A lot of very big scoops and important updates today.
The biggest news of this cycle is that yesterday was one of the single worst days of the conflict so far for the UAF: in a single day, the UAF lost over 1,100 people total as killed, wounded, or captured.
This is in large part due to massive strikes on various transportation/reinforcement hubs such as Dnipro and Nikolayev, which have taken out an estimated 200-300. As mentioned before due to strict new laws, Ukrainians are not allowed to film or report accurately on this, but on social media channels many “remembrances” from the families of the troops lost have appeared, verifying the damage.
Dnipro has become the major logistics/resupply/reinforcement hub from western Ukraine. Everything going to the cauldron has to pass through there. And Russian reports indicate a lot of the new weaponry and mercenary troops were hit in major Dnipro strikes.
On top of this another estimated 200-300 have surrendered in Mariupol and many more are due to surrender soon. This happened in several phases. Firstly a huge ‘breakout’ was orchestrated by the trapped Marines of the UAF where they took 30-50 civilian vehicles plus some remaining light armor and put ‘Z’ signs on them to try and trick Russian troops, then tried to storm out of Mariupol towards the north as high command in Kiev promised them support if they can just make it towards Zaporizhzhia oblast. But RF had intercepted every part of their plan and captured/killed all of them.
Here Wargonzo shows the destroyed vehicles they used and the aftermath of the escape battle:
https://ok.ru/video/3389452585600
Then, separate from that group, another large group of Marines surrendered. Videos here:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NPgRCf29WS14/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/V5CZputaCLJJ/
Not to mention several groups surrendered on the Lugansk axis: https://www.bitchute.com/video/V5CZputaCLJJ/
And dozens of troops were liquidated in battles along the Rubizhnoe / Lugansk axis (graphic 18+)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vTO597qvbvUt/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tU27vpOkTAov/
And Chechens captured/killed a bunch in Mariupol as well:
https://twitter.com/MapsUkraine/status/1513889986906669062
Meanwhile some of the remaining Marines trapped in the Illych Plant have made videos
1/3 The last video recorded by the last Ukronazis from the cellars of the Azovstal plant. In the video, a Ukrainian marine says "Glory to Ukraine" in every sentence, but there is no response from his colleagues. He says that they have not lost a single position and will fight pic.twitter.com/SUEXkCcJXC
— Victor (@Vick_top55) April 12, 2022
https://ok.ru/video/3390640818816
https://ok.ru/video/3390640687744
And here’s a Russian soldier giving more details on the foreign mercenaries
https://mobile.twitter.com/_TheRepublic_/status/1513289253609955335
The most interesting bit of info though, is that we have the first confirmation of foreign mercenaries captured amongst the surrendered in Mariupol. ‘Famous’ British mercenary Cossackgundi, real name Aiden Aslin, who fought for the YPG for years in Syria, had his phone call intercepted where he cried about the likelihood of being ‘used for propaganda’ once he’s captured.
Phone call: https://twitter.com/MapsUkraine/status/1513754839121018887
His relatives running his social media account broke the bad news to his tens of thousands of followers:
https://twitter.com/cossackgundi/status/1513768135375077379
We’ve gotten word from Johnny. “It’s been 48 days, we tried our best to defend Mariupol but we have no choice but to surrender to Russian forces. We have no food and no ammunition. It’s been a pleasure everyone, I hope this war ends soon.””
At the same time, a video featuring an Afghani mercenary has also appeared: https://twitter.com/MapsUkraine/status/1513841197302919174
“With the following information: “#MARIUPOL #NEW 37 Afghan special forces from the Afghanistan Ghani government are embedded with Azov and stuck in Azovstal. After American withdrawal from Afghanistan they were send to Ukraine by the Americans as PMC.
reports that the Afghani special forces have requested a safe corridor with the DPR units in Mariupol City, however the Azov militants are withholding the Afghanis from leaving.”
By the way here’s what Wargonzo himself reports on the big breakthrough/escape that the Ukr marines attempted:
“On a breakthrough from Mariupol. There are many rumors and discrepancies. Here’s what the @wargonzo project knows, I’m breaking it down into numbers and numbers.
At the time of the breakthrough, there were about 1,500 neo-Nazis (Azov militants and AFU fighters) at the Ilyich plant.
Of these, about 800 were going to go for a breakthrough in the first column, the rest had to go out along the corridor cut by them.
The column consisted of about 120 pieces of equipment, including automobiles. At the head was a tank, 2 Gvozdika self-propelled guns and up to 10 infantry fighting vehicles, as well as MTLBs, armored cars and trucks.
More than 100 Ukrainian marines surrendered. Including the political officer of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
More than half of those who were going to break through retreated back to the plant. Several dozen were destroyed by artillery strikes of the NM DPR. Up to 10 groups of 3-4 people were scattered and tried to seep through the environment. The search and elimination operation continues.
Hence the data on the second smaller breakthrough. We are talking about these wandering groups, which the special forces and fighters at posts enter into battle with if they are detected. Hence, a more thorough check of the car on the Volnovakha-Mariupol highway.
So no panic.”
He also reports about 2 retired American “officers” trapped there. Could this be the general everyone is talking about?
“⚡️”Azov” can eliminate 2 US officers in Mariupol⚡️
According to the @wargonzo project from sources on the Donbas frontline, based on an analysis of radio intercepts of enemy communications, there are at least two high-ranking retired American officers in the air raid shelters at Azov-Stal.
According to our sources, they entered Mariupol together with PMC “Academy” and most likely are not active employees of the Pentagon. However, at the same time they are extremely important persons for Washington.
“These officers are aware of many covert US operations in third countries and are the bearer of information that is extremely sensitive to Washington,” a source familiar with the analysis of radio intercepts told the @wargonzo project.
It is also noted that in order to conceal this “sensitive information”, the American intelligence services are ready to order the Azov militants to eliminate these two officers. Whether they are alive at the moment is not yet known for sure.”
With all this news, the end really seems in sight for Mariupol. Troops continue advancing, having fully captured the port and now in the Primorski district in southwest Mariupol. Pretty much all that is left is the Azovstal factory, the Illych factory north of it in the Kalmiuski district, and this last stretch of city in the SW by the port. It’s likely they will wait until the capture of this final piece before focusing fully on the two factory positions and deciding on how to deal with it or whether it should be smoked out in some way.
Meanwhile Basurin has denied the usage of chem weapons but has stated the DPR forces are instead using ‘flamethrowers’ to burn out the trapped Azovs. Although it appears he’s referring to the RPO-Shmel thermobaric launcher, and not the classic flamethrower most people imagine.
Also this information is unconfirmed but this is the rumor going around:
“The Nazi drowning operation is said to begin today in Mariupol..
At least ten fire engines to be either on the road or already at the factory to start pumping water from the river or sea and pumping water to above-ground ventilation shafts that carry fresh air to the cavernous network of tunnels below the Azovstal metallurgical complex..
If Azov close the ventilation shafts, they will drown within a few days. If they do not close the ventilation shafts, they will drown in a few days. In any case, the siege of the factory will be terminated in such a way that the factory itself can remain intact..”
In other news Russian MOD has announced the destruction of the S-300 system supplied by Slovakia
https://www.rt.com/russia/553662-s300-missiles-ukraine-slovakia/
There are some conflicting reports because they said it was destroyed south of Dnipro, but there are videos of a new S-300 system also destroyed around Kiev that claim a Russian special forces unit destroyed it on the ground: https://www.bitchute.com/video/N0mxvnYVX15z/
Could be part of the same system, or something else, hard to tell for now.
Russian MOD has also announced another use of the Kinzhal hypersonic missile to destroy a very fortified underground command center of the AFU south of Kramatorsk. There have been many debates here whether a hypersonic missile can be used as a bunker buster, but clearly Russia is using it as such successfully.
Kadyrov has also stated that all Ukraine including Kiev will be taken. https://news.yahoo.com/chechen-chief-kadyrov-says-russian-003543233.html
Whether one wants to regard that as simple braggadocio or truth, we must understand that not only is that a distinct possibility but is also likely. Too many people have now been propagandized by the west to believe Russia somehow “failed” and is incapable of taking the western part of the country, but that is not even close to reality. Russia is not capable of taking it all at the same time from 5 different fronts. There’s a huge difference and distinction there. But once Donbass and everything east of the Dnieper is cleared, Russia can and likely will take the rest with concentrated forces. There will likely then be only 2 fronts, one coming up from the south that will cut off Odessa and take Nikolayev and one that returns from the north into Kiev. But we’ll save that for another time as either way that’s far off in the future.
In logistical news, Poland has reportedly begun its shipment of (supposedly) 100 T-72 tanks and Bmp-1s to Ukraine. While Australia ships Bushmasters https://youtu.be/hFmMVL5NTNg
In other interesting news which shows that Turkey’s “closing of the Bosphorous” straits was not what it seemed, and was in fact a more than subtle blow against NATO, Turkish defense minister has confirmed that Turkey is strictly prohibiting any NATO ships from passing the straits as well.
“Turkey will not let NATO warships into the Black Sea,” said Minister of Defense of this country Hulusi Akar. At the same time, he referred to the Montreux Convention and said that the passage would be closed to warships of countries that do not have access to the Black Sea, A Haber TV channel reports.
Akar also admitted that the presence of mines in the sea could be deliberate: they could have been fired as part of a plan to pressure Ankara to let NATO minesweepers into the Black Sea, which is contrary to the Montreux Convention.
“We have a suspicion that the mines were deliberately introduced. Perhaps they were fired as part of some plan to put pressure on us in order to let NATO minesweepers [through the straits] into the Black Sea. But we are committed to the rules of the Montreux [Convention] and do not Let warships enter the Black Sea,” the minister said.
https://www.rt.com/news/553636-turkey-bars-nato-warships-from-black-sea/
So much for NATO solidarity.
Also, the first formal appeal for the following: “In the State Duma of Russia, Crimean deputy Mikhail Sheremet today proposed to unite the Republic of Crimea with the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions into the Tauride province within the Russian Federation. “Residents of the regions do not seem to mind – they raise Russian flags everywhere and complain about the attitude of the Ukrainian authorities.”
American Secretary of Defense Lloyd addresses Ukrainian troops: https://twitter.com/SecDef/status/1513205552700174340
This comes on the heels of new revelations of how deeply embedded U.S. and NATO command structures (and troops) are in Ukraine. A French journalist here describes what he saw in his time in Ukraine: https://www.bitchute.com/video/aVZeyycQgXBk/ (video with translations)
In short, he says he was shocked to see American generals running the entire show on the ground, and he says the names of them will be revealed in his new exposé in the French Figaro newspaper this week.
This is further proof that this conflict is truly NATO vs. Russia, and NATO is losing badly.
Another report states: “the United States is moving its advanced headquarters units to the western borders of Ukraine. In particular, the 5th Corps is being relocated. This suggests that it is not the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that controls military operations, but NATO officers. And we are at war not with some puppet regime in Kiev, but with the collective West.”
Of course as things progress towards a potential showdown, we continue to hear how badly unprepared NATO really is: https://twitter.com/Navsteva/status/1513149802527313929
But a new 8 mile convoy of Russian reinforcements is heading towards the northern front: https://twitter.com/Dr_ShahidPk/status/1513115975847223296
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1513084749081985026/photo/1
And other videos pour in of the long lines of Russian reinforcements in preparation for Phase 2
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qGXWoFHX6PPF/
By the way, we were told to believe that these same Russian troops were “out of ammo, fuel, food” etc. Only further proof of the utter laughable propaganda from the west and Ukraine.
And to speak a little more on Phase 2, as continuation of the last report. Here is some further corroboration of things I’ve been saying:
“⚡️⚡️⚡️#Inside
Mi-6 warned the Office of the President and the General Staff that Russia is changing the tactics of warfare, now there will be no deep breakthroughs into the interior of Ukraine, but a methodical sweep of squares with phased campaigns. The new commander of the Russian troops will use the experience of the war in Syria, transforming it under Ukraine, in order to achieve success in specific military operations.”
There is a video that is a must-watch as companion piece to the last SitRep where we discussed the Fort Benning internal U.S. Army report about the superiorities that Russian BTGs have over American equivalent BCTs.
This video is a must watch from about the 27 minute mark to the end https://youtu.be/_CMby_WPjk4?t=1578
This army specialist gives a talk to West Point, detailing his discoveries and insights into Russian operations in Ukraine. He basically confirms every single point of the Fort Benning report but in greater detail and with explanatory visual aids, etc.
Some of the highlights of his presentation:
- Russia has the most advanced and dense, data-linked air defense on earthenware
- In a war against Russia, U.S. army cannot expect much air assistance for at least the first several weeks. Even stealth aircraft will not be of much use for various reasons he explains
- Russian EW (electronic warfare) is much more advanced and more ‘combat-ized’ than in the U.S. RF utilizes it in combat squads whereas U.S. barely has any and only at the divisional level
- Russian EW shuts down all communications in huge areas along the front, no cellphones, military radios etc. They break GPS links with drones, making them useless and can even fry the fuses on artillery shells midflight.
- U.S. army produces 10x the frequency emissions of a Ukrainian brigade, which would make it extremely visible to all sorts of Russian EW, drones, advanced weapons
- Russia has far more artillery than U.S. and far greater variety of munition types
And there’s much more.
And here’s another corroboration of what I wrote previously, about how artillery is the only real effective force Ukraine has left, and is how Ukraine has created the vast majority of its kills against Russian forces. Pretty much all the western supplied weapons have been proven near worthless and the legacy soviet artillery systems continue to be the workhorses creating results. https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/artillerija_glavnaja_opora_vsu_zachem_na_ukraine_gotovjat_tysjachi_minometnykh_raschetov_dlja_letnikh_bojov_2022/60-1-0-11858
As for NATO and the U.S., many people don’t seem to know that the U.S. is really not as trained or powerful as they’d like you to believe. I’ve previously highlighted how in the past month alone the U.S. has almost suffered more aircraft losses than Russia, and U.S. is not even in a war. Multiple F-22, F-35, F-18s, Awacs, and Ospreys all lost in the last month. Another good example is, the U.S. has held tank competitions in Europe for the past decade called the Strong Europe Tank Challenge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Europe_Tank_Challenge
You can check the results yourself. The highest that the U.S. team ever scored was 3rd place. Other years they were 6th and 7th place, damn-near last place – bottom of the barrel.
Meanwhile, in Russia’s own Tank Biathlon hosted as part of its International Army Games (over 30 countries), here are Russia’s results for the last few years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_biathlon
Gold in every single year.
And as many of you have probably seen several years ago India, operating the Russian Su-30’s, badly humiliated and dominated the British RAF piloting NATO’s most advanced ‘Typhoon’ jets.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indian-air-forces-top-guns-score-wins-in-the-uk-1204336
You can see many articles on this https://www.rediff.com/news/report/defence-news-iaf-sukhoi-vs-raf-typhoon-controversy-in-the-skies/20150811.htm
The most shocking part about the humiliation is the fact that there were different rounds, first 1v1, then 2v2, and then 2v1 of each variety. Not only did India win with a 12-0 perfect score, but even when 1 Indian Su-30mki faced off against 2 simultaneous Eurofighter Typhoons, it beat them both 2 on 1.
But the western public is so propagandized they can’t even imagine that their equipment might be inferior, or worse – that their actual personnel may be inferior to those of other ‘lesser’ countries.
What most people don’t know, and wouldn’t know unless they followed the Ukraine events intimately since the 2014 days, is that when U.S. instructors first started pouring in, in the subsequent years, they were often viewed as laughing stocks by the Ukrainian veterans of the Donbass war. They felt they had nothing to learn from the “elite” U.S. instructors and in fact knew more about combat/warfare than they did.
The fact of the matter is, many Ukrainian troops are much more experienced and trained than even U.S. equivalent troops, AND the Ukrainian troops are better armed. This fact is corroborated by the video posted above in the West Point presentation, where he explains that most U.S. units don’t even have anti-aircraft systems and even Manpads in the modern U.S. army are in fact not widespread. There are videos like this one: https://www.bitchute.com/video/UUidj4zPmDAV/
Which show a Georgian legion in Ukraine, and they are FAR better armed than any U.S. equivalent army combat unit. They have every of the latest weapons, bristling with firepower. There are other photos showing 4 soldiers, each one of them armed with a manpad of a different type. The fact is, Ukraine is so flush with advanced ‘western’ weaponry that many of their teams are simply armed better than any standard western counterpart.
So this goes back to the concept that Russia is truly fighting not only a NATO equivalent force here, but arguably a force stronger than most NATO countries. The only thing Ukraine is missing is the U.S. airforce, which is at the end of the day by far the most powerful and important weapon the U.S. has. In every other category U.S. stands no chance against Russia.
I’ll leave with this map of the Donbass cauldron that can give a good idea of the force dispositions there. The circled red is where the Kinzhal was said to have struck a command bunker by the MOD. If you consider each one of those blue crosses as a company of about 300 men, it would roughly give a disposition of 40-50k in the cauldron. If you believe the higher figures as Basurin himself has stated over 90-100k for the cauldron, then count each blue stroke as a battalion.
The white lines represent breakthroughs, like the one south of Niu York (north of Donetsk city) and near Svitlodark towards Bakhmut by LPR forces. At the NW end where you see Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, Russian forces are pushing in towards Krestyshche. But for the most part not much progress is expected until Phase 2 begins in full. With all the things happening in Mariupol now, that finally seems to be closing in.
Nightvision, I have not read a sitrep as informative, interesting, broad, entertaining (if that is the right word) and revealing. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this superlative blog!
The subject which continues to intrigue me is the US general. I was of the view that he should be triald and terminated as he has the blood of many innocent civilians on his hands.
Your comment…
“It is also noted that in order to conceal this “sensitive information”, the American intelligence services are ready to order the Azov militants to eliminate these two officers. Whether they are alive at the moment is not yet known for sure.”
… gave me some alternative consideration (I’m a lover of humanity, not a politically savvy person per se). War can be extremely cruel if there are those among you that are supposed to fight on your side but can easily turn their guns on you, given instructions from high command.
Such is the life of a mercenary.
Indeed. Some may remember Vietnam…and perhaps the Doonsbury cartoon from Desert Storm…”no kidding, you really shot your officers? And the reply, “Lieutenants, mostly”. It’s not limited to mercs. Men shoot cowards, cowards shoot men. Surrender is very dangerous, so is fighting.
Russia is carrying out the “Great Ukraine Rest” with the aim of building back better!
Pepe Escobar’s Twitter account has been censored by Twitter.
No truth or integrity will be permitted.
Only the Big Lie, all the time.
The irony is that apparently his account was terminated over a post where he favored/encouraged the flooding of Azovstal to destroy the Azov rats hiding in it. Apparently twitter determined this was “encouraging harm to others”
Russia is apparently going to go ahead with the plan to divert Mariupol’s sewage system into the Azov Battalion stronghold in order to force the hard cases out.
Adding in some pig and chick farm slurry to the brew would give it a certain “spice”.
Just trying to be helpful.
The Russians need to employ the eye for an eye policy. Why is it us good people are not spared in this relm. When faced with evil they don’t hasitate to eliminate us. The evil doers get spared in this relm. They get two life lines, we get one and that in itself is a major advantage for evil doers morale. We ought to show them hell on this earth, and God will show them hell in the next. I know why Russia isn’t going to that level but oh dear, doesn’t that make betraying Russia a possibility. ZONE A won’t hasitate to assassinate anyone significant in Zone B. Zone B doesn’t actively try assassinate anyone high ranking in Zone A. For me, this gives alot of reasons to seize the dollar bag and betray Zone B because the liklihood of Zone B coming to assassinate you is incredibly low. Russia its time to use the silencer with the cover of the night..if not, expect to be betrayed because life to some is more precious than God and loyalty and honour.
“By the way, we were told to believe that these same Russian troops were “out of ammo, fuel, food” etc. Only further proof of the utter laughable propaganda from the west and Ukraine.”
Okay, yes, but it’s no laughing matter for the United States. False propagandists and liars don’t really understand – from what we see – the dynamics of lying like more honest people do. If it wants to, Russia has available to it from just reading the press, enormous amounts of information on “human resources”, much more decisive than weapon resources (right?), which may both affect their “national security” considerations and also embolden them to go as far as they can with their “solutions.” The weaknesses you perceive in an adversary can be tempting like “military power.” They asked Zelensky if he thought Putin knew about the Bucha attack (as Zelensky describes it). I write from memory; the 60 Minutes interview is on youtube: Zelensky answered that he thinks Putin is “one of those who knew” (paraphrase). You know, not necessarily the first one who knew, might have been second in learning of it, maybe third, maybe last – just one of those who knew. You see my point. They think it’s fair too. Since Putin and his people are in the position to know exactly what their own role was or is, they can have a depth of understanding related to a false accuser that we can only maybe barely approximate, most barely. The two sides are alone practically, so the lie and any false PR gives away so much information about human resources! You don’t give away information like that, but the false accuser lays himself bare for all. To do that in a war is crazy. “Don’t lie!” we learn (not in the 10 Commandments). Only honest PR is most powerful. I don’t know if military PR classes teach that as a principle; they obviously don’t in Ukraine.
What’s going on at Popasna? Looks like a battle has been going on there. [But I could be wrong.] It’s a major rail facility, so that would make sense. Take it over or destroy it.
The plane with an unknown cargo
Ukrainian An-124 took off from the Iraqi city of Erbil, then landed at the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, and then landed in Cyprus.
According to unverified reports, the plane can carry foreign mercenaries or Israeli weapons for the forces of the Kiev regime.
@anna_news
Isn’t Erbil where Iran did a missile strike against a Mossad base a few weeks ago?
⚡️RF Defense Ministry: “If strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation continue, the RF Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centers, including in Kyiv.”
@voenkorKotenok
Twitter just banned Pepe Escobar, as I’m sure everyone here already knows. This comes on the heels of Twitter banning several other pro-Russian accounts. None of these accounts were peddling propaganda or hype. They were just reporting the war situation from the legitimate perspective of Russia. That’s in addition to calling attention to recent Nazi battlefield reversals.
So, the question is, why did Twitter wait six weeks before banning these accounts? Why the sudden rush to silence pro-Russian accounts? Why now?
I don’t know, but it certainly makes me think that US/NATO/UKR media power-brokers are aware of something which they believe must be downplayed immediately.
Maybe it’s the fall of Mariupol, and the capture of large numbers of Nazis by Russia. Or maybe there’s something else going on right now that bodes badly for the Nazi effort.
Of course, if I was a Russian military tactician, I’d have Kadyrov state that they were going to make a move on Kiev in order to cause yet more diversionary confusion on NATO.
Nightvision,
Can you find out if this is true or BS? I
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Russians With Attitude
Ukrainian sources, including official ones, are claiming that they’ve hit the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser “Moskva”, with R-360 “Neptune” missiles. No proof so far.
Russia says ammunition blast badly damages major ship in Black Sea fleet – Interfax
Reuters
April 14 (Reuters) – The flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, the Moskva missile cruiser, was badly damaged when ammunition on board blew up, Interfax news agency quoted the defense ministry as saying on Thursday.
Interfax said the crew had been evacuated. It blamed the blast on a fire and said the cause was being investigated.
A Ukrainian official earlier said the Moskva had been hit by two missiles but did not give any evidence. The 12,500 tonne ship has a crew of around 500.
“As the result of a fire on the Moskva missile cruiser, ammunition detonated. The ship was seriously damaged,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. “The crew was completely evacuated.”
Interfax did not give more details. Maksym Marchenko, governor of the region around the Black Sea port of Odesa, earlier said in an online post that two anti-ship missiles had hit the cruiser, but did not provide evidence.
Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring
‼️🇬🇧Russian Defense Ministry : As a result of a fire on the Moskva missile cruiser, ammunition detonated, the ship was seriously damaged. The crew was completely evacuated , the causes of the fire are being established.
The Department of Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense sent out a press release to the media, all state media published – the information is 100% confirmed.
From the Editor: Very sad, but life goes on, there is no time to lose heart, we move forward until victory🇬🇧.
t.me/rvvoenkor
Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring
forwarded from
Notes of midshipman Ptichkin
Midshipman has repeatedly drawn attention to the issues of fire safety of Navy ships.
This is especially true of the Project 1164 cruisers: Moskva, Varyag and Marshal Ustinov.
Of the three ships, only Marshal Ustinov was modernized.
A relatively modern fire alarm system “Krab-M” developed and manufactured by the KRIZO plant was installed there. An even more efficient system was proposed by NPO PAS.
The modernization of “Moscow” was abandoned at the time due to lack of funds. They only did repairs.
And now CHERRY:
Those who need it know about the effectiveness of fire detection and extinguishing systems on Project 1164 ships.
The need to put a modern fire alarm on the ship was justified in the 1st Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense and the Northern Design Bureau, the issue was considered with the involvement of the State Duma.
“Ustinov” received such a system, but “Moscow” did not.
The buzz is that the UAF distracted ship defenses with a drone and hit it with one or two Neptune anti-ship missiles hitting port side and ammo stored on deck. Ship now on bottom.
Yes, I read it sunk but I don’t understand how its air defenses didn’t protect it. These ships are equipped with the equivalents of the S-400 and Pantsir. How can a drone defeat that and allow the Neptunes to strike?
Regardless, big black eye for Russian Navy.
Not defeated, but distracted was my understanding, which might make sense if the presence/existence of the shore battery was unknown. This kind of trick should only work once, but this is a serious hit.
Some interesting comments from elsewhere:
It was just yesterday that the Hal Turner Radio Show reported to the world that NATO personnel were in Odessa with equipment that could provide precise coordinates on every ship in the Black Sea within 200km, and that the NATO targeting gear could be used to guide missiles to those ships. One day later, Russia’s Black Sea flagship has now, apparently, been hit.
According to local reports – which HAVE NOT been verified – the Moskva was in the process of changing position to go after a drone which had achieved “radar lock” upon it. That change of position seems to have placed the Moskva in the worst position imaginable as far as becoming vulnerable to a coastal launched missile strike.
Was the drone “radar lock” a NATO Drone? Was the Radar lock a way to get the ship to change position to make it ripe for missile attack?
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Moskva armed with upgraded advanced radars, advanced electronic warfare jammers, 96 S-300F long range missiles (250km), 40 OSA-8 SAM missiles (15km), and 6 AK-930 CIWS (5km) failed to detect and shoot down 2 KH-35U Neptune missiles launched by Ukrainian Army.
Ship was 50km off coast of Odessa oblast. Now is at the bottom of the Black Sea
I don’t know what’s more embarrassing. This or negligent sailors smoking in a wrong area.
Nothing official yet and you can’t trust anything put out by the western media or the Ukraine.
What we know is that the Moskva was damaged. The Russians report a fire followed by explosions. The Moskva was apparently never upgraded to the latest internal fire control systems.
If a missile hit the Moskva there is an explosion followed by a fire, this is the reverse to the Russian report. We would also expect to hear ‘crew evacuated’, not ‘entire crew evacuated’. If the Moskva hit a semi-submerged mine the report would be the same – explosion and fire, and some dead crew.
So far there are no reports that the ship has sunk other than those in western news that i can find, and the initial photos were faked. Let’s wait and see what happens before speculating.
I the media there are all sorts of reports about the flagship “Moskva” – a fire, Ukrainians hit it with “Neptun” or “Harpoon’, the ship got on one of of the mines there, Shoigu got a heart attack and 20 high rank officers are arrested (that from Israel) etc. Ths is all media and social networks reoprts and speculations.
The only official announcement from the Russian MOD is: There was a fire, the ammunition detonated, all staff was evacuated. There is a strange and disturbing silence after that announcement, both from Russian MOD( just listned to Igor Konashenko) and Ukrainian MOD.
Just got some info from Sevastopol: The ship is on the water, fire is contained and the ship will be towed to a port, I guess Sevastopol.
wargonzoo: “More than 100 Ukrainian marines surrendered. Including the political officer of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
The Kyiv Independent published yesterday messages from both the 36th brigade and the “Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment” (Svyatoslav Palamar).
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https://kyivindependent.com/uncategorized/defenders-of-besieged-mariupol-plead-for-help-criticize-commandment/
Any update on the Moskva?
See our discussion above. According to Southfront it sunk.
I have predicted for a long time that the Pentagon Leadership would refuse orders to start a War with Russia. This Sitrep makes it abundantly clear why that would happen, because they know they would lose and they would carry out the bedrock Nuclear War Policy, “A Nuclear War can not be won and therefore can never be fought”. This is what happened 50 years ago when Vietnam Veterans led the Anti-War Movement in America. It’s just like the Labor Movement, if the Workers go on Strike, everything stops.
Thanks for the update and the link to the Dr. Phillip Karber presentation. Very informative not having a military background myself. Sounded like he was in the Ukraine on the front lines studying how the Russian military fights and with what weapons and technologies. I made the mistake of reading the comments though. Seems a lot of trolls trying to insult and denigrate Karber’s presentation without counter points and argumentation. It seemed to me that lots of people in the US/West don’t want to hear that the Russians are even capable of making enough ammo. What is going to happen to the psyche of the US/West narrative managers as Caitlin Johnstone calls them when they finally realize what happened to the cauldron. (Although from what I can tell, the narrative managers don’t even realize the Ukrainians are surrounded.)
“Although from what I can tell, the narrative managers don’t even realize the Ukrainians are surrounded”
It is amazing. I don’t know how long it would take to “understand”, but it’s hard work. I think this amazing reality sort of cancels at least most, if not all, conspiracy theories, and it supports those of us who say the situation is better than that (or not as bad). It’s more supernatural, I said it. The “narrative managers”, or just the narrators, are convinced of what they say, and this is obvious, isn’t it?
The environment where they work makes it clear these narrations are liked and rewarded (“good job, you did great again!”), and obviously someone like Nightvision cannot present this other information. This environment is embodied in the “producers” behind the scenes. I don’t know if they are quiet and just provide the anchors with materials, supervising like a newspaper editor, with more concern about professional issues than anything else, or if they are like ogres. From just looking at the narrators as they speak, it’s not necessary to be ogre-like.
❗️Azov terrorist snipers hunt civilians
The sniper groups of terrorists of the Azov group, who have settled in the Mariupol plant Azovstal, continue to ruthlessly and methodically shoot the civilian population of Mariupol. And this is not a one-time event. Every day, militant snipers shoot everything they can reach with a shot. This civilian man, who was walking with his cart, was the target of a Ukrainian thug in the shooting range.
“Akim Apachev”
This info is from Intel Slava Z – telegram.
Can this even be taken for real?
How can the DNR militia and Russian army and Chechen forces all be closing in on Azovstal, and you have Azovites taking their time getting their aims right on civilians. Are they not all hunkered down in Azovstal basements?
Sniper teams work either alone or in teams of two. Some may have blended into the urban population and been missed in the sweep or small teams may have slipped through the cordon. They will be used to tie up larger Russian/DNR/Chechen forces needed to hunt them and reduce the forces available to attack Azovstal, regardless of their effect, the outcome is not in doubt.
How ?
Shoot and Scoot
Readovka reports Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed Moskva Cruiser is floating and can be towed into port for repairs
https://m.readovka.news/news/93825