Mercenaries from NATO in Ukraine are bad enough, but sending actual military officials means NATO is at war with Russia.
The difference between WW III and what NATO countries are doing is paper thin. Scholtz says he doesn’t want to cross Russia’s red lines but goes ahead and crosses them, then denies it.
Leaked audio: German Bundeswehr plans to destroy Crimean bridge, kill civilians, but also plans the cover-up.
So Scholtz wants to start WW III but doesn’t want the blame.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ria.ru/20240302/simonyan-1930738845.html
02.03.2024
Simonyan responded to Scholz about the need to clarify the leak case: we will help
MOSCOW, March 2 - RIA Novosti. The editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT television channel, Margarita Simonyan, commented on the words of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the telegram channel about the need to “thoroughly” and “quickly” clarify the circumstances of the leak of the conversation of German officers, offering him help “with clarifications.”
Earlier, Scholz told DPA that a thorough, intensive and rapid investigation is being conducted in Germany in connection with the publication of the recording of the conversation of the German military. In addition, he promised “prompt clarification” in connection with this incident.
“Please contact us, we will help you find out,” Simonyan wrote.
On Friday, Simonyan said that she had obtained an audio recording in which senior German Bundeswehr officers discussed “how they would bomb the Crimean Bridge.” According to her, in the audio recording, Bundeswehr officers mention both the US and British military, “casually discussing that these have been directly involved in the conflict for a long time.” Later that same day, Simonyan published the text of the conversation, and then the recording itself, judging by them, the conversation was attended by four high-ranking representatives of the Bundeswehr, including the head of the Air Force operations and exercises department, they discussed the possible sending of Taurus missiles to Ukraine and a Ukrainian attack on the Crimean Bridge. Among other things, the military is recorded discussing how to install Taurus missiles and train the Ukrainian military to launch missiles across the Crimean Bridge in such a way as not to cross the “red line” and not become obvious participants in the conflict in Ukraine.
[Why the need to cover up the direct involvement of NATO personnel in sabotage of the Russian bridge? Well, you see, mercenaries from NATO countries are one thing from a legal standpoint, but actual official personnel from a NATO country involved in military operations to kill or threaten Russians would automatically mean that NATO is directly at war with Russia. That’s a whole different thing and it gives Russia the legal right to strike the country that sent the military officials involved. For example, Russia would have the legal right to strike London Bridge or a British military base or a US base somewhere. The affected country would then have to decide whether to retaliate or not, starting WW III.] The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said in connection with the public conversation between German officers about possible attacks on the Crimean Bridge that the Russian side demands an explanation from Germany. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the situation with the recording of the conversation between German officers, on the one hand, is amazing, but on the other, not, “the face of our NATO colleagues is completely covered in fluff.”
Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev commented on the transcript of the recording of high-ranking German officers about the attack on the Crimean Bridge, saying that the Germans have again turned into sworn enemies of Russia. The scandal with recordings of negotiations between Bundeswehr officers about plans to strike the Crimean Bridge speaks about the true role of Germany in the Ukrainian conflict and completely refutes the statements of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev made earlier.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the EU had agreed to create a “ninth coalition for deep strikes” - supplying Ukraine with medium- and long-range missiles. He also said that France will do everything to prevent Russia “from winning this war.” According to him, the leaders of Western countries have discussed the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, but no consensus has yet been reached. [Fortunately, no other NATO country has risen to Macron’s suggestion to fight Russia directly. According to eminent military expert Andrey Martyanov, NATO would not stand a chance against Russia in a conventional war.]
Shortly after Macron’s statements, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Germany would not send its military to Ukraine, and Scholz stressed that NATO countries as a whole were not going to do this. In addition, the Chancellor again stated that there are no plans to send long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. It also follows from Scholz's words that British and French troops are involved in the deployment of long-range missiles in Ukraine. [The sending of long-range missiles to Ukraine was once considered a red line but it has meanwhile been done, without any immediate repercussions, although we remind you that Russia does not usually retaliate immediately. In fact, the significant escalation in air strikes on Ukraine that I have been reporting these last few weeks can be seen as retaliation for strikes on Russia by the Ukrainians]
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Here's your daily air strike update for Mar 3, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
You can refer to this map for locations of oblasts.
Missile attack on Ukraine today: the headquarters of the National Guard of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed near Kharkov
03.03.2024
The night attack on Dnepropetrovsk
Today at about 3 am, residents of Dnepropetrovsk heard a loud explosion in the southern part of the city. By the morning, local authorities confirmed the fact of the arrival, but there were no further clarifications other than the resulting fire.
After a detailed analysis of information received from various sources, the approximate affected area was established: 48.3773039, 34.9311456
▪️ At the moment, it has been established that the strike hit the Pokrov electronic warfare system, which was developed and is being actively improved by the enemy after the start of the air defense system. It is known that no more than 8 such systems have been adopted and used by the enemy in various cities of Ukraine. The exact extent of damage to the installation is not known, other than that it is currently unable to function.
▪️ In addition, it became known that it is in this area that the electronic warfare/electronic warfare company of the Dnepropetrovsk air brigade operates.
What we managed to learn about the Pokrov electronic warfare system based on information from open sources:
— its work is based on the “spoofing” method — when the signal is not jammed, but changed. As a result, a flying strike or reconnaissance UAV changes its flight trajectory;
- the system is capable of influencing the satellite navigation of missiles along the path of its flight - the point is that the missile guidance system accumulates errors, and at the final stage of the route it misses;
— the aiming error ranges from 1 to 10% of the missile’s flight range. For example, if a rocket flew 1000 km, then 1% is an error of 10 km.
Based only on this information, we can conclude that the Pokrov system is theoretically capable of blocking or deceiving a cruise missile, turning it from a precision weapon into an ordinary blank with explosives (the same with attack UAVs). But the Ukrainian side is not interested in where they will fall further in the field or residential development - so to speak, there will be another reason to blame Russia and beg for money/weapons from the West, distorting reality.
Analysis of the results of strikes on enemy temporary deployment points in Mirnograd (Dimitrov)
This site shows the extent of the damage https://t.me/don_partizan/4333
The systematic development of enemy temporary deployment points in front-line cities in the temporarily occupied territory of the DPR continues. Tonight, Russian troops launched a comprehensive strike on enemy targets in Mirnograd (Dimitrov).
Coordinates:
48.3027485, 37.2645823 - secondary school No. 17 (Harmony Lyceum);
48.3001665, 37.2817447 - secondary school No. 5.
Educational institutions were used to accommodate enemy forces and assets during rotational events
According to the information received, as a result of the strike on No. 15, at least 22 personnel were destroyed, and more than 18 were injured with varying degrees of severity. At the moment, another 16 are listed as missing - rescue operations are underway.
Additional information continues to be received that there were over 100 enemy personnel in the Harmony Lyceum at the time of the strike - at least half of whom were killed or wounded. In addition, it is known that among those liquidated were two officers from the command staff of the unit - the interim battalion commander and his deputy. At the moment, rescue operations have been suspended and will resume at night.
Also this morning, residents of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) heard a powerful explosion, which was preceded by the passage of a jet plane.
Coordinates: 48.2659077, 37.1830673
An unknown munition fell and exploded in the Yuzhny microdistrict - there is an assumption that it was a self-discharge of a missile from a Ukrainian Air Force fighter, since there are no objects in the immediate vicinity of the explosion site that are used by the enemy for military purposes.
Analysis of the results of the strike on the training center of the National Guard of Ukraine
Tonight, Russian aviation carried out a strike on the enemy's permanent deployment point in the Kharkov region.
Coordinates: 50.1990151, 36.8590812
The territory of the Personnel Training Center of the National Guard of Ukraine near the village of Upper Pisarevka was hit. At the time of the strike, about 40 personnel were located at the facility; the exact qualitative and quantitative indicators of the damage are unknown.
According to available data, foreign mercenaries from the International Legion of the Main Intelligence Directorate, as well as members of the Intelligence Agency and the Russian Freedom Legion, who repeatedly took part in reconnaissance and sabotage operations in border areas, were trained on the territory of the Center.
Based on very active movements to the border of the Russian Federation and the emergence of various mercenary formations, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are planning regular attacks on Russian territories.
Also in Volchansk, a ballistic missile hit the building of one of the schools, which was used by Ukrainian formations to accommodate personnel who were withdrawn for regrouping from the Kupyansk area. More than 30 have been reported eliminated.
Strikes by the Russian Armed Forces against targets in the territory of so-called Ukraine March 3 - what is known by 16:00
Last night, Russian troops launched a series of attacks on enemy targets in the Kharkov, Sumy, and Dnepropetrovsk regions, as well as in the occupied territory of the DPR.
Temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the line of combat contact and border areas came under fire - ballistic missiles, rocket and cannon artillery, as well as tactical aviation were used.
▪️ Occupied territory of the DPR [naturally, the author is referring to territory occupied by Ukraine]: a massive strike was carried out on the enemy’s airborne troops in Mirnograd (Dimitrov), located in educational institutions of the city.
Two ballistic missiles hit the territory of the Harmony Lyceum (former school No. 17), where there were about 100 personnel: at least half of them were eliminated, including two officers from the battalion’s leadership.
School No. 5 was destroyed by two more missiles: 22 members of the Ukrainian formation were killed, and more than 20 people were injured. At the moment, all rescue operations have been suspended and will resume when darkness sets in.
In Pokrovsk, as a result of a missile launched from a Ukrainian fighter, residential buildings in the Yuzhny microdistrict were damaged, several civilians were slightly injured.
▪️Kharkov oblast: near the village of Verkhnyaya Pisaervka, the NSU training center was hit, which was used by the foreign legion of the Main Intelligence Directorate, as well as by the Russians from the Intelligence Agency and the “Legion “Freedom of Russia”” for training and education of personnel. The strike killed about 40 people.
Also under fire was one of the schools in Volchansk, where personnel of rotated Ukrainian units from the Kupyansky direction were temporarily stationed.
From Nikolaev they reported:
In the east of the Korabelny district the whole sky is filled with smoke from the arrival. Noticed it too late. It’s no longer visible where it came from. Not Kulbakino, perhaps Obezdnaya or even further outside the city.
Even the phone camera was still able to capture this cloud of yellowish smoke against the background of a clear blue sky. Today we have the clearest blue sky across the entire horizon. And this yellowish smoke from the arrival is clearly visible to the eye. This cloud hangs low.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine were located there. From there, during the night arrivals of Geran drones arrived and machine gun fire could be heard. Most likely Obezdnaya or even further east from the Korabelny district. The photo is not for public access.
The main strike group of the Russian Aerospace Forces is currently a “troika” of aircraft: Su-24 or Su-34, accompanied by one Su-35.
Russian aviation is using an increasing number of guided bombs.
The production and use of large quantities of MPK/UMPK correction and gliding module/universal correction and gliding modules is due to two reasons.
1. Mass production of flight correction kits, which makes it possible to convert not only an increasing number of standard high-explosive bombs FAB-250M-62 and FAB-500M-62, but also cluster bomb units such as RBK-500 and OFAB-500.
2. MPK/UMPK were deployed not only on the Su-34, but also on older Su-24s, due to which the number of aircraft capable of using them sharply increased.
Each Su-24 and Su-34 aircraft carries 4 MPK/UMPKs, and the Su-35 is equipped with 1-2 Kh-31 anti-radar missiles, as well as means of combating air targets: 1-2 long-range R-37M missiles, 2 RVV- missiles AE/R-77-1 medium-range flight and 2 short-range R-73M missiles.
One such trio deploys about 8 MPK/UMPKs, and also has the ability to simultaneously destroy two Ukrainian radars and protect against any Ukrainian Armed Forces interceptors.
It's essentially an air strike fist.
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Today's headlines
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 149: Palestinian children die of malnutrition as Israel blocks aid into Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh
U.S. airdrops of food and aid in Gaza have been described as “performative BS” that “fools no one.” Meanwhile, Hamas’s delegation has arrived in Cairo for ceasefire talks as Ramadan is due to start next Sunday.
How Israeli universities are an arm of settler colonialism
Marcy Newman
Maya Wind's new book meticulously demonstrates how Israeli academic institutions were created to serve the Zionist colonization of Palestine. They continue to do so to this day while fueling Israel's university-military-industrial complex.
Redemption through genocide
Barnett R. Rubin
The ICJ ruled that Israel’s Gaza campaign poses a plausible and urgent threat of genocide. Future historians of Jewish messianism may recount how in 2024 "redemption through sin" became "redemption through genocide," with unconditional U.S. support.
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I just got finished exchanging views with a “Christian” Zionist, who is also a conservative blogger.
I told him the war started in 1948 but he didn’t read anything I sent him and said the whole planet knows that the war started in Oct 7. He wrote that in all caps, so it must be true, right?
My purpose for exchanging with him was to get an idea what America is up against in trying to change the minds of the genocide supporters in Congress and the White House.
Frankly, there is no hope of changing American Evangelicals’ minds. It is the true believers who support the genocide-supporting US government and the Palestinians have no reason to hope for a change in the US government. Both parties are adamant in supporting the genocidal Israelis.
The only hope in my opinion is for other countries to rise up. Which ones could hope to defeat Israel? Well, there is Turkey and Egypt, but they are unlikely to do anything meaningful. Egypt is sold out and Turkey so far has been all talk. Russia could help a lot by providing more arms and air defenses to Syria. The problem is, Syria has a few less than satisfactory air defenses but does not dare actually fire on the Israeli warplanes that launch the missiles. Russia needs to untie their hands and beef up its presence in Syria.
Iraq has potential but fears US reprisals. The Iraqi government started telling the US to leave shortly after Trump murdered Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and has reiterated that request since then, but the US refuses to leave. Military power trumps reason.
Lebanon may make a difference as long as Hezbollah stands strong. Hezbollah has saved Lebanon statehood more than once in the past.
Jordan talks a good talk but that’s all.
So far, the only effective change is coming from tiny Yemen and they have good options left, such as cutting more cables.
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Ukraine-Russia War: Kyiv Sees Risk of Russian Breakthrough by Summer - Bloomberg
Ukraine Sees Risk of Russia Breaking Through Defenses by Summer
Kyiv’s assessment of battlefield situation increasingly bleak
Putin still aims to capture Kyiv, Ukrainian intelligence shows
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https://ria.ru/20240303/luchshie-1930800242.html
We lost the best. The media revealed the blow Russia dealt to NATO in Ukraine
InfoBRICS: Russian military destroyed the latest NATO weapons in Ukraine
MOSCOW, March 3 – RIA Novosti. The Russian military destroyed the latest NATO weapons in Ukraine, writes military expert Drago Bosnik in an article for InfoBRICS.
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“The Russian military is a master at debunking the myths about the “superiority” of NATO weapons. We have increasingly seen this phenomenon in recent weeks. Hundreds of the best examples of Western armored vehicles, artillery, air defense systems and so on were destroyed during the well-publicized Ukrainian counter-offensive. And yet the beginning of 2024 "The year turned out to be no less depressing for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. At the end of January, they lost several samples of the latest NATO equipment," the material says.
As the observer pointed out, Russian forces are successfully eliminating not only Western air defense systems, but also various armored vehicles.
Last week, Forbes columnist David Ax, citing a video that circulated on the Internet, reported the destruction by the Russian military of a rare engineering armored vehicle M1150 Assault Breacher based on Abrams, secretly transferred by the United States to Kyiv in the amount of several units.
Over the past week, the Russian armed forces liberated several settlements in the DPR: Pobeda, Lastochkino, Severnoye and Petrovskoye. Petrovskoye is located five kilometers northwest of Avdeevka, which was liberated by Russian troops on February 17.
In early February, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, at a conference call with the leadership of the Russian Armed Forces, announced that Ukraine’s losses in January exceeded 23 thousand people. He stated that Kyiv is throwing its remaining reserves into battle and hastily carrying out forced mobilizations to prevent the collapse of its defenses. At the same time, Russian units are moving forward and expanding their zones of control.
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Go George Galloway!!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1763630021552283955
So if the vast majority of the people vote for and elect you, all the autocratic democracy haters have to do is claim you intimidate people or that you don’t respect shared values and they can challenge the election results.
There is not much democracy left in Europe.
Thanks for sharing our show, Don!
The Russians will have known about NATO and Western duplicity ages ago via tapping into coms traffic.