A Great Clone Army...
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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“German defense company Rheinmetall will deliver hundreds of thousands of rounds to Ukraine this year. This includes prototypes of artillery shells with a range of 100 kilometers.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1787084833111388626
Flying RuZZians. Its like a clown show.
“A Russian DRG group on the left bank receives an immediate hit.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1787062395141058981
Putin preparing to raise biological morons - faster, better for compliant meat assaults by changing human biology.
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Kremlin snuff box, 05/04/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
The authorities are preparing a plan to increase the birth rate. One of the ideas is to shorten the gestational age
Our senior source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told us that the authorities are preparing a plan to increase the birth rate. This should solve the demographic problem that arose in the country long before the SVO. And after the start of the war it got even worse.
The document is still under development, but several key ideas are known.
Firstly, increasing payments for the birth of children. It is no secret that the leaders in birth rates in recent years have been Ingushetia and Dagestan, but the government wants to change the situation in favor of the birth of ethnic Russians. It is proposed to solve the problem by increasing payments to ethnic Russians.
In this regard, the opening of such Mother and Child Homes is being discussed, where selected women will become pregnant and give birth to children. But not for himself, but for the state. This project is called “Cuckoo” in closed circles.
Secondly, researchers have been tasked with studying the possibility of giving birth to healthy children not in 9, but conditionally in 8 months.
This way, women will be able to give birth more often and faster. If the experiments give a positive result, then they can be scaled up within the framework of the Cuckoo Project.
Thirdly, the government has been tasked with increasing the number of male births in the country. There are no specific proposals yet, but there are rumors that this project is personally supervised by the president’s daughter, Maria Vorontsova.
These are the kind of ideas the government wants. I would like to hear the Church’s reaction to such artificial mechanisms for increasing the birth rate of Russians.
Our interlocutor emphasized that the result of launching the program will be clear in 5-7 years, but the main thing - the change in the gene pool - should become noticeable in 20-25 years.
This should also be affected by restrictions on illegal migrants, which should reduce their number within the country.
Its all going strictly according to plan.
“The Russian Army is gradually expanding the role of women as it seeks to balance President Vladimir V. Putin’s promotion of traditional family roles with the need for new recruits for the war in Ukraine.
The military’s stepped-up appeal to women includes efforts to recruit female inmates in prisons, replicating on a much smaller scale a strategy that has swelled its ranks with male convicts.
Recruiters in military uniforms toured Russian jails for women in the fall of 2023, offering inmates a pardon and $2,000 a month — 10 times the national minimum wage — in return for serving in frontline roles for a year, according to six current and former inmates of three prisons in different regions of Russia.”
I doubt their time at the front will be spent in meat assaults of the usual kind.
There will be assaults though.
ah yes, lots of them.
A Great Clone Army...
“Rheinmetall will deliver hundreds of thousands of rounds to Ukraine this year.”
Kyiv Independent reports:
“Before Russia’s full-scale invasion, (Rheinmetall) had an annual capacity of around 70,000 shells. This year, the company expects to produce 700,000...
...Rheinmetall plans to build new artillery plants in Unterluess, Germany, and in Lithuania, (Rheinmetall CEO) Papperger said.
...During the Munich Security Conference in February, Papperger signed a memorandum of intent with Ukraine’s Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin to produce artillery shells in another joint plant based in Ukraine.” (along with facilities dedicated to the production of military vehicles, gunpowder, and anti-aircraft weapons.)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4235775/posts
“France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère)...
...The initial group of French troops numbers around 100. This is just the first tranche of around 1,500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine.
These troops are being posted directly in a hot combat area and are intended to help the Ukrainians resist Russian advances in Donbas. The first 100 are artillery and surveillance specialists.”
“Low resolution satellite imagery shows large scorch marks at location where large fire was spotted in FIRMS data.
According to local Russian Telegram channels, Iskander TELs were destroyed during a strike in Crimea on May the 4th. “
“Ukraine reportedly attacked Crimea with ATACMS. While Russia’s MoD claims it shot down all 4 of them, Russian local channels start to spread information that 2 Iskander launchers and a warehouse with ammunition were destroyed.”
https://twitter.com/COUPSURE/status/1787168096081297535
Thanks for posting.
GLSDBs reported used near Krynky.
“Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn”
“European intelligence agencies have warned their governments that Russia is plotting violent acts of sabotage across the continent as it commits to a course of permanent conflict with the west.
Russia has already begun to more actively prepare covert bombings, arson attacks and damage to infrastructure on European soil, directly and via proxies, with little apparent concern about causing civilian fatalities, intelligence officials believe.
While the Kremlin’s agents have a long history of such operations — and launched attacks sporadically in Europe in recent years — evidence is mounting of a more aggressive and concerted effort, according to assessments from three different European countries shared with the Financial Times.
Intelligence officials are becoming increasingly vocal about the threat in an effort to promote vigilance. ”
Serious diplomacy underway over the war in Ukraine - a new phase. Peace conference in Switzerland, and G-7 Summit next month.
Kyiv Independent reports:
“China wants to work with France and the rest of the international community to end the war in Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly told French media outlet Le Figaro on May 5.
The Chinese President arrived in Paris on May 5 to meet with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. The visit marks Jinping’s first visit to the EU in five years. Ahead of official meetings, Bloomberg reported that Macron is seeking to deepen his personal connections with the Chinese leader to contribute to ending Russia’s war in Ukraine…
…The Chinese President arrived in Paris on May 5 to meet with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. The visit marks Jinping’s first visit to the EU in five years. Ahead of official meetings, Bloomberg reported that Macron is seeking to deepen his personal connections with the Chinese leader to contribute to ending Russia’s war in Ukraine…
…The Chinese President reportedly published a column in Le Figaro, stating that he came to France with “three messages.” He said intends to work with France on the subject of Russia’s war in Ukraine “to strengthen communication and coordination to preserve peace and stability in the world.” He also said he understands the stakes of the Ukraine war for Europeans and remains committed to “territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, mutual non-interference in internal affairs, equality, and mutual benefit.” war in Ukraine “to strengthen communication and coordination to preserve peace and stability in the world.” He also said he understands the stakes of the Ukraine war for Europeans and remains committed to “territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, mutual non-interference in internal affairs, equality, and mutual benefit.””
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
The complete transcript.
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[ Two Ukrainian Fighters Breach The Russian Flanks ]
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Day 802: May 05
Today, there are a lot of updates from the Bakhmut direction.
The most intense clashes occurred south of Ivanivske, where Ukrainians conducted a series of counterattacks with the goal of disrupting the Russian offensive efforts and fix their troops.
According to both Russian and Ukrainian sources, the attacks were successful, and later, the Ukrainian fighters of the 92nd Assault Brigade published combat footage showing the actual operation.
To achieve this goal, Ukrainians had to conduct extensive suppression of Russian firing positions with FPV drones. As we know, Ukrainians are experiencing an acute shortage of artillery shells, which is why they complement their artillery firing missions with various kamikaze drone strikes.
Due to the efficient work of the Ukrainian Signum and Black Raven drone units along the southern flank, Ukrainians managed to repel all Russian attacks.
The activity of FPV drones was so severe that all Russian troops were hiding in dugouts or basements in the settlements along the contact line.
Any Russian troops or equipment exposed on the outside were quickly detected and destroyed, before they even reached the contact line.
In many videos of such disruptions of reinforcements, we could see the destruction of 4 supply trucks, a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle, a BMD-4, and many groups of infantry on foot.
Ukrainians realized the advantage of the extensive use of FPV drones to the fullest extent, which allowed them to retake the initiative and conduct the counterattack.
Ukrainians decided to concentrate kamikaze drones on the Russian positions between Ivanivske and Klischiivka.
This way, Russian reinforcements to the area were destroyed, starving the Russian forces of ammo and supplies. The combat footage shows a column of at least 7 infantry fighting vehicles destroyed near this trench alone.
In the same video, we can see that after the Ukrainian drone operators successfully prevented Russian reinforcements from arriving at the contact line, a small group of 2 soldiers from the 92nd Assault Brigade was sent ahead.
The 2 Ukrainian stormtroopers entered the trench and encountered virtually no organized resistance. Therefore, they cleared the trench and secured new tactical positions. They checked the whole trench and finished off Russian soldiers hiding in their dugouts with small arms fire and grenades.
However, the provided combat footage shows only a fraction of a broader operation pushing Russians back by more than 500 meters. Ukrainians had previously detected that Russian defenses here were weaker than the rest of the southern flank, but still potent.
These defenses stretched along 2 tree lines on open fields near a dirt road that supplied Ivanivske. In the first stage of the operation, Ukrainians had to assault much stronger Russian positions, which were softened up by concentrated drone strikes.
Once the primary defense line was breached, chaos ensued among Russian forces, which started to flee to the rear or hide from drones in dugouts.
By that time, the main Ukrainian force was consolidating their positions, and the bulk of the fighting was already over when the 2 Ukrainian stormtroopers conducted mop-up operations.
Newly gained positions also hold high tactical value, because they enable Ukrainians to set up a base of operation for artillery and drone teams. This is good for the Ukrainians because now the bottleneck, through which Russian forces have to pass to get to their bridgehead, is much tighter.
As you can see, the nearby dirt roads were rendered unusable by the counterattack due to the close proximity to the Ukrainian positions, so all Russian movement was restricted to just a few streets that Ukrainians could easily monitor.
This will endanger the Russian offensive effort south of Chasiv Yar, for which the village is a vital staging ground.
Furthermore Ukrainians also managed to fix Russian forces in this front section to prevent further potential breakthroughs. Redeployment of additional troops to plug the gap near the tactical bridgehead will in turn reduce the intensity of Russian assaults on Chasiv Yar.
Ukrainians also managed to deploy additional reinforcements to the town which all contributed to further stabilizing this section of the front for the Ukrainians.
Russian command likely understands that further operations on the Northern flank are only possible by securing positions on the southern flank near Ivanivske and Klischiivka.
As as we know the Russian goal is to envelop Chasiv Yar from 2 sides and this is only possible by expanding their zone of control to the south of the Town.
Russians formed large force concentrations in Bakhmut for further deployment to the southern flank.
Elements of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division, the 88th Motor Rifle Brigade, and the 83rd VDV Brigade prepare for assaults north of Klischiivka toward the canal.
Russians did attempt to launch assaults in this direction, but so far they bore no results, as every Russian armored column deployed was destroyed by artillery and drones.
Overall Ukrainians managed to exploit their accumulation of drones, and concentrate them on suppressing Russian firing positions which set the ground for a successful counter attack.
Increased Russian focus on their flank to the south of Ivanivske will further divert their attention from Chasiv Yar, enabling Ukrainians to reinforce the local garrison and strengthen their defense.
On top of of that, the equipment from the recently approved aid package - that includes much needed artillery shells - started reaching the contact line which will help stabilize the front even more
Kremlin snuff box, unk
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/3971
How long will the SVO last now and why did Trump betray us?
We talked with sources in the General Staff and the Kremlin about how Russia is threatened by American aid, which is allocated to the Kiev regime. There are several important points.
Firstly, according to interlocutors around Valery Gerasimov, the Northern Military District will definitely last at least another 3-4 years - as the Chief of the General Staff predicted. Nothing will end this year, no matter what Sergei Shoigu promises the President .
Secondly, the General Staff is waiting for the start of a new wave of mobilization. It is still difficult to say what it will be - hidden or open. At the same time, we want to reassure everyone who is afraid of mobilization - at the moment no decisions have been made on this matter. Only the plans we wrote about.
By the way, sources do not rule out the possibility that 10-15,000 military personnel will be partially demobilized from the army in May.
Thirdly, when asked why Donald Trump suddenly showed that he is not our ally ( for which there were high hopes ), but supports Ukraine, a source in the Kremlin replied: “They worked with him poorly. We have either diplomats or intelligence officers - we need to disperse everyone.”
Let us note that sources in the SVR refused to comment on these accusations. And the Foreign Ministry reproached the Kremlin for the fact that “the bulk of the wrong and harmful decisions over the past few years were made there.”
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Kremlin snuff box, 05/06/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
During the inauguration, Putin wanted to clearly say when the SVO will end. But he was dissuaded from doing this
On May 7, the President wanted to declare that the Northern Military District would end with our victory this year, at the latest at the beginning of next year. But, most likely, he will not name specific dates.
According to our sources in the Kremlin, Vladimir Vladimirovich was persuaded not to make such promises by generals from Valery Gerasimov’s entourage. Let us recall that the Chief of the General Staff previously stated that the SVO could last at least another 3-4 years. Now he has worsened this forecast.
“The Americans failed, you bastards. Other Western allies of Kyiv. We are already responding to them with nuclear weapons exercises, but I’m not sure that they will be afraid. And to be honest, using nuclear weapons is scary, I hope it doesn’t come to that. Otherwise we could all die.
Plus, our people who are disrupting mobilization in Ukraine do not work very well and are not always successful. All this together seriously delays the SVO. Despite all the current brilliant successes at the front and how we are pushing back the enemy,” a source close to Gerasimov explained to us.
According to him, based on all this, “Valery Vasilyevich gave a new, extremely honest forecast. He fears that the SVO will last at least 5 years. And maybe longer.”
In this regard, interlocutors in the Kremlin believe that Vladimir Putin will not name specific dates for the completion of the SVO during the inauguration. Although, of course, everything is possible.
“HUR sent another occupier ship to the bottom of the sea. This time, the Magura B5 drone destroyed a high-speed military boat in Uzkaya Bay in Crimea. The occupiers tried to attack the drone, but failed. Two landing ships were destroyed in the same bay last year.”
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1787409705784008813
Why didn’t the drone fire its remaining missile at the helicopter?
“Footage from a Russian Ka-29 helicopter, firing at the Ukrainian naval drone carrying a R-73 air-to-air missile. Eventually it is destroyed.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1787453596423864678
“First image which supposedly shows a Ukrainian naval drone carrying a R-73 heat seeking air-to-air missile. The fact that it shows one empty slot, could mean it has fired one of the two.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1787448845766480282
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