Mamoulian War

Got kill or got killed?

And now Russia is funding neonazis in Eastern Europe

The best news from this war so far. https://t.me/suspilnedonbas/4363 "Rescue operation continues in Mariupol', about 2000 vehicles left before 2pm, 2000 more awaiting to leave towards Manhush -Beryansk-Tokmak-Zaporizhiye." Hope these Ukrainian civilians will get out of that hellhole safe, and their army will bring up many more losses to Russian armies there... EDIT: Unfortunatelly there are also more worrysome news from Mariupol

I've heard the rumours as well, but this looks to me kind of over the top. But you really do not know. Yesterday also looked very heavy fighting at a lot of places around all of Ukraine. The Kharkiv situation is from what I read very interesting, because Ukraine are doing their best to disrupt Russian operations. There is definitely a big material and human loses on Russian side near Kharkiv, but the exact losses on Ukraine side around that region and Mariupol is unclear as well. Zelenskyi confirmed 1300 fallen Ukrainian soldiers so far. CIA estimates on Russia are about 4500 and other USA agencies up to 6000. Ukraine is telling more than 12000, and Russia still around 500. What gives me hope is that Ukrainian soldiers on the front on some of their in-action videos are telling, that they are lucky that the Russians are complete goofs. So easier for them to survive their mutual clashes.

The China involvement in all of this will be indeed crucial for the future of politics. At least for now, China is not willing to put their economy on risk with supporting with sanctions affected russian business

Russia got their ass kicked pretty big again in Mariupol yesterday. "Operational information from the General Staff: In the Mariupol direction, the enemy is trying to capture Mariupol. Ukrainian soldiers successfully repulsed the attacks of the invaders. The total losses of the enemy were about 150 people, 2 tanks, 7 infantry fighting vehicles and one armored personnel carrier. After the losses, the occupiers stopped the offensive and retreated." https://t.me/lumsrc/1455 There have been released also a lot of videos about this failed offensive.

It would not help them. It would make them lose even faster. Putin and Lavrov have said many times in interviews, that for them Ukrainian nation does not exist. Without training and weapons from EU, they would destroy Ukraine sooner or later. NATO membership is just a scapegoat to recreate "soviet empire". It's the same with Belarus, just Lukashenko is to big of a **** and now a Russian bitch.

If this is true, Russia and China would never admit it. It would make Putin's "most fearsome" army to laughing stock for everyone, because the losses must be tremendous if they really need help from China.

In other news, Slovak National Criminal Agency arrested three people who were taking bribes over the last few years directly from Russian Embassy. One of the was in our Secret Service, which is pretty ****ty, one of them is a colonel in our army, which is less ****ty but still ****ty, and one of the owners of "alternate media" Hlavne Spravy, which was spewing pro-russian and anti-vaxxer propaganda since 2014. This media was shut down and cut off from internet few days after Russian invasion. One of the arrested people already confessed taking bribes, and pointed to russian diplomats, which will be expelled. @Gorth The very same reason, why many people in the east europe support cutting off these "alternate media" from the internet. It has nothing to do with free speech, if the main goal of these media is spreading narrative to step up unrest amongst the populace and praise the parties (most of them neonazi), which leaders are on the russian paycheck.

Russia is increasingly pulling forces from its international deployments to reinforce operations in Ukraine, though these deployments are unlikely to shift the balance of forces in the coming week. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on March 13 that 800 personnel from Russia’s 102nd Base in Armenia deployed to an unknown location in Russia on March 9-10 in preparation to deploy to Ukraine. They also reported that Russia is recalling elements of its peacekeeping deployment in Nagorno-Karabakh to replenish losses in Ukraine. Russia will likely draw further forces from its international deployments in Armenia, Tajikistan, and Syria to replace losses in Ukraine. The Ukrainian General Staff separately reported that Russia plans to deploy 1,500 troops from Russia’s 40th Naval Infantry Brigade (of the Pacific Fleet) to Belarus via rail at an unspecified time. Ukrainian intelligence provided further details on Russia’s initiative to deploy existing pro-Assad units to Ukraine and recruit additional Syrian and Libyan mercenaries on March 13. Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported that Russia is recruiting mercenaries from Syria and Libya and will pay them around $300-$600 monthly. Russia reportedly opened 14 recruitment centers in Syria and will transport mercenaries to the Chkalovsky airbase in Moscow Oblast after they receive training. The GUR reported that Russia has already gathered “thousands” of Syrian troops, mainly those specialized in heavy artillery and sniper weapons, from the National Defense Forces and 5th Corps—two Russian-backed pro-Assad units. Russia can likely redeploy its established Syrian proxy forces in the National Defense Militia and 5th Corps on relatively short notice, dependent on its airlift capacity. However, even hurriedly trained Syrian and Libyan mercenaries will likely take weeks or months to deploy to Ukraine and will likely be of lower quality than the already poor Russian forces in Ukraine. Russia is unlikely to successfully mobilize the reinforcements and replacements necessary to favorably change the balance of forces around Kyiv in the next week but may successfully generate a longer-term pool of low-quality replacements. The Kremlin may be seeking to take direct control of Belarusian units to deploy them in Ukraine but faces Belarusian resistance. Independent Ukrainian media reported on March 13 that Russian commanders are taking control of Belarusian units to suppress Belarusian soldiers’ efforts to resist going to war in Ukraine and reported “riots” in some Brest-based units. ISW cannot independently confirm these reports through other sources at this time; if confirmed, the reports support ISW’s previous assessment that the Kremlin seeks to bring Belarus into the war but faces resistance from both Belarusian soldiers and Belarusian President Lukashenko. The Ukrainian General Staff additionally reported that Russian forces established a base for repairing and restoring military equipment in Kulichikha, Belarus, (17 km from the border) on March 13. excerpts from latest ISW report

Russia asked China for military help (weapons). https://www.ft.com/content/30850470-8c8c-4b53-aa39-01497064a7b7 Seems, like even the most pessimistic projections on how Russia sucks at this "special operation", were to optimistic...

that's why I did write the UNIAN disclaimer

Well, the fact is, that the situation in the last few years is about shift of power between USA, China, EU, Russia, India. And everyone wants a piece of the pie. The UA situation will be definitely a big shift in the world order, depending on who wins. IMHO if the west in the coming weeks breaks and politicians start to ask about the end of Russia sanctions, the next war will be in Taiwan and Moldova/Georgia.

I've heard about the Australia cracking at the journalists and YT. And that is wrong. RT is currently doing propaganda for country, which in war with our ally and eastern neighbour. IMHO allowing them to continue to air in the current situation, would be on par, to allowing to air German propaganda during WW2 in France or UK. That is simply bull****. Again, keep in mind, that we are currently in war albeit everyone is trying to act that we are not. The fact is we are now officially on the official Russian list of enemy countries. In this case removing all access to Russian propaganda is required, to fight against possible hybrid attacks against the stability of our country. In any other circumstance, I would mostly agree to you. But not on the brink of WW3...

Report in slovak media. https://dennikn.sk/minuta/2765142/?ref=pop&rtm_source=web&rtm_medium=article&rtm_campaign=share_button&rtm_variant=copy_url&rtm_content=b6506854-8b4e-4234-9075-2dbb89ce817f Googletranslated for you: "According to Ukrainian intelligence, Chechen Kadyrov troops shot dead 12 wounded Russian soldiers. This was to happen in Borodianka near Kiev. The Unian agency informed about it. She had previously reported that the secret services claimed that the Russian military command had resumed the practice of "execution squads" that followed the main forces and liquidated those who wanted to desert." Keep in mind, the original report was published by UNIAN.

There, fixed it for you. I wish you could spend a week reading all the russian troll farm **** spewed everyday in the eastern europe, where these "outlets" killed few thousand people with false medical information... Maybe it would recalibrate your view on free speech as well... Free Speech is about being free to tell anything I want, without being prosecuted for it. Not about being free to spread lies, which are causing real harm to gullible people... If you want to air TV, radio or publish newspaper, you have to have a license, which can be void, if you break the laws of the country, where you are reporting. Nothing like that exists on the internet and mafia and russia is using that against east european countries to destabilize them... We are in hybrid war with since 2014, and before 2020, no one was willing to change anything, because former government was paid by mafia and russia. The ties to our previous government lead to n'drangheta as well and these people killed here one journalist and his soon-to-be-wife in 2018, who tried to uncover all this ****... So sorry but your free speech tantrum falls on deaf ears. Unless you are willing to admit, that all of the "news" published anywhere, needs to comply with local publishing laws... In that case, we can agree...

I am wondering, who invited Putin to Russia in his last speech? Hmm, Looks like Syrian militants to me. And I am also wondering who is the leader of Wagner Group, which got decorated by Putin himself in 2016 in Kremlin? Hmm, looks like Dmitry Utkin, who openly admires nazism

Tanks are pretty slow to outrun it, aren't they? And NLAW should have some kind of auto targeting system. Correct me if I am wrong.

I know, especially the guy with NLAW should have been at least 1km away from the target

Unfortunately it looks like the second tank just before it was destroyed killed the UA soldier, which hit him

The most interesting thing is, that it happened on the same road as this, 3.6 km to the north. Location of the incidents https://www.google.com/maps/dir/50.6151824,30.8615284/50.5858148,30.8387238/@50.6000449,30.8322509,5846m/am=t/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e0!5m1!1e4

It would be justified, if US would invade Saudi Arabia, as Bin Laden was heavily funded by their government

11th commander and 3rd general in 15 days.