Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Why Russian mothers with 10 children are being awarded as ‘heroines’
Russia President Vladimir Putin revived the old award to bolster patriotism, encourage larger families
The Moscow Times reported in late July that “Russia’s population shrank by a record average of 86,000 people a month between January and May,” citing statistics from the agency Rosstat.
The decree sets out some rules: All 10 children must still be alive, although there are exceptions for children killed in “military, official or civic service, or in a terrorist attack.”
https://www.deseret.com/2022/8/18/23311522/why-russian-mothers-10-chil
dren-heroines-amid-global-fertility-falling-birthrates-national-award
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Nobody cares.
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Quote:The War in Ukraine is not going well for Putin. Deaths are high. What to do? Putin has a plan:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Why Russian mothers with 10 children are being awarded as ‘heroines’
Russia President Vladimir Putin revived the old award to bolster patriotism, encourage larger families
The Moscow Times reported in late July that “Russia’s population shrank by a record average of 86,000 people a month between January and May,” citing statistics from the agency Rosstat.
The decree sets out some rules: All 10 children must still be alive, although there are exceptions for children killed in “military, official or civic service, or in a terrorist attack.”
https://www.deseret.com/2022/8/18/23311522/why-russian-mothers-10-chil
dren-heroines-amid-global-fertility-falling-birthrates-national-award
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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New satellite images debunk Putin's claim about nuclear plant
New satellite images from Maxar Technologies of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant show no signs of "systemic shelling," despite claims by Russian president Vladimir Putin that the Ukrainian military was conducting repeated military strikes at the plant.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/08/20/putin-russia-ukraine-zapor
izhzhia-nuclear-plant-kiley-ebof-vpx.cnn
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Nobody cares.
Fuck Ukraine.
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Car bomb kills daughter of 'spiritual guide' to Putin's Ukraine invasion
Russian authorities said Sunday they had opened a murder investigation after the daughter of influential, ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin was killed by a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow.
A friend of Dugina told TASS that he believed Dugina's father was the true target of the blast -- or possibly both of them -- as the car belonged to Alexander.
"It's her father's car," Krasnov told TASS. "Dasha (Darya) drives another car, but she drove his car today, and Alexander went separately," Andrei Krasnov, head of the Russky Gorizont (Russian Horizon) social movement and a personal acquaintance of Dugina's family, told TASS.
A Russian foreign ministry official implied that Ukrainian state structures were responsible for the explosion, a claim that Ukrainian authorities have denied.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/20/europe/darya-dugina-killed-car-explosio
n-alexander-dugin-russia-intl-hnk/index.html
In an interview with CNN in 2017, Dugin remarked on many similarities between his ideas and those of former US president Donald Trump. He called Trump's inauguration speech discourse "as if I would write it myself." He also said that Putin provided inspiration for Trump, "a kind of... example to challenge the status quo, to challenge the conventional wisdom, challenge all this totalitarian principles of globalists and ultra-liberals."
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Zelensky Warns Of 'Nastier' Phase Of War As Russia Says Dugin Car Bombing Was A 'Contract Killing'
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Aug 21, 2022 - 07:50 AM
Update1050ET: Ukraine is bracing for a likely escalation in Russian attacks following last night's killing of the daughter of Alexander Dugin - Darya Dugina - by what looked to be a car bomb as she as driving his car home from an event. Based on the details that emerged, many believe it was an assassination attempt on the prominent but deeply controversial Russian political commentator and philosopher himself.
Contrary to current exaggerated Western mainstream headlines referring to him as "Putin's brain" - there's no clear evidence that Dugin and Putin have ever even met (much less a photograph of the two together or in the same room, which we've yet to find), though the influence of Dugin's thought on certain Russian political circles is clear. He's long been central to developing the so-called 'Russian world' ideology, but his influence on actual Kremlin policy circles has been marginal at best especially since 2014, given he's been much more hawkish and maximalist when it comes to the Ukraine crisis, at times uncomfortably so for Russia's political leadership.
On Sunday, Russia's Investigative Committee said in an official statement that it has opened a murder investigation following a car bomb being detonated under Alexander Dugin's vehicle, which only his daughter Darya was driving at the time (eyewitnesses say he switched cars at the last minute when returning from an event).
Via Sky News
According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving was ripped apart by a car bomb in the Moscow region, near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy, in a targeted killing by unknown entities:
"The investigation believes that the crime was planned in advance and is of a contract nature," the statement said, adding that investigators had "established that the explosive device was placed under the bottom of the car on the driver’s side."
Pro-Russian Donbass militia leaders, Denis Pushilin foremost among them, have called on fighters to quickly “avenge” Dugina’s death. At the same time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is now warning his citizens that severe escalation looms.
Warning of potential stepped-upf Russian attacks and the need for vigilance, Zelensky said in the hours following reports of the targeted hit:
"We should be conscious of the fact that this week Russia may try to do something particularly nasty," the Ukrainian leader said in his daily video address late on Saturday. “But Russia has done the same constantly each week throughout the past six months.”
Days ahead of Ukraine's independence day celebrations, some regional governors are also taking extra precautions, according to The Wall Street Journal:
In the northeastern Kharkiv region, part of which remains under Russian occupation, governor Oleh Synehubov announced a series of restrictions on movement this week including a 36-hour curfew beginning on the eve of Independence Day on Tuesday until early morning on Thursday.
"Please treat such steps with understanding and prepare to stay at home or in bomb shelters—this is our security," he wrote on the Telegram social-media platform. "We won’t give the enemy the chance for any provocations. On the day of our independence we will be particularly alert."
So far, President Putin has yet to officially react or weigh in on the car bombing which targeted civilians on Russian soil. While it's clear that Alexander Dugin is a deeply controversial and polarizing figure even within Russia, and much more so abroad, some pundits are pointing out that the hit could have been intended for Darya from the beginning. Little is known at this point regarding precise motives or who exactly was behind it, as the investigation continues.
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Kiev hasn't claimed responsibility for this killing. But if the FSB finds out that it was a foreign actor.... Kiev, UK's MI6, Albanian terrorists... whatever... expect retribution.
What I find troubling is that this killing was deeply misdirected. Not only was it accidental, but even if Dugin himself had been killed ... well, I've read a little of Dugin, and he's so far off the "Eurasian integration" deep end as to be incomprehensible. To me, anyway. I see no signs of the cultural and political melding that it seems (to me) that he's proposing, and I think the various individual cultures and nations would find his vision distasteful. In other words, he has no influence on Kremlin policy, and if he really was vital to the Kremlin, wouldn't he have better security?
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Kiev knows it can't win a conventional war, so it is resorting to nuclear blackmail by shelling the nuclear power plant in Zaparozhye (and claiming the Russians are shelling their own position!). Russia has repeatedly requested an inspection by the IAEA, but Guiterrez refuses to allow inspection until Kiev agrees, and Kiev hasn't agreed bc they know that they would be ID'd as the perpetrator.
Kiev is also resorting to small drone attacks on Crimea. This has been intepreted as Zelensky's attempt to show SOME sort of progress, since that "million man army's Karkhov offensive" has failed to materialize, western political and military opinion seems to be turning against him, and he is desperate to hang on to power (and grift) just a little longer.
So in addition to using human shields (documented by Amnesty International), torturing and killing prisoners, and deliberately shelling civilian populations, Kiev is doing what it can in the way of small drone attacks on Crimea.
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Cyberwar in Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and ongoing war in the region was the subject of several Black Hat presentations. Researchers from ESET, a security company based in neighboring Slovakia, walked attendees through a timeline of attacks on Ukraine's power grid. The most recent used the Industroyer2 malware that, if successful, could have knocked out power to 2 million residents.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/scariest-things-we-saw-at-black-hat-2022
Researchers Look Inside Russian Malware Targeting Ukrainian Power Grid
ESET security researchers share findings on the Industroyer2 malware designed to cause a mass blackout in Ukraine. One official calls it 'the biggest challenge for the world since World War II.'
https://www.pcmag.com/news/researchers-look-inside-russian-malware-tar
geting-ukrainian-power-grid
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How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine? What we know, how we know it and what it really means.
The estimates range from 1,351 and 43,000, but this much is clear: Russia has a manpower problem.
As the 19th-century Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “Casualty reports on either side are never accurate, seldom truthful, and in most cases deliberately falsified.”
The impact of all these casualties undeniably important, given that troop losses are likely to be a main determinant of the outcome. Over the past several months, the conflict in Ukraine has become a classic “war of attrition,” meaning that rather than dramatic offensives or changes in territorial control, each side is trying to force the other to collapse by inflicting steady losses in personnel and equipment. Trench warfare in World War I was the classic example of this. Ukraine’s best chance of victory may be that Russia will simply run out of the troops it needs to hold onto Ukrainian territory.
Russia’s people problem
If the higher end of the U.S. estimates is accurate, it would mean that the Russian death toll in Ukraine has been greater than the Soviet Union’s during its 10-year war in Afghanistan. It far exceeds the number of U.S. service members, around 7,000, killed in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Those assessments would also mean that of the estimated 150,000 troops Russia massed at Ukraine’s borders prior to the invasion, more than half have been lost to death or injury. Even if the real numbers are lower, it is clear that Russia is having trouble keeping troops in the field.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has refrained so far from calling the conflict in Ukraine a “war” — for the Kremlin, it’s still a “special military operation.” This may be a politically safer way to describe the invasion, but it also limits the Russian government’s ability to conscript troops. Absent a formal war declaration, Putin cannot order a mass mobilization of forces.
The Russians have also mostly avoided sending draftees into combat. This has led to a struggle to replenish the troops who have either been lost to death or injury, or merely rotated out. Regional governments across Russia have been advertising heavily to attract recruits, offering monthly salaries up to $5,500 — several times the average in many parts of Russia — along with lucrative signing bonuses. Standards have been loosened as well, with “volunteer battalions” seeking men up to age 50 and requiring only a middle school education. These volunteers are reportedly sent to the front with only three to seven days of training, and casualties among them are believed to be high.
Who is dying?
It is increasingly clear that it is not the Russian military itself that is doing much of the fighting and dying in Ukraine. The separatist militias from the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk did much of the front-line fighting in the recent battles for the eastern cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. These are often ill-trained and ill-equipped conscripts, and casualties among their ranks have been high. British intelligence officials estimated in July that the Donetsk militia had lost 55 percent of its original force. Russia’s reliance on these militias in eastern Ukraine is likely to only increase as Russia shifts troops to the south in preparation for an anticipated Ukrainian offensive.
Russia’s Ukraine offensive has also been relying heavily on the Rosgvardia, a national guard force that is supposed to be used only for internal security in Russia, as well as the Wagner Group, Russia’s secretive state-linked private military contractor.
The most dramatic example of the Kremlin’s desperation for troops is a scheme, under the auspices of the Wagner Group, to recruit in prisons, offering to commute the sentences of men who agree to go to the front lines in Ukraine. “They will accept murderers, but not rapists, pedophiles, extremists, or terrorists,” one prisoner told CNN.
As is often the case in war, not all parts of Russian society are paying a
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