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List if Russian top military officials killed during invasion

Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev
Major General Vitaly Gerasimov
Major General Andrei Kolesnikov
Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky
Major-General Oleg Mityaev
Colonel Nikolay Ovcharenko
Colonel Sergei Porokhyna
Colonel Sergei Sukharev
Colonel Andrei Zakharov
Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky
Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Agarkov
Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov
Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov
Major Viktor Maksimchuk
General Magomed Tushaev
Captain Andrey Paliy
Captain Alexey Glushchak
Colonel Alexei Sharov

Recent meeting of Kadyrov and General mordvichev in Mariupol.

Above propaganda listed him as dead

This map of the situation in Ukraine on March 24 is provided by the French Ministry of Defense.

Source:
https://www.defense.gouv.fr/ukraine-point-situation

Date :25-03-2022

Speech of the Head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy


In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief since February 24 this year. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are conducting a special military operation.

Its main goal is to provide assistance to the people of the Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics, who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for 8 years.

It was impossible to achieve this goal by political means. Kiev has publicly refused to implement the Minsk agreements. The Ukrainian leadership twice in 2014 and 2015 tried to solve the so-called Donbass problem by military means, was defeated, but did not change its plans on resolving conflict by force in the East of the country. According to reliable data, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were completing the preparation of a military operation to take control of the territory of the people’s republics.

In these conditions, it was possible to help the Donetsk and Lugansk republics only by providing them with military assistance. Which Russia has done.

There were two possible courses of action.

The first is to limit the territory to only the DPR and the LPR within the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which is enshrined in the constitutions of the republics. But then we would be faced with constant feeding by the Ukrainian authorities of the grouping involved in the so-called joint force operation.

Therefore, the second option was chosen, which provides for actions throughout the territory of Ukraine with the implementation of measures for its demilitarization and denazification.

The course of the operation confirmed the validity of this decision.

It is conducted by the General Staff in strict accordance with the approved plan.

The tasks are carried out taking into account minimizing losses among personnel and minimizing damage to civilians.

With the beginning of a special military operation, air supremacy was won during the first two days.

Offensive actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are carried out in various directions.

As a result, Russian troops blocked Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and Nikolaev. Kherson and most of the Zaporozhye region are under full control.

The public and individual experts are wondering what we are doing in the area of blocked Ukrainian cities.

These actions are carried out with the aim of causing such damage to military infrastructure, equipment, personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the results of which allow not only to shackle their forces and do not give them the opportunity to strengthen their grouping in the Donbass, but also will not allow them to do so until the Russian army completely liberates the territories of the DPR and LPR.

Initially, we did not plan to storm them in order to prevent destruction and minimize losses among personnel and civilians.

And although we do not rule out such a possibility, however, as individual groups complete their tasks, and they are being solved successfully, our forces and means will concentrate on the main thing – the complete liberation of Donbass.

Significant territories of the Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics have also been liberated. The people’s militia has taken control of 276 settlements that were previously under the control of the Ukrainian army and the national battalions.

Demilitarization of Ukraine is achieved both by high-precision strikes on military infrastructure facilities, locations of formations and military units, airfields, control points, arsenals and warehouses of weapons and military equipment, and by the actions of troops to defeat opposing enemy grouppings.

Currently, the Ukrainian air forces and the air defence system have been almost completely destroyed. The naval forces of the country ceased to exist.

16 main military airfields were defeated, from which combat sorties of the AFU aviation were carried out. 39 storage bases and arsenals were destroyed, which contained up to 70% of all stocks of military equipment, materiel and fuel, as well as more than 1 million 54 thousand tons of ammunition.

All 24 formations of the Land Forces that existed before the start of the operation suffered significant losses. Ukraine has no organized reserves left.

Losses are replenished at the expense of mobilized persons and personnel of the territorial defence forces who do not have the necessary training, which increases the risk of large losses.

At the time of the start of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with the National Guard, numbered 260 thousand 200 servicemen. During the month of hostilities, their losses amounted to about 30 thousand people, including more than 14 thousand – irretrievable and about 16 thousand – sanitary.

Of the 2,416 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles that were in combat on February 24, 1,587 units were destroyed; 636 units out of 1,509 field artillery guns and mortars; 163 out of 535 MLRS; 112 out of 152 aircraft, 75 out of 149 helicopters; 36 Bayraktar TB2 UAVs – 35;

180 out of 148 S-300 and Buk M1 air defence systems; 300 out of 117 radars for various purposes.

The AFU continue to use high-powered weapons indiscriminately against towns in Donbass. An example of this is the strikes by the Tochka-U missile system on the civilian population of Donetsk and Makeyevka.

In this regard, they are the primary targets

. As of today, 7 Tochka-U launchers have been destroyed, and 85% of missiles are in arsenals and in the air. This significantly limited Ukraine’s capabilities for their combat use.

Since the beginning of hostilities, the Western countries have supplied the Kiev regime with 109 field artillery guns, 3,800 anti-tank weapons, including Javelin, Milan, Konkurs, NLAW ATGM, M-72, Panzerfaust-3, 897 Stinger and Igla MANPADS.

We consider it a vast mistake for Western countries to supply weapons to Kiev. This delays the conflict, increases the number of victims and will not be able to influence the outcome of the operation.

The real purpose of such supplies is not to support Ukraine, but to drag it into a long-term military conflict “to the last Ukrainian.”

We are closely monitoring the statements of the military and political leadership of individual countries about their intention to supply aircraft and air defence systems to Ukraine. In case of implementation– we will not leave it without attention.

We also hear assurances from NATO leaders about non-interference in the conflict. At the same time, some member states of the North Atlantic Alliance propose to close the airspace over Ukraine. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will immediately respond accordingly to such attempts.

In order to prevent the restoration of weapons and military equipment of the AFU that have received combat damage, the Russian Armed Forces are disabling repair enterprises, arsenals, storage bases, logistics warehouses with high-precision weapons.

At the moment, 30 key enterprises of the military-industrial complex have been hit by cruise missiles X-101, Kalibr, Iskander, and the Kinzhal aviation complex, which carried out repairs of 68% of weapons and equipment disabled during combat operations.

Russian modern weaponry has proven to be highly accurate, reliable and capable of operational use.

I would like to emphasize that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation do not strike at civilian infrastructure facilities, including the destruction of bridges across rivers.

127 bridges were destroyed in the area of military operations. All of them were blown up by Ukrainian nationalists in order to deter the advance of our troops.

Another example of recklessness is the mining of approaches to the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny, where over 400 anchor mines of obsolete types are installed.

At least 10 mines have broken anchor and are drifting in the western part of the Black Sea, which poses a real threat to warships and civilian vessels.

The rampant crime, looting and marauding and civilian deaths have been caused by the Ukrainian regime’s massive uncontrolled distribution of tens of thousands of small arms to the civilian population, including to criminals released from prisons. The situation will only get worse in the future.

The course of hostilities, the testimonies of civilians who left the blockaded settlements and captured Ukrainian servicemen show that today the AFU’s ability to resist is based on fear of reprisals by neo-Nazis. Their representatives are embedded in all military units.

The mainstay of the Kiev regime are nationalist formations such as Azov, Aidar, Right Sector and others recognized in Russia as terrorist organizations. In Mariupol alone, they include more than 7 thousand militants who are fighting under the guise of civilians, using them as a “human shield”.

The militants of the Azov battalion drive women and children out of the basements, threatening them with weapons, and send them towards the advancing units of the DPR in order to hinder the advance of the people’s militia. This has become a common practice for them.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, on the contrary, seek to avoid unnecessary losses. Before the start of the offensive, the AFU units are invited to leave the combat area and move along with equipment and weapons to the point of permanent deployment. Not to resist when the offensive begins and those who lay down their arms are guaranteed safety.

Civilians caught in a war zone are always advised to stay in their homes.

Humanitarian corridors are being organized in all cities to get the population out of the area of hostilities, and their security is also maintained.

Humanitarian corridors are being created in all towns to allow people to leave the area where the fighting is taking place, and their security is being maintained.

In addition, at the initiative of the Ukrainian leadership, the country has become a home to 6,595 foreign mercenaries and terrorists from 62 states.

They are not subject to the rules of war and will be ruthlessly destroyed.

Today, the number of foreign mercenaries is declining. This was facilitated by high-precision strikes on their bases and training camps. On March 13, more than 200 militants were killed and more than 400 wounded in Starichi and at the Yavorovskii training ground alone.

I note that not a single foreign mercenary has arrived in Ukraine in the last seven days. On the contrary, there has been an outflow. Within a week, 285 fighters escaped into Poland, Hungary and Romania, I hope without Stingers and Javelins.

Previous experience has shown that man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS) and ATGMs are spreading out fairly quickly, along with the mercenaries who return home.

In general, the main objectives of the first phase of the operation have been achieved. The combat capabilities of Ukraine’s Armed Forces have been significantly reduced, which allows us, once again, to concentrate our main efforts on achieving the main goal – the liberation of Donbass.

In eight years, in the area of the so-called “joint forces operation”, a defence belt has been prepared that is deeply echeloned and well-fortified in engineering terms, consisting of a system of monolithic, long-term concrete structures.

In this regard, in order to minimise casualties among the troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics, the conduct of offensive operations is preceded by a heavy fire attack on the enemy’s strongholds and their reserves.

At the beginning of the special military operation, the LPR and DPR people’s militias were confronted by a group of 59,300 people comprising the most combat-ready units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the National Guard and nationalist formations.

As a result, Ukraine’s security forces in the OOS zone lost about 16,000 people, or 26% of their total strength as of 24 February this year.

More than 7,000 of them were irrecoverable losses.

Replacing losses is prevented by isolating the Ukrainian grouping of troops in Donbass, taking control of railway stations and key road routes with firepower.

The supply of missiles and ammunition, fuel and food to Ukrainian forces has been almost completely halted.

The field depots of missile and artillery weapons and ammunition, as well as fuel located directly in the area of the Joint Forces Operation are being hit. To date, 32 facilities have been destroyed, or 61% of the total.

All weapons and military equipment, including foreign-made, seized by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the special military operation are handed over to the People’s Republics. Already 113 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 138 Javelin and 67 NLAW grenade launchers and other trophy weapons have been handed over.

Units of the People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic have liberated 93% of the republic’s territory.

Fighting is currently taking place on the outskirts of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.

The People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Rupublic controls 54% of the territory. The liberation of Mariupol continues.

Units of the Russian Armed Forces together with the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic are conducting an offensive to liberate settlements to the west of Donetsk.

Unfortunately, there are casualties among our comrades-in-arms during the special military operation. As of today, 1,351 servicemen have been killed and 3,825 wounded.

All family support solutions will be taken over by the state, raising children up to higher education, full repayment of loans, housing solutions.

We receive a large number of appeals from Russian citizens wishing to take part in the special military operation to liberate Ukraine from Nazism.

In addition, more than 23,000 foreigners from 37 countries have expressed their willingness to fight on the side of the people’s republics. We offered the leadership of the LPR and DPR to accept this assistance, but they said they would defend their land themselves.

They have enough power and resources.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue to conduct a planned special military operation until the tasks set by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief have been completed.

Olayetan:
They will do it but they won't let you see when they are turning, the turning process will be hidden while you will see only the result.

More like circus magic...lol

bennybuhari:
lbori is not perfect but you can't bring down or disgrace a man whom God has blessed. You will end up disgracing yourself

How can God “bless” someone who has done so much harm to the people of delta?

Does God work like this?

gambojimeta:
I guess you meant Soviet (USSR) which Ukraine was a state in the former Soviet.

You can now see why the war is dragging. They are both Slavs.

Interview by colonel cassad gives an in-depth view of the war and why Russia is slow and methodical:

http://thesaker.is/boris-rozhin-detailed-discussion-of-the-situation-in-the-ukraine/

Slurity:
The mad people hailing Putin should imagine this and still understood that this war is unprovoked.

Unprovoked? Check maidan 2014

Realists:
Hypocrites when Nato was busy bombing Libya no one wailed, because they are Africans now that it's Europeans lifes, wailing wailers are making noise. The federal republic of Russia needs to finish this battle off, before Easter holidays, we don't want Russian soldiers to have the holidays without their families.

This war has thoroughly revealed western hypocrisy, bias and deep-seated bigotry. Some lives are more important than others. How many damn years have they been bombing Gaza?

quickly:
US was very instrumental in countries around the world adopt democracy which seems to be the fairest way to govern a nation

This democracy hasn’t really helped our situation here in Nigeria.. I wish for a better alternative.

Resistance is futile

Negotiate territorial neutrality
End this war and end the destruction.
Russian ops is slow and methodical.
Slow does not mean bugged down
Surrounding the big cities and towns
Gradually wearing out the UAF fighters with targeted strikes one big theater at a time.

Each day “they” turn the pain dial,
Destroying heavy industries and MIlitary-industrial complexes.

Negotiate and end this destruction.
Resistance is futile.

A lot you guys don’t see the wrong in this illegal seizure being perpetrated by the so called “rule based order “ nations. How do you seize a property of someone due to his nationality? Did he commit any crime? Is he owing?

I think this is wrong. He invested in uk legally. At no time was his investment deemed proceeds of corruption by a competent court.

I think these nation have shown their bare face. It’s rules based on “our” Order... and that’s the truth of their much parroted slogan.

Russophobia blinding rule of law

Aminu212:
Nice one op

But using iron core transformer for mobile phones charger nowadays is outdated because of efficiency.

Learn about PWM(pulse width modulation), also the advantages of ferrite core over iron core, you can also rebuild a working charger to get started.

Great one op

Don’t you think the op’s method of using a transformer is better than PWM IC ? I think transformers are more durable than this power IC. What do you think?

CSNg:
I made a laptop powerbank.

It can charge laptop and phones at the same time

Do you have a circuit diagram for this charger kit? I am particular curious about those displays. How did you configure them?

ULiTv:
Components used for this project includes
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1) 240v (9-0-9) transformer
2) 4 Diodes (no unit)
3) 1k/25v capacitor
4) 7805 transistor (regulator)
5) 0.1/25v capacitor
6) light emitting diodes (led)
7) USB port
a connection board
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I first of all connected my four diodes in series, then my 1k/25v capacitor followed by transistor, 0.1/25v capacitor, light emitting diodes, USB port then my 240v transformer on the connection board, I read it with my meter and it gave me exactly 5v.
You can watch the video below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsBzQxNc0ng
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How do rate this my small project?

Do you have a circuit diagram for this?

You used the transformer to step down the Ac. How many volts did you get after stepping down the voltage?

The diodes were connected to AC to rectify the current. Then a cap. The DC voltage is high at this point.

Did you use the transistor to reduce the voltage. What voltage are you getting at this point?

This reporter is currently in Kharkiv in Ukraine, and he thinks the Russians are winning this war. But he worries the American might want to pull a false flag operation to help Ukraine.

By the way below is the updated map of the current situation by Readovka.

Honestly, I think resistance is futile.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRJ4umS7dJA

Source: thesaker.is

Amateurs think strategy, generals think logistics … Or why Ukraine is doomed

A simple analysis of the events in real-time(1). No matter which one of the levels in the Battlespace (Tactical, Operational or Strategic) of this War Is impossible because there is the fog of war, the information we are receiving is old, compromised, unsure. We do not have the full of it on real-time (not even the Staff in the High Command of the contending parties have it) nor are we able to separate that quick the relevant from irrelevant, or real from fake, propaganda from whatever…

A simple analysis of the motivations or decision-making processes in the heads of the persons in charge (such as Pres. Zelensky or the Committee (2) represented by Pres. Biden) or any of the generals managing these operations is also impossible. We can guess their intentions, we can guess their motives from a visceral Point of view, but we are not inside their heads.

If we try to answer the Question: is Ukraine going to win this war? We can obtain some Answers from a purely scientific Mathematical Perspective.

War is won or lost based on:

P1.- Logistics

P2.- Will to Fight (3)

From P1.- we can observe that in the Ukraine:

Supplies:
Much of it destroyed, depleted, or captured. What is left is being used and suffering attrition. No possibilities of quick resupply by local production or by imports due to b) c) d) e)

Airports:
All-important military and Civil Airports neutralized or destroyed.

Ports:
All important Civilian and Military Ports and Transit Hubs neutralized or destroyed

Roads:
All Roads east of the Line Koroshen-Zythomir-Vinitsa-Yampil neutralized or under fire control of artillery and VVS. All Roads west of this line are at least under fire control of VVS, and/or standoff weaponry.

Railroads:
All lines west of the Line Koroshen-Zythomir-Vinitsa-Yampil cut in one or more points, neutralized or under fire control of artillery and VVS. All lines west of this line are at least under fire control of VVS and/or standoff weaponry.

From P2.- we can observe that in the Ukraine, once supplies are depleted,

Conclusions:

War is just Mathematics (7)

Mathematics never lie (

Difrent:
Didnt you read the sections of the post that clearly stated the attack was on a location near the US embassy and that only one us embassy staff was wounded?
And Yes israel has stations in iraq and other arab nations.
When israel strikes its reported as targeting terrorists but when iran strikes its on reported as targeting civilians through the western propaganda machines called mainstream media.
When America i travelled thousands of miles to invade Iraq with lies and false intelligence the whole world was mute.....but Russia is conducting a military operation to demilitarize its neighbour thats bent of giving its land to western enemies to be used to launch attacks against russia....the whole world finally found their voice.
Its a legitimate right that US and its NATO allies have used in the past and labelled as threat to national security that they want to deny Russia of...Russia has the right to invade crush and occupy Ukraine if Ukraine insist on being a lauchpad for western attack on Russia...

Bro... arguing with these guys on NL will drain your energy and ruin your day. Many have been hard wired to main stream media narrative that it’s so difficult to convince them otherwise, even when the obvious is so glaring.

Why should Israel attack Syria? Bombing airports, factories, military structures?

Why should Israel by proxy attack Iran?

Nations like Iran don’t do the talking, they take action and treat anyone’s stupidity be it American and Israeli.

Israeli has been running an Intel/ops Centre against Iran in Erbil in the shadows of a US embassy. Many a times they have used drones similar to the ones used by jihadist to hit at Iranian infrastructures. And they have often attacked Iranian military footings in Syria with the usual plausible deniability.

Iran, under sanctions for years, has demonstrated its ability to build a modern armament fit for modern wars. She has proved her ability to hit Israel where it hurts “Dimona” if Israel attacks Iranian soil. Same way she hit the US bases in Iraq.

PoliteActivist:
Story is true
See below

Remember this word when you read these news: unnamed official = PSYOPS

mysticwarrior:
it would be stupid for anyone to believe that the Russians are running out of munitions after just 3 weeks of mild fighting.

I mean... it’s really mind-blowing the level of propaganda on NL as regards to the Russo-Ukraine war.

Ukraine is a large expanse of a country and the Russians are being methodical. The recent map says it all... Like Pokémon...they are gobbling up ukraine

I really don’t know why you lots like to push half baked news all around. Russia has sustained her intervention in Syria for 8 years propping up the Syrian Army to fight both the jihadist/turkey and the Americans. She has the wherewithal to sustain her war efforts in Ukraine.

In secret briefings to Members of the foreign affairs committee, US acknowledges that Zelensky will fail.

My question : why then do they urge him to continue this fight when he will fail ?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kes3kv76St0?t=48

Honestly, I think Zelensky should think hard about the possibility of loosing Ukraine as a country.

The Russians have taken a third of his country and they are gradually turning the pain dial day by day.

They are being methodical:
destroying command and control structures of the Ukrainian army,

destroying arms depots,

surrounding major cities

Encroaching into these urban cities one city at a time

By the time this war is over, the whole Donetzk and Lugansk oblast will be lost to the rebels. Imagine what Ukraine would
Look like when these regions are all gone.

Honestly resistance is futile . If Zelensky continues to encourage the army to take the fight to the cities, continues this war, many of these cities will be rubbles.

I think he should accept Ukraine’s neutrality and sign a law not to join NATO.

Resistance is futile. NATO and the west can’t help him

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he recommends Ukraine take the offer made by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war - which includes many Ukrainian sacrifices - in a phone call on Tuesday, according to an official in Ukraine's government.


According to the official, Zelensky did not take Bennett's advice.
The source claimed that the phone call was initiated by Bennett. "If I were you, I would think about the lives of my people and take the offer," Bennett reportedly said.

Zelensky's response was short: "I hear you," he said.

According to the report, the Ukrainian president and his people did not like the advice.

"Bennett told us to surrender ," said the official. "We have no intention of doing so. We know Putin's offer is only the beginning."

According to the official, however, Zelensky's office isn't seeing results from the mediation. He said that Bennett isn't mediating so much as functioning as a mailbox and just passing messages between the two sides. According to him, a mediator needs to try to put together a compromise between the two sides and make his own offers.
"We don't need a mailbox," said the official. "We have enough of those. If Bennett wants to be neutral and mediate, we would expect to see him appoint someone to work on it day and night and try to get a compromise."

Ukrainian officials believe that Bennett's involvement in diplomatic efforts comes from his not wanting to take a clear stance regarding the Russian invasion for fear that it will harm Israel's ties with Russia.
On Tuesday, Ukrainian Ambassador Yvgeni Kornichuk is expected to meet with Knesset Chairman Mickey Levi. The official said that Kornichuk intends to make clear to Levi that the only option, as far as Zelensky is concerned, is a video speech in the Knesset plenum and not a Zoom call which will only include a few MKs.

If the Knesset speech does not happen, the Ukrainian leader is looking at other options. The first is a speech in Yad Vashem, and the second is a speech in Tel Aviv's Bima Square. Mayor Ron Huldai has already told Zelensky that he would be happy to arrange it.
On Saturday, the Ukrainian negotiator in talks with Russia said Bennett rejected claims Israel tried to nudge Ukraine into caving to Russian demands during talks.


https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-701041/amp

Conventional, mechanized warfare is a time and resource consuming enterprise, and an operation of this scope isn't cobbled together in days.

The Russian offensive is taking place on four separate fronts. On a fifth front, in eastern Ukraine, which Putin declared independent last week, Russian forces are tying down Ukrainian troops that are needed elsewhere.

The bulk of the Russian forces are advancing southward from Belarus to Kyiv.

Russian advance forces, including air, mobile and reconnaissance troops, have been engaged with Ukrainian troops outside of Kyiv since the start of the war.

A massive column of Russian troops, estimated at over 40 miles long, is just 20 miles north of Kyiv, and is likely assembling to surround the capital.

If Russian forces can take Kyiv and push southward to link up with forces on the Crimean front, thus splitting Ukraine in two, it would be a major blow to the Zelensky government.

What matters more than a handful of setbacks is that Russian forces have pushed 70 miles into contested terrain in less than a week and are on the outskirts of the capital.

40-mile Russian convoy entourage to Kiev

The world has underestimated Putin before and those mistakes have led, in part, to this tragedy in Ukraine.

We must be clear-eyed now that the war is underway.

Yet even the professionals at the Pentagon are letting sympathy cloud their judgement.

Just two days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Department of Defense briefers were quick to claim that failing to take Kyiv in the opening days of the war amounted to a serious setback.

DoD briefers implied that Russia's offensive was well behind schedule or had even failed because the capital had not fallen.

But U.S. leaders should have learned to restrain their hopes after their catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Once again, U.S. and Western officials are falling into the trap of failing to understand the enemy and his objectives.


Allegedly, Putin believed that the Ukrainian government would collapse once Russian troops crossed the frontier and pushed to Kyiv, and that the operation has failed because the Ukrainian government remains in place.

Putin certainly hoped for a swift victory, but he clearly was not relying on his opening salvo as the only plan for success.

Rather, the Russian military was prepared to take the country by force if a swift decapitation strike fell short.

This kind of plan should be familiar to Americans who remember the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In the first hours of the war, the U.S. Air Force launched its 'shock and awe' campaign in an attempt to kill Saddam Hussein and other key leaders and bring down the government. Saddam survived, but the U.S. military was fully prepared to follow up with a ground assault.

A look at the Russian military offensive demonstrates there was a plan for a full-scale invasion, which Russia is now executing.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10569141/Putin-NOT-crazy-Russian-invasion-NOT-failing-writes-military-analyst-BILL-ROGGIO.html

Putin is NOT crazy and the Russian invasion is NOT failing. The West's delusions about this war - and its failure to understand the enemy - will prevent it from saving Ukraine, writes military analyst BILL ROGGIO

Wishful thinking has the upper hand in the battle to shape Western perceptions of the war in Ukraine.

Sympathy for the outnumbered and outgunned defenders of Kyiv has led to the exaggeration of Russian setbacks, misunderstanding of Russian strategy, and even baseless claims from amateur psychoanalysts that Putin has lost his mind.

A more sober analysis shows that Russia may have sought a knockout blow, but always had well-laid plans for follow-on assaults if its initial moves proved insufficient.

An immediate embargo would only ‘raise prices at the pump for Americans,’ according to the State Department

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected calls for immediate energy sanctions against Russia on Friday, arguing that such action would harm Americans more than Moscow.

After being asked by a reporter how Western countries could “beat Putin” when they pay Russia “up to $700 million a day in oil, gas, and coal,” and whether the US would consider implementing energy sanctions, Blinken said that while “nothing is off the table,” sanctions are supposed to “have maximum impact on Russia and Putin while minimizing harm to us and our allies and partners.”

There is no strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy

The secretary of state explained that the “immediate effect” of energy sanctions against Russia would be to “raise prices at the pump for Americans” and “pad Russian profits with rising prices.”

Since Joe Biden’s inauguration last year, gas prices in the US have continued to rise. While the president acknowledged in November that gas prices were “too high,” he blamed Russia and OPEC for their “refusal” to increase production and help bring down prices for Americans.

Though Blinken rejected direct export sanctions, at least for now, he said the White House had “a strong interest” in “degrading Russia’s status as a leading energy supplier” and claimed it was currently working to wipe out the West’s “dependence on Russian energy.”

On Friday, the US Commerce Department announced that it would take action to target Russia’s oil refining sector, unveiling “new stringent export controls.”

The department said it was imposing “stringent restrictions on a wide variety of items necessary for refining oil” and targeting 91 new entities, including those based in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Singapore.

Western powers have imposed an array of sanctions against the Russian government, banks, companies, and individuals in retaliation for Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine. While Russia has stated its goals as the “demilitarization” and “denazification” of the country, Kiev has accused Russia of invading the country unprovoked.

Caseless:
it is the aspect of media campaigns that Russia lagged, I guess. They can't match the west, but they should have done something - no matter how little like Iran did with press TV.

Twitter was practically drowning the voice if Russians giving fact of the situation.

You'll be shocked to know Putin has many silent supporters than Ukraine has in vocal support.


Putin was able to get Muslims to support him on moral grounds by referencing what the west did with Iraq, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Somalia and Palestine.

Indians can't forget the support they got from Russia when everyone was against them.

Chinese people are with him.

So, it's a divided world right now and I'm on the side of humanity. Zelensky should declare neutrality on Russia and NATO.

All the Main Street media complexes are owned by the west. It runs the gamut from BBC to Twitter. Even the vassal states like Nigeria with English medium all tune in to the main western narrative.

Many in the world don’t understand Russian language, so the west have a great advantage.

Russian main English platform like RT.com is under constant DDoS attack. They have banned RT in Europe, main cable operators have dropped RT. That’s the extent of this information war.

Freedom of speech in the western world only exist when it is in their interest!

Well, they are still finding it easy to import vehicles. They don’t need Form M, PAAR, and SONCAP. All other sectors have experienced increase in base duty payment to government. Minimum now is 3 Million base without vat and others. Isn’t it funny an import-dependent nation raised import duty, devalued the Naira, and still want to fight inflation..lol

MyExpression:
Yea, you heard it right.

To Pay ooo, NOT To Be Paid?

People wey we dey risk our lives to epp!

Make una no worry, Russia go soon capture Kiev/Kyiv

Nah... these guys wants to get to Ukraine then route it to Poland as refugees since EU is offering 1-3yrs humanitarian visa for the war.

Foolishmasses:
The Western media outlets aren't different from our useless BMC urchins that can cook bullsh*t stories and expect us to believe them. So na now Putin take steroids? Wetin Bush and other American presidents took when they invaded Iraq, Libya, Iran , Syria etc.

Anything wey Putin like make he take, even if na Mpumiri or loud, Western Media should urge their respective leaders to take steroids too so that they can take Putin man for man, not by using archaic scope on us

Remember the same propaganda was used against Gaddafi of Libya that he shared Viagra amongst his soldiers to rape the women of Libya.

Their propaganda is becoming too brazen and in your face.

KevMitnick:
Russia came late to the party. They too should have championed their social media campaign right from the beginning..

EuroAtlantic information machinery is so vast a complex that Russia can NOT surpass the west in this arena in the immediate future.

The only way Russia could get her voice heard is to capitalize on the western “short-attention” span and drip by drip spread her own narrative to win more ears. People must often react to a headline for a few days and literary get tired of hearing that news. Give it a few more days Russo-Ukraine conflict won’t make it to NL front page.

China was very clever as setting up all western media / platform alternatives thus preventing the west from gaining an information foothold within China. Facebook, Twitter, CNN, BBC, WhatsApp are blocked in China except through VPN. But the catch is if you connect via VPN then most Chinese banking apps and Alipay won’t work