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  • Claims of coverup of story wrt Kinzhal annihilation of nato command center in Kiev

    03/31/2023 2:22:02 AM PDT · by ganeemead · 20 replies
    Friends are just now seeing this in news in several places. The attack suppposedly took place at night on 2/9/23; I'm seeing it in enough places to indicate that they tried to bury but couldn't bury it altogether. Isreali News Live The Intel Drop Zelensky was forced to admit: “A hard night.” The audience noted that the President’s coming out looked like a beaten dog, and there were no words about interceptions in his speech. VT Foreign Policy DuckDuckGo search on "hypersonic nato command"....
  • "We're DONE with you!" - Zelensky STUNNED as they walk out

    03/30/2023 5:42:55 PM PDT · by Its All Over Except ... · 25 replies
    Politicians in Austria walked out of a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, placing signs in their places that said “A place for peace” and “A place for neutrality.” Zelensky was addressing the Austrian parliament via videofeed. The conservative party called the Party of Freedom had warned that they would stage some kind of demonstration if the Ukrainian president showed up in parliament to ask for military support. Austria’s current public-facing position is that it supports Ukraine politically but will not send weapons or engage militarily in its conflict with Russia because neutral is neutral. Apparently some politicians...
  • Kremlin trying to change Volgograd’s name back to Stalingrad {residents say NO}

    03/30/2023 6:31:12 AM PDT · by Cronos · 33 replies
    EL PAIS ^ | 2 February 2023 | Javier Cuesta
    Vladimir Putin once confessed to the American filmmaker Oliver Stone that “Stalin was a product of his time.” The Soviet dictator was, in the eyes of the Russian president, a historical figure victim of “excessive demonization.” Now, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian authorities are pressing to rename the city of Volgograd and call it Stalingrad, as it was known until 1961.. The glories of the past, even those attributed to Stalin, have become a very valuable political asset for Putin as he seeks to justify his actions in Ukraine. ...This renewed exaltation of Stalin is also evidenced by the...
  • Putin may visit Turkey next month, Erdogan says

    03/29/2023 2:47:27 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 25 replies
    Nikkea Asia ^ | 3/29/2023 | Nikkei Asia
    Russian President Vladimir Putin may visit Turkey next month for the inauguration of the Russian-built Akkuyu nuclear power plant, Anadolu Agency reports, quoting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Putin may attend the April 27 event online or in person, Erdogan says. If he does travel to Turkey, it would mark a rare trip abroad for the Russian leader since the start of the Ukraine war.
  • Blast hit a natural gas pipeline in northern Siberia -Tass agency

    03/29/2023 1:46:46 PM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 8 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 29, 2023
    March 29 (Reuters) - An explosion hit a natural gas pipeline near a village in northern Siberia late on Wednesday but there were no casualties, Tass news agency cited a local official as saying.
  • Ukraine Hits Russian-Held City Deep Behind Front as Talk of Counteroffensive Grows (Melitopol)

    03/29/2023 10:40:04 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 38 replies
    US News ^ | 3/29/2023 | Reuters
    Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind the front line on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out by a failed winter offensive. Unverified images on the internet showed explosions lighting up the night sky with streaks of contrails in Melitopol, base of the Russian-controlled administration in Zaporizhzhia, one of five Ukrainian provinces Russia claims to have annexed. Ukraine's exiled mayor of the city confirmed there were explosions there. Russia's state TASS news agency, citing Moscow-installed officials, said a railway depot was damaged...
  • Ron Johnson casts doubts on continued U.S. aid helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia, calls for negotiations to begin

    03/29/2023 8:31:18 AM PDT · by Mariner · 56 replies
    MJS via Yahoo ^ | March 29th, 2023 | Lawrence Andrea, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson this week expressed doubts over the impact of continued U.S. assistance to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, calling the war unwinnable for either side and suggesting the warring nations need to negotiate an end to the conflict.“At some point people are going to have to understand the reality of the situation,” the Wisconsin Republican told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Tuesday. “I don’t see a scenario, and I’ve asked — I mean, where is there a path to victory from our standpoint? All I see is a grinding stalemate that day-by-day more people...
  • Russia's new tank regiment loses 'large proportion' of its vehicles and suffers heavy human losses while gaining only small amounts of territory - with analysts blaming ill-disciplined, drunk soldiers and flawed assault plans

    03/29/2023 7:41:03 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 50 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/29/2023 | Stewart Carr
    A Russian tank formation intended to cause devastation in Ukraine has been hit with heavy losses due to low morale and poor discipline, it has been reported. The 10th tank regiment is part of the 3rd army corps, the first major new Russian formation in the invasion, but it has already lost 'a large proportion of its tanks, according to British intelligence. After failing attempts to capture Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Moscow is diverting the ailing legion to nearby Avdiivka, The Telegraph reports. -snip- The Ministry of Defence stated: '10th tank regiment's losses have largely been due to tactically...
  • Putin's closest cronies caught calling him 'Satan' and 'a dwarf': Is Somebody new going to fall out of a window in Moscow?

    03/29/2023 7:15:15 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 03/29/2023 | Monica Showalter
    Somebody new going to fall out of a window in Moscow? Seems the czar of Russia is not well regarded by the boyars he holds in his closest circle, and now the entire world now knows about it. That's what we read in the Daily Mail:Moscow's high society has been rocked by a scandal after a pair of prominent Vladimir Putin cronies were allegedly heard insulting the Russian despot.Oligarch and former Russian senator Farkhad Akhmedov and high-profile Moscow music producer Iosif Prigozhin, both supposedly supporters of Putin, have been accused of calling him 'Satan' and a 'dwarf'.An audio recording of...
  • Bulgaria Refuses To Send Weapons To Ukraine, Joins Hungary & Austria’s Neutral Stance

    03/28/2023 5:09:00 PM PDT · by Its All Over Except ... · 25 replies
    Zubu Brothers ^ | 3/28/23 | Staff
    After Austria and Hungary, Bulgaria has also joined the minority group of European Union countries that refuse to send weapons to Ukraine, news and opinion portal Mandiner reports [link at URL]. Bulgaria has declared that it will not take part in the EU’s joint ammunition purchase program, nor will it supply fighter jets or tanks to Ukraine, Euronews reports. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is under enormous pressure from opposition parties, but he has said he stands by his position. ... Although many of its Western allies accuse Hungary of siding with Russia in the war based on its firm stance...
  • In the near future, Putin plans to visit Turkey

    03/28/2023 1:25:01 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 17 replies
    General SVR Telegram (Translated) ^ | 3/28/2023 | General SVR Telegram
    In the near future, Putin plans to visit Turkey. Active preparations for the visit are underway. A meeting with Erdogan for Putin should solve several issues at once. The main topic should be Erdogan's persuasion to influence Zelensky to move to negotiations "on adequate terms" and the prologue to the negotiations should be the freezing of the conflict. The Russian president will be quite satisfied with any "Minsk-3" or "Istanbul-1", if only a truce was recorded and Russian troops were given the opportunity to "recover" and fill the gaps in forces and means for further hostilities. There are still a...
  • Scandal rocks Moscow elite after prominent Putin cronies are heard calling the Russian leader 'Satan' and 'dwarf' in 'leaked phone recording'

    03/28/2023 9:07:13 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 31 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/28/2023 | Chri Jewers
    Moscow's high society has been rocked by a scandal after a pair of prominent Vladimir Putin cronies were allegedly heard insulting the Russian despot. Oligarch and former Russian senator Farkhad Akhmedov and high-profile Moscow music producer Iosif Prigozhin, both supposedly supporters of Putin, have been accused of calling him a 'Satan' and a 'dwarf'. An audio recording of what is reportedly a 35-minute phone call between the wealthy pair was shared by Ukraine's Channel Five and quickly jumped on by other outlets - as well as Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). In the audio clip, the pair are heard eviscerating...
  • Bolton on Putin plans to deploy nukes in Belarus: ‘He may not be bluffing here’

    03/27/2023 7:23:47 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/27/2023 | JULIA MUELLER
    Former national security adviser John Bolton on Monday said Russian President Vladimir Putin “may not be bluffing” about his plans to move nuclear weapons into neighboring Belarus as Moscow’s war on Ukraine stretches into its second year. Putin’s threat to station the weapons in Belarus has been condemned by the U.S. and NATO — and Ukraine has called the move “nuclear blackmail.” “Well, I think he’s been bluffing when he’s tried to rattle the nuclear saber before. He may not be bluffing here in the sense he may actually move tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus, which is its own separate...
  • Biden snubs NATO allies; Putin’s ‘friend’ Hungary, Turkey left out of Democracy Summit | Report

    03/26/2023 9:13:44 PM PDT · by Its All Over Except ... · 128 replies
    Hindustan Times ^ | 3/27/23 | Staff
    The U.S. has reportedly decided not to invite two of its allies to the ‘Summit for Democracy,' which is touted as President Biden’s hallmark foreign policy initiative. The U.S. government is inviting around 120 countries to join its 'Summit for Democracy' next week. But two NATO allies, Turkey and Hungary, aren’t going to get a call. The snub is likely to inflame tensions between the U.S. and its two NATO allies even further. ...
  • Putin: You too can earn big bucks by fighting in Ukraine

    03/26/2023 8:19:33 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Hotair ^ | 03/26/2023 | Jazz Shaw
    Russia is still cutting deals with China, Iran, and North Korea to make sure they don’t run out of missiles and ammunition, but there’s one thing that they can’t import in any significant numbers. What they’re running short of are soldiers. Moscow doesn’t publish precise figures, but one recent estimate puts the Russian death toll in Ukraine at more than 70,000. Others suspect that the true figure is closer to 100,000. And then there are the tens of thousands who survived but were too grievously injured to return to combat. With the ranks thinning so badly, Vladimir Putin has launched...
  • A Year Into War, Ukraine Faces Challenges Mobilizing Troops

    03/25/2023 2:45:56 PM PDT · by Its All Over Except ... · 43 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/23/23 | Matthew Luxmoore
    DNIPRO, Ukraine—One Ukrainian paid almost $10,000 to flee the draft. Another has ignored five military summonses. A third avoids public spaces, fearing a military official will pounce and issue a call-up. After a year of war, Ukraine is facing increasing challenges in raising the troops it needs to resist Russian forces and eject them from its territory. When Russia invaded in February last year, thousands of volunteers lined up outside military recruitment centers. With many of them now dead or injured, Ukrainian authorities are scrambling to recruit replacements, often drafting those who have neither the desire nor the training to...
  • Russia to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

    03/25/2023 12:02:33 PM PDT · by JonPreston · 96 replies
    Guardian ^ | 3/25/23 | The Guardian
    Russia has struck a deal with Belarus to station tactical nuclear weapons on its territory but will not violate non-proliferation agreements, Vladimir Putin has said.The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, had long raised the issue of stationing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, which borders Poland, Putin told state television.“There is nothing unusual here either: firstly, the United States has been doing this for decades,” he said. “They have long deployed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allied countries. A video grab from footage released by the Russian defence ministry last month apparently shows Russian forces in a drill...
  • Zelensky Admitted That Ukraine Already Ran Out Of Ammo

    03/25/2023 11:20:29 AM PDT · by Its All Over Except ... · 76 replies
    Zubu Brothers ^ | 3/25/23 | Staff
    The very fact that Ukraine is out of ammunition per Zelensky’s damning admission to Japanese media proves that the West’s defeat in its self-declared “race of logistics” with Russia might already be a fait accompli by this point since it’s clear that Kiev can’t keep pace with its opponent despite being backed by all of NATO’s military-industrial capacity. The US-led West’s Mainstream Media (MSM) began reporting more accurately [link at URL] on the military-strategic dynamics of the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine since the start of the year, but the true test of their comparatively improved integrity will be whether...
  • Putin says Moscow has deal with Belarus to station nuclear weapons there

    03/25/2023 11:14:34 AM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 10 replies
    reuteurs ^ | 3/25/23 | Reuters
    Russia has struck a deal with neighbouring Belarus to station tactical nuclear weapons on its territory but will not violate non-proliferation agreements, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had long raised the issue of stationing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, which borders Poland, Putin told state television. "There is nothing unusual here either: firstly, the United States has been doing this for decades. They have long deployed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allied countries," he said. "We agreed that we will do the same - without violating our obligations, I emphasize, without...
  • Chechnya's Kadyrov Decorated For Defending Human Rights

    03/25/2023 7:50:26 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 7 replies
    Radio Free Europe ^ | 3/25/2023 | RFE/RL's Russian Service
    The controversial head of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been decorated as an "honored human rights defender of the Chechen Republic." He was cited for "outstanding services in the defense of the constitutional rights and liberties of the citizenry," according to Russian state media on March 24.