Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-06-26 (2)
PUTIN (today, RT translation): "We have shown supreme consolidation of society and executive authorities at all levels... practically all Russian society - everyone - was united by their sense of responsibility for the fate of the country. Since the very beginning of these events all the necessary decisions to neutralize the threat were taken and to protect the constitutional order, lives, and safety of our citizens.
The armed mutiny would have been suppressed in any case. Despite their loss of reason, the participants could not not understand that, including the fact that they engaged in criminal actions, splitting apart the country which is now facing colossal external threats and pressures, when our comrades are dying at the front lines, holding on whatever the cost.
But the mutineers betrayed their country, their people and they betrayed those who they dragged into this affair, who they pushed to shoot at their comrades. It is this fratricide that the new Nazis in Kiev and their western masters wanted to see and the various traitors as well. They wanted to see Russian soldiers kill each other. They wanted to see Russian servicemen and civilians die and ultimately to see Russia defeated and the Russian society split apart, in a bloodbath.
They didn't want to take responsibility for failures in the war and with the so called counter offensive but they miscounted the law enforcement authorities and the military, who were loyal to their oath and to their people and to their duty.
The courage and sacrifice of the pilots who died prevented a tragedy on a national scale. At the same time we know that most soldiers and commanders of the Wagner group are also patriots of Russia loyal to their state. They proved this with their courage in combat, liberating the Donbass and Novarosia. They were used blindly. They were thrown against their comrades with whom they fought shoulder to shoulder for our future.
Since the very beginning, I gave orders to prevent bloodshed. And we needed time for that, including to give an opportunity to those who realized that made a mistake, to rethink their decision, to realize that they're putting society at risk and that this is leading to destructive consequences as a result of this reckless affair.
I thank the soldiers and commanders of the Wagner group, who made the only correct decision and refused to engage in a fratricide and who stopped at the last line. Today you have an opportunity to continue your service to Russia by signing a contract with the Minister of Defense or other authorities, or to go back to your families.
Those who wish may go to Belarus. The promise I gave will be fulfilled. I repeat, the choice is up to you.
But I'm sure that this will be a choice of Russia's warriors who realize their tragic mistakes. I'm grateful to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko for his efforts and his contribution to the peaceful resolution of the situation.
But I repeat, it is the patriotic spirit of people, the consolidation of the entire Russian society, that played the deciding role in these days. This support allowed us to overcome this hard challenge. Thank you for this. I'm grateful."
Ukrainian IFVs and APCs litter the battefield. The M2 Bradleys have proven to be only marginally better than Ukraine’s BMP-2
BILL #3:
On June 26th, I headlined “Two U.S. Senators Propose Nuclear War Against Russia”, and reported that,
U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced on June 22nd a Resolution which if passed and signed by President Biden (whom both Senators praised for his resolute hostility toward Russia), would commit the U.S. as the head of NATO to launch, on behalf of NATO, war directly against Russia, if (regardless of the reason) Russia uses even the smallest tactical nuclear weapon (for example, to destroy a command-center deep underground) in Ukraine (which isn’t a NATO country), and which Resolution alleges that the reason why America would do this for NATO (even though Ukraine isn’t a member) is that there might be some nuclear fall-out that might reach a NATO member nation from such an attack by Russia against Ukraine. In other words: they want to enable the U.S. President to launch a U.S. invasion of Russia if Russia becomes forced to use a nuclear device in order to be able to prevent Ukraine from joining America’s anti-Russian military alliance, NATO.
At the press conference introducing their Resolution, Senator Graham said,
“Our message is to those around Putin: If you do this and follow his order, should he give it, you can expect a massive response from NATO. You will be at war with NATO.”
The video of that press conference is here.
Their Resolution will allegedly be for “NATO” instead of for just the U.S. Government, and so if it becomes U.S. law, then — if the U.S. Government subsequently alleges that Russia has violated it — America will invade Russia and will expect all NATO countries to be on its side in the resulting World War Three. America would be in this War for NATO — not merely for America.
The Resolution furthermore says that the U.S. Senate:
“(2) views the use of a tactical nuclear weapon by the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, or their proxies, or the destruction of a nuclear facility, dispersing radioactive contaminates into NATO territory causing significant harm to human life, as an attack on NATO requiring an immediate response, including the implementation of Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty,” which is the Treaty Article that obligates each member-nation to support NATO’s war.
That’s the core passage in this entire proposed document. In other words, not ONLY would Russia’s use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine trigger WW III under the Graham-Blumenthal Resolution, but ALSO an attack against Europe’s biggest nuclear electric-power plant, which is in Zaporozhia in Ukraine and which nuclear-power facility Ukraine’s government has several times aimed missiles at but not yet successfully hit, would trigger a NATO invasion of Russia, even though Ukraine, and not Russia, had done it. Russia has, in fact, been protecting that nuclear power plant, which is in territory that Russia controls, and this is the reason why none of Ukraine’s missiles against it has yet succeeded at hitting it. (Well, there was one that barely did, but not badly enough to cause any release of radiation from the plant.) The Resolution’s key clause is the sub-clause “or the destruction of a nuclear facility, dispersing radioactive contaminates into NATO territory.” That’s the clause which (if this Resolution passes) could empower Ukraine’s government to spark a U.S. invasion of Russia — i.e., then a successful Ukrainian attack against that nuclear facility would “immediately” produce a U.S. nuclear attack against Russia (since the hypothesis of this Resolution is that in any such case, Russia had already entered a nuclear war against NATO, since a NATO member received some downwind radiation from that plant). …
Essentially, what Bill #3 aims to establish is the congressional authorization for the U.S. President to launch WW III against Russia if Ukraine’s government succeeds in hitting the Zaporozhia nuclear power plant hard enough for that plant to leak some radiation which might reach a NATO country. Interestingly: Bill #3 is written so as to authorize only an “immediate” invasion of Russia, and not to wait the perhaps months that might be necessary for an independent investigative commission to rule on whether it had been Ukraine or Russia that had perpetrated this attack. Also, “immediate” means NOT even to wait until there is any verification that a NATO member had received fall-out from that hit. “Immediate” means immediate.
On 3 August 2022, I had headlined “Ten Truths that Can’t Be Published Under the U.S. Regime”, and documented the history that had led up to this U.S. Government obsession ever since 1945 to ultimately conquer the entire world. This is solidly documented real history, no mere conspiracy-‘theory’ or hypothesis — and it is documented there in the article’s links to its online sources; so, you can check it out for yourself.
Only one U.S. Presidential candidate is campaigning against censorship, and against the U.S. Government’s and press’s hate-Russia and hate-China campaigns, and that person is leading in the approval ratings among the U.S. public, and is being treated by the American press as being a kook and a “conspiracy theorist.” What? — are all conspiracy theories false? None of them is true? Really? No conspiracy ever succeeds? Really? Is the U.S. major media’s overwhelming hostility toward that candidate evidence for intelligent persons to seriously consider possibly voting for that person? Or, has the U.S. Government been doing such a superb job for the American people as to instead foreclose considering to vote against it — to vote against the existing officials, in both Parties?
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For clarity regarding Rovnopol and the Vremevsky Salient:
1. The Rovnopol reported to have been taken by the Ukrainian units is the settlement in the Velikaya Novoselka district—in the Vremevsky Salient—and obviously not the one to the south-east, close to Volnovakha.
2. Ukrainian troops attempted to continue the offensive movement to Priyutnoye, south of Rovnopol, but were stopped and had to pull back to Rovnopol.
3. The Russian Army took up defences to the south of Rovnopol, in a wooded area at a higher elevation relative to Rovnopol (this continues the pattern of up-land/lowland defence we’ve seen at Pyatikhatki)
4. With the Ukrainian forces controlling Rovnopol and Makarovka, the approximate line of the forces’ relative deployment is as indicated on the map.
5. This is still the screening perimeter and the Vremevsky Salient area, which appears to have been set up exactly for this type of maneuvering.
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GRAPHIC- Hard shots of the unsuccessful exit of the Ukrainian infantryman from the BMP M2 Bradley: the Ukrainian military jumps out of the troop compartment directly onto a mine, as a result of which he lost a leg up to the knee.
The MTRs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine march in unison, but our artillery and competent aerial reconnaissance officers send them to the world of Hades.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 At least 4 destroyed MRAP MaxxPro APU in Zaporozhye region.
On the footage from the enemy side, we see that during the fighting, the fighters of the "South" group sent two pieces of equipment for disposal.
Ukrainian military bury alive one of their own men for refusing to carry orders, refusing to became cannon fodder. The video finishes before the true fate of the man is known.
The video is weeks old as judging by the icy terrain and the winter clothing.
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I am happy to hear stuff in Russian if you are able to post those too. Putin speaks well.