Yesterday, i.e. on Friday 29th April, as I was trying to find more information on the technology used to monitor what is going in a specific fighting zone with the help of footage transmitted by a drone, this by soldiers on the Russian side (https://www.bitchute.com/video/qN0CQDYGgSO6/), afraid that I am that in a couple of years from now such a process will be fully automated, I came across the following recording of a several hour-long rant against the current technocratic tyranny being foisted upon us under the guise of fighting an allegedly super deadly ‘corona baddie’.
The clip was uploaded on to BitChute on 28th April 2020, so just a little over two years ago, by Jeff C [Jeffrey K. Cleveland*?], a ‘truther’ whom I had never listened to previously. In this recording, the frustration of Jeff C with the people who ‘do not get it’ is expressed at times through bouts of anger, more often through some swearing. However, for my part, Jeff C clearly understood what was going on and what the agenda was (and still is) all about. As such, I can only wonder at how frustrated he would be now, two years on in this SCAM-demic, with those who still do not understand what it is all about – unfortunately, we shall never know because Jeff C died only a couple of months later in 2020*. What a pity because not many so-called ‘truthers’ on the conservative side of the political spectrum seem to have understood that Trump (just like Marine LePen) is controlled opposition – approx. 2h51m into his broadcast, Jeff C says that the purpose of Trump was to play the ‘divide and conquer’ card and that he was the ultimate polariser. I could not agree more!
If it does not, click on https://seed305.bitchute.com/44Pfs0H6bQl9/FeqVwUSvROJG.mp4.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/the-age-of-surveillance-jeff-c-april-2020_IWMiAo2COG3oQ49.html
Please note that the clip played at the beginning was compiled by Camille:
https://pleasestoptheride.com/2020/04/25/contact-tracing-with-the-clintons/
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/newworldagenda/
Jeff C Live (New Channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3F3wZsKEljUMuX0MzGMdyA
Jeff Censored LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvtNdGlT1iA8u1htmy-FA
Jeff Censored: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAI2PPsCuPRM6KDbwJvSU9A
*
https://gematrinator.com/blog/index.php/2021/01/21/the-death-of-youtube-truther-jeff-censored/
https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/jeff-censored-died-jeff-c-tribute/278902
Lausanne, the entry above was posted on the thirtieth day of the fourth month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
Blinken tough on Russia in visit revealed only after his departure
If it were not for the massive amount of death, destruction and financial ruin the Biden administration is bringing to Ukraine by continuing to force the latter to set more bear traps for her powerful neighbour, one would simply dismiss the comments made by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and by the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin as totally delusional. The USA’s and its allies’ unfaltering financial and military support for the EU and NATO candidate will probably not allow Ukraine to avoid military defeat for more than three months from now. Apart from lining their pockets (as I am quasi sure that both Messrs Blinken and Austin own shares either directly or indirectly through some trusted family member in those US manufacturers of weapons of mass destruction the Biden administration is buying military hardware from to send to Ukraine), their policy is a recipe for mass poverty not only in Ukraine but in a few EU countries too – and this without saying anything about the effects the further aggravation of the US deficit will have on the dollar and the economy of the USA.
So mark the words of two very top Biden administration officials who were so confident in Russia’s degraded military capacity that their meeting with their counterparts in the Zelensky regime was kept secret until after they had left the country on Monday:
Asked how he would define “America’s goals for success” in Ukraine, Austin stated Washington wants it to “remain a sovereign territory, a democratic country, able to protect its sovereign territory.” He then added that the US would want to see Russia “weakened” by the ongoing conflict with Ukraine.
“It has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops,” Austin claimed, explaining that Washington “want[s] to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capacity.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken echoed Austin’s sentiments, declaring that Moscow had already “failed” in its supposed objective “to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence.” However, Russia has not expressed a desire to occupy or “subjugate” Ukraine militarily or otherwise.
Blinken praised the effects of the sanctions imposed by the US and allies, declaring that the “strategy” of “massive support for Ukraine, massive pressure against Russia” was having “real results.”
“We’re seeing that when it comes to Russia’s war aims, Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding,” he continued, insisting that a “sovereign, independent Ukraine will be around a lot longer than Vladimir Putin is on the scene, and our support for Ukraine going forward will continue…until we see final success.”
Source: ‘US wants Russia weakened – Pentagon’, RT, 25 Apr. 2022 15:29https://www.rt.com/russia/554484-pentagon-wants-weakened-russia-ukraine/
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, a victory for free speech?
Elon Musk: I do not know what to think of the maverick businessman. On the one hand, there is the strange surname, there is the fact that a form of digital banking (PayPal) constituted the stepping stone for the accumulation of his enormous wealth and, more importantly, there is his apparently unwavering push for transhumanism. On the other hand, there is his stance in favour of anti-globalist principles – e.g. his support for free speech and for the right to demonstrate peacefully against the authoritarian measures that were taken by Trudeau’s ‘covidianic’ government and for the popular resistance to such directives in that country (recall the Canadian truckers’ convoy). As for his support for free speech, Mr Musk has certainly put his money where his mouth is, given that he has invested a significant chunk of his wealth to acquire the US social media company Twitter. Below is the tweet he put out to announce his successful purchase of the company:
‘Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,’ said Mr. Musk. ‘I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.’
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441/photo/1
https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Only time will allow us to find out whether or not Mr Musk’s designs were as idealistic as implied in the lines of his I have quoted above. For the time being, one can hope that Twitter, under its new owner, will indeed become the equivalent of a democratic discussion agora instead of an echo-chamber for those ideas deemed to be socially acceptable by those who are in charge of both formulating and shaping our Weltanschauung.
Please note that I do NOT have a Twitter account.
Lausanne, the two comments above were posted on the twenty-sixth day of the fourth month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
Putin’s body language
The body language of the president of the Russian Federation struck me as a little odd when I saw the clip of him giving verbal instructions to Russia’s Minister of Defence four days ago: half sunk in his armchair with his shoulders hunched and his body almost appearing to be propped up by the back of the armchair plus his right hand almost seeming to seek support from a corner of the table, Vladimir Putin certainly gives the impression of being in either a defensive or a somehow diminished position relative to the Russian Minister of Defence. In fact, it is tempting to read even more in this strange posture of his than what is actually supported by the short conversation they had in front of the camera of Rossiya 24.
For example, one could interpret the body language of the president of the Russian Federation as suggesting that there was some disagreement between the two or that Vladimir Putin was feeling awkward because of – or maybe even ashamed at – how military operations in Ukraine had unfolded up to that date for the armed forces of his country, in line with the claim still being circulated in western media that Russian military strategists had been hoping for a successful Blitzkrieg (although this runs counter to the Russian strategy of cauldrons – which is evidently being pursued by the Russians in their military campaign – as well as to their apparent unwillingness to follow the Anglo-Saxon approach to warfare since the second year of WWII: heavy air bombing of a country before sending the troops in to fight what is left of the enemy).
To the above, I would like to add three more possible explanations. The first is that Vladimir Putin does not like side views of himself and that this makes him a little uneasy in front of cameras when being shot at from that angle. A second explanation is that, as it should be obvious to anybody willing to think about the whole scene for a few seconds, this conversation was performed in front of the camera as part of some PR exercise devised by some younger communication adviser – a ‘performance for the camera’ with which Mr Putin may have been uncomfortable. Finally, this uneasiness on the part of the president of the Russian Federation might have been feigned as part of the famous Russian deception techniques the Americans would ascribe to their Soviet opponents during the Cold War…
Whatever the reason, what is sure is that the Russians can expect an escalation in the conflict following yesterday’s re-election of the French poodle of a famous European banking dynasty once headquartered in a specific district of Frankfurt.
Lausanne, the above was posted on the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
Ceremonial magic and the London Olympics 2012: an entry I have yet to write.
My mother’s reaction (via some messaging software) to my recent short rant about Boris Johnson (just below) was that ‘He’s a coward - don’t you remember the fuss he got up to when he got the bug - not even the Queen did that sort thing!’
To which I wrote back that I did not believe that he fell sick and had to go to hospital, that ‘The whole thing had been SCRIPTED YEARS AGO. At the London Olympics of 2012, they even performed CEREMONIAL MAGIC for it, with VIGNETTES OF THE MAIN EVENTS TO COME IN 2020. Including a BoJo in hospital:’
Source: The Dollar Vigilante (19th April 2020), original clip probably from PeekayTruth. [For some, the golden wheel seen in the far right corner represents a 5G tower...]
I guess I need to expand the above into a few paragraphs with enough visual evidence to support my claim. For some reason, I have been unable to start writing about this topic – even though I prepared some of the visuals months ago. Could it be that I fear ridicule or the consequences of revealing a process (ceremonial magic, which many try to pass off as ‘predictive programming’) which is being used against humanity? Hopefully, the above will turn out to be an ice-breaker of some sort for me...
Lausanne, the above was posted on the twenty-fourth day of the fourth month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
BoJo is willing to fight until the last Ukrainian soldier.
Boris Johnson is a despicable human being. Not only did he force the death jabs upon his own unsuspecting fellow country men and women (through lockdowns, threats and lies) as the dedicated depopulationist that he is, but in order to continue to stick the finger to Russia, he would have Ukraine fight until her last soldier. At least this is how I read the following comments which RT reports as having been said by the British Prime Minister in India in response to a question by a journalist:
‘During a press conference in New Delhi, a British reporter asked Johnson if he agrees with the Western intelligence assessment that the military action in Ukraine could continue till the end of 2023 and end in victory for Russia. The British prime minister conceded that both these statements might turn out to be true.’
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220422151107/https://www.rt.com/russia/554342-bojo-weighs-russian-victory/.
Not death by drowning but surrender from claustrophobia or from the pangs of hunger?
I suppose that the Russian military decision-makers are hoping that such gestures will send a clear signal to Ukraine’s armed forces that they (the Russians) mean what they say, and that laying down one’s weapons and throwing both arms in the air is the most sensible course of action to take for those besieged in the industrial plant given the circumstances. Finally, having read the following rumours some time ago, I was worried that this is how the siege would most likely end:
Geo_monitor
@colonelhomsi
At least ten fire engines to be either on the road or already at the factory to start pumping water from the river or sea and pumping water to above-ground ventilation shafts that carry fresh air to the cavernous network of tunnels below the Azovstal metallurgical complex..
5:27 pm · 12 Apr 2022·Twitter for Android
Geo_monitor
@colonelhomsi
12 Apr
Replying to
@colonelhomsi
If Azov close the ventilation shafts, they will drown within a few days. If they do not close the ventilation shafts, they will drown in a few days. In any case, the siege of the factory will be terminated in such a way that the factory itself can remain intact..
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1513901730731278336
The soldiers holed up several metres underground in that mammoth plant will probably have fled down there with sufficient amounts of food to survive for a few days, if not some weeks – although if there are several hundreds of them, the stocks will certainly not last for months and months. More probable an outcome is that after a week or two of living underground only the most fanatic diehards are going to continue to want to fight… Let us hope that, as some Russian sources have claimed, these Ukrainian nationalist soldiers did not go underground with any civilian hostages…
Egregores and the fall of Mariupol
If it does not, click on https://seed122.bitchute.com/xLW7VlesfbBh/y3uLcOONgeP7.mp4.
I cannot but put the above in relation with an entry I published only a few hours ago and which I entitled ‘War in Ukraine: ancient egregores inadvertently or purposefully reactivated?’ It is my contention that in order to fully understand what is going on with this war in Ukraine, one needs to consider the possibility that there are forces at play which cannot be perceived by our human senses. In this conflict, one side has obviously – and in almost plain view – made heavy use of such hidden forces, as demonstrated by the tattoos sported by many members of the extreme nationalistic factions of the Ukrainian armed forces, by the resort of some to black magic and, more generally, by the symbols displayed by these troops (either Nazi symbols and insignia of 1930-1945 used without modification or showing slight departures from the official Nazi iconography).
This is in keeping with what astute observers and students of occultism had reported already in the first half of the 1930s, as had Francis Rolt-Wheeler, PhD, in his article ‘The egregores of the dictators’, published in January 1934 in the French occultist monthly L’astrosophie (‘Astro-wisdom’). His article ends as follows:
The more severely the isolation of a group is maintained, the sharper its purpose, the more simplified its programme, the more powerful the egregore becomes and the greater the subjugation of those who gave it birth. In higher occultism this process is commonly employed, but with extreme caution. Rites, words, greetings, symbols become powerful renewers of the central idea of the group and often take on a power of suggestion themselves, further strengthening the devotion and loyalty of the members of the group or the inhabitants of a country to the religious or national cult. It is in the egregores and their occult power that we should find the explanation of the dictatorships of Europe, not in the character or rhetoric of the statesmen who were the spokesmen of a national feeling that was brewing unnoticed.
[Translated from the French original text with www.DeepL.com.]
The penultimate paragraph of ‘The egregores of the dictators’ quotes a short extract from a work of magic penned by the English female magus Dion Fortune (1890-1946), to which I shall add the first two lines which were omitted in Mr Rolt-Wheeler’s quote:
There is no stopping the momentum of a movement which is moving along the lines of evolution. The group mind of the participants forms a channel for the manifestation of the forces of evolution, and the momentum developed is irresistible. But however potent
the personality, however vast the resources, however popular the catch-phrases, if the movement is contrary to cosmic law it is only a matter of time till the whole group rushes madly down a steep slope into the sea. For in such a case it is the very momentum that is worked up which is the cause of its destruction. Give a false movement enough rope and it will always hang itself, falling by its own weight when that has grown sufficiently top-heavy to overbalance it. (page 16 of her Applied Magic)
Lausanne, the above was posted on the twenty-second day of the fourth month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
Urban warfare fought and filmed the Chechen way!
The following clip, published yesterday on the social media accounts of Ramzan Kadyrov (i.e. on VK, YT and Telegram), shows how Chechen troops conduct urban warfare. Their approach to street-to-street fighting is described as follows by the head of the Chechen Republic himself (Ramzan Kadyrov):
Before each real battle, our soldiers fine-tune the scheme of attack, practise tactics and assign tasks to firing groups. This allows us to solve combat tasks as effectively as possible, with minimal casualties among the troops.
My dear brother Sultan Rashayev’s “Wrestler” subdivision always takes this process very seriously. A detailed briefing is mandatory before each combat action. Such an approach has fully justified itself in practice, as demonstrated by the obvious combat successes of Sultan Rashayev and his subordinates.
We can only wish further success to our fighters and sincerely commend them for their responsible approach to solving the command’s tasks. Personal courage and bravery are certainly good, but creativity is often of great importance in combat, and our men have it at the highest level!
[...]
Our guys’ methods are by no means delicate. According to already proven tactics, a reconnaissance drone preliminarily identifies enemy firing positions, after which the fighters move on to the phase of eliminating the detected threat. This step-by-step execution of the task at hand helps to kill the enemy as quickly as possible, and allows for zero casualties among the troops. Thanks to this uncompromising approach to the execution of combat tasks, the number of those willing to resist our security forces is rapidly decreasing, resulting in the mass surrender of Ukranazis.
[...]
[1st §: translated from the text available at https://vk.com/ramzan with the help of Deepl.com; 2nd §: ‘lifted’ from the English language description provided under a longer version of the clip made available on YT, at https://youtu.be/6OGGwzMTEvQ.]
If it does not, click on https://seed128.bitchute.com/hDEh8gB57aSI/evI23ddo9eXW.mp4.
To me, the juxtaposition of urban combat captured on camera using a drone with footage filmed on the ground presumably by a Chechen soldier gives to the edited version of these scenes a quasi surreal touch. In fact, I cannot but help associate such aerial footage with how the gods of ancient Greek mythology were believed to be observing common mortals from their Olympian abode. When seen from a height equivalent to the eyes of a bird hovering above the scene, the devastation caused by the fighting and the resulting spoils (presumably one or two enemy positions taken out, a few machine guns and rocket launchers captured) make the whole endeavour appear meaningless to the point of being absurd. To the extent that the ensuing sense of the futility of the fighting that one derives from the drone footage even undermines in my opinion the clip’s overall propagandistic message!
Dragana Trifkovic, ‘Ramzan Kadyrov: From a regional leader to the main “foot soldier” of Putin’, Veterans Today, 15 April 2022 (accessed 2 days later).
Lausanne, the above was posted on the seventeenth day of the fourth month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
Such escalation is alarming!
Here is how the pro-Russian SouthFront describes the events which took place on the fiftieth day of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Although the clip was published yesterday (18:43), the extreme gravity of the information presented in it fully justifies my reposting of a large chunk of SouthFront’s summary. This because there is little doubt that the military assistance the West is giving Ukraine is increasingly being perceived by many in Russia as akin to open warfare against that country. Let us pray that NATO’s proxy war against Russia does not turn into direct confrontation between the parties involved because this would most likely jeopardise the survival of a very large amount of the human race given the means of destruction which are at the disposal of NATO member states, Russia, China, etc.
War in Ukraine on Day 50. NATO’s war with Russia turns into open warfare.
If it does not, click on https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/video/15.04.2022_IMR_Ukraine.mp4.
To watch the same excerpt on BitChute, click on the following link: https://www.bitchute.com/video/yAa1upmpTM3g/. The clip’s title is ‘War in Ukraine on Day 50. NATO’s war with Russia turns into open warfare’. Note that the words in green indicate emphasis for which I am responsible, not SouthFront. Lastly, I have not made any changes to the English.
While the armies of Ukraine and Russia are preparing for the upcoming battle for Donbass, Kiev’s allies are increasing arms supply shipments to Ukraine. The United States, mainly by European forces, is implementing a large-scale rearmament project for Ukraine.
[...] The delivery of about three hundred modernized Soviet-made tanks to Ukraine was confirmed. [...]
During a recent briefing, the Pentagon said that a batch of 1,000 ATGMs has already been delivered to Ukraine.
It is reported that Norwegian Naval Strike Missiles are planned to be transferred to Ukraine. According to some reports, the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System will be also transferred from Europe. The range of these complexes reaches 300 km, which makes it possible to strike deep into the territory of Russia.
At the same time, mercenaries and military personnel of NATO countries are deployed along with the AFU in Ukraine under the guise of foreign volunteers. The foreign fighters in Ukraine are led by US officers. It has become obvious that the whole command of the AFU is concentrated mainly in the hands of the United States.
[...]
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has issued threats to those countries that see an opportunity to benefit by maintaining their relations with Russia and filling the void left by others.
“Let’s be clear, the united coalition will not be indifferent to actions that undermine the sanctions we have imposed.” – she claimed.
[...]
In response to the attacks on the territory of Russia, on the night of April 15, Russian Kalibr missiles struck military targets on the outskirts of Kiev. Powerful explosions were heard in the town of Belaya Tserkov.
In Western Ukraine, the Russian Kalibr missiles hit Ukraine’s last major oil refinery in Ivano-Frankivsk.
https://southfront.org/war-in-ukraine-on-day-50/
Lausanne, the above was posted on the sixteenth day of the fourth month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
Most people in the West were
misled
by the ‘Empire
of
Lies’ (to borrow a phrase used
roughly six weeks ago by Russia’s
president and which is a reference to
the West’s mendacious
mainstream
media)
into believing that the redeployment
of Russian forces from
around Kiev to the east of Ukraine was a
clear sign of military
defeat for the Russian forces. According
to independent analysts such as Gonzalo
Lira, Alexander Mercouris,
Alex Christoforou, Scott Ritter and an
anonymous
US military
intelligence official, to name
only these, the Russian army
did not leave Kiev because they had been
defeated but, rather, because their mission
of keeping substantial numbers
of the Ukrainian army
trapped in Kiev (to the effect that such
forces would therefore not be able to
provide reinforcements
elsewhere) having been accomplished,
they could now be sent to the east to
help crush the Ukrainian army
in other locations – most
notably in the Donbass region. As also
explained by this US intelligence
official (whether real or not, this does
not really matter;
only the pertinence of his explanation
does), the real purpose of Russia’s
armed forces’
encirclement
of the Ukrainian capital was to pin down
a substantial portion of that country’s
army
while its Russian counterpart would be
busy destroying other parts of the
Ukrainian forces in
the cauldrons
they had managed
to trap the unfortunate Ukrainian
soldiers. This (alleged) US military
intelligence official concludes his
article as follows:
Unfortunately ending the war is not a priority for the US nor the EU. Their leaders are drunk on the idea that the Ukraine defeated Russia around Kiev. They seem to believe that the Ukraine can defeat Russia everywhere.
But the retreat from Kiev was ordered because the deceptive move towards it had fulfilled its purpose of keeping a large number of Ukrainian soldiers in place around Kiev while the Russian army opened the land corridor to Crimea.
The Ukraine has no chance to defeat the Russian army no matter how many old tanks or airplanes the US and EU countries move to it.
Sending more weapons only prolongs the war and inevitably creates more military and civilian casualties on both sides.
Now, if the above has not made the strategy clear to those a little ‘thick’ when it comes to figuring out what the Russian military plan is, maybe the following reinforcement (in terms of the explanation being provided for a second time) will manage to do so – please note that the post was taken from a 4chan thread and that it was reposted on Gonzalo Lira’s Telegram feed:
Some news headlines which caught my attention yesterday evening:
[Pepe Escobar on being censored on Twitter] West silencing dissenting voices to control narrative on Ukraine war
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04/14/680320/Russia-conflict-Ukraine-dissenting-voices-Day 49 of the Russian SMO –
a few notes on the propaganda war
https://thesaker.is/day-49-of-the-russian-smo-a-few-notes-on-the-propaganda-war/
Putin fell into Biden’s Trap
https://southfront.org/putin-fell-into-bidens-trap[For the RT articles, please copy the URL and paste it in the WayBackMachine, at https://web.archive.org/, as you may not be able to read them otherwise if you live in the EU, in the UK or in the USA.]
[Blimey, how can his approval rate still be as high as 38%?]
Biden's poll numbers sinkJust 38% of Americans approve of US President Joe Biden’s leadership, as more than half expect a recession in the next year
https://www.rt.com/news/553890-biden-new-low-poll/
EU warns members over Russian gas payments – media
Moscow-proposed payment scheme violates sanctions, European Commission reportedly assessedhttps://www.rt.com/news/553845-gas-payments-european-commission/
US conducted ‘inhumane’ lab experiments in Ukraine – Russia
Moscow has alleged American doctors were involved in highly controversial practices https://www.rt.com/russia/553878-ukraine-biolab-human-experiments/
Le Pen weighs in on Ukraine ‘genocide’ claims
The term “genocide” should not be used regarding alleged war crimes, French opposition figure saidhttps://www.rt.com/news/553854-lepen-ukraine-genocide-macron/
Finland and Sweden in NATO means change to nuclear posture – Moscow
Russia will have to significantly enhance its security should Sweden and Finland join NATO, ex-president Medvedev warnshttps://www.rt.com/russia/553867-sweden-finland-nato-nuclear-posture/
Greece explains why it won’t send more weapons to UkraineAthens doesn’t want to weaken its own defences
https://www.rt.com/news/553877-greece-no-more-weapons/
Hit indeed, but the ship did not sink immediately: the Moskva
According to SouthFront, the missile cruiser Moskva (which was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet) appears to have sustained some serious damage* from a ‘Neptune missile [fired from a] launcher on the coastline between Odessa and Nikolayev’. This would seem to indicate that modern weaponry has turned naval assets into real sitting ducks. However, this is not new, as both warring parties in the Falklands War of 1982 made the painful experience. Still, either further investments into effective ‘cloaking’ need to be made pretty fast or wider recourse to submarines needs to be envisaged for more ‘day-to-day’ military objectives in times of war – the more so as some hypersonic missiles appear to be quasi unstoppable. So this was my two cents of armchair admiral-like advice...
https://southfront.org/breaking-russian-black-sea-fleets-flagship-moskva-cruiser-experienced-explosion-of-ammunition-serious-damage-sustained-crew-evacuated/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220414143243/https://www.rt.com/russia/553862-moskva-fire-warship-ukraine/
The last article published on the SouthFront website on14th April in connection with the Ukrainian-Russian conflict starts as follows (I have left the English unchanged):
The 49 day of the conflict started with reports that on the night of April 13-14, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the cruiser Moscow, was seriously damaged or sank. Russian state media quoted the Defense Ministry as saying that the cruiser had detonated ammunition as result of fire. The crew was evacuated.
Other sources reported that Moskva was attacked by missiles from the coastline between Odessa and Nikolayev. The missiles struck the port side, causing the ship to roll heavily. The buoyancy of the cruiser was made difficult by the sea weather conditions. As a result of all the cumulative factors, according to preliminary information, the cruiser may have sank.
A ship of this class in the Black Sea conditions could have been successfully attacked either by a complex of anti-ship systems, including both missiles and aircrafts, or by a submarine. There is a strong possibility that NATO military was directly involved in the attack.
[...]
https://southfront.org/excuses-for-world-war-3/
Prepared to file in my head this conflicting info pertaining to the Moskva as a particularly good instance where the truth is lost in the fog of war, before going live with my changes, I nevertheless performed a search with the word ‘Moskva’ using the ‘news’ filter and restricting the results to the most recent. The headlines coming from Anglo-Saxon sources were not good for the warship: ‘Russian warship Moskva has sunk - defence ministry’. So I turned to RT.com, where the top headline as at 11:13p.m. CET [https://archive.ph/0Qqp9] was
‘Russian flagship sank – military
Missile cruiser ‘Moskva’ went down in the Black Sea while being towed to port, the Russian Defense Ministry said’
https://web.archive.org/web/20220414211641/https://www.rt.com/russia/553902-flagship-sank/
At least, the Russian MoD is not concealing the truth...
