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[Korrespondent] 22:40 Ukraine and Turkey announced the extension of the grain agreement for 120 days, but Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova continues to assert that Russia agreed only for 60 days.
21:47 Prigozhin said that the authorities of the city of Goryachiy Klyuch of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation forbade the burial in the cemetery in the village of Bakuskaya of the Wagner PMC mercenaries killed in the war against Ukraine. He threatens the head of the administration, Sergei Belopolsky, to bring the bodies of those killed to his home.
21:33 The United States for the first time since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine resumed the deportation of Russians, including those fleeing from mobilization, writes The Guardian. In particular, a few days ago, a man who had fled from mobilization was expelled from the United States to the Russian Federation, who was trying to obtain asylum. It came to the US from Mexico. According to the lawyer, the migration service, which considered the request of the Russian, came to the conclusion that the threat of being sent to war is not a sufficient basis for granting asylum.
20:45 Canada sent Bergepanzer 3 armored recovery vehicles to Ukraine, Defense Minister Anita Anand said.
20:04 Estonia demands to exclude representatives of the Russian Federation from among the employees of the Council of Europe, Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsal said: "Given the ongoing aggressive war of Russia against Ukraine and Russia's complete disregard for international law, it is unacceptable that Russian citizens continue to work in the Council of Europe."
19:09 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar warned of another wave of Kremlin propaganda, including on the topic of discrediting mobilization in Ukraine. Thus, pro-Russian telegram channels again began to write about the alleged mobilization of women and the issuance of subpoenas through Diyu. Malyar stressed that women in Ukraine are not mobilized without their consent, and subpoenas are not issued through Diya, and this issue is not even worked out.
Another Russian narrative is that those mobilized immediately without preparation go to Bakhmut. "Actually, those who were mobilized, who did not do military service, are sent to training centers. Because of the large-scale war, the training of privates and sergeants takes place in a shortened time frame, but without compromising the quality of education," Malyar stressed.
She added that the mobilized are sent to different directions, and not just to the East. In addition, there are many rear military units in different regions of Ukraine - from educational institutions and units to bases, warehouses and arsenals, communications and cyber defense units.
18:48 Prigozhin announced plans to recruit 30,000 new mercenaries by mid-May. According to him, the recruiting centers of PMC Wagner, which have opened in 42 cities of Russia, allegedly recruit an average of 500-800 people a day, and sometimes 1,200 a day. Prigozhin boasted that "recruitment is going better than expected" and that "the volunteers are in better physical shape than the prisoners."
18:24 According to the Kramatorsk City Council, the number of wounded as a result of today's Russian shelling has increased to eight people, three of them are in serious condition. Two local residents were killed.
18:20 The international working group on sanctions against Russia, headed by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak and the director of the Freeman-Spogli Institute (FSI), Ambassador Michael McFaul, together with experts from the Kiev School of Economics, published a study of the impact of sanctions on the Russian economy over the last year. The key conclusion reached by the experts is that the sanctions are working, but there is room for strengthening them.
17:37 The Russians shelled Kramatorsk with cluster munitions, hit the Bernatsky park and the ritual service. According to preliminary information, at least two people were killed and five injured, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
17:11 Scholz commented on the decision of the International Criminal Court on the arrest warrant for Putin: "The International Criminal Court is the right institution to investigate war crimes. No one is above the law, and this is what is becoming clear now."
16:49 Russians today fired from cannon artillery and systems of volley fire Hurricane Konstantinovka of Donetsk region - six people were injured, the regional prosecutor's office reported.
15:58 The agreement on the grain initiative has been extended for another 120 days , Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov said. According to him, from August 1 to this day, Ukraine has sent 25 million tons of grain for the needs of the world, but the main challenge remains the acceleration of inspections in Turkey. Also, work continues on joining the grain initiative of the ports of Mykolaiv region and expanding the range of cargo.
15:27 Putin arrived in Crimea on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula. The "governor" of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that the Russian president allegedly arrived in the city himself driving his car.
14:49 Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on the application of personal sanctions against 300 individuals and 141 legal entities. The list includes predominantly Russians, as well as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Prime Minister Hussein Arnus and Foreign Minister Faisal al Miqdad, as well as Iranian drone manufacturer Shahed.
14:25 Slovakia has signed an agreement with Ukraine on the transfer of 13 MiG-29 fighters and two Kub air defense systems, Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said. He emphasized that the gratuitous transfer of military equipment to Kyiv meets the foreign policy interests of Bratislava and the general principles of international law.
13:52 Ukrainian banks will check clients for ties with Russia, the NBU said. Such checks should promote transparency and reveal the hidden presence of Russia in the Ukrainian market, the regulator explained.
13:33 Putin signed a law that provides for up to 15 years in prison for "discrediting" and spreading "fakes" about all participants in the war in Ukraine. Now the law will also apply to "volunteers" and mercenaries of PMC Wagner.
12:30 The United States believes that Russia used Chinese ammunition in Ukraine, Kyodo reports, citing sources in the US government. According to them, it remains unclear whether the ammunition was supplied by China directly or through the use of disguised intermediaries. The US government determined that the munitions found in Ukraine were manufactured in China after analyzing their composition and other factors. However, the publication's sources do not disclose what kind of ammunition was found.
10:43 Putin signed a law allowing citizens of Ukraine who have received a Russian passport to apply to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship - in this case, it will be terminated for them on the day of application.
10:28 British intelligence believes that the Russian authorities are preparing for a wider conscription. So, on March 13, State Duma deputies introduced a bill to change the age limit for conscription for military service of men aged 21-30 from the current 18-27 years. The law is likely to be passed and enter into force in January 2024.
Many men aged 18-21 are currently applying for an exemption from conscription in connection with higher education. The authorities are likely changing the age group so that students are eventually forced to serve, analysts say. And even if Russia continues to refrain from using conscripts in the war, additional conscripts will free up a large part of the professional soldiers to participate in hostilities, intelligence concludes.
09:21 The Russians attacked the Lviv region at night with six Shahed kamikaze drones. Three of them shot down air defense forces, three more hit non-residential premises in the Yavorovsky district. The premises were damaged, people were not injured, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky.
09:14 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed (in Ukrainsk), three more were injured. In the Kherson region, two people were injured due to enemy shelling, and another was injured due to a Russian mine, according to the IVA.
09:05 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) predicts that Xi Jinping will offer Putin help in evading sanctions during his visit to Moscow.
08:44 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 18.
personnel - about 164,200 (+880) people liquidated,
tanks - 3511 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 6830 (+7),
artillery systems - 2560 (+8),
MLRS - 506 (+2),
air defense systems - 265 (+0),
aircraft - 305 (+0),
helicopters - 290 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2159 (+14),
cruise missiles - 907 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5404 (+3),
special equipment - 259 (+1).
08:29 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtyorsky directions. During the day, the defense forces repelled more than 100 enemy attacks in the indicated directions, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
In the Luhansk region, local "authorities" announced the start of large-scale military exercises involving the entire conscript male population of Starobelsk, Shchastya, Novy Aydar, Novopskov and Nyzhneteply, who have Russian and "LPR" passports. Thus, the invaders are trying to hide the total mobilization in these settlements.
In the Crimea, between the settlements of Ishun and Voinka, the Russians began the construction of fortifications and trenches. To carry out the work, the civilian population is forcibly involved on a gratuitous basis.
06:43 The Russians fired at Zaporozhye - according to preliminary information, the rocket destroyed the catering establishment, people were not injured, said the secretary of the City Council Anatoly Kurtev.
05:01 The United States intends to provide Ukraine with $7.4 billion in additional financial assistance by September 2023, said US Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield. She recalled that since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United States has allocated almost $2 billion for humanitarian assistance, almost $15.5 billion of direct budgetary support to Ukraine through the mechanisms of the World Bank.
03:35 Biden called "justified" the decision of the International Criminal Court to issue a warrant for the arrest of Putin. At the same time, the head of the White House stressed that the ICC was not recognized by the States, but the warrant "is a very strong argument." "Putin has clearly committed war crimes," Biden added.
02:26 On the evening of March 17, the Russians attacked Ukraine with Iranian Shahed-136/131 kamikaze drones from two directions - from the eastern coast of the Sea of Azov and from the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. Air defense forces destroyed 11 out of 16 strike UAVs in the central, western and eastern regions.
01:34 The Russians launched Shahed kamikaze drones in the direction of Kiev, all air targets were destroyed by air defense forces. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties or damage, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko.
01:17 The United States has no doubt that Russia and its army are committing war crimes on the territory of Ukraine, State Department spokesman Ned Price said. He also commented on the decision of the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Putin: "The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is an independent person and makes his own decisions based on the evidence he has. Those responsible for war crimes must be held accountable."
00:48 Yermak and Zaluzhny held an online meeting with Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley. Reznikov, Syrsky and other commanders also took part in the meeting, and Zelensky joined at the end of the conversation. Representatives of Ukraine informed the allies about the current situation at the front, the fighting in the most difficult areas, as well as the urgent needs of the Ukrainian army.
00:20 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the decision of the International Criminal Court to arrest Putin could cause "an escalation of the conflict, which, in turn, could provoke a Third World War." Vučić stressed that his country's position should be to avoid involvement in "foreign conflicts."
[RIA Novosti] The last Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, Admiral of the Fleet Vladimir Chernavin, has died at the age of 94, according to the Telegram channel of the Zvezda TV channel, citing the commander's daughter.
"The last Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy, Vladimir Chernavin, died. He died at the age of 95. Chernavin died tonight at half past one in the hospital," the publication says.
According to the channel, the farewell will take place at the military memorial in Mytishchi. Chernavin was born on April 22, 1928 in Nikolaev (Ukrainian SSR). In 1947-1951 he studied at the Higher Naval School named after M. V. Frunze. In 1962, the submarine K-21 under his command for the first time in the history of the Russian fleet made an autonomous voyage lasting 50 days. She passed under the ice of the Arctic and worked out the technique of surfacing into the polynya.
In 1966, Chernavin headed the marching headquarters of the transoceanic transition of nuclear-powered ships K-116 and K-133 from the Northern to the Pacific Fleet. Submarines under the leadership of Rear Admiral Anatoly Sorokin traveled 25,000 miles in a month and a half without ever surfacing.
In 1967-1969, Chernavin was a student of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR named after K. E. Voroshilov, then went from commander of a submarine division of the Northern Fleet to Chief of the General Staff - First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy. He became Commander-in-Chief of the Navy in November 1985, and held this post until February 1992.
Hero of the Soviet Union, holder of two Orders of Lenin, Orders of the October Revolution, Orders of the Red Banner, Alexander Nevsky and others.
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[RIA] "Ukraine has no more time to waste," US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sternly reminded his native troops immediately after the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Independent kicks are driven on the offensive. The date has already been set: the end of April - the beginning of May.
The Pentagon conveyed through the media its dissatisfaction with the fact that the Kiev regime continues to fill up with corpses Artyomovsk , although Austin personally believes that this city is of no strategic importance and it is time to fill up other points on the map with corpses.
Already officially, the US military elite admits that during the year of the conflict, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 100 thousand people killed, and they knocked out the best and most experienced military. These monstrous sacrifices did not lead to anything - only to the loss of about a fifth of the entire territory of the former Ukraine. But it hurts us to read the numbers of those killed, in Washington, nobody cares. Ukrainian soldiers must continue to fight - this is the main message of the Pentagon.
The fact is that in the American establishment an order has matured that Kiev should give a result. Was money poured in, weapons sent, soldiers trained? Now pay up. Native lives are accepted as a means of payment.
According to a source, the Pentagon leadership, who shared information with the influential publication Politico, has been supplying Western weapons to Ukraine for the past four or five months precisely in anticipation of the spring offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles were sent there, as well as vehicles for building bridges.
Thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been trained at NATO training grounds. A fair supply of 155-mm shells, which were so lacking in winter, is also provided. Proxy troops are not yet given planes, but American medium-range missiles are being added to the MiGs. And, of course, the American masters provide the Armed Forces with a full range of intelligence.
In what directions are the Armed Forces of Ukraine going to attack? The Pentagon constantly assures that the development of a strategy is the business of Kyiv. However, whoever has dinner with a girl dances her. The American military and intelligence officials are quite openly discussing in the press where the Armed Forces should be thrown.
In the top areas for the offensive - Crimea, Melitopol , Mariupol. As for Crimea, retired General Ben Hodges is very excited , who still cannot forget how, when he was commander of the allied land army, the peninsula elegantly sailed to Russia , and NATO intelligence missed this incident.
His idea is that the Vesushniks cross the Dnieper, capture the entire Kherson region and fire at the Crimea with Haimars, then the Black Sea Fleet and the Saki airfield will be under threat. Many see this plan as unrealistic: it is hard to imagine that the Ukrainians will be able to successfully cross the Dnieper under the fire of our artillery. However, intelligence on the Crimea and the work of its air defense is being collected very diligently - this is exactly what the American Reaper drone, which recently drowned in the Black Sea, was doing.
The second direction is the coast of the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov . Or Berdyansk through Melitopol, or Mariupol through Volnovakha . Moreover, the attack on Mariupol will be at the same time a move in the information war - it was here that the most stubborn local Nazis stuck out at Azovstal. From the coast of the Sea of Azov, it is planned to bombard the Crimean bridge with Haimars in an attempt to isolate the peninsula in this way.
Both options involve cutting off the supply lines for our troops and blocking the "corridor to the Crimea." Some analysts believe that the Ukrainian army will have enough strength to strike in two directions at once - both to the south and towards the Sea of Azov.
Perhaps there are other alleged directions of impact, they just do not shine in the media yet. Denis Pushilin , acting head of the DPR, said that the Ukrainians are accumulating troops in Chasov Yar near Artemivsk. It turns out that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can organize their coveted counteroffensive there as well. It will also be good for their propaganda - like they defended Bakhmut.
Militarily, these plans look like dangerous folly. The sad thing, however, is that when the counteroffensive fails, it will also be a "result" for Zelenskiy and his masters.
Kiev Pennywise will run to brag about the number of dead, speculate on their blood, ask for new money and weapons. Washington will get a reason to put pressure on European vassals - that's, they say, how well the Ukrainians are dying, but what are you doing? In general, the Pentagon-planned spring offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine should not be taken lightly.
We can have an undeniable advantage over the Ukrainian army in technology, artillery, and aviation. The scale of our economies and their condition are simply incomparable. However, the Kyiv regime has one advantage - they simply throw their citizens to death with painful sadism. And those with some kind of incomprehensible masochism are dying for the interests of Mark Milli , Lloyd Austin and other people extremely distant from them. And this is the weapon the Zelensky regime will use to the end.
Well, in case the proxy troops fail, the American regime has already laid straws for itself. In a recent report by the RAND Corporation, military analysts remind that in the Ukrainian conflict, the interests of the United States for the US leadership should come first. However, a long war, it turns out, is not in their interests - too expensive, too dangerous and there is no way to switch to taming China. This means that Washington must urgently convince Kyiv to put up with territorial losses and conclude a bad peace, which, as you know, is better than a good quarrel.
The Ukrainians are being sent a transparent signal from across the ocean: you can fight for our interests, but as soon as our interests change, we will leave you and not even remember you. Promise does not mean marriage. It is amazing how Little Russians constantly dream of outsmarting everyone, and then they fall into the most simple, it would seem, traps. The counterattack trap could be their last.
#1
A spring offensive, eh? Corrections welcome, but isn't spring a notoriously muddy time in Ukraine? If it comes to muddy roads and fields vs armored vehicles, my money is on the mud.
#3
A couple of days ago, there was a video of an infantry soldier in a trench walking about in a non-panic mode in spite of all sorts of shots being fired in his direction. He would stop every now and then and fire his rifle at something; then turn around and "fiddle" with somethin in the trench. Would love to know what happened to him.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:22 “Every day, 13 killed and wounded” – AFU militant complains about the situation near Avdiivka
For this supportin the Avdievka direction, the Ukrainian and his comrades-in-arms arrived quite recently, but they have already been told about the brutality of the clashes here. Making a video “for memory”, the defender honestly shared the plight of the Ukrainian army and the heavy losses among the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, saying that up to 13 KIAs and WIAs are recruited here per day.
20:07 Russian aviation destroyed strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Avdievka
20:07 Russian paratroopers continue advance in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya
19:05 Air alert announced in Kyiv, as well as in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Poltava regions
19:04 Personnel combat work of anti-aircraft gunners of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet near Ugledar
Every day, with Igla portable anti-aircraft missile systems, naval infantry advance to where, according to intelligence, enemy drones can appear, and conduct a circular search for targets in a given sector, providing air cover for advancing units.
MANPADS "Igla" is capable of hitting air targets at ranges from 500 to 3,500 meters. An anti-aircraft gunner with the call sign “Beter” told how he recently managed to shoot down a Ukrainian reconnaissance UAV “Furia”: “They shot down the Furia, hid in the forest belt so that they would not find us, were close to the front. They noticed her through the branches, reported to the headquarters, opened fire on her and shot her down.
Fighting in the Ugledar direction continues with high intensity. The main assault force is made up of naval infantry of the Pacific Fleet, as well as units of the OBTF "Cascade". The battles are going hard, but our troops are gradually pushing through the defenses of the enemy, who is suffering colossal losses.
17:57 Personnel combat work of the calculation of the MLRS 220mm BM-27 "Hurricane" on the accumulation of equipment and manpower of the enemy in the Donetsk direction
17:57 Combat work of Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forcesin the zone of the special operation
Attack aviation crews carried out rocket air strikes on military facilities and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Missile launches were carried out in pairs from low altitudes
17:55 "ATO warrior, war invalid" drawsto Zelensky with a call to restore order in the country, since it was the president’s rule that led to a mess in the country
16:56 Explosions in Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka - media
Presumably, Russian missiles flew at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Earlier it was reported that the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are located in this direction to try to hold the defense of Artemovsk (Bakhmut). They have already been hit multiple times.
16:53 Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the village of Krasnooktyabrsky, Belgorod region, recorded 10 arrivals - Governor
15:32 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
🔹The troops of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 60 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction;
🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen per day in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 120 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two combat vehicles of the Uragan MLRS in the Donetsk direction;
🔹Air defense systems of the Russian Federation intercepted 15 MLRS HIMARS, 300mm BM-30 "Smerch" and "Uragan" missiles per day, destroyed 9 drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
🔹The RF Armed Forces hit 89 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions;
🔹More than 100 servicemen and one Gvozdika self-propelled gun lost the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day.
14:43 Destroyed artillery fire Ukrainian 122mm self-propelled guns 2S1 "Gvozdika" in the zone of the SVO.
13:28 Ukrainian troops attempted a tank breakthrough in the Zaporozhye direction. On available RIA Novosti personnel, filmed by a drone operator, one can observe Ukrainian equipment hit by Russian units.
12:42 Combat Job of Russian crews of 152mm artillery mounts 2A36 "Hyacinth-B" when performing fire missions to destroy artillery and camouflaged fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the directions in the zone of the NMD
11:42 Soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the 102nd Battalion of the 108th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade tells that the command wants to take disciplinary action against him because of the video in which he told the unpleasant truth about his battalion.
11:41 Here is the amount of wounded Armed Forces of Ukraine are evacuated daily from Artemovsk (Bakhmut)
11:40 Air raid alert announced in all regions of Ukraine
10:22 The Ministry of Defense showed for the first time personnel destruction by the Lancet kamikaze drone of the Czech RM-70 MLRS.
The combat vehicle was discovered by the crews of an unmanned aerial vehicle in the Avdiivka direction and destroyed by high-precision loitering munitions.
09:22 Ramzan Kadyrov appointed a reward of 5 million rubles for the liquidation of the Ukrainian military, who burned pages from the Quran. And he promised 10 million rubles for taking him alive.
“Whenever it happens – today, tomorrow, in a year – the money will be waiting. And it doesn’t matter who does it: a platoon, a group, a loner, a neighbor in a trench, the money will be transferred in full,” Kadyrov wrote.
08:15 "With an understanding of responsibility": combat Job of crews of T-80 ZVO tanks at the forefront in the special operation zone.
In one of the directions in the NVO zone, in order to support motorized riflemen, the crews of T-80 tanks delivered a powerful fire strike on the front line of the enemy’s defense. First of all, gunners-operators destroyed the positions of anti-tank weapons and armored vehicles of the enemy.
There are reports of a UAV flying in the direction of Lvov. Explosions in Volyn.
Earlier, the Gauleiter of the Dnepropetrovsk region confirmed that two UAVs hit a critical infrastructure facility in Novomoskovsk. There is serious destruction.
0:30 Explosions are reported in the Zhytomyr region. Explosions also thundered in the Rivne and Khmelnytsky regions.
0:12 RF Armed Forces inflict control strikes on an object in Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk region.
Immediately after a fire flared up as a result of the arrival, presumably at the oil depot, in the Novomoskovsk region, the Russian army launched a second control strike with the help of the Geranium.
#1
Surprise visit by Putin. No fear here. 'The president visited several districts of the city to inspect the progress of restoration efforts, including the construction of “new residential districts, social and educational facilities, housing and communal services infrastructure, medical institutions.” He also toured the “coastline in the area of the yacht club, theater,” as well as other “memorable places” in the city.'Mariupol
#2
Russia and Putin are right wing America's hope.
I mean, they mistreat gay folks and trannies so little stuff like mass murder, rape, tyranny and no free speech isn't a thing to my righty fellow countrymen who prefer Russia:
#3
This elderly Russian lady has more brains and virtue than all the pro Russians in the USA and almost all her fellow countrymen. I wish this was the average Russian:
#4
Russia and Putin are right wing America's hope. (Etc...)
Spoken by someone who firmly — nay fervently — believes what he reads on the internet. Truly, Slish Angunter7690, you are even more gullible than I.
Speaking for myself alone, I had hoped Vladimir Putin would be his own country’s salvation, despite his career in the KGB, his very expensive mistresses and the bare-chested nonsense with horses and tigers, and the 2014 war in the Donbas. Unfortunately, as it turns out, he forgot to check what his generals were telling him, and he believed what President Biden said publicly about the Ukraine, despite knowing that man is both a corrupt, serial liar and senile. Despite deeply loving Mother Russia, Putin has betrayed her future as none has done since the Bolsheviks drove out the more moderate revolutionaries and established their 70+ year reign of terror.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 03/18/2023 to 00:00 03/19/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 11 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made five artillery attacks from 155mm and 122mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky four artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
On Khartsyzsky one artillery attack from the MLRS. By releasing 37 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of four settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Central-city district), Mineralnoye, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Staromikhaylovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a man, in the Leninsky district of Donetsk. Four civilians received injuries of varying severity in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Staromikhaylovka and Mineralny.
Two houses were damaged in the Central City district of Gorlovka and Khartsyzsk. Damage to civil infrastructure facilities was not recorded. Previously, 14 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU during the day.
21:34 A civilian was injured in the village of mine No. 10 in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk as a result of artillery attack by Ukrainian troops, reported mayor of the city Alexei Kulemzin.
"Information continues to be received about the injured civilians as a result of artillery attack by Ukrainian punishers of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. In the village of mine No. 10, a man born in 1971 was also injured," Kulemzin wrote in the telegram channel.
It is noted that the victim with shrapnel wounds was taken to the hospital.
20:52 Russian army moving forward on the Krasnolimansky direction
The main role here is played by the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation. So the paratroopers managed to take by storm three "oporniks" of the enemy. They were opposed by formations of the 25th separate airborne brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The units of the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation also repulsed the counterattack of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The work of artillery and anti-tank weapons was so dense that the enemy acted only with infantry and through the green. But even so they did not succeed.
19:37 One of the dirt roads to Artemovsk. littered with abandoned and destroyed machinery -video. 18+ there is obscene vocabulary.
19:31 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing five rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
19:25 Khartsyzsk - for several hours, employees of the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations are fighting a fire in a residential building after the artillery attack of this city from the HIMARS MLRS by the Nazis -video.
19:05 Compilation video defeating enemy targets with Krasnopol guided projectiles.
The telegram channel "People's Militia of the DPR" publishes a selection of videos of the destruction of enemy targets with the help of high-precision weapons. Reconnaissance of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps constantly conducts the detection of strong points, personnel, dugouts, and enemy equipment. Identified priority targets are hit by corps artillery using Krasnopol guided projectiles, which are guided by UAVs.
18:47 Personnel combat work of anti-aircraft gunners of the naval infantry of the Pacific Fleet near Ugledar.
Every day, with Igla portable anti-aircraft missile systems, the naval infantry advance to where, according to intelligence, enemy drones can appear, and conduct a circular search for targets in a given sector, providing air cover for advancing units.
18:31 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, firing five rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
17:50 The situation in Energodar remains tense, Kyiv continues provocations, Stepan Lopatin, the commander of the special forces group providing security in the city, with the call sign "Evil" - told RIA Novostivideo.
17:40 Consequences of missile attack from the HIMARS MLRS on the rear city of Khartsyzsk in the DPR.
17:31 Russian Armed Forces artillery near Belogorovka destroys manpower of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:24 Ukrainian Armed Forces fired on Horlivka - arrival hit a civilian building -video.
“Until now, my hands are shaking, there was an explosion that everyone jumped up, even the girls’ sewing machines staggered. Civil building: we have seamstresses here, the boy repairs the computer. That there was an arrival, they understood right away, ”shared the woman who looked after the building.
17:20 Personnel destruction of the Russian Armed Forces stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction.
17:08 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for March 18, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Central city district):
- st. Maurice Torez, 4 - apartment building.
n.p. Khartsyzsk: - st. Field - fire of a private residential building was recorded.
16:40 Special forces soldiers occupied stronghold of the enemy in the Avdeevsky direction.
The fighters of the special forces unit of the RF Armed Forces drove the enemy out of his positions and occupied his platoon stronghold, capturing trophies.
16:20 The AFU militants fired on the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, firing three rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
15:55 Ukrainian troops fired on Khartsyzsk, firing three rockets from the MLRS, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
15:40 Gorlovka. Around 14.00 arrival near the Central market, st. M. Torez, 4.
15:20 Accurate blows our gunners on the Nazis and their equipment on the Zaporozhye front.
The crews of the 122mm Gvozdika and 152mm Giacint-B artillery mounts hit the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction.
14:47 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (03/18/2023) The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops hit the enemy's manpower in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnaya, Sinkovka, Kotlyarovka of the Kharkov region and Stelmahovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen and three vehicles were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, tactical aviation strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the "Center" group of troops (forces) hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye, Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic, Yampolovka and Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the day in this direction, the enemy’s losses amounted to over 100 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, as well as a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.
In the Donetsk direction, as a result of the active actions of the units of the "Southern" group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire, up to 120 Ukrainian military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, two cars, two combat vehicles of the 220mm Uragan MLRS, as well as a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed per day. .
In the South-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions, operational-tactical aviation and artillery of the Vostok group of troops defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka, Vuhledar of the Donetsk People's Republic, Levadne and Orekhov of the Zaporozhye region.
Enemy losses per day in these areas amounted to 50 Ukrainian servicemen and two pickup trucks.
In the Kherson direction, over 25 Ukrainian servicemen, four vehicles, and two122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed during a day of fire damage.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated 89 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and equipment in 107 districts.
The command post of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit in the area of the settlement of Tonenkoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the day, air defense systems intercepted 15 rockets of the HIMARS, 300mm Smerch and 220mm Uragan multiple launch rocket systems.
In addition, nine Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Novaya Tarasovka in the Kharkiv region, Rubizhne, Chervonopovka in the Luhansk People's Republic, Staromayorskoe, Vladimirovka, Yegorovka and Valeryanovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 402 aircraft, 221 helicopters, 3,457 unmanned aerial vehicles, 414 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8330 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,066 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,381 field artillery and mortars, as well as 8,996 units of special military vehicles.
13:35 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for March 18, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Leninsky district):
- on the road Donetsk-Mariupol, near the settlement. Andreevka, a man born in 1972 died as a result of an explosion on a mine PFM "Petal".
96 cases of undermining civilians were registered, incl. 9 children, on mines PFM-1 "Petal". Three of the victims died as a result of the wound.
n.p. Staromikhaylovka: - on the street. Oktyabrskaya, 13, a woman born in 1996 was wounded.
12:40 Ukrainian troops fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing 4 rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
11:48 Yesterday in the area of n.p. Sadovoye (Kherson region) 122mm was destroyed by artillery strike. MLRS BM-21 "Grad" and 3 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:01 in the LPR returned 38 servicemen of the 2nd Army Corps of the RF Armed Forces released from Ukrainian captivity.
10:35 At night, at the place of temporary deployment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ??the settlement. Veletensky (Kherson region), an artillery strike was carried out, as a result of which: 20 Nazis were destroyed; 15 - were wounded, 6 units. automotive equipment - disabled
10:02 Frontline summary on the morning of 18.03.2023:
On the Donetsk front, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the support of artillery, conducted assault operations in the city of Maryinka. They also attacked again near Nevelskoy, where in recent days they have temporarily lost their offensive initiative. After artillery strikes, Russian troops once again tried to break through to Pervomaisky from the side of Sand and Vodyany. APU hold positions. From Opytnoye, after massive artillery attack and air strikes, they attacked Ukrainian positions on the southern outskirts of Avdievka.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are also striving to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kamenka. Russian artillery hit Paraskovievka (not to be confused with the village of the same name north of Bakhmut), Pobeda, Netaylov, Severny, Tonenoye and Orlovka. Aviation also worked in the last of the listed settlements. The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at Donetsk and Novobakhmutovka.
To the south-west of Artemovsk, PMC "Wagner" with the support of artillery led assault operations near Ivanovsky. The situation is the same in the city itself. In the southern part - from Ivangrad. And in the north - from Yagodny. There is no significant progress in these areas.
As well as after offensive operations on Khromovoye and Bogdanovka. Wagner operators achieved success in the Grigorovka area, where, after artillery strikes, they established control over some heights near this settlement.
PMC "Wagner" is also attacking with fire support in the area of Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, and units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation near Disputed. Also, Russian troops tried to advance to Verkhnekamenskoye.
Artillery hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Aleksandro-Shultin, Predtechin, Chasovoy Yar, Novomarkovo, Vasyukovka and Rozdolovka. The Ukrainian army shelled Zheleznyanskoye.
In the Luhansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation managed to advance in the Serebryansky forest from the side of Kuzmin. They also attacked towards Ternov and Makeevka.
09:20 The Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region. Over the past day, Ukronazi militants fired a total of 97 rounds, of which 53 rounds were fired during the day, incl. by settlements:
- Aleshki - 4 (private housing construction was damaged);
- Naked Pier - six rounds;
- Scrap - eight rounds;
- New Zburyevka - four rounds;
- Kardashinka - six rounds;
- Zabarino - seven rounds;
- Cossack Camps - eight rounds;
- Krynki - four rounds;
- Kohany - six rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. New Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Gornostaevka, Velyka Lepetikha, Dnepryan, Cairo, firing a total of 44 rounds from cannon artillery.
08:14 Personnel firing from the Igla MANPADS near Ugledar.
Near Ugledar, anti-aircraft gunners of the marines of the Pacific Fleet provided air cover for the advancing units and locations. Every day, with Igla portable anti-aircraft missile systems, they advanced to where, according to intelligence, enemy drones could appear
08:08 For the period from 21:00 on March 17 to 08:00 on March 18, according to the information of the JCCC of the DPR, the territory of Donetsk was subjected to artillery attack from the AFU twice.
In the direction of the Petrovsky district, three rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired, Kirovsky - two rockets from the MLRS.
08:05 Cannon artillery of the RF Armed Forces inflicts blows in enemy trenches and destroys wheeled vehicles in the area of Ugledar in the DPR.
07:50 Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR destroyed more than 70 German-made anti-tank mines discovered in Svatovo after remote mining of the city by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic reported.
06:55 Russian kamikaze drone "Lancet" with an ultra-precise strike destroyed Ukrainian MLRS in the Avdeevka direction.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Stanislav Stremidlovsky
[REGNUM] In recent days, in the context of the Ukrainian conflict, Poland has been intensively creating informational occasions, obviously wanting to get a reaction from both Western countries and Russia. In particular, statements about the supply of MiG-29 aircraft to the Kyiv regime. However, Warsaw has come close to the moment when the use of an external factor, political Russophobia, ceases to bring results.
When Polish President Andrzej Duda, at a joint press conference with his Czech counterpart Petr Pavel on Thursday, March 16, in the Belvedere Palace announced the transfer of the MiG-29 aircraft in service with the Polish army to the Kiev regime, this initially caused a stormy enthusiastic reaction from a number of Western publications. Warsaw was actively praised and set as an example as the first student. But then nuances and details began to be added.
First. According to Duda, “literally, in the next few days, we are transferring, as far as I remember, four aircraft to Ukraine, they are in full working order." But at the same time, the Polish president added, these MiG-29s have reached the limit of operation.
“Can these aircraft, whose main function is air defense, not ground support, give the Ukrainians an advantage in the conflict?" asked the French newspaper Le Figaro. "If air superiority is the most important and very often the first controversial goal of any war, then the few MiG-29s that the countries of the former Warsaw Pact can provide to Ukraine will not be able, according to the experts we interviewed, to prevent Russia from firmly controlling the air."
In other words, Warsaw made a symbolic gesture of support for the Kyiv regime, which will not change anything on the battlefield.
In turn, the Minister of Defense of Slovakia Yaroslav Nad, who announced after the Poles about the transfer of the MiG-29s in service with the Slovak army, stressed that such aircraft "we can no longer use anyway." Although even in this case, opposition parties criticized Bratislava's decision, and opinion polls show that "a clear majority of Slovaks oppose the supply of combat aircraft."
Second. Duda specified that the Polish MiG-29s are “those machines that we once, in the early 1990s, accepted from the army of the German Democratic Republic.” Therefore, write German publications, in accordance with the so-called end-use clause, Warsaw can transfer fighter jets to Ukraine only with the consent of the German government.
In the ruling German coalition, the junior partners of the SPD were clearly in favor of granting permission. The FDP member Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and the head of the Bundestag Committee on European Affairs, Anton Hofreiter, representing the Greens, called on the authorities to do this . Against - MP from the "left" Gregor Gysi.
"If we put in fighter jets now, things will get even worse,” he told Welt TV. “I don’t want us to gradually move towards a third world war."
But in general, Berlin today “was cautious about the planned delivery by Poland” of the MiG-29 to the Kiev regime, especially since no official notification has yet been received from it, said federal government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit.
Third. Earlier, the Polish authorities wanted to create a “broad coalition of countries" in the issue of aircraft supplies, as in the previous case with the transfer of tanks. Apparently, Warsaw hoped to "spur" not only Berlin, but also Washington. But Americans react ambiguously.
Poland sometimes runs ahead of the locomotive, The New York Times notes, recalling how in March last year the Poles announced their readiness to transfer the MiG-29 to the Kyiv regime.
"However, this plan collapsed after Warsaw unexpectedly announced that instead of transferring the aircraft directly to Ukraine, it would send them to an American air base in Germany for transfer,” the publication emphasized. "Stunned by this idea, Washington, which was not consulted, rejected it, and not one of the planes left Poland."
So what is the goal of Warsaw?
In recent days, in the context of the Ukrainian conflict, she has been intensively creating informational occasions, obviously wanting to get a political and forceful reaction from both Western countries and Russia. Only this week, in addition to the “aircraft intrigue”, there was a statement by Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak about his intention to deploy the first American HIMARS launchers near the border with the Kaliningrad region. And the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland, Mariusz Kaminski, announced the disclosure of an allegedly “Russian” spy network.
The Italian magazine Limes links the latter to domestic political risks for the ruling Polish Law and Justice (PiS) party, which, in the year of parliamentary elections, is facing voter discontent with excessive support for the Kiev regime and growing xenophobia in Poland towards Ukrainian refugees. The publication notes that this is not caused by some kind of "pro-Russian sympathies" of the Poles, but "aversion to the revelry of the" ideology of Bandera "- an accomplice of the Nazis, a war criminal associated with the genocide of Jews and Poles, but a patriot for many Ukrainians."
Law and Justice, at the same time, is trying not to cross the line, which could lead to very serious problems for Poland. However, PiS has come close to the moment when the use of an external factor, political Russophobia, ceases to bring results. And, as one can judge, neither the West nor Moscow is going to play along with the ruling party.
Commenting on Duda’s statements about the transfer of the MiG-29, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov pointed out that “the supply of this military equipment, as we have repeatedly said, cannot affect the outcome of a special military operation, but can bring additional troubles for Ukraine itself. and the Ukrainian people. That is, the emphasis is not on the games of Warsaw, even if it tries to fan the fire under the “Kyiv frying pan”.
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The Poles are in the midst of replacing their Russian aircraft with S Korean and American hardware. The MiG's will need to be disposed of. And all the maintenance gear. And parts.
How can we write this off?
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[REGNUM] British Air Force: NATO fighters sent to intercept Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft near Estonian borders
A group of aircraft of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of the Russian Federation was accompanied by two Eurofighter Typhoon fighters. They were sent to intercept Russian Tu-134s, An-12s and two Su-27s near the borders of Estonia, the RAF press service said.
The aircraft sent to intercept belonged to Britain and Germany. They "surveilled" Russian aircraft as part of the tasks of patrolling Estonian airspace.
“We were sortied to intercept aircraft approaching Estonian airspace. They flew close to the borders of NATO airspace," said RAF spokesman Richard Lisk.
As REGNUM reported, on March 15, the air forces of Great Britain and Germany intercepted the Russian Il-78 near Estonian airspace. The refueling aircraft was flying between St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad.
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'War games: UK pilots to hold joint mission with Germany in Nato member Estonia, right on Russia’s border'. Sounds like poking the bear a little. Lindsey Graham, Biden game players. Dated March 9th.
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More like: "Reminding Russia what a border is", Dale?
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Pants Putin on Peleton spinning,
"The Bear's in the air. We are winning!"
Great props of his nation
In contra-rotation
Make wind, but his dinner is grinning.
Commentary from the telegram channel of Cvarchshki.
Washington plans to carry out a series of cyberattacks on Russia Shhhh. It's a secret. In anticipation of the start of offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Russia in the spring of this year. The United States and its allies plan to significantly intensify offensive operations in the Russian digital space.
The priority goals are logistics operators servicing the movement of weapons and troops and large transport hubs in the Kursk, Oryol and Belgorod regions, state bodies and medical institutions responsible for mobilization activities, primarily hospitals.
Achieving public resonance should be facilitated by cyber attacks aimed at organizing interruptions in gas, electricity and water supply, as well as disrupting the functioning of socially significant institutions in the border areas and in the newly annexed territories.
The Westerners expect that the attack on critical information infrastructure will force Russia to devote its forces to protecting its own telecommunications systems and reduce its cyber activity.
Penetration into the secure networks of government departments and strategic enterprises is supposed to be carried out with the use of software tabs and agents. To recruit specialists, the CIA is actively in contact with Russian IT specialists located abroad in Georgia, Armenia, Moldova and Kazakhstan. The bet is that the shortage of personnel will force the operators of facilities of interest to Americans to entrust a number of tasks to subcontractors working remotely from abroad.
NSA specialists plan to secretly install spyware similar to the Israeli Pegasus software on personal mobile phones of government officials and employees of private organizations.
Responsibility for organizing anti-Russian cyber attacks is assigned to the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) operating within the structure of the US Cyber Command, whose tasks include managing military cyber operations and protecting military computer networks.
Cyber strikes are planned to be carried out in close coordination with NATO allies and Ukraine, mainly from their territory. To carry out cyber attacks from the territory of Ukraine, about 300 highly qualified personnel officers of the CNMF, the Navy and the Marine Corps were allocated, partially deployed in the regions controlled by Kiev on the basis of units of the signal troops and 72 Centers of the IPSO SOF of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
It turns out that taking children out of the war zone in order to save their life and health is now a crime against humanity!
You all have already heard that yesterday the so-called "international court in The Hague," which is not recognized by Russia or 70 other countries, issued an arrest warrant for Putin for evacuating children from a war zone, which is under fire, including from actively supplied by NATO weapons
Please note that in Europe they did not dare to bring charges of a military nature. Because, first you need to blame:
- Clinton and European leaders of that period for Yugoslavia;
- Bush Jr. / Blair for Afghanistan, Iraq;
- Obama/Sarkozy, Libya;
- Obama and Hollande for Syria;
- Biden for Nord Streams;
- and so on...
Attract all of them... And then try to demand something from our side...
Therefore, we decided to go in such a crooked way
It turns out like this:
Russia: "Let's evacuate children from war zones in order to save lives."
Collective West: “My God! Putin kidnapped children! War criminal!"
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Iraqi children: “We killed half a million children in Iraq. It was worth it".
The immoral hypocrisy and twisted logic are astounding. At the same time, the West does not understand what attitude Russians have towards children. Because in the West they evaluate by themselves. What would be wildness for us is the NORM for them.
Children in the West are a commodity. Unfortunately it is so. And the goods are in short supply. Too late to have children. Too few people get it at a later age. They started juvenile justice in order to redistribute children. And they believe that we, too, treat children as a commodity. Therefore, the media disperse information that can touch their audience - as soon as Russian troops occupied the territory of Ukraine, we, from their point of view, should have started plundering new territories. And steal including children. The fact that for us it would be savagery is savagery for them (c)
As for the warrant itself... They wanted to offend the Russians there, but they disgraced themselves. Russia doesn't care what decisions the ICC makes in The Hague. Just as China, India, Iran, Israel and even the United States do not care, which also refused to participate in the ICC.
The most interesting thing is that the presence of such a document, an order, is useful. It shows that it is impossible and DO NOT NEED to negotiate with the West. The order is the absence of masks from the Western politicians with their grins. This is much better than when these grins are hidden behind masks with fake unctuous smiles.
Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
[DonRF] And in addition to the news of this news, this one:
Joe Biden said that he considers justified the decision of the pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to issue a warrant for the arrest of Vladimir Putin.
And this is a good reason to stop and think. Everyone. And hard. What the West is doing is clear in principle - exactly the same scenario worked in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya. ICC indictment of the Head of State. Elite betrayal. People's revolt. The dismemberment of the country and its immersion in an endless Civil War.
One caveat - there was no club. There is. But it is not taken into account in principle. For very simple reasons - the Russian Federation has not yet gone beyond the flags. Does not violate the laws of war. Does not hit the decision-making centers. Does not destroy the Ukrainian economy.
Even gestures of readiness for the use of WMD against Rzeszow and Ramstein were not carried out. But gestures of goodwill were made. Numerous. And conclusions have been drawn from all this in the West. Like these ones. The power is weak, the elite is prone to betrayal, the state is not mobilized and is not morally ready for the whole world to crumble.
Well, the goal is purely utilitarian. What I have been shouting about since spring, and what they don’t want to understand, judging by the media drone, in the MSC. We have been declared a universal evil. The Western public is more twisted than in the World Wars, then such media and technologies simply did not exist. And everyone is waiting for a happy ending.
A good negro sheriff will shoot a white scoundrel. And no matter how much you give birth from Azov, this cannot be changed. Neither iPhones, nor tiramisu, nor Turkish resorts for the scumbag Kalina will be seen in the West. They will see what they show. Others from Yu Tube and TV will be cut out. They came to the war. We are not. We are just beginning to realize. Slowly.
As for me personally, I am a citizen of Russia. This is my president. I am not a Putinist, I am not a member of United Russia, I do not jump from the NOD, I do not believe in bonds. But the symbol of my state was declared a criminal. For saving children from the frontline zone. Although... it doesn't matter why. None of their fucking business. It is not for the eunuchs and criminals who provoked this fratricidal slaughter to judge us. We'll figure it out ourselves. No freaks. Let yourself be judged, good reasons for darkness.
And that's why I, like most Russians, expect toughness from the authorities. Maximum. If my family is destined to die in a Civil fire, then why should John Smith's family live? Or Hans Schweine? Or Pierre Pidrillo? Why would?
Another question is what will this government choose? And I'm afraid that it will be extremely constructive, prone to compromises and non-alternative settlement. Like the previous heroes - the series - the sheriff destroys the world's evil. However, we will see this soon. There are times when words don't matter. She is now. Somewhere from the end of April 2023, you will have to be, not seem. Then we'll see. Against the option:
Some say: the world will die in fire,
Others say about ice
I lived a long time, and it seems to me,
Fire will come sooner.
But if someone told me
that death awaits us twice,
I would not be surprised. I learned
that hatred is thicker than ice
And indifference is colder than
the eternal covers of ice.
And if there are not enough lights for death,
then Ice will fit then ...
Into dust, I have nothing against it. In order to win, or at least avenge yourself, you just need to remember for a moment that you are a man, and men cannot give birth, and patirpet against their nature. In this world, having become accustomed to virtuality, we have lost fear. Whole. And without the instinct of self-preservation, the biological species is still doomed. Anyway.
Why did Donetsk alter Robert Frost’s original poem, written in 1920? Russian prose and translations are such that there are no wrong translations. To Donetsk, you are reading the correct translation. If I tried to translate this poem directly to English the way English syntax lays out the prose, no one who reads and understands Russian would appreciate neither my translation nor my efforts.
The difference could well be English syntax in the 1920s and how
Google Translates the prose in the 2020s.
Dunno.
Translation that recreates the emotional feel of the text as well as the dictionary meaning of the words is a high level linguistic skill. Back when I was preparing for our move to Germany, I amused myself by translating a passage from English to German, then translated the translation in reverse using the same dictionary. The results often unexpected.
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Hellfires and Militarisation: #Poland to Purchase US Missiles
The US State Dep has approved a $150m deal which would see defense contractor Lockheed Martin supply 800 AGM-114R2 Hellfire rockets and related equipment to Warsaw.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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In anticipation of the start of offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Russia in the spring of this year. The United States and its allies plan to significantly intensify offensive operations in the Russian digital space.
