The large news of the twenty-four hour period is that the Russian forces finally decided to, shall we say, change pace, and by all business relationship the intensity of the artillery, aerial bombing and missile barrage which hitting the Ukie forces in the town of Avdeevka was absolutely unprecedented and following this barrage the LDNR forces bankrupt through eight kilometers of just about the most heavily dedicated sectors in the unabridged theater or operations.  The Ukrainian 95th Airmobile Brigade (one of the nearly combat capable unit of the Ukrainian Army!) was defending this sector.  Co-ordinate to reports, this entire brigade was basically wiped out.

Hither is what you lot demand to know about Avdeevka: this is the very heavily dedicated location from which the Ukronazis could unleash their terror confronting the civilians in Donetsk.  Now that this entire boondocks has been flattened, the people of Donetsk can now finally hope to live in relative (Ukie Smerch MLRS and Tochka-U missiles can still reach Donetsk!) peace.

And so, not only did Russian encircle the unabridged Ukrainian forces in an operational cauldron, she then proceeded to cut that single force into two smaller cauldrons (simply both yet contained in the bigger, operational, cauldron) and now equally a show of force, she destroyed the nearly combat capable Ukrainian unit of measurement in the virtually heavily defended town.

The "bulletin" here is articulate: we strongly encourage you to lay downwards arms or else…

I Ukrainian blogger even believes that there volition presently exist (or already are!) iii mini-cauldrons (see map with cauldrons in bluish).

However, every bit I mentioned before, we should non make too much of these or any other maps.  We can use them to go a general sense of what is going on, but we should not use whatsoever of them to substantiate a conclusion, especially if that conclusion clashes with what nosotros otherwise likewise know.

In the case of this map, what we see is a concerted attempt to close down the entire Donbass cauldron and and then movement westward.

I won't discuss what is happening on other function of the "front" (not an appropriate term for this type of conflict) only I might post i more map tonight if I come up across an interesting 1.

What about the informational war?

Well, inside Russia it is going rather well.  Check out this (machine) translation of a recent article well-nigh public opinion by two different organizations:

TheVTsIOM and FOM published regular surveys that demonstrate a confident increase in the support of all power institutions. Indicators of the approval of the activities of the President, the Government and the United Russian federation and conviction in them go to the transcendental subsidiaries. Since the starting point for the growth of optimism is in February 24, it can be said that armed services special operation in Ukraine continued within Russia in special operation of sociological. And the dynamics of its implementation is so bully that the goal should exist understood quite quickly. In the surveys of the VTsIOM, the level of approval of the actions of Vladimir Putin, last week rose highly, and therefore in a new study digit moderate – just 74.2%. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishutin has grown up to 48%, but the government's rating took off immediately almost fifty%. The direct question about the trust brought these results: the president has exceeded 77%, the head of the Chiffonier of Ministers approached lx%. the party United Russia, co-ordinate to the VTsIOM, at present has a rating of 39.4%, which is 3.four% more than the previous value.

Modern Federal republic of germany'due south hero: a Nazi Jew (got to honey that!)

Then it appears that at to the lowest degree INSIDE Russia the Empire of Lies has lost the showtime PSYOP battles, only there will be many more to come, and the objective reality the government is dealing with (The Empire of Lies wants to totally "cancel" Russia by whatever and all means) is tough.  The economic decisions of the regime in particular (we will take a translation about that soon) leaves a lot of very unpleasant questions, at to the lowest degree in my mind.  But more about that later.

Exterior Russia, the PSYOPs of the Empire of Lies did to Russia what the Russian military did to the Ukies in Avdeevka: comprehensively vanquish the crap out of Russia's rather clumsy PR efforts.  Every bit a straight result, we now have Ze on the comprehend of magazines and 100'000 Brits volunteering to house Ukrainian refugees.

How noble indeed!

Too bad that the same generosity was never shown to the Russian people in many centuries of anti-Russian warfare…

I practice non remember such noble feelings from ANYBODY when the Nazis were shelling the LDNR and when Poroshenko PUBLICLY promised that the kids of the Donbass would become to school non in Kindergartens, simply in the bomb shelters.  No, for some reason those 100'000 Brits did not offer to house them.

Conspicuously, Russian lives do not matter 1 bit.  Not i.

I have to share with you lot that I am convinced that almost people in Zone A truly and sincerely couldn't care less almost Russian lives, fifty-fifty innocent civilians tin be murdered, tortured and otherwise disappears simply that triggers no "teary eyes" in the West, not even from many Orthodox Christians.

Equally I have mentioned several times, this war has been a HUGE "coming out" for the West which now has shown its truthful face .

Putin put it all-time when he called it the Empire of Lies.  But it is even more than that, it is also an Empire of Indifference.  And, finally, the Empire is truly and really an Empire of Hypocrisy.

That is what Russia and all those Russians who refuse to condemn their President, state and people (who were forced into this war!) need to have: while Russians accept had no hostility towards the West until now, at least: this is now quickly changing according my my contacts in Russian federation.   Fifty-fifty when the Soviet Communist organization was battling AngloZionist imperialism worldwide, the Russian people always knew that the enemy is a ruling cast, an ideology, and some specific segments of society.

Only never the people of the West.

Stalin once famously wrote the post-obit words:

"Some people in the foreign press say that the Red Ground forces aims to exterminate the High german people and destroy the High german state. This, of course, is stupid nonsense and stupid slander against the Ruddy Regular army. The Red Regular army does not and cannot have such idiotic goals. The Cherry Ground forces has its ain the goal of expelling the High german occupiers from our country and liberating the Soviet land from the German fascist invaders. Information technology is very likely that the war for the liberation of the Soviet land will lead to the expulsion or destruction of the Hitler clique. We would welcome such an consequence. But it would exist ridiculous to identify the Hitler clique with the German people. The experience of history tells us that the Hitlers come and go, simply the German language people, only the German state remains".

And that was, again, the hyper-villain and Uber-butcher Stalin!  He said that in an official club dated February 23, 1942, while the German forces were engaged in truly genocidal mass murder all over the Nazi occupied Soviet Union.

In dissimilarity, the Nazis not only wanted some areas to be declared Judenfrei/Judenrein while their modern-twenty-four hours heirs clearly desire the world to be Russenfrei/Russenrein.  And its not merely the Poles who like to say "Poland upwards to the Urals, afterward that – China", this profound acceptance of the total lack of value of whatever Russian life is now something very common in Zone A, and it will only go worse since "Biden" volition now explain away all his (long list) of failures on Russia, Russians and personally Putin (the "new Hitler", of class!).

In other words, Russians everywhere should fully await to be shown less mercy by their western neighbors than the mercy the German people could expect from Stalin during WWII.

To give you an idea, here is what a red-blooded Romanian warrior tried to post in the comments section:

What can i add to such a lyrical statement?  Peradventure that Romanians left a "truly unforgettable legacy" in the Ukraine during WWII and the aforementioned spirit lives on in modern Romania?  Or mayhap that folks coming from a country with exactly Cipher agency would do well not to try to roar like a lion, but maybe squeaking like a mouse would make a meliorate fit?

As for Russia and Russians, we will survive modern Nazis merely like we survived their previous iteration.  By and so Russians will hopefully be a little more mature and a little fleck less naive about our Urkonazi "brothers" or their masters from the Empire of Lies.

And, no, we will never surrender.  E'er :-)

Speaking of surrender, hither is a nice photo of some Russian soldiers with lots of western weaponry:

Finally, the "obligatory" maps!  Today I won't wait for Readovka, so here is an animation of the move of the frontline from RIA Novosti.  Again, it is just a map which should Non be trusted, only I think that it shows united states of america something of value: how the front moved from twenty-four hours 1 to today, twenty-four hours xix.

What near the Nazi volunteers?

Turns out that one of them, something of a hero in Zone A, died within 20 mins of his start contact with the Russian forces (see here and here for details).  The fact that Russia destroyed the NATO base in Iarovov probably does not help.

Which really leaves the Empire of Lies just i pick: false flags.

Hither is a good explanation from a guy in Kharkov:

Please lookout the full video and heed to Lira's arguments, he spells information technology out very well.

I volition simply add these simple comments one thing:

  • the final time that the Urkonazis were losing badly, they did MH-17
  • They are losing even much MUCH worse at present than they did then
  • Past behavior is the best predictor of time to come behavior

Do I really need to add anything?

Andrei

PS: FYI – Readovka simply posted their "cerise" map

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