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Merkel was on Putin's payroll,
RWSGFY saysMerkel was on Putin's payroll,
Russia wasn't caught tapping Merkel's phone line just to have Merkel do absolutely nothing about it.
Obama was.
Russia wasn't caught tapping Merkel's phone line just to have Merkel do absolutely nothing about it.But of course! Why tap the phone of someone who's already on your payroll?
Growing Evidence of Military Disaster on the Donets River Pierces Pro-Russian Bubble
The destruction wreaked on a Russian battalion as it tried to cross a river in northeastern Ukraine last week is emerging as among the deadliest engagements of the war, with estimates based on publicly available evidence now suggesting that well over 400 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded.
And as the scale of what happened comes into sharper focus, the disaster appears to be breaking through the Kremlin’s tightly controlled information bubble.
Perhaps most striking, the Russian battlefield failure is resonating with a stable of pro-Russian war bloggers — some of whom are embedded with troops on the front line — who have reliably posted to the social network Telegram with claims of Russian success and Ukrainian cowardice.
“The commentary by these widely read milbloggers may fuel burgeoning doubts in Russia about Russia’s prospects in this war and the competence of Russia’s military leaders,” the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based research body, wrote this past weekend.
On Wednesday, the Russian command reportedly sent about 550 troops of the 74th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 41st Combined Arms Army to cross the Donets River at Bilohorivka, in the eastern Luhansk region, in a bid to encircle Ukrainian forces near Rubizhne.
Satellite images reveal that Ukrainian artillery destroyed several Russian pontoon bridges and laid waste to a tight concentration of Russian troops and equipment around the river.
The Institute for the Study of War, citing analyses based on the publicly available imagery, indicated that there could have been as many as 485 Russian soldiers killed or wounded and more than 80 pieces of equipment destroyed.
As the news of the losses at the river crossing in Bilohorivka started to spread, some Russian bloggers did not appear to hold back their criticism of what they said was incompetent leadership.
“I’ve been keeping quiet for a long time,” Yuri Podolyaka, a war blogger with 2.1 million followers on Telegram, said in a video posted Friday, saying he had avoided criticizing the Russian military until now.
“The last straw that overwhelmed my patience was the events around Bilohorivka, where due to stupidity — I emphasize, because of the stupidity of the Russian command — at least one battalion tactical group was burned, possibly two.”
Podolyaka ridiculed the Kremlin line that the war is going “according to plan.” He told his viewers in a five-minute video that, in fact, the Russian army was short of functional unmanned drones, night-vision equipment and other kit “that is catastrophically lacking on the front.”
“Yes, I understand that it’s impossible for there to be no problems in war,” he said. “But when the same problems go on for three months, and nothing seems to be changing, then I personally and in fact millions of citizens of the Russian Federation start to have questions for these leaders of the military operation.”
Another popular blogger, who goes by Starshe Eddy on Telegram, wrote that the fact that commanders left so much of their force exposed amounted to “not idiocy, but direct sabotage.”
And a third, Vladlen Tatarski, posted that Russia’s eastern offensive was moving slowly not just because of a lack of surveillance drones but also “these generals” and their tactics.
“Until we get the last name of the military genius who laid down a BTG by the river and he answers for it publicly, we won’t have had any military reforms,” Tatarski wrote.
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The occupiers completely destroyed the only plant genetic bank in Ukraine in Kharkiv
The Russian occupiers destroyed the only plant genetic bank in Ukraine in Kharkiv, which stored more than 160,000 plant varieties and hybrids from around the world. This was announced by Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, a leading researcher at the V. Yuriev Institute of Plant Breeding Serhiy Avramenko, Ukrinform reports.
The seeds were already being prepared for sowing, and since March the staff had been sowing the collection. including varieties that are hundreds of years old, old ones that we will not be able to restore. There was hell here, aluminum melted. Everything burned down, "Avramenko said.
According to the scientist, there was no military or territorial defense in the building where the plant bank was kept, and the Russians knew well where they were shooting.
"This is a purely scientific institution that was deliberately destroyed, targeted in the very place where the bank of plant genetic resources was stored," Avramenko said.
He stressed that the bank of plants survived even during the German occupation, but could not avoid the devastating blows of the Russian army.
"I am sad to say that in the days of Hitler's Germany, when all of Ukraine was under occupation, the Germans did not destroy this collection, but instead tried to preserve something, to hide it, because they knew their descendants would need it. It is a matter of food security "Breeders from all over the world, all countries, including Russia, ordered and received samples from this gene pool to create their own varieties adapted to the area," said the scientist.
Brave liberators liberated some seeds from the Nazis:The occupiers completely destroyed the only plant genetic bank in Ukraine in Kharkiv
The Russian occupiers destroyed the only plant genetic bank in Ukraine in Kharkiv, which stored more than 160,000 plant varieties and hybrids from around the world. This was announced by Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, a leading researcher at the V. Yuriev Institute of Plant Breeding Serhiy Avramenko, Ukrinform reports.
The seeds were already being prepared for sowing, and since March the staff had been sowing the collection. including varieties that are hundreds of years old, old ones that we will not be able to restore. There was hell here, aluminum melted. Everything burned down, "Avramenko said.
According to the scientist, there was no military or territorial defense in the building where the plant bank was kept, and the Russians knew well where they were shooting.
"This is a purely...
IT WAS A BIOWEAPONS LAB!!!!
May 16, 2022 7:30 PM EST
MSNBC 'military analyst' posts video game clip claiming it's Ukraine war footage
Retired Four Star General Barry McCaffrey who now serves as a "military analyst" for MSNBC tweeted out footage of fighting in Ukraine that was actually a clip from a video game.
My point is that the sanctions on Russia are just about the stupidest move ever made by any government in history, ever.
They are ineffective, perhaps actually benefitting Russia.
And they have undermined the faith any country can have in holding US dollars or holding their assets in any institution controlled by America.
Lose-lose.
But that's Brandon for ya.
Yes, definitely more than Russia.
richwicks saysRWSGFY saysMerkel was on Putin's payroll,
Russia wasn't caught tapping Merkel's phone line just to have Merkel do absolutely nothing about it.
Obama was.
Another rambling answer having nothing to do with the original post.
Patrick saysYes, definitely more than Russia.
T'is is not Ukrainian army:
https://www.warchechnya.ru/publ/foto_s_chechenskoj_vojny/foto_s_chechenskoj_vojny/1-1-0-40
Russians have been orders of magnitude more brutal than Ukrainians, killing about 20% of population of Chechnya.. About corruption, I am not sure who is worse.
It demonstrates that Merkel is on the US' payroll.
Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schroeder is on Russian payroll.
https://www.politico.eu/article/outrage-germany-ex-chancellor-schroder-gazprom-board-nomination/
richwicks says
It demonstrates that Merkel is on the US' payroll.
No it doesn't. She always acted at odds with the US and in alignment with Putin.
6. Pentagon claims most M777 howitzers are already on the front in Kharkov and Donbas;
Eric Holder saysrichwicks says
It demonstrates that Merkel is on the US' payroll.
No it doesn't. She always acted at odds with the US and in alignment with Putin.
How did she act at odds?
Welt: European Parliament to propose sanctions against former German Chancellor, Austrian ex-Foreign Minister.
The members of the European Parliament want to call on the 27 EU states to include Germany’s Gerhard Schröder and Austria’s Karin Kneissl on the sanctions list.
Welt: European Parliament to propose sanctions
European Parliament is the least useful institution in visible universe. They have only "advisory powers" and exist to pay off semi-retired politicians and produce mirage of democracy.
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French former Marine returns from Ukraine shocked
French ex-soldier Adrien Bocquet spent three weeks in Ukraine and what he saw there will be etched on his mind forever, he said. Once back home he was dismayed to learn that the media keep inviting "experts" who have not been to Ukraine and have no idea what is going on there.
Speaking to French radio station Sud Radio, Adrien Bocquet said he had witnessed “a lot of war crimes“. All those war crimes were committed by Ukrainian soldiers and not by Russian soldiers, he pointed out. Bocquet is therefore enormously alarmed that Europe is sending weapons to Ukrainian neo-Nazis. They wear all kinds of Nazi symbols on their uniforms. They do not hide these symbols. What is more, they boast about them, he said.
RWSGFY says
Who is Illia Ponomaren? Some CIA asshole?
Oh I see this: - yeah, that's a propagandist. It's not a person, it's either subhuman or a computer program.
Anything with is known to be bullshit. Stop pushing bullshit.
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