A recent attempt on youtube by an obvious anti-Russian, to pour scorn on this film's historical accuracy, tries to point out that the nazi troops state they are members of a unit that was not there.. but can't bring himself to see that they might have been lying!
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St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox
SpiritualCare Centre
THE TRAGEDY IN UKRAINE
"Veterans and children of the Great PatrioticWar: to the Government andpeopleof Germany".
By events in Ukraine
Today, when the German government decided
to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons, the
world has changed -- the silhouettes of a
new world war are more than clearly
outlined! And again - Germany!
But there are honest people in Germany.. anti-
fascists, and we hope that this Message will
fall into their hands. People born between
1927 and 1945 have the status of "war
children" in Russia.
All those who survived that war can subscribe to this letter. We think that actual signatures are not necessary, we suggest that veterans(or "war children"), read them this letter, independently or with someone's help,
and send us (at the coordinatesindicated below) something like the following:
Moscow, Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich, 90 years old, disabled war veteran (or otherwise), Hero of the Soviet Union (or Holder of the Order of Glory... or otherwise), was repatriated to Germany during the war (or otherwise).
Or just the city, full name, and age. The
main thing, is that they should be real
people who are familiar with the text.
MESSAGE TEXT
We, the last veterans -- and all the peoples of
Russia who survived that great and terrible
war.. are now on the verge of death! Our
time is already running out. For a huge
part of our lives, we hoped we would
come to the end of it, in peace -
without all-destroying hatred!
For the painfully long decades after the Second World War, we overcame our righteous anger! I long for retribution for the innumerable wounds, spiritual and physical.. that we still carry in our bodies and our hearts! And most of us have forgiven! And not in a small way due to the fact that Germany for many years, has demonstrated its repentance its understanding of what it has done! And we have overcome -- not only ourselves, but also the voice of the blood of our barbarically exterminated relatives! By whom? Germans ...fascists!
We have forgiven... following the laws of human
coexistence! So it was... until 2014. And then,
in 2014, when everything began in Ukraine...
we looked with hope at Germany, and at the
then Chancellor Angela Merkel. We couldn't imagine that after all that the Germans did
in Ukraine, after Babi Yar, after mountains
of mutilated corpses, they would still look
with lust: at the Ukrainian fields that can
feed Europe today! Or they, the Germans,
who have covered the Crimea they once
promised with blood, will still somehow be interested in turning the Crimea into an American - and in general - a NATO base, ideal for aggression against Russia! Which would be clearly
aimed at afuture war.
After all -- only fools do not understand the meaning and goals of the entire coup inUkraine..... in the conditions of which Russia behaved in the only possible way! But the Germans are not fools! We the Russians, know for certain your psychology, as "brothers in blood" - our blood, which you "prudently" shed in rivers!
We remember -- your "systematic methods of
population reduction"! Our population! Until
now - in different parts of our once united
Homeland - where the boot of German
fascism was trodden, we find hidden
mass graves of our civilians: in the
Novgorod region, in the Kuban, in
the Rostov region, in Karelia. In
Belarus, in 2021... hundreds of
civilian remains... were found
in Brest ...on the site of the
Jewish ghetto the Trostenets
concentration camp.... near
Minsk terrible in its tragedy
revealed the secret of the
remains... of thousands of
tortured and killed people!
We are talking about tens of thousands of newly discovered victims of Nazism! This blood - still cries out for revenge - and for decades the memory of these barbarously destroyed
Russian people -- and monuments to Russian soldiers, liberators - have been desecrated with impunity!
And the new Nazis are marching in the Baltic
States and Ukraine - in front of the entire
"civilized" world! But, in 2014, we were
sincerely convinced - that in this new
Nazi demarche it's the Germans who
will be our associates in preventing
this meanness!
We hoped that, guided by an elementary
conscience -- the Germans would not
participate.. in an obviously fascist
anti-state coup in Ukraine! After all
...the subsequent catastrophe of
modern Ukraine was committed
by direct descendants of those
who were special bastards in
the German army! Clearly,
openly!
Americans and Canadians have only hidden and preserved this diabolical heritage... feeding thisgeneration, but the product of this evil... is Germany! Hitler's Germany! And it was impossible for us to believe that it was Germany that would again give a "road map" to these inhumans! But we were wrong! Germany has once again allowed these fascist geeks...... to enter the world!
The support of modern Germany - in the face of
the new government of Ukraine-Bandera.. the
heirs of the SS division "Galicia" -- the thugs
of the UPA OUN, and all other abominations;
is simply unthinkable for us! This is beyond
all that is human! But you.. Germany, have already done it and continue to do it! You
have, once again, set your sights on the
Slavic world and these geeks are blood
from the blood of German Nazism! And
again to Russia!
Only, even more despicable: inciting our closest Ukrainian brothers against us! And you know it! You know this as well as we do! You killed one nation in that Great War! Yes, we are one people!
The truth is written and often spoken about
by your own Steinmeier, who at the same
time, viciously took a direct part in the
Kiev coup of 2014 — fascist in fact!
This American.. may not be clear about some-
things, but it's more than that, for you! And
after all, it was your vykormysh... that got
ready.. for their torchlight processions in
Kiev! The living shadow of Nazi Germany
is behind all this. It was only temporarily
covered up by sly diplomacy - "helmets
instead of guns"! But that's it, "masks
are reset"! Your supply of German
weapons to Ukraine today... is
natural - it is in the logic of
your policy of recent
decades.
Today it is clearly pro-fascist! You have taken
this step: German weapons will kill Russians
again! Keep killing. During the years of the
conflict in the Donbas, your professional
killers have already killed Russians, at
least by teaching them... "how to kill
correctly"! Only now -- it's even more
despicable — you're teaching this to
- your blood brothers! Donbass is on
your conscience! Thousands of lives
of its peaceful citizens --- again your
handiwork! We do not care about the
role of Americans, in everything that
happens: there, is money-God! We,
veterans of that war, its children,
are concerned about the role of
the Germans! Because it is you
who know -- exactly -- who the
Ukrainian "national battalions"
consist of --- and could have
prevented and stopped, this
new fascism ! But they did
not do it! And just by doing
this -- you are once again,
responsible to history!
And you are definitely participating ---- in the
preparation of Ukraine for war with Russia!
You can't help but understand the purpose
of everything that happened ---- from the
unconstitutional coup in Kiev .....to the
bloodshed in the Donbass! But, in fact
this is preparation for the Third World
War! And again, you are Germans...
Germany! We hear from the high
German rostrum in Berlin today:
"Russia, will pay a high price"!!!
This is the German Chancellor's
speech! Unthinkable! We have
already paid the price ------ 27
million of our lives! Isn't that
enough for you?! What price
are you still talking about?
There is no home ----- in Russia, Ukraine and
Belarus - where "this price" isn't paid! And
there is no home --- in Germany, that did
not participate in that terrible, bloody
barbarism! It's scary! It's wild! And
today, there are, already, more than
13 thousand dead Russian people
in the Donbass at the hands of
the new Nazis!
The German Chancellor's public mockery of the
Russian genocide in the Donbas, is a crime in
itself! How much can the lessons of history
be misunderstood - and discredited! The
scariest story in the world! Do you want
to be even scarier?! After all, this new
"Dranch nach Oschtern" ..may lead to
the fact that the 2nd Nuremberg trial
over you will no longer be - there will
simply be no humanity! You won't be
here! But a special Ecumenical trial
of you Germans is inevitable! Over
all aggressors — but over you
ESPECIALLY!
World justice will be served! And we --- the last
veterans of that terrible war, are leaving this
world ---- as witnesses! Witnesses for the
PROSECUTION! And today the victory
will be ours, but those who died
yesterday, or those of us who
will die today, already bear
witness to the role of the
German people, in the
history of the human
world — a bloody
history!
German weapons are back in the
hands of Nazi thugs! Please stop!
Email addresses for information:
veterans1945@yandex.ru
https://t.me/Veteran_v_stroy_chat
- Russian Union of Veterans: organizing
questions and collecting signatures of
veterans and children of the Second
World War
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veteran1944@yandex.ru -questions about
this publication to its author: Monk John (Adlivankin), Deputy Head of the Russian Orthodox Church. head and ved.
specialist.... of the St. Peter's
Orthodox Counseling Centre.
St. John of Kronstadt.
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If you want the truth about the massacre of civilans in Bucha - paste the web address below into your browser
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6ZHPL2pTuadJ/
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THE LATEST NEWS
Express: The Hazel Tree -------- Can
Cause Serious Damage to the UK
November 1st, 3:35pm
(RT.ru)
Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to deploy the
Oreshnik missile system in Belarus has caused concern
in the UK, according to the Express newspaper.
"Russia is going to deploy a modern ballistic missile
capable of striking the UK," the article says.
Earlier, the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, said
that the "Oreshnik" will be on combat duty in December in
Belarus. He also said that the decision to use the missile
system will be made together with Putin.
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Zakharova said - that the West
believes in the reality: of the
Burevestnik missile
November 1st, 3:09pm
(RT.ru)
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
said that the West had believed in the reality of the
Burevestnik missile.
"We are now hearing feedback. They.. are not silent.
They are very afraid that we will show them further,
so ...let's stretch the fun," RIA Novosti quotes her words.
The Russian President's Press Secretary
Dmitry Peskov praised the Burevestnik.
Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin,
also said earlier, that the Burevestnik and
Poseidon ------- will change the general
perception of ''defense''.
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Russian Defense Ministry - Ukrainian
Armed Forces Soldiers Surrounded
near Krasnoarmeysk.....
Start Surrendering
November 1st, 1:15pm
(Vesti.ru)
The militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were
surrounded near Krasnoarmeysk in the DPR, began to
lay down their arms. The Russian Ministry of Defense
published the relevant testimonies of the
captured soldiers.
One of the surrendered militants, Vyacheslav Krevenko,
shared the details of his surrender with the
military department.
"I realized that the commander had abandoned us, a long
time ago. My partner and I tried to organize a defense in
a private house. But then we decided that it was better
to surrender. There was no point in resisting. The
commander had betrayed us. There was no
point at all," Krevenko said.
Earlier, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis
Pushilin, reported on the advance of Russian units in
the Krasnoarmeysk direction. According to his
information, intensive street fighting
continues in the settlement, while
the Ukrainian side is trying to
carry out counterattacks.
Also on November 1, the Ministry of Defense reported that
the assault troops of the 2nd Army of the Russian Armed
Forces continue to destroy the encircled militants of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine ----- in the area of the railway
station in Krasnoarmeysk.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Attempt to
land Ukrainian GUR group near
Krasnoarmeysk suppressed
November 1st, 9:34am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces prevented a special operations
group from landing from a helicopter near Krasnoarmeysk
in the Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported by
the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Russian military department noted that Ukrainian
forces had attempted to land.... north-west of the
city's outskirts.
"All 11 people who landed from the helicopter were killed,"
the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
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TASS: The Russian Armed Forces
liberated over 250 settlements
in 2025
November 1st, 2:38am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces - liberated more than 250
settlements in 2025. The figures are given by TASS.
According to the agency, the Russian army occupied
and regained control of the cities, villages, and
settlements in the Donetsk and Luhansk
People's Republics (DPR and LPR),
Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk,
Zaporizhzhia, & Kursk regions.
The day before, the press service of the Russian Ministry
of Defense reported, that the military personnel of the
Russian Armed Forces - had liberated the village of
Novoaleksandrovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Earlier, Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian
Foreign Ministry and chief expert of the Heritage of Eurasia
Foundation, Alexander Artamonov, said that ------ with the
liberation by the Russian army, of Krasnoarmeysk city
in the DPR, there will be a breakthrough at the front.
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Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters were killed
near Kharkiv while trying to lead officers
out of the encirclement
November 1st, 2:09am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian drone operators destroyed a group of Ukrainian
soldiers who were trying to lead Ukrainian officers out
of the encirclement. This was reported by TASS.
According to the source, after receiving information from
intelligence, the drone operators struck Ukrainian
militants who were riding ATVs.
"In the Kharkiv direction, Russian drone operators destroyed
Ukrainian soldiers who were supposed to lead a group of
Ukrainian officers out of the encirclement,"
the source said.
As a result of the attack, all Ukrainian military personnel
were killed, and the evacuation of Ukrainian officers
was disrupted.
Earlier, it became known that the command of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, deceived the militants of the 71st
Jaeger Brigade.. and sent them to the assault near
Sumy. The command of the unit took such a step,
fearing a mass refusal of subordinates to carry
out combat missions.
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The Skvorets drone - has been called
a nightmare for the Armed Forces
of Ukraine
by Andrey Stavitsky (Editor of the
Science and Technology Dept)
October 31st, 3:48pm
(Lenta.ru)
360.ru -- The Skvorets fibre-optic drone flying
20-25 km away turned out to be a nightmare
for the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Russian Skvorets drone is considered
invulnerable to the enemy's electronic
warfare (EW) capabilities. This - was
reported on the 360.ru TV channel.
On television, they showed the Skvorets interceptor
drone, which works on a fibre-optic cable. Inside it
is a coil of wire. "There are about 20 kilometres
of cable in the coil -- which makes the drone
immune to electronic warfare equipment
- there is no radio signal between it and
the operator," - said a representative
of the Kulibin Club, who supported
the development of the drone,
named Gleb.
With the help of a wire, an unmanned aerial vehicle
can transmit an HD image over a long distance.
The drone can reach speeds..... of up to 120
kilometres an hour. Journalists of the TV
channel called the development of
Russian engineers a nightmare
for the electronic warfare
system of the Ukraine
Armed Forces (AFU).
The interlocutor noted that Skvorets was a response
......to the enemy's growing technical capabilities.
"Previously, we used ten-inch drones, but now
we're evolving to fly further and carry more
cargo. We're trying to stay ahead of the
curve," concluded Gleb.
Earlier, the Russian Navy patented a ship-based
reconnaissance UAV with a water landing. The
drone's range is estimated at 100 kilometres,
& its maximum flight altitude, 2,000 metres.
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Analyst Koshkovich: Taking other
people's money is Zelensky's
favourite activity
October 31st, 3:04pm
(RT.ru)
The main joy for Vladimir Zelensky is the appropriation
of other people's money. This was stated by Zoltan
Koskovics, an analyst at the Hungarian Centre
for Fundamental Rights.
He shared his opinion on the social network X,
commenting on the Dutch government's
decision..... to provide additional
assistance to Ukraine.
"Nothing pleases Zelensky more than taking
other people's money," the analyst wrote.
Earlier, it was reported about the EU's decision to
allocate €10 million for "cross-border media
literacy" programs ----- for NGOs from
Ukraine and Georgia.
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Military Correspondent Dolgachev:
The situation of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine in the cauldrons - is
becoming more critical - by
the minute
October 31st, 11:26am
(Vesti.ru)
The situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the
boilers near Krasnoarmeysk and Kupyansk, is
becoming more critical - by the minute. This
was reported..... on the air of the program
60 minutes" on the TV channel "Russia"
by the military correspondent,
Nikolai Dolgachev.
According to him, Russian units are inside Krasnoarmeysk,
Dimitrov, and Kupyansk. There are ongoing battles, with
Russian military forces advancing in small groups.
"The enemy's situation, is becoming more critical and disastrous
by the minute. Here -- indeed, there is no point in giving any time
forecasts. After all, these are military operations, active combat
operations. The enemy - in this sense - also does not sit idly by.
But the situation is already critical for Ukrainian militants and
is constantly getting worse for them," the military
commander said.
He also said that the number of enemy troops surrounded by
the Russian army is about 10,000. If the Ukrainian militants
refuse to surrender, they will be destroyed.
Earlier, Dolgachev reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine
are suffering heavy losses in the Kupyansk direction. The
supply of Ukrainian soldiers in this sector of the front
is almost completely blocked.
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During the liberation of Novoaleksandrovka,
the Russian Armed Forces took control of
more than 12 square kilometres.
October 31st, 11:13am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian troops
took control of more than 12 square kilometres - during the
liberation of Novoaleksandrovka in Dnipropetrovsk region
and -- according to the Russian military department -- the
Russian Armed Forces have cleared about 100 buildings.
"The enemy's defense area - with a total area of more than
12 square kilometres has passed under the control of the
group's units ----- and about 100 buildings have been
cleared," the report says.
The liberation of Novoaleksandrovka was reported by the
Russian Ministry of Defense on Friday, October 31. The
village is located about 10 kilometres southeast of
Pokrovskoye... on the road that connects this
settlement with the city of Gulyai-Pole in
the Zaporizhzhia region.
Novoaleksandrovka was liberated by the
troops of the Vostok military group.
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Russian military liberated
7 settlements in the SVO
zone ....in a week
October 31st, 10:50am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian army has liberated seven settlements in the
special operation zone in a week, according to the
Russian Ministry of Defense.
It specified that the units of the Vostok group of troops
------- liberated the settlements of Novonikolayevka,
Krasnogorskoye, Privolnoye of the Zaporozhye
region, as well as Yegorovka, Vishnevoye
and Novoaleksandrovka, of the
Dnepropetrovsk region.
''The village of Sadovoye, in Kharkiv region --- was liberated
by Units of the Zapad group of Forces. Over the past week
units of the Vostok group of troops continued to advance
into the depths of the enemy's defenses," the Russian
Defense Ministry stated ----- in a Telegram channel.
In their area of responsibility, the Armed Forces of Ukraine
(AFU) also lost up to 1,950 troops, 14 armoured vehicles,
and 108 cars.
In addition, the Russian military between October 25
and 31 launched one massive and five group strikes
on the facilities of the military-industrial complex
(MIC) of Ukraine
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Captured Ukrainians helped
destroy the AFU bunkers in
the Dnipropetrovsk region
October 31st, 3:26am
(Vesti.ru)
Fighters of the Russian group of troops "Vostok" - during the
liberation of the village of Vishnevoye in the Dnipropetrovsk
region captured 3 militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
- who disclosed information about the enemy's positions,
said a fighter with the call sign Utes in an interview
with RIA Novosti.
The captured militants provided information about
the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in this sector
of the front.
"We took three Ukrainians prisoner. They were interrogated and
taken out of the forest belt. All the coordinates that were with
them, all the hard copies, electronic media – everything was
handed over to the management. Some strongholds were
declassified. We reported to the leadership, and our
artillery worked well, destroyed the enemy, "
RIA Novosti quotes Utes as saying.
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Vostok fighter with the call sign Old:
I see my son...... in every soldier
October 31st, 2:40am
(Vesti.ru)
During the liberation of the village of Vishnevoye... in the
Dnipropetrovsk region, one of the first Russian soldiers
to enter the village was a fighter with the call sign
"Stary" from the 36th Guards Brigade of the 29th
Army of the "Vostok" group. On the "Russia 1"
TV channel, he spoke about the motivations
that led him to the front - at the age of 60.
The call sign "Old" is used by a Russian Armed Forces soldier
who went to the SVO zone to continue the journey of his son,
who did not return home. At his advanced age, he left
everything behind.... to take on the burden of his
son's mission.
"I want to finish what my son didn't do. I see my son in every
soldier. I try to explain, tell, and show them the best way
to do things," the soldier said.
In Vishnevoye, Russian fighters took control of a large
fortified bridgehead of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
and cleared almost 300 buildings. The irreparable
losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fighters
amounted to more than 150 people.
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A fighter single-handedly destroyed five
Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters
in the Zaporizhzhia region
October 31st, 2:02am
(Vesti.ru)
A fighter of the Russian group of troops "Vostok" single-handedly
destroyed five militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in
the Zaporozhye direction, said the commander with the call
sign Raccoon, in an interview with RIA Novosti.
A group of three Russian soldiers
reached an AFU stronghold.
"There was an opponent there. Two people lay down and opened
fire, distracting the enemy to themselves. At this time, the third
comrade crawled away and went to the rear of the enemy and
destroyed the enemy. Five people he put down - because the
enemy did not expect it," RIA Novosti quoted the Raccoon
as saying.
Meanwhile, some of the AFU militants use sports and hunting
weapons in the Zaporizhzhia direction, which are unsuitable
for fully-fledged combat operations.
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Miroshnik: Organizations Don't Want to Know
About the Torture of Russian Prisoners
by Kiev's Armed Forces
October 31, 2:14am
(Vesti.ru)
International organizations that visit Russian prisoners of war in
Ukraine are doing their work formally and do not want to know
the truth about the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) torturing
Russian prisoners, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign
Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large for the Crimes of the
Kiev Regime, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to Miroshnik, the Ukrainian Armed Forces stop beating
Russian prisoners of war and start feeding them properly -- only
before visits from inspectors from the International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC). However, when the inspectors leave,
the Russian soldiers are subjected to "full-scale abuse."
"Representatives of international organizations ---- are not
representatives of Russia. They are not representatives
who want to reveal the absolute truth. Some of them
perform their work in a rather formal manner,"
Miroshnik replied to a question from RIA
Novosti about why the inspectors do
not notice any signs of abuse on
the bodies of the prisoners.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is “excited” about the allegations of
abuse of Russian prisoners of war, Miroshnik concluded.
Russian soldiers who have returned from captivity with the
Armed Forces of Ukraine tell about torture on the electric
chair, constant beatings ......and cases of death from
dog-baiting.
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The Armed Forces forbid residents
to leave Konstantinovka --------
and mine the city
October 31st, 12:59am
(Vesti.ru)
Militants from the Ukrainian Armed Forces are threatening the residents of Konstantinovka with physical violence,
and forbidding them from leaving the city, the military
expert Vitaly Kiselev said in an interview with TASS.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are increasing their military
presence and mining high-rise buildings in the centre of
Konstantinovka, a city located in the Donetsk People's
Republic (DPR).
"Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -- banned the withdrawal
of the local population from Konstantinovka, and under the threat
of life and health. Homes are likely to be booby-trapped. I mean
high-rise buildings. Because they will not leave anything in the
centre. They have already spoken about this, repeatedly,"
Kiselyov said.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared for the defense of
Konstantinovka, including equipping an underground
system of shelters and passages.
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RIA Novosti: Ukrainian Deputy
Commander Radko -- Wears
Nazi Tattoos and Quotes
Rommel
October 30th, 11:31pm
(RT.ru)
Anton Radko, deputy commander of the 1st Ukrainian
Mechanized Battalion of the 3rd Separate Assault
Brigade is a neo-Nazi, RIA Novosti has found out.
According to the agency's information, the militant posts
photos on his social media accounts that show all of
his body art.
For example -- his left shoulder bears the tattoo "88,"
a number used in far-right circles as a code for the
phrase "Heil Hitler" (H is the eighth letter of
the alphabet).
At the same time, the "88" is decorated with the emblem
of the SS Panzer Division "Dead Head". The neo-Nazi
also has swastika tattoos on his body.
In addition, Radko's social media accounts contain photos
of Stepan Bandera, quotes from Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel, and Roman Shukhevych.
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Russian Armed Forces ------ strike
Ukrainian Armed Forces facility
in Dnepropetrovsk region
by Evgeny Silaev (Night Line Editor)
October 30th, 9:36pm
(Lenta.ru)
The Armed Forces of Russia struck an object of critical
infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the
settlement of Vasilkovka in Dnipropetrovsk region.
This was reported by the war correspondent
Chingis Dambiev on his Telegram-channel.
"Geranium strike on an enemy critical infrastructure facility
in Vasilkovka, Dnipropetrovsk region," Dambiev wrote.
The military correspondent clarified that
the strike took place on October 30th.
Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces broke through in the village
of Gai, in Dnipropetrovsk region, having previously occupied
a number of strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Galuzin stated --- that there had been no progress on the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine
October 27th, 1:27pm
(Vesti.ru)
There have been no developments regarding a possible new
round of direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
This was stated by Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Foreign
Minister of the Russian Federation, in talks
with journalists.
He recalled the words of Russian President's Press Secretary
Dmitry Peskov --- who said that the Ukrainian leadership was avoiding dialogue ......and not responding to Moscow's initiatives.
"The situation has not changed since then," he said.
The fact that it is Ukraine ----- that is dragging out the negotiation
process was also stated earlier by the special representative of
Russia's president, for investment and economic cooperation,
Kirill Dmitriev. He noted... that the Kiev regime - stubbornly -
does not want to solve the accumulated problems
and issues.
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The Russian Armed Forces in Kupyansk
thwarted 4 attempts by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces.. to break out of their
encirclement
October 27th, 1:02pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported in its daily briefing
on Monday that Russian troops had stopped four attempts
by Ukrainian units to break through the encirclement in
Kupyansk.
"In Kupyansk, four attempts by Ukrainian formations to break
out of the encirclement ring on the right bank of the Oskol
River were stopped," the defense ministry said.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the enemy tried to break
through the destroyed crossings near the village of Petrovka.
Artillery & drones inflicted fire damage on Ukrainian forces.
As a result of the strikes, up to 50 Ukrainian military
personnel were killed and six pieces of military
equipment were destroyed, including two
Humvee armoured vehicles.
The defense ministry also informed about strikes on transport
and energy infrastructure facilities used by the Armed Forces
of Ukraine - for railway transportation of weapons & military
equipment, on a military airfield, and on drone launch sites.
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Defense Ministry --- Russia's Armed Forces
liberated the villages of Novonikolaevka,
Privolnoye, and Yegorovka
October 27th, 12:41pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops have liberated the settlements of
Novonikolaevka and Privolnoye in Zaporizhzhia
region, as well as the settlement of Yegorivka
in Dnipropetrovsk region. This - is stated in
the Russian Ministry of Defense report.
The Russian Defense Ministry noted: that the
settlements were liberated by the troops of the Vostok military group.
"Units of the Vostok group of troops - advanced into
the depth of the enemy's defenses and liberated
the settlements of Novonikolayevka ---- and
Privolnoye in the Zaporizhia region -- as
well as Yegorovka in Dnipropetrovsk
region," the report says.
Russian troops also defeated three Ukrainian Armed
Forces brigades, destroying up to 300 militants, an
armoured vehicle, 17 vehicles, and a material
supply depot.
The Russian Armed Forces --- between October 18, and
24, liberated 10 settlements in the Donetsk People's
Republic, and the Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk
and Kharkiv regions.
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Call for ceasefire in Ukraine
is to buy time, says Russia
October 27th, 6:28am
(Prensa Latina)
Calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine...... are a new attempt to buy
time, from the perspective of Ukrainian President Vladimir
Zelensky, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today.
«When calls for a ceasefire are now ringing... we understand that
in effect they simply want to buy time again. This logic... deeply
rooted in Zelensky's head and mentality is absolutely evident
to any objective observer», Lavrov stressed, in an interview
with the Ultrahang YouTube channel.
According to the head of Russian diplomacy, the Europeans
«strive to twist the United States Administration's arms»
by demanding «only» an immediate ceasefire.
«Now Europeans are trying to dominate the agenda with their
ceasefire rhetoric. They change their position depending on
what happens on the front line», explained the minister.
Lavrov stated that it is «unfair» to ask when Russia will accept
a ceasefire without eliminating the root causes of the conflict.
«It would be fair for one to tell Ukrainians to restore, above all,
linguistic rights, all the rights of national minorities, because
it is set out in their Constitution» ---- the diplomat clarified.
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Former Ukrainian Army Soldiers ----
Zelensky is Ukraine's Main Enemy
---- Not Russia
October 27th, 2:50am
(Vesti.ru)
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, is purposefully
destroying the people of Ukraine. He is the main enemy of
Ukraine -- not Russia, former Ukrainian Armed Forces
soldiers -- who defected to the Russian Federation
and joined the Alexander Matrosov Detachment
told RIA Novosti, in an interview.
So, a fighter with the call sign Estonian, who was forcibly
mobilized in Ukraine and sent to the front line with
minimal training, does not agree with the policy
of Zelensky, who "purposefully destroys
his people."
"The whole world has seen how the TTsK(Territorial recruitment
centre, an analogue of military enlistment offices – ed.)takes
people off the streets and stuffs them into buses like cattle.
It's time to think about changing something. Otherwise,
there will be nothing left of Ukraine - very soon",
quotes the Estonian RIA Novosti.
A fighter with the call sign Picasso, shares a similar opinion.
"We were enemies with the Russians. But now I realized that the
real enemy is sitting on Bankova Street. Kiev has already
disposed of a lot of people, killed a significant part of
the population - destroyed a country that was rich
in everything. If Zelensky wanted the good of
his people ---- he would have ended this
madness long ago," Picasso said.
Meanwhile, a mobilized fighter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
voluntarily surrendered --- and sided with Russia, through
Telegram correspondence.
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The flamethrower helped the Russian Armed
Forces minimize casualties... during the
assault on Pershotravnevy
October 27th, 2:18am
(Vesti.ru)
A Russian Armed Forces serviceman told the Russia 1 TV
channel about the details of the liberation of the village
of Pershotravnevoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
According to him, the flamethrower played a key role in
minimizing casualties among Russian Armed Forces
assault troops during the liberation of the village
of Pershotravnevoye.
"I saw that a machine gun was working. When I looked later,
there were two or three people there. This flamethrower
helped us a lot – it minimized our losses," said the
Russian Armed Forces assault rifleman.
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Dick, Chief of Intelligence of the 90th
Tank Division: The Russian Army is
the Strongest in the World
October 27th, 1:47am
(Vesti.ru)
Alexander Dick, Lieutenant Colonel of the Guards, Chief of
Intelligence of the 90th Guards Tank Division, analyzed
the course of the special military operation and
concluded that the Russian Armed Forces
are superior.
He shared this information - in the program "Evening
with Vladimir Solovyov" on the Russia 1 TV channel.
According to him, analyzing the evolution of the special military
operation and the successes of the Russian military, it
becomes clear.... that the Russian army has
significantly increased its power.
"War - teaches everyone how to fight. If we look at how we
started this war --- and where we are now, I believe that
we are the strongest army in the world," said
Alexander Dick.
He recalled the saying that, until a Russian soldier's boot
steps into a trench, we cannot consider it our territory.
Earlier, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin noted that he would
not like to sound like a militarist, but the Russian side at
every stage of the hostilities offered Kiev to stop and
withdraw troops from those territories that do not
want to remain in Ukraine --- as constituted.
"There is a certain logic of hostilities, and troops find themselves
in different territories. But, you know.... we have such an old
tradition. It is not a proverb, not a parable, but an old rule
– where the Russian soldier's foot steps, it is ours",
– the Russian president emphasized.
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Lieutenant Colonel Dick --- of the Russian Armed Forces explained the functions of intelligence officers in the modern army
October 27th, 12:30am
(Vesti.ru)
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Dick ----- Chief of Intelligence of the 90th Tank Division, spoke about the key aspects of intelligence work in the modern armed forces on the program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" on the Russia 1 TV channel.
Alexander Dick, a former graduate of Altai State University who served in a special forces brigade... and is now an experienced officer, believes that in modern combat conditions, the threat posed by enemy FPV drones is significantly higher ----- than that posed by enemy personnel.
Therefore, timely information about impending drone attacks is crucial on the front lines, and only effective intelligence... can provide
warning of enemy attacks.
"Data collection and information about the enemy, are primarily
about the timely notification of senior management in order to
prevent the enemy from taking sudden actions. Nowadays,
the methods of information collection and analysis have
changed significantly.''
''We now have electronic intelligence - which is the most
common type of intelligence. Additionally, we cannot
ignore aerial reconnaissance, which plays a crucial
role in gathering information about the enemy's
movements. Observers.... our soldiers who
are stationed at observation posts, also
provide valuable insights into enemy
activities," said Alexander Dick.
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Tanaka admitted -that former soldiers of
the Japanese Self-Defense Forces --- are
fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces
October 27th, 12:06am
(Vesti.ru)
Former members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces may
be fighting in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU), Japanese
historian, Takeyuki Tanaka said, in an interview with
RIA Novosti.
Most of the Japanese mercenaries are people for whom war is a
hobby. The rest have become victims of American propaganda,
having read Japanese newspapers and magazines, which has
led to a spontaneous desire to "help" Ukraine, Tanaka said.
"Among the people who take part in combat operations abroad,
there are many former members of the Japanese Self-Defense
Forces. These are people who like to fight. These are
mercenaries who took part in various military
conflicts, for example, in Afghanistan and
other countries," RIA Novosti quotes
Tanaka as saying.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, on the side of the Kiev regime -
are fighting mercenaries from Japan, said a captured
militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Takeyuki Tanaka is a Japanese historian who published the book
"Alley of Angels" about the genocide of the Kiev regime against
the residents of Donbass in 2014-2022. Tanaka believes - that
the book will help Japanese people ------- to awaken from pro-
Western propaganda.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated
from some positions by Kovsharovka
in the Kharkiv region
October 25th, 11:07pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops ----- are increasing pressure on the positions of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near Kovsharovka in the Kharkiv
region, and the offensive is taking place on a 10-kilometre front. Ukrainian soldiers have retreated from some positions,
according to TASS, citing military expert Andrey Marochko.
The lack of forces and resources in the Ukrainian Armed
Forces, makes it easier for Russian units to advance
towards Kovsharovka.
"In fact, we are taking advantage of the situation and moving in
the direction of this locality. As for Kovsharovka: here, our
servicemen are pressing down on a section about 10 km
wide, that is, the section of Peschanoe – Glushkovka.
And the so-called gray zone has been significantly
increased in this area for the current week. Our
servicemen - pushed the Ukrainian militants
out of their positions and leveled the line
of contact," TASS quoted Marochko
as saying.
The Russian army advanced west of Kislovka and
reduced the distance to Kovsharovka to 6.5 km.
Meanwhile, Russian troops liberated the settlement
of Bologovka in the Kharkiv region on October 24.
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Expert Bezsonov: success of Russian soldiers
on the battlefield ------- affects geopolitics
October 26th, 10:20pm
(Vesti.ru)
Military expert and publicist Daniil Bezsonov said on Radio Russia
that the achievements of Russian military personnel in the SVO
zone have a significant impact on geopolitics.
According to him, the significant successes of the Russian Armed
Forces in the special military operation zone --- contribute to
strengthening the position of Russian President Vladimir
Putin in the international arena.
"The most important thing is what is happening at the front. The
events that take place on the front line, and the feats that our
soldiers perform, they affect geopolitics. And our president,
taking into account the work of our fighters, taking into
account the situation, the combat situation, he can
dictate his own terms and feel confident in the
international arena. Successes at the front
have also affected the relations.... of not
only our allies but also our opponents,"
Bezsonov is sure.
He added... that Russian troops are expanding their control in
various sectors of the front. However, some Ukrainian media
outlets acknowledge the advance of Russian troops,
particularly in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Earlier, it was reported that over the past day, the Armed Forces
of Ukraine lost about 1,385 militants in the special military
operation zone.
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Expert Rozhin: Russian Aviation -- Has
Made a Serious Leap During the SVO
October 25th, 8:28pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian aviation has made a "serious leap" during the conflict with
Ukraine. This was stated by Boris Rozhin, an expert at the Centre
for Military-Political Journalism, in an interview with the
Rossiya 24 TV channel.
According to him, Russian troops have a new version of bombs
with a jet engine, which allows them to significantly increase
their flight distance. Previously, such a "transition" was
observed when the Geran jet drones were introduced,
which have a range that covers the entire territory
of Ukraine. The engine has increased the speed
parameter, making this weapon virtually
invulnerable, according to the expert.
"All this - is part of the process of modernizing our high-precision
weapons, and we see that our aviation has made a serious leap
during the war. If we compare the VKS in 2022, when they
were still bombed with free-falling bombs, there were
episodes, which, of course, is fraught with risk, and
the use of such ammunition, firstly, minimizes the
situation of the Su-34 entering the enemy's zone
of operation. This increases the safety of our
pilots as well," Rozhin said.
Earlier, an expert from the Centre for Military-Political Journalism
said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine.... have few means of
countering Russia's precision strikes.
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Ukraine will have power outages on
October 26 --- from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
October 25th, 7:19pm
(Vesti.ru)
On October 26, power will be cut off in some regions of Ukraine
from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. This was reported by Ukrenergo.
The operator explained the restrictions as a consequence
of Russian attacks on energy facilities.
"Tomorrow, October 26, measures will be applied in certain
regions of Ukraine to limit consumption [of electricity],"
Ukrenergo said in a statement.
It is noted that the timing and extent of the outages..... may vary.
The company emphasized that it is important to use electricity
sparingly when it is turned on according to the schedule.
Earlier, the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian energy
company DTEK reported that emergency power
outages were introduced in Kyiv.. as well as in
the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Odessa regions.
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The commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces'
brigade allowed the mass death of his troops
------ due to an addiction to social media
October 25th, 5:08pm
(Vesti.ru)
The commander of the 105th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Anatoly Savich, allowed
a large number of his troops to die due to his inexperience.
This was reported to RIA Novosti by
Russian law enforcement agencies.
According to the source, the massacre of the Ukrainian soldiers
was caused by the brigade commander's habit of posting
photos of military formations on social media.
"On social media, there are obituaries for the deceased soldiers
of the 105th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine. All of them share the same location and
date of death, which may indicate a successful strike
on the brigade's personnel," the source said.
He also added that many of them had already died in hospitals.
According to the source RIA Novosti, Savich's desire to organize
formations directly on the front lines and then post photos on
social media .....led to their deaths.
"The inexperienced brigade commander thought that if there
is no intense fighting on the front line.... then you can call a
formation for awarding them at any time," the source said.
Savich was recently appointed commander of the 105th Separate
Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He
replaced Yevgeny Fomenko in this position.
Earlier, Verkhovna Rada deputy Mariana Bezuglaya said that the
arrival in Sumy struck a cluster of AFU military personnel who
were holding a solemn award ceremony.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense....
collapsed -in Krasnoarmeysk's south
October 25th, 12:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
According to Russian security forces, the Ukrainian
militants' defenses collapsed in the south and
southeast of Krasnoarmeysk.
According to their data, the Russian Armed Forces are
expanding their bridgehead in this sector of the front.
"The enemy's defenses in the south and southeast of
the city [Krasnoarmeysk] have collapsed," TASS
was told by the security forces.
Earlier, a Russian fighter with the call sign Dnepr reported that
Ukrainian militants are fleeing from Krasnoarmeysk in groups
of up to ten people. According to Dnepr, those who do not
manage to leave their positions either die.. or surrender
to captivity.
A US-made HMMWV armoured vehicle -- was destroyed near
Krasnoarmeysk, along with a group of Ukrainian saboteurs
traveling on it, according to an officer from the 56th
Special Forces Battalion of the 51st Army of the
Southern Military District with the call sign "X".
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The Russian Armed Forces struck the
Ukrainian Armed Forces' UAV
production facilities with
precision weapons
October 25th, 10:36am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces, in response to the terrorist attacks
of the Kiev regime ----- launched a group strike with precision
weapons on enterprises of the military-industrial complex
(MIC) of Ukraine, in particular on the UAV production
workshops. This was reported in the Ministry of
Defense of the Russian Federation.
It is clarified that all targets of the air
attack ...were successfully hit.
"...the production facilities for unmanned aerial vehicles,
as well as the temporary locations of Ukrainian armed
formations and foreign mercenaries in 154 areas,
have been destroyed," according to the daily
report by the Ministry of Defense.
In addition, energy infrastructure facilities that
support the production of Ukrainian military
equipment ...have been destroyed.
Earlier, it was reported that the air defense forces (ADF)
destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones overnight, according
to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Ukrainian Armed
Forces Lost Over 1,300 Soldiers - in a Day
October 25th, 10:26am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the daily report of the Russian Ministry of Defense
on the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine
(AFU) have lost about 1,385 fighters in the special military
operation zone over the past 24 hours.
In the area of responsibility of the Russian Northern Group, the
Ukrainian army lost up to 150 soldiers, in the Western Group
area – more than 230 soldiers, and in the Southern Group
area – up to 85 soldiers.
In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 520 soldiers, as
a result of the actions of the Center group, up to 320 soldiers as a
result of the Eastern group, and more than 80 soldiers as a result
of the Dnipro group.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry published footage of
the liberation of the village of Pershotravnevoe in the
Dnipropetrovsk region by fighters of the Vostok
group of troops.
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Russian Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian military-
industrial complex enterprises and energy
facilities at night ....DSNS of Ukraine
October 25th, 10:24am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported a group strike on
Russian Foreign Ministry Reveals the Goals of European Elites in the Ukraine Conflict
by Ekaterina Volkova
October 24th, 10:44pm
(Gazeta.ru)
Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry for the
crimes of the Kiev regime, Rodion Miroshnik, said that the
European elites.... want to weaken and plunder Russia
through the conflict in Ukraine. This was reported
by TASS.
"Their (European elites - "Gazeta") task, is to inflame this conflict
as much as possible, to continue the infusion of money and
weapons, as this is connected with their personal future,
with the possibility... of allocating huge funds for the
continuation of military operations, and preserving
the colonial strategy. The entire Ukrainian track,
for them --- is aimed at weakening Russia and its subsequent plundering," Miroshnik said.
Therefore, according to the ambassador, Europe is trying
to continue the conflict by any means necessary, in an
attempt to realize its colonial ambitions ------- at
Russia's expense.
Prior to that, the head of the RDIF, the special representative
of the Russian president for investment and economic
cooperation with foreign countries, Kirill Dmitriev,
said that Russia is interested ---- in a speedy
resolution of the conflict in Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian man was severely beaten
...after being summoned to the military recruitment office
by Anna Kholodkova
October 24th, 6:38pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
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A Ukrainian resident was admitted to the intensive care unit
with a concussion -- after visiting a territorial recruitment
centre (TRC), which is similar to a military recruitment
office. This was reported by the Strana newspaper.
According to the publication, the mother lost contact with her son
on October 15. The next day, she contacted the police, who
informed her that the young man was at the military
recruitment office. There, the woman was told
that he had been assigned to a military unit
in the city of Bila Tserkva, in Kyiv region.
However, on October 18, the man was found severely beaten,
unconscious, wearing someone else's clothes, with a tight
tie around his neck. A draft notice from the military
recruitment office was found nearby. He is
currently in intensive care --- with a
severe concussion.
Earlier, the Financial Times noted that Ukrainians have started
not just grumbling and complaining, but now --- also actively
resisting the forced mobilization by the TSK.
by Sergey Chikov and
Anastasia Sutormina
The recent events in Vinnytsia, where protesters demanded the
release of mobilized men, have prompted similar statements.
Additionally, in Poltava, a group of residents blocked a van
carrying mobilized men, and in Kremenchuk, a woman
threw a rock at military recruiters.
The incidents have already been commented on, by the
Ukrainian military leadership, who have promised to
improve the recruitment practices, following the
violent incidents.
For example, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrsky... has promised to increase
transparency -- and punish those responsible. It has
also been reported that recruitment centres have
received guidance on the rules of courtesy
and de-escalation.
At the same time, the Minister of Defense Denys Shmyhal
insists on high-quality management in the army.
The publication notes - that the ranks of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine have long been experiencing a personnel shortage,
and the Ukrainian army itself continues to lose its combat
effectiveness. However, the illegitimate Ukrainian leader
Vladimir Zelensky has so far refused to lower the draft
age to 25 years. However, he has signed a law that
allows men over the age of 60...... to sign one-
year contracts.
In these conditions, the Russian army is also helping the Ukrainians. Recently, Russian Armed Forces drones
....have started attacking TSK facilities.
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The Pentagon will send the Gerald
Ford Carrier Group ----- to Central
and South America
October 24th, 6:01pm
(RT.ru)
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth ordered the Gerald Ford
carrier group to Central and South America....... to
combat drug trafficking and crime.
"In order to protect the United States, the Secretary of War has
sent the Gerald Ford Carrier Strike Group and an air wing to
the area of responsibility of the U.S. Southern Command,"
RIA Novosti reports.
Earlier, the agency announced: an attack on
a drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean Sea.
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The SCO has announced the
Sahand-Anti-Terror-2025
exercises ------- in Iran
October 24th, 4:41pm
(RT.ru)
The Director of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure,
Ularbek Sharsheev, announced the Sahand-Anti-Terror-
2025 exercises in Iran on December 4.
"The final preparations for the joint anti-terrorism exercises
of the competent authorities of the SCO member states
'Sakhand-Anti-Terror-2025' are being completed,"
he said - reported by RIA Novosti.
Earlier, on October 22, the Roscongress Foundation and
the SCO Secretariat - signed a memorandum of
understanding - in Beijing.
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A boy injured in an attack by an AFU UAV
in Krasnogorsk is in a stable condition
October 24th, 4:06pm
(RT.ru)
According to Natalia Shapovalenko, head of the L.M. Roshal
Children's Research and Clinical Centre, the boy who was
injured during the Ukrainian Armed Forces' drone attack
in Krasnogorsk, is in a stable condition.
"The joints and vital organs are not damaged or affected.
The boy is currently in a stable condition and is staying
in the hospital with his grandmother. It is said that the
grandparents will be taking turns," TASS quoted her
as saying.
Earlier, it was reported that the victim, a child, was
carried out of the house in blood and shrapnel
due to a UAV in Krasnogorsk.
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Poddubny: The Armed Forces of Ukraine
use wind farms for their radar stations
October 24th, 12:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Ukrainian military -- is installing its radar systems on wind
farms, according to Yevgeny Poddubny, a war correspondent
for VGTRK and a Hero of Russia, on his Telegram channel.
He said that such facilities ....are being destroyed by
Russian army soldiers.
"The removal of "green energy" ---- is very clear. The footage shows
the area of Kramatorsk, but it is reported that our guys have also
installed several such wind farms in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The enemy... installs its own radars and communications
equipment on such structures -- and the field HQ of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, are also powered by them,"
Poddubny wrote.
Earlier, he reported that in response to the Ukrainian Armed
Forces’ attacks on civilian facilities in Russia ---- our troops
launched a combined strike on Ukraine’s energy facilities.
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Defense Ministry: Ukrainian Armed Forces
lost about 11,000 soldiers ---- in a week
October 24th, 11:05am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the daily report by the Russian Ministry of Defense,
Russian troops have destroyed about 11,000 Ukrainian Armed
Forces fighters over the past week.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered the greatest losses... as a
result of the Russian Center group's actions, with 3,610 military
personnel killed in a single week.
During the same period, the "Southern" group eliminated 1,485
Ukrainian militants, the "Dnipro" group – up to 490, the "West"
group – over 1,610, the "East" group – over 2,365, and the
"North" group – more than 1,375 people.
In addition, Russian forces destroyed 1,441 Ukrainian
Armed Forces drones - and shot down a Ukrainian
Air Force Su-27 aircraft.
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VSU Volunteer Berlinskaya:
Ukrainian Militants' Front
....is Crumbling
October 24th, 10:58am
(Vesti.ru)
The situation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is deteriorating,
and the front is "bursting at the seams." Maria Berlinskaya,
the founder of the Ukrainian Air Intelligence Support
Centre, has reported a critical shortage of
personnel in the Armed Forces.
She noted that the Kiev regime may lose Zaporizhzhia city,
which is controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, as well
as Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy, and Kharkiv.
"The front is moving fast, bursting at the seams, breaking
through. Russian infantry --- through our thinned lines
breaks deep into the rear, for tens of kilometers,"
she wrote in her Telegram channel.
According to her, the Ukrainian Armed Forces sometimes
have only 4-7 infantrymen --- per kilometre of front line.
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces
liberated 10 settlements --- in one week
October 24th, 10:44am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian troops
liberated 10 settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic,
Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions
between October 18 and 24.
The settlements of Bologovka in the Kharkiv region,
Pleshcheyevka, Dronovka, Chunishino, Lenino, and
Promin in the DPR, Ivanovka, & Pershotravnevoye,
in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as Poltavka
and Pavlovka, in the Zaporizhzhia region -- came
under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
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Belousov... was shown a ground-based
robotic platform for delivering drones
October 24th, 9am
(Vesti.ru)
Russia's Defense Minister, Andrey Belousov, was presented
with a special ground-based robotic platform for delivering
drones during his work at the forward control point of one
of the military units in the Southern military group. This
was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Yug specialists have developed a complex
that carries several FPV attack drones
and one reconnaissance drone.
In addition, the platform can move several kilometres... without
external intervention. It has stationary chargers for unmanned
aerial vehicles, which increases the autonomy of the complex.
Earlier, Russia's Ministry of Defense showed footage
------- of the launch of the Sineva ballistic missile.
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The situation in Ukraine
October 24th, 7am
(Vesti.ru)
Medvedchuk: Zelensky's sentence has been
passed, and only surrender.... can save him
Trump's refusal to meet in Budapest has both political and
economic implications. This refusal carries significant
reputational risks for Trump, as he initially proposed
and announced the meeting before admitting that
he was not prepared for it.
For a politician of this magnitude, this is a clear demonstration
of the lack of a clear political line on how to resolve the
Ukrainian conflict. But if there is no such line, then
why should one act as a peacemaker in such
matters? Wouldn't it be more rational, to
form one's own position ---- before
taking action?
So far, Trump has been acting on a "trial-and-error" basis,
chaotically changing his approaches and decisions.
Attempts to pressure Zelensky into retreating in
Donbas in order to initiate negotiations have
been leaked to the media.
The Financial Times and The Telegraph report that the
negotiations in Washington ----- were extremely tense.
According to their sources, Trump forcefully insisted
on Kyiv's recognition - of the loss of territories in
Donbas - and even defiantly rejected the maps
presented by the Ukrainian delegation.
Anonymous participants in the negotiations described the
meeting as --- "tense and uncomfortable." The Financial
Times claims that the conversation was accompanied
by profanity, and CBS News confirms: that the White
House was, indeed, filled with obscene language.
Thus, Trump tried to force Zelensky to take steps towards
de-escalation and follow the course of the agreement
between the US and Russian leaders in Alaska.
However, he faced the same issue that was
revealed during the scandal in the Oval
Office: Zelensky... does not respect
Trump --- and does not care about
what he says -- It's not personal;
Zelensky.. is an unindependent
figure, a puppet of his political
rivals, and a complete novice
in politics.
It makes no sense to try to influence the drug-addicted
leader, with logic and persuasion. Tuomas Malinen, a
professor at the University of Helsinki, believes that
Zelensky is inherently unwilling to negotiate.
"He cannot make peace ---- because the Nazi groups that
have real power in Ukraine can even kill him if he tries
to do so. At a minimum, they are likely to stage a
coup," he wrote on the social network.
In domestic politics, Zelensky has cut the branch he is sitting on.
He has destroyed all anti-war movements and the peace-seeking
opposition, which could have led the country out of the war, and
can only be removed by the war party, as there is no other party
in Ukraine. Moreover, Zelensky came to power as a peace-
maker, which means that the war party can remove him
at any time - and under any pretext. They don't do it
only because Zelensky.... is providing money and
weapons to the Nazis, but as soon as he stops
doing that, he will be wiped off the political
map of Ukraine. That's why, when Trump
was yelling at him and demanding that
he come to his senses, Zelensky...
was begging for Tomahawks.
But let's get back to Trump. After talking to a political puppet
and predictably achieving no results, he abruptly changes
his political line ----- and now puts pressure on Russia.
According to the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, the U.S.
president -- has ordered an urgent announcement of increased
sanctions against Russia. The U.S. Treasury Department has
published a sanctions announcement on its website - citing
Russia's lack of serious commitment to the peace process.
Thus ---- Trump launched an economic attack on Russia. He has already announced that he plans to talk to Xi Jinping in South Korea next week... to persuade China to stop buying Russian oil.
"I'll talk to him.... about how we can end the war between Russia
and Ukraine, whether it's through oil, energy, or something else.
And I think he'll be very receptive. Right now, he wants this
war to end," the American president told reporters.
Thus, Trump is fully aligned with Biden, whom he so
harshly criticized during the presidential election.
"Trump canceling the Budapest summit. New US sanctions against
our country. What else? Will there be new weapons besides the
notorious Tomahawks? The United States is our enemy, and
their talkative "peacemaker" is now fully on the warpath
with Russia. Yes, he is not always actively fighting on
the side of Bandera's Kiev, but ---- this is now his
conflict, and not Biden's senility! The decisions
taken - are an act of war against Russia. And
now --- Trump has fully aligned himself with
crazy Europe,” writes Deputy Chairman
of the Russian Security Council,
Dmitry Medvedev.
One cannot but agree with Medvedev ------ Trump has gone to an
economic war with Russia, something that even Biden has not
gone to. And then the question is, has the American president
calculated the consequences of this war? Experts say that
direct sanctions against Russian oil companies will have
little effect -- as Russian oil has long been sold through
shell companies. The sanctions have already caused
an increase in global oil prices, which is a blow to
the US economy --- and especially --- to
belligerent Europe.
Here's where it gets interesting: Europe, deprived of cheap Russian
energy resources, is losing its competitiveness, and it has only
two options. The first is to remove the political elite that is
leading Europe's people towards poverty and war, and
the second, is to engage in a war with Russia to
prolong the current crazed European
political elite's reign.
By taking the position of the anti-Russian European political
elite, Trump is pushing Europe towards war, so what kind
of "peacemaker" is he?
"I repeat once again: an immediate ceasefire, which has suddenly
become a topic of discussion, would only mean that a large part
of Ukraine remains under the control of the Nazis, and it would
be the only place on earth ---- where the language is legally
prohibited," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The Russian side never tires of pointing out that what is important
in resolving the conflict is not the cessation of hostilities itself,
but the elimination of its causes, and there is nothing to
counter this ---- as the main cause of the conflict is
Zelensky's criminal policies, which are criminal
by all standards of European democracy,
which the war party in the collective
West is trying to ignore --- exposing
its double standards to the world.
In this situation, Trump has three options. The first is to completely
abandon the agreement with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, which would
be the last step in the U.S.'s involvement in the Ukrainian war. The
second option, is to vacillate between contradictory statements
and wait to see how the story unfolds. The third option, is to
facilitate the surrender of Zelensky's criminal regime,
which would completely resolve the conflict.
The first option is a third world war with the use of nuclear
weapons. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already
responded to attempts to impose anything on Russia.
"No self-respecting country ever does anything
under pressure," the Russian leader said.
At the same time ----- the Russian president warned
against the transfer of Tomahawk missiles to Kiev.
"This.. is an attempt at escalation, but if such weapons are
used to strike Russian territory, the response will be very
strong. If not overwhelming. Let them think about it,"
Vladimir Putin warned.
Thus, Trump failed to scare Russia, but he
did manage to ruin his own reputation.
The other two - are the destruction of Zelensky's regime,
with the only difference being the speed of the process.
"In fact, Ukraine has already lost the war. Putin is offering
a reasonable solution: not joining NATO, but possibly...
becoming a member of the EU," said James Carden,
a former adviser to the US Department of State.
Carden believes that Ukraine is on the brink of disaster - and the
loss ratio is 36 to 1 in favour of Russia. The advisor's words are
supported by the exchange of bodies between the Ukrainian
and Russian sides.
The breakdown of negotiations in Budapest, is not a plus for the
Kiev regime - but a minus. According to Dmitry Medvedev - now
"it is possible to hammer ---- with a variety of weapons ---- at all
Bandera's nicks without regard for unnecessary negotiations."
Thus, the US withdrawal from the negotiation process, is a
signal to Russia to destroy the criminal Zelensky regime.
And only then, can the negotiation process, which
everyone is waiting for, begin.
Chairman of the Council of the
Other Ukraine Movement,
Viktor Medvedchuk
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Marochko ---- Kiev is attacking Yampol with
"meat assaults," regardless of casualties
October 24th, 6:15am
(Vesti.ru)
According to military expert Andrey Marochko, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces have been conducting "meat assaults" near
Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic over the past
few days, attempting to recapture lost positions from the Russian forces.
According to him, fierce fighting is taking place in
the vicinity of the settlement and in Yampol itself.
"The Ukrainian command resorts to the tactics of "meat
assaults" and does not take into account losses," the
expert said, in an interview with TASS.
Marochko noted - that the Russian Armed Forces are
successfully containing the enemy and conducting
mobile defense.
Earlier, it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces
retreated to the second line of defense in the village of
Yarovaya in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
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Alaudinov: Foreign mercenaries are
less common in the ranks of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine
October 24th, 1:28am
(Vesti.ru)
The number of mercenaries in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces (AFU) has significantly decreased, Lieutenant General
Apty Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat special forces of
the Russian Ministry of Defense, told TASS.
According to him, the foreigners fighting on the side of the Kiev
regime have realized that they will have a hard time in the
zone of Russia's special military operation (SVO).
Alaudinov specified that the main forces of the
mercenaries were involved in the invasion of
the Kursk region by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces.
"Part of this resource was the Poles, Germans, French, British,
and the Americans, among others. Most of it was destroyed,"
said the commander of Akhmat.
The agency's interlocutor noted that the mercenaries
are afraid to continue participating in the conflict
due to their fear for their lives.
"I think some of the hotheads have cooled down a little bit,
seeing that we don't have a safari here, and it's not really
possible to come shoot the Russians and go home
alive," the lieutenant general said.
On October 23, a serviceman from one of the units of the South
Military Group with the call sign Frenchman said that Russian
soldiers had eliminated a group of mercenaries from Arab
countries during an assault on enemy positions in the
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
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Ryabkov: NATO is forcing Russia
to take compensatory military
and technical measures
October 22nd, 3:25pm
(RT.ru)
The aggressive policies of NATO member states force Russia
---- to take compensatory military and technical measures.
This statement was made by Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister
of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. He noted that
...the emergence of serious obstacles to a constructive
dialogue on arms control and nuclear disarmament
is not the only outcome of NATO's policy.
"The above... forces other countries, including Russia, to
take compensatory military and technical measures,"
Ryabkov said.
Another topic of Ryabkov's speech, was the relationship between
Russia and the United States. He noted that Moscow must make
sure --- that Washington has abandoned the policies of the
previous administration.
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Belousov --- congratulated the Russian
soldiers on the liberation of Ivanovka
October 22nd, 2:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov - congratulated the
command and personnel of the 228th Guards Motorized Rifle
Regiment of the Leningrad-Pavlovsk Red Banner Regiment
on the liberation of Ivanovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the
liberation of this settlement ...on Wednesday.
"Today, you have - once again - proven that unity, professionalism,
and loyalty to military duty, can overcome any difficulties," the
Russian Defense Minister's telegram reads, as reported by the
Ministry's Telegram channel.
Belousov emphasized that the unit's successful combat operations
during the liberation of Ivanovka were an example of bravery and
courage, and each of the regiment's soldiers "demonstrated
resilience, initiative, and true military spirit."
The Minister also thanked the military, for their successful
performance of combat missions, their service, and their
dedication to their homeland, and expressed confidence
that they would continue to ensure Russia's security
and protect its national interests - with honour.
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Russian Armed Forces use Kinzhal missiles to
strike energy facilities that support Ukraine's
military-industrial complex
October 22nd, 11:32am
(Vesti.ru)
Last night, the Russian military struck energy facilities that
support Ukraine's military-industrial complex in response
to the Ukrainian Armed Forces' terrorist attacks -- on
Russian civilian targets. This was reported by the
Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes using
hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, such as the
Kinzhal, as well as attack drones.
According to the Ministry of Defense, all the strike targets
were achieved, and the designated objects
were destroyed.
Earlier, it was reported that --- on Tuesday night, Ukrainian
militants attacked 16 municipalities in the Rostov region.
In Bataysk, damage was recorded in 131 apartments.
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Defense Ministry: Russian Troops --- Have
Liberated Pavlovka in Zaporozhye Region
October 22nd, 11:09am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops have liberated the village of Pavlovka in the
Zaporozhye region, according to the daily report by the
Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Russian Defense Ministry noted that the settlement
was liberated by the Eastern Group of Forces.
"Units of the Vostok group of troops - continued to advance
into the depth of the enemy's defenses, and liberated the
village of Pavlovka, Zaporozhye region," the Defense
Ministry said in a statement.
The village of Pavlovka is located in the Vasilyevsky district of
the Zaporozhye region, two kilometres away from the village
of Novoyakovlevka in the Orekhovsky district. Earlier,
military correspondent Vladimir Razin reported that
the Russian army had reached the city of Orekhov
in Zaporozhye. The city is one of the key
settlements on the front line of the
Ukrainian defense --- in the
Zaporozhye region.
On October 19, the village of Poltavka in the Zaporizhzhia
region was also taken over by the Russian Armed Forces.
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General Staff: Reservists will not
be involved... in the special
military operation
October 22nd, 10:55am
(Vesti.ru)
Reservists will not be involved in the special military operation,
nor will they be assigned tasks outside Russia. This was
announced by Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky,
Deputy Chief of the Main Organizational and
Mobilization Directorate of the General
Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
He noted that the draft law on the involvement of reservists in
the protection of life support facilities, developed by the
Russian Ministry of Defense, does not affect all
Russians and does not provide for their
conscription or deployment to
the SVO zone.
"In accordance with the draft law, reservists -- are not invited to
participate in special military operations -- and to perform tasks
outside the Russian Federation," Tsimlyansky said at a briefing.
The Vice Admiral emphasized that according to the draft,
reservists participate in the protection of critical
facilities only in their home region. This is
confirmed by certain clauses in the
reserve contract.
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Military Expert Mikhailov: There is a
Serious Crisis --- at the Ukrainian
Armed Forces Headquarters
October 22nd, 8:09am
(Vesti.ru)
In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian troops made a rapid
breakthrough near the village of Malaya Tokmachka,
causing a serious crisis at the headquarters of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was stated by the
political analyst and military expert Yevgeny
Mikhailov on the Russia 24 TV channel.
According to Mikhailov, the Ukrainian side... is trying to
use all available means to repel the Russian military's
offensive, but they are failing.
"There was --- a very rapid breakthrough. In other words, it was
very unexpected for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This - is a
strong signal for Syrsky, who guaranteed that the Russians
would not be allowed to pass through in this area. The
Ukrainian military is trying to use HIMARS multiple
rocket launchers and drones to try to recapture
Malaya Tokmachka from the Russian military,
but they are not succeeding. There is ----- a
major crisis ----- at the headquarters of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine," said Mikhailov.
Earlier, war correspondent Vladimir Razin reported - that the
Russian military had come as close as possible to the city
of Orekhov in the Zaporizhzhia region, and that activity
in this area .......would increase.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about
200 fighters .....after an attack on a
mercenary training camp
October 22nd, 6:04am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops launched a combined strike on a training camp
for foreign mercenaries at the Goncharovsky training ground
in Chernihiv region. As a result of hitting the target, the
Armed Forces of Ukraine lost about 200 personnel
and up to ten units of military equipment.
This was reported by TASS from
a source in the security forces.
"A combined strike was carried out on the training camp for
foreign mercenaries at the Goncharovsky training ground.
The enemy suffered about 200 casualties and up to 10
pieces of equipment," the agency reported.
It is specified that calculations of the operational-tactical
missile system "Iskander-M" and unmanned aerial
vehicles "Geran-2" were involved in the
combat mission.
Earlier, it was reported that the Iskander missile system
carried out a strike - on an AFU camp in the Kharkiv
region, which resulted in the destruction of up to
600 foreign mercenaries.
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The crew spent 15 hours under
a burning tank, repelling
Ukrainian attacks
October 22nd, 3:28am
(Vesti.ru)
The crew of a tank from the Russian "Center" military group
came under enemy fire during a combat mission. Ukrainian
militants hit the tank with an anti-tank missile.
The tankers lay down around the damaged tank and engaged
in combat, according to the driver-mechanic with the call
sign "Kolyuchiy."
The crew spent more than 15 hours under
a burning tank, repelling enemy attacks.
"We were hit by an ATGM (anti-tank guided missile) in the turret.
The tank caught fire. The tank commander was wounded. So
was I. We spent 15 hours lying under the tank before we
could get out," Kolyuchiy told RIA Novosti.
The enemy continued to attack, using FPV drones
and dropping ammunition on the burning tank.
"There were constant drops, and FPV drones were working on
the tank. It wasn't until later in the evening that we managed
to escape and leave the battlefield," said Prickly.
For his courage and resilience, the driver
was awarded the Medal of Courage.
Meanwhile, during the liberation of Selidov in the Donetsk
People's Republic, Russian tankers entered the city...
on a burning tank.
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Saldo: The Armed Forces of Ukraine
.......are mining buildings in Kherson
October 22nd, 2:51am
(Vesti.ru)
According to Vladimir Saldo, the governor of the Kherson region,
units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) are digging trenches
and mining buildings in Kherson, which is controlled by the
Kiev regime.
Meanwhile, the enemy is building fortified positions in the city.
"In Kherson --- in some places --- the Ukrainian Armed Forces are
digging trenches, building fortified points, and mining buildings.
Having seen enough of their tactics, you understand that in the
most critical case, they will try to arrange in Kherson the same
thing that they previously arranged in Artemivsk - they will use
residential buildings as ready-made fortifications ------ hiding
behind the civilian population," TASS quoted him saying.
Meanwhile, the Russian army --- has
already started to liberate Kherson.
The Kherson region is located in the lower reaches of the Dnieper
River and is bordered by the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. The
region was incorporated into Russia following a referendum
held in September 2022. Currently, 75% of the Kherson
region is under Russian control.... while Ukrainian
forces hold control over the right-bank regions,
including the city of Kherson.
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Dmitriev: War-mongers -are very
afraid of the Russia-US summit
October 21st, 11:12pm
(RT.ru)
The warmongers are very afraid of a summit between Russian
President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, said
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
At the same time, he emphasized that
the dialogue for peace..... will prevail.
"It's amazing how much the warmongers are afraid of a
peaceful summit between Putin and Trump. Dialogue
for peace - will prevail," Dmitriev wrote on social
network X.
Earlier, he said that preparations for the
Russia-US summit in Budapest ....
are ongoing.
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"STRANA.ua": Military Commissars Threatened People Who Tried to Save a Mobilized Man
October 21st, 8:24pm
(RT.ru)
Employees of the TSK, in Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk region
-- threatened employees of one of the enterprises who were
trying to save a colleague who had been forcibly mobilized.
This is reported by STRANA.ua.
"During the conflict, one of the military commanders threatened
a worker with a gun, and another sprayed a gas canister in the
eyes of a company employee who was filming the incident,"
the article states.
It is noted that the Dnepropetrovsk Regional TSK published
a comment on the incident, stating that an investigation
....was underway.
Earlier, it was reported that in Ternopil in western Ukraine,
there was a mass brawl between military commanders
in balaclavas ....and civilians.
Meanwhile, military correspondent Boris Rozhin,
said TSK employees in Ternopil ...rounded up
car drivers.
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MWM: The Russian Armed Forces have
rapidly increased their fleet of T-80
tanks - with extreme mobility
by Anna Kholodkova
October 21st, 7:39pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
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MWM: Russia's Armed Forces have rapidly increased
their fleet of T-80 tanks -------- with extreme mobility.
The Russian Armed Forces are rapidly increasing their fleet
of T-80 tanks, which are highly mobile due to their gas
turbine engines. This fact has been noted by the
Western publication, MWM.
It is noted that by the early 2010s, the number of operational
T-80 tanks had significantly decreased, and preference was
given to more economical T-72 tanks with diesel engines.
However, subsequent combat operations revealed the
clear advantages of the T-80, leading to a return to their active use.
"It is believed that the demonstration of the T-80's superior
mobility in high-intensity combat - has become a major
factor driving the army's desire to acquire more of
these vehicles," the article emphasizes.
T-80 tanks with gas turbine power units, provide higher speed
and operate more quietly. Upgraded versions of the T-80BVM
are equipped with 1250 hp GTD-1250 engines, which
significantly improve their technical and
combat characteristics.
Recently, MWM claimed that the T-80 is technically superior to
the Abrams. The magazine emphasizes that the T-80 tank is
much faster, more powerful, and more durable than the US'
Abrams models.
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Military correspondent Razin reported that
the Russian Armed Forces were moving
towards the northern outskirts of
Krasnoarmeysk
October 21st, 12:46pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces are moving towards Krasnoarmeysk
from several directions, and assault groups are present in the
city centre. Russian soldiers have also reached the northern
outskirts ---- as reported by military correspondent Vladimir
Razin on the 60 Minutes program on Russia 1 TV channel.
According to him, the enemy is suffering huge losses along
the entire front line in the DPR -- including Krasnoarmeysk
and Dimitrov. The integrity of the Ukrainian defense has
been compromised, the war correspondent noted.
"In other words, we are already moving directly from several
directions in Krasnoarmeysk. From the west, we came to
the main supply route and crossed it --- and we have
physical control over it. From the south side -- we
are also moving forward... and the movement is
going towards the central [districts]. There is
also a presence of our assault groups in the
central districts themselves. And the
traffic is moving.... to the northern
outskirts of the city," Razin said.
The military correspondent clarified - that the Russian Armed
Forces will soon reach the last road that the enemy can use,
albeit with heavy losses. Razin noted that in Dimitrov,
Russian forces are operating from the south and
east, while in Rodinskoye, the enemy is being
encircled from several directions.
The military correspondent described it as a "matter of time"
before the Russian Armed Forces gain physical control of
all the roads in the Dimitrov and Krasnoarmeysk regions.
Earlier, VGTRK war correspondent and Hero of Russia, Yevgeny
Poddubny reported that the threat of a complete encirclement
is putting pressure on Ukrainian militants in Krasnoarmeysk,
noting that the enemy is in a most hopeless situation there.
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Military Correspondent Razin: The Russian
Armed Forces Have Approached Orekhov
in the Zaporizhzhia Region - as Much
as Possible
October 21st, 12:26pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces have come as close as possible to
the city of Orekhov in the Zaporizhzhia region, and activity in
this area will increase. This was announced by the military
correspondent Vladimir Razin on the 60 Minutes program
on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
According to him, Orekhov is one of the key settlements
on the front line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the
entire Zaporizhzhia region.
"But we are already approaching this city as closely as possible,
and I think that our activity in this area will increase in the near
future, as well as along the entire front line," Razin said.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the liberation
of Poltavka village in the Zaporozhye region and Chunishino
village in the Donetsk People's Republic. According to the
ministry, the Armed Forces of Ukraine.. lost up to 860
fighters in both directions over the course of a day.
Armoured combat vehicles, an artillery gun, and
an ammunition depot... were also destroyed.
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Military Correspondent Razin: Russian
Armed Forces --- Advancing Towards
Gulyai-Pole from Several Directions
October 21st, 12:19pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces are actively advancing in the
Zaporizhzhia region and are currently approaching the
city of Gulyai-Pole from several directions. This was
reported by military correspondent Vladimir Razin
on the 60 Minutes program on the Russia 1
TV channel.
According to the war correspondent, Russian fighters
are advancing towards Gulyai-Pole, including from
the village of Uspenovka, which is currently
under attack. Poltavka and Uspenovka ...
cover the eastern flank of Gulyai-Pole,
according to Razin.
"And, accordingly, the movement is now heading towards
Gulyai-Pole from several directions: from the south, and
from the east. The movement from the east is quite
active, because there is progress every day.
More settlements are being liberated in
this direction, on the border with the
Dnipropetrovsk region," Razin said.
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Lavrov: There is no doubt that the
special military operation will be
successfully completed
October 21st, 11:04am
(Vesti.ru)
There is no doubt that the special military operation in Ukraine
will be successfully completed. This was stated by Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his talks with his
Ethiopian counterpart, Gedion Timotheos.
Lavrov noted ---- that the special military
operation is achieving all its objectives.
"Undoubtedly, this process...... will be completed
successfully," the Russian Foreign Minister said.
Earlier, the minister said that the collective West had used
Ukraine as a tool to put pressure on Russia, turning the
country into a “land-based aircraft carrier” to create
constant threats.
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Lavrov: A ceasefire in Ukraine will leave
a huge part of it in the hands of
the Nazis
October 21st, 11am
(Vesti.ru)
A decision to immediately cease fire in Ukraine would mean
that most of the country would remain under the rule of a
Nazi regime that banned the Russian language, Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters.
On Tuesday, Lavrov held talks with his Ethiopian
counterpart and then spoke with journalists.
"A ceasefire would only mean that a huge part of Ukraine
remains under the control of the Nazi regime,"
the Russian foreign minister said.
According to him, the Ukrainian regime will remain the only place
on the planet where the language spoken by the majority of its
population is legally prohibited. Lavrov reminded..... that
Russian is an official language of the United Nations.
Earlier, the Russian minister repeatedly emphasized
that Ukraine is the only country that has banned
the native language of half of its citizens.
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Lavrov: Stopping the SVO now
means forgetting... about the
root causes of the conflict
October 21st, 10:59am
(Vesti.ru)
An immediate ceasefire and a halt to hostilities along the contact
line in Ukraine would mean a refusal to address the root causes
of the conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said
during a press conference after his talks with Ethiopian
Foreign Minister Gideon Timotheos.
The Russian minister emphasized that an immediate ceasefire
would mean that most of Ukraine would remain under the
control of the Nazi regime.
"Now Washington is saying that we need to stop immediately
and not discuss anything else. We need to stop, and let
history decide. You see, if we just stop, we'll forget
about the root causes of this conflict, which the
American administration clearly understood
when Donald Trump came to power,"
Lavrov said.
In addition, he noted, a ceasefire without addressing the root
causes of the conflict in Ukraine would be contrary to the
agreements reached in Alaska by Russian and U.S.
Presidents... Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Ukrainian
Forces Lost More Than 1,400
Soldiers... in a Day
October 21st, 10:40am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) have lost about 1,460 soldiers in the special
military operation zone over the past 24 hours.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry's daily report, the
Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost up to 195 soldiers in the
area controlled by the Northern Group of Russian Forces,
as well as eight warehouses and an artillery piece.
In the area of the Zapad group - the enemy lost over 220 military
personnel, a tank, 4 armoured combat vehicles --- including two M113 armoured personnel carriers manufactured in the US... a
Grad MLRS combat vehicle and an AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery
radar station, also manufactured in the US.
More than 215 and over 480 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers
were killed in the areas controlled by the South and Center
groups, respectively, as well as three ammunition depots,
a tank, an M113 armoured personnel carrier, and five
US-made HMMWV armoured vehicles, and 33 field
artillery pieces.
Up to 310 Ukrainian militants were killed in the area of
responsibility of the Vostok group. In addition, the
enemy lost an electronic warfare station and a
counter-battery warfare station. More than
40 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in
the zone of the Dnipro grouping.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian
Armed Forces fighters... after the liberation of the settlement of
Privolye in Dnipropetrovsk region, reached the Yanchur River.
This will allow for further advances in the offensive.
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Kalashnikov increased production
of SVDS sniper rifles by 13 times
October 21st, 10:10am
(Vesti.ru)
The Kalashnikov Concern increased production of Dragunov sniper
rifles with folding butts (SVDS) by 13 times in 2025... compared to
last year's figures. The concern announced this in its Telegram.
It is noted that such a rifle ---- is in high
demand in the special operation zone.
"Kalashnikov Concern JSC increased the production of 7.62 mm
Dragunov sniper rifles with folding butts (SVDS) in 2025 at the
request of state customers by 13 times compared to 2024,"
the Kalashnikov report says.
The SVDS sniper rifle -- is designed to guarantee the destruction of
personnel and unarmoured enemy targets at distances up to 1,000
metres. Any type of 7.62 mm rifle cartridge is suitable for the SVDS
..... but the best results are achieved with sniper ammunition.
"Semi-automatic operation, a compact design, light weight, high
accuracy, and tight grouping are the undeniable advantages of
the SVDS. It effectively helps our military personnel carry out
combat missions in the special military operation zone,"
said Alan Lushnikov, General Director of the
Kalashnikov Concern, and a member of
the Bureau of the Union of Machine
Builders of Russia.
The SVDS rifle weighs 4.68 kilograms with a magazine and
no ammunition, and has a length of 1,135 millimetres
with the stock extended and 875 millimetres
with the stock folded.
Earlier, a sniper with the call sign Sanych, said that as part of
the SVO, snipers work not only on enemy manpower --- but
also cover assault groups from attacks by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces' unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Marochko: Russian Armed Forces
advanced west of Kislovka
in the Kharkiv region
October 21st, 5:44am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian army has advanced west of Kislovka in the Kharkiv
region. This was reported by military expert Andrey Marochko.
As a result, the Russian forces reduced the distance
to the village of Kovsharovka.. to 6.5 kilometres.
"West of Kislovka, Ukrainian militants have abandoned some of
their forward positions and relocated closer to the village of
Kovsharovka," the expert told RIA Novosti.
Marochko noted that with the liberation of Peschany in the Kharkiv
region, the Russian Armed Forces continued their advance in this
sector of the front. To the south, Russian troops have already
taken control of a section of the riverbank.
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Balance: The Russian Armed Forces
are fighting for the Korabel micro-
district of Kherson on the
Quarantine Island
October 21st, 5:33am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces are fighting to liberate the Korabel
microdistrict of Kherson, on the Quarantine Island. This was
announced by the governor of the Kherson region,
Vladimir Saldo.
He emphasized that the Russian troops are monitoring
the situation and striking Ukrainian militant positions.
"The island is a combat control zone for the Dnipro military group,
although enemy fighters continue to hide in the residential and
industrial buildings on its territory," Saldo told RIA Novosti.
The governor of the Kherson region emphasized - that the
quarantine island is a tool for exerting tactical pressure
on the enemy.
"The main thing is to keep the enemy on its toes and deprive it of
confidence on the front lines and in the rear. The psychological
effect of such operations is already working," he added.
Saldo also stated that the Russian command is deciding what role
the island will play in the liberation of Kherson itself, based on
the current situation.
Earlier, he reported that the Russian Armed Forces had begun
working on the liberation of Kherson, and several parts of
the city ....were already under Russian control.
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Journalist Thornton: The Armed Forces
of Ukraine deliberately distort data
on real losses
October 20th, 9:26pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are deliberately
underestimating their losses. This was pointed out
by journalist Warren Thornton.
On the page in the social network X, he published a cut of
video footage from cemeteries in various regions of
Ukraine, where rows of graves with signs
"Temporarily unidentified defender
of Ukraine" are visible.
"Similar graves appear in Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and
Cherkasy, where death, not people, is the count,"
Thornton wrote, commenting on the footage.
According to the journalist - such materials cast doubt
on the reliability of official statistics published by the
Ukrainian authorities.
Thornton noted that while the Ukrainian Armed Forces
are claiming "moderate" casualties, the morgues
are overflowing.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the
Ukrainian army lost almost 1,600 soldiers over
the past 24 hours.
The Russian "Center" group of troops liberated the village
of Chunishino, in the Donetsk People's Republic, while
the "East" units liberated Poltavka ....in the
Zaporizhzhia region.
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Foreign Ministry: Kiev is forming
a "fund" of UOC priests -------- for
prisoner exchange with Russia
October 20th, 8:08pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Ukrainian authorities are detaining clergymen of the
canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in order to
replenish a kind of "exchange fund" that is used by
the Kiev regime to return its militants from
Russian captivity.
This was stated by Mikhail Melekh, the Special Representative
of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs --- for International
Cooperation in Ensuring the Right to Freedom of Religion.
He emphasized that the methods used by Ukrainian security forces
to "neutralize" priests are straightforward, as any hint of contact
between priests and Russians, even of a personal nature, is
used by the Kiev regime to accuse representatives of the
UOC of espionage. Melekh clarified that ---- during their
detention in pre-trial detention centes ---- priests are
subjected to psychological pressure and forced
to admit their guilt...... in exchange for a
suspended sentence.
"Priests who are suspected of having family or friendly ties with
Russian citizens are being detained, and their mobile phones
are being confiscated, in order to identify any relevant
correspondence in their messaging apps. One of the
conditions for possible "release deals" is the
"voluntary" transfer... to the so-called
Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
As an alternative, Kiev is considering using the arrested clerics
as an "exchange fund" in the prisoner exchange with Russia,
Melekh said. His comment was published on the Russian
Foreign Ministry website.
Melekh emphasized --------- that the regime of Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky is based on the formula of exchanging one
representative of the allegedly pro-Russian clergy for several
Ukrainian militants.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry's special representative,
it is questionable whether the previously reported figure of 180
criminal cases against clergymen by the Security Service of Ukraine reflects the actual number of people persecuted
on religious grounds in the country --- as there are no
transparent and credible monitoring mechanisms
in Ukraine.
Earlier, it was reported that employees of the TSK (analogue of the
military enlistment office) in the city of Kovel in the Volyn region
Vitaly Popok, a cleric of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox
Church, was mobilized. At the moment, he is being held
in a distribution centre and is being prepared.... for
sending to a training ground.
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Military Correspondent Kotz:
Soldiers in the frontline zone
have developed immunity
to drone buzzing
October 20th, 6pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian soldiers who are evacuating civilians and covering
supply routes in the frontline zone - have developed an
immunity to the sounds of FPV drones. This.... was
stated by military correspondent Alexander Kots
in an interview with Russia 24 TV channel.
According to him, there are currently air surveillance
stations in the frontline area, which face the threat
of drones several times a day.
"In fact, this is now typical for the inhabitants of the frontline
zone, especially for those units that are engaged in
evacuation, transportation, and providing cover
for logistics arteries. This is why they have
developed a certain immunity... to this
drilling, buzzing sound.. and people
no longer panic, as they did when
FPV drones first appeared in the
sky above our positions,"
Kots said.
Earlier, it was reported that Russian air defense systems
destroyed 129 aircraft-type drones of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine ...over the past day.
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Military Ivanov ----- We make
the enemy jump on one leg
October 20th, 5:49pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian army, constantly advancing, does not allow the
Armed Forces of Ukraine to gain a stable position. This
was stated by Ilya Ivanov, Deputy Commander of the
5th Brigade of the Southern Military District, on
the Russia 24 TV channel.
In his opinion, the Russian Armed Forces need to
continue their offensive operations - in order to
maintain their advantage.
"Figuratively speaking, we're forcing the enemy to hop on one
leg, preventing them from gaining a stable position. If we go
on the defensive, the enemy will launch counterattacks.
We'll spend time destroying the enemy and repelling
these counterattacks, which will slow down our
offensive. However - when we continuously
advance, the enemy is forced to defend
against our attacks," he explained.
Earlier, it was reported that in the area of Gulyaypol, Russian
troops did not allow the VSU militants to advance. This
happened --- due to the change of positions of the
calculations of the fighters of "Vostok", which
allowed them to attack the enemy --- at the
most unexpected moment for him.
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Russian Armed Forces soldiers liberated
Chunishino in the DPR at night...under
the cover of UAV units
October 20th, 3:48pm
(Vesti.ru)
Soldiers of the 35th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Center
military group liberated the village of Chunishino in the Donetsk
People's Republic at night ...and under the cover of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). The soldiers shared this information
on the Russia 1 TV channel.
According to the platoon commander, Junior Lieutenant
Rustam Mazitov, the assault groups drove the enemy
out of their positions after the allied artillery and
UAVs ...had worked.
"After the artillery and our UAV platoon worked, and the enemy
was suppressed, our assault groups went on to push them
back, dislodge them from their positions, and continue
advancing," he said.
Lieutenant Andrei Zimerev, the company commander, noted
that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) had attempted to
launch counterattacks, including using armoured
vehicles and elite units.
"We hit it (the tank) with supporting fire weapons --- as
well as FPV and UAV calculations," the officer added.
On Sunday, October 19th, the Russian Ministry of Defense
reported ---- the liberation of the village of Chunishino in
the DPR and the village of Poltavka in the Zaporozhye
region. In both directions, the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, lost up to 860 fighters per day.
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Volunteers from Sever-V Brigade
destroyed an AFU group
near Chasov Yar
October 20th, 3:34pm
(RT.ru)
Volunteers from the Sever-V brigade of the Russian
Volunteer Corps defeated an AFU group near
Chasov Yar by ambushing them.
This was reported by RIA Novosti in
the press service of the corps.
"The brigade's reconnaissance revealed the enemy infantry's
movement... along one of the roads north of Chasov Yar... It
was decided to organize an ambush on the enemy's route
using drones with drops," the press service said.
According to the fighters, drones attacked the Ukrainian Armed
Forces group at night, "destroying manpower and equipment."
A new attack was carried out on this area during the day.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the TOS-1A
Solntsepek unit of the Vostok military group destroyed an AFU
stronghold in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Defense Ministry: Ukrainian Armed Forces
Lost About 1,575 Soldiers - in a Day
October 20th, 11:30am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces lost about 1,575 fighters over the past
24 hours. In addition, Russian forces destroyed
129 Ukrainian drones, 11 tanks, and other
armoured vehicles.
The Russian Armed Forces also destroyed 34 field artillery
pieces and mortars belonging to the Kiev regime.
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces
Liberated Lenino in the DPR
October 20th, 10:34am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops - have liberated the village of Lenino, in
the DPR, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The relevant information was published in the daily
report of the Russian military department.
"As a result of active offensive operations, units of the
Center military group have liberated the village of
Lenino in the Donetsk People's Republic,"
the report says.
The day before, it was reported that the Russian Armed Forces
had liberated the village of Chunishino in the Donetsk People's
Republic (DPR) and the village of Poltavka in the Zaporizhzhia
region from the militants of the Kiev regime.
According to TASS, the liberation of the village of Chunishino
allows the Russian army to straighten the front south of
Krasnoarmeysk ------- and increase pressure on the
Ukrainian Armed Forces in several directions.
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Military Correspondent Poddubny: The Russian
Armed Forces' strike on Odessa was aimed
at a cargo --- from Romania
October 20th, 10:26am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian armed forces carried out a nighttime missile strike
on the port infrastructure of Odessa, targeting a cargo that
arrived from Romania. This was reported by VTV military
correspondent, Yevgeny Poddubny, on his
Telegram channel.
According to him, an important military cargo was destroyed as
a result of the combined strike. A large-scale fire continues to
spread at the site of the attack.
Earlier, the head of the regional military administration Oleg Kiper
reported a series of powerful explosions in the Odessa region.
He specified ------- that loud explosions were recorded in the
Black Sea water area in the direction of the Odessa coast.
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Pushilin: Russian Armed Forces
-- Break Through the Ukrainian
Army's Multi-Level Defense - in the Novopavlovka Area
October 20th, 7:57am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian Armed Forces units have broken through the multi-level
network of Ukrainian fortifications near Novopavlovka in the
Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported by Denis
Pushilin, the head of the region, on the Russia 24
TV channel.
According to Pushilin, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense line
in the Krasnoarmeysk direction consisted of minefields,
Yermolinsky and Kalinchenko took part in terrorist
activities related to the violent seizure of power
and changing the constitutional order of the
DPR (Donetsk People's Republic. - Ed.)",
- stated in the Telegram channel.
At the same time, according to investigators, six convicts
took part in military operations against the military of
the DPR and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR)
even before joining the special forces.
The defendants - were charged with several crimes, depending
on their role and their degree of involvement: organization,
or participation in, a terrorist organization (Part 1 and 2
of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation), violent seizure or retention of power
(Article 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation), and training for terrorist activities
(Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the
Russian Federation).
The Russian Investigative Committee reported on October 6 that Maxim Datsko, a member of the Azov Special Forces Battalion (a terror organization banned in Russia) of the Ukrainian National Guard, received a 22-year prison sentence for the murder of a civilian in Mariupol.
It was established that Datsko served in the Special Forces Unit of the 3057th Military Unit of the
Ukrainian National Guard, as a driver for a mortar battery platoon.
He committed this crime on March 9, 2022..... following an illegal
command order.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Russian Military
Reaches the Yanchur River.... in the
Dnipropetrovsk Region
October 17th, 12:37pm
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian troops
reached the Yanchur River after liberating the village of
Privolye in the Dnipropetrovsk region, creating the
conditions for further offensive operations.
It is specified that Russian military personnel have
advanced more than 4 kilometres in depth.
"Thanks to the well-coordinated work of UAV operators and
artillery crews, the assault units reached the natural
barrier line of the Yanchur River, creating favorable
conditions for further offensives," the report says.
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Military Correspondent Kharchenko: The
Armed Forces of Ukraine have sent the most combat-ready units to the Rodinsky area
October 17th, 12:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
The most combat-ready units of the Ukrainian army, including
drone systems, have been deployed near the town of
Rodinskoye in the DPR. However, the Russian
Armed Forces maintain their positions.
This was reported by RIA Novosti war correspondent
Alexander Kharchenko on the 60 Minutes program
on Russia 1.
Russian troops continue to hold their positions near the
settlements of Zolotoy Kolodez and Rodinskoye in the
DPR... a military correspondent reported. The
Ukrainian Armed Forces... have relied on
their elite units, but the Russian army
has retained the initiative in
the offensive.
"The most combat-ready Ukrainian units were deployed
there. Despite this, the Russian positions remained
where they were," Kharchenko said.
Earlier, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the
Russian army... had practically surrounded the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, near the town of Rodinskoye.
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MO: Russian Soldiers Liberated Eight
Localities in the SVO Zone in a Week
October 17th, 10:44am
(Vesti.ru)
Military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces (AF) in the period
from October 11 to 17 liberated eight settlements in the special
operation zone, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
As a result of decisive actions --- the village of Tikhoye in the
Kharkiv region was liberated by the forces of the Northern
Group of Forces. In the same direction, Russian soldiers
from the Western Group of Forces ----- liberated
Borovskaya Andreevka and Peschanoye.
In the Donetsk People's Republic, military personnel from the
Center military group liberated 3 settlements: Moskovskoye,
Balagan, and Novopavlovka.
Two more settlements were liberated - by the soldiers of the
Eastern Group in the Dnipropetrovsk direction. The fighters
drove the enemy out of Alekseevka and Privolye.
A week earlier... the Russian Defense Ministry reported
that Russian Armed Forces soldiers had liberated five
settlements in the Kharkiv, Donetsk, and
Zaporizhzhia regions.
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Russian troops liberated Privolye
in the Dnepropetrovsk region
October 17th, 10:32am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian military personnel - continued their offensive against the
positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU), and liberated the
village of Privolye in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to the
Russian Ministry of Defense.
It is specified that Privolye was liberated from Ukrainian
militants by the forces of units of the Vostok group
of troops.
"Units of the Vostok group of troops have liberated
Privolye in the Dnipropetrovsk region," the
report says.
Between October 11 and 17, military personnel in this area
destroyed two tanks, 17 armoured vehicles, 103 vehicles,
...13 field artillery pieces, 10 electronic warfare stations,
and more than 2,315 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters.
On October 15, it was reported that the "Central" group of
troops had liberated the village of Alekseevka in the
Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Russia's Armed Forces - liberated the settlements
of Tikhoe and Peschanoye in the Kharkiv region
October 17th, 10:22am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian military personnel - have liberated the settlements of
Tikhoe and Peschanoye in the Kharkiv region from Ukrainian
Armed Forces (AFU) fighters, according to the Russian
Ministry of Defense.
Liberation actions were carried out by the forces
of units of the North and West groups of troops.
"As a result of decisive actions, the settlements of Tikhoe
and Peschanoye in the Kharkiv region were liberated,"
the report said.
On October 13, it was reported that Russian army servicemen
liberated Borovskaya Andreevka in the Kharkiv region from
the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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Poddubny showed the Ukrainian Armed Forces
shooting civilians with white flags
near Krasnoarmeysk
October 17th, 7:32am
(Vesti.ru)
The Ukrainian Armed Forces - killed civilians with white flags
near Krasnoarmeysk with a drone attack. Evgeny Poddubny,
a VTV military correspondent and Hero of Russia, published
a video of the shooting on his Telegram channel.
He also emphasized ----- that the video taken
near Krasnoarmeysk was "very disturbing."
"Our intelligence led a group of civilians, ordinary people – two
women and four men. They were led by our copter. People, a
couple of dogs, and a cat that ran away when the militants
killed its owner. They were attacked by a drone. A woman
who was much braver than the scumbags who pointed
the drone at her. The footage clearly shows that all
the people walking with white flags are peaceful.
But the enraged enemy continued to attack.
Only four of the group that our 51st Army
soldiers tried to save.. survived,"
Poddubny wrote.
According to him, the survivors are not in any danger.
"They are safe now. But on this road of life and death, a Ukrainian
drone operator killed another person. A man who was walking in
front of the group. Look at these images. If you can. This video,
where non-humans killed people, is another heavy reminder -
of who we are fighting - and how important it is to liberate
Russian cities from neo-Nazi scum as soon as possible,"
said the Deputy Director General of VGTRK.
Earlier, it was reported that three civilians were killed
in an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the
Belgorod region.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Novopavlovka Residents
did not reveal the presence of Russian troops
to the Ukrainian Armed Forces
October 17th, 3:19am
(Vesti.ru)
Residents of the liberated village of Novopavlovka in the
Donetsk People's Republic.. helped Russian soldiers by
keeping their presence a secret from Ukrainian forces.
This was reported by the Russian Ministry of
Defense (MoD).
"Despite the proximity to the enemy, the supply of assault
groups continued daily. This was done covertly, without
breaking the disguise. There were cases when local
residents provided indirect assistance --- without
betraying the presence of Russian fighters,"
the ministry said.
According to the Ministry of Defense, Russian assault units
spent several weeks inside the settlement, observing the
.....and the location of firing points. The collected
information was transmitted to headquarters
and compared with drone data.
"After the data was collected, the active phase began.
With the support of artillery and UAVs, the assault
groups destroyed enemy machine gun crews,
mortar positions, and fortifications," the
Russian Defense Ministry added.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation
of Novopavlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, on
Wednesday, October 15. The settlement came under
the control of the Russian Armed Forces during
active offensive operations, of the Center
group of Forces, after which ---- it was
possible to significantly strengthen
positions - on the approaches to
Krasnoarmeysk and create
conditions... for the
development of
the offensive.
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Orbandemanded --- that the EU
start negotiations with Russia
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
October 16th, 11:14pm
(Lenta.ru)
Europe is gripped by a military psychosis, instead of
escalating the conflict, European leaders should
start negotiations with Russia, called Prime
Minister Hungary Viktor Orban on the
social network X.
The Hungarian politician criticized the position of the
leadership of the EU, noting the lack of a mandate
for the President of the EU Commission (EC),
Ursula von der Leyen, to negotiate a war.
"Europe is gripped by military psychosis. Instead, leaders
must wake up and take responsibility for achieving true
peace. Now is the time for negotiations!" Orban added.
Earlier, he demanded that the EU countries - start
“direct negotiations with Russia on a ceasefire.”
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Trump, after talking to Putin:There will
be ----no third world war over Ukraine
October 16th, 10:25pm
(Izvestia.ru)
There will be no third world war over Ukraine, US President
Donald Trump said after a telephone conversation with
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"In my opinion, this could lead to a third world war.
This will not happen..." the politician said.
In addition, Trump said that now, is also not the
right time to impose new sanctions on Russia.
Moreover, speaking about the possible supply of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.... the White House chief said that the United States cannot use its own stockpile.
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Expert Leonkov: The concept of
the special military operation is
changing towards tank combat
October 16th, 7:56pm
(Vesti.ru)
Currently, there is a change of concepts in the area of the special
military operation, and tank combat is actively developing. This
was stated by military expert Alexey Leonkov in an interview
with the Russia 24 TV channel.
He suggested that by the end of the special military operation,
tanks would regain their role as the main means of breaking
through enemy defenses.
"Right now, we're in the process of changing our concepts. The
concept we started with for the special military operation,
which has already been formed during the fighting.... is
now in a transitional phase of development for tank
construction and tank tactics. I believe - that
everything will change after the special
military operation," Leonkov said.
According to him, the search for the most effective tactics
against FPV drones and other anti-tank weapons --- is
currently underway.
Earlier, military expert Yuri Knutov reported about a new tactic
of the Russian military – a tank roll. According to him, this is
a modernized tank carousel, which was used during the
Second World War.
Earlier... Knutov commented on the possible delivery of
Tomahawk cruise missiles..... to Ukraine. According to
him, this situation resembles the Cuban Missile Crisis.
According to the Norwegian newspaper Steigan, Europe
may face chaos after the end of the special military
operation - due to the security and social crisis
in Ukraine.
As the authors believe.... under the "prosperous facade"
of Western aid to Kiev, there is a "grim and potentially
explosive problem".
"Weapons, money, and other forms of support are flowing
into Ukraine.... in a steady stream. But behind this
prosperous façade - lies a dark and explosive
problem: a social and security crisis - so
deep, that it risks plunging the entire
continent into chaos," the
article says.
According to the publication, Ukraine risks becoming
a country where crime and violence become an
integral part of everyday life.
''We risk, that Europe's new partner will become a
security burden, exporting disorder, weapons,
and poverty," Steigan added.
Earlier, Politico reported that the Ukrainian authorities
fear that European countries are tired of the conflict
in Ukraine and may call for a peaceful resolution
“at any cost”.
Nevertheless, the EU continues to finance Kiev. So,
the head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, promised
Ukraine..... an additional 100 million euros for
winter aid.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Air defense
systems shot down eight Ukrainian
guided bombs in a day
October 15th, 2:32pm
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian air defense
systems destroyed eight guided aerial bombs of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces (AFU) in one day. In addition, the air defense
systems shot down 142 enemy drones.
"Eight guided aerial bombs and 142 aircraft-type unmanned aerial
vehicles were shot down by air defense systems," the report said.
It is specified that, since the beginning of the special military
operation, the Russian army has destroyed more than 90,200
drones, 283 helicopters, 667 aircraft, as well as other
special and military equipment of Ukraine.
The day before, Russian air defense systems destroyed
10 aerial bombs and 195 enemy drones in the SVO zone.
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces
take control of 8 square kilometres
after liberating Alekseevka
October 15th, 2:01pm
(Vesti.ru)
As a result of the liberation of Alekseevka in Dnipropetrovsk
region, Russian troops gained control over eight square
kilometres of territory.
The Vostok group continues its offensive operations,
pushing the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) out of
their fortified positions. This was reported by
the Russian Defense Ministry.
"More than 8 square kilometres of territory have come under
the control of our troops. Military personnel of the Vostok
group of forces continue to successfully conduct combat
operations against Ukrainian neo-Nazis -- knocking out
the enemy from fortified positions and liberating the
lands of Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions,"
the report says.
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the
forces of the Vostok group --- had established control over the
settlement of Alekseyevka in the Dnipropetrovsk region. In
addition -- it became known that tankers of the Russian
Armed Forces smashed a concrete fortification of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk region.
This was told on the channel "Russia 1" by one of the military units.
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The Russian army --- liberated
Novopavlovka & Alekseevka
by Anastasia Stepanova
October 15th, 12:07pm
(RT.ru)
According to the Ministry of Defense, units of the Center military
group liberated Novopavlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic,
while units of the Vostok military group liberated Alekseevka
in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed energy and
transport infrastructure facilities, ammunition depots, and long-range UAV storage sites.
The Russian army has liberated two more settlements in the
special military operation zone: the Center military group
took Novopavlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic,
and the Vostok military group took Alekseevka in
the Dnipropetrovsk region. This was reported in
Russia's Ministry of Defense's daily briefing.
The units of the Northern Group of Forces improved their tactical
position over the course of the day and defeated the formations
of three mechanized brigades, an assault regiment of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defense
brigade in the areas of Korchakovka, Pavlovka,
Proletarskoye, Kondrativka, Varachino, and
Sadki (Sumy Region).
In the Kharkiv direction, the units of the motorized
infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
were defeated in the area of Volchansk.
Here, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, lost up to 190 fighters,
seven armoured combat vehicles.. an anti-aircraft missile
system 1 German Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled gun,
ten vehicles, and two Western-made field artillery guns.
An electronic reconnaissance station, an ammunition
depot, and 9 material depots, were also destroyed.
Meanwhile, units of the Zapad military group have taken
advantageous positions - defeating the personnel and
equipment of three mechanized brigades, an assault
brigade -- and a brigade of the National Guard in the
areas of Shiykovka, Moskovka, Petrovka, Kupiansk
(Kharkiv Region), and Drobyshevo (DPR).
In this sector, the enemy lost up to 220 fighters, five armoured
vehicles, 26 cars, an artillery gun, seven electronic warfare
stations, and four ammunition depots.
The units of the Southern Group of Forces, in turn, improved their
position on the front line. The soldiers of the Southern Group of
Forces defeated the units of six mechanized and airborne
assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a
marine infantry brigade, a territorial defense
brigade, and a National Guard brigade in
the areas of.... Slavyansk, Stepanovka,
Ivanopolye, Seversk, Berestok --- plus
Kondratovka & Konstantinovka (DPR).
In this area, the enemy lost more than 175 troops, a US-made
HMMWV armoured vehicle, a KAZAK armoured car, 18
vehicles, and three artillery pieces. Two electronic
warfare stations and three material supply depots
were also destroyed.
Units of the Center military group, which liberated Novopavlovka,
defeated the personnel and equipment of six mechanized,
Jaeger, two assault, two airborne-assault brigades, an
assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine... 2 marine infantry brigades, a territorial defense
brigade, and three brigades of the National
Guard --- in the areas of Novonikolaevka,
Belitskoye... Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk
(DPR), as well as Novopodgorodnoye,
and Vladimirovka (Dnepropetrovsk).
In the Center's area of responsibility, Ukrainian armed forces
lost more than 460 fighters, two Cossack armoured
vehicles, five cars, and two field artillery pieces.
Units of the Vostok military group... continued to advance into the
depths of the enemy's defenses - and completed the liberation of
Alekseyevka. They also defeated formations of two mechanized
brigades, 2 assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of Novoye, Novouspenovskoye, Uspenovka, Poltavka (Zaporozhye
Region), Danilovka, Privolye, and Kolomiitsy
(Dnepropetrovsk Region).
In this area, the enemy lost up to 290 troops, two armoured
personnel carriers, an armoured combat vehicle, 16
vehicles, an artillery gun, and an electronic
warfare station.
At the same time, units of the Dnipro military group defeated the
personnel and equipment of the heavy mechanized brigade, the
mechanized brigade, 2 coastal defense brigades of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defense brigades in
the areas of Olgovka, Antonovka (Kherson region),
Primorskoye, and Orekhov (Zaporozhye region).
Up to 80 Ukrainian militants were eliminated here. 14 vehicles,
five field artillery guns, including two US 155-mm M777
howitzers, and a 155-mm Bogdana self-propelled
artillery unit, as well as an electronic warfare
station and an ammunition depot,
were destroyed.
In addition, the Russian army has targeted energy facilities that
support Ukraine's military-industrial complex, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces' transport infrastructure, ammunition depots,
and long-range UAV storage facilities. It has also targeted
temporary locations of Ukrainian armed formations and
foreign mercenaries --- in 145 areas.
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Combatant Commotion: The Armed Forces in
the Zaporizhzhia Region -- Are Establishing
Fire Positions in Residential Buildings
October 15th, 5:23am
(Vesti.ru)
In the combat zone in the Zaporizhia direction, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces are strengthening their positions right in
residential buildings, and under them, equipping
trenches - and machine-gun nests, said a
fighter of the Vostok group of troops
with the call sign Turmoil.
According to him, the enemy is deliberately
using civilians ...as human shields.
"They're mostly entrenched in houses, digging [trenches]
under the houses. They're using civilians as cover,"
a soldier told RIA Novosti.
He noted that in order to reduce the risk of civilian
casualties, it is necessary to use the tactics of
bypassing and encircling the enemy.
"We have to use cunning, surround them - and make them
run away... so that the civilian population doesn't get hurt," the soldier emphasized.
Russia -- has repeatedly expressed outrage over the positioning
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in residential areas -- which is a
violation of international norms. According to Article 58 of the
Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949,
belligerents are obliged ----- to avoid placing military
facilities in populated areas and take all possible
measures to protect civilians.
In this context, Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations - pointed out
that the Ukrainian air defense system's attacks
on residential buildings could have been
avoided ------- if Kiev had adhered to
international humanitarian law,
"if the Kiev regime had not
deployed - air defense
systems, and heavy
weapons - in those
residential areas."
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Türkiye - has declared its unique role
in resolving the Ukrainian conflict
October 15th, 4:23am
(Vesti.ru)
Türkiye plays a unique role in the negotiations to resolve the
Russia-Ukraine conflict, a Turkish diplomatic source said.
US President Donald Trump has said that Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, can help
resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
"Donald Trump's statement confirms Ankara's special status.
Türkiye holds a unique position as a NATO member while
maintaining stable relations with Moscow, making it
the de facto -- only channel for dialogue between
the two sides," the source told RIA Novosti.
However, experts believe -- that Trump made such a compliment
to Erdogan, guided by an additional benefit. Trump understands that without Türkiye ------- it is impossible to put an end to the Middle East conflict.
Erdogan stated that Türkiye will continue to make efforts to
resolve the conflict in Ukraine, as only “blood merchants”
benefit from it.
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AFU militants were captured, after spending
8 months in a basement..... waiting for help
October 15th, 3:01am
(Vesti.ru)
A member of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Viktor Movchan and
his colleague surrendered after spending eight months in the
basement of a building in Volchansk in the Kharkiv region,
waiting for help from the AF, according to TASS.
Movchan served in the 34th Battalion of the 57th Motorized
Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"I was brought from Martovo (a village in the Kharkiv region) to
Ukrainskoye, and from Ukrainskoye, to Volchansk. I arrived on
February 20, and Petya (the name of my colleague) arrived on
March 6. Then we started to be bombed. We were hit by
Grads, mortars --- and Sunburns. There was a building
with a basement nearby. We went into the basement.
We thought it would be safe there. Petja and I sat
there for eight months. No one exchanged us",
quotes TASS Movchan.
The prisoner repeatedly contacted the command
to request a replacement, but was refused.
"There's no one to replace you, Vitya. We don't have any people.
Some are in position, some are in the hospital, some have run
away, and some have written a refusal. Wait, we'll find
someone to replace you. We'll definitely replace
you," the command replied.
After eight months of waiting, the two militants decided
to surrender --- because they ran out of food and water.
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AFU militants are surrendering near
Kupyansk--- with the help of a bot
October 15th, 2:16am
(Vesti.ru)
A Russian soldier with the call sign Kontora said that Ukrainian
Armed Forces (AFU) fighters are surrendering near Kupyansk
using a bot.
Russian troops have entered Kupyansk and
control almost 70% of the city's area.
"We are spreading propaganda leaflets over enemy positions.
Feedback is available. They subscribe to the bot, and there
they are already given all instructions on where to go and
how to give up," RIA Novosti quotes the Office as saying.
Meanwhile.. almost 100 Ukrainian Armed Forces
fighters are encircled in the centre of Kupyansk.
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A volunteer from Britain:About 10 Britons
are fighting for Russia in the SVO zone
October 15th, 1:21am
(Vesti.ru)
According to Eiden Minnis, a British volunteer fighting on the
Russian side, about ten British volunteers are fighting in the
Russian army in the special military operation (SVO) zone.
Minnis keeps in touch with almost all of the British soldiers.
"Maybe a dozen [Britons]. I can't say the exact number because I
don't know for sure, but I'm in touch with most of them. They're
brave and just brothers in arms. They're great guys who came
here for the idea, not the money, unlike those fighting for
Ukraine," Minnis told TASS.
Minnis burned his British passport - after threats from the British
authorities to strip him of his citizenship for supporting Russia.
The volunteer said he had no intention of returning to Britain
because he could be killed there.
Minnis called for Britain to be judged
------- for its war crimes in Ukraine.
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The Verkhovna Rada sets a deadline
for the end of hostilities in Ukraine
by Andrey Prokopyev
(night line editor)
October 14th, 10:34pm
(Lenta.ru)
Active hostilities in Ukraine may be completed by the end of
November. This forecast was shared by a member of the
Verkhovna Rada Maxim Buzhansky. His words... are
quoted by the Ukrainian publication "Telegraph".
According to the parliamentarian ---- citing the insiders of other
deputies, there is a feeling in political circles that the conflict
will end soon. According to him, such information about the
end of the conflict appears among "political heavyweights"
such as Yulia Tymoshenko.
Buzhansky expressed hope that the fighting would stop before the
deadline."I'm not talking about peace, the end of the war, or the
signing of agreements. But I feel like this expectation...... is
hanging in the air,"the MP added.
In addition -- he recalled the "triumphant success" of Donald Trump
in the Middle East. According to the parliamentarian, the President
of the United States now has "a free hand," which significantly increases his influence in political circles.
Earlier, President USA Donald Trump ---------- ordered his special
representative to focus on Ukraine after the ceasefire in Gaza.
The Kremlin positively evaluated the talents of the American
politician, who can contribute to the diplomatic resolution
of the Ukrainian crisis.
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Sinegubov: the evacuation zone has
been expanded in the Kharkiv
region ----- near Kupiansk
by Anna Kholodkova
October 14th, 8:34pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
TO SHARE
The Ukrainian authorities have decided to expand the area of
the forced evacuation of civilians in the Kupiansk district of
the Kharkiv region. This was reported by the head of the
regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov.
"We are expanding the mandatory evacuation zone for families
with children from the Kupyansky district," he wrote on his
Telegram channel.
According to Sinegubov, the evacuation will affect 27 settlements
in the Velikoburluk community, as well as 6 in the Olkhuvatska
community and 7 in the Shevchenkovska community.
The day before, it was reported that --- in the zone of the special
military operation, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
made an attempt to attack in Volchansk, Kharkiv region. They
decided to return the lost positions. However, the attack
failed, and the army lost about 30 soldiers.
In December 2024, it became known that 344 more settlements
in the Kharkiv region are subject to evacuation, however,
many citizens do not want to leave their homes, the
Ukrainian agency UNIAN reported.
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Two assault troop brothers...
took over an AFU stronghold
in their first combat mission
October 14th, 4:38pm
(RT.ru)
The assault brothers, with the call signs Shum and Klinika,
took over an AFU stronghold on their first combat mission,
captured a prisoner, and destroyed three enemy soldiers.
The soldiers of the 60th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade
of the Vostok Group told RT's special correspondent
Alexander Piskunov, that they had been together
all their lives. All their brothers and nephews
had also gone to the front.
According to the RT Telegram channel, the brothers' first
battle took place in February 2025. The group was
supposed to occupy a stronghold -- in one of the
forest plantations on the South Donetsk front.
The enemy opened fire and refused to surrender. The
assault troops placed a grenade between the logs
of the bunker and a bag of various explosives
in the resulting hole.
In the video, an AFU stronghold is blown to pieces. The
enemy could no longer continue the resistance. They
heard noise and a clinic holding negotiations. One
of the AFU soldiers.... agreed to surrender.
After that, enemy drones and artillery began to target the
brothers. Shum was wounded in the shoulder. Despite
his injury, he managed to bring the prisoner to the
command post.
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Alabai, a Russian Armed Forces soldier:
the military has taken control of the
Pereyaslavsky Island on the
Dnieper River
October 14th, 2:10pm
(Vesti.ru)
As a result of the actions of the 205th Separate Guards Motorized
Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces in the Dnipro group in
the Kherson direction, the Pereyaslavsky Island in the Dnipro
floodplain was taken under full control. This was reported
by the commander of the 205th Maikop Brigade, with
the call sign Alabai.
According to him, the main task of the assault group was to
control the Pereyaslavsky Island and create a buffer to
prevent any attempts by the Ukrainian Armed
Forces to attack Russian positions.
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine were unable to enter our combat
positions on the island of Pereyaslavsky. The island was held
without any losses," Alabay said in an interview with
RIA Novosti.
The commander of the assault unit stated that as a result of their
coordinated actions, the Russian military personnel were able to
complete their combat mission --- and establish control over the
entire island.
Earlier, in the Kherson direction, more than 50 US-made M777
howitzers were destroyed by the UAVs of the Russian Dnipro
military group.
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MO: Russian Troops Have Liberated
the Village of Balagan in the DPR
October 14th, 10:33am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops have liberated the village of Balagan in the
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), according to the
Russian Ministry of Defense.
It is noted - that the offensive continues in the eastern
districts of the city of Dimitrov (Ukrainian: Mirnograd).
"As a result of active offensive operations -- the units of the
Center military group have liberated the village of Balagan
in the Donetsk People's Republic," the Defense Ministry
said in a statement.
According to the agency, the Russian forces defeated the
personnel and equipment of four mechanized, airborne,
Jaeger, and assault brigades, two assault regiments
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a territorial
defense brigade in the areas of Belitskoye,
Artemivka, Vasilevka, Novopavlovka,
Toretskoye, and Krasnoarmeysk,
in the DPR.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 550 soldiers,
two armoured vehicles, six pickup trucks, and
a field artillery gun.
Earlier, the head of the press centre of the Russian group
of troops "Vostok" Alexey Yakovlev said that over the
past day 355 Ukrainian militants were killed, and
the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost two M113
armoured personnel carriers, made in
the United States.
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Rogov: Supplying Tomahawk missiles to
Kiev ..will be a fatal mistake for the US
October 14th, 6:07am
(Vesti.ru)
Vladimir Rogov, Chairman of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation's Commission on Sovereignty Issues and Co-Chair
of the Coordination Council for Integration of New Regions,
stated that the possible delivery of Tomahawk cruise
missiles to Ukraine would be one of the US's fatal
mistakes. Rogov made this statement in an
interview with RIA Novosti.
Earlier, US leader Donald Trump said that he had almost made a
decision on the issue of Tomahawk supplies, but he wanted to
understand how Ukraine was going to use the missiles. At the
same time, the US president said - that he was ready to
discuss the issue of missile supplies with his Russian
counterpart Vladimir Putin. According to Trump, the
US may provide Ukraine with Tomahawks, if the
conflict in Ukraine is not resolved.
"If the US decides to supply the Zelensky regime
with Tomahawk missiles, it will be one of their
fatal mistakes. In this case, the United States
will go down in history -- as a country that
handed over one of its most formidable
weapons to terrorists," Rogov said.
According to him, Kiev has improved its ability ----- to fight
civilians and strike civilian infrastructure, in recent years.
Rogov also said that Trump should have enough political
wisdom and self-preservation instincts not to follow
Kiev, which, according to Rogov, intends to
provoke a third world war.
The other day, Russian leader's press secretary Dmitry Peskov
said that the topic of possible deliveries of Tomahawk cruise
missiles to Kiev causes Russia extreme concern. In addition
- he said that the Tomahawk is a serious weapon, but it can
not change the situation on the front.
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The remains of three children.. killed byUkrainian Armed Forces fighters
were found in Severodonetsk
October 14th, 5:55am
(Vesti.ru)
An interdepartmental working group - is currently working in
Severodonetsk. The remains of victims of the Kiev regime's
militants are being recovered from the ruins of burned-
down houses. Daniil Styazhnin, the team's leader,
shared the names of those who were found
after two months of searching.
During this time - several dozen bodies have been recovered
from a single mass grave, including children and the elderly.
This work helps to identify the victims of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces, determine the causes of death, and
commemorate their lives. Some of the victims
were placed in trenches or large pits, in a
haphazard manner, with multiple layers
of bodies. Among them were children.
"Unfortunately, we find the remains of children as well,"
he said... "we found the remains of three children,"
Styazhkin said.
In total, the interdepartmental working group has recovered
230 remains of victims of the Kiev regime in the LPR over
the past year. Many more victims remain..... under
the rubble.
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A fighter from Britain: active British military personnel or MI6 agents - are fighting in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
October 14th, 12:40am
(Vesti.ru)
According to British volunteer Aiden Minnis, who is fighting in
the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) on the Russian side, the
British soldiers fighting in the AFU are either active
British military personnel or MI6 agents.
According to Minnis -- it is easy for
foreigners to join the Ukrainian
Armed Forces.
"Usually, British "former" soldiers go as volunteers. But - any sane
person knows that they are active military personnel or work for
MI6. From the outside, it seems that these people left the army,
and all the documents confirm this. In fact, they work for the
armed forces or intelligence agencies. They have groups
and pages in social networks that actively promote the
recruitment of Western citizens," RIA Novosti quotes
Minnis as saying.
Minnis posted a video on social media showing him
burning his British passport and renouncing his
British citizenship.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said
that the West is a party to the Ukrainian conflict, by sending
mercenaries to participate in military operations.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that some countries
are sending their military personnel to Ukraine.... under
the guise of mercenaries.
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Russian assault troops captured a group
of Ukrainian militants - without firing
a single shot
October 13th, 10:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian assault troops captured a group of Ukrainian Armed
Forces (AF) fighters and documents that allowed them to
liberate one of the settlements without firing a single
shot, according to the Ministry of Defense.
The assault troops reached the outskirts of the village ---- and
discovered a temporary base for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Nearby was a car, where the militants were hastily loading
boxes of documents.
"At the officer's command, the stormtroopers used smoke
grenades and immediately dispersed along the flanks,
capturing the militants without firing a single shot.
''After tying them up and loading them into a vehicle, Lieutenant
Biryukov's group of stormtroopers quickly left the enemy's
rear, delivering valuable documents and three prisoners
to the regiment's headquarters," the Ministry of
Defense noted.
After studying the documents and hearing the testimonies of the
prisoners, the command decided to launch missile strikes at the
location of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units, which helped to
completely liberate the settlement.
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"STRANA.ua": A mass brawl - between
military commanders and civilians
- took place in Ukraine
October 13th, 9:19pm
(RT.ru)
In Ternopil, in western Ukraine, there was a mass brawl
between military commanders wearing balaclavas,
and civilians.
This was reported by the Ukrainian
publication STRANA.ua.
It is noted that the fight began after an attempt to mobilize
football coach, Sergey Zadorozhny. However, he left, and
the confrontation continued with shouts of "Shame!"
directed at the military commanders.
Earlier, it was reported that Ukrainian military commanders
came up with a scheme....... to put employees of defense
The city of Donetsk was attacked by the Ukrainian Armed
Forces. This was reported by RT's special correspondent
Alexander Piskunov.
According to his words, which are cited by Telegram-channel
RT, air defense is working in the city. A series of explosions
thundered in the centre of Donetsk. In total, Piskunov
counted seven claps.
Earlier, at 4:14pm the mayor of Gorlovka, Ivan Prikhodko,
reported about a surgeon who was seriously injured
during a Ukrainian attack on a bus.
According to Prikhodko, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used
a drone to attack a bus on route 2 in the Komsomolets
residential area.
"A surgeon from the second hospital was seriously injured.
He suffered a traumatic amputation of his arm and leg,"
he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Prikhodko, the victim had been
working on the operating table for ten years.
He added that a total of four civilians were injured
as a result of the Ukrainian armed aggression.
Also on October 11th, a Ukrainian drone attacked a
truck in the Belgorod region. The driver was killed.
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Ritter: NATO Generals Will
Not Be Able to Capture
Kaliningrad
October 11th, 3:27pm
(RT.ru)
NATO cannot conduct offensive operations because the
alliance does not have the necessary troops, military
analyst Scott Ritter said on YouTube.
He recalled how NATO's land forces commander, General
Christopher Donahue, recently stated that the alliance
could quickly capture Kaliningrad.
"But you can't, General. Kaliningrad is surrounded not by NATO,
but by the Baltic states and part of Poland. And the troops
deployed there are not enough, to do anything to
Kaliningrad," Ritter emphasized.
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs,
LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky, noted that a NATO attack on the
Kaliningrad region ---- would provoke a Russian response.
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State Duma Deputy Zhuravlev ------- Russia has known
how to shoot down Tomahawks since the Soviet era
October 11th, 2:29pm
(RT.ru)
The US Tomahawk missile was well studied during the
Soviet era, and Russia knows how to counter it. This
was stated by Alexey Zhuravlev, Deputy Chairman
of the State Duma Committee on Defense.
He noted in an interview with RIA Novosti that for every
Tomahawk ---- Russia will have its own S-350 system,
designed to counter this particular type of missile.
"This target - is not difficult for air defense systems, and it has
been well studied.. since the Soviet Union. However, they can
also carry nuclear warheads, which is a completely different
level of confrontation," the parliamentarian said --- adding
that it is unclear... what the Ukrainian Armed Forces
will be "suspending".
Earlier, Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, called the
transfer of US Tomahawks to Ukraine “showboating”.
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UAV commander.. of the "Night Witches 2.0"
squad: it's easier for girls to control drones
October 11th, 12:39pm
(Vesti.ru)
According to Belka, the commander of the UAV unit of the Night
Witches 2.0 women's squad of the Bars-Sarmat Special Forces
Center, it is "much easier" for women to operate drones than
for men, as they have better hand-eye coordination. This
was stated in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV channel.
The goals of the FPV drone squad "Night Witches 2.0", which
was named after the women's aviation regiment from the
Great Patriotic War, vary from drones to the armoured
vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According
to the commander of the UAV squad, the girls are
used to everything and have learned to survive
on the front lines.
"Even if we are girls, we can still do anything. It's not a big deal.
Every burden is followed by relief. Our motor skills [are better],
the girls sew, embroider, do something. And because of this,
girls are given it [to control drones] easier than men. Well,
the men seem to give a head start," said the commander
with the call sign Belka.
The girl went to the war zone after her hometown of Belgorod was
shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to the soldier,
this was the "point of no return."
"He's an enemy, and it's either me or him, there's no choice. I want
to live, so that my generation can live happily and peacefully," the
commander said.
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Colonel Ivanov: Russia's Armed Forces
are concerned about civilians
when liberating territories
October 11th, 12:39pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops are not forcing the liberation of settlements in the
area of the special military operation, as they are concerned
about the safety of the civilian population. This was stated
by Ilya Ivanov --- Deputy Commander of the 5th Guards
Brigade of the Center Military Group, in an interview
with the Russia 1 TV channel.
According to Ivanov, the use of drones during liberation cannot
be fully automated, as the technology cannot distinguish
between civilians and soldiers.
"Our liberation of populated areas is still hindered very much
by the fact that there are civilians there. How will the drone
detect it? He'll say, " I'm sorry, I won't kill you, are you a
civilian or something?" When a soldier, it's a soldier.
''Let's say a drone is a machine, or another
technical part of intelligence. Therefore,
the human factor will never be canceled
here," he said.
On Friday, October 10, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported
the liberation of five settlements in the special operation zone
over the past week.
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Russian Armed Forces soldiers from the Kluni
unit have created equipmentfor blinding
Ukrainian drones
October 11th, 11am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian military personnel from the Kluni detachment of the 8th
Brigade of the Volunteer Corps of the Southern Group of Forces
have created equipment for blinding drones of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces (AFU). The soldiers told about this on the
Russia 24 TV channel.
According to the military, the unit has a laboratory where
they create "unconventional items" for combat missions.
"Our equipment helps to enter the enemy's UAV surveillance
system, and then, when it approaches at a certain distance,
we push this system. That is, the enemy is blinded. We try
to try out all the best practices that arise. To do this, we
have special people who do exactly this. The range [of
action] varies, depending on many reasons, up to 5-7
kilometres," said one of the fighters.
According to the deputy commander with the call sign "VV",
"Cluny" was formed as a separate reconnaissance and
assault unit with its own artillery and fire support
units. Later, the military unit was incorporated
into the 8th Brigade of the Volunteer Corps.
"Our unit is, let's say, a mixed unit in terms of its composition. The
local Donetsk residents, who make up the bulk of the unit, are the
first-time contract soldiers. There are not many of them. Most of
the recruits are people who already have two, three, six, or
even eight contracts," added the deputy commander of
the unit with the call sign "VV."
Earlier, it was reported that an assault medic with the call sign
Witch returned to the combat zone after being seriously
injured, as she could not leave her comrades.
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Underground fighter Lebedev: British
officers were killed in an explosion
in the Kharkiv region
October 11th, 8:23am
(Vesti.ru)
British officers, as well as officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
were killed in a nighttime explosion in Chuguev, Kharkiv Oblast.
This was reported by Sergei Lebedev, the coordinator of the
pro-Russian Nikolaev underground.
The explosion occurred at the refinery in Chuguev, where
Ukrainian equipment and fuel were stored, according to
RIA Novosti.
"There are British officers among the wounded and dead, and they
were taken to Kharkiv by helicopter. There are also Ukrainian
Armed Forces officers among the wounded and dead,"
Lebedev told the agency.
The day before, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the
temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian military and drone
control were hit by a strike using a FAB-3000 aerial bomb and a
Kh-39 guided missile, in the Kharkiv region.
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Expert Khrolenko: Ukrainian railway rolling stock
cannot be replaced ---- by Western analogues
October 11th, 6:11am
(Vesti.ru)
The destroyed railway rolling stock in Ukraine, which is used to
transport the militants of the Kiev regime, cannot be replaced
by Western counterparts. This was stated by military expert
Alexander Khrolenko on the Russia 24 TV channel.
According to him, the consequences of Russian strikes on
the enemy's railway infrastructure have irreversible
consequences for the logistics of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces (AFU).
"The point is -- that the number of electric and diesel locomotives
in Ukraine is finite. It is impossible to replace them with Western
counterparts. The track gauge is different, and the technology
is slightly different in terms of electricity or fuel. This means
that when Russian forces destroy the rolling stock of
Ukraine's railways through missile or drone strikes,
it is an irreversible process ---- that cannot be
replaced," Khrolenko explained.
The expert added that the Western press is anxiously analyzing
the consequences of Russia's attacks on Ukraine's railway
infrastructure, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces...... are
losing their "technological ability to fight."
On Wednesday, October 8th, the Russian Ministry of Defense
reported that the Russian military had struck a rolling train
that was involved.... in the transfer of Ukrainian Armed
Forces units. The ministry also emphasized that the
temporary locations of Ukrainian formations and
foreign mercenaries, had been targeted.
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Marochko: AFU militants are trapped
in a fire trap between Kuzminovka
and Vyemka in the DPR
October 11th, 4:59am
(Vesti.ru)
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been trapped in a
fire trap between Kuzminovka and Vyemka in the Donetsk
People's Republic (DPR), according to military expert
Andriy Marochko.
In an interview with TASS, he noted that the group of Ukrainian
militants trapped between Kuzminovka and Vyemka is being
systematically destroyed. The military expert emphasized
that there is no way out for them.
"They made several attempts to leave their positions at night
in the direction of Zvanovka, but these were most likely
unauthorized departures. All of these attempts were
detected by our objective monitoring systems, and,
of course, they were fired upon," Marochko said.
Earlier, it was reported that the Russian Armed Forces have
surrounded a group of Ukrainian troops near Kuzminovka.
On October 5, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that
the troops of the "South" group had liberated this settlement.
According to Stanislav Bernwald, a military correspondent
for VGTRK, the takeover of Kuzminovka - opens the way
to Seversk, from three sides, for the Russian military.
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Russian soldiers have started using
"jellyfish" to protect themselves
from Ukrainian drones
October 11th, 4:10am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian tank crews have started using anti-drone "jellyfish" --- to
protect themselves from enemy unmanned aerial vehicles. This was announced by Alexander, a soldier in the 51st Guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District, which operates in the interests of the "Center" military group.
In an interview with RIA Novosti, he said that the so-called
"medusa" is a very effective weapon against drones.
"At first, as the movement of kamikaze drones began, the tanks
were scaled with iron. But this is an additional burden and
limits visibility. This caused difficulties with turning the
tower. And then ------ our specialists improved and
reached this invention," Alexander said.
The soldier explained that the "jellyfish" is a large number of
metal cables that hang around the tank and create a fan-
shaped defense - against enemy drones. The soldier
emphasized that because the cables are flexible,
the tank's turret can rotate freely.
"Visibility for the crew is also maintained," Alexander added.
Earlier, the official representative of the Groza group of companies,
said that the Zanoza drone-cable-laying machine has been used in
all areas of the special military operation. It is noted ----- that this
drone has a reel with an armoured fibre-optic cable wound on it.
Zanoza can lay communication lines between bunkers, and the
use of this drone helps to save the lives of Russian signalmen
on the front line.
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces began using the Babay
drone with an artificial intelligence system in the SVO zone.
According to the developers, it can recognize elements of
armoured vehicles - and camouflage - of any type, and is
capable of hitting any target.
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Defense Ministry: The Armed Forces of Ukraine
have lost 1,400 soldiers in the last 24 hours
October 11th, 3:46am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces of
Ukraine have lost 1,440 soldiers over the past 24 hours.
In particular, the Russian group of troops "North" destroyed 205
militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the group "West"–
220 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the group
"South"– 150 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
the group "Dnepr"– 60 Ukrainian soldiers, the group
"Center"– 450 fighters of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, and the group "East" – 355 soldiers
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian troops have begun clearing Kuzminovka
in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
The Center's fighters have improved their position on the
front line. The North Group is advancing in the Kharkiv
direction. The South Group has destroyed a Ukrainian
military vehicle and an ammunition depot, in the
Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka direction.
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Ukrainian Armed Forces officers
flee from Seversk ----- leaving
soldiers in the front lines
October 11th, 2:07am
(Vesti.ru)
According to military expert Andriy Marochko, officers of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces are fleeing from Seversk in the
The expert noted... that the Ukrainian Armed Forces
are withdrawing their command staff from Seversk.
"In fact, the Ukrainian command will gradually leave this locality.
This tactic of abandoning settlements leads to huge losses.
Since Ukrainian citizens who may have taken up arms for
the first time can live on the contact line for no more
than two or three days. They are simply destroyed
by Russian troops. In this regard, the losses of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Seversk ---
have increased significantly recently,"
TASS quotes Marochko as saying.
Russian troops are fighting urban battles in Seversk and operate
in the city with small mobile groups. The Ukrainian Armed
Forces command has sent the Azov national battalion
(recognized as a terrorist organization and banned
in Russia) to Seversk......... to contain
Ukrainian deserters.
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A Challengefor a Doctor:How a German
DoctorTraded European Comfort ...for a Frontline Hospital
by Dmitry Astrakhan
October 10th, 10:01pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Foreign volunteer Thomas serves as a military medic in the SVO
zone ------- and explains why he believes the West is "poisoned"
Foreign volunteers in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation are a rare but familiar phenomenon. Among them those
who have arrived from Western European countries ------ stand out. These individuals not only leave their comfortable lives behind to
fight for their ideals -- they actively oppose the political agenda
of their home countries. Izvestia visited a medical unit in the
Southern Military District and learned the story of a
German doctor who moved to Russia, joined the
Russian Armed Forces - and now saves the
lives of wounded Russian soldiers.
On the help line
The medical battalion of the Southern Group of Forces is working
hard. One by one, the evacuation teams' buggies unload the
wounded, who are immediately received and sorted. In the
operating rooms, the most severe patients are stabilized
and emergency interventions are performed - before
they are sent to rear hospitals.
A thin man in a striped shirt and a pixelated uniform with the call
sign Thomas..... is preparing equipment for the next call. He will
accompany the patient in the ambulance --- once the surgeons
have finished their work. Thomas does not have a permanent
workplace in the hospital itself; his tasks are constantly on
the move, in the following stages of evacuation.
''My wife is Russian. I came to Russia - three times - on vacation,
and saw what a wonderful country it is with a rich history and
traditions that I truly loved," says Thomas. ''I've already
planned the move. And --- when I saw on television in
2022.. that a special military operation had begun,
I immediately told my wife to pack up her things,
the cat, and we left Germany. Here, I began to look..... for what I could do for you.
As an experienced doctor, who had worked in the
German equivalent of medical aviation, he went
to the medical battalion.
Communication takes place in a mixture of Russian and English.
However ------- everything related to medicine, Thomas says in
Russian ------- considering it important for adaptation.
He understands that, in his profession, even a
second of delay or misunderstanding can
cost a person their health.
He recalls how, while living in Germany, he watched the news
using the internet after Russian TV channels were blocked,
because he understood that the German media was
broadcasting a lot of lies and misinformation.
''I knew what they were saying - it was a big lie ---- that didn't
correspond to reality. In fact, the situation in Germany is
very sad, especially with regard to LGBT people (the
international LGBT public movement is recognized
as extremist and banned in the territory of the
Russian Federation. - Izvestia) —— migrants,
crime - the medic shares his observations.
By the time the war started, he already had many friends
in Russia ---- whom he cared about and wanted to help.
Thomas's wife was happy to return to her homeland.
''At first, my wife wasn't happy when I decided to join the army.
She thought I would have to shoot. But I explained that I was
a medical professional, and using weapons, is a last resort.
When she saw ---- that I was genuinely excited about the
opportunity to help, she said, "Go for it, but be careful."
— Thomas recalls his decision to serve in the
Russian Armed Forces.
German accent and Russian vest
He was warmly welcomed ---- and trusted by the battalion. The
friendly team helped Thomas to quickly get used to the place.
Of course, there are also jokes. The security guards, like the
patients, are always surprised when they hear a voice with
a pronounced German accent on the radio or in the ward
for the first time. At first.... Thomas thought that the
T-shirt given to him by his colleagues was a joke,
as striped clothing is not used in the German
army, but is given to prisoners.
''Many people in Germany share my views. But the problem comes
from politicians, imposed from America. Children in schools are
taught that abnormal is the norm. I do not accept it and do not
want to understand. And I am glad to be here, where I do not
see all this. Once in Germany, I was sent to work at a gay
parade, I endured an hour, said that I was ill, and went
home — so Thomas describes the mood..... in his
former country.
Thomas is now unable to travel to Germany, as he faces the
possibility of imprisonment. He emphasizes --- that German
laws strictly prohibit citizens from serving in the armies of
foreign countries. However, according to him, these
restrictions do not apply to Germans who choose
to serve in the Ukrainian army.
''I understand why this war started. But I don't understand why
some Germans - are going to fight for Ukraine. It's forbidden in
Germany. I signed a contract with the Russian Armed Forces,
and now I'm a terrorist in Germany. However, they're being
told that it's okay to go to Ukraine and there won't be any
problems. I see them in the military --- but only in black
bags. I believe it's their choice. Why did they decide
to join the wrong side? These are young people
who listened to the propaganda --- and they
probably wanted to make a lot of money,
but they didn't understand -- what was
really happening," Thomas said.
''I have a Russian passport. I don't want to go back,
why? Russia is a huge and beautiful country, and
I don't need Germany.''
His colleagues say that Thomas is an excellent professional who
has quickly become part of the team. In addition to him, the
medical battalion includes both regular military medical
personnel and mobilized specialists from different
regions of the country. Thomas says that the
brotherly atmosphere in the multi-national
unit.... is one of the main reasons why he feels at home.
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The military factory that exploded in the US
...produced charges and mines for the
Ukrainian Armed Forces
by Alexey Rybin
October 10th, 8:51pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
To share
The military plant in the US, which was completely destroyed
today - as a result of a powerful explosion - was producing
ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was
reported by the Telegram channel SHOT.
Accurate Energetic Systems' product line... includes M2A4 and
M3A1 shaped charges for military use, the well-known M18A1
Claymore mines, M112 demolition charges for tactical
operations, and other products.
At the same time, it is known that the Ukrainian military widely
uses Claymore mines, as well as other ammunition produced
by the company.
A powerful explosion at the plant - occurred early this
morning. According to the footage --- the plant was
virtually wiped off the face of the Earth, leaving
only rubble in its wake. Nearby houses, were
also damaged... and cars were mangled.
According to police reports, 19 people
were killed .....or went missing.
Hickman County Mayor Jim Bates, told CNN, that the facility
typically employed about 80 employees.... but it is unknown
how many were in the building at the time of the explosion.
Eyewitnesses say -- that the sound of the explosion
woke them up 21 miles (about 34 kilometres) away.
US media outlets also note that last month, the U.S.
Department of Defense -- awarded Accurate
Energetic Systems, a contract worth
nearly \$120 million..... for the
purchase of TNT.
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Trump vs. Russia: How the President Set
the Stage for the Start of the Special
Military Operation in Ukraine
by Lyubov Stepushova
October 10th, 3:35pm
(Pravda.ru)
It was Trump ---- who laid the groundwork for the start of the
special military operation in Ukraine by supplying weapons
to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and imposing sanctions
on the Russian Federation. Now, his motives as a
"peacemaker" ...are clear.
Trump, not Biden, radically changed the nature
of US aid --------- to the Ukrainian Armed Forces
US President Donald Trump was for a long time a figure for
the Kremlin, that embodied the potential for agreements
that would weaken the confrontation with NATO --- and
lead to ....mutually beneficial projects. The belief was
based on Trump's assertion that "the war in Ukraine"
was "Biden's fault, if I were president, it wouldn't
have happened."
But after the US president allowed Zelensky to go to Moscow
and promised to supply the Armed Forces with Tomahawks -
he looks more and more like a typical US imperialist, whose
disguised plans were originally directed against Russia. It
was Trump who made a number of decisions in his first
term... that paved the way for what ex-President Joe
Biden continued, in 2022.
Before Trump --- the administration of former President Barack
Obama provided Ukraine exclusively with non-lethal aid: body
armour, night vision devices, walkie-talkies, tents, medical
equipment, etc. Obama refused to supply lethal weapons,
fearing the escalation of the conflict. In December 2017,
the Trump administration made a principled decision to
allow the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine. This --
was a drastic change of course.
During the first term of the Trump administration,
the following supplies were made:
Javelin anti-tank missiles;
Mark VI patrol boats with anti-ship missiles;
sniper rifles (such as the Barrett M82), machine
guns, grenade launchers, and a large number
of small arms ammunition;
RQ-11 Raven reconnaissance UAVs;
artillery radars AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder and AN/TPQ-49,
which allow determining the location of artillery
along the trajectory of projectiles;
equipment for electronic warfare (EW).
Trump forced the Germans to destroy Nord Stream 2
It was Trump -- as he boasts, who "finished off" Nord Stream 2
by imposing sanctions against the pipeline and reprimanding
then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"I often went to Angela and said, "Wait a minute, we're spending all
this money to protect you from Russia ---- and you're paying Russia
billions of dollars a month. What kind of deal is this?" Trump said.
The motives behind his statements about the need to ------ “end the
war” in Ukraine now look like an attempt to gain support from the
ultra-conservatives (MAGA) before the elections in the domestic
political arena. However, after the elections, the focus will shift
to securing support from the sponsors of any US president, including the U.S. military-industrial complex.
Regardless of whether a Democrat or a Republican occupies the
Oval Office, the system based on “American exceptionalism”
will compel them to act against Russia. This is evidenced
by the consensus in Congress on the need for a "victory
of Ukraine" and the "defeat of Russia", contacts at the
parliamentary level (at the level of peoples) between
the Russian Federation and the United States are
completely absent.
Russia - is forced to tighten targets in Ukraine
Russia did not fall into the trap of the “kind” Trump, and the
special military operation continues. It has become clear
that there is no need for illusions: the special military
operation was a timely and correct measure to
counter NATO’s expansion, which goes
beyond the base in Ochakov.
Ukraine is just a springboard in the West's proxy war against
Russia, which is united in its goal of destroying Russia, but
there are disagreements about the financial contributions.
Therefore, Russia is forced to: conduct the special military operation more harshly --- creating a buffer zone to move the border furtheraway from Russian cities; and launch
preventive strikes against decision-making centres in Ukraine.
The goal is ----- to make Ukraine completely capitulate and demilitarize, so that it can never be used to attack Russia.
"First of all, we damage the enemy's logistics with such strikes.
Railway communication in Ukraine is now disrupted quite
seriously. Plus, the power supply of enterprises that
carry out equipment repairs or production for the
Armed Forces of Ukraine is also disrupted. And
now it is gradually becoming noticeable on the front line," Gavrish said.
On Friday, October 10, the Ministry of Defense reported that
Russian troops, in response to the Kiev regime's terrorist
attacks on civilian facilities in the Russian Federation,
struck energy infrastructure facilities that supported
the operations of Ukrainian military-industrial
complex enterprises. It was clarified ---- that
the strikes were carried out on Friday night.
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Defense Ministry:Russian Armed Forces
liberated five settlements in the SVO
zone... in a week
October 10th, 10:54am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian troops
have liberated five settlements in the special military
operation zone in the past week.
The Northern Group of Forces liberated the village of Otradnoye
in the Kharkiv region. The Southern Group of Forces secured
the villages of Kuzminovka and Fedorovka in the Donetsk
People's Republic. The Eastern Group of Forces, in turn,
liberated the villages of Novovasilevskoye and
Novogrigorovka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of the
liberation of Novogrigorivka, Zaporizhia region. During the
active offensive, the Vostok military group cleared more
than 190 buildings of Ukrainian militants. On the
territory of the liberated settlement ---- Russian
soldiers hoisted the Russian Federation's flag.
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Poddubny: The Armed Forces of Ukraine
are suffering extreme losses in the
Donbas arc
October 10th, 7:31am
(Vesti.ru)
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are suffering extreme losses
on the Donbas arc, and the Kiev regime has no prospects of
retaining part of Donbas. This was reported by VTVG's
military correspondent, Hero of Russia Yevgeny
Poddubny, on his Telegram channel.
The war correspondent also reported on the enemy's heavy losses
in the Krasnoarmeysk direction and published a video of burned-
out Ukrainian military equipment on a road leading to the city of
Dimitrov in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). According to
Poddubny, the footage shows the remains of more than 25
pieces of heavy equipment. The war correspondent
clarified that the "hell" was created for the Kiev
regime's fighters, by troops of the "Center"
military group.
"It's time to define this battle - as a 'meat grinder.' Syrsky and
Zelensky are throwing people into a hopeless direction like
firewood. We've seen it all before, & we know how it ends.
To end the war, Ukraine needs to stop being anti-Russia.
The enemy's losses on the Donbas arc are exorbitant,
and the regime has no prospects of retaining any
part of Donbas," Poddubny said.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the military
of the Russian Center group of troops on the Krasnoarmeysk
direction shot down a Ukrainian loitering munition
Switcblade 600 made by the US.
Ushakov: Russia Would Support Trump's
Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize
Russia would support the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US
President Donald Trump if the Nobel Committee was interested in
its opinion. This was stated by Yuri Ushakov, an aide to the
Russian president.
At the same time, the official was surprised by the “stupidity” of
the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, who said that
he would support Trump’s candidacy for the Nobel Prize - if Washington supplied Kyiv with Tomahawk missiles.
"Yes, I think I would support[giving the award to Trump]at
the moment - if they asked us," Ushakov told journalist
Alexander Yunashev.
Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to become
a Nobel Prize winner. Earlier, the British newspaper The Daily
Telegraph wrote that Trump may increase tariffs against
Norway if the Norwegian Nobel Committee does not
award him.... the Peace Prize. According to the
publication, the White House chief may also
urge other countries to stop purchasing
Norwegian energy resources - or limit
official contacts with Oslo.
Bloomberg reported earlier that Trump's aggressive campaign
has intensified in the run-up to the announcement of the prize
winner. According to the secretary of the Nobel Committee,
Christian Berg Harpviken, there was no direct pressure,
but there are currently several open and closed
campaigns underway.
This year, 338 nominees are competing for the Nobel Peace Prize:
244 individuals and 94 organizations. According to El Pais, the
US president's name is on the list of candidates for the Nobel
Peace Prize. Trump himself has repeatedly stated that he
deserves the award.
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Russian soldiers discovered a 700-metre-long
Ukrainian tunnel ------- near Konstantinovka
October 10th, 5:48am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian Armed Forces soldiers have discovered an underground
tunnel about 700 metres long, which was dug by Ukrainian militants through a forest belt in the Konstantinovka area
of the Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported by
the commander of an UAV unit from the Southern
Military District, who operates in the interests
of the Center military group, with the call
sign Dava.
According to the Russian soldier, the Ukrainian
soldiers found in the vehicle - were eliminated.
"In one landing, they had a tunnel for almost the entire landing.
The tunnel was 700 metres long. If you put a machine gunner
there, the enemy can hold off the attack – for a long time,"
Dawa said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
The soldier noted that it is quite difficult
to detect this tunnel using an UAV.
Earlier, it was also reported that in the Konstantinovka direction,
Ukrainian militants, hiding in a pipe under the highway, were
protected by the bodies of their dead comrades.
Konstantinovka.. is located northwest
of Dzerzhinsk and west of Chasov Yar.
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The tank commander with the call sign
German emphasized the importance
of close cooperation in combat.
October 10th, 5:40am
(Vesti.ru)
Tank crews of the 25th Combined Arms Army, which is part of
the Zapad group of Forces, are involved in the Krasnolimansk
direction. Their tactics involve a paired advance to perform
combat missions, while each crew is fully equipped with
ammunition. The tank commander with the call sign
Nemets emphasized on the Rossiya 1 TV channel
that well-coordinated work of all crew members
during combat operations - is a key factor for
success in combat.
According to the tank commander... the crew always
has its own reconnaissance and target designation
equipment. It is used before moving to a position
to carry out a task.
"We work from a concealed firing position, and we always have
our own spotters, our 'eyes', our 'birds'. When we arrive at the
firing point, he [the UAV] is already hovering over the area
where we will be firing. He corrects our shots. I like
working in a tank. There's no need to be afraid,"
German replied.
By cooperating, tank crews and rocket artillery create
conditions for the frontline assault units to operate:
the former suppress the Ukrainian Armed Forces'
positions on the front line, as the latter strike
the enemy's rear and logistics routes.
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In the Sumy region, a company of the 71st Separate
Jäger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was
completely destroyed
October 10th, 5:26am
(Vesti.ru)
A company of the 71st Separate Jaeger Brigade of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine was completely destroyed near the
settlements of Alekseevka and Varchino in the
Sumy region. This was reported by RIA
Novosti, citing a source in the
Russian security forces.
The publication's interlocutor also noted that the Ukrainian militants, due to heavy losses, are trying to replenish the
assault groups of the 71st Jaeger Brigade. To achieve
this, recruiters have been sent to training centres
to find new recruits.
"The 3rd Company of the 71st Separate Jaeger Brigade was
completely destroyed in the battles near Alekseevka and
Varachino in the Sumy region," the source said, adding
that most of the casualties were listed as missing
in action.
Earlier...... the TASS agency reported on the destruction of a
sabotage group from the 140th Special Operations Forces
Center of Ukraine near the village of Sadki in the Sumy
region. Among those killed are representatives of the
officer corps, including the commander of the
SSO group.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine--- are
attacking farmers in the frontline
areas of the LPR and the
Kharkiv region
October 10th, 2:04am
(Vesti.ru)
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are targeting agricultural
machinery used by farmers to harvest crops in the
frontline areas of the Luhansk People's Republic
and the Kharkiv region, according to a Russian
soldier with the call sign Spartak.
According to Spartak, the Ukrainian Armed
Forces have repeatedly shelled farms.
"People just worked in the field, and the APU began to give them
FPV nightmares. In total, five cars per day. They burned two
trucks of MANA, grain or whatever it was they were
collecting. The fact that they started working in
this way for civilians is nonsense for me, of
course," RIA Novosti quotes Spartak
as saying.
Recently, another case occurred.
"A farmer was driving from the fields, FPV came, the car caught
fire, and his leg was blown off. They bandaged him, and took
him to the hospital. At first, the doctor said everything was
fine, but then they found out that the farmer had died, but
not from blood loss. I don't know, I think it was from his
heart, maybe it couldn't handle it," Spartak explained.
Meanwhile, farmers in the frontline areas will retain
the preferential status of agricultural producers.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces shot civilians
for refusing to dig trenches in the
Zaporizhzhia region
October 9th, 11:18pm
(Vesti.ru)
According to a fighter with the call sign Skar, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces used local residents in the Zaporizhzhia
region as labourers to dig trenches.
According to Skar, men who refused to follow the
orders of the Ukrainian militants, were shot.
"During the liberation --- we came across civilians, mostly
grandparents, women with small children. According to
their stories, the Ukrainian military came & took men,
grandfathers, used them as labour – to dig trenches,
carry bags, help. Just like slaves. People said that
-- if someone refused to help, they took out and
shot their husband, grandfather, father or son
right in front of their families," RIA Novosti
quotes Scar as saying.
Meanwhile, the court of the Donetsk People's Republic
(DPR) issued a verdict to the Azov militant.. who shot
a car with a civilian in it.
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Expert Onufrienko: The Russian Armed Forces may advance on Konstantinovka ----
on a broad front
October 8th, 7:38pm
(Vesti.ru)
After the elimination of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' group near
the Kleban-Byksky reservoir, the Russian military gained the
opportunity to launch a broad front offensive on the city of
Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic. This
was stated by military expert Mikhail Onufrienko in
an interview with the Russia 24 TV channel.
He noted that previously, our troops advanced towards
Konstantinovka..... mainly from the eastern and
southeastern directions.
"After the elimination of the Kleban-Byk group ------- which was
destroyed south of the reservoir - the Russian Armed Forces
will be able to advance on Konstantinovka on a broad front.
Until now --- thanks to this group of the enemy, which has
now been destroyed, we have not been able to advance
north of the reservoir, creating another line of
attack there," Onufrienko said.
Military expert Alexey Leonkov, previously noted that the
Ukrainian Armed Forces' sacrifice at the Kleban-Byksky
reservoir ....was in vain.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during the plenary session of
the meeting of the international discussion club "Valdai" on
October 2, recalled that Konstantinovka, along with the
cities of Kramatorsk and Slavyansk ----- is the main
defensive line of the Armed Forces of Ukraine..
which was created with the help of the West
over more than 10 years.
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Onufrienko: Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters
spent the entire summer in a cauldron
near a reservoir in the DPR
October 8th, 6:57pm
(Vesti.ru)
In an interview with Russia 24 TV channel, military expert Mikhail
Onufrienko said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' group near the
Kleban-Byksky reservoir in the DPR was effectively trapped in
the summer --- and had no opportunity to retreat.
He noted that the Ukrainian militants stubbornly held on
to this area, even when the formation of the
Kleban-Byk pocket began.
"Our troops ---- advancing from the south and further from Myrhorod (Ukrainian -- Dimitrov), along the highway, to Konstantinovka, took Aleksandro-Kalinovo, which is located just west of the Kleban-Byk Reservoir, and advancing from Toretsk (Ukrainian - Dzerzhynsk) from the east ----- eventually took the village of Kleban-Byk. Thus the southern enemy group, which remained south of the Kleban-Byk Reservoir --- was effectively trapped. And I spent the whole summer.... digesting it,"Onufrienko said.
The expert added that the militants could not infiltrate along
the shore of the reservoir, as Russian soldiers were firing at
the entire area. Additionally, the Ukrainian Armed Forces
group, which numbered 500 by the end of the summer,
faced difficulties with supplies, due to the lack of
ammunition and provisions, according
to Onufrienko.
"The fate of this group was sealed. I repeatedly said in August
that there were no chances for them, that they were suicide
bombers," the military expert said.
The completion of the defeat of the AFU group near the Kleban-
Byk reservoir was announced by the head of the Russian
General Staff, Valery Gerasimov.... during a meeting on
the special military operation, with the participation
of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Commander Avidzba: The Armed Forces of Ukraine
do not create firing positions and only use drones
for defense
October 8th, 12:02pm
(Vesti.ru)
Ukrainian militants do not create firing points when forming
defensive positions; they rely only -- on drone deterrence.
This was stated by the commander of the international
brigade "Pyatnashka," Akhra Avidzba, in the program
"60 Minutes" on the Russia 1 TV channel.
According to him, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are
not ready for direct clashes, "they are no longer ready for war."
"The enemy's situation is bad, this is already felt for one simple
reason: they cover themselves only with "birds". And already
in the positions that we take away, we observe that they
do not have shooting positions. They simply do not
indicate that they are present, they are closed
with bags. They are not ready, for the actual
clashes. They are purely counting only on
technical supplies, on deterrence,"
Avidzba explained.
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Commander of the "Fifteen" Unit, Avidzba:
Russian Armed Forces --- Break Through
Ukrainian Defenses in Donetsk Region
October 8th, 11:41am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces ---- are actively breaking through the
enemy's defenses in the Donetsk direction. This was reported
by the commander of the international brigade "Pyatnashka,"
Akhra Avidzba, in the "60 Minutes" program on the
"Russia 1" TV channel.
According to him, there is constant pressure on the Donetsk front
from Russian units that are liberating territories every day.
"The enemy is cracking, and where it's thin, it's breaking.
Therefore, the most important direction is the Donetsk
direction, because -- there is pressure everywhere
every day - and every unit is taking a bite, even
if it's just a metre or two. The enemy doesn't
have enough time to build a defense line,
so more and more forces are being
sent here," said Avidzba.
On Wednesday, October 8, the Russian Ministry of Defense
announced the completion of the destruction of Ukrainian
troops blocked in the area south of the Kleban-Byksky
reservoir in the Donetsk People's Republic.
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Russian Defense Ministry --- The Ukrainian Armed
Forces lost about 1,500 soldiers in the SVO zone
over the past day
October 8th, 11:31am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the daily report of the Russian Ministry of Defense on
the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)
have lost about 1,500 fighters in the special military operation
zone ..over the past 24 hours.
So, in the area of responsibility of the group of Russian troops
"North", the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 220 military
personnel, the group "West" – up to 225 militants, in the
area of responsibility of the "South" – up to 155.
As a result of the Central Group's actions, the Ukrainian side lost
more than 445 military personnel, by the "East" group: lost more
than 385 military personnel, and by the "Dnepr" group
....lost more than 70 militants.
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MO --Russian Troops Have
Liberated Novogrigorovka
in the Zaporozhye Region
October 8th, 10:06am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces have liberated Novogrigorivka in
the Zaporizhia region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
As specified by the department, the settlement was liberated
as a result of decisive actions of units of the Vostok group
of troops of the Russian Armed Forces.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that the
strategic initiative in the special military operation remains
with the Russian army.
As the Russian leader reported, Russian troops have liberated
more than 200 settlements and almost five thousand square
kilometres of territory, since the beginning of 2025.
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The first batch of AI-controlled Thor drones
has been delivered to the special
operation zone
October 8th, 8:58am
(Vesti.ru)
The first 1,500 multi-rotor Tor drones ---- including those with
fibre-optic cables and built-in artificial intelligence modules,
have been sent to the special military operation zone. This
was reported by the People's Front, whose Kulibin Club
provides support to the developers.
According to the head of the project department at the St.
Petersburg design bureau, who goes by the call sign
Racha, these drones can take off autonomously,
receive a mission, and complete it - without
the need for an operator.
"About 1,500 Tor drones of various modifications were
donated to the military," he told TASS news agency.
He added, that the drones had undergone about ten stages of
improvement to match the current situation on the front lines.
Earlier it was reported that Russian troops began using Babay
drones with an artificial intelligence system in the special
operation zone, which can recognize armoured vehicle
elements and disguises of any type, and are able to
hit any target.
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RIA Novosti: Ukrainians hid their children
from the Armed Forces of Ukraine
in stoves
October 8th, 6:12am
(Vesti.ru)
Residents of Ukraine hid their children in stoves from the Ukrainian
Armed Forces. This was reported by a Russian Armed Forces
soldier from the Southern Group of Forces with the call sign
Perun, in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to the serviceman, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine
leave a settlement, they forcibly “pull” the civilian population
out, but people do not want to leave their homes and move
to Ukraine.
"People were hiding, hiding their children in the stoves so that
they wouldn't be found. They were hiding in the plantations
and fields, just to stay here," Perun said.
Earlier it was also reported that a family from Donetsk Avdiivka
hid their daughter in a niche made of boxes for two years, so
that she would not be taken away..... by volunteers of the
Ukrainian organization, "White Angel". Its employees
picked up the children ......and took them to an
unknown destination.
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The fighter who burned his British passport ---
said he didn't want to be part of this country
October 8th, 5:44am
(Vesti.ru)
Briton Aiden Minnis, who volunteers in a special operation on the
side of Russia and burned his passport earlier, said that he
does not want to be part of the "Satanic" UK.
According to Minnis, at a certain point, he realized that he would
never return to the kingdom and decided to burn his passport.
"I don't want to be part of this satanic country," he said
in an interview with the RIA Novosti news agency.
The volunteer added that he also does not want to return to the
UK because of the media's slander against him, as well as the
harassment and violence perpetrated by the government and
the British people against his family, who live in the UK.
He also clarified ------- that he could not return to the UK due to a
recently passed law that allows the British government to strip
citizenship from any individual who it deems to be a threat to
national security.
Earlier, Minnis published a video on social media in which
he burned his British passport and renounced his British
citizenship in support of Russia.
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Military expert Gagin predicts
the imminent liberation of
Krasnoarmeysk
October 8th, 5am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops --- already control a number of districts in
Krasnoarmeysk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR),
according to military and political expert Yan Gagin.
According to the analyst, the city's fate is sealed,
and it will be liberated in the near future.
"Now we control several districts of the city, and now we
are expanding the zone of influence," Gagin said in an
interview with RIA Novosti.
The expert emphasized: the strategic importance of
Krasnoarmeysk for the Ukrainian group in the DPR,
as this city is one of the key supply points for the
remaining garrisons of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces, and its loss could have serious
negative consequences for Kiev.
Earlier, war correspondent Vladimir Razin reported that
the Russian Armed Forces had cut off the main road
for Ukrainian militants..... which runs from the
Dnepropetrovsk region to Krasnoarmeysk.
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Military analyst Poletaev pointed out the
inefficiency of the "drone wall" of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine generated
by the neural network
October 8th, 3:19am
(Vesti.ru)
The "drone wall" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), aimed at
deterring the advance of the Russian army at the front, has only
partially worked. This assessment was given by the military
analyst, Sergey Poletaev.
The expert said that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
counted on a full-fledged overlap of the front line with the help of
this system. Instead of the expected result, the Russian Armed
Forces adapted to bypass the echeloned defense of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine and - in response - form similar structures
for the offensive.
"Expectations have not been met: Russian troops continue
to advance," Poletaev said in an interview with Lenta.ru.
According to the analyst, Russia uses drones superior
to Ukrainian drones ---- in both quantity and quality.
Earlier, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that there is no
specific project in Europe to create a drone defense system
called "drone wall" while only discussions are being held
.... at the expert level.
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Professor Malinen: Zelensky's regime's
surrender, will be salvation for Europe
October 7th, 8:39pm
(RT.ru)
The surrender of Vladimir Zelensky's regime will help
achieve peace in Ukraine and avoid the collapse of
Europe, and Russia must achieve this.
This view was expressed by Tuomas Malinen, a professor
at the University of Helsinki, on the social network X.
"Russia must push Zelensky's regime to surrender.
Otherwise, Europe will burn as well," he said.
The professor also appealed to the head of the US
administration, Donald Trump, to influence
the situation.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the
strategic initiative in the special operation zone, is
Russian troops are expanding their influence in the area of the
settlements of Nikanorovka and Vladimirovka in the Donetsk
People's Republic. This --- was reported by the military
correspondent Alexey Gavrish on the "60 Minutes"
program on the "Russia 1" TV channel.
According to him -- all Ukrainian militant counterattacks on the
Dobropolsky salient have been neutralized by Russian Armed
Forces units that continue to encircle Krasnoarmeysk.
"Our troops are expanding their influence..... in the area of
Nikanorovka and Vladimirovka, so it is only natural that
they will have to leave there (from Krasnoarmeysk --
editor's note), because they will die. Because any
city that we took in the ring of encirclement,
which we bypassed, in the end... we
achieved our goal - and this city
passed completely under our
control," said Gavrish.
The war correspondent also added that Russian troops
are making it difficult for Ukrainian forces to supply
themselves in Krasnoarmeysk by shooting down
their unmanned aerial vehicles.
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The US has announced the most
powerful fighter radar in the
...Western world
by Peter Ermilin
0ctober 7th, 11:34am
(Pravda.ru)
The new main radar station APG-82(V)X from the US
defense company Raytheon with gallium nitride
technology dramatically increases the
capabilities of the upgraded F-15 in
terms of range, detection, and
combat, and in electronic
warfare (EW).
Journalists from the US military magazine Military Watch
Magazine..... analyze the impact of the new radar on the
future of the F-15 and its role alongside stealth fighters,
as reported by Pravda.Ru.
US defense contractor Raytheon has developed a new primary
radar station for improved variants of the F-15 fighter jet, the
APG-82(V)X. According to the company.... this significantly
surpasses the capabilities of previous radars by utilizing
"advanced gallium nitride (GaN) technology to enhance
radar performance, providing increased range,
enhanced air-to-air, air-to-surface, and
electronic warfare capabilities."
The F-15 is the only heavyweight fighter --- still in production in the
Western world, and it carries a significantly larger radar than any
other Western fighter: the APG-82 is about 50 percent larger than
the AN/APG-81 and AN/APG-85 used on the F-35. While the F-35
plans to transition to the AN/APG-85, the transition to the
APG-82(V)X is expected to bring the F-15's sensor suite
to a similarly advanced technological level, albeit
with significantly greater power... due to its
larger size.
The new radar, according to Raytheon, will be able to track and
engage targets faster - "with multi-function fire control and EW
capabilities," and "will help military personnel make decisions
faster and provide superior situational awareness in a
competitive environment."
The gallium nitride technology, similar to that used in the AN/APG-
85, supports higher voltages but generates less heat, allowing
for a denser array of transmitting and receiving modules with
reduced heat generation for a significantly more efficient
design. APG-82(V)X is expected to be integrated, not
only into the newly manufactured F-15EX fighters
currently being procured by the U.S. Air Force,
but will also be considered... for the
modernization of older Cold War-
era F-15E fighters ---- as their
service life extends.
Although this radar is large by Western standards, the F-15's radar
carrying capacity pales in comparison to that of the Su-27 air
superiority fighter and its derivatives, which are currently
being produced in China and Russia, and even more so
compared to Russia's MiG-31BM interceptors, which
carry radars that are more than twice the size.
It is currently estimated that the Chinese J-16 and J-15T carry
the most powerful radars among fighter jets in the world: the
combination of a much larger antenna size and the
particularly high level of development of the
Chinese electronics and radar industry
allows for the integration of
advanced sensors.
The F-15EX and J-16 have comparable roles: their particularly long
range, powerful sensors, and high payload capacity allow them to
effectively complement stealth fighter fleets like the J-20 & F-35.
While the J-16 has long integrated the world's longest-range PL-XX
series air-to-air missile, the F-15EX is expected to soon integrate
a similarly long-range LRAAM missile that can fully utilize its
improved sensor capabilities.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Ukrainian losses
in the SVO zone amounted to about
1,300 soldiers per day
October 7th, 10:24am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces lost about 1,355 soldiers in the special
military operation zone over the course of a day.
According to the ministry, Ukrainian troops lost up to 170 soldiers
in the area of responsibility of the group of troops "North" of the
Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and up to 225 soldiers
- to the group of troops "West".
In addition, according to the Ministry of Defense's report, the
actions of the "South" group destroyed up to 100 Ukrainian
militants, the "Center" group destroyed more than 415,
the "East" group destroyed over 365, and the "Dnepr"
group destroyed up to 80 military personnel.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Air Defense
Systems Shot Down 416 Ukrainian
UAVs ...in a Day
October 7th, 10:19am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian air defense systems shot down 416 Ukrainian
aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during
the day, according to Russia's Ministry of Defense.
According to the Defense Ministry's report,
Russian air defense forces also shot
down three guided aerial bombs.
In addition, 16 US-made HIMARS multiple
rocket launchers were destroyed.
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MO: Russian Armed Forces liberated
Fedorovka in the DPR ---- and
Novovasilevskoye in the
Zaporizhzhia region
October 7th, 10:04am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces
have liberated the settlements of Fedorovka in the Donetsk
People's Republic and Novovasilevskoye in the
Zaporizhzhia Region.
It is clarified - that Fedorivka was liberated by units of the
Southern Group of Forces, and Novovasilevskoye was
liberated by units of the Vostok Group of Forces.
In addition, as a result of the fighting, the Russian military
destroyed up to 100 Ukrainian militants in the area of
responsibility of the Yuzhnaya group, and over
365 AFU soldiers were killed in the area of
responsibility of the Vostok group.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the liberation
of the settlement of Otradnoye in the Kharkiv region.
Otradnoye was liberated by units of the
Northern Group of Forces.
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Kimakovsky reported that the Azov unit
----- escaped from Krasnoarmeysk
October 7th, 8:03am
(Vesti.ru)
A unit of militants from the nationalist Azov battalion (banned in
Russia and recognized as a terrorist organization) fled from
Krasnoarmeysk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)
- under the onslaught of Russian assault groups and
aviation. This was reported by Igor Kimakovsky,
an advisor to the head of the DPR.
He clarified that this unit had recently
been transferred to Krasnoarmeysk.
"Many of them could not stand it and fled the city in small
groups. In fact, an entire unit," Kimakovsky said in an
interview with TASS.
However, he added that some of the Ukrainian fighters
were killed ----- during their escape from the city.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that fighters of the
Russian Armed Forces (AF) surrounded the militants of the
Azov and Lyut brigades in the area of the Kleban-Byk
reservoir in the DPR. The ministry added ---- that
Russian units are completing the destruction
of militants who refused to lay down
their weapons.
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The East's fighter: The British Husky BMP
has everything a combat vehicle
doesn't need
October 7th, 5:58am
(Vesti.ru)
The British Husky infantry fighting vehicle, which was evacuated
by Vostok soldiers, has many drawbacks and cannot ensure the
safety of its crew. This assessment was made by a military
unit on the Russia 1 channel.
One of the disadvantages is the electronic equipment. There are a
lot of buttons, relays, and sensors in the cabin. The Husky is fully
equipped, including electric seats. They've taken care of
everything that a combat vehicle doesn't need.
"Electronics are good in passenger cars for driving around the city,
but for military purposes it is very bad. One wiring burned out -
that's all, the car won't go any further," the Vostok military
man said.
The East also stated that their trophy
is a very rare specimen.
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The Russian Armed Forces destroyed
about 100 Ukrainian mercenaries
in Kharkiv
October 7th, 5:45am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian military forces in Kharkiv -- have eliminated about 100 foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was reported by Sergei Lebedev, the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground.
It was also reported that a drone
assembly facility was destroyed.
"Kharkiv: mass "arrivals". Destruction of a unit with
Mikhail Khodarenok, a military commentator for Vesti FM,
drew attention to changes in the tactics of the Russian
Armed Forces. Ths latest strategy --- could be a new
chapter in the special military operation, he noted
on the program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov"
on the Russia 1 channel.
It's about - a series of massive strikes. This
tactic, he noted, is already showing results.
"If they continue to launch massive strikes every night,
by several hundred means of air attack, I mean by
both operational-tactical ballistic missiles,
cruise missiles of various types, and
unmanned aerial vehicles -- then
there will be a result. Because
it is massive ...and for a long
time," Khodarenok said.
Against this backdrop, Ukraine has started talking about
difficulties in air defense. They have become worse at
repelling attacks from ballistic missiles, operational-
tactical missile systems, and Kinzhal-type
aero-ballistic missiles.
"Indeed, now the shooting at them is very difficult. And again, indeed, a powerful radiation node is needed.... in order to detect [the target] in a timely manner. Well -- in general, they do not have the funds, indeed, the effectiveness of firing significantly decreases," Khodarenok said.
This is confirmed by military correspondent Alexey Gavrish.
According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are
experiencing a shortage of air defense systems
and missiles.
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Ukraine reportsRussian military advances
in several directions:Ukrainian analysts
have announced -that Maleevka has
come under Russian control
by Evgeny Silaev
(Night Line Editor)
October 6th, 9:58pm
(Lenta.ru)
The Ukrainian analytical Deep State said that the Russian
Armed Forces took control of the village of Maleevka in
the Dnipropetrovsk region. This --- was reported by the
Ukrainian publication Strana.ua on Telegram channel.
It is noted that the Russian Armed Forces have advanced
near Voronoye, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as
Novoivanivka and Okhotnichye in the Zaporizhzhia
region. The Russian army, is also reported to
have advanced near Belaya Gora, in the
Konstantinivka direction.
Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces took control of the village
of Kuzminovka in the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk
People's Republic (DPR).
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Air defense systems repelled an UAV attack
- on Russian regions. Defense Ministry: Air
defense systems shot down 8 Ukrainian
aircraft-type UAVs
by Evgeny Silaev
(Night Line Editor)
October 6th, 9:30pm
(Lenta.ru)
Air defense systems (PVO) on October 6 between 20:40 and 23:00
Moscow time shot down eight Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). The attack on Russian regions was
reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense in its
Telegram channel.
In particular, four UAVs were destroyed in the Kursk region. Two
more drones were hit in the Bryansk region - and one air target
was eliminated in the Republic of Crimea and Belgorod region.
Earlier, the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov
reported that air defense systems shot down several missiles
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) over Belgorod and the
Belgorod region.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine --- do not
even withdraw soldiers with gangrene
from the front line
October 6th, 9:17pm
(Vesti.ru)
According to a source in the Russian security agency,
the command of the 151st Mechanized Brigade of
the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is fighting in
the Kharkiv region --- is not even evacuating
wounded soldiers with gangrene from
the front lines.
The source noted that the brigade's fighters
began to realize ---- that they were trapped.
"On the one hand – the advancing Russian troops, on the other
– the complete inaction and indifference of the command.
They are not evacuated from the front line, even with
gangrene," the source said.
The only thing that the Ukrainian commander with the call sign
Chestnut could offer in a conversation with a nurse on the
radio, was to wash out the gangrene. "The commander
understands the hopelessness of the situation,"
the source concluded.
Meanwhile, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, are
creating assault units from wounded soldiers.
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Vostok fighters exposed: an AFU soldier
in a Russian military uniform ---- who demanded evacuation
October 6th, 5:13pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The assault brigade of the Russian Vostok military group, while
liberating the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR),
exposed a Ukrainian soldier who tried to deceive them by
wearing a Russian military uniform. On October 6th, a
participant in the special military operation (SVO)
with the call sign Almaz.... told RT about this.
The incident occurred while a group of five Russian soldiers was
clearing a forest strip .....in order to gain a foothold and prepare
positions for other advancing units. After enduring a barrage of
Ukrainian FPV drones and a "cluster bomb" attack in a barely
intact bunker, the soldiers began to dig in.
Suddenly, a wounded Russian assault rifleman came out to their
position. He said that he had been on a mission with a comrade,
but that comrade had gone to get water two days ago in the
direction of this forest. The soldier was given medical
treatment --- and an evacuation team was called.
During a new lull, the assault riflemen also went out in pairs to
look for the evacuated soldier's comrade. When they came
across a partially buried bunker, Almaz asked, "Is
anyone alive?"
"Suddenly, a man came out of the underground shelter. He had a
Russian "pixel" on his head, but his trousers were NATO-style. I
immediately wondered if he was a spy. However, the soldier,
dressed in a variety of uniforms, swore that he was one of
us -- and provided the call sign of the missing soldier.
However, he refused to come with us -- demanding
that we call an evacuation team to the location
where we found him," RT reported.
The suspicious man was taken to a "showdown" with a Russian
assault soldier who had previously been released. The soldier
turned out to be a Ukrainian soldier who had not fled with his
comrades and had been hiding in a broken-down shelter for
several days. He had disguised himself as a deceased
Russian soldier.... in an attempt to pretend to be
one of them.
Earlier in the day, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
reported that it could not fully staff assault units in the Sumy
direction due to mass desertions. According to the source,
each of the companies has at least 30 military personnel
who have left their place of service without permission.
Prior to this, on October 2, it was reported that a group of soldiers
from the elite Ukrainian unit "Skala" had surrendered in the
vicinity of Krasnoarmeysk. The group -- included soldiers
who'd been forcibly mobilized. They had surrendered
..after their units had been destroyed. They were
receiving all the necessary medical and
humanitarian assistance.
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Military Correspondent Razin ----
The Russian Armed Forces Cut
the Road from Krasnoarmeysk
to Dnepropetrovsk
October 6th, 11:59am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops have cut off the main road for Ukrainian militants,
which runs from the Dnepropetrovsk region to Krasnoarmeysk in
the Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported by military
correspondent Vladimir Razin on the "60 Minutes" program
on the "Russia 1" TV channel.
According to him, Russian assault troops are working
in residential areas in Krasnoarmeysk.
"The work is being carried out in Krasnoarmeysk, directly in
the residential areas: Lazurny microdistrict and Solnechny
microdistrict. We are also advancing - in the west of the
city itself, cutting off the main highway that runs from
the Dnipropetrovsk region," Razin said.
Earlier, VGTRK war correspondent Hero of Russia Yevgeny
Poddubny reported on his Telegram channel that Russian
soldiers in Krasnoarmeysk continue to be opposed by
well-trained and motivated Ukrainian militants.
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Military Correspondent Razin: Russian Armed
Forces in Kupyansk are advancing from the
northern and western flanks
October 6th, 11:38am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian units are advancing from the northern and western flanks
as they liberate the city of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region. This
was reported by military correspondent Vladimir Razin on the
60 Minutes program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
The journalist noted that the Russian Armed Forces (RF) are
advancing with heavy fighting and encountering stubborn
resistance from the enemy.
"Our movement continues... from the northern and western flanks.
From the western flank, we are moving towards the centre and
the southern outskirts of Kupyansk, in order to physically cut
off all the roads. Currently ---- the roads are controlled by our
drones, making it difficult for the enemy to enter Kupyansk.
At the same time, from the two directions from which we
are advancing towards the urban area, the enemy
groups are already getting into fire traps in the
centre of Kupyansk,” Razin said.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a speech
at a meeting of the international discussion club "Valdai"
reported that Russian troops took control of the centre
of Kupyansk.
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Russian Defense Ministry: Ukrainian Forces
Lost More Than 1,400 Soldiers... in a Day
October 6th, 10:25am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian
armed forces lost about 1,465 soldiers in the special
military operation zone over the past 24 hours.
As follows from the daily report of the Defense Ministry on the
course of the special operation, the losses of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the area of responsibility of
the North group amounted to more than 160 people,
the West group – up to 230 militants, & the South
group – up to 225 military personnel.
As a result of the Central Group's actions, the Ukrainian armed
forces lost over 410 soldiers, due to the Vostok Group the
Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 370 soldiers, and
due to the Dnipro Group, they lost up to 70 fighters.
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MO: Russian Armed Forces have destroyed
the energy and oil infrastructure used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
October 6th, 10:21am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces -- have destroyed the energy infrastructure and oil industry facilities, as well as the
fuel storage facilities, which support the activities of
the Ukrainian army. This was reported by the
Russian Ministry of Defense.
The ministry clarified that the strikes were carried out using
The Russian MoD ----- also noted the competent actions of
Junior Lieutenant Timur Nazipov ----- who commanded an
assault group tasked with occupying an AFU stronghold.
The enemy set up a defensive perimeter, but the Russian
troops managed to break through ..and establish a foot-
hold in the new positions. Nazipov skillfully positioned
his troops and weapons, allowing them to repel three
counterattacks by the Ukrainian forces.. who had
attempted to regain control of the stronghold.
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Peskov: The West is still afraid.. to talk about transferring nuclear technologies to Ukraine
October 2nd, 3:17pm
(Vesti.ru)
In the West, they are afraid to talk about the transfer of
nuclear technologies - to Ukraine. This was stated by
the press Secretary of the President of the Russian
Federation Dmitry Peskov in an interview with the
author and co-host of the program.... "Moscow.
Kremlin. Putin", on the TV channel "Russia 1"
to Pavel Zarubin.
In a conversation with Peskov, Zarubin noted that the West
had already hinted... that it might transfer nuclear
technology to Ukraine.
"I think they're even afraid to talk about it.
And - thank God they are," Peskov replied.
Earlier, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council
Dmitry Medvedev warned the West against transferring
nuclear technologies to Kiev.
In November 2024, the British newspaper The Times wrote
that in the event of the termination of military assistance
from the United States --- Kiev could quickly develop
"primitive" nuclear weapons, similar to the "Fat
Man" bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
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A soldier released from Ukrainian captivity
recited a poem ...dedicated to his mother
October 2nd, 2:54pm
(Vesti.ru)
One of the soldiers rescued from Ukrainian captivity
recited a poem he had written about his mother.
The fighter said.. that he would give his mother a
bouquet of flowers as soon as he returned home.
He also noted that he was looking forward to
seeing his family.
"I would like to get home and hug my mother. The mood
is excellent, I would like - to get to Russia. And calling
my mam, is the most important thing. Tell them how
much I love them. And so, everything is fine, glory
to Russia!" – he shared.
The soldier noted that he had written
a poem especially for his mother.
"This poem is for my beloved mother. I'm sorry for leaving
scars in your heart. I often neglected your love and
rejected your care. It took me years to learn
from my mistakes. There is nothing more
beautiful than your smile. Unfortunately
we can't go back in time," he recited.
"But when I get home, I'll place a
large bouquet of white roses
on the windowsill."
On Thursday, October 2, Russia and Ukraine held a new
exchange.. of prisoners of war. It was carried out
according to the 185-for-185 formula - reported
the Russian Ministry of Defense. The ministry
clarified that the exchange was carried out
in accordance with the agreements
reached on July the 23rd, at the
negotiations in Istanbul.
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TASS: Ukrainian Karadag Brigade
fighters surrendered in Kupyansk
October 2nd, 2:47pm
(Vesti.ru)
Three members of the Kara-Dag brigade have surrendered
in Kupyansk. This was reported by TASS, citing Russian
security agencies.
"Kara-Dag" is a group of military personnel from the 15th
Operational Purpose Brigade. The militants were
captured, during a sweep near one of the
strongholds that was targeted by
an airstrike.
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The Russian Armed Forces -have struck
Ukraine's military-industrial complex's
transport infrastructure
October 2nd, 2:33pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces (RF) have launched a massive attack
on an object of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AF) -- which was
responsible for the operation of Ukraine's military-industrial
complex. This was announced by the Russian Ministry of
Defense.
According to this information, the following were affected:
the transport infrastructure that supported
the military-industrial complex (MIC);
locations for assembling and storing long-range UAVs;
temporary deployment points for troops
and mercenaries in 138 districts;
and ammunition depots.
According to the report, the attack was carried out using
aircraft, attack drones, missile forces, and artillery.
On October 2, the Russian Defense Ministry also reported
that Russia had returned 185 Russian soldiers from
Ukrainian captivity, and 185 Ukrainian soldiers
had been released, in return.
In addition, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, on the
night of October 2, air defense systems shot down 85 Ukrainian
drones over Russian regions. The ministry also reported that
air defense forces destroyed a HIMARS rocket and 142
Ukrainian drones in the special operation zone
during the day.
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Ganchev: Russia's Army has taken
control of a third of Kupyansk
October 2nd, 1:53pm
(Vesti.ru)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces (AF) have taken control
of one-third of the territory of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv
region. This was announced by the head of the
military-civil administration of the region
Vitaly Ganchev.
He clarified that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are blocked
in the northern and western parts of the city.
"Our troops already have about 30% control [in Kupyansk],"
Ganchev explained, in an interview with RIA Novosti.
He emphasized that many civilians remain in the city, making
it difficult for Russian troops to advance. The Kiev regime
is using the population as a human shield.
Earlier, Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the Donetsk
People's Republic (DPR), reported that Kiev had deployed
significant reserves near Kupyansk, including elite
infantry units and numerous drones.
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Russian Armed Forces Soldier: Germans are
disposing of their non-salable military
equipment...in Ukraine
October 2nd, 8:48am
(Vesti.ru)
European allies are supplying Ukraine with military equipment
that is suitable for recycling. This was reported by the deputy
commander of the special repair and restoration unit "Oskol"
with the call sign Turbo, on the Russia 24 TV channel.
In the Lugansk People's Republic, the repair battalion's soldiers
are preparing to put the trophies back into service, including a
German Leopard tank and a mine-clearing vehicle.
Turbo recalls that it was very difficult to get the Leopard
out, but the risk was worth it. The tank will be restored.
"A little bit of work on electrics, the work of technicians,
and we'll put the tracks in place," the fighter plans.
According to Turbo, the technical specifications of this 1970s
model are not bad, but they are not powerful enough to rely
on in combat. He believes that the Germans simply
disposed of their surplus.
"This is an old model. It was simply disposed of
by the enemy's 'Western friends,'" Turbo says.
In the Kursk border region, our soldiers captured an infantry
fighting vehicle. According to the commander of the heavy
equipment evacuation platoon, who goes by the call sign
"Bely," the Ukrainian forces abandoned a large number
of vehicles, during their retreat from Sudzha. The
vehicles were evacuated under the threat of
drone attacks.
"We got this BMP-2 when the Ukrainians were retreating after
Operation Potok. It was abandoned. First, of course, it was
hit, and then delivered by our guys. Now we are restoring
it, and it will serve us," Bely demonstrates the trophy.
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TASS: An elite Ukrainian military unit
surrendered near Krasnoarmeysk
October 2nd, 6:58am
(Vesti.ru)
A group of soldiers from the elite Ukrainian unit "Skala"
surrendered near Krasnoarmeysk, according to TASS.
According to the agency, the group included soldiers
who had been forcibly mobilized. They surrendered
after their groups were destroyed.
According to the agency, all necessary assistance
is provided to those who have been captured.
In mid-September, Russian security agencies reported
that the Ukrainian militants in the Kherson and
Zaporizhzhia regions... were requesting a
corridor to surrender, approximately
once every seven days.
Artilleryman Andrey Alyabyev -- on the air of "Russia 1"
earlier told about the successful air cover of infantry
units, near Krasnoarmeysk.
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TASS: The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered
huge losses near Volchansk....after the
officers left...... for the holiday
October 2nd, 6:41am
(Vesti.ru)
The 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine (AFU) suffered heavy losses near Volchansk in the
Kharkiv region due to a lack of communication with the
command post - after the officers left for the holiday.
This was reported by TASS, in Russian
law enforcement agencies.
"The military personnel of the 57th separate motorized infantry
brigade in the positions were disorganized and suffered huge
losses (more than 30 people) due to lack of control,"
the source said.
According to him, the incident occurred because Ukrainian
officers had left... for the celebrations of Defender of
Ukraine Day, which were held in Ukraine
on October 1.
In August, it became known that the 57th Separate Motorized
Infantry Brigade (OMPB) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost
its combat capability -- after the Russian Armed Forces (RF)
liberated the right bank of Volchansk in the Kharkiv region.
A source in the Russian security forces told TASS that for this
reason, Kiev is deploying the reserves of the 1st Territorial
Defense Brigade to hold its positions and contain the
onslaught of the Northern Group of the Russian
Armed Forces.
Earlier, military analyst, reserve lieutenant colonel of the People's
Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), Andrey Marochko,
said that the Russian military knocked out Ukrainian troops from
the northern part of the city of Volchansk, located in the
Chuguevsky district of the Kharkiv region.
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Expert Marochko: The Russian Armed Forces
are ....systematically pushing the Ukrainian
Armed Forces out of Ambarne, by Kharkiv
October 2nd, 6:27am
(Vesti.ru)
Fighters of the Russian Armed Forces are systematically
squeezing out units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
from their positions in Ambarny, Kharkiv region.
This was reported by military expert
Andrey Marochko.
According to him, the situation in this
village ------- is "very complicated".
"This settlement is located on high ground, which makes it
very difficult for our military personnel to advance and
cover the group of Ukrainian militants who are
located in this settlement. However, we are
----- pushing the Ukrainian militants out of
their positions in order to subsequently
occupy the strategic heights in this
settlement," Marochko said in an
interview with TASS.
In September, Marochko reported that Russian troops had
entered the village of Otradnoye in the Kharkiv region.
He noted that the Russian Armed Forces were
entrenched on the northern outskirts of the
settlement, which, like Ambarnoye, is
located on higher ground.
Marochko also noted, that the command of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine .....lost control over the settlement of Verbovoye in the
Dnipropetrovsk region after it redeployed troops from there to
strengthen the Sumy direction of the front. The soldiers of
the Russian Armed Forces, as the military expert
explained, "tested the weak points in the
enemy's defensive line and struck,"
which ensured their success.
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"MK": The Russian army has
changed its tactics ------- for
missile strikes on Ukraine
October 2nd, 5:28am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian military personnel have changed their tactics of
launching missile strikes on Ukrainian facilities that are
used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
This is confirmed by a number of factors,
according to Moskovsky Komsomolets.
Among the changes, the publication notes a strike on
a call centre with fraudsters.... in Dnepropetrovsk.
"The defeat of the fraudulent structure means the beginning
of a new phase and new tactics. Now, attacks on Ukraine
will become more massive ----- and frequent," the
publication notes.
The Russian side may also increase its attacks on Ukrainian
energy facilities. This was suggested by Vladimir Popov, a
military expert and retired Major General of Aviation.
According to him, Russia used to launch one or two attacks
on energy facilities, but recently, such attacks have been
carried out almost every week. This is done to prevent
Ukraine from fully restoring the damaged facilities.
On September 18 --- the Russian Armed Forces launched an
attack on energy facilities that are used in the interests
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In addition....... the
Russian army destroyed the storage facilities
and production workshop for long-range
enemy drones.
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A Russian soldier cut off his foot after
stepping on a landmineand survived
October 2nd, 3:22am
(Vesti.ru)
A Russian soldier was wounded in the foot when he stepped
on a landmine, but he managed to save his life --- by
amputating his injured limb ---- according to an
anesthesiologist with the call sign Ketanov.
According to the doctor, this decision
helped the fighter save his life.
"The patient stepped on a landmine -- or a fragment flew
unsuccessfully. His foot was blown off... I think it was
his left foot. It was held on soft tissues and strongly
prevented the fighter from crawling. He could not
be evacuated.... for a long time, and he spent
several hours - making his way by himself.
I asked him to throw off a knife (from a
drone - editor's note) and cut off this
foot. For me, he is a hero, cool. He
came to us and told us about it
quite calmly. What he did -----
saved his life in many ways:
he helped himself ------- to
evacuate and survived",
– quotes Ketanov to
RIA Novosti.
At the hospital, the soldier received a stump and was
sent for treatment. Thanks to modern prosthetics,
the man will be able to return to a full life,
the doctor concluded.
Meanwhile, Rostec has developed a remote mining
system "Agriculture", in which... the possibility of
accidental detonation of its mine, is excluded.
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The railway infrastructure near
Kiev----- has been attacked
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
October 1st, 11:21pm
(Lenta.ru)
Drones of the Armed Forces (AF) of Russia ---- struck the railway infrastructure near Kyiv. According to the Telegram-channel ---- "Operation Z: War Correspondents of the Russian Spring" (RusVesna), a strong fire broke out.
"Geraniums" attacked the railway infrastructure
near Bucha in the Kyiv region," the report said.
It is specified that the fire can be seen from a
distance of several kilometres. The details
of the impact ..are not provided.
Earlier, war correspondent Daniil Bezsonov reported that
on the evening of October 1, a restaurant in Balakleya,
Kharkiv region, where the military personnel of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine gathered at an event
--- was struck.
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Guardsman Polshkov destroyed three
Ukrainian attack drones...... using
electronic warfare equipment
October 1st, 10:35pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The Russian Ministry of Defensereported on the feats of the servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces in the zone of the special military operation.
Guards Corporal Yuri Shadrin, as part of the crew of a T-90 tank,
was carrying out a task to transport assault groups to a
stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU),
when the enemy opened fire on the combat
vehicle.
The tank crew decided to deploy a smoke screen to prevent the
enemy from taking aim. Meanwhile, Shadrin opened fire on the
Ukrainian Armed Forces with the tank's cannon. A significant
portion of the enemy's personnel was eliminated --- and the
tank continued its journey, delivering the assault group
to their destination.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the vigilance and timely
actions of the guard of Private Nikolai Polshkov, who, as part of
the electronic warfare department, counteracted attacks by
enemy drones.
Using the electronic countermeasure system, Polshkov spotted
several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) approaching Russian
positions in the sky. He immediately reported this to his
command and used the electronic countermeasure
system to jam and disrupt the drones' control
systems. As a result, three of the enemy
drones crashed to the ground and
detonated before reaching their
targets, causing no harm to
Russian soldiers.
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The Colonel -- explained the importance of
the Russian Armed Forces' breakthrough
in Dnepropetrovsk
October 1st, 4:38pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Retired Colonel, military expert Anatoly Matviychuk explained the
importance of a breakthrough by the units of the Vostok group
of Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
--- 4.5 km deep into the defense of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine, in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Military expert Matviychuk, in an interview with aif.ru on
Wednesday, October 1, noted that flanking maneuvers
stretch the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defenses and
open up opportunities for attacks on the flanks
and rear, which demoralizes the enemy.
According to him, Verbovoye itself, has a tactical, rather than a
strategic significance: its capture will improve the positions
of Russian troops.
The expert added..... that the deep breakthrough in the
Dnipropetrovsk region contributes to the creation of a
security buffer zone. He emphasized - that the main
goal of the fighting is to establish a sanitary line
rather than annexing the region. According to
his assessment ---- despite the remaining
Ukrainian forces for counterattacks..
Ukrainian units continue to retreat.
Earlier on October 1, Russian assault groups broke through in the
Novonikolaevka-Kalinovskoye-Berezovoye area and reached the
outskirts of Verbovoye, where fighting continues. The village is
located to the north of the border with the Zaporizhzhia region,
according to 360.ru. It is clarified that the village was taken
under control by the forces of the Vostok military group,
according to NSN.
The military defeated the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine and a territorial defense unit. Over the course of a day,
the enemy lost up to 315 fighters, one armoured vehicle, and
11 ''cars'', according to RT.
On September 30, the Russian military liberated Seversk Maly
in the DPR. The settlement was taken under control by the
fighters of the Southern group of troops, according to
Moscow 24.
On September 29th, the Russian army reported on its achievements
in September. The military liberated 20 settlements from Ukrainian
Armed Forces fighters during the month. Most of the settlements
are located in the Donetsk People's Republic, according to the
website kp.ru.
On September the 25th, the Ministry of Defense announced, that
the Russian military had liberated over 4,700 square kilometres
of territory in 6 regions (excluding the Kursk region), and over
200 settlements in the special military operation zone.
Of these, 175 square kilometres were liberated
in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
On September 17, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed
Forces, Army, General Valery Gerasimov, said that the Russian
army is advancing daily in almost all directions in the
SVO zone, according to IA Regnum.
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The Russian Defense Ministry - showed footage
of Iskander destroying APU trucks containing
Fierce UAVs
October 1st, 2:04pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military department posted footage on its Telegram
channel showing how Russian Iskander missiles destroyed
several trucks carrying Ukrainian drones in Ukraine.
In the video, a row of trucks with drones is shown in a field,
followed by the aftermath of an Iskander-M missile strike:
a column of smoke is visible where the trucks were.
According to the Ministry of Defense, there were 20 trucks loaded
with 100 long-range Ukrainian drones called Lyuty. The trucks
were parked in the area where the drones were being
prepared for launch.
According to the military department, the Ukrainian Armed Forces
lost 60 personnel during the attack, including drone operators.
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Sladkov: Russian Armed Forces Create
a "Kill Zone" in the Rear Areas of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine
October 1st, 1:56pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian military personnel are creating a "kill zone" in the rear area
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AF), which is closest to the front.
This was reported by military correspondent Alexander Sladkov
on his Telegram channel.
He explained that the "kill zone" is a sector - in which the Russian
Armed Forces use firepower, such as artillery or aerial bombs, to
destroy enemy equipment and personnel. The project is
currently under discussion.
"We still have a lot to do to create a kill zone (sector of death) in the
enemy's rear zone - closest to the front. There are discussions
about whether to make this kill zone in the form of separate
squares or a solid one," the publication says.
The military correspondent noted that a "kill zone" can
be created for both offensive and defensive purposes.
Earlier, an AFU officer with the call sign Alex, complained that
Russian troops had set up a “kill zone” in most of the Kharkiv
region controlled by Kiev.
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Military Correspondent Gavrish: Kiev Claims
Successes on the Front, but its Armed
Forces Are Constantly Retreating
October 1st, 12:28pm
(Vesti.ru)
Kiev's statements indicate the success of the Ukrainian military,
but in reality, they are constantly retreating and losing ground.
Alexey Gavrish, a military correspondent for the "60 Minutes"
program on the "Russia 1" TV channel, drew attention to
this contradiction.
According to the war correspondent, the statements made by
Western leaders about the actions of the Ukrainians on the
front, are far from reality and are based on Kiev's version.
"If we believe Syrsky's reports -- and Zelensky's reports, they
are even advancing and constantly liberating some territory.
However, in reality, Ukraine is losing ground and constantly
retreating," Gavrish said.
According to him, no additional intelligence
data is needed to verify this.
"All you have to do is open any public groups where there are
tons of video confirmations of our troops' progress," the
war correspondent said.
Also, on Russia 1, Alexey Gavrish said: the weak defense of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, contributes to the active advance of
the Russian Armed Forces, at the junction of the Zaporizhzhia
& Dnipropetrovsk regions with the Donetsk People's Republic.
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Military Correspondent, Gavrish: The Russian Armed Forces -- are
cutting off the Ukrainian Armed Forces' logistics on the entire
Donbas front
October 1st, 12:27pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian army, advancing in the Dnipropetrovsk region, is
cutting off the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on
the entire Donbas front. This 000 was reported by Alexey
Gavrish, a military correspondent for the 60 Minutes
program on the Russia 1 TV channel.
According to him, it is advantageous for the Russian Armed Forces
to extend the front line, as the Ukrainian army has few reserves.
"It's advantageous for us.... to liberate any location and extend the
front line, as Ukraine's reserves are dwindling. Additionally, one of
the primary objectives of these actions is to disrupt the Ukrainian
Armed Forces' logistics across the entire Donbas front. If we look
further down the map, there are numerous, significant Ukrainian
transportation hubs that we can take control of," explained the
military correspondent.
By advancing on this sector of the front, the military is helping the
fighters who are involved in the liberation of the Zaporizhzhia
region, Gavrish added. Thus, the military correspondent
noted, the Russian army is taking the Gulyai-Pole
direction... in a half-encirclement.
Earlier, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin,
said that Russian military personnel had expanded the buffer
zone in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Russian Armed Forces liberated
the village of Verbovoye in the
Dnepropetrovsk region
October 1st, 12:29
(Vesti.ru)
Russian military personnel have liberated the village of Verbovoye
in the Dnepropetrovsk region, according to the Russian Ministry
of Defense.
It is specified that Verbovoe was released by the
forces of units of the Vostok group of troops.
"Units of the Vostok group of troops continued to advance into
the depth of the enemy's defenses and liberated the village of
Verbovoe in the Dnipropetrovsk region," the report says.
In addition -- the "Eastern" troops inflicted defeats on the Armed
Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the areas of three settlements in the
Zaporozhye region. As a result of the fighting, Russian troops
destroyed up to 315 militants, an armoured vehicle, and
11 enemy vehicles.
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Rogov: Russian troops -- have entered
Verbovoye in Dnipropetrovsk region
October 1st, 7:17am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops have entered the village of Verbovoye - in the south
of the Dnipropetrovsk region. This was reported by Vladimir Rogov,
Chairman of the Russian Public Chamber's Commission on
Sovereignty Issues and Co-Chair of the Coordination
Council for the Integration of New Regions.
In an interview with RIA Novosti, he spoke about
the battles for the liberation of the village.
"Our troops continue their offensive on this sector of the front
and have entered Verbovoye. The initiative is in the hands of
our guys," Rogov told the agency.
He also noted that Russian assault groups
are actively advancing.
Earlier, servicemen of the Vostok group of troops
destroyed an ammunition depot and an APU
tank in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Fighter Zalim: The Ukrainian Armed Forces'
resistance in the Krasnolimansk direction
consists of drones
October 1st, 6:48am
(Vesti.ru)
According to a soldier with the call sign Zalim, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces' resistance in the Krasnolimansk area is
largely made up of unmanned aerial vehicles.
According to him, during the assault, you have to constantly
watch the sky, to make sure you don't miss a drone flyover.
"Words can't describe it. Shooting, explosions... you fly into the
opornik - they shoot back. Their resistance consists of drones
especially. It's hard to fight with drones – you don't have time
to follow the sky, the shooting goes at point – blank range,"
the military said.
A fighter with the call sign Gaz also spoke about the latest assault
in the Krasnolimansk direction. On the eve of the Day of the
Ground Forces, Russian troops managed to destroy
an enemy tank.
"When we start to cover with fire nearby, the tank turns around,
trying to hide. Our FPV drones help. We hit it - together. Our
UAVs are working and coordinating us and accompanying
our fire. And we hit it all the time", – the military man
shared on the air of the TV channel "Russia 24".
The Russian military ------ continues to work on the
resistance line, even on their professional holiday.
Earlier, a fighter with the call sign Black reported that any
assault is unpredictable, and flexibility in action is
important. In such conditions, as he noted, it is
impossible to plan everything in advance, and
fighters have to constantly assess the
situation and make decisions.......
on the fly.
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Kimakovsky: The Russian Army
Has Expanded Its Control Zone
in Kupyansk
October 1st, 3:49am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops have expanded their control over Kupyansk,
forcing Ukrainian militants out of a residential area,
according to Igor Kimakovsky, an advisor to the
head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
In an interview with TASS, he clarified that the successful
actions of assault groups of units of the Zapad group of
forces allowed the Russian Armed Forces to
significantly expand the zone of control
in the city.
Kimakovsky added, that the Ukrainian forces in this sector
of the front, had been weakened by air strikes, which also
contributed to the successful advance of Russian troops.
Prior to that, the DPR head's adviser reported that the AFU
militants are preventing the evacuation of civilians from
Kupyansk ----- and using almost 2,500 citizens, as
Similarly to the ABM Treaty, the US unilaterally pulled
out of the INF Treaty in 2019. However, instead of
simply stating it wished to develop weapons
beyond the treaty’s limitations, the Trump
administration accused Moscow of
violating the treaty by lying about
the range of its 9M728/9M729
missiles used by Iskander
missile systems.
Nonetheless, within 2 weeks of the US’ formal
departure from the treaty, in August 2019, it
began testing the first of multiple missiles
that violated the treaty’s limitations.
The origins of the INF Treaty lay in a dramatic
showdown, across Europe, in late 1983,
triggered by Washington’s deployment
of ITS Pershing-II intermediate-range
ballistic missiles (IRBM) to Europe.
With a 900-mile range, a flight apogee of just 60 miles,
and a maneuverable, radar-guided reentry vehicle,
the missile could put an 80-kiloton nuclear war-
head on Moscow in between 6 and 11 minutes
...according to Pentagon leaders. Such a fast
strike time gave the Soviets just minutes to
identify, analyze and respond to the threat,
greatly increasing the risk of them mis-
reading a situation and launching a
mistaken nuclear return volley,
believing it to be their
only chance.
In addition, tensions in Europe had already been
ramped up by years of psychological operations
designed to increase Soviet anxieties, such as
US bombers charging Soviet borders and
turning away at the last second
That’s why, when NATO began the vast, ultra-realistic
“Able Archer-83” war games, simulating an all-out
attack on the Soviet Union, in November 1983, it put Soviet fears through the roof.
However, it wasn’t until after the war games had
concluded, several days later, that NATO
commanders discovered key signs: the
Soviets had loaded hundreds of strike
aircraft in East Germany and Poland
with nuclear bombs, and orders to
strike “front-line targets” at a
moment’s notice.
The INF Treaty eliminated missiles like the Pershing-II,
banning land-based missiles with ranges of between
500 klms and 5,500 klms. This significantly cooled
tensions in Europe... although the treaty was only
between the US and Soviet Union -- now Russia --
which left other countries, such as China, free to
develop their own intermediate-range missiles.
The INF’s absence now is especially poignant,
considering the long-standing Russian fears
over a NATO Aegis Ashore missile system,
built on a land base in Deveselu, Romania.
While the US claimed the system was purely
defensive, Moscow noted... that Aegis can
also be used to launch offensive missiles.
Among the missiles tested after the INF Treaty lapsed
was a land-based Tomahawk missile with a range of
1,600 kilometres - a cruise missile US Aegis
cruisers have fired at sea for years.
1992 Treaty on Open Skies
The Open Skies treaty... was an attempt to increase
transparency and put to rest fears of an impending
attack by the other side. The deal allowed 35
partner nations to perform reconnaissance
overflights over other nations... using
specialized aircraft with specialized
equipment. However, flights could
not interfere with other military
activities and could be refused
by the overflown nation, for a
variety of reasons.
The US sent signs it was interested in leaving the
treaty as early as 2019, claiming it was caused
by Russia refusing US Open Skies aircraft
access to several areas almost a decade
earlier - denials Moscow insisted were
within its rights under the treaty.
The US finally made the move on May 21ST 2020,
meaning the six-month cooldown time had the
US leaving the treaty, after the November 2020 elections, that Trump lost.
The decision sparked an outcry across Europe, with Ukraine being one of the loudest critics;
that nation having long used Open Skies to perform overflights in western Russia, to calm its nerves about troops and
installations there.
Indeed, the Open Skies Treaty was drafted precisely to
avoid the type of anxious confrontation... unfolding on
the Russia-Ukraine border, over the last two months.
The Democrats publicly attacked Trump’s withdrawal
as illegal then... although much of their criticism
focused on his refusal to notify Congress before
pulling out. However, in March 2021, a leaked
message --- sent to concerned “international
partners” by the Biden administration said
it was afraid that doing so “would send
the wrong message to Russia and
undermine our position... on the
broader arms control agenda.”
Istanbul, Astana Declarations
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) has its origins in the November
1972 multilateral talks in Espoo, Finland
...intended to further the peaceful
cooperation of the Detente era.
Today, the OSCE has 57 members and 11 observers
and continues to serve as a regional forum for
resolving international issues.
Two of its most important declarations of principles
came at summits in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999 and in
Astana (now Nur-Sultan), Kazakhstan, in 2010,
which, among other topics, affirmed each
nation’s right to its own security in the
context of an international community.
"The security of each participating State... is
inseparably linked to that of all others. Each
participating State, has an equal right to
security. We reaffirm the inherent right
of each and every participating State
...to be free to choose or change its
security arrangements, including
treaties of alliance, as they evolve.''
''Each State also has the right to neutrality. Each
participating State will respect the rights of all others in these regards. They will not
strengthen their security ...at the
expense of... the security of
other States.'' the Astana
declaration states.
While the OSCE met in Vienna, Austria, 2 weeks ago,
the talks yielded no major breakthrough. Earlier this
week -- when the US and NATO delivered separate
written responses to Russia’s December security
proposal -- the US response was considerably
more intransigent, while NATO’s, sent from
Brussels and speaking for 30 member
states, acknowledged the Russian
security concerns and proposed
mutual briefings in the NATO-
Russia Council and the re-
establishment of their
respective envoys in
Moscow & Brussels.
However, neither reply gave deference to Russia’s
central concern --- the eastward expansion of
NATO and the impact that has on Russian
security, especially since now, the US
explicitly regards Russia as a
challenger to its position ...as leader of the post- Cold War global order.
Speaking on Thursday, about the US response,
in particular, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey
Lavrov said "The principle that one should not strengthen one's security -- at the expense of
the security of others is deliberately avoided.
Neither the Istanbul or Astana declarations are mentioned by our Western partners in the discussions on European
security that are currently
taking place. We cannot
accept this.”
Morgan Artyukhina is a writer and news editor at
Sputnik’s Washington, DC, bureau... focusing on
international & breaking news. Born in southern Maryland, she studied Russian, Central, and
East European Studies, at the University of
Glasgow and is a former history professor.
At Sputnik, she covers military technology,
the expanding neoliberal police state, and
the ongoing struggles against it in the US
and around the globe.
Image: palestine
Paul Larudee: Zionist Dream
Turning into Nightmare
November 25th, 5:26pm (FNA)
Paul Larudee, political activist and commentator,
says Zionists have come to this understating
- that Zionism is now nearing its predestined
self-annihilation.
Speaking in an interview with FNA, Larudee
said, “Zionism planted the seeds of its own
destruction the moment they created a
plan for a Jewish state in someone
else's homeland. It is increasingly
becoming an international pariah
...contributing to the wars and
conflicts in West Asia, South
America, Africa, and other
parts of the world. It only
creates more enemies
for them.”
Paul Larudee is an - Iranian-born - American political
activist who is a major figure in the pro-Palestinian
movement. Based in the San Francisco Bay area,
he is involved with the International Solidarity
Movement, & was a founder of the Free Gaza
Movement & the Free Palestine Movement.
Larudee was a member of the US delegation
aboard the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla,
which was attacked by Israeli forces.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: Yaakov Sharett says “Israel and the Zionist
enterprise were born in sin.” What do we
learn about the nature of Israel?
A: Such words from a Zionist leader's son may help to
gradually sink doubts into the minds of other Zionists,
but we must not forget that many Jews were opposed
to Zionism for decades before 1948. It is unfortunate
that as Zionism became more successful in its
genocidal project, it also became more
acceptable to more Jews. But that is
now being reversed. As Zionism
becomes more racist, violent,
and aggressive, it is starting
to lose Jews who cannot
stomach such behaviour.
Q: Such a significant assertion was made by the son
of a signatory to the Israeli declaration in 1948. Do
you believe settlers will learn a lesson to end their
occupation of the Palestinians’ land?
A: There are two kinds of settlers that are being used
to colonize the West Bank and Jerusalem. The most
aggressive and violent are the ideological settlers,
who think of themselves as conquering soldiers,
much like the Europeans who took the land from
the native peoples in the western hemisphere.
They want to expel all Palestinians by any means
necessary, and take their land. They do not need
Israel to paint a rosy picture. They are ready to
endure hardship, although Israel actually
helps and enables them. The other type
are the opportunists. Israel builds
subsidized housing and industrial
parks on Palestinian land... and
makes it attractive for settlers
to move there. Israel creates
many advantages for them...
so as to increase the Jewish
population in the occupied
territories and push the
Palestinians out.
Q: Yaakov Sharett predicts a dark future for Israel
and asks settlers to immigrate from Israel; like-
wise, Lawrence Wilkerson, former Israeli State
Department aide, said Israel will be gone in
some 20 years. How do you assess
these statements?
A: Clearly, Sharett is being a realist in this case.
Despite Israel's influence, propaganda, bribes
and manipulations of other governments, it is
increasingly becoming an international pariah,
contributing to the wars and conflicts in West
Asia, South America, Africa and other parts of
the world. They believe that this makes them
strong, but it only creates more enemies for
them. Sharett seems to understand that the
Zionist dream is proving to be unsustainable.
It can only be realized by committing greater
and greater crimes, but even many Zionists
consider this too high a price for their dream,
and their dream is turning into a nightmare.
Zionism planted the seeds of its own destruction
the moment they created a plan for a Jewish
state on someone else's homeland.
Image: palestine
UN Must Prevent Normalization of
Israeli Violation of Human Rights:
Iran Envoy
November 20th, 11am (al Manar)
Iran’s ambassador to the UN office in Geneva
put the onus on the United Nations: to take
action: against the normalization of the
systematic violation of human rights
and humanitarian laws, by the
Zionist regime.
In an address to a meeting between ambassadors
of the member states of the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation, residing in Geneva,
and to members of the Commission of Inquiry of the UN Council on Human
Rights, held on Friday, Esmaeil
Baqaei Hamaneh called for the
clarification of true and false
narratives, referring to the
stories... that equate the
victims of Israeli crimes
with the perpetrators
of the heinous acts.
“It is the duty of all of us to clarify the true and false
narratives, the narrative that equates the victims
of Israeli crimes, with their killers, which is
humanly shocking, legally unfounded,
and morally shameful,” the Iranian
envoy stressed.
He added that the inquiry commission has an historic
responsibility --- to prevent the normalization of
systematic human rights violations by the
Israeli regime.
The Iranian diplomat invited all the participants in the
meeting to call for justice; and not allow war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and blatant violations of
human rights, to become normal, Press
TV reported.
In May, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to initiate
an international probe into “systematic” human rights
abuses committed during the asymmetrical war
between ‘Israel’ and Palestinian resistance
groups in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The 47-member forum adopted a resolution presented
by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC and the Palestinian
delegation to the UN, by a vote of 24 states in favour, 9 against, and 14 abstentions.
The UN rights body agreed to establish “an ongoing
independent, international commission of inquiry”
into the war to probe the “underlying root causes
of recurrent tensions and instability, including
the systematic discrimination and repression
based on group identity.”
Israeli troops have, on numerous occasions, been
caught on camera, brutally killing Palestinians...
with the videos going viral online and sparking
international condemnation.
The Tel Aviv regime has been criticized for its extensive
use of lethal force against, and extrajudicial killing of,
Palestinians... who do not pose an immediate threat
to the occupation forces, or to the Israeli settlers.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Palestinian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, called
on the International Criminal Court to launch an
immediate investigation into the Tel Aviv
regime’s crimes, in the occupied
Palestinian territories --- after
the Israeli forces shot dead a
young man, in the northern
part of the West Bank.
Source: Iranian Agencies
Image: Bill Dores
China is no threat
to people in the US; Wall Street,CIA & the Pentagon are
-- Analyst
October 16th, 3:14pm (PressTV)
US political analyst and activist Bill Dores says
China is no threat to the people in the US., but
Wall Street, the CIA, and the Pentagon, are.
Dores, a writer for Struggle/La Lucha and a longtime
antiwar activist, made the remarks in an interview
with Press TV on Saturday, after the CIA launched
a new mission centre to address what it calls “the most important geopolitical threat” posed... by China.
CIA Director William Burns said in a statement last week
that the new unit, called the China Mission Centre, will
“further strengthen our collective work on the most
important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st
century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese
government.”
Burns said that his agency will still focus on other threats
as well, including those emanating from Russia, North
Korea and Iran.
The CIA’s renewed attention to China is the latest evidence
of the Biden administration’s focus on Beijing as its main
foreign policy target.
Since taking charge of the White House earlier this year,
the Biden administration has been directing resources
toward countering China.
Why is the CIA targeting China?
“The CIA is grabbing more tax money --- to start a ‘mission
centre’ aimed at China, which it calls the ‘most important
geopolitical threat we face.’ This is ominous news
- considering the agency’s history of 'fabricating'
evidence to start wars, e.g. Iraq’s nonexistent
‘weapons of mass destruction,’” Dores
commented to Press TV.
“US troops have left Afghanistan. But not a dime has been
slashed from the bloated US military budget. Indeed, it’s
being increased to $778 billion from $753 billion to face
the alleged ‘Chinese threat.’ That’s more than the
combined military budgets of China, India,
Russia, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Germany,
France, Japan, South Korea, Italy
and Australia,” he added.
“It’s also been revealed that US Special Forces have been
operating secretly on Taiwan for two years. Meanwhile...
the US Congress will not pass the Build Back Better Act
to modestly extend our social safety net,” he added.
“The People’s Republic of China... has five times the population of the United States. But it spends only
$258 billion on its military. China’s forces are
deployed in - or around - the borders and
coasts of China. By no stretch of the
imagination is China threatening
he US militarily. Why would it?
For what gain?” he asked.
“So, what the Sam Hill is a ‘geopolitical threat.’ It’s a
twisted concept based on the twisted premise that
the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s
population, should dominate the world
politically & economically. And that
really means the billionaires and
millionaires, that Occupy Wall
Street protesters called the
‘One Percent,’” he stated.
China’s economic ‘threat’ to US
“China’s real ‘threat,’ in the minds of the US corporate
ruling class, is economic. China produces more than
the United States, and its economy is growing much faster,” the analyst said.
“It has achieved this, not by destroying the economies of
other countries with war and sanctions, but by growth,
and trade. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has greatly
weakened the stranglehold Wall Street banks once
held on the world economy. An article in the US
magazine Foreign Policy whined: that China is
‘whittling away’ at the murderous ‘sanctions
regime’ the US and West Europe use -- to
‘punish’ countries that defy their
dictates,” he explained.
“US corporations do, of course, invest in China. They make
a lot of money there. But they cannot dictate to China's
government the way US oil companies dictated to the
Shah of Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Or
the way they dictate to their paid servants in the
White House and the Capitol today,”
he observed.
“Politicians and news media tell working-class people in
the US that China’s growth is, somehow, a threat to our
well-being. They conceal the fact: that China’s dynamic
growth is the biggest single factor staving off a global
economic collapse,” he said.
“Yet it is their own Wall Street masters who have shut
down plants all over this country and foreclosed on
millions of homes. It is they who used the techno-
logical revolution as a weapon, to drive down
wages and destroy millions of jobs,”
Dores said.
Washington’s ‘hate China’ campaign
“Washington raises several phony issues in its ‘hate
China’ campaign. One is the alleged persecution of
the Uighur people in Xinjiang Province. There’s
nothing but hypocrisy here,” the analyst said.
“If this claim were true - and I’ve seen no reliable evidence
that it is - Washington would be the last to care. The US
leads the world in mass incarceration and murder
by police,” he noted.
“According to the Equal Justice Initiative... ‘Millions of
Americans are incarcerated in overcrowded, violent,
and inhumane jails and prisons.. that do not provide
treatment, education, or rehabilitation.' A majority
are from the oppressed Black, Latin and Native
nations... targeted by the police,” he said.
“Among the incarcerated are dozens of political
prisoners, such as Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard
Peltier and Jamil Abdullah Al Amin, who have
spent decades behind bars on framed-up
charges,” he stated.
“Last year’s Black Lives Matter uprising..... highlighted
the extent of racist police murder in the US. Between
1980 and 2018, the US police killed more than 30,000
people. Half of those killings were misclassified,
according to a study published in the Lancet
medical journal,” he said.
US supports ‘ethnic cleansing and
murder of Palestinian people’
“We also can't forget that Washington not only supports
but subsidizes --- the ethnic cleansing and murder of
Palestinian people --- by the racist state of Israel,
including the mass imprisonment of 2 million
people in the giant concentration camp
called the Gaza Strip. The US also has
no problem with the oppression of
the majority Muslim people of
Kashmir, by the Indian state,” Dores noted.
“The US accuses China of stealing ‘intellectual property,’
a twisted concept indeed. Perhaps the West should pay
China for inventing paper, iron smelting, the seed drill,
the compass, rockets, gunpowder and other
innovations... that made its economic
development possible,” he said.
“There is the accusation of currency manipulation. But
Washington... has flooded the world with devalued
dollars ever since the Nixon administration took
the dollar off the gold standard in the 1970s.
The US has long used the dollar as an
instrument of financial warfare,”
he said.
Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea?
“And there is the issue of ‘free navigation’ in the South
China Sea. Which raises the question, what is the US
Seventh Fleet doing in the South China Sea anyway?
For that matter, why is the US Fifth Fleet off the
coast of Iran and the US Fourth Fleet off the
coast of Venezuela,” Dores said.
“Every year, ships carry $3.4 trillion worth of goods
through the South China Sea. Most of that is
bound to and from China,” he said.
“The PRC has no interest in stopping that commerce.
It does have an interest in keeping US warships
away from its coast and ports,” he said.
“For the past seven years, the US Navy has helped Saudi
Arabia impose a naval blockade that is starving the
children of Yemen. US sanctions, backed by the
US Navy, are the main obstacle to commerce
between nations in the world today,”
he said.
“Instead of new CIA mission centres, military bases and
fleets of warships and warplanes all over the world, the
US should do what China does: Invest in schools,
health care, housing, railroads and renewable
energy. Bring all the ships, planes, troops
and spies home. The world would be a
much better and safer place,”
he concluded.
Image: Sa’dollah Zarei
Iran won’t let US, Turkey, Israel
create crisis in Caucasus
Sunday, October 3rd, 11:51am (PressTV)
by Sa’dollah Zarei
The fact of the matter is, that if there is no more time for
preventing a conspiracy from taking shape... there is
still time to thwart the conspiracy that has formed.
Here are some points with regards to this issue:
1) What the US, the Zionist regime, the governments of
Turkey and Azerbaijan, and the West in general, are
pursuing in the regions north of Iran is, firstly, a reaction to the great achievements of the
Islamic Republic and the resistance front.
When the criminal Zionist regime refers to the Republic of
Azerbaijan as “Lebanon of Israel,” it means that there is
a “Lebanon of resistance” that has foiled any Israeli
conspiracy over the past forty years and turned
into a major crisis for the occupying regime.
Why is a front led by the US, Zionist regime, Turkey and
Azerbaijan, talking about launching a pan-Turan move
-ment here? Because a powerful religious movement
has, for more than 40 years, disrupted the plots of
colonialists and criminals. So, it is quite clear that the enemy, although very hardworking, is in a state of “passivity.”
Here is another important question: will this evil conspiracy
ever yield any result? The answer is that there is a serious
antidote to prevent the realization of this tension-making
scheme, and if it enters the scene, it will definitely
thwart the plan, as it has happened so far.
2) Some people make a mistake here and say that the Syunik
agreement with North Karabakh... is a matter that concerns
the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia and that Iran’s
objection to it is not a matter of concern. They argue that
the implementation of the agreement is to the detriment
of Iran’s regional situation, but it is a natural
consequence and thus does not create a
right for Iran to legitimize its opposition.
The answer is clear; This is not an agreement between the
two countries on a disputed region, but one on creating a
region meant to undermine the security, political and
economic position of a third country.
While acknowledging their military and political failure, in
Afghanistan, the Americans explicitly speak of pursuing
a proxy war model to make up for their defeat. Shortly
afterwards, it becomes known that they had sent a
signal to Azerbaijan to launch and attack and a
signal to Armenia to, in turn, show tolerance
and accept the post-war reality, and at the
same time, following the end of a recent
44-day Karabakh war, the US stated
that they 'support' the agreements
reached between Azerbaijan and
Armenia. All this suggests that
the US has been standing behind this war and the situation that ensued.
Simultaneously, the Azerbaijani government announced
the widespread use of Israeli attack drones in the war,
and the Armenian army called the UAVs the main
reason for its heavy casualties in the war. This
means that it was an American-Israeli war.
Everyone knows, that the administration of Armenian
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is a Christian govern-
ment dependent on the West, but it's interesting that
in this war, the United States and Israel destroyed the forces and facilities belonging to a pro-West
Christian administration, and supported a
Muslim government instead! Isn’t that
a telltale sign?
The question is, what kind of “proxy war” US officials
were talking about in the course of their withdrawal
from Afghanistan? Was it possible for the US to
start such a war in Afghanistan? Which forces
could be used by the US to launch a proxy war
in Afghanistan? Could the US bring the Taliban
- which was taking power - into a proxy war?
Proxy war with whom? The answer is no.
Was the Afghan army able to enter a proxy war? The
answer's clear. Was the army that was not even able
to defend Kabul for an hour, against the Taliban —
which took control of the capital without firing a
single shot — ready to enter a proxy war?
Could the old mujahedeen forces.. serve
as the proxies of the American war? The
answer is clear. The old forces, besides
having an anti-American spirit... have
currently no military capability. Could
the USA... create a ''proxy force'' in
Afghanistan, in the medium term,
with the Taliban et al present on the scene? The answer to this
question is also, no. This is
because... for at least the
next 50 years... US crimes
will be in front of the eyes
of the Afghan people, and
the prospect for any kind
of Afghan-American,
cooperation...
is bleak.
So, what did the Americans mean by a proxy war? In fact,
the Americans wanted a proxy war where there was a
fertile ground... and the required strength. From the
American point of view, the “ethnicity” factor must
be emphasized and turned into a winning weapon
against anti-American revolutionary uprisings.
The Americans have long focused on the
model of racism and pan-Turanism... in
the case of this region, and considered
them as “a possible solution,” or more
accurately, the last “remaining arrow,”
and pinned their hopes on it.
Therefore, the prominent role of this tendency, in the
developments in the north, and its overlapping in the
Caucasus, besides the intention to highlight the anti
Iranian and anti-Islamic edges in the rhetoric of the
officials of these countries, tell us that we are
facing a “semi-hard” proxy war.
When Azeri President Ilham Aliyev speaks openly in an
interview about the widespread presence of Israeli
forces and equipment in the Caucasus, and the
resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, he
is, in fact, blowing the lid off a proxy war.
3) Saudi Arabia’s measures are yet another issue that is indicative of the proxy war in the developments
unfolding in Iran’s northwestern frontiers, on
the one side, and its scale, on the other. The
Saudis have explicitly said that they are
working to launch a 24-hour television
network for the Turkish region of the
Caucasus called “Turk national.”
Why is the Saudi regime in the Caucasus trying to launch
such a TV network? The people in this region are neither
Arabs nor Sunnis in order for them to be the audience of
a Sunni Arab country. At the same time, it is obvious that this decision cannot be implemented without the consent and cooperation of the governments in the region.
4) Naturally, on this front, Iran can't remain silent and turn
a blind eye to the dimensions and consequences of the
action that being along its borders; therefore, it has to
react, but what is the due reaction? There is no doubt
that military conflict & dragging Iran into the military
arena is a well-known policy of the American front.
On the other hand... we know that what is intended for the Caucasus region is not even a full-fledged military
war, let alone a regional and multilateral war. We
are thus not talking about a war in the sense
that it is perceived. We are talking about
actions that disturb the peace of this
region and the interests of the
powers around it.
Isn’t it true... that the Azerbaijani government says Israeli
drones and forces have been involved in the recent war
between the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Republic of
Armenia? Isn’t it true that the Israelis explicitly referred
to the Republic of Azerbaijan... as “Lebanon of Israel”?
Since there are talks about the formation of a definite
security threat against the Islamic Republic, Iran has
the right to dismantle and confront the centre of
conspiracy against itself, without coordination
with any place or individual.
This type of Iranian confrontation is not so incomprehensible
to Zionists. Interestingly, an Israeli institution wrote a few
days ago: “Iran may want to retaliate against Israeli attacks
in Syria in Azerbaijan.” The regime is attacking areas in
Syria under the false pretext that Syria has become a
base for the presence of Iranian military personnel.
The Israeli institute asks what problem would arise
if Iran attacked a base in Azerbaijan, where Israeli
force are possibly present?
Of course, Iran knows very well how to use developments
to the detriment of its enemies. The Islamic Republic will
naturally begin with negotiations, to fraternally resolve
the issue between neighbours on Iran’s northwestern
border. Over the past 2 decades, the United States,
Turkey, and the Zionist regime have faced ultimate
defeat in any sedition that they incited and gotten
out of the situation while fraught with humiliation.
They are inciting sedition while they do not have
the power to tolerate and manage the war. If
these acts of sedition are not put aside, they
will face defeat, thanks to Iran’s measures.
(The views expressed in this article.... do
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)
Image: Boris Malagurski
It’s time for NATO to leave Kosovo
before it does any more damage
October 2nd, 10:36am (RT)
By Boris Malagurski, a Serbian Canadian documentary
film director, known for “The Weight of Chains”,
enlisted in the catalogue of the Library of
Congress, whose work has been show- cased on international festivals...
including Raindance in London.
Follow Boris on Twitter @malagurski
Just as it all ended badly for the West’s military interventions
in Vietnam and Afghanistan, so it will in Kosovo. NATO has
overstepped its mandate, overplayed its hand, and
overstayed its welcome.
As the last US military helicopters were leaving Kabul,
Afghanistan, many, including myself, emphasized the
similarities with America’s embarrassment in Saigon,
South Vietnam – but one parallel that few dared to
draw, was with Kosovo.
When I merely asked “Is Kosovo next?” on Twitter, it
sent Albanian media outlets into a frenzy. Kosovo’s
Albanian majority celebrates the NATO troops as
saviours – NATO bombed Serbia, to take away
control of its Southern province of Kosovo in
1999. Since then, NATO has been sponsoring
a nation-building project... that seemed to have culminated in 2008, when Kosovo’s
provisional authorities declared
independence from Serbia.
It wasn’t an ‘end of history’ moment. Serbia and much of
the world didn’t recognize Kosovo as an independent
country, and Kosovo itself remained heavily
dependent on Western aid... and military
support. Most Albanian politicians are
aware of this and they are highly
obedient with regards to NATO,
whose KFOR troops are
‘keeping the peace’
in Kosovo.
However, NATO has overstepped its mandate. UN Security
Council Resolution 1244, which put an end to NATO’s war
with Yugoslavia, guarantees Serbia’s sovereignty over
Kosovo, while NATO has pushed for an independent
Kosovo from day one of their occupation. The
resolution also called for... the return of an
agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian
personnel to maintain a presence at
significant sites and key border
crossings.... NATO has never
allowed this to happen. The
last Serbian prime minister
who called for this agree-
ment to be honored, was
assassinated in 2003, a little over a month
after his request.
On the other hand, what are the results of NATO’s nation
building in Kosovo? Close to a 30% unemployment rate.
One of the poorest areas of Europe... with as much as
45% of the population living below the official poverty
line, and 17% being extremely poor. Former Kosovo
Liberation Army terrorists, some accused of
trafficking weapons and human organs,
replaced their military uniforms with
politicians’ suits and are governing
the entity. The previous president
of Kosovo, nicknamed ‘The Snake’
...is currently being tried for war
crimes, and crimes against
humanity, at The Hague.
He’s the one who unveiled the Bill Clinton statue in
Kosovo’s capital. Bill then came to celebrate with
‘The Snake’.
Kosovo’s recent license plate row with Serbia was just
the latest example of a leadership in Kosovo incapable
of dealing with real issues, but rather... going into
conflict... to cover its incompetence. Instead of
negotiating with Belgrade, Kosovo unilaterally
used force --- to implement the removal of
Serbian license plates. And all that NATO
was willing to contribute to deescalate
the tensions... was to offer its KFOR
troops, to replace Kosovo’s special
unit, without even trying to resolve
the essence of the dispute. What
is NATO still doing in Kosovo?
Probably the same thing it was doing in Afghanistan.
Hoping a bad decision to go in, will eventually pay
off somehow. But it won’t. It didn’t in Vietnam, it
didn’t in Afghanistan, and it won’t in Kosovo.
So it’s time for NATO to start packing
its bags.
The statements, views and opinions expressed
in this column, are solely those of the author,
& don't, necessarily, represent those of RT.
Image: Iqbal Jassat
“Normalization":Betrayal of Palestineby Arab despots no easy road
by Iqbal Jassat
October 1st, 11am (PressTV)
Pinning Palestinians down while applying harsh
measures of violent repression -- accompanied
by a fanatical settler movement of arch-racists
given free reign to attack and plunder -- is a
notorious game Israel has elevated to a
daily ritual.
In fact the routine of inflicting war crimes has all
the hallmarks of a rogue regime entirely caught
up in a misplaced belief --- that to engage in ethnic cleansing, is a religious obligation.
Conflating Judaism with a racist political ideology
of Zionism has been part of a strategy designed
to deceive, distort and divert. It has its roots in
the first Zionist congress held on the eve of
the 19th century.
That this is well documented and widely known is
not in dispute. Indeed... awareness of Zionism's
goal to dismember and dislodge Palestinians
from their centuries old homeland and
forcibly impose thereon a foreign
entity known as Israel, has
always been a bedrock
for resistance.
Israel has thus always been considered an enemy
thrust upon a native population through the most
horrific forms of terrorism. The memories of Deir
Yassin remind the world of bloody massacres
committed by Zionist terrorists which didn't
spare hundreds of villages... to
colonize Palestine.
That more than seven decades later the expansionist
goals of Zionism are still being pursued at great
human cost to successive generations of the
indigenous Palestinian population, is
reflected in daily atrocities.
None of these facts, as attested to by historians, as
well as organs of the United Nations, are contested.
Though of course Israel and supporters of it seek
to distort and malign commentators who speak
truth to power, as anti-Semitic.
Yet against this background of terrorism and current
conditions siege, occupation, killings and mass
imprisonment - recorded and broadcast via
mainstream media for all the world to
witness - it is bizarre that a handful
of Arab regimes, have broken rank
with Palestine's freedom struggle.
And at a time when even Haaretz describes
the atrocities by Israel, as a pogrom:
"Residents of the Palestinian communities in the south-
eastern West Bank have experience of settler attacks
- when they graze their flocks, work their fields, or
even have a picnic on their own land.... But they
cannot recall an attack like the one experienced
Tuesday -- by the small communities of Khirbat
al-Mufkara, al-Rakiz and al-Tuwani. On Simhat
Torah, dozens of young Jews, most of them
masked, conducted what can only be
described as a pogrom."
The treachery associated with what has become known
as "normalization" is an outrageous manifestation of
betrayal and collaboration. Limited to the UAE,
Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco,.. these regimes
have in effect confessed that the protection
of their shaky thrones... counts for more...
than legitimate rights of the Palestinians.
As unelected self-imposed despots fearful of democratic
values, they have bargained that "normalization" with
the usurper of Palestine will "guarantee" safety and
protection for them. In other words, just as Egypt
has done, these oligarchs have outsourced their
intelligence networks and security apparatus to Israel, knowing full well that in doing so, they have abandoned Palestine.
Though the abnormality of the implicit recognition of an
illegal colonial enterprise, has been in sharp contrast
to countless Arab League resolutions... the deal of
"normalization" pushed by Trump and vigorously
backed by the Biden administration... has exposed these leaders - as surrogates of western imperialism.
The case of Bahrain's role in the "Abraham Accords"
reveals the soft underbelly of Arab dictatorships.
Besides being financially dependent on its
neighbours especially the UAE and Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain’s alliance with Israel is
designed to entrench its power and
crush any resistance to author-
itarianism or efforts towards
freedom and democracy.
In 2011, during the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings,
Saudi Arabia sent troops to Bahrain to suppress anti
-government protests. This trend continues today
by Israel --- equally committed to maintaining the
status quo, and preventing the success of any
popular uprisings.
In this context, one may justifiably condemn Bahrain’s gross insensitivity and abject abdication of Palestine's freedom struggle... as treacherous.
Showcasing Israeli war criminal Lapid’s visit to Manama
where he is set to open the embassy flying Israel's flag
is utterly outrageous. This follows the opening of a
Zionist embassy in Abu Dhabi, and will likely be
establishing one in Rabat. Sudan thus far has
reportedly said that it has no plans yet to
open an embassy in Khartoum.
Not surprising therefore that the Arab street across these
capitals have vowed to end "normalization". The iron-
fisted grip held by Arab despots notwithstanding,
human rights movements (many banned and
leaders exiled) have declared their outright
rejection of America's much-vaunted
Abraham Accords.
Stirrings in Sudan are becoming more vocal despite
Khartoum's attempts to silence critics. In Bahrain
the main opposition group, al-Wefaq National
Islamic Society declared Lapid’s trip as a
"threat", saying, "This is provocative
news and this trip is completely
rejected, and he (Lapid) should
not set foot on Bahraini soil."
Their message is clear: "Any (Israeli) presence on Bahraini soil --- means incitement."
Iqbal Jassat is an executive at the Johannesburg-
based Media Review Network (MRN), a socio-
political advocacy group, that concerns
itself with media and political analysis.
(The views expressed in this article do
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)
Image: Paul Antonopoulos
Greece And FranceTake First Step
Towards European Independence
Following AUKUS Debacle
September 28th (South Front)
by Paul Antonopoulos,
independent geopolitical analyst
Signing of Franco-Greek Agreement is the
beginning of supplanting NATO in Europe.
Of the 30 NATO member states, Greece is one of the few
to spend well over 2% of its GDP on defense, as agreed
upon by NATO Defence Ministers, in 2006. However,
Greece’s high spending (relative to GDP), is not
because it is positioning itself as a buffed-up
military state opposed to Russia, as per the
aims of NATO, but rather, to defend itself
against the threats of another NATO
member, Turkey.
With NATO consistently downplaying Turkish aggression
against Greece and the new AUKUS pact creating
distrust between the Anglosphere and the
Europeans... Greece has ensured new
extra security assurances against
its long-time enemy.
Greece’s strengthened partnership with France highlights
that the immediate consequences of the AUKUS alliance
are already being felt, as the two countries are making
the first serious steps towards a Europe independent
of Washington.
Alexis Papahelas, one of Greece’s top journalists, explained
that the Franco-Greek security pact is Macron’s “revenge”
against the Americans as it will strengthen European
autonomy. He also confirmed persistent rumours
that a defensive pact between France and
Greece was almost reached last year,
but ultimately broke down at the
last minute for “unknown
reasons.”
To put the situation in context, Greece for a year and a half-
received bids from six countries, including France, the U.S.
and UK for brand new navy frigates. The finalization of a
deal was continuously delayed... due to Greece’s
insistence, that a frigate purchase must include a defense agreement.
Greece signed its 12-month Mutual Defense Cooperation
Agreement (MDCA) with the US last year, but ultimately
did not decide on which frigate bid to accept. With
negotiations for a Franco-Greek defence pact
last year stalling, Athens ultimately decided
to sign the MDCA... with Washington. This
was rumored to be partially motivated
as part of 'negotiations' to pressure
the French to accept Greek terms.
However, with the sudden emergence of AUKUS, European
trust in the Anglosphere quickly diminished, and thus
galvanized Franco-Greek discussions on European
independence. And finally, a deal to purchase
three brand-new French Belharra-class
frigates, was stricken.
For his part, Mitsotakis said on Tuesday morning at the
signing of the agreement that:- “It is an historic day for Greece and France. Today’s development is an
initiative that responds to the demands of the
times on our continent. It paves the way for
an autonomous and strong Europe of the
future. Whether there is a timetable for
creating a European army: the debate
on European military autonomy,
evolves. Options such as this
corporate defense partner-
ship, move to this central
strategic choice.”
Effectively, Greece and France are advocating for a pan-
European military that would likely drive out NATO, as
the premier defensive pact in Europe.
Another demonstration that this pact is aimed at
supplanting NATO... is its careful wording.
Although Turkey was not mentioned
explicitly, there is little doubt that
part of the motivation for the
Franco-Greek defense pact
was Turkey’s unilateral
aggression in the
Mediterranean.
Even just minutes after the signing of the Franco-Greek
agreement, former Dutch diplomat Fons Stoelinga
tweeted: “EU autonomy in security and defense.
NATO still does not address the problem of
NATO-member Turkey destabilizing the
whole Eastern Mediterranean region.
France and Greece now react and
signed a security bilateral pact.”
The mutual defense assistance clause of the agreement
ensures that if Greece or France is attacked on its
territory, the other will come to assist, even if the
attacking country is part of other alliances.....
including NATO. This is an obvious message
directed towards Turkey, a NATO member
that on a daily basis violates Greek air-
space and threatens to invade its
Aegean islands.
These violations and threats receive no repercussions from
NATO as individual members are unwilling to risk their
economic relations with the country, whilst many
NATO leaders still believe that Turkey is a
bulwark against Russia.
France for most of its modern history, but especially
galvanized under President Emmanuel Macron.. had
an ambition of creating a more independent Europe.
The European experience under former U.S.
President, Donald Trump, and the recent
snub from President Joe Biden, with the
AUKUS debacle... has only increased the urgency of achieving European
independence from Washington.
Despite this ambition, as well as warning Europe that it will
become secondary in world affairs, if it does not become
independent, it appears that France can finally kickstart
its project alongside Greece.
Achieving EU unity is a difficult prospect, because minnow
states like Lithuania prioritize the interests of Washington
rather than the continent, but as Paris and Athens have
shown --- they will move ahead, in changing the geo-
political balance in the Mediterranean and will not
wait, while member states continuously bicker
amongst themselves on foreign policy issues.
If France and Greece can create strong foundations for an
independent Europe, it will only be inevitable before more
EU member states become interested in also being
integrated into a continental structure that is
independent of transatlantic alliances.
Image: Eric Zuesse
Why did the Taliban win against
the Americans in Afghanistan?
by Eric Zuesse
August 21st, 2021
Why did the communists win
against the Americans in Vietnam?
Why did the communists win
against the capitalists in the
Russian Revolution?
Why did the American Revolutionists
win against the British Empire?
I shall here propose an answer to all of them, because that answer applies to all such cases, as I'll explain:
When an imperialistic society is as corrupt as Britain has been since the creation of the British East India Company in 1600, and as America has been since the end of World War II in 1945, with its takeover and control by the MIC (military-industrial complex), which has inevitably produced the cancerous growth of America’s permanent-warfare state, what, then, is the reason to continue living by staying merely as a colonist or a vassal-regime (or even as the imperialist regime itself), which means, when the imposed regime is so profoundly corrupt --- as any
imperialist power necessarily is --- to accept such corruption, as this?
There’s something that is worse than dying... and it is to continue
living under a regime that one utterly despises. That’s a dragged
-out death, instead of a quick death. A regime which is as
corrupt as any imperialistic regime inevitably is, will be
intolerable for a significant number of the residents in
any one of its vassal-nations or “colonies.” Death, for
them, isn’t such a bad choice, if it means that they'll
go down fighting to overthrow it. They are driven by
the motivation, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
This is a motivation that few, if any, of the imperialistic regime’s hired
soldiers (regardless of whether conscripted or not) can match. And
when they are foreigners who are fighting on a foreign soil (instead
of locals who are defending their land’s own locally determined
rulers), they especially and certainly cannot match such
motivation, because only the locals can be fighting with
a patriotic spirit. This is an intrinsic weakness in any
empire. And imperialist leaders tend to ignore it,
because they don’t want to understand how
repulsive they are, to virtually anyone but
their own boot-lickers.
Ultimately, the demoralization of a hired soldier’s continuing to place
his very existence in jeopardy so as to continue the war to enslave
and control the resisting local subject-population will mount high
enough to produce self-contempt, desertion, and sometimes
even suicide, in the oppressing power’s forces, especially if that’s a foreign power.
No longer will the rationalizations(that “We are protecting the residents here”) be able to continue fooling the invading-force’s soldier, and the imposed stooge- regime’s soldier. They both (the foreign regime, and its imposed local stooge-government or colony) are there really, to control the local subject-population; and, ultimately, enough of the oppressor’s forces will know this to cause the imposed stooge-government, to be conquered by those indigenous residents there - people who will be recalled as heroes, by the other
residents in that land.
This is an advantage that any revolutionists
have, against the imposed regime.
This is the real meaning of “martyrs,” in the deeper sense than
merely of a religious type — it is instead of the patriotic type; it
concerns the land -- and not necessarily any religion -- such as
Christianity, Islam, or Marxism. Their loyalty is to Afghanistan;
or it is to Vietnam; or it is to Russia; or it is to China; or (before
America became imperialistic) it was to America. And so forth.
It is to the local land, not to any dictators. It is to the country
that the foreign invader’s forces are occupying. The
invader’s forces and their imposed stooge-regimes
can’t match this motivation.
Similarly, when the American invaders were conquered by the
residents of Vietnam, the winners were the Vietnamese, not
really the communists; and, in fact, the Marxist philosophy
(or ‘religion’) subsequently has waned there. America, in
Vietnam, as in Afghanistan, was the invader, in a land
which had not invaded their own.
That similar situation exists in Afghanistan. The Sauds had invaded
America on 9/11, with the assistance of G.W. Bush, Condoleezza
Rice, and perhaps others in the Administration. And so, the U.S.
-imposed soldiers in Afghanistan couldn’t even possibly have
been fighting against Afghanistan for any authentically
patriotic real (factually true) reason, at all. Therefore,
lies were constantly needed by the U.S. regime, not
only against Iraq, but even against Afghanistan.
(Furthermore, if Bush’s objective had really been to identify whom
and how was actually behind the 9/11 attacks, then he would have
pursued that at the U.N. Security Council and would have gotten
unanimous backing for it, which would quickly have isolated
and led to the destruction of Al Qaeda. It could all have been
done without any war between nations, and also fully in
accord with international law. To the extent that 9/11 was state-sponsored terrorism, it was actually being
sponsored by the Governments of the U.S. and
Saudi Arabia.
George W. Bush, who was buddy-close with the Sauds, used 9/11 as
an excuse to trash both the U.S. Constitution and international law
so as to hoist yet higher his own tyranny, his own power - not only internationally but also.. in his own nation. An imperialist would,
of course, like to trash both, and to hoist his personal power as
high as possible. And GWB had the boldness to do it, and -
because America has been imperialistic ever since 1945
(i.e., international aggressions... have been America’s
culture since 1945) — he has been able to enjoy the
success of getting away with doing it. However,
everyone else, and especially outside America’s MIC, suffers from it.
What have the mere soldiers of invading and occupying
imperialist powers actually earned by having placed
their own lives at risk? Maybe a tombstone back
home, in the country that had invaded and
occupied that colony.
By contrast, even if a defending soldier has died as a
hero among the locals in a failed revolution against
the imperialist power, any tombstone will be
unnecessary to be that person’s memorial,
because the true memorial is in the heart,
and in the mind, of the locals there, not
in anything that is in the land of the
invading foreign power.
And, so, I propose that the answer, to the question here, is that,
whereas America’s Founders were waging war as heroes
(because their war was just), today’s Americans are
waging war as villains (because our wars are unjust
- imperialistic aggressions, instead of heroic
defenses against an aggressor). Between
America’s founding and the present time,
America has switched from doing war
against military occupiers, to doing
war as military occupiers.
And this, I maintain, is the reason why: “The Taliban’s 80,000
troops have retaken Afghanistan with cities falling like
dominos while the 300,000-strong government forces,
better equipped and trained, mostly melted and
surrendered with no will to fight.”
What today’s Taliban are to today’s Afghanistan is therefore what
the 1776 American Revolutionists were to the America of that era.
It’s not the ideology; it is the love of that land there, which has
motivated the residents’ forces to victory, against the forces
of the invading-and-occupying foreign power. This can
happen in any land, at any time.
America went into Vietnam focused on the “body counts.” That’s
how stupid America’s imperialistic leaders were, back then. The
only motivation they really understood was fear: “body counts.”
They’ve evidently learned nothing since. That is how corrupt
America is.
Right now in America, the ‘debate’ about Afghanistan is about Joe
Biden, who is basically irrelevant. He wanted to end America’s
military occupation there, just as Trump did, and just as
Obama did. He acted on it, whereas they did not — they
didn’t want to be accused by their political opponents
of having ‘lost Afghanistan on their watch’, but Biden
was evidently willing to risk it.
His only failure in the matter is that he kept lying to the American
people (and probably also to himself) about how chaotic the
evacuation would inevitably be, and about how collapsed
Afghanistan is, and has been, ever since the Soviets
invaded there in 1979.
Throughout America’s imperialistic era, the U.S. Government has
routinely been lying to the American people. Imperialism isn’t as
bad for the imperialistic nation’s public as it is for the conquered
land’s people, but it is very bad, even for them. The only people
who benefit from it are the billionaires, who control companies
such as Lockheed Martin, and ExxonMobil, and Amazon.
Those are the people (the owners), who hire the leading
politicians, including the members of Congress, and the
Presidents, to spread their empire, and their control.
They also hire the ‘journalists’ who shape their nation’s public
to support these invasions and military occupations. The
Government officials of an imperialistic regime represent
not the nation’s public - but its aristocracy - who hire and
appoint millions of the rest, the many agents (employees,
etc.) of the few billionaires. The billionaires really control
their country. After all: America is a thoroughly corrupt
country, just as any imperialistic country is. (All
imperialistic countries, are controlled by their
aristocracy. And every aristocracy is corrupt.)
The public in Afghanistan have long known this fact about America -
that it is corrupt. And this is the main reason why the Taliban now
rule that country. They represent that land. Not this land. It’s a
different culture, and a different place. To most Afghans,
America represents only corruption. There is nothing
unique about what is now happening in Afghanistan.
It has been happening for thousands of years, and
it’s just replaying an ancient script, but in that
particular location.
However, instead, the U.S.-and-allied media are focusing on Biden’s
bit part (which was always in a supporting role) in America’s
invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. So, probably
nothing will be learned from America’s invasion and
occupation of Afghanistan, just as nothing was
learned from America’s invasion & occupation
of Iraq, and from America’s invasion and
occupation of Vietnam, and from the
many other such post-WW-II
American foreign disasters.
For America’s billionaires, these have all been great successes
(very profitable); and, so, probably nothing that’s useful to the
American people will be learned from history; and, instead,
the myths will continue that have caused “The Military” to
be either the highest-respected or the second-highest-
respected of all of the 19 named institutions in America - the world’s permanent- warfare state.
The American military wastes the most money and the most blood
of any institution in America, but Americans nonetheless respect it
enormously. That, too, is a mark of an imperialistic country. The
way to control a public is to sustain the myths. U.S.-and-allied
billionaires make sure that it is done - however much it costs.
As regards the future of Afghanistan itself: On August the 19th,
the most reliable geostrategic reporter and analyst, Alexander
Mercouris, headlined at The Duran, “US Freezes Afghanistan
Reserves, Threatens Economic Crisis. Russia Works to
Establish New Government”, and he explained why the
Taliban will either cooperate with Russia, China, and
Iran, or else will degenerate yet further into a failed
state, especially because the U.S. and its allies will
do everything possible to strangle the fully looted
Government of Afghanistan — the new Islamic
Emirate of Afghanistan. So: even after the US
and its allies have all left that land, the war
against the people there will continue, in
full force, from the same people, though
with different methods.
PS: The philosopher Zizek headlined at RT on August 20th, “The
true enemy for Islamists is not the West’s neocolonialism or
military aggression, but our ‘immoral’ culture”, and he said
“it was not neocons who boosted Islamic fundamentalism,
this fundamentalism grew up in a reaction to the influence
of Western liberal secularism and individualism.”
He did not understand that though religious fundamentalists
(including the Taliban) focus especially on sexual and gender
issues, a person didn’t have to be at all religious in order to
consider the financial and economic corruption of the
imperialists and of their stooges to be disgusting.
Americans didn’t invade & occupy Afghanistan, in order to
spread “liberal secularism and individualism,” but in order
for US-and-allied billionaires to expand their wealth, their
empire, and their global control. Even if the Taliban and
other religious persons might object only (or even just
mainly) to the sexual and gender issues... a broader
segment of the Afghan population were repelled by
the rampant financial and economic corruption of
the imperialists, and of their stooge-rulers.
This was not a defeat for “secularism and individualism.”
It was a rejection of imperialism: a rejection of it even by people who don’t understand what “imperialism” means.
(Source: Strategic Culture Foundation)
Image: Iqbal Jassat
Israel is committed to
aggressively pursuing
'Zionist colonialism',
says analyst
August 14th, 9:38am (PressTV)
A political commentator says Israel is relentlessly
following its "Zionist colonialism" in the occupied
Palestinian territories, and the evacuation orders
handed out to indigenous Palestinian families in the West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds, are in line with the regime’s land
expropriation policies: to build more illegal settler homes.
“Israel aggressively pursues Zionist colonialism, which
has been the bedrock of the regime’s illegal ethnic-
cleansing agenda for the last seventy or more
years,” Iqbal Jassat, an executive member
of Johannesburg-based Media Review
Network, told Press TV, in an
exclusive interview
on Saturday.
He lambasted the Tel Aviv regime’s systematic theft of
Palestinian property as “a reprehensible disregard
for the inalienable rights of indigenous
Palestinians to their own lands
and homes.”
“The racist practice of evacuation, is a misleading
interpretation of forced expulsion, illegal under
the international law. It is also indicative of
the Group Areas Act [of 1950], under the
former apartheid regime of South
Africa,” Jassat noted.
The South African analyst also criticized the United Nations
and the International Criminal Court (ICC), for their
“impotence” ...to prevent Israel's unjust and
blatant violations of international
conventions and principles.
“It also raises serious questions about the inherent biases
existing within these institutions. These biases prevent
the exercise of law --- to halt land grabs, home demolitions, expulsions and incremental genocide,” he pointed out.
Jassat went on to say that Western countries’ decades-long
guilty conscience has prevented these states from
criticizing Israel, for its barbaric and brutal
practices, as such denunciations would
be treated as anti-Semitic.
“The US and its allies in NATO view Israel as a bulwark of
their interests in the heart of the Muslim world. They,
therefore, place their so-called security goals
above injustices against Palestinians,”
the analyst said.
“Moreover, the Arab world is mainly made up of unelected
despots, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates and Bahrain. Their collective view, pivots
on the false notion... that their security is tied
to Israel. That explains the close proximity
between their notorious intelligence
services and Israel's Mossad
and Shin Bet.”
Jassat further noted that the controversial normalization
agreements that several Arab states have struck with Israel, have stifled opposition to the Tel Aviv regime’s colonialist and expansionist policies.
He said the unacceptable betrayal of the Palestinians'
struggle for liberation from the Israeli occupation,
has even resulted in the regime being granted
observer status, at the African Union.
Image: Daniel Patrick Welch
Peak hypocrisy: US is ''concerned'' aboutChina's nukes
by Daniel Patrick Welch
August 7th, 11:45am
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns of
China's nukes, on the anniversary of his own
country dropping the only one ever.
The US empire never disappoints in its endless quest
to project the behavior of a true sociopath. As with
Goebbels’ Big Lie (which he stole from the US's
Bernays anyway), the tried-and-true strategy,
is to attack others, for actions it has itself
performed on a regular basis.
Hence the whole Russiagate charade about foreign
interference in sacred elections by a country other
than the US —reigning and uncontested champion
of regime change campaigns. Now comes Blinken,
the US talking head du jour on the world stage, to
warn Asia about China’s nuclear weapons. Huh?
If irony wasn’t dead, Blinken and crew (Winken, Nod
et al) would track it down and strangle it with their
bare hands. On August 6th, the State Department
announced Blinken’s warning... to China’s
neighbours: THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS
OWN COUNTRY’S DROPPING OF A
NUCLEAR BOMB on Hiroshima.
I would say “not to put to fine a point on it,” but it just
can’t possibly be sharpened any further. Run that
back, with the reverse tape noise and all.
The ONLY country EVER to drop a nuclear bomb on another,
the United States, chooses the very anniversary of the first of those two genocidal crimes against humanity, to express grave concern about China’s nuclear
arsenal. I guess you could just drop the mic
here — there really is so little left to say.
What comes after tragedy and farce?
Even Old Man Marx didn’t mention
a third, though I might venture
Cynicism Made Flesh?
Of course, Blinken--I just can’t stop saying the name… it’s like
DICK Cheney and COLIN Powell, or that library cop Bookman
from Seinfeld—Blinken isn’t to blame for the blasphemy of
rewriting history. He and his cohorts have a generational
head start on stupid. Seventy-five years of relentless
assault on Americans’ knowledge of history and
political consciousness, has left a populace
with a Hollywood understanding of WWII
that has almost no relation to reality.
Even Eisenhower knew (and said) that the bombings were of no
military use. Lost to Americans’ history—but importantly, not
the world’s—is the cold truth that Truman knew as well and
didn’t care. Perhaps the meanest, and most small-minded
of US presidents, he offed a hundred thousand Japanese
in one fell swoop, just to scare the Russkies. And by his
own admission, never lost a night’s sleep. Brrrrrrrr.
But Back to the Future: Blinken’s degenerate idiocy also further
exposes the infantile disorder of the Lesser Evilists and the rest
of the Harm Reduction menagerie. He is himself, of course, no
more than a cardboard clown, or more likely made entirely of
wood, spouting vituperations like a useful ventriloquist’s
dummy while sitting on the knee of whoever plays Edgar
Bergen in this cynical farce. The masters who pay
Blinken, Biden, (O)Bama, Bush and Bacchus
keep them on a short leash. The sociopaths
in charge make the real decisions.
The notion that “getting back to normal” would yield anything other
than a smooth return to the endless killing machine was not just
wishful thinking, but deliberate self-delusion, a lazy and selfish
need to play pretend and self-soothe while the world burns.
Unforgiveable, really. From Iran to Venezuela, Russia, China and
beyond, and with clockwork precision, the Enemies of Humanity
are ramping up war fever, concocting lies & manipulating truth
and fear like never before. The New York Times’ perversion of
the Tokyo medal counts, to pretend the US won, is more than
instructive: it is the stock in trade and lifeblood of the
predator class, honing its exceptionalist rhetoric to
wield when needed. Dark days ahead.
Daniel Patrick Welch is a writer of political commentary and
analysis. Also a singer and songwriter, he lives and writes
in Salem, Salem, Massachusetts with his wife. Together
they run The Greenhouse School. He has traveled
widely, speaks five languages and studied Russian
History and Literature at Harvard University.
Welch has also appeared as a guest on several TV and radio
channels to speak on topics of foreign affairs and political
analysis--around his day job. He can be available for
interview requests as time and scheduling permit.
Despite the price of being outspoken against US foreign policy
and military adventurism -- which can be steep, in today's
circumstances -- he believes firmly, as did Rosa
Luxemburg, that "It will always be the most
revolutionary act, to tell the truth out loud."
Welch wrote this commentary for the Press TV website.
Image: Finian Cunningham
Russia-Chinathe Endgame
by Finian Cunningham
July 3rd, 1:41pm (Sputnik)
The consolidation of the Russia-China alliance this week
spells the endgame for Western imperialism and the
never-ending wars that it spawns.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s leader Xi
Jinping celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Sino-
Russian Treaty of Friendship, first signed in July
2001. The hallmark of that historic accord is a
mutual commitment to peace, prosperity
and global stability.
As Putin commented, the alliance between Russia and China
is a vital source of “stability at a time of increasing geo-
political turbulence”. The latter remark is an oblique
reference to the US-led Western states which are
driven by ratcheting up antagonism and
tensions with Moscow and Beijing,
using all sorts of spurious
complaints.
The attempt by Washington (whether Republican or Democrat)
and its Western minions to make trouble with Russia and
China has become almost frenetic. Step back from the
daily headlines in Western media and it is glaring just
how much the agenda has become irrationally
hostile towards Moscow and Beijing.
Week after week there are unfounded allegations about
Covid-19, & so on. It’s like a mad cacophony to wind
up tensions. Nevertheless, the deranged attitude of
Western ruling cliques is but the death throes of a
world order that has reached its expiration.
Russia and China’s partnership has hugely transformative
geopolitical significance. Both these giant nations straddle
the continents of Asia and Europe, connecting the Pacific
with the Atlantic, ranging from the Arctic to the
Mediterranean. Both are committed to a vision
of a multipolar world where nations cooperate
for mutual development.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) linking Eurasia with
Africa and the Americas is the vision of the future, and
Russia is a key partner in implementing that
ambitious win-win project for global peace
and prosperity.
This vision stands in stark contrast to the prevailing Western
capitalist paradigm which operates through dominance,
control and exploitation for American and European
profiteering. That kind of centuries-old system
necessarily involves imperialist conduct ...
whereby the natural resources of foreign
nations are commandeered by brute
military force, conflict, subjugation,
subterfuge, skulduggery and
other machinations.
The multipolar vision of global relations advocated by Russia
and China is the nemesis of the Western imperialist system.
And that explains why the Americans and their European
vassals make every effort to demonize and distort
Russia and China.
But the geopolitical potential of Russia and China is
unstoppable. There is a force of natural justice that
all nations will inevitably subscribe to as the only
reasonable, feasible & sustainable way forward.
It’s about people-centered development ...
versus profit-driven disorder.
Moreover, the partnership between Russia and China is a
geographer’s wonder study. Russia is the world’s largest
national territory by landmass. With over 17 million sq.
kilometres, it covers 11 time zones out of the world’s
total of 24. The abundance of natural resources that
Russia possesses is astounding, from reserves of
natural gas, oil, metals and minerals, to forestry,
agriculture and fisheries. It also can boast of
highly advanced technology in multiple
sectors. And... it shares a long land
border with China, for easing trade.
Meanwhile, China has a population of 1.4 billion people, ten
times that of Russia. With highly advanced technology and
manufacturing, China is not only a vast market for Russian
resources, it is also a gateway to the world economy.
China has already become the world’s biggest
economy over the United States, according
to some measures.
The US and Europe are post-industrial economies that are
also post-peak of their prime. Their “prime” was always
based on an extractive predatory relationship with the
rest of the world that was predicated on inflicting
conflict and poverty on others.
As China and Russia build on their strategic partnership for
mutual prosperity and peace the upshot will inevitably
entail the endgame for Western imperial powers,
which are atrophying from massive inequality,
indebtedness, moral decadence and
social decay.
Fortunately, too, and this is crucial, Russia and China have
military defenses from new generations of hypersonic
weaponry that make them impregnable against any
warmongering notions by the United States. A
failing empire like the US and its Western
satellites is always a dangerous time, as
it tries to prevent the inevitable collapse,
but starting a war with Russia & China
...is not an option.
The views & opinions expressed in the article
do not - necessarily - reflect those of Sputnik.
Image: Barry Grossman
Barry Grossman:US, Israel
Adopting Bullying Tactics
for ICC War Crimes
Investigation in
Palestine
June 30th (FNA)
Barry Grossman is an international lawyer and political
commentator focused on human rights related issues.
He has been extensively published, on various legal
subjects and is a frequent commentator on political
affairs. He has taught law at the University of
Melbourne’s Faculty of Law and Monash
University’s Faculty of Law.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: How do you see the ICC ruling and the
issue of anti-Semitism raised by Israel?
A: To be sure, Benjamin Netanyahu has himself said that
“when the ICC investigates Israel for fake war crimes,
this is pure antisemitism”.
There can of course be no doubt that antisemitism is real;
indeed, every bit as real as Islam-phobia. But the long
standing ruse of conflating antisemitism with any and
all criticism of Zionism or Israel, is no longer taken
seriously, by a growing and very substantial
minority of people in the wider population.
Meanwhile the tactic of tarring everyone who resists Zionism
or criticises Israel with the antisemitism brush is having the
unfortunate, though not necessarily unintended
consequence of discrediting even the most
genuine efforts to draw attention to those
people whose speech is, indeed,
motivated by little more than
hatred for Jews.
Q: There are huge media attacks towards ICC’s probe to
Israeli war crimes in Palestine. Do you believe the ICC
can make a correct ruling under this media hegemony?
A: Propaganda about the ICC case published by the
Atlantic World’s Corporate Media Cartel is of course
preceded by pressure and instructions from think-
tanks, as well as the security/policy making
apparatus, which are, of course, fully
infiltrated by individuals promoting
Zionist agendas.
In that regard, both the US and Israel have openly declared
their hostile intentions towards the ICC and there is already
clear evidence that they're deploying all their usual tactics,
including intimidation, extortion, bribery and garden variety
corruption, to get politicians around the world, lawyers
involved in making Palestine’s case, and members of
the ICC to fall into line.
That said, if the myriad jurisdiction related technicalities
raised by Israel can be overcome, I am quite sure the
ICC is capable of reaching what many of us consider
the correct position regarding ubiquitous war crimes
and other violations of international law, perpetrated
by the occupation.
The real problem is that the ICC is quite limited in its ability
to enforce any ruling against responsible individuals and
Israeli organizations, so long as the key Atlantic World
nations continue to provide unqualified support for
the occupation, or, at the very least, to remain
neutral, in the face of clear evidence of the
occupation’s crimes.
A second very significant strategic issue arises from a
prevailing political reality which dictates that, in order
to make a reasonable finding about the occupation’s
crimes, the ICC will also have to use its authority to
investigate violations of international law alleged
against Hamas and other Palestinian groups ---
bearing in mind that the law of armed conflict
does not concern itself with the order in
which things played out and any finding
against Palestinian groups will certainly
receive far more traction, both in the
international community as well as
in occupied Palestine, than any
finding of culpability on the
part of the occupation.
Indeed, from where I sit, I do not see Palestine as
having much to gain from this process, but it
does stand to lose no small part of the
standing in public opinion, which it
has taken decades to develop, at
the cost of thousands of
Palestinian lives.
Q: Is it hypocrisy that Israel says Palestine is not
a sovereign state to have a delegation at ICC?
A: Hypocrisy hardly even begins to cover it. No nation
is in a position to dictate that Palestine is not a
sovereign nation-state, even if the UN has not
yet extended Palestine’s observer nation
status to full membership --- the way it
quickly recognized Israel’s existence
as a full member, in 1949.
It is also worth remembering that
31 UN member nations still do
not recognize Israel.
Of course, none of this is relevant to the Palestinian
delegation’s participation in ICC proceedings
investigating allegations of war crimes and
other violations of international law
committed against Palestinians by
Israeli nationals & organizations,
even though Israel is not, itself,
a party to the ICC treaty.
On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority (PA),
whose statehood and sovereignty has been
subject to intense dispute across the
international community... is a
signatory to the Rome Statute
(that is, the ICC Treaty), so it
would be bizarre, if it was
not permitted to have a
delegation present, at
the ICC proceedings.
Image: US Encirclement of China
US Encirclement of China:
A 'Progress' Report
by Brian Berletic
May 22nd (The Saker)
We post this long-read article in full -
as the New Eastern Outlook site has
been down for a number of days.
Tensions between Washington and Beijing are not merely
the recent results of former US President Donald Trump’s
time in office – but rather, just the latest chapter in US
efforts to contain China, that stretch back decades.
Indeed, US foreign policy has, for decades, admittedly aimed at encircling and containing China’s rise, and maintaining primacy over the Indo-Pacific region.
The “Pentagon Papers” leaked in 1969 would admit in
regards to the ongoing US war against Vietnam that:
…the February decision to bomb North Vietnam and the
July approval of Phase I deployments make sense only
if they are in support of a long-run United States policy
to contain China.
The papers also admitted that China, “looms as a major
power threatening to undercut [American] importance
and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but
more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against
[America].
The papers also made it clear that there were (and still are),
“three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China: (a) the
Japan-Korea front; (b) the India-Pakistan front; and (c)
the Southeast Asia front.”
Since then, it is clear that from the continued US military
presence in both Japan and South Korea, the now two
decades-long US occupation of Afghanistan on both
Pakistan’s and China’s borders, and the emergence
of the so-called “Milk Tea Alliance” aimed at over-
throwing Southeast Asian governments friendly
with China and replacing them with US-backed
client regimes – this policy to contain China
endures up to today.
Assessing US activity along these three fronts reveals
the progress and setbacks Washington faces -- and
the various dangers to global peace and stability
Washington’s continued belligerence poses.
The Japan-Korea Front
Military.com in their article, “Here’s What It Costs to
Keep US Troops in Japan and South Korea,” reports:
In all, more than 80,000 US troops are deployed to Japan
and South Korea. In Japan alone, the US maintains more
than 55,000 deployed troops — the largest forward-
deployed US force anywhere in the world.
The article notes that according to the US Government
Accountability Office (GAO), the US spent “$34 billion
to maintain military presences in Japan and South
Korea between 2016 and 2019.”
The article cites the GAO providing an explanation as to
why this massive US military presence is maintained in
East Asia:
“…US forces help strengthen alliances, promote a free
and open Indo-Pacific region, provide quick response
to emergencies and are essential for US national
security.”
“Alliances” that are “strengthened” by the physical
presence of what are -- essentially, -- occupying US
forces, suggests the “alliance” is hardly voluntary and claims of promoting a “free and open Indo- Pacific region” is highly subjective – begging the question of, to whom, is the Indo-Pacific “free and open”.
And as US power wanes both regionally in the Indo-
Pacific as well as globally, Washington has placed
increasing pressures on both Japan and South
Korea to not only help shoulder this financial
burden, but to also become more proactive
within Washington’s containment strategy
toward China.
Japan is one of three other nations (the US itself,
Australia, and India) drafted into the US-led
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – also
known as the “Quad.”
Rather than the US solely depending on its own military
forces based within Japanese territory or supported by
its Japan-based forces, Japan’s military along with
India’s and Australia’s are also being recruited to
take part in military exercises and operations
in and around the South China Sea.
India’s inclusion in the Quad also fits well into the US
3-front strategy that made up Washington’s contain-
ment policy toward China as early as the 1960s.
The India-Pakistan Front
In addition to recruiting India into the Quad alliance, the
US helps encourage escalation through political
support and media campaigning of India’s
various territorial disputes with China.
The US also targets Pakistan’s close and ongoing
relationship with China – including the support of
armed insurgents in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
province.
Recently, a bombing at a hotel in Quetta, Baluchistan
appears to have targeted China’s ambassador to
Pakistan, Ambassador Nong Rong.
The BBC in its article, “Pakistan hotel bomb:
Deadly blast hits luxury venue in Quetta,”
would claim:
Initial reports had suggested the target
was China’s ambassador.
Ambassador Nong Rong is understood to be in Quetta
but was not present at the hotel at the time of the
attack on Wednesday.
The article also noted:
Balochistan province, near the Afghan border,
is home to several armed groups, including
separatists.
Separatists in the region want independence from the
rest of Pakistan and accuse the government and
China of exploiting Balochistan, one of
Pakistan’s poorest provinces, for its
gas and mineral wealth.
Absent from the BBC’s reporting is the extensive and
open support the US government has provided these
separatists over the years and how – clearly – this is
more than just a local uprising against perceived
injustice, but yet another example of armed
conflict-by-proxy waged by Washington
against China.
As far back as 2011 publications like The National
Interest in articles like, “Free Baluchistan” would
openly advocate expanding US support for
separatism in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
province.
The article was written by the late Selig Harrison
--- who was a senior fellow at the US-based
(corporate-financier funded) Centre for
International Policy --- & would claim:
Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the
heart of Baluch territory. So an independent
Baluchistan... would serve US strategic
interests, in addition to the immediate
goal, of countering Islamist forces.
Of course, “Islamist forces”... is a euphemism for US-
Persian Gulf state sponsored militants used to both
fight Western proxy wars, as well as serve as a
pretext for Western intervention. Citing
“Islamist forces” in Baluchistan,
Pakistan - clearly - serves as an example of the latter.
In addition to op-eds published by influential policy
think tanks, US legislators like US Representative
Dana Rohrabacher, had proposed resolutions
such as (emphasis added),
“US House of Representatives Concurrent Resolution
104 (112th): Expressing the sense of Congress that
the people of Baluchistan, currently divided
between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan,
have the right to self-determination and
to their own sovereign country.”
There is also funding provided to adjacent, political
groups supporting separatism in Baluchistan,
Pakistan, as listed by the US government’s
own National Endowment for Democracy
(NED) website under “Pakistan.”
Organizations like the “Association for Integrated
Development Balochistan” are funded by the US government and used to mobilize people
politically, constituting clear interference
by the US, in Pakistan’s internal
political affairs.
The Gwadar Port project is a key juncture within China’s
growing global network of infrastructure projects, as
part of its One Belt, One Road initiative. The US
clearly opposes China’s rise & has articulated robust strategies to counter it; everything up to and including, open war, as seen in the Pentagon Papers, regarding the Vietnam War.
The recent bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan demonstrates
that this strategy continues, in regards to utilizing local
militants to target Chinese-Pakistani co-operation, and
is one part of the much wider, region-wide strategy:
of encircling and containing China.
The Southeast Asia Front
Of course the US war against Vietnam was part of a wider
effort to reassert Western primacy over Southeast Asia
...and deny the region from fueling China’s inevitable rise.
The US having lost the war and almost completely retreating
from the Southeast Asia region saw Southeast Asia itself
repair relations amongst themselves and with China.
Today, the nations of Southeast Asia count China as their
largest trade partner, investor, a ''key partner'' in infra-
structure development, a key supplier for the region’s
armed forces, as well as providing the majority of
tourism arrivals throughout the region. For
countries like Thailand, more tourists
arrive from China, than from all
Western nations combined.
Because existing governments in Southeast Asia have
nothing to benefit from by participating in American
belligerence toward China, the US has found it
necessary to cultivate and attempt to install
into power various client regimes. This has
been an ongoing process, since the
Vietnam War.
The US has targeted each nation individually for years.
In 2009 & 2010, US-backed opposition leader-in-exile,
Thaksin Shinawatra, deployed his “red shirt” rioters
in back-to-back riots - the latter of which included
some 300 armed militants and culminated in city-
wide arson across Bangkok, and the death of
over 90 police, soldiers, protesters, and
bystanders.
In 2018, US-backed opposition groups took power in
Malaysia after the US poured millions of dollars, for
over a decade, in building up the opposition.
Daniel Twining of the US National Endowment for Democracy subsidiary – the International
Republican Institute – admitted, during a talk by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, that same year, that:
…for 15 years working with NED resources, we worked
to strengthen Malaysian opposition parties -- and guess
what happened 2 months ago after 61 years? They won.
He would elaborate on how the NED’s network played a
direct role in placing US-backed opposition figures into
power, within the Malaysian government, stating:
I visited and I was sitting there with many of the leaders
the new leaders of this government, many of whom
were just our partners we had been working with
for 15 years and one of the most senior of them
who’s now one of the people running the
government said to me, ‘gosh IRI you
never gave up on us even when we
were ready to give up
on ourselves.’
Far from “promoting freedom” in Malaysia ---- Twining
would make clear the ultimate objective of interfering
in Malaysia’s internal political affairs, was to serve
US interests, not only in regards to Malaysia, but
in regards to the entire region and specifically
toward encircling and containing China.
Twining would boast:
…guess what one of the first steps the
new government took? It froze Chinese
infrastructure investments.
And that:
[Malaysia] is not a hugely pro-American country. It is
probably never going to be an actual US ally, but this
is going to redound to our benefit, and and that’s
an example of the long game.
It is a pattern that has repeated itself in Myanmar over
the decades --- with NED money building a parallel
political system within the nation and eventually
leading to Aung San Suu Kyi and her US-backed
National League for Democracy (NLD) party
taking power in 2016.
For Myanmar, so deep and extensive is US backing for
opposition groups there, that the elections virtually
guarantee US-backed candidates win.. every single
time. The US National Endowment for Democracy’s
own website alone... lists over 80 programs and
organizations receiving US government money
- for everything from election polling, and
building up political parties - to funding
media networks and “environmental”
groups used to block any Chinese-
initiated infrastructure projects.
The move by Myanmar’s military in February this year,
ousting Aung Sang Suu Kyi and the NLD, was meant to correct this.
However, in addition to backing political groups
protesting in the streets, the US has – for many
decades – backed and armed ethnic rebels
across the country. These rebels have now
linked up with the US-backed NLD and are
repeating the US-backed regime change
tactics used against the Arab World in 2011 --- in nations like Libya, Yemen,
and Syria – including explicit calls
for “international intervention.”
A US-Engineered “Asia Spring”
Just as the US did during the 2011 “Arab Spring” – the US
State Department, in a bid to create synergies across
its various regime change campaigns in Asia, has
introduced the “Milk Tea Alliance” to transform
individual US-backed regime change efforts in Asia, into a region-wide crisis.
The BBC itself admits in articles like, “Milk Tea
Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-
democracy activists,” and that:
The alliance has brought together anti-Beijing protesters, in Hong Kong and Taiwan, with pro-democracy campaigners in Thailand and Myanmar.
Omitted from the BBC’s coverage of the “Milk Tea Alliance”
(intentionally) is the actual common denominators that
unite it – US funding through fronts like the National
Endowment for Democracy and a unifying hatred
of China - based exclusively on talking points
pushed by the US State Department itself.
Circling back to the Pentagon Papers and recalling the
coordinated, regional campaign the US sought to
encircle China with – we can then look at more
recent US government policy papers like the
“Indo-Pacific Framework” published in the
White House archives from the Trump
administration.
The policy paper’s first bullet point asks:
How to maintain US strategic primacy in the Indo-Pacific
region, and promote a liberal economic order, while
preventing China from establishing new, illiberal
spheres of influence, and cultivating areas of
cooperation to promote regional peace
and prosperity?
The paper also discusses information campaigns designed
to “educate” the world about “China’s coercive behaviour
and to influence operations around the globe.” These
campaigns have materialized in a propaganda war
fabricating accusations of “Chinese genocide” in
Xinjiang, China, claims that Chinese telecom
company Huawei is a global security threat,
and that China – not the US – is the single
largest threat to global peace and
stability today.
In reality US policy aimed at encircling China -- is
predicated upon Washington’s desire to continue
its own decades-long impunity upon the global
stage, and the continuation of all the wars,
humanitarian crises, and abuses, that
have stemmed from it.
Understanding the full scope of Washington’s
“competition” with China... helps unlock the
confusion surrounding unfolding individual
crises like the trade war; the ongoing
violence and turmoil in Myanmar;
bombings in southwest Pakistan;
students mobs in Thailand; riots
in Hong Kong; and attempts by
the US to transform the South
China Sea, into an inter- national conflict.
Understanding that these events are all connected - then
assessing the success or failure of US efforts - gives us a clearer picture of the overall success of Washington in encircling China. It also gives governments and
regional blocs a clearer picture of how to manage policy, in protecting against US subversion: that threatens national, regional, and global peace
and stability.
Brian Berletic, is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
Australians should be ashamed that they have a regime propped up to serve US racist agendas!
Image: sanctions infograph
How Exceptional America Is
by Eric Zuesse
September 30th, 2020
America is becoming exceptionally exceptional. In some votes
at the UN General Assembly - the Assembly of nations - only
Israel, or one or two other U.S. allies, vote along with it, and
all others either vote against it, or else abstain in order to
prevent U.S. retaliation against their own nation. No other
nation is anything like that. In fact, on many occasions,
the U.S. arm-twists other delegations -- in order to get
them to abstain from voting so as to make less stark,
and less embarrassing, America’s international
isolation. But America is also extraordinarily
exceptional in other ways, which have
nothing to do with the UN.
America is truly an exceptional nation. As the
Republican Party magazine National Review
stated, on September 15th, “Last week,
the US and Israel were the only states to vote against a General Assembly resolution on the coronavirus response. Some have seized upon that vote to paint the
USt as a bad faith actor that stands alone in the world.”
However, this vote wasn’t about only “the global
coronavirus response.” It was — perhaps even
more importantly - about U.S. sanctions against
Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Russia, China, and other
countries that the U.S. regime considers to be
its enemies. (None of these countries ever
invaded or even threatened to invade
the USA; all of those sanctions are
100% U.S. aggression.
They are target-countries that America’s aristocracy
wants to take over. (The world’s U.S.-sanctioned
countries are marked in red -- on the map of the
world below.) Israel strongly supports sanctions
against both Syria and Venezuela, and routinely
invades and bombs Syria just for good measure.
So, it joined America’s position on that.
That UN General Assembly vote was held on September
11th. America’s Associated Press bannered the next day,
“UN assembly approves pandemic resolution; US, Israel
object”, and reported that, “The 193-member world body
adopted the resolution by a vote of 169-2, with Ukraine
and Hungary abstaining. It was a strong show of unity
by the UN’s most representative body, though many
countries had hoped for adoption by consensus.”
The AP further stated:
It calls on governments and international financial institutions
“to provide more liquidity in the financial system, especially
in all developing countries.” It supports recovery plans that
“drive transformative change towards more inclusive and
just societies, including by empowering and engaging all
women and girls.”
And it urges UN member nations “to adopt a climate- and
environment-responsive approach to COVID-19 recovery
efforts”, including by aligning investments and domestic
policies with the UN goals & the 2015 Paris agreement
to combat climate change. …
By a vote of 132-3, the assembly amended the resolution to
urge all countries “to refrain from promulgating and applying
any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in
accordance with international law and the Charter of the
United Nations that impedes the full achievement of
economic and social development, particularly in
developing countries.”
The United States was then overwhelmingly defeated in
attempts to remove 2 paragraphs from the resolution,
one referring to women’s rights to “sexual and
reproductive health” --- and the other --- to
“promoting global sustainable transport.”
In addition to arguing against the language on sanctions,
the United States opposed all references to the World
Health Organization, which the US administration had
stopped funding, accusing the UN agency of failing
to do enough to stop the virus from spreading
when it first surfaced in China.
Nowhere in the AP’s article was any mention made that
in the “vote of 169-2,” the two nations which had voted
against the Resolution were the US and Israel, but only
that there had been “objections from the United States
and Israel,” regarding attachment, to the Resolution, of
the Amendment that added the anti-sanctions provision
to it. This omission was not an error. It is a type of
omission that is common in propaganda. America
was more isolated than that ‘news’-report
made clear.
This vote was about only a “Resolution,” a statement of
the various nations’ values, to work toward, not about
any nation’s policy, but the U.S. and Israel don’t share
those goals — not even rhetorically. This opposition
to that Resolution’s goals, was truly exceptional.
In particular, nothing is more abhorrent to the US regime
--- than to stop or impede its sanctions. These sanctions
include, for example, punishments against any company
or government that will, in any way, assist in Russia’s 96%
completed NordStream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany,
for the EU to buy Russia’s pipelined natural gas instead of
America’s fracked, canned, shipped, natural gas. The U.S.
regime insists that EU nations buy the far costlier trans-
Atlantic-shipped fracked US liquefied natural gas (LNG).
That insistence upon the EU’s wasting money, in order to
prop-up America’s fracking industry, is, indeed, exceptional,
because European nations haven’t customarily been treated
as being mere colonies of other powers. America is treating
purchasers from, or cooperators with, that competitor (Russia),
as being its enemies. The way the U.S. Representative stated
this (after a lengthy diatribe which blamed China for Covid-19
and said that the U.S. had quit the World Health Organization
because WHO lacked “independence from the Chinese
Communist Party”) was: “Economic sanctions are a
legitimate means to achieve foreign policy, security,
and other national and international objectives, and
the United States is not alone in that view or in that
practice.” (That exact same sentence had, earlier,
been stated by the US regarding a different matter,
on 18 November 2019.) Actually, the U.S. regime is
very “alone” on it. Furthermore, the other part was
also a lie: the U.S. regime asserts that coercing
corporations and countries to not buy from the
lowest-cost supplier, is within its sovereign
right to do.
However, as Professor Alfred de Zayas, who until recently was
the UN’s top expert on this topic, explained in depth on 27th
June 2019, that assertion is blatantly false, on many clear
grounds concerning international law. It is a blatant lie, no
matter how many times the U.S. regime asserts it (and
asserts that the US regime isn’t “alone” in asserting it).
Even back when Barack Obama (the man who repeatedly
claimed that “The United States is and remains, the one
indispensable nation”) was America’s President, the US
was exceptional at the United Nations. For example, on
24th November 2014, I headlined “U.S. Among Only 3
Countries Officially Backing Nazism & Holocaust-
Denial”, and reported that - “In a UN vote, on
November 21st, only 3 countries - the US, Ukraine, and Canada — voted against a resolution to condemn racist fascism,
or nazism, and to condemn denial of Germany’s World War II Holocaust against, primarily, Jews.''
This measure passed the General Assembly, on a vote of 115
in favour, 3 against, & 55 abstentions (the abstentions were
in order not to offend U.S. President Obama, who was
opposed to the resolution).” Then, on 21 June 2015,
I headlined “America’s UN Ambassador Continues
Standing Up for Nazis” and noted that, again,
Obama’s UN Ambassador, Samantha Power,
had stood up for nazism; she had just
delivered an address -- in Ukraine --
rallying that country’s supporters
of nazism to war against Russia.
Then, on 21 November 2017, I headlined “Trump
Continues Obama’s Support of Nazism”, and
reported that:
On November 16th, US President Donald Trump, acting
through an agent of his agent, UN Ambassador Nikki
Haley, voted at the UN against a resolution that
condemns bigotry, and especially condemns
nazism & all forms of racism. He thus, yet
again, continues in the tradition from his
predecessors, Presidents Obama, and
Bush, each year, placing this nation in
the company of only one or two U.S.
allies throughout the world who join
with the US in refusing to commit to
opposing and doing everything to
reduce, not just political Nazism
(which, of course, is past), but
ideological nazism, racist
fascism - institutionalized
bigotry (which, sadly, is
not past).
But, be that as it may, the U.S. is also exceptional in
many other ways. I listed some of those on July 13th.
There are two main reasons why the U.S. regime is able
to coerce other nations to not violate its will. One is that
although publicly available reports allege it spends
approximately 37% of the entire world’s military
expenditures, the U.S. regime actually - spends
around 50% of the entire world’s military costs,
and therefore, it possesses an extraordinary
physical capacity to impose its will, if and
when merely economically blockading an
‘enemy’ country (via sanctions) fails to do the job of getting it to comply.
And the other main reason is that, since the US government
is at least as corrupt as the average “third-world” country is,
but is instead one of the world’s richest countries, arranging
pay-offs to other world leaders, in order to obtain their
cooperation, is easily affordable... (These payoffs are
being paid by all US.taxpayers, not by only America’s
billionaires, who reap all of the profits from the
empire that is imposed.)
American exceptionalism is real. It’s not the type of
exceptionalism that the regime’s propaganda claims
to be the case, but, nonetheless, it is real.
(Strategic Culture Foundation)
Image: sanctions map
Please watch the video above... We have never existed in such peril, and yet almost no-one is able to act.
Nuclear words: Putin's FINAL warning:
(People DO need reminding -- unless US, UK and French policy changes, and stops being so 'exceptional' -- that is, outside the UN legal Charter and thus, criminal --- there will be a reaping.)
BREAKING: Russia's State TV Advising Russian Citizens on how to survive a World War ! WAKE UP NOW - AND STOP THE WAR ON CHINA/RUSSIA !
The Doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists website now has the final singular moment that will bring civilization to final nuclear annihilation, at 90 seconds to midnight.
This is the closest it has ever been. Scott Ritter says it should be 2 seconds
World Will Not Survive the US' Neocons' Doctrine of US World Hegemony - Paul Graig Roberts Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
"The government of the United States is clearly in demonic hands. We are overflowing with proof", writes American well known analytist and ex- official Paul Graig Roberts in his website.
Take today (2-2-18) for example. A report from the House Intelligence Committee was released that is proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Justice --- and the Democrat National Committee, are now in a conspiracy against American democracy and the President of the United States, with the full support of the presstitute media.
As if that is not enough, also released today, is the Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review. A nuclear posture review specifies a country’s attitude to nuclear weapons and their use. In past posture reviews, nuclear weapons were regarded as unusable except in retaliation for a nuclear attack. The assumption was that no one would use them. There was always the chance that false warnings of incoming ICBMs would result in a nuclear button being pushed - setting off Armageddon.
There were many false warnings during the Cold War
President Ronald Reagan, was very concerned about a false warning, ending in mass death & destruction.
This is why his principal goal was to end the Cold War, which he succeeded in doing. It did not take successor governments long, to resurrect the Cold War.
The new US nuclear posture is a reckless, irresponsible, and destabilizing departure from the previous attitude toward nuclear weapons. The use of even a small part of the existing arsenal of the United States would be sufficient to destroy life on earth. Yet, the posture review calls for more weapons, speaks of nuclear weapons as “usable,” and justifies their use in First Strikes, even against countries that do not have nuclear weapons.
This is an insane escalation. It tells every country that the US government, believes in the first use of nuclear weapons against any & every country. Nuclear powers such as Russia & China must see this to be a massive increase in the threat level from the US.
Those responsible for this document should be committed to insane aslyums, not left in policy positions where they can put it into action.
The neoconservatives are a small group of conspirators. Most neoconservatives are Jews allied with Israel. Some are dual-citizens. They created an ideology of US world hegemony, specifying that the chief goal of US foreign policy, is to prevent the rise of any other power that could serve as a constraint on US unilateralism.
As neoconservatives control US foreign policy, this explains US hostility toward Russia and China and also the neo-conservatives’ use of the US military to remove governments in the Middle East, seen by Israel as obstacles to Israeli expansion. For two decades --- the US has been fighting wars for Israel in the Middle East. This fact proves the power and influence of the insane neo- conservatives. It is certain, that people as insane as the neoconservatives, would launch a nuclear attack on Russiaand China.
The Russian and Chinese governments seem to be completely unaware of the threat that the neo- conservatives pose to them. I have never experienced in interviews with Russians and Chinese, any awareness of the neo- conservative ideology. Possibly, it is too insane for them to grasp.
Ideologues such as the neoconservatives are not fact-based
They are chasing their dream of world hegemony. Russia & China are in the way of this hegemony. Having learned the limits of conventional military power—after 20 years the US “superpower” has been unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan—the neo-conservatives know: conventional invasions of Russia or China, would lead to the total defeat of US forces.
Therefore, the neoconservatives have elevated nuclear weapons to a First Strike, usable, arsenal that in the neoconservative dream of world hegemony can be used to destroy Russia and China.
Ideologues who divorce themselves from the facts create a virtual world for themselves. Their belief in their ideology blinds them to the risks for them- selves and others that they impose on the world.
Thanks to the American liberal/progressive/left, the entirety of the world is faced with a far more likely nuclear demise than ever threatened us during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
By its collaboration with the military/security complex & the corrupt Hillary DNC, the liberal/progressive/left has forever discredited itself. It is now seen by every thinking person worldwide as an insane propaganda ministry --- for the neoconservatives’ plan to use nuclear weapons to eliminate constraints on US unilateralism.
The liberal/progressive/left has endorsed “hegemony or death.”
They will get death. For all of us.
(Source - DONi News Agency)
According to: PaulGraigRoberts.org
Legendary memorial at Saur-Tomb ''restored by May 2017''
DPR authorities have finished restoring the Saur-Tomb by May 2017. It was announced by the Building Minister, Sergey Naymets.
‘Saur Tomb has been being restored since November, and we planned to finish this by May 2017’, the Minister said.
He said "many people contributed to this project of restoration of the memorial damaged by shelling," Naumets noted.
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Cool Russia!
[Eng Subs] Children of Donbass, "Toys for Poroshenko" Music Video by Artem Grishanov
POWERFUL - PUT THIS ON HEADPHONES. I guarantee you will cry - and if you don't - please seek psychiatric help.
Full Text: Official Declaration of the Malorossiyan Federation
Zakharchenko announces a new federal state, Malorossiya, (means ''Little Russia'') as the legal successor of Ukraine. DONi News Agency
On 18.7.2017 the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, declared the creation of a new federal state, Malorossiya, which will become the legal successor of 'Ukraine'. The new state formation, will consist of 19 regions of the former Ukraine with the capital in Donetsk city. Kiev remains a historical and cultural centre, without the status of capital city.
Here is the full English translation of the declaration:
Political Declaration
The project of the state of "Ukraine", formulated 150 years ago and implemented in different versions during the 20th century, has reached its logical conclusion --- and led to the country's disintegration, civil war and the death of tens of thousands of people, including children, women, and elderly people.
And this process is irreversible. An attempt to turn the story back will result in "balkanization" of the conflict, expansion of chaos, escalation of civil war and even bigger numbers of casualties.
To stop the civil war and avoid new victims, we representatives of the majority of the regions of former "Ukraine" assembled in Donetsk on July 18, 2017, discussed the current situation and came to the following conclusions:
- the state of "Ukraine" has revealed itself as a failed state and demonstrated its being incapable of granting its inhabitants a peaceful and prosperous present and future;
- the current authorities – elected in Kiev, after the coup d'etat, against the backdrop of political terror and the absence of elections in the Crimea and Donbass, are illegitimate;
- the state of "Ukraine" is on the brink of economic catastrophe and depopulation;
- an ultranationalist coup is brewing in Kiev, as a result of which outright neo-Nazis will come to power insteadof "Banderites with a European face";
- the Ukrainian nationalistic project (the Galician one) has discredited itself, by the shedding of civilians' blood in the country;
- the ideology of "Ukrainism" has proved to be misanthropic, mixed with xenophobia (Russophobia, anti-Semitism, Polonophobia) and neo-Nazism (the ideology of national exclusivity and superiority);
- resulting from historical development and due to the Maidan, the word "Ukraine" is forever associated with the names of the Nazi accomplices, Bandera and Shukhevich, with the tragedies of the Baby Yar, the Volyn massacre & Khatyn, and, nowadays, with the mass murder of people on the Maidan, in the Trade Unions' House in Odessa, and Genocide of the Donbass people.
On the basis of the above, we believe that the state of "Ukraine", in the form it was established, after the collapse of the USSR, is UNSERVICEABLE.
We, representatives of the regions of the former "Ukraine", propose to re-establish the state and to proclaim the state of MALOROSSIYA, under an historical background, out of the former "Ukraine". In this case, it is of fundamental importance to rename the country, since "Ukraine" as a state, is guilty of war crimes, mass terror and the genocide of its own people.
In turn, the new name of the country, based on historical traditions, will enable us to reunify those pieces of the former "Ukraine" that seemed to have parted ways forever, including because of participation in the civil war, on different sides of the front line.
We must turn the page of our people's history, which is flooded with the blood of our brothers and sisters.
Malorossiya is an INDEPENDENT, SOVEREIGN state, with a new name, a new flag, a new constitution, a new state structure, new principles of social and economic development, and new historical prospectives.
But this is NOT A REVOLUTION ! This is a return to history. This is a novelty that restores, not destroys.
In view of the economic plight of the country, the chaos & disintegration potential, and regarding the possibility of launching a "war of all against all", we consider it necessary to declare a state of emergency for the transition period – up to 3 years. During this time, the process of adoption of the new Constitution and the establishment of the rule of law, should be completed.
Under a state of emergency, a ban on the activities of political parties and foreign funds is to be introduced, & penalties for criminal offenses, especially against the person, are to be increased. The fight against corruption will be toughened, as well as the penalties for it.The shadow arms market is to be eliminated, including by registering weapons in accordance with the new law.
In the same period an investigation is to be carried out, with the involvement of foreign specialists –- from Russia, Belarus & the European Union –- into the crimes committed by the Maidan Kiev regime: the murders on the Maidan, the murder of Odessa citizens in the Trade Unions' House on May 2nd, 2014, and the war crimes in Donbass, in the so-called ATO.
In the same period, the People's Tribunal is to be prepared to charge the state criminals who have led the country into disintegration and civil war: V.F. Yanukovich (with a request to Russia for his extradition), P.A. Poroshenko and his clique: Turchinov, Yatsenyuk, Kolomoisky, Paruby, Nalivaichenko and others.
We are sure that, having recovered from the criminal neo-Nazi ideology of "Ukrainism", we will be able to build a new society on the basis of friendship and mutual assistance -- but not hatred and envy. The creative genius of our people will manage to bring Malorossiya to the forefront of global civilization and play a role in history. The role of Good, and Truth.
Official translation by the DONi Donbass News Agency, 07/18/2017
(Source - Russia Insider)
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Nato – A Dangerous Alliance May 24th
As Nato ends its summit in Brussels, Rae Street explains why the military alliance remains a threat to world peace
When the Warsaw Pact ended, after the collapse of communism, some optimists might have expected Nato to be broken up too. After all, the Labour Party in Britain had been opposed to Nato in the mid-1980s. But that was not to be. The US, which had always dominated Nato, quickly began to reinvent Nato and furthermore, to expand it.
Following the end of the Warsaw Pact many central and east European governments wanted to join Nato. This, of course, was music to the ears of the US military manufacturers. Indeed, the chair of the expand Nato committee, Bruce Jackson, was technical director of Lockheed Martin, the largest military manufacturer in the world. So, for the new Nato members because of the policy on “interoperability,” that is Nato personnel being able to use the same military equipment, it was out with the old Soviet military hard- ware and in with sales of, for example, Lockheed’s military aircraft ,costing millions of dollars.
This continues to this day in countries which can ill afford it, with struggling economies. The latter includes Greece. Think of the situation in Greece today.
Expanding Nato up to the borders with Russia, was a provocative policy. The dangers were pointed out but the military industrial complex and the “hawks” in the West, took no notice.
To this day, this helps President Vladimir Putin: more and more of the Russian people believe that “the West” is against them.
Decades later, we read: “British troops have arrived in Estonia, as part of a major Nato mission in the Baltic states, to deter Russian aggression.”
From the start, Nato has always held a nuclear armed policy. It continues to claim that nuclear weapons “preserve peace.” Manifestly, nuclear weapons do not deter conflict.
Governments, including Britain’s, now analyse the main threats to security as cyber warfare and terrorism. Remember September 11th 2001, when New York was attacked by terrorists in planes, brandishing knives?
The US then had and still has, 13 nuclear armed Trident submarines, of which several will be roaming the seas fully operational. Britain has four, with one constantly on alert at sea.
Were these any use in the madman’s attack on Westminster, or in any terrorist attacks?
Trident is “integrated” into Nato. Even worse, Nato still has a policy of “first use of nuclear weapons.”
When the then minister of defence, Geoff Hoon, was asked in Parliament why Britain has a policy of “first use,” he replied: “Because of our obligations to Nato.”
Under the direction of the US administration, with its policy of global domination, Nato has established a string of nuclear-armed bases across Europe, in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey, at Incirlik.
The latter is now causing deep problems as relations between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the US, become more and more fractious.
There is now a real problem for Nato, as Erdogan is a repressive dictator — how can Turkey remain in Nato?
Nato states are supposed to uphold principles of human rights and democracy, notably lacking in Turkey today.
The nuclear-armed bases come under Nato’s “nuclear sharing policy” — in effect a violation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Nato continues to expand. The policy of not acting “out of area” was dropped long ago. “North Atlantic” simply means, a domination of policies by the US.
Nato claims in its “strategic concept” that “the promotion of Euro-Atlantic security is best assured through a wide network of partner relationships with countries and organisations around the globe.”
In 1994 Nato established the Partnerships for Peace across Europe, extending as far as Uzbekistan.
Nato surrounds Russia from the west and east. These Partnerships for Peace (note the language again) now include 22 states, including “neutral” Ireland.
Then there is the ''Mediterranean Dialogue,'' with ''arrangements'' with countries in the Middle East. Few people realise that Nato carries out military exercises with Israel.
Nato has also established bilateral relations — named individual partnerships — with Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand and Pakistan.
In this part of the globe, where Nato carried out a military exercise in 2014 with Japan, named Ocean Shield, they are surrounding and menacing China, as the enemy.
Then there was the statement by Nato that “co-operation between Nato and the United Nations continues to make a substantial contribution to security in operations round the world.
“The alliance aims to deepen political dialogue and practical co-operation with the UN, as set out in the Nato/UN declaration, signed in 2008.”
This seems like Nato bidding to be the UN's military arm.
This hardly accords with the UN Charter. It was the Organisation for Security & Co-operation in Europe, set up under Chapter 8, of the UN Charter, to prevent and resolve conflict by non-military means and to promote co-operation in humanitarian and other fields.
The 54 member states stretch from Iceland to Kyrgyzstan and include Russia. Alas, how many times do you read of their work in the press, compared with the times you hear about Nato?
Nato is sold to us as a peace-making body. After all, the US is home to the finest PR companies in the world.
To summarise, Nato is pursuing yet more militarism and war:
- All Nato states are required to increase their military budgets to 2 per cent of GDP. That means stealing more money from social needs. Readers of the Morning Star know those all too well: the NHS, education, adult social services; the list is endless.
- Nato member states will have to spend 20 per cent of defence budgets on military equipment: warships, war planes, drones, bombs. By fuelling the arms race, Nato makes a mockery of moves for conflict resolution.
- Nato and its member states multiply interventions outside their territory and increase their presence through world- wide partnerships and “coalitions of the willing.”
- Nato extends its nuclear policies as a supreme “guarantee for the allies’ security,” notwithstanding that the majority of countries in the world are negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. In the meantime, nuclear weapons in Europe — under the guise of Nato — and elsewhere, are being modernised at a cost of many tens of billions of dollars and pounds. Think of Trident at a cost of £205 billion.
The Nato summit will be held and activists will beholding a “counter-summit” with protesters organising workshops and a demonstration.
CND activists will be there from the UK, but -- we also need people to raise the issues with their MPs, write letters to the press and raise awareness on social media.
Let’s put pressure on the government to invest in social welfare, not Nato, not war.
(Source - Morning Star)
In 2017 in the Donbass - give the children Peace!
Ethnic Ruthenes of sub-Carpathian Ukraine demand autonomy
Activists of a Slavic ethnic group known as Ruthenes -- or Rusyns -- who reside in the Trans-Carpathian (sub-Carpathian) region of Ukraine, have turned to President Pyotr Poroshenko with a demand:
recognize the results of 1991's regional referendum --- when 78% of the region's residents, voted in favor of granting it the status of a self-governing region.
"We have two main demands - to recognize the Rhuthenes as an ethnos and to acknowledge the regional referendum of 1991, where 78% sub-Carpathians voted for the region being a self-governed territory within Ukraine," Vesti quoted Ivan Palinkash, the leader of the Ruthene movement & a member of the People’s Council's presidium of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenes.
Natalya Magalina, a deputy of Uzhgorod district council, told the meeting of leaders of Ruthene ethnic organizations it is important to maintain the Ruthene language by establishing minimal norms for broadcasting in the native tongue, over the state regional TV Channel Tisa-1.
This isn't the first time that the Ruthenes of the sub- Carpathian area have asked the Kiev government to recognize the outcome of the referendum held 25 years ago. The Coordination Council of Ruthene Organizations of the Trans-Carpathian Region turned to the central authorities with the same requirement, the previous time, in the summer of 2015.
It was also in the summer of 2015 that the activists of Ruthene organizations adopted an appeal to the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe & the UN, as well as to the parliaments of Hungary, the Czech Republic, & Slovakia, to wield pressure on President Poroshenko and force the Ukrainian government towards accepting the result of their referendum.
The Ruthenes are an indigenous sub-Carpathian people. Ukrainian authorities do not consider them to be a separate ethnos, and continue calling them Ukrainians, although the UN has issued recommendations more than once, to recognize their status as a separate ethnos.
More than that, Kiev accuses the leaders of Ruthene organizations of making appeals for encroachments on the territorial integrity of the country.
(source - TASS)
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Zionist lobby preventing West from criticizing Israel: Analyst Fri Dec 16, 2016
The European Union has censured the Israeli regime for destroying Palestinian shelters and structures in the occupied territories. According to a statement by the European bloc, the Tel Aviv regime has demolished 866 structures so far in 2016 in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli military control.
Anthony Hall, editor-in-chief of the American Herald Tribune from Alberta, says that the European states have been under the influence of the Zionist lobby to go along with Israeli interests - and thus refuse to slam crimes against the Palestinian people.
“Every government within the EU has a very strong Israeli lobby, and this is one of the dilemmas that the Western people are facing,”Hall explained.
“Not only the governing parties but the opposition parties as well, are constraining discussion and discourse within a very narrow range, that puts Israeli priorities at the top of the list in all our Western countries,”he added.
The professor also called on Western citizens to“intervene directly and make contact with the Palestinian people, directly.”
“We, as the citizens in the EU, citizens in Canada, & citizens in the US, have to find ways to bypass the constraints of our governments & the biases and power of this lobby over our governments,” he noted.
Hall criticized the EU for its forensic accounting of homes demolished in Palestine.
“This type of numerical accounting fails to really describe the nature of this destruction of homes in its broader context ------ where thousands of Palestinian people are in dungeons and being tortured in Israeli incarceration facilities,” he said.
“The reality: that the world is letting this happen is very discouraging,” he added.
Hall warned that the prospect of a Palestinian state is no longer viable, given the emphasis on building up settlements, and destroying the structures of the indigenous people of Palestine.
"This goes beyond apartheid,” he said.
The Israeli policy of demolishing houses in the West Bank to build illegal settler units has affected 5,704 Palestinians, of whom, 1,221 have been rendered homeless, including 586 children.
(source - PressTv)
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UN Adopts"Paper Tiger" Resolution, on Israel's Withdrawal from the Syrian Golan
Fahwad Al-Khadoumi -The UN General Assembly adopted yet another resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, in line with a resolution of June 4, 1967.
However, UN General Assembly resolutions are non-binding and no more than a paper tiger, with- out a unanimous decision by the permanent UN Security Council members, to enforce them; A highly unlikely prospect.
In its latest resolution, the UN General Assembly again condemned Israel's non-compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 497 (1981).
The General Assembly reiterated that Israel's decision from December 14th, 1981, to impose Israeli laws, administration & custody on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, is null and void -- and has no legality at all.
The latest UNGA resolution was adopted by an overwhelming majority of UN member States.
The resolution --- reaffirmed the illegality of acquiring territories ----- through the use of military force. The General Assembly also repeated that Israel's continued occupation & enforcement of Israeli law & administration violates international law, the UN Charter, & the Geneva Convention's principles on the protection of civilians during war.
During the UNGA session, a number of states condemned the Israeli practices in occupied Syrian Golan, calling on Israel to withdraw from Golan, in line with June 4th, 1967.
37 states proposed the now adopted draft resolution. However, UNGA resolutions are non-binding and no more than a paper tiger, unless permanent Security Council members are willing to put their money where their mouth was, when they adopted UNSC Resolution 497 (1981) - decades ago.
Moreover, none of the permanent UNSC members - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US - took any tangible steps when the now former Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, defiantly declared that "Israel and the Golan are part and parcel" and that "the international community should get used to facing the fact that Israel will permanently annex the Syrian territory".
Most favourite scapegoat
The favorite scapegoat among permanent UNSC members, with regard to supporting Israel and neglecting Israel's illegal occupation of Golan is the US. However, Russia is in no way more actively pursuing Israel's adherence with UNSC Resolution 497 (1981) -- than any other -- of the self-anointed permanent UNSC members. In April 2016, Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin, were ominously silent about the Golan when Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited Moscow.
Russia failed to respond to what Netanyahu had declared "a red line" - occupation of the Golan.
A brief review of recent history pertaining to the Israeli occupation, international affairs & Israel's use of the Golan to wage war on Syria, suffices to show that the UN System has failed, utterly, and that it is perverted to the point that many analysts call for abolishing the UN altogether.
In June 2013 an Austrian UN Disengagement & Observer Force (UNDOF) officer told the press that Israel is -- running a joint operations room with the insurgents in Syria in the Golan.The UNSC failed to respond and more importantly, failed to take action. In July 2013, the Syrian permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Dr. Fayssal al-Hamwi, noted how Israel, since it occupied the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967, has displaced about half a million of the Golan´s original inhabitants.
Also in Feb. 2014, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu preempted a public relations quagmire by visiting a field hospital for "Syrian Freedom Fighters" in the Golan to show how much Israel cares and does, on the humanitarian front. It turned out that the "Freedom Fighters" belonged to the Syrian Al-Qaeda franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra.
In March 2014, Israel launched one of many military attacks against Syrian military and security forces, from the Golan, while the UNSC and most media were "silent".
In April 2014 The Director of Israel's Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi, a protegé of the now deceased Ariel Sharon, was appointed to head the Israeli Defense Forces Northern Command.
NSNBC international editor-in-chief, Christof Lehmann, reported that the appointment of Kochavi, indicated that Israel was planning large-scale military operations in the Golan in the near future and the widening of the Syria war. Lehmann was right on the money.
In May 2014 Israel denied Syrians in Golan the right to participate in Syrian elections. The UN was "silent". In mid-April 2016, ahead of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed that Israel would hold on to the Golan.
A UNDOF withdrawal has left a 12-16 km wide corridor uncontrolled by the UNDOF... In 2013, it transpired that Israel was giving support to Jabhat al-Nusrah, such as a joint intelligence and military operations room in the Israeli occupied Golan, plus logistical support, weapons, field hospitals, and direct combat support.
In September 2014, Israeli machinations, resulted in the displacement of UNDOF troops from a 12-16 kilometer-wide corridor in the disengagement zone in the Golan by Jabhat Al-Nusra.. The corridor has since been used to supply Al-Nusra and the other terrorists and to launch attacks against Syria.
All permanent UNSC members with the exception of Russia were "silent". Russian diplomats tentatively spoke out against terminating the peace keeping mission in the Golan. The UNSC failed to act.
In 2015 it came out that Israel planned a major hydrocarbon extraction project in the Golan. Partners in crime include Genier Energy.
On the board of directors? Dick Cheney, James Woolsey, Bill Richardson, Jacob Lord Rothschild, Rupert Murdoch, Larry Summers and Michael Steinhardt, among others. Other players involved include the Israeli subsidiary, Afek Oil and Gas, American Shale, French Total and BP. Thus, there exists a broad and powerful nexus of US, British, French and Israeli interests: at the forefront of pushing for the break-up of Syria and control of what's believed to be potentially vast untapped oil and gas resources in the country.
On April 20th, 2016, NSNBC international editor- in-chief Christof Lehmann -- said Netanyahu's "Red Line" would be a litmus test for Russia, as a permanent UNSC member. On April 21st, after talks between Netanyahu and Putin in Moscow, it could be concluded that Russia failed -- spectacularly.
In September 2016, Israel started a wave of home demolitions in the Golan. The UNSC was "silent".
In October 2016, Israel announced plans to build 1,600 settlement units in the Golan, & none of the permanent UNSC members took any action.
So much for the latest UN General Assembly paper tiger.
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The UK Labour MPs who didn’t back the Yemen vote have blood on their hands by David Wearing
Presenting the motion in the Commons, Thornberry was subjected to a series of ill-judged interruptions by Labour MPs, such as Kevan Jones, Toby Perkins and John Woodcock. Indeed, Thornberry received more vocal support in the chamber from the SNP group than from her own supposed comrades.
According to subsequent reports, some Labour members even tried to work with their Tory counterparts, in order to defeat their own party’s motion.
Woodcock, a former 'Progress' Chair, claimed that British support is “precisely focused on training the Saudis” to improve their targeting - so as to “create fewer civilian casualties” - parroting the official government line. The idea that the Saudis’ “widespread & systematic” attacks on civilian targets are just a series of well- meaning errors, is one that, to put it as gently as possible, lacks credibility.
And if decades of training provided by the British to the Saudi pilots hasn’t prevented these supposed errors by now --- it seems rather unlikely that it will in the near future.
In any case, this misrepresents the true nature of the UK's role. When the intervention began, the foreign secretary Philip Hammond, vowed to “support the Saudis in every practical way short of engaging in combat”, including “spare parts, maintenance, technical advice, resupply” and “logistical support”. The reality is that the Saudi Air Force, roughly half UK-supplied and half US-supplied jets, could barely function, without this ongoing assistance from Washington and London.
If there is Yemeni blood on the hands of the Saudi-led coalition - then that blood is also on the hands of the coalition’s western backers, enablers and apologists.
The Saudis and their allies can only wage this war because the Anglo-American suppliers of their air forces are providing active, material support. And British and American politicians can only collude in these outrages, because the political cost on them, so far, has been low. However, it is in the gift of their constituents – you, the reader – to change that equation.
(source - The Guardian)
This could be defeated --- with a UNITED LABOUR PARTY !!!
But unfortunately, there are "entryist" MPs who, for decades, have been groomed by CIA cold war relic organisations -- like the Atlantic Council -- and are now trying to misdirect the Labour Party towards cuts, a militarised police, and a US war agenda... and their anti-peace MPs are hobbling Labour.
129 Labour MPs voted to stop support for Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen. The vote was defeated by a majority of 90.
The motion called for ---- support to be withdrawn from the Saudi government until a United Nations investigation could determine whether the Saudi bombing had breached international law.
The motion didn't explicitly include a suspension of UK arms sales.
100+ Labour MPs didn't vote on the motion. If all of them had voted to support it, the government would have been defeated.
The following, are the Labour MPs who abstained, or weren't present to vote.
Adrian Bailey Andy Burnham Angela Eagle Angela Smith Ann Clwyd Ann Coffey Anna Turley Barry Sheerman Ben Bradshaw Bridgit Phillipson Caroline Flint Catherine McKinnell Chris Bryant Chris Elmore (Teller) Chris Evans Chris Leslie Clive Lewis (ill) Connor McGinn Dan Jarvis David Crausby David Lammy Diana Johnson Fiona MacTaggart Frank Field Gareth Thomas Gavin Shuker Geoffrey Robinson George Howarth Gerald Kaufman Gill Furniss Gisela Stuart Gloria De Piero Graeme Jones Graham Allen Graham Stringer Heidi Alexander Helen Jones Ian Austin Ian Murray Ivan Lewis Jamie Reed Jim Fitzpatrick Joan Ryan John Mann John Spellar John Woodcock Judith Cummins (Teller) Julie Elliott Kate Hoey Keith Vaz Kevan Jones Kevin Barron Liz Kendall Luciana Berger Lucy Powell Madeleine Moon Margaret Beckett Margaret Hodge Maria Eagle Mark Hendrick Mary Creagh Meg Hillier (Paired) Melanie Onn Michael Dugher Mike Gapes Natascha Engel Neil Coyle Nia Griffith Pat McFadden Paul Flynn Peter Kyle Phil Wilson Rachel Reeves Rob Flello Rob Marris Roberta Blackman-Woods Rosie Cooper Rushanara Ali Ruth Smeeth Shabana Mahmood Siobhain McDonagh Stephen Kinnock Susan Jones Toby Perkins Tom Blenkinsopp Tom Watson Tracy Brabin Tristram Hunt Vernon Coaker Wayne David Wes Streeting Yasmin Qureshi Yvonne Fovargue
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In the past weeks, Burundi and S. Africa have joined Namibia in declaring their intention to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). They are likely to be followed by a parade of other African countries, jeopardizing the future of an international court, which has prosecuted 39 officials from 8 African countries, but has failed to indict a single person who is not African.
Ironically, African countries were among the first to embrace the ICC, so it is a striking turnaround that they are now the first to give up on it.
But it is the United States that has played the leading role in preventing the ICC from fulfilling the universal mandate for which it was formed, to hold officials of all countries accountable for the worst crimes in the world: genocide; crimes against humanity; and war crimes - not least, international aggression, which the judges at Nuremberg defined as “the supreme international crime”, from which, all other war crimes follow.
As the ICC’s founding father, former Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, lamented in 2011: “You don’t have to be a criminologist to realize that if you want to deter a crime, you must persuade potential criminals that, if they commit crimes, they will be hauled into court and be held accountable. It is the policy of the US to do just the opposite as far as the crime of aggression is concerned.
"Our government has gone to great pains --- to be sure that no US citizen will be tried by any international criminal court, for the supreme crime of illegal war-making.”
The US has not only refused to accept the jurisdiction of the ICC over its own citizens. It's gone further, pressuring other countries to sign Bilateral Immunity Agreements (BIA), in which they renounce the right to refer US citizens to the ICC for war crimes committed on their territory.
The US has also threatened to cut off US aid to countries that refuse to sign them. The BIAs violate those countries’ own commitments under the ICC statute, and US pressure to sign them, has been rightly condemned: as an outrageous effort to ensure impunity for US war crimes.
Resistance to US Impunity
To the credit of our international neighbours, this US strategy has met with substantial resistance. The European Parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution, stating that BIAs are incompatible with EU membership, and urging EU- member states and countries seeking EU membership not to sign them.
Fifty-four countries have publicly refused to sign BIAs, and 24 have accepted cut-offs of US aid as a consequence of their refusal. Of 102 countries that have signed a BIA, only 48 are members of the ICC in any case ----- and only 15 of those countries are on record as having ratified the BIAs in their own parliaments.
Thirty-two other ICC members have apparently allowed BIAs to take effect without parliament- ary ratification, but this has been challenged by their own country’s legal experts in many cases.
The US campaign to undermine the ICC is part of a much broader effort by the US government to evade all forms of accountability under the laws that are supposed to govern international behaviour in the modern world --- even as it continues to masquerade as a global champion of the rule of law.
The treaties US policy systematically violates today, were crafted by US statespersons and diplomats, working with foreign colleagues, to build a world where all people will enjoy some basic protections... from the worst atrocities, instead of being subject only to the law of the jungle or “might makes right.”
So current US policy is a cynical betrayal of the work and wisdom of past generations of US citizens, as well as of countless victims over the world to whom we are effectively denying the protections of the UN Charter & Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and many other multilateral treaties our country ignores, violates or refuses to ratify.
Avoiding jurisdiction in international courts is only one of the ways that the US evades international accountability for its criminal behaviour. Another involves an elaborate, well-disguised, public relations campaign that exploits the powerful position of US corporations in the world of commercial media.
Major Propaganda Funding
The US government spends a billion dollars per year on public relations or, more bluntly, propaganda, including $600 million from the Pentagon budget. The work of its PR teams and contractors is laundered by US news- papers --- and repeated and analyzed ad nauseam, by monolithic, flag-waving TV networks.
These profitable corporate operations monopolize the public airwaves in the US, and also use their financial clout, slick marketing, and the support of the US State Department to maintain a power- ful presence in foreign and international media markets.
Foreign media in allied countries provide further legitimacy and credibility to US talking-points and narratives as they echo around the world. Meanwhile, Hollywood fills cinema and TV screens across the world with an idealized, glamorized, inspirational version of the US that still mesmerizes many people.
This whole elaborate “information warfare” machine presents the US as a global leader for democracy, human rights and the rule of law, even as it systematically and catastroph- ically undermines those same principles. It enables our leaders to loudly, persuasively, demonize other countries and their leaders as dangerous violators of international law, even as the US and its allies commit far worse crimes.
Double Standards
The phrase “aggressive war” is also a no-no in the Western media - when the US government launches wars, across international borders. In the past 20 years, the US has violated the UN Charter to attack at least eight countries (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya & Syria), and the resulting wars, have killed about two million people.
A complex whirlwind of conflict and chaos rages on in all the countries where the US and its allies have lit the flames of war since 2001, but our US leaders still debate new interventions ---- and/or escalations as if we are the fire brigade not the arsonists. (By contrast, the US government and the Western media are quick to accuse Russia or other countries of “aggression” --- even in legally murky situations, such as after the US-backed coup in 2014, that ousted the elected president of Ukraine.)
Systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions are an integral part of US war-making. Most are shrouded in secrecy: the propaganda machine spins the atrocities that slip through into the public record, as a disconnected series of aberrations, accidents and “bad apples,” instead of as the result of illegal rules of engagement and unlawful orders from higher-ups.
The senior officers and civilian officials who are criminally responsible for these crimes in US & international law -- systematically abuse their powerful positions to subvert investigations, cover up their crimes, & avoid any accountability whatsoever.
Pinter’s Complaint
When UK playwright Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he bravely and brilliantly used his Nobel lecture to speak about the real role the US plays in the world, and how it whitewashes its crimes. Pinter recounted a meeting at the US Embassy in London in the 1980s in which a senior embassy official, Raymond Seitz, flatly denied US war crimes in Nicaragua ---- for which the US was in fact, convicted of aggression by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Seitz went on to serve as Assistant Secretary of State, US Ambassador to the UK, and then Vice-Chair of Lehman Brothers.
As Pinter explained: “this ‘policy’ was by no means restricted to Central America. It was conducted throughout the world. It was never-ending. And it is --- as if it never happened.
“The United States supported - and in many cases engendered every rightwing military dictatorship in the world, after the end of the Second World War. I refer to:- Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the US inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged, & can never be forgiven.
“Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did... they take place? & are they in all cases, attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is 'yes', they did take place, and are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.
“It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happ- ening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to the US. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power, worldwide, while masquerading... as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant - even witty - highly successful, act of hypnosis.”
If, in 2016, the world seems to be more violent and chaotic than ever, it's not because the US lacks the will to use force or project power, as both major party candidates for President, & their military advisers appear to believe, but because our leaders have placed too much stock in the illegal threat and use of force, and have lost faith in the rule of law, any international cooperation and diplomacy.
After a century of commercial dominance, & 75 years of investing disproportionately in weapons, military forces & geopolitical schemes, perhaps it is understandable that US leaders have forgotten how to deal fairly and respectfully with our international neighbours. But it's no longer an option, to muddle along, leaving a trail of death, ruin and chaos in our wake, counting on an elaborate propaganda mach- ine, to minimize the blowback on our country and our lives.
Sooner, rather than later, US citizens & our leaders must knuckle down and master the very different attitudes & skills that we will need to become law-abiding global citizens in a peaceful, sustainable, multipolar world.
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Russia ends treaty limiting plutonium production in response to recent US escalation of hostility Fort Russ News - Topwar.ru - Lenta - News.Ru - translated by J. Arnoldski
TopWar: On October 3rd, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on suspending compliance with the agreement with the US on disposing weapons-grade plutonium. The main reason for this decision was pointed out as the “unfriendly attitude of the US towards Russia.”
Sources from the State Duma have reported that Russia is ready to resume the agreement, if the US cancels all the anti-Russian sanctions. Plus, Russia demands that the US reduce its military contingent in Europe, before Russia resumes compliance with the protocols. The State Duma’s statement reads:
“Acting according to the agreement and the protocols of the agreement can be resumed after the US eliminates the reasons which led to this radical change in circumstances: after the US reduces its military infrastructure and the number of its troop contingents deployed on the territory of the NATO countries having joined NATO after September 1st, 2000, down to the level at which they were on the day that the agreement and its protocols entered force.
"Since then NATO has grown to encompass 9 states of Eastern Europe. Just around the corner is NATO’s 10th state to be included since 2000 - Montenegro.”
In addition, Russia has demanded, as one of its conditions, that Washington cancel the so-call- ed Magnitsky Act.
We await a reaction from the US.
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Popov: Russia can and should withdraw from 1997 treaty with Ukraine By Eduard Popov for Fort Russ - translated by J. Arnoldski -
The other day, the disturbing news came from Lvov, the unofficial capital of Ukrainian Galicia, that the Lvov regional council has filed a lawsuit to forcibly evict the Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre. As the head of the regional council, V. Girnyak, said in his statement, organizations tied to the Anti-Terrorist Operation are preparing to transfer the building on Korolenko Street. The Lvov deputies hardly expect to earn more money from these “ATOers.” Rather, the eviction of Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre is explained by a different motive: once again, punishing anyone ideologically representative of an “enemy” Russian culture.
This centre’s building was leased to the Russian community of Lvov, in 1990. In 1999, the then mayor Vasiliy Kuybida, set the symbolic rent fee of 5 hryvnia (around $1 back then).
Let us quote one founding document signed by Ukraine, the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between the Russian Federation and Ukraine from May 31st, 1997. Point 12 of the agreement reads: “The High Agreeing Parties shall protect the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious identities of national minorities on their territory and create conditions for the fostering of their identity….they will contribute to creating equal opportunities and conditions for studying the Russian language in Ukraine and the Ukrainian language in the Russian Federation, training pedagogical staff for teaching these languages in educational establishments, and for these purposes, provide equal state support.”
Points 1-2 of the agreement are based on the recognition of the friendly relations between the countries and their territorial integrity. Hence why the agreement is often called a border treaty. For Ukraine, whose territorial sovereignty over some territories (including Galicia, which was part of the Second Polish Republic until September 1939) is quite disputed, this agreement was a real gift. It is no coincidence that a number of patriotic politicians in Russia, demanded that this document not be signed.
Russia’s recognition of Kiev’s sovereignty over territories included in the Ukrainian state is founded on Ukraine’s observance of the rights of its Russian- cultured citizens. After the coup d’etat in 2014, Ukraine began pursuing a policy of cultural genocide (ethnocide) against the Russian-cultured population.
Now Ukraine is discussing the initiative of the scandalously infamous politician Irina Farion, to deprive Russian residents in Ukraine of civil rights.
In fact, this measure is already being implemented. The number of Russian schools has rapidly declined while Russian organizations are being prosecuted and their activities are under close surveillance by Kiev’s intelligence services.
In accordance with the 1997 treaty, an entire network of federal & regional organizations of Ukrainians is funded in Russia. For example, in the Rostov region there is a city-level and regional national-cultural autonomy of Ukrainians.
The organization receives funding from the city and regional budgets. Its head, the businessman Makarchuk, is a member of the Public Chamber of the Rostov region and is proud of his friendship with Rostov governor Vasili Golubev. Meanwhile, Makarchuk is published on the website of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Svoboda party and frequently makes Russophobic statements.
Unfortunately, Russia is largely to blame for the fact that the civil rights of Russian-cultured people in Ukraine are being massively violated. An example of this is the patronizing policy of Rostov region's authorities. But on the federal level as well, the state does not make sufficient (or any) efforts to defend the Russian population of Ukraine (nearly half of the country’s total population).
Meanwhile, a more responsible attitude towards obligations would lead to discussion of the 1997 treaty. In a situation in which the second country (Ukraine), massively violates the treaty’s basic premises, then Russia has the right to withdraw from the treaty with all the legal and political implications. I see no reason for the Russian budget to support the activities of Ukrainian organizations in Russia, or recognize the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.
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WHITE HELMETS -- SHAM
The Ron Paul Institute has pointed out: “We have demonstrated that the White Helmets are an integral part of the propaganda van- guard, that ensures obscurantism of fact and propagation of Human Rights fiction that elicits the well-intentioned and self righteous response from a very cleverly duped public. A priority for these NGOs is to keep pushing the No Fly Zone scenario which has already been seen to have disastrous implications for innocent civilians in Libya, for example.”
What better chance to push “the No Fly Zone scenario” than arriving within “moments” of the convoy tragedy, filming it and creating a propaganda scenario before any meaningful forensic investigation could even be started, since the trucks were still burning. And of course, the “White Helmets”, aka “Syrian Defence Force”, were filming, rather than attempting to put out the fire and rescue those in the burning trucks.
[Ed. Yet the UK's Guardian, that snivelling wreckage of a "Liberal" newspaper, lies, & describes them as "the White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group," quotes their accusations of Syrian & Russian "constant bombing of civilians" and calls for a "no-fly-zone" now --- as in Libya.]
The Russian Defence Ministry subsequently caused outrage by claiming that their Drone footage: “shows the bombed Syrian aid convoy included a truck full of militant fighters carrying mortar guns.”
However: “The footage emerged as the United Nations rowed back from describing the attack on the aid convoy as air strikes, saying it did not have conclusive evidence about what had happened.”
It must be asked, why on earth, after long and protracted negotiations over the convoy would Syria and or their Russian ally risk the wrath of the US & “coalition”, and of further decimation of the country, by laying themselves open to accusations of bombing aid convoys?
The tragedy has emphatically achieved 1 thing, however. Wiped from the headlines, is another atrocity - the US bombing which killed over 60 Syrian soldiers and wounded over 100 others, just two days earlier, on Saturday 17th Sept. - causing Russian Foreign Ministry spokes- woman Maria Zakharova, to comment: “We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that”, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
Again - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?
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US prepares an Islamic army in Kosovo
Pravda.Ru - The US is preparing a reserve echelon in the territory of its Kosova enclave. But to keep a secure strategic space, the Southern Serbian provinces may be separated from Kosovo. Given the total apathy of the authorities of Republika Srpska... this plan is inching closer to its implementation.
The goal of the Americans is clear: if Berlin's discontent ousts US bases from Germany, after all, the US will have a spot in Kosovo. It's no secret that the crime and terrorist mayhem plaguing Kosovo, is under the patronage of the US.
Yelena Guskova, a Senator, and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), honoured with many Russian and Serbian state awards, commented to Pravda.Ru on this matter, in an interview.
Former Commander of the French foreign legion in Kosovo -- General Jacques Ogar, has recently confirmed to Pravda.Ru, evidence obtained from confidential US sources -- that there are at least five ISIS training camps in Kosovo, which are preparing suicide bombers and an army of Islamists to conquer Europe.
Having found no evidence that proved Milosevic was guilty, the Hague tribunal exonerated him. What do you think of it?
Slobodan Milosevic is a very significant historical person in Serbia's modern history, and the whole of Yugoslavia. In the early 1990s he was seen as the last communist in Europe -- who should be annihilated. His own country turned him over to the Hague; the so-called new government -- after the colour revolution of 2000.
However he was a leader who defended his country and the truth. He combated a large amount of lies at the Tribunal, which tried to prove that only the Serbs were guilty of all the events of the 1990s, as they were charged with collective crimes.
No leader of the Muslim territories of Yugoslavia was convicted, only Serbian ones. The figure of Milosevic was very important, but they didn't manage to find any evidence.
His brother Borislav Milosevic says they secretly took some samples of food and water Slobodan had been given and tested it in Moscow. And it turned out that poison had been added. And it was difficult to breathe for him, which means that something was infiltrated into the air.
Then he stopped eating, but the process had been launched. His death is mysterious but the Tribunal admitted that he was not responsible for crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Colonel Jacques Ogar, who was Commander of a foreign legion in the territory of Yugoslavia in the UN group admits that they were ordered to stand for the Kosovars against the Serbians... Western troops openly supported separatists and participated in punitive actions against the Serbians. Do you have such data?
Surely. I'm a Head of the Centre for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan Crisis at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our main task is to collect documents and publish them. There occur more and more documents on the events since 1990, which confirm it.
It's absolutely clear that international organizations were biased. The Albanians approach their dream - to create a big country with an Albanian population only. The US has worked a lot to support this movement, as Kosovo is a project of the US.
And they would have got independence long ago, unless it was for Russia. Russia said No to their plans in 2007. it disturbed them, and now they do not influence Russia, but try to govern the Serbian authorities. But I think the process hasn't been completed, & there's a chance to return Kosovo to Serbia.
As they say, there are 8 ISIS training camps in the territory of Kosovo. It is reported that they train suicide bombers to carry out acts in the Western Europe and create a whole army to conquer it. How can you comment on this?
When huge flows of refugees were going across the Balkans in Europe, there were mainly young men and almost no couples. They were well- dressed, were going by three, and had enough means to live in decent hotels. It is clear that there are those among them who should stay in the Balkans & orchestrate implementation of their leaders' aims.
As the Serbian officials struggle to join the EU, they implemented all the terms. And they were told, to not only to let in these refugees, but also to build camps for them. Many stayed in the South, where the population is majority Muslim . A great quantity went to Kosovo and Metohija.
And there's an uncontrolled NATO base Bondsteel there, where enormous resources are deployed. This territory is not controlled by anyone. And when questions of the US military camps in Europe occur, no one speaks of Kosovo.
In Kosovo's camps, where terrorists are trained, they are set absolutely free. It's very dangerous for the whole of Europe, and the Balkans first of all. The US, though, wants to whip Serbia into submission and recognize the independence of Kosovo and Metohija.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska, and Serbians who reside there, are hampering these plans.
There is evidence that, as early as in the mid- 1990s the US aimed to go down to the Balkans when the agreement with Germany terminated if they had to leave. They need a territory in Bosnia & Herzegovina, in Kosovo, Metohija, Montenegro, Serbia & Macedonia. Republika Srpska hampers implementation of this plan today.
They need to annihilate the Republic and make the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina a unitary state. They didn't manage to conduct a colour revolution in the Republika Srpska, while the terror acts, which may be backed by Muslims in other territories, may be fruitful.
These plans may come forward in the nearest future, and it's a threat for the whole of Serbia. As there is a plan to separate the Southern regions of Serbia, where a lot of Albanians and Muslims reside. Today Serbian officials regard these refugees calmly, as well as capable of possible terrorist acts. But it should be paid 'special attention'.
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US/UK elite bankrolled A. Hitler
Germans were paid in company shares for loans that managed Germany's war reparations -- thus US capital began to actively integrate into the German economy.
The total amount of foreign investment in German industry during 1924-1929 amounted to almost 63 billion gold Marks (30 billion was accounted for by loans), and the payment of reparations — 10 billion Marks. 70% of revenues were provided by bankers from the US, and most banks were from JP Morgan.
As a result, in 1929, German industry was in second place in the world, but it was largely in the hands of the USA's leading financial-industrial groups.
"Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie", main supplier of the German war machine, financed 45% of the election campaign of Hitler in 1930, and was under the control of Rockefeller's "Standard oil".
Morgan, through "General Electric", controlled the German radio and electrical industry, via AEG and Siemens (up to 1933, 30% of the shares of AEG were owned by "General Electric") and through the Telecom company ITT — 40% of the 'phone network in Germany.
In addition, they owned a 30% stake in the air- craft manufacturing company "Focke-Wulf".
"General Motors", belonging to the DuPont family, established control over "Opel".
Henry Ford controlled 100% of the shares of Volkswagen. In 1926, with the participation of the Rockefeller Bank, Dillon, Reed & Co, the second largest industrial monopoly in Germany, after I.G Farben, merged with metals group, "Vereinigte Stahlwerke" (Steel trust) plus Thyssen, Flick, Wolff, Feglera etc.
US co-operation with Germany's military- industrial complex, was so intense and pervasive, that by 1933, the key sectors of German industry, & large banks such as the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Donat Bank, etc, were all under the control of US financial capital.
The political force that was intended to play a crucial role in the Anglo-American plans was being simultaneously prepared.
We are talking about the funding of the Nazi party and A. Hitler personally.
As former German Chancellor Brüning wrote in his memoirs, from 1923, Hitler received large sums from abroad. Where they went, is not known, but they were received through Swiss and Swedish banks.
It is also known that, in 1922 in Munich, a meeting took place between A. Hitler and the military attache of the US to Germany -- Captain Truman Smith -- who compiled a detailed report for his Washington superiors (in the office of military intelligence), in which he spoke highly of Hitler.
Through Smith's circle of acquaintances, A. Hitler was introduced to Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, (Putzie), --- a graduate of Harvard University who played an important role in the formation of A. Hitler as a politician, rendered him significant financial support, and secured for him, acquaintance & communication with, senior British figures.
Hitler was prepared politically, but, as Germany reigned in prosperity, his party remained on the periphery of public life... The situation changed dramatically with the beginning of 'the crisis'.
In the autumn of 1929, the collapse of the US stock exchange was triggered by the Federal Reserve, and the next stage of the Anglo-US financial circles' strategy, had started.
The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan, decided to stop lending to Germany --- inspired by the bank crisis & economic depression in Central Europe.
In September 1931, England abandoned the gold standard, deliberately destroying international payments systems and completely cutting off "financial oxygen" to the Weimar Republic.
But a financial miracle occurred for the Nazi party: in September 1930 as a result of large donations by Thyssen and I.G. Farben --- the party got 6.4 million votes & took 2nd place in the Reichstag;- after this, more generous investments from abroad were activated.
The main link between the major German industrialists and foreign financiers, became H. Schacht.
On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held with the largest English financier, a Mr M. Norman, A. Hitler, and von Papen, which concluded a secret agreement on the financing of the NSDAP.
This meeting was also attended by US policy-makers, the Dulles brothers --- something their biographers do not like to mention.
On January 14th, 1933, a meeting between Hitler, Schroder, Papen & Kepler took place, where Hitler's program was fully approved. It was here that they finally resolved the issue of the transfer of power to the Nazis, and on 30th January, A. Hitler became Chancellor.
The implementation of the next stage of the strategy thus began.
The attitude of Anglo-American ruling circles to the new government was very sympathetic. When Hitler refused to pay reparations, which naturally called into question the payment of war debts, neither the UK or France pressed their payment claims.
Moreover, after a visit to the US in May 1933, H. Schacht was placed, again, at the head of the Reichsbank, and, after his meeting with the President and the biggest bankers on Wall Street, the US allocated Germany new loans --- totalling $1 billion.
In June, during a trip to London & a meeting with M. Norman, Schacht sought an English loan of $2 billion and a reduction and then the cessation of payments, on old loans.
Thus, the Nazis got what they could not achieve with the previous government.
In the summer of 1934, Britain signed the Anglo- German transfer agreement, which became one of the foundations of British policy towards the Third Reich, &, at the end of the 30's, Germany became the main trading partner of England.
Schroeder Bank became Germany's main agent in the UK & in 1936 his New York office teamed up with the Rockefellers, to create Schroeder, Rockefeller & Co. investment Bank, which the Times magazine called the Berlin-Rome "economic propagandist axis".
As Hitler himself admitted, he conceived his 4- year plan on the basis of foreign financial loans, so it never inspired him with the slightest alarm.
In August 1934, US Standard oil acquired 730,000 acres of land in Germany... then built large oil refineries which supplied the Nazis with oil.
At the same time, Germany secretly took delivery of the most modern equipment for aircraft factories, from the US, which would begin producing German planes.
Germany gained large numbers of military patents from US firms Pratt and Whitney, Douglas, and Curtis Wright --- and it was US technology, building the Junkers-87.
In 1941 --- as world war ll was raging --- US investments in Germany's economy amounted to $475 million. Standard oil invested - 120 million, General motors - $35 million, ITT - $30 million, and Ford - $17.5 million.
The close financial & economic co-operation of Anglo-American and Nazi business circles, was the backdrop against which, in the 30's, a policy of appeasement led to world war II.
Today, as the world's financial elite begins to implement the 'Great depression 2' plan with its subsequent transition to the "new world order", identifying its key role in the organization of crimes against humanity, becomes a priority.
Yuri Rubtsov is a doctor of historical sciences, academician of the Academy of military sciences, & a member of the International Association of historians of world war II.
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FREE POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER NOW!!!
Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier,
in prison in the US for 38 years, received the first international human rights prize of Uruguay's Mario Benedetti Foundation.
At a ceremony in Montevideo, where the winner was announced, the human rights group calls Peltier the longest-serving political prisoner in the Americas, AFP reports.
Peltier, a Native American activist who was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977 for the alleged murder of two US FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the
Pine Ridge Reservation in S. Dakota.
He was sentenced to 2 consecutive terms of life imprisonment.
"Leonard Peltier, who on September 12th, 2014, turned 70, has spent over half his life in prison. He's a symbol of resistance to repressive state policies by the US, where there are people in jail for ethnic, racial, religious & ideological reasons," the foundation's statement says.
Ricardo Elena, a member of the foundation's honorary board, says Peltier's case "is one that is repeated over and over: violation (of rights), persecution, eviction, invasion and expropriation of indigenous people, from the time it was 'discovered', until now.
"It doesn't just happen in the United States; it is happening in southern South America, with the (indigenous) Mapuche people, and with indigenous people in North America," he states.
Elena says the United States "likes to think it's the seat of democracy, but it has political prisoners just like a dictatorship might have."
The Mario Benedetti Foundation was founded to support human rights and cultural causes in line with the work of the Uruguayan writer after whom it was named, who died in 2009.
Peltier is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
James Swan, the head of the Black Hills chapter of the United Urban Warrior Society - a nonprofit group that helps Native Americans fight racial discrimination and injustice - describes Peltier as a political prisoner whose case needs to be reviewed by an independent body.
"What we want people to realize is that this is an injustice," AP quotes Swan as saying.
Peltier, 66, was given two life sentences in '77, on false charges of killing 2 FBI agents.
Peltier asserts that he is innocent and the FBI framed him for political reasons, especially for his activities as a member of the Native American Movement. He has lodged numerous appeals against the conviction - but all unsuccessfully.
He's been denied parole again and again, and will not be eligible for it again until 2024, when he turns 79.
Peltier's relatives say he suffers a number of health problems such as diabetes, arthritis, and the loss of vision in an eye after a minor stroke.
Many activists say Leonard Peltier is the most important political prisoner in the US.
In a review of the US' human rights record, at a United Nations Human Rights Council UPR conference in Geneva, a group called for a new trial for him.
The US Human Rights Network filed a 423-page submission to the Geneva meeting about him.
One item, entitled “Political Repression - Political Prisoners,” about 1970's cases, indicts the FBI: accusing COINTELPRO of “maiming, murdering, false prosecutions and frame-ups, destruction and mayhem throughout the country.”
It cites the FBI for targeting the Puerto Rican Independence Front, the Black Panther Party, the Weather Underground, the American Indian Movement, the Black Liberation Army, as well as “peace activists and everyone in between,” and says “many of today's political prisoners” in the US were jailed indefinitely as a result.
Repression has grown since 9/11, it says.
The political repression paper demands an “immediate criminal investigation into the conspiracy,” and also new trials for two aged activists jailed on murder charges, Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier.
