Ukraine 3

[mystery-ak]

Ukraine 2 which is locked

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,468874.0.html

[catfish1957]

 

[Kamaji]

Fire at munitions depo forces 2 Russian villages to evacuate in another destructive incident behind enemy lines

By Associated Press
August 19, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine— A fire at a munitions depot near the Russian village of Timonovo has led to the evacuation of two villages in Russia’s Belgorod region on Ukraine’s northeastern border, an official said Friday. The blaze was the latest in a series of destructive incidents on Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine or inside Russia itself.

Roughly 1,100 people reside in the villages of Timonovo and Soloti, around 15 miles from the Ukrainian border. There were no casualties in the blaze late Thursday, Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

The fire came days after another ammunition depot exploded on the Crimean Peninsula, a Russian-occupied territory on the Black Sea that was annexed by Moscow in 2014.

Last week, nine Russian warplanes were reported destroyed at an airbase on Crimea, demonstrating both the Russians’ vulnerability and the Ukrainians’ capacity to strike deep behind enemy lines. Ukrainian authorities have stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/two-russian-villages-evacuated-after-fire-at-munitions-depo/

[libertybele]

How much grain is being shipped from Ukraine?

Over half a million tonnes of wheat and other types of food have been shipped from Ukraine's ports in the past month, says the United Nations.

On 22 July, Russia lifted its blockade of the ports, allowing ships to use a safe corridor through the Black Sea.

However, Ukraine is only exporting grain at half the rate that it was before the war.
How much grain has been stuck in Ukraine?

About 20 million tonnes of grain meant for export has been trapped in Ukraine since February, along with other foodstuffs such as maize and sunflower oil.

This has caused an undersupply of food and soaring prices in many countries around the world.

Graph showing top Ukrainian wheat importers, by country:



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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-61759692

[libertybele]

Zelenskiy warns of 'ugly' Russian attack before Independence Day

 President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday warned Ukrainians to be vigilant in the coming week as they prepare to celebrate their Independence Day, as fresh blasts hit Crimea and a missile wounded 12 civilians near a nuclear power plant.

In his nightly video address, Zelenskiy said Ukrainians must not allow Moscow to "spread despondency and fear" among them as they mark the 31st anniversary of independence from Soviet rule.

"We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious," Zelenskiy said ahead of the anniversary on Aug. 24, which also marks six months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.

The curfew in Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, would be extended for the entire day on Aug. 24, regional governor Oleh Synehub said. The northeastern city is regularly hit by Russian shelling and normally has a curfew from 10 pm to 6 am.

"Remain at home and take heed of warnings!" Synehub wrote in a message to residents on Telegram.

Also on Saturday, a Russian missile hit a residential area of a southern Ukrainian town not far from a nuclear power station, wounding 12 civilians, Russian and Ukrainian officials said.

That strike at the Pivdennoukrainsk (South Ukraine) nuclear station and fresh shelling near the Zaporizhzhia station, Europe's largest such facility, prompted new fears of a nuclear accident during the war, Ukrainian officials said.

Zelenskiy in his address also referred obliquely to a series of explosions in recent days in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory seized and annexed by Russia during a 2014 incursion.

Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attacks, but analysts have said at least some have been made possible by new equipment used by Ukrainian forces.

"You can literally feel Crimea in the air this year, that the occupation there is only temporary and that Ukraine is coming back," Zelenskiy said....................

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-wounds-nine-ukrainian-town-not-far-nuclear-plant-2022-08-20/

[Kamaji]

Putin's new false flag operation? Russian propaganda channel claims troops have been poisoned in Ukraine amid fears the Kremlin is planning to use fake news as an excuse to use chemical weapons

By ADAM SOLOMONS and STEWART CARR and CHRIS PLEASANCE FOR MAILONLINE
20 August 2022

The Kremlin's propaganda arm has claimed Russian troops were 'poisoned in a chemical attack in Ukraine', prompting fears Moscow will seek to justify the use of chemical weapons in the country.

Putin mouthpiece Russia Today reported traces of Botulinum toxin Type B, which is an 'organic poison of artificial origin,' were found in samples taken from soldiers, according to a statement from Russia's defence ministry.

But Kyiv hit back, suggesting the soldiers simply could have eaten contaminated meat.

Kyiv was accused of 'domestic terrorism' and Russian troops were 'hospitalised with signs of severe poisoning' after being stationed near the village of Vasilyevka in the Zaporozhzhia region on July 31.

The statement added: 'The Zelensky regime has authorized terrorist attacks with the use of toxic substances against Russian personnel and civilians.'

But in response, an adviser to Ukraine's interior ministry said that the alleged poisoning could have been caused by Russian forces eating expired canned meat.

The Russian Ministry's report did not say how many servicemen had suffered or what their condition was now. It did not say what the 'supporting evidence' was.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11129979/Russian-propaganda-channel-claims-troops-poisoned-Ukraine.html

[Kamaji]

Kyiv's latest tourist attraction! Ukrainian capital's downtown area is turned into massive open-air museum of burned-out and captured Russian tanks as Putin's invasion continues to splutter

By ADAM SOLOMONS and TOM PYMAN FOR MAILONLINE
20 August 2022

Downtown Kyiv has been turned into a massive open-air museum of burned-out and captured Russian tanks as Putin's invasion of Ukraine continues to sputter.

Locals took to city centre thoroughfare Khreshchatyk Street today, stopping to take a look at dozens of military vehicles in the middle of the road.

The powerful image of the rusty weapons is the latest damning indictment of Russia's failure to capture Kyiv.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11129537/Burned-Russian-tanks-display-Kyiv-streets-Putins-invasion-continues-splutter.html

[Kamaji]

Russia proudly shows off an Australian Bushmaster as it adds the destroyed icon to a war trophy museum amid its bloody war with Ukraine

By DAVID SOUTHWELL FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
20 August 2022

Russia has displayed a destroyed Australian-made Bushmaster as part of a war trophy exhibition of military vehicles captured from Ukrainian forces.

The gutted and blast-damaged Bushmaster was shown with a placard and sign displaying Australian flag in Patriot Park, which is located just outside Moscow.

It was reported in May that one of the 20 Australian Bushmasters vehicles sent as military aid to Ukrainian forces was destroyed between Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

Footage emerged of a burnt-out wreckage of a Bushmaster sitting in an empty field but a Ukrainian commander told an Australian reporter all those in the vehicle survived.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11130687/Russia-displays-destroyed-Australian-Bushmaster-war-Ukraine.html

[Kamaji]

Russia proudly shows off an Australian Bushmaster as it adds the destroyed icon to a war trophy museum amid its bloody war with Ukraine

By DAVID SOUTHWELL FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
20 August 2022

Russia has displayed a destroyed Australian-made Bushmaster as part of a war trophy exhibition of military vehicles captured from Ukrainian forces.

The gutted and blast-damaged Bushmaster was shown with a placard and sign displaying Australian flag in Patriot Park, which is located just outside Moscow.

It was reported in May that one of the 20 Australian Bushmasters vehicles sent as military aid to Ukrainian forces was destroyed between Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

Footage emerged of a burnt-out wreckage of a Bushmaster sitting in an empty field but a Ukrainian commander told an Australian reporter all those in the vehicle survived.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11130687/Russia-displays-destroyed-Australian-Bushmaster-war-Ukraine.html

Pretty thin gruel there.  The bragging simply demonstrates the Orcs' weakness.

[bilo]

Pretty thin gruel there.  The bragging simply demonstrates the Orcs' weakness.

I agree, but looking at the map the 20% of Ukraine the Orcs took early on in the invasion hasn't changed all that much. Ukraine is going to have to start retaking territory soon, while Russia's resources and manpower is depleted. If not the Russians may solidify their gains. What's worse is the 20% they've taken includes what used to be big manufacturing areas as well as having large deposits of natural gas and oil.

[Kamaji]

Is Kremlin inner circle turning on Vladimir? Fears grow in Moscow that daughter of 'Putin's Rasputin' was killed by RUSSIAN car bomb as even president's former commander says Ukraine have made him look like a 'clown'

By RACHAEL BUNYAN FOR MAILONLINE
22 August 2022

Rogue security agents from Russia's feared FSB spy agency are feared to be behind the car bombing attack which killed the daughter of Vladimir Putin's Rasputin-esque 'guru' advisor, amid mounting suspicions the Russian president's inner circle is turning on him.

There are growing fears in Moscow that the attack on Putin loyalist Alexander Dugin's daughter, Darya Dugina, on Saturday night was conducted by Putin's own loyal agents amid rumours they want to oust the Russian leader from power.

Frustration and anger is mounting over Russia's war in Ukraine, with one of Putin's former commanders even branding the president a 'clown' who has been outplayed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11133533/Fears-grow-Moscow-daughter-Putins-Rasputin-killed-RUSSIAN-car-bomb.html

[Kamaji]

'Putin's Rasputin' had criticised Vladimir shortly before his daughter was blown up - but Russia denies 'false flag' attack and names female Ukrainian spy they claim detonated car bomb

By WILL STEWART and RACHEL BUNYAN and TOM BROWN FOR MAILONLINE
22 August 2022

Alexander Dugin, known as ‘Putin’s Rasputin’, had strongly attacked the Kremlin leader shortly before his daughter Darya was blown up in a car bomb.

There had been an online campaign to disparage Dugin in the days leading up to the fatal blast it appears was intended for him instead of his daughter.

The revelations add to the theory that TV personality and ultranationalist pundit Darya Dugina, 29, was killed by Russian special services or other forces loyal to Putin.

Ukraine has strongly denied any role in the killing in Moscow, accusing the Kremlin of a 'false flag' operation to blame Kyiv.

Today the Russian FSB claimed that the SBU - Kyiv’s special services - were behind the murder and said a woman named Natalia Vovk, born in 1979, carrying out the hit.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11134305/Putins-Rasputin-criticised-Vladimir-shortly-daughter-blown-up.html

[Kamaji]

'Putin's Rasputin' demands 'more than just revenge' for the death of his daughter as it emerges he recently criticised Vladimir... and Russia accuses Ukrainian female spy of planting car bomb

By RACHAEL BUNYAN and WILL STEWART and TOM BROWN FOR MAILONLINE
22 August 2022

Vladimir Putin's Rasputin-esque 'guru' advisor today demanded 'more than just revenge or retribution' for his daughter's death after she was killed in a car bombing.

Putin loyalist Alexander Dugin, 60, accused Ukraine of carrying out the attack on his daughter, Darya Dugina, 29, on Saturday night in a bombing believed to be intended for him.

Dugin said in revenge for the attack, Putin's men must secure a victory against Ukraine in the war.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11134305/Putins-Rasputin-criticised-Vladimir-shortly-daughter-blown-up.html

[Cyber Liberty]

 

[Kamaji]

Russian paratrooper’s bombshell diary exposes chaos in Ukraine

By Snejana Farberov
August 22, 2022

A Russian paratrooper has revealed gut-wrenching details in a new memoir about the war in Ukraine, describing friendly-fire incidents, hordes of starving, marauding troops, and panicked commanders unable to stop general chaos.

Pavel Filatyev, 34, had spent more than a month fighting in Kherson and Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine while serving with the Russian military’s 56th Airborne Regiment.

After being discharged due to a severe eye infection, the paratrooper released a brutally candid, 141-page account of his wartime experiences on the Russian social media site VKontake at a considerable personal risk.

“I’m aware of the consequences for disseminating information about my military service, but to conceal it for me means contributing to more losses,” Filatyev wrote in his journal, which was verified by The Post.

Filatyev opened his diary — written in plain prose sprinkled with eye-watering Russian profanities and military jargon — by sarcastically remarking that it was a shame that journalists were not allowed to visit soldiers on the front lines.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/russian-paratroopers-bombshell-diary-exposes-chaos-in-ukraine/

[Kamaji]

In rare tally of dead, Ukraine marks 9K killed in action in 6 months of war

By Evan Simko-Bednarski
August 22, 2022

Kyiv reported some 9,000 troops killed in action since February, a grim milestone as the Russian invasion reaches its six-month anniversary.

Kyiv’s military chief, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, referenced the figure at a veterans event on Monday, saying Ukraine’s children must be cared for because “their father went to the front line and, perhaps, is one of those almost 9,000 heroes who died.”

The statement — the first official death toll from Kyiv since the fighting began — is a rare look into the cost of a war that has been hard to quantify. The United Nations has routinely reported civilian casualty figures, most recently reporting 5,587 non-combatants killed.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/ukraine-marks-9000-dead-soldiers-in-six-months-of-war/

[mountaineer]

Logan Ratick
@Logan_Ratick

7m
.@Greta: "Do we have any information that (the war in Ukraine) is getting close to the end?"

John Kirby: "Sadly, no. In fact, just in the last day or so, we've heard from the Kremlin that they have no intention of seeking a diplomatic end to this war."

[mountaineer]

Never ending.

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
JUST IN - U.S. to announce a $3 billion arms package for Ukraine tomorrow, the single largest yet.
12:53 PM · Aug 23, 2022·

[mystery-ak]

August 23, 2022 1:58pm EDT
Biden admin to announce $3 billion in further aid, training for Ukrainian military: report
The Biden administration aid package will signal long-term American support for Ukraine's fight against Russia
By Anders Hagstrom | Fox News

    President Joe Biden's administration will announce an additional $3 billion in aid to Ukraine on Wednesday alongside a shift toward supporting the nation's war against Russia long-term, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine will have lasted six months on Wednesday, the same day that Ukraine celebrates its Independence Day. The Wednesday announcement is expected to focus on equipping the Ukrainian military to fend off Russian aggression well into the future.

Past U.S. security donations for Ukraine have included weapons, equipment and medical supplies — things that meet the immediate need of combat against Russian forces. Wednesday's package will reportedly focus on bolstering the country's security infrastructure.

The announcement comes weeks after the Pentagon sent what was its largest-yet package to Ukraine, a $1 billion injection of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, among other things.

more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-announce-three-billion-further-aid-training-ukrainian-military-report

[Kamaji]

Ex-Russian mayor and Putin critic arrested for slamming Ukraine war

By Snejana Farberov
August 24, 2022

The former mayor of Russia’s fourth-largest city — and a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin — was arrested on Wednesday for speaking out against the war in Ukraine.

Yevgeny Roizman, 59 who served as the mayor of Yekaterinburg in 2013-2018, was taken into custody by police following raids on his apartment and office — as part of the Kremlin’s nationwide crackdown against dissidents.

Roizman told reporters he was charged with discrediting Russia’s military, which is illegal under a law that was adopted after the invasion of Ukraine in February. He faces up to five years in prison, if convicted.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/24/ex-russian-mayor-and-putin-critic-arrested-for-blasting-ukraine-war/

[Hoodat]

Biden admin to announce $3 billion in further aid, training for Ukrainian military: report
The Biden administration aid package will signal long-term American support for Ukraine's fight against Russia

And that right there illustrates the flaw with Biden's policy with Ukraine.  He wants to draw this war out for the next 20 years (causing untold misery for the Ukrainian people) instead of defeating Russia over the next six months.

[Hoodat]

Logan Ratick
@Logan_Ratick

7m
.@Greta: "Do we have any information that (the war in Ukraine) is getting close to the end?"

John Kirby: "Sadly, no. In fact, just in the last day or so, we've heard from the Kremlin that they have no intention of seeking a diplomatic end to this war."

The Russian response is not surprising with people like John Kirby representing the US position.

[Hoodat]

Disclaimer:

In order to avoid the same type of conflict that shut down the previous thread, I wish to clarify my position on this war.

1.  My overwhelming desire is for the removal of all Russian forces from Ukraine.
2.  I wholeheartedly oppose Russia's war on Ukrainian civilians.
3.  I vehemently oppose the WEF
4.  I am indifferent towards the EU except where their positions conflict with those above.

I request that other posters refrain from falsely attributing positions to me that I do not hold.  If unsure, please refer to the points listed above.  A respectful thanks to all.

[Hoodat]

'One of the great humiliations for the Russian military' - Professor Michael Clarke looks back on six months of war

3h ago  |  09:25

After months of denials made by President Vladimir Putin that there would not be an invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin regime attacked the country.

Here, Professor Michael Clarke, the former director-general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), provides an analysis of the last six months of the war in Ukraine.

The defence analyst said Russian forces, who invaded Ukraine on 24 February from several places at once, had planned to complete their invasion in three days but this did not happen.

On 28 February, the world saw a big convoy developing out of Belarus down towards Kyiv and it was assumed this would be the encirclement of the capital

Clarke said: "It didn't work. The convoy just ran out of momentum and the Ukrainians attacked the logistics. It was one of the great humiliations for the Russian military, that they couldn't run a big convoy to do anything."

In April, war crimes in Bucha and Chernihiv began to emerge as Russian forces withdrew from Kyiv and Ukrainians troops moved into the suburbs.

"Those war crimes shocked the world and all the leaders who have been to Ukraine commented on what they saw in Bucha," Clarke said.

By June, Russian forces were able to capture the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk as part of their eastern offensive which was "the best thing they did military", Clarke added.

Have a watch of Clarke's full reflection on the last six months here...

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-news-live-war-russia-nuclear-putin-latest-crimea-updates-12541713?postid=4345220#liveblog-body

[Cyber Liberty]

Disclaimer:

In order to avoid the same type of conflict that shut down the previous thread, I wish to clarify my position on this war.

1.  My overwhelming desire is for the removal of all Russian forces from Ukraine.
2.  I wholeheartedly oppose Russia's war on Ukrainian civilians.
3.  I vehemently oppose the WEF
4.  I am indifferent towards the EU except where their positions conflict with those above.

I request that other posters refrain from falsely attributing positions to me that I do not hold.  If unsure, please refer to the points listed above.  A respectful thanks to all.

Ahem!  The previous two threads.