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Update from Ukraine | Ukrainian Forces will leave Soledar | Ruzzian propaganda celebrates
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Posted on 01/09/2023 6:24:36 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com

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21 posted on 01/09/2023 7:58:31 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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We’re winning, we’re winning, we’re winning, we lost


22 posted on 01/09/2023 8:03:33 PM PST by Mount Athos
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Ukraine’s ambassador to US: ‘It’s either fight and liberate Ukraine or die. And we choose not to die.’
by Lili Bivings
January 10, 2023 2:51 am
https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukraines-ambassador-to-us-its-either-fight-and-liberate-ukraine-or-die-and-we-choose-not-to-die

Ukraine’s ambassador to US: ‘It’s either fight and liberate Ukraine or die. And we choose not to die.’

Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States has just about as much trouble answering the question “how are you?” as many Ukrainians these days.

“I usually tell people we are kicking, fighting, but to say that we are fine is hard,” Oksana Markarova told the Kyiv Independent during our first conversation over Zoom from her office in Washington, D.C. in late November.

In between near 24/7 work with the Pentagon to secure much-needed weapons for Ukraine’s fight against Russia, the ambassador says she is able to get in touch with her family, affected by Russia’s constant attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, when they have power.

“They’re more or less hanging in there, but it’s cold,” she said.

Since Oct. 10, Russia has launched a series of mass missile and drone attacks at Ukraine, damaging and destroying critical energy infrastructure in the middle of winter. Millions across the country have faced frequent heat, water, and power outages.

Markarova says Russia’s goal with its attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure is pretty clear: to completely subjugate and occupy Ukraine. “It’s just that their means are evolving as they fail to do so.”

According to the ambassador, it’s all part of Russia’s perennial strategy to absorb Ukraine into its orbit. Even before 2014, when Russia invaded eastern Ukraine and annexed Crimea, RUSSIA WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO INSTALL ITS PUPPETS IN [UKRAINE] GOVERNMENT POSITIONS, managing to get its own citizens into leadership positions in Ukraine’s Defense Ministry and security services, she said.

“When that didn’t work, and people said a resolute no on Maidan to (then-President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision) not to join the European Association, that’s when the war started.”

But Markarova is certain that no matter what Russia does to try and scare Ukrainians into submission, they will not be successful, despite living with frequent blackouts in the middle of winter.

“Talking to not only the president but also to family and friends (these attacks) have made everyone more resolute,” the ambassador said.

It is not just Russia’s attacks on critical infrastructure that have made Ukrainians more determined. As Ukraine continues to liberate territories and evidence of Russian war crimes comes to light, Ukrainians understand that they “only have one choice, to fight,” Markarova said.

GAINING AND MAINTAINING SUPPORT FROM THE US

Fighting Russia will require a steady stream of support and weaponry from Ukraine’s Western partners.

American support for Ukraine has been on a roll lately. In late December, the U.S. announced $1.85 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including the first Patriot air defense system–a big hand in protecting Ukraine’s skies.

Following President Volodymyr Zelensky’s trip to Washington, during which he delivered a historic address before Congress on Dec. 21, the U.S. announced more than $3 billion in military aid–this time with the long-awaited Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.

Markarova believes Zelensky’s trip to D.C. has a lot to do with this latest military aid package–the largest so far.

“Zelensky’s trip energized everyone. There was no guarantee that the Congress would support a bill that big, they could have let the next congress decide. I think the trip was essential to that decision,” Markarova said during a follow-up conversation over Zoom in early January.

Traveling to D.C. also allowed Zelensky to talk to U.S. President Joe Biden one-on-one. “There are so many things that you cannot discuss even over the secure phones,” she said.

During the trip, Zelensky also spoke to leaders of Congress about the possibility of confiscating Russian assets to use as assistance for Ukraine through the Foreign Assistance Act. That made it into the bill just days before it was passed, Markarova said.

The recent and seemingly sudden change of heart among Western politicians who earlier claimed sending more advanced weaponry could escalate the war and antagonize Russia is also partly the result of 11 months of empty Russian threats, according to the ambassador.

“During the past 11 months, Putin himself has proven how the new capabilities that help us to liberate our territories and our people do not result in anything escalatory on his part,” Markarova said, citing the lack of major Russian escalation or retaliation after each time Ukraine liberated its territories.

Ukraine’s cause enjoys widespread support not only in the halls of the U.S. government but among the American population. According to the latest poll by Reuters in October, three-quarters of Americans say that the U.S. should continue its support for Ukraine despite any threats by Russia.

When asked where this support comes from, Markarova says that firstly, Russia’s full-scale invasion is black and white: “This is horrible injustice being done by a large nuclear, barbaric country to a much smaller democratic country that never attacked Russia.”

But on another level, Markarova believes that the support is deeply rooted in American culture. Ukrainians “are fighting now for the values on which this country is built. And it’s not just great words. It’s its freedom, its independence, I think this fight is so deep in every American heart.”

True or not, support for Ukraine among Americans didn’t just happen, Markarova said.

After February, diplomats were no longer diplomats but soldiers of the country, she said. This means being “everywhere all the time” and finding ways to co-organize and co-sponsor pretty much every major event in support of Ukraine.

And everywhere Ukraine appears to be. In April, Zelensky gave a speech to the crowd at the Grammys. New York City’s Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall gave concerts in honor of Ukraine, with the likes of film director Martin Scorsese giving keynote speeches. Ukrainian flags have been seen popping up all over the country, even in seemingly unlikely places.

Which is why the ambassador isn’t too concerned with the recent shift to a Republican-led Congress in Washington. According to the ambassador, support for Ukraine is “really bipartisan and has always been bipartisan, regardless of different ideas” that some members of Congress may have about aid to Ukraine.

Markarova nonetheless cautions being overly optimistic about the support. People’s attention has a way of wandering, and maintaining support for Ukraine requires constant work: “work with the administration, Congress, and with so many people.”

FIGHTING RUSSIA ON ALL FRONTS

A large part of generating support for Ukraine is combating Russian disinformation and propaganda, which Markarova says didn’t begin with Russia’s full-scale invasion, or even with Ukraine regaining independence in 1991.

Over the past 400 years, the world has seen the region through the eyes of Russian imperial, Soviet, and current-day Russian propaganda, according to Markarova.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war agenda may be “based on a false history which he created in his mind,” as Markarova puts it, “but he’s not the first Russian ruler who put it on paper, and for generations, billions were spent on promoting that (history) outside of Russia.”

“Some people might say that weapons and sanctions are the priority now and we can leave history and culture for later, but as a matter of fact, it can’t because it’s all very much interrelated.”

In addition to coordinating with the defense sector on weapons, the Ukrainian embassy in the U.S. works with universities, think tanks, and museums “because in so many places we still find artifacts from Kyivan Rus marked as Russian.”

Combatting centuries of Russian disinformation is no simple task. Despite the widespread support for Ukraine in the U.S., Markarova understands that Ukraine’s diplomats “have to constantly explain, get the truth out about Ukraine, about Russia, and the truth about every event because every time they do something to us, they also try to spread lies about it.”

When Russia blocked Ukraine’s Black Sea ports amid the first days of the full-scale invasion, Russian propaganda claimed that it was Western sanctions that prevented grain shipments from getting to countries that needed it most – “a total lie,” Markarova said.

Even after a U.N.-backed deal between Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey to allow for some grain shipments out of Ukraine’s ports, Russia falsely claimed most of the grain was going to Europe instead of the countries that needed it most. “We have to stay on top of it,” Markarova said.

One upper hand Markarova does see Ukraine has over Russia on this front is freedom of the press in both the West and in Ukraine, as there “is no such thing in Russia.”

Markarova believes Russia simply doesn’t stand a chance against the number of journalists in Ukraine who are unhampered by a lack of freedom and 21st-century technologies that can get the truth out quickly.

WINNING THE WAR

Winning the war against Russia is as much about liberating Ukrainian territory as it is about helping to solve global problems, according to Markarova.

And Ukraine is the answer to many of those problems, Markarova says. Ukraine possesses the most arable land in Europe. Markarova says that after victory, Ukraine can double, even triple, its agricultural production to be a solution in food security.

Ukraine’s energy sector, which had begun exporting energy to other European countries even before the war, has the ability to be a crucial actor in Europe’s green energy goals.

“But we have to win first. The faster we can get more weapons, the faster we isolate Russia, the faster we increase sanctions, the faster we can actually win.” And it’s not going to be easy, she said.

Russia is counting on a drawn-out war scenario in which people get tired and begin to focus on their own problems.

But as Markarova says, “President Zelensky and the people of Ukraine have been very clear that after this brutal, full-fledged war, after all these war crimes and atrocities, we will not give up, and we will not surrender.”

President Zelensky has outlined his 10-step plan for Ukraine’s victory, which he presented at the G20 summit in November. The plan includes restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, and that includes Russian-occupied Crimea. “We have to return our people, all of our people.”

Part of winning isn’t just kicking Russia out but seeking justice for those who started and carried out this war, Markarova says. Ukraine has recorded over 50,000 war crimes committed by Russian soldiers and has filed cases with the International Criminal Court in the Hague and the European Court of Human Rights.

“It is not only important to have justice for Ukraine, but also to prevent other dictators from doing something like this in the future.”

Which is why President Zelensky said people should not waste time proposing something that excludes parts of Ukraine, like Crimea.

Regarding calls for negotiations among certain Western voices, Markarova said she hears fewer suggestions for a negotiated peace with Russia that would involve territorial concessions from Ukraine.

She also said that her counterparts in the United States government have been firm in their stance that they will be with Ukraine as long as it takes.

But Markarova admits that some, but not everyone, she said, “want the issue to be somehow resolved and go away.”

But for Ukrainians, reaching a deal with Russia that does not involve the full liberation of Ukraine’s territories is not an option, Markarova said.

“We did not start (this war). We did not choose it. And the choice for us is pretty clear. It’s either fight and liberate Ukraine or die. And we choose not to die.”


23 posted on 01/09/2023 8:10:31 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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Russia Fears Frozen River Could Hand Ukraine Major Opportunity—Report
By Ellie Cook
1/9/23 at 8:19 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-dnieper-river-ukraine-war-zaporizhzhia-front-line-kherson-1772231

Ukrainian troops could take advantage of a sharp dip in the Dnieper River’s water levels to cross the current front line at Zaporizhzhia and “start action anywhere” on this southern line of fighting, an official in the Russian-backed administration of the Ukrainian region has said.

Russia needs “to be prepared” for Kyiv’s forces to advance if the surface of the river freezes, as it has done in the past and may likely do again in the coming days, Vladimir Rogov, the head of the pro-Moscow We Stand With Russia movement, said on Monday, according Kremlin-controlled news agency Tass.

Rogov told russian state TV that Kyiv’s forces had engineered the drop in water levels through the closing of hydraulic locks at various points along the Dnieper River.

He pinpointed the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station in Zaporizhzhia, the Middle Hydroelectric Station to the north of Zaporizhzhia and the Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant, between the central cities of Dnipro and Cherkasy.
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The Zaporizhzhia front line has long been the target of intensive shelling, notably raising alarm bells when explosions have been reported at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, to the south of the city.

Russia occupies the power plant and the southern part of the Zaporizhzhia region while Ukrainian forces control the city of the same name and the northern area of the region.
Ukrainian Forces Could Cross Dnipro River

The Dnieper River, which can be as wide as 10 miles, constitutes a natural obstacle between the two countries’ forces. It follows key battleground cities in the south and east of Ukraine, from the Black Sea city of Kherson up through Zaporizhzhia, and ultimately to Kyiv.

Manipulating the water levels of the Dnieper River is not an idea unfamiliar to both sides. Major General Andriy Kovalchuk, who was tasked with leading the Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kherson in the fall, confirmed to The Washington Post that he contemplated flooding the river as Kyiv’s forces retook the key Black Sea city.

In November 2022, Ukrainian troops reclaimed the city of Kherson and pushed back Russian forces to the east bank of the Dnieper River. But Moscow’s retreat to the opposing bank provided the Kremlin’s troops with a natural defensive barrier in the Dnieper.

Mike Martin, of the War Studies Department at King’s College London, suggested on Twitter following the Russian retreat to the east bank that an attack from the Zaporizhzhia region would be a wiser move from the Ukrainian forces.

Roman Kostenko, a veteran of the yearslong fight against Russian-directed forces in the Donbas and now a member of Ukraine’s parliament, previously told Newsweek that it was “very hard to cross in any weather,” adding in December 2022 that he “highly” doubted Ukraine would look to press immediately east across the Dnieper River around Kherson, which Ukrainian forces reclaimed in the fall of 2022.

But the Zaporizhzhia region could be a more promising prospect, he continued, and later a platform for pushing southwards down the Dnieper to Kherson.


24 posted on 01/09/2023 8:19:42 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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“ 50 of our soldiers have returned home. These are guys from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, TRO, NSU, DPSU, Navy, SSO.
33 officers and 17 private and sergeants.…”
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33 Officers but only 17 “enlisted”? I guess the Ukrainian cannon fodder are not priorities.


25 posted on 01/09/2023 8:52:10 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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Wow, 19 posts (each with propaganda) by YOU in the first 24 posts. Your sources are clearly feeding you massive tranches of propaganda to be disseminated. I wonder if there is a reason for that.


26 posted on 01/09/2023 8:59:02 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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I note zelensky spit on the 36 hr Christmas truce


27 posted on 01/09/2023 9:26:48 PM PST by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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33 Officers but only 17 “enlisted”?

hilarious


28 posted on 01/09/2023 9:46:02 PM PST by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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Good news!

The 46th Separate Airmobile Brigade holds Soledar!

Godd bless Ukraine and all Ukrainians


29 posted on 01/09/2023 9:59:16 PM PST by Sunsong
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More good news!

EU is likely to release $300 billion in frozen russian assets to Ukraine very soon!

May it be so!


30 posted on 01/09/2023 10:07:28 PM PST by Sunsong
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There was no truce. Russian soldiers continued attacking during Orthodox Christmas, everyone new it was a poor bluff, everyone apart from you ;)


31 posted on 01/10/2023 12:29:06 AM PST by Verdelet (Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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They’ll lose Bakhmut shortly.


32 posted on 01/10/2023 3:29:06 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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The race to overthrow Putin and take his Kremlin crown has begun, says former Russian defence minister who warned Moscow is facing ‘military catastrophe’

By Will Stewart for MailOnline

Published: 03:29 EST, 5 January 2023 | Updated: 08:44 EST, 5 January 2023

The race to overthrow Vladimir Putin and take the Kremlin crown is underway, says Russian war analyst and former loyalist Igor Strelkov.

The former FSB colonel said the fight for the ‘political Olympus’ has already begun amongst those surrounding the Russian president.

Strelkov - who was key to Putin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 - is now a staunch critic of the Kremlin’s war strategy in Ukraine.

An immediate mass mobilisation of half a million more men is the only way for the Russian president to avoid defeat and humiliation in the war in Ukraine, he claims.

He claimed that Putin crony Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private army, is already going head to head with allies of the weakening defence minister Sergei Shoigu.

Others believe security allies of ex-FSB head Nikolai Patrushev - secretary of the powerful security council - are more likely to pull the trigger on Putin in a bid to save the elite ruling circle if the war continues to go wrong.

Some claim the security bloc is lining up his son agriculture minister Dmitry Patrushev as the frontman for a coup replacing Putin if he is forced out by war setbacks or ill health.

Strelkov sees Prigozhin, once Putin’s ‘chef’ in charge of Kremlin banquets, as aiming to be a major political force in his own right and there is evidence he is now securing prominent coverage in the state media.

There has been speculation he wants to become defence minister - or even president.

‘The grouping of Yevgeny Prigozhin stands against groupings which includes Sergei Shoigu,’ said Strelkov the former defence minister of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic.

‘They have already started the fight. They are not fighting over the number of shells…

‘Now we are speaking about what comes after Putin. Will it happen in one year or two? We don’t know.

‘But factually the fight for the political Olympus has begun between the groupings that surround Putin to the extent that even we can notice it.’

He added that Prigozhin wants to become a ‘political actor’ and ‘is clearly pumping up his authority, including in public’.

Strelkov warned: ‘His latest appearances in the media clearly showed that now he positions himself not just like a war commander, but as a public and a political figure…

‘Prigozhin stands against the grouping which Shoigu either heads or belongs to. They have already started to fight. It was like a “feudal” battle. The military crisis led to a power crisis,’ he said.

‘In turn the power crisis will deepen the military crisis. And it’ll keep going down the spiral, unless urgent measures I mentioned earlier are taken.’

Predicting another wave of mobilisation, he added: ‘They will be forced to have it - a second and then perhaps a third wave. To win in Ukraine we would need about half a million more soldiers.’

Telegram channel General SVR claimed Putin has approved plans to call up two million for mobilisation this year, with some going to the front as cannon fodder, and others working in military-linked industries.

The first to be called will be men in debt to their ex-wives over alimony payments, it claimed.

Such a move for mass mobilisation could come next month.

Strelkov has key support among army and secret services commanders below the top level.

He has so far avoided arrest despite biting criticisms of Putin and his leading henchmen.

Strelkov, 52, a staunchly pro-war blogger, was among three convicted by a Dutch court last year for the downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet in which all 298 on board were killed in 2014.

Despite this, he remains a key voice inside Russia on the conduct of the war.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11601677/The-race-overthrow-Putin-Kremlin-crown-begun-says-former-Russian-loyalist.html?ico=related-replace


33 posted on 01/10/2023 6:26:59 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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AND, YET AGAIN ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS OLIGARCH DEATH...

Former PM of oil-rich Russian region and friend of Putin’s closest ally is run over and killed while crossing the street

By Will Stewart For Mail Online

The former prime minister of an oil-rich Russian region has died after he was rammed by a car while crossing a street.

Magomed Abdulayev, 61, close to ex-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, was hospitalised but died from severe injuries in Makhachkala city on the Caspian Sea.

Ukraine immediately suggested this was the latest in a succession of Russian deaths in the past year dominated by Vladimir Putin’s war.

Abdulayev, also a former rector of Dagestan State Pedagogical University, was crossing Magomed Gadzhiev Street when he was hit by a Niva car.

The driver was reported to be aged 55 but it was not disclosed whether or not he had been detained or arrested.

Pedestrian Abdulayev was crossing the road at an unauthorised point, said reports.

He had been premier of oil-rich Dagestan region from 2010 to 2013, and was appointed when Medvedev was Kremlin president.

Medvedev - a close ally of Putin and a bellicose blogger on the war in Ukraine - had known him since they were graduate students at St Petersburg State University, say reports.

Medvedev, 57, is currently the deputy to Putin on Russia’s security council, and has been called his closest political ally, heading his United Russia party.

Pravda Geraschenko Telegram channel, run by Ukrainian official Anton Geraschenko posted: ‘Another mysterious death of a Russian official.

‘A car knocked down the ex-premier of Dagestan in Makhachkala, killing him.

‘The Russian media report that Magomed Abdulayev, 61, became the victim of a car collision when he crossed the road in the wrong place.’

Abdulayev, also a former rector of Dagestan State Pedagogical University, was crossing Magomed Gadzhiev Street when he was hit by a Niva car

His death comes less than two months after Putin’s man in occupied Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, 45, was killed in a car crash when his armoured Lexus was torn apart.

Russia has been hit by a number of ‘suspicious’ deaths - many LINKED TO ENERGY SECTOR - since tension escalated ahead of Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Wealthy politician Nikolay Petrunin - aka Russia’s ‘Gas Wonderkid’ - was only 47 and had been in a coma for a month when he died in October.

The multimillionaire father of three, formerly a top gas industry executive, was reported to have died from complications linked to severe Covid.

He was deputy chairman of the Russian parliament’s powerful energy committee, and a Putin loyalist and ‘political protege’.’

His death comes less than two months after Putin’s man in occupied Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, 45, was killed in a car crash when his armoured Lexus was torn apart

His death comes less than two months after Putin’s man in occupied Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, 45, was killed in a car crash when his armoured Lexus was torn apart

His businesses built gas pipelines for major Russian energy operators and he had LINKS to Kremlin gas behemoth GAZPROM - now starving the West of Russian supplies over the war - and Rosneft.

He declared an annual salary of up to £1.75 million.

On 1 September, oil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, fell to his death from the sixth floor window of a Moscow hospital.

One report says the chairman of Lukoil - Russia’s second largest oil company - was ‘beaten’ before he was ‘thrown out of a window’, however this was not confirmed officially.
Ukrainian official Anton Geraschenko (pictured) suggested this was the latest in a succession of Russian deaths in the past year dominated by Vladimir Putin’s war

Ukrainian official Anton Geraschenko (pictured) suggested this was the latest in a succession of Russian deaths in the past year dominated by Vladimir Putin’s war

HIS COMPANY HAD VOICED OPPOSITION TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE.

Strangely, Putin arrived at the elite Central Clinical Hospital very soon after Maganov’s body was found to pay his last respects to final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who had died at the hospital.

In July, Yuri Voronov, 61, head of a transport and logistics company for a Gazprom-linked company, was found dead in his swimming pool, with a leading friend who is a top criminologist warning of foul play.

Two more deaths of Gazprom-linked executives were reported in elite homes near St Petersburg amid suspicions that apparent suicides may have been murders.

Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom financial and security official at deputy general director level, was discovered dead by his lover the day after war started in Ukraine in February.

His neck was in a noose in his £500,000 home .

Yet reports say he had been badly beaten shortly before he ‘took his own life’, leading to speculation he was under intense pressure.

In the same elite Leninsky gated housing development in Leningrad region three weeks earlier, Leonid Shulman,, 60, head of transport at Gazprom Invest, was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a pool of blood on his bathroom floor.

Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to Kremlin-friendly energy giant Lukoil where he was a top manager, was found dead in May after ‘taking advice from shamans’.

One theory is that Subbotin - who also owned a shipping company - was poisoned by toad venom triggering a heart attack.

In April, wealthy Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official, appeared to have taken his own life after killing his wife Yelena, 47, and daughter, 13.

He had high level links to leading Russian financial institution Gazprombank.

Friends have disputed reports that he was jealous after his wife admitted she was pregnant by their driver.

There are claims he had access to the financial secrets of the Kremlin elite.

Several days later multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found hanged in Spain, after evidently killing with an axe his wife Natalia, 53, and their teenage daughter, Maria.

He was a former deputy chairman of Novatek, a company also closely linked to the Kremlin.

There have also been questions over the death of Putin’s point man for developing Russia’s vast Arctic resources who ‘fell overboard’ to his death from a boat sailing off the country’s Pacific coast.

Ivan Pechorin, 39, had recently attended a major conference hosted by the Kremlin warmonger in Vladivostok.

The high-flyer was managing director of Putin’s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation.

In another case a mobile phone multi-millionaire and his wife were found stabbed to death in another case that has raised questions.

Naked Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his wife Olga, 50, both Ukrainian-born, were found with multiple knife wounds by their daughter Polina, 20.

Immediate briefing to the media claimed the woman took her own life in a jealous rage after Palant said he was leaving her.

Yet this was strongly disputed by the couple’s best friend.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11606393/Former-PM-Russian-region-friend-Putins-closest-ally-killed-crossing-street.html?ico=related-replace


34 posted on 01/10/2023 6:37:08 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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I will pray Ukraine will lose quickly so the neocons can be prevented from killing more people in yet another neocon project. I will pray Ukraine will lose quickly so the western corrupt cabal can be prevented from laundering more western “aid” through the endemically corrupt Ukraine government. And finally I will pray Ukraine will lose quickly so we might prevent yet more western “secrete” bio labs operating.


35 posted on 01/10/2023 6:49:14 AM PST by Bull Man
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AND, YET AGAIN MORE DEATHS...

Russia’s leading rocket specialist - who developed deadly Kalibr missiles used in Ukraine - becomes the FOURTH KEY OFFICIAL TO DIE IN THREE WEEKS

By Will Stewart for MailOnline
Published: 03:41 EST, 10 January 2023 | Updated: 04:20 EST, 10 January 2023

Russia’s leading rocket specialist has died, the fourth key defence official to perish in less than three weeks.

Pavel Kamnev was the scientific director of the Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defence Concern and the expert who developed deadly Kalibr missiles deployed by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.

He was responsible for more than 20 weapons inventions and co-author of over 300 scientific and technical reports.

‘He took an active part in the development of many missile systems,’ said an Almaz-Antey spokesman.

Pavel Kamnev was the scientific director of the Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defence Concern and the expert who developed deadly Kalibr missiles deployed by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine
On December 25 General Alexei Maslov, 69, former commander of Russian ground forces with close ties to Ukraine, died ‘suddenly’ the day after Vladimir Putin abruptly cancelled a trip to the tank enterprise where he worked as an international sales ambassador

On December 25 General Alexei Maslov, 69, former commander of Russian ground forces with close ties to Ukraine, died ‘suddenly’ the day after Vladimir Putin abruptly cancelled a trip to the tank enterprise where he worked as an international sales ambassador

Last week the inventor of ‘world’s best’ Angara rockets Vladimir Nesterov died.

Nosterov’s loss followed the ‘sudden death’ of Alexander Buzakov director general of Admiralty Shipyards, in charge of building new submarines armed with deadly Kalibr missiles

He worked until his death as scientific director of arms giant Almaz-Antey and chairman of Novator experimental design bureau where Kalibr missiles were created.

He lauded Putin for the ‘highest appreciation’ of his missile-making work ‘so that our country can live in peace and security’.

He spoke before his Kalibr missiles were used to decimate infrastructure and civilian targets in Ukraine.

He was the brains behind Putin’s dreams of the Russian exploration of the moon and outer space.

He was chief designer for the light and heavy versions of the Angara but for the later years of his life was dogged by a criminal case launched by Putin’s authorities into alleged fraud and embezzlement of more than £57 million.

He hailed the Angara as the ‘world’s best’ rocket system, and he was seen internationally as a leader in his field.

Nesterov’s loss followed the ‘sudden death’ of Alexander Buzakov director general of Admiralty Shipyards, in charge of building new submarines armed with deadly Kalibr missiles.

And on December 25 General Alexei Maslov, 69, former commander of Russian ground forces with close ties to Ukraine, died ‘suddenly’ in Moscow the day after Vladimir Putin abruptly cancelled a trip to the tank enterprise where he worked as an international sales ambassador.

Alexander Buzakov, director general of Admiralty Shipyards, in charge of building new submarines armed with deadly Kalibr missiles

Russian Kalibr cruise missile) were used to decimate infrastructure and civilian targets in Ukraine Russian Kalibr cruise missile is fired from a vessel.

Buzakov had been healthy the day before he died, and ‘nothing had been heard about Maslov’s health problems’ before he died.

At NATO, Maslov worked alongside Dmitry Rogozin, an official close to Putin who was abruptly removed in the summer as head of the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos.

Putin had been due to fly to the Uralvagonzavod plant in Nizhny Tagil - which has been criticised by the Kremlin for failing to produce sufficient new tanks for the war in Ukraine.

However, the Russian president aborted the December 24 trip ‘at the last minute’ with no explanation, according to local reports.

*MULTIPLE IMAGES AT LINK

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11618007/Russias-leading-rocket-specialist-fourth-key-defence-official-die-three-weeks.html?ico=related-replace


36 posted on 01/10/2023 6:58:54 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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To: mylife; All
TALK ABOUT SPITTING ON RUSSIAN TRUCE *Plumes of smoke rise from a Russian strike during a 36-hour ceasefire over Orthodox Christmas declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin
37 posted on 01/10/2023 7:05:00 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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To: House Atreides

“sources are clearly feeding info”

You need to stop with false accusations... it is called lying! LOL

Would be more productive for you to do a little research to add to topical discussion.


38 posted on 01/10/2023 7:08:44 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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To: Bull Man

“Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition”- Lieutenant Howell Forgy

*BE UNITED IN PRAYER FOR RUSSIA TO STOP INVASION BRINGING PEACE TO UKRAINE.


39 posted on 01/10/2023 7:31:35 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Vlod bombing his own again?


40 posted on 01/10/2023 8:05:35 AM PST by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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