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Massive wave of missile attacks reported across Ukraine
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
15,000 Ukrainians decide to have a mass orgy if Russia deploys nuclear weapons
[JPOST] The Telegram channel that promoted the event covers the war in a humorous way - and just recently described the efforts of the counterattack in Kherson as "BDSM parties for the Russians."

When an air raid siren sounded last week, one member of the orgy even asked excitedly: "Is it time?" with a cheeky emoji - and received about 600 smileys in response.

ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE
Meanwhile, on the more serious side of Kyiv, the authorities have started handing out potassium iodide pills for fear of a nuclear attack. The city council of the Ukrainian capital confirmed that it provides shelters and evacuation centers in preparation.

The pills can help block harmful radiation in the thyroid gland in the event of a nuclear disaster if taken right before or immediately after exposure to nuclear radiation. Kyiv authorities said in a statement that they would distribute the pills in areas contaminated by nuclear radiation if evacuation was necessary.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/10/2022 09:34 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Note that if you take too much potassium iodide it'll stop your heart, so keep that in mind.
Posted by: Chuckles Jusoper6505 || 10/10/2022 12:12 Comments || Top||


Is Belarus set to join Ukrainian conflict? Lukashenko announces he will deploy 'joint military task force' with Russia on western border – sparking fury in Europe
  • Remarks from Lukashenko indicate a possible further escalation in the conflict

  • He said, without evidence, Ukraine was drawing up plans to attack Belarus

  • 'Their owners are pushing them to start a war against Belarus,' he claimed

  • Remarks came as Russia hit Ukraine with at least 83 missiles as revenge for an explosion which crippled the Crimea Bridge on Saturday
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/10/2022 09:22 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Then watch the Poles move to their border.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/10/2022 11:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Americans are the Winged Hussars this time.
Posted by: badanov || 10/10/2022 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Belarus and Russian troops are gathering on the border again, so I expect them to try. The Poles and Lithuania have also moved their troops to the border and put them on heightened alert. Fun times.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/10/2022 13:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Lukashenka must know that attacking Ukraine will invite retaliation and the Belarusian people will rise again in revolt at the first sign that they may gain their freedom. What game of stroking Putin is he playing?
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 13:55 Comments || Top||

#5  ...The Poles just told all their citizens in Belarus to get out now.

I've said this before and I'll say it again - the Poles have a Never Again attitude every bit as strong as the one the Israelis have. If the Belarusians swing first, they're going to be flattened by the Poles long before the rest of NATO gets there.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/10/2022 14:22 Comments || Top||

#6  ^Agreed. Everyone is playing for keeps here.
Posted by: Secret Master || 10/10/2022 15:38 Comments || Top||


#8  #2 The Junta will sell it as that, but their motivations are a disqualifier.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/10/2022 17:55 Comments || Top||

#9  I can only find UK based publications promoting Poland to enter the war.
Where are your Polish sources?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/10/2022 18:18 Comments || Top||

#10  I can only find UK based publications promoting Poland to enter the war.

What is British for "Let's you and him fight!"?

The point of all the noise in Belarus is to keep the Ukrainians from moving their troops in the area over to the east where the action is.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/10/2022 18:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Screw the Polacks. We owe them NOTHING.

Like their Ukrainian Nazi friends, the Poles slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews and now they’re trying again to shakedown Germany for still more reparations.

Re. their spat with Russia: as someone once said: “Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy.”

Not my circus. Not my monkeys.

Stay the fuck out.

Posted by: Chaim || 10/10/2022 19:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Not my circus. Not my monkeys.
As said the other day: "Chaim who just showed up".

Sit it out
Posted by: Frank G || 10/10/2022 19:50 Comments || Top||

#13  "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you," - Leon Trotsky
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/10/2022 20:06 Comments || Top||

#14  Belarusian Defence Ministry claims Belarus will not fight against Ukraine unless "provoked"

The Ukrainians already blew the border bridges. If an invasion is imminent, I'm guessing the Ukrainians will flood the border again, making off road travel impossible and channel the Russians into artillery kill zones.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 22:43 Comments || Top||

#15  Stay the fuck out.

Sound advice for Russians.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 22:44 Comments || Top||

#16  Only 29 days of grifting left. On November 8, Trump’s GOP will take over Congress and wind down this idiocy of feeding the Ukrainian thieves and dragging us toward WWIII.

The GOP candidates are surging. In Arizona, Ohio and Pennsylvania the odds now favor the Trump-backed America Furst Republican candidates. JD Vance just mopped the floor with Tim Ryan.

Looks like the America First wing of the GOP will sweep into office and enable the party to win both the Senate and the House.

The Great Ukraine Grift ends November 8.

Tick tock.
Posted by: Palermo || 10/10/2022 23:34 Comments || Top||

#17  Don't bet your mobilization deferment on it, comrade. The Republicans have always been tougher on Russians (Communist and Fascist) than the Democrats. It was Trump that armed Ukrainians with hundreds of millions dollars of weapons when Obama would not. The results were evident on the roads to Kiev.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 23:51 Comments || Top||

#18  On November 8, Trump’s GOP will take over Congress

They’ll hopefully be elected that day, though final vote counts in some cases won’t be known for days or weeks. The new Congress won’t be sworn in until January 20th or 21st of next year, as directed by the U.S. Constitution.

In the meantime the lame duck Democrat-controlled Congress will do their best to pass the rest of their wishlist.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2022 23:59 Comments || Top||


Massive wave of missile attacks reported across Ukraine
See here for a roundup of tweeted images.
[RT] Multiple missile strikes targeted Ukrainian cities, all across the country. on Monday morning, according to local officials and media. The news comes two days after a bomb damaged the strategic Crimean Bridge – which Moscow has labelled a Ukrainian terrorist attack.

The office of Valery Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, reported they had detected at least 75 missiles and claimed they had intercepted 41.

President Vladimir Zelensky confirmed the attacks throughout the country in a video address, saying numerous parts of Ukraine had come under fire, and claimed that Russia was targeting the energy infrastructure. “They want panic and chaos,” he said.

Local officials in Lviv, Kharkov, and Odessa also reported that their cities came under fire.

In Kiev, damage from the strikes was reported near the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), which is located in the government area of the capital. City officials halted operations of the metro system, and the stations are now being used as shelters for civilians.

READ MORE: Central Kiev hit by missile strikes
The head of Lviv Region, Maksim Kozitsky, reported that elements of the western province’s energy infrastructure came under attack.

Boris Filatov, the mayor of Dnepr, a major city in central Ukraine, confirmed the strikes and said he could only feel “hatred and the wish to fight,” while urging residents to take shelter.

Vitaly Kim, who heads the southern Nikolaev Region which borders Russia’s Kherson Region, reported dozens of projectiles and a number of kamikaze drones coming from Russian troops. He claimed that Moscow was targeting “critical infrastructure” throughout the country.

With similar accounts coming in from many parts of the country, senior Ukrainian officials have expressed determination to fight Russia. “Our courage will never be destroyed by terrorists’ missiles, even when they hit the heart of our capital,” Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov tweeted, also claiming that Russia’s future is that of “a globally despised rogue terrorist state.”

The strikes on Monday were launched two days after Russia’s Crimean Bridge was damaged by a powerful explosion, which Moscow blamed on the Ukrainian special services. Senior Russian officials described the plot – which apparently involved sneaking explosives into a cargo truck and detonating it as it crossed the bridge between Crimea and mainland Russia – as a terrorist attack on critical civilian infrastructure.

Officials in Kiev previously claimed that the bridge was a legitimate military target and have called for its destruction.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/10/2022 04:22 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The result of missile strikes at 13:10

Cities were hit:
- Kiev
- Dnepropetrovsk
- Kharkiv
- Zaporozhye
- Ternopil
- Odessa - Krivoy Rog
- Lviv
- Zhytomyr
- Rivne
- Nikolaev
- Krapivnitsky
- Kremenchug
- Konotop - Lvovskaya TPP (Lvov)
- Burshtynskaya TPP (Ivano-Frankivsk region)
- EU Advisory Mission (Kyiv)
- Department of Law Enforcement Agencies (Kyiv) Metro in Kiev and Kharkov has been stopped.

The lights went out:

- Lviv
- Zhytomyr
- Sumy
- Kharkiv
- Khmelnitsky
- Poltava
- Ternopl
- Lutsk
- Rivne
Posted by: badanov || 10/10/2022 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Yury Ignat, Speaker of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

"Ukraine was attacked by various types of missiles:

X101, X555 missiles, which are launched from strategic bombers from the Caspian region.

Rockets "Caliber" from the Black Sea.
Posted by: badanov || 10/10/2022 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  83 rockets were fired, 11 important infrastructure facilities were damaged in 8 regions

▪83 rockets were fired in Kiev in Ukraine, - Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar, citing the General Staff

▪, the Prime Minister of Ukraine said about 11 damaged facilities.
▪Confirmed hit in the Kyiv thermal power plant.

⚡🚀 Krivoy Rog: There is no electricity and water in Ternovsky and partially Pokrovsky districts of the city due to the destruction of the energy infrastructure, - Gauleiter Vilkul

💥In the video, the moment of the recent arrival of one of the cruise missiles at a target in Krivoy Rog, next to a column of smoke from another.

Posted by: badanov || 10/10/2022 7:20 Comments || Top||


#5  Gloves off. It’s (finally) getting real.

The Trump wing of the GOP is surging and will enable the Republicans to take over Congress on Nov. 8.

When that happens the clock will start ticking on the end to Ukraine’s gravy train. Tick tock.
Posted by: Palermo || 10/10/2022 8:58 Comments || Top||



#8  5 murdered civilians in Kiev for a dozen for more cruise missiles fired (6 hit). That is not sound military strategy. It is reminiscent of a broom bristle mustachioed fella who also wasted military power to bomb cities because his ego got bruised. The rest is history.

Whether 10 or 80 cruise missiles per day targeting civilians, the end effect is the same. The missiles will run out and Russia can't build more w/o imported western electronics.

Ukrainians continue to liberate more territory everyday and many more Russians die on the battlefield than Ukrainian civilians Moscow can kill with missile strikes on cites.

Meanwhile, every eastern European county is thinking, "I need nuclear weapons." and so it will be.

There used to be a newspaper in Moscow run by expats, including Matt Taibbi, called "The Exile". One of their regular features was called "Low Yield Murders". That is Russia in a nutshell.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||

#9  From Operator Starsky 🇺🇦

The Main Intelligence Dept of Ukraine reports that the order on the russian missile strike was issued on Oct 2 and Oct 3, prior to the collapse of the Kerch bridge. 7 Tu-160 bombers equipped with X-101 cruise missiles were relocated to Olenya from Engels airbase, russia, on Oct 8.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/10/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||

#10  If Ukraine was wise... instead of the bridge next they would destroy Red Square in Moscow and maybe major places in Leningrad er.. Saint Petes.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/10/2022 13:40 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm old enough to remember the "wisdom" of Nixon/Kissinger and the tactic of triangulation short of open war. Looking ahead is always the tangled maze of branches and sequels, but on must assess what most seems likely short of the big-kaboom.

Consider the world from the perspective of China today. Its main military peer competitors are the US and Russia. Anything at the strategic level that weakens both is a win, even if one is a superficial ally and the other the major economic market.

So encouraging this enormously expensive, destabilizing and destructive proxy war would seem to be a priority for its agents/allies embedded in Washington and Moscow, keeping the focus on Europe and the Atlantic Alliance. Given how the Demokrat party is exhausting our SPR and military stockpiles as well as the massive overspending of the Puppet Show on every imaginable stupidity, keeping this up until after the MidTerms, we are a very weakened, divided nation led by a doddering, script reading fool and a crack-brained harpy. Then after a massive political change in the House and Senate, poof, invade Taiwan and reset the American focus on the Pacific, too late to do more than talk as America is consumed with damage control, debt management and cultural strife subsidized by China, Iran, Russia, and half the Arab world post-November.

As our focus shifts from the money pit that has been Ukraine and Europe finds face-saving ways to open the energy flow from Russia again, perhaps with a Post-Putie oligarch, Ukraine negotiates, the vast corruption there is revealed, and China has reset the World Stage to its benefit. Xi is triumphant and we are diminished further as the perception is that the American Century has ended.

While I doubt the Republic is finished, 31 trillion will take a lot of work to pay off, and we have massive internal issues to resolve to repair the stupidities of Bush/Obama/Pelosi-Biden policies. America First and American Sovereignty now!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/10/2022 14:31 Comments || Top||

#12  A big part of all the problems goes away once we are producing oil domestically again. Even closing the borders, which is critical, is not as paradigm-busting as that.

Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2022 20:29 Comments || Top||

#13  Waiting for that dam on the Dnieper to get hit
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/10/2022 20:45 Comments || Top||


Russia launches massive Monday morning missile attach on KIev.
See here for Russia Today’s report of a wave of 83 missiles fired.
[WarCrimes are Russia home of baby killers with missiles]







Posted by: 3dc || 10/10/2022 02:19 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  after all the moeny and weapons that hvave been sent by the senile asshole, this guy aquestions where the anti aircraft is. Fuck right off.
Posted by: Chris || 10/10/2022 3:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Musk pulls the plug.
Posted by: Dale || 10/10/2022 15:28 Comments || Top||

#3  "WarCrimes are Russia home of baby killers with missiles]" don't forget puppy dogs.
Posted by: Dale || 10/10/2022 15:30 Comments || Top||

#4  While I have never planned an actual air strike, my understanding is the first step is to reduce the enemy air defenses so you can go about the business of blowing up the stuff you care about. The cool kids call it SEAD - Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses.

Interesting about the Starlink outages. On one hand, they come at a time when Urainian forces are advancing into what was previously Russian territory. On the other, the Ukr side just told Musk to fawk off, which seems a bit rude to the guy providing them with comms.

I say give Elon a break. He is an engineer. He can't help applying logic to this stupid war.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/10/2022 16:51 Comments || Top||

#5  the Ukr side just told Musk to fawk off, which seems a bit rude to the guy providing them with comms.

Zelensky and their Nazi-worshipper Melnyk do a lot of that biting the hand that feeds them stuff, don’t they. Melnyk goes to Germany as his nation’s top diplomat and urses tge Germans. Zelensky goes to Israel and insults the Israelis.

Now the little shit is demanding that we launch a nuclear attack on Russia.

Time to tell the ungrateful little fucker to piss off. The grift’s over.
Posted by: Chaim || 10/10/2022 18:19 Comments || Top||

#6  * Melnyk goes to Germany as his nation’s top diplomat and curses the Germans.
Posted by: Chaim || 10/10/2022 18:22 Comments || Top||

#7  I can see how the Germans might be offended by strong language, Chaim. But they also have made a lot of promises that they have not been keeping in a timely manner, and reportedly at least some of the supplies they did send were overaged or otherwise unusable — virtue signalling on the cheap. There is fault on both sides, and in the end the Ukraine is on the frontlines of a war Germany wanted.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2022 20:35 Comments || Top||


Fresh missile strike on Ukraine city kills 17
[An Nahar] An overnight Russian missile strike killed 17 people in Zaporizhzhia, local authorities said on Sunday, in the latest deadly attack to hit the southern Ukrainian city that President Volodymyr Zelensky called "absolute evil."

"After night missile attack on Zaporizhzhia, at least 20 houses and about 50 multi-story buildings were damaged. 17 people died, as of now," Anatoliy Kurtev, secretary of Zaporizhzhia city council, wrote on Telegram.

Four educational institutions were also damaged, he added.

Zelensky and regional official Oleksandr Starukh provided a lower corpse count of 12, with the latter saying that more victims may be under the rubble as a search and rescue operation was launched.

At least 17 people including a child died when seven Russian missiles hit Zaporizhzhia before dawn on Thursday, Ukrainian authorities announced in an upwardly revised toll on Saturday.

"Zaporizhzhia again. Merciless strikes on peaceful people again. On residential buildings, just in the middle of the night," Zelensky said on Telegram of Sunday's attack, adding that 49 people including six children were in hospital.

"Absolute meanness. Absolute evil. Savages and terrorists. From the one who gave this order to everyone who fulfilled this order. They will bear responsibility. For sure. Before the law and before people."

Zaporizhzhia lies close to the frontline where Kyiv's forces have been carrying out a large-scale counter-attack against Russian troops.

The Ukrainian-controlled industrial city is located in the eponymous Zaporizhzhia region, also home to the Russian-occupied nuclear plant that has been the site of heavy shelling.

Moscow claims to have annexed the region even though its forces do not control all of it.

Ukraine said at least 30 people were killed last week when a convoy of civilian cars in the Zaporizhzhia region was shelled in an attack Kyiv blamed on Moscow.
Posted by: Fred || 10/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Ukraine's Center Air Command claimed it shot down a Russian Su-25 aircraft
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: October 9th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:58 Zelensky in the evening video message outlined the only possible format of negotiations: "We need to speed up the provision of Ukraine with a sufficient number of effective air defense systems. It is the negotiations on the provision of such air defense systems, namely the negotiations on increasing other defense, political and financial support for Ukraine - this is the the only possible negotiation format that can really bring peace closer."

22:40 Constant terror against the civilian population is Russia's obvious refusal of real negotiations, Zelensky said in an evening video message: "If terror goes unpunished, if the terrorist manages to intimidate so much that someone in the world wants to just agree to turn a blind eye to terror, then it is this will be a loss - a loss of freedom, a loss of humanity and a loss of democracy. This is exactly what Russia wants ... Russia should be punished for terror. Only this ensures that the confrontation does not grow to an even greater scale and does not spread to other countries. "

For this, according to the president, it is necessary to officially recognize Russia as a terrorist state at all levels: “It is necessary to limit any economic contacts with any Russian subjects - you cannot be sponsors of terrorism. There is a need for a clear condemnation at all levels of every escalation step of Russia - from terrorist strikes to criminal attempt to annex our territory. The corresponding resolution will be considered one of these days by the UN General Assembly. We will see by voting who and how they really treat terrorists. And Ukraine needs principled and sufficient assistance."

22:29 As a result of Russian strikes on residential buildings in Zaporozhye, at least 14 people were killed this night, more than 70 were injured, including 11 children , Zelensky said in an evening video message. He added that the removal of rubble continues, so this number may increase.

“The strikes this night continued a series of Russian missile attacks on Zaporozhye, which this week alone, since October 3, have taken the lives of at least 43 people. And there were also attacks on Kharkiv, on the cities of Donbass, on other cities of Ukraine.. "There were also strikes by Iranian drones, airstrikes. The vast majority of them were on the civilian infrastructure of our state, on civilians," the president stressed.

21:51 Ukraine blew up all the bridges and mined the roads near the border with Belarus, said the head of the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus Anatoly Lappo: "To the extent that there are anti-tank mines in three rows on the roads." According to him, not border, but territorial defense forces are sent to the border from the Ukrainian side. "We are under pressure, they are aiming at our border guards, sometimes they shoot in the air, there is constant aerial reconnaissance," Lappo complained.

21:28 Biden and Scholz had a telephone conversation, during which, in particular, they discussed support for Ukraine. The country's leaders criticized Putin's latest nuclear threats and agreed that such a move would have "extraordinary" serious consequences for Russia.

21:25 Peskov called "a completely wrong formulation of the question" reasoning whether the "terrorist attack" on the Crimean bridge falls under the possibility of using the nuclear doctrine.

21:19 Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko said in an interview with Associated Press that the Russian military plundered almost 40 Ukrainian museums - the damage is estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars. In particular, from Melitopol the Russians stole a golden tiara, encrusted with precious stones, about 1500 years old.

21:08 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Budarki, Terny, Soledar, New York, Pervomayskoye, Nevelskoye and Pobeda, the General Staff said in an evening summary .

According to the General Staff, the leadership of the Russian Federation is looking for additional resources for waging war - in particular, negotiations are underway with third countries on the purchase of artillery shells, mortar mines and components for multiple launch rocket systems. Military warehouses and arsenals of Belarus remain another source of supplies. In the near future, it is planned to move 13 more echelons with ammunition and material and technical means to the territory of Russia.

20:57 The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin said at a meeting with Putin that the Crimean bridge was blown up by the special services of Ukraine: "This is a terrorist attack that was prepared by the Ukrainian special services, and the purpose of such a terrorist attack was the destruction of an important infrastructure of the Russian Federation." According to him, citizens of Russia and "other states" took part in the preparation of the terrorist act - the suspects have already been identified.

"The authors, perpetrators and customers of the undermining of the Crimean bridge are the special services of Ukraine," Putin said and added that this was "a terrorist act aimed at destroying the critically important civil infrastructure of the Russian Federation."

20:36 The representative of the White House on national security commented on the explosion on the Kerch bridge: "We really have nothing more to add to the reports of an explosion on the bridge ... What I can tell you is that Putin started this war, and Putin could have ended her today, simply by withdrawing her troops from the country."

19:48 In Miropolye, Sumy region, Russians dropped a grenade from a drone into the very center of the village, into a recreation area near a store. A store worker died of injuries, and while the woman was being rescued, the Russians dropped another grenade here, said the head of the OVA, Dmitry Zhivitsky. No one was hurt in the second explosion.

19:29 Ukraine will receive an aid package from Germany for 11 million euros, which will include, in particular, 100,000 warm jackets and other winter clothing for military personnel, 100 heated tents, hundreds of mobile power generators and backpacks, writes Spiegel.

19:17 The FSB of the Russian Federation announced that since the beginning of October the number of shelling of Russian territory in the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions by "Ukrainian formations" has significantly increased.

18:20 The United States does not yet see that the Russian Federation intends to use nuclear weapons, John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the US National Security Council, said on ABC television.

17:42 Tomorrow Putin is convening a meeting of the Security Council, Peskov said. The media write that it will discuss how to answer for the destruction of the Crimean bridge and how to stop the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

17:01 Mayor of Kremenchug Vitaliy Maletsky reports that Ukrainian air defense forces shot down several Iranian drones near the city.

16:53 The number of victims of the shelling of Zaporozhye on October 9 increased to 13, another 60 people were injured , including children, the regional police said. The nine-story building, which was hit by a rocket, collapsed from the first to the seventh floor. While clearing the rubble, two more floors collapsed. Search and rescue work continues.

16:19 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have already liberated seven settlements in the Luhansk region , stabilization measures have already taken place in them, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. In particular, Novolyubovka, Nevskoye and Grekovka were de-occupied in the Krasnorechenskaya settlement community of the Svatovsky district; in the Kolomiychi rural community of the Svatovsky district - Novoegorovka, Nadezhda, Andreevka and Stelmakhovka.

15:25 Energodar and the suburbs have been de-energized since yesterday after shelling, there is no water and communication in the city, Vladimir Rogov, "a member of the main administration council" of the occupied Zaporozhye region, said. The same information was confirmed by the legitimate mayor of the city Dmitry Orlov.

14:39 Romanian Defense Minister calls on Western countries to negotiate with Russia for the sake of peace. Arakhamiya said that Ukraine is ready for negotiations with Western countries, but regarding the speedy entry into NATO: “This is the only topic that we can talk about at the moment, and Russia is superfluous in these negotiations. Collective security and strong Armed Forces Ukraine is the only guarantee of peace on the European continent. Therefore, the negotiating efforts of the West should be directed in this direction."

14:26 Russia is trying to involve Belarus in an open war with Ukraine, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said: "We see the measures being taken by the Russian Federation in order to force the leadership of Belarus to enter into an open war. Meetings between Putin and Lukashenko are constantly held, where this issue is discussed and Putin is trying to persuade Lukashenka to this decision."

To date, according to the military intelligence of Ukraine, six battalions are concentrated near the Ukrainian border - these are both mechanized battalions and battalions of airborne troops of the special operations forces command.

13:40 Zelensky showed a photo of the consequences of a night strike on Zaporozhye:

13:21 AFU liberated 1170 sq. km in the Kherson direction , said the representative of OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk: "Work continues on securing the territories, cleaning up and carrying out stabilization measures, since the settlements contain "surprises" left by the occupiers."

12:14 On the night of October 9, the Russians launched a massive missile attack on Zaporozhye. According to the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, six Tu-22M3 bombers were recorded operating from the Ryazan airfield, and seven Su-35s from the Marinovka airfield in the Rostov region. The attack on Zaporozhye was delivered from the areas of the occupied Melitopol and Berdyansk. Four Kh-22 cruise missiles (from Tu-22M3) and two Kh-59 guided air missiles (from Su-35) were launched. In addition, the enemy launched a missile strike with anti-aircraft missiles from the S-300 air defense system. About 16 missiles were fired at the city's civilian infrastructure and residential areas.

Over the past and current day (as of 11:30 a.m.), the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the southern direction shot down a Russian aircraft (probably Su-25, the type is being specified), two unmanned aerial vehicles, one Shahed-136 kamikaze drone and one guided aircraft missile X -59 (Zaporozhye).

10:57 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of October 9th.

  • personnel - about 62,500 (+440) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 2486 (+14),

  • armored combat vehicles - 5133 (+22),

  • artillery systems - 1477 (+18),

  • MLRS - 348 (+3),

  • air defense systems - 180 (+0),

  • aircraft - 266 (+0),

  • helicopters - 235 (+1),

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 1086 (+7),

  • cruise missiles - 247 (+1),

  • ships/boats - 15 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 3890 (+15),

  • special equipment - 136 (+0).

10:32 Canada resumed the Ukrainian training mission in the UK. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on August 12, a detachment of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) soldiers, mainly from the 1st Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group of the 3rd Canadian Division based in Edmonton, arrived in the UK to resume training of the Ukrainian Defense Forces as part of the training operation UNIFIER- UK

10:03 British intelligence notes that the explosion on the Crimean bridge is likely to have a strong impact on Putin, because it happened a few hours after his 70th birthday, he personally sponsored and opened the bridge, and his childhood friend Arkady Rotenberg was the contractor for the construction of the bridge . In recent months, Viktor Zolotov, a former bodyguard of Putin and now commander of the National Guard, publicly assured that the bridge was completely safe.

10:00 Slovak Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy announced the transfer of two Zuzana self-propelled guns to Ukraine "in honor of Putin's 70th birthday." He also announced "much more" ahead.

09:56 In the Kharkiv region, during the day, the invaders from artillery fired at Volchansk, the settlements of Kupyansky, Kharkiv, Bogodukhovsky and Izyumsky districts, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. During the day, three people were hospitalized: one in Volchansk, one in the Dvorichan community, and another person stepped on a mine in the Dergachev community.

09:51 In the Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, three civilians were killed - two in Chasovoy Yar and one in Bakhmut. Another 14 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said. Meanwhile, Russian media report that one person was wounded as a result of the shelling of Donetsk.

09:40 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that the Kremlin is trying to shift the blame for the explosion on the Crimean bridge to the Russian Defense Ministry in order to divert the blame from Putin, who has begun to be criticized. In particular, one of the Russian military bloggers warned that if Putin does not take retaliatory measures, this "will be perceived as a weakness of the president himself." Another blogger noted that the Kremlin hypocritically urges Russians to rally behind Putin, while he cannot comment on such important events as the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, the exchange of prisoners or the collapse of the Kharkov front. ISW writes that this is the first direct criticism of Putin.

09:23 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that it had thwarted the provocation of Russian pranksters against the CEO of Baykar Defense, Haluk Bayraktar. The Russians tried to contact him, allegedly on behalf of Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, whose video image was created using deepfake technology. “However, instead of the expected conversation with Mr. Khalyuk, the Russians were “lucky” to talk to the no less fake “Baykar company secretary”. Therefore, to answer the question: what happened today with the Crimean bridge?” - told the GUR.

08:42 As a result of a night strike on Zaporozhye, at least 12 people were killed, 49 were hospitalized , said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh. According to preliminary information, the enemy fired 12 missiles at Zaporozhye with the help of tactical aircraft. Most of the rockets hit residential multi-storey and private houses in one of the districts of the city. A nine-story building was partially destroyed, five private houses were destroyed. Infrastructure damaged. Of the 49 victims, six were children. There may be people under the rubble. A rescue operation continues at the scene, eight people have already been rescued.

The "authorities" of the occupied Zaporozhye region announced the shelling of the "barracks of the Ukrainian artillery brigade" in Zaporozhye.

08:23 In the Naked Pristan of the Kherson region, a large warehouse of Russian ammunition was destroyed, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Sergey Bratchuk.

08:08 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the most tense situation is observed in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions, where Ukrainian defenders repelled more than 30 enemy attacks. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Terny, Soledar, Bakhmutskoye, Bakhmut, Ivangrad, Pervomaisk, Experienced, Nevelskoye and Pobeda, the General Staff said in a morning report.

02:03 On the evening of October 8, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry summoned the Ukrainian Ambassador to Minsk, Igor Kizim, who was handed a diplomatic note. In the note, the Belarusian side claims that Ukraine allegedly plans to strike at the territory of Belarus, spokesman of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko said.

"This information is not true. We categorically reject the latest insinuations of the Belarusian regime. We do not exclude that the delivery of a diplomatic note may be part of the Russian Federation's plan to commit a provocation and further accuse Ukraine," Nikolenko stressed and added that the Belarusian authorities should "stop fulfilling whims of the Kremlin and immediately stop supporting Russia in carrying out its aggression against Ukraine."

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Putin has said that the explosion on the Crimean bridge, was planned, organized and executed by the special services of Ukraine
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#2  Putin is right in there with Himmler
Posted by: 3dc || 10/10/2022 1:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Crimean bridge: Who - or what - caused the explosion?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/10/2022 2:06 Comments || Top||

#4  A pawn unaware drove the truck as an Ukrainian remotely detonated device but too soon as nearing the top would have done more damage.
Posted by: Dale || 10/10/2022 4:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Nah, Canaris...Abwehr. lol
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/10/2022 4:14 Comments || Top||

#6  For a nation that he was expecting to embrace his invaders with open arms there seems to be a rather flaccid fifth column in the Ukraine to help him do something similar.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/10/2022 6:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Putin has said that the explosion on the Crimean bridge, was planned, organized and executed by the special services of Ukraine

...No sh!t, Sherlockovitch.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/10/2022 6:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Wrong target! They should have taken out Red Square!
Posted by: 3dc || 10/10/2022 13:37 Comments || Top||


Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief October 9th (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:45 The work of tankers in the first person -video.

20:25 FSB officers managed to identify suspects in organizing a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge - the head of the RF Investigative Committee Bastrykin.

20:22 Putin: undermining the Crimean bridge is a terrorist attack aimed at destroying the critical infrastructure of the Russian Federation.

20:07 Video: Belarusian tanks are streaming towards the border with Ukraine. According to a number of Ukrainian resources, Minsk is transferring heavy equipment to the Russian army.

19:52 Destroyed a warehouse with more than 200 missiles for HIMARS and Hurricanes in the Nikolaev region, it belonged to the 61st infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

19:45 Footage of the work of Russian artillerymen on the position of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction -video.

19:26 The number of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries in the ranks of Ukrainian formations deployed in the part of the Zaporozhye region controlled by Kyiv has become equal, said the chairman of the movement "We are with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.

19:20 Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled a monastery in the Kursk region - the fraternal building was destroyed

The shelling of the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Monastery, located in the Sudzhansky district, occurred tonight. As a result of the arrival, the roof, the ceiling were partially destroyed and the windows in the fraternal building, where the monks live, were broken. Whether any of the inhabitants of the monastery was hurt is unknown.

19:19 FSB: Since the beginning of October, the number of attacks on the territory in the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions by Ukrainian formations has significantly increased.

Over the past week, more than 100 shellings of 32 settlements in these regions have been recorded, a local resident was killed, five people were injured, including a minor.

19:13 Video from an enemy drone. The video captures the feat of our BMP2 crew. Despite the fact that the car had more than three hits from ATGMs. And about three RPG hits, as well as the car was continuously fired from different types of weapons, the crew continued to fight to the last. BMP-2 once again confirmed its margin of safety and survivability, and the Russian soldier's resilience.

19:05 All over territory of Ukraine declared an air alert, missile strikes are expected.

18:36 The situation in the Nikolaev-Berislav direction as of 18.00 October 9, 2022

At the Posad-Pokrovsky section, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a rotation of units in the direction of Ternovy Pod. Russian artillery struck at the newly arrived formations.

On the Snigirevsky section of the DRG, the 63rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made another attempt to storm the positions of the RF Armed Forces in Maksimovka. Russian soldiers repulsed the attack.

On the Andreevsky sector, forces of the 46th Separate Airmobile Brigade attempted to storm the positions in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Sadok. Russian Armed Forces repulsed the attack and destroyed three tanks and two infantry fighting vehicles.

In the vicinity of Sukhoi Stavka, a “roaming” mortar crew is deployed, which fires indiscriminately along the line of contact.

The Ukrainian command continues to transfer people and equipment through the established crossings over the Ingulets. Over the past 24 hours, more than 100 units were deployed to the left bank of the river, and 93 units in the opposite direction.

Russian artillery and aircraft are attacking the pontoons and embankments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Ingulets. For cover from air strikes, an air defense system crew has been deployed in Blagodatovka.

Artillery duels continue on the Berislav sector. In the vicinity of Belyaevka, armored vehicles of the 17th Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated. The forces of the 60th Infantry Brigade are on full alert ahead of a possible attack on Pyatikhatki in the near future.

18:29 Military personnel of the Western Military District were awarded state and departmental awards for courage, bravery and dedication shown during a special military operation.

On the front line, the most distinguished servicemen were awarded medals of Suvorov, Zhukov, as well as departmental awards.

The personnel of the WMD Logistics Brigade were awarded for the installation and maintenance of the river crossing. Video Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

18:15 An air alert has been declared on the territory of Ukraine. Explosions are reported in Kyiv.

17:24 Canadian military personnel training military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at one of the training grounds in the UK.

17:15 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the strikes on the points of deployment of foreign mercenaries on the island of Khortytsya and the Ukrainian special forces brigade "Bars" in the Zaporozhye region.

16:04 The crew of the Russian BMP-2M in mortal combat to the last reflects APU attacks.

The UAV of the Ukrainian Nazis monitored the movement of the BMP with the new Berezhok combat module and dropped several bombs. In the footage, a projectile flies at the combat vehicle, which immobilizes it, then the enemy fires constantly, but our crew fights to the last projectile.

15:57 Today, in Fedorovka, Melitopol district, shells discovered by local residents are being destroyed.

Sappers destroy ammunition by controlled detonation.

15:00 Highlights from the new briefing of the RF Ministry of Defense:

Russian troops found and destroyed 17 militants of Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the LPR;

In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted an offensive, which were repelled by units of the Russian troops;

Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down Ukrainian Su-24s and Mi-24s in Mykolaiv and Kherson regions;

The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the mercenaries of the Foreign Legion on the island of Khortytsya and the Bars brigade of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Zaporozhye;

In the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction, as a result of significant losses in manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, no offensive attempts were made;

The Armed Forces of Ukraine with mercenaries made an unsuccessful attempt to attack in the Kupyansk direction, all attacks were repelled;

Over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have not made active attempts to attack in the Krasnolimansky direction, they have been conducting reconnaissance of the defense of the RF Armed Forces;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed four ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two American counter-battery radars;

In the area of ​​​​Nova Kamenka, Kherson region, the Russian military thwarted an attempt to concentrate troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 200 servicemen, three tanks and 41 armored vehicles in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction in a day;

The Russian Armed Forces repulsed the attacks of two motorized infantry companies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Andreevsky direction.

14:20 Rogov: The number of Polish mercenaries on the line of contact in Zaporozhye reaches 5 thousand.

14:00 "I knew that nothing was waiting for me except execution." Refugees say that Ukrainian troops shot residents even for receiving Russian humanitarian aid. Video RIA Novosti.

13:15 The village of Zaitsevo is completely taken and cleared by the fighters of the Wagner PMC. An important enemy fortified area in Zaitsevo has been broken into, the situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine southeast of Artemovsk continues to deteriorate.

12:57 Situation in the Starobilsk direction

as of 12.00 October 9, 2022

In the Kupyansky section of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they were not able to break through the defense of the RF Armed Forces in the Tavolzhanka area. Part of the units of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to attack the Russian fortified area.

Because of this, the Ukrainian command concentrated its efforts on breaking into the positions of the RF Armed Forces at the Olshana-Pershotravneve line. The Armed Forces of Ukraine need to break through the front line due to the upcoming offensive on Svatovo and Kremennaya in order to reach the Troitskoye-Pokrovskoye-Novaya Duvanka-Svatovo line.

With forces of one, two and, partially, three battalions of the 14th Brigade, Ukrainian formations are advancing from the south of Olshany and from the west of Pershotravneve.

Russian artillery crews and MLRS are firing barrage at the areas of advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, preventing them from gaining a foothold on the outskirts.

The missile strike of the RF Armed Forces destroyed the deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sinkovka. The surviving units were moved to Petropavlovka. To cover the Ukrainian grouping, an air defense system of an unidentified type was deployed to Kupyansk.

Meanwhile, a Russian reconnaissance and sabotage group carried out a successful raid on Ukrainian positions on the southern outskirts of Kupyansk-Uzlovy, destroying a stronghold with personnel.

In the Limansko-Svatovsky sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to accumulate forces for an offensive on Svatovo and Kremennaya. However, due to failures in the Kupyansky sector, the command is afraid to storm the lines because of a possible blow to the flank.

Russian artillery and aviation are conducting massive fire on the areas of concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, forcing them to constantly change positions.

The Osa and Tor air defense systems were deployed to Ivanovka, and an advanced repair and restoration point for equipment was organized in the vicinity of Peschanyi.

12:01 Volunteers from all over Russia come to the international brigade "Pyatnashka".

Another group of volunteers from the Kirov region, Karachay-Cherkessia, Tatarstan and Kazakhstan have been retrained and have already begun to perform combat missions as part of the Pyatnashka international brigade. Video NM DNR.

11:27 It is reported that the fighters of the Wagner PMC are already in Artemovsk (Bakhmut).

11:05 Between Sukhoi Stavok and Kostromka (Kherson direction), our tanks are crushing the Armed Forces of Ukraine.VideoArchangel of the Special Forces.

10:30 Repair crews have restored the gas supply to Kakhovka in the Kherson region, which was disrupted after the terrorist attack on September 29, the administration of Nova Kakhovka said.

10:25 Parsing consequences of yesterday's strike on one of the objects in Zaporozhye.

It is also reported that during the attack on the barracks of the 55th artillery brigade (arrivals of "Geranes") there was a significant number of dead and wounded.

10:02 Front-line summary for the morning of 10/09/22. In the direction of Kherson, the Russian army attempted a counterattack in the area of ​​Ternovy Pod.

On the Krivoy Rog section of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assault operations were carried out from the previously occupied Trifonovka towards Pyatikhatka. A significant part of the territory in this area is in the "grey zone". Also from the side of Dudchan, the Ukrainian army tried to advance on the right bank of the Dnieper.

This is a very important sector of the front. The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is holding back the branch of the Dnieper. Next, two more. On the way to Berislav. Russian artillery is active in this area.

She is not silent in the Zaporozhye direction. Shelling of positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on almost the entire line of contact. The goal is strikes against the concentrating Ukrainian troops. The third operational direction of their offensive is quite looming.

And on the Donetsk front, the Russian army is attacking. She entered Novomikhailovka and is advancing towards Victory.

This is a settlement, not a signal of triumph. It also storms the fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnogorovka.

To the north it attacks in the area of ​​​​Nevelskoye and Pervomaisky.

In the latter case, the struggle for a section of the M-04 highway.

To the north-east of Avdiivka - assault operations of the Russian army in the area of ​​​​Kamianka and Vesyologo. The goal is to cut a section of the H-20 railroad.

Fierce fighting southeast of Bakhmut. PMC "Wagner" attack. They are advancing on the city from the northeast.

To the south-east of Soledar, the Russian army is again trying to advance in the area of ​​​​the village of Bakhmutskoye. This is reported wargonzo.

09:30 The 2nd Army Corps of the LPR celebrated the eighth anniversary of its formation, the mobilized military personnel of the RF Armed Forces are being trained at the training grounds of the Republic, meanwhile, the military personnel of the People's Militia, with fire support from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, continue to successfully defend the territorial integrity of the Luhansk People's Republic, and volunteers, with the support of the defense department continue to deliver the necessary humanitarian supplies to the needy residents of the Republic.VideoNM LPR

09:20 Soldiers of the 100th Brigade stormed the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The assault group of the 3rd Rifle Battalion of the 100th Guards Brigade, after artillery preparation, was able to occupy and clear the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pervomaisky area.

08:25 The Kyiv regime has accumulated a large number of mercenaries from more than 30 countries on the line of contact in the Zaporozhye region, Rogov said, RIA Novosti reports.

08:02 Russian paratroopers on the front line received letters from pupils of the international children's center "Artek".

Hundreds of children from all over the country wrote words of support to the soldiers who are now performing tasks in the zone of the special military operation. The children expressed their respect and noted the bravery of the Airborne Forces, their courage and heroism.

01:44 Night work of Russian rocket artillery against enemy targets.

0:53 Destroyed Ukrainian armored vehicles in the Kharkiv direction: several BTR-4E and BMP.

01:11 Russian army destroyed column of APU equipment in the Zaporozhye region:

- BTR-80
- BMD-2
- Presumably T-72M1

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#1  Here's some more pictures for Badanov and the rest of the Russians( or right wing USA nuts like Tucker Carlson) here to keep in your dreams:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1579404420777140225
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962 || 10/10/2022 9:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Putin admits he ordered these missile strikes on civilian targets, at the very least a warrant by INTERPOL should be issued for his arrest, effectively keeping him in the moral vomit nation he runs:

https://twitter.com/NikaMelkozerova/status/1579439835408138241
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962 || 10/10/2022 10:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Time for the West to call for a negotiated settlement. Ukraine is a financial wreck. 1/3 of crops planted. Western gifts spent. With Russian buildup being massive with Ukraine personnel spent that they are using women and seniors to throw away. So what does the West do. Sanctions haven't worked as with everything else done to help Ukraine. It will not be Russia using Nuclear but I suspect the West. I rather suspect it will be a Biden walkaway.
Posted by: Dale || 10/10/2022 19:28 Comments || Top||

#4  a warrant by INTERPOL should be issued for his arrest

Who will bell that cat, when it requires going deep into Russia to put the handcuffs on him? Interpol is merely an information clearinghouse, with no ability to act on its own. Arresting heads of state is the action of conquerer once the enemy has surrendered.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2022 20:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Ukraine is a financial wreck.

Most of the aid has been stolen, which should have been foreseen by anyone who bothered to recall that Ukraine is the most corrupt shithole in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Ukrainian government is now 100% subsidized by US taxpayers. Billions every month into the pockets of thieves like Zelensky, his puppet master Kolomoisky and dozens of other grifters.

The Ukrainian economy is now a 4th world basket case. Two-thirds of its GDP is gone. The cost to rebuild the country — which will of course be borne by US taxpayers — will be at least 6 times the lost GDP, probably 7-8x given how corrupt the government is. That’s another bill for US taxpayers of up to $960 billion.

So if you liked the Afghan and Iraqi sinkholes, you’ll love Ukraine.
Another fucking TRILLION US DOLLARS WASTED.

Why do we tolerate this shit?
How do our leaders get away with it, again and again and again?
Posted by: Billy B || 10/10/2022 22:03 Comments || Top||

#6  $350 billion of Russian oil and gas money sitting in Euro banks is kaput for the KBG colonel. All frozen and packaged for the use of Ukrainians to rebuild. Any electronic dollars Russia has or will earn in the future will also be confiscated and used to rebuild Ukraine. We might even come out of this with a profit.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 22:54 Comments || Top||

#7  “We might turn a profit”

Finally outed yourself as a Ukrainian grifter.

From the trillion dollars we will flush down the Ukraine toilet, a few hundred billion will find their way into Ukrainian offshore accounts.

Hey that’s no problem for a US administration that since the war started has destroyed $12 TRILLION in Americans’ wealth and trillions more in list savings thanks to their hyperinflation.

These fuckers are literally making us poorer and weaker and sliding down the slope toward nuclear war.

Unfuckingbelievable. Even more bizarre is to see masochists like our friend asking for more.
Posted by: Billy B || 10/10/2022 23:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Stupid Sovok. Russia already lost lost $500 billion frozen in foreign banks. Consider it the Ukrainian rainy day fund. All your elites bank deposits, real estate, yachts, airplanes and anything else of value will be confiscated. That will be a pretty penny penny. Years of stolen wealth frozen in an instant.

The war is bleeding the Russian treasury near $billion each day as oil and gas and output is decreasing. This while total US spending (weapons, financial aid, purchases of foreign weapons and ammunition, airlift, US troop deployments, intel, US stockpile restocking, long term weapons purchases) total $50 billion. And a $billion still means a lot in poor Russia. In America, with an economy 10 times larger, a $billion doesn't mean nearly as much.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 23:47 Comments || Top||

#9  You’re deranged. Get a life, you dope.

Or just go work for the Democrats.

There’s no room for Uke-grifters and their shills in the Republican Party that Trump leads.

Trump Blames U.S. for 'Almost Forcing' Putin to Invade Ukraine
Newsweek
BY ANDREW STANTON ON 10/8/22 AT 5:36 PM EDT
Posted by: Billy B || 10/10/2022 23:53 Comments || Top||

#10  This manic clown works for Zelensky — more accurately, for the fucking thief and Zelensky puppet master Ihor Kolomoisky

U.S. Sanctions Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, Billionaire Behind Zelensky, Over Corruption Allegations
Posted by: Palermo || 10/10/2022 23:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Trump blames Biden for being weak, saying that a limitied incursion was OK, telling the Russians what the US won't do. Weakness.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 23:59 Comments || Top||


Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: October 9th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:47 They report arrivals in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the house on 7th street is on fire. Friendly.

Information is being specified

23:15 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 9, received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:

- st. Agrotekhnicheskaya, 9, 11, 13 - private residential buildings.

Leninsky district:
- st. Grizodubova - in the square between houses No. 39 - No. 48, fragments of a 9K57 Uragan MLRS cluster shell were found (air defense was shot down).

As of 23:00, the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks on October 9, 2022 is three people. The information continues to flow.

For today, as of 23:00, the enemy fired 160 different types of ammunition, including 155mm and 152mm artillery.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

22:08 Report in Kherson:

"The enemy, with the help of the RTGR (Tactical Group), with the support of tanks, tried to break into the junction of our units in the direction of Borozenskoye, was rebuffed and retreated to their original positions, having lost three tanks and five infantry fighting vehicles."

Two GUR officers were taken prisoner in the Andreevsky direction. Video from the interrogation is expected.

21:38 Australian armored vehicles Bushmaster PMV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed by the Russian army in the Kharkiv region -a photo.

19:40 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 9, receivedadditionalinformation on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):

- st. Dagestanskaya, 23 "a" - a private residential building; two cars were also damaged.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

19:21 Mobile communication has been restored in Energodar, as well as electricity supply.

Water supply will be carried out in the near future - Vladimir Rogov.

18:31 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 9, received additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Petrovsky district):

- as a result of an explosion on a mine PFM "Petal", a man born in 1973 was wounded.

As of 18:30 on October 9, 76 cases of undermining civilians have already been registered in the Republic, incl. three children, on mines PFM "Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

18:24 In the Petrovsky district of Donetsk on the street. A man born in 1973 was wounded on a banned anti-personnel mine PFM-1 “Petal” dropped by VFU. Delivered to RTC.

17:50 At least four explosions thundered in Kherson, the Russian air defense system is supposedly working, a TASS correspondent reported.

17:34 An explosive device went off on the side of the civilian supply bypass road near Melitopol near the village of Sadovoe.VideoRIA Novosti.

17:31 The village of Zaitsevo is completely taken and cleared by the fighters of the Wagner PMC.

An important enemy fortified area in Zaitsevo has been broken into, the situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine southeast of Artemovsk continues to deteriorate.

17:17 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 9, receivedadditionalinformation on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):

- per. Quartzite, 20, 22, 24, 26, 51, 53, 55 - private residential buildings.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

17:00 Under the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was a temporary accommodation center for citizens. Video NM DNR.

16:49 Alexey Kulemzin reports:

The shelling of the Kuibyshev region continues. In the high-risk area Grabari, Zastantsionny, Oktyabrsky mine, Adminsettlement, Gornyak, Lozovsky, Severny Settlement.

16:45 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 9, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kyiv region):

Wounded:

- man born in 1945
- woman born in 1944

Received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Leninsky district):

- st. I. Tkachenko, 122 - a direct hit in the transformer substation-220kW on the territory of the Donetsk Metallurgical Plant.

n.p. Alexandrovka:

- st. Lenina, 32 - a fire was recorded in a private residential building.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

16:32 Effects of shelling by Ukrainian militants st. Sheet rolling in the Kiev region of Donetsk.

15:46 Videothe consequences of the arrival of HIMARS at the temporary accommodation center for citizens in the Starobilsk region (LPR).

The Ukrainian Armed Forces stuffed the rocket with tungsten balls that can pierce a car through and through. The Ukrainian military hoped that this would lead to more casualties.

According to RT, one man was injured - he had a wound on his cheek, but he refused hospitalization.

15:30 Four people were injured during the shelling of Energodar by militants, RIA Novosti reports.

"Four residents of Energodar were injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops of the Victory Park and the beach of the city. Three people have minor injuries, one victim received moderate injuries," Rogov said.

14:48 Effects of shelling of the city of Starobelsk (LPR) by the armed formations of Ukraine.

As a result of the shelling of N. p. Starobelsk using the American M142 HIMARS MLRS (in total, the enemy fired one missile of the M30A1 GMLRS type with striking elements in the form of shrapnel), one civilian was injured (he refused hospitalization), damage was received: bakery and four residential buildings. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.

14:20 Kalininsky, Leninsky and Voroshilovsky districts under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine - head of the administration of Donetsk Alexei Kulemzin.

14:05 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 9, received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

n.p. Staromikhaylovka:

- st. Kotovsky, 34 - a private residential building.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

13:00 Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation inspect the site of night shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of a residential building and shopping malls in the center of Donetsk.

The Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported that one person was injured.Video: Vadim Belozertsev/TASS

12:55 Afternoon summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on October 9, 2022.

12:20 Ukrainian troops fired at a school in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, one of the rounds did not explode and broke through the ceilings of four floors .Video RIA Novosti.

12:05 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 9, receivedadditionalinformation on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):

- st. Makharadze, 34 - a private residential building.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

11:58 Fixation of consequences of shelling of Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk 08.10.2022

Military experts of the DPR JCCC confirmed fact of shelling of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, using artillery of 155mm caliber, and also specified the direction of firing. So, VFU fired from the direction of their positions located in the area of the settlement. Novoselovka First.

It has been established that the shelling of the central region of Donetsk by the VFU was carried out using weapons supplied by NATO countries. The countries of the collective West, together with Ukraine, continue to terrorize civilians and destroy the social infrastructure of the Republic.

As a result of the shelling wound received by a man born in 1983

fixed damage at two addresses:

- st. Artema, 80 "a" - an apartment building;
- st. Artema, 119 - an apartment building, a store "Diamant" and "Allo".

11:50 A HIMARS rocket with shrapnel was struck at a gathering place for refugees from the Kharkiv region.

The temporary accommodation center for civilians has been located on the outskirts of Starobelsk for more than a day. Refugees and evacuees from Izyum, Kupyansk and other settlements arrive there. People are fleeing the war and the Ukrainian genocide. About it in my telegram channelreportedRodion Miroshnik.

The goal was chosen consciously. The missile is loaded with submunitions to kill people. The JCCC of the LPR promised photos and videos from the impact site in the near future.

Saved by the fact that no one spent the night there that night. People were met, issued and taken to other places of accommodation. And it flew there.

"So I ask what is the name of the government that gives such orders and what to call the freaks who shoot refugees," writes Miroshnik.

11:48 Effects of enemy shelling of a residential building in Donetsk.

Employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia /RIAN/ work on the spot.

11:21 AFU shelled the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.

Ukrainian militants from positions in Krasnogorovka opened fire on residential areas of the Kirovsky district of the city. NATO artillery of 155mm caliber is used against the population.

11:05 Effects of shelling by the Ukrainian military of school No. 7 in Donetsk.

The impact hit the third floor of the building. According to preliminary data, no one was hurt. There were no children in the classes, as they are on distance learning.

10:58 Effects of night shelling of the village of Azotny. Kuibyshev region.

10:53 The enemy resumed fan attacks on Donetsk.

Under massive artillery fire of NATO caliber of the 4th district of the capital of the Republic. About 15 rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.

10:47 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 9, received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kalinin district):

- st. P. Osipenko, 18 - MBOU "School No. 7 in Donetsk".

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

10:35 AFU attacked the Kalininsky district of Donetsk.

Ukrainian militants from positions in Netailovo attacked the Kalininsky district of the city. NATO artillery of 155mm caliber is used in residential areas of Donetsk.

10:31 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 10.30 09.10.2022

The Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which are not military targets.

Over the past day, according to the information of the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired 253 units of ammunition from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the districts of eleven settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, three civilians were killed and six were injured. Seventeen housing constructions and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS, three armored vehicles, two pickup vehicles and three UAVs.

Losses in enemy manpower amounted to 50 people.

Currently, a set of works is underway to clear anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C).

10:00 AFU fired at the Kyiv district of Donetsk from positions in Orlovka. NATO artillery with a caliber of 155mm is working against the civilian population.

10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of 09.10.2022

Over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:

- up to 60 personnel;
- two artillery installations;
- one long-term firing point;
- one armored personnel carriers;
- eight units of special vehicles.

The enemy continues shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements.

Since the beginning of the current day, the armed formations of Ukraine have fired at the settlement. Starobelsk using the American MLRS M142 HIMARS, firing one missile. As a result of the shelling, a temporary accommodation facility for citizens of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR on the outskirts of the city was damaged. There were no reports of casualties, damage is being specified.

Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Lugansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining. During October 8, they cleared more than six hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Malinove and Peschanoe.

The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, are delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas. With the support of the NM of the LPR, volunteer Anton Volkov delivered humanitarian aid to the needy residents of Severodonetsk.

09:33 Utilities liquidate consequences of the shelling of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk.

09:25 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 9, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kyiv region):

- st. Sobinova, 134, 136 - apartment buildings.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

09:15 Armed formations of Ukraine launched a missile attack on the temporary accommodation of citizens of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR near the city of Starobelsk.

At 01.35 VFU according to the settlement Starobelsk was struck with the use of MLRS HIMARS (one missile).

As a result of the shelling, a temporary accommodation facility for citizens of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR on the outskirts of the city was damaged.

There were no reports of casualties, damage is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.

09:10 AFU are shelling Gorlovka.

Ukrainian militants from positions in Dyleevka are shelling residential areas of Gorlovka. 152mm artillery is used against the civilian population.

09:05 Front line: combat work of the 11th Regiment of the DPR and the battalion "Somalia" beat the enemy in the village of Pervomaiskoye.

The assault group knocks out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the settlement. Artillery strikes on militant firing points are corrected personally by the battalion commander, assisted by Mavic drones.

One of the most tense moments when the artillery falls silent. This means that the assault team has come close to the enemy and now there is close combat, transmits corr. iz.ru Semen Eremin.

08:51 At the operational lines of the JCCC DPR received additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic for October 8:

n.p. Svetloe (Starobeshevsky district):

- a man born in 1985 was wounded.

Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks on October 8, 2022 is nine people (three died, six injured). The information continues to flow.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

08:50 Information on the shelling of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on 09.10.2022

08:15 It is reported that Oktyabrsky in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk is under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

08:01 Effects of shelling by Ukrainian militants of Artem Street, Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk.

08:00 During the day, three people were killed and 6 wounded on the territory of the DPR.

Over the past day, from 08:00 on October 8 to 08:00 on October 9, three civilians were killed and six people were injured as a result of shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.

07:55 AFU attacked the Kievsky district of Donetsk.

As a result of the shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Kievsky district of the city on the street. Sobinov's apartment buildings were damaged.

07:19 Over the past day on October 8, 2022, the representation of the LPR in the JCCC did not record shelling in settlements.

0:55 Rogov announced the shelling of the barracks of the Ukrainian artillery brigade in Zaporozhye.

0:35 Effects of strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk.

0:33 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 8, receivedadditionalinformation on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Voroshilovsky district):

- a man born in 1983 was wounded.

As of 00:30, the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks for October 8, 2022 is eigt people (three dead, five injured). The information continues to flow.

Received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Voroshilovsky district):

- st. Artema, 80a - multi-apartment residential building.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

0:21 Ukrainian troops fired a 155mm projectile at the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk. Correspondents of RIA Novosti transmit the first footage from the scene: a residential building on Artem Street and shops were badly damaged. One person was hurt.VideoRIA Novosti.

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Chronicle of the civil war in Georgia: total looting of militants
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Borislav Agadzhanov

[REGNUM] Political confrontation between nationalist organizations in 1990-1991 quickly led Georgia to civil war.

Continued on Page 49
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China-Japan-Koreas
If China’s turning away from Russia, someone forgot to tell CCTV
[Twitter]
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#1  Of course as a true blue Americanski Rednack in the style of Nathan Bedford Forrest Gump I always take into consideration the opinion of… (rolls D20) Nicaragua and (rolls D12) China.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/10/2022 18:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Oboy — that there is triple distilled sarcasm, Snowy Thing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2022 20:43 Comments || Top||


Europe
Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin was asked about a potential off-ramp for Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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#1  She ain't wrong.
Posted by: badanov || 10/10/2022 13:20 Comments || Top||


Germany prepares an aid package to Ukraine, including warm uniforms and equipment for conducting combat in winter conditions
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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#1  ...GERMANY: "Trust us on this one."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/10/2022 10:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Chermans are gonna need those coats and blankets for themselves soon right now
#FreezeInTheDark2023
Posted by: Palermo || 10/10/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 - Heh
Posted by: Frank G || 10/10/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Germany is reportedly doing a swap for 100 armored vehicles from Greece and Slovakia to Ukraine. In its place, the the Germans will backfill with their equipment.
Greece Sends 40 Tanks BMP-1s to Ukraine, Gets German Hardware in Return
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 12:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump Ally Mike Flynn Attacks Ukraine's Zelensky: 'Dangerous Fool'
General Flynn’s preferences are long known. Why is Newsweek fanning flames about it now?
[Newsweek] Michael Flynn, an outspoken ally of former President Donald Trump, had harsh words for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday.

Flynn previously served as a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army before taking on the role of national security adviser in the early days of the Trump administration. He resigned from the position amid a controversy over his communications with a Russian ambassador and has been generally noted for his strong connections to Russia throughout his various careers.

On Saturday, Flynn appeared on the conservative, pro-QAnon web series, "The Mel K Show," where he discussed the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. In a clip shared to Twitter by left-leaning pundit Ron Filipkowski, the former Trump official offered strong praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, calling them "bold leaders who have everything at stake in terms of protecting their country." Flynn also derided Zelensky, calling him a "foolish person, a dangerous fool."
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#1  Look at how hard Newsweek works to discredit Flynn before ever getting around to telling his side of the story.

1984's Ministry of Truth could do no better. Journalists truly are the enemy of the people.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 10/10/2022 1:35 Comments || Top||

#2  General Flynn’s preferences are long known. Why is Newsweek fanning flames about it now?

It’s part of the massive wave of bullshit that’s now rolling across the US and UK media. In reality, Zelensky and his entourage are losing their grip because they’re terrified. They know that opinion is turning against them in the West. They’ve been playing Washington like a violin, and they can see that the new GOP majority will end their grift after November.

Future Ukraine Aid May Hinge on Control of Congress in 2023
VOA
October 04, 2022 6:48 PM

We got a glimpse of this fear in the hysterical reaction of Zelensky and that Banderite Nazi-lover, Melnyk, to Musk’s peace proposal. Trump is calling for peace, Musk is calling for peace, GOP senators like Sasser of Tennessee and Hawley of Missouri are publicly saying no more aid to Ukrainian thieves. The Germans are shifting against the war. Public opinion is moving the same way all over Europe.

The gravy train is coming to an end. This is why the little man in the T-shirt is now squealing like a stuck pig and saying crazy shit like calling for his sugar daddy to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Russia. In four weeks the Republicans will control Congress and start winding down US aid. Can’t happen too soon.
Posted by: Palermo || 10/10/2022 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Correction: Sen. Hagerty of Tennessee. The Trump wing of the Party will bring in dozens of new Congressmen who are determined to stop the Ukrainian slush fund and use those billions to defend our own border.

Musk’s tweets and Trump’s calls for peace were the just the shots across the bow.
Posted by: Palermo || 10/10/2022 8:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Just stay out of it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/10/2022 8:33 Comments || Top||

#5  The Dangerous Fool is the man who order the invasion of a sovereign neighboring country in February.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/10/2022 8:43 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 Just stay out of it.

That is exactly what Trump is recommending. Ditto for JD Vance and the other Trump-endorsed candidates.

The talk in Washington is all about how Biden & Co. will have to pivot and move on after the GOP takes over Congress on November 8. The knives are out for Nuland. Sullivan may also be on his way out.

No one can even identify any vital interest in that shitty country, let alone explain why it should take precedence over China and all the catastrophes we’re facing now — stagflation, the collapse of the border, the collapse of Europe and with it the end of German support for NATO, etc etc.
Posted by: Billy B || 10/10/2022 9:08 Comments || Top||

#7  The most dangerous fool is the man in the White House who ordered NATO to invade Eastern Europe.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2022 12:05 Comments || Top||

#8  What was Putin supposed to do? Knuckle under and let those Tomahawk missiles with nuclear warheads be deployed on Ukraine's border with Russia? How did you feel when Khrushchev tried that in Cuba?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2022 12:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Wow Abu. Your recall of facts is as lacking as Joe Biden w/o a teleprompter.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 12:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Maybe you can help me out, Snash. Who was it last year who was insisting that NATO would expand into Ukraine? I was pretty sure it was Joe. What am I missing?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2022 12:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Just stay out of it.

Tough to stay out of it when Biden hits us up for $100 billion and counting to pay for his invasion of Ukraine.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2022 12:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Does anybody here remember the Cuban missile crisis? Anybody? I think Kennedy had a much stronger hand to play when that happened than Putin does now. Kennedy had the US Navy and undisputed control of the Atlantic Ocean. But Putin has a third rate army whose soldiers are currently getting their asses kicked. How was he going to restore the Soviet Union with that ragtag bunch of losers? You seriously believe he wanted this war? He's 70 years old. He's not Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Napoleon or Hitler. He's an old man. He knows better.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||

#13  Biden is an old man too but, as we all know, he doesn't even know how to tie his shoes.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2022 12:46 Comments || Top||

#14  Ukraine will join NATO, just as Ukraine will join the EU. It is now a given, while in January of this year it was a pipe dream that the western Euros would never allow as long as they were smoking the Russian pipe. Thank your Uncle Vlad for that.

As for NATO invading eastern Europe, can you describe the order of battle, the route taken and the enemy units smashed? I must have slept through that. Or are you thinking of 1956 and 1968? Maybe you need to go further to 1939 and 1940? Perhaps close calls like in 1948, 1956 and 1962?
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 12:49 Comments || Top||

#15  You seriously believe he wanted this war?

Are you nuts? Who gave the order to invade? Who invaded who, under the mistaken impression the Ukrainians would welcome the Russians with flowers and pastries?

Putin is attempting to resemble the Soviet Union and probably the old Warsaw Pact. He won't stop if he is successful in Ukraine. Lukashenka already exposed the battle map where, in the next stage, the Russians invade Moldova. Then it will be Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Then the Stans. Then Poland, ... Where are do you draw the line? Do you have a line?

Putin is an aging fossil that needs to become extinct.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||

#16  Yeah, they're going right through Ukraine, the exact same way that all would be conquerors from Western Europe have always invaded. Order of battle? HIMARS, Javelins, satellites for battlefield intel and targeting. One hundred billion dollars worth of sophisticated military hardware. One hundred billion and counting. Putin had to know he could never match that.

What? You think Zelensky's boys are doing that all by themselves? LOL.

I have to go to work now, Snash. It's been nice having this little conversation with you.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2022 13:00 Comments || Top||

#17  BLUF: There is no way in hell this can be viewed as a Putin success story.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/10/2022 13:12 Comments || Top||

#18  One hundred billion dollars worth of sophisticated military hardware.

About $17.5 billion military aid, some of which won't be delivered for another 3 years. But I feel like I am haggling with you, like a prostitute, only for the freedom of 44 million people. Is your logic as flawed as your math?

Since money seems more important to you than freedom, should the USA have spent trillions during the Cold War? Would you rather have the Russians and Chinese in Canada and Mexico and saved a few dollars?

Yeah, they're going right through Ukraine

You're as confused as Joe Biden on an Aderall free day. You said the USA invaded Eastern Europe. I asked how. Then you come back with some Russian fantasy novel of how heroic, and shirtless, Ramboskis are slicing through a hapless Ukraine despite evil HiMars and Javelins. Got news for you, Russia is stuck in a briar patch and the Ukrainians are tearing the Russian army a new one and taking back their land. God willing, with increase US and European aid and intel, they will retake all invaded lands soon.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 13:27 Comments || Top||

#19  Well, he’s split America into two warring camps, discredited America as a global leader, brought down four western governments, destroyed Ukraine beyond recognition and cemented his control over Crimea and the Eastern land bridge. Not bad for just seven months.
Posted by: Palermo || 10/10/2022 13:42 Comments || Top||

#20  You mistake debate for discord. It happens all the time for people who are stuck in totalitarian regimes.

Russia is isolated for at least the next 2 generations. They are lsing ground on the battlefield. Production is being strangled and they can't replace the weapons and young men they waste. If that is "not bad", I'd hate to see "worse".
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 13:49 Comments || Top||

#21  “Debate,” lol

“Discord” isn’t strong enough, either. The cold war in America now is between the Woke liberal globalists and the America First patriots.

There is no debate because the Woke globalists have used their near-total control in the institutions of the Deep State, the media and Big Tech and its censors to suppress, bully and harass dissenting voices.

They are using every means short of F-15s against America First patriots — and their demented shithead of a POTUS has even hinted at using those as well.
Posted by: Chaim || 10/10/2022 14:31 Comments || Top||

#22  Off the "silly old Cold Warriors" pile from a few days back...

Their red, wrinkled buttocks are blistery,
But still they persist! 'Tis a mystery
Why starry-eyed chekists
From Brest to Uzbekistan
Seek to make Soviet history.
Posted by: Daffy the Obscure6560 || 10/10/2022 15:34 Comments || Top||

#23  Seek Strive. And a very happy Double Ten Day to all.
Posted by: Daffy the Obscure6560 || 10/10/2022 15:44 Comments || Top||

#24  #20 I remember a lot of recent articles about a demographics crisis in Russia. Losing a lot of military age men will not be helpful.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/10/2022 17:09 Comments || Top||

#25  And a very happy Double Ten Day to all.

And to you! Here in America, it is also Indigenous Genocide Day. Let's all sing:

In fourteen hundred and ninety three,
Columbus sailed the deep blue sea,
Saving the natives from savagery,
And bringing them MTV.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/10/2022 17:13 Comments || Top||

#26  In fourteen hundred ninety-four
Dat Genovese bastid made us poor,
So hide inside and lock your door,
For Kitty G.'s a racist -----.
Posted by: Daffy the Obscure6560 || 10/10/2022 18:06 Comments || Top||

#27  I've observed 10/10 as Gamble Rogers Day. Double 10 is a new one - I'll need to work that in... minus the Stinky Tofu.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/10/2022 18:10 Comments || Top||

#28  #20 is missing some important modifiers. Try
Oil production is being strangled in America and industrial production is being strangled in Germany and they the Deep State can't replace the Pentagon’s weapons but they can and will replace with illegals the young white American men they waste.”

FIFY
Posted by: Chaim || 10/10/2022 18:15 Comments || Top||

#29  Then you come back with some Russian fantasy novel of how heroic, and shirtless, Ramboskis are slicing through a hapless Ukraine despite evil HiMars and Javelins.

I don't recall saying anything at all like that. Check out #12 where I said the following:

But Putin has a third rate army whose soldiers are currently getting their asses kicked. How was he going to restore the Soviet Union with that ragtag bunch of losers? You seriously believe he wanted this war?

I think the problem is not my memory but that you are misrepresenting what other people say. It's a piss poor debate strategy but if you need to avoid the truth I suppose it's all you have.

If I accused you in the past of being Ukrainian I believe now I was mistaken. You sound more like a Democrat. An old school LBJ, Bill Clinton, Baraq Obama, Joe Biden type Democrat attempting to justify with lies what cannot be justified with truth.

You never answer any of the questions I pose. You only spout more bullshit. Answer me this one question: Where does this little war of yours stop?

Hitler told Stalin he would stop at Poland and Stalin believed him. Right now Putin appears to be losing this war. You may be right about one thing. It may well be a done deal that Ukraine will join NATO and the EU, albeit at gunpoint and never mind that a lot of Europeans are wondering if they made a mistake getting involved in the EU. But at least Putin knows better than to believe Joe Biden.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2022 18:34 Comments || Top||

#30  Tough to stay out of it when Biden hits us up for $100 billion and counting to pay for his invasion of Ukraine

Don’t forget 10% for The Big Guy.
Plus hookers & blow for The Little One.
Posted by: Billy B || 10/10/2022 19:24 Comments || Top||

#31  Abu, you wrote

Yeah, they're going right through Ukraine, the exact same way that all would be conquerors from Western Europe have always invaded.

and

The most dangerous fool is the man in the White House who ordered NATO to invade Eastern Europe.


Those are false staements. Also false is

What was Putin supposed to do? Knuckle under and let those Tomahawk missiles with nuclear warheads be deployed on Ukraine's border with Russia?

Though I attribute this to your ignorance. There are no nuclear Tomahawks anywhere. Not even in the US inventory. They have been retired. There are a hundred nuclear B-61 gravity bombs under shared custody with several NATO members. There are no nuclear weapons in eastern Europe, though the Poles want them after what are the Russians are doing in Ukraine. Also, the INF treaty was dissolved due to blatant cheating on the part of Putin's Russia.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 23:21 Comments || Top||

#32  If I accused you in the past of being Ukrainian I believe now I was mistaken. You sound more like a Democrat. An old school LBJ, Bill Clinton, Baraq Obama, Joe Biden type Democrat attempting to justify with lies what cannot be justified with truth.

I'll take the Ukrainian as a complement, though I have not a drop. I see you as scared fool who will let a KBG thug conquer, murder and commit genocide as long as he waves his nuclear prick about.

You never answer any of the questions I pose. You only spout more bullshit. Answer me this one question: Where does this little war of yours stop?

It stops in Ukraine, when the Russians are thrown out. Back at you. Is there anywhere you would stop Putin?

Hitler told Stalin he would stop at Poland and Stalin believed him.


And you believe Putin? Let Putin have his way in Ukraine and that will be the end of it. Honest Hitler.

NATO and EU do not take in members at gunpoint. You are confusing them with the Warsaw Pact.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 23:33 Comments || Top||

#33  as long as he waves his nuclear prick about

Better a nuclear prick than a dwarf comedian’s tiny piano-playing prick:

IDIOCRACY: VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY PLAYING PIANO WITH HIS PEN!S
Posted by: Slolush Guelph4787 || 10/10/2022 23:42 Comments || Top||

#34  Right. And you think the magician really saws the lady in half. Dummy.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/10/2022 23:56 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Exodus from Russia: Will Israel accept thousands of fleeing Jews?
Yes. The law also includes those with at least one Jewish grandparent who haven’t practiced Judaism for two generations.
[Jpost] Tens of thousands of Russian Jews say they want to make aliyah, but is Israel ready to accept them?
Israel was literally born ready.
‘If anyone [any Jew] from our community asks me if they should make aliyah to Israel under the current circumstances, I tell the vast majority to leave,” Rabbi Boruch Gorin, head of the Public Relations Department of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday in a phone interview from Russia.

Gorin is a member of the Chabad movement and close to Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar. The fact that Gorin would say such a thing publicly explains that Russia is in a very different place since President Vladimir Putin decided to draft men over the age of 18.

Gorin said that during this past Yom Kippur in Moscow, he saw about 20% fewer congregants than usual.

“It’s not a rumor; people are leaving Russia,” he said. “Most of those who have left or who plan to leave are people that have boys around that age of the draft, or [where] the father of the family may be at that age. These families are scared and frightened that the borders will be closed [for men].”
Asked whether he is considering leaving the country, Gorin responded that he was sent back to Russia by the Lubavitcher Rebbe after he left in 1991.

AS REPORTED by the Post, Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata requested a budget of NIS 1 billion and received approval for only NIS 90 million in urgent funds for the new Russian olim. Expectations are of tens of thousands of Russian olim in the next few months.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  The more gun-toting, non-humanist Jews in Israel the better.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/10/2022 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2022 21:04 Comments || Top||



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