Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Evil in our time.
“Alexander Demidenko, a 61-year-old Russian volunteer who helped Ukrainian citizens in Russia return to Ukraine has died in jail, his friend said. Journalists previously published photos displaying signs of torture on Demidenko’s body”
https://twitter.com/PjotrSauer/status/1777287301330063688
Genocidal Nazism in our time. And this time it comes from Russia.
Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4229842/posts
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One of the political strategists, for instance, instructed a troll farm employee working for his firm to write a comment of “no more than 200 characters in the name of a resident of a suburb of a major city.”
The strategist suggested that this fictitious American “doesn’t support the military aid that the U.S. is giving Ukraine and considers that the money should be spent defending America’s borders and not Ukraine’s. He sees that Biden’s policies are leading the U.S. toward collapse.”
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Sound familiar?
“Sound familiar?”
Kazan, Kazan, Kazan, where are you?
Of course he can not get a fair trial in NY.
As I’ve said, its a Dem City, Dem Prosecutor and Dem jury pool. Criminal trial starts in 1 week. Trump should have cut a deal to retire in FL.
“A New York appeals court judge on Monday swiftly rejected a last-ditch bid by Donald Trump to delay his upcoming criminal hush money trial while he seeks to move the case to another court.
Judge Lizbeth Gonzalez denied Trump’s request on the same day his attorneys filed it, and less than two hours after a hearing where his attorneys argued that the former president cannot get a fair jury in New York, NBC News reported”
Russian missile ship Serpukhov on fire in Kaliningrad region, source says
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4229855/posts
Agree, and that is why this war is an existential threat to Putin as much as Ukraine.
If Russia is forced to withdrawal, it is unlikely Putin survives, even if there is a serious reversal , but not total defeat I don’t see Putin surviving
Russia evolves into a Chinese Satrap.
Kyiv Independent reports:
“The trade of Chinese yuan on Russia’s foreign exchange market has grown to a record high as the share of euros and dollars have dropped, Bloomberg reported on April 8, citing data from Russia’s central bank.
The data was another illustration of the increasing importance of the yuan in Russia’s economy amid the growing de-coupling from Western financial systems.
The trade turnover of yuan in March was 53% of the total foreign currency exchanges, compared to just 3% in March 2022.”
The Hill reports:
“U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron was expected to meet with former President Trump on Monday (8 April) at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida before heading to D.C. for talks on support for Ukraine...
...Following his meeting with Trump, Cameron will make his way to D.C., where he is expected to hold discussions on support for Ukraine with “Republican and Democratic Congressional leaders,” along with Blinken and other “senior U.S. government figures,” his office said in a statement. His office did not specify which leaders are expected to attend the meeting.”
“Sometimes these ‘unnamed’ people have correct information?”
Denys Davydov reported today, that a Trump spokesperson (Miller), called the WaPo story that Trump planned to pressure Ukraine to cede territory “Fake News”
He also reported a second Russian ship suffering a fire (a Rosneft Icebreaker), and that Greece may provide Ukraine with 32 each F-16s.
Imagine Russia is a wash in yuans and rupees
Imagine Russia is a wash in yuans and rupees
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Imagine Russia being a memory.
Things happen slowly then all at once
Kremlin snuff box, 04/09/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
It became known which object was attacked by drones in Borisoglebsk at night
Last night, enemy drones attacked the Borisoglebsk aviation training center in the Voronezh region. According to our information, two drones reached their target and exploded.
According to our data, attempts to shoot down the drones on approach, alas, were not successful. Both drones hit almost the same place. Sources were in no hurry to disclose information about what was in that building.
However, one of them let it slip that unique types of aircraft were being prepared in the attacked building.
The interlocutors flatly refuse to say what exactly they are talking about. It is hinted that some production of drones was established on the territory of the aviation center, and they were also working on modernizing manned aviation. All this happened in secrecy.
Sources said no one was killed in the attack. At the same time, some of the already collected unique equipment samples were lost.
Kremlin snuff box, 04/09/24
Strike on Engels-2 airfield. We found out how many strategic bombers the enemy hit
As a result of an attack by enemy drones on the Engels-2 airfield on the night of Friday, April 5, one TU-95MS strategic bomber was almost completely disabled. 3 more such aircraft are damaged; their repair will take from three months to a year.
Such updated data was provided to us by two sources in the VKS. “All planes are damaged by shrapnel. One is critical, we lost it, three we will repair,” said one of the interlocutors.
He noted that the damage would not be visible on satellite images, but the planes “were seriously damaged by drone fragments that hit the airfield, and by dangerous bombs carried by drones, one TU was practically turned into a sieve.”
There is also updated information about the dead. We wrote about 7 victims of the enemy strike, but, unfortunately, it turned out that there were 9 of them. Among the dead is 1 strategic aviation pilot.
Mystic setback.
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Kremlin snuff box, 04/08/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
The ashes of commander Suvorov were damaged at the front. At the same time, he saved the life of our officer
Enemy troops continue to identify places where our officers gather to talk and pray near the ashes of the great commander Alexander Suvorov.
After the tragedy in the Zaporozhye region, which we wrote about, a new emergency occurred in the Avdeevka area. [ https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/3833 ]
“The officers gathered near the ashes of Alexander Vasilyevich - to think, talk about our future victory, and pray. A shell arrived, as if someone had surrendered the place of the military meeting. 3 died as a result,” a source in the Ministry of Defense told us.
According to him, this was already the 6th meeting of officers over the remains of the great commander; such meetings are held on the unspoken orders of Sergei Shoigu.
At the same time, the officer who was at the scene of the strike told us that Suvorov’s ashes saved him from death.
“Alexander Vasilyevich is carried in a special armored box. When the blow struck, I was just kneeling in front of him to pray. And this box protected me from several fragments. Alexander Vasilyevich saved me from heaven,” the military man is sure.
The bad thing about this situation, he said, is that other officers died. And that the ashes were partially damaged.
“The box turned over. We managed to collect the ashes, but not all of them. It turns out that the enemy also killed Suvorov,” our interlocutor said.
By the way, after this incident, those who proposed to stop carrying Suvorov’s ashes around the front and return what was left of him to the grave in St. Petersburg appeared in the Ministry of Defense.
Shoigu has not yet considered this possibility and continues to believe that thanks to the remains of the great commander, we will finish the Northern Military District with victory this year.
Reporting From Ukraine:
Note: other versions of this report are found elsewhere on FR, but this is guaranteed to be the complete transcript - unlike the others.
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
[ Ukrainians Deep Fry a Huge Russian Attack Force Near Terny ]
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Day 775: Apr 08
Today, there are a lot of updates from the Liman direction.
Here, Russians have been continuously assaulting Ukrainian positions in an attempt to reach the Ukrainian settlements along the east side of the Zherebets River. Moreover, Russians have increased the number and size of mechanized assaults in recent days.
As mentioned last time, the reason why Russian forces are trying to take control of these settlements is to cross the Zherebets River and have a clear path to attack Lyman, which plays a key role as a logistics and supply hub for any party that controls it.
In particular, Russian forces recently conducted an unsuccessful heavily reinforced mechanized assault east of Terny.
Recently released geolocated footage shows Ukrainian forces repelling the reinforced Russian mechanized assault with FPV drones, artillery, land mines, and anti-tank guided missiles.
Before the departure of the convoy, Russian forces attempted to deploy a TOS-1 thermobaric artillery system to strike the Ukrainian positions, however, it was detected and eliminated in time.
A Russian source later stated that the highly developed Ukrainian air reconnaissance capabilities severely complicate Russian offensive operations in this direction.
The video footage begins with a reconnaissance drone’s early sighting of the column.
The column consisted of 6 armored vehicles advancing from the Zhytlivka area, of which at least the first two were tanks.
As seen later, the leading tank had a bulk set of electronic warfare equipment attached to it, tied with ropes, and then mounted on a wooden pallet.
The images show various electronic warfare modules and antennas on different frequencies, as well as many batteries and a generator to power the set.
Unfortunately for the Russians, all this alleged protection was of little help, as already in the approximation, Ukrainian forces achieved a hit on the first tank.
Moments later, the rest of the vehicles also were hit by all kinds of weaponry, including FPV drones, artillery, and ATGMs.
In the following stages, the lack of coordination of the column became evident, as some of the vehicles tried to move forward while others tried to start the retreat.
As a result, out of the 6 vehicles, only 1 managed to escape the carnage. An armored vehicle came later to try to save infantrymen who had managed to survive, but was also destroyed.
The damaged first tank, which still had all the electronic warfare equipment attached, continued advancing until it finally had to stop just next to the remains of another armored vehicle, previously destroyed.
The tank crew finally left and tried to flee the area. Incidentally, this damaged Russian tank was later repaired by Ukrainian forces onsite and was successfully driven to the Ukrainian positions in Terny.
The entire electronic warfare assembly was recovered and is currently being analyzed.
In the following days, more geolocated videos appeared showing the destruction of additional Russian equipment, including another TOS-1 thermobaric launcher, which was hit by night vision FPV drones.
An additional tank was also destroyed. It was, in a very unusual way, carrying on top up to 24 infantry soldiers. The tank hit a land mine, and seconds later, the surviving soldiers began a desperate withdrawal.
As we can see on the map, the Russian forces are trying to carry out mechanized assaults to reach Terny at any cost, although the created salient, through which they have to advance, poses them significant difficulties.
First of all, due to the high activity of Ukrainian reconnaissance drones and the considerable distance in the open field from the convoy’s starting point, any mechanized assault is detected well in advance, allowing the preparation of numerous firing forces for the approaching convoy.
In addition, by exposing the flanks, the advancing Russian forces can be attacked from multiple directions, making the convoy’s mission virtually suicidal.
As an example, no less than 6 different units of the Ukrainian army participated in the attack on this convoy.
To make matters worse, analysis of data in the previous days, reveals a significant Russian lack of artillery preparation and drone strikes over the Ukrainian positions they intended to attack - no doubt as a result of weeks of intense Ukrainian counter-battery and drone activity in the area.
As the Institute for Study of War analysts noted, Russian forces appear to have increased the number and size of mechanized ground assaults in this direction within the past two weeks, marking a notable increase in average Russian mechanized assaults across the frontline.
To this end, as assessed in a previous video, Russian forces have even relocated elements of the 1st Tank Army from the Kupyansk direction to the Lyman direction.
There are two main reasons for the Russians to increase the tempo of their offensive operations.
Firstly, Russian forces may be intensifying mechanized assaults before the spring rains and the subsequent muddy terrain becomes a major obstacle in the following weeks, making mechanized maneuver warfare much more difficult.
Secondly, Russian forces may also be intensifying mechanized assaults as they are now in a window of opportunity to take advantage of Ukrainian artillery shortages before the arrival of Western security assistance, expected in early June.
The fact that Russian forces launched such a remarkable attack, and the tank leading the convoy incorporated such a prominent electronic warfare mount, could indicate that the Russians already estimate that Ukrainian defenses are now largely dependent on drones instead of artillery shells.
Overall, the Ukrainian forces are performing brilliantly in the Lyman direction and have successfully stopped a major mechanized assault near Terny.
Highly developed Ukrainian air reconnaissance capabilities, which allow a considerable firepower response, and the optimal exploitation of the area’s geographical conditions are two key factors in the Ukrainian success in containing the reinforced Russian mechanized assaults.
Let us hope that Ukrainian forces will continue to hold the front line until much-needed Western assistance arrives.
“This is the destruction of the electronic reconnaissance “Field 21” with the complex’s vehicles and security. He was tracked for a long time in the Kherson region. He stopped at a gas station... and that was it!”
https://twitter.com/kuksin_vladimir/status/1777227566148968506
“A HIMARS strike on the accumulation of Russian equipment at a gas station in the village of Velyki Kopani, occupied Kherson region.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1777066388739199037
“Aftermath”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1777075641403265343
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1777619141861466178
I see no relationship between the Field 21 (Pole-21 with a Krasukha 2/4) and the HIMARS strike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasukha
https://en.spress.net/the-tough-weapon-combination-pole-21-of-the-russian-military/
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