Posted on 09/21/2022 2:32:56 AM PDT by Cathi
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Friends,
The subject of this address is the situation in Donbass and the course of the special military operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime, which seized power in Ukraine in 2014 as the result of an armed state coup.
Today I am addressing you – all citizens of our country, people of different generations, ages and ethnicities, the people of our great Motherland, all who are united by the great historical Russia, soldiers, officers and volunteers who are fighting on the frontline and doing their combat duty, our brothers and sisters in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and other areas that have been liberated from the neo-Nazi regime.
The issue concerns the necessary, imperative measures to protect the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Russia and support the desire and will of our compatriots to choose their future independently, and the aggressive policy of some Western elites, who are doing their utmost to preserve their domination and with this aim in view are trying to block and suppress any sovereign and independent development centres in order to continue to aggressively force their will and pseudo-values on other countries and nations.
The goal of that part of the West is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our country. They are saying openly now that in 1991 they managed to split up the Soviet Union and now is the time to do the same to Russia, which must be divided into numerous regions that would be at deadly feud with each other.
They devised these plans long ago. They encouraged groups of international terrorists in the Caucasus and moved NATO’s offensive infrastructure close to our borders. They used indiscriminate Russophobia as a weapon, including by nurturing the hatred of Russia for decades, primarily in Ukraine, which was designed to become an anti-Russia bridgehead. They turned the Ukrainian people into cannon fodder and pushed them into a war with Russia, which they unleashed back in 2014. They used the army against civilians and organised a genocide, blockade and terror against those who refused to recognise the government that was created in Ukraine as the result of a state coup.
After the Kiev regime publicly refused to settle the issue of Donbass peacefully and went as far as to announce its ambition to possess nuclear weapons, it became clear that a new offensive in Donbass – there were two of them before – was inevitable, and that it would be inevitably followed by an attack on Russia’s Crimea, that is, on Russia.
In this connection, the decision to start a pre-emptive military operation was necessary and the only option. The main goal of this operation, which is to liberate the whole of Donbass, remains unaltered.
The Lugansk People’s Republic has been liberated from the neo-Nazis almost completely. Fighting in the Donetsk People’s Republic continues. Over the previous eight years, the Kiev occupation regime created a deeply echeloned line of permanent defences. A head-on attack against them would have led to heavy losses, which is why our units, as well as the forces of the Donbass republics, are acting competently and systematically, using military equipment and saving lives, moving step by step to liberate Donbass, purge cities and towns of the neo-Nazis, and help the people whom the Kiev regime turned into hostages and human shields.
As you know, professional military personnel serving under contract are taking part in the special military operation. Fighting side by side with them are volunteer units – people of different ethnicities, professions and ages who are real patriots. They answered the call of their hearts to rise up in defence of Russia and Donbass.
In this connection, I have already issued instructions for the Government and the Defence Ministry to determine the legal status of volunteers and personnel of the military units of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics. It must be the same as the status of military professionals of the Russian army, including material, medical and social benefits. Special attention must be given to organising the supply of military and other equipment for volunteer units and Donbass people’s militia.
While acting to attain the main goals of defending Donbass in accordance with the plans and decisions of the Defence Ministry and General Staff, our troops have liberated considerable areas in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and a number of other areas. This has created a protracted line of contact that is over 1,000 kilometres long.
This is what I would like to make public for the first time today. After the start of the special military operation, in particular after the Istanbul talks, Kiev representatives voiced quite a positive response to our proposals. These proposals concerned above all ensuring Russia’s security and interests. But a peaceful settlement obviously did not suit the West, which is why, after certain compromises were coordinated, Kiev was actually ordered to wreck all these agreements.
More weapons were pumped into Ukraine. The Kiev regime brought into play new groups of foreign mercenaries and nationalists, military units trained according to NATO standards and receiving orders from Western advisers.
To be continued.
Publication date: September 21, 2022, 09:00
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Executive Order on partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation
The President signed Executive On Declaring Partial Mobilisation in the Russian Federation.
September 21, 202209:20 As per federal laws No. 61-FZ On Defence, dated May 31, 1996, and No. 31-FZ On Mobilisation Preparations and Mobilisation in the Russian Federation, dated February 26, 1997, and Federal Law No. 53-FZ On the Military Duty and Military Service, dated March 28, 1998, the President declared a partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation as of September 21, 2022.
The Executive Order provides for calling up citizens of the Russian Federation for service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation as part of the mobilisation effort. Citizens of the Russian Federation called up for military service as part of mobilisation will enjoy the status of military personnel serving in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under contract.
The Executive Order sets forth money allowances for the citizens of the Russian Federation called up for military service as part of mobilisation, as well as the duration of the military service contracts signed by the military personnel, grounds for discharging military personnel serving under contract, as well as citizens called up for military service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation as part of mobilisation.
Corresponding instructions have been issued to the Government of the Russian Federation and top government officials in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Under the Executive Order, citizens of the Russian Federation employed by defence companies will benefit from an exemption from the mobilisation draft for the period of their employment by these organisations. The Government of the Russian Federation shall define the categories of citizens of the Russian Federation who have the right to draft exemptions and the manner in which these exemptions shall be provided.
Ukraine has already lost half of its army, 61,207 are dead and 49,368 wounded - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu.
UPDATE: Russian losses stand at 5,937 dead.
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Scott Ritter:
Some initial thoughts on Russia’s partial mobilization:
First and foremost, this represents a new phase in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, namely the fact that Russia is fighting the NATO alliance as opposed to just Ukraine.
To respond to this threat, Russia is creating a new reality of its own, namely to transition from a fight that had Russia working with allies and operating on foreign soil, to Russia defending the motherland. The partial mobilization is being conducted in parallel with political referendums that will see the Donbas and other Ukrainian territory be absorbed into the Russian federation.
This absorption will fundamentally alter the legal foundations of the conflict. While the referendums currently being considered only impact lands under current Russian occupation, Putin spoke of the need to free all of “Novo Rossiya” from the yoke of Ukrainian tyranny.
I believe the absorption of Ukrainian territory will be expanded at some point to include Odessa and Kharkov.
The mobilization of 300,000 men, as well as the announced goal of bringing all other units up to the standards of the Russian army, will not happen overnight. Russia will be forming new units, and this takes time.
I believe we will see a strategic pause while Russia completes its partial mobilization. This pause will be marked by heavy fighting as Ukraine will seek to disrupt the referendums and alter the geography of the battlefield. But once Russia consolidates the new territory politically, and accrues the necessary military capacity, I believe we are looking at the physical destruction of the Ukrainian nation as the endgame for this conflict.
I also believe there is nothing NATO can do to alter this reality.
More to follow.
I’m coming to the realization that Putin wants Biden to declare martial law in the U.S.
Under martial law, the Democrats’ plan to destroy us will be moving at full-speed-ahead.
“Ukraine has already lost half of its army, 61,207 are dead and 49,368 wounded - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu. UPDATE: Russian losses stand at 5,937 dead.”
Ludicrous! Laughable!
Katya, your propaganda is showing.
“I’m coming to the realization that Putin wants Biden to declare martial law in the U.S.”
You can’t be serious.
No question he’s insane.
As a very broad statement about the current state of our world —
I don’t personally deal very well with arbitrary and changing rules. This has been evident with COVID restrictions and with the multi-level justice system now in place in the US.
But we see it also in things like NATO. The basic NATO agreement: if one NATO member is attacked, the rest of NATO will join together to respond. Example: If the USSR invades West Germany, all of NATO will go to war against the USSR. That’s the core concept.
Today’s situation: Did Russia attack Ukraine? Yes. Is Ukraine part of NATO? No.
So it turns out that NATO is not about defending NATO members — its really just an aggressive military alliance aimed at weakening Russia.
We tell ourselves that we are the Good Guys, but we’re jumping into a war with a nuclear power. That’s not good.
BREAKING NEWS⚡️
Over past 3 weeks, Russian forces have DESTROYED over 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers and 970 pieces of military equipment, including 208 TANKS, Russian armed forces will continue military operation until goals are FULLY achieved - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu.
UPDATE: All attempts by Ukrainian army to advance in Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog front, South Ukraine, have been THWARTED - Shoigu.
So its all about body count Shoigu Magoo?
Him I remember a country obsessed with body count instead of actually winning...
WORLD AT WAR 3.0: According to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who says (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/5217) globe may be mere MONTHS away from MAJOR CONFLICT bigger than ANYTHING since WW2, slamming UN as POWERLESS to help, claiming intergovernmental organization PRACTICALLY DESTROYED by “great powers”, as Putin declares partial MOBILIZATION (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/5237), and Donbass region set (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/5222) to become part of Russia, Vucic’s warnings cast DARK SHADOW over Europe and Western world, already SUFFERING from economic BACKLASH (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/3825) of anti-Russia sanctions.
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⚡️We cannot, we have no moral right to give people close to us to be torn to pieces by the executioner. We cannot fail to respond to their sincere desire to determine their own destiny.”
Vladimir Putin promised to provide safe conditions for holding referendums in the LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson region:
“We know that the majority of people living in the territories liberated from neo-Nazis, and this is primarily the historical lands of Novorossia, do not want to be under the yoke of the neo-Nazi regime. In Zaporozhye, in the Kherson region, in Lugansk and Donetsk, they have seen and are seeing the atrocities that neo-Nazis are doing in the occupied areas of the Kharkov region.
The heirs of Bandera and Nazi punishers kill people, torture them, throw them in prison, settle scores and mock civilians.”
Next time could you please paraphrase this thinking and put your own thoughts in, instead of relying on the pedophile. That makes a more persuasive argument.
I should have said, instead of quoting directly from the pedophile.
🇷🇺❗️Putin warned those who carry out nuclear blackmail against the Russian Federation that the wind could turn in their direction.
Washington is pushing Kyiv to transfer hostilities to the territory of the Russian Federation, nuclear blackmail has been used ..
When its territorial integrity is threatened, Russia uses all available means, this is not a bluff
Intel Slava:
🇷🇺⚡️Russian TV channels are now showing an interview with Russian Defense Minister Shoigu.
He said that “Russia is at war with the collective West,” since Ukraine itself “has long since run out of weapons.”
“So it turns out that NATO is not about defending NATO members — its really just an aggressive military alliance aimed at weakening Russia.”
No, it’s about stopping the threat BEFORE a NATO member is attacked.
Sounds like a speech that Adolph Hitler could have made.
Katya doesn’t have an independent thought: She just vomits out what her handlers tell her.
What nuclear blackmail? The only country that has been threatening using nukes is Russia. The only country that has placed its nuclear forces on high alert is Russia, and it did that the first week of the invasion!
Or Brandon
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