Mamoulian War

It didn’t take to long, and head of the FSB already denied this claim https://t.me/rusbrief/94669

Japan promised help worth 5.5 billion USD to Ukraine. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/20/7390143/

Would not be the first time, when Russia launched their missiles against Kyiv during the day

The follow up of this will be surely interesting.

The sirens seemed theatric, but from the morning Russia was starting all day long Mig-31K s in Belarus, which can hold Kinjal missiles. It would be more surprising to me, to not hear sirens at all during his visit And yes, it was most likely due to 500M and 1 year "anniversary". Oh and Biden is on his way to Poland as well...

Biden in Kyiv.

This one popped up today on my YT recommendations and it was on of the most savage pieces, which describes some shortcomings of RuAF in communication on frontline, I’ve watched this year.

And another giveaway on GOG. Just keep in mind, this one is NSFW https://www.gog.com/game/biing_sex_intrigue_and_scalpels?source=news

Today Tales of Symphonia Remastered arrived in my mailbox I bet I will not be able to play it next few years, before cutting enough through my backlog

No clue AFAIK, this one is remake/reboot of the Alien Breed games from Amiga era, by Team 17. So I do not expect this to have much common with Japanese tentacles

Slovakia has passed in the parliament the resolution to recognize Russia as state sponsor of terrorism.

Still at Tales of Arise. I have defeated Lord Ganabelt - second of Renan leaders, ruler of Cyslodia. He was sleazy **** and his laws were atrocious, and similar to what you had in communist East before 1989, or today’s Russia. Fight was harder than fight with Lord Balseph, and he was able to cast his Mystic Arte twice, which almost obliterated my party. (We are 4 already). But he is gone, and will not “suffocate” Dahnan’s of Cyslodia anymore. Even the sun has risen for the first time in 300 years after the artificial darkness was dispersed along with his defeat Also, yesterday I had my first Ranked Race during Rain in Assetto Corsa Competizione. I would not be able to to finish it, without help from a friend on Discord, who helped me to make some adjustments to setups. Despite that, I failed at qualification, as I struggled to finish a valid lap in rain conditions so I have started from the bottom of the grid The race went much better, as I was slowly able to learn how to control the car, and in the end, I have gained 9 positions during 30 minute long race

Vladislav Surkov, former First Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration, has said that he worked on the Minsk agreements based on the idea that they should not be fulfilled. https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/2023/02/16/963213-surkov-zayavil-rasschitival-vipolnenie-minskih-soglashenii https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/16/7389604/ What a complete “surprise” the Minsk agreement were for Russia just a fluke right from the beginning

Alien Breed Trilogy giveaway next 40 hours or so. https://www.gog.com/en/news/we_love_games_special_alien_breed_trilogy_giveaway

Yes. I presume, these institutes are very well guarded and, if it was deliberate act, and if it was near enough, it still possibly disrupted the operation of the institute. But as Lexx mentioned, how “near” was not specified.

West is thankfully already doing it’s job to solve it. E.g. US has signed 500million deal to manufacture shells for Ukraine. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/15/7389392/

@xzar_monty another “accident” which manages to bring up the questions who? and how?

More news about Vuhledar offensive. 130 Russian vehicles destroyed in one week. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/13/7389085/ and the aftermath of the offensive in Russia. Prigozhin is going full auto on MoD, magnifying the infighting inbetween Russian factions.

Speaking now directly from Slovakia POW. The difference is, that the west funds here think tanks and some non-government bodies. Russia on the other hands funds/bribes politicians directly, or through special Russian foundations. Prime example would be Blaha, who is paid directly from Usmanov's foundations. Usmanov is on the sanction list as a person who funds Russian government. Usmanov also owns in Slovakia a construction company, who was winning during last 12 years significant state deals for building Highways. It is well known "leaked secret" that during these 12 years, the company who wanted to win such a big deals, which included funding by EU, have "paid back" to the people at the top of the governing parties up to 30% "royalties" I bet it is very similar in most of the Eastern EU countries, and I bet something similar might be happening in less corrupt western world as well.

Because they have decided for ages to turn blind eye on rampant corruption in these countries. Paradox is, this helped pro russian and anti EU movements the most. Because surprise surprise, these are the most corrupt and take money from anywhere I know, because I live in one such country, where in the next election, might have neonazi populists in government…

@xzar_monty here is another source. I have absolutely no way how to find out, if this is real or just psyops. We'll see in few weeks for sure...

My bad, I think I should not have used plural. This is all from connection to gulagu.net. Anyway the above statement by Prigozhin were not aired on official Russian media, here is the translation of his interview. Which probably should not be taken seriously.

Little bit of “conspiracy” that Crimean Bridge destruction was part of the Prigozhin’s, Kadyrov’ and Surovikin’s plan, to usurp the power in Russia. By Russian investigative newspaper gulagu.net. Reports say, that the name Prigozhin is now banned to say in official Russian media. And it is most likely, that he will be sipping tea very close to open window in the near future

It looks like, the renewed offensive around the Avdiivka this week, the most fortified defense line in Ukraine, had even worse outcome, than in Vuhledar. They have lost more iron and bodies in that direction. There are rumours in Russian sources, that RU lost since 24.2.22 three brigades worth of equipment and manpower at this single site of the front. On the other hand, they are much more successful N of Bakhmut. They finally captured Krasna Hora, due to coordinated retreat of AFU units to avoid encirclement.

Lord Balseph is down, Iron Mask has finally remembered his name again