Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-10-10
US defense stocks surge following attacks in Israel…
Asia Times: US Armed Forces may abandon M1 Abrams tanks
"A study conducted by the US Army recommends abandoning the M1 Abrams tank in favor of lighter and more compact unmanned vehicles, referring to the problems of survivability of equipment on the battlefields of the future that emerged during the war in Ukraine," the publication says.
The American tank needs extensive logistics, requiring a large amount of kerosene and various spare parts.
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#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Novomykhailivka
🕰 Date: ~09.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.82809, 37.49524
📝 Description: The Russians are conducting remote demining of the area near Novomykhailivka.
🖥 id: 09102023.1153
✉️source: https://t.me/voin_dv/5379
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🌐 Place: #ChasivYar
🕰 Date: ~09.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.5955585, 37.8892808
📝 Description: A Russian drone destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces pickup truck near Chasiv Yar.
🖥 id: 09102023.01528
✉️source: https://t.me/vdd98/1350
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#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Berislav
🕰 Date: ~09.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: ~46.8296535, 33.3991486
📝 Description: The Russian army launched a FAB attack on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Berislav. The similar location as 2-3 days ago.
🖥 id: 09102023.1717
✉️source: https://t.me/svoxydo/508
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🌐 Place: #Zmiivka
🕰 Date: ~09.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: ~46.8588033, 33.5555694
📝 Description: The Russian army launched a FAB attack on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Zmiivka.
🖥 id: 09102023.1724
✉️source: https://t.me/svoxydo/507
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🌐 Place: #Berislav
🕰 Date: ~09.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: ~46.8368528, 33.4240345
📝 Description: The Russian army launched a FAB attack on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Berislav. A lot of bombs in Berislav, almost every day.
🖥 id: 09102023.1736
✉️source: https://t.me/svoxydo/508
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Novomykhailivka
🕰 Date: ~09.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.8494438, 37.5011729
47.8537629, 37.5130363
📝 Description: Russian FABs hit the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novomykhailivka.
🖥 id: 09102023.0851
✉️source: https://t.me/voin_dv/5376
Two American planes carrying military equipment and ammunition landed in Tel Aviv
Dmitry Medvedev: Well, NATO friends, did you get what you expected?
Weapons transferred to the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine are actively used in Israel.
Further, it, like the weapons left by the fugitive Americans in Afghanistan, will be used uncontrollably in all hot spots.
After all, before, the corrupt Ukrainian authorities traded everything they received. They stole gas and oil, food, materials. They stole everything they could steal.
It will only get worse. Expect missiles, tanks, and soon planes from Kiev on the black market.
https://t.me/medvedev_telegram/396
Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative:
Palestinians are turning to resistance because they see that it is the only way to achieve their rights. The question is not about dehumanizing Palestinians and calling them terrorists. It's about asking why the US is supporting Ukraine against what they call "occupation" while here they are supporting an occupier who continues to own our territories.
@Slavyangrad
Can you imagine if we went through Kiev like that? There would be a lot of stink, accusations, and poop in our direction.
But that's what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. And the "first world" not only ignores it, but tacitly approves of it. And is ready to give Israel more arms and ammunition.
Lying two-faced bastards.
@Slavyangrad
War is taking its toll. According to the source, Palestinian child is burned in southern Al-Khalil.
I'm afraid we will see much more of such pictures in the future. It's not his fault, whichever side you choose.
@Slavyangrad
Reminder from the MSM on how to feel. People in Gaza are dying, people in Israel are getting killed.
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Urozhaine
🕰 Date: ~09.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.7495240, 36.8449359
📝 Description: Russian artillery destroyed the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the forest near Urozhaine.
🖥 id: 09102023.1905
✉️source: https://t.me/ChDambiev/26045
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🌐 Place: #Mykilske
🕰 Date: ~09.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.76584, 37.32855
📝 Description: Russian Tos1a is a nightmare of Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds near Mykilske.
🖥 id: 09102023.2209
✉️source: https://t.me/voin_dv/5387
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Verkhnokamianske
🕰 Date: ~09.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.870398, 38.220338
📝 Description: Russian artillery attacks positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Verkhnokamianske.
🖥 id: 09102023.1626
✉️source: https://t.me/sons_fatherland/11071
The weather on the Ukrainian front has deteriorated greatly. It is extremely difficult for UAV operators to do anything; artillery activity has decreased. After a whole day of fighting, there was a slight calm in Zaporozhye.
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⚡️Video supposedly showing the presence of Hamas troops in Eilat today
Mass destruction of Merkava tanks, which were considered almost the best in the world As expected, the Israeli army's outdated tactics are colliding with reality: tanks are destroyed before they can engage in battle the IDF has already lost 14 Merkava tanks
https://twitter.com/ESSA_A1I/status/1711410520752902499
This is how Hamas fires their rockets from Gaza, deep under the tunnels.
https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1711413171930472903
🏹 Russian hunters destroy a Ukrainian T-64BV tank in Zaporozhye direction..
Lord Of War
Video of cutting off water in the Gaza Strip by the Zionist military.
Lord Of War
The Israelis listened to their government and are stockpiling for the next 72 hours
https://t.me/llordofwar/213331
Very Graphic
🍖🍖🍖 Footage of dead Israeli soldiers after clashes.
https://t.me/Anlystintel/12722
⚡️ (https://t.me/sitrepmaps/4244)🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Front #Summary for 9 Oct 2023 by 19:24⚡️
🔹In the #Kherson direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have increased the intensity of attacks on our rear areas. Ours respond with artillery and FABs, in general there is no change here.
🔹On the #Zaporozhye Front, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are showing local activity: they have a slight advance near #Kopani, but the Russian Armed Forces are not allowing the enemy to gain a foothold. In general, autumn rains expectedly slow down movement on both sides of the front. Occasionally, pickup trucks can be seen moving near #Rabotino; heavier equipment is not visible. The weather does not make it possible to conduct high-quality reconnaissance with drones, this complicates the accurate work of artillery - again, for both sides.
🔹In the #SouthDonetsk direction in the #Priyutnoye area, the enemy tried to intercept the emerging initiative of the Russian Armed Forces, attempting attacks that ours repulsed. In general, everything is stable and quite static in this area. At #Ugledar, near #Nikolsky, the Russian Armed Forces managed to repel the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
🔹In the #Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces were able to occupy the two southern heights of #Novomikhailovka, and FABs are striking the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village. #Novomikhailovka itself is an important point on the way to the Ukrainian Armed Forces grouping in #Ugledar. The further goal of the Russian army is control over the highway towards #Ugledar.
🔹In the #Krasnolimansky direction near #Makeyevka, the Russian Armed Forces have improved their positions; less than half a kilometer is left to the village itself. The Russian Armed Forces are attacking west of #Svatovo and have taken a couple of more positions.
🔹In the #Kupyansk direction, ours advanced south of #Kislovka, taking control of the highway leading to #Kupyansk.
🔹The head of Ukrainian intelligence, Budanov, said in an interview that the #GUR special forces tried three times to return #Energodar and the #Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant to control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As we know, all these attempts ended in failure. By the way, our Ministry of Defense also reported about each of the three landing attempts. Many bloggers then questioned whether the landings actually took place. And now everything just came together.
🔹Although now, of course, the Kiev authorities are more concerned that events in Israel may drag on and push Ukraine out of the international agenda. Zelensky is already trying, in the eyes of the world community, to annex Ukraine to Israel under the flag of countries “suffering from terrorism” and calls on Western countries to provide such countries with everything they need for protection. That is, in response to the events in Israel, he is asking for wapons for Ukraine. At the same time, he called Iran the common enemy of Ukraine and Israel.
🔹At the same time, the American media openly promote the thesis that Israel is a key partner of the United States, to which the White House immediately communicated everything necessary. At the same time, experts note that US military reserves are already depleted and there is not enough production capacity. According to analysts, the United States will have to choose who to help: Ukraine or Israel. It is impossible not to note such an amazing confluence of successive circumstances: the United States slows down arms supplies, then Congress blocks money for Ukraine in the temporary budget, and then suddenly the Middle East caught fire.
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⚡️ (https://t.me/readovkanews/67454)🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ War Map and the Situation on the Fronts for the Evening of 8 October 2023; pub. 00:04⚡️
⚔️ Situation on the Fronts over the past Day
🔹#Svatovo - #Kremennaya Direction:
▪️ In the #Kupyansk sector, the Russian army continues to advance in the direction of #Sinkovka. Our fighters have also seriously advanced in the area of #Makeyevka.
🔹#Bakhmut (#Artyomovsk) Direction:
▪️ Our fighters continue to hold the railway line in #Kleshcheyevka and #Andreyevka. Ukrainian militants also unsuccessfully attacked near #Kurdyumovka.
🔹#Zaporozhye Direction:
▪️ The AFU with the support of artillery slightly advanced near #Kopani.
▪️ The militants are also attacking in the direction of #Verbovoye and #Novoprokopovka, but are facing our defence line and Russian Aerospace Forces strikes.
▪️ On the #Vremyevka ledge, the enemy failed to break through the Russian army's defences near #Priyutnoye and near #Staromayorskoye.
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Police publish footage showing members of the Matilan Border Police counterterrorism unit killing a Palestinian terrorist near the Shaar Henegev junction in southern Israel early this morning.
https://twitter.com/manniefabian/status/1711410164438372713
Gaza is in ruins.
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1711486809899716855
Joe Biden, when he was a senator, stated: Even if Israel did not exist, the United States would have to invent Israel. Senator Joe Biden in 1986:
There is no reason to apologize for supporting Israel. This $3 billion in support is our best investment.
Even if Israel did not exist, America would have to invent Israel to protect its interests in the region.
https://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1711485158031773898
FOOTAGE OF HAMAS AMBUSHING ISRAELI ESCAPING THE FESTIVAL ON THE DAY OF THE ATTACK The driver seems to slow down as he thints the armed men were Israeli Defense Force personnel, until they start shooting the car and seemingly killing the passenger(s)
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1711519057755660439
Scott Ritter: Are Hamas fighters using American weapons meant for Ukraine?
When it comes to arms supplies, the US is its friends’ worst enemy
Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of 'Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union.' He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.
Palestinian militants at 19-year-old Ahmad Awawda's funeral in Jenin on October 8, 2023 © Zain JAAFAR / AFP
Throughout recent history, the perceived weapon of choice for a terrorist (or freedom fighter, depending on one’s perspective) has been an AK-47 assault rifle. Today, in the aftermath of the so-called post-9/11 “global war on terror,” it’s not uncommon to see such fighters with a Glock 9mm pistol, or a Colt M4 carbine.
These are weapons paid-for by the US taxpayer and ostensibly provided to forces joined in the cause of defeating terrorists and/or freedom fighters (again, depending on the political beliefs of the observer), but that end up in the hands of the latter instead. Obviously, that is never the outcome Washington intends. And yet, somehow, these weapons end up arming the very forces the US and its allies are trying to defeat.
The most recent example of this phenomenon appears to involve Hamas and the attacks perpetrated by militants affiliated with that organization on military and civilian targets in southern Israel. A video, the authenticity of which has yet to be verified, purports to show a Hamas fighter thanking Ukraine for the provision of small arms, ammunition, and hand grenades. More videos, taken during the actual assaults, show the Hamas fighters armed with a plethora of US-made weapons.
These videos have alarmed some US lawmakers, such as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia’s 14th District, who, in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack, Tweeted/Xeeted “We need to work with Israel to track serial numbers on any US weapons used by Hamas against Israel. Did they come from Afghanistan?” the Congresswoman asks. “Did they come from Ukraine? Highly likely the answer is both.”
Origin of US weaponry used by Hamas must be investigated – congresswoman
Any attempt to answer Marjorie Taylor Greene’s questions will more than likely turn up information that should make the US government very uncomfortable. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been saying since June of this year that US-made anti-tank weapons intended for Ukraine were turning up on the Israeli border. Left unsaid by Netanyahu was how this had come to be – corruption is rampant inside Ukraine, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has reported on hundreds of millions of dollars of aid being diverted into the hands of parties it was not originally intended for. By my calculations based on conversations with numerous informed sources, the amount diverted could be as high as six out of every ten dollars of assistance sent to Ukraine. It’s one thing if this involves money; it’s another thing altogether if this involves weapons.
The wide availability of US-made weapons on the global black market used by terrorists/freedom fighters to arm themselves is reflective of the lax approach the US takes when it comes to providing military assistance to parties involved in active combat. The US appears to be more interested in reinforcing the political messaging attached to such deliveries–that the US is actively supporting friends in need. The actual security-related aspects of this effort, however, seem to escape most senior US policy makers.
This became evident in May 2022, when Rand Paul, a Republican Senator from Kentucky, tried to have an inspector general put in place to monitor and account for some $40 billion in military assistance to Ukraine requested by President Joe Biden. Senator Paul’s motion was overwhelmingly defeated by a Congress which appeared to be happy to assume a “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” posture when it came to the issue of Ukraine and corruption.
The issue of US weapons falling into the hands of persons not only for whom the weapons were not intended, but –more critically– into the hands of people the weapons were intended to fight against, who then use them against American allies, is not a new one. Back in 2007, Turkish police started recovering weapons from killed Kurdistan Workers Party (or PKK) fighters inside Türkiye containing serial numbers affiliated with weapons shipments made by the US to Iraqi forces. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department, while Türkiye is a member of NATO.
US issues warning to Hezbollah
US weapons provided to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for the purpose of fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels were being seized by the Houthi on the battlefield and being turned against the original owners. Moreover, some of these weapons found their way into the hands of Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Weapons provided by the US to the former Afghan Army turned up in Kashmir, recovered from the bodies of pro-Pakistani Islamist terrorists/freedom fighters who had, prior to being killed in Kashmir, fought alongside the Afghan Taliban against the US and its Afghan allies. Other US weapons from Ukraine began showing up in Africa, in the Lake Chad region, in the hands of Boko Haram insurgents fighting against US-armed soldiers from Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.
The reality is that the US has become one of the major sources of weapons for terrorists/freedom fighters around the world. While Marjorie Taylor Greene is correct to demand answers when it comes to the issue of the security of Israel, a long-time American ally, the same questions can be asked about virtually every security assistance program instituted by the US in the post-9/11 era. It appears that America’s approach to fighting the global war on terror has ended up making those whom it calls terrorists more capable of carrying out the acts of violence US policy portends to be trying to stop. The sad truth is that America, in its rush to arm the world, in many ways ends up being its friends' worst enemy.
RT https://www.rt.com/news/584413-hamas-fighters-us-weapons/
Hamas using weapons given to Ukraine – ex-Russian president
Arms Washington sent to Kiev and left in Afghanistan are about to be “uncontrollably used” around the world, Dmitry Medvedev has warned
FILE PHOTO. © Global Look Press / Abed Rahim Khatib
The weapons Kiev’s Western backers have actively supplied to Ukraine have found their way to Hamas militants and are now “being actively used in Israel,” former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said in a Telegram post on Monday, adding that any future military hardware supplied to Kiev could end up on the black market as well.
“It will only get worse from here,” Medvedev warned, predicting that the world should “expect missiles, tanks, and even planes from Kiev on the black market soon.”
His words came amid rumors that Hamas militants that control the Gaza Strip had gotten their hands on some US-made weaponry before their attack on Israel over the weekend. No solid evidence confirming these claims has emerged so far. However, an unverified video circulating online showed a Palestinian militant displaying assorted US-made pieces, including a standard-issue M136 anti-tank grenade launcher, while thanking Ukrainians for the weapons.
Origin of US weaponry used by Hamas must be investigated – congresswoman
According to Medvedev, “corrupt authorities” in Ukraine would not hesitate to trade everything they had received from their backers. “They would steal everything in sight,” the former president claimed, adding that the Western weapons sent to Ukraine would soon fuel conflicts in other parts of the world, just like the trove of weapons the Americans left in Afghanistan during their hasty withdrawal from the country in 2021.
The aforementioned video has already sparked concerns in the US, with Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene saying on Sunday that its origins must be investigated. The congresswoman also claimed on X, formerly known as Twitter, that some of the arms used by the militants might have come from Ukraine or Afghanistan.
Israel fears consequences of West arming Ukraine – Newsweek
Washington has been Kiev’s biggest supplier of military aid since the onset of its conflict with Moscow. The US has poured a total of $46.6 billion into military assistance to Ukraine, including direct weapons and ammunition shipments, as well as grants and loans for weapons and equipment.
Kiev has repeatedly faced accusations of misusing or selling off the weaponry, which it has vehemently denied. On Monday, the Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) blamed the rumors about weapons supposedly coming from Ukraine to Hamas on Russia.
Moscow was allegedly waging a “discreditation” campaign against Ukraine in the Middle East, GUR claimed in a Facebook post, adding that the weapons that ended up in the hands of Hamas were “trophy weapons” captured by Russian forces from Ukrainian troops. Russia has not commented on these claims so far.
The news came amid the latest escalation between Hamas and Israel, which began last Saturday when the Palestinian militant group launched a surprise attack on multiple locations along the Gaza border. Israeli officials have estimated that more than 700 people have been killed in the Hamas assault and over 2,200 have been injured.
RT https://www.rt.com/russia/584448-hamas-use-weapons-given-ukraine/
his Ukrainian identitarian ‘play’ has a crucial part in the story of why sustained peace with Russia is foreclosed.
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Few people even know the name ‘Gehlen’, yet Reinhart Gehlen and his SS men not only shaped politically the newborn OSS and CIA, but also, to a significant extent, determined post-war American attitudes toward Russia. A zeitgeist that has remained largely intact to this day, Gehlen – ‘man of light and dark’; both Führer loyalist and traitor – long before Hitler finally fired him. Sometimes it is necessary to look into deep history to identify the roots of contemporary issues.
Gehlen was adept in persuading Hitler how weak were the opposing Russian forces: When General Paulus’s Sixth Army was surrounded by Russian armies which methodically crushed everything inside the cauldron, Gulen reassured that “the enemy troop concentrations remained much too weak for far-reaching operations”. And whilst the Sixth Army of 300,000 German soldiers was being crushed, and Paulus’s last Panzer tanks had been lost, Gehlen sent Hitler old intelligence showing no indication at all of Soviet troop movements. Finally, just as Stalingrad was falling, and Paulus about to surrender, Gulen admitted to Hitler that “the situation of Stalingrad might very well be serious”.
It seems that underestimating Russia has a storied history …
Yet, in an astonishing chameleon-like transformation, as the Third Reich crumbled, Reinhart Gehlen – the head of Nazi intelligence for the Eastern Front – grabbed his trove of intelligence files on the Soviets and surrendered to Counter Intelligence Corps of the U.S. Army.
He brokered a deal by which he and a select group of his men would establish a secret intelligence service for the Allied Occupation. For the avoidance of confusion, in a 2001 CIA affidavit, the latter stated that “General Gehlen himself is not considered an alleged Nazi war criminal”.
Returning to West Germany and with his Gehlen Organisation under the aegis of the CIA, and ‘bankrolled with millions of dollars’, Gehlen according to the Institute for Policy Studies enlisted thousands of Gestapo, Wehrmacht and SS veterans. By the early fifties, the Gehlen Organisation was said to employ some four thousand intelligence specialists in Germany and a like number of undercover agents throughout Eastern Europe.
Amongst these ‘assets’, which Gehlen brought with him to the American ‘table’, unsurprisingly were the Ukrainians of the 14thSS Waffen Division – later regrouped as the Ukrainian National Army. What characterised the UNA, numbering some 200,000 men, was their strong antipathy to the Soviet Union, and ‘the Russians’.
It was in the Wehrmacht period that a distinct Ukrainian ‘identity’ was fashioned by the Bandera-faction – one which stated that ‘real’ Ukrainians were the supposed descendants of Vikings, who set up Kievan Rus. There is no real historical or genetic basis for this designation, but it provided for a convenient confluence with Nazi ideology, with whom they were allied.
This simulacra identity continues today: Aleksey Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, has stated: “I’m fine with Asians, but Russians are Asians. They have a completely different culture, vision. Our key difference from them is humanity”. Ukrainians are humans, while Russians, because they are Asians, are not. Or that is to say, ‘Europe ends at Ukraine’.
This imagined Banderite identity as ‘superior, Germanic-Ukrainian’ has been evoked many times during the post-Maidan fighting. The Law of the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine states that only Germanic Ukrainians, Tatars and Karaites have “the right to fully enjoy all human rights and all fundamental freedoms”. It was signed into law by President Zelensky on 21 July 2021.
This Ukrainian identitarian ‘play’ has a crucial part in this story – of why sustained peace with Russia is foreclosed.
In 1945, U.S. intelligence on Russia was virtually non-existent. When the U.S. wartime OSS was reborn in 1947 as the CIA, the Gehlen Organisation was one of its cornerstones. Gehlen – the man who knew how to ‘stroke’ his superiors’ feathers over Russian weakness – brought his expert knowledge (and prejudices) to bear on U.S. thinking – the Washington Post reported that Gehlen “and the thousands whom he employed in his counterespionage organization provided the CIA and the Pentagon with 70% of its intelligence on the USSR and Eastern Europe”.
But just as Gehlen made ‘his’ metamorphosis from enemy to ally, America was being urged-on by Winston Churchill, also summersaulting from seeing the Soviet Union as ally to existential enemy. Churchill wanted to push-on. Recall that this ran against the grain of traditional U.S. policy (such as that of Pat Buchanan) that was highly sceptical of foreign entanglements and European wars.
WW2 had ended without any formal treaty, but rather with a cancerous dispute about the future of Germany, fuelled by gathering Cold War. On the one hand, the Soviet Union had lost more than 20 million people in the war and did not want to see Germany remilitarised. The U.S., on the other hand, decided that the three occupied sectors from the western side would form a single entity – and that those western sectors would become the bulwark of a new military alliance – NATO.
As Jeffrey Sachs relates, the Soviets said ‘no’: ‘We just lost 20 million – and now within a few years you’re remilitarising’. No one in the West was listening, and in spite of earlier assurances of ‘NATO not advancing an inch beyond the Germany borders’, NATO adopted the position (during the Clinton era) that the advance of NATO to circumscribe Russia was ‘none of Moscow’s business’.
It is into this sensitive and quintessential lacuna – (‘it was none of Russia’s business’) – that Ukraine has ‘stuck a wrench’ with its bogus identitarian claim that ‘Europe ends at Ukraine, and beyond it lie ‘the Slavs’’.
In its desire to support Kiev, the EU quietly has been sliding towards this Ukrainian strategic revisionism: ‘Ukraine’ is crafted as ‘European values’ defending themselves versus ‘Russia’ (Asian) values. (Both peoples, in fact, are Slav). The door to joining NATO was opened in 2008, despite the U.S. Ambassador warning only a year earlier that NATO membership would lead to war.
By the time President JF Kennedy had come into office, the situation vis á vis Russia was completely fraught: Militarisation of NATO; the U2 crisis; the Bay of Pigs débacle and the Cuban missile crisis. The CIA clearly was cornering the President, cutting off the exits, and matters were getting out of hand. Kennedy was beside himself with anger at how the CIA had led the U.S. (and Kennedy personally) into this mess. He took on the establishment, firing CIA Director Dulles and Richard Bissell, who had handled the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Kennedy had stumbled badly in the first two years of his Presidency, but by the third year, was ready to make that famous speech saying that peace was possible – even with the Soviet Union: ‘They are human beings like us’. “I speak of peace as the necessary rational end of rational men”. And, Amazingly Khruschchev was listening. An agreement followed in weeks, and the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved it.
“Well … then they killed him”, said Jeffrey Sachs in a recent discussion on JFK’s final political campaign – his quest to establish a secure and lasting peace with the Soviet Union.
There are, however, a couple more twists to this tale of unending, and escalating culture-identity war versus Russia.
One twist came during the Carter Presidency, when his National Security Adviser, Zbig Brzezinski persuaded the President to insert a radicalised, jihadist culture into Afghanistan to attrite the secular socialist culture of Kabul, which Moscow was supporting.
In the event, politics in Moscow determined the outcome: the Soviet Union self-imploded. Fukuyama’s End of History and the Last Man meme exploded across the globe, and the Afghan war was crafted as a huge success (which it wasn’t). Yet nonetheless, the claim underpinned the notion of Islamic insurgents being the ideal solvents for regime change projects. It became the pilot for the Arab Spring.
Those early moderate jihadi leaders in Afghanistan? They killed them, and replaced them with ever more violent men – who ultimately would become the fodder on which 9/11 expediently would feed, and expand into global war.
But Brzezinski had yet more advice to give President Carter. In his 1997 Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski argued that the Ukraine– by virtue of its divided cultural identities, entwined in old complexities – should be seen as the hinge around which heartland power revolved: ‘Absent Ukraine, Russia would never become the heartland power; but with Ukraine, Russia can and would’,he insisted. After Afghanistan, Russia needed to be enmeshed in a Ukrainian cultural-identity quagmire, Brzezinski was suggesting.
The Gehlen-Banderite thread of western Ukraine being linguistically and racially different (Germanic) from ‘ethnic Russians’ swirls up persistently, again and again. Ukrainian (correctly known as Ruthenian) is not a Germanic language. It is best understood as a dialect of Russian, and therefore firmly and only Slavic. Nor is there any Viking (Germanic) DNA to be found among modern-day western Ukrainians.
The last twist to the culture-identitarian saga is centred on Europe, and how the European Left with NATOs Balkan war (which the Left enthusiastically endorsed) dramatically ‘switched shirts’.
The old NATO, which Leftists once had hated as a reactionary carbuncle, the Left had now come to see as having new evangelical meaning; no longer reactionary, but now revolutionary. Its new ‘revolutionary’ objective being to hasten the advent of a social revolution whose cultural sub-strata is the promulgation of the Woke tenets: Diversity, Pride, Trans rights, and the redress of historic discrimination and wrongs.
The new NATO, inclusive and politically correct, is seen by European Leftists as the tool by which to sweep aside obstacles to the EU agenda, as well. These ‘switched shirts’ hold that the struggle for this ‘Cultural Order’ is incessant, totalising, and all-encompassing.
In this context, it is not difficult to see how a woke Ukraine, imagined as marking ‘the physical extent’ of Europeanism, can have morphed into an icon for this total cultural-identity war on Russia – a distension beyond even that which Gehlen could have dreamt.
So, is ‘sustainable peace’ with Russia closed out? Were it to be attempted in terms of seeking to sustain western Ukraine as an isthmus of Europe and its values extending into the regressive Slav sphere, then peace is not possible – for it would be wholly fake. Furthermore, it would be damaging to Europe, for it would legitimise what was but an ancient, convenient congruency of identity with Nazi ideology that has acquired a toe-hold amongst the Ruling Strata of Europe.
The only viable way forward would be to return to the original Gordian Knot, and to untie it: i.e. to untie the knot of there being no post-WW2 written treaty delimiting NATO’s ever-forward movement, and by so doing, ending the pretence that NATO’s displacement to wheresoever it choses is no one’s business but its own. Negotiations, in the final instance, are about interests, and the nous to solve the riddle of two parties perceiving how the other perceives itself being perceived.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/10/09/sustained-peace-with-russia-is-it-possible/
Drone drops on Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry on the northern flank of Bakhmut
@Slavyangrad
🔴 Kupyansk direction, northern flank. A powerful artillery strike was launched against enemy positions in the village of Shipovatoye .
#source (https://t.me/rezervsvo/32450)
Destroyed International MaxxPro armored vehicles and a damaged M113 armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village. Levadne, Zaporozhye region.
@Slavyangrad
Gallup (https://news.gallup.com/poll/512258/ukrainians-stand-behind-war-effort-despite-fatigue.aspx) poll reveals 60% of the Ukrainians want the war to continue to the end. This is 10% less than last year.
Furthermore the attitudes are drastically different depending on the region.
In the south (comprising Odessa, Nikolaev and what is left of Kherson oblast) there is no longer a majority of citizens for continuing the war, with only 45% in favour.
In the east (Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkov and what is left of Donetsk/Zaporozhye), almost that with 52%. In Central Ukraine 64%, in the West 71%, in the north (including Kiev) 72%.
Polling in war time is unreliable. Many people that don't support hostilities or are against the Ukrainian government are afraid of stating their opinion due to the current environment . The number of people who are for peace is certainly much higher than this.
It is very clear though that Odessa and Kharkov are in a war against Russia against their will. The biggest supporters of the war are people comfortably sitting in a cafe in Kiev with their life unaffected.
@Slavyangrad
Our soldiers shot down an automatic burst of FPV drone with a "gift".
#Cassad (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/100178)
URGENT: Avdeyevka direction, 10th October, 10:30 AM Moscow time
After a brief respite, our artillery is now active. A massive cannonade can be heard within a radius of several dozen kilometers.
Enemy positions have been destroyed and are shrouded in smoke. It appears that our forces will attempt to cease the shelling of Donetsk in the near future.
10:40 AM Moscow time
Addendum to the previous post: It has been reported that our tactical aviation has joined the effort.
Su-34s and Su-35s are striking enemy positions without entering the area of military air defense operations.
#source (https://t.me/frontbird/3949)
The situation on the Zaporozhye front at 10:00 AM Moscow time
It was an eventful night for the Ukrainian Army. The two-day calm was abruptly interrupted by an artillery barrage. Over the past two days, our scouts gathered information about the location of enemy strongholds within forested areas and identified resting places for enemy personnel in the nearby rear. Subsequently, a targeted artillery attack was launched against these resting areas.
Weather conditions deteriorated with the arrival of rain and strong winds, causing the greenery to gradually recede.
#source (https://t.me/rusich_army/11254)
URGENT! Avdeyevka front.
Our artillery is pounding AFU; they are retreating, and our soldiers are advancing on the flanks. The enemy hasn't found an effective response and is withdrawing their forces.
The enemy is fortifying their positions outside the city, re-establishing the old defensive line. All signs indicate they may surrender the city, but let's not jump to conclusions.
Avdeyevka is a formidable fortification, and no one is attempting a direct assault. We are closely monitoring the situation on the ground.
#source (https://t.me/rusich_army/11255)
This is the current state of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip - the IDF has brought the city back to the Stone Age.
Throughout the night, the Israeli army relentlessly bombarded
(https://t.me/readovkanews/67524) the Gaza Strip, and now there is footage depicting the city in ruins. Entire residential neighborhoods have been obliterated, and people are desperately trying to recover the bodies of their loved ones from the rubble of collapsed buildings. Massive airstrikes persist, continuing to devastate the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, Hamas announced (https://t.me/readovkanews/67528) that it had achieved all its objectives in Israel and was now open to discussions regarding future developments. Israel's stance on the matter remains unclear at this time.
#source (https://t.me/readovkanews/67529)
‼️🇷🇺Russian Aerospace Forces are right now delivering massive strikes against enemy defenses at the front near Avdeyevka
Night and day, attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroy strongholds of Ukrainian militants in the vicinity of Avdeyevka near Donetsk.
#source
@Slavyangrad
🌟 Avdeevskoe direction
🔴 The first positive news is coming from the Avdeevsky direction. It is reported that the enemy’s defenses in the area of the settlement were broken through on the northern flank. Berdich.
🔴 Some military correspondents hastened to report the capture of the village of Berdichi. According to our information, our army has reached the outskirts of the village and is fighting at this moment. The enemy is gradually retreating.
🔴 There is also a counter attack from the southern flank of the Avdeevsky direction. Apparently the idea was to create the Avdeevka Cauldron
#source (https://t.me/rezervsvo/32478)
⚡️ Military Chronicle exclusive: a powerful blow to the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Avdeevka.
From early morning all calibers are working, rocket and cannon artillery is roaring. Apparently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were caught trying to rotate personnel. Warehouses, Ukrainian artillery firing positions and hangars with equipment are being destroyed.
According to eyewitnesses, the work of Russian artillery in this area “trembles the earth!"
#source (https://t.me/milchronicles/2706)
🌟 Avdeevskoe direction
🔴 This is actually the main blow of our army, where the enemy could not even imagine that it was in this area that our army would deliver the main blow
🔴 According to our data, the operation was prepared for more than two months. There was the most severe economy of the BC (the RF was holding back on the use of artillery). Now our artillerymen are firing everything they have, enjoying the destruction of enemies.
#source (https://t.me/rezervsvo/32494)
The aftermath of Israel's carpet bombing of Gaza.
#source (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/126097?single)
🔴 Avdeevskoe direction
🔴 Powerful shelling of enemy positions continues. Our guys are strengthening themselves in new positions and continue to move forward, both on the southern and northern flanks. The enemy is unable to stabilize the situation
#source (https://t.me/rezervsvo/32507)
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(10 October 2023)
Part I (see Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/10221))
▫️In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled two attacks by AFU units near Kleshcheevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️In addition, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Kurdyumovka and Andreevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️The enemy losses were up to 165 servicemen killed and wounded, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles.
▫️In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, in cooperation with helicopters and artillery, repelled two attacks by assault detachments of the 127th Territorial Defence Brigade near Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region) and inflicted a fire defeat on Ukrainian units of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade close to Novomikhailovka, Nikolskoye and Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic)..
▫️The enemy losses were up to 200 servicemen killed and wounded, two motor vehicles, and one D-20 howitzer.
▫️In addition, one field ammunition depot of the AFU 79th Air Assault Brigade has been destroyed near Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of coordinated actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, helicopters and artillery, two attacks by assault groups of the 12th Special Forces Brigade and the 63rd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU have been repelled south-east of Kuzmino and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
▫️In addition, strikes were delivered at clusters of enemy manpower and hardware near Kremennaya (Lugansk People's Republic), Torskoye and Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️The AFU losses amounted to more than 60 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, three pickup trucks, as well as D-30 and D-20 howitzers.
▫️In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, supported by aviation and artillery, have repelled four attacks by assault detachments of the 115th Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Liman Pervy (Kharkov region).
▫️The enemy losses were up to 25 servicemen and three motor vehicles have been neutralised.
▫️In the course of counter-battery warfare, the Russian troops hit one U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system, and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.
Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(10 October 2023)
Part II (see Part I (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/10220))
▫️In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces, aviation and artillery inflicted a fire defeat on manpower and hardware of 82nd Air Assault and 65th Mechanised Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Rabotino and northwest of Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region).
▫️The enemy losses amounted to more than 80 servicemen, one tank, three pickup trucks, one D-30 howitzer, and one M-46 cannon.
▫️In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were over 50 servicemen, and 12 motor vehicles.
▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 118 areas during the day.
▫️One depot of missile and artillery weapons of Kherson combined group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been destroyed close to Davydov Brod (Kherson region).
▫️Command posts of AFU 67th and 118th mechanised brigades, and 15th Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine have been eliminated close to Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Odarovka (Zaporozhye region).
▫️Air defence facilities have destroyed 19 unmanned aerial vehicles near Romanovskoye, Chervonogorka (Zaporozhye region), Kazachyi Lageri, Novaya Kakhovka, and Korsunka (Kherson region).
Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
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Urgent: Zaporozhye direction
It is reported that since early morning on the section Pyatihatki-Lobkovoye our army also conducted a powerful artillery preparation. In these minutes we move forward.
#source (https://t.me/rezervsvo/32515)
Mi-28 attack helicopters are providing support to troops advancing near Avdeevka.
Several settlements are already under the control of the Russian army. A cauldron is expected to form.
#source (https://t.me/vorposte/47370)
The Balticconnector, an undersea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, has been shut down due to an unusual drop in pressure, with sabotage being suspected as the cause, although there is no confirmation yet
Finland's president stated that the pipeline suffered damage due to an "external influence." Officials are being cautious in their statements, but Bloomberg reports that the leading hypothesis is sabotage.
In response to this situation, gas prices in Europe surged by 12% to reach $534 per cubic unit.
Balticconnector connects the gas transport networks of Estonia and Finland, playing a crucial role in the regional gas market.
A significant press conference on this matter is expected this evening.
#source (https://t.me/rian_ru/217913)
The Russian army has initiated an offensive with the goal of encircling Avdeevka, as reported by Ukrainian military analysts
➨ Avdeevka sustained heavy artillery, MLRS, bomb, and air missile attacks.
➨ West of the village of Krasnogorovka, Russian forces have launched an assault towards the villages of Stepovoye and Berdychi. The combat is ongoing.
➨ Fighting continues to the north and west of the village of Krasnogorovka and to the north of the village of Opytnoye. The Russian Armed Forces are attempting to advance and secure positions along the forested area north of Krasnogorovka and take control of the northern part of the village of Opytnoye.
➨ There are also reports of clashes near Vodyanoye.
➨ "Russian AFVs are moving from Donetsk through Peski towards Vodyanoye, with the aim of isolating Avdeevka from Vodyanoye and Opytnoye," stated the AFU.
➨ According to the latest information, the Russian Armed Forces are making inroads towards Tonenkoye, pushing back the AFU.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/54602?single)
Artillery of 1430th regiment works on AFU armoured vehicles on Zaporozhye direction near Rabotino - Novopokrovka.
#source (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/100214)
Avdeevka direction: AFU fleeing from their positions, leaving dead and wounded fighters behind
Footage taken by members of the Yugra battalion after a large-scale attack by the Russian Armed Forces in this direction (https://t.me/OstashkoNews/99716).
Currently the AFU is on the verge of getting into a "cauldron", as earlier the Russian army managed to break through the positions of the AFU near the village of Berdichi.
#source (https://t.me/OstashkoNews/99746)
Convoys carrying personnel and food supplies for the Ukrainian armed forces, which had arrived at the Ocheritno railway station west of Avdeevka, were hit by the Russian army, resulting in heavy casualties.
#source (https://t.me/infantmilitario/109357)
The Avdeevka coke plant is on fire. Fierce fighting is ongoing both to the north and south of the city. We are awaiting further updates/results.
#source (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/100246)
Ukrainian telegram channel "Zerada":
From 4 am, Russian troops began a heavy artillery barrage in the direction of Avdeevka. Russian channels write about the work of 200 artillery barrels.
It is obvious that the Russian Armed Forces do not experience a shortage of ammunition. There is a version that North Korean supplies from Kim Jong-un were used.
In addition, MLRS, tanks and aircraft are actively involved. At the same time, there is no information yet about significant progress on earth. The fiercest fighting takes place to the north of the city.
Avdeevka is the MOST fortified place on the entire front. Many people believe that it is generally impossible to take it head-on.
🇺🇦🇷🇺Morning summary October 10, 2023
▪️At night, the Russian Armed Forces hit enemy targets in the Nikolaev and Odessa regions. Explosions occurred in Odessa, Dachnoye, Vilkovo, Izmail district, port of Ochakov. Local residents again noted the incorrect operation of enemy air defense; Ukrainian missiles with a disrupted flight path were caught on video.
▪️On the Zaporozhye front, the enemy concentrated fire on our positions northwest of the village. Verbovoe, cluster munitions and a large number of kamikaze drones are used. The main losses of our forces are associated precisely with enemy artillery fire. Nevertheless, the Russian Armed Forces managed to carry out counter-offensive actions and knock the enemy out of their strongholds. There has been an increase in the use of Krasnopol precision-guided ammunition by the Russian Army. The autumn thaw has begun: enemy infantry is moving on pickup trucks, and Western-made armored vehicles have begun to be seen less frequently.
▪️Dozens of our artillery and MLRS units have been working in the Avdeevsky direction since the morning. It is possible that this could be artillery preparation for offensive actions.
▪️In the Kupyansky direction, local successes of the Russian Army are reported: several enemy strongholds near Sinkovka are occupied. In the Kupyansk area - targeted arrivals at the locations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▪️South of Svatovo near Makeyevka (LPR), successful assault actions of the Russian Armed Forces against enemy strongholds are confirmed. Units of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, formed this year, are involved.
▪️On the left flank of the Vremevsky direction, up to ten strong points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are occupied by our troops as a result of offensive actions.
▪️In the Kherson direction, artillery duels and battles continue on the islands in the floodplain of the river. Dnieper.
▪️In the evening, an enemy UAV was shot down over the Belgorod region. In the DPR, the enemy fired 124 rounds of ammunition, two civilians were wounded. #Ukraine #Russia
The Russians approached the outskirts of the village of Berdychi on Avdiivka direction.
Source: https://t.me/rusich_army/11257
Coordinates: 48.193151, 37.650689
In terms of interceptions, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka are in complete chaos, with many killed and wounded.
There is bacchanalia and hysteria on the air.
While the knockdown has passed, we continue to watch.
source: https://t.me/voenacher/54069
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Nesterianka
🕰 Date: ~10.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.5047870617, 35.630693065
47.5062756154, 35.628196594
📝 Description: The Russians attacked the Ukrainian Armed Forces' sabotage and reconnaissance group near Nesterianka.
🖥 id: 10102023.0749
✉️source: https://t.me/ZA_FROHT/22703
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Turia
🕰 Date: ~10.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 50.9029313, 35.3487662
📝 Description: The temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed by large-caliber weapons of the Russian Federation in Turia.
🖥 id: 10102023.0752
✉️source: https://t.me/natoptishh/1960
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Novobakhmutivka
🕰 Date: ~10.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.25513, 37.73702
📝 Description: A Russian FPV drone destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces truck near Novobakhmutivka.
🖥 id: 10102023.0756
✉️source: https://t.me/creamy_caprice/2557
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Vodiane
🕰 Date: ~10.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.104430, 37.691452
📝 Description: A Russian FPV drone attacked Ukrainian Armed Forces positions near Vodiane.
🖥 id: 10102023.0745
✉️source: https://t.me/orbSparta_Officially/10
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Stepove
🕰 Date: ~10.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.193084, 37.674809
📝 Description: Russian aviation attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Stepove, near Avdiivka.
🖥 id: 10102023.1140
✉️source: https://t.me/voenacher/54067
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Avdiivka
🕰 Date: ~10.10.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.126719, 37.738818
📝 Description: In Avdiivka, the Russian military carried out an artillery preparation. This is how the settlement looks like after many blows.
🖥 id: 10102023.1143
✉️source: https://t.me/voenacher/54068
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Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-10-11
Russian armed forces hit a train station near Avdeevka, disrupting the logistics of Ukrainian NATO forces Our fighters have been targeting the Nazi-fortified region of Avdievka since morning, from where they have been targeting the civilian infrastructure of Donetsk. The result was the destruction of the ammunition depot, as well as the severe losses of the ukrovermacht in manpower.
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