For days western and Ukrainian media were talking about the successful attack against Russian headquarter in Crimea that killed him.
I guess, this goes to the list of "oopsi" our bad moments of this #propaganda war.
At least one person has been killed and a fire was sparked in Kyiv's assault on the annexed peninsula, Russia says.#Conflict #Crimea #Russia-Ukrainewar #Europe #Russia #Ukraine
Black Sea navy HQ hit in Crimea missile attack, one dead: Russia
Russian S-400 'Triumf' surface-to-air missile defence system was reportedly destroyed in 'special operation' in Crimea.#Conflict #Crimea #DroneStrikes #Military #Politics #Russia-Ukrainewar #Weapons #Europe #Russia #Ukraine
Ukraine says Russian missile defence destroyed in Crimea, 2 warships hit
Moscow-installed governor reports at least 24 injured as missile attack sparks large blaze at Sevastopol naval shipyard.#Conflict #Crimea #Military #Politics #Russia-Ukrainewar #VladimirPutin #Weapons #Europe #Romania #Russia #Ukraine
Fire at naval shipyard in Russia-annexed Crimea after Ukraine air attack
Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the #satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that #Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on #Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson, whose new book is set to be released by Simon & Schuster on September 12.
#Ukraine #war #news #starlink #gps #internet #ElonMusk #military
Modified #Neptune missiles, which #Kiev developed just before the outbreak of full-scale war in the country, "are part of a broader recent Ukrainian effort to increase its long-range strike capacity," according to Ian Williams, deputy director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
As of mid-August, the use of pontoon bridges indicate that Russian forces occupying Crimea and Kherson Oblast face logistical issues, weeks after Ukrainian attacks on the bridges that link the two occupied regions, the U.K. Defense Ministry said on Aug. 23.
On Aug. 6, the Ukrainian military confirmed striking the strategically important Chonhar and Henichesk bridges, which connect northern Crimea with Kherson Oblast.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #logistics #bottlenecks #bridges #pontoon #Kherson #Crimea ##Chonhar #Henichesk #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
The idiots and all those liking and Rating these posts think everyone else is blind and completely stupid, not knowing that Russian S-400 air defense systems are famous for their mobility and ability to move from their location in a pretty short time before reloading and targeting the incoming missiles and planes.
Sadly lot of people seems to be repeating the same BS on other social networks as well.
This was stated by Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar. According to her, the goal was to disrupt the logistics of the Russian Federation Armed Forces operating in Ukraine
Noteworthy that earlier Ukraine officially denied its responsibility for undermining the bridge, with even some of Ukraine ministers repeatedly implying that it was the work of third parties or even a #FalseFlag by #Russia itself.
The bridge was damaged less than a month after the sabotage of the #NordStream 1 & Nord stream 2 gas pipelines.
As a result of the attack, 3 civilians were killed
Ukraine On Fire
#Ukraine #IWF #Bandera #Eu #Russia #NGO #CIA #Congo #Lumumba #Indonesia #Sukarno #Guatemala Árbenz #Cuba #Castro #Iran #Mosaddegh #NED #Chile #Allende #Activists #Journalists ... #Nayyem #Facebook #Maidan ... #Chornovol
#Staged-Murder #coup-d’état
#Snipers killed many
59:04 #Klitschko urged the protestors to continue
59:21 59:51 #Negotiations between the government and the opposition with the help of #Fabius,#Steinmeier, #Sikorski led to a truth.
1:00:35 The right sector will not let down the arms, will not lift a blockade from a single government building and was not interested in negotiations.
failed assassination of #Yanukovych
the Procedure of the impeachment wasn't followed.
A new Government took over.
The US government immediately acknowledged the new government as legitimate.
#Crimea didn't like to follow a regime of #Neo-Nazis
#NATO
#USA
#Odessa
#Georgia
#Money for the corrupted...
A different kind of #leak
The creation of the #Kakhovka resevoir was also vitally linked to a series of canals which are fed from the resevoir. The most important of these is the Crimean canal, which carries Dnieper water to #Crimea, but there are also a series of irrigation works which are vital to agricutlure in #Kherson and #Zaporizhia oblasts.
#Ukraine #Crimea, #Donesks #Lugansk #Zaporizhzhia #Kherson #Battlefields
#Gonzalo #Lira
Pay attention to more than just the conflict
#Demographics of Ukraine
Before the war
+ 45,000,000
- 15,000,000
- 9,000,000
-100,000
-10,000
-1,000
-100
-1
Fire in Russian #refinery. A refinery caught fire east of #Crimea, according to Russian sources, by a #drone. #EU imposes more #sanctions on Russian businessmen.
#Ukraine, #Russia, #war, #taz
+++ Nachrichten im Urkaine-Krieg +++: Feuer in russischer Raffinerie
The conflict between #Russia and Ukraine may not end in victory for #Kiev, and its Western backers should prepare for such an outcome, Czech President Petr Pavel has told The Guardian newspaper.
“I think we should do anything… at our disposal to encourage Ukrainians and to support them to be successful. But internally, we should also be ready for other contingencies,” said Pavel, who was in London for the coronation of King Charles III.
A lot will depend on the outcome of Ukraine’s planned spring counteroffensive, explained the Czech leader, who has a background in intelligence and served as chairman of the #NATO Military Committee between 2015 and 2018.
The outcome is not in doubt. While the game still needs to be played out, the Russians are as confident of victory now as they were in 1943, when Stalin, post-Tehran, commented: “Roosevelt has given me his firm word to open extensive actions in France in 1944. I think he will keep his word. And if he doesn’t keep his word, we are strong enough to crush Hitler and Germany on our own.”
Notice that Clown World strategist emeritus, who was among the first clowns to recognize that the neoliberal world order was in decline back in 2014, is now openly predicting a negotiated settlement brokered by the Chinese.
Former US Secretary of State #HenryKissinger has told CBS News that the conflict in Ukraine may be approaching a turning point, and that Chinese-brokered peace talks could begin by the end of 2023.
“Now that #China has entered the #negotiation, it will come to a head, I think by the end of the year,” the 99-year-old diplomat told CBS in an interview broadcast on Sunday. By that time, he continued, “we will be talking about negotiating processes and even actual negotiations.”
Kissinger drew the ire of Kiev last year when he suggested that Ukraine should accept a return to the “status quo ante,” or relinquish its territorial claims to #Crimea and grant autonomy to the #Donetsk and #Lugansk People’s Republics, in the name of peace. He has since suggested that these territories become the basis of negotiations after a ceasefire and Russian withdrawal.
I have no doubt that #Kissinger is sending a signal to #Putin that Clown World is finally willing to compromise, but I am dubious that the Russians – or the Chinese – will be short-sighted enough to settle for what is on offer, given that it is already within their grasp. Putin has openly stated that the Russian objective is not merely the #declowning of Ukraine, but of #Europe and the #West.
And there is no reason for China to encourage a settlement on the Ukraine front when peace there would permit the military forces of Clown World to concentrate on #Taiwan. Which is why I anticipate, to the contrary, the opening of a third front somewhere else in the world, most likely either a) the #MiddleEast or b) #Africa.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, the clowns in the EU are just digging themselves in deeper:
The #EuropeanUnion is seeking to tighten its economic screws on Russia by sanctioning Chinese companies that conduct #trade with #Moscow, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
They’ve clearly learned absolutely nothing from the way their anti-Russian sanctions boomeranged on them. And now they’re encouraging the biggest manufacturing country on the planet to remove itself from the shrinking “global” economy.
Watching Clown World try to throw its nonexistent weight around is disturbingly like seeing an obese 50-year-old former cheerleader strutting around in a miniskirt still thinking she’s hot.
🔵 Those concerns recently spilled out into the open during a leak of classified information onto social media. A top secret assessment from early February stated that Ukraine would fall “well short” of its counteroffensive goals. More current American assessments are that Ukraine may make some progress in the south and east, but won’t be able to repeat last year’s success.
🔵 Ukraine has hoped to sever Russia’s land bridge to Crimea and U.S. officials are now skeptical that will happen, according to two administration officials familiar with the assessment. But there are still hopes in the Pentagon that Ukraine will hamper Russia’s supply lines there, even if a total victory over Russia’s newly fortified troops ends up too difficult to achieve.
🔵 Moreover, U.S. intelligence indicates that Ukraine simply does not have the ability to push Russian troops from where they were deeply entrenched — and a similar feeling has taken hold about the battlefield elsewhere in Ukraine, according to officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. hasn’t adequately armed his forces properly and so, until then, the counteroffensive can’t begin.
🔵 A counteroffensive that doesn’t meet expectations will also cause allies in foreign capitals to question how much more they can spare if Kyiv’s victory looks farther and farther away.
🔵 “European public support may wane over time as European energy and economic costs stay high,” said Clementine Starling, a director and fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, D.C. “A fracturing of transatlantic support will likely hurt U.S. domestic support and Congress and the Biden administration may struggle to sustain it.”
🔵 “If Ukraine can’t gain dramatically on the battlefield, the question inevitably arises as to whether it is time for a negotiated stop to the fighting,” said Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s expensive, we’re running low on munitions, we’ve got other contingencies around the world to prepare for.”
🔵 The fighting has taken a toll on the Ukrainians as well. Fourteen months into the conflict, the Ukrainians have suffered staggering losses — around 100,000 dead — with many of their top soldiers either sidelined or exhausted. The troops have also gone through historic amounts of ammunition and weaponry, with even the West’s prodigious output unable to match Zelenskyy’s urgent requests.
🔵 U.S. officials have also briefed Ukraine on the dangers of overextending its ambitions and spreading its troops too thin — the same warning Biden gave then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani as the Taliban moved to sweep across the country during the U.S. military withdrawal in 2021.
#Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #Biden #NATO #Politics #Putin #Zelensky #EU #Poland #Kiev #Bakhmut #Crimea #Wagner
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/biden-ukraine-russia-counteroffensive-defense-00093384
For the first time, Russian air defense managed to intercept all of the missiles launched by Ukraine against Crimea.
This is a new development as Russia seems to have updated their system to be able to detect and destroy American supplied HIMARS missiles.
Guess who is making crazy profits off of murder?
Arctic #Warfare rifles appear to have been used by #Saudi forces operating in #Yemen. #SaudiArabia has been heavily critcised for human rights abuses in Yemen.
AI sniper rifles being used by Turkish forces in Afrin in #Syria in 2018, in an operation that was condemned by #HumanRights Watch as having “failed to take necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties”.
The use of AI sniper rifles by #Russian forces in #Ukraine, including #Crimea, in 2017, and in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.
Washington’s role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last “buffer state” bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU. We in the west are now backing #neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian #Nazis backed Hitler.
Having masterminded the coup in February against the democratically elected government in Kiev, Washington’s planned seizure of #Russia's historic, legitimate warm-water naval base in #Crimea failed. The Russians defended themselves, as they have done against every threat and invasion from the west for almost a century.
But #Nato's military encirclement has accelerated, along with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic Russians in Ukraine. If Putin can be provoked into coming to their aid, his pre-ordained “pariah” role will justify a Nato-run guerrilla war that is likely to spill into Russia itself.
Instead, Putin has confounded the war party by seeking an accommodation with Washington and the #EU, by withdrawing Russian troops from the Ukrainian border and urging ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to abandon the weekend’s provocative referendum. These Russian-speaking and bilingual people – a third of Ukraine’s population – have long sought a democratic federation that reflects the country’s ethnic diversity and is both autonomous of Kiev and independent of Moscow. Most are neither “separatists” nor “rebels”, as the western media calls them, but citizens who want to live securely in their homeland.
Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park – run personally by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev, with dozens of “special units” from the CIA and FBI setting up a “security structure” that oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the February coup. Watch the videos, read the eye-witness reports from the massacre in #Odessa this month. Bussed fascist thugs burned the trade union headquarters, killing 41 people trapped inside. Watch the police standing by.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger
