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Okay, I cannot lie... really enjoyed Dafoe's Van Gogh just now, though I can't help wondering whether those long, mute rhapsodic bits and echoey overlapping-dialogue thingies weren't plastered over a half-hour of ham being ham.
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Luttwak believes that both Putin and Zelensky could be brought around to accepting such a compromise, especially if the war grinds on with no victory for either side in sight.
Yeah, that game worked from 1916-1918 when the Central Powers and Western Alliance were grinding away. Not.
Luttwak ridicules those in the West who compare Putin to Hitler or even Napoleon.
Yeah, geographical aggrandizement was never in those cards. Just ask the people of Alsace LorraineMoselleLorraine Moselle.
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High sulfur content Russian and Indian coal. Australian coal was best for their generation of power. Factories were designed to burn better quality coal. Now Germany is starting up their coal power plants but that is going to take a long time to produce what they need.
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I'm sure the appropriate federal agencies and private foundations are already making calculations of how much our quality of life in the USA has to decline to balance out the rest of the world's carbon output.
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If we can rebuild Mogodishes...I'm certain we can sell coal to Germany.
[FoxNews] The Chinese parent company of TikTok had access to American users' data for months even while U.S. employees did not have access themselves, according to leaked audio.
The audio, obtained by BuzzFeed News, covers more than 80 internal meetings at TikTok between the months of September 2021 and January 2022. It showed that U.S. employees were not permitted to access user data and instead relied on Chinese employees to do so, according to BuzzFeed.
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is required under Chinese law to share its data with the Chinese Communist Party whenever requested.
"As we've publicly stated, we've brought in world class internal and external security experts to help us strengthen our data security efforts. This is standard industry practice given the complexity of data security challenges," TikTok said in a statement to Business Insider on Friday.
[FOX] Former rebel Gustavo Petro is set to be Colombia's first leftist president after voters handed him a slim victory in Sunday's runoff election against Rodolfo Hernández, a political outsider and populist.
Petro had garnered 50.47% of the votes to Hernandez's 47.25% on Sunday evening, according to preliminary results released by election authorities.
"Today is a day of celebration for the people. Let them celebrate the first popular victory," Petro, a current senator and former mayor of Bogota, tweeted after the results came in. "May so many sufferings be cushioned in the joy that today floods the heart of the Homeland."
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Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and now Columbia, gee, someone at the CIA and State Department might want to take a look at this.
That old racist Monroe Doctrine was about our backyard that now seems to be more than a tad unfriendly. Just sayin perhaps ole Jimbo was on to something about paying attention in your own hemisphere?
Maybe if we got their pro-nouns right and offered to send billions to pay for their government salaries we might get better illegals from them?
[WSWS.org] In the midst of the January 6 House Select Committee hearings detailing the attempt of Donald Trump to overthrow the government, based on the lie that the 2020 election was "fraudulent," Texas Republicans ended a three-day convention over the weekend by adopting a resolution declaring that "President Joseph Robinnette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States."
The resolution passed "without any real debate," the Texas Tribune reported.
In reality, Biden defeated Trump 306-222 in the Electoral College vote and by some 7 million in the popular vote. The first three hearings established that Trump was repeatedly told by top officials in his Justice Department and some members of his inner circle that there was no truth to his claims of massive voter fraud.
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All other evidence withstanding, could there be a clue with regard to the source of this article which might indicate the Texas Republican Party resolution was accurate ?
[Gun America] Josef Gangl was born September 12, 1910, in Obertraubling, Bavaria. The son of a Royal Bavarian State Railways official, young Josef aspired to a career as a professional soldier. However, post-WW1 Germany was not the ideal place to pursue such aspirations. The Reichswehr was limited to a roster of 100,000 troops by the Treaty of Versailles. However, Gangl made the cut and was assigned to Artillery Regiment 7 in Nuremberg.
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A friend loaned me a DVD of Brad Pitt's Fury(2014) and it was an interesting (anti-)war film that I will probably never want to watch again. Reading the story about Major Gangl's heroics reinforces my feelings that there are movies that leave you feeling better about humanity and that a movie about Gangl would be great.
[JW] $14 million a year for ten years — $140,000,000 to rebuild after the Islamic State overran Cabo Delgado. Why is it the responsibility of the United States to repair Mozambique while the U.S. itself is in the middle of an economic crisis? And what has been done or is being done to ensure that the jihadis don’t return?
Biden’s handlers to give Mozambique $140,000,000 to rebuild after jihad devastation.
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Also to keep dem big money operative Tuh-ray-zuh Heinz-Kerry happy, no doubt...
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Build-Back-Broke in Mozambiue with tax payer money? Apparatchik Nulan making decisions 10 years into the future to increase our debt even more? WTF Hell?
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Naperville police released video Tuesday showing an officer shoot a man, who ran at him with a hatchet.
The shooting occurred on June 3 during a traffic stop, near Bond and McDowell.
The video shows another car pulled up, and a man got out and immediately charged at the officer with a hatchet in his hand. The officer then opened fire.
The man, identified as 28-year-old Edward Samaan, died at a hospital. The officer was not hurt.
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NN2N1, the LEO recognized the weapon as a 9mm Lung Extractor. Perp was able to buy it at a weapons fair without the civilized 31 day waiting period.
[Townhall] Historically, opposing political parties have fought hard against each other during elections before coming together in the end to unite the country around the winner. While differences on policy positions have always existed, the belief that one or the other party has evil intentions was largely unheard of. It was assumed that everyone loved their country - the Republic that was founded in 1776 - and truly wanted what is best for it and all its people, regardless of political differences. Sadly, those days are long gone.
Newton's third law states: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." From crime to inflation to uncontrolled immigration to everything in between, the United States is falling apart. Nothing is going right. So much so that it’s hard not to imagine it isn’t purposeful, especially considering that key policy changes could at least begin to get things on the right track. But instead of embracing clear, simple solutions or simply reversing the current disastrous course, our overlords keep stubbornly clinging to the policies that are obviously leading to financial and societal ruin.
What is going on today in America is unprecedented in the more than two centuries of our history, a controlled demolition managed by hostile forces who clearly intend to replace our once-great country with a socialist/communist hellscape of their own making. Like it or not, it’s the only logical conclusion. They know, however, that in order to initiate the Great Reset they so desire and force the majority of people to at least tolerate it, they have to destroy the current order and bring the population to its knees begging for relief. And while they would never admit what they are doing, at least right now, their actions speak louder than any words they say possibly could.
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Destroying our 'Energy Independence', Trump's single most significant accomplishment, is all the proof I need of the intentional demolition. Additional crippling proofs of the intent of these globalist, heathen bastids continue to manifest themselves.
[Red State] Over ten thousand flights were canceled across the nation this weekend, leaving frustrated, desperate passengers stranded in airports thousands of miles from their homes. Ten thousand flights. It’s almost too many to comprehend.
If you read my travel-hell story from Thursday night, you’ll know that I was one of those passengers, and that after my flight was canceled, I was forced to get a rental car (at my expense) and drive 12 hours through the night to get my minor children, who were being let out of camp. My kids could go get a COVID vaccine, a tattoo, and probably an abortion too, but the one thing they would not be allowed to do is check into a hotel room without an adult present.
Today (Sunday), it would seem that we’re victims of double jeopardy: our flight to Los Angeles was summarily canceled, and we have no way of getting back today. The airline’s best offer is two days hence.
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Nothing will be resolved until the US Gov't assumes total control over banking, medicine, education, the oil industry, trucking, commercial air travel.
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Remove the artificial protection airlines get for overbooking and scheduling. They have their own 'through put' problem, but are not interested in fixing it. It's become semi-governmental anyway, over promise and under deliver.
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The US government mandated shots to all. The pilots knew the risks and otped out, retiring early. The ATC employees did the same. We are living the bad decisions of our CDC and government...
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The goal is to make air travel a thing for those who can afford NetJets or some such only. Proles should buy and electric car, ride a bike or walk. Or not travel at all.
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[ZERO] Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was unable to commit to stop federal funding from going to Chinese scientific research, despite the U.S. intelligence community assessing the regime as America’s top adversary.
Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), made the remarks while appearing virtually at the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee hearing on June 16, during an exchange with Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas).
"The NIH is still funding research in China, at least $8 million since 2020. In the Intelligence Community’s 2022 Annual Threat Assessment, the Chinese Communist Party is presented as one of the top threats to the United States, along with Russia, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. To my knowledge, only China is receiving U.S. research dollars," said the senator during the hearing. "When will you as director of NIAID stop funding research in China?"
Since 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a total of $8.3 million in grants to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and its division National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, along with five top public universities in mainland China and Hong Kong, according to the NIH website.
Although this amount doesn’t capture dollars later funneled to a Chinese institution through a U.S.-based organization, such as New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, which had partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to perform coronavirus-related experiments that some experts said fit the definition of gain-of-function research, that is, experiments that increase the pathogenicity or transmissibility of a virus.
Fauci, in response to Marshall’s question, said that the U.S. federal agencies "had very productive peer-reviewed highly regarded research projects with our Chinese colleagues that have led to some major advances in biomedical research."
"So I don’t think I’d be able to tell you that we are going to stop funding Chinese," Fauci said.
"We obviously need to be careful and make sure that when we do fund them we have the proper peer review and we go through all the established guidelines," he continued, adding that "grants that go to foreign countries, including China, have State Department clearance."
"Dr. Fauci’s remarks prove that China is the drug he just can’t quit," Marshall later told The Epoch Times about the NIAID head’s response.
Heinlein’s bad luck or Allah expressing his displeasure with the new rulers of Afghanistan?
[ToloNews] The department of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock said they have recently registered four cases of Lumpy Skin Disease.
Lumpy Skin Disease is an infectious disease affecting cattle and its symptoms include fever, lacrimation, hypersalivation, and characteristic skin eruptions. "Please, Fatima! Put the burqa back on!"
"First small rashes are on the body of the cow and then it increases to the whole body of the cow," said Abdul Wadood, a resident of Kandahar.
"I think the disease is due to trafficking of livestock through illegal paths," said Shah Wali, in charge of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Affairs of Daman district of Kandahar province.
According to some provincial officials, the disease can also infect humans by direct transmission.
"The disease came from Pakistain. This is a contagious disease which infects the human as well," said Fahim Sapai, a local veterinary doctor.
This is starting to cause serious problems in Pakistan.
The provincial department of agriculture, irrigation and livestock said that if the central government doesn’t take serious action, the virus will further affect the livestock.
[AlAhram] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group grabbed credit for an attack on a Sikh temple in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul that killed at least one worshipper and maimed seven others.
IS made the claim in a statement posted on its Amaq website late Saturday. It said the assault on ``the Sikh and Hindu temple'' was in response to alleged insults made against the Prophet Muhammad, the central figure of the Islamic religion, by an Indian government official. It did not name the official.
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[ToloNews] The new government feels no responsibility for the promises made by those they conquered, unfortunately for those depending on those promises. [ToloNews] Dozens of veterans and government retirees held a protest demanding to receive their pensions on Saturday, saying that the government should not remain silent about this issue.
"It's been almost ten months that we have been asking for our pensions, which is part of the right of government officials," said Najibullah, a retired employee.
"Nobody else is available to feed me. I have no money. God knows that we borrowed 15 rupees from a store owner today, to get to the department of pensions," said Abdul Rashid, another retired employee.
"Three or four of these folks don't have the money to rent a car, and some of them even passed away from hunger," said Abdul Ahad, another retired employee.
Retirees, the majority of whom are teachers, academics, retired military people, and public workers, claim they face a range of difficulties.
"The officials deceive us every day, while a pension is our right, but it has been taken from us," said Abdul Mohammad, another retired employee.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... officials in the Ministry of Finance said last week that they had finalized a scheme for the payment of pensions for the veterans and government retirees.
[KhaamaPress] Following the incident on the Sikh congregation holy place in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Saturday, which left two people dead, India has determined to issue e-visas to over 100 Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan.
The emergency e-visas will make it easier to evacuate Sikhs and Hindus from Afghanistan, where they are in great danger due to terrorist threats, according to the Indian officials.
On Saturday morning, several explosions were reported at a Sikh temple in Kabul, preceded by a shootout between the assailants and Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... forces. The Taliban fighters, according to the sources, killed the attackers.
Moreover, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Khorasan Province (ISKP), aka ISIS-Khorasan, grabbed credit for the Kabul Karte Parwan Sikh temple attack.
The ISKP website on late Saturday published the picture of the assailant, named Abu Mohammad al-Tajiki, in the Sikh temple in Kabul, claiming that the attack was organized following the Indian politicians insult of Prophet Mohammad, as Dire Revenge.
While there were roughly 700 Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan by 2020, many families departed the country last year due to turmoil and instability and the Taliban’s seizure of the country after US forces withdrawal on August 15.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... according to the Indian officials, only around 150 of the religious minority, currently lives in Afghanistan, and are under "severe threat" of the terrorist groups.
[ToloNews] The Resistance® Front released photos and claimed its members had shot down a helicopter in the central province of Panjshir, but the provincial governor’s front mandenied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! and said that some of the imagery is old.
The Resistance® Front also claimed it had captured crew members.
"The areas are under the Islamic Emirate control. The crew has not suffered any casualties. What is being aired on social media, some of the footage is from the past," said Abubakar Seddiqqi, a front man for the provincial governor.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the helicopter came under attack after an emergency landing in Arzo valley of the province.
"One day ago, a helicopter (Mi 17) which was recently repaired and was on a training flight, made an emergency landing in Arzo valley. Based on initial information, after the emergency landing, the rebels set the helicopter on fire and then left the area. The Ministry of Defense will provide further details after a complete investigation," the statement said.
Due to the lack of access to the area, TOLOnews cannot gather information about the claims.
"It is better that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... talk about this vital issue and consider engagement and negotiations for resolving this matter. If the situation keeps going like this, undoubtedly, the situation of Afghanistan will change," said Asadullah Nadim, a military veteran.
The leader of the Resistance® Front, Ahmad Masoud, told the Al Arabiya TV Channel that the war in Afghanistan has been imposed on them.
He also said that if the Islamic Emirate changes its policies, he is ready to engage in negotiations.
War is imposed on us, this is not something that we enjoy. But we should fight because we don’t have any other option, Ahmad Masoud said.
The Islamic Emirate has not commented on Massoud's remarks.
After the fall of the former government, the negotiations between Islamic Emirate forces and Resistance® Front were conducted but the negotiations are yet to make any breakthrough.
[AlAhram] A Syrian desert monastery that was once a hub for interfaith dialogue, attracting tens of thousands, has reopened to visitors after more than a decade of war and isolation.
"We yearn for people to return. We want to see them pray and meditate with us once more, so that they may find here a space for calm, silence and contemplation," Father Jihad Youssef told AFP, his voice echoing through the dark, empty halls of the monastery he heads.
In 2010, 30,000 people visited Deir Mar Moussa al-Habashi (St Moses the Æthiopian), a 7th century monastery perched atop a barren, rocky hill about 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of Damascus.
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[AlAhram] Greek authorities said Sunday they have rescued 108 migrants colonists from a sailboat that was found rudderless and leaking water in the Aegean Sea in near gale force winds.
The rescued migrants colonists, 63 men, 24 women and 21 children, have told authorities there four other people are missing.
Reports of a sailboat adrift off the uninhabited island of Delos reached the coasties late Saturday. It dispatched three rescue vessels and a tugboat.
Early Sunday morning, rescuers managed to tow the sailboat to an islet off the nearby island of Mykonos, authorities said. The migrants colonists were safely transported to Mykonos. They told authorities that their boat had sailed from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... to an unknown destination.
``Once again, the coasties saved lives that the ruthless trafficking networks have exposed to mortal danger without even the barest protection measures,'' Shipping and Island Policy Minister Ioannis Plakiotakis said.
In unrelated migration cases in the neighboring country of North Macedonia, police said they discovered 71 migrants colonists in two separate operations late Saturday and arrested three men suspected of human trafficking.
Police raided a home in the northern town of Kumanovo and found 44 Paks and one person from India. Police arrested the homeowner, a 41-year-old identified only by his initials as UF The migrants colonists are believed to have entered illegally from Greece and were waiting to be smuggled to Serbia on their way to unidentified EU countries.
They have been transferred to a migrant reception center on the border with Serbia pending deportation.
Oh. Well, so much for that. Congratulations on finding a spine, Greece.
In a separate case, police discovered 26 migrants colonists from Syria hidden in a van during a routine check on a highway toll station in the southern part of the country. The van driver and his assistant, both Macedonian nationals, were arrested, police said Sunday.
The migrants colonists were transferred to a reception center near the border with Greece pending deportation to that country.
Whoops! Someone’s government is not going to be pleased with them...
Police say the Balkan route for migrants colonists, through North Macedonia, has become more active again in the past few months after many countries lifted travel restrictions because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Sputnik] The Paleostinian Authority will not hand over to Israel the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last month, Paleostinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Sunday.
"We refuse to transfer the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh, and, moreover, we demand to transfer the weapon from which the bullet was fired," Paleostinian news agency Wafa quoted Shtayyeh as saying. "This bullet is the 5,723rd most holy site in Islam!"
On Friday, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that the Israeli army expanded its investigation into the circumstances of the death of the journalist, and a technical specialist was included in the investigation team. The leadership of the Israeli army again asked the Paleostinian authorities to provide the bullet for an examination.
The 51-year-old Paleostinian-American journalist was shot in the head on 11 May while covering an Israeli raid in the West Bank. Reporters on the scene said they were targeted by Israeli snipers when the group was alone in the streets of Jenin and were clearly identifiable as being members of the press.
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The release of such material might be a problem for the required meme.
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It's so they can avoid being issued with a bill for the bullet.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
The village of Metelkino has been taken, the AFU grouping at the Azot plant is in operational encirclement (bridges have been destroyed, transportation across the river by boats does not provide full-fledged supplies), Ukrainian sources confirm heavy losses.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, obviously, are striving to completely block Azot, and then proceed to eliminate the remnants of the enemy grouping.
2. Soledar.
Battles near Belogorovka and Berestovoye. There are also battles near Nikolaevka. The Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway is actually blocked for the enemy. The main supply goes along the Artemovsk-Seversk-Lysichansk highway, although attacks are also being made on it.
3. Zolotnoye.
Fighting in the Vrubovka area, as well as on the outskirts of Zolote. There are attempts to advance to Novoannovka.
To the north of Gorskoye, our troops were able to enter Chekhirovo from Toshkovka, which is located directly on the Lisichansk-Gorskoye highway.
4. Artemovsk.
Fighting near Novolugansky and Semigorye. The enemy holds the Uglegorsk thermal power plant and uses the road through Kodema for supplies after our troops cut the Artemovsk-Svetlodarsk highway north of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant.
To the east of Artemovsk, the front line runs at Pokrovsky and Klinovoe. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine removed the command of one of the brigades due to an attempt to retreat from Artemovsk.
5. Avdievka.
There is no serious progress towards Krasnogorovka and Ochertino. The enemy is even trying to counterattack in order to try to push our troops back from the Konstantinovka-Avdeevka highway, but without any success.
Along the way, the enemy continues intensive shelling of Donetsk and Yasinovataya. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the DPR are stepping up counter-battery work.
Fighting continued on the outskirts of New York.
6. Ugledar.
Fighting intensified in the area of Ugledar. The enemy tried to push back our troops in Pavlovka, but had no success. On our part, attempts to advance at Novomikhailovka were unsuccessful. There is also a front in
Marinka and Velikaya Novoselovka.
7. Zaporozhye.
On the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka line, there are no significant changes, although the intensity of artillery fire is growing. The offensive of the RF Armed Forces on Zaporozhye, which Ukrainian propaganda used to scare, never began.
8. Nikolaev.
Positional battles in the Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog directions. The enemy is trying to resume active operations, but due to heavy losses, he again does not achieve significant success.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Black Sea Fleet continue to strike at Ochakovo and Nikolaev, destroying military infrastructure.
9. Slavyansk.
Battles at Tatyanovka, Prishib and Bogorodichny. Fighting also continues in the area of the Valley and Krasnopolye. Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is already working on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlement. Lighthouses.
10. Izyum.
Battles at Kurulka and Velikaya Kamyshevakha. The enemy is trying to probe the defense of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Balakleya.
The headquarters of the operational group "Alexandria" was destroyed by the strikes of cruise missiles - the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered heavy losses in the command staff.
11. Kharkov.
Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to regain lost positions in the area of Ternovoye and Rubizhnoye ended in failure. The battles for Upper Saltov and Bolshoi Passages continued.
The enemy expects the Russian Armed Forces to soon go on the offensive and is preparing public opinion for the need to withdraw to the outskirts of Kharkov. However, the assault on Kharkov can hardly be expected now. Active work is also underway on the Zolochiv fortified area.
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Plus answers to questions from the military commander Kitten:
1. Is it true that in battles reservists, therodefense and mercenaries are crushed, and the most combat-ready units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in the 3rd echelon and are protected for a counteroffensive?
- Materials from the front show that the remnants of personnel units, including officers and sergeants, also suffer serious losses. The increase in the number of losses among reservists, Volkssturm and mercenaries is explained by the fact that they are just plugging holes in the regular structures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to the lack of trained soldiers, sergeants and officers.
Of course, the enemy tries to save the remaining personnel, because he understands that he will not be able to quickly replace them.
2. What is the probability that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will approach Kherson?
- Such attempts will certainly be made from the Krivoy Rog direction. But it is unlikely that the enemy will be able to count on operational success here now. The failed offensive at Davydov Ford perfectly showed the cost of such actions in people and equipment.
3. Is Kyiv planning a "Budennov scenario" and do such plans have a chance of success?
- Various terrorist attacks on the territory of Ukraine, as well as attempts to stage terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation are inevitable.
There is no fundamental difference between ISIS and Ukraine in matters of terror. We must be prepared for this and, accordingly, tune in to methodical work within the CTO.
4. Kyiv announces negotiations for August, which will begin after a "successful counteroffensive." What does the minimum program for the Ukrainian leadership look like?
- Kyiv does not have its own program of action. The US and Britain are determined to drag out the war as much as possible. Therefore, Kyiv will act within the wishes of its owners.
You should not pay attention to the chatter of Kyiv - you need to concentrate on achieving the military goals of the operation and liberating new territories. The best path to peace is military success, not negotiations with the Nazi gang, which is devoid of real subjectivity.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Human Rights Office, Youth Organization for Rights and Sustainable Development and the Jurists Against Aggression Initiative in Hodeidah province on Saturday condemned the crime of raping six girls in al-Juweir and al-Suwaihra areas of Hays district by the Saudi-led coalition mercenaries.
Statements issued by those organizations denounced the heinous crime committed by the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression coalition mercenaries led by the mercenary Bassam al-Mihdhar, who raped the girls in a cowardly act that contradicts all heavenly laws.
The statements noted that "this crime comes within the systematic criminal chain in which the aggression coalition seeks, through its cheap tools and agents in the occupied areas, to compensate for its failures."
The organizations’ statements condemned the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... ’ silence towards these crimes, and held it and all its organizations responsible for this crime and its repercussions on society.
They called for the formation of a neutral international investigation committee to investigate this crime and the previous crimes and rapes of women and kiddies by the aggression countries’ mercenaries.
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#Syria's southern governorate of #Daraa continue to witness killing incidents on a daily basis despite the settlement agreement between the government and the residents sponsored by #Russia. https://t.co/xly2hHK5Hh
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[REGNUM] The Ukrainian armed forces are suffering significant losses from the counter-battery fight. This was announced on June 19 by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.
So, a soldier of the 22nd Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, taken prisoner in the area of Peremoga village, said that over the past 10 days in the artillery units operating in the Kharkov direction, the losses amounted to 380 people, including 90 - irretrievable.
[REGNUM] As part of the counter-battery fight in the Donetsk direction, seven platoons of the Grad MLRS and an artillery platoon at the firing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated. This was announced on June 19 by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.
In addition, on June 19 at 02:05 in the area of n. The village of Selidovo DPR defeated the manpower and military equipment of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As a result, up to 200 militants were destroyed, including foreign mercenaries who were part of this brigade, as well as two combat vehicles of the Grad multiple launch rocket system.
[REGNUM] More than 40 Ukrainian nationalists have been killed since the beginning of the current day in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was reported on June 19 by the People's Militia of the DPR.
"Over the current day, the joint actions of the military personnel of the DPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two installations of the BM-21 Grad MLRS, two trucks and more than 40 personnel," the message says.
It is noted that the military personnel of the Russian Federation and the DPR also suppressed three firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlements of Avdievka and Nevelskoye.
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[Vesti] The Russian army continues to launch missile and air strikes against military and civilian infrastructure on the territory of our state. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 Sunday, June 19, 2022.
The enemy is improving the engineering equipment of the first and second lines of defense. Russian troops are building up an air defense system in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region.
At the same time, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to inflict significant losses on the enemy troops and steadily hold the defense in all directions.
Besides:
forces of the Republic of Belarus perform tasks to cover the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, carry out fortification equipment in the Gomel region, and conduct electronic intelligence;
in the Seversk direction, units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation continue to equip positions in the border areas of the Kursk region. The build-up of the air defense system in the territory of the Bryansk region is noted;
in the Kharkov direction, the enemy intensively fired at the positions of our troops from cannon and rocket artillery. Conducted reconnaissance in force in the area of the village of Rubizhnoye, but had no success;
in the Slavic direction, the enemy did not take active actions. The main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on the accumulation of resources with the aim of a further offensive in the direction of the city of Slavyansk. The enemy fired at the positions of our troops and conducted aerial reconnaissance of the Orlan-10 UAV;
active actions of the occupiers were not recorded in the Limansky direction;
in the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy is conducting round-the-clock aerial reconnaissance of the Orlan-10 UAV. Conducts assault operations in order to establish full control over the city of Severodonetsk, hostilities continue, the enemy has no success;
in the Bakhmut direction, the Russian army launched airstrikes with helicopters near Yakovlevka and missile strikes in the areas of Maiskoye, Dolomitnoye, Zaitsevo and New York. On the eastern outskirts of the village of Berestovo, Ukrainian soldiers successfully repelled an enemy assault;
the enemy did not conduct active operations on the Avdeevsky, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporizhzhya directions. In the Avdiivka direction, there is an increase in the intensity of artillery shelling of our positions;
In the Yuzhnobugsky direction, the enemy fired at the peaceful settlements of Limany, Luparevo, Novaya Zarya, Tavrichesky, Novogrigorovka, Belousovo, Knyazhevka, Topolino, Bolshaya Kostromka and Osokorovka.
[LB] Today, June 19, the Russians killed two more civilians in the Donetsk region.
This was announced by the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Two civilians were killed by the Russians - one in Maksymilianivka and one in Zaitsevo.
"Currently, it is impossible to determine the exact number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha," said the head of Donetsk region.
We will remind, on June 19 during the next delivery of technical water to the city of Zalizne of Donetsk region locals came under fire of the Russian military.
[LB] Fortunately, no one was killed or injured in the fire.
The occupying forces do not stop destroying not only houses but also cultural institutions.
This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
In the house of folk traditions in the village. Grodivka in the Donetsk region hit an explosive device, which set it on fire in the entire area of 600 square meters.
The fire also damaged two private buildings, a glazing in a preschool and part of the roof and glazing in the Holy Dormition Church.
Earlier it was reported that the local history museum , where the works of the artist Maria Prymachenko were kept, burned down in the village of Ivankiv, Kyiv region . The other day it was decided to include it primarily in the list of objects for reconstruction.
[NYPOST] A Florida woman accused of a pepper-spraying four women while launching into an anti-Asian tirade in Manhattan was called a possible flight risk at her first court appearance Saturday, and ordered held on $20,000 bail.
Madeline Barker, 47, is facing hate charges of assault as a hate crime after she was caught on camera June 11 in Chelsea, wearing a loud Fuschia outfit and outsized sunglasses as she tells four women to "go back to where you came from" and unleashes the spray attack.
Prosecutors said Barker was a flight risk because she’s a resident of Merritt Island in the Sunshine State. She didn’t turn herself in and was only caught after an eyewitness recognized her on the street and called the cops, an assistant district attorney said in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Judge Eric Schumacher agreed and set bail at $20,000 cash, $20,000 partially secure bond.
Barker’s legal aid counsel told the judge the situation was "amplified by media sensation."
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More than 200 minors facing charges of terrorism were extradited to Iraq, Shafaq News Agency correspondent to Nineveh said on Sunday.
According to our correspondent, Nineveh's Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Agency were on the receiving end of the extradition of 206 minors detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
"The arrestees were transferred to the custody of the agency in preparation for trials," our correspondent added.
Since May 2021, at least 500 families linked to the murderous Moslem ISIS group have been moved from al-Hol camp in northeast Syria to al-Jadaa which hosts around 10,000 internally displaced people.
These include families of murderous Moslems, some of whom hail from other parts of Iraq, including the governorates of Saladin and al-Anbar.
The prospect of their return to their places of origin has sparked concern among residents who survived the brutal rule of ISIS when it occupied one third of Iraq between 2014 and 2017.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] New Emirati forces arrived in the districts of the oil-rich Hadhramaut province, in eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , informed sources reported on Saturday.
The sources confirmed that, during the past two days, the UAE moved about 700 members of the so-called "Hadhrami Elite" militia from the city of Mukalla, the capital of Hadhramaut, after they received training by Emirati and American officers, and deployed them in Seiyun city to secure it.
The UAE is working to gradually strengthen these elements during the coming days, in preparation to expel the forces of the "First Military Region" loyal to the military leader of the Islah Party, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, towards Ma’rib province, in implementation of the demands of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) based on the directives issued by Abu Dhabi, according to the sources.
On another hand, eyewitnesses said that they had seen soldiers of the First Military Region in civil cloth leave Seiyun on busses during the past hours.
This came after the UAE assigned the leading member in the General People’s Congress Party, chief of the so-called "General Staff" Sagheer bin Aziz, to oversee the process of completing the exit of Islah forces of Evil from the Hadhramaut districts.
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[NYPOST] Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer was slugged Saturday by an unknown man at a retail and entertainment venue, police revealed.
"Earlier this evening, while at Fourth Street Live, Mayor Fischer was punched by an individual," the Louisville Metro Police Department said on Facebook. "The Mayor is doing fine."
The police department posted photos of the suspect on its Facebook and Twitter pages late Saturday, while encouraging people with information about the blow to call an anonymous tip line.
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Just another black man playing the knockout game. Remember when one of them sucker punched Rick Moranis for no reason? Then the media wouldn't publish photos of the suspect because it would inflame black-Jewish tensions.
[Sputnik] Actors Raymundo Garduño Cruz and Juan Francisco González Aguilar were killed in a car crash on June 16 during the filming of the Netflix series "The Chosen One." The show is an adaptation of Mark Millar and Peter Gross’ comic book series American Jesus, in which a 12-year-old discovers he is the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Something for everyone, and some things for no one.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] The international sports federation for swimming (FINA) has ruled that transgender athletes who went through male puberty can't compete in female races.
According to Husnain al-Musallam, president of FINA, a separate "open category" will be set up to separate trans athletes to compete in their own class.
Good idea.
The decision was made at FINA's extraordinary general congress on the sidelines of the world championships in Budapest following a report from a transgender task force which comprised leading medical, legal and sports figures.
Under the new rules, trans athletes will be required to have completed their transition by the age of 12 in order to be able to take part in women's competitions.
FINA's ruling means that American swimmer Lia Thomas will no longer be allowed to compete against women. Thomas became the first openly transgender athlete to win NCAA Division I national championship in any sport, after demonstrating the best results in the women's 500-yard freestyle event in March 2022. Before starting hormone replacement therapy in 2019, Thomas competed for the Pennsylvanian men's team for three seasons.
Some sports doctors have suggested that Thomas, as well as other trans female athletes, have been having unfair advantage because they had gone through male puberty.
Thomas, for her part, argued that "trans women are not a threat to womne's sport", adding that anyone banning her from competing as a woman is "transphobic". Dude. Shut the F*CK up.
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Parents are known to sacrifice their kids in the name of 'glory'*. See Texas highschoolers held back a year or two to overawe the other kids on the opposition football team. Don't need a doctor's note or be an adult to buy in GNC.
[IsraelHayom] A mysterious blast occurred in western Tehran overnight Friday following a drone attack on a ballistic missile development facility, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas reported Sunday morning.
Iranian sources were quoted by an Iranian opposition journalist living in exile as saying that the target of the alleged attack was a strategic base belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the capital.
The sources said the short-range rockets along with ballistic missiles were being developed at the military complex.
According to Al-Qabas, which has not been confirmed by other sources, it appears the alleged attack was carried out by drones that took off from an area a mere 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the targeted base. The reports also added that the base was considered one of the Iranian military industry's most important facilities.
Al-Qabas also reported that the drones used to carry out the alleged attack were smuggled into Iran piece by piece and then reassembled.
Meanwhile, Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami reportedly visited the site on Saturday morning, likely to assess the damage. It was also reported that Iranian air bases were put on high alert in the wake of the alleged attack.
As a reminder, the New York Times recently reported that a May 26 explosion at the Parchin military research complex south of Tehran was also the result of a drone strike.
That blast reportedly killed an Iranian engineer and wounded another, and according to "three knowledgeable sources," it was caused by quadcopter suicide drones that crashed into a building housing a research facility associated with Iran's drone development program.
The strike came only days after a senior member of the IRGC's clandestine Quds Force, Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, was assassinated in Tehran.
Khodaei was linked to a series of botched Iranian attempts to target Israelis overseas and the NYT alleged in a separate report that Israel has told US officials that it was behind the hit.
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...drones that took off from an area a mere 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the targeted base.
How do you get that kind of material into the country and pull that off? We can be certain for one thing, it wasn't anything done along or with any American alphabet agency.
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Helo in, landing just short of radar fan, preferably in a waddie or defilade. Unload drones. Launch, vector, and return. Load up drones, RTB (return to base).
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If we had threatened them with apocalyptic destruction, conducted terror attacks, and attempted assassinations against their citizens abroad? Your point must be on your head, cuz it ain't in your argument.
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You forgot their 45 year long war against the US, Frank.
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Actually, I didn't will never forget. The argument seems to be whether the Little Satan Juice are justified in doing this. If they did. Coulda been anyone, the way the Ayatollahs are pissing people off, including their own people
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RE# 4, You must be forgetting the Iranians arming every POS muslim group around them also.
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Doesn't censorship feel dirty? Don't you feel icky and gooky inside when you censor, or support censorship? You should.
I participate in any number of far left woke forums, and this is exactly what they do. Whenever they see something they don't like, that makes them feel funny, facts that are too inconvenient to deal with, they censor. They have to have complete control over every conversation to stay afloat. They always have to push for a situation that makes it harder for any voice but theirs be heard. This is because their positions are so weak that if anyone was allowed to point out the facts, they would collapse.
People who support censorship deserve to be chained together and forced to push a giant wheel that serves no purpose.
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Censoring threat, violence and some swearing is fine. Censoring opinion is not.
Censoring to influence a conversation to make a mod look good is not acceptable.
I didn’t Pholings post today but there is a mod.....
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Operational information as of 18.00 on 19.06.2022 regarding the Russian invasion
According to Censor.NET.
"The aggressor continues to launch missile and air strikes on military and civilian infrastructure in our country.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus perform tasks to cover the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, carry out fortification equipment in the Gomel region, and conduct electronic reconnaissance.
In the Seversky direction, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue engineering equipment positions in the border areas of the Kursk region. There is an increase in the air defense system in the Bryansk region.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy fired intensively at the positions of our troops from barrel and jet artillery. He conducted reconnaissance by fighting in the area of the settlement of Rubizhne, had no success.
The enemy did not take active action in the Slavic direction. The main focus of the enemy is on the accumulation of resources in order to carry out a further offensive in the direction of the city of Slavyansk. The enemy fired on the positions of our troops and conducted air reconnaissance of the Orlan-10 UAV.
No active actions of the occupiers were recorded in the Lyman direction.
In the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy conducts round-the-clock air reconnaissance of the Orlan-10 UAV. Conducts assault operations in order to establish full control over the city of Severodonetsk, hostilities continue, the enemy is unsuccessful.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy launched helicopter strikes near Yakovlevka and rocket attacks in the settlements of Travneve, Dolomitnoye, Zaitsevo and New York.
On the eastern outskirts of the village of Berestov, Ukrainian soldiers successfully repulsed an enemy assault.
The enemy did not take active action in the Avdiivka, Kurakhiv, Novopavliv and Zaporizhzhya areas. In the Avdiivka direction there is an increase in the intensity of artillery shelling of our positions.
In the South Bug direction, the enemy fired on the peaceful settlements of Lymany, Lupareve, Nova Zorya, Tavriyske, Novohryhorivka, Bilousove, Knyazivka, Topolyne, Velyka Kostromka and Osokorivka. The enemy is improving the engineering equipment of the first and second lines of defense.
The Russian occupiers are stepping up the air defense system in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region.
Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to inflict significant losses on enemy troops and keep the defense stable in all directions, " the statement reads.
[NYPOST] The alleged gangbanger who shot full of holes two cops at a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, motel killed himself after he fatally shot the officers, online coroner’s records said.
Justin Flores, 35, died by suicide on the sidewalk outside the Siesta Inn Motel, where he killed El Monte police Cpl. Michael Paredes and Officer Joseph Santana on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of the Medical Examiner-Coroner.
Flores’ cause of death was listed as a gunshot wound to the head. Officials had said Flores died during a shootout with other officers after he killed Paredes, 42, and Santana, 31, inside the motel as they responded to a domestic incident.
Paredes and Santana died from gunshot wounds to the head, coroner’s records said.
After fatally shooting the officers, Flores ran outside and gunfire was exchanged with other cops, officials previously said.
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1st and most importantly
our Condolences to the LEO's families.
Now, having read over the extensive criminal history for the violently mentally ill, tatt'ed face Justin Flores.
I would strongly suggest a judicial review of the handling of his many cases. Once evaluated, they should publish the findings with recommended guidelines for PROPERLY addressing such violent persons going forward.
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Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Yesterday at 12:30, sea-based missiles "Caliber" hit the command post of Ukrainian troops near the village of Shirokaya Dacha, Dnepropetrovsk region.
At that moment, there was a working meeting of the command staff of the operational-strategic group of forces "Alexandria."
"As a result of the strike, over 50 generals and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including the general staff, the command of the group of forces "Kakhovka," air assault troops and formations, were destroyed, operating in the Nikolaev and Zaporizhzhia directions,” the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
Firstly, I saved myself from the temptation to giggle in the morning on the topic "50 generals and officers", according to the gene. Konashenkov controlled by the blessed fire on the southern front. I wanted to, because it was too much, but I decided to wait - and thank God, otherwise I would now be in an awkward position. Now, having received accurate information from people who are absolutely in the know, I inform you: yes, the Holy Fire descended, exactly on a solid headquarters, head to head at the time of an important meeting, and several dozen high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (including two with stripes) out of order, most of them forever. Russian Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian ministry of defense
Secondly, the same people who are absolutely in the know confirm that the Kyiv Nazis have finally taken, and their Western curators have approved the decision to attack on about. Serpentine with the aim of deblocking Odessa and ousting the Russian Navy from the western Black Sea region. For this, in the opinion of the enemy command, enough forces and imported equipment have been accumulated - first of all, anti-ship missiles and air defense systems - to seriously count on success. If you ask what is good here, I answer: all this, from "a" to "z", is not a secret for anyone, primarily for the command of the Coalition.
[Chernovec] Every third M777 howitzer has to be taken for repairs after the first artillery duel
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Sharapov shared his feelings about the tenderness and unreliability of the advertised "three axes", their poor suitability for artillery duels
Gun nodes are damaged by debris from the arrival of shells, which, according to the deputy minister, indicates the fierceness (and effectiveness) of the counter-battery fight.
Sharapov also complained about the problems with the repair of these guns, in particular, the lack of spare parts, since the United States simply did not supply them.
But experts warned back in early May that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would not be able to repair American military equipment.
And this artillery system is very capricious. In the United States, during exercises in range conditions, these howitzers required repairs after an average of 4 days of firing.
Artillery design was sacrificed in order to reduce weight. In combat conditions, this led to many complaints : the
howitzer is too light and fragile for powerful 155 mm ammunition. This led to the fact that the recoil absorption mechanisms in the M777 wear out dangerously quickly in combat conditions
. The American howitzer has serious problems with metal fatigue, instability when firing, the barrel often fails, since the M777 cannot be fired with a rate of fire of more than 2 rounds / min .
Here it must be remembered that India at one time refused the contract for these howitzers, after one fell apart during demonstration firing. Moreover, there were cases of similar destruction in other countries.
BLUF: Every design is a compromise. This time, it is weight vs continuous fire.
The M-777 was designed to be a lightweight howitzer that could be transported by helo in the mountains of Afghanistan. The use case is sniping at clusters of jihadis, so fire rate is not important.
In Ukraine, the game is protracted (if not continuous) rounds of artillery ping-pong. The important parameters are continuous fire rate and range. Having to take tubes offline for repair is not good.
One big difference between the US vs Russian styles of war is maintenance. We assume the tools, manuals, and spare parts will be readily available. Classic Russian equipment is designed to be fixed in the field by semi-literate peasant conscripts with no Pep Boys around for 500 kilometers.
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Another Russian design principle is that equipment/personnel have a life expectancy. Why bother with repair/rebuild/refurbish if you are going to just expend it anyway? Certainly cuts down on log tails. If you have no problem with 'burning through your manpower and equipment' in the first couple of waves, the degree of finesse in that equipment or troop skills is much lower.
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[Korrespondent] 23:01 Zelensky spoke about the situation at the front: “The invaders are building up forces in the Kharkiv direction, in the Zaporozhye region. They fired at our fuel infrastructure again - they want to aggravate the situation with fuel. Of course, we will respond to this. Super-violent battles continue in Donbas. The Russian army uses more artillery there, more offensive forces. But Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Avdiivka, Krasnogorovka and other hot spots hold out.
22:46 Zelensky announced a "historic week" in an evening video message : "Tomorrow begins a historic week. One of the most important of all time since 1991. The week when we hear a response from the European Union about the status of a candidate for Ukraine. And in such a week follows expect Russia to intensify hostile activity. Specially - revealing. And not only against Ukraine, but also against Europe. We are getting ready. We are warning our partners. And we thank everyone whose strength today is our victory tomorrow."
22:36 Invaders fired at the Seredino-Budsky district of the Sumy region during the day. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties, information about the destruction is being specified, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
22:31 Australia has already handed over four of the 14 promised M113 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine as part of a new shipment of military assistance. According to 9News, four M113AS4 armored personnel carriers were loaded onto a Ukrainian cargo plane last week and delivered to Ukraine as part of a $285 million military aid package.
21:19 The New York Times writes that experts have identified more than two thousand munitions used in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, and concluded that most of them were unguided. At the same time, 210 identified munitions are prohibited by international treaties.
20:44 Russia has stopped the shipment of Kazakh oil after Tokayev's statement about the non-recognition of the LDNR. Since June 16, in the port of Novorossiysk, the waters of the Caspian oil pipeline, through which Kazakh oil was transported to Western markets, have been completely closed to ships, Kommersant writes. According to the official version, 50 explosive objects from the Second World War were found in the waters of the Caspian oil pipeline, and in order to neutralize them, the Russian side suspends oil transportation until the end of the month.
The Kazakh edition of ORDA notes that the suspension of oil transportation became known immediately after the speech of the President of Kazakhstan, Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev, at the economic forum in St. Petersburg, where he announced his refusal to recognize the "LDNR".
20:40 The salaries of the Ukrainian military will not be subject to military dues for the duration of the war. This decision was made by the Rada by voting for bill No. 7432. In particular, the payment of military dues for military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the State Border Service, privates, commanding personnel, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Department of State Security, the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, other military formations and other persons - in case of their participation in repulse and containment of Russia's armed aggression under martial law.
19:42 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is developing a mechanism for obtaining visas for Russians, and soon a country will be determined that will represent the interests of Kiev in Russia, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Oleg Nemchinov said on the air of the telethon.
19:39 Kuleba said that Ukraine is actively urging McDonald's to return to work: "A few weeks ago, we established contact with the Ukrainian office, and then with the headquarters of McDonald's in the United States. We also raised this issue in official contacts with the US government, because McDonald's is one of America's most famous brands and the process is moving forward."
19:17 The head of the Chernihiv OVA, Vyacheslav Chaus, warned that strikes on railway infrastructure facilities in the region are possible today, and urged citizens not to ignore the air raid sirens.
19:01 The Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repelled an enemy assault on the outskirts of the village of Berestovo, Bakhmut district, Donetsk region, at the same time, the invaders are strengthening the air defense system in the occupied territory of the Kherson region, the General Staff reports in the evening report .
17:55 Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko said on the air of the telethon that the situation north of Kharkov is quite difficult: Russian troops are trying to get closer to Kharkov in order to try to make it a "front-line city" again.
17:52 Occupants are holding Azov commanders in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in Moscow, Russian state propaganda agencies report.
17:50 EU Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore announced that he arrived in Kiev: "Today I am in Kiev, Ukraine, to show my solidarity. Having met with refugees on the Polish border at the beginning of Russian aggression, I now track their steps."
17:37 Almost all athletes from Russia are suspended from participation in international competitions. However, some federations want the return of the Russians under a neutral flag, said the Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Vadym Gutzeit. "We will continue to increase pressure so that Russian and Belarusian athletes are not on international sports grounds," the minister assured.
17:25 In the battle in the Izyum direction, the founder and head of the Legion of Freedom, the commander of the Karpatska Sich battalion (49th separate rifle battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) Oleg Kutsyn, was killed, said Oleg Tyagnibok, head of the Svoboda party, of which Kutsin was a member.
16:41 The Rada adopted bill No. 7398, according to which all residential buildings under construction in Ukraine will be required to have bomb shelters. Urban planning documentation must now include information on the planned engineering and technical measures of civil protection.
16:18 Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov told the Financial Times that the fuel situation will stabilize by autumn, as Ukraine will conclude a large number of long-term contracts with foreign suppliers by this time. According to him, due to the existing deficit, Ukraine is forced to buy fuel in the Netherlands and Belgium.
16:02 Russian telegram channels confirmed the change of command of the airborne troops of the Russian Federation, as previously reported by sources in the West and in Ukraine. Colonel-General Mikhail Teplinskiy, a native of Donbass, became the new commander. He fought in the first and second Chechen wars, and during the current war in Ukraine, according to Russian publics, he commanded the capture of Liman.
15:39 Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov said that the Lithuanian Railways notified the Kaliningrad railway about the termination from Saturday, June 19, of the transit of a number of goods that fell under EU sanctions. According to him, up to 50% of the range of goods, including building materials and metals, will fall under the transit ban. The Kaliningrad authorities consider Lithuania's decision to ban transit "an economic suffocation of the region, they will seek revision," the governor added.
Lithuania's actions to restrict transit to Kaliningrad are "illegal and could have far-reaching consequences for the European Union," Alikhanov said. And vice-speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev said that Lithuania, which began the "blockade" of the Kaliningrad region, is "the flagship of the destruction of international law."
15:01 Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said that the Ukrainian military approached the borders of Kherson, in the Zaporozhye direction, the front line advanced 10 km. According to him, this is happening thanks to weapons supplied by the West.
14:43 The head of the Kyiv OVA Oleksiy Kuleba warned that the military commandant's office would conduct raids together with the police in order to control the security of the Kyiv region at night and enforce the curfew, which is currently in effect from 23:00 to 5:00.
14:18 Italy will be able to survive the winter without Russian gas, said the head of the Eni oil and gas group, Claudio Descalzi. To do this, according to him, the country needs to fill storage facilities up to 70-80% by October - and this is quite realistic.
14:04 The Rada banned Russian music in the Ukrainian media and public space by adopting bill No. 7273-d, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said. 303 people's deputies voted for this decision. The parliament also banned the import and distribution of books and other publishing products from the Russian Federation, the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by it, and from Belarus.
12:36 The new Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff, General Patrick Sanders, appealed to every active soldier with a call to be ready for a new war in Europe with the Russian army in a potential Third World War. According to The Sun, the warning came in his first speech since he became Chief of the General Staff this month.
“Now our urgent need is to create an army that can fight alongside our allies and defeat Russia in battle. <...> We are the generation that must again prepare the army for battles in Europe,” Sanders said.
11:53 Poland disagrees with the decision to postpone Eurovision 2023 from Ukraine. This is stated in a joint statement by the Ministry of Culture and the board of the Polish national television channel TVP.
11:47 In the Sumy region, a saboteur was detained, who painted the symbols Z and V on his own house, justifying the actions of the aggressor, said Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Enin. According to him, in total, about 100 DRGs were exposed throughout Ukraine. In June alone, about 30 saboteurs were identified, 11 of them in Kyiv.
11:45 In the Zaporozhye region, the invaders are trying to intimidate the resistance with the death penalty. According to the head of the OVA Oleksandr Starukh, the Ukrainian partisans will continue to resist, "at this time, the Russian servicemen continue to fight among themselves for power and finances."
11:43 One of the victims of a rocket attack on an oil depot in the Novomoskovsky district of Dnipropetrovsk region died in the hospital. Thus, as a result of the shelling, two people were killed, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
11:41 Russia refuses to recognize 27 crew members of the cruiser Moskva as dead. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, officials and special services are forcing the families of Russian sailors to hide information about relatives who died on the cruiser. Thus, 27 crew members, including 19 conscripts, are still missing. In Sevastopol, only midshipman Vakhrushev was officially buried.
The cruiser commander, Captain First Rank Kuprin, who, in violation of the charter, was one of the first to leave the ship, explains his act as an attempt to save the conscripts - he allegedly received such an order after the explosions on the ship.
Relatives of the dead sailors are refused to be accepted both by the command of the Russian Navy and the command of the Black Sea Fleet, and by the authorities and social security. They are sent to psychologists, doctors and lawyers, and FSB officers come to their homes and places of work and carry out explanatory work with threats of criminal liability for disclosing state secrets.
11:37 Moldovan President Maia Sandu signed a law banning the rebroadcasting of news and analytical programs, as well as military films from Russia throughout the country. The document provides for a ban on news and analytical broadcasts from countries that have not ratified the Convention on Transfrontier Television.
11:24 Kazakhstan called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons on earth by 2045, Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi said: "The current military conflict on the territory of Ukraine, talk about the return of nuclear weapons and mutual threats to use nuclear weapons make us think more than ever about the collective vulnerability of mankind and the urgent need to ban and eliminate these deadly weapons. We call on all states, including the nuclear powers, to develop a phased plan for the total elimination of nuclear weapons by 2045, the centenary of the United Nations."
11:00 Famous Hollywood actor Ben Stiller was spotted in the center of Lviv on Saturday, June 18th. The day before, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced on Twitter that Ben Stiller, as a UN Goodwill Ambassador, arrived at the border to meet with Ukrainian refugees.
10:22 Since the beginning of the full-scale war against Ukraine, Russia has illegally deported 1,936,911 Ukrainians, of which 307,423 are children, Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said. Over the past 24 hours alone, 29,733 people, including 3,502 children, have been evacuated from Ukraine and the territories occupied by the LDNR.
10:16 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of June 19. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Zaporozhye directions.
personnel - about 33,600 (+250) people liquidated,
tanks - 1468 (+3),
armored combat vehicles - 3577 (+4),
artillery systems - 745 (+6),
MLRS - 235 (+2),
air defense systems - 98 (+0),
aircraft - 216 (+0),
helicopters - 181 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 598 (+4),
cruise missiles - 130 (+1),
ships/boats - 14 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2523 (+10),
special equipment - 55 (+0).
09:44 British intelligence reports that in recent days, both Russia and Ukraine continued to conduct massive artillery shelling in directions north, east and south of the Severodonetsk pocket, but with a slight change in the front line. Combat units on both sides are engaged in intense fighting in the Donbas and are likely to experience patchy morale. Ukrainian troops have likely suffered desertions in recent weeks, but Russian morale is likely to remain particularly low. Entire Russian units continue to refuse to obey orders.
The Russian authorities seem to be struggling to exert legal pressure on dissidents, hampered by the invasion's official status as a "special military operation." Factors in Russians' low morale include perceptibly poor leadership, limited ability to rotate units out of combat, very heavy casualties, combat stress, persistently poor logistics, and pay problems. Many Russian servicemen of all ranks also seem to be confused about the aims of the war. Moral problems in the Russian military are likely so significant that they limit Russia's ability to achieve operational goals, analysts say.
09:40 Tonight, the Russians opened fire twice from their territory on the Seredino-Budskaya community of the Sumy region, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. They hit residential areas of the city of Seredina-Buda from a mortar, at least ten private houses were damaged, information about the victims is being specified.
09:34 In Novomoskovsk, where Russian missiles destroyed an oil depot the day before, a fuel tank exploded. Rescuers have been fighting the fire for 14 hours, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. One rescuer died, two were hospitalized with burns. A total of 13 people were injured, one died.
09:10 In the evening, four rockets hit Nikolaev: two into the plastic window factory, one into the sausage shop, one more into a residential building. At the same time, one rocket was shot down, OK Pivden reported. There was a fire at both enterprises, there were no dead or injured.
09:06 In ORLO, food prices are almost 40% higher than in the territories controlled by Ukraine, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai: "Monitoring of open sources on consumer prices for food in the so-called" LNR "refutes the myths about the sweet life in the people's republic".
09:02 Explosions were heard in the Vyshgorodsky district of the Kiev region this morning - this was worked out by air defense against an enemy air object, the OVA reported. Smoke was not found, there were no casualties.
08:43 In Lisichansk, two people were killed, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. The fighting for Severodonetsk continues, the Russian invaders are pressing from under Popasna.
08:25 The occupiers are looking for spies at the captured Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Energodar. According to officials at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the station workers and their families, several employees were handcuffed and taken away for interrogation. Many returned with injuries, more than a dozen workers were missing, writes The Wall Street Journal.
More than 500 Russian military personnel were deployed in the nuclear power plant complex. Part of their task was to weed out Ukrainian partisans among the 11,000 personnel. The occupiers patrol the station with pistols and grenades, chiding Ukrainian-speaking workers and checking their mobile phones for loyalty to Kyiv.
08:14 The war in Ukraine can last for years, but the supply of modern weapons to Kiev will increase the chances of the liberation of Donbass from Russian control, Stoltenberg said. He also confirmed the intention of the participants of the upcoming NATO summit in Madrid to announce that Russia is no longer a partner for the alliance, but "a threat to peace and stability."
07:42 The Armed Forces of Ukraine forced the enemy to retreat in the area of the settlement of Toshkovka, and also repelled the assault in the directions of Orekhovo - Zolotoe and Pervomaisk - Zolote, stopped the enemy in the direction of Vrubovka - Nikolaevka, the General Staff reported in the morning report .
06:27 Zelensky recorded a video message following a visit to the Mykolaiv and Odessa regions: "We will not give the south to anyone, we will return everything that is ours, and the sea will be Ukrainian and safe. <...> And we will definitely restore everything destroyed. Russia does not have so many missiles how many of our people have the desire to live."
02:13 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russian army on June 18 achieved minor success in the vicinity of Severodonetsk, but mainly focused on other areas. Russian forces are likely to face mounting casualties, military degradation and equipment damage that will make it difficult to attempt to resume the offensive on other critical positions as the protracted battle for Severodonetsk continues.
Analysts believe that Russian troops will likely be able to capture Severodonetsk in the coming weeks, but at the cost of concentrating most of their available forces in this small area. Other Russian operations in eastern Ukraine, such as attempts to seize Slovyansk and advance east of Bakhmut, have made little progress in the past two weeks.
The invaders continue to fight to push Ukrainian troops back from the occupied borders north of Kharkiv and along the south, but have made little progress in doing so, leaving them vulnerable to Ukrainian counteroffensives and partisan resistance.
01:35 The conclusion of the European Commission on Ukraine's compliance with the requirements for a candidate state proposes to allow the EU to cancel this status if Ukraine violates its obligations, writes European Truth. Such provisions have not yet been in the decisions of the European Commission on applications for membership from another state. And now Brussels, taking into account the special situation of Ukraine, has made such a decision simultaneously in relation to two applicant states - Ukraine and Moldova.
01:12 Johnson in an article for The Sunday Times urged partners who support Ukraine to prepare for a long war. In his opinion, Ukraine's supporters must maintain self-control in order to provide it with "strategic resilience that will allow it to survive and ultimately win."
The British prime minister emphasized that time is now a vital factor: everything will depend on whether Ukraine can strengthen the ability to defend its land faster than Russia can restore the ability to attack. Johnson is convinced that if Putin is allowed to keep territory in Ukraine, it will be a parody that would be "the greatest victory of aggression in Europe since the Second World War."
This was discussed sometime back on the very pages of Rantburg. I concluded that Russian missile could also be guided in via a ground based laser designator.
[RIA Novosti] Russia, as part of a special operation in Ukraine, used new high-precision 305 aircraft missiles to destroy important military facilities, an informed source told RIA Novosti.
"As part of a special military operation in Ukraine, the army aviation of the Russian Federation began to use the new 305 light multi-purpose guided missiles. The missiles are used from the Mi-28NM attack helicopters at important facilities of the Ukrainian troops, for example, at warehouses with ammunition and fuel and lubricants," the source said. agencies.
He specified that "the new missiles provide high accuracy in hitting targets with a deviation from the aiming line of no more than two meters."
The source spoke about the various guidance modes of the ammunition. With the "fire-and-forget" option, the target is captured by the optoelectronic homing head (GOS) of the missile, when it is still on the helicopter suspension, after launch, the ammunition is completely autonomous.
Another option is the telecontrol mode, when the launch is carried out out of sight of the target according to the transmitted coordinates. In this case, the missile flies in inertial mode, and when approaching the target, the seeker is turned on, the image from which is transmitted to the screen of the armament operator in the helicopter cockpit. The operator recognizes and indicates the target to the homing head.
"Product 305" was first presented at the "Army-2021" exhibition. The rocket was developed in the Kolomna company KBM. This weapon is designed to defeat single and group stationary and moving targets day and night. The range of the rocket is 14.5 kilometers, its launch weight is 105 kilograms, the weight of the high-explosive fragmentation warhead is 25 kilograms.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Eeited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:41 Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to return the lost positions in the area of Ternovy and Rubizhny ended in failure. The battles for Upper Saltov and Bolshoi Passages continued. 22:23 The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Yasinovsky coke plant in the Kirovsky district of Makeevka, the workshop and tanks were damaged.
21:53 Directorate of the SBU for the Luhansk region in the city of Severodonetsk.This area of the city was liberated only recently, and it is too early to call this place safe for a thorough study of the “legacy” of the SBU, Ukrainian artillery is actively working in the city. A cursory examination showed that the employees of the Severodonetsk administration turned out to be a little less wasteful of their Mariupol colleagues and left not so much official documentation. But they did not have time to carry away or destroy everything.
21:52 Back in 2021, Kyiv planned to build a NATO base on the territory of the Severodonetsk airport, told RIA Novosti former deputy prosecutor who went over to the side of the LPR.
21:52 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded: from the direction of the settlement. Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) according to the settlement Good with the use of the Tochka-U tactical missile system (one missile).
20:32 Commentary of the head of administration of Pervomaiskon the current situation in the city and its environs: Over the past day, 1 shelling was recorded, 3 apartment buildings were damaged. Since the aggravation of the situation on the line of contact in the city, 1,472 addresses have been damaged.
The situation with the city's water supply has improved slightly, water is supplied by 6 units of special equipment. Works on the construction of a water conduit with a length of 10 kilometers are almost completed
20:30 The Embassy of the LPR in Russia is still being formed, but is already actively dealing with the issue of refugees. Noted in an interview Donbas decides Rodion Miroshnik. We track where the refugees from the LPR are, in which Russian regions, what problems they face.
“There are many refugees from Rubizhne, Kremennaya, Severodonetsk. Someone finds options for how to arrange their lives. For some, this does not work out very well - when state mechanisms fail. Therefore, it is now very important to launch the work of the consular service.”
20:30 Grady NM LNR work on Ukrainian positions in the area of the settlement. Gorskoye.
20:30 Continued shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine not allowed to start restoration of the city of Pervomaisk in the LPR. As a result of shelling in May-June, social institutions in the central square of the city were destroyed.
Children's art school, the city center of culture and leisure "Zarya", the administration of Pervomaisk - all the destruction can be listed for a long time.
19:49 VFU attacked the village of Mikhailovka and the village of Golmovsky!
19:42 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): seven shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
19:27 Another Ukrainian prisoner: “What am I fighting for?“ Having asked this question, the National Guardsman Roman Dzyuba surrendered in the area of the village of Metelkino near Severodonetsk.
The serviceman said that the command was offered (ordered) to sit alone in a trench with a machine gun and defend the position against the troops of the Russian Federation and the LPR. Instead, Dziuba covered the machine gun with a cloth and hid in a trench for two days, and later surrendered to the military of the LPR.
19:25 Suppression of firing points in the areas of the Avdievskaya industrial zone and Peski by the People's Militia of the DPR. The same places from where shelling of residential areas of Donetsk has been carried out in recent days. Over the past 24 hours, at least eight people have died in the DPR and dozens have been injured. Civil infrastructure facilities, houses and cars were damaged.
19:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Nikolaevka - n.p. Golmovsky: fired five shells with a caliber of 122mm.
19:13 The head of the administration of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports: Destruction was recorded in the Kirovsky district, shells of the Armed Forces of Ukraine landed on the territory of the mine named after. A.A. Skochinsky. As a result of the shelling, a garage was destroyed, 2 buses, 4 Kamaz trucks and a crane were broken.
19:00 According to the official representative of the NM of the DPR: Since the beginning of the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy has fired more than 200 shells from barreled artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, as well as 60mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of nine settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, one civilian was killed and one was injured. Sixteen residential buildings, four civilian infrastructure facilities and four vehicles were damaged. Information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Materials on the facts of the destruction of civilian facilities will be transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR for inclusion in the criminal cases initiated against the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Over the current day, the joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two BM-21 Grad MLRS, two trucks and more than forty personnel. Three enemy firing points were suppressed in the area of the settlement. Avdievka and Nevelskoe.
We regret to inform you that two defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed and five were injured during the day in the struggle for independence in the performance of military duty. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
18:01 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
17:57 Makeevka now. Air defense works!
17:50 The headquarters for the restoration of Donbass discussed the master plan for the development of Mariupol. According to Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin, issues of economic development and improvement were considered.
17:21 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
17:15 Report about the shelling of the village of Gornyak in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
17:03 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Kirovskiy district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: two shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:01 Yesterday, as a result of shelling in Donetsk, the building of the headquarters of the 1st Corps of the People's Militia of the DPR was completely destroyed and burned down.
16:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Makeevka (Kirovskiy district): 15 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
16:41 The air defense forces of the LPR shot down shells of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Republic.
This is the representation of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime. The mission informed that as a result of the scattering of fragments of ammunition, residential buildings, a school and other civilian infrastructure in Kirovsk, Irmino and Stakhanov were damaged.
16:13 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
16:08 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Kirovskiy district): three shells of 155mm caliber and two missiles from the BM-27 Uragan were fired.
16:05 VFU shelling the Gorlovsky village of Zaitsevo
16:02 The shelling of Donetsk does not stop - more than 60 shells were fired at the Kirovsky district of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Today, the shelling of Donetsk continued - the infrastructure of the city is under attack. The APU has been hitting the mine area since the very morning. Skochinsky.
In the Kiev region, a direct hit on the roof of a boiler house was recorded, a private residential building caught fire. For the sake of safety, the city authorities decided to suspend the movement of some public transport routes.
15:56 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Kirovskiy district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
15:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
15:17 Ukrainian troops attacked the Yasinovsky coke plant in the Kirovsky district of Makeevka, the workshop and tanks were damaged, the DPR headquarters reported
14:59 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— settlement Dzerzhinsk (sh-ta Yuzhnaya) - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): 10 mines were fired with a caliber of 60mm;
— n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 shells of 152 mm caliber were fired.
14:55 As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian military of the Solnechny residential area (Kalinin district of Gorlovka)multiple damage to an apartment buildingon st. Magistralnaya, 15: entrance 7 - roof hit, entrance 9 - a gas pipeline was broken, the glazing was damaged in the house (photo 1-3), st. Trunk, 9 - the roof is damaged (photo 4, 5). Residents of the residential area send numerous photos via the chatbot (photos 6-8).
14:52 In Gorlovka, a local resident was killed as a result of shelling by Ukrainian artillery.
14:45 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
14:32 Underfire VFU residential area "Solnechny". Residents send us videos from the scene. Damage information is being updated. Citizens to go to shelters!
14:30 Ukrainian militants are shelling the administration of Donetsk, trying to destroy the authorities and the city itself - Oleksiy Kulemzin
14:16 Consequences of shellingStakhanov and Irmino armed formations of Ukraine from multiple launch rocket systems "Hurricane".
- Ukrainian militants opened fire on the city at about 3 am.
-According to preliminary information released by the local administration, more than 30 residential buildings received damage to the roof and glazing as a result of shelling.
- The building of the Stakhanov bone-tuberculosis dispensary, the building of one of the schools suffered.
-There are damages to the gas pipeline and power lines in Irmino and Stakhanov.
-There are no casualties among the civilian population.
14:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kyiv district): six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
14:01 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): seven shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
13:58 Shelling of the mine on Biryuzova.
13:31 Headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR publishes footage of the aftermath of the shelling of Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk. It is reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to hit the city center today.
13:23 The settlement of Metelkino near Severodonetsk (LPR) was taken under control. It is reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
13:22 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Makeevka (Kirovskiy district): six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
13:14 Fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to strike at Donetsk. Powerful explosions were recorded in the Kuibyshevsky district of the city.
13:00 Also the consequences of yesterday's shelling. Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. Kuibysheva street, 202. After the destruction on the landing, 15 civilians were evacuated through the roof to the next entrance. There are people injured.
12:45 Donetsk is shaken by the explosions of Ukrainian shells. Under the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of the city. The correspondent of the channel Donbass decides counted five arrivals in 10 minutes.
12:43 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Dzerzhinsk (sh-ta Yuzhnaya) - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): fired six mines with a caliber of 60mm.
12:34 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
12:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
12:02 Popasnaya today! shelling of the cityby the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not stop.
11:39 RIA Novosti correspondent saysabout the situation around the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk, where Ukrainian militants are blocked
11:28 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yakovlevka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:03 Lugansk front: units of the People's Militia of the LPR are advancing on Lisichansk from the northeast.
10:44 A civilian was killed as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian military of Gorlovka, the mayor of the city of Prikhodko said.
10:30 Footage of the consequences of yesterday's shelling of Donetskfrom the APU. According to the latest data, five people became victims of artillery strikes, and another 20 were injured.
10:26 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Ozeryanovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:20 More than 307,000 children have been evacuated to the Russian Federation from the territory of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR since the end of February.
The Russian military also reported that in general, more than 1.9 million people arrived in the Russian Federation during this period.
10:03 At 0300 hrs in the LPR over the city of Stakhanov shot down Tochka-U fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:03 During the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
-32 personnel;
-five armored personnel carriers;
-three vehicles
-three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the right decision, laid down their arms, thereby saving their lives.
09:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Ozeryanovka: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:42 Shelling of Korolenko, Ozeryanovka began. Be careful!
09:42 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Ozeryanovka: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:35 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have retreated from Popasna to the LPR for more than a month, but continue to shell the city with artillery.
In the suburbs and the city, housing and communal infrastructure is destroyed, constant fires, the remaining civilians suffer daily.What did you make sure of today? The correspondent of the channel Donbass decides.
09:29 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Mikhailovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:32 In the DPR, seven people were killed during the day under shelling. Another 24 were injured, the DPR Headquarters of Defense said.
06:51 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
06:00 After 03:00 shelling was recorded from the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Mikhailovka: six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
0:16 The militants of the Aidar nationalist battalion, including the command staff, voluntarily surrendered to the military of the Luhansk People's Republic near Severodonetsk, the Russian TASS news agency reports, citing a source in the People's Militia of the LPR.
"Tonight, the cleansing of the village of Metelkino has been completed. Many Aidarovites surrendered, including the commanders of this punitive national battalion," the report says.
[MetroUK] Vladimir Putin has issued a thinly-veiled threat to former Soviet Union countries — warning they could share the same fate as Ukraine for defying Russia.
Can Russia afford another victory like Ukraine? What benefit is there in absorbing another pile of depopulated rubble?
The Russian President made clear he would not hesitate to take the same action against them should they turn against the Kremlin, and would no longer ’be allies’ with the country.
Mr Putin’s comments followed those of the president of Kazakhstan, who had described the pro-Russian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in the Donbas as ’quasi-states territories’.
As Kassym-Jomart Tokayev sat metres away from him at the St Petersburg Economic Forum, he claimed Kazakhstan — which left the USSR in 1991 — was part of ’historic Russia’. So does this mean they're going to stop evading historical responsibility for every asshole thing the Soviet Union did?
’What is the Soviet Union? This is historic Russia,’ Mr Putin said, before praising Kazakhstan as a brotherly nation.
’The same thing could have happened with Ukraine, absolutely, but they wouldn’t be our allies.’ But Mr. Anglesey-Upon-Avon-Upon-Isis-Upon-Swansea told me it was because of NATO encroachment and broken promises and whatnot. And that Russia was fighting this _for_ Ukrainian neutrality.
The words were interpreted as a ’clear threat’, with a Kazakhstan-based expert claiming the Russian president had been humiliated by Mr Tokayev, and so was ’making him aware that Kazakhstan may be Russia’s next prey’, according to The Telegraph.
Another commented: ’He’s saying that if you are good neighbours, that’s fine. But if you step out of line and go pro-West, we can conquer your land because it’s ours.’
At the same conference in St Petersburg, Mr Putin said he anticipated Russia and Ukraine would restore relations after the ’special military operation’ had concluded. For the new values of normal, I guess.
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Hope it goes better for Blighty than it's going for Ukraine. Or maybe we should say "went" for Ukraine... A week of days like yesterday and they're finished. A roundup of yesterday's slaughter... it's a doozy:
High-precision air and ground weapons (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/2262) in the areas of Kremenchug and Lisichansk have destroyed technological facilities for oil refining and fuel storage intended to supply Ukrainian military equipment in Donbass. Russian air defence means have shot down 1 Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft near Kamyshevakha and 1 Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force near Arkhangelsk in Donetsk People’s Republic.
High-precision air and ground weapons in the areas of Kremenchug and Lisichansk have destroyed technological facilities for oil refining and fuel storage intended to supply Ukrainian military equipment in Donbass.
Donetsk:
High-precision air-based missiles have hit 12 firing positions of AFU artillery and mortar units, including 4 platoons of Grad multiple-launch rocket systems near Avdeevka, Keramik and Zhelannoe and 4 platoons of M777 155-mm howitzers near Lastochkino, Ochertino, Vodyanoe and Zhelannoye in Donetsk People’s Republic.
Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 62 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
Lugansk, Kharkov and Lisichansk:
The attacks have resulted in the elimination of
..more than 160 nationalists,
..1 Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile system near Kamyshevakha in Lugansk People’s Republic,
..5 Grad multiple rocket launcher vehicles,
..6 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles,
..8 field artillery guns,
..6 special-purpose vehicles and 3 ammunition depots near Tsapovka in Kharkov Region and Lisichansk in Lugansk People’s Republic.
Russian air defence means have shot down 1 Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft near Kamyshevakha and 1 Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force near Arkhangelsk in Donetsk People’s Republic.
Also 8 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down near Borovenka in Lugansk People’s Republic, Chernobaivka in Kherson Region, Sukhaya Kamenka, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Zabavnoe in Kharkov Region, and Gulyaipole in Zaporozhye Region, including 1 Bayraktar-TB2 near Kherson.
In addition, 4 Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles have been intercepted naer Stakhanov, Kalinovo, Almaznoe in Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as 24 Uragan multiple-launch rockets over Donetsk, Yasynuvataya, Verhnetoretskoe, Luganskoe, Novoaleksandrovka in Donetsk People’s Republic, Zolotoe, Popasnaya in Lugansk People’s Republic, Izium, Russkie Tishki and Malye Prokhody in Kharkov Region.
Missile troops and artillery have hit 180 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, 16 command posts and 32 firing positions of AFU artillery units.
The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 310 nationalists, 10 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 3 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 9 field artillery mounts and 14 special vehicles.
#7
At least it's good to know Ukraine's winning the war, and has to win and will win.
Even though Macron's government just got smashed.
Even though Johnson's government is about to fall.
Even though Biden's about to lose both houses of Congress.
Even though the West's efforts to isolate Russia have destroyed their own economies.
#8
That's 470 Ukrainians killed plus probably another 1,000+ wounded... so now the daily slaughter for Ukraine is well over one thousand. The little T-Shirt Guy told us it was "only" 60-100 just a couple weeks ago.
This is why the propaganda press in the West is trying to talk about World War III, and pretending that Russia's "running out" of troops....
They can't prolong this slaughter much longer. Ukraine is dusnbeted. The war is a total fiasco for the poor Ukrainians and for the West. Their economic policies are a complete debacle.
Just bring it to a conclusion, you fools. Stop lying to your people. You're just killing yourselves.
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Public opinion in every European country except Poland has turned decisively in favor of negotiations. Only a handful of far-right parties, such as in Sweden and Italy, are strongly in favor continuing to try to punish Russia. (In France the far right favors negotiations.)
The margin is almost 2:1, with another 25% of the public reluctant to continue the war but still on the fence. Most of them will come out against the war soon -- it was anti-war sentiment from both the left and the right that destroyed Macron's party in the recent parliamentary elections.
The latest meme is the photo of Macron staring off into space while half-embracing Zelensky.
The message is very clear. The West's leaders are preparing to distance themselves from Zelensky.
#22
The survey was conducted a month ago - public opinion had already shifted before the Russians began pulverizing the Ukrainians in Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. Therefore it's likely that a majority (not just a plurality as before) of Europeans today support negotiations.
"A study by the European Council on Foreign Relations published Wednesday found that a plurality of Europeans, about 35%, favor “peace now even at the cost of Ukrainian concessions to Russia.” The startling figure strongly suggests that Europe’s appetite to hold Moscow accountable for the war may be crumbling. The survey was conducted in mid-May and sampled 8,000 Europeans.
About 22% of respondents said “justice” is the most important consideration. They say only Russia’s clear defeat can bring about peace. Another 23% declined to choose between those options, and 20% were classified as swing voters.
The survey showed extreme differences from one country to another. For example, 52% of the Italian public and 49% of the German public favor immediate peace, but just 16% of Polish citizens share that view. Instead, 41% of Poles say defeating Russia is the No. 1 priority and the only path to peace, compared with 19% of Germans and 16% of Italians.
In France, 41% called for peace and just 20% fell into the “justice” category. In Britain, the public was split, with 22% calling for immediate peace and 21% saying Russia must be defeated. The remaining 39% of French citizens and 58% of Britons either declined to choose or were classified as swing voters, according to the report.
“ 'The findings of the poll suggest that European public opinion is shifting, and that the toughest days may lie ahead. The resilience of European democracies will mostly depend on the capacity of governments to sustain public support for policies that will ultimately bring pain to different social groups,” the European Council on Foreign Relations said in a statement accompanying its report. “The survey reveals a growing gap between the stated positions of many European governments and the public mood in their countries. The big looming divide is between those who want to end the war as quickly as possible and those who want to carry on fighting until Russia has been defeated.”
#23
Kiev in four days. Right.
Notice how much propaganda effort is now going in to pushing negotiations? Now its the big thing. Got to make you go hmmmmm.
Larry C. Johnson– Within the first 24 hours of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all Ukrainian Ground Radar Intercept capabilities were wiped out. Without those radars, the Ukrainian Air Force lost its ability to do air to air intercept. In the intervening three weeks, Russia has established a de facto No Fly Zone over Ukraine. While still vulnerable to shoulder fired Surface to Air Missiles supplied by the U.S. and NATO to the Ukrainians, there is no evidence that Russia has had to curtail Combat Air Operations.
Russia’s arrival in Kiev within three days of the invasion also caught my attention. I recalled that the Nazi’s in Operation Barbarossa took seven weeks to reach Kiev and the required 7 more weeks to subdue the city. The Nazis had the advantage of not pulling punches to avoid civilian casualties and were eager to destroy critical infrastructure. Yet many so-called American military experts claimed that Russia was bogged down. When a 24 mile (or 40 mile, depends on the news source) was positioned north of Kiev for more than a week, it was clear that Ukraine’s ability to launch significant military operations had been eliminated. If their artillery was intact, then that column was easy pickings for massive destruction. That did not happen. Alternatively, if the Ukrainian’s had a viable fixed wing or rotary wing capability they should have destroyed that column from the air. That did not happen. Or, if they had a viable cruise missile capability they should have rained down hell on the supposedly stalled Russian column. That did not happen. The Ukrainians did not even mount a significant infantry ambush of the column with their newly supplied U.S. Javelins.
The scale and scope of the Russian attack is remarkable. They captured territory in three weeks that is larger than the land mass of the United Kingdom. They then proceeded to carry out targeted attacks on key cities and military installations. We have not seen a single instance of a Ukrainian regiment or brigade size unit attacking and defeating a comparable Russian unit. Instead, the Russians have split the Ukrainian Army into fragments and cut their lines of communication. The Russians are consolidating their control of Mariupol and have secured all approaches on the Black Sea. Ukraine is now cut off in the South and the North.
I would note that the U.S. had a tougher time capturing this much territory in Iraq in 2003 while fighting against a far inferior, less capable military force. If anything, this Russian operation should scare the hell out of U.S. military and political leaders.
The really big news came this week with the Russian missile strikes on what are de facto NATO bases in Yavoriv and Zhytomyr. NATO conducted cyber security training at Zhytomyr in September 2018 and described Ukraine as a “NATO partner.” Zhytomyr was destroyed with hypersonic missiles on Saturday. Yavoriv suffered a similar fate last Sunday. It was the primary training and logistics center that NATO and EUCOM used to supply fighters and weapons to Ukraine. A large number of the military and civilian personnel at that base became casualties.
Not only is Russia striking and destroying bases used by NATO regularly since 2015, but there was no air raid warning and there was no shutdown of the attacking missiles.
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JP, is Putin willing to recognize Ukraine as an independent state with its own military? And if so what would the approximate boundaries of that independent Ukraine be? And would Putin allow unfettered shipment of grain by Ukraine through ports on the Black Sea? And last, why should anyone believe a word Putin says?
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#29
The agreement that Russia signed and upheld was Minsk II. That was an infinitely better deal for Ukraine than what Ukraine now faces
#32
Notice the recent switch from "Nazis" to "Ukrainian nationalists".
In Russian-language articles, Putin's mouthpieces have said those two terms are synonymous.
And, yeah, I have noticed the sudden shift to calling for negotiations from the Putin Puppet Parade. Amazing how Russia has been able to count on useful idiots in the US for more than a century.
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#33
^ The war there is clearly not meeting Washington's objectives and the economic fallout is not helping.
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06/20/2022 14:56
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#3 Czar Vlad the First? Peter already owns the "Great".
"For Rus to lose space is unbearable!
When anywhere, barren or arable,
Has ever been Russian,
It's ours! End discussion!"
- Vovochka the Great and the Terrible
#35
The war there is clearly not meeting Washington's objectives and the economic fallout is not helping.
That line of BS is clearly coming from Moscow, not DC. And I don't mean Moscow, Ohio.
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Everyone's now talking about the negotiations to come. Edward Luttwak today said the terms of the peace treaty need to include
1. No NATO membership for Ukraine - the West has already conceded this
2. (eventual) EU membership for Ukraine - Russia has already conceded this
3. Plebiscites to allow the people of Donetsk and Luhansk to decide which nation they wish to be part of
4. Lifting of the US sanctions on Russia
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Trump just spoke against the war, forcwhich Hillar Vlinton attacks him with the ludicrous lie that re-electing Trump "is Putin's only path to victory."
"Clinton bears the lion’s share of the blame for the horrific bloodshed now underway in Ukraine: As Secretary of State, Clinton and her chief Europe aide Victoria Nuland helped stage-manage the Maidan Coup in Ukraine that set the present war in motion.
"It is revolting, but not surprising, to see the leaders of the Republican Establishment try to out-shout the Democrats over Ukraine. The consensus echo chamber generates a stream of chatter so deafening that it takes a big voice to boom over it, and Donald Trump is the only American politician with a voice that big. Thank God we have him."
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06/20/2022 17:54
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^ correction: for which Hillary Clinton
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06/20/2022 17:55
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#40
Of course Macron, Scholz and Draghi are pushing Zelensky to make concessions and negotiate a peace settlement. This is what is happening behind the scenes, away from the bluster and theater and propaganda.
A Polish deputy minister today admitted this to a Polish news outlet:
Polish deputy FM says EU leaders urged Kyiv to engage in peace talks with Moscow
20.06.2022
A Polish deputy foreign minister has said that the leaders of France and Germany and two other European Union countries encouraged Ukraine to engage in peace talks with Russia when they visited Kyiv last week.
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Gosh. It's almost as if our new one/two-named "friends" who mysteriously appeared after the Russian Aggression failure are reading from the same talking points, right, Billy, Alistaire, Jean-Paul, et al?
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#42
^ No, Billy's as American as borscht. What part of the country you from, Billy?
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#43
The US ands Ukraine were unwilling to abide by the Minsk agreements. Why should Russia trust them to honor promises they make in future?
Russia was unwilling to abide by the Budapest Agreement. It's clear treaties are so much toilet paper to the Russian government. That's fine, and not exactly unprecedented. Some differences just have to be settled on the battlefield. The fact that national boundaries mean nothing to Russia are exactly why the West should continue to supply Ukraine, but at increased levels, to make up for the big guns that have fallen silent due to attrition and ammunition expenditure. The Russians not only need to lose - they need to know that they have lost. In the nuclear age, a thrust to Moscow would be risky. But the complete removal of Russia to its prewar positions would not be. And that should be NATO's objective, going forward.
like Edward Luttwak (in Bolivia)
David P Goldman (in Singapore)
Macron in Paris, Draghi in Rome,
Donald Trump in Florida and
Graham E. Fuller, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council at CIA, are all part of the same cabal. Yeah, sure...
Here's Graham E. Fuller this week:
Some hard thoughts about post Ukraine
Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller. com)
18 June 2022
The war in Ukraine has dragged on long enough now to reveal certain clear trajectories. First, two fundamental realities:
Putin is to be condemned for launching this war– as is virtually any leader who launches any war. Putin can be termed a war criminal–in good company with George W. Bush who has killed vastly greater numbers than Putin.
2) secondary condemnation belongs to the US (NATO) in deliberately provoking a war with Russia by implacably pushing its hostile military organization, despite Moscow’s repeated notifications about crossing red lines, right up to the gates of Russia. This war did not have to be if Ukranian neutrality, á la Finland and Austria, had been accepted. Instead Washington has called for clear Russian defeat.
As the war grinds to a close, where will things go?
Contrary to Washington’s triumphalist pronouncements, Russia is winning the war, Ukraine has lost the war. Any longer-term damage to Russia is open to debate.
American sanctions against Russia have turned out to be far more devastating to Europe than to Russia. The global economy has slowed and many developing nations face serious food shortages and risk of broad starvation.
There are already deep cracks in the European façade of so-called “NATO unity.” Western Europe will increasingly rue the day that it blindly followed the American Pied Piper to war against Russia. Indeed, this is not a Ukrainian-Russian war but an American-Russian war fought by proxy to the last Ukrainian.
Contrary to optimistic declarations, NATO may in fact ultimately emerge weakened. Western Europeans will think long and hard about the wisdom and deep costs of provoking deeper long term confrontations with Russia or other “competitors”of the US.
Europe will sooner or later return to the purchase of inexpensive Russian energy. Russia lies on the doorstep and a natural economic relationship with Russia will possess overwhelming logic in the end.
Europe already perceives the US as a declining power with an erratic and hypocritical foreign policy “vision” premised upon the desperate need to preserve “American leadership” in the world. America’s willingness to go to war to this end is increasingly dangerous to others.
... a Europe that perceives the US already in decline has a little incentive to join the bandwagon against China. The end of the Ukraine war will bring serious reconsideration in Europe about the benefits of propping up Washington’s desperate bid to maintain its global hegemony.
Europe will undergo increasing identity crisis in determining its future global role. Western Europeans will tire of subservience to the 75 year American domination of European foreign policy. Right now NATO is European foreign policy and Europe remains inexplicably timid in asserting any independent voice.How long will that prevail?
We now see how massive US sanctions against Russia, including confiscation of Russian funds in western banks, is causing most of the world to reconsider the wisdom of banking entirely on the US dollar into the future. Diversification of international economic instruments is already in the cards and willl only act to weaken Washington’s once dominant economic position and its unilateral weaponisation of the dollar.
One of the most disturbing features of this US-Russian struggle in Ukraine has been the utter corruption of independent media. Indeed Washington has won the information and propaganda war hands down, orchestrating all Western media to sing from the same hymnbook in characterizing the Ukraine war. The West has never before witnessed such a blanket imposition by one country’s ideologically-driven geopolitical perspective at home. Nor, of course, is the Russian press to be trusted either.
In the midst of a virulent anti-Russian propaganda barrage whose likes I have never seen during my Cold Warrior days, serious analysts must dig deep these days to gain some objective understanding of what is actually taking place in Ukraine.
European elites are perhaps slowly coming to the realization that they have been stampeded into this position of total “unanimity”; cracks are already beginning to appear in the façade of “EU and NATO unity.” But the more dangerous implication is that as we head into future global crises, a genuine independent free press is largely disappearing, falling into the hands of corporate-dominated media close to policy circles , and now bolstered by electronic social media, all manipulating the narrative to its own ends. As we move into a predictably greater and more dangerous crises of instability through global warming, refugee flows, natural disasters, and likely new pandemics, rigorous state and corporate domination of the western media becomes very dangerous indeed to the future of democracy. We no longer hear alternative voices on Ukraine today.
Finally, Russia’s geopolitical character has very likely now decisively tilted towards Eurasia. Russians have sought for centuries to be accepted within Europe but have been consistently held at arms length. The West will not discuss a new strategic and security architecture. Ukraine has simply intensified this trend. Russian elites now no longer possess an alternative to accepting that its economic future lies in the Pacific where Vladivostok lies only one or two hours away by air from the vast economies of Beijing, Tokyo, and Seoul. China and Russia have now been decisively pushed ever more closely together specifically out of common concern to block unfettered US freedom of unilateral military and economic intervention around the world. That the US can split US-induced Russian and Chinese cooperation is a fantasy. Russia has scientific brilliance, abundant energy, rich rare minerals and metals, while global warming will increase the agricultural potential of Siberia. China has the capital, the markets, and the manpower to contribute to what becomes a natural partnership across Eurasia.
Sadly for Washington, nearly every single one of its expectations about this war is turning out to be incorrect. Indeed the West may come to look back at this moment as the final argument against following Washington’s quest for global dominance into ever newer and more dangerous and damaging confrontations with Eurasia. And most of the rest of the world–Latin America, India, the Middle East and Africa– find few national interests in this fundamentally American war against Russia.
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A Polish deputy foreign minister has said that the leaders of France and Germany and two other European Union countries encouraged Ukraine to engage in peace talks with Russia when they visited Kyiv last week.
That's not entirely surprising. Jacques Chirac was on Saddam's payroll. And Gerhard Schroder is on Putin's payroll. Both Macron and Scholz are presumably hoping for normalization with Putin's regime so they can collect their paychecks from Putin once they're done with politics. Normalization's gonna be hard with a hot war going on next door.
Macron, Scholz and Draghi are telling the little man in Kyiv what he needs to do to stop the carnage.
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And most of the rest of the world–Latin America, India, the Middle East and Africa– find few national interests in this fundamentally American war against Russia.
No doubt the rest of the world will refuse to export good and services to the US. "A billion dollar contract with IBM? No thanks! We're going with Eritrea instead."
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06/20/2022 20:37
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Edward Luttwak (in Bolivia)
David P Goldman (in Singapore)
Macron in Paris, Draghi in Rome,
Donald Trump in Florida and
Graham E. Fuller, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council at CIA, are all part of the same cabal. Yeah, sure...
Luttwak and Goldman may be opining out of ethnic resentment. A good number of Jews have displaced their anger over the Holocaust onto Poles and Ukrainians. In this world view, Germans, for some reason, are now the accomplices, not the motive force. So if Ukrainians have to die, Ukrainians have to die.
Graham Fuller, one of Billy Budd's quoted luminaries, may have played a part in getting the Boston Marathon bombers into the country:
After the Boston Marathon bombing, it was revealed that Fuller's daughter Samantha Ankara Fuller (married name Tsarnaev) was married in the 1990s to Ruslan Tsarni (born Tsarnaev), the uncle of the perpetrators Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.[16] They divorced on April 26, 1999, in Orange County, North Carolina.[17]
Macron and Draghi are presumably looking to get on Putin's gravy train. As to Trump, in foreign policy, he tends to spout off on things he knows nothing about. Just because. As usual, he's playing 38DD chess.
You could be a comedian with Zelensky's troupe. "Collecting paychecks" from Ukrainian thieves is literally what the US president's family and a skew of corrupt US State Department officials and consultants have been doing for two decades.
The current DefSec, Lloyd Raytheon Austin, is literally on the payroll of one of the biggest MIC piggies at the Ukraine trough.
Comedy gold!
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Luttwak is an ancient Cold Warrior and uber-hawk who hates Russia. Try again.
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06/20/2022 20:43
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#51
Ukraine has lost the war.
That will come as a surprise to the Russians still struggling to advance in a war where Russia is slinging 50,000 artillery shells against Ukraine's 5,000 every single day. Now, if the West does not increase the number artillery pieces and ammunition available to Ukraine, Ukraine will likely lose. But if the West matches the Russian count of big guns and ammo supply, Russia will start moving in reverse the way it did around Kiev and Kharkov.
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#53
Face truth, little grasshoppa... it's obvious to sober, realistic and savvy people outside the Swamp echo chamber and from around the world that this war is the stupidest fucking disaster since... our last idiotic foreign debacle. The one that ended in disgrace just 11 months ago.
Everyone with his head on straight can see that Ukraine is in a vastly worse position now than they were just six months ago. The intelligent thing to do is to cut our losses and bring this farcical episode to a swift conclusion.
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06/20/2022 20:48
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#54
ZF actually is, and his name is not that
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06/20/2022 20:48
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Luttwak is an ancient Cold Warrior and uber-hawk who hates Russia. Try again.
I've been reading Luttwak's work for around 40 years. He doesn't hate Russia. He's just pro-West. And that's the way it should be. He's a man of the West, his adopted realm since his move to the UK in his childhood.
#56
Zheng Fei is what Little Grasshoppa call self on internets
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#57
He responds, "Billy"
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06/20/2022 20:53
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#58
Sorry, ZF, my question was not directed to you.
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06/20/2022 20:53
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^ Re: #40 Have you ever actually read Melville's Billy Bud? It's objectively quite good, but is also considered a foundational work of homoerotic literature. It's taught in queer studies classes.
#60
Jesus, even Luttwak sees that the war is a shitshow and the sanctions are self-defeating and pointless. Luttwak is calling for peace negotiations anchored by plebiscites for Donbas and lifting of the sanctions.
Got that? Even Luttwak sees that the sanctions are retarded and continuing the war is counterproductive.
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06/20/2022 21:01
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#61
Billy Bud?
Happy Hour's started! Bud Lights are on Secret Mastur-!
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06/20/2022 21:03
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#62
take a step further, troll
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06/20/2022 21:07
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Face truth, little grasshoppa... it's obvious to sober, realistic and savvy people outside the Swamp echo chamber and from around the world that this war is the stupidest fucking disaster since... our last idiotic foreign debacle. The one that ended in disgrace just 11 months ago.
Re debacles - the collapse of the Afghan regime was Biden's incompetence rearing its ugly head again. But the expedition as a whole was the opposite of a debacle. We spent literally $1T smacking the Taliban upside the head for 20+ years. Large numbers of Taliban leaders were hunted down and killed. They were replaced, for sure, but the point has been made.
Any jihadist leader who expedites another operation like 9/11 can expect to spend the rest of his days on the run. We killed a good number of Taliban family members while hunting them down. Now, the way this worked was somewhat haphazard, but again, the point was made. Anyone who does this can expect family members to become part of the carnage.
People make a big deal out of how these people love death as we love life. Based on tales of Taliban corruption and squabbling over money, and zero terror attacks against the US organized by the Taliban after 9/11, I'd say they love both money and life just like everyone else.
I wouldn't quite call the Russian invasion of Ukraine a debacle yet. It might still pull out a win, depending on the rate of Western resupply. But it has lost significant numbers of men and large amounts of equipment fighting one of the poorest nations in the world, in per capita terms. And the West is supplying peanuts to Ukraine.
The US alone supplied 14,000 airplanes and 13,000 tanks to the Russians. The US sent 5% of its annual economic output to Russia. In today's economy, that would be $1.1T. So far, the total appropriated amounts for Ukraine are $56b, over 90% of which is civilian aid.
Note that out of gratitude for WWII American aid, the Russians sent copious amounts of equipment to North Korea and North Vietnam, helping to send 100,000 GI's to an early grave. That aid included cutting edge MiG-17's piloted by Russians that went up against USAF F-86 Sabres over Korea and top-of-the-line MiG-21's used against USAF F-4 Phantoms over North Vietnam. The Ukrainians are getting none of that. Given the tiny amounts of aid they have gotten, and the severe disparity in military potential due to Russia's huge advantage in population size and natural resource abundance, it's amazing how well the Ukrainians have done.
If the West merely decreases Russia's firepower advantage from 10 to 1 to 2 to 1, the situation could change pretty dramatically. Ukraine might begin advancing rapidly instead of retreating slowly.
How does it help the West to destroy our economies and continue losing a war that's caused our little puppet to lose over 20% of its entire territory and over 80% of its productive resources?
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A debacle for the US. The Obama-Biden fools led the Ukrainians down the garden path, encouraging them with false hopes of joining NATO and egging them on to rip up Minsk and make absurd boasts about snatching Crimea.
As so many have pointed out, the Ukraine war and the stupid sanctions are an own goal. Another colossal fuckup that's even worse for us than our Afghan and Iraq fuckups combined
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You're insane. You actually think losing Afghanistan, handing over billions in weaponry to the enemy, scurrying out in disgrace -- and spending a TRILLION in the process -- is victory.
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No wonder you cheer on the Ukraine shitshow. You're the Wrong Way Harrigan of armchair strategists.
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#67
Cheer up, Grasshoppa! Your big day arrive soon:
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How does it help the West to destroy our economies and continue losing a war that's caused our little puppet to lose over 20% of its entire territory and over 80% of its productive resources?
Because the alternative is a 100% loss. If we could be sure Ukraine was the end of Putin's ambitions, I'd say hand it over. In real life, we can't be sure. For many conquerors, the limit to their ambitions comes into view only when they are comprehensively defeated.
When Hitler* said "this is my last territorial demand in Europe" over Munich, he wasn't saying anything exceptional. All conquerors say something like this. (Conquests are easier when the nations on your list don't gang up on you). Then they move on to the next conquest. That's why we assist the targets of their operations to the extent we can.
Ultimately, Russian is 70% the size of the NATO countries combined. It straddles 11 time zones. If Russia isn't currently big enough, it will never be big enough.
Russia's treasure house of natural resources makes Saudi Arabia and the African continent look deprived, by comparison. Putin's not interested in material gain. And he knows a NATO with border nations that don't even have fixed wing jet fighters isn't about to invade Russia. But he gins up some fable about a NATO threat anyway. Because the truth, that he wants to be Vladimir the Greater (the Great is already taken) wouldn't be good for troop morale. No soldier wants to be cannon fodder so Vladimir the Vain gets his historical pedestal. But the mask slipped, and Putin finally mentioned Peter the Great.
* In truth, when Germany set out on its European tour, it did have much better reason than Russia to seek out a little more room. The Thirty Years War involved multiple European nations tromping through the various German principalities. At the end of the festivities, large swathes of what is now Germany suffered 50% population declines. Except perhaps in the Mongol era, Russia has *never* suffered anything remotely comparable. And you could literally fit 35 pre-war Germanies into the Russian empire.
Russia needs to be prevented from conquering Ukraine because we don't actually know what its next objective will be. And even if Putin stops with Ukraine, the next Russian ruler who wants to improve on Putin's record will have a better start line for his ambitions. And so on.
#69
...says the man who thinks it was worth it to spend a trillion and lose thousands of killed and maimed just to be humiliated and defeated by neanderthals in a 20-year fiasco. Jesus.
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You're insane. You actually think losing Afghanistan, handing over billions in weaponry to the enemy, scurrying out in disgrace -- and spending a TRILLION in the process -- is victory.
Of course it's victory. The trillion dollars is pocket change. We spent 2 years of economic output fighting WWII. In today's economy, that's $44T.
We said we fought WWII for freedom. Nothing could be further from the truth. We supported one genocidal regime (the Russians) against another (the Germans). We left huge swathes of Europe under one genocidal regime's rule. And we lost 400,000 men killed doing it. By comparison, what happened in Afghanistan was a rounding error.
In truth, we fought WWII to prevent either Germany or Russia from taking over Europe. Similarly, we fought Japan to prevent it from taking over the Far East.
The stuff about freedom in Afghanistan was a fig leaf. We needed to whack enough jihadists that they got the message loud and clear - staging large scale terror attacks on US soil can be hazardous to their health and the welfare of their direct and extended families, especially if these are deeply-involved in the family business. "Freedom" was something our local allies could rally to in a way that "whacking jihadists" (who might be their friends and neighbors) couldn't quite match. You know how Putin talks up the non-existent NATO threat when he's really out for personal glory? Same thing. Gotta give the guys in the trenches something they can root for.
#72
...says the man who thinks it was worth it to spend a trillion and lose thousands of killed and maimed just to be humiliated and defeated by neanderthals in a 20-year fiasco. Jesus.
We were "defeated" in a trivial sense. We won over 90% of the major and minor battles. Our "defeat" did not involve the Taliban taking a single American city or getting access to its resources. If you want to know what it means to be defeated in a non-trivial sense, ask the Germans and the Japanese.
Ultimately, our "defeat" sprang from our inability* to resort to Taliban tactics, which have worked to pacify populations from at least Alexander's time onwards, on a shoestring budget. Here's a sampling:
Four months later, Alexander allowed the troops to loot Persepolis, kill all its men and enslave all its women, perhaps as a way to fulfill the expectations of his army and the Greek citizens, or perhaps as a final act of vengeance towards the Persians.[26]
The Greeks went on to rule Persia for 250 years. 2500 years laer, the Taliban did something similar in Mazar-e-Sharif:
However the Taliban retaliated in 1998 attacking the city and killing an estimated 8,000 non-combatants. At 10 am on 8 August 1998, the Taliban entered the city and for the next two days drove their pickup trucks "up and down the narrow streets of Mazar-i-Sharif shooting to the left and right and killing everything that moved—shop owners, cart pullers, women and children shoppers and even goats and donkeys."[14] More than 8000 noncombatants were reported killed in Mazar-i-Sharif and later in Bamiyan.[15] In addition, the Taliban were criticized for forbidding anyone from burying the corpses for the first six days (contrary to the injunctions of Islam, which demands immediate burial) while the remains rotted in the summer heat and were eaten by dogs.[16] The Taliban also reportedly sought out and massacred members of the Hazara, while in control of Mazar.[14]
If we had pushed the entire Pashtun population into Pakistan, we would likely have achieved victory at minimal cost. But 21st century Western ROE's intervened.
It is what it is. Nonetheless, the principal objective of these operations was achieved. Nothing on the scale of 9/11 has been attempted in the US since the war began.
And it's not even that difficult an operation. A couple of guys with a few thousand dollars and a rented Ryder van killed 300 people in a mid-sized Federal building in Oklahoma City. Just how difficult would it be to destroy an actual skyscraper with a fully-loaded semi, inflicting 10x the deaths on 9/11?
They're not backing off because they suddenly like us. They've backed off because they don't want to spend 20 years on the run.
* I guarantee that any president who initiated the kind of butchery used in Alexander's time would be impeached, removed from office and imprisoned. Along with every subordinate who obeyed his orders.
#73
^ This guy's rolling now. Like a Peter Sellers character from a Kubrick black comedy. Totally bonkers.
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#74
^ that one's off his rocker. Afghanistan a success: ok buddy
Name a single 9/11-scale terror attack on the US since Afghanistan was invaded. No shortage of terror attacks in the Middle East. And it's not like jihadists like us any better since we invaded Afghanistan *and* Iraq. The excuse for 9/11 was that we had troops stationed in Saudi Arabia. Well - after 9/11, we invaded two Muslim countries, starting wars in which almost a million Muslims were killed, most of them Sunnis, just like the jihadists. If jihadists hated us then, they likely hate us more today. And yet, on the 9/11-scale attacks front, *crickets*. This is what deterrence sounds like - *crickets*.
The jihadist leadership wants to eventually meet Allah in paradise - just not yet - and definitely not with an assist from Uncle Sam. That's why they're not doing 9/11 scale attacks on US targets again.
Zabielski’s final days were spent in a chaotic conflict zone rife with miscommunication, confusion, and incidents of friendly fire, according to a member of his unit. And as the war grinds on with terribly heavy casualties on both sides, it’s likely that more American fighters will die.
"Nettles blames the thickness of the vegetation, the heaviness of the fog, and a failure to maintain proper distance between personnel for what happened next. “Stephen apparently triggered a trip wire, which detonated a mine that killed him and severely injured Gary,” Nettles says.
The bad news went out over the radio, and a Canadian fighter named JT drove a vehicle in the direction of the explosion to evacuate the casualties. But JT had trouble crossing some train tracks, and in an effort to get over, he made a serious mistake. He maneuvered the vehicle over a portion of the tracks that had not yet been cleared of mines. “Which resulted in his vehicle exploding with him still inside,” Nettles says.
With the sun coming up over the horizon and the Russians in close proximity, the rest of the squad had to bring the casualties out on foot. When they got to the burning vehicle on the train tracks, they found that JT, while severely injured and badly burned, was able to walk. Down where the other two guys had been hit by the land mine, they found Zabielski already dead, and Gary badly wounded, both of his legs broken below the knees.
The squad carried Gary out on a makeshift stretcher. Extraction of Zabielski’s body would have to wait for the following day.
Back at the rally point, JT and Gary were loaded into an SUV that drove hell-for-leather in the direction of the nearest hospital. On the way there, Nettles recorded a video of the wounded men. It shows Gary’s bloody legs horribly broken, the bones inside completely snapped, his pant legs shredded. He sucks in ragged breaths, moaning in agony, as the SUV jostles over a rough road. “We’re going to be there soon,” Nettles says, trying to reassure him, but his voice is shaking. JT, his head wrapped in a white bandage, appears to be conscious but in shock. The Canadian “didn’t look as bad” as Gary, but “was actually worse,” Nettles says. “He was in the car when it blew up and roasted before getting out.”
Both Gary and JT were treated at a hospital and survived their injuries. The Ukrainians sent Gary home to the United States, Nettles says, but JT “is still here, unable to walk, dealing with massive burns over most his body.”
The next day, May 16th, Zabielski’s body was taken to the local morgue. “After that, he was taken to Kyiv and handed over to the U.S. Embassy,” Nettles says. He was “flown home to Florida, where his wife held a funeral for him.”
#77
^ This guy's rolling now. Like a Peter Sellers character from a Kubrick black comedy. Totally bonkers.
Which part? The matter of fact quote from Wikipedia of Alexander's and the Taliban's post-battle actions? Or my suggestion that the lack of 9/11-scale terror operations reflects the fear of death on the part of jihadist commanders? Note that 9/11 was the second WTC bombing. The first, in 1993, failed in its intent - to bring the towers down. There's every reason to think they'd like to kill large numbers of Americans again to avenge the hundreds of thousands of jihadist dead inflicted in Afghanistan and Iraq. And, as similar truck bombings in the Middle East indicate, there's no shortage of expertise in that particular specialty.
And yet, *crickets*, in terms of 9/11-scale terror attacks stateside. It's not as if they lack Muslims for the job. Dubya and Obama opened the floodgates to Muslim immigratioin. Trump slowed it down, but Biden has turned it into a torrent again.
#78
Some more "success," according to the site's resident nutter:
Ukraine has successfully held back Russian gains. It pushed Russian forces away from both Kiev and Kharkov. And it is now more or less holding the line around Severodonetsk. This is despite Ukraine having no air force to speak of, and a 10-to-1 Russian advantage in artillery. By rights, Russia should be on the Polish border. And yet ...
"The big brooding soldier is unshaven, his fatigues filthy from combat, except for a field hat that is clearly brand new. The local driver who has been shuttling me around has agreed to bring the soldier to Dnipro: He has leave papers and is trying to get home to Mykolaiv, so that’ll take him about halfway. The fuel shortage is critical in eastern Ukraine for non-military traffic, so filling a civilian car with strangers headed roughly the same direction has become a common practice: There are Telegram channels where people offer and seek rides to and from every city.
Less than 30 minutes into the drive, Sasha opens up suddenly and unexpectedly. What he reveals is chilling, and indicative of how bad things have gotten in Donbas.
“I nearly beat to death one of the men in my unit,” he confides. “We were in trenches on the front lines. He was using his cellphone.”
Sasha breathes heavily.
“The Russians tracked his signal and located our position. He called his mom for 15 minutes, then his wife for 15 minutes … and then his girlfriend for almost two hours. They bombarded us all night. That’s why I beat him.”
Later, he tells us more about the front.
“We lost six men on our first patrol,” he says. “Six out of 10. They were all my friends.”
He breaks down and begins to cry.
Sasha eventually admits that he has been given leave to go to a hospital to seek therapy, for what soldiers a century ago would have called shell shock and what we now call PTSD. He has been given 10 days to recover from his battlefield trauma and return to his unit.
When we have a chance to talk alone, he shows me videos of his wedding in October. He tells me he is scared to talk to his family about his experiences. Sasha doesn’t want to return to combat. All he can think about are the soldiers who were killed on his first patrol.
“Those six men were my friends, they were my brothers, and I love them very much,” he says. “I can’t just leave them behind. I will always carry them with me.”
He looks down, overcome with emotion.
“What is in my heart is that I never wish to see Donbas again in the future. Nothing you do there makes any difference.”
#82
Big brave armchair warrior, sneering at trillions wasted in botched wars, at thousands dead and tens of thousands maimed and ruined for life
Go out to a real battlefield and see what it's really like.
I think you misunderstand the role of sympathetic foreign civilians in Ukraine's war. Its most important role is to convince other civilians that more equipment should be sent to help Ukraine evict the Russian troops on its soil. In concert, they might have some impact on the zeitgeist and the politicians who have to appropriate the money to acquire and send the weaponry. Ukraine has plenty of soldiers. Its problem is that they are dying needlessly in large numbers because Russia outguns them 10 to 1. The West has the power to even the odds by giving Ukraine the firepower it needs. But that will only happen when voters tell Western pols in no uncertain terms that their continued tenure depends on providing those guns expeditiously.
#83
“The Russians tracked his signal and located our position. He called his mom for 15 minutes, then his wife for 15 minutes … and then his girlfriend for almost two hours. They bombarded us all night. That’s why I beat him.”
That is precisely the problem. If Ukraine weren't outgunned 10 to 1 (and outranged) by the Russians, the Russian artillery units would have been destroyed within minutes after they started their attacks. Without the Russian range, tube quantity and ammo supply advantage, there is no way the Russians would have been able to barrage the Ukrainians all night.
#85
If the armchair warrior knew anything about actual battle, he would realize that the big problem for the Ukrainians not munitions but morale.
Most of their soldiers now are untrained recruits like "Sasha," the PTSD survivor in the account above, who wants no part of this war... these are ordinary Joe's with next to no training who have no interest in this pointless war. They are the ones being slaughtered now in droves
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:57 Positional battles in the Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog directions. The enemy is trying to resume active operations, but due to heavy losses, he again does not achieve significant success.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Black Sea Fleet continue to strike at Ochakovo and Nikolaev, destroying military infrastructure. 22:36 The Russian military attacked enemy positions in the village of Stary Saltov north of Kharkov.
22:16 Over 50 generals and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed as a result of a strike by high-precision long-range sea-based missiles "Caliber" of the RF Armed Forces.
21:11 Head of the Inhulets district (Ukraine),confirmed significant losses of Ukrainian troops and destruction as a result of a missile attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 50 generals were killed - in fact, the entire command of the southern district.
21:11 All military registration and enlistment offices can be destroyed in one night - retired colonel of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Mikhail Khodarenok. If we want to quickly weaken the personnel potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, we need to strike at the military registration and enlistment offices. There are only about 140 of them in Ukraine. They can be destroyed in one night. The loss of file cabinets of persons liable for military service and credentials will stop mobilization in Ukraine. This will thwart any plans of Kyiv to organize an offensive and lead to our early victory.
From a political point of view, the population of Ukraine will support our step. After all, this will save the lives of many young soldiers who are thrown into battle untrained, and sometimes they are destroyed at night in the barracks. Destruction of military registration and enlistment offices will not take lives, but only save them. Mothers and wives in Ukraine will thank us for this.
21:10 The SVO will repeat itself in five years, if all of Ukraine is not liberated now. If in the course of the current SVO the entire territory of Ukraine is not liberated from the nationalists, then Russia will be forced to launch a new operation. This opinion is shared by a military observer, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin. He believes that all nationalists need to be eliminated, since they can be revived if at least some part of Nezalezhnaya is left under the control of Kyiv.
"If we don’t liberate all of Ukraine, that in more than five years, maybe earlier, we will have to repeat this special operation again, with great difficulty," Litovkin said in an interview with Ukraina.ru.
20:25 In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, the Russian Federation fired at Limany, Luparevo, Novaya Zarya, Tavrichesky, Novogrigorovka, Belousovo, Knyazhevka, Topolino, Bolshaya Kostromka and Osokorovka.
20:22 The RF Armed Forces are conducting assault operations for complete control over Severodonetsk.
20:21 In the Kharkiv direction, the RF Armed Forces are intensively shelling the Armed Forces of Ukraine from cannon and rocket artillery. In the Rubizhnoye area, they conducted reconnaissance in force.
18:56 Ukrainians, who have kept their minds and do not want to die for Zelensky's Nazi regime, are helping each other to avoid mobilization. Such groups appear in all cities of Ukraine, our readers report.
18:55 This night in the Nikolaev region, combat helicopters of the Russian army destroyed military facilities and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:55 The head of the Investigative Committee instructed to open a case after the shelling of the territory of the Kursk region.
17:55 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened cases on the facts of "use of prohibited means and methods of warfare." The department reported that it continues to identify units of the Ukrainian armed formations and specific individuals from their composition, involved in the shelling of civilians.
16:53 In the battles in the Kharkiv region, the leader of the Nazi battalion "Carpathian Sich" was destroyed. It is reported that the founder and battalion commander of the "KS" Oleg Kutsin was destroyed as a result of a strike by the Russian army on the command post during the meeting.
In 2014, the punishers of the "Carpathian Sich" fought in Pesky, in 2022 - near Kyiv - in Irpen and in the Brovarsky direction. And then the battalion was transferred to the Izyum direction.
15:48 The Russian army resumed its attack on Kharkov - adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Vadim Denisenko said that the situation to the north of the city is again "quite difficult."
Russian troops are again advancing towards the regional center. The fact that the situation in Kharkov is becoming more tense is also stated in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in today's summary.
14:05 On the evening of June 18, Russian troops destroyed ten M777 howitzers and about 20 military vehicles with Kalibr missile strikes.
14:05 The Russian military fired high-precision missiles at the echelon of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of Ukrainian nationalists. This was announced on June 19 by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.
Ukrainian militants were in the area of the Gubinikha railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region. The Russian military managed to destroy more than 100 nationalists, as well as 30 enemy tanks and armored vehicles. It is also specified that the echelon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived in the combat zone from the city of Vladimir-Volynsky.
"Air-launched high-precision missiles at 1920 hrs hit a train with personnel, weapons and military equipment of the 1st battalion of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade," Konashenkov said.
14:05 Two Ukrainian Su-25s hit the positions of their own units in the Dnipropetrovsk region. This was announced on June 19 by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.
"High losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are forcing the Ukrainian command to throw into battle unprepared personnel who lack the necessary skills in handling weapons and military equipment," the department noted. Nothing the Russians haven't done.
It is reported that a pair of attack aircraft hit their own positions in the area of the village of Shirokoye.
13:23 "Caliber" attacked the command post of the Ukrainian troops in the Dnipropetrovsk region, more than 50 generals and officers were destroyed - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
12:51 The United States plans to double the number of HIMARS MLRS delivered to Ukraine. The United States may increase the batch of HIMARS MLRS intended for Ukraine to 8 installations. This is reported by Politico. Earlier it was reported about the delivery of 4 units.
MLRS HIMARS has the following characteristics:
🔹Armament: 6 MLRS rockets, caliber up to 227 mm or tactical missile ATACMS
🔹Firing range: up to 300 km
🔹Vehicle weight: 11 tons
American sources report that ammunition with a range of up to 70 kilometers will be transferred to Ukraine, but it is not known whether this is actually the case. In any case, the HIMARS MLRS poses a significant threat to settlements located in the border regions of Russia with Ukraine.
12:50 Armed forces of Ukrainehitalong Kucherovo in the Kursk region. Presumably, the attack was carried out by a homemade attack drone with grenades. The copter dropped grenades on the house of a civilian in the Kucherovo farm.
11:31 In Zaporozhye, they advocated the opening of a second transport corridor with Crimea along the Moscow-Simferopol highway, passing through Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye. This was stated by Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the region.
The corridor, which was previously launched through the republics of Donbass and the liberated territories of southern Ukraine, is completely safe, he noted.
10:44 Participants of the upcoming NATO summit in Madrid will announce that Russia is no longer a partner for the alliance, but "a threat to peace and stability," Stoltenberg said.
10:43 More than 307,000 children have been evacuated to the Russian Federation from the territory of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR since the end of February. In total, more than 1.9 million people arrived in the Russian Federation during this period.
10:43 From June 21, another point will open in Melitopol for the payment of social benefits in the amount of 10,000 rubles, including for large families and single mothers. The point will be located in the Social Security Fund on Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue, 68.
10:41 Preparatory work is underway in Melitopol for the opening of the Melitopol territorial branch of the Pension Fund. From July 1, the Pension Fund of Melitopol will start accepting the first applications from pensioners
09:02 Kherson region is ready to launch railway communication with Crimea.
This was announced by the head of the military-civilian administration of the region Vladimir Saldo on the air of Solovyov LIVE:
"The technical condition of the railways has been checked, and they are ready for the passage of trains ... Assistance is already coming from the Russian Federation in the form of diesel locomotives. And I am sure that there will be new railway cars."
Crimea intends to launch a bus service with the liberated regions of southern Ukraine by July 1, and from July 1 - a passenger rail service in test mode.
08:28 Shops of Russian and Donetsk entrepreneurs appear in the Kherson region, the ruble is in exchange offices and is actively used by the population, said the head of the military-civilian administration of the region Vladimir Saldo;
08:27 Briefing by the head of the CAA of Melitopol Galina Danilchenko 06/18/2022:
From June 21, another point will open in Melitopol for the payment of social benefits in the amount of 10,000 rubles, including for large families and single mothers. The item will be located in the Social Security Fund on the street. B. Khmelnitsky, 68
In Melitopol, a meeting was held for the parents of future students of MelSU.
Preparatory work is underway in Melitopol for the opening of the Pension Fund of the Melitopol Territorial Administration. From July 1, the Melitopol Pension Fund will start accepting the first applications from our pensioners.
07:41 Like demining the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region from unexploded ordnance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Every day, military engineers of the Western Military District discover several dozen anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, the RF Ministry of Defense reports.
Hamas has rebuilt a border post after it was partially destroyed by an IDF airstrike on Sat. It appears they've added some decor to it as well w/ a banner of 3 militants recently killed in Jenin. The post has been a security issue due to it being adjacent to an Israeli community. pic.twitter.com/KHp6nER4yI
At least they finally figured it out. Do coal-fired power plants also take 18 months to two years to restore from mothballed condition?
NEW: Germany will restart coal-fired power plants and offer incentives for companies to curb natural gas consumption, marking a new step in the economic war between Europe and Russia. — WSJ
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I would trust the Germans to check the bearing grease and all of the pressure gaskets (live steam leaks are not fun!)... more than many other nations.
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Suddenly remembered the smell of the coal-fired heaters at FT Knox in 78 at Armor Officer Basic. And the Brick Mess Friday nights at Fiddler's Green.
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