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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Ellen Blinken
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Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine
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Former Russian president presents future map of Ukraine
“In the mind of the president of Ukraine, damaged by psychotropic substances, this is what the map of his country’s bright future will look like,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram.
“Western analysts believe it will look like this, actually,” he said, posting a second map. On it, “Ukraine” is reduced to Kiev and its surroundings. Seven regions in the West have been annexed by Poland, and three in the southwest by Hungary and Romania, respectively."
"Everything else is marked “Russia.”
"He did not specify which Western experts may have envisioned such a partition."
Article with the maps below:
They definitely are. I don't know if they live in Ukraine now, but those who indicate their origin from Ukraine in the profile are on the forum for sure. In this topic, one or two somehow manifested themselves.
Они определенно есть. Живут ли они сейчас на Украине мне неведомо, но те кто указывает в профиле свое происхождение из Украины, есть на форуме точно. В этой теме один или двое как то проявлялись.
'What a "convincingly" explanation.'
US Official: If Ukraine Shelled Prison Housing POWs in Elenovka ‘They Did Not Mean to Do That’
1 hour ago
While Zelensky publicly insults the American people, the US has given over $50 billion in financial aid to Ukraine...
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Scotland Today online - Zelenskyy: "Americans are ridiculous, decadent, over-fed and I have contempt for them"
The Ukrainian authorities have stopped hiding that they only need money from the United States. They (Ukraine) treat us (USA) with complete contempt. They don't care about the United States at all.
scotlandtoday.online
While Zelensky publicly insults the American people, the US has given over $50 billion in financial aid to Ukraine...
Scotland Today online - Zelenskyy: "Americans are ridiculous, decadent, over-fed and I have contempt for them"
The Ukrainian authorities have stopped hiding that they only need money from the United States. They (Ukraine) treat us (USA) with complete contempt. They don't care about the United States at all.
And some in the west lap up Zelenskyy and his many minions, no new thing, and yet the "contempt"...
Ex-Canadian General, Rick Hellier, who has now been seconded by Canadian government to fulfill a 'Strategic Advisory Council' role, is interviewed here (originally on CBC and here at Ukrainian World Congress). Rick was not well liked by many of his solders, when he was in service. A bit of a tyrant:
TRANSCRIPT:
Anna, CBC: Some of the world’s foremost military commanders are joining forces to help Ukraine defend its territory. The non-profit Ukrainian World Congress is putting together a Strategic Advisory Council, as we approach the five months mark of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Retired Canadian General Rick Hillier is leading that effort and joins me live from Campbellton, Newfoundland. I knew you’d keep busy with the Strategic Advisory Council, and you are running it. What’s your plan?
Hillier: Our plan is to help Ukraine, help Ukraine, you know, a democratic nation defend itself against a brutal dictator who’s invading it and destroying its country and killing its people. And so we want to help in our unique way by putting our shoulder behind the Ukrainian World Congress and helping people realize that they should advocate for support Ukraine and donate for support Ukraine. And so that’s what we want to do – help Ukraine.
Anna, CBC: And help – that can take many forms. What’s on your list when it comes to that to-do help list?
Hillier: Well, very practical, because we’re soldiers, after all, all of us who are part of the council. Dave Petraeus, General Wesley Clark, General Dick Lodewijk Berlijn from the Netherlands, and myself. And what we want to do is equip the defenders of Ukraine, specifically, the 100,000 Territorial Defense Force members. As a very recent organization, they are the moms and dads of Ukraine who have joined up to defend their families, defend their villages. They’ve gotten very little training and are absolutely poorly equipped. And we want to help change that by raising money and purchasing and getting to them the equipment they need to protect themselves.
So very simply, a helmet to protect their head, their noggin from shrapnel and shock, ballistic goggles to protect their eyes from the shrapnel of rocks and dust and explosions, flak vests with the plates, knee pads, boots, and medical kits, like, which they can use to save their life or the lives of their battle buddies. And we’re looking at 100,000. You know, $2,500 a soldier so we’re looking at raising a lot of money to outfit those Territorial Defense Force men and women and maybe give them an increased probability, when they go into action, to defend their families against those russians who are so brutal and so vicious, that maybe they’ll have a chance now of surviving that fight, you know, the flak vests with steel plates as much better than a shirt at defeating a 7.62 round fired up?
Anna, CBC: Yeah, but my question would be this, you can have all the protective equipment you want. If I have steel-toed boots, but I don’t know how to use the jackhammer, I’m still gonna get hurt. You know what I mean? So is the equipment the important thing, or is the training to use lethal weapons to protect what’s important?
Hillier: So Anna, no one of these things will stand alone. And you know, I said earlier this morning,at an event we were talking about, if you combine the courage and the willingness to serve and sacrifice of the Ukrainian soldiers and the men and women in Ukraine, which I saw firsthand myself, because recently, and if you combine that with the equipment’s that the Western governments are providing them – not fast enough – but providing them and you combine that with training, which countries like Canada can do superbly. And then private donations to equip individuals like the Territorial Defense Force, then you’ve got a winning equation to defend the country and defeat the russian invaders. You can’t do it with just one of those silos or two. You have to have all four of them together.
Anna, CBC: You know, I’m an optimistic kind of gal. I’m a glass-half-full person. And while you can have all the optimism in your heart, sometimes, and I’ve spoken with other, you know, military leaders like yourself, who say this is going to be a protracted war. So in your heart, is there a chance? And could it be soon?
Hillier: Well, look, I’m an optimist also, Sue. So I’m, after all, I’m a Toronto Maple Leafs fan and I have been all my life. You have to be an optimist to be a Toronto Maple Leafs fan.
Anna: You’re absolutely right.
Hillier: You know, I observe firsthand, I’ll say again, the courage and the willingness to serve and sacrifice up the Ukrainian men and women defending their country. The West are getting the equipment to them. And I commend, I mentioned specifically the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Poland and Estonia. I mean, they have been incredible. And I would challenge every other NATO country to be able to stand up and deliver the kind of material that they have. But if you can’t deliver material, then deliver the training that goes, that’s required to bring all that together into fighting formations. And there’s a place where Canada could stand out because we’ve done it in the past and is desperately needed now. We can do it. So if you get those things to come together, and they can come together in part now, then I’m an optimist that Ukraine can win this fight. And eventually, over the longer term, yes, it will be a protracted struggle, over the longer term to eject the russians from eastern Ukraine and from Ukraine, from their homeland.
Anna, CBC: Yeah, I’ve heard soldiers say failure is not an option. And I can hear that in your voice. Let me ask you this. The four of you, are you working well together. Are you on the same page? And you have, you know, you get four military, you know, leaders together in a room, sometimes there can be some clashing of ideas or you’re working well?
Hillier: You know, superbly. First of all, we’re all battle buddies. Here, you know, and I know David Petraeus from Bosnia, way back when and all. Wes Clarke, of course, from European time and Dick Berlijn was the chief of defense staff in the Netherlands when we were, when I was chief of defense staff. We all work well together. We will have our own opinions. And we’ll come together and discuss those and bring forward the best concerted advice to the Ukrainian World Congress on how they can work best to support Ukraine. And then we will also want to work with the commanders in Ukraine to help them tell us what are their number one needs, and how we can help those needs in terms of priority and how they can go about themselves. We’ll also want to advocate on behalf of Ukraine with Western governments and convince people to go to Unite with Ukraine and donate to help support that non-lethal equipment that we want to buy.
Anna, CBC: I’ll be watching with great interest. I certainly wish you great success and a pleasure as always. you take care, OK, General.
Hillier: Thank you, Sueanna. So I know we’re gonna be successful. It might take a while, but we’re going to be successful.
Anna, CBC: Again, the optimist. Retired General Rick Hillier. He is in Campbellton, Newfoundland.
I've just been watching sky news here in the UK and they've been talking about 16 ships full of grain ready to leave and that now measures are in place that the grain carriers can leave safely.
Of course the presenter highlighted the danger from Russia after the recent missile attack in Odessa.
Is this not just the perfect opportunity for a false flag to then blame Russia. It just seems so obvious what's been planned.
Im sure Russia will be prepared and probably won't care. Most here in the west are sold on the evil Russian BS! Anyway thought I'd mention mention it apologies if it's been brought up already.
Of course the presenter highlighted the danger from Russia after the recent missile attack in Odessa.
Is this not just the perfect opportunity for a false flag to then blame Russia. It just seems so obvious what's been planned.
Im sure Russia will be prepared and probably won't care. Most here in the west are sold on the evil Russian BS! Anyway thought I'd mention mention it apologies if it's been brought up already.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky received the Winston Churchill Leadership Award from the International Churchill Society.
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Eulenspiegel
Jedi Master
Quite fitting considering what a mass murdering douchebag Churchill was.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky received the Winston Churchill Leadership Award from the International Churchill Society.
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Last Saturday, there was:
It is hard to say how it will be in the end. At the moment, apart from loosing equipment, the number of Ukrainian aligned soldiers being hurt in a way that makes them unable to continue immediately is more than insignificant. The decreasing lack of equipment losses, may well reflect that there is less and less to lose near the front. Alternatively, as part of preparations to withdraw, Ukraine might move equipment to new positions. It is possible that a western source would interpret the decreasing numbers of Ukraine equipment losses as Ukraine winning, but realistic?
Maps
As for the last few weeks, there is little movement.
If you look at the rose rectangles in the image, there are a few Russian words and abbreviations, but what do they mean? The next exercise was not always easy, but if you ever need to try, the examples might give and idea how to get started.
Translating Russian military terms to English
First, I opened a machine translator, in this case, Yandex Translate – dictionary and online translation between English and over 90 other languages. I chose Russian as the original language, typed the words up with the Russian browser keyboard, and used the typed word to look up meanings on the internet, if what was in the English translation was not meaningful. Sometimes an acronym has several meanings. In the case of "обр" and "мбр" an article solved my doubts.
In "обр" and "мбр". бр is short for "Бригада" or brigade, while the "о" is short "отдельной" meaning "special, separate" and the "м" is short for "механизированной" "mechanized". If however мбр is spelled with capital letters, as in "МБР" then in military and political discourse, it can mean, "морская баллистическая ракета" (sea ballistic missile) or "межконтинентальная баллистическая ракета" (intercontinental ballistic missile) also sometimes abbreviated as "МКБР".
Link. Next, there are a few more words:
"Уничтожен" is destroyed.
"ранено" is wounded
ед. is short for unit. (It looks like "ed" in the font chosen).
"в/сл" is short for "Военнослужащие" which has the meaning of military employees, military servicemen
"склад с б/п" is short for "склад с боеприпасами" which means ammunition depot
ВВСТ is short for "вооружения, военная и специальная техника" in direct translation: "armaments, military and special equipment"
бпЛА is short for "Беспилотный летательный аппарат" in English it is UAV or "unmanned aerial vehicle".
РЛС is short for "Радиолокацио́нная ста́нция". The Wiki translates it as radar. In the image, it refers to AN/TPQ-36A and AN/TPQ-37, which both are mobile radar systems, designed to detect firing positions.
The M777 is a British howitzer with a firing range of 21-40 km. The Wiki informs:
Romania's projected border looks odd, but perhaps Moldova is expected to join Romania in the above model. It can also reflect that a direct border between Russia and Poland is not on the table.
Yesterday, Saturday, July 30, there was this situation since last week: + one plane and + one helicopter, + 44 unmanned vehicles, + three anti-aircraft missile systems, + 44 armoured combat vehicles, + 9 multiple rocket launchers, + 32 field artillery and mortars, and + 120 automotive equipment.Today, July 23, there was: + four planes, + five helicopters, and + 17 multi rocket launchers and a number of armoured combat vehicles and other automotive equipment. There seem to be fewer planes, but there may be less of them now.
The main battle activity has been in the center of the front.
It is hard to say how it will be in the end. At the moment, apart from loosing equipment, the number of Ukrainian aligned soldiers being hurt in a way that makes them unable to continue immediately is more than insignificant. The decreasing lack of equipment losses, may well reflect that there is less and less to lose near the front. Alternatively, as part of preparations to withdraw, Ukraine might move equipment to new positions. It is possible that a western source would interpret the decreasing numbers of Ukraine equipment losses as Ukraine winning, but realistic?
Maps
As for the last few weeks, there is little movement.
In the report from yesterday, July 30, there was in the TG report at 2:03:oday July 23:
The front looks similar, though the equipment appears to be knocked out more to the west.
If you look at the rose rectangles in the image, there are a few Russian words and abbreviations, but what do they mean? The next exercise was not always easy, but if you ever need to try, the examples might give and idea how to get started.
Translating Russian military terms to English
First, I opened a machine translator, in this case, Yandex Translate – dictionary and online translation between English and over 90 other languages. I chose Russian as the original language, typed the words up with the Russian browser keyboard, and used the typed word to look up meanings on the internet, if what was in the English translation was not meaningful. Sometimes an acronym has several meanings. In the case of "обр" and "мбр" an article solved my doubts.
In "обр" and "мбр". бр is short for "Бригада" or brigade, while the "о" is short "отдельной" meaning "special, separate" and the "м" is short for "механизированной" "mechanized". If however мбр is spelled with capital letters, as in "МБР" then in military and political discourse, it can mean, "морская баллистическая ракета" (sea ballistic missile) or "межконтинентальная баллистическая ракета" (intercontinental ballistic missile) also sometimes abbreviated as "МКБР".
Вечером в четверг, 28 июля, в результате прямого попадания был уничтожен элитный штурмовой батальон 1-й отдельной бригады президента Украины."
[...]
"В пятницу, 29 июля, высокоточным оружием воздушного базирования поражён пункт временной дислокации дивизиона РСЗО 110-й механизированной бригады ВСУ."
[...]
"Кроме того, в районе Артемовска высокоточным оружием ВКС России нанесён удар по пункту временной дислокации 14-й механизированной бригады ВСУ."
[...]
"В пятницу, 29 июля, высокоточным оружием воздушного базирования поражён пункт временной дислокации дивизиона РСЗО 110-й механизированной бригады ВСУ."
[...]
"Кроме того, в районе Артемовска высокоточным оружием ВКС России нанесён удар по пункту временной дислокации 14-й механизированной бригады ВСУ."
"Уничтожен" is destroyed.
"ранено" is wounded
ед. is short for unit. (It looks like "ed" in the font chosen).
"в/сл" is short for "Военнослужащие" which has the meaning of military employees, military servicemen
"склад с б/п" is short for "склад с боеприпасами" which means ammunition depot
ВВСТ is short for "вооружения, военная и специальная техника" in direct translation: "armaments, military and special equipment"
бпЛА is short for "Беспилотный летательный аппарат" in English it is UAV or "unmanned aerial vehicle".
РЛС is short for "Радиолокацио́нная ста́нция". The Wiki translates it as radar. In the image, it refers to AN/TPQ-36A and AN/TPQ-37, which both are mobile radar systems, designed to detect firing positions.
The M777 is a British howitzer with a firing range of 21-40 km. The Wiki informs:
While on the topic of howitzers, Germany is as reported sending some of their own Panzerhaubitze 2000
It has a firing range of 30-67 km.
That map looks like this:
Romania's projected border looks odd, but perhaps Moldova is expected to join Romania in the above model. It can also reflect that a direct border between Russia and Poland is not on the table.
A different map, anti-personal mines dropped over Donetsk
The Russian news site https://readovka.news has under Освобожденные территории articles related to the conflict. A map of the situation as of July 30 looks like:
One notices that there is firing going on all along the front. The yellow flares are Ukraine firing, white is Russia.
A translation of an excerpt from the article with the map reveals:
From this TG post if translated:
For more, see Ukraine launches banned anti-personnel petal mines in Donetsk The reporter says, citizens near the front in Donetsk on UA side, have been asked to evacuate by UA Government, as they say they can not guarantee heating etc. in the Winter.
The Russian news site https://readovka.news has under Освобожденные территории articles related to the conflict. A map of the situation as of July 30 looks like:
One notices that there is firing going on all along the front. The yellow flares are Ukraine firing, white is Russia.
A translation of an excerpt from the article with the map reveals:
Thousands of anti-personal mines were dropped over Donetsk
From this TG post if translated:
Following the TG link led to the channel of Vladimir Solovyov.
For more, see Ukraine launches banned anti-personnel petal mines in Donetsk The reporter says, citizens near the front in Donetsk on UA side, have been asked to evacuate by UA Government, as they say they can not guarantee heating etc. in the Winter.
I'll post this here for now rather than starting a new thread since it's not really a 'thing' yet.
Seems there's some 'tension' going down in Kosovo in the form of a renewed push by the Kosovo muzzie leadership towards possibly expelling the 80k Serbs living there (total pop. of Kosovo is circa 2 million, most of whom are Albanian muslims). Bone of contention is new 'rules' on renewing personal documents and vehicle license plates that apply only to Kosovar Serbs, starting from tomorrow (Aug 1st). New rule is that Serbs living in Kosovo (mainly northern part bordering Serbia) will no longer be allowed to enter Kosovo with docs and license plates issued in Serbia, must be in Kosovo.
Coincidentally (
) 4 days ago, the Kosovar Pres. and delegation popped up at the US State Dept. where they had a 'love in'.
Where' Brzezinski and his "a few stirred up Muslims"?
Seems there's some 'tension' going down in Kosovo in the form of a renewed push by the Kosovo muzzie leadership towards possibly expelling the 80k Serbs living there (total pop. of Kosovo is circa 2 million, most of whom are Albanian muslims). Bone of contention is new 'rules' on renewing personal documents and vehicle license plates that apply only to Kosovar Serbs, starting from tomorrow (Aug 1st). New rule is that Serbs living in Kosovo (mainly northern part bordering Serbia) will no longer be allowed to enter Kosovo with docs and license plates issued in Serbia, must be in Kosovo.
Coincidentally (
) 4 days ago, the Kosovar Pres. and delegation popped up at the US State Dept. where they had a 'love in'.Where' Brzezinski and his "a few stirred up Muslims"?
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lilies
The Living Force
My favorite alternate news military intel says these Azov prisoners might have been singing a tad too much => secret info to the Russians. Zelensky-CIA regime probably didn't like that, so they missile bombed the prison.