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Our source in the OP said that the successful operation on the cruiser Moscow became possible thanks to the joint work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine / Navy and special units of Great Britain / Australia . For the operation, British Sea Skua anti-ship missiles were used, which were launched from two Bayraktar TB2s and the Neptune ground complex, which was transformed to launch the Harpoon RGM-84N
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The West continues to disguise its weapons as nano-designed by Ukraine, so as not to raise the stakes in the confrontation with Russia. First, the cruiser Moskva was sunk , and they decided to salute this honor to the Poseidon missiles, which had not been used for several months since the beginning of the war, but here again such luck. Then the liberation of Snake Island , where everyone was told about the accuracy of Ukrainian artillery, and later accurate strikes on command posts and warehouses. Next , attacks on airfields in Crimea began, and now a new stage in the miracle of Ukrainian technology, stealth drones capable of flying thousands of kilometers unnoticed by radars and air defense. Moreover, it is clear to everyone that only modern drones using satellite navigation could fly with such accuracy ., but everyone is talking about old swifts ...

Ukraine attacked Russian airfields with modified Tu-141 Swift drones - Politico

The publication reports this with reference to two Ukrainian sources familiar with the details of operations at bases in Engels and the Ryazan region.

It is noted that the technologies with which the Soviet drones were modified are Ukrainian-made, and not supplied by the United States or other countries.

These kinds of improvements demonstrate the ability of the Ukrainian defense industry to innovate, while the Russian Federation is forced to buy cheap Iranian drones to wage war.

As one of the interlocutors told the publication, the surprise effect was the key factor, because the Russian Federation did not expect such actions from Ukraine.
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Our source in the OP said that the successful operation on the cruiser Moscow became possible thanks to the joint work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine / Navy and special units of Great Britain / Australia. British anti-ship missiles Sea Skua were used for the operation.

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Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President wants to use the experience of Russia on Shaheeds, which became Geranium. We proposed to the Pentagon a formula with the conversion of NATO weapons into Ukrainian ones, primarily for drones and new types of weapons.

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The West continues to disguise its weapons as nano-designed by Ukraine, so as not to raise the stakes in the confrontation with Russia. First, the cruiser Moskva was sunk, and they decided to give this honor to the Poseidon missiles, which had not been used for several months since the beginning of the war ...

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We should expect the appearance of new Western drones in the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the delirium of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex. We wrote that the Office of the President has adopted tactics with Shaheeds and is remaking Western counterparts for its drones. Now Ukraine plans to develop air-to-air drones that can shoot down Iranian martyrs, Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“I can already say that in February-March the situation with drones will change dramatically. This will be the next step in the development of technology,” Fedorov said.

“putin is a killer”
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MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN (FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2018)

By Sharon Tennison, founder of ‘The Center for Citizen Initiatives’ that arranges extended trips to Russia by American VIPs meeting Russians at all levels of society.

February 7, 2018

Friends and colleagues,
As the Ukraine situation has worsened, unconscionable misinformation and hype is being poured on Russia and Vladimir Putin.

Journalists and pundits must scour the Internet and thesauruses to come up with fiendish new epithets to describe both.

Wherever I make presentations across America, the first question ominously asked during Q&A is always, “What about Putin?”.

It’s time to share my thoughts which follow: Putin obviously has his faults and makes mistakes. Based on my earlier experience with him, and the experiences of trusted people, including U.S. officials who have worked closely with him over a period of years, Putin most likely is a straight, reliable and exceptionally inventive man. He is obviously a long-term thinker and planner and has proven to be an excellent analyst and strategist. He is a leader who can quietly work toward his goals under mounds of accusations and myths that have been steadily leveled at him since he became Russia’s second president.

I’ve stood by silently watching the demonization of Putin grow since it began in the early 2000’s –– I pondered on computer my thoughts and concerns, hoping eventually to include them in a book (which was published in 2011).

The book explains my observations more thoroughly than this article. Like others who have had direct experience with this little known man, I’ve tried to no avail to avoid being labeled a “Putin apologist”.

If one is even neutral about him, they are considered “soft on Putin” by pundits, news hounds and average citizens who get their news from CNN, Fox and MSNBC.

I don’t pretend to be an expert, just a program developer in the USSR and Russia for the past 30 years. But during this time, I have had far more direct, on-ground contact with Russians of all stripes across 11 time zones than any of the Western reporters or for that matter any of Washington’s officials.

I’ve been in country long enough to ponder Russian history and culture deeply, to study their psychology and conditioning, and to understand the marked differences between American and Russian mentalities which so complicate our political relations with their leaders.

As with personalities in a family or a civic club or in a city hall, it takes understanding and compromise to be able to create workable relationships when basic conditionings are different. Washington has been notoriously disinterested in understanding these differences and attempting to meet Russia halfway.

In addition to my personal experience with Putin, I’ve had discussions with numerous American officials and U.S. businessmen who have had years of experience working with him – I believe it is safe to say that none would describe him as “brutal” or “thuggish”, or the other slanderous adjectives and nouns that are repeatedly used in western media.

I met Putin years before he ever dreamed of being president of Russia, as did many of us working in St. Petersburg during the 1990’s.

Since all of the slander started, I’ve become nearly obsessed with understanding his character. I think I’ve read every major speech he has given (including the full texts of his annual hours-long telephone “talk-ins” with Russian citizens).

I’ve been trying to ascertain whether he has changed for the worse since being elevated to the presidency, or whether he is a straight character cast into a role he never anticipated – and is using sheer wits to try to do the best he can to deal with Washington under extremely difficult circumstances.

If the latter is the case, and I think it is, he should get high marks for his performance over the past 14 years. It’s not by accident that Forbes declared him the most Powerful Leader of 2013, replacing Obama who was given the title for 2012.

The following is my one personal experience with Putin. The year was 1992: It was two years after the implosion of communism; the place was St. Petersburg. For years I had been creating programs to open up relations between the two countries and hopefully to help Soviet people to get beyond their entrenched top-down mentalities.

A new program possibility emerged in my head. Since I expected it might require a signature from the Marienskii City Hall, an appointment was made. My friend Volodya Shestakov and I showed up at a side door entrance to the Marienskii building. We found ourselves in a small, dull brown office, facing a rather trim nondescript man in a brown suit. He inquired about my reason for coming in. After scanning the proposal I provided, he began asking intelligent questions.

After each of my answers, he asked the next relevant question. I became aware that this interviewer was different from other Soviet bureaucrats who always seemed to fall into chummy conversations with foreigners with hopes of obtaining bribes in exchange for the Americans’ requests. CCI stood on the principle that we would never, never give bribes. This bureaucrat was open, inquiring, and impersonal in demeanor.
After more than an hour of careful questions and answers, he quietly explained that he had tried hard to determine if the proposal was legal, then said that unfortunately at the time it was not. A few good words about the proposal were uttered. That was all.

He simply and kindly showed us to the door. Out on the sidewalk, I said to my colleague, “Volodya, this is the first time we have ever dealt with a Soviet bureaucrat who didn’t ask us for a trip to the U.S. or something valuable!”
I remember looking at his business card in the sunlight – it read Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

December 31, 1999: With no warning, at the turn of the year, President Boris Yeltsin made the announcement to the world that from the next day forward he was vacating his office and leaving Russia in the hands of an unknown Vladimir Putin. On hearing the news, I thought surely not the Putin I remembered – he could never lead Russia. The next day a New York Times article included a photo. Yes, it was the same Putin I’d met years ago! I was shocked and dismayed, telling friends, “This is a disaster for Russia, I’ve spent time with this guy, he is too introverted and too intelligent – he will never be able to relate to Russia’s masses.”

Further, I lamented: “For Russia to get up off of its knees, two things must happen: 1) The arrogant young oligarchs have to be removed by force from the Kremlin, and 2) A way must be found to remove the regional bosses (governors) from their fiefdoms across Russia’s 89 regions”. It was clear to me that the man in the brown suit would never have the instincts or guts to tackle Russia’s overriding twin challenges.

February 2000: Almost immediately Putin began putting Russia’s oligarchs on edge. In February a question about the oligarchs came up; he clarified with a question and his answer: “What should be the relationship with the so-called oligarchs? The same as anyone else. The same as the owner of a small bakery or a shoe repair shop.”

This was the first signal that the tycoons would no longer be able to flaunt government regulations or count on special access in the Kremlin. It also made the West’s capitalists nervous. After all, these oligarchs were wealthy untouchable businessmen – good capitalists, never mind that they got their enterprises illegally and were putting their profits in offshore banks.

Four months later Putin called a meeting with the oligarchs and gave them his deal: They could keep their illegally-gained, wealth-producing Soviet enterprises and they would not be nationalized …. IF taxes were paid on their revenues and if they personally stayed out of politics.

This was the first of Putin’s “elegant solutions” to the near impossible challenges facing the new Russia. But the deal also put Putin in the cross hairs with U.S. media and officials who then began to champion the oligarchs, particularly Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The latter became highly political, didn’t pay taxes, and, prior to being apprehended and jailed, was in the process of selling a major portion of Russia’s largest private oil company, Yukos Oil, to Exxon Mobil. Unfortunately, to U.S. media and governing structures, Khodorkovsky became a martyr (and remains so up to today).

March 2000: I arrived in St. Petersburg. A Russian friend (a psychologist) since 1983 came for our usual visit. My first question was, “Lena, what do you think about your new president?” She laughed and retorted, “Volodya! I went to school with him!” She began to describe Putin as a quiet youngster, poor, fond of martial arts, who stood up for kids being bullied on the playgrounds. She remembered him as a patriotic youth who applied for the KGB prematurely after graduating secondary school (they sent him away and told him to get an education). He went to law school, later reapplied and was accepted.

I must have grimaced at this, because Lena said, “Sharon, in those days we all admired the KGB and believed that those who worked there were patriots and were keeping the country safe. We thought it was natural for Volodya to choose this career.” My next question was, “What do you think he will do with Yeltsin’s criminals in the Kremlin?” Putting on her psychologist hat, she pondered and replied, “If left to his normal behaviors, he will watch them for a while to be sure what is going on, then he will throw up some flares to let them know that he is watching. If they don’t respond, he will address them personally, then if the behaviors don’t change – some will be in prison in a couple of years.”

I congratulated her via email when her predictions began to show up in real time.

Throughout the 2000’s: St. Petersburg’s many CCI alumni were being interviewed to determine how the PEP business training program was working and how we could make the U.S. experience more valuable for their new small businesses. Most believed that the program had been enormously important, even life changing.

Last, each was asked, “So what do you think of your new president?” None responded negatively, even though at that time entrepreneurs hated Russia’s bureaucrats. Most answered similarly, “Putin registered my business a few years ago”.
Next question, “So, how much did it cost you?” To a person they replied, “Putin didn’t charge anything”. One said, “We went to Putin’s desk because the others providing registrations at the Marienskii were getting ‘rich on their seats.’”

Late 2000: Into Putin’s first year as Russia’s president, U.S. officials seemed to me to be suspect that he would be antithetical to America’s interests – his every move was called into question in American media. I couldn’t understand why and was chronicling these happenings in my computer and newsletters.

Year 2001: Jack Gosnell (former USCG) explained his relationship with Putin when the latter was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. The two of them worked closely to create joint ventures and other ways to promote relations between the two countries. Jack related that Putin was always straight up, courteous and helpful.

When Putin’s wife, Ludmila, was in a severe auto accident, Jack took the liberty (before informing Putin) to arrange hospitalization and airline travel for her to get medical care in Finland. When Jack told Putin, he reported that the latter was overcome by the generous offer, but ended saying that he couldn’t accept this favor, that Ludmila would have to recover in a Russian hospital. She did – although medical care in Russia was abominably bad in the 1990’s.

A senior CSIS officer I was friends with in the 2000’s worked closely with Putin on a number of joint ventures during the 1990’s. He reported that he had no dealings with Putin that were questionable, that he respected him and believed he was getting an undeserved dour reputation from U.S. media. Matter of fact, he closed the door at CSIS when we started talking about Putin. I guessed his comments wouldn’t be acceptable if others were listening.

Another former U.S. official who will go unidentified, also reported working closely with Putin, saying there was never any hint of bribery, pressuring, nothing but respectable behaviors and helpfulness.

I had two encounters in 2013 with State Department officials regarding Putin: At the first one, I felt free to ask the question I had previously yearned to get answered: “When did Putin become unacceptable to Washington officials and why?”
Without hesitating the answer came back: “The knives were drawn when it was announced that Putin would be the next president.” I questioned WHY?

The answer: “I could never find out why – maybe because he was KGB.” I offered that Bush #1, was head of the CIA.
The reply was, “That would have made no difference, he was our guy.”

The second was a former State Department official with whom I recently shared a radio interview on Russia. Afterward when we were chatting, I remarked, “You might be interested to know that I’ve collected experiences of Putin from numerous people, some over a period of years, and they all say they had no negative experiences with Putin and there was no evidence of taking bribes.” He firmly replied, “No one has ever been able to come up with a bribery charge against Putin.”

From 2001 up to today, I’ve watched the negative U.S. media mounting against Putin – even accusations of assassinations, poisonings, and comparing him to Hitler. No one yet has come up with any concrete evidence for these allegations.

During this time, I’ve traveled throughout Russia several times every year, and have watched the country slowly change under Putin’s watch. Taxes were lowered, inflation lessened, and laws slowly put in place. Schools and hospitals began improving. Small businesses were growing, agriculture was showing improvement, and stores were becoming stocked with food.

Alcohol challenges were less obvious, smoking was banned from buildings, and life expectancy began increasing. Highways were being laid across the country, new rails and modern trains appeared even in far out places, and the banking industry was becoming dependable.

Russia was beginning to look like a decent country –– certainly not where Russians hoped it to be long term, but improving incrementally for the first time in their memories.

End of Part I

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Yesterday on the Svatovo-Kreminna front (Zhuravka gully section), an event of local importance took place, but that does not make it any less important. Units of the 3rd motorised rifle division, along with the units of the 74th Guards Brigade, attacked this place and knocked out the enemy (Ukrainians) from the important height of 165.

After suffering heavy losses, the Ukrainians could not withstand the onslaught and fled to the remaining part of the Zhuravka gully under their control. Interestingly, some Ukrainian special forces were left to defend the hill; at least, that is the impression one gets after looking at the Ukrainian corpses and the equipment abandoned by them. The Ukrainian special forces could not defend the place and were killed.

Russian infantry significantly replenished their supplies with good trophy weapons and ammunition from this certain AFU unit called “Kangal (https://t.me/SLGmaps/107).”

The Russian offensive has not stopped there. The soldiers of the 3rd motorised rifle division and paratroopers from the 76th division continue to attack the Ukrainians near Makiivka, with artillery clearly and competently destroying Ukrainian personnel and equipment. They also destroyed several positions , suitable reserves, and medical evacuation points of the enemy (Ukrainian).

#Source (https://t.me/vysokygovorit/10396)

https://t.me/Slavyangrad

Yesterday on the Svatovo-Kreminna front (Zhuravka gully section), an event of local importance took place, but that does not make it any less important. Units of the 3rd motorised rifle division, along with the units of the 74th Guards Brigade, attacked this place and knocked out the enemy (Ukrainians) from the important height of 165.

After suffering heavy losses, the Ukrainians could not withstand the onslaught and fled to the remaining part of the Zhuravka gully under their control. Interestingly, some Ukrainian special forces were left to defend the hill; at least, that is the impression one gets after looking at the Ukrainian corpses and the equipment abandoned by them. The Ukrainian special forces could not defend the place and were killed.

Russian infantry significantly replenished their supplies with good trophy weapons and ammunition from this certain AFU unit called “Kangal (https://t.me/SLGmaps/107).”

The Russian offensive has not stopped there. The soldiers of the 3rd motorised rifle division and paratroopers from the 76th division continue to attack the Ukrainians near Makiivka, with artillery clearly and competently destroying Ukrainian personnel and equipment. They also destroyed several positions , suitable reserves, and medical evacuation points of the enemy (Ukrainian).

#Source (https://t.me/vysokygovorit/10396)

https://t.me/Slavyangrad

Institute for the Study of War
In its latest report at 3 p.m E.T on December 27, 2022, the ISW confirmed that Ukraine has not captured Kreminna. The American Institute writes: “Ukrainian officials confirmed that Ukrainian forces have not captured Kremmina.”

This report was posted on Twitter four hours ago, and they have not mentioned any successful Ukrainian offensive near Kreminna and Svatovo.

In any case, the story circulating here on FR about 5 destroyed planes and 2 damaged ones was never credible.

Russia disclosed the info on the December 5th drone attack that two planes had suffered minor damage. So there is no way they would have lied about 7 planes here.

Julian Röpcke 🇺🇦 (Strong Ukraine Supporter)
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Journalist. Responsible editor in the politics department
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. Just my opinion! “Twitter commander of the day”. #RTisnojournalism #hahohe

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Source video:
Russian channel: “The advance of the PMC Wagner fighters in the village along Naberezhnaya Street is supported by Tula paratroopers with fire from the Kornet ATGM from the opposite bank of the Bakhmutka River.”

Geolocation backs these claims.
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And these Wagner guys were no former prisoners, but their elite fighters. Not the ones, they let die in the trenches or unplanned suicde commandos

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Conclusion: I don’t know if they withdrew on purpose and indeed created a “trap” for UKR troops, as they claim.
But fact is, their counter counter-offensive was brutal, quick and successful. I won’t share images of killed Ukrainians in the town.

But that’s not only my conclusion.
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Clarification : The armed forces of Ukraine have not captured Kremmenna or Svatovo. However, according to Russian military officers, the Ukrainians tried to capture the towns but lost around 1,000 men in the battle. As per Russian reports, all Ukrainian attacks have been repulsed. The reports of the “surrender” of the cities are fake, however, according to Russian channels, the AFU command has already reported to Zelensky about the “capture,” but it’s fake, and they have not captured any significant territory. Now, for a political victory, they attempted to capture the towns but suffered significant losses, and they may try another offensive in this area.

The previous post from “ military chronicle “:

The AFU rushed to report to Zelensky on the capture of Kremenna. This cost Kiev 1,000 soldiers and officers.

In late December, Ukrainian Telegram channels spread information that the Russian Armed Forces were retreating from Svatov, while Kreminna (60 km from Slovyansk) was practically cut off and it was a matter of time to block it.

The commander of the Russian Legion detachment, Sergei Fomchenkov (call sign Fomich), told Military Chronicle that President Vladimir Zelensky, according to his radio intercepts, had already been informed of the capture of Kreminna. This, according to Fomich, was due to the fact that the AFU had accumulated excessive forces in the area of the Kreminna-Svatovo line and no longer had any doubts about its success.
Thus, the AFU rushed to report the capture of the town and therefore sent new reserves there in the hope of capturing the settlement and “implementing the report.”
All attacks by units of the 14th and 92nd mechanised brigades of the AFU, supported by the 112th Territorial Defense Brigade, were repulsed.

The 80th and 95th Airborne Assault Brigades suffered heavy losses during the “probe” between Kremenna and Svatove. The 25th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU and units of the 66th Mechanized Brigade also recorded a large number of casualties during the Kremenna rush.

Active movement by the AFU since the autumn has been hampered by bad weather, gunfire positions, and constant reconnaissance drone activity. Convoys with Ukrainian equipment are detected at a distance of 10-12 km, after which they are fired upon.

According to the Military Chronicle, the number of dead and seriously wounded soldiers in the AFU brigades in the Svatove-Kreminna area after reports of the shift of the front line and the capture of Kreminna came close to 1,000.

According to another Military Chronicle source in the Russian Legion detachment, the AFU has faced a shortage of heavy equipment in this area, and almost all combat sorties are carried out using lightly armoured MaxxPro, Cougar, and Sisu Pasi vehicles. The vehicles receive critical artillery damage and are destroyed along with the paratroopers.
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“Your source works for Russian intelligence and the Defense Ministry of Russia....Just sayin.”
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Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst. His column “The Roving Eye” for Asia Times regularly discusses the multi-national “competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia.”

I follow Escabar and find him VERY credible. What I don’t find credible is “mediabiasfactcheck.”

BTW, when I just clicked on “mediabiasfactcheck” I got a “security alert” message saying they have viruses and I should scan my computer.

Russia Now Says Ukraine Losing 2 Battalions per Day in Donbass

One battalion in Bahkmut; one battalion in all the other front line battles combined

Battalion size: 700-1,000 soldiers

Apparently, Lavrov is not in as light a mood as Medvedev...:-)

Russia’s Lavrov: Either Ukraine fulfils Moscow’s proposals or our army will decide

Story by By Ronald Popeski and Lidia Kelly • 1h ago

By Ronald Popeski and Lidia Kelly

(Reuters) -Moscow’s proposals for settlement in Ukraine are well known to Kyiv and either Ukraine fulfils them for their own good or the Russian army will decide the issue, TASS agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying.

“Our proposals for the demilitarization and denazification of the territories controlled by the regime, the elimination of threats to Russia’s security emanating from there, including our new lands, are well known to the enemy,” the state news agency quoted Lavrov as saying late on Monday.

“The point is simple: Fulfil them for your own good. Otherwise, the issue will be decided by the Russian army.”

On a lighter note, I got a chuckle out of Dmitry Medvedev’s Predictions for 2023

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On the New Year’s Eve, everybody’s into making predictions. Many come up with futuristic hypotheses, as if competing to single out the wildest, and even the most absurd ones.

Here’s our humble contribution.

What can happen in 2023:

1. Oil price will rise to $150 a barrel, and gas price will top $5.000 per 1.000 cubic meters

2. The UK will rejoin the EU

3. The EU will collapse after the UK’s return; Euro will drop out of use as the former EU currency

4. Poland and Hungary will occupy western regions of the formerly existing Ukraine

5. The Fourth Reich will be created, encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e., Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, the Kiev Republic, and
other outcasts

6. War will break out between France and the Fourth Reich. Europe will be divided, Poland repartitioned in the process

7. Northern Ireland will separate from the UK and join the Republic of Ireland

8. Civil war will break out in the US, California and Texas becoming independent states as a result. Texas and Mexico will form an allied state. Elon Musk’ll win the presidential election in a number of states which, after the new Civil War’s end, will have been given to the GOP

9. All the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave the US and Europe and move to Asia

10. The Bretton Woods system of monetary management will collapse, leading to the IMF and World Bank crash. Euro and Dollar will stop circulating as the global reserve currencies. Digital fiat currencies will be actively used instead

Season greetings to you all, Anglo-Saxon friends, and their happily oinking piglets!

A proxy war is another way of saying “I want to use and exploit some other poor suckers rather than risk my own troops.” We do it a lot.

While Ukraine used Soviet era tanks, they have been heavily supplied with stingers, javelins, M777 howitzers, HIMARS, etc. (not to mention missiles that took down the Moskva)...all made in the U.S., though HIMARS are operated or supervised by U.S. “contractors.” BTW, I hear FIGHTING Americans in Telegram videos all the time. Hard for an American to miss an American accent...they don’t even sound Canadian to us like they do much of the rest of the world..:-)

Ukraine has blown through an enormous full fledged repeatedly refurnished arsenal and as General Z made clear they will require an ENTIRE additional arsenal to even have a “fighting chance” to take back more territory.

But, what I consider the most significant metric for analysis is that Russia is killing 10 times more Ukrainians than Ukraine is killing Russians.

Resident https://t.me/s/rezident_ua/
Military registration and enlistment offices across the country have stepped up the distribution of subpoenas, a new wave of mobilization should not only close the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eastern front, but also increase the number of the Ukrainian army by 15-20% by February 2023.

I believe this is their 9th mobilization. MacGregor says they are now mobilizing 14, 15, 16 yr. old boys and the elderly.

Of course he is forlorn...the guy has got a lot of stuff on his mind...:-) His measly cut of the U.S. big bucks, alone, could bring tears. Not to mention the Americans are hot on the trail of some of his graft.

https://t.me/s/rezident_ua/ (Ukrainian Telegram Channel with excellent inside source)

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#political season
Despite Zelensky’s media-effective visit to the United States, the congress continues to split over the issue of military and, especially, financial assistance to Ukraine. The list of weapons was determined by the Pentagon and the White House a week before the visit, which means that Biden needed the trip to push through the defense budget with the necessary parameters before the House of Representatives came under the control of the Republican Party. If you look at the expenditure items from military assistance to Ukraine, in reality we will get only 20-25%, and the rest goes to the EU and the American military-industrial complex.

Zelensky played the role of a battering ram in the interests of the Biden Administration and once again annoyed the Republicans, which was evident from the reaction of congressmen and politicians.
Thus, some members of the US Congress, who were sitting on their phones during the speech of the head of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, or even did not come at all, did not change their minds about the “opaqueness” of allocating funds to Kyiv. Many members of the Republican Party in Congress were extremely unhappy with Zelensky’s visit. So, four congressmen refused to applaud the Ukrainian president, and two of them did not stand up when Zelensky took the podium. Florida Congressman Matt Goetz called the policy of supporting Ukraine “America comes last.” According to the politician, the US itself needs money because of the crisis in the country. Moreover, the Republicans still demand an audit of aid to Ukraine and increased aid to Taiwan. As a result, in the near future, Kyiv is threatened with financing on a residual basis,

As a result, the Democrats and the Biden Administration benefited from Zelensky’s trip, and Ukraine became the main bone of contention in the internal political struggle in the United States, which will further strengthen the Republican attack on our country.

Resident
⚡️⚡️ ⚡️#Inside
Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President decided to increase funding for the network of Russian telegram channels in order to continue working on rocking the situation within the Russian Federation. Bankovaya, together with TsIPSO, developed a strategy for a network of regional channels throughout Russia, which should discredit the Kremlin’s policy and highlight all the mobilization cases, primarily the death of soldiers and the illegal work of military commissars. The project budget has been increased from 10 million dollars to 30 million dollars a month, which will allow creating hundreds of small news and entertainment telegram channels in the regions of Russia, which will be interconnected.

Resident
⚡️⚡️⚡️#InsideOur
source in the OP said that the technologists of the Office of the President see the buildup of the internal political track in Russia as the main task for 2023. In the format of a protracted war, the country that was able to create tools of influence from the enemy and clean up the information space at home will win. Bankova was in a hurry to pass a media bill this year to ensure full control over the media and limit the influence of the oligarchs. Telegram remains the only platform, but the Office of the President solves this problem on an individual basis.

Resident
After publications in telegram channels of information about a new wave of mobilization, the General Staff decided to shift the focus and announced planned activities.
The head of the personnel department of the headquarters of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Roman Gorbach, in a commentary to Channel 24, said that the distribution of subpoenas takes place in public places, because it is ineffective to hand subpoenas at home addresses - people do not open doors.

“That is why the heads of territorial centers choose places where there are a lot of people,” Gorbach said.

Another difficulty is that men practically never inform the territorial recruiting centers about what kind of education they received, where they moved, when they got married, divorced or had children.

“If the conscripts themselves submitted updated data to the territorial centers, no one would catch them on the streets,” Gorbach said.

There is only one question left: why was it necessary right now to hand out subpoenas so abruptly?

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Military registration and enlistment offices across the country have stepped up the distribution of subpoenas, a new wave of mobilization should not only close the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eastern front, but also increase the number of the Ukrainian army by 15-20% by February 2023.

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💰💰The US continues to put pressure on Bankova

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Direct reporting to the US) is conducting a series of searches in Dnipro, at the homes of persons associated with the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentin Reznichenko.

Searches are being carried out at 15 addresses, in the offices of Reznichenko himself, in a number of departments of the regional administration, even at the fitness trainer Yana Kh, who was associated with him.☝🏻

Even the mistress was not spared, Pindos...

We are talking about large-scale corruption within the framework of the “Great Construction” in the implementation of road construction projects.

According to sources in law enforcement agencies, the fitness trainer’s firm and the heads of regional state administrations “mastered” more than 1.5 BILLION HRYVNA in 2022 alone.

The implementation of such a large-scale scheme is impossible without the “protection” of the project from Kyiv, searches were also carried out at the home of Yuri Golik, the coordinator of the “Great Construction” with Bankova.

Earlier we wrote about the colossal corruption in this project, the threads of which stretch to Kyrylo Timoshenko, a native of the Dnieper.

The Americans are approaching Kirill Timoshenko.

They are defeating NATO with conventional weapons right now. Since April Russia has been fighting a proxy war with NATO. NATO trained troops, equipment, intelligence.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, of course, but Col. MacGregor, Scott Ritter and many other analysts believe WE would be defeated in a land based war with Russia. I find their detailed analysis persuasive, unfortunately.

Hopefully we will never have the opportunity to see who is right.

“These dumb assholes don not have a clue.

It is a small group of chest thumpers on here to run off the rest of the people who use this place as a source for news links, that is if one can find a reliable source of news anymore.

You are right. War is coming to this country. And when it hits, they are going to have a real problem to address in their little comfy quarters. Society will break down and they will find themselves on the front lines in their own little comfy homes.”
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The pathetic refrain from the “NATO could destroy Russia in three days” crowd would be amusing if it weren’t for the fact that we Americans would suffer the consequences if such abject stupidity was ever acted upon.

Yes, Russia could nuke NATO; but why would they want to when they are so able to defeat NATO with conventional weapons.

🌐💥🇫🇷 About the French military exercise ORION

In November 2022, France announced the largest military exercise since the end of the Cold War, codenamed ORION, which will take place in spring 2023.

The Macron administration is presenting them as a response to geopolitical challenges, stating that France is ready for global warfare.

❗️The Rybar team managed to speak to French generals who shared their assessment of such bravura statements.

🔻 What is the essence of the exercise?

The manoeuvres will take place from late February to early May 2023 in several phases.

▪️First, a sea and air landing will take place over three weeks in southern France, attempting to establish a beachhead in a fictional country called “Arnland”.

There, the notional militia, supported by a hostile state called Mercury, will destabilise the situation.

For this operation, 7,000 soldiers will be mobilised. The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, two amphibious helicopter carriers and some 20 surface ships and submarines will also be involved.

▪️The second phase will simulate the invasion of the Mercury at Arnland.

The manoeuvre scenario is not known in detail, but it is assumed that part of the national territory will be occupied by a foreign power.

Russia or Turkey are seen as hypothetical adversaries. And the French army is to retake this territory, fighting local guerrillas loyal to the foreign power.

▪️ One division will be involved in the manoeuvres - 10,000-12,000 men, which is half the French army.

By comparison, every year France organizes exercises at the company level - 120 men, sometimes at the regiment level - 600 men, and much more rarely at the brigade level - about 3,000 men.

The objectives of the current exercise are to prepare the French army for:
➖ high-intensity combat operations, given the experience of the conflict in Ukraine
➖ information warfare
➖ anti-guerrilla warfare on French territory.

🔻 The exercise has not yet started but has already been the subject of strong criticism within the French army for two reasons:

➖The scenario of the exercise implies that the army will be used against the French population.

➖Organising manoeuvres on this scale and achieving the stated objectives is knowingly impossible, and the generals are aware of this.

▪️ The French army is no longer able to manoeuvre large units because it does not have the necessary equipment: Tigers helicopters and Leclerc tanks are faulty due to lack of spare parts and CAESAR guns have been transferred to Ukraine.

▪️In the opinion of the top officers, the only objective of the exercise was to occupy the French army.

With the end of the Barkhan mission and the downsizing of operations in the Sahel, the French army, one of the most interventionist in the world, has been left virtually idle.

The Elysee Palace believes the army must not be allowed to get bored or there will be a risk of a coup d’état.

▪️ Nevertheless, the media have already begun to prepare the ground for a positive image of the exercise, which is sure to be declared a success when it is over.

The French Chief of Staff, General Thierry Burkhardt, was quoted in a parliamentary hearing and was immediately picked up by the media.

He said that “if the French army has to fight a high-intensity war, we are ready to do it right now”.

▪️A year ago he claimed exactly the opposite. Because Burkhardt, like most French generals, knows that the French army, by its design since the 1960s, is designed only to engage in local conflicts. Only Africa has been suitable for its use all these years.

In case of a full-scale invasion, the aim of the French army in Europe is to win 2-3 days to be able to use nuclear weapons. This is the basis of the whole French military doctrine called dissuasion.

🔻 The goal of the modern French army has never been to wage a classic high-intensity war. Watching the attempts to pass off wishful thinking and create ideal exercises at least in a picture will be very interesting.
💥💥💥

“Congressman Adam Kinzinger just came out and said that NATO could destroy Russia in three days.

Did he also mention that Russia can destroy NATO in about 5 minutes for the close in parts. The US would take them 20 minutes or so.”
_________________________

The pathetic refrain from the “NATO could destroy Russia in three days” crowd would be amusing if it weren’t for the fact that we Americans would suffer the consequences if such abject stupidity was ever acted upon.

Yes, Russia could nuke NATO; but why would they want to when they are so able to defeat NATO with conventional weapons.

🌐💥🇫🇷 About the French military exercise ORION

In November 2022, France announced the largest military exercise since the end of the Cold War, codenamed ORION, which will take place in spring 2023.

The Macron administration is presenting them as a response to geopolitical challenges, stating that France is ready for global warfare.

❗️The Rybar team managed to speak to French generals who shared their assessment of such bravura statements.

🔻 What is the essence of the exercise?

The manoeuvres will take place from late February to early May 2023 in several phases.

▪️First, a sea and air landing will take place over three weeks in southern France, attempting to establish a beachhead in a fictional country called “Arnland”.

There, the notional militia, supported by a hostile state called Mercury, will destabilise the situation.

For this operation, 7,000 soldiers will be mobilised. The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, two amphibious helicopter carriers and some 20 surface ships and submarines will also be involved.

▪️The second phase will simulate the invasion of the Mercury at Arnland.

The manoeuvre scenario is not known in detail, but it is assumed that part of the national territory will be occupied by a foreign power.

Russia or Turkey are seen as hypothetical adversaries. And the French army is to retake this territory, fighting local guerrillas loyal to the foreign power.

▪️ One division will be involved in the manoeuvres - 10,000-12,000 men, which is half the French army.

By comparison, every year France organizes exercises at the company level - 120 men, sometimes at the regiment level - 600 men, and much more rarely at the brigade level - about 3,000 men.

The objectives of the current exercise are to prepare the French army for:
➖ high-intensity combat operations, given the experience of the conflict in Ukraine
➖ information warfare
➖ anti-guerrilla warfare on French territory.

🔻 The exercise has not yet started but has already been the subject of strong criticism within the French army for two reasons:

➖The scenario of the exercise implies that the army will be used against the French population.

➖Organising manoeuvres on this scale and achieving the stated objectives is knowingly impossible, and the generals are aware of this.

▪️ The French army is no longer able to manoeuvre large units because it does not have the necessary equipment: Tigers helicopters and Leclerc tanks are faulty due to lack of spare parts and CAESAR guns have been transferred to Ukraine.

▪️In the opinion of the top officers, the only objective of the exercise was to occupy the French army.

With the end of the Barkhan mission and the downsizing of operations in the Sahel, the French army, one of the most interventionist in the world, has been left virtually idle.

The Elysee Palace believes the army must not be allowed to get bored or there will be a risk of a coup d’état.

▪️ Nevertheless, the media have already begun to prepare the ground for a positive image of the exercise, which is sure to be declared a success when it is over.

The French Chief of Staff, General Thierry Burkhardt, was quoted in a parliamentary hearing and was immediately picked up by the media.

He said that “if the French army has to fight a high-intensity war, we are ready to do it right now”.

▪️A year ago he claimed exactly the opposite. Because Burkhardt, like most French generals, knows that the French army, by its design since the 1960s, is designed only to engage in local conflicts. Only Africa has been suitable for its use all these years.

In case of a full-scale invasion, the aim of the French army in Europe is to win 2-3 days to be able to use nuclear weapons. This is the basis of the whole French military doctrine called dissuasion.

🔻 The goal of the modern French army has never been to wage a classic high-intensity war. Watching the attempts to pass off wishful thinking and create ideal exercises at least in a picture will be very interesting.
💥💥💥