Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:45 Today, while extinguishing a fire in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region, rescuers of the Slavic garrison came under repeated attack by a Russian drone. Two rescuers were killed and three were injured, said Interior Minister Igor Klimenko.
21:23 Ukraine and Spain have begun negotiations on concluding a bilateral security agreement, the Presidential Office reported.
21:19 The defense ministers and commanders-in-chief of Ukraine and Britain had a telephone conversation, during which they discussed the situation on the battlefield and defense cooperation. “We also discussed the possibilities of implementing naval forces and assets within the Coalition. Ukraine’s success in destroying the Russian fleet must be expanded. Therefore, we must increase the use of drones by Ukraine,” said Rustem Umerov.
21:12 Lithuania will join the Czech Republic’s initiative to purchase 800 thousand shells for Ukraine outside the EU, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said. At the same time, she did not specify exactly how much Lithuania will allocate for this initiative.
20:44 After a number of successful attacks on Russian boats and ships, the developers of Magura naval drones are planning to install air defense systems and, possibly, other destruction systems on them, Budanov said: “Now specialists are working to install air defense systems on an unmanned platform. I don’t "technician, but I understand that this task is quite complicated. After all, you need means of detecting a target, capturing an airborne object, a means of destruction - and all this needs to be placed on a fairly small platform. This is not an easy task purely technically, but it is real."
20:29 By his decree, Biden extended for another year the state of emergency introduced in 2014 after the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine, and the associated sanctions restrictions against the Russian Federation.
20:15 Near Avdeevka, the Russians partially control the villages of Berdychi and Tonenkoe. At the same time, the Defense Forces managed to stop the enemy’s advance on this section of the front, said Dmitry Likhovy, spokesman for the Tavria group of troops.
20:37 Zelensky said in an evening video message that today he agreed and signed a number of necessary new personnel appointments for the Defense Forces. The President held a meeting on front-line issues and tasks with Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky and Chief of the General Staff Anatoly Bargilevich. “Despite all the deficits, the ability of our soldiers to destroy the invaders should not decrease,” the head of state emphasized.
Zelensky also held a separate meeting with Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, and discussed issues of weapons supply and fair provision for brigades. “Every combat brigade, every front-line unit should receive more of the available modern weapons... A separate conversation is about drones. Good content. In particular, regarding our long-range drones,” the president noted.
In addition, he heard a report from the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov: “We need a clear result in the destruction of Russian military infrastructure and logistics. A greater result. And it will be.” Another report was from the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk, who reported on counteraction to Russian DRGs and collaborators. “There are good results in neutralizing these individuals,” Zelensky noted. There was also a report by the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Alexander Litvinenko, “regarding sensitive international areas and Russia’s existing plans. There is an understanding of what documents are on the enemy’s desk, what his next plan is. We will counteract.”
20:19 Victims of sexual violence during the war in Ukraine will receive reparations, said Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Olga Stefanishyna. According to her, within a year, 500 victims will be able to receive a one-time payment of 3,000 euros on conditions of complete confidentiality. As of March 4, the Attorney General's Office is investigating 274 cases of war-related sexual violence.
19:43 The Ministry of Foreign Trade of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered an inspection of the Pretis weapons company after its 120-mm mortar shells were found in a photo from the battlefield in Ukraine, RTRS reports. According to some reports, the Ukrainian Armed Forces also used 82 mm mortar shells produced by BNT in Novi Travnik.
Since 2015, Bosnia and Herzegovina has banned the sale of weapons to conflict zones, and countries that buy them undertake not to transfer them to third states. At the same time, there are no guarantees that a NATO country will not export these weapons to Ukraine. However, the Bosnian authorities have reason to doubt that Pretis shells entered Ukraine through third countries, which is why they ordered an inspection of the weapons factory.
18:50 Zelensky, by his decree, replaced the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: instead of Dmitry Gerega, he became Alexander Yakovets.
18:34 Germany has long refused to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine. But over the weekend, the issue of missile transfers took a new turn. Russian propagandists released an intercepted conversation between two German officers. The audio recording not only revealed gaps in the security of communications of the German military, but also actually refuted the arguments with which Scholz had previously explained the impossibility of providing Kyiv with these missiles. Berlin confirmed the authenticity of the conversation. Read more in the article The Great Scandal in Germany .
18:07 Macron said that France does not plan to send troops to Ukraine in the near future: “In response to a question asked about sending troops, I said that nothing is ruled out... This does not mean that we are considering the possibility of sending French troops to Ukraine in the near future, but we are opening the debate and thinking about everything that can be done to support Ukraine."
17:38 Ukraine will not renew the contract with the Russian Federation for gas transit, but is ready to provide a service to European partners if any of them acts as a transit country for their own gas, Shmygal said. In turn, European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson said that the EU does not intend to talk with Moscow about continuing the transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine. According to her, the EU will do everything to refuse Russian gas.
16:51 On March 3, the Russians struck Kupyansk for the first time with KABs with cluster charges, said the head of the Kharkov OVA Oleg Sinegubov. “This increases the affected area and poses an even greater threat to civilians. That is why we are bringing the issue of forced evacuation of families with children to the Regional Defense Council,” he added.
16:44 Ukraine has created five joint ventures with Western arms manufacturers, Shmygal said: “We are working very closely with the leaders of the world arms market. We can already talk about five concluded contracts and the creation of five joint ventures in Ukraine in cooperation with Western arms manufacturers, our partners ".
16:02 The Ukrainian market is already ready to produce more than 1 million drones, Shmygal said. According to him, the government is now allocating significant funds for the purchase of weapons from Ukrainian manufacturers, and 50% of the funds are used for drones. "In 2024, we took quite significant steps to strengthen our own weapons production. The President set a goal of 1 million drones. We understand that business and the market in Ukraine are already ready to produce more than a million drones. We, of course, will buy everything that ours can make business in order to transfer this to our Defense Forces,” the prime minister noted.
15:55 In the Dniprovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, air defense forces shot down an X-59 aircraft missile, the Air Command reported.
15:24 Belgium declared 1.7 billion euros in income from frozen Russian assets. These funds are partially distributed in support of Ukrainian refugees, and the country is ready to finance Ukrainian needs, including defense, with part of this profit, Shmygal said.
15:01 Zelensky said that he held a conference call and heard the minister and representatives of the Ministry of Defense about the actual receipts of weapons and ammunition, as well as planned receipts in March. Heard the commander-in-chief on the operational situation in the main directions, the audit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the rotation of brigades and personnel decisions within their boundaries. There were also reports from intelligence services, the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to the president, the grain corridor “continues to demonstrate good dynamics - we are approaching the mark of 30 million tons of cargo, of which more than 8 million tons were exported in February alone.” Alternative routes also continue to develop - along the Danube and through Moldova.
14:48 Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal said that one person at the front should be supported by eight working people. According to him, the government is now working on a new reservation system: “We have already calculated the payment of taxes. But in general, the ratio should be as follows: no less than one to eight. That is, eight working people should provide for one person who protects and risks his life on front."
14:21 Scholz ruled out the possibility of supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine if German soldiers need to be involved in their operation: “You cannot create a weapons system that will have a very wide coverage, and then not think about how you can exercise control over the weapons system.” .
13:17 Medvedev called peace negotiations with the current Ukrainian authorities impossible, and negotiations with the “new leaders” of Ukraine, in his opinion, will be possible - “if Kiev recognizes the realities that emerged as a result of the special operation.”
12:48 Ukrainian and Russian public pages reported the liquidation in Ukraine of the intelligence chief of the Russian Espanyol battalion, Vyacheslav Subbotin, with the call sign Weekend. Russian media write that he died on March 3 “during a combat mission.”
12:01 On March 1, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired two missiles at the Russian Gvardeyskoye airbase in occupied Crimea. According to Astra sources, three Russian servicemen were wounded, and the airfield taxiway was damaged.
11:57 Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that the territories on both banks of the Dnieper are “an integral part of Russian historical strategic borders.” According to him, “it is important to realize” where and how Russia’s borders are delineated now and “what they may be in the future.” At the same time, he emphasized that “Russia does not need someone else’s land, but it will not give up its own.” And Ukraine, in his opinion, “is, of course, Russia.”
11:36 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, called the information from Russian sources about alleged preparations for an attack on the south of Ukraine as stuffing. “A month ago I said that this information campaign would be active starting in March,” Kim noted.
11:25 NATO is conducting military exercises for the first time on Finnish territory near the Russian border. From March 4 to 15, the Nordic Response 2024 maneuvers will take place, in which more than 20 thousand military personnel will take part. It is planned to use about 50 ships, including submarines and frigates, and more than 100 fighters and helicopters. The Russian Foreign Ministry has already stated that the exercises “are demonstratively provocative in nature.”
10:37 As a result of one of the most massive UAV attacks on Feodosia in Crimea, on March 3, four drones fell on the territory of the Marine Oil Terminal, reports the opposition Russian publication Astra. The main fuel pumping pipeline was damaged and a fire broke out. This tank farm has already been attacked in December and November last year. In addition to the oil depot, the road surface of the Tavrida highway was damaged.
10:21 As a result of the drone attack on Odessa on March 2, 20 people were injured, three of them remain in the hospital, the Department of Health of the Odessa Regional State Administration reported. 12 people died. Among the victims is a pregnant woman.
09:59 From the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion until December 31, 2023, France provided Ukraine with military equipment totaling 2.6 billion euros, the country’s Ministry of Defense reported. The list of 50 items mentions, in particular, 30 Caesar artillery installations, six Mistral MANPADS, 160 reconnaissance drones. At the same time, the number of Crotale, Aster and SCALP missiles transferred has not been specified.
09:13 After the drone attack on the Leningrad region on March 2, the next morning, an aircraft-type drone was found on the territory of the oil and gas company Petersburg Oil Terminal in St. Petersburg. As reported by the opposition Russian publication Astra, the UAV was equipped with an explosive charge weighing about 20 kg. There was no explosion and there were no casualties. This is already the second UAV crash on the territory of the St. Petersburg oil terminal. The first was recorded on January 18. This is the largest Russian terminal for transshipment of petroleum products in the Baltic region.
09:08 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense confirms the fact that the railway bridge over the Chapaevka River in the Samara region of the Russian Federation was blown up. According to intelligence data, the railway line was used by Russia to transport military cargo, including engineering ammunition produced by the Polymer JSC plant in Chapaevsk. Considering the nature of the damage to the railway bridge, its use in the next few weeks is impossible, according to the GUR.
09:00 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 4:
personnel - about 417,950 (+1150) people,
tanks - 6648 (+8),
armored combat vehicles - 12,660 (+21),
artillery systems - 10 210 (+22),
MLRS - 1004 (+1),
air defense systems - 698 (+2),
aircraft - 347 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 7845 (+2),
cruise missiles - 1916 (+1),
ships/boats - 25 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 13,374 (+42),
special equipment - 1621 (+1).
08:52 Over the past 24 hours, 78 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In particular, the enemy tried more than 30 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction (in the Krasnohorivka, Georgievka and Novomikhailovka areas of the Donetsk region). Another 20 enemy attacks were repulsed in the Avdeevsky direction in the areas of the settlements of Berdychi, Orlovka, Tonenkoye, Pervomaiskoye, Nevelskoye in the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 11 attacks in the Sinkovka and Tabaevka areas of the Kharkov region; in Limansky - five attacks in the areas of Belogorivka, Luhansk region, Ternov and Verkhnekamensky, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutsky - five attacks in the Bogdanovka, Ivanovsky and Andreevka districts of the Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - three attacks in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region. In the Kherson direction, the Defense Forces are holding their positions; the enemy has not carried out offensive actions.
08:47 Cyber specialists from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense gained access to the servers of the Russian Ministry of Defense as a result of a DDoS attack. Now the Ukrainian intelligence service owns the information security and encryption software that the Russian agency used, as well as an array of secret official documentation. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, the information received allows us to establish the complete structure of the system of the Russian Ministry of Defense and its units.
08:40 The conditions for organizing a meeting between Orban and Zelensky “are not yet ripe,” said Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó.
08:28 In the Samara region of the Russian Federation, an explosion occurred on the Zvezda-Chapayevsk railway section - Russian media reported that a support for a bridge across the river was blown up, train traffic was stopped.
08:11 On the evening of March 3, the Russians launched a ballistic missile attack on an open area on the outskirts of the Shevchenko community in the Mykolayiv region. The façade of the building of the agricultural enterprise was damaged, but no people were injured, said Vitaly Kim, head of the OVA.
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[IsraelTimes] The largest number of attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled in the Avdeevsky direction.
During the day, the defense forces repelled 21 enemy attacks in the Avdeevsky direction and 16 attacks in the Novopavlovsky direction.
Over the past 24 hours, 63 clashes occurred. The defense forces repelled 37 Russian attacks in the Novopavlovsk and Avdeevsky directions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced this in its morning report on Monday, March 4.
In total, Russian troops carried out five missile and 44 air strikes, and carried out 68 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders six times in the area of the village of Sinkovka, Kharkov region.
In the Liman direction, soldiers repulsed one enemy attack in the area of the village of Terny, Donetsk region, where the invaders, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defenses.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces repelled three attacks by the Russians in the area of the village of Andreevka, Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to improve its tactical position.
In the Avdeevsky direction, defenders repulsed 21 attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovka, Berdychi, Tonenkoye, Pervomaiskoye, Nevelskoye in the Donetsk region.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to contain the enemy in the areas of Georgievka, Novomikhailovka, Vodyanoye, Prechistovka and Urozhaynoye of the Donetsk region, where the Russians, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defense 16 times.
In the Orekhovsky direction, the enemy did not conduct offensive (assault) operations.
In the Kherson direction, the occupiers do not abandon their intention to dislodge Ukrainian units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper, despite significant losses. The enemy carried out unsuccessful assault operations twice.
During the day, Defense Forces aircraft carried out strikes on eight areas where enemy personnel and a ground control station for enemy UAVs were concentrated. Also, one X-59 guided aircraft missile was destroyed by Ukrainian air defense forces and means .
Units of the missile forces inflicted defeat on the area where personnel were concentrated, an air defense system and six enemy artillery weapons.
Let us remind you that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liquidated 1,150 occupiers . Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the losses of the Russian army amounted to 417,950 people.
There’s lots of that, one hears — a staple of a certain kind of thriller fiction.
[KavkazUzel] A court in Moscow sentenced 14 people to imprisonment, recognizing them as members of a criminal community operating under the leadership of Raul Arashukov and his son, former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, about 20 people were accused in the case of a criminal community, along with Rauf and Raul Arashukov. Among them are Beslan Arashukov \, Ruslan Arashukov and Igor Travinov.
On December 27, 2022, the Moscow City Court sentenced to life imprisonment the former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov and his father Raul Arashukov, a former adviser to the general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz. On the day of the Arashukov verdict, the Moscow City Court announced the sentences of four other defendants in the case. The former head of the ICR department for Karachay-Cherkessia, Kazbek Bulatov, and the former head of the republican Center for Specialist Enforcement, Timur Betuganov, were sentenced to 22 years in prison, the former investigator of the ICR, Andrei Filippov, to 6.5 years in prison, and the former director of the Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Stavropol LLC branch, Guzer Khashukaev, to five years. years. The appeal court upheld the verdicts. What is known about the Arashukov clan can be read in the “Caucasian Knot” reference “ The main thing about the Arashukov case.”
The Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow sentenced Ruslan Arashukov to 16.5 years in prison in the case of a criminal association, RIA Novosti reports today. “Finally assign Ruslan Mikhailovich Arashukov... 16 years and 6 months to serve in a maximum security colony,” the agency quotes the judge as saying.
Beslan Arashukov was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The defendants, depending on their role, were found guilty of participation in a criminal community, theft from Gazprom structures in southern Russia and abuse of power, the publication says.
The Preobrazhensky Court also sentenced 12 more defendants in the case of a criminal community created, according to investigators, for the theft of gas by Raul Arashukov. In particular, the court sentenced the former general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Stavropol Igor Travinov to 19.5 years in a maximum security colony, Interfax reports today.
Among the other 11 convicts are relatives of the Arashukovs, former managers and employees of regional divisions of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz in the North Caucasus and other defendants.
Depending on the role of each, they were found guilty of participation in a criminal community (Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and from one to six episodes of especially large embezzlement (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Several defendants pleaded guilty, the agency writes, citing a court representative.
Let us recall that on September 23, 2022, the jury found it proven that Rauf and Raul Arashukov were involved in the murders of the deputy chairman of the Adyghe-Khase movement, Aslan Zhukov, and the adviser to the head of Karachay-Cherkessia, Fral Shebzukhov. The Arashukovs refused to admit guilt. More information about the murders of which Rauf Arashukov is accused of organizing can be read in the Caucasian Knot document “ Resonant murders in Karachay-Cherkessia.”
Russian Ministry of Defense website apparently is down, so this becomes a (poor) substitute for the time being.
[NewsFront] 21:30 Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group
In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops, as a result of coordinated actions, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 128th terrestrial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Urozhaynoye, Vladimirovka and Vodyanoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to over 320 military personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles, and seven vehicles.
20:26 Ukrainian troops fired four 155 mm caliber shells at a number of areas of Donetsk on Monday, reportedrepresentationDPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
19:30 Captured Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemantellson carrying out mass mobilization with forced delivery to military registration and enlistment offices. He also talks about the low morale of his colleagues and the lack of uniforms. The prisoner also notes poor planning of combat operations by the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
18:25 Crews of the Uragan MLRS of the Vostok group of troopsdestroyedhangar with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
17:40 Statement by the head of the press center of the Dnepr group
In the Kherson direction, units of the Dnepr group of troops defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 65th and 118th mechanized, 128th mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 14th brigade of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Rabotino, Verbovoe and Pyatikhatki, Zaporozhye region.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 85 military personnel, three vehicles, two HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, a US-made M777 artillery system, and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
17:35 Statement by the senior officer of the press center of the “South” group
In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of forces, conducting active combat operations, defeated the formations of the 28th mechanized, 46th airmobile, 79th airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 214th technical defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Kurdyumovka, Georgievka and Maksimilyanovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 360 military personnel, two armored personnel carriers, two cars, a Grad MLRS combat vehicle, a British-made FH-70 howitzer, and an Msta-B gun.
16:45 Su-35s fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forcesperformtasks for duty in the airspace in the Avdeevsky direction.
15:39 Ukrainian Armed Forcesfired atvillage of Guevo, Kursk region - Starovoyt. According to the governor, no residents were injured.
15:38 New briefing from the Russian Ministry of Defense:
🔹The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 360 military personnel, two armored personnel carriers and a Grad MLRS combat vehicle in the Donetsk direction.
🔹The Russian Armed Forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions in the Avdeevsky direction, the enemy lost more than 490 military personnel.
🔹Russian air defense shot down 81 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in one day.
🔹Within 24 hours, the Russian troops improved the tactical situation in the Kupyansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 160 military personnel.
🔹The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 320 people and nine pieces of equipment in the South Donetsk direction in one day.
🔹The Russian Armed Forces hit two enemy UAV control points in the areas of Novokalinov in the DPR and Antonovka in the Kherson region.
🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two HIMARS launchers in the Kherson direction.
14:24 Around 13.30 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.
Duty air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Bryansk region.
13:27 Calculations of MLRS "Grad"destroyedarea of deployment of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Avdeevsky direction
13:26 Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group
The Center group of troops continues to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.
The group's units, with the support of artillery fire and air strikes, repelled 11 counterattacks by formations of the 53rd mechanized, 59th mechanized infantry, 25th airborne and three assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Tonenky, Orlovka, Pervomaisky and Berdychi, as well as two attacks by the assault group of the 24th mechanized brigade in the area of the populated area Novgorodskoye point.
In total, about 300 identified enemy targets were hit during the day, including 12 strong points, one command post and more than 60 artillery positions.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 450 troops. Three tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, four cars, a Polish self-propelled howitzer "Crab", two "Gyacinth-B" guns, a self-propelled gun "Gvozdika" and an unmanned aircraft control center were destroyed.
13:25 Two more IEDs were discovered under the railway track in the Samara region - media
The first improvised explosive device - in Bezenchuki - was located on the same path as the bridge over the Chapaevka River. There was an explosion there this morning. The second - in Nagorny - on another line of rails. Both IEDs have not been detonated; the special services are working with them.
12:37 Two residents of the village of Suzemka, Bryansk region, were wounded during Ukrainian shelling, they are receiving medical assistance, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz said in Telegram channel.
12:34 Ukrainian military shelled the territory of the Belgorod region about 80 times over the past 24 hours, in addition, an explosive object was found near the city of Belgorod, the regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in Telegram channel.
11:46 Tankers of the Dnepr groupdestroyedstronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region
The crews of the T-80BV tanks fired directly. The target coordinates and fire adjustments were carried out by crews of unmanned aerial vehicles.
10:51 Russian soldiers from the 7th brigade of the Southern Group of Forcesdestroyedpart of the Ukrainian personnel in the Belogorovka area.
10:50 A UAV with 20 kilograms of explosives was found on the territory of the St. Petersburg oil terminal - media
An employee of the enterprise noticed the drone without a wing and called the special services. It is reported that this is an aircraft-type UAV with a wingspan of seven meters. An Italian two-cylinder Gilardoni engine was installed in its tail section. The drone was neutralized.
09:34 Ukraine is fighting in the rear against military commissars, who patrol cities in flocks and catch potential reservists -video.
09:28 Su-34 fighter-bomber crewdestroyedaccumulation of manpower and enemy strongholds in the Krasnolimansk direction.
The Su-34 crew of the Russian Aerospace Forces struck with high-explosive FAB-500 aerial bombs with universal planning and correction modules. Having received confirmation from intelligence that the targets had been destroyed, the pilots safely returned to the departure airfield.
08:21 Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russiaannouncedex-ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan Pyotr Vrublevsky* was wanted, and the capital’s court authorized his arrest in absentia.
“Diplomat” is known for the fact that in 2022 a video appeared online in which Vrublevsky called for killing Russians. For this, he received an undesirable status in Kazakhstan, and in our country, by decision of Rosfinmonitoring, he was included in the list of extremists and terrorists.
After this video, Ukraine then recalled him from Kazakhstan and appointed a new ambassador. Today, information appeared in the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation that Vrublevsky has been put on the wanted list, both nationally and internationally. The capital's court, meanwhile, authorized his arrest in absentia.
08:01 Grad calculations showed nightworkon the positions of the militants behind Avdeevka. Arriving at the firing position in the dark, the missilemen carried out aiming on the area and struck. They hit a concentration of enemy manpower and a platoon stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 03/04/2024 to 00:00 03/05/2024.
A total of 17 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
One civilian was reported injured
DAMAGED:
2 residential buildings
11 artilley attacks in the Donetsk direction
6 artilley attacks in the Gorlovka direction
A total of 48 units of various ammunition were produced.
22:30 Front bird broadcasts: Dnepropetrovsk region. Repeated sound of explosion. 04.03 22:25
And again the sound of an explosion is reported in the southern part of the region in the industrial area zones.
Second time in 24 hours in this area.
Local publics report a possible ballistic missile hitting a military facility.
21:02 The Ukrainian army fired seven rounds at the Kharkov village of Liman Vtoroy, as a result of the artillery attack one private house was destroyed, the head of the administration of the Kharkov region Vitaly Ganchev said in Telegram channel.
19:50 Zaporozhye direction, the Paratrooper’s Diary reports:
South of Rabotino we carry out attacks under artillery cover.
It is difficult to clear the labyrinths of the Ukrainian Armed Forces trenches due to the mined areas, but once they have secured positions they are a good shelter in a completely destroyed village.
Unmanned crews continue to destroy enemy forces and equipment, our UAV operators work at the level of professionals in their field.
In the western part, loitering supplies destroyed a dugout with manpower.
The Russian Aerospace Forces did a good job in Orekhov and Malaya Tokmachka today, knocking out about ten rounds from the enemy. Our artillery does not stop talking at all.
Assault units press the enemy from all sides and advance on him.
19:35 The Ukrainian Armed Forces retreat to the eastern outskirts of the settlement Shipy. There are strong battles going on. The information that the Russian Armed Forces entered the populated area has not yet been confirmed. The escape routes along the right bank of the Zherebets River in the Ivanovka area are being mined.
18:49 The Russian Armed Forces entered the village. Terny on the Donetsk direction from the eastern side. Heavy artillery, MLRS, and aerospace forces are at work, military correspondent Lisitsyn reports.
17:47 Crews of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS of the Vostok group of troops destroyed hangar with ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.
Crews of the Uragan multiple launch rocket systems of the 29th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Vostok group of forces inflicted fire on an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the border of the DPR and the Zaporozhye region. Objective monitoring footage confirmed the target was hit.
“The unmanned aerial vehicles detected an accumulation of weapons and military equipment, and the coordinates were immediately transmitted to us. We have worked towards this goal. The target was hit, our troops advanced,” said the commander of the MLRS battery with the call sign “Yuzhny”.
16:50 The enemy confirms our advance in Orlovka in the Avdeeva direction. All counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repulsed. Additional clearing of the western areas of the village is underway. Most of the settlement is under the Russian army.
16:20 There is an explosion in Dnepropetrovsk. The city was hit by a missile strike.
15:50 In Ivanovsky (Krasny), Russian military personnel have advanced significantly along the street. Voronezhskaya. Our troops are approaching the village administration building.
15:30 In the Ugledar direction, the 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Russian Federation fired aerial bombs with UMPC at enemy positions -video.
14:52 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 360 military personnel, two armored personnel carriers, and a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle in the Donetsk direction;
The Russian Armed Forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions in the Avdeevsky direction, the enemy lost more than 490 military personnel;
Russian air defense shot down 81 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in 24 hours;
Within 24 hours, Russian troops improved the tactical situation in the Kupyansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 160 military personnel;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 320 people and 9 pieces of equipment in the South Donetsk direction per day;
The Russian Armed Forces hit two enemy UAV control points in the areas of Novokalinov in the DPR and Antonovka in the Kherson region;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two HIMARS launchers in the Kherson direction.
13:50 Calculations of 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" destroyed area where Ukrainian Armed Forces units are located in the Avdeevsky direction.
“We work mainly in the dark so that there are no return flights. The enemy doesn’t see us at night, but our operators see everything... That’s why we work at night. There is no difference - day or night. All the guys are professionals,” said the commander of the rocket battery with the call sign “Oka”.
12:47 Situation in the Artemovsk direction:
There are battles in Ivanovskoye, the enemy has nowhere to gain a foothold, we are destroying all enemy fortifications and points with artillery strikes. We are pushing through enemy positions, reports the Paratrooper’s Diary.
We are currently conducting offensive operations in the north of the village, cutting off the road along which the enemy was evacuating and delivering ammunition and weapons.
There are battles for the heights near Kleshcheevka.
12:10 Statement Head of the press center of the Center group
The Center group of troops continues to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.
The group's units, with the support of artillery fire and air strikes, repelled 11 counterattacks by formations of the 53rd Mechanized, 59th Mechanized Infantry, 25th Airborne and three assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Tonenky, Orlovka, Pervomaisky and Berdychi, as well as two attacks by the assault group of the 24th Mechanized Brigade in the area of the populated area Novgorodskoye point.
In total, about 300 identified enemy targets were hit during the day, including 12 strong points, one command post and more than 60 artillery positions.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 450 troops. Three tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, four cars, a Polish self-propelled howitzer "Crab", two 152mm "Gyacinth-B" guns, a 122mm 2S1 self-propelled gun "Gvozdika" and an unmanned aircraft control center were destroyed.
11:50 Soldiers of the Aida group from the Akhmat special forces in full control of the territory of the chalk plant near Belogorovka (LPR).
The last building was cleared; more than 20 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were eliminated during the assault. The work is intensive: UAV crews may not change for several days, snipers are in positions in three eight-hour shifts, said the commander with the call sign Hades. According to him, the enemy does not give its military the opportunity to surrender. The dead were found with a control shot in the back of the head - in order not to carry the wounded, “the VSEushniks simply finished off their brothers-in-arms.”
“Their morale is extremely fragile, on the verge of breakdown, they are already in some kind of agony. So it’s a matter of time before the whole front collapses,” Hades added.
10:34 Ukrainian troops attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing seven rounds of 155mm caliber. From the position in the village of Kurakhovka - the representative office of the JCCC in the DPR.
10:20 The Armed Forces of Ukraine admitted that the Russian Armed Forces are attacking Ivanovskoye in the Artemovsk direction and now there are serious battles there
“Moreover, now the battles are already taking place within the populated area,” said Ilya Yevlash, head of the press service of the Eastern Group of Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:02 The enemy attempted to attack a settlement in the Gulyaypole region in the Zaporozhye region. Thanks to the well-coordinated work of the crew of the Buk air defense system of the 35th Army, the enemy Leleka received “reactive hello” from our guys.
09:30 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka si rounds;
-- n.p. Golaya Pristan four rounds;
-- in the village of Kazachi Lagery seven rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan three rounds;
-- in the village of Peschanivka three rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kardashinka, n.p. Sagi, n.p. Kazachi Lagery, firing a total of 14 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:27 The Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred reserve units to the area of the village of Berdychi near Avdeevka in an attempt to hold the defense line, said adviser to the head of the DPR Igor Kimakovsky.
09:22 In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy lost another ammunition supply point -video.
09:05 The DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 13 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces during the day, and 40 ammunition were fired.
In the Donetsk direction the enemy carried out five artillery attacks, in the Gorlovsky direction - 8.
As a result of artillery attack, a man was wounded in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. A child born in 2009 was also injured. due to the detonation of a high explosive in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk. 3 residential buildings in Gorlovka were damaged.
08:17 Yes looks drone control point not far from the line of combat contact. A crew of three people works in a small room, shifts last 12 and sometimes 16 hours. The entire “picture” from a reconnaissance drone equipped with a thermal imager is transmitted to the command post. If a target is detected, report “to the top” and engage the enemy with fire.
The enemy armored personnel carrier manages to escape from being hit by rocket fire, but not far. Our attack drone catches up with him, accurately dropping ammunition - another target is destroyed.
“Last night we shot down one Bradley, now it’s standing in the field, the one-timer flew just fine. 10 “Germans” tried to enter, but in the end they also did a good job,” said a senior UAV operator with the call sign “Bulldozer.”
08:01 Frontline summary on the morning of 03/04/2024:
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces, after artillery shelling, attacked on the southern approaches to the village of Rabotino. Ukrainian positions in Pyatikhatki, Malaya Tokmachka, Gulyaypole and Malinovka are under attack. The artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked against Russian units in Zherebyanki, Kopany, Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy.The Donetsk front is still burning. The Russian Armed Forces continue the assault on Novomikhailovka from the south, east and northeast. They also strive to develop the success of Victory. Ukrainian units are putting up fierce resistance. With the support of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces carried out offensive operations near Georgievka, on the southern and eastern outskirts of the city of Krasnogorovka.
There was also an attack at Nevel'skoye, Tonenkoye, Orlovka and Berdychi. LBS has not changed significantly. Under fire, Ukrainian positions in Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name to the southwest of Bakhmut), Paraskovyevka, Kurakhov, Pervomaisky, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine Novobakhmutovka (the settlement of the same name to the east of the Russian Armed Forces), New York and Severny (settlement to the north -west of Gorlovka). Russian ones are in Marinka, Donetsk, Avdeevka and Gorlovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces, after artillery shelling, tried to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Andreevka. They also carried out assault operations near Kleshcheevka. This time from the southeast and on the heights northwest of the village. In addition, Russian troops attacked in Ivanovsky and Bogdanovka. Russian long-range weapons operated against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Chasovoy Yar, Vasyukovka and Razdolovka. Ukrainian in the RF Armed Forces in Bakhmut and Yagodnoye.
In the Lugansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, managed to advance at Yampolevka and Ternov, increasingly pressing the Armed Forces of Ukraine towards the Zherebets River. There are tough oncoming battles in Tabaevka. Ukrainian positions in Belogorovka, Torskoye, Nevsky, Berestovoy and Peschanoye are under attack.
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[REGNUM] Against the backdrop of the SVO in Russia itself, an increase in the activity of various anti-migrant and radical nationalist structures became noticeable, which began to more aggressively promote their own agenda. This is a dangerous phenomenon for Russian statehood, since often something more is hidden under anti-migrant sentiments. Namely, an attempt to disrupt interfaith peace and the unity of our multinational people. In this context, the definitions of “anti-migrant” and “radical nationalist” should certainly be put together, since, in essence, these are the same structures. Radical ethnic nationalism and the anti-migrant agenda are often two sides of the same coin. However, they are also accompanied by a third “pillar” of such views, namely Islamophobia and anti-Islamic sentiments.
Most likely, the anti-migrant agenda itself, as a tool of those who use it, is ultimately directed precisely against Russian Islam and Russian Muslims, in the first place. Although every time certain groups of ethnic nationalists speak out against mosques, hijabs and other attributes of Islam, they emphasize that indigenous Russian Muslims have nothing to do with it, and this is only about the fight against illegal migration. That is, it turns out that, in their opinion, Russian Muslims should not go to mosques, eat halal products, and Muslim women should not wear a hijab. However, this necessary qualification seems to absolve people who hold such views from responsibility for inciting Islamophobia.
THE END OF THE “KIDNAPPINGS OF EUROPE” AND THE GROWTH OF ISLAMIC FACTORS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
And here I would like to draw attention to why it is now, against the backdrop of the Northern Military District, that such trends have begun to manifest themselves most clearly.
First of all, for a part of political and public circles that adhere to the ideology of Russian ethnic nationalism, the SVO is presented as a kind of act of purification of the Russian nation, not just in its narrow ethnic sense, but also in its confessional sense. Where “Russian” and “Orthodox” are used as synonyms.
That is, in their opinion, the Northern Military District has led or should lead to some kind of renewal of the Russian people (in the narrow ethnic sense), to change the very ideology of the Russian state and subordinate it to the interests of Orthodox Russians.
The active participation of Russian Muslims in the Northern Military District does not fit into this paradigm. Moreover, it would be okay if they were simply “ethnic”, but, as it turns out, they also fully respect and adhere to Islamic religious principles. For the latter, the constitutional foundations of Russian statehood and a sense of belonging to the multinational people of the Russian Federation are enough to repay their debt to the Motherland without looking for new ideological content, as is often the case with nationalists.
At the same time, these Muslims find themselves not just somewhere on the sidelines, but often at the forefront of the struggle for the Russian world on our new territories and old borders.
Let’s not hide the fact that for this group of nationalists it would be much more acceptable for Muslims to remain somewhere in the rear, in secondary roles, which is often the subject of various news stories in the yellow media (especially concerning units from the Chechen Republic) or words of dissatisfaction with regarding portraits of heroes of the Northern Military District with “non-Russian surnames” in Russian cities. That is, such participation of Russian Muslims seriously confused the cards for many, since the calculation was precisely that Muslims should turn out to be almost a fifth column in the event of a conflict, and this would become the long-awaited reason for their final marginalization and suppression.
But exactly the opposite happened. And instead of the expected marginalization and suppression, nationalists fear that it will no longer be possible to ignore the interests of Muslims, as was the case before, brushing aside their legitimate demands. Promises, so far promises, of the construction of numerous new mosques in the Moscow agglomeration and region are confirmation of this.
The second factor is the fears of nationalist groups advocating Eurocentric tendencies or simply European ones. That is, those who consider Russia and Russians to be an inseparable part of Europe, in the future, together with whose peoples, they must resist “Asianization” and “Islamization.”
But now the Northern Military District has separated Russia from Europe in a way that had never happened before, even during the Soviet era, and has clearly demonstrated who is our partner and friend, and who is our enemy.
Simply put, if you follow the concept of the author of one of the Russian geopolitical doctrines, Vadim Tsimbulsky, the North Military District can interrupt the cycle of “abductions of Europe,” that is, the return of Russia to Europe, and Europe to Russia after stages of confrontation and ruptures, as has happened many times since the time of Peter the Great’s coup in the end of the 17th century.
That is, now the vector of Russia will finally change for the first time since the 17th century. And Russia’s main partners will be not only China and India, but those very countries of the Muslim East, which are highlighted in the Russian foreign policy concept of 2023 precisely as the “Islamic world”, as a priority Russian partner. And this, of course, will no longer lead to the “kidnapping of Europe”, but the “kidnapping of the Islamic world” and the coming of the Islamic world to Russia and Russia to the Islamic world. Naturally, then we should expect an increase in the Islamic factor not only in Russian foreign but also in domestic policy, which for many would be unacceptable.
NATIONALISM AND MIGRATION
Actually, the migration factor, as already noted, is turning into the main ideological weapon, if not to directly counteract the processes outlined above, then to minimize them.
Because if you remove the problem of migration, then all radical ethnic nationalism (along with its exotic surrogates and other variations) will disappear, since its ideological paradigms are unlikely to find many supporters among Russian citizens. The overwhelming majority of them are quite satisfied with the current constitutional foundations of the country, since the constitutional reform did not in any way affect the provisions on the multinational people of the Russian Federation and the right of citizens to profess any religion or not to profess any. But the factor of migration, primarily from Central Asian states, is something that has been causing dissatisfaction among Russian citizens for a long time.
Therefore, Russian ethnic nationalism itself, being a relic of the past, is fueled exclusively by the problem of migration. In the current conditions, which are very different from the situation in the 90s, when the separatism of Muslim regions is being replaced by their unprecedented activity in support and participation in the Northern Military District, and instead of “power that has sold itself to the West,” the country is headed by national leaders who have abandoned that same West challenge, it is the problem of migration that is the nationalist’s saving straw. It allows you to go in and promote related topics that in themselves are not particularly interesting for Russian citizens or in which they do not see any threat, if they are not passed through the prism of migration problems, such as, for example, the same Islamic factor among the indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation.
Migration remains the element through which nationalist groups can not only “softly” criticize the authorities, but also spread anti-Islamic sentiments in society, primarily emphasizing (and exaggerating) the connection between migration and radical Islam, but through which, in turn, they can put blow and Muslim activity of “indigenous” Russian Muslims and even in the future decide the fate of the Muslim regions of Russia in a negative context for them. That is, to minimize the consequences of the growth of the Islamic factor in Russian foreign and domestic policy, which occurs against the backdrop of the Northern Military District and the break with the collective West.
Therefore, modern ethnic nationalism keeps itself alive by feeding on Russian society’s fears of uncontrolled migration.
It is through the migration factor that part of society is turned against Islam as such and against Muslims. Of course, if we talk about Islamophobia, then in order to remove any claims, instead of Muslims and Islam, such groups often use the definitions “Wahhabism” and “Wahhabis”, which have exclusively negative connotations. At the same time, this is done very freely. Didn't like the fact that a new mosque was built? Just call it “Wahhabi” and the parishioners “Wahhabis”, regardless of what views or beliefs they profess.
If we remove the problem of migration, then the degree of Islamophobia will be noticeably reduced, and along with it the problem of building mosques, hijabs, etc. will be solved, which in themselves do not create problems for the majority of Russians of non-Muslim faith, if this is not related to domination and the dominance of migrants in certain regions.
At the same time, in nationalist public pages there is gradually a process of mixing and unifying migrants from neighboring states and Russian Muslims, primarily from the Caucasus, who are citizens of Russia and are free to choose their place of residence on the territory of the Russian Federation, and also have the right to practice their religion there, according to the Constitution. But you can often see how Russians from the North Caucasus are called “migrants,” putting them on a par with visitors from Central Asia.
In this regard, what is important for nationalists is not the solution to the problem of migration as such, but its constant “refinement” and “savoring”, since through it not only various “related issues” are resolved, but also the “life” of the nationalist ideology itself is maintained.
That is, it turns out that those who present themselves as the main fighters against it are often interested in preserving the migration problem. It is also clear that no one will solve this problem in the near future and no one is actually going to solve it, but they will certainly continue to raise their ratings and popularity on this topic.
RUSSIAN MUSLIMS AND MIGRATION
On the other hand, Russian Muslims themselves should be primarily interested in solving problems associated with uncontrolled migration. Many believe that the influx of Muslim migrants from neighboring countries strengthens the position of Islam in the Russian Federation. This is not the case, unless, of course, the strengthening of the position of Islam includes the expansion of the network of halal stores and economy class cafes in areas where migrants live, whose range of goods is more harmful to health due to its low quality than meets the standards halal.
The exaggeration of the problem of migration of the Muslim population from neighboring states in the information agenda as a positive factor for the promotion of Islam by some Muslim activists puts Russia on a par with European countries where there is the same problem of migration, but there is no indigenous Muslim population. Labor migration of the Muslim population from neighboring countries, on the contrary, blurs this factor, which is unique to Russia, but absent in European countries where there are no indigenous Muslim peoples, although analogies can often be heard between the problems of Europe and Russia in connection with Islam and migration.
The influx of migrants from Central Asian states also prevents Russian Muslims themselves from realizing their own rights. For example, this factor has already led to a sharp increase in the threshold after which the authorities come to understand the need to allow the construction of mosques (again, if they manage to overcome the resistance of nationalist groups). Thus, native Russian Muslims also find themselves hostage to the migrant problem.
Once during the time of the Russian Empire, there was a norm that allowed the construction of mosques in a city or county or part of a city, if we were talking about large cities, if the number of Muslims in that area reached 500 people. So, for example, a mosque was built in Tver, where there were approximately 500 Muslims, and in Astrakhan, on one street in a Tatar settlement, Muslims built as many as three mosques next to each other without any problems. Despite the fact that then there were significantly fewer Muslims living there than today.
Now, often behind the bans on building mosques is the justification that their main parishioners will be newcomers, despite the presence of a significant community of Russian Muslims, significantly exceeding the very “500 souls” of the times of the Russian Empire. Therefore, other religious groups, whose communities are much smaller than Muslim ones, usually do not have problems opening places of worship and religious centers.
Thus, it is the anti-migrant agenda that is actively used to prevent the revival of Islamic life in a number of Russian regions.
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[REGNUM] On February 29, the Romanian Orthodox Church decided to create its own structural unit in Ukraine.
“To bless, encourage and support the initiative of the Romanian Orthodox communities in Ukraine to restore communion with the Mother Church, the Romanian Patriarchate, through their legal organization in the religious structure called the Romanian Orthodox Church of Ukraine, ” says the corresponding resolution of the Holy Synod.
Thus, the Romanian Church encroached on the jurisdiction of the Moscow and Constantinople Patriarchates. If the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) continues to officially form part of the former, then under the auspices of Constantinople a schismatic structure called the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) has been established.
The decision of the Bucharest church authorities was certainly sanctioned by the national government. Let us recall that the Romanian Orthodox Church has semi-state status and officially receives subsidies from the treasury. In Moldova, for example, Romanian officials do not hesitate to openly lobby the interests of the Bessarabian Metropolis of the Romanian Patriarchate.
The UOC has already condemned this decision of Bucharest, simultaneously stating that it was a consequence of the persecution of the canonical church by the Ukrainian authorities.
“It is not clear whether we are talking about the idea of legal registration under Ukrainian laws or whether such a structure has already been registered in Romania. In any case, it poses a danger not only to church integrity, but also to state sovereignty on Ukrainian territory, historically associated with the Romanian state, ” comments the head of the Synodal Information and Educational Department of the UOC, Metropolitan Clement of Nizhyn and Priluki, commenting on this situation.
The problem of the functioning of Romanian parishes in Ukraine is not new. After the end of World War II, in the territory subordinate to Kyiv, there were about 100 settlements with a predominantly Romanian and Moldovan population. At the same time, they were distinguished by their active church life.
In the Chernivtsi, Transcarpathian and Odessa regions (where the Romanian community lives compactly) services in the Romanian language were allowed. As subsequent events showed, this was a very far-sighted decision that ensured the loyalty of Romanian-speaking parishioners to the UOC. The schismatics from the OCU, on the contrary, were not ready to openly confirm this right.
For the Romanian community, it was of great importance, since in the context of a reduction in school education in their native language, the church remains the main obstacle to the assimilation of Ukrainian Romanians. Therefore, despite administrative pressure, priests and parishioners of Romanian-speaking parishes did not flee from the UOC. This even served as the basis for accusing them of “Muscophilism.”
The situation changed dramatically after in October 2023, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a bill banning religious organizations associated with Russia. Despite the distancing of the UOC from the Moscow Patriarchate, it is obvious that it is its main addressee.
The head of the OCU, Epiphanius, who visited Northern Bukovina in February of this year, in this regard, expressed the opinion that the transfer to his jurisdiction of all two hundred parishes in the region (including Romanian-speaking ones) is irreversible. However, his call to the Romanian flock to build a common Ukrainian future in “one church” did not have the desired effect. And it could not have, since, as a 2022 sociological survey showed, more than 60% of ethnic Romanians in the Chernivtsi, Transcarpathian and Odessa regions support the opening of churches under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
But two years ago the canonical UOC felt much more confident. In addition, the Ukrainian government was not as dependent on the transport and logistics services of Bucharest as it is today.
Due to the actual blocking of road crossings on the border with Ukraine by Polish farmers, the importance of the Romanian export route through the Lower Danube for Kyiv has increased many times over.
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine currently estimates the monthly volume of cargo exported along the “Danube” corridor at 1.2–1.8 million tons. This is five times more than exports through Poland.
On the agenda is the establishment of container transportation between the Danube ports of Ukraine and Germany. For Bucharest, this creates not only additional transit income, but also political leverage over Kyiv.
Most likely, it is for this reason that the creation of the Romanian Church of Ukraine has not yet caused a sharp reaction in the power structures of Ukraine. Moreover, Romanian expansion into the canonical territory of the UOC may be sanctioned by the competent authorities in Kyiv.
Information is circulating in church circles that the Romanian Patriarchate has nothing against contacts with the schismatic OCU. For example, at the festive liturgy on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the reign of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in October 2021, Metropolitan Niphon, responsible for external church relations in the Romanian Church, was located next to the OCU envoy Nestor Pysyk.
By the way, only these two figures represented the non-Greek-speaking churches at that event.
It is quite possible that Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Church joined the strategy of “hybrid” recognition of Ukrainian schismatics pursued by the head of the OCU Epiphanius. According to it, official recognition of the OCU at the Synod level will not occur, but it will occur in fact, through joint services, exchange of documents, delegations, etc.
As a reward for such rapprochement, it is logical to ask for recognition of the special rights of the Romanian Patriarchate over the Romanian-speaking parishes of Ukraine.
However, the “church expansion” of Romania in western Ukraine and southern Bessarabia can also be considered as the first step towards territorial redistribution.
The Romanian Orthodox Church is known to be more than just a religious organization. During the socialist period, it actually had the status of a state church. Then it was officially transformed into the status of a “national church”, which was canceled only under pressure from the European Union.
Through budget subsidies, the Romanian state actually maintains Orthodox churches and pays salaries to their rectors. The Church prepares personnel to teach the religious course required to be studied in schools, creates appropriate textbooks, and influences educational work in educational institutions.
So it’s not at all difficult to guess in whose interests (Romania or Ukraine) the Romanian Church of Ukraine will act first.
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"The problem of the functioning of Romanian parishes in Ukraine is not new. After the end of World War II, in the territory subordinate to Kyiv, there were about 100 settlements with a predominantly Romanian and Moldovan population. At the same time, they were distinguished by their active church life. In the Chernivtsi, Transcarpathian and Odessa regions (where the Romanian community lives compactly) services in the Romanian language were allowed. As subsequent events showed, this was a very far-sighted decision that ensured the loyalty of Romanian-speaking parishioners to the UOC.
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[REGNUM] The Russian military, participating in the offensive operation in the Avdeevka direction, destroyed an American-made Abrams tank. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced this in its daily report on March 4. According to the department, in the same area, Ukrainian Armed Forces units lost four infantry fighting vehicles, including three American-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and other military equipment.
The information from the Ministry of Defense is confirmed by footage from the battlefield. Analysts have established that the Abrams were knocked out in the area of the village of Berdychi, where fierce fighting continues. The vehicle lost its track and was abandoned, after which the tank was finished off by drone strikes. As noted by military correspondent Alexander Kots, the chassis of the tank was damaged by a hit from a grenade launcher, after which it was hit by Ghoul kamikaze drones.
This is the second confirmed case of the destruction of an Abrams. The Ministry of Defense announced the first on February 27. Then the car was tracked from the air and hit by kamikaze drone strikes.
WHY ARE THE TANKS NOT READY?
For the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the loss of two American-made vehicles at once is very noticeable. Ukrainian troops received only 31 tanks of this model in addition to 100 German-made Leopard 2 tanks.
Until approximately February 2024, the Abrams were in the reserve of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but a sharp deterioration of the situation at the front forced Kyiv to throw the tanks into battle. They were transferred to the 47th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is also armed with Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. The unit was transferred to the Avdeevka area in early December, where it suffered heavy losses.
According to information from Ukrainian sources, in recent weeks a large number of gunners and crew commanders of armored vehicles who were training at NATO training grounds have been killed.
Why the Ukrainian Armed Forces are massively losing Western equipment, military expert and reserve tank forces officer Alexander Mikhailovsky told IA Regnum. According to him, Western models were simply not ready for combat operations in conditions of widespread use of artillery and anti-tank weapons.
Over the past decades, the United States has been fighting against an obviously weaker enemy, which was taken into account when developing armored vehicles. As a result, the vehicles were not ready for combined arms battles, especially on rough terrain, explains Mikhailovsky.
“Another problem is the lack of a normal number of evacuation vehicles at the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Typically, the car is knocked out, but the crew leaves it on the battlefield. All that remains is to destroy it.
This question has not been thought through well. As a result, they receive such losses of armored vehicles,” the expert notes. The weight of the Abrams tank on average exceeds the weight of Soviet-style vehicles by 15–20 tons, Mikhailovsky said. Because of this, American armored vehicles have less maneuverability.
The crews of Ukrainian German-made Leopard 2 tanks have already encountered the same problems.
“THE VEHICLES WERE GETTING READY TO BE SLAUGHTERED”
It is noteworthy that the United States, before sending tanks to Ukraine, dismantled modern equipment from each vehicle. According to USA Today, this was done to prevent US defense technologies from falling into the hands of the Russian military. In fact, M1A2 tanks were "demodified" to the older M1A1 model, which significantly reduced their chances of surviving on the battlefield.
“We can assume that they were not predicted to have a long life in advance. Because the Pentagon, in essence, soberly assesses the real state of affairs. Continuous mining, dense artillery fire: in such conditions, the life of a tank lasts for minutes. They sent them to be slaughtered,” Alexander Mikhailovsky is sure.
However, the problems of the Abrams were revealed much earlier. During the battles in Yemen, the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces lost dozens of American tanks. The vehicles were often destroyed by fire from crews of anti-tank systems using weapons developed back in the mid-20th century.
As a result, the United States simply banned Saudi Arabia from using these vehicles in combat, citing the fact that their destruction would negatively affect the reputation of the American military-industrial complex.
In addition to tanks, the Ukrainian Armed Forces also encountered problems when operating American M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Several hundred of them were delivered to Ukraine.
According to the analytical forum LostArmour, whose users study data from open sources, during the battles Ukrainian troops lost at least 44 such vehicles. However, the real figure may be significantly higher. The situation with Leopard 2 tanks is no better: the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 25% of all delivered vehicles. The publication Foreign Affairs explained the high losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in armored vehicles by difficulties with maintaining the Leopards and the lack of well-structured logistics.
UNENVIABLE PROSPECTS
The loss of American tanks has already become a big problem for Ukraine, but this is only the beginning. As the American Congress refuses to finance the transfer of new weapons to Ukraine, dissatisfaction is growing in the United States with how exactly the Armed Forces of Ukraine use the received equipment.
Now, footage of destroyed Abrams can be used as a clear illustration of the fact that no weapons help Kyiv change the situation at the front. At the same time, without fresh supplies, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' armored vehicle reserves may soon run out.
“Of course, there is no exact data on their reserves. But if the last reserve is thrown into battle, then everything is sad.
Stockpiles of Soviet vehicles around the world were almost gutted, stocks of Leopards were raked out from all over Europe. And the United States is in no hurry to open its arsenals. So in the future we will have to somehow manage without tanks,” says Alexander Mikhailovsky.
At the same time, problems arise not only with future supplies of armored vehicles, but also with the vehicles available to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Some of the tanks and other armored vehicles handed over by the West earlier were disabled... by rodents, reported the French publication Le Figaro.
“Some of the electrical wire sheaths were made from corn fiber. Ukrainian soldiers suffered unexpected consequences. Rodents chewed through the wires on some cars, immobilizing them,” the newspaper wrote.
The publication's interlocutor said that Western-made armored vehicles were developed as a demonstration of technology at training grounds. In field conditions, equipment suffers from frost and mud. Sometimes dirt gets stuck in the chassis of tanks, and then freezes between the tracked tracks, paralyzing the vehicles.
The reduction in the maneuverability of units of the mechanized formations of the Ukrainian army opens up opportunities for new offensive operations by Russian troops.
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[REGNUM] 9Urban village Sirius, Krasnodar region, March 4, 2024, 14:26 - IA Regnum. The United States and its satellites, under the pretext of spreading democracy, are inciting wars all over the world, but in reality they are doing this to make money. This was stated on March 4 by Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev during a lecture at the flagship educational marathon “Knowledge. The first ones."
As Medvedev noted, the United States, together with its satellites, is trying to extend its own strategic borders to all regions of the planet.
“Under the pretext of spreading democracy, they are inciting wars all over the planet,” he said, clarifying that in fact their goal is to make money.
As Regnum reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 29, during the announcement of his annual message to the Federal Assembly, called accusations against Moscow of alleged plans to attack Europe nonsense. He emphasized that it was the West that provoked conflicts around the world and was lying that Russia was going to attack Europe.
On February 28, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev called the United States the most aggressive state existing today, since the American authorities actively interfere in the affairs of other countries. He clarified that the United States staged coups d'etat, provoked unrest and influenced electoral processes.
American journalist Tucker Carlson on February 20 called Washington’s assistance to Kiev a money laundering operation. He noted that the new $60 billion in US military aid will not help Ukraine win the conflict.
At the end of August 2023, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council said that against the backdrop of the Ukrainian conflict, the American military-industrial complex was overwhelmed with orders. According to him, because of this, Washington is not afraid of war until the last Ukrainian.
More from regnum.ru Medvedev: the situation between Russia and the United States is worse than during the Cuban missile crisis He ain't wrong.
The current situation between Russia and the United States is worse than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis between the USSR and America in 1962. This was stated on March 4 by Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev during a lecture at the flagship educational marathon “Knowledge. The first ones."
“I will say one bitter thing: the current situation is much worse than what it was in 1962,” he said.
Medvedev clarified that in the Ukrainian conflict against Russia, full-fledged military operations are being carried out with American weapons and the participation of special forces and advisers from the United States.
As Regnum reported, in July 2023, Medvedev noted that the tectonic fault that has appeared in the understanding of the future in different parts of the world can only increase. He also pointed out that this confrontation would be very long and would last for decades, and because of this the world found itself in a much worse situation than during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
On February 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the accusations against the country of plans to attack Europe nonsense. He emphasized that it is the West that chooses the most effective targets for striking Russian territory.
In November 2023, the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, also called accusations against Russia of being ready to start a nuclear war absolutely insane. The Kremlin representative emphasized that Russia, being a large, powerful and strong country, takes its potential extremely seriously.
Medvedev: the situation between Russia and the United States is worse than during the Cuban missile crisis
What an ignoramus. Read the Wikipedia article titled "Cuban Missile Crisis" particularly what the Soviet commander of sub B-59 decided not to do while the US Navy was dropping depth charges on him.
Not a good look.
[Regnum] Pavlogradskaya Street in Ukrainian Nikopol was renamed in honor of the Nazi and Holocaust accomplice, soldier of the 31st battalion of the Schutzmannschaft SD (auxiliary police) Peter Dyachenko. This was announced on March 4 by the head of the United Jewish Committee of Ukraine Eduard Dolinsky on social networks.
Dyachenko led units of collaborators within the Wehrmacht and, in particular, the SS Galicia division and participated in punitive operations. For this, Dyachenko received the Iron Cross (an order established in 1813 in Prussia and also awarded in Nazi Germany as a reward for services to the country. The insignia was worn on a black, white and red ribbon - in the colors of the flag of the Third Reich).
My German-Jewish grandfather was awarded an Iron Cross for his service as a gunnery sergeant during World War I. It didn’t protect him from the Nazis later, but still.
As IA Regnum reported, starting in 2015, the Kiev regime has been getting rid of everything connected with Russia and the Soviet Union, effectively carrying out “derussification” at the legal level. More than 2.5 thousand monuments were demolished in the country and the names of more than 900 settlements and about 50 thousand streets were changed.
In March 2023, six Soviet-era monuments were demolished in the Lviv region, including those dedicated to the memory of those who fell in the Great Patriotic War. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking about the de-Russification of Ukraine, said that the idea of expelling Russians has been occupying the minds of Ukrainian politicians for a long time. The Foreign Minister noted that de-Russification, according to Kyiv’s logic, means that ethnic Russians should have neither their own identity, nor language, nor history in this country.
Iron Cross First Class?
Dresden diarist & Holocaust survivor Victor Klemperer lived under the Nazi regime in Germany for the entire duration of the Third Reich. He won his Iron Cross Second Class during WWI. That award and his totally faithful Aryan wife somehow seemed to help his survival up to the day before Dresden was destroyed. That day he was made aware that almost every other Jewish resident in his complex was to be evacuated to a death camp very soon. He knew he would be the last to go. That very night Dresden and its local Gestapo HQ was reduced to ashes, he had only minor injuries. His wife torn the Judenstern off his clothing, they hid their actual ID papers and bugged out of Dresden right away using fake IDs. Months later they migrated back to what was left of Dresden and resumed a more normal life in postwar Germany.
Victor had a first cousin once removed, Werner Klemperer, whom many Rantburgers would know played "Col. Klink" in Hogan's Heroes.
I thought first class was for officers, Gromble Dribble4342, but really I have no idea. NCOs aren’t officers, right? Anyway, after the war he went back to his hometown and became a lawyer and joined the boards of the local synagogue, the Jewish day school, and the town council.
Lovely.
[Regnum] The German Ministry of Defense published a comment by the head of the department, Boris Pistorius, about the interception of a conversation between German officers and protected it with the password “1234,” the Bild newspaper reported on March 4.
According to the publication, a link was published on the ministry’s website where you can read the minister’s statement. Under the link they immediately wrote a basic password necessary to receive the data.
“A week ago this would have been a tired joke. After the attack of Russian spies on the Bundeswehr, this is extremely awkward,” the newspaper commented on the precautionary measures taken by the military department.
The publication noted that it is still unknown how the recording of a conversation between high-ranking German officers ended up in Russia. Journalists called it a disgrace for the Bundeswehr and Germany as a whole.
As Regnum reported, on March 1, RT TV channel editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan published an audio recording of a conversation in which German army officers discussed a possible attack on the Crimean Bridge with Taurus missiles. At the same time, they were looking for a way not to expose Germany as a party to the conflict.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that this conversation indicates that Germany is preparing for war with Russia. In his opinion, all other attempts to explain the discussion of plans to attack the Crimean Bridge are lies.
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned German Ambassador Alexander Lambsdorff and announced a demarche to him in connection with the revealed information that Bundeswehr officers were looking for opportunities to strike the Crimean Bridge. Moscow also demanded an explanation from Berlin on this matter.
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Actually this is not awkward at all. All files on this system need to be protected by a password by default. Since this file was meant to be public, the non-password 1234 was used and published.
Would have made no sense to use something more complicated like... fuGRU.
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[Regnum] President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin assigned the honorary titles “Guards” to the 17th Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 29th Combined Arms Army. The head of state signed the corresponding decrees on Monday, March 4.
“For the massive heroism and bravery, fortitude and courage shown by the brigade’s personnel in combat operations to defend the Fatherland and state interests in armed conflicts, I decree... To assign the 17th Heavy Artillery Brigade the honorary name “Guards”,” says the text of the document published on the website of the official publication of legal acts.
The 29th Combined Arms Army was also awarded the corresponding honorary name. It is noted that the decrees come into force from the moment they are signed, that is, from March 4, 2024.
As Regnum reported, on February 19, Vladimir Putin signed decrees on awarding the 288th Artillery Warsaw Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov Brigade the honorary name “Guards”. The 25th Regiment of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection received the name “Guards”.
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[REGNUM] The scandal involving the wiretapping of conversations between senior functionaries of the German defense department has shaken up the “Berlin swamp”, once again raising the issue of incomplete official compliance of some representatives of the German political establishment.
In 2015, the older North American brothers were clearly connected to the mobile phone of the Federal Chancellor. In 2024, Russians listen without a twinge of conscience to a confidential conference of generals and state secretaries of the Bundeswehr. At times one gets the impression that fewer people would know about the secret negotiations between German officials if they were broadcast live on ARD in prime time instead of the tagesschau program.
Ooooh SNAP!!!
It is quite obvious that a scandal with glaring holes in security protocols could entail a serious investigation by a parliamentary commission, as a result of which heads will probably roll in the German Ministry of Defense, as well as in the special services responsible for ensuring the safety of state secrets.
However, the following point is curious: among German politicians, journalists and Bundestag deputies, no one doubts that the reputational failure is the fruit of the collective efforts of the evil Moscow, coupled with the blatant negligence of army functionaries. At the same time, no one, at least for today, even admits the idea that the recording could theoretically have been transmitted to RT by one of the responsible German officials who realized that the current vector of German foreign policy does not meet the fundamental interests of the German nation.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, despite all the ambiguous attitude towards him, clearly and unequivocally outlined the boundaries of German sovereignty, which he is not ready to transgress, despite the enormous pressure exerted on Berlin from Washington, as well as from European capitals:
“No sending of German soldiers to the East and no supply of long-range missile weapons to Kiev that could make Germany a direct participant in the conflict and involve it in a war with an unpredictable outcome.”
Although Scholz is objectively one of the worst federal chancellors in the history of Germany, who plunged the country into the abyss of recession and swallowed sabotage on the Nord Stream from dear overseas partners, such a principled position of the head of the German government on the issue of German non-interference in the hot phase of the Ukrainian conflict certainly makes honor to him.
However, it would be a mistake to believe that in all of Germany Scholz alone retained the remnants of sanity.
It is clear that at present the German government and Bundestag are divided into a peace party (Sholz himself and the peace wing of the SPD, the Alternative for Germany, part of the Die Linke party, the most sensible CDU/CSU deputies and representatives of the Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance ) and a war party ( the aggressive wing of the Social Democrats, which now includes Boris Pistorius, the Green Party, the Free Democratic Party and hawks from the conservative bloc).
At the same time, there is no doubt that many adequate people continue to serve in the German military department and in the intelligence services. From the point of view of German law, these people are spies, such as, for example, a high-ranking employee of the German foreign intelligence service BND with the rank of colonel, who was recently arrested for spying for Moscow.
However, if we assume that the leak of the recording was organized from the German side, then the person behind it is worthy of comparison rather with Julius Rosenberg (an American scientist who handed over documentation on the atomic bomb project to the USSR and acted selflessly in the hope that the threat of mutual destruction would save the world from atomic war. - Author's note), rather than with Richard Sorge, who worked against the Nazi regime of Germany in the USSR for purely ideological reasons.
However, no matter who looms behind the wiretapping scandal - Russian intelligence officers or German officials, they certainly achieved their goal.
Germany is currently rethinking the scandal, analyzing its consequences and studying the Russian response, conveyed both through the ambassador in Moscow, Count Lambsdorff, and through unofficial channels.
In any case, sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine today is completely out of the question, because carelessly disclosed details of negotiations between Bundeswehr officials will make Germany, in the eyes of Moscow, a direct participant in the conflict.
If Scholz could still present the shipment of 19 used Leopard 2 tanks and a number of armored Leopard 1 veterans to Ukraine as the disposal of German secondary metal in the steppes of Zaporozhye and Kherson region, then in the case of Taurus, the Russians, even if they wanted, could not accept such an interpretation as a plausible explanation.
In addition to removing a difficult political decision from the agenda, with this scandal Scholz also solves several purely domestic political problems.
It is no secret that many supporters of a more active involvement of Germany in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are betting on replacing Chancellor Scholz, who did not live up to the hopes of the hawks, with the head of the Ministry of Defense Boris Pistorius, the most popular politician of modern Germany.
However, the espionage scandal, whatever one may say, occurred in the military department, and Pistorius, as a leader, bears direct responsibility for his subordinates who got into trouble. So the wiretapping scandal objectively reduces Pistorius’s chances in his administrative and political struggle for the post of head of the cabinet. Moreover, it is unknown whether the Russians have, for the time being, holding onto incriminating evidence on Pistorius himself.
As for the most zealous saber-rattlers noted in the sensational audio recording, even if they retain their positions based on the results of the investigation, they will be removed from political decision-making, and their career prospects will be called into question.
Looking at this, the successors of the confused generals and secretaries of state, as well as wavering officials of lower rank, will certainly draw certain conclusions and show more common sense in choosing sides in corporate intrigues within the ministry.
In short, Olaf Scholz is one of the main beneficiaries of the wiretapping scandal. To reinforce the weight of the decision to refuse to send Taurus to Kyiv with reinforced concrete arguments, while simultaneously striking several political opponents at once - such a maneuver in the style of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from Star Wars is worthy of the most stormy and prolonged applause.
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hook, rather.
The guy who dialled in from Singapore, where he was attending a Singapore Airshow (where top brass of the international airforces meet), on an insecure line.
This general is a top expert in informatics.
The four officers in that conference discussed a top secret matter, but somehow managed to spill a single secret.
They conveyed the message that Taurus works fine, what it can do etc.
Move along, nothing to see here.
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grrr... managed NOT to spill a single secret.
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...the somehow spoilt brat who managed not to understand discretion despite being a second generation military intelligence guy, sharing copies of all sorts of interesting things with his international online gaming group...
copped a plea deal Monday that could land him more than 16 years behind bars for committing one of the most serious national security breaches in years.
The former Massachusetts Air National guardsman, 22, entered federal court in Boston, Mass., shackled and dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit and nodded to his family before the proceeding, according to a Washington Post news hound on X.
Teixiera then pleaded guilty to all six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information against him — charges that could have slapped him with up to 60 years in prison.
He was arrested in April for allegedly abusing his security clearance to post top-secret Pentagon documents on the gaming app Discord, according to court documents reviewed by The New York Post.
Among the data he was accused of releasing to the general public were detailed intelligence assessments of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including "how the equipment would be transferred, and how the equipment would be used upon receipt," a federal indictment shows.
As part of Teixeira’s plea deal, the former guardsman agreed to accept a prison sentence of between 11 and 16 years and eight months. A federal judge will ultimately decide how much time he gets, according to ABC News.
Teixiera’s pact with prosecutors also means he will be charged a $50,000 fine and face three years of supervised release once he gets out of federal prison.
He was also ordered to have a debrief with members of the Department of Defense and the Justice Department and to return any national security documents that may still be in his possession, according to the court documents.
Additionally, he agreed "that he has a continuing legal obligation to refrain from the unauthorized oral or written disclosure of classified information, or information relating to the national defense," the plea deal reads.
In exchange, federal prosecutors said they would not charge Teixera with additional crimes under the Espionage Act.
Teixeira was arrested after the classified documents he leaked started to spread online.
He had enlisted in the US Air National Guard in 2019 — and despite being a low-level airman was granted top-secret security clearance in 2021, according to the Justice Department.
During that time, Teixeira worked as a cyber transport systems journeyman for the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
…in other words, IT for military communications networks.
He was stationed at Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod when he began posting classified documents online in January 2022, the DOJ said.
The leak was considered the most serious national security breach since 700,000 documents, videos and diplomatic cables were published on WikiLeaks in 2010.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the information Teixeira posted online "reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if shared."
By December, 15 members of the 102nd Intelligence Wing, including his former unit commander, were also disciplined for failing to supervise him and neglecting to inform authorities about his espionage-like behavior.
[Nat'l Pulse] Victoria Nuland, the third-ranking diplomat in the United States and architect of the Ukraine war, has announced her early retirement, according to the State Department.
Her resignation will doubtless be construed as a sign of her failure across several briefs, most recently her Ukraine war involvement and the ongoing crisis in Europe.
A statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday morning read:
Victoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs — a role in which she has personified President Biden’s commitment to put diplomacy back at the center of our foreign policy and revitalize America’s global leadership at a crucial time for our nation and the world.
Toria’s tenure caps three and a half decades of remarkable public service under six Presidents and ten Secretaries of State. Starting with her very first posting as a consular officer in Guangzhou, China, Toria’s had most of the jobs in this Department. Political officer and economic officer. Spokesperson and chief of staff. Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary. Special Envoy and Ambassador.
These experiences have armed Toria with an encyclopedic knowledge of a wide range of issues and regions, and an unmatched capacity to wield the full toolkit of American diplomacy to advance our interests and values.
What makes Toria truly exceptional is the fierce passion she brings to fighting for what she believes in most: freedom, democracy, human rights, and America’s enduring capacity to inspire and promote those values around the world. These were the principles that drove Toria when we first met more than 30 years ago. They are the same principles she has brought to her work as Under Secretary, and as Acting Deputy Secretary of State — a role she filled seamlessly for seven months.
Over the past three years, Toria has led this Department on everything from addressing complex crises in the Sahel, Haiti, and the Middle East, to broadening and strengthening America’s alliances and partnerships across Europe and the Indo-Pacific.
But it’s Toria’s leadership on Ukraine that diplomats and students of foreign policy will study for years to come. Her efforts have been indispensable to confronting Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, marshaling a global coalition to ensure his strategic failure, and helping Ukraine work toward the day when it will be able to stand strongly on its own feet — democratically, economically, and militarily.
There is so much to admire about Toria beyond her diplomatic skill. She always speaks her mind — to my benefit and to the benefit of our foreign policy. She always stands up for and invests in America’s diplomats — mentoring them, lifting them up, and ensuring they and their families have what they deserve, and what our mission demands. She finds light in the darkest moments, makes you laugh when you need it most, and always has your back.
President Biden and I have asked our Under Secretary for Management John Bass to serve as Acting Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until Toria’s replacement is confirmed.
We are so grateful for Toria’s service, and for the lasting mark she’s made on this institution and the world.
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Just look at that face and understand it is a reflection of her soul. She is an ugly woman who has done many ugly things. Her resignation can only be seen as an admission of guilt and failure. If Blinken and Biden had any honor they would announce their resignations as well for all the death and destruction they have caused. Buh-bye.
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Rats. Ship. Some disassembly required.
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Toria. Glad to be back in Junior High.
Is it too much to ask that they know that Victoria means victory, and they've gotten rid of that subtlety with this statement?
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Nuland's temporary replacement for under secretary upon her retirement has been announced as career diplomat John Bass, a former ambassador to Afghanistan.
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SWAG here, but I bet Ukraine is not polling as something that lots of dems care about and we will be out of there lock, stock and barrel by the end of summer so Bidet can campaign on "getting America out of an unpopular war."
Doing the right thing for the wrong reason. Still gets the right thing done.
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I gotta wonder what this is a distraction from …
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Somewhere in the bowels of the Kalorama Kompound and across the wide Pacific in Peking, the powers that have used the Puppet Shows for a catastrophic policy agenda they would never dared in person, have run the numbers and canvassed the apparatchiks. Keeping the White House with Jojo is impossible, and even with all the trial balloon polling, Big Mike can't guarantee the keys, so why ruin a future assset. And, if they front themselves much more, even the morons in the Blue Base will figure out they have been the architects of the messes all across the not-so-fruited-plain. So EJECT-EJECT-EJECT, bunker-in and organize the massive guerrilla warfare plans inside the government, and let loose the Antifa/BLM/illegals storm troops to fill the airwaves with images of violence, fear, noise and prophesy.
Trump will get the biggest shit-sandwich since the civil war to clean up with a bankrupt treasury, decimated industrial base, ruined cities and restless urban tribes and a questionable Pentagon team. And the Chinese/Iranian/Cuban/Nicaraguan/MexicanCartel and even Russian leadership is left smiling.
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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