a boat" but they had nation-state level resources behind them.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/11/2023 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm with Mullah. It is the least complicated of all possibilities.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/11/2023 10:43 Comments || Top||

#8  By shutting down the pipelines, the Russians were in breach of the gas delivery contracts on Nord Stream 1. They were liable for gas not delivered. The amount was growing each day and already reached billions of Euros.

The destruction of the pipelines invalidated the contracts (Force Majeure clause). How lucky for the Russians! I'm sure it was a complete coincidence.

But thanks to everyone for committing sedition by trying to promote conspiracy theories blaming the US. Maybe it was the Jewish Space Lasers that made them do it!
Posted by: Hupainter Peacock1045 || 04/11/2023 10:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Occam's Razor often disappoints the tinfoil hat crowd.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/11/2023 10:51 Comments || Top||

#10  I don't know who did it, so I didn't even conjecture. If you wanna throw the "sedition" accusation around for those who did, you can fuck right off
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2023 11:45 Comments || Top||

#11  But thanks to everyone for committing sedition by trying to promote conspiracy theories blaming the US. Maybe it was the Jewish Space Lasers that made them do it!

Versus treason, and violating Constitutional rights under the color of law.
Posted by: badanov || 04/11/2023 12:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Biden pledges end to Nord Stream 2 if Russia invades Ukraine

Biden implicated himself as did Victoria Nuland. I'd call that pretty convincing evidence. Maybe not enough to convict in court but it would certainly warrant arrest, interrogation and further investigation...if anyone was capable of such things anymore.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/11/2023 13:00 Comments || Top||


#14  That Brandon made a blustery threat, I have no doubt. But having the courage and resources to carry out the threat - I don't think so.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/11/2023 18:58 Comments || Top||

#15  Discussing and analyzing in an attempt to find the truth is not sedition — it’s the American Way. Deliberately sharing lies to persuade those with the ability to act is something else, but our regulars don’t do things like that.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/11/2023 21:58 Comments || Top||

#16  But having the courage and resources to carry out the threat - I don't think so.

Resources we got! Back during the Cold War, we tapped a Soviet undersea telephone cable. It was quite the intelligence coup, as well as being rather ballsy, since the cable ran between two military installations and was considered secure. Nobody can tap an undersea cable, right?

The book, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage goes into some detail about this story as well as some other undersea mischief.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/11/2023 22:20 Comments || Top||

#17  They really think the public is totally retarded to actually believe that yacht story. "The dog ate it" has no less credibility.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/11/2023 22:24 Comments || Top||



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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