Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
🇩🇪 NATO's Air Base in Geilenkirchen, Germany, has been placed on high alert following intelligence reports of a potential threat. In response, the base has heightened its security measures, sending home all non-essential personnel as a precaution. While the base has assured that pic.twitter.com/RD6jB8ZLWY— ᴍᴏʜᴅ ᴛᴀʀɪꜰ (@The_Journalyze) August 22, 2024
Stationed there for four years. Great assignment if you can get it. G-K is right on the border to Holland, and when I left there, the Muslims had started to settle in that region of the Netherlands.
“Finland has agreed to station a NATO armored brigade on its soil. The new unit, consisting of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers and officers, is being formed and will be based in the city of Mikkeli (named for the Archangel Michael), near the Russian border (about 140 Km, facing St.Petersburg, about 200 Km up the main highway from Helsinki), reports the Finnish news outlet Iltalehti, citing sources within the North Atlantic Alliance and security services…
…Swedish and Norwegian military personnel will be part of this armored brigade. Public announcements from NATO officials and Finnish authorities are expected in the coming weeks. “The decisions have already been made,” Iltalehti confirms, citing its sources.
A NATO headquarters will be established in Mikkeli (the location of Finland’s Military HQ in WWII) to oversee the military operations, reporting directly to the alliance’s headquarters in Norfolk, on the US East Coast. Planning for the headquarters has been underway since last spring, according to Iltalehti. Deputy Commander of NATO Joint Operations Command in Norfolk, British Rear Admiral Tim Henry, visited Mikkeli during that period. “We want to send a direct message to the Russians—and do so publicly. The alliance is very clear in its position: Russia poses a threat to the Euro-Atlantic region,” Henry emphasized during his visit.
Finland joined NATO in 2023, ending a 75-year period of neutrality. As a result, NATO’s shared border with Russia doubled, stretching to 2,600 kilometers.”
https://www.uawire.org/finland-to-station-up-to-5-000-nato-troops-near-russian-border#
“In a significant development from the Kursk region, Ukrainian Forces have eliminated Zelimkhan Batukayev, a Russian special forces commander known by his call sign “Shustryi,” along with approximately 30 other Russian soldiers. Batukayev, who led the Akhmat Special Forces Group, was taken down according to various Telegram channels, including one managed by Ukrainian Colonel Anatoliy “Stirlitz” Shtefan. Ukrainian fighters described the operation as “epic,” stating they had been tracking the group since they arrived in the Kursk area…
…Batukayev’s death comes amid a growing trend of residents in the Kursk region providing information on the whereabouts of Kadyrov forces to Ukrainian Defense Forces. On August 11, it was revealed that a Russian conscript from the Kursk region disclosed Kadyrov forces’ positions, motivated by revenge after being sexually assaulted by Kadyrov fighters.”
https://www.uawire.org/ukrainian-forces-eliminate-prominent-chechen-commander-in-the-kursk-region
“In a bold move signaling growing religious independence, the Estonian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate (EOC MP) has officially severed its ties with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and updated its charter, reports DW. (Under Constantinople instead of Moscow, as the Ukrainian Church is also doing).
Under the revised charter, the church will gain full autonomy over religious affairs, economic activities, educational initiatives, and public church matters.
Earlier this year, on May 6, Estonia’s parliament passed a resolution condemning the Moscow Patriarchate for supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine and called on the Estonian Orthodox Church to break its ties with the ROC.”
Russians are now using Rubber to cover the outside of their tanks rather than steel……
these tanks are gonna burn even better now 😂 honestly you will see the smoke for miles when these get hit now and they will cook everyone inside.
Rubber is extremely flammable.
https://x.com/Bricktop_NAFO/status/1826944196097290452
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1826994172424802565
👀🔥 Satellite images of Proletarsk oil depot:
🔴 15 oil tanks completely destroyed;
🟠 3 oil tanks partially destroyed;
🟢 25 oil tanks not destroyed;
🟡 33 in unknown condition.
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1826987158663532658
As I understand it they annexed the 4 oblasts so along with Crimea they are Russian territory at least under Russian law
Proletarsk oil depot: Flames of freedom, burning bright.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1826888966328467749
Significance?
India has a lot of old & retired soviet/russian military equipment.
Perhaps India will donate some of that equipment to Ukraine.
“Perhaps India will donate some of that equipment to Ukraine.”
I would not bet on that. India is desperate to maintain Russia outside of China’s alliance, in case push comes to shove between India and China. India also has to rely on Russia to maintain a lot of its Soviet/Russian Military equipment.
India is working to get more militarily independent of Russia, but they have a long way to go.
Another day, another wave of sanctions.
Moscow Times reports:
“The U.S. unveiled sweeping sanctions Friday against almost 400 individuals and companies tied to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, a day before Ukraine’s independence day.
The moves announced by the U.S. Treasury, State and Commerce departments build on a raft of existing sanctions against Russia over the invasion, now well into its third year…
…The Treasury Department’s sanctions targeted nearly 400 individuals and entities both inside and outside of Russia “whose products and services enable Russia to sustain its war effort and evade sanctions,” it announced in the statement.
Among those sanctioned were 60 Russia-based defense and technology firms “critical for the sustainment and development of Russia’s defense industry,” it added.
Alongside the sanctions unveiled Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department said it was taking “aggressive action” to further restrict the supply of items made in the United States, or labeled as such, to both Russia and Belarus.”
Russians are now using Rubber to cover the outside of their tanks
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The crews inside will cook nicely, even before they are hit.
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