Supplement: the Press and Putin’s Turbo-Military Operation
Good morning, everybody!
Good morning, everybody!
I beg your pardon, for this morning I feel the need to start with some sarcasm. Works better than a big cup of cappuccino: might be better for my health, too.
While searching for details on developments in the Bilohorivka area, caught myself reading assessments by several official websites of different members of the Club of People with Broomsticks up their Backsides (NATO), and different veteran military intelligence officers. To say some caused me to chuckle (and no: I’m not going to talk about any names, or online handles), would be an understatement.
One went kind of, ‘the Russians reached the city limits of Severodonetsk, but their attempts to break the Ukrainian defences have ended in failure’. Hm…by side that this is days-old news, but: how did they reach the city limits of Severodonetsk — if they failed to break the Ukrainian defences in front of it, first and foremost…?
Another was outmatching it by some: ‘…the Russians captured Popasna, and, and, and… but their advance remains stalled’. Come on: the advance remains stalled — but how did they capture Popasna and 3–4 other places then…? By retreating…?
And all are complaining that it’s getting ever harder to assess what’s going on, because of difficulties with obtaining reliable information. Makes me wonder why do we all actually pay taxes — and thus, and between others, finance our intelligence services…?
Really, no idea who is worse: the People with Broomstick up their Backside, governments like that of Austria and its HNA — or Kyiv….
Why ‘Austria and its HNA’?
I did a mistake and caught a glimpse of news on the Austrian State TV. Sorry, was making myself another cup of coffee and the TV was still on….The news were still full of stories about the Russian intention to capture Mykolaiv, Odessa, Zaporizhzhya, Moldova, Einöd in der Gegend, San Marino, Los Angeles, Moon and Mars…. Of course, that was served only after ‘that’ with Ukrainians decreasing the flow of Gas from Russia to the EU. That, dear Ukrainians, is most important to Austria. After all, everybody knows that the World turns around the Alpine-Republic. And its gas-supplies from Russia.
Therefore: hey, how do you dare decreasing the flow of gas, Ukraine…?
Of course, there was not a word about the circumstances or how comes…
And then the HNA. That stands for Heeresnachrichtenamt: our military intelligence in Austria. Along its own reporting, this is now assessing the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine by counting the number of videos released by the Ukrainians and/or Russians. Free along the motto, ‘whoever releases more is winning’…
Why ‘Kyiv’? It’s the GenStab there that’s causing me hiccups whenever I try to listen or read its reports. On 11 May, it announced that by now the Russians fired 788 ballistic- and cruise missiles at Ukraine. Hm, isn’t that a significantly lower figure than 2,125 announced by the People in Need of fresh Air on 2 May, and lower than Zelensky’s figure of 2,014 from 5 or 6 May…?
In similar fashion, and despite clear reports about Ukrainian troops withdrawing from Vojevodivka, during the night from 11 to 12, the Ukrainian GenStab continued reporting about the Russian attempts to ‘storm’ the place, as of yesterday evening… truly ‘encouraging’… But, and most of all, I love official statements in which the GenStab is psychoanalysing the Russians. Like, ‘The aggressors have realised they had fallen into a legislative trap…’
Hey, but it’s nothing better in the West. Ironically, only now — over a week since the Ukrainian GenStab announced the following for the first time — that there’s some sort of acceptance of the fact that the RFA has shifted the mass of its forces to two areas: Lyman-Impil and Popasna. Makes me wonder if this might mean that all our James Bonds monitoring this war don’t take all the claims of the Ukrainian GenStab for bare money, after all…? Pity: was about to sell them a few ancient pyramids…
Best of all was that just one of any of official outlets of all the NATO-members observed, ‘Ukrainian military sources are providing contradictory data on the enemy’s activity at the junction of the Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts’. Hear, hear: that’s a piece of news! Of course, the platform in question described the latter area as the Izium-Barvinkove-Slovyansk triangle, without being more specific about the situation in Bilohorivka area: sure, why not ignore the biggest threat for the LOC, if one can so comfortably distract by more pleasant news from somewhere else….?
Never mind. Nothing beats Putin’s media in Russia, along which now it’s the time to launch the ‘turbo military operation’ in Ukraine…
Ah well… time to stop paying attention and return to reality: the usual summary is to follow in a few minutes.