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14 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-1.6557789

 

Apparently there is a Russian partisan/resistance group inside Russia that was trying to assassinate Dugina (Putin's philosopher who  cooked up justification for Putin's invasions of Chechnya and Georgia as well as Ukraine). Dugina and his daughter were supposed to go in one car but at the last minute they separated into two cars, and the explosion killed the wrong person. Shortly thereafter Dugin suffered a heart attack and was rushed to hospital. The Russian FSB (successor to the KGB) refuses to admit the existence of an internal resistance and immediately blamed the Ukrainian intelligence service.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Wideleft]

3 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Apparently there is a Russian partisan/resistance group inside Russia that was trying to assassinate Dugina (Putin's philosopher who  cooked up justification for Putin's invasions of Chechnya and Georgia as well as Ukraine). Dugina and his daughter were supposed to go in one car but at the last minute they separated into two cars, and the explosion killed the wrong person. Shortly thereafter Dugin suffered a heart attack and was rushed to hospital. The Russian FSB (successor to the KGB) refuses to admit the existence of an internal resistance and immediately blamed the Ukrainian intelligence service.  

Almost got a 2-fer!  

Dugina is a piece of s**t.

[blue_gold_84]

47 minutes ago, Wideleft said:

Almost got a 2-fer!  

Dugina is a piece of s**t.

Apple didn't fall far from the tree - at all. Probably didn't help that her deranged father likely had her brainwashed from an early age, though.

It's hilarious how Russia's FSB basically owns itself in their public statement after the "investigation" was finalized: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62634359

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The FSB told Russian media that a Ukrainian woman had moved to Russia in July alongside her young daughter - but that she was in fact a Ukrainian special services contractor.

The woman, it said, rented an apartment in the same building as Ms Dugina for a month, preparing for the attack. In that time, she allegedly followed the journalist through Moscow in a Mini Cooper - for which she used three different licence plates.
 

The suspect then escaped to Estonia after the explosion, the FSB said.
 

An adviser to Ukraine's President Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, said the FSB's version of events was "Russian propaganda" from "a fictional world".
 

The FSB later released video of the accused's car entering Russia, security footage of her entering what is said to be Ms Dugina's building, and leaving Russia.

Sounds like the FSB really suck ass at their job. 

Now here's hoping another "special services contractor" can finish the job and take out that piece of **** Dugin next.

[the watcher]

On the killing of Dugina's daughter 

 

[Mark F]

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[blue_gold_84]

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[Mark F]

@blue_gold_84 yeah. deleted. now delete please,  from your post.

 

to atone I submit this:

 

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Russia announced the "adoption" of 1,000 children deported from Mariupol More than 1,000 Ukrainian children, illegally removed from occupied Mariupol, were given up for "adoption" in the Krasnodar region of Russia alone.

 

 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/belarus-dictator-says-his-warplanes-have-been-re-fitted-to-carry-nukes/ar-AA1196TG

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14 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/belarus-dictator-says-his-warplanes-have-been-re-fitted-to-carry-nukes/ar-AA1196TG

Only one problem with this- these planes have been grounded since 2016 and as such, would be slow, outdated (and vulnerable) and unreliable. Another empty threat. He has to know that if war broke out, he and his cronies would be dead within hours or on the run in Russia.

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'We have to kill them': Russian mercenary holds up skull while bragging about slaughtering Ukrainians
   
An alleged Russian mercenary brandished a human skull as a prop during a recent speech in which he justified his participation in genocide against Ukraine's population.

The man was identified as "Igor Mangushev" by Ukrainian blogger Den Kazansky.

"He is from Moscow. The Russian authorities deny that the Russian army organized the massacre in Bucha. But the Russian military openly calls for massacres and takes pride in torturing and killing Ukrainians," Kazansky tweeted early Sunday morning along with a video of Mangushev's macabre performance.

"We're alive, and this guy's already dead. Let him burn in Hell. He wasn't lucky. We'll make a goblet out of his skull," Mangushev boasted.

"We are not at war with people of blood and flesh. We are at war with the idea – with the idea of Ukraine as an anti-Russian state. There can be no peace. We must de-Ukrainize Ukraine. We must return our Russian lands. We are not at war with people. We are at war with the idea," he proclaimed.

"This is the tragedy of Ukrainian soldiers. We don't care how many; we have to kill them," Mangushev continued. "If we were at war with people, we could make peace with them. But we are at war with the idea, so all bearers of an idea must be killed. Like this guy, probably he did not want to die near Azovstal."

https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/we-have-to-kill-them/

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The Mystery Man Vowing Putin’s Friends Will Get Blown Up Soon

Almost a decade after he was exiled, a former Russian statesman has emerged from the shadows this week as a new thorn in the side of the Kremlin.

In a shocking televised address from Kyiv last week, 47-year-old ex-politician Ilya Ponomarev debuted as a self-described messenger for what he says is an underground resistance movement operating in Russia, the National Republican Army. Ponomarev read the group’s so-called manifesto on a Kyiv-based TV channel he founded seven months ago, called February Morning, in which they claimed responsibility for the car bomb that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian nationalist and staunch Putin ally Alexander Dugin.

“The activists chose a sacred figure of Russian fascism and that’s not up to me to criticize the target of their deed, ” Ponomarev said in an interview with The Daily Beast, claiming that he’s been in contact with the “resistance fighters” since April. Besides passing their messages along, Ponomarev said his “job is to provide commercial support” to the group as needed.

Ponomarev’s connection to the alleged partisan movement is murky, and he hasn’t been able to provide evidence that they had a role in the attack on Dugina. But that hasn’t stopped a wave of press coverage spotlighting Ponomarev’s allegations and fueling skepticism that Russian citizens could be behind the car bomb incident. (Russia has since pinned the attack on a Ukrainian operative, though Kyiv has denied any responsibility.)

“We have been receiving videos and text messages from the Russian rebels about their actions nearly every day,” Ponomarev said. “They throw Molotov cocktails at military draft offices, blow up railroads, pop tires of cars with Russian pro-war symbols and attack activists who were collecting money for the war.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-exile-ilya-ponomarev-claims-violent-reckoning-is-coming-for-vladimir-putins-allies?ref=home

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[johnzo]

Watching the Ukraine news very closely now .... they have been planning/announcing this counterattack for a long time and have no element of surprise. Not ideal conditions to attack under.  Hopefully the Russian supply crunch on the west bank of the Dnipro is as decisive as forecast. 

Good luck and godspeed to the blue and gold.

[Tracker]

2 minutes ago, johnzo said:

Watching the Ukraine news very closely now .... they have been planning/announcing this counterattack for a long time and have no element of surprise. Not ideal conditions to attack under.  Hopefully the Russian supply crunch on the west bank of the Dnipro is as decisive as forecast. 

Good luck and godspeed to the blue and gold.

In the past 48 hours, there has been a report of Russian officers deserting their troops in the Kherson and Crimea regions. assassinations of Russian and pro-Russian officials in occupied areas and Putin has fired his supreme military commander. The Russians are also pulling troops and equipment out of places such as Syria and Kazakhstan. 

So, it appears that the Russians are back on their heels, and elite troops are deserting, but the fight is far from over.

[johnzo]

I hope those reports add up to a Ukranian victory. 

that said, I have really little faith in any play-by-play reporting on the war.  It's difficult to know the significance or truthfulness of anything I read about it. This internet of ours rewards speed and spice over truth, and both sides have pretty extensive online propaganda operations...

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-will-not-attend-gorbachev-funeral-due-scheduling-constraints-kremlin-2022-09-01/

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MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours granted to Boris Yeltsin.

Gorbachev, idolised in the West for allowing eastern Europe to escape Soviet communist control but unloved at home for the chaos that his "perestroika" reforms unleashed, will be buried on Saturday after a public ceremony in Moscow's Hall of Columns.

The grand hall, within sight of the Kremlin, hosted the funerals of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev. Gorbachev will be given a military guard of honour - but his funeral will not be a state one.

State television on Thursday showed Putin solemnly placing red roses beside Gorbachev's coffin - left open as is traditional in Russia - in Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital, where he died on Tuesday aged 91.

Too busy being a fascist *****.

[Tracker]

Apparently the US military is working closely with the Ukrainian military to supply satellite information on Russian troop and military installation locations and war-gamed the whole current offensive with the UA so as to make the offensive as effective as possible with the least casualties and and equipment losses. Since the Russian media is acknowledging the advances and the reported Russian body count has risen sharply since the counter-offensive began, along with the Russian pulling troops out of other theatres of conflict, it is pretty safe to assume the Russians are losing ground quickly. However, the Russian strategy to throw ever more troops and resources into battle hoping that the adversary cannot kill them off as quickly as they are replaced is still their go-to.

[Tracker]

Another tragic accident:

 

Russian oil boss who opposed Ukraine invasion dies after 'falling from hospital window'

[blue_gold_84]

The Defenestration of Maganov!

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62744522

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The UN has accused China of "serious human rights violations" in a long-awaited report into allegations of abuse in Xinjiang province.

China had urged the UN not to release the report - with Beijing calling it a "farce" arranged by Western powers.

The report assesses claims of abuse against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, which China denies.

But investigators said they found "credible evidence" of torture possibly amounting to "crimes against humanity".

Human rights groups have been sounding the alarm over what is happening in the north-western province for years, alleging that more than one million Uyghurs had been detained against their will in a large network of what the state calls "re-education camps".

The BBC's own reporting in recent years has uncovered documentation - including police files detailing those in detention - which appear to support the claims, as well as allegations of rape, torture and forced sterilisation.

China has always vociferously denied any wrongdoing.

However, the UN's report concluded that "the extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups ... may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity".

It also found:

• "Allegations of patterns of torture or ill-treatment, including forced medical treatment and adverse conditions of detention, are credible, as are allegations of individual incidents of sexual and gender-based violence"
• "Credible indications of violations of reproductive rights through the coercive enforcement of family planning policies since 2017"
• "Similarly, there are indications that labour and employment schemes for purported purposes of poverty alleviation and prevention of 'extremism'... may involve elements of coercion and discrimination on religious and ethnic grounds"

The report recommended that China immediately takes steps to release "all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty".

Beijing has already rejected the findings, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin telling reporters the "so-called suggestions were pieced together based on disinformation to serve political objectives".

 

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-says-nord-stream-gas-supplies-still-risk-stoking-european-fears-2022-09-02/

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Sept 2 (Reuters) - Russia has scrapped a Saturday deadline to resume gas flows via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, one of the main supply routes to Europe, after saying it discovered a fault during maintenance, deepening Europe's difficulties in securing fuel for winter.

Nord Stream 1, which runs under the Baltic Sea to supply Germany and others, had been due to resume operating after a three-day halt for maintenance on Saturday at 0100 GMT.

But Gazprom, the state-controlled firm with a monopoly on Russian gas exports via pipeline, said on Friday it could no longer provide a timefrme for restarting deliveries after finding an oil leak that meant a pipeline turbine could not run safely.

Moscow has blamed sanctions, imposed by the West after Russia invaded Ukraine, for hampering routine operations and maintenance of Nord Stream 1. Brussels says this is a pretext and Russia is using gas as an economic weapon to retaliate.

 

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/gorbachev-died-shocked-bewildered-by-ukraine-conflict-interpreter-2022-09-01/?utm_source=reddit.com

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MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's worsening ties with Kyiv, his interpreter said on Thursday.

Pavel Palazhchenko, who worked with the late Soviet president for 37 years and was at his side at numerous U.S.-Soviet summits, spoke to Gorbachev a few weeks ago by phone and said he and others had been struck by how traumatised he was by events in Ukraine.

"It's not just the (special military) operation that started on Feb. 24, but the entire evolution of relations between Russia and Ukraine over the past years that was really, really a big blow to him. It really crushed him emotionally and psychologically," Palazhchenko told Reuters in an interview.

"It was very obvious to us in our conversations with him that he was shocked and bewildered by what was happening (after Russian troops entered Ukraine in February) for all kinds of reasons. He believed not just in the closeness of the Russian and Ukrainian people, he believed that those two nations were intermingled."

 

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                                                  That's a LOT of scrap metal.

 

                         

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And, in news related to the above posting:

 

The special military operation is going so well, and the Kherson offensive was crushed so hard, that Putin suddenly wants to talk.