14 Jun, 2023 11:36

Moscow estimates Ukraine’s counteroffensive losses

Some 7,500 troops have been killed or injured in failed attacks since June 4, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

Ukraine has lost several thousand service memberssince launching its much-anticipated counteroffensive earlier this month, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Wednesday.

In a statement, the ministry said that Kiev’s forces have suffered some 7,500 killed or wounded, with the tally only including service members on the front line, and not those struck by Russian high-precision missiles and airstrikes deeper into Ukrainian territory.

The estimatedlosses encompass the period from June 4, when the Russian Defense Ministry said it had repelled a large-scale Ukrainian offensive along five sections of the front line in Donbass. Since then, Kiev’s troops have attempted to storm Russian positions on numerous occasions, failing to gain any ground, according to Moscow.

The ministry added that in thelast 24 hours, Russian troops had repelled two Ukrainian attacksnear the settlement of Makarovka in the southern sector of the front. The assaults involved two Ukrainian motorized infantry companies,four tanks and 11 armored vehicles, the ministry claimed. It added that each of the tanks had been destroyed,along with seven vehicles.

AnotherUkrainian assaultin the neighboring settlement ofPrechistovka also failed, with Kiev’s troops losing five tanks and five armored vehicles, the ministry said.

According to Russian defense officials,Ukraine’s total lossesin the southern part of Donetsk and Zaporozhye Regions overthe past 24 hours amounted to more than 800 service members, 20 tanks, 15 armored vehicles, four armored personnel carriers and other military hardware.

In addition,Russian forces conductedmassive high-precision, long-range strikes onassembly areasof Ukrainian reserves andforeign mercenaries, as well as onmilitary warehouses storingforeign-supplied equipment, the statement read. “All designated targets have been hit,” it added.

Speaking to war correspondents at the Kremlin on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukrainian troops were “taking heavy casualties,” which he claimed were greater than Russia’s by a factor of ten. The Russian leader also said Ukraine had lost up to 30% of the military equipment it had been sent by the West.

https://www.rt.com/russia/578010-moscow-estimates-ukraine-losses/

14 Jun, 2023 08:38

Ex-Russian president outlines potential ‘buffer zone’ in Ukraine

The plan could offer increased protection for Russian regions, Dmitry Medvedev has said

Any potential demilitarized zonecreated by Russia in Ukraine should extend close to thePolish border, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev claimed on Wednesday.

Writing on Telegram, Medvedev responded to remarks by President Vladimir Putin, who on Tuesday suggested that Moscow could consider establishing a “buffer zone” in Ukraineto prevent Russian regions from being shelled.

“Taking into account the enemy’s decisions to supply the Kiev regime with weapons with an even longer range,this line should pass in the area of Lviv… so that it could play a real defensive role,” Medvedev said, referring to the large city in western Ukraine, not far from the Polish border.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Kiev of using Western-supplied weapons to attack civilian targets in Russia. Last month, the UK provided Kiev with an unspecified number of Storm Shadow missiles, which have a range of more than 250km (150 miles). The weapons were subsequently used by Ukrainian troops to target civilians in the Russian city of Lugansk, Moscow claimed.

In recent weeks, Ukrainian troops have significantly ramped up artillery attacks on Russian border regions, firing hundreds of shells and causing civilian casualties as well as widespread destruction.

Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, also pointed to what he claimed was the “proven complicity” of Western nations in thesabotage of the Nord Streamgas pipelines last autumn. He added that against this backdrop,Moscow “has no more constraints even in moral terms to refrain from destroying enemy cable communications laid on the ocean floor.” (This is a major announcement)

In February, American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh released a report accusing the US of orchestrating the attack on the pipelines, which were built to transport gas from Russia to Germany. Hersh claimed the US acted in response to the German government’s reluctance to send more military support to Ukraine. Washington dismissed the allegations, although President Putin said he “fully agrees” with Hersh’s conclusions.

https://www.rt.com/russia/577997-medvedev-ukraine-buffer-zone/

14 Jun, 2023 11:39

Prosecutor predicts timeline for Nord Stream sabotage investigation

Mats Ljungqvist has told Swedish media that he hopes the culprits behind the attack will be found and indicted

Sweden hopes to conclude its investigation into the Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage byautumn of this year, prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist told Swedish radio on Wednesday. The underwater conduits were destroyed in a series of explosions in September of 2022.

Speaking to public service broadcaster SR, Ljungqvist stated that his team hadmet with the German prosecutor investigatingthe case and that the two countries were working together. He did not, however, provide any further details into the investigation, aside from setting an expected timeline. (Why include Germany unless they are going after the alternate story to Hersh’s defintive article?)

"I hope that we at least this autumn will be able to make a decision regarding indictments, at least that is the ambition as things stand now," Ljungqvist said. "I think, actually, in time, [who did] it will be brought to light," he added.

Back in April, Ljungqvist released a statement in which he said that there was “no doubt” that the attack on Nord Stream constituted “gross sabotage in international waters,” adding that the primary focus of the investigation was to determine if Swedish interests or national security had been threatened.

In a statement to Reuters that same month, the prosecutor explained that the “absolute main scenario” being investigated by his team was thata state actorhad been “directly or at least indirectly” responsible for the attack. (Notice they don’t say state actors, US and EU countries)

In his interview with SR, Ljungqvist stated this hypothesis “has been strengthened during the course of the investigation.”

No country has yet claimed responsibility for the attack on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines that linked Russia and Germany across the Baltic Sea. Sweden, Germany, and Denmark have conducted probes into the attack since last fall. However, all three have been reluctant to open up about their findings, and have rejected offers from Russia to assist with the probe.

Meanwhile, American journalist Seymour Hersh has accused the US of ordering and carrying out the sabotage with the help of the Norwegian Navy under the cover of the BALTOPS military drills. His claims have been supported by Moscow, with Russian President Vladimir Putin pointing out that the US in particular had a motive for the attack due to its position as a competing gas supplier to Europe.

Washington and its allies have denied the allegations and have tried to blame Moscow for destroying its own infrastructure and have also speculated that “pro-Ukrainian groups”operating out of Poland might have conducted the operation, with or without Kiev’s official blessing.

(It makes me wonder if they are not targeting US, Norway, Denmark etc that Hersh said planned it;who they are going to arrestsince the alternate story has been blaming low level Ukrainians without Zelensky’s knowledge? But in the article they are saying “a state actor” is involved, meaning the leaders of a government. There have been multiple articles weekly and biweekly on this narrative for a month and a half. But a day ago the CIA leaked to another outlet, in this article, CIA said they were warned Zelensky was involved with the plan on blowing up Nord Stream. And the CIA told Zelensky to back off.Noteall the other articles on Ukraine involvement, insinuated Zelensky knew nothing about the NS plans and didn’t direct it. So it seems theCIA are now targeting Zelensky and other leaders to blame. Zelensky better get his ass out of Ukraine to safe harbor somewhere now.)

https://www.rt.com/news/578011-sweden-nord-stream-investigation/

>>19006246

OMG WTF is wrong with these people?

>>19006264

Hillary, Obama, Brennan etc were planning every conceivable way to destroy Trump. Project looking glass