Sweden's flag will be raised at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on March 11 around noon, marking the official start of the country's membership in the alliance, the Swedish TV4 channel reported on March 6.
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
ISW, 5 Feb:
“Russian aircraft appear to be continuing to conduct a relatively high volume of glide bomb strikes in Ukraine despite Ukrainian officials’ reports that Ukrainian forces have downed several bomber aircraft in recent weeks. Forbes reported on March 4 that Russian Su-34 aircraft, escorted by Su-35 aircraft, are conducting one hundred or more sorties per day to conduct glide bomb strikes on Ukrainian positions at a range of 25 miles (about 40 kilometers).
The New York Times reported on March 5 that Russian tactics are shifting to intensify operations in the air domain and that Russian forces’ “more aggressive” air support on the front lines has helped Russian forces to advance recently in eastern Ukraine. These reports suggest that the Russian Air Force is maintaining a high tempo of fixed-wing air missions in Ukraine and is possibly willing to tolerate risks to fixed-wing aircraft, likely because the Russian command may have decided that the positive effects generated by such air operations outweigh the costs associated with flying such missions...
...Forbes also reported that Ukrainian forces are using French-provided AASM Hammer glide bombs after France started supplying Ukraine with 50 of these bombs per month in January 2024. Forbes noted that Ukrainian forces previously conducted strikes with US-provided Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) glide bombs, but the supply of these bombs has halted due to the recent lack of US aid provisions to Ukraine.
Alex Jones & Jack Posobiec: Zelensky Needs To Expose The Biden Regime Before They Kill Him - 3/5/24@infowars @RealAlexJones @JackPosobiec #illuminati pic.twitter.com/2K1OOcfjOv— DOWNLOAD.NEWS ✞ AlexJonesMinerV2 (@DOWNLOADdotNEWS) March 5, 2024
Alex Jones...
Another Wacko.
Yes, sometimes. But not Poso
Yes that was something like a tattooed lampshade from hitler
Welcome to the club. I stopped watching him on Faux back when he was still wearing a bow tie.
Kremlin snuff box, 03/05/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Completion of the Northern Military District and the war with NATO. Putin was offered two options
After threats from individual NATO countries to send troops to Ukraine, the military and the elites in general developed two approaches to how to respond to this. Both options have already been proposed to Vladimir Putin.
The first is quite tough and radical, it is adhered to by Sergei Shoigu and the generals close to him. “Sergei Kuzhugetovich wants to act seriously. In his opinion, in NATO countries (I say this without hiding, so that they are afraid) it is necessary to carry out several special operations with the participation of our military specialists.
“I won’t tell you which ones, but they are very effective. And the SVO must continue until the bitter end, taking away as much territory as possible from the enemy. Of course, under such conditions, hostilities will not end this year, but we’ll see what happens next year,” a source in the Ministry of Defense told us.
According to him, ••important conditions for a future victory in the Northern Military District are the disruption of American assistance to the Kyiv regime•• and mobilization in Ukraine. And if on the first issue the expectations are rather pessimistic, then on the issue of disrupting mobilization in an enemy state, “we have already achieved serious success.”
{which is} a different opinion ( and this is the second option proposed to Putin Valery Gerasimov has ). He believes that for Russia any military clash with NATO is now fatal; we must first prepare for it.
Therefore, the Chief of the General Staff advocates for the speedy completion of the Northern Military District, even through “not very serious territorial concessions.”
“We need time to gain strength. Shoigu, by the way, understands this, but he is dizzy with success: now he can even lie to the President with impunity. But the right decision is to end the fighting, gain strength, and then resolve the Ukrainian issue, and show NATO its place,” a general close to Gerasimov told us.
It is difficult to say now which approach Vladimir Vladimirovich will choose. The Kremlin refuses to comment on this matter.
Kremlin snuff box, 03/05/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Bad news for our army. There are rumors about Gerasimov’s resignation, but all generals are under threat
The decision of the court in The Hague to issue arrest warrants for two of our military leaders is bad news for the entire Russian army. It may involve resignations, including those of Valery Gerasimov.
“Valery Vasilyevich is thinking about resigning and will talk about it with the President in the coming days.
“There is a threat that the next in line for these bastards from The Hague are Gerasimov and Shoigu, and then almost all the generals who took part in the Northern Military District. Valery Vasilyevich does not want such a fate for himself,” a general from the close circle of the head of the General Staff told us.
There are no other comments yet. We will find out more details and will tell you as soon as there is news on this matter.
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Kremlin snuff box, 03/06/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
“There is a dastardly plan.” The Kremlin spoke out about Gerasimov’s resignation, and we learned the names of three generals who will be “arrested” next
The arrest warrants of the International Criminal Court in The Hague for Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov are part of the West’s vile plan, which is aimed at demoralizing our army. Sources in the Kremlin with whom we spoke think so.
“Arrest warrants for the commanders of our long-range aviation and the Black Sea Fleet (the Kremlin prefers not to mention the problems and removal of Sokolov, which we wrote about - ed.) are part of a vile plan to intimidate our military leaders.
“I am sure that there will be further warrants for Gerasimov and Shoigu, and after that for all the generals who are in one way or another connected with the Northern Military District. Especially those under whose command we crushed the Ukrainian troops,” says one of the interlocutors.
Another agreed with this point of view, but expressed confidence “that our generals cannot be intimidated by any orders.”
It should be noted that the military reacted differently to this news. Valery Gerasimov, as we wrote, wants to resign and intends to talk about this with Vladimir Putin in the coming days. True, almost all of our sources - both in the Kremlin and among the military - are confident that the President will not allow any resignation.
Sergei Shoigu believes that no one will issue a warrant for his arrest. He is not going to resign and believes that “Vladimir Vladimirovich will protect him.”
At the same time, sources among diplomats believe that the next ones among those whom the court in The Hague will put on the wanted list will not be Gerasimov and Shoigu.
“According to my information, arrest warrants are now being prepared in The Hague for Sergei Surovikin, Andrei Mordvichev and Mikhail Teplinsky,” said a high-ranking source at the Foreign Ministry.
Kremlin snuff box, 03/05/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
What did Avdiivka cost us? Truly scary numbers have become known
The capture of Avdiivka and further advance on this section of the front is the largest victory of the Russian army over the past year.
The military command was in a hurry to drive the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of there before the March Presidential elections. It was expected that Vladimir Vladimirovich would even record a video with Avdiivka in the background (but later this idea was abandoned).
A secret report on the results of the battles for Avdiivka came into our hands. It is worth noting that the city, like a bone in the throat, prevented the alignment of the front, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces had the opportunity to shoot at Donetsk from there, including using cannon artillery.
From November 1, 2023 to March 1, 2024, in Avdiivka and on the approaches to it, our army lost:
➖ 14,453 dead
➖ 1,267 are listed as missing
➖ 42,312 were injured and/or amputated
[ Total casualties lost in the taking of Avdiivka: 58,032. A 3:1 ratio would give >19,000 dead. ]
The scale of losses in technology is also known. In the battles for Avdiivka our troops lost:
➖ 242 tanks
➖ 384 armored vehicles
➖ 312 artillery systems
Sergei Shoigu has these figures. He also reported to Vladimir Putin about the capture of the city, but then there was no definitive data. Obviously, Shoigu is in no hurry to report such colossal losses in technology.
The President previously took the loss of equipment in the Northern Military District very hard.
Why are we publishing this information? There are several questions regarding Avdiivka.
The main one is that another destroyed city will not bring anything to the budget in the coming years, and we have already spent huge amounts of money on its capture (and still have to invest in restoration).
Also, in the battles for the city, almost 60,000 military personnel were killed or injured.
••And these are only those who could be counted.••
Perhaps our command’s tactics need to be adjusted? We really hope that there will be people around Vladimir Vladimirovich who will talk about the real scale of the tragedy in Avdiivka.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-5-2024
Russia and China are deepening their strategic space cooperation, including cooperation on satellite surveillance and space exploration. Russian space agency Roscosmos Head Yuri Borisov stated on March 5 that Russia and China are considering delivering and constructing a nuclear power plant on the moon in 2032-2035.
Though Borisov’s proposal to create a nuclear power plant on the moon is odd, Borisov’s statement is indicative of warming relations and Chinese willingness to foster a long-term strategic partnership with Russia to posture against and possibly threaten the West.
The Russian government approved a Russian-Chinese cooperation agreement on space cooperation through 2027 in November 2023 that Roscosmos and the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) initially signed in November 2022.
The agreement outlines three phases to develop and build the International Scientific Lunar Station and jointly explore the moon’s surface. Roscosmos and CNSA also signed an agreement in September 2022 on the joint placement of Russian GLONASS and Chinese BeiDou satellite navigation system stations in six Russian and Chinese cities.
Russia is reportedly developing a space-based anti-satellite weapon, and a strategic space partnership with China suggests that Russia would be unlikely to use this or similar technology against China and that both states would mutually benefit from Russia’s posturing against the West through space and satellite technology.
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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu continued to highlight that ongoing Russian military restructuring efforts are meant to prepare for a potential future large-scale conventional war with NATO.
Shoigu stated on March 5 that the Russian military is strengthening its forces in the northwestern and western direction, including by creating the Leningrad Military District (LMD) and Moscow Military District (MMD), in response to Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to NATO.
ISW continues to assess that Russia would likely use an increased military presence on NATO’s eastern flank to intensify threats against NATO to further Russia’s long-term goal of weakening and containing the alliance.
“Ukraine Is Now Fighting Russia in Sudan”
“In fighting against Russian-backed rebels in Sudan, Ukraine hopes to make the war more costly for Moscow”
“When Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s military ruler, found himself besieged by rebel forces in the country’s capital last summer, he called an unlikely ally for help: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky had reasons to take the request seriously: Burhan had been quietly supplying Kyiv with weapons since shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to Ukrainian and Sudanese military officials. In addition, the Sudanese rebels were backed by Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group, which has also mined gold in the country and used it to fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Within a few weeks of the call, Ukrainian commandos landed in Sudan and began fighting to push the rebel forces out of the capital, Khartoum, according to several Ukrainian soldiers involved in the operation.
The front line in the war between Ukraine and Russia now extends into Africa. “
Russia tried to assassinate Zelensky today in Odesa with a ballistic missile strike from Crimea. Zelensky is okay, but there are dead and injured in his motorcade.
“The moment when a drone hit the thermal power plant in Tuva (RuZZia) was recorded.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1765337425490915735
This could easily be accomplished with 48 aircraft, assuming adequate spares.
24 aircraft would fly 4 sorties each...the next day, they would be down for maintenance.
Crew wise, this would require 1.5 crews per aircraft...48 aircraft would require 72 crews.
Losing 12 aircraft in 2 weeks would definitely have an impact on aircrew morale.
Wow!
Isklander missile launch from Crimea. Russia had intelligence from collaborators. Was willing to kill the Greek Prime Minister and his delegation who were also in the motorcade.
Sweden's flag will be raised at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on March 11 around noon, marking the official start of the country's membership in the alliance, the Swedish TV4 channel reported on March 6.
PIF I don’t need to be pinged to your posts.
I hope they UKR finds the collaborators.
sorry
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