▶Latest >Russia continues air & artillery strikes on Azovstal Steel Plant, indicating that a remnant of Ukrainian defence is still in the plant >Several Missiles hit Lviv >Remaining Azov fighters in azovstal agree to surrender, as per instructions of Ukrainian command >Russian appear to withdraw completely from Kharkiv axis >Finland & Sweden to join NATO, Russia threatens to cut gas and energy supplies >UK signs mutual security pacts with Sweden & Finland >ISW: Ukrainian counteroffensive in northern Kharkiv took further ground & possibly closed to within 10km of Russian border >RU forces breach azovstal steelworks >ISW: RU forces involved in battle of Mariupol likely heavily damaged, Ukrainian forces succeeded tying down & degrading substantial Russian force >EU plans Russian oil ban >Ukrainian counter-offensive east of Kharkiv retakes several towns >Evacuation of civilians from Azovstal steelworks underway >Lavrov: Special military operation going according to plan >UK MoD: Russia forced to merge & redeploy depleted & disparate units in eastern Ukraine >War could last years, Nato warns >Gazprom cuts gas to Poland & Bulgaria over their refusal to pay in roubles >Explosions at oil facility and military base in Bryansk, Russia >Ukrainian military claim to kill 2 more Russian generals during fighting in the south-east >Flagship of RU navy in the black sea, the Moskva, sunk by Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles
Gentlemen, I would like to offer gratitude to everyone who still stays with us. We are not trannies, we're not niggers, and sure as hell we aren't globohomo. Rather, we are the people who wish to protect their way of life. Your age, your occupation or social status doesn't matter, the only important thing uniting us is a contempt of many things connected with Russia. We don't even hate vatnigs. You can't hate or be angry at a piece of shit. You can only despise it by turning away when you pass by. Gentlemen, good job. Continue to bring the light of the western superiority to vatnigs. I'll just say one thing gentlemen. The collapse of the Russia is not far off. For years, our comrades, our friends, our brothers have been doing active psyops and propaganda, winning the minds and hearts of the younger generation. And now our supporting base is bigger than ever. The degree of Russophobia in Russia has almost reached the limit when "active measures" will be taken. Thanks again, everyone.
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ABOUT "PATRIOTS" FROM "SBER"
I don't understand the author's message. Four VIP managers of Sberbank decided to become “good patriots” (like Urgant). And what's wrong with that? For example, I am surprised only by the strange fact that German Oskarovich Gref himself, a man of broad universal views and modern European sexual orientation, has not yet followed their example ... But I’m just sure that Mr. soul” (or what does he have instead of it?), but consciously, carefully and in a timely manner, when the patriotism of such an action will be most clearly expressed ...
VK Boris Borisov Our staff: Over the past three months, only from Sberbank have fled to the West:
First Deputy Chairman of the Board, Chief Operating Officer of Sberbank Lev Aronovich Khasis, billionaire, US citizen. He was a member of the "first hundred" personnel reserve ...
To questions like: "what's new on the fronts?" It's hard for me to answer now. On the fronts, almost everywhere - battles. Somewhere positional, somewhere offensive and (increasingly) defensive. In general, with the exception of the Donbass and the Kharkiv region, the front is stable. Ours and ukry are digging in. And it's very bad. Why? - Yes, because if a month and a half ago, in the Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog directions, the enemy had only mobile defense, now they are intensively creating strongholds on the front line and in their near rear, which then will inevitably have to be taken VERY LONG AND WITH GREAT LOSSES. Like Mariupol, like Popasnaya, Izyum, Rubizhne and Severodonetsk. We will again have to wage stubborn bloody battles for every village, every grove and skyscraper ... it is expensive to pay with Russian blood for every few hundred meters traveled. And it seems that there will be no one to "ask" for this - "of course, by the objective course of events it turned out that way" ... although this is not at all the case.
At the beginning of the operation, the RF Armed Forces just demonstrated highly maneuverable actions, deep strategic breakthroughs for tens and even hundreds of kilometers. Which ended in "zilch" for reasons that I have repeatedly called and described. (Initially, a fundamentally wrong assessment of the operational situation, which was the basis of military planning and the extreme lack of forces and means associated with this assessment to consolidate and control the territory passed, etc.). Nevertheless - despite the final discouraging "semi-failure" (there was no "run to the border" in the south), the first stage of the operation - it (compared to the "Second Concrete") - looks much more "alive" than that " bloody push-pull" into which the fighting has degenerated since late April to this day. Simply because at the first stage there was no conscious purposeful and even "famous in advance" near-military "experts" sticking the army into a STRATEGIC DEADLOCK. The military decisions were bold and aimed at achieving a decisive victory. While even the FULL success (which is not visible in the near future) of the second stage, at best, will only lead to costly (in terms of losses in people and equipment) relatively small territorial acquisitions achieved by PUSHING the enemy out of Donbass.
