#1
I’m sorry, DarthVader — no doubt those accustomed to such things will understand what they’re seeing, but nothing is clear to me. Add that to a lack of location, date, and number se surrendering, and I am left feeling underinformed.
#2
Ukrainian theater as with the Ukrainian airdrop near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Disinformation being generously applied. No matter what the West will continue it's implacable efforts and deteriorate internally and externally.
[Breitbart] 67-year old Ravil Maganov, vice-president of Russia’s second-largest oil company Lukoil, reportedly died on Thursday morning after falling out of a sixth-floor hospital window in Moscow.
Maganov, an outspoken critic of Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine, was the fourth Russian energy tycoon to die under mysterious circumstances since the invasion began.
Various sources in Russia provided conflicting accounts of Maganov’s death. Russia’s state-run Tass news agency quoted sources who claimed he committed suicide by leaping from the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, a facility informally known as the “Kremlin Clinic” because it caters to the Russian elite. It is the same hospital where former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev died on Tuesday.
According to Tass, Maganov was receiving treatment at the hospital after a heart attack and was taking antidepressant drugs.
Lukoil, on the other hand, issued a press release that said its vice president “passed away following a severe illness.” The hospital refused to officially comment on the cause of death and Moscow police refused to comment on their investigation of the incident.
Two people who claimed to know Maganov personally told Reuters they found it “highly unlikely” that he would commit suicide.
Lukoil made an unusual break from the Putin regime in March, issuing a statement that called for the “soonest termination of the armed conflict” and expressing “sincere empathy for all victims.”
“We strongly support a lasting ceasefire and a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy,” the company said.
In May, former Lukoil manager Alexander Subbotin was found dead in the basement of a house in suburban Moscow. The official cause of death was that a witch accidentally killed him with a poison toad.
Two other Russian energy oligarchs, Sergei Protosenya and Vladislav Avayev, died under murky circumstances in April. Protesenya supposedly murdered his wife and 18-year-old daughter with an axe and then hanged himself in a luxury Spanish villa. As with Maganov, people who knew Protosenya doubted he would commit such a brutal murder-suicide.
Avayev also allegedly killed his wife and teenage daughter in a murder-suicide at their posh Moscow apartment, using a gun.
Several other Russian millionaires unconnected with the energy industry have died under enigmatic circumstances since the invasion of Ukraine began, and a high-level manager at Russia’s state Gazprom energy company, 60-year-old Leonid Schulman, reportedly committed suicide a month before Russian troops moved into Ukraine.
A Russian banker named German Gorbuntsov said in a June documentary film called Secrets of the Oligarch Wives that these outbreaks of Sudden Oligarch Death Syndrome are just as sinister as they appear. He said even the slight variations in “suicide” methods are part of the design.
#4
Old KGB officers will always do a "favor" for a former colleague, especially if, they are the leader of a country.
"Comrade Ravil, have you looked out the window, look at the beautiful birds, very handsome... have you ever wished you were a bird and could fly to anywhere you wished??? --- Yes! So, come to the window and look..."
[ShafaqNews] On Thursday, Russian aircraft repelled a Ukrainian airdrop near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Russian media reported.
The RT Agency quoted the administration of the Zaporizhzhia region as saying that the Ukrainian airdrop was an attempt to "foil the visit of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency delegation to the nuclear plant."
A team from the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) set off on Wednesday from the Ukrainian capital towards the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to inspect for damage after shelling nearby sparked fears of a radiation disaster.
Russian forces captured the plant soon after launching their Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, which is close to the front lines. In addition, Russia and Ukraine have traded accusations of firing shells that have endangered the plant.
A Rooters witness said the IAEA team set off from Kyiv in a convoy of vehicles. The mission is being led by the IAEA chief Rafael Grossi and comes after extensive negotiations.
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#1
30-300 Ukrainian troops thrown into a theater of death. Failed and huge loss of life being exposed to a Russian air and artillery barrage.
[CNN] In the buildup to the current Ukrainian counteroffensive, the US urged Kyiv to keep the operation limited in both its objectives and its geography to avoid getting overextended and bogged down on multiple fronts, multiple US and western officials and Ukrainian sources tell CNN.
Those discussions involved engaging in "war-gaming" with Kyiv, the sources said -- analytical exercises that were intended to help the Ukrainian forces understand what force levels they would need to muster to be successful in different scenarios.
The Ukrainians were initially considering a broader counteroffensive, but narrowed their mission to the south, in the Kherson region, in recent weeks, US and Ukrainian officials said.
Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told CNN that "the United States has routine military-to-military dialogue at multiple levels with Ukraine. We will not comment on the specifics of those engagements. Generally speaking, we provide the Ukrainians with information to help them better understand the threats they face and defend their country against Russian aggression. Ultimately, the Ukrainians are making the final decisions for their operations."
#1
Really? Or was it "Political General passes on White House (Note that I did not say Biden's) 'advice' to the Ukrainians: don't upset the grinding of the Peace Process™ by doing anything drastic to the Russkies..."
#2
Ukraine does not have the weapons, ammo or trained troops to go on a broad offense. This is the US mil showing the Ukrainians it is smarter to concentrate forces on an achievable objective. In this case to cut of and take the Kherson pocket.
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