Don's Weekly, 20 May 2024: Part 3
(….continued from Part 2…)
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Crimea
Here is the video of the attack on Belbek with ATACMS. The Russians report that a MiG-31 was destroyed and three Su-27’s were in some state of damage. An S-300 and an S-400 launcher were destroyed and 11 men were killed…
https://twitter.com/FreudGreyskull/status/1790705716518703265
Ground photos showed elements of S-300 and/or S-400 air defense systems were destroyed, to include an S-400 radar…https://x.com/Archer83Able/status/1790731141265138091
Satellite imagery shows that two MiG-31s were destroyed, as was a small fuel depot. A MiG-29 was destroyed but it was possibly already unable to fly. An Su-27 may be damaged, and something adjacent to the Su-27 was completely destroyed but what it was cannot be determined…https://www.twz.com/news-features/mig-31-foxhounds-confirmed-destroyed-in-new-imagery-of-belbek-air-base
ATACMS sunk a ship…https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1792231249643212940
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Russia
There was a large Ukrainian attack on Novorossiysk. Here are a few videos…https://x.com/Schizointel/status/1791287164640043347
Drones attacked a Russian train over 450 km away in the Volgograd region…https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1790260699400159627
The oil depot at Novorossiysk…https://x.com/Tendar/status/1791405776835059830
The attack lasted 2.5 hours with 33-35 explosions heard…https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1791369374957269393
The Tuapse refinery was attacked on January 25th and shut down for three months. It was attacked again…https://x.com/FreudGreyskull/status/1791635510391382413
Russian civilians watch the drones fly by to their objective…https://x.com/sumlenny/status/1791423647103488437
They’re celebrating shooting a drone down. I’m wondering where the rounds that didn’t hit the drone went…https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1792107941903880476
Russia’s Internal Affairs Minister says they are short 152,000 policeman, about 20% of their force…https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/14/7455776/
Russia took control of 180 companies worth $11.5 billion. Most of the companies were foreign owned or owned by Russians living abroad…
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1790789550786101693
A chemical plant suffered a major fire…https://charter97.org/en/news/2024/5/14/595033/
Demand for oil is lower than expected, plus OPEC and their allies increased production when they pledged to decrease production. As a result, Russian oil revenues are down 6.5% and are likely to decline again in the future. The general belief is that Russia is producing and exporting as much oil as possible to generate income…https://energia.rp.pl/ropa/art40358701-kreml-zarobil-mniej-na-eksporcie-ropy-a-bedzie-jeszcze-lepiej
Russia bought $4 billion worth of arms from India…https://www.firstpost.com/world/russian-firms-spend-4-billion-dollar-from-rupee-vostro-accounts-to-buy-india-arms-rupee-13769478.html
A Russian mine-resistant vehicle is destroyed in Belgorod…https://x.com/Tendar/status/1789645020292595999
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Ukraine
A Ukrainian oligarch was arrested for treason and placed under house arrest in 2021. After fleeing and being recaptured, he was exchanged to Russia for Ukrainian POWs. Croatia seized his €200 million yacht in March, 2022. It now belongs to Ukraine…https://kyivindependent.com/medvechuks-yacht-officially-transferred-to-ukrainian-state/
Ukraine had to use emergency blackouts to stabilize the energy grid…
https://twitter.com/blyskavka_ua/status/1790788666253582733
A Ukrainian soldier discusses his photographs taken in the Azov steel works in May, 2022, in a 12 minute video here.
A grandmother and her dog are separated…
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1790785710934438283
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Diplomacy
Russia issued yet another meaningless threat to the US. Blinken, on the other hand, said the US had "not encouraged or enabled strikes outside of Ukraine, but ultimately Ukraine has to make decisions for itself about how it’s going to conduct this war." That certainly sounds different that forbidding Ukraine to use US weapons in Russia, but time will tell…https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-says-us-playing-with-fire-indirect-war-with-moscow-2024-05-17/
The attack on Fico creates an opportunity for the head of Slovakia’s National Intelligence Service to tighten the control of the ruling party and oligarchs over the country. Pavol Gašpar was investigated twice on corruption and perjury charges but never charged. His father was the former head of the National Police and is now a member of parliament and was arrested last August for the death of a journalist and his fiancee while the journalist was investigating the corruption. He was also accused of being a member of organized crime. His predecessors were charged with corruption, belonging to a criminal organization and obstruction of justice. After years of corruption, and the death of a journalist investigating the corruption, the ruling party blamed the journalists for the political atmosphere and told journalists that they needed to look in the mirror. The same people that called the outgoing President an American whore had already taken steps to eliminate the public broadcaster RTVS, claiming it wasn’t objective. The boss of RTVS said, "I lived through the censorship of the communist 1970s and attacks on the press in the 1990s, but I consider this the most dangerous era." Security is always a concern for authoritarian movements and the attack on Fico could be the excuse that they need…https://vsquare.org/robert-fico-tibor-gaspar-intelligence-police-jan-kuciak/
The attacker is connected to a pro-Russian militia…
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1790801975799316840
The Georgian Dream party that helped overturn Soviet-style rule passed the “Russian bill” that will be used to suppress opposition. The president will veto it but the veto will be overturned by a simple majority vote. The Georgian government says it is not afraid of possible sanctions. The protests continue. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss…
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1790811442003775901
Estonia ponders sending troops to Ukraine far from the front line. There were Chinese and Soviet troops in North Vietnam and they were not targeted by the US, but 7 Soviets and almost 7,000 Chinese were killed out of the 320,000 that were stationed there over the years…https://mil.in.ua/en/news/estonia-considers-sending-troops-to-rear-jobs-in-ukraine/
(….to be continued…)
Thanks Don for the report
Don: keep in mind that the United States Air Force REFUSED to target KNOWN North Vietnamese Air Bases because they were AFRAID that they MIGHT kill Soviet "Advisors." What a load of unmitigated horse sh%#. Korea had an entire Soviet Air Brigade killing American and Allied Air Crews and though I can not EXACTLY remember it, I seem to recall more than a few Soviet pilots flying for the North Vietnamese. Thusly said, PUTLER can shove it up his wazoo sideways.
Oh yeah.....on 16 May 2024 the RUSKIES launched an ASAT satellite into low earth orbit....same orbit as U.S. satellites. #%%#%*)*&%#$%&^$#@$^&*(()&%$$%^*(....and you can quote me on that). Frigging morons rattling their sabres trying to scare us. Ooooooo. Dumbasses.....if your sabre is rattling....IT'S BROKEN!!!!!!