Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To loosely borrow from A Few Good Men, “They want us on that wall, they need us on that wall.”
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 1, 2025
Curtailing aid to Ukraine would risk diminishing US influence in the world and emboldening US adversaries. Russia, Iran, North Korea, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have formed a bloc aimed at defeating the United States and its allies around the world and are currently testing the limits of US commitment to its allies in Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region.[6] PRC President Xi Jinping stated during a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in late February 2025 that the PRC and Russia are “true friends” who “cannot be moved away” from each other and will not be influenced by “any third party.”[7] Russia established bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership agreements since the start of the war with the PRC in May 2023, North Korea in October 2024, and Iran in January 2025.[8] Putin continues to rely on Iranian drones and North Korean ballistic missiles and troops in his war against Ukraine.[9] US aid to Ukraine is a demonstration of the United States’ commitment to defending democracies against ongoing and future aggression around the world, including but not limited to Ukraine, Israel, South Korea, and Taiwan. The Russia-led bloc will likely see the United States abandoning Ukraine as an indicator that the United States will abandon its other allies and will seek to test the limits of US commitment around the world. The Russia-led bloc is searching for easily exploitable divisions between the United States and its allies to isolate and weaken the United States on the global stage, allowing adversaries to rise up and dictate where and how the United States can engage the world. Cutting US aid to Ukraine plays directly into these adversaries’ goals and is a step toward curtailing US influence in the world.
The Russian MoD continues to recruit medically unfit soldiers in an effort to address personnel shortages. A Russian milblogger claimed on March 1 that Russian authorities are targeting vulnerable individuals, including those with alcoholism, developmental disabilities, and mental health disorders, through deception and coercion schemes to meet contract soldier recruitment quotas.[63] The milblogger also complained that Russian federal subject recruitment programs incentivize bringing another unwitting person to sign a military service contract and that the Russian MoD recently recruited at least one prisoner convicted of sexual crimes. The milblogger criticized the quality of these recruits and claimed that this is a systemic issue, and that the Russian military leadership is aware of and driving these issues.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-1-2025
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1896118235323642059
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1896127897876009017
The allegation would, if true, be a bombshell.
Mussayev provides no documentary evidence —but then how could he?
He alleged that Trump’s file is in Vladimir Putin’s hands.
Mussayev isn’t the only ex-KGB officer to have made such an assertion.
Several years ago, Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major now resident in Washington, D.C., served as one of the key sources for Craig Unger’s best-selling book, 'American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery.' "
...None of these former KGB operatives has provided evidence, but the fact that three KGB agents located in different places and speaking at different times agree on the story suggests this possibility should not be dismissed out of hand...."
Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark.
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
Reporting From Ukraine Uncensored Combat Footage (from this and past Reports) is found on Telegram:
https://t.me/RFUEnglish or @RFUEnglish
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The complete transcript.
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[ Hundreds of Explosions! Russians Lose Strategic Objects ]
Today [ Mar 01, 8 pm ], there are a lot of important updates from the Russian Federation.
Here, Russian oil refineries are going up in flames as Ukraine unleashes relentless waves of drone strikes deep into enemy territory.
With 10% of Russia’s refining capacity already offline, and more targets in sight, these attacks are beginning to cripple the Russian economy.
The most significant Ukrainian strike took place in Crimea, where Ukrainians launched over a hundred drones against Russian military airfields and air defense systems. To wear out Russian air defenses, Ukrainians deployed decoy drones, overloading Russian crews with targets and allowing the real drones to slip through.
Then, the Ukrainians destroyed a Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system and Podlyot-K1 radar, creating a gap wide enough for the Ukrainians to devastate Russian military airfields. Ukrainians also deployed naval drones equipped with anti-air missiles and FPV drones to strike targets along the coast and deny Russian aviation the ability to fly over the Black Sea to intercept the incoming strikes.
Russians use helicopters and jets to help track and take down Ukrainian drones. With these airfields heavily bombed and Russians unable to use their aviation, Russian air defense was weakened, especially over the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, where Russian helicopters are most often deployed.
This enabled the Ukrainians to launch additional drone strikes towards the Russian oil refineries located in the Krasnodar region and southern Rostov region, flying over the Crimean Peninsula and surrounding seas with close to 80 long-range strike drones. In Tuapse, civilian reports mentioned hearing over 40 explosions near the seaport and oil refinery in the city.
Over the past weeks, Ukrainians have launched several more devastating drone strikes on Russian oil refineries and supporting infrastructure. Notably, Ukrainians hit a major oil refinery and depot in Krasnodar Krai, right under the nose of the main base of the Russian 90th Air Defense Brigade, even destroying several air defense systems during the strike.
In the Volgograd region, Ukrainians struck the main oil refinery, which refines over 14,000,000 tons of oil per year, several times over the course of many days, along with the Astrakhan gas processing plant in the area. Ukrainians launched strikes far beyond the Volgograd oblast, striking the Saratov oil refinery, which processes over 7,000,000 million tons of oil annually.
After Saratov, the Ukrainians struck the Ilsky oil refinery to the south, with a capacity of over 6,000,000 million tons of oil annually, and the Syrzan oil refinery near Samara with a capacity of almost 9,000,000 tons of oil. Ukrainians also targeted the Uzlovsky oil refinery in Tula, along with the massive oil storage facilities there.
Lastly, Ukrainians conducted a final strike on the Ryazin oil refinery, one of the largest in Russia, processing over 17,000,000 of oil annually for the 3rd time this year, causing the plant to once again halt its operations.
The targeted Russian oil refineries produce a combined 53,000,000 tons of oil annually, dealing a significant blow to the Russian economy, which is largely dependent on oil and gas exports. On top of that, the Ukrainians also targeted Russian pumping stations, striking 2 pumps in Chertkovo, and disabling the entire facility at Krasnodar.
These facilities are a critical component of the Russian oil-refining infrastructure, pumping the necessary oil to refineries that process it. Taking out the oil pumping stations will starve the still operational refineries of oil to refine while also heavily disrupting Russian exports.
Overall, since the start of Ukraine’s massive drone strike campaign targeting Russian oil refinery capabilities and infrastructure, Ukraine has taken over 10% of Russia’s oil industry offline, as Ukrainians are effectively outpacing the Russian ability to repair the damages.
Recent strikes on refineries in the Volgograd and Krasnodar regions, alone, reduced Russian oil production by over 5%. Ukraine’s success relies on mass drone production, with swarms of drones repeatedly bypassing Russian air defenses to hit major refineries, like Ryazan, several times over.
If Ukrainian strikes continue at this pace, Ukraine could disable up to 20% of Russia’s oil industry in the coming months, dealing a severe blow to the Russian economy.
The percent figures are interesting. Would imagine even 80% would be enough to supply Russia and allow for reduced exports, but what interests me more is what is happening upstream.
If pumping stations are taken out, oil sits in the lines, gets thick or even freezes, and that becomes a huge problem.
Any reports on that?
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1896184635832344648
https://x.com/Tendar/status/1896189901399544029
What will ruzzia do?
Start a withdrawal or try to prevent encirclement.
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1896022586745896971
Doesn’t look like much of an escape route, imagine Russians will triple down on saving pocket.
Any Russian officer in the AOR who suffers this kind of defeat is 13th story window material.
Question is where will they draw the manpower from?
Thank you, true patriots! 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
https://x.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1896197985853460572
An online poll published by CNN...not very reliable.
Personally, I find it almost impossible to understand President Trump's strategy.
It looks like he is surrendering to pootin.
Excellent question.
This definitely shows that ruzzian forces are stretched thin and UKF have excellent intel of the battlefield.
It seems it decided to make itself comfortable there.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1896202158875288053
ruzzian bloggers publishing videos of ruzzian junk and/or ruzzian incompetence.
“A good moment to defeat Satan.” Putin is offered to ban the dollar and the euro in Russia Philosopher Alexandr Dugin has once again come forward with such an initiative . “I have already said that the dollar is Satan's currency. Yes, our relations with the United States have improved, the ruble has strengthened, but the dollar has not ceased to be the devil's currency. Therefore, I have again conveyed to Vladimir Vladimirovich a proposal to completely ban the dollar and the euro in Russia,” Alexandr Gelyevich told us. In his opinion, “a good moment has appeared to defeat the green Satan.”
“Trump may react sharply to the dollar ban. But this is unlikely to happen now. At the moment, Trump is disappointed with Zelensky, enchanted by Vladimir Vladimirovich and clearly wants to be friends with Russia. When else can he act? We also need to completely ban the euro. Europe is weak and will not be able to react to this in any way,” the philosopher added. Note that the president had previously considered Dugin’s ideas about banning enemy currencies, but did not make any decisions on this matter. According to our sources in the Kremlin, Putin will “study later” Alexandr Gelyevich’s new proposal.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/5360
A good idea ;-)
“I just stepped out of the market and got stopped by the police. My documents were all in order, but they still accused me of having issues and immediately demanded 50,000 rubles. When I refused to pay, they smirked and threatened to take me to the police station to wait for deportation.
They specifically target Chinese people, claiming there are problems with their passport names or pinyin, just to find ways to extort more money. The moment I handed over the cash, their attitude changed completely. They grinned and said, “Welcome to Russia!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcDcxWS5BWA
14 min video
Are these isolated incidents or does it happen generally?
If stories of fab glide bombs being effected by EW…., one of Russias key battlefield multipliers is a big deal, and if indeed Ukrainian AirPower is increasing its effectiveness and numbers another Russian advantage may be waning
Interesting video
CNN poll: “Overwhelming majority of Americans believe that Trump and JD Vance are responsible for the White House debacle”
It looks like he is surrendering to pootin.
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The whole thing was a per-arranged set up - dramatic theater designed for TV. Who could have thought of that angle?
Maybe 47 can’t say bad things about Putin in public, but he should be reassuring Zelensky in private - if 47 was actually on Zelensky’s side. A point that does not seem to be realized.
While the 47 as a sleeper KGB agent may have been debunked, still it makes one wonder if something more than a ‘peace’ deal is going on here.
I still say the only way 47’s “just and lasting peace” can be accomplished is by forcing Putin to withdraw his troops by hook or crook. Military defeat is the only thing Putin can understand, and it does not take a nuclear exchange to accomplish.
Some tine back, it was Dmitry Medvedev threatening WWIII unless UKR does a “peace deal”, now its Trump warning of WWIII unless UKR does a “peace deal”. Now what is this? A negotiation point, or something else. None of this makes sense to me.
Unless Putin and Russia are defeated, this whole Russia business will keep coming back and back like a repeating nightmare. How can the US abandon Europe to Russian influence and military aggression, and turn to Asia?
Turning one’s back on a known, proven bully, while eschewing one’s long time friends in the same fight, to take on an even larger bully, is a recipe for disaster. Does 47 plan to treat Taiwan, Japan & the Philippines in the future as he is treating the Europeans now?
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