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NATO says peacekeepers suffered 7-15k KIA plus additional 40K wounded MIA AWOL = 47-55k casualties. Peacekeeping forces are estimated to be 120-140k
Is NATO telling us that peacekeepers have suffered 55% to 45% casualties ?
No word from NATO on the amount of Ukrainian zionazi dead, hmmm……..7-15K is a huge discrepancy…pulled from a magicians hat perhaps. Regardless, Russia is in a fight to the death…………..numbers are just that, numbers.
Cheers M
I found it interesting the merc dead get their faces and fingies burnt off by the Orcs.
Gorky Park “It begins with a triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing.”
I definitely think the “Russia is losing” obsession in western media is not just wishful thinking, it is a setup for the next meme: “Russia was desperate” and therefore used chemical weapons.
I don’t want to post this twice. Get the link and you can use e.g Yandex (or Google) translator.
https://m.vz.ru/world/2022/3/21/1148138.html
“The Ukrainian army is overtaken by a psychological turning point”
@ Mats
Thank you for the link, however, the link is for the publication “View” VZGLYAD, and there is no article with such headline, even in the “Ukraine section.” It promises to be interesting, reason I looked for it in two browsers, Yandex and Edge, results are the same, it takes me to a page with the headline “Russia’s Special Operation Splits Scandinavia.”
Something was lost in translation.
Lone Wolf
The link is in Andrej Martianov’ s blogg
Hospital Tochka found?
A photo has emerged online of the engine part of a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile on the streets of Mariupol. This may be one of the two missiles that may have hit the hospital.
The photo has not been geolocated. Note, that warhead separates from the engine before impact.
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There is an interesting interview of Oleg Tsarev, nominal leader of Novorossiya in KP.ru. Two days ago a photo of him appeared of him somewhere west of Kiev standing on a BMP with a Soviet flag.
Apparently a Russian landing ship was sunk by an alleged Ukranian missile in the port of Berdyansk.
https://youtu.be/i7C3FZCkKy8
It’s a harrowing sight
Copied below is the report (machine translation from Russian) from a retired Russian military officers who blogs from Crimea under the name “Colonel Cassad” [see https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7514919.html ]; the Russians used air defense systems to shoot down an incoming Ukrainian missile, and large fragments from the missile landed on the deck of the Orsk and ignited ammunition being unloaded:
“According to Rogov, from the military-civilian administration of the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region, in the morning there was an arrival of Tochka-U, the missile was shot down by air defense systems, its fragments fell right in the port, including on unloading fuel and lubricants and BC BDKshki (i.e. the Orsk}
On board one of them, a fire broke out and detonation of ammunition boxes occurred, after which it was sunk away from harm at the quay wall. 2 other BDKs went to sea (I posted photos and videos on the topic in the TG https://t.me/boris_rozhin/35833)
Regarding the affected BDKshki, these are old ships of the beginning of the Brezhnev era, “Saratov” – built in 1964, “Orsk” – built in 1967. In full load, the displacement is about 4200 tons.
Although the ships are very old, they are not useless, since they can cope with their tasks of transporting goods even after half a century of service. If it will be possible to lift and repair, then of course it is necessary to lift and drag to Sevastopol for repairs.”
Could be true and could be false. Isn’t it a bit late to neutralise a missile at the last moment…when it is above your head? I hope Russia wins but I suspect the shooting the missile down story is just that …a story.
I think Carl at 09:46 may be closer to the truth.
There is footage from the docks of parts of the Tochka and a far smaller fire can be seen on the deck of one of the two remaining landing ships as they depart. You can also see smaller secondary explosions on the Orsk, all of which suggest Cassad’s interpretation is accurate.
Skane, there’s a video of Orsk being offloaded from about two days ago, her cargo of vehicles were already on the move from dockside, and her hold was shown empty. She’s not what would be considered a landing ship, like the LST’s of old, just an armed freighter…But, the war of twisted words, and fog of Zio-deceptions rolls onward!
The video is viewable on this link, it will take some scrolling, but that’s her.
https://t.me/s/intelslava/22845
Many thanks again to all here on the right side of history!
Z for Victory!
That channel seems to be a CIA run anti Russian propaganda machine.Thee videos the channel clearly point out the prejudice. If you believe those ones, Ukraine has already beaten Russian into submission or retreat.
Those missiles are well known to wabbel in flight and break up mid flight.
The landing craft was likely hit with a plastic (hard to detect) navel mine. But no one will say “navel mine” for fear of scaring away ships.
>>>>> (hard to detect) navel mine. <<<<<<
Funny — MY navel is not so difficult to find . . . .
At the height of the Vietnam occupation by Americans John McCcain almost sank a US nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Forrestal, which he set on fire by not following safe and mandated procedure. 900 Americnas died to put out the fire. McCain fled the ship illegally posing as a casualty on a medical dustoff. Ukrainian “flying pipe bombs” (gen. Norman Schwarzkopff) are dangerous for precisely this reason. Although If thats what caused the fire i would still list it as accidental.
the way i heard it, mccain flared his engines on the deck causing a missile on the plane behind him to detach and ignite. it’s quite a story.
I am not a fan of warmonger McCain, quite to the contrary, but that accident wasn’t his fault. He didn’t fire up engine in order to scary someone. He would be imidately discharged for that behaviour. It was missle malfunction. Short circut. And his plane was on the misssle’s path.
His later political career was his own fault and quite a disaster.
McCain was the sponsor of ISIS
120-140k is number of peacekeepers in one time/turn. Casualties are for whole period of peacekeeping. We are missing total number of individual peacekeepers involved.
To The Saker.
Andrei,
I have a suggestion to you concerning one of your fundamental terminology.
Zone A and Zone B.
Right now, that terminology no longer reflects reality.
Zone B is looking like something following after Zone A, being something secondary to it.
I suggest to rename Zone B to Zone Z.
First, it will show that Zone Z is something completely opposite, on the opposite side of Zone A.
Secondly, the Z-sign today has acquired a very special meaning.
Yes, maybe the terminology in terms Zone A-Zone Z won’t look like perfect now, but at least in this proposed form, it will probably be more descriptive and immediately intuitive understandable for new visitors of The Saker blog.
It’s all IMHO, of course.
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Андрей,
У меня к Вам предложение, касающееся одной из Ваших фундаментальных терминологий.
Зона А и Зона Б.
Прямо сейчас эта терминология уже не отражает реальности.
Зона Б выглядит следующей за Зоной А, являясь чем-то вторичным по отношению к ней.
Я предлагаю переименовать Зону Б в Зону Z.
Во-первых, это покажет, что Зона Z является чем-то полностью противоположным, находящимся на противоположной стороне от Зоны А.
Во-вторых, знак Z сегодня приобрёл совершенно особенный смысл.
Да, может быть терминология вида Зона А – Зона Z не будет выглядеть сейчас идеальной, но, по крайней мере, в таком предлагаемом виде, она вероятно будет более наглядной и сразу интуитивно понятной для новых посетителей блога The Saker.
Всё IMHO, конечно.
I agree.
As it has been for the last almost 80 years military personal casualty figures have gone down sharply even though fire power of armies have increased a lot. Why? Because the size of battle ground is now much much deeper. 1941-45 the front line battle zone was normally 20 km deep. Nowadays likely 500 km. So 500 x 500 km is 625 times bigger than 20×20 km area. There are nowadays much less soldiers in most hottiest places per km2 than 80 years ago. They are also better protected than during WW2. There seems to be growing tendency to highly exaggerate casualty figurers of modern warfare. This “paradox” – more fire power, less casualties is one of those hard facts most people just can’t get.
Combat troops are more spread out than in the past. I read somewhere that a chunk of territory on the border of France and Germany that had 100,000 soldiers of both sides on it in the war of 1870 had about 5,000 in late 1944. This trend has only accelerated.
Another trend is that combat uniforms tend to be quite similar, so it is noticeable that troops in the Ukraine fighting need field signs to tell each other apart. White or ‘kolorady’ for Russians, sometimes red (Donbass?) and yellow and sometimes blue for Ukrainians.
Moscow stock exchange:
https://www.rt.com/business/552604-russian-stocks-rebound-markets-reopen/
Does anyone understand what will happen with the Russian stocks Americans like myself own through ARD or whatever its called???
I started investing in Gazprom about two years ago. Very sound decision if I do say being tnat I’m just an uneducated dishwasher. Yeah foolish in ways becuae3 never thought the filthy American government would stoop so low but should have knowing the filth ruling over us.
So today the market opened. As I can tell Gazprom increased but still wondering what comes of my shares. I’m not selling. Yeah guess from what I read you can’t even if you wanted to but there’s no freakin way I’m selling. Like I said it was a good decision if not for filthy gread American government. Rat bastards.
Looks like trading of Russian ADRs (and even ETF like ERUS) are still halted.
This is what I have from this morning
Moscow Stocks BOOM as Exchange Reopens
Russian stocks rose sharply as the Moscow exchange reopened Thursday with limited trading after suspending operations on February 28. The ruble-based MOEX benchmark shot up almost 11% – but the USD-nominated RTS Index was down slightly.
Trading resumed for 33 Russian entities such as Sberbank, Gazprom and Aeroflot, but short-selling for foreign investors has been banned until April 1.
Key oil, aluminum and mineral companies shot up by double figures: Rosneft (20%), Lukoil (16%), Rusal (14%) and Norilsk Nickel (22%).
MOEX opened but basically for domestic owners only and they might allow some foreign investors to cover shorts (i.e. buy back shorted Russian stocks a lot higher than where they sold them – good riddance!)
It’s totally unknown right now what will happen to foreign owners of Russian stocks, especially those living in hostile nations. That’s irrespective of whether they own some ADRs or MOEX listed equities (I do own some of the latter).
My best guess at this point is that foreigners will be blocked from selling or buying for quite some time and Russia ultimately either cancels these shares or offers to buy them for a song.
It would suck to lose that money that I invested but I don’t really mind it as long as Russia prevails in this existential fight for herself and mankind.
At what point does Russia realize that the US is in complete control of the Ukrainian army and is conducting all Ukrainian offensives remotely? Putin warned against interference, but the US is interfering more and more each day and Russian casualties pile up. Time to deliver on the warning Mr. Putin.
How they can be in control? As I have read from this forum, Ukrainian army lost all central control within a first few hours of the invasion and currently only some small uncoordinated groups are left in cities. The operation was done in two days (someone suggested calling it a four hour war) and now it is just mopping up the last resistance. Local people on streets bringing flowers to liberators. What offenses are you talking about?
They could start by annihilating those illegal US bases in Syria.
Ukrainians can make some counterattacks like those unsuccessful ones in Iyzum, but no counteroffensive. They can’t even unlock Donbass pocket. Now Zelensky is begging for NATO tanks. Like one thousand of them. That means Ukies lost realy like 1300 tanks and not many of them left.
Not to mention, Russia has airsuperiority and any bigger column of troops and vechicles will be spoted and hunted down mercilessly. It is over for Ukraine.
Ukraine is also lacking in trained troops. You can’t build counteroffesive from Volksstrum, bunch of exprisoners and mercenaries, which most of them are just tourists without any serious military expirience. That country is finnished and the only question is when it falls totally under Russia’s forces.
So, one small example I heard today. The dominant drone company in the world is DGI, a Chinese entity. I was told that the Russians now are able to get the codes to access those drones from China and easily destroy the drone while also being able to find out the location of the person controlling it and target them. According to a story in the Financial Post and also featured on Youtube, Revived Soldiers Ukraine, a group working for the benefit of Ukraine, recently ordered drones for delivery there that are American made and therefore can’t be penetrated by Russians.
Reminds me of what the US Govt are able to do to override controls of Boeing aircraft… or is that bogus?
While I wouldn’t exactly call it “remote control”, the revelations in the following certainly seem to indicate direct collusion:
“Pentagon Targeting Russian Generals… Is the U.S. at War With Russia in All But Name?”
by Finian Cunningham March 23, 2022
https://www.strategic-culture.org:443/news/2022/03/23/pentagon-targeting-russian-generals-is-us-at-war-with-russia-in-all-but-name/
This independent video was posted on MoA. Through interviews with female refugees from Mariupol who are now in a Russian/DPR center, it reveals some of the horrors of this military action.
Please all pray for peace—which we cannot have without the Grace and Mercy of Almighty God.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nhLB5Wp1lGs
Pray for peace? I won’t be joining you. I say pray for total destruction of the west and then pray for God to bless in the rebuilding the first thing being gallows for the filthy elities ruling over us. America is ill and the only medicine is complete repentance or destruction.
Aye, sadly true.
Sadly true when a supreme court nominee is being questioned by Sen Ted Cruz what a definition of a woman is:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-ted-cruz-demands-know-why-ketanji-brown-jackson-cannot-define-what-woman
Society has been turned upside down by neo-bolsheviks (Zionists)…just as Yuri Besmenov predicted 40 years ago in an interview with G Edward Griffin.
Rick Wiles’ of trunews said President Putin could be God Almighty’s hammer on the West. Only God Almighty knows best!
Just when you forget what this is all about, the Democrats helpfully remind you.
US-led NWO, What is a woman? etc.
In Marxist terms this is a classical antagonistic contradiction. It’s only solved by the complete annihilation or the unconditional surrender of one party.
I pray for justice.
Peace is the tranquility of order. Proper order requires the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, all Divine attributes and all impossible without God.
The hegemony of the Western ruling elites is an obstacle to peace; no informed and thinking person could believe otherwise. But it is indeed peace, for the tranquility of properly ordered human existence, for which we should all be praying and working.
Even as a Westerner, I couldn’t agree more.
Peak Oil
Once upon a time we discussed this topic on a dedicated website. I found Dmitry Orlov there, discussing its relationship to collapse and geopolitics.
Dmitry has been right all along, of course.
@ Skåne on March 24, 2022 · at 9:44 am EST/EDT
Apparently a Russian landing ship was sunk by an alleged Ukranian missile in the port of Berdyansk.
The situation is still unclear, we should wait for a report from Russia’s MoD. In the meantime, there is sketchy information, and lots of fake news about it, magnifying Russian losses.
Here is the report from Colonel Cassad, based on information from the “…military-civil administration of the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region…”
Anyone with more rock-solid information, please post it here. As Colonel Cassad states, “There is no exact information on losses and damage to the BDK yet.”
The smoke from burning fuel/ammunition makes it look as if the entire Russian navy is on fire. Do not get caught in the misinformation drivel.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7514919.html
Arrival in Berdyansk
In Berdyansk, in the morning they loved the BDK of the 1171st project (either “Saratov” or “Orsk”)
According to Rogov, from the military-civil administration of the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region, in the morning there was a arrival of “Tochka-U”, the missile was shot down by air defense systems, its fragments fell right in the port, including on the unloading fuel and BK BDKshki.
On board one of them, a fire broke out and boxes of ammunition detonated, after which it was sunk away from sin at the quay wall. 2 other BDK went to sea (photos and videos on the topic posted in TG https://t.me/boris_rozhin/35833
There is no exact information on losses and damage to the BDK yet.
As for the affected BDKshka, these are old ships of the beginning of the Brezhnev era, “Saratov” – built in 1964, “Orsk” – built in 1967. In full load displacement of about 4200 tons.
The ships, although very old, are not useless, since they cope with their tasks of transporting goods even after half a century of service.
If it is possible to raise and repair, then of course it is necessary to raise and drag to Sevastopol for repairs.
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Lone Wolf
We’re at day, what 27 now ? I think it’s the occasion to point out several major misses in predictions :
– last week it was predicted that Mariupol would fall in 4-7 days (DPR, Intel Slava). We’re 9 days later and Mariupol show no signs of falling soon.
– since about day 3 of the operation many people, Saker included, have predicted encirclement in the East. Now my impression is that encirclement is far from done, there are still three roads linking the Eastern forces to Dnipro.
Sorry to sound sarcastic, it’s just that I’m horribly frustrated myself. It does seem indeed as if the operation has stalled and we’ve reached an equilibrium. the only way to break this equilibrium is to bring more resources and troops. I don’t know the Russian plan here but I sure hope they have one.
Key predictions I will follow until end of March :
– several forecasts, by the French army, by Defense Politics Asia, that the Ukrainians would run out of fuel and ammo and weapons somewhere at the end of March. If beginning of April I don’t see signs, I will slowly despair…
I must say that so far the one which has been closest to the reality was Strelkov, although he’s horribly depressing to read and far too pessimistic. However I can’t help but notice that Saker and Martyanov were way too optimistic at the beginning.
Can you please link where Strelkov report are posted?
Thank you
From Intel Slava just a while ago:
” The guys report by radio that they have cleared the administration building of Mariupol and hoisted our flag over it. The surviving bandits did not take risks, abandoned their positions, as had already become traditional for them, and rushed to their heels.
Other units move in parallel directions of the city and clean it from the Azov evil spirits.”
People must understand what mop-up means. It is not sweeping the streets, but it is demining, there still are crazies ensconced in buildings with human shields .. Once a city falls, it is only step one and more hard work begins, and usually with Kadryov soldiers – work surely not for the feint of heart or spirit.
So whos going to be the last one standing to burn the bank down so the Russians don’t get the money?
But the Russians said that’s fine, we just don’t want you to have it.
Study this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Huế
You will get an idea that urban combat is tough.
Russians are saving civilians. Ukies are killing civilians and destroying the cities by their tactics of hiding behind thousands of trapped civilians.
Most of the destroyed buildings are gutted by fire, not blasted from missiles and bombs. External explosions resulting from strikes on tanks and artillery nestled in courtyards or parked in garages have shattered all windows.
Now snipers using the tall buildings are located and grenades are sometimes used to end the sniping.
There is no way of ending the fighting without killing the Ukie-nazi fighters. They have a choice to surrender or to die fighting. They choose to die fighting. So wherever there are civilians as shields, it is long, dangerous, tedious work to move close enough to kill the fighters.
What looked like 2-3 weeks work has become 6-10 weeks. Food is running out in Mariupol. That could be decisive. Water is very low. That will impact the duration. Ammo still seems plentiful.
Ukraine is military processed into a psychosis. This eliminates pain and rational thought. They are like rabid dogs, unable to follow survival instinct. They have to be killed to end their activities.
Any other military in the same condition, less the psychosis, would come to terms and surrender.
The Ukies are psychotic. Some are using meth to stay high and active.
Strelkov is incapable of analysis. He’s a pathetic loser with a worn out ideology of false patriotism. As a strategist and tactician, he got a lot of fighters and many civilians killed. As a leader of the militia, they voted him thrown out of power and out of Donbass. He’s a gentle psychotic, delusional.
Here’s a good video of urban warfare, clearing a city.
https://t.me/Oleg_Blokhin/11781
The notion this can be done quicker is the result of too many hours in mom’s basement playing video games and abusing oneself, a common feature for the impatient generals of sofa city.
I concur. This is the kind of fight tgat always have large losses on attacker side in the beggining, and sharp collapse of defense in the end. How long middle phase will last, depends mostly on how well defender is prepared for long siege.
Ultimately food and water supply is depleted and than it’s all over. Trying to rush defenders before that is suicidal.
Destroying a city to oblivion is easy with today’s firepower. You need to understand that cleaning up a city from cold blooded mercenaries using human shields and or taking cover under civilians is a difficult task that takes time. Unless you have the American way of collateral damage.
Moreover, Russia is not just fighting Ukraine alone: NATO and America are the invisible forces there as well, I believe. And they have been planning this for many years now.
If I was any wise, I would advance equally slowly as the Russian forced. The danger of casualties from mines and ambushes are high. Just one Uko Nazi hidden somewhere amidst civilians can impart more casualties than open fighters. I side with Russia’s strategy.
Starting today in the morning it is imposible to access rt both in spanish and english here in México.
I would like to receive advise in how to access rt please.
Use Brave browser with built in TOR option.
Thanks a lot, I will try.
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd works for now with normal FireFox/Windows 10
Just try Yandex DNS, no need for Tor, VPNs, whatever.
77.88.8.8 or 77.88.8.1
The blocking isn’t that sophisticated. :-)
“The blocking isn’t that sophisticated. :-)”
Sadly, average users are even less. :-‘(
Hello Alberto. I am currently in Las Varas, Nayarit, Mexico.
I can access rt.com via google chrome on my phone
Paul Craig Roberts
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Best regards
Can it be true?
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1506682468857954309?s=20&t=yZn9IRtcMNlS2eIoJObycQ
@ L80
Can it be true?
Sure.
In the head of all those whose source of info is “Bloomberg” and other fake news sources, the figures provided in the Twitter link, and more, can be true. They prey on the uninformed, those who don’t question, and don’t look beyond the presstitutes in the MSM.
The twitter link takes you to this,
Keep in mind that the 120 BTGs that were assembled for the invasion had approximately 85,000-95,000 troops + Rosgvardia/separatist forces. The rest of the figure comes from support units. The BTGs have sustained most of these casualties, possibly as much as 1/3rd of their troops.
and this,
Bloomberg
@business
· 22h
A senior NATO military officer says the alliance estimates that Russia has suffered between 30,000 and 40,000 battlefield casualties in Ukraine through the first month of the war, including between 7,000 and 15,000 killed (via AP) https://trib.al/RWXwrQY
How many times did “Bloomberg” announced Ukraine had been invaded? I lost count. And people out there still believe them? Oh God, patience…
Lone Wolf
It is NATO propaganda. They are spewing BS from the beginning so that alliance doesn’t look as weak as it is.
No. Russian losses are in the range of ~1000 or less. They are just making up numbers for psyops purposes.
I seriously doubt progress reports from advancing Russian/LDNR troops would help the defeatist mindset of those armchair generals who are showing “frustration” with the unattained goals of the Russian/LDNR armies taking Mariupol and not winning the war in a month, while blaming the Saker/Martyanov dynamic duo for making false projections, and lionizing Strelkov who believes he is the only “Napoleon” left in Russia.
However, the deliberate progress in the final defeat of the neo-nazi regime in 404 continues apace, Shoigu just reported to Putin the special operation is developing according to plan and on schedule. Allegedly, according to a Syrian news source, Russia aims to match the special operation ending with the annual celebration of victory over Hitler’s nazi hordes, on May 9.
Let’s hope for the best…
PS: Lots of good videos, map included. The Chechen brothers (may Allah bless them, protect them, and provide victory for them) are fierce and fearless, they are earning a glorious page in the history of the defeat of neo-nazis in 404.
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/srazhenie_za_izjum_zakoncheno_na_ocheredi_kramatorsk_i_slavjansk_karta_boevykh_dejstvij_24_marta_vse_video_poslednego_chasa_2022/60-1-0-11699
The battle for Raisins is over – Kramatorsk and Slavyansk are next in line: map of military operations on March 24. All videos of the last hour (2022)
Yesterday, AFU reinforcements consisting of several battalions reinforced with tanks launched the last attacks in the direction of Izyum in order to unblock the remnants of the AFU units entrenched in the southern part of Izyum. The attacks were repulsed by the Russian Armed Forces and at the same time, Mount Kremenets (where the TV tower is located) was finally cleared-this is the main height in the region from which you can observe the movement of troops and direct artillery fire.
Ukrainian UAVs are constantly trying to hover over the Russian army, and air defense calculations are working continuously. Local reports indicate that the Ukrainian Armed Forces ‘ reserves left Lozovaya and Pervomaisky in order to stop columns of the Russian Armed Forces moving south. The APU actively maneuvers armored groups, and in some of them up to 16 tanks, the enemy’s barrel and rocket artillery works. (Repeated in the original)
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to create a fortified area around Pavlograd to prevent the encirclement of the eastern front. Over the past five days, an artillery brigade and tank formations have been deployed here. About the fact that there is an accumulation of forces in Pavlograd, it has been known for a week. If the Russian Armed Forces implement the scenario of closing the boiler east of Pavlograd (say, in the area of Krasnoarmeysk), then the assembled forces in the area of Pavlograd will allow at least trying to deliver a deblocking strike.
A high-precision strike destroyed nine Ukrainian S-300s and four Buk-M1 missiles in the village of Danilovka, south of Kiev, the Russian Defense Ministry said. There the AFU had a base of the 96th anti-aircraft missile brigade. At the same time, it is not a fact that some of the destroyed air defense systems were fully operational.
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Lone Wolf
Thanks very much for the information, Lone Wolf.
@ Ishkabibble
You’re very welcome.
That’s a good publication, every day posting news and videos from key combat operations, and from the suffering of the people in Mariupol and other areas of Donbass under fire.
Lone Wolf
Very reassuring news, it matches other independent sources. Many thanks, Lone Wolf.
By Raisins, you mean Izyum. Automatic translation turns it into Raisins so when I translate text I have to watch for it when I edit.
Thanks. I’ve been wondering about that for a few weeks now.
“The fight for raisins” doesn’t sound very glorious…
The Western media has been strangely silent regarding Mariupol these last few days. Tells me there is a good chance that Russia is finally in complete control of the city, as there are less so-called “atrocities” to spin and report on.
Asia and friendly countries should ‘wall’ the north Atlantic (Nato) and allow only trans Pacific routes/corridors from their puppets Japan, south Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand by air and sea.
Deviation from these corridors will be intercepted/confiscated and sold to fund colonial reparatipns forever!
That will be the ultimate reversal of fortunes!!!
Anniversaries evoke such nostalgic memories. Especially this one for Serbs:
https://sputniknews.com/20220324/we-should-go-in-on-the-ground-watch-biden-complain-nato-bombing-of-yugoslavia-not-ruthless-enough-1094148230.html
I would guess things will be wrapped up in less then a month as to allow planting season to begin, China buys alot of Ukraine grains as well as lots of other poorer countries unless Russia wants to see millions die from hunger He will need that planting to occur.
War Aims need to be honest and comprehensible: putting predominantly russian populations under the Russian flag, keeping hostile forces far from Moscow.
People won’t help you if they think a pen is hovering over a paper ready to sign a cease fire and leave them at the mercy of Ukrainians. It has to be a war of permanent conquest.
More men will be needed to secure victory, the Rumsfeld Doctrine is the path to defeat: just enough soldiers to lose the war!
Id equate the rumsfield doctrine as just enough soldiers to make money.
These nato wars over the last 30 years has been for profit, never forget that.
Cheers.
@Mats – the link was this
https://vz.ru/world/2022/3/22/1149639.html
“Now the level of desertion and surrender is very high among those Ukrainian brigades that were the first to come under the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR. Ahead of all is the 53rd separate motorized rifle brigade (OMBR), the denazification of which was officially announced in Donetsk. Having lost contact with the command after the retreat from Volnovakha, the brigade began to roll back to the steppe to the north, suffering heavy losses. As a result, the servicemen of the 53rd brigade began to surrender in groups of 10 people, especially after the “Svidomo commissars” and commanders died or fled.
The fact is that over the past year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been ideologically reformatted, in almost every platoon, “ideological”, they are also “Svidom” officers or sergeants from among the former National Battalion members, natives of Western Ukraine, or simply very ideologically motivated individuals, were introduced on the basis of rotation. If earlier the composition of some brigades or battalions could be homogeneous in origin (from one region of Ukraine), now there are practically no such units left, and ideological training was especially monitored at the level of special orders of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
@ Ernest
Thanks, Ernest.
I kept on looking for the link, couldn’t find it. A poster above pointed out in the direction of Andrei Martyanov’s blog, I found your post first.
“Kiev suggests that in the middle of summer there should be some kind of geopolitical shift. Either an atomic war will begin, or NATO will introduce troops, or aliens will arrive.
That’s a funny sentence.
Kiev is hoping Ukronazis will resist until July in Mariupol? That doesn’t correspond with the Russian plans, and it will interfere with the anniversary of the defeat of nazi Germany. :-)
Lone Wolf
The Mariupol Werewolf Battalion can transmit from Z’s “Kiev” studio.
Given the fact that the West appears to be self imploding by this Ukraine war (mostly on the economic/finacial/political front), why then should Russia be in a hurry to stop it?
I think there’s something needing saying on the matter of the information war side of things, specifically the Russian information being completely drowned out by the Western infowar machine.
It is a true and obvious fact that it is so. But I think it’s somewhat inaccurate to say that Russia “lost” the information war with the Western media conglomerate. Truth of the matter is… Russia didn’t even intend to fight it, not in the same way the West does beyond token outbound messaging more for propriety’s sake than effect. It’s a war to which the Russian side effectively didn’t show up.
The “why” of it is simple: how could anyone expect Russia to fight it on even terms in the first place? It’s a contest between, on the one hand, the most monstrously overwhelming propaganda, infowar and thought control machine in history seeming like it’s come right out of dystopian fiction, that spans most of the world via US satrapies’ vassal media – from news to entertainment – parroting whatever messaging their masters put forward, as well as via the Internet and domination of its social network field… and on the other hand, Russia all on her own, in the position of a client of that infospace and not its overlord, held back by Atlanticist sympathizers who prevented or undermined decisive steps until the very end, and at its disposal is but a tiny fraction of the resources fueling the Western propaganda machine, resources already much needed elsewhere in Russia’s spending goals. And if that was not enough, the Western media stranglehold went on for many decades in much of that space, and brought up entire generations of people molded by them, their worldviews entirely built entirely upon, and out of, their thought control. How do you even compete with that? And thus Russia doesn’t even aim to.
What almost everyone – even some commentators I respect and alternative sites – simply does not get is that Russia does not really care about winning Western hearts and minds. There’re many reasons as to why – from the simple pragmatic calculus of allocating resources not on wooing Western citizens in a contest against a trillion-dollar media machine propagandizing them for decades, but on fortifying the media space at home and creating ways of protecting it against foreign domination (a finishing move in which we finally saw executed via the hostile mediacorps expelled and social media that chose hostility blocked); to the specifics of Russian cultural psychology that enshrines a belief in cold hard facts on the ground inevitably destroying any lies and falsification, which makes outbound messaging feel near-redundant to most Russians. Sure, Russia has/had its RT and Sputnik, but in truth, these always felt like token hobby horses or even national budget siphons – I fully share the Saker’s opinion of RT being annoyingly low-effort, in particular. Furthermore, Russians both common and powerful are not blind – they’re fully aware of the unbeatable disparity of means and respective positions in the media space, so even when they tried to get on the media game abroad, it always had a feel of “why are we even trying, there’s no point”.
That’s the simple truth of it – Russia, in both official and civil capacities, had long seen “international” infowar as a lost cause. It never truly tried to fight it. Sure, they’ll be more pleased if foreigners are not being hostile to them, but they’ve come to treat barely concealed or overt hostility as an inevitable status quo, and the value proposition of trying to sway them as completely unappealing. This is why the general media policy it adopted, which the Saker described very well in his essays on counter–propaganda, was and remains completely inward-oriented – primarily transmitting the Western anti-Russian propaganda to its own audience, well translated and uncut, to help impress upon them the foreign powers’ hostility towards them and cause them to rally together in its face.
And look at those facts on the ground now: we can say with certainty that this policy has by and large succeeded. Instead of wasting mountains of cash on, pardon my French, “trying to outpiss the wind” in the West, it used the West’s own hostile propaganda against it (Judo at its finest) to solidify a staunch defensive public opinion at home. Let’s be honest with ourselves – not even the best, most well-designed and convincing Russian information campaign in the West could compete against even the most base and stupid fakes concocted in any single Western media centre promoted throughout its media machine’s innumerable vectors; experience shows as much, with Russian outreach and information productions banned, deplatformed and prohibited from circulation, while the most paper-thin Western fakes (“Ghost of Kiev” anyone?) go viral globally and settle in the Western popular consciousness as if they were facts. Look even at many “alternative” sites my fellow readers are no doubt familiar with – see how many of them have swallowed the anti-Russian propaganda lines wholesale. Knowing this, Russia chose to focus on things that, it believes, matter more. Things like improving the army, working on self-sufficiency and building public support at home. And the sheer volume of Western hostility has been such that Russia did not even need to try propagandizing its populace much by itself, so it doesn’t really matter that their own counter-propaganda was not strong – the West did the job for them by itself.
So, no, I do not think saying “Russia lost the information war” is quite correct because this war is asymmetric in its tactics and objectives. In fact, I would even say that the West handed Russia a huge win on a silver platter – Western populations and even culture itself had already been steeped in Russophobia for many years, so their mad war-footing-like policies and proclamations have little added value at home, while in Russia they comprehensively destroyed all the work the West had done to undermine it, by completely destroying the reputation and positions of itself and its agents of influence. The simple undeniable fact of the West whipping itself up into a war frenzy is an incredibly powerful propaganda tool – not so much in the West as it is in Russia, not demoralizing the Russian people but instilling them with a bitter defiance and desire for a reckoning for all this unprecedented hostility, which the Saker also communicates well.
Does Russia have no “outward” infowar strategy at all? I wouldn’t say so either – it’s just that, as noted above, Russians believe facts always trump words. They intend to have the results of the war in 404 speak for themselves, in a “the king is naked” sort of way, showing shrill Western propaganda about its every aspect for the outrageous falsehood it is and destroying its reputation. Will it succeed? I personally doubt it will be as effective as Russia hopes – the Western infowar machine is just that strong, and will work overtime and put unprecedented resources into trying to obfuscate and deny those facts on the ground; Westerners will go on believing in the myths of cuddly-wuddly Ukraine and big bad evil Russia genociding their freedom. But – as I said before – Russians do not really care whether they do or do not. Russia has largely declared a clean break with the West culturally and psychologically, effectively “disowned” the Western societies. Westerners can believe what they like, they can accept truth or deny it, the only thing Russians care about is them not marching to war. And the only “packaging” they will offer them is sturdy coffins, if they do, as per the lyrics for Sacred War.
I wouldn’t say this policy is completely unfounded, either – as time goes on, cracks begin to form in the Western media wall, uncomfortable truths and evidence of sheer lies slip through. This will only progress further as the blowback from the West’s unbelievably suicidal policies sets in. And furthermore, this Russian tactic forces the West to waste a lot of time, resources and coverage on trying to maintain their propaganda façade, which they now cannot use to perception-manage their populaces’ discontent with other looming problems – like with the siege of Leningrad, they tie down Western media armies and prevent them from striking for effect elsewhere, greatly weakening the Western position overall.
In addition to this, there’s a special dimension, a sadder one, in which the same dynamic has taken place. Many predictions made much ado about the supposed tender feelings Russians have for 404’s population and how they’ll hate Putin for waging war in 404 and hurting them by collateral. What they fail to recognize is the legendary boorish hostility “svidomy” Ukies have been showering Russia with even long before 2014, and which turned into an insane deluge since, with the war sending them into crazed overdrive. And again, here the Russian info policy has been to give the demented Ukronazi screeching maximum coverage, so that every Russian knows of it. It is true that there are many families with relatives in Ukraine and Russia, but for the past 8 years many of the Ukie relatives high on Russophobic propaganda had disowned and forsaken their Russian kin and destroyed whatever familial bonds there were. Even before the war began, while Russians felt pity towards civilians, they were under no illusions of some brotherly loving people their government might needlessly hurt – they watched those “brothers” disown them and bay for Russian blood for 8 years straight, and put it into active practice in the Donbass (again, with Russian media giving their voices ample coverage). And since the war began, the Ukies’ own madness took care of the rest: Ukie TV news anchors and journalists howling on air about their desire to kill Russian mothers and infants and swearing to infiltrate nurseries to kill Russian babies, 404’s commanders boasting about deliberately maiming and torturing captives to death in live TV interviews, regular people who had acquaintances in Ukraine receiving streams of death threats and basest insults from their Ukie “friends” despite being mere unrelated civilians… These things are everywhere now, a constant point not just in Russian media but in everyday conversations too. And none of this is orchestrated by nefarious Kremlin agents or cooked up by Russian propaganda either – the Ukies very gladly did and are doing all this themselves, nobody was “pulling their tongues” as a Russian saying goes, Russian media merely reports on it and it’s all easily verifiable. That’s not even counting the “feats” of Ukronazi regiments in their final death throes that are now becoming publicized. So, does anyone really think there is any love lost for the Ukies among Russians now, after all this? Russians abhor war, yes, but they are not stupid – they’re not going to embrace pit vipers who claim brotherhood when it suits them only to attack when an opportunity arises. Russians ARE “anti-war” – but not by way of passively waiting for enemies to attack them, and rather by making sure the war is finished in the most comprehensive and final way possible, as fast as possible; si vis pacem, para bellum. For years Ukrainian media kept claiming they never want to be brothers with the Russians – they should’ve been careful what they wished for because they got it. They should not count on Russian pity and generosity to let them off the hook after all they’ve said and done, neither in terms of the combined-arms police operation that now destroys their ability to be a threat, nor in the eventual settlement they will have to face after the war. They made a not insignificant portion of the Russian society take them up on their word of “not being brothers” and turn away from them. By now quite a few Russians see them like they did the Vlasov traitors in WWII, as cowardly or mercenary turncoats who bought into empty promises of an absolute enemy – and those get no respect, pity or mercy. Ukies made their bed themselves, and it’s gonna be a very uncomfortable night.
Pardon the long, rambling post – I’m a lurker of this blog since 2014, but never commented before, just felt I have something to offer now.
Much appreciated your post Red Outsider.
Indeed you did have something to offer and I hope you will offer more in the future.
Sounds like you have a lot to offer. Don’t be shy here when the spirit moves you!
A prediction about Mariopol:
Civilians still trapped as human shields will soon have to be released or they will die of dehydration and starvation. In either case civilians will be out of the way and Russians and their allies will be free to flatten the city. Ukronazis could start feeding their human shields out of their own stocks but in that case their stocks will soon be depleted. Then they will suffer from dehydration and starvation just like the civilians. Ukronazis might opt for keeping just a few human shields but if they do that the Russians and their allies might not care anymore. Regardless of strategy adopted by Ukronazis, the city will soon fall.
I assume that the Satanists are providing their proxy forces in Ukraine with data from optical reconnaissance satellites. I don’t know if the Russian Peresvet laser system is capable of dazzling (or better yet, blinding) these satellites, but if so I hope it is being done.
Cloning technology exists (fact) since WW2
Andrei, regarding repetitive strain injuries, see the books Somatics by Hanna and The Feldenkrais Method by Moshe Feldenkrais. The condition often involves tense muscles that do not relax, either because of mental stress, muscle imbalance, or neurological mis-training. Those books explain how to do neurological retraining. Positive effects can happen quickly, although tendonitis (caused by the muscle tension) needs maybe 5 days to heal. The concept is to identify the tense muscle, find the opposing muscle, and exercise that opposing muscle. Around the wrist, it is easy to determine the opposing muscle. Around the hip, it can be challenging.
That is a very good article giving detailed description of the collapse of morale and physical capability of the Ukrainian forces as well as an “awakening” of much of the civilian population to what has been done to them.
” The number of surrenders increases as Russian troops advance, but so does the “quality” of prisoners and deserters. Among them, the number of those who refuse armed resistance is growing not for forced reasons (encirclement, losses, lack of communication, debauchery, etc.), but for ideological reasons. More and more prisoners explain their behavior by their unwillingness to fight for Zelensky, hatred of the Nazis and fascists.
The fact is that the clash in everyday life with representatives of Western Ukrainian and neo-Nazi ideologies (sometimes they are the same thing) sobers up many. Many Ukrainians from the central regions and even the city of Kiev could encounter their ideology only in the form of propaganda”
Well worth reading the whole article. Articles on this site come up in Russian of course, but right clicking offers “translate into English”
Should have included link –
https://vz.ru/world/2022/3/22/1149639.html
A few thing:
-Berdyansk port – new information is that there was no attack, no phantom Tochka-U missile from Ukraine. A timelapse video of the port has been released that shows before the fire all the way through to the after math. It clearly shows there was no attack but some kind of very small fire that started and continued to expand until fuel/ammo stores caught fire. Now the new reports are stating that Fuel stored on the port somehow caught fire and continued to spread to equipment that had been offloaded from the ship and was sitting near the ship, which then spread to the ship as well.
The question of course is how the fire started. No one knows, could be negligence or could be sabotage.
Here’s one report:
“—fire from the fuel depot, as evident from security cameras, transferred to equipment stored on the wall of the pier, and then transferred onto #Orsk that had already unloaded its cargo.
fire on #Orsk also transferred, in a minor way, to #Saratov, possibly as a result of detonation of some ammo on Orsk, but Saratov and 3rd ship departed to safety.
—Orsk was partially scuttled by crew to prevent ammo detonation.”
I do not want to ruin anyone’s day, but I thought it is interesting that Bolton agreed to talk to RT. Apart from that, it just more of the same from a war monger extraordinaire….
https://www.rt.com/shows/worlds-apart-oksana-boyko/552435-john-bolton-russian-actions-ukraine/
(I missed this new thread earlier so I am reposting):
Lone Wolf/Nightvision any comment/observation on the disaster at the port of Berdyansk? There is some talk that a Tochka-U missile wouldn’t have the range to hit the port based on where the remaining one are positioned and maybe this was a sabotage operation. Regardless, Russia was caught with her pants around her ankles. I would think this would be being talked about.
https://youtu.be/i7C3FZCkKy8
Thanks
Frank
Video – English and Polish Soldiers training civilians to become future cannon fodder ( video is mostly English with German subtitles)
‘the lady architect with the Sturmgewehr’
https://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/ukraine-konflikt-soldaten-bereiten-zivilisten-auf-einsatz-vor-17903687.html
Reports indicate that the Russian Forces have managed of take full control of the city Izium near Kharkiev. Tasnim News says quoting from Russian DM Spokesperson.
Brother and Sisters,
Where can I read sputnik news. Each page I was able to find is hacked and full of Western propaganda, lies and slander. Help.
Ernest: “If earlier the composition of some brigades or battalions could be homogeneous in origin (from one region of Ukraine), now there are practically no such units left”
Now I can smell the looming big problem for Ukies. It’s the same what happened to Finnish Armed Forces compared Winter War 1939-40 to that of 1944. During Winter War there was that strong cohesion of units from same counties, soldiers did know each others very well. But until 1944 units were mixed so much that there was not that same “cultural” structure at all. And if spirit is 80% and material 20% then clearly Ukrainian Army from now on would not fight as bravely they (or at least some of their units) have fought during first weeks. More older men mixed with 18-20 y youngsters in same unit have often devastating effect to moral. There are more and more who are not so much motivated as Ukie commanders may have hoped and who more easily are ready to surrender and desert when commanders are lost.
The real motivation of RF forces is another question. I have no objective knowledge of that. Likely quite good among DPR and even very good among Chechens.
A Russian source (Vzglyad) claims the Ukrainian armed forces tend to mix their units up in terms of geographical origin of their soldiers, probably thinking troops from some parts would be less loyal than from others. So you would not get a unit of people from, say, Kharkiv (Kharkov), in case people from there turn out to be pro-Russian and perhaps defect and open a hole in the line.
It was one reason the US armed forces abandoned segregation after WW2 – not just as it was racist but also because disgruntled African Americans concentrated in their own units might prove to be a weak link for an enemy breakthrough. In the early part of the Korean War North Koreans did break through such positions more than once.
They published today numbers of (estimated) deceased civilians: around 1,000 +. This number might be bit too low but even if real numbers of civilian deaths are 1,500 – 2,000 we can’t claim this has been something very special deadly war. That low number (2,000 or less) is not suggesting very high numbers of KIA losses to RF and UAF too. It’s hard to believe that 10,000 soldiers have died. Maybe this war has been much more material battle (mostly RF destroying Ukie vehicles and weaponry) and not so much face to face combat between grunts of different armies.
It is just Ukies/NATO bullsh*t. They were making these numbers since the Debaltsevo debacle. It were the very same stories. And back then they were beaten up by bunch of miners.
Ukraine just couldn’t keep up with modern army.
And yet there have been about 15 high-ranking Russian officers killed. Suggests to me that the casualty numbers for Russia are pretty high.
Per Intel Slava Z, Looks like Mariupol has been completed cleansed as the head of DPR Denis Pushilin is already there. Can wnyone confirm this please!
Russians With Attitude
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Seeing videos with large numbers of killed Ukrainian soldiers from Mariupol. People are saying that Azov took extreme casualties today. No clear picture of the situation but today may have been decisive. Will update in a few hours if there’s more info.
I wouldn’t hold my breath yet but there has been a couple squeaky reports about a decisive onslaught in Mariupol due to the fact that yesterday, Russia made a statement giving Ukrop fighters in Mariupol a “final chance” to surrender this morning. So I guess now that that time is up, a big offensive was launched, and I’ve seen quite brutal new street fighting videos that have emerged from this morning that seem like a big push was made. Also photos are circulating of a lot of dead Azov fighters in several apartments, corpses littering the floors of the high rises with one comment stating “the whole building, every floor is filled with Azov bodies”. Other sources state that today Azov’s losses were the highest so far of the entire conflict.
So definitely something decisive occurred today but to me it’s way too early to shout victory.
“❗️ STRICTLY 18+❗️
Our military commander was able to visit one of the houses in the center of Mariupol (89 Metallurgov Avenue), recently liberated by the allied forces from neo-Nazis from the so-called “Azov Regiment”. Almost every apartment, almost every corridor or flight of stairs – everywhere lie the corpses of murdered neo-Nazis.
Local residents say that on the eve of the start of urban battles, they were expelled from their own apartments, which were turned into firing points.”
https://i.postimg.cc/W4RJYsD2/5325841369702448856.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/W1qk7d1W/5325841369702448858.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yNF3w290/5325841369702448860.jpg
I would really like to see the RU army use the TOS-1 “Burning Sun” against the Azov Battalion in downtown Mariupol.
But I guess there are still too many civilians there for the Russians to break out and use this devastating weapon. It would finish off the Azov Battalion remnants pretty quickly, I think.
I miss Andrei’s everyday update and analysis, prediction.
Is Andrei alright? I have been waiting for his analysis and missing from him. Hope he comes out with big news/updates on the Mariupol and Donetsk areas.
Oil depot (Kiev) blown up:
https://t.me/anna_news/25861
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Yes, it’s the fuel depot in Kalinovka, South of Kiev.
I would really like to see the RU army use the TOS-1 “Burning Sun” against the Azov Battalion in downtown Mariupol.
But I guess there are still too many civilians there for the Russians to break out and use this devastating weapon. It would finish off the Azov Battalion remnants pretty quickly, I think.
They allegedly used it here but RF “officially” said they are not using any ‘thermobaric’ weapons in a press release I recall seeing earlier. So who knows, through the fog of war we can only guess at anything
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IBRpqasFcOX6/
I know for a fact DPR troops are using thermobaric rocket launches RPO-Shmel systems, I’ve seen it myself on video in Mariupol.
@ Nightvision
I was doubtful about that video, after I saw a caption showing the explosions as caused by the Azov battalion having boot-trapped all buildings in the surroundings. That needs to be verified.
Lone Wolf
Southfront 1st Month Summary:
NEW RUSSIAN VICTORIES MARK MONTH OF MILITARY OPERATIONS IN UKRAINE
https://southfront.org/new-russian-victories-mark-month-of-military-operations-in-ukraine/
@ Nightvision on March 24, 2022 · at 12:20 pm EST/EDT
A few thing:
-Berdyansk port – new information is that there was no attack, no phantom Tochka-U missile from Ukraine…
There was an attack, the Saker confirmed it, Russians sank one ship to avoid explosions from ammunition. See his recent report.
Lone Wolf
you led me in
and closed the door
then rode the peace
where angels soar
An admission by Sergey Lavrov regarding the war on Yugoslavia…
https://t.me/MFARussia/12109
“💬 Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov: We know who created a pretext for the bombing of Yugoslavia: US national William Walker, who headed the OSCE’s Kosovo Verification Mission. There were armed clashes, and he convened journalists to tell them that they had discovered the bodies of 30 civilians in Racak who had been massacred by the Serbs. He described it as genocide and took a unilateral decision, which he had no right to do, to withdraw the mission from Kosovo. This is what triggered the bombing. They said that the atrocity in Racak was the last straw and that they would cut short the activities of the criminal regime.
Later a special group was assigned to investigate the incident. It established that the dead were not civilians but militants who were dressed in civilian clothes after they had been killed in battle. The holes in their clothes did not align with the wounds. Yes, the case was investigated very thoroughly. So, saying that NATO’s invasion of Yugoslavia had a noble purpose is wrong and unethical.”
I have no sympathy for the Nazis that end up being exterminated.. even if they are probably on substances … The behavior I have viewed of the Ukrainian Nazis is really astonishingly evil and without empathy for young or old. The very people who rescued their country from the German warlords… who would have eventually killed off the Ukrainian Nazis as they were not purebloods or “untermenschen”.
How Ukranians, Poles and Croations cannot see that they are viewed as subhuman to those they are subservient to defies logical explanation.
Meanwhile, more Nazi news…
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡we broke into the very center of Mariupol today. “Azov” and soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were knocked out of here at night.
As promised yesterday No one was taken prisoner. The corpses of Nazis are on almost every floor in high-rise buildings.
https://t.me/intelslava/23404?single
Bio labs in offshore countries is a cause for concern if non-aligned countries do not share the responsibility for funding and direction of activities. Any high and noble aims then would be effectively monitored by a worldwide coalition of nations.
Why did this not happen? It appears to be a deceit – a lie. The Empire of Lies is identified by President Putin. Why is it that this Empire doesn’t admit it thereby blackening the name of a mysterious liar?
FWIW, here’s an obituary that tells it like it really was:
“Madeleine Albright: in Memoriam?”
by Stephen Karganovic, March 24, 2022
https://www.strategic-culture.org:443/news/2022/03/24/madeleine-albright-in-memoriam/
“In a rare update on combat losses, Rudskoy also announced that 1,351 Russian servicemen have died in the hostilities, with another 3,825 injured.” – RT
1,351 sounds right. At worse, maybe there is a category of deaths they are not including, like accidental deaths, non-combat deaths…the number is not more than 2,500; 1,351 gives a true picture of this war anyway. The Ukranian government does not care one whit about lying, and in my opinion the media, in general, doesn’t really care about reporting factual information because it tries to influence the events.
In response to the Western information blockade…
Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson – March 24, 2022
(Machine translation of official Russian transcript)
I was finally able to connect to mid.ru to pull the transcript of the March 24, 2022 briefing. Here’s a machine translation of the official Russian document…
https://haroldjayhoover.blogspot.com/2022/03/briefing-by-russian-foreign-ministry.html
Note that this is not the official English language transcript but rather a machine translation of the official Russian language transcript from…
Good luck getting to the official post here…
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1806275/