EnergyUnlimited wrote:Somehow I think that landlocking of Ukraine is now Russia minimum objection. As time pass they will take Odessa to get corridor to Transdniestria, renegade Russian enclave in Moldova.
I expect it to happen within 1-2 years from now on.
Plantagenet wrote:WaPo reports that a Ukrainian colonel blew up the Nordstrom Pipeline
senior-ukrainian-officer-coordinated-nord-stream-attack-washington-post-2023-11-12
If true, then Ukriane successfully destroyed billions of dollars of Russian petroleum infrastructure back in early 2022.
Cheers!
KYIV, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian military officer coordinated last year's attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing anonymous sources in Ukraine and Europe.
No one has taken responsibility for the September 2022 blasts, which occurred off the Danish island of Bornholm and ruptured three out of four lines of the system that delivers Russian gas to Europe.
Washington and NATO called it an act of sabotage, while Moscow said it was an act of international terrorism.
Roman Chervinsky, a former intelligence official who served in the Ukrainian military's special forces, managed a six-person team but did not plan the attack, the Post reported. He denied involvement.
A spokesperson for Ukraine's military told Reuters he had "no information" about the claim. The Ukrainian foreign ministry and Kyiv's domestic security service, the SBU, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The newspaper also reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has denied Kyiv's role in the blasts, had been unaware of the operation. Zelenskiy last week replaced the head of Ukraine's special operations forces.
Germany, Denmark and Sweden have launched investigations into the Nord Stream explosions, which sent plumes of methane into the atmosphere in a leak that lasted several days.
Chervinsky is currently under arrest for exceeding authority after a 2022 attempt to convince a Russian pilot to defect to Ukraine, which investigators say led to a deadly Russian attack on a Ukrainian air base.
An outspoken critic of Zelenskiy's administration, Chervinsky has said the case against him is politically motivated and that he was following orders in that operation.
His commanding officer at the time, Maj. Gen. Viktor Hanushchak, told Ukrainian media earlier this year that senior military leadership had signed off on the plot to lure the Russian pilot.
The Post and Germany's Der Spiegel newspaper collaborated on reporting and wrote separate stories that they agreed to publish at the same time.
careinke wrote:Plantagenet wrote:WaPo reports that a Ukrainian colonel blew up the Nordstrom Pipeline
senior-ukrainian-officer-coordinated-nord-stream-attack-washington-post-2023-11-12
If true, then Ukriane successfully destroyed billions of dollars of Russian petroleum infrastructure back in early 2022.
Cheers!
Did you even read the link you posted??? It mostly argues against what you are saying. Yea I know you used "if true" to cover your ass, still here is what was really said in the article you linked to. Your lack of credibility is showing.KYIV, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian military officer coordinated last year's attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing anonymous sources in Ukraine and Europe.
careinke wrote:Chervinsky is currently under arrest for exceeding authority after a 2022 attempt to convince a Russian pilot to defect to Ukraine, which investigators say led to a deadly Russian attack on a Ukrainian air base.
It's sounds like those brave little Nazi's that you seem to have a crush on, are all denying the WaPo version of the story. The story was probably given to WaPo by the corrupt Biden administration.
Biden, asked by a reporter why many Americans still don't feel good about the economy despite progress on jobs, pointed to negative media coverage.
"You all are not the happiest people in the world - what you report," Biden said. "And I mean it sincerely. You get more legs when you're reporting something that's negative. I don't mean you're picking me. It's just the nature of things."
He added: "You turn on the television, and there's not a whole lot about boy saves dog because he swims in the lake. You know, it's about somebody pushed the dog in the lake. I mean, I get it."
theluckycountry wrote:Biden Rambling this weekBiden, asked by a reporter why many Americans still don't feel good about the economy despite progress on jobs, pointed to negative media coverage.
"You all are not the happiest people in the world - what you report," Biden said. "And I mean it sincerely. You get more legs when you're reporting something that's negative. I don't mean you're picking me. It's just the nature of things."
He added: "You turn on the television, and there's not a whole lot about boy saves dog because he swims in the lake. You know, it's about somebody pushed the dog in the lake. I mean, I get it."
And that's the nation's leader? God help you. "And I mean it sincerely."
EnergyUnlimited wrote:Somehow I think that landlocking of Ukraine is now Russia minimum objection. As time pass they will take Odessa to get corridor to Transdniestria, renegade Russian enclave in Moldova.
I expect it to happen within 1-2 years from now on.
Shaved Monkey wrote:Access to a warm water port would have been Russia's main aim
Being able to have an alternative avenue to sell its gas that doesnt involve dealing with the Ukraine would give them the economic leverage to make the Ukraine a little less interested in being a Nato member and parking weapons on its land aimed at Moscow
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... ide-admits"A turning point in the war is approaching," Andrii Yermak, who serves as chief of staff for the Office of the President of Ukraine, said Monday. "The next year will be decisive in this regard." He issued the words while appealing for more urgent aid from Washington in an address to the hawkish DC-based Hudson Institute think tank.
Yermak sought to assure the audience that Zelensky has "a clear plan" forward even as Western media has by and large soured on Kiev's prospects for success. Much of this is about Zelensky sending envoys to do damage control in Washington at a moment the US administration's focus is off Ukraine and on Gaza events instead.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/2023 ... in-ukraine14/11/2023 The Kremlin last week acknowledged the use of prisoner recruits to fight in the conflict and said convicts who “atone for their crime on the battlefield with blood” could be pardoned.
“They are atoning with blood in storm brigades, under bullets and under shells,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
President Vladimir Putin said in September that Russian prisoners who died in Ukraine had “redeemed themselves” in the eyes of society.
Russia has probably recruited 100,000 people from prisons to fight, Olga Romanova, head of an independent prisoners’ rights group has estimated.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/ ... revisited/Previously, we focused on the southern Zaporozhye front. Now let’s focus on Kharkov, in the northeast.
The attached document, fully verified for authenticity, is a July report to the Chief of Staff of the operational-tactical group “Sumy”.
The report essentially says that it’s impossible to withdraw two thirds of the A7383 unit from the battlefield to recover combat readiness because the remaining one third is incapable of holding the fort – which happens to extend along 55.5 km. As of four months ago, the 127th separate territorial defense brigade in Kharkov was still equipped with 72% of personnel – 2,392 soldiers and 256 officers. Yet, crucially, the moral-psychological condition of the unit was critical – just as in the previous instance in Zaporozhye.
So forget about recovering combat readiness: this is yet another case of a brigade – now in Kharkov – that cannot fight properly. The previous case was far from being an exception to the current rule. The conclusion is stark: with whole brigades in critical condition, the entire Ukrainian frontline may be about to fall.
The Hundred Days Debacle
Facts on the ground point to the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) taking the initiative all along the SMO frontlines. This is recognized even by Polish and Estonian intel. Main battles are being fought on the Avdeevka-Marinka line in the DPR and the Kupyansk-Svatovo line in the LPR. RAF has enough manpower and weapons to keep the Ukrainians under a 24/7 state of despair. Objectives remain the same: to capture the whole of DPR and LPR within their administrative borders.
In parallel, the ever-unplugged Dmitri Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, has announced a massive increase in the production of weapons and military equipment. Medvedev constantly stresses that the capabilities of the Russian defense industry have reached an unprecedented level – and much faster than expected. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, for his part, echoes what Foreign Minister Lavrov has been detailing for months now: Kiev – and its NATO handlers – better realize they cannot and won’t “win” in the battlefield.
Medvedev always relishes upping the ante: “The West must admit that not only Donbass and Crimea are not Ukraine, but also Odessa, Nikolaev, Kiev and practically everything else.”
That was a sharp response to former NATO Secretary- General Anders “Fogh of War” Rasmussen, who said that Kiev could be accepted into NATO “without lost territories,” referring to Crimea and Donbass. That set Medvedev on a roll: “What then should we admit to NATO, you ask? Well, we can accept the city of Lemberg with its surroundings [the Lviv region] if they really insist there.”
This analysis focuses on “what the Russians are doing with their ongoing ‘mud season offensive’ in Ukraine, really a collection of local attacks across the length of the front line” – with the exception of Kherson. Strategically, Russia has committed none of its own massive reserves while the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are pressured all along the frontlines – and the Russians silently prepare a surprise knockout blow elsewhere.
A Perfect Storm of dwindling financing, weaponizing and Western “support” has darkened Kiev’s horizon, while serial Ukrainian disasters on the ground are so obvious they are even being picked up by Western mainstream media. This ain’t no “stalemate”. The previous analysis is only one among many that matches the breakdown of Ukrainian brigades across the frontlines – consisting “largely of units already mauled in their disastrous Hundred Days Offensive.”
The Hundred Days Offensive should rather be qualified as NATO’s Hundred Days Debacle. The debacle is the key reason why the “Biden combo” administration is now desperately trying to impose a ceasefire: a face-saving gambit as crucial as throwing the sweaty sweatshirt in Kiev under a double-decker bus.
I have always asked myself why? Why take so long to prosecute this war?
jato0072 wrote:with full Western NATO backing, everything except for manpower, Ukraine is a near peer to Russia militarily.....
Plantagenet wrote:Ukraine has invented a new kind of sea drone which has been successful at attacking the Russian Black Sea Fleet in areas around Crimea and also far out in the Black Sea
EnergyUnlimited wrote:Plantagenet wrote:Ukraine has invented a new kind of sea drone which has been successful at attacking the Russian Black Sea Fleet in areas around Crimea and also far out in the Black Sea
Ukrainians are very corrupt and infiltrated by all sort of third party agents so this technology will leak for sure...
I wonder how American carriers will cope?
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