Death to NATO
- SITREP 2/13/24: Avdeevka Turns Critical as Iskander Strike Devastates AFU Staging Areasimplicius76.substack.com SITREP 2/13/24: Avdeevka Turns Critical as Iskander Strike Devastates AFU Staging Area
Another huge breakthrough has occurred in Avdeevka that may have put the final nail in the coffin of the bitterly disputed town. Though Avdeevka is smaller than Bakhmut, Mariupol, and many other captured towns, it actually—in some ways—represents a crowning offensive achievement of the war because i...
- The state of the British navy: HMS Queen Elizabeth failed to depart on a NATO exercise, so they planned to send their only other aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, and it failed too. 😂www.bbc.com HMS Prince of Wales fails to depart for Nato exercises
HMS Prince of Wales was due to replace HMS Queen Elizabeth which broke down just before departure.
- NYT: Ukraine Has a New Military Commander but the Problems Haven’t Changedwww.nytimes.com Ukraine Has a New Military Commander but the Problems Haven’t Changed
As Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky assumes his role, he must reckon with a grim calculus: When does the cost of defending ground outweigh any benefit gained by inflicting pain on the enemy?
- Zaluzhny Finally Dismissed as Chaos Reigns in AFUsimplicius76.substack.com Zaluzhny Finally Dismissed as Chaos Reigns in AFU
It finally happened, Zelensky has let Zaluzhny go, replacing him with Syrsky: Defense Minister Umerov issued his own statement: There’s a lot to unpack. Let’s start with the mentions in the video above of needing a general who is on the frontline, and who understands the Avdeevka situation, as well ...
- Zaluzhny officially fired by Zelenskyywww.politico.eu Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s commander-in-chief General Zaluzhny
The two had strong differences over how the war should be fought.
- Ukraine’s Black Sea “Victory” is a Distractionjournal-neo.su Ukraine’s Black Sea “Victory” is a Distraction
The Western media, for its part, has invested heavily in convincing the world that Ukraine is “winning” in the Black Sea, and is building...
- Nuland leaves sense of foreboding in Kievwww.indianpunchline.com Nuland leaves sense of foreboding in Kiev - Indian Punchline
US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland in Kiev, Ukraine, January 31, 2014 The commencement of political upheavals in world affairs sometimes lies with a seemingly obscure event. This is not to say that the shooting down of a Russian Ilyushin-76 military transport plane carrying dozens of Ukraini...
- Orban retaliates and blocks Sweden's NATO entry 😂abcnews.go.com Orbán's party boycotts a session of Hungary's parliament to further stall Sweden's bid to join NATO
Lawmakers from the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have boycotted an emergency session of parliament where a vote was scheduled to place Sweden’s bid to join NATO on the legislative agenda
- GUR literally has both NATO and Nazi stamps all over it
archive https://archive.ph/7oOfe
- Britain’s flagship £3.5bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth pulled off major Nato drill due to mechanical faultnz.news.yahoo.com Britain’s flagship £3.5bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth pulled off major Nato drill due to mechanical fault
HMS Prince of Wales will instead join up with Nato fleet
- Ukrainian terrorists have shelled a bakery in Lysychansk, LNR. At the moment, 28 civilians were killed.
Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled a bakery in Lisichansk; dozens of people may be under the rubble.
At the moment of writing, 15 killed civilians were found under the rubble. Upt: the number has increased to 28. One child is among the killed. Upt: Pregnant woman and her 5-year-old child were killed.
According to the head of the LPR, the Ukrainian Armed Forces deliberately fired at the building on the weekend, when the maximum number of civilians come to buy bread.
According to the local military commandant's office, about 40 people may be trapped under the rubble. Rescuers and authorities in Luhansk People's Republic plan to continue clearing the rubble of the bakery damaged by the Ukrainian strike in Lisichansk throughout the night.
- Zaluzhny takes selfie with the commander of Right Sector brigade of Ukrainian military in front of portrait of Nazi collaborator & far-right OUN leader Bandera & red & black flag of OUN-UPA.
source https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=6792963534146905&id=100002999784832&mibextid=qi2Omg
- Ukraine's birth rate is now the lowest in the world. Male life expectancy has dropped to 57-58, the fourth lowest in the world, and Ukraine's population has reduced by 11 million since the war began.www.thetimes.co.uk Ukraine’s birthrates are plummeting. The next generation needs a plan
Babies are an increasingly rare sight in a society that prizes family above all but now has the world’s lowest birthrate, throwing the country’s very survival into question
- Breakthrough on all fronts ahead of schedule
John Helmer: "The Russian Defense Ministry’s daily reports are now confirming the turning point on the Ukrainian battlefield, and on the Russian clock."
- Ukraine’s top general refuses request from Zelenskiy to step downwww.theguardian.com Ukraine’s top general refuses request from Zelenskiy to step down
Personality clashes blamed for conflict between president and popular commander Valerii Zaluzhnyi
- FT is now reporting that Zelenskyy is preparing to remove Zaluzhny, a definite sign that things are going great
archived https://archive.is/2024.01.30-160038/https://www.ft.com/content/aa9aacfc-c248-4550-bf28-d79ad4c553cb
- FT article discussing how the lack of trained workers in the west is affecting NATO ambitions
archive https://archive.is/2024.01.29-124159/https://www.ft.com/content/82df3e5a-f899-4ba9-aec7-e33069b06843
- SITREP 1/28/24: Resistance Forces Strike US Troops Illegally Occupying Syria; Western Media and Politicians Agitate for Larger War; Ukraine's Situation Continues to Deterioratesimplicius76.substack.com SITREP 1/28/24: US Troops Suffer Fatalities in Strikes as Escalation Grows
I get tired of saying “things are heating up” but…things continue to really heat up. The first direct troop deaths have finally begun rolling in as warhawk voices in the US cry out for total war: Here’s CENTCOM’s official statement: And here’s the statement from the Islamic Resistance which claimed ...
- Borrell: Ukraine has revealed that this industry is nowhere near adequately prepared to meet the challenges we face. EU’s substantial military support to Ukraine came from existing stockpiles.www.eeas.europa.eu The war against Ukraine and European security
Several Outlets - 2024 started with an unprecedented number of Russian drones and ballistic missiles raining down on Ukraine. In this op-ed, HR/VP Borrell argues that Ukraine prevailing against the Russian aggression is the best security guarantee for Europe and that a paradigm shift is needed from ...
- ‘The enemy is amassing’: Ukrainian army officials give unvarnished account of the battlefieldwww.cnn.com ‘The enemy is amassing’: Ukrainian army officials give unvarnished account of the battlefield | CNN
Comments by Ukrainian military figures on Saturday provided an insight to Ukraine’s current position, with offensive Russian operations along much of the front line.
- SBU uncovers mass fraud in weapons procurementkyivindependent.com SBU uncovers mass fraud in weapons procurement
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) announced on Jan. 27 the discovery of a corruption scheme related to the procurement of almost 100,000 mortar shells, amounting to nearly $40 million.
- Kiev knew Ukrainian POWs were on plane it downed – Putinwww.rt.com Kiev knew Ukrainian POWs were on plane it downed – Putin
Kiev’s intelligence agents knew there were POWs aboard a plane shot down by the Ukrainian military, Vladimir Putin has said
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, the GUR, knew there were prisoners of war aboard a Russian military transport plane shot down by Kiev’s forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. The full story of the shootdown will “become clear in a couple of days,” he added.
The IL-76 military transport plane was shot down over Russia’s Belgorod Region on Wednesday morning. Everyone on board – 65 prisoners, six crew members, and three Russian soldiers – died. The Russian Defense Ministry claims that the plane was brought down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles while en route to a prisoner exchange in the city of Belgorod, located near the Russia-Ukraine border.
The GUR was aware that Ukrainian prisoners were traveling on the plane, Putin said on Friday, according to RIA Novosti.
“The entire current Kiev regime is based on crimes committed daily, including against its own citizens,” Putin said. “The [GUR] knew that we were transporting 65 military personnel there … and knowing this, they struck the plane.”
In a statement issued on Wednesday night, the GUR did not deny that the jet was taken out by Ukrainian forces. Instead, the agency said that it was unsure whether the prisoners would be taken to the exchange point by air or other means, and that it “was not informed about the need to ensure the safety of the airspace” over the border region.
Putin said that material seized from the crash site suggests that an American or French air-defense missile was used to bring down the plane, and that exactly how the aircraft was shot down “will become clear in a couple of days.”
“The results of the investigation into the IL-76 case will be published so that the Ukrainian people know” what happened to their soldiers, he stated.
Russian State Duma Defense Committee chief Andrey Kartapolov has also alleged that Western weapons were used to target the flight, claiming that American Patriot or German Iris-T missiles were fired at the jet. A French military source told Radio France on Wednesday that a Patriot missile had struck the fatal blow.
“All currently available data points to a deliberate, premeditated crime,” Russia’s deputy representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, told a meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday. “The Ukrainian leadership was well aware about the route and means by which [the Ukrainian] soldiers would have been transported to the agreed exchange point,” he claimed, alleging that “the regime in Kiev had decided this time to sabotage [the swap] in the most barbaric way.”
- The Times publishes a lengthy article acknowledging that the west is losing the war, yet the conclusion is that the west should just keep doing more of the same.www.thetimes.co.uk Weakened West is sleepwalking towards a new era of conflict
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine shattered the fiction that we can somehow get along with aggressors such as Russia, Iran and China. But the shabby state of our armed forces shows Britain has yet to adjust to that reality, writes Max Hastings
- The Wall Street Journal recently published a report about 155-mm shells and their production in the USAwww.wsj.com Israel and Ukraine Both Need 155mm Artillery Shells. Can the U.S. Meet Demand?
The 155mm shell is the most requested artillery munition of the war in Ukraine. And now Israel needs it as well for its war in Gaza. WSJ’s Alistair MacDonald explains why it is so popular and whether the U.S. and other global arms suppliers can cope with the demand. Photo: Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reute...
They give some different numbers that are very indicative.
- US supplied Ukraine with more than 2 million 155-mm shells in the past two years
- The price of shells in US went from $1,200 to $8,400
- From October to December inclusive, US supplied Israel with 57 thousand 155-mm shells
- US produced 14 thousand shells per month in 2022, and they want to increase it to 80 thousand by 2025
- Today, it comes out to 28 thousand a month
- Americans themselves, Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel all need shells.
- Production volumes in Europe are not named, but it is indicated that they are significantly less than the US
- Russia fires 10,000-30,000 shells per day
- Russian weapons production is “leaving the West behind” and in the coming years the RF may gain undoubted superiority on the battlefield - The Telegraphwww.telegraph.co.uk From scones to drones: inside Putin’s arms race that is leaving the West behind
As Moscow turns bakeries and even classrooms into tools to ramp up weapons production, Nato is struggling to keep up
- Ukraine looks to be losing the 'battle for ammunition,' and its forces are being massively outshot by the Russianswww.businessinsider.com Ukraine looks to be losing the 'battle for ammunition,' and its forces are being massively outshot by the Russians
NATO this week announced plans to boost its stockpile of artillery ammunition as Ukraine faces severe shortages on the battlefield.
- Ukraine kills 65 of their own soldiers by shooting down a plane carrying POWs for exchange
The Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down an Il-76 aircraft over Belgorod.
The IL-76 military aircraft was transporting 65 Ukrainian POW for exchange with Russian POW, along with 6 crew members and 3 escorts.
The captured Ukrainian servicemen were being transported to the Belgorod region for exchange.
Another Il-76 carrying 80 Ukrainian prisoners of war turned back, said the head of the Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov.
“The Ukrainian leadership was well aware of the impending exchange and was informed of how the prisoners would be delivered,” he said during a speech in the State Duma
After the crash of the IL-76 in the Belgorod region, prisoner exchanges between the Russian Federation and Ukraine will apparently be put on pause.
https://nitter.net/vicktop55/status/1750106895887765811
- Royal Navy warships crashed into each other ‘due to faulty rewiring’www.theguardian.com Royal Navy warships crashed into each other ‘due to faulty rewiring’
Wiring error meant HMS Chiddingfold went backwards when set to go forward and hit HMS Bangor in Bahrain, say sources
- Moscow mocks CIA for new bid to recruit Russian spieswww.politico.eu Moscow mocks CIA for new bid to recruit Russian spies
Spy games heat up ahead of Vladimir Putin’s likely re-election in March.
- Ukraine: Zelensky may soon oust military chief Zaluzhnyasiatimes.com Ukraine: Zelensky may soon oust military chief Zaluzhny - Asia Times
Rumors are making the rounds in Kiev that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will fire the head of his armed forces, General Valerii Zaluzhny.
- Former NATO chief comes out and says what the proxy war in Ukraine is all aboutwww.telegraph.co.uk Former Nato chief: ‘If Ukraine loses, our enemies will decide the world order’
Lord Robertson says these are ‘dangerous’ times, but talk of freezing the conflict with Russia will be self-defeating
- I know it's newsweek, but a shockingly honest and sober analysis for western mediawww.newsweek.com How Russia Won the Sanctions War With the West
It is now abundantly clear that Russia has defeated the Western sanctions regime that was intended to cripple its economy and force its withdrawal from Ukraine.
- The Bundeswehr is preparing for an armed conflict against Russia 🤡www.bild.de Exklusives Geheim-Papier zum Ukraine Krieg: Eskalation gegen Nato schon 2024
Plant Russen-Diktator Wladimir Putin eine Eskalation gegen die Nato? BILD weiß: Die Bundeswehr bereitet sich vor.
