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After they beat Azat Azatyan so bad blood came out of his ears; after they sent electric shocks up his genitals; after they wacked him with pipes and truncheons, the Russians began to interrogate him about his faith. “When did you become a Baptist? When did you become an American spy?” Azat tried to explain that in Ukraine there was freedom of religion, you could just choose your faith. But his torturers saw the world the same way as their predecessors at the KGB did: an American church is just a front for the American state. Azat was dragged back...

WarTranslated's Commentary:https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1661501189488254977/photo/1"A serviceman of the 4th Brigade of the Russian forces Andrey "Murz" Morozov is under attack by patriots on Telegram for his negative forecasts. But he is not budging, insisting that Ukraine is preparing the battlefield for something that will inevitably lead to the most difficult catastrophe for Russia. "His only hope is in drawing parallels with the 1942 Soviet retreat in the East which was followed by a counter-offensive."The exchange is very long, so below is just an excerpt from it."Full link to Murz's comments: https://t.me/wehearfromyanina/1976Translated excerpt:Igor Girkin, former Defense Minister of the Donbass, long time FSB agent,...

Regular readers and listeners should remember the assessment of the situation that I laid out (and expressed) last winter. One of the theses was: "If the necessary national measures for the successful conduct of the war are not taken before May, we will not be able to win this war.I state: NO MEASURES HAVE BEEN TAKEN. Neither organizational nor personnel. The goals of the war have not been determined, and the inhabitants of the Planet of the Pink Ponies(PRP) have not understood that "this war will be fought until one side is victorious. Accordingly, since there is no goal, there...

Dmitry of WarTranslated today posted a translation from the Pro-Russian Military Blogger known as Murz, an active duty soldier and blogger in the LPR, and a friend of the infamous Igor Girkin (Strelkov), responding to propaganda claims by Anna Dolgaryova. He discusses "Meat Battalions", Russian soldiers sent to die in mass numbers, stating that Russia is now running low on infantry--not just "good" infantry now, but infantry in general. He asks her near the end how she plans to explain away the imminent shifting of the frontline to the East once Ukraine begins its offensive.The true believers in Mother Russia...

Michael Weiss and Holger Roonemaa Mon, February 20, 2023 at 5:00 PM CST A leaked internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin’s executive office and obtained by Yahoo News lays out a detailed plan on how Russia plans to take full control over neighboring Belarus in the next decade under the pretext of a merger between the two countries. The document outlines in granular detail a creeping annexation by political, economic and military means of an independent but illiberal European nation by Russia, which is an active state of war in its bid to conquer Ukraine through overwhelming force. “Russia’s goals...

In this youtube video, SerpentZA and LaoWhy86 break down all the latest news on the Chinese Spy Balloon. Although I don't ordinarily post their show (though I highly recommend them), I did so this time because they do a good job in analyzing Chinese propaganda on this issue and the common tactics they use to deceive western people on twitter, Reddit, and the other locations they infest. Show is about 2 hours long, so a little too much for me to transcribe for those FReepers with crummy internet connections.

ChrisO_Wiki (Translator): "Yevgeny Prigozhin's apparently premature announcement of Soledar's capture has reportedly led to a desperate push by Wagner to make it a reality. Wagner is fighting without regard for casualties, not just to gain Soledar, but for Prigozhin's reputation. "The Russian VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that a source (likely within Wagner) says of the situation at Soledar: "2/It's a nightmare there now: the rush to announce a full takeover has led to the fact that one has to operate on the edge of what is possible. 3/ "The Wagnerites are literally being pushed from behind, everyone is being driven...

Dmitry of War Translated brings to us an exchange between a pair of Russian propagandists. Murz, who has previously complained about the low morale and uselessness of Russia's mobilized, blames Sladkov and Russia in general for failing to prepare properly for the war. From Dimitry - (War Translated): "Curious exchange between official Russian mil. reporter Sladkov and volunteer Murz. The former put out a text pointing at issues with communication and low morale of the mobilised."Murz, who in the "LPR" is responsible for communication fires back at Sladkov with a proper rage post blaming the Russians for not doing anything...

Dmitri (AKA War Translated): "Wagner's Prigozhyn explains why he is unable to take Bakhmut - a line of defence every 10 meters, hundreds of lines of defence across the city. Russians lack armoured vehicles and equipment." The link takes you to an actual video, but the following is my transcript: PRIGOZHYN: Everyone has a question – “When are you taking Artyomovsk [Bakhmut]?” Artyomovsk is a fortress in every house. So the guy are fighting for every house. Sometimes, more than one day. Sometimes, fighting for weeks for a single house. Took one house, second house, third house. What is “breaking...

HACKED RUSSIAN FILES REVEAL PROPAGANDA AGREEMENT WITH CHINA In 2021, government officials and media executives from Russia and China discussed the exchange of news and social content. Mara HvistendahlAlexey KovalevMara Hvistendahl, Alexey Kovalev December 30 2022, 7:27 a.m. RUSSIAN OFFICIALS PUSHED the lies first. Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, a Russian defense ministry spokesperson resuscitated debunked claims about a U.S.-funded bioweapons program in the region, accusing Ukrainian labs of experimenting with bat coronaviruses in an attempt to spark “the covert spread of deadliest pathogens.” Disinformation is an old Russian government tactic. But this time Russia had help. Within days, Chinese...

See link above A glimpse into the operation of a Ukrainian sniper position, posted by War Translated on his youtube channel. The video is of a sniper in his position by a window checking on the position of friendlies via radio. The thump thump thump sounds of gunfire and explosions can be constantly heard in the background.

Russian fighter Topaz on artillery shell hunger and discipline of the mobilised Posted on 28 December 2022 | in Russian Accounts | by WarTranslatedWarTranslated: The Russian volunteer Topaz, who is a member of the nazi Rusich unit along with his friend Aleksey Milchakov, is active on Telegram. On 27 December he posted a text describing the serious shell hunger in the Russian forces and made a conclusion that the situation is becoming critical if measures are not taken to cope with the lack of shells.He also points the attention of readers to the fact that the mobilisation program has not...

Below is a translation of a long blog post by the Russian volunteer Murz whom we’ve covered extensively during the past several months. In this post, Murz, who has been previously critical of the way the Russian Army is conducting the “special operation”, goes over the potential of a Ukrainian offensive in winter and shows that Russia is completely unprepared for it in terms of armoured vehicles, communication, defensive lines, artillery, and manpower.This is perhaps the most critical of his texts and was shared by Igor Girkin as “recommended for reading”. The author has a certain way of constructing sentences...

Girkin is the one responsible for the destruction of MH17, and was one of the original "Separatist" Leaders to infiltrate Ukraine and lead Russian forces in the Donbass. He was the Defense Minister of this so-called separatist region for a little while before going full time into being a talking head (more than likely to escape assassination). He is also an FSB agent.Earlier this year, Girkin, despite his allegiances and being, essentially, a terrorist for his Russian masters, predicted that if Ukraine finished amassing its reserves of 750,000+ people (it is now over 1 million), that Russia would see massive...

Russian TV Presenter: “The decision of our MoD has become known that we are withdrawing troops from the right bank of Dnieper, that is, we are leaving Kherson… Now, if you are expecting I will explain my opinion on this, then I won’t tell you anything. But I’ll explain why. If I support this decision [to withdraw] then this turns out to be a public call for violation of the territorial integrity of Russia in our criminal code… This is several years of imprisonment. If I do not support this decision and believe that the MoD [is wrong], these are...

"A further reason for my hatred of National Socialism and other ideologies is quite a primitive one. I have an aversion to killing people for the fun of it. What the fun is, I did not quite understand at the time, but in the intervening years the ample exploration of revolutionary consciousness has cast some light on this matter. The fun consists in gaining a pseudo-identity through asserting one’s power, optimally by killing somebody – a pseudo-identity that serves as a substitute for the human self that has been lost." ~ ERIC VOEGELIN[I] The pseudo-identity of a totalitarian dictator relies...

Twilight of the Magicians: Aleksandr Dugin and the War Against the West "If the Fourth Political Practice is not able to realize the end of times, then it would be invalid. The end of days should come; but it will not come by itself. This is a task, it is not a certainty. It is active metaphysics. It is a practice.” ALEKSANDR DUGIN, THE FOURTH POLITICAL THEORY [I] The “philosopher” who has done the most to justify Russia’s war against the West is Aleksandr Dugin. He was the first to advocate a Russian invasion of Ukraine. He has also advocated...

Igor Girkin, aka Igor Strelkov was the former Minister of Defense of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic. From his Wiki:Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin (Russian: И́горь Все́володович Ги́ркин, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪtɕ ˈɡʲirkʲɪn],; 17 December 1970),[2] also known by the alias Igor Ivanovich Strelkov (Russian: И́горь Ива́нович Стрелко́в, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ strʲɪlˈkof]), is a Russian army veteran and former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer who played a key role in the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and later the War in Donbas as an organizer of militant groups of the Donetsk People's Republic's.[3][4][5] Girkin led a group of militants into Ukraine...

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Israeli ‘mercenaries’ teaming up with neo-Nazis in Ukraine, Russia says In Ukraine, Israeli mercenaries are actually shoulder-to-shoulder with the Azov militants,” said spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. By LAHAV HARKOV Published: MAY 4, 2022 12:57 Israelis are fighting alongside Azov, a Ukrainian military battalion with neo-Nazi roots, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday, amid a row between Jerusalem and Moscow over the latter saying Hitler was part Jewish. “I’ll say something that the politicians in Israel who are now inflating their information campaign are unlikely to want to hear,” Zakharova said in an interview with Sputnik Radio. “Perhaps they...