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-Lurid Crime Tales-
US Made Jetson TX2 NVIDIA and SoC Xilinx Zynq components in Russian Drones
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/22/2023 01:40 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, we certainly can look at how to use the presence of those components as an avenue of attack on those drones.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/22/2023 7:38 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
SpaceX further limits Starlink service in Ukraine
[New Voice of Ukraine] The Economist writes that Elon Musk became "concerned" about "escalating" the situation, so he limited the use of Starlink terminals for military purposes. That led to the Armed Forces of Ukraine losing access to satellite Internet in active warzones and Russia-occupied areas of the country.

It has now been revealed that Starlink is also using geofencing to block the use of its terminals over water and when the receiver is moving at speeds over 100 km/h.

"You can put the terminal in a boat at sea and it just stops working," says the source in the AFU.

Because of this, the Ukrainian military must now rely on other, more expensive communications systems.

Posted by: Fleter Crasing2148 || 03/22/2023 09:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


A T-55 being prepared by Russia for Ukraine
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/22/2023 03:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That is a T-34/85. You can tell by the hatch, machine gun next to it and the longer barrel.




This is a T-55
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/22/2023 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  The more they use older and older models, the more older and older anti-tank weapons can be used.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/22/2023 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Trains
Posted by: 3dc || 03/22/2023 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't know what they're doing to it in the factory...

...but I think I mentioned earlier the T-55 might have mobility advantages over some more modern tanks thanks to its lower ground pressure. I don't know if that has anything to do with this, but I thought I'd mention it again.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/22/2023 9:13 Comments || Top||

#5  From Hibernation to Humiliation? Russia Brings T-54 Tanks Out of Retirement
Posted by: Fleter Crasing2148 || 03/22/2023 9:38 Comments || Top||

#6  mobility advantages over some more modern tanks thanks to its lower ground pressure

Most lighter, even modern tanks have that advantage over the M1 and other NATO tanks. What made the T-55 nasty for its time is that it was just as good as the M-48 with a bigger gun, cheap and the Soviets could make a metric shit ton of them. They were the start of the Soviet horde nightmare that NATO had and thus the west added nukes to the battle plan. Add the new BMP-1 to the mix and NATO generals didn't have a good nights sleep until the M1 and the Bradley were deployed.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/22/2023 13:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Photo of T-55s being sent towards Ukraine

Story at link too.
Photo for those that just want a quick look:
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/22/2023 14:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Looks like T-55 turret on T-34 hull. From the pic, I can't tell the gun barrel size. The gun barrel lacks the old muzzle break, and the tracks are modern era. It's a hybrid for sure and that can't be good news for the Russers.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/22/2023 16:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Damn - the gun mantlet still looks like the ol T-34. WTF?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/22/2023 16:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Who knew we had so many tank nerds running loose? Yet another example of why Rantburg U is so great.

Lately, I've heard tell of the Russ using tanks for indirect fire. Certainly not a new idea, but the modern twist is using drones to call the shots. Tank v Tank is a whole 'nother story, but for this application, funky old tanks would serve just fine.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/22/2023 17:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Who knew we had so many tank nerds running loose?

I'm not really a tank nerd.... but as an 11BC2 I had to know how each enemy tank moved, engagement ranges, soft spots, etc. while knowing the same for friendly tanks and just kind of out of habit kept on it with the most recent upgrades and deployments.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/22/2023 18:04 Comments || Top||

#12  DV, sounds like a tank nerd to me. After 34 years as a geek, I know nerds.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/22/2023 18:07 Comments || Top||

#13  But in a good way ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 03/22/2023 19:40 Comments || Top||

#14  DV, sounds like a tank nerd to me

I'll have you know I represent that remark!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/22/2023 22:34 Comments || Top||

#15  Oh and looking for a new DnD or Twilight 2000 group.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/22/2023 22:34 Comments || Top||


Something is happening in Sevastopol
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/22/2023 03:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My gosh, this is as bad as afgoneistan and hamass.
Posted by: Papa Cookie || 03/22/2023 16:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Proof that US drones are still giving Ukrainian drones good targeting data.
Posted by: jpal || 03/22/2023 16:36 Comments || Top||


"We won't leave Europe this time. And we won't treat them like brothers, as we do in Ukraine"
Posted by: 3dc || 03/22/2023 01:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Pirates

#1  ...I wonder what color the sky is on his planet.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 03/22/2023 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, the Euros are certainly unable to remove Soloyev's faggot son from London gay bars.
Posted by: Fleter Crasing2148 || 03/22/2023 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  If the eurines are happy to go behind a new iron curtain, who are we to deny them their fondest wishes?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/22/2023 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I would certainly prefer not to be treated like Russia is once again treating Ukraine...
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/22/2023 8:20 Comments || Top||

#5  The eurines are practically already behind a new Iron Curtain. It's called the EU. They get their direction from Brussels just as the Communist Bloc got its orders from Moscow.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/22/2023 8:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Well considering the Russians shoot, rape and steal from their "brothers"...
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/22/2023 16:10 Comments || Top||


Velina Tchakarova on Russia/China.
[Twitter Velina Tchakarova] Putin got from Xi visit the insurance that China will provide the main lifeline for Moscow to survive the Western sanctions and the key defence-technological cooperation for Moscow to sustain the war of attrition.

Putin bet on China when he decided to make a move on Ukraine and his assessment turned to be correct.

Now, Russia’s victory (even frozen conflict) over Ukraine is China’s best case scenario to confront the US with two fronts in the upcoming systemic conflict between Washington and Beijing.

We’re already living in Cold War 2.0 between the West and the #DragonBear; and the moment when China decides to deliver military aid to Russia, this war will officially turn into a proxy war.

This will also be the moment when Russia officially will lose its global power status, which is why Moscow is trying to refrain from potential China’s military aid at an industrial scale as of now.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/22/2023 00:55 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Well, they launder stuff through North Korea and Iran at the moment.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/22/2023 9:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Putin must understand that Xi is not his friend any more that Xi is Biden's friend. Sometimes when you get your back to the wall you may be tempted to make a deal with the devil. Biden has no such excuse. He sold his soul to Xi just for the money.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/22/2023 12:51 Comments || Top||


Putin and Xi will continue the 'long march'
Nice reference to Mao's military strategy of gathering support as he retreated his Chinese Red Army during the 1930s

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

by Petr Akopov

[RIA] The Moscow meetings between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, which began on Monday, will continue until Wednesday, when the distinguished guest will be seen off. But there is no doubt that all the main things took place on Monday - during informal communication in the Kremlin and over a friendly one-on-one dinner. Over the past year, the two leaders met only once - in September in Samarkand (on the sidelines of the SCO summit), but there was a meeting of delegations, and informal communication was clearly limited in time. Regular telephone conversations cannot replace face-to-face communication, and now Putin and Xi will have enough time to discuss everything. But what is all this - what exactly will they discuss?

This question excited so many people both in the West and in Russia that some began to call the current meeting historical, while others expected some huge consequences from it - for example, a joint proposal by Russia and China to suspend hostilities in Ukraine and start negotiations Moscow and Kievwith Chinese mediation or announcements about the supply of Chinese weapons to Russia. But all these empty fortune-telling about anything and to nothing - because none of this will happen. However, the significance of the meeting between Putin and Xi will not become less because of this - on the contrary, it is precisely the absence of sensations that is the most important sign that Russian-Chinese relations will continue to strengthen further, becoming, in Putin's words, "the cornerstone of global stability."

Because Putin and Xi deliberately set a course for rapprochement between the two countries - even when the conflict in Ukraine did not lead to a direct confrontation between Russia and the West. Naturally, the Russian-Chinese rapprochement began back in the 90s (under Jiang Zemin) and continued into the 2000s under the predecessor Xi Hu Jintao, but in those years, Moscow and Beijing did not yet realize how much we needed each other. No, of course, the strategic nature of relations was a conscious choice of both sides, but none of them understood how soon we would have to be shoulder to shoulder against the Atlantic hegemon.

Russia was the first to give up the illusion of the possibility of postponing the clash: Putin's Munich speech became a frontier. Three years later, China rejected the American proposal for the "Big Two", rightly seeing it as a trap into which the hegemon wanted to lure the Celestial Empire catching up with it, but continued to proceed from the fact that rivalry with America would not turn into confrontation for a long time to come . By the beginning of the 1910s, Russia and China found themselves in a situation where they had to determine the scope of their cooperation: it clearly needed to be transferred to a new, higher level.

But back then, the internal situation in both countries was not conducive to this - in our country, Putin has not yet returned to the Kremlin, remaining head of government, and China was preparing to change the first person. It was only in 2012 that certainty came: Putin again became president (overcoming resistance and a swamp rebellion of the pro-Western part of the elites, and not only the oligarchs), and Xi headed the CPC. In the spring of 2013, he also became the chairman of the PRC, and during his first visit to Moscow, the same "Big Two" was formed, which has since held forty meetings.

Even then, Xi and Putin understood that they could trust a friend and that their relationship had no time limits. That is, you can work for a long time - both in bilateral relations and on the world stage (and this part of the interaction has become increasingly important). The personal trust of the leaders is the most important factor in the relations between our countries - without it, as the experience of Khrushchev and Mao has shown, even the strongest mutually beneficial alliance can collapse.

Despite the difference in the mentality and culture of China and Russia, Putin and Xi do not need to cast a shadow over the wattle fence and cunning with each other, they can afford to be frank and honest. Elements of mistrust have previously hampered the rapprochement of the two countries, not in personal relations between Xi and Putin, but in the assessment of each other by elites and authorities. In addition, such distrust was actively warmed up both by our common enemy and by pro-Western forces in our countries.

For example, in Beijing, after Trump came to power (who started a trade war with China), they were more than seriously afraid of the possibility of Russia turning towards the United States : what if Moscow wants and is able to agree with Washington on ending the confrontation over Ukraine and becomes an unreliable ally for China and rear, but a neutral observer, if not the enemy? It is clear that all these fears even then seemed far-fetched, not even because all Trump’s activities were successfully blocked by the “deep state”, but because even theoretically Moscow would not trust any promises from Washington to participate in containing China.

However, one should not forget how often in those years in Russia itself the so-called experts discussed the completely far-fetched topic of "transfer of power", that is, Putin's departure - and it becomes clear that the Chinese simply could not ignore this option. Considering the history of our country’s relations with China, they simply could not help but take into account the risk of a change in Moscow’s course after the change of the first person (a conditional tyrant like Khrushchev would come and flirt with America. Nothing would have worked out with the States, and quarreled with China ).

After the 2020 constitutional reform in Russia, all uncertainties have been removed: not only can Putin and Xi have confidence in each other, but the authorities of both countries will not be distracted by unnecessary worries. And after the start of the NWO, the renewal of the Russian elite also accelerated, and if earlier many did not take Putin's "pivot to the East" seriously enough, now even yesterday's "Westerners" have nowhere to go.

And those who chose the West (or simply did not get rid of Western-oriented thinking) can only laugh foolishly at the fact that "Xi Jinping nominated Putin for the presidency of Russia," after the Chinese President, speaking about the upcoming elections next year, said that "I am sure that the Russian people will strongly support you in your good undertakings." Attempts to convince our citizens that Russia is turning into a vassal of China are beneficial only to those who hope to separate and quarrel the Russians and the Chinese in order to prevent them from working together on the decline of the Atlantic world order. But Putin and Xi are not going to stop their "great march" along this path, and no one can knock them off it.

Posted by: badanov || 03/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Putin and Xi deliberately set a course for rapprochement between the two countries...

Hogwash. It cannot be any more than a rapprochement of convenience that will be forgotten the moment it becomes inconvenient.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/22/2023 12:56 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ So true. China has had issues with all neighbors. A marriage of convenience.
Posted by: Dale || 03/22/2023 18:13 Comments || Top||


Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief March 21st (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

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

[NewsFrontInfo] 19:48 Britain's plans put For Kyiv, shells with depleted uranium indicate that London is ready to take not just risks, but also war crimes, Lavrov believes

19:45 In the battles in Donbass destroyed Polish, Georgian and New Zealand mercenaries

Pole Pavel Sadzikovsky was killed in the battles near Kremennaya.
In the morning it was reported that a third New Zealand mercenary, an experienced militant Kane TeTai, had been killed.

In Bakhmut, 22-year-old Vano Chokheli, his family from the east of Georgia, from the village of Zemo-Kedi, Dedoplistskaro region of Kakheti, was liquidated.

Since the beginning of the NMD in Ukraine and Donbass, Russian troops have liquidated about 40 citizens of Georgia and Georgians by nationality.

18:08 There is no fascism in Ukraine. But there is one caveat -video

On the footage, a member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the call sign "Grandfather of Bandera" demonstrates a sticker on a car with a swastika of the Third Reich, donated by his brothers

18:06 Russian paratroopers stormed the positions of Ukrainian nationalists -video

One of the fighters of the assault detachment of the Airborne Forces managed to capture the moment of the capture of the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Having suppressed enemy resistance with aimed fire from small arms, heavy machine guns and grenade launchers, the paratroopers captured enemy positions and destroyed armored vehicles.

17:16 Wagner soldiers eliminated a group of war criminals and Bandera fans in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).

The list of liquidated Nazis included:

- Bedik Nikolai, call sign "Shahid", from the 2nd company of the Azov regiment. An artilleryman in the past, he wanted to kill the Russians in close combat - it didn’t work out.

- Burda Maksim, call sign "Photographer", from the 2nd company of the Azov Regiment. UAV operator.

- Parkulab Oleg, call sign "Stuntman", from the 2nd company of the Azov regiment.

- Tishchenko Anton, call sign "Stone", from the 2nd company of the Azov regiment.

- Sergey Mironchikov, militant of the Da Vinci Wolves national battalion.

- Tariel Muradov Fazil ogly, a mercenary from Azerbaijan.

16:37 Special forces destroyed the electronic warfare crew and the stationing point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video

Scouts of the special forces unit of the RF Armed Forces revealed the calculation of electronic warfare and the point of temporary deployment of Ukrainians in the Avdievka direction. With two well-aimed shots from the anti-tank systems, the targets were destroyed, the enemy suffered losses - five killed and seven wounded militants.

15:21 Polish meat -video.

14:22 Police officers in the Aleshkinsky municipal district of the Kherson region discovered on an agricultural field not far from the roadway, four 122mm rockets of the Grad multiple launch rocket system, which were left during the retreat of the VFU. The shells posed a danger to people, so the police explosives destroyed them on the spot with a controlled detonation.

14:19 Main of new Briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

− Russian troops destroyed up to 80 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk direction during the day;

− Russian air defense systems destroyed 31 Ukrainian drones and intercepted 3 HIMARS MLRS shells in a day;

− The troops of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 95 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction;

− The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 160 servicemen in the Donetsk direction in a day;

− Russian troops destroyed over 40 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the US-made M777 artillery system in the Kherson direction;

− Since the beginning of the special operation, the RF Armed Forces have destroyed more than 3,500 Ukrainian drones;

− The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the DPR in an air battle;

− The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost about 30 servicemen in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;

- The Russian Armed Forces destroyed three American-made radar stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a day.


13:01 Next neo-Nazis tried to see our positions in the Vuhledar direction, but they only saw their own death -video

12:20 Russian fighters repelled attacks of militants in the Krasnolimansk direction - nationalists tried to regain lost positions -video

The reconnaissance group of the "Center" group of troops revealed the movement of infantry and equipment of the nationalists in the direction of the stronghold and transmitted the data to the calculation of the 122mm "Grad" MLRS.

Also, a platoon of Ukrainian militants from the 67th Mechanized Brigade tried to attack in the Torsky region in the DPR. The nationalists were stopped by remote detonation of equipment in a minefield and artillery strikes.

This was stated by the head of the press center of the group "Center" of the Russian troops, Alexander Savchuk.

12:16 Several videos from the first night of the combat work of the Companiero, transmitted by the Ghost of Novorossiya -video

Successful technical solutions and broad popular support for our efforts to destroy the Ukrainian Nazis help the “Ghost” battalion to arrange such “entertainment” for the enemy every night. Popular support is growing, successful solutions are being replicated, more and more Nazis are dying.

11:13 The third New Zealand mercenary died in Ukraine, he fought on the sidenationalistsalmost a year. It is reported by Radio New Zealand

According to them, the man's name was Kane TeTai, he went to Ukraine voluntarily.

10:27 Employees liquidated and Memorial recognized as a foreign agent, searches are underway in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti

09:26 Russian artillerymen continue to fire on the positions and shelters of the ukrofashists without leaving them the slightest chance -video

08:53 Russian soldiers with an accurate shot fired Nazi military equipment with militants in it -video

08:51 Armed Forces officer, taken prisoner near Belogorovka in the LPR, said that the Russian army has a large advantage in artillery on the front near Kreminnaya -video

Yevgeny Ivannikov said that ordinary Ukrainian soldiers do not see NATO weapons on the positions.

08:17 Identities identified mercenaries who executed the Russian military in Petropavlovka

The names of almost all foreigners who took part in the murder of Russian soldiers in Petropavlovka became known. Recall that on September 27 last year, a group of four Russian servicemen collided with a platoon of mercenaries in the village of Petropavlovka, Kharkov region.

Our fighters were blocked by superior enemy forces. The mercenaries tried to persuade them to surrender through negotiations, but during their conduct they shot a Russian military man, who acted as a truce. The remaining three fighters took the fight against the platoon and died, having managed to destroy two and injure eight more mercenaries.

Foreign fighters later released a hypocritical video claiming they weren't killing prisoners. At the moment, the names of almost all the mercenaries who participated in the battle in Petropavlovka have been established.

They turned out to be:

1. US citizen Steven Keith Monroe
2. Irishman Rory Mason
3. Poles Janusz Sheremeta and
4. Krzysztov Tiefel (both Polish mercenaries were eliminated during subsequent battles)
5. American John King
6. South African citizen Steven Prislow
7. American Patrick Caldwell
8. Finn Harri Vaisanen
9. Americans Jay Black (allegedly he killed the truce)
10. and Joshua Lopez (is an open homosexual and gay porn actor)
11. Finn Ricky Arima
12. Americans Cory Weatherholt Fiddes (is the administrator of the YouTube channel where he uploads mercenary advertising content) and
13. Jericho Magallon
14. Finn Topi Huhtala
15. Briton Garion Adams
16. American Lee Johnson

The deanonymization of mercenaries became possible thanks to the systematic work carried out by a group of volunteers to find and fix the facts of participation in the conflict of foreign citizens.

08:11 The Russian military repelled the attempts of Ukrainian nationalists to regain their lost positions in the Krasnolymansk direction, Alexander Savchuk, head of the press center of the Center group, told RIA Novosti -video

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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: March 21st, 2023
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

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

[NewsFrontInfo] 22:03 In the Makiivka are arrivals.

Local resident injured in artillery attack.

22:00 In Ukraine, 20 minutes after shelling finally figured out how to hide the arrivals at Shkolny. It's like a three-story house.

21:37 Worked so well in Odessa air defense that continues to blaze an object at a military airfield.

21:33 For no one secret that on the second line of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine beyond Artemovsk (Bakhmut), which includes the cities of Seversk, Chasov Yar, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, and Slavyansk, a large grouping of enemy troops is now concentrated, which, according to estimates, will have to attack the flanks of the group's unit "Wagner" in order to cut them off from the main part of the RF Armed Forces.

Against this background, arrivals are recorded daily in the listed cities in order to inflict damage on the enemy on the outskirts of the battlefield.

It is possible that the experience of airborne assault strikes against the enemy fortifications in Avdievka will soon be applied in the Bakhmut direction, in particular against the enemy in the cities of the Slavic-Kramatorsk conglomeration.

20:58 PMC "Wagner" breaks through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut, using the "Fire Barrage."

Ukrainian military analysts report with alarm:

"The intensity of the fighting along Korsunsky Street has increased. The forces of PMC "Wagner" managed to cross the street in several places and capture several houses. The Russians use aviation and artillery tactics "Fire Barrage."

- In the Budyonovsky district, the PMC attacks in several places towards Kolodeznaya Street.

20:52 Hit retaliation: rockets hit the airfield in Odessa, from which drones flew out to attack Dzhankoy.

Local resources report an arrival at the Shkolny airfield.

19:58 Consequences of artillery attack of the village of Khanzhenkovo in Makeevka by Ukrainian militants.

19:21 Video- T-80 went to reinforce comrades in battle.

18:02 Video— Morning video from Artyomovsk. Ukrainian militants, unable to withstand the pressure of the Wagner PMC and fleeing from their positions, show gifts in backpacks. In the words of the Nazi, the question is directly read: “What are we for?”

17:42 Artyomovsk Now. Control of the territory of the city:

According to DeepStateMap:

- Armed Forces of Ukraine - 16.75%
- Territory for which ownership is unknown - 19.69%
- Wagner - 63.56%

17:12 Video– Around the clock: the crews of the Osa air defense system of the naval infantry of the Pacific Fleet cover our troops from the air from the special operation zone

One of the main tasks of anti-aircraft gunners is the fight against enemy unmanned aerial vehicles. Only one battery has more than 150 destroyed air targets.

"The targets are at different heights: from a hundred meters and above, up to 5,000. It is not difficult to find them, since the complex is equipped with everything necessary to detect them," said the head of the calculation of the Osa air defense system.

17:08 Video- Work on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Berestovoe artillery of the NM LPR.

16:28 Video- Zaporozhye direction, the work of the tank brothers. The crew of the Novorossiysk.

15:51 In the Zaporozhye region (temporarily occupied part) explosions and air raids.

15:00 UTC for the fourth time in a week trying to attack the Druzhba oil pipeline in the Bryansk region. Yesterday, at about 12:00 am, ammunition was dropped from a UAV at the facility. There were no casualties.

Previously explosive devices were dropped on 14, 15 and 16 March.

14:56 Video- The defeat of the observation post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Russian artillerymen in a forest belt in the Zaporozhye region.

14:25 Over the past day, Ukrainian militants released 105 rounds on the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, including 64 during the day. Ten of them - in the city of Alyoshki. Also under fire were the city of Golaya Pristan, town. Dnieper, the villages of Kardashinka, Pokrovka, Cossack Camps, Staraya Zburyevka, Peschanovka and Podstepnoe.

At night, the nationalists continued artillery attack civilian infrastructure in Kakhovka, Novaya Kakhovka, Gornostaevka, Vasilievka, and Korsunka. A total of 41 rounds were fired.

14:22 Video- During the next artillery attack of Alyoshek by the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a residential apartment building was destroyed.

The terrorists of the Kyiv regime again fired at the civilian infrastructure of Alyoshek - as a result of the destruction, he received a residential apartment building.

Part of the wall collapsed in the building, and windows were shattered in many apartments. The entrance door was slashed with shrapnel, and in the yard next to the playground there was a shell crater.

14:15 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (03/21/2023)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.

- In the Kupyansky direction, active actions of units, artillery fire of the "Western" group of troops hit the enemy's manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnaya, Timkovka, Kharkov Region, Novoselovskoe and Stelmakhivka, Luhansk People's Republic.

Up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles and a 152mm D-20 howitzer were destroyed.

- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the group of troops (forces) "Center" hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, Yampolovka and Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

During the day, up to 95 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in this direction.

- In the Donetsk direction, during the active operations of the units of the "Southern" group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire, the enemy's losses per day amounted to 160 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, four vehicles and a 152mm D-20 howitzer.

- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the Vostok group of troops defeated units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Ugledar, Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Preobrazhenka of the Zaporozhye region.

The losses of the enemy amounted to more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two pickup trucks, as well as a 122mm D-30 howitzer.

- In the Kherson direction, as a result of enemy fire, over 40 Ukrainian servicemen, three vehicles, two 152mm Akatsia self-propelled howitzers, as well as an M777 artillery system made in the United States were destroyed in a day.

- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated 95 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 107 districts.

In addition, three US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar stations were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Shandrigolovo in the Donetsk People's Republic, Orekhov in the Zaporozhye region and Belozerka in the Kherson region.

- Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the settlement of Nikanorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic in an air battle shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian air forces.

During the day, 31 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense means in the areas of the settlements of Tokarevka, Kharkiv region, Krasnorechenskoye, Chervonopopovka, Novovodyanoye, Kremennaya, Ploshchanka, Voevodovka, Rubizhne, Barannikovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Zeleny Gay, Harvest, Blagodatnoe, Vladimirovka, Evgenovka, Staromlinovka Donetsk People's Republic, Ulyanivka, Pologi Zaporozhye region, Novaya Zburyevka and Krynki Kherson region. In addition, three HIMARS rocket launchers were intercepted.

- In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 403 aircraft, 223 helicopters, 3,502 unmanned aerial vehicles, 414 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,363 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,070 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,403 field artillery guns and mortars, and also 9,039 units of special military vehicles.


13:50 Video- Bakhmut death road for Ukrainians and mercenaries

Ukrainian militants leave Artemovsk (Bakhmut) on a country road. Along the road there is a large number of broken vehicles.

13:35 Video- The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) from ukrovoyaki. Aviation stubbornly extinguishes.

13:06 In Ukraine, they rejoice: Su-35 was “shot down” over Donetsk, which turned out to be an APU drone.

The “plane” shot down by the Kyiv Tg-channels over Donetsk is a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone shot down by air defense on an emergency descent with a parachute system.

13:00 Video- The Russian military system "Solntsepek" inflicted a fire defeat on Ukrainian militants in the area of Grinyakovka and Dvurechnoye in the Kupyansky direction.

Also, according to Yevgeny Polovodov, an officer of the press center of the Zapad grouping, at the line of defense of the Russian army near Masyutovka and Novoselovsky, four DRGs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed by crews of 152mm howitzers MSTA-B.

In addition, motorized rifle units disrupted two rotations of Ukrainian militants at the forefront in the area of Dvurechnoe and Tenkovka settlements. Also, two sabotage groups of the enemy were discovered in the areas of Berestovoy and Novoselovsky.

12:21 Video- Discovered an ambush and thwarted the enemy counteroffensive

Acting as part of a battalion tactical group, Lieutenant Denis Mekhedov, together with subordinate personnel, carried out a combat mission to take control of a strategically important facility in the suburbs of one of the settlements.

Moving through the industrial development, Denis discovered a group of Ukrainian nationalists armed with mortars and small arms, equipping firing positions on the upper floors of an abandoned building.

After assessing the situation, Lieutenant Mekhedov decided to impose a fight on the enemy. Secretly located on the ground, the personnel under the leadership of Denis opened fire on armed Ukrainian militants.

Despite fierce resistance, as a result of the clash, all nationalists were destroyed. Thanks to the courage of Lieutenant Denis Mekhedov and his skillful leadership of subordinate personnel, the ambush planned by Ukrainian militants was thwarted.

12:00 Fighters with video alive - Personnel of fire contact in the Zaporozhye direction.

In the frame are servicemen of the 291st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Guards Division. They repel the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the battle one of the fighters was injured, while the other, do not be ashamed, a soldier, provided first aid to a colleague and was also wounded during this.

11:55 Video- Destruction of the BMP of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Seversk direction.

11:30 Video- The APU officers on the BMP thought to leave and work on our positions, but as a result, it took off into the sky.

11:16 From Avdievka they report that after the assault on Stepovoe, the blow is shifting towards Orlivka.

In this area, through Orlovka, Lastochkino and Tonenoye, there are three main supply channels for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka.

According to the Military Chronicle, the first of them, passing directly through Orlovka, by the evening can be taken under fire control. At the moment, rocket artillery and aviation are actively working on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Apparently, the scheme of cutting off the enemy from supplies, tested in Artyomovsk, is also used here. If the supply lines are cut, the encirclement of the Ukrainian group in Avdievka and the liberation of the city will only be a matter of time.

10:57 Video- Anti-tank missile system "Shturm-S" of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation operates near Maryinka.

10:30 21.03. Bakhmut (Artyomovskoe direction)

Intelligence reports a fairly large armored column of Vushniks, which is heading from the north side of the city.

In the column, there are T-64BV, T-80 tanks and auxiliary repair equipment. Artillery is ready to fry them.

10:08 Video- The birds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Berislav region report that they are moving towards Novaya Kakhovka.

10:06 Video- The Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement from the head of the press center of the Yug group.

He says that they destroyed two "Grad" BMPs and about a dozen units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk region.

09:50 Chronicle of strikes and mutual artillery attack in the NVO zone during the night of March 20-21, 2023 —video

Russian air defense systems shot down several Ukrainian drones over Dzhankoy in the Republic of Crimea.

As a result of the fall of fragments of apparatuses into a residential area, one person was injured, he was provided with all the necessary assistance.

The RF Armed Forces worked on targets in Sopych, Starikovo, Atinsky, Volfino and Turie in the Sumy region, as well as in Khrenovka and Kamenskaya Sloboda in the Chernihiv region.

In the Kharkiv region, Russian troops hit the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Glubokoye, Morokhovets, Volchansk, Strelechya and Chuguevka.

In the Starobelsk direction, the RF Armed Forces worked on enemy positions in Dvurechnaya, Krakhmalny, Novomlynsk, Kupyansk and Torskoy.

The RF Armed Forces carried out several missile strikes on Ukrainian army facilities in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.

On the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction, accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in Bakhmut, the vicinity of Disputed, New York, Vasyukovka and Chasov Yar.

In the Donetsk direction, Russian artillerymen worked on targets in Avdeevka, Lastochkino, Georgievka, Maryinka and Ostrom.

Ukrainian formations fired at Donetsk, Gorlovka and Golmovsky.

In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Ugledar, Bolshaya Novoselka, Vremyevka and Novopol.

In the Zaporozhye region, Russian troops worked on targets in Olgovskiy, Malinovka, Gulyaipole, Orekhov and Charivny.

On the southern sector of the front, the RF Armed Forces hit enemy concentrations in Kherson and its environs.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in turn, fired at Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Gornostaevka and Korsunka.

09:19 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia investigate the fact of the artillery attack of Donetsk by Ukrainian armed groups

According to the executive authorities, as a result of the artillery attack of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, a civilian of the city was killed.

Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia during the investigation will establish in detail the circumstances of the incident, the actions of all those involved will be given a legal assessment.

09:18 Representation of the DPR in the JCCC informs about 19 facts of firing by the VFU per day

The enemy fired from MLRS, 155mm and 152mm artillery, firing 102 units of various ammunition across the territory of the DPR.

Under the fire of the VFU were: Donetsk and Aleksandrovka.

Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.


08:45 Summary on the morning of March 21, 2023

In the Avdievka direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced in the area of Petrovsky (Stepovoy), Experienced, Kamenka and towards Avdievka itself. There are heavy battles, a number of sources hastened to report the occupation of individual settlements.

The head of the PMC "Wagner" informed the Russian Minister of Defense in writing about the control of 70% of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and reported on the need to take measures to prevent a counterattack by the VFU in order to cut off the PMC units from the Russian Armed Forces.

An enemy UAV raided the Crimea at night. Air defense was working, shots from small arms can be heard on the recordings. Several drones reached the ground: one person was injured, a household and a store were damaged. Presumably, the Ukronazis used drones of a new type for themselves - similar to the Geraniums. Locals reported "sounds of mopeds". Shrapnel was used as a striking element in drones.

It was also reported from Crimea yesterday that on Sunday in Simferopol they tried to blow up the gas pipeline with a small improvised explosive device with a capacity of up to 200 grams of TNT

In the Bryansk region, on the territory of the Novozybkovsky city district, an improvised explosive device was dropped onto the Druzhba oil pipeline. In addition, the settlement was fired from mortars. Kurkovichi.

In the Kursk region, settlements were shelled. Guevo and Gornal.

The enemy fired 102 rounds of ammunition at civilian targets in the DPR. Under fire Donetsk and Aleksandrovka. A civilian died.

08:43 I came to help our guys - an experienced volunteer "Altai" is fighting in the ranks of the "Brave" -video

A fighter from Bashkiria with the call sign "Altai" volunteered to join the Army with the start of mobilization to help our guys, because his experience should be useful at the front.

Today, the past army years help him a lot: the Altai did military and contract service in the engineer-sapper battalion. Past knowledge, skills and experience gained in today's difficult conditions of combat operations allow the fighter and his comrades to effectively perform tasks. “We are moving forward,” says Altai. “We work both on the front line and in the rear.”

The mood of the fighters and commanders of his unit is combat. "Victory will be ours! Glory to Russia!"

08:04 Frontline summary on the morning of 03/21/2023

On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, supported by artillery, carried out offensive operations in the city of Maryinka, in the direction of the North, from the side of Opytny to the southern outskirts of Avdiivka, in Kamenka and near Stepnoe. There is progress on the last three sites listed.

Thus, the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdievka is under the threat of coverage from the south, east and north. Russian artillery hit Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Nevelskoye, Pervomaisky, Orlovka, Berdychi and New York. APU attacked Donetsk.

Southwest of Bakhmut, the Wagner PMC, supported by artillery, advanced towards Ivanovsky and the southern part of the city itself. From the north, the band members continue their assault operations in the industrial area. To the northwest they attack at Khromovoe and Bogdanovka.

After artillery strikes, PMC "Wagner" managed to push through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Grigorovka. Ukrainian positions in Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka, Seversk and Sporny are under shelling.

In the Luhansk direction, Russian troops, with the support of artillery, again attacked Belogorovka. They also conducted offensive operations on Yampolevka, Terny, Nevskoye and Makeevka. In addition, they made an attempt to break through the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novoselovsky.

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Raid of Zabrodsky. Ukraine is preparing a new assault operation
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] In recent days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, like a vacuum cleaner, have been pulling former military men from high political positions. This means that the Ukrainian offensive is a matter of the near future, its preparation is already at the final stage.

On Monday, March 20, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine terminated the powers of the people's deputy from the "European Solidarity" Mikhail Zabrodsky. But for those who follow Ukrainian politics, the news was expected. On Friday, March 17, the leading Ukrainian media, as well as some parliamentarians, reported that Zabrodsky himself was resigning. The Ukrayinska Pravda publication published a photo of Zabrodsky's statement dated March 10.

At the same time, both the media and politicians claimed that the people's deputy would become Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny. “General Zabrodsky has long been helping the General Staff, personally Valery Zaluzhny,” said Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, a member of the Voice faction .

FROM PITERA TO KOSOVO
Zabrodsky is not just a general. He is one of the most famous military leaders of modern Ukraine.

He is 50 years old. Like many Ukrainian elites, he was born in Dnepropetrovsk. But Zabrodsky received his higher education already in independent Russia: in 1994, the future Ukrainian People's Deputy graduated from the A.F. Mozhaisky Military Space Engineering Academy named after A.F. Mozhaisky, after which he served under contract in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for five years.

After serving five years in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, he returned to his small homeland and in 2000 began serving in the 95th Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a platoon commander. Thirteen years later, Zabrodsky became the commander of this brigade.

From 2005 to 2006, under the program of international military assistance, he studied in the United States at the College of Army Command and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 2009, he was appointed to the post of commander of the Ukrainian contingent in Kosovo, which was based on the military personnel of the 95th brigade.

The glory of a gifted military leader came to Zabrodsky in 2014, when Kyiv launched a punitive operation against the inhabitants of Donbass.

RAID
From July 19 to August 10, units of the 95th Brigade under the leadership of Colonel Zabrodsky and in cooperation with units of the 25th Separate Airmobile and 30th and 51st separate mechanized brigades made a 460 kilometer raid from Slavyansk to Mariupol. At the same time, 160 km of the raid passed through the rear of the militia.

"To be precise, out of 460 kilometers of this raid, only 160 passed through the territories controlled by the militants (Donbass militia - ed.), where our paratroopers captured powerful enemy fortifications literally on the move, as was the case near Lisichansk. Thus, the passage of other troops that were moving behind the 95th Brigade was ensured," Zabrodsky himself later said.

Of course, this was not without the traditional Ukrainian "overcome." This is how the "powerful fortifications" of the militias from the legendary “Ghost” brigade of Oleksiy Mozgovoy look absolutely fantastic, who actually waged a guerrilla war against regular Ukrainian troops and in the summer of 2014 simply did not have any serious fortified areas. The main equipped defense nodes were ordinary checkpoints.

It was during the Zabrodsky raid that the Ukrainians managed to take Saur-Mohyla for a while. This strategic height closed the narrow neck of the "cauldron" in which the Ukrainian troops found themselves trying to cut off the Donbass from the border with Russia. The center of events was the Izvarino border crossing in the Luhansk region. The Ukrainian troops, which rushed to him, were themselves pressed to the border with Russia and cut off by the militias from the main forces. It was to their rescue that the Ukrainian paratroopers, led by Zabrodsky, hurried to their rescue.

The subordinates of the brigade commander assured: without Zabrodsky, the raid would not have been so successful.

"We went there to pull the boys out of Izvarino - and to do this, we had to go through Saur-Mogila. In a word, we really got behind enemy lines, in the very ass. And they got out of there only thanks to Zabrodsky - his cunning and his intuition," said the battalion commander of the 1st battalion of the 95th Brigade.

However, even here the victorious reports of Ukrainians do not reflect the completeness of the picture. For example, it was during this raid that the militia destroyed a column of paratroopers that was breaking through the city of Shakhtersk.

Not surprisingly, some of Zabrodsky’s soldiers even insisted that during the raid they were confronted not by the militia, but by regular Russian military men — those who were later nicknamed the “Northern Wind” in the Donbass.

FROM GENERALS TO DEPUTIES AND BACK
Despite the fact that Ukraine could not avoid losses in the Izvara Cauldron, Zabrodsky became, perhaps, the most famous Ukrainian military leader at the time of the beginning of the punitive operation in the Donbass.

On August 23, 2014, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine, and the next day he already commanded the parade in honor of the Independence Day of Ukraine. When the Ukrainian military marched along Khreshchatyk, their brothers-in-arms, who were captured in the Izvaria Cauldron, were walking along Artem Donetsk Street under escort of the militia.

But this did not affect Zabrodsky. His tactical genius was also praised by Western experts.

As a result, in March 2015, Zabrodsky was appointed commander of the Highly Mobile Airborne Forces of Ukraine (later, the Airborne Assault Forces). On June 3–4, 2015, it was he who commanded the Ukrainian formations during the battles for the Donetsk suburb of Marinka, which the DPR forces unsuccessfully tried to take control of.

And already on August 1, Zabrodsky received his first general rank - he became a major general.

In November 2017, Zabrodsky was appointed commander of the Antiterrorist Operation forces. It was under his leadership that one of the largest rotations in the "ATO zone" took place, during which several brigades of air assault troops entered the front line.

In August 2019, a popular military leader resigns to take part in politics. He becomes a member of the Verkhovna Rada on the lists of the European Solidarity bloc of Petro Poroshenko. Back then, many believed that Zelensky would keep his promises to bring peace to the Donbass, and Ukrainian hawks like Zabrodsky tried to secure a comfortable future under the new circumstances.

SCENARIOS OF THE UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE
And now the illustrious military leader returns to the troops, which makes one suspect that Ukraine is preparing a new assault operation, similar to the Zabrodsky summer raid of 2014, and this preparation has already reached the finish line.

There are several options for where this raid can take place.

The most obvious is the neighborhood of Bakhmut. On March 20, the same day that the Rada terminated the powers of Zabrodsky, the founder of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin addressed the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu with an open letter.

"According to available information, in late March - early April, the enemy plans to launch a large-scale offensive and deliver flank cut-off strikes in order to cut off the Wagner PMC unit from the main forces of the RF Armed Forces," Prigozhin wrote.

In this regard, he asked the head of the RF Ministry of Defense to take all necessary measures to prevent the Wagner PMC from being cut off from the main forces of the RF Armed Forces, as it "will lead to negative consequences for the NMD."

Another direction of a likely Ukrainian strike is the regions of Russia bordering the northern Ukrainian regions.

"Of course, if we take from North to South, there is a high probability that one of the strikes will hit our territory in the area of ​​the city of Belgorod," the same Prigozhin noted in an interview with RIA FAN on March 17.

According to him, the entry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the Russian Federation destabilizes the domestic political situation and creates a bargaining chip. And it is quite likely that such plans of the Ukrainian command explain the attempts of sabotage in the Belgorod region.

But there is another direction that the Ukrainians themselves are hinting at.

GROUPING "ODESSA"
Zabrodsky is not the only Ukrainian politician and military man to retire these days.

Earlier, the head of the Odessa Regional Military Administration Maxim Marchenko was removed from his post.

"The struggle continues… And I believe that I should do what I can do best – kill enemies and fight for the future of Ukraine. I hope that soon I will return to my favorite business. But my soul and heart remain forever in Odessa," Marchenko himself said in his farewell address on March 15.

He himself is a former commander of the infamous Aidar battalion. After that, Marchenko was the deputy brigade commander of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, and from May 2018 to September 2021 he commanded the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade, in which he was directly involved in a number of military operations.

On the evening of March 20, it became known that the command of the group of Ukrainian troops "Odessa" divided the southern region of Ukraine into "red", "yellow" and "green zones for journalists". This was reported by the Operational Command "South."

Even accredited media representatives are prohibited from working in the "red zone." This zone included not only the areas of the Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson and Nikolaev regions adjacent to the front line, but also the border regions of the Odessa and Vinnitsa regions.

In addition, all critical and military infrastructure facilities, sea and river ports, regardless of geographic location, were included in the "red zone."

All this suggests that the Ukrainian command is thinking not only about attacks on the Kherson and Zaporozhye directions, but also has not said goodbye to the idea of ​​a campaign against Transnistria.

However, whatever the direction of the Ukrainian strike, it is symptomatic that in recent days in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, like a vacuum cleaner, experienced military leaders have been pulled out of political positions. This means that the Ukrainian offensive is a matter of the near future, its preparation is already at the final stage.

March 21, 2023
Ilya Ropshin

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Ukraine and the West are trying to forget about the Khatyn tragedy
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Note: Khatyn is not the same as the Katyn Forest massacre.

[REGNUM] "In the West, at the suggestion of Poland, the conspiracy version prevails: the KGB deliberately invented and found Khatyn on the map in order to somehow obscure the Katyn story," historian Vladimir Simindey told REGNUM. 80 years ago, the Nazis destroyed the Belarusian village of Khatyn and its inhabitants. In Soviet times, they tried not to focus on one of the aspects related to this crime.

On Tuesday, March 22, exactly 80 years have passed since the Nazi punishers burned the Belarusian village of Khatyn with all its inhabitants.

In retaliation for the liquidation of several German soldiers by local partisans, the SS from the Sonderkommando of Oscar Dirlewanger and the collaborator unit did not spare either the elderly or the children. The main part of the "work" was performed not so much by former criminals from the Dirlewanger battalion as by "assistants" of the SS from the security police battalion.

A total of 149 people died at the hands of the executioners, 75 of them were not even sixteen years old. However, if in Russia and Belarus they scrupulously study the history of that tragedy, then in Ukraine they preferred to forget about the "inconvenient incident" - schoolchildren know almost nothing about it.

No less doubtful is the position of Western historians, who limit themselves to replicating conspiracy theories in the spirit of "Khatyn invented the KGB to divert attention from the Katyn massacre."

About how modern Russian approaches to the study of the Khatyn tragedy differ from those that were in Soviet times, and about how the West is trying to reconsider its attitude towards this war crime, Vladimir Simindey , head of research programs at the Historical Memory Foundation, told REGNUM .

BakuToday: Vladimir Vladimirovich, the topic of the Khatyn tragedy has been studied by Soviet and then Russian historians for many decades. How have their ideas about what happened on March 22, 1943 changed during this time?

Vladimir Simindey: The main problem in the Soviet period was that the national policy pursued by the authorities of the USSR assumed some obscuration of the extent of complicity of Nazi collaborators of all stripes in the most serious war crimes and crimes against humanity.

This also applied to their complicity in the genocide. In this case, we are talking about complicity in the Khatyn punitive operation of the 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion. It was a collaborationist unit of the German Auxiliary Security Police. It was formed in July 1942 in Kyiv on the basis of one of the security police companies, which included Ukrainian volunteers.

But not Bandera, but nationalists from a rival faction of the OUN, which was led by Andrei Melnik. The 118th battalion also included former Red Army prisoners of war, in many cases also of Ukrainian origin. In the post-war USSR, one way or another, they tried to keep this in the background, despite the fact that at the republican level, in the Byelorussian SSR, since the 1960s, work has been carried out to perpetuate the memory of not only the heroes of the partisan movement, but also the victims of Nazism.

Then there were generalized memorial places dedicated to the victims, but the emphasis was on the heroism of the Soviet people. This somewhat shifted the optics of the perception that Nazism brought genocide with it, which threatened not only the Jewish people, but the entire Soviet population.

BakuToday: How is the Khatyn tragedy studied by modern Russian historians? Are there any landmark publications, new discoveries made on the basis of hitherto unknown archival data?

V.S.: Yes, with regard to the 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion, with the support of the Historical Memory Foundation and in cooperation with our Belarusian colleagues, a large collection of documents and materials was published . Moreover, it has already passed the second edition.

So historians have done a lot of work, introduced new documents into scientific circulation. In addition, many dozens of books dedicated to this tragedy, collections of documents have been published to date. First of all, Belarusian science has done a great job here. And today, the tragedy in the village of Khatyn can be called one of the most studied tragedies in the territory temporarily occupied by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

BakuToday: What other moments of the Khatyn tragedy have remained unexplored and need close attention of historians?

V.S.: In my opinion, here in the first place is attention to the representation of existing research and their introduction not only into scientific, but also into public circulation. It is necessary to include more materials in educational literature, in public history, in the information space. It seems that there is more work here for popularizers, authors of educational literature, than for historians-archivists.

BakuToday: How is the tragedy of Khatyn studied in the West? Are local historians interested in this topic at all?

V.S.: There, first of all, at the suggestion of the Polish side, the conspiracy version dominates that the evil Soviet KGB specially invented and found Khatyn on the map in order to somehow obscure the story of Katyn, where in 1940 part of the Polish prisoners of war were shot. And the history of Khatyn is viewed mainly only through this prism.

BakuToday: Is a similar approach dominating in Ukraine?

V.S.: The emphasis is on denying the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists, or it is said that the 118th battalion was certainly not Bandera and not all of its members were convinced Ukrainian nationalists.

BakuToday: Is this version being instilled in Ukrainian schoolchildren? What are they being told?

V.S.: But they were not told anything! This is not in Ukrainian school textbooks.

BakuToday: The crime in Khatyn was committed by the hands of Hitler's puppets from among the Ukrainian nationalists. Can we say that today in Ukraine we are witnessing a similar situation, when this time Western puppets are again committing crimes against the civilian population? Are such parallels appropriate at all?

V.S.: I think that it is difficult to talk about direct historical continuity here. But it cannot be denied that extreme cruelty, a desire to dehumanize the enemy and a disregard for the lives of the civilian population are now taking place in Ukraine. Of course, now there are probably no such cases when they came and deliberately burned a village in which there is no resistance.

However, we know perfectly well that for this it is not necessary to approach the house with a torch in hand and set fire to it. For this, there are HIMARS, there is long-range artillery that can destroy and burn any number of buildings that it reaches.

BakuToday: However, one gets the impression that the modern West is trying with all its might to hush up the spread of the ideology that dominates Ukraine today.

V.S.: Here we are talking not so much about silence. Rather, this approach is used - if in Ukraine there is such a phenomenon as radical nationalism, then this is something insignificant, marginal, not having an impact on Ukrainian politics.

Or they are trying to turn the arrows to the Kremlin, to Russia, hinting that if Russia had not acted so actively against the cult of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, then the Ukrainian side would not have started to pedal this topic so much and raise it to the national level.

The West does not succeed in completely hushing up the fact that there are neo-Nazi manifestations in Ukraine, but it pretends that it does not matter.

March 21, 2023
Ivan Zhurenkov

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#1  1984

Propaganda's a great Russian game:
From a thousand dead towns, pick a name.
Klimov pushes for years.
Finally, freedom! Three cheers!
KATyn-KhaTYN confusion? A shame.

Horrible's horrible, but... the proportion of deaths is something like [fingers] 130 to 1.
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#2  Bless you for the knowledge, broad and deep, that feeds into your limericks, Zenobia F. Sometimes you’re just fun on a bunch of levels, but other times you so perfectly pierce the knot that it literally sends shivers up my spine as balance reestablishes itself. This was one of the latter.
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#3  Burned Belarus?

Beslan school attack

A much bigger deal.
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#4  Thanks, tw. Made my day.
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Heroes are leaving
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

A particularly long life and a particularly difficult fate, Hero of the Country

Reshetnikov Vasily Vasilyevich - participated in the Battle of Stalingrad, Hero of the Soviet Union, former commander of the Long-Range Aviation of the USSR Air Force Vasily Reshetnikov left us at the 104th year of his life.

At the time of his feat in the Great Patriotic War, Vasily was a captain of the guard, commander of a squadron of long-range bombers Il-4. By the time of the award, he had flown 204 sorties, of which 192 were night missions. He flew to bombard objects in Berlin, Budapest, Warsaw, Koenigsberg, Danzig ...

Among other things, his crew destroyed a fighter in an air battle, 10 bombers on the ground were destroyed. At the end of the war, he had 307 sorties in his asset. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Gold Star medal No. 1055 was awarded on 07/27/1943. Aviation Colonel-General Reshetnikov retired in 1986. One of the Tu-160 strategic bombers was named after him.

In general, his biography is very rich. And even a brief retelling of it draws on an extremely interesting and serious story in terms of volume. And not a single feature film or television series has been made about this person. What an incredible life path. Read it, you won't regret it.
Link is in Russian, but translatable.
I will show my readers something else. I compiled the table myself in 2020, and then supplemented it in the summer of 2021. In it, those who participated in the Great Patriotic War received the Star for the feats committed then and celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Victory in 2020. Only twenty-one Hero of the Soviet Union.
Table at the link is a graphic, all in Russian language
In the summer of 2021, 11 of them remained. Now, after the departure of Vasily Vasilyevich, from the Heroes of the Soviet Union of that wartime, only one person remained among us (as far as I know) -Kravtsov Boris Vasilievich.
Link is in Russian, but translatable.
Boris Vasilyevich Kravtsov, born in 1922, at the time of his feat, senior lieutenant of the guard and commander of the intelligence of the artillery division. On October 24, 1943, with reconnaissance, he crossed the Dnieper in the area of ​​​​the city of Zaporozhye, corrected the artillery fire, and, being surrounded, caused fire on himself.

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Gold Star medal No. 3636 was awarded on March 19, 1944. Discharged from the army with the rank of captain in 1944 after being seriously wounded. On January 28, 1960, Kravtsov was appointed 1st Deputy Prosecutor of the RSFSR, and in January 1971 he became the Prosecutor of the RSFSR. From April 12, 1984 to June 7, 1989, Boris Vasilyevich served as Minister of Justice of the USSR. In general, you can read about all the Heroes that are in my table. The link for each has a brief information, and if you click on the last name, a link will open with an interview with the Hero, where each of them talks about his life and exploits.

Posted by: badanov || 03/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The old heroes fade away and pass into the mist. They always have. De mortuis.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/22/2023 11:10 Comments || Top||

#2  A friend's father was a Hero of the Soviet Union but he died for that award. Then the friend and his mother were taken for lifetime support by a high party family and he was later made to marry their daughter when she was a "communism" professor at a major Moscow University. He defected when he needed a safe exit from the marriage without a stop at a gulag.
The physical aspects of his work for the USSR are quite well known... like say... his woodpecker..
I used to enjoy his stories about his father and life after.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/22/2023 14:03 Comments || Top||


About the plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artemovsk
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

Both Ukrainian and Russian channels (including military correspondents) write about the active preparation of the ukrovermacht for their counterattack near Artemovsk.

Let's start in order

1) A week and a half ago, the head of the PMC "Wagner" raised the alarm, saying that the Armed Forces of Ukraine created four groups to strike the PMC "Wagner" on the flanks in order to unblock Artyomovsk.

Ukrainian TG channels generally confirmed Prigozhin's words and the concentration of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction, counting 18 brigades in this direction.

It is not for nothing that Prigozhin raises the alarm. as shown by the Kharkov "regrouping"), anything can happen.

2) Just yesterday, Prigozhin sent an open letter to Sergei Shoigu. The letter states that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are planning to go on a counteroffensive in late March - early April in order to cut off the Wagner operators from the Russian army.

In this regard, Prigozhin asked the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu to take all measures that could prevent this outcome.

The Russian military correspondent Senior Edda, in turn, said that the enemy overtook several hundred units of tanks, armored combat vehicles, and automotive equipment from the Krivoy Rog region near Bakhmut over several nights. And he will hit the Wagner fighters from the Chasov Yar area (or at the junction of the Wagner operators with other units of the RF Armed Forces) or change his mind, we will find out in the very near future.

Ukrainian TG Resident(I have never seen him give an erroneous insider) said that the plan of Syrsky, the commander of the forces of the ukrovermacht in this direction, implies flank attacks from four sides on Artemovsk, but this requires dry fields, and the weather so far changes every 2 -3 days.
Syrsky is Oleksandr Stanislavovych Syrskyi, a Ukrainian military officer. Holding the rank of Colonel general, he has been the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces since 2019.
Today, at headquarters, Syrsky reported that the weather next week would be rainy and the Armed Forces of Ukraine might not have time to complete the counteroffensive, which is why a new model of a concentrated strike at the junction of Russian troops and PMC Wagner was proposed.

We watch further. I hope the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation knows the situation and is ready for it. And not like in September last year near Kharkov. You don't need much from Shoigu and Gerasimov. You just need to show competence.

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Britain to supply depleted uranium shells to Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Britain is going to supply tank sub-caliber armor-piercing shells with depleted uranium to Ukraine. The shells are going to be used on Challenger-2 tanks. Such shells were used by NATO during the aggression against Yugoslavia and Iraq.

From a report at a UN briefing by ACANU:

"I would like to deplore the environmental degradation resulting from the invasion and occupation of Iraq. The US and UK invading forces used various conventional and non-traditional illegal weapons such as napalm, cluster bombs, white phosphorus and ammunition made from depleted uranium (DU)

And this is not the first time an invasion force has used depleted uranium. They used it in 1991 and infected about 2,000 square kilometers of densely populated civilian areas. They caused 4 to 6 increased cases of cancer among the civilian population, as well as congenital malformations and all diseases that are associated with radioactivity and toxicity.

Posted by: badanov || 03/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  M1A1 tanks going to Ukraine.
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#2  Britain should consider supplying PIATs. Andrei, have you run out of T-62s?
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Xi's visit to Russia: Creating an information background
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Regarding the current picture.

A list of US actions aimed at discrediting and blurring Xi Jinping's visit to Russia.

1. Information campaign that Xi Jinping will not come.

2. Threats against China if Xi comes.

3. Requirements for China to condemn Russia.

4. Requirements for China not to supply weapons to Russia. Only the West has the right to supply weapons to Ukraine.

5. Statements that any Russian-Chinese agreements will not matter.

6. Hasty organization of the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to Ukraine on the day of Xi's visit.

7. The death of Chinese workers in the Central African Republic, in which they tried to blame Russia.

8. Announcement of hasty deliveries of new weapons to Ukraine, including shells with depleted uranium.

9. Declassified intelligence documents aimed at blaming China for the origin of the coronavirus.

10. We began to equip a new military base in the Philippines.

This is roughly the background they tried to sculpt for Xi Jinping's visit. It did not work out very well - it all looked like a tactical flicker against the background of tectonic processes.

A member of the Chinese delegation in Moscow said that Russia and China represent the Forces of Good.

Final dialogue.

Xi: Now there are changes that haven't happened in 100 years. When we are together, we drive this change
Putin: Agree
Xi: Take care, dear friend
Putin: Have a nice trip

More from Rozhin:
The collapse of attempts at economic and political isolation of Russia

[ColonelCassad] In general, according to the signed documents https://t.me/boris_rozhin/81016 and the joint statement https://t.me/boris_rozhin/81018 .

1. The interaction between the two countries is seriously deepening, although this is not a classic military-political bloc. Military cooperation was also discussed, but expectedly left behind the scenes.

2. China and Russia completely reject the outgoing world order and its main methodological doctrines. No one will return in 2021.

3. The level of economic, infrastructural, and logistical cooperation will be such that after the completion of the diversification of trade flows and the restructuring of exports, it will guarantee Russia for the next decade the absence of a serious threat of economic isolation.

4. China will not force anything on Russia in Ukraine. Moreover, Russia will support the Chinese course in the Pacific with respect to Taiwan, AUKUS, etc. The Chinese peace plan does not suit the West at all.

5. China will not succumb to American pressure. The visit to Moscow is a signal that China is counting on Russia in a long-term confrontation with the United States.

6. The multipolar world in the vision of Russia and China is a world of equal centers of power, and not a world of unilateral diktat. It is clear that the US will rise to the challenge and the war against Russia and China will continue to intensify. This is a battle for the future of the world order.

In general, the visit is very favorable for the Russian Federation - it actually buried the myths about the economic and political isolation of Russia. Hence the hysteria in the West - everyone understands that Akella missed.

Posted by: badanov || 03/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Ukraine's newest weapon: Troops use remote-control 'kamikaze' cars packed with explosives to destroy Russian tanks
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Footage has emerged of Ukrainian troops using remote-controlled 'kamikaze' cars packed with explosives to obliterate Russian tanks.

Fighting is mainly centred around the easternmost regions of Ukraine, where the city of Bakhmut has been locked in intense conflict.

Some Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines are now using explosive-packed remote-controlled cars, also known as unmanned ground vehicles, to hit Russian targets, according to a video shared on social media over the weekend.

The video, first posted as part of a YouTube documentary about the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, appears to show Ukrainian soldiers prepare a remote-controlled vehicle for battle before sending it off.

The soldiers are then seen controlling the vehicle's movement on a phone, so that it explodes near what appears to be a Russian tank.
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#1  Now, if they can find a supply of old Ford Pinto's, and lock them in reverse...
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#2  Ford Exploder
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#3  Ford Grenade
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#4  Yugo.
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