Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

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Interesting photo of Zelensky:



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[Ina]

Interesting photo of Zelensky:

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I could not help myself!
America's got talent.

 

[mxwlll0]

Apparently, in their haste to supply arms, European strategists did not think about the fact that they actually put themselves in a zugzwang - they have no choice but to stop supplying arms, recalling everything they sent, or to recognize the DNR and LNR.

Well, zugzwang may be my new favorite word! And implies anyway the EU moves, they lose Also a great adjective for Zelensky. Btw, Maria Zakhorva’s telegram feed is great. Example:

Мария Захарова

Я теперь понимаю, почему у Путина такой длинный стол

t.me

Translation: “I now understand why Putin has such a long table”

I may add, Zelensky seems to have found himself in another zugzwang

Another piece of info I found interesting via RussiaHead on telegram:

Russian Head

Ukrainian sources report that the Zaporiozhie nuclear power plant from will be fully controlled by Rosatom starting September 1st. The employees have already been informed about this. Earlier it was stated that the nuclear power plant will be used to develop the liberated territories. In the...

t.me

Ukrainian sources report that the Zaporiozhie nuclear power plant from will be fully controlled by Rosatom starting September 1st. The employees have already been informed about this.

Earlier it was stated that the nuclear power plant will be used to develop the liberated territories.

In the future Ukraine will be able to buy Zaporozhie PP Electricity (up to 20% of the total production of all Ukraine).

#Zaporizhzhya
@russianhead
Share this channel for the World to know the Truth!

Seems the rebuild is already underway

 

[mxwlll0]

Xi, Putin hold phone call, vow mutual support amid global turbulence

"Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday afternoon held a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, with analysts saying this is a signal to the world that the close China-Russia strategic partnership and high-level mutual trust between the two sides remain unchanged when the world is experiencing turbulence and uncertainty."

Article below:

Xi, Putin hold phone call, vow mutual support amid global turbulence - Global Times

www.globaltimes.cn

Lately I’ve been referring to the multipolar world as the era of “mutually assured collaboration” Can only hope the spark spreads through the “collective West”

 

[sToRmR1dR]

'The US meaningless rhetoric.'

Ukraine conflict has to end with diplomacy – US​

16 Jun, 2022

Kiev says it won’t back down, encouraged by Washington’s weapons

As high-ranking White House officials argued the conflict in Ukraine has to have a diplomatic solution, media outlets close to US intelligence reported on Thursday of increasing concerns about Kiev’s hard-line position amid the deteriorating situation on the battlefield. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s defense minister vowed to fight until total victory.

The US will continue to help Ukraine “to the maximum extent possible,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Thursday, “first on the battlefield, and then, ultimately at the negotiating table. We think this has to end with diplomacy.”

Sullivan was speaking at the Center for New American Security (CNAS), a Washington, DC-based lobby group close to the Democratic Party.

CNAS is funded by the likes of Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, which stand to make huge revenues from replenishing American weapons stocks after the conflict. It also received at least $500,000 last year from the US Department of Defence to promote its interests.

It was at CNAS that the Pentagon’s policy chief Colin Kahl revealed earlier this week the US would send Ukraine guided missiles for the HIMARS rocket launchers.

While NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has suggested that Ukraine might have to give up some territory for peace, Sullivan said such a decision was entirely up to Kiev.

“We are not going to be pressing them to make territorial concessions. We think that’s frankly wrong,” he told CNAS.

Sullivan’s comments came after a NBC News report which claimed that some US and European officials were “increasingly concerned that the trajectory of the war in Ukraine is untenable” and were “quietly discussing” asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “temper his hard-line public position” that no territory will ever be ceded to Russia.

The outlet cited seven current and former US and European officials. The story was co-authored by Ken Dilanian, who is known for links with the CIA. One anonymous US official said Washington was not pressuring Kiev to make concessions, “as some Europeans are,” but was “planning for a long war” instead.

NBC also claimed that US President Joe Biden was “not happy” when Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin talked about “winning” the war in late April, after visiting Kiev, but was reportedly persuaded when they told him their remarks had been misinterpreted by the media.

“They believe that we can win; we believe that they – we can win – they can win if they have the right equipment, the right support,” Austin said at the time, adding the US wanted to “see Russia weakened.”

Though Biden allegedly told both Austin and Blinken to “tone it down,” there is no indication the Pentagon chief has done so. On Wednesday, presiding over the ‘contact group’ for arming Ukraine in Brussels, Austin vowed to “bolster Ukraine's armed forces to help them repel Russian aggression now [and] in the future.”

The Ukrainians have received more weapons than they had asked for, according to General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs. Kiev had asked for ten battalions of artillery, and got twelve. The US and its allies also supplied Ukraine with more than 97,000 anti-tank systems, “more than there are tanks in the world,” Milley said.

“They asked for 200 tanks; they got 237 tanks,” Milley added. “They asked for 100 infantry fighting vehicles; they got over 300. We’ve delivered, roughly speaking, 1,600 or so air defense systems and about 60,000 air defense rounds.”

Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov told CNN on Thursday that Kiev will “liberate all our territories, all of it, including Crimea,” using the NATO-supplied weapons to first stabilize the front and then launch a counter-offensive. Ukrainian Major-General Dmitry Marchenko said on Wednesday he wanted to use US-supplied weapons to target the Kerch Bridge, connecting Crimea to the Russian mainland.

While Austin’s policy chief and Biden’s former security adviser Kahl claimed the fighting was going well for Kiev, senior Ukrainian officials admitted to losing 1,000 men every day, as the Russian and allied forces continued to advance.

NATO to engage all resources to prevent success of Russian operation in Ukraine — diplomat​

16 JUN, 2022

According to Maria Zakharova, all resources available in NATO and its member countries will be used to achieve this goal

MOSCOW, June 16./TASS/. NATO countries will obviously try to engage all their resources to prevent the success of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary on Thursday.

"The Kiev regime is being continuously pumped with increasingly lethal weapons, in particular rocket-launching artillery, which will inevitably increase the number of casualties. The appearance of such pieces of armaments in the conflict zone has already led to an increase in the destruction of civilian infrastructure in the LPR and DPR," the diplomat stressed.

"But this does not bother anyone in the West, this is ‘collateral damage’ for them," she pointed out. "The main thing is not to let Russia successfully complete the special operation in Ukraine. Obviously, all resources available in NATO and its member countries will be used to achieve this goal," Zakharova said.

(Translated by Google)

Unprecedented number of NATO military aircraft seen near the borders of Russia and Ukraine​

2022-06-16

NATO aviation was spotted near the Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian borders.

This afternoon, near the borders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, an extremely high activity of NATO military aviation was noticed. We are talking mainly about reconnaissance aircraft, which carried out rather non-standard maneuvers along the entire eastern front of the Alliance.

According to the ADS-B Exchange service, the movement of NATO military aircraft was carried out almost along the very borders, which can already be considered as an open provocation from the West. However, no violations of the borders of Russia and Belarus were recorded. However, the appearance of NATO reconnaissance aircraft near the border of Ukraine may indicate that aviation provided control over the possible actions of Russian aviation and missile launches, which is especially relevant against the backdrop of the visit of three European leaders to Kyiv.

According to experts, judging by the presence of tanker aircraft in the sky, NATO fighters were almost certainly near the Ukrainian border, however, the latter were not tracked by the ADS-B Exchange service, probably due to disabled transponders.

This is not the first time that increased NATO air activity along the Alliance's eastern border has been observed, however, this afternoon the activity was actually anomalous, which is definitely a cause for concern.

 

[Laurentien2]

Strikes Eliminate HQ Of Azov Battalion In Kharkiv. Russia Releases Details On Foreign Mercenaries In Ukraine

On June 17, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian strikes destroyed a HQ of Azov nationalist formation near Pesochin,...

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STRIKES ELIMINATE HQ OF AZOV BATTALION IN KHARKIV. RUSSIA RELEASES DETAILS ON FOREIGN MERCENARIES IN UKRAINE​

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On June 17, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian strikes destroyed a HQ of Azov nationalist formation near Pesochin, Kharkov Region.
In addition, 2 ammunition depots of missile and artillery weapons of Kyiv’s forces were destroyed near Spornoe and Vyemka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.


According to the Russian Defense Ministry statement, high-precision air-based missiles have hit 18 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration and 10 firing positions of Ukrainian artillery and mortar batteries, including 6 Grad MLRS batteries in Zaitsevo, Kurdyumovka, Dzerzhinsk, Bakhmut, Artemovo and Ocheretino in Donetsk People’s Republic.

The Russian side says its “operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 58 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.”

These strikes resulted in the elimination of more than 200 nationalists, 2 launchers of Buk-M1 and Osa-AKM systems near Krasnaya Gora and Artemovsk in Donetsk People’s Republic, 1 ammunition depot near Lisichansk in Luhansk People’s Republic, 10 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, six field artillery guns, 4 multiple rocket launchers and 9 special vehicles.
defence means have shot down 1 Su-25 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Mazanovka, Kharkov region.

15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down near Mirnoe, Zelenyi Gai in Nikolaev region, Malye Prokhody, Suligovka, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Dolgen’koe, Rassokhovatoe, Chkalovskoe in Kharkov region, Bryanka, Frunze, Novoivanovka in Lugansk People’s Republic, Tripoll’e in Donetsk People’s Republic, including 1 Bayraktar-TB2 near Chernobaevka in Kherson region.
In addition, 1 Tochka-U operational-tactical missile system has been intercepted near Krasnyy Luch in Lugansk People’s Republic, as well as 8 rockets of Uragan MLRS near Chernobaevka in Kherson region, Liptsy in Kharkov region, Verhnetoretskoe, Novoselka in Donetsk People’s Republic and Nikolaevka in Lugansk People’s Republic.
Missile troops and artillery have hit 203 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration and 38 firing positions of AFU artillery units.
The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 350 nationalists, 1 AFU unmanned aerial vehicle control post near Ukrainka in Nikolaev region, 8 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 3 BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicles, 3 field artillery guns and 11 special vehicles have been destroyed overnight.
In total, 205 Ukrainian airplanes and 131 helicopters, 1,233 unmanned aerial vehicles, 342 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,587 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 539 multiple launch rocket systems, 2,013 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,658 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

A pro-Kyiv unit is destroyed and foreign weapons are captured by Russian forces:

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In a separate statement, the Russian Defense Ministry released details on the situation with foreign mercenaries involved in the conflict in Ukraine:

Against the backdrop of the Kiev regime’s mounting military failures and massive daily losses in manpower and equipment, the flow of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine has not only decreased, but is actually turning in the opposite direction.
Despite the Kiev regime’s efforts and increased payments, the process of mercenaries leaving to the “other world” or back to their countries of residence has not been stopped by the Kiev leadership.
ecent empty statements about almost “20,000” foreigners “fighting” against the Russian Armed Forces are just plain lies.
As we have already noted, the Russian Defence Ministry monitors and records the presence in Ukraine of every representative of this international gathering of “headless horsemen”.
Moreover, it is not only mercenaries directly involved in combat operations as part of Ukrainian units that are now included in our databases. We also take into account the trainers who have come to train, assist in the operation and repair of Western weapons supplied to Ukraine.
We will publish these statistics today.
For example, among European countries, Poland is the undisputed leader in terms of the number of mercenaries both arriving and dying. Since the beginning of the special military operation, 1,831 people have arrived in Ukraine, of whom 378 have already been killed and 272 mercenaries have departed for their homeland. It is followed by Romania with 504 arrivals, 102 deaths and 98 departures. The UK is in third place: 422 arrivals, 101 deaths, 95 departures.
Among the Americas, Canada leads the way: 601 arrivals, 162 deaths, 169 departures. The USA comes second: 530 arrivals, 214 deaths, 227 departures.
From the Middle East, Transcaucasus and Asia the largest number, 355 mercenaries, came from Georgia, of whom 120 died and 90 left Ukraine. Then there are 200 terrorist fighters redeployed from the US-controlled areas of Jazira region in Syria. To date, 80 have been eliminated and 66 have left Ukraine.
In total, our lists as at June 17, 2022, include mercenaries and weapons operating specialists from 64 countries. Since the beginning of the special military operation, 6,956 people have arrived in Ukraine, 1,956 have already been eliminated and 1,779 have left.
As long as 3,321 mercenaries are alive, not yet captured, or have not yet escaped to the Ukrainian border.

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[lilies]

Lukashenko warns Poland over western Ukraine​

Belarus believes that Poland is considering taking over the western part of Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday. He warned Warsaw against such a move, warning his country would have to intervene if it did. “We cannot allow the Poles to encircle us,” he said. “As I once said, the Ukrainians and the Russians will ask us to preserve [Ukraine’s] integrity. So that [Poles] don’t take a bite out of it.”

Perfect! First Turkey opposes Sweden and Finland to join NATO. Croatia threatened with same in April.
Now Ursulla von der TrashCan believes that Ukraine should be granted EU membership! Dream away - our favorite EU-criminal:

The European Commission believes Ukraine should be granted the status of candidate for European Union membership, the chief of the EU’s executive body, Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday.
The country would still need to implement some changes to match the EU’s requirements, but it already boasts a “very robust parliamentary, presidential democracy” as well as “a very vibrant and active civil society,” von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels.

 

[Magnolia]

In total, our lists as at June 17, 2022, include mercenaries and weapons operating specialists from 64 countries. Since the beginning of the special military operation, 6,956 people have arrived in Ukraine, 1,956 have already been eliminated and 1,779 have left. As long as 3,321 mercenaries are alive, not yet captured, or have not yet escaped to the Ukrainian border.

I have wondered: how do they know the number and nationality of these people so precisely?

 

[Natus Videre]

I have wondered: how do they know the number and nationality of these people so precisely?

Good question. Using satellites maybe?

 

[Cosmos]

I have wondered: how do they know the number and nationality of these people so precisely?

Military and and other intelligence services (FSB for example). Apparently the Russians have one of the best (if not the best) human intelligence networks. How exactly they do it nobody outside of the inner circle probably knows. I‘m suspecting they use pretty much every means available, including „hacking“ of cellphone data.

 

[SOTTREADER]

I have to disagree. Last time I looked, Chomsky had totally missed the boat on what is really going on in terms of Ukraine/Russia/West and was parroting the western BS Propaganda, word by word. And from the short snippets I saw in the video above, nothing much seems to have changed in that regard. He compares Putin's actions in Ukraine with the Iraq war and Hitlers invasion of Poland while blaming Russia/Putin for "creating" the economic crises etc.

Let s not forget this too

Noam Chomsky has outed himself as a twat

https://twitter.com/x/status/1433295789716086787

 

[Luis Miguel]

It's all over the news here:

Mexican president slams NATO policy in Ukraine​

Mexico’s president slammed NATO’s policy on the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Monday, calling it “immoral.”

López Obrador said Monday that the allies’ policy was equivalent to saying “I’ll supply the weapons, and you supply the dead. It is immoral.”

“How easy it is to say, ’Here, I’ll send you this much money for weapons,” Lopez Obrador said. “Couldn’t the war in Ukraine have been avoided? Of course it could.”

 

[Adobe]

Excerpts from Putin's speech today at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum meeting.

"There will be a deep degradation in Europe, current elites are going to be replaced"

"Everyone who wants to continue to work/cooperate with Russia is being threatened by the United States" - President #Putin "However, this shows if real leaders are at the helm of a country or not", the president stressed."

"President Putin at #SPIEF2022: "The United States, having declared victory in the Cold War, declared themselves the messengers of God on earth, who have no obligations, but only interests. They seem not to notice that new powerful centers have formed on the planet"

"The changes in the world are fundamental, pivotal and inexorable. And it is a mistake to believe that you can sit out at the time of rapid changes, wait out that supposedly everything will return to normal, everything will be as before. It won't!"

"There will be a deep degradation in Europe, current elites are going to be replaced" — President Putin at #SPIEF2022 "Their wrong policies will lead to an increase in nationalist and extremist sentiments in European society."

"The world was systematically driven into a huge global crisis by the countries of the so-called "G7" — President Putin at #SPIEF2022. "The EU has totally lost its political sovereignty, its elites are dancing to someone else's tune, causing harm to their own population"

The above quotes come from this twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1537789164015349760

Here is a short part of Putin's speech on RT (in English). The meeting was much longer, and he was interviewed by Maria Butina of RT. Also, I believe that president Xi spoke by video. I was watching it live this morning, but no English.

https://www.rt.com/russia/557334-putin-warns-of-elites-change/

Also:

Previous world order won't return – Putin​

https://www.rt.com/news/557331-putin-changes-ukraine-spief/

 

[seek10]

Comedy as " security analysis"

Putin is ’embalming himself alive’ and ‘hitting botox heavily’ amid health speculation

 

[iamthatis]

Lately I’ve been referring to the multipolar world as the era of “mutually assured collaboration” Can only hope the spark spreads through the “collective West”

Looking at the state of things, I don't think that this will happen. There just doesn't seem to be an alignment of necessary preconditions for something like that to happen.

The population of the West, the 'golden billion' is in for a real shock I think. After living a life of relative comfort, the normalcy bias has built up to the degree that they're like the guy sitting on his couch watching TV in the midst of a hurricane. He doesn't think that there is any real danger until a small truck goes flying through the living room window.

The metaphor is kinda useful, I think, because the West is facing what looks to be a perfect storm of collapse. There's the moral degeneracy targeting kids, the increasing tendency to riot and steal, very little in the way of affordable housing, poor diet, a hatred of humanity disguised as environmental concern, a parasitic economy that is designed to impoverish, and we can add to this something more basic on the level of survival - a sudden lack of food and heat. In other words, the stress and misery is being ramped up big time. What will happen to the threadbare social fabric when the tipping point is reached?

There's a few options. One is that an underclass will rise up, depose the current elites, and install their own. The revolutionary option has been played out before during times like this. There's been some speculation that the elites in the West are being driven by the Consortium to destroy their own countries in order to draw the rage of their domestic populations - thus, giving the benevolent representatives of a One World Government much more appeal when they step in to save the day.

Another option is that in this time of increased stress, all that negative emotion will be weaponized and directed externally at the enemy - Russia or China. Domestically, the citizens would be united by the force of their pain. Their allegiance to the government that has destroyed their lives and whipped them into a frenzy will be even more secured so long as they are given someone else to blame. This is sort of like the classical fascist option.

There's no reason to assume that these will be mutually exclusive - both could deploy in the same nation. And both of these options have some pretty significant momentum behind them in the West - violent internal revolution and violent external warfare. However Russia has become very difficult to attack using conventional means due to its winning of the arms race with hypersonic weapons, as well as nuclear deterrence. It is also becoming clear that Russia is difficult to attack using unconventional means as well, ie. Navalny or sanctions.

I think that, aside from dragging Europe into a hot war, underhanded asymmetric warfare (ie. bioweapons) may be one of the only cards that the PTB has left to play against Russia's quite strong position. But perhaps Russia has also already nipped that in the bud with its SMO or has established ready domestic countermeasures in case of attack.

Another option is that the PTB loses its grip in some way, or totally, and is unable to secure their desired future of internal revolution or external war in this or that nation - and the result is a certain kind of chaos. After all, while we are looking at the chessboard in Ukraine, there's also the little matters of a plague coming from space and an Ice Age that's in the process of being born. Their Achilles Heel, after all, is their wishful thinking that it will all work out according to their projected reality.

However, you raise a good point. Hope - 'the thing with feathers/ that perches in the soul', according to Emily Dickinson. There's also the question of those groups and individuals like the Truckers in Canada, or Ron DeSantis in Florida, Reiner Fuellmich and his team, etc., etc. In the West, there are pockets of sanity. I don't know about these pockets translating into meaningful, lasting change on the level of governance or geopolitics... my sense is that it will take a very major upheaval to cleanse out all the psychopathic rot before anything new can grow.

If I were to have Faith (I like this word better than Hope) in the West, it would be in those relatively small pockets of people who are actively seeking Knowledge and acting on it.