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Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia afraid of Moscow missile strikes | Record military support of Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3SJC-uR6DM
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Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia afraid of Moscow missile strikes | Record military support of Ukraine
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using the bible to propel propaganda.
Interesting angle.
UKKKraine uber alles.
1- Putin orders 21 mobile crematoriums to ‘hide scale of losses in Ukraine’
Tom Sanders
Thursday 19 Jan 2023 3:37 pm
https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/19/putin-orders-mobile-crematoriums-to-hide-scale-of-losses-in-ukraine-18129387/
2- Russian State TV Guest Admits War Was a ‘Disastrous Mistake’
By Brendan Cole On 1/19/23 at 9:50 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-nadezhin-war-mistake-disastrous-1775016
3- Putin’s Critics Are Getting Louder
By Isabel van Brugen
1/19/23 at 7:03 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-critics-ukraine-war-yevgeny-prigozhin-igor-girkin-1774970
Almost a year into the Ukraine war, Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing a growing chorus of criticism over his handling of the conflict.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), in an assessment published on Wednesday, drew attention to the fact that key Russian figures, including Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, and former Russian commander Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, also known as Igor Girkin, are increasingly vocalizing their discontent with the Russian leader.
Prigozhin, who founded the paramilitary group that provides soldiers for hire, and other notable voices in Russia are “carving out a new space to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin without fear of retribution,” the ISW said.
Comp, Putin, Prigozhin and Strelkov
In this combination image, Vladimir Putin pictured in Moscow in January 2023, a file photo of Yevgeny Prigozhin, 2016 and an inset photo of Igor Strelkov, also known as Igor Girkin. People are more openly criticizing the leader. Getty
Prigozhin and other notable Russian nationalists such as Girkin, a former Russian militant commander and prominent critical voice, have been “opening a new sector in the Russian information space where certain figures can criticize Putin and the highest echelons of the Russian government without any apparent retribution,” the think tank observed.
The ISW made reference to a statement posted on Telegram by Girkin on January 10, in which he heavily implied that he would support the removal of Putin from power.
It marked “his most direct criticism of Putin to date,” the think tank said, noting that Putin has so far not decided to censor these voices.
Girkin, who has regularly been critical of Russia’s war effort, took to Telegram again late on Wednesday, saying that Russia needs to build up several armies and conduct a mass retraining of its troops as soon as possible in order to avoid an almost inevitable defeat.
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The military blogger said he believes General Valery Gerasimov and Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, are both incapable of “fulfilling any duties assumed.”
The ISW said Prigozhin was also becoming “increasingly bold in his verbal attacks against the Russian Ministry of Defense.”
Although Prigozhin is an ally of Putin, he regularly criticizes the Kremlin and especially defense officials for setbacks in Ukraine. He made headlines in the fall of 2022 for his criticism of the defense ministry and Shoigu.
Prigozhin recently cast doubt on the defense ministry’s latest guidelines for soldiers after officials issued edicts to Russian troops that “restrict the use of certain personal electronic devices in combat zones.”
Prigozhin is seeking to “undermine confidence” in Putin’s defense ministry and promote himself as the face of the offensive in Ukraine, the ISW said.
TV Pundits
Pundits on Russian state television have also been openly critical of Putin’s war in Ukraine, with journalist and commentator Maxim Yusin questioning the official Kremlin line that the conflict “is going according to plan.”
During an appearance on the program Pravo Znat (Right to Know) this month, Yusin compared Putin’s stated goals for invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022, with the current situation on the front lines.
In justifying his decision to invade Ukraine nearly a year ago, Putin said his forces sought to “demilitarize” and “denazify” the country.
“The Ukrainian army in the opinion of many is now more combat-ready than 10 months ago,” having received “Western weapons they had not even dreamt of,” Yusin said, adding: “Clearly it’s not working out yet with demilitarization.”
A Russian official who faced conscription under the leader’s partial mobilization decree previously told Newsweek that he believes Putin’s reign is now “closer to the end.”
Dmitry Baltrukov, 43, a municipal deputy for Smolninskoye in St. Petersburg, appealed to the country’s parliament in September 2022 to remove Putin from power on the charge of high treason over the Ukraine war. He said he believes the Russian leader is “definitely closer to the end of his power” since announcing a partial mobilization of the population.
Baltrukov said he sees “a clear trend” toward a decrease in support among Russians for the war.
Russia “has no chance of winning” the Ukraine war, Baltrukov said, adding: “There is no Russian leadership. For them, this is the end of their power.”
The mounting criticism comes as Putin seeks to expand his military—beefing it up to 1.5 million personnel, from 1.35 million over a three-year period, beginning in 2023.
Shoigu said on Tuesday that 12 new regiments will be formed, military districts will be created in the Moscow and Leningrad regions and conscript numbers will be boosted.
Newsweek has reached out to Russia’s foreign ministry for comment.
1- Russia’s Defense Ministry Dismisses Wagner Group Gains As Feud Deepens—ISW
By Isabel van Brugen On 1/19/23 at 5:49 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-downplay-wagner-group-success-soledar-isw-1774903
2- 2- US Coast Guard tracks Russian ‘spy ship’ lingering off the coast of Hawaii - near multiple key military installations on the island chain
US Coast Guard said Wednesday it has been monitoring Russian ship for weeks
Suspected ‘intelligence gathering ship’ has been cruising near Hawaii
While the ship has broken no maritime laws, it remains under close observation
By Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com
Published: 15:57 EST, 19 January 2023 | Updated: 15:57 EST, 19 January 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11655073/US-Coast-Guard-tracks-Russian-spy-ship-lingering-near-coast-Hawaii.html
Headline sounds like Moscow might attack Russia. Wouldn’t be surprised if Washington gets the idea and launches missiles at us.
Wow, it’s a good thing that the US isn’t afraid that Washington DC could be a target of a missile strike and therefore see no need for an ABM defensive shield to protect it. /yes, it’s sarcasm
Hey, it’s not 8 PM yet… you’re early for the daily propaganda thread.
Zelenskyy said he’s not sure Putin is still alive, as he seems absent from decision-making
Story by sbaker@businessinsider.com (Sinéad Baker) • 2h ago
https://www.businessinsider.nl/zelenskyy-said-hes-not-sure-putin-is-still-alive-as-he-seems-absent-from-decision-making/
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Russian President Vladimir Putin. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images; Contributor/Getty Images© BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images; Contributor/Getty Images
Ukraine’s president said he wasn’t sure that Russia’s President Putin was still alive.
Speaking at Davos, Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested Russia was altering media purporting to show Putin.
Zelenskyy was talking about the possibility of a peace deal, and said Putin appeared absent from decision-making.
1 of 6 Photos in Gallery©Contributor/Getty Images
5 of Russia’s biggest blunders throughout Putin’s war in Ukraine
Russia’s military has little to show for itself after 10 months of fighting in Ukraine.
US and Western officials have widely denounced Putin’s campaign as a “failure.”
Here are some of Moscow’s biggest blunders and mistakes throughout the war.
After 300 days of fighting in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military has little to show for its efforts.
Putin expected his forces to capture Kyiv in a matter of days after launching a full-scale invasion on February 24. In recent months, Ukrainian forces have liberated thousands of square miles of territory — including the only regional capital that Russian forces managed to capture.
Russia’s campaign has been widely denounced by US and Western officials as a “failure,” and it now faces estimates of more than 100,000 casualties — a toll that continues to rise.
From Russia’s botched invasion to Putin’s miscalculation of the Western response, here are some of the biggest mistakes Moscow has made during its unprovoked war in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that he wasn’t sure if Russia’s President Vladmir Putin was even still alive.
Asked at the World Economic Forum in Davos for his response to people who were asking for peace negotations to take place, Zelenskyy said that he wasn’t sure who in Russia would be part of that conversation, or even if the Russian president was still alive.
He also suggested that Russia may have manipulated media of Putin.
Related video: ‘Push the button’: Putin’s ‘bloodhound’ talks about Russian defeat and the consequences (Dailymotion)
“I don’t quite understand that he is the guy,” Zelenskyy said of Putin. “I don’t quite understand that he is still ALIVE, or that it is him particularly MAKING DECISIONS, or who is taking decisions there, WHO IS THE CIRCLE OF PEOPLE making the decisions,” he said, according to his translator.
Zelenskyy also said that: “I don’t quite understand who to talk to and about what. I’m not sure that Russia’s president, who sometimes appears against the chroma key is really him,” according to the Kyiv Independent.
A chroma key is a video technique that can change parts of a video, including the background. The technique can be used to make someone appear as if they were in or speaking from a different location.
It’s not clear IF Zelenskyy was genuinely suggesting that Putin was dead, or was exaggerating in order to SUGGEST that he NO LONGER APPEARED TO BE INVOLVED IN KEY DECISION MAKING.
Putin had been photographed in a number of public appearances over the last days, including at least four events on Wednesday. Photos from those events were shared by the Kremlin.
Zelenskyy and Ukrainian officials have repeatedly said that they don’t trust Russia to strike a peace deal in good faith, and that there could be no peace deal that didn’t involve Ukraine getting all of its territory back.
Zelenskyy said on Thursday that Ukraine had been trying to negotiate with Russia even before it launched its full-scale invasion in February, after Russia annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea in 2014.
Russian and Ukrainian officials also met multiple times near the start of the war, but made no meaningful progress before those meetings were stopped.
Ukrainian drone steals Russian walkie-talkie allowing troops to listen in for NINE days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sNJxWi3N4Y
Ukraine’s Swedish-Made CV90 Fighting Vehicles Are Meant To Hunt Enemy Armor In The Woods
Forbes
David Axe
Jan 19, 2023,01:12pm EST
The Swedish government on Thursday announced it would donate to Ukraine up to 50 CV90 infantry fighting vehicles as well as some of Sweden’s Archer mobile howitzers.
It’s the latest in a flurry of arms packages from Ukraine’s NATO allies. Sweden along with Finland last year began the slow process of joining the transatlantic alliance.
The weapons Ukraine’s allies in recent months have pledged don’t include a lot of tanks—although that soon could change. But they do include a lot of heavily-armed infantry fighting vehicles that, while not tanks, still possess significant anti-armor capability.
The United States is sending to Ukraine an initial batch of 50 M-2 fighting vehicles that are battle-proven, long-range tank-killers. The Swedish CV90s, by contrast, are adept at destroying armored vehicles at close range—and especially in the woods.
The tracked, three-crew CV90, built by Swedish firms Hägglunds and Bofors, weighs up to 37 tons. In its standard version it carries up to eight infantry and packs a 40-millimeter autocannon in an armored turret. “It is one of Sweden’s best combat vehicles,” Swedish energy and industry minister Ebba Busch stated.
The CV90 is popular in northern Europe. The Swedish army has 500 CV90s in several variants. The armies of Switzerland, Norway, The Netherlands, Finland, Estonia and Denmark also operate CV90s.
It’s not hard to see why. The CV90’s designers optimized the vehicle for operations in Scandinavia’s forests. It just so happens that eastern Ukraine, where much of the fighting is, also has lots of trees.
Consider the CV90’s main weapon—its 40-millimeter L/70 autocannon. The L/70 isn’t new. It first entered service, as an anti-aircraft gun, a few years after World War II. But it’s proved extremely durable and versatile. An L/70 can fire two-pound shells up to five rounds a second at a thousand-yard-a-second initial velocity.
That’s a lot of metal, moving really fast. Up close, the L/70 is like a chainsaw—especially when firing armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot, or APFSDS-T, rounds.
And that’s the key to the CV90’s anti-armor prowess. True, the CV90 doesn’t have a turret-mounted launcher for long-range anti-tank missiles like the American M-2 and Russian BMP fighting vehicles do. But it doesn’t need one while fighting on forested terrain.
Yes, the M-2 can fire a 50-pound TOW anti-tank missile out to a distance of two miles. But only under the right conditions. The missile requires a clear line of sight between the launcher and the target—both to allow the gunner to steer the missile via an unspooling wire and to prevent the missile from running into an obstacle and prematurely detonating.
The BMP-3’s 60-pound Kornet anti-tank missile travels even farther—up to five miles—but it’s a beam-riding weapon that also requires a clear line of sight for its guidance laser.
All that is to say, anti-tank missiles such as the TOW and Kornet don’t work very well in the woods, where obstructions abound. The L/70, by contrast, doesn’t mind the woods at all. Not when it’s spewing sabot rounds at a rate of several per second.
In 2011, Swedish army major Magnus Frykvall ran a simulation pitting a reinforced Swedish army battalion equipped with CV90s and Leopard 2 tanks against a Russian brigade with BMP-3 fighting vehicles and T-90 tanks.
The forested battleground was bad for tanks, and both sides lost 10 or a dozen Leopard 2s or T-90s. But as the two sides’ infantry fighting vehicles clashed in the woods, the CV90s proved vastly superior to the BMPs.
“The red side’s IFVs had difficulty using their anti-tank missiles effectively, while the blue side’s CV90’s 40-millimeter automatic cannon with APFSDS-T ammunition is highly efficient in this terrain,” Frykvall wrote. The Swedish force wrote off 48 CV90s. But the Russian force lost a staggering 81 BMPs.
The implication is clear. To make best use of its ex-Swedish CV90s, the Ukrainian army should deploy them in the east, where they can hunt Russian vehicles in the woods.
Not $1 more U.S. taxpayer dollar for this corrupt money laundry!
VIDEOS
1- RUSSIAN PRISONERS REVEAL: IF WE GO BACK, WAGNER MERCENARIES WILL SHOOT US || 2023
Warthog Defense
Jan 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_urjnSSzdc
2- SBU PHONE CALL INTERCEPTION
Jan 19, 2023
[Additional CC-Eng available]
https://www.youtube.com/wach?v=5mrJ8ywf1gE
*They drink brake fluid to die faster and choose status between ‘200’ (dead) and ‘300’ (wounded) to end this war
3- RUSSIAN MOBIKS ARE COMPLAINING THAT THEIR COMMANDERS ARE TREATING THEM LIKE CANNON FODDER || 2023
Warthog Defense
Jan 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQs1ynIbzyo
4- Half of the forces were killed, corpses and wounded are left” - rebelling Russians applied to Putin
Kanal13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKtMSXwndVk
Cheap shot
Not warranted
In some ways Putin has become LBJ
Thanks for confirming I’m over the target.
Every time I see that Ruzzia word I know exactly what is coming next: a thread with the original poster replying to itself at least 9 times.
Ukraine ping
This SAM installations may be for internal security more than a defense against external attack. It’s not clear that this is necessarily because he’s more vulnerable than usual, in political terms. The issue is that with soldiers and military equipment moving around on a large scale, it’s easier to camouflage any incipient coup attempt.
In fact, that was how the October Revolution came about - not out of a formless desire for change, but actual soldiers who mutinied. Kamil Galeev alludes to the manner in which WWI-related troop movements in Russia’s then capital - St. Petersburg - provided cover for the troop mutiny that ended the rule of the Romanovs.
1) tons of new, unmotivated recruits
2) aware they’ll be sent to Ukraine, where they likely die or get maimed
3) stuck in Moscow, in proximity to the seat of power
That’s revolutionary situation Image
That is btw exactly the scenario of 1917 revolution in Russia. In November 1916 Nicholas started suspecting his ministry for internal affairs Protopopov of disloyalty and started vetting other candidatures. He offered Protopopov’s position to Krzhyzhanovsky
Krzhyzhanovsky said yeah, I could be a minister, but I have a condition. There are 460 000 reserve troops quartered in the imperial capital of St Petersburg. These are mobilised peasants, very unmotivated. They know, they’ll soon be sent to the WWI trenches, where they die
I want you to:
1. Transfer some of them to the city police with an exemption from the military service
2. Relocate the rest the F*** OUTTA THE CAPITAL
That’s my condition if you want to see me as a minister. Nicholas ignored it. 3 months later the Russian empire fell
It were not the “workers” or “peasants” who did the February and then the October revolution. It were first and foremost the 460 000 conscripts of the St Petersburg garrison. Who were stuck in the capital cuz logistics and found themselves close to the seat of power. The end]
Leadership struggles are fairly common everywhere. It’s why in the UK, for instance, we have seen 3 Prime Ministers in the span of a year. In a dictatorship like Russia’s, however, leadership turnover occurs only when a challenger gets enough guns on his side. That’s what the SAM batteries are there for - to ensure an air force unit doesn’t successfuly assist in shortening Putin’s tenure, as it did Salvador Allende’s in Chile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d‘%C3%A9tat#Military_action
Military Coup 101🧵
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https://twitter.com/WarInUkraineYet/status/1616103162041241600
The following data is from a couple of presenters from the US Naval War College who did a role playing military-political seminar of a North Korean invasion of ROK in an Early 1990’s Origins wargaming convention in Ft. Worth that I attended the out brief of.
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It surprised them in that it was the 1st time this scenario went nuclear.😱
In any case, most successful military coups to that date (Early 1990’s) started in the Air Force for military professionalism reasons.
Doing the logistics for maintaining flying aircraft generally...
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...left Air Force officers better able to plan & execute a coup.
And by logistics I mean Air Force officers are much more aware of the signals, both ground wire & radio, plus all the things required to not make smoking holes in the ground of their expensive jets.
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Army units in the capitol can look good in parades, be deeply penetrated with informers & completely incompetent in everything other than pointing artillery & tanks at a large fixed target.
Light infantry type regime security forces watch those Capitol based army units & can
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...arrest both senior officer coup plotters and their families.
It’s also why you often see Army headquarters in Capitol’s in bunkers, while Air Forces have big above ground high rises as their HQ.
It is the big fixed target Capitol based Army units with heavy weapons can
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...engage inside visual range with little training.
Funny that.
Anyway, the Naval War College guys briefed how authoritarian/totalitarian regimes dealt with this Air Force Coup problem, using Saddam Hussein’s regime as an example.
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It boils down to the best squadrons of air superiority fighters being based in the capitol, with zero air to ground capability.
The pilots of said planes being chosen for loyalty and their families treated to the best air force quarters available...
...guarded by regime
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... security forces.
The Air Force ground attack squadrons were kept in the rural areas supporting Army/regime security forces against rebels far away from the capitol.
This model usually, but doesn’t always, work at preventing military coups.
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The failed coup attempt against Turkish strongman Erdogan is an example of this.
According to the Naval War College briefers, this is the reason authoritarian/totalitarian regimes always go all in for militarily competent surface to air missile forces.
The SAM boffins
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...simply are not equipped to do a coup, but are really good at stopping one by an Air Force.
Plus, you can put some of those regime security force light infantry inside the ground control cabins to make sure missiles are fired.
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So when I see pictures like the one below. 👇
I don’t think of the threat of Ukraine’s DIY strike drones.
I think of that 1990’s Origins briefing. IMO, what you seeing here is visual evidence that Putin is afraid of a Military Coup.
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