Classic Bond mission.
Posted on 02/28/2022 8:10:18 PM PST by Mariner
More information about the Nord Stream attack is revealed. Who was it? ;-)
No idea maybe it slipped out on some Russian mil blog?
The info is here https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4042550/posts?page=4100#4100
I hereby declare the 2023 Orc hunting season open.
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1653774726999801858
I still blame Greta Thunberg. She lives right nearby, has motive, and we know she can get access to a sailboat.
Classic Bond mission.
Russia accused Ukraine of conducting a drone strike against the Kremlin.
The rapid and coherent presentation of an official Russian narrative around the strike suggests that Russia staged this attack in close proximity to the May 9th Victory Day holiday in order to frame the war as existential to its domestic audience.
Some Russian nationalist milbloggers seized on the Kremlin drone strike to call for Russian escalation in the war despite the fact that Russia currently lacks the military capability to do so.
The Kremlin may be planning to conduct other false flag operations and to increase disinformation ahead of a Ukrainian counteroffensive in order to increase domestic support for the war.
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin baselessly claimed on May 3 that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has already begun, likely in order to exploit information space anxieties and call for increased Russian military support for Wagner's Bakhmut offensive.
Russian forces conducted a Shahed-131/136 drone strike on the night of May 2 to 3.
Russian forces continued limited ground attacks near Kreminna.
Russian forces continued to make gains in and around Bakhmut and continued to conduct ground attacks on the Avdiivka-Donetsk City line.
Russian forces conducted heavy air and artillery strikes against west (right) bank Kherson Oblast.
Russian officials continue to incentivize military service by providing social benefits to families of participants in the war.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed that it prevented a “terrorist” attack against three Crimean officials.
Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience and set conditions for a wider societal mobilization. Several indicators suggest that the strike was internally conducted and purposefully staged. Russian authorities have recently taken steps to increase Russian domestic air defense capabilities, including within Moscow itself, and it is therefore extremely unlikely that two drones could have penetrated multiple layers of air defense and detonated or been shot down just over the heart of the Kremlin in a way that provided spectacular imagery caught nicely on camera. Geolocated imagery from January 2023 shows that Russian authorities have been placing Pantsir air defense systems near Moscow to create air defense circles around the city.[4] A strike that avoided detection and destruction by such air defense assets and succeeded in hitting as high-profile of a target as the Kremlin Senate Palace would be a significant embarrassment for Russia. The Kremlin's immediate, coherent, and coordinated response to the incident suggests that the attack was internally prepared in such a way that its intended political effects outweigh its embarrassment. The Kremlin immediately accused Ukraine of conducting a terror attack, and Russian official responses coalesced rapidly around this accusation.[5] If the drone attack had not been internally staged it would have been a surprise event. It is very likely that the official Russian response would initially have been much more disorganized as Russian officials scrambled to generate a coherent narrative and offset the rhetorical implications of a clear informational embarrassment. The Kremlin has notably failed to generate a timely and coherent informational response to other military humiliations not of its own making, including the falls of Balakliya and Kherson City in September and November 2022.[6]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-3-2023
Over the past day, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched 13 strikes on the concentration areas of Russian troops, as well as four strikes on the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems.
An attack by two unmanned aerial vehicles on the “Kremlin”, or rather, on the “presidential residence in the Kremlin”, is, of course, staged. The operation was developed under the personal supervision of the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, with the assistance and coordination with the leadership of the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation and approved in the final version with Vladimir Putin. The operation, as Putin likes, should solve several problems at once.
Firstly, the president must have serious reasons for imposing martial law, canceling the parade in Moscow (or reducing and changing the format of the program for participation in the presidential parade).
Secondly, on the eve of a large counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, show the West how the Ukrainian leadership has gone rogue, escalating and pushing Russia into a nuclear conflict, thereby introduce mistrust between Ukraine and the allies, and try to slow down the pace of military assistance to Ukraine.
And thirdly, the “terror attack” against the president should become a prologue to the terrorist attack at the nuclear power plant, to divert attention from the loss of control over the occupied territories of Ukraine, if this happens as a result of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which the Russian leadership is quite confident about.
Of course, the reason for the introduction of martial law, which Putin has been raving about since the beginning of the year, is the main task. It is not a fact that Putin, known for his cowardice and suspiciousness, will decide to introduce martial law right now, but there is a reason and that is enough for him. As for the parade on Victory Day, here the president also kills two birds with one stone - on the one hand, there is a reason to celebrate the parade or conduct it via video link, on the other hand, the participation of the head of state in the parade, in fact, immediately after the “terrorist attack”, which was allegedly directed against him, makes Putin a desperate daredevil and hero. If, at the same time, with the help of this production, it will be possible to quarrel the Ukrainian leadership with the allies, well, if not, then the “sediment” will still remain. As for the third point, the preparation of a “catastrophe” at the nuclear power plant, as reported to the president, has almost been completed, and the Russians, according to Putin, should understand that the Ukrainians, having swung at the president of Russia himself, are ready to arrange a man-made disaster without a twinge of conscience. During the attack by unmanned aerial vehicles on the “presidential residence in the Kremlin,” the president himself, of course, was not there. At this time, he had already gone to bed in the bunker room of his other residence and found out how wonderful everything went only in the morning, waking up much later than usual. And it is precisely with this that the delayed reaction of the Kremlin to the nighttime “event” is connected.
Perhaps we can ask Xi https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4042550/posts?page=4051#4051
“Putin says drones cannot reach him as he hides in bunker like Hitler”
Putin has 4-5 hideouts that are heavily fortified and can operate as command posts and bunkers. Also as compounds to simply live at. Some are huge and luxurious. Multipurpose is the name of the game. Pootsz will spend billions to preserve his scurvy ass.
I'd do the same, if I had billions.
https://twitter.com/TradersAbacus/status/1653856884191813633
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What is the KRAKEN Unit And How have They Faced Off Against the Russian Army?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdU71J0Qvvc
remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UreR-qYgZwU
Car-sharing cars and scooters are shown floating in the river, taxis are being called to the other side of the city, and pedestrian navigation is working intermittently.
All because the police are jamming GPS signal for security purposes in preparation for the 9th May parade. That's why navigators can show a false location.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1654174010869940228
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