Washington is absorbing the impact of Ukraine's lightning assault into Russia's Kursk region as the scale of President Zelensky's bold gamble emerges.
Kremlin accuses the West of helping Ukraine attack Russia
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... An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had helped to plan Ukraine's surprise attack on Russia's Kursk region, something Washington has denied.
The lightning incursion, the biggest into Russia by a foreign power since World War Two, began on Aug. 6 when thousands of Ukrainian troops crossed Russia's western border in a major embarrassment for Putin's military.
Ukraine said the incursion was needed to force Russia, which sent its forces into Ukraine in February 2022, to start "fair" peace talks.
But the United States and Western powers, eager to avoid direct military confrontation with Russia, said Ukraine had not given advance notice and that Washington was not involved, though weaponry provided by Britain and the U.S. is reported to have been used on Russian soil.
Influential veteran Kremlin hawk Nikolai Patrushev dismissed the Western assertions in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper. "The operation in the Kursk region was also planned with the participation of NATO and Western special services," he was quoted as saying, without offering evidence.
"Without their participation and direct support, Kyiv would not have ventured into Russian territory."
The remarks implied that Ukraine's first acknowledged foray into sovereign Russian territory carried a high risk of escalation. ...
The fog of war is hell lol. More videos dropped. It was inflatable and parked there on purpose.
#28 | Posted by sitzkrieg
A good ole WWII slight of hand ... without parachuting dummies.
This is a cool bit of history about one particular unit that had an average IQ of 119:
Ghost Army: The Combat Con Artists of World War II
www.nationalww2museum.org
Ukraine says it has destroyed another bridge in Russia's Kursk region
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... Ukrainian air forces have destroyed another strategic bridge over the Seym River in Russia's Kursk region, limiting the supply capacity of a Russian group opposing the Ukrainian advance, Ukraine's commander said on Sunday.
Kyiv said it had seized more than 80 settlements over 1,150 square km (444 square miles) in Kursk since launching a surprise strike across the border on Aug. 6, the biggest invasion of Russia since World War Two.
"Kursk direction. Minus one more bridge! Ukrainian Air Force aviation continues to deprive the enemy of logistical capabilities with precision airstrikes, which significantly affects the course of hostilities," Mykola Oleshchuk said on the Telegram messaging app.
He posted a video showing a growing cloud from an explosion on a bridge and one of its sections destroyed. Reuters could not independently confirm the destruction of the bridge or the situation on the battlefield in Kursk. ...
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt. 3 (12" Version) (1979)
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Be happy.
:)
The Kremlin likes to recognize all sorts of "republics". Anywhere, but not in the Russian Federation... Let's recall how Moscow returned and held Chechnya, Tatarstan, the Urals, and other regions by war and political intrigues.
from the Kaliningrad oblast and Karelia to the North Caucasus, the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East. We recall the aspirations for sovereignty or autonomy in different regions of modern Russia.
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