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Update from Ukraine | Ukraine cut Supplies for Ruzzia | Israel launched the special operation
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ARTICLE
Russia has been building an energy market in Europe for 50 years, which Putin destroyed in 50 weeks - Bloomberg
News Censor.
Putin
https://censor.net/ua/news/3396460/rosiya_50_rokiv_buduvala_v_yevropi_energetychnyyi_rynok_yakyyi_putin_znyschyv_za_50_tyjniv_bloomberg
29.01.23 20:45
Russia has been building its energy market in Europe for almost 50 years, and President Putin destroyed it in less than 50 weeks. It will be almost impossible to find a replacement.
This is stated in the material of the Bloomberg publication,
“While Russia has found alternative markets for its crude oil, mostly in India, the transition to selling refined products and possibly even more natural gas will take years and cost huge costs. This is if at all possible to create markets when the world refuses fossil fuels,” the article says “Russia cannot replace the energy market that Putin destroyed.”
It is also noted that with the beginning of Russia’s large-scale military invasion of Ukraine on February 24 last year, gradually the European market, which absorbed almost 2.5 million barrels of oil per day, and 1 million barrels of petroleum products and 155 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, almost disappeared for the Russian Federation.
Read also on “ Censor.No”: Italy may completely abandon Russian gas by 2025
“Putin’s war in Ukraine has cost Russia the European energy market. It won’t be easy to replace it. Whatever rapprochement Moscow and Europe eventually achieve, the Russians will calculate the price of war for generations to come.
It is noted that a huge network of gas fields and pipelines, the creation of which cost hundreds of billions of dollars since the first gas crossed the Austrian border in 1968, was thrown into the trash.
According to the publication, huge pipelines thousands of kilometers long connected gas fields, first in Siberia, and then on half the island of Yamal, with buyers in Europe. In 2017, it was estimated that ям 100 billion was invested in the development of gas reserves in Yamal alone. This figure was expected to double by 2025. Most of these investments now look redundant.
The power of Siberia gas pipeline, according to Bloomberg, transports fuel to China. But this gas comes from new fields south of the Yamal fields. Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom has estimated the official cost of this pipeline and related gas fields at 5 55 billion.
“An independent assessment, according to experts, showed almost twice the figure - the investment, as they claim, will never bring profit,” the agency stressed.
In addition, it is not known how much more Russian gas China will buy. Although its energy needs are huge, it will beware of repeating the mistakes that some European countries have made by becoming too dependent on Moscow, according to market experts.
Read also on “ Censor.No”: the energy crisis of 2022 was a turning point in relations between the EU and Russia, Putin’s Bet did not work, - Borrel
Russia, as Bloomberg suggests, will seek to provide for India, another fast-growing country with huge energy needs.
“But transporting natural gas to India will be even more difficult than delivering it to China. The route will cross the highest mountains in the world or pass through Afghanistan and Pakistan. Any route will cross several other countries, which will make construction and operation more expensive than communication between two states with common borders,” the publication notes. Source: https://censor.net/ua/n3396460
. Italy may completely abandon Russian gas by 2025
News Censor.No
https://censor.net/ua/news/3395112/italiya_moje_povnistyu_vidmovytysya_vid_rosiyiskogo_gazu_do_2025_roku
23.01.23 14:01 707 3
Italy may completely abandon Russian gas in 2025 due to supplies from Algeria.
As the censor reports.No, with reference to the EP, This was stated by the general director of the largest Italian oil and gas company Eni Claudio Descalzi.
According to him, Algeria annually increases gas supplies to Italy. In particular, in 2021, Italy received 21 billion cubic meters of gas, and in 2022 – 25 billion, and in 2023 it plans to receive 28 billion cubic meters of gas.
“Forecast for the refusal of Russian gas supplies to Italy? I am positive that in the winter of 2024/2025, I would say that if this goes on, things will go in the right direction,” Descalzi said
Is Ukraine still allowing Russian natural gas to pass through pipelines on their territory?
VIDEOS
1. WHOLE WAGNER UNIT IS DESTROYED BY UKRANIAN ARTILLERY IN THE EAST || 2023
Warthog Defense
January 29, 2023 1:30 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaI7ffjLy7M
2. Ukrainian Soldiers Show Abandoned Bodies Of Alleged Wagner fighters | Russia Ukraine War Updates
CNN-News18
January 29, 2023 2:30 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzzDyvew_pk
3. 29 Jan: Ukrainians INFLICT SUBSTANTIAL LOSSES TO RUSSIAN AVIATION | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
January 29, 2023 6:00 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFz3LvP_Joo
Maybe someone else has more updated info. May 11, 2022 is the latest I have:
Ukraine Cuts Off Russian Natural Gas Pipeline Supplying Europe
https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-cuts-off-russian-natural-gas-pipeline-supplying-europe-/6567439.html
ARTICLE
Putin Throwing ‘Meat Into the Grinder’ as War Losses Grow: Former Lawmaker
By Thomas Kika
Updated 1/29/23 at 5:35 PM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-throwing-meat-grinder-war-losses-grow-former-lawmaker-1777309
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s persistence in Ukraine has been likened to “throwing meat into the grinder” by one former United States lawmaker, who also added that “it’s only getting worse.”
Richard Ojeda served in the U.S. Army from 1989-2014, reaching the rank of major before transitioning to the political realm. He was later elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat from West Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, serving from 2016 to 2019. He also launched a brief unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2020, followed by an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate.
Since the start of the conflict last year, Ojeda has been outspoken in his support of Ukraine against the invading Russian forces, frequently using his military background to weigh in on new developments. On Saturday, the former lawmaker shared an up-to-date graphic from the Kyiv Independent detailing Russia’s mounting losses in the conflict, offering a grim assessment of where the country stands.
“These losses are unsustainable. Putin is throwing meat into the grinder and it’s only getting worse. Tanks are about to be injected into this war that are far more capable than that of Russias. Russia was a paper Tiger and Ukraine proved that! pic.twitter.com/2b2KrYvCp2”
— Richard N. Ojeda, II (@Ojeda4America) January 28, 2023
“These losses are unsustainable,” Ojeda wrote. “Putin is throwing meat into the grinder and it’s only getting worse. Tanks are about to be injected into this war that are far more capable than that of Russia’s. Russia was a paper Tiger and Ukraine proved that!”
The graphic from the Kyiv Independent is updated daily with new statistics from the Ukrainian Army. As of Saturday, Russian forces had notably lost approximately 125,510 soldiers, up 800 from Friday, as well as four additional tanks and 26 additional fuel transport vehicles.
putin losses in ukraine.
“Russia (regular forces but especially the private Wagner Group that has used many thousands of prisoners who have been promised pardons in exchange for fighting on the front lines) has indeed sustained heavy losses in the recent battle in Soledar and Bakhmut, both in Ukrainan-held Donetsk province,” military expert Rajan Menon from the Defense Priorities think-tank told Newsweek on Sunday. “Ukraine has also suffered significant casualties but Russia’s have been far greater, mainly because poorly equipped prisoners are being used as human waves, one after the other.
He continued: “Why do these heavy Russian losses matter? Because even if Bakhmut falls, that plus Soledar won’t be anything close to a turning point in the Donbas region, let alone the larger Ukrainian battlefield. It will be a tactical win, which may be later forfeited, and one gained at a very steep price.”
As Ojeda mentioned, the Ukrainian armed forces are set to receive a major influx of highly sought-after tanks as part of new military aid packages, including 31 M1 Abrams tanks from the U.S. and 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks from Germany and 14 Challenger 2 tanks from the U.K. These announced shipments followed an impassioned plea from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling on allies to provide tanks.
“I could thank you hundreds of times, and it would be absolutely just and fair, given all that we have already done,” Zelensky said during the summit on January 20. “But hundreds of thanks are not hundreds of tanks. All of us can use thousands of words in discussions, but I cannot put words instead of the guns that are needed against Russian artillery or instead of the anti-aircraft missiles that are needed to protect people from Russian air strikes.”
Russia, for its part, has been dismissive of the new shipment of tanks to Ukraine, vowing that “American tanks without any doubt will be destroyed as all other samples of NATO military equipment,” in a statement provided to Newsweek.
Ukrainian Soldiers Show Abandoned Bodies of Wagner fighters
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“He continued: “Why do these heavy Russian losses matter? Because even if Bakhmut falls, that plus Soledar won’t be anything close to a turning point in the Donbas region, let alone the larger Ukrainian battlefield. It will be a tactical win, which may be later forfeited, and one gained at a very steep price.””
Ah, the propaganda wheels are preparing the public for the loss of Bakmut, and advises even losing both Bakhmut plus Soledar means nothing. Yes, even the shockingly high number of killed-in-action Ukrainian soldiers means nothing. Don’t let your eyes and ears inform you of the obvious -just rely on the latest transmission from the Ukrainian military’s ‘information’ operation. Just keep sending that sweet sweet ‘foreign aid’ to fuel the Biden/DNC regime.
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for January 30, 2023:
- Russian forces continue encircling Bakhmut in the east and pushing toward Vugladar in the south;
- pro-Ukrainian Western volunteers admit the bleak situation Ukraine faces overall and specifically in Bakhmut;
- one volunteer admits that Wagner is better trained, better equipped, better organized and lead than Ukrainian forces fighting in Bakhmut;
- this volunteers admits Wagner is surrounding and may possibly cut of Bakhmut like in Mariupol;
- this volunteer admits Ukraine suffers from immense corruption and incompetence coupled with Western sponsors indifferent to their growing crisis;
- this volunteer admits that tanks are a "secret acknowledgement that things aren't going well;"
- the volunteer would like to see more Western advisors leading Ukrainian units in battle, a slippery slope toward direct NATO intervention;
- growing skepticism continues to surround pledged Western main battle tanks;
- US policy makers appear to suggest this strategy may be essentially a bluff to convince Russia it is more prepared than Moscow for a long-term conflict;
ARTICLE
Russia’s military commanders are ‘terrified’ by Putin’s demands for new offensive on multiple fronts in Ukraine and fear ‘mass slaughter’ and ‘are giving up hope’ of winning the war, experts claim
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11689207/Russias-commanders-terrified-Putins-demands-new-offensive-fear-mass-slaughter.html
-Kremlin has now lost a staggering total of more than 175,000 troops in the war
-Putin’s demand for further assault has caused deep divisions in high command
Will Stewart
29 January 2023 06:53 EST
Russia’s top brass are ‘horrified’ at Vladimir Putin’s demand for an urgent new military offensive on multiple fronts in Ukraine, it has been claimed.
They fear more ‘slaughter’ as new analysis suggests the Kremlin has now lost a staggering total of more than 175,000 troops in the war.
Putin’s demand for his war supremo General Valery Gerasimov to unleash ‘an assault in several directions at once’ has evoked deep divisions in his high command, political analyst Valery Solovey has alleged. Dr Solovey is a former professor at Moscow’s prestigious Institute of International Relations, a training school for diplomats and spies.
He said on pro-opposition Khodorkovsky Live channel: ‘The Army General Staff is terrified by the instructions of the commander-in-chief [Putin]. I am not exaggerating. They are horrified.
‘They are afraid to lose the remaining armed forces in the slaughter that they are being dragged into by [Putin’s] order.’
Despite senior commanders giving up hope for their ‘goal of winning’ the war, they will obey Putin.
Dr Solovey said: ‘Well, they saluted - “As you wish, Your Highness, you’re the genius, you know it better than us, you started it all, and our job is to sort it out now”.
‘This [offensive] is all planned for February. And Gerasimov, a close ally of defence minister Sergei Shoigu, is the “most capable of Russian generals”.
But the top brass in the general staff ‘are afraid they won’t make it in time, because Ukraine might obtain new weapons - more dangerous, more modern, offensive [from the West].
‘That’s why now is the last chance to try to strike Ukraine, but not with the goal of winning,’ Dr Solovey said.
‘This is very important to understand. There is no [longer] such goal at all. The goal is totally different - to end it in an honourable way. That is, to achieve peace.
‘It’s about keeping a minimum of [Russian gains]. That is Donbas, a part of new territories - not all of them, and to defend Crimea. They are not expecting more.’
His analysis is far from the public position of the Kremlin which insists Putin’s military adventure is going according to plan.
This comes as Telegram channel General SVR suggests the ‘irretrievable military operational losses of manpower’ in the Russian army is more than 126,500, a rise of more than 20,000 this month.
On top of this, there have been more than 44,000 killed in pro-Kremlin private military armies operating in Ukraine to support Putin’s illegal invasion.
If true, it means more than 10,000 lost in this month’s heavy fighting in these private military companies - the best known of which is Wagner, substantially staffed by prisoners released from Russian jails to fight for Putin.
In addition, more than 6,250 Russian national guards have been slain, states the channel.
The overall toll is put at 176,863. The channel’s figures for war losses are routinely higher than other sources.
CAUTION:
Comment # 14 uses the unreliable FAKE NEWS source New Atlas.
In July 2019, New Eastern Outlook report cited a Reuters article stating Berletic article deletions were for “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”
The New Atlas (previously Land Destroyer)
Country: Thailand
The New Atlas provides analysis by Brian Berletic (aka Tony Cartalucci) based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Berletic authors multiple articles for RUSSIAN INSIDER
ARTICLES
1. Wagner Group Try to Treat Mercenaries With Different Dangerous Illnesses in Civil Hospital in Luhansk Oblast
Defense Express
https://en.defence-ua.com/news/wagner_group_try_to_treat_mercenaries_with_different_dangerous_illnesses_in_civil_hospital_in_luhansk_oblast-5587.html
January 29, 2023
Around 300 Wagner Group mercenaries have been taken to a hospital in the village of Yuvileine in Luhansk Oblast, but local doctors are refusing to treat Wagner Group Mercenaries hospitalized with different dangerous illnesses.
“Up to 300 mercenaries from the Wagner Group have been hospitalized in Yuvileine’s multidisciplinary hospital No.15. Doctors are refusing to treat them because many of the fighters are suffering from HIV/AIDS, syphilis, tuberculosis and pneumonia.” - informed General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As Defense Express informed before the private Russian military company, the Wagner Group, took delivery of an arms shipment from North Korea to help bolster Russian forces in Ukraine
Wagner Private Military Company is a Russian paramilitary organization. It is variously described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, or a de facto private army of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The group operates beyond the law in Russia, where private military contractors are officially forbidden. While the Wagner Group itself is not ideologically driven, various elements of Wagner have been linked to neo-Nazis and far-right extremists.
The group came to global prominence during the war in Donbas in Ukraine, where it aided separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics from 2014 to 2015. Its contractors have reportedly taken part in various conflicts around the world—including the civil wars in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic (CAR), and Mali, often fighting on the side of forces aligned with the Russian government. Wagner operatives have committed war crimes in areas where they are deployed. The accusations include rapes and robberies of civilians, and torturing accused deserters.
The authors of the joint investigation by NOS and Nieuwsuur claim that only in November 2022, russia imported 2 million chips, of which 60 thousand, or only 6% of the total number, are Dutch NXP and Nexperia. It’s still unknown what part of the electronics from this amount was used on production to continue the war against Ukraine, as well as what part of them was used for the production of civilian products.
Investigators are sure that the flow of electronics imports to the russian federation remains consistently high, despite Western sanctions. At the same time, the role of “intermediary” in such supplies for the Kremlin was assumed by China: they say, importers from the People’s Republic of China simply buy up all this electronics in gigantic volumes, which then “migrate” to the territory of russia. At the same time, in order to carry out the delivery covertly, the chips can go in general as “ordinary” cargo of international postal operators.
Illegal suppliers of electronics take advantage by the fact that in order to check possible circumvention of sanctions, bureaucrats have to perform several dozen checks on just one shipment in order to block it. Also, they take advantage by the fact that some of the “gaskets” may still not be on the EU sanctions list.
The experts and business representatives of the Netherlands interviewed by the NOS and Nieuwsuur investigators admit that more can be done here so that russians get less electronics for their military equipment. For example, Dutch companies can check the buyers of their goods more thoroughly. And if the “gaskets” from China violate the terms of the contracts and resell microcircuits to russia, then at least they should simply stop these contracts.
2. Russia and Ukraine Battle for Control of Villages Near the Key City of Bakhmut
NYT Story by Matthew Mpoke Bigg • 11h ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/world/europe/russia-ukraine-battle-east.html
Russian forces were wrestling for control of villages in eastern Ukraine near the beleaguered city of Bakhmut over the weekend, the latest flash point in a battle that Moscow views as crucial for its push to seize the whole of the eastern region of Donbas.
Ukraine’s general staff said on Sunday that its soldiers had repelled attacks on the small village of Blahodatne and several other settlements in the area. The statement came a day after Russia’s Wagner group, a private military company that has conducted much of the fighting around Bakhmut on Moscow’s behalf, claimed that its forces had captured Blahodatne.
“Blahodatne is under our control,” Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman and the head of the Wagner group, said on Saturday in a statement posted on a website for one of his companies. Russia’s defense ministry has not confirmed the report and the claim could not be independently verified. Mr. Prigozhin has sought to cast his mercenaries as the most effective fighting force in the area and previously has claimed credit for battlefield advances ahead of Kremlin confirmation.
Blahodatne lies between Soledar, a salt-mining town that Russian forces recently captured after weeks of intense fighting, and a road that runs north from the city of Bakhmut. The road serves as a crucial supply line for Ukrainian forces defending the city.
Since the summer, Bakhmut has become a focal point of the fighting in eastern Ukraine and the target of Moscow’s most significant offensive.
Military analysts say that Moscow aims to encircle Bakhmut, cut off its supply routes and then seize it. Despite some recent success, Russia’s progress in the campaign, which began over the summer, has been grindingly slow and both sides have sustained heavy casualties in intense fighting.
But since capturing Soledar earlier this month, Russian forces have stepped up shelling of the villages just to the west of it, including Blahodatne.
Many civilians have followed a directive from the government in Kyiv to leave Donetsk, which is home to Bakhmut and one of the two regions that make up the Donbas region. Civilians who have stayed remain vulnerable to shelling and artillery attacks, with dozens killed in recent weeks. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of Donetsk’s military administration, said on Sunday that five civilians had been killed a day earlier in the region.
Almost a year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, both sides are expected to launch renewed offensives in the coming months, as Kyiv puts to use the heavy weapons sent from the West and Russia deploys the huge numbers of men it drafted last year.
Amid warnings that Russian forces were regrouping for an anticipated spring offensive, Ukraine’s allies pledged new sophisticated weapons for the fight.
Germany and the United States last week announced that they would send battle tanks to Ukraine, a move that came after weeks of tense back-channel negotiations between Western officials. But it may be months before the tanks rumble across the battlefield.
Britain’s defense ministry said on Sunday that the first Ukrainian soldiers had arrived in Britain for training on the Challenger 2 tanks that were promised earlier this month.
In a speech on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed gratitude for the latest promises of military aid, but said that his country’s allies should still do more.
“Ukraine needs long-range missiles, in particular, to remove this possibility of the occupiers to place their missile launchers somewhere far from the front line and destroy Ukrainian cities with them,” he said in an overnight address.
The Kremlin has set full control of the Donbas, where it has held considerable ground since 2014, as its immediate military objective. To that end it has mobilized tens of thousands of new recruits, though it has failed to achieve sweeping territorial gains in the region in recent months.
Military authorities in Ukraine say that Moscow’s advances in the Donbas region have come at the expense of heavy casualties, not least among the ranks of the Wagner private military company.
The Institute for the Study of War, a think tank based in Washington, said in a report on Saturday that conventional Russian forces were “likely replacing exhausted” Wagner forces “to maintain the offensive in Bakhmut” after the capture of Soledar.
But Russia might be less willing to sustain heavy losses among regular conscripts than among Wagner fighters, the report said. “The Russians’ ability to execute large-scale rapid offensives on multiple axes this winter and spring is thus very questionable,” the report said.
That is the laughable thing about all this and something you and your ilk will be held accountable for here when this war is done.
“You constantly repeat her.”
I don’t know what ‘her’ you think I repeat. I also am not repeat anything that supports the corrupted Biden regime.
When was the last time the ‘Putin-Biden-Clinton-Obama’ cartel revealed their criminal connection? Or, how the ‘Putin-Biden-Clinton-Obama’ cartel used the Ukraine as a false front to stage their money-laundering using Putin embedded Ukraine government agents?
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ponder the truth that you cannot rely upon any Russian freelancer like Brian Berletic (aka Tony Cartalucci), Peter Lavelle or Alexander Mercouris. Their mercenary Russian propaganda agenda exploits the politic scene for their own profit.
Some Western Backers of Ukraine Worry That Time Might Be on Russia’s Side
Behind the decision to sharply step up Western military aid to Ukraine lies a worry in some Western capitals that time might be on Russia’s side.That concern suggests the window for Ukraine isn’t indefinite and it needs powerful Western weapons—main battle tanks, other armored vehicles and more air-defense systems—soon to reinforce the momentum it achieved in offensive successes around Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson last year.
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