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… gradually, and then suddenly.

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War for Ukraine Day 629: A Brief(ish) Tuesday Night Update

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Graphic by NEIVANMADE of a Russian bomb with a "Z" symbol on it crashing through the roof of the Ukrainian Postal Service delivery hub. "Everyone Is a Target" and "Stop Russia" are written in the space between the destroyed roof and the fins of the bomb.

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The House managed to pass this whacked out two part continuing resolution that keeps part of the government open until the middle of January and the rest open until the beginning of February. I am amazed it passed. Anyhow, the House GOP majority now has two different hostages to ransom or kill at the beginning of 2024. What did not pass was any supplemental funding for Ukraine or Israel. Soon the remaining $1 billion from the last Ukraine aid bill will run out and with it the Biden administration’s ability to resource Ukraine’s defense against Putin’s genocidal re-invasion.

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump. (emphasis mine)

Each of our warriors holding positions near Avdiivka deserves our utmost gratitude – address by the President of Ukraine

14 November 2023 – 22:19

I wish you health, fellow Ukrainians!

A report for this day. First of all, our warriors. Today, the intelligence service, the Commander-in-Chief, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Minister of Defense reported on the conference call. The overall situation at the front, particular directions. Ammunition, equipment – everything for the front. Avdiivka, Kupyansk, Bakhmut. Also the southern directions. Russian assaults are very intense, especially in Donetsk region.

We have to realize that Putin has a very cynical and specific political goal right now, and he is willing to kill as many of his people as he needs to because he wants to show at least some tactical results in the first half of December. That’s when he plans to announce his elections. Russia is already losing soldiers and equipment near Avdiivka faster and on a larger scale than, for example, near Bakhmut. It is extremely difficult to withstand this onslaught. And each of our warriors holding the positions, each of our warriors performing combat missions there deserves our utmost gratitude. They are true heroes!

The more Russian forces are destroyed near Avdiivka now, the worse the overall situation and the overall course of this war will be for the enemy.

I would like to particularly recognize the warriors of the 53rd and 110th separate mechanized brigades and the artillerymen of the 55th separate artillery brigade. All of them are fighting in the Avdiivka sector and have provided Ukraine with the best results these days. Thank you, warriors!

I would also like to recognize the brigades fighting in other areas that deserve our gratitude. This is the 57th separate motorized infantry brigade, whose warriors are defending the Kupyansk direction. They are very powerful. Thank you! My gratitude also goes to the 68th separate jaeger brigade in the Lyman sector. Well done, guys! And, of course, the Bakhmut sector. The artillery of the 26th brigade, the 92nd separate assault brigade and the 30th separate mechanized brigade. I thank you all, warriors!

We continue to work with our partners, especially in the United States, to ensure that support for Ukraine is maintained at the level that is needed now. I am grateful to our partners for their understanding of Ukraine’s needs.

These days, the Ukrainian delegation is in Washington. First Deputy Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, Head of the Office Andriy Yermak, representatives of the Ministry of Justice and our teams are advocating, among other things, for stronger sanctions against Russia and the use of Russia’s frozen assets to support our country.

Important meetings took place: the U.S. Secretary of State and his team, national security advisors to the President of the United States and the leaders of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, representatives of American civil society, and heads of international financial and development institutions. We are preparing for the next year.

It will not be easy. We are aware of this. But we are doing everything to ensure that Ukraine’s position remains solid. And in the coming weeks, respective work with European and other partners is planned.

A few more things.

Today, I will highlight the work of our entire team and those who helped to rescue Ukrainian citizens from the Gaza Strip. This is a very, very complex, sensitive, multi-level operation. More than 200 people have been rescued. We are preparing the next groups for evacuation.

I want to thank everyone. I thank the Egyptian and Israeli authorities, Ukrainian diplomats who are involved and effective, SkyUp, which has been very helpful, and I would also like to personally thank Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch. And, of course, the officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate, who are performing the relevant tasks on the ground and here in Ukraine. Thank you all very, very much!

Ukraine’s success in such operations once again demonstrates to the world how much our country values its citizens, wherever they are, and how effective our state institutions are.

Today, I also held a meeting with international relations experts and government officials to prepare for the second summit of our globally important humanitarian initiative “Grain from Ukraine”. Ukraine not only maintains its role as a guarantor of global food security. Our maritime exports through the new corridor have already reached almost 4 million tons of cargo. But we also remember that we can contribute to greater stability in the world by helping with food supplies to those in need. In particular, in Africa.

We are uniting our partners around this humanitarian initiative. More news to come soon.

And today I met with journalists from Africa – a large group… 11 countries of the continent, different parts of Africa, leading media. I thank you for your attention to Ukraine and I believe that the world majority will always be with Ukraine in its defense against aggression and in the defense of international law.

Glory to everyone who fights for Ukraine, who saves human lives! Thank you to everyone who helps!

Glory to Ukraine!

President @ZelenskyyUA

Our combat medics. Under fire, in tough conditions, every day they save the lives of our warriors, take care of them and do everything to rescue them! Take care of yourself, and thank you for your extremely important and selfless work. Thank you for every life you save!

Berlin:

Germany continues to support Ukraine in its fight against russian aggression. We are grateful to our German partners for another important military aid package, which includes:
◾️10 Leopard 1 A5 tanks
◾️14 Bandvagn 206 vehicles
◾️5 Warthog Ambulance tracked carriers
◾️1 Winsent 1 mine clearing tank
◾️10 VECTOR UAVs
◾️14 GO12 ground surveillance radars
◾️3 border protection vehicles
◾️4 8×8 HX81 truck tractor trains
◾️4 semi-trailers
◾️16 Zetros trucks
◾️13 MAN TGS trucks
◾️3 vehicles
◾️1.020 rounds 155mm ammunition
◾️10.000 safety glasses
◾️1.4 million rounds of ammunition for fire arms

🇺🇦🤝🇩🇪
#StandWithUkraine
@BMVg_Bundeswehr

Zaporizhzhia:

Brylivka, Kherson Oblast:

Arapivka, Luhansk Oblast:

It’s HIMARS O’Clock!

Obligatory:

Russian “military reporter”, read combatant, Romanov, shares screenshots of a conversation about partisan activities in the Luhansk Oblast, Kreminna district.

According to it, everything that Russians touch is being poisoned: food, alcohol, vapes. Energy drinks that are mixed with sulphur.

Romanov suggests people caught doing this should be killed (in their own country).

Who is it that keeps saying how eastern Ukrainians all want to be part of Russia?

https://t.me/romanov_92/42524

Here’s the screen grabs:

Screen shot of a translation by Dmitri

 

Screen grab of a translation by Dmitri

Kharkiv via Izium:

It took Kharkiv police over a year to investigate murder of children’s writer Volodymyr Vakulenko. His body was found in mass burial in Izium, labeled as number 319. Victoria Amelina discovered and published his diary.

After he was kidnapped and turtured they took him for execution and shot three times from a 9mm gun.

Now we know their names. Evil will be punished

📷 Serhyi Bolvinov

Germany:

Major discovery in reference to a worldwide corruption scheme controlled by the Kremlin. The first episodes are all bombshells, starting with a German:

Hubert Seipel, one of the most Pro-Russian mouthpieces in Germany, hid that he received 600,000 Euro from the Kremlin. He is notoriously famous for being invited in German TV talk show just to declaim every single Russian lie imaginable. The money was funneled through a mailbox company in Cyprus.

This is only the tip of the iceberg. The so-called Cyprus Confidential are a major leak, showing how Russian oligarchs funneled money all over the world from Cyprus to influence and sometimes buy certain goods, including the allegiance of people such as Seipel. Expect more bombshells coming out from it.

Coming back to Seipel, this is another vivid example that the question is not whether individuals like him receive money from Moscow, the question is only how much they receive.

Source: https://bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/kreml-experte-hubert-seipel-ard-journalist-geschmiert-von-putin-oligarch-86098040.bild.html

#Seipel #CyprusConfidential #Russia #Cyprus

Kemorovo, Russia:

So, once upon a time, there was this girl Vera Pekhteleva from Russia’s Kemerovo.

She was 23 and she was a student.
And there was this guy Vladislav Kanius. Them two used to be a couple.

In January 2020, he tortured her to death for like 12 hours because she had left him, and local police ignored calls from people next door who were hearing her scream.

In the end, neighbours broke into their apartment only to see the guy drinking vodka next to her dead body.

He inflicted over 100 wounds upon her.

He was sentenced to 17 years behind bars and a 4 million roubles ($44,000) compensation to be paid off to the late girl’s family and the court of justice.

And you know what?

The guy served only like 6 months.

Vladimir Putin pardoned him, just like so many other convicts, because he had agreed to go to war and kill even more people in Ukraine.

And he ended up being one of those who survived the mean grinder. And he returned home clean before the law about a year after the murder.

Oh by the way, it’s in the news today that Putin also relieved him of his obligation to pay off compensation to the family for the girls he slew.

One could only guess why we Ukrainians want to stay a fucking galaxy away from what today’s Russia is and from what the Putin regime has turned it into.

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That’s enough for tonight.

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  1. 1.

    Bill Arnold

    LOL, the headline for the bild.de piece about Hubert Seipel is machine translated as “ARD journalist lubricated by Putin-Oligarch”.
    ETA such lubricants are typically small payments, at least in English. 600K Euros is not small for Hubert, but is small for Russian billionaires. (I don’t know Seipel’s net worth, TBH.)

  2. 2.

    Gin & Tonic

    An excellent Tweet from Ukraine’s FM on what it means to negotiate with russia:

    To those who have missed the previous 30 years, here is a short list of the results of negotiations with Russia that it never respected:

    1. The Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Russia agreed to “respect independence, sovereignty, and the existing borders of Ukraine” as well as…
    — Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) November 14, 2023

  5. 5.

    Jay

     

    By Robert Plummer
    BBC News
    Getty Images Anna PolitkovskayaGetty Images

    One of the five men convicted over the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been pardoned after fighting in Ukraine, his lawyer says.

    Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, a former Moscow police officer, was jailed for 20 years at a trial in 2014.
    His lawyer, Alexei Mikhalchik, said the pardon came after he had completed a six-month military contract.

    Ms Politkovskaya’s family and employer described the decision as a “monstrous injustice”.

    Ms Politkovskaya, an investigative reporter and vocal critic of Russia’s war in Chechnya, was shot in a lift in her block of flats.

    Her reporting for Novaya Gazeta newspaper won international renown for her dogged investigation of Russian abuses in Chechnya.

    But her pieces, which were highly critical of President Vladimir Putin, then serving his second term, and the Chechen leadership, angered many in authority.

    bbc.com/news/world-europe-67414517

  8. 8.

    Alison Rose

    Surprised to hear Zelenskyy using putin’s name, but it felt like it was intentional to make sure all the dodos in the back know who is the reason for all of this bloodshed. Though now in my head, whenever I see his name, I autocorrect to, as Ze called him on MtP, “fucking terrorist putin”.

    And God, that tweet from Ponomarenko. I know people want the orcs and their leader to go to hell, but I feel like Satan wouldn’t even let them through the door.

    Also I hate Republicans.

    Thank you as always, Adam.

  13. 13.

    wjca

    I notice that, while President Zelenskyy routinely calls out heroism in a variety of directions, the guys fighting across the Dnipro River never get a mention.  One could harbor the suspicion that he is deliberately avoiding directing Russian attention that way.  Which makes sense if something significant is being prepared there.

  14. 14.

    Sister Inspired Revolver of Freedom

    Some people in the AFU have really interesting tastes in music 🎶.

    Thank you as always, Adam.

  15. 15.

    Shalimar

    As I’m sure you know, the goal for separating the spending wasn’t to get 2 potential hostages to ransom and/or kill.  Johnson’s goal was to protect the hostage that Republicans don’t have the guts to kill and have a separate vote on the hostage all of them want to kill.  The January budget for military etc. will pass without incident.  Everything else is in jeopardy.

  16. 16.

    Bill Arnold

    @Shalimar:
    There’s paranoia on the right that all but 2 Democrats in the House voted for that split CR. I.e. worry that they (the GOP) got rolled.

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