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Op woensdag 6 maart 2024 00:02 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:
Rusland heeft echt wel meer HIMARS vernietigd.

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German officer who leaked military secrets to Russia avoids sacking
Classified talks about Taurus missiles were intercepted when a brigadier general dialled into a secure phone call from a Singapore hotel

Germany will not sack the brigadier general who inadvertently leaked military secrets to Russia by dialling into a secure phone call from a Singapore hotel.

Boris Pistorius, the German defence minister, said the classified conversation about the Taurus missile was the result of an “individual error” and communication systems had not been breached.

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With an eye on Ukraine, Army revamps training to reflect modern war
Soldiers are learning to hide their Starlink dishes—and relearning the importance of digging a deep foxhole.

FORT IRWIN, California—From the air, the camouflaged headquarters of Maj. Gen. Jim Isenhower looked much like any other rocky hill in the barren desert landscape.

The effect was almost perfect—except for the distinctive white square of a Starlink satellite antenna that would be all too visible to the commercially available drones used by Blackhorse, the Army unit playing Isenhower’s adversary.

“Throw a blanket on that,” Maj. Gen. Curt Taylor, commander of Fort Irwin’s National Training Center, instructed one soldier.

As the Army absorbs the lessons of Ukraine, the service’s top training centers are pushing more and more realistic scenarios on soldiers, while also giving them opportunities to try new ideas, often based on commercial tech such as Starlink.

The changes reflect the priorities of the new Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George, who is pressing units to adapt to the increasingly surveilled battlefield and to embrace cheap, commercially available tech over multi-billion dollar weapons.

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Our First Look Inside Russia’s Shahed-136 Attack Drone Factory
Large-scale Russian production of the Iranian-designed Shahed drones could present a range of new problems for Ukrainian air defenses.

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Putin Allies Quietly Gathering Private Armies
Russian oligarchs Arkady and Boris Rotenberg have decided to create a private army, similar to Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group, consisting of soccer hooligans, a local investigative site reported.

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Ukraine slams Bolshoi Ballet tour in Korea
Russian Embassy hits back at Ukraine's 'rude' remarks

Planned performances in Seoul by Russia's state-owned Bolshoi Ballet are drawing criticism from the Embassy of Ukraine and diplomats from several European countries, who argue that Russia's use of cultural events as a tool to justify war and genocide constitutes a form of cultural weaponization.

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Ukraine Forces Repulse Russian Tanks and Infantry Near Novomykhailivka

Ukrainian troops successfully repelled a Russian armored assault near Novomykhailivka in the Donetsk region.

The footage of the drone attack was released by the Ukrainian Shadow unit.

“Another ‘successful’ Russian assault on Novomykhailivka,” the unit said.

The Russian command sent a T-72B tank and a T-62MV tank to assault the settlement.

Russian infantry moved on MT-LB armored personnel carriers, which were modified by adding open landing compartments.

Окупанти провели невдалий штурм �овомихайлівки [Березень 2024]

The APCs followed the tanks, which were making their way to the Ukrainian positions.

The Russian invaders immediately began to turn back when the Ukrainian military began shelling the convoy.

Some MT-LB armored personnel carriers crashed into other vehicles while trying to drive back.

During the battle, Ukrainian forces targeted Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers, prompting the Russian infantry to swiftly retreat from the battlefield.

However, some invaders tried to dig holes under the damaged armored vehicles and take up positions there.

On February 5, 2024, the Ukrainian General Staff stated that in the Novopavlivka sector, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the areas of Heorhiivka, Novomykhailivka, Prechystivka and Krasnohorivka in the Donetsk region.

“The enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defense of our troops 34 times,” the General Staff noted.

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The Double Life of Former Wirecard Executive Jan Marsalek
Since the collapse of Wirecard, Jan Marsalek has been on the run and is one of the most wanted men in the world. A DER SPIEGEL investigation has revealed how he went underground and that he's a Russian spy.

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Op woensdag 6 maart 2024 08:46 schreef Anton91 het volgende:

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Zie post #120

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Russians sell Ukrainian POWs to Chechen paramilitary groups
Chechen paramilitary groups are actively buying captured Ukrainians from other Russian military formations.

The Times reported on this.

Petro Yatsenko, a spokesman of the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, confirmed that Chechen paramilitary groups were buying up Ukrainian prisoners of war.

“There have been cases when they bought our wounded from the Russian military, took them to [the Chechen capital of] Grozny, and then exchanged them for their own,” he said.

Buyout for exchange
Chechen ethnic paramilitary groups actively participated in fierce fighting in the first months of the war, and many of their soldiers were captured. Therefore, they are trying to get their fighters back.

However, due to the lack of their own “exchange fund” due to the constant presence of ethnic units in the rear, their leaders seem to have decided to buy POWs for exchange from other Russian units.

One of these people was 41-year-old Viacheslav Levytskyi. He was taken prisoner of war by the militants of the so-called “DPR” in February 2023 and later sold to the Chechens.

He had been shot in both legs and abdomen during a night raid on his position in the woods north of Avdiyivka. When he regained consciousness, he spent several days crawling across the frozen ground, searching for his unit.

He eventually arrived at a Ukrainian position but discovered that the enemy had seized it. According to him, the Russian invaders did not provide him with any medical care. They beat him with a spade, hoping to force him to reveal the wavelength used by Ukrainian radio operators.

However, two days later, he was taken to the Chechens a few kilometers from the front and told he was going to Grozny.

As soon as Viacheslav arrived in the Chechen capital, he was taken to the hospital, where both legs and both hands were amputated because they were frostbitten.

After recovering in the hospital, Viacheslav was taken to the basement, where he was kept together with 60 other Ukrainian prisoners of war who were being prepared for an exchange for five Chechens. In June 2023, he returned home during the exchange along with 39 other Ukrainians.

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The Russians lost three T-90M Proryv tanks during the battle

The Russians lost three modern T-90M Proryv tanks in one battle in the Lyman sector.

The invaders tried to break through the positions of the 60th Mechanized Brigade with armored vehicles and infantry.

The Russian invaders used tanks, armored personnel carriers, and off-road vehicles with infantry to attack. The attacks took place in three waves.

Immediately at the beginning of the battle, the Ukrainian military managed to disable the T-90M, which was supposed to fire at the forefront of the attack.

Ро�і�ни за бій втратили три Т-90М "Прорыв"

After that, it and another infantry fighting vehicle were hit by FPV drones.

Ukrainian troops neutralized three T-90M Proryv tanks in the area. Some of them hit a mine and lost the ability to move.

FPV drones were then finishing off modern Russian tanks. The soldiers of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine also participated in the incident.

A failed assault for the Russians took place in the Donetsk region near the village of Yampolivka.

The T-90M Proryv tank is a modernization of the export-oriented T-90S version, which was introduced in 2011.

The Russian military received the first batch of T-90M tanks only in 2020.

As previously reported, the Russian military used Chinese-made Desertcross golf carts to storm Ukrainian positions.

A Russian convoy of four golf carts was neutralized on the approach with cluster munitions. Due to the lack of any protection, the infantry in it was hit by the wreckage.

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War of fakes: How Russia manipulates facts regarding war against Ukraine
The Russian disinformation machine operates as a multifaceted network designed to sow discord, manipulate opinions, and influence events both domestically and internationally
At its core, this apparatus involves the strategic use of state-controlled media outlets, social media platforms, and covert online operations.

Espreso explains how the Kremlin employs a combination of disinformation and propaganda to achieve its objectives.

Russian military forces consistently target Ukrainian regions using a range of weaponry including attack UAVs, missiles, KABs, and MLRS. The frequency of these attacks increased notably in recent months, resulting in the deaths of dozens and injuries to hundreds more.

Simultaneously, Russia is increasingly becoming the target of attacks itself, with most strikes reported in its regions that border northeastern Ukraine.

However, there is a distinct approach by Russian media and official bodies in covering both its and Ukraine’s attacks, shaping specific narratives of Russia’s “perpetual innocence,” even as it targets civilian hospitals and homes, and the cruelty of the “Kyiv regime” in targeting its “civilian targets.” All this coverage follows a consistent pattern of swapping meanings and disregarding factual information.

The article covers:
• Russia’s PSYOPs: how do they work
• Swapping responsibility: Russia blames Ukraine for impossible attacks
• Russian propaganda twists reality: Selydove attack

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Military intelligence: Over 50 crew members evacuated from Russia's Sergey Kotov vessel, 7 killed
Seven Russian sailors were killed and six injured as a result of the destruction of the Russian patrol ship Sergey Kotov near occupied Crimea on March 5, according to preliminary data from Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR).

The military intelligence agency confirmed earlier today that the Project 22160 patrol ship was destroyed in the Kerch Strait after being hit by Ukrainian Magura V5 naval drones. The Russian Defense Ministry is yet to comment on the incident.

Ukraine's military intelligence agency said that 52 crew members who were on board the ship could have been evacuated.

In a conversation allegedly intercepted by HUR, a Russian commander claimed that the Russian patrol ship had a helicopter on board. Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing unnamed sources, that a Russian Ka-29 transport and combat helicopter was destroyed along with the vessel.

Russian forces were also planning to place an anti-aircraft missile system on the Sergey Kotov patrol vessel, according to HUR spokesperson Andrii Yusov.

Sergey Kotov is one of a number of Russian ships reported to have been damaged by Ukrainian forces. On Feb. 14, the Russian Ropucha-class landing ship Caesar Kunikov was sunk in the Black Sea after being attacked by Ukrainian naval drones.

Ukraine has repeatedly struck Russia's Black Sea Fleet since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, including the sinking of the flagship cruiser Moskva in April 2022 and a devastating missile attack on the fleet's headquarters in occupied Crimea that reportedly killed more than 30 officers.

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Stalin could have been poisoned by the West, Russian communists claim
Party calls for a probe on 71st anniversary of Soviet dictator’s death.

The Russian communist party has called for an investigation into the possible involvement of Western spies in the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, suggesting he could have been “poisoned.”

“The party appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation and the FSB with a request to check the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin,” Sergey Malinkovich, chairman of the Communists of Russia party, said Tuesday, according to state-run news agency RIA.

“Many testimonies from Stalin’s contemporaries speak of the possible poisoning of the leader of the Soviet nations by agents of Western influence,” Malinkovich added.

The request was made on the 71st anniversary of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953. An autopsy found he died from a haemorrhagic stroke following years of health issues, including an earlier stroke and heart attack in 1945, but conspiracy theories have long circulated about potential foul play.

Stalin’s reputation has undergone a rehabilitation in recent years of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reign, with Stalinists expressing admiration for a man responsible for mass executions, a network of labor camps and forced starvation.

In 2018, Russia refused to screen a British black comedy film, “The Death of Stalin,” about the dictator’s final hours, with an official from the country’s culture ministry saying it “insults our historic symbols.”

The Communists of Russia party, established 12 years ago, emerged as a spoiler entity aiming to divert the electorate’s attention from the original Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).

Notorious for consistently fielding namesake candidates in opposition to the CPRF in nearly every election, their agenda largely revolves around launching vociferous yet futile initiatives. In 2022, they made an audacious plea to both Russian law enforcement and the United Nations to investigate the death of Princess Diana.

“The U.N. must finally investigate this terrible crime after 25 years … It would be appropriate to assign the investigation to the Russian Investigative Committee, given the recurring doubts raised by global media regarding the willingness of British and American investigative authorities to conduct an impartial inquiry into Diana’s demise,” stated a party representative.

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Latvian government approves list of banned agricultural goods from Russia, Belarus
The Latvian government on March 5 approved a list of Russian and Belarusian agricultural and food products that will be banned from importing into the country starting March 8.

The Baltic country's parliament voted to ban the imports on Feb. 22 in the wake of farmers' protests against the influx of agricultural goods originating in Russia or Belarus.

The ban will apply to vegetables, fruits, berries, nuts, cereals, raw materials for fodder, and ready-made fodder. The restrictions will also apply to products of Russian or Belarusian origin coming from third-party countries.

"As a country bordering Russia, Latvia is trying to find the fastest way possible to sever economic ties with the aggressor country," the Latvian government's statement read.

"This Latvian initiative to ban the import of agricultural and fodder products from Russia and Belarus... is an additional element to the common EU sanctions policy."

Russian agricultural products sparked tensions not only in Latvia but also in other EU countries supporting Ukraine against Moscow's aggression.

Lithuanian farmers complained that the volume of Russian goods has risen sharply in recent years, destabilizing markets across the EU.

"These are impressive figures, with over 3 million tons of Russian grain having passed through Latvia and Lithuania combined in 2023," said Ausrys Macijauskas, the head of the Lithuania Association of Grain Growers.

"In total, 12 million tones of Russian grain were imported into the EU market last year."

According to Eurostat, EU purchases of Russian grain in 2023 increased by 22% per month and 10 times per year.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on March 4 that Warsaw plans to ask Brussels to impose sanctions on Russian and Belarusian agricultural products and foodstuffs. Warsaw has complained about the influx of grain not only from these two countries but also from Ukraine.

Several key agricultural products from Ukraine, such as grain, corn, and rapeseed, have been banned from importing into Poland, but the continued flow of Ukrainian goods into the EU has led to widespread protests by Polish farmers.

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UPDATED: Russia claims Ukrainian drone strikes on 3 regions, fire reported
Editor's note: The article was updated following reports on the alleged attack against Belgorod Oblast and a repeated attack against Kursk Oblast.

Russia claimed that Ukrainian drones attacked Kursk, Voronezh, and Belgorod oblasts early on March 6, allegedly causing a warehouse fire in the first of the three regions.

Bordering Ukraine, regional officials in Kursk, Belgorod, and Voronezh oblasts often report on Ukrainian cross-border attacks. Kyiv does not usually comment on these claims.

The fire broke out in a lubricant warehouse in Kursk Oblast's Zheleznogorsky district, said Roman Starovoyt, the regional governor.

According to the Russian official, a fuel tank ignited as a result of the attack. Emergency services are working on site, and no casualties were reported, he added.

The Russian Telegram channel 112 claimed that a drone targeted the Mikhailovsky Mining and Processing Plant in Zheleznogorsk.

Starovoyt reported later during the day that a second drone hit the Zheleznogorsk warehouse, noting that there were no casualties.

At least three drones were allegedly shot down also over Voronezh Oblast on the morning of March 6, the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti claimed, citing regional officials.

Voronezh Oblast Governor Alexander Gusev claimed that no civilians were injured, adding that other consequences of the supposed strike are being determined.

The Russian Telegram channel Astra claimed that residents of the Voronezh Oblast town of Anna heard explosions near a local oil depot. Another local Telegram channel, Baza, alleged that a drone tried to attack the military airbase Baltimor (Voronezh Malshevo) but was shot down before reaching it.

One drone was downed over Belgorod Oblast at 9 a.m. local time, Russia's Defense Ministry claimed without elaborating on the consequences.

The Kyiv Independent could not verify the claims.

In recent months, Russian authorities began reporting an increasing number of drone strikes targeting Belgorod, Bryansk, Oryol, and Leningrad oblasts, as well as other regions.

In turn, Ukraine reported a massive drone attack by Russia overnight on March 6. The Ukrainian Air Force said that 38 of the 42 Shahed-type attack drones were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.

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Legend of the picture:
Faint red cross: Damaged (but repairable to any reasonable extent)
Red cross: Sunk/destroyed (including those with near-zero maintainability)
Greyed out: Incapacitated for other reasons (including non-combat repairs / deployment outside the Black Sea)
Hashed cross: Being repaired (until confirmation of successful repairs, the ship is considered damaged)

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Those mobilized for the war with Ukraine will remain at the front indefinitely
The presidential administration (AP) confirmed that those mobilized will not be allowed to go home until the end of the war with Ukraine. This was the department’s response to his request from Boris Vishnevsky, deputy chairman of Yabloko, deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly .

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Brussels wants to beat the Pentagon at its own game on arms sales
The European Commission is hinting at a new mechanism similar to the US Foreign Military Sales to facilitate arms exports.

Brussels is studying how European governments can sell weapons as easily as the Americans do.

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Biden and Trump picked up a large number of delegates on Super Tuesday. Here's the latest delegate estimate
Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump picked up a large number of delegates in their dominating wins on Super Tuesday.

More than a dozen states held primaries or caucuses on Tuesday, the biggest day of the nominating races so far as the 2024 presidential campaign accelerates.

Trump's GOP rival Nikki Haley also picked up some delegates, winning the Vermont GOP presidential primary, but she remains far behind Trump. Meanwhile, in American Samoa — where 91 votes were cast in the Democratic caucuses — Biden lost to Democratic candidate Jason Palmer.

Here's the latest estimate of delegates won on Super Tuesday:
Republican:
Trump: 764
Haley: 43
47 delegates from tonight’s contests are still to be allocated.

Democrats:
Biden: 1,366
Uncommitted: 8
Palmer: 3
43 delegates from tonight’s contests are still to be allocated.

These are the estimated delegates won to date:
Republican:
Trump: 1,040
Nikki Haley: 86

Democrat:
Biden: 1,572
Uncommitted: 10
Palmer: 3

Remember: It takes 1,215 of 2,429 delegates to win the Republican nomination and 1,968 of 3,934 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

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Op woensdag 6 maart 2024 11:20 schreef oheng het volgende:
Offtopic, maar Taiwan heeft nu ook zee drones. NCD post omdat het ken.

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Nikki Haley will exit GOP presidential race, clearing path for Donald Trump
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will announce Wednesday that she is exiting the Republican presidential race, according to sources familiar with her plans, clearing the path for former President Donald Trump.

Haley had emerged as former President Donald Trump’s sole rival in the Republican presidential primary campaign, and while he rolled to victory in 14 of the 15 GOP contests on Super Tuesday, she foiled a possible clean sweep by winning in Vermont.

Across the Republican primaries on Super Tuesday, Haley won just 43 of the Republican delegates while Trump won 764.

Ahead of the South Carolina primary in February, Haley vowed to stay in the race through to Super Tuesday on March 5, saying she would continue to compete in the primary “until the last person votes, because I believe in a better America and a brighter future for our kids.”

Haley, who was Trump’s US ambassador to the United Nations, was the last of a dozen major candidates the former president vanquished in a GOP primary that he dominated from start to finish, even as he skipped the party’s debates and maintained a much lighter schedule of early-state travel than all of his rivals.

Haley is expected to deliver remarks in Charleston, South Carolina at 10 a.m. ET.

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Haley won't endorse Trump — for now
Nikki Haley will not announce today that she is endorsing former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with her plans tell CNN.

Instead, Haley will call on Trump to earn the support of voters who backed her. That plan appears to leave the room for her to endorse Trump ahead of the general election in November.

Haley will announce that she is withdrawing from the Republican presidential race today according to sources familiar with her plans. She is speaking in Charleston, South Carolina, at 10 a.m. ET.

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Op woensdag 6 maart 2024 19:43 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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Volgens Rob de Wijk is dat één van de rode lijnen die niet overschreden worden en welke besproken zijn tussen Burns en Naryshkin. En er zijn er meer, maar die weten we niet.

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Op woensdag 6 maart 2024 21:03 schreef polderturk het volgende:
Rusland zet Russische hoeren in als spionnen.

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