The Struggle For Ukraine

[Boethius]

This is the Twitter account of James Vasquez, anAmerican former soldier who volunteered in Ukraine. He is the only American in his unit. He updates his Twitter account fairly regularly.

http://mobile.twitter.com/jmvasquez1974?lang=en

[Chelseaboy]

You should try and put that link up in the other place,and see if the Putin fanboy owner instantly deletes it..which is his usual MO.


Good news that the Ukrainian military has now re-taken towns up to 35 km East of Kyiv,with the Russians falling back...as confirmed by the British MOD,which also says Russian supply lines are over-extended.


A Russian landing ship and ammunition warehouse was destroyed in Russian occupied Berdyansk yesterday..according to the Ukraine Navy.


The bad news is that Russian forces continue to advance toward Odesa.



Interesting comment from Biden that NATO will respond in kind if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine....wonder what that means ?


The USA and EU have announced a deal for the USA to supply the EU with 15 Billion cubic metres more of LNG this year,with higher amounts next year,as Europe starts to move away from Russian Gas supplies.


The UK gets only 3% of our Gas supply from Russia,so it isn't such an issue for us to replace it from elsewhere.

18,600 UK Visa's have now been granted to Ukrainian refugees.

The Kremlin sees Boris Johnson as public enemy number 1 for his anti-Putin stance 

[Steven1971]

Similar website set up by the Bank of Ukraine to donate for humanitarian assistance rather than the army.

http://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-rahunok-dlya-gumanitarnoyi-dopomogi-ukrayintsyam-postrajdalim-vid-rosiyskoyi-agresiyi

[Trenchcoat]

My parents visited Mariupol in 2013. They said it was a very pretty city.

This is an interesting article about an American marine who fought with the Ukrainian army.

http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/american-volunteer-foreign-fighters-ukraine-russia-war/627604/

My guess is like most cities moreso ex-Soviet cities the city centre is pretty but most of the residential outskirts less so.

An interesting article, shows that our Javlin & NLAW anti tank gear is really having an effect in turning this war around for Ukraine. Not sure about the Rambo in question looks like he was either a deserter having had enough or told to go as he wasn't really up for it, and after only one month into the war.

[krimster2]

"So part of me has already been thinking about 'Reconstruuuksiya' after this war has all blown over, soon I hope for the sake of the poor Ukrainian people who are unjustly having misery inflicted upon them all."

Dewd, Nyet, forget about working for someone else
ONLY work for yourself…

let me give you a plan Stan,
when the war is over, borrow as much money as you can on your UK property and rent it out
live with yur mom temporarily or something
then take this money and go to Ukraine
and buy 3 contiguous lots of land that have utility access (water, gas, electricity, cable)
then take whatever buildings are on it and fix ‘em up
and build yur own mansion with a swimming pool right in the middle
then surround everything with Apricot trees

you can do whatever “bizness” you want here, discreetly and without ANY interference
ZERO income tax to!

I ran three different "biznezz enterprises" out of what looked like a "Hill Billy Paradise" complete with copper moonshine still

Voila! "The Rancho Del Krimster", now in Russian hands!!!
Trench all this cost me about $60,000 for 3X20 soteks plus existing "shacks" and including an old Lada and a Zhighouli!!!
also about a year of my time, "doing stuff" mainly carpentry and plumbing and electrical

I ended up with what looked like a compound of some kind, that I later put a fence around to keep people out
plus I had straight access to a 480V transformer with .02 per killowatt hr cost and a big yellow gas line for cheap gas as well
ended up digging my own deep drill well for water and solar pool heater
with 2 car garage and huge Metal Gate
and NO POLICE to bribe!!!

[ML]

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44673/ukraine-needs-ground-based-air-defenses-way-more-than-migs-here-are-the-best-options

[ML]

We hear a lot about Russian planes being shot down or otherwise destroyed by Ukraine.

But what about Ukrainian planes.

I found this website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War

A little bit hard to count, but I came up with 20 Ukrainian and 18 Russian as of last update on 22 March 2022.

[Boethius]

You should try and put that link up in the other place,and see if the Putin fanboy owner instantly deletes it..which is his usual MO.

Matthew 10:14.

[ML]

Today a trio of Russian generals announced that it had succeeded in sub-goal of diminishing Ukrainian military capability and now Russia would pivot to it's main goal of solidifying control of Donbas.

http://www.reuters.com/world/us/ukraine-urges-halt-russias-assault-biden-heads-poland-2022-03-25/

Quite a come-down from Putin's list of 6 or so demands.

I am hoping that Ukraine will continue to destroy more of Russian troops and equipment . . . and after Russia withdraws its troops from most of Ukraine, Ukraine will send bulk of its army to rout Russia in Donbas.

[ML]

A seventh Russian general, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, has died in Ukraine

http://www.barrons.com/news/russia-signals-less-ambitious-goals-in-ukraine-war-01648252207?tesla=y

and a Russian colonel had been "deliberately" killed by his own demoralized men.

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-commander-deliberately-killed-by-his-own-troops-due-to-ukraine-losses-160618503.html

[Brillynt]

and a Russian colonel had been "deliberately" killed by his own demoralized men.

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-commander-deliberately-killed-by-his-own-troops-due-to-ukraine-losses-160618503.html

That tends to happen to Officers (zeros) that do not care or are incompetent and waste the lives of their soldiers. It has happened to the US military in Vietnam, another very unpopular war. Hence the term "fragging"  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging

[krimster2]

"Matthew 10:14."

John #2
Saint Pralidoxime's letter to the Bishop of Atropine

[2tallbill]

Matthew 10:14.

Excellent point

[tfcrew]

 

[Chelseaboy]

There are now thousands of Belarusians fighting in Ukraine....and they're fighting FOR Ukraine.


They're dissidents against Lukashenko and they hate him as much as the Ukrainians now hate Russia.

[krimster2]

I’ve been an "enlisted man" in two different military systems, USA and Israel…
AND I know the Russian military VERY well

Russians suffer from many deficiencies…
The conscript system, means they have a lot of inexperienced soldiers in the lower ranks
and few real professionals
expendable cannon fodder is all they really are…
they don’t EVEN have an NCO corps
the US and Israeli military are VERY dependent on NCOs
Russians instead have jr inexperienced officers
it doesn’t work very well this way, I’ve seen the contrast…

plus, just like in Ukraine, almost everything in the inventory has been looted and sold
hell, I even bought some of it myself

this reminds me of the war with Japan in 1904-1905
when Russia realized it needed to reform it’s Army after being defeated by Japan

Pootin is NOT “Pootin the Great” like “Peter the modernizer”
the kleptocracy has hollowed out Russia and this is the direct result
(but of course, being Russian, they will not accept the responsibility, and instead blame NATO and Amerika

the pendulum in Russia is swinging FAR to the right, Russia is imploding before it explodes

Russia needs NEW leadership, but it will take a 1917 moment to do this
and there’s no opposition, no “People’s Will” to shake shite up
I would trade 5,000 protestors in Moscow, for 5 in the Narodnaya Volya
disclaimer: I am related to one of the conspirators: Hesya Helfman
her relatives moved to Odessa after "the incident next to a church", and then to the USA

[Steven1971]

As somebody wrily observed, if Putin had acted on the corruption in the Russian army exposed by Navalny this war would be going a lot better for him.

Also if they had elimninated the horrible hazing tradition in the Russian army they would probably have more motivated conscripts.

[krimster2]

"China has cancelled a $500 million investment in Russian gas"
google it!!

now even China has turned against Pooty-Poot, his only allies are now Trump and a few Republicans and maybe Serbia (a little bit)

[ML]

"China has cancelled a $500 million investment in Russian gas"
google it!!

Great News !!
Thanks for posting.

[LiveFromUkraine]

Looks like Ukraine may have been committing war crimes.  That will kill any support they currently have.

[ML]

Looks like Ukraine may have been committing war crimes.  That will kill any support they currently have.

A quite details report you post here complete with reference URLs.

[Boethius]

You’re referring to the video if shooting out knees?  If yes, the “Ukrainians” had Russian accents. It’s not how Russian speakers speak Russian in Ukraine.  Furthermore the German based Russian “reporter” who first posted it on Twitter took it down. 

Chelseaboy, here are a couple videos you can post for the Nazi obsessed elsewhere.

[krimster2]

"Looks like Ukraine may have been committing war crimes."

You mean "special military operations" crimes, right?
Yes, you're right! aggressive Ukrainians have been attacking peaceful Russian cruise missiles with their apartments, dasterdly deeds for sure!!!
if only the lamestream liberul western media would show the result of these attacks on peacful cruise missiles
good thing you have "alternative" media to show you the Pravda, er I mean Truth.... right Tovarisch?









 

[Boethius]

Another place to make donations.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/the-drone-operators-who-halted-the-russian-armoured-vehicles-heading-for-kyiv

[Boethius]

This is the video I assume Live is referring to.



Everyone in it is speaking with accents from Luhansk or Donetsk. All of them, even the “Russian” soldiers.

This may be fake, but nevertheless, it’s being investigated by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.