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Putin is going to light the fuse on a nuke before this madness is concluded. Biden will do absolutely nothing. The UK and France will likely conduct a massive response.
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Whether you like it or not, Russia has these weapons. Our leaders in previous generations didn't like it either but they had sense enough to avoid direct confrontations with the USSR. That's not being cowardly. It is a pragmatic recognition of the spheres of influence that were established in the aftermath of World War II, the collapse of the Soviet Union notwithstanding. It doesn't mean we let Russian tanks roll through Poland. It doesn't mean that we allow Putin to threaten our vital interests. But Ukraine is not our vital interest. Ukraine is a bridge too far. Ukraine is none of our damn business.
Biden doesn't get it. Maybe he's afraid of losing a money laundering operation. But his foolishness is an existential threat to us all.
The fact is, if Putin is pushed to the point where he feels that Russia's vital interests are threatened, he may well push the button. Are Donbas and Crimea worth it? I don't think so.
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Our involvement in Ukraine is classic domino theory.
Remember how the left used to denigrate domino theory?
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If any country pushes the button I believe it will most likely be North Koreans Kim Yo Jong(promoted to nation's top decision-making body). She is more like their father and will the most difficult to deal with. I do not see Russia or China doing the dirty work. Just as the USA will use a country as they did with the North Stream Pipe line. With the full blessings of Victoria Nuland.
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[Korrespondent] 22:57 Russian propagandists launched a new fake online: they released a video in which allegedly "Ukrainian military" stopped a civilian car and began to offend a woman with a child. The fake was picked up even by the Russian Foreign Ministry, despite the fact that even the Kremlin military correspondents have already managed to debunk it. More details - in the material The shooting of the car .
22:34 As of March 28, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed more than 1,500 drones of the Orlan-10 operational-tactical level at the front, not counting quadrocopters and tactical-level UAVs, Yuri Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command, said. He also noted that the grouping of enemy aircraft, which attacks Ukraine from several dozen airfields, has increased quantitatively, but has become much worse in quality.
22:20 The Institute for the Study of War in a new report analyzes the actions of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and predicts the course of hostilities in Ukraine. More details - in the material There are no hopes for the world .
21:59 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin believes that Ukraine, thanks to the significant depletion of Russian forces and the supply of Western weapons, has a "very good chance" of a successful counteroffensive in the spring of 2023. In his opinion, Ukraine has a "significant advantage" in comparison with Russian forces, although the front line has changed from one side to the other in recent times.
"The Ukrainians inflicted significant losses on the Russians, and they depleted their stocks of armored vehicles in a way that no one could ever imagine. And now we see how Russia will re-mothball the T-54 and T-55 tanks due to the level of losses that the Ukrainians inflicted," - said the US Secretary of Defense. He added that Russia's resources are running out, it is increasingly lacking artillery ammunition and is forced to turn to Iran and North Korea for help.
“Therefore, I think that we will see an increase in hostilities in the spring, as the conditions for maneuvering improve, and also based on what we have already done and continue to do. I think that Ukraine will have a very good chance of success,” Austin emphasized. .
21:41 At least 2,000 Russian officers died in the war in Ukraine, the KIU OSINT project calculated on March 28 according to open data.
20:44 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that China's recent actions regarding the war in Ukraine undermined its status as a neutral side, and called on Beijing to take constructive steps.
20:26 The United States stops the exchange of data on strategic nuclear forces with Russia after Moscow announced the suspension of participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, writes WSJ.
20:13 Peskov in December 2022, during a meeting with one of the Russian officials, where representatives of the cultural and political elite were present, said that the war against Ukraine would continue for a very long time, writes The Guardian. According to the publication, the guests raised a toast to the establishment of peace, after which Peskov said: "Everything will be much more complicated. It will take a very long time." This spoiled the mood of the guests, who spoke in private conversations against the war with Ukraine, the sources of the publication shared.
19:24 The National Resistance Center under the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has compiled a map of the camps where the Russians are taking deported Ukrainian children. The map was created on the basis of data from open sources and will be supplemented. As can be seen from the geography of the camps, the process of taking children to the Russian Federation is systematic and prepared in advance.
18:56 The first three strike companies of the UAV are already ready for battle - they have been fully equipped, pickup trucks, shock copters and Starlinks have been handed over, Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said. He stressed that all the drones are Ukrainian-made, and the equipment for the shock companies of the Drone Army was purchased by private donors.
18:32 Due to the incident in the Black Sea with the downing of an American drone in early March, the United States decided to send reconnaissance drones further from Crimea, which limited their ability to collect information, CNN reports, citing a US senior official. The decision to bypass the area of potential collision with Russian aircraft, according to a CNN source, is part of the Biden administration's efforts to "avoid excessive provocation" between Washington and Moscow. At the same time, the official did not rule out that reconnaissance flights of drones will resume in the usual mode in the future.
18:10 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the settlements of Belogorovka, Bakhmut, Avdeevka, Maryinka and their environs remain at the epicenter of hostilities. During the day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled 24 enemy attacks in the indicated directions.
17:44 In the next six months, the Ukrainian energy system will have enough electricity to cover the needs of consumers, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, chairman of the board of NPC Ukrenergo, predicts. At the same time, he added that "it is necessary to prepare well for the next winter: to resume, first of all, the operation of those power units at thermal and hydroelectric power plants that were damaged, and to mobilize all the resources of the energy system to the maximum in order to pass the winter with dignity, without blackouts."
17:40 The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee recommended that international federations allow Russians who do not support the war against Ukraine to start as neutral athletes, said IOC head Thomas Bach. At the same time, teams from Russia and Belarus cannot be considered as participants in international competitions.
The IOC also recommended not to allow Russian athletes associated with the armed forces and security agencies to participate in the competition. In particular, among the Russian athletes, many are listed in the CSKA sports society, some represent the National Guard.
Bach said that the decision on the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games will be made by sports federations. The IOC Executive Committee recommended that international federations create separate commissions on the issue of admitting Russian athletes to competitions.
17:34 Propaganda Russian media write with reference to emergency services that near the railway tracks near the village of Svitino in New Moscow, they found "wreckage, presumably of a drone." According to them, there is no damage at the site of the discovery of the wreckage. Meanwhile, the telegram channel Baza reports that the drone had the inscription "Glory to Ukraine" and publishes a photo.
17:07 Zelensky held a coordination meeting in Sumy with the leaders of the armed formations and law enforcement agencies on the arrangement and protection of the state border and the security situation in the Sumy region.
17:00 In Poland, three more suspected of collaborating with Russian special services have been detained. The Polish Cabinet reported that they were charged with espionage activities, all of them are in custody.
16:55 Under Melitopol, according to preliminary data, a substation was blown up near the village of Fedorovka of the Terpinovsky village council, Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
16:52 In Mariupol, a total cleansing and search activities after yesterday's explosion of the car of "the head of the city police department" Mikhail Moskvin. According to the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko, there are patrols of military occupiers and "policemen" on the streets. Mostly men are stopped regardless of age and women under the age of 40. They check documents, gadgets, personal belongings.
Moskvin himself was hospitalized with a shell shock after the explosion of his car, but today he was taken by helicopter from Mariupol to Taganrog. His condition is unknown, "but definitely far from stable-good," Andryushchenko added.
16:41 Blinken called proposals for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine a "cynical trap" to freeze the conflict.
16:26 Zelensky said that in the Sumy region he got acquainted with the service of border guards to cover the borders of the state. The President checked the fulfillment of tasks by the units of the State Border Service on the border with Russia.
15:42 The Ukrainian military showed that inside the downed Iranian drones.
15:03 In Bakhmut, Russia is reinforcing the PMC Wagner mercenaries with units of its regular army, primarily paratroopers, said Sergey Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “The main striking force remains PMC Wagner. However, due to huge daily losses and due to the fact that they can no longer replenish their ranks as quickly as before, including at the expense of former prisoners, we see that they are being reinforced by regular army units, primarily airborne troops. Cherevaty added that the Wagnerites have problems with ammunition and manpower.
14:54 The “Supreme Court of the DPR” sentenced a serviceman of the Azov Battalion, Dmitry Smitiy, to 20 years in a strict regime colony for allegedly shooting a resident of Mariupol.
14:25 The European Union at the summit in December will consider the issue of starting negotiations on the accession to the EU of Ukraine and Moldova, said the head of the European Council Charles Michel.
14:23 Zelensky is on a working trip to the Sumy region today. In particular, he presented Akhtyrka with "an honorary distinction of a hero city, a city-defender, a city-winner."
13:46 In Bakhmut, the number of military clashes has decreased over the past three days - it is possible that the Russians are regrouping, said Sergey Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, "the coming days - a week will show what is the cause in reality."
13:17 The Russians fired two missiles, previously S-300, at the city of Bogodukhov, Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Previously, no casualties.
13:14 France will double the supply of 155-mm artillery ammunition for Ukraine - up to 2000 per month, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said. He also said that the SAMP-T air defense system will arrive in Ukraine "in the near future." In addition, the French government is considering the possibility of increasing funding for the EU fund to help Ukraine. According to the minister, the 200 million euro allocated by Paris has already been fully used.
13:01 Ukraine received three Leopard 2A6 tanks from Portugal, the country's Ministry of Defense reported.
12:45 The order to bombard the Drama Theater in Mariupol, as well as the maternity hospital and the children's hospital was given by the commander of the military unit, Serhiy Atroshchenko, investigators of the InformNapalm international community found out. He was born in Ovruch, Zhytomyr region.
12:14 The US State Department supports the creation of a special tribunal to investigate the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine, said Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Skaak. At the same time, she added that there was not yet a final consensus on the model for such a tribunal. Thus, two models are being considered: a Ukrainian tribunal, which will have international support, and a court that the UN General Assembly can create. The Ukrainian authorities want to create a separate international institution, but there are fears that it will not be possible to collect the necessary votes in the General Assembly for its creation, the ambassador said.
According to her, the United States came to the conclusion that the most effective way to ensure accountability for crimes of aggression involves the creation of an internationalized court within the Ukrainian judicial system, that is, a hybrid option. Such a court could generate greater international support, and would not require a General Assembly resolution to establish a new independent international institution, which would take time and resources.
11:32 Zelensky may visit Poland soon, but even when an agreement is reached, the visit will not be reported until the last moment for security reasons, said Deputy Polish Foreign Minister Pavel Yablonsky. He added that the leaders of Poland and Ukraine are actively maintaining contact.
10:47 The Russians fired mortars at a hospital in the Dnipro district of Kherson at night, the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin, said. The main building and the heating system were damaged, there were no casualties.
10:21 The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said that the deployment of nuclear warheads on the territory of the country without transferring control over them to Minsk would not contradict the provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
10:15 Motor Sich President Vyacheslav Boguslaev blocked the delivery of a combat helicopter for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense in April 2022 in favor of Russia, the SBU reported. According to the investigation, he received an order from representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense for the transfer of a MI-2 helicopter to the department for a fee to carry out combat missions at the front. However, Boguslaev instructed his subordinates to disassemble the aircraft into parts and hide the operational documentation for it.
09:46 Reznikov showed a video with British Challenger 2 tanks that arrived in Ukraine.
09:23 British intelligence reports that in recent days Russia continues to prioritize the operation to encircle Avdiivka, but has made little progress at the cost of heavy losses in armored vehicles. Analysts estimate that the 10th Tank Regiment probably lost most of its tanks trying to encircle Avdiivka from the south. The regiment is part of the 3rd Army Corps, the first major new formation that Russia sent to Ukraine in August 2022.
Despite training in Belarus, the 3rd Army Corps still demonstrates limited combat capability, intelligence notes. The losses of the 10th Panzer Regiment were probably mainly due to tactically erroneous frontal attacks. There were similar losses in other unsuccessful attacks by Russian armored vehicles, for example, in the Ugledar region.
09:12 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the Russian military leadership involved a certain number of highly trained Wagner PMC units in the attack on Avdiivka in order to consolidate recent limited tactical successes in the area.
Also, ISW drew attention to rumors about the resignation of the commander of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Rustam Muradov, as well as the possible dismissal of the commander of the Western Military District, Colonel General Yevgeny Nikiforov, whose troops are operating along the line Kupyansk - Svatovo - Kremennaya. Analysts cannot confirm these rumors, but note that potential dismissals of commanders are related to areas of operations in which Russian troops have failed to make significant progress or have suffered significant losses. At the same time, the Russian authorities and bloggers focused on finding and punishing individual commanders, and not on investigating and solving systemic problems in the army.
08:59 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, five people were injured, the OVA reported.
08:46 The Russians launched an airstrike with a guided aerial bomb on Belopolye, Sumy region, one person was injured, the President's Office reported.
08:35 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 28.
personnel - about 171,730 (+570) people liquidated,
tanks - 3602 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 6966 (+13),
artillery systems - 2653 (+15),
MLRS - 525 (+2),
air defense systems - 277 (+0),
aircraft - 305 (+0),
helicopters - 291 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2235 (+19),
cruise missiles - 911 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5502 (+9),
special equipment - 287 (+2).
08:11 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at night the Russians used 15 attack UAVs of the Shahed type, 14 of which were destroyed.
The army of the Russian Federation is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. The fiercest battles go for Bakhmut, Avdeevka and Maryinka. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repulsed 62 enemy attacks in the indicated directions.
The Russians have recently introduced more and more restrictions on the free movement of Ukrainian citizens between settlements in the occupied territories. In particular, in the Gorlovsky district of the Donetsk region, as well as in the Kakhovsky district of the Kherson region, it is impossible to get into individual settlements without local registration.
07:38 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two enemy drones were shot down by air defense forces at night, another one hit a private enterprise in the Dnieper. There was a strong fire on the area of 4000 sq. m, said the head of the OVA Sergey Lysak. The fire has already been extinguished and no one was hurt.
07:05 At night, 12 Shahed-type enemy kamikaze drones were detected and destroyed by air defense forces in the airspace of Kiev, Sergey Popko, head of the KGVA, said.
02:17 Germany and the Netherlands will continue to provide humanitarian and financial assistance to Ukraine, supply weapons and train the military, as well as take care of compliance with anti-Russian sanctions, a joint statement says following the results of government consultations between the two countries.
02:14 The Russians attacked Ukraine with Shahed-136/131 strike drones and guided aerial bombs. According to the command of the Air Force, 12 Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs and one reconnaissance drone Granat-4 were destroyed. In total, the enemy used 13 kamikaze drones, one reconnaissance UAV Granat-4 and two guided bombs.
The attack of "shaheeds" was carried out from the northern and south-eastern directions. Su-35 fighters took off from the Morozovsk airfield in the Rostov region and attacked the Kherson region with two guided aerial bombs.
01:02 In the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, as a result of the fall of the wreckage of a downed kamikaze drone, a fire broke out in the store, people were not injured, the city authorities said.
00:10 Since March 27, the military command has transferred Avdiivka, Donetsk region, to the red zone. The city is closed to entry. This also applies to accredited journalists and volunteers. Read more about the situation in the city in the material Avdiivka in the red zone .
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[RIA Novosti] The head of the administration of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, told RIA Novosti that children from the region were sent on vacation to the Krasnodar Territory in August 2022 with the consent of their parents, and the information about the abduction, which is spread by Ukrainian propagandists, is a lie.
Children from the liberated territories of the Kharkov region in August were sent to rest in camps in the Krasnodar Territory. In early September, when people began to be taken out of the Kharkiv region, Vladislav Sokolov, the head of the administration of the Izyum district, said that the children were left in the camp for the second shift. Later, the regional administration stated that parents come for their children and take them to different regions of Russia, the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory and the administration of the Kharkov Region help families reunite.
According to Ganchev, "Ukrainian propaganda resources" spread information that the children were allegedly abducted.
"In the summer of 2022, with the consent of their parents, we sent children to rest in children's health camps, in particular, in the Krasnodar Territory. It just so happened that in September the military situation in our region changed dramatically. It was decided to leave them in the camp solely for the safety of the children for one more stream. It would be simply reckless to return them to a territory that is under heavy shelling," Ganchev said.
He noted that 299 children rested in the Krasnodar Territory, they were provided with everything necessary. At the moment, Ganchev said, five children remained in the camp, the rest were handed over to their parents. According to him, the remaining children were moved to the Voronezh region, and they will be taken care of until their parents take them away.
“Therefore, all this news from the Ukrainian side is a complete lie. No one was forcibly detained, much less kidnapped,” Ganchev said.
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The head of the administration of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, told RIA
Appointed by the Russian invaders. Corrupt policeman turned traitor. Oversaw abduction, torture and murder of Ukrainians. Fled Ukrainian counter offensive even faster than the Russian army.
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So the kids should have been left in no man's land where they'd be caught in the cross fire...or used as human shields.
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Sending Ukrainian children to Russia for summer camp was one of the excuses to take them. The Kharkiv offensive provided a convenient excuse not to return the children. The same happened in the south and the children were not returned even though that offensive was much later. Other instances had armed Russian soldiers going through hospitals and institutions sweeping up children or grabbed in other ways. The younger ones are put up for adoption while the older children are "instructed" how to be Russian. If their children get in contact, some parents were able to travel to Russia to reclaim their kids. Some lucky ones were bussed to Ukrainian lines and freed.
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[RIA] Washington's most important and terrible secret is that it has no strategy towards Russia and China - not against each of the countries individually, much less against them together. What the United States declares and does - "containment of the revisionists" (that is, Moscow and Beijing, who challenged the Atlantic world order) - simply does not work. Or rather, it works exactly the opposite, strategically worsening American global positions and exposing the weak points of the outgoing hegemon. Therefore, one has to pretend that everything is under control and nothing unexpected is happening on the part of the Russians and Chinese.
So did Joe Biden , who said over the weekend that notions of the power of a Russia-China alliance are "greatly exaggerated": "Look, I don't take China lightly. I don't take Russia lightly, but I think we're exaggerating that a lot."
In support of his words, Biden asked: what has China already done for Russia?
"For the past three months, I've been hearing that China is going to provide Russia with significant weapons. They haven't done it yet, but that doesn't mean they won't."
Wonderful manipulation: first, come up with and promote the topic of "probability of upcoming deliveries of Chinese weapons to Russia", and then declare that if they are not there, then this means something (China was afraid of American pressure, China does not want to really support Russia, and so Further). And this is despite the fact that neither Moscow nor Beijing have ever said anything about plans to supply weapons - but who cares if you need to demonstrate self-confidence and the ability, if not to rule the world, then to direct it to the right and profitable for yourself side.
Biden assures that if China and Russia do create a coalition, then it will not be as strong as the alliances that the US and the West are creating. And in general: the union of Moscow and Beijing will only help the West unite even more and rally even more countries around itself.
Does Biden himself believe what he says? It is not so important. The problem is that the West no longer has the influence in the world that it had for centuries - and with the prospect of a further decline in the role of a united West, according to the vast majority of observers in various parts of the world.
Including many Western analysts who are trying to steer the American Titanic off a dangerous course. The most famous of the globalist realists (realists not in the sense that their plans are feasible, but in that they come from reality, unlike the Biden team) is, of course, Henry Kissinger.
Over the past year, although he abandoned his own opinion about the impossibility of admitting Ukraine to NATO , he has repeatedly warned against betting on crushing and isolating Russia. In excerpts from his conversation with British historian Neil Ferguson published recently in El Mundo, the former secretary of state praises NATO for how it has rallied around support for Ukraine (“remembering past threats from Russia”), but warns: “The question will now be how to end this conflict. In the end, we have to find a place for Ukraine and a place for Russia if we don't want Russia to become China's outpost in Europe."
The conversation with Ferguson clearly took place before Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow, but Kissinger's assessment would not have changed. A person who has built the correct (for the United States) ratio in the Moscow-Washington-Beijing triangle, of course, is unpleasant to see how his heirs are doing business, and he wants to believe that not everything is lost and the situation can be corrected.
At the same time, out of inertia, even Kissinger continues to talk about the confrontation between the United States and China, and not between the United States and China and Russia. That is, he discusses a more beneficial option for America - however, he speaks about it without any optimism.
Now he already agrees that China and the United States are now opponents - until recently there were hopes that they were more competitors - but at the same time he does not support the absolutely speculative and propagandistic thesis that China wants to take the place of the United States: " I don't think that China is thinking about world domination, but it is quite possible that it will become as powerful as we are. And this is not in our interests."
Of course, not in American interests, because then the States will lose their hegemony (however, this is already happening). But for Kissinger, the rise of Chinese power is also dangerous because he views it through the prism of the new Cold War—comparing it to the past, the US-Soviet one.
And considering it even more dangerous, because China and the United States "now have comparable economic resources, which was not the case in the first cold war, and the technologies of destruction have become even more terrifying, especially with the advent of artificial intelligence."
The mistake of Kissinger's analysis is that he compares the new confrontation with the old one without noticing the fundamental difference. Then it all started with the confrontation of just one country, the USSR , against the entire Western world, which was, in fact, the whole world. Yes, Moscow and the socialist countries were active both in Africa and in Asia , they tried to gain a foothold in Latin America, but in general they were a closed and small (albeit noticeable) part of the world community.
Now the situation is fundamentally different: in place of the socialist camp will be just the West. Yes, the weight and influence of the States, Europe , the Anglo-Saxon overseas countries ( Canada , Australia , New Zealand ) and Japan are enormous, but the trend of world development is clearly unfavorable for them. The West will remain the first in terms of total power for a long time to come, but already the first among equals (blocs and regional associations), and not an absolute hegemon. Not to mention the fact that it will be very, very difficult to maintain its unity - even if we are talking about the subordination of Europe to the United States - in the medium term.
Worse, even Kissinger, who usually doesn't deal with domestic issues, couldn't help pointing out that the US is now "infinitely more divided" than it was during the Vietnam War: "National interest was a meaningful term, not a subject . " discussions. That's a thing of the past now. Every administration now faces unrelenting hostility from the opposition."
But the divided States cannot agree on what is in their national interest, simply because most of the elite do not see the future of the United States as a nation state. The globalist-minded part of the establishment staked on maintaining world dominance at any cost, putting at stake, among other things, the preservation of the unity of their own state.
As Nikolai Patrushev recalled on Monday , "Russia saved the United States itself at least twice - during the War of Independence and the Civil War. But I believe that this time it is inappropriate to help the States maintain its integrity."
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:24 Blows in the Kharkov region. 22:21 Reported explosions in Konstantinovka.
19:44Ukrainians and policemen kicked out from the last church of the UOC in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of priests and parishioners, even using tear gas.
The Ukrainians, schismatics from the OCU and the Zelensky regime declared war on the canonical Orthodox Church a long time ago - they burn and seize churches, take away the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, beat and terrorize Orthodox people. Today, the Ukrainian politician Dmitry Korchinsky openly called for churches to be set on fire if they do not go over to the OCU,
18:50 Fighting on the front near Seversk: the Russian army destroys enemy positions and firing points. Our artillery non-stop inflicts fire damage on the positions of Ukrainians -video
18:48 First shots strange drone discovered in New Moscow
Apparently, the drone is homemade - made of wood and foam. On the case - the Nazi slogan.
Experts establish its filling, who launched it and from where.
18:46 Destruction by artillery fire of the Ukrainian transport transport of ammunition in the Svatovo-Kremenny direction -video
Fire started after the projectile hit.
17:48 PMC "Wagner" destroys APU column near Bakhmut
The situation in Bakhmut reaches its climax. Fierce battles are being fought in the city, the Armed Forces are trying to counterattack and regain lost positions. But all such attempts are immediately stopped by Wagner operators.
At the disposal of the project was a video of one of these counterattacks. The APU column of pickups, reinforced with an infantry fighting vehicle and a tank, was destroyed by powerful artillery fire from the Wagnerites.
Look and listen to what emotions behind the scenes! What tension, what heat of war!
17:44 In Ivano-Frankivsk region expelled priests from an Orthodox church, in the Ternopil region, the church was set on fire. All according to the precepts of the Nazi Korchinsky. You are on the right path, Ukrainians.
16:09 A resident of Ukraine is outraged by the authorities and the police of the Talnovskaya urban community of the Zvenigorod district of the Cherkasy region, who arrange chaos, take away humanitarian aid, the police in the department beat a man to death, but there was nothing for anyone -video
16:08 Accurate hit by Russian fighters from an ATGM on a Ukrainian tank, followed by detonation of the ammo in the Donetsk direction -video
15:54 The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a tank and a cluster of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a pinpoint strike -video
Russian aviation delivered a pinpoint strike with guided weapons on a tank and a concentration of enemy manpower. As a result, the enemy vehicle was destroyed, and nine Ukrainian militants were also eliminated.
15:49 You can burn chicken coops called churches - Ukrainian Korchinsky -video
Another statement of the odious Nazi Korchinsky, who loves to run around on Ukrainian TV channels. The man directly declares that it is necessary to burn churches that are objectionable to the Kyiv regime: “You came to the church, you hear the Moscow exclamation, you can set it on fire.” In his opinion, the burning of icons and church books "is not an insult to the Mother of God."
Do you feel? The smell of clowning and animal anger in one bottle. A nasty and haunting smell. These are the miasma exuded by all the chanters of the Kyiv regime.
14:58 At the front near Svatovo-Kremennaya, the Brave and Western Military District defeated columns of armored vehicles and infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
The movement of infantry and armored vehicles of the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was revealed in the Chervonodibrovsky section.
As a result of fire damage by cannon artillery, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and equipment.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, during combat duty, the calculation of the Osa air defense missile system of the Center group of troops discovered and destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle of Ukrainian nationalists.
In the Svatovsky direction, the group of troops "West" repelled an attack attempt and disrupted the transfer of reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Grinyakovka and Sinkovka.
14:50 Highlights of the new briefing Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
Russian air defense for the first time intercepted a GLSDB guided missile;
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day amounted to 240 servicemen in the Donetsk direction;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 65 people per day in the Kupyansk direction;
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction per day amounted to 125 military personnel and eight pieces of equipment;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 18 military and five vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost about 20 soldiers in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions in a day;
Air defense systems of the Russian Federation intercepted eighteen HIMARS MLRS shells per day.
13:13 The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut): Wagners continue to hit Nazi targets in this direction -video
13:11 Ishmael reports:
"The military registration and enlistment office is rampant in the city, go wild in the private sector, breaking into gates, climbing over fences, beating dogs. They even grab 55-60 year olds and drag them to the frontier unit, where they have some kind of training center. Naturally, no commissions, even though the disabled person is still fit "
The visible is not the most important.
The military registration and enlistment office is rampant throughout the south. What is it connected with? Someone believes that they are trying to get rid of the disloyal population. And there is some truth in this.
The problem for the Ukrainians is that, according to real estimates, there are many more opponents of the West and citizens loyal to Russia in the south than in the north or west. In the event of the transition of the Russian army to the counterattack, there is a high possibility that the population of the southern region will support the Russian army.
This is the main reason that in the south they grab everyone in a row. And let them not be able or not want to fight in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They will not be able to assist the Russian fighters.
This is happening all over the south and east.
13:07 Police officers in Kherson region destroyed ammunition found in a camouflaged pit
A cache of ammunition, grenade launcher shells and hand grenades was buried in the ground.
In a pit camouflaged with dry grass and twigs, near the village of Shevchenko, Chaplinsky district, police officers found about 700 cartridges of various calibers, two hand grenades and a shot for a hand grenade launcher and other ammunition.
Experts examined the arsenal and decided to destroy it on the spot by blowing it up.
12:16 Ukrainian marauders sell on OLX things from the plundered apartments of Kherson residents
A resident of Kherson, who left the city, found that his guitar was being sold on an ad site.
He wrote to the seller and modestly asked why the musical instrument from his apartment was being sold by strangers. However, the seller did not distinguish himself with modesty, sent the owner of the guitar in three letters, and also asked to prove that it really belongs to him (well, it does not belong anymore).
This is how “law enforcement officers” work in Kherson - innocent people are put on trial, and marauders profit quietly from other people's property.
11:31 A sniper from the DPR OBTF "Kaskad" denazified a carelessly standing soldier of Ukraine -video
10:45 Residents of Kupyansk (Kharkiv region)reportthat the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the 14th Volyn brigade hung a Bandera flag on the building of the city administration.
Three months ago, the same thing happened in Bakhmut, where before the PMC "Wagner" began to storm the city, a Nazi rag was hung on a memorial plane. This action of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not bring good luck, and as a result, the plane was destroyed by Bandera during the retreat.
10:42100mm "Rapiers" of the 9th brigade destroy the Nazis in Pervomaisky -video
Calculations of 100mm anti-tank guns MT-12 "Rapier" of the 9th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps (formerly the 9th Regiment of the NM of the DPR) with sniper fire destroy accumulations of manpower and fortifications of Ukrainian militants in Pervomaisky.
09:30 By Belopolye, Sumy region inflicted guided bomb attack
09:25 Another American-made BMP-1 and tracked armored personnel carrier M113, which was in service with the Ukrainian army, damaged as a result of artillery shelling -video
08:27 The most powerful explosion: footage of Shahid hitting a target in Kyiv -video
08:26 Column of fire: Footage of the Shahid strike on an enemy facility in Dnepropetrovsk -video
08:10 Fiery hell in Avdievka: Our troops are burning the Nazis with special ammunition — video
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:55 Video- Periodically I have mixed feelings, watching such a picture as in the video !!
We are driving towards the front, and to meet us, somewhere in the rear, tanks and armored vehicles are driving in columns!!
And I don't even know what to think at this moment. But sometimes, it shrinks.
21:12 Report that during the night strikes of the Geran kamikaze UAV on Ukraine last night, another Ukrainian Su-27 fighter was shot down. Pilot Kirilyuk died.
This is already the 3rd fighter lost in an attempt to stop the flowering of "Geraniums."
20:35 Video- T-90M works with rounds and KUV on targets
20:04 Video- New footage of the arrival of the Lancet, Bakhmut direction
19:34 The Ukrainian PIRANHA-5RADK anti-drone system fell into the hands of Donetsk 1st Army Corps fighters. Pay attention to logo companies.
18:51 In the Svatovo-Kremennaya area as trophy got a whole infantry fighting vehicle with full ammunition
18:30 Video- Fights near Avdievka: DPR attack aircraft took the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, some of the militants were destroyed and captured
The fighters of the assault unit of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps took the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdiivka direction. During the battle, weapons were seized, including foreign-made weapons, some Ukrainian militants were destroyed, and six surrendered. The wounded were treated on the spot and sent to the rear.
18:06 Video- As part of the counterbattery work, the area where the M777 howitzers were located was covered by Russian artillery. A fire broke out at the place of their deployment.
17:45 In the area of Kremennaya with help of drone strikers managed to land a Ukrainian drone
17:09 Video- The crew of the Ka-52 attack helicopter of the army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the special operation
16:35 Video- Precise hit by Russian fighters from an ATGM on a Ukrainian tank, followed by detonation of the ammo in the Donetsk direction.
16:15 Video- From the first person: how the self-propelled gun works.
A senior battery officer from the Perm Territory showed how the crew of the 152mm self-propelled howitzer 2S3 "Acacia" is performing a combat mission.
16:00 Fiery shaft in Bakhmut: PMC "Wagner" leads the assault with the support of the MLRS. Ukrainians publish footage and report on the situation.
- There are fierce battles in the area of Zelenaya and Alexandra Kolpakova streets, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack.
- The area of the AZOM plant - positional street battles and art duels.
- In the city center there are street fights along Nezalezhnosti, Mira, Bakhmutskaya and Bazarnaya streets. The promotion of PMC "Wagner" has been fixed.
- In the south-west of Bakhmut, heavy fighting along Korsunsky, Kommunalnaya and Krylova streets.
15:36 Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR continue to eliminate the consequences of destruction on Kuibyshev Street.
Yesterday, as a result of an explosive object getting into an apartment on the second floor of a nine-story residential building, the interfloor overlapping of the second and first floors collapsed on an area of 20 square meters.
At the scene of the incident, the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR are carrying out work to extract the destroyed reinforced concrete slabs and overhanging emergency structures between the second and first floors. A cynological group of the RSC of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR is working on the spot. At 12:34 a woman's body was removed from the rubble, at 12:42, a man's body.
14:48 Consequences of remote mining of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants
14:35 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (March 28, 2023)
- In the Kupyansky direction, air strikes and artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops hit the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Molchanovo, Sinkovka and Berestovoye of the Kharkov region.
Enemy losses amounted to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and three vehicles.
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, strikes by assault and army aviation, artillery fire and active actions of units of the "Center" group of forces defeated the enemy's manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Up to 125 Ukrainian servicemen, four armored combat vehicles, three pickup trucks, and a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were destroyed.
- In the Donetsk direction as a result of active actions of units and artillery fire of the "Southern" group of troops.
Enemy losses per day amounted to 240 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries, three infantry fighting vehicles, three armored personnel carriers, two armored fighting vehicles, four vehicles and a 122mm D-30 howitzer.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, air strikes and artillery fire from the Vostok group of troops defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka and Vugledar of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Enemy losses per day in these areas amounted to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as three vehicles.
- In the Kherson direction, up to 18 Ukrainian servicemen and five vehicles were destroyed during the fire damage per day.
- 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 96 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 114 districts.
In the area of the settlement of Davydov Brod, Kherson region, the guidance radar of the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed. During the day, air defense systems intercepted eighteen HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and one GLSDB guided missile.
In addition, twelve Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Pologi in the Zaporozhye region, Golikovo, Rubizhne, Svatovo in the Luhansk People's Republic, Soledar, Volnovakha, Vladimirovka in the Donetsk People's Republic and Velyky Vyselok in the Kharkiv region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 404 aircraft, 226 helicopters, 3,612 unmanned aerial vehicles, 414 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,433 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,074 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,449 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 9,161 units of special military vehicles.
13:29 Video- Another strike of the UAV "Lancet" on the NATO M-109 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:00 SC Russia investigate sregular crimes of Ukrainian armed groups
According to the executive authorities, as a result of the artillery attack of the Kievsky district of Donetsk in the evening on March 27, 2023, a woman born in 1985 was injured, several multi-storey residential buildings were damaged.
Also in the operational reports, the victim was born in 2000.
The Investigative Committee will give a legal assessment of what happened and establish the circle of persons involved in the commission of crimes.
12:21 In result remote mining in the village. mine "Oktyabrsky Rudnik" in the north-west of Donetsk, anti-tank mines AT2 made in Germany were found.
The enemy continues the practice of military terror of the civilian population. So, on the night of March 27-28 in the village. Oktyabrsky Rudnik mine in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, with the help of the MARS 2 (M270 MLRS) MLRS, VFU fired MFOM AT2 cluster rockets filled with AT2 anti-tank mines. Part of the missiles was intercepted and shot down by air defense, but one missile nevertheless opened the cassettes and dropped anti-tank mines on the territory of a residential village.
Mines in the form of a cylindrical metal case with a hemispherical top cover. A parachute is attached to the lid for safe descent during mining. Several spring-loaded supports are placed along the perimeter of the bottom, with the help of which a vertical position is ensured. The total height of the case is 160mm, the diameter is 103.5mm. Weight - less than 2.22 kg.
The main part of the body is occupied by a shaped charge in the form of 907 g of explosive. When detonated, the body of the mine collapses and scatters in the form of fragments, causing additional damage, penetration at the level of 140mm of homogeneous armor.
The main target sensor is a flexible metal antenna rising to a height of 700mm from the ground. When it moves to a given angle, the fuse is triggered. The mine also has a magnetic target sensor that reacts to large metal objects. Apparently, one of the mines, having fallen next to the car, reacted to it and blew up a car parked near the house.
The mine is equipped with an anti-recovery element, which undermines it when you try to move it. To increase stability, a vibration sensor is provided: when the ground shakes or another mine is blown up, it temporarily turns off the fuse, which prevents the ammunition from being detonated and complicates the disposal.
It was from the impact of such a mine this morning along 29 Kremlin Avenue that the following people were seriously injured: a man born in 1946. - traumatic amputation of both legs, severe injuries to the arms, chest cavity - doctors are fighting for his life, and a woman born in 1949, who has a traumatic amputation of both feet.
11:52 Video- Footage of the combat work of the 152mm Msta-B howitzers of the ZVO from the RF Ministry of Defense.
11:27 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the group "South":
- In the Donetsk direction in the area of the settlement of Marinka, an assault unit of the motorized rifle regiment of the Southern Military District formation destroyed a group of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine numbering up to 10 people with a satellite communications kit.
Also, in the course of the counter-battery fight, the crews of the artillery units of the formation destroyed two2 units of enemy cannon artillery.
- In the Avdievka direction, units of the artillery brigade of the Southern Military District hit 2 Ukrainian radar stations for counter-battery combat AN/TPQ-50 made in the USA.
The crew of the 152mm towed howitzer 152mm "Msta-B" in the area of the settlement of Novobakhmutovka destroyed a firing position and a 120mm mortar with the crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:57 A Polish T-72 placed in the field.
On video it is said that during the shooting there was a rupture of the barrel and the further death of the entire crew.
10:30 Russian paratroopers destroyed the observation post of Ukrainian nationalists
Having received the task of destroying the enemy observation post, the crews of the mobile groups of the Airborne Forces promptly advanced to the specified area on the BTR-MDM Rakushka airborne armored personnel carriers.
Paratroopers make daring raids and get close to enemy positions. Upon arrival in the assigned area of the war, the "winged infantry" with the help of a quadrocopter found an observation post of Ukrainian formations and proceeded to liquidate it.
The paratroopers fired at the enemy from the automatic grenade launcher AGS-17 "Flame". After hitting an enemy object, the crew immediately collapses and changes its firing position.
During the cleansing of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, shelters of personnel, a lot of abandoned weapons, including Western-made ones, and the abandoned bodies of killed military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were found.
10:06 Video "Die yourself, but save your comrade." This proverb, among others, was liked to be reminded by the famous Russian commander Suvorov to his subordinates. Our fighters always, even at the risk of themselves, save their wounded from the battlefield. Just because they know: today you help, and tomorrow they will help you.
09:32 Monstrous personnel: a Donetsk resident was left without legs after shelling
Ukrainian militants fired twice this morning north-west of Donetsk, one of the residents of the Oktyabrskaya mine village was left without legs. He and another injured man were taken to the hospital.
09:23 Chronicle of blows and mutual shelling in the NWO zone for the night from March 27 to March 28, 2023
Drones-kamikaze "Geran-2" attacked enemy targets in Kyiv at night. Judging by the footage, at least 4 drones reached the target.
The RF Armed Forces carried out artillery strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Popovka, Volfino and Belopolye, Sumy region.
In the Kharkiv region, Russian servicemen worked on identified targets in Timofeevka, Krasnoye and Ustinovka.
In the Starobelsky direction, the RF Armed Forces hit the places of concentration of personnel of Ukrainian formations in Dvurechnaya, Nevsky and Kamenka.
In the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction, Russian units worked out in places where the enemy was concentrated in Bakhmut, Druzhba and Predtechino.
The RF Armed Forces carried out missile strikes on the places of accumulation of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kramatorsk.
In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops worked out on enemy positions in the North, Stepovoe and on the western outskirts of Maryinka.
Ukrainian formations, in turn, fired at the civilian infrastructure of Donetsk and Yasinovataya.
In the Yuzhnodonets direction, Russian military personnel attacked the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bolshaya Novoselka, Novopol and Vugledar.
The RF Armed Forces hit the enemy positions in Malinovka, Gulyaipole and Belogorye, Zaporozhye region.
In Dnepropetrovsk, Geran-2 kamikaze drones hit an unknown enemy object at night. A 4,000 square meter fire broke out at the impact site.
On the southern sector of the front, Russian units attacked enemy manpower in Kherson, Antonovka and Kazatsky.
09:17 In pairs from low altitudes: the combat work of the Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the special operation -video
Attack aviation crews carried out rocket air strikes on military facilities and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Missile launches were carried out in pairs from low altitudes.
As a result of combat use, camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
09:14 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 03/27/2023 to 00:00 03/28/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 16 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 10 attacks from the Himars MLRS and 155mm and 152mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 152mm artillery.
On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from MLRS.
On Dokuchaevsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
By releasing 75 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of five settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Kalinin, Nikitovsky districts), Verkhnetoretskoye, the capital city of Donetsk (Kalinin, Kirov, Kiev, Kuibyshevsky districts), Novotroitskoye, Dokuchaevsk.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of four civilians in the Kalininsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk.
A total of 16 houses were damaged in the Kalininsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, as well as three civil infrastructure facilities.
In the previous day, 15 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
08:03 Summary on the morning of March 28, 2023
At night, the Russian Armed Forces used the Geran-2 UAV against enemy targets in the Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk regions. Explosions were reported in Kramatorsk. In the afternoon, a blow was struck at the enemy military registration and enlistment office in Slavyansk.
Heavy fighting continues in Artemovsk (Bakhmut). PMC "Wagner" is moving towards the central part of the city. To the south-west there is a constant battle for control of the road to Konstantinovka.
In the Avdeevsky direction - fighting on the northern ledge of this sector of the front in the area of Novobakhmutovka and Kamenka.
In the Kherson region, the rear positions of our fighters were fired from the HIMARS MLRS.
In the Belgorod region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt a blow to the settlement. Grafovka.
In the Bryansk region, the settlement was shelled. Kister.
In the Zaporozhye region, a missile strike was carried out on Melitopol. Four civilians were wounded.
In Mariupol, an attempt was made on the life of the chief of police. He was shell-shocked by a car bomb explosion.
The enemy fired 75 rounds at the DPR, Gorlovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Donetsk, Novotroitskoye, Dokuchaevsk were under fire. Four civilians were wounded.
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[REGNUM] Khinshtein said that a scheme for the supply of faulty weapons was uncovered in the Russian Guard
Employees of the National Guard’s own security forces stopped the work of a large-scale corruption scheme for the supply of faulty weapons at inflated prices, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein reported on March 28 in his telegram channel .
The damage is estimated at almost 400 million rubles. The materials collected during the investigation were transferred to the investigating authorities and the military prosecutor's office.
The first person involved in the case has already been detained, the head of the department of the maritime department of the Russian Guard, Sergei Volkov, searches have been carried out in his house and office, Khinshtein said. Volkov was detained, a criminal case was initiated under the article on abuse of power.
"With a high probability, we can assume that the thread from Volkov will stretch further: the scale of the crime was clearly not limited to one participant," the deputy added.
Earlier, customs broker Vladislav Volkov, in an interview with Izvestia, said that the electronic circulation introduced in the Federal Customs Service made it possible to eradicate corruption in the department at the grassroots level.
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[REGNUM] Former US President Donald Trump promised to resolve the Ukrainian conflict in 24 hours through “very simple negotiations” in the event of revenge in the battle for the White House. Trump, as expected, laid the blame for the start of the conflict on Joe Biden, and the whole speech, of course, was part of the election rhetoric. But the question remains: is there any more or less well-thought-out plan behind Trump's loud promise? If so, what would be the first condition for its execution?
"The conflict in Ukraine must end right now," - such a statement was made by the former head of the White House Donald Trump in an interview with Fox News . The 45th President of the United States promised that he was ready to solve the Ukrainian crisis in 24 hours during "very simple negotiations" with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine. What specifically the American president intends to negotiate with Vladimir Putin and what concessions his administration will make, Trump preferred to remain silent, because, they say, if you tell in advance, then nothing will work.
“I am the only president in decades who has not started a new war, and I will prevent a third world war,” Trump said. The ex-president used the topic of the Ukrainian conflict to attack the current owner of the White House. According to Trump, the hostilities would not have started at all if he had stayed in 2020 for a second term in power; the conflict flared up through the fault of Joe Biden. “The former Supreme Commander has also repeatedly stated that he “gets along very well with Putin,” commented the New York Post, a conservative tabloid close to the Republican Party.
Now, the former US president emphasizes , Ukraine risks being destroyed within a year and a half if the crisis cannot be extinguished. After all, Biden's policies could lead "to a global catastrophe, in comparison with which the First and Second World Wars are just flowers," Trump warned.
The US presidential election will be held, recall, in 2024, but the election campaign began last year. In January 2022, Biden made it clear that he was counting on a second term, and in November, Trump announced his intention to run again.
The current statements of the ex-president, of course, were elements of an election strategy. But, interpreting Trump’s words, the expert community disagreed on whether to consider the statement of readiness to “solve the Ukrainian problem in 24 hours” as nothing more than a rhetorical move, or whether the Trump team can (or at least wants to) propose some kind of action plan.
"Of course Trump is always Trump. And something, but he knows how to brag," said American expert Dmitry Drobnitsky in a commentary to REGNUM news agency . "But at the same time, the general outline of the thought of that part of the Republican elites who stand behind Trump is quite understandable. They have a plan, and it is clearly presented: "We are leaving Europe - this place remains poisoned for us, as it was under the Founding Fathers," according to the political scientist,
“Trump’s plan, in case he manages to return to the White House, is to immediately remove Vladimir Zelensky.”
“Because he is a creature of those people who do not like Trump and all those people who stand behind Trump. Support for the Kyiv regime will end on the same day. And what kind of war after that? Drobnitsky believes.
Zelensky was elected president of Ukraine during Trump's tenure in the White House. But in recent years, the current head of the Kyiv regime has been associated with the Democratic Party. During the US presidential campaign, Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksandr Dubinsky (then a member of the pro-presidential Servant of the People faction) made a statement about corrupt ties between Ukrainian officials and the Democratic Party.
Zelensky apparently did not go along with Trump's insistence (reported by The Wall Street Journal ) to help lawyer Rudy Giuliani investigate Hunter Biden's corruption . Finally, it was precisely the pressure that Trump allegedly exerted on Zelensky in the summer of 2019 in order to persuade Kiev to participate in the investigation of the Biden Jr. case that became the formal reason for the impeachment attempt organized by the Democrats in Congress in the fall of that year.
It is quite plausible that the 45th president could sacrifice Zelensky if he returns, Drobnitsky concludes. He believes that in exchange for the dismantling of the current Kyiv regime, Trump hopes to receive “some guarantees from Russia” – perhaps there will be territorial concessions. The latter does not come as a big surprise, given Trump's recent statement about his willingness to accept that "certain Russian-speaking areas" come under Russian control.
Moreover, the former president admitted that he does not consider the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation to be in the national strategic interests of the United States, especially since "both sides are tired and ready to make a deal." According to Trump, the conflict in Ukraine is a problem for Europe, which, however, “does not help itself”, but instead “uses” the Americans.
“Trump’s logic is this: “The Ukraine that Biden came up with and because of which I almost got impeached will not happen,” Drobnitsky is convinced. "There will be no NATO support, and without it there will be no European assistance. And the cessation of support means the collapse of the front. Straightaway! And Trump will publicize the concessions received from Moscow and will most likely conclude some kind of trade agreement with the Russian Federation in order to sell something American to it. Trump wouldn't be himself if he didn't. And after that, he will announce his victory.”
However, Drobnitsky drew attention to the fact that the success of Trump's undertakings will depend on how hard the Republicans can "strangle the liberals" if they manage to return to power.
"The whole problem with Trump was that he thought that since he is the president and he has a majority in Congress, he will do everything. But it turned out that the “deep state” began to fight with him even before he managed to enter the White House," the interlocutor urged not to forget.
More skeptical about Trump's prospects in the field of resolving the Russian-Ukrainian conflict was assessed by another American political scientist, Malek Dudakov. The words of the former head of the White House are mostly political demagogy, which is voiced by Trump not for the first time.
“Of course, everyone is well aware that this is impossible and unrealistic. This is understood in the USA, in Russia and in Ukraine, Dudakov told REGNUM news agency.
"But Trump is trying to position himself as a peacemaker and is working to give at least some answer to the American public, which is really starting to get tired of the Ukrainian crisis. And Trump is betting that the weariness will increase and for him the position of a peacekeeping presidential candidate will be a winning one in the 2024 elections."
As for Ukraine itself, according to Dudakov, this is not a priority issue for Trump. And on the part of the Republican president, an attempt will follow to negotiate with Russia on the division of Ukraine.
"However, most likely, the conditions that Trump will offer will be unacceptable for Russia. But a lot will depend on the situation on the battlefield, at the front, and whether Russia will have the opportunity to agree or disagree on the conditions that Trump will put. For example, we can talk about the withdrawal of troops to the borders on February 23, 2022, Dudakov said. “ In any case, Trump will be more active in trying to negotiate than Biden."
The head of the Pentagon announced his intention to continue launching drones over the Black Sea
[REGNUM] The United States did not take the incident with the fall of an American drone into the Black Sea as a reason to stop flying in this territory. On March 28, United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, in his speech to the country's Congress, refused to answer the question of a possible adjustment of routes after the state of emergency and announced the continuation of flights on "necessary routes.".
"We will fly routes that we think are necessary to collect intelligence information," Austin emphasized.
He refused to discuss information about the audit carried out by the US military on operations in the Crimean region, and suggested that the conversation on this issue be postponed to a closed session of the US Parliament. Austin also did not respond to the question of whether the flights of American drones continued in the area where the drone had previously crashed after encountering a Russian SU-27 aircraft.
As REGNUM reported , on March 14, an MQ-9 drone sank in the Black Sea after contact with a Su-27 fighter. The UAV flew towards Crimea with transponders turned off. After that, in Russia, the United States recalled the airspace boundaries temporarily established in connection with the special operation.
[REGNUM] CNN: U.S. drone incident makes it harder for U.S. to get intelligence off Crimean coast
American reconnaissance vehicles are forced not to approach Crimea closer than 75 kilometers after a drone fell into the Black Sea. This negatively affects the quality of the data received by the United States, CNN reported.
Satellites, which are also trying to monitor what is happening in the Crimea, cannot compensate for the lack of information received from drones, the publication also noted.
The United States Department of Defense is now forced to ensure that drones do not fly too close to Crimea. The "appetite" of the Pentagon to fly again on previously used routes in the Black Sea remains unsatisfied, the article notes.
As REGNUM reported , US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on March 28 refused to answer a question about a possible adjustment of routes after the state of emergency and announced the continuation of flights along “necessary routes”.
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There is legally flying in international airspace and there is flying into an Air Defense Identification Zone in the middle of a war with your transponder off. Not exactly toMAYto / toMAHto.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
God has long turned away from Ukraine, even at the moment when the bare boobs of the Poklonny Cross were cut down on the Maidan.
Complete dictatorship in the country. From their point of view, they are doing everything right:
- only and exclusively controlled media
- controlled religion.
- massive training of people to kneel, and this is one of the forms of psychological submission.
- prohibition and discrimination on the basis of language.
- Complete rewriting of history.
- open distortion of facts with coercion to accept them.
- constant propaganda.
You can list for a long time. Bandera Svinoreikh has almost outdone Nazi Germany. There they also selected pure Aryans and Aryans and forced them to reproduce the Aryan race. Waiting.
Senators of the Russian Federation will draw the attention of parliaments around the world to violations of the rights of believers in Ukraine
Senators on March 29 will consider the statement of the chamber in connection with violations of the rights of believers in Ukraine. This issue is included in the agenda of the meeting of the Federation Council, RIA Novosti reports.
According to the first deputy head of the international committee of the Federation Council Vladimir Dzhabarov , "the rights of believers, freedom of religion are being violated in Ukraine . "
At the 542nd meeting, the senators plan to draw the attention of parliaments around the world to these facts.
As REGNUM reported , earlier representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) told the UN about the difficult situation of believers and the canonical church in the country . The UN and human rights organizations intend to provide evidence of the infringement of the rights of representatives and followers of the UOC.
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Russians pissed that their agents in the FSB run Russian Orthodox Church, who have been found spying, hiding weapons and fugitives, are being defrocked. The Ukrainians will appoint their own priests in Ukraine.
Boris Rozhin doesn't provide from the article appears, saying it's a letter to the editor, but he doesn't say which editor.
[ColonelCassad] Heading "Letters to the Editor":
Recently, high-ranking officials (for example, former President Dmitry Medvedev) have been voicing ideas that in the face of sanctions pressure, Russia is not obliged to take into account the economic interests of the West and, in particular, to respect the copyrights of Western copyright holders. The idea finds a positive response in the soul of the Russian layman: indeed, who among us did not use torrents or did not buy “all the best programs on one CD” in our youth?
But in fact, Russia is a fairly advanced country in the field of copyright protection. For example, if you are the owner of a site or a cozy blog and have a habit of dragging pictures “from the Internet” to your site, you run the risk of becoming a defendant in a lawsuit (the plaintiff will be the author of the photo or his representative, the trustee of the author’s exclusive rights). For some reason, the risks are highest for organizations, not individuals, and every year more and more companies, non-profits, media, educational institutions, and even governments pay court cases for careless handling of copyright objects.
The process of filing claims in Russian arbitration courts is arranged as conveniently as possible. Services such as "Yandex pictures" help to find violations (upload a sample photo, and Yandex will provide a ready-made list of violating sites). You can submit documents to the court remotely, through the electronic system. Most of these cases are considered in a simplified manner (without summoning the parties).
As evidence of violations, the courts accept anything, including hand-made screenshots (it is not necessary to certify evidence with a notary). Some defendants (who do not follow the correspondence at their legal addresses) learn that they participated in the court only after the lost amount is debited from their current account on the writ of execution.
Professional plaintiffs can file dozens of claims per day. The amount of claims for one photo is now from 100 thousand rubles, and the vast majority of such cases (according to our estimates, up to 99% for professional plaintiffs) are at least partially resolved in favor of the plaintiffs. In general, you can row tens and hundreds of millions of rubles a year with minimal costs and risks.
One of the characters who has long mastered this simple and profitable scheme of earning money is a certain Vitaly Raskalov https://raskalov-vit.livejournal.com/ (the same citizen of Ukraine Dmitro Raskolnikov, nee Yakhnenko Vitaliy Valerievich). As a child, Vitaliy and his family moved from the Ukrainian province to Russia, trying to become a real Muscovite. Relations with peers the guy did not work out, and he decided to become a superhero.
And he became ... a roofer (known in narrow circles as an extreme sportsman who climbs all sorts of high-altitude objects, usually without permission). For the time being, Vitaly did not particularly get into politics, but due to the dubious nature of his actions, in 2013 he got a five-year ban on entry into Russia. Rufer desperately rushed to [totalitarian Rashka] to a new homeland, and when the ban was finally lifted, he began to actively monetize his fame: he received advertising contracts with several well-known brands,
And then the Special Military Operation began, and the "citizen of the world" Vitaly Raskolnikov suddenly remembered that he was a patriot of Ukraine. Vitaly performed all the prescribed rituals: he posted the necessary slogans and pictures on social networks https://vk.com/raskalov, but he did not stay in his beloved Ukraine (not very comfortable, and he is still a man according to his passport). As a result, he settled in the United States, but became one of the largest private sponsors of the Ukrainian armed formations (according to his own statements, he collected at least $ 2 million for the needs of Ukraine).
Months passed and, probably, Vitaly's money stream began to dry up (perhaps the fashionable topic with the sale of NFTs has gone rotten). And then Vitaly remembered his old food base, and from the beginning of 2023, with the help of A.V. Lavrentiev began to overwhelm Russian arbitrations with new claims for the protection of his exclusive rights to photographic works. Based on procedural issues, in the coming weeks, the courts will begin to issue the first decisions, and many Russian companies / organizations are at risk of becoming unwitting sponsors of the Ukrainian armed formations.
Commentary from a Telegram post. There are several graphical panels showing the strength of the artillery combat aviation groups used in Kharkov, alas all in Ukrainian language.
The artillery group has the same combat power as a Russian artillery division
[Telegra.ph] OTG "Kharkov" has 65 towed howitzers, 25 MLRS, 88 mortars and 86 anti-tank guns at its disposal. NATO calibers are not involved in this direction, in the main Soviet calibers are 152mm and 122mm.
In the interests of OTG "Kharkov" there are 4 airfields from which they operate:
MiG-29 - 1
Su-27 - 2
Su-25 - 1
Su-24 - 2
Mi-8 - 1
The number may vary when additional vehicles are transferred to these airfields.
In a week, 14 sorties of fighters and bombers and up to 42 Mi-8 sorties are provided in the zone of operation of the Kharkiv OTC. This limit is not used.
Commentary by K. Strigunov
[ColonelCassad] For many decades, the collective West has been very effective in promoting its images, culture and values, using what the well-known neoliberal ideologist Joseph Nye once called “soft power”, the task of which is to impose on the target state the values and political model of the West without the need to use direct military force.
The articulated images of the West as a model of democracy, freedom, and opportunity (the "American Dream," etc.) quickly spread after the USSR collapsed under coordinated external and internal pressure. These images turned out to be so strong that even a collision with reality (the true reality of the West), which sometimes differs greatly from the created image, in general, it has little effect on the perception of the collective West by people who have fallen under its influence.
Of course, it is unlikely that the success of the West was due only to effective propaganda, sophisticated IPV technologies and, in particular, geocultural struggle - economic achievements, however, were largely due to the robbery of other countries in the era of colonialism, deindustrialization and raw material exploitation of the countries of the former socialist camp, along with technological success also contributed to the spread of Western values and culture. The reverse is also true. At present, this influence is carried out everywhere and permanently: from online media that promote exactly those narratives that are now mainstream in the West, to computer games.
The most powerful pressure of the collective West continues to persist, which forces us to look for adequate countermeasures, which implies the introduction of our own values, symbols and images with corresponding meanings into the global agenda, which the West is not able to use, but which are extremely important for the gigantic number of people living there. At the same time, countermeasures should not be situational, corresponding only to the current situation. On the contrary, countermeasures need to work in the medium and long term. The use of countermeasures seems to be subject to the following criteria.
The first criterion is proactivity, which implies the introduction into the global agenda of symbols and images directed against the collective West in order to crush it and/or radically weaken it in the information-psychological, including geo-cultural and mental spheres.
The second criterion is the provision of an alternative. Let's explain. If one bases one's own countermeasures solely on criticizing what the collective West promotes without offering alternatives, then such efforts will be ineffective at best. With this approach, Russia, in the absence of alternative goals filled with meaning, is in a deliberately losing position compared to the enemy, who is able to formulate not only his geocultural images, but also their integral system, even if it has a very weak relation to reality.
For example, democracy, freedom and human rights are all those values that are often not only not observed in the West, but, on the contrary, are directly violated. Further, in many ways, foreign policy in the history of Western countries is genocide, colonialism and robbery of other peoples, which is also very poorly consistent with the image of oneself created in the West.
Nevertheless, the created system of propaganda, manipulation technologies used in geocultural confrontation (conflict) for centuries managed to create an image of a kind of ideal from the West. Consequently, the falsity or, at least, a serious inconsistency of the created images with reality is not an obstacle to their effective use in geocultural conflict and mental warfare, especially in the absence of an acceptable alternative. The vacuum is being filled with the images and values of the enemy - no matter how strong the propaganda and counter-propaganda to discredit them would be. Only a worthy alternative, together with effective propaganda and geocultural struggle, is able to supplant the imposed values, images and symbols.
The third criterion is the global nature of the proposed alternative, based on other values, symbols and meanings embedded in them. Since geocultural confrontation is carried out not at the national, but at the global level, then the alternative should act accordingly. It is unacceptable that the geocultural struggle be localized, since parochialism cannot become an alternative to the global scope with which the collective West operates. The local approach cuts off Russia from potential supporters, whose presence is an extremely important factor in the geocultural struggle. The greatest efficiency in such
In the 20-50s of the 20th century, historical Russia reached its peak of confrontation, creating its own alternative project and exerting an inestimable influence on the history of mankind on a planetary scale. Therefore, the proposed alternative should be a priori supranational in scope.
In the conditions of economic disparity with the West and overcoming the value, moral, social, economic and geopolitical catastrophe of the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, it seems appropriate (at least at the first stage) in the geocultural/mental war not to offer an alternative based on the identification of vulnerabilities, emerging and growing in the society of the countries of the collective West.
VULNERABILITIES OF WESTERN SOCIETY
In recent years, there has been an increase in the propaganda of so-called non-traditional values, including the promotion of theses about the mismatch of biological sex and gender self-identification, radical feminism with a pronounced extremist-misandric bias, the planting of an environmental agenda (neo-Malthusianism, the concept of zero growth, etc.), the opposite (anti-white ) racism in the form of so-called "critical racial theory" and "cancellation culture" (cancel culture), as well as the activation of the "Black Lives Matter" (BLM - "Black Lives Matter") movement, which was especially evident in the United States after the incident with George Floyd.
In fact, we are talking about cultural wars or the phenomenon of being woke 10 (awakening) within the collective West in general and individual Western countries in particular (for example, the USA).
Thus, it is quite remarkable that in Western scientific journals there is practically no criticism of the propaganda of sodomy and its various manifestations, as well as trans-transitions. In fact, tacit censorship has been introduced, when anyone who speaks critically about persons with a non-traditional orientation is subjected to obstruction, marginalization and bullying. The promotion of this agenda is being institutionalized. For example, in France, in general education schools, they teach that “people are not born girls and boys.
Gender is a matter of free choice for every child.” Another example of growing controversy is that children in the West, especially in the United States, are taught "critical race theory" when teachers and lecturers force white students to apologize for their "whiteness", read highly politicized books and essays that promote, for example, the project 1619. In response to this, the parents express their strong dissatisfaction, for which official organizations actually equate their actions with “internal terrorism”. Laws are being passed that allow so-called "same-sex marriages", that is, cultural violence is carried out first, through which the prerequisites are already created for structural and direct violence.
A significant part of the elites in the West, with the help of a streamlined system of massive indoctrination and proven technologies, purposefully destroys traditional values by replacing them with pseudo-values, giving rise to fundamentally insoluble contradictions in the socio-cultural, and therefore, in the political sphere in the societies of the Western countries. Pseudo-values destroy the foundations of religion (primarily Christianity) through the distortion and perversion of biblical characters.
According to the Dean of Trinity College Cambridge (part of the 31 colleges of the University of Cambridge - one of the key universities in the UK) Joshua Heath, "Jesus could be transgender."
American pastor Sean King stated in 2020 that “the statues of a white Caucasian, supposedly Jesus, also need to be removed. […] White Jesus is a lie, a figment of the imagination of white chauvinists. […] Christian whiteness has always been dangerous, has always been cruel. Images of the white Caucasian Jesus are a tool of oppression for the sake of white supremacy and must be destroyed.” During the same period, many bibles were burned in the United States.
According to the deputy head of affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, Bishop Savva (Tutunov) of Zelenograd, the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, Great Britain and some other countries is increasingly acquiring an anti-Christian and anti-civilizational character. The impression should not be created that the author has built so far-reaching conclusions solely on the facts mentioned; only the limitations of the articles in terms of volume do not allow at least a brief review of the enormous number of examples of the above manifestations.
In the West, the propaganda of non-traditional "values" is total and extremely aggressive, with all the signs of information and psychological terrorism, broadcast not only inwardly, but also on a global scale. This agenda destroys the foundations of Christian ethics, morality, and finally destroys the heritage of Modernity. However, the destructive influence also goes along the biological line, through the transformation of people into something else (transitions, artificial creation of new “sexes”, etc.). Normal speech breaks down through the promotion of new terms that do not contain negative connotations (instead of sodomy and mental deviations abbreviations are used, etc.), which removes the barrier of rejection of unnatural manifestations, which contributes to a better “assimilation” of these phenomena by society, and ultimately their acceptance, popularization and normalization (what is actually abnormal and abnormal is presented as a norm , and vice versa).
This technology is based on the creation of a deformed language, with the help of which the agenda is introduced into the socio-political discourse and institutionalized there. Propaganda of sodomy in all its manifestations, trans-transitions, pedophilia, radical feminism and eco-agenda (reduction population) is aimed largely at destroying the institution of the family, and if we add the BLM agenda to this, then we are talking about the destruction of the institution of the family of the conservative part of the white population (Caucasians), especially the middle class (in the Western, in particular, American sense of it). This analysis reveals the main vulnerabilities of Western society that can cause the most acute social (including armed) conflicts in the near future. Consequently, such a possibility makes it possible for Russia to radically intensify the geocultural struggle, directing it against the West - on the one hand, and on the other, using it in its own interests related to geopolitics, demography, economics, and so on.
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Russia, China and India all are repulsed by the Biden Blinken efforts to bully them. Ahead of the G20 summit Blinken has already directed India to approve Western actions in any final declarations. China will not sign off nor will India so anything declared will be null and void. India will hold a summit with no results to show for their efforts. India will not be bullied by Blinken. The result obviously is a distancing between Russia , China and India towards the USA thanks to Blinken. Currently Russia, China and India enjoy a friction less association. The geocultural conflict with the collective West Is a friction the west has produced and must lie in the bed of their own making.
#3
Wait a minute. India and China are in a "friction less association"? Awkward use of words there but the gist of it is everything is all hunky-dory. Tell it to the troops on the border between them. Can we get Dron to comment?
Any association between these three countries is strictly a matter of the moment's convenience. They have no shared culture or values. The minute the association becomes inconvenient it will be forgotten.
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#3 That time has passed. Here people still think of Russia as the USSR. Many projects are in the works now. Belt Road being one of many. India has had far more problems with China than Russia but New days are ahead. Russia and India have a strong bond of friendship now and frictions with China have subsided because of the bulling of the West. Prosperity and development are the new driving forces. Not wars the west promotes.
#5
I am reminded of the vast areas these countries have. Several time zones. Many different peoples in each country. That is Russia, China and India. The west has managed to unify them to a degree I have never seen.
The U.S. will double monthly production of 155mm artillery shells to 24,000 by year’s end and increase it sixfold within five years, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said today.
The Pentagon will spend some $1.45 billion to upgrade production facilities to better arm Ukraine and replenish U.S. stocks, Camarillo said at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Symposium here.
The Army is also boosting production of Javelin anti-tank missiles and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, or GMLRS, he said.
Production of Javelin missiles will more than double to 330 a month, and production of launchers will double to 41 a month, Camarillo said. It will cost $349 million to add factory lines, purchase equipment, and hire second shifts, he said.
Ukraine’s army used Javelins extensively in the early phases of Russia’s invasion; they helped to blunt the armored thrust towards Kyiv. The weapon became well known as a symbol of Ukraine’s resistance, popularized by the "St. Javelin" meme that depicts a religious figure cradling the launcher.
The Army is also upping monthly GMLRS production from 566 missiles to 1,110 by 2026, Camarillo said. The 70-kilometer-plus missile has been used in high-profile strikes on Russian forces since it first arrived in Ukraine last November.
Overall, the U.S. is investing over $2 billion this year in industrial facilities used to manufacture weapons and ammunition. Camarillo said the projects were awarded and funded in "rapid" time by Congress. The funds are part of a 15-year, $18 billion plan to modernize government-owned weapons and munitions facilities.
Army production of 155mm shells appeared to be slightly ahead of its past estimates. In April, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said the U.S. was planning to manufacture 20,000 155mm rounds per month by spring, not the 24,000 that Camarillo said.
Still, it’s unclear whether the increase in U.S. production can meet Ukraine’s needs and its own.
The U.S. has already sent 1,074,000 155mm rounds to Ukraine, which is burning though as many as 143,000 rounds a month, according to research by Mark Cancian, a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Even with the planned funding, some hard limits remain for U.S. production, according to Camarillo and Doug Bush, assistant Army secretary for acquisition, logistics, and technology. At an Army budget hearing earlier in March, Camarillo said that production of Javelins was at the "maximum."
Bush said a lack of machine tools was holding back production of munitions.
"These machines are the size of buildings. You don’t just go buy it from a parking lot somewhere," Bush said.
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Production of Javelin missiles will more than double to 330 a month, and production of launchers will double to 41 a month, Camarillo said. It will cost $349 million to add factory lines, purchase equipment, and hire second shifts, he said.
...In a war with China, we will likely burn through that in the time it took me to type this.
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If we wind up with Chinese tanks on American soil, I think Javelin missiles will be too little too late.
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41 a month is for Javelin CLU (Command Launch Unit). It tracks the target and sends the data to the missile. It is reused after every missile launch.
The missiles will up to 330 a month.
Fortunately, we won't be fighting China on land very much unless we send troops to Taiwan. It will be a naval war which China, while having lots of ships (most are little), has zero experience in and from the navy guys I talk too, they are not very good at it.
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The U.S. will double monthly production of 155mm artillery shells to 24,000 by year’s end and increase it sixfold within five years, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said today. 
