Category: Russian military
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Updates (2023-02-17)
The “balloon panic” continue to successfully distract the public from the real issues. Russian supplies of energy to EU managed to bring the prices or natural gas to their pre-war level, around 500-600 USD per 1,000 cubic meters. Russian government is searching for a way to retroactively tax “large” businesses to bring another 300B rubles…
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Commentary on Alexander Mercouris Latest Video: Tanks for UA, US Wasn’t Ready for Proxy War
Alexander’s video is here. I want to address two points which l noted in the header: firstly, the Western major nations of “hot potato” with tanks, and secondly, the seemingly total unpreparedness of the US ruling elites for their proxy war against Russia. Regarding the tanks, things are not entirely clear. Will start with the…
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Shuffling the Commanders — New SMO Commander the Chief of General Staff Gerasimov is Replacing Surovikin
The official reason given by the MoD is quite nonsensical, as usual. The statement goes: Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu makes new appointments to leadership of special military operation Chief of General Staff General of the Army Valery Gerasimov has been assigned the commander of the Joint Group of Forces. The…
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Cruise Missile Strikes, Railroad Infrastructure, Bombers — Commentary to Alex Mercouris Latest Video
Alex Mercouris talked about the use of the cruise missiles to strike targets against UA in his latest video. He analyses the Russian cruise missile production capacities based on the cruise missiles used in those strikes. In on one of my previous posts, I discussed the error in correlating the number of missiles used in…
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The Strike on Engels Strategic Airbase, Again — No Lessons Learnt
After 20 days, UA repeats the strike on Engels Airbase housing the air component of the Russian nuclear triad. Very little information so far, but what was officially confirmed is that the airbase was hit, again, and three airmen were killed, again. If the first success of the attack can be attributed to the element…
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Updates
A large post by the Russian blogger “Murz” (repost by Strelkov here), describing the general situation on the Ukrainian front. In short: On other news, the head of Russian Transneft reported that Poland and Germany requested new contracts for oil transfer via the Druzhba pipeline for the year 2023. This, after the “oil price cap”…
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Russian MoD Reveals the Use of Decoy Targets During Latest Cruise Missile Strike
I talked extensively about the lack of massive and efficient suppression/destruction of enemy air-defence (SEAD/DEAD) operations by the Russian military. Not to say it wasn’t done at all, but there wasn’t a systematic and large-scale effort to destroy UA’s long and medium range air-defence capabilities. In recent article from the Russian MoD, they reveal the…
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Patriot Missiles for UA
The US is getting ready to provide the Patriot air-defense system to Ukraine. The publicly stated reason is to defend against Russian cruise missile and drone strikes on the nation’s power distribution network and energy related facilities such as national gas and petroleum reserves. The truth is Patriot system is badly suited for such purposes.…
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Absence of Leadership and Vision is the main Reasons for Russian Catastrophic Managment of the War in Ukraine
The West has changed its main tune from destroying Russia economically, politically and military, to seeking diplomatic solution. For now the hybrid war is still raging and even escalating, but the next step to freeze the conflict on conditions favorable to the West is already in making. After the successful Ukrainian strike on the most…
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Ukranian Strikes on Russian Strategic Airbases — Russian Nuclear Deterrence Compromised
Yesterday, December 5th, Ukraine lunched at least to deep strikes on Russian Strategic Bomber bases deep inside Russian territory. One of those bases, the Engels airbase, is the main base of Russian Strategic Forces’ nuclear triad’s air component. Overview — feel free to skip if you already know this Having three components of nuclear deterrence…
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