Politics Ukraine / Russia

Day 169. The Ukrainian army put the Kakhovka bridge in the Kherson Oblast out of order. Kremlin propaganda succeeds in information warfare. The US will provide military aid to Ukraine “as much as necessary.” Britain to send more M270 multiple rocket launchers to Ukraine. Russian [Proxy] head says Azov trial to begin this summer. G7 Demands Immediately Hand Back Full Control over the ZNPP to Ukraine. Switzerland agrees to represent Ukraine’s interests in Russia, but Moscow is hostile.

 

It's difficult to know what Ukraine's plans are for Crimea. I think they feel they cannot exist with russian military so close and controlling the Black Sea, so at a minimum they would want all russian military out and they would want the Kerch bridge to russia dismantled (which would lessen the military threat and also allow Ukrainian merchant ships to pass through).

 

It's almost as if russia knows they are losing the war and just want to destroy as much of Ukraine as they can before they are forced out.

 

Day 170. Latvia announces Russia terrorist sponsor state. Explosions at an airfield in Belarus. The UN Security Council met to discuss the security of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in connection with the Russian invasion. ️The US State Department called on Russian forces to cease all military activity near the Zaporizhzhia plant. Russians shelled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant four times in one day. Russian forces conducted ground attacks in Donbas and continued to carry out air and missile strikes on military and civilian objects in Ukraine. At least five Su-24 FENCER fighter-bombers and three Su-30 FLANKER H multi-role jets were almost certainly destroyed or seriously damaged in the blasts at the Russian airfield in Crimea. Ukrainians strike on Russian command posts and ammunition depots in the south.

 

Day 172. Heavy fighting for the village of Pisky, in Donbas. New shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Russian and Ukrainian authorities accused each other of shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Russian military command flees (from occupied Kherson) to the left back of the Dnipro river after HIMARS destroys the last operating overpass across the Dnipro. Explosions reported in occupied Mariupol and Melitopol. The strikes of the Russian army on the civilian infrastructure objects in Ukraine continue. Russia threatened the United States with a severance of diplomatic relations.

 

Associated Press reports Russia is offering amnesty to prisoners who "volunteer" to fight in Ukaraine.

Thanks for daily updates, @UKRAINEFAN and stay safe.

 

CBS censors its own report on Ukraine weapons corruption

https://popularresistance.org/cbs-censors-its-own-report-on-ukraine-weapons-corruption/

Pressure from a foreign government affects the stories we see from our media here in America.

 

You remind me of the unions during WW2, organizing strikes when the country is at war with Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. The corruption in Ukraine is bad, just as the wages for workers making B-24s could be higher. But there’s a time and place to focus on those things, and trying to root out corruption during a war is not exactly anyones highest priority, nor should it be.

This is like focusing on the fact that Comcast added a surcharge to your bill that month when someone is actively robbing your house with a gun and is holding your wife hostage. Who cares about Comcast in that moment, let’s focus on the robber.

 

Day 173. Guerillas damaged a bridge near Melitopol. Trains stop moving from Crimea. Ukrainian army hits Wagner HQ in Popasna; smash two Russian ammo depots near Kherson. Ukrainian army targets the Antonivka bridge again, forcing the Russian command to flee. Ukrainian air force units destroy about 15 Russian armored vehicles. Six more ships receive permission to export Ukrainian grain. The EU, 42 countries call on Russia to withdraw its forces from Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plan. New Zealand defense forces to deploy to the UK in further support for Ukraine.

 

Volunteer interviewed for the CBS documentary that falsely claimed military aid went missing before reaching the Ukrainian frontlines explains how his words were taken out of context. Aid was not stolen; rather, distribution issues impeded the logistics chain’s effectiveness, but aid reached the frontlines, albeit later than planned. He describes how the duty for providing this assistance has rested on the shoulders of volunteers due to the Ukrainian government’s inability to create a better system."
https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/08...krainian-military-aid-going-missing-debunked/

 

Actually, Ukraine is still trying hard to root out corruption even while fighting a war for survival:
“F*cking pinch me. This day has come.
The council has just appointed Roman Maselko and Mykola Moroz as members of the High Council of Justice!!!
They just took and appointed two independent, spotless candidates who simply came and won the competition, you know? And one of them is a fighter against the judicial mafia who is well-known throughout Ukraine.
In my memory, this is the first time, at least as far as top positions in the judiciary are concerned," wrote key judicial reform advocate Mykhailo Zhernakov
https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/08...jPsl8tfiZ5X4-JsrCkgd9OZ7dtt111oFarwdb3HF5sh7o

 

Good for them, I will eat crow, Zelenskyy is a rock star. Even during a war he’s still putting people in place to make the country better.

 

This does not include overnight reports that Ukraine has struck 3 times into occupied Crimea. Once at an airbase near the capitol of Simferopol and then an ammo dump in the north near the railway that continues into mainland Ukraine. Also seems to be a hit on a railroad transformer. Tass says 10 miles of track disabled. No one is sure if these are missiles or partisans.

Day 174. Russian forces continued conducting limited offensive operations in Donbas. Belarus might be preparing for a massive missile attack on the territory of Ukraine. The Ukrainian army destroyed 3 Russian military warehouses in one day. Ukrainian military forces reportedly destroyed more than a hundred Wagner mercenaries with a strike on Popasna. The surface vessels of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet continue to pursue an extremely defensive posture. Two ships entered Odesa port to load corn and oil. ️The UN is ready to facilitate the trip of IAEA experts to the Zaporizhzhia NPP through Kyiv, if Russia and the Ukrainian authorities agree. Five more foreigners who fought on the side of Ukraine face the death penalty in the Russian proxy state, the so-called DNR (“Donetsk People’s Republic.”) Latvia handed over four helicopters to Ukraine. Zelensky signed a decree on the establishment of an Advisory Council on the de-occupation and reintegration of Crimea and dismissed the heads of SBU departments in Kyiv, Lviv, and Ternopil Oblasts.

 

If you want to read a really comprehensive report on what happened in the days leading up to the war and American efforts to head it off: Hope you have a free article left.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ne-KcTp4VLlxe4DXmuB-7W40_9wFjMI7MkAFXk_Z6oVv0

 

That's a long one but definitely informative on the lead up to this. As always, the French were a bunch of pansies.

 

For those interested, I watch this channel sometimes. Seems pretty unbiased and I think mostly accurate. The situation in general seems to be worse for Ukraine than this message board seems to think it is.

 

Russia is a tough foe. But they don't have enough soldiers to conquer and hold a country with as many people as Ukraine.

That is, as long as Ukraine wants to keep fighting.

 

Ukraine will never stop fighting.