Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 2:06 p.m. No.19191659   🗄️.is 🔗kun

16 Jul, 2023 19:32

Ukraine having ‘no success’ with counteroffensive – Putin

Kiev’s troops have failed to penetrate Russian defenses anywhere along the front line, the president has said

 

The much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive has seen no success more than a month after it was launched, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on Sunday. Putin praised Russia’s “heroic” troops and insisted that the direction of Moscow’s military campaign was “positive.”

 

“All attempts by the enemy to breach our defenses… including through the use ofstrategic reserves have fallen flat throughout the counteroffensive. Our enemy remains unsuccessful,” the Russian leader told journalist Pavel Zarubin.

 

According to Putin, Russian troops are launching counterattacks of their own in some sections of the front line and are “taking the most advantageous positions.” The Russian Defense Ministry previously reported that Ukraine has suffered heavy losses and hasfailed to reach even Russia’s first line of defense on most fronts. The Defense Ministry has also published numerous videos showing damaged or destroyed Ukrainian heavy military equipment, including Western-made tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

 

According to the ministry, the Ukrainian military has lost 26,000 men advancing through minefields and without air support during its counteroffensive. The Western media has also acknowledged heavy losses among Ukrainian troops, with Forbes describing them as “disastrous” in late June. The New York Times reported this week that the Ukrainian military lost 20% of the equipment it sent into battle during the first two weeks of the operation.

 

According to Putin, Russian forces havedestroyed 311 Ukrainian tanks since June 4. “At least a third of them, I believe, were Western-made tanks, including Leopards,”Putin told the Russia 24 TV channel on Thursday.

 

The slow pace of the counteroffensive has led to friction between Kiev and its Western backers. In June, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky blamed the lack of progress on the West’s hesitancy to send more weapons to Kiev.

 

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley warned in early July that there should be no illusions about the operation, and that it would be “difficult” and “very, very bloody.”

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/579804-ukraine-no-success-counteroffensive-putin/

Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 2:11 p.m. No.19191680   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1703 >>1907

16 Jul, 2023 18:47

Russian forces have knocked out one-third of Ukraine’s Bradleys – media

At least 34 US-supplied armored fighting vehicles have reportedly been put of action during Kiev’s counteroffensive

 

The vaunted Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV), which was touted as a potential “game-changer” when Washington agreed to give dozens of the machines to Ukraine earlier this year, has reportedly had trouble staying in action amid fierce resistance from Russian forces during Kiev’s counteroffensive.

 

At least 34 Bradleys “have now been visually confirmed as having been abandoned, damaged or destroyed,” Business Insiderreported on Saturday, citing “open-source”data from military research firm Oryx. The US has supplied as many as109 BFVs to Ukraine, the outlet added, and they were first deployed on the battlefield in April.

 

Most of the losses occurred during the early days of the counteroffensive, which began last month, as Ukrainian forces tried to cross territory that was heavily mined by Russian troops, Business Insider said. The latest loss estimate was similar to that in a report on Saturday by the New York Times, which said Ukraine’s NATO-trained 47th Mechanized Brigade had lost 30% of its Bradleys in just two weeks.

 

The BFV is a tracked and lightly armored vehicle with the capability to transport about ten soldiers and mount weaponry such as a 25mm cannon and a TOW anti-tank missile launcher.

 

When the administration of President Joe Biden agreed in January to send BFVs to Kiev,the Pentagon touted the vehicles as “tank-killers”and claimed they would provide “a level of firepower and armor that will bring advantages on the battlefield.” US media outlets such as Newsweek cited military experts as saying the Bradleys “could become a game-changer,” potentially even enabling Ukraine to retake Crimea. Russian officials warned that the BFVs and other Western-supplied weaponry would “only prolong the suffering of the Ukrainian people.”

 

With dozens of Bradleys and other hardware being knocked out of action by Russian forces, Ukrainian units have been forced to abandon their armored vehicles and advance slowly on foot, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. “You can no longer do anything with just a tank with some armor because the minefield is too deep, and sooner or later, it will stop, and then it will be destroyed by concentrated fire,” Ukraine’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny, told the newspaper.

 

Nevertheless, a new $800 military aid package for Ukraineannounced by the Biden administration earlier this month includes an additional 32 BFVs. The US also agreed to send cluster bombs to Kiev, citing disappointment with the counteroffensive.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that US shipments of cluster munitions to Ukraine would constitute a war crime. As for captured Western weaponry, such as BFVs, Russian specialists will use “reverse engineering” to adopt any military technology that might be useful to Moscow, Putin said in an interview aired on Sunday.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/579803-ukraine-loses-bradley-fighting-vehicles/

Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 2:15 p.m. No.19191703   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>19191680

16 Jul, 2023 15:15

Putin reveals fate of captured Western weaponry

Russia may try to reverse engineer some of the technology, the president has said

 

Russian specialists will inspect Western-made weaponry that has been captured by the military in the course of repelling Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensive, President Vladimir Putin has said.

 

In an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin, Putin was asked to comment on what Moscow plans to do with the seized Western armor. “There is an expression called ‘reverse engineering,’” he said, according to a clip released on Sunday.

 

While noting that both Russia and Western countries have modern equipment, he said that Moscow has no intention of passing up the chance to examine Western technology up close.“If there is an opportunity to look inside and see if there is something that we can apply, then why not?”

 

The president nevertheless praised Russian hardware, particularly the T-90 main battle tank. “[This] tank is the best in the world, without any exaggeration.”

 

Putin’s remarks come after several videos went viral earlier this week on social media featuring Russian soldiers standing in front of a captured US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, thanking Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky for the gift.

 

Last week, Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, who now heads the Tsar’s Wolves military technical center, claimed that the military seized a UK-supplied long-rangeStorm Shadow missile. The rocket, he said, was only partially destroyed on impact,making it a potentially useful source of technical information.

 

Ukrainian forces went on a major offensive in the early days of June with the help of hundreds of Western-supplied armored vehicles. However, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev has so far failed to gain any ground. Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu estimated Ukrainian losses at more than 26,000 service members and 3,000 units of heavy military equipment.

 

In late June, the New York Times reported that Ukraine had lost around 15% of the Bradleys it received from the US, with the vast Russian minefields cited as one of the main causes.

 

(This is why the US should never send F16s to Ukraine!)

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/579796-putin-western-weapons-captured/

Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 2:21 p.m. No.19191729   🗄️.is 🔗kun

16 Jul, 2023 17:03

Poland ‘closely monitoring’ Wagner – spy official

Warsaw previously described the presence of the PMC’s fighters in Belarus as a “potential threat”

 

Poland will closely monitor the situation in Belarus after the arrival of the first Wagner troops in the country, special services official Stanislaw Zaryn has said. He claimed that Russia may have an agenda behind the private military company’s activities on the territory of its ally.

 

Wagner mercenaries “are now set to train the Belarusian army and settle in locations that have been prepared for them,” Zaryn said in a video on Twitter, citing the “latest intelligence.”The Defense Ministry in Minsk openly confirmed on Friday that Wagner members were training Belarusian troops and sharing the battlefield experience they had gained from the Ukraine conflict.

 

The Belarusian ministry also said it had developed a “road map” for military training together with the Wagner leadership. A news outlet affiliated with the ministry published a video featuring exercises with Belarusian territorial defense forces that involved Wagner instructors.

 

Zaryn, who serves as deputy minister coordinator of Poland’s special services, stated that “several hundred” mercenaries had arrived in Belarus but that the “extent of their involvement” in activities in the country “is still unknown.” Polish intelligence continues to monitor the situation, he added, insisting that Warsaw “remains vigilant.”

 

The deputy minister further claimed that “one thing is for sure: theWagner Group is being deployed to Belarus to accomplish a mission of some kind. The Kremlin has always used this and other [private military companies] to push its agenda.” He did not provide any evidence to substantiate those allegations.

 

The Wagner Group was given the option to move to Belarus as part of a deal with the Kremlin mediated by Minsk, ending a mutiny staged by the company’s founder, Evgeny Prigozhin.

 

In late June, Prigozhin vowed retaliation and declared a ‘march for justice’ on Moscow after accusing the Russian Defense Ministry of staging a fatal missile strike on a Wagner camp. He abandoned his plans in exchange for a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

 

Wagner troops were given the option of either returning to civilian life, signing contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry, or moving to Belarus. Lukashenko, who also offered to host Prigozhin himself in Belarus, said he was “not worried” about the presence of Wagner, adding that it could be used to defend his country.

 

The development sparked concern in Warsaw, and Polish President Andrzej Duda claimed in late June that “the Wagner Group’s presence in Belarus could be a potential threat to Poland.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/579799-poland-monitoring-wanger-spy-official/

Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 2:40 p.m. No.19191831   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Not only do we have a demented President but we have Treasury Secretary Yellen with four helpings if magic mushrooms,we are doomed!

 

16 Jul, 2023 17:05

US treasury secretary ate magic mushrooms in China

The jian shou qing mushroom popular in Yunnanese cuisine notoriously has hallucinogenic effects when improperly prepared

 

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ate multiple portions of a Yunnanese mushroom delicacy known for its hallucinogenic properties as her first meal in China last week,an aide confirmed to CNN on Saturday.

 

Yellen enjoyed four helpings of the wild – and potentially psychedelic – mushroom jian shou qing at Yunnanese restaurant chain Yi Zuo Yi Wang with her delegation immediately after landing in China, the restaurant confirmed on Weibo.“Our staff said she loved mushrooms very much,” the chain revealed, noting the extra portions she had ordered anddescribing the experience as “an extremely magical day.”

 

While the jian shou qing mushroom is not psychoactive when fully cooked, it is toxic enough when improperly prepared that it was listed in the Botanical Society of Yunnan’s index of poisonous mushrooms last year, triggering a discussion of whether the cherished regional delicacy should remain on the menu. However, its popularity guarantees its survival.

 

Unlike more familiar species of psychedelic mushrooms, the compounds responsible for the hallucinogenic properties of jian shou qing – whose scientific name is Lanmaoa asiatica – remain undiscovered, Dr. Peter Mortimer of Kunming Institute of Botany told CNN.

 

A local food blogger’s post about witnessingYellen wolfing down the magic mushroom in Beijing sparked a brief viral craze over the dish, with the chain reporting it had sold out in numerous locations. State news outlet Xinhua ran a segment on how to safely eat the fungi, which can be distinguished from more ordinary local species of porcini mushrooms by the striking blue color the insides turn when sliced or otherwise subjected to pressure.

 

The staff of the Yi Zuo Yi Wang chain restaurant where Yellen’s party dined insisted their jian shou qing dishes were all properly cooked. The Yunnan region of China is home to around 800 mushroom species, which feature prominently in regional festivals and even city planning and architecture, according to Mortimer.

 

Yellen described her four-day visit to China as a “step forward” after multiple setbacks between Washington and Beijing, including President Joe Biden’s description of his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as a “dictator”and the administration’s increasingly generous weapons sales to Taiwan in the face of protest from China.

 

Declaring “the world is big enough for both of our countries to thrive,” the treasury secretary insisted the US was not trying to “decouple” its economy from its Asian rival, while defending the Biden administration’s export restrictions as “motivated by straightforward national security concerns” rather than an effort to “gain economic advantage.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/579800-janet-yellen-hallucinogenic-mushroom-beijing/

Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 2:52 p.m. No.19191898   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1906 >>1918 >>1925 >>2013

I can’t wait until Trump is president again

 

15 Jul, 2023 17:17

Hunter Biden threatens Trump with ‘legal trouble’

The presidential scion’s lawyers have claimed Trump’s comments could lead to injury to the Biden family

 

Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, sent a ‘cease and desist’ letter to former president Donald Trump on Thursday, warning that continuing to target the troubled 53-year-old on social media could result in “even more legal trouble” for the Republican presidential hopeful.

 

Trump’s online comments – including his suggestions that one or both Bidens was responsible for the cocaine recently discovered in the White House – “could lead to [Hunter’s] or his family’s injury,” Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for the younger Biden, told ABC News on Friday.

 

Lowell cited previous incidents, including the January 6 Capitol riot, the assault on then House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in October, and the arrest of a heavily-armed man near the Obama’s home last month, as being inspired by past Trump comments and warned Trump's attorneys, "We are just one such social media message away from another incident.”

 

“You should make clear to Mr. Trump – if you have not done so already – that Mr. Trump’s words have caused harm in the past and threaten to do so again if he does not stop,”Lowell continued, urging the ex-president’s lawyers to impress upon their client “how his incitement can further hurt people and cause himself even more legal trouble.”

 

Trump recently skewered Hunter with a series of posts on his Truth Social platform, arguing the cocaine discovered in a cubby in the White House’s West Wing earlier this month belonged to the younger Biden, whose struggles with crack addiction are well-documented.

 

“THEY 100% KNOW WHO IT IS,” Trump wrote regarding the cocaine culprit on Monday, claiming, “If they don’t release information, it means they destroyed the tapes & the Cocaine was for use by Hunter, & probably Crooked Joe, in order to give this total disaster of a President a little life and energy!” In an earlier post, he asked if “anyone really believe[d] that the COCAINE found in the West Wing of the White House, very close to the Oval Office, [was] for the use of anyone other than Hunter & Joe Biden.”

 

Trump renewed his attacks after the younger Biden pleaded guilty last month to two misdemeanor tax charges following a years-long investigation, in a plea deal that is expected to keep him out of prison. The Republican 2024 frontrunner lamented that the prosecutor “gave out a traffic ticket instead of a death sentence.”

 

The former president’s own legal troubles continue to pile up, as a Georgia grand jury considers charging him over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. He has already been indicted both federally and by the state of New York and has pled not guilty to all charges.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/579762-hunter-biden-trump-cease-desist/

Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 3:12 p.m. No.19192008   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Chris Christie skirts question on whether he will lie on RNC pledge in order to make GOP debate

Ryan King

 

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday skirted a question about whether he intends to say he’ll support the eventual 2024 Republican nominee for president — whether true or not — in order to make it to the GOP debate stage.

 

During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Jake Tapper played a clip in which former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Tx.), a fellow 2024 contender, emphasized he “can’t lie” and pledge to back the eventual nominee, who may be former President Donald Trump.

 

Tapper then asked Christie if he plan on lying to make the debate stage, alluding to the ex-governor’s public assertion that he won’t vote for Trump, 77, again.

 

“Well I won’t see Will Hurd on the debate stage. That’s okay by me. The fact is, we’ve got to change our party and change our country,” Christie replied.

 

“We had these debate pledges eight years ago. And all of us signed them. Then we got on the debate stage and we were asked to reaffirm them. Donald Trump refuse to raise his hand,” he added, noting that Trump wasn’t penalized for the lie. (He didn’t lie, he said he wouldn’t sign it!)

 

Christie, has publicly vowed to “take the pledge in 2024 just as seriously as Donald Trump took the pledge in 2016.”

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has been adamant about getting 2024 aspirants to sign the pledge, seeking to avert party disunity and a third-party split.

 

Christie’s campaign claims it already cleared the 40,000 unique donor threshold to make it to the debate, which is slated for Aug. 23 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

 

(Chris Christie has indicated he believes his debate skills can help him take down the former president.)

He appears poised to clear the polling hurdle as well, given his 2.6% standing in the latestRealClearPolitics aggregate.

 

The loyalty pledge is the one sticking point.

 

Christie has made taking down Trump his holy mission in the 2024 GOP primary, assailing his onetime friend for peddling lies about the election and more.

 

“He’s liar and a coward,” Christie said of Trump during the CNN interview, when asked about the former president’s claims that he considers the indictment against him a “great badge of honor and courage.”

 

Speaking at the Turning Point Action convention on Saturday, Trump told the crowd: “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, Communists and Fascists indict me, I consider it to be a great badge of honor and courage. I’m doing it for you. I’m being indicted for you. Better me than you, right?”

 

But Christie shot back: “He’s not getting indicted for anyone other than because of his own conduct.”

 

Christie has also previously cast himself as a truth-teller (and very, very delusional).

 

“I think the best things about my personality is that I’m honest, I’m direct, and I care,” he toldPiers Morgan during a recent interview.

 

Christie has long indicated he views the debates as his best opportunity to dispatch the frontrunner, given his iconic exchange with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in the 2016 debates.

 

But Trump and his team have actively dangled the prospect of skipping the first two GOP debates, rendering the likelihood of a showdown between the blunt-talkers uncertain.

Appearing on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday, Christie egged Trump on to debate, saying: “Come on Donald, get on the stage and defend your record.”

 

“If you want to be the nominee, you need to defend your record,” he added.

 

The Trump campaign scoffed at Christie’s taunts.

 

“Chris Christie lives in a perpetual fantasy land where he thinks he can be president,” Steven Cheung, Trump’s campaign spokesman, told Fox News. “Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie wrapped in incoherent psychotic rage and he needs to get some professional help.”

 

https://nypost.com/2023/07/16/chris-christie-evades-question-on-whether-he-will-lie-on-rnc-pledge/

Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 3:30 p.m. No.19192093   🗄️.is 🔗kun

DeSantis rejects Chris Christie’s attack-dog approach to Trump: ‘I don’t do insults’

(delusional propaganda)Ryan King

 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday pushed back against Gov. Chris Christie’s strategy of launching attacks at former President Donald Trump — anddiscussed plans to ratchet up his mainstream media exposure in the crowded 2024 GOP field. (A little too late dude.)

 

DeSantis, in an interview on Fox News’s “MediaBuzz,” was asked to respond to Christie’s claims that he is the only Republican presidential candidate to go toe-to-toe with Trump, 77, because the others are to afraid of offending the front-runner or his supporters.

 

“I don’t do insults so that is true,” DeSantis said.“I think just getting in this insult game turns voters off. That’s something I won’t do.”

 

DeSantis underscored that he and his campaign have been “very frank at our differences with respect to the former president.”

 

On the campaign trail, the Sunshine State governor has honed in on what he views as Trump’s failures to deliver conservative policy victories, such as the border wall. He’s also portrayed himself as a better manager.

 

Trump has directed a torrent of inflammatory insults his way, but DeSantis has refrained from responding in kind.

 

Some of his surrogates and allies have spared with Trump’s team on social media, in what occasionally devolves into vicious discourse. But DeSantis personally has stayed out of it. (Surrogates represent what the candidate wants to say!)

 

“I have no interest in attacking Donald Trump or any of these other candidates personally. I think we got to rise above that and focus on the issues,” DeSantis said Sunday.

 

Trump began firing his broadsides against DeSantis last year just before the midterm elections.

 

DeSantis also strenuously avoided getting ensnared in a tit-for-tat with the known brass-knuckle rhetorical brawler in the run-up to his campaign launch.

 

Asked if he had waited too long to respond to Trump, DeSantis said: “Not at all.”

 

“I think even some of these polls, if you’re going to take them for what they’re worth,they say I have the highest favorability amongst Republican voters. And so I think they made a big mistake by spending all that money against me,” he said. (Delusional propaganda)

 

The governor also teased plans to dabble in more mainstream media interviews. The Post reported Sunday that he will do an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper next week.

 

“I don’t know necessarily about some of the shows, but we want to be engaged. At the end of the day, I think that some of thebest moments, as a governor and as a candidate, arewhen we’re in hostile environments,” he said. “We’re going to do more of it.”

 

DeSantis has largely conducted interviews with conservative-friendly outlets and local media in early states, drawing criticism from some such as conservative host Megyn Kelly.

 

He underscored that he has fielded questions from mainstream media outlets all along.

 

“It is a misnomer to think we haven’t had these people covering us. They’re free to ask questions. I call on CNN specifically when we’re around town hallsand whatnot. And we will continue to do that,” he said.

 

His campaign has emphasized that it always planned to do interviews with a broader purview of media outlets as the campaign went on, but wanted to focus on fundraising efforts during its initial phase.

 

Earlier this month, the campaign touted a whopping $20 million haul in the first six weeks after DeSantis jumped in the race May 24.

 

DeSantis contended that the more exposure he receives, the more voters are receptive to him.

 

“What we found is the more I’m out there, the more support we get in these early states,” he said.(delusional propaganda)

 

Recently, DeSantis’s campaign shed roughly a dozen staffers in an endeavor a spokesperson described as being intended to make his operation more nimble.

 

He is currently polling at 20.6%, about 23.4 percentage points behind Trump in the latestRealClearPolitics aggregate of polls.

 

https://nypost.com/2023/07/16/desantis-rejects-christies-trump-attack-dog-style-i-dont-do-insults/

Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 3:57 p.m. No.19192175   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Putin warns that Russia will drop its own cluster bombs if Ukraine uses the controversial US-provided munitions

By Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Sunday that Russia has a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster munitions, and warned that Russia “reserves the right to take reciprocal action” if Ukraine uses the controversial weapons.

In his first comments on the delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine from the US,Putin said that Russia has not used cluster bombs in its war in Ukraine so far.

The use of cluster bombs by both Russia and Ukraine has been widely documented, including by The Associated Press and international humanitarian organizations, and cluster rounds have been found in the aftermath of Russian strikes.

“Until now, we have not done this, we have not used it, and we have not had such a need,” he said,

Rossiya TV reporter Pavel Zarubin published excerpts of the interview to his Telegram channel Sunday ahead of a scheduled broadcast Sunday night.

The Pentagon said Thursday that cluster munitions provided by the United States had arrived in Ukraine.

The munitions, which are bombs that open in the air and release scores of smaller bomblets, are seen by the US as a way to get Kyiv critically needed ammunition to help bolster its offensive and push through Russian front lines.

US leaders debated the thorny issue for months, before President Joe Biden made the final decision last week.

Cluster bombs have long been criticized by humanitarian groups, and some US allies, because those used in previous conflicts have had a high “dud rate,” meaning that they often leave behind unexploded bomblets that can harm civilians long after a battle has ended.

Proponents argue that Russia has already been using cluster munitions in Ukraine and that the weapons the US is providing have been improved to leave behind far fewer unexploded rounds.

Ukraine has promised to use them only away from densely populated areas.(they always lie)

The Ukrainian military said in a regular update Sunday morning that over the previous 24 hours Russia had launched two Iranian-made Shahed exploding drones, two cruise missiles and two anti-aircraft guided missiles, in addition to 40 airstrikes and 46 attacks from multiple rocket launchers.

The Ukrainian General Staff wrote that Russia continues to concentrate on offensive operations in Ukraine’s industrial east.

Donetsk regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said Sunday that two residents of the region were killed on Saturday, and one other person was wounded.

Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Sunday that fighting in eastern Ukraine had “somewhat intensified,” amid a slow counteroffensive in which Ukraine has made small territorial gains.

Writing on Telegram, she said that Russia had been “actively attacking” in the direction of Kupiansk in the northeastern Kharkiv region for two consecutive days, and that Ukrainian forces were “on the defensive” in the area.

“There are fierce battles, the positions of both sides change dynamically several times a day,” she wrote. (If there were fierce battles they would have been reported on by RT)

Maliar wrote that Ukrainian troops were trying to hold on to their positions on the northern flank around the destroyed city of Bakhmut, but reported that Ukrainian forces were “advancing daily” on the southern flank.Ukraine has been trying to encircle the city since losing control of it to Russia in May.

Putin claimed that the Ukrainian counteroffensive had been futile, in another excerpt published by Zarubin.

“All attempts by the enemy to break through our defenses (…) they were unsuccessful during the entire offensive. The enemy is having no success!” Putin said.

Elsewhere in the country, two boys, aged eight and 10, were wounded when an explosive device left by Russian forces detonated in the southern region of Kherson on Sunday, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office.

Regional Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said that Russia had launched 69 shelling attacks against Kherson region.

Yurii Malashko, governor of the neighboring, partly occupied, Zaporizhzhia region, saidRussia had attacked 13 populated areasin the region, wounding seven people in the town of Stepnohirsk.

Moscow-installed authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea on Sunday reported “a massive and prolonged” drone attack overnight targeting Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest port, which hosts Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.

According to Moscow-installed Sevastopol governor Mikhail Razvozhaev, air defense shot down all of the drones and there was no damage.

Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, said that a woman was killed Sunday by shelling in the town of Shebekino near the border with Ukraine.

 

https://nypost.com/2023/07/16/putin-claims-russia-has-sufficient-stockpile-of-cluster-bombs-as-us-munitions-arrive-in-ukraine/

Anonymous ID: 23d3ec July 16, 2023, 4:24 p.m. No.19192273   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>19192165

Bongino warned and said that on the last two podcasts, he also said they would use a bioweapon and EMP to turn off all electricity so no news, no hospitals and no one would know what was happening

 

Listen and Go to 39:51 minutes and listen to the warning, Richard Muller wrote an oped on a Chinese dual attack on the US. Bongino has been saying the US knows something we don’t know a bioweapon and a weapon that can make our military disfunctional! He’s got the info to prove it. Go to the day before he reported it again.

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v2xdxaa/?pub=4