Posted on 10/16/2022 1:25:04 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
More evidence of panic in Moscow's key military organisations emerged tonight with claims that two high-level officials have defected, and are revealing further details of Russian war crimes and secret operations in Ukraine.
The news comes as Russian police launched a murder investigation after a military commissar in charge of enlistment for Vladimir Putin’s chaotic mobilisation campaign was found dead near his home.
But tonight senior sources in Crimea warned that Russia remained uncowed, and was preparing to authorise the use of chemical weapons as part of a new offensive which will coincide with November’s G20 summit in Bali.
A female FSB intelligence officer with operational information of Russian troops movements and a high ranking mercenary with the Putin-supporting Wagner paramilitary group are now said to have reached safe exile in France, where they have sought political asylum.
Evidence from the two defectors will both help to build up the dossier of war crimes against Vladimir Putin’s war machine and help Ukrainian forces in their counter-offensive in Donbas, said Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin who revealed the defections.
The female intelligence officer has reportedly brought “serious insider information” relating to the invasion of Ukraine, counterintelligence and the Defence Ministry, while also revealing details of “corruption schemes of the FSB” - the Russian counterintelligence agency once headed by Vladimir Putin.
Meanwhile, the Wagner official has revealed details of the secret financing of the private army, which has recently recruited hundreds of convicted criminals still serving prison terms as part of a desperate move to bolster its ranks in Ukraine.
He also gave details of sabotage work by Wagner units in the Donbas, and confirmed Western suspicions that the organisation - led by multimillionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin’s chef”. is connected operationally and financially to Russia’s GRU military intelligence directorate.
Both sought asylum at the same time and had travelled in adjacent rows on the same plane, but were initially suspicious of each other, said Osechkin, 41, who last month was the subject of an FSB-linked assassination bid in France.
He added: “Both these people will testify about war crimes. I hope they will have the opportunity to cooperate with the international investigation and testify against Yevgeny Prigozhin and other persons in the Putin regime.”
In the meantime, Russian police have launched a murder investigation after the body of military commissar Lt-Col Roman Malyk, 49, was found near the fence of his home in a village in the Primorsky region of Russia.
Despite reports that he was found hanged, relatives of the married father-of-two -a veteran of Russia’s war in Chechnya - strongly denied he killed himself.
However, his death follows a series of attacks against recruiters for Putin’s unpopular mobilisation programme, with more than 70 offices hit with Molotov cocktails.
Armed snatch-gangs backed by police, reminiscent of the 18th Century press gangs employed by the Royal Navy, have been operating in Russian cities, grabbing men on underground trains, on the street, and in offices.
Speaking at a summit if Kazakhstan, the Russian premier said the call-up would be over within two weeks and there were no plans for a further mobilisation, though he remains 80,000 conscripts short of his 300,000 target
Senior military sources in Crimea said that Russia was on track to launch its own offensive next month, which would “reverse” recent Ukrainian gains.
Putin suffered one of his most humiliating actions by Ukrainian forces last week after a kamikaze drone destroyed parts of the 12-mile Kerch Strait bridge linking the peninsula to the mainland and a crucial supply route for the Russian forces who have taken control of most of southern Ukraine's Kherson region.
The £3.3bn bridge, opened with fanfare in 2017 three years after Russia annexed Crimea, will not be completely repaired until July.
Fury over the attack caused Moscow to launch a barrage of deadly missile strikes against Kyiv and other Ukrainians cities.
A statement by Putin that Russia has no need to embark on fresh missile strikes was taken by Western officials to mean that he has temporarily deepened missile stocks.
But last night a recently-retired Russian admiral in Crimea, who still has close links with the Kremlin , warned that Moscow was preparing to unleash more sinister and deadly reprisals.
The admiral, who did not wish to be named, conceded there was "much anger" over last week's brazen attack which "had been anticipated but not efficiently defended against", but said that criticism was being directed towards Nato, and not Putin himself.
He added: “The West is embroiled in the fantasy that we will launch nuclear missiles. This is fantasy, and will only happen if the motherland is itself directly threatened by nuclear missiles.
“But Russian troops are preparing for their own offensive next month. And I have been told that the use of chemical weapons is being actively discussed. And some are suggesting it should be timed to happen during the G20 summit.
“We have used chemical weapons before, in Syria, and we all now know that supposed Nato red lines mean very little in practical terms.
"That is the thinking in the Kremlin today.”
yeah....
It never ceases to amaze me how these people seem to think if they can control the story, the narrative, the spin, the propaganda, if they can somehow swing public perception in the direction that they want, that they can control reality.
Making people in the collective West believe that Putin is weak is not going to change reality. It’s not going to heat homes, it’s not going to decrease energy costs, revitalize European industry, or even gain one inch of battleground soil.
Since they are not stupid, you have to ask the question: What are they trying to do? Just buy time? Why the priority on keeping the people thinking things are working for now? What would be the reason for that? Is something else going to happen that they need more time for? What’s the plan?
They worked so well in Syria ...
And Trump colluded with Russia to get elected, don’t forget that! </sarcasm>
Latest update from DPA. The situation on the ground / front as opposed to the next 15 threads posted by UsmZGomerPylsezz, and its fellow travelers B*llsh*t. @ 30 minutes. Ukraine still on the offensive on certain fronts, and the Russian on the others.
Your welcome.
“Latest update from DPA. The situation on the ground / front as opposed to the next 15 threads posted by UsmZGomerPylsezz, and its fellow travelers B*llsh*t. @ 30 minutes. Ukraine still on the offensive on certain fronts, and the Russian on the others.
Your welcome.”
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Yep. And the days of Ukraine gaining large amounts of territory have ended… at least for now. The fronts are largely stabilized and the only thing continuing is the destruction, the maiming and the dying. This completely unnecessary war that the globalists schemed to get is creating misery worldwide and filling the pockets of the globalists’ friends.
is that name referring to the USMC? I thought it was united methodist church reverend or something.
SMH...
For anybody who hasn’t figured it out, this person (UMCRevMom@aol.com) appears to be a paid shill of some sort...
Needless to say, that massive missile strikes by Russia continue all over 404 and there are reports of massive explosions and power outages in Nikolaev and other places, plus Kiev remains to be targeted. And, as was expected, all VSU attempts to perform "offensives" have been repelled with massive losses for VSU, including at Kremennaya and Svatovo (in Russian), but NATO--let's drop the pretense here--will try to throw as much cannon fodder at Russian formations as possible because they need something, like "breakthrough" in some sectors, because the Midterms are coming and Russians amassing troops for obvious things. Time is running out.
So, there are signs that the realization of grim reality begins to descend on Washington D.C.
I was on record for years--pardon me for my pleasure in reminding everyone--that NATO cannot fight a real war with the peer. Russia is not just the peer, Russia fields combat capabilities many of which are simply non-existent anywhere in NATO (US, of course, included). This becomes increasingly obvious both through operational and strategic incompetence of NATO planners and through admissions of such nature as by Austin or, if you read further, by:
Mark Cancian is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies who spent seven years working on DOD procurement issues for the Office of Management and Budget. His assessment based on inventory levels, industrial capacity, and information from the Biden administration is that the U.S. has "limited" supplies of HIMARs, Javelins, Stingers and M-777 Howitzers. "There are some areas where we’re basically at the bottom of the barrel," he told Fox News Digital. In some cases, this means the U.S. will likely start meeting Ukraine’s request for weaponry by sending over lower-end substitutions, such as lighter Howitzers that are serviceable but not what Ukraine is after. In other cases, the U.S. may not have much to give – Cancian said that while there is talk of the U.S. providing more air defense equipment, there is not much the U.S. can give in that area. Cancian said he reads Austin comments as a sign that the days of the U.S. giving Ukraine its best stuff are gone.
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But this fast review may give you some glimpse into the "thinking" by NATO planners who need something, anything to show for their failed "offensives" and to somehow spin (to cover up, that is) an atrocious record of the US-made weaponry (plus from other lapdogs) in real combat conditions. There will be a talk about well documented utter failure of the US AGM-88 HARM missiles against Russian Air Defense, but we need to be patient and wait for the conclusion of the active part of SMO and with anti-terrorist operations by FSB and MVD coming at the forefront of this war. In the end, terrorism is the only type of war combined West excels at.
According to the Western/US/UK/NATO/EU propaganda ridden media:
1) Putin was to have died 3-5 months ago from some 32 known and unknown medical causes, etc.
2) Putin has been “in crisis” since March.
3) The moral of the Russian forces have long been trash and down in the dirt since April.
4) Ukraine has been winning since March.
5) Ukraine has taken very little casualties and is barely losing any military hardware since June.
6) Russia was supposed to out of munitions, rockets, etc. since March.
Let me know if I missed anything else.................
Putin has greatly enabled the globalist agenda with his Ukraine invasion.
“And the days of Ukraine gaining large amounts of territory have ended… at least for now.”
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I think the Russians moved the civilians out of Kherson because they want the room to make that a slaughterhouse for the Ukes if they try to retake it.
They are going to use their thermobaric bombs..bombs. They have already used their smaller versions.
Don’t forget the spaghetti sauce, RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!
They also are going to come down out of Belarus to threaten Kiev, Putin said when they backed off of Kiev is when the Ukes became unwilling to talk. They are about to force the Ukes into conceding.
I think they want to make sure, no doubt, that this is done no later than the first of 2023, because it’s the springtime of next year that China blockades Taiwan, and Xe wants the Russians to be available for contingencies at that time.
What false flags?
what a pile of rubbish.
if you ever try posting anything honest that would surely shock people!
big losses today in Kherson for Z
DPA update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTE3Xistrio
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