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- Clashes between the Russian Army and the AFU continue to the west of Debrova;
- Clashes between the Russian Army and the AFU continue near Dvurechnoye;
- The Russian artillery struck the AFU 92nd Mechanised Brigade near Krakhmalnoye;
- Up to 30 Ukrainian personnel, 2 armored vehicles and 3 vehicles were destroyed by Russian artillery shelling in the Kupyansk region, according to the Russian MOD.
Lots of heavy artillery being used against Ukrainian lines in Kharkiv Region. Many Thousands of shells being used by Russia every day. Almost as though there is a softening of the UAF positions. I would imagine a push when the offensive starts. Based on what happens with major cities the regional capital will be bypassed and surrounded.
Your military, RF with SS Wagner scumbags are hardly impressive at all. Criminals are criminals how ever good cooked books you are reading. Shame on Russian military.
Russia is preparing to launch a new offensive in Ukraine, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on Friday, citing a source from the Russian military.
According to the source, Russia’s generals are ready to turn tens of thousands of their own servicemen into “mincemeat” at the behest of their superiors. At the same time, he said, the generals aren’t taking into account any of the obvious risks this kind of maneuver carries.
“The Ukrainians get absolutely accurate information about all of our movements from Western intelligence agencies,” he said. “Amassing enough forces in a particular area without exposing them to strikes from [Ukrainian] HIMARS and long-range artillery is impossible.”
The problem with this is that they are amassing troops. And the UAF isn’t able to strike them period. They is eorf that Ukraine is even withdrawing their remaining HIMARS away from the active front as if the Russians Break through, there is a serious chance of them capturing them. Additionally, the Russians in the north are far from the HIMARS as they are located in the south and Central fronts as this is where they are required. The Russians aren’t losing troops left right and center as western media claims. The Russian Losses are far below what NATO thought was possible for this scale of war. This has been cited numerous times by yesterday government officials, and military leaders. MSM is just trying to create a narrative of the Russians losing many troops to win to justify the loss of the ear by Ukraine
According to Mossad’s claim (just in today), Russian losses are around 18.000 while Ukrainians are at 157.000 KIA.
Meanwhile the Russians continue to pinch off and engulf the Ukrainian fortified areas along the line of contact, actually turning vast numbers of Ukrainians into mincemeat. Ihor, things have really worked out well for Ukrainians since the 2014 coup.
Among the problems likely to plague the potential upcoming assault, the source listed the difficulty of capturing new territories, the challenges of maintaining control over newly-captured areas, and the inevitable stretching of the front line, which makes it even harder to transport food and munitions.
“As a result of the attacks, we end up getting a lunar landscape with the remnants of a population that hates us, rather than inhabited settlements. Enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups operate in the occupied territories. They stab you in the back, plot the land for the artillery, mine the roads, take prisoners. In circumstances like these, holding the front can only be done at the cost of enormous losses,” he said.
Is the source in the room with us now?
Since last summer, Kremlin-backed tycoon Evgeny Prigozhin has traveled around Russia’s penal colonies, recruiting inmates into the Wagner Group ranks, in exchange for pardons and cash payments. Witnesses claim, however, that the mercenary group has its own means of punishing fighters for desertion and other offenses, and that extrajudicial killings are a common practice.
In Luhansk, Russian recruit Troshkin was caught by a military patrol, who tried to make him sign a paper saying he wanted to volunteer. There was another medical exam, but he lied that he had HIV. They let him go. He then walked to Donetsk, where he took a bus to Moscow, and then hitchhiked the rest of the way home. (did not specify where he is from, but it’s likely to be Siberia.) At first, he thought of returning to prison and serving the remainder of his sentence, but then he learned from acquaintances that his criminal record had already been expunged. Now, he fears retribution from Wagner Group and thinks he’ll “have to hide and change his phone number”.
New Wagner recruits were told they’d spend a month training in Rostov-on-Don. Instead, they were sent straight to the Luhansk region, where they were stationed in a military camp not far from the combat zone.
“The unit went out immediately to the training grounds, where they gave recruits weapons. They gave black 1975 Kalashnikovs without any cartridges, a bayonet, knives, and waist pouches. There were instructors there, they said: you’ll be here two weeks, then you’ll go to the second line, and then to the front line. But some guys from Chelyabinsk came through, and they said they’d been sent to fight right away, after a week. Of course we started to catch on.”
After the week-and-a-half of training, the camp came under attack from Ukrainian troops. The Wagner fighters had been warned the day before to “keep their ears to the ground,” but the attack took the camp by surprise anyway. When the shooting started, the former prisoners didn’t even have rifle cartridges, since they only got those when training.
“A commotion started” and “everyone ran all over the place.” Troshkin and another convict ran to a nearby village. From there, they went to Luhansk on foot. Troshkin decided not to return to the camp. “I could hear shooting back at the camp, and it had been just guys with no ammunition there, all doing construction. Everyone there just got mowed down,” Troskin says.
In Luhansk, Troshkin was caught by a military patrol, who tried to make him sign a paper saying he wanted to volunteer. There was another medical exam, but he lied that he had HIV. They let him go. He then walked to Donetsk, where he took a bus to Moscow, and then hitchhiked the rest of the way home. (did not specify where he is from, but it’s likely to be Siberia.) At first, he thought of returning to prison and serving the remainder of his sentence, but then he learned from acquaintances that his criminal record had already been expunged. Now, he fears retribution from Wagner Group and thinks he’ll “have to hide and change his phone number.”
The Russian Defense Ministry has begun to recruit new soldiers from among the inmates of Russia’s so-called “red” penal colonies. This is a class of penal institutions where some of the inmates are former law-enforcement and state-security servicemen. In “red” colonies, convicts are permitted to organize a good deal of their daily life, unlike the other “castes” of inmates in the Russian penal system. No later than the end of September, the Ministry of Defense began to recruit soldiers for a new formation called Storm among the people currently imprisoned in the “red” colonies.
It’s always amusing to see a Ukretard troll offensive on SF. Since the US overthrew the government of the failed Ukrainian CIA project in 2014, the state has lost Crimea and four oblasts. Millions of refugees have fled the country. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian military personnel have been killed. The economy of the country has been strangled. And all your posts consist of denigrating the Russians. I’ve never seen anything as pathetic as people suffering from Ukretardation. Can you name something as disastrous for a country as the Ukrainian policy toward Russia since the US coup?
There is only one country that destroys itself for the love of the globohomo. Ukraine tried to achieve greatness by association and being the servant of the colonizers. No one has become great by being a slave of some power. The secret to greatness is to make oneself powerful economically, scientifically, militarily, culturally, spiritually and politically. For small and medium nations, greatness can’t be achieved by being a member of EU or NATO. You will become the useful tool of the masters. You will get all your industries destroyed to serve as a market for the industries of the masters. Small nations which became members of EU and NATO became their barking dogs that bark at Russia mainly and China occasionally. For being the good dogs of the masters, small nations are entitled for regular donation of some dog foods. The baltic states are example of some loyal dog nations. I detest boot lickers.
There is a serious current of magical thinking and stupidity in Ukrainian nationalism. As the saying goes, they fucked around and found out with the Russians when they literally joined the Nazis. OUN fuck-tards were sent to Nazi school long before Barbarossa. And now they let the Americans use them as a strap-on to be used on Russia, and they got smashed again. They seem incapable of reason.
Russian nationalism and chauvinism is stupid and ridiculously pompous.
USA so far has not sent Ukraine any of the 300-kilometer range ATACMS missiles and as of 15 September, have indicated that we have no plans to do so. Russia has been protesting strenuously against this. This range would give Ukraine the ability to completely cover Sevastopol and strike at the bridge on the Kerch straight connection the rest of the Russia to Crimea. Russia has been moving many of its ships from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk in Russia, out of the 300-kilometer range. On the other hand, the Ukrainian R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles that sunk the Russian cruiser Moskva also have a range of up to 280 kilometers (170 miles) kilometers and can certainly reach Sevastopol and I gather the bridge from Kerch to Crimea. As we have seen from the Ukrainian strike on Saki Airbase in Crimea on 9 August, they already have the ability to reach out and touch the Russians well behind the lines.
USA so far has not sent Ukraine any of the 300-kilometer range ATACMS missiles and as of 15 September, have indicated that we have no plans to do so. Russia has been protesting strenuously against this. This range would give Ukraine the ability to completely cover Sevastopol and strike at the bridge on the Kerch straight connection the rest of the Russia to Crimea. Russia has been moving many of its ships from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk in Russia, out of the 300-kilometer range. On the other hand the Ukrainian R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles that sunk the Russian cruiser Moskva also have a range of up to 280 kilometers (170 miles) kilometers and can certainly reach Sevastopol and I gather the bridge from Kerch to Crimea. As we have seen from the Ukrainian strike on Saki Airbase in Crimea on 9 August, they already have the ability to reach out and touch the Russians well behind the lines.
Slavoj Žižek: “Russia is a deeply traumatized, divided nation, whose official discourse is now becoming deeply orthodox. It says, There is no death, but only immortality. There is no pain, only duty. Meanwhile, the majority of people are afraid, and their assent cannot be taken at face value.
The ideology of people around Putin, and Putin himself, seems quite clear-cut. It’s Neo-Fascism. They don’t use this term, but the entire framework of Russian imperialist views — with the right to aggressively expand the state borders, the internal politics with regard to oligarchs, etc. — this mindset is the core of what we would call Neo-Fascism. “
Slavoj Žižek: “Russia is a deeply traumatized, divided nation, whose official discourse is now becoming deeply orthodox. It says, There is no death, but only immortality. There is no pain, only duty. Meanwhile, the majority of people are afraid, and their assent cannot be taken at face value. The ideology of people around Putin, and Putin himself, seems quite clear-cut. It’s Neo-Fascism. They don’t use this term, but the entire framework of Russian imperialist views — with the right to aggressively expand the state borders, the internal politics with regard to oligarchs, etc. — this mindset is the core of what we would call Neo-Fascism. “
Slavoj is an entertainment figure. He does not question the Covid narrative which is a dead give-away for his real role. But thanks for that little comedy gem. He calls Dugin the “court philosopher” of Putin, when apparently the two men have never even met. Great stuff. How does this stuff compare to the “national idea” of the failed Ukrainian CIA project? Death or Glory to be sure!
I don’t know what he posted but indeed Slavoj Žižek is a clown. His “analysis” should be more considered comedy and caricature then anything serious (even though he is being serious about it), it’s mostly half-crazy ramblings and intended to confuse.
Slavoj Žižek: “Russia is a deeply traumatized, divided nation, whose official discourse is now becoming deeply orthodox. It says, There is no death, but only immortality. There is no pain, only duty. Meanwhile, the majority of people are afraid, and their assent cannot be taken at face value. The ideology of people around Putin, and Putin himself, seems quite clear-cut. It’s Neo-Fascism. They don’t use this term, but the entire framework of Russian imperialist views — with the right to aggressively expand the state borders, the internal politics with regard to oligarchs, etc. — this mindset is the core of what we would call Neo-Fascism. “
Slavoj Žižek: “Russia is a deeply traumatized, divided nation, whose official discourse is now becoming deeply orthodox. It says, There is no death, but only immortality. There is no pain, only duty. Meanwhile, the majority of people are afraid, and their assent cannot be taken at face value. The ideology of people around Putin, and Putin himself, seems quite clear-cut. It’s Neo-Fascism. They don’t use this term, but the entire framework of Russian imperialist views — with the right to aggressively expand the state borders, the internal politics with regard to oligarchs, etc. — this mindset is the core of what we would call Neo-Fascism.”
Slavoj Žižek: “Russia is a deeply traumatized, divided nation, whose official discourse is now becoming deeply orthodox. It says, There is no death, but only immortality. There is no pain, only duty. Meanwhile, the majority of people are afraid, and their assent cannot be taken at face value. The ideology of people around Putin, and Putin himself, seems quite clear-cut. It’s Neo-Fascism. They don’t use this term, but the entire framework of Russian imperialist views — with the right to aggressively expand the state borders, the internal politics with regard to oligarchs, etc. — this mindset is the core of what we would call Neo-Fascism. “
Slavoj Žižek: “Russia is a deeply traumatized, divided nation, whose official discourse is now becoming deeply orthodox. It says, There is no death, but only immortality. There is no pain, only duty. Meanwhile, the majority of people are afraid, and their assent cannot be taken at face value. The ideology of people around Putin, and Putin himself, seems quite clear-cut. It’s Neo-Fascism. They don’t use this term, but the entire framework of Russian imperialist views — with the right to aggressively expand the state borders, the internal politics with regard to oligarchs, etc. — this mindset is the core of what we would call Neo-Fascism. “
almost 1 year since the 3-day special operation started. this year will be decisive, we will have the winner. I bet on Ukraine thanks to Western support but it will not recover all of its territory
US American race war started ? yes no, wtf!! Are you waiting for a new civil war?
The Russian Defense Ministry has begun to recruit new soldiers from among the inmates of Russia’s so-called “red” penal colonies. This is a class of penal institutions where some of the inmates are former law-enforcement and state-security servicemen. In “red” colonies, convicts are permitted to organize a good deal of their daily life, unlike the other “castes” of inmates in the Russian penal system. No later than the end of September, the Ministry of Defense began to recruit soldiers for a new formation called Storm among the people currently imprisoned in the “red” colonies.
After the week-and-a-half of training, the camp came under attack from Ukrainian troops. The Wagner fighters had been warned the day before to “keep their ears to the ground,” but the attack took the camp by surprise anyway. When the shooting started, the former prisoners didn’t even have rifle cartridges, since they only got those when training.
“A commotion started” and “everyone ran all over the place.” Troshkin and another convict ran to a nearby village. From there, they went to Luhansk on foot. Troshkin decided not to return to the camp. “I could hear shooting back at the camp, and it had been just guys with no ammunition there, all doing construction. Everyone there just got mowed down,” Troskin says.
New Wagner recruits were told they’d spend a month training in Rostov-on-Don. Instead, they were sent straight to the Luhansk region, where they were stationed in a military camp not far from the combat zone.
“The unit went out immediately to the training grounds, where they gave recruits weapons. They gave black 1975 Kalashnikovs without any cartridges, a bayonet, knives, and waist pouches. There were instructors there, they said: you’ll be here two weeks, then you’ll go to the second line, and then to the front line. But some guys from Chelyabinsk came through, and they said they’d been sent to fight right away, after a week. Of course we started to catch on.”
In Luhansk, Troshkin was caught by a military patrol, who tried to make him sign a paper saying he wanted to volunteer. There was another medical exam, but he lied that he had HIV. They let him go. He then walked to Donetsk, where he took a bus to Moscow, and then hitchhiked the rest of the way home. (did not specify where he’s from, but it’s likely to be Siberia.) At first, he thought of returning to prison and serving the remainder of his sentence, but then he learned from acquaintances that his criminal record had already been expunged. Now, he fears retribution from Wagner Group and thinks he’ll “have to hide and change his phone number.”
Stop shelling Ukrainian territory and, in particular, stop missile and artillery strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure; Start talks with Ukraine with the goal of negotiating a ceasefire at the front lines, and take real steps, like withdrawing troops from the front and from Belarus, to reassure the Ukrainian authorities that a ceasefire won’t be merely an opportunity for Russian troops to regroup; Bring international organizations (particularly the UN) and peacekeeping contingents to the territories currently under Russian control that were under Ukrainian control before 2014, to ensure the safety of residents of those territories; and Exchange all citizens of Russia and Ukraine arrested during the “special military operation.”.
Reasons to blame both Putin and The West. If a country relies too much on its natural resources, oil exports, food, or grain, this reliance makes it inert, and can pave the way to new forms of colonization. Here we have Ukraine and its struggle for freedom. We support it. Perfect, but is the West purely disinterested here? Let’s see what’s happening in Ukraine, politically and economically. I read that one-third of the best land is either in private hands or owned by a Western company. This is economic colonization by the West.