Ukraine - somebody explain to me

[wuapinmon]

VIdeos worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEmWE83P2LA
https://t.me/AnAmericanWhoSupportsUkraine/1174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYA7nWYoMKU

Brutal drone footage of a Russian taking a grenade straight to the head: https://t.me/AnAmericanWhoSupportsUkraine/1176
Ukraine trench warfare assault video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpTqLc96ohY

[Bo Diddley]

Pretty interesting article from the AP about a Russian defector named Gleb Karakulov. He was a member of Putin’s personal security service, responsible for setting up secure communications wherever Putin traveled.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-pu...utm_id=Taboola

Karakulov, who was responsible for secure communications, said moral opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his fear of dying there drove him to speak out, despite the risks to himself and his family. He said he hoped to inspire other Russians to speak out also.

Karakulov’s account generally conforms with others that paint the Russian president as a once charismatic but increasingly isolated leader, who doesn’t use a cellphone or the internet and insists on access to Russian state television wherever he goes. He also offered new details about how Putin’s paranoia appears to have deepened since his decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022. Putin now prefers to avoid airplanes and travel on a special armored train, he said, and he ordered a bunker at the Russian Embassy in Kazakhstan outfitted with a secure communications line in October — the first time Karakulov had ever fielded such a request.

While he was not a confidant of Putin’s, Karakulov spent years in his service, observing him from unusually close quarters from 2009 through late 2022.

He said he has taken more than 180 trips with the Russian president, and contrary to widespread speculation, Putin appears to be in better shape than most people his age. Putin has only canceled a few trips due to illness and has annual medical checkups, he said.

“In all my service, I have never seen him with a mobile phone,” he said. “All the information he receives is only from people close to him. That is, he lives in a kind of information vacuum.”

[wuapinmon]

Big bada boom: https://t.me/AnAmericanWhoSupportsUkraine/1192

[BlueK]

I wonder if they'll be able to find who leaked this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/u...3883eab1750f97

[Bo Diddley]

I wonder if they'll be able to find who leaked this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/u...3883eab1750f97

Russian sympathizer. I hope they're able to track them down.

[BlueK]

Russian sympathizer. I hope they're able to track them down.

I'd be shocked if it's a MAGA person. Ok, not really.

[Uncle Ted]

I wonder if they'll be able to find who leaked this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/u...3883eab1750f97

Maybe Hunter found it in Daddy Joe's garage.

[Uncle Ted]

This sounds like a big load of disinformation... My guess is it was leaked to Russia on purpose to get them to engage in peace talks. Russia decided to leak the information to social media with some of the figures changed to see if the Pentagon would deny it all together. It is just the CIA and KGB playing chess.

[Uncle Ted]

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LOL. Elon is wrong... it doesn't work perfectly. I can still find these documents online.

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[Bo Diddley]

I've read that Russia is regaining some momentum in Bakhmut. I'm wondering how much longer Ukraine will be able to hold out and continue to drain Russian manpower. And will there be another Bakhmut that plays out in the same way?

Also, I'm expecting to see the Ukrainian counteroffensive by the end of the month. Hopefully the West can provide enough support by then.

[frank ryan]

This sounds like a big load of disinformation... My guess is it was leaked to Russia on purpose to get them to engage in peace talks. Russia decided to leak the information to social media with some of the figures changed to see if the Pentagon would deny it all together. It is just the CIA and KGB playing chess.

Doesn't make it non-concerning.

[Uncle Ted]

According to the leaks it sounds like things are going great in Ukraine...

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But we can fix this by sending another $100 billion+ to Ukraine.

[Pelado]

It’s warning us that the people in charge are completely mad

We're aware:

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[Jeff Lebowski]

Kim Dotcom sounds like an idiot.

[Uncle Ted]

Kim Dotcom sounds like an idiot.

Yeah, maybe he is the one that leaked all this to the internet.