Introduction – Sept 23, 2023
Last year the U.S. pledged to supply Ukraine with data to assist Ukraine in striking high profile and high value Russian targets. Obtained from U.S. reconnaissance satellites and planes, the data has proved invaluable in striking targets like the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea.
NATO allies, the UK and possibly France, provided the missiles used in the recent strike.
Illustrating once again how the West is using Ukraine as a proxy in its undeclared war against Russia.
However, it should be noted that this is a rare success for Ukraine and that overall the tide of war is now running very much in Moscow’s favour.
Although the targets that Ukraine has struck recently have little strategic significance, they are part of a broader PR campaign. Together with the recent strike on a military shipyard in Sevastopol, Ukraine seems to be trying to convince Western donors that it can still inflict some damage on Russian forces with strikes on high profile targets.
However, this is just a diversion designed to distract from the grim reality of what is really happening on the ground. Where much of Ukraine’s armed forces are now on the verge of outright defeat. Ed.
US to provide Ukraine with intelligence data for accurate multiple rocket launcher strikes
The New Voice of Ukraine – June 22, 2022
“We will provide the Ukrainians with what they need to strike selected targets on Ukrainian territory,” said the Pentagon’s Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs, Colin Cole, during a conference held by the Center for a New American Security in Washington.
“We expect these systems to be in combat soon. We are committed to continuing the supply of this military equipment.”
According to Cole, the U.S. intelligence will allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine to effectively hit enemy targets without wasting extra ammunition.
Ukraine mounts missile strike on Russian Black Sea fleet HQ in Crimea
Pjotr Sauer – The Guardian.co.uk Sept 23, 2023
Black Sea Fleet HQ
A Ukrainian missile attack has hit the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in occupied Crimea, the latest high-profile Ukrainian strike on the annexed peninsula.
Russia’s defence ministry said that one military serviceman was missing as a result of the assault, which hit the navy headquarters in the port city of Sevastopol.
The Moscow-appointed governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, urged people to stay away from the city centre where the navy building is located.
Footage posted on social media showed clouds of white smoke billowing from the rooftop of the Black Sea fleet headquarters. Russian sources reported that the strike was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles provided by the UK and launched from Ukrainian aircraft.
Russian-installed authorities also said air defences downed another missile on Friday near the Crimean town of Bakhchysarai.
Ukraine’s military confirmed on Friday that its forces had “successfully” struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea navy in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, without providing additional details.
Shortly after the strike, Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s security council, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that “the Russian Black Sea fleet will be sliced up like a salami.
“There are two options for the future of Russia’s Black Sea fleet: voluntary or forced self-neutralisation,” Danilov wrote.
Separately, Oleg Kryuchkov, an official with the Crimean administration, said internet service providers on the peninsula were under an “unprecedented cyberattack”, leading to interruptions in service.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has sharply increased the pace of strikes on Crimea as it seeks to inflict strategic and symbolic blows against Russian troops that illegally annexed the peninsula in 2014.
On Wednesday night, Ukrainian officials said that the country’s forces had struck a major military airbase near the city of Saky in Crimea.
Last week, a Ukrainian missile strike on a shipyard in Sevastopol severely damaged and possibly destroyed a Russian landing ship and a Kilo-class submarine.
The latest strikes on Crimea came as Ukrainian forces appeared to have breached the main Russian defensive line in the south-east of the country using armoured vehicles.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian forces first broke through Russia’s defensive line near southern Zaporizhzhia after weeks of painstaking mine clearance. Since then, its troops have been clearing anti-tank obstacles and concrete blocks to allow armoured vehicles to further expand the breach.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a thinktank based in Washington DC that regularly publishes analysis of the conflict, wrote: “Geolocated footage posted on 21 September indicates that Ukrainian armoured vehicles advanced south of the Russian anti-tank ditches and dragon’s teeth obstacles that are part of a tri-layered defence and engaged in limited combat immediately west of Verbove.
“It is unclear if Ukrainian forces retain these positions, however. This is the first observed instance of Ukrainian forces operating armoured vehicles beyond the Russian tri-layer defence,” ISW added.
Kyiv also saw a noticeable setback this week, as the White House rejected President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s request for Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to be sent to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package to bolster the country’s counteroffensive. Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, told reporters on Thursday that Biden would not provide ATACMS, but that he had not taken it off the table.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence spending is set to surge next year, swelling to a record 6% of gross domestic product (GDP), up from 3.9% in 2023, according to a Russian budget draft seen by Bloomberg.
The evolution of Russia’s budget appears to suggest the Kremlin plans to continue the fighting in Ukraine next year as it aims to sustain its war economy.
Russia had already doubled its defence spending target to $100bn, a third of all public expenditure.
That boom in state spending has fuelled the Russian economy over the past 18 months, but academics have argued that the spending on the war in Ukraine is threatening the country’s financial stability.
It is still the old story of trying to deprive Russia of ALL of its warm-water harbours
Rixon gives a good balanced intro. While these are mere pin pricks, this PR gain for UKraine, has an opposite effect on the Russian elite.
It’s not just a case of looking at the big picture and saying ‘It’s going very well, considering ‘We haven’t started yet (Putin)’. Forget the cool hands, the astute mind, and the long game, because there are other things which enter this equation. There’s pride, and respect. I’m not saying Putin doesn’t feel these, but I am saying many elite Russians really don’t see any benefits to this idea that we’re going to make up one day, and these elite Russian sheeple are ‘dead’ right.
The hatred and persecution of Russia won’t stop until the City Crime Cartels control Russian resources. It really is this simple. Sure, there could be a pause, the fighting might stop in UKraine, but remember, the UK Nazi state has been engaged in a secret war which started shortly after Putin took power, & MI6 realised they didn’t have full control.
Sure, Putin offered to join NATO, he hinted at joining the EU, but gradually thing just got nastier and nastier.
If the British Nazi media treated anyone in the UK like Putin, the Russian state, or its sheeple have been treated, they would be prosecuted for hate, harassment, and would have been bankrupted by the compensation payouts. Not content with this gaslighting of Russia, the UK Nazi elite and it’s media has now started on China.
There comes a point where even the most rational sheeple decide enough is enough, and Russia now needs to do the honourable thing. It’s a bit like dueling, which is often swift, and stupid, but much more preferable to being ground down by the NWO Satanic Nazis.
Aside from the consequences of an all out nuclear WW3, there will be Russians, Chinese, and Mexicans, who do see a world without any Nazis. You can include me, but I’m usually in London, so no prospects here.
Given where things stand, Putin is the wrong leader for Russia. Putin was wrong with his SMO, and he’s wrong with his lite touch war. We’ve long passed the point of commonsense. It’s time to get this freak on and waste the Nazi world.
The recent attacks in Crimea are a good indicator. Russia will very likely defeat 80% plus of Nazi nukes. 20% is still a lot of damage, but most urban Russians have access to top notch nuclear bunkers, something that British sheeple can only dream about.
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It changes nothing however the more Ukraine dishes out the sweeter the victory. Rock on Putin you’re a legend in your own time despite what idiot euranglolanders might say.
Biden keeps upping the ante – and this is leading to nuclear war.
My take on this. The powers that be are deciding on nuclear war.
Why???
People are waking up, anti-semenitism is rapant, Biden formed a national strategy to combat antisemtism.
Read the David Goldberg Notes. The nation is in a death spiral and people know it’s the Jews, so what are the Jews to do?
Blow the entire nation to hell, keep provoking Russia until Russia nukes the USA.
That is what I think is coming, and it is being confirmed by other sources – see Infowars Greg Reese Remote Viewing the future video – 90 days.
Why is Russia waiting to nuke us? Because they are fielding the SATAN2 missile.
@Peter Petherington I’m afraid that will not happen. Just another Russian “Red line”. The job Putin has is just to empty Ukraine of fighting age men so the returning Khazar jews have no opposition
Carl Jones said: “The hatred and persecution of Russia won’t stop until the City Crime Cartels control Russian resources. It really is this simple.”
No it really isn’t that simple. The “City Crime Cartels” don’t actually give much of a damn about “Russian resources.” (What do elderly Jewish billionaires e.g. George Soros care about controlling more “resources” at the risk of planetary extinction? They don’t.) The facts suggest that this is a spiritual war whether you happen to like it or not. What the Satanists simply cannot tolerate is a powerful and influential country, Russia, run by a government which is trying to lead Russia by good moral example. This is a war between Satanic evil (the corrupt West and the Satanic cult that runs it) and imperfect good .