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The dominant news story today is the mutiny – or rebellion, or coup, depending on whom you listen to – of the Wagner private military company (PMC) in Russia. The crisis unfolded rapidly since yesterday, at close to midnight GMT, when the titular head of...
The long-awaited Ukrainian (counter)offensive has finally begun. Indeed, as of this writing, it has been underway for a bit over a week. Last Sunday, the hohols rolled out troops and vehicles in substantial force, and began what they insist on calling “probing...
Everyone has no doubt heard by now about the destruction of the Novaya Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, or Kakhovskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP). The result was pretty much what you might expect – a big-ass wall of water rushing downstream and flooding towns...
Two former American SPECWARCOM types, who are now in 404 – Country Not Found, training up the khokhol military, wrote an extensive piece in War on the Rocks about the complications associated with training and readiness of the entire Ukrainian Army. It is very...
Recent footage of American Patriot PAC-3 air “defence” missile systems “working” to “defend” Queef against Russian missiles in the Banderastan War has emerged, and is forcing some very serious questions about the effectiveness and...
Much and more has been made of recent news that the Fake Administration will “allow” their European “allies” (read: vassals) to hand over F-16s to the Banderites. This latest round of Western wunderwaffen is nothing more than a cynical attempt...
Now that things have settled down in and around Artyomovsk, it is worth taking a step back and looking at the numbers involved in the Bakhmut meatgrinder. I am not exaggerating when I say that the Russians quite literally called it “Operation: MEATGRINDER”...
Gentlemen, Bakhmut has fallen. As of yesterday, it is now Artyomovsk again. We now have official confirmation of this, straight from the horse’s mouth – so to speak. Sometime around 8pm local time yesterday, Evgeniy Prigozhin, the titular head of the...
Many people in the West – a surprising number, given it has been more than 30 years since the Cold War ended – still believe Russians to be a dour, gruff, humourless bunch. Of course, anyone who spends more than 5 minutes around real Russians will tell you...
The term, “blin”, in Russian, means “pancake”. It is also synonymous with a mild Russian swear word that, more or less, translates as “dammit”, or “crap”. (As opposed to говно or черт, which translate much more closely...
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