https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Pl_4v-O6q0
By now you've probably heard of that alleged Ukrainian strike on the #Kremlin.. Joseph has some high octane speculations about that:
Article:
#Russia’s Medvedev Calls for 'Elimination' Of Zelensky & 'His Clique' After #Drone #Attack
#Joseph P. #Farrell | #News and Views from the #Nefarium | May 4, 2023
#Russia Mulls Response #Kremlin #Drone #Attack, Repels Attacks; Nuclear War Risks Grow Over US Missiles
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MhwRaY5mrJ8
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Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(4 May 2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces have engaged the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Novoselovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Pershotravnevoye and Novomlynsk (Kharkov region).
◽️ In addition, actions of six sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were thwarted near Stelmakhovka (Kharkov region), Kislovka, Sinkovka, Timkovka, and Ivanovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
◽️ Up to 30 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit have been eliminated in this direction during the day.
Moreover, an ammunition depot of the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed close to Volchansk (Kharkov region).
◽️ In Krasny Liman direction, Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery of the Tsentr Group of Forces engaged the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Terny, Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Nevskoye and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
In the past 24 hours, the enemy has lost up to 70 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, two pick-up trucks, and one Msta-B howitzer.
◽️ In Donetsk direction, the assault detachments have seized two blocks and continue fighting in the west part of the city of Artyomovsk.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery of the Yug Group of Forces have inflicted fire damage on the 60th, 93rd mechanised brigades, and 54th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Krasnoye, south-western outskirts of Artyomovsk, and Grogorovka.
Over the past 24 hours, aircraft flew six sorties, and the Group's artillery carried out 57 firing missions in this area.
◽️ Airborne Troops have been impeding the attempts of the enemy to counterattack on the flanks.
Up to 255 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, two D-20 howitzers, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit have been eliminated in this direction during the day.
◽️ Moreover, an ammunition depot of the 54th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been hit close to Belogorovka.
◽️ In South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Vostok Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on AFU units close Ugledar, Vodyanoye, Velikaya Novoselka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Chervonoye, Kamenskoye, Novodanilovka, and Malaya Tolokmachka (Zaporozhye region)
Up to 30 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, two D-30 howitzers, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit have been eliminated in this direction during the day.
◽️ In Kherson direction, up to 35 Ukrainian troops, six motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and two D-30 and Msta-B howitzers have been destroyed over the past 24 hours.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged 103 AFU artillery units at their fire positions, manpower, and military hardware in 118 areas during the day.
Command and observation posts of AFU the 128th Mountain Assault, 54th Mechanised brigades, the AFU Yug Special Forces Centre near Novoandreevka (Zaporozhye region), Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), and Nestryga Island (Kherson region) have been neutralised.
◽️ An ammunition depot of the 66th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been hit close to Slavyansk (Donetsk People's Republic).
◽️ A fuel storage facility for Ukrainian force grouping was destroyed near Kirvograd.
◽️ Air defence forces have intercepted 9 HIMARS, Uragan, and Smerch MLRS projectiles during the day.
Moreover, 14 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down close to Novoprokofyevka (Zaporozhye region), Lyubovka, Kamenka, Lebyazhye, Kirillovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Lisichansk, Krivosheevka, and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
In total, 416 airplanes and 230 helicopters, 3,949 unmanned aerial vehicles, 421 air defence missile systems, 8,967 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,095 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4,728 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 9,949 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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A useful analysis by #LarryJohnson, talking to Judge Andrew #Napolitano in a 20 minute video livestreamed a few hours ago.
Johnson notes that the drone, clearly a small device, appears to have been shot down or intercepted, and only a bit of flaming debris hit the roof of the building. The important thing will be an inspection of any #drone parts that can be found, to establish who made it. (The US? Poland? Ukraine?)
He also notes that the response within #Russia has been one of outraged, unifying anger. He guesses (I'd think correctly) that the Ukraine's hope must have been that Russia would be provoked to do something major in immediate response, and then the US might roll in their troops to Odessa or elsewhere. Putin hasn't said a word yet, but a retaliation — a measured but very definite one — will have to come to satisfy loud Russian demands.
The original schedule called for a one-day visit.
Soins convient !
#Ukraine #Russia #Moskva #Kremlin #drones #Putin #Moscow #UkraineWar #Finland #Zelensky
The United States had no warning about the alleged #drone attack on the #Kremlin that #Russia claimed was an #assassination attempt on Russian President Vladimir #Putin, which #Ukraine vehemently denies, according to a US official.
"Whatever happened, there was no advanced warning," the US official told #CNN, adding that authorities are still trying to figure out what exactly happened.
#Moskva #Moscow #UkraineWar #US #Kiev
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-05-03-23/index.html
Two drones were aimed at the Kremlin, they were quickly disabled, Putin was not injured.
The incident was called a terrorist attack and an attempt on Putin's life and stated that the Kremlin reserves the right to take retaliatory measures where and when it sees fit.
Moscow Mayor Sobyanin has already banned the flights of all drones and copters over the capital.
#Ukraine #Russia #Moskva #Kremlin #drones #Putin #Moscow #UkraineWar
The coming together of political opposites in Berlin under the banner of peace had been percolating for months, though the union remains ad hoc and unofficial. But marrying #Germany’s extremes is an explicit #Kremlin goal and was first proposed by senior officials in Moscow in early September, according to a trove of sensitive #Russia/n documents largely dated from July to November that were obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/21/germany-russia-interference-afd-wagenknecht/
https://snyder.substack.com/p/playing-the-victim
#timothysnyder #ukraine #russia #putin #kremlin #war #UNSecurityCouncil
A Western intelligence source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Kremlin's Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation had allegedly created the document, titled "Strategic goals of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Moldova," in 2021.
According to the document, Russia’s key goals are to ensure that Moldovan policymakers and society, in general, have a negative attitude toward NATO and that the country has a strong presence of pro-Russian influence groups in politics and the economy.
#RussianAggression #Moldova #leaked #Kremlin #NATO #InformationWarfare
"If the #Kremlin were after #JulianAssange, #governments would be #competing for the #honour of offering him #political #asylum."
#DionJack #journalist #quote
#freeassange #wikileaks #truth #truthteller #dropallcharges #pressfreedom #weareallassange
In my view, the intermediate outcomes of this gas #war can already be summed up, and they do not look comforting to the #Kremlin. I believe that #Putin’s attempt to «attack» Europe on the energy front was his second significant mistake this year (Sergei Medvedev put it on a par with the launch of full-scale aggression against #Ukraine on 24 February and the announcement of mobilisation on 21 September 2022, but I would call it a tactical error while the latter two can be seen as strategic mistakes). However, what these miscalculations have in common is that the decisions in all these cases were based on a mythologised view of reality. Moreover, they proved to be very hasty and could not be reconsidered.
https://ridl.io/putin-s-tactical-mistake/ #russia #eu #economy #energy #gazprom #nordstream1 #poland #china #oil #india
source: https://thebell.io/en/russia-s-pro-war-bloggers-become-a-serious-threat-to-the-kremlin/
The behavior of both the Kremlin and the #Defense #Ministry is the latest disappointment for patriots and Russian nationalists, who have offered scathing #criticism on some of the leading pro-war #Telegram channels. Within the “fog of war,” patriotic Russian channels – many of which are run by people on the front lines or who have good sources in the Russian forces and are often unconcerned about #military #censorship – are almost the principal sources of #information about the true state of affairs at the #front.
Of course, Suslov is just one man, and he was never a political dissident. But his presence at #HSE is emblematic of the uncomfortable affinity between Russian #liberalism and #Kremlin #imperialism, underscoring the former’s limits as a politically transformative force. Just as HSE’s decline is the result of the structures and principles on which it was founded, so too are the limitations of Russian liberalism—now brought into painfully sharp relief by #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine—a result of assumptions that have been inherent to this intellectual and political trend for the past 200 years. As authors like Susanna Rabow-Edling have argued, liberalism in the Russian #Empire was deeply intertwined with #nationalism and the imperial project, with proponents of the movement believing that liberalizing the empire was the only way to preserve its existence. In this sense, it was not dissimilar to liberalism in other colonial metropoles that posited Western #Europe as the epitome of #modernity and its imperial possessions as passive recipients of its supposedly progressive #policy.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/29/russian-liberal-universities-hse-ukraine-war/ #war #education #usa #biden #opposition
Oksana Pokalchuk, who has spent seven years documenting and investigating human rights abuses as Director of Amnesty International #Ukraine, tendered her resignation on Friday as the backlash continued over a controversial #AmnestyInternational report titled, “Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians.”
The #Amnesty report, which accuses the Ukrainian #military of basing its troops too close to civilian infrastructure, has been widely condemned by Ukrainian officials and many others in the international community including #war crimes experts. Meanwhile, the #Kremlin has warmly welcomed Amnesty’s claims, with Russian officials actively promoting the report to justify #Moscow’s ongoing bombing campaign in Ukraine.
Pokalchuk took to #Facebook on August 4 to disavow the report, explaining that Amnesty’s global branch had effectively sidelined the Amnesty Ukraine team and proceeded with publication without their input or consent. She resigned the following day, writing, “Although unwillingly, the organization created material that sounds like support for Russian narratives. Seeking to protect civilians, the study has instead become a tool of Russian #propaganda.”
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/flawed-amnesty-report-risks-enabling-more-russian-war-crimes-in-ukraine/ #redcross #mariupol #callamard
#Russia is continuing to deny that the massive explosions at a Crimean military base at #Saki that destroyed up to nine of its warplanes were caused by an attack. As the Institute for the Study of #War noted, “the #Kremlin has little incentive to blame Ukraine” since, by doing so, it will admit to serious weaknesses in Russia’s air-defence system. Instead, the Chair of the Crimean Tatar #Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, believes, Russia opted to avenge itself for the humiliation experienced by new mass arrests of Crimean Tatars on fabricated charges One of the motives for the armed searches and arrests of Crimean Tatars has, from the outset, been #propaganda aimed at presenting the main indigenous people of #Crimea, who do not conceal their strong identification with #Ukraine, as a threat. The arrests are also known to bring bonuses or promotion to the #FSB officers and may, therefore, have been planned, but the timing now might well be deliberate.
https://khpg.org/en/1608811021 #repression #Hizb-ut-Tahrir #terror
