Russian special military operation in Ukraine #9

Militants captured in Mariupol ask for forgiveness, leaders unsuccessfully try to escape



Within a month, a significant part of Mariupol was liberated by Russian troops and DPR forces. At the same time, there is a lot of destruction in the city, and the blame for this lies with the Kiev regime, which set the task for the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and neo-Nazis to give Russian troops a fight in the city, despite the damage to its inhabitants and infrastructure.


The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were forced to accept it and make their way through residential areas in which Ukrainian militants settled, hiding behind the civilian population. To date, the remnants of the enemy forces have settled on the Azovstal site, being pressed to the sea, having actually found their last refuge there. However, the command of the national battalions does not want to die along with their ordinary "brothers".

Earlier, an attempt was made to take out the ringleaders on a Mi-8 helicopter, but it was shot down by DPR air defense systems. Today, the People's Militia of the DPR published a message about the destruction of two regular vehicles by the captured Stinger MANPADS, the crash site of one of which was established and examined. Bodies of neo-Nazis were found among the wreckage, two militants survived, they are being interrogated.

Ordinary militants are trying to get out of the encirclement. According to Ramzan Kadyrov's channel, they change into civilian clothes, including women's clothes. However, they are identified and captured, after which the neo-Nazis turn into pacifists, ask for forgiveness before the peoples of Russia and Ukraine and call on their colleagues to lay down weapon (including - link video). The trend is clear - before being captured by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the NM of the DPR, these persons did not remember about pacifism and fraternal peoples.

https://en.topwar.ru/194255-plenennye-v-mariupole-boeviki-prosjat-proschenija-glavari-bezuspeshno-pytajutsja-bezhat.html

The head of French military intelligence was fired for short-sightedness regarding Russia's plans



General Eric Vidot, who headed one of the French intelligence services, left his post after only seven months after taking office. The head of France's military intelligence (DRM) has been fired for being short-sighted about the plans of Russia, which launched a special military operation in Ukraine in February.

This is reported by the newspaper L'Opinion, citing competent sources, as well as two other French media.

The general is accused of insufficient awareness and foresight, because of which the special service headed by him could not predict the entry of Russian troops into Ukraine. Therefore, the French government did not receive data on the impending military operation of the Russian Federation in a timely manner.

Vido was notified of his resignation by email yesterday. True, the France-Presse agency claims that the leadership's decision regarding the general was known a few days earlier. It was supposed that he would be transferred to another position, but this did not happen.

The newspaper L'Opinion pointed out that Vido had to pay for the weaknesses that emerged in the work of French military intelligence.

Earlier, at the beginning of this month, the head of the French General Staff, Thierry Burkhardt, in an interview with journalists from the Le Monde newspaper, acknowledged the superiority of US intelligence over French intelligence, since the Americans, unlike the French, managed to foresee the entry of Russian troops into Ukraine.

https://en.topwar.ru/194249-glavu-voennoj-razvedki-francii-uvolili-za-nedalnovidnost-v-otnoshenii-planov-rossii.html

par far wrote:I am not accusing anyone, what I am saying is that the events on the ground impact the economic situation as well.

There is also the information war that is related to everything and that is also posted here.

Sometimes you need information from all fronts to get a clearer picture.

Please note that what I say is not personal and not directed at anyone.

Ukrainian national battalions blew up a dam east of the city of Izyum in an attempt to impede the advance of the Russian army



A special military operation for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine continues. It became known that the Ukrainian troops, who retreated after the defeat near Izyum, are trying with all their might to stop the advance of the Russian army on Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. At the same time, in some cases, methods that are far from combat are used.


It became known that the Ukrainian National Battalion carried out the undermining of the dam of the Oskol reservoir. As a result of this sabotage, water from the reservoir went south, reaching the settlements of Studenok and Svyatogorsk. At the same time, the distribution of flows, according to some reports, continues. There is a danger not only of flooding of territories north of the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration, but also of problems with the water supply of a part of the Kharkov region - the same Izyum.

So far, there is no information about how undermining the dam threatens the lives of local residents.



It is noteworthy that one of the lines of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions is located south of Svyatogorsk. If the water moves on, it can wash away these positions. In this regard, the question arises: when the dam was undermined by the National Battalion, did they envisage this option?

Meanwhile, the Russian army continues its offensive from Gorlovka, intensifying the firepower on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions. With a successful advance, a blow to the Ukrainian grouping located in the area of ​​​​Slavyansk and Kramatorsk will probably be delivered from three directions at once. And Ukrainian armed formations are looking for ways to slow down approaches to their defense lines from at least one of the directions.

https://en.topwar.ru/194253-ukrainskie-nacbaty-vzorvali-dambu-k-vostoku-ot-goroda-izjum-v-popytke-zatrudnit-nastuplenie-rossijskoj-armii.html

A high-ranking SBU officer was detained by the National Guard in the Kiev region



The press service of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation (FSVNG) reported on another successful operation on the territory of Ukraine. This time, the National Guard detained an employee of the Ukrainian counterintelligence.


During special events in the Kiev region, a detachment of the Russian Guard went to inspect a residential building. A suspicious man was found in it. During the check, it turned out that before the Rosguards it was not a soldier of the Ukrainian army or a militant of territorial defense, and not even an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but a high-ranking officer of the Security Service of Ukraine.

7 firearms were found in the detainee's home. weapons and more than 240 rounds of various calibers. It is clear that in the current situation, the presence of weapons in the possession of an SBU officer does not surprise anyone. Now in Ukraine, firearms are being distributed to everyone, and even more so to military personnel or counterintelligence officers.

But the National Guard managed to find out other interesting details. Presumably, the detainee coordinated the actions of sabotage and reconnaissance groups of Ukrainian nationalist formations that operated in the northwestern part of the Kiev region.

Currently, the operational authorities are checking all the circumstances of the detention and activities of a high-ranking SBU officer. It is possible that he will tell our servicemen a lot of interesting information about the actions of Ukrainian nationalists in this part of the country.

https://en.topwar.ru/194233-vysokopostavlennogo-sotrudnika-sbu-zaderzhala-rosgvardija-v-kievskoj-oblasti.html

JohninMK wrote:

par far wrote:I am not accusing anyone, what I am saying is that the events on the ground impact the economic situation as well.

There is also the information war that is related to everything and that is also posted here.

Sometimes you need information from all fronts to get a clearer picture.

Please note that what I say is not personal and not directed at anyone.

So, having to get information from two different topic based threads on the same subject is just too much like hard work?

There are economic posts here that have almost nothing to do with the war, like movements in the value of the ruble.

JohninMK wrote:Did wonder if they had allowed them to do the pickup. Seems there were more helicopters, wonder where the other 3 are?.

Russians With Attitude
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Two Ukrainian helicopters shot down near Mariupol. Apparently they were allowed to land and then shot down after taking off. ~14 dead, two survivors, one of them an Azov veteran, the other an intelligence officer.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1509613348580560920

More for the grinder

Levi
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The General Staff is transferring 15,000 troops from near Kyiv to the Dnieper to reinforce the eastern front. The special forces of the AFU and SSU were sent to Donbas yesterday.

So its ~50.000 in Donbass, 40.000 were moved to dnepr + another 15000.

Gleb Bazov
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#UKRAINE—#UA General Staff has started the transfer of 15k troops from the #Kiev theatre of the conflict to #Dnepropetrovsk—for the reinforcement of the Eastern Front. Special forces of the UA army and #SBU (Secret Police) were sent yesterday to #Donbass. Prelude to final battle.

SeigSoloyvov wrote:Russia will not attack the convoys remember they aren't trying to kill the Ukie army.

This means for most part Ukraine can move troops around without them being attacked

magnumcromagnon wrote:

https://twitter.com/dgaytandzhieva/status/1509577679430991883

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1509447909929996292

https://twitter.com/dgaytandzhieva/status/1509570939087900680

https://twitter.com/Russ_Warrior/status/1509450787285778434

Ministry of Defense: Ukraine developed means of using bioweapons against the Russian Federation

The Russian Defense Ministry named the names of specific US officials who participated in the creation of biological weapons components on the territory of Ukraine

Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, said on Thursday that one of the key figures is Robert Pope, at that time a DTRA officer and director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. The purpose of this program was to draw the states of the post-Soviet space into military biological activities. In addition, Pope is the author of the idea of ​​creating the Central Depository of Especially Dangerous Microorganisms in Kyiv.

"In his letter to the Minister of Health, Uliana Suprun (by the way, a US citizen), Pope highly appreciates the activities of the head of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, especially noting the access of American specialists to Ukrainian biological facilities and the start of work on the formation of a depository of microorganisms," the general said. He recalled how such activities ended. According to the information available to our military, all pathogenic biomaterials from the storage facility were taken by military transport aircraft to the United States through Odessa in early February 2022. The coordination of military biological projects in Ukraine and the selection of performers was led by Joanna Wintrall, head of the DTRA office in Ukraine. Kirillov said that under her direct supervision, the American projects UP-4, UP-6, UP-8 were implemented to study deadly pathogens,

Or take the Ukrainian division of Black and Veach, which is headed by Lance Lippencott. He is also the main contact person for officials of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. "The company has been working in the interests of the Pentagon since 2008 within the framework of projects to study potentially dangerous bioagents, including the UP-1 project to study rickettsiae and tick-borne encephalitis virus in arthropods in northwestern Ukraine," Kirillov said. According to him, in order to globally control the biological situation, during the UP-2 project, the company introduced a remote monitoring system for the incidence of tularemia and anthrax at Ukrainian biological facilities.

Questions of biomonitoring and information transfer were supervised by David Mustra. He is closely associated with another Pentagon contractor, Metabiota. Previously, he led military biological projects in Ukraine and Eastern Europe under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.

"It should be noted that the activities of the Black and Veach company raised many questions even among the Ukrainian special services," Kirillov said. in our country, due to the intentions of DTRA through the company "Black and Veach" to establish control over the functioning of microbiological laboratories in Ukraine, conducting research on pathogens of especially dangerous infections that can be used to create or modernize new types of biological weapons.

The Metabiota company, according to the general, is known for its developments in predicting outbreaks of infectious diseases. In addition, she was involved by the Pentagon in modeling the epidemiological situation in the post-Soviet space. On the territory of Ukraine, "Metabiota" was represented by Mary Guttieri, vice president of the company and confidant of Hunter Biden, which is confirmed by the materials of their correspondence.

The issues of laboratory modernization were supervised by Scott Thornton. In addition, he advised local staff on the management of high-risk pathogens under Ukrainian DTRA projects.

"The information received demonstrates the direct involvement of the US military department and their contractors in the planning and implementation of Pentagon projects on the territory of Ukraine. We believe that the listed officials should answer questions about the true goals of these works," concluded the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

He recalled that the Russian Defense Ministry had already paid attention to the facts of the development in the United States of technical means for the delivery and use of biological weapons. Thus, the US Patent and Trademark Office issued document No. 8,967,029 for an unmanned aerial vehicle for spreading infected insects in the air. The patent description states that with this device, enemy troops can be destroyed or disabled without risk to US military personnel.

Other patents that Kirillov presented on the slide showed various types of ammunition for the delivery of chemical and biological formulations. In their description, the following characteristics are noted: "low unit cost of destruction and no need for contact with enemy manpower." This, according to the general, corresponds to the concept of "non-contact war" implemented by Washington. "The possibility of equipping the capsules with toxic, radioactive, narcotic substances, as well as pathogens of infectious diseases has been shown," Kirillov emphasized. "We remind you that these documents came into the public eye in connection with the investigation into the activities of another biological project of the Pentagon - the Lugar Center in Tbilisi" .

In 2018, the Russian Foreign Ministry applied to the US State Department with a request to give a legal assessment of the development of such technical devices from the standpoint of compliance with the Conventions on the Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Weapons. The American administration then limited itself to a formal reply, cynically thanking the Russian side for drawing attention to this issue. It was said that "the development and production of biological and chemical weapons is prohibited by national law, but the decision to grant a patent does not violate US obligations under the BTWC and the CWC."

https://rg.ru/2022/03/31/kirillov-brifing-video.html

"In the context of the foregoing, the request of the Ukrainian company Motor Sich to the Turkish manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles Bayraktar draws attention. I want to emphasize that this document is dated December 15, 2021. Its essence is: is it possible to equip this UAV with spray systems and mechanisms aerosols with a capacity of more than 20 liters?" - said Kirillov. - With a flight range of such a UAV - up to 300 km and equipping containers with biological formulations - there is a real threat of large-scale use of biological weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation. In fact, we are talking about the development by the Kiev regime of technical means of delivery and use biological weapons with the possibility of their use against the Russian Federation".

An important result of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces, according to the general, was the cessation of the activities of five Kiev biological laboratories, where work was carried out with pathogens of anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, cholera, leptospirosis, African swine fever. Part of the collection was taken to the USA. And the remaining strains were urgently destroyed by order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine dated February 24.

The facts of the participation of these laboratories in carrying out work commissioned by the Pentagon were also confirmed. At one of these biological facilities - the Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine - several UP projects were being implemented at once with a total funding of more than $30 million.

Kirillov asked to pay attention to the decision signed by the head of the ethics committee of the said Center on June 12, 2019 as part of the UP-8 project. This document testifies to the conduct of studies with an unknown risk to the life and health of participants, as well as to the concealment of the identity of the subjects. “Earlier, we cited the research program for this project, and it involves only a standard blood sampling procedure,” Kirillov recalled. “The question arises: what kind of life-threatening tests are we talking about if the document requires “minor incidents with volunteers to be reported to the US Bioethics Committee” 72 hours after the incident. And about serious ones, including the death of the test subjects - within 24 hours"?

The Russian Defense Ministry does not rule out that the official research program is just "the visible part of the iceberg." At the same time, in practice, volunteers were infected with the Crimean-Congo fever virus, hantaviruses and the causative agent of leptospirosis.

NY Post: Biden's son helped raise funds for US biolabs contractor in Ukraine

Such a dismissive attitude towards the citizens of Ukraine, according to the general, well characterizes the pragmatic approach of the United States to the organization of military biological research. Americans view developing countries as a testing ground for components of biological weapons and medicines.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation believes that the documents received by our military indicate the actual violation by the United States and Ukraine of international agreements on the nonproliferation of biological weapons.

https://rg-ru.translate.goog/2022/03/31/minoborony-na-ukraine-razrabatyvali-sredstva-primeneniia-biooruzhiia-protiv-rf.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Arrow wrote:

   also explains how 200,000 Russians have been able to defeat 600,000 Ukrainians.  

There are about 100,000 Russians troops in Ukraine?Russia is withdrawing troops from Kiev to reportedly strenghten forces in Donbas.  This maneuver will also mean that Ukraine will also redeploy more troops to Donbass.

SeigSoloyvov wrote:Russia will not attack the convoys remember they aren't trying to kill the Ukie army.

This means for most part Ukraine can move troops around without them being attacked

Arkanghelsk wrote:

SeigSoloyvov wrote:Russia will not attack the convoys remember they aren't trying to kill the Ukie army.

This means for most part Ukraine can move troops around without them being attacked

Completely wrong as you are on all accounts

The attacks on 79th brigade show what Russia will do to those convoys

Turn them into sprinkled body parts

mavaff wrote:So guys there is a conspiracy story coming up that says that in Mariupol there is some very high profile Western official (most likely French) that they are trying to get out, already 3 choppers have been downed....
If confirmed (and if confirmed French) this can blow up any Macron chance to be elected again.