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Invasion Day 428 – Summary April 27, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-428-summary/
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Putin’s True Motive for Ukraine Invasion Revealed in Report
NEWSWEEK
Isabel van Brugen
4-26-2023 7:54 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-motive-ukraine-invasion-viktor-medvedchuk-1796774
Personal resentment and a desire for revenge were the driving factors behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last February, an investigation has claimed.
Verstka, an independent Russian news outlet that was founded shortly after the conflict began, published a deep-dive report this week entitled “How Putin Came to Hate Ukraine,” which cites former and current officials in the Russian and Ukrainian governments. Kremlin reporter Ilya Zhegulev wrote that loyal Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk is at the center of the Russian leader’s so-called “special military operation” in the neighboring country, and that he had already decided to attack Kyiv in February-March 2021.
Medvedchuk is a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian oligarch who was released by Kyiv in a prisoner swap with Russia in September 2022. The 68-year-old has close ties with Putin, who is believed to be the godfather of his youngest daughter.
Medvedchuk was the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party in Ukraine, and was detained in April 2022 by Ukraine’s state security service, the SBU, after he fled house arrest while awaiting trial on treason charges. Kyiv has stripped him of his Ukrainian citizenship. [Excerpt]
VIDEOS
1. “We’re betrayed, ammunition isn’t delivered, our losses are 5 times higher”-Prigozhin is struggling
Kanal13
1.54M subscribers
4-28-2023 2:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n-Ty5RNMjg
2. Turkey WARNS Russia once again today: Putin has no choice!
Oracle Eyes
425K subscribers
Apr 28, 2023 8:00 a.m. EDT
“You need help.”
Thanks for the offer. Thanks :)
ARTICLE
Putin Fires ‘Butcher of Mariupol’ Russian General, Mikhail Mizintsev
By Ellie Cook
4/27/23 6:58 AM EDT
The Russian commander known as “the Butcher of Mariupol” has been removed from his position, according to a Russian war correspondent.
Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev has garnered a reputation for ruthless brutality in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He is particularly associated with the bombardment of the southern port city of Mariupol, which Moscow claimed in May 2022.
Mizintsev was appointed deputy defense minister for logistics in late September 2022, state media reported. The “butcher will build a new slaughterhouse,” Ukraine’s defense ministry tweeted as the news broke.
He has now been “fired” from his position, according to a Telegram post from Alexander Sladkov, a correspondent for the state-run newspaper Izvestia.
“Mikhail Mizintsev has had an interesting fate this year,” Sladkov wrote on Thursday, describing the commander as a “friend.”
He added that Mizintsev had “had no direct relation to the storming of the city” of Mariupol.
In a follow-up post, Sladkov said Alexei Kuzmenkov, reportedly the deputy head of Russia’s National Guard, would replace Mizintsev in the logistics role. (Excerpt)
VIDEO
1. POW INTERVIEW: “WE ARE THE HEROES OF RUSSIA! CAUSE FIRE ON OURSELVES” | SEAMAN | @Zolkin Volodymyr
Zolkin Volodymyr
110K subscribers
4-26-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS__D8R5W7M&t=4s
2. NATO MERCENES DEFEND UKRAINE, AND WE CAPTURE AND LIBERATE IT | @Zolkin Volodymyr
Zolkin Volodymyr
110K subscribers
4-28-2023 2:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXtRJGefk20
Are the Russians going to electrify their battle tanks?
ARTICLE
Pakistan is preparing to supply Ukraine with Anza Mark-II man-portable air defense systems - The Economic Times
Censor.NET
28.04.23 23:55
https://censor.net/en/news/3415171/pakistan_is_preparing_to_supply_ukraine_with_anza_markii_manportable_air_defense_systems_the_economic
Pakistan is preparing to supply Ukraine with Pakistan-made Anza Mark-II portable air defense missile systems.
This is reported by The Economic Times, which cites its own sources, reports Censor.NЕТ with reference to LegueBusinessInform.
According to the report, Pakistani air defense equipment will be delivered through Poland.
The publication reports that in February, Poland signed a memorandum of understanding with the Pakistani side on the supply of defense equipment to Kyiv.
The Polish company PHU Lechmar LLC will act as an intermediary buyer, and Tradent Global Solutions, based in Canada, will act as an intermediary consultant.
Read more: Pakistan sent 10,000 missiles to Ukraine for Grad anti-aircraft missile defense system, - Economic Times
In addition, Pakistan is in the process of exporting Anza Mark-II man-portable air defense systems to Poland for transfer to Kyiv.
The Anza MK-1, Anza MK-2 and Anza MK-3 anti-aircraft missiles have a range of 4, 5 and 6 km, respectively. Anza is a series of shoulder-launched, man-portable surface-to-air missiles produced by Pakistan. Anza is used for short-range air defense.
Support Censor.NET Source: https://censor.net/en/n3415171
Those folks can hold grudges
Sadly, this stuck in the past ‘labeling’ meme is totally inaccurate and irrelevant.
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2. Turkey WARNS Russia once again today: Putin has no choice!
Oracle Eyes
425K subscribers
Apr 28, 2023 8:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnUhW92GzEg
VIDEOS
1. “He couldn’t escape” - Ukrainian fighters capture Russian who was forgotten in the trench
Kanal13
1.54M subscribers
Apr 28, 2023 11:00 a.m. EDT
2. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers prepare for counterattack, Russia digs anti-tank trenches
Kanal13
1.54M subscribers
4-28-2023 5:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyZITwRios
True that!
The Latest Example of Russian Corruption That Has Hamstrung Moscow’s Invasion
Kyiv Post
April 28, 2023, 2:37 pm
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/16386
Russian Colonel Alexander Denisov - in charge of providing technical support for the armored vehicles of the Russian Southern Military District - was arrested in March and charged with stealing seven V-92S2 engines from T-90 battle tanks entrusted to his care, according to Moscow’s ‘Kommersant’ newspaper.
This is just the latest example of the corruption that many analysts attribute, along with poor leadership, to exacerbating the poor overall performance of Russian forces during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Commentators have been reporting for decades that corruption was endemic within its defense industrial sector and armed forces, at every level from the Kremlin down to the lowliest foot soldier.
A 2005 report by the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment quoted reports from the Russian Audit Chamber Chairman that in the pre-Putin days as much as 21 percent of the military budget was lost, mainly by the theft of equipment. After Putin took over it was estimated that as much as 50 percent of the funds allocated to Russia’s Defense budget was simply stolen.
Ruslan Pukhov of the Moscow-based Center for the Analysis of Strategy and Technology gave the example that in 2004 Russian foreign defense sales raised approximately $5.5 billion of which, he estimated less than 20 percent made its way back into the budget.
Notable cases of Russian corruption were seen throughout the 1990s, including the Russian general dismissed for selling UN fuel while deployed to Kosovo and reports of Russian soldiers deployed to Chechnya selling their weapons to Chechen fighters.
Transparency International’s Government Defense Integrity Index for 2020 assessed Russia’s defense sector as being at high risk of corruption, due to the limited oversight of defense budgets and high levels of opacity in defense procurement.
It made reference to reports that money that was meant to bribe Ukrainians to support the invasion had been ‘diverted’ before it even left Russia. Russian soldiers on the front line were provided with ration packs seven years out of date, while thousands of packs were available for sale on eBay and other websites.
The families of Russian conscripts, destined for the front line, were seen to be crowdsourcing for boots, winter clothing, medical equipment, thermal imagers, sleeping bags, and body armor for troops not properly equipped for combat.
The UK think tank, the Royal United Services Institute reported that much of the body armor purchased by the families, on Avito (Russia’s eBay) were actually of the Ratnik system that had been sidetracked from the 200,000 sets that had supposedly been delivered to the military by 2017. The Ratnik armor cost the Russian MoD around $3,500 a set and was being sold for around $600 on Avito.
Columns of vehicles heading towards Kyiv on the first days of the February 2022 invasion ran out of fuel, it was reported, primarily because fuel had been sold on the black market in Belarus before the logistic tankers deployed.
On inspecting Russian T-80 battle tanks, destroyed by Ukraine’s anti-tank weapons, Ukrainian troops discovered that the explosive reactive armor (ERA), a series of boxes supposedly filled with layers of metal, rubber and high explosives, had been hollowed out and the valuable explosives stolen - leaving the tanks vulnerable to attack.
The UK Ministry of Defence’s intelligence updates on Sept. 4 further supported this and flagged ‘corruption amongst commanders,’ with the “Russian military… consistently [failing] to provide basic entitlements to troops deployed in Ukraine… almost certainly contributing to the continued fragile morale of much of the force.”
The Head of Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention of Ukraine (NACP) also last month expressed his “sincere gratitude” to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu – who is alleged to own property worth at least $18 million for the “invaluable contribution” Russian embezzlement had made to the defense of Ukraine.
VIDEOS
1. Slovenia secretly shipped 20 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine for counteroffensive
Kanal13
1.54M subscribers
4-28-2023 7:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kShhuKJbaGQ15 hours ago
2. “Mom, I’m in Ukraine” | Break the Fake | TVP World
TVP World is a state media corporation in Poland
327K subscribers
4-28-2023 6:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbIbRmToj8M
**We’re hoping that all Ukrainian soldiers still in captivity will soon be able to make a similar call to their loved ones.
ARTICLE
Armed with tanks and heavy armor from NATO, Ukraine says it’s about to hit Russian forces with an ‘iron fist’
Business Insider
John Haltiwanger
Apr 28, 2023, 5:35 PM EDThttps://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-almost-ready-counteroffensive-iron-fist-western-weapons-russia-2023-4
-Ukraine is almost ready to launch a long-awaited spring counteroffensive, its defense minister said.
-”We are to a high percentage ready,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Friday.
-Reznikov said Western-supplied weapons would serve as an “iron fist” against Russian forces.
Ukraine’s forces are nearly ready to launch a counteroffensive against the Russian invaders with weapons from the West, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Friday.
“As soon as there is God’s will, the weather and a decision by commanders, we will do it,” Reznikov said during an online briefing, per Reuters. “We are to a high percentage ready.”
Reznikov said that Western-supplied arms would serve as an “iron fist” in this effort.
The day prior, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said that alliance members and their partners had delivered over 98% of the combat vehicles pledged to Kyiv. Stoltenberg said the aid provided to Ukraine included over 1,550 armored vehicles, 230 tanks, and other military hardware, as well as “vast amounts of ammunition.”
“This will put Ukraine in a strong position to continue to retake occupied territory,” Stoltenberg said.
US Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the top commander of US forces in Europe and NATO’s top general, told congressional lawmakers during a House Armed Services committee hearing on Wednesday he is “very confident” that Ukraine has what it needs for a successful counteroffensive. “We’ll continue a pipeline to sustain their operations as well,” he said. The M1 Abrams tanks promised by the US are still to come.
Though Cavoli expressed confidence, recently leaked top secret Pentagon documents that became a major point of controversy in Washington and abroad suggested that the US is not especially optimistic that Ukraine can actually make major gains in a counteroffensive.
While Ukraine’s long-awaited spring counteroffensive is widely expected to start soon, some military analysts contend that it has already begun in small ways, pointing to reported Ukrainian advances across the Dnipro River in the Kherson region.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian people continue to face the deadly consequences of the Russian onslaught, which targets not just the Ukrainian armed forces but also civilians.
Reznikov’s comments on Friday came as Russia launched fresh missile attacks across Ukraine — including in the capital city, Kyiv — that killed at least 25, BBC News reported. Several children were reportedly among those killed in strikes on residential areas.
In the wake of these fatal attacks on Ukrainian cities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that “Russian terror” could only be defeated “with weapons for Ukraine, the toughest sanctions against the terrorist state, and fair sentences for the killers.”
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