...By September
.It seems another proudly announced future victory failed to materialise
and it seems that you are one month in the future...
and no, I don't think it's going to happen, neither in one nor in two months.
...By September
.It seems another proudly announced future victory failed to materialise
"By September" = "till the end of August". But this is irrelevant, now even The Economist began to introduce their dear readers into the fact that... well, you understand, everything is complicated, Ukraine is "brilliant" in defence but, perhaps, "should not rush" in offence...
Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo ... n-attacks(Al Jazeera)
• Ukraine’s top presidential adviser denies Kyiv’s involvement in the death of Darya Dugina, the daughter Putin supporter Alexander Dugin.
• Russia’s defence ministry says that sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed an ammunition depot containing missiles for US-made HIMARS rocket systems and other Western-made anti-aircraft systems in Ukraine’s Odesa region.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges Ukrainians to be vigilant before Independence Day on Wednesday, saying: “We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious.
• New blasts hit Crimea and a missile attack wounds 12 civilians in Voznesensk, near the Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant, says the governor of the Mykolaiv region.
I should also point out that both sides are accusing the other of this shelling. It would not even be an issue had Putin not decided to invade the Ukraine. At any rate, western news sources have apparently been unable to verify who is doing the shelling at Kherson.non-stop shelling the NPP near that same Kherson in hope to cause Chernobyl V2
Read more here: https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/ ... broadens/(The National) Russian authorities reported shooting down Ukrainian drones on Saturday in Crimea, while Ukrainian officials said Russian forces pressed ahead with efforts to seize one of the few cities in eastern Ukraine not already under their control. The Russian military also kept up its strikes in Ukraine’s north and south.
In Crimea, Russian authorities said local air defences shot down a drone above the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. It was the second drone incident at the headquarters in three weeks and followed explosions at a Russian airfield and ammunition depot on the peninsula this month.
Oleg Kryuchkov, an aide to Crimea’s governor, also said on Saturday that “attacks by small drones” triggered air-defence systems in western Crimea.
The incidents underlined Russian forces’ vulnerability in Crimea.
Read more here: https://news.antiwar.com/2022/08/18/us ... g-crimea/(Antiwar.com) A senior Biden administration official told Politico on Wednesday that the US supports Ukraine striking Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014 but neither Washington nor Kyiv recognize as Russian territory.
The official said the US considers strikes on Ukrainian soil “self-defense,” which applies to Crimea in Washington’s eyes. “We don’t select targets, of course, and everything we’ve provided is for self-defense purposes. Any target they choose to pursue on sovereign Ukrainian soil is by definition self-defense,” the official said.
The comments came after a series of explosions at Russian military facilities in Crimea, including a major one at the Saki air base that reportedly destroyed nine Russian warplanes. Officially, Kyiv hasn’t taken credit for the incidents, but Ukrainian officials have strongly hinted at Ukraine’s involvement.
While the recent incidents appear to be acts of sabotage, Ukrainian officials have said they are preparing to use US-provided weapons, such as HIMARS rocket systems, to attack Crimea. Washington doesn’t want Ukraine using US weapons on Russian territory, but Crimea appears to be fair game since the US considers it Ukraine.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Wednesday that there are no restrictions on using US-provided weapons on “occupied territories” of Ukraine. “But if we are talking today about the de-occupation of temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine where the enemy is, then, correspondingly, we have no such restrictions,” Reznikov said.
.(Al Jazeera)
• Ukraine’s top presidential adviser denies Kyiv’s involvement in the death of Darya Dugina, the daughter Putin supporter Alexander Dugin
How can you jump from "no government is" to let us "not fool ourselves about our own actions'?' Shilling for the Russian government now, perhaps?ibm9000 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:02 pm.(Al Jazeera)
• Ukraine’s top presidential adviser denies Kyiv’s involvement in the death of Darya Dugina, the daughter Putin supporter Alexander Dugin
No Government is going to acknowledge involvement in that "action", maybe, and only maybe, in the killing of his
father; you can always declare him instigator, brains behind or any title you may want to give to somebody you are going to kill anyway.
Let not fool ourselves about our own actions.
What did I imply exactly? or maybe more appropriately, how many things do I imply?You implied something...
Read more of the cited article here: https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/deteri ... t-heading(Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) Russian forces have occupied the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southern Ukraine for more than five months, placing the power plant’s six nuclear reactors and its stores of radioactive spent fuel at unprecedented risk. The situation at the plant continues to worsen.
Russia and Ukraine, which blamed each other for earlier attacks on the plant, are this week trading fresh accusations and warning that another attack on the plant is coming soon.
Ukrainian military intelligence told NBC News that Russia had ordered most of the Zaporizhzhia plant’s staff to stay home from work today. On its verified Facebook page, the Ukrainian intelligence directorate of the defense ministry claimed there is a “high likelihood” of a large-scale terrorist attack on the facility.
The Russian Ministry of Defense earlier accused the Ukrainian military of preparing to launch a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia plant. The ministry acknowledged it is considering a shutdown of the plant in response to “negative developments.”
More on the topic of drone attacks into Crimea:Russia Repels Ukrainian Drones in Crimea as War Broadens
Read more here: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u ... ikes-again(The Drive) Ukraine's shadow offensive on strategic Russian targets well behind the front lines appears to be just heating up. The mysterious, 'available on Alibaba,' converted long-range suicide drone was seen in action for the second time today, this time making an attack on Russia's Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea. The twin-tail-boom fixed-wing drone was spotted overhead just before a plume rose from the fleet's headquarters. It appears the drone impacted a roofline, damaging it, but there is no word on casualties, at least according to Russian officials.
(See article linked below for several related Twitter feeds).
This is the second confirmed drone attack on the Black Sea Fleet's headquarters in just three weeks. In our coverage of the last attack, we noted it seemed very likely that the operation was just a harbinger of what was to come. That proved all too accurate as targets in Crimea have since come under repeated attack, including a very successful operation against Russian Navy tactical jets at Saki Airbase. Even just the day before yesterday, Russia claimed to shoot down a drone at nearby Belbek Airbase after claims began to emerge of more explosions there. Satellite imagery proved that the base was left untouched. Other targets in Crimea have included large ammunition stockpiles, meanwhile similar targets continue to mysteriously go up in flames in border areas of Russia proper.
You implied that the Ukrainian government sponsored the terrorist attack under discussion.What did I imply exactly? or maybe more appropriately, how many things do I imply?
More what aboutism that belongs in a different thread (or threads) that I will not honor with a further response.J. Khashoggi, did we invade any country -dictatorship~full/imperfect democracy- for that killing? The British G. didn't attempt the murder of B. Devlin, it just let it happened... the Finucane "business" was a bit different, anyway. Did the French G. acknowledge the sinking of the R. Warrior.
Did you realize what you wrote?: behind the scenes/publicly, that is exactly what I expect every government to say, and to do.
Fair enough. Do you now wish to embrace the idea of supporting a negotiated settlement?I do remember using the word "negotiation", not "surrender" but I maybe wrong, you, seem to be right.
Nice, I will have to remember that one.Also, I do remember some kind of protocol/joke from Washington's journalists: it is "unconfirmed" until the Government officially denies it.
...know anybody Interested in doing that? Personally, no. I imagine there might be some genuine home-grown terrorists, possibly with sympathies to Ukraine, but that is different from sponsored terrorists acting in collusion with the Ukrainian government. At any rate, that (what I am saying in this response) is all just speculation.(By the way, I don't think they have anything to do with that, but who was trying to get what in... one year? I have no idea; is hitting Putin's circle one possibility?, do you know anybody interested in doing that?)
No, I don't know that, but thank you for the clarification.My bet -my "shilling"- is on hypocrisy, as you know.