Russian special military operation in Ukraine #41

@LogKa11
Zionists do have a strange habit of fighting alongside Nazis in Ukraine

No, I've had enough of Putin's masterplans. I am talking about the plan to win the Battle of the Donbas.

Again, its to bleed Ukraine of its fanatics. They will slowly take settlement after settlement and gradually push them out. Right now its a question of how badly do Bidet's puppets want to hold on and since its a lot they are going to just slowly degrade and take down Ukraine's best formations and slowly drive them out a settlement at a time. Its going to take a while though since Ukraine prepared where they are now for almost a decade. It will take time, but possibly by the end of the year the province will be cleared. Do I necessarily like this plan? No. However, you didn't ask what my plan was. You asked what the plan was. I am just telling you what the plan seems to be from looking at what has been happening.

If it were my plan, There'd be a hell of a lot more destruction of Ukrainian transport infrastructure, a lot of flattened government and ministry buildings in Kiev, Lvov and elsewhere, a shitload of NATO embassies relocating to the relative safety of Lvov or even Poland, no photops by NATO elites in Kiev, there'd be a complete takedown of Ukraine's energy grid, internet, and bridges and rail networks. I'd also do a couple more rounds of mobilizations and call ups and take Kharkov and Sumy and Odessa and seal Ukraine off from the sea. That is what I would do, but alas I am just a commentator from somewhere in cyberspace.

Ukies crossing to Dnieper is nothing without establishing bridgeheads which is impossible now where the RuAF and artillery are active .

It would have made the Americans bolder because they would think Putin was not prepared to send in the troops and is a coward like they are hoping air power would get the job done instead without getting your hands bloody. The simple fact is that if Russia had not invaded and their armed forces remained largely intact then they would represent a massive threat to the Donbass regions, but also to the Crimea and after an attack on Kiev started they would have mobilised and moved their forces to the front line making the job much harder for those fighting there at the time and they likely would have collapsed under the weight of numbers meaning when you did send in Russian troops they would be largely on their own and fighting from much further back than when they started this time and with fewer locals to help them. If you want to kill some people kill the Bidens and the Clintons and this whole war goes away. Bidens will stop the conflict in the Ukraine where they have a lot of financial interests and Clintons to stop this irrational hatred of Putin... wrote:

they could have used the chaos in CNC to take Donbass and start a bombing campaign on military targets. Also instead of attacking Kiev, close the border to the west.

The Bakhmut meat grinder is dangerous because it takes too much infantry, and even more so professionals.
When the Russians cover houses with bombs and artillery in which Ukrainian snipers or special forces have settled, then no one gets them out from under the rubble. There are many such losses.
The APU also blows up residential buildings with TNT bombs when they retreat. As the source explains, in the Armed Forces of Ukraine this is called the mousetrap effect.


In the Bakhmut meat grinder, there is a standing war in which the Russians have an advantage. They have already begun massively jamming Ukrainian UAVs with the help of electronic warfare, which causes significant damage in technical terms.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have less ammunition than the Russians. This is reflected in the number of losses.


No one even talks about the loss of equipment - it is colossal. Only along one road to "hell" (as the soldiers call Bakhmut), the Armed Forces of Ukraine immediately lose 20-30% of equipment.

https://t.me/legitimniy/15190

Once again about the strikes with "Daggers" on the NATO bunker: why everyone is silent about them, by Lyubov Stepushova for Military Pravda.ru. 04.23.2023.

Russian and American authorities are silent about the results of the Kinzhal missile attack on the Lvov region on March 9. Meanwhile, the consequences are reflected in the changed policy of NATO.

"Daggers" selected for a worthy object

Leaks of information on the results of the strike - the underground bunker of NATO headquarters was hit - occurred either through Ukrainian Telegram channels, or through an unknown Greek publication , or through Russian military specialists. Neither the Russian Defense Ministry nor the Pentagon commented on the event.

Hypersonic missiles "Dagger" could not fail to hit the chosen object, since they are elusive not only for the Ukrainian missile defense system, but for any other in the world, the Pentagon also admits this.

Secondly, it had to be a very important and worthy target for the "Daggers" - located deep underground: the damaging characteristics of the "Daggers" are designed for this. It was under Lviv in Western Ukraine, as it appears from the data in the media, that there was a deep (up to 120 meters) underground bunker - the control center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where NATO specialists worked.

The Kremlin had good reasons for striking with "Daggers"

Further, we note that for such an escalation on the part of the Kremlin there should have been good reasons. And there was such a reason - it was a terrorist attack in the Bryansk region on March 2, as a result of which a civilian was killed and a boy was wounded.

It was precisely a terrorist act, because the sortie of Ukrainian militants under the guise of "the liberation army of Russia" had no military significance. Behind it were the secret services of Ukraine and the United States, and maybe Britain. It doesn't matter. It is important that this was the first overland attack by terrorists on the "old" territories of the Russian Federation, which was already an existential threat at the stage of the beginning of its implementation. And I had to answer.

The answer came with Kinzhal strikes, killing some 160 NATO officers in the bunker, according to some sources.

NATO had only one adequate response - nuclear
If NATO recognizes these losses, then an adequate response is needed - according to the Russian command center, for example, in the Kherson region. But this response has no other option than a tactical nuclear strike from Europe, because NATO does not have an elusive hypersonic weapon like Russia's.

Tests of such a missile in March were a failure. That is, if Moscow has long had a wide range of hypersonic weapons and is working on its new generation, the Pentagon is only achieving stable flights at supersonic speeds.

Thus, Washington faced a dilemma after March 9:


raise the level of conflict with Russia to a nuclear one, or
look for another way out - to freeze the conflict.


As follows from subsequent events, the second option was chosen, because the goal of the war for the Americans is not the defeat of the Russian Federation, but to enable their bankers to invest and profit from the restoration of Ukraine. And, of course, for this it is necessary that the Russian Federation leave it with a pro-Western government.

In addition, the military in the United States, apparently, was afraid that the inadequacies in Congress, when the NATO losses were made public on March 9, would insist on a nuclear strike on the Russian Federation. This is another reason for the silence of events in the main US media.

How the freezing of the conflict in Ukraine is developing

Further events line up in a logical chain.


1. In March and April, publications about the poor state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tripled in the Western media, and someone in red shorts appeared who organized the necessary intelligence leak describing the collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
2. They also talked about the need for negotiations between Kyiv and the Russian Federation with territorial concessions.
3. French President Emmanuel Macron was sent to China (because Xi Qizping does not want to meet with Anthony Blinken and does not accept calls from Joe Biden), who joined the Beijing peace plan.
4. The "corridors of solidarity" for the export of Ukrainian grain through Europe were urgently canceled , which deprives Kiev of budget revenues. It is noteworthy that the initiator of this restriction was Warsaw, which before that was burning with the desire to make a confederation with Ukraine. This idea is now put to rest.
5. They even talked about the physical elimination of Zelensky, as he is inadequate.
6. And, finally, the visit of Jens Stoltenberg to Kiev looks like a cherry on the cake against the backdrop of an article in WP that the United States warned Vladimir Zelensky : don’t hold on to Bakhmut, now let him blame himself. That is, Stoltenberg brought the last warning to Zelensky - negotiate with Moscow.

Western bankers should be allowed to earn

In the near future, probably with other leadership in Kiev, Washington will agree to all the Kremlin's demands on the issue of Ukraine in terms of territorial concessions (according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation), in return for receiving participation in its economic restoration.

Or, refusing and delaying time to reason with Zelensky (which is useless), he will not receive this either, losing the money already invested in the privatization of Ukrainian assets - black soil and liquid strategic production. Then it will be difficult to explain to your taxpayers why all this was in Ukraine.

It remains to answer the question why the Russian Defense Ministry is silent about the defeat of the NATO bunker. Yes, for the same reason - the Russian Federation also does not need an escalation of the conflict with the United States.

https://military.pravda.ru/1825465-bunker_nato_lvov/

Small Ukrainian DRG (sabotage & recon) crossed the river in 3 fast craft. Blow up a house, took a photo shoot and beat the feet back across to the other side. Conflicting reports to how many made it.

Unacceptable

^ The river is the demarcation line in the war. Kherson is important. Shouldnt there be enough surveillance to shoot up anything crossing it ?

This Ukro Nazi drone landed in Moscow today. Local reporters said, it was carrying 20kg of explosives. Was flying using GPS just like a cruise missile, fortunately Russian EW systems brought it down before it could cause damage. Twenty kilos of explosives would have wiped out hundreds of people on the ground in Moscow. Dodged a bullet today. Has US written all over this.

"Wagner Group" advanced in the western districts of Artemovsk, 04.24.2023.

The "Wagner Group" has advanced in the west of Artemovsk and is fighting behind the railway.

ARTEMOVSK, April 24 - RIA Novosti. The fighters of the "Wagner group" have advanced in the western outskirts of Artemovsk and are already fighting behind the railway in the area of ​​​​high-rise buildings and a medical institute, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the scene.

“Three days ago we went behind a piece of iron to a nine-story building, cleared it and now we are moving west. Ahead of the nine-story buildings, the extreme ones that remained in the western part of Bakhmut,” the fighter said.

He noted that in this part of the city there were few surviving buildings that could be used as shelters. At the same time, the Ukrainian military, according to the interlocutor of the agency, occupy advantageous heights in high-rise buildings.

“The whole difficulty is that they are now sitting at a height, and we are trying to move, we are looking for any shelters. In this regard, it is difficult, because there are no whole houses there and there are no shelters either, so we try to quickly enter high-rise buildings,” military added.

Artemovsk is located north of the large city of Gorlovka . Used by Kiev as a transport hub for supplying troops in the Donbass . Fierce battles have been going on outside the city for more than six months.

https://ria.ru/20230424/artemovsk-1867317425.html

Dozens of foreign mercenaries killed in Iskander strike – Russia, 04.24.2023.

Up to 60 members of the so-called ‘Georgian Legion’ were eliminated in Donbass, according to the Defence Ministry.

Dozens of foreign mercenaries have been killed in a strike on the Ukrainian-held town of Konstantinovka in Russia’s People’s Republic of Donetsk, Moscow has said.

Up to 60 members of the so-called ‘Georgian Legion’ were killed and 15 military vehicles were destroyed in the attack, while 20 other mercenaries were seriously wounded, the ministry’s spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, announced during a briefing on Monday.

The strike, carried out using the Iskander short-range ballistic missile system, targeted a library in Konstantinovka, which foreign fighters were using for lodging and storing ammunition, he added.

“The eliminated militants of the Georgian Legion were involved in the brutal torture and murder of Russian servicemen near Kiev in March last year,” Konashenkov said.

The Russian military possesses data on every foreign mercenary linked to the killing of Russian POWs, the spokesman claimed. “Every one of them will get their well-deserved retribution,” he added.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575255-ukraine-georgia-mercenaries-iskander/

Robinette is a weak and pusillanimous man, it finally shows up.

White House ‘disconnected’ from intelligence – Seymour Hersh, 04.24.2023.
Biden seems uninterested in what spooks say about the Nord Stream sabotage, the journalist said in an interview aired by RT.

US President Joe Biden doesn’t seem interested in complicated analysis from the intelligence community, including information on the Nord Stream sabotage, American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has said.

“There are people [in US intelligence agencies] that do analysis and write complicated foreign policy studies. It’s an intellectual game,” he told Afshin Rattansi on Going Underground, which was aired by RT on Monday.

“Many of them feel isolated, because there is no sign that the White House is terribly interested in long-term national intelligence estimates. And they certainly don’t want one on the pipeline,” he added.

Hersh reported earlier this year that Nord Stream, which had supplied oil from Russia to Germany, had been sabotaged in a joint US-Norwegian operation ordered by Joe Biden last September. Both nations deny the allegation.

"I don’t know what’s going to happen with the pipeline story. I don’t know if it’s ever going to come out, because this government will never investigate it, at least in an honest way,” Hersh said in the interview that aired on RT on Monday.

Describing the apparent “disconnect” between the White House and the US intelligence community, the veteran journalist said some professional analysts “don’t see Biden as an ardent reader of their work.”

He compared Biden’s attitude to that of another US president, Ronald Reagan, who was described as “not much of a reader” of detailed intelligence reports, which “rarely reached his desk,” according to one account.

According to an anecdote recalled by Hersh, people in the CIA realized that Reagan was not reading the daily briefs prepared for him by the agency.

“Colin Powell… figured a way to do it. He would tape it into video, and then plug the video in for Reagan to watch,” the journalist added.

Powell served as national security adviser in the Reagan administration. The president’s preference for visuals rather than text was reported by many sources. However, the CIA has dismissed Reagan’s purported aversion to its written material as a myth.

https://www.rt.com/news/575249-hersh-ingellitence-reports-biden/

Reagan was smart enough not to get the US into any major wars. The biggest war the US got into was the invasion of Grenada.
He massively increased spending to build up the military and engaged in a lot of dirty wars all over the world. But refrained from going into direct conflict.

Mark Sleboda 3 days ago. He's not a doomer but not an optimist either. He says its a little concerning to him that Russia isn't doing another round of mobilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luHMVfRP39o&t=3052s

Why another round of mobilization? Ukraine's next mass suicide uh offensive features 150 some odd Bradleys, Leopard Is and M1A1's given a brief reprieve from the bone yard. If Russia has sufficient shells, srockets, glidebombs and drones then there is no need for another mobilization, at least not yet. What Russia needs to be on guard for are bombings and disruptions of Victory Day parades or drone strikes and terror attacks on Russian landmarks. However, that requires intel not more mobilization.

2 glide bombs took care of the "landing attempt" in Kherson.

Rob Lee
@RALee85
"Over the past six months, cargo ships have carried more than 300,000 artillery shells and a million rounds of ammunition from Iran to Russia, according to the officials and documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal." @DionNissenbaum
@benoitfaucon

https://wsj.com/amp/articles/i

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuefGZpXsAE9WTJ?format=png&name=small

Rob Lee
@RALee85
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"One contract from September 2022, viewed by Journal, showed a deal between Iran’s Defense Ministry and Russia’s JSC Rosoboronexport for more than 74,000 artillery shells to be sold to Russia for $1.7 million."

H I Sutton
@CovertShores
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***BREAKING***

New details of #Russia's elaborate defenses at Sevastopol. These have been enhanced in past few days, then tested this morning by Ukrainian maritime drones

#OSINT
Nod @COUPSURE




New Defenses Show Russia On Defensive In Sevastopol As Ukraine Attacks
There are few more visible signs of Russia's more defensive posture than the six layers of nets and booms across Sevastopol harbor. The enhanced defenses are primarily aimed at Ukraine's maritime drones. The April 24 2023 attack on the Crimean port shows how things are heating up.

H I Sutton 24 Apr 2023

Today’s attack on Sevastopol harbor by Ukrainian maritime drones (uncrewed surface vessels armed with explosives) will make headlines. And rightly so. Yet there is an aspect which could easily be overlooked; this time none of Ukraine’s drone’s appeared to penetrate the harbor. The attack comes as Russia undertakes a massive effort to increase the harbor’s protection against these attacks.

The entrance to Sevastopol harbor is now protected by no less than 6 layers of physical barriers. This adds to the patrol boats, helicopter patrols, anti-diver dolphins and gun emplacements.

Local Governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, announced on social media that the attack occurred at 3.30am. He stated that one maritime drone was destroyed and that a second exploded on its own. His wording appeared to confirm that the attackers did not penetrate the harbor.

Sevastopol is the main naval base for the Russian Navy in Crimea. Although there have been efforts to disperse key assets to other bases, such as Feodosia, major warships remain there. It therefore remains a key target for Ukraine, especially as any planned counter-offensive takes place.
Russia’s Increased Defenses of Sevastopol

The original floating booms across the harbor entrance were as much for containing oil spills as preventing some form of attack. Indeed, the threat of Ukrainian attacks with surface vessels must have appeared both old fashioned and highly unlikely to the Russians at the start of the Invasion. However the pre-existing floating boom was occasionally closed to prevent unauthorized boats entering.

However in October 2022 Ukraine pulled off an impressive maritime drone attack on Sevastopol. Several ships were hit although none sustained lasting damage. However it revealed the ineffectiveness of the old defenses. In November more heavy boom defenses were added, both at the harbor entrance and at various locations inside the port. The beefed-up defenses appeared more serious, the sort of thing many would have imagined at the beginning of the war.

Yet on March 22 2023 Ukrainian maritime drones struck again. Again they did not score a major hit, but they did once again penetrate the inner harbor. These latest defenses are likely in response to this. Two more layers of floating nets have been placed on the outer side of the harbor entrance. And a row of six large pontoon barges have been anchored just inside the entrance. These in effect extend the harbor wall, narrowing the entrance. It is likely that additional obstacles are strung between them.

Analysis of radar satellite imagery shows that the pontoon barges started to be positioned between April 3-9, and have grown since. They are now on both sides of the harbor entrance.
Russia Sees Crimea Under Threat

Independent defense analyst Benjamin Pittet told Naval News that the new defenses are part of a wider effort to fortify Crimea: “Russian ships have been patrolling more often near the Kerch Strait these past weeks. On the ground, they’ve been setting up a large amount of trenches around key locations. Air wise, they are becoming more aggressive regarding NATO intelligence missions.”

The attack comes as Ukrainian forces are reported to have advanced across the Dnipro River north of Crimea. Pittet believes that the increased defenses show that Russia is scared of any potential action against Crimea. As well as investing a lot of resources into trench building in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, there are even trenches across the southern tip of Crimea, near Feodesia.

He also notes that there are now multiple batteries of air defenses around Sevastopol. “They have been moving air defenses around for months now, they are not static, they keep moving. In the city, but also around Belbek airbase.”

Whether the latest Ukrainian maritime drone attack was intercepted because of the new defenses remains to be seen. It is possible that, knowing of these defenses, Ukraine deliberately targeted outside the harbor. Either way this attack should be seen in the wider context of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive. What it shows is that Russia will have to continue to invest in protecting its bases on Crimea.
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/04/new-defenses-show-russia-on-defensive-in-sevastopol-as-ukraine-attacks/

The Wall Street Journal

Extremely reliable source.

74,000 artillery shells

Russia produces this ammount in less than 2 months.

300.000 rounds

Why should Russia wait for 6 months to transport this tiny ammount of ammo?

Ukraine deliberately targeted outside the harbor.

Typical western propaganda. Failed attack turned into deliberate 15D chess move by the Kiev regime.