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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 23, 2024, 08:27:22 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_mAckKxjLw

I also call false flag. This is the Crocus City Hall:



It looks like a building that Putin would not mind losing, or even would prefer to be demolished
Posted by: Schwartze Katze
« on: March 02, 2024, 10:48:05 pm »

Finland Urges Ukraine To Strike “Inside Russia,” Challenge Putin’s Red Lines With Allies’ Weapons
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A NATO* ally urged Ukraine to challenge one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's red lines amidst arms shortages on the front lines. Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said Ukraine could use weapons provided by Helsinki to strike targets “inside” Russia. Hakkanen noted other Ukraine allies had provided "long-range missile systems" and were within their rights to "specify how they should be used". The Finnish defence minister also urged Germany to send Kyiv its long-range Taurus missiles "if they want to help Ukraine win". A Finnish parliament member went one step further, saying Ukraine "should" use the Finland-supplied arms to attack "military targets on the Russian side." Watch the video to know more.

00:00 - INTRODUCTION
02:08 - “UKRAINE HAS THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE"
03:49 - PUTIN WARNS WEST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSgXmejSy4

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It's funny how a bunch of Nato allies are encouraging Ukraine but yet won't declare war on Russia themselves.
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Because russia threatens them with nukes. They should ignore these threats tho and directly aid Ukraine.
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lol as if they dont have nuclear weapons
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They all fears the Russia, on the other hand, they insisting ukhraine to fight Russia.  Funny nato, this organisation is the most aggressive one.
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Finland is brave behind Ukraine's back.
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how to start world war 3
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So what
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Oh well,it was bound to happen sooner or later 🤷
Posted by: Schwartze Katze
« on: March 02, 2024, 02:06:25 pm »

Russian wiretapping: Will it affect debates about German military support for Ukraine? | DW News
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The German government says Russia wiretapped a conversation between German air force generals about the war in Ukraine.

The officers are heard discussing Ukrainian forces using German-made Taurus cruise missiles to attack the bridge linking Crimea to Russia. Germany has so far refused to supply Kyiv with the long-range weapons. The defense ministry in Berlin has confirmed that the conversation – which surfaced on social media – was tapped.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is promising swift clarification of the recording.

For more, we talk DW's Brussels Bureau Chief Alexandra von Nahmen, who is currently in Rome.

And we talk to to Vladimir Esipov from DW Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIT7NIu1OdA

This reminded me of: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/its-time-to-admit-it-mitt-romney-was-right-about-russia/?message=11794
Posted by: Schwartze Katze
« on: February 21, 2024, 04:06:49 pm »

Joseph Lindsley - Putin let Slip the Real Cause of the War in the Infamous Tucker Carlson Interview.
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Second in a series of monthly conversations on Silicon Curtain, about how Ukrainians are redefining the ideas of freedom and democracy, and why Ukraine must not be allowed to fall under Russian control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlD3HUTQAag

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This is about 2014... — Putin, Tucker Carlson Interview, 2024.

'Putin can still be crushed': Russia's brutal invasion two years on | Ukraine: The Latest Special
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In this special edition of The Telegraph’s Ukraine: The Latest podcast, the team appeared on stage at the US Embassy in London for a live recording.

Jane Hartley, America’s ambassador to the UK opened the event, saying: “The United States and our allies continue to have one goal in mind: to see that Ukraine wins this war.”

Telegraph journalists David Knowles, Francis Dearnley and Dominic Nicholls were joined by Orysia Lutsevych, the head of the Ukraine forum at Chatham House and Ambassador William B. Taylor, America’s former ambassador to Ukraine and current vice president, Europe and Russia, at the US Institute of Peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQZXxGWG-sw
Posted by: Schwartze Katze
« on: February 20, 2024, 11:53:36 pm »

Capture of Avdiivka: Ukraine faces 'extremely difficult' frontline battles • FRANCE 24 English
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Ukrainian troops, reeling from losing a key town, now face "extremely difficult" conditions all along the frontline with Russia because of delayed foreign aid, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday. A heightened Russian offensive in eastern and southern Ukraine saw them capture the key town of Avdiivka last week in a major boost ahead of the second anniversary of the February 2022 invasion.
#Ukraine #Russia #frontline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tHV_FHvZg

Zelenskyy: Extremely difficult situation on several parts of the frontline | DW News
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the situation on the front line is very difficult due to a shortage of weapons. He urged western allies to step up deliveries. Officials say the delay in aid is giving Russia an advantage on the battlefield.
It’s almost been two years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. Exactly how many civilians have been killed is unknown, but it's thought to be in the tens of thousands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klH2M_LMsgM

At this point, and purely from an economic view, the only way you could definitely waste the tens of billions in money and arms the West has already given to Ukraine up to this point is to stop now and allow Ukraine to lose the war.
Posted by: Schwartze Katze
« on: February 18, 2024, 01:07:17 pm »

'The security of the Black Sea is the security of Europe': Georgian President Zourabichvili
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Salome Zourabichvili, the President of Georgia, is worried that Western partners are no longer adequately supporting Ukraine. "The Black Sea is our vital connection to Europe and that's whats at stake," says Zourabichvili in an exclusive interview with DW's Michaela Küfner at the Munich Security Conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9EPXbvhi50
Posted by: russia
« on: February 17, 2024, 06:20:01 am »

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/16/politics/russia-nuclear-space-weapon-intelligence/index.html

Exclusive: Russia attempting to develop nuclear space weapon to destroy satellites with massive energy wave, sources familiar with intel say

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Russia is trying to develop a nuclear space weapon that would destroy satellites by creating a massive energy wave when detonated, potentially crippling a vast swath of the commercial and government satellites


The weapon is still under development and is not yet in orbit, Biden administration officials have emphasized publicly. But if used, officials say, it would cross a dangerous rubicon in the history of nuclear weapons and could cause extreme disruptions to everyday life in ways that are difficult to predict.

This kind of new weapon — known generally by military space experts as a nuclear EMP — would create a pulse of electromagnetic energy and a flood of highly charged particles that would tear through space to disrupt other satellites winging around Earth.

Russia has recently made progress in its efforts to develop a nuclear EMP — a related but far more alarming technology.

Experts say this kind of weapon could have the potential to wipe out mega constellations of small satellites, like SpaceX’s Starlink, which has been successfully used by Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia.



https://abcnews.go.com/International/1st-ukrainian-city-falls-us-deadlocked-sending-military/story?id=107314399

1st Ukrainian city falls since the US became deadlocked in sending more military aid

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On the same day Alexey Navalny was declared dead in a Russian prison, Vladimir Putin was able to rack up another victory of sorts as Ukraine’s military announced it has retreated from the key city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, ceding it to Russia after months of ferocious fighting that cost tens of thousands of Russian casualties.



Posted by: ukraine
« on: January 10, 2024, 11:16:58 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/11/russia-ukraine-war-at-a-glance-what-we-know-on-day-687

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 687

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Two Russian missiles hit a hotel in Kharkiv late on Wednesday, injuring 11 people, one seriously, said the regional governor, Oleh Synehubov. Visiting Turkish journalists were among the injured, he wrote. Earlier, a 48-year-old woman was killed and a school partially destroyed in Russian airstrikes against Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine’s state emergency service said.

Ukraine is effectively a test site for North Korean nuclear missiles because Kim Jong-un’s regime is supplying Russia with rockets that can deliver an atomic bomb, South Korea has said. “By exporting missiles to Russia, the DPRK uses Ukraine as the test site of its nuclear-capable missiles,” said the South Korean ambassador to the UN, Hwang Joon-kook, using the official name of North Korea. One of the missiles flew 460km, the distance from a North Korean launch site to South Korean’s city of Pusan. “From the ROK [South Korean] standpoint, it amounts to a simulated attack, Hwang said.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, met his Lithuanian counterpart, Gitanas Nauseda, in Vilnius on Wednesday. The surprise visit marked the start of Zelenskiy’s tour of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia – all former Soviet republics and now EU and Nato members. In a statement on X, Zelenskiy called the countries “reliable friends and principled partners” to Ukraine.

Western hesitation on aid to Ukraine helps Putin, Zelenskiy warned in a news conference with Nauseda. Zelenskiy expressed his desire to see action on Ukraine gaining Nato membership at this year’s Nato summit, adding that 2024 would be decisive for Ukraine and its allies. At the news conference in Lithuania, he said: “Russia can be stopped.”

A €200m (£172m) package of long-term military assistance to Ukraine has been approved by the Lithuanian government. The news was announced after a bilateral meeting between Zelenskiy and Nauseda on Wednesday.

Pope Francis has expressed his concern that international attention is shifting away from the nearly two-year-old Russian war against Ukraine, and warned that it risks becoming a “forgotten” war.

An “explosive” new attack drone has been developed by Iran for Russia’s war in Ukraine, Sky News reported. The existence of a jet engine-powered version of the Shahed drone has been reported in recent days.

Russia accidentally bombed a Russian village, said the UK Ministry of Defence, with “inadequate training” and “crew fatigue” among Russian forces likely exacerbating accidents.

A majority (63%) of Russians continue to support the full-scale war against Ukraine, according to a poll released by the University of Chicago’s nonpartisan National Opinion Research Center (Norc).

Ukraine’s agricultural product exports via its alternative Black Sea corridor reached 4.8m tonnes in December, surpassing the maximum monthly total exported via a former UN-brokered grain deal, brokers said on Wednesday.




Posted by: russia
« on: January 08, 2024, 03:06:15 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/08/russia-ukraine-war-at-a-glance-what-we-know-on-day-684

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 684

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British former defence secretary Ben Wallace warned his successor, Grant Shapps, that the UK was at risk of “falling behind” in its military support for Ukraine because ministers had yet to announce a military aid budget for 2024-5.

A section of railroad near the city of Nizhny Tagil in Russia’s Urals region was hit by a “bang”, Tass and RBC news agencies reported. Baza, a Russian media outlet, said the blast on the railway took place near the station of San-Donato, near an oil depot.

The Swedish prime minister announced that Sweden will send troops to Latvia next year as part of a Canadian-led force to deter Russia from attack – despite not yet being a full member of Nato.


In the Russian-occupied Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, a Russian warplane accidentally released a bomb on the town of Rubizhne, Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the region’s Moscow-appointed government, said. He reportedly said the bomb, an FAB-250 that carries a high-explosive warhead, did not cause injuries.

Pope Francis was quoted as saying in a speech referencing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine that “indiscriminately striking” civilians is a war crime because it violates international humanitarian law.

Russia sent dozens of missiles across Ukraine early on Monday, killing at least four civilians, Ukrainian authorities said. Two people were killed in the western Khmelnytskyi region, local officials said. In Kryvyi Rih, a 62-year-old was reported to have been killed. Elsewhere, the governor of the Kharkiv region said a 63-year-old woman was killed in a strike on a town south of Kharkiv. Ukrainian forces destroyed 18 out of 51 missiles launched during the wave of Russian air strikes on Monday, Ukraine’s air force said.

Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, said that Russia has “left people homeless” through its attacks on Ukraine, a reality of war she says “can only be changed by weapons”. “Russian shelling damaged homes and infrastructure in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovs’k, Zaporizhzhia and Khmelnytsky regions. There are dead and injured, including children,” she wrote on X.

Russia evacuated about 300 residents of Belgorod, a city near the Ukrainian border, because of strikes by Kyiv, the governor of the region said. The evacuation from Belgorod is the largest of a major Russian city since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

The Japanese foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, forced into a bomb shelter by an air alert in Kyiv on Sunday, pledged $37m to a Nato fund that supports equipment such as a drone detection system. She also announced donations of five mobile gas turbine generators and seven transformers, to help with power cuts caused by Russian attacks.

Five children were among the 11 people killed by a Russian missile strike that hit in and around the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Saturday, the governor of the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donetsk region said. According to Reuters, Vadym Filashkin told Ukrainian television that Russian forces engaged in “mass shelling” of Pokrovsk around 3pm.

In Russia, more than 100 residents of the Russian border city of Belgorod had evacuated to an area farther from Ukraine, local officials said. Belgorod is just over half an hour’s drive from the border with Ukraine, making it a vital stop in the supply lines of Russia’s invasion forces. The city has come under extensive shelling and drone attacks.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, told a conference in Sweden via video link: “Even Russia can be brought back within the framework of international law. Its aggression can be defeated.”

Charles Michel has announced he will step down early as European Council president after running in the European parliament elections set for June. The surprise move means EU leaders will have to swiftly agree on a successor to take up his vacated council post, and could pave the way for Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, to exert more influence over EU policymaking.



Posted by: Schwartze Katze
« on: January 03, 2024, 09:48:59 pm »

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...in essence, forming a kind of Far-Right International, similar to the Communist International...

Related: MAGA Communism https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/maga-communism/
Posted by: russia
« on: January 03, 2024, 08:07:10 pm »

https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-fires-hypersonic-ballistic-missiles-ukraines-2-largest-cities-leaving-dead-nearly-100-injured

Russia fires hypersonic ballistic missiles at Ukraine's 2 largest cities, leaving 5 dead, at least 130 injured

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Russia launched hypersonic ballistic missiles at Ukraine's two largest cities on Tuesday morning, leaving at least five people dead and at least 130 injured, officials said. The attack comes as Moscow’s war is approaching its two-year milestone.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the social media platform X that four civilians were killed after hypersonic Kinzhal missiles that can fly at 10 times the speed of sound struck Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv and its second-largest city of Kharkiv.

The barrage included "almost 100 missiles of various types," Zelenskyy said, noting at least 70 missiles were shot down. "

Zelenskyy credited the Patriot, IRIS-T, and NASAMS systems for downing the rockets and saving potentially hundreds of lives.

Since Sunday, Zelenskyy said, Russian forces have launched about 170 Shahed drones and "dozens of missiles of various types" in an onslaught against Ukrainian targets.

One missile allegedly used in the attacks was the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal, an air-launched hypersonic ballistic missile, that Russian forces rarely use as they are expensive and Russia only has a limited stock.

The barrage comes after Russia attacked on Friday, in which at least 41 civilians were killed, its largest single assault on Ukraine since the war started.


https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/03/ukraine-war-live-updates-latest-news-on-russia-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html

Ukraine attacks Russian city of Belgorod and occupied Crimea overnight as retaliatory strikes intensify

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Russian officials said Ukraine attacked the Russian city of Belgorod overnight, as well as the port city of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea, as a series of retaliatory strikes by Russia and Ukraine continue.

The latest attacks, which have not been confirmed by Ukraine, continue a recent intensification of aerial warfare around the new year, and a series of “tit for tat” strikes by Russia and Ukraine over the last few days.

After experiencing one of the largest Russian missile strikes of the war last Friday, Ukraine retaliated by attacking the Russian border city of Belgorod on Saturday, with the missile strikes killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 100.

The Russian Governor of Belgorod Vyacheslav Gladkov said yesterday that Ukraine had again attacked the region with four missile strikes, killing one civilian. Overnight, Gladkov reported further attempted strikes

Russia, Ukraine exchange prisoners of war
Russia and Ukraine said on Wednesday that prisoners of war had been exchanged between the countries.

Over 200 “warriors and civilians” had been returned, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

That includes “soldiers, sergeants, and officers. Armed Forces, National Guard, Navy, and Border Guards. Some of the defenders fought in Mariupol and Azovstal,” he said.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a post on Telegram, according to a Google translation, that 248 Russian military personnel had been released after “a complex negotiation process.”



https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-west-sanctions-not-effective-state-run-market-private-2024-1

Sanctions have not crushed Russia because it's not a state-run economy as the West's 'fairy tales' suggest, says a Russian economist

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The West has made a key error in assuming Russia's economy is state-run, said a Russian economist.

Russia is a "market economy" with private companies adapting quickly to trade restrictions, he said.

Russia's economy appears resilient even after 22 months of sweeping sanctions.

The West and its allies unleashed a swath of sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, but the restrictions have yet to compel Moscow to put an end to the war.

This is because there's a fundamental flaw in the West's assumptions about Russia's economy that has hampered its efforts to force Moscow's hand to halt the war, said a Russian economist.

"The main mistake of Western experts and politicians was to create fairy tales that the entire Russian economy is state-run," Vladislav Inozemtsev

So sanctions were applied on the basis that Russia's economy is an inflexible state-run behemoth that would collapse quickly, he said.

"But that was a mistake, because the Russian economy is very much a market economy," added Inozemtsev.


https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/russias-war-woke

Russia’s War on Woke
Putin Is Trying to Unite the Far Right and Undermine the West


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Putin to signal his plans for the next six years and, relatedly, to test different messaging strategies. Analysts can therefore expect him to do two main things. One is to play up Russia’s struggle against the West. But the other is something that Westerners will find familiar from domestic politics: decrying socially liberal, or “woke,” policies.

The parallels with the American right are not coincidental. Putin and his advisers have adopted the views and rhetoric of conservative American firebrands, such as anchors on the Fox News channel.

The Kremlin has done so because, by embracing the culture wars, it believes it can win over support from populist politicians in Washington and elsewhere. In fact, Russia has already won international right-wing fans. Conservative leaders across the United States and Europe, including former U.S. President Donald Trump, have praised Putin. Some of them have suggested they are happy to compromise over Ukraine’s future.

Putin’s far-right rhetoric and policies are thus a form of statecraft. By championing such causes, the president appears to believe he can undermine Western societies from within.

He likely thinks he can thereby tear down the rules-based international order. And he probably hopes he can replace it with a new, conservative global system with the Kremlin at its center.

THE POWER OF HATE

Putin’s culture war has not stopped at Russia’s borders. Beginning in the 2010s, for example, Russian politicians and propagandists began to bemoan the influx of migrants and refugees into Europe, declaring that the continent had lost its identity, culture, and spirituality to people from Africa and the Middle East.

Moscow has also waded into U.S. politics. When the Black Lives Matter movement took off in 2020, the Kremlin said the cause was a catastrophe for the United States.

Patrushev even suggested that there were places in the United States “where whites are forbidden to enter, and local gangs will take over the police functions.” Such remarks could easily have been written by the right-wing media personality and former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson.

Putin’s rants appear to be aimed less at a domestic audience and more at right-wingers abroad. They seem to be targeted at Europe and North America in particular, the two places where Moscow has lost the most support over Putin’s last decade in power. In both regions, mainstream leaders who have isolated Moscow are struggling to fight off insurgent right-wing politicians

Increasingly, these populist conservatives are winning. And by embracing their rhetoric, Putin believes he can gain their support and, with it, find a way to improve Russia’s international position.

The French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen, for example, praised the annexation. She has also asserted that Putin is “looking after the interests of his own country and defending its identity.”

Le Pen is hardly the only conservative Western politician who developed a loose alliance with the Kremlin. The surging far-right party Alternative for Germany has also been warmly received by the Kremlin, and many of that party’s senior officials have spoken fondly of Moscow.

But none of these parties or politicians is as valuable to Putin as former U.S. President Donald Trump.

For Putin, then, far-right policies and rhetoric are an effective means of building international support. He is, in essence, forming a kind of Far-Right International, similar to the Communist International, which promoted the Soviet revolution in the first half of the twentieth century.

Even if Putin’s vision does not come to full fruition, a “far-right international” would help strengthen his hand.

Posted by: rp
« on: January 02, 2024, 02:45:39 am »

Wow:
https://twitter.com/cameron19460429/status/1741345808891740189
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the cameron account.
@cameron19460429
It appears Ukraine is using Indian produced 155mm shells. I see some reports saying these are South African but I believe they are of Indian origin. Which is hilarious #BRICS.


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https://x.com/BhagiaRohit/status/1741402352806973542?s=20
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No namer
@BhagiaRohit
So we are buying discounted crude oil from Russia ..as well as selling shells to Ukraine and making money through third party

Not only that, but Indian-produced Brahmos hypersonic cruise missiles are being used by Russia to kill the Ukrainian subhumans. Good on India for taking advantage of this conflict while also prolonging it.
Posted by: Avdiivka
« on: November 30, 2023, 12:23:06 am »

Ukraine military under pressure in key city in Eastern battle
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ABC News’ Patrick Reevell reports on the intense pressure on Ukrainian forces around a key city in eastern Ukraine, where the Russian military made some of its greatest gains this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vjxUdfZti8

"Worrying trajectory for Ukraine".

"Ukrainian wife of intelligence chief being treated for heavy metal poisoning...". Along with the poisoning of other intelligence agents.

Inside Avdiivka, the Ukrainian town Russia is trying to take at all costs • FRANCE 24 English
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Before the war, 30,000 people lived in the eastern Ukrainian town of Adviivka. As fighting continues, only around 1,350 remain. Russian troops have been pressing land and air-based attacks on Avdiivka, since mid-October as the focal point of their slow-moving push through eastern Ukraine's Donbas region in the 21-month-old war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOmxPsh4S60

Close to 1,000 Russian casualties per-day in Avdiivka according to Ukraine's government sources.
Posted by: war
« on: November 28, 2023, 04:36:06 am »

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/28/russia-ukraine-war-live-enemy-attempts-to-storm-avdiivka-from-all-directions-says-ukrainian-official

Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine military support of ‘existential importance’ to Europe, says Olaf Scholz

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Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has said military and financial support for Ukraine is of “existential importance” to Europe.

In a speech to parliament, he was quoted by AFP as saying:

We will continue with this support as long as it is necessary. This support is of existential importance. For Ukraine … but also for us in Europe.

None of us want to imagine what even more serious consequences it would have for us if Putin won this war.

David Cameron will return to Brussels today in an official capacity for the first time since his doomed campaign for Britain to remain in the EU.

The former prime minister, who made a surprise return to frontline politics this month when he became the UK foreign secretary, will attend a Nato meeting of foreign ministers to discuss issues including ammunition supply to Ukraine and the alliance’s continued presence in Kosovo.

Wife of Ukrainian military intelligence chief poisoned – reports
Marianna Budanova, the wife of Ukraine’s intelligence head, Kyrylo Budanov, has been poisoned, a representative of the military intelligence agency (HUR) has told the Kyiv Independent.

Russian forces are intensifying their drive to capture Avdiivka, trying to advance on all sides, according to Vitaliy Barabash, the head of Avdiivka’s military administration. “The Russians have opened up two more sectors from which they have begun making assaults – in the direction of Donetsk … and in the so-called industrial zone. The enemy is attempting to storm the city from all directions.”

Hurricane-force winds, snowfall and flooding have lashed Russia’s southern regions of Dagestan, Krasnodar and Rostov, as well as the occupied Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea.

Ukraine will become a member of Nato subject to reforms after the war, the military alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, has said. Nato states still agreed that full membership remained impossible in the midst of war, even while ways to move Ukraine and Nato closer continued, he added

The Chechen ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, has said another 3,000 of his fighters are ready to go to and fight in Ukraine for Russia.

Moscow does not have plans to expand its territory any further in Europe, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, insisted in response to remarks by the US defence secretary last week that Putin would not stop at Ukraine if he was victorious.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-putin-losses-latest-news-b2454556.html

Russia-Ukraine war – live: Putin’s forces ready to storm Eastern town as they advance on all sides

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Russian troops have been pressing land and air-based attacks on Avdiivka, since mid-October as the focal point of their slow-moving push through eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.

Vitaliy Barabash, head of Avdiivka‘s military administration, said last week that Ukrainian troops had made some headway in halting and pushing back the Russian advance.

“Things in the Avdiivka sector have become even tougher. The intensity of clashes has been increasing for some time,” Barabash told the media outlet Espreso TV.

Ukrainians brace themselves for temperatures to drop to minus 20C as they fear a repeat of Russian attacks on energy plants which impacted almost half the country’s energy capacity last winter.

Putin unveils Russia’s new AI strategy to rival Western advances in artificial intelligence
Vladimir Putin has unveiled what he calls Russia’s new strategy to counter Western dominance of the field of artifical intelligence, claiming that new AI models “cancel Russian culture”.

The president addressed an AI conference in Moscow on Friday where he said Russian investment in AI development was being increased across all sectors.

Russia forced to move air defences from Kaliningrad to Ukraine frontline amid heavy losses
Russia has likely been forced to move several air defence systems from its Kaliningrad enclave on the Baltic Sea coast to the frontline in Ukraine amid the losses it has suffered there, according to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Vladimir Putin appears to have been left with no choice but to weaken the defences of Kaliningrad, an outpost bordered by Nato members on three sides and considered one of Moscow’s most strategically sensitive regions.


https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/28/ukraine-war-live-updates-latest-news-on-russia-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html

Ukraine war live updates: Winter storms batter Russia and Ukraine, wreaking havoc, death and destruction ... but war continues

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Southern Ukraine and Russia continue to be battered by bad weather, with huge winter storms causing widespread power cuts, losses of water supplies, mass flooding, traffic chaos and destruction. Heavy fighting carries on along the front line in Ukraine, nonetheless.

There have been a number of deaths and injuries as a result of a surge in severe weather in recent days

Russian media is also reporting on the scale of the destruction caused by the storms and what it described as a hurricane across southern Russia.

Ukraine’s General Staff said Tuesday morning that its forces continue to defend the city even though “the enemy does not abandon attempts to surround Avdiivka.”

“Our soldiers are steadfastly holding the defense, causing the occupiers significant losses,” the military added. CNBC was unable to verify developments on the ground.

Snowstorms and high winds cannot stop military activity entirely, analysts say

“A cyclone in the Black Sea and southern Ukraine caused infrastructure damage in many areas of coastal southern Russia and occupied Ukraine and is impacting the tempo of military operations along the frontline in Ukraine, but has notably not stopped military activity entirely,”

Russia is willing to put a lot of effort into this war, NATO warns

Wars tend to last longer than people expect, NATO’s secretary general told CNBC, warning that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had shown Moscow had no intentions of capitulating.

“What we have seen is that Russia is willing to put a lot of effort into this war. They’re ramping up [weapons] production and they’re also sacrificing soldiers in large numbers,” Jens Stoltenberg told CNBC’s Silvia Amaro in Brussels on Monday.

“We need to be prepared for the long haul,” he added. “Yes, it has a price, but the price of not supporting Ukraine is much higher than the price of supporting Ukraine.”




Posted by: StormoftheCentury
« on: November 28, 2023, 01:32:51 am »

I doubt this will be the storm of the century, but yet another great indicator of what's to come...

Russia-Ukraine war: Big win for Kyiv in war with Russia claims NATO | WION
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How long will Ukraine be able to fend for itself against Russian aggression if its Western supporters run out of weapons? Alarm bells are ringing as NATO faces a shortage of weapons for Ukraine. Now, officials from the bloc and Britain have urged member nations to increase production. Here's a report.
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