VIDEOS
1. Ukrainian army displays how they downed Russia’s R-330 J “Zhitel” radio electronic station
Kanal13
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Aug 16, 2023 7:45 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIAkzgCo5Oc
2. Ukraine releases footage of Sea Baby underwater drone attacking a Russian landing ship and tanker
Kanal13
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Aug 16, 2023 7:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnTdErQXA0Q
ARTICLE
Russian General Surovikin ordered to keep silent and not leave residence
Ukrainska Pravda
Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 12:37
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/16/7415789/
Sergey Surovikin, deputy commander of the joint grouping of Russian troops in Ukraine, has been suspended from his job, placed under house arrest and ordered to keep quiet until his name is forgotten.
Source: Politico
DETAILS: Politico, citing Russian military bloggers and media outlets, reported that there was no official investigation into Surovikin’s actions, but he was placed under house arrest.
QUOTE: “The VChK-OGPU blog, which is considered close to Russia’s security forces, reported that Surovikin has been permitted visitors, including several of his subordinates.
There is no official investigation, but Surovikin spent a long time in limbo answering uncomfortable questions. The general has been advised to stay under the radar so that he is forgotten.”
DETAILS:
The Russian blog also reported that the decision on Surovikin’s fate “must be taken by one person, and the longer this takes, the more this person will cool down”, meaning Putin.
A few days earlier, Russian State Duma MP Viktor Sobolev reported that Surovikin had been removed from his duties as commander of the Kremlin’s troops in Ukraine.
Sobolev also hinted that Surovikin could still be useful to the Russian army later, if no serious violations were found against him.
BACKGROUND:
On 12 July, Russian media outlets reported that Surovikin had been detained by counterintelligence in connection with the mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Earlier, the Russian FSB announced that the case of Prigozhin’s mutiny in Russia was closed.
However, Surovikin, who has been repeatedly linked to Prigozhin by Western media, has not appeared in public since his address to the Wagnerites on the night of 23-24 June, in which he called on them to lay down their arms.
Bloomberg also wrote that the general had been interrogated by military prosecutors for several days about his ties to Prigozhin. The agency’s source claimed that Surovikin was being held “in a certain place”, but not in prison.
VIDEOS
1. Drones and fires disrupt Russian peace | Chris Morris | TVP World
TVP World
408K subscribers
Aug 16, 2023 7:00 a.m. EDT
Russia has recently seen an outbreak of major fires as well as confirmed drone attacks on its soil. In Moscow, the carefully engineered image of urban sophistication in its financial district was smashed along with the glass on the facade of one of the skyscrapers, as drones packed with explosives plunged toward their targets. Elsewhere, in illegally occupied Crimea, Russian tourists were treated to images of smoke billowing above the bridge spanning the Kerch Strait – all of that forming a part of a war that, according to Russian propaganda, isn’t even a war. Should Ukraine try and take the conflict to Russia, and would the arrival of an imminent threat serve as a rude awakening for the Russian public, or rather just another impulse to rally around the flag? To discuss, we were joined by Chris Morris, a teaching fellow at the University of Portsmouth.
2. Ukrainian ‘Sea Baby’ kamikaze drone strikes Crimea bridge in newly-released footage
The Sun
4.28M subscribers
Aug 16, 2023 8:15 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahMAVqNqj8
UKRAINE has revealed how it used an experimental naval kamikaze drone to cause major damage to the £3 billion bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea.
THIS is the incredible moment an experimental naval kamikaze drone blew up Vladimir Putin’s beloved Crimea bridge.
The tyrant’s precious £3billion crossing linking Russia and the annexed peninsula was rocked by massive explosions as motorists made their way across on July 17.