Ukraine 4

[Kamaji]

In a just world, Putin would be run feet first through a wood chipper and Russia would be dismembered into 25 mini states that would not threaten their neighbors.

[sneakypete]

Retaliation?  So what is Russia gonna do?  Fire a bunch of missiles at Ukrainian civilian targets?  Blow up a major dam?  Kidnap Ukrainian children and ship them to Russia?  Burn food crops?  Rape and execute civilians and pile their bodies into mass graves?

@Hoodat

VERY valid points!

Maybe the next move will be to  put them  on Super Secret Restrictions?

[PeteS in CA]

Russia promises retaliation after Ukrainian drones hit a Russian tanker in 2nd sea attack in a day

Pittsburgh Post Gazette by Hanna Arhirova 8/5/2023

KYIV, Ukraine — Moscow promised retaliation Saturday after Ukrainian drones hit a Russian tanker in the Black Sea near Crimea late Friday, the second sea attack involving drones in one day.

Ukraine struck a major Russian port earlier on Friday.

Moscow strongly condemned what it sees as a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” on a civilian vessel in the Kerch Strait, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

1. If the tanker was supplying fuel to Crimea, it was "fair game".

2. If the tanker was exporting Russian oil to elsewhere in the world, Russian attacks on Ukrainian grain exports on a Danube River port made the Russian tanker "fair game".

[Kamaji]

Russia launches missile, drone barrage against Ukraine as promised after suffering tanker strike

By Ronny Reyes
August 6, 2023

Russia made good on its threat to retaliate against Ukraine for bombing a Kremlin tanker, unleashing a massive and deadly missile and drone strike Sunday.

Ukrainian military officials confirmed that waves of 70 Russian drones and missiles were launched over the Caspian Sea to lay waste to cities in western Ukraine.

The overnight blitz and counterattack killed at least six people.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the Russian strike, noting one of the bombs hit a blood transfusion center in Kupyan in the Kharkiv region.

“This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,” Zelenskyy said. “Defeating terrorists is a matter of honor for everyone who values life.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/06/russia-launches-missile-drone-barrage-against-ukraine-as-promised/

[Kamaji]

Ukraine strikes two key bridges into Russian-occupied Crimea with 'UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles' after Moscow targeted Ukrainian airbase with three waves of attacks

Chonhar bridge was damaged and small bridge across Tonky Strait was shelled

By JAMES CALLERY and CHRIS MATTHEWS
6 August 2023

Ukrainian troops damaged two key bridges leading into Russian-occupied Crimea with 'Storm Shadow missiles supplied by the UK' today.

The Chonhar bridge linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea was damaged and a small bridge across the Tonky Strait was also shelled.

Continuing attacks by Zelensky's forces are making it increasingly hard for Putin's invading army to get on and off the peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.

Crimea is of military importance to Moscow as well as a popular tourist destination for Russians.

The missile strikes today came after Russia carried out three waves of attacks on Ukraine last night.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12378317/Ukraine-strikes-two-key-bridges-Russian-occupied-Crimea-UK-supplied-Storm-Shadow-missiles-Moscow-targeted-Ukrainian-airbase-three-waves-attacks.html

[mountaineer]

 

[Timber Rattler]

The Russians hunting for cheap flats in occupied Mariupol

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66393949

It is one year since the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was largely destroyed by Russian forces and captured.

It is now being transformed and presented as a showcase for rule from Moscow - and some Russians are even hoping to buy homes there.

Russia claimed to have annexed Mariupol, along with all other occupied areas, following a series of referendums that have been widely condemned as sham exercises.

About 90% of the city's buildings were damaged or destroyed by Russian shelling during a gruelling two-month siege. Thousands of civilians were killed and about 350,000 people left, out of the pre-war population of 430,000, according to the UN.

Now, the occupation authorities seem intent on "Russifying" the city, changing Ukrainian-language road signs to Russian ones, introducing the Russian curriculum in schools and pushing the remaining residents to acquire Russian passports.

BBC Verify has used satellite footage to map how Russia is reshaping the fabric of the city.

It has also found that while new development is ongoing, extensive destruction remains - and it has heard from remaining pre-war residents who fear an uncertain future.

EXCERPT

[sneakypete]

@Timber Rattler

It has also found that while new development is ongoing, extensive destruction remains - and it has heard from remaining pre-war residents who fear an uncertain future.

BS. They face a future as slaves of the Soviets. That is THE most certain thing you will read today.

[ScottinVA]

The Russians hunting for cheap flats in occupied Mariupol

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66393949

EXCERPT

I’ll bet the Putards who have taken over TQS are jerking themselves silly over this.

[Kamaji]

Anti-Putin Russians 'blow up fuel and ammo depot inside occupied Ukraine' as they widen their attacks following strikes in border regions

The anti-Putin Freedom of Russia Legion claimed the strike in Zaitseve, Donetsk
Group formed in spring 2022 to fight for Ukraine against 'Putin's armed gang'

By ARTHUR PARASHAR  and WILL STEWART
7 August 2023

Russians fighting Vladimir Putin claim to have blown up a fuel and ammunition depot inside occupied Ukraine as they widen their attacks following strikes in border regions.

The Freedom of Russia Legion - which was formed in spring 2022 to fight for Ukraine - claimed a mortar strike on the village of Zaitseve in the Donetsk region.

Dramatic drone footage captured the moment that the depot was transformed into a raging inferno as huge plumes of smoke billowed into the sky.

The anti-Putin group said the strike hit a depot where mines and shells were stashed by Russian forces. The Russian defence ministry did not comment on the attack.

The legion's drone operators in the 1st UAV company and a mortar battery platoon were behind the strike.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12380131/Anti-Putin-Russians-blow-fuel-ammo-depot-inside-occupied-Ukraine-widen-attacks-following-strikes-border-regions.html

[sneakypete]

What's with all these reports of Russians BUYING land and putting up buildings?

Have the people writing these stories forgotten  that Russia is a slave nation,and "the state" owns everything,including them?

Even the large estate outside Moscow that is REPORTED to be owned by Putin is NOT his. It is HIS TO USE WHILE SERVING AS THE MAXIMUM LEADER,but the same day he is no longer in office is the day  he no longer owns that estate,his enormous private yacht,or his private jet passenger airplane.

The  only thing I can GUESS at is these people are reporting how much they  are having to pay in bribes to be allowed to live near the ocean. They will NOT "own" anything. The "State" will own it and they pay bribes to get permission to live in it.

Which,when you really think about it isn't radically different from our system. 
 

[Kamaji]

Female Russian ‘spy’ detained in failed Zelensky assassination plot: Ukraine

By Snejana Farberov
August 7, 2023

A female Russian “spy” has been detained after allegedly leaking information to the enemy as part of a plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky during his recent trip to the Mokylaiv region, Ukraine’s security service said.

The Security Service of Ukraine, known as SBU, said in a statement Monday that the suspect, who was not publicly identified, “was collecting data for an airstrike during Zelensky’s visit.”

The collaborator tried to establish the route of Zelensky’s motorcade, times and locations on his itinerary during his visit to the region in late July, during which the president met with wounded soldiers recovering in local hospitals and handed out state awards to doctors.

The woman — labeled a “traitor” by the SBU — was allegedly caught “red-handed” on the eve of Zelensky’s trip when she tried to pass the information to the Russians, the statement said.

The security service in Mykolaiv was “proactive” and “additional security measures were taken during the visit.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/07/russian-spy-detained-in-failed-zelensky-assassination-plot/

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Female Russian ‘spy’ detained in failed Zelensky assassination plot: Ukraine

By Snejana Farberov
August 7, 2023

A female Russian “spy” has been detained after allegedly leaking information to the enemy as part of a plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky during his recent trip to the Mokylaiv region, Ukraine’s security service said.

The Security Service of Ukraine, known as SBU, said in a statement Monday that the suspect, who was not publicly identified, “was collecting data for an airstrike during Zelensky’s visit.”

The collaborator tried to establish the route of Zelensky’s motorcade, times and locations on his itinerary during his visit to the region in late July, during which the president met with wounded soldiers recovering in local hospitals and handed out state awards to doctors.

The woman — labeled a “traitor” by the SBU — was allegedly caught “red-handed” on the eve of Zelensky’s trip when she tried to pass the information to the Russians, the statement said.

The security service in Mykolaiv was “proactive” and “additional security measures were taken during the visit.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/07/russian-spy-detained-in-failed-zelensky-assassination-plot/

I know the Geneva convention is sort of a joke, but is this sort of thing against it?

[Kamaji]

I know the Geneva convention is sort of a joke, but is this sort of thing against it?

What?  Catching spies?

[Kamaji]

Orcs will be orcs ...


Tortured on the front line: Horrific video 'shows Ukrainian soldier beaten with an axe and an assault rifle's barrel buried in his ear as he is interrogated by Russian captors'

The appalling incident is believed to have unfolded on Sunday in Luhansk region
See Richard Pendlebury and Jamie Wiseman's full video from the front lines on our YouTube Channel

By WILL STEWART
8 August 2023

Horrific new footage from the frontlines of Ukraine appears to show the moment Russian soldiers forced a testimony from a Ukrainian PoW after threatening him with an axe and pushing the barrel of an assault rifle into his ear.

At least three Russian soldiers or mercenaries are seen demanding that the captive reveal positions of his Kyiv troop comrades at the frontline.

Russian pro-war channels published the sickening video which, if confirmed as authentic, would constitute evidence of war crimes, flouting the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

One claimed: 'This is how [Ukrainian] POWs are broken.'

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12384353/Ukrainian-soldier-beaten-axe-assault-rifles-barrel-buried-ear-interrogated-Russian-captors.html

[Kamaji]

Ukraine claims to uncover sleeper cell of female spies working for Russia

By Snejana Farberov
August 8, 2023

Ukraine claimed to have dismantled an all-female spy network operating in the Donetsk region, which allegedly had been leaking information to Russia’s intelligence services and Wagner Group mercenaries.

“The group consisted exclusively of local women who supported Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine,” the Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU, said in a statement Tuesday.

The SBU said that its Counterintelligence unit has arrested three women, all living in the city of Pokrovsk, as they were “conducting reconnaissance.”

Ukrainian investigators also allegedly identified a senior member of the spy ring, who at the beginning of the war relocated to Russia to coordinate her “team” remotely.

According to the SBU, all four intelligence assets had been recruited by the Russians before the war “and until recently were on standby.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/ukraine-claims-to-uncover-female-spy-ring-working-for-russia/

[PeteS in CA]

FWIW, Pokrovsk is about 30 miles NW of the outskirts of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk and in Ukrainian controlled territory. Pokrovsk is also the junction of several significant highways, i.e. a significant transportation hub through which the passing of Ukrainian forces might be observable.

[Hoodat]

Ukraine crosses Dnieper at Kozachi

[Hoodat]

from r/UkraineWarVideoReport

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/15kmtxz/special_operation_in_the_occupied_part_of_the/

[Kamaji]

War arrives on Putin's doorstep: Huge explosion tears through Russian defence plant near Moscow as drone attack targets the capital

The blast tore through the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant in Sergiyev Posad, 46 miles northeast of Moscow. The plant makes optical devices for the military
Blast came after Moscow said it had downed two drones close to the capital

By CHRIS JEWERS and WILL STEWART
9 August 2023

A Russian defence plant was evacuated this morning after a major explosion at the site sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky, towering over nearby buildings.

It came hours after Moscow became the target of another drone attack overnight, with Russia saying it had shot down two Ukraine UAVs near the capital, in the latest in a string of attacks on and around the country's capital in recent months.

The explosion at the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant also initially prompted reports of a drone strike, but this was quickly denied by Russian officials.

A huge mushroom cloud was seen over the plant in Sergiyev Posad, 46 miles northeast of Moscow. A witness said 'the whole plant is in ruins'.

A total of 31 were wounded but a rising toll of casualties was feared, said governor Andrey Vorobyov, with 19 needing hospital treatment. Three are in a serious condition, reports said.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12388161/Explosion-tears-Russian-defence-plant-near-Moscow.html

[Kamaji]

Putin's junkyard war machines: Russia 'deploys 1,500 rusting mothballed tanks from Siberian dump' after suffering huge losses in Ukraine

Among the old tanks are T-62s, produced up to 1975, and T-55 and T-54 models
Decision to take tanks out of storage comes amid Russia's significant losses to its military hardware, with low estimates suggesting Putin has lost over 2,200 tanks

By WILL STEWART and CHRIS JEWERS
9 August 2023

Vladimir Putin has been forced to deploy almost half his mothballed old tanks and armoured vehicles from a major Siberian open-air depot after suffering huge losses in Ukraine.

Some 1,570 rusting war machines have been moved from their Siberian dump and restored to service for the Russian president's war against Ukraine, say reports.

More than 40 per cent of the 3,840 tanks and military vehicles shown on satellite pictures from Google Earth at Vagzhanovo military equipment depot before the war have now been taken out of storage, it is claimed.

The site in the Buryatia republic is the largest in Russia covering five square miles.

Footage shows repurposed antiquated tanks from storage sites like Vagzhanovo - of which there are several across Russia - being moved to the war zone by military train.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12388039/Russia-deploys-Soviet-mothballed-tanks-dump.html

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

What?  Catching spies?

No, trying to assassinate a head of state.

[Kamaji]

Ukraine orders 12,000 people from 37 towns and villages to evacuate as Russian forces look to punch through the front line with a series of missile strikes

    Ukraine says Russia has gathered troops in the Kupiansk area of Kharkiv Oblast

By Matthew Lodge and Associated Press
10 August 2023

Ukraine has ordered the mandatory evacuation of nearly 12,000 people from 37 towns and villages amid threats of a concerted effort by Russian forces to punch through the front line.

Thousands of people living in the Kupiansk district of the eastern region of Kharkiv have been told by the authorities that to stay they must sign forms saying they know the risks, as 'high intensity' combat and enemy shelling takes place in the area.

The city of Kupiansk and the territories around it were under Russian occupation until September 2022, when Ukrainian forces conducted a rapid offensive operation that dislodged the Kremlin's forces from nearly the entire Kharkiv region.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12395315/Ukraine-orders-12-000-people-37-towns-villages-evacuate-Russian-forces-look-punch-line-series-missile-strikes.html

[kevindavis007]

https://twitter.com/LukeDCoffey/status/1689814167727775744

[PeteS in CA]

Ukraine orders 12,000 people from 37 towns and villages to evacuate as Russian forces look to punch through the front line with a series of missile strikes

    Ukraine says Russia has gathered troops in the Kupiansk area of Kharkiv Oblast
...

Ukraine is also concerned about spies in the area. If a spy stays, they lack people to blend in with. If a spy leaves, they are not in the area to observe and report what Ukraine does.