Russian special military operation in Ukraine #7

Updates

1) Ukrainian Nationalists Use Ceasefire for Regrouping, Fresh Attacks - Kremlin

2) Kremlin Warns Oil Embargo Would Hit Energy Balance in Europe as Borrell Says EU Ready to Discuss New Russia Sanctions

3) Over 19,000 Refugees From DPR, LPR & Ukraine Have Received Medical Assistance in Russia, Health Minister Says

4) Ukrainian Nationalists Carried Out Provocation in Sumy That Russia Warned About - MoD
A provocation by Ukrainian nationalists led to an ammonia leak detected in the vicinity of the Ukrainian city of Sumy, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Monday.

5) Over 60 Ukrainian Troops Surrender as Russian Military Takes Control of Buried Command Centre Near Ki

6) Russian Forces Destroy 44 Ukrainian Military Facilities, Including Four Command Posts Over Past Day - Moscow

7) Russia Eliminates 80 Mercenaries, Ukrainian Radicals in Cruise Missile Strike on Training Centre in Rovno Region

8 ) UN Remained Silent About Violations of Prisoner of War Rights in Ukraine for 8 Years - Ombudswoman

9) Russian Investigative Committee Head Orders to Launch Criminal Proceedings Into Ukrainian Medic for Calling to 'Castrate Russian POWs'

10) Russian Paratroopers Drive Nationalist Battalions Out of Kiev Suburbs, MoD Says. Units of the Russian Airborne Forces forced nationalist battalions and the Ukrainian military out of the Kiev suburbs, who, retreating, left tanks, AMPVs, a lot of firearms, anti-tank weapons, and ammunition", an official statement read.
The list of the trophies includes T-64 and T-72 tanks, as well as German-made Panzerfaust 3 anti-tank weapons, 9K38 Igla missile systems, and other arms.

11) Arab Members of Israeli Parliament 'Snub' Zelensky's Knesset Speech, Blame NATO for Ukraine Crisis

12) Moscow Disapproves of Idea of Peacekeeping Mission by NATO Members in Ukraine - Kremlin
"President [Vladimir] Putin spoke negatively about this on 22 [February] in his nighttime address to the citizens of Russia and to the whole world. It is enough just to re-read it again, especially the moment where he talks about the hypothetical possibility that someone decides to intervene in the course of the special military operation from outside", Kremlin spokesman Dmirty Peskov stated.

billybatts91 wrote:I am a bit worried about the speed of this operation in Ukraine. If Mariupol is taking this long, imagine how long taking Kharkiv or Odessa would be? Taking the whole of Kiev seems impossible with the current number of Russians in Ukraine. Is this just phase 1? Russia needs way more troops and equipment in Ukraine, but maybe Putin's strategy is different then what I'm thinking about. We'll see. I'm a little confused to be honest.

Unlike NATO/US operations, that have a PR tail/24 hour MSM hungry for more action demanding a constant supply of events that force a fast pace of actions, regardless of the consequences, collateral damage, in their way, the Russian don't have any of that. Instead they can proceed at the pace that the battlefield sets, commensurate with their objective of minimising death and other collateral damage.

This is a reason why the Western MSM, including their tame experts, are screaming that the Russians aren't getting anywhere. The Russian plan runs totally contrary to their experience, expectations and newsflow requirements.

The US hare may be flashy and exciting but sure as Hell is Hell the Russian tortoise is delivering the goods to plan.

For those saying things are going too slow. There are many aspects that will cause things to speed up. What u forget is Once Mariupol is fully liberated which is almost done, this will free up many Russian and Donbass troops which will be directed elsewhere speeding up advances and pressure elsewhere. And as Ukrainian troops either die or surrender will also speed things up. Destroying Ukrainian ammo, fuel, AD systems, drones, aircraft, MLRS, artillery and tanks this will also speed things up. Remember NATO are only supplying aid, MANPADS, anti tank weapons, helmets, body armour, and money and let's be honest the money is getting funnelled into the hierarchy bank accounts abroad and into suitcases. The west are not providing armour, artillery systems, MLRS, fuel (that I know of) and without these along with everything else the Ukrainian armed forces won't last.

And it won't be long before Ukrainian forces and mercs realise they are Being lied to and all the BS propaganda that they are winning comes back to be totally false, and when they here that other Ukrainians are surrendering and Zelensky isn't in the country but rather fled taking suitcases of money along with the rest of the hierarchy the moral plummets and they start asking themselves is it worth it and the answer will no it isn't. Most have been forced into fighting and being abused by neo Nazis. Ukrainians ain't dumb they will soon realise they have been fed lies. Once this happens this conflict will fold rapidly give it another 3-4 weeks

Serberus wrote:

JohninMK wrote:This may well show that the shopping mall hit last night could have been a firing point too. Any thoughts?

Same ”shopping mall” apparently
Judging by the destruction, secondaries went off no doubt

With luck part of it was in use as a 'field' barracks by the artillery crews, asleep in their bunks when justice struck.

Captured soldiers will die en masse at the hands of his doctors, he warns in an interview
Ukrainian frontline medic claims he’s ordered castration of all Russian POWs
Gennadiy Druzenko speaks to Ukrainian TV. YouTube / Телеканал 1+1
Russian soldiers captured by a Ukrainian volunteer medic unit will all be castrated, its founder and commander declared on national television on Sunday. The combat medic, whose volunteer team has been described as “medical angels” by the Western media, said “cockroaches” don’t deserve the right to procreate.

The shocking confession came from Gennadiy Druzenko, a constitutional lawyer-turned-volunteer frontline medic in Ukraine. Speaking to Ukrainian media in a live interview, he condemned the US for its reluctance to go to war with Russia on Ukraine’s behalf, before commenting on the Russian military.

“Trust me, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s military hardware burns well. The corpses of ‘putinoids’ may stink, but they become unthreatening,” he said.

Druzenko said that, during the conflict, he had diverged from the principle that requires an injured enemy combatant to be treated as a regular patient.

I gave my doctors … a very strict order to castrate all men, because they are cockroaches and not people.

He further implied that, at the hands of his unit, Russian prisoners of war “will die in very large numbers” so that surviving Russians remembered Ukraine with terror “like the Germans remembered Stalingrad.”

At this point, the host cut the interview short, stating that Russian soldiers would be “held accountable.” Her co-host reminded the audience that Russia was being investigated for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.

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On Monday, YouTube blocked the entire livestream segment, which included the interview, after it drew public attention.

Russia has launched a criminal investigation into the threats.

Druzenko heads the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, a unit of civilian medics that has been providing services to Ukrainian troops since 2014, when post-coup authorities in Kiev sent the Ukrainian military to quash a rebellion in eastern Ukraine. He is an acclaimed figure at home and has received numerous awards for his work from the Defense Ministry and the National Security Council.

A darling of the Western media amid the Russian attack on his country, Druzenko is fluent in English and has been readily speaking to the likes of CNN and the New York Post about the work of what these outlets have dubbed the “medical angels.”

As Ukrainian civilians join the fight, well-known intellectual Gennadiy Druzenko has fired up an ambulance corps.Our conversation, from today’s GPS: pic.twitter.com/lQh98Xo2BR

— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) March 13, 2022
Before the conflict, Druzenko undertook several stints at various Western institutions, serving as regional director for a USAID-funded project in Ukraine in the early 2010s, according to his CV. He also worked as a researcher at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in the US, from 2009 to 2010, and at the Max Planck Institute, in Germany, in 2010.

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During his interview with Ukrainian TV, Druzenko acknowledged that his unit had a “military wing” composed of ex-commandos, and that his team had been jokingly calling themselves the “First Volunteer Mobile Storm Unit” because of it.

“We treat ours and turn theirs into fertilizer. Unwelcome guests have never been loved on this soil,” he said. He claimed Americans had been telling him they were jealous of Ukraine because they were “afraid to fight against the Russians and we are not.”

He also touted his long experience fighting for the Ukrainian cause, saying that, since 2014, “the enemy has not changed and the means of war have not changed.”

Earlier in March, Amnesty International called on the Ukrainian government to protect Russian POWs from public humiliation, as obliged by the Third Geneva Convention. Its statement was released in response to numerous videos of prisoners on social media and to Kiev’s policy of bringing them to press conferences to speak about their roles in the Russian offensive and to plead with their family at home not to support it.

JohninMK wrote:

Serberus wrote:

JohninMK wrote:This may well show that the shopping mall hit last night could have been a firing point too. Any thoughts?

Same ”shopping mall” apparently
Judging by the destruction, secondaries went off no doubt

With luck part of it was in use as a 'field' barracks by the artillery crews, asleep in their bunks when justice struck.

True, for those of you who don't, including me, have 'twitter' or any of that social media shit, Col. Cassad has the entire sequence, in living colour complete with second explosion as the stored ammo goes off.

Ispan wrote:

billybatts91 wrote:I am a bit worried about the speed of this operation in Ukraine. If Mariupol is taking this long, imagine how long taking Kharkiv or Odessa would be? Taking the whole of Kiev seems impossible with the current number of Russians in Ukraine. Is this just phase 1? Russia needs way more troops and equipment in Ukraine, but maybe Putin's strategy is different then what I'm thinking about. We'll see. I'm a little confused to be honest.

Besieged cities on average can resist up to two months before giving up for lack of food and supplies and we are only into the third week.

Mariupol takes so long because it had to be stormed and artillery fire can't be used. Same happened with Volnovakha.

Kharkov is next in line.

Odessa will simply be cut off until capitulation of the rest of Ukraine. Sumy and Chernigov can be ignored.

Kiev can be taken with a bold stroke at the cost of thousands of Russian casualties and thousands of civilians, so it's better to lay siege and smash every attempt at breakout and gradually wear down the garrison.

It's encouraging that there were surrenders already in Kiev.

More troops and material are needed indeed. After the fall of Mariupol is possibly that most of the Ukrainian soldiers begin go realize the war is lost and the process of surrender will speed up.

After the mopping up in Mariupol is over, even without reinforcements there should be enough troops to close the ring around the Ukrainian army in Donbass. They are doomed anyway, they don't seem to try to make a break for the Dnieper bridges, so it really doesn't matter they haven't been taken yet.

The process will accelerate. War may be over in six weeks time, if done right, but the key is not winning, but doing so with the minimum Russian troop losses, and Russian civilians in Eastern Ukraine, so expect three months at least. War could be won faster with a strike into Western Ukraine using the full firepower of artillery and aviation and without regards for the civilian casualties, God knows they deserve it, but I don't think it likely.

Good points, I have a feeling that once Mariupol falls and then the Ukrainian army is destroyed in the Donbass, it will be hard for them to continue (fingers crossed). I also think it was important for Putin to extend the nuclear umbrella to Belarus as a warning to the West not to try anything against Russia's brother nation. What are your thoughts if Belarus will get involved in Western Ukraine as some have suggested there are indications of that this week?

d_taddei2 wrote:
And it won't be long before Ukrainian forces and mercs realise they are Being lied to and all the BS propaganda that they are winning comes back to be totally false, and when they here that other Ukrainians are surrendering and Zelensky isn't in the country but rather fled taking suitcases of money along with the rest of the hierarchy the moral plummets and they start asking themselves is it worth it and the answer will no it isn't. Most have been forced into fighting and being abused by neo Nazis. Ukrainians ain't dumb they will soon realise they have been fed lies. Once this happens this conflict will fold rapidly give it another 3-4 weeks

That is the time when some of those weapons, given to anyone, may well find a use, giving 'normal' people the ability to turn on the Nazis. A shot in the back works pretty well and its still dark at night.

Once it sinks in that there is more of them than the Nazis it will be time for a Russian leafleting campaign.

auslander wrote:

JohninMK wrote:

Serberus wrote:

JohninMK wrote:This may well show that the shopping mall hit last night could have been a firing point too. Any thoughts?

Same ”shopping mall” apparently
Judging by the destruction, secondaries went off no doubt

With luck part of it was in use as a 'field' barracks by the artillery crews, asleep in their bunks when justice struck.

True, for those of you who don't, including me, have 'twitter' or any of that social media shit, Col. Cassad has the entire sequence, in living colour complete with second explosion as the stored ammo goes off.

Never liked twitter but joined recently thinking it may provide at least some info, couldn’t stomach the hate fuelled garbage propaganda that I already have to put up with living behind enemy lines in Australia every day, so now mainly use telegram and stay the hell away from that cesspool.

auslander wrote:Captured soldiers will die en masse at the hands of his doctors, he warns in an interview
Ukrainian frontline medic claims he’s ordered castration of all Russian POWs
Gennadiy Druzenko speaks to Ukrainian TV. YouTube / Телеканал 1+1
Russian soldiers captured by a Ukrainian volunteer medic unit will all be castrated, its founder and commander declared on national television on Sunday. The combat medic, whose volunteer team has been described as “medical angels” by the Western media, said “cockroaches” don’t deserve the right to procreate.

The shocking confession came from Gennadiy Druzenko, a constitutional lawyer-turned-volunteer frontline medic in Ukraine. Speaking to Ukrainian media in a live interview, he condemned the US for its reluctance to go to war with Russia on Ukraine’s behalf, before commenting on the Russian military.

“Trust me, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s military hardware burns well. The corpses of ‘putinoids’ may stink, but they become unthreatening,” he said.

Druzenko said that, during the conflict, he had diverged from the principle that requires an injured enemy combatant to be treated as a regular patient.

I gave my doctors … a very strict order to castrate all men, because they are cockroaches and not people.

He further implied that, at the hands of his unit, Russian prisoners of war “will die in very large numbers” so that surviving Russians remembered Ukraine with terror “like the Germans remembered Stalingrad.”

At this point, the host cut the interview short, stating that Russian soldiers would be “held accountable.” Her co-host reminded the audience that Russia was being investigated for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
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Do u have a video link to the medic stating this on TV would like to share it with a few non believers

https://youtu.be/qOXXWM-HMsQ




Trying to save his ass

Gennadiy Druzenko ..........I once met a Doctor , that carried out the outopsy on the Corpse of Dr . Mengele . To confirm his identity . The same fate awaits him ! These Ukrainian Nazi scum !

And the bottom line is

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JohninMK wrote:This may well show that the shopping mall hit last night could have been a firing point too. Any thoughts?

It certainly was a firing point in addition to being a massive ammo dump

They've been firing from that parking lot adjacent to the shopping mall every other day. Did another salvo shortly before the Kalibr hit, apparently.

I found this

In an pic taken beforehand, 4+ UA mil vehicles can be seen underneath; these may be MRL (BM-27/21) or supply trucks but unfortunately resolution is too bad to be totally sure.

Rat leaving the sinking ship. Lots more heading to Poland no doubt. Maybe plan to influence their politics.

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Famous Ukrainian e-celeb bandera and azov member Artyom Bonov has left Ukraine for Poland, he became known for making threats against Chechen Russian fighters and claimed to play soccer with their heads. He has fled Ukraine and is now in Poland.

EDIT: Replaced a photo with this



Whilst this one is in bits

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Reported that Deputy Commander of the 1st Battalion of Operational Assignment of the Ukrainian "Azov", Senior Lieutenant Denis Alexandrovich Dunikov (Phantom), was killed in Mariupol as a result of a Russian airstrike.

In order to justify storming versus levelling of areas of Mariupol , a simple calculation will provide answers . Whichever method results in far less casualties among friendly forces and civilians , is the best . Priority being given to the lives of friendly forces , since these are in short supply , and are needed to liberate Ukraine . Waiting too long , may not be the best answer , since many civilians will start to die as a result of starvation . It is better that civilians die , as a result of shelling , at least this way , they will send the Nazis to hell ! So their deaths will not be pointless . Also shelling will save the lives of friendly forces . They can then fight more Nazi scum  that are caught in the open . The psychological value of a speedy defeat , in Mariupol , should not be underestimated , in bringing war to an end .

d_taddei2 wrote:For those saying things are going too slow. There are many aspects that will cause things to speed up. What u forget is Once Mariupol is fully liberated which is almost done, this will free up many Russian and Donbass troops which will be directed elsewhere speeding up advances and pressure elsewhere. And as Ukrainian troops either die or surrender will also speed things up. Destroying Ukrainian ammo, fuel, AD systems, drones, aircraft, MLRS, artillery and tanks this will also speed things up. Remember NATO are only supplying aid, MANPADS, anti tank weapons, helmets, body armour, and money and let's be honest the money is getting funnelled into the hierarchy bank accounts abroad and into suitcases. The west are not providing armour, artillery systems, MLRS, fuel (that I know of) and without these along with everything else the Ukrainian armed forces won't last.

And it won't be long before Ukrainian forces and mercs realise they are Being lied to and all the BS propaganda that they are winning comes back to be totally false, and when they here that other Ukrainians are surrendering and Zelensky isn't in the country but rather fled taking suitcases of money along with the rest of the hierarchy the moral plummets and they start asking themselves is it worth it and the answer will no it isn't. Most have been forced into fighting and being abused by neo Nazis. Ukrainians ain't dumb they will soon realise they have been fed lies. Once this happens this conflict will fold rapidly give it another 3-4 weeks

It can take over a week to clear Mariupol by some reports

Keep in mind even the DNR says that up to 100 civilians may be dying there per day

Such urban combat is hugely destructive and expensive

Another failure basically

Yes it is possible that Ukrainian military morale may get broken, but equally that popular resistance will grow and we'll simply see the shift to a partisan movement

In Nikolayev one report says that 294 Ukrainian military may have died in the strike on the barracks. With such a brutal casualty figure I think any sort of indifference in the city towards the operation may turn to sharp opposition.

Of course our leadership only knows how to keep digging and little else

I don't know. Could go either way. Russia can't stay in the Ukraine forever.

There are certainly signals of the Ukrainian regime destabilizing though. Some popular political figures such as Arestovich now seemingly hedging bets and going back on earlier pronouncements. The ban on all opposition political parties.

Another problem is the potential for a mass grain shortage in the world if sowing season doesn't take place in full force over the next couple of months. This is a real crisis in the making potentially.

Let's invite Suheil Al Hassan and a Hezbollah regiment. A battalion of YPG is also welcome.

The US and Turkey are reportedly in talks over a deal for Ankara to send its Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems to Ukraine in exchange for the scrapping of sanctions imposed by Washington on its fellow NATO member.

“We are in continuous talks with Ankara to see it giving up the S-400 system and sending it to Kiev,” an unnamed Pentagon official told Sky News Arabia on Sunday. In exchange, the official said, Turkey could see a “return to [NATO’s] F-35 program and the lifting of sanctions” imposed by Washington.

An earlier report from Reuters on Saturday cited three sources as saying that the US had floated the idea to Turkey over the past month. No formal request has been submitted, according to Reuters, which suggested it’s “unlikely” that Turkey would agree to the idea anyway.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Let's invite Suheil Al Hassan and a Hezbollah regiment. A battalion of YPG is also welcome.

Won't help

The Russian leadership has made a serious of political, economic, ideological and military miscalculations and now doesn't know how to get out of it.

It's in a proxy-war with NATO and the Kiev regime has no reason to make any concessions, instead they are centralizing their power to a full dictatorship so that no-one from within can challenge them

The $300 billion that the West confiscated can be used to reconstruct the Ukraine through contracts to European companies in the event of a Russian withdrawal, or even Russia achieving its objectives of a neutral Ukraine. Or it can be used to subsidize EU industries to counter the rise in costs of all sorts of imports and raw materials

If Russia will not be able to destabilize the Kiev regime then it will have to withdraw, and at that point Putin can be overthrown and the game is over.

The only real hope lies in the DNR/LNR armies gaining support outside their home regions, and of the rest of the world taking advantage of the situation to create problems for the West. But it's all for nothing if Russia undergoes regime-change after a lost and catastrophic war.

auslander wrote:The US and Turkey are reportedly in talks over a deal for Ankara to send its Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems to Ukraine in exchange for the scrapping of sanctions imposed by Washington on its fellow NATO member.

“We are in continuous talks with Ankara to see it giving up the S-400 system and sending it to Kiev,” an unnamed Pentagon official told Sky News Arabia on Sunday. In exchange, the official said, Turkey could see a “return to [NATO’s] F-35 program and the lifting of sanctions” imposed by Washington.

An earlier report from Reuters on Saturday cited three sources as saying that the US had floated the idea to Turkey over the past month. No formal request has been submitted, according to Reuters, which suggested it’s “unlikely” that Turkey would agree to the idea anyway.

Turkey might go for it.

It's still benefiting from not having imposed sanctions on Russia, and Washington is not asking it to impose said sanctions. But it needs to give back something to the US too. Turkey can win big from playing off all parties against one another here.

Ever the parasitic thieves, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has proposed the confiscation of Russian-owned properties, as part of broad sanctions in response to Moscow's attack on Ukraine.

“We want to raise the issue of how Poland could freeze and confiscate Russian assets in our country,” Morawiecki told Sunday’s Wprost magazine. “On the one hand, we have constitutional limitations for actions related to property rights. And, on the other hand, more and more Poles don't understand why, if Italians confiscate the yachts of Russian oligarchs, we can't do the same in our country.”

Morawiecki added that “there is some real estate, and financial assets, the shares in companies that we should seize.”

The prime minister said he plans to work to have the new law passed in the Sejm, the lower house of the country's parliament.

Morawiecki, who met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, has been calling for a total economic blockade of Russia and for Europe to completely relinquish energy supplies from Moscow. “I appeal to the German, the French and Benelux elites to put aside their calculators and start using their consciences. Because if we’re calculating the cost of gas and oil, it means we’re dealing in the blood of Ukrainian children, women and soldiers,” the prime minister said.

JohninMK wrote:

Ispan wrote:Today's briefing: covers yesterday evening and the morning and various other interesting reports and analysis on tactics, casualties, and results

https://guerraenucrania.wordpress.com/2022/03/21/parte-de-guerra-21-03-2022-1200-horas/

Thanks again. Don't forget guys that my translations do not include any maps etc that Ispan may have included.

I appreciate the gesture, but you shouldn't bother, every browser should have automatic translation, if you don't have it you can always go to yandex translate and just insert the url

https://translate.yandex.com/translate

Also, when copy pasting you are truncating most of the entry. I don't know if you are editing the most relevant content or don't realize that there's a word limit in the translator and you are only copying part of the text.

Just go on and click on the link. If you wish you can post some relevant fragment you want to stress or discuss.

FP

Outside of the west heardly anyone cares about Ukraine. Not even Israel.

All loses incured via western sanctions will be recuperated by increased links with the globsl south.