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[Korrespondent] 23:03 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confirmed Warsaw's support for Ukraine's NATO membership plan, which provides for certain security guarantees, at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July.
22:50 Zelensky appointed Volodymyr Artyukh as the head of the Sumy OVA.
22:37 The United States is preparing sanctions against Hungarian officials associated with the Orban government, writes The Guardian. The list should include, among other things, former members of the government, but the list is not provided. The bill is scheduled to be submitted for consideration in May, and it is likely to "get broad support," the publication predicts.
21:28 The FBI has arrested Air Force serviceman Jack Teixeira, suspected of leaking secret Pentagon data. The investigation concluded that the documents were leaked deliberately.
21:26 Zelensky appointed Colonel of the National Police Artem Lysohor as the head of the Luhansk OVA.
20:29 The United States believes that UN Secretary General António Guterres is too willing to meet Russian interests, reports The Guardian, citing "secret documents" from the Pentagon. It follows from them that Guterres is so interested in maintaining the operation of the grain deal that he was ready to meet the interests of Russia.
19:47 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that relations between Warsaw and Budapest have changed a lot because of Hungary's position on Russia's war in Ukraine: "Instead of working with Hungary, we are cooperating very closely with Romania and the Baltic countries."
19:39 The National Corruption Prevention Agency recognized Xiaomi as an international sponsor of the war, as the company not only continued its work in Russia after a full-scale invasion, but still remains the leader in smartphone sales in Russia.
19:36 The Moldovan Foreign Ministry said that the published video of the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner by the Russian military "shocked everyone": "We strongly condemn this barbaric act, which is another serious violation of international humanitarian law." The department stressed the need to investigate all the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine and bring those responsible to justice.
19:19 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he had held a military cabinet - a special format for working with the heads of the defense sector, commanders, intelligence, and the President's Office. “Only what is directly necessary to manage the front line and ensure Ukraine’s active actions, protect our state from Russian terror. It was meaningful. And our actions will be powerful.
19:15 According to the "secret documents" of the Pentagon, China agreed to provide lethal weapons to Russia in early 2023, writes The Washington Post. The US reportedly obtained this information from Russian intelligence intercepts. China wanted to keep these shipments secret and disguise them as civilian products. What exactly China could have already handed over to Russia is unknown.
18:43 Japan plans to send Ukraine $3.5 billion in direct budget support during 2023. These funds will finance priority spending - social and humanitarian, according to the Ministry of Finance. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Japan has already provided Ukraine with $581 million in concessional financing.
18:10 "Authorities" of the occupied Zaporozhye region announced the detention of three Ukrainian saboteurs in Melitopol, allegedly involved in the commission of terrorist attacks, in particular, in undermining the railway track and preparing assassination attempts on "officials".
18:06 The German government has granted permission to Poland to supply MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Spiegel reports.
17:48 Zelensky opened the Day of the Defense Industrial Complex Worker in Ukraine, which will be celebrated annually on April 13, and presented state awards to representatives of the domestic defense industry. Exactly one year ago, Ukrainian Neptune missiles hit the Russian cruiser Moskva.
17:37 Switzerland will provide Kiev with at least another 1.5 billion Swiss francs ($1.7 billion) until 2028, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said. This support will be provided as part of an overall strategy for international cooperation, taking into account the 300 million francs (nearly $340 million) already allocated for 2023 and 2024.
17:05 According to the American Time magazine, the Top 100 most influential people on the planet in 2023 included the first lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenskaya and the Nobel laureate, human rights activist Oleksandra Matviychuk. An article about Zelenskaya in the magazine was written by Biden's wife Jill.
16:58 The European Union has imposed sanctions against PMC Wagner and publications RIA FAN, because these organizations "undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine."
16:49 Zaluzhny said that the head of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of the French Republic, Thierry Burcart, had arrived in Ukraine. "This is a clear signal of support for the Ukrainian army by the French colleagues in the war against the aggressor. We had substantive talks with General Burkar. I got him acquainted with the situation at the front. He elaborated on Ukraine's need for artillery shells and other ammunition, air defense equipment and F-16 fighters. We agreed to continue cooperation and maintain dialogue in the future," Zaluzhny stressed.
16:16 The UK will provide Ukraine with an additional $500 million in loan guarantees, bringing the total to $1 billion this year, Treasury Secretary Jeremy Hunt said. British loan guarantees were essential to secure a broader four-year, $15.6 billion IMF support package for Ukraine, he said.
15:55 The EU Council approved the decision to allocate 1 billion euros for the purchase of ammunition for Ukraine , said High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell. "With today's decision, we are putting into effect the first part of a historic agreement reached by EU leaders to support the immediate delivery of €1 billion worth of artillery ammunition to the Ukrainian Armed Forces," he said.
15:48 The Russians fired at one of the parks in the Dniprovsky district of Kherson, one person died, the IVA reported. Also, enemy aircraft today hit the building of a local school in the village of Zmeevka, Berislavsky district, with guided bombs, one person was killed, one was injured.
15:17 The European Commission has come to the conclusion that, from a legal point of view, the frozen reserves of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation cannot be simply transferred to Ukraine, but will have to be returned to Moscow after the end of the war, writes Die Welt with reference to the document. At the same time, the EU admits that, given Russia's gross violations of international law, an emergency measure can be applied - to invest these funds in European government bonds at a 2.6% yield, and send this income to Ukraine.
15:06 Poland sent an official request to Berlin for the transfer of MiG-29 fighters from the Cold War to Ukraine, writes Deutsche Welle. These aircraft were in service with the German Democratic Republic and were inherited by the Bundeswehr, and in 2002 they were sold to Poland. Then Warsaw received 23 fighters, probably some of them already non-operational.
14:32 Russian forces continue their offensive in the central part of Bakhmut and are trying to surround the city from the north and south, storming Bogdanovka and Ivanovskoye, said Alexei Gromov, deputy chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, every day the Russians make 40-50 assault attempts and more than 500 attacks using the entire range of weapons in this area. To strengthen the Russian grouping, part of the forces and means from the Avdeevsky direction was transferred to Bakhmut.
14:00 Norway has declared 15 diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Oslo persona non grata. They turned out to be undercover intelligence officers and should leave the country as soon as possible, the country's Foreign Ministry said. Now, Russian intelligence officers who wish to come to Norway will not be issued visas.
13:52 The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation initiated an audit of the video with the execution of a Ukrainian soldier.
13:19 The Russians launched three airstrikes on the private sector, high-rise buildings and a factory in Orekhov, Zaporozhye region. The extent of the damage is being established, and no casualties have been reported, the IVA said.
12:50 Russia is going to produce X-50 missiles in order to intensify strikes against Ukraine, Alexei Gromov, Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said: "According to reports, in June this year, the Russian Federation plans to begin mass production of strategic air-launched cruise missiles of the X-type 50, which will allow the Kremlin to intensify missile strikes on the territory of our country in the fall."
Since February 2022, Russia has used up at least 50% of its stock of long-range anti-aircraft missiles, using at least 8,000 of these missiles, mostly ground-to-ground, Gromov said. "At the current level of production, Russia will not be able to restore its reserve in the medium term, which could potentially jeopardize Moscow's ability to defend its strategic interests in the Far East and on the borders with NATO countries," the General Staff spokesman added.
12:41 In the Ukrainian intelligence, they "approximately know" who could brutally execute a Ukrainian military man by cutting off his head, Dmitry Lubinets, Commissioner for Human Rights, told Radio Liberty. "Yesterday I had a conversation with our intelligence agencies. According to their assumptions, they roughly know who did it, in what area, and who was directly involved in this, including who was the direct executor," the Ombudsman said. At the same time, he refused to answer clarifying questions about whether they were mercenaries of PMC Wagner.
12:35 The FSB estimates Russia's losses in Ukraine at 110,000 killed and wounded, writes The New York Times, citing "secret documents" from the Pentagon. The publication clarifies that this information was obtained by American intelligence, most likely from the interception of electronic messages. Thus, in one of the documents, representatives of American intelligence stated that the FSB accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of "concealing Russian losses in Ukraine."
According to the FSB, the Russian Defense Ministry does not take into account in its reports the losses among the fighters of the National Guard, mercenaries of PMC Wagner and the military sent to Ukraine from Chechnya. According to US intelligence, this information demonstrates the reluctance of the military to pass bad news along the chain of command.
12:22 The court arrested the property of the sanctioned oligarch Vadim Novinsky, who was involved in the complicity of Russia, in the amount of more than 3.5 billion hryvnias. The list of blocked assets includes corporate rights to 40 Ukrainian enterprises and 30 gas wells. According to the SBU, during the searches, in addition to documents and seals of non-resident companies, pro-Kremlin religious literature was found.
11:39 The Arbitration Tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ordered Russia to pay $5 billion to Naftogaz as compensation for losses and lost property of the NJSC in the occupied Crimea, said Alexei Chernyshev, Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz.
10:21 The FSB stated that the organizers of the "terror attack" in St. Petersburg, as a result of which "military commander" Vladlen Tatarsky was killed, were allegedly "Ukrainian special services and their agents, including Russian oppositionists hiding abroad." In particular, the murder of Tatarsky, together with Daria Trepova, was allegedly prepared by a citizen of Ukraine, Yuriy Denisov, who arrived in the Moscow region from Kyiv through Latvia in February. After an explosion in a cafe on April 3, he flew from Russia in transit through Armenia to Turkey, and the procedure for putting him on the international wanted list was initiated.
According to the FSB, Darya Trepova carried out a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg "as a result of repeated calls" for subversion by the leaders of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation.
09:57 Announced by the United States on March 20 and April 4, military aid packages to Ukraine will be the last major deliveries before the expected counteroffensive, writes The New York Times. In total, these weapons are worth almost $3 billion, which includes ammunition for HIMARS, shells, and anti-radar missiles.
09:42 Kiev is dissatisfied with the forecasts from the "secret documents" of the United States that the Ukrainian counter-offensive will not be very successful, but will bring only "modest territorial benefits", writes Politico, citing sources. Senior Ukrainian officials believe that Washington is once again underestimating Ukraine's capabilities.
"The same people who said that Kiev would fall in three days are now leaking harmful and equally ridiculous information ahead of an offensive critical to the entire free world," said the source, who is in constant contact with senior officials in Kiev.
And a spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said the forecasts "give grounds for suspicion" about how seriously the United States supports Ukraine's goal of completely ousting Russia from the country.
09:11 The Russians fired S-300 missiles at Slovyansk, Donetsk region, at night, the mayor of the city, Vadim Lyakh, said. One of the rockets hit the school, and nearby multi-storey buildings were also damaged. The second rocket hit near the city water canal, private houses were damaged. People were not hurt.
08:43 Poland wants to produce depleted uranium shells for Abrams tanks, as well as become the main European center for servicing American tanks, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said during a visit to the United States.
08:35 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed (in Ocheretino), two more were injured. In the Kherson region, one person was also killed, two were injured. In the Kharkiv region, as a result of the shelling of the village of Dvurechnaya, Kupyansky district, two people were killed, one was injured, according to the IVA.
08:29 The EU is looking for a legal way to send the frozen Russian assets to the restoration of Ukraine, the Swedish presidency has announced.
08:18 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of April 13.
personnel - about 180,590 (+540) people liquidated,
tanks - 3646 (+0),
armored combat vehicles - 7053 (+10),
artillery systems - 2777 (+7),
MLRS - 535 (+0),
air defense systems - 283 (+1),
aircraft - 307 (+0),
helicopters - 293 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2339 (+5),
cruise missiles - 911 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5637 (+7),
special equipment - 320 (+1).
08:13 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. During the day, more than 45 enemy attacks were repulsed, the General Staff reported in the morning summary .
The number of checkpoints and patrols has increased in Grafskoye Volnovakha district of Donetsk region and around it. At checkpoints, the Russians are actively filtering the local population. In Blagodatnoe, the occupiers, fearing a leak of information about the locations of their units, began to restrict certain routes for taxi drivers; entry to local residents is allowed only with registration.
05:00 Ukraine plans to receive at least $115 billion in long-term financial assistance from international partners, Shmyhal said during his visit to Washington. According to him, in 2023, Ukraine needs $14 billion for rapid recovery projects.
00:20 Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine is turning into a protracted conflict that will last "far beyond 2023," Reuters writes, citing the leaked "secret documents" of the US Department of Defense. At the same time, the Americans believe that the Russians will not be able to completely occupy the Donbass.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:46 The Russian army strikes at the enemy—video. 19:57 pgt. Tsirkuny (Kharkiv region)
Local activists did two good deeds in a day: repaired a damaged air defense installation showed military equipment hidden under a camouflage net in the parking lot of a local club
19:56 Wagner Group destroyed 38,000 fighting on the side of Kyiv, 32,000 fall on Soledar, Artemovsk and its environs, said Prigozhin
18:58 Forced graves continue in Ukraine -video
In the Chernivtsi region, three military servicemen in a private car with left number plates broke into the family's house and, threatening with reprisals, tried to forcibly take the man away
18:55 Footage of a pinpoint hit on the building where the group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hiding -video
18:51 Another American mercenary destroyed in Bakhmut
Yesterday it became known about the liquidation by Russian troops of another American mercenary of the "International Legion" named Edward Walton Wilton.
The American from Florida was 22 years old and had previously served in the US Army.
On April 10, 2022, he went to Ukraine, where he signed a contract with the International Legion.
In the ranks of the legion, the mercenary managed to take part in the hostilities in the Kharkov region and in the Donbass.
Wilton was an ideological Russophobe - in his social networks, he promised to "kill Russian pigs."
Fate was merciful to the American for almost a year, until he was liquidated in Bakhmut on April 7th.
The US State Department has already confirmed the death of two American citizens. According to The Daily Beast journalists, one of them is Edward Wilton, and the second is instructor Grady Kurpasi, who has been missing since June 2022.
According to official figures, 15 mercenaries from the United States have disappeared along with Wilton and Kurpasi since the beginning of the SVO in Ukraine.
17:23Ukrainians suffer huge losses every day. Judging by the pool of blood on the ground and the author's comment, the Ukrainian went to another world -video
17:20 During the reconnaissance flight, "Orlan 10" recorded the defeat of the stronghold of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the village of Serebryanka -video
The destruction of enemy manpower ensured the successful offensive operations of the 2nd Army Corps of the RF Armed Forces
16:48 Footage of the attack and capture of the enemy stronghold by attack aircraft on the Zaporozhye front -video
Combat work of fighters from the assault group of the Primorsky 60th Motorized Rifle Brigade [V] under the command of a fighter with the call sign Don.
The infantry, under the cover of armored vehicles, attacked enemy positions with lightning speed, pressed the APU militants with fire and captured them.
16:27 The Russian army raised the enemy's ammunition depot -video
The ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, opened by UAV operators, was hit by a precision-guided munition. An accurate hit resulted in the detonation of stored projectiles and rocket-propelled ammunition to multiple launch rocket systems, completely destroying the ammo depot.
15:55 A mercenary from the United States said that he had come to "destroy Russian pigs" and was quickly eliminated by Russian fighters -video
The death of an open neo-Nazi-Hitlerist was confirmed a day ago by the US State Department. Edward Walton Wilton 3rd, along with accomplices, were destroyed in Bakhmut.
15:48 Warehouse explosion of Ukrainians in the city of Beryslav, Kherson region.
14:44 The main thing from the new briefing Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
Assault detachments "Wagner" continued combat operations to oust the enemy from the central quarters of Artemovsk;
The ammunition depot of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the LPR;
The RF Armed Forces were struck by accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Kalinovka, Nikolaevka and Stupochki in the DPR;
Airborne units block the transfer of reserves and the possibility of retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artemovsk;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 80 people per day in the Krasnolimansk direction;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 300 servicemen in the Donetsk direction in a day;
Aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces took to the air 12 times in the Artemovsk area, missilemen and artillery performed 57 fire missions.
14:14 Every day more and more wounded Ukrainians fill the hospitals of the Square. So in this case, the Russian gunners fired another ukrovoyak in one of the directions -video
13:59 The result of the defeat of the "Caliber" of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of the training camp of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lviv region Ukraine -video
13:57 A total of 1000 police officers from each region are urgently assembled into the Ukrainian Army. They are waiting for sending to the front end in the next meat grinder. In total, it is necessary to recruit 10,000 to 20,000 graved police officers -video
12:41 Combat work of the Russian crews of the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS to destroy objects and disguised positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the directions -video
12:36 Parts of foreign missiles were taken out of the Golaya Pristan for destruction -video
A shell fell into the courtyard of a local resident at night - policemen and bomb experts arrived at the scene. In the funnel, experts found elements of a British-made rocket with the appropriate brand.
The operatives evacuated the residents and removed the remains of the ammunition from the ground - the projectile was taken outside the settlement for its further destruction.
In addition, the fall of a similar rocket was recorded in the school yard near the banks of the Dnieper - its parts were also taken away.
11:42 As the Bible says: He who once betrayed -betray not once.
Igor Terekhov Mayor of Kharkiv, former 1st Deputy Mayor of Kharkiv Gennady Kernes, sang Hosanna to Bandera this morning, and suddenly realized that Bandera was a Catholic!
And in honor of this, he announced that he had decided to break "from the Moscow church and go to the bosom of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Mother Church."
He always tried to seem smart, but it turned out that without Kernes' intelligence that overshadowed him, he was a moron. By the way, even under Kernes, he often ran to consult with Avakov, and therefore looked like a man who knows how to reconcile different points of view.
It turned out that he himself was not only a fool, but also a scoundrel. The fact is that he was baptized in Orthodoxy, and when he was the deputy of Kernes, he defiantly observed all Orthodox rites more zealously than many of the ordinary Orthodox in Kharkov (and they, we note, are 80% of the city's inhabitants).
Turns out it was all a sham. After all, he betrayed not only the Orthodox faith and Kharkovites in general, he betrayed the faith of his parents as well.
Let's see how the Catholics take it. Previously, Rome did not pay traitors, as it is now - it is not clear.
By any chance, he broke his own. Yes, and did it on Orthodox Maundy Thursday. Well you fool, what can you do.
11:33 Air raid alert announced throughout Ukraine
10:37 The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut): “Musicians” continue to hit the positions of the Nazis who have taken refuge, every day occupying new streets and entire neighborhoods -video
10:36 No one will run away from the Lancet -video
On Artemovsky, the direction of the kamikaze drone strikes the transport of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on which the Nazis tried to leave their positions.
09:11 The movement of the column with 152mm guns "Hyacinth-B" of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to their positions in the zone of the special operation -video
08:55 Hunting for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut: a bullet almost deprived the militant of his head -video
In the second video, neo-Nazis from Azov show how they are being hunted by Russian snipers and tankmen. Ukrainian military under constant fire.
08:52 Weekdays of the war - Russian soldiers are hitting the positions of the Nazis in the Zaporozhye direction -video
The shelling is carried out from an automatic heavy grenade launcher (AGS) by our graduates of the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School (NVVKU).
08:05 US State Department confirmed destruction by the Russian army two more American mercenaries
The US authorities acknowledged the death of two more American mercenaries in Ukraine.
Grady Kurpasi is a high-ranking Marine Corps officer who left the service in 2021. He went to Ukraine to train the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he worked in the Kherson region. Since April 2022, the mercenary was listed as missing.
Neo-Nazi-Hitlerist Edward Walter Wilton liquidated in the Bakhmut area.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:47 Video- Work on Ukrainian firing points in the Vugledar direction from SPG-9. Targets are pre-identified by drones 22:30 Video- In the army, including at the front, there is a new first aid kit, moreover, better than what was before. There is an active transition to it
22:13 Video- A selection of drops from the copter of the Sparta 1AK battalion.
21:34 Video- Artillery Donetsk 2nd Army Corps is working on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya.
20:42 Video- Minus the Ukrainian opornik in the Zaporozhye region thanks to the work of the Su-34.
20:25 Video- The paratroopers covered with artillery the house where a group of Vushniks took refuge in Bakhmut
19:59 Video- The work of calculating the Wagner anti-tank systems in the west of Bakhmut.
19:29 Video “The Ukrainian crew was setting up their Stugna, but at that time they were spotted by soldiers of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps, 11th Regiment and launched a thermobaric missile at them. Only one escaped, limping, the rest, together with the anti-tank systems, were destroyed.
18:58 Video- The Ukrainian tank went into the hangar with the ammunition detonated.
18:38 Video- In the Kupyansky direction, a mortar position in an abandoned residential building was destroyed by tank fire.
18:13 Video- Assault on the Ukrainian stronghold in the Zaporozhye region by the forces of the 60th Motorized Rifle Brigade. First-person view
17:39 Video- A group of vushniks occupied a house not far from the temple in the Kherson region, but they were noticed in time and the house was covered from artillery right with them.
17:23 Video- The enemy attacked the Svatovo hospital with American HIMARS. Nazi 3-rockets hit the boiler house and damaged the administrative building of the district hospital, as well as the stadium
16:57 Video- As a result of today's artillery attack by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of Nova Kakhovka, a civilian was killed who was passing by the sports ground of school No. 1, on the territory of which a mine exploded.
16:32 Video- Report by Evgeny Poddubny from Bakhmut about the work of Wagner tankers in urban combat
15:58 Video— Mobility and power: combat work of the artillery units of the Airborne Forces in the zone of the NMD
Artillery units of the 120mm Nona self-propelled guns of the Kostroma paratroopers daily conduct combat work to destroy command and observation posts and manpower of Ukrainian nationalists who have dug in in the forest.
After the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are detected by the crews of unmanned aerial vehicles, the paratroopers receive a command for combat work.
Crews of self-propelled guns "Nona" make a march to firing positions, carry out aiming and inflict fire damage on the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Reconnaissance, fire correction and control of target destruction is carried out from quadrocopters.
After the suppression of targets, the crews quickly change their position, excluding falling under the return fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:38 Video— Footage of the destruction of the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, opened by UAV operators, was hit by a precision-guided munition. An accurate hit led to the detonation of stored projectiles and rocket-propelled ammunition to multiple launch rocket systems, completely destroying the APU depot
15:15 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (04/13/2023)
- In the Kupyansky direction, air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the "Western" group of troops hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnaya, Sinkovka, Timkovka of the Kharkov region and Novoselovskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic.
The losses of the enemy amounted to more than 35 Ukrainian servicemen, two vehicles, as well as a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.
- In the Krasno Limansky direction, strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the group of troops (forces) "Center" defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova of the Lugansk People's Republic, Terna and Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored fighting vehicles and a 152mm D-20 howitzer were destroyed.
- In addition, in the area of the settlement of Nevskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, an ammunition depot of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.
- In the Donetsk direction, the Wagner assault detachments continued high-intensity combat operations to oust the enemy from the central quarters of the city of Artemovsk.
- The airborne troops provide support to the assault detachments on the flanks, blocking the transfer of APU reserves to the city and the possibility of enemy units retreating from Artemovsk.
- The strikes of operational-tactical aviation, missile troops and artillery fire of the "Southern" group of troops hit accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Kalinovka, Nikolaevka and Stupochki of the Donetsk People's Republic.
- Over the past day, in the interests of the actions of the group of troops in the Artemovsk region, aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces made 12 sorties, missile troops and artillery of the group completed 57 fire missions.
The total losses of the enemy in the Donetsk direction per day amounted to 300 Ukrainian servicemen, one infantry fighting vehicle, six armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, and a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the Vostok group of troops defeated units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vugledar of the Donetsk People's Republic, Poltavka, Verkhnyaya Tersa and Omelnik of the Zaporozhye region.
During the day, up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, as well as the 152mm Msta-B howitzer were destroyed in these areas.
- In addition, in the area of the settlement of Gulyaipole, Zaporozhye region, an ammunition depot of the 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed.
In the Kherson direction, up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, as well as a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were destroyed during the fire engagement of the enemy.
- Operational-tactical aviation, missile troops and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation over the past day defeated 97 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 124 districts.
Air defense systems intercepted nine rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system per day.
- Also, six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova, Kremennaya, Pshenichnoye, Rubizhnoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, Kirillovka and Volnovakha of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 407 aircraft, 228 helicopters, 3,747 unmanned aerial vehicles, 415 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,659 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,082 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,576 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 9,487 units of special military vehicles.
14:55 Video- Report of the war correspondent Kots from Bakhmut. The work of the T-90M PMC in the city center is captured.
14:25 Video- A blow with a lancet on a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle in motion in the Bakhmut direction.
13:56 Russian fighter declared that Ukrainian biathletes take part in the fighting in the Kherson region, they are used as snipers.
13:35 Video— Bakhmut/Artemovsk
13:12 As a result of the artillery attack of Nova Kakhovka by militants, the Armed Forces of Ukraine sufferedpeacefulresident - he was taken to the Skadovsk Central District Hospital. The victim received a mine-explosive injury and shrapnel wounds as a result of the artillery attack of Novaya Kakhovka by Ukrainian militants.
Now he is receiving all the necessary treatment - doctors assess the man's condition as moderate.
12:36 Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate the fact of shelling Ukrainian militants of Panteleymonovka of the Donetsk People's Republic A resident of Panteleymonovka, wounded during artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, died from his wounds. The Investigative Committee of Russia will establish the circle of persons involved in the crime.
12:17 Video- Dnepropetrovsk: you can see a vast cemetery with fresh graves.
11:46 Video— HEROES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATION!
Guard Lieutenant Kirill Bogdanov is 26 years old, and he is a doctor in a hospital platoon of a medical company. For his work on the front line, he was awarded the medal "For Courage".
In this short video, Kirill tells what the words “scary” and “happiness” mean for a military doctor. And a funny case: once, with the help of diclofenac, it was possible to “save” a person’s life.
11:25 Fighters of the Wagner group lead battle in the center of Artemovsk
Assault on Bakhmut: PMC "Wagner" took the railway station, elevator, agricultural lyceum and the stadium "Avangard"
- In the north of Bakhmut, the "Wagnerites" continue their offensive, moving in the direction of the Bakhmut-2 railway station.
At the same time, the liberation of the territory of the elevator, which has been turned by the Armed Forces of Ukraine into one of the defense centers, is being completed.
- Fierce street battles continue in the city center, the enemy is trying to cling to literally every house.
Nevertheless, the assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" managed to shift the front line to the area of May 9 Street.
10:51 Video– Scouts detected the movement of a sniper pair of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
As a result, in their sights, the Ukrainians saw only a rocket flying towards them from our ATGM. Zaporozhye direction.
10:35 Video "When retreating to the western quarters from the center of Artemovsk, the Ukrainian security forces blew up a number of multi-storey buildings and capital buildings, set some on fire to slow down the advance of the Wagner group," said one of the attack aircraft commanders.
10:05 Video- Footage of the use of thermite rounds of the RF Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction.
09:27 Video— Another krysnosnos literally from the snipers of the OBTF DPR "Cascade"
09:08 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 04/12/2023 to 00:00 04/13/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 18 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 11 artillery attacks from artillery of 155mm and 152mm.
On Gorlovsky five artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 122mm.
On Volnovakhskoye two artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
Having fired 109 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of five settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Panteleymonovka, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Yelenovka, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a man, in the previously liberated Vladimirovka.
Four residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk and Yelenovka. Damage to civil infrastructure facilities was not recorded.
In the previous day, 26 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
09:01 Kyiv regimecontinuesterror of the civilian infrastructure of the left bank of the Kherson region - emergency services
Yesterday, fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 62 rounds from cannon artillery at the settlements: Novaya Kakhovka, Alyoshki, Pechanovka, Krynki, Zabarino, Novaya Zburyevka, Geroiskoe.
The artillery attack did not stop at night - the Ukrainians fired 42 rounds from cannon artillery at Novaya Kakhovka and Kakhovka, Gornostaevka, Tavriysk and the village of Cairo.
08:20 Frontline summary on the morning of 13/04/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian army tried to conduct offensive operations in the Rabotin area, probing the defensive positions of the Russian Armed Forces. Russian artillery in this area was artillery attack Orekhov and Malaya Tokmachka, and to the east - Charovnoye, Gulyaipol, Krasnoy, Malinovka and Olgovsky.
On the Donetsk front, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after artillery strikes, continued assault operations in Maryinka. After a short pause, they again tried to advance towards Nevelskoye. Also, Russian troops, with strong support from artillery and aviation, launched a ground attack on Pervomaiskoye, as well as on the southern and eastern approaches to Avdievka from the Experimental and Krutaya Beams.
Under shelling, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Karlovka, Netaylov, Thin, Orlovka and Ceramics. The Ukrainian army hit Donetsk.
PMC "Wagner" after massive artillery and air strikes managed to advance in the southern and central parts of Bakhmut. In the northern districts of the city, oncoming battles.
Wagner operators also attacked near Bogdanovka. No progress here. After the shelling, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to counterattack in the area of Spornovo, where on the eve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine they managed to take up new positions. Russian artillery hit Chasov Yar, Ivanovsky and Orekhovo-Vasilyevka. The Ukrainian fired at the positions of the Wagner PMC in Bakhmut.
In the Luhansk direction, Russian troops, supported by artillery, decided to attack Belogorovka again. No success. Also, after artillery strikes, they continued offensive operations in the area of Torskoy, Yampolevka, Nevsky and Makeevka.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine counterattacked in the direction of Krivosheevka in order to establish control over a section of the H-26 highway. They partially succeeded. Russian artillery hit neighboring Novoselovsky, as well as Berestovoye, Sandy, Kondrashovka, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Krasny Pervoi, Kamenka and Poplars.
08:17 Offensive at Kremennaya: The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the eyes of the attack aircraft "Brave" -video
The assault detachments of the "Center" group continue to break through the powerful enemy defenses on the front line near Svatovo-Kremennaya every day. Our fighters took another stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, showing it from the inside.
The footage shows well-equipped positions with firing points, as well as the corpses of militants.
08:10 Military summary on the morning of April 13, 2023
From Artemovsk (Bakhmut) they report the destruction of several enemy armored personnel carriers-4 "Bucephalus" during the day, the use of attack aircraft to defeat the enemy in the western part of the city. From the flanks, the offensive of the Wagner PMC assault groups is supported by airborne units with fire. It is reported that during the retreat the enemy is trying to undermine high-rise buildings.
In the Kherson direction, air strikes were carried out at night on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ????Kherson and Berislav. An ammunition depot was destroyed in Berislav. The enemy in the rear is restoring roads, covertly trying to build up ammunition stocks using grain trucks.
In the Zaporizhzhya direction east of Gulyai Polya, the enemy is trying to clear mines from narrow sections of the front, blindly dropping ammunition from drones.
In the Belgorod region, as a result of the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Novostroevka-Vtoraya, the Graivoron urban district, a civilian was shell-shocked. In n.p. Old Volokonovsky district 4 households were badly damaged. The pig complex "Agro-Belogorye" was shelled.
APU fired 109 rounds of ammunition across the DPR. Gorlovka, Panteleimonovka, Donetsk, Yelenovka, Vladimirovka are under fire. One civilian was wounded.
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[REGNUM] In the morning before the attack, Trepova removed a magnet from the bottom of the figurine that protected it from an explosion
On the morning before the terrorist attack in a cafe in St. Petersburg, which killed military commander Vladlen Tatarsky , Daria Trepova removed a magnet from the bottom of the figurine that protected it from an accidental explosion. This was reported on April 13 by the SHOT Telegram channel.
"On the morning of the terrorist attack, Daria removed a magnet from the bottom of the figurine, which protected against an accidental explosion and did not allow the IED to be activated remotely," the message says.
It is noted that Trepova reported to the curator for her actions in correspondence.
According to the channel, on the social network where Trepova spoke with the curator, she wrote: "When you hand the statuette to Vladlen Tatarsky, do not forget to remove the magnet from it. And be sure to tell the military commander that this is a gift from the Union of Sculptors to him."
At the same time, the intermediary gave her a bust of a military correspondent through a delivery service.
As REGNUM reported, on April 2, a terrorist attack was committed in a cafe on Universitetskaya embankment in St. Petersburg, as a result of which one person was killed - military commander Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin). During the event, a figurine brought by Trepova exploded in his hands.
She was sitting not far from the military correspondent, and due to shell shock, she partially lost her hearing , and had problems with orientation in space. On April 3, the police detained Trepova. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a case on the terrorist act.
During interrogation, she confirmed the fact that the figurine was handed over, but at the same time stated that she did not know that the object was stuffed with explosives .
On April 13, the FSB reported that Yuriy Denisov, a member of the Ukrainian sabotage and terrorist group, helped Trepova in the commission of a terrorist attack. It was he who gave her an explosive device hidden in a plaster bust. After the terrorist attack on April 3, he flew from Russia in transit through Armenia to Turkey.
Wanted for complicity in organizing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, in which military commander Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) died, in his hometown of Snezhnoye (DPR) he is known as a swindler and thief. Residents of the village of Stepnaya in the suburbs of Snizhne told IA REGNUM that Yuriy Denisov robbed his neighbors and fled to Ukraine.
Ukrainian Yuriy Denisov, suspected of organizing the murder of military commander Tatarsky, comes from a village not far from the city of Snezhnoye in the DPR. His family is described by neighbors as dysfunctional. The villagers know absolutely nothing about the father of the man, Yuri was raised by his mother and grandmother. Both of them have already died, their mother passed away earlier, grandmother Nadezhda Doronina - last year.
"They had a family: alcoholics and drug addicts. There was no father, his mother did not follow him, only his grandmother was engaged in upbringing. There is absolutely nothing good to say about him," says a neighbor.
According to fellow villagers, all of Denisov's relatives held pro-Ukrainian views long before 2014. Against this background, conflicts with neighbors often arose. People complained that Yuri, not embarrassed in terms, insulted all the pro-Russian residents of the village. A neighbor told about one skirmish between Yuri and her former classmate. The men met by chance and quarreled over political views. It even came to a fight.
"In 2014, he and his uncle moved to Mariupol, before leaving, he collected bank cards from everyone, promised to help cash them in Ukraine. But in the end, he did not bring any money back and did not return the cards. It turns out that he robbed half of the village," says Oksana Denisova, a former neighbor.
The woman recalls that after this incident, Denisov came to the village several times, but each time under the cover of night, so as not to catch the eye of anyone.
On April 13, the FSB published photographs of the suspect Yuri Denisov, who, according to the investigation, was one of the organizers of the murder of military commissar Vladlen Tatarsky. According to the FSB, a citizen of Ukraine, Yuriy Denisov, arrived from Kyiv through Latvia to Moscow, where he collected information about Vladlen Tatarsky.
According to the investigation, Denisov, through the delivery service, handed over an explosive device to Daria Trepova , already arrested for organizing a terrorist attack. After the terrorist attack in a St. Petersburg cafe on April 2, Denisov left the territory of the Russian Federation and flew to Turkey in transit through Armenia. The suspect has now been put on the international wanted list.
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[REGNUM] The gospel story of a Savior who was slandered, arrested, and falsely convicted is repeated in the lives of His faithful. There is also a crowd that shouts "crucify" and a procurator who passes a false sentence. The history of the world in its spiritual dimension is the history of how the darkness tries to extinguish the light.
In the Orthodox world, Passion Week is underway. The story that we remember these days - about how the Son of God was betrayed, slandered, subjected to torture and painful execution - looks too familiar to us. The words of the holy Apostle Paul " but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews, but folly to the Greeks " (1 Corinthians 1:23) may seem incomprehensible to us. What else is Christ, if not the Crucified?
This is known to everyone, even completely unbelieving people. Even as a child, in the deep Soviet years, when I knew nothing about Christianity, I nevertheless knew that Christ was the Crucified. His images on the Cross could be seen in classical art broadcasts or in anti-religious cartoons.
The cross has been in our world for a very long time - a religious symbol, revered by some and rejected by others. Some wear his image around their neck as a sign of confession of faith, others just as a decoration, others watch films where the Crucifix is used to fight evil spirits.
But in the time of the holy Apostle Paul, the cross was not a revered religious sign. He was an unbearably terrible instrument of torture and execution.
The caustic atheists who compare it to a gallows and ask if we would wear small underwear gallows around our necks remind us of something important that we often lose sight of.
The cross is not a gallows, the cross is much more terrible.
Once I saw an old photograph: in the Wild West at the end of the 19th century, some famous bandit was hanged in public. The bandit, whose neck vertebrae will crack in a loop in a minute, looks into the crowd with an impudent defiant smile. Like, he can be executed, but not humiliated.
In the ancient world, they knew not only how to execute, but also how to humiliate. The executed man was to remain in people's memory not as a hero boldly challenging his enemies. His courageous death was not to be legendary. On the contrary, she had to be so pathetic, shameful and disgusting that people would try to forget her as soon as possible.
Ancient empires - Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Macedonians - knew how to make a clear message out of execution: whoever defies us dies not only painfully, but also in extreme humiliation, writhing and writhing in front of everyone.
The Romans brought this dark art to perfection.
The man was first beaten with scourges that tore out pieces of flesh from the body, then they were forced to drag the horizontal bar of the cross to the place of execution, then they nailed the man by the wrists and legs so that the chest was stretched, and the man could exhale only by rising on his pierced limbs. Because of this, the crucified, already turned into a piece of bloodied meat, twitched all the time on the cross. The blood attracted swarms of flies, and often birds, which pecked out the eyes of the executed while still alive.
It is not surprising that in Rome this type of execution was reserved for slaves. A Roman, even a criminal, could be executed in some other way, but not like that. A Roman citizen could not be subjected to the monstrous humiliation of the cross; this cast a shadow of shame on the whole of Rome.
Against this background, the preaching of the apostles that the Crucified One had risen from the dead, and moreover, He is the Lord, Savior and Judge of the world, sounded incredibly scandalous.
It was not a big problem for the pagans to deify a person. There were many gods, and the border between people and gods was not impenetrable. But glorious, powerful people, winners and arbiters of the destinies of millions, were subject to deification (“apotheosis”). This is a bit like a tendency to glorify the darkest tyrants of the twentieth century, which some people are subject to in our time. In the pagan world, such glorification was a matter of course.
Strength, power, mysterious power to subdue people and events, which manifested itself in the ability to crush their enemies, fill up their fields with corpses, crucify them by the thousands along the roads, was considered something supernatural and godlike.
But to regard as God a man who not only did not deal with His enemies, but died at their hands the most humiliating death reserved for slaves - this seemed to the pagans something completely absurd.
The Jews, on the contrary, believed in the One God, who was “holy,” that is, absolutely different, separate, alien to the world He created. The sermon that God not only incarnated in the face of man, but also suffered torture and death at the hands of His creatures, seemed to them completely wild.
The words "Christ", "Messiah", literally "The Anointed One" were supposed to mean the righteous King, who was destined with the help of God to throw out the hated Romans and establish a kingdom of justice, peace and prosperity. The Messiah was supposed to put the enemies of His people to a cruel death, and not die at their hands.
Nevertheless, the preaching of the apostles first swept the Roman Empire, and then all the continents. God came into this world and wanted to take the very last place in it. He was embodied in the simplest family of an artisan, in a politically weak people, who for almost all of their history passed under one conqueror, then under another. He lived a life full of labors and hardships, and, finally, he took the very last place that can only be and which everyone would like to avoid - on the Cross.
God identifies himself with the weak, the outcast, the slaves, the trampled. And gradually the idea began to penetrate into the consciousness of people that in the person of the poor, the beggar, the prisoner, the sick, they meet God himself. Their true relationship to Him is shown in their relationship to them.
It happened slowly and with great difficulty, but we now live in a world that is shaped by the gospel. Even people who are fiercely hostile to the Christian faith live and think in a world that was created precisely by the preaching of the apostles.
In the course of the current struggle for "minority rights", it is customary, in particular, to slander the Christian missionaries who "destroyed" the culture and way of life of many peoples of Asia, Africa and America, and neo-pagans add "and Europe."
But the very idea that the victors owe something to the vanquished, and the strong to the weak, would have seemed very strange to the ancient pagans. Behind her, as behind so much of our world that we are accustomed to and take for granted, stands the same proclamation of God becoming man and dying at the hands of His creatures for their eternal salvation.
The history of the world in its spiritual dimension is the history of how the grace of God works in a world afflicted with sin; how the darkness tries to extinguish the light - and cannot.
The Church of Christ has faced persecution many times, and we see how this is happening right now in Ukraine. People are expelled from their temples and monasteries, they face slander, insults, beatings and arrests.
The gospel story of a Savior who was slandered, arrested, and falsely convicted is repeated in the lives of His faithful. There is also a crowd that shouts "crucify" and a procurator who passes a false sentence.
But we already know how this story ends - the Resurrection from the dead.
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[REGNUM] US special forces soldiers are indeed present in Ukraine. This was acknowledged by a White House official, thus confirming the veracity of one of the Pentagon leak fragments. Washington was quick to assure that the commandos were not involved in the combat zone, but were "concentrated around the embassy."
Russian experts doubted this version. However, it is unlikely that the "Green Berets" are used as DRGs in our rear. The American special forces, most likely, have two tasks.
The Joe Biden administration has recognized at least one of the fragments in a stream of "leaked" secret Pentagon documents as authentic. The United States does indeed have a special forces contingent in Ukraine, White House spokesman John Kirby confirmed in a Fox News commentary.
A little earlier, the London Guardian, citing documents “leaked” to the Network, reported: as of March 1, about 100 special forces soldiers of the US, French and British armies were operating in Ukraine. A total of 50 of them are British military, 14 and 15 people, respectively, from the United States and France, the London edition reported.
The Guardian notes that secret Pentagon documents did not indicate the purpose of deploying NATO special forces in Ukraine.
Kirby, commenting on the Guardian article and acknowledging the presence of US special forces in Ukraine, immediately assured that the US military is not directly involved in hostilities, but is concentrated in the area of the Ukrainian embassy in Kiev.
"There are a number of military personnel at the embassy who work in conjunction with the defense attaché’s office to help us work with accountable materials that come in and out of Ukraine," a Biden administration official said.
By making such statements, the White House recognizes the participation of its special forces in the conflict, the deputy head of the Union of Russian Paratroopers, retired colonel Valery Yuryev, told REGNUM .
"War is always a lie. If they say that we will attack, then they will not attack. If they say that special forces do not take part in hostilities, then most likely they will be used to perform some tasks of a military nature," Yuriev explained.
The interlocutor explained: the size of the group can reach 15 people. But spetsnaz can perform tasks with half of the group - 5-7 people.
As for the alleged combat missions, it is unlikely that American special forces will be used for sabotage in the rear of Russian troops, Yuryev said. Special Forces soldiers of Western countries do not know the language, give themselves away by the style of movements and actions, and therefore risk being detected.
In addition, it is unlikely that American special forces will want to "sign up" for a mission fraught with increased risk, the source said.
"In 1997 and 2001 I was the deputy commander of the peacekeeping brigade in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We had a Partnership for Peace program with NATO. The Americans rotated every three months. So I saw the Green Berets and the Navy SEALs and the Delta unit. They did an internship there," said Yuryev. Observation of the American commandos made it possible to compare them with their Russian counterparts.
"Our scouts act primarily on the basis of experience and available military knowledge and thanks to military ingenuity. First of all, instruction is important for them," the interlocutor shared. "If it is written that it is impossible to leave the territory of the base without a bulletproof vest, they do not go out. Because if someone scratches their finger, the insurance won't pay out."
These are fighters who serve for a paycheck, so they will avoid putting themselves at risk."
"The only thing is that they can be used as snipers in order to fire at our soldiers, to destroy officers. So at a distance of 500 meters to 2 km from the front line, they can work. But to work in our rear is unlikely. Their task is to earn money as soon as possible and leave," the expert added.
Another task that the special forces of NATO countries can perform on the territory of Ukraine is the training of personnel for the special forces of the Ukrainian army. So, judging by Reuters data, Great Britain declared its readiness to train Ukrainian marines. According to some reports, the United States is also training personnel for the Ukrainian special forces, Business Insider noted .
But it must be taken into account that the training of qualified special forces soldiers takes a long time and requires the involvement of a large number of instructors, Yuryev comments.
"The history of this training began back in 2014, when a special forces group from Italy consisting of 30 people arrived at the Yavorovsky training ground. Even then, everyone said that now they will train the Ukrainian special forces and they will immediately act well. But 30 people cannot train a large number of fighters," emphasizes the retired colonel.
In order to better train special forces, it is necessary to pay attention to each individual fighter in training, Yuryev points out.
"If I teach one person, it will be more effective than if I teach 20 people. Everyone's actions need to be controlled. Take into account the shortcomings that have arisen, train again," the interlocutor explained.
In addition, it is necessary to take into account the language barrier, which complicates learning. It takes years to train a special forces soldier, and therefore the message about the readiness to train in three, five, six months does not look serious, Yuryev is sure.
At the same time, the expert noted: according to NATO standards, the intensity of training of special forces soldiers is seriously reduced, which also affects the quality of training. Yuryev urged not to exaggerate the fact that the Ukrainian military was trained by Western instructors.
"We used to think that if the United States is involved in something, then this in itself indicates quality and high manufacturability," the source said. "In Bosnia, I watched how they photograph objects that are at a great distance. I thought they had special equipment, and they take a camera, put binoculars to the lens and take pictures."
The Americans will train specialists, they will fight better than, relatively speaking, the Ukrainian theoretic defense. But this does not mean that they will be better prepared than the fighters of the Russian special forces, the expert concluded.
You'll recall Yavorovsky training ground from Spring of 2022 when Redditors couldnt keep their yaps shut and spilt the beans of their ukr training. That's when Russia intercepted their comms and bombed the facility to rubble.
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[REGNUM] Air defense systems of NATO countries were supplied to Ukraine from the presence or were purchased from third countries. It is problematic for the industry of the Alliance members to quickly produce the number of air defense systems necessary for Ukraine. Therefore, the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is doomed to degradation, as the number of launchers and the space controlled by them is reduced to a critical number.
For the past week, the network has been discussing leaks from secret Pentagon briefings about the situation, including with the armed forces of Ukraine. From that impressive array of data, I would like to single out the part that concerns the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The most significant and effective part of them are the S-300 (long-range anti-aircraft system) and Buk (medium-range anti-aircraft missile system).
According to information from the leaks, at the moment the APU has 28 S-300 launchers and 57 Buk launchers. And for the S-300, the stock of missiles is about 470 pieces, that is, four missiles on average per one launch tube (there are 4 tubes in the launcher). For Buk complexes, the stock per launcher is even less.
Of course, it must be taken into account that the leak may well be a deliberate throwing in of disinformation, designed to lull our vigilance before the start of the announced offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
But nevertheless, there are other objective data to assess the potential of Ukrainian air defense.
Initially, the USSR inherited about 240 S-300 launchers, which, we recall, have 4 launch tubes each. Let's round up approximate calculations for convenience, and we will get about 1000 rockets for a one-time charge of all installations. It is not known for certain which part of them was decommissioned, but, based on the standards for the presence of ammunition (AM) directly in the units and locations, the calculation was at least four to five times. Thus, Ukraine received from the USSR approximately 4,000 to 5,000 anti-aircraft missiles for the S-300.
At the same time, this complex has the first upper stage of the rocket of a rather large size and uses solid propellant based on gunpowder, which is not stored for a very long time. On average 10-15 years. In particular, the sealant, which protects the powder cartridge in this stage, dries out, and when the rocket is launched, the powder does not burn out completely and can either simply wake up or explode at launch.
Since the beginning of the NWO, our pilots have repeatedly observed such cases. The Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile either did not gain speed or behaved inadequately on the trajectory, which is also proved by the S-300 missiles hitting residential buildings.
Part of the stock of missiles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine underwent restoration of serviceability in the 2000s in Russia, as part of defense cooperation, when specialists from the Dnipropetrovsk design bureau Yuzhnoye extended the life of our strategic missiles of the Voyevoda class. The exact figures are unknown, but taking into account the general reduction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the beginning of the new century, it can be assumed that no more than 50% of Ukrainian missiles underwent such a restoration procedure.
By the beginning of the NMD, Ukraine had about 70 combat-ready S-300 launchers, for which, in the most favorable case for it, it had up to ten full ammunition sets of conditioned missiles. According to information from sources on the other side, by the beginning of the massive strikes on the energy sector, BC reserves were used up to about half.
Thus, these rough estimates confirm the order of numbers contained in the leaked Pentagon documents.
Based on them, it can be expected that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will delay the use of the remaining anti-aircraft missiles for the most important purposes as much as possible, since it is physically impossible to replenish stocks, no one else on the planet produces them.
The situation is similar with the Buk installations.
Moreover, the experience of the war showed that they are the most dangerous for aviation, largely due to the fact that on one tracked chassis they combine all the main components of the complex at once: launchers, and a guidance system, and control. At the same time, they have rather high parameters in terms of range and height of the lesion.
It is planned to replace these complexes with air defense systems manufactured by NATO countries.
But they, as a rule, were created on the basis of aircraft missiles, since the ideology of building air defense in the West is based primarily on the use of aviation and sedentary, almost stationary systems for air defense of important objects. Such a mobile air defense, as created in the USSR, was practically not designed in NATO. In comparison with domestic systems, the use of aircraft missiles worsens their energy, because in aviation a rocket is launched taking into account the already existing carrier speed.
But it is natural that Western systems are quite effective, and most importantly, they have the possibility of producing ammunition.
Summing up, we can expect that as the stocks of missiles for the Buk and S-300 are exhausted, the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not disappear, but its efficiency and saturation density will decrease. There will be problems not only of the performance characteristics of NATO weapons and the quantitative saturation of their troops, but also difficulties with logistics and the lack of unification with existing Soviet-style air defense systems.
It is not worth counting on the problems with air defense in Ukraine to come within the time frame indicated in the Pentagon leak. But the reserves there are really on the verge, so the Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to stretch them out as long as possible and cover the most important objects with these systems.
It should be taken into account that the existing air defense systems of NATO countries were supplied to Ukraine from the presence or were purchased from third countries. It is problematic for the industry of the Alliance members to quickly produce the number of air defense systems necessary for Ukraine. Therefore, the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is doomed to degradation, as the number of launchers and the space controlled by them is reduced to a critical number.
Already in the medium term, Russian aviation will be able to suppress the remnants of the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and thereby catastrophically worsening the situation for the Ukrainian infantry. Without an air umbrella, it will sharply lose effectiveness, and then there will be no chance of resistance.
The only way to maintain at least the current level of airspace protection for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is the supply of several hundred fighters. Optimal in this situation is the American F-16. They are in storage, a lot of them are written off for replacement with new models, in the West there are many pilots who are fluent in this technique and are ready to sit at the controls as mercenaries.
This explains why the West is pushing Kyiv to attack. In order to play the last trump card in the form of fighters, Kyiv must demonstrate that it is still capable of active action. Otherwise, around the autumn-winter, against the background of the degradation of the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the massive recruitment of volunteers in Russia, the situation for Kyiv will become irreversible.
This is confirmed by the words of the organizers of the next meeting of NATO defense ministers in the Ramstein format that additional deliveries of artillery ammunition and ammunition for Ukraine's depleted air defense will be in the spotlight at the next meeting.
And that is why it is extremely important for us not only to repulse the offensive, but also not to give even the slightest opportunity to declare a victory, that is, to prevent the enemy from taking at least some noticeable settlement that the Ukrainians can wrap up in the media sphere as a military super success.
Of course, ideally, it would be generally to defeat the shock fist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and launch a counteroffensive into the resulting gap, which could bring down the front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But this is ideal. But in reality, it is necessary to build a calculation based on the worst-case scenario for us, so as not to give Kyiv arguments for obtaining fighters and thereby delay the hostilities for another couple of years.
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...There's a wonderful bit in Star Wars Episode VIII where the heroine tells her version of the Rebellion to Luke Skywalker, who listens carefully and replies:
"Amazing. Everything you said, every single word of it...was completely wrong."
I thought the video looked rather old...
[REGNUM] Hackers have identified the "surgeon" who boasted of cutting out organs from Russian prisoners
It did not take long for the hackers to identify the author of the video, who spoke about the abuse of Russian prisoners. The sadist boasted that he cut out organs from Russians without anesthesia.
According to RT, the author was identified by the RaHDit hacker group. According to them, this is 37-year-old Andrey Dmitrishin. The nationalist was born in the village of Dzvinyach, Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine.
It was established that the "surgeon" was an active participant in the so-called anti-terrorist operation (ATO) and served in the National Guard of Ukraine in 2014-2015.
Dmitryshyn uses different names in social networks: Ivan Klishch, Vladimir. He lives in in Ukraine and has a family.
As REGNUM reported, a man who introduces himself as a "Ukrainian surgeon of the field medical service" posted a video on the Web, where he spoke in detail about the abuse of Russian prisoners of war.
In the video, “Vladimir” said that without anesthesia he cuts out various organs from Russians: eyes, kidneys, liver. He supposedly sends them to "black transplantologists abroad." At the same time, he admitted with pleasure that he was "bad" from this.
The Investigative Committee will check the information about the bullying of the Ukrainian surgeon over the Russian military
The Investigative Committee of Russia will check the information published in social networks that a Ukrainian surgeon mocked Russian servicemen. The corresponding check was instructed to be carried out by the chairman of the department Alexander Bastrykin, the press service of the UK reported on April 13.
According to the Investigative Committee, in the footage of a video published on the Internet, a man who introduced himself as a surgeon of the Ukrainian field medical service claimed that he did not provide qualified assistance to the Russian military. Instead, he mocked the soldiers, the doctor said. This information will be verified.
The Ukrainian military medic is also going to be held accountable for the call to show cruelty towards Russian citizens, which was voiced in the video.
"Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Bastrykin instructed the Main Military Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee to organize a procedural check on this fact," the department noted.
As REGNUM reported, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin previously noted that Ukraine does not comply with generally accepted norms of international law in relation to prisoners of war, practices their murder, torture, bullying, beatings, denial of medical care, as well as extortion of money from relatives of people caught in captivity.
The conditions in the captivity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the wounded Russian prisoners were unbearable, medical sergeant Daniil Pshenichny said in January 2023 . According to him, soldiers were also in the cells without medical assistance, one of whom had a lung wound and the bullet remained in the body, the other had leg bones crushed.
Commentary and data from the War Tears organization
[ColonelCassad] Confirmed officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other law enforcement agencies of Ukraine who have died since the beginning of the SVO according to the WarTears project.
Lists by rank and a complete list of dead officers (https://wartears.org/posts/dead-officers-all/) are on our website.
In addition to the confirmed names, there is a large array of losses among officers, which is not 100% confirmed and these people are not included in the list until the end of the check, so it is important to understand that this is not a complete list of losses, but a list of 100% confirmed losses.
As, many have already noted a negligible number of cases of death of the generals of the Ukrainian army. If they die, the press does not receive information about this: as happened with the death of Viktor Vladimirovich Gamora, Major General, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Air Force. He died in September 2022 due to natural causes or due to a missile attack on the location of his military unit A0201 - there is hardly any way to know for sure.
We are now also checking posthumous award decrees against our database. There were always questions with these lists - not in all cases the death of a person was confirmed by an obituary. There was a case with the garrison from Serpent's Island: then 13 people were declared dead and awarded posthumously. In reality, it turned out that 85 people were alive and in captivity.
Learn more about counting techniques https://t.me/wartearsorg/212
Commentary comes from the Telegram channel of Sinologist
[ColonelCassad] "Seven-Ton Destroyer: Using the Music of the Legendary AC/DC Band, Ukraine Asks Australia for Additional Supplies of Armored Personnel Carriers." - under this heading, one of the articles of the Australian state media corporation ESBS came out.
"In a video posted on social networks with the soundtrack to the classic album of the legendary Australian rock band, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine thanks the “bushmasters” provided by our country to repel Russian aggression. Ukrainian soldiers have already appreciated our "Bushmasters" well suited for beating the Russians, and are now requesting more supplies of light armored patrol vehicles "Hawkeys." - said the publication on the ABC website, which reprinted the praises of Ukrainian propagandists.
It should be noted that since February 24 last year, the Australian government has been actively supporting the Kiev regime not only with the supply of weapons. Last October, as Ukraina.ru already reported, Canberra not only announced additional deliveries of military equipment to the Kyiv regime. At the same time, a group of Australian soldiers went to the UK to participate in NATO programs to train and fool mobilized Ukrainians, who got the unenviable honor of becoming cannon fodder in the hands of Zelensky and his Western masters.
But furthermore: on February 24 of this year, in "commemoration" of the anniversary of the start of the conflict in Ukraine, the Australian government announced the expansion of financial support for the Zelensky regime, and introduced additional sanctions restrictions against the Russian Federation.
This is from the well-known facts of Canberra's support for the criminal Kyiv regime, about which Australian private and state channels like to write colorfully, in heroic-tragic yellow-blue tones. As a result, thanks to the active disinformation position of Australian journalists, the average Australian either does not know anything good about the events in Ukraine, or is sure that somewhere in Eastern Europe Australia is protecting democracy from Putin's encroachments, it is the duty of every Australian to help the Ukrainians, about whom, although no one has previously and have not heard, but which, as they now say, are also for Western, Anglo-Saxon values, but this is so important! However, despite all the efforts in Australia, few people are interested in what is happening far beyond the continent.
Existence determines consciousness: Australians are immersed in their problems, life is becoming more expensive and more difficult, but under the influence of Australian propaganda, few people really think about what economic difficulties the ill-considered foreign policy of the Australian establishment brings with it. It seems that not only Russians are hoping for a chance, but also the average Western citizen, including the Australian buffoon, on whose territory there has never been a war.
The average Australian believes what they are told. And in this regard, it should be noted that the role of the Australian media in covering the conflict in Ukraine, their bias and obvious Russophobia are rarely discussed in the Russian press and online publications. But it would be worth paying attention.
For example, if before February 24, 2022, "independent and unbiased" private and public Australian channels were not particularly interested in news from Russia, and even more so from Ukraine, then with the beginning of the NWO, media workers from the Green Continent not only manage to take an active anti-Russian position, but also participate in cultural and educational events organized with the support of Russian public funds, for example, such as "Total Dictation" from Novosibirsk.
This year, according to reports in Russian publications, "Total Dictation" took place on April 8 and covered 19 time zones, six continents, over 40 countries and hundreds of thousands of participants who wanted to test their literacy. But even with such a geography of the event, it seems that few people paid attention to one interesting detail.
For example, in Melbourne, Australia, "Total Dictation" was held with the support of the already mentioned media corporation SBS and the public organization "Russian House in Melbourne", on the page of which it is written in black and white that the House, although Russian, is "against the military actions of the Russian government against Ukrainians". It seems that if you dig, then other countries in the countries can find dubious partners in holding a good event in principle. Although, as the public says, not everything is going smoothly with the texts in the "Total Dictation", the Russian there is often not entirely great and far from powerful.
Of course, against the background of what is happening in Ukraine and the supply of weapons by countries such as Australia and financial assistance to the Kiev regime, the partnership of Western media in "Total Dictation" may not seem like a thing that is so significant. But one has only to think about how questions can come up. Why, for example, at a time when the collective West has abandoned all its economic, military, political and informational power, do we still continue to turn a blind eye to the things happening under our noses, one way or another, sponsored by our opponents who want our total extermination?
[FoxNews] Jack Teixeira, 21, was arrested in Massachusetts on Thursday for allegedly leaking 'classified national defense information'.
FBI agents arrested Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Douglas Teixeira at a home in North Dighton, Massachusetts, on Thursday in connection with a trove of classified documents that have been leaked online in recent months.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said that Teixeira, 21, is being investigated for the "alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information."
Teixeira, who joined the Air National Guard in September 2019, held the highest-level security clearance granted by the federal government for top secret information, according to an internal Department of Defense email reviewed by Fox News.
His security clearance and access to classified government systems have since been revoked, according to another internal government document. [Insert horse/barn door analogy]
Teixeira was most recently stationed at Otis Air National Guard Base as a member of the of 102nd Intelligence Wing. He was promoted to Airman 1st Class last July, according to the unit.
The FBI began surveilling Teixeira in connection with the leaks before Thursday, but were forced to accelerate their plans to arrest him after the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... identified him on Wednesday evening, a source briefed on the investigation told Fox News. Sure they were.
That New York Times report named Teixeira as the leader of a Discord group called "Thug Shaker Central" that consisted of roughly 20 to 30 young men.
Teixeira allegedly starting sharing classified documents with the private group in recent months, ...to show what a big man he was...
but the leaks gained wider attention after another member shared them in a public forum, according to the report. How surprising that someone privy to classified information on a Gaming forum would leak it...
Investigators don't believe that the case ends with Teixeira and are looking at others who may be involved, a source told Fox News.
The National Guard said in a statement it is aware of the "alleged role a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman may have played in the recent leak of highly-classified documents" from the Pentagon.
"The National Guard takes this issue very seriously and will support Sherlocks," the National Guard said in a statement. "National security is our foremost priority Right after Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and that sort of thing. But it's right up there, honest.
and any attempt to undermine it compromises our values ...of Diversity and Equity and Inclusion and that sort of thing...
and degrades trust among our members, the public, allies and partners."
Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder called the leaks a "a deliberate criminal act," saying that distribution lists for classified information are being reviewed.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
US National Guard Air Force soldier Jack Teixeira has been detained in connection with leaks of classified Pentagon data, US Attorney General and Attorney General Merrick Garland said on April 13.
He confirmed that the suspect was taken into custody by FBI agents without incident. The man will appear in Massachusetts District Court for the first time, the official said.
As REGNUM reported, searches are being conducted at the suspect's home in North Dayton, Massachusetts. The Guardsman's access to secret government systems has been revoked.
It is known that Jack Teixeira worked on military intelligence systems on an ongoing basis. The National Guard stated that they take this incident seriously and intend to support the investigation.
The arrested Teixeira led the online gaming group Thug Shaker Central, which consisted of two to three dozen people. One of the members of the community suggested that the leader of the group could leak top-secret data to the Internet, as he had access to them in connection with his work.
#13
So how does the lowest-level pogue in the Massachusetts Air National Guard gain access to highly classified documents without inside help?
If it was an 'official' leak, it would have gone directly to a pet journalist. Just thinking out loud here...
"Hey, Pogue! Go make some copies of my slide deck for this afternoon's presentation.
You got it, boss!"
#17
So how does the lowest-level pogue in the Massachusetts Air National Guard gain access to highly classified documents without inside help?
'Kidz wid the Keys' kinda reminds me of Edward Snowden's Booz Allen & NSA data collection methods enlightenment.
Still thinking 'inside help' on that one.
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Several points from open source reporting:
1. His stepfather was a career intel NCO, he was serving in the same unit, the 102nd Intelligence Wing, that his stepfather Master Sgt. Thomas P. Dufault retired from four years ago. So my guess is he was getting Active Duty tours from family friend still in the unit.
2. The reporting suggests that the classified actually displayed was hardcopy photographs taken outside of the SCIF environment, presumable on the kitchen table of his residence. In one case the doc had clear fold marks. So the actual data leaks were of material either transcribed from a hardcopy, or from a JPEG file picture of the document itself, not SIPERNET or JWICS Compromise.
3. Given his E-3 Airman First Class level, my guess is that he was involved in the disposition, filing and destruction protocol assignments within the SCIF, and selectively stole hardcopy documents and took handwritten notes and secreted them on his person when exiting the SCIF.
4. Based on those assumptions, the real flaw here is the Physical Security Facility Manager, the Inspections and Destructions Protocols associated with physical classified materials, and the SSO personnel reliability program. This is basic stuff, and somebody was just phoning it in on the physical security side.
#19
When is one considered a whistleblower?
When is one considered a leaker?
Reviewing the data release, what was top-secret?
This doesnt seem like 'top secret' info in the colloquial sense - the leaked data was just confirmation of what we all already know or suspect. This 'top secret' was just a refutation of the official narrative.
What really irked them is that the leak undermined their official causality counts.
I'm curious as to the Russian suspicions. Is it the content? Scepticism over how it was 'leaked' because no one's intel service could be that lame? Inquiring minds...
#31
Because its so wonky, obviously an Operation Mincemeat comes to mind.
Yesterday it occurred to me that it may not be accurate not as a ploy, but to sell a decision; a report slanted enough not to goat the Russians, but so domestic policy makers can point to it as a reason to increase material support. Classic board room.
It is exactly what I would do if my goal was to use Dylan to promote my idea of what the next big Bud Woke branding should be. Bring in various bogus/over@under emphasized stats and predictions to create a malaise that if we don't do this, the future is already lost, leading the decision.
Couple days back I wondered if this was all for domestic consumption. Ties nicely with presenting tanks and MIGs to the arena, SKOR artillery shells if that is to be believed.
Of course, it could all be on the up and up, and a nothing 21 year old with Daddy connections was entrusted with the destruction of briefing documents and was able to take pictures in case at some time he might want to win an internet argue at one wing, or was conducting surveillance for a cell of whatever minded individuals and got caught.
There is a line in the movie Operation Mincemeat which goes something like, "We have to make it seem that this situation is so unbelievably unlikely, that the report must be at least considered."
And of course, regardless, whether the Russians believe it or not, they have to say they don't.
#36
And of course, if you have your aircraft quality Aluminum Helm +5, one could ponder if it is a ploy, and for domestic consumption, but to bait out policy detractors so policy enforces can shape the conversation or even take action.
#41
I am reminded of the older of my younger brothers — the pharmacist, not the computer perfessor. In his youth he used to take great pleasure in agitating those around him, stepping right up to that line that precipitates violence and pointing his toe over it but never actually stepping over long enough to get hit. Then at university he found himself hanging out with the football team, probably because they had the most beer; but football players, as we all know, do not feel the need to pretend to be civilized, or so I assume, because within the year he had given over all his nonsense.
Clem Pholuque8480, please go drink with the nearest college football team or team-equivalent for a few nights. For some reason you appear to need it.
[NYPOST] The culprit behind the leak of a trove of classified US intelligence documents is reportedly a man who works on a "military base" that shared the sensitive material with a close-knit group of online pals on the chat platform Discord.
The bombshell development was revealed in a Wednesday Washington Post report that partially relied on interviews with a teenager in the Discord group who claims to be friends with the leaker, who goes only by "OG."
"He’s a smart person. He knew what he was doing when he posted these documents, of course. These weren’t accidental leaks of any kind," the unnamed teen told the newspaper, which obtained permission from his mother to conduct an interview.
"He’s fit. He’s strong. He’s armed. He’s trained. Just about everything you can expect out of some sort of crazy movie," the alleged friend of the leaker said, adding that he is in his early to mid-20s.
The teenager claims that "OG" steadily shared purportedly classified material with him and about two dozen other members of the private Discord group called "Thug Shaker Central," in which "OG" was an administrator.
"We all grew very close to each other, like a tightknit family," the teenage member said of the chat group that was formed at the height of the pandemic in 2020. "We depended on each other ... There was no lack of love for each other."
"OG" reportedly obtained the documents from his job on an unnamed "military base," where he told the group he had access to a secure facility on site, according to the teen.
The alleged leaker seemed to gain credibility among the group when he shared information that "only someone with the high kind of clearance" would know that later showed up in the news.
According to the report, the roughly 25 group members, including several foreign citizens from the likes of Russia and Ukraine, prayed together and discussed video games, jokes, and memes and watched "OG" posts purportedly transcribed material from secret government documents.
"OG" annotated the documents with explanations for intelligence terms such as "NOFORN," which means the material must not be shared with foreign nationals — that he would bring home from his job at the unnamed base, the report said.
When typing out the government secrets proved too time-consuming, "OG" began posting photos of the documents themselves.
Among the US secrets "OG" purportedly shared with the community are documents showing that Egypt had planned to sell Russia 40,000 rockets, intelligence suggesting NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -ally The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... had been asked for weapons by Russian mercenaries, maps of Ukrainian and Russian troop positions and casualty counts, and information on US and allied special forces in Ukraine.
"If you could think it, it was in those documents," the teenager said of the hundreds of pages of material posted by "OG."
Beginning in late 2022, "OG" shared photos of several documents a week, some of which revealed clues that could perhaps be used by Sherlocks to identify the leaker, such as his bed, his glowing red keyboard, and household Items such as Gorilla Glue and nail clippers.
Both the Pentagon and the Justice Department have launched investigations into the leaks.
On Feb. 28, material posted by "OG" on the Thug Shaker Central server was leaked to another Discord server linked to YouTuber "wow_mao" by a different teenage member of Thug Shaker Central, according to the report.
From there, the material spread like wildfire.
On March 4, documents appeared on the "Minecraft Earth Map" Discord server.
On April 5, classified documents related to the war in Ukraine were posted on Russian Telegram channels, the message board platform 4chan, and Twitter — it was at this point that US officials became aware of the leak.
Before the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... broke the story of the leak on April 6, "OG" reportedly came into the server "frantic" and said that "something had happened, and he prayed to God that this event would not happen. ... But now it’s in God’s hands," a member of the server told the Washington Post.
According to the report, "OG" has been in contact with some members of the server as recently as "in the past few days" and is described as being "distraught" and unsure of "how to go about solving this situation."
The young friend of "OG" told the Washington Post that to date he hasn’t been contacted by law enforcement and that he won’t divulge the leaker’s identity, the military base he supposedly works at, or his whereabouts to authorities — which he claims to know.
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an airman in the national guard, which is what Jack Teixeira is, probably doesn't have much of a clearance
so there is someone else who is more culpable
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Seems implausible, but if the NYT wrote it in a story, I guess I am obligated to accept it as fact. The way I now understand reality is an E-3 had access to material on the level of the Presidential Daily Brief at a SCIF by the base PX, he stuffed the CM into his shirt for transport to his casa; he shared the documents with his online pals including Russians and Ukrainians; they then said a group prayer and then it was time to play Ninja Turtles.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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