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Russian officers who hadn't been paid by Moscow sold key intel on the Black Sea Fleet to Ukrainian resistance fighters. Then the headquarters blew up.
Business Insider ^ | 9/25/2023 | Jake Epstein

Posted on 09/25/2023 5:59:57 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

After missing their anticipated salary payments, Russian officers decided to leak sensitive information about Moscow's Black Sea Fleet to a Ukrainian partisan movement. The intelligence later paved the way for a devastating missile strike on the fleet's headquarters in the occupied Crimean peninsula, Ukrainian media reported.

Ukrainian resistance fighters told the Kyiv Post in a recent interview that they managed to gather information about high-ranking Russian commanders from officers who were frustrated by Moscow's failure to pay their salaries on time. The officers were financially compensated in exchange for the information, which was then passed along to state agencies and reportedly used to plan last week's attack on the Black Sea Fleet's headquarters.

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The Ukrainian military later said that it timed the strike to coincide with a meeting of Russia's naval leadership. On Monday, Kyiv's Special Operations Forces said 34 people were killed — including Adm. Viktor Sokolov, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet — and another 105 were injured. Insider was unable to immediately and independently confirm the claims.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accordingtoplan; blackseafleet; globalistpropaganda; jakeepstein; putin; russia; sevastopol; wwiii



1 posted on 09/25/2023 5:59:57 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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2 posted on 09/25/2023 6:05:55 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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Insider was unable to immediately and independently confirm the claims.

Business Insider afflicted with a bout of honesty.

3 posted on 09/25/2023 6:07:57 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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More crap western disinfo. Of course the Ukes don’t have to worry about paying their generals or first responders or any of the probable millions on the AMERICAN teat. Don’t forget the pensions either. The globalists in DC and their hinterland stooges work to ensure all of this corruption is paid for by borrowing and saddling our grandchildren with the burden.


4 posted on 09/25/2023 6:42:58 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

PAYBACK IS A RELENTLESS BITCH


5 posted on 09/25/2023 6:44:39 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: marcusmaximus

Time for warmongering Russians to stop their colonialist war of choice in Ukraine and go home to Moscow.


6 posted on 09/25/2023 6:46:01 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Russia isn’t denying it.


7 posted on 09/25/2023 6:47:46 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: hardspunned
More crap western disinfo

good, keep ignoring it and do nothing

that will make it safe for more Russian soldiers to sell intel for money to buy wodka


8 posted on 09/25/2023 6:49:00 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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Kaboom-ski!!! When there is no Russian Black Sea fleet that can project power. Then this destroys the Russian’s supposedly ages old yearning for a Crimean warm water port. My take is the Russian have been full of sh_t for three hundred years on this. Plus who says these barbaric vodka swillers are worthy of one?

TL,DR? Crimea is Russian’s long con.


9 posted on 09/25/2023 6:54:30 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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Ruzzia’s two week invasion of the Ukraine is the longest two week invasion in this history of warfare.


10 posted on 09/25/2023 7:18:02 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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The characters and comments you gather on your threads are like a backwoods Galician Klan rally.


11 posted on 09/25/2023 7:22:29 PM PDT by PGR88
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Doink, doink, doink:

Russia Strikes Ukrainian Train Full Of Heavy Equipment & Personnel. Situation In Robotyne & Verbove.

Russian missile strikes destroy Odesa hotel in southern Ukraine

12 posted on 09/25/2023 8:22:19 PM PDT by Kazan
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Ruzzia’s two week invasion of the Ukraine is the longest two week invasion in this history of warfare.

Well do I remember our own lightening campaign to subdue the communists of North Viet Nam. While it was never advertised as only two weeks, it was supposed to over quickly...

13 posted on 09/25/2023 11:23:27 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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“Ruzzia’s two week invasion of the Ukraine is the longest two week invasion in this history of warfare.”

Almost as bad as Gilligan’s Island, which was supposed to be a three hour tour.


14 posted on 09/25/2023 11:54:21 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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I believe this is intentional misinformation being planted by UKR intel.

The ruzzians have a serious OPSEC/COMSEC problem.

Someone has broken the ruzzian codes and providing the info to UKR or there is a spy in the Kremlin.

15 posted on 09/26/2023 1:27:19 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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Kennedy and Johnson’s pet anti-communism project turned into a terrible idea... But I always liked what Nixon said when he reflected on Vietnam...

“Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.” — Richard M. Nixon

And finally... “The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.” — Richard M. Nixon

Vietnam was a just war... Sadly, it was carried out incorrectly and as always, the leftist American media did their best to undermine it. Nixon was right... The US should’ve started bombing Cambodia more often and much earlier than they did.


16 posted on 09/26/2023 2:58:44 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: hardspunned

“Pay your legions, Nothing else matters.”-Augustus Caesar


17 posted on 09/26/2023 4:32:22 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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The Ukes don’t have to worry about paying anyone. What Kiev can’t pay, DC puts on our kids’ tab. Pensions too!


18 posted on 09/26/2023 8:30:24 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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