Russia's unjustifiable war of aggression in Ukraine

[catcha]

some updates since last evening:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1573611182082113537

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Posting here another video from mobilization, yes I know you have seen many of those drunk bastards humiliating themselves, but it is still quite entertaining!

It says:
This army is feared by all of Europe. And they haven't released the machine guns yet.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1573596306039349251

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Some graffiti from St. Pete:

It says:
"To start with you were indifferent to politics and now you're cannon fodder"

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Ah, darling you mentioned this old pervert Berlusconi as if he is sort of your idol xD

https://twitter.com/x/status/1573510799447900160

You really have sophisticated taste for role models, alright xD It must have been Bunga-Bunga what impressed you, I'd say. Taking part in it as a servant would be the closest to the intercourse in your life

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Did you notice that our PROC rat is starting to attack EU again? It is not hard to figure out why

From negotiations of new EU sanctions:

1. Poland, the Baltics and Ireland demand the disconnection of Gazprombank, Alfa Bank and Rosbank from Swift, as well as other sanctions against the banking sector
2. The same countries want a ban on cooperation with Russia in the nuclear energy sector, a ban on gas imports, a ban on diamond trading and a ban on selling real estate to Russians
3. The maximum price for Russian oil will probably be in the package

Polen en Balten willen meer Russische banken van Swift afkoppelen

In de onderhandelingen over een achtste sanctiepakket van de Europese Unie tegen Rusland dringen Polen, de Baltische landen en Ierland aan op bijkomende strafmaatregelen tegen Russische banken. Onder meer Gazprombank, Alfa Bank en Rosbank moeten van het bankencommunicatienetwerk Swift...

www.nieuwsblad.be

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A comment on the mobilization and Russia not capable to learn on her own mistakes:

As a child and a teenager I heard many stories about them, among which was the thesis that they are always so backward, out of fear of the challenges of the future. At the time I did not quite understand, now it is simply obvious, that they always look into the past, create some myths having nothing to do with reality or being a fragment of the whole, e.g. the offensive of the Red Army on Berlin etc., at the same time laboriously ignoring all the rest, like the fact, that the losses of the 1923 vintage in the second war amounted to over 80%, which means that in 1947 (the first census in CCCP after second war and in new borders) lived less than a fifth born in this 1923 (the year of conscription).

Such facts they omit, therefore they are so backward, because they see the march on Berlin, but do not see at what cost this took place. And not only the human losses, but also the influence on the next generation, among which is the poor condition of family as a social cell in Russia and not only there, there a lot of women have children with accidental men, what it appeared, turned in head and disappeared.

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I will finish for now with this. There are plenty of information on released POWs (both sides). I got my hand on some videos confronting Russian POWs giving the interviews when in captivity (the calls to family etc.) where they are so happy that being POW is better than being in Russia. They are openly saying how Russia shitty is. They just did not realize at then, that they might get exchanged back. So there are second batch of videos from recent days, when Russian propaganda was interviewing them after the release, where simply they say exact opposite what they were saying earlier (no wonder - treason). It is really striking when you also check the photos of Ukrainian POWs.

So here it is an example below. The guy on the right was saying in RT that he was mistreated, he was starving (yeap!), had no medical help and on. The guy on the left is a POW from Azovstal released recently after few months in captivity...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1573327896256585731

UN already started filing the report on mistreatment of the Ukrainian POWs by Russians. Good those barbarians at least released (after keeping in prison in unhuman conditions for months) pregnant medic from Azov.

Here with family:

there was a fundraiser started by his sister for medical treatment. As orcs left the wounds in his legs untreated for months, his arm is not re-grown and is missing 4 cm of bone. Those are tortures of Russians, so imagine how they were treating others, when this guy was not treated the worse. Many released POWs have significant evidence on their bodies of being tortured, beaten and mistreated for long time.

Here is Mikhailo's arm again:

No need to add to the campaign, she got 3x required amount in the first two hours of the action. He must be fed first before he can start a loong treatment.

Bastards.

 

[Handy Run]

If those rusty AKs are what the first round of conscripts are getting, imagine what the next batch will get?!

Ivan, you are of patriotic call to serve great Russia. Here is rusty spoon.

 

[Dr. Aaoouh]

If those rusty AKs are what the first round of conscripts are getting, imagine what the next batch will get?!

Ivan, you are of patriotic call to serve great Russia. Here is rusty spoon.

You know how it works. The second round gets whatever the first round drops.

 

[catcha]

Just to give poor Bolek ease of mind and relief his triggering, relax to a nice, calm, soothing analysis of the past day or two events.

There is a leaked photo from Russian support for mobilization raid

PS. Boner, this is for laughs, you do not need to debunk this photo buddy. Focus on the previous posts

edit:

Well this approach took me a while to understand, still cannot get how this campaign can 'help' xD

https://twitter.com/x/status/1573502746602389533

the tag is a LOL-content geyser!


STORIES

'Remember the gummies' Pro-Kremlin bloggers downplay mobilization by comparing conscripts to candy​

7:10 pm, September 23, 2022
Source: Mediazona

Yekaterina Yesayeva

Using the hashtag #DontPanic, pro-Kremlin bloggers have started comparing conscripted soldiers to french fries and gummies in social media posts about how “small” the scale of the country’s mobilization actually is.
The independent Russian outlet Mediazona has found at least three of these posts. In them, bloggers from the far-eastern city of Khabarovsk call on men to stay calm, reminding them that the authorities are only planning to conscript 300,000 people, or 1 percent of the 25 million people who make up Russia’s “total mobilization base.” These figures were given by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu shortly after Vladimir Putin's September 21 mobilization announcement.
The influencers liken the soldiers-to-be to one percent of an order of french fries, one percent of a bag of gummies, or one percent of a woman’s makeup bag — a “negligible” amount, in their view. "Only one percent, friends!" wrote one woman. "Remember the gummies."

None of the bloggers offered any advice, however, to people who have already been conscripted.

Damn! So it seems Russians believe they can stop the panic with posting some social media ridiculousness by some girl with Botox-issues making her look like a full grown algae eater from the pet shop xD I am really intrigued by this campaign, will follow its developments

#dontpanic

 

[Handy Run]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1573446109011517440

 

[Boneman]

Did you notice that our PROC rat is starting to attack EU again? It is not hard to figure out why

Attacking the EU led by a bunch of unelected, unaccountable muppets who openly say they'll force Italy to "take a different direction" if they don't vote their way? you still didn't answer my question, where this happened before, allow me to refresh your memory.

Denmark voted no to the Maastricht Treaty in June 1992, guess what? they had to vote again until they said yes in 1993.

We here in Ireland voted no twice, first to the Nice Treaty in 2001 before having to vote again and it passing in 2002.

Then we had the Lisbon Treaty in 2008 which we voted no, guess what peasants, vote again until you say yes, which we did in 2009.

That's sounds extreme Democratic, just force a country to keep having a referendum until they get the answer the unelected clown show in Brussels gets.

There is a leaked photo from Russian support for mobilization raid

At least now we know Bolek is an 'onlys fan' of many female 'gummy bears' Russian bloggers, thanks for the free eye candy, naw, no need to debunk your photo, i got bigger crowd ones to show you.










Look at all these poor students forced under duress to cast their vote....

 

[catcha]

I really am always moved how Russian administration workers are swiftly packed to the buses for those 'spontaneous' raids
PS. you posted wrong pictures buddy, you have three from the very same staged support raid and one from Chechnya, where is no mobilization

Meanwhile in the real world:

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 23​

Sep 23, 2022 - Press ISW

Download the PDF

Kateryna Stepanenko, Katherine Lawlor, George Barros, and Frederick W. Kagan
September 23, 10:00 pm ET
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Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report.
The Russian mobilization system is struggling to execute the task Russian President Vladimir Putin set and will likely fail to produce mobilized reserve forces even of the low quality that Putin’s plans would have generated unless the Kremlin can rapidly fix fundamental and systemic problems.

Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that the Russian Armed Forces would mobilize combat-ready reservists to quickly stabilize the frontlines and regain the initiative on the battlefield.[1] Milblogger and social media reports, however, show that Russian military recruitment centers, enlistment officials, and local administrations are mobilizing men who do not meet the Kremlin’s stated criteria, especially Shoigu’s promise that mobilization would prioritize men with “combat experience.” Russian opposition outlets and Telegram channels leaked information suggesting that the Kremlin aims to complete this partial mobilization by November 10 and that the Kremlin is seeking to mobilize 1.2 million men instead of the publicly announced 300,000.[2] ISW cannot verify these reports, but significant available information suggests that this mobilization campaign (the first in post-Soviet Russia) is overwhelming an ineffective and unmotivated bureaucratic system and could fail to generate the much-needed combat-ready reserve force in a short time or at all.

Russian pro-war milbloggers and social media users are raising concerns about unlawful mobilization practices and showcasing many serious Russian mobilization problems on the second day of the mobilization effort. Russian milbloggers reported receiving numerous complaints from social media users that older men, students, employees of military industries, and civilians with no prior military experience are receiving illegal mobilization notices.[3] Shoigu and other officials have repeatedly stated that these categories of individuals would be exempt from this partial mobilization. Other sources reported that Russians are mobilizing airport and airline employees and workers from other industries.[4] The Russian government FAQ portal also indicated that local mobilization-enforcing officials may mobilize part-time students, despite the Kremlin’s declaration that no students will undergo mobilization.[5]
Some milbloggers noted that Russian enlistment personnel are assigning men with prior military service to very different specializations from those in which they served, while other sources recounted instances of military recruitment centers mobilizing men with chronic illnesses.[6]
The quality of Russian bureaucrats and military trainers are also raising fears among the Russian pro-war crowd that the partial mobilization effort may not succeed. Milbloggers noted that employees of the military enlistment centers are unmotivated and underpaid, reducing their enthusiasm to adhere to the envisioned mobilization plan. Milbloggers also pleaded with officers and commanders in charge of preparing mobilized men for war to train them before deployment.[7]

Challenges and errors in the first days of executing a large-scale and demanding partial mobilization in the midst of a failing war are not necessarily surprising, although they suggest that the Russian military mobilization infrastructure was not better prepared for a major war than the Russian armed forces themselves. It is nevertheless conceivable that the Russian Ministry of Defense will address some of the worst problems and get the mobilization effort on track. It is also possible, moreover, that much of the partial mobilization is proceeding more or less as planned and that social media and the milblogger community are highlighting problems that are serious but not necessarily pervasive. Some of the reports suggest, however, that regional mobilization officials have been given quotas to fill and received pressure to fill them in ways that are more likely to cause errors than to reward adherence to the stated principles and the needs of an effective, combat-ready reserve force.

Divergences from the mobilization decree and from Putin’s and Shoigu’s statements about the categories of men who are exempt from mobilization are also causing anger and mistrust toward Russian federal subjects and the Kremlin itself. Some social media footage already shows mobilized men fighting with enlistment officers, arguing with mobilization representatives, and refusing to serve under unlawful orders.[8] Some milbloggers claimed that some of the discontented men who have been wrongfully mobilized would have accepted their fate if they had actually met the mobilization criterium.[9] The Kremlin is thus committing unmotivated and potentially angry men to war with the task of regaining the initiative in an offensive war in a foreign land on a battlefield far from home.

The highly nationalist and pro-war milblogger community is calling on the Kremlin to address these mobilization issues rapidly, but the Kremlin is unlikely to be able to meet their demands. Russian milbloggers express cautious optimism that partial mobilization will reinforce degraded combat units and allow Russian forces to advance in Donetsk Oblast, but are concerned that the Kremlin’s failures to enforce mobilization according to the law and stated policies will create political unrest.[10] One milblogger stated that the Kremlin’s poor handling of the partial mobilization is giving rise to “separatist movements” and opposition media.[11] Another milblogger noted that the Kremlin’s failure to fix mobilization practices within the military recruitment centers may shatter Russians‘ trust in the military-political leadership.[12] A failed or badly flawed partial mobilization campaign may risk further alienation of the Russian nationalist crowd that has been supportive of the war and mobilization.

Disparate mobilization processes across different regions may exacerbate social tensions in Russia already raised by perceived inequalities in the creation of volunteer battalions. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov stated in a live TV broadcast that the Republic of Chechnya will not conduct mobilization because the Republic has already exceeded an unspecified force generation plan by 254 percent.[13] Kadyrov added that Chechnya has already deployed 20,000 servicemen to war since February 24. Kadyrov threatened to mobilize any protesters in Chechnya and send them to the front, however. Kadyrov then seemingly modified his statements by encouraging those opposing mobilization to respect Russian sovereignty instead of using the constitution to avoid service.[14] Kadyrov’s initial statement, addressed to the Chechen public, may be an attempt to both address and discourage criticism of mobilization, the war, and himself within the Chechen community. Kadyrov’s statement could also be a worrisome indicator for the Kremlin—if one of the war’s most vociferous and aggressive advocates feels the need to refuse to mobilize his people, at least publicly, that could indicate that even Kadyrov senses the popular resentment the partial mobilization will cause and possibly even fears it.

Key Takeaways

• Russian partial mobilization efforts are suffering from serious and systemic problems in their first days, generating popular resentment and setting conditions to produce a mobilized reserve force incapable of accomplishing the tasks Russian President Vladimir Putin has set for it.
• Protests, attacks against recruiting centers, and vandalism have occurred across Russia in the first 48 hours after the announcement of partial mobilization.
• Ukrainian forces continued to advance north and northwest of Lyman.
• Ukrainian forces continued their interdiction campaign in Kherson Oblast and maintained operational silence regarding Ukrainian progress on the axis.
• Russian forces continued to launch unsuccessful assaults near Bakhmut and northwest of Donetsk City.
• Ukrainian forces reportedly shot down an Iranian-made Mohajer-6 drone in an unspecified area of the Black Sea, likely near Odesa.
• Russian occupation authorities began the voting period for their sham annexation referenda on September 23 with overt coercion and falsified turnout numbers.
• Russian occupation authorities remained on high alert to prevent partisan attacks against sham election workers, polling stations, and government facilities.

more in the article:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-23

 

[catcha]

maps from the above:

Let us start with the cherry on the cake, I am pretty sure our troll is already trying to prepare the map with support raids marked

to make it a bit clearer to read, I have marked regions in where the protests take place in RED and the rest of Russia in PINK:

now it looks slightly different right? Most of the protests is held in capitals of regions, the ones outside are being silenced quickly.

On the fronts

 

[Boneman]

Do you even know what this "Institute for the Study of War" is and who runs it? let me educate you, it was founded and is still run by Kimberly Kagan, one of her brothers Robert Kagan is married to Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.

Now we're getting into Warhawk territory, Kagan, through her ISW pushed for an expanded offensive in Afghanistan, in 2009 she served on Afghanistan commander Gen.
Stanley McChrystal's strategic assessment team.

That obviously worked out very well for the Yanks.



Guess it helps that the ISW is a 'no profit' organisation that relies on donations which just happen to include General Dynamics, Raytheon, Dyncorp, just your usual large defence contractors helping out, nothing to see here.

Don't forget poor Victoria Nuland caught in a phone call planning the new Ukraine government after the US led illegal Maidan coup in 2014.

It was fun to watch her squirm at a Senate Committee hearing when asked if the US had any biological research facilities in Ukraine.

So, a nice family business run by the Kagans, ISW founded by the big boys in defence contracts, Nuland still in her government position, all above board and totally believable.

 

[stan ogden]

^^

The Russians and Chinese realize that the neocons like Nuland that they’re dealing with are fundamentally unhinged people. It’s the Russians and Chinese that are showing restraint and aren’t inclined to be baited into anything. If there’s any side I’d worry about as far as the ultimate escalation, it’s these nutcases in the US. It’s days as the sole hegemony are over and they’re inclined to do anything.