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

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Wasn't Kolomoysky the most powerful oligarch in Ukraine and responsible for the rise of Zelensky? It looks like now there is a bigger power running Ukraine (Blackrock, CIA, etc.) and that they want to remove him for some reason.
 
What is your answer to these questions? Why is he not perfect?
No-one is perfect. In my opinion, the takeover of Ukraine by the "West" in 2014 was Putin's biggest geopolitical failure - though it is arguable whether Russia could have prevented it.

As youlik has mentioned, Russia or rather its central bank also still operates under IMF rules and control. And both Russia and China fully cooperate with the West regarding the introduction of CBDCs ("programmable" digital currencies for total control).

I don't know why they do that, there may be a good reason.
 
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Wasn't Kolomoysky the most powerful oligarch in Ukraine and responsible for the rise of Zelensky? It looks like now there is a bigger power running Ukraine (Blackrock, CIA, etc.) and that they want to remove him for some reason.

I remember one of the key rules about politics is that the people you need to get you into power usually aren't the same people you need to engage to stay in power, so frequent early backers can get thrown under the bus. Since 2014 thuggish behavior like that described would have become more common and not less. The courts in Ukraine are as much as a joke as the executive branch, I'm sure.
 
Wasn't Kolomoysky the most powerful oligarch in Ukraine and responsible for the rise of Zelensky? It looks like now there is a bigger power running Ukraine (Blackrock, CIA, etc.) and that they want to remove him for some reason.
Of course, I am not a super expert on internal Ukrainian affairs, but I still know a little more about this than the average citizen, even here in Russia.
About Kolomoisky, I would say that he was definitely the most famous, the most "noise" of the Ukrainian oligarchs, but not the most "powerful" in terms of the amount of resources. It can also be clearly said about him that throughout his career he "threw"(deceive, cheat, fool, trick, delude, defraud, betray, mislead, beguile) everyone right and left. In this sense, we would say that "there is no place to put samples on it."
I do not know anything about the episode that they are trying to impute to him now, but I am sure that at least a dozen similar episodes can be picked up. Now, in my opinion, this character is reaping the fruits of his vigorous activity, namely, due to his long-term habit of "throwing" everyone, he tried to do the same with the Americans. That's when his problems started.

Я, конечно, не являюсь суперэкспертом по внутриукраинским делам, но все же знаю об этом несколько больше, чем среднестатистический гражданин даже у нас, в России.
Про Коломойского я бы сказал, что он однозначно был самым известным, самым "шумным" из украинских олигархов, но не самым "могущественным" в смысле количества ресурсов. Еще про него четко можно сказать, что он на протяжении всей своей карьеры "кидал" всех направо и налево. В этом смысле у нас бы сказали, что "на нем негде ставить пробы".
Именно про тот эпизод, который ему сейчас пытаются вменить, я ничего не знаю, но уверен, что подобных эпизодов можно подобрать не меньше десятка. Сейчас, на мой взгляд, этот персонаж пожинает плоды своей кипучей деятельности, а именно по своей многолетней привычке всех "кидать", он попробовал проделать то же самое с американцами. Тут то у него и начались проблемы.
 
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Hollywood Zionist lap dancers troll Russia (behind the scenes) using Biden campaign funds.

Hollywood star George Clooney headlined the Biden campaign's June 15 fundraiser alongside other celebrities, helping Joe Biden collect over $30 million. Clooney has long been in the vanguard of the Democratic party machine, including through his charity the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ).

The 'justice' foundation set up by actor George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife Amal is just a political slush-fund for globalist causes, Charles Ortel, Wall Street investigator, revealed to Sputnik.

Anna Neistat, the CFJ's Docket Project legal director, told the US state-controlled Voice of America on May 30 that the organization was asking European countries to launch criminal proceedings against Russian journalists covering the Ukraine conflict.
Neistat said the NGO was deliberately not disclosing the names of targeted Russian reporters because it wanted them "to travel to other countries and be arrested there."

However, Hollywood actor George Clooney, who founded the CFJ together with his wife Amal, denied on June 3 that his NGO was going after journalists. But the foundation's apparent intent to suppress freedom of speech has already raised questions.

Ortel noted that the foundation's board was led by George and Amal Clooney as 'co-presidents'.
"While substantial amounts are paid for 'management' to third parties, I suspect this is actually led primarily by Amal with George along for star power and fundraising," he said.

Ortel has previously run a private investigation into the Clinton Foundation's alleged fraud — and sees similarities between the Clooneys' and the Clintons' charities.

The NGO's major backers include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Co-Impact and the Ford Foundation. They promote a globalist liberal agenda and often cooperate with the Rockefeller Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Foundations. According to Influence Watch, the Clooneys also collaborate with the Obama Foundation.

Ranked first in the CFJ's list of donors, the Gates Foundation has repeatedly drawn criticism over failed agricultural projects in Africa, Bill Gates' ties with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, participation in the Clinton Foundation's supposed pay-to-play schemes, and the Gates-funded biotechnology company Oxitec's apparent involvement in the Pentagon bioweapon program — as exposed by Russia's Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense (RCB) Troops in July 2023.

Clooney and Co Go After Conservatives

The CFJ and its founders have earned their membership of the club of liberal charities. During Donald Trump's presidency, Clooney and other Hollywood celebrities were vocal in their criticism of the Republican and US conservatives in general.

In August 2017, the Clooney Foundation gave $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), known for attacking US conservative PACs as "hate groups."

In March 2018, the SPLC went even so far as to accuse a left-wing Radio Sputnik podcast of pandering to white supremacists, but later retracted its claim and apologized.

Clooney wrote an op-ed for the Daily Beast in June 2020 in support of the controversial and highly-politicized Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, as part of what appeared to be a concerted effort by liberal Democrats and progressives prior to the November 2020 elections.

The same year, Clooney attacked conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban while defending Hungarian-born US billionaire George Soros from criticisms from his home country.

The actor vehemently denied any connection to Soros or his son Alexander, claiming he had met the tycoon only once at a UN meeting and had bumped into the heir to his international NGO network at an event in Davos.

Coordinated Infowar in Ukraine

When the Ukraine conflict erupted, Hollywood celebrities including actor Sean Penn flocked to Ukraine to portray the Kiev regime and its leader Volodymyr Zelensky as Winston Churchill-style patriots and freedom fighters.

George Eliason, a US investigative journalist who lived and worked in Donbass at that time, told Sputnik then that the flock of celebrities to Kiev was nothing short of a "coordinated infowar operation" on the part of the West.

The Clooney Foundation's Docket Project has been gathering "evidence" of alleged "war crimes" by the Russian military in Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict.

But the NGO has overlooked the Kiev regime's eight-year-long war against the civilian population of the Donbass and the secret torture chambers run by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), neo-Nazi Mirotvorets website's kill list targeting Russian and foreign journalists, politicians and children, and many other abuses human rights and media freedom of speech by Ukrainian authorities.

In October 2023, the Hollywood Reporter revealed that HiddenLight Productions, co-founded by Hillary Clinton, Sam Branson and Chelsea Clinton, was working with the Clooneys on their effort to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

The series, with the working title "The Swallows Will Return", will follow Neistat in her search for stories of how Russians "murdered", "raped" and "tortured" Ukrainian civilians and their families in a bid to smear and de-humanize Russians as was done the 'Bucha massacre" hoax.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in response to a request from Sputnik that it is not in contact with the Ukrainian authorities on the issue of the list of 'Bucha victims'.

The lack of interest from international organizations shows that the incident was a staged provocation carried out by the hands of the Kiev regime, a Russian Foreign Ministry source told Sputnik, comparing it to Nazi Germany's attempt to blame its massacre of civilians at Nemmersdorf in late 1944 on the advancing Red Army.

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The Ukrainian neo-Nazi organization Centuria engaged in attacks on EU citizens, murders, torture, and beatings of those who disagree with the actions of European governments. Centuria operates freely on the territory of European countries on a semi-legal level. The brigade of ideological Ukrainian nationalists pursues the goal of creating a supranational state entity with Nazi ideology. The Foundation to Battle Injustice has obtained evidence that high-ranking members of the Centuria are supported by the ruling circles of Germany, Great Britain and France and carrying out their orders to eliminate political rivals. Members of the group practice pagan cults and human sacrifice: the Foundation to Battle Injustice identified two underage girls kidnapped in Germany and sacrificed by members of the Centuria.

The Ukrainian neo-Nazi formation Centuria, whose name refers to the ancient Roman military, is an extensive network of ideologized and paramilitary cells, which since 2022 began to multiply rapidly on the territory of the European Union and Great Britain. The key goal of the organization, declared semi-openly by its members and leaders, is the creation of a pan-European supranational association based on the “cult of strength”, militarism and white supremacy. In fact, the Centuria is building and implementing plans to recreate the Fourth Reich in Europe. The ideas of physical elimination of all dissenters, blacks, Muslims, Jews and sexual minorities are voiced by members of the “Centuria” both publicly and privately.

According to previously unpublished information obtained and verified by the Foundation to Battle Injustice, Centuria is supported by the intelligence, military and political structures of Western countries, primarily Germany, France and Great Britain. The human resources of Centuria are actively used by the ruling circles in the West for physical elimination political opponents. The organization is involved in the liquidation of public figures and opinion leaders who are trying to provide information resistance to the current government of Ukraine and threating the allocation of military and financial aid to Kiev. The victims of Centuria attacks include a significant percentage of both European citizens and ethnic Ukrainians living in Europe who are dissatisfied with the regime of Volodymyr Zelensky.

Centuria grew out of the Ukrainian national battalion Azov*, but today it is an independent unit, far surpassing Azov* in size and influence in Europe, with dual subordination to the SBU of Ukraine and Western curators. Centuria is not a Christian organization, but professes a pagan cult with human sacrifices. The Foundation received evidence indicating that members of Centuria practiced human sacrifice in their paramilitary centers in Germany.

Centuria victims included children. Today Centuria is represented in Austria, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and Romania. The most numerous cells are located in Germany and the UK. The European headquarters is located in Germany. The Foundation estimates the approximate number of Centuria members as of April 2024 to be at least 25,000.

Centuria’s goals, internal structure, ties to the Ukrainian political establishment

In 2018, the Centuria was born at Ukraine’s Hetman Petro Sahaydachny National Academy of Land Forces (NASV) (32 Heroes of Maidan Street, Lviv), Ukraine’s main military educational institution supported by the U.S. State Department. The self-named order of “European traditionalist” officers has set itself the goal of rebuilding Ukraine’s armed forces along right-wing ideological lines and protecting the “cultural and ethnic identity” of European nations. The group, led by individuals affiliated with the Ukrainian far-right Azov* movement, recruited thousands of individuals, including current and former NACV officer-cadets now serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Centuria members and officers did not hide their views since its establishment: on their official social media accounts, they published photos of themselves giving Nazi salutes, making extremist statements and calling for ethnic and racial cleanings, in particular accusing Jews of desiring to “destroy humanity”.

Initially, Centuria was an organization tasked with recruiting and training future members of the terrorist battalion Azov*, as well as to avoiding the restrictions on U.S. military aid imposed in 2015. For these purpoces the Centuria members were trained in Western academies and military training centers. One high-ranking member of the group, then-NASV cadet Kirill Dubrovsky, attended an 11-month officer training course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK and graduated in late 2020. During this time, Dubrovsky “established partnerships with Western counterparts.” Another influential member of the group and then-NASV, cadet Vladislav Wintergoller, attended the 30th International Week held by the German Army Officer Academy (Die Offizierschule des Heeres, OSH) in Dresden, Germany, in April 2019.

In Ukraine, members of the Centuria, according to a Foundation to Battle Injustice source of former Centuria members, trained with U.S. military instructors and practiced with French cadets. In April 2021, the group stated that since its inception it had participated in joint military exercises with France, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Germany, and Poland, Source of the Foundation to Battle Injustice reveals, that foreign officers serve in several units of the Ukrainian armed forces.

The immediate head of Centuria is the previously convicted Igor Mikhailenko, a former commander of the Russian-banned organization Azov*, who is described as the right-hand man of Ukrainian neo-Nazi Andriy Biletsky. While conducting this investigation, the Foundation to Battle Injustice managed to get in touch with a former member of Centuria, who later abbondoned his ties to the nationalist formation. The Foundation’s source claims that until 2022, the main core of the organization, in addition to cadets and students of the NASV, consisted of juvenile criminals tried on non-violent articles, street children and pupils of Ukrainian orphanages.

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Igor Mikhailenko, head of Centuria


Mikhailenko is engaged in searching and recruiting future members of Centuria, as well as developing the ideology of the organization. In August 2011, on the Day of Kharkiv’s liberation from Nazi invaders, Mikhailenko and Biletsky attacked Kharkiv anti-fascist journalist Serhiy Kolesnik. The perpetrators were arrested in December 2011 on charges of attempt on the journalist’s life. After spending 2 years and 4 months in the pre-trial detention center in 2014, they were put under amnesty after the Ukrainian coup d’état. Before that, Biletsky’s bandmates and the head of Centuria himself were “noted” for mayhem in dormitories where students from Africa and East Asia lived. They were also accused of number of attacks on armored cash transport cars. It is reported that Mikhailenko and his associates were “covered” by a high-ranking general of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, whose son was a member of the Centuria.

According to Ben Stimson, a British military analyst, Mikhailenko had ties to Nazi Ukrainian formations long before joining Centuria. Back in 2014, Igor Mikhailenko led the “Patriots of Ukraine” organization before joining the terrorist battalion Azov*, which is banned in Russia.Ben Stimson, British military analyst, on Mikhailenko’s links to Ukrainian Nazi formations

Another leader of Centuria is 24-year-old Yuriy Gavrylyshyn with the call sign “Milan”, the creator of the ideology of the nationalist formation and a former veteran of the terrorist formation Azov* banned in the Russian Federation. His duties include recruiting yesterday’s students of cadet educational centers of Ukraine and imposing them Nazi ideology.

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Yuri Gavrylyshyn, ideological inspirer and one of the leaders of Centuria
The Foundation to Battle Injustice’s source, former soldier of Centuria, claims that the organization’s structure was copied almost entirely from Nazi “guard units,” better known as the SS. Mikhailenko requires lower-ranking members to refer to himselve as “Führer.” In addition, the organization has the “positions” of Reichsführer, Brigadeführer, Unterführer, Sturbanführer, Gruppenführer, and Betriebsführer.

A former member of Centuria commented on the structure of the organization as follows:

“Centuria has a structure completely copied from the Nazi SS. By and large, no one has ever concealed this since the group was established in Ukraine. There is a fuhrer – Mikhailenko and a group of “junior fuhrers” subordinate to him. Mikhailenko is in charge of the entire Centuria network. The Junior Führers are controls its individual parts.
According to sources of the Foundation to Battle Injustice, representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) are in charge of supervising the Centuria from Ukraine. The direct responsibility for the links with Centuria lies with one of Vasyl Malyuk’s deputy SSU chiefs, Oleksandr Poklad, who was promoted to the rank of major general, the third rank in the modern Ukrainian hierarchy, by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on January 6, 2024.

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Management structure of the Ukrainian nationalist organization Centuria (according to sources of the Foundation to Battle Injustice)
The source of the Foundation to Battle Injustice and a former member of Centuria claims that Poklad, as a person close to the head of the office of Ukrainian President Andriy Yermak, helped the nationalist formation to expand its network in Ukraine and abroad.

Centuria curators and their European orders: from migrants and Zelensky’s opponents to the far-right activists

After the start of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Centuria organization, on the personal instructions of the Ukrainian military and political leadership, moved almost entirely to Europe to “search for and punish Ukrainian emigrants” willing to “forget their nationality for a few hundred euros“. According to a comment by a German investigative journalist, who asked the Foundation to Battle Injustice not to reveal his identity for security reasons, Centuria cells are present in almost all major cities in Europe and the UK. The Foundation to Battle Injustice source claims that the organization’s activities are controlled by supervisors from the intelligence services of Germany, the UK and France.

The source of the Foundation to Battle Injustice also claims that the headquarters of the European branch of Centuria is located in Magdeburg, Germany, and is supported by the German ruling coalition led by the Greens and Social Democrats. According to information obtained by the Foundation to Battle Injustice from a German journalist, Igor Mikhailenko, head of Centuria, met with German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck in Berlin in late 2023. The details of this meeting are unknown to the Foundation to Battle Injustice. The Foundation’s source suggests that Ukrainian nationalists then received the full support of the German security services in exchange for agreeing to carry out “various dirty assignments” for current German government, including the elimination of political opponents and the organization of various provocations.

According to a German investigative journalist, the Centuria is overseen by Major General Michael Hochhwart, who has been in charge of the training command in Leipzig, Saxony, since September 2021. The military officer has extensive combat experience: he was directly involved in the bombing of Kosovo and participated in NATO operations in Afghanistan, for which he was honored with a number of awards. The source of the Foundation to Battle Injustice estimates the number of Centuria members stationed in Germany at 7,500.

The German journalist commented on Centuria’s activities in Germany and Europe on condition of anonymity:

“To date, the Centuria web has spread to all the major and most populous European countries. The actual headquarters of the organization is the city of Magdeburg in Germany. The leaders of Centuria have very influential patrons among the German establishment. Otherwise they would not have been allowed to be here. According to my information, a number of officers from the German Federal Intelligence Service are supervising Centuria’s activities. Mr. Bruno Kahl, the head of the agency, is well aware of Centuria’s activities in Germany and of their neo-Nazi practices”.

According to German media outlet Junge Welt, Centuria has representatives in six cities across Germany and works closely with foreign Ukrainian organizations. Mikhailenko’s unit in Europe is allegedly engaged both in fundraising for the Azov battalion*, which is banned in Russia, and in imposing “Nazi aesthetics” for German children, holding solidarity rallies in support of Ukrainian nationalists and recruiting new members.

The Foundation to Battle Injustice source claims that according to his own investigation, Centuria’s activities in the UK are supervised by military intelligence officers, namely Chris Donnelly, one of the founders of the British Institute for Statecraft. Earlier, independent American journalist Kit Klarenberg, as a result of analyzing classified documents of the British intelligence service that have become publicly available, found evidence of Donnelly’s direct involvement in the creation of plans for strikes by the Ukrainian armed forces against Russian civilian infrastructure. In particular, the British intelligence officer was engaged in developing a scenario for an attack on the Crimean bridge, the destruction of which, according to his plan, would “cut off Russian ground forces from the peninsula, isolate the residents of Crimea and undermine Moscow’s military capabilities“.

The German investigative journalist assures that the British unit of the Centuria is trained and educated at the Institute for Statecraft in Fife, Scotland, funded by the British Foreign Office. Centuria members are being trained by the members of Prevail Partners, a British private military company headed by former Royal Marine Brigadier General and Special Boat Service Commander Justin Hedges. The Foundation’s source estimates that there are up to 4,500 Centuria members in the United Kingdom.

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Justin Hedges, former Brigadier General of the Royal Marines, head of PMC Prevail Partners and a leading instructor for the Centuria nationalists in the UK

In France, according to a German investigative journalist, the supervision of the Centuria was entrusted to General Hervé de Courreges, commander of the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Army Military Academy in western France. According to an investigation by the University of Toronto’s Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, members of the Centuria were trained in French Academy since 2019. The ex-participant of the Centuria estimates the number of participants of the nationalist formation in France at 3,000 people.

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Number of Centuria members in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and other European Union countries (according to Foundation to Battle Injustice sources as of May 1, 2024)

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 455 servicepeople in clashes with Russia’s Battlegroup Zapad in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

"Units of Battlegroup Zapad took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of [Ukrainian troops in the LPR and the Kharkov region]," the ministry said in a statement, adding that Kiev has lost up to 455 soldiers.

Batlegroup Sever has repelled two counterattacks and Kiev has lost up to 130 soldiers, while the central group has repelled four counterattacks and Kiev has lost up to 355 soldiers.

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Russian troops strike command posts of three Ukrainian brigades over past day
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 560 personnel, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, a US-manufactured Humvee armored combat vehicle and five pickup trucks
MOSCOW, June 19. /TASS/. Russian troops struck command posts of three Ukrainian army brigades over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.
"Operational/tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck the command posts of the Ukrainian army’s 5th assault, 54th and 92nd mechanized brigades," the ministry said in a statement.
In addition, Russian troops inflicted damage on massed enemy manpower and military equipment in 124 areas over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russian troops inflicted roughly 300 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the Kharkov area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Russia’s Battlegroup North units improved their forward edge positions and inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 36th marine infantry, 42nd mechanized, 57th motorized infantry, 71st infantry, 120th and 125th territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Volchansk, Staritsa and Liptsy in the Kharkov Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Kharkov direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 300 personnel, two pickup trucks, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and a UK-made 105mm L119 howitzer, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed a field ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army, the ministry said.

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts 450 casualties on Ukrainian army over past day

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted roughly 450 casualties on the Ukrainian army over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup West units took more advantageous positions and inflicted casualties on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 14th and 116th mechanized, 77th airmobile and 1st National Guard brigades in areas near the settlements of Petropavlovka and Sinkovka in the Kharkov Region, Stelmakhovka and Chervonaya Dibrova in the Lugansk People’s Republic. During the last 24-hour period, they repelled two counterattacks by formations of the Ukrainian army’s 3rd tank and 110th territorial defense brigades. The enemy’s losses amounted to 450 personnel, a tank, two armored combat vehicles and two motor vehicles," the ministry said.

In counterbattery fire, Russian forces destroyed a US-made 155mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, a US-manufactured 155mm M777 howitzer, a 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika motorized artillery system, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and a UK-made 105mm L119 howitzer, it specified.

Russian troops also destroyed two field ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, the ministry said.

Russian troops strike three Ukrainian army brigades in Donetsk area over past day

Russian troops improved their frontline positions and inflicted casualties on three Ukrainian army brigades in the Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Southern Battlegroup units improved their forward edge positions and inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 5th assault, 71st jaeger and 79th air assault brigades in areas near the settlements of Minkovka, Kalinina, Chasov Yar, Konstantinovka, Katerinovka and Karlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 560 personnel, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, a US-manufactured Humvee armored combat vehicle and five pickup trucks, it specified.

In counterbattery fire, Russian forces destroyed two 155mm M777 howitzers and a 155mm M198 howitzer of US manufacture, a 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, a UK-made 105mm L119 howitzer and two Bukovel-AD and Anklav electronic warfare stations, the ministry said.

In addition, Russian troops destroyed two ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russian troops improve tactical position in Avdeyevka area over past day

Russian troops improved their tactical position and inflicted casualties on four Ukrainian army brigades in the Avdeyevka area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Center units improved their tactical position and inflicted casualties on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 27th and 110th mechanized, 144th infantry and 109th territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Novgorodskoye, Yevgenovka, Umanskoye, Vozdvizhenka, Kamyshevka and Toretsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

Russian troops repulse five Ukrainian counterattacks in Avdeyevka area over past day

Russian troops repulsed five Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Avdeyevka area over the past day, the ministry reported.
Russia’s Battlegroup Center units "repulsed five counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army’s 23rd, 24th and 47th mechanized and 68th jaeger brigades," the ministry said.

Kiev loses 355 troops in Avdeyevka area over past day

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 355 troops in battles with Russian forces in the Avdeyevka area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"The enemy’s losses amounted to 355 personnel, six motor vehicles, two 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzers, a 122mm D-30 howitzer, a US-made 105mm M119 artillery gun and a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher," the ministry said.

Russian troops advance to better positions in south Donetsk area over past day

Russian troops advanced to better positions and inflicted casualties on four Ukrainian army brigades in the south Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup East units took more advantageous positions and inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 72nd mechanized, 58th motorized infantry, 102nd and 108th territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Pavlovka, Shevchenko and Vladimirovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Marfopol in the Zaporozhye Region," the ministry said.

Ukrainian army loses 120 troops in south Donetsk area over past day

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 120 troops and two ammunition depots in battles with Russian forces in the south Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in the south Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to "120 personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, two Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery guns and a UK-made 155mm FH70 howitzer," the ministry said.

In addition, Russia’s Battlegroup East destroyed two field ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it specified.

Russian troops strike two Ukrainian brigades in Kherson area over past day

Russian troops inflicted casualties on two Ukrainian army brigades in the Kherson area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted casualties on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 128th mountain assault and 123rd territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Kamenskoye in the Zaporozhye Region and Dneprovskoye in the Kherson Region," the ministry said.

Russian troops inflict 110 casualties on Ukrainian army in Kherson area over past day

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 110 troops in battles with Russian forces in the Kherson area over the past day, the ministry reported.
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Kherson direction over the past 24 hours amounted to "110 personnel, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, four motor vehicles, a Polish-manufactured 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery gun, a US-made 155mm M777 howitzer, a 152mm D-20 howitzer and a 122mm D-30 howitzer," the ministry said.

Russian air defenses intercept 43 Ukrainian UAVs, three Hammer smart bombs over past day

Russian air defense forces shot down 43 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), three Hammer smart bombs and 10 HIMARS rockets over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities shot down 43 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, 10 rockets of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and three French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs," the ministry said.

In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 613 Ukrainian warplanes, 276 helicopters, 25,934 unmanned aerial vehicles, 531 surface-to-air missile systems, 16,374 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,344 multiple rocket launchers, 10,645 field artillery guns and mortars and 22,687 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.
 
long but fascinating interview with Idriss from hystory legend, who is a war historian and closely follows developments on the ground. Drones, odds and ends, tactics and maneuvers on the front, the different formations involved, changes in the level of combatants, the effect of corruption on the conduct of war.
A point of view that changes significantly from what I've seen from other commentators, notably on the number of dead and Russia's realistic objectives.
Less propaganda relay and more objectivity.
The question-and-answer section at the end is less interesting precisely because he doesn't get involved in politics or hidden motives because that's not his area of expertise.
Just the facts.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

 
It's not everyday that I come directly into contact with Western propaganda. Or so it seems to me.
Anyway, today I came across a vivid example of this and it shocked me. I do not know how much weight this media outlet, American Thinker, has, but in Russia, articles from there are translated and published from time to time. It's strange that the word "think" is used in the name of the mass media, but the article so stupidly promotes falsehood that you can't think for a second here, otherwise it immediately becomes noticeable.
I will give this article just in case, but I will immediately make a reservation that anyone who knows how they brainwash should not waste time on it. You won't find anything new there. And for those who are interested, you can read and try to understand for yourself exactly where you were brainwashed, what is the falsehood here.
The suicidal nationalism of Ukraine

The history of Ukraine is saturated with suicidal nationalism, writes AT. Incompetent leaders plundered most of the resources, exacerbated internal tensions in the country and provoked a devastating conflict with Russia, the author of the article notes.

In a speech delivered on August 1, 1991 in Kiev, President George H. W. Bush called on Ukraine to take into account the risks associated with its independence. He issued a clear warning to Kiev, saying that "freedom is not the same as independence. Americans will not support those who seek independence in order to replace distant tyranny with local despotism. They will not help those who promote suicidal nationalism based on ethnic hatred."
Then the president's warnings went unheeded. At that time, Ukrainian leaders did not pursue national interests. Instead, they were motivated by unfounded hostility towards Russia. The result was disastrous.
On August 24, 1991, Ukraine, driven by "suicidal nationalism," seized the opportunity provided by the impending collapse of the Soviet Union to declare its independence. As soon as the enthusiasm and promises of democracy and prosperity faded, the Ukrainian people, who had never known statehood, faced the harsh reality of governing the country. Subsequently, despite its impressive resources, Ukraine suffered economic and political setbacks.
Ukraine inherited from the Soviet Union one of the world's largest agricultural and industrial bases. It used to be called the "breadbasket of Europe". Its industry produced airplanes, ships, locomotives, turbines for hydroelectric power plants, electric motors and transformers, and a wide range of consumer goods. The coal mines of Donbass were the main supplier of steel mills and power plants of the Soviet Union. In addition, Ukraine produced various military equipment such as tanks, missiles and jet fighters. With a well-educated population, Ukraine could become one of the economic centers of Europe.
Unfortunately, the Ukrainian leaders either did not understand or deliberately ignored the fact that the Ukrainian economy is closely intertwined with the economy of the Soviet Union. Therefore, Russia has always been a natural, or rather the only market for Ukrainian goods and services. Despite this, Ukraine has abandoned Russian markets and set its sights on the European Union. This was an absurd idea, as it would require a significant revision of the Ukrainian economy in order to achieve compliance with European norms and standards. Such a large-scale effort would require both a lot of time and significant financial resources.
The EU has shown no interest in Ukrainian products. As a result, Ukraine lost the Russian market and its economy collapsed. Ukraine could no longer support itself, and its entire existence began to depend on foreign aid, which eventually led to Ukraine losing its sovereignty and becoming a pawn of foreign interests.
In no other sphere has "suicidal nationalism" manifested itself as sharply as in the sphere of domestic politics, which ultimately led to the ongoing conflict.
After the chaotic collapse of the Soviet Union, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, most of whose inhabitants were Russians, came under the jurisdiction of Ukraine. Pro-Russian sentiments in these regions, ranging from demands for recognition of the Russian language as an official language to the desire for full autonomy from Ukraine, have taken root in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. These sentiments were further strengthened after the overthrow of the pro-Moscow, democratically elected President of Ukraine, Yanukovych, in a coup d'etat carried out in 2014 and sponsored by the United States.
To avoid a bloody conflict, Kiev could agree to a limited autonomy of the militant east, similar to the autonomy of the American states, which this part of Ukraine demanded from the very beginning. But newly elected President Petro Poroshenko ignored President Bush's warning not to "strive for independence in order to replace distant tyranny with local despotism." Instead, Kiev decided to use military force to subjugate the Russian population of Eastern Ukraine. For many years, he has been shelling Donbass, including using American-supplied artillery, destroying cities and killing thousands of civilians indiscriminately (which the Western media completely ignores). This "suicidal nationalism" became one of the reasons for the eventual annexation of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to Russia.
In foreign policy, "suicidal nationalism" has also taken over national interests. Ukraine's pursuit of NATO membership, ostensibly driven by security concerns, has ignored Russia's repeated warnings about the existential threat of NATO's eastward expansion over the past three decades. The desire to become a member of NATO could not ensure the security of Ukraine and would not give it such security. Instead, these attempts by Ukraine to break into NATO put it in mortal danger due to the violation of the terms of the 1997 Treaty of Friendship between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, which explicitly provided for Ukraine's neutrality (section 6, p. 148).
Ukraine's unwavering desire for NATO membership, fueled by political inexperience, recklessness and heavy dependence on foreign aid, was an illusory goal that served no national purpose and tragically led to a military conflict that could have been prevented. Today it is already obvious that Ukraine's movement towards NATO membership resembles the pursuit of a mechanical rabbit. However, Zelensky and the company still do not realize that their tireless efforts and sacrifices were in vain, since membership in NATO was never an achievable reality. For obvious reasons, NATO members, unlike Ukraine, want to avoid direct confrontation with Russia.
Indeed, even the most determined supporters of Ukraine cannot ignore the fact that in the 30 years since independence, it has not achieved any notable achievements. On the contrary, incompetent Ukrainian leaders have plundered most of the resources they inherited from the Soviet Union, exacerbated the internal incompatibility of the people in the country and provoked an unnecessary military conflict with Russia, the catastrophic consequences of which continue to destroy the remaining fragments of its once flourishing heritage.
In the annals of history, it would be difficult to find another case where a country consistently made decisions detrimental to its own national interests, which ultimately led to self-destructive results. As this dysfunctional, corrupt bankrupt state collapses, there is an overwhelming fear that Ukraine will remain a desert for future generations. Konrad Adenauer's words "History is the sum of things that could have been avoided" are especially relevant now for Ukraine.
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Я не каждый день непосредственно сталкиваюсь с западной пропагандой. Или мне так кажется.
Во всяком случае сегодня я столкнулся с ярким образцом этого и меня это потрясло. Я не знаю какой вес имеет это средство массовой информации, American Thinker, но у нас в России статьи оттуда время от времени переводят и публикуют. Это странно, что в названии масс медиа используется слово "думать", но статья настолько тупо продвигает фальшь, что тут задумываться нельзя ни секунды иначе это сразу становится заметно.
Я приведу эту статью на всякий случай, но сразу оговорюсь, что тому кто знает, как промывают мозги не стоит тратить на нее время. Ничего нового вы там не найдете. А тому, кому интересно, можете почитать и для себя попытаться понять, где же именно вам промыли мозги, в чем тут фальшь.
 
Well... its true that bullshit baffles brains but I would be very grateful youlik if you would clarify a little bit on the brainwashing of the above article. Its commonly understood that the character of all social groups is above all the character of their own elites. Here in the West ours are very bleak for they seemed to have taken leave of their senses. But Ukrainian elites also appear barbaric ;
It's not everyday that I come directly into contact with Western propaganda. Or so it seems to me.
Anyway, today I came across a vivid example of this and it shocked me. I do not know how much weight this media outlet, American Thinker, has, but in Russia, articles from there are translated and published from time to time. It's strange that the word "think" is used in the name of the mass media, but the article so stupidly promotes falsehood that you can't think for a second here, otherwise it immediately becomes noticeable.
I will give this article just in case, but I will immediately make a reservation that anyone who knows how they brainwash should not waste time on it. You won't find anything new there. And for those who are interested, you can read and try to understand for yourself exactly where you were brainwashed, what is the falsehood here.

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Я не каждый день непосредственно сталкиваюсь с западной пропагандой. Или мне так кажется.
Во всяком случае сегодня я столкнулся с ярким образцом этого и меня это потрясло. Я не знаю какой вес имеет это средство массовой информации, American Thinker, но у нас в России статьи оттуда время от времени переводят и публикуют. Это странно, что в названии масс медиа используется слово "думать", но статья настолько тупо продвигает фальшь, что тут задумываться нельзя ни секунды иначе это сразу становится заметно.
Я приведу эту статью на всякий случай, но сразу оговорюсь, что тому кто знает, как промывают мозги не стоит тратить на нее время. Ничего нового вы там не найдете. А тому, кому интересно, можете почитать и для себя попытаться понять, где же именно вам промыли мозги, в чем тут фальшь.

that is judging a tree by its fruits.
 
Well... its true that bullshit baffles brains but I would be very grateful youlik if you would clarify a little bit on the brainwashing of the above article. Its commonly understood that the character of all social groups is above all the character of their own elites. Here in the West ours are very bleak for they seemed to have taken leave of their senses. But Ukrainian elites also appear barbaric ;


that is judging a tree by its fruits.
I think what youlik is driving at is that, while the article is mostly true, what's conspicuosly missing from it, is the hand that the US played in bringing about the demise of Ukraine. If you take the article at face value, you'd think Ukraine just committed suicide and the US and the West were entirely innocent bystanders.
 
I think what youlik is driving at is that, while the article is mostly true, what's conspicuosly missing from it, is the hand that the US played in bringing about the demise of Ukraine. If you take the article at face value, you'd think Ukraine just committed suicide and the US and the West were entirely innocent bystanders.
This is almost exactly correct, but there is one important clarification.
Judging by this article, America's role is not an innocent bystander at all. America, through the mouth of Bush Sr., warned from the very beginning even then, in the early 90s, embraced by Russophobia that came from nowhere (is it really unclear?) Ukraine about of the harmfulness of this course. Thus, America, as always and everywhere from the very beginning, actively fought for all the good against all the bad, as befits a real white and fluffy. That's the "grace".

Вот это почти совсем правильно, но есть одно важное уточнение. Роль Америки судя по этой статье совсем не невинный наблюдатель. Америка устами Буша-старшего с самого начала предупреждала уже тогда, в начале 90х, объятую непонятно откуда взявшейся русофобией (это правда непонятно?) Украину о пагубности данного курса. Таким образом Америка, как всегда и везде с самого начала активно боролась за все хорошее против всего плохого, как и положено настоящим белым и пушистым. Вот такое "изящество".
 
Thank you both. I agree...The "grace" as you call it, youlik, is for me simply privilege which wants prevalence above all , along with narrative control. It was soon after boasting of its moral values that the West began a fast decay. After the second World War it was obvious bullshit. Now it is being brought down to its knees and experiencing uninhibited mendacity every which way it turns.
 
We continue to move forward slowly.
A new breakthrough point: The Russian Army has released Shumy and is approaching the cutting of the highway to Toretsk.

"Russian troops have occupied Shumy," the DS analytical resource working for GUR reports.

"Shumy near Toretsk were occupied. A new breakout point has appeared. Because of what, you know? Because of some degenerates in the brigade command," other Ukrainian propagandists write.

On June 21, Deputy head of the Rada Security Committee Mariana Bezuglaya reported on the ongoing battles for Shumy, blaming the defeat of the commander of the eastern front, General Sodol and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky.
https://rusvesna.su/news/1719038989

Ukrops does not abandon attempts to destabilize the situation around the ZNPP.
The enemy is attacking Energodar, preparing a new offensive to the Crimea (PHOTO)

The authorities of the Zaporozhye region report a new attack on the Raduga substation in Energodar, the city is partially de-energized.

Senator from the Zaporozhye region D. Rogozin believes that leaving Energodar without electricity is part of the plan of the Ukrainian offensive on the city:

"I'm telling you, they decided to de-energize the entire bridgehead of a possible counteroffensive across the Dnieper to Crimea and force the entire economy in the nuclear city of Energodar to be powered by Ukrainian networks. The idea is incomprehensible only to donkeys," Rogozin wrote.

The other day, the enemy has already struck, after which the Energodar remained without light.

Recently, Russian military publications have often stated that the AFU is preparing a new offensive at the front. There was no confirmation of this from the Ukrainian side.
https://rusvesna.su/news/1718995321

The Frenchman acknowledged what I have already written about. It was not Ukrainian grain that was exported from Ukraine at all. This partly explains the lack of a forceful reaction on the part of Russia to the continuation of grain exports after the end of the "grain deal".
French expert: the United States earned money from the grain deal, not Ukraine, which deceived the whole world
The former head of the French economic intelligence service, Alain Juillet, in an interview with the Club des Vigilants portal, said that Ukraine was deceiving the whole world when it said that Russia would starve the world population by blocking the export of Ukrainian grain from Odessa, as a result of which Kiev would not be able to supply it to other countries and earn on exports, helping itself in a situation of military conflict.

According to him, this was a lie, because Ukrainian grain no longer belonged to Kiev, but to American companies. As the expert noted, the Ukrainian authorities deliberately spread disinformation. After that, Turkey intervened in the situation, which offered to load grain in Odessa and check ships in the Bosphorus for weapons being transported on them. However, even here Kiev failed to make money.

"Inspections on the Bosphorus showed that 5% of all shipped grain was sent to the third world and BRICS countries, and the rest went to Western countries. A great disinformation feint! The problem with [Ukrainian] exports is that it is not Ukraine that earns money from it, but American companies," the expert said.

He also added that Kiev will eventually have to pay for the weapons currently supplied by Western countries.

"The huge problem of Ukraine from the very beginning of this military operation is that you have to pay for weapons. Yes, some of them are supplied free of charge — for example, by France and, to a lesser extent, by Germany. But Americans don't give anything for free. Obviously, Ukraine does not have the means to pay, so loans are being taken, which will have to be paid later," Juillet said.
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Another article from Rostislav Ishchenko. I like this view and I would like everyone to get acquainted with it, despite the fact that the text is addressed to a Russian audience. By the way, I don't remember if I mentioned this before - Rostislav is a native of Kiev, who has been living in Russia only since 2015.
At the same time, I understand that not everyone can agree with this, and some, even here, can recognize themselves, their thoughts in a not very pleasant way.
The truth and its variants
Russian Russians Often hear and read the opinion that "if we could bring the truth to people," then the Ukrainian crisis would have been resolved long ago, and Ukrainians themselves would have been ashamed and become Russians again, enthusiastically engaged in building a Russian world around the world and its immediate surroundings.

If people are more skeptical about the present and the past: most still believe that the drift of Ukrainian society to the West, which determined its Russophobia, was inevitable in those conditions (although there are still some who curse Russia for "giving little money" and "dealing with the wrong people"), — then, with regard to the future, almost every second person is a caring dreamer. For some reason, it seems to people that victory on the battlefield will definitely change the way of thinking of those who for decades dreamed of our catastrophe, hoped to come to Russia not even on an Abrams, but in the baggage train of the occupation army to perform the functions of a supervisor under the occupation administration and teach "backward Muscovites" to be smart, condescending to He looked down from the height of his illumination with the light of Western truth.

They are partly right — the way of thinking will change. But for most, it will not change for the better for us. Anger at us for having won, at our allies, for having "betrayed", and (hidden) anger at ourselves for having made the wrong choice, mixed with a desire for revenge and awareness of our own impotence — this is an explosive mixture of "thoughts" of the defeated "Ukrainian hero -the defender."

I have a wealth of experience. In 1944-1945, we liberated Europe not because we really wanted to pave the way to freedom with our bodies for those who did not really need this freedom, settling perfectly in the shadow of the Reich, gradually aryanizing and riveting the Nazis with weapons to fight us, the same "eastern barbarians" for our neighbors in the West, how they see us to this day. Otherwise, we could not finish off the most dangerous of all the enemies attacking Russia, and leaving the Reich unfinished meant giving it time to gather its strength again and come to war with us in the company of our former allies. In addition, the USSR, just like Russia now, needed a security buffer that would separate it from the aggressive West. It was impossible to create this buffer without entering Europe.

How much the Europeans' views on the world have "changed" after their liberation can be judged on the basis of historical facts. Until the early 50s, the "grateful peoples" expected that, having freed them, fed them, rebuilt their economy, restored destroyed cities and provided a bunch of other free bonuses, the Russians would "take a greatcoat, go home." When it became clear that we had come in earnest and for a long time, the 50s were already marked by uprisings in the GDR and Hungary, in the 60s Czechoslovakia tried to escape to the West, in the 70s and 80s Poland tried more and more persistently to free itself from Soviet custody. This is not counting the actively maneuvering and flirting with the West to the detriment of the interests of the USSR, Yugoslavia and Romania.

In general, of the entire "socialist camp" in Eastern Europe, only Bulgaria and (at the elite level) the late GDR supported the USSR without coercion by force of bayonets (the fate of the East German elites in Germany explained why). At the same time, at the level of the masses themselves, Bulgaria and the GDR, like the rest of "socialist" Eastern Europe, as well as capitalist Finland, which was a Soviet protectorate at the end of World War II, rushed to the West at the first opportunity and began to tell "the city and the world" about the "horrors of the Soviet occupation."

Many of our post-Soviet publicists and historians associated this with the special maliciousness of the USSR, which, they say, the "free peoples" of Eastern Europe could not accept in any way. But this is not true. For its Eastern European allies, the USSR invented a new (gentle) version of the transition to communism — the so-called people's democracy. They escaped all the horrors of collectivization, industrialization and the "cultural revolution", they did not have to starve, die by the millions on the "great construction sites", work in sharashki, etc. They got the result at the expense of Russia without the cost of the process.

Eastern European industry was built or restored by the efforts of the USSR, which itself was recovering in parallel after a terrible war (which only touched the surrendered Eastern European peoples quickly or even preemptively), agrarian reform was carried out "taking into account local conditions", with the preservation of individual peasant farms, which were provided at the expense of the same USSR (and ultimately Russia) They received equipment, fertilizers, guaranteed service from agronomists, etc. In addition, these countries were provided with huge concessional loans (virtually irrevocable financial assistance), a huge Soviet market was opened to them, in which their products were artificially provided with competitive advantages. The products of the socialist "brothers" were purchased at inflated prices, and the Soviet ones were sold to them at low prices.

All the financial and economic problems faced by Eastern European societies in the second half of the twentieth century were caused by the insane economic policies of local authorities, who (especially in Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland) had little Soviet aid and tried to supplement it with Western loans, a priori agreeing to adjust their foreign policy to the needs of the West. All the political crises in post—war Eastern Europe are the struggle of local elite groups.

While the USSR had enough resources, he acted as a stabilizing factor, like a kindergarten teacher calmly and carefully pacifying young hooligans in the sandbox. While Russian resources were flowing to Eastern Europe, this "showcase of storefronts", as well as just the "showcase of socialism" (the Baltic States), was silent and consumed. As soon as the USSR exhausted its capabilities and resources stopped going, the masks were immediately dropped and we learned that we were "occupiers" whom "no one called, no one asked to be released," that we were "eating up" brothers who, without us, "would have turned around in world markets." We have heard all the claims that Russia heard from the Union republics during and after the collapse of the USSR, only to a much larger extent and presented with great Jesuitism.

Having returned to their "historical family of European peoples", having escaped from the "eastern barbarians", our Eastern European "civilized" brothers instantly became impoverished, because they were robbed to the skin by their European "relatives". Over the past three decades, they have been rapidly returning to the same state they were in before their "unsolicited" release.

But do we see dissatisfaction with the choice made in Eastern Europe? Except for Orban in Hungary. And then he is in no hurry to withdraw the country from the EU and NATO, which pose a danger to it, trying only to protect it from a direct clash with Russia. Horthy also tried, the admiral sincerely did not want to fight with Russia and was even the first of Hitler's satellites to start probing the ground for a separate peace. Only this did not help him much — Hitler forced Hungary to fight for the Reich to the end.

The rest cry, prick, but continue to support with perseverance worthy of better use, and many, like Poles and Balts, even initiate the strengthening of Russophobia as the basis of the "eastern policy" of the West. And this is not a problem of the elites — this is the position of the peoples, who even now, in the third year of their independence, when everyone (even in the West) has become clear the inevitability of Ukraine's defeat (and with it the collective West, only for Ukraine it will be a national disaster, and for the West an "intermediate finish"), anyway in the ratio about 40 to 30 percent. (with the rest "undecided") they advocate further "containment of Russia".

If, "ironically," we release them again, they will once again begin to carry flowers to monuments that accidentally survived the bacchanalia of Russophobia, they will gladly begin to use economic preferences in exchange for ritual spells about the "friendship of peoples", but at the same time, deep down, most of them will dream of another Russian catastrophe and the end of the "occupation".

This is their "truth". They think so. Russian Russians thought so before the First World War (as Dostoevsky and some other astute Russian thinkers of that time wrote about), they thought so in 1945, when they expected the Russians to drive the Germans away, restore order and go home. They think the same way now. This is the natural truth of small limitrophic peoples and their states, who are unable to support themselves and therefore have to go to someone's clientele. As soon as the cartridge weakens and, God forbid, gets poorer, the need for survival requires immediately finding a new cartridge.

But a person is so arranged that he cannot admit to himself his inability to ensure the existence of his own family and/or the state, that he is, in fact, a freeloader living at someone else's expense, prostituting his political position. Therefore, in the national consciousness of small nations, the legend of their greatness and universal significance is firmly rooted, that everyone owes them, and they owe nothing to anyone, that if a neighboring rich state does not joyfully accept them for its maintenance or a new state appears somewhere that can give more, then in the soup to the former patron When leaving him, you must definitely spit (because he "did not appreciate"), and then tell at every corner how he mocked you, "forcing" you to consume his products in three throats (because in reserve).

This is their way of life, or rather, this is their survival system and this is its ideological justification. They do not even notice all the vulgarity and meanness of their own lives, being sure that this is exactly what is needed, this is exactly what the "great gray truth" is. This is their "truth", suffered through a thousand-year struggle for existence, which, after all, they won from many disappeared peoples and which they intend to continue to win.

But for all that, they feel their involvement in Western civilization. Moreover, since they themselves are unable to preserve this civilization and are forced (for the sake of survival) to periodically move to another camp, they are especially acutely experiencing such forced transitions. They mentally cannot recognize the truth that, as a limitrophic people, they are forced to impersonate and maneuver, periodically moving to the camp of the "eastern barbarians" they despise for the sake of survival. They have come up with a "truth" for themselves, which is that they are constantly "occupied", and they live by it. The rejection of this "truth" will mean for them the destruction of the national psyche and the death of the nation and the state. That's why they cling to it tenaciously.

In this respect, Ukrainians are no different from other limitrophs, except for one thing — they are a new, fresh limitrophe, who did not have time to get stronger before the ruthless impoverished patron threw him into battle against the "eastern barbarians", whom they were going to defeat together with the patron, and now they understand that they will die. They can't admit that they made the wrong choice. Such recognition cancels Ukrainians, and they have convinced not only themselves, but also their children and even grandchildren that they are a special nation, unlike Russians in any way. The way back is closed.

Those of them who were lucky enough to find themselves in the liberated (and no longer returned to Ukrainian control) territories immediately after the start of their war received psychological compensation due to the fact that their lives improved dramatically compared to the lives of their brethren on the other side of the front line. They are ready to accept and recognize themselves as Russians. And that's not all. Russian special services are working hard to at least block the activities of outspoken saboteurs and saboteurs from the local area in the frontline and in the liberated territories, and how many silent "waiters" there are!

In the regions where the wave of Zelenkov mobilization swept through, which have already lost half a million (or more) killed and will lose no less, their own "truth" began to arise at the very beginning of their own, when well-meaning, considered pro-Russian people shouted that they were "not being released like that", that "they did not call"that "Ukraine has the right to join any NATO and this is not a reason to protect Russia's security on its territory."

Some of these people went to Russia and adjusted their position. Now they are not fighting against their own, but so that after their own they will have at least something left of Ukraine that they could control. Some of them stayed in Ukraine and got angry at Russia, which not only "did not liberate like that", but also "did not liberate", and because of this they are experiencing hardships and hardships. The unit adopted new rules of the game and began to cooperate with the SBU, helping Bandera identify the few accidentally surviving Russian patriots.

But these are "pro-Russian" ones, of which there were very few after 2014. The "pro-Ukrainian" ones are sure that the Russians, out of envy, that now they will have toilets, microwaves and asphalt on some roads, solely out of harmfulness, "invaded" to deprive Ukrainians of "European happiness."

This is their "truth", backed up by hundreds of thousands of graves of relatives and acquaintances, to recognize the senselessness of whose deaths is beyond their strength. And they will carry this "truth" to the next generations. And no amount of stress from defeat will change their views.

My friends and I know (knew) many people who, after their release on the first Maidan, were very shy and said that they did not know what had come over them, but more, they say, never for anything. Then there was the second Maidan, and they were the first to rush there. And now some of them are already lying in the ground, some have evacuated to the EU, but most are on the spot with fear and hatred waiting for the arrival of Russia.

Not because they believe that they will be tortured and shot, and not because they think that the Russians will take all the asphalt from under their windows to Siberia. No, it's just that the arrival of Russia will mean that thirty years ago, choosing their "truth", they made the wrong choice, that, as they were told, they chose a lie (because at that moment lying was more comfortable). Being the heirs of the imperial nation, they behaved not as heirs of glorious paternal and grandfathered victories, but as pathetic limitrophs getting in the way of Sherkhan.

This is very insulting, they will never forgive us for this, and therefore, for their "truth", at least in their thoughts, they will stand like a mountain.

That's why I keep saying that with a reasonable internal cultural and educational policy in the new regions, we can only count on a delayed effect. Those who are born there now will become ours, but rather even their children and grandchildren. The rest can, at best, be neutralized — put in conditions in which they will be afraid not only to openly harm, but even to talk about their dissatisfaction.

In order to avoid another stream of messages that "I am not like that (not like that)" and "why do you all fit the same comb", I explain once again that I never mean everyone without exception: people are different and some are able to seriously change even in adulthood — I write about dominating in a certain society trends. Because the state does not deal with an individual, but with society and focuses on working with large masses and dominant trends.

And with good people who escaped from Nazi captivity or waited for liberation, we can and will be friends on a personal level. This is our truth.

Rostislav Ishchenko,
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Мы продолжаем потихоньку продвигаться вперед.
Укропы не оставляют попыток дестабилизировать ситуацию вокруг ЗАЭС.
Француз признал то о чем я уже писал. Совсем не украинское зерно вывозилось из Украины. Отчасти именно этим объясняется отсутствие силовой реакции со стороны России на продолжение вывоза зерна после окончания "зерновой сделки".
Очередная статья от Ростислава Ищенко. Мне близок такой взгляд и я бы хотел, чтобы все с ним ознакомились, несмотря на то, что текст адресован русской аудитории. Кстати, я не помню упоминал ли я раньше об этом- Ростислав коренной Киевлянин, только с 2015 года проживающий в России. При этом я понимаю, что не все могут с этим согласиться, а некоторые, даже здесь, могут узнать себя, свои мысли в не очень приятном виде.
 
Russia being attacked by terrorist groups

Deadly assaults on synagogue & Orthodox churches in Russia: Live updates
At least six police officers and a priest have been killed in attacks on a synagogue and two Orthodox churches in Dagestan Region, southern Russia
Unknown assailants launched a series of attacks on a synagogue and two Orthodox churches, as well as a traffic police station, in the southern Russian region of Dagestan. The incidents took place in the regional capital, Makhachkala, and the southern city of Derbent.


At least six police officers lost their lives in shootouts with the attackers – one in Derbent and one in Makhachkala, the authorities said. At least 12 officers were injured, including six in an attack on the regional capital’s traffic police station.

The assailants also broke into an Orthodox church in Derbent and killed a local priest. The synagogue in the city, which also came under attack, was allegedly set on fire. Photos and videos of the burning building have surfaced on social media.
  • 23 June 2024
    18:15 GMT
    The perpetrators that launched the attacks in Derbent and Makhachkala are members of an “international terrorist organization,” Russian law enforcement authorities have said, without providing any further details on the suspects’ alleged allegiance.

Ukraine attack civilian population
Car traffic on the Crimean Bridge has been temporarily stopped.

Meanwhile, an air defense system is operating in Sevastopol, Governor Razvozhaev said.

UPD. Traffic on the bridge has resumed.

UPD 2. The air defense system shot down five air targets. 14 people were injured, including two children.
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Two civilians, including a two-year-old child, died after the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Sevastopol, Governor Razvozhaev said.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the civilian infrastructure of Sevastopol with ATACMS missiles with cluster warheads, the Ministry of Defense reports.

Air defense forces shot down four missiles, while another one deviated from its flight path during the reflection and exploded over the city, the department added.
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The death toll during the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on the beach in Sevastopol has risen to three, and the number of injured has reached almost 100, Governor Razvozhaev said.
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The number of victims during the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on the beach in Sevastopol increased to 124, among them 27 children - Ministry of Health.

More than 20 ambulance crews are at the scene. Doctors from other regions were additionally brought in to assist the wounded.

Of the 27 injured children, five are in serious condition, doctors are fighting for their lives, said the Children's Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova.
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During an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the beach in Sevastopol, the nine-year-old daughter of the deputy mayor of Magadan Oleg Averyanov died.

She was on vacation with her parents, Magadan Mayor Yuri Grishan said:

“I express my deepest condolences to Oleg Vladimirovich, his wife, and the girl’s family and friends.”

The number of victims increased to 124, including 27 children. In total, three died.
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Responsibility for the attack on Sevastopol with ATACMS missiles lies primarily with the United States, since its specialists enter flight missions into American missiles - the Ministry of Defense.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces' strike on civilians in Sevastopol will not go unanswered, the department emphasized.

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The death toll as a result of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the beach in Sevastopol has risen to five, including three children, Razvozhaev said.

Five children are in intensive care, the rest of the victims received minor and moderate injuries.

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RT Russian
Not a surprised, US love to attack innocent people, and if there are children the better 😡

One wonders
The American reconnaissance UAV RQ-4B Global Hawk is now flying over the Black Sea near Crimea, according to Flightradar data.

He entered the water area around 09:00, local groups drew attention earlier.
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But as Gaza not much it will happend until something bigger will, I guess.
Maria Zakharova, 23 June

In connection with the terrorist attack of the Kiev regime against civilians in Sevastopol, the UN Secretariat stated literally the following: "As always, we strive to end the war in accordance with the UN Charter and the resolutions of the General Assembly ."


This is more like an admission of your own uselessness than a comment in connection with the tragedy. In principle, you can once say "we are for all the good against all the bad" and ask to use this universal quote for every occasion.

And it would be fine if the UN Secretariat performed its technical functions without getting involved in politics. It's the other way around! For many years now, there has been a total politicisation of all statements and actions in Ukraine to please the West and exclusively in an anti-Russian manner.

Since they have already started playing on the political field, please see the people killed by the Kiev regime from American weapons on the beach and condemn the act of terrorism!
 
I think there is a escalation of tension in the conflicts that we all suspected would occur due to the rush or desperation of the deep state regarding Russia's advancement in its geostrategy and the proximity of the elections in America. Certainly, they also do not know how to do anything more creatively than provoking Russia directly.
 
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