Sitrep Operation Z0V: Back to Hot Steel Rain

By Saker Staff for the Saker Blog

The Ukraine conflict is in fact already a world war, given that the West is fighting Russia via its proxies in Kiev, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told local media on Wednesday.

Serbian President Vucic: “I know what awaits us. As soon as Vladimir Putin has done his work in Seversk, Bakhmut and Soledar, after reaching the second line Slaviansk-Kramatorsk-Avdeevka, he will come up with a proposal. And if they [the West] don’t accept it, – and they won’t – all hell will break loose.”

On the Hot Front

The situation in the Soledar direction as of 12.00 on July 14, 2022
🔻On the Seversk front:
Units of the Allied forces are fighting on the outskirts of Verkhnekamenskoye with the aim of reaching the eastern outskirts of Seversk.
Clashes continue in the vicinity of Ivano-Dariivka, taking the settlement and the station is important for reaching Seversk from the south, as well as cutting the road to Soledar.
🔻On the Soledar front:
Soldiers of the 6th Cossack regiment of the LPR took the settlements of Novaya Kamenka and Stryapovka, reaching the eastern outskirts of Soledar.
Units of the Allied Forces are fighting in Yakovlevka.
The units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are entrenched in the eastern part of Berestovoye on the Soledar — Lisichansk highway.
🔻On the Bakhmut front:
Russian forces are fighting near the village of Pokrovskoye. Together with the nearby Bakhmutsky, they are the last settlements controlled by the AFU on the approaches to Bakhmut from the east.

We have a naming problem from time to time. With translations, the names of the villages and areas frequently get mistranslated. (Eg. Kharkov in Russian, is Kharkiv in Ukrainian, and Ilium in Russian translates to ‘Raisins’ in English machine translations).

So, for those struggling to follow, let’s repeat two simple maps for orientation:

Overview

Oblasts

Yes, the front line is on fire. As we’ve seen before, there is a lot of quiet time, positional battles, rest and relaxation for soldiers and then hell breaks loose.

On the broader front (please note the correct channel for the Russian Mod in English – https://t.me/mod_russia_en and in Russian https://t.me/mod_russia)

⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine. The enemy suffers significant losses.

💥High-precision strikes near Bereznegovatoye, Nikolaev Region, Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk, Donetsk People’s Republic, hit temporary deployment points of units of 35th Marine Brigade, 54th Mechanized Brigade, 81st Airmobile Brigade and 109th Territorial Defence Brigade. As a result of strikes, the total losses of these formations amounted up to 1,000 personnel and more than 100 pieces of military equipment.

💥High-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit temporary deployment point of 14th Mechanized Brigade battalion manned by nationalists and foreign mercenaries near Chasov Yar, Donetsk People’s Republic. The attacks have resulted in the destruction of 43 militants and about 170 injured.

🚁💥Russian army aviation hit temporary deployment point of 97th Battalion of 60th Mechanized Brigade of AFU near Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye Region, with high-precision missiles. The attacks have resulted in the destruction of 30 militants and about 37 injured.

▫️Conflicts and clashes with the use of weapons have increased among nationalist fighters. On July 13, more than 200 fighters of the 226th Kraken nationalist formation refused to follow the command’s order to move to the Kramatorsk area and claimed a “transfer” to the Kharkov city’ territorial defence. During the ensuing fight with the commanders and the ensuing gunfight, 6 militants were killed.

▫️Russian Armed Forces continue strikes against military facilities in Ukraine.

💥High-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed multiple rocket launcher vehicles of 45th Artillery Brigade of AFU hidden in hangars at the high voltage equipment plant in Zaporozhye city.

💥In addition, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed 4 command posts, including those of 61st Infantry Jaeger Brigade of AFU near Bereznegovatoye in Nikolaev Region and 80th Airborne Assault Brigade near Kramatorsk, 3 ammunition depots near Soledar, Tat’yanovka in Donetsk People’s Republic and Nikolaev, 1 fuel storage facility for military equipment near Kharkov, and 21 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration.

💥As part of the counter-battery fighting, 1 battery of multiple rocket launchers near Slavyansk, 1 platoon of MLRS near Nikolaevka in Donetsk People’s Republic, and 1 artillery platoon of US-made M-777 howitzers at firing positions in Pervomaiskyi in Kharkov Region were destroyed.

💥Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery hit 19 command posts, 78 areas of artillery units in firing positions and 232 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.

✈️💥Russian Aerospace Forces fighters have shot down 2 aircraft of Ukrainian air force in the air: 1 Su-24 near Slavyansk and 1 MiG-29 near Troitskoye, Donetsk People’s Republic.

💥Russian air defence means destroyed 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Balakleya, Izyum, Lozovaya, Shchurovka in Kharkov Region, Snegirevka, Novaya Kakhovka in Kherson Region, Belogorovka, Karmazinovka, Slavyanoserbsk, Mikhailovka in Lugansk People’s Republic and Derilovo in Donetsk People’s Republic.

💥In addition, 2 Tochka-U ballistic missiles and 6 rockets of Uragan multiple-launch rocket system were intercepted near Novaya Kakhovka in Nikolaev Region.

📊In total, 249 Ukrainian airplanes and 137 helicopters, 1,534 unmanned aerial vehicles, 354 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,050 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 744 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,145 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,292 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.

The Nikolaev Ukrop base now looks like this:

Yet, another shelling of Donetsk Center has just happened. Here is the video: https://t.me/russianhead/5253?single

Military summary at the end of day yesterday starts with, The Worst Nightmare for the Ukrainians has Started.

We remain with questions:

What is Mr Putin going to do in Iran next week in his talks with Raisi and Erdogan?

and, can we take Vucic seriously?

Are we reaching an end phase of this part of the SMO?

Ukrainian propaganda is in full voice and that includes western propaganda. Keep ‘yer eyes peeled. Take in Larry Johnson’s latest: “The speed of Russia’s advance appears to be accelerating. There are reports today that Russian forces are entering the outskirts of Seversk, one of the key strong points of the new Ukrainian defensive line. If true, the Russians are likely to achieve a strategic breakthrough in the Donetsk. What the gullible reporters and the morons who staff the CIA and DIA fail to comprehend is that Russia’s tactic of systematically destroying the air, armor and artillery assets over the past three months appears to have achieved Clausewitz’s culminating point–i.e., the point at which a military force is no longer able to perform its operations.” https://sonar21.com/western-media-and-military-analysts-still-dazed-and-confused/

Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 1:53 pm EST/EDT

Among other means, Russia will deploy Spetsnaz to hunt for HIMARS MLRS.

It is going to be an interesting Search & Destroy phase of the war that will deserve a chapter in future war chronicles.

According to intel info, HIMARS are being manned by US “advisors,” which makes the target even more palatable.

Target: HIMARS.

https://m.vz.ru/society/2022/7/14/1167567.html

Russian special forces are required to destroy HIMARS systems

Ukraine carries out terrorist attacks on settlements occupied by Russian troops. The main striking means for this purpose are the recently delivered American HIMARS missile launchers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. What are the features of this type of weapon, how is it most dangerous – and how can the Russian army destroy it?

In recent weeks, there have been many reports of the use of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Strikes are being carried out both on the objects of the DPR and LPR, and on the objects of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine. These systems, which were delivered from the United States to Ukraine in June, according to various sources, were used to bombard the island of Zmeiny, as well as objects in Melitopol, Svatovo, Izyum, Perevalsk, Stakhanov, Novaya Kakhovka, Donetsk and Snizhne. The Pentagon says :” We are watching how the Ukrainians use HIMARS, and we see that they have significant success in using them.”

The use of MLRS HIMARS is confirmed, among other things, by LDNR officials. In particular, the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime reported that the Ukrainian military used HIMARS MLRS during the shelling of Perevalsk. This is evidenced by fragments of a 240-mm GMLRS M30 guided missile with a cluster warhead found at the site of the attack. In addition, the same systems shelled Luhansk as recently as July 13.

MLRS HIMARS belong to the category of high-precision weapons and are quite capable of delivering such strikes. HIMARS fires GPS-guided missiles, providing a circular probable deflection of less than 7 meters (i.e., one of the two missiles hits a circle of 7 meters). If the target size is doubled, the probability of being hit is 93%.

It is worth considering the power of the ammunition used. It was reported that the M30A1, M31 and M31A1 missiles were delivered to Ukraine. The first of them, the M30A1, has a warhead filled with more than 160 thousand tungsten balls. It explodes over the target, and the tungsten shrapnel explodes at a speed of 3,600 km / h, causing heavy losses of manpower and lightly armored vehicles. The M31 and M31A1 missiles carry a 90-kilogram high-explosive fragmentation charge. They shoot at buildings and vehicles like this.

No less important should be considered reports about who and how in Ukraine provides intelligence and targeting for MLRS HIMARS. According to the hacker group RaHDlt, American intelligence supplies the Armed Forces of Ukraine with satellite images of Russian objects, including cities of the Russian Federation. Also, the American “partners”supply the APU with data from their agent, radio and radio intelligence. There is a high probability of actions of the AFU MTR groups to reconnoiter targets in the Russian rear and aim weapons at the target.

HIMARS missiles have an inertial guidance system, and they are capable of reaching any target at coordinates that the US satellite constellation can give out, which, in fact, happens. HIMARS are equipped with a special communication unit for transmitting this data. There is a possibility to believe that American specialists who can carry out their transfer are also present on the territory of Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry also says about the secret work of American instructors in Ukraine.

The relative success of Ukraine’s use of these systems at the moment is due to a number of reasons, including, for example, the very method of striking – in the professional military environment, it was called “sandwich”. Its meaning is that the APU strikes HIMARS MLRS systems together with Soviet-designed MLRS systems with a minimum launch time interval. Air defense systems are sometimes technically unable to intercept all missiles.

This is reported, in particular, by a source of RIA Novosti: “Such strikes involve several types of weapons coordinated by the time they enter the air defense zone. For example, the “Uragan”, “Smerch”, and “Alder” systems can be used immediately, as well as the corrected HIMARS missiles. Tochka tactical missiles and even Tu-141/Tu-143 drones can be added to this set as additional false targets, ” the source explained. Basically, according to him, these are strikes on civilian objects:

“Massing means creates the possibility of a breakthrough to the target of individual missiles. This is pure terrorism.”

But do not assume that Russian air defense systems are powerless over HIMARS MLRS. The same source says that ” HIMARS projectiles… they are shot down by Russian anti-aircraft missile systems in large numbers, as they have a predictable trajectory, low flight speed in the final section and are not equipped with means to overcome air defense.”

The Russian army has already shown that it can deal with such targets. For example, on July 6, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant GeneralIgor Konashenkov reported: “In the area of the villageof Malotaranovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, high-precision air-launched missiles destroyed two US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket launchers and two ammunition depots for them.” A few days later, the Defense Ministry assured that ” high-precision missiles… storage facilities with ammunition for the HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems supplied by the United States to Ukraine were destroyed.”

However, the enemy is increasing the number of launchers. This means that the fight against them requires a comprehensive solution, a whole series of additional measures.

Among them, in particular, effective masking measures are needed. There is reason to believe that so far the Russian army does not always apply them to the proper extent. It is necessary to strengthen counteraction to electronic intelligence of the enemy, which is specifically aimed at identifying important targets in the Russian rear by tracking mobile phones and conversations on them.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the security measures of headquarters and ammunition depots. Move away from centralized storage of material and technical equipment, and create field storage points with a limited supply.

But the main thing is that the Russian army has had forces and means for decades, which at one time were created specifically to combat such threats. For example, for opening and destroying enemy operational-tactical missile systems equipped with a nuclear warhead. The only type of intelligence that could detect the firing positions of these missiles and report the coordinates with shooting accuracy for their fire destruction, in Soviet times, was the special forces of the GRU General Staff, that is, special intelligence agencies. In modern conditions, special forces groups, if equipped with special radio communication tools tied directly to the means of fire destruction, are able to quickly identify the positions of MLRS launchers, OTR and other important objects of the operational-tactical level.

All this remains relevant today. At the moment, special forces brigades are included in the front-line kit of the head of intelligence of the front (in peacetime of the military district).

Due to the enlargement of the districts, they now have two special forces brigades at their disposal. This is the same Russian special forces (SpN), which became famous in Afghanistan, the Caucasus, and other hot spots. However, for a number of organizational reasons, during the operation in Ukraine, these brigades are used in a different way. In particular, because at one time, during the next reform of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, special forces brigades were completely transferred to the subordination of district intelligence chiefs.

Before the reform, the GRU, which is now renamed the Main Directorate of the General Staff, was responsible for the organization of combat training, personnel policy, and logistics of Special Forces. It was also engaged in training personnel in military schools and training units, where special forces veterans who had passed through more than one hot spot passed on their knowledge and experience. This is not the case now. The General Manager oversees, supervises, and has an advisory voice in matters where previously this voice was decisive.

At the moment, there is no open data that special operations units are used during a special operation precisely to solve their original task – opening and destroying key enemy facilities in its deep rear.

And among these key objects, HIMARS installations can be called one of the highest priorities.

An equally important target for special forces groups is the enemy’s air defense systems, which, as daily Defense Ministry briefings show, are still functioning. On the Black Sea coast, such objects are the positions of anti-ship missile complexes. Airfields and radar stations are also an object for special forces.

Perhaps we just don’t know yet that the Special Forces units of the Russian Armed Forces are used in Ukraine in this way. However, the fact is clear: missiles launched with the help of HIMARS installations fall on the liberated territories almost every day. To combat this evil, Russian special forces are able to make a significant contribution.
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Lone Wolf

159 Comments

Englishman on July 14, 2022 · at 9:55 am EST/EDT

It will be a good day when those fascists can no longer shell Donbass.
- Reverend on July 14, 2022 · at 12:24 pm EST/EDT
  
  Quite a frightening quote.
  It really is amazing; this regime is completely committed to attacking Russia, and possibly even starting a nuclear war. This, despite the fact that 90% of the American people are completely disinterested in Eastern Europe. People who even think about Russia will end up talking about Vodka, AK47s, or Tetris 2 minutes later.
  That isn’t “democracy.” An illegitimate regime, in power thanks to alphabet agency manipulation, and a stolen election, trying to start a major war against people we don’t have anything against. This is so
  far from the Founders wanted, it’s absurd.
  - trek_team on July 14, 2022 · at 1:31 pm EST/EDT
    
    “An illegitimate regime, in power thanks to alphabet agency manipulation, and a stolen election, trying to start a major war against”
    
    ….and what is the American people doing about it? NOTHING! Well, then enjoy the illegitimate regime! I believe the Americans have come up with the saying: “Freedom is not free!” Walk the walk, don’t only talk the talk!
    
    Good luck!
    - Gary on July 14, 2022 · at 1:39 pm EST/EDT
      
      Have pity on us…our hopelessly libtard major media are in Biden’s corner and, as Saker followers noticed recently, alternative media/internet voices are suppressed.
      
      Boredom with the Burisma war is soaring, however, so there is hope.
      - WTFUD on July 14, 2022 · at 3:00 pm EST/EDT
        
        As if Marco Rubio and the Republicans are any better than the Dem scum.
        
        Your days of Red-Blue pill Tweedledee and Tweedledum 2fer1 Party tag-team are f*cking tired.
        
        Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 3:48 pm EST/EDT
        
        @ WTFUD on July 14, 2022 · at 3:00 pm EST/EDT
        
        As if Marco Rubio and the Republicans are any better than the Dem scum.
        
        Your days of Red-Blue pill Tweedledee and Tweedledum 2fer1 Party tag-team are f*cking tired.
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        That was a great tirade!!!
        
        Love it.
        
        “Tweedledee and Tweedledum,” eh?
        
        :-)
        
        Lone Wolf
        
        grr on July 14, 2022 · at 6:49 pm EST/EDT
        
        Yep, the tired and worn out flip a coin voting system misnamed as “democracy”.
        With sheep participating that can’t even understand the distinction between upper and lower houses, preferential swaps, etc.
        
        BTW I name them tweedledumb and tweedledumber.
        
        Otter on July 15, 2022 · at 4:55 am EST/EDT
        
        The most obvious evidence that the american “education” system has been successfully perverted is that people (not only americans) think that “democracy” is a Classical Greek word, meaning vaguely something about ruling people. It is not.
        
        “democracy” is an american word, meaning “every few years we get to buy a new government”.
        
        KitaySupporter on July 14, 2022 · at 7:55 pm EST/EDT
        
        US democracy is defined as people, more or less, can vote, notwithstanding the gerrymandering, the cheats (JFK cheated by Chicago and LBJ Texas vote stuffing, the vote buying, and the voter intimidations.
        
        US never discusses its democracy in terms of results, benefits of its democracy to its voters, to its government, and to its welfare. US is bankrupt, corrupt, and terribly unequal.
        
        But certain voters can vote, and to the west MNM, US is a shining example of democracy.
        
        exile on July 15, 2022 · at 7:15 am EST/EDT
        
        Ballot Box 13 is a brilliant way to introduce normies to US voting practices
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_13_scandal
      - trek_team on July 14, 2022 · at 3:21 pm EST/EDT
        
        “Every nation gets the government it deserves.”
        
        Joseph de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821)
      - eagle eye on July 14, 2022 · at 5:27 pm EST/EDT
        
        No pity. You know what needs to be done, you are the most armed up population on the planet, full of piss and vinegar about freedom and you let your government get overrun by treacherous dual citizens whose interests are so clearly not your national interest. Pity? Fuck off.
        
        Get off YOUR arse and fix YOUR problem.
        
        Sorry Mod, I understand this breaks a couple of rules, but it sooooooo badly needs to be said.
      - TRM on July 14, 2022 · at 11:21 pm EST/EDT
        
        So true. Tim Dillon was ranting about it being boring and “Wake me when the Russians nuke someone” line.
        As sad as it is that apathy is the best they can muster at least it’s something. LOL.
    - Patrick on July 14, 2022 · at 2:34 pm EST/EDT
      
      @trek_team. I am American. I, and many like me have been fighting our Elites of BOTH Parties & their Entities for over 37 years. I have been a Plant, obtaining criminal evidence to bust people in the Private Sector, followed by 2 decades in the Government, doing the same thing.
      
      I had an “accident,” because I kept fixing things and identifying things and notifying everyone. That was 13 years ago, and I am still fighting. Chronically ill, now with a failed organ and tumor growing in my head, because I will not comply with wearing useless masks and getting – let alone go under the knife unconscious at that because let’s just say, I legit reported a number of Health Care Entities for Treason & Genocide.
      
      Also, I know people, whom were in the rooms, when the Evil & complicit ones, were planning this, long before it started. Let’s call them/us true Patriots, there are many mes’. I also know this Cabal thing is Worldwide, as I was a child & young adult victim of it, who fought, survived – etc. I am not special, just one of the lucky ones whom survived and is still surviving,
      .
      We are busting corrupt/evil government (all levels every day), that includes, but is not limited to lawsuits of all kinds, infiltration, and one of my specialties, triggering them, in writing by doing certain things, so that they expose themselves in writing & other public ways…… That’s fun!
      
      This issue is Worldwide. There is a ton of stuff, organized, going on in the background, NATO is done, UN is done, etc etc etc. There are new Alliances, with Russian Federation, and what people like me are involved in, we are a piece in the pie of a number of things.
      
      So, please don’t lump all Americans into useless worthless brainwashed ones. Oh yes, there are many. I agree with you completely on that. But understand, people like me have lost everything, including our families whom are idiots to say the least. I fight for God, The Rule of Law, for The People of the World, and especially for the young and children.
      
      And, I have thanked the people of the Russian Federation many times on this sight in previous months. Russian Intel & L.E., have rcvd help in obtaining data of where biolabs, $ laundering/follow the $ stuff, and of course, all the Entities & peeps interconnected in that stuff, along with the Child & Human Trafikking.
      
      I won’t be around to see the victory. I should, on paper, not be here. I hope many of you do survive and thrive after this ends. I am not special, but I am a martyr, those are my Oaths. That is ok, I am comfortable with that.
      
      Just remember, please don’t lump all the citizens of this country or that country as one size fits all. Evil is everywhere. Why do you think The Cabal lasted for so many centuries?
      
      May God Bless & protect you & those you love going forward. NCSWIC & God Always Wins……
      
      This is going off-topic. Please take to the MFC. Thx. Mod.
    - Richard on July 15, 2022 · at 8:47 am EST/EDT
      
      The Soviet Union had Stalin, who along with his henchman Beria, inflicted all kind of pain on the people. He stayed in power till his dying day. Upon his death the knives of the elite came out for Beria. There was no mass uprising of the general population.
      
      The standard of living is declining in American and Europe. The wall of MSM propaganda is slowly crumbling (as it always does) in the face of reality. No money in your pocket, no roof over your head, and an empty belly are the great motivators for change.
      
      Like most elites and leaders of the world, they have insulated themselves from the sufferings of the people which they have caused. Yet the tipping point is approaching, though those in charge will not see it until they themselves are threatened.
      
      You are seeing it happening in Europe right now. America will take longer, as the neocons and neoliberals are deeply intrenched in the halls of power in Washington.
      - Ajax General on July 15, 2022 · at 12:03 pm EST/EDT
        
        To quote the great Steve Bannon, “Honey Badger don’t give a shit. We the Patriots are coming. We are going to savage our enemies and take our country back.” That little row in Sri Lanka will have nothing on what will be unleashed in all of America. Do not underestimate US. #patriotrising #thefourthturning
James on July 14, 2022 · at 9:57 am EST/EDT

An American MQ9 reaper has allegedly crashed in Romania.
Let’s hope the Russian forces are behind this.
The American clowns think they can do as they please. These drones are within rang of Ukraine operations, and need terminating.
With any luck Russian friends operating in Romania used a British or American anti aircraft projectile. One obtained on the battlefield, would give maximum deniability.
- gri on July 14, 2022 · at 11:56 am EST/EDT
  
  It crashed near city of Cluj, which is located on the eastern side of Carpathian Mountains, in the middle of Transilvania. It crashed while approaching the landing.
  - James on July 14, 2022 · at 1:24 pm EST/EDT
    
    it was out of campio Turvzil a US airbase. Well within flying time of operational areas.
    Drones are using that base regularly. The Black sea and Ukraine are within reach.
    Google the crash and look at the substack account of these Drones. It provides a plethora of information on this base and their flights.
    The Russian forces are not stupid, and the yanks won’t admit it if someone downed it.
    The substack information is well worth reading.
    - oubok on July 14, 2022 · at 5:43 pm EST/EDT
      
      Not to difficult to get a few Spetsnaz small teams with USA supplied manpads that have been confiscated in Donbass, to lie up on the outskirts of these bases, welcome to Plummet Airways. If I can think of this I’m sure Russian command has too, and they will recall the SADF small teams outside Menongue who were close enough to warn whenever the Migs scrambled.
- paul on July 14, 2022 · at 1:27 pm EST/EDT
  
  Any NATO aircraft, drones, or warships in the vicinity should be destroyed without warning.
tranquilocomp on July 14, 2022 · at 10:12 am EST/EDT

“Serbian President Vucic: ‘I know what awaits us. As soon as Vladimir Putin has done his work in Seversk, Bakhmut and Soledar, after reaching the second line Slaviansk-Kramatorsk-Avdeevka, he will come up with a proposal. And if they [the West] don’t accept it, – and they won’t – all hell will break loose.'”

Methinks that If there is Armageddon, it should at least be after a lot of conversations about it.
- Tommy Jensen on July 14, 2022 · at 1:00 pm EST/EDT
  
  Everybody have been chatting enough. My regrets, but there is only Armageddon left. This situation cant improve without an Armageddon. Therefore Armageddon is good.
  - Other on July 14, 2022 · at 2:31 pm EST/EDT
    
    ,@: Tommy Jensen: “Armageddon is good”. Not for the dead ones. Kindest regards!
- Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 1:05 pm EST/EDT
  
  @ tranquilocomp on July 14, 2022 · at 10:12 am EST/EDT
  
  Methinks that If there is Armageddon, it should at least be after a lot of conversations about it.
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  As long as the Saker blog keeps on running, don’t care about Armaggedon.
  
  Lone Wolf
- rert on July 14, 2022 · at 3:16 pm EST/EDT
  
  The translation is actually botched. This is what Vučić actually said: “I know what avaits us. That moment when Vladimir Putin finishes things in Seversk, Bakhmut and Soledar, after that on the second line Slaviansk – Kramatorsk – Avdeevka, his proposal will follow. If the West doesn’t accept the proposal, we are going into hell, and they won’t accept it.”
  
  https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2022&mm=07&dd=13&nav_category=11&nav_id=2184799
  
  As you can see, it similar to the top line translation but actually critically different. Vučić expects the proposal to follow only after the entire Donbas has been taken by the RF+allies, not before. He also previously said things along the line of “if there isn’t peace after this in Donbas gets finished, we will enter a global conflict”. Several months ago he has also been saying that there is greater chance of a war between global powers breaking out then the chance of it not breaking out. So this latest statement is in-character for him.
- Rafael on July 14, 2022 · at 7:52 pm EST/EDT
  
  The time for conversations about Armageddon looks to be nearly over.
Christopher Back on July 14, 2022 · at 10:26 am EST/EDT

The Russians and militais report taking Sversk last night and now are mopping up. See Tass report here: https://tass.com/world/1479721

LUGANSK, July 14. /TASS/. Forces of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) and Russian troops have entered the city of Seversk, which is under their operational control, a source close to the LPR People’s Militia told TASS on Thursday.

“The allied forces have already entered Seversk (a city in the Donetsk People’s Republic controlled by the Ukrainian army – TASS). I can say that the city is under our operational control. Mopping up operations are underway. Seversk will soon be totally liberated from Ukrainian troops,” he said.

DPR’s head, Denis Pushilin, said on Wednesday that allied forces were conducting an offensive at Ukraine’s positions in four directions.
- Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 1:34 pm EST/EDT
  
  @ Christopher Back on July 14, 2022 · at 10:26 am EST/EDT
  
  The Russians and militais report taking Sversk last night and now are mopping up. See Tass report here: https://tass.com/world/1479721
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  Your interpretation of the TASS news reading is misleading.
  
  All reports so far put the Allied forces in the outskirts of the city, give or take.
  
  See below.
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  https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7736247.html
  
  The war in Ukraine. Summary 13.07.2022
  
  1. Seversk.
  
  The fighting today shifted to the outskirts of the city after the Russian Armed Forces ousted the APU from Verkhnekamenskoye.
  
  The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR declares that the fighting is already taking place in the city limits of Seversk.
  
  Fighting in the area of Ivano-Darivka.
  
  Positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the heights near Seversk are subjected to heavy artillery and rocket attacks….
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  https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/nachalis_boi_na_okrainakh_soledara_poslednie_novosti_boevykh_dejstvij_na_ukraine_za_poslednij_chas_20_video/60-1-0-12593
  
  Fighting has begun on the outskirts of SOLEDAR! Latest news of military operations in Ukraine – in the last hour (20 videos)
  
  “…Fighting continues on the outskirts of Seversk and some areas of the city. They claim “operational control” over Seversk, but so far a number of key heights in the city area are still under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, plus the Seversk-Soledar highway has not yet been cut, although it is exposed to artillery fire. Assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces and the LDNR People’s Militia are working in Seversk (DPR).
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  What TASS says is Allied forces “have entered” the city of Seversk, not that they “have taken it.”
  
  “Operational Control” can mean different things, but mostly that it is an area in dispute, under control by fire, fighting is ongoing.
  
  “Mopping up” can be a confusing expression. How long were the Allied forces “mopping up” Mariupol, even after they were in full operational control?
  
  I have no doubt Seversk will fall, UkroWerhmacht knew that long ago, reason they withdrew “crack troops” for the “counter-offensive” they are preparing for June? July? August? Not enough weapons they say yesterday, but I digress. They replaced their “crack troops” with teroborona in the area Seversk/Slavyansk, a clear sign they are giving up those cities.
  
  War is serious business, triumphalism doesn’t belong in war, that’s for soccer matches. We have to read carefully between the lines, double check our sources, before posting info that can be misleading.
  
  Lone Wolf
Frank on July 14, 2022 · at 10:45 am EST/EDT

In Sweden MSM reports that the russians are not advancing since 72 hours…
- KRL on July 14, 2022 · at 12:52 pm EST/EDT
  
  Meanwhile….:
  “Russian forces destroy platoon of US M777 howitzers in Ukraine operation — top brass
  A battery of multiple launch rocket systems near Slavyansk and a platoon of multiple rocket launchers in the area of Nikolayevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic were also destroyed in counter-battery fire………..”
  https://tass.com/politics/1479973
- KRL on July 14, 2022 · at 12:58 pm EST/EDT
  
  “More than 1,000 artillery rounds for US-made M777 howitzers were destroyed in Slavyansk with high-precision ground-launched weapons, three hangars with these howitzers, which were used to shell residential areas of Donetsk, were destroyed in the area of Konstantinovka and Chasov Yar. In the Odessa Region, several Harpoon coastal missile systems, which were delivered from the UK, were destroyed. In the area of the village of Malotaranovka in the DPR, high-precision air-launched missiles disabled two HIMARS MLRS units and two depots of ammunition for them,” the official said.
  https://tass.com/politics/1480117
- Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 1:02 pm EST/EDT
  
  @ Frank on July 14, 2022 · at 10:45 am EST/EDT
  
  In Sweden MSM reports that the russians are not advancing since 72 hours…
  ——————————————————————————————————-
  
  Really?
  
  Oh my gosh…what a disaster…
  
  Did they run out of gas for the tanks?
  
  Armored cars broke down?
  
  HIMARS MLRS too powerful?
  
  AFU fortifications impregnable?
  
  Russian soldiers running back to Moscow?
  
  Wonder why they would be stuck…for 72 hours…that means they are losing, right?
  
  Is this the turn of the tide?
  
  Has the UkroWerhmacht counter-offensive started?
  
  I am really worried now…
  
  Lone Wolf
observer on July 14, 2022 · at 10:52 am EST/EDT

Western method: see how strong I am. I’m going to destroy, crush, bla, bla. My God, they’re not afraid!

Russian method: We don’t want to destroy it, but if you prefer it that way then there it goes, bombs, bombs, war lessons, economic humiliation.

Conclusion, the Russians are discreet. Hell has already begun for the West. They haven’t understood yet.
- tom welsh on July 14, 2022 · at 11:18 am EST/EDT
  
  I am always impressed by General Gerasimov’s expression. It seems to say, “If you force us to, we will kill you all. But I shan’t enjoy it”.
arkx Brasil on July 14, 2022 · at 11:25 am EST/EDT

-> “What is Mr Putin going to do in Iran next week in his talks with Raisi and Erdogan?”

Brazil and Iran: Nuclear Energy

One of the main, yet little known reasons for the Coup d’Etat in 2016 was Brazil’s rapprochement with Iran in the nuclear area.

In 2015, 77-year-old Brazilian Navy admiral and nuclear physicist Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva was arrested and sentenced to 43 years in prison as part of the Lava Jato operation.

Operation Lava Jato was conceived and commanded by Washington as a lawfare weapon to return Brazil to a neo-colonial status.

Othon was one of the main people responsible for the Brazilian ultra-centrifuge technology for uranium enrichment, a cheaper and higher yielding process than traditional methods.

Besides being vital for the development of Brazil’s nuclear submarine, whose main objective would be the protection of offshore oil fields, the U.S. also feared that the ultra-centrifuge technology would be shared with Iran.
- observer on July 14, 2022 · at 12:56 pm EST/EDT
  
  The presidents of Brazil (Lula da Silva) and Turkey (Erdogan) brokered a nuclear agreement with Iran at Obama’s request, and, of course, the three countries were betrayed by the empire of lies.
  - arkx Brasil on July 15, 2022 · at 6:42 am EST/EDT
    
    Those who believe a contumacious liar deserve to be deceived.
  - arkx Brasil on July 15, 2022 · at 6:48 am EST/EDT
    
    If we already know it’s an Empire of Lies, why would we trust it? That’s a lot of willingness to be fooled…
Robert Shule on July 14, 2022 · at 11:37 am EST/EDT

It is apparent the Russians like to use pincer movements in devouring prey.
One can see what is going to go down as soon as one sees a pincer starting to develop.
One can note this also when studying Russian movements in WWII.
Funny thing is if this is so obvious, why then do Russian adversaries so often move forces into the made cauldrons, instead of pulling forces out?
- A.Deplorable on July 14, 2022 · at 2:56 pm EST/EDT
  
  @Robert Schule: “why then do Russian adversaries [in this case Ukraine] so often move forces into the made cauldrons, instead of pulling forces out?”
  
  Baffled blogger Alex Mercouris asks the same question, and concludes that the Kiev regime is deliberately wasting Ukrainian lives in order to stretch out the suffering and destruction as long as possible. The Kiev regime does not represent the people of Ukraine; it was installed by a U$ coup (the Biden / Nuland “cookie coup” of 2014). The EU$A (aka Empire of Chaos) is notorious for bringing long periods of suffering then leaving devastation behind: remember Vietnam, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Yemen — and now 8 years in Ukraine.
  - Alabama on July 14, 2022 · at 3:45 pm EST/EDT
    
    Or they just believe their own lies until their eyes tell them differently, but by then its way to late to change course or tell the others that they are being lied to, which sends in a whole a new army of recruits to find out the same thing.
    
    Rinse and repeat for a few generations and some wont make that mistake twice.
  - Bogdan on July 14, 2022 · at 7:03 pm EST/EDT
    
    I think the answer to this is the fact that they battle mainly in areas with a lot of Russian population that they want to die and the infrastructure to be destroyed. Then overall they want Ukraine to remain with as little population as possible not to add to much to Russia’s population if all Ukraine is taken.
    
    But you are right the Ukraine regime does not represent the people they represent their masters / elites that are against “people” like all other Western World regime/governments.
  - Anarchist on July 15, 2022 · at 1:46 am EST/EDT
    
    It plays quite nicely to the main objective: destroy all armed forces of ex-ukraine.
    Negotiation would be the worst possible option for Russians – nazis get to live, and procreate.
    Russians just need to neutralize every man and woman who carry weapon,
    and annex the whole god damn thing, and be done with it, forever.
    Good thing nazis (nato) are in charge, which means, war continues to the last one.
    Just rain Death.
- Tony Kaku on July 14, 2022 · at 8:13 pm EST/EDT
  
  Look at zelensky’s face. He’s like a small attack dog: all teeth and bark. Reminds me of a dog in my neighbourhood years ago: savagely attacking by running out of his garage, halfway across the yard, and YELP! he was stopped by his chain. All four legs off the ground. Now facing backward, toward the garage, he would continue his vicious attack, arse to the enemy.
  
  Why is Z sending Ukrainians straight into trouble? Look at his face!
  - Patricia A. Ormsby on July 15, 2022 · at 4:14 am EST/EDT
    
    He’s starting to remind the Japanese of Hitler. Really, the guy’s countenance has changed. Completely stiff.
Christian J. Chuba on July 14, 2022 · at 11:39 am EST/EDT

Good map of the Oblasts. Will Russia be content to keep Luhansk / Donets oblasts from Ukraine, or will they add one or more of the following … Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia (whew, quite a mouthful), Kherson.

I would say that Odesa and Mykolaiv on the southern coast are outliers but I have no idea about Russia’s endgame. I feel bad for the ethnic Russians in Odesa, they will face retribution if Ukraine keeps it but Putin will probably want to let Ukraine keep at least one sea port. Putin is actually quite generous.
- Tony Kaku on July 14, 2022 · at 8:27 pm EST/EDT
  
  Odessa cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of the English. Those perfidious aliens have been messing with Odessa since the 1850s, at least.
  https://duckduckgo.com/?q=british+military+odessa&t=hs&va=l&ia=web
karlof1 on July 14, 2022 · at 12:03 pm EST/EDT

Russia’s MFA website, both English and Russian, is unreachable due to likely DDOS attack for first time since beginning of SMO, depriving us of the information it provides. Kremlin site remains accessible.

On Vucic’s prognostication, there’s a chance he’s correct, although I doubt it greatly as all of Donetsk Republic has yet to be liberated.

My new definition for the demilitarization of Ukraine: hollowing out all NATO weapon and ammo storehouses since Ukraine is de facto NATO; so, to properly demilitarize Ukraine, most of NATO must also be demilitarized. This will be a relatively easy task within Europe, leaving the Outlaw US Empire’s stores depleted but not exhausted. The same might be said of denazification since a significant proportion of the EU is Nazified/Fascist. IMO, it’s entirely possible Putin says something along the above lines as Russia’s Security Council has made it clear that the greater aim of the SMO is now to eliminate Outlaw US Empire hegemony in order to reestablish the authority of the UN System that was never given an opportunity to grow roots.
- Jugoslavija on July 14, 2022 · at 2:22 pm EST/EDT
  
  I would tend to agree with you, until Donetsk is fully liberated, there will be no discussions about peace. It won’t be much longer, Phase II is the take over of Southern Ukraine and the final phase will be back to Kiev. That is if Ukraine does not come to the peace table and tangible results on the ground. Unfortunately the US may ignite the war further with its’ proxies , Poland, Romania and the Baltic especially as the US Mid Term elections near.
karlof1 on July 14, 2022 · at 12:09 pm EST/EDT

I should add that the MFA’s VK site is doing fine and has lots of info posted there, https://vk.com/mid
- Merlin 2 on July 14, 2022 · at 5:23 pm EST/EDT
  
  Not reachable now. Message says my account is blocked though I never went there. Is that a common message?
Mr P on July 14, 2022 · at 12:10 pm EST/EDT

Bigbig meeting at Kremlin Friday. I doubt that’s a coincidence.

A. Vucic is probably telegraphing the gaff. Drama often uses repetition, foreshadowing, and so on…and we remember Chekhov’s gun on the wall.

It may be that west has bgbigfalseflagplan and Rus is anticipating this, thereby fubaring west plan and accelerating west collapse. Could west be about to fiddle with Serbia? Geewhiz…

West always doubles, as that’s the best strategy for a loser.

Rus never bluffs, and generally politely offers deal in advance…which west is incapable of accepting until after collapse. Also incapable after collapse…maybe they’ll find a janitor to sign surrender.
- Tommy Jensen on July 14, 2022 · at 1:30 pm EST/EDT
  
  A loser is always hoping something will show up.
  
  You never know if an earthquake would divide Russia into 4 pieces and via a Tsunami bringing them on silver plates to Washington/London and Wall Street. You cannot know it beforehand.
- AHH on July 14, 2022 · at 2:17 pm EST/EDT
  
  It is interesting that the July 15 Russian meeting takes place during the window where North Stream 1 (NS1) is shut for maintenance. Many suspect it will not reopen. The meeting also takes place four days prior to VVP’s trip to Iran. In preparation for this Iranian trip, Al Tanf was bombed for first time I think by Russians, and Israelis were threatened. Turkey’s firmly ensconced in Nutcrackers after Russia conditionally renewed at the UN the West’s sole legal Syria border crossing. If this is closed, it would result in new migrant wave (but of highly toxic merc extremist proxies) without possible resupply. Not a good thing if you want peace in Anatolia.. Yes, stakes are being raised all around.
  - Exile on July 14, 2022 · at 2:29 pm EST/EDT
    
    For last 3 weeks, German Grenzpolizei are checking all people entering from Austria and Bohemia via trains. In sorta violation of Schengen. They defeninately are telling everyone – there ain’t gonna‘ be a another refugee wave like 2015.
    - Brother Ma on July 15, 2022 · at 12:29 am EST/EDT
      
      A bit late now that millions of Ukros have already flooded Germany ,Austria,Poland ? Those countries are going to love living with these traditional enemies, especially Poland. Hahahah. All for EU/Nato solidarity .
      
      As stupid as imagining millions of Turks seeking refuge in Greece ,Serbia and Bulgaria and expecting things to go fine in a EU /Nato fairyland.
  - Mr P on July 14, 2022 · at 2:37 pm EST/EDT
    
    Text “The Jerusalem US Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration ” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/14/the-jerusalem-u-s-israel-strategic-partnership-joint-declaration/
    
    Some of the language seems to me to be ominous.
    
    Timing…
- Anton Gorbatow on July 14, 2022 · at 4:52 pm EST/EDT
  
  Vucic did not decide to make this statement on his own. Somebody told him to say it. If it was USA/the West, I can’t ascertain the motive. If it was Russia, it means that Serbia and Russia are moving closer together and that Russia is giving USA/the West a final warning.
Stein on July 14, 2022 · at 12:19 pm EST/EDT

Remember that the Syrian war was also a world war considering the number of countries involved especially on the US/NATO side. Astronomical resources were in fact then pumped into the attempt to topple Syria as a society/nation – and failed. This is the 2nd attempt by the west at ‘keeping its privilege’ (this was the justification offered by Britain’s Foreign Secretary for seeking war with Germany in a conversation with the US ambassador in 1912)
Liz on July 14, 2022 · at 12:21 pm EST/EDT

In the video he toggles between liveuamap and the “Russian sources” map. I’m familiar with liveuamap, a pro-western source, but what is the pro-Russian interactive map he is using?
JJ on July 14, 2022 · at 12:22 pm EST/EDT

Moscow must suffer “a strategic failure” during its military campaign in Ukraine, US President Joe Biden has said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “assault on Ukraine is a challenge to the peace and stability everywhere in the world,” Biden told reporters during his trip to Jerusalem on Thursday.

Biden has also promised to continue supporting Kiev. “The free world must sustain a resolve to help Ukraine defend its democracy,” he said.

Ahead of the meeting, news website Axios, citing US officials, reported that Biden would ask Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid to increase military aid to Ukraine.
- Mr P on July 14, 2022 · at 1:08 pm EST/EDT
  
  One might speculate that the increased military aid might not be some diabolical machine made at Dimona… How else strategic failure? They always double.
  - Alabama on July 14, 2022 · at 3:48 pm EST/EDT
    
    They always double until they come up MIA.
- Tommy Jensen on July 14, 2022 · at 6:41 pm EST/EDT
  
  They are still hanging on to the Afghan fantasy where they made Sovjet collapse by giving Mujahedin Stingers according to their own Hollywood movie with Stallone……………………LOL.
  But this time its different.
  What a chock when the truth some day hit them. Stone-faces with what the Chinese call “a thousand mile stare”.
JJ on July 14, 2022 · at 12:29 pm EST/EDT

So Ukr still has been sending up jet fighters….one wonders how many remain… how many have been repaired by spares arriving as proposed from outside some time ago…and remain to be fixed up from these. .
- JJ on July 16, 2022 · at 8:51 am EST/EDT
  
  even today rusvesna reports ukr planes still being available
  
  Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in an air battle destroyed three aircraft of the Ukrainian air forces: two MiG-29s in the areas of the settlements of Novopavlovka in the Nikolaev region, Vladimirovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region and one Su-25 in the Seversk region. Two Ukrainian helicopters were also shot down in the air: Mi-8 near Velyka Novoselka and Mi-24 near Seversk of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
  Источник: https://rusvesna.su/news/1657968394
IronForge on July 14, 2022 · at 12:43 pm EST/EDT

The Daily Weather Forecasts of Heavy Metal Downpours.

I’m not at the Theater; but from what I’m reading, it looks like AFU are just going to continue getting ground up.

The Allies just took over Mariupol and Lughansk, where the Bulk of the AFU/Bandera-Nazi were dug in. That leaves the rest of Donesk (where Residents are Hostage to the AFU) which should get Liberated.

Hypersonic/Supersonic/Cruise/Theater_Ballistc Missile Barrages, Gunship Raids, and Barrel/Missile Artillery continue striking a continually diminishing AFU. Military/Logistics Infrastructure over the ENTIRE UKR are being hammered Daily; and Gear/Ammo/Facilities/CommandPosts/TroopHeadcounts get torched at rates far exceeding replenishments.

AFU/BanderaNazi are just being sent in as Fodder in hopes that Sanctions can be maximized, then extended to CHN and IRN.

Zelenskyy will probably flee to POL and run his Regime+Insurgency Ops from there until RUS and remaining PKOps leave the Rump Kiev-Lvov.

The Rump may get absorbed by POL or collapse by itself; but NATO/EU will shovel their Pyrrhic Victory Speeches for Years.

The H8 Hegemony (Greater_ISR+Diaspora and VassalG7) will succeed in cutting off RUS from Europe. That’s their only “Victory”. The H8 hoped to collapse+conquer RUS then CHN; but SCO+SilkRoad+RECEP+BRICS are breaking free from H8’s Grips – with RUS+CHN doing so Permanently.

The H8 Failed to Rule the World. Now the H8 will return to prioritize propping up “Greater_ISR” as long as possible.
war is on on July 14, 2022 · at 1:20 pm EST/EDT

Tomorrow the parliament of the Russian Federation will hold a special session likely about the war in Ukraine. I have seen no hint of what it might decide to do but it will probably enable Russia’s president to use more forces in Ukraine than he currently does. source MOA B
Brandon on July 14, 2022 · at 1:26 pm EST/EDT

Well, in New York State they have been broadcasting a 5 minute instructional video explaining what to do in case of a nuclear attack. Out of blue it showed up on the local TV channels 2 weeks ago and has been broadcasting ever since. Go figure!
- Joe on July 14, 2022 · at 1:50 pm EST/EDT
  
  Prep for a false flag? – an excuse to get the US in a direct war with Russia…..
- A.Deplorable on July 14, 2022 · at 3:11 pm EST/EDT
  
  @Brandon.
  
  I remember in the sixties the instruction, “How to Protect Yourself against an Atomic Bomb” was “Crouch under your desk”. Seemed to me insufficient, somehow.
  
  So today I was relieved to hear that they have lengthened it to 5 minutes and added: “Change your clothes when you get home”.
- Mary on July 14, 2022 · at 5:41 pm EST/EDT
  
  Useful instructions:
  
  1. Get inside.
  2. Change your close.
  3. Tune in to newz cuz our internet will withstand a direct strike.
  
  They forgot to mention head between legs & kiss your ass goodby
- Tommy Jensen on July 14, 2022 · at 6:52 pm EST/EDT
  
  Its coming to NYC. Planned down in detail and its for world peace. So you guys can keep cool.
  https://youtu.be/sdTpMmePhZI the new york destruction scene
Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 1:53 pm EST/EDT

Among other means, Russia will deploy Spetsnaz to hunt for HIMARS MLRS.

It is going to be an interesting Search & Destroy phase of the war that will deserve a chapter in future war chronicles.

According to intel info, HIMARS are being manned by US “advisors,” which makes the target even more palatable.

Target: HIMARS.

https://m.vz.ru/society/2022/7/14/1167567.html

Russian special forces are required to destroy HIMARS systems

Ukraine carries out terrorist attacks on settlements occupied by Russian troops. The main striking means for this purpose are the recently delivered American HIMARS missile launchers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. What are the features of this type of weapon, how is it most dangerous – and how can the Russian army destroy it?

In recent weeks, there have been many reports of the use of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Strikes are being carried out both on the objects of the DPR and LPR, and on the objects of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine. These systems, which were delivered from the United States to Ukraine in June, according to various sources, were used to bombard the island of Zmeiny, as well as objects in Melitopol, Svatovo, Izyum, Perevalsk, Stakhanov, Novaya Kakhovka, Donetsk and Snizhne. The Pentagon says :” We are watching how the Ukrainians use HIMARS, and we see that they have significant success in using them.”

The use of MLRS HIMARS is confirmed, among other things, by LDNR officials. In particular, the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime reported that the Ukrainian military used HIMARS MLRS during the shelling of Perevalsk. This is evidenced by fragments of a 240-mm GMLRS M30 guided missile with a cluster warhead found at the site of the attack. In addition, the same systems shelled Luhansk as recently as July 13.

MLRS HIMARS belong to the category of high-precision weapons and are quite capable of delivering such strikes. HIMARS fires GPS-guided missiles, providing a circular probable deflection of less than 7 meters (i.e., one of the two missiles hits a circle of 7 meters). If the target size is doubled, the probability of being hit is 93%.

It is worth considering the power of the ammunition used. It was reported that the M30A1, M31 and M31A1 missiles were delivered to Ukraine. The first of them, the M30A1, has a warhead filled with more than 160 thousand tungsten balls. It explodes over the target, and the tungsten shrapnel explodes at a speed of 3,600 km / h, causing heavy losses of manpower and lightly armored vehicles. The M31 and M31A1 missiles carry a 90-kilogram high-explosive fragmentation charge. They shoot at buildings and vehicles like this.

No less important should be considered reports about who and how in Ukraine provides intelligence and targeting for MLRS HIMARS. According to the hacker group RaHDlt, American intelligence supplies the Armed Forces of Ukraine with satellite images of Russian objects, including cities of the Russian Federation. Also, the American “partners”supply the APU with data from their agent, radio and radio intelligence. There is a high probability of actions of the AFU MTR groups to reconnoiter targets in the Russian rear and aim weapons at the target.

HIMARS missiles have an inertial guidance system, and they are capable of reaching any target at coordinates that the US satellite constellation can give out, which, in fact, happens. HIMARS are equipped with a special communication unit for transmitting this data. There is a possibility to believe that American specialists who can carry out their transfer are also present on the territory of Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry also says about the secret work of American instructors in Ukraine.

The relative success of Ukraine’s use of these systems at the moment is due to a number of reasons, including, for example, the very method of striking – in the professional military environment, it was called “sandwich”. Its meaning is that the APU strikes HIMARS MLRS systems together with Soviet-designed MLRS systems with a minimum launch time interval. Air defense systems are sometimes technically unable to intercept all missiles.

This is reported, in particular, by a source of RIA Novosti: “Such strikes involve several types of weapons coordinated by the time they enter the air defense zone. For example, the “Uragan”, “Smerch”, and “Alder” systems can be used immediately, as well as the corrected HIMARS missiles. Tochka tactical missiles and even Tu-141/Tu-143 drones can be added to this set as additional false targets, ” the source explained. Basically, according to him, these are strikes on civilian objects:

“Massing means creates the possibility of a breakthrough to the target of individual missiles. This is pure terrorism.”

But do not assume that Russian air defense systems are powerless over HIMARS MLRS. The same source says that ” HIMARS projectiles… they are shot down by Russian anti-aircraft missile systems in large numbers, as they have a predictable trajectory, low flight speed in the final section and are not equipped with means to overcome air defense.”

The Russian army has already shown that it can deal with such targets. For example, on July 6, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant GeneralIgor Konashenkov reported: “In the area of the villageof Malotaranovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, high-precision air-launched missiles destroyed two US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket launchers and two ammunition depots for them.” A few days later, the Defense Ministry assured that ” high-precision missiles… storage facilities with ammunition for the HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems supplied by the United States to Ukraine were destroyed.”

However, the enemy is increasing the number of launchers. This means that the fight against them requires a comprehensive solution, a whole series of additional measures.

Among them, in particular, effective masking measures are needed. There is reason to believe that so far the Russian army does not always apply them to the proper extent. It is necessary to strengthen counteraction to electronic intelligence of the enemy, which is specifically aimed at identifying important targets in the Russian rear by tracking mobile phones and conversations on them.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the security measures of headquarters and ammunition depots. Move away from centralized storage of material and technical equipment, and create field storage points with a limited supply.

But the main thing is that the Russian army has had forces and means for decades, which at one time were created specifically to combat such threats. For example, for opening and destroying enemy operational-tactical missile systems equipped with a nuclear warhead. The only type of intelligence that could detect the firing positions of these missiles and report the coordinates with shooting accuracy for their fire destruction, in Soviet times, was the special forces of the GRU General Staff, that is, special intelligence agencies. In modern conditions, special forces groups, if equipped with special radio communication tools tied directly to the means of fire destruction, are able to quickly identify the positions of MLRS launchers, OTR and other important objects of the operational-tactical level.

All this remains relevant today. At the moment, special forces brigades are included in the front-line kit of the head of intelligence of the front (in peacetime of the military district).

Due to the enlargement of the districts, they now have two special forces brigades at their disposal. This is the same Russian special forces (SpN), which became famous in Afghanistan, the Caucasus, and other hot spots. However, for a number of organizational reasons, during the operation in Ukraine, these brigades are used in a different way. In particular, because at one time, during the next reform of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, special forces brigades were completely transferred to the subordination of district intelligence chiefs.

Before the reform, the GRU, which is now renamed the Main Directorate of the General Staff, was responsible for the organization of combat training, personnel policy, and logistics of Special Forces. It was also engaged in training personnel in military schools and training units, where special forces veterans who had passed through more than one hot spot passed on their knowledge and experience. This is not the case now. The General Manager oversees, supervises, and has an advisory voice in matters where previously this voice was decisive.

At the moment, there is no open data that special operations units are used during a special operation precisely to solve their original task – opening and destroying key enemy facilities in its deep rear.

And among these key objects, HIMARS installations can be called one of the highest priorities.

An equally important target for special forces groups is the enemy’s air defense systems, which, as daily Defense Ministry briefings show, are still functioning. On the Black Sea coast, such objects are the positions of anti-ship missile complexes. Airfields and radar stations are also an object for special forces.

Perhaps we just don’t know yet that the Special Forces units of the Russian Armed Forces are used in Ukraine in this way. However, the fact is clear: missiles launched with the help of HIMARS installations fall on the liberated territories almost every day. To combat this evil, Russian special forces are able to make a significant contribution.
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Lone Wolf
- sigmund on July 14, 2022 · at 3:01 pm EST/EDT
  
  Can Russia do more to stop deliveries of these weapons.? They are flown in to some airport and then delivered to front . Russia has total air superiority . Need to do more .
  - Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 4:08 pm EST/EDT
    
    @ sigmund on July 14, 2022 · at 3:01 pm EST/EDT
    
    Can Russia do more to stop deliveries of these weapons.? They are flown in to some airport and then delivered to front . Russia has total air superiority . Need to do more .
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    I wholeheartedly agree.
    
    However, we are not on the field, don’t know the conditions they are facing, can’t judge from afar.
    
    They are getting closer to Avdiivka, the center of all evil affecting Donetsk. They took Kamenka yesterday, and the battle for Avdiivka will be bloody, they have been fortifying it into a fortress for the last eight years.
    
    Let’s hope for the best…
    
    Lone Wolf
    - Englishman on July 14, 2022 · at 4:44 pm EST/EDT
      
      Indeed i believe that is the center of the evil shelling,lets hope it won’t be another Mariupol fighting from room to room,as for the US weapons would it not have been possible to destroy most of the airports and railways?
  - jojo on July 15, 2022 · at 3:17 pm EST/EDT
    
    Russia does not have total air superiority. On Telegram Russians say that their planes don’t fly over western and central Ukraine due to Ukrainian anti-defense.
- the punisher on July 14, 2022 · at 5:34 pm EST/EDT
  
  Spot on.
Band Itkoitko on July 14, 2022 · at 2:10 pm EST/EDT

Up to now the majority of fighting is done by the national guards of RF. The army’s participation is minimal on the front line. There’s also a limit on the territorial control that RF can have with that size of force and the length of the front line that can be efficiently addressed. Up to now, Ukrainian forces have made it very convenient for RF by piling their forces conveniently close to the east and even transporting additional forces there. Russia has been depleting them heavily and has not been concentrated on vast territorial gains (working on demilitarization and denazification essentially, not on conquering, the conquering/liberating is a result of the demilitarization).

It’s possible that after Seversk, RF would take a break and ask the “partners”, before working on the Slaviansk line, if they really want this to go on or they had enough. Once the major build-up in Slaviansk is engaged and taken down, there’s no coming back. From there on, it’s more open and the Ukrainian forces will collapse completely. It’s possible that RF will use that to escalate, possibly declaring war and involving the army. This will be a catastrophe for Ukraine and a disaster for the West.

The West is however way too entangled in this and they might decide to “save” their comprehensive loss there by engaging further and this would lead to the end of their history. Now, they may decide to “save” that catastrophe by going nuclear, but I don’t think we will have that happening. There are way too many opportunities for this to stop before getting there. But the risk exists.
- Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 3:45 pm EST/EDT
  
  Band Itkoitko on July 14, 2022 · at 2:10 pm EST/EDT
  
  It’s possible that after Seversk, RF would take a break and ask the “partners”, before working on the Slaviansk line, if they really want this to go on or they had enough.
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  I beg to differ, sir.
  
  I don’t think there will be any stop before Donetsk is freed from the yoke of the nazi scum. Stopping means losing the initiative and allowing the criminal nazis to rest, restock, recuperate, and reposition.
  
  President Putin ordered an obligatory R&R for all forces that participated in the Lisichansk/Severodonetsk offensive, there was a rotation, and that was that.
  
  The marching orders are to liberate Donetsk, waiting anxiously to get rid of the nazi filth.
  
  Lone Wolf
  - Band Itkoitko on July 14, 2022 · at 5:27 pm EST/EDT
    
    I should have put “break” in quotes. Otherwise, you are right. RF can make an offer to the West that they cannot reject. In all regards, if there will be negotiations and an offer, the pressure and battle will continue to reinforce the necessity of accepting the offer and to preview the alternative.
    
    Also, while it’s possible that RF will extend such an offer, the West will not accept it (I’m very sure about that), because anything else apart from destroying Russia to the ground is a defeat for them. They defined their victory way too narrowly for them to be able to work with it or to remain standing in the end. That’s where my concerns come from as far insane escalation is concerned. The West fails to accept the lack of escalation control on their side and when the party lacking that control tries to escalate, they get punished heavily. Then, in turn, by them failing to accept that defeat can lead to very bad thins
  - maskazer on July 15, 2022 · at 2:51 am EST/EDT
    
    Look forward to see the allied forces would completely liberate all of the southern regions including Odessa and even Transnisteria. Those NATO-backed Nazi thugs will always be able to make trouble for as long as they can access the Black Sea, where the western evil doers count on as a point of penetration into the region.
maskazer on July 14, 2022 · at 2:53 pm EST/EDT

What is Mr Putin going to do in Iran next week in his talks with Raisi and Erdogan?
They will have a lot to talk about, however, due to the development of the North-South corridor, Turkie could join in and hugely benefit as a working partner in the BRI and the Eurasian Integration system. I think this could be one of the topics of their discussion.
Josef Schweik on July 14, 2022 · at 3:52 pm EST/EDT

As for propaganda. There is the second exhibiton of destroyed russian tanks, armoured vehicle, truck and so on from fights around Kiev which is being hosted by Prague. No well laminated dead russian soldiers are not part of it. I was not visiter of this exhibition, but the local workes of pen dont write about such the sophisticated piece of the exhibit with orgasm achieved through seeing it. Seems to me Elensky and Arrestovich have still some PR reserves. The first such an educative exhibition was organised by Dr. J. Goebbels, in 1942, and it was Das Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren to first reveceive such a weird cultural event. Even Berlin had to wait and it was only the second city after Prague. In First Protektorat people were obliged to visit. Nowadys in new Protektorat under Brussels some people go there in their own and really are happy and horny how orks are killed and are incompetent undermensch losers on vodka. Sad, it is mainly the youngish generation there that is not even able to recognize Vatniks from Hohols. However these he and she guys got the education at progressive liberal madrasas with a help of money fro Erasmus, USAID, Soros, Nowegian funds etc. I think Russia was not good, nor is, in promoting Russian world throug soft power.
Igor on July 14, 2022 · at 3:55 pm EST/EDT

“… We remain with questions:
What is Mr Putin going to do in Iran next week in his talks with Raisi and Erdogan?
and, can we take Vučić seriously? …”

And another outstanding question is: What will be decided in tomorrow’s extraordinary session of Russian Parliament?

There have been many speculations, some more dramatic than other.

However, at least according to the Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, a declaration of war is off the table. From today’s Комсомольская правда:

“…
14 July 2022, 07:10

Volodin revealed his cards: War will definitely not be declared at the emergency meeting of the State Duma
The reasons for holding the emergency meeting of Russian State Duma on 15 July 2022 were revealed by Speaker Volodin

by Oleg Adamovich

All week the parliament held a dramatic pause, when the State Duma was urgently pulled out of the summer holidays for an extraordinary meeting. The upcoming session became known already on Sunday, 10th of July, while a more-or-less clear commentary appeared only on Thursday.

And here are deputies’ plans and reasons for an emergency meeting of the State Duma of Russia for this Friday, 15 July 2022.

NEW LAWS

The agenda of the bills is more or less known. Over the last couple of weeks, more than 60 documents have been submitted to parliament, but 16 will be considered on Friday.

Volodin revealed the reasons for the State Duma meeting, which is scheduled for 15 July 2022. The Parliament does not plan to deal with the budget, issues of “war and peace”, “the status of the state border”, international treaties…

That is, all those forecasts of political scientists that have been showered since the beginning of the week have not come true. And how many versions there were: “we will now declare war on Ukraine”, “we will annex the DPR and the PRC”, “we will turn off gas to Europe” … Everything turned out to be more prosaic and simpler.

The State Duma confirmed that on Friday they will consider a bill on assigning the status of combat veterans to border guards caught in a special operation. They will receive benefits to pay for communal services and travel.

Apparently, first of all, the parliament will deal with the bills passed from the government. The agenda has not been fully named, but the deputies will probably consider:

– Amendments to the Criminal Code that will allow convicts with particularly serious articles to be transferred from prison to forced labour earlier. That is, they will be behind bars less — this, as stated in the explanatory note, will help their socialization.

– Simplified registration of pensions through the use of new technologies.

Interestingly, the Federation Council will not meet separately to review these documents. It turns out that article 105 of the constitution says that if senators do not consider the laws passed from the Duma within two weeks, then the documents are accepted automatically.

NEW DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

Vladimir Putin also wants to make the Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov the 11th Deputy Prime Minister. The president signed such a decree on Tuesday. But first the candidacy must be accepted by the State Duma.

Thanks to the amendments to the constitution — they gave the lower house of Parliament the right to coordinate the Prime Minister and all non-powerful members of the Cabinet. And, apparently, the deputies are going to take full advantage of their new right.

Manturov will have to go to State Duma for three days in a row (!) to convince the people’s deputies of his readiness for promotion. He needs to meet separately with all five factions of the Duma, and on Friday he will address everyone at the meeting, answer questions from committees and political parties.

Hand on heart, it is unlikely that the parliament will refuse Manturov. Denis Valentinovich has been heading the ministry for more than ten years, he started when Putin was still prime minister. There are few such “long-livers” in the Cabinet of Ministers. But you still have to sweat. Especially, we will have to explain why we now need so much import substitution? Where was this industry before?
…”

https://www.kp.ru/daily/27418/4617666/?ysclid=l5lcnguhwf461018319
Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 6:09 pm EST/EDT

Seversk, yet another meat grinder.

It’s not going to be as difficult as Slavyansk/Kramatorsk, given the lowland location of the town, the high points, however, proved to be difficult.

Most of Seversk is in the bag, which means the Seversk/Soledar/Artemovsk line is beginning to crumble. Artemovsk (Bakhmut) is under heavy shelling, we’ll see how long the Ukronazis can hold for.

Next week will be decisive for Donetsk.

Slavyansk/Kramatorsk/Artemovsk/Avdiivka are on the line.
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https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/vsu_ubezhali_iz_severska_polovina_goroda_zanjata_sojuznymi_silami_poslednie_novosti_s_ukrainy_vecher_18_video/60-1-0-12598

APU escaped from Seversk – half of the city is occupied by Allied forces. Latest news from Ukraine-evening (18 videos)

Allied forces continue to break into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the Seversk – Artemovsk line. In the DPR, they say that our troops already control most of Seversk. There are no videos or photos yet.Seversk itself is not very suitable for defense, as it is located in a lowland.

The 6th regiment of the LPR People’s Militia took Stryapovka – fighting is underway on the north-eastern outskirts of Soledar. штур Yakovlevka is being stormed. Local reports say that Trebatovtsy were standing under the Cooking area, and they almost did not return fire, as they do not know how to shoot normally.

It is assumed that the AFU fighters will try to hold this line of defense for some time, but the lack of the possibility of maneuverable defense will arise for them in the form of an already familiar choice – death, captivity, flight.

APU occupied the village of Ivanovka in the Kherson region, without details.

A referendum on the entry of the Zaporozhye region into Russia will be held in early autumn, presumably in the first half of September, said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the regional administration. Approximately in this period or near it, we can expect a counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“In the near future, there will be a turning point in the special operation in Ukraine. Why do I think so? Everything is simple, for several months now, the front has been frozen in almost all directions except Slavyansk. There are regroupings, both on one side and on the other.

To date, thousands of Ukrainian recruits are being trained in Europe and England. They’ll be back any minute now, fit, trained, and most importantly, armed. Plus, there are deliveries of heavy artillery, Ukraine, although a little, but replenishes aviation. There were talks in the West about supplying air defense to Ukrainians. As one literate person put it, “when they say they want to deliver something, it means it’s all in place.” And I agree with that. In general, the Nazis are ready for possible minimal actions.

What are we? In my opinion, we must act now and quickly. In fact, this is what is happening: missile strikes in all directions have increased. And judging by the reports from the other side, they are quite successful.” (Rudenko V)
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Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf
- Norman on July 14, 2022 · at 6:57 pm EST/EDT
  
  What if the returning troops will not be only Ukrainians, but also include thousands of actual NATO troops from the US and the UK.
  
  It may be US and UK troops driving the vehicles and operating the heavy weapons systems.
  
  Maybe NATO thinks that if they sneak into Ukraine under the cover of “returning Ukrainians with NATO vehicles and weapons” that it will prevent detection by Russia and before Russia is aware, Ukraine will have thousands of NATO troops and equipment right on the front line.
  - Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 11:46 pm EST/EDT
    
    @ Norman on July 14, 2022 · at 6:57 pm EST/EDT
    
    What if the returning troops will not be only Ukrainians, but also include thousands of actual NATO troops from the US and the UK.
    
    It may be US and UK troops driving the vehicles and operating the heavy weapons systems.
    
    Maybe NATO thinks that if they sneak into Ukraine under the cover of “returning Ukrainians with NATO vehicles and weapons” that it will prevent detection by Russia and before Russia is aware, Ukraine will have thousands of NATO troops and equipment right on the front line.
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    Good thinking, one step ahead.
    
    The Russophobic bulldogs are hellbent on defeating Russia, they might try all sort of tricks. Hopefully someone in the Russian military is already visualizing the same issue, or reading your post.
    
    Liz Truss, that political and otherwise whore, just stated she is going to “lead the world” in the campaign against Russia. She’s trying to succeed clown BoJo, would say anything to win the vote.
    
    La Zakharova trashed her to my heart content.
    
    Such a sophomoric load of idiots.
    
    Lone Wolf
Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 6:59 pm EST/EDT

Soledar is the gateway to Artemovsk from the north.

The half-ring of fire from the Allies is allowing a getaway for the Ukronazis to the West, only.

Once the half-ring is closed, they cannot go in any other direction.

The Wagner Orchestra is playing in the area, besides Chechens and Cossacks.

I wouldn’t like to be on the Ukronazi side, facing those warriors.
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https://topwar.ru/199051-gruppirovka-protivnika-v-soledare-blizka-k-popadaniju-v-plotnoe-ognevoe-kolco.html

The enemy’s grouping in Soledar is close to falling into a dense ring of fire

From the areas of the special military operation in the Donbas, there are reports of the advance of Russian troops with the support of republican people’s militia units to the Seversk-Soledar-Artemovsk (Bakhmut) line. It has been confirmed that our troops have liberated more than 60 percent of the area of Seversk from the troops of the Kiev regime and continue to advance with simultaneous cleansing in the western quarters of this city in the DPR.

In addition, it became known that the units of the Luhansk People’s Militia liberated the small village of Stryapovka. It is adjacent to the city of Soledar from the east. Thanks to this, the liberation troops managed to reach the railway skirting Soledar from the south.

At the same time, our troops are fighting to break through a gap in the enemy’s defenses in the north-east of Soledar. The enemy suffers losses in the area of Yakovlevka.

In case of success of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the NM of the LPR and the DPR, the Ukrainian group in Soledar may in the coming hours be in a physical semi-ring with a simultaneous hit in the “fire bag”. At the same time, waste to the south and north is cut off, in fact, already now. It remains only to flee to the west for those who do not want to lay down their arms. True, when trying to withdraw to the west, the enemy’s soledar garrison can expect a “meeting” with Russian aviation – with its strikes along the road to Kramatorsk. But the situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is critical even without taking into account Russian aviation.

At the moment, the enemy grouping in Soledar is close to getting into a dense ring of fire, since the Russian troops who came to the outskirts were able not only to block the contingent of militants in the city from three sides – east, north and south, but also to strike at its western environs. The more active the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in this direction, the less chances the enemy has, the denser the mentioned fire ring,
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Lone Wolf
Omowale on July 14, 2022 · at 8:14 pm EST/EDT

“What the gullible reporters and the morons who staff the CIA and DIA fail to comprehend…” With that, Larry managed to make me laugh similar to Andrei Martyanov’s publications.
Thanks Saker Staff!!!
Nate on July 14, 2022 · at 8:58 pm EST/EDT

Some videos for today.

RT visits neo-Nazi base used for torture:

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/MURAD-BASE:e

Kiev regime frees notorious warlord sentenced for torture in Donbass:

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/warlord-released-ukraine:d

Russian humanitarian aid is being delivered to the liberated parts of Kharkov oblast:

https://rutube.ru/video/f9a39305bbbde26bc752409a245b72ff/

The DPR’s Sparta battalion hits enemy positions with mortars:

https://rutube.ru/video/61ab90bbc3112b8e244fc0e08d65c015/

Russian Uragan system hits enemy positions:

https://rutube.ru/video/3f21c202fa5a0a3534216ba41ead2a08/

The first major clash in the Ukraine: Battle of Antonov Airport (newly released footage):

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/airport:d4
Lone Wolf on July 14, 2022 · at 9:42 pm EST/EDT

News from the US front
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The first one on the lend-lease program explains the US realization of putting money into a bottomless pit.

Ukraine is not only losing, Ukraine is a loser.

For Biden, vis-a-vis the upcoming elections, Ukraine is an albatross around his neck. Some distance is necessary, even if it is sheer appearance.

The second one could be an indicator US intel has smelled something we don’t know about coming from Russia. Vučić’s warning could have been that he looked into Putin’s soul, and saw the future, or Putin chose him to blow the whistle. I am no oracle or soothsayer, but I trust my instinct telling me the current situation cannot continue, Kharkiv, Odessa, Zaporozhie, a new stage has to come from somewhere, and it cannot come from Ukrostan.

Calling all US citizens to leave Ukraine (hopefully he will take the mercenaries too), is a strong signal that speaks loud and clear about potential future events, without saying anything.

It is a loud warning.
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https://topwar.ru/199042-ssha-otlozhili-programmu-lend-liza-dlja-ukrainy-na-neopredelennoe-vremja.html

The United States postponed the lend-lease program for Ukraine indefinitely

Kiev’s hopes for massive supplies of Western military equipment under the so-called lend-lease agreement organized by the Americans are slowly melting away, along with plans for a counteroffensive that was supposed to take place after the Ukrainian Armed Forces were saturated with American weapons. As it turned out, Washington still has not decided on the final powers of the US president under this program.

The lend-lease promised by the United States is postponed indefinitely, and Kiev will continue to receive weapons as part of the programs implemented by the United States. As the Americans explained, now Ukraine receives weapons, albeit not so much, but for free. Kiev does not need to pay for everything delivered, this is assistance from the United States. But the equipment delivered under lend-lease will be already for money, even if with a deferred payment.

In general, the White House explained that the supply of weapons to Kiev under lend-lease is now not a priority for the US government, deliveries will continue under the USAI (Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative) and the Presidential Powers program (weapons from the Pentagon’s reserves).

Now we are prioritizing security assistance for Ukraine, for which they will not need to pay back funds later

– explained the representative of the US administration.

At the same time, no final decision has been made on the lend-lease program, and the administration has not yet decided on the powers of the president under this program. This was stated by the coordinator of the US National Security and Strategic Communications Council, John Kirby.

Meanwhile, some military experts suggest that this is not about the powers of the US president, it’s just that Washington has already realized the futility of pumping Ukraine with weapons, and even in debt, so they are dragging out supplies, disguising it as various problems.
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https://topwar.ru/199056-posolstvo-ssha-v-kieve-vpervye-s-fevralja-prizyvaet-amerikanskih-grazhdan-pokinut-ukrainu-v-kratchajshie-sroki.html

For the first time since February, the US Embassy in Kiev is calling on American citizens to leave Ukraine as soon as possible

The American Embassy in Ukraine for the first time since the last decade of February (in fact, since the beginning of the Russian special military operation) issued a so-called special appeal to American citizens located on Ukrainian territory.

Representatives of the American diplomatic mission urge American citizens to leave Ukraine as soon as possible.

At the same time, the Embassy of the United States of America in Ukraine suggests that US citizens avoid areas with a large crowd of people, any public events.

The message of the diplomatic mission says that this is due to the strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine.

Recall that in February, the American Embassy was evacuated from Kiev by mistake. After some time, when Russia withdrew its troops from Kiev, the US State Department decided that the embassy in the Ukrainian capital could be returned.

Now the US State Department is making it clear that there are virtually no safe places for American citizens in Ukraine. At the same time, US diplomatic circles make it clear that the State Department disclaims responsibility if any of the American citizens do not listen to the advice to leave Ukraine and remain, risking their lives and health.
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Lone Wolf
- james1 on July 15, 2022 · at 12:57 am EST/EDT
  
  I would like to see Russia give the uSA 24 hrs to vacate their Embassy in Kiev. It will be destroyed by missile. The reason given is that the uSA is participating in a War against Russia. The uSA could do nothing about this –apart from hiss , threaten & walk away. Tell me why not destroy their embassy?
PaPa on July 14, 2022 · at 11:00 pm EST/EDT

I am a 66 year old American. I have a photo hanging in my office of Vasili Arkhipov. My champion – as he had the greatest impact on my life. I am alive because of him. I wish more had the same insight and understanding.
- A.Deplorable on July 15, 2022 · at 2:18 am EST/EDT
  
  @Papa.
  
  Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov was a Soviet Navy officer credited with preventing a Soviet nuclear launch during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  
  We could do with more like him, on both sides of every argument in modern warfare. Strange, how lightly modern people discuss the use of “tactical nukes”.
tranquilocomp on July 14, 2022 · at 11:27 pm EST/EDT

“Ukrainian propaganda is in full voice and that includes western propaganda. Keep ‘yer eyes peeled.”

A major Western newspaper reported on a war result according to Ukraine and then Russia. It does not look like propaganda at all:

“Ukrainian forces fighting to recapture territory in the south of the country said they had blown up a Russian ammunition depot in the Kherson region overnight, the latest in a series of missile attacks that Kyiv has claimed on Russian military infrastructure.
Officials loyal to the government in Moscow said the strike, in Nova Kakhovka, instead hit a warehouse containing saltpeter — sometimes used to make fertilizer or gunpowder — resulting in a large explosion that Russia said had damaged residential buildings, a hospital, a market and a humanitarian aid center. At least seven people were killed and dozens more wounded, the Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing a local official. The competing claims could not be independently verified.” – NYT (7/12/22)
- Brother Ma on July 15, 2022 · at 12:39 am EST/EDT
  
  The rag ,NYT , finally trying to recoup some cachet , by reporting that it is not sure and not only just parroting what the US says.
  - tranquilocomp on July 15, 2022 · at 2:46 am EST/EDT
    
    They know they must not lose their credibility. State media like RT and presstv also know it. “Truth” is the arbiter or referee. If someone says “it’s all lies”, I think he’s not understanding their situation, and he certainly can have no evidence of that (as above).
tranquilocomp on July 15, 2022 · at 1:32 am EST/EDT

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid spoke today in Jerusalem about Russia in a contemptuous way, mentioning terrorism in the same breath:

“This past year with Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine, with the Iranian nuclear threat becoming more dangerous and with the threat of terrorism worldwide, we were all reminded of something: In order to protect freedom, sometimes force must be used. Nobody wants that but neither can we shy away from it. On the side of terror stand people who will not hesitate to exploit any weakness, people who do not play by the rules. Those of us who are fortunate enough to be born free people sometimes do not understand the intensity of the hatred behind the attack on democracy. What did we do to them, what makes them crash planes into skyscrapers in New York and fire rockets at kindergartens in the city by the road. The answer is fear. What scares them the most is that their citizens, their people, can see us, can see our quality of life, the dynamism and creativity of our economy, the rights of women in the LBGTQ community, freedom of religion, freedom of speech…”

Biden holds news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlfT7PwLJ2I

It’s wrong for a small country like Israel to indicate, in the first phrase of this speech, that Russia has to be confronted with “force.”
- SEJMON on July 15, 2022 · at 3:20 pm EST/EDT
  
  …I believe there will not be anymore frequent visitors from Tell Aviv…hmmmm
  - tranquilocomp on July 15, 2022 · at 8:08 pm EST/EDT
    
    You say there are frequent visitors from Tel Aviv, SEJMON.
Ajeeb on July 15, 2022 · at 2:32 am EST/EDT

about HIMARS and its implications, hope Andrey sees it and presents a solution, https://www.stalkerzone.org/himars-just-mlrs-a-new-generation-weapon-or-a-doomsday-machine/
- tranquilocomp on July 15, 2022 · at 9:26 am EST/EDT
  
  Great link. It finishes saying, “However, I will refrain from making any predictions about the impact of HIMARS and M270 on the strategic picture of combat operations for the time being – this requires time and observation of the practice of combat use of MLRS data in the conflict.”
  
  A key question is, why are only 13 sent as if this number were like a lot? “Hundreds and hundreds” would be needed according to some “experts and officials” (/tag/kherson-offensive/). Laymen feel that instinctively.
  
  Some logically plausible answers to that question: “Not more because we don’t want a direct war.” “No more because we went from a victory expectation to a stalemate hope (and don’t feel sure yet where we go or can go).” “We trust Zelensky less than before.” This last one must be weighing heavily because the move from “victory” to “stalemate” has been made, but Zelensky has stayed at “victory.” Zelensky may well get irritated again (puppet theories notwithstanding).
arkx Brasil on July 15, 2022 · at 6:42 am EST/EDT

《Building of the garrison of military officers in the city of Vinnitsa is hit with Kalibrs.
At the time of the attack, a meeting of the Ukrainian air force command with representatives of foreign arms suppliers was taking place there. The meeting discussed the transfer of the next batch of aircraft, weapons and equipment to the Ukrainian military and the organization of repairs to the Ukrainian aviation fleet. As a result of the strike, the participants of the meeting were killed.》
https://t.me/bbbreaking/130006

What are “Decision Centers?” Buildings and facilities?
Buildings and facilities do not make decisions. People do!
Decision centers are people in key decision-making positions.
Without destroying these decision centers, the war in Ukraine becomes an unwinnable war.
- sean the leprechaun on July 15, 2022 · at 8:19 am EST/EDT
  
  War only produces losers, the ‘win’ is really a fallacy.
  Concentrations of high level people meeting, anywhere, would be considered a ‘decision’ making centre. Such meetings are not advertized due to their nature. Finding them, and hitting them, a bit of a jackpot……hopefully we’ll see more jackpots get cracked.
  Cool message though.
  
  Cheers M
- tranquilocomp on July 15, 2022 · at 10:01 am EST/EDT
  
  “Without destroying these decision centers, the war in Ukraine becomes an unwinnable war.”
  
  This conclusion only has application in a reverse way (against the stronger). In 1944, Hitler and FM Ribbentrop were trying to find a way to kill Stalin. They thought getting rid of this decision center would change the course of the war. Ribbentrop would get a meeting with Stalin and kill him with a pen that shot a poisonous dart. The weapon was real and it worked. This story is in “The Schellenberg Memoirs” (1956), by Walter Schellenberg (head of Hitler’s Intelligence Foreign Service).
  - arkx Brasil on July 15, 2022 · at 1:52 pm EST/EDT
    
    @tranquilocomp
    How much influence did Zelensky have on strategic decisions about the war in Ukraine? None. He is just a character in search of an author.
    Just like Boris Johnson, Draghi, Scholz, Macron… They are all just buffoons. They decide nothing in fact.
    We know where the headquarters is in which the decisions are made. And it is not in Ukraine. Not even in Europe.
    Yet the decisions have to go through the hierarchy of a chain of command until they are realized on the battlefield.
    It is this process that needs to be disrupted.
    The distance between Vinnytsia and Donetsk is about 850km. To those present at the meeting, the front line seemed so far away. They felt safe.
    The Kalibr showed that they did not.
    - tranquilocomp on July 15, 2022 · at 8:00 pm EST/EDT
      
      “We know where the headquarters is in which the decisions are made. And it is not in Ukraine. Not even in Europe.”
      
      You know, I don’t. Where?
      
      I won’t ask how do you know but you’re welcome if you want to answer that too.
      - arkx Brasil on July 16, 2022 · at 4:32 am EST/EDT
        
        @tranquilocomp
        -> “I won’t ask how do you know but you’re welcome if you want to answer that too.”
        I read the New York Times…
        
        tranquilocomp on July 16, 2022 · at 10:29 am EST/EDT
        
        You just know it, come on. It’s “feeling”, “instinct” – it should not be “desire” too. We don’t want to be dogmatic…commenters… like marxists-leninists who listened to “a voice”:
        
        “Socialism”, by Ludwig von Mises (1922), “The Liberation of the Demons” chapter: Man’s innate impulses towards violent extermination of all whom he dislikes, repressed by a long and wearisome evolution, burst forth. The demons were unfettered. A new age, the age of the usurpers, dawned. The gangsters were called to action, and they listened to the Voice.”
        
        You aren’t like that, needless to say. I just quote it for the “Voice” part.
        
        arkx Brasil on July 16, 2022 · at 11:10 am EST/EDT
        
        Of course! The Voice of America!
        And what is she muttering now, angrily babbling for some mercy?
        Even when gangsters and usurpers become decrepit demented, still the demons reserve for them a special place in Hell.
        But you are not like that. I only quoted for the Hell part. And of the senile diseases. And of the “demons,” needless to say.
        
        tranquilocomp on July 16, 2022 · at 11:29 am EST/EDT
        
        “We know where the headquarters is in which the decisions are made.”
        
        Why should “where” be a secret there?
        
        I don’t know where else other than in Ukraine; some of us don’t know where else it could be (we are not with the puppet theory for everything Ukraine). Some say in the U.S., some even say Israel, but what sort of knowledge is this, that says not where! I will answer based on watching Zelensky and others on Television, and from readings. The headquarters is in Ukraine, and it takes no prophet to say that It shall become much more obvious too.
  - Exile on July 15, 2022 · at 3:45 pm EST/EDT
    
    Similar to the poison cigars the war party wanted to off Castro with
- Tony Kaku on July 16, 2022 · at 1:56 am EST/EDT
  
  You are right, the building did not, in itself, make any decisions. The Kalibrs hit the building, killing the decision-making people inside it. You should be able to understand that.
Suzanne on July 15, 2022 · at 8:02 am EST/EDT

Does anyone know the Russian version of what happened in Vinnytsia? The Ukrainian version is certainly well publicized.
Lone Wolf on July 15, 2022 · at 8:12 am EST/EDT

@ james1 on July 15, 2022 · at 12:57 am EST/EDT

I would like to see Russia give the uSA 24 hrs to vacate their Embassy in Kiev. It will be destroyed by missile. The reason given is that the uSA is participating in a War against Russia. The uSA could do nothing about this –apart from hiss , threaten & walk away. Tell me why not destroy their embassy?
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Response to your question was posted below by

arkx Brasil on July 15, 2022 · at 6:42 am EST/EDT

/sitrep-operation-z-back-to-hot-steel-rain/#comment-1122178

”…What are “Decision Centers?” Buildings and facilities?
Buildings and facilities do not make decisions. People do!
Decision centers are people in key decision-making positions.
Without destroying these decision centers, the war in Ukraine becomes an unwinnable war.
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Lone Wolf
- Exile on July 15, 2022 · at 3:49 pm EST/EDT
  
  Why destroy the US embassy in Kiev when the RF has ability to read all electronic and voice messages plus has the building packed with listening devices and has a dozen Human Intel working inside ?
  - Lone Wolf on July 15, 2022 · at 7:45 pm EST/EDT
    
    @ Exile on July 15, 2022 · at 3:49 pm EST/EDT
    
    Why destroy the US embassy in Kiev when the RF has ability to read all electronic and voice messages plus has the building packed with listening devices and has a dozen Human Intel working inside ?
    
    That is THE decision center bar none, however, nobody is talking about hitting that one, though Russia could pulled an “apology” à la Yugoslavia after the US/NATO bombed the Chinese embassy.
    
    We are talking about the UkroWerhmacht top brass, the officialdom.
    
    Besides, as you point out, is the best source of intel info in 404.
    
    Lone Wolf
KRL on July 15, 2022 · at 8:52 am EST/EDT

Rogozin in changing job, leaving Roscosmos.
My guess is that he is moving “up”, because as I understand it, he is very capable and loyal.
https://tass.com/politics/1480559
“Putin releases Rogozin from his position as Roscosmos chief — decree”
Russian Bear on July 15, 2022 · at 10:39 am EST/EDT

Operation Z: Military commissars of the Russian Spring
‼️🇬🇧Report from the front:

🚀As a result of high-precision strikes on the points of temporary deployment of the 40th artillery brigade and the nationalist formation “Kraken” in the city of Kharkov , up to 200 nationalists were destroyed, including about 50 foreign mercenaries and 19 pieces of weapons and military equipment.

💥Pinpoint strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the places of deployment of the nationalist formation “Right Sector” destroyed about 300 nationalists and up to 30 units of armored and special vehicles.

▪️As part of the counter-battery fight , 2 platoons of Ukrainian MLRS, 2 artillery platoons of Giacint-B howitzers , as well as artillery units at firing positions in 84 districts were hit.

✈️Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 2 MiG-29 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a day .

💥Air defense forces shot down 2 Su-25 VVSU , as well as 9 UAVs .

More details in the briefing of the Ministry of Defense:
t.me/rusvesnasu/20809
Lone Wolf on July 15, 2022 · at 11:05 am EST/EDT

Seversk is in the bag.

Congratulations to the Allied forces, Russian Armed Forces, LDNR militias, Chechens, Cossacks, Ossetians, and whoever else participated in the cleaning of nazi scum from “unconquerable” Seversk!!!

UkroWerhmacht left Seversk in small groups, as ordered by the high command, not to telegraph their exit to the Allied forces. They left on time not to become an stampede à la Lisichansk, and are still occupying high positions in the city. This is normal, they need to cover the retreat of their forces, putting up some “resistance” to the coming new owners. Once the last of their forces have retreated, and with a little help from Allied artillery, those in heights will depart for Slavyansk/Kramatorsk, Soledar, or Artemovsk.

Or else…

Next: Slavyansk/Kramatorsk.

This one is not going to be easy.

Or will be?

Once the hub Slayansk/Kramatorsk is taken, the last of the strategic defense lines of the UkroWerhmacht in Donbass will have fallen. What the Allied forces will have in front of them after that, is open terrain all the way to the Dnieper. There are speculations, as usual, as to what comes next, which direction will be next for the SMO. Most I have read from “experts” is target: Odessa.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Slavyansk/Kramatorsk will test the mettle of the Allied forces, and of the UkroWerhmacht.

Let’s pray for casualties on both sides.

Let’s hope for the best…
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https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7739344.html

APU withdraws from Seversk

According to the LPR army at 11 o’clock.

1. The enemy withdraws from Seversk in small groups as part of the implementation of the combat order for a hidden withdrawal of troops.

2. Our troops have already established a foothold on the eastern outskirts of Seversk and are conducting a sweep deep into the city.

3. The enemy is still providing focal resistance.

4. A number of heights near Seversk are still controlled by the enemy.

5. The Seversk-Soledar road has not yet been cut.

In general, everything goes to the fact that in the coming days Seversk will come under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the LPR. And we will certainly recall the statements of Ukrainian propaganda that “after the occupation of Lysychansk, the Russian Armed Forces will not be able to occupy any city.”
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“…the Russian Armed Forces will not be able to occupy any city,” they will only clean all cities of nazi filth, and move to the next one.

Occupation? All the Allied forces care about is for the right owners of these towns to occupy the cities they have been displaced from to use them as human shields.

Lone Wolf
- Exile on July 15, 2022 · at 12:04 pm EST/EDT
  
  Liberate
  
  My friend – the Allies are liberating Cities
  
  😂
  - Lone Wolf on July 15, 2022 · at 2:36 pm EST/EDT
    
    @ Exile
    
    Yes, my dear Exile, liberation for all of those who have been forcefully exiled from their homes, their neighborhoods, their cities.
    
    Liberation is the word.
    
    In this case, my intention was to counter the “occupation” label given to the liberation of these cities and towns by the nazi scum.
    
    Thanks for the addendum.
    
    Cheers.
    
    Lone Wolf
    - Exile on July 15, 2022 · at 3:51 pm EST/EDT
      
      Lone,thank you your insights are always welcome
      
      Death to Fascism
      Freedom to the People
Russian Bear on July 15, 2022 · at 5:47 pm EST/EDT

Voenkor Kitten Z
Military expert Boris Rozhin with a brief summary of the results of the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine as of 20.20 July 15, 2022, specially for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel :
1.
Seversk.
Fighting on the eastern outskirts of the city, as well as in the area of Serebryanka and Verkhnekamensky. The enemy is fortifying positions on adjacent heights. There is no exit from the city yet.
2.
Soledar.
Fighting at Belogorovka, Berestovoye, Yakovlevka, on the outskirts of Soledar itself.
The Soledar-Seversk road is controlled by the enemy, but is subjected to attacks by our artillery.
3.
Artemovsk.
Battles for Pokrovskoe and Veselaya Dolina. The city has been under continuous rocket attacks for several days.
There are strikes in the area of Chasov Yar, Krasnaya Gora and Konstantinovka.
4.
Slavyansk.
Fighting in the area of Prishib, Sidorov, Dolyna and in forest areas northwest of the city. Attacks on Slavyansk and Kramatorsk are intensifying.
5.
Avdiivka .
Fighting in the area of Kamenka and New York. In the Avdiivka industrial zone, no changes. The enemy continues shelling Donetsk, Yasinovataya and other settlements. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the DPR are intensifying attacks on Avdiivka and Krasnohorivka.
6.
Kharkov.
Fights for Upper Saltov, Dementieva, Upper Passages. Attacks continue on Kharkov and in the area of Chuguev and Zolochev.
7.
Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka without significant changes. The enemy continues to try to probe the front line in the direction of Vasilyevka, Tokmak and Pologi.
8.
Nikolaev.
The enemy suffered heavy losses as a result of concentrated missile attacks on the city. Strikes also continue in the Krivoy Rog direction. The enemy is probing the defense of the RF Armed Forces in the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions.
9.
Odessa.
It is reported about the progress of negotiations in Turkey on the export of grain by sea from the territory of Ukraine, which will be accompanied by the demining of Odessa, Yuzhny and a number of other ports.
Russia, Turkey and the UN are involved in the control mechanisms. The agreement is to be signed next week.
In Odessa itself without significant changes. Explosions of civilians on mines continue.
10.
Izyum, Ugledar, Dzerzhinsk, Marinka – no change.

@voenkorKotenok
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amarynth on July 15, 2022 · at 7:09 pm EST/EDT

I know they lie, steal. murder and and plunder and use civilians as shields and shell civilians. But on the lying side, this one made me laugh …

There was a misunderstanding: The APU is not going on the offensive in the southern regions.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov said that American journalists simply misunderstood him.

Kiev is not assembling a million-strong army, there was a misunderstanding, he said.

“Forgive me my English, it’s not native to me,” Alexey Reznikov added.

And how many words there were, and all in “non-native”.

@Sputnik (https://t.me/sputnik)

(Now some of us know who first started talking about the million-strong army and that makes me laugh even more!)
- Lone Wolf on July 15, 2022 · at 8:52 pm EST/EDT
  
  @ amarynth on July 15, 2022 · at 7:09 pm EST/EDT
  
  “Forgive me my English, it’s not native to me,” Alexey Reznikov added.
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  Wonder if his English is as bad as the Russian of this British mercenary sentenced to death, trying to save his skin by singing Russia’s national anthem in clumsy Russian.
  
  His singing might be the final nail on his sentence, “besides coming here on a ‘safari’ hunting Russians, you’re disgracing our language, our national anthem, and you have a horrible voice, your appeal is denied. Go join Bandera.”
  
  Scroll down to video #14.
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  https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/nashi_morpekhi_pojmali_vsushnikov_polzi_sjuda_na_spinu_lozhis_raskryt_plan_vsu_na_oboronu_slavjanska_novosti_poslednego_chasa_14_video/60-1-0-12601
  
  The offensive on Bakhmut will begin after the final fall of Seversk, which the Russian army has already entered. Slavyansk and Kramatorsk remain the final targets at this stage.
  
  The enemy withdrew part of its forces from Seversk last night. Up to two battalions of the Kiev regime have been deployed to the area of Bakhmut and Soledar. Also, the command of the AFU grouping on the Bakhmut – Seversk line transferred part of the barrel and rocket artillery from near Seversk to the area of Bakhmut (Artemovsk). In Seversk and on the heights near the city, enemy motorized rifle and artillery units remain, which continue to resist and defend the city.
  
  Local reports indicate that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are now actively building a new line of defense on the eastern side of the Slavyansk-Avdiivka line. Yes, there were fortifications there before. But now this line is turning into one solid line. And the Ukrainians are pushing back in Seversk and Soledar to make it possible to create this line. If they leave Seversk, then at least the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration is ready for a long defense. As soon as they leave Soledar and Bakhmut, we can talk about the beginning of the general battle for the Donbass.
  
  Details from the Ministry of Defense about the strike on the House of officers in Vinnytsia. The strike was carried out on July 14 by high-precision missiles. At that moment, a meeting was being held in the garrison house of officers. It was attended by foreign arms suppliers who discussed the transfer of the next batch of aircraft, weapons of destruction to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as the organization of repairs to the Ukrainian fleet.
  
  As a result of high-precision strikes on the temporary locations of the 40th artillery brigade and the Kraken nationalist formation in Kharkiv, up to 200 nationalists were killed, including about 50 foreign mercenaries and 19 pieces of weapons and military equipment. Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 2 MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the day. Air defense forces shot down 2 Su-25s of the Air Force, as well as 9 UAVs.
  
  Earlier in the Network there were rumors that at the disposal of the Russian Army there was an American MLRS HIMARS rocket launcher. Our sources have just confirmed this information. There is no information yet on whether the HIMARS MLRS system was captured in combat or sold by the corrupt Ukrainian military, but at the moment the installation is already in Russia.
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  Lone Wolf
- tranquilocomp on July 16, 2022 · at 12:26 am EST/EDT
  
  “Kiev is not assembling a million-strong army, there was a misunderstanding, he said.
  “Forgive me my English, it’s not native to me,” Alexey Reznikov added.”
  
  Zelensky said a couple of weeks ago that their army was being built up and that it stood at 700,000 soldiers at that time, so I don’t know why he says it was his own English.
Lone Wolf on July 15, 2022 · at 7:29 pm EST/EDT

Morning Report, July 16, “Military Chronicle.”
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First video, below the report, is about an encounter of a UkroWerhmacht DRG, sabotage and reconnaissance group, with a check point of the Allied forces. They pretend to stop, then speed into a secondary road. Unfortunately for them, there was a second checkpoint right ahead (just in case, for these situations), and they had no choice but to veer into their right side of the road. The second checkpoint soldiers started shooting at them, no time to get off the car, but they are trying. The shooting didn’t last a minute, then an RPG went flying into the car.

I will not spoil the outcome.

Excellent report on Battlefield Ukraine as of the morning of July 16.
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https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/bolshoe_srazhenie_za_donbass_uzhe_skoro_poslednie_novosti_s_ukrainy_i_karty_boev_utro_16_ijulja_jurij_podoljaka_13_video/60-1-0-12604

Shooting of the Ukrainian DRG, HYPERSONIC STRIKES on the Dnieper! Latest news from Ukraine and battle maps: morning of July 16, Yuriy Podolyaka (16 videos)

An Allied attack on Bakhmut from the south is looming. The mopping up of Seversk is progressing slowly, and our forces are in no hurry to take the city head-on. Fighting on the eastern outskirts of Soledar.

As expected, the next breakthrough of the allied forces will be after the capture of Bakhmut, and the main center of the fighting will not be Slavyansk, but Kramatorsk, which is more difficult to storm.

The situation in the Slavyansk-Barvenkovsky direction. The situation has not changed significantly. The Ukrainian command is preparing defensive lines in the Slavyansk sector. At the same time, Ukrainian special forces units are attempting to infiltrate individual groups in the rear of the Russian Armed Forces.

Soldiers of the 95th odshbr tried to cross the Seversky Donets River in the area of the forest belt near Bogorodichny. However, the Russian Armed Forces discovered the group and organized an ambush for the Ukrainian DRG. During the battle, the unit suffered losses in killed and wounded and retreated to the Bogorodichny area.

To track the activities of Russian troops on the opposite bank of the Seversky Donets River, additional observation posts are being set up in Mayaki and Bogorodichny. The 2nd rocket artillery battery of the 92nd Separate Mechanized brigade is deployed in Barvenkovo, and ATGM units are deployed in Grushevakha and Vernopolye. In the event of a breakthrough of the first line, active preparations are being made for a long-term siege of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. Weapons and ammunition, as well as food and medicine, are imported to the cities. An S-300 surface-to-air missile system has been deployed to the Kramatorsk airfield to protect cities from air strikes.

The situation in the Donetsk-Zaporizhia direction. On the Donetsk section: Fighting continues for Kamenka. Due to the possible blocking of the route to Konstantinovka and the disruption of supplies in Avdiivka, the Ukrainian command is making efforts to defend the settlement.
To strengthen the positions and rotate the 54th separate mechanized brigade in this direction, the 66th separate mechanized brigade equipped with HIMARS MLRS is being transferred. In the area of Novoselidovka, Marinka, Krasnogorovka, advanced control points are being deployed.

Units of the 54th Separate mechanized brigade are being withdrawn from the combat area due to significant losses in manpower and equipment. To open the positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR NM, the AFU reconnaissance groups will use reconnaissance UAVs in the vicinity of Ugledar, Kamenka and Avdiivka. Artillery strikes were carried out on the identified targets in Krinichny, Nikolsky and Panteleimonovka.

In the Zaporizhia sector: Due to the constant artillery and mortar attacks of the Russian Armed Forces and the losses incurred, the AFU’s efforts are focused on counter-battery warfare. AN/TPQ-37 radar is deployed in the Odarovka area. Units of the 33rd National Guard brigade arrived in the vicinity of Tavriysky. The transfer of 65 separate mechanized infantry units to replace 128 separate mechanized infantry units continues. Due to existing problems with communication between separate groups of servicemen, the 65th brigade’s gunners fired at the Ukrainian stronghold in Tavriysky.

In a wooded area near Gulyai-pole, the forces of the 110th territorial Defense Brigade are deploying reserve positions due to constant artillery strikes by the Russian Armed Forces. Russian artillery and MLRS units fired at the AFU concentration areas in Gulyai-Pole, Novoyakovlevka, Shcherbaki, Konstantinovka, Kurakhovo, Avdiivka, Novgorodovka. As a result of the strike on the temporary deployment point of the 45th ADB of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Shcherbaki, a barracks with more than 70 servicemen was destroyed. (all Rybar)

The Office of the President of Ukraine expects the United States and Great Britain to deliver tanks in the fall. At Bankova, they convince the Pentagon of the need to strengthen the Armed Forces of Ukraine for a counteroffensive. At the same time, American F-16 fighters will also arrive.
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Lone Wolf
- Exile on July 16, 2022 · at 8:05 am EST/EDT
  
  …. Units of the 54th Separate mechanized brigade are being withdrawn from the combat area due to significant losses in manpower and equipment.…..
  
  The 54th is destroyed – one of Kiev‘s elite units being replaced with Volksturm and 2 line reserve units.
sejmon on July 15, 2022 · at 7:59 pm EST/EDT

Why we do not have report here on bombing of military bldgs in Vinnytsia on 07/14/2022….????
- Lone Wolf on July 15, 2022 · at 8:37 pm EST/EDT
  
  @ sejmon on July 15, 2022 · at 7:59 pm EST/EDT
  
  Why we do not have report here on bombing of military bldgs in Vinnytsia on 07/14/2022….????
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  Might it be because we are not a branch of the RF Ministry of Defense?
  
  Have you search yourself in that location?
  
  Here is the link, if you find anything, share it with us here.
  
  https://eng.mil.ru/
  
  Hope that helps.
  
  Lone Wolf
  - sejmon on July 15, 2022 · at 9:13 pm EST/EDT
    
    Lone Wolf…web site is closed but I did find report on Moonlight alabama…..and devastating for glorious army…
    - Lone Wolf on July 15, 2022 · at 10:58 pm EST/EDT
      
      @ sejmon on July 15, 2022 · at 9:13 pm EST/EDT
      
      Lone Wolf…web site is closed but I did find report on Moonlight alabama…..and devastating for glorious army…
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      https://eng.mil.ru/ website is not closed, you just need to know how to get there.
      
      You need a VPN and Yandex browser, and voilà, it opens up for you.
      
      You found a report on Moon of Alabama. Glad you found it.
      
      Whatever happened to sharing? Why didn’t you get us a link to the site?
      
      We would have really appreciated it.
      
      Lone Wolf
      - sejmon on July 16, 2022 · at 12:51 am EST/EDT
        
        websiteis-moonofalabama.org
        
        Tony Kaku on July 16, 2022 · at 2:11 am EST/EDT
        
        Really sejmon, try harder! Your link doesn’t work, probably because it isn’t a link. This one does:
        
        https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/nyt-continues-to-report-strikes-on-civilians-that-somehow-happen-to-hit-military-targets.html#comments
Nate on July 15, 2022 · at 9:08 pm EST/EDT

Some videos for today.

RT follows Akhmad Battalion in cleanup of Privolye, LPR (must see):

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/murad-odysee:e

Russian MoD publishes video of Uragan MLRS in action:

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/uragan-feed-16×9-(1080):6

Russian motorized infantry unit engages the enemy:

https://rutube.ru/video/90d503a3354ae05b2298669c8d5db8d5/

A Kiev regime military barracks was recently destroyed (not sure if this was the one in Nikolayev or somewhere else). The video title suggests that it was some kind of mercenary base:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/GOHt1Imu89w0/
Anemm on July 15, 2022 · at 11:46 pm EST/EDT

Lovely maps! Thank you!
JJ on July 16, 2022 · at 6:22 am EST/EDT

all systems go says Shoigu????

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation instructed to increase the actions of the Armed Forces in all areas of the special operation.

The goal is to exclude the possibility of Kiev’s massive strikes on civilian infrastructure, residents of Donbass and other regions.

Shoigu inspected the Russian groups of troops “South” and “Center” performing the tasks of a special military operation in Ukraine.

Subscribe to @Sputnik
- amarynth on July 16, 2022 · at 7:52 am EST/EDT
  
  That is the news of the day!
  
  Sergey Shoigu takes the breaks off!
  
  I’m looking for a nice meme.
  
  Shoigu says Shazaam!
  Shoigu says we have a need for speed!
Russian Bear on July 16, 2022 · at 8:59 am EST/EDT

07-15 Rybar Video SitRep:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548201237039828994

(Still trying to find where the original is posted!)
- amarynth on July 16, 2022 · at 9:32 am EST/EDT
  
  Russian Bear, on the Rybar Channel: https://t.me/rybar
  
  They are also posted on Military Summary where they are easier to find: https://t.me/militarysummary
  - Russian Bear on July 16, 2022 · at 12:25 pm EST/EDT
    
    Thank you!! Rybar is a good source. I can’t believe I missed their channel!
Russian Bear on July 16, 2022 · at 9:03 am EST/EDT

Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring
‼️🇬🇧Report from the front:

🚀As a result of high-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces, the 115th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was actually destroyed. The loss of personnel in this unit amounted to more than 600 people . Also in Nikolaev , up to 200 nationalists and foreign mercenaries were destroyed, as well as 13 units of armored and automotive vehicles.

☠️ Against the background of the successful actions of the Russian Armed Forces and significant losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian nationalists refuse to take further part in the hostilities in the Donbass.

🚀In Dnepropetrovsk , workshops for the production of components and the repair of Tochka-U ballistic missiles and multiple rocket launchers at the defense enterprise Yuzhny Mashinostroitelny Zavod were destroyed. In addition, 4 command posts, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 25 districts were destroyed .

✈️ Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in an air battle destroyed 3 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force: 2 MiG-29 and one Su-25 in the Seversk region. Also, 2 Ukrainian helicopters were shot down in the air : Mi-8 and Mi-24 .

💥Air defense systems destroyed 14 Ukrainian UAVs, intercepted a Tochka-U ballistic missile .

More details in the briefing from the Ministry of Defense:
t.me/rusvesnasu/20835
Telegram
Russian Bear on July 16, 2022 · at 12:22 pm EST/EDT

Anyone have some more info or an article on this???

Blacklist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Details from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation about the strike on Vinnitsa:

The strike was delivered on July 14 by high-precision missiles. At that moment, a meeting was being held in the garrison officers’ house.

The meeting was attended by foreign suppliers of weapons, they discussed the transfer of the next batch of aircraft and weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the organization of the repair of the Ukrainian aviation fleet.

As a result of the strike, the meeting participants were destroyed.

⚡️⚡️⚡️Well, and video evidence that it was not a shopping center, as all Ukrainian publics claimed, but it was the house of Officers. Video here .
Lone Wolf on July 16, 2022 · at 3:41 pm EST/EDT

Putin must go. The Putin curse.
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BoJo. Gone.

Draghi. Gone.

Kallas. Gone.

Petko. Gone.

Next?

Like “Che” Guevara’s curse, that killed almost all his assassins, or Syria’s Assad curse, that took care of all his “Assad Must Go” idiots, Putin will be blamed, among a mountain of other things, for the governmental crisis in all of Eurostan, where idiot after idiot will have to resign as their governments face the anger of their voters for the calamitous predicament they have been put in just to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
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https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7739066.html

Next one went

Johnson was followed by the Draghi government in Italy. Although his resignation is not formally linked to Ukraine, it was the war in Ukraine that killed Draghi’s government. The economic consequences of this war for Italy were such that the ruling coalition could not agree on measures to support the Italian economy due to the economic crisis generated by the war and de facto collapsed, which led to Draghi’s resignation.

This does not mean that there will be a decisive turn in the actions of the European satellites of the United States towards Russia. Not at all.

But this resignation, coupled with Johnson’s resignation, shows that European politicians do not have the ability to cover up the growing economic crisis and falling living standards by shouting “Putin is to blame for everything.” This is not how it works, as Johnson and Draghi, as well as Macron, have already seen in the parliamentary elections. The likely defeat of the Democrats in the midterm congressional elections, for the same reasons, will only confirm this trend, which shows the cost of the war in Ukraine for Western political elites.

But back in March, it was supposed to be the opposite – anti-war rallies were supposed to crush the Putin regime, and the Russian economy was supposed to be torn to shreds. It turned out a bit wrong – the most severe economic consequences were borne by Europe (with the exception of Ukraine), and the consequences of the war began to overwhelm those politicians who allowed it to be unleashed.

The refusal of the Italian president to accept Draghi’s resignation in the context of the collapse of the coalition does not change much – Italy is very likely to move towards new elections.
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tranquilocomp on July 16, 2022 · at 3:54 pm EST/EDT

“He and other analysts, including Western intelligence officials, have stressed that both Russia and Ukraine have suffered heavy losses and face serious problems of manpower.” -NYT (07/16/2022)

“He” is Michael Kofman, the director of Russian studies at C.N.A., a research institute in Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Ukraine has “suffered heavy losses” and faces “serious problems of manpower.” This specific news is reliably true…for more than one reason. You can “take it to the bank”, or say it’s “all lies.” I say it’s an important type of news that the NYT and the msn provide. If Russia is smart, it pays close attention to newspapers like the NYT (I’d bet they do). I assume the Biden administration pays close attention to the major Moscow newspapers and to TASS, but it would not surprise me if they don’t because they say it’s “all lies.”
tranquilocomp on July 16, 2022 · at 6:05 pm EST/EDT

The HIMARS missiles are being used. According to Russian-sourced military reports, have the HIMARS missiles killed a single Russian soldier? I found nothing about it. I checked RT. Nothing on it, only of civilians in cities being killed by such missiles. TASS has nothing on it. I cannot believe that the HIMARS missiles have not and will not kill a single Russian soldier as they continue to be used. The real news is important. If they kill soldiers too, the reaction can be different; it can explain more fully what the DM Shoigu announced or ordered today/yesterday. American (Pentagon) and Ukrainian officials have declared to newspapers that the HIMARS are being effectively used by Ukraine against military targets. The Moscow Times quotes Russians (or ethnic Russians) who also say there are military targets being hit. Below are four quotes from the Moscow Times on the use of the HIMARS missiles published four days ago (7/12/22), but first a quote from Zakharova on RT which implies military targets are being aimed at:

“The military “has apparently been ordered by Kiev to use the said launchers against civilians without any hesitation,” she claimed, while accusing Washington of sharing intelligence on targets with Ukraine.” -RT (7/15/22) It would be on military targets (or else why not?).

“Alexander Sladkov, a prominent war correspondent for state-run broadcaster Rossia 1, said Monday that Ukraine had successfully attacked Russian command centers.
‘Ukrainian missiles and artillery have struck decision-making centers several times. With results. The centers are small but important,’ Sladkov said on Telegram.” –MT

“In a Telegram post accompanied by videos of large fires, Russian state television journalist Andrei Rudenko said Sunday that the Ukrainian side ‘most likely’ used HIMARS to hit ammunition stores in the towns of Shakhtarsk and Torez. ‘Strong fires and explosions… The situation is horrible,’ Rudenko wrote.” – MT

“Pro-Kremlin figures have expressed rare public concern after Western-supplied weapons allowed Ukraine to carry out a series of successful attacks on Russian targets far behind the frontlines.” -MT (all from 7/12/22)

Please don’t quote the Moscow Times – it is not reliable, and a Western backed paper. Or Igor Girkin/Strelkov – which has been removed. Please quote facts. Use the Russian MOD. Mod.
- sean the leprechaun on July 16, 2022 · at 10:18 pm EST/EDT
  
  Are you asking for Russia to declare it’s battlefield dead…..they have already acknowledged they have dead, they just did a forty dead for forty dead trade. One would have to be completely naive to think Russia or LDNR are not suffering casualties, man there’s a war going on. Does the Ukrainian MOD not do a daily field report of all their successes against Russia…..positions destroyed, territory taken, mocking Russia for calling up teen girls, grandmothers and old men?
  Will the HIMARs be effective, for a short while. Russia will adopt countermeasures, absolutely. They have one to study already.
  The main thing to remember….the further the range of missiles supplied, the smaller the Ukraine becomes. Counter productive in a loosing effort.
  
  Cheers M
  - Lone Wolf on July 16, 2022 · at 11:23 pm EST/EDT
    
    @ sean the leprechaun on July 16, 2022 · at 10:18 pm EST/EDT
    
    What would you expect?
    
    He gets his news from the Moscow Times, or the NYT, then verify what the NYT is reporting against the Moscow Times, and viceversa.
    
    It is a conveyor belt of misinformation disguised as “advocacy” for Western news.
    
    Long ago it stop being subliminal trolling.
    
    Not so subliminal anymore.
    
    Open PSYOPS.
    
    Cheers.
    
    Lone Wolf
  - tranquilocomp on July 17, 2022 · at 12:08 am EST/EDT
    
    “Are you asking for Russia to declare it’s battlefield dead”
    
    No, I wouldn’t expect for a State at war to share things like that. This Sitrep is saying that the Russian MOD has the last word on what is true and what not, so it’s voluntarily putting itself under that MOD. If you use a source that reports on attacks against Russia which the MOD denies, then your source is a “liar.” I’m no criticizing this either. A war is like you said: “One would have to be completely naive to think Russia or LDNR are not suffering casualties, man there’s a war going on.”
    - Uncle Bob on July 17, 2022 · at 12:29 am EST/EDT
      
      Check out the pro-Russian telegram channels. They routinely post LDNR numbers that the republics give out. And I remember reading that a Western news source was hoping to get a scoop on vast Russian soldier deaths and got their pro-Western Russian stooges to look into soldier burials and newspaper death notices.They were disappointed to come up with only around 4 thousand. And being a Western source they may have inflated those a bit. But if not,we’d have to say the difference is running (including LDNR figures) at an 5-6 to 1 in the Russian’s favor. Also many of those Russian losses were right at the start when the Russian’s made the errors of thinking the Ukrainians were going to surrender. After that first month the Russian losses have been much less according to all the reports I’ve heard about.
      - tranquilocomp on July 17, 2022 · at 12:50 am EST/EDT
        
        Are those telegram channels saying that the HIMARS are only affecting civilians and not hitting any military targets? RT says Zakharova accused Washington of “sharing intelligence on targets with Ukraine.” Did she have military targets in mind? Exactly that (she wouldn’t call civilians “targets”).
- tranquilocomp on July 16, 2022 · at 11:38 pm EST/EDT
  
  Yet the Moscow Times would not invent a quote from Alexander Sladkov, the correspondent for “state-run broadcaster Rossia 1.” Even National Enquirer (tabloid) in the United States calls you on the phone and reads the quote to you and asks you if it’s what you said. The MT cannot invent a quote from “Russian state television journalist Andrei Rudenko” posted on his Telegram. The Russian MOD only reports on attacks against Ukraine, not on attacks against the Russian military.
sean the leprechaun on July 17, 2022 · at 8:21 am EST/EDT

Plane crashes are nothing new but the cargo plane crash in Greese appears to have full of special fireworks, still cooking off the next day, and no one allowed near the site, reports of toxic air, and breathing issues ……..just fireworks????

Cheers M
Lone Wolf on July 17, 2022 · at 8:54 am EST/EDT

Target: Kharkov

According to the “Military Chronicle” report, news they picked up from the Institute for the Study of War, they reported that Putin ordered to take the entire Kharkov oblast.

Take it with a grain of salt.

However, the civil administration was changed to a military-civilian one.

https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/sledujushhim_budet_kharkov_poslednie_novosti_na_ehtot_chas_iz_ukrainy_polden_segodnja_17_ijulja_18_video/60-1-0-12615

Next will be KHARKOV! Latest news for this hour from Ukraine: noon today July 17 (18 videos)

“Western mercenaries from the Kraken were transferred to Seversk. This is reported by the sources of the wargonzo project on the Donbas frontline. Militants from the Kraken terrorist group, which is a subsidiary of Azov, were spotted in the Northern direction just a couple of days ago. They were transferred here from the Kharkov front in order to complicate the advance of the Allied forces to Slavyansk-Kramatorsk.

Interesting news on Kharkiv: Putin ordered Russian forces to take control of the entire Kharkiv region. This is reported by ISW in its daily report. This is the Institute for the Study of War, an American center. Military commandants’ offices began work in the Kharkiv region. In this regard, the name of the administration was transformed into a military-civilian one, announced its head Vitaly Ganchev…”

Lone Wolf
Now on July 18, 2022 · at 6:06 am EST/EDT

What can we do for peace? I wrote letters, tried to communicate at both (and more) directions – all in vain! No answer…:-((( Why?

So what can we do to make peace with Russia?

Who wants this war and wthat can we do to fulfill OUR will?