One of Putin’s main goals is nearing fruition in Ukraine
Putin said from the outset that, besides denazifying and demilitarizing Ukraine, his main goal in entering Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022, was to liberate Donbass.
Putin said from the outset that, besides denazifying and demilitarizing Ukraine, his main goal in entering Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022 was to liberate Donbass, which had first been briefly bombed and then shelled more or less constantly since 2014 when the Obama-Biden-Nuland regime took over the reins in Kiev. Our American president and his VP and under secretary of state were fully aware that they were presiding over a genocide, which is now – since the Israeli genocide in Gaza – recognized by the world as a hallmark of American hegemony.
Unless through a miracle, a US president comes along whose stated goal is to end the US-centered unipolar world order, there is no reason to expect peace in the world and an end to the nuclear threat hovering over us. There is nothing like this in sight and the world feels scary and surreal.
Nearly insurmountable obstacles had been encountered by the Russians in Ukraine, notably the deep underground bunkers of Avdeevka (Avdiivka in Ukrainian), whence the Ukro-Nazis had shelled the hapless populace of Donetsk since 2014. A prodigious amount of concrete was poured into the fortifications, which were said to be impregnable and almost were.
But more daunting was the near-total secrecy of the killing field. No western reporters were allowed into Donbass and the few who dared to go there and snoop were threatened with punishment when they reported the truth. The going Western lie was that a war was going on and the Russians were guilty. And as in Gaza, a genocide was deliberately mislabeled as a war in the US-controlled media.
German journalist Anna Lipp was threatened with jail and her blog featuring videos of the genocidal shelling of Donbass was deleted. Further, her bank account was cleaned out by the US-controlled German “authorities.” (Need I remind the reader that none of this was legal?).
This Nazi-like Western censorship and sponsorship of genocide is particularly poignant to contemplate today now that 130 journalists have been shot in cold blood by the US-backed Israeli authorities in Gaza.
Genocide and lawlessness are as American as mom and apple pie, and for those whose eyes are open, it’s always been this way.
I was so disturbed by this and by the fact that Putin was mendaciously portrayed as a land grabber that I collected the few videos of the Donbass genocide that I could find on the web and posted this: https://donhank.substack.com/p/so-the-russian-incursion-in-ukraine
Now, however, the war has reached a turning point, as reported by lenta.ru.
Translation follows, with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://lenta.ru/news/2024/04/04/chasov-yar/
April 4, 2024
The turning point of the Northern Military District in the battle for Donbass has been named
Expert Glazunov: the capture of Chasov Yar will be a turning point in the battle for Donbass
Military expert, associate professor of the department of political analysis and socio-psychological processes of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Oleg Glazunov said that the capture of the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) will be a turning point in the battle for Donbass. Glazunov told Lenta.ru about the upcoming changes in the conflict zone in Ukraine.
[He is not the only one saying this. Chasov Yar is important in the same way as Avdeevka was important but on a reduced scale. Its capture will lead to the liberation of other important places. In fact, once these are all liberated, that should wrap up the fight for Donetsk and even for Donbass itself]
Earlier it became known that the Russian Armed Forces (AF) had about 500 meters left before reaching the borders of Chasiv Yar [its Ukrainian name]. As for Chasov Yar, there is about half a kilometer left to reach the borders of Chasov Yar,” said State Duma deputy Viktor Vodolatsky.
“If we take Chasov Yar, then we will get access to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, and this will mean the liberation of the entire Donetsk oblast. Kramatorsk, instead of Donetsk, became the Ukrainian center of the Donetsk oblast. The capture of this regional center will mean that the battle for Donbass is over. Slavyansk and Kramatorsk are key cities in the Donetsk oblast. These are cities with powerful factories where heavy equipment is repaired and weapons are prepared,” Glazunov explained.
This will mean that Ukraine has lost Donbass. Therefore, Chasov Yar is a turning point in the battle for Donbass
Oleg Glazunov
military expert, associate professor of the department of political analysis and socio-psychological processes of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
On April 2, adviser to the head of the DPR [Donetsk People’s Republic], Igor Kimakovsky, noted that after the Russian army took fire control of the roads leading to the city of Chasov Yar, that city began to lose strategic importance for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He called this a big problem for Ukraine, since the settlement is a logistics hub, including warehouses, a fortified area and supplies.
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Here’s your daily air strike update for April 4, 2024
This and the following 3 articles are translations, with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
04.04.2024
Elizaveta Andreeva
The Russian Armed Forces hit a UAV (drone) plant and a train with ammunition near Kharkov
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Moscow, April 4 - AiF-Moscow.
The Russian military attacked a UAV factory and a train with Ukrainian military personnel and ammunition, said Sergei Lebedev, a representative of the pro-Russian underground.
According to him, on the evening of April 3 and on the night of April 4, a whole series of attacks occurred on military targets in Kharkov and its suburbs.
In particular, the Russian Armed Forces hit a plant in the city of Merefa, where drones were produced and stored. Lebedev, in a conversation with RIA Novosti, noted that the production facility is located next to the railway station, where at the time of the strike a train with military equipment, ammunition and Armed Forces personnel was unloading. Due to detonation at the plant, the train was also hit.
Now there is no electricity in Kharkov, the underground worker noted.
“In total, Kharkov continues to prepare Bandera’s supporters [Neo-Nazis] for the retreat,” Lebedev wrote in his Telegram channel.
Also, a representative of the pro-Russian underground spoke about attacks in other oblasts of Ukraine. In Velikopisarevka, Sumy oblast, the Russian Armed Forces hit a concentration of manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Explosions were also heard in Krasnopolye and Belopole.
In the Dnepropetrovsk oblast, in the cities of Nikopol and Marganets, the [military] personnel who were located in the House of Culture and Gymnasium [in Europe and Russia, a gymnasium is equivalent to a US high school] were destroyed.
Earlier, Lebedev said that in the center of Kharkov there was a large concentration of Azov fighters*.
*Banned in the Russian Federation and included in the list of terrorist and extremist groups.[Brutal Nazi fighters]
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It is reported that the Russian Armed Forces struck a tank school of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkov
RIA Novosti: Russian troops hit a tank factory and instructors in Kharkov
April 4, 2024
The Russian military attacked the tank school of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in Kharkov, where foreign tanks and Western instructors were located. This was announced on April 4 by the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev, citing data from Kharkov colleagues.
“The tank school at 192 Poltavsky Shlyakh Street in Kharkov came under attack. According to the underground, foreign tanks with foreign military instructors were brought there the other day,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
He also added that two more hits occurred in the New Houses microdistrict in the Slobodsky district of Kharkov. The power substation was hit, after which the power went out in the city. In addition, the Russian military hit the police department building on Lyubov Malaya Street. According to preliminary data, there are about 15 dead and more than 20 wounded.
The Merefa Mechanical Plant in the city of Merefa near Kharkov also came under attack. According to underground information, Ukrainian drones were manufactured and stored at the enterprise. Lebedev noted that the plant is located next to the railway station, where at the time of the strike a train with military equipment, ammunition and Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel was being unloaded. Due to detonation at the plant, the train also came under attack.
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Apr 4, 2024
Russian missiles destroyed a gathering of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in Kharkov
On Thursday night, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a precision strike on the location of militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in Kharkov. The local prosecutor's office accidentally reported this.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Geran-2s were used. Some drones reached their target, while others were shot down by air defense systems, causing shrapnel to fall on residential buildings.
Nevertheless, one of the drones managed to reach the target, which was accidentally confirmed by the Kharkov prosecutor’s office. In the video recording of the results of the attack, a military helmet was seen, which probably fell from a wounded Ukrainian Armed Forces militant.
The presence of a helmet indicates the presence of Ukrainian militants or nationalists in the territory. However, Kiev propaganda is likely to actively disseminate information that Russia is deliberately attacking residential and civilian targets, ignoring the fact that Ukrainian Armed Forces militants are present in these places, as well as the fact that air defense shoots down targets in such a way that fragments fall on civilians.
[Yes, this is exactly what happened. Earlier today I read on the msn home page that supposedly, those evil Rooskies were attacking civilians in Kharkov. My regular readers know that whenever the Ukrainian air defense missiles miss their targets and land on civilian infrastructure, the lying Nazis in Ukraine claim the Russians deliberately killed or wounded civilians, and the morons in the Western press obediently regurgitate this lie verbatim. Whether the Western journos actually believe this or not is hard to say. The question to ask is why would the Russians throw away good munitions killing civilians when they need to kill as many Nazis as they can prior to a serious battle with the military. And on top of that, the Russian goal is to liberate the Russian speakers who constitute the majority of the Kharkov population, so why kill their own people?]
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IRINA STOLYAROVA
STRIKES ON KHARKOV ON APRIL 4: WHERE THE MISSILES AIMED, WHERE THERE WERE EXPLOSIONS, NEWS
We are talking about the fighting in the special operation zone: explosions were heard again in Kharkov, the mayor of the city, Terekhov, said.
An explosion was heard in Kharkov, local public pages report, specifying that that night local residents also wrote about several explosions in the region. It is not yet known what exactly was damaged as a result of the attacks by the Russian army.
However, there is information circulating online about an attack on one of the local police dormitories. The inscriptions “For Crocus City Hall” and “For Belgorod” are visible on the wreckage of the drones.
A family of rescuers - father and son - worked at the scene of the fire.
What they write on social networks about the attack on Kharkov
The Russians continue to attack the power and gas infrastructure in Kharkov, making the city unsuitable for life. The outflow of population will continue.
- This is the first signal that Kharkov will be taken. It's a question of time. The Kharkov offensive operation will most likely be carried out in the fall, as the electricity shortage will worsen and the demand will increase. And there is no point in the Russians rushing. Ukraine is becoming too expensive to maintain and supply every day, which negatively affects the West’s further desire to finance Kiev, writes the Cartel TG channel.
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president-parliament rift in Ukraine
The Western media are starting to tell the truth about what is happening in Ukraine, both on the battlefields and in the power centers in Kiev.
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Our thanks to HM for this:
One of very few voices of reason that we are supposed to hate…??
There is no world in which the intentional forced famine of 1.1 million people cannot be considered genocide. [Oh, yes, there is such a world. The world of “Christian” Zionism.] And that is exactly what we are watching unfold in Gaza now.
It is against United States law to transfer weapons to any force blocking U.S. humanitarian assistance. We must enforce compliance and halt weapons transfers to the Israeli government to stop an atrocity in the making.
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Let me add that the Satanic doctrine of “Christian” Zionism is behind this genocide on the grassroots level.
Recently a group of prominent “Christian” leaders went to Israel to reaffirm their support for the genocidal maniac Netanyahu. They included the president of the Family Research Council, FRC, Tony Perkins. He is an Evangelical fundamentalist.
Perkins has declared: America's future is intertwined with Israel's
In a CBN article on Perkins, he says this but without explaining. He doesn’t have to because his audience is mostly Evangelicals, and he knows that they all practically worship Israel.
Nowhere in the Bible is there even the slightest hint that the future of Christians has anything to do with an artificially created state calling itself “Israel.”
These fanatics refer to a verse in Genesis where God tells Abram that those who curse him (referring to his progeny as well) will be cursed and those that bless him will be blessed, and since they are frothing at the mouth fanatics, they take this to mean that anyone criticizing Israel will be cursed, and to them it doesn’t matter if Israel is committing crimes against humanity like bombing and starving innocent people. In their feeble minds, to criticize an openly criminal Israel will send them straight to hell in the afterlife. It’s pretty much the antithesis of the Christian message.
Of course, Jesus never uttered a word suggesting to his followers that they should support the crimes of a felonious state founded by people who cannot provide a shred of evidence that they are somehow distant descendants of Abram. In fact, thorough studies have shown that people of distinct provenance considered to be “Jews” have no DNA patterns in common and cannot be considered an ethnically distinct group at all, let alone descendants of a common ancestor, Abram.
The fact is, Jesus spent much of his time railing against Jewish religious leaders. He called them spawn of vipers!
Today, the vilest possible crimes are being committed by Israel but so-called “Christians” are, thanks to a complete indoctrination in Zionist lore, convinced that the murderous Jewish state is being guided by God to slaughter innocent people!
There is nothing dumber, nothing more vile and evil! Nothing more Satanic.
And here is the irony of all this: Tony Perkins has for years pushed for legislation banning abortion, which fundamentalist Evangelicals consider a sin!
But to many of them, including Perkins, it is righteous to support wholeheartedly the slaughter of children by starvation and bombing.
Time to expose “Christian” Zionists for what they are: SATANISTS!
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Palestinian father shot to death in front of his kids by Israeli soldier
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Meanwhile US Evangelicals are promoting “Israel”! No wonder church attendance is lower than ever.
Don, we need people like you to tell us the truth about what is going on in the world. We are near the tipping point of nuclear war .