Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4209960/posts
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA.
“Why Internet Trolls Do What They Do and How to Spot Russian Fakes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtBzvw0—0
“Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.”
https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1730119780873441750
Kremlin snuff box
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Tragedy miraculously did not happen - a Caliber missile launched at Ukraine fell in the Krasnodar region
During today’s missile salvo in Ukraine, another emergency occurred. One of the Caliber missiles, launched from the Caspian Sea, fell in the Pavlovsky district of the Krasnodar Territory.
The causes of the emergency situation are being established. This time a miracle happened - the rocket fell into a field without hitting the nearest villages.
Alas, emergencies with rockets and bombs falling on peaceful cities are occurring more and more often. We warned about this danger. This week, an aerial bomb fell on the city of Rubezhnoye in the LPR .
At the same time, the fall of “Caliber” is symptomatic, because these missiles are considered modern and technologically advanced. Sources hint that in the pursuit of speed of missile production, quality suffers. Due to sanctions, there are problems with purchasing chips for missiles.
The Ministry of Defense aims to further increase the production of missiles, drones and ammunition. This in turn increases the likelihood of new missiles falling on peaceful cities in our country.
It would be good if, at least after such emergencies, Shoigu launched a process of large-scale inspection of missile production. Only a real process, and not the usual imitation. However, it is obvious that this is unlikely to happen without a kick from the President.
Vladimir Vladimirovich has not yet been informed about the rocket crash in the Krasnodar Territory.
But, if you think about it, such emergencies discredit Russian weapons and can lead to a decline in positions in the arms market.
Kremlin snuff box
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
In Mariupol and Berdyansk, 14 of our officers died in one day. The army is looking for “especially cynical traitors”
On Saturday, January 13, the Ukrainian army launched missile attacks on Mariupol and Berdyansk . According to our sources in the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense, in both cases, command posts where meetings were held with the participation of a “large number” of officers were hit.
According to the information at our disposal and which we have checked, 16 military personnel were killed in Mariupol as a result of the Saturday strike, 10 of them were officers. In Berdyansk, 11 military personnel were killed, four of them were officers.
“An important meeting was taking place in Mariupol, there were two representatives of the General Staff who specially arrived from Moscow, both of them died. In Berdyansk, the enemy struck during a planned officer meeting,” one of the sources said.
According to another, “it is obvious that the missiles were aimed at our military, and some of their own.”
“Here we are clearly talking about particularly cynical and fairly high-ranking traitors. Not a single local saboteur or supporter of Ukraine could know about such officer meetings.
“What kind of creature do you have to be to expose your colleagues, officers like you, to enemy attacks? Happy memory to those who died. And we will definitely find traitors, we are already actively looking for them,” a source at the Ministry of Defense said about this.
At the same time, according to another source, Ukrainian saboteurs could also be operating in Mariupol and Berdyansk, who somehow gained the trust of our officers and received secret information from them.
Zelensky to Join Klaus Schwab for Special Address to Davos Elites
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will share a special stage with World Economic Forum (WEF) executive chairman and founder Klaus Schwab on Tuesday to make a guest appearance at the annual gathering of the globalist elites.
Their discussion in the front of the invitation-only audience is titled “Achieving Security and Cooperation in a Fragmented World.”
For WEF - their theme this year is "rebuilding trust". I wonder how and why they lost it.
Kremlin snuff box
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/3437
Up to 10 thousand “black janitors” from Africa are being trained to participate in the SVO
In recent days, there has been a lot of discussion about the arrival in Russia of 10 thousand workers from Kenya, who have already begun to appear in Moscow. As it turns out, this news has a direct bearing on the SVO.
According to our interlocutors from among Yevgeny Prigozhin’s close associates, former “Wagnerites” (who left the PMC and signed contracts with the Ministry of Defense) opened two special training camps - in Kenya and Mali.
There they recruit locals and prepare them to participate in the Northern Military District in order to “strengthen our army in several difficult sectors of the front.”
One group of such fighters (about 500 people, by the way, among them there are both men and women) has already arrived in Russia under the guise of workers.
For cover, they took staged photos in janitor uniforms and will soon be sent to the front - most likely to the Avdiivka area and the Zaporozhye region. Several more groups are on the way; in total, it is planned to train approximately 10 thousand African fighters.
Some Africans were well trained and offered contracts - they will be paid from 300 to 500 thousand rubles per month (they will be paid, of course, in dollars).
At the same time, not all new fighters are well prepared, but “there are enough of them to go on assaults,” our interlocutors say. In general, new fighters will be paid different amounts depending on their skills and abilities.
“To be honest, a lot of people laugh at these fighters. They have even been given a nickname - “black wipers”. Oh, if Evgeny Viktorovich could see this,” said one of the sources.
By the way, our interlocutors at the Ministry of Defense confirmed to us the training of African fighters for the Northern Military District. But they refused to provide any details.
« The fire at the Wildberries warehouse in Shushary [ near St. Petersburg ] continues. The fire area is 80 thousand square meters and they cannot put out the fire. The main versions are arson and faulty electrical wiring.»
https://twitter.com/albafella1/status/1746360906546553038
The main versions are arson and faulty electrical wiring.
Most certainly arson (sabotage).
I am confident there is a warehouse in Alabama that is still burning.
For those that do not know:
It is widely reported in various posts that an American journalist held in Ukraine has died. Some post make this sound bad for Ukraine.
Back Story - he’s a creep - SPJNK
“Tucker Carlson has reported that Russian propagandist Gonzalo Lira has passed away from pneumonia while serving time in prison in Ukraine.
“Gonzalo Lira is an American citizen who has been living in Ukraine for years working as a dating coach where he marketed himself as an expert guru on how to train Western men how to successfully target and sleep with impoverished Eastern European women.
“When Russia invaded Ukraine, the sex tourism industry in Ukraine collapsed and Gonzalo decided to start promoting Russian propaganda online in order to make money.”
The Russian army planned to take the Bylina into service in 2025, but it was delivered earlier than scheduled due to military needs and losses.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1746551636376342744
Here's an article which proclaims "Bylina" as an "AI Drone-Killer"
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for January 15, 2024…
- US-Chilean citizen Gonzalo Lira is confirmed dead by the US State Department, having died in a Ukrainian prison with serious health issues neglected by his jailers. He was imprisoned for criticizing Kiev;
- Russia continues using a strategy of attrition across the line of contact, particularly in places like Avdeevka where Ukrainian positions are steadily degraded;
- Russian forces continue carrying out large-scale drone and missile strikes on targets across Ukraine;
- Ukraine admits a growing crisis in terms of air defense capabilities with its Western sponsors unable to supply an adequate number of interceptors for launchers transferred to Ukraine;
- Russia is continuing to expand production of existing drones and missiles while also developing new drones and missiles with greater capabilities, further stressing Ukraine’s already stretched combat capabilities;
- Previous dismissal of Russian-Iranian defense cooperation has now led to a demonstrable strategic crisis for Ukraine and the collective West;
- Ukrainian commanders are requesting what amounts to an entire army’s worth of equipment including an entire air force worth of replacement aircraft;
The former head of Roscosmos, Rogozin, who has now been appointed a Russian "senator" from the captured part of Zaporizhzhia region, said this. According to him, Kyiv has a surplus of such drones.
Rogozin said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have recently changed their staffs, "and now there are drone operator departments in almost every infantry platoon."
He confirms this from his own experience. "When you drive into a front-line village, it's as if you've entered a hornet's nest - everything is buzzing. The enemy's FPV drones are in the air at the entrance. In pairs. One attacks at once, the other records the defeat and attacks those who rush to the aid of the victim," Rogozin said.
Also, according to him, the AFU drones massively attack Russian equipment on the march. He said that 14 Ukrainian drones recently chased one IFV.
Ukraine relies on domestic production of FPV drones.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1746479784073249130
I believe that Ukraine recognized the war fighting potential of commercial quad-copter drones long before ruzzia did.
IMHO, this is the most important "lesson learned" in this war.
Death to Ukraine! It needs to cease to exist. May God bless the Russians in wiping Ukraine off the map.
It's January 14th and Joe Biden is still the worst President in American history and Speedy is still the dumbest Zeeper on Free Republic.
Giant Black Bavovna 🔥🔥🔥💨🤌
01/13/2024 - Wildberries warehouse
This is the Aftermath 👇
All that remains of the Wildberries warehouse in St. Petersburg. The building was built less than two years ago. Damage from a fire can amount to colossal amounts. Emergency Situations Ministry employees continue to clear the site of the fire at the Wildberries warehouse in Shushary.
https://twitter.com/LXSummer1/status/1746471239449715071
The building was built less than two years ago.
Sad.
Novomoskovsk in Tula region - 372 residential buildings, 16 kindergartens and a hospital are without heat because of an incident at the local electricity station.
"All resources and means are directed towards liquidating the accident," says the press-release of the local mayor's office.
Russian Telegram channel reports that despite all the efforts to fix the station, nothing works, and locals report that their apartments are getting cold. It's up to -12 degrees Celsius outside.
There has been a whole series of accidents with utility services in Russia since 2024 started.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1746568319317000491
(((PING!)))
To join the follies, ping me bro.
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1746506988530356675
Sverdlovsk Region, Russia ❗
The evacuation of residents of the city of Zarechny, who were left without heating, was announced. Yesterday in the city of Zarechny, residents of several microdistricts of the city were left without heat due to a pipe break. Since the temperature in the city will drop to minus 42 degrees at night, and the accident has not been eliminated, local residents are evacuated to heating points.🥶❄️
https://twitter.com/LXSummer1/status/1746547708515455320
Here's a picture of their new "heating point".
Kazan, Russia ❗
Bavovna 🔥🔥🔥💨🤌
The Astoria Hotel is on fire in Kazan - smoke can be seen several kilometers away, the Ministry of Emergency Situations has cordoned off the area. Impenetrable smoke enveloped almost the entire block. It is reported that people were evacuated from the establishment. Ambulance personnel are also on the scene. The cause of course is still unknown.
https://twitter.com/LXSummer1/status/1746513312580300891
It is reported that people were evacuated from the establishment.
Isn't that nice.
Amazing 🤩 Residents in Khimki are feeling like they're living in a rat-infested mountain range! Their garbage is piling up faster than mountains grow! Not only has there been no heating or hot water for months, local residents complained that their garbage was not being collected, too. World class 👏
https://twitter.com/LXSummer1/status/1746587975113191660
Gumenyuk was the mayor of Vladivostok from 2019 to 2021. In January 2023, the court sentenced him to 16 years and 6 months in a penal colony of strict regime, recognizing him guilty of taking bribes worth 38 million rubles.
On appeal, the term was reduced to 12 years. The former official spent a year in prison.
Now he will fight for six months and get freedom! This scheme is now used by many prisoners.
At the same time, ordinary mobilized Russians do not get leave and cannot be demobilized.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1746593172963123236
Criminals only have to fight for 6 months.
Mobniks do not get leave and cannot be demobilized.
Who says crime doesn't pay?
