Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Russia Quietly Orders 230,000 Certificates for Families of Dead Soldiers
By Isabel van Brugen On 9/19/23 at 11:10 AM EDT
Russian authorities have quietly ordered 230,000 certificates for family members of deceased veterans, an investigative news outlet has found, giving a rare insight into the scale of the death toll sustained by Moscow in the nearly 19-month-old war in Ukraine.
The certificates were ordered by Russia's Ministry of Labor and Social Development, independent Russian-language news outlet Verstka found on Monday, reporting that Moscow has inadvertently revealed the scale of possible losses among Russia's military in Ukraine.
"Russia claims that only several thousand of its soldiers were killed in the 'special military operation'. The indirect numbers, like these certificate orders, give a clearer picture," Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's minister of internal affairs, wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
The ministry ordered more than 750,000 certificates for veterans of combat operations and 230,000 certificates for family members of deceased veterans, the publication found, citing data published on the Russian state procurement portal.
Verstka reported that the figures may indirectly indicate the approximate scale of the Russian losses in the war. According to the news outlet, in total, more than 900,000 combat veterans' certificates have been ordered since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
The figures have not been independently verified by Newsweek. Newsweek has contacted Russia's Defense Ministry via email for comment.
Russia's death toll continues to rise amid a counteroffensive from Ukraine to recapture its occupied territories. According to figures released by Kyiv's military, more than 270,000 Russian troops have been "liquidated" in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
As part of its daily update on the war, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces posts figures on Russia's troop and equipment losses. Moscow lost 520 soldiers over the past 24 hours, according to the military's Tuesday casualty toll of Russian troops—bringing the total to 273,460.
Estimates of casualty figures vary, with Kyiv's figures usually exceeding those of its Western allies.
Russia itself rarely releases figures on troop losses. In September 2022, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said 5,937 Russian troops had been killed in the war in Ukraine since February 24, 2022.
Ukraine similarly avoids publishing casualty figures for its own forces; however, Western intelligence estimates suggest they are also substantial. In April, a leaked U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment estimated that Kyiv had suffered 124,500-131,000 casualties, including 15,500-17,500 dead and 109,000-113,500 wounded.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-orders-certificates-families-dead-sold
iers-ukraine-war-1828178
Also see the story: Putin gives biggest hint yet at staggering number of Russians he’s sent to die
By Brooke Davies, Wednesday 20 Sep 2023 12:29 pm
https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/19/putin-ordered-almost-250000-certificate
s-for-soldiers-killed-in-war-19520035/
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The War in Ukraine Is About Europe’s Future
By Judy Dempsey, August 29, 2023
Dempsey is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of Strategic Europe.
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Europe needs to rapidly increase its military support for Ukraine to ensure victory for Kyiv. A failure to do so would threaten the EU’s security and credibility—and embolden Moscow.
The Europeans cannot afford to let the war in Ukraine drag on.
The longer it continues, the more casualties and destruction will increase. Entire villages, towns, and cities have already been reduced to smithereens. Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced or have left the country. Large swathes of the eastern regions have been turned into mine fields.
As the EU’s institutions get back to work after the summer break, its leaders and European governments cannot afford to accept the war in Ukraine as the new normal. Nor can the West—and that includes NATO—consider it is time for negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow even though a certain war fatigue may be setting in.
Negotiations can only begin if Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is in a strong enough position to set the terms. Those terms are not just about restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity. They are about ensuring that Russia does not attack or threaten Kyiv again. An end to the war is about ending Russia’s imperial ambitions in this part of Europe.
Without those goals in mind, the European continent will be unstable, divided, and weak. It will be unable to act strategically. And it will be unable to deal with the immense challenges exacerbated by Russia’s two invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022.
One of those challenges is how to deal with Europe’s security deficit. It was bad enough during the war in the former Yugoslavia, which elicited a weak and divided European response. The Europeans simply didn’t have the military capacity to end it. And despite endless complaints by the United States about Europe’s unwillingness to spend more on defense and integrate its military structures, little has since been achieved.
More than that, former U.S. President Donald Trump never tired of criticizing the Europeans for taking America’s security guarantees for granted and for not spending enough on their own defense. (As a matter of fact, Pentagon chiefs, whether serving under Republican or Democrat presidents have also not minced their words about the parlous state of European defense.)
Trump’s tenure should have given Europeans the ideal opportunity to start taking their security seriously. They didn’t jump. Moreover, Russia’s war in Ukraine shows once again that many European countries still fail to understand that their own security is at risk.
This is the other aspect of the war. It has left the Europeans increasingly dependent on the United States for supporting Ukraine. And it has still not inculcated among Europeans a strategic culture that is based on security and hard power. Without a strong, integrated security infrastructure, Europe will remain vulnerable regardless of who is elected the next president of the United States in 2024.
It is hard to see which EU country is going to take the lead in pushing forward this strategic culture. Certainly not Germany, given how Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition is watering down the Zeitenwende that was aimed at making Berlin a serious defense and security player through higher spending and a modernization of the armed forces.
It is also hard to understand why the EU—with the exception of Poland, the Baltic States, the Czech Republic, and Romania—does not see why a Ukrainian victory would make Europe more stable and secure.
The other challenge facing the Europeans, and this includes NATO, is the need for conviction.
It is not enough for leaders and defense ministers to say ad nauseam that they will support Ukraine “for as long as it takes” or that Ukraine must win. How is that going to happen if the country is not provided with the essential military equipment? And if there are mutterings in some Eur
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One of Ukraine's strongest allies says it will no longer supply Kyiv with weapons
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/21/poland-says-it-will-no-longer-supp
ly-kyiv-with-weapons.html
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Poland has said it will no longer supply its neighbor Ukraine with weapons, as a rift over agricultural exports deepens.
"We no longer transfer weapons to [Ukraine], because we are now arming Poland," Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's prime minister, said Wednesday on the X social media platform, previously known as Twitter, according to a Google translation.
"Ukraine is defending itself against the brutal Russian attack and I understand this situation, but as I said, we will protect our country," he added.
Holy shit. Taking care of your own citizens first in 2023? What a novel concept.
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UKRAINE, THE GRIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
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Rebooted Clinton Global Initiative Licks Chops Over Ukraine 'Humanitarian' Aid
Thursday, Sep 21, 2023 - 02:45 AM
The now-revived Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) has found a new grift - Ukraine.
But first - a short review. The Clintons, through their foundation, fleeced Haiti to the tune of Billions following the 2010 earthquake which killed an estimated 220,000 people.
* Hillary Clinton's State Department pressured Haiti to suppress minimum wage in sweatshops in order to benefit US clothing manufacturers.
* Clinton Foundation donors were were handed government contracts to clean up in the aftermath of the earthquake.
* Bill Clinton intervened in the jail sentence of Laura Silsby, a convicted child trafficker who attempted to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti.
* A former Haitian government official set to expose the Clinton Foundation's misdeeds in Haiti shot himself in the head a week before he was able to testify.
* The Clinton Foundation even grifted Haiti's lime industry.
* Haiti's former Senate president said Hillary Clinton 'tried to bribe me!'
CGI was shuttered in 2017 after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election and donations mysteriously dried up. It was rebooted in 2022.
And now, Ukraine.
According to the ABC News, CGI will launch the "Ukraine Action Network" with the stated mission of delivering 'humanitarian aid' to Ukrainians, which will "mobilize existing CGI partners, as well as new leaders from around the world, to create and finance new commitments for Ukrainians."
Pope Francis kicked off the new initiative in a videoconference with Bill Clinton on Monday, where he said "No challenge is too great if we meet it starting with personal conversion and the personal contribution that each of us can make to solve it... No challenge can be overcome alone — not alone, only together, sisters and brothers, children of God."
The CGI Ukraine Action Network is the result of a collaboration between Hillary Clinton and Olena Zelenska, first lady of Ukraine, that began last year. The new organization, which will be formally announced Tuesday, is designed to mobilize existing CGI partners, as well as new leaders from around the world, to create and finance new commitments for Ukrainians, according to CGI. Numerous monetary commitments for Ukraine are also set to be announced Tuesday. -ABC News
We're sure this will go well, particularly for the children of war-torn Ukraine, and CGI donors.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rebooted-clinton-global-initiative
-licks-chops-over-ukraine-humanitarian-aid
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Meanwhile, if you have any doubts that the United States is the number one country in the World for military “interventions” just take a look at this report from the U.S. Congressional Research Service, Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad 1798 – 2023. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/details?prodcode=R42738 Since 1991, the United States has launched more than 200 military operations in foreign countries. Russia and China combined have been involved in less than 20 such activities. Just think about those numbers the next time you hear some American politician bloviate about the imperial ambitions of Russia and China. To paraphrase comedian Jeff Foxworthy, “If you launch an average of 9 foreign invasions a year you might be an Imperialist.”
https://sonar21.com/did-poland-just-torpedo-nato-and-ukraine/
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Ukrainian armored vehicles are operating beyond the final line of the Russian defensive layer that Ukrainian forces in western Zaporizhia Oblast are currently penetrating, although ISW is not yet prepared to assess that Ukrainian forces have broken fully through this Russian defensive layer. Geolocated footage posted on September 21 indicates that Ukrainian armored vehicles advanced south of the Russian anti-tank ditches and dragon’s teeth obstacles that are part of a tri-layered defense and engaged in limited combat immediately west of Verbove (18km southeast of Orikhiv).[1] It is unclear if Ukrainian forces retain these positions, however. This is the first observed instance of Ukrainian forces operating armored vehicles beyond the Russian tri-layer defense.[2] The presence of Ukrainian armored vehicles beyond the final line of the current Russian defensive layer indicates that the Ukrainians have secured their breach of the first two lines of this layer sufficiently to operate vehicles through the breach. Ukrainian forces have likely suppressed Russian artillery and other anti-tank systems in the area enough to bring their vehicles forward.[3] The Ukrainian ability to bring armored vehicles to and through the most formidable Russian defenses intended to stop them and to operate these vehicles near prepared Russian defensive positions are important signs of progress in the Ukrainian counteroffensive.[4] Additional geolocated footage published on September 20 and 21 indicates that Ukrainian forces also advanced west and southwest of Verbove.[5]
Russian opposition news outlet Meduza reported on September 21 that the Russian Presidential Administration distributed a manual on September 19 instructing Kremlin-affiliated media to highlight Ukrainian equipment and personnel losses and emphasize that Russian artillery fire and air strikes are effectively suppressing Ukrainian offensive actions.[37] ISW has routinely observed Russian units actively engaged in ground assaults, and the Russian information space has repeatedly complained about Russian forces’ poor counterbattery capabilities.[38]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-september-21-2023
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One in five mobilized Russian soldiers who died in the Ukraine war were killed less than two months after being enlisted, the independent investigative outlet IStories and the war monitoring project Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) reported Thursday, citing publicly available data.
IStories and CIT said their figures are based on data related to the deaths of nearly 3,000 draftees who have died since President Vladimir Putin announced a "partial" mobilization last September.
However, the two outlets stressed that the true death toll among mobilized troops is likely much higher.
The approximately 3,000 draftee deaths were documented by media reports, official announcements and relatives of soldiers who chose to speak publicly.
Only four of the mobilized reservists who died in the conflict lasted more than 11 months before being killed, according to IStories and CIT.
More than half of the mobilized troops killed were between the ages of 30 and 45 at the time of their death, according to the analysis, while nearly a third died between the ages of 20-29.
Moscow rarely comments on its war dead and the Russian Defense Ministry last updated its soldier death toll in September 2022, placing the figure at under 6,000 killed.
Western intelligence documents leaked earlier this year put the actual number closer to 110,000 Russian soldiers wounded and killed by February 2023.
Since announcing a "partial" mobilization of 300,000 reservists on Sept. 21, 2022, Russian authorities have digitized military records and tightened criminal punishment for draft evasion, as some observers have speculated that the Kremlin is preparing for a new draft campaign.
Yet the first wave of mobilization initiated last year is technically still in place as Putin, who publicly declared its end in November, has not signed a presidential decree that officially concludes mobilization.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/21/scores-of-ukrainian-drones-d
owned-over-annexed-crimea-western-russia-a82529
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Ukrainian armored vehicles are operating beyond the final line
Quote:Somebody needs to look at a map! Verbove is at the FIRST actual defensive line, not the third. I refer you to Military Summary Channel, which has the "Surovikin line" indicated, as well as the geolocations of all strikes and advances, Ukrainian and Russian.
of the Russian defensive layer that Ukrainian forces in western Zaporizhia Oblast are currently penetrating, although ISW is not yet prepared to assess that Ukrainian forces have broken fully through this Russian defensive layer. Geolocated footage posted on September 21 indicates that Ukrainian armored vehicles advanced south of the Russian anti-tank ditches and dragon’s teeth obstacles that are part of a tri-layered defense and engaged in limited combat immediately west of Verbove
The are STILL fighting around Verbove and Rabotino. The slaughter of Ukrianians continues. That hasn't changed in four months.
Fucking propagandist.
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Quote:Last Resort: Russian Soldiers Are Committing Suicide or Deserting After Receiving Faulty Weapons, No Ammunition
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By David Wetzel, Sept 21, 2023
Conditions have gotten so bad among the Russian military that soldiers would commit suicide or desert rather than put themselves at risk of death after being given faulty ammunition and weapons in Ukraine, Knewz.com has learned.
Members of the 1,442nd regiment fighting in the Ukrainian village of Klishchiivka near Bakhmut said via video that they are getting out of there one way or another because choosing to fight would mean "guaranteed death."
The soldiers expressed frustration that they would be put in a desperate situation if they continue to fight using dud weapons and ammunition. They also say they fear they would be killed by fellow fighters if they were to retreat.
So, instead of fighting, many of the soldiers are killing themselves or deserting rather than face death in other directions.
In the video, the Russian soldiers told their wives and girlfriends that they are aware that they likely will eventually be killed for deserting.
"[We are] fighting … around Klishchiivka," they said in the video. "Almost all our infantry were killed…. An order came today to create a 10-person group for some assault - guaranteed death. Our ammunition is terrible. Some doesn't shoot, and those that do fail to explode …"
"Today… a man not from our regiment hanged himself, committed suicide because of fear."
The soldiers added that they "made a decision. We have fled. We left our weapons behind … but there are death squads …"
Such squads were used by Joseph Stalin in World War II to kill those retreating from the front lines.
"One retreating group was…shot dead …" said the spokesmen for the men. "People are fleeing, hanging themselves."
"We have served a year without holiday…. We are sent to a certain death."
The soldiers described themselves as "artillery without ammunition."
"When the ammunition ran out, we were made into the infantry. But we had no training to be infantry," they said.
According to a report from Astra, wives of the men sent a message to Russia President Vladimir Putin, saying, "Understanding the complexity of the situation, our men refuse to face certain death."
"For refusal, our men are beaten and sent into battle anyway. They do not [even] allow them to take out the wounded. They fire at them. Our men are forced to defend themselves not only from the enemy but also from their own people, who should help and not kill them."
According to the Daily Mail, the wives have not heard back from Putin.
The video comes just days after inebriated Russian soldiers blew themselves up with a grenade.
David Wetzel -- Previously a journalist for FrontPageDetectives.com and The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, David Wetzel is a News Editor and Reporter for Knewz. He has more than 20 years’ experience in journalism across various roles in sports, news, features and breaking news.
https://knewz.com/russian-soldiers-suicide-desert-ukraine-war/
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