Penrhys, Rhondda Page
A page telling the story of a unique magical village - Penrhys, in the Rhondda !
Poet's Page
music and opinion from Wales' wandering poet.
Peace Page
(only on youtube)
'come and see'
- a partisan film
Watch this film --- and you
will - finally - understand.
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=NJYOg4ORc1w
Some in the West are fond
of a loose use of words...
''stunning'', for example, to describe
a work of art... but believe me
when I say - this film about a
lad of 14 - made me laugh
and cry and - by the end
- I was left stunned.
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 the 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-
thing, 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/
The video above is of a pro-Russia cavalcade in Germany and it surely brought heart- bursting tears!
More than 5,000 cars in just one campaign in support of Russia--- in Germany !!!!!!!!!
NATO has a Scandinavian 'leftist' as its head - WHY?
THIS VIDEO EXPLAINS A LOT ABOUT TODAY'S NORWAY
REQUIEM
Efran and Poet's tribute to all those killed by wars
THE LATEST NEWS
Junior Lieutenant Morsky contributed
to the capture of a fortified point of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine
February 4th, 9:30pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Guards Junior Lieutenant Ivan Morsky and his group, made
their way to the rear of the positions of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) to storm the enemy's fortified point.
Russian intelligence - using a drone - revealed the location of
military equipment and firing points, after which a group of
Soldiers, taking the most favorable positions, attacked the
enemy. Two machine-gun points of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces were eliminated immediately, and the Ukrainian
side, began to retreat. Morsky noticed seven soldiers
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who tried to escape
in a pickup truck. With a well-aimed shot from an
RPG, the junior lieutenant destroyed the vehicle
along with the enemy personnel.
As a result of the battle, the AFU stronghold was
captured and cleared without loss of personnel
in the Morskoy group.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the personal
courage and professionalism of the Guards Senior
Lieutenant Vladislav Leonov, who commanded a
platoon of the anti-aircraft missile battery of
the anti-aircraft division.
Leonov, as part of an air observation post, performed
the task of covering Russian assault groups
attacking enemy positions from enemy
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and FPV drones.
The senior lieutenant ---- noticed kamikaze drones and a
heavy Baba Yaga-type unmanned vehicle approaching
the Russian positions... in time. Leonov gave the
command to shoot down the enemy drones and
opened fire himself. He managed to destroy
two FPV drones with targeted shooting
from an AK-74. The Baba Yaga UAV
detonated in the air as a result of
concentrated fire from several
Russian servicemen.
Leonov also organized the evacuation to a safe place
for the further treatment of two wounded soldiers of
the Russian Armed Forces, during the clash.
Earlier on February the 4th, the ministry said that the Guard
corporal Alexander Putilov, as part of the artillery gun crew,
participated in the destruction of a drone and an infantry
fighting vehicle (BMP) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Prior to this, on February 3, the Russian Defense Ministry
reported that Private Anatoly Bondarenko, as part of the
unit, was performing a combat mission to defend his
positions at an important tactical line. With help
from a drone, Bondarenko detected the covert
movement... of equipment of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine - in the direction of
the positions of Russian troops and
promptly transmitted coordinates
to the artillery's calculations.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022,
continues. The decision was made against the back-
ground of the worsening situation in the region.
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In Kharkiv, a shopping centre
employee --- filled a woman
with gas from a canister
February 4th, 5:29pm
(Izvestia.ru)
In Kharkiv, an employee of the territorial recruitment centre
(TCK, an analog of the military enlistment office in Ukraine)
filled a woman with gas from a canister. This was reported
on February the 4th, by the Ukrainian online publication
"Country.na" in the Telegram channel.
It is noted that the incident could have occurred
due to the fact that a local resident tried to
protect a disabled person... from being
forcibly taken away by employees
of the shopping centre.
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Military commander Gavrish: with the
capture of Constantinople,the
Russian military will close
the lid of the boiler
February 4th, 4:36pm
(Vesti.ru)
In Pokrovsky area of the special military operation,
Russian fighters are advancing from two sides at once, to the settlement of Constantinople in
Dnipropetrovsk region. As a result, the
militants of the Kiev regime will find
themselves in a cauldron, VGTRK
military correspondent Alexey
Gavrish said on 60 Minutes
on Rossiya TV channel.
The advance to Constantinople, according to the military
commander, comes from the north and from the south.
"I must say... that this city is of very important strategic
importance for us, due to the fact that it is the capture
of this locality - that gives us the opportunity to close
the lid of the boiler that goes from Udachnogo, Ulakli
and just as far as Constantinople," Gavrish said.
"And those Ukrainian troops who are currently fighting in
Dachne are already doomed in any case, because they
do not have the opportunity to withdraw, they do not
have the opportunity to rotate, they do not have the
opportunity to replenish their reserves."
When Constantinople comes under the control of Russian troops,
Ukrainian militants there will simply be doomed, he says. At the
same time, the enemy, for whom this sector of the front seems
to be as significant as possible, is transferring its main combat
– trained reserves a little further north --- to the Pokrovsk area.
There, near the village of Udachnoye west of Pokrovsk,
counter battles have been going on for more than
10 days, the military commander said.
"APU [The Armed Forces of Ukraine] initially threw in unprepared
reserves. Now, as reported, they have withdrawn their main
combat units from Kursk, and transferred them here. That
is, they get their teeth into it [Udachnoye]," Gavrish said.
It is too early to talk about the timing of the capture of Pokrovsk,
the military commander notes, but the Russian military is
moving "opornik by opornik", maintaining the initiative,
and the preponderance in artillery and aviation there
- is simply obvious.
Earlier, military correspondent Vladimir Razin said that in
the Pokrovsky direction, the Russian Army stops the
attempts of Ukrainian counterattacks around the
clock --- and prevents attempts to transfer
reserves to Pokrovsk.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade
Russian territory in Kursk region
February 4th, 10:30am
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
---- continue the operation to neutralise AFU
formations on the territory of Kursk region.
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted
fire damage on formations of 1 heavy mechanised brigade, four
mechanised brigades, 3 air assault brigades, 1 marine brigade, and two territorial defence brigades of the AFU - close to Bogdanovka, Viktorovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Daryino, Zazulevka, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa,
Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya
Loknya.... Martynovka, Maryevka, Makhnovka,
Melovoy, Mirny, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina,
Pogrebki, Pravda, Sverdlikovo, Staraya
Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye
Porechnoye, and Yuzhny.
In addition, three enemy counter-
attacks ------ were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery - hit
manpower and hardware of the AFU close to Basovka,
Belovody, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Ivolzhanskoye,
Miropolye, and Obody, in Sumy region.
Over the course of the day, the AFU losses were up to 345 troops,
2 tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armoured personnel
carrier, 27 armoured fighting vehicles, 1 Tunguska anti- aircraft gun, 24 motor vehicles, 4 field artillery guns, and two mortars.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction - the AFU
losses amounted to more than 57,330 troops, 331 tanks, 244
Guard Lance Corporal Alexander Putilov participated in the
destruction of an unmanned aerial vehicle and an infantry
fighting vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) as
part of an artillery gun crew.
The crew received orders to destroy a camouflaged enemy
infantry fighting vehicle firing at Russian positions. When
Putilov, following the instructions of the commander,
prepared ammunition and took the place of the
shooter, he noticed that an enemy unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) was approaching the
howitzer. The Ukrainian Armed Forces
attacked the position of the Russian
gunners, several servicemen were
shell-shocked & one of them was
seriously wounded.
Putilov was also injured, but continued to conduct targeted
fire on the Ukrainian drone and shot it down. Then the
gunners aimed the gun ----- at the coordinates of the
enemy's BMP and struck. The car was destroyed.
Meanwhile, an evacuation vehicle was waiting nearby.
Putilov personally transferred the wounded comrade
to the vehicle.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the dedication and
courage of the Guard junior Sergeant Vitaly Razumov, who
carried out a combat mission to capture an AFU
stronghold as part of an assault group.
The stormtroopers were moving stealthily towards the target
when Ukrainian intelligence discovered their location.
Razumov quickly found his bearings and took a
favorable firing position, immediately
eliminating the AFU shooter, but
received a bullet wound in
the leg.
Despite the injury, Razumov continued to fight the enemy and
helped the assault group enter the flank of the AFU defense.
As a result, Russian attack aircraft managed to break into enemy
trenches and eliminate three Ukrainian soldiers. The rest of the
enemy personnel retreated, leaving the stronghold. Razumov,
along with his colleagues, held the defense of opornik until
reinforcements arrived.
Earlier on February 3rd, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that
Private Anatoly Bondarenko, as part of the unit, was performing a
combat mission to defend his positions at an important tactical
line. With the help of a drone, Bondarenko detected the covert
movement of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in
the direction of the positions of Russian troops and
promptly transmitted the coordinates to
artillery calculations.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022,
continues. The decision was made against the
background of the worsening situation
in the region.
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The Ukrainian, who had been hiding
in a car for two days, was taken to
the military enlistment office
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the
Operational Information Dept)
February 3rd, 8:37pm
(Lenta.ru)
Police officers in Odessa, in southern Ukraine, delivered
a Ukrainian man to the military enlistment office, who
did not leave his car for two days ---- to avoid
mobilization. This is reported by TASS.
According to the agency -- the man was first taken to the
hospital and then transferred to the military enlistment
office. However --- it is not specified whether he
voluntarily agreed to leave the car in which
he had stayed --- for more than a day.
The police also confirmed that they stopped the car because
of a traffic violation on February 2. As a result of checking
the documents, it turned out that the driver is wanted as
evading mobilization. When the man was offered to go
to the military enlistment office, he locked himself
in the car.
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US resumed arms shipments to Ukraine
...after a suspension in recent days
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the
Operational Information Dept)
February 3rd, 8:29pm
(Lenta.ru)
The United States last weekend resumed arms
shipments to Ukraine after their being
suspended in recent days, Reuters
reports, citing sources.
The source noted that deliveries resumed after
the White House abandoned its initial
assessment and stopped
all aid to Ukraine.
According to one U.S. official, there are factions
within the administration that disagree on the
extent to which the United States should
continue to help Kiev with weapons
from US stockpiles.
Earlier, Reuters reported - that the administration of
former US President Joe Biden deliberately slowed
down military assistance to Ukraine in its last year
in power ------ due to fears of an escalation of the
conflict with Russia.
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In the DPR, four civilians were injured
as a result of attacks by the
Ukrainian Armed Forces
February 3rd, 7:18pm
(Izvestia.ru)
As a result of attacks on the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)
by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four civilians were injured.
This was announced on February 3, by the head of the
region, Denis Pushilin.
"In the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, when an explosive object
was dropped from a VFU drone onto a passenger car, a man
born in 1976 received moderate injuries," the head of the
DPR wrote in the Telegram channel.
Also in the Central City district of Horlivka, after a drone attack on
a car, a woman born in 1980 and a man born in 1947 were injured.
In addition, a woman born in 1969 was injured in Kurakhovo
due to the use of barrel artillery. It is noted that the victims
are provided with the necessary medical care.
In addition - four civilian infrastructure facilities were reported
damaged in the Nikitovsky (Palace of Culture, central sewage
treatment plants) and Central City (shop, enterprise of the
State Unitary Enterprise DPR "Water of Donbass")
districts of Horlivka.
Also on Monday, it was reported that two men were injured -- as a
result of an attack by an APU drone in the village of Tserkovny in
the Belgorod region. Later, the governor of the region,
Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the number of
victims had increased to three.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are firing daily at the territories
of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as
Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, against the background
of a special operation to protect the Donbass, which
Russia announced on February the 24th, 2022.
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Adviser to the head of the DPR Kimakovsky:
The Armed Forces of Ukraine...... fill
even children's toyswith mines
February 3rd, 3:44pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Kiev regime has been actively using improvised invisible
mines since the beginning of the CDF, thereby endangering
the lives of the civilian population. This - was stated in an
interview with the TV channel "Russia 24" adviser to the
head of the Donetsk People's Republic Igor Kimakovsky.
Explosive devices -- primarily -- pose an
increased danger to untrained civilians.
"There are more and more such moments, when the enemy uses
improvised explosive devices in this war. First of all, this means
that the enemy is ruthless not only in relation to our military,
because our military is largely trained – they undergo
engineering training and understand what needs to
be done in conditions when you are on an assault
or anchoring in a populated area. But many
civilians, especially children, because
they often mine toys as well – are
simply not prepared for this,"
says Kimakovsky.
Touching familiar objects - can be fatal. The
militants even make traps out of drink cans.
"I met with the first such devices in Mariupol at Azovstal, where in
the catacombs, for example, they stretched fishing lines, almost
invisible.. at the level of helmets and shoes. And I - once - even
almost --- caught my helmet on one of these objects. They could mine RPGs (hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers -Ed's note) ----- it stands near the wall at an angle, you touch it, there is an explosion. Or a bulletproof vest, for example, that is in good condition -- you take it, it is - blown up. One of the first lessons I received from the sappers — in no case can you use cans
from our energy drinks -- which are sold on our territory. I don't know..... how they get to the enemy, but as soon as you kick a can that lies on the road, you consider empty --- an anti-personnel improvised mine is immediately detonated," said the
adviser to the head of the DPR.
Kimakovsky also revealed the composition of improvised mines:
the metal profile is filled with an explosive substance.
The mine has a special magnetic fuse that reacts
to a large volume of metal. It is triggered, if,
for example, a tank passes nearby.
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Ganchev: Kharkiv region
certain to be liberated
February 3rd, 2:06pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Kharkiv region will certainly be liberated. It has serious
strategic and political significance for Russia. This was
stated by the head of the Russian regional
administration, Vitaly Ganchev.
He stressed that the liberation of the Kharkiv region will
reduce the number of attacks on the Belgorod region
and the Luhansk Republic.
"I am sure that the Kharkiv region will still be liberated,"
Ganchev said in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the country
needs a "sanitary zone" where there will be no troops of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine and from where they will not be
able to launch attacks. In a number of areas of the
Kharkiv front, there are already significant
dynamics, the head of the Russian
regional administration noted.
Earlier on February 1, Ganchev said that Russian troops
control about 70 settlements in the Kharkiv region.
These include both small villages - and large
cities, such as Volchansk.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade
Russian territory in Kursk region
February 3rd, 11:15am
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the
territory of Kursk region.
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted
fire damage on formations of 7 mechanised brigades, four air
assault brigades, and one territorial defence brigade of the
AFU near Viktorovka, Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo,
anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,007 tanks and other armoured
fighting vehicles, 1,513 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,190 field
artillery guns and mortars, and 31,149 units of support
military vehicles - have been neutralised.
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The Russian Defense Ministry announced that
the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a
missile attack on a boarding school
in Sudzha
February 1st, 10:08pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that on February 1, the
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) committed another war crime
by launching a targeted missile attack on a boarding school
in the town of Sudzha, Kursk region.
"On February 1, the Ukrainian Armed Forces committed another
war crime by launching a targeted missile attack on a boarding
school in Sudzha city. The launch of enemy missiles from the
Sumy region was recorded by Russian air defense systems,"
the Telegram channel says.
According to the ministry, this provocation by the Kiev regime
was aimed at distracting world public opinion from the
atrocities committed by Ukrainian militants -- in the
village of Russkoye Porechnoye, in Kursk region.
"The strike of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on a civilian object
once again demonstrated the terrorist, inhuman nature of
those who are in power in Kiev," the Defense
Ministry stressed.
Acting Governor of the Kursk region Alexander Khinshtein
clarified that there is no reliable information about the
number of victims yet.
The news item is being updated
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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
told about the exploits of Russian servicemen
in the free defense zone
February 1st, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The ministry noted that a group of commandos under the
command of Sergeant Serhiy Grishin received a combat
mission to capture a stronghold of militants of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the area of
one of the settlements.
Grishin determined the ways of covert approach to the enemy's
position, after which the sergeant independently opened the
locations of observation posts, and the group launched an
offensive. The sergeant, acting boldly and decisively, led
the shooting battle.
Unable to withstand the active pressure of Russian commandos,
the Ukrainian militants retreated. Grishin's group occupied the point and organized the defense of the occupied positions.
Thanks to Grishin's courage, the group completed the assigned
tasks to capture the enemy stronghold, while avoiding losses.
This allowed the Russian military to continue an active
offensive deep into the defense of the AFU militants
and liberate the nearby village.
In addition, the Defense Ministry pointed out the actions of
Sergeant Alexey Lomakov, who, as part of the logistics
support brigade ---- performed tasks to deliver
ammunition and food ---- to the positions of
Russian troops located in the immediate
vicinity of the contact line.
At the time of the next transportation, Lomakov's car was
attacked by an FPV drone. The serviceman managed to
divert the car... from the flight path of this unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) and deliver material resources
to Russian servicemen in a timely manner.
Earlier on February 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported
that operators of unmanned aerial vehicles of the motorized
rifle regiment of the Dnepr group of troops, destroyed the
dugouts and infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in
the Orekhovsky direction, in the Zaporozhye region.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24th, 2022, continues. The decision was made against the background of the worsening situation in the region.
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Fighter of the Russian Armed Forces Casper:
The Czech Republic handed over machine
guns to the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
which have clinched cartridges
February 3rd, 8:15am
(Vesti.ru)
Czech-made submachine guns, which were found by Russian
servicemen on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
in the South Donets direction, turned out to have a defect –
a wedge of the cartridge. This was reported to TASS by a
fighter of one of the units of the group of troops "South"
of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign Casper.
The fighter said that to work out the coherence of actions, units
often conduct training at the training ground. Tactical medicine
classes are also organized, including an assault on enemy
strongholds by a group of five to eight military personnel.
"There is no superiority [in arming the Ukrainian militants].
I will even say this: we met with Czech weapons, tried
them, [realized that] the submachine guns are bad,"
Kasper said.
According to him, units of Russian troops tested Czech
submachine guns at the training ground, the weapon
turned out to have a wedge of a cartridge.
"I think that, in principle, the APU does not have an advantage
in armaments, the advantage is on our side, everything is
being developed [in the Russian Federation], including
weapons," Kasper stressed.
The UAV operator with the call sign Tatar, in turn, said that the
assault group usually includes grenade throwers, riflemen,
machine gunners, and snipers. Artillery precedes
the assault.
"First - is working off with artillery fire. As soon as the infantry
approaches, you can say, the waiting point, the artillery fires.
We are already hanging in the air, adjusting the artillery,"
the serviceman said.
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Craftsmen from the Novosibirsk region
assembled a powerful all-terrain
vehicle for SVO fighters
February 3rd, 3:52am
(Vesti.ru)
In the Novosibirsk region, craftsmen assembled an
all-terrain vehicle from domestic parts. Sergey
Kashutin, a representative of the maker,
spoke about the capabilities of the
car, on Rossiya 24 TV channel.
The power of the all-terrain
vehicle is 110 horsepower.
"It just goes everywhere. There are no barriers. The wheels are
specially made for all-terrain vehicles. Big ones to overcome
all obstacles, jump over logs and everything else that
comes along the way," Kashutin said.
The all-terrain vehicle was handed over to the movement "We do
not abandon our own". The car will be sent to the evacuation
group for the removal of wounded and dead soldiers.
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The article about the atrocities of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region
was removed from Wikipedia
by Artem Vereykin
(Night Line Editor)
February 1st, 6:34pm
(Lenta.ru)
The online encyclopedia "Wikipedia" has removed an article
about the atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in
the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, Kursk region. This
data appears when you try to open the corresponding
page on the site.
"Unfortunately, this page has been removed within the last 24
hours," the message reads. It is claimed that the material
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,984 tanks and other armoured
fighting vehicles, 1,511 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,100 field
artillery guns and mortars, and 31,097 units of support
military vehicles... have been neutralised.
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Expert Seleznev explained the survivability of
the Challenger tank:by its non-participation
in battles
February 1st, 6:48am
(Vesti.ru)
According to the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain,
the Challenger tanks delivered for the Armed Forces
of Ukraine have never failed. Military commentator
Denis Seleznev -- on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV
channel, explained the invulnerability of British
equipment -- by the fact that it is very little
used in combat operations.
In his opinion, this model of the tank
has many operational problems.
"The Challenger tank, of course, was known as a celebrity,
because there was, supposedly, not a single tank lost in
combat operations, but this is only for the reason that
it did not participate in them: particularly, that is - it
had nowhere.. to get beaten. This turned out to be
the main mystery of the survivability of this tank,
namely - that it simply does not appear on the
battlefield. And it does not appear there,
because --- it has obvious operational
problems, not even combat, that is,
apparently --- it is too heavy, it is
poorly passable... very difficult
to maintain ------ and it breaks
down," Seleznev explained.
On December 13, the Russian Defense Ministry reported
that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost two British
Challenger tanks during the fighting in the
Kursk region.
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Ganchev: Russian Armed Forces
control about 70 settlements
in Kharkiv region
February 1st, 4:19am
(Vesti.ru)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation control about 70%
of the settlements in the Kharkiv region, said the head of the
Russian regional administration, Vitaly Ganchev.
Mostly we are talking about villages, and Volchansk
can be distinguished from large cities. But even in
small settlements, people still live.
"About 70 villages," RIA Novosti quotes Ganchev as saying.
He also added that most of the local residents are elderly people
or those who need social or medical support, and our task is to
give it to them.
Earlier, Ganchev noted that the liberation of Dvurechnaya, which
became known on January 28th, will allow the Russian army
to create a springboard for an offensive in the direction of
the Kupyansky and Volchansky districts.
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Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
took out the loot from Chasova Yar
in Turkish armoured cars
February 1st, 3:68am
(Vesti.ru)
The Ukrainian military exported looted property from Chasova Yar
to the DPR, in Turkish Kirpi armoured cars. Local resident Pavel
Morkovin, who suffered from the actions of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces, told RIA Novosti about this.
He said that he observed the situation himself. ''When I drove up to
my store ---- I saw a Turkish Kirpi armoured car with a crew of
eight people.'' According to him, the Ukrainian military
entered the store, took out the bars - and took away
coffee machines, computers and other equipment.
"By and large, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used their armoured vehicles, which NATO provided to them, for looting ....and their own enrichment," RIA Novosti quotes Morkovin.
Earlier it became known that Russian fighters are cleaning up the area of the railway station in Chasovy Yar.
The operator of the calculation of attack UAVs of the 155th
Marine Brigade, said that the APU began to use US tanks
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,735 motor vehicles, 396
artillery guns, 45 MLRS launchers, including 13 of
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading
vehicles, 106 EW stations, 14 counter-battery
warfare radars, five air defence radars, 33
units of engineering and other materiel,
including 15 counterobstacle vehicles,
one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine
armoured recovery vehicles, and one
command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
is in progress.
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The Russian Armed Forces attacked
Izmail port---- in the Odessa region
January 31st, 12:06am
(Vesti.ru)
The Armed Forces of Russia attacked the seaport in Izmail,
Odessa region, said the coordinator of the Nikolaev
underground, Sergey Lebedev.
Explosions were heard in the port of Izmail,
the underground worker noted.
"Ishmael, the continuation of a merry night. Finally ---- the port was worked out along its entire length. There are warehouses destroyed and the port infrastructure is broken, which means that the port will not accept military cargo for several days, or maybe even weeks," Lebedev said, in response to a
request from RIA Novosti.
Meanwhile, the Russian army earlier attacked the city of Kilia
in the Odessa region, killing several dozen mercenaries
from Romania.
"I really want these hubs for Western military-technical
assistance - to simply stop working. They have
completely stopped," said the Foreign
Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large,
Rodion Miroshnik.
According to him, Ukraine uses the ports of the
Odessa region ---- to receive the main flows of Western weapons.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports ---
on repelling AFU attempt to invade
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 30th, 10:40am
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the
territory of Kursk region.
In the course of offensive actions - units of the Sever Group of
Forces inflicted losses on formations of one tank brigade, one
heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, 2 air
assault brigades, one marine brigade, and three territorial
defence brigades of the AFU by Gogolevka, Goncharovka,
As noted by the MoD... the operator of unmanned aerial vehicles
Private Mikhail Chernov, performed combat missions to support
Russian servicemen during their assault on the fortified strong
points and long-term firing structures of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine (AFU). During the battle, the assault team was
ambushed by fire.
The machine-gun crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, being at a
dominant height and well-fortified position, shackled the actions
of a group of Russian commandos, forcing them to fight in
unprepared positions. Having correctly assessed the
situation and quickly prepared the attack UAV for
departure, Chernov, immediately sent it to the
area of operation of enemy machine gunners.
Having promptly discovered the location of the enemy machine-
gun crew, the serviceman destroyed it with a targeted hit of
the drone. Chernov's competent and decisive actions made
it possible to continue the group's offensive and dislodge
the enemy from an important stronghold.
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported.. that the group under
the command of the guard, private Anatoly Sineglazov, performed
a combat mission to detect enemy positions, identify long- term fortified structures, and armoured vehicles, and adjusted the fire of Russian artillery crews.
In the course of conducting offensive operations, Sineglazov,
together with his subordinates, secretly moved to the line of
combat contact, and also competently led subordinate
personnel under the incessant fire influence from the
enemy. The serviceman identified the most
dangerous centres of resistance and firing
points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
the coordinates of which were
immediately transmitted to
the positions of the
Russian artillery
for destruction
---correcting
its fire.
After the battle ended, Sineglazov, with his subordinates,
prepared several hidden dugouts disguising them, using
improvised materials. Over the next two days... without
disclosing their location, the group of Russian fighters
monitored the enemy & transmitted the coordinates
of targets to be hit to the artillery control point, as
a result of which the enemy's positions were
destroyed, along with the militants and
equipment located there, the
ministry said.
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Political analyst Fatigarov: our fighters
are brave, savvy, they solve problems
unconventionally
January 29th, 5:15pm
(Vesti.ru)
Military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation -
have tremendous ingenuity, bravery and a non-standard approach
to solving combat tasks. This opinion was expressed by political
analyst Vasily Fatigarov on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
According to the journalist, our military uses weapons that are
available. He said that he witnessed how the soldiers adapted
a mine from a mortar to a hand grenade launcher.
"Our guys have tremendous ingenuity, bravery, and a non-standard
approach to solving and performing combat tasks. And speaking
more broadly, we use all types of weapons, conventional ones,
of course, which we need to use," Fatigarov said.
Earlier it was reported that the soldiers of the group of forces
"North" showed a warehouse with captured NATO weapons
--- captured in the battles in the Kursk region.
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Military commander Kukushkin:
Russia's Armed Forces control
more than 90% of Dzerzhinsk
in the DPR
January 29th, 5:14pm
(Vesti.ru)
Over 90% of the city of Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian name-Toretsk,
Editor's note) in the Donetsk People's Republic is under the
control of the Russian army. This was stated by military
correspondent Pavel Kukushkin in an interview with
Rossiya 24.
He clarified that the fighting is currently taking place
on the territory of the Toretskaya mine.
"We can safely say that yes, 90 percent, roughly, if we say, more
than 90% of the city is behind us. The only source of resistance,
I repeat, is the Toretskaya mine," Kukushin said.
The liberation of Dzerzhinsk, as well as Chas Yar, which is
located next to it, is important for the Russian army, the
military commander stressed.
"The liberation of both Toretsk and Chas Yar opens up operational
space for us to attack Konstantinovka. This is a very important
logistics centre for supplying groups of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine," Pavel Kukushkin said.
And after the liberation of Konstantinovka, the Russian Armed
Forces will open up operational space for Slavyansk and
Kramatorsk, the military correspondent added.
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Russian soldiers told how they
liberated Novoelizavetovka
in the DPR
January 29th, 3:30pm
(Vesti.ru)
During the liberation of the village of Novoelizavetovka, the
assault detachments of the Russian Armed Forces were
covered by tankers of the 90th division of the Center
group of Troops. Details of the offensive operation
were shared with Rossiya TV channel by
Russian soldiers.
According to the tank commander Daniil Dorofeev, our military
knew in advance the location of the Ukrainian militants.
"We were following the route. They knew in advance where the
enemy was. We worked on them, extinguished the firing points.
The infantry entered the village," the tankman said.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces... tried to prevent the advance of our
troops by firing at them with all their guns.
Gunner-operator of the tank, Valery Grigoriev, told about the hit of an enemy missile on the tank.
"During the liberation actions of the [Novoelizavetovka] "settlement", after a certain time, an ATGM flew at us. The tank staggered a little.... but held out," the Russian military said.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced the release of
Novoelizavetovka in the DPR on January 29. For more
information about how the Russian Armed Forces
took control of this locality, see the program
"Vesti" on "Russia 1" at 5pm.
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Fighter of the Russian Federation Batukaev:
''militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine''
in Chas' Yar - wore US flags
January 29th, 2:16pm
(Vesti.ru)
Ukrainian Armed Forces militants killed near the town
of Chasov Yar --- were wearing US flags. Zelimkhan
Batukayev, commander of the 2nd motorized rifle
battalion of the 4th Brigade of the 3rd Combined
Arms Army of the Southern Military District,
told the TASS news agency.
The serviceman specified that his unit was knocking out units of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the territory of a children's
camp in the south-east of Chasova Yar. According to
Batukayev, there were no Ukrainian militants
among the killed opponents.
"When we started moving into the camp itself, we didn't find any
dead enemy with the Ukrainian flag, but there were American
flags. I am 99% sure --- that they are not Ukrainians,"
the battalion commander explained.
The situation was similar during the liberation of Artemivsk,
Batukayev added. 90% of the militants entrenched in the
city --- were foreign mercenaries.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on
repelling AFU attempt....to invade
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 29th, 11am
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
continue the operation ---- to neutralise AFU
formations on the territory of Kursk region.
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces, inflicted
damage on formations of 1 tank brigade, one heavy mechanised
brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, a
marine brigade ---- and three territorial defence brigades of the
AFU close to Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Zaoleshenka,
Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka,
Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina,
Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and
Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Eight
hostile counter-attacks
were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and Artillery engaged AFU
manpower and hardware.... close to Viktorovka, Goncharovka,
Another exchange of bodies of military personnel took place
between Russia and Ukraine, which was held according to
the formula 757 for 49. This was announced by military
commander Evgeny Lisitsyn in Telegram.
Thus, Moscow handed over to Kiev about
15 times more bodies than it received.
The Coordination Centre for the Treatment of Prisoners of War
of Ukraine confirmed the information about the receipt of the
remains of 757 soldiers. The Ukrainian side did not name the
number of bodies returned to Russia.
The previous exchange of fallen servicemen was reported on
December 20, 2024. Then, Russia handed over 503 bodies
to Ukraine, receiving 42 in return.
In addition, on January 15, Moscow and Kiev exchanged
prisoners of war according to the formula 25 for 25.
The United Arab Emirates acted as a mediator
in the procedure.
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The Ministry of Health ------- spoke about
the condition of victims -of the attack
by Ukraine's Armed Forces on Bekhty
January 24th, 1:05pm
(Izvestia.ru)
After the shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of
Bekhter village in the Kherson region, 13 victims,
including three children, remain in hospitals.
This was announced on January 24th, by
Assistant Minister of Health of Russia
Alexey Kuznetsov.
He specified that three victims are in serious condition.
"One child and two adults are in serious condition, the
rest are in a state of moderate severity," RIA Novosti
quoted Kuznetsov as saying.
The shelling of Kazan, Rylsk and Oryol, showed the fear of the
Ukrainian regime caused by the situation in the free defense
zone.
The Armed forces of Ukraine attacked the village of Bekhty in the
Kherson region on January 20. The cluster munition strike hit the
area adjacent to the school. As a result of the attack, two people
were killed and 25 others were injured.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are firing daily at the territories of the
Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as Zaporozhye
and Kherson regions, against the background of a special
operation to protect the Donbass, which Russia
announced on February 24, 2022.
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Medvedev: about 450 thousand people
entered the service under contract
in 2024
January 24th, 11:47am
(Vesti.ru)
In 2024, about 450,000 people entered the service, under the
contract. Another 40 thousand joined volunteer formations.
This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the Russian
Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev..... during a
meeting of the Security Council Commission
on the recruitment of contract soldiers.
He called it the fulfillment of the set tasks
for recruitment over the past year.
"About 450 thousand people signed a contract for military service.
In addition --- more than 40,000 of our citizens joined volunteer
formations and went to the special military operation zone,"
Medvedev said.
He thanked all the Russians who voluntarily went to defend
the Fatherland - for showing mutual assistance, genuine
brotherhood, firmness of spirit, courage, and love
for the Motherland.
Earlier, Medvedev said that in Russia, the contract
is the only tool for attracting military personnel
to participate in the SVO.
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US Professor Kuznik: Russia
-- won the Ukrainian conflict
January 24th, 10:42am
(Vesti.ru)
Militarily, Russia has won the Ukrainian conflict. Peter Kuznik,
a US professor and director of the Institute for Nuclear
Research at the American University, shared his
thoughts in an interview with the Rossiya
24 TV channel.
In his opinion, the Russian Federation has built
an effective strategy and the West will not be
able to weaken it.
"Trump said, he wants to end the war in Ukraine. We all – you and I - want to end this war. And the longer it continues, the more tragic
it is for the Russian and Ukrainian peoples. If this continues for
another six months or a year, in what state will we finally sit
down at the negotiating table? The West wants to weaken
Russia --- and teach it a lesson, and Zelensky wants to
regain all the lost territories — this will not happen.
Russia -- has won militarily: it has more weapons,
more people & a better strategy at the moment.
And even the majority of Ukrainians.... now -
according to polls - say that they want to
stop fighting and are ready to give up
territories for this. All this --- is a
catastrophe for Ukraine... a
catastrophe for the whole
world," Kuznik said -- on
Rossiya 24 TV channel.
According to the professor, the US president can influence the
early end of the conflict: it is he who can stop Vladimir
Zelensky - through pressure.
Actions against the head of the Kiev regime have already been
taken by Trump. The other day, he made the first decision to
stop helping Nezalezhnaya Square for 90 days. During this
time, a check will be made on whether the allocation of
aid meets the political goals of the new White House
administration.
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed more
than 12,500 militants and 29 tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
in a week
January 24th, 9:51am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian military personnel destroyed 12,815 militants and 29 tanks, including 2 US Abrams of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the territory of a special military operation, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a weekly summary.
The largest number of enemy personnel units was destroyed by
units of the Center, West and North groups of troops – 9,610
Ukrainian militants. The remaining 3205 soldiers of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed in the areas of
responsibility of the units of the South, East and
Dnipro groups of troops.
In addition, the Russian military destroyed 150 armoured combat
vehicles, including 3 Bradleys, 18 M113 units and one MaxxPro
and an HMMWV - each made in the US, a Finnish-made Pasi
armoured personnel carrier, a French-made VAB armoured
car, and other special & military equipment of the enemy.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that
one Abrams tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
was destroyed in the Kursk region.
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Rogov: the Russian flag is raised in
the centre of Velikaya Novoselka
January 24th, 8:20am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military raised the tricolor in Velikaya Novoselka in
the west of the Donetsk People's Republic. The battle for the
liberation of the settlement continues, Chairman of the
Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian
Federation on sovereignty, co-chairman of the
Coordination Council for the integration of
new regions, Vladimir Rogov, told
RIA Novosti.
He specified that the Russian flag is installed on the roof of a
residential building. According to him, Russian fighters are
expanding their control zone in Velikaya Novoselka.
"In the center of Velikaya Novoselka, our soldiers raised the
Russian tricolor on one of the residential buildings. At the
same time, the fighting for the complete liberation of
the village --- continues," Rogov explained.
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Russian soldiers remotely cleared a road
on the left bank of the Dnieper River...
with drones
January 24th, 8:08am
(Vesti.ru)
It is more convenient to use drones to clear the road remotely.
This was stated on the air of the TV channel "Russia 24" by
the commander of the mine clearance company with the
call sign Chelyabinsk.
He said that the task of his fighters was to clear one of the roads
on the liberated left side of the Dnieper River from the mines of
the Kiev regime militants. Drones, in dangerous areas shot by
the enemy, are used --- for personal safety.
"Drones, of course, are more convenient. First – we save the lives
of ourselves and our personnel," Chelyabinsk explained.
Also, drones help mine enemy water routes – channels near islands and backwaters. Floating ammunition prevents boats from landing Ukrainian militants.
"They are still trying only to swim across the Dnieper, but they are
not succeeding," said the sapper-UAV operator with the call sign
Zohan. "We mine the water, and they can't get in."
According to Zohan, the water mines are equipped with a float.
When an enemy boat or boat hits it, the mine explodes.
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TASS: The Russian Armed Forces "cut"
the AFU brigade in half in Velikaya
Novoselka in the DPR
January 24th, 7:16am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military surrounded a group of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine in Velikaya Novoselka in the Donetsk People's
Republic, "cutting" the settlement in half. This was
reported to TASS by law enforcement agencies.
It is noted ----- that the militants of the Kiev regime are
completely blocked in the southern part of the village.
"The 110th brigade [of the Armed Forces of Ukraine] will no longer
leave if it does not hand over its weapons. They are in the
southern part and completely blocked. Novoselka
itself is divided in half," the text says.
Earlier, Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the DPR, said in
a comment to Russia 24 that the defense of the Ukrainian army
near Velikaya Novoselka collapsed. As of January 23, there
was only sporadic resistance, mainly in the north of the
village. The 110th Brigade of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine was issued an ultimatum to surrender.
There are about 1,500 Ukrainian militants
in the cauldron.
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Major Shchekochikhin said that the forces
of the Russian Armed Forces --- entered
Petrovka along the forest belt
January 24th, 6:15am
(Vesti.ru)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation liberated the village of
Petrovka, entering there in small groups along the forest belt and
railway. The commander of the assault squad of the 15th
motorized Rifle Brigade, Major Oleg Shchekochikhin,
told Rossiya TV channel about this.
The fighter told how stormtroopers entered the village.
"The main road, along which our commandos entered
along the forest belt, along the railway, seeped into
the village of Petrovka," the major said.
He noted - that the offensive was also launched from
the westernmost part of the settlement. There, the
Russian Armed Forces..... crossed the river. The
enemy did not expect this and was not ready.
Earlier.... it became known that commandos of
the Russian Armed Forces, released civilians
during the capture of Petrovka in the DPR.
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Ivlev called Syrsky's words about
the AFU counteroffensive
a smoke screen
January 24th, 4:20am
(Vesti.ru)
The State Duma Deputy commented on the statements of
the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Alexander Syrsky about the counteroffensive, calling
them an attempt to manipulate public opinion.
State Duma deputy from Crimea, Major General of the
reserve, Leonid Ivlev, criticized Syrsky's rhetoric.
"The enemy is never simple-minded and resorts to various tricks.
Syrsky is trying to create a smoke screen... in conditions when
the strategic and operational-tactical initiative, is completely
on the side of the Russian army," the parliamentarian noted.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian troops have
already liberated 801 sq. kilometres of territory in the Kursk
region - which is 63.2% of the territory originally occupied
by Ukrainian units. Ivlev noted how the Ukrainian Armed
Forces are losing on all fronts, and soldiers are
surrendering en masse.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing on all fronts. Whether it is
the Donbass or the Kursk region. And the soldiers of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine are already surrendering in platoons. Wow,
there's a lot of optimism about Syrsky," he said.
The MP pointed out that Syrsky's statements are mostly
informational in nature and are aimed at obtaining
support from the new administration of the
United States and NATO countries.
"This is the sad goal of the Kiev regime – to fight
to the last Ukrainian," Ivlev said.
On August 6, 2024, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted
an offensive in the Kursk region, which was completely stopped
by Russian troops. According to the Chief of the General Staff
of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, the operation
will be completed --- by defeating the enemy with access to
the state border.
Earlier, Commander-in-Chief Syrsky admitted that total
mobilization in Ukraine does not help cover the needs
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in infantry.
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Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
were impressed ---- by the work of the commandos of the Russian
Armed Forces in Kurakhov
--- and surrendered
January 24th, 1:51am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian attack aircraft showed high combat skills in clearing
high-rise buildings in Kurakhov and forced the enemy to
surrender, said the commander of the assault
company with the call sign Nifer, in an
interview with RIA Novosti.
Captured Ukrainian servicemen noted the coherence
of these actions and the superiority of the Russian
assault company.
"You came in as special forces, as skilled guys. We looked at you,
how you work, how you dropped by, that we didn't even notice
you, and how you shoot," RIA Novosti quoted a captured
Ukrainian soldier as saying.
The Ukronazis were afraid of the assault and realized that they had
nowhere to go. They conducted chaotic shooting on the principle
of "anywhere". Russian attack aircraft, when clearing and
entering enemy positions, make one or two shots at the
target and move on, said Nifer.
The enemy was waiting for support from other units of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine (AFU). But the Russian attack aircraft also
expected this and rebuffed the units of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine that arrived to help.
"We drew them last night. They were given them, watered with all
kinds of weapons. And they retreated and never came near us
again. Yes, they were most afraid that we entered smoothly,
work smoothly --- and do not have such a thing that we
shoot into the void," Nifer concluded.
On January 6, the Ministry of Defense announced the release
of Kurakhov. The city is 40 km from Donetsk and 30 km from
Krasnoarmeysk. Kurakhovo is the largest settlement in the
south-western part of the Donbas and has an important
operational significance. The liberation of the city
creates a springboard for the Russian army's
offensive in the Zaporizhia region along
the Zaporizhia-Donetsk highway.
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Retreating Ukrainian Officer
Hides Behind Child
January 21st, 2025
(SouthFront)
Russian military reporters are sharing an interesting video
filmed by a Russian FPV drone on the Ukrainian frontlines.
Russian drone operators - spotted a vehicle of the Ukrainian
command staff moving in the rear on the Donetsk frontlines.
The decision to attack the enemy was made immediately
but at the moment when the UAV was approaching the
target, the passengers rushed away from it.
Two people - jumped out of the car. The driver ran away and fell
on the ground nearby, the officer - surprisingly - got out with a
child in his arms. The Ukrainian officer was hiding behind
the child. The driver and the passengers were well
aware from where the Russian drone was
approaching them - and it is not a
coincidence, that the officer
turned out to be behind
the child.
Fortunately, Russian soldiers timely assessed
the situation and managed to turn the drone
away at the very last moment.
It is not clear.. why a child was taken to the frontlines.
The Ukrainian officer could evacuate him to the rear.
Taking into account this officer’s attitude, it should
not be excluded that the poor child could be a
victim of black transplantologists who are
very active in the war-torn country.
Anyway, the actions of Ukrainian officers are another
clear example of the attitude of Ukrainian neo-nazis
to the civilian population.
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Assault group of Sergeant Yerofeyev
captured the AFU stronghold
without losses
January 21st, 9:45pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Sergeant Vladimir Yerofeyev commanded an assault group in
one of the important areas of the Russian offensive, and
managed to capture a stronghold of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) without losses. The Ministry of
Defense of the Russian Federation reported on
the exploits of Russian army soldiers in
performing combat tasks - in the zone
of a special military operation (SVO).
Yerofeyev's group was assigned the task of capturing an enemy
stronghold near the village. The servicemen moved forward to complete the task. On the way - they were almost discovered
by a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone, but Yerofeyev noticed
its approach in time by a characteristic sound and ordered
them to take cover under the rubble of trees.
The group managed to get to the stronghold unnoticed.
The enemy, who did not expect an attack, suffered
losses and was forced to retreat. Russian attack
aircraft captured opornik in a short time -- and
without losses.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the dedication of the
driver of the BARS-32 detachment, Vitaly Dandyl, who was
transporting three wounded Russian servicemen from
the front line to the medical unit when the car was
attacked by an enemy FPV drone. The vehicle
caught fire.
Despite the threat to life, Dandyl pulled the wounded soldiers
out of the burning car and moved them to the nearest
wooded area, hiding them from enemy drones.
The driver supported the vital functions of
the victims, until the evacuation team
arrived at the scene.
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Kadyrov announced the destruction of
the Starlink of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces in the Kharkiv region
by Alexandra Sinitsyna
(Night Line Editor)
January 21st, 6:53pm
(Lenta.ru)
Firing positions with the Starlink satellite communication system,
as well as the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)
were destroyed -- in the Kharkiv region. This was stated in the Telegram channel by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.
"Skilful actions of our drone guides revealed the movement of
manpower, their shelters, as well as equipped firing positions
with the Starlink satellite communication system in forest
plantations. The data was passed to the artillery, which
covered the enemy's concentration with precise
strikes," Kadyrov said.
According to the head of Chechnya, the personnel of the Zapad-
Akhmat battalion of the Russian Defense Ministry and the
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for
the Kurchaloyevsky district of the Chechen Republic
were engaged in the elimination of enemy forces
and equipment, along with servicemen of the
116th separate special purpose brigade
"Steel" --- of the Rosgvardiya.
Earlier, SpaceX announced that it was ceasing to
finance the maintenance of Starlink, in Ukraine.
The owner of the company, Elon Musk, offered
the Pentagon to take over the payment for
satellite Internet.. but then changed his
mind and said that he would continue
to finance it.
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In Ukraine reported about forced
mobilization of a man out
walking his dog
January 21st, 6:19pm
(Izvestia.ru)
A resident of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine was forcibly mobilized while
walking his dog on the street. This was reported on January
21 by the Ukrainian publication "Country.ua" in its
Telegram channel.
It published footage in which two men in the uniform of police
officers and one in the equipment of an employee of the
shopping centre (territorial recruitment centre,
analogous to the military enlistment office)
approached a citizen with a dog, began to
push him to the fence-grid -- and then
twisted and forced him into an
official car.
The Ukrainian tried to escape, but could not. All this time,
the man's pet .............. was running around the car of the military commissars.
After the mobilized man was taken away,
the dog was left alone on the road.
Military registration and enlistment offices have
put on the ''wanted list'' over half a million men.
Earlier, on January 16, Ukrainian media reported that residents
of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine staged a riot against
employees of the shopping centre and police officers. In the
footage of eyewitnesses, the rural road is loaded with
official cars, and dozens of law enforcement officers
with machine guns are visible on the streets.
Women walk between cars in the video
and are outraged because of the
mobilization of men.
In Lviv, on January 7, military commissars beat a Ukrainian
on the hands and feet during forced mobilization. Three
men in the uniform of employees of the shopping
centre, and one in civilian clothes ---- forced
the citizen into their car.
Before that, on December 22, 2024, a man was killed in the
military enlistment office in Odessa, trying to save his son
from mobilization. The Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada,
Artem Dmytruk -- said that employees of the shopping
centre, shot at the resident of Odessa. The former
MP drew attention to the fact - that murders in
military registration and enlistment offices
have already become typical for Ukraine.
Martial law in Ukraine is effective from February 2022. At the same
time, President Volodymyr Zelensky (powers expired on May 20th,
2024) signed a decree on general mobilization. Later, the
Verkhovna Rada repeatedly extended its validity. Most
men between the ages of 18 and 60 - are prohibited
In early January, during the repulse of the AFU attack on the
Pokrovsky direction, the commander of a tank company,
Andrey Romanov, with the call sign Groom, was
wounded in the eye and saved his colleagues.
The military man of the Russian Armed Forces told the details
of the incident in the program "Vesti with Alexey Kazakov"
on the TV channel "Russia 24".
Romanov and his comrades first came under a raid by APU
drones, and then suddenly ran an SUV over a mine. As a
result, several soldiers were injured.
"The left wheel blew up --- I immediately flew out of the car, I woke up
on the ground. I hear screams - and the fact that drones were flying.
The driver has very serious injuries. Naturally, we must immediately
provide assistance and evacuate. There were five of us. Four
people were taken on stretchers, including me, and started
dragging them," says the tank company commander.
According to Andrey Romanov, they were picked up by a passing
car. Due to the lack of places, the soldier decided to stay with
his colleagues, and send the rest of the wounded by car.
"We found a place to stay for the night --- spent the night. We walked
slowly along a well-trodden path to our own people, and came out.
We met their own people and they had already found out that the
driver did not survive, unfortunately. And then - they looked at me, they say, now there's a splinter in my eye. Let's go to Donetsk. In Donetsk, the operation was immediately performed - the fragment was taken out. Even then, they said that I was lucky --- I kept my eyes," the commander added.
Romanov also said that as a result of the attack, one enemy tank
was burned by the Russian Armed Forces. Two more APU
combat vehicles - retreated.
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The SVO fighter, who was considered dead,
woke up in the morgue, recovered
and returned to the front
January 21st, 1:08pm
(Vesti.ru)
A soldier of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign Katun,
who was considered dead, recovered in the morgue, then
recovered from his injuries and went back to the front.
About how it was, he told in an interview with
"Komsomolskaya Pravda".
In 2024, the house where the Russian fighter was staying was
shelled. The blast wave knocked him out of the way and
smashed through two walls. The victim was taken to
the evacuation zone, where he went into cardiac
arrest. The doctors pronounced him dead and
sent the body to the morgue.
Katun said that he woke up from the cold, and the last thing he
remembered was the battle. ''When I woke up, I thought that I
was in a sleeping place, I started to feel it, but it turned out
to be far from a sleeping bag.''
"My second thought was that the guys wanted to make fun of
me and packed me in a black bag," the military man recalls.
He got out of the bag and went through the corridors of the
morgue, which greatly frightened the attendant, who
turned pale - and fainted. Later it turned out that
the fighter was in a state of clinical death,
and his survival is a real miracle.
As soon as Katun recovered --- he
immediately returned to the front.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on
repelling AFU attempt..... to invade
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 21st, 10:39am
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
During the offensive actions, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire
damage on formations of one tank brigade, one heavy mechanised
brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one
marine brigade, and 3 territorial defence brigades of the AFU
close to Gogolevka, Guyevo, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya,
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,702 tanks and other armoured
fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,845 field
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,540 units of support
military vehicles... have been neutralised.
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Ukrainian General Romanenko: the Ukrainian
Armed Forces do not have the resources
to hold Krasnoarmeysk
January 21st, 4:50am
(Vesti.ru)
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are facing serious difficulties in holding Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian-Pokrovsk), said the former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Igor Romanenko.
According to him, with the current forces and resources,
the Ukrainian army is not able to protect this
strategically important city.
"With the [resources] that are available, unfortunately -- I think
that there are no [chances to keep Krasnoarmeysk]," he said
in an interview with the YouTube channel Politeka Online.
Romanenko stressed that the situation is complicated by
insufficient mobilization and dependence on Western
assistance in providing weapons and equipment.
He pointed to the "long-term lack of effective
command and control of troops" in the Red
Army area, which leads to chaos and the
exhaustion of brigades.
"For almost a year, chaos persists in the management
of troops and units ---- at various levels," he added.
Krasnoarmeysk is a key hub for logistics of Ukrainian troops in
the Donetsk region. The loss of this city can have disastrous
consequences for Ukraine, as noted by former Verkhovna
Rada deputy, Igor Mosiychuk.
"We are very dependent on the help of the West here, and on the
other hand, because in 3 years the issue of mobilization and
distribution of supplies, with the training of military
personnel, according to the needs of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, has not been resolved,"
Igor Romanenko concluded.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up
the Belitskaya mine... near Krasnoarmeysk.
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Marochko: Russia's army took the village
of Green Guy ------ in the Kharkiv region
January 21st, 4:24am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops occupied the village of Zeleny Gai near Kupyansk,
Kharkiv region. The fighters put the AFU militants to flight.
According to military expert Andriy Marochko, the Ukrainian forces
have no chance to resist. "Under the cover of night" they fled from
the territory of the settlement, he told TASS.
"The Russian Armed Forces have improved the tactical position
of troops in the area of the village of Zeleny Gai, Kharkiv region,
Ukraine, making resistance for the armed formations of Ukraine
almost impossible," he said.
Marochko claims ----- that the Ukrainians took advantage of the bad
weather and abandoned their positions, heading in the direction of
Borovskaya Andreevka. According to him, now the Russian forces
are focused on destroying scattered enemy units.
Earlier on January 18th, the coordinator of the Nikolaev
Junior Sergeant Abubakar Arsunkayev adjusted artillery fire and
contributed to the destruction of the US-made Bradley infantry
fighting vehicle (BMP). The Ministry of Defense of the Russian
Federation, reported on the exploits of Russian army soldiers
in performing combat tasks in the zone of a special military
operation (SVO).
The Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the tactical directions,
were going to go on the offensive and pulled together military
equipment and assault infantry groups in one place. At that
time, Arsunkaev was serving at the fire correction post,
observing the movements of enemy equipment.. and
determining its coordinates, after which he passed
instructions to the gunners.
Thanks to the accurate measurements of the junior sergeant,
Russian servicemen successfully eliminated the Bradley
infantry fighting vehicle and a significant number of
AFU personnel. This thwarted the plans of the
Ukrainian command and forced the enemy
to retreat.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted ---- the courage and
professionalism of Private Daniil Lobanov's guards. The unit
in which he operated --- defended one of the settlements in
the SVO zone from attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The enemy once again hit the defended area with mortars.
Despite the difficult weather conditions, Lobanov, using
a reconnaissance drone, managed to detect the
camouflaged position of the enemy mortar
gun, along with the calculation.
The Guard private identified the coordinates of the detected target
and passed them on to the commander of his unit. The enemy was
hit by a mortar attack. Part of the AFU personnel managed to hide
in the ravine, which did not go unnoticed by Lobanov, who
continued to observe. He gave the new coordinates to
the Russian mortars, and the remnants of the
enemy's armed formation were destroyed
by a second strike.
Earlier on January 20, the Russian Defense Ministry said that senior
ensign Hamid Dzharullayev was carrying out the task of delivering
ammunition to soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - when his car was subjected to massive
mortar fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and an attack by an FPV drone.
Dzharullayev managed to divert the car from the flight path of the
kamikaze drone and brought the vehicle out of the area of enemy
mortars, delivering ammunition to the front line in a timely manner.
Earlier, on January the 19th, the Ministry noted the merits of Junior
Sergeant Ilya Lukashov, who - at an observation post in one of the
defense areas detected the movement of a sabotage group of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Russian positions.
Having equipped a place for shooting, competently using the
terrain conditions for shelter, waiting for the enemy to be
ambushed, he began to shoot at it. The enemy group
suffered heavy losses in a few minutes, and the
survivors fled, leaving the wounded behind.
The Defense Ministry also noted the actions of Lance Corporal
Nikolai Dvornikov, who discovered two Ukrainian drones while
advancing --- as part of the head patrol. Drones conducted
reconnaissance on the path of the likely Russian convoy.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24th, 2022,
continues. The decision was made against the background
of the worsening situation in the region.
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Rogov respondedto a statement
by General Syrsky about "Hazel"
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the
Operational Information Dept)
January 20th, 9:21pm
(Lenta.ru)
Ukraine has recognized the uniqueness of the Russian
Oreshnik ballistic missile. This was stated by the
chairman of the Commission on sovereignty,
patriotic projects and support for veterans
of the Public Chamber of the Russian
Federation, Vladimir Rogov --- in a
conversation with RIA Novosti.
Thus, he commented on the words of the Commander-in-Chief of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Alexander Syrsky about the
country's lack of means to intercept the "Hazel Tree".
According to the interlocutor of the agency, the commander-in-
chief understands that it is useless to continue "lying and
making a careless appearance".
"We see that, from the stage of denial came
the stage of the recognition of "Hazel","
— concluded Rogov.
Earlier, Syrsky admitted that Ukraine has nothing to shoot down
the Oreshnik . He noted that this situation encourages the
country to create its own air defense system, which
would also be an anti-missile system.
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In Kharkiv region ------- they told about the
daily shelling by Ukrainian Armed Forces
by Gleb Palekhov (Editor of
the BSSR department)
January 20th, 5:33pm
(Lenta.ru)
Against the background... of the successful offensive of Russian troops, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are firing daily, at the rear territories of the Kharkiv region, where civilians are located.
This was stated in an interview with TASS by the head of
the military-civil administration (CAA) of the region,
Vitaly Ganchev.
"The liberated territory of the Kharkiv region is shelled
almost daily by Ukrainian forces," the official said.
He added that such attacks by Ukrainian troops
demonstrate their helplessness.. in facing the
Russian offensive.
Earlier, Ganchev declared the superiority of the Russian Armed
Forces over the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region.
According to him, Russian troops are moving particularly
effectively in the Kupyansk direction.
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Putin: the purpose and meaning of SVO
is to fight for the interests of Russia
and its people
January 20th, 3:08pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the purpose and
meaning of the special operation - the struggle for the
interests of our country and people. This was stated
by the head of state .....during a meeting with
permanent members of the Security Council,
broadcast by the TV channel "Russia 24".
"Of course --- we will fight for the interests of Russia, for the
interests of the Russian people," Putin said. The President
pointed out that this is the meaning of conducting a
special military operation.
Vladimir Putin also said that the goal of resolving the Ukrainian
conflict .....should be a long-term peace, and not a short truce.
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,565 motor vehicles, 378
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading
vehicles, 94 EW stations, 14 counter-battery
warfare radars, four air defence radars, 31
units of engineering and other materiel,
including 13 counterobstacle vehicles,
one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine
armoured recovery vehicles, and
one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
is in progress.
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Russian troops free Shevchenko in DPR
January 20th, 9:11am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian servicemen of the Center Group of Forces, have liberated the village of Shevchenko in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Shevchenko village... lies west of Kurakhov.
"Units of the Center group of troops ---- continued to advance into
the depth of the enemy's defense ---- and liberated the village of
Shevchenko in the Donetsk People's Republic," the report says.
In addition, the Center destroyed two US-made M113 armoured
personnel carriers, three vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled
artillery system, and up to 545 enemy personnel.
Earlier on January 19th, the "Central" group
liberated Vozdvizhenka village, in the DPR.
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Russian Defense Ministry:Russian army
has liberated Novoegorovka in the LPR
January 20th, 9:06am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian armed Forces liberated the villages of Novoegorovka
in the LPR and Shevchenko in the DPR, the Russian Defense
Ministry said.
The village of Novoegorovka in the Luhansk People's Republic
came under the control of the Russian army due to the active
actions of the fighters of the group of troops "West".
"As a result of active military operations, units of the Zapad group
of troops liberated the village of Novoegorovka in the Luhansk
People's Republic," the military department said in
a statement.
In addition, Zapad fighters destroyed about 400 Ukrainian army
fighters, a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, an M113 armoured
personnel carrier, three armoured combat vehicles, seven
vehicles and five field artillery pieces. An enemy
ammunition depot destroyed.
Also, the Russian Defense Ministry on Monday informed about
the liberation of the village of Shevchenko in the DPR to the
west of Kurakhov, by forces of the Center group of troops.
On January 4th, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the
liberation of another locality in the LPR, the village of Nadia.
According to RIA Novosti estimates, in 2024, the Russian
Armed Forces liberated 214 settlements in the special
operation zone.
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Rogov: the Russian army knocked out
the APU from Kotlin in the DPR
January 20th, 8:51am
(al Manar)
The Russian armed forces have driven out Kiev regime fighters
from the village of Kotlino, which is located southwest of the
city of Krasnoarmeysk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Now the clearing of the settlement is coming to an end,
Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the commission of the
Public Chamber of Russia on sovereignty issues,
co-chairman of the Coordination Council for the
integration of new regions, told RIA Novosti.
"Our troops have driven the enemy out of Kotlino, the mopping
up of its northern part is coming to an end," Rogov explained.
A road and railway line runs through the village of Kotlino,
which connects Krasnoarmeysk in the DPR, with the
Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine.
The day before, it became known that the Russian army
liberated the village of Vozdvizhenka in the DPR.
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Russian sapper - told about "meowing" cabinets -- and nightstands mined by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
January 20th, 2:50am
(Vesti.ru)
Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began mining cabinets
and nightstands with explosive devices with speakers ---- to
attract people with the sounds of a cat meowing. This was
warned by the commander of a platoon of sappers,
Leonid Otdelnov, reports TASS.
The Russian military explained that such sounds
most often attract attention, because they
immediately cause a desire to help.
"We go in, we hear meowing, for example, in the closet --- and you
can understand that when you open the closet compassionately,
there will be an explosion," he said in a video distributed by the
Russian Ministry of Defense.
The ministry also touched upon the topic of demining
the liberated village of Selidovo, as well as roads
and infrastructure, TASS reports.
"During combat operations, sappers have to neutralize various
types of mines installed, as well as unexploded elements of
cluster munitions and foreign-made mines," the Russian
Defense Ministry said.
It is reported that - when finding unexploded ordnance, Russian
sappers do everything possible to remove and neutralize them.
But... if this cannot be done, then they destroy the dangerous
object right on the spot, using the overhead charge method.
Earlier it was reported that in the Kursk region, AFU militants
disguise cluster munitions as backpacks, cigarette packs
and even interior items. According to the deputy
commander of the engineering and sapper
company from the North group of the
Russian Armed Forces with the call
sign Hydrach, Russian sappers
successfully "split" all these
tricks of the enemy - and
clean up the liberated
territories.
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APU booby-trapped escape routes
from Kurakhov for its fighters
January 20th, 2:20am
(Vesti.ru)
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the escape routes
from Kurakhov for their own soldiers. This was stated by the
captured Ukrainian serviceman Maxim Koreiko in an
interview with RIA Novosti.
He noted that when the Ukrainian Armed Forces had already withdrawn the drone crew operators and infantry with USJavelin anti-tank systems -- the last Ukrainian soldiers in Kurakhov requested an exit from the command, but in response they only heard - "forward".
"They mined the landing of the retreat, that is, you can't hide
from the "birds" anymore, you can't go on a straight road.
We already had nowhere to retreat," RIA Novosti quoted
Koreiko as saying.
Earlier, he also said that the commanders of the AFU units ordered
their subordinates to blow up apartment buildings in Kurakhov
without making sure that there were no civilians in them.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced Kurakhov's release on
January 6. Establishing control over the city creates significant
difficulties for the logistics and technical support of the
Donetsk group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Pushilin: scouts of the Russian Armed Forces
periodically enter the Dnipropetrovsk region
January 20th, 1:am
(al Manar)
Russian intelligence units can enter the territory of the
Dnipropetrovsk region. This was announced by the
head of the Donetsk People's Republic,
Denis Pushilin.
According to him, the enemy's position in
this direction... continues to deteriorate.
"There are intelligence groups that already enter, according to
my information, and in Krasnoarmeysk itself (Ukrainian name
Pokrovsk – editor's note), if necessary, and on the territory
of the Dnipropetrovsk region," Pushilin said during a
weekly broadcast on his Telegram channel.
These actions are carried out based on military expediency and
the tasks set by the command, the head of the region noted.
Earlier, Ukrainian militants blew up one of the mine shafts in
Krasnoarmeysk to prevent the Russian Armed Forces from
using it and penetrating the rear of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, military expert Yevgeny Mikhailov reported on
the Rossiya 24 TV channel. Units of the Russian army
can liberate Krasnoarmeysk in two months, said
military correspondent Alexey Gavrish during
the program "60 minutes" on the TV
channel "Russia".
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Buzhinsky: Kiev regime makes
illusory plans for mobilization
January 20th, 12:28am
(Vesti.ru)
US President, Joe Biden, said that the United States has withdrawn
its nuclear weapons from Ukraine and Europe. But these weapons
were never been placed in Ukraine, said Senior Vice-president of
the Centre for Political Studies, Lt General of the Reserve, and Candidate of Military Sciences, Yevgeny Buzhinsky, in the program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov".
As for Europe, Biden messed up again: The United States has
completed the modernization of nuclear weapons in the
European Theatre of Operations. US nuclear weapons
are located at 6 air bases in 5 European countries.
But the United States is also preparing to deploy
such weapons.... in Britain, Yevgeny Buzhinsky
noted in the program "Evening with Vladimir
Solovyov" --- from January 20th.
Meanwhile, the topic of Ukraine is still on the list of priorities for the
United States and Europe. So, the United States recommends that
Kiev reduce the mobilization age to 18 years and hold elections.
At the same time, US President-elect Donald Trump announced
his desire to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible.
"There is a contradiction. Why strive to end the conflict
as quickly as possible ...and immediately recommend
increasing the mobilization contingent?"
asked Buzhinsky.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, signed a law
that prescribes Ukrainian young men aged 16-17 to register
for military registration at the military enlistment office,
without personal appearance... but through a personal
account on the websites of military enlistment offices.
"The goal of all this, is that Zelensky wants to see what kind
of mobilization resource he has," the expert explained.
Reducing the draft age to 25 years before the start of the special
military operation (SVO) of Russia gave Ukraine 375 thousand
soldiers. Lowering the bar to 21 years will give Kiev 550-675
thousand recruits, & up to 18 years - another 550 thousand
people. But this is in theory. In practice, it was possible to
recruit 1-2% of conscripts to the army.
"The second aspect ----- the number of deserters from the Armed
Forces of Ukraine is growing. In 2024, the Prosecutor's Office of
Ukraine initiated 89,500 cases. But this figure doesn't take
much into account. In particular, in November 2024,
7,000 servicemen ---- deserted from the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, in December – 17,000,"
Buzhinsky said.
Thus, all this makes Kiev's plans for mobilization....... illusory. In
addition, the training of Ukrainian servicemen in Europe leaves
much to be desired. According to statistics, a soldier of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine trained in two months in the
West dies at the front on the 30th day after arrival,
and a soldier trained in two weeks in Ukraine -
on the 14th day, the expert explained.
That is, statistics show that the mobilization in Ukraine
is not going as the Kiev authorities would like,
Buzhinsky concluded.
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Sfera complex to protect cities from
UAVs -- must pass temperature test
January 20th, 12:02am
(Vesti.ru)
The Sphere complex -- developed by the Polet Chelyabinsk Radio
Plant (part of Rostec's AIS holding) to protect cities from drones,
is to be tested in extreme climatic conditions. This was stated
by the head of the technological group of assembly and
assembly production, Yulia Yesareva.
The system detects different types of UAVs .......at a distance of one
kilometre. The product is also capable of jamming drones hundreds
of metres away. "Polet" - has already checked the accuracy of the
declared parameters on captured copies of unmanned vehicles
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Sphere complex is tested
under conditions of maximum loads.
"Climate tests in a special chamber should take place in the
temperature range from -50 to +65 degrees," Yesareva said.
Verification is carried out -- to identify shortcomings and eliminate them. "Sphere" ------- should be able to protect dugouts as well as combat vehicles. The latter suffers the most from enemy drones.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are sacrificing their troops in the
Kurakhovo area of the DPR, Ukrainian journalist and military
analyst Yuriy Butusov has said - as reported by RIA Novosti.
"We have been training our combat-ready troops in an
unnecessary salient near Kurakhovo for several
weeks in a row," he said. According to him,
since the Russian military has completely
taken control of the city, the destruction
of Ukrainian troops in this area no
longer makes any sense.
"The withdrawal from these ledges is simply critical,
as quickly as possible!" — said the journalist.
Earlier.... Butusov said that the Russian military liberates
settlements without resistance from the Armed Forces
of Ukraine. Butusov explained this - by the lack of
defensive lines on the flanks of the Ukrainian
side and the new tactics of the Russian
forces ---- which are successfully
moving around without getting
involved in street battles.
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The Russian Defense Ministry reported
on the exploits of the Russian military
in the special operation zone
January 18th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The ministry -- drew attention to the merits of Junior Sergeant Ilya
Lukashov, who was on combat duty at an observation post in one
of the defense areas. During the observation, Lukashov detected
the movement of a sabotage group of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine (AFU) in the direction of Russian positions.
He reported this to the command ----- and decided
to set up an ambush on the path of the militants.
After that, the junior sergeant equipped a place for shooting,
correctly using the terrain conditions for shelter, and when
the enemy was in the firing sector, he began to shoot at it.
The enemy group suffered heavy losses in a few minutes, and
the survivors fled, leaving the wounded behind. As a result,
the Ukrainian Armed Forces were prevented from entering
the area of defense of the Russian troops - and possible
losses of personnel, were prevented.
The Defense Ministry also noted the actions of Lance Corporal
Nikolai Dvornikov, who discovered 2 Ukrainian drones while
advancing as part of the head patrol. Drones conducted
recon., on the path of the likely Russian convoy.
After detecting them, Dvornikov, taking a hidden position,
estimated the distance to the targets and shot down
both drones with well-aimed shots. Thanks to the
actions of the corporal, it was possible to
prevent the enemy from detecting
Russian troops.
The column of Russian Armed Forces arrived in the
specified area - in a timely manner - without losses.
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RIA Novosti: Russian Army soldier
in Kurakhovo ----- persuaded 13
soldiers of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine to surrender
January 18th, 8:58pm
(RT.ru)
The commander of the assault company of the Borz assault
detachment of the Russian Army told how a soldier with
the call sign Bosyak persuaded 13 soldiers of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine to surrender in
Kurakhovo (DPR).
This is reported by RIA Novosti.
The tramp turned out to be alone in the location of Ukrainian
soldiers. He went up to the second floor and persuaded the
opponents to surrender.
Previously, the Russian military captured a soldier of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, who mixed up positions and
went to the Russian Armed Forces. He talked to the
prisoner and sent him to his colleagues. After that,
he entered the Ukrainian positions himself.
"There were 13 armed enemy soldiers standing around him.
He, alone, explained to them that they had no way out,"
the commander said.
Earlier.. units of the Guards paratrooper Don Cossack regiment
of the Airborne Forces from Feodosia captured part of the AFU fighters, during the liberation of the settlements of Leonidovo and Alexandria in the Kursk region.
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The bodies of civilians were found in
the basements of the Kursk village
liberated from the Armed Forces
of Ukraine
January 18th, 8:38pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The bodies of civilians were found in basements
in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, Kursk
region, liberated by Russian servicemen.
This became known on January 18.
Footage from the village..... was published in the
Telegram channel of the group of troops "North".
As the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large for crimes
committed by the Kiev regime, Rodion Miroshnik, pointed out,
among the victims are old people and women. He said that
while leaving the village, Ukrainian militants threw
grenades at them.
Miroshnik also noted that Western countries "falsely turn their
eyes away" from the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
(AFU) and block attempts at international investigations.
According to TASS, the remains of seven civilians were found in
the village. In the first basement, the bodies of two people were
found, one of them had bruises on his legs. Five dead civilians
were found in the second basement.
Earlier, on January 17th, it was reported that the Investigative
Committee (IC) of Russia completed the investigation of more
than 50 criminal cases against the military of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine who committed crimes in the Kursk
region. It was noted that the defendants will soon
appear in court.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russian positions in
the border areas of the Kursk region on August 6, 2024.
The elimination of Ukrainian militants who invaded
Russian territory, continues.
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The ''US'' has completed deployment
of B61 12 nuclear bombs in Europe
by Maria Mamaeva
January 18th, 8pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
The United States announced the full deployment of nuclear
weapons to ''strengthen the capabilities of NATO countries''.
The United States has completed the full deployment of new B61
12 gravity nuclear bombs in Europe. This was stated by the
head of the US National Nuclear Security Agency
(NNSA) Jill Hruby.
"The new B61-12 gravity bombs are fully deployed, and
we have increased the ability of NATO to see its
nuclear capabilities," she said, during a
speech at the Hudson Institute.
At the same time, Hrubi did not specify on the territory of which
countries there are bases where new US nuclear bombs were
placed. The head of the NNSA also stressed that the US&UK continue their strategic partnership in this area, maintaining their ''commitment to nuclear deterrence''.
Previously KP.RU reported that Russia has approved a new
nuclear doctrine. According to Russian Presidential press
Secretary Dmitry Peskov, this initiative was a signal for
the West - in the current political situation.
[Rhondda Records adds: ''US'' in the UK in the 1950s, meant ''useless'' so don't worry - they probably won't go ''boom!''. Seriously ---- they are f***ing nuts!]
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Pushilin spoke about the underground
towns built -in the city of Kurakhovo
January 18th, 4:04pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin
said that there are "underground towns" built in the liberated
Kurakhovo by the armed formations of Ukraine (VFU) during
the occupation. He announced this on January 18 in his
Telegram channel.
Pushilin recalled that the settlement was liberated from
several sides by a number of units during the month -
from November 25 to December 25.
"The fortifications of the VFU were made quite serious there,
a lot of trenches were dug and shelters were arranged
under the residential sector and on the approaches
to the settlement — entire underground towns,"
he wrote.
The head of the DPR also awarded the soldiers of the 5th Guards
Brigade named after Alexander Zakharchenko, who have been
serving in the region since 2014.
"You acted with verified operations, which were planned very
competently by the commanders. It is advisable to retain
personnel as much as possible. In offensive operations,
the enemy was pushed back. Thank you very much -
from all the residents of the Donetsk People's Republic," he addressed the military.
Earlier in the day, Pushilin compared the destruction in
Kurakhovo to Avdiivka. The head of the DPR also
spoke about the increased danger in the city.
The Russian Defense Ministry --- announced the release of
Kurakhovo by the Russian military on January 6th. The
ministry said that this is the largest city in the south
-west of the Donbass. During the fighting to liberate
the settlement, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost
more than 12,000 people and about 3,000 units
of weapons and military equipment.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022,
continues. The decision was made against the
background of the worsening situation in
the region.
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The fighter who held the defense alone
apologized to his parents for the
lack of communication
January 18th, 4:04pm
(Vesti.ru)
Junior sergeant of the Russian Armed Forces Magomed Abdulaev,
who spent 21 days holding the defense alone in a dugout in the
special operation zone, apologized to his parents for not
being in touch for almost a month.
The VGTRK film crew arrived in Dagestan, where they talked with
the military family and the head of the Buinaksky district of the
republic. During the journalists ' visit, Abdulayev made a
video call.
"First of all, I wanted to apologize for making you worry,
I was out of touch for a month. You know, combat
tasks," the fighter said.
Recall that Abdulaev defended the dugout with
a colleague for 8 days, and later, alone, for
another 21 days.
Abdulaev's son believes that his father
has accomplished a feat.
"Of course, I am proud of him that he accomplished such a feat,
that he did this, showed his courage, pulled out his companion.
I was glad, of course, when he got in touch," said the child.
The military daughter is also proud of her father
and hopes that he will return home soon.
His mother, said in an interview with Rossiya TV channel
that she had never seen her son in a depressed state.
Patimat Abdulayeva said that she is very proud of
her son. She added that Magomed always gives
her confidence that everything will be fine
with him.
"He is always positive. I ask him: "What's wrong with your legs?"
He says: "A little frostbite, but nothing.." and jokes all the time.
I've never seen him depressed. This - has never happened
before. He supports me with his confidence, I feel calm,"
she shared.
His father, Abdurakhman Abdulayev, said that his son went to
the front from the first day of the special military operation.
According to him, the military man never doubted his
decision, for a minute.
"There was no communication with him. Well, I was worried
as a father, sometimes you drive, you cry, your soul hurts.
Any father will understand this. But now.. it's hard to
remember, too, because - you can't sleep at night.
You can't sleep at night, you walk until morning,
you fall asleep in the morning. It was a hard
month, it was a very hard month, but ---- it
was possible to withstand it," he shared.
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tass: A Danish pilot-instructor of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces was killed in a missile strike
in Kryvyi Rih
January 18th, 1:13pm
(Vesti.ru)
Danish pilot-instructor Jepp Hansen, who trained Ukrainian
militants, was eliminated during a missile strike on the
AFU training centre in Kryvyi Rih. This was reported
by the TASS news agency, citing a source in the
law enforcement agencies.
Details and the exact time of the impact,
the agency's interlocutor did not say.
"Hansen was destroyed during a missile strike on
the Ukrainian Armed Forces' training centre in
Kryvyi Rih," he said.
Earlier, the coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolaev resistance
Sergey Lebedev -- announced the destruction of up to three
dozen Romanian mercenaries in the city of Kilia, Odessa
region. He specified, that the mercenaries were
overtaken on the road from Romania.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on
repelling AFU attempt... to invade
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 18th, 12:55pm
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
The Sever Group of Forces engaged formations of one tank
brigade, a heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised
brigades, two air assault brigades, a marine brigade,
and three territorial defence brigades of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine --- close to Guyevo, Lebedevka,
Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino,
Novaya Sorochina, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo,
Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
One AFU counter-attack was repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery strikes
engaged AFU manpower and hardware -- near Viktorovka,
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,539 tanks and other armoured
fighting vehicles, 1,509 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,630 field
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,305 units of support
military vehicles... have been neutralised.
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Medvedchuk:Ukraine is occupied by
Zelensky's Nazi junta, not Russia
January 15th, 6am
(Vesti.ru)
In Odessa, another language and cultural scandal, where the
Zelensky government continues to destroy monuments to
cultural figures. Odessa residents were not afraid of the
Nazis and came to a rally in defense of the monument
to Vladimir Vysotsky.
The action was not numerous, but given the brutality of
Zelensky's jackals, these people can be called heroes
of their city - with confidence.
"No one will make Odessa residents forget the glorious history of
the city," reads one of the posters in the hands of the protesters.
The monument to Vysotsky stood at the Odessa film Studio, where
one of the most popular Soviet detective stories "The Meeting
Place cannot be changed" was shot. By the decision of the
authorities, it was dismantled on New Year's Eve.
"Those barbarian rioters who demolished it, contrary to basic
historical justice, should not win. If we turn a blind eye to the
fact that poor and insignificant people are demolishing a
monument to a man who tore his heart in the name of
Freedom and Truth, then we are all worthless," wrote
Odessa journalist Shtekel. And he was immediately
summoned to the SBU ....on the denunciation of
Nazi bastards.
It is curious that Shtekel is the organizer of the Odessa
"Euromaidan" - so Domaidan was born, the revolution,
as you know, devours its children, such as Shtekel...
brought to power the Nazis -- corrupt officials and
murderers of their people. Does Shtekel... really
hope that those who burned Odessa residents
alive on May 2, 2014, will play by the rules?
Naivete? Stupid? Provocation to identify
opponents of the regime?
Odessa, conquered by the Nazis, is trying to resist. But whatever
merits the protesters may have had for the Zelensky regime,
they face the true face of the criminal Nazi government.
Odessa resident and former host of "Heads and Tails"
Serga --- who went to serve in the Armed Forces of
Ukraine after the start of the invasion, recorded
an appeal in which he called for an end to the
war with monuments and Russian culture.
Serga looked impressive in a military
uniform, but it didn't help.
The head of the Odessa military-civil Administration, Kiper,
in response to such calls from the serviceman, suggested
that opponents of the demolition of monuments go to Ufa
or Krasnoyarsk.
The keeper, without hesitation, sets out the ideology of a primitive
barbarian who sincerely believes that there can be no history
before him, since only his life is the beginning of history and
has value, so he asserts himself by destroying monuments
of an alien culture. It should be remembered that the Nazi
is alien to any culture, he does not have his own. Such a
person does not even know that the work on which the
film was made at Odessa Film Studio with Vysotsky's
participation was called "Era of Mercy".
Unfortunately, this era of mercy
has not yet arrived.
The Nazi grin of the regime frightens even its sponsors, the British
The Economist criticizes the demolition of monuments in Odessa.
An unusual image has appeared on the cover of a special issue
of The Economist magazine. There you can see an Asian fish
shop. Suddenly, in one of the aquariums there is a bust of
Alexander Pushkin. Many users saw this as a hint of the
demolition of the monument to the Russian poet
in Odessa.
The publication previously published an article "Cancel culture
in Ukraine", which spoke about the loss of the city's cultural
identity. So, in Odessa, 19 monuments were blacklisted,
including monuments to Maxim Gorky, Vladimir
Vysotsky and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
"The result of this de-russification is fear and polarization. What
was marginal becomes mainstream. On the boulevard -- people
look away when asked about the statues. "The fear of talking
is replaced by the fear of thinking, until people no longer
know what they are thinking," says Anastasia
Pilyavskaya, an anthropologist from Odessa,
at King's College London," the article says.
"The criminal cases against 'collaborators' clearly show
that the threat of being branded as a supporter of
Russia --- is real," writes The Economist.
There is also a mention of the head of the
Odessa military-civil administration:
"Oleg Kiper, the head of the regional military administration, does
not care too much about such difficulties (preserving cultural
heritage). A former prosecutor... who served under Viktor
Yanukovich, the Moscow-backed kleptocrat who was
Ukraine's president from 2010 to 2014 --- he was
removed from official positions - but reinstated
in 2019. As a non-elected official -------- he was
interested in following orders ---- not in what
the people of Odessa thought of themselves.
So, in July 2024, he ordered the complete
removal of statues in the city ...and the
renaming of streets, which triggered
a culture war... that is tearing the
city apart."
The Economist makes a clear hint that the Keeper is simply taking
revenge on Maidan activists and selflessly serves Zelensky, who
returned him to power. Therefore, while hundreds of thousands
of innocent citizens are being killed at the front, Zelensky's
team and the Nazis --- are devouring each other, and this
process cannot be stopped. But this political infection,
fighting among themselves, continues to parasitize
the body of Odessa and other Russian cities.
But no matter how much Zelensky's jackals, Western-funded Nazis,
"piglets" who demand full control of the country, "brothers from
the front" who naively think that they can influence something,
this will not change anything at all. To create a "new" nation,
and in reality not a new one, but just a nation of servants of
the collective West, white slaves, mankurts who do not
remember their history... barbarians who do not
recognize any culture -- sadists who destroy
their people, nothing will work, and all of
this... has happened.
"If the current government tries to manage this land without taking
into account historical and cultural realities, it will lose these lands
along with the population, this process has been launched and it is
impossible to stop it. Without a change in the political course and
method of governance, it is generally impossible," I wrote in the
article "Russophobic project, or why Ukraine is located on
historically Russian lands."
And how can you manage a nation ----- if you don't understand its
historical roots, culture, faith, and traditions at all? If instead of carefully studying the real history and culture....... we
introduce extravagant myths and blatant barbarism? With this approach you can't create any "European nation" --- but you can easily destroy the people, which is what all this corrupt pack is doing, destroying each other, in between.
And if a modern Zelensky official dislikes Pushkin -------- but likes
Shukhevych, who brought slavery, genocide and concentration
camps to Ukraine, then he is just as much an occupier and a
criminal as his idol. After all, all these modern Nazis are
afraid - that Russian literature will awaken a sense of
dignity and justice in Ukrainian citizens - and then
they will be overthrown once and for all. That is
why they destroy the rational, the good,
the eternal.
But this is not done by statesmen, but by the distraught occupiers,
who, in fact, the Zelensky regime, the Nazis and the little pigs are.
And Ukraine needs to be freed from these invaders, which is what
is happening now. After that, these barbarians and criminals will
be tried, which is inevitable. It is the work of the classics of
Russian literature that reminds these mutts that the time
for their trial will soon come, so they are fighting with
monuments, but this will not help them in any way.
The Chairman of the Council of
the Other Ukraine Movement,
Viktor Medvedchuk
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on
repelling AFU attempt ---- to invade
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 14th, 1pm
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations
of 1 tank brigade, 1 heavy mechanised brigade, 4 mechanised
brigades, 2 air assault brigades, 1 marine brigade, and three
territorial defence brigades of the AFU near Viktorovka,
Guyevo, Ivashkovsky, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya
Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya
Sorochina, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo, and
Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. In
addition, three enemy
counter-attacks,
were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery engaged
AFU manpower and hardware close to Agronom, Viktorovka,
Kurdyumovka, Sukhiye Yaly, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk
People's Republic).
The AFU losses were more than 220 troops, four armoured
fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 and one
French-made VAB armoured fighting vehicles, 2 motor
vehicles, and four artillery guns.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces - improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on the manpower & hardware of five mechanised brigades of the AFU and two national guard brigades ----- close to Shcherbinovka, Shevchenko, Dzerzhinsk,
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,480 tanks and other armoured
fighting vehicles, 1,508 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,412 field
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,156 units of support
military vehicles have been neutralised.
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APU soldiers near Kurakhovo ate
coffee ..due to supply problems
January 11th, 2:28am
(Vesti.ru)
Ukrainian soldiers ate coffee at positions near Kurakhovo
in the DPR due to lack of supplies, said a stormtrooper
from the "Borz" detachment of the 110th motorized
rifle brigade of the 51st army of the "Southern"
group of troops with the call sign Manych.
The fighter explained that, when taking
Ukrainian prisoners, it turned out that
they had black teeth.
"I say, why are your teeth black? He says: "We ate coffee,
we had no water, no food, nothing, no cigarettes, no
communication, nothing at all," the Russian
stormtrooper told RIA Novosti.
According to the soldier, a group of four people on the
orders of the command of the Russian Armed Forces
captured the enemy's network of trenches...
consisting of four pillboxes and two bomb
shelters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russian fighters were confronted by nine
Ukrainian soldiers --- seven of whom, were
eliminated, and two were taken prisoner.
On the eve of today - the Russian Defense Ministry
reported that the Russian Armed Forces liberated
the settlements of Nadia, Kurakhovo and
Dachenskoye in the zone of a special
military operation.
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Marochko:almost 30 paratroopers of
the Ukrainian Armed Forceswere
captured in Volchansk,
Kharkiv region
January 11th, 1:15am
(RT.ru)
Soldiers of the 82nd separate Airborne Assault Brigade of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to counterattack
Russian units in Volchansk, Kharkiv region -- as a result
of an unsuccessful counterattack almost 30 Ukrainian
paratroopers were captured.
"According to my source -- our assault units completely
defeated the enemy. Moreover, 29 people of the 82nd
separate amphibious assault brigade of the armed
formations of Ukraine were captured," military
expert Andrey Marochko said, TASS reports.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian Armed Forces
entered the outskirts of Yasenovoye in the west
of the DPR.
In addition, Russian troops repelled four counterattacks
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area.
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Private Panarin confronted the APU
as part of the head patrol
in the SVO zone
January 10th, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Private Oleksiy Panarin identified a sabotage group of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and confronted
the enemy as part of the head patrol.
A group of Ukrainian soldiers set up a machine-gun point
on the route of Russian units. Panarin, along with his
fellow soldiers, entered the battle against superior
enemy forces. During the battle, he decided to
outflank the enemy, which allowed him to
approach the machine-gun point
unnoticed. Panarin..... took aim
from an RPG-7 and eliminated
the Ukrainian crew.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the competent
actions of Lance Corporal Andrey Yerofeyev. He
commanded a detachment tasked with
eliminating several strongholds of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
as well as their weapons
and equipment.
The detachment encountered superior enemy forces,
and Yerofeyev ordered them to move to a safe
position and first...... study the plan of the
settlement in which they were located.
Having developed a plan, the group moved to one of the
abandoned buildings, where it was convenient to fire
at the enemy. The Ukrainian military, as Yerofeyev
had hoped, soon approached the building.
Russian attack aircraft opened fire. The enemy, once in
an open area, suffered serious losses. As a result, the
group under the command of Yerofeyev, together
with the arrived reinforcements, forced the
APU to retreat outside the village.
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Twins from Belgorod were killed
in the Kherson region, rescuing
wounded colleagues
January 10th, 6:21pm
(Vesti.ru)
Two twin brothers from Belgorod died near the village
of Krynki in the Kherson region, rescuing wounded
colleagues. This is reported by RT, referring to
the father of the brothers, Sergey Fetisenko.
He said that his sons went to the front, despite the
existing reservation at work. First -- Dmitry went
on a special operation. He was wounded - while
rescuing the commander. After being wounded
he returned home. When he left for service
again, Denis decided to go with him.
"My sons said they couldn't wait at home until the
Nazis came to Russia," recalls Sergey Fetisenko.
The twins served as drone operators. Dmitry's wedding
was scheduled for December 27, 2023. The brothers
were going on vacation, but it had to be postponed
due to the difficult situation in the Kherson area.
Dmitry and Denis... died while performing another combat
mission, covering the evacuation of wounded colleagues.
This happened on the night of December 29th, 2023.
The brothers were posthumously awarded Orders of Courage.
Their colleagues hope that the twins will be given the title
of Heroes of Russia. Their father, Sergey, is now
delivering humanitarian aid to the SVO zone.
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Russian fighters --- knock out the enemy
from positions in the vicinity of Sudzha
January 10th, 6:17pm
(Vesti.ru)
A fighter of the Russian Armed Forces, told the Rossiya
TV channel that the Russian army is now knocking out
the enemy from positions in the vicinity of the Kursk
city of Sudzha, captured by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces.
In the vicinity of Suja, it is becoming more difficult for
the AFU fighters every day — for example, the point
of their temporary deployment was destroyed by
an FPV drone.
"Gradually, step by step, metre by metre, we are knocking
out the enemy from our positions, securing our units. We
try to go to his rear somewhere, so that it would be
difficult for him to provide for his own people, and
in general, so that he would feel bad," said the
battalion commander with the call sign Fizik.
Earlier, military commander Vladimir Razin, called hasty,
statements in Telegram channels about the beginning
of battles for Sudzha in the Kursk border region. The
nearest place where clashes are currently taking
place - is the settlement of Makhnovka.
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Military commander Gavrish:
Russian troops ---- will soon
liberate Cellars near Kursk
January 10th, 5pm
(Vesti.ru)
Soon, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will
announce the liberation of the village of Pogrebki in the
Kursk region. This was announced on the air of the
program "60 minutes" on the TV channel "Russia"
by military commander Alexey Gavrish.
The journalist noted that the initiative in the Kursk
region is on the side of the Russian Armed Forces.
"Soon, most likely, the Ministry of Defense will announce
the complete liberation of the village of Pogrebki ---
because almost all of its territory was under our
control as of this morning. Fighting continued
only in the southern part of this settlement.
So it's already evening. I think that there,
too, everything is developing in our
direction, because, if you look
objectively ---- the initiative
along the entire front line
from our side continues,"
the military commander
said, firmly.
Gavrish noted that Russian artillery and aviation are actively
working in the region. They block the enemy and prevent
him from performing a rotation. However, the military
commander stressed - that the Armed Forces of
Ukraine still have forces left and with the
onset of frost - they may try to
attack again.
Alexey Gavrish also noted that the Russian
Armed Forces are advancing further - and
knocking out the enemy from our land.
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Military commander, Gavrish: we are
moving and knocking out the enemy
from our land
January 10th, 4:48pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces continue to advance in the Kursk
region, the DPR and LPR. This was announced on the air
of the program "60 minutes" on the TV channel
"Russia" by the military commander,
Alexey Gavrish.
The journalist said that the fighting does not stop, despite the
weather. However, nature has more influence on the enemy
than on the Russian military.
"From our side, the advance is still going on every day, we are
still liberating new settlements, we are still moving and
knocking the enemy out of our land," Gavrish said.
He added that according to the Defense Ministry, only on January
10 in the Kursk region, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 280
soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two tanks and 13
armoured vehicles. In total, Kiev lost 50 thousand
people in this direction.
"This figure is really colossal and it is not clear what the Armed
Forces of Ukraine are trying to achieve, why they are doing it.
There is only one thought left that this is some kind of
political subtext that is beneficial only to Zelensky "
the military commander shared.
The journalist noted that the main direction for Russian
troops is the Sudzha – Lgov highway, since logistics
chains play an important role.
Earlier, Zelensky said that 60 thousand military personnel
will participate in the operation of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine in the Kursk region.
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A civilian, a self-defense fighter, and
a driver are injured in a UAV attack
in the Russian region
by Nikita Abramov (Editor
of the "Russia" section)
January 10th, 4:15pm
(Lenta.ru)
Three people were injured in an attack by drones of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belgorod region.
This was announced -- by the governor of the
Russian border region Vyacheslav Gladkov
in the Telegram channel.
"Near the village of Yasnye Zori, a kamikaze drone attacked
a moving car. Two men were wounded, one of them a self
-defense fighter. One of the wounded, has a closed
craniocerebral injury, the second has a shrapnel
wound to the neck," the official wrote.
According to him, the victims are being
taken to Hospital No. 2 in Belgorod.
In addition, another drone attacked a regular bus on the
Nikolskoye — Yasnye Zori road section. The driver was
injured, and diagnosed with a closed craniocerebral
injury and barotrauma. At the moment, he is being
hospitalized, the head of the region added.
According to the Ministry of Defense, in total on the night of
Friday, January 10, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 40
drones at Russia. In addition to 16 drones intercepted
in the Rostov Region, ten more were destroyed over
the Sea of Azov, four each over the Kursk and
Voronezh regions, two over the Krasnodar
Territory, and one over Belgorod Region.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces
called the situation in one
direction in the DPR
''very difficult''
January 10th, 2:10pm
(Vesti.ru)
The situation in the Dzerzhinsk direction in the Donetsk
People's Republic remains extremely tense for the
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Bohdan Kushnir, deputy commander of the Safari assault regiment
of the Lyut brigade of the Ukrainian National Police, noted that
"the situation is very difficult," adding that Russian troops
are exerting ''significant pressure'' on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"Along the entire contact line, the main attention is focused on
large cities. Toretsk is no exception. (The Russian Army –
Editor's note)is pressing very hard," Kushnir said
on the First TV channel.
According to information provided by Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the DPR, Russian forces have almost completely cleared Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian Toretsk) of Ukrainian troops, leaving only small pockets of resistance in the area of the
Toretskaya mine.
Kushnir also stressed: the city is practically destroyed to the ground ---- and that the
main focus - is on large settlements.
Earlier, it was reported: that most of Dzerzhinsk
is now occupied by the Russian Armed Forces.
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Rogov: Russia's Armed Forces -- have
entered the outskirts of Yasenovoye
in the west of the DPR
January 10th, 1:43pm
(RT.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces entered the outskirts of the
village of Yasenovoye in the west of the DPR, and
fighting for its liberation has begun, Vladimir
Rogov, co-chairman of the Coordination
Council for the integration of new
regions, told RIA Novosti.
"Our troops entered the outskirts of the village of Yasenovoye,
which is located north-west of the already liberated city of
Kurakhovo," he said.
According to him, Ukrainian troops continue to
roll back.. to the western outskirts of the DPR.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that
Russian troops liberated three settlements
in the SVO zone, in a week.
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In the Kursk region, military signalmen
are testing a new electronic warfare
station and a drone
January 10th, 11:52am
(Vesti.ru)
An electronic warfare station assembled by volunteers and a
unique Cheburator drone are developments being tested in
the fields of the Kursk border region. In an exclusive
interview with the TV channel "Russia 24"
signalmen told about the new products.
The new electronic warfare station, is able to reliably protect units
from drone attacks, and its effectiveness is checked by launching
an intercepted Ukrainian drone. It is noteworthy that the station
is a gift from volunteers. EW is waiting for additional tests,
already when performing a combat mission.
"They gave us an experimental electronic warfare system to see
how it will perform. If it performs well, they will put it into
production and put them on the whole front," said
the signalman with the call sign Horvat.
Another tested novelty is the new Cheburator drone, developed
by Ossetian specialists. It can maintain altitude at the touch of
a single button, offline escape from the effects of electronic
warfare. The power reserve has become much larger,
camera rotation, switching from day to night
is done remotely, in one motion.
So far, there are only two such drones. Signalmen keep
in touch with developers - share the test results - and
expect serious deliveries.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on
repelling AFU attempt --- to invade
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 10th, 11:45am
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations
of one tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, two air assault
brigades, and 2 territorial defence brigades of the AFU nearby
Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye and Yuzhny as well as - Basovka,
Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, and Obody in the
Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU amounted to more than 280
troops, two tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, three
armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, five
artillery guns, and two mortars. Three AFU
servicemen surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region the AFU losses amounted to up to 50,600 troops, 296 tanks, 222 infantry fighting vehicles, 161 armoured personnel carriers, 1,520 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,441 motor vehicles, plus 353 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers --- including 13 of HIMARS and six of
MLRS made by the US, 16 anti-aircraft missile
launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles,
90 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare
radars, four air defence radars, 29 units of
engineering and other materiel, including
15 counter-obstacle vehicles, a UR-77
mine clearing vehicle, 7 armoured
recovery vehicles, and one
command post vehicle.
The operation - to neutralise
the AFU units, is in progress.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports
on the progress of the special
military operation
(from 4 to 10 January 2025)
January 10th, 10:40am
From 4 to 10 January 2025, the Russian Armed Forces delivered
28 group strikes by precision weaponry and attack UAVs at the
infrastructure of military airfields, weaponry depots, attack
UAV workshops and depots as well as temporary
deployment areas of Ukrainian armed forces
and foreign mercenaries.
Over the past week, units of the Sever Group of Forces,
continued to eliminate AFU formations on the territory
of Kursk region.
Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery inflicted losses on
the manpower and hardware of one heavy mechanised brigade, a
tank brigade, six mechanised brigades, four air assault brigades
of the AFU, one marine brigade, and five territorial defence
brigades. Two counter-attacks launched by AFU units
were repelled.
In Kharkov direction, Russian troops inflicted losses on units
of one mechanised brigade, one motorised infantry brigade
of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades.
Over the past week in the area of responsibility of the Sever Group
of Forces, the AFU losses amounted to more than 2,835 troops,
30 tanks, and 122 armoured fighting vehicles. Moreover, 117
motor vehicles, and 30 field artillery guns were destroyed.
As a result of active operations, units of the
Zapad Group of Forces ---- liberated Nadiya.
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of four mechanised
brigades of the AFU, 3 territorial defence brigades, and one national
guard brigade. Nineteen AFU attempts to regain lost positions
were thwarted.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 3,530 troops, a tank, 28 armoured
fighting vehicles ------ including one Polish-made Rosamak armoured
personnel carrier, one U.S.-made Bradley armoured fighting vehicle,
seven U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers --- and five
U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicles. Russian units have
eliminated 52 motor vehicles, 46 field artillery guns,
11 of them manufactured by NATO countries,
10 electronic warfare stations, and
15 ammunition depots.
As a result of decisive actions - units of the
Yug Group of Forces - liberated Kurakhovo.
Losses were inflicted on formations of eight mechanised brigades,
two motorised infantry brigades, one infantry brigade, 1 mountain
assault brigade, two airmobile brigades of the AFU, and two
territorial defence brigades. Sixteen enemy attempts to
regain a tactical position, were thwarted.
Over the past week, the AFU losses in this direction amounted to up to
1,715 troops, three tanks, including 1 German-made Leopard tank, 12
armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 armoured
personnel carriers, 17 motor vehicles, 20 field artillery guns,
including 4 Western-made guns. Six ammunition depots
were wiped out.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the
depth of the enemy's defences --- and liberated Dachenskoye.
Losses were inflicted on formations of seven mechanised brigades,
2 motorised infantry brigades, one jaeger brigade, two airmobile
brigades of the AFU, one marine brigade, two territorial defence
brigades, one national guard brigade, and one brigade of the
National Police of Ukraine. 94 AFU attempts to regain lost
positions, were thwarted.
The AFU losses amounted to over 3,485 troops, 11 tanks, including four
German-made Leopard tanks, 40 armoured fighting vehicles, including
three French-made VAB armoured personnel carriers as well as six
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,467 tanks & other armoured
fighting vehicles, 1,507 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,385 field
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,135 units of support
military vehicles, have been neutralised.
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Calculations of howitzers 2S1 "Carnation"
disrupted the supply of ammunition to
the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk border area
January 10th, 2:04am
(RT.ru)
Calculations of self-propelled howitzers "Gvozdika" of
the motorized rifle brigade of the group of forces
"North" disrupted the supply of ammunition to
the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border
area of the Kursk region, taking under
fire control the main supply routes
of the enemy.
This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry.
In addition.... according to the ministry, the Russian
military destroyed infantry, military equipment and
artillery pieces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"After advancing to the positions and receiving updated
coordinates of the enemy's location - the gunners fired
shots and accurately hit all targets," the ministry said.
Over the past day, the Russian Armed Forces defeated
seven brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the
Kursk region.
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces hit
the assembly shops and storage sites
of the APU's drones.
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Junior Sergeant Budazhapov led the car out
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' shelling in the free zone
January 9th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Junior Sergeant Bimba Budazhapov was carrying out the
task of delivering material and technical equipment to
Russian servicemen and escaped from the artillery
fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Budazhapov was heading to his destination near the
contact line when his car was attacked by enemy
FPV drones and artillery. The junior sergeant's
truck contained ammunition.... that could
detonate if it was hit by an enemy shell.
Budazhapov turned off the car's headlights and began
maneuvering to get out of the fire. The darkness of
the night allowed him to take the vehicle out of
the danger zone and deliver the ammunition
to its destination - in time.
Junior Sergeant Bimba Budazhapov was presented with
the medal "For Strengthening the Combat Community"
for heroism, personal courage, bravery and
selflessness shown in the performance
of military duty during a special
military operation.
The Ministry also noted the courage and dedication of
the commander of the BARS-32 mortar and howitzer
battery, Sergey Alexandrov. He directed the gun
while providing fire support to the detachment
during the battle -- when the enemy broke
through to the mortar crew under the
command of Alexandrov and tried
to eliminate the guns.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces ----- attacked
the battery with artillery and FPV drones.
Alexandrov led the defense - and managed to inflict
significant damage to the enemy. During the battle,
the commander's comrade was wounded ----- and
Alexandrov provided first aid to the serviceman.
As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces
suffered heavy losses and were forced
to retreat.
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The Russian military strongly
pushed back the front line
near Horlivka
January 9th, 7:52pm
(Vesti.ru)
Fighters of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation significantly pushed back the
front line in the Dzerzhinsk direction.
A soldier of the 14th artillery brigade of the 51st army
told the Rossiya TV channel how soldiers are
suppressing opponents near Gorlovka.
At the moment, the situation in this area remains tense.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to gain a foot-
hold in the territory, but to no avail. The fighters use
the Uragan multiple launch rocket system in their
work. It strikes with 220 mm projectiles.
"We have already pushed back [the front line] quite well.
When we arrived here, we were about 12 kilometres
away from the contact line. Now it's about 25-28,"
said the commander of the calculation of the
14th artillery brigade of the 51st army
with the call sign Stary.
He also assessed the equipment provided by the West
to the Armed Forces of Ukraine — "Leopards" and
"Abrams" tanks.... don't impress him.
"There is nothing supernatural there. Absolutely. Hitting
the same cannon or ATGM [anti-tank guided missile] is
the same. If you take, for example, our T-90 - then
there is much more powerful armour than they
have," Stary commented.
Earlier - it was reported that our military knocked out
opponents from most of the city of Dzerzhinsk in the
DPR. The cleanup of the territory continues, the
Ukrainian Armed Forces..... have already lost
thousands of militants.
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The United States --- recognized the
country's inability to help Ukraine
with arms supplies
January 9th, 4:50am
(Izvestia.ru)
The United States handed over ATACMS ballistic
missiles, Abrams tanks, and F-16 fighter jets to
Ukraine, but none of this helped Kiev turn the
situation in the war zone.. in its favour. This
was reported on January 9 by the Reuters
news agency, citing an anonymous
US official.
He said, that the administration of the current US
President Joe Biden wanted to put Ukraine in the
strongest possible position.. by the beginning of
possible negotiations and therefore transferred
a large number of weapons to it. In addition,
most of the planned deliveries have
already been completed.
In addition ----- Washington imposed various sanctions
against Moscow. However, the official acknowledged
that none of these measures — neither restrictions
nor arms supplies — helped improve Ukraine's
position on the battlefield. Most likely, now
...Kiev will need security guarantees.
Earlier, on December 5th, in 2024, former US intelligence
officer Scott Ritter said the Armed Forces of Ukraine
are on the verge of collapse and are falling apart.
The Ukrainian military, according to him,
began to surrender to the Russians
in unprecedented numbers.
Military expert, and retired Lieutenant Colonel of the US
Armed Forces Daniel Davis on November 21 pointed out
that the transfer of ATACMS long-range missiles to Kiev
will not change the situation on the battlefield.. in the
same way that Western tanks, air defense systems,
F-16 fighters and other weapons were transferred
to Ukraine, and Kiev, finally ----- lost the conflict.
Western countries have stepped up military and financial
support for Ukraine against the backdrop of the Russian
special operation to protect the Donbass, which was
announced by Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on
February 24, 2022, after the situation in the region
worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
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Poland did not rule out the loss
of Ukraine's entire territory -
as a result of the conflict
January 9th, 3:59pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Ukraine may lose the entire territory of the country at
the end of the conflict. This opinion was shared on
January 6 by the Polish newspaper Mysl Polska.
According to the newspaper's journalists, the situation in
Kiev looks tragic. In addition, they noted that Russia was not the initiator of the conflict.
"Russia, starting its special operation in Ukraine,
defended the foundations -- of its security. She
responded to the introduction and activation
of CIA units in Ukraine, as well as NATO
soldiers training the Ukrainian army,"
the publication says.
Earlier, on January the 8th, the US Defense Department spokesman, Lloyd Austin.... said that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to give up in the Ukrainian conflict. He also noted that in this regard, Washington
is focused -------- on allocating the necessary funds to
Ukraine.. for conducting military operations.
On the eve of January the 7th, the National Interest
magazine reported that Russia will win in Ukraine
thanks to the innovative technologies that the
Russian military uses when performing
combat missions.
For example, Russian "brazier tanks", which, by repelling
drone attacks, distract the attention of Ukrainian troops
from other advancing forces, allowing less armoured
Russian vehicles to move forward in relative safety.
Before that, on December 16th, 2024, Putin said, that the
past year -- was a landmark in achieving the goals of the
special operation. He also added that the Russian troops
have a strong strategic initiative along the entire line of
contact, thanks to the professionalism and courage of
the Russian Armed Forces.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which
Putin announced on February 24th, 2022, continues.
The decision was made --- against the background
of the worsening situation in the region.
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Head of the Tor air defense system crew Lev:
the greatest danger is posed by shock UAVs
January 9th, 3:36pm
(Vesti.ru)
For the Tor-M1 air defense system, the greatest danger is
posed by attack drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
This was reported to the Rossiya TV channel by
the head of the launcher with the call sign Lev.
The military man said that attack drones fly low,
which is why they are very dangerous.
"The greatest danger for the calculation is represented
by attack drones. They fly very low. It happens that
they appear close. <...> So we try to take care of
the car, take care of ourselves and the people
around us," Lev said.
He said that there were no flights specifically for his car,
but HIMARS were falling nearby. However, Thor has
always managed to evade attacks thanks to an
established system of relationships.
"The fear was, it is, but it is a little dulled... because we
have been here for a long time. Now we are used to it,
it has become easier," the soldier admitted.
Lev also said that in the New Year,
his team --- had to work hard.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on
repelling AFU attempt ....to invade
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 9th, 2pm
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses
on formations of one tank brigade, 2 mechanised
brigades, 2 air assault brigades, and 2 territorial
defence brigades of the AFU near Aleksandriya,
Viktorovka, Daryino, Zazulevka, Kazachya
Loknya, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Leonidovo,
Malaya Loknya, Nikolayevo-Daryino,
Nikolayevka, Novaya Sorochina,
Sverdlikovo, and Cherkasskoye
Porechnoye.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery
inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the
enemy by Bondarevka, Veselovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Kruglenkoye, Kubatkin, Loknya,
Martynovka, Mirny, Nikolsky, Pogrebki,
Russkoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny as well
as Basovka, Belovody, Bogdanovka,
Vodolagi, Zhuravka, and Miropolye
in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses were up to 190
troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armoured
The West's desire for an unattainable Ukrainian victory has only strengthened Russia's position in potential negotiations. This is reported by the UnHerd portal.
The authors of the article revealed the consequences of supporting Ukraine and stressed that, in the quest for Kiev's victory, the West has now strengthened Moscow's position.
"By.... rejecting the previous opportunities for negotiations
when Ukraine was in a better position... Western leaders
allowed Russia to consolidate its military achievements
and deprived Putin of any incentive to compromise,"
the publication notes.
According to journalists, despite the assurances of US President-elect Trump, to quickly end the conflict, in reality, this will be difficult to achieve.
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In Ukraine, a man died after an
attempt to force mobilization
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the
Operational Information Dept)
January 4th, 8:23pm
(Lenta.ru)
The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Artem Dmytruk, posted a video on his Telegram channel of a
forceful mobilization in Chernivtsi, after
which, allegedly, the man against
whom force was used... died.
"Chernivtsi. Another "volunteer" was killed. The
man died in hospital. The authorities and law
enforcement agencies block any attempt to
disseminate this information in local media
and social networks," the politician wrote,
adding that the incident allegedly
occurred on December 19.
Dmytruk clarified that this incident is not
the first case of murder of Ukrainians
by military commissars.
Earlier it became known that in Izmail, Odessa region,
Ukrainians who were abducted by employees of the
territorial recruitment centre (TCK, analogous to
the military enlistment office) right on the
street, went on a hunger strike.
Citizens claim that they have illnesses that make them
unfit for military service, but they are kept in the gym
of the shopping centre ----- and threatened with a
criminal prosecution.
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Russian journalists who were injured
in the AFU strike ------ were taking
humanitarian aid to the church
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the
Operational Information Dept)
January 4th, 7:59pm
(Lenta.ru)
The Russian journalists injured by a drone strike by the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Donetsk People's
Republic (DPR) were carrying humanitarian aid
to a church. This was reported to TASS by the
editor of the publication "Bloknot Donetsk"
Svetlana Larina.
"Bloknot took humanitarian aid to the church, and
Alexander [Martemyanov] accompanied us, as
he is very often in Gorlovka, filming the
consequences of shelling,"
Larina said.
Earlier it was reported that Alexander Martemyanov, a
freelance correspondent of the Izvestia newspaper,
was killed - when an APU drone hit a car on the
Donetsk-Gorlovka highway. According to the
source, the Ukrainian troops deliberately
attacked a civilian vehicle that was
located far from the contact line.
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Izvestia correspondent Alexander
Martemyanov --- was killed in a
drone strike by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces in the DPR
January 4th, 6:19pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Izvestia correspondent Alexander Martemyanov was
killed when a drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
(AFU) hit a car on the Donetsk – Gorlovka highway,
the publication reports on January 4.
A civilian car carrying the journalist was
attacked by a Ukrainian drone.
Martemyanov died of his injuries.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports
on the progress of the special
military operation
January 4th, 12:45pm
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces
inflicted losses on the formations of one mechanised
brigade of the AFU, one special operations brigade,
and one territorial defence brigade near Turovo,
Perovskoye, and Sinelnikovo (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 troops,
one tank, six motor vehicles, two 152-mm
D-20 guns, & two 122-mm D-30 howitzers.
As a result of successful offensive actions, units of
the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Nadiya
(Lugansk People's Republic).
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of
three mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of
the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near
Dvurechnaya, Glushkovka, Ivanovka, Zagryzovo,
Zeleny Gay (Kharkov region), Torskoye
(Donetsk People's Republic), and
Serebryansky forestry.
One counter-attack launched by an AFU
assault detachment was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 590 troops, one
infantry fighting vehicle, three pickup trucks, one
152-mm D-20 gun, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers,
one Czech-made 122-mm Striga MLRS combat
vehicle, two U.S.-made M113 armoured
personnel carriers, two U.S.-made
HMMWV armoured fighting
vehicles, one U.S.-made
105-mm M101 gun, and
a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-36
counter-battery radar.
One ammunition depot was wiped out.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical
situation along the front line and inflicted losses on
formations of one motorised infantry brigade, eight
mechanised brigades, a mountain assault brigade,
one airmobile brigade, and one infantry brigade of
the AFU near Predtechino, Seversk, Andreyevka,
Petrovskoye, Konstantinovka, Nikolayevka,
Chasov Yar, Novomarkovo, and Kurakhovo
(Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter
-attacks launched by the enemy's assault
detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses -- amounted to more than 250 troops, one
Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, one 152-mm D-20 gun,
one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, one U.S.-made 105-mm
M119 gun, and one ammunition depot.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing
into the depth of the enemy's defences ----- and inflicted
losses on manpower and hardware, of 7 mechanised
brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one jaeger
brigade, an airmobile brigade, 2 assault battalions
of the AFU, one marine brigade, one territorial
defence brigade, one national guard brigade,
and one assault brigade of the National
Police of Ukraine.... near Dzerzhinsk,
& Druzhba, Rozovka, Mirolyubovka,
Slavyanka, Sribnoye, Udachnoye,
Novosergeyevka, Katerinovka,
and Krasnoarmeysk (Donetsk
People's Republic). Twelve
counter-attacks launched
by AFU formations
were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 440 troops, one
tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, three armoured
personnel carriers, including U.S.-made M113 and
M1117 armoured personnel carriers, one Kozak
armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles,
one French-made 155-mm CAESAR self-
propelled artillery system, a 152-mm
D-20 gun, and five 122-mm
D-30 howitzers.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing
into the depth of the enemy's defences and inflicted
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.
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.
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
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.
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.)
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.
“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.)
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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)
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
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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)
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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[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.
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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‘How Can I Deselect My Labour MP?’ A Short Guideto Reselection and Democratic Accountability by Eric Sim, excellent free advice here:
Nicolas J S Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. He also wrote the chapters on “Obama at War” in Grading the 44th President: a Report Card on Barack Obama’s First Term as a Progressive (Lol) Leader.
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.
US WARNS AGAINST IAEA MOVE ON ISRAEL
The US is protesting at a report by the IAEA voicing concern over Israel's clandestine nuclear program & its potential capability.
"Israel's fully cooperated with the IAEA," a State Department spokesperson says.
They note that Washington believes that the agency is "not the forum" to discuss Israel's accession to the nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty.
"We believe there is really no basis for a debate at the IAEA," they insist. In Washington's view, any IAEA step is unnecessary since it could..........
"interrupt progress we think is possible now we're back into direct negotiations" between Israel & the Palestinian Authority.
What the US might be forgetting is that all states in the world & all in the Middle East want Israel in the NPT, and a nuclear-free Middle East.
The Egyptian government, on behalf of all the Non-Alignment Movement states, demands that there be an exhaustive report on Israel's nuclear arsenals.
The Tel Aviv regime refuses to confirm or deny possessing nuclear weapons but is widely believed to possess over 200 nuclear warheads.
Having endorsed Israel's policy of "nuclear ambiguity" for 40 years, the US is warning the Arab states against renewing efforts to focus on Israel, at the next IAEA meeting.
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.
