KIEV FORCES SUFFER MORE LOSSES

 

KIEV FORCES SUFFER MORE LOSSES WHILE ON ‘COUNTEROFFENSIVE’ (VIDEOS)

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Kiev forces sustained more material and human losses while attempting to conduct offensive operations in the special military operation. 

During a briefing on June 9, the press chief of the Russian Zapad Group of Forces detailed some of Kiev’s forces’ recent losses.

According to the commander, a howitzer was destroyed by a Lancet loitering munition near the town of Kupyansk. Strikes by BM-21 Grad 122 mm multiple rocket launchers also destroyed three Kozak armored vehicles during an attempt to rotate units of the 103th brigade of Kiev’s forces near the villages of Kislovka and Novaya Tarasovka.

In addition, Tornado-S 300 mm multiple rocket launchers targeted an echelon with military equipment at the Balakleya railway station. An ammunition wagon and 15 trucks were destroyed as a result of the rocket strike.

TOS-1A 220 mm thermobaric rocket launchers also targeted the accumulation of manpower of Kiev forces near the settlement of Novoselovskoye.

Moreover, a small Ukrainian drone was shot down by a Tor short-range air defense system over an unspecified area in the special military operation zone.

Video footage that surfaced online provided more details on recent Ukrainian losses. Two videos show the destruction of two towed howitzers of Kiev forces, a D-30 122 mm and an M777 155 mm. A Lancet loitering munition was used to take out the D-30, while the M777 was destroyed with artillery.

Another video that was released by the Russian Ministry of Defense shows the work of Grad rocket launchers in the special military operation zone.

The remaining videos document engagements in different sectors in the Zaporozhye region. The videos show the destruction of several main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of Kiev Forces as well as a pinpoint airstrike on a Ukrainian position.

During June 8, Kiev forces launched a large attack in Zaporozhye in the framework of their so-called spring counteroffensive. However, they failed to make any gains.

The special military operation zone will likely experience more escalation in the upcoming few days. Kiev forces are reportedly amassing on several sectors in Zaporozhye and preparing to launch new attacks to break through Russian defenses.

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https://southfront.org/kiev-forces-suffer-more-losses-while-on-counteroffensive-videos/

Douglas Macgregor: Massive Russian Offensives

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Douglas Macgregor: Massive Russian offensives are underway to terminate Ukraine | Russia Ukraine War

Ukrainian Disaster

 

Russian Army hits the bull's eye; Leopard tanks blown up as Ukraine troops 'run for life' | Watch

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Douglas Macgregor:The Gathering Storm America’s self-inflicted trouble in Ukraine aggravates our dangerous trouble at home

The crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasuries are losing their value. The market’s proverbial “vibes”—feelings, emotions, beliefs, and psychological penchants—suggest a dark turn is underway inside the American economy.

American national power is measured as much by American military capability as by economic potential and performance. The growing realization that American and European military-industrial capacity cannot keep up with Ukrainian demands for ammunition and equipment is an ominous signal to send during a proxy war that Washington insists its Ukrainian surrogate is winning.

Russian economy-of-force operations in southern Ukraine appear to have successfully ground down attacking Ukrainian forces with the minimal expenditure of Russian lives and resources. While Russia’s implementation of attrition warfare worked brilliantly, Russia mobilized its reserves of men and equipment to field a force that is several magnitudes larger and significantly more lethal than it was a year ago.

Russia’s massive arsenal of artillery systems including rockets, missiles, and drones linked to overhead surveillance platforms converted Ukrainian soldiers fighting to retain the northern edge of the Donbas into pop-up targets. How many Ukrainian soldiers have died is unknown, but one recent estimate wagers between 150,000-200,000 Ukrainians have been killed in action since the war began, while another estimates about 250,000.

Given the glaring weakness of NATO members’ ground, air, and air defense forces, an unwanted war with Russia could easily bring hundreds of thousands of Russian Troops to the Polish border, NATO’s Eastern Frontier. This is not an outcome Washington promised its European allies, but it’s now a real possibility.

In contrast to the Soviet Union’s hamfisted and ideologically driven foreign policymaking and execution, contemporary Russia has skillfully cultivated support for its cause in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. The fact that the West’s economic sanctions damaged the U.S. and European economies while turning the Russian ruble into one of the international system’s strongest currencies has hardly enhanced Washington’s global standing.

Biden’s policy of forcibly pushing NATO to Russia’s borders forged a strong commonality of security and trade interests between Moscow and Beijing that is attracting strategic partners in South Asia like India, and partners like Brazil in Latin America. The global economic implications for the emerging Russo-Chinese axis and their planned industrial revolution for some 3.9 billion people in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are profound.

In sum, Washington’s military strategy to weaken, isolate, or even destroy Russia is a colossal failure and the failure puts Washington’s proxy war with Russia on a truly dangerous path. To press on, undeterred in the face of Ukraine’s descent into oblivion, ignores three metastasizing threats: 1. Persistently high inflation and rising interest rates that signal economic weakness. (The first American bank failure since 2020 is a reminder of U.S. financial fragility.) 2. The threat to stability and prosperity inside European societies already reeling from several waves of unwanted refugees/migrants. 3. The threat of a wider European war.

Inside presidential administrations, there are always competing factions urging the president to adopt a particular course of action. Observers on the outside seldom know with certainty which faction exerts the most influence, but there are figures in the Biden administration seeking an off-ramp from involvement in Ukraine. Even Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a rabid supporter of the proxy war with Moscow, recognizes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s demand that the West help him recapture Crimea is a red line for Putin that might lead to a dramatic escalation from Moscow.

Backing down from the Biden administration’s malignant and asinine demands for a humiliating Russian withdrawal from eastern Ukraine before peace talks can convene is a step Washington refuses to take. Yet it must be taken. The higher interest rates rise, and the more Washington spends at home and abroad to prosecute the war in Ukraine, the closer American society moves toward internal political and social turmoil. These are dangerous conditions for any republic.

From all the wreckage and confusion of the last two years, there emerges one undeniable truth. Most Americans are right to be distrustful of and dissatisfied with their government. President Biden comes across as a cardboard cut-out, a stand-in for ideological fanatics in his administration, people that see executive power as the means to silence political opposition and retain permanent control of the federal government.

Americans are not fools. They know that members of Congress flagrantly trade stocks based on inside information, creating conflicts of interest that would land most citizens in jail. They also know that since 1965 Washington led them into a series of failed military interventions that severely weakened American political, economic, and military power.

Far too many Americans believe they have had no real national leadership since January 21, 2021. It is high time the Biden administration found an off-ramp designed to extricate Washington, D.C., from its proxy Ukrainian war against Russia. It will not be easy. Liberal internationalism or, in its modern guise, “moralizing globalism,” makes prudent diplomacy arduous, but now is the time. In Eastern Europe, the spring rains present both Russian and Ukrainian ground forces with a sea of mud that severely impedes movement. But the Russian High Command is preparing to ensure that when the ground dries and Russian ground forces attack, the operations will achieve an unambiguous decision, making it clear that Washington and its supporters have no chance to rescue the dying regime in Kiev. From then on, negotiations will be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Douglas Macgregor

Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.) is a senior fellow with The American Conservative, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, a decorated combat veteran, and the author of five books.

https://eestieest.com/douglas-macgregorthe-gathering-storm-americas-self-inflicted-trouble-in-ukraine-aggravates-our-dangerous-trouble-at-home/

De Dodelijke Ambitie van GroenLInks Kamerlid Laura Bromet

 

De dame in dit kanariegele mantelpakje en op haar hoofd een afschuwelijk stewardessenhoedje is het 53-jarige GroenLinkse Tweede Kamerlid Laura Bromet. Zij wil dat 'de Nederlandse defensie samenwerkt met de legers van Europese en NAVO bondgenoten,' onder aanvoering van het Amerikaans militair-industrieel complex dat in de VS de macht heeft gegrepen. Dat de VS sinds 1945 geen enkele oorlog heeft gewonnen, en nu ook in Oekraïne het onderspit delft, acht mevrouw Bromet een te verwaarlozen détail. Dat volgens de meest recente schattingen zo'n 350.000 Oekraiense mannen zijn gesneuveld, beschouwt Bromet eveneens een quantité négligeable, want men moet nu eenmaal wat over hebben voor de goede zaak. 

Het is waar, onder de Nederlandse politici loopt een opvallend hoog percentage psychopaten en sociopaten rond. De Nederlandse kiezer accepteert dit. Narcistische politici doen het opvallend goed in het polderlandje. Dit zegt veel over de Nederlandse kleinburger. Dat begrijp ik allemaal. Alleen het cynisme van zo'n  GroenLinkse Bromet begrijp ik totaal niet. De dag dat bekend werd dat een grote dam in Oekraïne met explosieven was geraakt, verklaarde premier Rutte dat de Russen dit op hun geweten hadden, een uiterst gevaarlijke en zinloze bewering zolang er geen serieus onderzoek is gedaan. Zo mogelijk nog weerzinwekkender was het feit dat Laura Bromet de premier niet onmiddellijk ter verantwoording riep. Als namelijk deze proxy war verkeerd afloopt dan zal Nederland daar als één van de eerste landen daar de dupe van zijn, mede gezien het feit dat in en rondom ons land Amerikaanse kernwapens klaar liggen. Voor Kamerlid Bromet is vanzelfsprekend een schuilkelder beschikbaar, maar niet voor 99 procent van de bevolking, inclusief haar eigen kinderen. Ook dat verandert de oorlogszuchtigheid niet van de GroenLinkse Bromet. Haar interesseert kennelijk slechts een glanzende carriére als praatjesmaker. Ondertussen meldt Gerard Breedveld op Facebook:

Oekraïense dagbladen geven nu zelf aan dat opblazen Kachovka-stuwdam werk is Oekraïense strijdkrachten.

Wat zei Mark Rutte gisteren bij Staatsmedia NOS ook al weer:

Premier Mark Rutte zegt dat hij er "absoluut" vanuit gaat dat Rusland achter het opblazen van de Kachovka-dam zit. Er is geen enkel vermoeden dat Oekraïne hierachter zit, want Oekraïne heeft "nul motief"

Dat is in tegenspraak wat Oekraïense media zelf stellen.

Tijd om van de Rutte IV af te komen. Buitenland beleid Rutte IV met Mark Rutte in de hoofdrol pakt desastreus uit voor Nederland en haar burgers.

Artikel in Oekraïens Dagblad. Vrij vertaald naar Nederlands:

'07:00 uur . regio Kherson. De Russen waren niet voorbereid op de gevolgen van de explosie van de waterkrachtcentrale van Kakhovskaya en leden daarom verliezen aan mankracht, wapens en militair materieel , zeggen ze in de generale staf van de strijdkrachten van Oekraïne. Bij de eenheden van de 7th Airborne Assault Division en het 22nd Army Corps van de RF Armed Forces zijn gewonden, doden en vermisten. De Russen verloren ook verschillende velddepots met munitie en proviand, voertuigen en pantservoertuigen. '

Artikel in Oekraïens:

'07:00. Херсонская область. Россияне не были готовы к последствиям подрыва плотины Каховской ГЭС, а потому понесли потери в живой силе, вооружении и военной технике, говорят в Генштабе ВСУ. В подразделениях 7-й десантно-штурмовой дивизии и 22 армейском корпусе ВС РФ есть травмированные, погибшие и пропавшие без вести. Также россияне потеряли несколько полевых складов с боеприпасами и провизией, автомобильную и бронетанковую технику.

' https://vesti.ua/.../hronologiya-vojny-rf-protiv-ukrainy...

Artikel in Russisch:

'07:00. Херсонська область. Росіяни не були готові до наслідків підриву греблі Каховської ГЕС, а тому зазнали втрат у живій силі, озброєнні та військовій техніці, кажуть у Генштабі ЗСУ. У підрозділах 7-ї десантно-штурмової дивізії та 22 армійському корпусі ЗС РФ є травмовані, загиблі та зниклі безвісти. Також росіяни втратили кілька польових складів із боєприпасами та провізією, автомобільну та бронетанкову техніку.

https://vesti.ua/.../hronologiya-vojny-rf-protiv-ukrainy...

Ukrainian newspapers now themselves indicate that blowing up Kachovka dam is work of Ukrainian armed forces.

What did Mark Rutte say yesterday at Staatsmedia NOS:

Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he "absolutely" assumes that Russia is behind the blowing up of the Kachovka dam. There is no suspicion that Ukraine is behind this, because Ukraine has "zero motive"

That contradicts what Ukrainian media themselves state.

Time to get rid of the Rutte IV. Foreign policy Rutte IV with Mark Rutte in the lead role is disastrous for the Netherlands and its citizens.

Article in Ukrainian Dagblad. Freely translated into English:

'07:00 . Kherson region. The Russians were not prepared for the consequences of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and therefore suffered losses in manpower, weapons and military equipment, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine say. The units of the 7th Airborne Assault Division and the 22nd Army Corps of the RF Armed Forces are injured, dead and missing. The Russians also lost several field depots containing ammunition and supplies, vehicles and armored vehicles.'

Shares of the manufacturer of the Leopard tanks went down.

Utter Failure of NATO Weapons

 Screenshots of the decade right here….utter failure of NATO weapons…..at last the reality will dawn now. Or not.

A Frightened Ukrainan Soldier

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For this guy the war is over. I don't believe he wants to be exchanged and go back to Ukraine.

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