Now many hours into Russia’s attack that started around 5am Kiev time, it’s become clear that a full-scale ‘shock and awe’ type invasion is clearly on – which is not just limited to Donbas in the east. Stunning videos from on the ground show what can be described as an ongoing air war on Kiev and several other cities across the country. Tanks have also been seen speeding across Ukraine’s border from Belarus, with widespread reports that Belarusian soldiers are mounting the attack alongside Russian troops.
Russia’s military had announced within just a couple hours into the offensive that all of Ukraine’s air defense systems have been taken out. A massive Russian aerial presence, including fighter jets and helicopters, has been confirmed over much of the country.
Confirmed by Ukrainian authorities. A large air assault operation with Mi-8 helicopters on Antonov International Airport in Hostomel. Interior Ministry says Russia has seized control. Very dangerous; it’s just 15 minutes west of the capital ring road. pic.twitter.com/JhlyVktVRC
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 24, 2022
Soon after the initial attack which also included cruise missile launches, which likely came from Russia’s Black Sea fleet, Kiev authorities cited “hundreds” of Ukrainians killed, including civilians.
It’s believed that much of Ukraine’s command and control military infrastructure was targeted and hit in the first wave, also as Ukraine border guards were attack, with some reports of soldiers fleeing the Russian advance. Moscow has declared safe passage for any Ukrainian soldier laying down their arms.
Ukraine’s state emergency service has also said a Ukrainian military plane was downed, which killed five people. This as surreal battlefield footage continues to evidence the ferocity of an air war in progress.
Video pic.twitter.com/3s6HldT3xC
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 24, 2022
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday issued comment on the scope and goal of the military objections, citing Putin’s aim of the “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine.
“Ideally, Ukraine should be liberated, cleansed of Nazis, of pro-Nazi people and ideology,” Peskov said, saying that operations would end only once these objectives have been reached. It remains unclear whether this will mean regime change in Kiev, though at this point that scenario is looking more than likely. There were early reports that President Zelensky has been offered safe passage if he leaves Ukraine.
Ukraine national police and emergency services have said there’s been fighting throughout the entire country, with Russia conducting over 200 attacks, with severe clashes ongoing in various parts of Ukraine.
President Biden has vowed severe and far-reaching new sanctions, which he said will be announced in an address on Thursday. German chancellor Olaf Scholz and other Western leaders condemned what Scholz called a “reckless act by President Putin,” and “terrible day for Ukraine and a dark day for Europe.”
“There is no justification for any of this — this is Putin’s war,” Scholz said at a news conference in Berlin.
The large in scope Russian campaign is now being widely described as Putin’s “shock and awe” war – to borrow from America’s Iraq War – in the heart of eastern Europe. Bloomberg and others are calling it Europe’s worst security crisis since World War II.
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So, the media was right this time in warning of an imminent Russian attack?
Not if the fooked-around-found-out mentality rolls on, engulfing the entire globe.
But CIA-ZATO-banksters will probably just give up and go back to easier influence ops in 3rd world countries… like the former U.S.A. and Canada.
Warn every night and eventually you might be right.
So, the media was right this time in warning of an imminent Russian attack?
The media? Remember the Maine? Gulf of Tonkin Attack? Yellow Journalism? Also….remember a Great Depression and how suddenly a WWII and then…voila! American supremacy for ever and ever until America was systematically sucked dry and overrun. Have pending financial crisis problem? Ukraine, look squirrel.
Take a wide bird’s eye view here and remember your history. History is rhyming…again.
Riddle me this: how will it turn out this time?
Hunter is so bummed, now his dad will make him go work as a Delaware senator.
I have been trying to find out why Russia wants Ukraine (their stated goals, not analtst speculation) and this article has the absurd reason of “denazification”. WTFH!! Is this going to be the reason every government on the planet now? Isn’t it Russia that looks like a Nazi country. I don’t see Ukraine marching into other countries and taking over their governments. There has got to be something more beyond this than meets the eye.
If I understand correctly, NATO wants to get Ukraine under the NATO umbrella. NATO is unfriendly to Russia and has been supplying arms to Ukraine. Not a whole lot different than Russia trying to put nukes on the island of Cuba.
What would the US do/think if Russia surrounded North America with military bases and was also supplying weapons to Canada or Mexico with the intentions of recruiting either of them to join them in world domination?
Did I get this right?
Joe would ask them to come on in and give them freebies like the other chaff he has already let in.
Some of Ukraine’s army are literally flying swastikas fucking retard.
Why so much vitriol? Did I not post as a question? Btw, who made you the knower of all truth?
That’s to you, anon.
Paying attention helps…
Looks as though I should not have responded.
GNL….
Haha….I feel that way on damn near every post. Most of you folks pay little attention to what I say, yet the things that I have said are happening. This has nothing to do with nation states!
Those who believe the supernatural is simply cartoon world, don’t see the end game, I guess.
ANNUIT COEPTIS NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM
You’re not ignored Ordo. So much reading, so little time. I wish I could speed read. 🙂
The Eastern half is Russian. The communists of the USSR put it in Ukraine to use a divide and conquer strategy. Much like immigration on the southern border or Amazon preventing unionization through hiring diversity.
It does take more energy to employ an unnatural arrangement. Makes you wonder how Kiev financed the subjection of Eastrrn Ukraine for so long.
Perhaps, by the end of the week, Ukraine will be rushed into becoming a full NATO member. Since that cesspool of dysfunctional criminality has been embroiled in Nuland’s civil war grift since 2014, it can then immediately request all member nations jump into an Armageddon pity party.
Watching rainbow flag-draped coffins unloading from Lockheed C-5s, exclusive only to CNN, 24/7 would certainly take the public’s mind off the scamdemic health genocide that now requires awkward Gitmo renditions for the WEF (etc) coordinated murderers and terrorists, if only the DoD would do their sworn job of defending American taxpayers and their Constitution. I.e. their actual RTP (responsibility to protect).
Abracadabra, bitchez.
Could put that on pay per view and pay off the debt in a year…
I would like to see 24/7 coverage replacing CNN in the airport terminals, etc. People would finally 7nderstand justice and the consequences of mass murder.
That would be cool, then Putin can directly attack NATO headquarters and command, and rid us of dumbass Stoltenberg and a few more clowns
The neonazi mercenaries were hired by the US in 2014 for the coup, and remain the enforcers for the Jewish Oligarchs (Government) of the Ukraine…Did you miss all that?
In 2014 the United States spent $5 billion dollars to engineer a coup in Ukraine and replace the duly elected leader with their hand picked quisling. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957 From there its gone downhill. Ukraine stocked the government with pro US neo-Nazis who were ripe for joining NATO. Putin viewed all this with alarm and sought to have written guarantees NATO would not expand eastward any farther. The US sand bagged the recent negotiations and ignored Putin’s warnings (even though they knew he was going to take action). So here we are.
The EU and NATO dare not launch a military response or an attack to support Ukraine with troops because that will mean all out war in Europe with the EU and NATO taking a huge hit. Putin remembers what US/NATO did to Yugoslavia and Kosovo during the Clinton administration and will not allow that to happen to Russia.
“Some men just want to watch the world burn.” — Alfred
And there is also this…
“Within the book of instructions for the ideological Chicago crew (Alinsky peeps), there are chapters on how to create off-ramps to cloud their agenda. If they need a bigger cloud, they create a bigger crisis. The crisis then becomes the cover, the justification to explain the outcomes of their agenda.
In the latest example, the White House is shifting blame for the collapsing economy, surging oil prices, massive gas price increases and overall U.S. inflation.
The manufactured crisis in Ukraine then takes on a geopolitical angle and a domestic angle. The prior rate of inflation is now being blamed on Russia-Ukraine.”
Read about Operation Barbarossa and you will understand why the Russians want Ukraine under their sphere of influence.
Let us return to the halcyon days of 2014 and Victoria Nuland. She is responsible for the bloody coup that ousted Yanukovych and installed a ‘jewish/nazi’ regime in his place. Why do this? Regime change. Russian oil and American control of Europe. Who gets royally fucked here? Who needs Russian oil the most? Europe.
“Nuland previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs under former President Barack Obama. In 2014, she played a leading role in Ukraine’s Maidan, handing out snacks and taking pictures with activists railing against the country’s government. In the aftermath, she promised the troubled nation a $1-billion-dollar loan guarantee program and to provide assistance to its military, in response to Kiev’s attempt to turn towards the West.
In a leaked recording of a call between Nuland and the US’s then-Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, the pair appeared to discuss which opposition politicians should and shouldn’t be included in the post-Maidan government, hinting that they were actively involved in discussions with activists. At the same time, Nuland suggested bringing in then-Vice President Biden to “midwife this thing.” She also famously expressed her view that they should “f**k the EU,” by ignoring its input.”
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Putin wants Ukraine as a buffer against NATO. The See Eye Ay pulled off a color revolution in ’14 and installed a pro-western government that has been pretty harsh on the Russian speaking minority and has made a lot of noise about being included in the NATO club. Putin does not want NATO in Ukraine just like JFK did not want nuke missiles in Cuba.
Putin sees Biden as the senile old fool he is and NATO as the toothless tiger it has become. The time was ripe and he picked the fruit. He will have a pro Russian government in place before Easter and can pull his troops back home.
Russia’s National Security is the main reason why regions of the Ukraine are important to Russia, and not just the Ukraine. The section regarding Russia in the 2011 book Juggernaut: How Emerging Markets Are Reshaping Globalization by Uri Dadush and William Shaw is one (outdated) view of how Western Globalists would like to have dominate power and control of Russia. Books with a focus on globalization offer various outlines of global hegemony. Russia has turned down these invitations in the past. Then NATO devised the hybrid-war and Russian aggression terminology. Other geopolitics affect Russia’s National Security as well; however, Western Aggression toward Russia is highly visible in the Ukraine.
I seriously might come up to lend a hand and enjoy the conversation. I don’t think I’ll be needing a place to stay though.
More likely a great day for Europe, showing them the stupidity of being locked in the prison of the EU…
Maybe a better day for the US in that NATO is no longer viable. Since Europe is already bankrupt I can’t see them spending anything more then the nothing they already pay for defense. Being that the case they should become a member of the Warsaw Pact with Russia.
This whole sanction nonsense is not going to work if you have no defense.
Shock and awe? I was watching live stream feeds this morning from after they took down air defenses and it looked like much of the country was going about its business.
Will there be weed??? Lots of weed??
That is gorgeous. I have been staring 10 minutes.
Watch and learn as they manage the tempo of the invasion
Charming. You should be a salesman.
Charming and funny. Yes, definitely.
I’d love to go and swing a hammer… maybe soon you never know!
Just make sure that monkey ain’t anywhere near that barn
It’s creepy and freaks me out.
I’ve never been up that way. It’s 1200 miles from here to Bumpass, Virginia (North Anna). I wouldn’t be worth much anymore if I lived next door, lol.
It sounds like the hammer swingin’ is just about done. Are you gonna hang drywall, or what material have you got in mind for the lid and the walls? How about the floors…lvt?
I don’t know how many hundreds of thousands of sq. ft. drywall experience, but my recommendation would be to use 5/8″, and as long a boards as you can buy…..try to run corner to corner in length (they used to stock 14′ and 16′ on the larger commercial gigs). Use paper tape to finish, (not that mesh crap.) Do you have a banjo or bazooka?
Probably telling you what you already know….
Edit: Beautiful storybook place. My wife’s job includes a lot of shipping parts and just last week showed me an address to Hardscrabble Rd. MA.
What drug(s) is he on?
Not Babylon Bee or the Onion. Uh, bink, bink. Uh.
“Vlad, good news, we’ve lifted a few sanctions so that you can use all fair trade, organically sourced napalm when clearing those Azov artillery positions.” — John “flipping useless” Kerry
Morons…all of them.
Biden on the phone to Putin, and talking to Kerry –
Biden – I told corn pop… putin that he’d better not go into… you know the place..
Gave him 15 minutes already, waiting for him to reply. All I can hear is someone snort laughing still??
Kerry – I know, the climate is no laughing matter
Same with Kabul. The only this worse than the Taliban was… zato.
That response pretty represents Brandon’s entire Illegitimate Regime
I wonder if Emma has ever studied the battle of Stalingrad?
Of course the heroine has to be a little girl raised by two Moms who later discovers how much she has been handed in life and the military provides what she always wanted: a challenge and a way to prove her inner strength. I would suggest building a tiny home or hiking the Apallachian trail instead, at least then, if you fail, nobody else gets harmed.
We’re Fucked. Made me LOL and then sob uncontrollably.
Very touching when that Spetsnaz Yefréytor arrests both Emma’s moms who were busy shredding vaxx-19 records at a Soros funded NGO in Kyev.
If I could come and help, I would. But best wishes on the project .
The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made
How and Why the US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/06/03/how-why-us-government-perpetrated-2014-coup-ukraine/
The US Is the Major Instigator of the Ukraine Conflict. The Historical Facts
The day Russia’s patience ran out
Ambassador Victoria Nuland Under Secretary for Political Affairs April 30, 2021 – Present Ambassador Nuland has a B.A. in history from Brown University.
https://www.state.gov/biographies/victoria-nuland/
Nuland’s husband, Robert Kagan, is a historian, foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution, and co-founder in 1998 of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC). they have two children Robert Kagan and Elena Kagan.
On February 4, 2014, a recording of a phone call between Nuland and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, on January 28, 2014, was published on YouTube.In their phone conversation, Nuland and Pyatt discussed who should join a unity government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland
A far darker day was the first day the Syrians, etc started pouring
over the various borders into Europe, welcomed by Christianity hating government rulers.