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NATO war in Ukraine

Overview
Date	April 13, 2014^[1] - ongoing
Location	Ukraine and Donbas region
Combatants
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU); Pravy Sektor; NATO, mercenaries	Russian Federation; Lugansk Peoples Militia Dontesk People Militia Odessa Brigades;^[2] Wagner PMC Ukrainian underground
Commanders
Jake Sullivan Antony Blinken Joseph R. Biden Jens Stoltenberg Andrei Yermak Kirill Budanov Volodymyr Zelensky Oleksandr Syrsky Oleksiy Danilov Andriy Parubiy^[3] Valerii Zaluzhnyi Oleksandr Tarnavsky Dmytro Yarosh Andriy Biletsky	Vladimir Putin Yevgeny Prigozhin Sergei Shoigu Valery Gerasimov Andrey Mordvichev Sergei Surovikin Ramzan Kadyrov Sergey Lebedev
Strength
700,000^[4]^[5]	800,000^[6]
Casualties
500,815 KIA per Russian MOD (5/1/24 est.);^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12] 83,000 MIA^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17] 244,500 injured; ^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]^[23] 10,000 Polish NATO mercenaries;^[24] 234 NATO instructors KIA (US and UK), 13,000 foreign and NATO soldiers KIA est. 3/14/24 (United States, France, Germany, Lithuania, etc., of which 1,427 Polish, 466 US, and 344 UK nationals.^[25] 3,600 Polish casualties),^[26] 5,360 NATO/Ukraine mercenaries. 17,230 POWs.^[27]	44,654 KIA (as of 2/15/24 Mediazona); ^[28]^[29]^[30]^[31]^[32]^[33] 44,500 injured est; 323 POWs^[34]

The NATO war in Ukraine, sometimes known as the Russia–Ukraine civil conflict is a proxy war started by the United States in 2014 with the violent overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine^[35] in collaboration with neo-Nazi traitors to the Ukrainian nation.^[36] The newly installed Maidan puppet regime immediately began a campaign of unprovoked aggression against the civilians of Donbas.

Groupthink among Western NATO leaders and their populations led to the false belief that Fourth generation warfare could be won by propaganda and misinformation alone without an industrial base. As the Washington Post attempted to explain, "the West tricked itself into thinking that sloganeering could forge a consensus to back Kyiv — 'for as long as it takes,' as President Biden put it — without explaining that sacrifice, setbacks and staggering sums of money would inevitably be needed..."^[37]

Nazi and neo-Nazi organizations have been active in Ukraine since 1941 and received Pentagon and CIA arms and assistance until 1954, which was resumed by the Obama administration in 2013 under CIA director John Brennan.^[38] Brennan was a key player in the Russia collusion hoax, a disinformation and propaganda psyop to convince the American people that Donald Trump had "colluded" with Russian President Vladimir Putin to rig the 2016 presidential election and to stir anti-Russian sentiment.^[39]

In 2016, well before Russia's Special Military Operation, Barack Obama signed a Presidential Finding authorizing covert action against Russia, as reported in The Washington Post.^[40] The finding “included language about sabotage operations, according to a former CIA official,” former US Army Special Operations operative Jack Murphy reported.^[41]

During the sham impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump over aid to Ukraine, impeachmnent manager Adam Schiff openly stated about the illegal, undeclared proxy war which most Americans were not even aware of let alone ever consulted about, "we fight Russia over there so we don't have to fight Russia here."^[42]

By December 2022 in the first year of Russia's Special Military Operation, Ukraine had lost 250,000 soldiers killed and wounded - more than the size of the army Ukraine when the SMO began in late February 2022. The only thing keeping the bankrupt Zelensky regime in the fight was American aid, with marginal aid supplied by the European vassal states.

As published in the Washington Post on May 9, 2023, the 78th anniversary of Victory Day commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany by Russia, NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg said, "The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed NATO, but then you have to remember the war didn’t start in 2022…The war started in 2014."^[43]

By September 2023 NATO and its Ukrainian proxy forces were soundly defeated on the battlefield by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Biden junta foreign secretary Antony Blinken announced in a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as part of the Brzezinski Lecture Series on September 13, 2023 after the failed 2023 Ukraine counteroffensive, "The old world order is over...One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future for decades to come."^[44]

Tom Luongo was quoted in Zerohedge on December 16, 2023 saying, "The folks with the most to lose in Ukraine at this point are those carpetbaggers who were chosen to rebuild the country after the war. Russia understands this and no more wants Blackrock rebuilding Ukraine than it wants Ukraine in NATO.”^[45]

Background

See also: Background of the Russia-Ukraine war, Maidan coup, and Donbas war

FBI summary of confidential human source's meeting with Burisma executives.^[46]

The United States, together with the German secret service BND,^[47] had long standing ties with Nazi groups in west-Ukraine which had previously cooperated with Nazi Germany and had been attached to the German Nazi-Wehrmacht.^[48] The CIA reactivated these groups and instigated a violent color-revolution in Kiev.^[49] The United States resumed providing direct military aid to Ukraine nationalist forces and the newly created puppet regime in 2014. Western states began to train Ukraine’s armed forces and allow their participation in military exercises. In December 2016, Sen. Lindsey Graham declared 2017 to be "the year of offense", which was delayed by the Russiagate scandal, the Mueller investigation, and Trump impeachment 1.0.

In February 2019, Ukraine’s constitution was amended to make NATO membership a compulsory government goal. Zelensky, who was elected President on a pro-peace platform in May 2019, did nothing to change that provision and in March 2021 he adopted the Crimean Platform – a programme to recapture Crimea and the naval base at Sevastopol for NATO by any means necessary, including unspecified military measures which the Kyiv regime by itself was incapable of. In April, Ukraine forced a provocation with Russian naval forces in the sea of Azov, which ended without violence, and in June the United Kingdom used the incident as an excuse to enhance Ukraine’s seaborne capabilities. That same month NATO promised Ukraine’s eventual membership of the alliance. In July, the United States and Ukraine co-hosted a naval exercise in the Black Sea that involved 32 countries and in August signed a US-Ukraine Strategic Defense Framework, followed a couple of months later by a Charter on Strategic Partnership. Between March and June, NATO conducted Defender 21, a multinational military exercise focussed on supposedly defending Europe from Russian attack. In the spring Ukraine began increasing its forces along the Donbass line of contact with the aim of eliminating the Donbas militias and retaking Crimea.

U.S. biological labs in Ukraine

See also: U.S. funded biological labs abroad

Metabiota, a company financed by Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca partnership with the state owned Bank of China. Metabiota was awarded a $18.4 million federal contract under the so-called "Defense Threat Reduction Program" in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and Ukraine.^[50]^[51] Metabiota receives the lion's share of funding as a U.S. defense contractor for bio labs in Ukraine.

Diplomacy

See also: Diplomacy in the Ukraine war

Zelesnky and BoJo. Boris Johnson sabotaged peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died needlessly in the following months.

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reported in the summer of 2023 that Biden junta national security advisor Jake "the Snake" Sullivan took an American delegation to the 'second international peace summit' in August at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The summit was led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) who four years earlier was accused of ordering the assassination and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi for the Washington Post at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, for perceived disloyalty to the state.

The summit stars included MBS, Sullivan, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia was not invited to the summit. It included a handful of heads of state from the fewer than fifty nations that sent delegates. Reuters reported that Zelensky’s goal was to get international support for “the principles” that he will consider as a basis for the settlement of the war, including “the withdrawal of all Russian troops and the return of all Ukrainian territory.” Russia’s formal response came from Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov who called the summit “a reflection of the West’s attempt to continue futile, doomed efforts” to mobilize the Global South behind Zelensky. India and China both sent delegations to the session. An American intelligence official told Hersh,

“Jeddah was Sullivan’s baby. He planned it to be Biden’s equivalent of [President Woodrow] Wilson’s Versailles. The grand alliance of the free world meeting in a victory celebration after the humiliating defeat of the hated foe to determine the shape of nations for the next generation. Fame and Glory. Promotion and re-election. The jewel in the crown was to be Zelensky’s achievement of Putin’s unconditional surrender after the lightning spring offensive. They were even planning a Nuremberg type trial at the world court, with Jake as our representative. Just one more f***-up, but who is counting? Forty nations showed up, all but six looking for free food after the Odessa shutdown,”

referring to President Putin’s curtailment of Ukrainian wheat shipments in response to Zelensky’s renewed attacks on the Crimean bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland.^[52]

On September 10, 2023 at the Group of Twenty annual summit in New Dehli which US socialist führer Joe Biden personally attended, the G20 rejected Biden's efforts to get the group to condemn Russia.^[53]

NATO expansion

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg described how NATO expansion provoked a military response from the Russian Federation:

Liberal triumphalism: accused of war crimes in the Kosovo war, Madeleine Albright (left) Bill Clinton (center) and Joe Biden (right).^[54]

"The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn’t sign that.

The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.

So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders."^[55]

Russian Security Council deputy chair Dmitry Medvedev noted on March 4, 2024:

"Our actions are a forced but quite an effective response to the Russophobic policy by the Banderite regime and the collective West and its desire to destroy our statehood, undermine independence and sovereignty^[56]...Had Ukraine escaped the stupidest trap set by the United States and its allies in order to counter our country with Ukraine’s assistance and use this very anti-Russia entity, things might have been different...Had there been no jeering thieves, political doormats and blushful neo-Nazis in the Ukrainian leadership, history could have gone a different way...Had the Kiev ringleaders fulfilled the realistic conditions of the Minsk Agreements at some point, then, perhaps, there would have been no need for the special military operation, as our president has rightly observed”.^[57]

US & UK sabotage peace talks

See also: 2022 Istanbul peace negotiations

Ukrainska Pravda reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in Istanbul. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the Minsk Accords. Ukrainska Pravda reported in essence what Johnson told Zelensky according to sources close to the Ukrainian dictator:

Boris Johnson posing with Ukrainian special forces. Most were killed in an unsuccessful NATO raid on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

"If Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the collective West, which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."^[58]

Only a month after Russia was forced by innumerable actions by the West to achieve the aims of protecting the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region and the Russian Federation itself from a malevolent Ukrainian regime becoming a NATO state on its border, Russia initiated peace negotiations. These bore fruit in March 2022 when significant progress was announced from Istanbul where the talks between the two sides were being held. Russia removed its troops from around the capital Kiev, sent there with the goal, not of conquest, but of bringing the Kiev regime to its senses and to negotiate a peaceful outcome. This avenue toward a peaceful resolution of all areas of concern was swiftly blocked via a visit to Kiev by then British prime minister Boris Johnson. This one act condemned upwards of half a million Ukrainians to their deaths and the potential destruction of Ukraine as a viable state.^[59]

The sudden failure of the Istanbul agreement led to the immediate influx of mass amounts of the latest U.S. gear such as HIMARs. Zelensky was secretly promised unlimited funding and military support as bait. Stuck between the path of peace or the chance to go down in history as the one man who could do what Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Hitler could not do. Zelensky chose to put his faith in NATO’s invincibility. Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko confirmed what happened:

"I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March. A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: We simply ditched the Russians in March. He boasted about it... Friends, I know them all personally.

I appeal to Ukrainians. You are ruled by sociopaths who do not understand the consequences".^[60]

On October 11, 2022, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with 60 Minutes:^[61]

How the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed.^[62]

"We sat at the negotiating tble with the Ukrainian delegation until the end of March [2022], when an approach to a settlement on the principles suggested by the Ukrainians at the time had been harmonised in Istanbul. These principles suited us for that moment but the talks were stopped by direct order from Washington and London.

This conflict is overrun with Anglo-Saxons that fully control the Vladimir Zelensky regime. The Poles and people from the Baltics are trying to fit in on their team.

Since then the Ukrainian President has said many times that he is not going to hold talks with the Russian Federation under President Vladimir Putin. Recently, he codified this ban in law. We have never sought negotiations. The Istanbul round completed the process started at Ukraine’s request. Russia positively reacted to the proposal to enter a dialogue, but its initiators cut it off with a shout from overseas or London.

We are hearing statements by White House representative John Kirby, my colleague Antony Blinken and other members of the US administration. They are saying that they are completely open to talks with the Russian Federation, that they favor a political settlement of the current situation in Ukraine but Russia (the “troublemaker”) is rejecting proposals to establish contact. I can say straight away that this is a lie. We have not received any serious proposals to establish any such contact. There were some attempts that were not very serious, but we didn’t reject them, either. Instead, we suggested that they formulate specific proposals. Some people made them to us by proxy but in this case, we didn’t receive any clear explanations from anyone, either. No need to lie. We were taught in a kindergarten then lying is bad. Apparently, American kindergartens are not so advanced as they were in the Soviet Union and are now in Russia."

In mid-December 2023 Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky posted on X:

“As for the peace agreement, it is already well-known that it was initialed by negotiators of Ze [Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky], and its copy was shown by [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin. And this story, as well as the direct involvement of the UK and the US in persuading Ze to reject [the agreement], has been corroborated by numerous witnesses. However, you have nothing to worry about, as Ze’s Ukraine has blown its chances for such a favorable outcome, and therefore any possible deal will now reflect its capitulation.”^[63]

Russia de-ratifies Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

On October 19, 2023 The Biden regime conducted a nuclear test in Nevada.^[64] A Kremlin statement on October 24, 2023 stated that Russia has successfully tested its ability to launch a massive nuclear retaliation strike by land, sea, and air. This show of power coincided with the Russian State Duma withdrawing its ratification the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The United States, while signing the treaty, never ratified it.^[65]

Deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov said Russia was not ready to begin nuclear talks with the United States until Washington abandons its hostile stance. The development comes days after Russia was attacked by the long range ATACMs missiles delivered to Ukraine by the United States.

After passing unanimously in the Lower House, the bill to de-ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CBTB) was approved by the Upper House by 156 votes to zero. The approved legislation was sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his signature.

Escalation

See also: Escalation in the NATO war in Ukraine and Obama war crimes

Escalation in the NATO war in Ukraine began in 2014 shortly after the United States and UK's failed efforts to take over the Sevastopol Naval Base in Crimea during the U.S.-backed anti-democratic Maidan coup. In a foot race, the Russians made it to Crimea first to protect their vital national security asset at Sevastopol naval base before the US and NATO, following the US overthrow of the democratically elected President of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovich.


LGBT activist and head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg admitted NATO expansion was the cause of Russian intervention into the Ukraine civil conflict.^[66]

Although the United States successfully overthrew the Russian client state in its capital city Kyiv, it failed in its covert purpose for overthrowing the regime - to seize one of three of Russia's most vital national security assets linking Russia to the outside world. The port cities of Sevastopol, Murmansk, and Vladivostok are Russia's only links for trade with the outside world. Murmansk in the frozen north is not open year-round, and Vladivostok is 6 day's journey by train from Moscow. Sevastopol and its surrounding territory of Crimea is close to the Russian homelands, are majority ethnic Russian and Russian speaking, and is Russia's most valued strategic asset. Without any of these three vital ports, Russia is landlocked and impoverished for lack of trade routes. Sevastopol had been leased to the Russian Federation by Ukraine on a long-term lease after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The "interagency consensus" of the U.S. Deep State, as Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman referred to it in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, conducted an armed proxy war since 2014 in Ukraine with heavy weapons against Russian-speaking civilians.^[67] These weapons included artillery and airstrikes against civilians. President Donald Trump was impeached in 2019 by the Democratic party who controlled the United States House of Representatives for going against this "interagency consensus" which fomented the proxy war between the United States and Russia in Ukraine, and denying a democratically elected president the right to set the foreign policy of his own administration.^[68]

On March 7, 2024 TASS reported Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev warning:

Globalist warmongers Jens Stoltenberg and Ursula von der Leyen.

The collective West is trying to push ahead with its unrealistic plans for inflicting a strategic defeat on our country in Ukraine using the neo-Nazi terrorist regime...By continuing to provide large-scale military and military-technical assistance, the West is actually participating in the armed conflict...In connection with the failure of the hyped Ukrainian counteroffensive and the successful actions of the Russian Armed Forces, French President Macron, following the 26 February conference in Paris on Ukraine did not rule out the possibility of sending NATO military contingents to Ukraine...He said the Western countries intend to do everything necessary to prevent Russia from winning in Ukraine...The Russian president in his message to the Federal Assembly recalled of the fate of all those who sent their contingents to our country and warned that now the consequences for possible intruders would be much more tragic and that Russia has weapons that can hit targets on their territory.^[69]

On March 20, 2024 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported that since the beginning of 2024 four Abrams tanks, 5 German Leopard tanks, 27 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 6 HIMARS launchers, 11 anti-aircraft missile launchers including 5 Patriot missile systems had been destroyed.

On March 21, 2024 military expert Alexander Zimovsky posted to Telegram,

NATO forces in Ukraine, March 2024.

"In the near future, Ukraine will receive the entire range of Western weapons of the ground forces and aviation, which includes a full set of systems comparable in power to TNW [Thermonuclear Weapons].

In addition, Ukraine already has all the platforms for the use of TNW of Western models. And even suitable for the use of Soviet / Russian TNW samples.

My private opinion is that before the end of this year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have access to Western TNW systems and the "go ahead" for its use on targets / facilities in Russia. Ukraine's failure on the Eastern Front is already obvious to everyone.

This is all the more obvious to the professional military in the so-called West.

The alternative to the military collapse of the Nazi Ukrainian non-state can only be the coercion of Russia to peace by the forces of the United States and NATO.

The intention of our opponents in Europe and the United States to force Russia militarily has already been announced.

It remains to take this topic offline.

And we need to understand: where, when and how will it start?

Don't even doubt what will start. All political decisions have already been made. It's up to the big battalions."

The dream of the Ukrainian Nazis is coming true - NATO is going to war with Russia.^[70]

A report on the same day from Cherkassy in central Ukraine, hundreds of kilometers from the front read:

"We received information about the arrival of a huge number of foreign military personnel in the city. Poles, Germans, French.

They are settled on the ground floors of schools and kindergartens. We would like to point out that the educational process in educational institutions continues on the second and third floors. And parents are very worried about their children's lives, as provocations are possible.

We know that foreign troops are hiding behind children.

But there is no educational process at night."

NATO attacks on Russian elections

During the 3 days of voting in the Russian presidential election from March 15-17, 2024, NATO and Ukraine staged a suicide cross-border invasion and shelling of polling stations in Belgorod and Donbas.^[71] 11 people were killed at voting stations in Belgorod and over 80 injured.^[72] The NATO interference in Russian democracy caused a huge turnout and rallying to the flag among the Russian population.

Crocus Hall terrorist attack

See also: Crocus Hall terrorist attack

On March 22, 2024 four Kyiv regime/NATO-backed terrorists attacked civilians at a rock concert in Moscow. More than 143 concert goers were killed, including five children aged 8 to 11.

The Crocus City Hall, Russia's largest music concert hall seating some 6,000, is part of a large shopping mall complex located in the suburb of Krasnogorsk on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow. The concert was to feature the band Picnic with a symphony orchestra to perform their new hit Don't Be Afraid of Anything.

Four militants, armed with automatic weapons, entered the building and began to methodically shoot everyone who came in their way. Eyewitnesses said that they had Kalashnikov assault rifles and carbines equipped with sights, apparently collimators, and even flashlights, and small backpacks on their shoulders. Most of the attackers' faces were covered with scarves, but some of the witnesses saw beards sticking out from under them. The terrorists were young men, above average height, up to 180 cm, possibly using false beards and moustaches.

The criminals acted in a coordinated manner, in a military manner, as if such actions were a habitual thing for them. According to the security forces, the terrorists had military and airsoft training, using it against civilians and unsuspecting people.

After spilling the liquid they had brought with them, they set fire to the curtain and chairs with incendiary devices. When the fire flared up, rising to the very top and engulfing part of the roof, they, according to preliminary data, left the scene of the massacre. An explosion was heard. About 100 people were trapped inside, who were rescued by the fire department. The roof of the building collapsed. Special Forces of the FSB entered the building.

Danilov posing with the Trident. The UK Counter Terrorism Policing agency listed the Ukrainian Trident next to the swastika as "symbols commonly associated with white supremacy" as late as 2020.^[73]

On March 5, 2024 US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland announced, "Putin is going to get some nice surprises".^[74] Two days later the United States Embassy in Moscow issued a security alert to avoid large crowds, specifically concerts.^[75] Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Nazi Oleksiy Danilov confirmed Ukrainian involvement in the terrorist attack on television:

“

We will give them this kind of fun more often. Is it fun in Moscow today? I think it’s a lot of fun. I would like to believe that we will arrange such fun for them more often. After all, they are “brotherly” people, and we need to please our relatives more often, go to visit them more often. So, we will go.

”

11 suspects were apprehended, including the four who committed the murders in the auditorium. They attempted to evade a roadblock in Bryansk province, following a car chase and exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers while heading for the Ukrainian border. In televised comments to a nation in mourning, President Vladimir Putin put the attack in the context of global terrorism saying it was a kind of 'demonstrative execution'. Presdent Putin said "There is information about the preparation of an escape window for the murderers on the Ukrainian side"

Moscow authorities reported several were citizens of the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, although Tajik authorities deny that their people were involved. Representatives of the CIA created proxy force ISIS-K^[76] claimed responsibility.^[77] One of the terrorists revealed under interrogation that they were paid 500,000 rubles (USD $5,000). Another 500,000 was to be paid later after the attack.

The United States Embassy in Moscow sent out a security alert in advance of the attack to avoid large crowds, specifically concerts.^[78]

Hours before the attack, OSINTdefender the CIA front posted on X (formerly) Twitter: "Members of U.S. National Security Council and the White House have reportedly started to become Increasingly Frustrated by “Unauthorized Brazen Actions” taken by Ukraine against Russia."^[79] The Biden administration feared that Ukraine attacks on Russian oil refineries would run up gas pump prices for Americans and hurt Joe Biden's re-election chances.

Western propaganda war

The U.S. proxy force, the Islamic State, supposedly took credit for the attack. The Islamic State proxy force was organized in 2012 by the United States to counter Iran and Iranian proxies after the Obama administration withdrew forces from Iraq. The Islamic State was armed and equipped with weapons captured in the NATO war in Libya.

Special Military Operation

President Vladimir Putin shows African leaders initialed copies of the draft treaty that was quashed by Biden and the UK.^[80] The US bribed Zelensky with $100 billion in "aid" in early April 2022 not to make peace with Russia.^[81]

See also: Special Military Operation in Ukraine and Major events in the Special Military Operation on the territory of Ukraine

Russia’s strategy and tactics were designed to avoid and eschew practices that would cause large numbers of casualties among civilians and its own military. The strategy was to destroy Ukrainian military forces and warmaking potential and avoid civilian casualties. Russia pursued victory in its Special Military Operation not for territorial conquest, contrary to Western propaganda, but to defeat the Ukrainian army and Maidan regime, and force Kiev to acquiesce to Moscow's political goals:

(1) accept Russia’s annexations of territories under threat from Ukrainian discrimination, repression, and violence;

(2) renounce membership and close ties with NATO;

(3) and adopt measures to protect the Russian language and ethnic Russians in whatever rump Ukraine remains.

These were President Putin’s declared goals of ‘demilitarization’ and ‘denazification’ of the U.S. Maidan puppet state.^[82]

Battle of Mariupol

See also: Battle of Mariupol

Battle of Severodonetsk-Lysychansk

See also: Battle of Severodonetsk-Lysychansk

Battle of Bakhmut

See also: Battle of Bakhmut

Avdiivka-Dontesk front

See also: First Battle of Avdiivka and Second Battle of Avdiivka

On March 12, 2022, the second Battle of Avdiivka, just north of Donetsk city, began. On March 15, Ukrainians counterattacked.

Avdiivka cauldron, October 22, 2023.

The Ukraine's extensive, deeply-layered defense in the Donbas was broken apart, one hedgerow or defense line at a time. Every town or village taken by DPR forces was an absolute mess of destroyed homes, sliced-up trees, abandoned trenches or bunkers, wrecked Ukrainian equipment, Ukrainian bodies, and the weapons and munitions, disorganized piles of supplies, and trash that the Ukrainians left.^[83] By March 27, 2022, DPR forces, with support from their own and Russian artillery as well as Russian airstrikes, finally broke through the painstakingly-engineered, heretofore-impenetrable first line of defense around Ukrainian-held Avdiivka (pop. 30,000). About 15,000 Ukrainian troops remained in the Avdiivka bridgehead.

On May 11, 2022, the AFU blew up a dam near Avdiivka, endangering the lives in civilian settlements and creating a humanitarian catastrophe, in order to slow down the advance of the DPR army and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.^[84]

By the end of May 2022, the civilians of the city of Donetsk remained under heavy bombardment by the Armed forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka.

Shelling of the civilians of Donetsk city by Ukrainian forces from Avdiivka continued throughout the end of May 2022 and into June in and effort to draw Russian forces away from the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk cauldron.^[85] On June 11, 2022, a mother and her 11-year-old son were killed by Ukrainina shelling while shopping in an open market. On June 13, 2022, 300 projectiles were fired by the Ukrainian army or by 'nationalists' onto civilian areas of the city of Donetsk.^[86] It was the heaviest shelling in 8 years, A maternity hospital and church were hit.^[87] There were at lest 7 dead and 22 wounded. According to the DPR authorities, the daily number of civilian victims exceeded the losses of the DPR military on the front lines.

French self-propelled 155-mm CAESAR howitzers were used to kill civilians. The attack was ordered by Ukrainian Colonel Roman Vladimirovich Kachur, commander of the 55th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On June 20, 2022, the Ukrainians used for the first time their HIMAR missiles on the civilians of Donetsk, in addition to continued use of the M777 Howitzers. At least 23 civilians were killed and more than 100 non-combatants were injured over several days of Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk.

On June 25, 2022, Russian missiles killed 80 Polish mercenaries and destroyed 20 armored vehicles and eight GRAD multiple rocket launchers at the Megatex zinc production facility in Konstantinovka.

On July 24, 2022, soldiers of the 131st reconnaissance Territorial Defense unit posted a video message to Zelensky protesting illegal orders. The unit expressed its distrust of the battalion command, had been given no written orders, lost 70% of its personnel, was given no artillery support, occupied positions without equipment and ammunition, were armed only with firearms and four magazines, had no communication with command headquarters, no logistical support, no officers, commanders, medics, drinking water or food, no evacuation of wounded or dead. Helmets, bullet proof vests, and anti-tank weapons were taken from them. They did not receive basic pay or combat pay for their service. Their requests to battalion command were ignored.^[88]

After two months of fighting, Russian forces captured the Uglegorskaya electrical power plant at Vuhlehirska on July 25, 2022.^[89]^[90]

On July 26, 2022, Ukraine and NATO forces attacked an oil depot and a psychiatric hospital in the city of Donetsk with three HIMAR missiles. AFU shelling of civilians in Gorlivka killed one and left several in critical condition.^[91] AFU soldiers of the 54th Brigade, armed only with small arms and shovels, posted a video on social media about the incompetence and negligence of their commanders.^[92]

By July 27, 2022, a breakthrough to the west occurred for the first time in 8 years of fighting on the Avdiivka-Donetsk front. The breakthrough is said to have been partially enabled by the withdrawal of some AFU troops and transfer to the southern Kherson front.

Aftermath of Ukrainian strike on Elenovka POW camp.

On July 29, 2022 Reuters reported the prisoner-of-war camp at Elenovka was hit by a U.S.-built HIMAR,^[93] causing the deaths of 40 prisoners and 13 guards and prison employees.^[94] At least one hundred other prisoners were injured. Sources reported that captured Ukrainian prisoners-of-war were giving up much critical information on U.S./Ukraine/NATO operations and illegal weapon's transfers, including arms to Kurdish terrorists in Syria to be used against NATO member Turkiye.^[95] Ukraine forces on the battlefield attempting to surrender have been documented to have been executed by Ukrainian commanders. A bill was introduced into the Ukrainian parliament granting legal authority to Ukrainian commanders to execute Ukrainian soldiers who wanted to surrender. Morale was reported to have fallen in recent weeks among Azov Battalion detainees at Elenovka as they realized the Kyiv regime was not negotiating their exchange for Russian POWs, and they began giving up more information in exchange for more lenient sentences for war crimes. Russia asked the United Nations to investigate the attack.^[96] The Pentagon claimed the Ukrainian strike on its own personnel was 'accidental'.^[97]^[98] Prominent Ukrainian neo-Nazi Andriy Biletsky vowed revenge against "whoever did this."

In late July 2022 Ukrainian and NATO strategists began removing artillery and manpower from Avdiivka, and transferring them to the west bank of the Dnieper for the so-called upcoming "counteroffensive" against the Kherson bridgehead. This action allowed a Russian breakthrough against the heretofore impregnable Avdiivka frontline entrenchment, which held for eight years since 2014 and has been a key artillery firing point against the citizens of Donetsk.

As the breakthrough continued on August 2, 2022, the Ukrainian 54th mechanized brigade lost 50 soldiers to friendly fire. Ukrainian forces completely destroyed elements of its own 56th mechanized brigade by artillery fire as they were retreating from the village of Pisky. Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov, who was embedded with the AFU in Donbas, posted an expletive-laden report from Pisky revealing “There is no counter-battery fire, none at all...Russian forces are firing 6,500 shells per f****** village in less than 24 hours...It’s been like this for six days now, and it’s hard to fathom how any number of our infantry remain alive under this barrage...Without counter-battery fighting, it turns into a senseless meat grinder, where huge numbers of our infantry are chewed up in one day...A reserve platoon that tried to advance was taken apart in minutes, with only one out of 15 men left unharmed...All the reserves are spent, the military equipment goes up in flames, and the enemy approaches and takes our positions without any problems after another barrage of artillery...Right now we are losing Péski, all our human and material capabilities are almost exhausted”. Pisky was once a more affluent suburb of the city of Donetsk with 2,000 inhabitants; after the Kyiv regime attacked the Donetsk airport in 2014, the population fell to as low as 6 inhabitants at one point. By August 10, the 56th brigade was reported to have had 70% casualty rate, or loss of 3,500 men out of 5,000. 2,500 alone were lost in the past week. The village is located 2 km west of the airport. Russian forces deliberately chose Pisky as a weak point in the Avdiivka front as a breakthrough point specifically because of the low risk of danger to civilians. Mop up operations were completed by August 11 with thermobarics.^[99]^[100] The collapse of a once prosperous community since 2014 is emblematic of the devastation the U.S.-backed Maidan regime wrought upon the Ukrainian economy and population.

A Ukrainian Tochka U missile killed 23 civilians in the city center of Donetsk, March 12, 2022. There were no Russian military or DPR forces anywhere near or present. The missile attack targeted civilians.^[101]

In the aftermath of the key defeat at Pisky, the battalion commander openly criticized Zelensky and the Kyiv leadership for incompetence. The AFU lost 500 dead in 20 days and 1,500 wounded.

On August 4, 2022, Ukraine shelled the Donetsk drama theater where a memorial service for Col. Olga Kachura of the Donetsk People's Militia was taking place. Kachura was killed the day before in Gorlovka.

On August 5, 2022, the Russian Investigative Committee accused Ukraine of shelling a hospital in Donetsk.

On August 6, 2022, fighting in Mariinka, from which Ukrainian forces were shelling civilians in Donetsk, was reported as intense.

On August 11, 2022, Ukrainian forces struck a brewery on the east side of the city of Donetsk releasing six tons of a large gaseous ammonia cloud, an immediate danger to civilians. The plant was struck with a shell from a French CEASAR self-propelled Howitzer.^[102]

On August 24, 2022, Ukraine shelled Donetsk city with HIMARs targeting the head of the Republic.

On September 18, 2022, the Russian MOD reported that its artillery and Air Force landed a strike against the mercenary base of the American private military company Academi PMC, formerly known as the notorious Blackwater company, situated near the town of Krasatorsk, in the Donetsk People's Republic. The following day U.S. HIMARs retaliated with a strike on a Wagner Group barracks in the Lugansk Republic.

On September 19, 2022, a precision strike hit a bus stop and a grocery store in the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk. As a result, 13 civilians were killed, including two children. Ukrainian forces fired 155-mm shells from their positions in the village of Netailovo located 15 kilometers from Donetsk. The attack was carried out with NATO military equipment.

A PFM-1 "petal" mine on display at the United Nations, as Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused Ukraine of using the weapon against civilians, Aug. 24, 2022.^[103]

On September 22, 2022, the Ukrainian Nazis hit a market and a bus stop in the central district in Donetsk. As a result of the attack, at least 6 civilians were killed, including a 14-year-old boy. 7 other civilians were wounded. The attack was carried out from the Ukrainian positions near Novoselovka Pervaya by the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade. Ukrainian militants used 155-caliber CESAR artillery systems supplied by France.

On October 19, 2022, the illegal use of white phosphorus on the civilian population of Donetsk was reported.

On October 23, 2022, it was reported Semyon Pegov, a war correspondent who goes by the name of WarGonzo, was injured by a petal mine near Donetsk.^[104]

On October 26, 2022, a Russian breakthrough was reported on the Avdiivka line.

On October 29, 2022, the Russians began an offensive all along the front liner from Avdiivka down to Ugledar.

NATO continued shelling of civilians with HIMARS in the city of Donetsk. Six 155 mm caliber projectiles were fired at night against Donetsk downtown, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of matters related to Ukraine's war crimes said. The shelling by the Ukrainian armed units at 03:13 am. The center of Donetsk was on fire this night after a powerful shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Explosions thundered in the Voroshilovsky district, a strong fire broke out in the building of the railway administration. The fire engulfed several floors, broke out onto the roof.^[105]

After the false flag attack on Poland by Ukraine in late November 2022, fighting in Marinka intensified.

On December 11, 2022, the Russians reported 80 civilians had been killed in Donetsk and about 200 injured over the previous week by NATO/Ukraine shelling, including the use of HIMARS.

More than 4,000 civilians of all ages and sexes in Dontesk city have been killed by Ukrainian shelling since February 2022.

According to a website of an observer named Colonel Cossad, most of the shelling of Dontesk city civilians has not come from Avdiivka, but rather from Krasnogorovka.^[106]

In the first week of September 2023, the Russians repelled 56 attacks, killed more than 2,100 militants, destroyed 23 tanks, and other armored fighting vehicles, 45 vehicles, and 30 artilley guns.

In an interview with Godfrey Bloom on October 9, 2023, Col. Douglas MacGregor reported:

"Virtually nothing can be said, nothing can happen, no action can be taken inside Ukraine’s borders without the Russians knowing it, without the Russians detecting it. And if they know it and detect it, they can also target it. […] What’s happening now, what just happened within the past 24-48 hours in Ukraine – some 30 miles [48 kilometers] behind Ukrainian frontlines – was the destruction of a group of Ukrainian soldiers, several hundred of them, along with their US-UK NATO advisors. They were all killed in a strike. You cannot move in that country without being detected,” ^[107]

On October 10, 2023 it was reported that the Russian armed forces hit a train station near Avdiivka, disrupting the logistics of Ukrainian NATO forces. NATO forces of Ukraine were left without communication and hit their own people at Avdiivka. Ukrainian units located near Avdiivka lost communication and inflicted chaotic artillery strikes on each other, according to the Sinya Z Boroda Telegram channel. Thus, according to the chanal, the situation developed on the approaches to the village of Berdychi, Yasinovatsky district, where Russian soldiers broke through from Krasnogorovka. "It seems that the guys broke through the defenses near the railway line and reached Berdikhi, the Ukrainian has problems with communication between units, hitting his people, judging by radio intercepts," the message said.^[108]

Moon of Alabama claimed reports have confirmed that the Ukrainian military has long lost its middle officer and NCO corps. Smart kids fresh from senior high school are leading platoons of men mostly in their 30s or 40s and 50s. Brigade commanders give direct orders down to platoons because the staff of battalions and companies in between is no longer there.^[109]

By late October 2023 roughly 20,000 AFU forces faced 45,000 Russian forces on three sides in the Avdiivka pocket.

On Christmas Day, December 25, 2023 after nine years of clashes between AFU and the armed services of the Donetsk Peoples Republic, the suburb of Marinka near the Donetsk airport fell in Russian hands.

In January 2024 Russian Spetsnaz around Avdiivka were reported to have been wearing stealth clothing, making themselves invisible to ultraviolet thermo-imaging technology of the US/NATO.

Svatovo-Kremennaya front

By October 11, 2022, NATO/Ukraine had assembled 40,000 troops on the Svatovo-Kremennaya front. After the loss of electricity in Kharkov region, the only radio signal accessible in motor vehicles was from Russian radio warning civilians to leave the Kharkov region immediately.

By October 21, 2022, cold weather began to affect both sides ability to send up reconnaissance drones.

On October 26, 2022 RIA Novosti reported Lugansk People's Republic (LNR) police colonel of the Vitaly Kiselev saying that Polish NATO forced killed several members of the Pravy Sektor who had tried to force them to attack Russian defense lines near Kremennaya. According to Kiselev, after several unsuccessful attempts to advance deep into the positions of the Russian troops, the Poles refused to go forward. The Polish mercenaries said that it not them, but Territorial Defenсe units should attempt to break through Russian defenses. Otherwise, the Polish units would suffer heavy losses. It was an essentially a suicide mission, the Ukrainian military was attempting to use NATO forces a cannon fodder. Pravy Sector to pressure the Poles to move forward, and Polish NATO forces killed several members of the Pravy Sector. Poles historically are not particularly enamored by the legacy of the Pravy Sector's national hero, Stepan Bandera.^[110]

On January 21, 2024 the Russian Military of Defense announced the destruction of 80 foreign mercenaries in the area of Konstantinovka/ Russian military intelligence managed to identify the exact location of the foreign mercenaries with the help of reconnaissance drones. The destruction of foreign mercenaries was carried out with an Iskandar ballistic missile. According to preliminary data, about 40 mercenaries from Poland, Britain, Canada,, France and the United States were killed. Moreover, an ammunition depot of the 31st Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army was also destroyed in this area.

Russian Armed Forces had great success NW of Svatove in late January 2024. An area of 35-40 km2 has been retaken. The breakthrough of the Ukrainian front is 7-8 km in width and up to 5 km in depth. Two small settlements were retaken.

Nova Kakhovka dam

See also: Nova Kakhovka dam

2023 Ukraine counteroffensive

See also: 2023 Ukraine summer counteroffensive

The 2023 Ukrainian spring-summer counteroffensive, which Zelensky and Zaluzhnyi were opposed to due to lack of preparedness but were pushed into by Washington for U.S domestic political purposes, was a disaster for the armed forces and people of Ukraine. Nonethelees, Western NATO propaganda claimed victory. Ukrainian troops pressed into service were untrained and ill-prepared. The counteroffensive failed miserably, never penetrating within 5 kms of Russian frontline fortifications. Ukraine lost 83,000 troops between June 4, 2023 and October 4, 20023. Russian forces actually gained 200 square kms more territory while fighting on the defensive. Defense chief Reznikov and eight of his deputies were fired for the debacle, and Reznikov was promoted to the post of ambassador to the UK.

In December 2023 the Washington Post released a two-article series, Miscalculations, Divisions Marked Offensive Planning By U.S., Ukraine and In Ukraine, A War Of Incremental Gains As Counteroffensive Stalls. It dispenses equal blame on the US and UIK planning of the whole mess and the Ukrainian execution of it:^[111]

Ukraine's 2023 battle plan to split the Russian forces in half modelled after Gen. Sherman's March to the Sea in the American Civil War.

Destroyed German Leopard 2 tanks and American Bradley Fight Vehicles on what the Russians called Bradley Square.

Territory gains and losses, Jan.1 -Sep. 28, 2023^[112]

Miscalculations, divisions marked offensive planning by U.S., Ukraine

Ukrainian, U.S. and British military officers held eight major tabletop war games to build a campaign plan. But Washington miscalculated the extent to which Ukraine’s forces could be transformed into a Western-style fighting force in a short period — especially without giving Kyiv air power integral to modern militaries.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials sharply disagreed at times over strategy, tactics and timing. The Pentagon wanted the assault to begin in mid-April [2023] to prevent Russia from continuing to strengthen its lines. The Ukrainians hesitated, insisting they weren’t ready without additional weapons and training.

U.S. military officials were confident that a mechanized frontal attack on Russian lines was feasible with the troops and weapons that Ukraine had. The simulations concluded that Kyiv’s forces, in the best case, could reach the Sea of Azov and cut off Russian troops in the south in 60 to 90 days.

The United States advocated a focused assault along that southern axis, but Ukraine’s leadership believed its forces had to attack at three distinct points along the 600-mile front, southward toward both Melitopol and Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov and east toward the embattled city of Bakhmut.

The U.S. intelligence community had a more downbeat view than the U.S. military, assessing that the offensive had only a 50-50 chance of success given the stout, multilayered defenses Russia had built up over the winter and spring.

[...]

As the expected launch of the offensive approached, Ukrainian military officials feared they would suffer catastrophic losses — while American officials believed the toll would ultimately be higher without a decisive assault.

And from the second part:

In Ukraine, a war of incremental gains as counteroffensive stalls

Seventy percent of troops in one of the brigades leading the counteroffensive, and equipped with the newest Western weapons, entered battle with no combat experience.

Ukraine’s setbacks on the battlefield led to rifts with the United States over how best to cut through deep Russian defenses.

The commander of U.S. forces in Europe couldn’t get in touch with Ukraine’s top commander for weeks in the early part of the campaign amid tension over the American’s second-guessing of battlefield decisions.

Each side blamed the other for mistakes or miscalculations. U.S. military officials concluded that Ukraine had fallen short in basic military tactics, including the use of ground reconnaissance to understand the density of minefields. Ukrainian officials said the Americans didn’t seem to comprehend how attack drones and other technology had transformed the battlefield.

Winter 2023-2024

Ukraine needs minimum 200,000 155mm artillery shells per month to sustain "localized fire superiority". The shell production of the entire West is estimated between 480-700k—for the entire year of 2023 - well more than a half million or 40% below what was requested. Defense contractors are reluctant to increase capacity since there is no "clarity of orders over time." It costs billions of dollars to increase capacity. New, very expensive upgrades of lathes and forging machines are required in sufficient number, a large amount of expensive training of personnel, potentially expensive expansion of actual work sites, purchasing new land, factories, etc. All this costs a huge amount of money at a time when the European economies are shot, energy prices have skyrocketed, etc. The average price of a single artillery round in Europe inflated from 4 to 8 times in some countries since February 2022.

Meanwhile Russian capacity to manufacture artillery shells reached 5 million in 2023, and was forecasted to reach 7 million in 2014-2025. Russia is said to have received 10 million shells from North Korean stockpiles, which also maintains an industrial base to continue production. Furthermore, Western artillery cannon or barrels wear out, become unusable and must be towed to Poland or Lithuania for repair and change out. Russian forces carry out routine maintenance on the frontline.

Artillery is usually called "The God of War". It is assessed that Ukraine will need 1500-2000 barrels per year, with each barrel costing up to 900,000 euros. That's approximately $2 billion in barrels. There are a limited number of forging plants in the West to manufacture barrels, and Ukraine uses at least 17 different artillery platforms.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) began to record an increased number of Ukrainian citizens who began not only to sympathize with the Russian Army, but also to help enemy forces. The spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ignat, officially stated that almost all targets in Ukraine are destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces with the help of a tip from Ukrainian citizens who sympathize with Moscow and want to live as part of Russia. Moreover, representatives of the SBU admitted that many Ukrainian citizens help fighters of the Russian Spetsnaz sabotage and reconnaissance groups carry out sabotage operations on the territory of Ukraine. Since mid-December 2023, more than 100 Ukrainian citizens were detained who are suspected of complicity with Russian forces. Most of the detainees were from Odessa, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions. The SBU claims that these citizens allowed soldiers of Russian Spetsnaz to warm themselves in their homes, gave them food, water, and provided valuable information for sabotage. The activation of Russian Spetsnaz increased dramatically in the Odessa, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions. It Was reported that Russian Spetsnaz, with the support of local residents, caused significant damage to the infrastructure and logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On December 22, 2023 early in the morning near the village of Velikodolinskoye in the Odessa region, Russian Spetsnaz derailed a military train carrying shells and small arms from Germany. As a result AFU were left without shells and other important weapons. Moreover, the Odessa incident proved that NATO countries deliver weapons to Ukraine by sea through the territorial waters of Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey.

On December 27, 2023 Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who also serves as the economy minister, said: “Ukraine may have to postpone pay for public servants and pension payments to millions of its citizens if the European Union and United States fail to deliver promised financial aid early next year...Kyiv might have to delay paying wages for 500,000 civil servants and 1.4 millions teachers and benefits for 10 million pensioners if foreign aid does not come through”.^[113]

Also on December 27 Ukrainian soldiers who defected to Russia for the first time engaged in battle with the Ukrainian Army near Bakhmut, according to Kirill Spassky, one of the commanders of the Russian operational combat tactical formation (OBTF) Cascade.^[114] Spassky claims that Ukrainian soldiers in the Russian army are very motivated to bring about a common victory. More than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are fighting on the side of Russia. It is reported that every third captured Ukrainian POW expresses a desire to join the ranks of the Russian army and obtain Russian citizenship.

Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev of the Security Council of the Russian Federation announced on December 29, 2023: "The Russian military operation in Ukraine will continue next year with its goals remaining unchanged...Those goals include the disarmament of Ukrainian troops and the rejection of the ideology of neo-Nazism by the current Ukrainian state...The removal of the ruling Banderovite regime isn’t being openly declared, but it's the most important and inevitable goal that must and will be achieved." Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu stated: "All recruitment plans for the Army and the Navy this year have been fulfilled...The overall size of the Russian Armed Forces currently stands at 1.15 million service personnel...The size of the military will increase to 1.5 million in 2024, which would include up to 745,000 contract troops”.

On February 17, 2024 Business Insider reported Ukraine's military is shifting to a defensive strategy that failed Nazi Germany in WWII.^[115]

Northern Kharkov front

As of May 12, 2024 the situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) continued to deteriorate rapidly in the northern part of the Kharkov region. War correspondents reported that Ukrainian soldiers from the Territorial Defense brigades surrendered en masse to Russian troops along the entire line of contact. Ukrainian Telegram channels denounced the lies of the Ukrainian General Staff that the AFU allegedly stopped the advance of the Russian army in the Gray Zone. Ukrainian military-linked channels openly accused Ukrainian leadership of not having built any defenses in the north. The funds designated for defensive fortifications were stolen or looted.

The Ukrainian military High Command sent the AFU's remaining combat ready reserves, the Kraken Battalion as "blocking units" to punish AFU soldiers wanting to surrender.^[116] Ukrainian volunteers complained that the Nazi formations of the GUR ("Kraken", "Sonechko", "Brotherhood", etc.) blocked the evacuation of the local population from Volchansk and are using city residents as human shields.

On May 12 Russian fighters from assault groups under the designation "Fearless" entered the battle against Ukrainian nationalists in the Volchansk area. Fighters from the so-called Russian Volunteer Corps also fought on the side of the Ukrainian nationalists. As a result, Russian troops destroyed an entire group of Ukrainian militants. Ukrainian nationalists lost more than 100 killed. Many nationalists did not have time to escape. More than 30 Ukrainian nationalists were forced to surrender.

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)

See also: Security Service of Ukraine

Belligerents

See also: Belligerents in the NATO war in Ukraine

Neutrals

See also: Neutrals in the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war

The US State Department encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept.^[117]

Refugees

See also: Systemic racism and Ukrainian refugees

Russia was the largest recipient of Ukrainian refugees after the Special Military Operation commenced in February 2022, accepting at least 2.4 million asylum seekers.^[118]

After mid-April 2022, more than 3 million refugees in Europe returned home to Ukraine due to lack of housing, employment, childcare and other resources and services.^[119]

Economic war

See also: Great Reset

The West hoped to quickly strangle the Russian economy. However, the calculations of the United States and its allies failed after the start of the special military operation. It became clear that the collective West's bet on the weakness of the Russian economy did not play out. All the plans and calculations of NATO analysts failed. From 2014 to 2019 Western and NATO analysts claimed that Russia had a powerful army, but with a weak economy it would not be able to fight for long. They believed that they would impose sanctions and Russia would die. The West bet on the decomposition of Russian society by American culture and the discrediting of traditional values.

By summer 2022 the Ukrainian Army was demilitarized, its weapons and manpower had been destroyed. By late 2022 Russia was demilitarizing not Ukraine, but NATO whose member states provided the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons and artillery shells. The Ukrainian Army itself was already being formed from reservists, conscripts recruited by force, and foreign mercenaries.

By the end of the third quarter of 2023 the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation reported that the national debt reached $206 billion accounting for 16.7% of gross domestic product (GDP),^[120] in comparison to the socialist European Union national debt reaching a staggering $14 trillion accounting for 84.36% of its GDP,^[121] while the United States national debt reached over $33 trillion accounting for 122.8% of its GDP.^[122]

2023 cancelation of grain deal

Under the July 2022 grain deal, which was intended to help needy countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the poorest countries received only 2.3% of all supplies. Ukrainian agricultural products went to the EU countries where prices are higher, according to UN data. Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, France and Romania accounted for 38% of all supplies under the grain deal. Turkey, Egypt, Bangladesh and China filled out the balance, while Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia faced famine conditions.^[123]

On July 17, 2023 the Russian Federation announced that it would not be renewing the grain deal that was supposed to allow for shipments of grain and fertilizers from both Russia and Ukraine. Expulsion of Russia from the SWIFT world banking network made it impossible for Russia to get paid. The official Russian list of requirements which would need to be fulfilled for Russia to reinstate the grain deal were:

1. A real, not a speculative conclusion from the sanctions on the supply of Russian grain and fertilizers to world markets.

2. All obstacles for Russian banks and financial institutions that serve the supply of food and fertilizers must be removed.

3. Deliveries to Russia of spare parts and components for agricultural machinery and the fertilizer industry should be resumed.

4. All issues with the charter of ships and insurance of Russian export food supplies must be resolved, all logistics of food supplies must be provided.

5. Unhindered conditions must be provided for expanding the supply of Russian fertilizers and raw materials for their production, including the restoration of the operation of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline.

6. Russian assets related to the agricultural industry should be unlocked.

7. There must be a restoration of the original humanitarian nature of the grain deal. It should work for countries in need, not make rich countries richer.

Captain Vladimir Gundarov told Moskovsky Komsomolets,^[124]

"The grain initiative is a good cover for the military operations that Kiev is conducting in the Black Sea against Crimea under the direct leadership of the American and British military. It is more convenient to launch all surface and underwater drones, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, towards the southern and southeastern coast of Crimea from civilian ships that carry various cargoes...It's one thing to launch a marine drone from a civilian vessel 60-80 miles from the coast and point it directly at the target. And it's another thing to launch it, for example, from Ochakov, Nikolaev or the port of Yuzhny, near Odessa. In this case, they need to imperceptibly go around the Crimean Peninsula from the southwest in order to get to the Sevastopol Bay. And this is only in a straight line over 150 nautical miles. The Crimean Bridge is generally twice as far. Of course, Russia's withdrawal from the grain initiative greatly hinders Kiev's plans to carry out terrorist attacks in the Crimea."

The Crimean bridge was attacked by NATO underwater drones launched from civilian vessels near the bridge on July 17, 2023.

Propaganda war

See also: Ukrainian propaganda war

From the earliest days of the conflict, the Kyiv regime, with CIA assistance, focused more on winning a global information and propaganda war rather than a military conflict. The phrase "unprovoked invasion" flooded global media.^[125]

Ukraine Human Rights Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova was actually fired in an unprecedented move for manufacturing fake news reports about alleged Russian rapes and bringing disrepute on the Ukrainian regime.^[126]

Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia published a landmark paper on August 20, 2022, on the activities of bot accounts on Twitter related to the conflict in Ukraine. The Australian findings were staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the social media network from February 23 to March 8, 2022, at the outbreak of the conflict, between 60 and 80% were shared by fake accounts.^[127]

NBC News reported U.S. 'intelligence' were using dubious reports even when the source was questionable.^[128]

A clear democratic majority of planet Earth does not support NATO's war on Russia. The two most populous countries on the planet, India and China, are not opposing Russia. Most of Africa is not condemning Russia. Similarly, the Arab and Muslim world has not condemned Russia. Only traditional US allies support America's efforts to overthrow the legitimate government of Russia, and many of them are seriously divided on the issue.

The incidents are too numerous to list (and many more are available at the above See also link), including deliberate war crimes committed by the Ukrainian government against its own citizens to blame on the Russian forces for global propaganda purposes.

On June 16, 2022, Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France, Olaf Scholz of Germany, Mario Draghi of Italy, and Klaus Iohannis of Romania travelled to Kyiv to present an alternative view to Volodymyr Zelensky for peace and negotiations versus the warmongering view of NATO escalation advocated by Boris Johnson and Joe Biden. The racist Western media however, ignored Iohannis's presence and reported only on the three white presidents.^[129]

On October 10, 2022, the head of the Department of Cyber Security of Ukraine, Police Colonel Yuriy Zaskoka was killed in the epicenter of a Russian cruise missile attack.^[130]

After all the death and destruction NATO wrought in Ukraine by February 2024, an interview with Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky garnered only 38,000 views on YouTube, whereas an interview with President Vladimir Putin on the X platform with Tucker Carlson receive over 90 million in just 12 hours.

Bucha massacre

See also: Bucha massacre

Evidence points to the Security Service of Ukraine, in conjunction with UK MI6, having committed the Bucha massacre.^[131]

Western coverup

Reuters withdrew the initial attempt by the Zelensky regime to create another false narrative about alleged Russian massacres.^[132]

Western media and the NATO allies coverup came unglued by their own investigation. A team of forensic investigators from Kyiv reported that dozens of civilians who died in the city of Bucha were killed by tiny metal arrows from shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) artillery.

Pathologists and coroners who are carrying out postmortems on bodies found in mass graves in the region north of Kyiv said they found small metal darts, called fléchettes, embedded in people's heads and chests. “We found several really thin, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women and so did others of my colleagues in the region,” Vladyslav Pirovskyi, a Ukrainian forensic doctor, told The Guardian. “It is very hard to find those in the body, they are too thin. The majority of these bodies come from the Bucha-Irpin region.”

Independent weapons experts who reviewed pictures of the metal arrows found in the bodies confirmed that they were fléchettes, an anti-personnel weapon widely used during the first world war. These small metal darts are contained in tank or field gun shells. Each shell can contain up to 8,000 fléchettes. Once fired, shells burst when a timed fuse detonates and explodes above the ground.

“According to a number of witnesses in Bucha, fléchette rounds were fired by artillery a few days before Russian forces withdrew from the area at the end of March”, – The Guardian reported.^[133] The same fléchettes were used by the AFU in 2014 in the Lugansk Peoples Republic (LPR) at the start of the Donbas war.

Fléchettes were not widely used during the Second World War, but were brough back by the US during the Vietnam war. “Fléchettes are an anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation and to strike a large number of enemy soldiers,” according to Amnesty International. “They should never be used in built-up civilian areas.”^[134]

A team of 18 experts from the forensic department of France's national gendarmerie, alongside a team of forensic investigators from Kyiv, have started documenting the situation after the re-occupation of Bucha by the SBU Safari force. “We are seeing a lot mutilated (disfigured) bodies,” said Pirovsky. “A lot of them had their hands tied behind their backs and shots in the back of their heads. There were also cases with automatic gunfire, like six to eight holes on the back of victims. And we have several cases of cluster bombs’ elements embedded in the bodies of the victims.”

Evidence collected by experts during a visit to Bucha, Hostomel and Borodianka, and reviewed by independent weapons experts, showed that cluster munitions and powerful unguided bombs were used in the region. They killed a large number of civilians and destroyed at least eight buildings. These types of weapons are banned by the Ottawa Convention, which Ukraine is party to. Illegal cluster munitions were discovered in Ukrainian weapons storage depots.

Mass rapes

Lyudmyla Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights, was fired when no evidence could be found of her allegations of 400 instances of mass rape by Russian soldiers.^[135] 238 Members of Parliament voted her out. Denisova was accused of failing to perform her duties and in particular of spreading fake news and propaganda about atrocities supposedly committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. Such actions only served to tarnish Ukraine's image, MPs have argued. Other complaints were that Denisova had failed to organize humanitarian corridors and POW exchanges.^[136]

The fake news stories stemming from high ranking Ukrainian officials were widely disseminated by TIME magazine, CNN, Newsweek and other fake news sources.^[137]

In popular culture

See also: Songs from the NATO war in Ukraine

References

↑ https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMR_13.05.2014.mp4?_=1
↑ Odessa Brigades were made up of ethnic Ukrainian volunteers
↑ https://www.mondialisation.ca/meet-andriy-parubiy-the-former-neo-nazi-leader-turned-speaker-of-ukraines-parliament/5520502
↑ https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/the-ukrainian-conflict-in-numbers
↑ 265,200 on February 24, 2022.
↑ Typically, when looking at Russian troop strength numbers, only half are actual combat forces. The other half are logisital support.
↑ 400,000 KIA per the Kyiv Star, September 5, 2023,
↑ [1]
↑ https://hurseda.net/gundem/246987-iddia-mossad-a-gore-ukrayna-ve-rusya-kayiplari.html
↑ UKRAINIAN VS. RUSSIAN LOSS RATIO, February 1st, 2023. "According to unofficial data circulating online, AFU Chief Valery Zaluzhny reported to the Pentagon and NATO on the number of losses of Ukrainian servicemen. According to the Ukrainian command, the AFU has lost a total of 232,000 killed since the start of the special operation." Stratfor goes for 305,000 killed.
↑ https://news.yahoo.com/von-der-leyen-statement-death-163600213.html
↑ 393,000 per Russian Ministry of Defense, December 19, 2023.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231219/ukraine-lost-383000-soldiers-since-start-of-the-special-op--shoigu--1115677303.html#:
↑ (includes victims of illegal organ harvesting); earlier estimates varied between 51,000-54,000 MIA. Official MIA listings can be used by the Kyiv regime to avoid paying death benefits to family survivors.
↑ https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AFU-1-768x432.jpg
↑ https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/ride-across-the-river
↑ The US’s March of Folly in Ukraine, By Jared Peterson, American Thinker, March 10, 2023.
↑ https://tass.com/world/1705481
↑ data collected from Moonofalabama 04-02-23
↑ NetEase of China estimates 110,000 KIA and 500,000-680,000 casualties as of January 18, 2023. https://avia.pro/news/poteri-ukrainy-v-konflikte-s-rossiey-dostigli-680-tysyach-chelovek
↑ 200,000 may never have existed. Some may have been exaggerated or fake numbers on paper in order to scam the United States and NATO out of money for aid. https://www.vikendi.net/2022/06/08/us-general-surprised-200000-ukrainian-soldiers-disappeared/
↑ https://reseauinternational.net/fuites-de-donnees-sur-larmee-ukrainienne-plus-de-191-000-tues-et-blesses-et-20-000-disparus/
↑ General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Krivonos announced on a live broadcast that Ukraine is suffering monstrous losses, numbering in the hundreds of thousands.;
60,000 - 100,000+ KIA estimated as of Sept. 17, 2022;
estimates 76,600 KIA as of July 1, 2022 according to the Russian MOD. [2];
Other estimates, using the mercenary casualty rate of 28% since Feb. 24, 2022, range as high as 62,500+;
MOD estimate 62,000 as of Sept. 20, 2022.
↑ 495,520 per Dima, Military Summary channel YouTube, 4-23-24.
↑ https://www.voiceofeurope.com/recorded-polish-casualties-in-ukrainian-conflict-exceed-10000/
↑ https://www.gospanews.net/en/tag/foreign_fighters/
↑ https://dziennik-polityczny.com/2022/11/23/niechlubny-koniec-najemnicy-ktorzy-zgineli-na-ukrainie-zostana-pochowani-w-amerykanskich-grobach/
↑ as of 04-02-23; at least 6,500 in Russian custody and 2,500 in DPR & LPR custody in early 2023 before POW exchanges.
↑ https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng
↑ Mediazona Sept 8, 2023. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng
↑ 40,000 as of August 22, 2023. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng
↑ 18,480 KIA. 11970 deaths from the Russian Federation between February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2022 not counting Wagner group, LPR and DNR. https://youtu.be/EJ8i6Jix5uw?t=567
↑ https://youtu.be/B4M581RgpKc
↑ does not include DNR, LPR, and Wagner Group which have borne the brunt of the fighting.
↑ MoA, 04-02-23
↑ https://mronline.org/2022/04/09/the-u-s-proxy-war-in-ukraine/
↑ https://youtu.be/5SBo0akeDMY
↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/26/orban-ukraine-europe-threat-west-hungary/
↑ https://archive.ph/5Tbgg
↑ Fresh evidence Obama ordered up the phony Russiagate scandal, New York Post Editorial Board, June 27, 2020.
↑ Obama used covert retaliation in response to Russian election meddling. Here’s why. Analysis by Austin Carson, Washington Post, June 29, 2017.
↑ THE CIA IS USING A EUROPEAN NATO ALLY’S SPY SERVICE TO CONDUCT A COVERT SABOTAGE CAMPAIGN INSIDE RUSSIA UNDER THE AGENCY’S DIRECTION, ACCORDING TO FORMER U.S. INTELLIGENCE AND MILITARY OFFICIALS. DECEMBER 24, 2022, BY JACK MURPHY
↑ https://youtu.be/4d4rcoPulY4
↑ Opinion Editorial Board interview: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, By the Washington Post Editorial Board, May 9, 2023.
↑ https://youtu.be/yXd_KDsOpSQ
↑ Luongo: Running On Empty, The US Leaves Zelenskyy Hanging, Tyler Durdan, zerohedge.com, December 16, 2023. zerohedge.com
↑ Biden corruption led to Ukraine’s destruction Interview with Andrii Telizhenko. Aaron Maté, The Grayzone, July 13, 2023.
↑ Organization Gehlen fas.org
↑ Hitler's Shadow, Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War, Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda, Published by the National Archives. Ch. 5, Collaborators: Allied Intelligence and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, pp. 73-97.
↑ Who Can Give Security Guarantees To Ukraine? July 25, 2023. moonofalabama.org
↑ https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra114c0104
↑ https://freedomjournalist.com/how-much-did-the-bidens-make-in-the-ukraine-biolabs/
↑ https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/summer-of-the-hawks
↑ Biden finds himself on the defensive after G20 leaders fail to rally around Ukraine, Francesca Chambers, USAToday, September 10, 2023.
↑ Kosovo Indictment Proves Bill Clinton’s Serbian War Atrocities, by Jim Bovard, Jun 25, 2020. The Libertarian Institute.
↑ NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion, CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, SATURDAY 9 SEP 23.
↑ https://tass.com/politics/1755199
↑ https://tass.com/politics/1755187
↑ Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April, Tyler Durden, SEP 01, 2022. zerohedge.com
↑ IN UKRAINE THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE CREATED A POISONOUS WEB OF LIES, AEARNUR, NOV 11, 2023. aearnur.substack.com
↑ Andromeda11711 tweet, Jun 18, 2023:💥 "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March." Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on the Istanbul peace treaty: "A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: 'We just got rid of the Russians in March. He bragged about it... Friends, I know them all personally. They are ruled by sociopaths. They don't understand the consequences. Yesterday, Putin gave the Kiev regime a real knockout blow. Imagine Zelensky beating his chest and assuring the Ukrainians that there are no agreements with Russia. That's exactly why the Bucha fake was staged: the Kiev regime needed to show that the Russians hadn't left on their own, but that the Kiev region had supposedly been liberated by the Ukrainian military. The provocation in Bucha was necessary to falsify the reason for the rejection of the agreements by making a fuss in the Western media. Britain, China, the USA, Turkey, France and Belarus were listed as security guarantors for Ukraine in the Istanbul Treaty, which Ukraine did not want to fulfil. Of course, Zelensky was forbidden by Washington and London to comply, but in this situation it does not matter, because it was Ukraine that violated the treaty. Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin completely destroys the myth of Ukraine's independence in decision-making and clearly shows the people of Ukraine what Zelensky got them into: he had an opportunity to avoid a disaster. There would have been no deaths or destruction. A viable Ukrainian economy would have been preserved. No one would have interfered with Ukraine's "independence"! But it was the Kiev regime that dragged Ukraine into a major war, and it can no longer stop what is happening. https://t.me/ukraine_watch/4397
↑ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the programme 60 Minutes, Moscow, October 11, 2022.
↑ The only ones who could settle the war against Ukraine are the Americans.
↑ THE END OF UKRAINE, by Observer R ADDENDUM by Larry Johnson, December 17, 2023. sonar21.com. Quoted from TASS, December 16, 2023.
↑ https://news.yahoo.com/us-conducts-nuclear-test-nevada-233645695.html
↑ Russia Had Every Right To Revoke Ratification Of The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, ANDREW KORYBKO, NOV 4, 2023. korybko.substack.com
↑ "Not About Nato", Matt Orfalea, Oct 2, 2023. YouTube
↑ "The West has used everything from signals intelligence operations, espionage, fighter jet saber-rattling, and diplomatic standoffs to stem the rise of Russian influence around the world. These efforts are coming to a dangerous head in Ukraine — a classic Eastern Bloc proxy state — where the presence of NATO troops is driving tensions to Cold War-era levels. As the armed conflict between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists enters its third year, VICE travels to the frontline to take a closer look at what international assistance really looks like for those caught in the line of fire. On the Frontlines of Ukraine's Proxy War Between the West and Russia, VICE News, Oct 5, 2016.
↑ https://nationalinterest.org/feature/groupthink-resurgent-106951
↑ https://tass.com/politics/1756941
↑ https://t.me/zimovskyAL/29759
↑ https://weapons.substack.com/p/ukraines-effort-to-interfere-in-russias
↑ https://youtu.be/ZwvAfzvynU8
↑ Ukraine coat of arms in UK anti-terror list furore, By Georgina Rannard, BBC News, 21 January 2020.
↑ https://grabien.com/story.php?id=458277
↑ Security Alert: Avoid Large Gatherings over the Next 48 Hours. United States Embassy & Consulates in Russia, March 7, 2024. ru.usembassy.gov
↑ McCarthy, Andrew C., The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist. nationalreview.com
↑ THE FAKE TERROR THREAT USED TO JUSTIFY BOMBING SYRIA, Glenn Greenwald, Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept, September 28 2014. theintercept.com
↑ Security Alert: Avoid Large Gatherings over the Next 48 Hours. United States Embassy & Consulates in Russia, March 7, 2024. ru.usembassy.gov
↑ https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1771076956651393051
↑ Putin and the African Leaders - The Treaty of Istanbul, Jun 18, 2023. YouTube.
↑ The Anglo-American War on Russia - Part Fourteen (Biden Blocks Peace), Tales of the American Empire, Mar 14, 2024, YouTube
↑ In Putin’s Russia Politics is War by Other Means and War is Revolutionizing Russian Military Affairs, Gordon Hahn, Russian and Eurasian Politics, November 16, 2023. gordonhahn.com
↑ https://videopress.com/embed/LWJWQXqA
↑ https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1524411961454309382
↑ https://www.bitchute.com/video/RamXgEN7qewJ/
↑ https://youtu.be/kGrA_I4UNWs
↑ https://youtu.be/Ub2H8mcvmcM
↑ https://youtu.be/xLOL5a7vsDI
↑ https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-captures-power-plant-in-southern-ukraine/6677073.html
↑ https://youtu.be/F4VX8i-uny4
↑ https://youtu.be/_I1ZKKo8g6g
↑ https://youtu.be/F4tvkQu1MF4
↑ https://youtu.be/xOpXJbE-HIc
↑ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-40-ukrainian-pows-killed-by-ukrainian-missile-strike-donetsk-prison-2022-07-29/
↑ https://youtu.be/I9mKoOLSvmc
↑ https://twitter.com/Dpol_un/status/1553563952432414723
↑ https://en.rua.gr/2022/07/30/the-pentagon-leaked-zelensky-ukrainians-hit-the-prison-with-azov-fighters/
↑ https://socialbites.ca/latest-news/67370.html
↑ https://www.bitchute.com/video/VEojCa2H9AdX/
↑ https://youtu.be/gBFsWeVW6zM
↑ https://youtu.be/ANNhDKGjNK8
↑ https://youtu.be/qaGetF87Nrc
↑ https://www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152743054/human-rights-watch-ukraine-landmines
↑ https://www.bitchute.com/video/YjAalI0GxQnm/
↑ https://youtu.be/uzAEBhxrWqk
↑ https://cont.ws/@colonel-cassad/2450047?ysclid=lc8rhtkzsi666660612
↑ https://youtu.be/Z019cFDxPIQ
↑ https://t.me/llordofwar/213841
↑ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/ukraine-sitrep-storming-andivka-ukrainian-losses.html
↑ https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/154582-polish_mercenaries/
↑ The War In Ukraine Is Done, Moon of Alabama, December 05, 2023. moonofalabama.org
↑ https://archive.ph/sdnCQ
↑ https://archive.is/mGFjC#selection-1551.0-1551.62
↑ https://amalantra.ru/obtf-kaskad/?ysclid=lqpq332znf462310768
↑ [https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-military-shifts-active-defensive-failed-nazi-germany-wwii-2024-2# , Analysis by Michael Peck, Business Insider, Feb 17, 2024. businessinsider.com
↑ https://www.bitchute.com/video/truBnSBYNQrq/
↑ https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/
↑ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-asylum-requests-unhcr/27079360.html
↑ https://newlinesinstitute.org/ukraine/why-are-refugees-returning-to-ukraine/
↑ https://www.rt.com/business/583791-russia-state-debt-rising/
↑ https://www.statista.com/statistics/253616/national-debt-of-the-eu-and-the-euro-area-in-relation-to-the-gdp/
↑ https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/government-debt--of-nominal-gdp
↑ https://en.news-front.info/2023/07/16/the-un-summed-up-the-results-of-the-grain-deal-the-poorest-countries-got-only-2-3-per-cent-of-supplies/
↑ https://www.politnavigator.net/kak-rossiya-sputala-ukrainskie-karty-vykhodom-iz-zernovojj-sdelki.html
↑ https://youtu.be/crL0rs8phk4?t=1207
↑ 'This will not help us defeat the enemy' A new report looks at Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova, who was fired after officials couldn't confirm her stories of rape committed by Russian soldiers (en) (28 June 2022).
↑ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07038.pdf
↑ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/us-intelligence-says-its-intelligence-is-bullshit.html
↑ https://thesaker.is/nothing-will-be-as-before/
↑ https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/10/10/russia-strikes-kyiv-multiple-ukrainian-cities-many-dead.html
↑ https://en.news-front.info/2022/04/03/whats-wrong-with-the-ukrainian-srebrenica-story/
↑ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/ukraine-dissecting-some-war-propaganda-news-items-addendum.html
↑ https://youtu.be/MpSM-aiaxK4
↑ https://southfront.org/bucha-investigation-contradicts-itself-confirms-afus-atrocities/
↑ https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-05-31/card/ukraine-s-parliament-dismisses-human-rights-chief-1kQWT7i0GHXyeqh6spRe
↑ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/rape-allegations-against-russian-troops-in-ukraine-were-fake.html#more
↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-fires-human-rights-chief-perpetuating-russian-troop-systematic-rape-stories

External links

Donbass: 8 years of war - Documentary by French journalist Anne Laure Bonnel (2016)
CIA DOCUMENTS SHOW HOW CIA CONTROLLED UKRAINIAN NAZI GROUPS SINCE 1946 TO FIGHT RUSSIA, bitchute
Civil War in Ukraine 2014-2022
Operation Liberation: In-depth look at the special operation in Ukraine | DIG DEEP DOCUMENTARY, Jun 5, 2022. youtube.com
War Crimes, Published by dreizinreport on October 9, 2022
The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin - History of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia (And U.S. involvement)
RAND Corporation - Avoiding a Long War, U.S. Policy and the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (2023)
RAND Corporation - Extending Russia, Competing from Advantageous Ground (2019)
Video of Maria Lvova-Belova testifying at the UN (blocked by the UK)

v • d • e Deep State

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Agenda	Biden Putsch • Big government • Cultural Marxism • Deep state coup • Fall of Kabul • FBI scandal • FISA abuse • Globalism • Mar-a-Lago raid • Muellergate • Nanny State • Obamagate • Open borders • Police state • Spygate • Steele dossier • Totalitarianism • War on Freedom • War on Sovereignty • Welfare state • 2024 Presidential election interference

People	Dean Acheson • Zainab Ahmad • Trish Anderson • Lloyd Austin • James A. Baker (DOJ) • William Barr • Joe Biden • John Brennan • Steven Brill • Zbigniew Brzezinski • McGeorge Bundy • Richard Burr • George H. W. Bush • George W. Bush • John Carlin • Peter Carr • Dick Cheney • Liz Cheney • Eric Ciaramella • James Clapper • Kevin Clinesmith • Bill Clinton • Hillary Rodham Clinton • Dan Coats • James Comey • John Foster Dulles • Anita Dunn • Marc Elias • Jeffrey Epstein • Merrick Garland • Andrew Goldstein • Tashina Guahar • Avril Haines • Stefan Halper • Alger Hiss • Eric Holder • Colin Kahl • Henry Kissinger • Christopher Krebs • Lois Lerner • Jessie Liu • Loretta Lynch • George C. Marshall • Andrew McCabe • Michael McFaul • Mary McCord (DOJ) • Mark Milley • Jonathan Moffa • Lisa Monaco • Mike Morell • Sally Moyer • Robert Mueller • NeverTrump House Republicans • Victoria Nuland • Barack Hussein Obama • Bruce Ohr • Nellie Ohr • Lisa Page • Leon Panetta • Nancy Pelosi • Samantha Power • Bill Priestap • Jeannie Rhee • Susan E. Rice • Rod Rosenstein • Peter Strzok • Jake Sullivan • Michael Sussmann • Alexander Vindman • Mark Warner • Andrew Weissmann • Jonathan Winer • James Wolfe • Christopher Wray • Sally Yates • Aaron Zebley • Aaron Zelinsky

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Writings critical of the Deep State	A Choice Not An Echo • A Republic Not An Empire • Kissinger on the Couch • The Gravediggers • 2024: A Choice Not An Echo • The Real Anthony Fauci • Safe - Not Sorry

Writings promoting the Deep State	A Planned Society (1932) • Philip Dru: Administrator •

v • d • e Globalism

Individuals	Tedros Adhanom • Joe Biden • Josep Borrell • George H.W. Bush • George W. Bush • Jimmy Carter • Emanuel Celler • Dick Cheney • Bill Clinton • Hillary Clinton • Tom Connally • J. William Fulbright • Walter F. George • Henry Kissinger • Emmanuel Macron • Angela Merkel • Victoria Nuland • Barack Obama • David Rockefeller • Eric Schmidt • Klaus Schwab • Greta Thunberg • Arthur H. Vandenberg • Ursula von der Leyen • Peter Zeihan • Volodoymr Zelensky

Groups & Institutions	Bilderberg group • BlackRock • Bohemian Grove • CNN • Council on Foreign Relations • Davos • Europhiles • Fox News Channel • G7 • Institute for the Study of War • London School of Economics • NATO-backed mercenaries in the Ukraine war • Neocons • Open Society Foundations • Royal Institute of International Affairs • Strategic Forecasting Inc. • Svoboda • Trilateral Commission • World Economic Forum

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Repudiation of Globalism	Americanism • Brexit • Donald Trump • Economic nationalism • Euroskepticism • MAGAnomics • Nationalism • Self-governance • U.S. Constitution

Harm	Biden border crisis • CCP global pandemic • Cold War II • European migrant crisis • Illegal immigration • Maidan coup • NATO war in Ukraine • Russophobia

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 | image       = Azov Nazis.PNG
 | conflict    = Globalist/Neo-Nazi
-| date        = April 2014 - ongoing
+| date        = April 13, 2014<ref>https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMR_13.05.2014.mp4?_=1</ref> - ongoing
 | location    = Ukraine and Donbas region
-| combatant1  = Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)<br>[[NATO]]<br>insurgent partisan groups<br>foreign mercenaries
+| combatant1  = Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU);<br>[[Pravy Sektor]];<br>[[NATO]], mercenaries
-| combatant2  = Donetsk Peoples Republic<br>[[Luhansk Peoples Republic]]<br>Russian Federation
+| combatant2  = Russian Federation;<br>Lugansk Peoples Militia<br>Dontesk People Militia<br>Odessa Brigades;<ref>Odessa Brigades were made up of ethnic Ukrainian volunteers</ref><br> [[Wagner PMC]]<br>Ukrainian underground
-| commander1  = [[Joseph Robinette Biden]]<br>[[Boris Johnson]]<br>[[Antony Blinken]]<br>[[Jake Sullivan]]<br>[[Jens Stoltenberg]]<br>[[Volodymyr Zelensky]]<br>Andriy Parubiy<br>Dmytro Yarosh<br>[[Andriy Biletsky]]
+| commander1  = [[Jake Sullivan]]<br>[[Antony Blinken]]<br>[[Joseph R. Biden]]<br>[[Jens Stoltenberg]]<br>[[Andrei Yermak]]<br>[[Kirill Budanov]]<br>[[Volodymyr Zelensky]]<br>[[Oleksandr Syrsky]]<br>[[Oleksiy Danilov]]<br>[[Andriy Parubiy]]<ref>https://www.mondialisation.ca/meet-andriy-parubiy-the-former-neo-nazi-leader-turned-speaker-of-ukraines-parliament/5520502</ref><br>[[Valerii Zaluzhnyi]]<br>Oleksandr Tarnavsky<br>[[Dmytro Yarosh]]<br>[[Andriy Biletsky]]<br>
-| commander2  = [[Vladimir Putin]]<br>Sergei Shoigu<br>Aleksandr Dvornikov<br>[[Ramzan Kadyrov]]
+| commander2  = [[Vladimir Putin]]<br>[[Yevgeny Prigozhin]]<br>Sergei Shoigu<br>Valery Gerasimov<br>[[Andrey Mordvichev]]<br>[[Sergei Surovikin]]<br>[[Ramzan Kadyrov]]<br>Sergey Lebedev
-| strength1   = 300,000
+| strength1   = 700,000<ref>https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/the-ukrainian-conflict-in-numbers</ref><ref>265,200 on February 24, 2022.</ref>
-| strength2   = 100,000
+| strength2   = 800,000<ref>Typically, when looking at Russian troop strength numbers, only half are actual combat forces. The other half are logisital support.</ref>
-| casualties1 = 30,000 KIA; 7,500 POWs<br> of which 300 are officers
+| casualties1 = 500,815 KIA ''per'' Russian MOD (5/1/24 est.);<ref>400,000 KIA ''per'' the ''Kyiv Star'', September 5, 2023,</ref><ref>[https://winepressnews.com/2023/09/05/ukraine-has-lost-at-least-400000-troops-in-its-war-with-russia-as-casualties-mount/]</ref><ref>https://hurseda.net/gundem/246987-iddia-mossad-a-gore-ukrayna-ve-rusya-kayiplari.html</ref><ref>[https://www.bitchute.com/video/6yI8oWL4gRTY/ UKRAINIAN VS. RUSSIAN LOSS RATIO], February 1st, 2023. "According to unofficial data circulating online, AFU Chief Valery Zaluzhny reported to the Pentagon and NATO on the number of losses of Ukrainian servicemen. According to the Ukrainian command, the AFU has lost a total of 232,000 killed since the start of the special operation."  [[Stratfor]] goes for 305,000 killed.</ref><ref>https://news.yahoo.com/von-der-leyen-statement-death-163600213.html</ref><ref>393,000 per Russian Ministry of Defense, December 19, 2023.<br>https://sputnikglobe.com/20231219/ukraine-lost-383000-soldiers-since-start-of-the-special-op--shoigu--1115677303.html#:</ref><br>83,000 MIA<ref>(includes victims of illegal [[organ harvesting]]); earlier estimates varied between 51,000-54,000 MIA. Official MIA listings can be used by the Kyiv regime to avoid paying death benefits to family survivors.</ref><ref>https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AFU-1-768x432.jpg</ref><ref>https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/ride-across-the-river</ref><ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/the_uss_march_of_folly_in_ukraine.html The US’s March of Folly in Ukraine], By Jared Peterson, ''American Thinker'',  March 10, 2023.</ref><ref>https://tass.com/world/1705481</ref> <br>244,500 injured;<br><ref>data collected from Moonofalabama 04-02-23</ref><ref>NetEase of China estimates 110,000 KIA and 500,000-680,000 casualties as of January 18, 2023. https://avia.pro/news/poteri-ukrainy-v-konflikte-s-rossiey-dostigli-680-tysyach-chelovek</ref><ref>200,000 may never have existed.  Some may have been exaggerated or fake numbers on paper in order to scam the United States and NATO out of money for aid. https://www.vikendi.net/2022/06/08/us-general-surprised-200000-ukrainian-soldiers-disappeared/</ref><ref>https://reseauinternational.net/fuites-de-donnees-sur-larmee-ukrainienne-plus-de-191-000-tues-et-blesses-et-20-000-disparus/</ref><ref>[https://www.bitchute.com/video/EC4lFWqC5sBq/ General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Krivonos announced on a live broadcast that Ukraine is suffering monstrous losses, numbering in the hundreds of thousands.];<br>60,000 - 100,000+ KIA estimated as of Sept. 17, 2022;<br>estimates 76,600 KIA as of July 1, 2022 according to the Russian MOD. [https://youtu.be/BU8nXCJoPFM?t=240];<br>Other estimates, using the mercenary casualty rate of 28% since Feb. 24, 2022, range as high as 62,500+;<br>MOD estimate 62,000 as of Sept. 20, 2022.</ref><b><ref>495,520 ''per'' Dima, [https://youtu.be/6b5jylKPmgM?t=1141 Military Summary] channel [[YouTube]], 4-23-24.</ref><br>10,000 Polish NATO mercenaries;<ref>https://www.voiceofeurope.com/recorded-polish-casualties-in-ukrainian-conflict-exceed-10000/</ref><br>234 NATO instructors KIA<br>(US and UK),<br>13,000 foreign and NATO soldiers KIA est. 3/14/24 (United States, France, Germany, Lithuania, etc.,<br>of which 1,427 Polish, 466 US, and 344 UK nationals.<ref>https://www.gospanews.net/en/tag/foreign_fighters/</ref> 3,600 Polish casualties),<ref>https://dziennik-polityczny.com/2022/11/23/niechlubny-koniec-najemnicy-ktorzy-zgineli-na-ukrainie-zostana-pochowani-w-amerykanskich-grobach/</ref><br>5,360 NATO/Ukraine mercenaries.<br>17,230 POWs.<ref>as of 04-02-23; at least 6,500 in Russian custody and 2,500 in DPR & LPR custody in early 2023 before POW exchanges.</ref>
-| casualties2 = 4,000 KIA; 300 POWs}}
+| casualties2 =44,654 KIA (as of 2/15/24 Mediazona);<br><ref>https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng</ref><ref>Mediazona Sept 8, 2023. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng</ref><ref>40,000 as of August 22, 2023. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng</ref><ref>18,480 KIA. 11970 deaths from the Russian Federation between February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2022 not counting Wagner group, LPR and DNR. https://youtu.be/EJ8i6Jix5uw?t=567</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/B4M581RgpKc</ref><ref>does not include DNR, LPR, and Wagner Group which have borne the brunt of the fighting.</ref><br>44,500 injured est;<br> 323 POWs<ref>[https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/ukraine-open-thread-2023-31.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02b68524e2a3200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02b68524e2a3200b MoA], 04-02-23</ref>}}
-The '''Russia-Ukraine War''' is a proxy war started by the [[United States]] in 2014 with the violent overthrow of the [[democracy|democratically]] elected government of [[Ukraine]]<ref>https://mronline.org/2022/04/09/the-u-s-proxy-war-in-ukraine/</ref> with the aid of [[neo-Nazi]] forces.<ref>https://youtu.be/5SBo0akeDMY</ref>
+The '''NATO war in Ukraine''', sometimes known as the '''Russia–Ukraine civil conflict''' is a [[proxy war]] started by the [[United States]] in 2014 with the violent overthrow of the [[democracy|democratically]] elected government of [[Ukraine]]<ref>https://mronline.org/2022/04/09/the-u-s-proxy-war-in-ukraine/</ref> in collaboration with [[neo-Nazi]] traitors to the Ukrainian nation.<ref>https://youtu.be/5SBo0akeDMY</ref>  The newly installed [[Maidan puppet regime]] immediately began a campaign of unprovoked aggression against the civilians of [[Donbas]].
-There are multiple issues that led to the [[Russian]] incursion into Ukraine in February 2022:
+[[Groupthink]] among Western NATO leaders and their populations led to the false belief that [[Fourth generation warfare]] could be won by [[propaganda]] and [[misinformation]] alone without an industrial base. As the ''[[Washington Post]]'' attempted to explain, "[[the West]] tricked itself into thinking that sloganeering could forge a consensus to back [[Kyiv]] — 'for as long as it takes,' as President Biden put it — without explaining that sacrifice, setbacks and staggering sums of money would inevitably be needed..."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/26/orban-ukraine-europe-threat-west-hungary/</ref>
-*[[ethnic cleansing]] of native Russians in the [[Donbas]] region and unrelenting shelling of civilian communities by the [[Maidan]] regime since 2014;
-*the Kyiv regime's [[discrimination]] against Russian speaking people and making them second-class citizens in the country of their birth;
-*collective security between the Donbas Republics and the Russian Federation;
-*[[NATO]] infiltration into [[Ukraine]] and supplying weapons and training to [[neo-Nazi]] groups;
-*efforts to dispose of old Soviet-era weapons stockpiles among former [[Warsaw Pact]] members and upgrade them with modern standard NATO equipment;
-*U.S. biological laboratories doing research with dangerous [[pathogens]] on the territory of Ukraine near the Russian border;
-*the transformation of Ukraine into a testing ground for pharmaceutical experiments by [[Big Pharma]] in circumvention of international safety standards and to by-pass regulations, informed consent, and disclosure laws in Western countries;<ref>https://thesaker.is/empire-of-bioweapon-lies/</ref>
-*competition between the [[European Union]] and the [[Eurasian Economic Union]] over the boundaries of their respective zones of influence, playing a central role in the illegal [[Maidan coup]];
-*oil and natural gas deposits beneath the predominantly Russian areas of Donbas and [[Crimea]];
-*The EU and NATO's desire to dismember the Russian Federation in order to plunder its vast energy and natural resources;
-*Central Asia, the heart of the "Eurasian Balkans" deemed to be the key to ensuring American global hegemony by [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] and [[Henry Kissinger]] and their contemporary cohorts;
-*the petrodollar system, which [[Russia]] has the potential to compete with and disrupt;
-*religious sectarian rivalry between orthodox churches which claim to be the legitimate [[Eastern_Orthodox_Church|Orthodox Church]] of the Ukrainian people,<ref>https://youtu.be/CM9kKNxR6rM</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/B6Lpn3lDHDY</ref> which has led to violations of religious liberty by the Kyiv regime ''per'' the UN Human Rights Commission;<ref>https://spzh.news/en/news/83910-komitet-po-pravam-cheloveka-oon-potreboval-zashhitity-verujushhih-upc-ot-nasilija</ref>
-*the [[Culture War]] as [[Leftists]] in [[the West]] attempt to extend their agenda into Ukraine with [[gay pride]] marches to challenge the [[conservative]] values of both Ukrainians and Russians.<ref>http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62947</ref>
-NATO-backed neo-Nazi proxy forces attacked the [[Donbas]] again on February 14, 2022.<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref><ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/17/western-media-is-literally-peddling-neo-nazi-propaganda-to-prompt-war-between-russia-and-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3848518841859137</ref>  Military forces of the Russian Federation (RF) entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022 to put an end to the ethnic violence and de-nazify the areas where the children and grandchildren of World War II Nazi collaborators had been carrying an ethnic hatred of Russians since the [[Holodomor]] of the 1930s and earlier.  A wave of [[patriotism]] swept over Russian society, viewing the operation as a second [[Great Patriotic War]].<ref>https://thesaker.is/two-videos-from-the-ukrainian-blogger-iurii-podoliaka-must-see/</ref>  Soldiers felt they were sent to finish the job of de-nazifying Ukraine that their grandfathers left unfinished after World War II.  The use of civilian human shields by the U.S-trained Armed Forces of Ukraine led to civilian casualties and was a primary strategy of the NATO proxies.  Ukrainian security forces committed reprisal actions and atrocities against ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in areas which Russian forces vacated.  Numerous attacks by Ukrainian forces on its own citizens, which had been ongoing in the Donbas region for the eight previous years, spread outside the Donbas to create [[false flag]] images of attacks by Russians.  Efforts to rehabilitate the image and reputation of Nazis and Nazism by Western and Ukrainian media and [[psyop]]s were non-stop since the beginning of the Russian incursion, with permanent and debilitating damage to the West's educational system and image throughout the civilized world.  By early April 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had been so degraded and decimated, or were out of fuel and unable to retreat, the Maidan regime doubled down on soft power, [[psyops|psychological operations]] and propaganda to garner sympathy from the West for continued support.
+Nazi and neo-Nazi organizations have been active in Ukraine since 1941 and received [[Pentagon]] and [[CIA]] arms and assistance until 1954, which was resumed by the [[Obama administration]] in 2013 under CIA director [[John Brennan]].<ref>https://archive.ph/5Tbgg</ref>  Brennan was a key player in the [[Russia collusion hoax]], a [[disinformation]] and [[propaganda]] [[psyop]] to convince the American people that [[Donald Trump]] had "[[collude]]d" with Russian President Vladimir Putin to rig the [[2016 presidential election]] and to stir anti-Russian sentiment.<ref>[https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/fresh-evidence-obama-ordered-up-the-phony-russiagate-scandal/ Fresh evidence Obama ordered up the phony Russiagate scandal], New York Post Editorial Board, June 27, 2020.</ref>
-==Background==
+In 2016, well before Russia's Special Military Operation, [[Barack Obama]] signed a Presidential Finding authorizing covert action against Russia, as reported in ''The Washington Post''.<ref>[https://archive.vn/DBHCM Obama used covert retaliation in response to Russian election meddling. Here’s why.] Analysis by Austin Carson, ''Washington Post'', June 29, 2017.</ref> The finding “included language about [[sabotage]] operations, according to a former CIA official,” former US Army Special Operations operative Jack Murphy reported.<ref>[https://jackmurphywrites.com/169/the-cias-sabotage-campaign-inside-russia/ THE CIA IS USING A EUROPEAN NATO ALLY’S SPY SERVICE TO CONDUCT A COVERT SABOTAGE CAMPAIGN INSIDE RUSSIA UNDER THE AGENCY’S DIRECTION, ACCORDING TO FORMER U.S. INTELLIGENCE AND MILITARY OFFICIALS.] DECEMBER 24, 2022, BY JACK MURPHY</ref>
-{{See also|Donbas war}}
-When the [[Soviet Union]] collapsed in 1991, 25 million ethnic Russians woke up the next day finding themselves citizens of countries outside Russia proper.  Working and retired ethnic Russians in their new countries of citizenship lost the social security pension benefits that the former Soviet regime had promised them.  None of these citizens and workers had any democratic voice in their fate.  Many if not most of these ethnic Russians themselves were the descendants of victims of the Soviet [[communist]] regime whose parents or grandparents had been deported to Soviet Republics outside of the Russian Federation by the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]'s security services, the [[NKVD]] for being uncooperative in the Soviet system.  Putin called the loss of Russian citizenship and citizenship rights as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union a "genuine tragedy". As of 2014 when the U.S.-backed Maidan coup occurred in Ukraine, 10 million Russians lived as a minority in [[multicultural]] Ukraine.  Immediately after the new unelected regime was installed by the West, discriminatory laws and ethnic violence targeted the Russian minority.  The [[Donbas war]] claimed nearly 14,000 lives between 2014 and 2022, mostly civilians including children and elderly, as the West and the rest of the "civilized" world ignored the crisis.
-In the run up to the wider war, both the [[United States]] and NATO rejected, without consideration, two formal diplomatic proposals by the [[Russian Federation]] for peace treaties between the Russian Federation, United States and NATO to avoid war. The treaty proposals would require NATO to pledge not granting Ukraine and the [[Republic of Georgia]] NATO membership; U.S. missiles in Poland and [[Romania]] to be removed; and NATO deployments to [[Eastern Europe]] reversed.  The U.S. and NATO rejected the proposals out of hand in December 2021, and instead acted aggressively by sending more NATO forces to Eastern Europe and continued to heavily arm Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/</ref>
+During the [[sham impeachment]] trial of [[President Donald J. Trump]] over aid to Ukraine, impeachmnent manager [[Adam Schiff]] openly stated about the illegal, undeclared proxy war which most Americans were not even aware of let alone ever consulted about, "we fight Russia over there so we don't have to fight Russia here."<ref>https://youtu.be/4d4rcoPulY4</ref>
-===Ethnic cleansing in Donbas===
+By December 2022 in the first year of Russia's Special Military Operation, Ukraine had lost 250,000 soldiers killed and wounded - more than the size of the army Ukraine when the SMO began in late February 2022. The only thing keeping the bankrupt Zelensky regime in the fight was American aid, with marginal aid supplied by the European vassal states.
-{{See also|Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas|}}
-[[File:Alley of Angels.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The Alley of Angels commemorates children killed by the Ukrainian government's ethnic cleansing campaign of Donetsk during the 8 years of the Donbas war, 2014-2022.]]
-During the U.S.-backed Maidan coup many inhabitants of the Donbas wanted to join Russia. In April 2014 the government building of Donetsk was occupied by separatist resistance fighters.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26910210</ref>  On April 7, 2014 the resistance declared the independent "Republic of Donetsk".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/07/ukraine-officer-shot-dead-russian-soldier-crimea</ref> It was only recognized by [[South Ossetia]].<ref>http://itar-tass.com/en/world/738110</ref> Since 2014 the Ukrainian government tried to regain the city.  The Ukrainian government's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion fired artillery shells from Mariupol on Donetsk's civilian and residential areas.  They artillery shelling from Mariupol, 30 kilometers from the border, continued for 8years killing many innocentsd, including children. The [[Azov Battalion]] received training, weapons, supplies and satellite intelligence information from NATO.<ref>https://news.antiwar.com/2022/04/07/austin-us-giving-ukraine-intelligence-for-attacks-against-russia-in-the-donbas/</ref><ref>[https://thefrontierpost.com/who-gets-natos-weapons-in-ukraine/#:~:text=The%20Ukrainian%20government%20allows%20the%20Azov%20Battalion%20and,portion%20of%20the%20massive%20wea-pons%20deliveries%20by%20NATO]</ref>
-Hromadske TV media is one of the most-watched networks in Ukraine.  Hromadske is funded by the [[Dutch]] and US Embassies in Kyiv, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the European Endowment for Democracy, and Free Press Unlimited. [[Silicon Valley]] oligarch Pierre Omidary was also involved in creating the outlet.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/</ref>  Hromadske hosted Ukrainian Nazi journalist Bogdan Boutkevitch<ref>https://beyondhighbrow.com/2014/08/03/us-supported-ukrainian-nazi-calls-for-killing-1-5-novorussians/</ref> during the Maidan coup, demanding [[genocide]] of ethnic Russians. Boutkevitch said that Donbas,
+As published in the ''[[Washington Post]]'' on May 9, 2023, the 78th anniversary of [[Victory Day]] commemorating the defeat of [[Nazi Germany]] by [[Russia]], NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg said, "The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed NATO, but then you have to remember the war didn’t start in 2022…The war started in 2014."<ref>[https://archive.is/0wj8w Opinion  Editorial Board interview: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg], By the ''Washington Post'' Editorial Board, May 9, 2023.</ref>
-{{quotebox-float|"is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know what I am saying. If we take, for example, just Donetsk oblast, there are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of them are superfluous. We don't need to "understand" Donbass, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests. Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it is. I don't claim to have a quick solution recipe, but the most important thing that must be done - no matter how cruel it may sound, there is a certain category of people that MUST BE EXTERMINATED."<ref>https://youtu.be/S9SOVarOFJk</ref>}}
-In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops, half of its forces, against the predominantly Russian speaking Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref>  Previously, on October 19, 2022, ''The Jerusalem Post'' reported that Canada, the US, France, the UK and other Western countries helped train neo-Nazi extremists in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/western-countries-training-far-right-extremists-in-ukraine-report-682411</ref>  Military analyst Boris Rozhin predicted an escalation of the conflict by the Kyiv regime and their NATO consultants with a full-scale provocation in Donbas.  Using the 1995 model employed in Serbia called Operation Storm,<ref>https://euromaidanpress.com/2017/12/28/what-ukraine-can-take-from-the-croatian-scenario-of-conflict-resolution/</ref> 230,000-250,000 Serbs fled the territory of Serbian Krajina, and [[Croatia]]n soldiers committed numerous war crimes against convoys of refugees and the remaining civilians, including the Dvor and Grubori massacres.  The Ukrainian authorities intend to repeat the “Serbian scenario” in the territory of Donbas in order to expel citizens of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics from their homeland at gunpoint and take control of the region.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2022/01/17/ethnic-cleansing-in-donbass-kiev-prepares-republics-for-croatian-storm/</ref>  More than 600,000 Russian citizens reside in Donbas.<ref>http://uawire.org/kremlin-almost-640-000-donbas-residents-received-russian-passports</ref>
-In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February 2022, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded 2,158 ceasefire violations, including 1,100 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 591 ceasefire violations in the region.  In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February, the Mission recorded 1,073 ceasefire violations, including 926 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 975 ceasefire violations in the region.<ref>https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683</ref>  The OSCE was later found to have faked reports over years of the duration of the conflict by hiding Ukrainian attacks on civilians as well as actually smuggling mortar shells to neo-Nazi forces.
+By September 2023 NATO and its Ukrainian proxy forces were soundly defeated on the battlefield by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
-As tensions escalated in mid-February 2022, some 700,000 women, children, and elderly were being evacuated to Rostov in neighboring Russia.<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ukraine-russia-separatists-shelling-civilians_n_620fc47de4b0f2c343f3d4fa</ref><ref>https://tass.com/world/1406247</ref>  Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] instructed the Russian government to house and feed people fleeing the Ukrainian military advance once they arrived in southern Russia.  Each refugee arriving from Donbass is to be given a payment of 10,000 roubles ($129).  [[RT]] reported Denis Pushilin, the head of the [[Donetsk Peoples Republic]] warned, "Kiev can start a full-scale assault on Donbass at any moment, the situation is critical”<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/549912-donetsk-leader-ukraine-invasion-war/</ref>  A full-scale mobilization was ordered, and men 18 to 55 were conscripted to remain and defend against the Ukrainian military attack.<ref>https://youtu.be/GksixfgW_Q0</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/hUTXV4VusTM</ref>
+[[Biden junta]] foreign secretary [[Antony Blinken]] announced in a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as part of the [[Zbigniew Brzezinski|Brzezinski]] Lecture Series on September 13, 2023 after the failed 2023 [[Ukraine counteroffensive]], "The old world order is over...One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future for decades to come."<ref>https://youtu.be/yXd_KDsOpSQ</ref>
-===US owned biological labs===
+Tom Luongo was quoted in ''[[Zerohedge]]'' on December 16, 2023 saying, "The folks with the most to lose in Ukraine at this point are those [[carpetbagger]]s who were chosen to rebuild the country after the war.  Russia understands this and no more wants [[Blackrock]] rebuilding Ukraine than it wants Ukraine in NATO.”<ref>[https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/luongo-running-empty-us-leaves-zelenskyy-hanging Luongo: Running On Empty, The US Leaves Zelenskyy Hanging], Tyler Durdan, zerohedge.com, December 16, 2023. zerohedge.com</ref>
-Ukraine has no control over the military bio-laboratories on its own territory. According to the 2005 Agreement between the [[US Department of Defense]] (DoD) and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.  The Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information about the US program and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the US DoD dangerous pathogens for biological research.<ref>https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/95251.pdf</ref>  The [[Pentagon]] has been granted access to certain state secrets of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their agreement. The DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded 11 bio-laboratories in Ukraine.
-[[File:Biological research labs.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Russian military reported it had identified 30 sites where biological research with pathogens had been occurring under the direction of the [[Pentagon]].]]
-Among the set of bilateral agreements between the US and Ukraine is the establishment of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) – an international organization funded mainly by the US government which has been accorded diplomatic status.  The US personnel in Ukraine work under diplomatic cover.  The STCU officially supports projects of scientists previously involved in the Soviet biological weapons program. Over the past 20 years the STCU has invested over $285 million in funding and managing some 1,850 projects of scientists who previously worked on the development of weapons of mass destruction.<ref>https://21wire.tv/2018/01/21/wmd-america-inside-the-pentagons-global-bioweapons-industry/</ref>
-One such biological lab contractor is [[Metabiota]], a company financed by [[Hunter Biden]]'s [[Rosemont Seneca]] partnership with the state owned Bank of China.  Metabiota was awarded a $18.4 million federal contract under the so-called "Defense Threat Reduction Program" in the former Soviet [[Republic of Georgia]] and Ukraine.<ref>https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra114c0104</ref>  Metabiota receives the lion's share of funding as a U.S. defense contractor for bio labs in Ukraine.
+==Background==
+{{See also|Background of the Russia-Ukraine war|Maidan coup|Donbas war}}
+[[File:Burisma Board Dir Hunter Biden.jpg|right|290px|thumb|[[FBI summary of confidential human source's meeting with Burisma executives]].<ref>[https://thegrayzone.com/2023/07/13/bidens-corruption-led-to-ukraines-destruction-fmr-kiev-diplomat/ Biden corruption led to Ukraine’s destruction] Interview with [[Andrii Telizhenko]]. Aaron Maté, ''The Grayzone'', July 13, 2023.</ref>]]
+The United States, together with the German secret service BND,<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/world/germany/intro/gehlen.htm Organization Gehlen] fas.org</ref> had long standing ties with Nazi groups in west-Ukraine which had previously cooperated with [[Nazi Germany]] and had been attached to the German Nazi-Wehrmacht.<ref>''[https://www.archives.gov/files/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf Hitler's Shadow, Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War]'', Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda, Published by the National Archives. Ch. 5, ''Collaborators: Allied Intelligence and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists'', pp. 73-97.</ref> The [[CIA]] reactivated these groups and instigated a violent [[color-revolution]] in [[Kiev]].<ref>[https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/who-can-guarantee-ukraines-security.html Who Can Give Security Guarantees To Ukraine?] July 25, 2023. moonofalabama.org</ref> The United States resumed providing direct military aid to Ukraine nationalist forces and the newly created puppet regime in 2014.  Western states began to train Ukraine’s armed forces and allow their participation in military exercises. In December 2016, [[Sen. Lindsey Graham]] declared 2017 to be "the year of offense", which was delayed by the [[Russiagate]] scandal, the [[Mueller investigation]], and [[Trump impeachment 1.0]].
-Captured documents published by Russia claimed the labs were working on [[biological weapons]] such as [[anthrax]] and plague and that the Pentagon instructed the labs to destroy them in violation of Article 1 of the UN Biological Weapons Convention.<ref>https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1500499205663645700</ref>  Russia released captured U.S. documents indicating that among the work of the U.S.-funded biolabs was the testing of 400 and 4000 Ukrainian soldiers, respectively, for antibodies to Crimea-Congo fever and regional hantaviruses, and a search for anthrax spores in soil at livestock graves.
+In February 2019, Ukraine’s constitution was amended to make NATO membership a compulsory government goal. Zelensky, who was elected President on a pro-peace platform in May 2019, did nothing to change that provision and in March 2021 he adopted the Crimean Platform – a programme to recapture Crimea and the naval base at [[Sevastopol]] for NATO by any means necessary, including unspecified military measures which the Kyiv regime by itself was incapable of. In April, Ukraine forced a provocation with Russian naval forces in the sea of Azov, which ended without violence, and in June the United Kingdom used the incident as an excuse to enhance Ukraine’s seaborne capabilities. That same month NATO promised Ukraine’s eventual membership of the alliance. In July, the United States and Ukraine co-hosted a naval exercise in the Black Sea that involved 32 countries and in August signed a US-Ukraine Strategic Defense Framework, followed a couple of months later by a Charter on Strategic Partnership. Between March and June, NATO conducted Defender 21, a multinational military exercise focussed on supposedly defending Europe from Russian attack. In the spring Ukraine began increasing its forces along the Donbass line of contact with the aim of eliminating the Donbas militias and retaking Crimea.
-On March 7, 2022, the Russian military claimed to have identified 30 sites where pathogenic research under the direction of the U.S. Defense Department had been occurring on the territory of Ukraine.  The Russian Ministry of Defense stated, "The Ukrainian biological laboratories in [[Lvov]] were conducting work with infectious agents of plague, anthrax, and brucellosis, while the labs in Kharkov and Poltava were working with infectious agents of [[diphtheria]], [[Salmonella|salmonellosis]], and [[dysentery]]…The government in Kiev had sent to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States thousands of patients’ serum samples, primarily from patients of “[[Slavic]] [[ethnic]]ity”, under the pretext of testing [[COVID-19]] treatment methods”.<ref>https://sputniknews.com/20220307/30-biolabs-whose-activities-were-commissioned-by-pentagon-were-formed-in-ukraine---russian-mod-1093662299.html</ref>
+===U.S. biological labs in Ukraine===
+{{See also|U.S. funded biological labs abroad}}
+[[Metabiota]], a company financed by [[Hunter Biden]]'s [[Rosemont Seneca]] partnership with the state owned Bank of China.  Metabiota was awarded a $18.4 million federal contract under the so-called "Defense Threat Reduction Program" in the former Soviet [[Republic of Georgia]] and Ukraine.<ref>https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra114c0104</ref><ref>https://freedomjournalist.com/how-much-did-the-bidens-make-in-the-ukraine-biolabs/</ref> Metabiota receives the lion's share of funding as a U.S. defense contractor for bio labs in Ukraine.
-The term "biological weapons" includes biological formulations that contain pathogenic micro-organisms and toxins, as well as the means of delivery and use of said formulations.  While the priority for Ukrainian healthcare is socially significant diseases such as [[HIV]], [[poliomyelitis]], [[measles]] and [[hepatitis]], US customers are interested in a completely different nomenclature: [[cholera]], [[tularemia]], [[plague]] and hantaviruses.
+==Diplomacy==
+{{See also|Diplomacy in the Ukraine war}}
+[[File:Zelensky and Boris.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Zelesnky and [[BoJo]].  Boris Johnson sabotaged peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022.  Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died needlessly in the following months.]]
+Investigative reporter [[Seymour Hersh]] reported in the summer of 2023 that Biden junta national security advisor [[Jake "the Snake" Sullivan]] took an American delegation to the 'second international peace summit' in August at [[Jeddah]] in [[Saudi Arabia]]. The summit was led by Crown Prince [[Mohammed bin Salman]] (MBS) who four years earlier was accused of ordering the assassination and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi for the ''Washington Post'' at the Saudi consulate in [[Istanbul]], for perceived disloyalty to the state.
-As a result of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, facts of work with the specified pathogens, which are potential agents of biological weapons, have been revealed. At the same time, it was noted that Ukraine had sent a request to the manufacturing company regarding the possibility of equipping the [[Bayraktar drone]]s with aerosol equipment.  In addition on March 9, 2022 three unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with 30-litre containers and equipment for spraying formulations were detected by Russian reconnaissance units in Kherson region. At the end of April 2022, ten more were found near Kakhovka.<ref>https://telegra.ph/Briefing-on-the-results-of-the-analysis-of-documents-related-to-the-military-biological-activities-of-the-United-States-on-the-t-05-11</ref>
+The summit stars included MBS, Sullivan, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia was not invited to the summit. It included a handful of heads of state from the fewer than fifty nations that sent delegates. ''Reuters'' reported that Zelensky’s goal was to get international support for “the principles” that he will consider as a basis for the settlement of the war, including “the withdrawal of all Russian troops and the return of all Ukrainian territory.” Russia’s formal response came from Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs [[Sergei Ryabkov]] who called the summit “a reflection of [[the West]]’s attempt to continue futile, doomed efforts” to mobilize the [[Global South]] behind Zelensky.  [[India]] and [[China]] both sent delegations to the session. An American intelligence official told Hersh,
+{{quotebox-float|“Jeddah was Sullivan’s baby. He planned it to be Biden’s equivalent of [[Woodrow Wilson|[President Woodrow] Wilson]]’s [[Versailles Conference|Versailles]]. The grand alliance of the free world meeting in a victory celebration after the humiliating defeat of the hated foe to determine the shape of nations for the next generation. Fame and Glory. Promotion and re-election. The jewel in the crown was to be Zelensky’s achievement of Putin’s unconditional surrender after the lightning spring offensive. They were even planning a [[Nuremberg Trials|Nuremberg type trial]] at the [[World Court|world court]], with Jake as our representative. Just one more f***-up, but who is counting? Forty nations showed up, all but six looking for free food after the Odessa shutdown,”}}
+referring to President Putin’s curtailment of Ukrainian wheat shipments in response to Zelensky’s renewed attacks on the [[Crimean bridge]] linking Crimea to the Russian mainland.<ref>https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/summer-of-the-hawks</ref>
+On September 10, 2023 at the [[Group of Twenty]] annual summit in New Dehli which US socialist [[führer]] Joe Biden personally attended, the [[G20]] rejected Biden's efforts to get the group to condemn Russia.<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/09/10/joe-biden-g20-statement-criticism-russia-ukraine/70808021007/ Biden finds himself on the defensive after G20 leaders fail to rally around Ukraine], Francesca Chambers, ''[[USAToday]]'', September 10, 2023.</ref>
 ===NATO expansion===
-{{See also|North Atlantic Treaty Organization#NATO expansion: Russia reaction}}
-Unprovoked, NATO began arming and training Ukrainian military and para-military [[neo-Nazi]] forces after the 2014 [[Obama administration]]-backed [[Maidan coup]] which overthrew the [[democracy|democratically]] elected administration of [[President Viktor Yanukovych]].<ref>https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/how-obama-and-biden-installed-neo?s=r</ref>  When the U.S. Congress barred funding for the neo-Nazi [[Azov Battalion]] in 2018,<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/380483-congress-bans-arms-to-controversial-ukrainian-militia-linked-to-neo-nazis</ref> NATO proceeded to train Azov Battalion Nazis in [[Canada]] as part of [[the West]]'s supposed "rules based order."<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref>  The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which was incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard after the Maidan coup, had been conducting an unrelenting war against Russian civilians in the [[Donbas]] region since 2014.<ref>[https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kle0A5mimFIJ:https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Robert Parry: The Mess That Nuland Made], 2018 ''Consortium News''.</ref>  Azov's International Department trained [[white supremacist]] protesters in the 2017 [[Charlottesville]] march.<ref>https://archive.ph/I9PS4</ref> The Donbas war is recognized by the Orthodox Christian Church as a struggle between the Western globalists' [[gay agenda]] and traditional family, moral, and religious values.<ref>http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62947</ref>  For this reason, the international media has ignored what otherwise would be considered a policy of ethnic cleansing of Russians from the Donbas by the NATO-backed fascist Kyiv regime.<ref>
-https://www.rferl.org/a/death-toll-up-to-13-000-in-ukraine-conflict-says-un-rights-office/29791647.html</ref>
-President Putin remarked in 2021, "As for NATO’s enlargement and the advancement of NATO infrastructure towards Russia’s borders, this is a matter of paramount significance as far as the security of Russians and Russia goes...I do not want to use harsh words, but they simply spat upon our interests."<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1300975</ref>  French Premier [[Emmanuel Macron]] said at the height of the crisis, "The geopolitical objective of Russia today is clearly not Ukraine but to clarify the rules of cohabitation with NATO and the EU."<ref>https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-tensions-frances-macron-flies-to-moscow-to-meet-putin-in-high-risk-diplomatic-mission-12535079</ref>
+NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg described how [[NATO expansion]] provoked a military response from the Russian Federation:
+[[File:American war criminals.PNG|right|300px|thumb|'''[[Liberal triumphalism]]:''' accused of [[war crimes]] in the [[Kosovo war]], [[Madeleine Albright]] (left) [[Bill Clinton]] (center) and [[Joe Biden]] (right).<ref>[https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/kosovo-indictment-proves-bill-clintons-serbian-war-atrocities/ Kosovo Indictment Proves Bill Clinton’s Serbian War Atrocities], by Jim Bovard, Jun 25, 2020. ''The Libertarian Institute''.</ref>]]
+{{quotebox-float|"The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more [[NATO enlargement]]. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn’t sign that.
-In March 2022 NATO warlord Jens Stoltenberg said that any support from [[China]] would help Russia to continue to wage war and that China has an obligation as a member of the UN Security Council to uphold international law.  The spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the [[EU]] responded:
+The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.
-{{quotebox-float|"we will never forget who had bombed our embassy in the Federal Republic of [[Yugoslavia]]. We need no lecture on [[justice]] from the abuser of international law. As a [[Cold War]] remnant and the world’s largest military alliance, NATO continues to expand its geographical scope and range of operations. What kind of role it has played in world peace and stability? NATO needs to have good reflection.<ref>[http://www.chinamission.be/eng/fyrjh/202203/t20220317_10652463.htm Spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the EU Speaks on a Question Concerning NATO Leader’s Remarks on China], 2022-03-17. www.chinamission.be</ref>}}
-==Special Military Operation==
+So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders."<ref>[https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/nato-chief-openly-admits-russia-invaded-ukraine-because-of-nato-expansion NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion], CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, SATURDAY 9 SEP 23.</ref>}}
-[[File:You are trash that must be wiped off the face of the earth.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ukrainian TV host calls for the extermination of Russian families and children.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/ukrainian-tv-show-host-fakhruddin-sharafmal-calls-for-genocide-of-russians-including-children/</ref>]]
+Russian Security Council deputy chair [[Dmitry Medvedev]] noted on March 4, 2024:
-On February 23, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops into Greater Ukraine in a demilitarization and denazification operation.<ref>https://tass.ru/politika/13825671</ref> As it is crucial in purging neo-Nazis, the Russian military is stopping genocidal extermination in Donbas, arresting human sex traffickers, and destroying extremely dangerous biowarfare labs.
+{{quotebox-float|"Our actions are a forced but quite an effective response to the [[Russophobic]] [[policy]] by the [[Banderite]] regime and the [[collective West]] and its desire to destroy our [[statehood]], undermine [[independence]] and [[sovereignty]]<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1755199</ref>...Had Ukraine escaped the stupidest trap set by the United States and its allies in order to counter our country with Ukraine’s assistance and use this very [[anti-Russia]] entity, things might have been different...Had there been no jeering [[thief|thieves]], political doormats and blushful [[neo-Nazi]]s in the [[Zelensky regime|Ukrainian leadership]], [[history]] could have gone a different way...Had the [[Kiev regime|Kiev ringleaders]] fulfilled the [[Realpolitik|realistic conditions]] of the [[Minsk Agreements]] at some point, then, perhaps, there would have been no need for the [[special military operation]], as our president has rightly observed”.<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1755187</ref>}}
-In a televised speech shortly before 04:00 Moscow time on 24 February 2022, Putin announced that he had ordered Russian forces to enter Donbas. He insisted it was not Russia's intention to annex the Donbas Republics or Ukraine, but stated that Russia would protect the right of the Donbas Republics to self-determination, and that it would do so by forcing the "demilitarisation" of the remainder of the Ukraine. Minutes later, explosions were reported at various points throughout the country, including the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv as well as at [[Kharkiv]], Odessa, and several other cities. Ukrainian officials attributed these to cruise and ballistic missiles launched by Russian units at their military installations.
+===US & UK sabotage peace talks===
-[[File:Pravy Sektor black and red.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Ukrainian soldiers invading the [[Donetsk People's Republic]] with the flags of the United States and Ukraine along with the red and black blood and soil banner of the fascist Pravy Sektor group.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/425877-4-month-countdown-NATOs-largest-exercise-in-25-years-Normandy-Four-meets-and-another-false-flag-in-Syria</ref>]]
+{{See also|2022 Istanbul peace negotiations}}
-Russian ground troops were reported entering Ukraine at around 06:48 local time near the city of Senkivka on the northern border, with others entering from Crimea in the south shortly thereafter.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/europe/russia-ukraine-putin-military-operation-donbas-intl-hnk/index.html Russia launches military attack on Ukraine with reports of explosions and troops crossing border]. CNN. Thu February 24, 2022.</ref> Kyiv regime sources reported throughout the day that Russian units had launched attacks on numerous targets,<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/ma54DNDKy0FN/</ref> including a landing of airborne soldiers at the Antonov International Airport outside Kyiv, but claimed that their own forces inflicted heavy casualties on the Russians. A press conference by Ukrainian President Zelensky at 16:00 Kyiv time claimed that heavy fighting was occurring in the [[Chernobyl]] Exclusion Zone, site of the 1986 nuclear accident, which lies along the direct route of advance towards Kyiv from the north.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/chernobyl-nuclear-russia-attack-ukraine-b2022444.html Fighting breaks out close to Chernobyl nuclear waste facility, says Ukrainian president] Rory Sullivan, ''The Independent'' (UK). Thu 24 Feb 2022.</ref>  Zelensky had just days earlier threatened Russia with a dirty nuclear bomb made from nuclear waste.<ref>https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-02-26-will-kiev-use-a-%22dirty%22-nuclear-bomb-against-russia-!.H1ylF8Dec.html</ref>
+''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in [[Istanbul]].  The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the [[Minsk Accords]]. ''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in essence what Johnson told Zelensky according to sources close to the Ukrainian dictator:
+[[File:Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Ukrainian troops training in North Yorkshire.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Boris Johnson posing with Ukrainian special forces. Most were killed in an unsuccessful NATO raid on the [[Zaporozhye nuclear power plant]].]]
+{{quotebox-float|"If Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the [[Western alliance|collective West]], which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."<ref>[https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-allies-led-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April], Tyler Durden, SEP 01, 2022. zerohedge.com</ref>}}
+Only a month after Russia was forced by innumerable actions by [[the West]] to achieve the aims of protecting the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region and the Russian Federation itself from a malevolent Ukrainian regime becoming a NATO state on its border, Russia initiated peace negotiations. These bore fruit in March 2022 when significant progress was announced from Istanbul where the talks between the two sides were being held. Russia removed its troops from around the capital Kiev, sent there with the goal, not of conquest, but of bringing the [[Kiev regime]] to its senses and to negotiate a peaceful outcome. This avenue toward a peaceful resolution of all areas of concern was swiftly blocked via a visit to Kiev by then British prime minister Boris Johnson. This one act condemned upwards of half a million Ukrainians to their deaths and the potential destruction of Ukraine as a viable state.<ref>[https://aearnur.substack.com/p/in-ukraine-the-western-powers-have IN UKRAINE THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE CREATED A POISONOUS WEB OF LIES], AEARNUR, NOV 11, 2023. aearnur.substack.com</ref>
-During ceasefire<ref>"regime of silence" is the literal translation from Russian and Ukranian for "ceasefire".</ref> negotiations on a Russian proposal to create humanitarian corridors for civilians to escape encirclement in Ukranian Neo-Nazi strongholds, Ukrainian Security forces murdered a top Ukrainian negotiator trying to avert a humanitarian crisis.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/member-of-ukrainian-peace-negotiation-team-dead-report</ref>
+The sudden failure of the Istanbul agreement led to the immediate influx of mass amounts of the latest U.S. gear such as [[HIMAR]]s. Zelensky was secretly promised unlimited funding and military support as bait. Stuck between the path of peace or the chance to go down in history as the one man who could do what [[Genghis Khan]], [[Napoleon]], and [[Hitler]] could not do. Zelensky chose to put his faith in NATO’s invincibility.  Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko confirmed what happened:
+{{quotebox-float|"I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March. A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: We simply ditched the Russians in March. He boasted about it... Friends, I know them all personally.
-On March 12, 2022, Russian forces combat tested for the first time the hypersonic ''Kinzhal'' (''Daggar'') missile against a NATO weapons storage facility at Deliatyn. A hypersonic missile can fly at 5 times the speed of sound (3,800 mph) and even greater.  NATO, which has used the Ukraine conflict to showcase new weapons technology which only serves to prolong the conflict and increase the death toll, at the time had no such weapon operational nor defense against hypersonic missiles.
+I appeal to Ukrainians. You are ruled by [[sociopath]]s who do not understand the consequences".<ref>[https://twitter.com/Andromeda11711/status/1670500664403951616 Andromeda11711 tweet, Jun 18, 2023:]<small>💥 "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March."
-Four weeks into the incursion, Kherson and most of the Zaporozhye region were under the Russian control. The Ukrainian Air Force and air defense system were almost completely destroyed, the Ukrainian Navy did not exist anymore.<ref>https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2022/03/25/ukraine-sitrep-march-25-2022/</ref>  According to the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD), the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) amounted to about 30 thousand servicemen, including more than 14 thousand KIA.
+Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on the Istanbul peace treaty: "A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: 'We just got rid of the Russians in March. He bragged about it... Friends, I know them all personally. They are ruled by sociopaths. They don't understand the consequences.
-According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, to date, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have amounted to about 30 thousand servicemen, including more than 14 thousand KIA.  The smuggling of NATO anti-tank weapons into Ukraine forced the Russians to depend upon long range artillery to pulverize Ukrainian forces.  Ukraine lacked both the artillery and ammunition to respond.  NATO supplies could not compete with the Russian arsenal, and efforts to transport NATO heavy weapons by rail to the front where they were needed led to the destruction of Ukrianian infrastructure and the rail network by the Russian airforce and cruise missiles accross the territory.
+Yesterday, Putin gave the Kiev regime a real knockout blow.
-On March 25, 2022 the Russian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed that storming of Ukrainian cities was not a priority but rather the destruction of Ukrainian armed forces.<ref>https://youtu.be/tGJf60o9-mk</ref>  Russian troops only entered cities on the independent territories of the [[DPR]] and [[LPR]].<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2022/03/forces-halt-kyiv-advance-russia-says-donbass-was-only-goal-all-along/363650/</ref>  High-precision weapons were used to suppress the entire military infrastructure of the enemy, the main goal being to exhaust the AFU units and force them to surrender.  NATO warlords kept some units fighting, exposing civilians to risk as AFU units used civilians as [[human shields]].
+Imagine Zelensky beating his chest and assuring the Ukrainians that there are no agreements with Russia. That's exactly why the Bucha fake was staged: the Kiev regime needed to show that the Russians hadn't left on their own, but that the Kiev region had supposedly been liberated by the Ukrainian military. The provocation in Bucha was necessary to falsify the reason for the rejection of the agreements by making a fuss in the Western media.
-According to reports from ''[[The Times]]'' of London on March 27, 2022, Zelensky sent a handwritten letter to Putin via Roman Abramovich giving full details about Ukraine’s conditions for ending the war.  Putin is reported to have responded saying, "Tell him I will destroy him."<ref>https://hindustannewshub.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-talks-speak-to-zelensky-i-will-ruin-it-putin-threatens-ukrainian-presidents-handwritten-peace-proposal/</ref>   Abramovich, owner of the Chelsea football club in London and a target of Uk sanctions, suffered a suspected [[poison]]ing in Kyiv while preparing for peace talks with Putin.<ref> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10660555/Roman-Abramovich-suffered-suspected-POISONING-Ukraine-peace-negotiators.html</ref>
+Britain, China, the USA, Turkey, France and Belarus were listed as security guarantors for Ukraine in the Istanbul Treaty, which Ukraine did not want to fulfil. Of course, Zelensky was forbidden by Washington and London to comply, but in this situation it does not matter, because it was Ukraine that violated the treaty.
-On March 29, 2022 the Russian Defense Ministry announced it would be reducing offensive operations in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.  The Armed Forces of Ukraine intensified attacks on civilian infrastructure in the territory of the DPR and LPR.
+Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin completely destroys the myth of Ukraine's independence in decision-making and clearly shows the people of Ukraine what Zelensky got them into: he had an opportunity to avoid a disaster.
-On April 8, 2022 dozens of people were reported to have died in a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile attack on a railway station in the Donbas city of Kramatorsk.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/a-ukrainian-tochka-u-missile-killed-dozens-at-kramatorsk-train-station.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02788075c349200d</ref>  The missile was fired from the southwest territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.  The serial number on  the missile identified it as coming from Ukrainian stocks.  As in Mariupol, Ukrainian forces denied civilians access to escape in order to use them as human shields in urban combat.
+There would have been no deaths or destruction. A viable Ukrainian economy would have been preserved. No one would have interfered with Ukraine's "independence"! But it was the Kiev regime that dragged Ukraine into a major war, and it can no longer stop what is happening.
-April 11, 2022 was reported to be the worst day of the war for the Zelensky regime thus far, with over 1,100 AFU either killed, wounded, or captured in a single day.  When AFU soldiers began to surrender in large groups, reports emerged that the commanders of the nationalist Azov formation, deployed their fighters in other AFU units as political commissars in order to prevent AFU fighters from surrendering.<ref>https://southfront.org/first-footage-from-illich-plant-in-mariupol-under-dpr-control-photos-video-18/</ref>  AFU snipers were instructed to shoot AFU soldiers in the back if they were seen running the wrong direction.  Bodies of AFU soldiers carrying surrender instructions were found, executed by their own command with a shot in the back.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/8IQdm7AmA7YQ/</ref>  AFU POWs attest to the presence of commissars and a rite of passage for newcomers to a unit which was vidseotaped - newcomers had to kill either a Russian POW or civilian.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/SOzTQI1lmpPF/</ref>
+https://t.me/ukraine_watch/4397</small></ref>}}
-[[File:Brimstone.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Captured UK Brimstone missile.]]
+On October 11, 2022, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with ''60 Minutes'':<ref>[https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1833291/?lang=en Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the programme 60 Minutes, Moscow, October 11, 2022].</ref>
-On April 12, 2022 it was reported that Ukraine remains in the state of permanent chaos and security collapse. Regular reports about incidents involving organized crime, looting and shooting appear from almost all areas controlled by Kyiv’s forces. Units of the so-called ‘territorial defense’ formed by the Kyiv government are among the main sources of civilian casualties and friendly fire incidents in the Kyiv-controlled part of Ukraine.<ref>https://southfront.org/last-days-of-kyivs-troops-in-mariupol-and-other-battlefield-developments/</ref>
+[[File:Berliner Zeitung 10-20-23.PNG|right|300px|thumb|'' How the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed.''<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsWithJingjing/comments/17ds1kp/the_only_ones_who_could_settle_the_war_against/ The only ones who could settle the war against Ukraine are the Americans].</ref>]]
+{{quotebox-float|"We sat at the negotiating tble with the Ukrainian delegation until the end of March [2022], when an approach to a settlement on the principles suggested by the Ukrainians at the time had been harmonised in [[Istanbul]].  These principles suited us for that moment but the talks were stopped by direct order from Washington and London.
-On May 1, 2022 ''Defense Updates'' reported on the delivery of hundreds of the UK ''Wunderwaffen'' Brimstone precision guided missiles to Ukraine. ''Defense Updates'' reported:
+This conflict is overrun with [[Anglo-Saxon]]s that fully control the Vladimir Zelensky regime. The Poles and people from the Baltics are trying to fit in on their team.
-{{quotebox-float|"UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has stated that victory for Ukraine is a "strategic imperative" for the West and Russian forces must be pushed out of "the whole of Ukraine". This is the clearest statement that has been made yet regarding Britain's war aims which have, until now, been limited to stating that President Putin's invasion of Ukraine "must fail and be seen to fail"....The missile has a range of 60+ km or 37+ mi and a maximum speed of Mach 1.3....It has been estimated that Brimstone is 3 times more effective than the AGM-65G Maverick missile against modern tanks, and 7 times more effective than the BL755 cluster bomb. In combat, Brimstone has demonstrated accuracy and reliability "both well above 90 percent"...This capability will fundamentally change the tactical scenario since the Russian forces will now know that they may have to face long-range precision attacks, chances of which were very limited earlier. It is to be noted that The West is sharing critical intelligence with Ukraine which can be used to prioritize and target the most important Russian assets."<ref>https://youtu.be/x4Nb5XVjezY</ref>}}
-[[File:American Howitzers.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Two American Howitzers were wiped out by a single kamikaze drone that landed between them.  The basic drone before upgrades can be purchased at any hobby store.  The Howitzers were part of an $800 million arms package. A single artillery round costs $70,000.]]
-On May 8, 2022 it was reported that the Russians captured a fully intact Brimstone missile which can now be reversed engineered.<ref>https://youtu.be/ZmdZN77avfI</ref>  By the time the "hundreds" of Brimstones are launched against thousands of Russian tanks, a Russian and Chinese version of the Brimstone will likely be available.  From that point forward it is only a question of who can produce more faster.  The US and EU's sanction regime against Russia limits the availability of certain component materials needed.  Brimstone is a next generation improvement on the American Hellfire missile, bringing Hellfire and Brimstone to the battlefield.
-The 90 Howitzers supplied by the United States to Ukraine had their digital fire control systems removed to avoid capture or being sold to the Russians reportedly.  On May 18, 2022, the Russian MOD showed video footage of two American Howitzers knocked out by a suicide drone when it landed between them.<ref>https://ria.ru/20220518/gaubitsy-1789199038.html</ref>
+Since then the Ukrainian President has said many times that he is not going to hold talks with the Russian Federation under President Vladimir Putin. Recently, he codified this ban in law. We have never sought negotiations. The Istanbul round completed the process started at Ukraine’s request. Russia positively reacted to the proposal to enter a dialogue, but its initiators cut it off with a shout from overseas or London.
-Two months into the fighting on the Donbas front Ukrainian commanders deserted the men they were leading.  Many of the conscripts had only two days training, as most of Ukraine's front line soldiers had either been captrued, killed, or deserted already.
+We are hearing statements by [[White House]] representative John Kirby, my colleague Antony Blinken and other members of the US administration. They are saying that they are completely open to talks with the Russian Federation, that they favor a political settlement of the current situation in Ukraine but Russia (the “troublemaker”) is rejecting proposals to establish contact. I can say straight away that this is a lie. We have not received any serious proposals to establish any such contact. There were some attempts that were not very serious, but we didn’t reject them, either. Instead, we suggested that they formulate specific proposals. Some people made them to us by proxy but in this case, we didn’t receive any clear explanations from anyone, either. No need to lie. We were taught in a kindergarten then lying is bad. Apparently, American kindergartens are not so advanced as they were in the [[Soviet Union]] and are now in Russia."}}
+In mid-December 2023 Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky posted on [[Twitter|X]]:
+{{quotebox-float|“As for the peace agreement, it is already well-known that it was initialed by negotiators of Ze [Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky], and its copy was shown by [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin. And this story, as well as the direct involvement of the UK and the US in persuading Ze to reject [the agreement], has been [[corroborate]]d by numerous [[witness]]es. However, you have nothing to worry about, as Ze’s Ukraine has blown its chances for such a favorable outcome, and therefore any possible deal will now reflect its capitulation.”<ref>[https://sonar21.com/the-end-of-ukraine/ THE END OF UKRAINE], by Observer R ADDENDUM by [[Larry Johnson]], December 17, 2023. sonar21.com. Quoted from [https://tass.com/politics/1722361 TASS, December 16, 2023].</ref>}}
-===Legality of operation===
+===Russia de-ratifies Nuclear Test Ban Treaty===
-[[File:Number-of-Explosions-in-Donbass-19-20-February-2022.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
-Vladimir Putin set forth a claim under the doctrine of 'anticipatory collective self-defense', devised originally by the [[Clinton administration]] and NATO in regard to the 1998 [[Kosovo]] conflict,<ref>https://youtu.be/rsSB_2RShBQ</ref> as it applies to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.<ref> https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/29/russia-ukraine-the-law-of-war-crime-of-aggression/</ref>  The unilateral declarations of independence by the Donbas republics are completely legal and precedented by [[the West]]'s successful demands for Kosovo to be recognized as independent from [[Serbia]], and adjudicated as such by the International Courts.<ref>https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/141</ref>
-The Organization of World Peace reported in 2021, “according to Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Decree no. 117/2021, Ukraine has committed to putting all options on the table to taking back control over the Russian annexed Crimea region. Signed on March 24th, President Zelensky has committed the country to pursue strategies that . . . ‘will prepare and implement measures to ensure the de-occupation and reintegration of the peninsula.’”<ref>https://theowp.org/ukraine-declares-all-options-possible-even-war-to-retake-crimea-from-russia/</ref>  Given that the residents of Crimea, most of whom are ethnic Russians, are quite happy with the current state of affairs under Russian governance – this, according to a 2020 ''[[Washington Post]]'' report – Zelensky’s threat in this regard was not only a threat against Russia itself but was also a threat of potentially massive bloodshed against a people who do not want to go back to Ukraine.<ref>https://archive.ph/5s7Cd</ref>  The Donbas war represents a much more compelling case for justifying Russian intervention under the ''Responsibility to Protect'' (R2P) doctrine which has been advocated by such Western ‘humanitarians’ as [[Hillary Clinton]], [[Samantha Power]], and [[Susan Rice]], and which was relied upon to justify the NATO interventions in countries like the former [[Yugoslavia]] and [[Libya]].
+On October 19, 2023 The [[Biden regime]] conducted a nuclear test in [[Nevada]].<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/us-conducts-nuclear-test-nevada-233645695.html</ref> A Kremlin statement on October 24, 2023 stated that Russia has successfully tested its ability to launch a massive nuclear retaliation strike by land, sea, and air. This show of power coincided with the Russian State Duma withdrawing its ratification the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The [[United States]], while signing the treaty, never ratified it.<ref>[https://korybko.substack.com/p/russia-had-every-right-to-revoke Russia Had Every Right To Revoke Ratification Of The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty], ANDREW KORYBKO, NOV 4, 2023. korybko.substack.com</ref>
-On February 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin addressed the nation and made clear the objective of the [[Special Military Operation]] in Ukraine was not [[regime change]]:
+Deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov said Russia was not ready to begin nuclear talks with the United States until Washington abandons its hostile stance. The development comes days after Russia was attacked by the long range ATACMs missiles delivered to Ukraine by the United States.
-{{quotebox-float|"The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and [[genocide]] perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation.  It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force."<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/full-transcript-vladimir-putin-s-televised-address-to-russia-on-ukraine-feb-24</ref>}}
-===Expansion of war===
+After passing unanimously in the Lower House, the bill to de-ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CBTB) was approved by the Upper House by 156 votes to zero. The approved legislation was sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his signature.
-The "interagency consensus" of the United States government has conducted an armed proxy war against ethnic Russians living in the Donbas for eight years, since 2014.<ref>"The West has used everything from signals intelligence operations, espionage, fighter jet saber-rattling, and diplomatic standoffs to stem the rise of Russian influence around the world. These efforts are coming to a dangerous head in Ukraine — a classic Eastern Bloc proxy state — where the presence of NATO troops is driving tensions to Cold War-era levels.
-As the armed conflict between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists enters its third year, VICE travels to the frontline to take a closer look at what international assistance really looks like for those caught in the line of fire. [https://youtu.be/e7D4r8OTgTw On the Frontlines of Ukraine's Proxy War Between the West and Russia], VICE News, Oct 5, 2016.</ref>  [[President Donald John Trump]] was [[impeachment and removal|impeached]] in 2019 by the [[Democratic party]], who control the [[United States House of Representatives]], for going against this "interagency consensus" of the [[Executive Branch]].<ref>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/groupthink-resurgent-106951</ref>
+==Escalation==
+{{See also|Escalation in the NATO war in Ukraine|Obama war crimes}}
-On April 27, 2022 the [[Exxon]] corporation declared ''force majeure'', or exemption from liability for its [[Sakhalin]]-1 operations which produces about 273,000 barrels of crude oil per day for export to [[South Korea]], [[Japan]], [[Australia]], [[Thailand]] and the United States.  On April 30, the electrical plant at Sakhalin went up in flames.<ref>https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1603555/russia-fire-coal-fired-power-plant-sakhalin-smoke-clouds-oblast-thermal-plant</ref>
+Escalation in the NATO war in Ukraine began in 2014 shortly after the United States and UK's failed efforts to take over the [[Sevastopol]] Naval Base in [[Crimea]] during the U.S.-backed anti-[[democracy|democratic]] [[Maidan coup]]. In a foot race, the Russians made it to Crimea first to protect their vital [[national security]] asset at Sevastopol naval base before the US and NATO, following the US overthrow of the democratically elected President of Ukraine, [[Victor Yanukovich]].
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+|[[File:Stoltenberg.PNG|250px]]
+|[[File:Stoltenberg LGBT.PNG|192px]]
+|-
+|colspan="3"|<hr/>[[LGBT]] activist and head of NATO [[Jens Stoltenberg]] admitted NATO expansion was the cause of Russian intervention into the [[Ukraine civil conflict]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/Zf5xEBwBhds "Not About Nato"], Matt Orfalea, Oct 2, 2023. YouTube</ref>
+|}
+Although the United States successfully overthrew the Russian client state in its capital city Kyiv, it failed in its covert purpose for overthrowing the regime - to seize one of three of Russia's most vital national security assets linking Russia to the outside world. The port cities of Sevastopol, Murmansk, and [[Vladivostok]] are Russia's only links for trade with the outside world. Murmansk in the frozen north is not open year-round, and Vladivostok is 6 day's journey by train from Moscow. Sevastopol and its surrounding territory of Crimea is close to the Russian homelands, are majority ethnic Russian and Russian speaking, and is Russia's most valued strategic asset. Without any of these three vital ports, Russia is landlocked and impoverished for lack of trade routes. Sevastopol had been leased to the Russian Federation by Ukraine on a long-term lease after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
-Russian military analyst Viktor Litovkin, who is also head of the military news editorial office for the [[TASS]] news agency, said in a May 9, 2022 show on Sky News Arabia ([[UAE]]) that if the West declares war on Russia or sends soldiers to fight in Ukraine, it would mean all-out war. He said that sending weapons to Ukraine is one thing, but sending Western armed forces to Ukraine would be a different matter altogether. Litovkin added: “Russia has [[nuclear weapons]] that can destroy many European and non-European countries.”<ref>https://youtu.be/YHfmVPMSws0</ref>
+The "interagency consensus" of the U.S. [[Deep State]], as Lt. Col. [[Alexander Vindman]] referred to it in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, conducted an armed [[proxy war]] since 2014 in Ukraine with heavy weapons against Russian-speaking civilians.<ref>"The West has used everything from signals intelligence operations, espionage, fighter jet saber-rattling, and diplomatic standoffs to stem the rise of Russian influence around the world. These efforts are coming to a dangerous head in Ukraine — a classic Eastern Bloc proxy state — where the presence of NATO troops is driving tensions to Cold War-era levels.
-====NATO aggressive acts====
+As the armed conflict between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists enters its third year, VICE travels to the frontline to take a closer look at what international assistance really looks like for those caught in the line of fire. [https://youtu.be/e7D4r8OTgTw On the Frontlines of Ukraine's Proxy War Between the West and Russia], VICE News, Oct 5, 2016.</ref>  These weapons included artillery and airstrikes against civilians. [[President Donald Trump]] was [[impeachment and removal|impeached]] in 2019 by the [[Democratic party]] who controlled the [[United States House of Representatives]] for going against this "interagency consensus" which fomented  the proxy war between the United States and Russia in Ukraine, and denying a democratically elected president the right to set the [[foreign policy]] of his own administration.<ref>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/groupthink-resurgent-106951</ref>
-On May 4, 2022 the ''New York Times'' reported that NATO was complicit in the assassination of several Russian generals through real time intelligence sharing of geolocation surveillance.  At least 10 Generals were reported to have been targeted and killed, and numerous Colonel and Lt. Colonel battalion commanders.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/politics/russia-generals-killed-ukraine.html</ref>
+On March 7, 2024 TASS reported Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev warning:
+[[File:Stoltenberg and von der Leyen.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Globalist warmongers Jens Stoltenberg and [[Ursula von der Leyen]].]]
+{{quotebox-float|The [[collective West]] is trying to push ahead with its unrealistic plans for inflicting a strategic defeat on our country in Ukraine using the [[Zelensky regime|neo-Nazi terrorist regime]]...By continuing to provide large-scale military and military-technical assistance, [[the West]] is actually participating in the armed conflict...In connection with the failure of the hyped [[2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive|Ukrainian counteroffensive]] and the successful actions of the Russian Armed Forces, French [[President Macron]], following the 26 February conference in [[Paris]] on Ukraine did not rule out the possibility of sending [[NATO military contingent]]s to Ukraine...He said the [[Western alliance|Western countries]] intend to do everything necessary to prevent Russia from winning in Ukraine...The [[Vladimir Putin|Russian president]] in his message to the Federal Assembly recalled of the fate of all those who sent their contingents to our country and warned that now the consequences for possible intruders would be much more tragic and that Russia has [[weapon]]s that can hit targets on their territory.<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1756941</ref>}}
-=====Black Sea engagements=====
+On March 20, 2024 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported that since the beginning of 2024 four [[Abrams tank]]s, 5 German [[Leopard tank]]s, 27 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 6 [[HIMARS]] launchers, 11 anti-aircraft missile launchers including 5 [[Patriot missile]] systems had been destroyed.
-On April 19, 2022 the ''[[Times of London]]'' reported that the United States was indeed responsible for the April 13 sinking of the ''Moskva'' by relaying information to the AFU on the location of the ship via P-8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft with anti-ship and anti-submarine capabilities.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10733677/Moskva-sinking-Did-supply-Kyiv-location-Black-Sea-flag-ship.html</ref>  ''Moskva'' was positioned near one of 3 drilling rigs, used for monitoring a whole sector of the Black Sea with hydrophones and NEVA-BS radar, the most westward one, BK-2 Odessa, approximately 66 km northeast from Snake Island (''Russian: Zmeiny Island''). The whole thing was integrated in the regional monitoring systems.  According to an article in the ''Strategic Culture Foundation'' a source in [[Brussels]] told independent journalist Pepe Escobar,<ref>https://archive.ph/pNNKf</ref>
+On March 21, 2024 military expert Alexander Zimovsky posted to Telegram,
-[[File:Moskva.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|The ''Moskva'' was disabled and sunk on April 13, 2022 reportedly with NATO assistance.<ref>https://www.wionews.com/world/watch-russian-state-tv-says-moscow-has-entered-world-war-3-against-nato-471291</ref>]]
+[[File:NATO forces in Ukraine Mar 24.PNG|right|300px|thumb|NATO forces in Ukraine, March 2024.]]
-{{quotebox-float|"The ''Moskva'' was on combat duty 100-120 km away from Odessa – controlling the airspace within a radius of 250-300 km. So in fact it was ensuring the overlap of the southern half of Moldova, the space from Izmail to Odessa and part of Romania (including the port of Constanta).  Its positioning could not be more strategic. Moskva was interfering with NATO’s covert transfer of military aircraft (helicopters and fighter jets) from Romania to Ukraine. It was being watched 24/7. NATO air reconnaissance was totally on it.
+{{quotebox-float|"In the near future, Ukraine will receive the entire range of Western weapons of the ground forces and aviation, which includes a full set of systems comparable in power to TNW [Thermonuclear Weapons].
-As the ''Moskva'' “killer”, NATO may have not chosen the Neptune, as spread by Ukrainian propaganda; the source points to the fifth-generation NSM PKR (Naval Strike Missile, with a range of 185 km, developed by Norway and the Americans.)  He describes the NSM as “able to reach the target along a programmed route thanks to the GPS-adjusted INS, independently find the target by flying up to it at an altitude of 3-5 meters. When reaching the target, the NSM maneuvers and deploys electronic interference. A highly sensitive thermal imager is used as a homing system, which independently determines the most vulnerable places of the target ship.”
+In addition, Ukraine already has all the platforms for the use of TNW of Western models. And even suitable for the use of Soviet / Russian TNW samples.
-As a direct consequence of hitting the ''Moskva'', NATO managed to reopen an air corridor for the transfer of aircraft to the airfields of Chernivtsi, Transcarpathian and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.}}
+My private opinion is that before the end of this year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have access to Western TNW systems and the "go ahead" for its use on targets / facilities in Russia. Ukraine's failure on the Eastern Front is already obvious to everyone.
-The provocation marked a significant escalation of electronic warfare in international waters and airspace with Russian public opinion and the families of missing sailors demanding a response from their government.
-<!--On April 23, 2022 four submarines departed from the Russian naval port at Sevastopol in the Black Sea.
-NATO forces tracked humanitarian food relief from Russia to Syria through the [[Dardanelles]].-->
+This is all the more obvious to the professional military in the so-called West.
-=====Transnistria=====
+The alternative to the military collapse of the Nazi Ukrainian non-state can only be the coercion of Russia to peace by the forces of the United States and NATO.
-[[File:We will liberate Transnistria.PNG|right|300px|thumb|"We will liberate Transnistria!" digital propaganda poster by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s psychological operations branch in Ukrainian and Romanian languages circulated in April 2020.]]
-By late April 2022 in the territory of Moldova, warehouses of military uniforms and shoes, NATO army rations and other auxiliary military equipment were being hastily created and filled from abroad. But not weapons depots. There is no need to import weapons, since when Moldova is occupied by the Romanian army, the latter will "come with everything of its own".<ref>https://t.me/ZradaXXII/1898</ref>  The objective appears to be a storage depot in Kolbasnaya of roughly 20,000 tons of munitions left over from the [[Red Army]]’s evacuation of former [[Warsaw Pact]] countries.<ref>https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/27-april-shots-were-fired-in-the-morning-and-drones-observed</ref>  There is also information about the concentration of Ukrainian units on the border with [[Transnistria]].  Most of Transnistria is no more than 10 kilometers wide. The Transnistrian army has zero chance to counter the offensive for any significant period of time without external support in the event of an attack from both sides (and this is exactly what is being planned, as the Nazi governor of the Odessa region Marchenko has already hinted).  Polish, Romanian and Moldovan armed forces are concentrating thousands of troops,<ref>https://t.me/ZradaXXII/1959</ref> while from the east, AFU troops and a group of thousands of foreign mercenaries, including Canadian and Croatian units, fighters from [[Scandinavia]]n countries, and at least 1,000 fighters from the Turkish far-right organization [[Grey Wolves]] are concentrated.
-The number of the Operational Group of Russian troops in Transnistria is about 1,300. The Armed Forces of Transnistria count up to 7,500, while the Armed Forces of Moldova count up to 5,200 servicemen with a reserve of 60,000 people. The number of Romanian Armed Forces is up to 70,000.
+The intention of our opponents in Europe and the United States to force Russia militarily has already been announced.
-A joint group of 22,000 – 25,000 Polish-Romanian-Moldovan soldiers would be enough to carry out such an operation in the region. The main combat work will fall on the Romanian and Polish assault units. It is estimated that 6,000 Romanian and 3,000 Polish troops of the rapid reaction forces would be enough.
+It remains to take this topic offline.
-Military clashes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with the Armed Forces of Poland and Romania on the territory of a non-member state of NATO is the perfect scenario for the Kyiv and Washington regimes. In case of the opening of another front in the neighboring country, the AFU counter offensive should be expected in the south of Ukraine with active defense in the East.
+And we need to understand: where, when and how will it start?
-This was the main scenario Zelensky was briefed on by [[Blinken]] and [[Lloyd Austin|Austin]] on April 24, 2022 which follows ongoing international political developments. The preparation and composition of the sixth package of EU sanctions are associated with events in Transnistria.  The escalation of the situation in Transnistria corresponds to Washington’s statements that the United States is changing course towards Russia, from the desire to exhaust Moscow economic sanctions, to a direct military confrontation. This was announced by Washington after the meeting with Zelensky.  Vladimir Putin responded to NATO's challenge on April 27, 2022 in speech to the Council of Lawmakers of the Russian Federation in [[St. Petersburg]]:.
+Don't even doubt what will start. All political decisions have already been made. It's up to the big battalions."
-{{quotebox-float|"if anyone intends to intervene from the outside and create a strategic threat to Russia that is unacceptable to us, they should know that our retaliatory strikes will be lightning-fast. We have the tools we need for this, the likes of which no one else can claim at this point. We will not just brag; we will use them if necessary. And I want everyone to know this; we have already made all the decisions on this matter."<ref>http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68297</ref>}}
-The expected timing of the scenario is from May 12 to May 25, 2022, or from June 15 to June 25, depending on the actions and successes of the Russian Federation in the Donbas region.
-<!--In early spring 2022 Russian Armed Forces were unable to help Transnistria with anything but a certain number of missile strikes at infrastructure facilities.  Sources estimate the probability of the enemy attack on Tiraspol in April-early May already as "high".<ref>https://t.me/ZradaXXII/1959</ref>  -->
-Speculation existed that Russian POWs taken in Transnistria can then be bartered for the 4,000 Ukrainian POWs already in Russian hands as well as the 1,500 Azov Nazis still held up in the Azovstal.  The NATO occupation of Transnistria would complicate operations on the western flank of the Odessa cauldron.
-'''Provocations'''
+The dream of the Ukrainian Nazis is coming true - NATO is going to war with Russia.<ref>https://t.me/zimovskyAL/29759</ref>}}
+A report on the same day from Cherkassy in central Ukraine, hundreds of kilometers from the front read:
+{{quotebox-float|"We received information about the arrival of a huge number of foreign military personnel in the city. [[Pole]]s, [[German]]s, [[French]].
-On April 25, 2022 the State Security building and two Russian language broadcast facilities were bombed.<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/1e811d5d-3972-4bde-abc5-acac7dd4832b</ref> Igor Girkin reported that a large number of Romanian soldiers and officers were sent to Moldova under the guise of "Moldovan military". In particular, in all headquarters, a significant part of Moldovan officers were replaced by officers of the Romanian army in all key positions, and in the commandant's companies of military units performing the functions of military police, the entire personnel had been replaced with Romanians.
+They are settled on the ground floors of [[school]]s and [[kindergarten]]s. We would like to point out that the educational process in educational institutions continues on the second and third floors. And [[parent]]s are very worried about their [[child]]ren's lives, as provocations are possible.
-On May 3, 2022 a quadcopter carrying explosives was intercepted over the TV and radio center in the village of Mayak.  On May 5, shooting was reported in the area of a border crossing between Ukraine and Transnistria.  [[Law enforcement]] agencies confirmed that indiscriminate shooting took place on the territory of Ukraine near the village of Pavlovka, near the village of Kuchurgan, in the area of the railway bridge, which was blown up on March 4.  An unidentified UAV dropped two explosive devices in the area of the former airfield near the village of Voronkovo.  On May 6, another UAV dropped two explosive devices in the same area. The attack was repeated about an hour later. The UAVs reportedly flew from the territory of Ukraine
+We know that foreign troops are hiding behind children.
-=====Poland=====
+But there is no educational process at night."}}
-Evidence suggests Polish intelligence has fed exaggerated and phony anti-Russian information on Russian activities in Ukraine to NATO to inflame tensions since at least 2014.
-[[File:Russian Ambassador attacked.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Russian Ambassador attacked on [[Victory Day]] with fake blood while laying a wreath at the monument to Russian war dead who liberated Poland from the Nazis.  The head of the Russian State Duma commented "such actions may lead to the fact that the ambassadors will no longer be needed."<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/wu3iULO3vuhT/</ref>]]
-On March 8, 2022, the government of [[Poland]] announced it would transfer all of its Russian-made MIG-29 jets to the Rammstein Air Base in Germany.  The jets will be placed “at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America” which in turn is expected to send them to Ukraine.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/poland-announces-all-its-mig-29-jets-will-be-transferred-us-send-ukraine</ref>  The Pentagon responded to the Polish announcement: "The prospect of fighter jets "at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America" departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace that is contested with Russia over Ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire NATO alliance.  It is simply not clear to us that there is a substantive rationale for it.'<ref>[https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2960180/statement-by-pentagon-press-secretary-john-f-kirby-on-security-assistance-to-uk/ Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby on Security Assistance to Ukraine], MARCH 8, 2022. www.defense.gov</ref>  Simply put, [[Blinken]] and Biden tried to bribe Poland with new upgraded replacement jets to attack Russia and begin World War III so that NATO Article 5 could be invoke. Poland refused on at least two earlier occasions in the previous two weeks. When Poland said it would fly the old MIGs to Germany and let Germany or the U.S. begin World War III, or let the US transport the MIGs to Slovakia or Romania and let Romania or Slovakia get nuked in addition to the United States, the whole duplicitous game the [[Biden regime]] was playing with the lives of people on the planet was exposed. Biden, the "leader of the free world", wanted to start World War III but didn't want to take the blame for it, and was looking a NATO ally to bribe and become the fall guy.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/08/blinken-and-biden-fold-pentagon-rejects-poland-offer-for-united-states-to-start-world-war-iii/</ref>
-[[File:Polish mobilization for invasion of Ukraine.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Polish armored vehicles being transported to border for invasion of Ukraine, May 2022.]]
-On March 24, 2022 Biden flew to Poland. Reports emerged that Poland was "contemplating" an incursion into Western Ukraine.
-On April 5, 2022 according to the Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling [[Law and Justice]] (PiS) party, agreements were fully reached allowing Washington to relocate its nuclear arsenals to the country in any required quantity, the German newspaper ''Welt am Sontag'' reported.<ref>https://youtu.be/nYx-W9Do--4</ref>
+===NATO attacks on Russian elections===
+During the 3 days of voting in the Russian presidential election from March 15-17, 2024, NATO and Ukraine staged a suicide cross-border invasion and shelling of polling stations in [[Belgorod]] and [[Donbas]].<ref>https://weapons.substack.com/p/ukraines-effort-to-interfere-in-russias</ref> 11 people were killed at voting stations in Belgorod and over 80 injured.<ref>https://youtu.be/ZwvAfzvynU8</ref> The NATO interference in Russian [[democracy]] caused a huge turnout and rallying to the flag among the Russian population.
-On April 28, 2022 the Polish Defense Ministry announced that there would be intensive movement of convoys with equipment in the country’s north and east from May 1, 2022 until the end of the month due to “military exercises”.
+===Crocus Hall terrorist attack===
+{{See also|Crocus Hall terrorist attack}}
+On March 22, 2024 four [[Kyiv regime]]/[[NATO]]-backed [[terrorist]]s attacked civilians at a rock concert in [[Moscow]]. More than 143 concert goers were killed, including five children aged 8 to 11.
-One of the development options of the Polish leadership’s plan is to create an advanced bridgehead on the territory of Moldova to promptly take control of Transnistria and deploy a “peacekeeping contingent” on the territory of the Odessa region. The Odessa command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is ready to support a Moldovan-Polish-Romanian invasion of Transnistria under the guise of a "humanitarian" operation.
+The Crocus City Hall, Russia's largest music concert hall seating some 6,000, is part of a large shopping mall complex located in the suburb of Krasnogorsk on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow. The concert was to feature the band Picnic with a symphony orchestra to perform their new hit ''Don't Be Afraid of Anything''.
-====Western Ukraine annexation====
+Four militants, armed with automatic weapons, entered the building and began to methodically shoot everyone who came in their way.  Eyewitnesses said that they had Kalashnikov assault rifles and carbines equipped with sights, apparently collimators, and even flashlights, and small backpacks on their shoulders. Most of the attackers' faces were covered with scarves, but some of the witnesses saw beards sticking out from under them.  The terrorists were young men, above average height, up to 180 cm, possibly using false beards and moustaches.
-[[File:NATO partitioning of Ukraine.PNG|right|300px|thumb|NATO proposed partitioning of Ukraine.]]
-On March 10, 2022 a document emerged of Poland's plan to occupy Ukraine with 9,500 soldiers and further partition the country.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraine-congress-passes-the-bucks-realism-sneaks-in-poland-plans-for-more-war.html</ref>
-Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) stated that the Polish military’s priority “combat tasks” would include the gradual seizure of control over strategic facilities in West Ukraine.  Poland discussed with the Biden regime an action to “reunite” with West Ukraine. According to [[Warsaw]]'s estimates, the entrenchment of the Polish military in West Ukraine would amount to a partitioning of Ukraine.  On April 28, 2022 FIS spokesman Sergei Naryshkin said that Washington and Warsaw were planning to deploy a Polish “peacekeeping contingent” in the western part of Ukraine.
+The criminals acted in a coordinated manner, in a military manner, as if such actions were a habitual thing for them. According to the security forces, the terrorists had military and airsoft training, using it against civilians and unsuspecting people.
-{{quotebox-float|“According to information received by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Washington and Warsaw are working on plans to establish tight military and political control over ‘their historical possessions’ in Ukraine,”}}
-According to the FIS, the first stage of the “reunification” should be the introduction of Polish troops into the western regions of Ukraine under the guise of 'peacekeepers' with the participation of ‘willing states’. Warsaw has not yet been able to agree on potential participants in a ‘coalition of like-minded’,” the FIS said.
-At the same time, the FIS pointed out, the Polish leadership is not interested in “unnecessary spies” in its operation. “The so-called peacekeeping contingent is planned to be deployed in those parts of Ukraine where the threat of direct clash with the Russian Armed Forces is minimal. And the priority “combat tasks” of the Polish military will include gradual interception of control over strategic objects located there from the National Guard of Ukraine. Polish special services are already searching for “agreeable” representatives of the Ukrainian elite to form a Warsaw-oriented “democratic” counterweight to the nationalists,” the FIS said in its report.
+After spilling the liquid they had brought with them, they set fire to the curtain and chairs with incendiary devices. When the fire flared up, rising to the very top and engulfing part of the roof, they, according to preliminary data, left the scene of the massacre. An explosion was heard. About 100 people were trapped inside, who were rescued by the fire department. The roof of the building collapsed. Special Forces of the [[FSB]] entered the building.
+[[File:Danilov with the Trident.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Danilov posing with the Trident. The UK Counter Terrorism Policing agency listed the Ukrainian Trident next to the [[swastika]] as "symbols commonly associated with [[white supremacy]]" as late as 2020.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51174898 Ukraine coat of arms in UK anti-terror list furore], By Georgina Rannard, [[BBC News]], 21 January 2020.</ref>]]
+On March 5, 2024 US Undersecretary of State [[Victoria Nuland]] announced, "[[Putin]] is going to get some nice surprises".<ref>https://grabien.com/story.php?id=458277</ref> Two days later the United States Embassy in Moscow issued a security alert to avoid large crowds, specifically concerts.<ref>[https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-avoid-large-gatherings-over-the-next-48-hours/ Security Alert: Avoid Large Gatherings over the Next 48 Hours]. United States Embassy & Consulates in Russia, March 7, 2024. ru.usembassy.gov</ref> Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Nazi [[Oleksiy Danilov]] confirmed Ukrainian involvement in the terrorist attack on television:
+{{Cquote|We will give them this kind of fun more often. Is it fun in Moscow today? I think it’s a lot of fun. I would like to believe that we will arrange such fun for them more often. After all, they are “brotherly” people, and we need to please our relatives more often, go to visit them more often. So, we will go.}}
+suspects were apprehended, including the four who committed the murders in the auditorium. They attempted to evade a roadblock in [[Bryansk]] province, following a car chase and exchange of gunfire with [[law enforcement]] officers while heading for the Ukrainian border. In televised comments to a nation in mourning, President Vladimir Putin put the attack in the context of global terrorism saying it was a kind of 'demonstrative execution'. Presdent Putin said "There is information about the preparation of an escape window for the murderers on the Ukrainian side"
-Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces Jaroslaw Mika signed on order to bring the Polish Army into a state of full combat readiness for the invasion of western Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/DzHlHaphi3I</ref>  This document was published online by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.<ref>https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/9303</ref>  According to the Polish government’s estimates, a deployment into western Ukraine is highly likely to split the country. Warsaw will essentially gain control of the territories where Polish "peacekeepers" will enter. Essentially, it is an attempt to repeat the historical “deal” for Poland after the [[First World War]], when the collective West, represented by the [[Triple Entente|Entente]], recognized Warsaw’s right first to occupy part of the Ukraine to protect its population from the “[[Bolshevik]] threat”, and then to incorporate those territories into the Polish state. The events that followed were a clear illustration of the [[colonialism|colonial]] order and forced Polonization as the main methods of building a ‘Greater Poland’,” the FIS concluded.<ref>https://southfront.org/transnistria29042022/</ref>
+Moscow authorities reported several were citizens of the Central Asian republic of [[Tajikistan]], although Tajik authorities deny that their people were involved. Representatives of the [[CIA]] created [[proxy war|proxy force]] [[ISIS-K]]<ref>McCarthy, Andrew C., [https://www.nationalreview.com/article/388990/khorosan-group-does-not-exist-andrew-c-mccarthy The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist]. nationalreview.com</ref> claimed responsibility.<ref>[https://theintercept.com/2014/09/28/u-s-officials-invented-terror-group-justify-bombing-syria/ THE FAKE TERROR THREAT USED TO JUSTIFY BOMBING SYRIA], [[Glenn Greenwald]], Murtaza Hussain, ''The Intercept'', September 28 2014. theintercept.com</ref>  One of the terrorists revealed under interrogation that they were paid 500,000 rubles (USD $5,000). Another 500,000 was to be paid later after the attack.
-On May 3, 2022, Polish President [[Andrzej Duda]] said in a nationally televised speech,<ref>https://twitter.com/intermarium24/status/1521652429024120832</ref>
+The United States Embassy in Moscow sent out a security alert in advance of the attack to avoid large crowds, specifically concerts.<ref>[https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-avoid-large-gatherings-over-the-next-48-hours/ Security Alert: Avoid Large Gatherings over the Next 48 Hours]. United States Embassy & Consulates in Russia, March 7, 2024. ru.usembassy.gov</ref>
-{{quotebox-float|"I hope that Ukraine will be a brotherly state to Poland; that it will not have a [[border]] between them, that there will in fact be no border; that we will live together on this land, rebuilding ourselves and building our common happiness, our common strength."<ref>https://twitter.com/intermarium24/status/1521652429024120832</ref>}}
-Other reports indicated that Zelensky and his entire cabinet had been offered UK citizenship, by-passing the ordinary process for acquiring citizenship and in preparation for a government-in-exile of a shrunken landlocked Ukrainian rump state.  Writing in ''The American Conservative'' Col. Douglas Macgregor observed:
-{{quotebox-float|"The war against Russia in Ukraine has evolved, but not in the way Western observers predicted. Ukrainian forces look shattered and exhausted. The supplies reaching Ukrainian troops fighting in Eastern Ukraine are a fraction of what is needed. In most cases, replacements and new weapons are destroyed long before they reach the front.
-Confronted with the unambiguous failure of U.S. assistance and the influx of new weapons to rescue Ukrainian forces from certain destruction, the Biden administration is desperate to reverse the situation and save face....the Polish general staff was quietly instructed to formulate plans for intervention in the Ukrainian conflict by seizing the western part of Ukraine. Naturally, military action of this scale would require Kiev’s approval, but given Washington’s de facto control of the Zelensky government, approval for Polish military intervention should not be a problem."<ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-threat-of-polish-involvement-in-ukraine/</ref>}}
+Hours before the attack, OSINTdefender the [[CIA]] [[front]] posted on X (formerly) [[Twitter]]: "Members of [[U.S. National Security Council]] and the [[White House]] have reportedly started to become Increasingly Frustrated by “Unauthorized Brazen Actions” taken by Ukraine against Russia."<ref>https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1771076956651393051</ref> The [[Biden administration]] feared that Ukraine attacks on Russian oil refineries would run up gas pump prices for [[American]]s and hurt [[Joe Biden]]'s re-election chances.
-Rumours emanating from inside Ukraine of another false flag chemical weapons attack to excuse a Polish alleged "peacekeeping" invasion between May 22-24 in the weeks beforehand were rampant.<ref>https://youtu.be/zdpJDo5dwPg</ref>
-====Moldova====
+=====Western propaganda war=====
+The [[U.S.]] [[proxy]] force, the [[Islamic State]], supposedly took credit for the attack. The Islamic State proxy force was organized in 2012 by the United States to counter [[Iran]] and Iranian proxies after the [[Obama administration]] withdrew forces from [[Iraq]]. The Islamic State was armed and equipped with weapons captured in the [[NATO war in Libya]].
-[[Moldova]] has not joined European sanctions against Russia.
+==Special Military Operation==
-[[File:Moldova Victory Day Parade May 9, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Russian Victory Day Parade in Moldova, May 9, 2022 as NATO fascists prepared invasion.<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/5/10/moldova-victory-day</ref>]]
+[[File:Putin Istanbul Treaty.PNG|right|300px|thumb|President Vladimir Putin shows [[Africa]]n leaders initialed copies of the draft treaty that was quashed by Biden and the UK.<ref>[https://youtu.be/NGRD412p2lM Putin and the African Leaders - The Treaty of Istanbul], Jun 18, 2023. YouTube.</ref> The US bribed Zelensky with [[Ukraine aid|$100 billion]] in "aid" in early April 2022 not to make peace with Russia.<ref>[https://youtu.be/-_ObzI6G9ZA The Anglo-American War on Russia - Part Fourteen (Biden Blocks Peace)], Tales of the American Empire, Mar 14, 2024, YouTube</ref>]]
-On April 19, 2022, Moldova banned wearing the black and orange Ribbon of St. George, established in 1769 as the highest military decoration in [[Russian Empire|Czarist]] times, continued in the Soviet era, and reaffirmed in 1998 by Presidential decree signed by Russian Federation [[President Boris Yeltsin]].  The ribbon has come to commemorate veterans of the [[Operation Barbarossa|Eastern Front]] of the Second World War.  Citizens interpreted banning the ribbon as pressure by the United States on the Moldovan government to exterminate any memory of Russian culture.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rslJDKNdj4M</ref>  The same day, four days before the NATO terrorist attack on Transnistria, the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for Moldova.<ref>[https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/moldova-travel-advisory.html  Moldova Travel Advisory, April 19, 2022.] state.gov</ref>
+{{See also|Special Military Operation in Ukraine|Major events in the Special Military Operation on the territory of Ukraine}}
+Russia’s strategy and tactics were designed to avoid and eschew practices that would cause large numbers of casualties among civilians and its own military. The strategy was to destroy Ukrainian military forces and warmaking potential and avoid civilian casualties. Russia pursued victory in its Special Military Operation not for territorial conquest, contrary to Western propaganda, but to defeat the Ukrainian army and [[Maidan regime]], and force Kiev to acquiesce to Moscow's political goals:
-On April 29, 2022 it was reported that [[Israel]], [[Bulgaria]], Romania, USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany, and Russia have called on their citizens to leave Moldova and/or the Transnistria region as soon as possible. This follows an escalation in tensions in Moldova, with several explosions occurring, reports of gunfire, and a general mobilization in Transnistria which is outside of Moldovan control.<ref>https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2022/04/29/nations-warn-citizens-to-leave-moldova-as-ukraine-war-spills-over-to-neighbors/</ref>
+(1) accept Russia’s annexations of territories under threat from Ukrainian [[discrimination]], repression, and [[violence]];
-====Romania====
+(2) renounce membership and close ties with NATO;
-On April 12, 2022 a column of NATO military equipment was spotted in [[Romania]] moving in the direction of the border with Ukraine.
-Russian sources reported that the Polish Armed Forces established a strike group on the territory of Romania. The total contingent is estimated at up to 8,000 servicemen. A consolidated contingent is planned to enter Moldovan territory under a plausible pretext, such as a humanitarian operation or an official government request.
+(3) and adopt measures to protect the Russian language and ethnic Russians in whatever rump Ukraine remains.
-As NATO prepared to invade Transnistria, women in the bordering city of Khust (pop. 28,000) threw stones at the Ukrainian military registration office on April 30, 2022, tried to break into the building, and demanded that their husbands and sons be returned home from the frontline.<ref>https://youtu.be/cGsxgfbYucw</ref>
+These were President Putin’s declared goals of ‘demilitarization’ and ‘denazification’ of the U.S. Maidan puppet state.<ref>[https://gordonhahn.com/2023/11/16/in-putins-russia-politics-is-war-by-other-means-and-war-is-revolutionizing-russian-military-affairs/ In Putin’s Russia Politics is War by Other Means and War is Revolutionizing Russian Military Affairs], Gordon Hahn, ''Russian and Eurasian Politics'', November 16, 2023. gordonhahn.com</ref>
-The United States Nacy operates an Aegis Ashore missile system in Romania.
+===Battle of Mariupol===
+{{See also|Battle of Mariupol}}
-====Finland====
+===Battle of Severodonetsk-Lysychansk===
-On February 28, 2022 [[Finland]], a non-NATO country, announced they would deliver 2,500 assault rifles, 150,000 cartridges, 1,500 single-shot anti-tank weapons, and 70,000 combat ration packages to the Kyiv regime.<ref>https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/finland-to-send-arms-assistance-to-ukraine</ref>  A Kremlin spokesman said Russia would have to rebalance the situation.
+{{See also|Battle of Severodonetsk-Lysychansk}}
-In early April 2022 Finland opened negotiations to join NATO.  The people of Finland were denied any right to a plebiscite over such a crucial matter.  If Finland joins NATO, Russia will put nuclear weapons in [[Kaliningrad]].
+===Battle of Bakhmut===
+{{See also|Battle of Bakhmut}}
-Russia warned of a "military-technical" response if Finland joined NATO<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1450057</ref> - the same language Russia used to warn Ukraine against joining NATO two months before the Russian incursion into Ukraine.<ref>https://www.iiss.org/blogs/analysis/2022/02/russias-military-technical-solution-for-ukraine</ref>  Turkish President [[Recep Erdoğan]] warned that "[[Scandinavia]]n countries are 'guesthouses' for terrorist organizations."<ref>https://zeenews.india.com/world/scandinavian-countries-are-guesthouses-for-terrorist-organisations-erdogan-says-turkey-not-supportive-of-finland-sweden-joining-nato-2463392.html</ref>
+===Avdiivka-Dontesk front===
+{{See also|First Battle of Avdiivka|Second Battle of Avdiivka}}
-===Donbas cauldron===
+On March 12, 2022, the second Battle of Avdiivka, just north of Donetsk city, began.  On March 15, Ukrainians counterattacked.
-[[File:Donbas cauldron.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Classic pincer movement:<ref>https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Pincer_movement</ref> the Donbas cauldron (in green), March 9, 2022. Half the Armed Forces of Ukraine were being encircled.]]
+[[File:Avdiivka cauldron.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Avdiivka cauldron, October 22, 2023.]]
-On March 7, 2022 Russian state media announced that half of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) - 120,000 soldiers - were trapped in the Donbas cauldron.<ref>https://thesaker.is/the-russian-military-intervention-in-the-ukraine-a-macro-view/</ref>  The Donbas cauldron was confirmed closed on March 14, 2022.<ref>https://thesaker.is/on-maps-wars-and-hate-filled-mobs-canceling-russia/</ref>  By March 27, 2022, it was estimated that close to half of this force has already been killed, wounded, taken prisoner, or probably accounting for by far most, deserted and fled.
+The Ukraine's extensive, deeply-layered defense in the Donbas was broken apart, one hedgerow or defense line at a time.  Every town or village taken by DPR forces was an absolute mess of destroyed homes, sliced-up trees, abandoned trenches or bunkers, wrecked Ukrainian equipment, Ukrainian bodies, and the weapons and munitions, disorganized piles of supplies, and trash that the Ukrainians left.<ref>https://videopress.com/embed/LWJWQXqA</ref>  By March 27, 2022, DPR forces, with support from their own and Russian artillery as well as Russian airstrikes, finally broke through the painstakingly-engineered, heretofore-impenetrable first line of defense around Ukrainian-held Avdiivka (pop. 30,000).  About 15,000 Ukrainian troops remained in the Avdiivka bridgehead.
-The city of Volnovakha was liberated on March 11, 2022.<ref>https://nypost.com/2022/03/12/ukraine-city-of-volnovakha-falls-to-russians/</ref>  On March 12, 2022 the second Battle of Avdiivka, just north of Donetsk city, began.  On March 15, Ukrainians counterattacked.
+On May 11, 2022, the AFU blew up a dam near Avdiivka, endangering the lives in civilian settlements and creating a humanitarian catastrophe, in order to slow down the advance of the DPR army and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.<ref>https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1524411961454309382</ref>
-To free up strength for the encirclement of what remained of the Ukrainian army group in the Donbas, Russian units were partially de-blockaded and redeployed away from Sumy to the northwest and Nikolaev to the southwest.  The forces redeployed from Sumy moved through Russia proper towards the Izium area.  Fresh forces also were brought in through the port of Berdiansk on the Sea of Azov, where a Russian cargo ship was set on fire and sunk under unclear circumstances.<ref>https://youtu.be/1A3-ee5iDxc</ref>
+By the end of May 2022, the civilians of the city of Donetsk remained under heavy bombardment by the Armed forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka.
-The Ukraine’s extensive, deeply-layered defense in the Donbas was broken apart, one hedgerow or defense line at a time.  Every town or village taken by DPR forces was an absolute mess of destroyed homes, sliced-up trees, abandoned trenches or bunkers, wrecked Ukrainian equipment, Ukrainian bodies, and the weapons and munitions, disorganized piles of supplies, and trash that the Ukrainians left.<ref>https://videopress.com/embed/LWJWQXqA</ref>  By March 27, 2022 DPR forces, with support from their own and Russian artillery as well as Russian airstrikes, finally broke through the painstakingly-engineered, heretofore-impenetrable first line of defense around Ukrainian-held Avdiivka.
+Shelling of the civilians of Donetsk city by Ukrainian forces from Avdiivka continued throughout the end of May 2022 and into June in and effort to draw Russian forces away from the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk cauldron.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/RamXgEN7qewJ/</ref>  On June 11, 2022, a mother and her 11-year-old son were killed by Ukrainina shelling while shopping in an open market.  On June 13, 2022, 300 projectiles were fired by the Ukrainian army or by 'nationalists' onto civilian areas of the city of Donetsk.<ref>https://youtu.be/kGrA_I4UNWs</ref>  It was the heaviest shelling in 8 years,  A maternity hospital and church were hit.<ref>https://youtu.be/Ub2H8mcvmcM</ref> There were at lest 7 dead and 22 wounded.  According to the DPR authorities, the daily number of civilian victims exceeded the losses of the DPR military on the front lines.
-By the time the Mariupol cauldron was boiling over on April 1, 2022 some 60,000 Ukrainian forces remained trapped, lacking fuel, in the Donbas cauldron.
+French self-propelled 155-mm CAESAR howitzers were used to kill civilians.  The attack was ordered by Ukrainian Colonel Roman Vladimirovich Kachur, commander of the 55th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
-On April 10, 2022 [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] ordered the AFU to attack the territory of Russian Federation.<ref>https://youtu.be/6EEQkyurD-Q</ref>
+On June 20, 2022, the Ukrainians used for the first time their HIMAR missiles on the civilians of Donetsk, in addition to continued use of the M777 Howitzers.  At least 23 civilians were killed and more than 100 non-combatants were injured over several days of Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk.
-On April 13, 2022 it was reported that Ukraine formed three new battalions from the Alekseevska, Kachanivska and 43rd penal colonies in Kharkiv, where those convicted of grave and especially grave [[crime]]s were kept.  These new battalions are supposed to blockade Kharkiv from the southern side and by no means allow the local population to leave the city and the subsequent retreat of AFU combat units.
+On June 25, 2022, Russian missiles killed 80 Polish mercenaries and destroyed 20 armored vehicles and eight GRAD multiple rocket launchers at the Megatex zinc production facility in Konstantinovka.
-On May 7, 2022 six civilian vehicles with white flags mounted on them were shot at by AFU soldiers on a stretch of road between Staryi and Novyi Saltov.  The photo and video footage were made by specialists from the AFU’s Centre for Information and Psychological Operations.
+On July 24, 2022, soldiers of the 131st reconnaissance Territorial Defense unit posted a video message to Zelensky protesting illegal orders.  The unit expressed its distrust of the battalion command, had been given no written orders, lost 70% of its personnel, was given no artillery support, occupied positions without equipment and ammunition, were armed only with firearms and four magazines, had no communication with command headquarters, no logistical support, no officers, commanders, medics, drinking water or food, no evacuation of wounded or dead.  Helmets, bullet proof vests, and anti-tank weapons were taken from them.  They did not receive basic pay or combat pay for their service. Their requests to battalion command were ignored.<ref>https://youtu.be/xLOL5a7vsDI</ref>
+After two months of fighting, Russian forces captured the Uglegorskaya electrical power plant at Vuhlehirska on July 25, 2022.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-captures-power-plant-in-southern-ukraine/6677073.html</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/F4VX8i-uny4</ref>
+On July 26, 2022, Ukraine and NATO forces attacked an oil depot and a psychiatric hospital in the city of Donetsk with three HIMAR missiles.  AFU shelling of civilians in [[Gorlivka]] killed one and left several in critical condition.<ref>https://youtu.be/_I1ZKKo8g6g</ref>  AFU soldiers of the 54th Brigade, armed only with small arms and shovels, posted a video on social media about the incompetence and negligence of their commanders.<ref>https://youtu.be/F4tvkQu1MF4</ref>
+By July 27, 2022, a breakthrough to the west occurred for the first time in 8 years of fighting on the Avdiivka-Donetsk front.  The breakthrough is said to have been partially enabled by the withdrawal of some AFU troops and transfer to the southern [[Kherson]] front.
+[[File:Elenovka.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Aftermath of Ukrainian strike on Elenovka POW camp.]]
+On July 29, 2022 ''Reuters'' reported the prisoner-of-war camp at Elenovka was hit by a U.S.-built [[HIMAR]],<ref>https://youtu.be/xOpXJbE-HIc</ref> causing the deaths of 40 prisoners and 13 guards and prison employees.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-40-ukrainian-pows-killed-by-ukrainian-missile-strike-donetsk-prison-2022-07-29/</ref>  At least one hundred other prisoners were injured.  Sources reported that captured Ukrainian prisoners-of-war were giving up much critical information on U.S./Ukraine/NATO operations and illegal weapon's transfers, including arms to [[Kurdish]] [[terrorist]]s in [[Syria]] to be used against NATO member [[Turkiye]].<ref>https://youtu.be/I9mKoOLSvmc</ref>  Ukraine forces on the battlefield attempting to surrender have been documented to have been executed by Ukrainian commanders.  A bill was introduced into the Ukrainian parliament granting legal authority to Ukrainian commanders to execute Ukrainian soldiers who wanted to surrender.  Morale was reported to have fallen in recent weeks among Azov Battalion detainees at Elenovka as they realized the Kyiv regime was not negotiating their exchange for Russian POWs, and they began giving up more information in exchange for more lenient sentences for war crimes.  Russia asked the United Nations to investigate the attack.<ref>https://twitter.com/Dpol_un/status/1553563952432414723</ref>  The Pentagon claimed the Ukrainian strike on its own personnel was 'accidental'.<ref>https://en.rua.gr/2022/07/30/the-pentagon-leaked-zelensky-ukrainians-hit-the-prison-with-azov-fighters/</ref><ref>https://socialbites.ca/latest-news/67370.html</ref>  Prominent Ukrainian neo-Nazi Andriy Biletsky vowed revenge against "whoever did this."
+In late July 2022 Ukrainian and NATO strategists began removing artillery and manpower from Avdiivka, and transferring them to the west bank of the Dnieper for the so-called upcoming "counteroffensive" against the Kherson bridgehead.  This action allowed a Russian breakthrough against the heretofore impregnable Avdiivka frontline entrenchment, which held for eight years since 2014 and has been a key artillery firing point against the citizens of Donetsk.
+As the breakthrough continued on August 2, 2022, the Ukrainian 54th mechanized brigade lost 50 soldiers to friendly fire.  Ukrainian forces completely destroyed elements of its own 56th mechanized brigade by artillery fire as they were retreating from the village of Pisky.  Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov, who was embedded with the AFU in Donbas, posted an expletive-laden report from Pisky revealing “There is no counter-battery fire, none at all...Russian forces are firing 6,500 shells per f****** village in less than 24 hours...It’s been like this for six days now, and it’s hard to fathom how any number of our infantry remain alive under this barrage...Without counter-battery fighting, it turns into a senseless meat grinder, where huge numbers of our infantry are chewed up in one day...A reserve platoon that tried to advance was taken apart in minutes, with only one out of 15 men left unharmed...All the reserves are spent, the military equipment goes up in flames, and the enemy approaches and takes our positions without any problems after another barrage of artillery...Right now we are losing Péski, all our human and material capabilities are almost exhausted”.  Pisky was once a more affluent suburb of the city of Donetsk with 2,000 inhabitants; after the Kyiv regime attacked the Donetsk airport in 2014, the population fell to as low as 6 inhabitants at one point. By August 10, the 56th brigade was reported to have had 70% casualty rate, or loss of 3,500 men out of 5,000.  2,500 alone were lost in the past week.  The village is located 2 km west of the airport.  Russian forces deliberately chose Pisky as a weak point in the Avdiivka front as a breakthrough point specifically because of the low risk of danger to civilians.  Mop up operations were completed by August 11 with thermobarics.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/VEojCa2H9AdX/</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/gBFsWeVW6zM</ref>  The collapse of a once prosperous community since 2014 is emblematic of the devastation the U.S.-backed Maidan regime wrought upon the Ukrainian [[economy]] and population.
+[[File:Scarab missile with cluster bombs.PNG|left|300px|thumb|A Ukrainian Tochka U missile killed 23 civilians in the city center of Donetsk, March 12, 2022. There were no Russian military or [[DPR]] forces anywhere near or present. The missile attack targeted civilians.<ref>https://youtu.be/ANNhDKGjNK8</ref>]]
+In the aftermath of the key defeat at Pisky, the battalion commander openly criticized Zelensky and the Kyiv leadership for incompetence. The AFU lost 500 dead in 20 days and 1,500 wounded.
-On May 13, 2022 Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the civilian areas in the city of Gorlovka (pop. 240,000).<ref>https://youtu.be/QLlPswoZIkU</ref>
+On August 4, 2022, Ukraine shelled the Donetsk drama theater where a memorial service for Col. Olga Kachura of the Donetsk People's Militia was taking place. Kachura was killed the day before in [[Gorlovka]].
+On August 5, 2022, the Russian Investigative Committee accused Ukraine of shelling a [[hospital]] in Donetsk.
-====Seversky Donets front====
+On August 6, 2022, fighting in Mariinka, from which Ukrainian forces were shelling civilians in Donetsk, was reported as intense.
-The cities of Severodonetsk (pop.110,000), Kramatorsk (pop. 150,000), and Slovyansk (pop. 107,000), south of the Izium front, formed the heart of the cauldron.
-[[File:Map-on-April-first.jpg|right|300pc|thumb|The Donbas cauldron on April 1, 2022.]]
-On April 14, 2022, sources said the Pentagon instructed the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to withdraw all the remaining artillery to the cities on the eastern front – Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, where they can fire behind civilians. Restraining the offensive of the Russian troops is prescribed by small mobile groups armed with mortars and anti-tank systems, moving across the steppe in civilian vehicles. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the Americans impose the use of [[terrorist]] tactics on their client state, in which the Ukrainian people are taken [[hostage]].  Ukrainian sources write about this quite openly, and treat such methods with understanding, and as the only correct one.<ref>https://t.me/intelslava/25287</ref>  The CIA-controlled ''Kyiv Independent'' stated that Zelensky said there are 44,000 AFU troops on the Donbas front.<ref>https://kyivindependent.com/national/explainer-what-to-expect-from-the-battle-of-donbas-russias-new-offensive/</ref>
-By April 15, 2022 the front became more active.  Fourteen hours of artillery bombardment across a two hundred mile front on April 19, 2022 sent a foreboding message.
+On August 11, 2022, Ukrainian forces struck a brewery on the east side of the city of Donetsk releasing six tons of a large gaseous [[ammonia]] cloud, an immediate danger to civilians. The plant was struck with a shell from a French CEASAR self-propelled Howitzer.<ref>https://youtu.be/qaGetF87Nrc</ref>
-On April 18, 2022 the NATO-controlled Ukrainian General Staff reported the number of Russian forces deployed to the Donbass were 70,000, however Pentagon disinformation specialists lowered the estimate to 60,000 so as not to demoralize Ukrainian troops and the public.
+On August 24, 2022, Ukraine shelled Donetsk city with HIMARs targeting the head of the Republic.
-On April 20, 2022 AFU pulled out of Ribezhnoe and commenced an organized withdrawal from Severodonetsk across the Severskii Donets river into Lisichansk.  The AFU launched another Tochka-U missile armed with cluster munitions against the civilian population of Donbas, killing 5 people including one child.
+On September 18, 2022, the Russian MOD reported that its artillery and Air Force landed a strike against the mercenary base of the American private military company [[Academi PMC]], formerly known as the notorious [[Blackwater]] company, situated near the town of Krasatorsk, in the Donetsk People's Republic.  The following day U.S. HIMARs retaliated with a strike on a Wagner Group barracks in the Lugansk Republic.
-On April 22, 2022 reports emerged of the capture of the largest weapons depot in Ukraine by Russian forces in the Kharkiv region.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/Br5qFtL1yhja/</ref>
+On September 19, 2022, a precision strike hit a bus stop and a grocery store in the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk. As a result, 13 civilians were killed, including two children. Ukrainian forces fired 155-mm shells from their positions in the village of Netailovo located 15 kilometers from Donetsk. The attack was carried out with NATO military equipment.
+[[File:Petal mine.PNG|right|300px|thumb|A PFM-1 "petal" mine on display at the United Nations, as Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused Ukraine of using the weapon against civilians, Aug. 24, 2022.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152743054/human-rights-watch-ukraine-landmines</ref>]]
+On September 22, 2022, the Ukrainian Nazis hit a market and a bus stop in the central district in Donetsk. As a result of the attack, at least 6 civilians were killed, including a 14-year-old boy. 7 other civilians were wounded. The attack was carried out from the Ukrainian positions near Novoselovka Pervaya by the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade. Ukrainian militants used 155-caliber CESAR artillery systems supplied by France.
-As Russian forces swept through the rural areas of Donbas, it was easy to find were the retreating AFU soldiers had established bases in villages - usually without exception in the local school building.<ref>https://youtu.be/pYLalJRMfiw</ref>  Resistance in Popasna (pop. 20,000) was unexpectedly fierce with street to street fighting with linked underground trenches between most civilian houses.  Chechen fighters and the Wagner Group took part in the fighting.<ref>https://youtu.be/DecnmPTvmck</ref>
+On October 19, 2022, the illegal use of white phosphorus on the civilian population of Donetsk was reported.
-By April 29, 2022 the daily reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense noted that Ukraine was losing several hundred soldiers and some 30 armored vehicles daily, mostly to artillery. A flood of gruesome pictures posted on Telegram by both sides confirmed this. Several Ukrainian attempts to counterattack Russian forces failed.  Western propagandists for the first time noted that their side was losing.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/ukraine-doubling-down.html#more</ref>
+On October 23, 2022, it was reported Semyon Pegov, a war correspondent who goes by the name of WarGonzo, was injured by a petal mine near Donetsk.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/YjAalI0GxQnm/</ref>
-On April 30, 2022 it was reported that over 70% of buildings in Severodonetsk were hit by artillery strikes.
+On October 26, 2022, a Russian breakthrough was reported on the Avdiivka line.
-[[File:Donbas Front May 13 2022.PNG|right|300pc|thumb|Donbas front on May 13, 2022 showing AFU entrenchments.]]
-In early May 2022, AFU forces began withdrawing from the outskirts of Severodonetsk;  reports indicated that the Russian military forces were grinding down Ukrainian ground forces by extensive use of heavy artillery. The Ukrainian artillery has either been destroyed or lacks ammunition. The Ukrainian forces have orders from the Zelensky regime to stay in their position and to hold the line,<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraines-forces-are-told-to-hold-the-line-where-russian-artillery-is-pulverizing-them.html</ref> only making sure that Russian artillery strikes will destroy them.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bWVBsT5J6s8</ref>  Videos of survivors of Ukrainian combat groups appeared on line accusing Ukrainian commanders of having abandoned the troops on the battlefield.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/qlR1P8jJcTAC/</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/kg58INeiPN4 Servicemen of the Vinnitsa Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the actual state of affairs in the troops of Ukraine 1,071,758 views May 5, 2022]. [https://youtu.be/exubjkiNQhI?t=529]</ref>  Conscripts and members of the Territorial Defense militia, teenagers below draft age with no military training at all, were sent outside their home regions, in violation of their contracts, to the frontlines as cannon fodder.  Captured POWs at the front said they were thrown into the meat grinder with only two days training.
-On May 5 the mayor of Severodonetsk report that LPR and Russian forces began entering the city.  According to LPR military officials, the AFU grouping of about 15,000-16,000 servicemen is deployed in the Severodonetsk -Lisichansk region.
+On October 29, 2022, the Russians began an offensive all along the front liner from Avdiivka down to Ugledar.
-[[File:AFU deployment May 15, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|AFU deployment, May 15, 2022.]]
-On May 7, 2022 Popasana fell to the Russians.  Heavy casualties were observed on both sides. Popasana sits on the high ground.  The fall of Popasana cuts off the main supply line to 8,000 AFU troops in Severodonetsk.  According to residents, Ukrainian tanks were deployed near residential buildings and purposefully fired at shelters where local civilians were hiding.  Polish mercenaries were deployed alongside Ukrainians, shot at civilians, and would not allow people out of their houses for 4 days even to get water.<ref>https://southfront.org/in-video-polish-fighter-committed-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-popasnaya-lpr/</ref>
-On May 11, 2022 the AFU blew up a dam near Avdiivka, endangering the lives in civilian settlements and creating a humanitarian catastrophe, in order to slow down the advance of the DPR army and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.<ref>https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1524411961454309382</ref>
+NATO continued shelling of civilians with HIMARS in the city of Donetsk.  Six 155&nbsp;mm caliber projectiles were fired at night against Donetsk downtown, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of matters related to Ukraine's war crimes said.  The shelling by the Ukrainian armed units at 03:13 am.  The center of Donetsk was on fire this night after a powerful shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Explosions thundered in the Voroshilovsky district, a strong fire broke out in the building of the railway administration. The fire engulfed several floors, broke out onto the roof.<ref>https://youtu.be/uzAEBhxrWqk</ref>
-On May 13, 2022 Biden defense minister [[Lloyd Austin]], who only a week earlier boasted of weakening Russia, called Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu to beg for mercy for the Nazi proxies.<ref>https://sonar21.com/the-art-of-disinformation-western-lies-about-the-war-in-ukraine/</ref>
+After the false flag attack on Poland by Ukraine in late November 2022, fighting in Marinka intensified.
-====Izium front====
+On December 11, 2022, the Russians reported 80 civilians had been killed in Donetsk and about 200 injured over the previous week by NATO/Ukraine shelling, including the use of HIMARS.
-Since the capture of Izium in eastern Kharkiv province by the Russians in early April 2022, the civilian population of the city became the target of Grad rockets (many bearing cluster submunitions) on a daily basis by the Kyiv regime.  On April 28, 2022 Russian air defense forces repelled an attack by a Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missile on residential areas of Izium. The target of the strike was the city hospital, where the Russian medical detachment is located providing assistance to the population of Kharkiv Region.  “The Kyiv nationalist regime’s indiscriminate missile strikes on the residential areas of Izium and Kherson are a war crime and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
-The optical plant at Izium, where the viewfinder for the Stugna-P anti-tank device is manufactured, was seized in early April 2022.
+More than 4,000 civilians of all ages and sexes in Dontesk city have been killed by Ukrainian shelling since February 2022.
-As a high priority in Operation Denazification, on April 11, 2022 the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that it had eliminated a notorious neo-Nazi leader 5 kilometers south of Izium. Taras Bobanich was the leader of the [[Lviv]] Pravy Sektor.  Tass reported,
+According to a website of an observer named Colonel Cossad, most of the shelling of Dontesk city  civilians has not come from Avdiivka, but rather from Krasnogorovka.<ref>https://cont.ws/@colonel-cassad/2450047?ysclid=lc8rhtkzsi666660612</ref>
-{{quotebox-float|"Since 2014, he had participated in the Kiev regime’s punitive operation in Donbass. He personally gave orders for bombardments of Donetsk and Lugansk residential areas from heavy artillery guns. He is guilty of the deaths of hundreds of civilians of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, including children," the ministry stressed.<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1435691</ref>}}
-The Russians have been firing 400,000-600,000 artillery shells per day, mostly on the Izium front. The United States pledged to send 190,000 artillery shells to Ukraine, which is about how many shells the Russians fire for breakfast.  Ukrainian soldiers complained of high losses, constant shelling day and night, of commanders having deserted, no treatment for the wounded, low ammunition, no sleep, and despite malfunctioning weapons, soldiers were told they were forbidden to retreat.
-On May 13, 2022 Russian forces took control of the village of Dolgenkoe located 20 km to the South of Izium.  The heights near the village fell under Russian control.  A large grouping of the AFU was deployed in the forests nearby.  After Russian servicemen entered one of the Ukrainian checkpoints, they found the corpse of a woman who had been [[rape]]d and killed by Ukrainian soldiers.
+In the first week of September 2023, the Russians repelled 56 attacks, killed more than 2,100 militants, destroyed 23 tanks, and other armored fighting vehicles, 45 vehicles, and 30 artilley guns.
-Ukrainian forces blew up a tank with [[ammonium nitrate]]. According to the statement of the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian nationalists under the leadership of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) blew up a fertilizer storage facility near the village of Dolgenkoe. They aimed to poison the local population and blame the Russian army for this.
+In an interview with Godfrey Bloom on October 9, 2023, [[Col. Douglas MacGregor]] reported:
+{{quotebox-float|"Virtually nothing can be said, nothing can happen, no action can be taken inside Ukraine’s borders without the Russians knowing it, without the Russians detecting it. And if they know it and detect it, they can also target it. […] What’s happening now, what just happened within the past 24-48 hours in Ukraine – some 30 miles [48 kilometers] behind Ukrainian frontlines – was the destruction of a group of Ukrainian soldiers, several hundred of them, along with their US-UK NATO advisors. They were all killed in a strike. You cannot move in that country without being detected,” <ref>https://youtu.be/Z019cFDxPIQ</ref>}}
+On October 10, 2023 it was reported that the Russian armed forces hit a train station near Avdiivka, disrupting the logistics of Ukrainian NATO forces. NATO forces of Ukraine were left without communication and hit their own people at Avdiivka. Ukrainian units located near Avdiivka lost communication and inflicted chaotic artillery strikes on each other, according to the Sinya Z Boroda Telegram channel. Thus, according to the chanal, the situation developed on the approaches to the village of Berdychi, Yasinovatsky district, where Russian soldiers broke through from Krasnogorovka. "It seems that the guys broke through the defenses near the railway line and reached Berdikhi, the Ukrainian has problems with communication between units, hitting his people, judging by radio intercepts," the message said.<ref>https://t.me/llordofwar/213841</ref>
-{{Anchor|Mariupol}}
+Moon of Alabama claimed reports have confirmed that the Ukrainian military has long lost its middle officer and NCO corps. Smart kids fresh from senior high school are leading platoons of men mostly in their 30s or 40s and 50s. Brigade commanders give direct orders down to platoons because the staff of battalions and companies in between is no longer there.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/ukraine-sitrep-storming-andivka-ukrainian-losses.html</ref>
-===Mariupol cauldron===
+By late October 2023 roughly 20,000 AFU forces faced 45,000 Russian forces on three sides in the Avdiivka pocket.
-{{See also|Battle of Mariupol}}
-[[File:Ukrainian tactics.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Illustration of Ukrainian tactics, illegally turning residential compounds into legitimate military targets, presented to the UN Security Council, May 6, 2022.<ref>https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1p/k1pvngjn8e</ref>]]
-Mariupol on the [[Sea of Azov]] is predominantly a Russian city.  After the Maidan coup in 2014, many Ukrainian nationalist from western Ukraine and the Kharkiv region were relocated to Mariupol in the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior's National Guard.  Mariupol became the hot bed of neo-Nazi activity from 2014 to 2022 and the site of some of the most intense fighting during the Russian special denazification operation.
-The Russians attempted to establish humanitarian corridors for civilians with passages west toward Kyiv and Europe, or east toward Russia.  However, the first reaction by the SBU was to murder the chief Ukrainian negotiator just prior to completion on the details of the agreement with the Russians.  Eventually humanitarian corridors were set up, but Ukrainian forces killed many civilians attempting to evacuate.  Of those refugees who did get out, most chose to go to Russia.  Red Cross relief convoys were held up by Ukrainians outside the city. Zelensky ordered Ukrainian forces in the city not to surrender, and to fight to the last Ukrainian.  The neo-Nazis had desecrated memorials to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.<ref>https://youtu.be/IZAcE-clNOE</ref>
+On [[Christmas]] Day, December 25, 2023 after nine years of clashes between AFU and the armed services of the Donetsk Peoples Republic, the suburb of Marinka near the Donetsk airport fell in Russian hands.
-The city's high rise apartment complexes, built of concrete and rebar in the Soviet era, were built with bomb shelters which residents lived in throughout the battle.  Azov forces took control of upper-level apartments to use as firing points on Russian and DNR forces.  On March 1, 2022, ''Greek City Times'' reported: "With Russian forces besieging Mariupol, in which 120,000+ ethnic [[Greek]]s live, SKAI news spoke with a Mr Kiouranas who lives in the city and exposed that Ukrainian “fascists” are killing people for trying to leave the city.  When asked by SKAI news if he planned to leave the city, Kiouranas responded “how can I leave? When you try to leave you run the risk of running into a patrol of the Ukrainian fascists, the Azov Battalion.  They would kill me and are responsible for everything.”<ref>https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/01/greek-in-mariupol-fascist-ukrainian/</ref>
+In January 2024 Russian Spetsnaz around Avdiivka were reported to have been wearing stealth clothing, making themselves invisible to ultraviolet thermo-imaging technology of the US/NATO.
-[[File:Azov victim 1.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Female victim of Ukrainian Nazis found in the basement of Mariupol School #25, which the Azov Battalion used as a headquarters, with a [[swastika]] painted on her chest in her own blood.<ref>https://videopress.com/embed/pZ2UoEfN?cover=1&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=1&hd=1Video:</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/j0GDBUpmj3I</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/6LQSYmda0Sc</ref>]]
-Encirclement of the city was complete by March 4, 2022.  On March 6 units of the People's Militia of the Donetsk Republic (DPR) entered the city.  The main clashes were in the west of the city and in the east.  The Azov fighters and some Ukrainian regular army units took up firing positions in civilian homes and high rise apartment blocks.  Advancing Russian and Donetsk forces would take fire from the homes or apartments, identify its source, and aim tank fire or other means against the given window or floor or building.
-Nothing was done by the Ukrainian government to feed or evacuate the predominantly Russian-speaking civilians.  The municipality was run by Ukrainians, hand selected by the Kyiv regime, unresponsive to local needs.  Shortly before combat erupted, the mayor disappeared only to reappear on Zoom in Western propaganda media to tell the world what [[barbarian]]s the Russians are.
+===Svatovo-Kremennaya front===
+By October 11, 2022, NATO/Ukraine had assembled 40,000 troops on the Svatovo-Kremennaya front.  After the loss of electricity in Kharkov region, the only radio signal accessible in motor vehicles was from Russian radio warning civilians to leave the Kharkov region immediately.
-Late in the afternoon of March 6, on Pobedy Avenue, the Donetsk People's Militia clashed with Ukrainian armed nationalist units.  More than 150 evacuating civilians were used as human shields by Ukrainian neo-Nazis who were hiding behind them.<ref>https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/ukrainian-nationalists-in-mariupol-used-civilians-as-human-shield-opened-fire-on-dpr-fighters-russian-defense-ministry/</ref>  The Ukrainian nationalists opened fire on DPR servicemen from behind the backs of civilians. As a result of the firing by Ukrainian Nazis,<ref>https://southfront.org/second-attempt-of-evacuation-from-mariupol-dpr-secured-humanitarian-corridors-destroyed-ukrainian-forces-in-suburbs-18/</ref> several civilians were wounded and killed.  The People's Militia of DPR guided the remaining group of civilians through the Vinogradnoye district from Mariupol to DPR controlled territory where they received food and medical services.  Similar scenarios were repeated for weeks.
+By October 21, 2022, cold weather began to affect both sides ability to send up reconnaissance drones.
-Russia informed the [[UN Security Council]] that the Mariupol maternity hospital had been used by the Azov Battalion on March 7 or March 6, 2022.<ref>https://technofog.substack.com/p/ukraine-maternity-hospital-shelling?s=r</ref>  On March 12, 2022 Russian T-72 tanks entered the city.  On March 13, Russians began evacuation of civilian women, children, and elderly from Crimea to escape shelling from Ukrainian forces in Mariupol.<ref>https://youtu.be/SPP1isOXOJo</ref>  By March 15 the Russians deployed Chechen fighters on the streets of Mariupol.<ref>https://youtu.be/uFBZ1IGVwsQ</ref>  The legendary Somali Battalion also took part in the fighting.
+On October 26, 2022 ''RIA Novosti'' reported Lugansk People's Republic (LNR) police colonel of the Vitaly Kiselev saying that Polish NATO forced killed several members of the Pravy Sektor who had tried to force them to attack Russian defense lines near Kremennaya.  According to Kiselev, after several unsuccessful attempts to advance deep into the positions of the Russian troops, the Poles refused to go forward. The Polish mercenaries said that it not them, but Territorial Defenсe units should attempt to break through Russian defenses. Otherwise, the Polish units would suffer heavy losses. It was an essentially a suicide mission, the Ukrainian military was attempting to use NATO forces a cannon fodder.  Pravy Sector to pressure the Poles to move forward, and Polish NATO forces killed several members of the Pravy Sector. Poles historically are not particularly enamored by the legacy of the Pravy Sector's national hero, [[Stepan Bandera]].<ref>https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/154582-polish_mercenaries/</ref>
-The denazification of Mariupol was delayed more than a week when a Tochka-U missile attack by the Kyiv regime hit the city center of Donetsk, killing 23 civilians, and DPR forces were withdrawn to deal with the site where the missile had been launched from.
+On January 21, 2024 the Russian Military of Defense announced the destruction of 80 foreign mercenaries in the area of Konstantinovka/ Russian military intelligence managed to identify the exact location of the foreign mercenaries with the help of reconnaissance drones. The destruction of foreign mercenaries was carried out with
+an Iskandar [[ballistic missile]]. According to preliminary data, about 40 mercenaries from Poland, Britain, Canada,, France and the United States were killed. Moreover, an ammunition depot of the 31st Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army was also destroyed in this area.
-Like the [[Battle of Stalingrad]], Ukrainian forces trapped in Mariupol pleaded for relief to the Kyiv central command. And like Stalingrad, the government told them reinforcement of troops and supplies was not possible and forbad them to surrender.<ref>https://youtu.be/oOrSQVb8tzY?t=456</ref>
+Russian Armed Forces had great success NW of Svatove in late January 2024. An area of 35-40 km2 has been retaken. The breakthrough of the Ukrainian front is 7-8 km in width and up to 5 km in depth. Two small settlements were retaken.
-On March 20, 2022 when Russian forces gave Ukrainian forces a deadline till 5:00 AM (Moscow time) (2 AM GMT) on Monday, March 21 to lay down their arms in the city.  Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev of the Russian Defense Management Center guaranteed that all those who lay down their arms will be provided a safe passage out of the city. He also stated that all humanitarian corridors for civilians from Mariupol to the east and, in agreement with the Ukrainian side, to the west.  Mizintsev also claimed that certain Ukrainian “bandits”, “neo-Nazis” and nationalists are engaging in carrying out “mass terror” and are going on a killing spree in the city.<ref>https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/russia-urges-ukrainian-forces-to-surrender-warns-of-terrible-catastrophe-unfolding-articleshow.html</ref>  The Ukrainian resistors laid naval mines throughout the city.<ref>https://youtu.be/9sZuz4dlVAo?t=835</ref>
+===Nova Kakhovka dam===
-[[File:Kadyrov the Chechen.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Kadyrov the Chechen, Head of the Chechen Republic, defeated [[Wahhabism|radical Islamic terrorists]] in Chechnya and [[Banderite]] Nazis in Mariupol.]]
+{{See also|Nova Kakhovka dam}}
-On March 23, 2022 it was reported that what remained of the Azov Battalion was pinned down by Chechen fighters in the steel plant in the eastern portion of the city.<ref>https://youtu.be/6uMGMgZvWLo</ref>  Azov, which originally consisted of about 14,000 fighters, was whittled down to about 6,000. They were cut off from NATO resupply of weapons and ammunition, without water, food, fuel or electricity.  Many were either killed in Mariupol, or escaped posing as civilians through humanitarian corridors. Some dressed as women to escape.<ref>https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/24/ukrainian-soldier-mariupol-video/</ref>  Azov fighters, like their Nazi SS forebearers, are all tattooed and easily identifiable when captured.  The International Red Cross agreed to deliver humanitarian relief and investigate Ukrainian war crimes, but according to reports was held up by Ukrainian attacks on Red Cross supply trains.
-On April 8, the Russians took control of the port of Mariupol.  All hostages, including foreigners, were released. The Ukrainians had mined the harbor.  The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that radio intercepts showed a significant number of foreign mercenaries carried out communications in six other [[European]] languages.  It was estimated  there were at least about 100 foreign fighters.  The ministry spokesman stressed that the forces trapped in Mariupol are not the celebrated "defenders of so-called European values, but foreign mercenaries, who have come here to kill [[Slav]]s for [[American]] [[dollar]]s while hiding behind a human shield of civilians."
+===2023 Ukraine counteroffensive===
+{{See also|2023 Ukraine summer counteroffensive}}
-On April 16, 2022 the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of residential areas and summarized the situation in Mariupol:<ref>https://youtu.be/LqZ8ltN5xr8</ref>
+The 2023 Ukrainian spring-summer counteroffensive, which Zelensky and Zaluzhnyi were opposed to due to lack of preparedness but were pushed into by [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] for U.S domestic political purposes, was a disaster for the armed forces and people of Ukraine. Nonethelees, Western NATO propaganda claimed victory.  Ukrainian troops pressed into service were untrained and ill-prepared.  The counteroffensive failed miserably, never penetrating within 5 kms of Russian frontline fortifications.  Ukraine lost 83,000 troops between June 4, 2023 and October 4, 20023. Russian forces actually gained 200 square kms more territory while fighting on the defensive. Defense chief Reznikov and eight of his deputies were fired for the debacle, and Reznikov was promoted to the post of ambassador to the UK.
-{{quotebox-float|"The entire urban area of Mariupol is completely cleared of militants of the Nazi formation "Azov", foreign mercenaries and Ukrainian troops. The remnants of the Ukrainian group are currently completely blocked on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant. Their only chance to save their lives is to voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender.
-*Let me remind you that at the time of its encirclement on March 11, there were in Mariupol: the 36th separate brigade of the marines, the 109th brigade of territorial defense, the 503rd separate battalion of the marines, a company of the 53rd separate mechanized brigade, units of the 17th anti-tank brigades, Nazi formations "Azov", "Aidar", "Right Sector", units of the police and state border services, as well as foreign mercenaries.
+In December 2023 the ''Washington Post'' released a two-article series, ''Miscalculations, Divisions Marked Offensive Planning By U.S., Ukraine'' and ''In Ukraine, A War Of Incremental Gains As Counteroffensive Stalls''. It dispenses equal blame on the US and UIK planning of the whole mess and the Ukrainian execution of it:<ref>[https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/12/the-war-in-ukraine-is-done.html The War In Ukraine Is Done], Moon of Alabama, December 05, 2023. moonofalabama.org</ref>
+[[File:2023 Ukr plan.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ukraine's 2023 battle plan to split the Russian forces in half modelled after [[Sherman's March through Georgia|Gen. Sherman's March to the Sea]] in the [[American Civil War]].]]
+[[File:Bradley Square.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Destroyed German Leopard 2 tanks and American Bradley Fight Vehicles on what the Russians called '''Bradley Square'''.]]
+[[File:NATO war in Ukraine Sep 28 2023.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Territory gains and losses, Jan.1 -Sep. 28, 2023<ref>https://archive.ph/sdnCQ</ref>]]
+{{quotebox-float|'''Miscalculations, divisions marked offensive planning by U.S., Ukraine'''
-*The total number of this group was about 8100 people.
+Ukrainian, U.S. and British military officers held eight major tabletop war games to build a campaign plan.  But [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] miscalculated the extent to which Ukraine’s forces could be transformed into a [[Western alliance|Western-style fighting force]] in a short period — especially without giving Kyiv air power integral to modern militaries.
-*During the liberation of Mariupol, 1,464 Ukrainian servicemen have already surrendered. The number of surrenderers is increasing daily. Including those who escaped from the territory of Azovstal.
+U.S. and Ukrainian officials sharply disagreed at times over [[strategy]], [[tactics]] and timing.  The [[Pentagon]] wanted the assault to begin in mid-April [2023] to prevent Russia from continuing to strengthen its lines. The Ukrainians hesitated, insisting they weren’t ready without additional [[weapon]]s and training.
-*According to their testimonies, the total number of Ukrainian servicemen, Nazis and foreign mercenaries who took refuge at Azovstal does not exceed 2.5 thousand people.
+U.S. military officials were confident that a mechanized frontal attack on Russian lines was feasible with the troops and weapons that Ukraine had.  The simulations concluded that Kyiv’s forces, in the best case, could reach the [[Sea of Azov]] and cut off Russian troops in the south in 60 to 90 days.
-*Thus, on April 16, only in Mariupol, the losses of the Ukrainian group amounted to more than 4,000 people.
+The United States advocated a focused assault along that southern axis, but Ukraine’s leadership believed its forces had to attack at three distinct points along the 600-mile front, southward toward both Melitopol and Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov and east toward the embattled city of [[Bakhmut]].
-*Therefore, Zelensky’s recent statements to the Western media that the irretrievable losses of the Ukrainian military during the operation allegedly amount to 2.5-3 thousand are a common lie for him.
+The [[U.S. intelligence community]] had a more downbeat view than the U.S. [[military]], assessing that the offensive had only a 50-50 chance of success given the stout, multilayered defenses Russia had built up over the winter and spring.
-*The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has reliable data on the true losses of the Ukrainian army, the National Guard and arrived foreign mercenaries, which Zelensky is afraid to tell the people of Ukraine. Today, irretrievable losses amount to 23,367 people."}}
+[...]
-On April 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Gen. Sergey Shoigu to halt the storming of Azovstal, apparently shifting to a strategy of starving out the encircled remaining holdouts.  It was thought that about 1,400 Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries, along with dozens of NATO officers, civilian families of the fighters and possibly some civilian hostages were still holed up in the bunkers.  The Azov regiment apparently had stockpiled enough food and drinking for a lengthy holdout.  The Russians did not cut internet access.<ref>https://southfront.org/liberation-of-mariupol/</ref>  More than 142,000 civilians had been evacuated from the city.  Gen Shoigu declared victory in the battle.  An estimated 9,000-10,000 Ukrainian forces and mercenaries had been killed in  the battle.
-The Azov neo-Nazis at Azovstal in Mariupol were the best-equipped unit of the Ukrainian armed services. In the end they were totally outmatched by a numerically inferior Russian/Chechen [[Spetsnaz]] contingent, and in record time for such a big city.<ref>https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/10277</ref>  On May 17, 2022 all fighting in Mariupol and within the confines of the massive Azovstal steel plant came to an end with the surrender of the last holdouts.
+As the expected launch of the offensive approached, Ukrainian military officials feared they would suffer catastrophic losses — while American officials believed the toll would ultimately be higher without a decisive assault.}}
-====US biological labs in Mariupol====
+And from the second part:
-Evidence of emergency destruction of documents confirming work with the US military establishment in two biolaboratories in Mariupol was obtained. A preliminary analysis of extant documentation indicated the use of Mariupol as a regional center for cholera pathogen collection and certification. The selected strains were sent to the Public Health Centre in Kyiv, which was responsible for the onward shipment of biomaterials to the United States. These activities were carried out since 2014, as evidenced by the transfer of strains.
+{{quotebox-float|'''In Ukraine, a war of incremental gains as counteroffensive stalls'''
-An act of destruction of the pathogen collection dated February 25, 2022, according to which cholera, tularemia and anthrax pathogens were handled there, was found in the sanitary and epidemiological laboratory.  Part of the collection of the [[veterinary]] laboratory was not destroyed in a hurry.  The presence in the collection of pathogens that are uncharacteristic of veterinary medicine, such as typhoid, paratyphoid fever and gas gangrene, is a cause for concern. This could indicate the laboratory's misuse and involvement in a military biological program.<ref>https://telegra.ph/Briefing-on-the-results-of-the-analysis-of-documents-related-to-the-military-biological-activities-of-the-United-States-on-the-t-05-11</ref>
+Seventy percent of troops in one of the brigades leading the counteroffensive, and equipped with the newest Western weapons, entered battle with no [[combat]] experience.
-<!--Unconfirmed rumors circulated that U.S. Lt. Gen Roger Clothier, was said to have been taken prisoner by the defense forces of the Peoples Republic of Donetsk or was held up in the Azovstal fortress.<ref>https://geopolitics.co/2022/04/09/us-lt-gen-roger-l-cloutier-jr-taken-prisoner-in-mariupol/</ref>-->
-====Ukrainian use of civilian human shields====
+Ukraine’s setbacks on the battlefield led to rifts with the [[United States]] over how best to cut through deep Russian defenses.
-According to the testimony of civilian survivors, Azov Nazis shot civilians attempting to flee Mariupol.<ref>https://twitter.com/qwirkygyal/status/1504574416239349766</ref>  One civilian survivor testified that Ukrainian forces shot up whole "busloads" of fleeing civilians.<ref>https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1p/k1pvngjn8e</ref>  In a [[YouTube]] broadcast from AZOV Media, Ukrainian Nazis admitted they use civilians as human shields:.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYAFf2ZyPOk</ref>
-{{quotebox-float|"''"In total, as of this hour, over the past day, the irrevocable losses of horde barbarians reached up to 50 people of infantry, 2 tanks, 2 armored personnel carriers, 1 MTLB and one armored personnel carrier they left on the battlefield. Several trucks were also destroyed.   The land component of the enemy horde suffers heavy losses. '''These savages distribute white armbands to civilians, thereby making it harder for our military to work.''' But believe me, orcas, we understand where you are and where are the civilians!"'' <ref>[https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=prev&oldid=1846839 From Google Translate]</ref>}}
-[[File:SBU Pravy Sektor.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Fascist Pravy Sektor flag discovered on the wall of the Security Service of Ukraine (gestapo) by liberating Russian forces in Mariupol.<ref>https://videopress.com/v/L0mIYmbt</ref>]]
-In the so-called 'Bucha massacre,' all the dead bodies, or at least those bodies which were not crisis actors, had white armbands.
-Mariupol residents accused Americans of training Azov fighters to fight near houses in residential areas causing interminable suffering and damage.<ref>https://youtu.be/dWaNtAentO4?t=131</ref>  Survivors also testified that AZOV went about the city in civilian dress without uniforms.<ref>https://youtu.be/-itwXZTSJKU</ref>
+The commander of U.S. forces in Europe couldn’t get in touch with Ukraine’s top commander for weeks in the early part of the campaign amid tension over the [[American]]’s second-guessing of battlefield decisions.
-On the morning of March 30, 2022 Ukrainian troops told residents to go to Mariupol school #37 and there they would be safe; in the evening the school was shelled and destroyed.<ref>https://youtu.be/eim2BIliwmA?t=651</ref>
+Each side blamed the other for mistakes or miscalculations. U.S. military officials concluded that Ukraine had fallen short in basic military tactics, including the use of ground reconnaissance to understand the density of minefields. Ukrainian officials said the Americans didn’t seem to comprehend how attack drones and other [[technology]] had transformed the battlefield.}}
+{{clear}}
-By April 10, 2022, virtually all the civilian residential neighborhoods had been cleared and all the fighting was confined within the industrial zone.
+===Winter 2023-2024===
+Ukraine needs minimum 200,000 155mm artillery shells per month to sustain "localized fire superiority". The shell production of the entire West is estimated between 480-700k—for the entire year of 2023 - well more than a half million or 40% below what was requested. Defense contractors are reluctant to increase capacity since there is no "clarity of orders over time." It costs billions of dollars to increase capacity. New, very expensive upgrades of lathes and forging machines are required in sufficient number, a large amount of expensive training of personnel, potentially expensive expansion of actual work sites, purchasing new land, factories, etc. All this costs a huge amount of money at a time when the European economies are shot, energy prices have skyrocketed, etc. The average price of a single artillery round in Europe inflated from 4 to 8 times in some countries since February 2022.
-On April 18, 2022 the Azov Battalion began broadcasting videos of family members of Azov fighters in the Azovstal bunker.<ref>https://youtu.be/tFt_Dlo6CIQ</ref>  Reports On April 19, one hundred forty civilian were liberated from Azovstal.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/QGeRJWSzDCRG/</ref>  These were not the civilians who were allegedly held hostage, but people who lived near the facility.  On April 30, 2022, twenty-five civilians including 6 children escaped Azovstal through humanitarian corridors provided by the Russians.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/4sH6OLcMl3rZ/</ref>
+Meanwhile Russian capacity to manufacture artillery shells reached 5 million in 2023, and was forecasted to reach 7 million in 2014-2025. Russia is said to have received 10 million shells from [[North Korea]]n stockpiles, which also maintains an industrial base to continue production. Furthermore, Western artillery cannon or barrels wear out, become unusable and must be towed to Poland or Lithuania for repair and change out. Russian forces carry out routine maintenance on the frontline.
-{{Anchor|Azovstal}}
+Artillery is usually called "The God of War". It is assessed that Ukraine will need 1500-2000 barrels per year, with each barrel costing up to 900,000 [[euro]]s. That's approximately $2 billion in barrels. There are a limited number of forging plants in [[the West]] to manufacture barrels, and Ukraine uses at least 17 different artillery platforms.
-====Final surrender====
+The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) began to record an increased number of Ukrainian citizens who began not only to sympathize with the Russian Army, but also to help enemy forces.  The spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ignat, officially stated that almost all targets in Ukraine are destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces with the help of a tip from Ukrainian citizens who sympathize with Moscow and want to live as part of Russia. Moreover, representatives of the SBU admitted that many Ukrainian citizens help fighters of the Russian Spetsnaz sabotage and reconnaissance groups carry out sabotage operations on the territory of Ukraine. Since mid-December 2023, more than 100 Ukrainian citizens were detained who are suspected of complicity with Russian forces. Most of the detainees were from Odessa, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions.  The SBU claims that these citizens allowed soldiers of Russian Spetsnaz to warm themselves in their homes, gave them food, water, and provided valuable information for sabotage.  The activation of Russian Spetsnaz increased dramatically in the Odessa, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions. It Was reported that Russian Spetsnaz, with the support of local residents, caused significant damage to the infrastructure and logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On December 22, 2023 early in the morning near the village of Velikodolinskoye in the Odessa region, Russian Spetsnaz derailed a military train
-On April 21, 2022, Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] instructed Gen. Sergey Shoigu to halt the storming of Azovstal, apparently shifting to a strategy of starving out the encircled remaining holdouts.  It was thought that about 1,400 Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries, along with dozens of NATO officers, civilian families of the fighters and possibly some civilian hostages were still holed up in the bunkers.  The Azov regiment apparently had stockpiled enough food and drinking for a lengthy holdout.  The Russians did not cut internet access.<ref>https://southfront.org/liberation-of-mariupol/</ref>  More than 142,000 civilians had been evacuated from the city.  Gen Shoigu declared victory in the battle.  An estimated 9,000-10,000 Ukrainian forces and mercenaries had been killed in  the battle.
+carrying shells and small arms from [[Germany]]. As a result AFU were left without shells and other important weapons. Moreover, the Odessa incident proved that NATO countries deliver weapons to Ukraine by sea through the territorial waters of [[Romania]], [[Bulgaria]], and [[Turkey]].
-As of May 9, 2022, roughly 1,000 people, civilian and military, were reported to have been evacuated from Azovstal under the plan negotiated by UN General Secretary António Guterres and evacuations ended, leaving about 500 deadenders in the bunkers below.  Humanitarian corridors were closed.  On May 16 ''[[RT]]'' reported over 300 Azovstal holdouts surrendered.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/lONiVlqpXJJ7/</ref>
+On December 27, 2023 Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who also serves as the economy minister, said: “Ukraine may have to postpone pay for [[civil service system|public servants]] and [[Social Security|pension payments]] to millions of its citizens if the European Union and United States fail to deliver promised financial aid early next year...Kyiv might have to delay paying wages for 500,000 civil servants and 1.4 millions teachers and benefits for 10 million pensioners if foreign aid does not come through”.<ref>https://archive.is/mGFjC#selection-1551.0-1551.62</ref>
-On May 17, 2022 all fighting in Mariupol and within the confines of the massive Azovstal steel plant came to an end when liberating forces were able to shut off the water supply.  Mass surrenders began, with 55 seriously wounded (ambulatory) taken immediately east to the Novoazovsk hospital in Donetsk, another 221 people were sent north to the Elenovka POW camp in Donetsk.
+Also on December 27 Ukrainian soldiers who defected to Russia for the first time engaged in battle with the Ukrainian Army near Bakhmut, according to Kirill Spassky, one of the commanders of the Russian operational combat tactical formation (OBTF) Cascade.<ref>https://amalantra.ru/obtf-kaskad/?ysclid=lqpq332znf462310768</ref> Spassky claims that Ukrainian soldiers in the Russian army are very motivated to bring about a common victory.  More than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are fighting on the side of Russia. It is reported that every third captured Ukrainian POW expresses a desire to join the ranks of the Russian army and obtain Russian citizenship.
-In Elenovka, interrogation of Ukrainian prisoners of war, some of whom have [[criminal]] cases (e.g., for abuse/torture or killing of civilians, or of rebel captives) opened in Russia for years.  Among the Ukrainian military who surrendered, 144 people are fighters of the Interior Ministry's National Guard, of which the Azov Battalion is part. The [[Kremlin]] reportedly refused to exchange Nazi members of the Azov regiment as they committed numerous war crimes. The exchange of other servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine however can be negotiated.
+Deputy Chairman [[Dmitry Medvedev]] of the Security Council of the [[Russian Federation]] announced on December 29, 2023: "The Russian military operation in Ukraine will continue next year with its goals remaining unchanged...Those goals include the disarmament of Ukrainian troops and the rejection of the ideology of [[neo-Nazism]] by the [[Maidan regime|current Ukrainian state]]...The removal of the ruling [[Banderovite]] regime isn’t being openly declared, but it's the most important and inevitable goal that must and will be achieved." Defense Minister [[Sergey Shoigu]] stated: "All recruitment plans for the Army and the Navy this year have been fulfilled...The overall size of the Russian Armed Forces currently stands at 1.15 million service personnel...The size of the military will increase to 1.5 million in 2024, which would include up to 745,000 contract troops”.
-On May 18, 2022, the total number of surrenders rose to 959. It was believed there were about 1,700 holdouts until the end.  DPR leader Denis Pushilin told journalists, “A court will rule on the fate of Ukrainian militants who surrendered at Mariupol’s Azovstal plant…As for war criminals and those who are nationalists, if they laid down their arms their fate should be decided by the court. Regardless of the emotions of some people, I heard various opinions, if an adversary laid down the arms, the future fate is decided by the court. If this is a Nazi criminal, then by a court martial"<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1452579</ref>
+On February 17, 2024 ''Business Insider'' reported ''Ukraine's military is shifting to a defensive strategy that failed [[Nazi Germany]] in WWII''.<ref>[https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-military-shifts-active-defensive-failed-nazi-germany-wwii-2024-2# , Analysis by Michael Peck, ''Business Insider'', Feb 17, 2024. businessinsider.com</ref>
-Commenting on the defeat, Jacob Dreizen said:
+===Northern Kharkov front===
-{{quotebox-float|"Now, everyone understands, if you are surrounded by Russia, you have two options: Surrender.  Or death.  That’s it.  There will be no de-blockade, the [[Pope]] won’t ride to the rescue, and Russia doesn’t care what its NATO enemies think.  This is a huge psychological shift, comparable to what happened to the Germans after Stalingrad.
+As of May 12, 2024 the situation for the [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]] (AFU) continued to deteriorate rapidly in the northern part of the [[Kharkov]] region. War correspondents reported that Ukrainian soldiers from the [[Territorial Defense]] brigades surrendered ''en masse'' to Russian troops
+along the entire line of contact. Ukrainian Telegram channels denounced the [[lie]]s of the Ukrainian General Staff that the AFU allegedly stopped the advance of the Russian army in the Gray Zone. Ukrainian military-linked channels openly accused Ukrainian leadership of not having built any defenses in the north. The funds designated for defensive fortifications were stolen or looted.
-After Stalingrad, the Germans, if faced with an imminent risk of encirclement, with very few exceptions, ran the hell away (or tried to.)  And, the Ukrainian army, despite all the “[[Iron Cross]]” emblems on its hardware, is no ''[[Wehrmacht]]''.  This bodes ill for the Ukraine’s attempt to hold and defend the Severodonetsk-Lisichansk agglomeration in northern Lugansk—a hard-core Russian loyalist area, and likely the next big “cauldron.”  Those two cities combined, are roughly half the size of Mariupol.  Russian and Lugansk/Donetsk forces moving in on them, will be more numerous, and (by now) much more experienced than the forces that took Mariupol."<ref>https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/05/18/details-of-the-mariupol-surrender/</ref>}}
+The Ukrainian military High Command sent the AFU's remaining combat ready reserves, the [[Kraken Battalion]] as "blocking units" to punish AFU soldiers wanting to surrender.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/truBnSBYNQrq/</ref> Ukrainian volunteers complained that the Nazi formations of the GUR ("Kraken", "Sonechko", "Brotherhood", etc.) blocked the evacuation of the local population from Volchansk and are using city residents as [[human shield]]s.
-====Denazification trials====
+On May 12 Russian fighters from assault groups under the designation "Fearless" entered the battle against Ukrainian nationalists in the Volchansk area. Fighters from the so-called [[Russian Volunteer Corps]] also fought on the side of the Ukrainian nationalists. As a result, Russian troops destroyed an entire group of Ukrainian militants. Ukrainian nationalists lost more than 100 killed. Many nationalists did not have time to escape. More than 30 Ukrainian nationalists were forced to surrender.
-On May 19, 2022, trials of Ukrainian Nazis and war criminals were underway at Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don in the Russian Federation.  Denis Nuryga, an Aidar Battalion militant, was the first to appear before the court.  He was accused of blowing up a bridge in the Lugansk region in 2019, as a result of which sentries of the People's Militia of the LPR were killed.<ref>https://t.me/intelslava/29230</ref>  Nuryga, a junior sergeant captured in April 2022, said under interrogation that the Ukrainian army disguises itself as doctors and uses ambulances for movement. Inside the ambulance Ukrainians install mortars.
-{{quotebox-float|"“I saw a case in the village of Yuzhny, when they arrived by ambulance, people came out, thinking that the doctors came to provide medical care, wanted to ask them for medicines. And they began to shoot up first from automatic weapons to disperse the civilian population. And then they set up a mortar, fired a couple of shots, got into an ambulance and left.”<ref>https://vk.com/wall-54214311_816887?lang=en&ysclid=l3cnnqpwj5</ref>}}
-=== Zaporozhye line===
+==Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)==
+{{See also|Security Service of Ukraine}}
-On May 16, 2022 the Ukraine General Staff requested a counter-attack along the Zaporozhye line no matter what the cost. They launched a counter attack with of battalion strength in an attempt to push back the Russian attack.  However, the Ukrainians were not prepared. Even worse, on open ground.
+==Belligerents==
-Ukrainian forces lost two MLRS systems, 40 vehicles, 26 tanks, 12 IFVS destroyed and 300 Ukrainian casualties.  One of the Ukrainian tanks destroyed
+{{See also|Belligerents in the NATO war in Ukraine}}
-destroyed was a Polish built T-72M recently sent to Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/laXpEgGlEsM</ref>
-{{Anchor|Donbas cauldron}}
+==Neutrals==
+{{See also|Neutrals in the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war}}
+The US State Department encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove [[Imran Khan]] as [[prime minister]] over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by ''The Intercept''.<ref>https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/</ref>
-===Odessa cauldron===
+==Refugees==
+{{See also|Systemic racism|Ukrainian refugees}}
+Russia was the largest recipient of Ukrainian refugees after the Special Military Operation commenced in February 2022, accepting at least 2.4 million asylum seekers.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-asylum-requests-unhcr/27079360.html</ref>
-Some dispute existed between analysts and observers whether Russian war planners intended an encirclement of Odessa. After 31 days of fighting, no serious efforts appeared to have taken place.
+After mid-April 2022, more than 3 million refugees in Europe returned home to Ukraine due to lack of housing, employment, childcare and other resources and services.<ref>https://newlinesinstitute.org/ukraine/why-are-refugees-returning-to-ukraine/</ref>
-General Dmytro Marchenko, who is in charge of the garrison in Mykolaiv, vowed that for each Ukrainian who dies, he and his men will kill ten Russians and warned that any attacking troops will end up as food for stray dogs in the streets.<ref>https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-soldiers-become-dog-food-26447989</ref>
+==Economic war==
+{{See also|Great Reset}}
+The West hoped to quickly strangle the Russian economy. However, the calculations of the United States and its allies failed after the start of the special military operation. It became clear that the [[collective West]]'s bet on the weakness of the Russian economy did not play out.  All the plans and calculations of NATO analysts failed.  From 2014 to 2019 Western and NATO analysts claimed that Russia had a powerful army, but with a weak economy it would not be able to fight for long. They believed that they would impose sanctions and Russia would die. The West bet on the decomposition of Russian society by American culture and the discrediting of [[traditional values]].
-On April 13, 2022, a Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman said,
+By summer 2022 the Ukrainian Army was demilitarized, its weapons and manpower had been destroyed. By late 2022 Russia was demilitarizing not Ukraine, but NATO whose member states provided the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons and artillery shells. The Ukrainian Army itself was already being formed from reservists, conscripts recruited by force, and foreign mercenaries.
-{{quotebox-float|"We have seen attempts at sabotage and attacks by the Ukrainian military against facilities in Russian territory. If such attempts continue, the Russian Federation’s Armed Forces will strike at the decision-making centers, including Kiev – something we have so far refrained from."<ref>https://freepress.substack.com/p/what-russians-are-hearing?s=r</ref>}}
-This was interpreted to mean Ukrainian attacks or provocations on Crimea, which was accepted into the Russian Federation in 2014 by a vote of the Russian State Duma after a popular plebiscite in Crimea overwhelmingly made the request, could result in missile attacks on military and political command centers in Kyiv.  NATO would like to occupy the deep water port of Sevastopol, which has been a major objective of NATO's actions in Ukraine since 2008.  On February 19, 2022, five days before the Special Military Operation in Ukraine began, the [[Atlantic Council]] published a paper which had been long in the works entitled, ''NATO must seize the current strategic opportunity in the Black Sea.''<ref>https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/nato-must-seize-the-current-strategic-opportunity-in-the-black-sea/</ref>  On April 14, 2022, ''The Washington Examiner'' reported members of Congress asked the U.S. [[intelligence community]] specifically to aid Ukraine if it made efforts against Crimea.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/gop-wants-us-intelligence-community-to-help-ukrainians-retake-russian-occupied-territory</ref>
-On April 23, 2022 fascist dictator Volodymyr Zelensky said that Odessa may become “another Mariupol” soon.  The AFU was accumulating forces for the defense of the city and providing the supply of weapons from Romania and fuel from Moldova to the troops in the Mykolaiv and Krivoy Rog regions.  Russian missile strikes targeted AFU military infrastructure facilities. Russian servicemen struck a military airfield near Odessa. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, a large batch of weapons from the United States and the EU was destroyed.
+By the end of the third quarter of 2023 the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation reported that the national debt reached $206 billion accounting for 16.7% of gross domestic product (GDP),<ref>https://www.rt.com/business/583791-russia-state-debt-rising/</ref> in comparison to the [[socialist]] [[European Union]] national debt reaching a staggering $14 trillion accounting for 84.36% of its GDP,<ref>https://www.statista.com/statistics/253616/national-debt-of-the-eu-and-the-euro-area-in-relation-to-the-gdp/</ref> while the United States [[national debt]] reached over $33 trillion accounting for 122.8% of its GDP.<ref>https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/government-debt--of-nominal-gdp</ref>
-To marr Moscow's May 9 [[Victory Day]] celebrations in commemoration of the 77th Anniversary of the defeat of the [[Banderite]]'s Western allies, [[Nazi Germany]], the Kyiv regime in conjunction with US and NATO war planners attempted a massive assault to retake Snake Island. The offensive failed, with more than 60 AFU forces dead, the loss of 4 bombers, 10 helicopters, 3 amphibious assault ships, and at least 30 [[Bayraktar drone]]s.  Sources say an American and UK high-ranking officers went missing after the attack.  An American marine lieutenant colonel and an English major from the commando brigade of the marine corps, landed on Snake Island together with Ukrainian fighters.  They coordinated the work of NATO intelligence assets and the Ukrainian landing forces.  Russian missiles also destroyed a massive NATO ammunition dump housed in a civilian infrastructure shopping mall in Odessa.
+===2023 cancelation of grain deal===
+Under the July 2022 grain deal, which was intended to help needy countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the poorest countries received only 2.3% of all supplies. Ukrainian agricultural products went to the EU countries where prices are higher, according to UN data. Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, France and Romania accounted for 38% of all supplies under the grain deal.  Turkey, [[Egypt]], [[Bangladesh]] and China filled out the balance, while [[Yemen]], [[Somalia]], [[Sudan]] and [[Ethiopia]] faced famine conditions.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2023/07/16/the-un-summed-up-the-results-of-the-grain-deal-the-poorest-countries-got-only-2-3-per-cent-of-supplies/</ref>
-====Kherson====
+On July 17, 2023 the Russian Federation announced that it would not be renewing the grain deal that was supposed to allow for shipments of grain and fertilizers from both Russia and Ukraine. Expulsion of Russia from the [[SWIFT]] world banking network made it impossible for Russia to get paid.  The official Russian list of requirements which would need to be fulfilled for Russia to reinstate the grain deal were:
-When the Russians initially entered Kherson, they did not take down Ukrainian flags, replace the mayor, or interfere with the running of city government.  The Kyiv regime issued nationwide decrees that any cooperation with the Russian military (including accepting humanitarian aid) was collaboration and treasonous activity.  The SBU's reprisal actions against Ukrainian citizens in areas that the Russian military vacated, the Russian military restored the World War II war memorial in Kherson and introduced the Rubel to replace Ukrainian currency.
-By the end of March 2022, the AFU became more active in the Mykolaiv region. After an unsuccessful counteroffensive towards the Kherson Peoples Republic, Ukrainian forces opened massive fire from MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) and artillery on two villages near Kherson, and destroyed civilian houses. The Russians repelled the attack with precise strikes.  A NATO backed partisan militia group was organized in Kherson and surrounding regions to carry out [[terrorist]] attacks against Russians and civilians.  The Kherson Peoples Republic was then organized.  Pensions were restored to all citizens.
+. A real, not a speculative conclusion from the sanctions on the supply of Russian grain and fertilizers to world markets.
-In late April 2022, the Kyiv regime began shelling the civilian population of Kherson.  Overnight on April 28, 2022 the AFU launched a massive missile strike with Tochka-U ballistic missiles and high-powered multiple rocket launchers on the city center of Kherson. The target of the missile attack on Kherson were residential areas where kindergartens, schools and many social institutions are located.
+. All obstacles for Russian banks and financial institutions that serve the supply of food and fertilizers must be removed.
-From an area of private houses in Belaya Krinitsa, Kherson region, the Ukrainian armed forces’ artillery struck several positions of the Russian Armed Forces in order to provoke retaliatory fire on residential buildings with civilians, whom the territorial defence fighters are not letting out of the blockaded settlement by holding them as a “human shield”.  A [[Norwegian]] media representatives was standy by in Belaya Krinitsa for photo ops and video of allegedly indiscriminate Russian shelling.
+. Deliveries to Russia of spare parts and components for agricultural machinery and the fertilizer industry should be resumed.
-On May 15, 2022 Kherson authorities urged residents not to be intimidated by the fascist forces of Ukraine' security service and assured that the Russian army would protect the local population.  “Do not be afraid, the Russian army will protect us, because every day, every hour, every second, at the cost of his own life, a Russian soldier protects the peace in Kherson, because we do not abandon our own,” Stremousov wrote.  Stremousov stressed that for the past month and a half he has been receiving messages from the residents of Kherson that a 15,000-strong group of the Ukrainian army is concentrated near the borders of the region, which is preparing for an offensive.  “I will make every effort to close the information attack of fear from Nazi propaganda,” Stremousov emphasized.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2022/05/15/kherson-authorities-urged-residents-not-to-be-afraid-of-the-ukrainian-offensive-promised-by-kyiv/</ref>
+. All issues with the charter of ships and insurance of Russian export food supplies must be resolved, all logistics of food supplies must be provided.
-===Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)===
+. Unhindered conditions must be provided for expanding the supply of Russian fertilizers and raw materials for their production, including the restoration of the operation of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline.
-In a state of martial law, Ukrainian civilians have been taped or tied to trees and street poles, abused and humiliated by the Territorial Defense under the Ministry of Interior and [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU).  The victims usually are Russians, Russian-speakers, Gypsies, or petty offenders.  Elderly women and children have been subjected to this abuse.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/MtOig6UsjC72/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/VMS5cET98HOU/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/w1zvj2TAyWhL/</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/OAyWmOcj0q8</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/SIf9NgzIi4fG/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/mTzRkEWl2ykv/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/xCt3MPtAPPjT/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/8AyLRBr4iHZo/</ref>
-More egregious forms of [[torture]] and killing are systematically carried out by the [[Ukrainian gestapo]] and neo-Nazi groups under their control.
+. Russian assets related to the agricultural industry should be unlocked.
-In Luhansk, a former sausage factory converted into a torture facility in 2014 was liberated in May 2022.<ref>https://youtu.be/X61zQqz6dn0</ref>
+. There must be a restoration of the original humanitarian nature of the grain deal. It should work for countries in need, not make rich countries richer.
-====Atrocities committed against civilians====
+Captain Vladimir Gundarov told ''Moskovsky Komsomolets'',<ref>https://www.politnavigator.net/kak-rossiya-sputala-ukrainskie-karty-vykhodom-iz-zernovojj-sdelki.html</ref>
-[[File:Safari.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Ukraine Special Forces SAFARI was sent into Bucha after the Russian withdrawal to hunt down so-called "collaborators", for example, people who  accepted Russian humanitarian relief.<ref>https://youtu.be/9vGUJXuYQZQ?t=686</ref>]]
+{{quotebox-float|"The grain initiative is a good cover for the military operations that Kiev is conducting in the Black Sea against Crimea under the direct leadership of the American and British military. It is more convenient to launch all surface and underwater drones, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, towards the southern and southeastern coast of Crimea from civilian ships that carry various cargoes...It's one thing to launch a marine drone from a civilian vessel 60-80 miles from the coast and point it directly at the target. And it's another thing to launch it, for example, from Ochakov, [[Nikolaev]] or the port of Yuzhny, near Odessa. In this case, they need to imperceptibly go around the Crimean Peninsula from the southwest in order to get to the Sevastopol Bay. And this is only in a straight line over 150 nautical miles. The [[Crimean Bridge]] is generally twice as far. Of course, Russia's withdrawal from the grain initiative greatly hinders Kiev's plans to carry out terrorist attacks in the Crimea."}}
+The Crimean bridge was attacked by NATO underwater drones launched from civilian vessels near the bridge on July 17, 2023.
-Joe Lauria of Consortium News reported that on March 30, 2022, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, all Russian forces left Bucha.  This was confirmed on March 31 Bucha mayor Anatolii Fedoruk in a video on the Bucha City Council official Facebook page.  The translated post accompanying the video says:
-{{quotebox-float|“March 31 – the day of the liberation of Bucha. This was announced by Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk. This day will go down in the glorious history of Bucha and the entire Bucha community as a day of liberation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian occupiers."<ref>https://youtu.be/BL8R6K5VdtI?t=519</ref>}}
-There was no mention of a massacre of hundreds of civilians littering the streets. Evidence of crimes appeared only on the fourth day after the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/</ref>
-[[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym brutalizing civilians, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]]
-''The New York Times'' was in Bucha on April 2, 2022 and did not report a massacre.  Instead, the ''Times'' confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.”  The ''Times'' said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said.  In Bucha, the ''Times'' was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers appear in the newspaper’s photographs. The ''Times'' suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings:
-{{quotebox-float|“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that:
-:''‘Special forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’''<ref>[https://en.lb.ua/news/2022/04/02/12441_special_forces_regiment_safari.html Special Forces Regiment SAFARI Begins Clearing Operation in Bucha from Saboteurs and Accomplices of Russia - National Police], 2 April 2022. https://en.lb.ua</ref>
-The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals. The state authorities would be going through the city searching for ‘saboteurs’ and ‘accomplices of Russian forces.’ Only the day before [Friday], Ekaterina Ukraintsiva, representing the town council authority, appeared on an information video on the Bucha Live Telegram page wearing military fatigues and seated in front of a Ukrainian flag to announce ‘the cleansing of the city.’ She informed residents that the arrival of the Azov battalion did not mean that liberation was complete (but it was, the Russians had fully withdrawn), and that a ‘complete sweep’ had to be performed.”}}
-According to War On Fakes, "the first unit of the Ukrainian armed forces to enter Bucha was the special forces of the National Guard of Ukraine.  The official Telegram channel of the National Guard posted a video, filmed by the fighters of this detachment themselves. We can see on this video that the Ukrainian military calmly pass through the streets of the city—and no ‘mountains of corpses’ are visible on these streets.”  War On Fakes then asks, “So where did the corpses on the streets of Bucha come from. And who are these people?
-The answer may lie in the video of the territorial defense of Ukraine, which clearly states the question ‘Can I shoot at them if there are no blue armbands?’<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/6ZHPL2pTuadJ/</ref>  To which a positive response follows. The video was originally posted by the leader of the territorial defense Sergey ‘Botsman’ Korotkikh.”<ref>https://mronline.org/2022/04/07/staged-massacre-in-bucha/</ref>  Sergey ‘Botsman’ Korotkikh later makes startling postings about the disappearance of Chilean/American journalist [[Gonzalo Lira]] from Kharkiv<ref>Sergey ‘Botsman’ Korotkikh</ref>
-On April 3, 2022 when the story broke, Russia immediately requested a meeting if the [[UN Security Council]] for the following Monday, April. The [[United Kingdom]], another permanent member of the Security Council, [[veto]]ed holding a Security Council meeting in the matter.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/466326-Britain-blocking-UN-investigation-into-Bucha-massacre-in-Ukraine-Russia</ref>
-Russian UN Ambassador said in a statement:
-{{quotebox-float|"[[London]] shows clearly what does the so-called [[new world order]] looks like, the order based on rules and based, it seems, on violation of all possible and impossible norms of international law, treaties and any norms of civilized behavior at all."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1432333</ref>}}
-The [[Pentagon]] refused to confirm the Ukrainian government's claim that Russians were responsible for the massacre. <ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/</ref><ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/us-military-intelligence-official-refutes-russian-atrocities-claims/comments/page/5/</ref>
-Former leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Ilya Kiva said that the story in Bucha was planned and prepared in advance by the [[counterintelligence]] of Ukraine, with the assistance of the British [[MI6]].  Kiva said,
-{{quotebox-float|"The whole story in Bucha was prepared and planned in advance by the SBU and [[MI6]]. They arrived early in the morning, cordoned off the area, scattered the corpses and then sent [[journalist]]s there. That's why that clown Zelensky even came back. To raise the interest of the international press in the alleged tragedy, but it's all a pure fake. Why didn't such a situation take place in other areas? Don`t you understand that it was staged in advance, which was supposed to arouse the aggression and hatred in you first of all. But it didn't happen."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ot894JsANM</ref>}}
-All the corpses wore white arm bands which were distributed by the Russian military to identify civilian non-combatants, who then became the victims of Ukrainian security forces as collaborators in reprisal actions.  Some alleged corpses sat up after television cameras filmed them.<ref>https://rumble.com/vzl3qf-evidence-of-bucha-false-flag.html</ref><ref>https://southfront.org/leaked-recording-allegedly-confirms-massacre-in-bucha-was-staged-by-ukrainian-militants/</ref>  Ukrainian television showed footage of Ukrainian security forces dragging corpses into place for the TV cameras.
-====Kidnappings, murder, assassination====
-Dan Cohen, the Washington DC correspondent for ''Behind The Headlines'' reported on the testimony of a former prisoner of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) under the pseudonym “Igor,” as follows:<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/volodymyr-zelensky-secret-police-hunted-down-opposition-anatoly-shariy/280200/</ref>
-[[File:Truth of the Zelensky regime.PNG|right|230px|thumb|After posting a list of prominent people disappeared or murdered by the Zelensky regime,<ref>https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1507644195212824582</ref>  [[Gonzalo Lira]] himself was disappeared from Kharkov.<ref>https://twitter.com/Anabel_Villeroy/status/1516131041672638464</ref>]]
-{{quotebox-float|"Inside the sports complex-turned temporary torture prison, Igor says the sack over his head was replaced with a blindfold, leaving him so he could only see his legs.
-A Ukrainian businessman who had long worked in transportation logistics – including stints in [[Moscow]] – a story typical of many Ukrainians, since returning to Kiev, Igor had maintained business ties to Moscow and Crimea, which had joined the Russian Federation after a successful referendum in 2014.
-Several family members, including his mother, live in Russia and he regularly visited them until relations between the two countries reached a boiling point in 2021. “With the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the events of February 24, my mother started to call me very often because she was very afraid of my status,” he told me.
-Territorial Defense began to round up anyone suspected of sympathizing with Russia, as well as Ukrainians with cross-border ties, whether family or business.
-Inside the makeshift prison, Igor says he identified 25 to 30 distinct voices of imprisoned men, and saw 10 to 12 men in Russian military uniforms, what he believes were [[prisoners of war]]. Two of the Russians were severely beaten in order to motivate the others to give on-camera testimony about their hate for Putin and opposition to the war.
-Other detainees were [[religious]] people known for assembling at military installations to [[pray]] for peace and homeless people who had no way to abide by the evening curfew and were swept up by nighttime patrols.
-While many of those inside the complex were kept for a couple of hours and released, others were severely beaten. “It was like a small [[Guantanamo]],” Igor recalled.
-Igor says that he was interrogated three times, with each session lasting between 15 and 30 minutes. The beatings were carried out by Territorial Defense volunteers while SBU officers instructed them on how to [[torture]] and asked him questions.
-“They used a lighter to heat up a needle, then put it under my fingernails,” he told me. “The worst was when they put a plastic bag over my head and suffocated me and when they held the muzzle of a [[Kalashnikov]] rifle to my head and forced me to answer their questions.
-But he says the suffering he endured was minor in comparison to the torture of the Russian prisoners of war, who were beaten with metal pipes while the Ukrainian national anthem played on repeat in the background. “I could hear it because all the torture was done in a nearby room. It was [[psychological]]ly severe. This was done at night, the sounds of beatings were constant. It was difficult to sleep.”
-Listening to conversations of other prisoners, Igor understood that two prisoners from Belarus were beaten to death, identifying one as a man named Sergey. …
-When SBU agents found videos of [Anatoly Shariy] on Igor’s phone,<ref>Also spelled 'Sharia' sometimes. Shariy has nearly [https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperSharij/videos 3 million subscribers on YouTube], 340,000 on Facebook, and 268,000 on Twitter, becoming one of Ukraine's most popular journalists despite living in [[Lithuania]] and later [[Spain]] for a decade. Shariy has been considered a possible contender for the presidency of Ukraine in a future election, causing Zelensky to feel threatened and accusations by Zelensky levelled at Shariy.</ref> officers from a separate department were called in. From then on, they began to treat him better, removing his handcuffs and giving him larger quantities of food. …
-“As far as I understood, based on the information that I had to convey, the liquidation of [[Anatoly Shariy]] was being prepared, since he poses a danger to the government of Ukraine and criticizes the actions of the SBU, the government, and President Zelensky,” he told me.}}
-On March 24, 2022 Mayor Hennadiy Matsegora of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region, who was accused by the Kyiv regime of treason for allowing Russian troops to enter the city, recorded a video message to Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky about the abduction and hostage taking of his daughter by [[SBU]] gestapo officers and asked for her release.<ref>https://www.objectiv.tv/objectively/2022/03/24/mer-sdavshij-kupyansk-trebuet-chtoby-zelenskij-spas-ego-doch-video/</ref>
-On April 15, 2022 the Zelensky regime gestapo abducted YouTube reporter [[Gonzalo Lira]].<ref>https://twitter.com/Anabel_Villeroy/status/1516131041672638464</ref>  Tweets from the account of the notorious [[Banderite|Ukrainian Nazi]] Sergei “Botsman” Korotkikh, who is deeply implicated in the Bucha massacre, say Gonzalo Lira had been kidnapped, tortured and possibly beheaded.<ref>https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1516070868610387971</ref>
-===Ukrainian hostage taking and use of human shields===
-[[File:Ukrainian tanks.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ukrainian tanks illegally stationed outside residential apartment complex.]]
-''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported on March 28, 2022 that the Ukrainian military has “a responsibility under international law to remove their forces and equipment from civilian-populated areas, and if that is not possible, to move civilians out of those areas.  If they don’t do that, that is a violation of the laws of war because what they are doing is they are putting civilians at risk. All that military equipment are legitimate targets. Andriy Kovalyov, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense's [[Territorial Defense]], whose forces and equipment are positioned in Kyiv, scoffed at that reasoning.  [[Alexei Arestovich]], senior adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky, told the ''Post'' that "international humanitarian laws or the laws of war don’t apply in this conflict."  In response to written questions from ''The Post'', Arestovich said the country’s military doctrine, approved by parliament, provides for the principle of “total defense.”<ref>https://archive.ph/wip/IUpIM</ref>  Nonetheless, with full knowledge the government of Ukraine was committing war crimes and endangering the lives of civilians, the US and NATO continued to supply Ukraine with weapons.
-[[File:Ukrainian chem attack.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Ukrainian chemical attack near Mazanovka, May 16, 2022.<ref>https://stanislavs.org/russia-and-lnr-prevented-a-large-chemical-terrorist-act-by-ukro-nato-yesterday-today-saw-a-smaller-chemical-provocation-by-kiev-people-are-disappearing-in-odessa/</ref>]]
-''Tass'' reported that on May 5, 2022 Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya presented to the Security Council video interviews of Ukrainian civilians who had managed to escape from the zone of hostilities.<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1448191</ref>  Nebenzya stressed that the Ukrainian authorities and their Western sponsors were doing their utmost to prevent this sad truth from coming under the spotlight, and asked his foreign counterparts to pay due attention to the fact that the Ukrainian army repeatedly deployed heavy weapons to residential areas and used civilians as a human shield, which was a violation of international humanitarian law.  Nebenzya stated, “We have enough reasons to believe that all these principles are systematically violated by the Ukrainian army and paramilitaries…There are many eye-witness accounts of how the Ukrainian army uses civilians as hostages and a human shield”.
-On May 16, 2022 at 1:35 p.m. local time, the special services of Ukraine blew up a land mine reinforced with an overlay of up to 1 ton of ammonium nitrate in the area of Mazanovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.  As a result of the explosion, a poisonous cloud of about 1 kilometer headed towards the town of Kramatorsk which is under the control of Kyiv’s forces.  The doctrine of “total defense” proclaimed by Kyiv officials as noted by ''The Washington Post'' on March 28, 2022, supposes that any sacrifice, including the lives, health and safety of a large number of civilians, is nothing if the AFU actions may harm Russian soldiers, even if just potentially.<ref>https://southfront.org/ukrainian-forces-staged-another-provocation-with-chemicals-on-donbass-frontlines-videos/</ref>
-===Ukrainian mistreatment of POWs and war crimes===
-{{See also|Abu Ghraib}}
-The Kyiv government paraded captured Russian prisoners of war before television cameras and posted videos on [[social media]].  Some prisoners had injuries, were being interrogated, or were crying before the cameras.<ref>https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/ukraine-s-videos-of-crying-russian-prisoners-could-violate-the-geneva-conventions-20220307-p5a2f7.html</ref>  Amnesty International issued a statement reminding the fascist regime that Article 13 of the [[Geneva Convention]] states: “Prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity”. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, this includes circulating images on social media.<ref>https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/03/russia-ukraine-prisoners-of-war-must-be-protected-from-public-curiosity-under-geneva-convention/</ref>
-[[File:Ukrainian nazis castrate Russians.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Former Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers instructed doctors to castrate Russian POWs "because they are cockroaches, not human."<ref>https://youtu.be/15UjP-H2CMA</ref>]]
-Gennadiy Druzenko, a Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute and fellow at the Wilson Center in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/gennadiy-druzenko</ref> head of the Center for Constitutional Design,<ref>https://ccd.group/en/team/gennadiy-druzenko/</ref> a former researcher at the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University, and served as the Government Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine<ref>[https://independent.academia.edu/GennadiyDruzenko/CurriculumVitae Curriculum Vitae Gennadiy Druzenko.] independent.academia.edu</ref> who now operates a war-zone mobile hospital in eastern Ukraine told a Ukrainian Channel 24 TV interviewer that he had instructed his doctors to castrate captured Russian POWs.  Druzenko said:
-{{quotebox-float|"I have always been a great humanist and said that if a man is wounded, he is no longer an enemy but a patient.  But now [I gave] very strict orders to castrate all [captured Russian] men, because they are cockroaches, not people."<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10636597/Ukrainian-doctor-tells-TV-interviewer-ordered-staff-CASTRATE-Russian-soldiers.html</ref>}}
-Since 2014 when the Kyiv regime initiated the Donbas war against Russian civilians, some 500 doctors have worked with Druzenko's mobile hospital.  In March 2022 a pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel called White Lives Matter released a video of a Ukrainian soldier calling the fiancee of a Russian POW, taunting her with promises to castrate the captive.
-<ref>https://videopress.com/v/wnzk7oQc</ref>
-[[File:Tortured and executed Russian POW.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Tortured and executed Russian POW.]]
-Ukrainian soldiers' used of the cellphones of dead Russian soldiers to mock and hector their relatives. In fact, the Ukrainian government has begun using facial recognition technology from Clearview AI, a US tech company, to identify Russian casualties and taunt their relatives on social media.<ref>https://twitter.com/raczylo/status/1508046216420020225</ref>  The facial recognition service is provided by Clearview to the Kyiv regime free of charge.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/15/ukraine-facial-recognition-warfare/</ref>
-On March 27, 2022 very disturbing videos emerged of mistreatment of Russian POWs by Armed Forces of Ukraine.  One video shows Russian soldiers with canvas bags over their heads and then beaten in the face with rifle butts.  The prisoners are shot in the kneecaps and genitals, and they are left on the ground to bleed to death.  Several vans then arrive at the Ukraine military compound in Kharkiv, and as each POW is removed from the van they are shot in the knees.  A second video shows Russian POW’s lying face down in a paved courtyard, or compound, and then being shot in the knees from the rear.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/27/zelenskyy-worried-about-western-financial-support-after-video-surfaces-showing-ukraine-military-torturing-russian-pows/</ref>  On May 1,2022 Sergey Velichko (call sign "Chili") was captured by Russian forces and confessed to the war crime.<ref>https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1520769703165280256</ref>
-The notorious Kraken special forces unit of the Azov nationalist regiment are particularly well known for openly conducting safaris for civilians with a pro-Russian position in the Kharkiv region.
-Reporters stood idly by while POWs were paraded and beaten in public which went unreported in Western media.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/OQelUXM5RPlI/</ref>
-On May 10, 2022 a former French Army soldier who spent several weeks in Ukraine delivering medical equipment and supplies told Sud Radio that Ukrainian Nazis "wanted to skin blacks and [[Jews]]":<ref>https://rumble.com/v14h93b-they-wanted-to-skin-blacks-and-jews-french-volunteer-on-ukrainian-neo-nazis.html</ref>
-{{quotebox-float|"There, on the spot I saw war crimes. I saw a lot of war crimes. The only crimes I saw during the days I was there were perpetrated by Ukrainian forces...I saw Russian soldiers who were taken prisoner, bound and badly beaten…They were brought [to a detention area] in groups of three or four in minibuses. Every soldier exiting the minibus received a bullet from a Kalashnikov rifle in the knee…Those who admitted that they were officers got shot in the head...When I returned to France, I was extremely shocked by what the people who were invited on the TV shows were saying. A chasm exists between what I see and hear on TV and what I saw on the spot. For me it’s abominable...It shocks me enormously that Europe still gives weapons to a force which in my view are neo-Nazis, who have neo-Nazi insignia. We don’t talk about it. It’s an SS insignia brandished across Ukraine, everywhere...No one in Ukraine seems concerned about this, while we arm them with European weapons. They go off and commit war crimes, I saw this myself."<ref>https://youtu.be/FKKRj-8DvCM</ref>}}
-On May 6, 2022 Lucas Leiroz, researcher in Social Sciences at the Rural Federal University of [[Rio de Janeiro]] and a geopolitical consultant, wrote about the evidence of similarities between known CIA torture techniques and torture techniques documented to have been used by neo-Nazis in Ukrainine.<ref>https://southfront.org/did-cia-train-ukrainian-torturers/</ref>
-===NATO-backed foreign mercenaries===
-{{See also|NATO-backed foreign mercenaries}}
-===US-backed Nazi insurgency===
-[[File:Der Untermensch.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Nazi propaganda from World War II depicting Russians as 'The Subhuman'.<ref>Der Untermensch "The subhuman" Editor: The Reichsführer-SS. SS Office, Berlin, 1942, DHM, Berlin. Do 56/685. Revised: SS Office - Training Office, SS Hauptsturmführer King, SS-Obersturmführer Ludwig Pröscholdt in conjunction with the Association of Graphic Jupp Daehler. [http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/deruntermensch.html ''The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team has faithfully translated this infamous Nazi text from the original versions printed in both the German and Russian language. The purpose of this translation is for readers to understand the methods in which the Nazi propaganda machine would seek to dehumanize the victims of its genocidal actions.''] www.holocaustresearchproject.org</ref>  Azov Battalion Commander Andriy Biletsky said "Ukraine's mission is to lead the white races of the world in a final crusade against [[Semite]]-led Untermenschen."<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fighting-russia-takes-focus-off-azov-battalions-nazi-roots-x07lkjl7r</ref> ]]
-''[[Yahoo News]]'' reported on January 13, 2022:
-{{quotebox-float|"The CIA is overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and [[Security Service of Ukraine|other intelligence personnel]], according to five former intelligence and national security officials familiar with the initiative. The program, which started in 2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the Southern U.S., according to some of those officials.
-The program has involved ‘very specific training on skills that would enhance’ the Ukrainians’ ‘ability to push back against the Russians,’ said the former senior intelligence official.
-The training, which has included ‘tactical stuff,’ is ‘going to start looking pretty offensive if Russians invade Ukraine,’ said the former official.
-One person familiar with the program put it more bluntly. ‘The United States is training an insurgency,’ said a former CIA official, adding that the program has taught the Ukrainians how ‘to kill Russians.’”<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/cia-trained-ukrainian-paramilitaries-may-take-central-role-if-russia-invades-185258008.html</ref>}}
-Kherson had been the first city to fall in the incursion.  The first commemoration of the city's liberation from Nazism in 1944 was held since the Maidan coup. The eternal flame to the victims of Nazism and the soldiers who died liberating the city was relit.<ref>https://youtu.be/M68NrUWJCdc</ref>
-By early March, 2022 partisan activity was reported in Kherson.  NATO trained Ukrainian partisan militias and military units to use civilian vehicles to infiltrate and strike behind Russian units with mortar attacks and call in targeted artillery strikes.
-Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, vowed a guerrilla insurgency after the devasting defeat of Armed Forces of Ukraine on the battlefield.<ref>https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/ukraine-says-russia-wants-to-split-nation-into-two/cid/1857888</ref>
-The United States flooded Ukraine with billions of dollars of sophisticated weaponry, with some of those arms ending up in the hands of actual neo-Nazi battalions integrated into the Ukrainian government and military. The ''[[New York Times]]'' admitted that “[[C.I.A.]] officers are helping to ensure that crates of weapons are delivered into the hands of vetted Ukrainian military units."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/19/us/politics/us-ukraine-russia-escalation.html?smid=tw-share</ref>  By definition, the U.S. is waging a proxy war against Russia, using Ukrainians as their instrument, with the goal of not ending the war but prolonging it, making the United States a cobelligerent.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2022-03-17/u-s-is-in-a-proxy-war-with-russia-panetta-video</ref>
-On March 8, 2022, the [[U.S. Congress]] approved a $14 billion aid package for Ukraine - nearly equal to 10% of Ukrainian [[GDP]] ''before'' its loss of territory and population - insuring and funding an insurgency long past the Ukrainian military's defeat in the field by Russian forces.<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/international/597379-congress-reaches-deal-on-billions-in-ukraine-aid</ref>
-==Refugees==
-{{See also|Ukrainian refugees}}
-A group 30-40 child refugees disappeared between the Ukraine and the [[Canary Islands]] raising fears they may have become victims of Western child sex trafficers.<ref>https://www.kiratas.com/the-mysterious-journey-of-the-ukrainian-children-lost-between-huelva-and-the-canary-islands/</ref>
-Ukrainian girl refugees have been exploited in the West in the organized sex trade.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60891801</ref>
-In March 2022, ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported that a group of Polish nationalists attacked and abused groups of African, south Asian and [[Middle East]]ern people who fled Ukraine.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/02/people-of-colour-fleeing-ukraine-attacked-by-polish-nationalists</ref>
-On May 8, 2022 in [[Warsaw]], a group of intoxicated Ukrainians were harassing a young woman.  A Polish man intervened on her behalf and was beaten to death.  Polish citizens questioned why the media covered up the nationality of the suspects when they clearly spoke Ukrainian on the video of the killing.<ref>https://rrussianews.com/news/video-18-ukrainian-refugees-beat-pole-to-death-in-warsaw/</ref>
-Refugees who drove to Germany were granted temporary asylum and received 4,000 euros per month for the first two months; the third month they were notified that because they had an asset, a car, they needed to sell their cars to reimburse the state for the government assistance they had recieved.<ref>https://youtu.be/Wz7MrO64k2o</ref>
-==Economic war==
-{{See also|Great Reset}}
-Anti-Russian sanctions did not strengthen, but, on the contrary, undermined the global dominance of the United States and the EU, which the rest of the world began to treat with distrust and apprehension. They dramatically accelerated the transition to a new world economic order and the shift of the center of the world economy away from the West.  In a little more than two months since the incursion began and sanctions imposed on Russia, the Russian Ruble strengthened from 80 to the dollar to 62, or more than a 15% rise.<ref>https://i0.wp.com/thedreizinreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ruble-62.jpg?w=628&ssl=1</ref>  The Ruble strengthened even more against the [[euro]].  Russia profited from the American and EU sanctions,<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environment/russia-doubles-profits-from-oil-and-gas-sales-to-eu-during-war-study</ref> while the United States and the EU shot itself in the foot under the discombobulated and mistaken notion that they could take Russia down economically, convince the Russian people to rise up, storm the [[Kremlin]], and force Vladimir Putin to resign.
-By the first week of May 2022, gas prices for civilian vehicles in Ukraine hit over $12 per gallon, and consumers were limited to 2.5 gals. Deisel fuel for non-military consumption was non-existent, and rail traffic virtually came to a halt, affecting the delivery of food and gasoline.
-Meanwhile, the United States and European Union fell into a self-inflicted economic [[recession]] with [[inflation]], [[food]] supply and [[gas]] shortages.
 ==Propaganda war==
 {{See also|Ukrainian propaganda war}}
-A clear democratic majority of planet [[Earth]] does not support NATO's war on Russia.  The two most populous countries on the planet, India and China, are not opposing Russia.  Most of [[Africa]] is not condemning Russia.  Similarly, the [[Arab]] and [[Muslim]] world has not condemned Russia.  Only traditional US allies support America's efforts to overthrow the legitimate government of Russia, and many of them are seriously divided on the issue.
-In their drive to stoke hostilities between the West and Russia, corporate media ignored the fact that the U.S. and NATO forces have been supporting openly Neo-Nazi paramilitaries in Ukraine for many years. A MintPress study of the op-ed pages of ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'' and ''The Wall Street Journal'' found that only one of 91 articles published in January 2022 mentioned this connection at all, with far more asserting that Vladimir Putin himself is Hitler incarnate. Around 90% of opinion columns pushed a “get tough on Russia” message, with anti-war voices few and far between.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/279612-2/279612/</ref>  “People who take at face value the Western media coverage would have a very distorted perception of the Ukraine conflict and its origin,” Ivan Katchanovski, Professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, told MintPress, adding:
+From the earliest days of the conflict, the Kyiv regime, with CIA assistance, focused more on winning a global information and propaganda war rather than a military conflict. The phrase "unprovoked invasion" flooded global media.<ref>https://youtu.be/crL0rs8phk4?t=1207</ref>
+[[File:Time fake news Denisova.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Ukraine Human Rights Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova was actually fired in an unprecedented move for manufacturing fake news reports about alleged Russian [[rape]]s and bringing disrepute on the Ukrainian regime.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 June 2022 |title='This will not help us defeat the enemy' A new report looks at Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova, who was fired after officials couldn't confirm her stories of rape committed by Russian soldiers |url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/06/28/we-work-on-the-information-front |access-date= |website=Meduza |language=en}}</ref>]]
+Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia published a landmark paper on August 20, 2022, on the activities of bot accounts on [[Twitter]] related to the conflict in Ukraine. The Australian findings were staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the [[social media]] network from February 23 to March 8, 2022, at the outbreak of the conflict, between 60 and 80% were shared by fake accounts.<ref>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07038.pdf</ref>
 [[File:US intel.PNG|left|300px|thumb|[[NBC News]] reported U.S. 'intelligence' were using dubious reports even when the source was questionable.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/us-intelligence-says-its-intelligence-is-bullshit.html</ref>]]
-[[File:Wolfsangel.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ukrainian flag with Nazi SS Wolfsangel insignia. Ukranian Nazis served in the Nazi SS Galacia Division to fight against Russia in [[World War II]] and are known for horrific atrocities against Russian, [[Polish]], and [[Jewish]] civilians.<ref>https://spzh.news/en/zashhita-very/68324-ss-galichina-uniaty-kholokost-i-zhizny-v-sostojanii-lzhi</ref>]]
+A clear democratic majority of planet [[Earth]] does not support NATO's war on Russia.  The two most populous countries on the planet, India and China, are not opposing Russia.  Most of [[Africa]] is not condemning Russia.  Similarly, the [[Arab]] and [[Muslim]] world has not condemned Russia.  Only traditional US allies support America's efforts to overthrow the legitimate government of Russia, and many of them are seriously divided on the issue.
-{{quotebox-float|"They omit or deny that there is a civil war in Donbas even though the majority of scholars who [have] published or presented concerning this conflict in Western academic venues classify it as a civil war with Russian military intervention. The Western media also omitted that recent ‘unity marches’ in Kharkiv and Kyiv and a staged training of civilians, including a grandmother, were organized and led by the far right, in particular, the Neo-Nazi Azov [Battalion].”<ref>https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1490034084600594436</ref>}}
-Virtually all the [[fake news]] stories came from the mouth of Volodymyr Zelensky.  In the [[United Nations]], though two votes were mostly symbolic and watered down, the number of nations voting with the US fell from a majority of 141 to a less-than-majority of 93 in just a matter of weeks, revealing how the propaganda war faltered outside of Western media markets.<ref>https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/1971335/countries-flipping-toward-russia-since-start-of-the-war</ref>  At least 150 Western-based global communications firms participated in creating and spreading propaganda for the Kyiv regime, using exclusively the Kyiv regime reporting since the beginning of hostilities.<ref>https://www.prweek.com/article/1748159/global-pr-community-rallies-help-ukraine-government-comms</ref>
+The incidents are too numerous to list (and many more are available at the above See also link), including deliberate war crimes committed by the Ukrainian government against its own citizens to blame on the Russian forces for global propaganda purposes.
-On May 16, 2022 it was reported that French television viewers were outraged when a female Ukrainian neo-Nazi was invited to speak live on BFMTV.<ref>https://youtu.be/5IyPMm-rUcg</ref>  ''Reuters'' reported that AFU forces repelled Russians in the Sumy region with [[paintball]] guns.<ref>https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/05/16/ummm-guys-pic-of-armed-ukrainians-reuters-shares-with-ukraine-repelling-russia-in-sumy-region-story-looks-a-little-off-lol/</ref>  In Novozolovska, Russian forces found NATO propaganda materials in schools aimed at Ukrainian children, designed to convince them that an American [[Superman]] was going to defend them against Russia.<ref>https://youtu.be/0ZKwdjocVNY?t=336</ref>
+On June 16, 2022, Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France, Olaf Scholz of Germany, Mario Draghi of Italy, and Klaus Iohannis of Romania travelled to Kyiv to present an alternative view to Volodymyr Zelensky for peace and negotiations versus the warmongering view of NATO escalation advocated by Boris Johnson and Joe Biden.  The racist Western media however, ignored Iohannis's presence and reported only on the three white presidents.<ref>https://thesaker.is/nothing-will-be-as-before/</ref>
-===''The Kyiv Independent''===
+On October 10, 2022, the head of the Department of Cyber Security of Ukraine, Police Colonel Yuriy Zaskoka was killed in the epicenter of a Russian cruise missile attack.<ref>https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/10/10/russia-strikes-kyiv-multiple-ukrainian-cities-many-dead.html</ref>
-The Kyiv “Independent” was slapped together in November 2021 with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called “an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.”  The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the U.S. government-funded “[[NGO]]” National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the [[CIA]] used to do covertly, namely orchestrate [[coup]]s and manage narratives to advance U.S. interests. A page on an NED website says that “All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the [[European Parliament]] and civil society experts."<ref>https://www.cima.ned.org/donor-profiles/european-endowment-democracy/</ref>  This makes ''The Kyiv Independent'' a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs on [[Twitter]], a major [[Silicon Valley]] corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government [[censorship]] by proxy, it also facilitates government [[propaganda]] by proxy.<ref>https://humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the-fog-of-information-war-in-ukraine/</ref>
+After all the death and destruction NATO wrought in Ukraine by February 2024, an interview with Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky garnered only 38,000 views on [[YouTube]], whereas an interview with President Vladimir Putin on the X platform with [[Tucker Carlson]] receive over 90 million in just 12 hours.
 ===Bucha massacre===
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+[[File:Reuters Izium fake news.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Reuters withdrew the initial attempt by the Zelensky regime to create another false narrative about alleged Russian massacres.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/ukraine-dissecting-some-war-propaganda-news-items-addendum.html</ref>]]
 Western media and the NATO allies [[coverup]] came unglued by their own investigation.  A team of forensic investigators from Kyiv reported that dozens of civilians who died in the city of Bucha were killed by tiny metal arrows from shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) artillery.
-Pathologists and coroners who are carrying out postmortems on bodies found in mass graves in the region north of Kyiv said they found small metal darts, called fléchettes, embedded in people’s heads and chests.  “We found several really thin, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women and so did others of my colleagues in the region,” Vladyslav Pirovskyi, a Ukrainian forensic doctor, told ''[[The Guardian]]''. “It is very hard to find those in the body, they are too thin. The majority of these bodies come from the Bucha-Irpin region.”
+Pathologists and coroners who are carrying out postmortems on bodies found in mass graves in the region north of Kyiv said they found small metal darts, called fléchettes, embedded in people's heads and chests.  “We found several really thin, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women and so did others of my colleagues in the region,” Vladyslav Pirovskyi, a Ukrainian forensic doctor, told ''[[The Guardian]]''. “It is very hard to find those in the body, they are too thin. The majority of these bodies come from the Bucha-Irpin region.”
 Independent weapons experts who reviewed pictures of the metal arrows found in the bodies confirmed that they were fléchettes, an anti-personnel weapon widely used during the first world war.  These small metal darts are contained in tank or field gun shells. Each shell can contain up to 8,000 fléchettes. Once fired, shells burst when a timed fuse detonates and explodes above the ground.
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 Fléchettes were not widely used during the [[Second World War]], but were brough back by the US during the [[Vietnam war]].  “Fléchettes are an anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation and to strike a large number of enemy soldiers,” according to Amnesty International. “They should never be used in built-up civilian areas.”<ref>https://southfront.org/bucha-investigation-contradicts-itself-confirms-afus-atrocities/</ref>
-A team of 18 experts from the forensic department of France’s national gendarmerie, alongside a team of forensic investigators from Kyiv, have started documenting the situation after the re-occupation of Bucha by the SBU Safari force.  “We are seeing a lot mutilated (disfigured) bodies,” said Pirovsky. “A lot of them had their hands tied behind their backs and shots in the back of their heads. There were also cases with automatic gunfire, like six to eight holes on the back of victims. And we have several cases of cluster bombs’ elements embedded in the bodies of the victims.”
+A team of 18 experts from the forensic department of France's national gendarmerie, alongside a team of forensic investigators from Kyiv, have started documenting the situation after the re-occupation of Bucha by the SBU Safari force.  “We are seeing a lot mutilated (disfigured) bodies,” said Pirovsky. “A lot of them had their hands tied behind their backs and shots in the back of their heads. There were also cases with automatic gunfire, like six to eight holes on the back of victims. And we have several cases of cluster bombs’ elements embedded in the bodies of the victims.”
 Evidence collected by experts during a visit to Bucha, Hostomel and Borodianka, and reviewed by independent weapons experts, showed that cluster munitions and powerful unguided bombs were used in the region. They killed a large number of civilians and destroyed at least eight buildings. These types of weapons are banned by the Ottawa Convention, which Ukraine is party to.  Illegal cluster munitions were discovered in Ukrainian weapons storage depots.
-===Chemical weapons===
+===Mass rapes===
-The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an intergovernmental organisation and the implementing body for the [[Chemical Weapons Convention]] (CWC), which entered into force on April 29, 1997.  The organisation promotes and verifies the adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits the use of chemical weapons and requires their destruction. Verification consists both of evaluation of declarations by member states and onsite inspections.  The OPCW, with its 193 member states, is based in [[The Hague]], [[Netherlands]] and oversees the global endeavour for the permanent and verifiable elimination of chemical weapons.  The organisation was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]  in 2013.
+Lyudmyla Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights, was fired when no evidence could be found of her allegations of 400 instances of mass rape by Russian soldiers.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-05-31/card/ukraine-s-parliament-dismisses-human-rights-chief-1kQWT7i0GHXyeqh6spRe</ref>  238 Members of Parliament voted her out.  Denisova was accused of failing to perform her duties and in particular of spreading fake news and propaganda about atrocities supposedly committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.  Such actions only served to tarnish Ukraine's image, MPs have argued. Other complaints were that Denisova had failed to organize humanitarian corridors and POW exchanges.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/rape-allegations-against-russian-troops-in-ukraine-were-fake.html#more</ref>
-On September 27, 2017, OPCW announced that Russia had destroyed its entire chemical weapons stockpile.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbc.ru/society/27/09/2017/59cb9f2b9a79472490943b5b|title=Путин поучаствовал в уничтожении последнего в России килограмма химоружия|website=РБК|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2017/09/opcw-director-general-commends-major-milestone-russia-completes|title=OPCW Director-General Commends Major Milestone as Russia Completes Destruction of Chemical Weapons Stockpile under OPCW Verification|website=OPCW}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/CSP/C-22/national_statements/UK_Statement.pdf|title=UK Delegation to the OPCW}}</ref>
+The fake news stories stemming from high ranking Ukrainian officials were widely disseminated by [[TIME magazine|''TIME'' magazine]], [[CNN]], ''[[Newsweek]]'' and other fake news sources.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-fires-human-rights-chief-perpetuating-russian-troop-systematic-rape-stories</ref>
-According to Jacques Baud, a former high-ranking NATO and UN official, on January 18, 2022 Donbas defense units captured Polish speaking saboteurs equipped with Western equipment and who were seeking to create chemical incidents in Horlivka.<ref>https://mronline.org/2022/04/10/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/</ref>
+==In popular culture==
+{{See also|Songs from the NATO war in Ukraine}}
-Every indication by the Americans early on was for preparation of another false flag chemical weapons attack. By early April, it appeared it would possibly occur in Kharkiv, Kyiv, or Poland.  On April 6, 2022 the Russian Ministry of Defense accused Ukraine of preparing a false flag chemical weapons attack with [[chlorine]] in Pervomaiskyi, in the Kharkiv region.<ref>https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/6-april-russian-ministry-of-defense-accuse-ukraine-in-preparation</ref>  In a story published by NBC News on April 6, 20222 about the U.S. [[intelligence community]]'s use of [[fake news]] in its propaganda war against Russia entitled, ''In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn't rock solid,''<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-using-declassified-intel-fight-info-war-russia-even-intel-isnt-rock-rcna23014</ref> the article included this statement:
+==See also==
-{{quotebox-float|"three U.S. officials told NBC News this week there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine."}}
+*[[Spetznaz OSMAN]]
-Nonetheless the fake news about Russia plotting a chemical weapons attack can be traced back to the mouth of [[White House]] chief propagandist [[Jen Psaki]].<ref>https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-jen-psaki-chemical-weapons-weapons-of-mass-destruction-f01cedf434ec697034b2912696a3448b</ref>
+*[[StormZet]]
+*[[Grisha Putin]]
-On April 11, 2022 Western-backed Nazi remnants hopelessly trapped in the [[Azovstal]] steel plant broadcast details of an alleged chemical weapons attack.<ref>https://youtu.be/1NplyTyCjL0</ref>  This 'red line' that Russophobic hardliners in the West vowed would bring about NATO intervention was largely ignored by Western media and governments.
-==Belligerents==
-[[File:Lavrov March 19 2022.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov comment during Q & A at the Leaders of Russia Management Competition, Moscow, March 19, 2022.<ref>https://thesaker.is/foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-leaders-of-russia-management-competition-moscow-march-19-2022/</ref>]]
-''[[Reuters]]'' reported that the heads of 22 diplomatic missions, including those of [[European Union]] member states, released a joint letter on March 1, 2022 urging [[Pakistan]] to support a resolution in the [[United Nations General Assembly]] (UNGA) condemning Russia.  Pakistani prime minister [[Imran Khan]] responded at a public event in [[Islamabad]] saying, "What do you think of us? Are we your [[slave]]s ... that whatever you say, we will do?"<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistani-premier-hits-out-western-envoys-joint-letter-russia-2022-03-06/</ref>
-U.S. Col Douglas MacGregor, a critic of the globalist and [[Uniparty]] war on Russia said, "Russia to them [the Uniparty and globalists] represents the last major European state that is not part of the globalist internationalist empire, if you will. They've [Russia] resisted [[LGBTQ]], they've resisted what I would call this interesting blend of [[nihilism]], [[Marxism]], [[atheism]], and as a result, they [Russia] have to be [[subvert]]ed and overthrown."<ref>https://youtu.be/v3Gn4FG_BFY</ref>  On April 11, 2022 Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said,
-{{quotebox-float|"Russia's military action in Ukraine is meant to put an end to the US-dominated world order…Our special military operation is also meant to put an end to the unabashed expansion of NATO and the unabashed drive towards full domination by the United States and its Western subjects on the world stage...This domination is built on gross violations of international law and under some rules, which they are now hyping so much and which they make up on a case-by-case basis”.}}
-On April 25, 2022, NATO carried out another terror attack on the Russian city of Bryansk.<ref>https://youtu.be/rwQzZt5GyiE</ref>
-===Sweden===
-On February 28, 2022 [[Sweden]], a non-NATO member, announced the country would supply the Kyiv regime with 5,000 anti-tank weapons, 135,000 field rations, 5,000 helmets, and 5,000 pieces of body armor.  It was the first time Sweden sent finished weapons to a country since the [[Russo-Finnish war]] of 1939.  Sweden sold iron ore vital to [[Nazi Germany]]'s war effort throughout World War II and allowed passage of German troops via rail to Finland to fight the Soviet Union.  On March 3, 2022, Sweden claimed two Russian SU-27 and two SU-24 fighters invaded its airspace.<ref>https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/03/sweden-summons-russian-officials-after-fighter-jets-fly-near-gotland-island</ref>
-===European Union===
-For the first time in its history, the [[European Commission]] financed the purchase and transport of weapons.  The package cost 450 million euros ($502m) to be delivered to the Kyiv regime.<ref>https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/russia-ukraine-crisis-us-tells-nationals-to-consider-leaving-russia-immediately/cid/1853839</ref>  The European Commission also closed its airspace to Russian commercial airflight.
-On March 11, 2022, EU external minister Josep Borrell back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war,
-{{quotebox-float|"I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West.  There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO."<ref>https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/west-made-mistake-in-promising-ukraine-nato-membership-borrell</ref>}}
-On April 9, 2022 Borrell announced more military aid to Kyiv saying that the conflict “will be won on the battlefield," a rather curious, if not foolish and downright dangerous statement given that the European Union has no military forces of its own.<ref>https://armedia.am/eng/news/103100/this-war-will-be-won-on-the-battlefield-borrell.html</ref>  Borrell appeared to be encouraging Ukrainian forces to continue fighting in a lost cause to perpetuate more needless slaughter.
-===World Economic Forum===
-The [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF) announced that it severed “all relations” with the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin due to the ongoing Ukraine denazification operation.  “We are not engaging with any sanctioned individual and have frozen all relations with Russian entities,” a spokesperson told ''[[Politico]]''.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/08/davos-putin-russian-oligarchs-00015344</ref>  Putin was completely scrubbed from the [[WEF]] website.<ref>https://twitter.com/teddyfenton1/status/1498792512772784128|</ref>
-===NATO===
-NATO is a system whereby European powers allow the US military to operate on their territory in exchange for the United States picking up a large portion of their defense costs. It essentially saddles US taxpayers with the cost of upholding European [[Socialism]] at the expense of America's own social welfare system, like [[healthcare]].
-''Sputnik'' reported that a laptop with intelligence data was found at one of the headquarters of the neo-Nazi Pravy Sektor. The computer allegedly has a licensed NATO registry number, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) head Denis Pushilin said.  "The militants of the nationalists battalions have a special level of security clearance from the North Atlantic Alliance. This laptop contains a detailed map of the area with the location of our units," Pushilin said.<ref>https://sputniknews.com/20220306/nato-labelled-laptop-with-intelligence-found-at-ukrainian-nationalists-hq-dpr-head-says--1093639199.html</ref>
-[[File:Nato Libya war crimes.PNG|right|300px|thumb|NATO has been accused of [[lawlessness]] and war crimes in the post-[[Cold War]] period, particularly in the [[Kosovo]] and [[Libyan war]]s.]]
-On March 12, 2022, NATO Secretary-General [[Jens Stoltenberg]] began walking back NATO threats to Russia by saying membership for Ukraine was not relevant or on the agenda.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukraines-nato-membership-is-not-relevant-or-on-the-agenda-jens-stoltenberg_4333429.html</ref>  According to reports, Stoltenberg said that any support from [[China]] to Russia would help Russia to continue to wage war and that China has an obligation as a member of the UN Security Council to uphold international law.  The spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the [[EU]] responded:
-{{quotebox-float|"we will never forget who had bombed our embassy in the Federal Republic of [[Yugoslavia]]. We need no lecture on [[justice]] from the abuser of international law. As a [[Cold War]] remnant and the world’s largest military alliance, NATO continues to expand its geographical scope and range of operations. What kind of role it has played in world peace and stability? NATO needs to have good reflection.<ref>http://www.chinamission.be/eng/fyrjh/202203/t20220317_10652463.htm</ref>}}
-In an interview with CNN on March 20, 2022, President Zelensky said “I requested them personally to say directly that we are going to accept you into NATO in a year or two or five, just say it directly and clearly, or just say no.  And the response was very clear, 'you’re not going to be a NATO member, but publicly, the doors will remain open.'”<ref>https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-20-22/h_7c08d64201fdd9d3a141e63e606a62e4</ref>
-Former [[Warsaw Pact]] NATO members sent their old Soviet-era weapons and equipment to Ukraine, not out of fear of Russia or Putin, but in exchange for free, upgraded replacement equipment courtesy of the US taxpayer and [[military industrial complex]].  The exchange of equipment keeps Raytheon and other US defenses contractors' employees employed, as well as Congressional funding flowing for upgrades and development of new weapons systems.
-On March 28, 2022 ''[[Yahoo News]]'' reported that NATO was conducting combat exercises on the Belarusian border.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/belarusian-border-nato-military-exercise-152954622.html</ref>
-On April 1, 2022, ''Reuters'' reported an attack on a fuel storage facility in the Russian city of Belgorod, north of the Russia-Ukraine border.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-702949</ref> Ukrainian National Security Council Oleksiy Danilov denied any Ukrainian involvement.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-strikes-fuel-depot-russias-belgorod-regional-official-says-2022-04-01/</ref>  On April 13, 2022 more attempts at sabotage and strikes were reported against facilities on Russian Federation territory.  Moscow said that if such incidents continue, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centers, including those in Kyiv.
-On the night of April 13-14 , the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the cruiser ''Moskva'', was seriously damaged. A ship of this class in the Black Sea conditions could have been successfully attacked either by a complex of anti-ship systems, including both missiles and aircrafts, or by a submarine. According to ''Southfront'' NATO military was directly involved in the attack.<ref>https://southfront.org/war-in-ukraine-day-48-wheel-of-war-heads-downhill</ref>  Russia sent a formal ''[[demarche]]'' to [[Washington, D.C.]] warning the United States to stop arming Ukraine or face "unpredictable consequences."<ref>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/04/16/world/russia-warning-us-weapons-ukraine/</ref>
-To impede NATO supply lines to the fascist Kyiv regime, on the night of April 24, 2022 and morning of April 25, Russian cruise missiles destroyed six traction substations within the Ukrainian rail system, paralyzing all electric trains in western Ukraine, leaving all the NATO heavy equipment stuck on the rails and an easy target for cruise missiles.
-On May 14, 2022 it was reported that AFU forces were given orders not to complain on social media about having to use foreign weapons.  Western weapons, such as the Javelin, are too complicated and fail in use.<ref>https://youtu.be/zAgAWMOiK5Y</ref>  The Italian newspaper ''Il Giornale'' reported that military-grade weaponry in Ukraine was allegedly being sold on to international buyers on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.  Weapons said to be for sale include not just Ukrainian-origin arms such as old Soviet-era AK-47 rifles, but also American-made rifles like the [[M16]] and the M4, along with other NATO member-origin firearms like the ARX 160 A1 manufactured by the Italian weapons company Beretta.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/05/14/western-weapons-in-ukraine-being-sold-on-via-encrypted-messaging-app-report/</ref>
-====United States====
-[[File:Burisma Board Dir Hunter Biden.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Hunter Biden, who was paid over $4 million from a corrupt Ukrainian oil and gas firm, arranged funding for, and is a stockholder in, the largest contractor operating US bioweapons laboratories bordering Russia in Ukraine which Russia deems a national security threat.<ref>https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/03/25/hunter-biden-laptop-revelations-uncover-depth-of-elite-institutional-corruption/</ref>]]
-The United States owns and operates biological laboratories in Ukraine.<ref>https://21wire.tv/2018/01/21/wmd-america-inside-the-pentagons-global-bioweapons-industry/</ref><ref>https://badvolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/US-Biolabs-in-Ukraine-BadVolf-Investigation.pdf</ref>  An agreement to operate the laboratories was signed in 2005.<ref>https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/95251.pdf</ref>  On March 21, Joe Biden announced a second "new world order"<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-real-reset-is-coming_4359506.html</ref> after the failure of the first, which was announced by President [[George H.W. Bush]] on September 11, 1991 - exactly ten years to the day prior to the [[9/11 attacks]] which spelled the doom of the first new world order and was completed by Joe Biden with his humiliating [[Fall of Kabul|withdrawal from Afghanistan]] nearly twenty years later to the day.  On March 22, 2022 the Russian state [[Duma]] established a parliamentary commission to investigate the American biological laboratories operating in Ukraine.<ref>https://interkomitet.com/live/leonid-slutsky-the-state-duma-almost-unanimously-voted-for-a-parliamentary-investigation-into-the-circumstances-of-the-creation-of-biological-laboratories-on-the-territory-of-ukraine/</ref>  Deputy Leonid Slutsky, who is a member of the committee, issued a statement:
-{{quotebox-float|"Russia will continue to raise the issue of the need to investigate US activities in the field of biological research, including in the UN structures. Obviously, we can talk about a direct violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons (BTWC).
-What is known today from the materials that were discovered during the special military operation in Ukraine? The biolaboratories were formally under the jurisdiction of the Central Sanitary and Epidemiological Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, but Americans were placed as curators everywhere. In fact, pathogens of dangerous diseases were tested on the local genotype (Slavic). At the same time, pathogens were created that, most likely, they tried to make resistant to commercial [[vaccine]]s or [[antibiotic]]s. There were about 30 such laboratories in total, 13 of them had a very high level of protection.
-Against this background, according to experts, in recent years Ukraine has turned into some incomprehensible hotbed of old and new diseases. For example, we all remember that [[measles]] was defeated in the [[USSR]]. But in 2005-2007, measles returned to Ukraine, moreover, in the form of an [[epidemic]], and until 2021 it was present as a significant disease. [[WHO]] even named Ukraine the capital of measles.
-A similar situation was with cholera. The last cases of cholera were registered in the country in the 90s, but in 2011 33 people fell ill with cholera in Mariupol, in 2014 there were already 800 people, in 2015-2017 more than 100 cases were recorded annually in Nikolaev.
-Further more interesting: in 2009 Ternopil, 450 Ukrainians suffered from a virus that causes hemorrhagic pneumonia, which has never been present in the north of [[Eurasia]], this [[virus]] is characteristically noted in Equatorial Africa. How he got there is a big question.
-I specifically cite this data in detail in order to show the scope of everything that existed in the immediate vicinity of the territory of Russia. And it’s really scary."}}
-[[File:DTRA contractors in Ukraine.png|left|250px|thumb|Metabiota, a company financed by Hunter Biden's [[Rosemont Seneca]] partnership with the [[CCP]], receives the lion's share of Defense Department funding for its Ukrainian bio labs.<ref>https://archive.fo/fVtcf</ref>]]
-Joe Biden's son, the corrupt self-admitted crackhead Hunter Biden, secured millions of dollars in funding for Metabiota, a [[U.S. Department of Defense]] contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research which he himself, through his company [[Rosemont Seneca]], had invested in.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10652127/Hunter-Biden-helped-secure-millions-funding-military-biotech-research-program-Ukraine.html</ref>
-[[File:Buffalo shooter manifesto.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Cover page of the Buffalo shooter's manifesto with Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov regiment logo.<ref>https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1525601782197817344</ref>]]
-An American military aircraft was seen in the emergency area with the Russian cruiser ''Moskva''.  The ''Moskva'' was near Odessa, closer to Romania. The ''Moskva'' was equipped with a new phased array locator with illumination range is 500 km.  At about 19 pm, an American military patrol and reconnaissance anti-submarine aircraft of the [[US Navy]] was spotted in the western part of Romanian airspace. The latter was located approximately 70 kilometers from the location of the Russian missile cruiser ''Moskva''.  According to data available to the Avia.pro news agency, a US military patrol reconnaissance and anti-submarine Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft was in the eastern part of Romanian airspace, flying with an unknown target. According to a number of data, the flight of the Boeing RC-135 aircraft was also carried out, however, the latter could not be tracked by the [https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ ADS-B Exchange] resource.  According to the ADS-B Exchange resource, the American Boeing P-8 Poseidon aircraft with the ICAO identification code AE681B was flying near the Zhurilovka settlement (Romania). However, due to the transponder periodically turned off by the crew, experts do not exclude that the bird could also fly over the western part of the Black Sea, where, according to preliminary information, the Russian missile cruiser ''Moskva'' was located.  What kind of information could be collected by the American military reconnaissance aircraft Boeing P-8 Poseidon is still unknown, however, judging by the data presented, the bird was still in the air at 21 hours and 17 minutes.<ref>https://avia-pro.net/news/v-rayone-chp-s-rossiyskim-kreyserom-moskva-byl-zamechen-amerikanskiy-voennyy-samolyot</ref>  The reaction of public opinion in the Russian Federation to the interference and provocation by the United States and killing of their sailors was one of outrage, and demanding that their government and leaders take appropriate action.
-The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 (S. 3522 [[117th Congress]]), by which Congress appropriated $40 billion in aid to Ukraine, was introduced into Congress on January 19, 2022, more than 5 weeks before the Russian incursion began.<ref>[https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3522/summary/00 Introduced in Senate (01/19/2022) Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022]</ref>  Critics assailed the action as just another [[money laundering]] bonanza for the [[military-industrial complex]] and not a coherent or well-thought-out military strategy.<ref>https://beforeitsnews.com/war-and-conflict/2022/05/u-s-aid-to-ukraine-looks-like-money-laundering-scheme-west-used-ukraine-as-pretext-for-undeclared-war-with-russia-2475234.html</ref>
-On May 14, 2022 an 18 year old man in [[Buffalo, New York]] shot and killed 10 civilians at a supermarket. The shooter left behind a manifesto ornamented with the Azov Battalion Black Sun logo and highly critical of opponents of US support for the Ukrainian regime.<ref> https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2022/05/14/buffalo-shooter-references-ukrainian-azov-battalion-nazi-symbols-hated-those-opposing-us-involvement-in-ukraine-conflict/</ref>
-====Canada====
-On November 9, 2021, ''Ottawa Citizen'' military reporter David Pugliese revealed that when [[Canadian]] military officials met with the neo-Nazi [[Azov Battalion]] in June 2018, they knew the group used the Nazi “Wolfsangel” symbol and praised officials who helped slaughter [[Jews]] and [[Polish|Poles]] during World War II. “A year before the meeting,” reports Pugliese, "Canada’s Joint Task Force Ukraine produced a briefing on the Azov Battalion, acknowledging its links to Nazi ideology."<ref>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-officials-who-met-with-ukrainian-unit-linked-to-neo-nazis-feared-exposure-by-news-media-documents</ref>  Rather than express public disagreement with their views, Canadian military officials sought to manage any potential public relations fallout from at least two meetings, which included Azov representatives boasting about their Canadian support.
-[[File:Freeland nazism.PNG|left|350px|thumb|Deputy Prime Minister [[Chrystia Freeland]] holding a nazi banner.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/canadas-deputy-pm-caught-holding-pro-nazi-scarf-at-ukraine-rally</ref>]]
-A September 2021 report from an Institute at George Washington University revealed that Centuria boasted about being trained by some of the 200 Canadian troops in the Ukraine. The report detailed Centuria members making Nazi salutes, praising [[SS]] units and promoting [[white supremacy]].<ref>https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/far-right-extremists-in-ukrainian-military-bragged-about-canadian-training-report-says-1.5631304</ref>
-In March 2016 retired Canadian soldier Oksana Kuzyshyn spoke at an event titled “A Canadian’s experience training the AZOV Battalion to NATO standards”.<ref>https://ucpbacalgary.ca/event/march-31-2016-one-canadians-experience-training-the-azov-batallion-to-nato-standards/</ref>  One month earlier “nearly 200 officer cadets and professors of Canada’s Royal Military College” attended a screening of Ukrainians/Les Ukrainiens: God’s Volunteer Battalion, which praised fascist militias fighting in the [[Donbas]].<ref>https://ucpbacalgary.ca/event/march-31-2016-one-canadians-experience-training-the-azov-batallion-to-nato-standards/</ref>
-Since U.S. and Canadian backed ultranationalists overthrew [[democracy|democratically]] elected President [[Viktor Yanukovych]] in the 2014 Maidan coup, Canadian politicians have spoken alongside and marched with Canadian members of Ukraine’s Pravy Sektor,<ref>http://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2016/09/what-is-far-right-organisation-right.html</ref> which said it was “defending the values of white, Christian Europe against the loss of the nation and deregionalisation.”<ref>https://mondediplo.com/2014/03/02ukraine</ref>  Pravy Sektor has been implicated in the [[Odessa Trade Unions House massacre]] wherein at least 46 ethnic Russians were burnt alive by Maidan fascists.  The black and red flag of Pravy Sektor is based on the Nazi-era "bloods and soil" flag.
-Alongside the U.S., Canada has funded, equipped and trained the neo-Nazi infiltrated National Police of Ukraine (NPU), which was founded after the democratically Yanukovych was overthrown. A former deputy commander of the Azov Battalion, Vadim Troyan had a series of senior positions in the NPU, including acting chief.<ref>https://yvesengler.com/2020/03/01/neo-nazis-arrest-highlights-ottawas-support-for-ukrainian-far-right/</ref>
-Efraim Zuroff, the Director of the [[Simon Wiesenthal|Simon Wiesenthal Center]] in [[Israel]], denounced Canadian troops for training neo-Nazi fighters in Ukraine, saying Ottawa has a responsibility to prevent such things from happening.   “The Government of Canada did not exercise due diligence” Ephraim Zuroff told ''Citizen'' of Ottawa. “There is no doubt that there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine in various forms, whether in the Azov Regiment or other organizations."<ref>https://www.b92.net/eng/news/world.php?yyyy=2022&mm=04&dd=14&nav_id=113531</ref>
-During his trip to Ukraine in 2016 [[Justin Trudeau]] was photographed with Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy, who had a background with the ultranationalists and was accused of praising [[Hitler]].<ref>https://www.mondialisation.ca/meet-andriy-parubiy-the-former-neo-nazi-leader-turned-speaker-of-ukraines-parliament/5520502</ref>  In ''Canada is Not Back: How Justin Trudeau is in Over His Head on Foreign Policy'', Jocelyn Coulon, who was a member of Trudeau’s International Affairs Council of Advisers and then an adviser to former foreign minister Stephane Dion, described how the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) sabotaged efforts to lessen tension with Russia. “Dion’s determination to restore relations with Russia quickly came up against pro Ukrainian pressure groups,” he wrote.
-To a large extent Ottawa and Washington view the Ukraine as a proxy to weaken Russia. As part of this geopolitical competition, they’ve backed neo-Nazi militia members fighting the independent [[Donbas]] republics.<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref>
-=====Canadian mercenaries=====
-A celebrated Canadian sniper nicknamed Wali who served in [[Afghanistan]] answered Zelensky's call for mercenaries with much fanfare and signed a three-year contract in early March 2022,<ref>https://youtu.be/HofYk2KPLTQ</ref> according to the [[CBC]]. By May, Wali broke his contract with the Kyiv regime, deserted, and returned to Canada without adding any kills to his reputation after seeing two Ukrainians blown apart by a tank shell.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-canadian-forces-1.6443048</ref>
-Other Canadian mercenaries tell how at one point they discovered one of the Ukrainians had a tattoo on his hand of a “black sun,” a symbol used by the SS in Nazi Germany and sometimes by the Neo-fascist movement.  “My friend James who was there literally spat on the ground in front of him … and said ‘this is everything our grandfathers fought against in the Second World War.’”<ref>https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/turmoil-for-norman-brigade-canadian-led-foreign-battalion-in-ukraine</ref>
-====United Kingdom====
-According to ''RIA Novosti'', British officers were abruptly redeployed to Kyiv on February 24, 2022 to command defense of the city from a headquarters set up in a school.  “A source in the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that after a swift offensive by a group of Russian troops on February 24 against Kiev, the British, who were assisting with intelligence to the ATO headquarters in Kramatorsk, moved to Kiev to lead the city’s defence from a headquarters based at school No 72″, – he said.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2022/05/13/british-officers-already-working-in-kramatorsk-12-days-before-russian-special-operation-in-ukraine-begins/</ref>
-Ukrainian commanders told ''[[The Times of London]]'' that soldiers from Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) trained Ukrainian troops in Kyiv.<ref>https://archive.ph/5CG2z</ref>
-====France====
-On March 26, 2022 two officers of the main department of external security of the Ministry of Defense of the French Republic (DGSE) flying by helicopter were shot down by [[Russian]] forces while on a mission to withdraw fighters from the [[Battle of Mariupol]].<ref>https://avia--pro-net.translate.goog/news/na-ukraine-sbit-vertolyot-s-oficerami-francuzskoy-razvedki-dgse</ref>  The two were immediately taken prisoner by the Russians.  According to reports by both a Russian and Ukrainian source, French soldiers from the Special Operations Command were in Mariupol side by side with the Azov Nazis.  Troops attached to the Special Operations Command are under the orders of Chief of the Defense Staff, General Thierry Burkhard, but they receive their orders directly from the Chief of the Armed Forces, President Emmanuel Macron.  On March 31, 2022, General Eric Vidaud, the head of the Direction of Military Intelligence (DRM), was fired.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/31/frances-intelligence-chief-failed-predict-invasion-step-immediately/</ref>
-Public broadcaster France-Télévision presented a report on during the France-2 evening news, on March 31, 2022.<ref>https://www.voltairenet.org/article216354.html?id_article=216354#social</ref> The report acknowledged that the Azov Battalion consisted of neo-Nazi elements since 2014, singling out one of its founders, Andriy Biletsky, but insisted that it had evolved into a respectable defense force. However, France-2 omitted to mention its other founder, [[Dmytro Yarosh]], who during the Russia-Ukraine war was Adviser to the [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
-The French channel referred to an old United Nations report documenting systematic torture in [[Donbas]], but it neglected to mention either the Azov Battalion's special prisons uncovered by the Russian army,<ref>https://thesaker.is/former-sbu-employee-revealed-information-about-secret-prisons-in-donbass-and-kievs-involvement-in-downing-mh17/</ref> or statements issued by the UN in this regard. France-2 also failed to explain the weight of the [[Banderite]]s in [[Ukrainian nationalist]] history, reducing the prominence of the neo-Nazis to brandishing the [[swastika]]. France-2 reported the threat to be between 3,000 and 5,000 men, while ''[[Reuters]]'' reported the paramilitary [[Banderite]]s number to be 102,000 men, split into several militias incorporated within the Territorial Defense.
-With Macron facing re-election in weeks, the fact French officers were holed up training neo-Nazis in Azovstal was an embarrassing revelation. <ref>https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/09/nato-fails-to-evacuate-military-advisors-from-mariupol-in-dry-cargo-ship/</ref>
-=====Hate crimes against Russians=====
-The Paris office of Rossotrudnichestvo, a Russian federal government agency carrying out responsibilities for foreign aid and cultural exchange, was under attack after a [[Molotov cocktail]] thrown at it. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova asked French authorities to act on the matter and claimed that similar [[hate crimes]] are at spike by writing, "We demand that French authorities ensure proper security for our official institutions. Exactly the same kinds of attacks regularly faced Russian missions on the territory of Ukraine until 2022 - including the Russian Consulate General in Lvov in December 2021."  Russians living abroad have reportedly experienced a worrisome rise in [[discrimination]], hate crimes and acts of [[vandalism]] amidst the ongoing global NATO-inspired [[Russophobic]] [[psyop]]s.<ref>https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/russian-agency-building-attacked-in-paris-with-molotov-amid-ukraine-invasion-articleshow.html</ref>
-====Germany====
-[[File:Florence Gaub.PNG|right|300px|thumb|NATO propaganda to dehumanize Russians.]]
-On February 26, 2022 [[Germany]] announced it would deliver 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 [[Stinger]] missiles to the Kyiv regime.  The German Interior Ministry declared on March 28, 2022 that any individual who displays the letter “Z” would be liable for prosecution.  The letter was displayed on Russian military vehicles during Operation Denazification.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089229499/german-states-outlaw-z</ref>
-Florence Gaub, deputy director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), which describes itself as “the Union’s agency dealing with the analysis of foreign, security and defence policy issues,” used this racist language to dehumanize Russians on April 12, 2022,
-{{quotebox-float|“We should not forget, even if Russians look European, they are not European, in a cultural sense.  They [Russians] think differently about violence or death. They have no concept of a [[liberal]], [[post-modern]] life, a concept of life that each individual can choose. Instead, life simply can end early with death."<ref>https://www.memri.org/reports/liberal-post-modern-life</ref>}}
-On April 22, 2022 Chancellor [[Olaf Scholz]] said he's reluctant to renew a [[German-Russian war]] through proxies by sending heavy weapons to Ukraine because of the real threat of nuclear war.<ref>https://twitter.com/bopanc/status/1517581893037875202</ref>  Four days later, bowing to pressure from the [[Biden regime]], the German government flipped and announced it will deliver Gepard anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine.  The Gepard (Cheetah) is a short range (5 km / 3 miles) anti-air system on a tank chassis useful against helicopters, drones and low flying planes.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/major-reversal-after-warning-nuclear-war-germany-approves-tanks-ukraine</ref>
-On May 3, 2022 ''Yahoo News'' reported that Ukraine Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk insulted Chancellor Scholz in Berlin, calling him a "sulky liver sausage" for not visiting the war zone.  The Kyiv regime had denied German president Frank-Walter Steinmeiner, who helped broker the Minsk Agreements, a welcome to Kyiv in April.  Scholz responded to the Ukrainian government's chief representative in Germany,  “You can’t do that. It can’t work that when a country has provided so much military aid, so much financial aid — which is needed — when it’s a question of the security guarantees that will be important to Ukraine in the future — you then say: But the president can’t come.”<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/sulky-liver-sausage-ukraine-ambassador-113038099.html</ref>
-Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Germany on May 11, 2022 to begin 40 days training on the five-man operated Howitzer 2000 artillery system.  Other training centers are reportedly opened or opening, thus making Germany a proxy of Ukraine and a participant in the conflict.<ref>https://www.nairaland.com/7107300/germany-warned-role-ukraine-conflict#112461045</ref>  Berlin is officially supplying weapons and training  to a regime that upholds Nazi ideology.
-===Australia===
-In 2018 Western media reported that two [[Australia]]ns who had been part of the New Zealand based Right Wing Resistance, Ethan Tilling and Jared Bennett, had fought as mercenaries in Donbas. Tilling fought with the Georgian legion, and Bennett with the Pravy Sektor.<ref>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-01/foreign-fighters-return-to-australia-with-military-training/9696784</ref>  Brenton Tarrant, another Australian who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in the Christchurch [[New Zealand mosque shooting]],<ref>https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-the-transnational-network-that-nobody-is-talking-about/</ref> travelled to Ukraine for training with the Azov Battalion and wore Azov Nazi insignia on his flak jacket during the mass killing, according to ''The New York Times''.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/world/asia/christchurch-mass-shooting-extremism.html</ref>  Tarrant was also a member of the NZ Right Wing Resistance.  Former adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine and founder of the Faithful Cossacks organization,<ref>https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/cossack-against-cossack/</ref> Alexei Selivanov claimed that Tarrant also served as a mercenary like Tilling and Bennett who fought in special battalions in Donbass.<ref>https://www.agoravox.fr/actualites/international/article/fusillade-de-christchurch-neo-213596</ref>  He accused them of having killed civilians: "They shot at civilians. These people consider Muslims and [[Slav]]s to be inferior peoples. They don't care who they're shooting at. Muslims in [[mosque]]s in [[New Zealand]], or Russian speakers in Donbass."
-French war correspondent Christelle Néant wrote in 2019 at the time of the [[Christchurch]] shooting,
-{{quotebox-float|"[N]umerous warnings issued by Russia, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, several Russian and Ukrainian analysts, and myself, about the danger that post-Maidan Ukraine poses to international security were justified.
-Turning a blind eye as the West has been doing for the past five years to Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups and their battalions, to their war crimes in the Donbass, and to the fact that they recruit foreign neo-Nazis who can thus come and afford "safaris"<ref>"safari" or "political safari" is the euphemism Ukrainian Nazis use to hunt down and kill political opponents.</ref> during which they can train in the use of weapons and kill human beings without risking ending up in prison before returning home quietly without being disturbed or monitored, can only lead to this kind of disaster.
-It is not only physical diseases such as [[measles]], for which Ukraine is a hotbed of infection that contaminates other countries, it is also for ideological diseases such as neo-Nazism.
-And unfortunately against the latter there is no other [[vaccine]] than not to repeat the mistakes of Western governments in the 1930s, which had turned a blind eye to the horrors of Nazism in the name of the fight against [[communism]]. Yet anyone who has studied [[history]] knows how these sordid compromises ended for everyone.
-Today, Western governments are doing the same thing. They turn a blind eye to the galloping development of neo-Nazism in Ukraine under the guise of fighting Russia. They turn a blind eye to the fact that these groups are armed through their battalions sent to Donbass. They turn a blind eye to the fact that their nationals will serve in these same neo-Nazi battalions, to commit war crimes against civilians in Donbass. And they turn a blind eye when these war criminals return home from their "safaris."
-If the information of the Cossacks is verified, and Brenton Tarrant served well in a neo-Nazi battalion in Ukraine, then the responsibility of the Western countries in the Christchurch massacre will be overwhelming and it will be difficult for them to erase in the eyes of history and the families of the victims this indelible filth.
-It is time for the West to stop covering Ukraine and the neo-Nazi groups that are developing within it, and it is especially time for Western countries to look at their nationals who served in the Ukrainian neo-Nazi battalions in the Donbass, before more killings like the one in Christchurch take place."<ref>https://www.donbass-insider.com/fr/2019/03/18/fusillade-de-christchurch-neo-nazis-et-ukraine-les-liaisons-dangereuses/</ref>}}
-===Belarus===
-On March 15, 2022 [[Belarus]] was hit with an organized sabotage campaign aimed at railroad lines carrying Russian troops and humanitarian supplies into Ukraine.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-699184</ref>
-On May 10, 2022 Belarus announced that Ukraine created “an armed group of up to 20,000 personnel” on the border with the country. The military of Belarus announced that “in order to ensure security … in the southern direction, the forces of the special operations forces units are deployed in three tactical directions,” he said.
-==Neutrals==
-===Republic of Georgia===
-[[File:Lugar Center.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The Lugar Center Biological Weapons Research Laboratory in Georgia owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Defense.<ref>https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/genomeA.00256-17</ref>]]
-On March 26, 2022, Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security Council Oleksiy Danilov openly started discussing in Ukrainian media the creation of a second front in the [[Republic of Georgia]], and the plausibility of transferring the conflict in Ukraine to Georgia.<ref>http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/5118_march_29_2022/5118_natalia.html</ref>
-The regional headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense's biological weapons labs, including those for Ukraine, are located on the Russian border at The Lugar Center, just outside the capital of [[Tbilisi]].<ref>https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/pentagon-biological-weapons-program-never-ended-us-bio-labs-around-the-world/</ref>
-In 2007 Georgia ended its policy of having compulsory annual livestock anthrax vaccination. As a result, the morbidity rate of the disease reached its peak in 2013. The same year NATO started human based anthrax vaccine tests at the Lugar Center in Georgia.
-In 2007 despite the anthrax outbreak the Georgian government terminated the compulsory vaccination for 7 years, 2013 saw NATO start human trials on a new anthrax vaccine in Georgia.
-[[Anthrax]] is one of the bio agents weaponized by the US Army in the past.<ref>https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB58/RNCBW_USABWP.pdf</ref>  Despite the Pentagon’s claims that its program is only defensive, there are facts to the contrary. In 2016 at the Lugar Center American scientists carried out research on the “Genome Sequence of the Soviet/Russian Bacillus anthracis Vaccine Strain 55-VNIIVViM”,<ref>http://genomea.asm.org/content/4/6/e01401-16.full</ref> which was funded by DTRA's Cooperative Biological Engagement Program and administered by Metabiota. In 2017 the DTRA funded further research – Ten Genome Sequences of Human and Livestock Isolates of Bacillus anthracis from the Country of Georgia, which was performed by USAMRU-G at The Lugar Center.<ref>https://silview.media/2021/06/03/us-ran-grewsome-bioweapon-research-in-over-25-countries-wuhan-tip-of-an-iceberg-ecohealth-alliance-implicated-again/</ref>
-Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is caused by infection through a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus). The disease was first characterized in Crimea in 1944 and given the name Crimean hemorrhagic fever. It was then later recognized in 1969 as the cause of illness in Congo, thus resulting in the current name of the disease.  In 2014 34 people became infected (among them a 4-year old child) with CCHF, 3 of which died.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26483375</ref>  The same year Pentagon biologists studied the virus in Georgia under the DTRA project “Epidemiology of febrile illnesses caused by Dengue viruses and other Arboviruses in Georgia”.<ref>http://www.ncdc.ge/Category/Article/1480</ref> The project included tests on patients with fever symptoms and the collection of ticks, as possible vectors of CCHV for laboratory analysis.
-The cause of the CCHF outbreak in Georgia is still unknown. According to the local Veterinary Department report,<ref>https://www.ghsagenda.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/archive---vietnam-zdap-files/day-2/s5-2-georgia-cchf-in-georgia-one-health-02.pdf</ref> only one tick from all of the collected species from the infected villages tested positive for the disease. Despite the claims of the local authorities that the virus was transmitted to humans from animals, all animal blood samples were negative too. The lack of infected ticks and animals is inexplicable given the sharp increase of CCHF human cases in 2014, meaning that the outbreak was not natural and the virus was spread intentionally.
-In 2016 another 21 590 ticks were collected for DNA database for future studies at The Lugar Center under the Pentagon project “Assessing the Seroprevalence and Genetic Diversity of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) and Hantaviruses in Georgia”.<ref>https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=1861649bef259cd12877c74f0c912924&tab=core&_cview=0</ref>
-===South Ossetia===
-''Al Jazeera'' reported on March 31, 2022 that the independent [[Republic of South Ossetia]] would soon take steps to request annexation to the Russian Federation.<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/31/georgias-south-ossetia-plans-to-take-legal-steps-to-join-russia</ref>
-===Serbia===
-Geopolitical analyst Paul Antonopoulos noted in early 2022 that the UK began arming Kosovo Albanians with Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missile systems.  Serbian Minister of the Interior Aleksandar Vulin tole the UK foreign ministry, “You are creating an army, arming them, giving them armored vehicles, anti-tank systems, drones, conducting training, we hear that you are sending them to trial courses in Turkey and Albania,” adding that the integration of Kosovo into NATO is only intended to “provoke Serbia.”  NATO so far has trained Kosovo Albanian soldiers in special forces, support units, telecommunications, anti-armour, PVO systems and more. However, this is likely just elementary training and an incomplete process with a future aim of fully equipping Kosovo’s forces with much more powerful weapon systems.
-[[London]] is arming [[Kosovo]] even though there is no consensus in NATO regarding the status of the territory, with Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Spain refusing to recognize its illegally declared independence from Serbia. Despite a consensus not being reached, London and Washington are working timelessly to assist Pristina and construct some kind of Kosovo Army.  In effect, the Anglo Alliance are further radicalizing Kosovo’s Albanians and encouraging destabilization in the [[Balkans]]. Instead of punishing Kosovo’s de facto Prime Minister Albin Kurti for banning Kosovo Serbs from voting, they reward him with weapons and further integration into NATO.
-Lightweight anti-missile and Javelin anti-tank systems have become part of the arsenal of Kosovo’s so-called security forces. The acquisition was agreed at a meeting between Albin Kurti and Boris Johnson in February 2022.  The first contingent of 50 systems was delivered in April 2022.
-==Indo-Pacific Theater==
-===China===
-The Ukrainian regime accused the [[Peoples Republic of China]] (PRC) of supplying drones to the Russian Federation. <ref>https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/1504068644195733504</ref>
-In late March 2022 [[Shanghai]], the world's largest city, went back into [[covid lockdown]].  Supermarkets were closed, and food shortages became widespread. <ref>https://observers.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220408-china-shanghai-lockdown-quarantine-food</ref>
-On April 6, 2022 China state television informed viewers that Zelensky is a professional actor, and that the Bucha massacre was staged.<ref>https://youtu.be/EF0rnAAwEa4</ref>
-By mid-May 2022, as the United States pivoted to war with China,<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/news/us-prepare-drawn-conflict-china-invades-taiwan-war-game-suggests-rcna28580</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/a0HInORk5vg</ref> it was reported that China was preparing for World War III with [[biological weapons]].<ref>https://youtu.be/F9Lv10zh_Kk</ref>
-===Solomon Islands===
-On March 26, 2022 ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that the [[Peoples Republic of China]] (PRC) and the [[Solomon Islands]] signed a secret security pact.
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
-*[https://youtu.be/bN68OfFKaWs Donbass: 8 years of war" - Documentary by French journalist Anne Laure Bonnel (2016)]
+*[https://youtu.be/bN68OfFKaWs Donbass: 8 years of war - Documentary by French journalist Anne Laure Bonnel (2016)]
+*[https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ayw2engmrTH5/ CIA DOCUMENTS SHOW HOW CIA CONTROLLED UKRAINIAN NAZI GROUPS SINCE 1946 TO FIGHT RUSSIA], bitchute
+*[http://warcrimesofkiev.com/?lang=en Civil War in Ukraine 2014-2022]
+*[https://youtu.be/wJ_v01xAESg Operation Liberation: In-depth look at the special operation in Ukraine | DIG DEEP DOCUMENTARY], Jun 5, 2022. youtube.com
+*[https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/10/09/war-crimes-2/ War Crimes], Published by dreizinreport on October 9, 2022
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fTxHIVUjRc The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin] - History of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia (And U.S. involvement)
+*[https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2510-1.html RAND Corporation - Avoiding a Long War, U.S. Policy and the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (2023)]
+*[https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html RAND Corporation - Extending Russia, Competing from Advantageous Ground (2019)]
+*[https://youtu.be/sT379IrMb2Q Video of Maria Lvova-Belova testifying at the UN (blocked by the UK)]
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