Kiev Is Burning

[Roman Alymov]

Pro-Russians ride captured Swidish Pbv 302 IFV

https://t.me/milinfolive/146911

RusMarines with "barned" Bradley IFV and other captured armament   https://t.me/milinfolive/146912

[Roman Alymov]

Compilation of mobilization videos (including progressive method of using holding future M1 Abrams driver at gunpoint instead of grabing and dragging him ) https://t.me/boris_rozhin/162585

[Roman Alymov]

FPV drone vs. bridge with pre-positioned explosives, reportedly over Psel river 

https://t.me/rusich_army/22919

[Stefan Kotsch]

A remarkable photo. I'm curious to see what came out of it. My guess is this. Russia believes it has won the war and loses peace a second time. And once again, it is his own fault.

 

[Roman Alymov]

17 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Another car bomb is alleged to kill an important target.

 

"Igor Strelkov on the causes of the Ukrainian terrorist attacks in Russia

The recent acts of sabotage and terrorism committed in Russia demonstrate only one thing — you cannot fight by halves. I've been talking about this for probably 11 years now, and I've been repeating it especially often since 2022, when the special military operation began. You can't fight by halves. 

The enemy is fighting against us with all his might, even if he is weaker theoretically, even if he is smaller in numbers, even if he has a weaker economy (although now with the help of Europe, this cannot be said, rather, we are talking about superiority). But he's fighting, he's really fighting, he's fighting as best he can, he's fighting with all his might. 

We're not even fighting by half, but by a quarter. If we do not give up on this, the losses we will incur will increase every day. Losses in all respects: at the front, in the rear, in the economy, in ideology, and in everything. And this will continue until we are defeated.  

The moment has come when we must once again decide for ourselves whether we are fighting or surrendering. There will be no compromise. The war will continue."

( https://t.me/i_strelkov_2023/1508 )

   Russian public reaction is comments on the news, predictably, focused on weakness and pro-Western position of "Collective Putin" and their attempts to ignore the war

https://t.me/milinfolive/146938

https://t.me/milinfolive/146938

 

https://t.me/historiographe/19893

[Roman Alymov]

In his recent official report to President Putin on "Liberation of Kursk region"*,  Head of Gen Staff Gerasimov have officially acknowleged the presence and role of North Korean units https://t.me/boris_rozhin/162599

 * Despite of the report, pro-Russians TG channels insists there are still active pro-Ukr units in Kursk region, outside of populated areas https://t.me/infomil_live/17287

https://t.me/Alekhin_Telega/13697

Edited April 26, 2025 by Roman Alymov

[Roman Alymov]

About NKoreans from well-known "guardian" war reporter 

"How Koreans helped us liberate the Kursk region

Up to this point, Russia has not confirmed or denied the presence of North Korean troops on the front line. In general, we are not obliged to inform anyone. This is a matter of bilateral relations and agreements. Meanwhile, Korean units gradually began to arrive in Russia during the Kursk epic.

At first, they were trained at training grounds, got acquainted with modern combat tactics, mastered drone control skills, and got acquainted with field realities. Then the "combat buryats," as our military called them jokingly and for conspiracy, were transferred to the Kursk region. They lived in the field so as not to "shine." First, they held the third line, then the second, then they were tested on the fortifiing captured positions and, finally, in the assaults.

Korean soldiers distinguished themselves by their dedication, discipline, fatal disregard for death, and remarkable endurance. This is understandable — they are mostly young guys, strong, athletic and well-trained in their homeland. Especially their Special Operations Forces units. The Allies made a great contribution to the liberation of the Korenevsky district, and in the battles of Staraya and Novaya Sorochiny, and in the breakthrough to Kurilovka.… They had a strict rule not to be captured alive. And don't give up voluntarily.

By the way, what did the enemy try to persuade them to by scattering imitations of North Korean banknotes (pictured), on which the text was written in hieroglyphs: "Surrender! Kim Jong-un drove you to death and starved your families to death. Put a yellow flag in front of you, raise your hands and shout loudly "Freedom!" Slowly go towards the Ukrainian soldiers and fulfill their demands."

Not a single Korean soldier has violated either his oath or his allied obligations. It was important for Pyongyang to gain experience in modern warfare, study the tactics and technologies of a potential enemy (the "collective West") and acquire knowledge that was unavailable due to the sanctions regime. And these tasks have been completed. But the Koreans also made a significant contribution to the defeat of the Ukrainian group on our land within the framework of a comprehensive bilateral agreement.

Their arrival allowed us not to weaken the pressure on other sectors of the front, to continue the offensive in Donbass and inflict huge damage on the invasion force, which consisted of 95 (!) battalions."

https://t.me/sashakots/53332

   As far as i was told, Nord Koreans demonstrated remarkable dedication to training process even before going to battle. 

[Roman Alymov]

The story i believed was fake now sort of confirmed

CIA official's son killed while fighting in Ukraine, spy agency says

April 26, 2025, 2:44 AM GMT+3
By Dan De Luce
The son of a senior Central Intelligence Agency official died last year “while fighting in the conflict in Ukraine,” a CIA spokesperson said Friday.

The spokesperson confirmed the death of Michael Gloss — who is the son of Juliane Gallina, the CIA’s deputy director for digital innovation — after a Russian news site reported that the 21-year-old American had signed up to serve with Russia’s forces.

The CIA spokesperson said Gallina and her family “suffered an unimaginable personal tragedy in the spring of 2024 when her son Michael Gloss, who struggled with mental health issues, died while fighting in the conflict in Ukraine.”

But the statement did not say which side Gloss was fighting for at the time.

“CIA considers Michael’s passing to be a private family matter for the Gloss family — not a national security issue,” the spokesperson said. “The entire CIA family is heartbroken for their loss.”

“Juliane and her husband shared that ‘we adored our son and grieve his loss every moment. We appreciate privacy at this difficult time.’” the spokesperson added.

In social media posts last year, Michael Gloss shared a photo of himself smiling in Moscow’s Red Square and expressed sympathy for Russia’s war effort against what he called “the Ukraine Proxy war.”

He wrote that news coverage of the war, which he called “western propaganda,” was concealing the reality of a conflict in which an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian military was no match for Russian troops.

On his page on the Russian social media site VKontakte, the backdrop to Gloss’ photo in Red Square shows Soviet-era war propaganda.

The Russian news site Important Stories was first to report on Gloss’ death. Citing Russian government information and Gloss’ social media posts, it documented his extensive overseas travels, which culminated in him joining the Russian army.

Michael Gloss selfie.
Michael Gloss.Michael Gloss / via Facebook
According to an obituary published by the family last year, Gloss died “while traveling in Eastern Europe,” but made no mention of Russia or the war in Ukraine.

It added that he lived a “brief, but fiercely beautiful life until he was taken from us during his travels overseas.”

“Michael should be remembered for his noble heart, and warrior spirit,” the obituary said.

Reached Friday, Michael Gloss’ maternal grandmother, Marie Cook, declined to confirm details of her grandson’s death and instead referred questions to her daughter, Gallina.

“My daughter and son-in-law are the best parents I have ever seen in my life,” Cook said. “This is a tragedy.”

Gallina was appointed last year to her current position at the CIA and has held senior roles overseeing technology and cybersecurity. She also worked as an executive at IBM and began her career as a Navy cryptologic officer, retiring from the Navy Reserves in 2013. At the U.S. Naval Academy, Gallina made history as the first woman to lead the brigade of midshipmen.

In an interview with NBC News last year, Gallina discussed the threats posed by China and Russia to America’s cybersecurity.

Gloss’ father, Larry Gloss, is a Navy veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm and works in cybersecurity in the private sector.

Michael Gloss attended Oakton High School in the northern Virginia suburb of Vienna, where he played football and lacrosse, according to social media. He later attended the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he studied human ecology, according to his obituary.

The obituary said that “Michael grew to be physically strong and tall, thoughtful and principled, and from an early age he used these strengths to protect and guard against injustice of all forms — whether it was on the playground, on the field or in politics.”

The obituary offers suggestions for causes to donate to that Michael Gloss embraced, including charities devoted to helping refugees and protecting the environment. And it also suggested a charity “we hope will help others,” the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

According to the data Lenta.ru Gloss was assigned to the 137th Airborne Troops Regiment and fell in April 2024 during an assault in the Donetsk People's Republic near Razdolovka and Veseloye.

   By the way i wonder where is the photo of " photo in Red Square shows Soviet-era war propaganda" as photo from Red Square is quite regular

   while the photo with WWII memorial is from Volgograd (actually, the wall with soldier in helmet depicted on it is one of the walls of famous Pavlov's House - Wikipedia )

reverse side

Edited April 26, 2025 by Roman Alymov

[glenn239]

59 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

 

   As far as i was told, Nord Koreans demonstrated remarkable dedication to training process even before going to battle. 

What's the status on the Koreans at the moment?  Are there any public discussions on what the NK future role is, or what response to an Anglo-French expeditionary force would be?

[mandeb48]

 

Putin is ready to sign the surrender

https://en.topwar.ru/263681-peskov-putin-podtverdil-gotovnost-moskvy-k-peregovoram-s-kievom-bez-predvaritelnyh-uslovij.html

[Roman Alymov]

1 hour ago, glenn239 said:

What's the status on the Koreans at the moment?  

Untill very recently, they were officially invisible (while their presence was known for all pro-Russians). Will see how it will change.

1 hour ago, glenn239 said:

  Are there any public discussions on what the NK future role is

There is some - see here https://t.me/milinfolive/146946 (also note discussion in comments)

"After the liberation of the Kursk region, the question inevitably arises about the future fate of the North Korean troops who took an active part in its liberation.

At the moment, it is known that the units of the DPRK army did not participate in hostilities in the area of their military operations - on the territory of Ukraine and the new regions of Russia - but fought exclusively in the border area of the Kursk region.

There are two possible scenarios: 

If the North Koreans were attracted solely for fighting on the "internationally recognized" territory of Russia and its liberation from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, then with the end of the operation, foreign allies can remain to defend the border without crossing it, or even go home.

If the agreement on military assistance from the DPRK includes their possible participation in battles on the current and former Ukrainian territory, then after rest and rotation, North Korean soldiers can be transferred to new, more relevant sectors of the front."

   You know my theory of why NKoreans were present (not just to gain experience of real war, but also to serve as guarantee force deligated by China to make sure comprador leadership of Russian Federation would not betray China and surender to West without observing China's interests www.tanknet.org/index.php?/topic/38893-kiev-is-burning/page/3824/#comment-1782672 ) . If that is true, it will explain why now, when RF leadership is in negotiations with Trump administration on de-facto surrender, "complete liberation of Kursk region" was announced (while it is widely known to be not true) and NK troops presence made public: "Appeasement of the West" party members are de-facto saying to NKoreans "Your mission is accomplished, thank you very much, and have a nice trip back home" as they want to remove that guardian force that, in case of trouble, could easyly take Kremlin with full support of Russian grass roots and RusArmy (as it was demonstrated by "Wagner march")

1 hour ago, glenn239 said:

 what response to an Anglo-French expeditionary force would be?

If you want opinion from Rus grassroots (including Army): Anglo-French expeditionary force turning up at the front will be cheered as opportunity to actually kill the real enemies, not just Slavic cannon fodder that was thrown into meatgrinder as proxy force.   

   For "appeasement of the West", it will be the end of their hopes to "return to old good days of cooperation with West" and they would, probably, pack up and leave ( see www.tanknet.org/index.php?/topic/48042-a-peace-settlement-to-the-ukraine-war/page/68/#comment-1805013 - "quote one experience pro-Russian, Strelkov's friend: "Foreign intervention is our only hope. Our boss will flee, and we will have the chance to fix things". )

 

[Roman Alymov]

Back to the question of "Finno-Ugric culture supression":  Mayor of small town and SVO veteran (who became famous recently after he was first appointed, and then attempted to be removed by regional officials www.tanknet.org/index.php?/topic/48238-the-kremlin-is-burning/page/142/#comment-1786988 ) posting from local Finno-Ugric festival https://t.me/glava_sosnovka/1186

[Roman Alymov]

On 4/25/2025 at 4:45 PM, Stuart Galbraith said:

If it had been Gerasimov, it would probably have been Putin that did it.

 

  Well, the story is becoming more interesting: assaccin, Ignat Kuzin (reportedly citizen of Ukraine, who was living in the same appartment block with General since Nov 2024, have parked the car with IED few days ago and left to Turkey after it) was arrested in Turkey and deported into the hands of FSB, allready giving "interview" https://t.me/mash/63459

    Taking into consideration the General killed was not public figure, was not involved in corruption (note he was living in regular appartment block in Balashikha, near Moscow, in the flat he was given when he was Colonel - meaning he was spending about 3-4 hours avery day in traffic to get to the office and back), and was highly valied by collegues  - even rumoued to be considered to be potential replacement of very unpopular "Horse-fased alchoholic" - it is a strong temptetaion to think is it possible that now, when surrender ("victory") is in sign and "post-action analysys" inevitable with unavoidable personnel changes expected - could it be that leadership of Laos Army is cooperating with "dear parthners" in removing potential competitors?

    And, since there are also strong forces who are not interested in this sort of surrender now, it could explain why Turkey, one of the key NATO members and strong regional superpower, is suddenly cooperating in handing out Ukrainian agent into the hands of FSB....

Edited April 26, 2025 by Roman Alymov

[Roman Alymov]

P.S. More on above mentioned Ignat Kuzin: on official video, he is shown "detained" as if he have newer left Russia    https://t.me/boris_rozhin/162629

[Roman Alymov]

UK intel behind Ukraine’s disastrous Krynky invasion, leaked documents reveal - The Grayzone

UK intel behind Ukraine’s disastrous Krynky invasion, leaked documents reveal
Kit Klarenberg and Wyatt Reed·April 23, 2025

Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal that a blueprint for Ukraine’s failed effort to capture the village of Krynky was assembled by Project Alchemy, a secret military-intelligence cell created by the British Ministry of Defence which sought “at all costs” to “keep Ukraine fighting.” The Krynky plot led to a bloodbath that remains one of the war’s biggest disasters.
On the morning of October 30 2023, dozens of Ukrainian commandos on small boats glided across the Dnieper River to control of Krynky, a village in Russian-occupied Kherson. They had spent the prior two months in remote areas of the British isles with similar terrain, running drills under the watchful gaze of UK generals. Now, they believed their hard work was about to pay off. Both British and Ukrainian officials were convinced the operation would turn the tide of the war, creating a beachhead allowing Kiev’s forces to march on Crimea and all-out victory.

Instead, the British-trained Ukrainian marines were led like lambs to the slaughter. The catastrophically planned effort saw a seemingly endless stream of heavily overloaded Ukrainian boats attempt to reach Krynky without air cover, under relentless fire by Russian artillery, drones, flamethrowers and mortars. Marines that made the journey were ill-equipped, resupplying those troops proved virtually impossible, and evacuating them was out of the question.

As the promised missile cover failed to materialize in the ensuing weeks, it became clear the effort had amounted to a disaster. Yet for the next nine months, wave after wave of British-trained Ukrainian marines were dispatched to almost certain death to Krynky. The decision to let the costly quagmire drag on, at a human and material cost no NATO military would ever allow, has come to be seen as one of the worst tactical mistakes of the war — and it appears top British generals are to blame.

Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone expose how the British not only presided over the training of the Marines involved, but built from scratch the “Maritime Raiding Force” which would ultimately be sacrificed over the course of the Krynky suicide mission.

British spooks convince Kiev to invade Sevastopol
The origins of the stillborn amphibious landing operation in Krynky can be traced back to a leaked file produced just months after the Russia-Ukraine proxy war erupted by a secret British Ministry of Defence-created military-intelligence cell called Project Alchemy. The Grayzone previously exposed Project Alchemy as a hybrid public-private military partnership between top British academics and military strategists with the stated goal of working “at all costs to keep Ukraine fighting.”

In a June 2022 document titled “Building a Ukrainian Maritime Raiding Capability,” the Alchemy planners proposed a “new Maritime Raiding Force” to “be trained specifically to the operational area of the southern coastal area of [Ukraine] to the Kerch strait.”

Alchemy forecast the Ukrainians being given “high-speed RIBs,” [rigid inflatable boats] along with “autonomous vessels and aerial drones and Swimmer Delivery Vehicles [SDVs]… specially designed for attacks against the ports, submarines and surface warships.” After their training in the UK, Ukrainian marine commandos would “target radar stations and air defence assets on Crimea and support regular units fighting in Kherson through attacks from the Dnipro River,” with certain units being “specially trained in mountain warfare and cliff assault.” The end goal, they stated, was “to grind down [Sevastopol’s] defences… with a view to conducting a large-scale commando assault of the missile complex.”

“The hostile environment dictates a highly mobile raiding force at its core operating at night conducting hit and run operations to avoid detection,” Alchemy declared. The cell determined that in the area spanning “from the Romanian border to the Kerch Strait,” Ukraine’s “coastal areas” had yet to be sufficiently “exploited.”

In addition, Russian forces “don’t see a risk of an attack from the sea or riverine areas along the coast,” claimed Alchemy. Internally, the group lamented that Sevastopol’s ports, upon which the Russian navy was “totally reliant,” had suffered “very little direct action” since the proxy war’s inception. 

Due to Ukraine’s “lack of capability and/or resources… to conduct such missions,” it fell upon British military and intelligence veterans to provide them with what they needed. Accordingly, “a joint, inter-agency operational campaign planning team will run concurrently while training is being conducted,” Alchemy explained. The group “will contain serving and former service people with specialist knowledge in their given fields including experts from UA [Ukraine] to undertake planning and target analysis of the RU [Russian] coastal assets,” they noted.

For the technical details, they decided that “academics should also be included, using the latest technology resources to ensure the success of raids conducted especially in terms of the destruction of key infrastructure.” Therefore, “a formal request” to the British Ministry of Defence “on the latest intelligence imagery and plans” regarding Crimea’s heavily-fortified underground complex “will need to be planned in extreme detail.”

Britain’s obsession with wresting Sevastopol from Moscow’s grasp dates back to the Crimean War of 1853-1856, but the leaked documents clearly show the city’s seizure is still considered a vital, and achievable, objective from London’s perspective. Though Project Alchemy described the military port as home to the world’s “largest concentration of anti-ship missiles” and a bunker complex “immune to air or missile strike,” the group’s operatives still believed the area to be “vulnerable to commando forces.”

An investigation by Ukrainska Pravda confirmed that Britain – “perhaps Ukraine’s most active and determined ally” – had been pressuring Kiev to use marines “for waterborne operations and deceptive manoeuvres” since the proxy conflict began. However, these proposals reportedly “did not resonate” with then-Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi or President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

This changed in early 2023, when Britain dispatched a senior delegation to meet with Zaluzhnyi in Kiev, where London’s contingent promised to provide the Ukrainians with anything and everything they needed to conduct the “waterborne operations” the UK had so far avoided. According to Ukrainska Pravda, this came to pass in May 2023, when “the British team persuaded Zaluzhnyi, and he said: that’s it, we’re creating the Marine Corps.”

What followed was precisely foreshadowed in the leaked Project Alchemy files. In the leaked documents, the British cell foresaw Ukrainian marine commandos being “ready to deploy on operations” in just three months. Accompanying tables laid out how many Ukrainian marines would be trained, where, in what field of warfare, and for how long. “If our training program is approved,” the British Defence Ministry “must give us priority on Otterburn and other training areas outlined.”

“Candidates chosen for specific branches” would receive “a further 4 weeks of continuation training,” Alchemy wrote. These forces would consist of 60 “Mountain Leaders,” 20 ‘snipers/ spotters,” a 40-member mortar squadron, 20-member air defense, anti-tank, and gunner squadrons, 70 demolition engineers, 36 combat signallers, 16 pilots for the submersible crafts needed to deliver divers, 124 combat swimmers, 10 members of a coxswain raiding squadron, 10 gunners and 10 navigators to pilot Swedish-built CB90-class fast assault boats, 40 combat medics, and 20 clandestine special operations executives.

The Brits noted that “UA currently bans men of fighting age leaving UA,” so “it is likely that we will need the Kiev authorities to relax this rule for our program to assist us [in] recruiting the target number of 1,000 recruits to start training.” In addition, “the recruitment of UA nationals will have to be cleared through [the] UK Home Office,” they explained.

The Ukrainians were to be trained at a variety of sites in Britain including remote battle camps dotted across the Scottish wilds, including Otterburn, Garelochhead, Loch Long, and Cape Wrath, Britain’s most north-westerly point. All practice raids were to be “carried out at night”, and once the program was complete, “it will be decided if certain recruits are suitable for commando training due to injuries or other factors.”

Alchemy’s training scheme appeared to be confirmed by Ukrainian fighters dispatched to Krynky, who told Ukrainska Pravda that “the British gave us the same kind of area to train in as the one where we actually ended up performing the tasks.” There, they “realised they were being prepared for something big and different from their previous tasks.” In August 2023, British and Ukrainian officials announced almost 1,000 marines had “completed training…to conduct small boat amphibious operations, including beach raids.”

Project Alchemy declared that the effort “could be the tip of the spear to a larger offensive with an aim of retaking Crimea… something deemed impossible by many including [the] Kremlin, that may be their undoing.”

Previous reports by The Grayzone on Project Alchemy’s clandestine activities have revealed how much of the cell’s plotting was informed by deluded conceptions of perceived historic British military glories, such as the World War II-era Special Operations Executive, a forebearer of CIA/MI6-run Operation Gladio. Given the belligerent bravado with which Project Alchemy approached its Ministry of Defence-endorsed projects, it is all too easy to envisage its members filling the heads of London’s Ukrainian trainees with fantasies of recreating D-Day through the Krynky operation.

British bunglers create Krynky killzone
Beginning in October 2023, poorly-trained and ill-equipped Ukrainian marines began to be ferried en masse to Krynky. Per Ukrainska Pravda, “almost immediately, the operation’s biggest flaw – its planning – began to work against” the invasion force. Two months later, a participating commando described the nightmare situation that awaited Kiev’s forces there to the BBC. They spoke of “constant fire” throughout river crossings, with boats carrying their “comrades” sunk and “lost forever to the Dnipro river”:

“We must carry everything with us – generators, fuel and food. When you’re setting up a bridgehead you need a lot of everything, but supplies weren’t planned for this area. We thought after we made it there the enemy would flee and then we could calmly transport everything we needed, but it didn’t turn out that way. When we arrived…the enemy were waiting. Russians…were tipped off about our landing so when we got there, they knew exactly where to find us.”

Elsewhere, Ukrainska Pravda documented vital supplies and life jackets being airdropped by hexacopter to heavily wounded Ukrainian marines. Other injured commandos were forced to float back to Ukrainian territory using “car tires” due to a lack of available boats, “drinking water directly from the Dnieper due to a lack of logistics.” Some even resorted to “committing suicide because there was no evacuation.”

Among the “seriously injured”, one soldier in his early 40s “sustained an injury to his arm in December 2023,” and “attempted to leave Krynky by boat twice,” with Russian FPV drones blocking his path. He managed to escape “swimming with just one arm,” then spent “then spent six hours walking back and forth on the shore” of a nearby island, “soaking wet…to avoid freezing to death.” While ultimately escaping to safety, “he lost his arm.”

Meanwhile, another British-trained marine reported: “Each time our battalion entered [Krynky], the situation got worse and worse. People got there, only to die. We had no idea what was going on. Everyone I knew who was deployed to Krynky are dead.”

The onset of winter was “when the situation [in Krynky] started to really deteriorate,” a Ukrainian source stated. The Russians, they said, transferred significant assault forces to the area, used glide bombs “to destroy a large part of the village,” and  “figured out how best to target Ukrainian forces’ river routes, especially at the turns, where the boats had to slow down, and landing points.” The resulting artillery onslaught left Krynky “cratered like the moon.”

So it was, “some” Ukrainian marines “intentionally got lost” to avoid landing in the Krynky killzone. At least two survivors of the operation consulted by Ukrainska Pravda “received orders to set up positions…closer to the Russians,” but “refused to act…as doing so would have been suicidal.” Come winter, Kiev’s forces began “to gradually withdraw.” By May 2024, the situation “was a disaster,” although the last surviving marines were withdrawn two months later:

“Most people we spoke to…are convinced that the operation dragged on for at least several months longer than it should have. ‘We had to withdraw in spring at the latest, during the foggy season. We could have got all of our soldiers out at that point. It would’ve saved people’s lives. But instead we waited until nothing could be done any longer. Until the very last moment,” one marine officer lamented.

As major legacy media outlets now dissect Kiev’s military failures in forensic detail, the reporting consistently underlines the British Ministry of Defense’s pivotal role in planning some of the war’s biggest disasters. Each of these setbacks left many thousands of Ukrainians dead or wounded, yet no one in London appears to have faced any professional consequences. To the foreign officers who sent them into the kill zone, those who lost their lives were nothing more than proxies.

[Roman Alymov]

 

Patrick Lancaster to Tucker Carlson

Edited April 26, 2025 by Roman Alymov

[Roman Alymov]

NKoreans in Kursk region, photo https://t.me/milinfolive/146981

[sunday]

UK intel behind Ukraine’s disastrous Krynky invasion, leaked documents reveal

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Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal that a blueprint for Ukraine’s failed effort to capture the village of Krynky was assembled by Project Alchemy, a secret military-intelligence cell created by the British Ministry of Defence which sought “at all costs” to “keep Ukraine fighting.” The Krynky plot led to a bloodbath that remains one of the war’s biggest disasters.

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An investigation by Ukrainska Pravda confirmed that Britain – “perhaps Ukraine’s most active and determined ally” – had been pressuring Kiev to use marines “for waterborne operations and deceptive manoeuvres” since the proxy conflict began. However, these proposals reportedly “did not resonate” with then-Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi or President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

This changed in early 2023, when Britain dispatched a senior delegation to meet with Zaluzhnyi in Kiev, where London’s contingent promised to provide the Ukrainians with anything and everything they needed to conduct the “waterborne operations” the UK had so far avoided. According to Ukrainska Pravda, this came to pass in May 2023, when “the British team persuaded Zaluzhnyi, and he said: that’s it, we’re creating the Marine Corps.”

What followed was precisely foreshadowed in the leaked Project Alchemy files. In the leaked documents, the British cell foresaw Ukrainian marine commandos being “ready to deploy on operations” in just three months. Accompanying tables laid out how many Ukrainian marines would be trained, where, in what field of warfare, and for how long. “If our training program is approved,” the British Defence Ministry “must give us priority on Otterburn and other training areas outlined.”

Battle of the Somme redux.

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So it was, “some” Ukrainian marines “intentionally got lost” to avoid landing in the Krynky killzone. At least two survivors of the operation consulted by Ukrainska Pravda “received orders to set up positions…closer to the Russians,” but “refused to act…as doing so would have been suicidal.” Come winter, Kiev’s forces began “to gradually withdraw.” By May 2024, the situation “was a disaster,” although the last surviving marines were withdrawn two months later:

“Most people we spoke to…are convinced that the operation dragged on for at least several months longer than it should have. ‘We had to withdraw in spring at the latest, during the foggy season. We could have got all of our soldiers out at that point. It would’ve saved people’s lives. But instead we waited until nothing could be done any longer. Until the very last moment,” one marine officer lamented.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/north-korea-confirms-it-has-sent-troops-to-russia-to-fight-ukraine/ar-AA1DKcyq?ocid=BingNewsSerp

North Korea has confirmed for the first time it has sent troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine, saying the deployment was meant to help Moscow regain its Kursk region that Kyiv's forces seized in a surprise incursion last year.

US, South Korean and Ukraine intelligence officials have said North Korea dispatched about 10,000-12,000 troops to Russia last autumn in its first participation in a major armed conflict since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.

 

Im shocked I tell you, shocked.

[Roman Alymov]

6 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/north-korea-confirms-it-has-sent-troops-to-russia-to-fight-ukraine/ar-AA1DKcyq?ocid=BingNewsSerp

North Korea has confirmed for the first time it has sent troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine, saying the deployment was meant to help Moscow regain its Kursk region that Kyiv's forces seized in a surprise incursion last year.

US, South Korean and Ukraine intelligence officials have said North Korea dispatched about 10,000-12,000 troops to Russia last autumn in its first participation in a major armed conflict since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.

 

Im shocked I tell you, shocked.

See previous page of this thread for more shoking news.

[Stuart Galbraith]

 Ive had months of people assuring me I was talking utter Balls that Best Koreans were fighting in Russia, and they up and admit it.

Am I due any credit for being right despite making myself wildly unpopular again?

[Roman Alymov]

12 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

 Ive had months of people assuring me I was talking utter Balls that Best Koreans were fighting in Russia, and they up and admit it.

No idea who are this "people" you was talking with. If dedicated some of your precious time to search through my messages, you would find our that at least 5 month ago, on Nov 28, 2024, i was advising This Forum Members to focus not on the debates about NK presence, but about the meaning of  this presence (since, to my initial surprise, i was aware of NK presence when they were just training - note, it was when Western media were allready speculating about numerous NKoreans killed in action).

    What i have repeatedly pointed out was Western media inability to provide reliable evidence of NKoreans participation (that was especially surprising to me since i was aware about their role - and the meaning was NKoreans are not just good, but outstandingly good soldiers, extremely well-disciplined and dedicated, to the degree of consistently sacrificing their life when needed to keep the secret). For obvious reasons, pro-Russians (while well aware about this role too) were also keeping the secret allies were payng such high price to keep.

  Now, for some reasons we could only guess about (see my theory on previous page, for example), this facts were made public - and pro-Rus TG was immediately flooded with photos and videos of NKoreans with Russian soldiers (that this soldiers were keeping for themselves before that on their smartphones and all-mighty "5 eyes" were not able to get hold of).

45 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Am I due any credit for being right despite making myself wildly unpopular again?

  See above, you was not "right", as you was repeating Western media claims detached from reality.

[Stuart Galbraith]

4 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

No idea who are this "people" you was talking with. If dedicated some of your precious time to search through my messages, you would find our that at least 5 month ago, on Nov 28, 2024, i was advising This Forum Members to focus not on the debates about NK presence, but about the meaning of  this presence (since, to my initial surprise, i was aware of NK presence when they were just training - note, it was when Western media were allready speculating about numerous NKoreans killed in action).

    What i have repeatedly pointed out was Western media inability to provide reliable evidence of NKoreans participation (that was especially surprising to me since i was aware about their role - and the meaning was NKoreans are not just good, but outstandingly good soldiers, extremely well-disciplined and dedicated, to the degree of consistently sacrificing their life when needed to keep the secret). For obvious reasons, pro-Russians (while well aware about this role too) were also keeping the secret allies were payng such high price to keep.

  Now, for some reasons we could only guess about (see my theory on previous page, for example), this facts were made public - and pro-Rus TG was immediately flooded with photos and videos of NKoreans with Russian soldiers (that this soldiers were keeping for themselves before that on their smartphones and all-mighty "5 eyes" were not able to get hold of).

  See above, you was not "right", as you was repeating Western media claims detached from reality.

Go and look back in December of last year, there were people still arguing about whether there was an actual presence or not. In fact when I said originally that the Worst Koreans had detected the Best Koreans were going to send some 12000 troops, which turned out to be pretty accurate, it was ridiculed.

I swear you guys really do managed to do a memory dump when it suits you. Its just like Orwell said, we have always been at war with oceanea.

[Roman Alymov]

35 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Go and look back in December of last year, there were people still arguing about whether there was an actual presence or not.

As i have said before. i am not responding for "people" - only to my own posts. And, as you could easily seen, i was advising members to take NKoreans presence as fact long before the date you have pointed out. 

35 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

In fact when I said originally that the Worst Koreans had detected the Best Koreans were going to send some 12000 troops, which turned out to be pretty accurate, it was ridiculed.

How do you know how accurate is 12000? Even pro-Russians are not aware about the number (but from what i know, most likely it was way less then that). Presence of 12000 young well-trained elite infantrymen would change the situation dramatically. 

    Official video of NKoreans training in Russia published today https://t.me/sashakots/53369

  Staged propaganda reel filmed in ruins in Kursk region https://t.me/milinfolive/147080

Note the comment to this video "In terms of uniform and equipment, the Korean soldier resembles the Russian more than the Russian soldier himself." (as frontline pro-Russians usually wear dress and equipment bought privately according to personal preferances/needs)

Edited April 28, 2025 by Roman Alymov

[Roman Alymov]

Another video of NKoreans on training ground https://t.me/sashakots/53375