Kiev Is Burning

[bojan]

IIRC something like 70-75% of Ukrainian casualties are still from artillery and aircraft launched weapons.

[Roman Alymov]

5 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

I dont believe I said any such thing. I said they say a lot of things, and some are even true. Some might become true, some are becoming true, some will never become true.

     As for me, non-native English speaker, it is scholasticism. But i am not going to debate your media with you -after all. they are your problem, not mine.

5 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Criticise it all you like, at least its not the word according to the Tsar, which is frankly all you have these days.

  The fundamental thing you do not understand is there is no such thing as "word according to the Tsar" - since "Tsar" both personally and collectively have too many opinions expressed at the same time (often contradicting each other) and idiots in our propaganda are trying to guess which of this contradicting opinions to support and promote, to sumultaniously "please the leadership" and keep at least some audience. For example, just yesterday one of Soloviev's gang journalists claimed it was smart plan by Putin and Co to lure pro-Ukrainians into Kursk region to destroy them. No surprise it was immediately followed by outcry of anger across almost entire political spectrum (even from "guardians") as claiming it was deliberate decision to cause thousands of civilian death, injuries, rapes and abductions, noit to mention ~100K refugees and significant material damage, is obviously crazy.

[Roman Alymov]

Fresh analysys in a letter from Strelkov

"Dear Frol Sergeevich!

Thank you for the monthly summary from 27.10! – In my opinion, it turned out well, a convenient format - I am interested in receiving further.

In general, I agree with the final thesis that "in the current format of SVO neither Ukraine nor Russia are able to win a decisive victory ("Ukraine" – due to lack of resources, Russia - due to fears of the authorities not to keep the situation in case of mobilization)." This is followed by the Kremlin's pathetic and miserable-looking (when observed "from the outside") attempts to "persuade partners to compromise." It seems that the elders have already forgotten (due to developing dementia) the very foundations of political psychology, which say that a public demonstration of weakness in confrontation is a sure path to shame and defeat. Even the notorious "compromise" would be easier and faster to achieve by rigidly demonstrating a willingness to "fight to the bitter end", rather than hinting to "partners" every 2 weeks that, they say, "we don't mind making peace."

It is characteristic that very insignificant (on a strategic scale) successes in the Donbas (for Ukrainians — a "secondary front" from the very beginning of the war) tend to be given out by propaganda as a "collapse of the front" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The defeat of several "secondary" territorial defense brigades (which were stubbornly not reinforced with reserves) is issued as signs of the imminent "collapse" of the entire enemy front line. At the same time, propaganda stubbornly ignores the very unpleasant (and very disturbing) facts that in areas that are really "vulnarable" for the enemy, where his professional units operate — in Kharkov (Volchansk, Kupyansk), Kursk (Sudzha), the fighting is extremely stubborn and the front, in fact, "froze" or close to it. Meanwhile, attacks on deep and deepest rear areas (including strategically important facilities) are intensifying week by week. And they are causing more and more tangible damage.

It is clear from the reports that the enemy has and saves reserves. Therefore, it is simply stupid to talk about the "imminent collapse" of his front due to the loss of several cities and towns in the Donetsk republics. The enemy has been holding the district center on the territory of the "old regions" for 3 months and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can do nothing about it! – So why should we expect that the Kiev bastards controlled from across the seas will suddenly abruptly agree to a truce on favorable terms for Moscow? The front continues to remain stable overall and devours Russian lives and resources regularly and in huge quantities. If the "scales" swing significantly in favor of Moscow, the enemy will find the resources to "level it out". First of all, due to technological superiority and its build-up, but other "moves" are possible - the "battle of attrition" will continue until the APU is completely defeated and disintegrates.
That's how I see it.

Sincerely (signed) I.V. Girkin
30.10.2024
Kirovo-Chepetsk, IK-5"

[Roman Alymov]

And one more opinion (from   https://t.me/vault8pro/51774)

"As for the fighting in the Kursk region, there is no conspiracy theory, but there is a much more specific military situation.

— Stage one. The AFU had reserves in the form of several brigades. In front of the Office of the President and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there was a choice where to spend it: strengthen several areas where our troops are advancing (slowly and with heavy losses) or strike where it is thin? From a military point of view, it is more profitable to strike where there are fewer forces. Plus, they added a media effect and a desire to shock our society with nuclear blackmail after the seizure of the Kursk nuclear power plant. 

— Stage two. Our team missed the pitch due to self-confidence in the General Staff, where all attention is focused on the development of the offensive in the Donbas. Separate battalions and smaller units had to be hastily transferred, and a defensive grouping was assembled from all this. It took a month or so. The Ukrov has been stopped and is now being slowly pressed. 

— The current stage. Our troops in the Kursk region are increasing their impact on the enemy, and the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is stuffing their Kursk salient with troops in order to hold it as long as possible, as was the case with Bakhmut/Artemovsky. Just look at the foreign maps where the military units located in this region are signed. The entire ledge is filled with yellow and blue flags of brigades, individual battalions and smaller units. Therefore, the fighting there is slow, but there is success (as usual, at a considerable cost).

At the same time, the continuation of attacks in Donbas and in other regions also brought a positive effect for our side in the territories. But then another problem came to the fore — the losses are very high, <Russian command> apparently do not want to take an operational pause to make up for them at the very top, in the General Staff. Therefore, now everyone is being thrown into battle, including "superfluous" UAV operators, drivers, staff and signalers. This is an extreme degree of exhaustion that new contractors will not be able to fill in a short time. 

This approach shows the extreme adventurism of our politicians and commanders, since both we and the Ukrainians in the Donbas are dropping down very, very quickly. Ukrainians are faster, but this is not an endless process — the moment of complete exhaustion will come. And then the success achieved will need to be consolidated by someone. And by whom?"

[Roman Alymov]

And news about "good Russians"(c)

"The widow of the Russian traitor Ildar Dadin, who fought for Ukraine, who died in early October, says that he could have been killed by colleagues from the Freedom of Russia Legion because of the conflict.

Alexandra Svechnikova, a citizen of Ukraine living in Kiev, Dadin's widow, wrote on social networks that she could not get the legion to give her husband's body to her. She was told that Dadin allegedly did not specify her as the contact person to be notified of the death and transfer the body, and therefore they would bury him "according to their rules" - cremate him.

Svechnikova says that copies of the marriage documents were in the LSR.

The cremation was carried out a week after this correspondence, without notifying the spouse of the date. She couldn't come to say goodbye and see the body.

"Ildar told me that he had conflicts with the command of the legion due to the fact that as a result of their PR actions (for example, in Tetkino) his brothers died senselessly. He also added that because of these conflicts, he is already afraid of a bullet in the back. On October 26, an article was published in one of the media outlets, where my husband's brothers-in-law confirmed that my husband had conflicts. Versions of how my husband died were constantly changing: either as a result of shelling, or as a result of a drone attack, and a few days ago the legion officially announced that Ildar died as a result of automatic fire. And now they have cremated his body and buried his ashes, and I am beginning to doubt more and more that Ildar died at the hands of the invaders, and did not get a bullet in the back," Alexandra writes.

She says the Ukrainian authorities do not respond to her requests in any way.

Everything is logical. Traitors are not loved anywhere and their fate is always the same.... They probably also disassembled the organs..." ( https://t.me/boris_rozhin/142930 )

[NickM]

I am currently listening to the audio book of Guy Sajer's "Forgotten Soldier".

It's strange to hear the book to talk about the battles taking place, in the same places that are in the news now.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Christmas comes early.

https://x.com/Oksii33/status/1852306487349260690?t=76pAsYXORLGQnZjPDvKvrA&s=19

[Stuart Galbraith]

Just something to remember here. This is not job done.

https://x.com/Oksii33/status/1851950295468691954?t=ulH2M4E695l5NOcLqMvzmQ&s=19

[R011]

2 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Just something to remember here. This is not job done.

https://x.com/Oksii33/status/1851950295468691954?t=ulH2M4E695l5NOcLqMvzmQ&s=19

"Fuск you Western politicians, I hate you"

As do most of us in the West.

 

[Yama]

4 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Christmas comes early.

https://x.com/Oksii33/status/1852306487349260690?t=76pAsYXORLGQnZjPDvKvrA&s=19

Would seem unlikely opposing positions are mere 200 metres from each other, though I suppose in some urban environment it could happen.

[Stuart Galbraith]

11 hours ago, R011 said:

"Fuск you Western politicians, I hate you"

As do most of us in the West.

 

Yeah, that about sums it up for me...

[Stuart Galbraith]

9 hours ago, Yama said:

Would seem unlikely opposing positions are mere 200 metres from each other, though I suppose in some urban environment it could happen.

Amazon delivery drivers eh?

 

[Mike1158]

12 hours ago, R011 said:

"Fuск you Western politicians, I hate you"

As do most of us in the West.

 

As Stuart said, sums it up pretty succinctly.

[MiGG0]

Western media start to write more about severe shortage of troops for UKR (there are troops left for 6-12 months according to NYT article)

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/us/politics/russia-ukraine-war.html

Edited November 2, 2024 by MiGG0

[seahawk]

13 hours ago, R011 said:

"Fuск you Western politicians, I hate you"

As do most of us in the West.

 

Just a question. How do Russians commit a genocide on Russians?

[Stuart Galbraith]

2 minutes ago, seahawk said:

Just a question. How do Russians commit a genocide on Russians?

Ask Stalin.

[Stefan Kotsch]

3 hours ago, seahawk said:

Just a question. How do Russians commit a genocide on Russians?

Read for yourself. We can discuss whether it was a genocide after reading it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

For me as an East German, that was quite difficult to digest.

Edited November 2, 2024 by Stefan Kotsch

[seahawk]

Genocide: "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

[Stefan Kotsch]

12 minutes ago, Stefan Kotsch said:

We can discuss whether it was a genocide after reading it.

...

[Stuart Galbraith]

22 minutes ago, seahawk said:

Genocide: "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

Ask Stalin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_deportation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[Roman Alymov]

On 10/27/2024 at 7:55 PM, Roman Alymov said:

Strange report by pro-Russians: they claim successful evacuation of an agent, US citizen, who was for 2+ years transferring data about UkrArmy locations, and who have playedf key role in quick liberation of Bogoyavlenka settlement (North of Ugledar) 

https://t.me/TRO_DPR/15148

Seems like if true, there was a Russian mole among US volunteers in Ukraine 

More on this story

"Russian security forces have taken US citizen Daniel Martindale, who was helping Russian forces, out of territory under Ukraine’s control, security agencies told Sputnik.
US citizen Martindale, who helped Russian forces plan strikes against Ukrainian forces, is in Moscow and gives his first press conference at Rossiya Segodnya news agency.
“On October 27, 2024, Russian servicemen performing combat missions near the village of Bogoyavlenka took out of the combat zone and delivered to Donetsk a US citizen Daniel Martindale,” the agency's interlocutor said.

The American, who passed valuable information to the Russian military, has been in Ukraine since February 11, 2022, security agencies told Sputnik.
Martindale stated that he is in Moscow voluntarily and showed documents, adding that he initially came to Ukraine from Poland, where he was a missionary, and wanted to get to Donetsk.

He also added that his US passport helped him get through Kiev and Kramatorsk and tanked Russian security services for coordinating the operation of his evacuation and those soldiers who crossed the front lines to evacuate him.

The Kiev Authorities Should Be Tried Like German War Criminals
Martindale stated that the Kiev regime is responsible for kidnapping and should be completely disarmed, while noting that Kiev is responsible for the death, murder, torture, kidnapping of hundreds of thousands of people.
He further noticed that the Kiev authorities should be tried like German war criminals and called for organizing a tribunal against them.

Martindale revealed that Washington is fighting in Ukraine against the whole world and its citizens and many Ukrainians are waiting for liberation by the Russian Army, but they have to hide it.
UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT IS ‘RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHS, MURDERS, TORTURE, FOR KIDNAPPING OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE’

There is no other option but to completely disarm the Kiev regime, says Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who aided Russian forces with intel gathering in the… https://t.co/5Q41OcBB3f pic.twitter.com/QSYpPrR5wQ

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) November 2, 2024
He further indicated that Ukrainians suffer from constant betrayal and have to fight for themselves and their safety, since the Kiev regime does not care about the Ukrainian population while Ukrainian soldiers are being sent to certain death
He also added that Ukrainians were worried about split in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

How Martindale Helped Russian Forces
The DPR defense headquarters reported in late October that the American played a key role in preparing the assault on the village of Bogoyavlenka in the Ugledar area. It was reported that the issue of granting him political asylum and his accession to Russian citizenship was being resolved.
❗️US CITIZEN HELPED ‘PRESERVE THE LIVES OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AND FUTURE RUSSIAN CITIZENS IN UKRAINE’

“For the last two years I've been involved in doing everything I can to preserve the lives of Russian soldiers and future Russian citizens in Ukraine,” says Daniel Martindale, a… https://t.co/argXBid4jy pic.twitter.com/5p3u67E2Ql

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) November 2, 2024
“At the same time, having proactively established contact with Russian security forces, he for two years reported the coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities,” indicated the security forces. The information received from Martindale was repeatedly used to inflict fire damage on the infrastructure, equipment, personnel of the Ukrainian forces, the law enforcers emphasized.

Martindale said he had been in contact with the Russian side via Telegram messenger, after the Russian forces “threw” him a cell phone via a drone.
Martindale's Family in US
Martindale said he doesn’t want to return to the US and considers Washington his enemy.
⚡️US GOV’T IS MY ENEMY - MARTINDALE WHO AIDED RUSSIA IN DONBASS ON WHY HE REJECTS US RETURN

US citizen Daniel Martindale asserted his reluctance to go back to the US during a press conference with the Russian media.

“I definitely don't want to be in the United States. I… https://t.co/4CnNUpjXf0 pic.twitter.com/r8AO92Yh5P

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) November 2, 2024
He also stated that a couple of days ago he talked to his relatives and they support him, adding that "if anything does happen to me or my family in the near future, it's not because of any natural causes. It's because the American government probably is very interested at this point in putting pressure on me to reverse my position, to get me to come back to the United States and say that I did everything wrong."

"I think they [his family] are jealous that they didn't have the opportunity to do the same themselves," Martindale said in relation to his going to Donbass.
What Martindale Thinks of His Future
Martindale said he would like to go into farming and have a family in Russia.
“When the war is over and peace is restored, I would like to go back to farming. I would like to start a family in Russia. Perhaps to get involved in the production of farming household equipment for the Russian market, for the international market,” he said at a press conference in the press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group." ( US Citizen Who Helped Russian Military Plan Attacks on Ukraine Forces Gives First Press Conference )

[Roman Alymov]

Documentary about the work of RusArmy recovery groups who are collecting dead from the "dead zone" https://t.me/VoenCanal/5571

[urbanoid]

Russian 'peace proposals' from March 2022.

'Ooga booga neoconservative warmonger Boris Johnson told to REJECT PEACE'

 

https://x.com/vtchakarova/status/1853457955095527498

 

Quote

Russia’s initial demands have been revealed by Meduza. Russia presented the initial proposal, containing a list of conditions for a ceasefire and peace agreement, to Ukraine’s delegation during the countries’ third round of talks in Belarus on March 7, 2022.

The Ukrainian army must be reduced to a minimum: 50,000 people, including 1,500 officers (five times smaller than Ukraine’s existing army in 2022).

Ukraine must not “develop, produce, invent, or deploy on its territory any missile weapons of any type with a range greater than 250 kilometers.” Russia also reserves the right to ban Ukraine from using “any other types of weapons that may be developed as a result of scientific research” in the future.

Ukraine must “recognize the independence” of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics,” including all of the territory within the borders of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions (despite the fact that Russia controlled only part of these territories, as is still the case today). Kherson and Zaporizhia oblast weren't under Russian control at that time.

Ukraine must assume the costs of repairing all of the infrastructure in Donbas that had been destroyed since 2014. Ukraine and its partners must lift all sanctions against Russia and withdraw all lawsuits filed against Russia since 2014.

Ukraine must make Russian an official state language and restore all of the property rights of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Ukraine must “repeal of and permanently ban any prohibitions of symbols associated with victory over Nazism”; in other words, it must re-legalize Soviet and communist symbols.

The only things Russia offered Ukraine in this initial proposal were a “ceasefire regime” and “measures to halt combat operations.” There was no mention of any withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory; Russia only committed to not occupying territory beyond what it already controlled. #Velsig #geopolitics

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/11/04/journalists-obtain-russia-s-initial-proposals-from-march-2022-negotiations-revealing-putin-s-plans-for-post-war-ukraine

Edited November 4, 2024 by urbanoid

[Josh]

Given the relative success of the Russian advance at the time, that makes sense. I do not think Russia’s position has softened since. Basically accept being a proxy Russian state we can invade at the drop of a hat, and pick up the tab for everything we destroyed for a decade. We can add onto that random imprisonments, disappearances, and outright murder of anyone pro Ukrainian in any Russian occupied space.

 

The choice for Ukraine was always Bucha or Bakmat. Choose your pain.

Edited November 4, 2024 by Josh

[urbanoid]

Their asses have just been handed to them in Hostomel and the northern group was fleeing back to Belarus.