Special Military Operation in Ukraine - Revision history

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 On January 15, 2023 the Russian Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine warned about another planned false flag provocation. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) mined a granary in the east of the country in an attempt to accuse Moscow of “provoking hunger” and “disrupting” the grain export deal from Ukrainian ports. The explosion should be staged in the city of Karaichnoye, Kharkiv region. A group of up to 30 SBU officers and mine-blasting specialists headed by Mr. Tkachuk arrived in Volchansk. The granary in question is owned by an employee of the SBU, Mr. Uvarov.
-On January 17, 2023, Moonofalabama reported counting 27 brigade size formations of Ukrainian forces in the Bakhmut area. Those forces would constitute 50% of Ukraine's battle ready forces.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/ukraine-sitrep-media-ignorance-counter-artillery-war-three-lost-armies-.html</ref>  On January 20 Big Serge stated that "publicly available Ukrainian sources locate at least 34 brigade or equivalent units that have been deployed in the Bakhmut area. Many of these were deployed months ago and are already shattered, but over the full span of the ongoing battle this represents an astonishing commitment."<ref>https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-world-blood</ref>  Moonofalabama reported "The stocks of two complete armies have by now been destroyed in Ukraine. The resources for a smaller third one will be delivered in the next rounds of 'western' equipment deliveries during the next months. Russia will dully destroy Ukraine's third army just as it has destroyed the first and second one.  It is doubtful that the 'West' has enough material left to provide Ukraine with a fourth one."<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/ukraine-sitrep-media-ignorance-counter-artillery-war-three-lost-armies-.html</ref>  On January 23, 2023, European Council president Charles Michel said in an interview with the [[Spanish]] newspaper ''El Mundo'', "The next weeks, two or three, are decisive...What happens in 2023 – and much of it depends on the coming weeks – is what will define our future...We have to stand with Ukraine and give them all the support they need...We cannot fail them."<ref>https://thepressunited.com/updates/eu-must-not-fail-ukraine-in-upcoming-decisive-weeks-top-of-official/</ref>
+On January 17, 2023, Moonofalabama reported counting 27 brigade size formations of Ukrainian forces in the Bakhmut area. Those forces would constitute 50% of Ukraine's battle ready forces.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/ukraine-sitrep-media-ignorance-counter-artillery-war-three-lost-armies-.html</ref>  On January 20 [[Big Serge]] stated that "publicly available Ukrainian sources locate at least 34 brigade or equivalent units that have been deployed in the Bakhmut area. Many of these were deployed months ago and are already shattered, but over the full span of the ongoing battle this represents an astonishing commitment."<ref>https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-world-blood</ref>  Moonofalabama reported "The stocks of two complete armies have by now been destroyed in Ukraine. The resources for a smaller third one will be delivered in the next rounds of 'western' equipment deliveries during the next months. Russia will dully destroy Ukraine's third army just as it has destroyed the first and second one.  It is doubtful that the 'West' has enough material left to provide Ukraine with a fourth one."<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/ukraine-sitrep-media-ignorance-counter-artillery-war-three-lost-armies-.html</ref>  On January 23, 2023, European Council president Charles Michel said in an interview with the [[Spanish]] newspaper ''El Mundo'', "The next weeks, two or three, are decisive...What happens in 2023 – and much of it depends on the coming weeks – is what will define our future...We have to stand with Ukraine and give them all the support they need...We cannot fail them."<ref>https://thepressunited.com/updates/eu-must-not-fail-ukraine-in-upcoming-decisive-weeks-top-of-official/</ref>
 On January 20, 2023, the Russians made an assault all along the Zaporozhye line.

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 The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded on June 29, 2022, that the Armed Forces of the Ukraine used civilians as human shields in Stara Krasnyanka when Ukrainian soldiers took up positions inside a nursing home, effectively making the building a legitimate military target.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/10/un-human-rights-report-shows-ukraine-military-used-nursing-home-residents-as-human-shields/</ref>
-Four months into the operation veteran Russian frontline war correspondent Alexander Sladkov spoke about what he found to be the condition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as NATO continued pouring weapons into the country, and Zelensky's relentless stand and fight orders:
+Four months into the operation veteran Russian frontline war correspondent [[Alexander Sladkov]] spoke about what he found to be the condition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as NATO continued pouring weapons into the country, and Zelensky's relentless stand and fight orders:
 {{quotebox-float|"50,000 dead. That's one and half Army Corps or 5 Divisions, or 25 regiments, or 143 battalions. Dead Ukrainian soldiers lie wherever our troops advance. Their funeral services, in my opinion, are inactive.  They always leave their dead behind.  By the way, in the Soviet Army, in wartime, the regimental band became the funeral team, and the chief of the regiment managed the collection of bodies and the burial.  In the Ukrainian armed services, apparently, there is an immoral mess in this case.  This is a sign of a clear decay of order and discipline. This is typical of retreating, morally decomposed units.  Further going for the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be even sadder. Tragedy awaits them."<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/1hjwvOSjZAvB/</ref><ref>[[Cold War]] intelligence analysts considered the fact that Red Army units always removed their dead from the battlefield even in retreat, and buried them with dignity, as indicative of the [[Russian Orthodox]] belief in the [[resurrection]], and the failure of [[Marxist]] political ideology to penetrate the Russian military as an institution.  IOWs, the Soviet political leaders never depended on the Red Army to defend Marxism because the military, as an institution, would not give up its deeply held religious and spiritual beliefs.  "There are no [[atheist]]s in foxholes," as the saying goes.<br>Former [[GRU]] Capt. [[Viktor Suvorov]] said many people joined the Soviet military as the only means to express political opposition to the Soviet Communist Party.  Red Army units always had political commissars attached, empowered to execute anyone, including commanding officers, not carrying out Communist party instructions.  They were abolished by the Russian Federation, however the NATO-trained AFU has political commissars from the SBU on the battlefield who shoot retreating or surrendering troops, as Soviet Red Army commissars did during World War II.</ref>}}

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 ==March 2023==
 [[File:UK depleted uranium.PNG|right|300px|thumb|On March 21, 2023 it was announced the UK was supplying nuclear weapons to Ukraine.<ref>https://declassifieduk.org/britain-supplying-depleted-uranium-rounds-to-ukraine/</ref>]]
-As the encirclement closed in an [[AFU]] forces in early March 2023, the Russian forces allowed untrained, conscripted 16-year-olds and elderly men pressed into service by the [[Zelensky regime]] to escape without being killed or captured via the last remaining escape route out of Bakhmut.<ref>https://youtu.be/NmzuuWMsm1k</ref> 10,000 Ukrainian troops were said to be trapped in the cauldron.<ref>[https://youtu.be/zg6HpuW8OYU Russia Claims Bakhmut Cauldron 10k Troops Trapped; West Media Admits Ukraine Losses, Blames Zelensky], Alexander Mercouris, March 6, 2023.</ref>  On March 7, 2023 Prigozhin estimated the number at between 12,000 and 20,000.
+As the encirclement closed in an [[AFU]] forces in early March 2023, the Russian forces allowed untrained, conscripted 16-year-olds and elderly men pressed into service by the [[Zelensky regime]] to escape without being killed or captured via the last remaining escape route out of Bakhmut.<ref>https://youtu.be/NmzuuWMsm1k</ref> 10,000 Ukrainian troops were said to be trapped in the cauldron.<ref>[https://youtu.be/zg6HpuW8OYU Russia Claims Bakhmut Cauldron 10k Troops Trapped; West Media Admits Ukraine Losses, Blames Zelensky], [[Alexander Mercouris]], March 6, 2023.</ref>  On March 7, 2023 Prigozhin estimated the number at between 12,000 and 20,000.
 By March 1, 2023 Transnistria began a partial mobilization, offering training and salaries to anyone who wanted to participate.

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 On February 24, 2023 the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Ukrainians lost 15 armored vehicles including 2 tanks. On February 25 the Ukrainians lost 3 armored vehicles. On February 26 the Ukrainian's lost 6 armored vehicles.  On February 27 the Ukrainians lost 11 armored vehicles including 2 tanks. On February 28 Ukrainian forces lost 350 fighters and 16 armored vehicles. On March 1, 2023 the MOD reported 190 Ukrainian troops killed, and loss of 18 armored and 16 light vehicles.
-By February 24, 2023, the anniversary of the incursion into Ukraine, not only did Russia withstand the economic assault, but the sanctions boomeranged — hitting the very countries that imposed them.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/23/winning-losing-the-economic-war-over-ukraine/</ref>  Joe Biden predicted that the U.S. would see that “the ruble will be reduced to rubble.” And that “the most stringent sanctions regime in history” was going to “weaken” Russia, perhaps even leading to Putin’s overthrow.  In 2022 the ruble reached its highest exchange rate in history. Russia’s 2022 trade surplus of $227 billion was up 86 percent from 2021. The U.S.’ trade deficit over the same period rose 12.2 percent, and is approaching $1 trillion..<ref>[https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/28/ukraine-the-tunnel-at-the-end-of-the-light/ Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light], Robert Freeman, February 28, 2023 ''Consortium News''.</ref>
+By February 24, 2023, the anniversary of the incursion into Ukraine, not only did Russia withstand the economic assault, but the sanctions boomeranged — hitting the very countries that imposed them.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/23/winning-losing-the-economic-war-over-ukraine/</ref>  Joe Biden predicted that the U.S. would see that “the ruble will be reduced to rubble.” And that “the most stringent sanctions regime in history” was going to “weaken” Russia, perhaps even leading to Putin’s overthrow.  In 2022 the ruble reached its highest exchange rate in history. Russia’s 2022 trade surplus of $227 billion was up 86 percent from 2021. The U.S.’ trade deficit over the same period rose 12.2 percent, and is approaching $1 trillion..<ref>[https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/28/ukraine-the-tunnel-at-the-end-of-the-light/ Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light], Robert Freeman, February 28, 2023 ''[[Consortium News]]''.</ref>
 In a two hour telephone conversation in late February 2023, Biden attempted to cajole President Xi Jinping to help end the war that the United States instigated by sanctioning Russia. ''New York Times'' diplomatic correspondent Edward Wong reported, "Xi didn't suggest a role China could play in ending the war…And he used a favorite phrase of his to cast blame on the US: 'Let he who tied the bell on the tiger’s neck take it off?'.”<ref>https://twitter.com/ewong/status/1504853536273797120</ref>

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 [[File:Bakhmut encirclement.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Bakhmut encirclement, March 11, 2023.]]
-The estimated life expectancy of a Ukrainian soldier deployed in Bakhmut according to some sources was 4 hours.  On February 6, 2023 Ukrainian Nazis were reported to have used chemical weapons, which they openly boasted about on social networks.  The infamous Ukrainian blogger and commander of a separate tactical air reconnaissance group Madyar published a new video showing FPV drones and chemical munitions, hinting that the Ukrainian military are preparing to use prohibited weapons in Bakhmut. On the evening of February 5, 2023 the first use of this chemical weapon was reported in the village of Novobakhmutovka on the outskirts of Donetsk. Russian servicemen suffered vomiting and convulsions.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/SS9QdGSfJhva/</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/LkGYtA46qJI</ref> The claims were supported by photos of crashed drones identical to those that Magyar boasted about in a video uploaded to the internet.<ref>https://s4.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/video/06.02.2023_IMR_Ukraine.mp4</ref>
+The estimated life expectancy of a Ukrainian soldier deployed in Bakhmut according to some sources was 4 hours.  On February 6, 2023 Ukrainian Nazis were reported to have used chemical weapons, which they openly boasted about on social networks.  The infamous Ukrainian blogger and commander of a separate tactical air reconnaissance group Madyar published a new video showing [[FPV drone]]s and chemical munitions, hinting that the Ukrainian military are preparing to use prohibited weapons in Bakhmut. On the evening of February 5, 2023 the first use of this chemical weapon was reported in the village of Novobakhmutovka on the outskirts of Donetsk. Russian servicemen suffered vomiting and convulsions.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/SS9QdGSfJhva/</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/LkGYtA46qJI</ref> The claims were supported by photos of crashed drones identical to those that Magyar boasted about in a video uploaded to the internet.<ref>https://s4.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/video/06.02.2023_IMR_Ukraine.mp4</ref>
 On February 9, 2023 the ''Washington Post'' published a report claiming that the Kiev regime forces “never launch HIMARS rounds without detailed coordinates provided by US military personnel situated elsewhere in Europe”.<ref>https://archive.is/BBRxn</ref>

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 Money that had been sent by the [[U.S. Congress]] to prepare defensive lines on the front against an onslaught of newly mobilized Russian forces disappeared in mass corruption schemes.  Subcontractors sold food and supplies to the Armed Forces of Ukraine at [[inflation|inflated]] prices while politicians received [[kickback]]s.<ref>https://youtu.be/fQCrSfqP8p0</ref> Officials were not arrested, but rather allowed to flee the country with their looted millions after which their "resignation" was announced.
-On February 26, 2023 it was reported that Zelensky fired Major General Eduard Moskalyov, Commander Joint Forces of Ukraine with no reason given.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-fires-top-ukrainian-military-commander-no-reason-given-2023-02-26/</ref>  Moskalyov was said to be the fall guy for Zelensky's disastrous leadership and decision to keep feeding human lives into the Bakhmut meatgrinder when he knew all was lost.
+On February 26, 2023 it was reported that Zelensky fired Major General Eduard Moskalyov, Commander Joint Forces of Ukraine with no reason given.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-fires-top-ukrainian-military-commander-no-reason-given-2023-02-26/</ref>  Moskalyov was said to be the fall guy for Zelensky's disastrous leadership and decision to keep feeding human lives into the Bakhmut [[meatgrinder]] when he knew all was lost.
 ===Nuclear plants as ammo dumps===

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 On June 8, 2022, Ukrainian losses exceeded 800 for the day.  On June 12, 2022, Zelensky signed a decree that supposedly legalized sending untrained members of the Territorial Defense to the front lines as cannon fodder, a practice of the Ukrainian government that had been illegally going on in violation of the Territorial Defense members' contracts for well over a month already.  The Kyiv regime turned the weapons it received from NATO and [[the West]] on the civilian population of Donbass rather than military targets.  There were children among the victims.  By June 14, 2022, the Kyiv regime fired a Tochka-Us against civilians in '''Bryansk''', in the Russian Federation, and other artillery attacks along the Russian border.
-On June 12, 2022, a Russian Kalibr cruise missile<ref>The 3M14T Kalibr cruise missile has a range of 1500-2500 kilometers. The missile’s guidance system is built around an INS [inertial navigation system] and GLONASS satellite guidance systems, has a top speed of Mach 2.9, can fly as low as 20 meters above water and 50 meters above ground with a help of a TERCOM [terrain contour matching] system, and is armed with a 450 kg HE-FRAG [high explosive fragmentation] or bunker buster warhead.</ref> destroyed a very large store of NATO weapons in the Ternopil region.
+On June 12, 2022, a Russian [[Kalibr]] [[cruise missile]]<ref>The 3M14T Kalibr cruise missile has a range of 1500-2500 kilometers. The missile’s guidance system is built around an INS [inertial navigation system] and GLONASS satellite guidance systems, has a top speed of Mach 2.9, can fly as low as 20 meters above water and 50 meters above ground with a help of a TERCOM [terrain contour matching] system, and is armed with a 450 kg HE-FRAG [high explosive fragmentation] or bunker buster warhead.</ref> destroyed a very large store of [[NATO]] [[weapon]]s in the Ternopil region.
 As of June 15, 2022 the Russian forces had liberated 816 cities, towns and villages.  The Russians have been able to form military units out of captured and surrendered Ukrainian fighters, beginning in the Republic of Zaporozhye.  The Ukrainian military presented the West with a wish list of heavy equipment that it felt, would not necessarily win the war, but enable them to hold the line against Russian forces. The list included: more artillery pieces than the [[U.S. Army]] and [[U.S. Marine Corps]] combined possess; more tanks than the United Kingdom and Germany combined possess.  The same day, Gen. [[Mark Milley]], chairperson of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a press conference,

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 On September 4, 2022, the town of Balakleya had no Russian combat troops, only the Special Rapid Response (SOBR) or [[SWAT]] units of the Rosguardia (''Rosgvardia''), which were created to fight organized crime and terrorism and not trained for high-intensity combat.<ref>https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2022/09/09/boycy-rossiyskogo-sobra-sovershili-nastoyashchiy-podvig-v-balaklee-gagin</ref>  So was a wide swath of towns and village's manned across what became NATO's offensive on the Kharkiv front.
-On September 5, 2022, a force of about 9,000 with servicemen from every NATO state began a counteroffensive on the Kharkiv-Izium front toward Kupyansk (pop. 27,000), the administrative center of Kharkiv oblast.  With fewer than 1,000 Russian Rosguardia remaining in Izium, all were safely evacuated.  There were no Russian army losses because there were no Russian army troops in the region.  Whole units of NATO countries engaged in the fighting, who simply changed their chevrons to Ukrainian ones.<ref>https://youtu.be/zLsw2nDATg4</ref>  The NATO/Ukrainian forces were essentially punching at air, knowing there would be no resistance.  The Kharkiv counteroffensive took place in tandem with the high-level NATO [[Ramstein]] meeting of NATO warlords to discuss continued support for the war in Ukraine. By Day 3 of the Ukrainian offensive, 2,000 Ukrainians had been killed, with a loss of about 40% of equipment received from NATO since last spring.<ref>https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/24501</ref>  Reports indicated the Ukrainian Gestapo was already engaged in reprisal actions against local civilians.  Under a law passed by the Ukrainian parliament in June 2022, any person who accepts food or medical services from Russians is deemed a "collaborator."<ref>https://youtu.be/ffrd4mWzOfQ</ref>  Streams of civilians were evacuated to Russia during the withdrawal and immediate aftermath during reprisals.<ref>https://youtu.be/Z_VKqIasORE</ref>
+On September 5, 2022, a force of about 9,000 with servicemen from every NATO state began a counteroffensive on the Kharkiv-Izium front toward [[Kupyansk]] (pop. 27,000), the administrative center of Kharkiv oblast.  With fewer than 1,000 Russian Rosguardia remaining in Izium, all were safely evacuated.  There were no Russian army losses because there were no Russian army troops in the region.  Whole units of NATO countries engaged in the fighting, who simply changed their chevrons to Ukrainian ones.<ref>https://youtu.be/zLsw2nDATg4</ref>  The NATO/Ukrainian forces were essentially punching at air, knowing there would be no resistance.  The Kharkiv counteroffensive took place in tandem with the high-level NATO [[Ramstein]] meeting of NATO warlords to discuss continued support for the war in Ukraine. By Day 3 of the Ukrainian offensive, 2,000 Ukrainians had been killed, with a loss of about 40% of equipment received from NATO since last spring.<ref>https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/24501</ref>  Reports indicated the Ukrainian Gestapo was already engaged in reprisal actions against local civilians.  Under a law passed by the Ukrainian parliament in June 2022, any person who accepts food or medical services from Russians is deemed a "collaborator."<ref>https://youtu.be/ffrd4mWzOfQ</ref>  Streams of civilians were evacuated to Russia during the withdrawal and immediate aftermath during reprisals.<ref>https://youtu.be/Z_VKqIasORE</ref>
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 On November 27, 2022, reports indicated that hospitals in Bakhmut were full with over 500 Ukrainian wounded and no chance to evacuate them.  AT Chasiv Yar (pop. 12,000) slightly to the west of Bakhmut, the Russians killed 100 NATO forces and destroyed 6 armored vehicles.
-[[File:Madyar.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Hungarian Nazi war criminal [[Robert Iosifovich Brovdi]] (call sign "Magyar") fighting in Ukrainian uniform built illegal chemical weapons delivered by drone.<ref>https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukraine-begins-escalating-chemical</ref>]]
+[[File:Madyar.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Hungarian Nazi war criminal [[Robert Iosifovich Brovdi]] (call sign "Magyar") fighting in Ukrainian uniform built illegal [[chemical weapons]] delivered by drone.<ref>https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukraine-begins-escalating-chemical</ref>]]
 By the first week of December 2022 Ukraine/NATO was losing approximately a battalion per day in Bakhmut.  The head of the Wagner group Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that the Russians have the task of destroying the Ukrainian army and reducing its combat potential but not storming the city.