Posted on 08/28/2023 6:28:27 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A quote verbatim made originally to CatOwner, and the URL citation.So there it is, if you accept this "testimony" from 20 August 2023. After over 500 days of war, Putin is still controlling Ukrainian corruption and controlling Biden."The ‘PUTIN-Biden-Clinton-Obama’ cartel did used Ukraine as a FRONT to stage their money-laundering by using Russian agents embedded BY PUTIN in the Ukraine government: Ukrainian deep-state! President Zelensky is still trying to remove Ukraine CORRUPT “deep state created by Putin!”
Source: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4176363/posts?page=52#52
“The less the success the stronger the propaganda.”
Russia is in retreat. Russia is weaker today than it was when this started in 2014. Russia’s propaganda anymore isn’t stronger, it’s farcical.
That’s funny!
38. Believe this is an old photo. No doubt some fascists are in Azov group. Let them at least die doing something useful for once. This will be called a “twofer”. Nice!!
ROLMAO!
There are two wars goin on. 1) The Propaganda war and that one Ukraine and there many supporters are winning big. They put Baghdad Bob to sham. They back up their claims with cool videos (but do not let reporters anywhere need the fighting). Just a few more weapons, a few more Billions, and Victory will be won! 2) The Real War and that one they are losing badly. They face an entrenched foe more and more committed, a foe that has been bloodied and are not adverse in using any horror from vacuum bombs to shovels to do their job. They are tapping into the inner Mongol and this will not end well. But, why care? The people who get rich, will just move to the south of France and enjoy their money and let the Ukraine people deal with life under a vengeful Russia. PEACE NOW!
ARTICLE
Russia Won’t Trade Land for Peace in Ukraine
European Pravda
Monday, 21 August 2023
Jan Lipavsky, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2023/08/21/7167895/
Fifty-five years ago, a half million Soviet soldiers began to occupy Czechoslovakia. Over six thousand tanks rolled over the Prague Spring dream held by a large portion of our citizens. A dream that communism could be reformed and that in countries controlled by Moscow people could look forward to freedom of expression and their opinions would not get them kicked out of school and work or even imprison them.
Until the night of the 20th-21st of August, people were convinced that the Kremlin had no reason to send an army against our government.
Czechoslovakia wasn’t considering leaving the Soviet military and economic pacts and the communist party and its leadership were at peak popularity in the country.
But Kremlin leaders were petrified that citizens in the Soviet Union could also demand freedom of speech, including those in Ukraine, which shared a border with Czechoslovakia. The risky decision to occupy our country, which could have theoretically at the time been defended by over 200,000 soldiers, came precisely from this fear of freedom and its contagion.
Half a century ago, Leonid Brezhnev basically succeeded in this step – although he failed to install a pre-planned puppet government, the Kremlin effectively carried out the coup. The communist leadership of that time decided not to defend the country from the foreign troops, and after the Soviets abducted them to Moscow, the submitted completely.
In the Ukrainian case, today’s Russia still thinks the same way as 55 years ago – it fears freedom of speech, plurality of opinions, and free elections that Ukraine has been honoring for over 30 years already. Vladimir Putin has understood that threats and blackmail will not stop the Ukrainian desire for freedom, and the only option is to crush it by force. He wanted to repeat Brezhnev’s success and carry out a coup, quickly occupy the country, and apparently divide it. He did not succeed because he underestimated the Ukrainians, as they have been bravely defending their country against foreign tanks for a year and a half.
Defense has a high price of civilian and military casualties, unfathomable material damages, and almost daily drone and cruise missile strikes on civilian infrastructure.
Ukraine cannot do without long-term military shipments and further Western support; therefore, the seemingly logical question is whether it would not be better for everyone to negotiate peace with the Kremlin in exchange for territorial concessions from the Ukrainian side.
However, such a brought peace would not work.
Also, it would be dangerous for the future of all of Europe.
Russia and other totalitarian countries cannot get used to changing borders by force. It would lead to more wars on the continent. And it would be naive to think that Russia would not continue in its war against Ukrainian independence. After all, from the forfeiting of the Sudetenland to Hitler in the 1938 Munich Agreement, the occupation of Czechoslovakia took place in less than half a year, and the start of World War II took place in not even a year.
Kremlin leaders don’t care about Crimea or eastern Ukraine or even southern Ukraine. This war is not about territory, it is a war about values and Russia’s fear of freedom of speech and free elections. This fear is almost invariable among Russian leaders and cannot be soothed by any territory or concessions.
Our only defense against it is active support of Ukraine and support for its accession to NATO and the EU. As Russia doesn’t dare to bully stronger powers.
by Jan Lipavský
originally published in Czech language
FSB helicopter crashes in Russia: crew killed
Ukrainska Pravda
Iryna Balachuk
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 14:26
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/29/7417560/
Russian media outlets have reported that a Mi-8 helicopter crashed in Sosnovsky district of Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia. Three or four crew members have reportedly died.
SOURCE: RIA Novosti and RBC, Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlets; Russian Telegram channels
DETAILS: It is noted that the helicopter crashed near the village of Prudny.
As per the information available at the moment, equipment failure is the probable reason for the crash.
TASS, another Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet, stated that it was a FSB helicopter.
It was performing a combat task, and four people were on board. All of them have died, the outlet reports.
ARTICLE- Russian saboteurs???
Russian Railways’ warehouses on fire in centre of Moscow
STANISLAV POHORILOV
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 18:25
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/29/7417598/
Russian Railways’ warehouses on fire in centre of Moscow
Photo: SCREENSHOT FROM A VIDEO BY RIA NOVOSTI
Warehouses with the property of the Russian Railways caught fire in the centre of Moscow on Komsomolskaya Square, also known as the Square of the Three Stations.
SOURCE:
RIA Novosti, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet; Russian Telegram channels
QUOTE:
“The fire occurred near warehouses in the vicinity of the Three Station Square in Moscow (popular name for Komsomolskaya Square – ed.) and does not affect train traffic. Russian Railways sent a fire train to help extinguish the fire.”
DETAILS:
Black smoke is reported to be clearly visible several kilometres away from the fire. Emergency services are now on their way to the scene.
Initially, propagandists cited the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russian and stated that a warehouse was on fire, while Telegram channels reported that several warehouses were on fire.
Urals Oil
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/urals-oil
SUMMARY
Russian Urals crude oil fell to the $70 per barrel mark, extending its retreat from the nine-month high of $73.7 touched on August 9th and tracking the decline for other crude oil contracts as the outlook of lower demand from the world’s major economies pressured key energy benchmarks. Additionally, marked economic slowdowns for the main consumers of Russian oil and growing concerns over Western price caps drove the discount of Urals oil to Brent to widen since hitting post-Ukraine-war lows at the start of August. Imports from India declined by 5.7% to 1.85 million barrels per day in July from the previous month, pressured by a sinking rupee and deepening caution from Indian financial institutions to settle payments above the G7’s $60/barrel price cap. Imports from China also fell as economic headwinds for Asia’s largest economy pared demand for energy.
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