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Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

Details about the French VAB armored vehicle of the Ukrainian army. The armored vehicle was developed by Renault and Savier in 1976 and was produced in different versions. The VAB 4x4 version armed with a 12.7 mm M2 Browning machine gun was delivered to Ukraine. VAB armor provides protection only from 7.62 mm bullets, for which the car has been repeatedly criticized. There was also a weak protection against mines. The crew of the car is 2 people, the landing force is 10 people. Armored vehicle engine power - 300 hp The maximum speed on the highway is 110 km / h. Fuel range is about 1000 km. The armored car in various modifications is in service with about 15 countries.


Powerful defensive lines with the help of engineering equipment are created by the Russian PMC Wagner in Ukraine. Engineering units of PMC Wagner installed concrete tetrahedrons, anti-tank gouges, ditches and trenches were dug. Firing positions for infantry and equipment were created, and mining of the territory was probably carried out on the approaches to the defense line.


The Ukrainian army began to use the English counter-battery system MAMBA ARTHUR. It was reported that the MAMBA radar was supplied from England, but the experts found out that this is a similar Swedish ARTHUR radar of modification "A". The MAMBA ARTHUR radar is a mobile radar designed to determine the location of firing installations in the direction of their firing. The detection range of firing positions of 82-mm mortars is 20 km, of 120-mm mortars - up to 35 km, MLRS - up to 45 km, the accuracy of determining coordinates - up to 25 m, the system fixes - up to 100 targets per minute. Data on priority targets are transmitted to the control point in automatic or semi-automatic mode. To expand the search area, a network of four radars can be created. The radar is placed on the chassis of the Bv206 all-terrain vehicle. The cost of the ARTHUR radar, 5 million dollars.


Fight in Ukraine. Russian units, noticing a column of Ukrainian armored vehicles and firing points near the forest belt, aimed several tanks at them. UAV operators comment and correct the fire of tanks.

Maybe the ”experts” found the Wiki page ;-)
 
Think some page ago someone posted this is a decoy from the OSINT guy??
I believe that was a BUK system, decoy or not. This S300 strike looks legit. I realize they didnt have much space setting up the system, but seems really stupid parking right next to one another.
I think they have a BUK operating at 0.09 left corner of the video.
They need some old school anti aircraft guns defending against those drones, or maybe call in members of the clay pigeon shooting association to shoot down those slow and low flying drones.
 
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Nice propaganda from you. You shall know the basic logic why Russian blowing that pipe will never happened, You all treat us as idiot? That is how absurd the current media has become and they can even spread outright lies and think the rest of the world will buy it...

No wonder the India are bold enough to come out with a outright lie article claim INS VIkrant is more advance and better than Fujian aircraft carrier. Thinking even 3 years old kid will trust it... :lol:
Actually its not treating anybody like an idiot. I see no reason that NATO or US would sabotage the pipeline despite sci fi stories saying that this is what happened.

There is also no proof that Russians did it. Everybody on the keyboard then just stop accusing who did it as if they have some inside information when no news exist so then lets talk about stuff that is occuriring then (blowing up bridges, dead solders)

Tucker Carlson: Company Man


Delves into the history of Tucker, Tuckers father. Their links to cia connected groups, PNACers, neo-cons, and other deepstaters. The only fair conclusion: Tucker is run by cia assets and is a cia asset. Since that is so, the cia Washington agenda is to destroy Europe. While the neo-lib Democratic Party Beltway State and Defense Departments send Ukraine limited amounts of weapons to drag this war on to have Europe suffer month after month of inflation and economic turmoil. With the goal of political, societal, and economy collapse of the EU. Watch the entire video. The pro-Russia narrative of Tucker is from the Trumper and deepstate cia goal to destroy the EU, since Tucker is a cia asset. Neo-nationalist conservative statists is the cia brand. Putin is a cia brand. Tucker preaches that authoritarian conservative cia statism brand on Faux News. The same authoritiarian cia brand that is promoted in cia coups around the globe, Russia included. Tucker, Russian Republicans and Trump are the cia coup in the US to turn it into a Russian-style autocracy state.



These deepstaters would get covertly excited over Ukraine/Germany/EU being nuked, overtly blame Russian Muslims for the nuking or defending Putin with any "excuse" (Americans in, Russians out and Germany down... with nuking Germany off the map, Germany is down for a long while as is the goal of US/UK policy - if protecting Germany from nukes is the policy of the US, then have cold war policy if NATO gets nuked by Russia, have US nuke Russia off the map... except since Tucker/Trump/Pompeo cia are partners with Russia, there is no reason to protect Europe when Europe is a rival of the US). China also wants Europe nuked, to punish whitey for Trump. Putin is begging for excuses to nuke the EU.

If Trump returns and nukes China. And China is unable to hit the US because of US defenses, China would want to nuke Europeans, to punish NATO, as China is getting nuked. Read the 50 cent Chinese on the forums. They are only able to parrot Beijing Policy. "Punish whitey for Trump. NATO is the enemy of China. Russia destroy Europe in revenge for Trump being white." Ukraine is not NATO, Ukraine wants to be part of the EU, something that supported trade and healthy bilateral relations with China. And China wants Russia to destroy Ukraine and the EU. If that is not a warning that in the event of Trump nuking China and China unable to hit the USA... China would take out revenge and nuke Europe. UK an London would be protected by US nuke shield. Nuke shield would not cover Germany less than 200 km away from UK, because the USA does not want Germany to be safe from nukes from Putin or China. Trump backed Russia and China backed Russia blew up the pipeline for the purpose to destroy the EU economy, particularly Germany. Tucker/Trump/Pompeo cia want the EU in shambles. As does China and Russia.

Europeans need to learn from Franco. Franco survived for so long by taking the help of the Great Powers. Yet not joining the war of the warmongering UK/US deepstate. Had Franco joined the war, Franco would have shared the fate of Mussolini. Instead Nationalist Spain lived on. And Spain determined her fate. And was not vilified as Germans were. Learn the lessons of Mussolini. Mussolini wanted to knock out Hitler in 1934 and needed France and UK to help defeat Germany. Taking Hitler out before it gets too strong and before Germany was militarily/strategically powerful prevents much loss. Had UK and France gone along with Mussolini to kill Hitler in 1934, there would have been no Second World War, as we know it with total war. Hitler would have been defeated within months, as Germany had not rearmed. So take opportunities to defeat the Hitlers of Europe and not let Putin win. So learn to balance these two lessons. They are seemingly conflict. Peace, yet war. Or Peace, and arm Ukraine to defend Europe. Or better... Peace, and let fully nuclear armed nations arm Ukraine.

Hitlers first major diplomatic play was the first attempt to Annex Austria into the newly minted German Reich. Working in close cooperation with Austrian [Nazis], they moved to remove the Austrian [fascist] government in early 34, Arresting or killing notable members of the democratically chosen government, and occupying important buildings and generally preparing to establish a regime not unlike Hitler's with the final goal of Anschluss. While most of Europe did not act. Mussolini was forced to intervene, not because he wanted to, but rather due to political and strategic reasons.

The strategic reason was that he did not fully trust Hitler, and wanted to keep a bufferzone between him and Germany. The second more important reason was that he knew that the annexation of Austria would serve as a powerful tool in forcing other Germans speakers to join his Reich. Alongside this, Mussolini knew that many people in South Tirol were sympathetic to the new Nazi regime and chances were that if given the chance they would join the Reich, regardless of what Italy wanted.

The result was possibly the closest the world came to ending Hitler before the war started. Mussolini ordered Comando Supremo to deploy troops to the Brenner Pass, and begin raising the additional 28 divisions for war. Its estimated that at the time Hitler pulled out of Austria, the italians had 8 divisions of troops at the Austrian Border, and another 4 positioned behind that, and apparently plans had been drawn up to invade within 4 hours of the order being given to do so.

This extremely aggressive stance meant that Hitler, who at this point, had nowhere near the means to fight the huge, if poorly equipped Italian army, had to pull out of Austria, and likewise did so. After this set of events, Italian Fascists, along with various democratic groups moved and arrested large numbers of Austrian Nazis and German agents, while restoring the Austrian government to its previous status.

This meant that the relations between the 2 Fascist regimes were cold, if not outright hostile to each other, until the Italian annexation of Abyssinia, which will be the subject of another article.



This is forbidden history. Telling of a time when Mussolini wanted to fight Hitler to defend Italy and defend fascist Austria. It is history nearly erased from the internet. The Critical Race Theory of "whitey bad", is that Italy was bad with Mussolini. And that fascism and nazism is the same ideology. Failing to address that Nazis killed Devout Catholic Fascists in Austria. This does not even delve into the history of Italy asking for aid to defeat Hitler from France and UK. That piece of info is nearly banned from the internet by the Entente cia that run the internet search results. I learned that from a book. The war would have been easy with French and UK forces in a 1934 war vs Nazi Germany. Both passed and let Hitler annex this and annex that territory. Letting Putin take over Ukraine, then Baltic, then Finland, then Georgia, then Azerbaijan, then Poland... Putin is the new Hitler and you have to defend Europe with careful thought.

Though if you want to comprehend the background and backers of Tucker, watch the 1/2 hour video exposing Tucker as a cia deepstate fraud. There to get the public to oppose the EU and support Russian Republicans. Faux News says the pipeline was a false flag done by Biden and Democrats. If that does not stink of lies...

The Republicans are the party that wanted to shut down the pipeline because EU was set up. The rivals of Trump and Russian Republicans were Iran, EU and China. Russia was a tool to destroy Europe. Republicans did not want Russian cheap gas fueling a vibrant EU economy. European "goodwill" to integrate Russia into the EU economy was a failure because Putin is planning the destruction of Europe, not economic trade with Europe. And Trumper Putin is using the war to harm the EU.


Gales of stupid laughter in 5, 4, 3, 2...
How do you even have time to write out paragaphs of BullS*((*? I can see people wasting a minute for two sentences worth of fiction. But you wrote a chapters worth about figments of your imagination. The assumption you make is that there is some powerful way that CIA can control the entire situation around the world. Yet somehow Iran, N. Korea continue to exist despite being open adversaries.

Another one bites the dust. This is idea of fighting with fear and reprisal has done in all countries: Iraq, Hitler Germany, and Russia is well on its way.

Even the loyal diehards are going to not give their best to their leader when cost of failure is a made up death


Putin's head of Ukraine mobilisation campaign found dead in 'suspicious circumstances'​

Lt-Col Roman Malyk 'suspicious' death comes after a spate of attacks on mobilisation offices across Russia. His body was discovered near the fence of his home in a village in the Primorsky region




By
Will StewartRussia Correspondent
Graeme MurrayNews Reporter
The head of Vladimir Putin's disastrous Ukraine mobilisation campaign has been found dead in “suspicious” circumstances.

Military commissar Lt-Col Roman Malyk, 49, a, was discovered near a fence at his home in a village in the Primorsky region of Russia.


Some reports claimed he died from hanging.

Russian police have opened a murder probe but have not ruled out suicide.

His “suspicious” death comes after a spate of attacks on mobilisation offices across Russia.

As many as 70 offices have been hit with Molotov cocktails as anger grows over enlistment.

There is rising fury over mobilisation officials forcibly recruiting men with little or no training in apparent violation of the rules.



 
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Tucker Carlson: Company Man


Delves into the history of Tucker, Tuckers father. Their links to cia connected groups, PNACers, neo-cons, and other deepstaters. The only fair conclusion: Tucker is run by cia assets and is a cia asset. Since that is so, the cia Washington agenda is to destroy Europe. While the neo-lib Democratic Party Beltway State and Defense Departments send Ukraine limited amounts of weapons to drag this war on to have Europe suffer month after month of inflation and economic turmoil. With the goal of political, societal, and economy collapse of the EU. Watch the entire video. The pro-Russia narrative of Tucker is from the Trumper and deepstate cia goal to destroy the EU, since Tucker is a cia asset. Neo-nationalist conservative statists is the cia brand. Putin is a cia brand. Tucker preaches that authoritarian conservative cia statism brand on Faux News. The same authoritiarian cia brand that is promoted in cia coups around the globe, Russia included. Tucker, Russian Republicans and Trump are the cia coup in the US to turn it into a Russian-style autocracy state.



These deepstaters would get covertly excited over Ukraine/Germany/EU being nuked, overtly blame Russian Muslims for the nuking or defending Putin with any "excuse" (Americans in, Russians out and Germany down... with nuking Germany off the map, Germany is down for a long while as is the goal of US/UK policy - if protecting Germany from nukes is the policy of the US, then have cold war policy if NATO gets nuked by Russia, have US nuke Russia off the map... except since Tucker/Trump/Pompeo cia are partners with Russia, there is no reason to protect Europe when Europe is a rival of the US). China also wants Europe nuked, to punish whitey for Trump. Putin is begging for excuses to nuke the EU.

If Trump returns and nukes China. And China is unable to hit the US because of US defenses, China would want to nuke Europeans, to punish NATO, as China is getting nuked. Read the 50 cent Chinese on the forums. They are only able to parrot Beijing Policy. "Punish whitey for Trump. NATO is the enemy of China. Russia destroy Europe in revenge for Trump being white." Ukraine is not NATO, Ukraine wants to be part of the EU, something that supported trade and healthy bilateral relations with China. And China wants Russia to destroy Ukraine and the EU. If that is not a warning that in the event of Trump nuking China and China unable to hit the USA... China would take out revenge and nuke Europe. UK an London would be protected by US nuke shield. Nuke shield would not cover Germany less than 200 km away from UK, because the USA does not want Germany to be safe from nukes from Putin or China. Trump backed Russia and China backed Russia blew up the pipeline for the purpose to destroy the EU economy, particularly Germany. Tucker/Trump/Pompeo cia want the EU in shambles. As does China and Russia.

Europeans need to learn from Franco. Franco survived for so long by taking the help of the Great Powers. Yet not joining the war of the warmongering UK/US deepstate. Had Franco joined the war, Franco would have shared the fate of Mussolini. Instead Nationalist Spain lived on. And Spain determined her fate. And was not vilified as Germans were. Learn the lessons of Mussolini. Mussolini wanted to knock out Hitler in 1934 and needed France and UK to help defeat Germany. Taking Hitler out before it gets too strong and before Germany was militarily/strategically powerful prevents much loss. Had UK and France gone along with Mussolini to kill Hitler in 1934, there would have been no Second World War, as we know it with total war. Hitler would have been defeated within months, as Germany had not rearmed. So take opportunities to defeat the Hitlers of Europe and not let Putin win. So learn to balance these two lessons. They are seemingly conflict. Peace, yet war. Or Peace, and arm Ukraine to defend Europe. Or better... Peace, and let fully nuclear armed nations arm Ukraine.

Hitlers first major diplomatic play was the first attempt to Annex Austria into the newly minted German Reich. Working in close cooperation with Austrian [Nazis], they moved to remove the Austrian [fascist] government in early 34, Arresting or killing notable members of the democratically chosen government, and occupying important buildings and generally preparing to establish a regime not unlike Hitler's with the final goal of Anschluss. While most of Europe did not act. Mussolini was forced to intervene, not because he wanted to, but rather due to political and strategic reasons.

The strategic reason was that he did not fully trust Hitler, and wanted to keep a bufferzone between him and Germany. The second more important reason was that he knew that the annexation of Austria would serve as a powerful tool in forcing other Germans speakers to join his Reich. Alongside this, Mussolini knew that many people in South Tirol were sympathetic to the new Nazi regime and chances were that if given the chance they would join the Reich, regardless of what Italy wanted.

The result was possibly the closest the world came to ending Hitler before the war started. Mussolini ordered Comando Supremo to deploy troops to the Brenner Pass, and begin raising the additional 28 divisions for war. Its estimated that at the time Hitler pulled out of Austria, the italians had 8 divisions of troops at the Austrian Border, and another 4 positioned behind that, and apparently plans had been drawn up to invade within 4 hours of the order being given to do so.

This extremely aggressive stance meant that Hitler, who at this point, had nowhere near the means to fight the huge, if poorly equipped Italian army, had to pull out of Austria, and likewise did so. After this set of events, Italian Fascists, along with various democratic groups moved and arrested large numbers of Austrian Nazis and German agents, while restoring the Austrian government to its previous status.

This meant that the relations between the 2 Fascist regimes were cold, if not outright hostile to each other, until the Italian annexation of Abyssinia, which will be the subject of another article.



This is forbidden history. Telling of a time when Mussolini wanted to fight Hitler to defend Italy and defend fascist Austria. It is history nearly erased from the internet. The Critical Race Theory of "whitey bad", is that Italy was bad with Mussolini. And that fascism and nazism is the same ideology. Failing to address that Nazis killed Devout Catholic Fascists in Austria. This does not even delve into the history of Italy asking for aid to defeat Hitler from France and UK. That piece of info is nearly banned from the internet by the Entente cia that run the internet search results. I learned that from a book. The war would have been easy with French and UK forces in a 1934 war vs Nazi Germany. Both passed and let Hitler annex this and annex that territory. Letting Putin take over Ukraine, then Baltic, then Finland, then Georgia, then Azerbaijan, then Poland... Putin is the new Hitler and you have to defend Europe with careful thought.

Though if you want to comprehend the background and backers of Tucker, watch the 1/2 hour video exposing Tucker as a cia deepstate fraud. There to get the public to oppose the EU and support Russian Republicans. Faux News says the pipeline was a false flag done by Biden and Democrats. If that does not stink of lies...

The Republicans are the party that wanted to shut down the pipeline because EU was set up. The rivals of Trump and Russian Republicans were Iran, EU and China. Russia was a tool to destroy Europe. Republicans did not want Russian cheap gas fueling a vibrant EU economy. European "goodwill" to integrate Russia into the EU economy was a failure because Putin is planning the destruction of Europe, not economic trade with Europe. And Trumper Putin is using the war to harm the EU.


Gales of stupid laughter in 5, 4, 3, 2...
I see you’re back with more irrelevant bs
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The Democrats in the US need a TV Ad called: Putin Manipulation.

In Europe and America: social, economic and political unrest is being fueled by Putin and Putin is fanning the flames. To have Democrats lose in the US. To have Social Democrats lose in Europe.

Due to Putins effort, inflation is double digit in much of Europe. The expectation is Putin supporters in Europe would grow with economic and social unrest, a Russian coup.

Putin is manipulating you, not to help you. To ruin enemies of Russia. To turn the US and Europe into Russian-style autocratic criminal states, owned by cia linked Chabad, cia linked Russian Mafia and other cia linked criminals.

Most of the entire globe is experiencing inflation. Putin wants to hide this and make it seem your anti-Putin politician is to blame for the inflation. "Your neo-liberal mayor is to blame for inflation", says the Putinite. Their only solution "is for you to vote in Trumpers and Putinites puppets of the deepstate into your mayoral seat."

The same Russian Republicans that want the EU to crash, cheer for Russia in Ukraine, cheer for Russia defeating the EU... are the Russian Republicans that blame Putins pipeline explosion on Biden. Russian Republicans blame the explosion on the enemy of Russian Republicans and Putin - Biden.

True statement: "NATO is being attacked economically, socially and politically. Russia wants to destroy NATO Europe. The pipeline was helping to save the NATO economy."

Question: "Then who did the attack on the pipeline"

Russian Republican Troll: "NATO"

Russian Republicans oppose NATO, oppose the Democrats, so they blame Democrats.



NATO chief said Europe cannot defend from Russia, Europe needs the US. So the Russian Republicans want to abandon Europe to Russia.


Meaning those that support Putin are also Trumpers and Tucker Carlsonites. It is the cia plot destroy rivals, Russian Republicans using puppet Putin.
Give it up, trumps not president
 
The Russia Republicans. The Republican Agenda is to have total loyalty to Trump. Tucker is Pravda for the Russia Republicans. Pro-Putin is the policy of Republicans. Republicans have been the cia party since before the 1980s. Trump is no different.


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Trump and Russia

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The Trump sons on Russia and the Trump family over the decades. ^

Their plot is to take down Europe and the Democrats.


Trump/Putin/cia want to take down the EU with this war.
 
Thanks for informing us that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan has lost their right to exist as countries due to the coups.

The US launched a coup in Iran much the same way to ukraine. Overthrowing an elected government in favour of a thug puppet regime.


The only difference is Iranians never Ever bought the narrative. And at the earliest opportunity decapited the imposed regime, and stuck a fist up the zionist/american rear ends since 1979.

If Iran had become a willing participant of american coups. Became a fascist country ethnically cleansing minorities and made our country a foreign base with the sole purpose of attacking Russia or some orher major power. And that power got pissed off and retaliated. Then yes. That zombie aggressive state would lose its right to survive as far as the targeted country (Russia) is concerned

Ps. I know your a zionist and your schtick is to use walls of nonesense to play wordgames. I have no interest in engaging with such clowns
 
If there is a German member who can provide documented evidence that Angela Merkel's Party CDU has a German Version of Tucker Carlson and bnd runs that individual to promote Russian Propaganda.

Then we would welcome that information to show the internal politics of Germany. However, there is no Tucker Carlson of the CDU, run by the BND to promote Russian Propaganda.

However there is, as documented, a cia asset on Faux News who is a Republican and promotes Kremlin sh*t on the tv. That individuals name is Tucker Carlson.
 

1) That video of the European calling themselves privileged isn't wrong. However, compared to the rest of the world, European or, for that matter rest of the world is a garden.

2) Belarus isn't coming, and if by chance it does, it's too late. They should have come since the beginning. They've waited almost two weeks for the Ukrainians to prepare countermeasures.
 
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The US launched a coup in Iran much the same way to ukraine. Overthrowing an elected government in favour of a thug puppet regime.


The only difference is Iranians never Ever bought the narrative. And at the earliest opportunity decapited the imposed regime, and stuck a fist up the zionist/american rear ends since 1979.

If Iran had become a willing participant of american coups. Became a fascist country ethnically cleansing minorities and made our country a foreign base with the sole purpose of attacking Russia or some orher major power. And that power got pissed off and retaliated. Then yes. That zombie aggressive state would lose its right to survive as far as the targeted country (Russia) is concerned

Ps. I know your a zionist and your schtick is to use walls of nonesense to play wordgames. I have no interest in engaging with such clowns
You don't have to ethnically cleanse minorities: its violent supression of everybody. Today's Iran in terms of not tolerating dissent is the same as Shah's Iran. Stop deluding yourself and making us believe as if through the revolution Iran has become a much more enlightened place.

As for 2014 protests: any time somebody stands up to a leader, its assumed that the population is dumb and stupid and there must be a foreign hand. Unless you were in Kiev in 2014, you are reading the same conspiracy articles that I can find: that all was really great in the country, and then US engaged in a coup.

Why is it not possible that Ukrainians did not want the leader's U turn away from Europe and have some brains to express themselves? After all thats how the Shah was overthrown? Or are the bearded Khomenei was also a CIA stooge?

Give the people of countries some credit: they wanted a new leader, they got a leader. And they believe in it. Thats why all able bodied men stayed to fight. They weren't told to , they just wanted to. No mass exodus of men going to other countries.

If you have no interest in engaging in clowns, then start learning about the rest of the world and stop making every post about Iran. Nobody gives a rat's a** on Iran's position. All Iran is good at is making sure that Ghazans on one end and Yemenis on the other are good cannon fodder . That blood is on Iran's hands.
 
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I believe that was a BUK system, decoy or not. This S300 strike looks legit. I realize they didnt have much space setting up the system, but seems really stupid parking right next to one another.
I think they have a BUK operating at 0.09 left corner of the video.
They need some old school anti aircraft guns defending against those drones, or maybe call in members of the clay pigeon shooting association to shoot down those slow and low flying drones.
I don't know, as I said, I remember reading a post from the same YouTube handle about S300 and said that was a decoy. I don't remember much on that post but I think that OSINT people from Oynx came out and explain why it was a decoy.

I could be wrong tho as I did not really digest the post but I am certain that's the same YT Handle because it was quite distinct.

As for whether or not it is legit, I will give it some time and watch it myself, but probably not today as I am hella busy today. And I most likely would have forgot about all this by the time I had done my own thing....
 
6 hr 54 min ago

Gunmen kill at least 11 people in attack on Russian military recruits, Russia's state media reports​

From CNN's Mariya Knight
Two gunmen opened fire on Russian military recruits at a training ground in Russia’s Belgorod region, killing at least 11 people and wounding another 15, Russia’s state news agency TASS reports.
The attack happened Saturday during a training session at the Western Military District, according to TASS, which cited the Russian Defense Ministry. The gunmen were said to be from former Soviet states. Russian officials have branded the attack an act of terrorism.
“As a result of a terrorist attack at a military training ground in the Belgorod region, 11 people were killed, 15 were injured and are receiving medical assistance,” TASS reported.
“The incident occurred during a shooting training session with volunteers preparing for a special operation. The terrorists attacked the personnel of the unit with small-arms fire.”
According to TASS, two individuals who committed the “terrorist act” were killed in retaliatory fire at the training ground.
The Belgorod region is in western Russia on the border with Ukraine.

7 hr 28 min ago

Zelensky notes eastern regions with the fiercest fighting in evening address​

From CNN's Mariya Knight
Very fierce battles are taking place around the eastern Donetsk region, and the Ukrainian military is holding its position there, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address Saturday.
“Active operations continue in various areas of the front. A very difficult situation persists in Donetsk region and Luhansk,” Zelensky said, referring to another eastern region that has been occupied by Russian troops for months. “The most difficult is the Bakhmut direction, as in the previous days. We hold our positions.”
Bakhmut is located in the northern portion of Donetsk region.
Work still to do on recaptured land: Zelensky also gave an update on the efforts to reconnect services to regions of Ukraine recently liberated from Russian forces.
He said homes in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Izium, which was under Russian occupation for six months before being liberated in September, are having their supply of natural gas restored.
“The first 500 families of the city already have gas in their homes again,” he said. “Just yesterday, more than 3,000 houses in the Izium, Kupiansk, Chuhuiv and Kharkiv districts of Kharkiv region were connected to the gas supply. Work is ongoing in other directions as well.”
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6 hr 42 min ago

“The hell with it … we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free,” Elon Musk tweets​

From CNN's Tim Lister
Weeks after SpaceX said the company could not keep funding the Ukrainian military’s use of its satellite services, US billionaire Elon Musk seemed to reverse course on Twitter today — though it wasn’t clear if the issue was actually settled.
“The hell with it … even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free,” a tweet from Musk’s verified account read Saturday.
If you haven’t been following this: Starlink is the name of a satellite system, made by Musk’s SpaceX, which has been a vital source of communication for Ukraine’s military. The company’s internet terminals have allowed troops to stay connected even as cellular phone and internet networks have been destroyed in the war with Russia.
SpaceX has warned the Pentagon it may stop funding the service in Ukraine unless the US military kicks in tens of millions of dollars per month. The company also requested the Pentagon take over funding for Ukraine’s government and military use of Starlink, which SpaceX claims would cost more than $120 million for the rest of the year and could cost close to $400 million for the next 12 months.
A Pentagon spokesperson said Friday it had been in communication with SpaceX over the funding of the Starlink satellite communication product.
“No good deed goes unpunished,” Musk said in response to a follower who replied to his tweet Saturday. “Even so, we should still do good deeds.”
Ukrainian officials voice support: The situation involving Musk’s Starlink was complicated further when he publicly shared a Russia-Ukraine peace proposal this month. He faced withering criticism in Ukraine for the plan because it would see Kyiv surrender Crimea and agree to neutrality status.
However, some Ukrainian officials have since extended an olive branch.
Yegor “George” Dubynskyi, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation, told CNN Saturday that Starlink is crucial in newly liberated territories so that Ukrainian officials can communicate.
Ukraine continues to talk with donors such as the Polish and US governments on how to continue funding Starlink, Dubynskyi said. He had no immediate response to Musk’s tweet.
CNN’s Sean Lyngaas contributed to this report.

8 hr 48 min ago

Analysis: The next few weeks of the war in Ukraine are critical. Here’s why​

Analysis by CNN's Rob Picheta
The war in Ukraine, which for months appeared to be descending into a slow and painful grind, has erupted once again as winter nears. The conflict is teetering toward an unpredictable new phase.
“This is now the third, fourth, possibly fifth different war that we’ve been observing,” said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Programme.
An onslaught of Russian missile attacks this week was followed by steady Ukrainian ground gains and a huge explosion on the Kerch bridge, the only crossing between the annexed Crimean peninsula and Russia. That blast bruised the Russian psyche and handed Ukraine a significant strategic boost.
With the cold months nearing and likely bringing a slowdown in ground combat, experts say the next weeks of the war will be vital.
“What seemed a distant prospect for anything that could be convincingly described as a Ukraine victory is now very much more plausible,” Giles said. “The response from Russia is likely to escalate further.”
“Playing for the whistle”: Russia said Thursday its forces would help evacuate residents of occupied Kherson as Ukraine makes more gains in the region.
The successful offensive has shifted the momentum of the war and disproved a suggestion, built up in the West and in Russia last summer, that while Ukraine could stoutly defend territory, it lacked the ability to seize ground.
“The Russians are playing for the whistle – (hoping to) avoid a collapse in their frontline before the winter sets in,” Samir Puri, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the author of “Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine,” told CNN.
“If they can get to Christmas with the frontline looking roughly as it is, that’s a huge success for the Russians given how botched this has been since February.”
You can read Rob Picheta’s complete analysis here.

10 hr 43 min ago

What are the "kamikaze drones" used by Russia in Ukraine?​

From CNN's Ivana Kottasová
Ukrainian officials say Russia has been deploying an increasingly familiar weapon in its attacks: “kamikaze drones.”
Most recently, the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia was hit with four strikes by kamikaze drones overnight Saturday. Authorities said Moscow has also used them in assaults against Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Odesa and other cities across Ukraine in recent weeks.
Ukrainian officials have pleaded with Western countries to step up their assistance in the face of the new challenge, in addition to developing its own technology to counter the strikes.
Kamikaze drones, or suicide drones, are a type of aerial weapon system. They are known as a “loitering munition” because they are capable of waiting in an area identified as a potential target and only strike once an enemy asset is identified.
The drones are capable of carrying precision-guided missiles and have a payload of approximately 50 kilograms (110 pounds). They are small, portable and can be easily launched — but their main advantage is that they are hard to detect and can be fired from a distance.
The name “kamikaze” refers to the fact the drones are disposable. They are designed to hit behind the enemy lines and are destroyed in the attack – unlike the more traditional, larger and faster military drones that return home after dropping missiles.
Ties to Iran: The Ukrainian military and US intelligence say Russia is using Iranian-made attack drones. US officials told CNN in July that Iran had begun showcasing Shahed series drones to Russia the previous month.
US officials later said Russia bought the drones and was training its forces how to use them. According to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia has ordered 2,400 Shahed-136 drones from Iran.
CNN’s Josh Pennington contributed to this report.
 
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