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  • Russian Spy Ship Reportedly Catches Fire Off Syrian Coast, Drifts Uncontrolled

    02/07/2025 6:37:31 PM PST · by Apparatchik · 67 replies
    United 24 Media ^ | 7 February 2025 | Lucy Bruzard
    A Russian intelligence-gathering vessel caught fire and temporarily lost control off the Syrian coast on Janaury 23, according to Associated Press (AP). The Kildin, a Russian spy ship equipped with surveillance technology, was seen emitting black smoke and flames as it drifted, prompting an urgent maritime radio warning to nearby vessels. The Associated Press obtained audio of the broadcast, as well as video and photographs of the incident. “Warship on your course,” the Russian Captain said. “I am drifting. I’m not under command.” The videos, taken by three NATO military officials, were collected by a nearby NATO vessel. These officials...
  • China and India - Two Countries Refuse to Purchase Russian Oil Due to Freight Costs

    01/30/2025 11:56:44 AM PST · by dennisw · 33 replies
    Russian Pravda ^ | 28.01.2025
    China and India have stopped buying Russian oil due to increased freight costs for tankers not subject to US sanctions. A representative from India's Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd stated that the company has not received new supply offers for March, as is usually the case, and expects the volume of cargoes offered for the first month of spring to decrease compared to January and December. Typically, India receives offers for Russian oil supplies in the middle of each month. Traders noted that the premium for Russian ESPO crude oil has increased by $3-5 per barrel compared to ICE Brent, while...
  • Trump says Russia stole U.S. hypersonic missile plans

    01/24/2025 3:01:10 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 98 replies
    Washington Times ^ | 1/23/2025 | Mallory Wilson
    President Trump re-upped his claim that Russia stole the plan for hypersonic missiles during the Obama administration. “Russia stole the design, they got it from us,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity. Part two of the interview, his first since taking the reins at the White House, was aired Thursday night. “Some bad person gave them the design,” he said, adding that the United States will have super hypersonic missiles “which is even a step better.”
  • Total Kievan Debellation

    01/10/2025 10:53:03 AM PST · by EnderWiggin1970 · 1 replies
    Substack ^ | 1/9/25 | Big Serge
    On March 5, 2022, the wreck of the sailing ship Endurance was found in the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. This, of course, was the vessel lost in Ernest Shackelton’s third expedition to Antarctica, which became trapped in the ice and sank in 1915. The story of that expedition is an extraordinary tale of human fortitude - with the Endurance lost to the ice, Shackleton’s crew evacuated to a loose ice flow where they camped for nearly 500 days, drifting about the Antarctic seas, before making a desperate dash across the open ocean in an...
  • In Kursk, the Ukrainian invasion is back

    01/09/2025 10:15:37 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 143 replies
    The Hill ^ | 1/9/2025 | JONATHAN SWEET AND MARK TOTH
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals have an artful knack for keeping the Russian military bear off-balance. On Sunday, they renewed their offensive in the Russian Kursk Oblast, once again catching the Russian high command, Kremlin, and many pundits by surprise. Reports of a demoralized Ukrainian army fighting to retain terrain captured during the August Kursk offensive — of which at least 40 percent has been lost — have circulated among western media and Russian milbloggers since November. So too reports that Ukraine’s 155th Mechanized Brigade — trained and equipped by France — was under-resourced in “first person view...
  • Eight Russian paramilitary soldiers killed in friendly fire attack by North Koreans after enlisting DPRK help

    12/30/2024 6:11:13 PM PST · by dennisw · 44 replies
    NY POST ^ | Published Dec. 16, 2024, 3:39 a.m. ET | By Ronny Reyes
    North Korean troops accidentally killed eight Russian paramilitary soldiers in a “friendly fire” attack as they tried to take back Kursk from Ukraine, Kyiv officials said. A Saturday skirmish along the frontlines in the Kursk Oblast saw a group of North Korean troops target and fire at the Chechen Akhmat unit, killing eight of their allies, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR). The friendly fire incident allegedly occurred due to the “language barrier” between Moscow and Pyongyang’s troops, as the more than 11,000 North Korean soldiers in Russia struggle to adapt to their new environment. “When using the DPRK...
  • As Putin reaches 25 years in power, has he 'taken care of Russia'?

    12/29/2024 5:39:39 AM PST · by RandFan · 67 replies
    BBC ^ | Dec 29 | Steve Rosenberg -- BBC Russia editor
    I will never forget New Year's Eve 1999. I was working as a producer in the BBC's Moscow bureau. Suddenly there was breaking news: Russia's President Boris Yeltsin had stepped down. His decision to resign took everyone by surprise, including the British press corps in Moscow. When the news broke there was no correspondent in the office. That meant I had to step in to write and broadcast my first BBC dispatch. "Boris Yeltsin always said he would see out his full term in office," I wrote. "Today he told Russians he'd changed his mind." It was the start of...
  • Volodymyr Zelensky says there are over 3,000 North Korean troops wounded or killed in Kursk

    12/24/2024 8:17:56 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 67 replies
    New York Post ^ | December 24, 2024
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that North Korea could be planning to send more troops and weapons to aid Russia’s army after more than 3,000 soldiers from the hermit kingdom have been killed and wounded while fighting in Ukraine. “There are risks of North Korea sending additional troops and military equipment to the Russian army,” Zelensky said Monday after receiving a report from his top military commander. “We will have tangible responses to this.”
  • Russian President: If I could go back in time, I would think about a "special operation" in Ukraine

    12/19/2024 8:14:42 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 16 replies
    APA ^ | 12/19/2024 | Staff
    If I had the opportunity to go back in time, knowing what I know now, I would reconsider the decision regarding the "special operation" in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his annual press conference, APA's Moscow correspondent reports. that this was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual press conference. He emphasized that preparation was needed before launching the "special operation": "But we began the operations without any special preparation.
  • Trump Says Russia Abandoned Syria's Assad, Never Should Have Been Involved

    12/08/2024 4:06:26 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 27 replies
    US News ^ | 12/8/2024 | Reuters
    U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that Russia's abandonment of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad led to his downfall, adding Moscow never should have protected him in the first place and then lost interest because of a war in Ukraine that never should have started. "Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by (President) Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place," Trump wrote. "They lost all interest in...
  • What's Really Outrageous About Bob Woodward's New Book

    10/09/2024 9:13:22 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 44 replies
    RealityCheck ^ | 10/09/2024 | Alan Tonelson
    So much outrage (including from Vice President and Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris) about the claim in Bob Woodward’s upcoming book that Donald Trump during his presidency sent some test kits to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin at the height of the Covid pandemic when they were scarce in the United States. And about the famed journalist’s report that the former president called Putin seven times since the former left the Oval Office in January, 2021. (See, e.g., here.)And so little about by far the biggest outrage described in War (if true, of course – as with the above revelations): that...
  • Russia says it's battling a surprise cross-border assault by Ukraine

    08/07/2024 6:05:37 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 108 replies
    NBC ^ | 8/7/24 | Yuliya Talmazan
    Russia said Wednesday it was battling an unprecedented cross-border incursion from Ukrainian troops backed by armored vehicles and aerial support, with Moscow scrambling to reinforce the area after what President Vladimir Putin called a “major provocation.” The attack has not been acknowledged by Ukraine but would mark a dramatic shift in strategy as its forces struggle to hold onto key territory on the front lines in the country’s east.
  • Article - Ukraine War Will End in Surrender... There will not be negotiations with Zelensky

    08/04/2024 11:42:48 AM PDT · by Jumper · 38 replies
    Weapons.Substack.com ^ | 1 July 2024 | Stephen Bryen - former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and is a leading expert in security stra
    The Ukraine war will end in a surrender, not in a negotiated deal. That is my sense of where the war is headed and why the parties cannot negotiate a settlement. The article is at the link, not posted due to possible copyrights. The author explains the root causes why negotiations are not possible between Ukraine and Russia.
  • Russia loses ‘astronomical’ 70,000 troops in 60 days

    The update by the Ministry of Defence added that the heavy losses would likely continue as Russia looked to make gains across the front lines in Ukraine. “The average daily Russian casualties (killed and wounded) in Ukraine, throughout May and June 2024, increased to conflict highs of 1,262 and 1,163 respectively,” the MoD wrote.
  • Russian soldier says army suffering heavy losses in Kharkiv offensive

    06/16/2024 10:32:58 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 42 replies
    Guardian UK ^ | 6/16/2024 | Pjotr Sauer
    Anton Andreev says only 12 out of 100 soldiers remained alive after unit came under Ukrainian fire and drones in Vovchansk. Anton Andreev, a Russian soldier from the fifth company of the 1009th regiment, painted a bleak picture of Russia’s offensive in the Ukrainian northern region of Kharkiv. His unit had been decimated, he said, with only 12 out of 100 soldiers still alive as they came under constant Ukrainian fire and drones in Vovchansk, a prime target of Russia’s advances. “They just chop us up. We are sent under machine guns, under drones in daylight, like meat. And commanders...
  • How the Czech Republic has just stopped Putin cold and saved Ukraine

    03/14/2024 6:13:00 AM PDT · by dennisw · 127 replies
    MSN ^ | 3-- 13 | David Axe
    Russia went to war in Ukraine two years ago with twice as many artillery pieces as Ukraine had. But it isn’t the advantage in howitzers that really matters – it’s the advantage in shells. The Czechs found, for Ukraine, nearly a million shells precisely when Ukraine needed those million shells the most: at the peak of Russia’s winter offensive. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Czech artillery initiative probably saved entire Ukrainian cities, by giving the Ukrainian army the firepower to resist a much bigger Russian army. It’s no secret how Ukraine got into an artillery bind late...
  • The Russian military cemeteries laying bare the ‘huge cost’ of the Ukraine war

    03/09/2024 4:27:44 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 49 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 9 March 2024 | Sean Rayment
    Satellite pictures capturing the massive expansion of Russian military cemeteries prove the “huge cost” of the Ukraine war for Moscow’s army, according to experts. The “startling” pictures show cemeteries linked to elite units such as the Guards Airborne Division, the Guards Motorised Division and the Wagner Mercenary group have all grown substantially in size since the invasion began in February 2022. Although Russia does not provide a death toll for its soldiers, the pictures – provided by Maxar Technologies and obtained by The Telegraph and National Security News – add weight to Western estimates of significant losses. Images of just...
  • Iranian press review: Iranians question Russia ties after Israel killed key commander in Syria

    01/08/2024 6:00:29 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 4 replies
    Middle East Eye ^ | 1/7/2024 | Staff
    An Israeli missile attack that killed a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force in Syria last week has sparked criticism of the military partnership between Russia and Iran. On 25 December, Seyyed Reza Mousavi, a key figure in shaping Iran's military presence in Syria, was killed in a missile strike on his residence in the Zainabiyah neighbourhood of Damascus. Although it wasn't the first time that Israel had targeted Iranian forces in Syria, this incident has drawn attention to Russia's failure to deploy its advanced S-300 anti-missile defence system in support of Iran, its primary...
  • Russian anti-war candidate blocked from facing Putin in presidential election

    12/23/2023 7:11:41 PM PST · by Libloather · 8 replies
    Fox News ^ | 12/23/23 | Michael Dorgan
    A former TV journalist and Ukraine War critic has been disqualified from running against Russian President Vladimir Putin in next year’s presidential election. Yekaterina Duntsova, 40, an independent politician who wanted to run on a platform to end the war with Ukraine, had her candidacy application unanimously rejected by the country’s electoral commission on Saturday, which cited "numerous violations" in the papers she had submitted. Duntsova had submitted her application on Wednesday having secured the endorsement of 500 supporters as required by Russian election law. The commission found 100 errors in her nomination papers, including mistakes in the spelling of...
  • Russia says it's working on major new agreement with Iran

    12/13/2023 10:39:11 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 27 replies
    Reuters ^ | 12/12/2023 | Reuters
    Russia and Iran will speed up work on a "major new interstate agreement", the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday. -snip- Iran is the main backer of Israel's enemy Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone with Putin on Sunday and voiced "robust disapproval" of Russia's "dangerous" cooperation with Iran. Iranian authorities have said military cooperation with Russia is expanding day by day. Iran said last month it had finalised arrangements for Russia to provide it with Su-35 fighter jets, Mi-28 attack helicopters and Yak-130 pilot training aircraft.