3 May, 2023 18:30

Ukrainian counteroffensive has started – Wagner boss

Kiev’s forces have“unlimited men and ammunition,”Yevgeny Prigozhin has said

The head of the private military company Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian forces had begun theircounterattack in Artyomovsk (known in Ukrainian as Bakhmut) and are threatening to overwhelm his undersupplied troops.

Wagner forces advanced more than 200 meters on Wednesday, sustaining 116 fatalities and leaving less than three square kilometers of the Donbass city in Ukrainian possession, Prigozhin said in an audio clip shared online.

However the PMCs leader then announced that the Ukrainian military has “…begun its counterattack,” with “…unlimited manpower and ammunition.”

Meanwhile,he painted a dire picture of Wagner’s own situation, saying “ammunition shortages are acute” and his troops have enough rounds remaining “for just a few days.”

The Russian Defense Ministryis refusing to issue artillery ammunitionto Wagner, “ignoring our every request,” Prigozhin claimed. (Does anyone believe this?)

Wagner forces have been at the forefront of street fighting in Artyomovsk, known by Ukrainians as Bakhmut, a key rail and road junction in Donbass.Kiev has funneled tens of thousands of soldiers to the city, even as Wagner and other Russian troops established fire control over all the supply roads, leaving the Ukrainians half surrounded.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575743-wagner-boss-counteroffensive/

3 May, 2023 18:16

Ex-Russian president urges ‘physical removal’ of Zelensky

Dmitry Medvedev made the remarks following the Kremlin drone incident

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev drew a comparison between Ukraine and Nazi Germany on Wednesday, after two drones targeted the Kremlin. The vice-chair of the national security council urged Moscow to retaliate against President Vladimir Zelensky.

“After today’s terrorist act, there are no options left but the physical removal of Zelensky and his clique,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram.

“We don’t need him to sign [their] unconditional surrender. Hitler, as it is known, didn’t sign his either. There will always be someone like Admiral Doenitz to sit in as president,” he added, in reference to the Nazi officer who officially replaced Hitler after he committed suicide in April 1945 and presided over Germany’s capitulation.

Medvedev’s ire was provoked by last night’s drone attack on Moscow, which Russia blamed on Ukraine. Two UAVs exploded over the Kremlin and the Russian Senate, with authorities saying they were brought down by air defenses. There were no injuries or reports of damage.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was not in the Kremlin at the time, working from another residence instead.

“We consider this a premeditated terrorist action and an attempt against the Russian president,” the Kremlin said in a statement after the incident, adding that “Russia reserves the right to retaliate in a manner, place and time of its choosing.” City authorities in Moscow and St. Petersburg have already responded by imposing a ban on drone flights.

Medvedev was president of Russia between 2008 and 2012, and then prime minister until 2020. Currently, he serves as the deputy chair of the national security council, which is formally chaired by Putin. Despite his prior reputation as a moderate liberal,he has been far more hawkish on Ukrainethan the official Kremlin.

Last week, for example, Medvedev advocated “mass destruction of personnel and military equipment” and a “maximum military defeat” of Kiev once the much-hyped Ukrainian counteroffensive begins, arguing that the “Nazi regime in Kiev” must be “completely dismantled” and “former Ukraine”entirely demilitarized.

Kiev has officially denied having anything to do with the drones. Zelensky insisted that Ukraine fights on its own territory and has no weapons to reach Moscow. His aide, Mikhail Podoliak, insisted Ukraine was fighting “an exclusively defensive war” and claimed the Kremlin attack was the work of “local resistance forces” in Russia.The Ukrainian postal service has already released a stamp design showing the Kremlin in flames, however, just as they did after the Crimean Bridge bombing last October – also denied by Zelensky and his government.

(Russia speaks through their article pictures, this one on Medvedev is much different than any they have used since Feb. 2022. Which leads me to believe the drone strikes were a serious attempt on Putin’s life)

https://www.rt.com/russia/575730-medvedev-zelensky-kremlin-drone/

3 May, 2023 19:01

Star devours planet in glimpse into Earth’s eventual fate

The Sun is expected to destroy our home planet in five billion years

Astronomers in the United States revealed on Wednesday that they had witnessed for the first time one of themost destructive forces in the cosmos: a dying star which had expanded massively into a red giant and destroyed a planet which had the misfortune of being nearby.

Scientists believe that most planets are eventually destroyed when their host star burns all of its available energy and begins its process of dying by expandinginto a red giant. It is the final stage of a star’s stellar evolution – andthe star goes down fighting, bringing everything nearby with it into its celestial grave.

But this particular one, said MIT’s Kishalay De, according to broadcaster France 24, developed like a “detective story.”

“It all started about three years ago when I was looking at data from the Zwicky Transient Facility survey, which takes images of the sky every night,” De said. It was in this seemingly random kaleidoscope of images, he added, that he noticed astar which had increased its brightness 100 timesover the course of just ten days.

Closer inspection, including with NASA’s infrared space telescope NEOWISE, revealed that the dying star – located in the Milky Way galaxy around 12,000 light years from Earth – had swallowed a gas giant of similar size to Jupiter that had been orbiting around it. The entire process, they surmised,took around 100 days.

The final, bright explosion De witnessed in the night sky images he studied took place in thefinal ten days of the planet’s life as it became entirely subsumed into the red giant.

And given that the now-destroyed planet was around 11 times bigger than Earth, scientists don’t expect our home planet to put up much of a fight when it gets destroyed by the Sun in about five billion years’ time.

“After the billions of years that span the lifetime of our solar system, our own end stages will likely conclude in a final flash that lasts only a few months,” said Ryan Lau, a research partner of De’s, who added that their findings “speak to the transience of our existence.”

People, though, likely won’t be around to witness our eventual fate, given that the Sun’s expansion into its own red giant form will have long rendered our planet into a dry, inhospitable wasteland.

(Allegory?)

https://www.rt.com/news/575744-space-red-giant-eats-planet/

3 May, 2023 18:39

West cannot stay silent on Kremlin drone attack but won’t admit anything – experts

The strike breaks an unofficial deal between Moscow, Kiev and the Westnot to target political leaders, analysts warn

A Ukrainian drone attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s working residences in the Kremlin has shaken the status quo in the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, a group of experts told RT following the incident. It could alsolead to a dangerous escalation possibly involving the use of nuclear weapons, they warned, adding that Russia is bound to retaliate.

Thomas Roeper, a German author and war correspondent currently residing in St. Petersburg, said he was “quite surprised” to hear of the attack, since it clearly violated“an unofficial agreement not to bomb, not to attack places where the leading politicians are.”

“There is no doubt that Russia will have to retaliate,” said Ralph Niemeyer, the head of the German Opposition Group for German Sovereignty and Constitution. “There will be further escalation, even up to the threat of the use of nuclear [weapons], which I think is still possible,” he added.

A Turkish professor of international law and an expert on terrorism, Mesut Hakki Casin, suggested that anescalation may have been the goalof the people who planned the strike. The forces behind the attack might have sought to put the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine “at the center of European warfare” and potentially even provoke Moscow into launching a tactical nuclear strike, he told RT.

“It’s a very unacceptable and a very, very dirty game,” the Turkish analyst warned. Casin also said Kiev may not have been alone in planning and organizing the strike. “This is an organized international attack,” he said.

Ukraine’s Western backers will not be able to ignore the incident in any case, Niemeyer believes. The German opposition figure still anticipates that the US and its allies will try to downplay the incident and “say it was not the Kiev regime, it was not [President Vladimir] Zelensky’s people,” as they did with the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.

According to Roeper, the attackcould also affect relations between Kiev and Washingtonif the Ukrainians did not inform their backers about the planned attack in advance.

“Maybe Washington was not informed, and maybe it was. We will see by the reaction. If Washington was not informed, there will be some angry reaction because this is a quite big danger to attack the president of a nuclear power,” the journalist said.

Two dronestargeted the Kremlin in an attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning. One exploded over the Senate Palace, a working residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Thesecond fell in the grounds of the Kremlin, not far from the president’s second working residence, the Great Kremlin Palace. Moscow blamed the incident on Ukraine and has reserved the right to retaliate. Kiev denies any responsibility.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575718-west-kremlin-drone-attack-experts/

3 May, 2023 15:07

Prominent opposition figure Protasevich sentenced in Belarus

Roman Protasevich was arrested in 2021 after his Ryanair flight was grounded in Minsk due to an alleged bomb threat

The former editor of Belarusion opposition Telegram channel NEXTA, Roman Protasevich, was given an eight-year prison term by a court in Minsk on Wednesday, state-run news agency BelTa has reported.

Protasevich was in the courtroom for the verdict, with two of his associates – Stepan Putilo and Yan Rudik, who remain at large – sentenced in absentia to 20 and 19 years, respectively.

The trio behind the NEXTA channel, which gained prominence amid awave of violent anti-government protests in Belarus in 2020 and 2021, were found guilty of organizing mass riots and making public calls to seize power, commit acts of terrorism, and other actions aimed at harming the national security of Belarus, and also of slandering President Alexander Lukashenko, among other things.

The judge said Protasevich has been cooperating with the investigation, a fact that was reflected in his sentence. The time the 27-year-old spent in pre-trial detention and under house arrest will be factored into his term, he added.

The unrest began in Belarus after the presidential vote in August 2020 that the opposition claimed was rigged by Lukashenko.The US and the EU slapped sanctions on Minsk over claimed election fraudand a crackdown on demonstrators.

The protests eventually died down after failing to achieve any of their goals, with many activists fleeing abroad. Lukashenko insisted that theuprising was funded by the West, in an attempt to remove him from power.

The arrest of Protasevich, who operated from Poland, made international headlines in May 2021. A Ryanair flight carrying the activist was grounded in Minsk due to an alleged bomb threat. No explosive device was discovered on board, and the Irish carrier called the incident “state-sponsored piracy.”

Protasevich and Putilo have been on the Belarusian list of persons involved in terrorist activities since 2020. The following year,NEXTA was designated an extremist organizationin Belarus.

(These NGOs use these young people to start color revolutions in every country the US and EU want yo control, and ruin their lives.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/575715-belarus-nexta-protasevich-ryanair/

3 May, 2023 09:47

Kiev admits to issues with Western weapons

Howitzers Ukraine received from Italy had to be upgraded, a top official said, after reports that none of the guns were battleworthy

Ukraine has had to modify some long-inactive Western weapons sent to it by its backers, Mikhail Podoliak, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky admitted in an interview published on Tuesday.

Speaking to Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Podoliak was asked to comment on a recent Financial Times report alleging that all 20 self-propelled howitzers Rome had sent to Kiev turned out to be defective and not ready for combat deployment.

The Ukrainian officialattempted to downplay the revelation, saying that “the self-propelled guns had been in warehouses for a long time, they require an obvious operational upgrade.”He added that “it often happens that this or that [Western] weapon is developed here in Ukraine,” pointing out that Kiev needs all the weapons deliveries it could get, and as soon as possible.

“Understandably, the ideal would be to receive ready-to-use weapons but, let’s be realistic,we are always ready to repair and refurbish them,”Podoliak noted. He wouldn’t give any further detail on the reportedly malfunctioning Italian howitzers, explaining that it would make no sense to disclose information that Russia could take advantage of. (Three days ago he was complaining about them, he must have gotten a talking too)

In mid-April, Italian media reported that Rome had sent to Kiev a batch of old US-designed M109 SPGs (self-propelled howitzers) which had been stored in depots and were overhauled with American funding before being dispatched to the frontline.

However, after the FT’s scathing report on the howitzers, in an interview with il Fatto Quotidiano, an Italian defense source described theguns as “outdated vehicles, which were not in use in Italy,” adding that it was the very reason the weapons were sent to a US company to be retrofitted.

The source went on to shift blame away from the Italian government, suggesting that “the problem may have been in the maintenance phase.”

This is not the first time that issues with certain Western weapons supplied to Ukraine have come into the public spotlight. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that German-made Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers sent to Kiev had encountered significant difficulties on the battlefield due to “viscous central Ukrainian mud.”

In late March, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky himself acknowledged, without naming names, that a European nation had supplied Kiev with afaulty air-defense system, which the nation’s military “had to change… again and again.”

(I guess the constant demanding of armaments and complaining & whining when they get them, along with them laundering $400 million from American aid, is causing problems with deliveries)

https://www.rt.com/russia/575698-ukraine-trouble-western-weapons/

Bannons War Room

4 hours ago

Rebekah Koffler: It Is Wildly Irresponsible Of Joe Biden To Not Drag Zelenskyy To Negotiation Table. US is truly in a proxy war with Russia. It’s not clear if Kiev or US caused the drone strikes at the Kremlin

Koffler was born and raised in Russia, very accurate analysis, and three theories, but clearly there is no military path of Ukraine winning this war

https://rumble.com/embed/v2j8orm/?pub=4

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5:43 minutes

John Solomon breaks down the corruption As Evidence Emerges In Hunter Biden Probe, Investigators See A Political Protection Racket

This is great, John got a handle of the total story, connections and punishments

https://rumble.com/embed/v2j8rmg/?pub=4

3 hours ago

Harnwell:The Daily Telegraph just said the quiet part out loud— “Ukraine may no longer be winning”

We need to sending $0 to Ukraine right now!

BannonHarnwell

https://rumble.com/embed/v2j8sci/?pub=4

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Shocking