[ToloNews] Khalil Rahman Haqqani, the acting minister for refugees and repatriation, claims that Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... is using former Afghan soldiers as a military force.
Haqqani said, during his visit to Parwan, that these soldiers have also been sent to fight in Syria and Iraq in addition to the war in Ukraine.
"I have shared this issue with them (Iranian authorities), Afghans have previously been used in the fighting in Iraq and Syria, and it may have occurred in the war in Ukraine as well," Haqqani said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... some military analysts said that Iran makes use of the former Afghan soldiers who have found refuge there as leverage.
"They were forced to contact other groups to provide for their family's costs, not only in Iraq and Syria but also in the Ukraine war, where they were also recruited by the Russians," said Sarwar Niazi, a former soldier.
"The host nations, including Iran, should not use Afghan immigration as a military force," said military expert Sadiq Shinwari.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the Iranian embassy in Kabul denied the claim that Iran is sending former Afghan soldiers to fight in the war in Ukraine.
"There may be rumors regarding the use of forces in the war in Ukraine, which the Islamic Theocratic Republic denies," said Sayed Abass Badri, media director of the Iranian embassy in Kabul.
About a month ago, Foreign Policy Magazine reported that Iran had sent a number of former Afghan soldiers to the war in Ukraine.
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[NewLinesMag] Methods perfected during the occupation of Afghanistan are now in wide use among Russia’s corporate guns for hire
by Ruslan Trad
In February 2018, people in the Russian town of Asbest were surprised to learn that several of their fellow citizens had died in Khasham, eastern Syria, 4,000 kilometers (2,489 miles) from home. When Maxim Borodin, the star reporter from the newspaper Novy Den (New Day), arrived in Asbest, the deaths were still shrouded in mystery. Asbest, in the Sverdlovsk region, is known mainly for its asbestos factories, but after the fall of the Soviet Union, the population in this industrial hamlet was hit hard. Residents lost their jobs, and to feed their families they increasingly turned to employment opportunities in private security for individuals and companies, a sector that has grown since the early 1990s, thanks to the associated risks of doing business in Russia’s nascent market economy.
Borodin was determined to find out what the men were doing in Syria and how they had died. He interviewed relatives and the commanders of the deceased and attended their secret funerals. His resulting article provoked a national scandal and drew attention to a topic the Russian government had wanted to keep quiet: the use of private military companies (PMCs) to serve the Kremlin’s foreign policy objectives and secure and protect the business interests of the kleptocrats in charge of Russia’s most lucrative resources. The article would be Borodin’s last.
On April 12, 2018, Borodin was found seriously injured and in a coma in his hometown of Yekaterinburg. Police say Borodin “fell” from his balcony while smoking. The day before, he had contacted a friend and told him that he’d spotted armed men in camouflage near his apartment. Three days later, he was dead.
Through his investigation in Asbest, Borodin discovered that the dead had joined a mercenary force known as the Wagner Group, a PMC created in 2014 and financed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and catering magnate close to President Vladimir Putin. While PMCs are technically illegal, private security companies are not. PMCs like the Wagner Group adopt the façade of a security company, but at the same time they have clear ties to Russian intelligence agencies such as the FSB (national security services) and GRU (military intelligence) and to both the Russian special forces and the army. In making the connection between the deaths of Russian civilians in Syria and their work with the Wagner Group, Borodin uncovered a tangled web of state, business, and security interests that are primarily concerned with preserving their influence and power.
There are a number of PMCs in Russia, but the Wagner Group typifies the way global business and geopolitics operate in Putin’s Russia. Mercenaries who work for companies like the Wagner Group provide security to sites (such as mines and oil fields) that are of strategic interest to the Kremlin and its kleptocrats. PMCs also perform such functions on behalf of foreign governments, and in this way, they have become an important tool for the Kremlin to promote its foreign policy objectives. For each of the key parties involved — the Kremlin, foreign governments, state industries, and private business interests — PMCs not only offer lucrative opportunities but, due to their quasi-legal structure, also provide plausible deniability for their clandestine activities.
The origins of the Wagner Group can be traced back to the Soviet period and evolved out of several decades of military adventurism, particularly during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s but also during the wars in Chechnya in the early 1990s and early 2000s. Indeed, veterans of these wars have been hired as commanders and advisers to the Wagner Group. For example, Wagner’s main commander, Dmitry Utkin, is a former colonel and commander of the GRU and a veteran of the Chechen wars. As the recipient of four Orders of Courage, Utkin was an official guest in the Kremlin for the Day of Heroes of the Fatherland on Dec. 9, 2016, where he posed for photos next to Putin. Utkin also has ties with Prigozhin. In 2014, Utkin fought with fighters from the Wagner Group in Luhansk, and in 2017 Utkin became director of Concord Management and Consulting LLC — a subsidiary of Prigozhin’s Concord Catering company, which secured a substantial state contract to deliver food to the regular Russian army.
The Wagner Group also employs tactics that were developed during the Afghan war. The Soviet army used so-called Muslim Battalions, special units made up of Muslims from Central Asia whose main task was to carry out covert operations disguised as locals. In the spring of 1979, Moscow sent eight Mi-8 helicopters, a signal center, and an An-12 aircraft to transport a paratrooper battalion to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Although the military personnel were Soviet, the markings on the helicopters were Afghan, and the crew, including the paratroopers, wore the insignia of the Afghan army. This technique bears an uncanny resemblance to that used by the so-called Little Green Men — the soldiers who appeared without insignias in Crimea in February 2014 and helped Russia annex the territory.
According to Maj. Yuri Kozlov, who was monitoring the Soviet unit on behalf of the GRU, the Muslim Battalion was the first of its kind among the Spetsnaz (special forces). For three months, under the command of Maj. Habib Halbaev, the battalion members trained for special operations, intercepted enemy communications, captured airports, held mountain passes, and engaged in urban battles.
In the 1990s, the military and political elite deployed Muslim Battalions to Chechnya and “volunteer detachments” to the Balkans to fight on the side of the Serbs. And once the marriage of the old guard with the new economic elite was consummated in the person of Vladimir Putin, the lessons of Afghanistan and Chechnya combined to produce Russia’s private mercenary industry. Read the rest at the link
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Alias: “Yevgeny” Birth: June 1, 1961 Place of Birth: Russia. Facial: [sinister]
REWARD: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin.
REMARKS: Prigozhin speaks Russian and has ties to Russia, Indonesia, and Qatar.
CAUTION: Prigozhin is wanted by FBI for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to defraud the USA by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the Federal Election Commission, the US Department of Justice, and the Department of State. This occurred in Washington, D.C., from early 2014 to February 16, 2018.
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Killing is the sine qua non of war. If we here in the West still had the determination to do it with moral clarity, our wars would be short and always successful.
Soon, nobody would even try us.
Needless to say, that scenario is unacceptable inside the Beltway.
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[Vesti] December 2 is the 282nd day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that is happening in the country on this day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
07:00 . The main thing from the morning summary of the General Staff:
During the day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the Russian army in the areas of Novoselovskoe, Stelmakhivka, Chervonopopovka and Belogorivka of the Luhansk region and Grigorievka, Vyemka, Bakhmut, Experienced, Klischeevka, Kurdyumovka, Severnoye, Pervomaiskoye, Krasnogorovka and Maryinka in the Donetsk region.
The Russians launched 5 missile attacks on the civilian infrastructure of the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, carried out 30 air strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and more than 35 shelling from the MLRS along the line of contact.
The Russian Federation continues to concentrate its main offensive efforts on the Bakhmut direction, and it is trying to improve the tactical situation on the Avdeevsky direction.
Aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 19 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment in a day.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down 1 UAV of the Orlan-10 type, hit 4 command posts and the personnel concentration area.
08:00 . Zaporozhye region. At night, the Russians launched a missile attack on the industrial and energy infrastructure of Zaporozhye. There was a huge fire, which has already been extinguished. There were no casualties.
Dnipropetrovsk region. At night, the Russian Federation fired about 40 shells at Nikopol and its environs. There are no victims.
Kharkov region. A high-rise building in the village of Klugino-Bashkirovka was under fire. One woman was injured.
10:00 a.m. Kherson region. During the day, the Russians shelled the region 42 times - three dead, seven more wounded. Russia is purposefully attacking the civilian infrastructure of the region and killing civilians, according to the head of the region, Yaroslav Yanushevich. Shells hit private and apartment buildings.
12:00 . Donetsk region. Donetsk is under heavy shelling for the second day in a row. At least three dead civilians are known.
13:30 . Nikolaevkskaya area. The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, announced the take-off from the Engels airport (RF) of three TU-95 aircraft. There are no air alerts in Ukraine at the moment.
14:20 . Dnipropetrovsk region. Explosions in the Dnieper. There is an air raid in the city. Puffs of smoke are visible in one of the districts.
14:30 . The Sejm of Poland did not recognize the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism. During the discussion that preceded the vote, factions and groups unanimously supported the resolution. Discord was made by an amendment from the ruling party. It says that the Russian Federation is directly responsible for the plane crash in Smolensk (2010). It killed the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, Polish high-ranking officials and the military, a total of 96 people.
The head of the opposition faction "Civil Coalition" Boris Budka explained the refusal to vote for the resolution by saying that the amended document could draw Poland into a war with the Russian Federation. It is not known when the Seimas will return to consider the resolution.
15:30 . Dnipropetrovsk region. The smoke that rose in the city was not the result of an explosion. This is the result of coke cooling by metallurgists, Mayor Boris Filatov said.
16:15 . Donetsk region. Housing estates under fire. The former grocery store "Moskva" was damaged, not far from which the "administration" of Pushilin is located. Also flew to the area of the so-called. "police department". In one of the yards of Donetsk, which flew in, a fire started. There are wounded.
18:00 . The main thing from the evening summary of the General Staff:
The Russian Federation launched 13 air strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 4 missile strikes on civilian targets, and also carried out more than 10 attacks from the MLRS.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted 8 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as 2 strikes on the positions of the air defense system.
The threat of missile strikes on critical infrastructure throughout Ukraine remains.
20:20 . Kyiv. Mayor Klitschko has published a plan for the people of Kiev in the event of a complete blackout:
free travel in public transport (buses) will be made in Kyiv;
the subway will be stopped and the stations will be used as shelters;
Internet, electricity, drinking water and toilets will be available at metro stations.
Klitschko also recommended that Ukrainians wear winter clothes and have warm clothes with them, as the average temperature at metro stations is 12-14 degrees.
21:00 . The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that experts are close to an acceptable agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the creation of a security zone around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
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[Korrespondent] 22:32 Since February 24, 1,331 Ukrainians have been released from Russian captivity, Zelensky said.
21:44 Ukraine will need weeks to transition the energy system to planned power outages, said Dmitry Sakharuk, Executive Director of DTEK. According to him, the main condition is the absence of new shelling and destruction.
20:58 Kuleba said in an interview with CNN that there have already been 17 cases of embassies receiving letters-bombs or letters containing parts of animals - for example, the eyes of cows and pigs.
Ewwww!
When asked who, in his opinion, is behind these letters, the minister replied: “I am tempted to immediately name Russia, because first of all you need to answer the question - who benefits from this?.. Perhaps this terror is Russia’s response to diplomatic the horror that we have created for Russia on the international stage, and in this way they are trying to fight back, losing real diplomatic battles one after another."
According to Kuleba, either Russia is directly responsible for this, or someone "who sympathizes and tries to spread fear."
20:41 The Solomensky Court sent on personal commitment until January 29 the priest of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Zakhary (Anatoly Voytenok), at whose service the "Russian world" was glorified. Thus, the court granted the petition of the prosecutor's office and investigators of the SBU.
20:00 Zelensky imposed sanctions against a number of prominent figures of the UOC-MP - the decree was published on the President's website.
19:53 The US presidential administration is negotiating with Congress to allocate an additional $37.7 billion for Ukraine, of which $21 billion will be military aid, the White House said.
19:29 Ukraine has received the first $1.5 billion grant from the United States, the Ministry of Finance announced. The funds will be used to provide pension payments and social assistance.
19:20 The EU has reached an agreement on a price limit for Russian oil at $60 per barrel, the Czech Presidency has announced.
19:13 Klitschko said that in the event of an emergency, the capital will live and work, "but in very difficult conditions." According to him, in the event of new enemy strikes on the energy system of Ukraine and a complete lack of electricity, buses will operate on all land transport routes, and travel will be free. The mayor assured that all bus depots of the capital are provided with the necessary fuel and automatic power sources.
The movement of metro trains in case of an emergency and a lack of power supply will be suspended, but 45 underground metro stations will operate as points of temporary residence for people and shelter during an alarm. Entrance to the station will be free, but you will need to have an identity document with you. Internet connections, electricity (the ability to recharge mobile phones and other gadgets), drinking water, and bathrooms will be available at metro stations. The average temperature at metro stations is 12-14 degrees. Stations of the ground section of the metro will not be used for the needs of civil protection.
18:50 The new EU training mission for the Armed Forces of Ukraine - EUMAM Ukraine - has reached full operational readiness, Borrell said. According to him, the mission worth 100 million euros is already working and will allow training 15,000 Ukrainian military. At the moment, 1,100 Ukrainian soldiers are already being trained as part of the mission in various camps.
Borrell noted that this is the biggest military mission that the EU has ever created for any of the partners - 20 EU countries are participating in it. He also said that the EU will provide an additional 16 million euros for training equipment. In addition, Norway, which is not part of the EU, will provide 50 million euros to support the mission.
18:33 SBU completed counterintelligence activities at the facilities of the UOC (MP) in the Transcarpathian, Rivne and Zhytomyr regions. On the territory of the dioceses, warehouses with pro-Kremlin literature, Nazi symbols, "the doctrine of Satanism" and texts of prayers for the Moscow Patriarch Kirill, propaganda books by Russian authors justifying the aggression against Ukraine, etc. were found.
In addition, in the St. Anastasius stauropegial convent and two sketes in the Zhytomyr region, persons were found who were in contact with citizens of the Russian Federation. "Guests" were on the territory of hotel complexes at churches and used anonymous messengers to communicate with the enemy.
17:54 As of the morning of December 2, electricity producers provided 83% of consumption. The needs of enterprises and the housing sector are met by 40-50%, Shmyhal said.
17:47 Spain handed over the first Hawk anti-aircraft missile system to Ukraine, Reznikov said: "I received the Minister of Defense of Spain Margarita Robles in Odessa. We honored the memory of the heroes who died in the battles for Ukraine and visited our soldiers in the hospital. Spain supports us: humanitarian aid and security assistance will continue. More of our soldiers will train in Spain. Spain has already provided our first Hawks."
17:29 Unknown people entered the building in Rome, where the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican, Andriy Yurash, lives, and smeared the front door, stairs and walls with excrement, Ansa reports. "We don't know who physically committed the vandalism, but we can imagine who ordered all this," Yurash said. Asked if suspicions were falling on the Kremlin, the ambassador replied: "I think so, directly or indirectly."
16:54 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavshuoglu said that some Western countries are "not interested" in resolving the conflict in Ukraine, but they should convince Kiev to sit down at the negotiating table.
16:52 Russian troops may leave the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in exchange for guarantees of uninterrupted transit of oil and gas through Ukraine, Meduza writes, citing its sources. Nuclear power plants can be transferred either to Kyiv or the IAEA. The Kremlin and the government of the Russian Federation "are ready for a deal," according to the interlocutors of the publication.
16:48 Bulgaria will transfer military assistance to Ukraine, Minister of Economy and Industry of the country Nikola Stoyanov said: "Based on the decision of the parliament, we will provide assistance to Ukraine. But tanks - no, I think that it was about small arms and some ammunition. We help precisely with what we can afford to help now, so that Bulgarian citizens do not worry."
16:21 The Embassy of Ukraine in Madrid also received a package with traces of blood, similar to those previously received by other Ukrainian diplomatic institutions, Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko told the UP.
16:19 Podolyak said that Putin cannot be the subject of dialogue: "A reality that is already recognized in key capitals, but not yet recognized in Moscow: Putin cannot be the subject of dialogue with the world, because he does not have his own political perspective in the Russia The only chance for the Russian Federation to survive is to reboot the elites in order to write off "other people's mistakes."
16:06 Orban said he would no longer support the EU plan to provide Ukraine with 18 billion euros in aid next year. According to him, it is necessary to share the costs of supporting Ukraine, and each country must pay separately from its budgets.
15:03 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion within Ukraine and abroad, more than 11.5 million Ukrainians have moved, said Deputy Interior Minister Kateryna Pavlichenko.
14:50 In the Czech Republic, activists of the Arms for Ukraine association began collecting signatures for a petition calling for turning off the supply of electricity, water and heat to all Russian-owned buildings in Prague, including the embassy. "Let's give the Russian embassy in Prague a taste of its own medicine. Let's show Russian diplomats what it's like to freeze in the dark, like the people of Kiev," Martin Ondracek, one of the authors of the petition, wrote on social networks.
Reznikov supported the idea: "The time has come for the terrorist state to try its own medicine, to get a taste of what they are doing to the civilian population of Ukraine."
14:46 The National Security and Defense Council imposed sanctions against the clergy of the UOC-MP, in particular, the governor of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Pavel (Lebed), and the ex-people's deputy Vadim Novinsky, the UE reports, citing sources in the president's team.
14:30 There has not been a single death due to the shutdown of medical life support equipment caused by a blackout in Ukrainian hospitals, Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said. According to him, all inpatient departments are equipped with generators, which cover the critical need for electricity in a medical institution; operating rooms and intensive care units are 100% supplied with power.
13:53 The German government reported that Scholz, during today's conversation with Putin, condemned Russian airstrikes on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and "stressed Germany's determination to support Ukraine in ensuring its defense against Russian aggression." The chancellor urged Putin "to find a diplomatic solution as soon as possible, including the withdrawal of Russian troops."
13:35 In the Kherson region, a civilian car was blown up on an anti-tank mine - one person died, one was injured, the State Emergency Service reported.
13:31 Putin spoke on the phone with Scholz, the conversation took place on the initiative of Berlin, the Kremlin reported. In the conversation, Putin drew attention to "the destructive line of Western states, including Germany, pumping up the Kyiv regime with weapons," and called on Germany to "reconsider its approaches in the context of Ukrainian events."
Putin also told Scholz that the Russian military "had long refrained from targeted missile strikes" against targets in Ukraine, but now these measures have become "a forced reaction to Kyiv's provocative attacks against Russia's civilian infrastructure."
13:16 New Russian shelling of Ukraine can be very massive, and the consequences of the attack can be long-lasting, said the speaker of OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk. At the same time, she added that "you should not strain yourself, but you need to prepare."
13:07 The SBU reported the suspicion to the Metropolitan of the Kirovograd diocese of the UOC (MP), who justified the seizure of Crimea. It has been established that the bishop was a member of the inner circle of the Moscow Patriarch Kirill, with whom he coordinated the spread of pro-Kremlin views in the region. To do this, the metropolitan was in constant contact with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and carried out his instructions regarding the justification of Russian aggression and the seizure of part of the territory of Ukraine, in particular the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
13:02 The head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, said that Germany should support Ukraine if it decides to return Crimea by military means: "Crimea, of course, is part of Ukraine, and Ukraine has every right to recapture and return its territory. Therefore, the decision must be made Ukraine".
He recalled that Germany tried to solve the problem with the Russian Federation through diplomacy after the start of its aggression against Ukraine in 2014: "Now Russia has pushed all these efforts into the background - Russia is behaving very aggressively, Russia is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people. Just look Mariupol, how they destroyed it! They destroyed it just like Grozny. So we must give all-round support to the Ukrainians, and if Ukraine can take Crimea back, it needs to be supported."
12:43 After the terrorist attack in Spain, the embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia, Italy, the consulates general in Naples and Krakow, the consulate in Brno received bloody packages. The bags contained animal eyes. The packages themselves were soaked in a liquid of a characteristic color and with a corresponding smell, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
In addition, the entrance to the ambassador's house in the Vatican was vandalized, the embassy in Kazakhstan received a report of mining, which was subsequently not confirmed. The Embassy in the United States received a letter with a photocopy of a critical article about Ukraine, but, like most other envelopes, this letter arrived simultaneously with others from the territory of one European country.
"We have reason to believe that a well-planned campaign of terror and intimidation of Ukrainian embassies and consulates is taking place. Not being able to stop Ukraine on the diplomatic front, they are trying to intimidate us. However, I can immediately say that these attempts are in vain. We will continue to work effectively on Ukraine's victory," Kuleba said.
The Ukrainian side cooperates with law enforcement officers of foreign states to investigate all cases of threats, identify the persons involved and bring them to justice. All Ukrainian embassies and consulates have been placed on heightened security measures.
12:11 The National Security and Defense Council asks the Rada to ban the work of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine. Some regions have already supported the initiative. About whether the UOC-MP will be banned in Ukraine, there is a reason in the material .
12:08 The Ministry of Energy reported that last week the number of complaints from consumers about non-compliance with schedules and injustice in the order of power outages has doubled, most of all complaints are received in Kiev, Kiev region, Poltava and Lvov. The Distribution System Operator (DSO) must now take a fair approach in the event of a power outage so that all consumers are on an equal footing. If the facts of abuse are established, the heads of the companies will bear personal responsibility, the ministry stressed.
11:57 In Russia, a section about the "special operation" in Ukraine will be included in school history textbooks, Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov said. According to him, new unified programs have already been signed, they contain the theme of "special operation".
11:39 Peskov commented on Biden's statements about his readiness to talk with Putin, provided that he withdraws troops from Ukraine. According to the Kremlin speaker, this is impossible, the "special military operation" continues. At the same time, Putin, according to Peskov, is open to negotiations with Washington, "and the most preferred way to resolve the situation in Ukraine is diplomacy."
10:56 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Lukashenka is making statements about the threat from NATO in order to emphasize the need for protection and avoid involvement in the war in Ukraine. Thus, the other day Lukashenka said that NATO is preparing to attack Belarus. He accused Ukraine and NATO of increasing the number of provocations near the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, saying that Ukraine is trying to draw NATO forces into the war.
In addition, he said that the Belarusian authorities managed to keep a potential adversary from using military force against Belarus and that NATO is building up forces and intensifying combat training in neighboring countries. According to analysts, Lukashenka focused the information campaign on the fictitious NATO aggression and provocative activities along the Belarusian border in order to argue that the military of the Republic of Belarus should remain in Belarus to protect against potential NATO aggression, and thus create an information environment to resist Russian pressure to enter the war. in Ukraine.
10:49 British intelligence writes that the Russian army is on the defensive, unable to attack. Ukrainian artillery strikes on depots and logistical problems caused a shortage of ammunition. Thus, the withdrawal of Russian troops from the western bank of the Dnieper last month provided the Armed Forces with an opportunity to strike at additional Russian logistics hubs and communications. This threat most likely prompted Russian logistics to move supply hubs, including rail staging posts, further south and east.
At the same time, Russian logistics departments will need to carry out additional labor-intensive loading and unloading from rail to road transport. Then this transport will be vulnerable to Ukrainian artillery when transported to Russian forward defensive positions. Russian munitions shortages, exacerbated by these logistical problems, are one of the main factors currently limiting Russia's ability to resume effective large-scale offensive ground operations, intelligence said.
10:47 The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that a solution to the safety of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant could be found before the end of the year.
10:44 Zelensky, by his decree, put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on restrictive measures and sanctions against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
10:36 For Kiev, the limit on electricity consumption has been increased - the capital is gradually approaching planned outages, YASNO CEO Serhiy Kovalenko said. At the same time, according to him, accidents in the energy system occur more often. This happens mainly for two reasons. The first - as soon as the light is on, the residents start plugging everything into the sockets at once. The second reason is the weather, because people continue to use electric heaters, which creates a large load on the network. Residents of Kiev are asked not to turn on all electrical appliances at once.
10:17 Russians fired at the territory of the Kherson region 42 times over the past day - three people were killed, seven more were injured, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
09:55 The United States is negotiating with some countries of the Middle East on the transfer of NASAMS air defense systems to Ukraine, which are in their arsenal, Greg Hayes, CEO of Raytheon, the manufacturer of these systems, told Politico. If these countries agree, then Ukraine will be able to receive new complexes "within the next three to six months." The construction of new ones takes two years. In turn, the Americans will produce and transfer similar air defense systems to the Middle East in 24 months. But the deal still needs to be approved not only in the east, but also in the Biden administration.
09:41 The SBU is conducting counterintelligence activities at the facilities of the UOC (MP) in the Zhytomyr, Rivne and Transcarpathian regions. In particular, we are talking about the St. Nicholas Monastery of the Khust diocese of the UOC (MP) in Transcarpathia; St. Anastasius Stauropegial Convent (Zhytomyr); Skete of the St. Anastasius Stauropegial Convent (Zhytomyr region); Skete of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God of the Chopovichi Athos Icon of the Mother of God of the Women's Stauropegial Monastery (Zhytomyr region); Rivne-Ostroh diocese, Gorodok convent, St. George's Compound, Church of All Volyn Saints, Holy Resurrection Church, Holy Dormition Church (Rivne region).
09:08 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of December 2. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Liman directions.
personnel - about 90,090 (+650) people liquidated,
tanks - 2916 (+1),
armored combat vehicles - 5883 (+6),
artillery systems - 1905 (+1),
MLRS - 395 (+0),
air defense systems - 210 (+0),
aircraft - 280 (+0),
helicopters - 262 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1564 (+2),
cruise missiles - 531 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4464 (+23),
special equipment - 163 (+0).
08:47 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, six civilians were injured - four in Bakhmut and two in Kurakhovo, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
08:30 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by invaders in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoe, Stelmakhivka, Krasnopopovka and Belogorivka of the Luhansk region and Grigorovka, Vyemka, Bakhmut, Experienced, Kleschievka, Kurdyumovka, Severnoye, Pervomayskoye, Krasnogorovka and Maryinka of the Donetsk region, reported General Staff in the morning summary .
In the Kherson region, the enemy has tightened filtration measures. In particular, at checkpoints for entry and exit from Genichesk, the invaders check all vehicles, documents and phones of local residents. In the meantime, in the Crimea, employees of the military commissariats are preparing for the next wave of mobilization. In particular, in Kerch, verification of the data of persons liable for military service at state enterprises is carried out.
07:16 At night, the Russians launched a missile attack on Zaporozhye, its goal was to destroy the industrial and energy infrastructure of the regional center. As a result, a fire started, there were no casualties, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
01:10 At the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation planned not only to seize territory and overthrow the government, but also prepared massacres of citizens during the intervention. This is stated in the report of the British Royal United Armed Forces Institute (RUSI).
00:40 Russia has not attacked Ukraine with Iranian drones for two weeks now. Experts cite several reasons. Read more in Bad Weather?
00:12 US Senators Roger Wicker and Ben Cardin have introduced a bipartisan bill requiring the US Secretary of State to designate PMC Wagner as a foreign terrorist organization.
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[RIA] He fired 60 percent of the entire staff ... The "atrocities" of billionaire Elon Musk in the corporation he bought Twitter have become a familiar topic of discussion in the United States and beyond.
Do you think that the main topic of such a discussion is still freedom of speech? But no longer. That is, it is clear that Musk's fight against the censorship of the Democrats on the "platform of a free exchange of opinions" is still a topic. But there were completely new stories like "what did they all do at work?"
Oddly enough, Musk fires not so much and not only those who closed the accounts of people with wrong opinions (he just started with this). If only because the censors were not quite alive. Catching those who disagreed with democratic thought was carried out for the most part by a computer.
This is how the empire of lies works - it's not always your personal struggle with people who disagree with you: you argued, well, like on television discussions, and got a kick. No, you are being censored by a search engine for banned phrases.
And what is happening now with Musk is called differently - and this is a problem to the same extent for Russia as for America.
Apparently, this is a problem of certain economic models. Brownstone Institute director and economist Geoffrey Tucker puts it this way: look, three out of five are fired, and the platform is doing better than ever, the workload has grown, a lot of accounts have been unfrozen, and all sorts of different opinions have blossomed. And nothing collapses. Then what were all those countless thousands of people doing in front of the screen?
What they did was prove their usefulness by showing up to work and participating in a lot of stupid meetings. At best, they did not interfere with the work of those who worked, but there were also worse cases - and many.
Then there was a change in style - lockdowns. People went remote and continued to participate in meetings via corporate mail for some time. Oddly enough, in such a situation, those who did something specific became more noticeable.
But those who did nothing did not interfere much and did not burden the budget, because the American financial system tried to fight the coronavirus by distributing empty money to everyone until it played out to the current inflation and other disasters. Here money became more expensive, and it seems that the dismissal of "extra people" by Musk turned out to be just a well-known manifestation of a problem that has now affected not only the United States.
It is that at least one generation of people has grown up who never knew what work is. First of all, this is the same "big figure", funds and institutions, other - pardon the expression - the service sector. And now there (not only at Musk) there are layoffs. However, in many industries where people really work, there is a shortage of labor. So the fired have a chance to learn how to do something.
Now - attention - the question is: what does this seemingly purely economic situation have to do with the problem of censorship, that is, with throwing everyone who is not a democrat to the sidelines of the mainstream? That is, it is one thing - the very empire of lies, which consists of far more than just Twitter and which, from the university to parliaments and governments, builds the necessary set of facts, slogans and beliefs, as it were. And another thing is the situation when in those very industries related to the empire of lies, a lot of people were revealed who were incomprehensibly busy with what. So are these two problems or one?
There are no ready-made answers, especially such that even the empire of lies would recognize them. But there are observations.
First, let's remember all the known problems, first of all, the American education system, which churns out a huge number of people with low-quality liberal arts diplomas. And let us note that the same semi-educated people teach in this system, or, if you like, the same people, without whom it is quite possible to do without.
Secondly, these semi-educated people are committed to the ideology that is still called democratic, not only because "it was taught that way." And also because the value system of such an ideology implies that it is normal to sit behind a screen for no reason and receive money, that is, in fact, indirectly live on benefits from those people who really work. If you are black at the same time - a privileged class - then even more so, but this is already an American and, to a lesser extent, European feature.
Thirdly, many of these characters are quite sincerely ready to censor a foreign and disagreeing world - simply in order to increase the security around them. Leaving this circle is scary both in your own country, and even more so in a large and complex world, where there are continuous challenges, for example, Russia or China, and many dozens of countries where, as you know, there is a jungle, and here is a well-groomed garden. Therefore, the entry into this garden of any information that would show this world as it is is a threat. Which is easiest to eliminate simply by throwing it out of sight, that is, off the platform.
Fourth: since this special category of IT people and other similar individuals work in companies or funds with a global scale, it is very difficult for such people to realize that there is their own country, its citizenship, the need to protect and protect this country. Such partial or other mobilizations are not happy and are ready to run away to the comfort zone, not even noticing that it is far from the real home.
And the last thing: it is clear that in the USA such people vote for the Democrats, in Europe - for the Social Democrats and the like. And they do not even understand voters with other views, they call them immoral horror and other expressions.
Elon Musk, of course, is a strange phenomenon of our time, although he would fit perfectly into other eras when the world was teeming with adventurers, pioneers and other passionaries. But in this case, he was hardly going to start a global revolution in the labor market. He just came to his new company, saw that the main part of its personnel expected "atrocities" from him because of ideological differences (they themselves would have done the same).
And he asked an obvious question in such a situation: what exactly did all these people do, how irreplaceable are they? I issued a warning: you will work overtime and do impossible things for me. Then thousands ran away from him themselves, uttering the right words about ideological pressure.
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Author writes: "It is that at least one generation of people has grown up who never knew what work is."
It is incredible that following WWII and the next three decades California yutes were working in the grape sheds, or picking melons, or scraping cots, or working canneries by the time they were seventeen (and many began as pre-teens). They made money honestly. By the sweat of their brow, and they knew better than to make fun of those who participate in hard work. It's not hard to understand why they hate Silicon Valley and for which it stands.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 19:45 Armored group of the DPR destroys the enemy near Nevelskoy -video
Fighters of the 100th Guards Brigade of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR, with the support of aviation, destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Nevelskoe near Donetsk.
17:39 Assault on Artyomovsk: the 6th Cossack Regiment of the LPR destroys the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
17:35 Russian servicemen are clearing the village of Novoselovskoye in the LPR -video
17:32 NATO armored personnel carrier YPR-765, BREM-1 and an excavator for the construction of defensive structures destroyed near Artemovsk —video
14:08 Allied forces continue to denazify Ukrainian forces in the Bakhmut area -video
13:50 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progressholdingspecial military operation on the territory of Ukraine (2.12.2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Donetsk direction, as a result of successful offensive actions of the Russian troops, the settlement of Kurdyumovka of the Donetsk People's Republic was completely liberated from the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
More than 60 Ukrainian servicemen, three tanks and six armored fighting vehicles were destroyed.
In the Kupyansk direction, an attempt by two company tactical groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack from the area of the settlement of Kotlyarovka, Kharkiv region, was thwarted by army aviation strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems.
During the day, more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles and two Kozak armored vehicles were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, army aviation strikes and artillery fire defeated three company tactical groups of the enemy, which were advancing to attack in the direction of the Chervonopopovka settlement of the Luhansk People's Republic. As a result of the fire damage, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were dispersed and thrown back to their original positions.
Enemy losses per day in this direction amounted to more than a hundred Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, two tanks, two armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks. Eleven servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered.
In the South-Donetsk direction, the enemy, with forces up to a company, made unsuccessful attempts to counterattack from the area of the settlement of Vugledar in the direction of the settlement of Nikolskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
As a result of fire damage, up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, three armored personnel carriers and two pickup trucks were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery defeated seven enemy command posts in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Kruglyakovka of the Kharkov region, Dibrova, Vodyanoye, Prechistovka, Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Shcherbaki of the Zaporozhye region.
In addition, 78 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 184 districts, as well as a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries in the village of Chasov Yar of the Donetsk People's Republic were hit.
During the counter-battery fight, a blow was struck at the area of concentration of units of the 40th Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Liptsy, and two firing positions of Ukrainian Grad multiple launch rocket systems were suppressed in the areas of the settlements of Zhovtneve and Mikhailovka, Kharkiv region.
In the areas of the settlements of Zagornoye, Dimitrovo and Volchanskoye of the Zaporozhye region, three depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit.
Fighter aircraft in the area of the settlement Ukrainka of the Donetsk People's Republic shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
A Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft was shot down by means of air defense in the area of the settlement of Nikolskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, seven unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed during the day in the areas of the settlements of Svatovo, Krasnorechenskoye, Chervonopopovka, Golikovo, Storozhevka of the Luhansk People's Republic and Yegorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. ◽️Also intercepted in the air were 13 rockets of the Uragan and Vilkha multiple launch rocket systems in the areas of the settlements of Svatovo in the Lugansk People's Republic, Novoandreevka and Yegorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 336 aircraft, 177 helicopters, 2,599 unmanned aerial vehicles, 391 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6,953 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 908 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,648 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 7,437 units of special military vehicles.
13:44 "Alligators" on the hunt: footage of the combat work of the crews of attack helicopters Ka-52 -video
13:42 Corporal Alexander Reshetov, acting as part of a subdivision of the Russian Armed Forces, carried out a combat mission to liberate a strategically important settlement from Ukrainian nationalists -video
13:39 Russian units, together with the allied forces of the LDNR, continue to successfully carry out the tasks of denazification of the ukrofascists -video
12:08 Soldiers of the Russian army take the positions of militants near Vodyanoy -video
10:31 DPR fighters destroy the enemy -video
09:26 Russian troops at nightdemilitarizedenemy personnel in the village of Klugino-Bashkirovka near Chuguev (Kharkiv region).
09:12 Denazification is ongoing —video
08:55 During the cleansing in the Kherson region, Chechen fighters discovered a cache with firearms that could be used by saboteurs -video
08:33 Drones of the "Brave" open the way for the supply of ammunition for militants -video
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Powerful explosions are thundering in Zaporozhye, enemy targets are being hit 22:07 A man died in Shakhtyorsk, three more people were injured. Personal data is being specified, according to the DPR JCCC
22:01 Oil depot is on fire in Shakhtyorsk as a result of shelling – mayor
The head of the city administration, Alexander Shatov, noted that emergency services are working at the scene, and also urged citizens to take care of themselves and their loved ones.
21:14 Fixing the consequences of shelling Voroshilovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk 01.12.2022
Military experts of the DPR JCCC confirmedfactshelling of the Voroshilovsky and Kievsky districts with the use of the BM-21 Grad MLRS, and also clarified the direction of firing.
The enemy fired from their positions located in the area between the settlement. Orlovka and n.p. Lastochkino.
The area of responsibility of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade (commander - Colonel Kurash Yevgeny Yuryevich, head of artillery - Lieutenant Colonel Tsiganyuk Dmitry Vasilyevich).
As a result of shelling an employee died while driving in a company car Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR Born in 1960, two more employees born in 1964 were injured, a man born in 1983 was also injured.
fixed damage at 15 addresses:
Voroshilovsky district:
— the glazing of the administration of Donetsk was damaged;
— Building No. 3 of the Donetsk National Technical University was damaged;
— the building of the FOX shopping center was damaged along Mira Ave.;
— an administrative building was damaged along Mira Ave.;
— Prospekt Mira, 11 “a” — trade pavilions;
- st. R. Luxembourg, 54 "a" - the grocery supermarket "Moloko" was damaged;
- on the street. R. Luxembourg damaged the building of the Donbass Construction Alliance;
- by pool. R. Luxemburg damaged the former restaurant "Solonniki";
— Vatutina Ave., 21, 22 – apartment buildings;
- st. Shchorsa, 54/2 - a private residential building;
- st. Otechestvennaya, 32-2 - a private residential building;
- on the street. Shchors, the glazing of the dental building, the glazing of the boiler room and the heating supply boiler of the Donetsk Clinical Hospital "st. Donetsk” Ministry of Health of the DPR;
- the building of the Kyiv District Department of Internal Affairs was damaged; car fires were also recorded;
— Mira Ave., 2, 4, 5 — multi-apartment residential buildings.
20:20 Sobyanin traveled to Donbass and met with fighters
19:13 Information about the consequences of the shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk continues to arrive. Damage was received - a house of the private sector, a store and a building of a tire fitting workshop - windows were broken, roofs and facades were cut by fragments.
19:05 As a result of the Russian strikes in the Kharkiv region, the entire generating energy system was destroyed - the deputy director of Kharkovoblenergo Alexander Kishinsky.
“…emergency shutdowns continue. Lack of electrical power. We take from neighboring regions,” Kishinsky said.
17:41 According to updated information, a woman born in 1957 died as a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshev region at 15:50. Death occurred before the arrival of the ambulance.
17:10 Donetsk again under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine - strong arrivals in the central districts of the city
In particular, the area of the Covered Market and the Voroshilovsky district fell under the shelling of Ukrainian militants.
15:58 Ukrainian fascists again fired at the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. From n.p. Netailovo fired three rounds of 155mm caliber.
14:47 As a result of shelling VFU Kievsky district of Donetsk killed three people, another five civilians were injured.
14:08 Additional information has been received about the victims during the brutal shelling of the Kyiv region. A man born in 1964 was also injured. and a woman born in 1973
13:52 Fighter aircraft of the Russian Federation and air defense shot down two Ukrainian military aircraft in the DPR - Russian Defense Ministry
In the Ukrainka area, fighter aircraft shot down an enemy MiG-29 in the air. Also in the Nikolsky area, a Ukrainian Su-25 was shot down by air defense means, said Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.
Also in the daily briefing of the military department, the following was reported:
- In the Kupyansky direction in the area , army aviation strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems thwarted the enemy’s attempt to advance;
- In the Donetsk direction, as a result of offensive actions, Kurdyumovka of the DPR was completely liberated;
- In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, an attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to counterattack from Ugledar DPR, towards Nikolsky, was thwarted;
- In the districts of Zagorny, Dimitrov and Volchansky of the Zaporozhye region, three depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed;
- In the area of Liptsy, Kharkiv region, during the counter-battery fight, a blow was struck at the area where units of the 40th Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were concentrated
- In the area of Zhovtneve and Mikhailovka, Kharkiv region, two firing positions of Ukrainian 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems were also suppressed.
13:20 According to additional information, during the shelling of the Kievsky district, the glazing of four more apartment buildings was damaged
12:46 As a result of the punitive shelling of the Kyiv region:
- according to preliminary information, a woman and a man were killed, another one woman was injured, personal data is being specified;
- in one apartment building the roof was damaged, in four the glazing was broken.
12:31 Representatives of the Nevsky Front RGS handed over servicemen of 2 AK humanitarian cargo.
12:09 As a result shelling VFU Kievsky district of Donetsk, the death toll has increased to two people.
12:00 Ukrainian fighters attacked the Kyiv region of Donetsk, a man was killed.
10:39 Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine are arresting residents of the villages of Nevsky and Makeevka in the LPR, temporarily controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because they received humanitarian aid and social benefits in the republic, said Andrei Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the region.
09:48 Fights near Pavlovka: Cascade special unit destroys enemy UAVs with jewelry -video
08:26 Russian self-propelled guns destroy the enemy near Artemovsk —video
08:20 Russian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction continue to fight for Maryinka.
On the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction, the enemy is trying to stop the gradual advance of our troops, pulling together motorized infantry. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have concentrated their main efforts on conducting offensive operations.
Armed Forces facilities in the areas of Serebryanka, Verkhnekamensky, Disputed, Razdolevka, Belogorovka, Yakovlevka, Soledar, Bakhmutsky, Artemovsk, Bakhmut, Zhelezny and New York were subjected to fire damage from tanks and artillery.
Enemy attacks on the Svatovo-Kremennaya line were repulsed.
In the Zaporizhia direction, enemy concentration areas in Orekhovo, Novoandreevka and Gulyaipole were hit.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling the border areas of Russia in the Belgorod and Kursk regions. Mutual shelling goes through the Dnieper in the Kherson region. Svatovo, Starobelsk, Horoshee were shelled in the LPR. In the DPR, one person was killed, five were injured from enemy shelling.
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[REGNUM] The Russian "Wagner Group" was listed by the US State Department as an organization of concern
The Russian "Wagner Group" was included by the US State Department in the list of organizations of concern for the violation of religious freedoms of organizations. This was announced on December 2 by the press service of the US State Department.
It is explained that the "Wagner Group" has been placed on the list of "organizations of particular concern" for their activities in the Central African Republic (CAR). The same list includes Nigerian extremists Boko Haram, the Houthis, the Taliban, several units of ISIS and other, mostly radical extremist organizations.
In addition, in accordance with the decision of the US State Department, the list of countries of concern for violation of the US religious freedom law includes Iran, China, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Eritrea and Russia.
Earlier, REGNUM reported that the White House administration is studying the possibility of declaring the Russian "Wagner Group" a terrorist organization. In turn, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin explained that the private military company (PMC) Wagner does not fit under any of the criteria for classifying an organization as a terrorist organization, according to US regulation, but the activities of the United States themselves fall completely under them.
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[REGNUM] Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fighters of Azov will answer for war crimes before a court in the DPR, and the world will learn about their terrible crimes.
In Donetsk, about 70 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Azov Battalion will be convicted of war crimes, law enforcement agencies reported on December 2.
In total, since the beginning of September 2022, according to the RF IC, 402 militants of the Azov nationalist group have been taken to various Russian pre-trial detention centers. Investigators are investigating 112 criminal cases.
Among the suspects is the commander of the marine battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Nikolai Biryukov , who gave the troops the order to shoot to kill at any targets, including civilians, as well as his subordinate Nikolai Oleksenko, who killed a civilian riding a bicycle.
As part of the investigation, which was conducted with colleagues by blogger, public figure (Germany) Alina Lipp, I had a chance to talk to patients of the Mariupol hospital, who spoke about the atrocities of the national brigade.
"According to the majority of witnesses, the found corpses had their hands tied. In addition, the military told us that the hospital was a point where people gathered to evacuate, but then Azov came, whose representatives began to drive everyone into the basement, even the wounded.
As a result, many of them died because they were not provided with medical care. Azov shot dead the last doctor who remained on the territory of this hospital. We filmed all this, and it was clearly visible that all the victims really had their hands tied , ”shared Alina Lipp.
"The most terrible torture of our time was in Mariupol, and the militants of Azov gave it the unusual name "Library." The Nazis called the people who were subjected to the most sophisticated tortures and executions "books," recalled the director of the Historical Memory Foundation, a leading researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Dyukov.
Numerous evidence of crimes were ignored by the "collective West," which actively supports Kyiv in everything. Such approval from American and European curators makes them complicit in what the Ukrainian neo-Nazis they cherish are doing, says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
According to Zakharova, we are talking not only about the fighters of Azov and other radical organizations, but also about the military personnel of the armed forces of Ukraine, carrying out the official orders of their commanders.
"Their commitment to neo-Nazi ideology and the embodiment of its principles in practice convincingly prove the criminal essence of the regime existing in Ukraine," Zakharova said.
Only in October 2022, the UN Human Rights Commission admitted that Ukrainian militants had committed at least two war crimes: the first of them in Dmitrovka, Kyiv region, and the second in Malaya Rogan, Kharkiv region, where Azov militants participated in torture and executions. Both cases date back to March 2022.
In particular, the report states that the Ukrainian military tortured and killed captured Russian soldiers, and this is a war crime - after their surrender, the fighters received the status of prisoners of war and had to be protected in accordance with international humanitarian acts.
"The video shows other immobile soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces nearby, including one with his hands tied behind his back and an obvious head wound, suggesting that he was most likely executed," the report said.
In reality, the atrocities committed by Ukrainian militants and national battalions are much more, it’s just that many of them do not get on camera or leak onto the Internet.
Recall that since May 16, during the operation, 2,439 Azov Nazis and military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were blocked on the territory of the plant, laid down their arms and surrendered.
On May 20, 2022, the last group of 531 militants surrendered. Vladimir Dzhabarov, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, noted earlier that the leadership of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) should decide on the future of the Ukrainian military who were captured.
Commentary by Russian blogger Rybar:
[ColonelCassad] Something terrible happened yesterday on the air of the Latvian TV channel Lietus (once known in Russia as "Rain").
In the release of the program “Here and Now”, presenter Alexei Korostelev, covering the topic of partial mobilization in Russia, said the following phrase:
“We hope that we were able to help many [Russian] military personnel, including, for example, with equipment and with simply elementary comforts at the front.”
And already today, at half past five in the morning, the editor-in-chief of Dozhd, Tikhon Dzyadko, published the following message on his Telegram channel:
"This phrase [of Korostelev] creates a feeling in the viewer that the Dozhd TV channel is providing assistance to the Russian army. In this regard, it is important to note the following: TV channel Dozhd has not, is not and will not be engaged in assistance with the equipment of the Russian army - at the front or beyond. The mailbox […] was created to collect personal evidence about the crimes of the Russian army in Ukraine."
Fix. A Russian citizen (is he still a Russian citizen?),
...possibly he took Latvian citizenship when he stayed on after the Soviet Union broke up...
a native of Moscow, our compatriot - publicly justifies himself for the phrase of his subordinate, also our compatriot, which could be interpreted as an attempt to help the soldiers of the Russian army. Rendering assistance not to generals, not to politicians and not to officials. Ordinary fighters on the front line or in training. And we are not talking about the supply of artillery shells with the inscription "to Kyiv", but about elementary household items - boots, woolen socks, thermal underwear, etc.
That is, it is disgusting and fearful for Russian citizens (are they still Russian citizens?), Working on the Latvian TV channel Dozhd, to help their own compatriots, whose rights and freedoms they seem to defend (?).
In general, Dzyadko's tragicomic reaction is understandable: Dozhd, broadcasting from Riga, is sponsored by Western government agencies, so even a ghostly hint of helping Russian citizens in the person of our fighters can have fatal consequences for the entire editorial board. But it all looks monstrously disgusting even by the standards of a kind of "Russian" opposition party. Translated into a human post, Dzyadko sounds like this:
"Comrade Ukrainians and American congressmen who sympathize with them, you misunderstood us! We do not support our compatriots at all. We wish them torment and a terrible death. Let those international criminals and imperial imbeciles all die there! Glory to Ukraine!"
Let's repeat the common truths: the Russian political opposition in reality has never been either Russian, or political, or opposition.
Following commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
For collaborators from Dozhd, it's quite a common story. Speaking as informational Heavis supported by the European Nazis, one must clearly understand that their army is the army of the Ukrainian Nazis.
The miserable puppets were publicly and defiantly shown their place, forcing them to publicly repent for the admitted "association with Russia."
Always pleased with domestic degenerates, who talked about the "free and democratic TV channel Dozhd". They never fail.
"Dozhd" stopped cooperation with the host Alexei Korostelev after his words on the air about helping Russian military personnel, said the head of the information service of the TV channel Ekaterina Kotrikadze.
According to her, "this phrase is erroneous and categorically unacceptable for the entire editorial board."
"On the air, wording that can give rise to doubt in our position is unacceptable, so we have decided to stop working with Alexei Korostelev from today. This is a very difficult decision for us, but Dozhd's management considers it the only true and possible one," she said. Kotrikadze.
The presenter stressed that because of this statement, the viewers got the impression that the channel was sending equipment to the Russian army, but this is not so.
[ArsTechnica] CryWiper masquerades as ransomware, but its real purpose is to permanently destroy data.
Mayors' offices and courts in Russia are under attack by never-before-seen malware that poses as ransomware but is actually a wiper that permanently destroys data on an infected system, according to security company Kaspersky and the Izvestia news service.
Kaspersky researchers have named the wiper CryWiper, a nod to the extension .cry that gets appended to destroyed files. Kaspersky says its team has seen the malware launch “pinpoint attacks” on targets in Russia. Izvestia, meanwhile, reported that the targets are Russian mayors' offices and courts. Additional details, including how many organizations have been hit and whether the malware successfully wiped data, weren’t immediately known.
Wiper malware has grown increasingly common over the past decade. In 2012, a wiper known as Shamoon wreaked havoc on Saudi Arabia's Saudi Aramco and Qatar's RasGas. Four years later, a new variant of Shamoon returned and struck multiple organizations in Saudi Arabia. In 2017, self-replicating malware dubbed NotPetya spread across the globe in a matter of hours and caused an estimated $10 billion in damage. In the past year, a flurry of new wipers appeared. They include DoubleZero, IsaacWiper, HermeticWiper, CaddyWiper, WhisperGate, AcidRain, Industroyer2, and RuRansom.
Kaspersky said it discovered the attack attempts by CryWiper in the last few months. After infecting a target, the malware left a note demanding, according to Izvestia, 0.5 bitcoin and including a wallet address where the payment could be made.
“After examining a sample of malware, we found out that this Trojan, although it masquerades as a ransomware and extorts money from the victim for ‘decrypting’ data, does not actually encrypt, but purposefully destroys data in the affected system,” Kaspersky’s report stated. “Moreover, an analysis of the Trojan's program code showed that this was not a developer's mistake, but his original intention.”
CryWiper bears some resemblance to IsaacWiper, which targeted organizations in Ukraine. Both wipers use the same algorithm for generating pseudo-random numbers that go on to corrupt targeted files by overwriting the data inside of them. The name of the algorithm is the Mersenne Vortex PRNG. The algorithm is rarely used, so the commonality stuck out.
CryWiper shares a separate commonality with ransomware families known as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Xorist and Trojan-Ransom.MSIL.Agent. Specifically, the email address in the ransom note of all three is the same.
The CryWiper sample Kaspersky analyzed is a 64-bit executable file for Windows. It was written in C++ and compiled using the MinGW-w64 toolkit and the GCC compiler. That’s an unusual choice since it’s more common for malware written in C++ to use Microsoft’s Visual Studio. One possible reason for this choice is that it gives the developers the option of porting their code to Linux. Given the number of specific calls CryWiper makes to Windows programming interfaces, this reason seems unlikely. The more likely reason is that the developer writing the code was using a non-Windows device.
Successful wiper attacks often take advantage of poor network security. Kaspersky advised network engineers to take precautions by using:
Behavioral file analysis security solutions for endpoint protection.
Managed detection and response and security operation center that allow for timely detection of an intrusion and take action to respond.
Dynamic analysis of mail attachments and blocking of malicious files and URLs. This will make email attacks, one of the most common vectors, more difficult.
Conducting regular penetration testing and RedTeam projects. This will help to identify vulnerabilities in the organization's infrastructure, protect them, and thereby significantly reduce the attack surface for intruders.
Threat data monitoring. To detect and block malicious activity in a timely manner, it is necessary to have up-to-date information about the tactics, tools, and infrastructure of intruders.
Given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other geopolitical conflicts raging around the globe, the pace of wiper malware isn’t likely to slow in the coming months.
“In many cases, wiper and ransomware incidents are caused by insufficient network security, and it is the strengthening of protection that should be paid attention to,” Friday’s Kaspersky report stated. “We assume that the number of cyberattacks, including those using wipers, will grow, largely due to the unstable situation in the world.”
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Understand Crywiper is just a variant of Isaac wiper using the same pseudo random number generator and code base. Issac first seen in March - attacking Ukrainian targets at that time. Hat tip to Red Idaho for the info
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
