The big news of the day is that the Russian forces finally decided to, shall we say, change pace, and by all account the intensity of the artillery, aerial bombing and missile barrage which hit the Ukie forces in the town of Avdeevka was absolutely unprecedented and following this barrage the LDNR forces broke through eight kilometers of just nearly the well-nigh heavily defended sectors in the entire theater or operations.  The Ukrainian 95th Airmobile Brigade (one of the well-nigh combat capable unit of the Ukrainian Army!) was defending this sector.  According to reports, this entire brigade was basically wiped out.

Here is what y'all demand to know nearly Avdeevka: this is the very heavily defended location from which the Ukronazis could unleash their terror against the civilians in Donetsk.  Now that this entire town has been flattened, the people of Donetsk tin can now finally hope to live in relative (Ukie Smerch MLRS and Tochka-U missiles can however achieve Donetsk!) peace.

So, not only did Russian encircle the entire Ukrainian forces in an operational cauldron, she then proceeded to cutting that single force into two smaller cauldrons (but both all the same contained in the bigger, operational, cauldron) and at present every bit a show of forcefulness, she destroyed the near combat capable Ukrainian unit in the most heavily dedicated town.

The "message" here is clear: we strongly encourage you to lay down arms or else…

One Ukrainian blogger fifty-fifty believes that in that location will soon be (or already are!) three mini-cauldrons (run into map with cauldrons in blue).

However, as I mentioned before, nosotros should not brand too much of these or any other maps.  We can apply them to get a general sense of what is going on, but nosotros should not use whatever of them to substantiate a conclusion, specially if that decision clashes with what we otherwise likewise know.

In the instance of this map, what we see is a concerted effort to shut down the unabridged Donbass cauldron and then move due west.

I won't discuss what is happening on other part of the "forepart" (not an appropriate term for this type of conflict) only I might mail one more map tonight if I come across an interesting one.

What nigh the informational war?

Well, inside Russian federation information technology is going rather well.  Check out this (car) translation of a recent article about public opinion by two unlike 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 confidence in them get to the transcendental subsidiaries. Since the starting indicate for the growth of optimism is in Feb 24, information technology can be said that military machine special functioning in Ukraine connected inside Russia in special functioning of sociological. And the dynamics of its implementation is and then great that the goal should be understood quite chop-chop. 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 – merely 74.2%. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishutin has grown up to 48%, but the government's rating took off immediately almost fifty%. The direct question well-nigh the trust brought these results: the president has exceeded 77%, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers approached sixty%. the party United Russia, according to the VTsIOM, now has a rating of 39.4%, which is 3.four% more than the previous value.

Modern Germany's hero: a Nazi Jew (got to love that!)

So it appears that at least INSIDE Russia the Empire of Lies has lost the starting time PSYOP battles, but in that location volition exist many more to come, and the objective reality the regime is dealing with (The Empire of Lies wants to totally "cancel" Russia by any 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 least in my mind.  Simply more than most that later on.

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'due south rather clumsy PR efforts.  Equally a direct effect, 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 aforementioned generosity was never shown to the Russian people in many centuries of anti-Russian warfare…

I exercise non think such noble feelings from ANYBODY when the Nazis were shelling the LDNR and when Poroshenko PUBLICLY promised that the kids of the Donbass would go to school not in Kindergartens, but in the flop shelters.  No, for some reason those 100'000 Brits did not offer to firm them.

Clearly, Russian lives practice not affair ane bit.  Not one.

I accept to share with y'all that I am convinced that virtually people in Zone A truly and sincerely couldn't care less nearly Russian lives, even innocent civilians tin exist murdered, tortured and otherwise disappears but that triggers no "teary optics" in the West, non even from many Orthodox Christians.

As I have mentioned several times, this state of war has been a HUGE "coming out" for the West which now has shown its true face up .

Putin put it best when he called information technology the Empire of Lies.  Simply it is even more 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, country and people (who were forced into this state of war!) need to accept: while Russians have had no hostility towards the Westward until now, at least: this is now quickly changing according my my contacts in Russia.   Even when the Soviet Communist organization was contesting AngloZionist imperialism worldwide, the Russian people always knew that the enemy is a ruling cast, an ideology, and some specific segments of society.

But never the people of the West.

Stalin once famously wrote the following words:

"Some people in the foreign press say that the Red Ground forces aims to exterminate the German language people and destroy the German state. This, of course, is stupid nonsense and stupid slander against the Carmine Regular army. The Crimson Army does not and cannot have such idiotic goals. The Scarlet Army has its own the goal of expelling the German occupiers from our land and liberating the Soviet land from the German fascist invaders. It is very likely that the war for the liberation of the Soviet land will pb to the expulsion or destruction of the Hitler clique. We would welcome such an outcome. But it would be ridiculous to identify the Hitler clique with the German people. The experience of history tells us that the Hitlers come up and go, but the German people, but the German language state remains".

And that was, again, the hyper-villain and Uber-butcher Stalin!  He said that in an official order 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-day heirs clearly desire the world to be Russenfrei/Russenrein.  And its non just the Poles who similar to say "Poland upward to the Urals, later on that – China", this profound acceptance of the total lack of value of whatsoever Russian life is now something very mutual in Zone A, and it volition only become worse since "Biden" will now explain abroad all his (long list) of failures on Russia, Russians and personally Putin (the "new Hitler", of form!).

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

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

What tin one add to such a lyrical argument?  Maybe that Romanians left a "truly unforgettable legacy" in the Ukraine during WWII and the same spirit lives on in modernistic Romania?  Or mayhap that folks coming from a country with exactly ZERO agency would do well not to attempt to roar like a lion, merely maybe squeaking similar a mouse would make a better fit?

As for Russia and Russians, we volition survive modernistic Nazis just like we survived their previous iteration.  Past then Russians will hopefully be a petty more than mature and a little bit 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, here is a nice photo of some Russian soldiers with lots of western weaponry:

Finally, the "obligatory" maps!  Today I won't look for Readovka, so here is an animation of the motility of the frontline from RIA Novosti.  Over again, it is only a map which should Non be trusted, but I think that it shows us something of value: how the front moved from twenty-four hour period 1 to today, twenty-four hour period xix.

What nearly the Nazi volunteers?

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

Which really leaves the Empire of Lies only one option: false flags.

Hither is a good explanation from a guy in Kharkov:

Please watch the full video and heed to Lira's arguments, he spells it out very well.

I will only add together these simple comments i thing:

  • the concluding time that the Urkonazis were losing desperately, they did MH-17
  • They are losing even much MUCH worse now than they did then
  • Past beliefs is the all-time predictor of hereafter behavior

Do I really need to add together anything?

Andrei

PS: FYI – Readovka just posted their "ruddy" map

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