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

[ziutek]

This may not be exactly for this thread but it is related to the energy situation caused by the situation in Ukraine.
Maria Zaharova is great as usual:

Мария Захарова

Прочитала удивительную новость: группа шведских активистов требует расследовать связи Греты Тунберг с российской НПО, финансируемой непосредственно из бюджета МИД России. Чтобы помочь «шведским активистам», публикую подборку связей Греты Тунберг. Неужели это всё «финансировалось...

t.me

"I read a surprising piece of news: a group of Swedish activists is demanding an investigation into Greta Tunberg's ties to a Russian NGO funded directly from the Russian Foreign Ministry's budget.

To help the "Swedish activists," I am publishing a compilation of Greta Thunberg's connections.
Was it all "funded directly from the Russian Foreign Ministry's budget"? Or is it just that, having played the girl and played with the green economy, Western regimes have proceeded to drain both?
We have to somehow start explaining to our citizens why the authorities of major Western nations are planning to reopen coal-fired power plants shut down because they refuse to use air-polluting fossil fuels. "

Грета Тунберг и Ко

1. Джо Байден, 2019 год (на тот момент кандидат на пост Президента США) 1) Своими пылом и отвагой Грета Тунберг @GretaThunberg вдохновила миллионы людей, побудив молодежь встать во главе движения за перемены по всему миру. Она заслужила эту награду, и ее вручение должно служить нам напоминанием...

telegra.ph

 

[youlik]

I haven't been here for a few days. An interesting character appeared here while I was away, Nikolai. In my opinion, it is quite clear that this is the work of something like the CIPSO (Center for Information and Psychological Special Operations), Ukrainians have such a structure. Let me explain what is of interest to me here. Of course, it's not about what and how this character sets out, here he has already been given an adequate assessment several times, in my opinion, He is something like "Grays" for me. I know about their existence, but I have never personally encountered them, and here, I know about the existence of such structures, but I have never personally encountered their manifestations.
While I was writing this, an interesting thing was formulated. This is an attitude to the Forum as a kind of personal space, like a family. Congratulations to all of you guys, you are all my family or I am entirely yours, which in my opinion is the same thing. Even the same notorious "Nikolai", if he not only writes his blizzard, but also reads at least a little what others write.

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Меня тут не было несколько дней. Интересный персонаж тут появился пока меня не было, Николай. На мой взгляд, довольно явственно видно, что это работа чего-то вроде ЦИПСО (Центр Информационно-Психологических Специальных Операций), есть у украинцев такая структура. Поясню в чем для меня тут интерес. Конечно не в том, что и как излагает этот персонаж, тут ему уже несколько раз дали адекватную, на мой взгляд, оценку Он для меня что то вроде Серых. Я знаю об их существовании, но лично никогда не сталкивался, так и здесь, я знаю о существовании подобных структур, но лично никогда не сталкивался с их проявлениеми. Пока я писал это, сформулировалась интересная вещь. Это отношение к Форуму, как к некоему личному пространству, как семья. Поздравляю вас всех, ребята, вы все моя семья или я целиком ваш, что на мой взгляд одно и то же. Даже тот же пресловутый "Николай", если он не только пишет свою пургу, но и хоть немного читает, что пишут другие.

 

[youlik]

One boiler, apparently, is finished, Lisichansk is next in line.

In the LPR , they told about the losses of the APU near Lisichansk and in the Gorskoye - Zolotoye boiler

According to the source, more than 1 thousand Ukrainian soldiers were killed, about 800 surrendered
LUGANSK, June 24./TASS/. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near Lisichansk, as well as in the cauldron near Gorsky and Zolotoy amounted to more than 1 thousand people killed, about 800 soldiers surrendered. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Friday by a source close to the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR).

"The losses of Ukrainian troops over the past couple of days near Lisichansk, Gorsky and Zolotoye - more than 1 thousand people killed. There are more than 800 prisoners. There are many wounded among them," the source told TASS.

Earlier, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, Andrei Marochko, said in his Telegram channel that the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation took control of the settlements of Gorskoye and Zolotoye. According to him, the Ukrainian group that was in this cauldron has been liquidated.

According to the source, Allied forces have reached the western outskirts of Lisichansk.

"Allied forces have reached the western outskirts of Lisichansk," the source told TASS on Friday. Earlier, the head of the Kiev-controlled Lugansk military-civil administration, Sergei Gaidai, announced the loss of control by the Ukrainian army near the village of Nikolaevka, located south of the city of Lisichansk, near the strategically important road to Bakhmut (Artemovsk).

On Thursday, in an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, the head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik reported that the republic's military would close the ring around Lisichansk in the next two or three days.

https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/15021313?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop

 

[XPan]

This may not be exactly for this thread but it is related to the energy situation caused by the situation in Ukraine.
Maria Zaharova is great as usual:

Мария Захарова

Прочитала удивительную новость: группа шведских активистов требует расследовать связи Греты Тунберг с российской НПО, финансируемой непосредственно из бюджета МИД России. Чтобы помочь «шведским активистам», публикую подборку связей Греты Тунберг. Неужели это всё «финансировалось...

t.me

"I read a surprising piece of news: a group of Swedish activists is demanding an investigation into Greta Tunberg's ties to a Russian NGO funded directly from the Russian Foreign Ministry's budget.

To help the "Swedish activists," I am publishing a compilation of Greta Thunberg's connections.
Was it all "funded directly from the Russian Foreign Ministry's budget"? Or is it just that, having played the girl and played with the green economy, Western regimes have proceeded to drain both?
We have to somehow start explaining to our citizens why the authorities of major Western nations are planning to reopen coal-fired power plants shut down because they refuse to use air-polluting fossil fuels. "

Грета Тунберг и Ко

1. Джо Байден, 2019 год (на тот момент кандидат на пост Президента США) 1) Своими пылом и отвагой Грета Тунберг @GretaThunberg вдохновила миллионы людей, побудив молодежь встать во главе движения за перемены по всему миру. Она заслужила эту награду, и ее вручение должно служить нам напоминанием...

telegra.ph

I couldn't help myself to snigger... as I saw a little entry via Telegram with Greta's face being put in connection to EU's re-opening of coal plants...

 

[sToRmR1dR]

The EU and NATO are forming a "new coalition" for a war against Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

EU and NATO forming coalition ‘for war against Russia’ – Lavrov​

24 Jun, 2022

Russia will ‘closely follow’ the steps taken by the European Union, the Russian foreign minister said

The actions taken by the EU and NATO essentially amount to the formation of a “new coalition” targeting Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists on Friday, comparing the steps taken by Brussels to the actions of Nazi dictator Adolf Hilter before attacking the Soviet Union.

Moscow has “no illusions” about the prospect of “Russophobic sentiments” within the EU dissipating any time soon, Lavrov said. Russia will closely follow all the “real steps” taken by the bloc and its candidate states, he added in a probable reference to Ukraine, which was granted EU candidacy status on Thursday.

“Hitler rallied a significant part, if not most, of the European nations under his banner for a war against the Soviet Union,” the foreign minister said, adding that “now, the EU together with NATO are forming another – modern – coalition for a standoff and, ultimately, war with the Russian Federation.”

Lavrov’s remarks came just one day after he branded a proposal to assemble an international naval coalition to escort ships carrying Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea as an attempt to interfere in the region under the auspices of the UN. Such schemes are not needed to facilitate Ukrainian grain exports, he argued, adding that Moscow guarantees vessels security all the way to the Bosphorus Strait, a key Black Sea access channel controlled by Turkey.

Earlier this month, the minister also stated that Washington was seeking to use the conflict in Ukraine to deprive Russia of its independent status on the international arena and force it to play by rules set by the US. America and its allies will not succeed in such an endeavor, he warned at the time.

Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.

The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.

The US and its allies reacted to the development by slapping Russia with an unprecedented number of sanctions, targeting its banking and finance sectors as well as aviation and space industries. The US and Canada put an embargo on oil and gas imports from Russia. The EU followed suit by introducing a partial embargo on Russian oil in early June.

The Western nations have also been supplying Ukraine with weapons since the start of the Russian military operation there.

 

[lilies]

Phil Butler is not a well quoted analyst here, nor on Sott, so I don't know where we stand regards him as a source? On Monday he published a long, but remarkably well-readable, page-turner article titled:

Fourth Reich Rising: “Little Hitlers” Thesis – Part I​

Essentially, how post-WW2 Germany made a light-speed surprise recovery in just a couple years and how the EU is the European arm of the real global West / US-EU Fourth Reich.

“The Third Reich was defeated militarily, but powerful Nazi-era bankers, industrialists and civil servants, reborn as democrats, soon prospered in the new West Germany. There they worked for a new cause: European economic and political integration.”

[..] an 1944 look at Himmler’s “go to” economic guy, the war criminal Otto Ohlendorf, and his colleague former Chancellor of West Germany Ludwig Erhard reveals what the European Union is.

“Erhard pondered how German industry could expand its reach across the shattered European continent. The answer was through supranationalism – the voluntary surrender of national sovereignty to an international body.”

CEOs of companies and their allies running Nazi concentration camps during WW2 got away with minimal prison sentences and immediately began building up their envisioned Nazi Rule all over the world, post-WW2. Quoted in above article is a document titled

EW-Pa 128 report​

The secret report that shows how the Nazis planned a Fourth Reich ...in the EU

Looking at how quickly the EU marshaled their "I am Charlie" - "Green New Deal" - "Mask Up Stay Safe" - "Glory to Ukraine" - "Hate Russia" Sheeple to gather under the Nazi flags, its now becoming clear, how Hitler wasn't defeated at all. Because he was the lesser problem. You think Hitler was Evil?? Look at EU leaders and their US friends now!

Its hideously ignorant, how RT.com and bigger websites talk about and place Biden in the center as if he were some kind of mastermind and cause of all evil.. and eloquently never mention - never connect the dots to - the Nazi Cabal standing behind the Bush-Obama-Biden Puppet Theater.. Those dot connections - always should be made.

The real problem is - seems to be, after reading this shocking article - that the Little Hitlers are all over the place! Sott Radio show hosts repeatedly said same!

Remember the sayings of political personages in countries recently appearing in the media regards the Ukraine war? Nukes, send more weapons, etc..

Remember what Little-Hitler governors did in their States and cities during the Con-19 Plandemic in your country? Fourth Reich indeed..

(quote from above article)

You see. Something a former German Wehrmacht soldier who served the Nazi Reich told me has stuck with me for years now. In an interview, I conducted for RT and the 70th anniversary of the victory over Germany, the old soldier expressed how the Nazi ruled in this way. When I asked how Hitler managed to transform all of Germany into a kind of evil empire, he responded:

WW2:

“The problem with Germany at that time was not Hitler. The problem was all the little Hitlers working underneath on the local level.”

2022:
Read the news and compare WW2 + Pre Nazi Era with what is happening now.

 

[Ca.]

Battle royle in #Severodonetsk.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540730699485163521

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540615638170959872

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540675435695972352

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540670037110845441

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540723111405924354

 

[Chaze]

This could potentially be in response to the strike from American M142 HIMARS.

We’ll know something soon enough.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540795050279534593

 

[Possibility of Being]

This could potentially be in response to the strike from American M142 HIMARS.

Peskov, asked by Ria Novosti, said "No. Not at all. Everything is fine" meaning there is no emergency meeting, stuff as usual.

Песков опроверг информацию об экстренном совещании Путина

Президент РФ Владимир Путин не планирует сегодня ночью никаких экстренных совещаний, заявил РИА Новости пресс-секретарь российского лидера Дмитрий Песков. РИА Новости, 26.06.2022

ria.ru

 

[sToRmR1dR]

'Victory will look like slaughtery: The "prolonged conflict" will completely destroy Ukraine.'

Ukraine will decide ‘what victory looks like’ – US​

25 Jun, 2022

Despite Russian advances and talk of compromise with Moscow, Washington insists that Ukraine should dictate the terms of peace

Armed with American weapons, Kiev will determine the terms of a peace deal with Russia, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told Voice of America on Friday.

While others have suggested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should cede some territory for peace, Kirby said Washington is preparing for what could be “a prolonged conflict.”

With the war in Ukraine passing the four-month mark on Friday, Russian forces continue to seize territory in Donbass. Moscow claims that up to 2,000 Ukrainian troops, ‘nationalists’ and foreign fighters are encircled in the region. Meanwhile, Kiev recently admitted losing as many as 1,000 troops per day, and is reportedly replenishing its beleaguered forces with conscripts, women and convicts.

Nevertheless, Kirby insisted that Ukraine can fight on, and told Voice of America that “Mr. Zelensky is going to get to determine what victory looks like.”

“Of course, we want Ukraine to succeed on the battlefield, and we want them to succeed at the negotiating table, if and when it comes to that,” Kirby continued. “We’re not at that stage right now. But we believe that President Zelensky is the one who gets to determine what victory looks like.

“Our job is to make sure that he has the tools available to him to do that in the most efficient, effective way.”

The US has already committed nearly $54 billion in direct and indirect military and economic aid to Ukraine, with the latest $450 million tranche of weapons to include four long-range rocket artillery systems. Kirby seemingly brushed off concerns that these systems could be used to launch strikes across the Russian border, saying on Friday that they are “Ukrainian property, and they get to determine how they’re going to use [them].”

Kirby added that “we want to see Ukraine’s territorial integrity fully restored,” which in the eyes of Kiev would involve seizing Crimea, which voted to join Russia in 2014. Several Ukrainian military and political leaders have stated that they will use NATO-supplied weapons to do exactly this.

Kirby and other officials at the State Department and Pentagon have given Ukraine carte blanche to wage war as it sees fit, even as other government officials in the US have reportedly called for restraint. Meanwhile, if anonymously sourced CNN reports are to be believed, American, British and European leaders are holding discussions about Ukraine’s future without Kiev’s involvement.

While NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently suggested that Ukraine may end up ceding territory in exchange for peace, he has since stated that the terms of a settlement will be decided by Zelensky. Likewise, although Zelensky has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of pressing him to give up land as part of a peace deal, Macron himself has since said that “Ukraine will decide when the conditions are met to build peace.”

 

[Ocean]

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/109/731/274/original/c992638fc9fba52a.jpeg

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540813497566539776

 

[Ocean]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1540826103631282176

 

[Possibility of Being]

Russian Armed Forces hit AFU training centres with high-precision weapons

ВС России нанесли удар высокоточным оружием по учебным центрам ВСУ

Российские Воздушно-космические силы нанесли удар по учебным центрам украинских войск в Черниговской, Житомирской и Львовской областях, сообщили в Минобороны. РИА Новости, 26.06.2022

ria.ru

MOSCOW, 26 June - RIA Novosti. The Russian Aerospace Forces have launched a strike on the training centres of Ukrainian troops in Chernihiv, Zhytomyr and Lviv regions, the Defence Ministry has said.

"The Russian Aerospace Forces' high-precision weapons and Kalibr missiles delivered a massive strike on the territory of the 169th Army training centre near the Desna settlement in Chernihiv Region, the 199th airborne assault force training centre near Teterevka in Zhytomyr Region, and the 184th Ukrainian Armed Forces training centre near Starichi in Lviv Region," the agency specified.

They said that as a result of the attack, the 65th and 66th motorized infantry brigades and the 46th airmobile brigade from the strategic reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which were completing their training at the training ranges, had lost their full combat effectiveness. In this way, the Russian military disrupted the redeployment of these formations to the combat zone.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

"Everything is normal".

 

[lilies]

Good life

Do you want one? I want one! Who doesn't want a good life?

Historically, when things get so bad, that people who can manage a platoon or a battalion get to be the leader of a survivor-group in a homeland devastated by war, the good life prospects are already gone.

Piero San Giorgio - an excellent surprise host - interviewed Andrei Martyanov, who stated the above. I thought Andrei was a gun-crazed military maniac, but Piero raised his book for the camera to see and praised it much.

Naturally, I got curious to check it out and began reading it. Andrew might be the man - I got the impression - some version of Gurdjieff who attended a military academy, graduated, then made a career as a general or an admiral and then he began to teach by simply telling about Objective Reality with a sober head.

I expected gun porn and dry military math equations. Instead I found:

the Western Definition of “a Good Life”

In The Great Delusion, his latest work on the fallacy of a liberal view of the world which has been enthusiastically embraced in the United States, John Mearsheimer elaborates extensively on his opinion of the objective of the political ideologies and views of our time — a good life.

Following a liberal, by definition relativist, view of the world, Mearsheimer concludes, leads to truth becoming very elusive—and accordingly, so does a universal definition of a good life. The title of his latest treatise is a good indicator that Mearsheimer, one of the few leading mainstream American political scientists, along with thinkers of scale, such as Paul Craig Roberts, recognizes the economic and intellectual crisis of liberalism as well as liberalism’s utter failure to provide any coherent answer as to what a good life, indeed, is.

WEF, 2021: A ‘Good’ Life Doesn’t Need to be Happy or Meaningful

Rather than trying to formulate precisely what “the good life” really is, an impossible task in a world of a vast number of cultures, circumstances and outlooks, we should abandon the self-centered ruminations which persist in Western political science, and recognize that, in universal terms, the most important part of the good life expression is life itself, first and foremost, with it then being good being predicated on a number of extremely complex causative factors.

Very many of those factors are often viewed in a pro-forma fashion by American political science due to the fact that most of those scientists have undergone none of the crucial experiences that much of humankind outside the borders of the United States endure daily and have done for centuries—the struggle for mere survival. That is to say, large numbers of people, even whole nations, fight for life itself, viewing this life being good as an important but at best a secondary consideration.

Discounting natural conditions and disasters such as earthquakes or epidemics as reasons for the fight for survival, the sad reality is that all other factors which make people fight for life are anything but natural—all of them have human causation, ..

..be it the sanctions applied on 20th century Iraq that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children, or the misnamed R2P - The Responsibility to Protect – - destruction of relatively stable and prosperous Libya in 2011. Conflict is a part of human nature, with war being the apogee of conflict, which then becomes armed, and really has defined human life since the dawn of civilization.

/Quote from: The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs/

 

[Iggdrasil]

In Lisichansk, mercenaries from Poland, as well as 120 military from France, Britain and the United States, are holding the defense.

This was announced by Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs of the LPR Vitaly Kiselev.

Now in the city there are street battles between the forces of the Russian coalition, Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries.