For the Saker Blog by Saker Staff
From Military Summary. He discusses:
- Russian T62 tanks (old models being brought in and why?)
- As a result of joint action by People’s Militia of Donetsk People’s Republic and the Russian Armed Forces, Krasnyi Liman has been completely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists.
- Consolidating success and a granular look at the various areas, fronts and cauldrons, retreats and routs, areas under fire control
- Operational actions and patterns – future front line (if there is one!)
An exatract from the early Russian MoD report. https://t.me/mod_russia_en/1900
As a result of joint action by People’s Militia of Donetsk People’s Republic and the Russian Armed Forces, Krasnyi Liman has been completely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists.
And we can see from that very same report:
Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 6 command posts, 1 communications centre, 4 ammunition depots, 2 Grad MLRS batteries, as well as 50 areas of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment concentration.
▫️The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 260 nationalists.
▫️In addition, fighter aircraft have shot down 2 Su-25s of the Ukrainian Air Force over Zagradovka, Kherson Region, and Barvenkoe, Kharkov Region.
This is then only the Operational-tactical and army aviation operations. Take a look at the report to begin to understand the massive carnage over the past day.
When can we say that this is now a rout and the Ukrainian forces are being fed into a meatball machine by their own commanders?
From Intel Slava, we have this:
Ukrainian guys do not want to become officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Kyiv completely failed the recruitment campaign for cadets in higher military educational institutions. By the end of May, military universities received a document from only 5% of previously selected candidates.
The Ukrainian domestic political situation is deteriorating fast. Gonzalo Lira in two videos, comments on that and the possibilities. Much ‘eating their own’ will become apparent as we’ve just seen from Poroshenko’s arrest/detainment? on the Polish border. https://t.me/EurasianChoice/14279
The geopolitical situation is a cartoon as the message is now clear that the Ukraine is falling. The Eurocrats are also falling, over their own feet, and some sector of the Biden Administration emits a stream of announcements on how many weapons they are sending to the Ukraine, only to be overruled by another sector minutes later. In addition, reports are beginning to become a stream that the Ukrainians that fled to Europe are not welcome and in more and more cases service to them is being refused.
Starlink? Satellite systems have ground stations. The Russians are taking trophies of these ground stations, or just kicking them around a bit, so, how long will that network last?
New information is out on the biolabs with an accusation that the US colonized developing countries to place their biolabs. Here is a separate report.
The news cycle is extremely busy with mostly hot air out of the west. With the recognition that they’ve lost slowly sinking in, the sailing term is ‘in irons’, i.e., they’ve sailed too close to the wind and cannot maneuver. The chess term is ‘zugzwang’. The ‘Icarus’ term is that their wings are melting.
In the meanwhile, the Russians are providing the real fire and testing new weapons. There is a stream of this and Intel Slava comments. Go to that channel and scroll through to see the extent. The Russian Armed Forces have used a new version of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system, TOS-2, during an offensive in the Kharkiv direction. It is based on TOS-1A, but has significant advantages. The platform truck has an increased cross-country capability, increased engagement range and fully automated firing process. The complex is protected by an electronic jamming system.
The day before, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry published a hysterical post on its official Twitter account saying that the Russian Armed Forces were using “the world’s most powerful non-nuclear weapons” on Ukrainian territory and posted a video of the TOS-1A in action in Donbass. This simply breaks the psyche of Ukrainian servicemen.
We’ve had some new Iskander action as well: The launch of the R-500 cruise missile by the Iskander complex against targets in Ukraine. https://t.me/intelslava/30164
This then summarizes the main ebbs and flows of the past 48 hours. That is it for today. Enjoy your discussion and careful with the Ukie propaganda. It is still everywhere but slowly changing to ludicrousness with overtones of sheer panic. Do take a mental note of the discussion on Military Summary at the start – the explanation of Ukrainian methods which can always result in another false flag. There are reports/rumors that the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba says he has been told to negotiate. We have to wait for Russian confirmation of this.
Last time I wondered why you didn’t give the link to the Rumble video.
I searched around with different names and found he is called “Military Summary”. At least visit the site and subscribe and give some likes. He does an excellent job. Here’s the channel: https://rumble.com/c/c-1613003
Ronny, in both instances the name of the channel was clearly given. From Military Summary. No need to seek and search. Go to Rumble, punch in military summary and hey presto!
Rumble has never worked on my browser. Do other people have the same problem, or is it just me ?
works always for me. Firefox
never any trouble on my Yandex browser.
Have you checked your ad-block and/or cookie settings?
Its just you. Try Yandex.
Works on Chrome although on Android platform. Try using Opera if on Windows or OS.
Works just fine on Brave Browser
Works for me on Chrome 102.0 / Win7 64
@ Ronny C
Thank you indeed for providing the link to the “Military Summary” on Rumble. (Also, there one can go full screen – in the above embedding that button does not work.)
I guess the old models of the T62 tanks are there to stay. Russia/Lugansk/Donetsk expect that there will be many sabotage attempts from UkieNazis in the liberated areas, so Russia clears its home arsenal from these tanks, that are still quite useful for protecting road-blocks.
Alexander Mercouris relates that the Washington Post (and the Guardian) is changing its ‘narrative’ quite dramatically for a bleak acknowledgement of reality. Obviously the collapse of the UA state is imminent. Mercouris also mentions that the arsenal of the US army is already critically depleted.
But other MSM media are still on the hysterical mind-dumbing tack of not understanding at all what & why Russia (LPR & DPR are consciously not mentioned) is doing what she is doing ‘since UA is not willing to give up any territory’. Exactly this unwillingness offers the SMO the possibility to complete its task (demilitarisation & denazification) thoroughly. The Washington Post and the Guardian at least count seriously with the fact that soon the present UA state disappears.
Yes. Gonzalo pointed out on Brighteon.com that the Russians are using their old equipment for their ‘peacekeeping or for guarding the city, road blocks and general presence etc.They don’t want to use their best equipment for the purpose.
https://www.brighteon.com/b02eda87-d646-4de4-bbb2-bedaa1ef36c2
Probably just a quick and easy way to beef up the APCs in mechanised infantry attacks.
Thanks for the update.
Heavy weekend ahead. 15 against 20. Meaning lots of artillary fire and only slow advancements. If the Russians can somehow force these 15 thousand Ukrainians into giving up, the whole region (see video) would be cleared soon. If not, killings will take up to 2 weeks time again. Nothing NATO could do but Russians can.
@ Saker Staff for the Saker Blog
Thanks for yet another good SitRep, a concise summary of the developing situation in Battlefield Ukraine.
Russia’s challenge of the West’s “Full Spectrum Dominance” is reaching out all levels of Russian society.
The latest “Russian Philosophical Congress” stated that,
https://m.vz.ru/society/2022/5/27/1160311.html
In the clash with the West, the national idea of Russia is born
Russia has become the “frontman” of a civilizational clash with the collective West. Against the background of the Ukrainian special operation, a new national idea is being born. This was stated by the participants of the Russian Philosophical Congress, which opened in Moscow.
“Today, more than ever, the issues of reflection on the civilizational agenda, on presenting the image of the future: where the world is going and where we are going. The agenda of globalization, which could not have been more relevant twenty years ago, is now being replaced by another one-the agenda of a polycentric world, ” said Alexey Kozyrev, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. He shared his opinion on the eve of the opening of the VIII Russian Philosophical Congress, which started its work in Moscow on Thursday and will last three days.
The Congress is dedicated to the centenary of the outstanding Russian philosopher, sociologist and writer Alexander Zinoviev, a well-known critic of modern liberal ideology and Western-centered globalization. The main topic of the meeting is “Philosophy in a polycentric world”. Among the more than one and a half thousand participants of the congress, there were many representatives of the philosophical community from near and far abroad – in particular, from China, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.
“The Russian national idea is based on values that are now alien to Western culture,” says Boris Mezhuyev, associate Professor of the History of Russian Philosophy at the Moscow State University Faculty of Philosophy. The essence of his teaching is that it is necessary to abandon the personal God and replace him with some abstract spirituality, spirituality. And society, in his opinion, should abandon public power and replace it with horizontal network principles. This direction of Western civilization, apparently, is becoming mainstream. The informal ideology of the new management elite of the collective West is becoming such a left-wing liberalism.”
Not only Russia, but also Latin America, India, China, even Israel and Hungary are not ready to put up with these new axioms of global civilization, Mezhuyev said. “But it is Russia that is now at the forefront of a civilizational clash,” the philosopher added…”
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On another note, Russia is rejecting the “Bologna” educational system, and “going back to basics,” the old Soviet educational system, with some reforms.
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27397/4592742/
Russia refuses “masters” and “bachelors”: the first step to abolish the Unified State Exam or return to the USSR
Talks about leaving the Bologna system have been going on in Russia since the beginning of the year
Masters and bachelors are going to be canceled. It will be like in the USSR again: go to university and study for five years. Most of the experts we interviewed applaud this innovation. But there are questions, and the main one is what about the Unified State Exam? First, take a guess test at school, and then-full-fledged entrance exams at the university?
Talks about leaving the Bologna system have been going on in Russia since the beginning of the year (and in the expert community even earlier). The other day, the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Valery Falkov put an end to it: “The future belongs to our own unique education system.” The relevant State Duma committee immediately stated that it was already preparing specific documents on how to exit. So to judge-to dress up late, the decision is made…”
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More on the same subject, from TASS.
https://tass.ru/infographics/9463
What does abandoning the Bologna system of higher education mean for Russia?
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BTW, indispensable A. Martyanov has been hammering on the subject of US education, one of his favorite words, “sophomoric,” describes very well the BAs and PhDs graduates he encounters everyday as pundits and “experts” on TV and media in general.
Just watch his videos, they are, as he is, indispensable.
https://www.youtube.com/user/smoothieX12
And check his blog.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
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On a different note, closer to the subject matter, Comrade Zircon flew a thousand kilometers from the Barents Sea to the White Sea.
https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14757533
Frigate “Admiral Gorshkov” hit a target with a Zircon missile at a distance of about 1 thousand km
As specified in the Russian Defense Ministry, the shooting took place as part of tests of new types of weapons.
“…According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the shooting took place as part of testing new types of weapons. “According to objective monitoring data, the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile successfully hit a sea target located at a distance of about 1,000 km,” they added, noting that the flight corresponded to the specified parameters…”
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Finally, enjoy the Kremlin Presidential Regiment change of guard, a true show of martial and equestrian gallantry. I watched it live, but YouTube already has it online. Worth the time to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOMoMGXfUE
LIVE: The Kremlin – Presidential Regiment’s changing of guard ceremony
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Enjoy!
Lone Wolf
Yeah, get back the Diploma, known from Germany before that Bachelor and Master missery.
Bachelors and Masters have dumbed down our youth so much. The Bologne system produced so many useless “experts” (especially the “Managers”, “Economists” and “Lawyers”) and left us without skilled labour force.
No wonder, this left the domestic industry vulnerable to foreign tools, workers and takeover. There simply weren’t enough people with skills to work in most factories. Education must adapt to the job market, not the other way around.
Thank you so much for this Lone Wolf: This is excellent news. In my opinion it is of comparable importance to the military victory. You suggest that the capitalist concept of globalization is in the process of being replaced by the Russian philosophical concept of a poli-centric global world order. The thing I like about this is that Russian civilization seems capable of taking this concept seriously and putting some practical meat on its bones.
This approach really does offer great healing to the minds of Western peoples. This is because Western culture is poisoned with a rigid belief in the supremacy of centralized totalitarian power. All must bow in obedience to the most powerful Lord whether that be in military matters, religious matters or intellectual (academic) matters.
This makes natural life in its variagated forms and any semblance of real democracy impossible. So I am heartened by what I see here as a European (i.e. Russian) revolution to overthrow the West’s sick entrapment in centralized totalitarianism – in all its forms.
I disagree with this philosophy professor on one serious point. To put Israel in with the global South is complete insult. Israel and it’s agents control all of the west, more so the USA. I can list hundreds of their deeds against all people’s going back decades, if not centuries.
They along with USA were training Georgia for 5 years to attack Russia. The killing of Russian peacekeepers, timed exactly when Putin was at the bejing Summer Olympics. It is the same type of operation in the Ukraine, except a much larger attempt. Russia beat them in Georgia and Russia will beat them in Ukraine. The list of Israel s atrocities are staggering. Jew zelinsky who promotes Nazism, said that Ukraine could be the next Israel.
Some people can’t reconcile these supposed differing views, but I did decades ago, and it is a fact. Mass chaos for the people and MSM and Hollywood to keep you clueless. The Israelis see their plan not working and slowly trying to quietly slide in with Russia and China. That will mean no justice for 90% of this world, just the same evil dark cloud.
I take this Bologna educational system to be a western system of education, which places a high emphasis on “elective subjects”. That includes psychology, arts, literature where Hollywood movies now are a subject, and many teachers being paid to warp the minds of the many much needed immigrants and tell them who to hate. Guess who controls all of north Americas universities and colleges?
China has just abolished the western universities ranking system, for the rating is heavily skewed on passing these “electives”. Russia apparently now says if you want to be a scientist, engineer or HITECH student; concentrate on that and forget the nonsense of being a “well rounded student”.
That is exactly what China is doing, and those who want to teach art, languages, history can go to the other side. It makes perfect sense.
I agree with you and to my disappointment even pepe always sweeps israel I see the rug when it should be at the front and center of all political analysis. Unfortunately arab dictatorship is normalizing and arab news reported on how israeli tourists were going around stealing every thing. And now even Scotland is backing away from their propaleatinian position. I don’t think israel should be included in any plans going forward. I don’t know why the world keeps making this mistake when they are the real source of instability
Shep: Technically you are right. However it is politically impossible for a person in Pepe’s position to make the point you wish him to make. Although it would be a safe bet to assume he is well aware of it. The political reality is that anyone in his position of journalistic influence has a primary responsibility to remain professionally viable and accessible to us. The moment one starts to speak publicly about the problem of Zionist power (particularly in the West) becomes the occasion for being subject to a relentless reactionary attack by Zionist propaganda agents. Practically without exception such brave and honest souls are rendered professionally dead. So Pepe is being wise and responsible for not making the point you wish him to make. Objectively all he can do is lead us forward around the edges of this central issue and leave it up to us common people to draw the necessary inferences.
Wise Jews can help us here. Gilad Atzmon for one makes it clear that Jewish power is the power to prevent anyone talking about Jewish power. And for reasons I have tried to speak of in the post below they do have a great deal of power. Even the Russian Foreign minister is vulnerable. Lavrov made a brilliant and incisive comment to the effect that “the most anti-semitic people are the wise Jews.” Then the Zionist Govt of Israel had to attack him and tried to sell the idea that they intimidated President Putin to apologize.
In never criticizing Zionist oppression Pepe is being politically skilled and responsible.
‘If you want to know who controls you, look at who you’re not allowed to criticise’.
Voltaire (although some disagree )
I know the norm is always to be politically responsible but that in of itself is sad because israel is the root cause of many problems we see now. But I do appreciate your comment. I just wish pepe could talk about the zio factor without fear.
“I take this Bologna educational system to be a western system of education, which places a high emphasis on “elective subjects”.”
I would call them “useless” subjects, at least from the employer’s point of view. Most of these exist only to brainwash the students with semi-political and philosofical propaganda.
There are a few actually useful things to learn from this system, which explains why a lot of young oeople in the West are so under-educated and quite frankly, clueless.
Karl Luck: Hi, it seems, we are attempting to address the same thing. I agree with all the details of your post. For Russia it can only be a step by step process clearly. However the process must deepen and broaden before the Israeli issue can be successfully resolved.
Your criticism of Israel sharpens my focus to see that what we are attempting to describe has long standing religious and psychological roots in Western culture. This is what makes it so challenging to define and easily root out. This is clearly the case as the Israeli-Zionist power structure is so dependent upon their religious heritage, and all the power and authority that they can invest in it, in order to sustain their moral justification for dominance. They are experts at playing the religious morality card in order to dominate the Western mind and this is followed through in the Protestant morality of the English ruling group..
So if we seize control of the “soft” subjects and the humanities in the Western universities, then we can dictate how people interpret their humanity and its relation to matters of ultimate concern.
You write: “I take this Bologna educational system to be a western system of education, which places a high emphasis on “elective subjects”. That includes psychology, arts, literature where Hollywood movies now are a subject, and many teachers being paid to warp the minds of the many much needed immigrants and tell them who to hate. Guess who controls all of north Americas universities and colleges?”
This deeply skilled Anglo-Zionist propaganda operation is expressive of a collective mania for centralized mind control that has its seemingly invisible roots in the Western patriarchal religious and moral tradition. The God concept promoted in the West goes all the way back to the Old Testament. This ancient patriarchal god image has, over the millennia, provided psychological fuel for the development of the Western mind. It is its historical and psychological root structure. There is lots of good literature about this. Now however that Western mind has loosened its moorings from the divine and seeks to stand alone, in the light of its own power. Consequently what was once a functional Western religious system has devolved into a mental tyranny on the part of ego-minds who worship nothing but their own power. A totalitarian God image has finally evolved to become a totalitarian human mega machine, to use the words of Lewis Mumford.
The giveaway that this monstrous Leviathan of Western centralized power has its roots in the Western patriarchal religious tradition is that the Western totalitarians employ the established religious and moral arguments of Western religion to cement their “entitlement to power.” The Talmudists routinely play the God card to hypnotize and morally confine the goyim, along with their own people. “Israel is God” is a wonderful mind game. Likewise the English Ruing Class, which is just a Protestant extension of the same game. The English Monarch, being the defender of the faith, is therefore religiously entitled to refuse to recognize any independent national sovereignty – etc, etc. The singular universal God that rules over all has now become a human mega machine of power that claims for itself the same right. The Western fixation upon authoritarian patriarchal power has taught people to fear god and now our minds are in the habit of fearing his agents.
This is a mass syndrome in the West that I am all too familiar with. From what I read here about Russian civilization’s relaxed acceptance of diversity it does seem that Russian civilization has the potential to bring forward a healing alternative.
“and those who want to teach art, languages, history can go to the other side. ”
I don’t understand this comment.
Why should these subjects be “the other side”?
What is “the other side”?
It is too bad that the the humanities have been so degraded in the West that now apparently it is assumed by Karl Luck that there is no “serious” way to study them, nor even have an interest in them.
Yet the most interesting human products of civilization, regardless of their primary area of study and accomplishment, have had a wide knowledge base and ability to engage beyond their special field of study. Perhaps that is because more people were lifelong serious readers—just a guess; there are probably some statistics on who is reading what these days. I must say that in the local bookstore (yes, we still have one!!), a lot of “woke” titles are featured.
This discussion is the first time I have heard of the Bologna system.
However, I don’t need to know about the Bologna system to know that educational standards in the USA have fallen hugely in the past fifty years. The problem starts already in grade school.
This lowering of standards affects all fields, including the arts, humanities, and languages—especially languages: both the command of the native language, and foreign languages. Now there is a big emphasis on the STEM fields. This seems to me like a push to educate tunnel-vision technologists who can be counted on to follow orders as we careen forward into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Since I don’t know anything about the Bologna system I can’t offer an opinion as to whether the problem lies in that “system” or in the way tertiary education is “distributed” among the population. Certainly in the USA thousands of young people end up in “college” who would be better off getting a vocational training. In fact, in many instances “college” actually means a vocational training glorified with a few other courses.
In the US the phenomenon of college athletics has further muddied and degraded the picture of tertiary education.
I will address your question” the other side” first . That was an extremely bad choice of words. All the arts (literature, language, history, music, philosophy ) and many more have an extremely important part to play in any society.
The stupid term: ” the other side”, was meant to mean it should have it’s own place in higher education. A scientist, engineer, IT specialist etc.. should be allowed to concentrate on their discipline.
The Western universities ranking system encompasses so many of these electives to make it much harder for these science minded people to achieve their true potential. The Chinese are leaving this ranking system, but is also promoting Chinese history and culture.
What is even more pleasing is that the people who are not scientifically or artistically inclined are being wholeheartedly supported in Trade schools. That is the mechanics, plumbers, worker’s who are required to fix the things.
COVID also showed those of us who care , that the people that work in the lowest paid jobs in any society are as needed as the science that is supposed to pave our future. In the early days of COVID, Canada paid lip service to these vital worker’s, but soon forgotten.
To Snow Leopard: You are absolutely correct about Pepe Escobar for he knows the real truth, just like so many more. He is a lot more honest than most of the rest. These people have to watch their back.
It was only recently that the word “J ” was even allowed on comment sections. Remember Rick Sanchez ex CNN who dated to mention the plight of Palestinian people and was summarily fired? That has happened to so many more. It is still a risk to every individual, but a lot of people have died for they’re beliefs.
If George Orwell was alive today; we would probably read the greatest book on who is responsible for the wars and human suffering. Westerners believe that Animal farm was a rebuke of communism. No , he saw the flaws in the people that ran the system, just like the flaws in the system we live under today.
George Orwell was like the producers of “The Hunt” movie but only back then. He is propagandizing for that order and mocking the victims. It’s a horror book in this different sense. His background is well-known also, but it’s what’s in the book that shows this.
“If George Orwell was alive today; we would probably read the greatest book on who is responsible for the wars and human suffering.”
From the communist who fought with the communists in Spain? Sounds too incredible to be so; it’s not so.
“Israel and it’s agents control all of the west, more so the USA. I can list hundreds of their deeds against all people’s going back decades, if not centuries.”
That George Orwell was not a Jew like that is what you’re saying.
It was with “1984” in mind that I wrote above that he is “propagandizing for that order and mocking the victims.” The whole book is about that (or I am wrong). What convinced me of this is the part in “1984” where a man begs not to be forced to enter into a certain room. He offers his sons, his family, his whole dignity while literally begging not to have to enter that room. The writer mocks the victim so, and thereby sides with the repressive system. He shows his true colors there. I have not read the whole book, don’t even have it. I just chanced upon that page once. There must be many more examples, but one/once like that is enough too. If it is so, at least you’re shocked but not surprised!
My comment was actually deleted which says a lot. The other side was the wrong choice of words. It meant it’s own place in a higher education curriculum, but not stifle scientific learning, which is exactly what the west does, by creating a “balanced” well rounded person.
Israel controls the USA. This is true. They killed JFK and installed out first Jewish President – Johnson. Israel controls our banking, our media, our intelligence services, train our police, … The Jewish Mafia controlled the Italian Mafia. Israel and the Neocon did 911… Anglo-Zionists are just Stooges for Israel. But, sure Israel can join the global south. The hyenas are almost finished with the USA carcass.
Israel will destroy the global South if it is included. The east India company that led the way to British colonization was owned and operated by zios. Also the slave trade and so…. Just saying.
Israel may not celebrate its centenial birthday. They probably did take their lies and corruption as far as they could. Were the Israelis planning on the Ukraine as a backup state? I know Israel has a backup state in the Southern District of Chile. The past owner of Benneton clothing has a survival shelter / state park the size of Deleware.
the dilemma is simple to resolve. Israel always classify itselt as part of imperilist west. So it can’t be at the same time part of the global South. And they would feel that as an insult to be put in the same basket with “inferior” races and ethnic groups
A terrible carnage is happening. Go to ASB military news and read from this post downward.
https://t.me/asbmil/1702
These fighters need to surrender. ‘Once more into the breach’ is long over.
If the so-called civilized west cannot accept defeat in Ukraine, what then? To me, escalation is not an option. But that’s me. Great update. thank you.
Many have surrendered. MOD says they have approximately 8K POW’s now, and some have been moved to Russia. The biggest problem is that the Ukrops are executing anyone who wants to surrender. Intel Slava Z had more videos up yesterday – they found several Ukrops as they were cleaning up an area….hands tied behind back….shot in the head.
@ amarynth on May 28, 2022 · at 9:20 am EST/EDT
A terrible carnage is happening.
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True, as all of those with a sober view have been saying, the US/NATO are fighting this war to the last Ukrainian.
Of course, as Saker stated a while ago, it hurts, they are the same people, same family, it is brother against brother. However, there is nothing we can do.
Nothing.
Zelensky refuses to withdraw troops, not even for military advantage, let alone for self-preservation, even though they can be one and the same. For the last two months, he and his Army’s chief of staff has been at odds in terms of troops displacements. Zelensky is following the CIA book, not even paying attention to the NATO brass.
Some posters have been calculating Ukrainian casualties, an average of 150 to 300 a day. Only in Krasny Liman, from the 23rd to the 25th of May, Ukrainian casualties between KIA, wounded and surrendered, totaled 500 + soldiers in two days.
A carnage.
What can Russians do? Ukrainians have been preparing for this conflict for 8 years, and their bunkers are first class, only next to civilian housing. Partly their miscalculation was to believe they were the ones advancing on Donbass, not the other way around. The other part was not to know your enemy, as Sun Tzu counsels, as Ukrainians had no idea Russia was coming with bunker-boosters that obliterate them and their well-built concrete and steel bunkers to bits.
We have all seen the pictures.
The carnage will go on.
Ukronazis are forcing their conscripted soldiers to stay in place against all odds, and if they refuse, they massacre them. Four hundred and fifty of them were “disappeared” according to a soldier who survived, just taken away and shot, pictures are showing them with hands tied in the back, shot in the head. I have seen them.
The Russian army moves like a tank sweeping everything and anything that moves ahead of them. Unfortunately Ukrainian soldiers are being used to perform a role “fighting” a fake and phony war for their masters to continue requesting money and useless weapons, against an army with fighting for clear goals and high principles, impossible to defeat.
All we can do for the Ukrainian soldiers, is pray.
May Allah forgive them and have mercy on their souls.
Lone Wolf
The only logical explanation for Zelenskys refusal to order tactical retreat is in the fact that he is not Ukrainian president, but Anglos remote controled puppet.
So, the question is why Anglos do not order retreat.
After mind blowing anti-Russian propaganda it is extremely hard to come up with narative that explains how “incompetent” Russian military turned the tide from catastrophic defeat to triumph. It is also possible that no one has courage to aproach paymasters and tell them the ugly truth. Even more so, who in Anglos high command will order retreat? And take personal responsibility for the catastrophe.
So they procrastinate, while poor Ukies are dying by the throves.
Salaam B/ring-even if there was anyone with the courage-no retreat will be ordered!~ The empire of lies need as many Ukronazis destroyed as possible,it’s not their sons dying eh! The ‘exceptional’ ones are in charge! They are not only zero brained- ‘elensky has a drugged brain- they are, in their twisted reality on the ‘right side of history’. They will just “double down” it’s in their collective DNA.Ukraine will launch a counter offensive when that 40b$ lands.They literally believe their own propaganda – Dream on.
“So, the question is why Anglos do not order retreat.”
Why would somebody kill a goose that is laying golden eggs? Such as creating great demand for military equipment manufacturers and traders, who will be only too glad to recycle their earnings into kickbacks for politicians across the spectrum, journalists, academics, religious leaders, ordinary influence peddlers in social media, retired military people, the list goes on and on. After all, the Ukrainian lives do not matter anymore according to their own elected President. What matters is that moolah keeps flowing on and on at the theoretical expense of future generations. One fine day, the Anglos will say, we never had anything to do with those decisions so we refuse to pay the cost. It is all there in their religion. It is all right to speak lies and break “solemn promises” to those “others”. The Pope said it in writing in the doctrine of discovery.
UK PM Boris Johnson bears a large responsibility for this. He was the one who stopped the slight advances made towards “negotiations” by Ze’s team at Istanbul by insisting on NO way could any ground be conceded to Russia, even Crimea and DPR∕LPR which were the important factors already known to be unwavering Russian demands. Johnson’s continued intransigence ever since shows him as a genuine war criminal.
with the new spring and early summer green growth …the dugouts and trenches of soil are now highlighted and much more visible to drones UAV’s etc .. maybe showing up more in infra red too?
Yes JJ the sun’s summer rays on the lush grassy plains have taken a full 60 days to soak up the moisture of late spring showers.
Now it’s a full steam ahead cauldron pheasant shoot.
The Russians have printed out a leaflet explaining in detail how the Ukrainian troops can and should surrender, ie how to do it effectively, safely and protect themselves.
I don’t know whether it is being dropped widely on Ukrainian forces but it is a very good and humane gesture.
The document is discussed and shown here –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEbgImWitQ
Why Ukrainian troops who outnumber their azov commanders some ten to one don’t just shoot them can only be due to fear as to how they will be treated after surrender, hence the more this document is made available to them and the sooner this carnage can be ended.
Kempston,
I think the problem is Ukrainian troops don’t exactly know who are the members of Azov in their group because their id’s are kept secret. Well that should make it very difficult to stage a revolt. And we must remember that those secret Azov agents are always better paid and receive bigger bounce on performance basis.
Those poor Ukrainians should be pitied. A beautifull people is the object of a systematic campaign of genocide organised by western predatory capitalist and militarist interests with the complicity of local mafia style oligarchy, corrupted activists and galician nazis.
The results are horrible, children and young girls are sold to western maniacs for porn industry and prostitution.
Economy of that once prospere country (look at the films from the 80’s – soviet era) have been reduced ot rubbles. All that is worth something is plundered or sold to foreign interests. The synthetic nationalism compensate the lost of dignity.
“Infant mortality has risen to 7 deaths per 1000, and the population has fallen from 52 million in 1990 to 37.3 million today. There is not one single demographic factor which does not indicate either the highest degree of incompetence by western technicians spread out over 30 years or the systemic intention to destroy a once great people for purely geopolitical ends” (Matthew Erhet) Now Young men are dying and the the result will be a more catastrophic demographic fall. Ukraine, or at least what will remain of it, will be a country without Ukrainians.
People in the West should mobilize for Ukraine, but not against Russia, but against imperialist and racist western elites.
I find it surprising that Ben Grant, the son of Tory MP Sue Grant, is fighting with UKR forces, said to have fought around Kharkiv. The UKG has advised against that, and his capture and trial would be embarrassing.
UK people who went to Syria have got into serious trouble coming back home… hope the same applies to this person
The Generals to a man are saying negotiations are urgent and can’t wait. That’s what I think. Either their DM or their FM made clear two days ago that the situation was very bad in the Donbass. If Zelensky doesn’t negotiate to ultimately surrender, they’s going to bring him down. They may bring him down anyway. It’s life. It reminds me of this true anecdote: A small plane fell down with four people. They feared the plane would explode at any moment. The one guy who was not popular with the other three was next to the door and could not open it. The other three started to insult him as they told him to open the damned door (they all got out)!
Again, there is no power natural or supernatural that wants to go fight Russia in Ukraine right now. Forget what’s happening to understand this. Oh, we know the Russians are becoming now better and more efficient because they’re testing their news weapons, improving their logistics, etc.; they were more ready than any army in the world before the war (most likely by far). They will be much more lethal next week, and no gambler is needed to assume it. We don’t need to know all that to understand it. You just need to watch them roar on a parade, and that’s all. It takes a fool, a Ukrainian queen to say those soldiers are lacking, and will be quitting, unmotivated, etc. I don’t say copy the roar. I say teach your soldiers to parade march. It’s more important than one can say. (It’s the “martial spirit”). Please let’s be gentle and not embarrass anyone with videos of their “parade” marches.
Logically, you know that if Generals don’t see the importance of parade marches, they really understand nothing. It’s not needed to see them later demonstrate their lack of vocation on television. If you’re “lucky”, they will give this other “more real” demonstration too. They have, and so much as to be replaced quickly. I don’t know if it was true news, but they were saying (here) that Putin had replaced a lot of commanders in this war. He would be lucky to get to do so. That’s the same as saying that the problems were known and solutions were found; it’s ideal to recognize such a big problem and replace the unfit ones.
https://t.me/s/asbmil
(!! t.me/s/… then you can view the site/channel normally like any public twitter site without registering at Telegram)
09:51
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When you realize that the entire success of Ukrainian forces thus far has been solely based on Ukrop authorities brainwashing the world via Western media about “liberating all Kiev regions” — failing to mention Russia withdrew from them before negotiations and Ukrops just walked into empty villages— the western propaganda becomes even more funny as it falls apart.
Ukraine has not captured/retaken any strategic territory from Russian troops. This comes at a cost of nearly half of USA’s stock of anti tank missiles and billions of dollars worth of financial aid, mercenaries, 24/7 Intel from NATO and support by literally the entire EU and NATO.. reality is starting to kick in.
ALSO:
The amount of captured javelins, nlaws and other NATO weapons is ridiculous at this point. DPR is straight up using them on Ukrainians all day every day. There is probably 100 ish captured every 48h. The photos don’t stop.
Further Readings:
https://t.me/s/Slavyangrad
https://t.me/s/levigodman
https://t.me/s/intelslava
https://t.me/s/azmilitary11
https://t.me/s/Reality_Theories
(Eva K. Bartlett)
Thanks Max! I couldn’t see it before.
A question.
Are Ukrainian military “killed in action” in possession of “dog tags” and are the Russian burial squads collecting them?
Can the Russians publish casualty lists for Ukrainian relatives.?
A family request.
Grave details (units) are present in all Armies and generally records of POW and KIA are routed through ICRC to the other side. The Allies ( DPR, LPR, and RF) tend towards following these processes rather strictly.
Note, in a cauldron-collapse, the MIAs will outnumber the KIAs by a lot. It can take days or weeks to sort this out.
The nature of the question suggests there are no “grave details” working on the AFU side. I believe that’s been noted and accepted as an obvious point already.
This in itself might even be solid proof there are no AFU victories. Because Russians are continually gathering all the AFU dead. While using their precious manpower to do so.
The last kill ratio published here was 15:1 AFU/Russians, maybe greater. It wouldn’t take that long to determine how many AFU were both MIA and KIA using this ratio, by counting Russian casualties. So, much less will be Russian, obviously. The AFU misdirection of who actually is theirs, would increase this ratio.
Forcing Russian troops to deploy valuable manpower to complete an arduous task, by AFU not gathering their own dead is a coward’s calculation. Not a miscalculation.
And trying to diminish this fact by offering false hope to families of AFU troops by mixing these numbers up, serves no one.
punisher, I agree completely with what you say about AFU deliberatly leaving dead bodies when they retreat, and not only for tying up Russian militaries (the west keep counting on the Russian’s good hearts (which they call weakness), and use/abuse that in many ways).
But also for PR stunts, showing “fields” of graves, and claiming they are dead Russian soldiers that “Putin” is trying to hide from the public.
I also want to comment on a previous poster’s question about how much “surrender leaflets” RF send to the ukie side.
I have seen videos from RF MoD, showing how Russian military personel pack thousands of leaflets inside special “hollow shells” and then use launchers to bombard the ukies with leaflets.
The packing work takes long time, and I never stop being amazed over how much time and effort RF spend to save more lives, be it Russian soldiers, or ukie soldiers, or civilians on both sides.
The Ukie forces do not collect or bury their soldiers. The Russians bury them in graves marked with a number. They do not collect or bury their soldiers in order disguise the real information on kia and mia reports – to look better than what it is. So, they simply do not bury, nor do they count.
@ CitizenSmith on May 28, 2022 · at 9:59 am EST/EDT
A question.
Are Ukrainian military “killed in action” in possession of “dog tags” and are the Russian burial squads collecting them?
Can the Russians publish casualty lists for Ukrainian relatives.?
A family request.
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Colonel Cassad started
https://wartears.org/
“…our people’s database of captured, killed and missing Ukrainian servicemen…”
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7638179.html
War Tears-Find your friends
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Hope this helps.
Lone Wolf
@ Exile on May 28, 2022 · at 10:16 am EST/EDT
“…Note, in a cauldron-collapse, the MIAs will outnumber the KIAs by a lot. It can take days or weeks to sort this out.”
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After a P-800 Onyx, or a 3M-54 Kalibr hits a trench, there is very little you can find. Only with Russian artillery, the carnage done on the bodies is beyond recognition. Only if the Ukrainian army keeps a record of the men committed in different battlefields, the MIA can be found by counting against the KIA, wounded or surrendered. I doubt the Ukrainian army cares to keep a record of the men in different units, they don’t give a hoot about their soldiers, or their people.
Lone Wolf
Lone,
Ageed – but I didn’t want to be as grim as you. It’s clear that the Kiev leadership couldn’t care less about the well being of their soldiers. It’s tragic and entirely unnecessary.
Senseless Slaughter is a terrible term that describes what the Kiev leadership is doing to their troops.
Is TOS-1A really widely used in Ukraine?
I think that weapon is winning the war more than any other one thing…but I’m just a newspaper reader, sure looks that way.
Would anybody direct me to the Russia/Ukraine fighting strategy blog site, hosted by a young, baldhead fellow, with a British accent? He blogs probably every 2-3 days? Much obliged.
https://www.youtube.com/c/iEarlGreytv perhaps?
Nope, but many thanks. I lost that guy’s bookmark. Had to bother you, sorry about that.
Here is a YouTube video hosted by Basil Krouglov where he explains the TOS-1A Heavy Flamethrower System.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcehYsrBJTI
KS, if it’s Graham Phillips you’re thinking of… Here’s his YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbwfUqs5Y6_jblWJwMIfRzA
This one maybe? Young ex-marine now living in Thailand – New Atlas channel Brian Berletic YT, clean shaven head
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheNewAtlas
do you mean https://www.youtube.com/c/TheNewAtlas ?
His name is Brian Becletic
@ Blackring on May 28, 2022 · at 11:14 am EST/EDT
The only logical explanation for Zelenskys refusal to order tactical retreat is in the fact that he is not Ukrainian president, but Anglos remote controled puppet.
True. Good point.
So, the question is why Anglos do not order retreat.
After mind blowing anti-Russian propaganda it is extremely hard to come up with narative that explains how “incompetent” Russian military turned the tide from catastrophic defeat to triumph. It is also possible that no one has courage to aproach paymasters and tell them the ugly truth. Even more so, who in Anglos high command will order retreat? And take personal responsibility for the catastrophe.
Again, good points.
So they procrastinate, while poor Ukies are dying by the throves.
“Procrastination” is a euphemism for what they are committing is a war crime.
This from the latest post of “Military Chronicle,” https://voenhronika.ru/
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/ozhestochennye_boi_po_vsem_napravlenijam_front_gremit_kruglosutochno_poslednie_svodki_s_ukrainy_polden_28_maja_19_video/60-1-0-12214
“…On the entire huge arc of the front, that is, from Kharkiv to Kherson, the APU is trying to counterattack at two extreme points, actually near Kharkiv and near Kherson. These offensives do not fulfill any strategic goals and are carried out only for the sake of media effect, as with the migrating border post in the Kharkiv region…”
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UkroReich + CIA/MI6/Mossad are not procrastinating about sending their poor soldiers as cannon fodder to be killed “for the sake of media effect.”
Many of them, however, are refusing to become “meat” as the Russians call the cannon fodder.
https://en.topwar.ru/196952-ukrainskie-voennye-v-severodonecke-otkazyvajutsja-vypolnjat-prikaz-komandira.html
Ukrainian military in Severodonetsk refuse to follow the commander’s order to enter the positions
The moral and strong-willed spirit of the Ukrainian servicemen in Donbas tends to zero. Increasingly, videos appear on the network in which certain units refuse to carry out the order of the command, citing the lack of proper cover.
Another curious incident occurred the day before in Severodonetsk, surrounded by allied forces. A video appeared on the network in which the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are arguing furiously with the commander. In the ranks are people without weapons, in a crumpled form, one holds a dog in his arms.
The essence of what is happening in the video is that the commander gives the order to advance to defend the line near the village of Shchedrishchevo. The soldiers answer him that the settlement has long been surrendered to Russian troops. Therefore, they refuse to carry out the order, as they consider it “criminal”.
Taking into account the frequency of such videos and the number of Ukrainian servicemen who surrender daily, we can conclude that there is practically nothing left of the morale of the UAF soldiers.
At the same time, in order to prevent the mass surrender of their soldiers into captivity, the Kyiv authorities come up with various “heartbreaking stories».
For example, just the day before, the Ukrainian Ombudsman stated that the captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were injected with a “mysterious” drug, which, as the soldiers told her, began with the letter “M”.
After such injections, Ukrainian prisoners of war allegedly lose consciousness, and then their memory.
I wonder why inject a mysterious drug with the letter “M”, which causes memory loss, to someone who can tell about the crimes planned and already committed by the Kyiv regime. Apparently, some new approach… Ukrainian propaganda does not stop at nothing.”
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The video, courtesy of “Military Chronicle,” https://voenhronika.ru/
https://ok.ru/video/3495086262912
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/ozhestochennye_boi_po_vsem_napravlenijam_front_gremit_kruglosutochno_poslednie_svodki_s_ukrainy_polden_28_maja_19_video/60-1-0-12214
Fierce fighting in all directions on May 28: THE FRONT THUNDERS around the clock! Latest news from Ukraine (19 videos)
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Lone Wolf
” “Procrastination” is a euphemism for what they are committing is a war crime.”
I used term deliberately to emphasise psychopatic mind of Zelensky’s handlers.
They act as lazy students that has to pass important exam, but has no knowledge nor motivation to do so. They use other humans as disposable tools, without thinking of consequences. Because, for them, never was one.
It is about to change. Ukraine is just roadblock. Behind 15% of Russian military is Russia. Behind Russia is 85% of the World. Sick and tired of being treated as Morlocks.
At the end of War that started in Ukraine, there will be Long Trial, with many short sentences.
“So, the question is why Anglos do not order retreat.”
Well, the last retreat that the Anglo Americans performed in Afghanistan/Kabul didn’t quite work out so well.
A similar retreat in the heart of Europe would be even more geopolitically catastrophic for the very existence of the Western alliance system and NATO.
Like so many USNATO puppets before him, Ze is in a literal “no win” situation. He thought he would either rule Ukraine or cash out and live in luxurious exile. If it went too far and a war started, USNATO would take care of things, and he would add “George Washington of Ukraine” to his fancy titles and awards.
Now, as always, things haven’t worked out. If he surrenders, USNATO will renege on his payday. If he doesn’t, his generals will stage a coup and he will wind up like Saddam or Gadhafi.
I’d be surprised if he is still president by the end of June. By the end of August, the war is over or the criticisms against Russia begin to make sense. He will need to escape before a coup. From watching his dance video, we can infer this happens when he tells his main aide, or vice versa, that “everybody has become a traitor and we should leave.”
“If he surrenders, USNATO will renege on his payday.”
I don’t think so. It became closer to a marriage than that. Once he’s “Winston Churchill”, he remains that, I think. He must not be captured either by “traitors” or by Russians. In about a week, they (allies) themselves may be looking for the best exit door. I don’t imagine the money flow speeding up, I mean, what for? The title of this Sitrep is very good, “…We’re going down.”
Zelensky will be Diem‘d
Let the fragging begin.
“… and he would add “George Washington of Ukraine” to his fancy titles…”
Or even better, “the genius of the Carpathians.” The ending being the same.
A curious note from the “Military Chronicle” link I posted last.
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/ozhestochennye_boi_po_vsem_napravlenijam_front_gremit_kruglosutochno_poslednie_svodki_s_ukrainy_polden_28_maja_19_video/60-1-0-12214
Fierce fighting in all directions on May 28: THE FRONT THUNDERS around the clock! Latest news from Ukraine (19 videos)
“…Over the past three months, at least 23 cargo planes from Iran have arrived in Moscow, which is significantly higher than their usual number (3 flights in 2021). The airlines that made these flights are affiliated with the IRGC. Is someone being brought in…?”
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Twenty three cargo planes from Iran landing in Moscow in the past three months, against three flights in 2021. Curious minds want to know the answer to the question “Is someone being brought in?” Twenty three cargo planes can carry a lot of stuff, including men and materiel. Or take back stuff. Or both.
Have to wait and see.
Lone Wolf
Is there any more info about the the Polish troops/mercenaries allegedly stationed in or around Pavlograd?
Looking for a link to the Military Summary site.
Here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnc496-PPmFZVKlYxUnToA
Putting the War in Ukraine in Context
By Larry Johnson
Published May 28, 2022 at 8:30am http://www.gatewaypundit.com
Western media, pundits and politicians grudgingly are coming to grips that Russia is winning the ground in Ukraine and defeating the Ukrainian Army. Still, they are bending over backwards to perpetuate the illusion that Ukraine still has a fighting chance if only they get a super game changing weapon. Let me take you on a tour of representative media accounts of the conflict so that you can savor the flavor of coverage. First up, CNN:
The US Defense Department maintained during a press briefing Friday that Russia is continuing to make “incremental gains” in Donbas.
Russian forces are intensifying their bombardment of areas in eastern Ukraine still under Ukrainian control. Ukrainian officials in the east admit their defenses are outmanned and outgunned.
MSNBC is ignoring Ukraine completely. It does offer a section titled, Ukraine: Freedom or Death, but it is populated with videos made more than a month ago.
Russia-backed separatists claimed they captured a railway hub city in eastern Ukraine as Moscow’s forces strived to gain more ground Friday by pounding another Ukrainian-held area where authorities say 1,500 people have died since the start of the war.
With Russia’s offensive in Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region showing incremental progress, Ukrainian officials characterized the battle there in grave terms and renewed their appeals for more sophisticated Western-supplied weaponry.
Ukraine’s foreign minister pleaded for “weapons, weapons and weapons again,” warning that without a new injection of foreign arms, Ukrainian forces would not be able to stop Russia’s advance on the east.
The Washington Post is focused on a CNN report that Biden is going to send long range missiles to Ukraine:
The Biden administration is preparing to send advanced long-range rocket systems to Ukraine as the country suffers losses in the east from advancing Russian forces, said U.S. administration officials and congressional staffers. . . .
The rocket system has been a top request from Ukrainian officials who say it is necessary to curb the advance of Russian forces, which claimed full control of the strategic eastern city of Lyman on Friday, handing Moscow another victory in its offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. CNN first reported on U.S. preparations to send the system.
The New York Times is leading the chorus in claiming that Russia has been beaten back and has to go for sloppy seconds in the Donbas:
After failing to topple Ukraine’s government in Kyiv, Russia redeployed troops for a far less ambitious goal: Seize the rest of the Donbas, beyond the area where Russia had already advanced a month ago.
Russia’s military has overwhelming superiority in weapons, if not men — tanks, warplanes, helicopters and heavy artillery. But a month into the battle for the East, Russia has made only gradual progress along the Eastern front.
Again and again, Russia’s military has had to accept the difficult reality that it doesn’t have the force necessary to fight in too many places at once.
The area with the most critical battles is only 75 miles wide and includes three key cities: Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Sievierodonetsk.
Russia is fighting across a broad front and is taking on Urkrainian troops crouching in heavily fortified trenches and bunkers. Since the start of the “Special Military Operation” aka invasion on February 24th, Russia has taken most of the southern coast of Ukraine. The battle for Mariupol stands as the most consequential urban battle of the 21st century. At the same time, Russia and the militias of the Republics of Donetsk and Luhnask are nearing the complete defeat of Ukrainian forces based in the Donbas.
Besides Mariupol, Russia has taken control of major cities in the Donbas and adjacent regions, such as Vasilevka in the Zaporozhye region, Kherson, Lyman, Popasna. Russia now has surrounded Sievierodonetsk and trapped several thousand Ukrainian troops. My point? Russia has accomplished this against well armed, NATO trained forces fighting from defensive positions. The Ukrainians had artillery and some drones/missiles. Russia has achieved all of this in less than two months.
So here is a comparison. Look what the United States did in Vietnam and Iraq fighting against forces that were not as well trained or well-armed as the Ukrainians:
The Battle of Huế–7 battalions of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, accompanied by 11 South Vietnamese battalions, fought for more than a month to recapture Huế, the ancient imperial capital city of Vietnam, following the Viet Cong Tet Offensive in January 1968.
The Second Battle of Fallujah–Twelve thousand five hundred Marines plus 850 British troops fought for more than a month (November 7 to December 23, 2004) to capture and secure Fallujah, Iraq from Iraqi Islamic insurgents.
The Viet Cong and the Iraqi Insurgents did not have javelins, Stingers, artillery, drones and heavily fortified positions (i.e., reinforced concrete built up over the last 8 years) like Ukrainian troops. This is not Russian cheerleading to acknowledge that Russian troops, with the support of the LPR and DPR militias, have made remarkable and substantive progress on the ground and that Ukraine has lost effective control of the Donbas (not to mention its southern coastline).
It’s: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com
Sorry!
Russian Bear,
And this is what I just heard a Persian speaking BBC Farsi reporter say live from Kiev about the latest developments. She (the reporter) said: the Russians are bombing residential areas in Donbass. So far, over 1500 civilians have been killed by Russian troops. Putin’s army find itself in a major quagmire – more and more – as days go by. The Russians are attacking small residential areas outside Sverdonetsk, right now. They claim they have taken a small town called Liman, which according to the Russian military is a transportation hub. Ukrainian troops in Svedonetsk are pushing Russians out of the city. The city could become another Mariupol nightmare for Putin. The Ukrainian troops in Sverdonetsk may decide to leave the city in order to setup defenses further west.
The BBC are the propaganda arm of the UK Government.
They lie, obfuscate and conceal. They are traitors to humanity.
You forgot to start your post with
‚I really support Russia but….‘
That’s the approved method for posting BBC twaddle
Yes this is how BBC reports. But the big question is why Ukrainian troops would decide to leave Sverdonetsk and set up their defenses further west, when they’re successfully pushing the Russians out? May be it’s a British military strategy no one else is qualified enough to understand its hidden secrets.
Exile,
I more than support Russia. The report is an unbiased translation from Farsi to English which of course shows what BS is being spewed around by BBC.
The way things are going perhaps the UKN Army will arrest Zelensky before long ?
On the Blackring quotes:
“The only logical explanation for Zelenskys refusal to order tactical retreat is in the fact that he is not Ukrainian president, but Anglos remote controled puppet.”
Zelensky is like that. It’s the same person who insisted on joining NATO to the end, said no more to Minsk, and said he wanted a nuclear bomb too. The “puppet” word is a metaphor that has been abused to where now it’s a “ventriloquist doll.”
“After mind blowing anti-Russian propaganda it is extremely hard to come up with narative that explains how “incompetent” Russian military turned the tide from catastrophic defeat to triumph. It is also possible that no one has courage to aproach paymasters and tell them the ugly truth. Even more so, who in Anglos high command will order retreat? And take personal responsibility for the catastrophe.”
The Russians were put in this position where in a strong sense they defeat the whole West by just defeating Ukraine. Now the Russians determine the outcome of the next election! This becomes real now. Biden would have to fire or retire all the Generals who told him Ukraine beats Russia in order to retain some chance of winning reelection on this score. You know what I mean? The Generals have to be good yes or yes! If they prove they’re not good and you keep them, who is solely responsible for something anti-defense like that? The “Commander in Chief” is. (I don’t know Shakespeare but it gets to that final issue, “To be or not to be, that is the question.” I love it, thank you S.!)
Eva Bartlett interviews Larry C. Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHIap72SViY (1:02:10)
The Americans have a super-dooper game-changing secret weapon on its way to the Donbass frontline.
Apparently they are 5D x-ray sunglasses which enable the U-AF to see the incoming missiles in a 360* rotational cycle 5 seconds earlier. They’re blast proof also, meaning the replacement reserves can reuse them.
Ukrainian & American MSM haven’t missed this opportunity to gloat about another victory.
That’s funny, ha, ha.
Like so many funny things, it bears a strong resemblance to reality! I mean, send old Migs, send Soviet weapons, send what they know…(this is funny too!).
“They’re blast proof also, meaning the replacement reserves can reuse them.”
Priceless! xD
At least they can see what hits them before going to heaven.
He’s mistaken, escalation isn’t the path to victory. Russia can’t give any excuse for the western nations to close ranks when their disagreements are growing by the day. That man is like many military pundits, he doesn’t take into account the political aspects of the conflict. The ultimate objective is too break ranks between the AUKUS and the EU, not to destroy the latter. If Russia succeeds in doing so the AUKUS will become so isolated they’ll become practically irrelevant on the world scene. For all well-intentioned they are, 6th columnists are dangerous.
The T-62s are to be used for Roadblocks. I saw that on another video.
to me this TOS 2 looks like WMD – mininuks or so. and also i doubt if this TOS-2 ever will be CO2 neutral…
A clown world update on the Azov nazi saga that I saw in a comment:
“You have no idea how arrogant they are. The Ukrainian military who surrendered in Maripol had a lot of currency from different countries and gold. I saw an interview with one of the residents of Mariupol, and he said that the Ukrainian military had robbed a bank. They had the audacity to take the stolen money and gold with them as prisoners in the hope that they would then be released with this money and gold home after the war. They do not understand that they themselves presented evidence against themselves to the Russians and the Russians will hand over the money and gold to the prosecutor’s office.”
In a confirmation of this story I saw another report that the LDNR justice officials commented on taking a lot of money off of the Azov surrendered troops.
Weapon and fuel dumps for Ukrainian fall-back position will be organized for a counter offensive.
Russia should quickly identify these points and destroy them now.
Professor Igor Panarin reports in his vlog that Severodonetsk has fallen / has been liberated by the Allies.
In Severodonetsk, the situation is as follows: There is progress, we pushed the Nazis back, including driving them out of the area of the Mir Hotel, but the Ukrainians are moving in the industrial area, trying to hold them back and not leaving yet. The order to withdraw is refuted (although even if there is one, few people want to recognize it on the first day).
From the looks of it, the order to retreat may still be haggling. If they don’t leave, it’s worse for them, and they’ll stay there. A report from the MO will clarify the situation by morning. Kadyrov is somewhat ahead of events – he is allowed to.
@voenkorKotenok
warnews reporting Severodonetsk taken, Ukrainian radio intercepts, RF saying Ukraine soldiers asking for permission to fall back aka retreat.
Cheers M
What drives us to die on the battlefields?
Throughout history millions have sacrificed their lives in battle for the benefit of emperors, monarchs, tyrants, dictators, plutocrats…
Nothing different from the current situation of Ukrainian soldiers.
What makes a soldier fight harder and better?
Starting with the 2014 Coup in Ukraine, the people of the Donbass have organized themselves in arms, to resist the advance of neo-Nazism and a policy of ethnic cleansing on their territory.
Teachers, miners, laborers, drivers, and all kinds of civilians became soldiers, forming the militias of the Donbass People’s Republics.
Between 2014 and 2015 these soldiers inflicted demoralizing defeats on the Ukrainian army, resulting in the Minsk II agreements signed in February 2015.
A soldier fights harder and better when he has a purpose.
What better purpose can there be than to fight for the emancipation of his People and Nation?
What manner of man (or woman) would bind then shoot their own for no good reason? Those who would do such a thing belong to Shaitan.
The regular Ukranian conscripts have fought as required. They know they will die if they continue to do battle with the Russian forces. They have fulfilled their duty. No one could expect more. It is entirely proper they should be allowed to surrender. These are the rules of war.
May the Russians find every last one of the executioners. May they capture those running those people – the likes of Poroshenko and Zelensky. May the Russians drench the soil with the blood of these inhumane animals and serve up a warning to those that would try this again.
Allah would not have mercy on these devil-creatures.
Reports are that the holdouts are out of everything except a little “food”, should not be long now before all the African refugees settle in the north of Ukraine and the money runs out in Kiev.
See videos of the Ukrainian elites and their families driving their expensive cars around in the West and causing trouble, seems as always, the ones sent to fight are the poor or fanatical, while the monied class waits elsewhere in comfort. Zelensky nominated as the “Hero of Kiev” by the western press as he embezzles a fortune and orders troops to die to the last man. The whole thing is a tragedy on many levels.
Take the news coming from Ramzan Kadyrov with a grain of salt, he is prone to “amplify” events in ways that do not correspond to reality.
I have not seen anything coming from “Military Chronicle” that confirms Severodonetsk has been taken, and I trust https://voenhronika.ru/ objectivity on all issues related to Battlefield Ukraine.
So, let’s not get carried away with triumphalism, and wait for a more sober approach to unfolding events.
https://ria.ru/20220528/severodonetsk-1791472457.html
Kadyrov announces full liberation of Severodonetsk</b<
Kadyrov announced the capture of Severodonetsk under the full control of Russian troops and forces of the LPR
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"Military Chronicle" is still highlighting the conflict between Zelensky and Ukraine's army commander re: withdrawal from Severodonetsk.
(https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/vsu_nesut_chudovishhnye_poteri_pogibshikh_vyvozjat_furami_poslednie_svodki_i_video_vecher_28_maja_19_video/60-1-0-12217)
APU suffer MONSTROUS LOSSES: the dead are taken out by trucks! Latest reports and videos-evening of May 28 (19 videos)
In Kiev, there is still an unsolvable dispute-to retreat from Severodonetsk or try to defend it. Zelensky is against retreat, the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is in favor of withdrawal. The situation threatens a potential conflict between the military and Zelensky’s office. Both sides understand that in the event of the defeat of the AFU group in Severodonetsk, the search for those responsible will immediately begin in Ukraine.
All Ukrainian politicians have been whining for a month now demanding MLRS MLRS from the United States, with which they will be able to attack Russian rear bases and airfields at a distance of up to 300 kilometers. Fools think that this “miracle weapon” will certainly force Russia to surrender. They will be very disappointed.
The British report to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that 200 units of heavy equipment and several tactical groups of the Russian army are being sent to Popasnaya.
SOPA agency published an interesting photo report from Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, confirming the presence of a large number of foreign mercenaries there. The photo shows the stripes of the USA (Nazi with characteristic tattoos), Australia, and Britain.
Summary of the APU tank breakthrough near Davydov Brod (Mykolaiv region). Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, supported by 15 tanks and motorized infantry, broke into the defense in the Davydov Brod area in the direction of Brusnikinskoye. The Russian Armed Forces promptly organized a fire bag and surrounded the AFU group. The VKS launched a series of strikes, as a result of which the enemy was defeated: the APU lost 20 armored vehicles and about 160 militants. Most likely, the Ukrainian command misjudged the opposing forces, believing that only the reserve battalions of the DPR are located in that area.
In the Nikolaev area, the 35th Marine Brigade, as well as the battered 28th mechanized Brigade and the 80th airborne assault brigade remained among the most combat-ready units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Rumors about the transfer of the latter to the Donbass to strengthen the defense in the areas of gusts have not yet been confirmed. At the same time, from significant reserves, there is information about the 5th separate tank brigade, which is being formed in the Odessa region on the basis of the 28th separate mechanized brigade.
Head of the DPR: More than 1,300 residential buildings, as well as 152 educational and sports institutions will be restored in Mariupol. The decision has already been made, and Russia will provide construction assistance, Pushilin said.
On the western borders of Ukraine, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine seriously thought about the need for additional logistics facilities in case the main ones were destroyed. Perhaps this is why active construction has started in recent days near Yampol on the border with Moldova. Local residents report the arrival of special equipment in the area and the deployment of work cabins. The area is also undergoing deforestation. People living nearby suspect that a transport terminal is being built in this place to receive supplies from Moldova by river transport across the Dniester.
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Lone Wolf
I have read that allied forces have made important advances in the battle to liberate the key northern LPR city of Severodonetsk. However, the exact percentage of the city that has been liberated is unclear at this moment.
Some videos for today.
‘I oppose violence against war prisoners’ – captured Ukrainian officer:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/ukrainian-officer-war-prisoners:c
Lvov was full of fascists and mercenaries – UK journalist:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/sweeney-lvov:a
Russia’s 2S7M ‘Malka’ self-propelled artillery systems in action:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/malka-system:f
Russian Ka-52 and Mi-8 helicopters in action:
https://rutube.ru/video/e0dcdfba1b62fd2c8185b68b225c2fd1/
Russian airborne troops attacking Kiev regime forces:
https://rutube.ru/video/4136f738962a43dd3e4605b4b6685332/
Colonel Cassad is also taking Kadyrov’s announcements with more than a grain of salt, and warning to “not throw caps and earflaps into the air ahead of time” and that ” it is better to hold on to optimism.”
Notice his cautious headline, not about the fall of Severodonetsk, but “the capture of residential areas of Severodonetsk.”
Also, he’s listing the necessary evidence to prove localities are under the control of any of the fighting parties, pointing out several examples in which false claims were made towns had fallen under one or another. He’s warning us against fake and phony triumphalism and the creation of a delusional reality,à la Ukraine.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7642569.html
Kadyrov announced the capture of residential areas of Severodonetsk.
Everything! Severodonetsk is under our full control. The fascists are defeated. All their positions have been destroyed. The city is liberated. Residents can take a deep breath. From now on, they are no longer in any danger.
This is simply a brilliant result that our fighters have achieved under the leadership of their dear BROTHER, Apta Alaudinov, assistant to the Head of the Chechen Republic for the security unit, in close cooperation with all the forces of the Ministry of Defense and the People’s Militia of the LPR involved.
I will not hide the fact that it was originally planned to liberate Severodonetsk in a week, but today I made adjustments and set the task to take control of the city in three days. As a result, our fighters coped even faster – in three hours. All the Bandera detachments shamefully escaped from Severodonetsk as soon as they learned that fighters from the Chechen Republic had begun to clean up the city. That’s not what I’m saying. This is recognized by prisoners who were captured by our special forces.
I congratulate everyone on a great result! I express my sincere gratitude to all the fighters who performed the task! WELL DONE! Of course, we do not intend to stop there. We continue the hunt for Bandera and Shaitans! More great news coming soon!
https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/2215 -zinc
The above-described transition of Severodonetsk under our control according to the scenario described by Kadyrov is possible only in conditions when the AFU forces in Severodonetsk received an order to start retreating to Lisichansk, which is physically quite possible to do. But the equipment, due to damage to bridges, cannot retreat, so it is abandoned, and the infantry leaves.
In general, I think in the coming hours everything will become clearer and it will become clear whether the APU is really retreating from Severodonetsk or the Chechens are slightly rushing things.
Regarding any statements from both sides about the control of localities.
The best evidence for this:
1. Video from the central districts of the city/outskirts of the city in the direction of the enemy’s front.
2. Photos from the central districts of the city/outskirts of the city in the direction of the enemy’s front.
3. Official confessions of the opposing party about abandoning the locality.
4. Official statements of the military departments about the capture of settlements.
In the latter case, it should be taken into account that both sides have already messed up with this during the campaign.
From our side, the biggest shoal is the announcement of the capture of Ugledar, which has not yet been taken. Well, Popasnaya was also declared taken, in my opinion, at the end of March, and they took it more than a month later.
Ukraine thus “kept” Mariupol and Krasny Liman on the Internet. Today, in Ukraine, they say that they have recaptured Kamyshevakha from our people, although we have not yet taken it (only 40% of the village is under control).
Therefore, confirming photo / video materials from the city/village, which are transmitted by military registration and enlistment officers or soldiers themselves, is the best possible proof, which in 95% of cases is quite valid.
Therefore, in all such cases, it is best to wait for such proofs.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/51082 -zinc
Regarding Severodonetsk and Ramzan Kadyrov’s statements about his release, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that we are talking about residential development in Severodonetsk.
There was no talk about promka (first of all, the Azot plant). Nor was it about the suburbs of Severodonetsk (Sinetskoye, Pavlograd, Borovskoye).
In general, we are waiting for footage from Azot, the airport and the blown-up bridges to Lisichansk. As well as photos of captured equipment.
Until then, it is better to hold on to optimism. Moreover, there is nothing good in increasing the quality of management of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their rejection of the strategy of getting into the boiler.
(c) V. Ugolny
https://t.me/zola_of_renovation/1926 -zinc
To put it mildly, it is premature to talk about the capture of Severodonetsk (as well as earlier about entering Lisichansk). From the north, the Akhmat detachment occupied part of the urban development, including the Mir Hotel. Russian special forces units have just entered from the east. There are fights going on in the city.
(c) A. Kotz
https://t.me/Oleg_Blokhin/36035?single-zinc
In general, we are waiting for photos/videos from Severodonetsk and do not throw caps and earflaps into the air ahead of time. Work is underway.
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Lone Wolf
Sorry to sound naive and out of date but I missed out why the SMO uses the letters Z and V. Could someone please clarify for me?
Wikipedia:
On Instagram, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) posted on 3 March that the “Z” symbol is an abbreviation of the phrase “for victory” (Russian: за победу, romanized: za pobedu), while the “V” symbol stands for “strength is in truth” (Russian: сила в правде, romanized: sila v pravde) and “The task will be completed” (Russian: задача будет выполнена, romanized: zadacha budet vypolnena).[28][29][30] The MoD later suggested alternative meanings for “Z”, including “For peace” (Russian: за мир, romanized: za mir), “For truth” (Russian: за правду, romanized: za pravdu), and the letter Z inside the English words demilitarization and denazification, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has asserted to be the purpose of the invasion.[31][32]
Another interpretation for “Z” is the Russian word for west (Russian: запад, romanized: zapad), to designate the Western Military District or west-bound infantry, or more generally to underline the Kremlin’s imperial ambitions, with the “V” symbol similarly standing for the word for east (Russian: восток, romanized: vostok).[33][34][35] This term was used in the joint Zapad 2021 exercise between Belarus and Russia before the invasion.[citation needed]
Great sitrep video, TOS launchers are A game change weapon as just seeing the video on Telegram raises the shivers along the spine.
It doesn’t help the feeling, a past experience in a conflict similar to this conundrum in Ukraine.
I use NASA FIRMS to help determine where fighting is going on. I could see that there was intense fighting in Popasna well before it was talked about here.
Questions:
Major fighting apparently going on on a peninsula east of Odessa (Herois’ke, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine). What’s going on there?
Also, major fighting north of Kiev, in the Kupovate, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine area. Not far from Chernobyl and not far from the Belarusian border. There is nothing there to fight about AFAICT. That has recently died out but if you go back 13 days you will see a major intense battle going on there.
Not all thermal anomalies reported by NASA FIRMS are military battles. These SITREPS seem behind events.
The formation of a new “Federal Republic of Ukraine” is following the Russian army in cities and towns that have been liberated from the yoke of neo-nazism. Regional and city councils are now discussing the Manifesto on the creation of a new state.
https://rusvesna.su/news/1646075757?__cf_chl_tk=HpOtbQOpbuim1JoM4yJ6b9QDhA775ys2hJ3YVqu_nIs-1653807172-0-gaNycGzNB30
Declared on the proclamation of the state of the Federal Republic of Ukraine
In the regional and city councils of Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy and other regions of Ukraine, the discussion of the Manifesto on the creation of a new state began.
Manifesto on the Formation of the State of the Federal Republic of Ukraine
We, the free people of Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Chernihiv and other regions of Ukraine, declare and proclaim the formation of a new democratic state of the Federal Republic of Ukraine.
When the course of events leads to the fact that people of different nations and peoples are forced to dissolve the political ties that bind them to the state association by dictatorial repressive methods that impose the ideology of Nazism on society, they have the inalienable right to take an independent and equal place among the powers of the world, respect for the opinion of mankind requires them to explain the reasons that prompted it to such secession.
When a long series of blatant and inhumane abuses and violence, invariably subordinated to the same goal, testifies to the insidious plan to force our peoples to accept unlimited despotism, dictatorship and the full rehabilitation of Nazism, the overthrow of such a Government and the creation of new security guarantees for the future become the right and duty of the peoples of Ukraine.
The history of the existence of the state of Ukraine is a set of countless injustices and violence, the purpose of which is to establish unlimited despotism and neo-fascist dictatorship.
To confirm the above, we submit the following facts to the impartial court of all mankind.
► The glorification of Nazi criminals guilty of genocide and the extermination of hundreds of thousands of people – Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Poles and people of other nationalities – was carried out.
► Freedom of speech and the press, freedom of assembly have been abolished.
► Political opposition is prohibited.
► A system of total surveillance, reprisals against undesirables and mass murders has been organized.
► The justice system has been destroyed.
► The health care system was destroyed, which led to a catastrophic extinction of the population.
► Education reform has been carried out, teaching in Russian, Hungarian and other languages is prohibited.
► Finally, the civil war in the Donbas has been unleashed.
The ruling regime in Kiev united with others to subordinate us to a jurisdiction alien to our constitution and not recognized by our laws, approved acts that claimed to become legislation and served to:
♦ conducting exercises and cantoning the armed forces of foreign countries in our country;
♦ exemption through judicial proceedings, which appear to be such only, from the punishment of military and police persons who have committed the murder of inhabitants;
♦ the cessation of our trade with other nations;
♦ the elimination of jobs;
♦ forcing citizens to leave the country in search of earnings;
♦ taxing us without our consent;
♦ depriving us of the benefits of jury trials in many court cases;
♦ the repeal of some and the adoption of other laws that contradict the wishes of the majority of the population of Ukraine;
♦ revoking the rights and freedoms granted to us, repealing our most useful laws, and fundamentally changing the forms of our government;
♦ suspending the activities of local and regional authorities and arrogating to themselves the authority to legislate for us in a variety of cases.
Therefore, we, the representatives of the regions of Ukraine, having in our hearts the honesty of our intentions, on behalf and by the authority of the peoples of these regions, solemnly record and declare that these regions are and rightfully should be free and independent, that they are exempt from any dependence on the Kiev authorities and that all political ties between them and the state of Ukraine should be completely severed, that, as free and independent States, they have the authority to declare war, to conclude peace treaties, to enter into alliances, to trade, to perform any other act and all that an independent State is entitled to.
Our goal is to create a democratic federal state and carry out complete denazification and debanderization, the introduction of criminal liability for the rehabilitation of Nazism.
Our goal is to create a democratic federal state where every nation can speak its own language. The number of state languages is not limited.
Our goal is to create a democratic federal state, where the main goals will be to ensure human rights and freedoms.
Our goal is to create a democratic federal State and to punish the war criminals responsible for the outbreak of civil war and mass bloodshed.
Our goal is to create a democratic federal state with a free market economy.
Our goal is neutrality and friendly relations with all states of the world.
And may the Lord help us in this.
The manifesto is open for signing by representatives of regional and city councils of all regions of Ukraine.
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Lone Wolf
very interesting development… if it is seen through …
Didn‘t Dimitri Orlov post this proclamation on his blog in early March ?
Yes, I wondered how many local authorities were actually ready to sign. After the retreat of phase I, I thought it was ditched, hope that this was not the case.
This has always puzzled me since the beginning: to me it is clear that the goal of the “de-nazification” is also implying a change of the government, or at least installing in Kiev someone willing (and able) to rule the country under a neutral status. But, from what we have seen, Russia never tried to overthrow the government, and was also quite slow to set up local administrations in the occupied territories, I mean this only started in phase II. How can you convince common people of Ukraine to revolt against their own government if you are not showing a strong commitment to sustain and protect them? How can you achieve this without having an acceptable candidate to rule? I know we miss too many pieces for any sound conjectures, but these questions are actually crucial after the Donbass liberation: is Russia willing to continue to push to Lvov? If not, Ukrainians must be carefully encouraged to do this by themselves, in a way or another.
“So, the question is why Anglos do not order retreat.”
Why would somebody kill a goose that is laying golden eggs? Such as creating great demand for military equipment manufacturers and traders, who will be only too glad to recycle their earnings into kickbacks for politicians across the spectrum, journalists, academics, religious leaders, ordinary influence peddlers in social media, retired military people, the list goes on and on. After all, the Ukrainian lives do not matter anymore according to their own elected President. What matters is that moolah keeps flowing on and on at the theoretical expense of future generations. One fine day, the Anglos will say, we never had anything to do with those decisions so we refuse to pay the cost. It is all there in their religion. It is all right to speak lies and break “solemn promises” to those “others”. The Pope said it in writing in the doctrine of discovery.
All true, Esskumar
But even more than that:
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact” [emphasis mine]
[From a Russian vlogger on YouTube:]
The evolution of the column headings of the British newspaper The Telegraph for 3 months.
24 February. “Putin’s bloody rule is over.”
April 3rd. “Russia is losing to the West at its own game.”
The 21st of April. “Putin’s war has failed, but things could have been worse.”
5 May. “Humiliated Russia is losing an epochal battle.”
12 May. “Beating Putin will cost us a high price.”
26 of May. “Putin is about to win a shocking victory.”
The Ukrainian military is trying to recover the southern city of Kherson.
“‘Hold on Kherson,’ the Ukrainian military said on Twitter on Sunday morning. ‘We’re coming.’” -NYT (5/29/22)
Talk is cheap, dumb actions get people killed. The Ukrainians mounted two counter attacks yesterday. Both gloriously broke through the lightly defended areas they attacked, made for a great photo op, many photos likely were quickly loaded to the web, someone semi coined the phrase, the Thumbs Up Like Brigade. Both groups were quickly surrounded and destroyed. Any ground force massing for a counter offensive is visible from the air. You just can’t hide that big a force. A report MoD maybe, mentions 40 vehicles, 200+kia from one Ukie counter attack, northeast of Kherson, maybe that was the liberation attempt……
Cheers M
Who is the guy who made this very good video update? I presume he is an OSINT analyst. His telegram channel says MoD, but certainly he is not with the official Russian Ministry of Defense. Am I correct?
Someone please clarify. Thanks in advance.
Ukraine is going down faster than a cheerleader at a frat party. Wonder if Zelensky will escape to his pricey villa in the US?