Posted on 02/28/2022 8:10:18 PM PST by Mariner
A Russian military convoy that was outside of Ivankiv, Ukraine, on Sunday has since made it to the outskirts of Kyiv, satellite images show.
On Sunday, the convoy was roughly 40 miles northwest of the Ukrainian capital, according to images provided by Maxar Technologies.
Maxar said that roughly 17 miles of roadway is chocked full of the convoy, which consists of armored vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and other logistical vehicles.
The private US company said the convoy was located on the T-1011 highway at Antonov air base around 11:11 a.m local time.
Antonov is roughly 17 miles from the center of the Ukrainian capital.
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“NB-CIA ‘journalist’ Richard Engel (NBC News US senior correspondent) near-demands that nuclear powers enter a hot war.”
Hasn’t Putin noticed our Commander-in-Chief’s diminished cognitive abilities?
“Which makes me wonder about the authenticity of the story”.
^
It’s CNN reporting...
(The Commie News Network).
“COMRADE OFFICERS, NOBODY WILL DEFEND OUR COUNTRY FOR US.”
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I think I see a problem...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement in Pyongyang on June 19, likely aimed in part to use military-technical cooperation with North Korea as a threat against the West to discourage further support for Ukraine.[1] Putin arrived with a delegation of Russian ministers in Pyongyang on June 19 and signed the agreement with Kim, but neither Russian nor North Korean officials have published the official text of this agreement as of the time of this publication. Putin and Kim each spoke about the agreement, claiming that it broadly covers goals and guidelines for deepening Russian–North Korean long-term relations in the political, economic, trade, cultural, humanitarian, and security fields.[2] Putin specified that the strategic partnership agreement also provides for “mutual assistance in the event of aggression” against either Russia or North Korea, then immediately criticized conversations in the West about allowing Ukraine to strike areas in Russia with Western-provided long-range weapons and F-16 jets. Putin then concluded that “in this regard,” Russia does “not rule out the development of military-technical cooperation” with North Korea. Putin likely intended to signal that should the US lift its restrictions against Ukrainian using US-provided ATACMS to strike Russian territory or other restrictions against using F-16s for the same purposes, Russia will likely deepen cooperation with North Korea in the sphere of military technologies such as missiles, other arms, and satellites through the legal framework provided in this new agreement. Putin and other Kremlin officials will likely continue to leverage this threat as debates about permitting Ukraine to use Western-provided weapons to strike military targets in Russian territory continue and may also expand this threat to other issues that the Kremlin has historically framed as “escalatory” or “provocations” against Russia. Russia will likely continue to deepen its cooperation with North Korea, regardless of Western self-imposed restrictions on military aid provisions to Ukraine and policies restricting Ukrainian long-range strikes against Russian sanctuary, as Russia had been doing throughout its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian and North Korean governments largely framed the agreement as evidence of their mutual support as part of a common struggle against the West and signaled that Russia and North Korea share a goal to challenge the West and the current world order.[3] Putin claimed that Russia and North Korea both aim to create “a more just and democratic multipolar world order” and that both countries pursue “independent foreign policy” — setting them apart from Western states.[4] Putin also credited Kim with holding an “objective and balanced view” about the war in Ukraine. Kim and Putin also emphasized the “traditionally friendly and good” relations between Russia and North Korea “based on the glorious traditions of common history” — continuing to invoke the historical memory of the Soviet Union's support of North Korea to appeal to the propaganda of the Kim regime and the North Korean people. North Korean state media published readouts similarly emphasizing Russia's and North Korea's common cause, emphasizing that North Korea stands in solidarity with “the sacred cause of the Russian army and people who are proudly advancing towards justice and truth.”[5] The Kremlin published extensive images of Putin's visit to Pyongyang, including a lavish military-patriotic parade, North Korean civilians holding flowers and celebrating Putin's arrival, and Kim personally escorting Putin to and from his plane on the tarmac — all underscoring the two regimes’ emphasis on friendship and their determination to support each other.[6] Putin's visit and the Russian–North Korean strategic cooperation agreement help legitimize Kim's regime domestically and abroad, as ISW has previously noted, and Putin also discussed increasing trade between Russia and North Korea, posturing that improving trade and infrastructure also benefits their shared partner, the People's Republic of China (PRC).[7]
Putin is pursuing a coalition of friendly states with historically warm ties to the Soviet Union to act as an alternative to the West and the current world order. Putin published an article in the Vietnamese state newspaper Nhân Dân on June 19 ahead of his state visit to Vietnam largely reusing the same informational lines as his June 18 article in the North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun.[8] Putin invoked the historical memory of the Soviet Union's support for Vietnam during the Vietnam War, which Putin described as a “heroic struggle against foreign invaders,” and noted that it is the 30th anniversary of the Treaty of Basic Principles of Friendly Relations between Russia and Vietnam.[9] Putin praised Vietnam for pursuing an “independent foreign policy” and supporting a world order based on “principles of equality between nations and non-interference in domestic affairs,” echoing his praises for North Korea on June 18 and 19. Putin also claimed that, like North Korea, Vietnam shares Russia's views on the formation of a new system of “equal and indivisible Eurasian security” — though Vietnam, like much of Southeast Asia, is not typically included in political conceptions of Eurasia.[10] Putin laid the informational groundwork for this Eurasian security structure during his visit to the PRC in May 2024 before proposing it in a speech on June 14, in which he claimed that the “Euro-Atlantic security system” is collapsing and that Western “schemes for security and prosperity in Europe do not work.”[11] Putin likely aims to use the historical memory of positive relations with the Soviet Union and previous assistance to other states to form a coalition of countries that Putin could attempt to posture as a feasible alternative to NATO and bolster the Kremlin's ongoing information operations attempting to falsely portray Western countries as Ukraine's only supporters whereas the rest of the world stands behind Russia.
Air traffic control (ATC) communications from international airspace over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean appear to show the first confirmed instance of GPS jamming on commercial trans-Atlantic routes.[30] An X (formerly Twitter) account specializing in open-source and signals intelligence (OSINT and SIGINT) analysis posted on June 19 ATC communications reportedly from Shanwick Oceanic Control (overseeing the international airspace zone covering the northeastern Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Scotland and Ireland to the southwestern coast of Iceland) stating that a flight between Madrid, Spain, and Toronto, Canada, was unable to ascend to a higher altitude due to apparent GPS jamming affecting other aircraft at the higher altitude.[31] The ATC communications noted that GPS jamming forced air traffic operating at higher altitudes along the Madrid-Toronto route to operate in a “degraded mode,” to which the ATC dispatcher responded that this is the first instance of GPS jamming along Atlantic routes of which the dispatcher is aware.[32] The Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, a nonprofit advocating for improved GPS security, responded to the incident on June 19 and noted that if GPS jamming becomes a regular occurrence over the Atlantic Ocean, then “thousands of flights a day could be impacted with delays and cancellations.”[33] The Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation noted that a GPS jammer is not always able to recover after experiencing jamming and assessed that the aircraft that experienced the jamming over the Atlantic was likely flying from the Baltic region or Middle East and that one of its GPS receivers had not recovered by the time it entered the Shanwick Oceanic Control Zone. The cause of the GPS disturbances has not yet been identified as of the time of this publication. ISW has previously observed high levels of GPS jamming over Poland and the Baltic region since late 2023, however, which some analysts and experts have attributed to Russian electronic warfare (EW) activity from the Kaliningrad area and near St. Petersburg.[34]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-19-2024
Putin brought four promises to the DPRK. And he made a remark about shells and missiles.
Sources in the Presidential Administration are pleased with the president's visit to the DPRK and call it “very successful.” They also confirm our information about the agreements between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich promised our Korean friends four things. Firstly, there will be more tourists (such agreements were reached last year , and are now being actively implemented, which the president also noted - ed.). Secondly, rocket technology and developments. Thirdly, points related to aviation. Of course, I won't reveal the details, but everything there is powerful. Fourthly , and this is an important point, we will provide our partners with serious food support,” said a source in the Kremlin.
He also noted that Putin made a remark to Kim Jong-un about the rather large number of defective shells and missiles that North Korea supplied to us for the air defense. “Kim replied that it was absolutely impossible to do without defects; many shells had been lying in warehouses in the DPRK for a long time. But there will definitely be fewer rejects. And there will be shells,” the source said.
Another interlocutor in the Kremlin also noted that “the visit turned out to be very successful, so successful that not everyone even now realizes it.”
According to Yevgeny Viktorovich's close associate at the Wagner PMC, a wreath with such an inscription was left on Prigozhin’s grave in St. Petersburg. “Kind people left a reminder of the glorious days and paid tribute to the memory. Moreover, the month is now significant - June. But, imagine, the wreath lay there for about 30 minutes. It was quickly removed by cemetery workers. And with them there were people, let's say, very similar to intelligence officers. I can guess who it is, but I won't say anything for now,” our interlocutor said.
“Even after death they are afraid of him. This is stupid. You need to be afraid of the wrong thing, oh the wrong thing,” he was also indignant. The Wagnerian did not specify who exactly the “fool” was.
Note that this is not the first mysterious inscription that appears on Prigozhin’s grave. On June 1, on Yevgeny Viktorovich's birthday, unknown people left a note there with the inscription “Prigozhin is alive. We will take revenge.”
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4261
June 23 is the one-year anniversary of Prigozhine’s march on Moscow.
Russian blogger:
Military personnel from the DPRK along with generals are expected in the [war in Ukraine]. According to several sources in the Ministry of Defense, one of the results of Vladimir Putin’s visit to the DPRK may be the appearance of North Korean volunteers in the Northern Military District zone.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement with the DPRK. And our partners are already ready to help us defeat the enemy. North Korea has started recruiting volunteers to participate in the [war in Ukraine],” one of them said. He noted that “first we expect the arrival of several thousand military personnel, and then we’ll see.” The important thing is that North Korean generals will command the DPRK fighters at the front.
According to another source, “The North Korean people already fought the imperialists in the 20th century. And now he wants to enhance these glorious traditions by entering into battle with the Americans and their proteges from the Ukrainian army. Also, the DPRK military wants to gain real combat experience. After all, in the modern world this is the most important thing.”
Let us note that so far no one even knows the approximate dates for the arrival of military personnel from the DPRK in the Northwestern Military District zone. Moreover, some sources in the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff claim that personnel assistance from the DPRK is at the moment “just a plan that may not come to fruition.”
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4262
Later today:
There is no need to use soldiers from the DPRK in the conflict in Ukraine - Putin
https://t.me/smotri_media/87278
and 2 h later:
So will there be military personnel from the DPRK in the Northern Military District zone?
After Vladimir Putin said that there was no need to use military personnel from the DPRK in the conflict in Ukraine, we quickly turned to our sources with clarifying questions. Let us remember that they said that North Korea had begun to recruit volunteers to be sent to the [war in Ukraine]. “There is no need now. And in a few months it may appear. Especially if our politicians delay decisions on mobilization,” our interlocutor at the Ministry of Defense told us, whose words we have no reason not to trust.
He also noted that the recruitment of volunteers who would like to fight against the Americans and the Kyiv regime “began about a week before Vladimir Vladimirovich’s visit to the DPRK.” And it will take at least two to three months, “and then preparation and so on.” Therefore, in the near future there will really be no North Korean military at the front. In addition, there is an important point. The President said that there would be no professional DPRK soldiers in the [war in Ukraine]. We wrote about volunteers.
Another source in the Ministry of Defense, despite everything, condemned those who told us the news about volunteers from the DPRK. “I don’t blame you, you are journalists. Although you infuriate with such publications, of course. But people from our ministry... We could have remained silent. And you are probably happy that Vladimir Vladimirovich had to refute you,” he said with irritation.
We will leave this complaint without comment.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4264
South Korea responded to the Russian-North Korean comprehensive strategic partnership agreement on June 20 and stated that it would reconsider its previous ban on sending lethal military assistance to Ukraine. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that South Korean National Security Director Chang Ho-jin stated that South Korea will reconsider its stance on sending aid to Ukraine following the Russian-North Korean agreement and that South Korea is “grave[ly] concerned” and condemns the agreement.[13] South Korea has notably had a long-standing policy that prevents it from directly transferring arms into active conflict zones—a policy that has forced South Korea to send artillery shells to Ukraine via indirect transfers using third party intermediary states.[14] Chang also noted that any Russian military-technical cooperation with North Korea violates a series of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and will result in unspecified corresponding retaliatory measures from South Korea. Chang stated that South Korea will also sanction four ships, five organizations, and eight individuals involved in the transfer of weapons and oil between Russia and North Korea in response to the agreement. North Korean state outlet Korean Central News Agency published the full text of the agreement on June 20, which includes provisions for “immediate military and other assistance... in the event of an armed attack by any state of several states” and “joint activities to strengthen [each country's] defense capabilities... to prevent war.”[15] Several Russian and South Korean sources noted that the agreement is almost identical to the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance that the Soviet Union and North Korea signed in 1961.[16]
Russian President Vladimir Putin simultaneously attempted to downplay aspects of the Russia-North Korea agreement potentially in response to South Korea's concerns during a June 20 press conference in Vietnam. Putin reiterated several times during the press conference that the Russian-North Korean agreement mirrors the language of a previous security agreement that both countries signed in 1961 and that the agreement is only a “reproduction” of the terms of the 1961 agreement.[17] Putin stated that South Korea has “nothing to worry about” regarding the new agreement as long as South Korea does not perpetrate acts of aggression against North Korea. Putin threatened, however, that it would be a “very big mistake” for South Korea to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine and that Russia would take unspecified actions in response to such a policy. Putin claimed that the new agreement's clause on providing mutual security assistance does not apply to the war in Ukraine because Ukraine committed acts of aggression towards the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DNR/LNR) before Russia illegally annexed the territories and that Russia hopes that this agreement will be a “restraining factor” that prevents the situation on the Korean peninsula from intensifying. Putin also claimed that Russia has not asked anyone to “use [their] capabilities” in Ukraine and no one has offered to help Russia in this way, insinuating that there is no threat of third parties getting militarily involved in Ukraine. Putin may have tempered his rhetoric about Russia's June 19 agreement with North Korea in order to quell South Korean concern about the agreement and lull South Korea into reassurance and away from reconsidering its policy on aiding Ukraine. ISW has previously observed that Russia at times seems to be trying to mend its relationship with South Korea to mitigate the impacts of a growing relationship with North Korea, and Putin may have followed up his visit to North Korea with such statements in an effort to appease Seoul.[18]
Putin also used the press conference to reiterate a series of known information operations feigning Russia's interest in good faith negotiations with Ukraine, including by characterizing Russia's offensive operation into Kharkiv Oblast as solely defensive. Putin claimed that he expected the West to reject his June 14 demands for Ukraine's capitulation as a prerequisite for his envisioned peace negotiations and suggested that Russia has previously unsuccessfully presented these demands during “behind-the-scenes negotiations.”[19] Putin claimed that “sensible politicians” will realize that Putin's demands for Ukraine to “completely withdraw” its forces from the administrative borders of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts and officially abandon its intention to join NATO are “realistic” and acceptable conditions for peace. Putin's terms for Ukraine's capitulation violate the basic principles of the United Nations Charter and other cornerstones of international law. Putin stated that any peace negotiations predicated on Russia withdrawing its forces from occupied Ukraine will “never happen.” Russian officials made similar claims about how Kherson City would “forever” remain in Russian occupation before Russian forces abandoned Kherson City in November 2022.[20] Putin reiterated his claims that Russia remains open to peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, placing the onus on Ukraine and the West for the lack of progress toward peace negotiations despite the fact that Russian officials, including Putin, continue to publicly signal that they are unwilling to participate in good faith peace negotiations with Ukraine.[21] Putin also reiterated claims that Russian forces are conducting offensive operations in the Kharkiv direction to defend Belgorod Oblast from Ukrainian shelling and that Russian forces have “no goals of approaching Kharkiv [City].”
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-20-2024
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) criticized South Korean and Japanese objections to the Russian-North Korean strategic partnership agreement and directly tied the agreement to Russian President Vladimir Putin's “Eurasian security architecture” initiative. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported on June 21 that South Korean government sources stated that South Korea may send 155mm artillery shells and unspecified air defense systems to Ukraine, after South Korean National Security Director Chang Ho-jin stated on June 20 that South Korea would respond to the Russian-North Korean agreement by reconsidering its policy preventing it from sending aid to Ukraine.[11] The South Korean MFA summoned Russian Ambassador to South Korea Georgiy Zinovyev on June 21 to urge Russia to stop its military cooperation with North Korea.[12] Zinovyev accused South Korea of trying to “threaten and blackmail” Russia and that Russia's cooperation with North Korea is not directed against any other country and claimed that Russian-North Korean cooperation helps strengthen stability on the Korean peninsula.[13] Director of the Russian MFA's Third Department for Asia Lyudmila Vorobyova met on June 21 with Director of the Japanese MFA's Europe Department Masashi Nakagome following the introduction of a new round of Japanese sanctions targeting Russia.[14] The Russian MFA claimed that the Japanese sanctions are the “next step towards the complete destruction” of Russian-Japanese relations, which the Russian MFA claimed are at an all-time low.[15] The Russian MFA claimed that Russia would respond to the sanctions with “tough and painful countermeasures.” The Russian MFA responded to Nakagome’s protests about the Russian-North Korean strategic partnership by outlining Putin's June 14 initiative for the creation of “a new continent-wide security architecture” in Eurasia.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-21-2024
The Russian/North Korean action is the result of leaders pretending to do something relevant.
In point of fact, the action is a clear indication that Vladimer Putin is presently reduced to wallowing in the same irrelevant mud as Kim Jong Un
This statement was made by a high-ranking source in the Kremlin in a conversation with us. “I think Ramzan has a few months left in his post. And there will be a political pension, treatment, he will have something to do,” he believes.
“I hope Ramzan heard all the warnings addressed to him. And if not... In any case, he should think about his grandchildren. And about children. Their health, life, safety and happy future,” the interlocutor added. He refused to explain his words, but said that they should not be considered a threat, but “a statement of fact.”
Let us note that we are talking about an attack against Kadyrov, which we predicted. You can find out more about it [below]
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4269
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True, but both can do a lot of damage before we get rid of them.
His inferiority complex is clearly visible in the article and it suggests that Russia will become a more repressive country that will rewrite history again::
Artificially imposing on humanity for centuries the image of an “ignorant and despotic” Russia as opposed to a supposedly “enlightened and democratic” Europe, they hid the truth from their peoples and descendants. For example, about the officers and generals of the Russian Imperial Army who defeated the troops of Napoleonic France, whose manners, knowledge of European languages, erudition and education literally conquered Paris.
In their zeal in discrediting Russia, European chroniclers of the Middle Ages differed little from the propagandists of the 17th-20th centuries and from modern foreign pseudo-historians. Thus, in 1549, “Notes on Muscovy” by Sigismund Herberstein was published in Vienna, which was reprinted twenty-two times during the second half of the 16th century. In it, Russian rulers appeared as a collection of all human vices: they are cunning, hypocritical, treacherous, warlike, always looking for a reason to attack their neighbors, and merciless towards the vanquished. They are cruel oppressors towards their subjects. “All of them [subjects] call themselves slaves... i.e. slaves of the sovereign... These people find more pleasure in slavery than in freedom,” the author assured. The arrogant, disdainful and derogatory words of a foreigner addressed to the Moscow state have been the leitmotif of European policy towards Russia for several centuries.
It has become obvious that the denazification of Europe, which was agreed upon by the leaders of the Allied powers at the Yalta Conference in 1945, has not yet been completed by the West. At the instigation of the USA and England, Nazism has been revived and is again being used against our country.
The peoples of Russia today are once again liberating the long-suffering population of Ukraine from Western occupation. Russian - for the most part. It is difficult to find a Ukrainian who does not have Russian roots. But the puppet Kiev regime, at the behest of its Western masters, suppresses family ties and forces people who speak and think in Russian, who were brought up on Russian history and literature, as well as Russian traditions, to go to slaughter.
It is with regret that we have to admit that in Russia there is a small pool of active and assertive authors whose “research” and publications are openly hostile. The President of the Russian Federation V.V. spoke very precisely about this trend. Putin, calling attempts to falsify Russian history “increasingly tough, evil and aggressive.”
It is significant that false interpretations and assessments of specific historical events are enshrined at the political level, including in legal acts. There are many examples: laws on Holodomor - genocide in Ukraine, resolutions of the European Parliament, which equally blame Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for the outbreak of World War II. In the processed consciousness of millions of ordinary people in post-Soviet and post-socialist countries, the soldiers of the Red Army - the liberating army - have already become criminals and occupiers.
History has long ceased to be just a science of bygone times. Attempts to rewrite history are in some ways more dangerous than a military threat. Distorted, false, destroyed historical memory, an artificially created negative image of the past and present deprive states and their peoples of the opportunity to form a national idea of ​​future development, around which the consolidation of society takes place. That is why we are obliged to ensure comprehensive protection of historical memory as an integral part of the value foundation of our Motherland - Russia.
Following Patrushev’s signed article, there are various suggestions on social media on what he should do to further Putin’s ideas. Here is one:
Is Patrushev preparing to take up a new post?
Many people ask us this question after the publication of a really strong article by Nikolai Platonovich in the National Defense magazine. We answer. Patrushev is now doing important work , some of which is secret. At the same time, he often helps with advice not only to the president, but also, for example, Andrei Belousov. Andrey Removich is grateful for this.
Of course, Patrushev can take a new post. We won’t say which one yet, but it will probably be one of the highest posts in Russia. True, according to our sources close to Nikolai Platonovich, this will happen a little later, “it’s not time yet.”
And the publication of an article in National Defense is simply Patrushev’s contribution to our security. Don’t look for intrigue in it.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4271
Sounds like a successor.
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