For the Saker Blog by Saker Staff with thanks to Pepe Escobar for that prescient title
Nazi Azovites – from rats in a hole to fish in a barrel – This is what denazification looks like!
The New York Times prevaricates as follows: Ukraine ended its “combat mission” in Mariupol and said fighters were being evacuated, signaling that the battle at a steel plant was over. https://nyti.ms/3sIon9B
Zelensky adds some Ukrainian/Cocainian dreams to that: “The evacuation mission from Azovstal continues. It is led by our military and intelligence officers.” (OK, Mr PianoDick, they’re being led straight into war criminal prison! – thank your military and intelligence officers for doing the job for the world!)
Dmitry Polyansky says it differently: “I didn’t know English has so many ways to express a single message: the #Azovnazis have unconditionally surrendered.”
Nightfall did not stop the surrender process. Ukrainians are still surrendering in crowds without stopping. Sufficient forces to deal with this are on the terrain and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR are kicking ass and taking prisoners.
Illumination rockets are constantly launched into the sky, which at least somehow facilitates the crawling out of underground inhabitants :)
These invincible heroes are emaciated, ragged, hungry and a pitiful sight.
Donetsk Defense HQ – 962 Azovites surrendered and the process continues. In the meantime, 11 servicemen of the 25th airborne brigade and seventeen of the 54th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to the side of the DPR. We hope this is the start of a mass surrender.
This is denazification and movies will be made and books will be written. After this major loss of prestige, expect a doozy of a false flag.
Starting point today is the MoD report and somewhat reformatted for ease of use.
💥Over a day, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit
- 2 command posts, including the territorial defense headquarters near Soledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic,
- as well as 31 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment, including locations of foreign mercenary units from European countries in Nikolaev and Krasnogorovka.
- In addition, 2 Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft have been destroyed at a military airfield near Dnepropetrovsk, 1 division of Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems near Nikolaev, as well as 4 ammunition depots for missile and artillery weapons and ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Ugledar, Pokrovskoe, Soledar and Bakhmut, Donetsk People’s Republic.
✈️💥Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit
- 3 command posts,
- 41 areas of concentration of AFU manpower and military equipment, as well as
- 1 ammunition depot near Ugledar, Donetsk People’s Republic.
- The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 270 nationalists and up to 54 armoured and motor vehicles.
💥Missile troops and artillery have hit
- 76 command posts,
- 421 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as
- 147 artillery and mortar units at firing positions, including
- 1 Ukrainian battery of US-made 155mm M777 howitzers near Pogornoe.
- 1 pontoon crossing point equipped by Ukrainian Armed Forces to cross the Severskyi Donets River has been destroyed near Protopopovka, Kharkov Region.
💥Russian air defence means have shot down
- 1 Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft over Tripolie, Donetsk people’s republic.
- 1 Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 has been shot down near Kamennaya Yaruga, Kharkov Region.
- 15 Ukrainian UAVs have been shot down near Semenovka, Velikie Prokhody, Balakleya, Malye Prokhody, Velikaya Kamyshevakha in Kharkov Region, Rudnichnyi, Grabskoe, Staromikhailovka, Volnoe in Donetsk People’s Republic, Belyaevka, Chernobaevka in Kherson Region.
- 8 Ukrainian Smerch multiple-launch rockets have been also intercepted near Kamenka and Malaya Kamyshevakha, Kharkov Region.
Not too shabby for a day’s work. And they will repeat it, and repeat it, and rinse, and repeat it again.
Secrets from Azovstal and surroundings are beginning to be revealed. There will be many!
How the OSCE mission cooperated with the Azov terrorists
The filming crew of IA “Arbelet” was the first to visit the territory where the OSCE mission in Mariupol was located. Among other valuable finds, they found two mortar positions, equipped directly near the mission’s administrative building. The mortars themselves and their ammunition are of Italian origin, as evidenced by the markings. Another noteworthy fact: the last delivery of the Italian BC is dated March 11, 2022.
Do ordinary Italians know that their authorities are helping outright terrorists of the national battalions? How will the OSCE comment on the fact that they were in clear collusion with the terrorists, allowing “Azov” to fire from their territory? How, after these facts, will the OSCE be able to clean up their reputation at all?
(Sidebar: Do you now understand why Russia is leaving international organizations? Simple, these organizations are corrupt to the extent that they cannot be reformed but they have to be broken. Mr Lavrov today is meeting with SCO Secretary-General Ming where new structures are being built.)
Update from Brian Berletic: He views the canoodling from western sources and he hoists them on their own petard. Do take a listen, specifically Brian’s explanation of how the Russian command and soldiers keep certain areas ‘fixed’.
Here is another example of such a ‘fix’. The Russian army attacked Ukrainian defense facilities in the Odessa region with precision weapons from the Black Sea. This information is confirmed by the Ukrainian operational command “South”. https://t.me/intelslava/29149
(Sidebar: Today in Odessa – On this day “Russian Spring”
May 18, 2014 – “Odessa is a Russian city”, “Donbass – we are with you” – such slogans sounded at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa.
Hundreds of protesters with Russian flags and banners of the Victory came out not only to honor the memory of those killed in the May 2 tragedy, but also to show the Ukrainian Nazis that Odessans are Russian people who are not afraid of the Kyiv punishers.)
Is the Russian SMO beginning to touch hearts and minds? Remember the stories that Russia underestimated the willingness of the Ukrainian people to support the denazification.
Telescoping into the current pic on a map we see that cauldrons do not come in onesies any longer but in threes:
Readovka on the fronts
Kharkiv Front. The fighting in the area of Kazachya Lopan and the village of Liptsy is of a positional nature. The enemy in the area of Ternovka reached the border MASS MEDIA: Ukrainian Armed Forces have reached the Russian-Ukrainian border in Kharkiv region. Ukraine conducted a counterattack in the north-east of the Russian Federation, and is also probing the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Volchansk. The Russian Armed Forces do not conduct active offensive operations in the Kharkiv direction.
On the Izyum part of the front, fighting continues in the area of Kamyshevakha, Kurulka and Dolgenky. The enemy continues to try to strain the flank of the Russian group to the north-west of Izyum, forcing the Seversky Donets. In the Slavic direction, the troops took Drobyshevo and Krasny Liman in a semicircle. The front also approached Svyatogorsk.
In the Luhansk-Donetsk part of the front, fighting continues in the area of Kamyshevakha, north of Popasna. There are also battles for Toshkovka. There are attempts to enter the flank and rear of the fortified area in Gorsky and Zolotoy. Fighting continues on the outskirts of Severodonetsk, as well as to the west of Lisichansk in the area of Privolye and Belogorovka. According to unconfirmed reports, Russian troops occupied the town of New York.
On the Zaporozhye part of the front without any special changes. An attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack in the area of Malinovka ended in failure and heavy losses. The battles here are of a positional nature all the way from Gulyai-Pole to Velikaya Novoselovka. The enemy is moving part of the reserves from the Zaporizhia direction to the Donbass, where the situation for the Severodonetsk group is rapidly deteriorating. Heavy fighting continues in the area of Novomikhailovka and Ugledar.
On the Southern Front, the development of the offensive is not yet taking place. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are waiting for the landing of Russian troops in the Odessa region and are working on mining the entire coast. In the Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih directions, the Ukrainian command is accumulating forces to uncover weaknesses in the Russian positions.
On arrival, it is already traditional – the APU shelled Petrovsky district Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Petrovsky district of Donetsk. The shell hit the school grounds Donetsk, a shell hit the school territory. The Ukrainian side also shelled the outskirts of Kherson, which resulted in the death of one civilian.
SmoothieX12 is correct when he says that the only battle that the Ukrainians know, is the battle taught to them by their NATO advisors, which is to shell civilian territory and hide behind civilians.
The battlefront is still in a relatively chaotic state, but Russia is now forming and shaping it.
Let’s take a look at Martyanov’s levels of war as we can categorize from this handy depiction:
Finland and Sweden formally submit applications to join NATO – currently, it is harassment but may well move up the scale to major operations. We cannot say where Russia will stop.
FM Lavrov: “Ukraine… No one wants Ukraine. They are an expendable country in this hybrid war against Russian Federation. No one has doubts anymore”. The language from Russian sources has changed and they now say clearly that Ukraine is a tool and the fight is against Russia by the West.
Weapons
Russian self-propelled howitzers “Msta-S” and “Acacia-M” are being put to good use and they destroy armored vehicles and fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Distance of fire is up to 30 km and they use high-explosive fragmentation projectiles that can destroy buried concrete fortifications of the enemy. https://t.me/intelslava/29140
Incoming weapons. On the Polish-Ukrainian border, seven South African-made Mamba Mk2 EE armored vehicles transferred to Ukraine by Estonia as military assistance were seen. These vehicles were specifically produced for the Estonian army.
We have to conclude if we can see these armored vehicles via telegram channel on the Polish border, then the Russian forces can see them too. And ditto for all other incoming weapons.
There are smaller reports of new Russian artillery weapons appearing in the field of battle, but it is limited as yet.
Major Fail, other than war.
Washington failed to get the summit with the ASEAN countries to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ASEAN nations are Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines.
Another failure of freezing funds: Switzerland released $6.33 billion of Russia’s frozen funds.
We end with biolabs
Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy gives key takeaways from the last UN Security Council meeting on US biolabs in Ukraine:
- The US refuses to explain its engagement in military bio activities in Ukraine. Keeps shrugging off several hundred pages of evidence. “These are all lies and Russia’s propaganda, and we are good guys because it can’t be otherwise”. Not a word on the point of discussion.
- Western delegations are praising the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and calling on us to make use of its mechanisms. They fail to mention however that it is the US who is blocking the elaboration of BWC verification mechanism. Such a hypocricy!
- The US refuses to explain why it doesn’t want an effective international verification mechanism for bio weapons. Why act like this unless you are trying to conceal something? Why does Washington position itself above the international law? American exceptionalism at its best.
Main conclusion: we have definitely hit their soft spot. It’s clear for any unbiased observer that they are obscuring the issue and trying to divert attention from this uncomfortable topic trying to discourage us to raise it by repeating mantras on “Russian aggression” etc.
So stay tuned, there’s more evidence on US military biological programs to follow!
Top level headline in China’s Global Times today: ‘Neo-Nazism’ poisons Ukraine, Europe under US, West’s connivance
That is it for today. Enjoy your discussion and be careful with the Ukie propaganda. It is everywhere.
Was looking at new vid of captured NATO weapons, lots of different equip from different countries. Hopefully they are put to good use, the ones that work, and sent back with warm greetings……..
RF reached out and touched two NATO holiday camps and toy storage areas close to the Polish border, sometimes practical demonstrations work best….
I understand Ritter’s concern but most weapons, due to security, need to be stored somewhere. Blowing them up, at location, must really be knotting ZATO knickers.
Cheers M
Looks like the US howitzers don’t last very long in Ukraine.
https://t.me/RVvoenkor/12621
I’m puzzled by that video. It appears the Russians started by sending a harmless firecracker aimed at empty ground in between the weapons, which had the immediate effect that they went scurrying into the forest, where they were (we assume) destroyed by MLRS. One has to assume that this was deliberate, but why? Wouldn’t it be easier to make sure the destruction was effective while in the open? Or does the forest somehow enhance the result?
@BM There’s a longer wide angle version of the video further down the page, including the towed M777 howitzers & vehicles of the moving convoy on the road behind tree line.
The strike Lit them up quite thoroughly by the looks of it, the description reads: The crews abandoned the equipment, and the position on foot…
Z
To keep the weapons intact as proof maybe?
First round is usually a ranging round, often smoke, then the shooters adjust and send in the real stuff. Today the second round usually is corrected both directions. In the old days, it took 3 rounds to correct onto target.
The fact that first round hit dead center speaks to the high quality of that gun crew.
That’s how you know John Wayne is your artillery spotter. Anybody else brackets and takes three or more shots before calling fire for effect. John Wayne squints his eye, holds his thumb up, tests the wind and adjusts one time for both range and direction.
Don´t know about this situation but during WWII troops that caught another force(unentrenched) in a wooden area often aimed their heavy weapons towards the trees since explosions on them gives many extra shrapnels.
This was precisely the same situation faced in Lai Khe, Viet Nam (called “rocket city”) Due to stand off
position of NVA regulars not getting close enough to our base camp there to overrun us (1st Inv Div) but
were able to harass us with timed release rockets.
Problem for us was our base camp was a converted rubber plantation (deserted French villa) and rockets overshooting us could/would explode overhead from contact with the many trees.-So why weren”t these trees
cut down? Don’t ask me I was just a Spec 4 enduring it from 10 June 1969 thru 10 June 1970.
I find it perplexing that a war criminal come s oh here to brag about his criminal past. All US war crims need toi be tried and executed,
Scott Ritter now seems to be controlled opposition. Has he been threatened or has he received sufficient inducement to push Ukro propaganda?
Credibility and being on the right side of an armed conflict outweighs financial inducements.
When Russia smashes these scum there’ll be thousands of books written to record it; money will come for those who have held firm. Who’s going to rush out now and buy Ritter’s material?
You hit nail on the head….every person has a price whether that be money or death.
Well obviously you are speculating! Speculators are thick on the ground in the collective west!
Scott’s concerns about artillery were valid especially with the long range ones deployed in sufficient numbers! That will not happen the Russians are too organised for that but he thought it was a concern.
Hard to tell, Rafael. Ritter has been easily targeted by some in the US who seem to sense a general weakness in his personality.
He was raked over the coals as being involved in homosexuality. Then when he was thrown off Twitter, he went on for days whining about that. Compare that whining to when Pepe Escobar’s time on Twitter lasted 6 months. Pepe simply laughed it off.
The other, possibly significant weakness of Ritter is his lack of understanding of Russia, it’s culture, history and its society. After all, Ritter is an American, and no matter how skilled he is about US warfare, he appears to be a typically uneducated citizen who has never studied the whole of Eurasia and its ancient conflicts of the past.
Whatever the case may be, we sense he has lost a lot of credibility and rightly so.
Scott appears to believe that if tons of various weapons are given to Ukraine it not only can incorporate their use into its fight against The Invaders, Ukraine has enough trained personnel to operate any donated ‘advanced’ weaponry…All the weapons being donated are a distraction…
When the US believes the Russians are exhausted, it will get Zelensky to invite US/NATO forces in to Ukraine to ‘help’ repel/kick out The Invaders, even get Zelensky to declare a No Fly Zone…Then the US will hit The Russians with a version of its Shock & Awe…
If there’s no remaining Kiev forces in the Republics, Kiev will have no qualms about using Shock & Awe to recover ‘its territory’…
I’ve noticed this too, I think the main strategy of the US is to make it seem like Putin is weak so he is overthrown by a hardliner. Scott may be a part of this strategy to help the US.
Is there any chance that Russia will ” Reach out and touch ” the real head of the snake in Davos?
No money in that for the arms dealers.
It looks to me that lately Ukrops are loosing plenty of SU/MiG jets. To me, Ukraine was hiding these jets for the first two month and did not fly them much. Now Russia shoots down everyday one or few. This might mean that Ukraine is running out steam and pulling out their ‘secret’ cards
Slowly the Kiev supporters will understand that they are fighting a lost fight, since the true is coming and the costs are deteriorating their economies. Don’t worry guys, the general “winter” will appear soon and make the things still worse.
In my opinion, the vast majority of Ukraine’s air forces were destroyed on the ground by Russian cruise missiles in the first hour of the SMO. The aircraft recently shot down are ones supplied by the US from other countries and staged out of southern Poland.
In a related example, the Mi-17s being supplied by the US to Ukraine actually belong to Afghanistan. They were out of the country for overhaul when the US withdrew and were then confiscated. Some were already in Ukraine when the SMO started.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43950/u-s-clears-the-way-for-transferring-ex-afghan-mi-17-helicopters-to-ukraine-report
The US stole planes from Afghanistan?
Yes helicopters which they don’t want to return now to Taliban leadership. But techically it’s still theft. Maybe they can argue they paid for them with all the gear left behind in a hurry.
My guess is the ones that were fully operational in Feb are long gone, but there were non-functional spares in reserve which needed refurbishment. Perhaps in the ballpark of 100 or so of the relevant types (ie Su24,Su25,Mig29,Su27), beyond what is reported destroyed. Including a few dozen imports. Also a factor is that the count of aircraft destroyed on the runway could, in part, be decoys or junk airframes with no hope of fixing.
The rate we’re seeing fixed wing aircraft shot down, something like 5-10 a week, implies regular daily strikes, prob in pairs or fours and only rarely anything more ambitious. The life expectancy would be short against Russian air defenses, but they can still do big damage, especially if they’re willing to die trying (eg Su24’s in marine strike role).
Overall rate is limited by whatever rate they can be refurbished at – with the infrastructure for that also mostly knocked out, but probably maintenance services available from eastern euro NATO countries (at the cost of yet more transport and/or field logistics).
What still amazes me to this day is that some Ukrops left are still fighting for their Corrupt government, last failed counter-attack in Zaporozi, around 300 Ukrops and 10 Tanks & BMPs liquidated.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/58A9n312avlA/
How come can you not realize that you are being marched into death??? If they meant to surrender then they had chosen to be in a wrong time and a wrong place… I guess it is hard to grow conscious for Ukrops nowadays after 8 years of full-choked BS and Propaganda, poor poor losers.
It’s all starting to unravel now,as expected I hope truth will cut
through the fog of war,and a real reckoning takes place,for
the sake of the many dead and maimed in this tragic nightmare.
The visit of authorities from US to Mr. Shoigu is a evidence that the things are bad to west. The true is a force of universe and will prevail.
Who is this guy? Comment found at Zerohedge:
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/epxybk/mikhail-khodarenok-russian-state-tv
Mikhail Khodarenok, a Soviet-era colonel, told a panel show “the whole world is against us, even if we don’t want to admit it”.
Mikhail Khodarenok, a former air defence commander and graduate of some of the Soviet Union’s top military schools, warned against taking “information sedatives”, saying that propaganda reports claiming Ukrainian morale is on the verge of collapse are “to put it mildly, not true”, on Russian State TV yesterday.
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/epxybk/mikhail-khodarenok-russian-state-tv
He said that Ukraine can mobilise a million soldiers and will be able to arm them with the help of its Western allies, meaning that “the situation will clearly get worse for us.
“The most important thing here, again, looking at the big picture, from a general strategic standpoint, is not, for goodness sake, to brandish missiles in the direction of Finland. This looks comical.”
“The biggest problem with our political and military situation is that we’re in total geopolitical isolation and the whole world is against us, even if we don’t want to admit it.”
Old school. Has not realized China’s role, or is still living in the 1980’s.
Vice News is Lügenpresse and was from at least 2014. A few good writers very temporarily published at VIce before learning what it really is. I suppose those writers got their arms twisted to twist the stories and then quit, because I know that happened with other writers at similar fake news sites.
As for this Colonel, there is a small warehouse of 1990’s era ex-Soviet “defectors” willing to say anything – for money.
Is Vice News aka Soros News?
Andrei Martyanov takes him apart in this article:
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/larry-johnson-and-hyperbole-mikhail.html
Here is a sample. There is much more shredding Andrei does. Read it all.
“First, about his qualifications as a competent observer of the international arena–he has none. Nor is he that good of a General Staff officer since I personally know people who retired in the same rank as officer-operators but much later (a decade later) and know things Khodaryonok, who is stuck in 1990s psychologically and militarily, could not have possibly learn in 1998 or 2000. They are also much better professionals. But the audacity of this loser to offer his judgement on “isolation” and foreign affairs is remarkable. Not to mention the fact that he, being excluded from modern General Staff of Russia due to retiree status, can not possibly have any inkling about how modern command and control work and what intel is processed there.”
en dehors du bloc atlantistes le monde entier est avec les russes , et les nations d’afrique asie et problement meme amerique latine sont avec la russie , si les russes perdent cette guerre , le reste du monde sera condamné
traduction / translation
outside the Atlanticist bloc the whole world is with the Russians, and the nations of Africa, Asia and even Latin America are with Russia, if the Russians lose this war, the rest of the world will be doomed.
If I were Putin and Shoigu, I would drop Tsar bomb in the Atlantic to show we mean business.
https://youtu.be/YtCTzbh4mNQ
The Volksturm’s aim was to induct 6 million Germans and we can see how that turned out. In fact in 1944 Germany was producing more weapons than they could find soldiers to use them.
A few weeks ago my thought was that Biden, Bojo and the Zelensky puppet would insist on going through the Ukraine refugee populations and comb out all of the men (and women) who could qualify for military service and send them back to Ukraine. It makes sense, as the Western psychopaths started the war, are forcing their citizens to pay for it (directly or through deprivation) …so why not force the Ukrainians to fight it?
I would think that as things disintegrate in Ukraine, drafting military eligible Ukraine refugees/emigres would occur before NATO put its own boots on the ground?
Rokossovsky Very good point. You know I think ur observation may well prove to be right.
If there are a million trained troops available why is Ukraine sending the equivalent of ‘Dads Army’ – poorly trained local defence volunteers (essentially local civilian militias) – to the front line to be slaughtered or surrender?
Makes no sense whatsoever in any terms. Particularity when they are desperate for any kind of valid and solid success of victory.
Perhaps, as Oddball observed in the film ‘Kelly’s Hero’s”, they are being held in reserve in case the Russians threaten Paris, or maybe New York?
Sounds like someone has been at the kool aid again.
The middle class and wealthier men in Ukraine have left the country or hiding. The cost to avoid conscription was a $1200 bribe. They only get the poor and old men now in the Ukraine to drag into the army. Some of these guys are very poor and desparate for a paycheck. What an awful and corrupt country. Just like Vietnam where mostly the poor American young men got to fight and die for the C*A Indochina opium business and LBJ making money off defense contracts.
They don’t care if they kill and murder poor and old Ukrainians to “weaken Russia.” These people are so sick and evil.
Russians already took control of Нью Йорк actually :-D
Col. (USA retired) Daniel L. Davis has a series at 1945 entitled, “How Ukraine Can Drive Russia Out.” It involves arming and training more Ukrainians.
The problem with this is it is not a matter of just of weapons and personnel but training an army in combined arms warfare while the Russian military is not sitting by just watching. Moreover, the present NATO-armed and trained forces suggest that this approach is insufficient to the task of holding off the Russian military, let alone defeating it. Seems to be wishful thinking bordering on the delusional.
Moreover, he doesn’t understand the Russian plan of attack viewed in retrospect, reflecting the predominant view of US military “experts.”
Counterattack: How Ukraine Can Drive Russia Out (Part I)
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/05/ukraine-plan-to-win/
Part 1contains a link to part 2
Mr. Martyanov calls him a sell-out, a fifth column wh*re that works for the Bankers and especially Mr. Satanovsky.
Link: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
I can recognize the sell out, but not Mr. Satanovsky. Satanovsky has due info some times which is not found other places.
I first met him when he told about Chinese reports from Russia’s taking out an ISIS stronghold south of Damascus including eliminating 200 British Royal Special Forces plus Israeli/US mercenaries in 2018. Remember when PM May became hysteric in BBC. https://vk.com/video-52620949_456246868
Maybe Satanovsky is neocon but he has due info some times. I would be careful about labelling people without profound documented evidence.
“Exodus of Russia from Western slavery”, https://vk.com/video-52620949_456246868
In EVERY(!) single country in the world, there is a government and a smaller or bigger group of people who criticize this government (with the exception of North Korea – maybe). So why bother about Khodarenok?
“That is it for today. Enjoy your discussion and be careful with the Ukie propaganda. It is everywhere.”
Recently there had been a few tourists on the site acting suspiciously like the information war branch of Israël armed forces. Typical fake concern introduction (I support Russia but…) followed by paragraphs after paragraphs of tortuous explications of why Russia is failing, why we’re stupid for falling for Kremlin propaganda and pleading for the visitors of the site to accept the future annihilation of Russia (for what purpose exactly?). The fact such gaslighting is funded by a governement is beyond me.
I support Russia, but….
This is the dead giveaway, i always stop reading at that point as they are almost definitely Nato shills.
Edward Curtain has an excellent essay on Dissident Voice about inserting lies carefully in so-called truth telling in order to hornswoggle people. I always stop when I read “Russian invasion.”
Remember the stated Nato objective is Regime Change in Russia.
Nato want’s a Yeltsin, so it can loot what Obama called a gas-station.
The but-butters will not get their Yeltsin, rather they will be blinded by these : Peresvet.
Hey, where are the pics and videos of mangled ukronazi corpses, you have to feed my addiction as nightvision used to do.
Nightvision, these guys don’t stand comparison to your poignant graphic content, please come back.
That Bitchute channel is still posting stuff.
I’d like to express my deepest hopes that there will be some way to encircle, cut off, these Ukr soldiers as soon as reasonably possible and wait for their surrender.
Yes my reason and my heart are with Russia, it is just and provoked defensive war, but my soul is with regular soldiers and their families on both sides. And civilians, poor them. Not all of Ukr soldiers are pronazi or nazi. God punish those who cooked that war.
Slav lives matter!
Me too.
I can not trade a tragedy in the past to a new one for a pound of meat.
I`d rather not start now…
Excellent analysis of the situation! So rare to find this kind of honest and succinct information. Thank you so much.
Great to see China’s reporting on the Nazi’s :
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202205/1265888.shtml
This will upset the US Falun Gong crowd in Taipei!
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous , but to be a friend is fatal .
– Henry Kissinger
With friend like USA, you don’t need enemies. ;-) There is an old bulgarian prayer: Боже, пази ме от приятелите; от враговете си ще се опазя сам. Roughly translated it means: Lord, protect me from my friends; from the enemies I can protect myself.
Curious, here in italy we have a proverb with kind the same meaning:
“Dagli amici mi guardi Dio, che dai nemici mi guardo io” (it means literally: “may God look at my friends while I look at my enemies”
‘ Do you now understand why Russia is leaving international organizations? Simple, these organizations are corrupt to the extent that they cannot be reformed but they have to be broken.’
Often ask those around me, what institution can we trust? Is this Bio-weapons industry stuff why they still seem so cocky. You ain’t seen nothing yet, now you’ve made us angry.
WHO has just been exposed in altenative media (as worse than Gestapo). That may be the background.
Russia is winning on many fronts.
The combined West is losing on many fronts.
But the issue for the head of the combined west (i.e., the US) is the fact that Russia is winning on the financial front, especially the US$ being clobbered by the ruble.
Protecting the US$ has always been one of the primary motives behind this US’s move to destroy Russia.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-truth-about-the-conflict-with-russia/
I see this as a point without return. A world economy based on a basket of currencies is mandatory. We can not keep the current system in USD where a country determines the future considering its evil motivations.
It’s quiet amazing to watch the level of professionalism of the Russian soldiers treating the poor drugged/brainwashed Ukrainians leaving Azovstal. Western ziomedia is so shocked they simply stopped reporting on this important development altogether, except utterance of baloney. Absolutely humane treatment of the prisoners by Russia, congratulations. All those Ukrainians that surrendered simply walked out carrying their belongings with them. No blindfolding stuff, no handcuffs, just walked into clean buses having their private seats like ordinary people. No pushing, shoving etc. For sure if this was the US military, we would have witnessed kicking, blindfolding, handcuffing, throwing a whole bunch of them unto back of construction trucks and other maltreatment of the POWs, such as we remember happening in Libya and other places especially when NATO-backed militants took Momamar Ghadafi. It’s a shame on the part of US and NATO that will never be forgotten in history. It makes NATO the army of bandits with tattoos by comparison. A big thank you to Russia.
yes sir, i make the same observation. Russian military totally professional. US equivalent behavior like vigilantes.
Actually, you’re mistaken – the US behave like thugs.
In western news they say that a Russian soldier has admitted/confessed that he “shot a civilian in the back”.
We, who are aware of the horrible torture of Russian POWs by the Ukranians, will of course understand that such a statement (if it happened) is only made under severe duress, just to not be tortured to death.
The “evidence” is a CCTV camera, shoving a person in Russian uniform shooting a person in the back.
As if nobody in Ukraine ever thought of the idea of staging a “false flag” event….
Of course it could be western press lying about the whole thing altogether, as usual, but if not, that poor Russian POW is (in my opinion) simply forced to make a false confession.
(Oh, how I hate these evil people! I try not to hate, but I fail miserably….)
For those wondering what’s happening to US howitzer M777 in Donbass, here’s a partial answer. There is a video in the original link. (Article can easily be translated to English by Google Chrome)
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The arrival of the UAV-kamikaze “Cube” on the American howitzer M777 in the Donbas was caught on video
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https://topcor.ru/25739-prilet-bpla-kamikadze-kub-po-amerikanskoj-gaubice-m777-na-donbasse-popal-na-video.html
Well, that is the end of that. (lol) Thanks for posting!
Here is another:
AMERICAN M777 HOWITZER DESTINED FOR UKRAINE FELL OVER
https://www.bitchute.com/video/npZKdjAH6WHa/
I wonder if that was deliberate? The last place I would want to go with an M777 is the frontline, better to spend a few days at the repair shop. (lol)
One of the things I have noticed after watching a lot of videos is that the Russians seem to do a light preliminary bombardment, that isn’t very specific in accuracy, but is enough to drive the Ukrainians into their trenches and once they are in the trenches they finish them off with pinpoint accuracy. I would be more frightened of my pre-prepared positions than I would be out in the open (as bad as that is) in this war.
Howsey howsey howsey – Gone-gone-gone
Die JewSA/NATO begann ihre Einkreisung Russlands mit einer ausgesprochen phantasievollen These: Es ginge ihrer Meinung nach alles gemäß ihrer “regelbasierten (Welt)Ordnung”.
Aber die humorlosen Russen antworten unanständig stur mit ihren blöden Fakten, Fakten, Fakten. Bei der Zerlegung der Ukraine als benutzten NATO-Stellvertreter/Fußabtreter gingen sie entsprechend ihrer zwar primitiven, halbkommunistischen, jedoch Gold gedeckten
REALITÄTSBASIERTEN WELTORDNUNG
vor.
Die Russen missbrauchen ihre unfaire, bedauerliche Überlegenheit (Bodenschätze von Gold bis Erdöl etc., Militärtechnik Vorsprung und Militär Sieger Strategie, der stärksten Welt Währung Rubel) um die chirurgische Entmilitarisierung/Entnazifizierung Militäroperation abschließend siegreich zu enden. Und ihre Frau SACHAROWA erklärt, diese MSO wäre Beendigung des achtjährigen (2014-2022) UKRO-Vernichtungs-Krieges von Russen im Donbass.
The JewSA/NATO started their encirclement of Russia with a decidedly imaginative thesis: in their opinion, everything would go according to their “rule-based (world) order”.
But the humorless Russians indecently stubbornly answer with their stupid facts, facts, facts. In dismantling Ukraine as a used NATO proxy/foot-dragger, they went according to their admittedly primitive, semi-communist, but gold-covered
REALITY-BASED WORLD ORDER
proceeded.
The Russians abuse their unfair, deplorable superiority (mineral resources from gold to oil etc., military technology advantage and military victor strategy, the strongest world currency ruble) to end the surgical demilitarization/de-nazification military operation conclusively victorious. And her wife SAKHAROVA declares this MSO would be ending the eight-year (2014-2022) UKRO-war of destruction by Russians in Donbass.
Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Good Sitrep.
“Russian air defence means have shot down
1 Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft over Tripolie, Donetsk people’s republic.
1 Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 has been shot down near Kamennaya Yaruga, Kharkov Region.”
These planes keep flying (up to now). The Russians are not going to tell us if or what damage these planes caused. We don’t get that information from them, as simple as that. The MSM may report based on what the Ukrainian government reports, so the information is dubious. Some things can only be deduced. The Ukrainians planes must be attacking the Russian artillery positions. They are brought down, probably not always before they have done some damage.
One of the Donbas soliders said that they come and attack, but rarely manage to get back.
“They are brought down, probably not always before they have done some damage”
Even if this were true, which we don’t really know, it is akin of using a rook, in a chess game, to capture a pawn and losing the rook in the next round. An aircraft is a rather expensive weapon to be used in an expendable way like that.
Besides, a plane is not much useful without intelligence on what to attack. My guess is the damage inflicted by these planes are rather limited.
In many cases, targeting assistance is provided by the US/NATO.
Probably they did. As expected. But, a combat airplane: how many runs, what the distance and how altitude wise.
Russians fighting Russians.
There is a long standing and documented phenomenon of Serbs in Austro-Hungarian army, surrounded and artillery heavily pounded in WW1 (Kolubara front), who refused to surrender to fellow Serbs from Serbia, many of them known relatives. “Have you ever heard, brother Serb, that we Serbs never surrender?”
Think about it. That’s us, Slavs.
Some of us might be deadly wrong, but we’re not jerks.
Slav lives matter!
Absolute lie. Serbs in Austro-Hungarian army were kept away from that particular front, Austrians knowing well that they would not fight. On the other hand a Croat and a yougoslav president Tito, a member of the Devil’s regiment was very happy to shot at Sebian soldiers and civilians. Photographic evidence exists…
‘Nazi Azovites – from rats in a hole to fish in a barrel – This is what denazification looks like!’
Those ‘fish in a barrel’ had better hope that it gets no worse for them than mere confinement. In particular, they might want to watch closely for a decision from Russia’s Supreme Count currently considering a request from the Prosecutor General’s Office to recognize the Azov paramilitary unit as a terrorist organization. And they might also want to be aware of the Russian Duma now considering a law to prevent prisoner exchanges with Ukraine.
If both are affirmed, as seems quite likely, the implications for their PoW status won’t be much to their liking regardless of any possible transfer to Russian jurisdiction from the Donetsk People’s Republic where they could already face the death penalty for war crimes. In any case, their eight+ years of deadly “fun and games” at the expense of innocent civilians appears to be over and any sympathy for their current predicament from this quarter is entirely non-existent.
Ref1: https://tass.com/society/1452197
Ref2: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/17/7346780/
The jurisdiction issue has some interesting political implications. I’d suppose the Ukronazis could expect to fare better going on trial in Russia than in the DPR where they’d be tried by the same people they’ve been terrorizing all these years.
In that case the Russian prosecution could demand they plead guilty to war crimes, with their plea including a formal recognition of the legitimacy of the tribunal, in exchange for their lives. Otherwise, back to the DPR they go to face the death penalty.
The Information comrade which will be processed after Russian interrogation of the Nazis will show US-NATO in a very very bad light, the extent to which military historical writers will draft several volumes of a War & Peace-esque nature. The NATO trainers/commanders captured will become infamous overnight.
Headline – The captured Nazi brigades are helping Russian military police with their enquiries – Sing for your supper, vermin.
Here is a choir ready to sing :
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QwagRIf7UOPQ/
A few good shiners (black-eyes) among that rag-tag bunch.
Imagine if that was a line of captured US-EU leaders, you know, the ones giving the orders.
Arvy,
This is worth the full 45 mins of struggling through the English subtitles. These are the people that all of the enlightened progressive Ukraine flag emoji social justice seeking people in the West are supporting:
TORTURE IN UKRAINE: INTERVIEW WITH LAURENT BRAYARD (ENG SUBS, FRENCH LANG)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yAJhR4xOUamk/
For anyone that supports Russia because of NATO expansion, US regime changes around the world, suppression of the Global South through IMF/WB debt, etc… the above video is worse than any 18+++ video ever posted here. It will make your blood boil that the United States (and the Red Cross and UN) is supporting the Zelensky regime.
I noticed that Putin said in his initial speech announcing the SMO that they would “hunt down the perpetrators of the Odessa Trade Union Fire” and I thought it was an odd “detail” to add after all of the other Western provocations, but now I see why he included it.
The world will be shocked by what has been going on in the Ukraine since 2014, provided they take the time to listen to 45 minute videos like the one above.
So, what happens to those Azov prisoners isn’t really up to the Russians, as they will be called to account for their crimes by other Ukrainians.
Re the Odessa trade building arson massacre.. during WW2 the nazis, banderites would burn people alive, hundreds of villages burned to the ground, is my understanding. Is this partly why the (justifiable) mention/anger from Putin?
Thanks for the link, Rokossovsky. In fact, I had actually stumbled upon that video earlier, but I had to give up after only a few minutes, and it wasn’t the subtitles or my poor language skills that made me quit. I did struggle trough it all eventually. Shocking hardly begins to describe the inhumanity of some of those who claim membership in the human race. There are times when one is forced to wonder whether total annihilation of the currently dominant species and a fresh start for this tired old planet would be entirely a bad thing.
On my cell the video stalls on the first frame with a subtitle that the guy’s wife is Russian but babbles on in French. The video is still up on YouTube though. Maybe the YouTube censors don’t speak French.. Here’s a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8CDs6y4wFo
I can almost understand the French but it would take me a long time.
That guy is an exmilitary turned businessman frenchman living in Russia for decades now, and his weekly videos in odissey and rumble are among the best non-Zone A-biased info you can find in French about Ukraine, with a focus on the EU, French, and NATO shameful involvement.. a must see.
What happened to Nightvision? Or is this Nightvision under a different title?
He disappeared. He was keeping a tremendous pace with his great reports. I detected a couple of instances in the last report where there were some signs of tiredness, and I hope that’s it. In one he commented that few troops were being used as his explanation of something, but on another report he had said that you cannot win without enough troops on the ground (glad I didn’t ask or comment). He also had a link to a Ukrainian kid who was lying about the war and this was criticized by someone. Nightvision would not leave because of that; he was a commenter too. (He won’t be forgotten. I hope he just got tired…)
Yes, I hope he is still reading The Saker and is held in high regard here.
However, The Show Must Go On . . . . and what a fine show The Saker reservists are displaying.
Those 3 Cauldrons in the East will get Tighter over the next few Weeks.
One thing for certain – the “Cauldroned” Troop Concentrations will soon be out of Ammo/Food/Fuel/Working Gear if not so already. AirStrikes and Artillery should prompt the Wiser to Surrender and the Hopeless to Aggravate.
A pilot is more important and a good pilot is gold.
Bombing planes sitting in runway is ok if you want to gain air superiority but if you already have it its not worth the effort.
However a well trained pilot with years of flying experience is a good target to take out if action.
Fighter Pilots take couple of years to train. new pilots where they dont have enough spare airplanes ( repairs, spares etc) and money for fuel and maintenance are pretty much useless.
So older pilots dead are more valuable than a old or new plane.
If Russia can take our 70-80% of Ukraines pilots they will be set back for almost a decade.
They will set back for a century as Russia will never allow what’s left of NAZIraine to militarise.
How is it that Ukr Su-24 aircraft are not all yet destroyed? There appears to be many that surface and get shot down. How many do they have in their fleet and why do they keep flying given they are guaranteed to be shot down?
Or does the Ukr leadership not really care, if the equipment is operable it will be used regardless of the consequences?
Probably coming in from other Baltic countries, which all fly these planes. And like all militaries they do as they are told or else gets listed as a traitor, undesirable or some other name or perhaps shot.
Polish and Czech will front load the pilot missions, the former well trained, serving alongside the British air force from WW11.
I read this ad while browsing the employment section of The Financial Times. – Ex pilots wanted for kamikaze missions in Eastern Europe – Attractive 72 hour contract package with excellent remunerations for next of kin -Previous applicants need not apply.
I‘ve seen questions like this asked on other forums. I’m no expert, I’ll merely relay a summary of the answers and responses here.
Most modern air forces operate at something around 50% of their fleet being combat-ready; this can be as low as 30% at times. The remaining numbers are taken up by such things as maintenance or overhaul, or some units being set aside for training (not just pilots but the ground engineering crew as well).
The rest are reserved or mothballed (this is usually a cost control/saving measure), they can be fairly quickly brought into full combat-readiness by an inspection, then fuelling and weapon supplies.
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In a way I take reassurance from the penny numbers of Uke aircraft being shot down each day; it shows to me that Russia is successfully interrupting supplies of aviation fuel and weaponry, (as well as the command, control and radar posts) to the extent that the Ukes can only afford to fly a few missions a day, with the RF being content to pick them off as and when they show themselves. If there were to be a noticeable uptick in the number of sorties I have little doubt that Russia would pay more attention to where the aircraft are coming from. If they aren’t causing too much of a nuisance right now though it’s probably not deemed worth spending too much time over.
Notably absent from Ukro-Western propaganda is any crowing about ‘successful’ airborne missions…
May God now allow the American government to suffer rejection by the world and be held accountable for crimes against all of humanity.
As a fellow Pennsylvanian I concur with your desire but in order to facilitate real justice that desire must come to the puppet masters who pull our government official’s strings.
I’m convinced that almost all of them are simply bought off worthless whores.
America is “Babylon the great;” and, indeed, going down:
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! (Jer 50:23)
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (Rev 18:2)
The only escape is via the strait gate and narrow way of Jesus Christ. (Matt 7:13-14)
It appears,then, that Putins order to not storm the Azovstal plant was an excellent decision and worked very well.
Likely a stroke of collective political military genius. If it was all Mr Putins plan then kudos to him, but looking at the commitment, the SMO appears to have been an ‘all in’ for the long haul.
Cheers M
It is most likely that Putin’s generals presented him with several options. He had the good judgement to choose the best one.
Like when he asks to their commanded to retreat, avoiding unnecessary casualties. Mr. Putin is a master of political e military chess game.
>>>~ Putin’s decision to not storm the Azovstal plant was excellent.
Cmon. You don’t have to be a military strategist to figure that….
A couple of thousand people…. Not going anywhere and not receiving food.
It was only a matter of a month…anyone who could tie a shoe lace could figure that as strategy.
It became known about the use of laser weapons by Russia in Ukraine.
During a special operation in Ukraine, Russia uses laser weapons, which, due to their power, have great destructive power. In addition, the weapon allows you to save on expensive missile launches. Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov spoke about this in an interview with Channel One.
“They are already starting to enter the troops. Yes, the first samples are already being used in military operations in Ukraine.”
The laser complex used in Ukraine was named “Zadira” and is capable of hitting targets at a distance of 5 km. Its creation became known in 2017, when a contract was signed with the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics in Sarov for the development of this combat installation. The then Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Yuri Borisov, also took part in the signing of the agreement.
The Zadira is said to operate on some new physical principles. Apparently, the weapon is based on explosive magnetic generators that form powerful streams of electromagnetic radiation.
One of the priority areas of the institute’s activities is research in the field of electro-physics with the aim of creating strong pulsed magnetic fields and powerful energy sources based on explosive magnetic generators.
There’s the crack. — This is going to end, the Donbass situation, under pressure, by crumbling. The Azov battalion was the Ukraine’s crack neo-Nazi troops. The Azov battalion was supposed to crack the whip, but the Chechens, with Russian air support, artillery and tanks, cracked them, under the Avostal Steel Plant, like eggs. No one can take that kind of sustained pressure, sooner or later, something cracks.
Of Course, Ukraine has virtually unlimited monetary support now, with that RINO republican Mitch McConnell, and Stealer-of-the-House Pelosi having visited Kiev, but the Donbass army will crumble anyway, and the troops will surrender as did Azov battalion. It may take time and blood, but the end result is that Russia takes back the Donbass.
That’s phase II, and the surrender of the Azov battalion is a dress rehearsal for the fall of the Donbass. The propaganda outlets of course will try to spin it as a tactical retreat and strategic victory — but the word of western outlets is worthless.
In the West inflation will soar and crisis is around the corner. We’ll see what happens next.
You can’t hid reality, a liar’s lie only goes so far. Trouble is, it’s the West that pays the price — not disrespecting the sacrifice of so many lives and blood.
“In the West inflation will soar”. The great rise of energy and raw material prices happened from spring 2021 to March 2022. In US it was 7%, in EU 5%. Prices are going to rise now just on thumb rule: 10% in oil is 3% on average. Oil price has been between lower limit of 100$ to upper around 120$ since Feb 2022.
Most likely the inflation will be from 4% to 6% in 2023. Not devastating high like in 1974-76 and 1979-80.
What world are you living in? Inflation is 10 percent average a year at best and in some areas 25 percent. Diesel prices have skyrocketed as well as gasoline over 50 % since not long ago. Government reports are a joke. Since the last few years government has racked up trillions in debt, the spending doesn’t end, even though there is no money, to back it up. The government sells bonds and these are bought by money that is simply made up of nothing — fiat money, by a federal reserve that is not federal. It’s all a scam, and the West, the working class and poor will pay the price.
Alexander Mercouris stated his Energy costs were up 40% and a friend of his in Greece said his electricity bill rose from 90 Euros – 300 Euros per month.
Remember, as much as the Euro-lemmings spout Democracy, there’s still a 3 tiered Eurotrash system.
You still believe the Bankers figures? Just check the food prices yourself and then figure if they will go up or down when it becomes obvious that the Nitro for the corn, rye fields has halved and the soaring diesel&gas prices(projected to triple(x3) the coming year.
The Western Sheeple are as much a target by the Ruling class as the Russians, only the Russians understand that and fights back.
You can huff that Copium but it will bite you in the behind.
Mariupol was mostly liberated by DPR troops. Azovstal was also liberated by DPR forces. Mariupol is part of the DPR.
I can hardly imagine the jubilance the DPR militiamen must now feel, as well as gratitude to Russia, having vanquished this monster that had perpetrated terror and genocide on their brethren countrymen and women and children during the past 8 years. When it is all done, their families, friends and neighbors will welcome them home as heroes who, at long last, through great courage and sacrifice, will have brought justice and peace to the homeland. For those who lost loved ones, some form of closure, for their dearly departed now may rest in peace.
If they haven’t begun doing so broadcasting, via radio or loudspeaker, offers of surrender conditions to Ukrainian troops on the Donbass front might help move things along.
Typically a proper surrender requires someone who feels they have the authority/ability to do so. The Ukrainian forces in Donbass may be in such disarray that such coordination is no longer possible.
The common troops need instruction so that they may surrender on their own.
It may not be tenacity that keeps the Ukrainians in their trenches, but terror.
I think it is terror. Another big thing that happened in the last day or so was oil refineries. I think Ukraine had 3 or 4? Pretty sure it is 3. I think most were owned by slimy oligarchs like Kolomoisky.
I think Russia bombed the last refinery so Ukraine will be out of fuel probably in a few days. They can ship in fuel by rail from Poland or Moldova but the train tracks are different gauges. Even if they can do that – Russia can bomb the fuel train cars or fuel trucks.
So the Ukrainian military will have no fuel. I guess they can resort to bicycles like Viet Kong in Vietnam but the Viet Kong had a jungle to hide in.
I think the fall of Azov Nazis and no fuel will help motivate more Ukrainains into surrendering.
The Russians did not bomb all the refineries in the first week because of their concern for civilians. They are still accused by Ukrainian authorities of trying to terrorize civilians as a war tactic. The Russians also made clear that they don’t aim at the authorities themselves; one sees the authorities strolling in the streets aware that the Russians do not have them as a target.
I think that Russia has already bombed the railroads in Ukraine to breakdown the logistic of the Ukrainian forces. Am I right?
They are still working. They attack what they think is of military use. Blinken arrived in Kiev by railroad. If the safest way is to pass through as yet another civilian…That says it all, doesn’t it?
You talk to them over the walkie talkie. In WW1 the Germans would use ‘loud speakers’ to talk to allied troops. It was done at night, no arty at night, very quite, outside the odd sniper shot.
And if you watch any PMC or Chechen house clearing vids, they are close enough to the enemy to have a game of cards, never mind asking them to surrender.
Cheers M
Sidebar: Do you now understand why Russia is leaving international organizations?
I never understood why they kept themselves in those “international organizations” thus far, actually.
Everything there is a tool of the USA — of those ruling the USA to be precise —.
“There are smaller reports of new Russian artillery weapons appearing in the field of battle, but it is limited as yet.”
One of those small reports is of an operational laser weapon system. Speed of light weaponry is rarely discussed in the West. But its being used in the field by Russia. I wonder if this is significant, LOL.
Lasers have a rather low energy content compared to explosives. You probably can not use a high energy pulse laser going through air for a long distance without losing a lot of its power (ionising the air and scattering the light). So probably using a continues laser beam in in the <100kW category. Sounds a lot, but you have to track the target and keep on it a little bit and even then it is not really that much energy. So probably best for slow and fragil target. Drones are the natural prey for that kind of weapon.
The Chinese and Russians have been accused of blinding NATO sats for many years. And those are tens of thousands of miles away from the source. So, Im pretty sure that theyve solved that problem. Pulsing the beams is a method that Ive head about. Also, using very high frequencies including gamma is effective. That might be MASER not Laser but that is only a technicality. Yeah, I was a laser tech. Ive been watching Russian directed energy weapons since the 1970s when a certain installation that they had on top of a mountain was the subject of a lot of articles in popular mechanics, ect.
Death by laser is probably more humane with your internal organs melting at the initial flash. That’s a Peace Prize/Gong right there.
The Azov boys must never reproduce and a laser to the ball-bags (and female equivalent ) sounds just the ticket. So when they say zich heil it will be in soprano.
Just an idle speculation> If laser weapon beam holds on a camera aboard drone for, say, 1 second, does camera still work? Seems offhand like laser weapon is primarily an anti-optic device. Of course I suppose laser weapon beam on sniper’s sexy optics might also damage Mr Sniper’s personal optic.
Yahhh.
At night an active laser beam is visible by the correct night vision device – but by day completely invisible – and might blind ya.
Of course, there are devices, that pick up lasers and locate the emitters – day and night. Just not Your eye.
Go figure…
Watched a ukie contoller pick up his DJI drone – didnt make out the type – to dive into the ravine like two seconds before the arty round arrived like 3 meters off camera. Wifi signal coordinated – lucky doode he got away with is life – and drone.
Big boy games.
Nah, not gonna be sitting by the creek with a fishing pole next to a Javelin.
Speakin of – do you know what a javelina is?
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Factiverain.com%2Fimage_store%2Fuploads%2Fagents%2Fsellsedona%2Ffiles%2FJavelina.png&f=1&nofb=1
Some uki woman named her daughter javelina…cos why not? The current thing. I am sad – extremely sad for the United States of Ukraine`s slava.
Slava Javelina!
Ditch Your mom. RUN!!!
Of course, Slava Javelina is now Slava Cocaina!
This guy, Adrien Boquet is a nice tool to hammer down propaganda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKnhXnp-Zk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-AzTqIc9I8
We need more people coming front with the reail story on our 4th european reich.
At the same time when this young french serviceman explain the horrors commited on russian prisonners by Azov militiamen, the pope receive the wives of the two commanders of Azov kept prisonners of Azovstal and giv them the promise that he will help for their liberation.
The pope, the nazis, same story as 70 years ago.
Awesome Sit rep!! Thank you the hard working Saker Staff!!
“Do ordinary Italians know that their authorities are helping outright terrorists of the national battalions?”
Yes, we know that. Of course they are not presented as terrorists. Nor do I think they are, strictly speaking (I’d call them “violent nationalists”). But that’s just a matter of terminology… the point is: many here are not happy with what the government is doing, but we have actually no voice on the subject.
A few thoughts :
1. I wonder if that DPR 962 number (RT said the Russian command says 959?) is the total or not. The reported numbers of those in Avozstal was 1500 to 2500. So are there more, or were the original numbers off. And there were also yesterday reports that there were 200? corpses in a freezer at the plant of dead soldiers. If that number is correct,then we have 1162 (or 1159?). But was that number mixed into the surrendered figure. Since in a way they are “surrendered” or is that to add to the total. And the videos I saw were of unshaven dirty looking men (and several women) but except for the wounded they looked mostly youngish,healthy and not starving as you might expect they would be.And several of them “might” be foreign, but I couldn’t tell for sure just looking at them.
2. I wonder about those reports of the Ukrainian troops laying down their arms “and went over to the side of the DPR”. Does that mean they just surrendered to DPR forces. Or even better does it mean they joined the DPR forces. It wouldn’t be the first time in the 8 years of war in Donbass of Ukrainian soldiers switching sides to the LDNR side. So could that be the case here?
3. Since the evidence is piling up of OSCE involvement as spies for the Kiev regime. They need to be arrested and not let flee out of the area. It’s good to get their local employees ,as I’ve read they have been doing. But that’s not really good enough. It’s their foreign bosses that need to be arrested and tried for their crimes. Only that will expose the NATO involvement in that spying before the entire world.
4. Yes,in my opinion there has been an underestimation of the willingness of the Ukrainian people to support the denazification (i.e. side with Russia). In all the liberated areas so far after it’s been implied that Russia is staying put. And they aren’t going to be returned to the “tender mercies of the Kiev nazis” people more and more are coming out in support of Russia. Out of a natural fear of the Kiev gang taking revenge on them they held back at first. But now they are showing more support. I think Russia would find the same in all the Novorussian areas if they are liberated. And even in some of the other non-Novorussian areas of the former Ukraine. Fear is a terrible deterrent,but the removal of fear allows peoples real feelings to be shown.
5. I wonder if Russia might land troops in that big swath of territory in Odessa Oblast that is under Moldova. There is that large lake (arm of the sea?) that blocks it off from the rest of Ukraine.There is only a bridge linking it to other parts of Ukraine,which Russia bombed once. It borders Romania as well as Moldova. And since it would seem to the Ukrainians to be secure,I doubt they have that many troops assigned there. Capturing it would be a signal to Romania and Moldova to “play nice”. Be a way to come from the side to Odessa,maybe taking the heat off of Transnistria a bit. Let the pro-Russian elements in Odessa know they aren’t forgotten.And stop that area as being used as a base and observation post by the Ukrainians and NATO as it has been. That region was/is known to be a pro-Russian part of Ukraine in the past so they would mostly be welcomed by the population there.
6. Of those ASEAN nations of Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. Only Singapore seems to be truly siding with the US (at least officially). Vietnam is historically friendly to Russia. Cambodia,Laos,and Myanmar,are very close with China. Making it unlikely they would side with the US against Russia. Thailand has been friendly with Russia and China,a lot of Russian tourists go there. So I doubt they will side with the US against Russia or China. One of the reasons the US keeps trying to “color revolution” that country.Which should be even another reason to not side with the US.Indonesia also seems to be friendly with Russia and China,so the US might not succeed there either. Malaysia back in 2014 wasn’t buying the Western lies about their airliner being shot down by Russian weapons. But since then I haven’t heard much from them so they are an unknown I think. As for the Philippines.The current and newly elected governments both seem to be friendly with China and not be anti-Russian.So the US might not succeed there either.
Regarding your Point #4, there has been a complete blackout in the western media of any interviews with any civilians in liberated areas or the civilians released earlier from Azovstal. Likewise, there is complete blackout on using the material obtained by Patrick Lancaster, Anne-Laure Bonnel, or Graham Phillips. The reason for this is obvious: they already know what the people will say and it will not support the Neocon narrative.
On RT news TV today, DPR officials said that instead of several hundreds in Azovstal, as expected, it turned out to be between 2000 and 2500. They were surprised that it was so many.
@Uncle Bob
A Malaysian here. My opinion:-
Malaysia will likely be ‘neutral’ but will side with Russia on many issues quietly. Our ruling elites do not want to be targeted for destruction by Uncle Sam but also believe in the balance of power in geopolitics – ie a strong Russia and China to counterbalance Washington and allies.
For example :-
https://www.theborneopost.com/2022/04/23/malaysia-hopes-russias-aeroflot-will-open-direct-flights-to-kuala-lumpur-says-ambassador/
https://techwireasia.com/2022/05/did-malaysia-just-offer-to-supply-semiconductors-to-russia/
Don’t expect Malaysia to actively ‘back’ Russia but unlike Singapore, Malaysia will not sanction Russia. It will be ‘business as usual’ between Malaysia and Russia.
I’m utterly baffled by this “one million men” statement. For my own satisfaction, and any other self-confessed military ignoramuses out there, I’m going to examine it from a purely logical standpoint.
Are there still a million men (or women come to that) of military age and fitness left in Ukraine? What with the devastation of the current Ukro army and the millions of refugees, I doubt it. So are we talking mercenaries here? A million of them? A mixture? Seriously?
Let’s assume that somehow the Ukros get their million. They have to house them. Feed them. Clothe them. Arm them. Teach them a common language. Train them, from scratch if they’re conscripts. They have to be divided among fighting units, most of which will require specific specialisations. They have to be trained in CCC. Their officers have to be trained. This all seems like something of a tall order, even if we assume that all the supplies and equipment are American.
And, somehow, somehow, this all has to take place entirely beyond Russia’s purview, because certainly the moment Russia notices such a concentration of men and materiel it will blow it to smithereens.
And Scott Ritter, for whom I had, yes had, the greatest respect, professes to be intimidated by this threat?
NATO press gangs will round them up and train them for the Ukrainian Military.
There a a few million Ukrainian men of military age living and working in NATO countries. 2/3s of the working age population of Ukraine lived abroad before 24.Feb 2023.
Russia (and allies) are going to need to produce enough military equipment to match the “lethal aid” coming in from the West.
This isn’t war. This is a business bonanza for the arms industry in the best consumer capitalist tradition: profit from manufactured obsolescence, out with the old, in with the new.
Expect Ukraine to receive EVERY transportable piece of non-essential hardware NATO has accumulated the past 50+ years. Last season’s unfashionable military gear, don’t you know, who needs it? Send it to Ukraine, let those savages use it against Russians. And in place of the old kit, NATO militaries get shiny new weaponry, the latest de rigeur inventory of death.
Everyone wins, right? NATO upgrade, Ukraine armed, Russian resources eroded, distraction for the masses; and Raytheon, Lockheed, BAE, Northrop Grumman profit billions.
What’s the downside? Risk of nuclear holocaust? Roll the dice.
As regards using the term evacuation instead of surrender… How about a headline like this.
“Azov evacuated from the bowls of Azovstal.”
Hahaaa …. funny!
Some information in on Pepe’s telegram channel. I don’t have links – and I don’t have time – perhaps someone can find us a link with more.
THE DONBASS REVIVAL
This is HUGE.
It comes from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
Russia “will restore all the liberated territories of Ukraine”, and FINANCE THE RESTORATION.
In all of them, there will be “maximum RUBLE turnover”.
Residents of the Zaporozhye region will receive pensions and salaries in rubles already in May.
ALL the roads “that connect the liberated territories of Ukraine with Russia” will be revamped.
Come to think of it, when Putin repeatedly says that Russian soldiers are fighting for their “motherland” and to make it “safe”, he cannot be talking only about a change of government in Ukraine. That would be like shortchanging the soldiers. Rather, their motherland reward will me made a great as it can be made (of course).
It’s funny how Putin says something directly and it’s not believed by Russian commentators. They sort of subtract half of what he said and say this is what it will be! I don’t understand them. I understand him.
Correction: “Rather, their motherland reward will be made as great as it can be made (of course).”
I notice they never let news viewers in Japan where I live hear what Putin actually says recently. They cut the sound completely, so we only see his lips moving, and then they give an interpretation of what his speech was about, making him sound cynical and cruel. I’ve seen the propaganda step up quite a bit this week. Makes me wonder what’s up behind the scenes. Japan would be better employed as kamikazes against China. I don’t want to speculate on the Davos crowd favoring China as some say, so I am just marking this up to general ineptitude born of desperation of a flailing empire.
And POW from Azov battalion that will survive trial will be rebuilding what was destroyed.
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Who sent a missile on the corn silo in Odessa yesterday ?
Grain dust, under the right circumstances, can make spectacular sights under ignition. Now, if the silo is doubling as a weapons storage facility, no nearby schools or hospitals to use I guess, then all bets are off.
Cheers M
A little bit more is filtering out on new weapons.
The Peresvet combat laser complex is already being serially supplied, it is capable of incapacitating satellites in orbits up to 1.5 thousand km high.
(So those are for shooting Elon Musk! — just joking here)
Starlink and GPS? Can also clean orbital debris – a major problem.
These are nuke powered – a delayed SDI ‘new physical principles’ laser!
Totally classified so far, but does anyone here remember Hafnium neutron isomer pumped Gamma-lasers?
Apparently already planned in 2010 but something went wrong, now fixed.
Interesting that Izvestiya
https://iz.ru/1258024/anton-lavrov-aleksei-ramm/luchnaia-rabota-chto-izvestno-o-novom-rossiiskom-boevom-lazere-peresvet
has a full report, when this very same press attacked this mercilessly in the 1980’s.
Times have changed – this is NOT a Cold War 2!
bonbon about your mentioning of gamma ray lasers.
“According to the expert, a laser with a power sufficient to dazzle satellites is capable of hitting atmospheric aircraft. He will be able to “burn out” the equipment of reconnaissance aircraft and drones, and with some modifications — and physically destroy them at close range. But the main purpose of the “Peresvet” will still be spacecraft.”
If there is any connection with gamma it would have to be in somehow providing population inversion in the laser material but I rather think the nuclear reactor is for generation of electricity(?) Any weapon emitting gamma would have to be brought into orbit
oh boy, SEVEN vehicles from south africa! game changer! makes me think of the russian comment on musk bragging about “his” starlink systems helping azov types: “what a surprise that a guy who owes his wealth to his apartheid background would be helping nazis”.
larry johnson mentions MSM stories of plucky little ukie macgyvers “repairing ‘russian’ tanks to use against their former owners”. funny that they’re T-72s…just like the ones sent by the czechs. also funny because other MSM articles keep mocking the “jack in the box” flaws of said tanks.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czech-republic-sends-tanks-ukraine-czech-tv-reports-2022-04-05/
cue the “wop wop waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah” trumpet.
the MSM here is using “surrender” to talk about the azovs now. of course they also said they were quoting “a ‘rebel leader’ in ‘eastern ukraine'”. guess they didn’t get the memo on that whole “recognition of donbass” thing.
and of course, canada being canada, a lot of ukie “refugees” are waltzing over the border into resident status and jobs. so glad i had to wait 3.5 years to get mine. totes fair. but this is the “country” that “resettled” a bunch of white helmets so not surprising. wouldn’t you love living next to those guys in the ‘burbs? look forward to the night they set fire to your house and then “rescue” you from it.
as for russia assuming some ukies would welcome them, it seems some did. the US however went with the usual “they all look alike to me” tactics and assumed every citizen of a country the size of texas would think and act the same way. you don’t even get that level of homogenity in a region as small as new york/new jersey.
Let’s just be accurate … not from South Africa, but from Estonia.
They were built in South Africa specifically for Estonia, and from there they are now visible on the border.
Jnm, keep your friends close & your enemies closer. You stay in such organizations to keep an eye on what they’re up to. You leave when you know all you need to know & are fully prepared.
Zadira laser system now fielded in 404!
Copied text to my 3 sisters:
”
Them Rooskies are using “wide electromagnetic spectrum” lasers to take down Ukrainian/NATO drones. (Prolly can’t use them on peoples cuz of treaty agreement)
The new lasers are on army truck (can go anywhere) and punch (melt) holes in most anything, with a range of 2 miles (reliably, but beam goes to sensors on satellites good enough, so i wouldn’t call 2 miles any sort of limit)
To compare to the US, the US can’t even make 40 year old Stinger anti aircraft weapons.
Truly, them Rooskies are toying with NATO for fun and profit.
”
Q:
How much will India give for this anti-drone system???
C’mon guys, it is not all carnage :
Russians Are Really Trolling Boyfriend & Girlfriend Volyna & Prokopenko
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9Y333ooXVipA/
Now THAT is trolling – attention wannabees!
I enjoyed another thread on that page. It’s a mini-drone dropping grenades on the enemy. Fascinating how the 3 Russian servicemen operate in tandem. I was on edge even at the handling of the grenade.
I’m trying to follow the reconstruction and humanitarian aid aspect of the SMO as carefully as I can. Because I think that’s where it’s won and that’s how Russia breaks NATO. Wherever Russia stops, that’s a line where people on both sides will evaluate their lives compared to the other side. For example, not everyone in Crimea is probably super happy about being part of Russia, but it didn’t revolt when the SMO started or even really protest because even without the canal water life was clearly better than in Ukraine.
IMO, Russia’s primary goal needs to be getting the liberated oblasts functioning well as soon as possible. It is doing an excellent job so far. Jobs in reconstruction, modernize factories, etc.
Eastern Europe will be left out of the money used to prop up Europe, or will at least be last in line for it. If Russia, “Russian Ukraine” and Belarus are developing rapidly and life for the average person is stable or good, Eastern Europe will have second thoughts. In my opinion everything possible should be done to repatriate Russians from the Baltics as well, empty them of their second-class citizen labor force. Let them crumble.
And Russia almost has to invest money this way since it’s cut off from the west’s financial markets. China’s always looking for a place to invest that isn’t the US. There’s great potential to flip the script of the Cold War.
And now the Russians have to send in search troops to check every tunnel and every crevasse under the Asov Steel plant for whatever can be found: weapons, documents, live or ed bodies, you name it.
Azov had plenty of time to set traps explosive and gas…unleash biological stuff ..could be nasty diseases floating the air…eg gas gangrene??? Stuff from dead bodies…amputations…festering flesh and sickness fluids.
RT news TV (which is actually very good compared to the website) reported that a group of “leaders” of the surrendered people have to go together with the DPR soldiers, walking in front of them (with guns against thier back) into the tunnels. Hopefully by that time (after being rested, and fed by the DPR) those “leaders” will not be suicidal.
A big round of applause to those braze, rock-hard Chechen Speznaz fighters who shouldered much of the heavy lifting in Mariupol, and the Steel factory. They are there, wherever the action is very hot.
Have all the N.A.T.O. rats deep down in the Azovstal tunnels made peace with their maker? Because now they are liabilities to their masters, who probably want them dead, before they start singing like canaries. Hey assholes : You’ll be judged one way or another, by man or God. There’s no easy way out for you vermin.
Saker Staff, thanks for the great report!
The reconstruction of Ukrainian cities destroyed by neo-Nazis, besides their human and social importance, brings very promising economic prospects for Russia.
With due proportions, something similar happened to the USA after World War II.
Then the USA applied its surplus in the reconstruction of Germany and Japan, mainly.
The investments were returned in the formation of regional markets around these two countries for American industrial products.
To have even a modicum of stability, capitalist economic relations require a constant recycling of surpluses.
Russia is currently a surplus country, not only because of the positive balance in its foreign trade but also because of the appreciation of the Ruble.
https://t.me/SergeyKolyasnikov/35731
The War in Ukraine. Scott Ritter’s Switcheroo: “Why I Radically Changed My Overall Assessment”
By Mike Whitney Global Research, May 16, 2022
It’s hard to grasp what Ritter is saying here. Is he actually suggesting that Putin expand the current “special operation” into a full-blown World War? At one point, he casually opines that Russia will have to mobilize 1 and a half million men (Note: Russia currently only has 200,000 in Ukraine) if they want to prevail in Ukraine and then move on to Finland. It’s impossible to tell by Ritter’s tone whether he is simply making an objective observation of ‘what is needed’ to succeed or if he is making an explicit recommendation that he thinks Russia’s High Command should consider. I can’t answer that. Here’s more from the interview:
Scott Ritter (5:20 mark)– “The idea that the Ukrainian military has been eliminated as an effective fighting force is a flawed concept, and unless Russia broadens its special military operation– probably to the point of changing it form a special military operation to a war which includes the totality of Ukrainian battle-space–(then) this is a conflict that is dangerously close to becoming unwinnable by Russia which means that while they can complete their objectives in the east with 200,000 troops, they aren’t able to prevent Ukraine from rearming and reequipping when Ukraine is being provided with tens of billions of dollars of equipment by NATO —Whenever you provide your enemy with “safe space” to rebuild military capability, you’re never going to win. …
Yes, Russia is winning in the east which is what they said their objective was all along. And they are accomplishing that. That is the special Military Operation. But now we’re talking about “war”, and I don’t think Russia has made that transition yet. This is a defacto proxy war between the west and Russia using Ukrainian forces as NATO’s sword. The object of this is to “bleed Russia dry”. And if Russia doesn’t change the dynamic, Russia will be bled dry.” Zelensky has indicated that he’s willing to mobilize a million people, at a time when the west is ready to provide the funding and equipment to turn those million men into a real military threat.
So, I see what has been happening in the last few weeks as being decisive.
The military aid the west is providing is changing the dynamic and if Russia doesn’t find a way to address this meaningfully, and to eliminate it as a military capability… then the conflict will never end.” (“Saturday Morning Live with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern, You Tube)
There it is from the horse’s mouth. Readers will have to draw their own conclusions.
IMHO, Scott Ritter is gradually adjusting to the idea that the conflict in Ukraine is not a just regional skirmish between two quarrelsome neighbors, nor is it a proxy-war between NATO and Russia. No. Ukraine is the first phase of a broader plan for crushing Russia, collapsing its economy, removing its leaders, seizing its natural resources, splintering its territory, and projecting US power across Central Asia to the Pacific Rim. Ukraine is about hegemony, empire, and pure, unalloyed power. Most important, Ukraine is the first battle in a Third World War, a war that was concocted and launched by Washington to ensure another unchallenged century of American primacy.
Good summary again !
Battle fans might study Mao’s Battle of the Four Crossings, which Montgomery considered to be one of the greatest feats in military history.
Fragging (From Wikipedia)
M26 grenade, issued to the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines in the Vietnam War, used in many fragging incidents.[1]
Fragging is the deliberate killing or attempted killing of a soldier by a fellow soldier, usually a superior officer or non-commissioned officer (NCO). The word was coined by U.S. military personnel during the Vietnam War, when such killings were most often attempted with a fragmentation grenade,[2] sometimes making it appear as though the killing was accidental or during combat with the enemy. The term fragging is now often used to encompass any means used to deliberately and directly cause the death of military colleagues.[3][4]
The high number of fragging incidents in the latter years of the Vietnam War was symptomatic of the unpopularity of the war with the American public and the breakdown of discipline in the U.S. Armed Forces. Documented and suspected fragging incidents totaled nearly nine hundred from 1969 to 1972.[5]
There were 102,000 Nazis in the Ukrainian military.
They were threatening the regular soldiers with a bullet in the back if they retreated or surrendered.
I have a feeling that “fragging” will gain additional meaning in Ukraine as the average soldier figures out it is time to eliminate the skin heads.
“These invincible heroes are emaciated, ragged, hungry and a pitiful sight.”
That sure is not what they looked like to me on videos that I saw at the Dreizen Report.
They pepole exiting the Azovstal looked pretty well fed and relaxed, includilng three young women.
Those who were not on stretchers.
Even the latter looked as though they were in OK condition, considering their wounds. Not emaciated at all.
A number of commenters noted the same.
Where are “the emaciated, the tired, the defeated”?
I was thinking about that too! Almost all of them was clean, with shaved faces. Who in a life threatening situation thinks about shaving everyday?
> Do ordinary Italians know that their authorities > are helping outright terrorists of the national
> battalions?
No, because the information has been secretated even to the Italian parliamentarians themselves! … go figure what we can know as ordinary people ..
Some videos for today.
Around 960 Kiev regime soldiers from Azovstal surrendered – Russian MoD (MUST SEE — anti-Russia propagandists do not want us to watch these hardened Kiev regime troops very clearly surrendering!):
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/ukrainian-troops-azovstal-surrender:3
‘Azov fighter shot conscript soldier who tried to escape’ – surrendered Kiev soldier:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/surrendered-forces:2
Russian MoD releases footage of Azovstal fighters in DPR hospital:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/azovstal-soldiers:d
A group of US-supplied M777 howitzers were destroyed:
https://rutube.ru/video/edfc598c103ae55231904a91bfc1a70c/
Shows a Russian Su-30 fighter plane on a combat mission to protect the Donbass:
https://rutube.ru/video/793d9795b0a9ef3454427a4fa3e9959e/
Note, the rutube video site was cyber-attacked last week, but it is now fully back online — new videos are being posted daily on the Russian MoD and RT Russian language channels.
NATO needs to be renamed. Might I suggest the following;
PEDO: Pacific European Defense Organization. You heard it here first.
HFC. . . I’ve had good ones in my time, but this is a personal best.
About those Italian weapons, did they come direct from Italy/NATO, or did Ukraine acquire them on the black market? I expect there’s some of both, but have the serial numbers been traced?
Probably that’s where the other ones, ammo, and logistics dumps, beside troops were hidden. The firing position is temporarily used just for a few minutes…
https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-nexus-between-far-right-extremists-in-the-united-states-and-ukraine/
“…These invincible heroes are emaciated, ragged, hungry and a pitiful sight…”
Emaciated? Ragged? Hungry? I wish people would stop weakening their reports and analysis with this sort of stuff. In the film I have been viewing of surrending troups, both from Azovstal and in other situations, the surrenderers are evidently in pretty good shape (those of Azov, considering the past few weeks in the catacombs). Apart from some of the more severely injured, the able-bodied look well-fed, rested, well-groomed and fairly well-clad. Mostly, they also also pretty smug and relaxed, even if resigned, downcast and keeping mum.
“…This is what denazification looks like…”
No, it isn’t. This is part of the demilitarisation stage (the term applies to nazi and “not-nazi” elements as well as regulars). Many Russian commentators have been correcting this assertion in western-based commentary since the beginning of the operation, and indeed Kremlin statements have made it clear what the two terms encompass. As the military goals are accomplished, denazification begins to be put in place. It involves many facets, from restoring normalised school education, uncensoring banned material, freeing the restricted broadcast and press media, lifting other restrictions in civil society, freeing political prisoners, countermeasures to lustration carried out by the fascist state and mush else. Most of this can only be (and is being) executed on a town by town, region by region, basis, as territory becomes liberated from the repressions of Kiev regime control. In time, denazification will be rolled out across the entire country. Obviously, the trials, punishments and reparations will be part of denazification too.
Oh, how marvelous they looked. They were in shipshape condition, wonderfully fit and well, greatly nourished, and could have held out another six months or so. And they were surrendering, well, why? I guess these fit and healthy people surrendered because…? Is it fashionable? Please go watch another few movies and read some reporters on the spot.
We read the Russian book around here. In that book, +-2,000 Azov captured and put into prisons, seem like a good denazification start to those who read the Russian book. The mythology of Azov died during this surrender as we can see from the mass voluntary surrenders that followed. Exactly as this sitrep suggested.
I don’t agree completely with your assessment of them, however I did notice a look of defiance on the faces of more than a few.
https://voenhronika.ru/
A big success in Donbass – the BOILER LID almost slammed shut! Our airborne forces are three kilometers from SOLEDAR! Latest reports and maps (20 videos)
Several different sources at once report the occupation of the villages of Trypillya and Vladimirovka – this is three kilometers from Soledar and only 4 from the highway to Severodonetsk.
Vladimirovka was taken by our landing force. Tripoli – PMC “Wagner”. Pilipchatino a little south has not yet been taken. The road to Lisichansk is actually under the threat of complete fire control by the RF Armed Forces. The village of Troitskoye, south of Popasnaya, was also taken. This is actually part of the Svetlodar arc. These events have already been dubbed the “Flower of Popasna”.
According to various sources, there are from 8,000 to 15,000 militants from the formations of the Kyiv regime in the Severodonetsk-Lisichansk agglomeration. The Armed Forces of Ukraine can still break out of the encirclement along the country roads from Gorskoye and move across the fields in the direction of Lisichansk.
By evening, “Kalina” (Svyatoslav Palamar), the commander of the “Azov” militants in Mariupol, appeared. He said that a certain operation was going on, the details of which could not be disclosed. Some write that perhaps this video is a “canned food” recorded in advance, and evil tongues claim that a special sex change operation is taking place. If he is tried in Donetsk, then execution is practically inevitable.
Defence Politics Asia seems to confirm this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caFt1p3ED-M&ab_channel=DemocracyNow%21
Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring
‼️🇬🇧The Russian army began to use the tactics of small boilers in the Donbass
According to Ukrainian analysts from the Zerada community, the Russian troops, due to the inability to close the common boiler over the entire grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass, changed tactics and focused on closing small boilers:
It is noted that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine understands the severity of the situation and is trying to strengthen the grouping with territorial defense units, but the situation is aggravated by a sharp drop in the moral and psychological state of the military. Of course, the key reason is the surrender of Azovstal.
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Voenkor Kitten Z
Military expert Boris Rozhin with a brief summary of the results of the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine at 22.45 on May 19, 2022, specially for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel :
1.
Mariupol.
The surrender of the remnants of the Mariupol group at Azovstal continues. By the evening of May 19, more than 1,800 enemy soldiers and officers had surrendered. This is the largest loss of prisoners for the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014. The process continues. A tribunal is already being prepared for war criminals.
2.
Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka without significant changes. Positional fights.
3.
Carbon.
Fighting in the area of Novomikhailovka and Ugledar. There is no significant progress in this direction.
4.
Marinka.
Positional battles in the village continue. There is no significant progress in the village.
5.
Avdiivka.
Fighting in the area of Novoselka-2 and Novobakhmutovka, as well as on the outskirts of New York. The enemy is intensively shelling Yasinovataya.
6.
LPR.
The offensive in the area of Popasna is developing successfully. The troops took Troitskoye north of Svetlodarsk. To the west of Popasnaya, battles are being fought for Pilipchatino.
PMC “Wagner” took Trypillya, and the paratroopers – Vladimirovka, coming almost close to Soledar. The villages of Druzhba and part of Novaya Kamenka were also taken. The Soledar-Lysichansk highway is already under fire from this direction.
The threat of the operational encirclement of the entire Severodonetsk grouping is growing. Severodonetsk itself is being stormed from three sides. The capture of the village of Shchedrishchevo on the outskirts of Severodonetsk was confirmed.
7.
Raisin.
Fighting in the Krasny Liman area, where up to 1200-1500 enemy soldiers are under the threat of encirclement. There are also heavy battles in the forest near Dolgenkiy. The enemy is putting up stubborn resistance in the region of Privolye and Svetlogorsk.
8.
Kharkov.
The RF Armed Forces pushed the enemy back from the border near the village of Ternovoe and again brought him back under control. There are reports of battles for the village of Rubezhnoye southwest of Volchansk. Also, attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions intensified as a response to the shelling of border villages in the Belgorod and Kursk regions.
9.
Nikolaev.
No significant changes in the Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions.
10.
Odessa.
No significant changes. The enemy continues to talk about the threat of landing and conducts reconnaissance in the direction of Serpent’s Island.
Restoration work is underway on the damaged railway bridge in Zatoka, which is of strategic importance.
@voenkorKotenokVoenkor Kitten Z
Military expert Boris Rozhin with a brief summary of the results of the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine at 22.45 on May 19, 2022, specially for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel :
1.
Mariupol.
The surrender of the remnants of the Mariupol group at Azovstal continues. By the evening of May 19, more than 1,800 enemy soldiers and officers had surrendered. This is the largest loss of prisoners for the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014. The process continues. A tribunal is already being prepared for war criminals.
2.
Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka without significant changes. Positional fights.
3.
Carbon.
Fighting in the area of Novomikhailovka and Ugledar. There is no significant progress in this direction.
4.
Marinka.
Positional battles in the village continue. There is no significant progress in the village.
5.
Avdiivka.
Fighting in the area of Novoselka-2 and Novobakhmutovka, as well as on the outskirts of New York. The enemy is intensively shelling Yasinovataya.
6.
LPR.
The offensive in the area of Popasna is developing successfully. The troops took Troitskoye north of Svetlodarsk. To the west of Popasnaya, battles are being fought for Pilipchatino.
PMC “Wagner” took Trypillya, and the paratroopers – Vladimirovka, coming almost close to Soledar. The villages of Druzhba and part of Novaya Kamenka were also taken. The Soledar-Lysichansk highway is already under fire from this direction.
The threat of the operational encirclement of the entire Severodonetsk grouping is growing. Severodonetsk itself is being stormed from three sides. The capture of the village of Shchedrishchevo on the outskirts of Severodonetsk was confirmed.
7.
Raisin.
Fighting in the Krasny Liman area, where up to 1200-1500 enemy soldiers are under the threat of encirclement. There are also heavy battles in the forest near Dolgenkiy. The enemy is putting up stubborn resistance in the region of Privolye and Svetlogorsk.
8.
Kharkov.
The RF Armed Forces pushed the enemy back from the border near the village of Ternovoe and again brought him back under control. There are reports of battles for the village of Rubezhnoye southwest of Volchansk. Also, attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions intensified as a response to the shelling of border villages in the Belgorod and Kursk regions.
9.
Nikolaev.
No significant changes in the Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions.
10.
Odessa.
No significant changes. The enemy continues to talk about the threat of landing and conducts reconnaissance in the direction of Serpent’s Island.
Restoration work is underway on the damaged railway bridge in Zatoka, which is of strategic importance.
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