Month: July 2023

MoD of Russia Report for July 30th, 2023…


Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (30 July 2023)

The AFU continued unsuccessful attempts at offensive actions in South Donetsk, Krasny Liman and Donetsk directions.

In Donetsk direction, as a result of aviation, artillery, and units of the Yug Group of Forces, seven enemy attacks have been successfully repelled close to Kleshcheevka, Andreevka and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

In addition, the AFU units have been hit near Druzhba, Berdychi, Kleshcheevka, Avdeevka, Krasnoye and Pobeda (Donetsk People’s Republic).

One ammunition depot of the AFU 124th Territorial Defence Brigade has been destroyed near Dzerzhinsk (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 190 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, two U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems, as well as Msta-B and D-20 howitzers.

In South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled an enemy attack close to Uspenovka (Zaporozhye region).

As a result of a complex fire attack, AFU manpower and hardware concentration areas have been hit close to Zherebyanki, Novodanilovka, Veseloye and north of Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).

In addition, the actions of one Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been disrupted close to Charivnoye (Zaporozhye region).

The enemy losses were up to 250 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, as well as howitzers: Msta-B and D-20.

In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of actions by aviation, artillery, and units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, three enemy attacks have been successfully repelled close to Kovalyovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), as well as near Serebryansky forestry.

In addition, enemy manpower and hardware concentration areas have been hit close to Torskoye, Serebryanka, Grigorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Chervonaya Dibrova, Nevskoye, and west of Novovodyanoye (Lugansk People’s Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 140 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, as well as one D-30 howitzer.

In Kupyansk direction, assault detachments of the Zapad Group of Forces continued offensive operations forward Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People’s Republic) and advanced 300 metres into the depth of the enemy defence.

In addition, AFU units have been hit near Timkovka, Peschanoye, Olshana, and Novomlynsk (Kharkov region), and Stelmakhovka, Novosyolovskoye and Artyomovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).

One ammunition depot of the AFU 125th Brigade of the Territorial Defence of Ukraine has been destroyed near Izbitskoye (Kharkov region).

The enemy losses were up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, four motor vehicles, as well as one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system and one D-30 howitzer.

In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen and five motor vehicles.

Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 102 AFU artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 108 areas.

In addition, a retraining centre and a storage, maintenance and repair point of AFU drones have been destroyed near Mogilyovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).

A command post of the 100th Territorial Defence Brigade has been hit close to Yampol (Donetsk People’s Republic).

Fighter Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down one Mi-8 helicopter of Ukrainian Air Force near Vozdvizhenka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

Air defence facilities have shot down 44 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles close to Tavolzhanka (Kharkov region), Zaliman, Rubezhnoye, Kremennaya, Raigorodka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Sladkoye, Staromikhailovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Shevchenkovo, Dolinka, Trudovoye, Novopokrovka, Mirnoye (Zaporozhye region), Staraya Zburyevka and Novaya Kakhovka (Kherson region).

In total, 457 airplanes, 245 helicopters, 5,358 unmanned aerial vehicles, 427 air defence missile systems, 11,029 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,140 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,661 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,971 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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North Korea and China agree to develop strategic cooperation. (Other words, we got your back Bro!)


Russia just made its visit and now China…

Other words, we got your back Bro!

North Korean leader Kim Jong un hosts Chinese delegation, both parties to  jointly respond to “difficult” international situation. US has been sending strategic subs to South Korea recently as Seoul (SK) has threatened to wipe out Pyongyang (NK). Yes it started with South Korea threatening North Korea as is normally the way it happens…

And yes the west does not tell you that tidbit of info…

The changes we see are not new, but in the open now…

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Attention! Water Protection Zone, new signs all over the place at TRV area…


I said, Huh!

Big heavy square steel post and nice pretty blue colored sign. The post is gonna be there a long time. Talk about overkill for the sign!

I wish I had a hundred of these posts to build a fence with. Cost would be crazy to say the least…

Several of these signs that I have seen as driving around are not even installed correctly and you can’t read them from the road. They actually were installed facing the woods and at weird angles. That is what prompted me to find one I could read and take a picture as you drive…

Nowhere near water at our TRV area. But in the other villages they did a better job putting near the rivers and bridges. In our area, not so good. This sign is almost a kilometer from the river and nowhere near a watershed situation. But it looks cool and actually is at the start of a very dangerous corner as you drive, Visibility is poor and my first reaction was, Oh good a warning sign!

Well okay a warning, but about water. You can see the no fires in the woods sign near it. So I assume it is forestry related?

Whatever… (It adds color to my desolate goat-trail of a road I travel at TRV.)

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Medvedev on judges of the miserable ICC…


The judges of the miserable ICC continue to justify their impracticable and therefore dangerous for world peace decision to issue a warrant for the arrest of the President of Russia.

Once again, the enemies of our country did not give a damn about the principles of international law and the basic rules of international relations. In particular, the non-distribution of the action of an international treaty to those states that do not participate in it. It is the cornerstone of the law of international treaties, and of treaty law in general.

In accordance with the Vienna Convention of 1969, if the treaty provides for obligations for third states, then a clear and express consent of these countries to fulfill such obligations is necessary. Our country has nothing to do with the Rome Statute of the ICC and is not obliged to cooperate with it. His decisions are insignificant for us until we voluntarily become a member of this organization. And this will never happen. We despise the ICC and wish it a speedy and painful death from incapacity and impotence.

The arguments used by the Hague judicial bureaucrats are an unprecedented abuse of the mandate given to them under the Rome Statute. They apparently planned to rewrite the basic principles of international law to suit the suicidal intentions of the decrepit hegemon. Although they are only “judges” and not legislators. And they forgot that ludicis est ius dicere, non dare.

And here are the “arguments” – for clarity:

1) The ICC has the right to take any such action.

These on-call lawyers are unfazed by the court’s lack of legal capacity to exercise unfettered universal jurisdiction over international crimes. In accordance with the Rome Statute, the universal jurisdiction of the ICC is provided only in the case of transfer by the UN Security Council to the prosecutor of this court of the relevant proceeding, and there is nothing of the kind at present and, of course, there will not be. The possession of this competence in full is possible only after the recognition of the legal personality of this court erga omnes by all states of the world, but the ICC has big problems with this. Not all states are ready to give whores from this institution jurisdiction over their own country. Moreover, these judicial prostitutes perform the perversions of a pimp with chronic diseases, who himself does not want to participate in brothel showdowns.

2) The actions of the ICC are “indirectly supported” by the members of the UN Security Council. The rationale is that they “have never had any objections about the role of the court, its mandate, or its international qualifications.”

The Hague sluts (sorry, “servants of Themis”) again have problems with both an elementary account and their own memory. Among those states that do not participate in the ICC and do not recognize its jurisdiction, three of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council are Russia, China and the United States. The latter, more than once, pointed out to this organization its place. Back in 2002, the law on the protection of American military personnel was passed. It authorizes the use of military force to free any US citizen or US ally detained on the territory of a third state under an ICC warrant. Trump, too, has not spared strong words about this so-called court, and his administration has not been squeamish about economic sanctions and visa restrictions on ICC “staff” just because of speculation about US military crimes in Afghanistan.

True, Biden’s demented grandfather recently distinguished himself. It is he who is a sick pimp who, not formally participating in the ICC brothel showdowns, secretly runs a house of legal tolerance. Disregarding the opinion of the Pentagon, he ordered his administration to transfer to the ICC information about “Russia’s actions” in Ukraine. To us, in principle, this is up to the light bulb. But the US Department of Defense warned the old man that his actions could open the way for criminal prosecution of the US military.

And the last. Warrants, prosecutors, trials against Russia – all these are the amusements of our enemies, with which they amuse themselves from impotence. And yet we must remember – these are potentially dangerous games. And this kind of action can at some point really become
casus belli.

Medvedev

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MoD of Russia Reports for July 29th, 2023…


Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

On the evening of 28 July, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a precision-guided weapons strike on an AFU control point in Dnepropetrovsk.

The assigned target has been neutralised. The goal of the attack has been reached.

The AFU continued unsuccessful attempts at offensive actions in South Donetsk, Krasny Liman and Donetsk directions.

In Donetsk direction, as a result of coordinated actions of the defending units in close cooperation with artillery of the Yug Group of Forces, five enemy attacks have been successfully repelled close to Belogorovka, Avdeevka, Pervomayskoye and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Vesyoloye, Bogdanovka, Kleshcheevka, Dyleevka, and Novgorodskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The enemy losses were up to120 Ukrainian servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, as well as one Msta-B howitzer.

In South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, as a result of active actions by artillery of the Vostok Group of Forces, enemy manpower and hardware concentration areas have been hit close to Zolotaya Niva and Makarovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Novoandreevka, Shcherbaki and Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region).

The units of the 36th Combined-Arms Army and Airborne Troops successfully repelled two enemy attacks near Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People’s Republic). During the fighting, the enemy lost up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, and two pickup trucks.

In addition, one ammunition depot of the enemy 44th Artillery Brigade has been destroyed near Maryanovka (Zaporozhye region).

The enemy losses were up to 135 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, three armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one D-20 howitzer.

In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of the advance of assault detachments of the 42nd and 43rd mechanised brigades of the AFU, which was revealed by the reconnaissance of the Tsentr Group of Forces, the AFU troops were preemptively hit. Two enemy attacks have been repelled near Raigorodka (Lugansk People’s Republic) and Serebryansky forestry.

In addition, eight AFU manpower and hardware concentration areas have been hit close to Novogorovka, Nevskoye and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic), Torskoye, and Grigorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 170 Ukrainian servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and one D-20 howitzer.

In Kupyansk direction, the assault detachments of the Zapad Group of Forces continued offensive operations close to Kuzyomovka (Lugansk People’s Republic) and took more favourable positions.

As a result of actions by Army Aviation and artillery, AFU units have been hit close to Sinkovka, Timkovka, Berestovoye (Kharkov region), Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, three motor vehicles and one D-20 howitzer.

In addition, one ammunition depot of the AFU 43rd Mechanised Brigade has been destroyed near Druzhelyubovka (Kharkov region).

In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.

Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 97 AFU artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 103 areas.

In addition, a fuel depot of the Ukrainian grouping of troops ‘Zaporozhye’ has been destroyed close to Zaporozhye.

One command post of the AFU 47th Mechanised Brigade has been hit near Orekhov (Zaporozhye region).

Air defence facilities have intercepted two S-200 surface-to-air missiles upgraded to attack ground targets, seven Storm Shadow cruise missiles and two HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system projectiles.

In addition, 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed close to Verkhnekamenka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Spornoye, Pervomayskoye, and Maryinka (Donetsk People’s Republic), as well as Marfopol (Zaporozhye region).

In total, 457 airplanes, 244 helicopters, 5,314 unmanned aerial vehicles, 427 air defence missile systems, 11,021 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,140 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,652 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,951 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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Time to realize that the USA is also trying to start a war against China through Taiwan…


China’s Defense Ministry opposes increased US military ties with Taiwan

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) — Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Tan Kefei on Thursday criticized the United States for stepping up military ties with Taiwan.

He made the statement while commenting on the provisions of the US National Defense Authority Act of 2024 regarding Taiwan, as well as an agreement that was recently reached between the US and Taiwan on the supply of US anti-aircraft missile systems to the area.

These outrageous actions seriously undermine China’s national sovereignty and security, and threaten peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait area, Tan said, adding that China is seriously concerned about these actions and strongly opposes them.

He said the People’s Liberation Army of China pays close attention to the development of the situation in the Taiwan Strait and intends to continue to take decisive and effective measures to protect China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

US and NATO are biggest risk to international peace and security: Chinese Defense Ministry

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) — The United States and NATO are the biggest source of risk and instability to international peace and security. This was announced on Thursday by the official representative of the Chinese Ministry of Defense Tan Kefei.

He made such a statement in response to a request from journalists to comment on the communique of the NATO summit held recently in Vilnius.

Tan Kefei noted that NATO, as a military bloc, is known to have the world’s largest nuclear arsenal and adheres to a policy of first use of nuclear weapons.

In recent years, the United States has continued to promote nuclear sharing under the guise of so-called “security threats.” The US has reportedly deployed more than 100 nuclear weapons in a number of European countries, significantly increasing the risk of global nuclear proliferation and nuclear conflict.

China firmly pursues a strategy of self-defense in the nuclear field and has consistently adhered to a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, the spokesman said.

“We urge NATO to take practical steps to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in national and collective security policy and effectively maintain global strategic stability,” Tan said.

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