@Aeneas and
@bjorn,
with all due respect and understanding, but... You can continue to convince yourself of this, while everything that I am about to list below and that has been going on continuously since 2014 (only now it is not limited to Donetsk and Lugansk or even just the territory of Ukraine) is happening.
I am not calling for Russia to bomb Kiev like US in Vietnam or Iraqi. I do not understand why they do not act or react in any way to all these bloody terrorist attacks and bloody challenges. In fact, the West slaps the Kremlin and Defense Ministry leadership through Zelensky, through the AFU, and there is no response, except the pathetic cartoon threats of Medvedev or Maria Zakharova, with the endless repetition of "we will not tolerate this" (well, well) and all that. It's just constant blah blah blah. Hitting Krivoy Rog or Kharkov is not the answer. These are not decision-making centers. It's like someone destroying your house and you responding by breaking your opponent's paper coffee cup. It's funny and sad at the same time. Putin himself said that if a fight is inevitable, you should hit first. When a hooligan attacks you on the street in order to take your money and things, you will not stop him with a plea of "please don't do that" and after he has robbed and beaten you, you will follow him saying "you will regret it, I will beat you up next time!" But every night he meets you and beats you, and every time you promise that it will not happen again and you will punish him.
And you don't see, you don't know the mood of people both here in Ukraine and in Russia. You find yourself far away from all these events and society to understand more deeply what is going on. By no means do I intend these words to offend you in any way. I personally see what is going on among the people, how the population of both countries reacts to all events. My Russian friends share with me their thoughts, fears and hopes; they too have many acquaintances and relatives, there are those who are involved in this war, and there is an understanding of the enormous losses among the Russian military. Many Russians, too, are unhappy with the way Russia is conducting its military operation. Most often it is condemnation for the inexcusable actions that Ukraine commits, and there is no harsh response from Russia. Some people are afraid that thanks to such "successes", Russia will soon, as a new "goodwill gesture," simply cancel its military operation and give Ukraine Donbass and Crimea, and then some of its own regions as well. So that "respected Western partners" will not get angry and take away Peskov's mansion in Italy or expel the elite children of top officials from prestigious universities in the United States and Great Britain. Such patriots in the Russian elite. And they still accuse their citizens of "not being patriotic enough" and condemning the mistakes of the Russian command.
And fighting the population until "Zelensky runs out of population to wage war" is not like the Cassiopians said that Russia is doing everyone a favor by eliminating the psychopaths. These psychopaths are in Kiev completely untouched.
With all due respect and understanding, but... You can continue to convince yourself of this, while everything that I am about to list below and that has been going on continuously since 2014 (only now it is not limited to Donetsk and Lugansk or even just the territory of Ukraine) is happening.
I am not calling for Russia to bomb Kiev like US in Vietnam or Iraqi. I do not understand why they do not act or react in any way to all these bloody terrorist attacks and bloody challenges. In fact, the West slaps the Kremlin and Defense Ministry leadership through Zelensky, through the AFU, and there is no response, except the pathetic cartoon threats of Medvedev or Maria Zakharova, with the endless repetition of "we will not tolerate this" (well, well) and all that. It's just constant blah blah blah. Hitting Krivoy Rog or Kharkov is not the answer. These are not decision-making centers. It's like someone destroying your house and you responding by breaking your opponent's paper coffee cup. It's funny and sad at the same time. Putin himself said that if a fight is inevitable, you should hit first. When a hooligan attacks you on the street in order to take your money and things, you will not stop him with a plea of "please don't do that" and after he has robbed and beaten you, you will follow him saying "you will regret it, I will beat you up next time!" But every night he meets you and beats you, and every time you promise that it will not happen again and you will punish him.
And you don't see, you don't know the mood of people both here in Ukraine and in Russia. You find yourself far away from all these events and society to understand more deeply what is going on. By no means do I intend these words to offend you in any way. I personally see what is going on among the people, how the population of both countries reacts to all events. My Russian friends share with me their thoughts, fears and hopes; they too have many acquaintances and relatives, there are those who are involved in this war, and there is an understanding of the enormous losses among the Russian military. Many Russians, too, are unhappy with the way Russia is conducting its military operation. Most often it is condemnation for the inexcusable actions that Ukraine commits, and there is no harsh response from Russia. Some people are afraid that thanks to such "successes," Russia will soon, as a new "goodwill gesture," simply cancel its military operation and give Ukraine Donbass and Crimea, and then some of its own regions as well. So that "respected Western partners" will not get angry and take away Peskov's mansion in Italy or expel the elite children of top officials from prestigious universities in the United States and Great Britain. Such patriots in the Russian elite. And they still accuse their citizens of "not being patriotic enough" and condemning the mistakes of the Russian command.
And fighting the population until "Zelensky runs out of population to wage war" is doesn't look like much the C's said that Russia is doing everyone a favor by eliminating the psychopaths. These psychopaths are in Kiev completely untouched.
At the very least, it was fashionable to hit the military enlistment offices to destroy personal files on all men and create problems for Ukraine to catch and send men to slaughter. Because first of all these are addresses of residence, which would have been lost, the registry.
Anyway, what I wanted to say: I know that the Ukrainian government is completely controlled from London and Washington, everyone understands that. But MUST BE Russia's ADEQUATE response to all these crazy terrorist attacks of Ukraine. This does not mean that Kiev or Lvov must be wiped off the face of the earth. It means to scare the Ukrainian elite so much that they have no desire to do so. While Ukraine brazenly and openly eliminates all pro-Russian officials and civic activists in the lost territories, Medvedev tweets for the thousandth time that he is promising to bring the whole world into apocalypse. It's just ridiculous and it only evokes anger. This is some kind of political impotence. While you have started a war against them!
And after all these cynical and horrible murders of people who cooperate with Russia in the territories it occupies, how many people do you think will want to do business with them now? If Russia can't even protect them, their politicians, those who are helping people in these territories, those who are trying to establish a new life. They simply can't even provide them with bodyguards, surveillance of their movements, homes, places of work, and banal checks of cars for explosive devices. Of course, it's not Daria Dugina or Medvedev's motorcade - why bother with these little people. If they kill those people, we'll put the other ones in charge. So it goes.
And in general, most of the current leadership of these regions and even more so of the security agencies are recruited from the former Ukrainian employees of the administrations and even more so from the Ukrainian special services! This is just some unthinkable nonsense. And we wonder about all these terrorist attacks and leaks to the Ukrainian side.
And even if Zelensky or anyone else in the leadership were destroyed, it would at least create chaos in Kiev for a while and distract them from carrying out their own terrorist attacks and political assassinations. The entire Ukrainian government is 100% scorpions in a jar. They fight among themselves for influence and the possibility of personal enrichment from the country's budget and Western funding.
All of today's terrorist attacks were carried out by Ukraine within just a couple of hours, with a time difference of about 30 minutes between some of them!
Video recordings of the incidents at the links:
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the Kherson regional administration building, with at least five missiles reportedly coming from HIMARS.
There is a public garden, a fountain, and a playground near the administration, where local residents relax.
Again, we are surprised by the lack of similar strikes on government agencies in Ukrainian cities. Such actions would clearly reduce the fervor of Ukrainian officials.
UPD: 3 people were killed and 13 were wounded in varying degrees of severity as a result of the shelling of the center of Kherson.
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An explosion at the prosecutor's office in the center of Luhansk, in the very office of the chief prosecutor (!) He and his deputy (a woman) were killed.
/ From myself: i.e., someone of his own, from the prosecutor's office, brought explosives through the metal detectors at the entrance to the building and through the guards, set the explosives in the office and left. The explosion took place when the prosecutor-general was there. What does that tell you?
Regarding Kherson, it is exactly the same: the American shells were struck exactly at the time when the Russian-appointed head of the civil-military administration (essentially a military governor, the head of the entire region) was holding a meeting in his office, along with other local politicians. Ukraine knew exactly the time and place.
Think about their level of intelligence, above all with traitors from the locals. These are the so-called "liberated" regions. Freed from whom? If a very large percentage of the population continues to be on the side of Ukraine and helps the Zelensky regime in every way to fight the "occupiers" (for them Russians are the occupiers). It's the same in Energodar, the local Ukrainian publicity pages that I follow regularly report on the elimination of the "orcs" in Energodar, their artillery, equipment, warehouses with ammunition, etc. (Of course, the Ukrainians exaggerate the huge numbers of Russian losses for the purposes of their propaganda and to maintain a victorious mood among the population against the background of their own losses and problems in the country, but nevertheless, there is no smoke without fire). On the Russian side, all losses are also very strictly classified and no such cases are reported at all. /
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In Berdyansk (Russian-controlled Zaporizhia region), Oleg Boiko, deputy head of the Military Civil Administration for housing and utilities, and his wife Lyudmila Boiko, who headed the city's territorial election commission, which had also been involved in preparations for the referendum, were killed. They were reportedly shot near the garage where their car was parked.
/ From myself: how can you justify and tolerate all this all the time and not respond to it? How do you explain to the dead, the injured and their relatives that "NATO is running out of shells and tanks" and that "Zelensky should not be replaced or touched"? I also read a lot of comments from residents of Donetsk and other cities saying that I'd rather Russia not start its defense than all these horrors these people are experiencing. Every damn day. They ask, why hasn't the front from Donetsk been pushed back so far? Ukrainian artillery is right in front of Donetsk. When it has been almost 7 months since the "operation to protect the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine" began.
Meanwhile, Russian propaganda and war correspondents (after receiving instructions and threats from the Ministry of Defense about "proper patriotism and coverage of events") continue to report that "everything is OK, no need to talk about bad things, otherwise you are all then Ukrainian propaganda, agents of the psychological operations center, Ukrainian bots" (exactly as Ukrainians say about everyone who does not share their opinion and the "official position of the government" that they are Putin's bots and Russian propaganda agents). The same methods.
Also today from 12 noon the AFU antillery started shelling at Energodar again. I was in the yard at that time and heard it clearly. It went on for about 1.5 hours. And at that time Russian telegram channels confirmed the hits on Energodar.
By the way, last night and tonight the Russian army retaliated with Iranian kamikaze drones on Nikopol and the outskirts of my city. Local authorities reported 5 drone remnants in Nikopol and 3 in my city. /
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