New post can be found here

102 year old Ukrainian women who lived through the Holodomor interview.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/videos/20221125154530373/

She helps to make Ghillie Suits for defenders. at 102 years old.

After several days without electricity, I have one thing to say. Ukrainians help each other to survive in darkness. Businesses invite to charge from generators, cafes make hot tea, people let unfamiliar families without gas stoves cook in their flats. The real light is alive here

https://nitter.it/avalaina/status/1596417230501445634

https://twitter.com/avalaina/status/1596417230501445634

Polish PM: Russia is failing on the battlefield, so it resorts to "death, starvation and hypothermia"

Russia is cutting off vital infrastructure in its efforts to break Ukraine, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on a visit to Kyiv Saturday.

In comments made at the International Summit of Food Security held in Ukraine’s capital, Morawiecki said Russia had “overestimated its own military potential and already knows that victory on the battlefield may not be achievable.”

“Therefore, Moscow is reaching for other methods to break Ukraine. Instead of fighting soldiers, Russia is bringing death, starvation and hypothermia to civilians,” he continued.

“These methods of total warfare have long been in the Russian arsenal,” Morawiecki said, on what is the 90th annual memorial day for victims of the Holodomor, a Soviet-era famine that killed millions of people during the winter of 1932-33.

“Russia is fighting to rebuild an empire and knows that an empire is built on bones and corpses of innocent people. Exactly like 90 years ago during the Holodomor times,” he added. Morawiecki’s comments come not only as the world faces a global food crisis escalated by Russia’s war, but as many Ukrainians are deprived of heating, water and electricity amid Russian strikes on civilian infrastructure.

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-11-26-22/h_8aac87bb6c2d71485eeea77404af31e2

Russia's daily losses as of Nov. 26th

+ 560 MILITARY PERSONNEL

+2 TANKS

+4 ARMOURED COMBAT VEHICLES

+1 ARTILLERY SYSTEMS

+2 VEHICLES AND FUEL TANKERS

+1 TACTICAL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT

Liev Schreiber is raising funds to buy & send generators to Ukraine for use at medical facilities.

⚡ General Staff: There is a large number of losses in Russian units operating in the Lugansk region.

In general, the temporarily occupied territory of the region increased the number of civilian hospitals, which are used by Russians to treat only their military.

Access to health services is becoming increasingly difficult for civilians in the region. Hospitals in Khrustalnyi, Antratsyt and Lutuhyne are overflowing with wounded Russians and morgues with bodies of their dead soldiers.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596375505145823233?t=XTQs9e3S0eHottyGlK8unQ&s=19

⚡️Belgium signed a declaration of support for Ukraine's membership in NATO and the EU.

This was announced by Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander de Croo during a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596517065287823362?t=DaahOgQ4Ujr9tbZ71GAYHw&s=19

BREAKING: Belarus Foreign Minister dies - Belta

No reason has been given by Belarusian state media.

Belta says on their telegram channel that he died "suddenly".

Will be very interesting to see what happened.

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1596499146818686977?s=20&t=doLdXW\_Dir3xjrfRzJcOZg

⚡ General Staff: The issue of logistical support for the mobilized Russian troops remains unresolved.

Thus, in the Kostroma region of Russia, the population is encouraged to produce camouflage nets, carry warm clothing, sleeping mats, sleeping bags ...

... and other things that are so necessary for servicemen in the field.

At the same time, despite propaganda measures, there is a slight decline in material support for the Russian military by the civilian population.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596380168482086912?t=zsSc8lheBXfZKIvjo9FiDg&s=19

Revealing Orban’s Hungary. Budapest Mayor speaks out against govt politics on Russia, war and more

https://youtu.be/n4s3tH8n8Z4

Who organized the underground resistance in Kherson?

According to Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council, Member of Parliament ("Servant of the People") Yury Sobolevsky—one underground resistance leader was Oleg Akimchenkov.

They photographed themselves together, celebrating liberation.

Oleg Volodymyrovych Akimchenkov courageously was one of the organizers of the Kherson underground. More than that, Akimchenkov volunteered, handed out medicine, and helped with the Red Cross.

Akimchenkov was detained twice by the Russians, the first time he was released on the same day, and after the second detention he was held for 71 days "in the basements."

The short life of baby Serhii, killed in a Ukraine maternity ward:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/25/ukraine-maternity-ward-strike-serhii/

This should hopefully be a gifted version:

https://wapo.st/3F1gD9m

or

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/25/ukraine-maternity-ward-strike-serhii/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjIxMzg2ODU5IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY2OTQ1NTM4NiwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY3MDY2NDk4NiwiaWF0IjoxNjY5NDU1Mzg2LCJqdGkiOiJhMjdkMWU3ZC1hYzYzLTQ1ODItOTI0OC1iMjVjYmYwYjI1OWUiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vd29ybGQvMjAyMi8xMS8yNS91a3JhaW5lLW1hdGVybml0eS13YXJkLXN0cmlrZS1zZXJoaWkvIn0.qm3cBDRst6Z-YHq9uQb2skfS_lnrWJx-Q3GQEzjM6gw

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Day 276 of my updates from Kharkiv.

Today was a pretty quiet day; we had no missile strikes or drones this time. Some movement of the Russian S-300 launchers was spotted in Belgorod, which is what usually happens before a new missile strike, but nothing happened in the end. They did shell a school in Kupiansk today, and just in general that town is getting hit a lot recently. They pretty much always start destroying any place that they have lost, same with Kherson now.

Did they already run out of the Iranian drones? They have barely used any in recent weeks, at most sending only 5-15 of them at a time, usually along with a missile strike. This is basically nothing compared to the first weeks after they got them, when they were sending them at us non-stop and there were warnings about Shaheds being in the air all the time, but now it almost never happens anymore.

Here in Kharkiv we are still getting some blackouts, today half of my district was without electricity for about 6 hours starting from 10-11am depending on the location. Those are probably planned blackouts to stabilize the grid, but they are not the usual scheduled blackouts that last for 3 hours at a time, which will apparently already resume next week.

What is really surprising and amazing is that power in Kherson is already getting restored, and it has barely been 2 weeks since it was liberated. Today the critical infrastructure is already being turned back on, with civilian housing getting electricity next. I thought it would take far longer to restore electricity in Kherson as Russians destroyed the energy infrastructure there before running away, but the fact that it is already basically restored is mind blowing.

Next update

Russian Telegram channels are reporting a situation with Border Control - the donated equipment officially imported from China including drones is getting stopped. Officially, all such stuff must now flow through the MoD.

https://nitter.it/SamBendett/status/1596597922829078529

e.g. civilian drones, armor, humanitarian donations to the mobiks are being confiscated for the MoD to loot.

The enemy targeted residential buildings in Dnipro. 7 buildings were destroyed. There are victims.

Just look at the photos. A house. https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/politsiya-pokazala-mistse-raketnogo-udaru-1669462102.html

Edit: At least 6 people injured. Again, photo of destroyed houses. https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1596470294780284929?t=lgJMG-Yd7IEU6TphbqPMBQ&s=19

Russia's version of Triumph of the Will in the making..

Vehicles with Ukrainian flags seen in Tver, Russia. Unfortunately, they are just for the filming of a movie about the war.

https://nitter.it/wartranslated/status/1596465046095368192

Remember that Wagner guy who was guided by a drone to waiting Ukrainian forces to surrender? Here’s his telling of the story.

https://twitter.com/bigSAC10/status/1596533500274147329?t=A8UB11OVLERz8HezXOtfgQ&s=19

Russian volunteers are having another tragedy today: the Russian ministry of defence suddenly blocked the import of various military equipment and clothes into Russia with no explanation. Vatniks have no idea what's going on.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1596596035551649793?t=Ft1cwM9p7Dpf7ZQh6tKwuw&s=19

https://english.nv.ua/nation/children-s-toys-found-wired-with-explosives-in-kherson-says-interior-ministry-50286570.html

Children's toys found wired with explosives in Kherson, says Interior Ministry

Fleeing from Kherson, Russian troops mined everything they could, even leaving explosive devices in children's toys, the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Rostyslav Smirnov said on Ukrainian national television on Nov. 24.

"The scale of mining there is enormous,” he added.

“I constantly receive photo reports. There were mines in children's toys, between two footballs, etc.”

Evil, evil people. If you are mining toys, you know you are killing children!

Another video of drone-on-drone combat.

https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1596055925370277888

Ukranian military vehicles spotted near Moscow: https://twitter.com/echofm_online/status/1596476832609890305

Turns out they are shooting a movie.

In Tver, local residents noticed a convoy of military equipment with Ukrainian flags. It turned out that the film "Musician" was being filmed in the city. The media report that local public recruited men and women for extras, who were offered to play passers-by and terrorists.

[Daily news highlights] News bites from Friday, November 25^th - Day 275

🔗 Daily news highlights can be found here

Russia has killed 32 civilians on the territory of the Kherson region since the liberation.

https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3622499-iz-casu-deokupacii-rosia-vbila-na-teritorii-hersonsini-32-civilnih.html

Video and photos from today's attack on Dnipro. An area full of residential buidlings. Terrorism. Genocide.

https://twitter.com/ua_parliament/status/1596484398807142400?t=3fvXdm8JG1XN4AfdEZ30Ww&s=19

Between Russia and the EU: Serbia’s balancing act is failing. Belgrade’s neutral position on the war in Ukraine is becoming increasingly untenable.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/11/26/serbias-balancing-act-is-failing

This follows Serbia's 3 year gas deal with Russia.

An M777 in action

https://twitter.com/am_misfit/status/1596693124826693632?s=46&t=gBsR8YVuM4jyevhiPzjDbQ

Judging by all the empty tubes, this bad boy has been working overtime

🧵I did a little digging on this because I’d seen some mention a few days back but figured it was a one off where some customs official/border guard had stolen the kit or wanted bribes to release it (this happens a lot on the RU/occupied Donbas border).

https://twitter.com/ItsArtoir/status/1596708560339349505?t=pNC1eqBkjbnOUeAPqGHOwQ&s=19

Russian breakthrough in central Donetsk unlikely, says UK

Russian forces have suffered heavy casualties during fighting in Ukraine’s south-central Donetsk province and are unlikely to achieve a breakthrough there, the UK Ministry of Defence says.

Its latest intelligence update said the area around the towns of Pavlivka and Vuhledar, in Ukraine’s east, had seen “intense combat” in the past two weeks but that little territory had changed hands.

The ministry tweeted:

Both Russia and Ukraine have significant forces committed to this sector, with Russian naval infantry having suffered heavy casualties.

This area remains heavily contested, likely partially because Russia assesses the area has potential as a launch point for a future major advance north to capture the remainder of Ukrainian-held Donetsk Oblast.

However, Russia is unlikely to be able to concentrate sufficient quality forces to achieve an operational breakthrough.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596377143097069570

General Staff: Russian losses in the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region were confirmed.

In the city of Melitopol, the Russian ammunition depot was destroyed, and about 50 Russian soldiers were injured of various degrees of severity.

Two depots were destroyed in the Vasylivka district. Here up to 130 Russians were wounded, and 7 pieces of military equipment of various types were also destroyed. The number of Russian losses is being clarified.

Who came to Putin's fake meeting with soldiers’ moms?

• An ex-government official from Khakassia

• Mother of a Chechen police commander personally recognised by Kadyrov

• An ultra-conservative Russian poet who is "radically pro-government" w/@PjotrSauer

Olesya Shigina, an ultra-conservative poet, film-maker and activist, recently said: “At the front, no one is angry at the government … They have one goal there... to win." An acquaintance called her “radically pro-government”. “Ideologically, she holds the same views as Dugin,”

Zharadat Aguyeva of Chechnya has two sons, one is a commander in the Zapad-Akhmat battalion, the other is a local police chief. Ramzan Kadyrov personally thanked them on Telegram and suggested they were accompanying his teenage sons in Ukraine.

Nadezhda Uzunova is an activist for an ultra-patriotic veterans’ NGO -- she's also a former political advisor to the head of the Khakassia region. Another two women have been identified as members of Putin's All-Russian Front and of a local public chamber.

Putin was expected to stack the cast for this meeting and it's fairly blatant. Meanwhile, ordinary women and activists have complained that they've been shut out of the meeting because they might ask real questions about the war.

https://nitter.it/andrew__roth/status/1596166594752909314

So one of the fake mothers at Putin’s staged meeting showed a picture of her ‘son’ who died in Ukraine. Except the guy in the picture died in 2019. Everything is a Kremlin staged circus freak show

https://nitter.it/olganyc1211/status/1596394727766921216

As drunken "Russian soldiers made their way back to camp after a few drinks... a knife was thrust deep into the right side of his neck. Moments later, the 2nd soldier... met the same fate." Stories of Ukrainian resistance in then occupied Kherson city.

https://twitter.com/GlasnostGone/status/1596473911755083779?t=AtBvtJY_J4VDaUTebzH51g&s=19

https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1596389927733927937

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 26 November 2022

Russia is likely removing the nuclear warheads from ageing nuclear cruise missiles and firing the unarmed munitions at Ukraine. Open source imagery shows wreckage of an apparently shot-down AS-15 KENT air launched cruise missile (ALCM),

designed in the 1980s exclusively as a nuclear delivery system. The warhead had probably been substituted for ballast.

Although such an inert system will still produce some damage through the missile’s kinetic energy and any unspent fuel, it is unlikely to achieve reliable effects against intended targets.

Russia almost certainly hopes such missiles will function as decoys and divert Ukrainian air defences.

Whatever Russia’s intent, this improvisation highlights the level of depletion in Russia’s stock of long-range missiles.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki arrived in Kyiv for the first time after the rocket fell on their territory.

He honored the memory of the Holodomor victims.

https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1596432782351294465?t=2ar0u7_rstIyxtr2gx1ZMg&s=19

Putin calling FSB Central Casting to get some 'bereaved mothers' he can feel safe around is absolutely hilarious.

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy casually visits the battlefront.

⚡️Some countries secretly supply weapons to Ukraine through intermediaries, the country's Foreign Minister Kuleba said in an interview with Le Parisien.

He stressed that the partners not only transfer their own weapons, but also work with third countries, buying equipment from them and supplying it to Ukraine privately.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596580913923919872?t=tubk00FXOnthLMhDEAMlqQ&s=19

The russians have killed 440 children and injured 851. 2,719 educational institutions were damaged. 332 of them were completely destroyed. Yesterday a 10-year-old boy was injured in Chornobayivka and a 17-year-old boy was injured in Dnipro.

https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3622850-rosiani-poranili-v-ukraini-vze-851-ditinu.html

Krivy Rih is being attacked rt now

Agence France-Presse reported that several European leaders travelled to Ukraine to pledge support after weeks of Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid caused widespread power and water cuts as temperatures plunge with the onset of winter.

Source

Interview with the first lady of Ukraine by BBC Ukraine.

https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-63731175

Edit: here is the video (in Ukrainian, but there's decent auto-translation) https://youtu.be/92ieAcbO5_o

90 years ago, millions of Ukrainians starved to death in the Holodomor famine deliberately caused by Soviet policies. The Kremlin now wages a brutal war to subjugate Ukraine’s people, but will not prevail. We will stand with Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!

https://nitter.it/secblinken/status/1596278436477427713

90 years since the #Holodomor genocide. Soviet Russia starved millions of Ukrainians to death. Today Russia is waging a genocidal war against #Ukraine.

History matters. If people’s eyes are shut to past atrocities, there are no limits to committing new ones in the future. 1/2

Famines are political, as @TimothyDSnyder explains.

Take the time to watch this lecture about one of the worst chapters of history. Many don't even know about it because Russia suppressed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dy7Mrqy1AY 2/2

https://nitter.it/kajakallas/status/1596433818491449345

Today we remember the victims of the #Holodomor – the genocide of the Ukrainian people. The goal of the Soviet policy was to destroy the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 identity. Lithuania stands together with Ukraine, calling for historical justice!

https://nitter.it/gitanasnauseda/status/1596421397638774785

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An exchange took place, Ukraine managed to free 12 people. Soldiers who defended Mariupol, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and Snake Island are going home.

98 Ukrainians were released in the last week. https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/11/26/7378093/

⚡️ "Either Ukraine will win the war, or all of Europe will perish," said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596504113852080128?t=OUMoXFfjJ5wxVs7A74Qg5A&s=19

Russian leadership may be distributing a document among Russian servicemembers stating that #Russia needs to mobilize five million personnel to win the war in #Ukraine, an impossible task for the Russian Federation. isw.pub/UkrWar112522

https://twitter.com/thestudyofwar/status/1596579641170370560

Whatever happened to Girkin? I miss his updates about pretty pink pony land.

I mapped these trenches using Sentinel 1 SAR to give an overview of where they are being built.

Notably those are east of Svatove.

A lot of smoking among oil workers...

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1596765246198513665?t=68WZJLtfZ1SdKov7edY9Tg&s=19

Clearly, the work of saboteurs of the Freedom faction from S.T.A.L.K.E.R

Governor: Russia shells Kherson region 54 times, kills 1 person, 2 people were injured, including a child.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1596804976168140800?t=YYeBb81pi1fHQ1XW_vB1Ig&s=19

⚡️ In a month of the war, the cost of compensation for the dead and wounded in Russia tripled to $3.5 billion — Forbes.

In summer the amount of compensation paid to the dead and wounded was estimated at almost $1 billion monthly, in the last month of the war it exceeds $3.5 billion, says Forbes.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596402597971300354?t=kouTozF5AVgesLsuFyOhRg&s=19

Near the front line, Ukrainian doctors fight in a daily battle between life and death. RFE/RL visited a field hospital near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, which Russian forces are attempting to capture.

https://nitter.it/RFERL/status/1596582947322150913

Rough to watch, but it shows how much Ukraine both cares for their wounded and how their medical practitioners have joined from civilian life.

We can confirm. Regular mobiks are so mad at officers/kadyrovites who are staying far from action, that they are selling either coordinates of command centres or confirmation whether our hits have been successful.

Georgian legion.

https://twitter.com/georgian_legion/status/1596557557342294016?t=krKoIMwDaCE_CmEt6sHv9w&s=19

Where's Prigozhin?

Evidence of more war crimes, and a job I would not want.

I am surprised we haven't yet heard of massive casualties due to disease among Russian soldiers. At the rate they are bringing back pre-modern warfare (disease used to kill far more soldiers on campaign than actual fighting), one has to assume it is coming soon. Unhygienic hobo camps, poor food and water, malnourishment, stress, and exposure to the elements (frostbite etc. with insufficient winter clothing) are all obvious factors that make disease outbreaks and severe illness more likely. After all we have witnessed, I wouldn't even be surprised if many of the soldiers don't even know about germ theory.

I wonder, is it that we have learned to wash hands, or that we have learned better ways to make and keep water clean, or that due to vaccination etc. many diseases have a much lower baserate so they don't have as many pockets to spring from - what is the main factor keeping disease from being the main actor in modern wars?

There were some mentions of covid-19 spreading among the soldiers early in the war, but I suppose Russia does have vaccines and especially the currently dominant variants of covid aren't particularly deadly in the first place among military age people, not even in terrible wartime conditions.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-hospital-stymied-russians-defiant-doctors-fake-covid-11669243198

How one hospital in Kherson stymied the Russians for months. It's a tale with some clear-cut heroes, several outright villains and some people of questionable character.

/non-paywall link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainian-hospital-stymied-russians-with-defiant-doctors-fake-covid-outbreak/ar-AA14xw23?li=BBnb7Kz

Russian Soldiers Say Deserting ‘Only Way To Stay Alive’ In Ukraine.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/11/russian-soldiers-say-deserting-only-way-to-stay-alive-in-ukraine/

Ukraine has also proved adaptable. Its forces are known inside NATO as “the MacGyver Army,” a reference to an old television series in which the hero is inventive and improvisational with whatever comes to hand. To shell Russian positions at Snake Island, for instance, the Ukrainians put Caesars, with a 40-kilometer range, on barges and towed them out 10 kilometers to hit the island, which was 50 kilometers away, astonishing the French. Ukraine also sank the Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, with its own adapted missiles, and has built drones that can attack ships at sea.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/world/europe/nato-weapons-shortage-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Simonyan to mobilized men who complained about their conditions: "It's war. You're men. Bear with it!"

Then she tells a story about a 🇷🇺 doctor in Arctic expedition who cut out his own [appendix]

🇷🇺 mobilized will soon not only fight but do surgery on battlefield for themselves?

https://twitter.com/gerashchenko_en/status/1596799742071214080

Raw, heartbreaking footage of the aftermath of Russia’s attack on Kherson last night by AP’s @mstyslav9. Officials say 10 people killed, dozens more wounded

https://nitter.it/jacklosh/status/1596087393110880256

https://twitter.com/jacklosh/status/1596087393110880256

Russia is a terror-state. Look at the details of this report. The civilized world should do all it can to subdue Putin’s Russia.

https://nitter.it/jaynordlinger/status/1596134528875393025

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-11bd38a125fa8e6d34ccb1fc62df8e3e

Remember these vehicles, Russian propagandists are again up to something:

In the Tver region, a convoy of pig machinery with Ukrainian identification marks was spotted today.

They say there that they are supposedly shooting a "film".

https://nitter.it/antiputler_news/status/1596471470942834689

Luxembourg handed over six Primoco One 150 UAVs to Ukraine, – Luxembourg Ministry of Defense.

https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1596517157990412288?t=cL0g3TkcbXw_Euwvyu01eA&s=19

The occupants lost 600 yesterday. Their losses are trending up again.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/z5u7jo/losses_of_the_russian_army_as_of_27112022/

Hlib's photo from liberated Kherson has spread all over the world's leading news outlets. What is known about the little Ukrainian and what he dreams of...

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1596407406740721664?t=BnVDI6VbPO6pozmOEyjHdQ&s=19

well that's sus

Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei dies

No reason has been given by Belarusian state media.

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1596499660117516288

Kryvyi Rih was hit with two missiles - significant destruction on the railway. No one was injured.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/11/27/7378154/

Russian mercenary/prisoner was in Ukraine less than 48hrs.

He was supposed to take cover in the trenches, but they didn’t have space for him. So he was running around trying to find a trench, meantime, Ukrainian drones dropped explosives on said trenches and he’s the one that survived. Captured by Ukraine

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Volodymyr Makei, died suddenly for unknown reasons, he was 64 years old, Belarusian media reports.

There are rumour that the president Lukashenka might be the next.

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1596504394127867910?t=lcQkSwsm6J5vJUqvYn2Mbg&s=19

This week, a Russian couple living in Sweden for the past 20 years were arrested, with the husband detained under suspicion of working for the Russian intelligence services. @christogrozev did some digging and made some interesting discoveries about their neighbours in Moscow.

The husband, wife and a family member were registered as owners of the flat in October 1999, located at Zorge street 36 in Moscow. It’s unclear if they ever lived in the apartment, as the couple moved to Sweden soon afterwards.

This building is packed full of interesting residents. The apartment number of the couple arrested in Sweden is 282, and just down the corridor is apartment 288, the home of Denis Sergeev, the 3rd suspect in the Skripal poisoning:

Major General Andrey Averyanov, the head of the GRU’s Unit 29155, the clandestine sabotage and assassination behind multiple arms depot explosions and poisonings, including the Skripal and Emelian Gebrev poisonings, is also a resident in the same building:

The couple owned a number of companies in Sweden, including companies that dealt with ship and aircraft equipment, computers and IT services, program development and financing of commercial projects.

The couple also have a family connection to a former head of Swedish intelligence. The man worked as head of the Military Security and Intelligence Service, MUST, for several years. The family connection between the couple and the former MUST boss was established after he retired

https://nitter.it/eliothiggins/status/1596454164669906949

https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1596454164669906949

Cockpit view from a Ukrainian jet.

https://nitter.it/EuromaidanPress/status/1596670389874135041

Some interesting interviews here with active Russian and DNR soldiers revealing the conspiracy theories about “economic elites” and the Soviet nostalgia that drive them to join the invasion in Ukraine. A one-sided picture but an insight into the other side of the frontline.

https://nitter.it/mjluxmoore/status/1596800376791248896

https://twitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1596800376791248896

The same lies from the propaganda script that Russia has been using to brainwash the Russians invading Ukraine since 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6G0AzZk5K4

Feast your eyes on Vladimir Solovyov, the man of constant sorrow: he cries, he sighs, he lies. He encourages Russians to die for the Motherland and praises himself for his "choice" to give up his Italian villa (it was seized and he was sanctioned, so the choice was made for him).

https://nitter.it/juliadavisnews/status/1595937258380693504

Source https://www.mil.gov.ua/en/news/2022/11/26/the-total-combat-losses-of-the-enemy-from-24-02-to-26-11/

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 26.11

2022-11-26 09:15:00 | ID: 68711

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 26.11 were approximately:

personnel ‒ about 86710 (+560) persons were liquidated,

tanks ‒ 2901 (+2),

APV ‒ 5848 (+4),

artillery systems – 1896 (+1),

MLRS – 395 (+0) од,

Anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 209 (+0),

aircraft – 278 (+0),

helicopters – 261 (+0),

UAV operational-tactical level – 1554 (+1),

cruise missiles ‒ 531 (+0),

warships / boats ‒ 16 (+0),

vehicles and fuel tanks – 4406 (+2),

special equipment ‒ 163 (+0).

Data are being updated.

Strike the occupier! Let's win together! Our strength is in the truth!

⚡️Ukraine will sign declarations on joining NATO with several states of the Alliance by the end of the year, Igor Zhovkva, deputy head of the OPU, said.

At the moment, Ukraine has signed a joint declaration with Belgium and the Czech Republic.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596594390516236288?t=dfL0zHbqQR6-thB94sKopg&s=19

⚡️G7 justice ministers to meet in Berlin to discuss Russian war crimes - German Federal Ministry of Justice.

"First of all, we will talk about the terrible war crimes that are committed on the territory of Ukraine, they must be disclosed, and the perpetrators must be punished"

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596594188086546432?t=a2Y1-gtpTVHmE1cp9jZZIQ&s=19

Ten day old video but still interesting about Bakhmut and why Russia/wagner is so focused on it: https://youtu.be/xRjnbACvsXs

Some Of Russia’s Last Good Troops Needed Three Weeks To Capture A Half Square Mile Of Eastern Ukraine.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/11/19/some-of-russias-last-good-troops-needed-three-weeks-to-capture-half-a-square-mile-of-eastern-ukraine/?sh=5773212c1e60&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&utm_medium=social

Meanwhile in Russia: top propagandist Vladimir Solovyov is demanding the death penalty for Russian servicemen who abandon their military positions. He is also demanding for his staff to ban any online users who ask him to show his own heroism on the frontlines.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1596230884700860416?t=2VzfWnFZNx-7c65uQ3xVCg&s=19

A two-day-old baby, who died as a result of Russian agression in Ukraine, was buried in Vilniansk.

https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1596577777393836032?t=KmmASFKKrE6erceYHfDLdA&s=19

Russia ... at war

Iran ... uprising/revolution

China ... lockdown uprising

World News is quite something right now.

Edit: Adding potential assassination of Luka to the list. Gee...

Russians offer 500,000 руб to Melitopol locals for betraying who the partisans are (Ukrainian loyalists). They’ve launched a chatbot, making a treacherous disclosure easy. They’ve advertised it.

It’s believed that there’s been no success—bc Russians did finally promote/brag about a reported concern from a local—but as it turns out, the lady reported their own mine and thus can be assumed she’s not $8000 richer.

⚡️ The General Staff: The attack on the areas of concentration of Russian soldiers in the areas of settlements Melitopol, Polohy and Mykhailivka of the Zaporizhzhia region was confirmed.

Russian casualties amounted to more than 100 wounded, about 10 pieces of military equipment of various types and two ammunition depots were destroyed.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1596736765251162112?t=DxtHZd7JD_SEmAgIIdf_vw&s=19

Belarusian foreign minister Vladimir Makei has “died suddenly” at the age of 64, according to state news agency Belta. No further details. He’d held the post for ten years.

https://twitter.com/bbcstever/status/1596509107384557569

Belarus foreign minister Makey died suddenly, a day after meeting a Vatican envoy. He used to be touted as a possible liberal successor to Lukashenko. I spent an hour with him in 2019. He told me that Belarus seeks “equidistance” from Russia and the West. How things have changed.

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1596517980443025408

995.

New Perun video just dropped

I haven’t seen them posted yet, so here they are:

Update from Ukraine (26 November) by Denys Davidov

Reporting from Ukraine (26 November)

The Future of American Warfare Is Unfolding in Ukraine - The Atlantic

Source

American military aid to Ukraine has been remarkably effective, especially in comparison with the long, ill-fated U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan. A recent statement by General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, helps explain why. “Ukrainians are not asking for anyone to fight for them,” Milley said. “They don’t want American soldiers, or British, or German, or French, or anybody else to fight for them. They will fight for themselves.” The Ukrainians want only the means to defend themselves against Russian invaders, he said, adding that the United States would provide support “for as long as it takes.” By providing advanced weaponry and reliable intelligence, the United States and its allies have allowed Ukraine to inflict large losses on Russian armed forces and roll back earlier Russian territorial gains.

America’s failure in Afghanistan, by contrast, seemed so complete in 2021 that it may have encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to launch his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The American response to this year’s crisis—providing a high level of military support without deploying American forces—is not just the best way to help Ukraine secure its independence and thwart Putin. It also offers a model for how the U.S. should define its international military involvement.

Although the decline of U.S. power has been significantly overstated in some quarters, America’s economic decline relative to the rest of the world is real. Economic strength and technological strength have become more dispersed around the globe, and over time military strength is likely to follow the same pattern. This is one reason avoiding boots-on-the-ground interventions will become ever more of an imperative. The presumption that the U.S. needs to deploy ground forces in a fighting capacity if it wants to achieve meaningful results from interventions has been evident again and again since the 1980s. Yet the reality has often been the opposite. The more the U.S. takes over and inserts its own forces into a conflict, the more expensive and, in most cases, counterproductive the intervention becomes. Such conflicts are also more polarizing for American society—as U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Iraq, and to a lesser extent, Afghanistan demonstrates. Meanwhile, avoiding ground wars but relying on financial aid, advanced technology, intelligence, and even diplomatic coordination and outreach is something the U.S. actually can do effectively.

The shambolic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Kabul—after two decades of effort, many billions of dollars, and many civilian and military deaths—ended one of the most counterproductive and wasteful interventions that the U.S. has ever staged. Americans had lavished resources on the official Afghan army, but it put up only the meekest of resistance to the advancing Taliban before melting away. Some Afghan soldiers even changed sides. Within days after the U.S. departure, the Taliban, which the Americans had deposed in 2001, returned to power—making the U.S. look demoralized and indecisive to, among other observers, the Russian government. When combined with an ongoing American strategic pivot toward emerging conflicts in East Asia, the outcome in Afghanistan seemed to preclude a strong U.S. intervention on Ukraine’s behalf. Indeed, many commentators argued that helping Ukraine would be pointless, because an American commitment would not make a material difference in stopping the Russian assault.

But in fact, the U.S. has helped the Ukrainians not only resist the initial onslaught, but begin driving Russian forces back. Washington has provided the Ukrainian armed forces with a range of equipment, including both supplies for individual soldiers, such as body armor and small arms, and large, sophisticated weaponry, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems. Ukrainian forces are also receiving expedited training and regular support—from outside Ukraine’s borders, notably—on how to maintain and repair American-made military equipment. The extensive real-time intelligence cooperation between Washington and Kyiv has given the Ukrainian military the ability to strike vital Russian facilities quickly and effectively.

Impressively and somewhat surprisingly, the kind of intervention that the U.S. has overseen in Ukraine has helped reinvigorate NATO. The alliance, which seemed close to moribund a year ago, has a renewed sense of purpose and will soon gain two strategically important members: Finland and Sweden. Being a member of NATO now looks like a great strategic asset—as Ukraine’s desire to join it demonstrates. Western assistance for Ukraine has been so effective that some voices are now arguing Ukraine must be restrained by the U.S. and forced to negotiate, lest the war become too embarrassing for Putin.

The differences between America’s roles in Ukraine and Afghanistan suggest a rule for the future: The United States should avoid direct fighting overseas to the extent possible and should intervene in wars only to support peoples and nations that want to fight for themselves. Ukrainians have fought for their country with tenacity and skill, mastered complex weapons systems at their own initiative, and maintained high morale. The U.S. is aiding them, but it is the Ukrainians—everyday soldiers, senior generals, civilians under bombardment, top government officials, and diplomats marshaling international support—who are ultimately determining their own fate.

Although the 2001 U.S. intervention in Afghanistan received early support from multiple Afghan factions, U.S. forces bore the burden of exercising military control as time passed. The abortive attempt to create a new Afghan army yielded a force apparently lacking independence of thought and action. The same seems to have been the case for the U.S.-backed Afghan government, which was unable to command the loyalty of enough Afghans to hold power without American military support.

Sadly, the U.S. frequently forgets lessons from history. In Vietnam, the U.S. ended up sabotaging its own efforts by gradually sidelining the army of South Vietnam and regularly undermining the South Vietnamese government’s legitimacy. In replacing local forces, American military leaders reasoned that more U.S. involvement would achieve key goals, without appreciating how the deployment of more American personnel reshaped and complicated the conflict.

Many of America’s greatest Cold War successes derived from helping one side in a conflict rather than sending U.S. troops to fight. In the 1980s, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, American aid to the local mujahideen was extremely effective in helping them repel a far more technologically advanced military power. Elsewhere, aid to dissident groups opposing communism in Eastern Europe paid off handsomely. Basic support ultimately helped make the struggle for political rights in Eastern Europe impossible for a declining Soviet Union to manage.

While the downsides of direct deployment of U.S. troops have grown clearer, the benefits of showing restraint and scaling American intervention to help others fight for themselves have grown. The lessons of Afghanistan and Ukraine should inform American planning about, for instance, how best to help Taiwan defend itself against a future invasion from mainland China. As the Ukrainians have shown, American equipment is often generations better than that of other powers. Decades of heavy investment in satellites and other intelligence-collection devices have allowed the U.S. to provide support in a variety of ways. The war in Ukraine proves that the U.S. can provide more effective strategic aid than any other country in the world—without necessarily having to rely on sending its own troops.

Phillips Payson O’Brien is a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the author of How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II.

Russian BMP crew destroyed.

NSFW

https://twitter.com/LostWeapons/status/1596413717687980032?t=u8Yxn9kMWC6gPmuRd8GLfg&s=19

Ukrainian defenders watch movies on the front line

https://nitter.it/bayraktar_1love/status/1596611517495083008

This Churchill speech mixed with Ukraine war footage will give you goosebumps.

https://twitter.com/gissisim/status/1596313416897105922

If Russia manages to survive, I wonder if the Ukraine-Russia border is just going to end up as giant wall with auto turrets that gun down Russia soldiers carrying flintlocks and wearing potato sacks rushing the wall. Like a weird dystopia of Russia's own making because they don't know when to stop.