Day 18 of the #US#Russia war on #Ukraine soil:
In its first direct message to the west and #NATO, Russia hit the NATO-US-Ukraine joint training centre at Yavoriv, around 25 km from borders with #Poland.
The Yavoriv base is called "Peacekeeper Center", near the western city of Lviv. It has been used for training of #Ukraine army by foreign instructors, mainly the #US Florida National Guard, to prepare Ukraine to become a NATO base challenging #Russia.
It has been used as the safest hub between #NATO country members and #Ukraine to transport lethal weapons to be used in the ongoing war because #Russia bombed most Ukrainian airports (only yesterday two airports were neutralised).
South, Russian forces captured the eastern outskirts of Mariupol & shell the city. Russian forces pushed the attack towards Mykhailo-Kotsyubynske and Shestovytsia on the E95, 15km west & southwest of Chernihiv, to fully encircle the city. google.com/maps/place/Che…
Russian forces continue the attack on Izyum, 110km southeast of Kharkiv, and Rubizhne, south of Kharkiv, a city under attack and shelling. An obvious objective of the Russian force is to advance toward Dnipro and Zaporizhya. google.com/maps/dir/Izyum…
You are called a "Foreign fighter" if you join #Ukraine
Maps showing the #Ukraine#Russia war triggered by the #US's objective to establish NATO bases on the borders with Russia & in all former Soviet Union countries, including Georgia, rebuffing the US verbal promises by US sec of States to 2 Russian Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
The #US and #NATO are shipping weapons into #Ukraine at breakneck speed, including highly sensitive items such as Stinger, shoulder-fired missiles called man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS) that can take down aircraft.
Delivering those amounts of MANPADs into one of the largest conflicts in #Europe since World War II carries with it risks that some could fall into the wrong hands – a possibility the #US has NOT considered.
In the past, the #US delivered Stinger missiles to Usama Bin laden, (late) Al-Qaeda Emir & Mujahedeen in #Afghanistan. Many Stinger missiles have also been sold, to armed groups. 60 civilian aircraft have been hit by MANPADS since the 1970s, killing more than 1,000 civilians.
Allow me, if I may, to add more info to many people asking about the Yavoriv joint training centre where 57 Ukrainian army servicemen & "foreign NATO instructors" were wounded and 9 killed by #Russia bombing.
Actually, the #US prepared for this war in 2015
#US Task Force Gator deployed in #Yavoriv is the 11th deployment of U.S. forces to this training center, called Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine, or JMTG-U, since President Barack Obama initiated the program in 2015 to prepare #Ukraine for a potential war with #Russia.
150 #US officers of the Florida Army National Guard and dozens of #NATO officers were gearing the Ukrainian military to fight this war against #Russia, creating an underground control and command base to direct the attacks against Russian troops.
When I write from the beginning that this is a #US - #Russia war on #Ukraine soil, this hit is a direct hit to the US that @JoeBiden needs to respond by ending this war or escalating so it leads to further conflict beyond the Ukrainian borders.
At Yavoriv Command and Control centre, the #US and #NATO officers coordinated the attacks on the Russian forces after collecting and analysing all intelligence information gathering about the movement of the Russian troops, their line of supply and weak flanks.
The #US objective is to drag this war as long as possible to exhaust the #Russian army, weaken its military capability and the economy of Russia. #Moscow is aware of the US goal & has decided to hit "outside the box" showing its determination to take this war further if necessary
This is a very dangerous game where we are walking on the edge of the abyss. The presence of #NATO SoF forces on the ground and a #NATO Command and control bases in and out of #Ukraine will have consequences.
IMPORTANT:
It looks like a #US mercenary SOF #Aghanistan veteran in #Ukraine, near #Kyiv, is revealing the real situation on the ground, without mainstream media misinformation make-up, how his companions have been killed and the low morale of the group. Read 👇
#US is bullying #China and is afraid that the US sanctions won't affect the Russian population.
In over dozens of wars I have covered, I have never seen so much disinformation campaign, speculation and false narratives from "experts" producing so much information with no access of any fact whatsoever of the ground.
This is how it is working:
Brainwash everybody with an avalanche of information so you sound like an expert and get thousands of followers a day and become "the expert" on "#Russia weakness and incapability to occupy #Ukraine in one single day".
An example of the narrative: 1. " #Russia failed to occupy #Kyiv in two days."
A country, #Ukraine, with over 600k km2, bigger than France, Belgium and Hollande together; or bigger than #Syria and #Iraq, should have been occupied in two days according to experts.
#Iran launched six precision missiles Fateh-110 Iranian missiles against a Mossad base in #Erbil#Iraq in retaliation to #Israel killing of 2 Iranian officers in #Syria. No official statements were delivered by either side. These are "messages" both sides understand.
#Iran temporarily suspended the (fifth) meeting with #SaudiArabia in #Iraq programmed for next Wednesday the 16th of March following the mass execution carried out by #Riyadh.
#Iran sources told @Almayadeen_News that "4 #Israel/i Mossad officers were killed and 7 wounded during the bombing of their base in Erbil, Kurdistan, #Iraq."
Day 17 of the war: #Russia military command is adapting to the #Ukraine army defence and altering its attack strategy. There are many objectives I can see that have been defined after the first two weeks of the war.
#Russia divided the military plan into Eastern, southern, northern & western fronts. Hottest are the East&South. Russian troops are not surrounding cities and leave these behind to advance to other objectives but to impose full control & engage other forces to advance.
#Russia's Many objectives: 1. Control ALL nuclear facilities (the 3rd on its way to fall into Russian troops' control), including nuclear facility in the West 2. Control all US military biological labs 3. Isolate #Ukraine from the access to the sea 4. Surround the Capital #Kyiv
Why there is a war in #Ukraine? Read this 1997 article of the NYTimes like it was written this morning, explaining how #Russia wrongly believed the US.
The day #Russia will understand what #Iran realised long ago (not to rely on Europe, a US-dominated continent), it will free itself and prosper
"We leave it all to the discretion & conscience of our Western colleagues. We have never used oil & gas as weapons," said Sergei Lavrov.
When you @TuckerCarlson are an American citizen and have the courage to ask the right questions about the #US using biological laboratories in #Europe.
The Cardiff Philharmonic has cancelled an all-Tchaikovsky programme as "inappropriate at this time."
The concert included his decidedly apolitical second symphony, known as the Little Russian.
The orchestra says: "In light of the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra, with the agreement of St David’s Hall, feel the previously advertised programme including the 1812 Overture to be inappropriate at this time."
2022-2023 will be the hardest ever in the world. The #US believes it can impose sanctions on the world? Now, most of the World will have to pay the price of its sanctions, including the #US.Russia confirms bans export of products and raw materials.+
This means #Russia bans any export outside of the Russian Federation until at least 2023.
“The government will define the list of states to be covered by these decisions within two weeks.”
The list is long and the first to tremble and go on its knees is #Europe +