Erich Vad is an ex-brigade general. From 2006 to 2013, he was the military policy advisor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He is one of the rare voices who spoke out publicly against arms deliveries to Ukraine early on, without political strategy or diplomatic efforts. Even now he speaks an uncomfortable truth.
Erich Vad: What are the war aims?
Tag: Donbass
Kremlin says Russian missiles did not target residential building in Dnipro
Kremlin says Russian missiles did not target residential building in Dnipro:
The Ukrainian Air Force says the apartment complex was hit by a Russian Kh-22 missile, which Kyiv says it does not have the equipment to shoot down. Peskov suggested that the strike had been the result of Ukrainian “anti-aircraft counter-missiles” intercepting the Russian missile, saying that “some representatives of the Ukrainian side” had reached the same conclusion.
Oleksiy Arestovych, who advises the Ukrainian president’s office, said on Saturday evening that it looked as though the Russian missile had fallen onto the apartment building after being shot down by Ukrainian air defenses. The comment sparked anger in Ukraine, prompting him to apologize. He then retracted his online apology, saying that he had made clear in his initial comments that his conclusion was only a preliminary theory. Dnipro, a city of almost a million people which serves as a crucial supply hub for Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbas region, has come under repeated bombardment from Russian missiles.
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At distance, two separate fires: An air defense missile, respectively a cruise missile shot down by it. And the 9-story building inflamed at the front (other side of the building in the picture, at the far right of the explosions)
Source: Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli on Twitter
Video confirms Oleksii Arestovych’s explanation on the regrettable #Dnipro missile disaster. via THE INDICTER Channel
YouTube – Arestovych: building destruction in Dnipro caused by Ukr air defence when shot down Russian missile via THE INDICTER Channel
Flash : daily Ukrainian terrorist shelling in Donbass + More
Flash : daily Ukrainian terrorist shelling in Donbass + More
Flash : daily Ukrainian terrorist shelling in Donbass
That may be a retaliation for the destruction in Dnieper city, on January 14, of a residential building that the Russian forces did not target, but anyway, the Ukrainian deliberate terrorist shelling of Donbass is almost daily for more than eight years.
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Four people wounded as Kiev forces shell commercial building in Donetsk
Donetsk, Jan 16 — DAN. Four civilians have been wounded in a Ukrainian artillery attack on Ilyich Avenue in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk on Monday.
The building ruined by shelling accommodated a pharmacy, a food shop, a lawyer’s office and a gym, the Donetsk People’s Republic Healthcare Ministry told the Donetsk News Agency.
Kiev forces fire 120 MLRS, “NATO” artillery rounds at DPR since Monday morning
Ukrainian armed formations have fired more than 120 rounds of ammunition at the Donetsk People’s Republic since the beginning of Monday causing civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure.
Human Beings Disassembled “Like Legos”
Part 2 of an investigative report on human trafficking in Ukraine
Human Beings Disassembled “Like Legos”
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A cruel harvest of the poor’: Israeli allegedly behind human organ black market arrested in Cyprus
Former Moscow-linked Church claims religious persecution as security raids heat up
(CNN) — The vertically shot video published last November shows no weapons, battlefield atrocities or even soldiers. But the sound of a patriotic Russian song reverberating through a church on Kyiv’s famous Lavra monastery grounds seemed to open a new front in Ukraine’s war with Russia.
Former Moscow-linked Church claims religious persecution as security raids heat up
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“Do not ban the UOC” petition appears on the Cabinet of Ministers’ website
The city of Soledar was liberated by Wagner’s units (18+)
On the evening of 10 January 2023, the announcement of the liberation of Soledar by units of the private military company Wagner was confirmed by photos of Yevgeny Prigozhin (the businessman at the head of Wagner) in the city with his men.
The city of Soledar was liberated by Wagner’s units (18+)
Death Toll in Ukraine HIMARS Strike on Russian Soldiers in Donetsk Rises to 89
Death Toll in Ukraine HIMARS Strike on Russian Soldiers in Donetsk Rises to 89
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Russian military issues update on deadly Ukrainian strike
The death toll has grown to 89 people, including the unit’s deputy commander, the ministry said, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of a vocational school where the troops were stationed on New Year’s night.
Censorship Prohibits Spreading Truths, And Demands Spreading Lies
Censorship Prohibits Spreading Truths, And Demands Spreading Lies
Back in or around 2014, 43 international-news media were publishing my articles, and some of them were mainstream liberal media, some were mainstream conservative, and others were libertarian, but the vast majority were non-mainstream. When Barack Obama in February 2014 perpetrated a coup in Ukraine that installed a rabidly anti-Russian government there on Russia’s border and that was instead ‘reported’ as-if it had been a ‘democratic revolution’, which coup-imposed regime perpetrated a massacre against its pro-Russian protestors inside the Trade Unions Building in Odessa on 2 May 2014 (see especially the charred bodies of its victims at 1:50:00- in that video), I started writing about Ukraine; and, then, those 43 international-news sites gradually whittled themselves down to only 7; and, yet, none of them ever alleged that anything in any of my articles was false and asked me to prove it true, but they were instead getting pressure from Google, and from the FBI, and from other Establishment U.S. entities, and were afraid of being forced out of business (which many of them ultimately were) by them. The personal narrative that will now be provided here is about the latest of these cases, which threatens the site Modern Diplomacy, which had been an excellent international-affairs news site and included writers from all across the international-affairs news spectrum, for and against every Government’s policies, and from practically every angle. I had long been expecting MD (because of its impartiality) to receive a warning from the U.S. regime, and this finally happened late in December 2022, when the site’s founder, D., sent me this notice:
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Donbass – A New Year’s Eve 2023 with the sound of guns and multiple rocket launchers
As the world celebrated the end of 2022 and the arrival of 2023, the Donbass experienced New Year’s Eve with the sound of guns and multiple rocket launchers. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian army’s New Year’s bombardment caused many civilian casualties.
Donbass – A New Year’s Eve 2023 with the sound of guns and multiple rocket launchers – Donbass Insider
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Six killed by Ukrainian shelling of Lugansk hospital
US-Funded New Voice of Ukraine: Ukrainian army reportedly attacks Wagner mercenary base in occupied Donbas
London’s City AM: Ukraine says 63 Russian soldiers were killed in strike on military base
The Strategic Communications Directorate of Ukraine’s Armed Forces claimed on Sunday that some 400 mobilised Russian soldiers were killed in a vocational school building in Makiivka and about 300 more were wounded.
That claim could not be independently verified. The Russian statement said the strike occurred “in the area of Makiivka” and did not mention the vocational school.
According to the governor of Russia’s Samara region, Dmitry Azarov, an unspecified number of residents of the region were among those killed and wounded by the strike on Makiivka.
[…] a corrupt, fucked-up society […]
the crude reality of political Ukraine, the hypocrisy of the proxy war that the West is conducting
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