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.
“Really miss Trump now.”
That’s a fact.
But without oil from the US and Venezuala, Nazi Germany found itself on a strict timer. Not enough oil to keep his economy going past a certain date.
If Hitler had been able to seize the Western oil fields of the Caucasus and - moreover - had blockaded oil traffic up the Volga (e.g. at Stalingrad) then the Soviet Union would have crumbled. And maybe the 3rd Reich would still be with us.
But Hitler just couldn't do it. He didn't have enough oil to maintain offensive military operations for long enough.
We talk about 'General Winter' defeating the Nazis. But it seems Hitler lost WW2 in the Atlantic. Mainly because he couldn't get a thimbleful of oil across it.
Freepmail.
In all my 50 years of public service I have never seen a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions - on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them.Ukraine is not, and never has been, a threat to great Russian Motherland. The only one threatening another country is Russia. It should also be clear that by "neo-Nazi" Putin means patriotic Ukrainians who see their country as separate and independent of Russia. Nor has there been any attempted genocide by the Ukrainians in Donbas. This is pure Russian myth. The claim, also, that the present Ukrainian government was installed by a "coup" in 2014 cannot be taken seriously. It was freely, and overwhelmingly, elected in 2019. Additionally, this action by Putin is a clear admission that his "Special Military Operation" has been a failure, that he needs a mobilization of reserves to complete the operation. And finally, this shows that Putin would rather go to all-out war and risk the lives of countless Russians rather than risk his own political power. At this point, this is about the survival of Putin, not of Russia.
Nonsense.
(Freepmail answered - hope the links are useful and help with your insightful question)
Thanks. No time now, I’ll look at them in the next week or so.
That’s quite a Zelensky picture...:-)
Instead of successfully “extending Russia” (”weakening, destabilizing and creating regime change”) per our ordered and paid for 2019 Rand Plan and this, despite our religiously engaging in every provocative suggestion they made for creating conflict, chaos and military conflict in multiple regions of the world that Russia had supported, the result has been complete failure.
We even on our own added in the “biggest sanctions program in history” and still we were thwarted and it actually backfired on us. Russia is thriving; the West is disintegrating.
Then we doubled down and even though we had spent 7 years training and supplying Ukraine’s military forces we recognized that we needed to do more so we literally took over the war on Ukraine’s behalf...repeatedly sending more powerful weapons from our own stock (much go the frustration of our own troops who had to surrender their much vaunted Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifles and their own in-use HIMARS) until the cupboard was bare. Though we have promised to provide a lot more in a year of two once our MIC can produce them. We even did what we always do...send in “advisors” and pretend we haven’t...a staple of every conflict we have been in.
But, still success eluded us despite the fact that we even threw in terrorist attacks in Ukraine and even in Russia itself to install the fear that would surely make them relent. And we tried again to build a whole new Ukrainian army training them by the tens of thousands in NATO countries so they couldn’t be found and attacked. And then we devised a GREAT counter offensive to use our new forces (supplied with brand new equipment and led by the greatest military in history, the United States Pentagon.)
Absolutely no real success in our initial battle in Kherson though we did absorb horrific casualties. We soldiered on in Kharkov where Russia was thinly forced with Rosgvardia security forces. We overwhelmed Russia’s tiny, non-combat forces who quickly developed corridors to get the hell out of there. Finally, we had the evidence that we were the superior fighting force and we were “beating Russia” and “we were winning.” We tried to hide our disappointment that we still suffered huge casualties and Russia suffered almost none. Damn those Russians...guess they remember that quote from General Patton: “Be seated. Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his
country.”
Hmm... and now Shoigu comes out and announced the up to date casualty figures for both sides. 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.
It turns out that the only thing all our escalations achieved is driving Russia into a dramatic escalation of their own which was announced today.
So now we wait for a miracle that will enable us to maintain our long held world hegemony. What was that Putin said? “The United States thinks they are God’s representative here on earth.”
Perhaps things will improve if we just buckle down and throw in some additional U.S. forces.
It never ceases to amaze me that you people are willing to take Russian government press releases as gospel yet think everything published in the West is propaganda. You people live in your own little mental bubble, and that bubble is tiny.
Somehow, I just don’t see Serbia as being big enough to give warnings able to cast DARK SHADOWs over Europe and the Western world. Vucic is probably just worried about what the economic BACKLASH will turn out to be in Serbia.
First and foremost it appears that the Russian parliament is not all that enthusiastic about Putin’s obsession. Although they may approve some hint of support, they are more like taking a wait and see approach. This earlier FR link [https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4094909/posts?q=1&;page=1] has some interesting arguments about the DUMA’s role, and Comment #51 has 4 more links that could be relevant.
“Russia uses all available means, this is not a bluff”
So this is a direct message from your Russian handler regarding nuclear blackmail and hinting that Russia is ready to use it. Just remember which way the wind blows sweetie. It does not blow well for Russia.
...stopping the threat BEFORE a NATO member is attacked.
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Might sound good, but it plays as Future Crime/Thought Crime.
You cannot spin it. NATO and the Atlanticists are the real aggressors and the world knows it.
Trump would have yanked NATOs chain so hard, the WEF would have whiplash.
Without the steal, this could not even have been contemplated by NATO.
“You cannot spin it. NATO and the Atlanticists are the real aggressors and the world knows it.”
If that were the case Kaliningrad would have been Konigsberg again
a few months ago.
Most of the world sees Russia as the aggressor, that is why most of the condemnations are aimed at Russia and not the West. I haven’t heard much condemnation of NATO and the West coming from the UN, but I have heard condemnation of Russia.
From the GA? The SC? Or from the Sec’y General? The UN is a big organization in lockstep via an MOU w/ the WEF.
Talk is cheap. Most countries of the UN are aligned w/BRICS+ & SCO.
I actually hear the opposite, in so far as ordinary people go. It is the USA and the EU et al that are distrusted, reviled and, w/Biden, a joke.
“I actually hear the opposite, in so far as ordinary people go. It is the USA and the EU et al that are distrusted, reviled and, w/Biden, a joke.”
I guess that’s why Sweden and Finland clamored to join NATO.
But, I agree with you about Biden: He is indeed a joke.
Wouldn’t have to. Trump kept the puke under control. Now we are paying for Biden’s FU.
> Been told Bidens WANTS wwiii?
Is it quite as funny today?
Yep just as idiotic then as now.
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