Ukraine war mega thread

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It's a 'Russian' Map

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Is this more acceptable

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Defense Politics Asia - YouTube

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The site posts "news" from both militaries' statements. He has been serving up images sin the start.

Loses and gains of territory of both.

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I am simply incredulous at the rantings of xxxx specific posters

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Varying opinions are unacceptable for you?

Or ashamed of the NaGastan duplicity?

"Maybe admitted to NATO, we have your back, We may defend your country, NATO will protect you ...."

As opposed to the facts:

"Possibly, maybe in a far future NATO will welcome you, will not defend you, defend yourselves, NATO sits on the fence"

Reliable words? Reliable actions, reliable on anything? With allies like that, what is their protection?

Empty words from a diminishing, bankrupt colony uttered from the mouth of it's leader and his minions.

Scum

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Fears grow among Russia’s neighbors that Putin might not stop at Ukraine

Tensions are rising in Europe’s ex-Soviet Baltic nations that President Vladimir Putin might not stop at invading Ukraine, and could have his sights set on them.


Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — the Baltic countries located in north-eastern Europe — are now members of the EU and NATO. However, in June 1940 they were invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union and after World War II were a part of the USSR until its collapse in 1991 when they regained their independence.


Today, it’s estimated that a million ethnic Russians still live in the Baltics. That is a worry for the region, as Putin’s pretext for an invasion of Ukraine was the “protecting” of ethnic Russians the country’s east — a justification widely questioned and dismissed by many experts on the region.


Many analysts perceive Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as an attempt to rebuild Russia’s lost Soviet empire, the destruction of which Putin once described as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.”


Russia has also sought to bring other former Soviet republics into its sphere of influence, including Belarus and Georgia to its north and Moldova to its south, with varying degrees of success. There have been a number of anti-government protests in these countries over the years, most notably Ukraine’s pro-democracy revolutions in 2004 and 2013.

Now, there are concerns in the Baltic states that Russia, having invaded one former Soviet territory, could go further and launch an assault on them.


European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis warned Monday that the EU had to take the Russian threat seriously.


“If we do not support Ukraine, it’s not going to stop in Ukraine. Clearly Putin is now in some kind of aggressive war mood and unfortunately it is likely that this aggression will continue in other countries,” he said in an interview with Politico published Monday evening.


In an apparent effort to reassure the region, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken started a two-day tour of the Baltics on Monday, visiting Lithuania and Latvia Monday and Estonia Tuesday.


Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda appeared to press Blinken for more collective NATO action when speaking at a joint press conference, saying that “deterrence is no longer enough, and we need more defense here ... because otherwise it will be too late here, Mr. Secretary. Putin will not stop in Ukraine; he will not stop.”


And the country’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said the West had a “collective duty and obligation” to help Ukraine, adding: “If you want to avoid the third world war. The choice is in our hands.”


Blinken responded by insisting that “the United States, with all allies and partners, will defend every – every inch of NATO territory should it come under attack, and there should be no doubt about that on anyone’s mind.”


But he stressed that NATO has no aggressive intent and will not seek out conflict.


Second Cold War?


Latvia’s Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics told CNBC Tuesday that he had been reassured by Blinken’s visit. He welcomed the pledges for practical support, such as additional U.S. troops in the region and discussions on bolstering its defenses.


“One really important thing is that there are not only political statements but also already practical things,” he told “Squawk Box Europe.” “I feel the U.S. support very much.”


In a press conference Monday, Rinkevics said that public opinion and policymakers’ decision-making had shifted with regards to military deployments, noting that now “we need a permanent stationing of NATO troops, including U.S. troops, on our soil” — something he had called for before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

On the day Russia invaded Ukraine (Feb. 24), Biden ordered the deployment of an additional 7,000 U.S. troops to Europe, and moved forces already in Europe to NATO’s eastern flank, including to Latvia.


When asked if he was worried that Russia could cite the protection of ethnic Russians as a pretext for further invasions, Rinkevics said there was a “huge difference” between Ukraine and the Baltics, as they are part of NATO and the EU.


“If you look at the composition of Latvia, there are no such territories that are hugely Russian-populated,” he said. “Yes, there is a Russian minority, but there is a shift in the Russian-speaking population as we speak.”


Nonetheless, Rinkevics said he feared that a second Cold War was emerging, with a schism growing between the West and Russia, and countries within its sphere of influence. “The Iron Curtain is now falling, Russia is disconnecting itself from the Western world ... I think we’re in a very long situation here.”


‘Aggressive war mood’


Even though the Baltic states have been a part of NATO and the EU since 2004, with all three using the euro as their currency, their geographic location makes them vulnerable. Like Ukraine, they all share a border with Russia. Latvia and Lithuania also share a border with Russia’s ally Belarus, which is widely believed to be supporting Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.

Krista Viksnins, program assistant with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis, commented in an editorial last week that the Baltics had good reason to be concerned.


“All three [Baltic countries] have successfully reintegrated into Europe. Yet they are now at risk and must be among the West’s top priorities — Russia has demonstrated its desire to make Ukraine a vassal state through full-scale military action and may not stop its bloody campaigns,” Viksnins wrote.


“Just as Vladimir Putin issued blood-curdling threats to Ukraine before his unprovoked assault, so too he has menaced the Baltic states.”

It’s an issue also raised by the European Commission’s Dombrovskis in his Monday interview.


“If you look at escalating Russia’s aggressive rhetoric and even statements claiming Russia supporting Belarusian interests in having access to Baltic Sea, and the increasing anti-Baltic rhetoric — well in Ukraine, it also started with increasing anti-Ukrainian rhetoric,” he added.


The Western officials all agree: Ukraine must be helped in its war against Russia.


The West should support Ukraine in “any way we can,” Latvia’s Foreign Minister Rinkevics said, while Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told CNBC Monday that “any country that has means, should be providing what it can.”

Baltic states in Europe fear Putin has them in his sights

Poor little guy, having to do that all one his own.

Ukrainian boy, 11, traveled hundreds of miles alone to Slovakia, with only a passport and a plastic bag

An 11-year-old Ukrainian boy who fled his war-torn country alone - with only a plastic bag, a passport and a telephone number scrawled on his hand - has been hailed as a hero by Slovakian authorities.


His safe escape from Zaporizhzhia, a city that narrowly avoided a nuclear catastrophe on Friday after a projectile set part of a massive power plant on fire, is a rare bright moment in an increasingly brutal conflict.


"Little Hassan is only 11 years old, but in his way he has shown huge determination, courage and fearlessness that sometimes adults don't have," Roman Mikulec, Slovakia's interior minister, wrote on his official Facebook page Monday after a meeting with the boy, who traveled hundreds of miles by train on his own.

Once he was safely over the border, customs officials and volunteers used a telephone number written on his hand to contact his relatives in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, and they were reunited.


In a tearful video post released by Slovakian authorities, his mother, Yulia Pisetskaya, said she was a widow and was unable to leave Zaporizhzhia because she was caring for her mother, who couldn't move on her own.


"I am very grateful that they saved the life of my child," Pisetskaya said in the video message Sunday, according to a translation posted on Facebook by the Slovakian Embassy in London. "In your small country, there are people with big hearts."


Inside Ukraine, the situation is increasingly grim. Efforts to establish evacuation corridors for noncombatants have faltered in recent days, even as the Russian onslaught has left hundreds of thousands of residents without water, heat or natural gas.


The number of civilian casualties, including children, is rising. At least 27 children have been killed and 42 wounded, UNICEF said. Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians, but a growing number of Western officials are raising questions about possible war crimes.

More than 1.7 million refugees have left Ukraine since the Russian invasion began, according to data from the U.N. high commissioner for refugees. Hundreds of thousands are children. The exodus is set to become Europe's worst humanitarian crisis in this century.


UNICEF and the U.N. refugee agency are urging neighboring countries to quickly identify and register unaccompanied and separated children fleeing Ukraine because those without parental care are at "heightened risk of violence, abuse and exploitation."


In Hassan's case, Slovakian authorities said they had "kept him warm and provided him with food and drink, which they packed for his next trip." The Slovakian Interior Ministry said on Facebook that the boy "won everybody's hearts with his smile, fearlessness and determination, worthy of a real hero."

Ukrainian boy, 11, traveled hundreds of miles alone to Slovakia, with only a passport and a plastic bag

Gotta love these armchair generals eh.

Russian Officer Complains About Dead General and Comms Meltdown in Intercepted Call

The Ukrainian defence ministry has a released audio from a call which it claims captured two Russian officers lamenting the death of a top general and the collapse of its secure communications network in Ukraine.


In the call—which has been verified by Bellingcat, the fact-checking group known for exposing Kremlin misinformation—two purported Russian FSB officers are heard discussing the death of a general killed in fighting near Kharkiv, which has been hammered by shelling this month.


Ukraine’s defence ministry named the general as Vitaly Gerasimov, chief of staff of the 41st Army, and Bellingcat reported that it had confirmed the death with Russian sources. In its statement, Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency said Gerasimov had been “liquidated” alongside “a number of senior Russian army officers” in fighting near Kharkiv.

If Gerasimov’s death is confirmed, he would be the second Russian general to be killed in Ukraine within a week following the death of the 41st Army’s deputy commander, Andrei Sukhovetsky. A pro-Putin Chechnyan general, Magomed Tushayev, was also reported to have been killed.


Russia’s failure to protect its top-ranking officers backs up reports from Ukraine that the Kremlin’s invasion force is in disarray. On the call released by the Ukrainian defense ministry, one FSB officer can be heard complaining that its encrypted comms system had been destroyed, allowing Ukrainian forces to listen in on Russian military orders.


Bellingcat’s executive director, Christo Grozev, wrote: “In the phone call in which the FSB officer assigned to the 41st Army reports the death to his boss in Tula, he says they’ve lost all secure communications. Thus the phone call using a local sim card. Thus the intercept.”

Grozev went on: “His boss, who makes a looong pause when he hears the news of Gerassimov’s death (before swearing), is Dmitry Shevchenko, a senior FSB officer from Tula. We identified him by searching for his phone (published by Ukrainian military Intel) in open source lookup apps... In the call, you hear the Ukraine-based FSB officer ask his boss if he can talk via the secure Era system. The boss says Era is not working.”


Grozen reported that Russia’s cryptophones may no longer work in Kharkiv because Russian forces had destroyed surrounding cell phone towers, and Russia’s encrypted comms system operates using 3G or 4G.


The statement released by Ukraine’s military intelligence agency alluded to severe communications problems among Russian forces, saying: “The data obtained also indicate significant problems with communication in the occupier’s army and with the evacuation of their broken units.”


Russia has not commented on reports of Gerasimov’s death.

Russian Officer Complains About Dead General and Comms Meltdown in Intercepted Call



Just a laugh that the Russians destroyed the cell towers their encrypted system used and now they have no communications except SIM card phones.

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Russian tank kills civilians in a car near Kyiv

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Russian tank kills civilians in a car near Kyiv

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Ukraine Tanks

"The T-84 is a Ukrainian main battle tank (MBT), a development of the Soviet T-80 main battle tank introduced in 1976. The T-84 was first built in 1994 and entered service in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1999. The T-84 is based on the diesel-engined T-80 version, the T-80UD."

Driven by whom?

The "story" is so factual it has been removed.

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a city that narrowly avoided a nuclear catastrophe on Friday after a projectile set part of a massive power plant on fire,

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Fired by whom?

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NaGastan giant media company. Judging from the "news" you have posted, not very accurate/reliably sourced reporting.

No bias there, then.

This standard "reporting", maybe acceptable in NaGastan, others demand a higher level of accuracy and fact checking.

�������� Ukrainians continue to film their destroyed equipment, calling it Russian. This time the BTR-70M was in the frame. Pixel camouflage is again visible on the nose and there is an upper flap characteristic of the Ukrainian armored personnel carrier. Telegram: Contact @intelslava

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The Armed Forces of Ukraine in their official Twitter reported that they allegedly shot down an "aircraft" of the Russian army. In fact, it turned out to be a Su-24M, which was shot down on November 24, 2015 by the Turkish Air Force near the Syrian-Turkish border. [IMG]https://t.me/intelslava/21736?single[/IMG.]

Speaking of lies. You need to watch this video.

How Russia’s False Flags Set The Stage For War In Ukraine - YouTube

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ongoing, it’s easy to forget the flurry of dubious provocations and staged events that appear to have been designed to implicate the Ukrainian armed forces and drum up military aggression in the days before the first shots were fired.

These included videos showing alleged border incursions by the Ukrainian military and footage of purported saboteurs attempting to blow up a chlorine facility at a sewage treatment plant – both of which showed nothing of the sort.

But one suspicious video, which showed a gruesome scene of charred bodies and human skulls that seemed to have been sliced open, appeared so serious and egregious that Bellingcat decided to investigate further, speaking to an explosive weapons expert and a forensic pathologist in the process.

What they told us was that an apparent IED (improvised explosive device) attack used by separatist and Russian media as evidence of Ukraine’s aggression included the staged use of cadavers and likely faked IED damage.

MORE ‘Exploiting Cadavers ’and ‘Faked IEDs’: Experts Debunk Staged Pre-War ‘Provocation’ in the Donbas - bellingcat

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The Armed Forces of Ukraine in their official Twitter reported that they allegedly shot down an "aircraft" of the Russian army. In fact, it turned out to be a Su-24M, which was shot down on November 24, 2015 by the Turkish Air Force near the Syrian-Turkish border. [IMG]https://t.me/intelslava/21736?single[/IMG.]

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Simple question skidmark.
Why do you support the invaders?

Second-echelon units are taking over the previously liberated village of Babintsy, in the Kiev region.

At the same time, the main strike groups of the Russian Armed Forces, which have advanced the front around Kyiv further from Babintsy by 15-20 km, are already fighting for control of the settlements of Irpin and Bucha
Telegram: Contact @intelslava

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Simple question skidmark.
Why do you support the invaders?

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Yes. Russia isn't starting a war. It's ending one that started in 2014. Russia is de-Nazifying the Ukraine military. You support a Nazi Ukraine ?
https://youtu.be/KqV7GWRiJEs

^ You change your tune as often as the wind blows.

Ah yes, them Nazis. Lets get a bit nostalgic-


ROBERT PARRY: When Western Media Saw Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis

March 6, 2022


Emmanuel Macron said in a speech Wednesday it’s a lie that Russia is fighting Nazis in Ukraine. But in 2014, the BBC, the NYT, the Daily Telegraph and CNN — not just CN — reported on the Nazi threat.NYT Discovers Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis at WarExclusive: Throughout the Ukraine crisis, the U.S. State Department and mainstream media have downplayed the role of neo-Nazis in the U.S.-backed Kiev regime, an inconvenient truth that is surfacing again as right-wing storm troopers fly neo-Nazi banners as they attack in the east, Robert Parry reports.

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Neo-nazi attack on the Trades Union Building in Odessa, May 2, 2014, which killed 48 people.
By Robert Parry
Special to Consortium News
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The New York Times reported almost in passing on Sunday (Aug. 10) that the Ukrainian government’s offensive against ethnic Russian rebels in the east has unleashed far-right paramilitary militias that have even raised a neo-Nazi banner over the conquered town of Marinka, just west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.That might seem like a big story a U.S.-backed military operation, which has inflicted thousands of mostly civilian casualties, is being spearheaded by neo-Nazis. But the consistent pattern of the mainstream U.S. news media has been since the start of the Ukraine crisis to white-out the role of Ukraine’s brown-shirts.Only occasionally is the word “neo-Nazi” mentioned and usually in the context of dismissing this inconvenient truth as “Russian propaganda.” Yet the reality has been that neo-Nazis played a key role in the violent overthrow of elected President Viktor Yanukovych last February as well as in the subsequent coup regime holding power in Kiev and now in the eastern offensive.On Sunday, a Times article by Andrew E. Kramer mentioned the emerging neo-Nazi paramilitary role in the final three paragraphs:

“The fighting for Donetsk has taken on a lethal pattern: The regular army bombards separatist positions from afar, followed by chaotic, violent assaults by some of the half-dozen or so paramilitary groups surrounding Donetsk who are willing to plunge into urban combat.Officials in Kiev say the militias and the army coordinate their actions, but the militias, which count about 7,000 fighters, are angry and, at times, uncontrollable. One known as Azov, which took over the village of Marinka, flies a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag.In pressing their advance, the fighters took their orders from a local army commander, rather than from Kiev. In the video of the attack, no restraint was evident. Gesturing toward a suspected pro-Russian position, one soldier screamed, ‘The bastards are right there!’ Then he opened fire.”

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Ukraine’s Azov Battalion. (GianlucaAgostini/Wikimedia Commons)

In other words, the neo-Nazi militias that surged to the front of anti-Yanukovych protests last February have now been organized as shock troops dispatched to kill ethnic Russians in the east and they are operating so openly that they hoist a Swastika-like neo-Nazi flag over one conquered village with a population of about 10,000.Burying this information at the end of a long article is also typical of how the Times and other U.S. mainstream news outlets have dealt with the neo-Nazi problem in the past. When the reality gets mentioned, it usually requires a reader knowing much about Ukraine’s history and reading between the lines of a U.S. news account.

For instance, last April 6, The New York Times published a human-interest profile of a Ukrainian nationalist named Yuri Marchuk who was wounded in the uprising against Yanukovych in February. If you read deep into the story, you learn that Marchuk was a leader of the right-wing Svoboda Party from Lviv, which if you did your own research you would discover is a neo-Nazi stronghold where Ukrainian nationalists hold torch-light parades in honor of World War II Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.Without providing that context, the Times does mention that Lviv militants plundered a government arsenal and dispatched 600 militants a day to Kiev’s Maidan square to do battle with the police. Marchuk also described how these well-organized militants, consisting of paramilitary brigades of 100 fighters each, launched the fateful attack against the police on Feb. 20, the battle where Marchuk was wounded and where the death toll suddenly spiked into scores of protesters and about a dozen police.

Marchuk later said he visited his comrades at the occupied City Hall. What the Times doesn’t mention is that City Hall was festooned with Nazi banners and even a Confederate battle flag as a tribute to white supremacy.

Full Article (there's more)- ROBERT PARRY: When Western Media Saw Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis – Consortium News


Interesting too that the US, UK and other embassies have moved rom Kiev to....... Lviv. :chitown:

West Pressures Thailand to Take Their Side Against Russia | New Atlas Report

On February 28, 2022 the EU ambassador to Thailand, David Daly, would declare in a social media post that Thailand “should speak up to save our rules based international order,” demanding the Kingdom of Thailand vote at the UN with the West regarding Ukraine.

NAZIS everywhere!

Russian warlord who led Neo-Nazi 'Sparta' mob shot dead during battle in eastern Ukraine

Russian warlord who led Neo-Nazi 'Sparta' mob shot dead during battle in eastern Ukraine - New York Times Post

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West Pressures Thailand to Take Their Side Against Russia | New Atlas Report

On February 28, 2022 the EU ambassador to Thailand, David Daly, would declare in a social media post that Thailand “should speak up to save our rules based international order,” demanding the Kingdom of Thailand vote at the UN with the West regarding Ukraine.

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Fat chance with a junta running the government of Thailand. They support strong man rule.

Ukrainian President Zelensky slams Russia's 'cynicism and propaganda', posts video from his office - Watch

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted the latest video from his office as he refuted the claims and reports that he has left the country amid the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He also promised to stay in the Ukrainian capital until the war was won.


Zelensky appeared in his office in Kyiv on Monday night (March 7) in his address to the public. He said, "I stay here, in Kyiv, not hiding. And I am not afraid of anyone. As long as needed to win this war, our national war."

Mentioning the current state of the country, the Ukrainian leader said, "We used to say: Monday is a hard day. There is a war in the country so every day is Monday, and now we are used to the fact that every day and every night are like that."

In his address, he told the Ukrainians, "You do not back down. We do not back down". He further added that "heroic" resistance against the Russian troops was making the conflict "like a nightmare" for Moscow.


Slamming Russia's 'plain cynicism, plain propaganda', Zelensky also rejected Kremlin's proposals to evacuate Ukrainian citizens into what he has described as "occupied territory" in Russia and Belarus.


"They open a tiny corridor leading to the occupied territory, for a couple of dozen of people. Not so much to Russia as to their propaganda, their TV cameras saying 'look who is saving people.' Plain cynicism, plain propaganda," he said.


Russian news agencies reported that Moscow has proposed the establishment of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave five Ukrainian cities from 9 am local time (0700 GMT) on Tuesday (March 8) pending the Ukrainian agreement.


But most of the corridors would travel through Russia or Belarus, something Ukrainian authorities have rejected in the past. Ukraine has been given until 3 am Moscow time (0000 GMT) to agree to the terms, Interfax said

Ukrainian President Zelensky slams Russia's 'cynicism and propaganda', posts video from his office - Watch, World News | wionews.com

Звернення Президента України Володимира Зеленського ввечері дванадцятого дня війни. - YouTube

Reports coming in that Russia's new encrypted battlefield communication system is not working very well. Could have something to do with the evacuation corridors being bombed.

^ There was a report posted earlier explaining the problem. The Russians bombed phone towers their encrypted system was using. Now they are using regular SIM cards. :doglol:

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^ There was a report posted earlier explaining the problem. The Russians bombed phone towers their encrypted system was using. Now they are using regular SIM cards. :doglol:

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They also have a system that does not rely on cell phone towers and that is the one I am hearing about. They might have tried the cell systems after their dedicated systems weren't working.

'Idiots': Russian military phone calls hacked after own soldiers destroy 3G towers

Russian forces in Ukraine have been ‘hacked’ after abandoning their own secure encrypted phone system, according to investigative journalism organisation Bellingcat.


The switch to insecure messaging meant that a conversation revealing the death of Major General Vitaly Gerasimov - chief of staff of the 41st Army - was able to be intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence.


Russian soldiers have switched off their encrypted phone system after towers were destroyed and are using normal phones with local sim cards, according to Bellingcat, an open-source investigative journalism organisation.


Bellingcat’s executive director, Christo Grozev, said in a series of Tweets: ‘The idiots tried to use the Era cryptophones in Kharkiv, after destroying many 3g cell towers and also replacing others with stingrays. Era needs 3g/4g to communicate.’


‘In the phone call in which the FSB officer assigned to the 41st Army reports the death to his boss in Tula, he says they've lost all secure communications. Thus the phone call using a local sim card. Thus the intercept.’

Russian military phone calls hacked after 3G goes offline

Canada imposed sanctions against several Russian public figures


The Canadian authorities have added Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Editor-in-chief of RT channel Margarita Simonyan, TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, Channel One CEO Konstantin Ernst, businessman Oleg Deripaska and five other people to their sanctions lists.

https://tass.com/world/1418393