I have seen a few mentions of these recent Pentagon leaks about Ukraine's "spring counter-offensive" in the comments here so i gather that there are some comrades that have an interest for this sort of thing. From what i can tell this article does a good job summing up the most relevant big picture information that can be learned from these documents. *Warning: the author has thrown in a queerphobic "joke" for absolutely no reason which is very annoying and detracts from an otherwise professional piece.*

- Armed civilians without giving them a uniform. [Breach of Geneva Conventions](https://philarchive.org/archive/YVOUEA) - Ukrainian special forces command said Russian artillerymen will no longer be taken prisoner and will "all be killed for being complicit in criminal orders". Killing surrendering soldiers is a [war crime](https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docindex/v2_rul_rule47_sectionb). [Collective punishment](https://casebook.icrc.org/glossary/collective-punishments) is also one. Edit: they have since taken that statement back. I have not. - Did not activate air raid sirens to [warn civilian populations](https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&documentId=06805C92A0A4A7A1C12563CD0051C0F9) of artillery and air strikes. People have already died because of this; Russia gave warnings as per protocol which Ukraine did not relay in time. - As per the discovery of biological labs near the border with Russia, there is a very serious possibility Zelensky is guilty of [producing biological weapons](https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/bio/1925-geneva-protocol/#:~:text=The%201925%20Geneva%20Protocol%20prohibits,force%20on%208%20February%201928.). The labs have been confirmed by the US gov, but no proof yet that they were meant for biological warfare. - Forcing battles to happen in civilian zones, thus exposing them to danger and [preventing their protection](https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/atg/PDF_s/International_Services/International_Humanitarian_Law/IHL_SummaryGenevaConv.pdf). - Possibility of using [child soldiers](https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docindex/v2_rul_rule136), as the Ukrainian army is now training children to use AKs, during wartime. - Ukrainian forces were (accidentally) caught using Red Cross vans to transport soldiers and materiel. The symbol of the cross itself can only be used by the organisation and is protected under the Geneva Conventions; it can [only be used by medical units](https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2020/red-cross-emblem-symbolizes-neutrality-impartiality.html) who must then be treated like civilians. Feel free to contribute. (the list above only reflects crimes Zelensky himself can be responsible for, to the best of our knowledge based on information that comes out of Ukraine. This list is also not legal advice, as only a trial will be able to determine which crimes have been committed and who is responsible for them).

Once you add in what other allies and Ukraine itself has spent, Russia is spending far less money in Ukraine than Ukraine and its allies are. It's also important to remember that Ukraine's pre war GDP was about $150 to $200 billion dollars, and now their economy has been almost entirely mobilized toward the war effort, which is still significant even after a [30% reduction in Ukraine's GDP](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-gdp-fell-291-2022-during-russias-invasion-2023-04-13/). The Ukraine is essentially a NATO military base at this point and the best funded on the planet. With the economy of Russia returning to growth, this year, the idea that Russia is "collapsing" or being brought down by this conflict is a farce being thrust upon the people in the West to give them the illusion that they're winning in some way by supporting Kyiv.

01.06.2023 The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the Federal Security Service of Russia, uncovered an intelligence operation of the American special services conducted using Apple mobile devices (USA). In the course of ensuring the security of the Russian telecommunications infrastructure, anomalies were identified that are characteristic only for users of Apple mobile phones and are caused by the operation of previously unknown malicious software (HPE) that uses software vulnerabilities provided by the manufacturer. It is established that several thousand telephone sets of this brand were infected. At the same time, in addition to domestic subscribers, facts of infection of foreign numbers and subscribers using sim cards registered at diplomatic missions and embassies in Russia, including the countries of the NATO bloc and the post-Soviet space, as well as Israel, the SAR and the PRC, were revealed. Thus, the information received by the Russian special services indicates the close cooperation of the American company Apple with the national intelligence community, in particular the US NSA, and confirms that the declared privacy policy for personal data of users of Apple devices does not correspond to reality. The company provides US intelligence agencies with a wide range of opportunities to monitor both any individuals of interest to the White House, including their partners in anti-Russian activities, and their own citizens.

According to Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov, Kiev lost over 60 servicemen and 6 vehicles; at least 9 civilians were injured as of this morning

>The overwhelming majority of Austrians do not want to go to war on the side of NATO. Only neutrality can provide security. We demand the observance and enforcement of neutrality, as well as an end to the economic war against Russia, which is costing us the most because of inflation. We call for resistance against the irrational acts of our elites!

Some 70 Ukrainian terrorists have been eliminated. According to the latest data, no civilians have been killed as a result of the sabotage group’s actions and 12 people were injured. An elderly woman died during evacuation.

>Now, out of this war in the past year, Russia has not only survived economically; its currency and its trade with the Global South have been reinforced and are stronger today. However, for the European Union, they’re in a much weaker position. We shouldn’t forget that even though they are U.S. allies, they are also competitors. The euro is now weaker than the dollar. The war has benefited the U.S. and yet has been very harmful for all the EU countries that went along with the war. > >I think countries around the world will draw their [own] conclusions. Do they want to be roped into this? Especially in Asia, who can U.S. [neo]imperialism rope in, in terms of their own sovereignty? Who can resist the U.S. pressure? > >[…] > >U.S. hegemony is declining. It’s a very dangerous juncture, because this is very threatening to U.S. [neo]imperialism, and we have to be prepared for what they will do to try to preserve their role. Our interests are one with the people of the world for peace, for development, for reconciliation and not for corporate profit.

It is worth noting that panicked reports are spreading on Ukrainian social media that during the detonation of an ammunition depot in Khmelnytsky, a large batch of British tank ammunition with depleted uranium, which was recently brought to Ukraine along with Storm Shadow missiles, was also destroyed. As a result of a large explosion, particles of depleted uranium can scatter on the territory of the region, which, taking into account the experience of Yugoslavia and Iraq, could lead to an outbreak of cancer in the medium term. There are already reports that the radiation background allegedly increased in Khmelnitsky. Let's wait for the actual confirmation.

>A future URC conference is scheduled to occur in London June 21–22, this one between the British and Ukrainian governments. This gathering is expected to serve the same purpose as the other meetings between Western bourgeois representatives and Ukrainian officials. None of these meetings are aimed to help the Ukrainian people or offer a peaceful resolution with Russia. On the contrary those involved in these meetings have no interest in ending the war anytime soon. > >In February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with investors from BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Ukraine Business News, Feb. 21) Both these investment conglomerates are also major shareholders of Northfolk Southern, which was responsible for the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that same month. > >In the midst of these meetings promoting profiteering, the puppet regime of Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on the Ukrainian working class. One month after the Russian intervention, Ukraine outlawed several left-wing parties, which once provided material and political support to labor unions. In August 2022, Zelensky helped ratify Law 5371, which stripped 70% of Ukrainian workers of their collective bargaining rights. (openDemocracy.net, Aug. 25, 2022)

Today, the central districts of the capital of the Republic were subjected to another brutal shelling by the armed formations of Ukraine. The AFU hit the hospital, the park, and residential buildings. A shell hit a bus that resulted in fire. People in it, including a 8 year old girl, were burned alive.  There are more than 10 wounded in the Republican Traumatology, including one employee of the Republican Traumatology Center. This is a hospital where people are getting treatment after the shelling. Unique medical equipment was damaged.    

Got some joy out of the cope here.

This is a bit dated by now, but the recent post about some failed US weapons systems reminded me about this absolute doozy of a Spanish submarine. >Years ago, the S-80 submarine suffered a major engineering setback: It was overweight and at risk of not being able to resurface after submerging. In the latest hitch, first reported on Wednesday by the newspaper El País, it can’t fit into the port of Cartagena at the military base in southeastern Spain where the submarine will be stationed. The article wraps up with a lame attempt to normalize spending billions on military equipment.

>“On the same day that the Springer boss’s statement was published, the German government authorized Poland to deliver Soviet fighter jets from GDR stocks to Ukraine. This is malicious in several respects: It is a blow to those East Germans who oppose arms deliveries. It is at the same time a departure by the present Federal Republic [of Germany] from the common formula of the GDR and the FRG that war must never again be allowed to emanate from German soil.” (junge Welt, April 17) I wonder if the bipeds who make fun of anticapitalists for using shitty telephones will care about this. (Here’s a shocker for novice socialists: they won’t.)

Today, the cities of the Republic were again subjected to enemy attacks. As a result of the shelling of the village of Nizhnyaya Krynka (Sovetsky district of Makeevka), two young women were killed, one was 30, the other was 38 years old. A man born in 1953 was killed in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Eight people were injured: five of them in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, other in Aleksandrovka, Makeevka and on the territory of the Donetsk cemetery in the village of Krasny Pakhar as a result of an explosion on the Lepestok mine. Ukrainian armed formations shelled peaceful neighborhoods from multiple launch rocket systems, using weapons transferred to the Kiev regime by countries from the NATO bloc. Only since the beginning of this year, Ukrainian militants have killed 100 civilians, 382 more were injured. https://t.me/dpr_mfa/2287 https://t.me/DNR_SCKK/14732   

Azov got destroyed in Mariupol and this last week the Imperialist rags have been talking about Azov building up for an offensive.

Archive Link: https://archive.ph/3mAVd *emphasis* [mine] >WASHINGTON — Classified war documents detailing secret American and NATO plans for building up the Ukrainian military ahead of a planned offensive against Russia were posted this week on social media channels, *senior Biden administration officials said.* > >*The Pentagon is investigating who may have been behind the leak* of the documents [find the snitch], which appeared on Twitter and on Telegram, a platform with more than half a billion users that is widely available in Russia. So these leaks are real, and the Pentagon is looking for the mole. >Military analysts said *the documents appear to have been modified* in certain parts from their original format, *overstating American estimates of Ukrainian war dead and understating estimates of Russian troops killed*. > >The modifications could point to an effort of disinformation by Moscow, the analysts said. *But the disclosures in the original documents*, which appear as photographs of charts of anticipated weapons deliveries, troop and battalion strengths, and plans, *represents a significant breach of American intelligence in the effort to aid Ukraine.* > >Biden officials were *working to get them deleted* but had not, as of Thursday evening, succeeded. So the only part they claim to be doctored is the estimates for the casualties in the conflict. They say the documents being leaked are significant, so much so that the Biden team is trying to get them scraped off the internet. >To the trained eye of a Russian war planner, field general or intelligence analyst, however, the documents no doubt offer many tantalizing clues. *The documents mention, for instance, the expenditure rate of HIMARS* — American-supplied high mobility artillery rocket systems, which can launch attacks against targets like ammunition dumps, infrastructure and concentrations of troops, from a distance. *The Pentagon has not said publicly how fast Ukrainian troops are using the HIMARs munitions; the documents do*. One aspect of the pro-Ukraine casualty estimates that never made sense was how so many Russians could be dying from Ukraine's lack of artillery, to maintain this narrative the Pentagon never talked about how many shells Ukraine launches per day. >*One of the slides said 16,000 to 17,500 Russian soldiers had been killed while Ukraine had suffered as many as 71,500 troop deaths. The Pentagon and other analysts have estimated that Russia has suffered far more casualties, and that closer to 200,000 soldiers on each side had been killed or wounded.* > >Nonetheless, *analysts said parts of the documents appeared authentic and provide Russia with valuable information* such as the timetables for the delivery of weapons and troops, Ukrainian troop buildup numbers and other military details. These estimates seem a little low balled, analysts such as Col Macgregor put Russian dead in the 20-25k range and Uke dead in the six digits. This seems more like the values pre-Bakmut siege. BBC calculated around 16k from Russian obituaries so maybe they were closer to reality than given credit for, or the numbers in the document are confirmed KIA only and MIA is not included. The [document in question.](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/34ae53e0-cc33-4732-9e62-f39df7740fa6.jpeg) More from: https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1644122549909848070?t=J87R-_jIb11q9sFMfcB-XQ&s=19 >The leak is the first Russian intelligence breakthrough that has been made public since the war began. *Throughout the war, the United States has provided Ukraine with information on command posts, ammunition depots and other key nodes in the Russian military lines.* Such real-time intelligence has *allowed the Ukrainians to target Russian forces, kill senior generals* and force ammunition supplies to be moved farther from the Russian front lines, *though U.S. officials say Ukraine has played the decisive role in planning and execution of those strikes.* ["plausible" deniability] > >But *early on during the war, Ukrainian officials were hesitant about sharing their battle plans with the United States, for fear of leaks*, American and European officials said. As recently as last summer, American intelligence officials said they often had a better understanding of Russia’s military plans than of Ukraine’s. > >*The intelligence sharing between Ukraine and the United States loosened up considerably last fall*, and the two countries have been **working closely** on options for a Ukrainian offensive. So now the US is running the show. I wonder if the mole is related to Sy Hersh's source on Nord Stream?

Historical evidence shows that NATO and the European Union are, and essentially have been from their very inception even as ideas, obsessed with this one historical mission: to fulfill the Nazi goal of complete domination and integration of the whole of Europe into one Reich up to the Urals. Führer’s Headquarters, July 16, 1941: "Never again must it be possible to create a military power west of the Urals, even if we have to wage war for a hundred years in order to attain this goal. All successors of the Führer must know: Security for the Reich exists only if there are no foreign military forces west of the Urals; it is Germany who undertakes the protection of this area against all possible dangers." https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English59.pdf German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer proclaimed the "reorganization in Eastern Europe" as one of the three most important goals of his policy. He also supported the mass murderer and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. https://archive.is/yyuzD#selection-10121.51-10121.156 Hallstein, first president of the EEC (precursor to the EU) was even more explicit in 1952: "[I consider the ultimate goal in the unification of Europe to be the unification of all parts of the continent up to the Urals.](https://www.google.com/search?q=Hallstein+Endziel+Vereinigung+Europas+Zusammenschlu%C3%9F+aller+Teile+des+Kontinents+bis+zum+Ural)" https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1524/dzph.1960.8.1112.1486/pdf „Under Operation Sunrise, some 5,000 anti-communist Eastern European and Russian personnel were trained for operational missions at a camp at Oberammergau in 1946, under the command of General Sikes and SS General Burkhardt. This and related initiatives supported insurgencies in areas such as Ukraine, which were not entirely supressed by the Soviets until 1956.“ http://irp.fas.org/world/germany/intro/gehlen.htm „The BND, the West German intelligence service under former Wehrmacht Gen. Reinhard Gehlen, formed a new relationship with Bandera. It was a natural union. During the war, Gehlen’s senior officers argued that the USSR could be broken up if only Germany wooed the various nationalities properly. Bandera had continued lines into the Ukraine, and in March 1956 he offered these in return for money and weapons.71“ archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf The Nazis and their ideological successors in Western Europe, in Brussels, Berlin and in the offices of NATO, have never accepted the defeat of the Third Reich at the hands of the USSR and to this day seek to revise and reverse the results of WW2, to complete the destruction and colonization of Russia that Operation Barbarossa failed to achieve.

So, what shouldn't be a surprise is that there are even more civilian deaths caused by Dutch armed forces than previously thought. I'm sure the ICC in The Hague is busy bringing prime minister Rutte to court.

:::spoiler [Excerpt] >The panel’s focus was guided by a 2020 NATO-sponsored study titled “Cognitive Warfare” and authored by François du Cluzel, who manages the NATO Innovation Hub and was one of the event’s featured speakers. According to du Cluzel’s [report](https://www.projectcensored.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Cognitive-a-6th-Domain-of-Operations.pdf), the objectives of cognitive warfare are “to make everyone a weapon” and “to harm societies,” rather than simply targeting an enemy’s armed forces. Furthermore, cognitive warfare is “potentially endless since there can be no peace treaty or [surrender](https://www.projectcensored.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Cognitive-a-6th-Domain-of-Operations.pdf) for this type of conflict.” For these reasons, “the human mind is now being [considered](https://www.projectcensored.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Cognitive-a-6th-Domain-of-Operations.pdf) as a new domain of war.” Du Cluzel emphasized that militaries “must work more closely with academia to weaponize social sciences and human sciences and help the alliance develop its cognitive warfare capacities,” the Grayzone reported. The Grayzone’s article also noted that NATO’s desire to develop means of cognitive warfare came “at a time when member states’ military campaigns are targeting domestic populations on an unprecedented level.” > >Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the establishment press in the United States has published or broadcast hundreds of reports focused on NATO and the many contentious aspects of its role in that conflict. Many of these reports include explanations of NATO’s goals, organization, and history. However, as of this book’s publication, not one major US news outlet appears to have reported on NATO’s efforts to develop its member nations’ capacity for cognitive warfare, including the 2020 NATO study and the October 2021 NAOC panel. Hmm… well, the Grayzone reported this story, which automatically makes it invalid, and therefore we neither need to worry about this at all nor request any peer review. I’m sure that it’s nothing. :::

What do you all think of this?

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church used to be in a union with the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. It broke ties due to the war, which the Russian branch supported. However, this isn't enough to escape persecution from the Fascists in Kiev. The church is still under assault: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230325-monks-at-historic-kyiv-monastery-defy-eviction-order There is a religious war underneath the civil war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which collaborated with the OUN-B, the Plast organization, and the Nazis, is well represented within the Ultra-Nationalist movement and is attempting to solidify a national-religious Ukrainian identity centered on the church. The assault on this church is part of the De-Russification campaign of the Maidan regime.

From Russian MFA: The 🇬🇧 UK's announcement about the depleted uranium munition supplies to the Kiev regime is changing the situation, no questions asked. Now, neither the neighbouring states, nor the states of the region will be able to control the impact of the used guns and shells. It simply cannot be done. *** We have conducted research and summed up the publicly available data about the volume and range of supplies by NATO and the EU countries and weapons and military equipment to Ukraine. Since February 2022, the United States alone has supplied the Kiev neo-Nazi regime with weapons and military equipment worth $33 billion, the UK $5.2 billion, Germany $2.8 billion, and Poland $2.3 billion. The supplies include tanks and armoured vehicles, artillery systems, multiple launch rocket systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles. According to official statements, NATO countries have allocated at least $65 billion and the EU countries over $12 billion towards this end. Since February 2022, the Ukrainian military has used about 110,000 munitions against the DPR and LPR, including tactical missiles, attack drones, various MLRS missiles and large-calibre artillery shells. More than 4,600 civilians (including almost 200 children) were killed in the DPR, LPR and the liberated regions of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions during this period, and several thousand people were wounded (more than 300 children among them). These statistics clearly demonstrate the scale of cynicism and violation of law by Western regimes, their disregard not only for human lives, but also for those theoretical developments that they call “human rights issues” & which they themselves created. Source https://t.me/MFARussia/15279

Fred Mmembe spitting fire in this speech