Russian special military operation in Ukraine #41

Again, its to bleed Ukraine of its fanatics. They will slowly take settlement after settlement and gradually push them out. Right now its a question of how badly do Bidet's puppets want to hold on and since its a lot they are going to just slowly degrade and take down Ukraine's best formations and slowly drive them out a settlement at a time. Its going to take a while though since Ukraine prepared where they are now for almost a decade. It will take time, but possibly by the end of the year the province will be cleared. Do I necessarily like this plan? No. However, you didn't ask what my plan was. You asked what the plan was. I am just telling you what the plan seems to be from looking at what has been happening.

If it were my plan, There'd be a hell of a lot more destruction of Ukrainian transport infrastructure, a lot of flattened government and ministry buildings in Kiev, Lvov and elsewhere, a shitload of NATO embassies relocating to the relative safety of Lvov or even Poland, no photops by NATO elites in Kiev, there'd be a complete takedown of Ukraine's energy grid, internet, and bridges and rail networks. I'd also do a couple more rounds of mobilizations and call ups and take Kharkov and Sumy and Odessa and seal Ukraine off from the sea. That is what I would do, but alas I am just a commentator from somewhere in cyberspace.

Once again about the strikes with "Daggers" on the NATO bunker: why everyone is silent about them, by Lyubov Stepushova for Military Pravda.ru. 04.23.2023.

Russian and American authorities are silent about the results of the Kinzhal missile attack on the Lvov region on March 9. Meanwhile, the consequences are reflected in the changed policy of NATO.

"Daggers" selected for a worthy object

Leaks of information on the results of the strike - the underground bunker of NATO headquarters was hit - occurred either through Ukrainian Telegram channels, or through an unknown Greek publication , or through Russian military specialists. Neither the Russian Defense Ministry nor the Pentagon commented on the event.

Hypersonic missiles "Dagger" could not fail to hit the chosen object, since they are elusive not only for the Ukrainian missile defense system, but for any other in the world, the Pentagon also admits this.

Secondly, it had to be a very important and worthy target for the "Daggers" - located deep underground: the damaging characteristics of the "Daggers" are designed for this. It was under Lviv in Western Ukraine, as it appears from the data in the media, that there was a deep (up to 120 meters) underground bunker - the control center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where NATO specialists worked.

The Kremlin had good reasons for striking with "Daggers"

Further, we note that for such an escalation on the part of the Kremlin there should have been good reasons. And there was such a reason - it was a terrorist attack in the Bryansk region on March 2, as a result of which a civilian was killed and a boy was wounded.

It was precisely a terrorist act, because the sortie of Ukrainian militants under the guise of "the liberation army of Russia" had no military significance. Behind it were the secret services of Ukraine and the United States, and maybe Britain. It doesn't matter. It is important that this was the first overland attack by terrorists on the "old" territories of the Russian Federation, which was already an existential threat at the stage of the beginning of its implementation. And I had to answer.

The answer came with Kinzhal strikes, killing some 160 NATO officers in the bunker, according to some sources.

NATO had only one adequate response - nuclear
If NATO recognizes these losses, then an adequate response is needed - according to the Russian command center, for example, in the Kherson region. But this response has no other option than a tactical nuclear strike from Europe, because NATO does not have an elusive hypersonic weapon like Russia's.

Tests of such a missile in March were a failure. That is, if Moscow has long had a wide range of hypersonic weapons and is working on its new generation, the Pentagon is only achieving stable flights at supersonic speeds.

Thus, Washington faced a dilemma after March 9:


raise the level of conflict with Russia to a nuclear one, or
look for another way out - to freeze the conflict.


As follows from subsequent events, the second option was chosen, because the goal of the war for the Americans is not the defeat of the Russian Federation, but to enable their bankers to invest and profit from the restoration of Ukraine. And, of course, for this it is necessary that the Russian Federation leave it with a pro-Western government.

In addition, the military in the United States, apparently, was afraid that the inadequacies in Congress, when the NATO losses were made public on March 9, would insist on a nuclear strike on the Russian Federation. This is another reason for the silence of events in the main US media.

How the freezing of the conflict in Ukraine is developing

Further events line up in a logical chain.


1. In March and April, publications about the poor state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tripled in the Western media, and someone in red shorts appeared who organized the necessary intelligence leak describing the collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
2. They also talked about the need for negotiations between Kyiv and the Russian Federation with territorial concessions.
3. French President Emmanuel Macron was sent to China (because Xi Qizping does not want to meet with Anthony Blinken and does not accept calls from Joe Biden), who joined the Beijing peace plan.
4. The "corridors of solidarity" for the export of Ukrainian grain through Europe were urgently canceled , which deprives Kiev of budget revenues. It is noteworthy that the initiator of this restriction was Warsaw, which before that was burning with the desire to make a confederation with Ukraine. This idea is now put to rest.
5. They even talked about the physical elimination of Zelensky, as he is inadequate.
6. And, finally, the visit of Jens Stoltenberg to Kiev looks like a cherry on the cake against the backdrop of an article in WP that the United States warned Vladimir Zelensky : don’t hold on to Bakhmut, now let him blame himself. That is, Stoltenberg brought the last warning to Zelensky - negotiate with Moscow.

Western bankers should be allowed to earn

In the near future, probably with other leadership in Kiev, Washington will agree to all the Kremlin's demands on the issue of Ukraine in terms of territorial concessions (according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation), in return for receiving participation in its economic restoration.

Or, refusing and delaying time to reason with Zelensky (which is useless), he will not receive this either, losing the money already invested in the privatization of Ukrainian assets - black soil and liquid strategic production. Then it will be difficult to explain to your taxpayers why all this was in Ukraine.

It remains to answer the question why the Russian Defense Ministry is silent about the defeat of the NATO bunker. Yes, for the same reason - the Russian Federation also does not need an escalation of the conflict with the United States.

https://military.pravda.ru/1825465-bunker_nato_lvov/

There could have been tampering with the release mechanism by someone or group working at the airfield from which the jet was operating. It's the sort of PR style sabotage that is consistent with the PR clown regime in Kiev and its NATzO patrons.

The chances of the bomb dropping on anything important would be rather low if it was sabotage... it would just be too random to be useful... and when they started having such problems it should be fairly easy to work out who was working in that ground crew at the time and who fitted and check the bomb mount...

Still dumb to make it fly above cities. Take a map and you will have tens of other possible path where there is no one and from where they can hit any ukro target.

So far it appears to have happened once... not something I would bother changing tactics for... the risk is very low.

Of course when they start carrying 3 ton and 5 ton bombs then perhaps being more careful regarding the flight path... but even still dropping a 500kg bomb in a civilian area that is sparsely populated with only a few casualties is actually better than dropping it while crossing your own front line and taking out some of your own defences.

In what sounds like it might just be a comically absurd attempt to portray Teixeira as a Russian asset, prosecutors this filed new information with the court, noting that he once shot a vintage Soviet pistol.

All they need now is evidence he has read War and Peace and it is proven beyond down he is a Russian Agent working for Putin directly...

Weren't they also working to put the KH-32 on the SU-30?

There was talk... just as there was talk of putting the Moskit (air launched SS-N-22 Sunburn... a 4.5 ton missile) between the engines of an Su-33 but that didn't happen either AFAIK.

The Yakhont/Onyx that they did modify was only 2.5 tons for use on Flankers.

they could have used the chaos in CNC to take Donbass and start a bombing campaign on military targets. Also instead of attacking Kiev, close the border to the west.

Closing the western border to Ukraine would require an enormous force to operate in rather hostile territory where the civilians will actively help your enemy attack you with guerilla type tactics the west so desperately wants to use against the Russian forces in this conflict.

It would be the Russians bleeding forces instead of the orcs.

A large fighting force means an even bigger support and logistics force which would be a nice soft target for locals to engage with minimal loses.

Unacceptable

What?

They essentially mounted a raid... did **** all damage and then ran back to their lines with their tails between their legs... having lost an unknown number of men and resources.

That is not so much unacceptable as not interesting.

If they want to risk their lives pulling stupid stunts like this then good news... they are that stupid let them do it.

Highly risky but to little or no advantage for their own forces.

Wasting ammo and fuel and vehicles and risking getting killed for the goal of getting some pictures for the Blog.

Russia should be pleased their enemies are so reckless with their own lives.

Cross border minor attacks would be manpower intensive to repel... you would have to have troops on standby ready to fill gaps because you can guarantee this cross border raid didn't happen at a part of the line where the Russian forces were heavy, and if they are doing **** all damage then why bother.

Not saying they should ignore such things but if they detect them and shoot them up on their way out then that is good enough.

The alternative is to create mobile forces that can watch the entire length of the line of contact, especially in the gaps for attacking forces... and if the enemy forces are just going to go in and blow something up and take a photo and then leave then odds are the best you could hope for is to shoot at them as they are leaving.

More important to be looking for fuel dumps and ammo dumps and groupings of enemy forces for significant counter attacks rather than such tiny pin prick attacks.

The fact of the matter is such attacks are probably intended to get the Russian forces to spread their focus along the entire front line, instead of looking behind their lines for troops getting together and ammo and weapons and equipment being formed up for an attack or a false attack to distract from an attack somewhere else.

Even if it landed amongst a group of people it would not have killed hundreds at only 20kgs of HE.

That is slightly more than a 120mm mortar bomb carries as a payload, so it is quite powerful, but not particularly big for air delivered ordinance.

Big for a drone... Russian drones will carry KAB-20s, but part of that weight wont be HE.

Standard bombs carried by CAS aircraft like Su-25s would be 100kg or 250kg bombs.

"Wagner Group" advanced in the western districts of Artemovsk, 04.24.2023.

The "Wagner Group" has advanced in the west of Artemovsk and is fighting behind the railway.

ARTEMOVSK, April 24 - RIA Novosti. The fighters of the "Wagner group" have advanced in the western outskirts of Artemovsk and are already fighting behind the railway in the area of ​​​​high-rise buildings and a medical institute, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the scene.

“Three days ago we went behind a piece of iron to a nine-story building, cleared it and now we are moving west. Ahead of the nine-story buildings, the extreme ones that remained in the western part of Bakhmut,” the fighter said.

He noted that in this part of the city there were few surviving buildings that could be used as shelters. At the same time, the Ukrainian military, according to the interlocutor of the agency, occupy advantageous heights in high-rise buildings.

“The whole difficulty is that they are now sitting at a height, and we are trying to move, we are looking for any shelters. In this regard, it is difficult, because there are no whole houses there and there are no shelters either, so we try to quickly enter high-rise buildings,” military added.

Artemovsk is located north of the large city of Gorlovka . Used by Kiev as a transport hub for supplying troops in the Donbass . Fierce battles have been going on outside the city for more than six months.

https://ria.ru/20230424/artemovsk-1867317425.html

The thing was filled with 30 pcs of M112 Canadian-originated C4 demolishing batons, 570g each. At least that is what they are saying.
Detonated in open, it would inflict less damage than it might seem.

Dozens of foreign mercenaries killed in Iskander strike – Russia, 04.24.2023.

Up to 60 members of the so-called ‘Georgian Legion’ were eliminated in Donbass, according to the Defence Ministry.

Dozens of foreign mercenaries have been killed in a strike on the Ukrainian-held town of Konstantinovka in Russia’s People’s Republic of Donetsk, Moscow has said.

Up to 60 members of the so-called ‘Georgian Legion’ were killed and 15 military vehicles were destroyed in the attack, while 20 other mercenaries were seriously wounded, the ministry’s spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, announced during a briefing on Monday.

The strike, carried out using the Iskander short-range ballistic missile system, targeted a library in Konstantinovka, which foreign fighters were using for lodging and storing ammunition, he added.

“The eliminated militants of the Georgian Legion were involved in the brutal torture and murder of Russian servicemen near Kiev in March last year,” Konashenkov said.

The Russian military possesses data on every foreign mercenary linked to the killing of Russian POWs, the spokesman claimed. “Every one of them will get their well-deserved retribution,” he added.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575255-ukraine-georgia-mercenaries-iskander/

Robinette is a weak and pusillanimous man, it finally shows up.

White House ‘disconnected’ from intelligence – Seymour Hersh, 04.24.2023.
Biden seems uninterested in what spooks say about the Nord Stream sabotage, the journalist said in an interview aired by RT.

US President Joe Biden doesn’t seem interested in complicated analysis from the intelligence community, including information on the Nord Stream sabotage, American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has said.

“There are people [in US intelligence agencies] that do analysis and write complicated foreign policy studies. It’s an intellectual game,” he told Afshin Rattansi on Going Underground, which was aired by RT on Monday.

“Many of them feel isolated, because there is no sign that the White House is terribly interested in long-term national intelligence estimates. And they certainly don’t want one on the pipeline,” he added.

Hersh reported earlier this year that Nord Stream, which had supplied oil from Russia to Germany, had been sabotaged in a joint US-Norwegian operation ordered by Joe Biden last September. Both nations deny the allegation.

"I don’t know what’s going to happen with the pipeline story. I don’t know if it’s ever going to come out, because this government will never investigate it, at least in an honest way,” Hersh said in the interview that aired on RT on Monday.

Describing the apparent “disconnect” between the White House and the US intelligence community, the veteran journalist said some professional analysts “don’t see Biden as an ardent reader of their work.”

He compared Biden’s attitude to that of another US president, Ronald Reagan, who was described as “not much of a reader” of detailed intelligence reports, which “rarely reached his desk,” according to one account.

According to an anecdote recalled by Hersh, people in the CIA realized that Reagan was not reading the daily briefs prepared for him by the agency.

“Colin Powell… figured a way to do it. He would tape it into video, and then plug the video in for Reagan to watch,” the journalist added.

Powell served as national security adviser in the Reagan administration. The president’s preference for visuals rather than text was reported by many sources. However, the CIA has dismissed Reagan’s purported aversion to its written material as a myth.

https://www.rt.com/news/575249-hersh-ingellitence-reports-biden/

Why another round of mobilization? Ukraine's next mass suicide uh offensive features 150 some odd Bradleys, Leopard Is and M1A1's given a brief reprieve from the bone yard. If Russia has sufficient shells, srockets, glidebombs and drones then there is no need for another mobilization, at least not yet. What Russia needs to be on guard for are bombings and disruptions of Victory Day parades or drone strikes and terror attacks on Russian landmarks. However, that requires intel not more mobilization.

Post JohninMK Today at 6:08 pm
Rob Lee
@RALee85
"Over the past six months, cargo ships have carried more than 300,000 artillery shells and a million rounds of ammunition from Iran to Russia, according to the officials and documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal." @DionNissenbaum

I have addressed that a few months ago.
The supply chain between Russia and Iran is extremely hard to both monitor and disturb.
Quite the same applies to the routes from China and North Korea.
All three are very effective weapon production hubs, with a huge purchasing power leverage for Russia.
And all of them are well aware that this war is being fought for them.