Will Stewart — The Daily Mirror Jan 26, 2022
Russia has for the first time moved elite paratroopers close to its border with Ukraine amid fears of a military operation to grab capital Kyiv, it is reported.
A train with the crack troops and their equipment was spotted moving west towards the potential war zone and appears to be the 217th Guards Parachute Regiment of the 98th Airborne Division.
The deployment was seen passing through Russia’s Bryansk region which borders both Ukraine and Belarus, as shown in a video posted on TikTok.
An analysis by respected independent Russian researchers known as the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) indicates the tarpaulin-covered armoured vehicles in the video are BMD-4M airborne combat vehicles and BTR-MDM airborne armoured personnel carriers.
“The train includes five passenger carriages, which can carry more than 250 people,” said the CIT.
It was also loaded with eight shortened two-axle Kamaz-43501 trucks, as used by Russia’s Airborne Troops.
The train originated from Tekstilny station in the Ivanovo region, according to railway records, which is close to where the elite airborne forces are based, said the analysis.
“This is the first confirmed video of paratroopers moving closer to the border with Ukraine,” said the CIT.
“In any large-scale attack on the territory of Ukraine, the Airborne Forces should play a decisive role.”
They would act “either in a landing operation to capture strategic objects in the rear or as shock infantry”.
The analysis said: “The appearance of paratroopers looks all the more ominous because in recent days there has been a continuous build-up of Russian groups in the south of the Bryansk region and in Belarus – in the south of Gomel region, north of Kyiv.”
It was not immediately clear if the paratroopers were heading for Belarus or a Russian region close to the border.
The Team referenced “statements by British intelligence about the preparation of an occupying government of pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians, as well as the words of Prime Minister Boris Johnson about a possible ‘blitzkrieg’ attack on Kyiv”.
They warned: “We consider an offensive from the territory of Belarus and/or the Bryansk region in the direction of the Ukrainian capital as at least one of the possible scenarios of Russian actions in Ukraine.”
CIT investigative journalist Ruslan Leviev said recently of Putin’s military buildup: “Russia tried to justify itself, saying these are just exercises…
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“But experience shows that exercises can easily turn directly into real military operations.”
This came as Western arms control inspectors were abruptly banned by Russia from visiting Bryansk and Smolensk regions this week – despite Moscow announcing it had given the go-ahead under long-established international agreements under the auspices of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
A team from NATO member Latvia was refused visas for the six-day inspection based on Covid restrictions, even though the state media in Russia reported two days later that the visit was going ahead.
“This refusal is incomprehensible in a situation where Russia is massively concentrating its troops on the Ukrainian border while claiming that it is not planning an invasion,” said the Latvian defence ministry.
It continued: “Using Covid-19 restrictions as an excuse suggests that Russia has something to hide and that it does not want to reveal the true scope and intentions of its military activities, as required by the OSCE.”
Russia staged drills with its lumbering Yars – or Topol – intercontinental nuclear ballistic missile transporters in the Ivanovo region, as part of exercises by its strategic missile forces.
Elsewhere, in the Rostov region, bordering Ukraine, units of Russia’s 150th mechanised infantry division staged “combat readiness exercises” involving more than 1,000 troops after being moved from the country’s southern military district.
Moscow was also beefing up its already strong military presence in Crimea, annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
It was announced that aircraft from the Southern Military District plus the Black Sea Fleet’s naval aviation will be “redeployed to tactical airfields in Crimea, Krasnodar region, as well as Rostov and Volgograd regions, and will drill, carrying out missile strikes.”
Yesterday, Russia announced more than 6,000 servicemen of the Southern Military District were put on training alert as part of the combat readiness check.
Similar “combat readiness training” was carried out by Russian forces in the Transnistrian breakaway region of Moldova, on Ukraine’s western flank.
Thousands of Russian troops have been here for 30 years and their presence is seen as posing a threat to Ukraine in the event of a war.
Some 100 military vehicles were involved in the drills when soldiers practised the use of camouflage, arranging firing positions and “preparing equipment for marching”.
A video shows Su-35S fighters en route to Belarus.
Meanwhile in the Arctic, Russia’s Northern Fleet has started a major exercise “to practice combat actions” in a newly-formed “expeditionary force”.
“Up to 1,200 personnel, about 140 items of combat and special hardware, up to 20 aerial vehicles, and at least 30 ships, submarines, and auxiliary vessels are to be involved in the exercise,” said a statement.
The war games will be mainly in the Barents Sea, said the fleet.
“Tactical groups of ships and vessels and units of coastal troops will test cohesion in carrying out joint training missions in the Arctic and practice tactical naval engagement manoeuvres and methods,” said a statement.
Russia blasted the West for sending military equipment and “countless” advisors to Ukraine.
“Cultivating Russophobia among its citizens and like-minded states, talking about the accumulation of Russian troops as almost the root cause of all problems, [the US] forgets to clarify that the talk is about Russian forces on Russian territory,” said Moscow’s mission to the UN.
“This is in contrast to American and NATO weaponry and countless advisers that have flooded Ukraine and some other states close to the Russian borders.
“There is also no explanation for what the American navy, increasing tension in the Black Sea region, is doing near the Russian coast.”
Despite a two-week surge of forces and equipment arriving in Belarus and regions close to Ukraine, in addition to 100,000-plus troops already in place, the Kremlin denies aggressive or provocative intent.
It appears that Putin will no longer take any more s__t !! He is displaying a show of force which at this time the west may want to take into serious consideration !! The Russian Bear Roars !!………….and do not forget …..that Putin knows how to play the grand board international chess game very well !!!!
If the Zionist-Communist Cryptocrats start a new war, via their various Chubad-Lubavitch agents (Johnson, Biden, Putin, Zelensky, Lukashenko et al) the white gentiles will idiotically further decimate their own race, while millions of Afro-Asian apes & mongrel migrants continue pouring into the West to ‘replace’ them & search for white pussy to impregnate..
Scary stuff. Read this. The 2nd horse is the Red Horse. Ist One is The White Horse, The conqueror wears
the laurel of victory. And the red horse brings war. http://www.genevabible.org/files/Geneva_Bible/New_Testament/Revelation.pdf
@NicoX.. sadly, the absolute truth.
From the article: “But experience shows that exercises can easily turn directly into real military operations.”
Rather like 9/11 (and 11/11 in Britain. There was even a coincidental ongoing ‘virus’ exercise, too).
What always makes me wonder is this: britain has this quasimodo impersonator as prime pillock, and when he screws the british over you just take it because you’re too gutless to do anything else. Well, all well and bad. But then you have quasimodo saying to the leaders of the biggest nations on earth “I’m not to be toyed with” (or whatever he spews at them) and you can only wonder what they think. If I were them I’d laugh. He (and britain) are a joke throughout the world, yet even quasi doesn’t seem to realise it. Frankly, it’s embarassing. It’s like your child suddenly dropping his pants in the middle of the supermarket, or your spouse behaving as if anyone gives a damn what they do or say. It makes me cringe every time I see it. Like the ‘royals’ behaving as if they aren’t raping children on a daily basis.
And this is heads up is it, from the daily f**kin’ mirror? Yeh right. makes me wonder who’s running this site. I think its had its day.
How ridiculous is this. Why would you need to move airborne troops to the border if you were going to attack? Planes fly a long ways, ya know. They could fly them into the Ukraine from anywhere if they were really intending to attack.
As A former paratrooper myself (Rhodesian Army Special Forces, 17/18 combat jumps) I can tell you that we did not always parachute into operations. Sometimes we would fly in by helicopter or, for long range reconnaisance missions, we would walk in. It all depended on the nature of the mission.
Re: Ukraine – don’t forget that the Military Estimates are up before Congress, so the scarier the situation looks the better!
Shite like this always happens at this time of year, and the recent meeting between the US and Russia was most likely to discuss
Putin’s cut after it’s passed by Congress. The rest is all theatre for the tax slaves.
As always – Follow the Money!
Picture on top, Russian Paratroopers wearing blue berets ?? Sneaky Russian ?? When they will drop on Ukraine they will pretend to be UN Peace Keeping Soldiers ??
Tricky Vladimir ??
Drudge Report screenshot 27 Jan 2022: Invasion virtually certain
https://i.imgur.com/gmw8Brb.png
Total bullshit. Russia not going to invade. This whole Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine is a calculated distraction because the Covid vaccine narrative has fallen flat on it’s face – so they whipped up a totally bogus crisis.
Rachel Madcow “Russia, Russia, Russia, the Russians are always stopping our plans of world domination”
Unelected Pedo Joe Biden is way down in the polls, his first year a fail. He is some cussing old coot ready to be retired and sent to the old folks home where some male Negro nurses can change his bedpan. His own party wants him gone, there is talk of replacing Kamala (useless) with a supreme court position and bring Hillary in for VP, then Hillary can run in 2024, having VP experience. My money is on Hillary entering stage left and Kumalaho being ejected, then Biden will die or retire and Hillary will be the first female President and Bill the first ladies man. Bill will sure be glad to be back in the White House with lots of intern tail.
The Democrats are rushing through a big aid bill to Ukraine (the real reason for all the Russia flap) Jews in D.C. are going to rob the Treasury and send billions to their Jew friends in Ukraine, and all will be rewarded with big kickbacks. With this bribe, the Hunter Biden allegations will be swept under the rug.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senators-writing-bill-with-substantial-ukraine-defense-aid-increases-sources-2022-01-27/
The Goyim are being fleeced again by District of Jew Criminals.
Russia = kaching mucho shekels for all involved
HETEROSEXUALITY ATTACKED AGAIN
https://www.rt.com/news/547566-feminist-transgender-posters-arrested/
@Rixon what you have written is true but the Russian forces are far larger than Southern Rhodesian or any European forces and don’t need to use their Paras as infantry. In a case like this the paras will be used as they were trained. They will be dropped on targets to ensure bridges etc are intact to facilitate a short, fast invasion by mechanised forces.
I wonder why putin doesn’t ask all the experts on here how to deploy his forces? Perhaps he runs his own computer games to decide who to kill?
In MY opinion, neither the uk nor the usa have the ability to fight a war with russia or china. If I were either of the latter, I would suggest an alliance to defend each other, then just sit back and watch midden and quasimodo trying to figure out how to fight half the world with an army of poofters and coons.
As I see it, china could take any of the tiny countries around it any time it likes, but it doesn’t want to. Ditto russia. How, pray tell, would anyone stop them?
All the wars over the last twenty years and beyond have been the f(uk) and amerika attacking weaker countries whilst waving a flag of ‘peace’. Now the jews and saudis are doing it. It must be some disease resulting from having no one left to murder in your own country.
@Grimmson The fact is, airborne training is just part of being a paratrooper. Airborne units worldwide are often used as shock troops or for special operations in general because of their high level of fighting spirit. Think Waffen SS.
Yes, they might be dropped in. But unless they are doing HAHO (High Altitude, High Opening), dropping behind enemy lines isn’t very viable when the enemy has full radar coverage. You can do nap of the Earth to get there, but the plane still has to pop up to 500ft even for a low-altitude combat jump. Btw, kudos to the Rhodesian Army guy. He is a man among men, and fought the good fight as far as I am concerned.