Posted on 05/14/2024 10:03:16 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin’s ousted security chief Nikolai Patrushev will instead serve as the Russian president’s aide, according to a decree published by the Kremlin.
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After 16 years at the top of the Russian security hierarchy, Patrushev’s new role as an aide assigned to shipbuilding matters looks like a demotion.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
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The architect of Putin’s SMO goes under the bus.
Is Dugin next?
Russia is now winning so easily, Putin is primarily concerned about winning as cost-effective as possible.
You just can't keep making a fool of yourself, can you?
Under the bus!
No, you guys already murdered her with a Terrorist car bomb, the Terrorist bomber using her child as a Human Shield.
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Dugin’s daughter was blown up by Putin’s FSB for embezzlement.
It would appear that Putin is not happy with the progress in Ukraine.
Russia is going broke again because their corrupt military stole everything.
Putin has aides.
lol!
“Kharkiv is weak.” Kramer to Newman
“K-Kharkiv is STRONK!” You
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IT NEVER ENDS Zelensky demands MORE US military aid as Blinken arrives in Kyiv
Plea comes as Biden’s SofS visits Ukraine since $61B tax dollars aid pkg passed Congress
by Shaun Walker in Kyiv, theguardian.com, Tue 14 May 2024
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday morning on his first visit to Ukraine since a major US aid package was passed last month, as Ukrainian forces struggle to defend against increasingly intense Russian attacks.
Blinken, who arrived by train from Poland in an unannounced visit, met Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, shortly after arriving.
“We know this is a challenging time. But we also know that in the near term the assistance is now on the way, some of it has already arrived and more of it will be arriving,” Blinken said. “And that’s going to make a real difference against the ongoing Russian aggression on the battlefield.”
Zelenskiy described the US aid as crucial, and thanked Blinken, but also said Ukraine desperately needed two more air defence systems to protect the second city of Kharkiv, which has been hit repeatedly by Russian strikes in recent weeks
Addressing Blinken in English, Zelensky said air defence supplies were “the biggest deficit for us”, with Russia conducting long-range aerial attacks since March that have pounded electricity facilities and caused blackouts.
“Really we need today two Patriots for Kharkiv, for Kharkiv region because there the people are under attack. Civilians, warriors, everybody they are under Russian missiles.”
Blinken’s visit, his fourth to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, comes at a difficult time for Kyiv, with a Russian offensive in Kharkiv region leading to thousands of displaced residents and fears of losing territory already liberated from Russian control once in a 2022 counteroffensive. Ukraine is also struggling to mobilise new recruits to help address the discrepancies of weaponry and manpower in Russia’s favour along the frontline.
In recent months, the war in Gaza has drawn away attention from Ukraine, and there is also a fear in Kyiv of attention waning as the US moves into an election cycle.
Three weeks ago, Joe Biden signed a $60bn aid package for Ukraine after months of blocking by elements of the Republican party. The delay in passing the package was having a real impact on Ukraine’s ability to defend itself, officials in Kyiv have said.
The state department said Blinken would meet a range of top Ukrainian officials “to discuss battlefield updates, the impact of new US security and economic assistance, long-term security and other commitments, and ongoing work to bolster Ukraine’s economic recovery”.
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Russia is going broke again because their corrupt military stole everything.
The corrupt Russian military even stole the trenches and minefields around Kharkov.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Just go away.
What Crimea doink? Boom!
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