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  • Ukraine kills 49 elite Russian troops on way to front line

    09/07/2023 4:01:48 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 25 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | September 6, 2023 | Joe Barnes
    Ukrainian forces killed 49 elite Russian paratroopers in a single day in an operation to prevent them from being deployed to a key section of the war’s southern front line. The members of the 7th Guards Mountain Airborne Division were embroiled in a brutal fight after Ukrainian fighters pinned them down near the village of Staromaiorske in the eastern Donetsk region, Russian military bloggers reported. Troops from the 247th VDV regiment were sent in to retrieve the soldiers’ bodies after Russian commanders refused to oversee their recovery, one report said, citing an audio recording of a Russian soldier. Ukrainian counter-offensive...
  • Kremlin Guidelines for Media Coverage of Ukrainian Counteroffensive Leaked

    05/02/2023 6:01:41 PM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 19 replies
    The Moscow Times ^ | May 2, 2023 | Staff Report
    The Kremlin has issued a list of guidelines for Russia’s state media outlets on how to cover Ukraine's impending counteroffensive, the independent news outlet Meduza revealed on Tuesday. The guidelines, which recommended emphasizing the fact that Ukraine is being armed by NATO while discouraging any suggestion that Kyiv is underprepared, appear aimed at giving Moscow the chance to spin any outcome of the expected counter-attack positively. "If Ukraine, with the help of weapons from the U.S. and Europe, is successful and occupies some territories, the [Russian] loss will be understandable: the entire West has concentrated huge efforts on the front,...