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[Kamaji]

Medic, 27, becomes the first female Russian soldier to be killed in Ukraine as she is fatally wounded by mortar strike in Mariupol

By WILL STEWART and CHRIS PLEASANCE FOR MAILONLINE
5 May 2022

Russia has lost its first female soldier during the war in Ukraine after a frontline medic was killed by mortar fire in the battle for Mariupol.

Valentina Galatova, 27 and a mother-of-one, died fighting in the Black Sea port city last month though her death was only confirmed by Russian media on Wednesday.

Galatova was born in Siberia but moved to Voronezh, around 170 miles north-west of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, when she was young. 

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10785589/Ukraine-war-Medic-Russias-female-solider-killed-conflict.html

[mystery-ak]

'There will be no mercy': Russian TV host threatens 'concentration camps and sterilisation' for 'opponents of the letter Z'

    Karen Shakhnazarov, a pro-Putin filmmaker, warned that opponents of Russia's war in Ukraine will face harsh punishments
    He said on RussianTV that opponents should be placed in concentration camps
    In a similar tone to that of Shakhnazarov's, Vladimir Putin recently likened opposition figures to 'gnats' and 'traitors' who try to weaken the Russia

By Rachael Bunyan For Mailonline

Published: 08:23 EDT, 5 May 2022 | Updated: 08:34 EDT, 5 May 2022

A prominent Russian state TV host has warned that opponents of Russia's war in Ukraine will face harsh punishments including 'concentration camps and sterilisation'.

Karen Shakhnazarov, a pro-Putin filmmaker, said any 'opponents to the letter Z' - the symbol of Russia's invasion - will face 'no mercy'.

'The opponents of the letter Z must understand that if they are counting on mercy, no, there will be no mercy for them,' Shakhnazarov, who leads the state-backed Mosfilm film studio, said on the state-owned Russian television channel Russia 1.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10785295/Russian-TV-host-threatens-concentration-camps-sterilisation-opponents-letter-Z.html

[sneakypete]

I did not say I approve of such an action, just pointing out that Russia has lost so much hardware in the stupid war that if they have a parade, it leaves nothing with which to actually fight.

@Cyber Liberty

Don't believe that for a minute. NO nation is going to expend the arms needed for defense on anything BUT defense.

Russia will use those weapons and manpower ONLY if she is invaded. Assuming of course that someone is foolish enough to invade her.

[sneakypete]

Medic, 27, becomes the first female Russian soldier to be killed in Ukraine as she is fatally wounded by mortar strike in Mariupol

 
Galatova was born in Siberia but moved to Voronezh, around 170 miles north-west of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, when she was young. 

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@Kamaji

Well,now we know why she joined the Russian Army.
Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10785589/Ukraine-war-Medic-Russias-female-solider-killed-conflict.html

[Cyber Liberty]

@Cyber Liberty

Don't believe that for a minute. NO nation is going to expend the arms needed for defense on anything BUT defense.

Russia will use those weapons and manpower ONLY if she is invaded. Assuming of course that someone is foolish enough to invade her.

Makes total sense, @sneakypete! 

[Hoodat]

The United States has provided intelligence that has helped Ukrainian forces kill several Russian generals since Vladimir Putin's troops invaded the country, senior US officials said.

Senior US officials are complete idiots, considering that their action is in violation of US law.   I applaud the action, but am appalled at the idiocy of those bragging about it.  Keep your mouths shut!

[Hoodat]

In the last 24 hrs:

200 KIA
2  Fixed wing aircraft
15 Tanks
9  UAV
41 APC/Vehicles
8  Artillery systems
6  MLRS
2  AA systems
2  Cruise missiles

[Kamaji]

Senior US officials are complete idiots, considering that their action is in violation of US law.   I applaud the action, but am appalled at the idiocy of those bragging about it.  Keep your mouths shut!

[Kamaji]

Russians to dress Ukrainian POWs in uniforms for Mariupol parade: official

By Snejana Farberov
May 5, 2022

Russian forces are planning to dress up thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war in military uniforms during next week’s Victory Day parade in Mariupol, a Ukrainian official claimed Thursday.

Petro Andryushchenko, an aide to the mayor of the besieged port city, wrote on his Telegram channel that officials have learned that nearly 2,000 Ukrainians are being housed in three filtration camps in the hamlet of Bezimenne, which he likened to “ghettos.”   

“These men are held there and they are told that they will be made to wear the Ukrainian [military] uniform and to participate in a so-called ‘war prisoners parade’ in Mariupol because they [the Russians] lack actual prisoners of war,” the adviser said on a national newscast, Ukrainian media reported.

“It will be a grotesque crowd scene for another propaganda image,” he added.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/russians-to-dress-ukrainians-in-uniforms-for-mariupol-parade/

[Kamaji]

Russians to dress Ukrainian POWs in uniforms for Mariupol parade: official

By Snejana Farberov
May 5, 2022

Russian forces are planning to dress up thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war in military uniforms during next week’s Victory Day parade in Mariupol, a Ukrainian official claimed Thursday.

Petro Andryushchenko, an aide to the mayor of the besieged port city, wrote on his Telegram channel that officials have learned that nearly 2,000 Ukrainians are being housed in three filtration camps in the hamlet of Bezimenne, which he likened to “ghettos.”   

“These men are held there and they are told that they will be made to wear the Ukrainian [military] uniform and to participate in a so-called ‘war prisoners parade’ in Mariupol because they [the Russians] lack actual prisoners of war,” the adviser said on a national newscast, Ukrainian media reported.

“It will be a grotesque crowd scene for another propaganda image,” he added.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/russians-to-dress-ukrainians-in-uniforms-for-mariupol-parade/

Another war crime by the Russians.

[Kamaji]

Russia simulated nuclear missile strikes near the border with NATO

By Lee Brown
May 5, 2022

Russia carried out ominous simulated nuclear missile strikes this week on the border with the European Union and NATO, according to reports.

The Kremlin confirmed the war games Wednesday in Kaliningrad, a small Baltic Sea enclave sandwiched between EU nations Poland and Lithuania, both also members of NATO, according to the Moscow Times.

It included simulated “electronic launches” of nuclear-capable Iskander mobile ballistic missile systems, the independent paper said, citing a defense ministry statement.

The Russian forces practiced multiple strikes at targets imitating launchers of missile systems, airfields, protected infrastructure, military equipment and command posts of a mock enemy, the statement said.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/russia-simulated-nuclear-missile-strikes-near-border-with-nato/

[Kamaji]

Israel accepts Putin apology over Hitler comments

By Evan Simko-Bednarski
May 5, 2022

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday that he’d accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Kremlin’s contention that Adolf Hitler had had “Jewish origins.”

Bennett’s office said the apology took place during a phone call Thursday, in which the two leaders also discussed the further evacuation of civilians trapped in Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant, the last holdout for Ukrainian defenders in the ruined port city.

An account of the call on Russian state-run news site RIA Novosti made no mention of the apology.

The Hitler comment — made Sunday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — drew a sharp rebuke this week from Bennett, who accused the Russian minister of ​using the Holocaust as a “battering ram.”

“When they say, ‘What sort of nazification is this if we are Jews,’ well, I think that Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it means nothing​,” Lavrov said when asked by Italian media how Russia could claim to “denazify” a country with a Jewish president.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/israel-accepts-putin-apology-over-hitler-comments/

[Kamaji]

The Russian Army Wasn't Designed for War and Putin's War in Ukraine Is Proving It

By streiff
May 05, 2022

Towards the end of March, at a point where Putin’s War seemed to be unraveling, but some of us were still having trouble coming to grips with the abysmal performance of the Russian armed forces, an amusing story hit the internet. Some 300 South Ossetian soldiers who had volunteered to give their lives fighting in Ukraine for their country’s Russian puppeteer showed back up home. They had walked and hitchhiked some 500 as-the-crow-flies miles back home from the battlefield.

I don’t know that Putin was humiliated or capable of feeling that emotion, but his military chiefs had made a big show of all the loyal friends of Russia showing up to kill the nasty nazis in Ukraine. So 300 of them legging it home was, at least, untoward. It raised some eyebrows at home, too.

https://twitter.com/rajdianos/status/1509244398944538630

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More information on that debacle was made available today in an interview South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov had with the “deserters.”

What ensues is an Airing of Grievances worthy of any Festivus Celebration.

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https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1521793724174450689

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Source:  https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/05/05/the-russian-army-wasnt-designed-for-war-and-putins-war-in-ukraine-is-proving-it-n560026

[Ghost Bear]

The Russian Army Wasn't Designed for War and Putin's War in Ukraine Is Proving It

By streiff
May 05, 2022

That was a fascinating read, thank you for posting.

[Kamaji]

That was a fascinating read, thank you for posting.

[Cyber Liberty]

Senior US officials are complete idiots, considering that their action is in violation of US law.   I applaud the action, but am appalled at the idiocy of those bragging about it.  Keep your mouths shut!

Could the Senior US Officials have been ordered to blab?

[Hoodat]

Briton who joined Azov Regiment with far-right origins says they're not 'monsters and psychos'

Mark Ayres has spent the past two months in Ukraine after joining the Azov Regiment, which originated as a far-right paramilitary unit. The British Army veteran insists he has challenged some Azov fighters over their beliefs and those he has met are not "monsters and psychos".

David Mercer  |  5 May 2022  |  10:55, UK

A British man who joined a controversial Ukrainian military unit says he is willing to spend the next year defending against Russia's invasion - and he has not been deterred by the capture of other Britons.

Mark Ayres has spent the past two months in Ukraine after joining the Azov Regiment, which has far-right origins - insisting he has challenged some members over their beliefs, and those he has met are not "monsters and psychos".

The 47-year-old British Army veteran, who has a teenage son in the UK, first spoke to Sky News when he arrived in Ukraine in early March, despite having no links to the country.

Since then, Mr Ayres says he has helped the Azov Regiment defend the city of Bucha, where Russia is accused of committing war crimes with mass killings and the torture, rape and murder of civilians.

He has now been told he must wait in Kyiv to sign a contract with the Ukrainian army before taking part in any further military action, after several Britons were captured by Vladimir Putin's troops.  .  .

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-briton-who-joined-azov-regiment-with-far-right-origins-says-theyre-not-monsters-and-psychos-12605181



Mark Ayres has been serving with Ukraine's Azov military unit

[Hoodat]

Pro-Russian Fighter With Nazi Patches Gets Medal for Killing 'Nazis'

BRENDAN COLE ON 4/5/22 AT 10:38 AM EDT

The claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking the "denazification" of Ukraine clashed with reality after video showed a pro-Russian soldier wearing neo-Nazi symbols while being awarded a medal for fighting in the city of Mariupol.

Putin and the Kremlin have pushed propaganda to justify the invasion of Ukraine by claiming the government in Kyiv is run by Nazis, despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky being Jewish. The claims have been rejected by Zelensky and the international community.

Moscow has also inflated the role in Ukraine's military of the Azov Battalion, a far-right paramilitary group in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol.

Video shared by Storyful shows a soldier, named as Lieutenant Roman Vorobyov from the "Somalia" motorized rifle battalion, receiving the "St. George's Cross II" award while wearing far-right insignia.

Receiving the award on Sunday from Denis Pushilin, who is the Putin-sponsored head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, two patches are visible on Vorobyov's right arm.

One is a modified version of a skull-and-crossbones emblem used by Nazi Germany's 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf, an elite division of the Waffen-SS. The other is the Valknut, or Odin's knot, which is a symbol of interlocking triangles from Norse mythology commonly used by neo-Nazis.  .  .  .



https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-mariupol-azov-nazi-1695125

Looks like the real nazis here are the DPR - the ones Putin has been supporting for the last eight years.

[sneakypete]

The only real difference between the Nazi's and the Soviets were the uniforms.

The prime reason Germany invaded Russia because NO dictator wants competition,and Nazi Germany thought they could do it and win. And,in truth,they came close.

[Kamaji]

Russia faces 'sabotage' epidemic after arms manufacturers, chemical plants and a military enlistment office are all destroyed

By WILL STEWART FOR MAILONLINE
5 May 2022

Russia appears to be facing an upsurge in sabotage of facilities with military links amid the war in Ukraine.

A video shows how a Russian military enlistment office was hit by multiple Molotov cocktails as speculation intensifies that Vladimir Putin is to introduce mass army mobilisation.

And a series of fires - one of which officially killed 22 at a defence ministry missile design research institute, and another with three deaths at an explosives plant - are also seen as possible arson with Russian officials covering up or minimising some of the attacks.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10787965/War-Ukraine-Sabotage-attack-Russian-chemical-plant.html

[Kamaji]

Putin order to hit the West with nukes ‘would be IGNORED because top commanders think he is dying or gravely ill’, Moscow expert claims

By WILL STEWART and CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE
6 May 2022

An order by Vladimir Putin to strike Ukraine or the West with nuclear weapons would be ignored by his top commanders, a senior investigative journalist has said.

Many leading military and security officials as well as oligarch cronies believe Putin to be dying or gravely ill, said Christo Grozev, who is an expert on Russian affairs and is associated with the Bellingcat open source research group.

Believing that Putin could soon die, his inner circle would not risk being hauled before a modern equivalent of the Nuremberg trials for unleashing Armageddon, nor would they obey a Putin order to kill opposition foes, Mr Grozev claimed.

The Russian president placed Moscow's nuclear forces on high alert shortly after his invasion of Ukraine began February 24, raising fears he could press the button as the war in Ukraine continues to go against him.

And amid increasing Western support to Ukraine, Putin has made thinly veiled threats hinting at a willingness to deploy Russia's tactical nuclear weapons, which Russian military doctrine holds can be used to force an adversary to retreat.

Meanwhile, Russia has increasingly resorted to nuclear sabre-rattling as the war in Ukraine has stumbled, with state media last week issuing near-daily threats - including one to wipe out the UK and Ireland with a 'nuclear tidal wave'.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10788931/Putin-order-hit-West-nukes-IGNORED-Moscow-expert-claims.html

[Kamaji]

Putin sends his men to their deaths at Azovstal steelworks in desperate bid to secure the giant complex for a symbolic victory in Mariupol in time for May 9 Victory Day parade

By CHRIS PLEASANCE FOR MAILONLINE
6 May 2022

Desperate Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops on a bloody mission to seize the Azovstal steel works in Mariupol so he can have a victory to gloat over during celebrations in Russia next week, British intelligence believes.

Heavy fighting has now been going on inside the sprawling industrial complex - the last holdout of Ukrainian defenders in the key Black Sea port city - for three days, despite Putin going on Russian state TV just two weeks ago to publicly call off the operation to 'preserve the lives and health of our soldiers and officers.'

The assault is thought to be linked to May 9 Victory Day celebrations in Russia, when the country marks the surrender of Nazi Germany at the end of the Second World War and which Putin typically uses for a chest-beating display of Russian patriotism and military might complete with parades and flag-waving crowds.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10788553/Ukraine-war-Desperate-Putin-ordered-Azoval-attack-boast-victory-9.html

[sneakypete]

Russia faces 'sabotage' epidemic after arms manufacturers, chemical plants and a military enlistment office are all destroyed

 @Kamaji

Ya kinda have to wonder what will happen first in Russia.

Will the geezers on the Politburo realize that Russia is no longer the police state of their father's and accept reality by retiring,or will they be dragged out of the Kremlin to be hanged from street lamps?

[Kamaji]

[Hoodat]

Putin sends his men to their deaths at Azovstal steelworks