Here we go again-Ukraine once again pt2

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Dargo

The EU has not imposed sanctions or a ban on Russian gas.

I know. It has alos not sanciton Rozatom, and many others. And cannot command nor control third countries to obey sanctions (which many dont).
Thats part of the problem with these "sanctions".


A couple of day sago there was a newspaper in Germany reporting that Bubble Olaf was totally irritated by the complete lack of impression Putin showed when he phoned with him, and that he did not mentioin the sanction with one word. Babble-Olaf expressed his consternation in a telephone call with Macronman, and the Frenchman replied that he got the same n one-reaction from Putin last year.



France doe snot buy nuclear fuel form Russia, but sens its own nuclear rods for reprocessing to Rozatom - they are the global leaders for this.


Its hilarious. The West cleverly tailored and designed ever and ever complicated reaction patterns and sanction regimes and knew all so well how Russia shbouzld be hit by this and feel ghandicapped by that -. and Russia simply does nto care for that becasue it does not care for its people, instead swings the two-handed war-axe with all power and does not stop for one moment. The last to express her indignation with the fact the functions do not work was Germany's feminist foreign policy CEO Baerbock who said that the functions should work but for a reason she does not grap do not work.



Well, what was expected from the sanctions was irrational from all start on.



Its all too cleverly overcomplicated what the West does. An iron fist full power into the face, that is what the West should have done from beginning on.



Instread, German TV news today. big news! Germany send More Leropards. Ten. Leopard-1s. Now this will teach them! At the same time Biden gives a very indifferent, undecided impresison with his weapon deliveries, and that will get wors eion coming months and next year. So Germany, like USA, now gives a similar ammount of its GDP, if standardized for population sizes, for weapons and military items.



German support in public is waning. One ministerpresident, a CDU man, openly demands that the weapon deliveries must end and the West "must launch diplomatic initiatives. " Strong weed the man is smoking.

[mapuc]

Russian diplomat in Denmark exposed as an intelligence officer
The 43-year-old military attaché Vladimir Grekov is a colonel in the notorious military intelligence service GRU, reveals Information

Alongside Vladimir Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine, Russia has sent a highly decorated, battle-hardened elite soldier and officer in the notorious GRU intelligence service to Denmark.

This is written by Information and the Dutch newspaper NRC.

43-year-old Vladimir Grekov has been stationed as a military attaché at the Russian embassy in Copenhagen since February.

Leaked information obtained by Information via the organization Dossier Center shows that he has a background in the Russian paratroopers VDV special forces and a senior position in the GRU.

Experts warn
Intelligence sources confirm to Information and the NRC that they are aware that Vladimir Grekov is a GRU officer. Experts assess that he poses a threat to Denmark's national security.

- I can only imagine that PET is aware of what such a man can do, and will certainly try to do. It will probably be operative and subversive activities, perhaps even hybrid warfare, says Jacob Kaarsbo, senior analyst at the Think Tank Europe and former chief analyst at the Defense Intelligence Service (FE), to Information.

The exiled Russian journalist and writer Andrei Soldatov, who is an expert on Russia's intelligence services, expresses it more dramatically.

- You have to understand that when you place a person with experience in special operations in a country, it is not just about intelligence work. Then it's about weapons depots mysteriously starting to explode, he says to Information.

Senior
The GRU is Russia's military intelligence service. In recent years, the service has been linked to sabotage actions and assassination attempts in several European countries, including fires and explosions at weapons depots in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

Particularly noteworthy, according to the experts, is that Vladimir Grekov has a background in a special elite unit of the Russian paratroopers called the 45th Guards. It is a unit made up of special forces – so-called spetsnaz – with expertise in operations behind enemy lines, including sabotage and ambush operations.

Vladimir Grekov holds the rank of colonel, is highly decorated and wears, among other things, two medals 'for distinction in battle'.

Where Vladimir Grekov has been in combat is unknown, but VDV's elite unit has been deployed to Georgia, Syria and Ukraine.

- A picture is emerging of a man who is more James Bond than Kim Philby, says Jakob Seerup, historian with expertise in Russian military affairs and museum inspector at Bornholm's Museum, to Information.

Recently arrived
Vladimir Grekov has come to Denmark after the government last year expelled 15 employees at the Russian embassy who, according to PET, were actually Russian intelligence officers.

At the time, the then foreign minister, Jeppe Kofod (S), expressed that it was unacceptable to have Russian spies on Danish soil.

- With this decision, we are sending a clear signal to Moscow that we will not accept Russian intelligence officers practicing espionage on Danish soil. They pose a risk to our national security that we cannot sit idly by, said the minister in a press release.

But now it turns out that the Danish authorities let Russia send a new GRU officer to the embassy less than a year after the expulsions.

'Well known'
PET refuses to comment on 'specific individuals'.

'But it is well known that the Russian intelligence services have a tradition of exploiting the special rules that apply to international diplomacy by sending intelligence officers to Russia's diplomatic representations under the guise of being diplomats,' writes the service in a comment to Information.

In a written comment to Information, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explains that Denmark and Russia continue to have diplomatic relations, and that there is therefore also a Danish defense attache in Moscow.

'It is in Denmark's interest that these relations are maintained in a turbulent time,' writes the ministry.

The Russian journalist and intelligence expert Andrei Soldatov is critical of the approval of Vladimir Grekov.

'The classic view of 'we spy, they spy, it's a joint game and everything is civilized and decent' no longer holds. We are dealing with the military intelligence service of a nation at war,' he says.

Markus

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Markus

And you don't suppose The rest of the Nations do that do You?

[Jimbuna]

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[mapuc]

According to available data, on August 26, a 10-year-old boy was near the bridge with several other Ukrainian children, when an unknown man accused the children of speaking Ukrainian. The man demanded that they speak Russian and allegedly declared that Ukraine had started a war. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3440950

https://censor.net/en/news/3440950/i...tempted_murder

Must be a sick person

Markus

[tonschk]

But the price Ukraine have paid for these small gains is already too high.

The whole idea of throwing waves and waves of ukrainian soldiers across heavily mined and fortified open terrain, under the watchful eyes of Russian drones, just shows the callousness of both the West and the Ukrainian leadership. It wasn’t so much an offensive as have been a massacre.


As Ukraine’s offensive stalls, are negotiations on the agenda?

https://socialist.net/as-ukraines-of...on-the-agenda/

[August]

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[Jimbuna]

Russian democracy at its finest.

Vladimir Putin’s power was called into question after it was revealed that the Russian secret service is searching for a presidential successor for the despot.

In a surprising development to come as Putin prepares for next year’s Russian presidential election in March 2024, sources familiar with the matter claimed that the Russian Federal Security Service is working to “pinpoint” a potential successor.

According to Dr. Yuri Felshtinsky, the FSB started their search for Putin’s successor after the 70-year-old Russian tyrant allegedly orchestrated Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane crash death last week.

The Russian-American historian also claimed that Putin is living on “borrowed time” and that the “entire process” of Russia’s presidential election is controlled by the FSB.

"The FSB controls and rules Russia,” Dr. Felshtinsky explained to Daily Star this week. “The entire process of the Russian Presidential election and the election computer which calculates the vote is by law controlled by the FSB.”

"In 2021, Russia passed a law allowing remote voting,” he continued. “It might be good in most countries but not for Russia."

Dr. Felshtinsky also explained that the FSB’s involvement in the March 2024 presidential election "will lead to a situation where they have the ability to add the votes of the people who didn't come to vote in order to choose their favourite candidate.”

"My point is that it will be the FSB who choose the next president of Russia,” he said.

According to Dr. Felshtinsky, the first hint that the Russian FSB is lining up a new Putin successor would be if the role of prime minister is suddenly "changed to somebody else" like in 1999 when Putin suddenly replaced Boris Yeltsin.

"If we see suddenly that the Prime Minister is changed to somebody else, let's say Nikolai Patrushev, this will be an indication that they're making Patrushev the President,” he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...33a92f10&ei=10

[Skybird]

To classify the current front breakthrough.



[Neue Zürcher Zeitung, interactive map]

The red circle southwest of the blue breach area is Tokmak. The dark dotted line is railway.

I wonder what kind of terrain the area further south of the current breach is, the Russians have almost no fortifications there (according to this map at least) and seem to rely on the terrain protecting them...?! Without knowledge of that terrain one cannot assess whether or not it is an option to move south and then turn west for Melitopol to bypass all the defences that lie on a straight line between Tokmak and Melitopol. Probably swamps or anything else that prevents mechanized forces from moving through?!

The railway should theoretically alreadsy now be in range of tube artillery, but probably at the risk of having to set up that artillery in range of Russian counter artillery.

It looks as if the Ukrainians indeed have swung the wheel around. Looks as if the only thing that can stop them now is lacking reserves to keep the offensive pushing, but one woudl assume they know that themselkves and somehow take care of that. But obviuously they need a constant stream of ammo and weapons from the West.



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Ukraine claims it can now reahc targets in Russia 1500km away, with weapons from own production, it insists that it doies not use Western-delivered weapons for strikes into Russia, a sit always has promsied. There is not a single violation known so far. - You hear that, Bubble Olaf?

[Skybird]

The whole situation is so utmost absurd.


https://www.ft.com/content/1e70ff72-...4-fcc86fb88a6d

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