Dejan Corovic
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what's shown in these photos is no military equipment? No assault rifles, no anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, no ammo.
AD1184
Celestial
Imagine China invaded the US. Would you demand that your countrymen engage in a fair fight?
Rick Hunter
Celestial
Agree totally. However, CNN, NYT, etc. are still 95% liberal morons so you aren't any better off with them. I was a loyal NPR news listener for decades, however I finally gave up on them a few years ago. They made their political and social allegiances quite plain, which should be entirely unacceptable for an organization which is largely subsists on taxpayer funding and fees from university radio stations. I just couldn't deal with it anymore and turned them off permanently, even though their actual news reporting was quite good. Honestly, my life is better without the news. It is not something that exists for your benefit.
Dejan Corovic
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... "95% liberal morons" .... well said. Willingly detached from reality.
I just watch CNN because they generally agree with my world view, but I don't like that they are always hysterical about something, being Trump, or Ukraine or whatever is the next thing. And there is no point reading German or French sites because they'll do what Americans tell them to do anyway.
nivek
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Putin on the run? Russia will now scale back its Ukraine invasion to just 'liberating' the eastern Donbas region 'in an attempt to save face' as Western intelligence says they have lost 20 BATTALIONS
Russia's defence ministry also updated its losses in Ukraine to 1,351 soldiers, adding that 3,825 soldiers had been wounded - figures that are far lower than Western intelligence estimates that put Moscow's losses in the tens of thousands. In a military update today, Moscow attempted to put a positive spin on its disastrous invasion saying that the first phase of its military campaign in Ukraine was over. But the update - combined with the West's claim that Russia has lost 20 out of the 120 battalions originally massed on Ukraine's border - is the latest sign that Vladimir Putin has rolled back his ambitions, and is on the run. In another embarrassing blow to Putin, it was revealed today that a Russian brigade commander had died after being run down with a tank by his own troops. Western officials believe Colonel Yuri Medvedev was brutally taken out by mutinous soldiers after their 37th Motor Rifle Brigade suffered huge losses. Pictured: (left to right, and top-to-bottom) Sergei Rudskoi, a senior representative of the General Staff, Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov and Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defence Control Centre, hold a briefing on Russian military action in Ukraine, in Moscow on March 25, 2022.
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Russia's defence ministry also updated its losses in Ukraine to 1,351 soldiers, adding that 3,825 soldiers had been wounded - figures that are far lower than Western intelligence estimates that put Moscow's losses in the tens of thousands. In a military update today, Moscow attempted to put a positive spin on its disastrous invasion saying that the first phase of its military campaign in Ukraine was over. But the update - combined with the West's claim that Russia has lost 20 out of the 120 battalions originally massed on Ukraine's border - is the latest sign that Vladimir Putin has rolled back his ambitions, and is on the run. In another embarrassing blow to Putin, it was revealed today that a Russian brigade commander had died after being run down with a tank by his own troops. Western officials believe Colonel Yuri Medvedev was brutally taken out by mutinous soldiers after their 37th Motor Rifle Brigade suffered huge losses. Pictured: (left to right, and top-to-bottom) Sergei Rudskoi, a senior representative of the General Staff, Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov and Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defence Control Centre, hold a briefing on Russian military action in Ukraine, in Moscow on March 25, 2022.
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Dejan Corovic
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Putin on the run? Russia will now scale back its Ukraine invasion to just 'liberating' the eastern Donbas region 'in an attempt to save face' as Western intelligence says they have lost 20 BATTALIONS
Russia's defence ministry also updated its losses in Ukraine to 1,351 soldiers, adding that 3,825 soldiers had been wounded - figures that are far lower than Western intelligence estimates that put Moscow's losses in the tens of thousands. In a military update today, Moscow attempted to put a positive spin on its disastrous invasion saying that the first phase of its military campaign in Ukraine was over. But the update - combined with the West's claim that Russia has lost 20 out of the 120 battalions originally massed on Ukraine's border - is the latest sign that Vladimir Putin has rolled back his ambitions, and is on the run. In another embarrassing blow to Putin, it was revealed today that a Russian brigade commander had died after being run down with a tank by his own troops. Western officials believe Colonel Yuri Medvedev was brutally taken out by mutinous soldiers after their 37th Motor Rifle Brigade suffered huge losses. Pictured: (left to right, and top-to-bottom) Sergei Rudskoi, a senior representative of the General Staff, Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov and Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defence Control Centre, hold a briefing on Russian military action in Ukraine, in Moscow on March 25, 2022.
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That's just a spin on a spin.
Russian stated goals from the beginning were "liberation" of Donetsk and Luhansk (Donbas) regions, where there is a wast majority of Russian nationals who live in Ukraine. That's why out of Russian army strength of 900,000 soldiers, Russia used only 150,000 for Ukrainian war. If regime change was the goal, instead of "liberation" then Russians would had used all 900,000. Western estimates of Russian casualties are pure malarkey for winning public opinion. How can they even count dead soldiers?
Right where that red bend on the map is surrounding that blue area, west of Luhansk, there is a major concentration of Ukrainian army that is dug in heavy fortifications with lots of trenches and heavy artillery since 2014. From that concentrated area Ukrainian army had been constantly bombarding civilians in Donbas region since 2014. The whole idea of Russian "limited operation" is payback for that constant bombardment of Russian speaking parts of Ukraine from that blue area and to tie down the rest of Ukrainian army in other parts of Ukraine, faraway from that heavily fortified blue area, so that Russians can concentrate on surrounding that area and eliminating it for good. That's going to be the 2nd phase of the war and it will happen after Mariupol falls and after Russians try to extend their occupation around city of Kherson.
But that blue area had been completely censored out by CNN's and BBC's selective reporting because that would be admitting of 7 years of constant artillery bombardment by Ukrainian army of Russian speaking civilian population. Admitting this would put the blame for starting the war on Ukraine, not on Russia.
Russians are most likely never going to try to enter Kiev, they simply don't have enough soldiers for that. They'll just keep bombarding Kiev while Ukrainians are bombarding Donetsk. So then in negotiations Russians can say "we'll stop bombarding Kiev if you stop bombarding Donetsk". That might be something of a big Russian plan.
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nivek
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Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ as he assures Ukraine: ‘We stand with you’
President Biden on Saturday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," as he declared the Russian invasion of Ukraine a "strategic failure" while pledging continued support for the embattled Ukrainian people.
"For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said during a speech in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland.
It appeared to be the first time Biden has explicitly called for Putin’s removal and would mark a sharp contrast from prior statements from the White House, which have emphasized that regime change in Russia is not the policy of the United States.
Shortly after Biden's address however, the White House denied that Biden was calling for regime change. "The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change," a White House official told Fox News Digital shortly after the speech concluded.
The remark came at the end of an address in which he took a strong line against the Russian incursion into Ukraine -- calling the aggression "nothing less than a direct challenge to the rule-based international order established since the end of World War II."
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President Biden on Saturday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," as he declared the Russian invasion of Ukraine a "strategic failure" while pledging continued support for the embattled Ukrainian people.
"For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said during a speech in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland.
It appeared to be the first time Biden has explicitly called for Putin’s removal and would mark a sharp contrast from prior statements from the White House, which have emphasized that regime change in Russia is not the policy of the United States.
Shortly after Biden's address however, the White House denied that Biden was calling for regime change. "The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change," a White House official told Fox News Digital shortly after the speech concluded.
The remark came at the end of an address in which he took a strong line against the Russian incursion into Ukraine -- calling the aggression "nothing less than a direct challenge to the rule-based international order established since the end of World War II."
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nivek
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Russian tank regiment commander killed himself 'after finding out 90% of tanks held in reserve were unusable because parts had been stolen', claims Ukrainian intelligence
In an update from Kyiv's Ministry of Defence, the country said that the commander of the '13th tank regiment' shot himself due to the dire condition of the unit's tanks held in reserve. It was not possible to immediately verify the report. If correct, the commander's death would be the latest in a string of high-ranking Russian officers and generals who have been killed in Ukraine. Reports of the commander's suicide came after Western officials on Friday named seven Russian generals they said had so far been killed, and another who had been sacked, during the war in Ukraine. The latest to die, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, was a commander of Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army in its southern military district, an official disclosed. The sixth Russian commander killed since the invasion began was said to have been Colonel Yuri Medvedev, who was brutally taken out by mutinous soldiers after their 37th Motor Rifle Brigade suffered huge losses. They ran him down with a tank. Russian Army Commander General Vlaislav Yershov, of the 6th Combined Arms Army, was identified as the general sacked earlier this week by the Kremlin. Among the others said to have been killed is General Magomed Tushaev, of the Chechen Special Forces deployed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, commander of the army's 150th motorised rifle division, died fighting in the besieged city of Mariupol while Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, 45, was killed on March 7 outside the eastern city of Kharkiv. Meanwhile Major-General Andrey Kolesnikov, Commander of the Guards Tank Kantemirovskaya Division, was also killed in fighting on March 11. Major-General Andrei Sukhovetsky, 47, was killed during a special operation by a sniper on March 3.
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In an update from Kyiv's Ministry of Defence, the country said that the commander of the '13th tank regiment' shot himself due to the dire condition of the unit's tanks held in reserve. It was not possible to immediately verify the report. If correct, the commander's death would be the latest in a string of high-ranking Russian officers and generals who have been killed in Ukraine. Reports of the commander's suicide came after Western officials on Friday named seven Russian generals they said had so far been killed, and another who had been sacked, during the war in Ukraine. The latest to die, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, was a commander of Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army in its southern military district, an official disclosed. The sixth Russian commander killed since the invasion began was said to have been Colonel Yuri Medvedev, who was brutally taken out by mutinous soldiers after their 37th Motor Rifle Brigade suffered huge losses. They ran him down with a tank. Russian Army Commander General Vlaislav Yershov, of the 6th Combined Arms Army, was identified as the general sacked earlier this week by the Kremlin. Among the others said to have been killed is General Magomed Tushaev, of the Chechen Special Forces deployed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, commander of the army's 150th motorised rifle division, died fighting in the besieged city of Mariupol while Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, 45, was killed on March 7 outside the eastern city of Kharkiv. Meanwhile Major-General Andrey Kolesnikov, Commander of the Guards Tank Kantemirovskaya Division, was also killed in fighting on March 11. Major-General Andrei Sukhovetsky, 47, was killed during a special operation by a sniper on March 3.
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AD1184
Celestial
It looks like his minders briefly lost control of the old codger again and he went dangerously off-message:
White House forced to row back on Biden’s Russia regime change remarks
Once again, they have had to announce that the president's remarks do not reflect actual US policy.
Dejan Corovic
As above, so bellow
nivek
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Moment Russian soldier 'surrenders with TANK in return for $10,000 and Ukrainian citizenship after his colleagues ran off and his commander threatened to shoot him'
This is the moment a Russian tank driver called Misha surrendered to Ukrainian troops by lying on the ground (pictured) beside his T-72B3 main battle tank for a reward of $10,000. Misha, one of alleged war criminal Vladimir Putin's invading soldiers, surrendered in a T-72B3 main battle tank after his two other crewmates escaped home and his commanding officer threatened to shoot him. Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Victor Andrusiv said Misha had contacted Ukraine's national police by phone and arranged a place to meet. He said: 'For a few weeks in the National Police have identified the phones used by Russians. On these phones, we regularly send SMS about how to surrender and hand over the equipment. A few days ago, Misha called us. He didn't see the point of war.'
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This is the moment a Russian tank driver called Misha surrendered to Ukrainian troops by lying on the ground (pictured) beside his T-72B3 main battle tank for a reward of $10,000. Misha, one of alleged war criminal Vladimir Putin's invading soldiers, surrendered in a T-72B3 main battle tank after his two other crewmates escaped home and his commanding officer threatened to shoot him. Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Victor Andrusiv said Misha had contacted Ukraine's national police by phone and arranged a place to meet. He said: 'For a few weeks in the National Police have identified the phones used by Russians. On these phones, we regularly send SMS about how to surrender and hand over the equipment. A few days ago, Misha called us. He didn't see the point of war.'
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nivek
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Missouri radio station owner is branded a traitor for accepting $5,000-a-month from Russian state broadcaster Radio Sputnik to air six hours of pro-Putin propaganda a DAY
Peter Schartel said he is standing up for free speech and alternative viewpoints by airing Sputnik's broadcast in english from the controversial Russian news agency's DC bureau. 'Some will talk to me, but others will still call me a piece of whatever,' he said. 'What I am thankful for is we are still living in a country where they can call me up.' During one recent broadcast of 'The Critical Hour' that aired on Schartel's KCXL, the hosts and their guests echoed false and unsupported claims about Ukraine's government. They repeated Russian state media lies about the Russian military's attacks on civilian targets and its destruction of entire neighborhoods, as well as Putin's baseless claim that his enemies in Ukraine are Nazis.
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Peter Schartel said he is standing up for free speech and alternative viewpoints by airing Sputnik's broadcast in english from the controversial Russian news agency's DC bureau. 'Some will talk to me, but others will still call me a piece of whatever,' he said. 'What I am thankful for is we are still living in a country where they can call me up.' During one recent broadcast of 'The Critical Hour' that aired on Schartel's KCXL, the hosts and their guests echoed false and unsupported claims about Ukraine's government. They repeated Russian state media lies about the Russian military's attacks on civilian targets and its destruction of entire neighborhoods, as well as Putin's baseless claim that his enemies in Ukraine are Nazis.
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nivek
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Ukraine captures one of Russia's most advanced electronic warfare systems, which could reveal military secrets, reports say
Ukrainian forces have seized part of one of Russia's most advanced electronic warfare systems, which could reveal its military secrets, reports say.
The Krasukha-4 command module was found abandoned on the outskirts of Kyiv partly damaged but otherwise intact, The Times of London reported.
Photos of the unit posted on social media appear to show the container containing the module covered in tree branches, possibly in a hasty camouflage attempt by retreating Russian forces.
The system is designed to jam low-orbit satellites, drones, and missiles, but it is also believed to be able to track NATO aircraft, The Times said.
A complete Krasukha-4 is a two-part system consisting of a command post module and an electronic warfare system, mounted separately on two trucks.
It is believed that a Krasukha-4 system was used against Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones in Syria, interfering with their control signal and causing them to crash, according to The Telegraph.
The highly-rated Bayraktar TB2 drones are among those used by Ukrainian forces, used to destroy Russian tanks, armor, and truck convoys.
The seized unit will be examined by Western spy agencies, The Telegraph reported, adding that it would likely be taken by road to the US Air Force's Ramstein Air Base in Germany, before being flown to the US.
Examining the unit could reveal secrets of how it works, which could help Ukraine and Western allies render it useless on the battlefield.
Justin Crump, a military veteran and CEO of risk analysis consultancy Sibylline, told The Times that the seizure was among "lots of goodies that have been recovered on the battlefield."
"It shows how scattered the fighting is and the lack of communications on the Russian side," Crump told the paper.
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Ukrainian forces have seized part of one of Russia's most advanced electronic warfare systems, which could reveal its military secrets, reports say.
The Krasukha-4 command module was found abandoned on the outskirts of Kyiv partly damaged but otherwise intact, The Times of London reported.
Photos of the unit posted on social media appear to show the container containing the module covered in tree branches, possibly in a hasty camouflage attempt by retreating Russian forces.
The system is designed to jam low-orbit satellites, drones, and missiles, but it is also believed to be able to track NATO aircraft, The Times said.
A complete Krasukha-4 is a two-part system consisting of a command post module and an electronic warfare system, mounted separately on two trucks.
It is believed that a Krasukha-4 system was used against Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones in Syria, interfering with their control signal and causing them to crash, according to The Telegraph.
The highly-rated Bayraktar TB2 drones are among those used by Ukrainian forces, used to destroy Russian tanks, armor, and truck convoys.
The seized unit will be examined by Western spy agencies, The Telegraph reported, adding that it would likely be taken by road to the US Air Force's Ramstein Air Base in Germany, before being flown to the US.
Examining the unit could reveal secrets of how it works, which could help Ukraine and Western allies render it useless on the battlefield.
Justin Crump, a military veteran and CEO of risk analysis consultancy Sibylline, told The Times that the seizure was among "lots of goodies that have been recovered on the battlefield."
"It shows how scattered the fighting is and the lack of communications on the Russian side," Crump told the paper.
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pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
which is why those orbs, tic tacs etc like to hang around the west coast and not over Pyongyang
They didn't bother to blow this one up because the tech was old news:
1999 F-117A shootdown - Wikipedia
And why they DID bother to go get this thing before anyone could get their mitts on it:
UPDATED: Navy Recovers Crashed F-35C From Depths of South China Sea - USNI News
Dejan Corovic
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Have there been any UFO sightings during the war in Ukraine?
Apparently, UFOs love watching wars and turned out at battlefields throughout the history. I actually met a British soldier, on The Paracast forum, who observed cylindrical UFO passing through valley ( and collecting samples from ground ), while fighting was raging on other side.
Apparently, UFOs love watching wars and turned out at battlefields throughout the history. I actually met a British soldier, on The Paracast forum, who observed cylindrical UFO passing through valley ( and collecting samples from ground ), while fighting was raging on other side.