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

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Sep 22

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Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident:

Vladimir Kara-Murza and his wife, Evgenia, speak of his time in a Siberian jail and why the truth about Russia will come out

The last time I met Evgenia Kara-Murza, it was a grim day in early March. The timing couldn’t have been worse. As we spoke, Alexei Navalny’s coffin was being lowered into the frozen ground in a Moscow cemetery. Meanwhile Evgenia’s husband, Vladimir Kara-Murza, was still incarcerated in a Siberian prison cell almost identical to the one in the Arctic Circle in which Navalny had been found dead, presumed murdered.

The parallels were eerie. Because Vladimir, a journalist turned political activist, was not just also loathed and feared by the Kremlin and imprisoned on spurious charges, he’d also been poisoned – twice – targeted by the same FSB (Federal Security Service) unit that had poisoned Navalny.

The prospects were so grim and the news from Russia and Ukraine so unrelentingly depressing, it feels almost unimaginably miraculous six months later to see Evgenia walk into the lobby of a London hotel, this time with Vladimir right next to her.

Six weeks ago, he was in a Siberian gulag. Today, he’s a free man on a trip to London with his wife and their youngest son, nine-year-old Daniel, the result of the largest prisoner exchange between Russian and the west since the cold war.

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I find myself suddenly overwhelmed by the sight of them together so I can’t begin to imagine how Evgenia is feeling.

“I cry all the time,” she says. “And I make other people cry.

Just when I speak, people start crying in the audience. I just seem to have that effect on people.” She’d been so exasperated when we’d last met, fresh from a meeting she’d waited two years to get with the foreign secretary with the steely demeanour of a woman who can’t afford to give up.

“There has been so much emotional trauma.

- I mean, let alone the fact that Vladimir was in prison in those horrible conditions and solitary confinement in Western Siberia, but I also had to deal with people who couldn’t really understand this.

It’s so difficult for a person living in a normal democratic country to grasp what political repression is in the 21st century. They just couldn’t get it.”

But then, it is difficult to grasp. What’s disorienting about Vladimir’s descriptions of the Siberian gulag is how familiar it is from the works of Solzhenitsyn and other writers of the Stalinist era – though for Kara-Murza, who studied history at Cambridge, this was a source of both incredulity and solace.

“I’m a historian, and one of the biggest areas of study has always been the Soviet dissidents. I made films about it.
- I’ve written about it extensively. I’ve known many of these people. And it’s sometimes said that every historian subconsciously dreams of personally experiencing the area of his or her study. If that’s true, you know, I’ve got my wish fully.

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I felt like I was living inside these books because it’s astonishing and shocking, and, frankly, very sad how, all these decades later, nothing has changed.

Even the minutest details of what a prison cell is like, how the walk is organised, how prison guards speak to you, how the prison transportation works, everything is exactly the same.”

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

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Sep 21

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🇺🇸The US may provide Ukraine with medium-range cruise missiles for the F-16, Politico.

The $375 million package is expected to be officially announced on Monday.

By the way, the AGM-154 Joint Stand-off Weapon (JSOW) cruise bomb can hit targets at a distance of more than 110-130 km.

The $375 million will be the largest package the U.S. has sent Ukraine since May.

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The package, which is still being finalized according to two U.S. officials and a person familiar with the issue, will also include artillery munitions, rockets and air defense missiles.

The people were granted anonymity to discuss the package ahead of the announcement and acknowledged that the contents could still change before the official announcement is made.

A State Department official declined to comment on a pending arms transfer. The Defense Department did not return a request for comment.

The $375 million will be the largest package the U.S. has sent Ukraine since May, and could be the last presidential drawdown of equipment before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

Under authority granted by Congress, the U.S. pulls existing weapons from its stockpiles, and the money is meant to purchase replacement munitions and equipment

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The Pentagon is working with Congress to roll the remaining $5.8 billion left in the presidential drawdown authority over to the next fiscal year.

No deal has been struck yet as lawmakers struggle to come up with a plan to avoid a government shutdown on Oct.1, which will occur if no stopgap funding measure is passed in time.

The new missiles, while not having the reach that Kyiv has been asking for, will still give Ukrainian pilots a powerful new weapon as their forces battle advancing Russian troops in the country’s east, where Ukrainian troops have been slowly losing ground.

The 70-plus-mile range would allow pilots to stay away from the front lines and Russian air defenses, giving Kyiv a new way to target those defenses and frontline weapons depots, complicating operations for Russian forces.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pressed the White House to allow his forces to use long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems and British-made Storm Shadows deeper inside Russia, to no avail.

He is slated to meet with President Joe Biden and Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris next Friday at the White House, where he will present his plan to end the war, and where he is also expected to make his case for the missile restrictions to be lifted.

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Sep 20

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ISW assessed whether Putin would decide to announce mobilization in Russia

In the aggressor country of Russia, mobilization remains unlikely in the short and medium term.

All because of the personal fears of dictator Vladimir Putin, who considers her a direct threat to the stability of his regime.

He rejected a Defense Ministry request to compensate for the army's losses through another wave of mobilization in the spring of 2024, which could help him avoid public outrage over the involuntary conscription of Russians into the reserve.

This is stated in the summary of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), where it is noted that Putin remains committed to his campaign, which limits the conscription potential of the Russian Federation.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…

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This is stated in the summary of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), where it is noted that Putin remains committed to his campaign, which limits the conscription potential of the Russian Federation.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing a source "informed" about the exchange of information between Putin and officials of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation several months before the inauguration of the dictator in May 2024, reported that instead of mobilizing, he announced his intention to join the army only those people who voluntarily signed service contracts.

At the same time, more and more Russian officials expressed the belief that another wave was inevitable.

The source added that the current number of Russian troops is insufficient to achieve Russia's stated "long-term goal" of occupying all of Ukraine, reducing its overall combat capability, and protecting Russia's own borders.

Kremlin press secretary Dmytro Peskov, in response to a WSJ inquiry, said that Russia allegedly continues to rapidly recruit contractors and volunteers, and that "these forces are sufficient" for its aggression against Ukraine.

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"Putin has avoided announcing another partial mobilization of reservists since his decision to mobilize 300,000 troops in late September 2022 in response to successful Ukrainian counteroffensive operations.

Russia appears to lack the necessary human resources to simultaneously support the scale and pace of offensive operations in Ukraine and defense efforts in the border regions of the Russian Federation," ISW noted.

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

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Sep 19

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- The more weapons #Ukraine has, the higher the probability of the end of the war, - @jensstoltenberg

The end of the war in Ukraine directly depends on the increase in the supply of weapons to Ukrainian defenders.

Only in this way will the Russian dictator Putin realize that he will not get what he wants by force.

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this during his farewell speech before his retirement.

He emphasized that Kyiv's military power is a necessary condition for dialogue with Moscow about peace.

However, according to the Secretary General, the fastest way to end the war in Ukraine is to lose it. But in this case there will be no peace, but occupation.

Putin believes that he will achieve his goal in the war by "waiting out" the West. That is why he continues to fight.

According to Stoltenberg, the West cannot change Putin's opinion.

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"Putin believes that he will achieve his goal in the war by "waiting out" the West. That is why he continues to fight."

- However, according to the Secretary General, the fastest way to end the war in Ukraine is to lose it. But in this case there will be no peace, but occupation.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this during his farewell speech before his retirement. He emphasized that Kyiv's military power is a necessary condition for dialogue with Moscow about peace
nato.int/cps/en/natohq/…

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

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Sep 19

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The blow to the haste caused hysteria among z-bloggers: the ISW assessed the effect that further attacks on Russian logistics facilities would have

On September 18, Ukrainian forces conducted a successful drone attack on a Russian missile and ammunition warehouse near Toropets in the Tver region.

After the initial strike, repeated detonations began at the military facility, which resulted in significant damage and loss of weapons.

In addition, it caused hysteria among Russian propagandists, who immediately began to criticize the military command and look for the culprit.

Analysts of the Institute for the @TheStudyofWar o gave the details, assessing the effect of further Ukrainian strikes on rear logistics facilities in the Russian Federation.

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Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War gave the details , assessing the effect of further Ukrainian strikes on rear logistics facilities in the Russian Federation.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…

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The reaction of Z-bloggers

According to sources in the Ukrainian special services, on Wednesday drone operators of the Security Service, the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence (GUR) and the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of Ukraine struck the facility of the 107th arsenal of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which is based near Toropets.
war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/sklad-bk-s…

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

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Sep 18

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The Armenian government has announced an attempted coup d'état

The rebels were trained at the Russian military base in Rostov-on-Don

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This was reported by the Georgian service of RFE/RL "Echo Kavkaza"

with reference to the Investigative Committee of Armenia. It is noted that the department initiated a criminal case of attempted usurpation of power against five citizens of Armenia and two former residents of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The names of the defendants in the case have not been released. It is noted only that three of them were detained, four more were declared wanted.

According to the investigation, they planned to seize power in the country using weapons. For this, this criminal group recruited citizens of Armenia and former residents of Nagorno-Karabakh for a reward of 220,000 rubles per monthekhokavkaza.com/a/sk-armenii-s…

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Recruits were sent to Rostov-on-Don under the pretext of passing a three-month training session to learn how to handle new types of heavy weapons.

After that, the recruits were told that the ultimate goal of the meeting was to return to Armenia to overthrow the current government.

During the exercises at the Russian military base, the future insurgents were taught how to fight in closed rooms and inside buildings.

As the Armenian Investigative Committee reported, some recruits refused to participate in the coup and returned home.

Other members of the insurgent group did not complete their criminal intent because they were exposed by law enforcement officers

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