Think how many lives could be saved if only the West learned to listen to Putin
Shortly after man-child Macron announced that France just might send troops to Ukraine, Putin said if NATO countries sent troops, they would be killed. Putin wasn’t bluffing. He never does.
Here’s your daily air strike update fof June 9, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Foreign mercenaries of the Armed Forces blown to bits
Summary of June 9
The deployment points of foreign mercenaries fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were struck by Russian troops. This was reported to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. [Again, I would remind you that Putin had promised that mercenaries from NATO countries sent to Ukraine will be killed. It looks as if he is keeping his word. In fact it looks like foreign fighters in Ukraine are specially targeted by the Russians]
“The operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the armed forces of the Russian Federation struck the deployment points of foreign mercenaries,” the ministry said.
In addition, our military with precision strikes smashed several points at which the enemy drones were based. In total, in one day the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck the manpower and equipment of the [Ukrainian] Armed Forces of 131 districts.
Ruthless Iskander. Odessa and Poltava shuddered from impacts of retaliation
"Grounded" at the airfield
Russian pilots inflicted a series of blows on the Military Airport of the Ukrainian Air Force in Mirgorod, Poltava region, writes the Telegram channel “Сводки и аналитика СВО /Svodki I analitiki SVO. As a result, planes were destroyed that were preparing to attack the Belgorod region [in Russia proper across the border from Kharkov oblast. It is normal for the US-backed Ukronazis to attack civilians, in contrast to the Russians. Recall that US-controlled Kiev bombed and shelled civilian areas of the Russian-speaking Donbass for 8 years after the fascist Obama-Biden regime seized the reins of power in Kiev in 2014. News consumers reading about the US-backed genocide in Palestine should not be the least bit surprised, because senseless slaughter has been part and parcel of US-backed regimes for decades. Senseless slaughter is nothing new for the US regime and we should not expect this to change as a result of internal policy changes. It is a constant. It is what the Washington government is. Our government is a resultant force of the lobbies and donors that pull the strings of Congress and the White House (as explained here and here), and as unreal as it may seem to the uninitiated, neither the US voter nor an avalanche of political activism, be it protests on the streets of Washington or in campus demonstrations or encampments, will have anywhere near the power to change this alone from within. Only raw irresistible power and money can change Washington. Money is the main driver of US politicians. The change will come, but it will come in combination with forces from without. Those Americans who remain steadfast in the struggle will encourage those external forces and may catalyze positive changes. All people od good will must live in hopes that some day, every politician who has taken money from arms manufacturer lobbies and/or AIPAC will be arrested and locked away for the time it takes to end forever the unforgivable practice of buying politicians and in so doing, annulling the votes of Americans. It is the most egregious organized crime of all. They literally stole our government! And the wars they instigated in so doing murdered millions. Every child who died in Palestine and every soldier who fell in Ukraine is on their conscience. Except that they have no conscience]
“There are two hits, fires are blazing at the strike site. The planes did not have time to leave the airfield,” the report said. It is specified that the blow was inflicted by X-69 missiles. Prior to this, air raid alarm was announced in the region, but Russian missiles were faster than Ukrainian pilots.
Chasov Yar
Infernal hell for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chasov Yar.
The situation in the SMO zone on the evening of June 5
Over the past day, the Russian soldiers broke the enemy’s defense in the microdistrict of Kanal in Chasov Yar and occupied most of it. According to the Telegram channel "Archangel of Special Forces Z", the paratroopers of the 98th Airborne Forces Division distinguished themselves here.
“The enemy is doing everything possible so that our units at its heels do not cross the microdistrict and do not take a bridgehead in the area of the new microdistrict, which is already behind it,” said in the post. The mop-up of the territories of the city by the Russian forces coontinues.
Chasov Yar.
The corpses of the Nazis are everywhere. Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Chasov Yar are squeezing the last juices from the Armed Forces
They were dying themselves, and killing people
The level of APU commanders continues to surprise. It became known that the leader of the Ukrainian Rugby team Vladimir Yavorsky, who had gone to fight for the Kiev regime, killed not only himself, but an entire unit.
As military commander Evgeny Lisitsyn clarifies, Yavorsky did not obey the command of the commanders to retreat at Chasov Yar. As a result, he, with his “brothers” in the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, was destroyed by Russian assault aircraft - the FAB bomb was thrown among the militants.
APU losses by area
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, over the past day the enemy lost up to 1475 people killed and wounded on the battlefield. The greatest damage to the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces was caused by fighters of the West group of forces, operating in the DPR and the Kharkov region - up to 400 military personnel.
Units of the North group of troops group, pressing the enemy in the Kharkov region, disabled up to 225 Ukrainian military. In addition, three ammunition field warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed here.
The South grouping of troops in the DPR improved its position at the front edge and “dispatched up to 375 APU soldiers. In the zone of action of the Center forces group in the Donbass, the enemy lost up to 300 people.
The units of the Vostok troops group occupied more-profitable borders in the DPR and disabled up to 140 military enemy. And the soldiers of the Dnepr troops group in the Kherson region struck up to 35 Ukrainians.
American mercenaries who came under attack in a café in Kramatorsk
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https://newdaynews.ru/ukraine/829213.html
June 9, 2024, 13:53
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation bombed the deployment site of the aerial reconnaissance forces "Ptaki Madyar" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Photo: Ministry
American mercs struck at cafe
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The Russian army struck the deployment points of shock drone operators, known as Ptaki Madyar, as well as foreign mercenaries. In addition, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation reflected 14 counterattacks of assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the air defense systems shot down the Mi-8 Air Forces of Ukraine.
“The operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aircraft, missile troops and artillery of the armed forces of the Russian Federation are struck by the deployment points of the operators of shock unmanned aerial vehicles (“ Ptaki Madyar ”) and foreign mercenaries, as well as the accumulation of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces in 131 ", - reports the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The air defense of the air helicopter Mi-8 is shot down by the air defense systems, 66 drones and 13 Himars jet missiles are intercepted.
The units of the five groups of troops improved the tactical position and took more profitable positions. Over the past day, 14 counterattacks of the National Guard, Marine Corps, Airborne, Mechanized, territorial defense, Jaeger, as well as the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are reflected.
During the day, the Kiev regime lost 1475 troops, two tanks, eight armored vehicles, including BMP MARDER and BRADLYY, 25 cars and pickups, two D-20 guns, a GAUBITZ D-30, SAU M109 Paladin, SAU M109 FH-70 howitzer, two MSTA-B cannons, three cloves, M119, SAU KRAB and Enclave electronic wrestling station.
During the counter-battery struggle, the following were struck: Krab self-propelled gun, the Msta-B howitzer, two Gvozdika self-propelled guns, three D-30 howitzers, Grad multiple launch rocket system launcher, two M777 howitzers, Acacia self-propelled gun and two Rapira anti-tank guns ".
https://newdaynews.ru/ukraine/829213.html
In the area of responsibility of the units of the groups of the South and North groups of troops, four field depots of ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
Moscow, Zoya Oskolkova
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Huge Hezbollah rocket hits command post in illegal settlement Kiryat Shmona
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1799526811614744693
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Will Israel Invade Lebanon to Distract from Failure to 'Defeat' Hamas? w/ Laith Marouf
RACHEL BLEVINS
JUN 9
When Israel isn't killing 200+ Palestinians in a single day, it's escalating tensions with Hezbollah, with Israeli officials acting as though they're considering an invasion of Lebanon.
Palestinian-Syrian Journalist Laith Marouf noted that Hezbollah is sending plenty of signals that if Netanyahu chooses to pursue a full-scale war in the north, it will be infinitely more embarrassing for Israel than the failure that has been their pledge to "defeat" Hamas.
Follow Laith Marouf on Twitter
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Our thanks to JS
Stop the Worsening UNDERCOUNT of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza
From accounts of people on the ground, videos and photographs of deadly episode after episode, plus the resultant mortalities from blocking or smashing the crucial necessities of life, a more likely estimate, in my appraisal, is that at least 200,000 Palestinians must have perished by now and the toll is accelerating by the hour.
By Ralph Nader, March 5, 2024
https://nader.org/2024/03/05/stop-the-worsening-undercount-of-palestinian-casualties-in-gaza/
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Houthis strike
https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/21051129
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Cooler heads in Israel oppose war on Hezbollah
Hyperlink to article in alkhanadeq.org.lb/9-6-24
Saturday 08 June 2024 11:58
Hebrew media: The repeated illusion of a military operation against Lebanon is an irresponsible and costly fantasy
Israeli soldiers on the northern front with Lebanon
Tensions have escalated on the southern border with "Israel", as the intensity of the exchange of strikes between Hezbollah and the occupying entity has increased in recent days and weeks. Recently, Hezbollah launched an attack with an assault march on the Hurfish area in the Western Galilee. According to the occupation's confessions, a soldier was killed and 11 people were wounded. In addition, Hezbollah used air defense weapons against warplanes. For the first time since the start of the Al-Aqsa flood, sirens sounded near the Nazareth settlement in occupied Palestine.
In this context, Haaretz newspaper published a report translated by the “Trenches” website, indicating the sagging Israeli deterrence in the face of Hezbollah and confirming the United States’ concern about the escalation of the war into a regional war. In addition, the writer reviewed the military capabilities that Hezbollah enjoys, and described “the illusion.” Israel has repeatedly described conducting a military operation or even an invasion and changing power relations or the political system in Lebanon as an "irresponsible and costly fantasy." The article also emphasized the fallacy of the notion of a “limited military operation” that Israel could launch and expect Hezbollah to restrain itself and avoid a large-scale war.
Translated text of the article
Since October 7, the United States' main concern has been to prevent the justifiable war in Gaza - as Americans saw it - from escalating into a regional war.
That's why Joe Biden declared at the White House on October 10, "Don't" — he was addressing Iran and Hezbollah. He followed up on his warning by sending two aircraft carrier groups to the eastern Mediterranean: the USS Gerald Ford, the largest aircraft carrier in history, and the USS Dwight Eisenhower. Then in mid-April, the United States helped Israel shoot down Iranian missiles and drones for one purpose: avoiding escalation...
Preventing the escalating escalation in Lebanon requires a ceasefire in Gaza. Only then can diplomatic efforts resolve the outstanding issues between Israel and Lebanon. In the absence of a ceasefire in Gaza, regardless of who is responsible for the absence, Hezbollah's continued attacks cannot be tolerated. Here is a Shiite organization that is gradually becoming a major political force. Its well-trained military force is heavily armed, possessing between 100,000 and 130,000 missiles, of which 20,000 are believed to be precision missiles. It is generously funded and politically supported by Iran.
Since October 7, Hezbollah has engaged Israel in dangerous brinksmanship. The group began with passive support for Hamas, then launched a campaign of mortar shells, rocket-propelled grenades, and short-range rocket fire. This was scaled up to more precise armed munitions and drones, causing the displacement of tens of thousands of Israelis, who left ghost towns behind.
Hezbollah made Israeli deterrence ineffective and upended power relations. What is Israel expected to do? How would any other country react to this blatant and blatant violation of its sovereignty and the security of its citizens?
However, Israel and Hezbollah pretend to control the level of escalation and both assume that the other will be careful not to provoke anything that would tip the balance and justify a full-blown war. “Hezbollah is deterred,” declares the same geniuses who said before October 7 that “Hamas is deterred.” They say Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah “knows what is at stake and is very calculated.”
These are the claimants who knew exactly what the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was thinking months ago on the eve of October 7. These hollow platitudes have now been replaced by an aggressive tone based on the inevitability of war.
Likewise, the arrogance coming from reckless advocates of “Israel needs to strike Hezbollah once and for all” is astonishing given what happened on October 7. This does not mean that the military operation is unjustified, it just means that it may be extremely unwise and ill-considered at this time.
The recurring Israeli illusion that once every few years or decade – Operation Litani in 1978, the First Lebanon War in 1982, Operation Grapes of Wrath in 1996 and the Second Lebanon War in 2006 – Israel can conduct a military operation or even invade and change the power relations or political system in Lebanon is... An irresponsible and expensive fantasy. It validates the quote, wrongly attributed to Albert Einstein, that the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Another flawed assumption is that this would only include Lebanon and could also be of limited duration until deterrence is restored. Based on what? Nothing indicates that this assumption is applicable.
The current thinking in US defense, intelligence, and policy planning circles is that there is no such thing as a “small-scale” or “limited” military operation that Israel can launch and expect Hezbollah to restrain itself and avoid a full-scale war...
Source: Haaretz
Writer: Alon Pinkas
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Aearnur’s Newsletter
THEY KEPT POKING THE RUSSIAN BEAR THINKING THEY COULD TEAR OUT ITS CLAWS
Looking at it from the ivory towers of Washington and London it all looked pretty straightforward. It had worked in Afghanistan in the Seventies so why not now? But things had changed...
AEARNUR
JUN 09, 2024
The biggest losers were the idiots of the Anglosphere who joined the armies of the War Profiteers believing they were defending American Democracy.
The Fury is Coming!
Rarely, in America, a Congressman will tell a truth. A while back, Representative Christopher Shays from Connecticut was quoted during the Iraq War: "The American People don't like being lied to".
Sounds incredible, I know, considering Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden. But there's a God up above as dear old Mom used to say and the truth comes out in the end. Thank God for Vladimir Putin and the Russians to stand up to the Neo-nazi's who have taken over America since the 1940s Dulles Brothers' Operation Paperclip!