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An interesting weekend is shaping up for those that watch the minutae. Military Summary Channel is now at this time standing head and shoulders above the rest in reporting.
As of the end of the day, June 2nd, where Russia is preparing the field to take Lysychansk on the high ground, difficult terrain and a river runs through it. (Severodonetsk and Lysychansk)
https://rumble.com/v17489l-ukraine.-military-summary-and-analysis-02.06.2022.html
We can expect:
- an epic set-piece battle,
- or surprises by the Russians,
- or the Ukrainian soldiers just folding, laying down arms and waving white flag, or abandoning their posts, going awol, having totally lost their will to do battle,
- or more videos pleading with their command to supply them with necessary food, weapons and support.
Russia will take Lysychansk, timing depends on how strong the will to live is, versus the will to the Ukrainian soldier’s Seppuku and this will again change the shape and future of the SMO.
Russia however does not fight small and the whole of the front line is under fire again.
In the wider world, the Gulf Arab States declared they will not sanction Russia. https://t.me/EurasianChoice/14604
Read carefully Andrei Maryanov’s essay on RS-28 Sarmat. http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/06/wrong-emphasis.html
Enjoy your discussion. Ukrainian propaganda still abounds and new videos are being made about how Russia is losing this war.
In the beginning, the West supplied Ukraine with defensive equipment; helmets, body armour and first aid kits.
Then they moved on to small arms.
After the small arms came the Javelins and NLAWS.
Then the howitzers. And air planes.
And now multi launch rocket systems with various ranges.
When Biden says that he wants to avoid escalation, it is an obvious lie.
The West is doing salami slice escalation and is getting away with it, (so far).
Putin did say earlier, “Russia has its own red lines; only we know those red lines, and only we will decide when those red lines are crossed”
Salami slice escalation, if left to its own momentum, will end up with NATO providing Ukraine with tactical nukes; that is where extrapolation takes us.
Russia needs to blow the sand off its red lines and prepare to defend those lines.
The US and others have been supplying the Ukraine with all kinds of weapons for eight years now. It is not new. The stockpiles are exhausted. Russia is taking out the one bridge where these can still enter.
There is not much left of those weapons. New deliveries are routinely destroyed still in their packaging. Note in the various videos how many there are with the Russian forces or the Donetsk and Lugansk forces or Kadyrov’s Cadres with what they call ‘trophies’. The Ukrainian soldiers are routinely deprived of their weaponry and it is used by the allied forces. There are almost none, from the Ukrainian side, showing off trophies. The belligerent notifications of so and so supplying that and that weapon to the Ukraine, often is hot air. There ‘aint no salami!
Also, these supplied weapons are for sale on the dark web. Ukrainians are selling vaunted Javelins on the dark web!
So, these weapons do not really get there,
If one gets there, the Russians get excited and go trophy hunting
Many times it is not weapons but money for the weapons manufacturers
The weapons are old
The quantities of new weapons supposedly arriving are making no difference on the battlefield
Anything new that does get through does not have trained crews or committed crews
And a bunch more which I forget now! Commentators will list a bunch more.
Yesterday, with the new announcements that may be hot air, Medvedev again said that Russia will take out the decision platforms if any of this presents a threat to Russia.
Please go and watch Brian Berletic’s video in the previous sitrep on the supposed gamechanger Himars launchers.
So why should Russia act on what is essentially news creation from the western side?
Great points. I believe (I think the evidence will come out in the not too distant future) that Ukrainian military brass or head honchos or higher ups (pick your description) are pilfering the weapons for their well-established Black Market contacts.
How else do you explain the cognitive dissonance in rationing bullets– for crying out loud– and the Clown Prince constantly bellowing about we need more weapons? I won’t impugn the valor or patriotism of all Ukrainian forces. , but I am convinced from these “surrender” videos that there is a general lack of leadership and ethos of corruption in the military leadership from Ukraine. These commanders are sending troops, inexperienced and older not well trained troops TO THE FRONT LINE with no support, no communication channels or hierarchy and no weaponry. This is sheer madness. Somebody convince me that the “Rats” in the Ukrainian military command are not hoarding the “cheese” (US weapons) before they jump off the ship.
Why did Russia wait 3 months to finally take out the BESKYDY rail tunnel? This really is starting to look very fishy to me.
no one want talk about it….why is it ????
I can think of a couple of reasons for the wait:
* It may have taken a while to develop the software to get the missiles to fly INTO the tunnel for a good distance before exploding. Which is what they reportedly did.
* Deliberate strategy to drain Western stockpiles of munitions. Letting them send stuff into Ukraine, where it can be blown up now with not much risk to Russian forces. Without the tunnel, all that stuff would have stayed in origin warehouses, where it remains a potential hazard to Russia.
I’ll assume the choice of when to blow up the tunnel involved a lot of factors, which we won’t know. I am certain it wasn’t a case of “Oh my gosh, we forgot to blow the tunnel, better do it now before we forget again.”
In poker terms, America is raising the stakes and Russia has been calling. This next American raise will not receive a call but a Russian re-raise.
There must be lots of worried western Europols bracing themselves for the likely response, consequences of their puppet-masters actions.
I’ve been hoping for a re-raise for sometime, just one show of intent, however, when you’re holding a Royal Flush, a call is the correct play every time, extracting maximum chips from your opponent.
“In poker terms…”
Not appropriate when only one is playing poker.
True, the Americans with a bad hand keep buying into the game, prolonging the war, the suffering. If Americans were dying and not Slavs then they would have cut their losses some time ago and bolted for the exit.
Kiev’s Military is a full blown NATO army. They are fully organized and trained by NATO. In many instances, NAT officers command at the brigade and battalion level.
Take some time to review the regular Army combat brigades of Kiev’s ground forces. Look at the histories of these brigades – they have been on all sorts of NATO missions all over the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Ground_Forces#Armoured_and_mechanised_forces
The Allies (DPR,LPR, RF, and others) are fighting NATO. Make no mistake about it.
@Exile: “The Allies (DPR,LPR, RF, and others) are fighting NATO.”
NATzO (population of 700 Million) is very good at “picking up some small country and slamming it against the wall to show who’s boss”.
A text book example of NATzO in action is Libya (population 7 Million ie, 100 times smaller than NATzO; no allies). Another textbook example is NATzO’s dismemberment of Serbia (pop.7M, no allies). At the time, in Serbia Britain’s Minister for war had every right to chortle from the top of a victorious NATzO tank: “No one can resist our armed might”.
Trouble is today, Ukraine army is a NATzO army trained to highest NATzO standards but Ukraine population is not 100 times greater than Russian population; and Russia has powerful Allies.
NATzO is not fighting Russia nor is NATzO fighting Russia’s Allies. NATzO is generously supplying the weapons (at book price plus interest) but prudently allowing brave Ukrainians to do the actual fighting.
Then they thought they could do the same to Syria and ended up not just with a broken nose but a broken leg too.
But Syria is still occupied by foreign forces, including U.S. troops. Much of Syria’s borders are not under its control, and U.S., Kurds and Turkey are stealing Syria’s oil and grain.
From the wiki page “Mechanised Infantry and armoured forces are the primary components of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Their primary objectives in case of war are capturing and holding targets, maintaining positions, defending against attack, penetrating enemy lines and defeating enemy forces.”
Their objectives are not being met, except for maybe maintaining positions, that is if the position is head down and arse up cowering from artillery fire in a trench LOL
What’s the harm to Russia? They know it’s mostly a psy-op to keep the Ukrainians fighting.
The more advanced weapons, the more training and support they need.
Which Russia is busy denying them.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/axjaoNlXCcSq/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/nuyyviUnBAyD/
If they keep it up- there won’t be any weapons left in the whole of Europe.
@Citizen Smith: “The West is doing salami slice escalation and is getting away with it, (so far).”
I don’t think we will be getting away with it any longer. Ukrainians are beginning to realize that the West is using their soldiers for the salami.
They are beginning to suspect something? Not as dumb as they look, then..
I am not sure that red lines help. When you set red lines with clever manipulative children, they might just find ways around them, and think they can take advantage of commitments. And in many ways it appears that that’s what Putin has to deal with. Strategic ambiguity has its own merits.
Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD, is the ultimate military doctrine of hubris, the red line meaning the destruction of the world as we know it. The science is both clear and unclear, because we have never really had the war to end all wars, as yet.
“ Our nuclear weapons doctrine does not provide for a pre-emptive strike…. there is no provision for a pre-emptive strike in our nuclear weapons doctrine. Our concept is based on a reciprocal counter strike. We are prepared and will use nuclear weapons only when we know for certain that some potential aggressor is attacking Russia…Only when we know for certain – and this takes a few seconds to understand – that Russia is being attacked we will deliver a counter strike. This would be a reciprocal counter strike. Why do I say ‘counter’? Because we will counter missiles flying towards us by sending a missile in the direction of an aggressor. Of course, this amounts to a global catastrophe but I would like to repeat that we cannot be the initiators of such a catastrophe… any aggressor should know that retaliation is inevitable and they will be annihilated. And we as the victims of an aggression, we as martyrs would go to paradise while they will simply perish because they won’t even have time to repent their sins.‘
Vladimir Putin
Wikiquote 2018
The most important thing for now is that the west respect the sovereignty and security of Russia and thereby increase the security of the world. A proper European security framework should only be a start.
The U.S.A. doctrine is designed for a preemptive strike and constantly improving towards that end in my opinion. Missiles and militarization of NATO states on Russia’s borders is only an extension of that policy.
Stoltenberg’s words play differently in Denmark than they do in the world, when he assures them of Russia’s destruction. The hypocrisy of the western MEDIA in the MICIMATT complex allows him to get away with that.
When a politician talks like a madman to a select audience, he may be being “handled” to do so as a proxy of other forces.
How They Have Lied to You about the Russian Threat for the Last 30 Years
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2022/05/how-they-have-lied-to-you-about-the-russian-threat-for-the-last-30-years/
But in so called real democracies, why are they being allowed to get away with it?
We have premonitions about the science of nuclear war from various sites collating the science and scientists, but Putin is called threatening or dangerous for mentioning the dangers by propaganda.
Nuclear Famine
https://nuclearfamine.org/
Alan Robock
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/nuclear/
Nuclear War Simulations
https://www.nuclearwarmap.com/
In the 1960s any side could have destroyed the world with nuclear winter without any clue of what we were doing, because the science was not understood. NATO military planners might think they can include all these dangers in their secret plans for a first strike but my guess is that nobody will know until the war is fought and then it will be too late, neutron bombs, first strike or not.
‘And I have lived since – as you have – in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.’
Lester B. Pearson
Who is warning us of this?
The denials of the truth around this outcomes are indirect proofs of a mindset of the west towards a first strike.
Putin is the only leader that seems to have something like a comprehensive understanding of these issues and they want to cancel him and Russia.
One snively EOL is whinging that new arms developed by RF, and Ch is undermining his “capability” to “project power” abroad. what is so holy about EOL “projecting power” abroad ?
//US adversaries Russia, China and North Korea have accelerated the deployment of new weapons “specifically designed to threaten our homeland,” and to undermine America’s ability to “project power” abroad, General Glen D. VanHerck, commander of United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command has warned.//
https://sputniknews.com/20220603/russia-churning-out-hypersonic-weapons-that-threaten-our-homeland-top-us-general-says-1095974854.html
It’s like Eisenhower’s military industrial complex speech. Putin says Russia now has their own military industrial complex.
All the indignities and accusations against Putin prove the accusers to be exactly what they accuse him of. They are projecting their own impulses onto Putin. It’s not sound analysis.
They are the real risk to peace and security because they do not see the dangers as Eisenhower and Putin saw them.
PUTIN’S WARNING TO THE WEST
This candid conversation took place with representatives of various media outlets during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, in June 2016. Putin urged journalists to report genuinely on the impending danger that is a nuclear arms race.
https://nuclearfamine.org/war-consequences/online-references-for-war-with-high-yield-nuclear-weapons/
“Throughout America’s adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.
Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology — global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger is poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle — with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.”
“ Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war — as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years — I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.”
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
The hostile atheistic ideology has become NATO, but the principles remain the same.
It’s more about the sermon on the mount than anything the world has to offer.
4 HIMARS is all the White House is sending to Ukraine. The administration is obviously trying to distance itself from the debacle to avoid massive defeat in the mid terms, whilst still maintaining the appearance of doing something.
One complex, four rockets. Ukraine is now not only 404, but also what is left is being orphaned.
Right? Yeah, the downsizing, scaling, is so obvious. They have to somehow forget al this, put it in the past and go after the oldest civilization on earth, who unlike the American NDN didn’t succumb to failure. They’ve faced these colonial bastards before and know what to expect. Were it me, better to die standing up than to live on one’s knees.
Yeah, the U$ is a vast trailer camp and yeah, everyone hates each other and is superior in degree to one’s own ignorance … that’s the beauty of it all … we’re ripe for the pickin’s but there’s nothing there anyone in their right mind would want.
Hello CitizenSmith,
I feel ya, and you have some points. Maybe I can help you a bit on them.
I never understood Russian ops until I observed them at length during the Syrian Civil War; been fllowing it since at least 2014. In a nutshell, everything that is said in criticism of Russia for years back then, is being repeated now. It is nothing new. Back then people thought Russia was a joke. Back then none of the gas bags on Bloomberg or any place else had even heard of Sarmat, Status-6, and all the rest of it.
After Russia entered the arena and when things started to pop off, only then people became terrified. You don´t hear about it much now but, things like the BMP-T were first tested in Syria, it was just called the Terminator then. A bit after it appeared, people started talking about autonomus armored vehicles kicking the crap out of Takfiris, long before Turkish drones made the scene over in Libya. It came in real quiet and stayed that way. Russia advertizes nothing. Now those little suckers are running around Donbass Ukraine; it´s a nightmare on tracks.
Another example, Al-Tanf. The US pushed and pushed that plot of sand to the limit and beyond. It caused a lot of trouble in SE Syria. Well, ………… one day, …… out of the blue, when nobody was looking, ………… Al-Tanf gets hammered and the US DDs of out there in a hurry. As covered in the first video by Mitlitary Summary today, nothing is going on anywhere near Al-Tanf anymore. The DoD got its´ sack cut off withtout warning and when they thought it was cool.
It will be the same in this new theater, in Ukraine. The usher will roll in behind the unruly movie watcher and let them know that it seems they have lost their wallet but, no help coming because the very seat they were sitting in is now gone. The West can go right ahead with shucking and jiving all they want. They are going to come up short ………. and never see it coming.
My best to you Smith.
Respectfully,
John
John do you remember how Russia entered the Syrian war theatre?
They flew some Migs in to Syria hidden underneath transport planes to avoid radar. No grandstanding, no bullhorns announcing intent, they just quietly arrived.
And then later when they had their base established, one or two hours before their missile strikes started a Russian general waltzed in to NATO/US HQ and ‘advised’ them at to what was going to happen – their trained and funded Takfiris would be blown to bits.
No bragging, no bluster, no bombast and fake bravado (Hoorah, etc), just head down and get on with the job.
I am not sure that “high” ground is that much of an advantage with no air cover.
I suspect that by the end of next week those maps will look a lot different.
One possibility you did not mention: when the Vietnam war era “fragging” starts in the Ukrainian ranks.
I was surprised by the Military Summary opinion that Russia was going to take heavy losses here. The maps might be good, the analysis is not.
RF artillery and other long range weapons will obliterate the hilltop positions. Trenches and fortifications will become graves. Alternatively Russia will bypass this position and threaten other areas in a continuation of rolling feints seeking weak points to exploit.
The only thing we know for sure is that we don’t know what the Russians will do orher than NOT sacrifice their troops for ground.
100+ days now, and Donbas still gets shelled, the front still exists, let’s not kid ourselves, it is well dug in. If those hill top fortification are similar in anyway, plus high ground, it’ll be a slog.
Can’t see air being a game changer, too many places for manpad attacks, more guided artillery might be the answer. Just rain fire down on them…..till they cry uncle…..Vlad, please, make it stop.
Cheers M
Manpads are a threat deep in the rear, for “hunting” planes where the manpad crew has the freedom of maneuver and the plane has to fly over enemy territory.
On the front line the planes do not need to fly over and any manpad crew is dead the moment they fire from gound-based oponents. Do not count on manpads on the frontline.
Buk/Kub and higher level AA systems are a threat there, but not the manpads.
I think Russia will try to avoid destroying a UNESCO site.
Remember when the beautiful Stari Most Bridge in Yugoslavia was destroyed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_Most#/media/File:Mostar_The_Old_Bridge_-_Stari_most_1979_g_-_panoramio.jpg
Indeed – the paradox is that those NATO vassals blew up their own bridge, Stari Most.
Yeah I don’t get this “high ground” talk. In the days of bows and arrows it was an advantage, but now with only one side having air craft (inc. drones), long range arty, and missiles I don’t see any advantage.
So you are sitting on a hill shooting down at the plains with your machine guns, but my drones, copters and jets are in the sky much higher above you than you are above me. And then my missiles and artillery rain down from above too. Does it matter that you are a few hundred metres higher than sea level when that missile is coming down from tens of kilometres above your head?
US intending to send four MQ-1C “Gray Eagle” Predator-style drones to Ukraine. Each can mount 4 Hellfire missiles.
https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/aviation_gray-eagle-uas/
Apparently they need a sophisticated platoon of around 100 trained men to maintain and support them, which would tend to indicate at least NATO if not US boots on the ground. Poland? US Army? The embassy special forces diplomats?
Don’t know if these are operated by remote American pilots from Nevada or Florida. If so, this would tend to put a crosshairs on American homeland bases. Perhaps these are special drones that are only usually operated from in-country. Perhaps. But do the Russians know this, or believe it?
Reminds me of kids trying to see how much they can shoplift before getting caught, and ignorant of what happens next.
Looks like someone really, really wants to start a hot war with Russia.
Those drones are flown thru satellite links. Last time I looked Ukraine didn’t have any satellites. Are they going to be linked up through US satellites? Doesn’t that make the USA a participant in the conflict.
On another note those drones will have a shelf life of only a few minutes after entering Russian airspace.
Star Link, private company, plausible deniability.
Star Link.. If just one tree is in the line of sight, the system doesn’t work..
Satelite links are optional. You can use a ground control station (GCS) via line-of-sight data links but for over-the-horizon operation some satelite Ku-band link is needed. Any commercial party would do but even if NATO would supply a link, it would not differ from any other supply provided. Russia could take them out if they can keep tags on them. They will not make large sorties at altitude for sure. Just short, limited rage attacks for the reason you mention.
Welfare socialists are children.
I just read ex-Nato Secretary Fogh Rasmussen saying Nato will win because Nato spend 10x more on the military.
Present Nato Secretary Stoltenberg also says Nato will outspend Russia. The US Congress is also crying constantly about spending more on our military.
They have no sense of reality on the ground, only an open mouth and eyes on the flatscreen and the excell sheet. They will need a hypersonic Sarmat in their backyard before they wake op…..or rest in pieces.
NATO will win the race to bankruptcy.
By how much did NATO outspend Afghanistan? How did that conflict turn out?
Great point!
– I just read ex-Nato Secretary Fogh Rasmussen
Fogh Rasmussen was after NATO job hired by Poroshenko.
Of course they are almost related to each other.
“Territories temporarily occupied by Ukraine”
I see what you did there.)))))
I noticed that too – a bit of a take on the Kiev / Wikipedia concept that Crimea is a territory “temporarily occupied by Russia”
Wonder how long it’ll be before that Crimean “status update” is put in place.
Rumors, you know how they are….had read of beefed up anti air around the mountain train tunnel. Read of Mr Kalibar making eight visits there, no travel pics ….yet. Wonder if Mr K entered the tunnel….that’d be cool.
Cheers M
The one thing Russia could do, like Yanky PR, dash cams for Mr K, so many great travel vids no one gets to see.
The tunnel definitely needs the Kinzhal treatment. The kalibers likely won’t do much damage. Maybe a few Kinzhals would actually collapse the tunnel.
ref the American drones.Many of the drones used in the middle East were flown by operators based in RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.
The Russian military must be aware of how these weapons are operating.
Something stinks here. This is a serious escalation.
The drones are either flown from a nato country,or operators in the Ukraine.
The later seems unlikely.
I would suggest a good level of training and expertise is required to pilot them.
There is a possibility that these are easily spotted and terminated by air defence.
As a UK citizen this along with my governments support, is making no sense.
Not in my name you clown Boris!
What if RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire gets hit? Or, what if the satellite gets hit?
|~… What if RAF Waddington gets hit……?
Well. Funnie that you should mention that.
“Something” happened in that location.
Official (ish) story is that a fireworks warehouse nearby caught fire…….
There was some threads and discussion on nefarious image boards….which got rapidly shut down.. threads “pruned or deleted” at between zero and less than 20 replies …..
And then the whole thing just… phuphff… nothing.
There once was a fire works factory in a location somewhat near to me.. it had been built out in the scrub, kms from anyone…and the safeguards and fire / explosion precautions were very much in place.
Once “civilisation” began to encroach they eventually sold to a developer…and the place is houses now…..
But … while it’s “possible” a fireworks warehouse had an explosive incident, it’s… let’s say… “highly unlikely”.
My uninformed, unsourced 2c.
Ukraine seems to be being used as a live-fire testbed for US weapons systems/tactics, to see how well they do against an informed enemy in the field.
More like a dumping ground for obsolete weapons that must be repleaced. The MIC is cashing in big time.
US weapons and tactics are garbage. Refernece the 2002 Millenium Challenge.
Who’ll be left holding the Ukrainian IOU’s?
Grain futures wont look so attractive as Russia forge westwards.
Looks like a cold & hungry winter for Ukraine. I do hope that they’ve stockpiled their warehouses and not bartered most of the wheat for those obsolete weapons.
> being used as a live-fire testbed for US weapons systems
> a dumping ground for obsolete weapons
> holding the Ukrainian IOU’s
No reason it can’t be both. NATO has all this old cold war junk in the garage, and it also wants to try out some things. And don’t worry about those IOUs, it’s a war. IOUs are the first things to go, and you’ll never know where they went, they are effortless pillaging on the part of the winner.
Russians are testing some things, too. One gadget that really stands out is the mine (I guess it’s a mine) that stands on the ground and then jumps up in the air when triggered, and fires a projectile (shaped charge?) downward at its target. Some kind of tank- and vehicle-killer. I don’t know if it’s a game changer, but it surely looks peculiar.
Reminds me of how Guernica* was used as a live-fire testbed for German systems/tactics just before the start of WW-II. WE NEVER LEARN! ;-(
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* http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/guernica.htm
I’ve seen the HUGE painting in Madrid. It’s true, maybe we don’t learn but they do …. slowly ever so slowly. Still, daisy chained civilians never ever look better, no?
to see how well they do against an informed enemy in the field.
to see how poorly … fixed that for ya
“Military Summary Channel is now at this time standing head and shoulders above the rest in reporting.”
Please post link.
fz-mod: e.g.: (also available on Rumble or Telegram)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lm-8QNcnPY
This is hybrid war – do not be blindsided!
ZH has a list of deadly warnings about the transatlantic system :
Musk is quite direct, and Dimon from the very inner circle :
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/elon-musk-slash-tesla-jobs-has-super-bad-feeling-about-economy
This is the force driving the complete irrationality of the usuals.
The FED’s actions, either way, for these are an atomic bomb, as Hungary said of the EU sanctions.
This is what must asap be put through bankruptcy reorganization. Nothing, including HIMARS can sidestep this.
Russia’s Glazyev knows precisely what hybrid means.
And as far as ‘good-kill drones’ goes – ever hear of Ramstein?
Yeah, good or bad feelings are leading the EU/US economy.
Tesla is slashing jobs because every major auto producer has an EV that is capable of erasing the ridiculously high life cycle cost of Tesla’s products. “The economy” is secondary in his layoff (and prior stock selling) decisions.
The “usuals” are not being irrational, they were fully aware of the consequences of 20 years of QE, ZIRP, NIRP (relative to inflation), etc. which began with the tech crash in 2000. They used it to build more wealth.
They are also aware that you cannot taper the huge debt Ponzi that they profited from. We are now in year 3 of the “Great Reset” which will last a decade. Covid and the loss of more civil liberties was round one, inflation is round two… total techno-fascism (including CBDC) by 2030 is the end goal.
Biden and his clowns are doing everything to delay their acknowledgment of defeat until after November mid-term election.
For cheaper oil, Biden is humiliating himself by visiting Saudi Arabia to kiss Saudi Arabia’s MBS. Human Rights? Forget about it.
All band-aid, none strategic.
And yet a far simpler solution exists: build Keystone XL pipeline from a reliable minion directly to US refineries!
Fortunately common sense is not so common.
the oligarchs that are trying to control the world don’t want cheap energy, or food. they want to squeeze their populations into full submission.
the cheaper oil claim is a lie and not meant at all for the US or Europe. It is in part to deprive Russia of income in the futile hopes of collapsing its economy and causing a coup.
BBB requires the leveling of what remains of industry and decent living standards in the West. They have no plans to ship that oil West. Greek shippers are currently being removed from British insurers’ coverage, oil tanker heists are proliferating which will lead to further uninsurability, and the Druzhba oil pipeline and other pipes are openly threatened and should be blown up any time. Candles and firelight will be common sources of nightlight in the West soon..
Biden shut down Keystone on day one of his reign for a reason: it is dead for the duration, along with further exploration or investment in the energy sector. The satanic Schwabians are fully in the saddle.
Yeah … must be a way to not run U$ goobermint infrastructure across first nation lands.
More howitzers heading to Donbass
Via a certain analysis site once associated with saker
“Former Belgian Army M109 155 mm self-propelled howitzers were sold to Ukraine by a private company, Belgian Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder confirmed to the Chamber of Representatives on June 1. In 2008, the Belgian army withdrew 108 M109A4BE howitzers from service. Later they were all sold to two private companies, Flanders Technical Supply and OIP Land Systems. Ukraine purchased the howitzers from OIP Land Systems. The company is thought to have bought 44 of the Belgian army’s M109A4BE howitzers. In 2018, it sold 18 of the howitzers to the US in a re-export deal. This means that Ukraine may have bought the remaining 26 howitzers.
It’s worth noting that Ukraine also received around 20 M109A3GN howitzers from Norway. Some of these howitzers have been already spotted heading towards the frontlines in the Donbass region.””
It looks like the Russians wait until the full crew of trained operators (6-10 Ukies) are grouped with 3 artillery pieces (total manpower 18-30), and ammo loading trucks are in place and then they hit it all with air strikes, missiles, mobile arty or MLRS salvos.
The demilitarization of Ukraine is about destroying capabilities, men, machines, and commanders. There are fewer and fewer places where the artillery Ukies are receiving can operate. To survive, they can’t be used effectively. If used, they get destroyed. Once their initial supply of ammo is spent, they are useless hunks of metal. Logistics is getting to be quite difficult. This is why Donbass is rolling up wherever the Russians pressure.
Its a paradox that NATO sends its expensive equipment within a couple hundred KM of the RF, DPR, and LPR borders and bam ! said equipment gets destroyed. NATO sends more equipment, gets destroyed. Its like NATO can’t figure out that as far as the Allies are concerned, destroying this equipment so close to home is like swatting flies.
Bet the shipping alone costs NATO more than its costs the Allies to destroy.
Its a most bizarre battle of atttrition.
I’d have to respectably disagree. Do you realize that Donetsk is getting clobbered daily and the artillery attacks are increasing? A covered market was hit the other day, leaving six dead and many wounded. These are civilians being hit. The shelling is worse now than it ever was.
Larch….what is your opinion why it took..blowout Beskydy Tunnel 100 days ?????
did anyone also catch that video from intel slava . huge huge train convoy in Belarus loaded with armoured vehicles.. manoevres… wonder when it was taken….and was it arriving ..or in transit …or departing.. where??? Yup Larch surely Rus Intel is closely following all this stuff from source and route onwards ……
🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡ Instead of modern models of the BMP Marder, Germany decided to transfer to Ukraine the vehicles sold to Greece almost 30 years ago, writes Die Welt.
According to the publication, BMPs from the stocks of the National People’s Army of the GDR will be delivered from Greece to Ukraine, and Athens will receive the same number of modern Marders in return. There is a suspicion that Western donors have decided that Ukraine is such an ideal country for storing secondary ferrous metal.
A little joke from Russian Telegram site:
Ukrops intercept Russian missiles with their infrastructure. The missile stood no chance – it was completely destroyed.
(Real story: Kalibr denazifies something in Lvov, few mins ago)
Plus a lighter video from the liberated territories:
Drive a Ukrainian Military Armored vehicle In Kherson Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woWZuhkXKQQ
And a great song video highlighting the SMO:
I am Russian soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELbXz36oYsI
Like saying “I puummelled his fists with my head and body.”
yeah, its the old boxer adage of “i was trying to break his fist with my face” :)
Military Chronicle Update: https://voenhronika.ru/
Equipment and artillery of the Russian army DOMINATE on the battlefield! Latest videos and reports from Ukraine – noon June 3 (20 videos)
Equipment and artillery of the Russian army DOMINATE the battlefield! Latest videos and reports from Ukraine – noon June 3
The situation on the fronts is changing towards the Russian army and this is not a set of accidents. Those advantages that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had at the beginning of the special operation are gradually fading away.
Plan A with a quick advance to Kiev did not work ( why so ), but the conclusions were drawn. During Plan B, all tactical mistakes were taken into account, especially in the rear.
The technical equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is falling every day, and Western supplies cannot yet reverse the trend. At the same time, the technical equipment of the Russian armed forces is increasing every day, even in terms of cheap drones, the RF Armed Forces have already overtaken the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The quality of the personnel of the Ukrainian army has fallen dramatically, mobilization is raking everyone to the front.
Svyatogorsk-Liman. The Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR confirmed the establishment of full control over Shchurovo. The enemy retreated behind the Seversky Donets. Svyatogorsk has not yet been taken, fighting continues on the outskirts of the city. The Seversky Donets in the direction of Slavyansk has not yet been forced – there is an increase in attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Raygorodok and Slavyansk.
Zaluzhny proposed to Zelensky a plan to withdraw heavy equipment and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine through Seversk to Bakhmut, which would save almost 100 pieces of equipment and withdraw 3,000 soldiers from the operational encirclement in the Severodonetsk direction. Otherwise, the situation at the fronts has not changed significantly since the morning.
Information is circulating on the network that the United States is preparing to transfer the MQ-1C Gray Eagle attack drones. This time, such a scenario is possible. From the point of view of combat capabilities, this is a powerful weapon that can become a big problem for the RF Armed Forces, since the available armament, range and autonomy of the UAV will make it possible to strike at the rear facilities of the RF Armed Forces and automatically track and mark ground targets. In addition, there is no need to train Ukrainian servicemen. On the territory of Ukraine there are American mercenaries, some of whom have sufficient experience in using this technology. However, in reality, not everything is so rosy. This is the same aircraft as the others, and it can also be shot down. Especially considering its dimensions – it is much larger than Bayraktar.
“Information is circulating on the network that the United States is preparing to transfer the MQ-1C Gray Eagle attack drones. ”
What base are those drones gonna operate out of ? Ramstein, Germany ? They might as well send a F-35.
Wouldn’t they be operated out of the American center. I forget where it is, Arizona or Nevada. I saw that movie, Eye in the Sky.
Ah Hollywood, a sure way to get knowledge LOL
re: “Ukrainian propaganda still abounds and new videos are being made about how Russia is losing this war.”
While social media is still abuzz with nonsense (promoted in large part by government sock puppets) about how Ukraine is going to turn the tide, even The New York Times, aka the mouthpiece of the Deep State, is starting to run stories that counter this narrative:
As War Rages Into Its 100th Day, Russia Now Controls a Fifth of Ukraine
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/world/europe/ukraine-russia-donbas-zelensky.html
Of course, they are reporting only what Zelensky tells them and they are still trotting out the nonsense that Russia was “battered, depleted and repulsed from their initial drive to capture the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv”.
As far as the weapons and billions in aid $ being sent to Ukraine by the U.S./NATO, no one really knows what is happening as it all disappears into a black hole. Clearly, it isn’t doing anything to prevent Ukraine from losing the war. The only thing that is clear is that it is a major boon for U.S. arms manufacturers. From what I’ve been able to discern, the weapons being sent are old stockpiles and with NATO crowing about a new unity all NATO countries are going to have to purchase the latest U.S. made weaponry for cohesion among the members. So on one level this all makes perfect sense – make NATO members deplete their stockpiles of old weapons so that the U.S. arms manufacturers can reap billions more $ selling them new weapons. Ukraine is just the excuse for this grift, which would explain why they want the war to drag out even as Ukraine goes kaput.
The U.S. Government is run by the giant corporations that are only concerned with their own bottom lines – witness the whole Covid scamdemic, where Big Pharma was supported in its push for the exclusive use of their expensive experimental gene therapy drugs disguised as vaccines, in lieu of effective early treatment with cheap, available off-patent drugs.
Biden is a mere figurehead, He is periodically trotted out to recite the latest bit of corporate-friendly propaganda and when he inevitably veers off script his aides rush to clarify/correct his ramblings. The U.S. is rotting from the inside out. Everyone knows this on some level but via incessant propaganda from the corporate “news” citizens are turned on one another with issues like abortion, BLM, gun control, preferred pronouns, transgender malarkey, etc., while the rich quietly loot the country.
Perhaps this is the inevitable end of a country that was founded on high ideals but quickly degenerated into an every-man-for-himself greedfest, As was noted in the book, ‘Farewell America’ written back in the 1960s about the JFK assassination:
For President Madison, “The American political system was founded on the natural inequality of men.” Correlatively, the moral philosophy of the United States is based on success.
At the end of the Eighteenth Century a Frenchman, the Chevalier de Beaujour, wrote on his return from North America, “The American loses no opportunity to acquire wealth. Gain is the subject of all his conversations, and the motive for all his actions. Thus, there is perhaps no civilized nation in the world where there is less generosity in the sentiments, less elevation of soul and of mind, less of those pleasant and glittering illusions that constitute the charm or the consolation of life. Here, everything is weighed, calculated and sacrificed to self-interest.”
Another Frenchman, the Baron de Montlezun, added, “In this country, more than any other, esteem is based on wealth. Talent is trampled underfoot. How much is this man worth? they ask. Not much? He is despised. One hundred thousand crowns? The knees flex, the incense burns, and the once-bankrupt merchant is revered like a god.”
https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-America-Plot-Kill-JFK/dp/1883955327
“The U.S. Government is run by the giant corporations that are only concerned with their own bottom lines…”
Wrong; the U.S. “government” is run by cult of demon-possessed theistic Satanists.
I prefer not to put psychopathic antisocial behavior in religious terms.
SEE:
Noam Chomsky on Corporations
“States and corporations are very tightly linked. To a very large extent concentrated private power just dominates the state.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5obtpWrFKjU
I add some letters to it.
“We can expect:
A) an epic set-piece battle,
B) or surprises by the Russians,
C) or the Ukrainian soldiers just folding, laying down arms and waving white flag, or abandoning their posts,
going awol, having totally lost their will to do battle,
D) or more videos pleading with their command to supply them with necessary food, weapons and support.”
I think it’s C).
Some more wunderwaffe to the Ukraine .. Here is Brian Berletic again – those four drones. Yes, four.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKSQ1VhCmW4
And those wunderwaffe from the last sitrep – those himars rocket launchers .. one only complex, with 4 rockets.
These weapons are a media finagle.
A really good site for reports on the SMO. And in this highlight he is saying something I’ve been thinking too:
” A final, unrelated note: Many commenters ask how the next phase will go, how much destruction, etc. Folks, I don’t expect that much destruction. It’s one thing to defend the Ukraine by wasting the Donbass and some Russian-oriented towns and villages in Kharkov. It’s quite another when you have to defend parts of the Ukraine inhabited by “good, loyal Ukrainians”, including the families of Ukrainian army soldiers and officers. After the Donbass and Kharkov, there won’t be any more “Stalingrads.” This isn’t quite Nazi Germany; these Aryans won’t de-house themselves.”
https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/05/28/what-the-hell-is-going-on-here/
There are also great videos from him on Youtube:
The Dreizin Report – Ukraine War & Aftermath
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD9dA9T4SKHT1-_yPNuCkaQ
The Kiev nazis found a way to start WW-III. Is Crimea (and other liberated territories) well protected from US MLRS strikes? I have in mind the S-300, S-400 and other anti-missiles systems.
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Arestovich: “Crimea is the territory of Ukraine, so the ban on the use of American MLRS does not apply to it”
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“Crimea is ours. Our Ukrainian. And they know it. Therefore, he will fly to the Crimea already on the run, if there is such a need.”- he said, adding that the shelling of the peninsula will not be something new for Kiev, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already used weapons to strike at its territory.
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https://topwar.ru/197211-arestovich-krym-javljaetsja-territoriej-ukrainy-pojetomu-zapret-na-primenenie-amerikanskih-rszo-na-nego-ne-rasprostranjaetsja.html
A reasonably alert western reader should of course be appalled by the arestovich citation above, which appears to be threatening to shell crimea with the new long range u.s. weapons, because it’s ‘ours’.
Good Read. Roots of European Nazis
Burgeoning Nazism all across Europe/EOL
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/02/why-is-it-so-hard-finnish-nazism-nato-growing-suicide-pact-threatens-to-light-the-world-on-fire/
Why Is It So Hard to Finnish Nazism? NATO’s Growing Suicide Pact Threatens to Light the World on Fire
s it possible that the war we thought we won in 1945 was merely a battle within a larger war for civilization whose outcome yet remains to be seen?
The decision recently expressed by the Finnish and Swedish governments to join NATO’s collective suicide pact shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the growth of Nazism over the past 77 years.
Not only is this growth taking the form of a renewal of swastika-tattooed, black sun of the occult loving, wolfsangel-wearing Azov, C14, Svoboda and Aidar neo-Nazis in Ukraine today, but a whole re-writing of WWII history which has taken an accelerated dive into unreality during the 30 years since the Soviet Union collapsed.
NATO’s growth around Russia’s perimeter since 1998, and the NATO-led mass atrocities of bombings in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Libya should also be re-evaluated with this Nazi pedigree in mind.
Why did NATO post images of a Ukrainian soldier clearly brandishing a Thule-society black sun of the occult on her uniform in honor of ‘Women’s’ Day’ this year? Why are active Ukrainian Nazis serving in Azov, and Aidar battalions systemically glossed over by NATO propaganda outlets or mainstream media despite the proven cases of mass atrocities in East Donbass since 2014? Why are Nazi movements seeing a vast revival across East European space- especially within countries that have come under the influence of NATO since the Soviet Union’s collapse?
Is it possible that the war we thought the allies won in 1945 was merely a battle within a larger war for civilization whose outcome yet remains to be seen? Certainly patriots of Finland and Sweden should think very deeply about the dark traditions which risk being revived as they join into a new Operation Barbarossa in the 21st century.
That’s indeed a very very good read, debunking some myths about Swedish and Finish wwII neutrality.
“Is it possible that the war we thought the allies won in 1945 was merely a battle within a larger war for civilization whose outcome yet remains to be seen?”
Absolutely. Look at the pro-nazi stance of European governments, themselves increasingly fascist in their one-agenda-states and total intolerance of alternative viewpoints. And documentation exists showing clear cia/nazi connections.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ayw2engmrTH5/
In the war in Ukraine, weapons are not the only US export to the country.
Washington has been nurturing Nazi movements in Ukraine for many years and regularly supplies homegrown National Socialists to create a “new Reich” in the centre of Europe.
https://telegra.ph/NATIONALISM-FOR-EXPORT-05-19
IS the future of Europe, beset as at is by economic problems and possible civil unrest to be fascist totalitarianism as happened in Germany after it’s 1920s currency collapse?
In the minds of the ruling elite, fascism is never far away.
The last battle of WW2, Operation Highjump, anartica, the Germans(elites) won. They have an established base there. New swabby land. Look up scherff. Seig Heil.
I have been into the same thoughts myself.
Very important read. It fits into the whole puzzle.
Ex-Nato General Secretary Rasmussen spent years in Kiev as “adviser” to Poroshenko, to he is adviser to KKR who managed and plan the investments of the relocations of ISIS.
To add fuel to the Scandinavian story, 2/3 of Danish population 2 days ago voted for fully entering into future military engagements with Nato from 1. June 2022, only 1/3 of the Danish population voted no.
The whole Europe is being slowly nazified, and the majority of their populations are fully behind it.
It also explains the for us/me not understandable hatred and discrimination against Russia/Russians. The old Nazi Elite were simply just sleeping and waiting for an oppertunity
I am amazed that Ukrainians still fight bravely, they are attacking?
What motivates them, are they payed?
Hands tied behind your back and bullet in the back of the head can be a motivating factor…
Is it brave to shell Donbas children? They are sociopaths and take drugs to help them fight.
Zelensky walked Ukraine into war in a very public way (independent of the Russian announcement that Ukraine planned to attack the Donbass on March 8). We are seeing the conclusion of what began in 2014, when Ukraine made so clear that it was anti-Russian, that the two most Russian regions it had immediately tried to separate themselves to be independent.
Putin warned anyone interfering with SMO will pay heavy price. I think Russia should have long ago struck any air fields in Poland that were being used as transfer points for weapons to Ukraine. Those would have been justifiable, self-defence targets. USA and NATO could not argue otherwise. And it would have put the brakes on future weapon shipments.
Instead, by sitting by idly, Russia has allowed the creation of an expressway of NATO weapons into Ukraine. First it was javelins and mortars, then it was howitzers, now it’s MLRS and Harpoon anti ship missiles. What’s next? Why does Russia have to wait. Their red line has obviously been crossed with complete impunity and disregard.
Russia must strike back at those facilities (outside of Ukraine) that are key weapon transfer points. There is no other option for Russia except a show of strength.
Thank heavens you are not in charge.
Russia does not need to beat itself on the chest like a proverbial gorilla to show strength.
Could some kind soul also let Paul Craig Roberts know. Man, he is off in the back 40!
Paul Craig Roberts is a good man. He speaks from the wisdom of his years. Disagree with him, but please don’t disrespect him.
He takes no cognizance of any disagreement and continues his back 40 bleatings. I’m sorry, I don’t spend time disrespecting him, I just cannot read him any longer, or respect his message. It is for me, a sad thing.
I think you (and the Kremlin) misunderstand something PCR understands well, namely the Western mindset. No pushback leads directly to more push. The reality is that relations between gorillas proceed very much like that between nations. They proceed according to the calculus of power. Thucydides lost his argument against the Athenians. Good triumphs when mated to strength only because the strong, historically, do what they will (good or bad) and the weak, historically, suffer what they must (likewise, good or bad). Beating themselves on the chest is how gorillas pre-empt more serious violence. Sabre rattling is how nations do it.
Look at Georgia post 2008, and then Donbas post 2014. Georgia has been quiet as a mouse, while the evils of Ukraine’s Nazi movements metastasized throughout the body politic. Look at Syria pre and post Oct 2015. Notice a difference in the USM’s activity, not only in Syria but in the whole M.E.? The US has all but withdrawn, Iran is resurgent, the stream of Persian Gulf Potentates are wearing out the Kremlin’s carpets and Saudi Prince MBS can say “I don’t care what he thinks” on TV when an interviewer asks him what the POTUS may think of his recent policy.
To be sure, lots of stuff has happened under the carpet, but post Maidan Ukraine would have presented an order of magnitude less resistance than 8 yrs later. All it would’ve required for even greater legitimacy than today’s SMO is Yanukovich’s official request for assistance a la Assad’s. The demilitarization stage would’ve ended almost before it began, but better still, the tumour was an order of magnitude smaller then and we’d have 8 yrs of denazification behind us.
Perhaps more importantly, the whole of Davos Man’s agenda would’ve been knocked 2 giant steps back just as he began to roll it out in earnest. His entrance into the Heartland would’ve slammed closed, putting his agenda in jeopardy and his momentum on the back foot. As it is, he went into overdrive. Imagine what that means on the ground around the world. No pandemic(s)? No Russia-gate? No Biden presidency? No LGBTXXX revolution? Who knows, but I’m pretty sure the world would be a different place.
Where I think PCR’s complaints may be misplaced, is that the Kremlin realized that the Syrian and Ukrainian situations were but 2 aspects of a single war centred on the Black Sea, and may have already decided that a move into Syria took strategic precedence. They needed the the Eastern Med door closed, but going to war on 2 fronts simultaneously was perhaps viewed as beyond Russia’s capabilities. Perhaps the Kremlin judged that both NATO & Ukraine needed to stew in its juices together for some time.
More likely, IMHO, is that the Russian political structure was so riddled with 5th Columnists that going beyond snatching Crimea was a political impossibility. It took 8 yrs of metastasizing to make the tumour sufficiently apparent to the Russian public and nomenklatura to cut the 5th Column’s power down to a size it could be ignored.
Great points. I believe (I think the evidence will come out in the not too distant future) that Ukrainian military brass or head honchos or higher ups (pick your description) are pilfering the weapons for their well-established Black Market contacts.
How else do you explain the cognitive dissonance in rationing bullets– for crying out loud– and the Clown Prince constantly bellowing about we need more weapons? I won’t impugn the valor or patriotism of all Ukrainian forces. , but I am convinced from these “surrender” videos that there is a general lack of leadership and ethos of corruption in the military leadership from Ukraine. These commanders are sending troops, inexperienced and older not well trained troops TO THE FRONT LINE with no support, no communication channels or hierarchy and no weaponry. This is sheer madness. Somebody convince me that the “Rats” in the Ukrainian military command are not hoarding the “cheese” (US weapons) before they jump off the ship.
Interesting line of thought –
It’s does certainly seem odd that NATO is flooding Ukraine with weapons and has been for the last 8 years, and some how the front line troops do not have enough bullets.
Given the obscene corruption in the Kie government as well as among NATO officers – it stands to reason that a fair amount of the weapons are being sold to third parties on the black market.
Nothing confirmed just a thought
– It’s does certainly seem odd that NATO is flooding Ukraine with weapons
My theory:
We have an invisible people here
Chinese 1400 mill
White Westerners 500 mill
Slavs 150 mill
Germans 100 mill
The invisble people 175 mill
WWII was about stopping the Germans from being a superpower
When British Army could have been eliminated, Hitler said: No, No
When Moscow could have been conquered, Hitler said: No, No
Hitler’s last order was: Destroy German machinery
The master race (1)
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-zBmKC2EC7fo/TXANpAUcVGI/AAAAAAAABx0/j7raN2QHYo8/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/onassis-churchill-christina-bow-tie.jpg
The master race (2)
https://cdn-attachments.timesofmalta.com/b496f57e881c997bd3b683a8512b6a49acf7c4ab-1624517745-e93b9fcd-1920×1280.jpg
https://cropper.watch.aetnd.com/cdn.watch.aetnd.com/sites/5/2018/07/JackieO.jpg
Certified masterrace
But from what region in the world?
Did anyone notice the report on the Avdiivka front in the Military Summary video, where, he mentions a Russian armoured assault was defeated by the Ukrainians? I am perplexed as to what happened in this case. Surely Russia would win a direct tank battle, but there doesn’t seem to be any further details.
Yes. My first thought was “Ukro propoganda” with a chuckle.
That probably RF was so busy mopping up and counting enemy dead, and had no time to submit a detailed report of the actual carnage. Then decided not to argue the Ukro report they came across because it was lunchtime, and had better things to do.
When ‘a bird in the hand, in worth two in the bush.’ RF has it down to a science.
Military Summary has been fairly accurate so far. It could be that the area around Avdeevka is crawling with super elite(on the level of Seals or Green Berets)Nato SOF tank killer BTGs armed with the latest technology rather than the junk being given to the territorial defense brigades and the AFU.
There are no further details. So, the idea of troops “on the level of seals…” being there is doubtful. (Or you suggest US direct involvement?)
The video reports I’ve observed show American mercenaries intending to join the RF. Not the nazis.
If it were “crawling with super elite..” the numbers would be reflected in RF casualties. But there aren’t any yet,
while Ukro propoganda flourishes.
A final report for that skirmish remains to be seen either way. And Russia has the “latest technology.”
There’s a story on ABCinternacional (founded in 1903, big in Spain) about sanctions against Russia, with only one sentence about the athlete and alleged girlfriend of Putin who is sanctioned too, but she is in the headline of the story. Below is the deepl-translator text of the headline and then the sentence in a 14-paragraph article:
“The European Union announces sanctions against Putin’s alleged girlfriend and against the “butchers” of Bucha and Mariupol”
“It also includes in the European blacklist former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, who is credited with a proximity to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, denied by the Kremlin.”
I don’t know if there is any truth regarding this proximity. It doesn’t belong in international relations. Wikipedia says she had three children. No way to know if that’s true. Maybe in Russia they know. She is not married, I guess, because she could easily say she is married. It’s very bad to sanction her based on “proximity.” Notice they are saying it’s not about the relationship – it’s the proximity issue. They should wonder more about telling another president that he better not have any relationships; nobody has ever done that…
ABC newspaper is the Catholic Church’s voice in Spain.
Wikipedia says “sons”, so two or all are little putins, just like him too, just what we needed (kidding, excuse me, they do say “sons”).
any news in Spain regarding the ex ukraine blogger Anatoly Shariya arrested on behalf of SBU international arrest warrant?
At least Spain has called for Pompeo to be a witness in the trial regarding plans to kill A.
Another great article on the future of the liberated territories of the former Ukraine. As I’m said for years,those regions are an important asset for Russia:
” The Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions are strategically important to Russia for many reasons. First, they are part of the land corridor between Crimea and Rostov. Second, the area encompassing the Donbass and southern Ukraine, which was historically called Novorossiya, is, unlike Crimea, an industrial and agricultural powerhouse. In other words, these territories will not be a burden for Russia. In the long run, if Moscow integrates them regions, they will become important contributors to the country’s economy, generating income and development opportunities.”
Alexander Nepogodin: What does the future hold for the regions of Ukraine now controlled by Russia?
https://www.rt.com/russia/556495-restoring-peaceful-life-kherson/
In the wider world, the Gulf Arab States declared they will not sanction Russia.
Lol. pResident Dick Chiclets is going to SA? Last I heard they didn’t answer his phone calls. He, and his 85 vehicle entourage … a limo doesn’t hold too many adult diapers, are just going to show up to meet the “KIng” of SA. Even the NYT is saying he/it is going to remove the ‘pariah state’ logo. I know everyone’s read the back and forth on this, especially Caitlin Johnstone’s utterances. It exposes the US, as if the emperor could be more naked, for what it truly is … as Rimbaud once said, ‘I set truth and beauty on my knee and found her to be a syphilitic whore.” ,,, be sure to put a helmet on your little soldier.
The BBC News website states that “Ukraine won early on a crucial battle for Hostomel Airport”. Anyone know WTF they are talking about? As far as I can see this was one of the great Russian victories, and they had full control of the airport, until they decided to pull out of Kiev and the North of the Ukraine a month later
The clowns live in their version of the Truman show,totally removed from reality.
Why would you bother BBC news? Save your energy and just ignore all these Anglosphere MNM. Let them fool their own citizens, who have no idea that they are paying taxes to be robbed.
Being at war means being able to accept risks with the highest stakes on the line.
If I was confident in my equipment and training, I would be able to accept some additional risks of enemy fielding their “best equipment” in limited numbers which I could manage.
Yes this could mean additional casualties but, if I was anticipating a larger war with that same enemy, I would like the earliest manageable exposure to those weapons systems so that I can refine my training and tactics to counter them when used in a larger scale.
I’d want to go up against their “best” sooner rather than later.
Hello, does anyone have any opinions of Strelkov Igor Ivanovich aka: Igor Girkin?
He’s telegram channel is quite critical of the SMO. The basic theme is that the RF isn’t committing enough forces and isn’t fighting like this a real war. Here’s his channel, I’ve been using google translate
https://t.me/s/strelkovii
A subversive. More information here: /revisiting-russias-5th-and-especially-6th-columns/
Voenkor Kitten Z
Military expert Boris Rozhin with a brief summary of the results of the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine at 22.50 on June 03, 2022, especially for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel :
1.
Severodonetsk.
Fighting in the area of the Azot industrial zone. The enemy decided to hold it to the stop and transferred reinforcements there, including foreign mercenaries. Fighting in the city continues.
2.
Lisichansk.
The enemy holds the defense both from the side of Severodonetsk and from the side of Ustinovka and Privolye. The group’s main supply line is the Artemovsk-Seversk-Lysichansk highway.
3.
Soledar.
Fighting continues near the Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to try to push our troops back from Belogorovka and Berestovoye, but since the road is under fire control, it is problematic to use it in the context of ongoing fighting.
4.
Svetlodarsk.
Fights for Novolugansk and Uglegorsk thermal power plants continue. The enemy is quite firmly dug in there. The Svetlodarsk-Debaltsevo road has already been unblocked.
5.
Golden.
After the capture of Kamyshevakhi, the battles for Zolote and in the Toshkovka region continued. The decisive battles in this area will be for Vrubovka.
6.
Slavyansk.
There are battles for Svyatogorsk and Bogorodichne. The enemy is reinforcing the defenses in the Raygorodok area.
7.
Raisins.
Positional battles in the area of Kurulka, Bolshaya Kamyshevakhi.
In addition to the attack on Bogorodichnoye, an offensive is being carried out on the Valley along the Izyum-Slavyansk highway.
8.
Kharkov.
Positional battles north of the city. The enemy is trying to cling to Tsupovka again after the losses suffered there. Fighting continues south of Ternovoe and north of Stary Saltov. The enemy, in turn, tried to attack in the area of the village of Liptsy.
9.
Zaporozhye.
Fighting north of the village. Pology, as well as to the east of Gulyaipole. To the west of Gulyai-Pole, unchanged.
10.
Avdiivka.
Fighting north of Avdiivka. Counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Novoselka-2 were not successful. Our troops also do not yet have a serious advance in New York. Fighting continued in the direction of Krasnogorovka.
11.
Ugledar, Marinka, Nikolaev, Odessa – no change.
@voenkorKotenok
Some videos for today.
Msta-S fires away at Kiev regime military targets:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/msta-s-ukraine:b
Patrick Lancaster investigates a Kiev regime Su-25 crash site in liberated Kherson oblast:
https://odysee.com/@PatrickLancasternewstoday:c/ukrainian-su-25-shot-down-over-kherson:7
Azov Nazis in Yelenovskaya Penal Colony (DPR):
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IIRhUa5VTxT6/
Russian S-300 missile system in combat:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/s-300-system:7
D-30 howitzers take out Kiev regime military targets:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/howitzers-ukraine:b
Looking over the Russian early morning MoD report, we have to adjust our working number of +- 500 Ukrainian soldiers kia per day. And we have to adjust it upwards quite steeply. What do you all think?
https://t.me/mod_russia_en/2024
And goodbye weapons and weapons instructors.
💥High-precision air-based missiles have hit an AFU artillery training centre near Stetskovka, Sumy Region.
▫️The foreign trainers who had arrived in the centre held practical exercises for Ukrainian servicemen related to using and firing control of M777 155-mm howitzers.
▫️In addition, a missile attack has resulted in destroying a permanent base of foreign mercenaries near Dachnoye, Odessa Region.
The KIA number isn’t all that relevant. Its too easy to confuse and get wrong.
The relevant metric now is which Kiev units are refusing to fight. BTW ay idea what happened to the 17th Armor Brigade. ?
What do you think the front line (LOC) looks like outside of Donetsk ?
Maginot Line style fortfifications. better to liberate from the rear.
Russian awaiting HIMARS (Available at Sputnik News 6 hour ago)
LIVE UPDATES: Ukrainian Plane Delivering Weapons Shot Down By Russian Air Defence Near Odessa
A bit stunned by this reversal in American Media: (From Newsweek)
‘They’re Jamming Everything’: Putin’s Electronic Warfare Turns Tide of War
Jake Thomas – Yesterday 9:14 PM
As Russian forces push for territorial gains in eastern Ukraine, they’re turning to a military capability they’ve largely forgone during the war but is expected to give them an edge: electronic warfare.
After earlier failing to topple Ukraine’s government, Russia’s military has focused its offensive on the country’s eastern Donbas region, which is home to a large population of Russian speakers. New reporting shows Russian forces are increasingly intercepting the Ukrainian military’s communications while jamming navigation and guidance systems.
“They are jamming everything their systems can reach,” an official with the Aerorozvidka, a Ukrainian agency that develops unmanned aerial vehicles and other military capabilities, told the Associated Press in a report published Friday. “We can’t say they dominate, but they hinder us greatly.”
Russia has jammed GPS receivers on drones used by Ukrainian forces used to locate and fire artillery at enemy targets, according to the report.
Christian Brose, a former aide to Senator John McCain and author of The Kill Chain, recalled a story from a Ukrainian officer who said Russians killed a commander after tricking him into returning a wireless call from his mother, according to the report.
After failing to take Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv early in the conflict, Russia’s redeployed forces in the eastern Donbas region appear to be making territorial gains and be poised to drive Ukrainian forces from Severodonetsk.
And this, too:
U.S. Officials Admit They Have Lied About Ukraine Success and Russian Failures
By Larry Johnson
Published June 4, 2022 at 7:30am
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/u-s-officials-admit-lied-ukraine-success-russian-failures/
Told you so. The U.S. and NATO have been lying about what is actually taking place on the ground in Ukraine. For those not familiar with my early writings on the actual situation, go back a look at my previous articles written in March– Is Russia on the Ropes in Ukraine? and Update on the Military Situation in Ukraine.
Voenkor Kitten Z
Battle for Severodonetsk. Report for the 1st half 04.06. 2022
1. On June 3, the enemy counterattacked in the area of Severodonetsk, trying to advance in a number of areas. Losses of the Chechen units.
In fact, this is all pointless for the Armed Forces of Ukraine – they will eventually go beyond the Seversky Donets anyway. But this once again proves that in war there is no need to run ahead of the locomotive and try to be the herald of victory. The enemy is active and counterattacking.
2. There is a complex terrain – Lisichansk hangs, plus a river. Thanks to this, they actively support their people in Severodonetsk. In fact, the city is shot through by a draft from Lisichansk.
Let’s go ahead. This is difficult given the fact that the enemy, unlike us, does not take into account residential buildings and civilians. There are no restrictions for them.
3.Severodonetsk and Lisichansk are still (!) connected by a bridge. Why it is not broken, the question is. It is controlled by the enemy, transferring reinforcements to Severodonetsk. Through it – the main supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They just yesterday transferred the Foreign Legion, a Georgian unit, to the city.
4. The trick is that since we are advancing, it is impossible to take Lisichansk through Severodonetsk. “On the shoulders” (on the shoulders of the retreating enemy) could not – they ran into industrial zones. If so, there is no need to take Lisichansk through Severodonetsk. You have to enter from the side of Popasnaya. But this cannot be done until the issue of Zolotoy is resolved – n.p. on the forehead, where crests dug into the ground. Although we bypassed Zolote itself through Popasnaya with the right “petal” of the offensive, the issue has not been resolved.
Although in theory it is possible to force Seversky Donetsk in the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk area. There is a river up to your chest. Khokhols fled, crossing it ford. But head-on is pointless. They sat down, shot, and we can put a lot of people.
@voenkorKotenok
Interesting discussion on offensive operations difficulty:
Voenkor Kitten Z
forwarded from
Vladlen TatarZky
In April 2022, new goals of the NWO in Ukraine were announced, namely, reaching the borders of the LDNR and securing in already liberated territories. As I understand it, it was supposed to attack in two converging directions from the Zaporozhye region to the north and from the Izyum region to the south. If the boiler closed, then more than 50 thousand people would be surrounded. Ukrainian military. However, such a daring plan could not be implemented and we switched to the tactics of “small boilers”.
The main difficulty in carrying out offensive operations in Ukraine is that in fact our troops have to go on the attack when the enemy’s artillery is not suppressed. The reasons why we were not able to suppress the artillery: – the absence or a critically small number of artillery radars.
– lack of effective reconnaissance of enemy artillery positions.
– the absence or scanty number of strike UAVs or kamikaze drones to destroy enemy artillery, immediately after detection.
– lack of organization of counter-battery combat.
– after the discovery of an enemy mortar or artillery position, a lot of time passed when our artillery could begin to suppress it. Two factors influenced this: communication and, in fact, the qualifications of the servants of the guns.
– the lack of a sufficient number of reconnaissance UAVs for round-the-clock hunting for enemy artillery.
Enough infantry can be thrown into battle, even with AK-12s, even with “mosquitoes”, but neither one nor the other will simply be able to reach the enemy’s positions if enemy artillery is not suppressed. Practicallyall the fighters of the assault groups, from different sectors of the front, note that the enemy, in 90% of cases, cannot withstand close combat, especially the newly formed units, and retreats. But due to the fact that the enemy artillery is not suppressed, it is not possible to hold the already occupied positions.
You can assemble as much infantry and equipment as you like, but the lack of an effective counter-battery fight will simply turn any, the bravest army, into “cannon fodder” and interfere with the solution of geopolitical objectives.
It is not a Masonic conspiracy that will stop our troops, but specific shortcomings in the combat work of each commander.
Another good video from the liberated territories. It never ceases to make me smile how “regular guy” Patrick is with his reports. Not like many reporters who put on “airs” in their reporting. And once again we can see how helpful and kind the Russian military behave:
Ships Held Captive In Kherson Ukraine Port. See How
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyVSCUBrFTk
@ Exile on June 04, 2022 · at 7:14 am EST/EDT
What do you think the front line (LOC) looks like outside of Donetsk ?
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It looks like several cauldrons are about to start boiling, reason the UkroWehrmacht is throwing anything they can to avoid their closing, including mercenaries to Severodonetsk/Lisichansk.
If you look at the map of shamelessly pro-nazi LiveMap (take it with lots of salt, it doesn’t reflect current situation) you will notice the advance north of Popasna and south of Krasny Liman, only a few days/weeks from closing. Pushilin (DPR) announced there will not be a set-piece battle, Severodonetsk/Lisichansk will be encircled.
https://liveuamap.com/
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Maginot Line style fortfifications. better to liberate from the rear.
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Exactly.
In between Vrubivka (currently in dispute) and Oskolinovka, just north of Toshkivka, there is an advance “finger” pointing northwest, “diddle, diddle, right down in the middle” (have to enlarge the map to see it), right now fighting for Bobrove, Ustynivka, and surroundings, pointing straight at the rear of Lisichansk.
The “finger” is getting thicker by the day with the advance from the Popasna sector, Komyshuvakha is already under Allied control, fighting is ongoing in the outskirts of Zolote and Vrubivka. From the Krasny Liman area, Allied forces are moving southeast, Bilohorivka currently in dispute.
Another important sector is the road between Bakhmut (a.k.a. Artemivsk) and Lisichansk, vital for the UkroWerhmacht supplies to the Severodonetsk/Lisichansk battlefield, which is under the line of fire of Russian artillery/air force. This road promises to be a cemetery for the Polish tanks, et al, that were thrown into the fray just recently for their baptism of fire. Fighting is going on all along the road in Yakovlivka, Bilohorivka, Berestove, etc., all the way to Lisichansk.
Cauldron is the recipe.
Mariupol taught that set piece battles are a waste of time, and Putin learned the lesson.
Once the cauldron is closed (“not one fly out,” Putin) no need to keep too many troops guarding the potential escape routes, troops can be detached to other battle lines.
There are many other cauldrons about to start boiling, for now, this is the most important one.
Slovyansk/Kramatorsk is coming, a defining moment for the SMO, and for all purposes, the end of Phase B or Phase 2, however they name it.
Lone Wolf
Do not bring cannon fodder to a artillery fight
Ukrainian loses in this war are said to be far greater that Russian or Novorossiyan loses. One reason may be that Russia has totally avoided the use of infantry as cannon fodder. But can an army fight without infantry?
Every generation of warfare has bought weapons with longer range. Romans fought man-to-man with swords. The phalanx was the long range weapon of the time, with spears that could kill the enemies at 15-20 feet. World War I saw armies in trenches with rifles, separated by a no-mans-land only a few hundred meters wide. In World War II a the gun of a tank might decide how close you could move to the enemy.
In the Ukrainian war the dominating weapon is drone-guided artillery. This creates a no-mans-land 10 kilometers wide. In the Nikolayev Oblast we have seen this in action. Any Ukrainian force that tries to attack is wiped out by artillery before it ever reaches the Russian lines.
Ukraine is desperately trying to hold on to every inch of Novorossiya. For this it uses infantry in trenches. This fodder now largely consists of Territorial Defense Forces with little training or combat skills. These forces are being decimated by Russian artillery. We have seen no video of Russians in similar trenches. Maybe Russia does not need defensive trenches, as long as it always attacking, or at least on the move.
This post by Vladlen TatarZky may explain why.
TatarZky says that Russian troops in fixed positions are also suffering from Ukrainian artillery. Maybe this is why Russians do not defend positions, but instead constantly move around. I have seen multiple cases, where some village is reported liberated by Russian forces, but next day on the maps it is again side to be under Ukrainian control.
Unfortunately the Russian aim at this point seem not to be liberating territory, but to kill as many Ukrainians as possible. This is a direct result of the Ukrainian policy of holding on to every last inch of Donbass.
Allied forces are hitting hard the head of the rat line, Russian Airborne troops stormed AFU fortifications in Bakhmut (a.k.a. Artemivsk), as part of the offensive in the Soledar/Bakhmut region.
Also, “Military Chronicle” is calling the road Bakhmut-Lisichansk the “Road of Death,” which in my former post I called a cemetery.
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/rossijskie_vdv_shturmujut_ukrep_vsu_pod_bakhmutom_video_ot_pervogo_lica_poslednie_svodki_s_ukrainy_vecher_4_ijunja_16_video/60-1-0-12267
Russian Airborne forces storm APU fortifications near Bakhmut: First-person VIDEO. Latest news from Ukraine-evening of June 4 (16 videos)
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https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/doroga_smerti_na_lisichansk_poslednij_vypusk_jurija_podoljaki_utro_4_ijunja_20_video/60-1-0-12266
“ROAD OF DEATH” to Lisichansk! Last issue of Yuri Podolyaki-morning of June 4 (20 videos)
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Lone Wolf
Donetsk is again being hit by Ukrainian artillery.
At some point the destruction of the Command and Control Center in Kiev will be inevitable.
Gonzalo Lira posted on his twitter an insightful sequence about the growing divisions in the Ukrainian government, especially with the military high command.
Would the attack on Kiev accentuate these divisions?
At least 5 killed. It’s pretty bad as you can see from this video:
https://t.me/intelslava/30818
As mentioned above:
“The main difficulty in carrying out offensive operations in Ukraine is that in fact our troops have to go on the attack when the enemy’s artillery is not suppressed. The reasons why we were not able to suppress the artillery:
– the absence or a critically small number of artillery radars.
– lack of effective reconnaissance of enemy artillery positions.
– the absence or scanty number of strike UAVs or kamikaze drones to destroy enemy artillery, immediately after detection.”
They need to figure out how to fix this fast because wasn’t that the whole point of doing this operation to liberate the Donbas?
Dear Bear,
They are Nazis. Nazis acting like Nazis. Nazis don’t care about our lives. To them we are not human.
There are many Nazis in Brazil. Especially since the Coup d’Etat of 2016, there is an undeclared war going on by the Nazis of Brazil against the Brazilian population. Not unlike Ukraine, keeping due proportions of course.
Recently the police (who act as a neo-fascist militia) once again invaded a large favela (70,000 inhabitants) in the city of Rio de Janeiro (6.8 million inhabitants).
Under the pretext of a War on Drugs, at least 23 residents were killed in extrajudicial executions.
In practice, by attacking one drug faction, the police open the way for another rival faction to take root.
In Recife (1.6 million inhabitants), 128 people died because of another environmental crime caused by poor housing conditions and total abandonment of the poor population by the public authorities.
Mr. Putin sent a special letter of solidarity with the victims of Recife and shared in their grief.
The imperium cannot allow Brazil to rise up, because the BRICS would be unbeatable.
Another video of the attack. Just terrible! Imagine if Russia did that to Kiev? Imagine the international out cry.
https://t.me/voenkorKotenok/37064
Latest from Military Chronicle:
The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered CRITICAL losses during the battles for Severodonetsk and are fleeing their positions! Latest reports June 4 (19 videos)
The militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered critical losses during the battles for Severodonetsk and are retreating in the direction of Lisichansk – the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The Kyiv regime, realizing the impossibility of further resistance and holding Severodonetsk, ordered the surviving personnel of the 79th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 111 separate brigades of the territorial defense to mine at the Severodonetsk enterprise “Azot” containers with saltpeter and nitric acid with a volume of more than 100 tons.
Former SBU serviceman Butusov said that the combat orders during the attempted counterattack in Severodonetsk were given by deputy Bezuglaya, who directly assigned tasks to unit commanders. See in the cart her selfie at the APU checkpoint + a lot of 200 APU.
A signalman from the LPR “Murz” wrote that the 35th Army of the Eastern Military District of the RF Armed Forces had been defeated and destroyed. On ukrokanals they rejoice about the 35th army destroyed near Izyum. In places near Izyum, ours asked the 35th Army itself about this (fortunately our neighbors), they replied that they had not heard anything about their destruction and continued to clean the forest. The Murz itself is actually on the other side of the front and not at all in the subject.
The fighting seems to be very intense. That’s noticeable in a previous report from you higher up. Both sides say they’re winning. It’s clear the Ukrainians are making their biggest war effort now.