Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[Paul2]

Most worrying development is that Russian artillery is getting better.

They stopped losing it to counterfire, and on overall their targeting, and coordination gets better.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Russian army artillery guided by drones hammering Ukrainian army artillery that terrorize the children of Donbas.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535202842457346048

Rebel army hand me down artillery in action.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535213227298136071

Most worrying development is that Russian artillery is getting better.

They stopped losing it to counterfire, and on overall their targeting, and coordination gets better.

Ukrainian counter battery radars are likely smashed by Su-35 SEAD / DEAD jets which are armed with anti radar missiles.

 

[Viet]

In fact, there are near as many people fleeing Russia...
Lavrov's daughter in law is in London in a £4M appartment, Putin's daughter lives between her €8 millions house in Biaritz, France and Munich, Germany, where her boyfriend named Zelensky is a dancer. Most of rich Russians have moved their yachts in the UAE to dodge seizure meanwhile, in ruSSia...
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Russia is deliberately spreading cholera in Ukraine to exterminate the population. Russia is destroying Ukraine's agriculture to starve Ukrainians like during Holodomor when Stalin used famine to murder 10 millions Ukrainians... We can expect China to bring Putin with a new COVID-19 mutation to attack Ukraine and the EU again...
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Maybe we should consider to retaliate with nuclear weapons?

Putin clearly says that. In assays, in speeches. Ukraine has no right to live. He wants to exterminate Ukraine including the population as he sees them Nazi. He will populate the country with settlers. Lavrov will then realize his dream: making a new democratic world order with China.
Putin is nothing more than a clone of Stalin and other murderous leaders in Russia history.
Yes Russians themselves remain poor and backward as seen in the past, today and forever.

 

[_Nabil_]

You’re a nazi, see how easy that was and stupid that sounds

Just sound strange, coming from someone supporting Nazis , should I take it as a compliment?

That was also easy and stupid.

If only he write down his ideas like any other member, without cartoon pictures, collages, and stupid stuff like the washing machine in the Russian helicopter, is that asking much?

Again being French, you should do better than this, French journalists, thinkers and analysts from different eras and political colour are the best.

 

[Apollon]

Or like what NATO did to Iraq, Libya and doing to Venezuela.

NATO does nothing in Venezuela and was not active in iraq

 

[TNT]

$1 million, migration in the chosen western country and new identity if wanted for any Ka-52 or Mi-28N surrendered
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The pilot of this one didn't earned $1 million:
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Fox-2... Splash !!!
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Mi-28 in Ukraine :
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Banned from exporting stolen Ukrainian washing machine...
Another one bites the dust :
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Ka-52, Mi-28N or Mi-24 are dead meat for predators like ManPADS and modern AA-guns. Orcs call Ka-52, Mi-28N or Mi-24 as "flying tanks" and as all Russian tanks, these do a long migration just to die in Ukraine as it sucks less than Russia's abysses rulled by Darth Putin... HiWestern MLRS may not need air defences: they also can launch AMRAAM as SAMs...

They can't even fit AESA on $75M Su-35 which gets clubbed like a baby seal by UkrAF Soviet-era MiG-29, likely upgraded with western combat systems
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And you say they have AESA on cheap Ka-52 or M-28N????
Then, there is AESA and aesa
PLAAF Senior Pilot Reveals Poor Performance in Joint Exercise With RTAF

The Mistral ManPADS is not well known from the public, but... You really don't want to be in an Orcs' chopper when this baby is around : much better performances than Stinger, no known countermeasures...
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I think that US stayed twice as long as Russia in Afghanistan with barely the quarter of their losses, and they only came to bust Osama bin Laden...
If I remember well, USA demolished the Taliban regime in a very short time lapse, they could have stayed forever, and even annihilated the Taliban insurgency, but at which cost? They should have killed 2 millions Afghans while they just came for a single terrorist... The US military weren't defeated, it's the Afghan army that didn't fought at all when the Yanks pulled out!
Within 3 months in Ukraine, Russia has already lost twice as much personnel as in 10 years in Afghanistan, this implies about 100,000 casualties including 30-35k fatalities... Half of their their tanks have been blown, Russian air force and helicopters can"t operate, they were unable to achieve air superiority.
In fact, the 1991 NATO's 1st Gulf War deployment would give exactly the same beating to today's Russia it then gave to Saddam
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So resort to bribing when things not going well on the ground lolz why else would anyone pay a million dollar to a pilot??
And that is not a washing machine u dumb troll.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Putin clearly says that. In assays, in speeches. Ukraine has no right to live. He wants to exterminate Ukraine including the population as he sees them Nazi. He will populate the country with settlers. Lavrov will then realize his dream: making a new democratic world order with China.
Putin is nothing more than a clone of Stalin and other murderous leaders in Russia history.
Yes Russians themselves remain poor and backward as seen in the past, today and forever.

And why not? China and Russia are masters of the Old World. The most populous countries of Asia and Europe, respectively. America has no right to rule the world. America is not in the Old World.

 

[Two banks of the River]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535207170907820032

 

[TNT]

Note that J-11D and J-10C are equipped with the same AESA radar as the J-20, FC--31 as well as new JF-17 block.3.

Heavy, medium and light fighter all using the same radar?? Shows only an utter stupid brainless moron like u will believe in that propaganda.

 

[RoadAmerica]

Ukrainians are not civilized. They shell children of Donbas. Do you see Russians shell children of Kiev? Do you?

Well actually the Russians have reduced many eastern cities to ruble and please spare me they evacuated the children first

 

[northeast]

Just another example of a conflict that should have been sorted by and agreement 70 years ago , and would have spared 70 years of pointless fighting.

But the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not a fight between two nations fighting for survival .

It is one powerful nation invading another country in order to subjugate them and steal their resources. More like what china did to Tibet.

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Israeli army are actively killing palestinian right now day and night,and you care about tibet which belong to china since hundreds of years ago more? Do you also care about the fact that westerners occupying USA,canada and australia and massacred millions of Indians more than what's happening in israel right now too?

 

[Apollon]

Israeli army are actively killing palestinian right now day and night,and you care about tibet which belong to china since hundreds of years ago more? Do you also care about westerners occupying USA,canada and australia and massacred millions of Indians more than what's happening in israel right now too?

Good thing is that China gives zero support to Russia and watchs them drown

 

[Viet]

And why not? China and Russia are masters of the Old World. The most populous countries of Asia and Europe, respectively. America has no right to rule the world. America is not in the Old World.

Master of stupidity
Also, China has a very violent history. I think they are not too stupid now to follow the brainless russian zombies. Chinese will just issue some worthless propaganda toward the west to please Putin. Nothing more of substance.

 

[jamahir]

NATO does nothing in Venezuela

Not only was an Israeli sniper caught some years ago but among other things what is this ?

Operation Gideon (Spanish: Operación Gedeón) was an unsuccessful attempt by Venezuelan dissidents and an American private military company, Silvercorp USA, to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from office in Venezuela. The plan involved entering the country by boat into Macuto port from 3 to 4 May 2020 in order to take control of Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetia, capture Maduro and other high-level figures in his government, and expel them from the country. The operation had been infiltrated by officials of the Maduro government early on. Commentators and observers, including Guaidó officials who initially contacted Silvercorp, described the operation as amateurish, underfunded, poorly-planned, having little or no chance of success, and a suicide mission.

The operation occurred in the broader context of an ongoing international dispute beginning in January 2019 over the identity of the legitimate president of Venezuela; Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó. Throughout 2019, Maduro had maintained control of Venezuela's military agencies and key governmental institutions.[17][18] The state intelligence agencies, as well as the Associated Press, had prior knowledge of the plot, which was intercepted before the first boat reached land.

The attack went forward despite its impracticality, with Silvercorp founder Jordan Goudreau possibly motivated by a multi-million dollar reward offered by the United States to arrest or assist with the arrest of Maduro and his high-ranking officials in connection with federal indictments filed in late March 2020 alleging involvement in drug-trafficking activity. The raid involved two fiberglass motorboats owned by Silvercorp which launched from eastern Colombia toward the Caribbean coast of Venezuela north of Caracas. The boats were carrying approximately 60 Venezuelan dissidents and two American former Green Berets employed as mercenaries by Silvercorp. Eight Venezuelan dissidents were killed and seventeen invaders were captured, including the two American security contractors, whose interrogations were broadcast on state television in the hours following the event.

After the attack, it became public that a formal document setting out the objective of the operation was signed in October 2019 between Silvercorp and Guaidó's Strategy Committee, which Guaidó had formed with the goal of exploring all available options for removing Maduro from power and installing himself as president. Guaidó's Strategy Committee reportedly withdrew from the agreement and cut off ties with Silvercorp and Goudreau in November 2019. Juan Guaidó, his Strategy Committee, and officials of the Colombian and United States governments have all denied any role in the actual attack that went forward on 3 May 2020.

Background​

Main article: Venezuelan presidential crisis
A power struggle concerning who is the legitimate president of Venezuela began in January 2019, when Juan Guaidó, president of the opposition-majority National Assembly, declared that incumbent Nicolás Maduro's 2018 re-election was invalid; that the office of the president of Venezuela was therefore vacant; and that he was assuming office as acting president of the nation.[19] Guaidó has been officially recognized as the legitimate president of Venezuela by almost 60 governments internationally, including the governments of the United States and Canada; Colombia, Brazil, and the majority of Latin American countries; and the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Spain, among other European countries.[20] Other nations, including Russia, China, South Africa, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and Turkey, have continued to recognize Maduro as the legitimate head of state.

Some more detail :

11/MAY/2020
The recent attempt by United States mercenaries to land in Venezuela and overthrow President Nicolas Maduro – Operation Gideon – may be “straight out of Hollywood” but it would be a mistake to assume the director and producers of this failed plot were working on their own. The Trump administration, working through the US military’s Southern Command (SouthCom) has been preparing to facilitate attempts to go after Maduro for some time now. This is evident from the following events and public statements. Obviously, this is only the tip of the iceberg. A lot more is likely to have gone on secretly.
In the middle of the struggle against COVID-19, US defence secretary Mark Esper announced at a White House briefing on April 1 that the US would double its naval deployment under SouthCom’s capacity to conduct ‘anti-drug operations’ in the Caribbean. The additional naval assets include destroyers, littoral combat ships, coast guard cutters, patrol vessels, AWACS and JSTARS aircrafts, helicopters, surveillance drones and Security Forces Assistance Brigade Company for advise and assist. This is clearly overkill since drug interdiction clearly does not need such expensive and massive destructive assets. Moreover, a major part – an estimated 80% – of sea-based drug trafficking takes place on the Pacific side, according to the US authorities themselves. So why the deployment in the Caribbean and not in the Pacific?

The media reported that the deployment announced is one of the largest US military operations in the region since the 1989 invasion of Panama to remove General Manuel Noriega from power and bring him to the US to face drug charges. The reference to Noriega was made intentionally by the administration to inspire those who wanted to go after Maduro.

In January this year, a littoral combat ship, USS Detroit, had conducted a “freedom-of-navigation” operation close to Venezuela’s coastline to test the preparedness of Venezuelan navy. The Venezuelans made some noise but they could not do anything about it.
On August 19, 2019, Adm. Craig Faller, the head of SouthCom, said military officials are focusing on preparing for “the day after” the “isolated” Venezuelan president eaves power. In an interview on April 21, 2020, he claimed that the recent decision to double anti-narcotics assets in Latin America was months in the making and not directly tied to Maduro’s indictment in New York on charges of leading a narcoterrorist conspiracy.

Against the backdrop of heightened tension, a mysterious cruise ship, RCGS Resolute, was involved in an incident off the Venezuelan coast on March 30, 2020, which led to the sinking of a Venezuelan coast guard patrol boat following a collision. The cruise ship did not have any passengers but had a hull strong enough to sink the Venezuelan patrol boat, without any damage to itself. The Venezuelans accused the vessel of committing an act of “aggression and piracy” by intentionally ramming and sinking their patrol boat. The cruise vessel went away to Curacao, leaving the job of rescuing the 44 crew members of the patrol boat to the Venezuelans. Adm. Faller’s comment on this incident was telling: “It was a bad day for the Venezuelans. Their lack of seamanship and lack of integrity is indicative of how it all played out.”

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo responded to a question from the media, saying that “the US government had “no direct” involvement in this operation”. When Operation Gideon was a flop show, the US administration had no option but to distance themselves.

In answering another question, Pompeo said, “As for who bankrolled it, we are not prepared to share any more information about what we know took place. We will unpack that at an appropriate time”.
The US administration’s role has caused disquiet on Capitol Hill with three Democratic senators on the house foreign affairs committee writing to Pompeo to say any support given to military operations is illegal:
“Either the U.S. government was unaware of these planned operations, or was aware and allowed them to proceed. Both possibilities are problematic. As you know, the VERDAD Act, which President Trump signed into law on December 20, 2019, states that “it is the policy of the United States to support diplomatic engagement in order to advance a negotiated and peaceful solution to Venezuela’s political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.” Armed raids, even if they are carried out by independent actors, run counter to that policy. Moreover, such incursions harm the prospects for a peaceful democratic transition in Venezuela by insinuating that an armed intervention is a viable option to resolve the crisis, potentially undermining the willingness of hardline opposition actors to negotiate…”
It is possible that the financing could have come from the Venezuelan government funds and assets, estimated at $11 billion, which have been frozen by US authorities in the name of sanctions. Recently, the Trump administration moved $342 million belonging to the Venezuelan Central Bank from a frozen Citibank account to another account at the New York Federal Reserve. On April 15, the National Assembly led by opposition leader Juan Guaido approved in a virtual session, access to some funds that had recently been released by the US government. This money is being used, among other things, to pay for the diplomats appointed by Guaido in countries which recognise him.

There are two main reasons for the failure of the invasion attempt. First, Cuban intelligence, which is advising the Venezuelan regime, is always one step ahead of their American counterparts. The Cubans have an impeccable record of preventing and stopping numerous American attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro and invade their country. This is expertise gained over a long period of 60 years, day in and day out. The Cuban intelligence agency is embedded not only with their Venezuelan counterparts but also in the Venezuelan military to guard against conspirators and putschists. The late president Hugo Chavez started this system after the coup against him in 2002.

Second, the Americans do not have in-person contacts within Venezuela to understand the real situation in the country, recruit allies, provide support and prepare the ground from within. “Why there are no coups in the US?”, a Chilean journalist asked US president Barack Obama during Michelle Bachelet’s visit to the White House in 2009. “The reason is because there is no American embassy in Washington!” Well, there is no US embassy in Caracas either. This is a major handicap for Trump. Before 2002, the US military attache had his office within the Venezuelan army headquarters. Chavez expelled them out after the coup.

The US policy of regime change by hook or crook is not going to stop after the abject failure of Operation Gideon. Washington will continue to bet on clandestine military and paramilitary attempts to overthrow the government there rather than relying on genuine negotiations or democratic means. This is clear from the appointment of Elliot Abrams as the US special representative for Venezuela in January 2019. Abrams has a notorious track record of using US military and covert assistance in the 1980s, causing thousands of deaths and civil wars in Central America.

As assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration, Abrams had arranged the supply of arms and other support to the Rios Mont dictatorship in Guatemala, which massacred several thousand indigenous people, the rightwing death squads in El Salvador which killed leftists in the thousands and the Contras who committed atrocities against the Nicaraguan people in their war against the Sandinista government. He was indicted for his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal but got out with a presidential pardon. Abrams was said to have had a hand in the coup against Chavez in 2002. So long as Abrams is the point man for Venezuela, one should expect more Gideon type operations.

A retired Indian Foreign Service officer, R. Viswanathan has served as Indian ambassador to Venezuela, Argentina and Colombia.

 

[Bengal71]

The DNR kangaroo court has sentenced the three captured members of Ukraine Foreign Legion to death.