From the looks of things, Putin isn't going to have that victory he was hoping for on May 9.
From the looks of things, Putin isn't going to have that victory he was hoping for on May 9.
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A Russian general who commanded electronic warfare units was killed in a strike that killed 100 soldiers, top Ukraine official says
Alia Shoaib
Another Russian general has been killed in Ukraine, authorities claim.
Maj. Gen. Andrei Simonov was reportedly killed in an attack on a Russian command post near the city of Izyum.
The general, who commanded electric warfare units, was among 100 Russian servicemen killed.
Russia has lost another general in Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, according to top Ukrainian officials, The Kyiv Post has reported
Maj. Gen. Andrei Simonov was killed near the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, which is currently occupied by Russian forces, Ukrainian authorities said.
The Ukrainian military attacked a field command post of the Russian 2nd Army on Saturday, striking more than 30 Russian armored vehicles, including tanks, according to the paper.
Footage posted on social media appears to show the command post being bombarded by rockets, said the Kyiv Post.
The general was among 100 Russian soldiers killed in the attack, President Zellenskyy's military adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said, according to The Kyiv Post. Arestovych said well-placed army sources had confirmed the death of Maj. Gen. Simonov in a YouTube interview, per the Mail Online.
The claims by the Ukrainian authorities have not been independently verified.
Russia has not as of yet confirmed the death of Maj. Gen. Simonov.
Simonov was a senior commander of electronic warfare, Ukrainian government advisor Anton Gerashchenko said on his Telegram account.
His death would make him the tenth Russian general to die in Ukraine, according to a count by The Kyiv Post.
Russia has suffered heavy losses since it began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, losing many of its top generals and commanders.
NATO estimates that Russia has lost up to 15,000 troops during the war, while Ukraine claims to have killed nearly 20,000.
Russia has put its official death toll in Ukraine at 1,351, which was last updated on March 25.
As per circulated in Russia gossips Canadian general Trevor Cadier is missed since February while worked in Ukraine. There are also gossips what he is now in Moscow after been captured in Azovstal foundry. It explains why there were so many attempts to deblock Azovstal and few failed rescue missions.
Again, by gossips, Cadier was responsible (or coordinator) for biochemical research in biolabs in Ukraine, about which Nulland said what "Russians must not find results of research" at time of her speech in Congress.
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There are a lot of twits about Cadier's destiny now on Twitter. https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/statu...88990364778502
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Oh for fuck sakes, no, Russia did not capture a Canadian General in Mariupol at the steel plant. What reality do you people live in where this is even a remote possibility? Do you really think the Canadian military has a presense in Mariupol? Or do you believe the Canadian armed forces allowed a General to hang out in Mariupol by himself? Really now...
Same as a couple weeks ago you said a top NATO commander was captured in Mariupol. Yeah, that didn't happen either.
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1. The reports all originated with a self-proclaimed Russophile name Tony on Twitter.Originally Posted by Moses
2. No Canadian media are cited by name and none can be found on an Internet search reporting this general's absence.
3. "There are a lot of twits" is probably the most accurate comment in this posting, given that one definition of a "twit" (as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary) is "1 : a silly annoying person : fool." Posts on Twitter are usually called tweets, though. A second definition of twit, however, is " 2 : an act of twitting : taunt. twit. verb. twitted; twitting." Twitting, though, means to tease or taunt someone, especially in a good-humored way, though I doubt that was Tony's intention.
Ah...the return of Tony the Twink - Twitters Tweeting Twit. U gotta luv it.
Ok, fine then... from our gossip channels in the West, Putin is about to undergo cancer surgery and will be temporarily handing over power to a top hard lined police chief / FSB guy.
Only difference is, that's actually credible. Was even asked today at the Whitehouse press conference, and have seen it popping up more and more. Let's hope he dies under the knife.
The Russians Are Losing The Naval War Off Ukraine—To An Enemy With No Warships
On Monday, a TB-2 armed drone apparently belonging to the Ukrainian sea service struck two Russian patrol boats with laser-guided missiles, heavily damaging if not destroying both boats.
Add the two 55-foot, gun-armed Raptor-class vessels to the growing list of Russian boats and ships the Ukrainians have sunk or so heavily damaged that they’re no longer relevant to the current conflict.
Moscow’s naval losses of course include the 612-foot missile cruiser Moskva, holed by two Ukrainian navy Neptune coastal anti-ship missiles on April 13. Moskva was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet with its, at the time, two dozen or so major warships.
Three weeks earlier on March 24, an Alligator-class landing ship belonging to the Black Sea Fleet’s reinforced amphibious flotilla burst into flames while pier-side in Russian-occupied Berdyansk in southern Ukraine. It seems an accurate hit by a Ukrainian army Tochka ballistic missile started the chain reaction.
The 370-foot Saratov quickly sank. A pair of landing ships moored nearby also suffered damage and casualties. The attack on the Crimea-based amphibious force was an inflection point in Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, which began with heavy bombardment on the night of Feb. 23.
Down three amphibs as well as Moskva with its long-range air-defense missiles, the Black Sea Fleet no longer can concentrate a large landing force nor protect it from air and missile attack. That means the Russians almost certainly can’t open a littoral front along Ukraine’s western coastline in order to stage an assault on the strategic port of Odessa, Ukraine’s main gateway to the sea.
That could free up Odessa’s garrison, including the reserve 5th Tank Brigade with its undamaged T-72 battalions, to roll east in support of Ukraine’s campaign around the port of Kherson, occupied by the Russians since early March.
Moskva, Saratov and the other landing ships are the most significant naval casualties on the Russian side, but they’re not the only ones. On or before March 22, Ukrainian army troops in Mariupol—an historic port on the Sea of Azov, adjacent to the Black Sea—struck a Raptor with at least one Konkurs anti-tank missile as the boat patrolled close to shore.
That makes two big Russian ships sunk plus two damaged, as well as three patrol boats knocked out if not totally destroyed. This out of a regional fleet that, before the war, included just seven large surface combatants—frigates and large corvettes plus Moskva—in addition to a half-dozen landing ships, six or seven Raptors and six or so diesel-electric submarines.
Bear in mind, Turkey controls the Bosphorous Strait, the only waterway connecting the Sea of Azov and Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and thus the open ocean. Ankara is a strong backer of Ukraine’s independence—remember, the TB-2 drone is a Turkish product—and has not allowed the Russian navy to send in fresh ships to make good the Black Sea Fleet’s losses.
All that is to say, the Black Sea Fleet is getting smaller and less effective by the week as Ukraine’s forces chip away at it. And there’s no prospect of the fleet restoring its waning power until after the war ends ... and Turkey reopens the Bosphorous.
The TB-2 strike on Monday underscores the Black Sea Fleet’s dire condition. It’s apparent the Russians no longer can protect their remaining warships from aerial attack.
Moskva with her 200-mile air-search radars and 64 S-300 surface-to-air missiles, each with a 50-mile range, in theory was the fleet’s main air-defender. But the cruiser couldn’t even defend herself.
Now the Black Sea Fleet leans on a trio of 409-foot Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates for aerial protection. The frigates are some of the newest vessels in the Russian fleet—and the biggest surface warships Russian industry can build owing to problems manufacturing or importing large maritime engines.
But the three frigates—Admiral Grigorovich, Admiral Essen and Admiral Makarov—each pack just 24 medium-range Buk surface-to-air missiles traveling no farther than 30 miles. Even with Crimea-based fighter jets and SAM batteries backing them up, the frigates almost certainly are struggling to maintain an air-defense umbrella along the Black Sea Fleet’s area of operations stretching along 300 or 400 miles of coastline from Odessa to Mariupol.
The Ukrainians have proved they can exploit the gaps in the Russians’ at-sea air-defense coverage. A propeller-driven TB-2 with its 39-foot wingspan isn’t a huge target, but a well-equipped, trained and motivated fleet should be able to detect it and shoot it down before it gets close enough—nine miles or so—to snipe a patrol boat with a 14-pound MAM laser-guided missile.
If a solitary Ukrainian TB-2 can sink a pair of Russian patrol boats, it’s worth asking what the combined force of Kyiv’s other drones plus its Neptune anti-ship battery or batteries, Tochka ballistic missiles and anti-tank missiles might soon do to what’s left of the Black Sea Fleet.
And that’s before the Ukrainian navy deploys the anti-ship missiles and drone boats that the United Kingdom and United States have donated. The Russian fleet is losing the naval war off Ukraine ... to an enemy with no warships.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...b741fd0403e251
Ruthrieston (May 4th, 2022)
This could be another first for the Guinness Book of World Records.
What next... the Ukrainians nail one of Putin's submarines with a Molonkov cocktail?
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