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Lew Anno Suport#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

Apr 24

How the occupiers turn small Ukrainians into bearers of the ideas of the "Russian world" - an analyst from "Voice of Crimea" and the Center for Civic Enlightenment "Almenda"

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Occupied Childhood: Ten Years of Militarization and Identity Destruction

The occupying power cannot compel protected persons to serve in its armed or auxiliary forces. Any pressure or propaganda aimed at ensuring voluntary entry into military service is prohibited. This is stated in Article 51 of the Convention on the Protection of the Civilian Population in Time of War

A 13-year-old boy from Jugenfolk in the uniform of a Wehrmacht private. 1945. Photo:
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All totalitarian and authoritarian states tried and are trying to exploit children. After all, children are the most vulnerable population, but also the best managed, manipulated part of society.

In addition, the future of the state is laid through childhood, and the entire society is actively influenced through children.

- History is full of examples of the reality of the use of childhood - one of the most striking examples was the janissary, when children were turned into weapons.
The 20th century had the most terrible totalitarian regimes that turned children into obedient cogs. When B. Mussolini came to power in fascist Italy, the children's and youth organization "Balila" was created, which unites children from 6 to 18 years old (all other children's organizations were banned).

In Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth children's and youth organization permeated the entire children's environment, taking an active part in the spread of Nazi policies..

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But perhaps the best example of a totalitarian policy in relation to childhood was the communist Soviet Union.

- The child is the key or code to understanding the entire #Soviet civilization. For dozens of years, the propaganda machine of the Soviet government turned the children's policy into an effective mechanism for educating the "Soviet person".
- It was the policy in the field of childhood that determined the worldview, behavior and ideas of several generations of Soviet people.

#PutinIsaWarCriminal's Russia actively used the Soviet experience. .
The formation of the totalitarian system in the #RussianWarCrimes Federation occurred simultaneously with the development of pressure on childhood.

- A system of child education was gradually formed, which now uses all the achievements of modern methods in various fields. This became especially acute after the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the temporary occupation of the #Crimean peninsula.

- It was here that the peculiarities of #Russian totalitarianism became most apparent, because in addition to the factor of using the children's component, the occupying power faced the need to destroy the #Ukrainian identity. It was in this direction that all the resources of the Russian Federation were used.

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Lew Anno Suport#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Apr 18

Letters from an American

Heather Cox Richardson

Yesterday on the social media site X, formerly Twitter, @MilesTaylorUSA wrote:

“After 2016, I helped lead the US gov[ernmen]t response to #Russia’s election interference. In 2024, foreign interference will be *worse.* Tech[nology is] more powerful.

- Adversaries more brazen. American public more susceptible. Political leaders across party lines MUST UNITE against this.”

Taylor served as chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security under #Trump.

- Today, Catherine Belton of the @washingtonpost reported on a secret 2023 document from Russia’s Foreign Ministry calling for an “offensive information campaign” and other measures that attack “‘a coalition of unfriendly countries’ led by the United States.
- Those measures are designed to affect “the military-political, economic and trade and informational psychological spheres” of #Russia’s perceived adversaries.
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The plan is to weaken the #UnitedStates and convince other countries, particularly those in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, that the U.S. will not stand by its allies.

- By weakening those alliances, #Russian leaders hope to shift global power by strengthening Russia’s ties to #China, #Iran, and #NorthKorea and filling the vacuum left by the crumbling democratic alliances (although it is not at all clear that China is on board with this plan).

According to Belton, one of the academics who advised the authors of the Russian document suggested that Russia should-
“continue to facilitate the coming to power of isolationist right-wing forces in America,” “enable the destabilization of Latin American countries and the rise to power of extremist forces on the far left and far right there,” increase tensions between the U.S. and China over #Taiwan, and “escalate the situation in the Middle East around #Israel, #Iran and #Syria to distract the U.S. with the problems of this region.”
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The #Russian document suggests that the front lines of that physical, political, and psychological fight are in Ukraine.
-It says that the outcome of Russia’s invasion of neighboring #Ukraine️ will “to a great degree determine the outlines of the future world order.”

#PutinWarCriminal critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky told Belton: “The Americans consider that insofar as they are not directly participating in the war [in Ukraine], then any loss is not their loss. “This is an absolute misunderstanding.”

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Apr 9

Letters from an American:
Heather Cox Richardson
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On Sunday, Representative Michael R. Turner (R-OH), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said it is “absolutely true” that Republican members of Congress are parroting Russian propaganda. “We see directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor,” he said on CNN’s State of the Union.

Turner was being questioned about an interview in which Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Russia specialist Julia Ioffe that “Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.” McCaul blamed right-wing media. When asked which Republicans he was talking about, McCaul answered that it is “obvious.”
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Catherine Belton and Joseph Menn reviewed more than 100 internal Kremlin documents from 2022 and 2023 obtained by a European intelligence service and reported in the Washington Post today that the Russian government is running “an ongoing campaign that seeks to influence congressional and other political debates to stoke anti-Ukraine sentiment.” Kremlin-backed trolls write fake “news articles, social media posts and comments that promote American isolationism, stir fear over the United States’ border security and attempt to amplify U.S. economic and racial tensions” while claiming that “Biden’s policies are leading the U.S. toward collapse.”

Aaron Blake pointed out in the Washington Post that Republicans are increasingly warning that Russian propaganda has fouled their party. Blake notes that Russia specialist Fiona Hill publicly told Republicans during the 2019 impeachment inquiry into Trump that they were repeating “politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests,” but Republicans angrily objected.

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Now Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and John Cornyn (R-TX) and a top aide to Senator Todd Young (R-IN), as well as former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and even Trump’s vice president Mike Pence, have warned about the party’s ties to Russia. Former Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) has said the Republican Party now has “a Putin wing.”

Trump has hinted that he has a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yesterday, Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, and Michael Birnbaum reported in the Washington Post on the details of that plan: he would accept Russian annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea and the Donbas region. He refuses to say how he would negotiate with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been adamant that Ukraine will not give up its territory to an invader, or Russia president Vladmir Putin, who has claimed all of Ukraine, but after meeting with Trump last month, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said Trump told him he would accomplish “peace” by cutting off funds to Ukraine.

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Lew Anno Suport#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Feb 15

Joakim von Braun

Swedish security and Eastern Europe/Russia expert

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Source: ( In Swedish )

Report on the partisans of Ukraine

Sometimes you might think that Russia's nasty offensive war is all about the amount of artillery shells and who is leading Ukraine's fighting forces! Happily, the war is so much more complex and there are so many more positive factors to consider even in early 2024.

It did not take many days after Russia's illegal attack on Ukraine before Ukrainians who ended up behind Russian lines started their military activities. They wanted to make a real contribution to their homeland and began to gather like-minded fighters to form partisan forces according to the well-known pattern from the Second World War. However, the number of partisans would hardly have become so incredibly large if the Russians had not behaved so incredibly stupidly! By cracking down so harshly on peaceful demonstrations, by looting many homes and also carrying out thousands of rapes, the Russian military pushed the Ukrainians over the edge to face the Russians with violence.

Even before the summer of 2022, there were a number of functioning partisan units in Berdjansk, Simferopol, Melitopol and Kherson, among others. They also organized activities inside Russia, something they rarely publish detailed information about. Some of these units had been formed during the period 2014-2022, others after the second invasion in 2022.

Free Ukraine Resistance Movement

The unit was already formed in 2014 long before Russia's second invasion. Unlike the other partisan organizations, the "Free Ukraine Resistance Movement" works all over the country, both in the parts not occupied by the Russians and behind the lines. At the beginning of 2022, for example, you could start operations in the parts of the country that were free and then be able to start armed operations when the Russians were able to occupy smaller parts of Ukraine. However, it is clear that the development started from the organization and that those who were previously active have now chosen to work within other resistance and partisan organizations.

Atesh

The group that is probably the most active and successful is called Atesh and started in September 2022. It has its strongest base among the Crimean Tatars but also houses Ukrainians and Russians. In January 2024, they now seem to have organized between 1,600 and 2,000 women and men as informers, whistleblowers, agents, analysts and soldiers. In addition to Crimea and other occupied territories, Atesh has been able to start cells in Rostov Oblast, Moscow, Tatarstan and Siberia. The group has a very good business on the Internet and if you want to check out their business, the Ukrainian language can be translated at . Today, Telegram channels have over 51,000 subscribers.

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If you examine the arson, derailment of freight trains, murders of Russian police and military, and many other types of attacks from the Ukrainian side in Russia, you see that there are few places in the country where you can be completely safe. On the same weekend that a right-wing extremist was murdered in St. Petersburg with the help of a bomb, a Russian fighter jet was set on fire over in Vladivostok.

The business

The most important part of the partisan forces' activities is probably intelligence gathering and agent recruitment. Thanks to their ability to get close to the targets that Ukraine's armed forces are trying to knock out, they can, for example, communicate exact coordinates, the number of Russians and a number of other vital information. After an attack, the partisans can photograph the target from the ground and report the results of the force's attack. Regardless of all the claims about satellites, reconnaissance flights, signals intelligence and much else, eyes on the ground are what can provide the most important information.

Azov Resistance

However, Atesh are not alone in Crimea. There are more partisans here, both individual ditto and other groups. One of these is the partisan group Azov Resistance, which is found in the city of Mariupol. It has probably been absorbed by Atesj because very little info has been seen in the last year. In addition, the Azov Resistance should not be confused with the Azov Brigade, which operates on the Ukrainian side of the border.

Yellow Ribbon

The Yellow Band (Chovta stritjka in Ukrainian) was founded on 2022-04-25. It is a civil resistance movement that mainly works on "temporarily occupied territories". They work with posters, spray painting and many other forms of civil resistance. They also gather for demonstrations, flash mobs and secret resistance meetings where they raise morale and spread information. Very important activities when living under occupation. Thanks to the "Yellow Ribbon", the courage of many of the Ukrainians who may not dare to be active with weapons in hand is kept up.
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Finally, I must mention all the activities Yellow Ribbon also organizes online. They have, among other things, organized a chatbot called "Yes" where they collect a lot of information about suspected war crimes. The yellow band can also be reached via email. They can then be reached via the address pressyellowribbonua@gmail.com. They also have two Twitter channels – one in Ukrainian and one in English. A total of 8,000 people who follow. Really awesome.

Berdjan Partisan Army

Another successful partisan group is Berdjansk Partisan Army (Бердянська партинська армия). BPA was founded on 2022-04-30 and conducts a very extensive business concentrated in Berdjansk, Zaporizhzhya Oblast. Here they committed a number of bombings and also managed to get rid of some figures who had followed in the Russians' footsteps.

Zla Mavka

Here we have a partisan group that consists only of women and that works without the use of weapons. They started their business at the beginning of 2023 and deal a lot with propaganda and information dissemination. More information can be found at .

Popular Resistance of Ukraine, NSU

This partisan group was created on 2021-09-17 ie before Russia's illegal invasion. They understood where the story was going. They have set up the channel on Telegram, and almost daily they post news about partisan activities on the channel. Information is also reported here about Russia's recurring war crimes and which individual was responsible for the various Russian people who were involved. Very useful info.
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Lew Anno Suport#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Feb 14

The #Russian dictator still dreams of stretching himself over the globe, at least on its #European part

Just yesterday I wrote about the obvious "collusion"

between #Putin and #Trump, today I will tell you how important collaboration with the Republicans is for the #Kremlin. Analysts from the British Royal Joint Institute for Defense Research clarified the details, publishing a clear plan of what #Moscow wants to do next with the war.

🫵🏼 The Russian Federation is secretly proposing new terms for negotiations with Ukraine (in fact, capitulation). They provide for:

👉🏼 Recognition of the Kremlin's right to control all occupied territories... plus Kharkov, and in some versions — Odesa;

👉🏼 A set of fantasies includes Kyiv's agreement not to join NATO and the appointment of a head of state approved by Russia.

👉🏼 The only concession is that Ukraine can join the EU.

🫵🏼 Mordor plans to implement its military-strategic fantasy in three stages.

👉🏼 Continuation of pressure along the entire length of the Ukrainian front, exhaustion of the Armed Forces.

👉🏼 Russian special services must break the determination of Ukraine's international partners to provide military aid.

👉🏼 After that, the Russian Federation begins further offensive operations in order to achieve significant - albeit slow - successes on the battlefield. The Kremlin is determined to use these gains as leverage on Kyiv to force it to capitulate on Russian terms.

🫵🏼 But, take it away, uncle, there is one big "but": the reserves of the Russian defense industry are running out and it is possible to achieve what is planned only if Ukraine loses international support (hello to the Republican Party of the USA):

👉🏼 The Kremlin believes that it will be able to maintain the current pace of aggression until 2025. And over the next two years, Moscow's military-industrial complex will exhaust most of the available reserves to replenish the army: the defense industry supports the current rate of production of armored vehicles thanks to the repair of outdated vehicles. The most serious limitation for the Russian Federation is the production of ammunition.

👉🏼 Therefore, the Russian victory strategy is exclusively a theory until Ukraine's international partners adequately provide the Armed Forces with resources. If support is maintained in the future, then the Russian Federation is unlikely to achieve significant success, and it will not make sense for Putin to prolong the war, because the army will be significantly depleted, and the Russian civilian industry will be destroyed.

🫵🏼 Support for the Ukrainian Resistance not only undermines the theory of the Kremlin's victory, but also gives enough time for the help of the Armed Forces, so that the Ukrainians can defeat the occupiers qualitatively, RUSI experts conclude.

NB Sometimes it seems that the Russian occupiers and the American Republican congressmen are fighting side by side, only on different parts of the front: the "elephants"

perform those tasks that the Kremlin cannot reach with its fighters, missiles, hackers and scouts. For some reason, it is hard to believe that #US conservatives signed up for this miserable mission for a long time.
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Russian Military Objectives and Capacity in Ukraine Through 2024.

Dr Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds
13 February 2024

Russian forces are likely to peak in late 2024, with increasing material challenges over the course of 2025.

Defeating Russia's attempt to subjugate Ukraine must be based upon an understanding of what Russia is trying to achieve, how it is intending to achieve its objectives, and its capacity to implement this plan.

- The Russian theory of victory has been through various iterations over the course of the war, but Moscow now has a clear plan for how it intends to proceed. This article seeks to outline Russia's intent in order to provide a basis for planning how its plan can be disrupted. Outlining Russian intent and capacity does not represent an assessment as to the likelihood of it succeeding.

Russian Strategic Objectives
Russia still maintains the strategic objective of bringing about the subjugation of Ukraine. It now believes that it is winning. Surrender terms currently being proposed by Russian intermediaries include Ukraine ceding the territory already under Russian control along with Kharkiv, and in some versions Odessa;.
- agreeing not to join #NATO; and maintaining a head of state approved by Russia. The only significant concession Russia proposes is that what is left of Ukraine can join the EU.

The process by which Russia aims to bring about this outcome is in three stages. The first requires the continuation of pressure along the length of the Ukrainian front to drain the Armed Forces of Ukraine's (AFU) munitions and reserves of personnel. Parallel to this effort, the Russian Special Services are tasked with breaking the resolve of Ukraine's international partners to continue to provide military aid.

- Once military aid has been significantly limited such that Ukrainian munition stocks become depleted, Russia intends to initiate further offensive operations to make significant – if slow – gains on the battlefield. These gains are then intended to be used as leverage against Kyiv to force capitulation on Russian terms.
The planning horizon for the implementation of these objectives, which is providing the baseline for Russian force generation and industrial outputs, is that victory should be achieved by 2026
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It is vital to appreciate that Russian goals may expand with success, and given that the Kremlin has violated almost all significant agreements both with Ukraine and NATO, there is no assurance that even if Russia got what it wanted out of negotiations it would not subsequently endeavour to physically occupy the rest of Ukraine or be emboldened to use force elsewhere.

Russian Military Capacity
The Russian military began 2023 with a highly disorganised force in Ukraine comprising approximately 360,000 troops. By the beginning of the Ukrainian offensive in June 2023, this had risen to 410,000 troops and was becoming more organised. Over the summer of 2023, Russia established training regiments along the border and in the occupied territories and, following the mutiny of Wagner forces, endeavoured to standardise its units, breaking down the previous trend towards private armies. By the beginning of 2024, the Russian Operational Group of Forces in the occupied territories comprised 470,000 troops.
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Jan 23

04.51

❗️ The air raid alert in Ukraine is related to the launch of Kh-101/555 missiles from the Tu-95 (updated)

✈️ A Tu-22M3 aircraft was recorded taking off from the Shaikovka airfield (Kaluga region).

✈️ Previously, in the airspace of the Russian Federation 2 Tu-22M3 from the Olenya airfield (Murmansk region) and 2 Tu-22M3 from the Shaikovka airfield (Kaluga region).

🚀 Another rocket in the Sumy region - heading west. The first missile entered the airspace of the Cherkasy region, heading west.

🚀The first group of missiles on the border of the Kyiv and Cherkasy regions, heading southwest.

🚀The second group is in the northern part of Poltava region, southwestern course.

🚀The first group of missiles enters the airspace of the Vinnytsia region, heading west.

🚀The second group is on the border of Poltava and Kyiv regions, heading west.

❗️Rockets are moving along the border of the Kyiv and Cherkasy regions.

✈️ Cruise missiles were allegedly re-launched from Tu-95MS strategic bombers from the Caspian Sea region.

🚀The first group of missiles in the western part of Vinnytsia region changed course to the north-west (Starokonstantinov)

🚀The second group enters the airspace of the Vinnytsia region, heading southwest.

🚀The first group of missiles in the Zhytomyr region changed course to Kyiv

🚀The missiles fly over the Vinnytsia region, move towards the Zhytomyr region, then head towards Kyiv.

🚨 Kyiv - take shelter! There are rockets in your direction!

✅ Alarm clears 8:16.
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06.04

❗️ Explosions in Kyiv, missile attack continues (updated)

"Air defense is operating in Kyiv. Be in shelters before the air raid warning clears!" — Sergey Popko, head of KMVA

🚨 7:11 - ballistics in the direction of the Dnieper!

The threat of ballistic weapons to the eastern and northeastern regions!

🚀Rockets in the direction of Kharkov! (probably X-22)

💥7:19 Explosions in the city! Details later. Don't leave your shelters! — Klitschko

🚀Rockets in the direction of Pavlograd
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06.30

💥 Cars are burning in the Svyatoshinsky district - Klitschko

As a result of a missile strike in the Svyatoshinsky district, parked cars caught fire. Emergency services are on their way to the scene.

❗️ UPD: As a result of a missile strike in the Svyatoshinsky district:
- a fire was recorded in parked cars;
- preliminary, there is damage to the kindergarten;
- there is preliminary damage to one house.
One person is already known to be injured.
The information is being clarified.
Emergency services are on their way to the scene.
The air raid continues. Stay in shelters!

❗️ UPD2: In the Pechersky district, a non-residential building was hit. Emergency services are being sent to the scene.

❗️ UPD3: One victim was hospitalized by doctors in the Solomensky district.

❗️ UPD4: Fire in several apartments of a residential building in the Solomensky district - Klitschko.
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