May 20, 12:27 p.m.
From Shoigu's statements on the operation in Ukraine.
1. The liberation of the LPR is nearing completion (a clear allusion to the Severodonetsk cauldron - yesterday the troops reached the Soledar-Lysichansk highway).
2. Already 1908 people have surrendered at Azovstal. Prior to this, 1387 people from the Marine Corps capitulated (at the plant named after Ilyich).
3. In light of the NATO threat, 12 new formations will be created in the Western Military District (most likely recreated). expected.
4. In the near future, strategic UAVs will begin to enter the troops.
5. The NATO grouping near the borders of the Russian Federation has up to 40,000 people.
6. Losses of Ukraine during the battle for the island of Serpents were - 4 aircraft, 10 helicopters, 30 UAVs, 3 boats and 50 people killed.
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May 20, 9:46 p.m.
More about Ukrainians.
At the beginning of the NWO, our plane was shot down by crests.
The crew ejected safely, but landed behind enemy lines, and in addition they were also decently scattered from each other.
There are enemies all around, there is no connection, the SPDH will definitely not fly here, but crests, on the contrary, are already rushing from all sides. Therefore, the guys ran around, looked for each other a little and drove each in his own way.
The navigator had only an old compass from the means of navigation. He followed him and went.
He left the chase through the snow and forests, hid from patrols, forced the rivers that had just opened from the ice and went forward. To the north. To their own.
Walked for a long time.
I am sure that the story of this heroic navigator will be reflected in the script of the film or in the book, because there is something for him to tell and something to show. But now I wanted to tell not about this heroic navigator.
And about the Ukrainians.
When the military pilot, after crossing the next river, became completely crappy, he went into the Ukrainian village and knocked on the hut from the edge.
And everywhere he was fed, dried, given a roof and assisted.
No one denied him blood. No one handed him over to Khokhols, no one poisoned or offended him. Not by word, not by deed. Not a single Ukrainian.
And again he went forward.
On the third day in another village, he also knocked on the door, and the hostess opened it for him. She saw a dirty, wet, frozen armed military aircraft in a Russian uniform and NAZ IR, and taking him in an armful, she dragged him into the hut without asking any questions.
I immediately got through to my husband, who was receiving humanitarian aid from Russian servicemen in a neighboring village. Well, there is already a matter of technology.
Having asked the peasant to hand over the phone to the nearest Russian military officer, the military pilot described the state of affairs in two sentences, and fifteen minutes later our soldiers rushed to the village for the military aircraft.
It seems to me that in the life of a navigator it was the longest 15 minutes in his life.
During these three days, he traveled nearly a hundred kilometers along the deep rear of the enemy.
Son of the steppes. Pretty boy.
So there are Ukrainians, and there are Ukrainians.
Don't confuse them.
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NATO SURRENDERS IN AZOVSTAL
May 19, 2022 , 12:12 p.m.
Members of the Azov Battalion and other combatants of the Ukrainian army surrendered in Mariúpol before the Russian army and the military commands of Donetsk and Lugansk (Photo: EFE)
From the same historical creators of the version "The United States and Great Britain defeated Hitler" the headline "The Ukrainian mission in Mariupol is over and their fighters are evacuated" arrives on screens around the world. It sounds like a joke, but it's anecdote.
Right now, and for days now, the media story is being spread by North American and European media that the combatants who "resisted the Russian invader" on the shores of the Sea of Azov were being "evacuated in an orderly manner", when the reality is totally different.
The perceptive war being waged by the US, European and Ukrainian propaganda apparatus to prevent acceptance of military defeat on the ground is at an all-time high, leading to damage control, as NATO efforts for arming, training and financing Ukrainian troops have been neutralized by Russia.
After a month of siege by the Russian army and the military units of Donetsk and Lugansk, the remnants of the Azov Battalion that were sheltered in the bunkers of the Azovstal steel plant, in the southeast of the city of Mariupol, surrendered. and are being treated as prisoners of war.
In short, it is about a military surrender and not about an "orderly evacuation" and a "victory for the Ukraine"; the western script, although repetitive and devoid of materially verifiable content, will continue to disseminate a version that protects the forms that they have been using in their psychological and propaganda operations.
ON THE WAY TO THE DENAZIFICATION PROCESS
According to a part of the Russian Ministry of Defense published on May 19 , "in the last 24 hours, 771 militants of the Azov nationalist unit have surrendered at the blockaded Azovstal plant in Mariupol. A total of 1,730 militants have surrendered. have surrendered since May 16, including 80 wounded".
Humanitarian treatment is being applied in accordance with international law: "All people who need hospital treatment are treated in medical centers in Novoazovsk and Donetsk of the Donetsk People's Republic," adds the official statement from the Russian army.
But there is more, related to these events. The TASS agency reports :
"The Supreme Court of Russia has a hearing on May 26 for the presentation of the office of the General Prosecutor of Russia with the object of recognizing the militant nationalist formation of Azov, and its other branches and titles, as a terrorist organization. The Prosecutor General acted at the request of the FSB ( Russia's national security service) ".
In this way, a political and judicial act of great importance is unfolding: the fact that the neo-Nazi prisoners, who have committed crimes against humanity and war crimes protected by NATO and under the umbrella of Volodímir Zelenski's regime, will not even be tried as military criminals, but as terrorists.
Russian-American military analyst Andrei Martyanov judges that
"That has serious international repercussions, because some people in the European Union and North America are going to have to consider who they're dealing with. And we can only wait until all the horror stories and the perpetrators are told and shown, including the commanders and the NATO volunteer personnel, to parade in front of the world in those courts, while looking into the eyes of the victims who survived. The new Nuremberg is coming and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable."
It should be noted that, according to Russian media and intelligence reports, there are NATO officers among the prisoners and besieged along with the Azov neo-Nazis. Journalist German Vladimirov reported in early April that "NATO officers from France, Germany, Britain and Sweden were stuck in Azovstal in Mariupol. At the moment they are contacting Russian troops with a request to help them to leave, to organize a corridor for the exit".
Bearing in mind that the war in the Donbas began eight years ago with a coup d'état led by the regent of NATO (United States) in Ukraine and the subsequent support of the governments of Poroshenko and Zelensky at the point of rampant neoliberalism and military dispatch , many of those commanders and combatants will have many stories and crimes of their own accord to tell.
In this way begins what could be a Nuremberg of the 21st century for the purpose of real denazification and not a rearrangement of the Nazi ranks in the political-military-scientific apparatus in Germany, the United States, Great Britain and Canada.
NATO BRAND MAKEUP
Despite what happens on the battlefield, the media affiliated with the NATO propaganda line squander headlines and media hoaxes in order to whitewash their own military disaster.
Larry Johnson, ex-CIA and US Army Special Operations Command instructor for 24 years, now turned independent military analyst, argues that the Zelensky regime is dishing out some stories to US and European news agencies that portray a make-up army Ukrainian to show him as a victorious one in the face of the Russian special military operation and other "news".
The evidence that neither Ukraine is using its own Russian tanks against them, nor is a coup against Vladimir Putin being carried out, nor is the Russian president sick with cancer, nor has the Ukrainian army seized territory in the Russian border. Given this, Johnson concludes:
" All these media squirrels are meaningless gestures invented by Ukrainian psy-ops fighters to divert attention from the disaster in Azovstal and the bad news flowing from the Donbas."
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All of this can only be described as a disinformation campaign, coupled with a kind of narrative improvisation, in the face of the disaster of having achieved the surrender of the most important Ukrainian combat corps outside the formal structures of the Kiev army, both because of its political-police-military position as for what it means as a "resistance" component against the Russian army and its allies in Donbas, Mariupol being the germinal headquarters of the Azov neo-Nazis.
That is why the journalist and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar did not hesitate to headline Western news again as follows: "NATO surrenders in Azovstal."
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Igor Mosiychuk,
“Crimea will be Ukrainian or will be depopulated”
Originally published: Donbass-Insider on May 19, 2022 by Laurent Brayard (more by Donbass-Insider) (Posted May 20, 2022)
If you do not know this sordid character, you should know that the man is one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi party Pravy Sektor, a party that is very influential in military circles and very active in repression and assassinations. Pravy Sektor units were at work on the Donbass front, in Mariupol in particular, but also in all the cities of Ukraine to repress and persecute ethnic Russians, who would have had the intention of resisting, even through their culture or their language. Activists of this anti-Semitic and ultra-violent party participated not only in the Mayan, but also in the massacres in Odessa (May 2, 2014), and then in Mariupol (May 9), not to mention of course the Donbass. In my continuing research to try to show that decidedly yes, there are many neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist extremists, here is now a character who is a caricature in his own right, Igor Mosyichuk.
From the nostalgic UPA massacres to the National Socialist Party of Ukraine. Mosiychuk was born in 1972 in the Poltava region of central Ukraine. Unlike many ultranationalist leaders, he did not study, but did his military service in the Soviet army. It was after the army that he started militant activities, first as an author of articles in an oriented press, advocating the ideals of the Great Ukraine, the white superior race, anti-Semitism and ultranationalism. He joined the UNA-UNSO (1994), one of the most violent neo-Nazi parties in Ukraine, which was also led by Yuri Shukhevych, the son of Roman, one of the “heroes” adulated by today’s Ukraine. Shukhevych had been one of the most active participants in the Nazi-orchestrated Holocaust by bullets (1941-1943) on the Eastern Front. He was one of the worst collaborators of Hitler’s Germany, killed with his weapons (1950). The UNA-UNSO, which was founded in Lvov (1990), provided fighters for the Transnistrian War, a civil war in Moldova which saw the defeat of Moldovan and Romanian ultranationalists who wanted to enslave the ethnic Russians in this region of former Bessarabia. It had also sent fighters to fight Russia in Chechnya, a war that was also lost. The party then campaigned for the rehabilitation of the UPA’s Nazi collaborators (now done), and then sent fighters to Georgia, in a new lost war (2008). In the meantime, the party supported the candidacy of President Yushchenko (whose wife is an American of Ukrainian origin and a CIA agent), before merging with Yaroch’s neo-Nazi party, the Pravy Sektor (2014).
From criminal and terrorist to Maidan glory. However, Mosiychuk followed a different path, joining the National Socialist Party of Ukraine, Svoboda (1998), of neo-Nazi Oleg Tiahnybok. At that time, he integrated the paramilitary organisation of this party, The Patriots of Ukraine, which was dissolved (2004), then re-founded (2005), and officially separated from Svoboda (2007). This branch was indeed even more extremist than this party (that’s saying something!). During this time he first worked as an adviser to Rada deputy Yuri Tyma and had a run-in with the law. He was arrested once for fraud and sentenced to 6 months in prison, but was released thanks to interventions by crooked politicians. A second case soon broke out, being accused of theft (2006), and then for non-payment of alimony, cases which remained unresolved. After Yanukovych came to power (2010), he was soon arrested as a city councilor with two neo-Nazis, Sergei Bevza and Vladimir Spahr, in possession of an explosive device (2011). The investigation revealed that he was planning an attack on the Lenin monument in Borispol, not far from Kiev, as well as a terrorist attack in Kiev on Independence Day. He and his accomplice Bevza were thrown into prison, and remained in pre-trial detention for a long time (2011-2014). The famous Maïdan revolution of “dignity” seriously disrupted his trial, sentenced to 6 years in prison (10 January 2014), the ultranationalist tide swept away everything in its path. He was soon released under the delirious pressure of the armed Maidan militias, and rehabilitated by a law voted by the Rada, declaring a general amnesty for all “political prisoners” (February 2014). Soon, the Kiev Court of Appeal cleared the two men of all charges, and they were finally acquitted (February 2015).
Beatings and death threats in the Rada. Having become an emblematic figure in the Ukraine of the Mayan, he immediately issued threats against Crimea (24 February 2014), indicating that a “friendship train” would come to clean up the peninsula. After the Odessa massacre, he declared that “this was the first victory against the secular enemy”. At the time, he was also deputy commander for public relations of the Azov battalion, which was mainly made up of members of the Nazi party Pravy Sektor, which he himself had joined on his release from prison. He distinguished himself in the Azov uniform by making police officers kneel down, weapons in hand, after they dared to stop his vehicle without a number plate and declared: ‘Now you will remember forever who Azov is’. (22 May). He had no trouble getting elected to the Kyiv City Council (25 May 2014), and even as a deputy in the Rada (November), soon making a name for himself with incessant provocations. After Ukrainian sabotage in Crimea partially deprived it of electricity, he made the following statement:
In addition to the food blockade of Crimea, Ukraine and Ukrainians must implement three main steps for the rapid liberation of Crimea from the Moscow invaders: 1) continue the energy blockade of Crimea by all possible means, 2) cut off the water supply to the occupied peninsula 3) stop the supply and transit of gas to temporarily occupied Crimea. If the Kiev regime does not take these steps to liberate the peninsula occupied by Moscow’s invaders, Ukrainians have a duty to fight for the liberation of Crimea without any mandate or permission from the ruling authorities. Remember that Crimea must be Ukrainian or deserted.
He then took up the cause of the Chechen Islamists (9 December), welcoming the opening of a second front against Russia, following bomb attacks. A criminal case was opened against him for apology and support of terrorism. He interposed himself between the judiciary and 14 teenagers arrested for destroying a plaque commemorating Marshal Zhukov, and by intimidation obtained their release (May 2015). His boundless violence exploded when, together with another neo-Nazi MP, Andrei Lozovoy, he beat up political opponent Alexander Baraboshko and TV presenter Alexei Durneva (21 July). Still unmolested, he threatened to kill MP and doctor Larissa Kulbatch, saying “I shot people like you”, and then beat a private citizen in his car in Odessa (August). This time, having gone really too far, the Kiev regime, embarrassed by his violent actions and crimes, lifted his parliamentary immunity and had him arrested, after a stormy session punctuated by insults and fights in the Rada (17 September).
In total and absolute impunity. The man was quickly exposed for several offences: corruption following bribes, racketeering, abuse of power in the framework of his functions as a deputy, vandalism and hooliganism, death threats against civil servants, interference in the judicial system and finally threats against magistrates. Like his neo-Nazi comrade, Savtchenko of the Aidar battalion imprisoned in Russia, he went on hunger strike, but had to withdraw his candidacy for the municipal elections in Kiev. Efforts to have him released failed, although the court provided concrete evidence of a bribe he had received (October), but his detention ended at the end of his custody (15 November). Under pressure from Poroshenko’s government, the Supreme Court of Ukraine annulled the vote of the Rada deputies and declared the prosecution of Mosiychuk illegal (March-May 2016), demonstrating, if it were still necessary, that there was a great deal of collusion between neo-Nazi circles and the regime. He continued to make headlines with shameless scandals, first by deserting the Rada benches, and soon photographed on ‘holiday’ in Dubai (October), at the expense of the princess. In trouble, it was proved that he had used a diplomatic passport (which he was not supposed to use), and once again fell through the cracks.
He again assaulted a former parliamentary assistant of political opponent Victor Medvedchuk in the Rada (16 November). He was again caught red-handed, several times, in the Rada, pushing the voting buttons of other deputies (2016-2017), always escaping punishment. He again attacked MP Sergei Kaplin in the Pechersk District Court in Kyiv (18 July 2017). He attacked social democratic party activists in a drunken state, tore up flags and trampled on them, then spat in the MP’s face and threw himself at him. Continuing his circus, during a television broadcast, he attacked the Georgian defector Saakashvili, chasing him with a cane (November), after a memorable spat. He escaped a bomb attack, which killed a police officer and a retired lieutenant-colonel in the streets of Kiev (25 October). Without any restraint, he started a general brawl in the Ternopol Regional Council (5 June 2018), by assaulting a deputy of this council, which ended with chairs. The cup still not being full, he again got into a long brawl with the doctor of political science Semchenko (24 December), live on the TV set of the NewsOne channel. Having been separated and Semchenko having left the studio, he found him at the exit to attack him again with his famous cane.
The end of the show and the return to darkness. At the end of his mandate, he was fined for violating the law on electoral campaigning (12 April 2019), having published information on social networks during the day of the 1st round of the presidential election (31 March). He indicated that he did not want to stand for re-election to the Rada assembly, but was indeed a candidate. He was very cumbersome, literally and figuratively, and having destroyed what little legitimacy he had to sit, he scored only 1% and was finally ousted (May). Russia started a new criminal case against him over the attack he and other neo-Nazi MPs had committed against the Russian embassy in Kiev in 2016 (December 2019). This case led to an arrest warrant issued by a Moscow court (2020). Although he had probably never set foot in the University of Lvov, he had graduated in business law from this university (2017). He reappeared when the Kiev prosecutor’s office announced the end of the preliminary investigation into the attack on him in late 2017. He had stated in this connection that he had been the target of special Russian agents… The prosecutor’s office did not accept this theory and two Ukrainian citizens on the run were to be tried in absentia (17 February 2021).
He has now disappeared completely from the scene, blending into the background and little is visible of him since the heyday of his antics. Very thinned out in the latest photos available, the question remains as to his true geolocation. He had an open conflict with Chechen President Kadyrov, and had threatened each other with death. With the sending of a Chechen division to the field of the special operation in Russia, it is possible that he is on the run… becoming a simple refugee in a hotel in Poland or elsewhere. Still, men like him have been the cancer of Ukraine for years. Enjoying unheard of immunity, even for a Ukrainian thug in his own country, we can honestly question why he has been such an almost unwavering supporter of the Ukrainian regime throughout this period. In 2014, the neo-Nazi party of which he is a member, Pravy Sektor, registered around 350,000 across Ukraine. In the West, and it was a phrase uttered by Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2015:
there are no Nazis in Ukraine but a democratic regime and patriots.
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Russell Bentley: “The U.S. and NATO Are Waging War With Russia in Ukraine… but Russia is Assured of Victory”
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on MAY 19, 2022
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Russell Bentley has been living in the Donetsk People’s Republic for eight years where he now has obtained official citizenship.
Western news media are spinning wild delusions about Russia facing failure and defeat in Ukraine, says Russell Bentley, a former American soldier who has been fighting and living in the Donbass for the past eight years. In the following interview for Strategic Culture Foundation, he says Russia is assured of a stunning victory to defeat not just the Kiev regime but also its handlers in the U.S. and NATO powers.
This week, the New York Times and BBC, for example, belatedly and begrudgingly admitted that Russia had “triumphed” in Mariupol, the southern port city where for weeks the same Western media have been lionizing the “brave defenders” belonging to the NATO-sponsored and openly Nazi-affiliated Azov Battalion.
Russell Bentley has gained an international following for his courage and truth-telling. In this interview, he also bears testimony to the ravages and war crimes committed by what he calls the Nazi Kiev regime against the civilian population. He says it was vital that Russia launched its special military operation (Operation Z) on February 24 because the Kiev regime and the United States in concert with other NATO powers were planning a major deadly offensive against the Donbass. That offensive was pre-empted by Russia’s intervention. He says that while Russia has the military upper hand, the NATO powers are up to their necks in this conflict in a way that threatens a full-on world war. And the Western media are misleading the public about the grave dangers, cynically spouting lies about “defending Ukraine” instead of the reality that the U.S., NATO and the European Union are supporting Nazis and war criminals. He traces a historical political line back to the Second World War and how the Western powers assimilated German Nazi remnants into their power structures with baleful consequences that are manifest today.
Originally from Texas, Russell Bentley has been living in the Donetsk People’s Republic for eight years where he now has obtained official citizenship. He left the United States in late 2014 to join the DPR army to defend the breakaway republic from the NATO-backed Kiev regime. He said the suffering of innocent people at the hands of “NATO Nazis” compelled him to volunteer. Bentley has fought on the frontlines where he has seen many of his comrades-in-arms killed. He recently attended the funeral of one of them, Sergey Lysenko, a fighter and poet who was killed in the battle for Volnavaha on May 9, Victory Day. More recently, he has been broadcasting and working in communications to convey to the world what is really happening in the Donbass and Ukraine. He wryly points out that his broadcasting videos have been censored by Youtube while the U.S.-owned media platform continues to permit Ukrainian Nazi battalions to pump out their propaganda.
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Question: Western news media have been full of reports on how Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine is a failure. From the perspective of people on the ground in Donbass, how is Russia’s campaign going?
Russell Bentley: A lot of people in Donbass and Russia are concerned about the pace and even the conduct of Operation Z, especially in its early stages. In the beginning, some serious mistakes were made, but this is inevitable in every war. Russia has genuinely made every effort to minimize civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure, what U.S. Nazis call “collateral damage” when their military invades and destroys countries. The U.S. regime has had total control of all political and military policies and decisions in Ukraine since 2014, and that includes the Ukrop [Ukrainian military] Nazis’ decision to use civilian human shields and to maximize death and destruction. Russia has faced an absolutely ruthless, even diabolical enemy while trying to maintain honor and morality by upholding and conforming to the laws of war, and setting a humane example. It is like a boxer using Marquis de Queensbury rules trying to fight an MMA fighter who also has brass knuckles and a knife. But the boxer is winning – militarily, economically, and politically.
Russia is winning, and we will win. Neither the Ukrainian military nor all of NATO can or will stop Russia from the complete accomplishment of all of the goals set for Operation Z. Nazified Ukraine, under the control of U.S., EU and NATO Nazis, is an existential threat to Russia, and Russia will deal with it as such. Ukraine will be de-nazified and de-militarized as far as Russia deems necessary. Of that, you can be certain.
The fact is that Russia has actually achieved a stunning victory. Standard military doctrine dictates an assault force requires a 3-to-1 numerical superiority to have a reasonable chance of victory, and Russia has achieved all its strategic goals thus far with an assault force of less than 1-to-1. The casualty reports from both sides should be taken with a grain of salt, but no serious observer can deny that Russia has dealt strategic losses to Ukrop army men and equipment while maintaining their own numbers at militarily acceptable and operational levels. Russia has used a small fraction (about 15 percent) of its military capabilities so far in Ukraine. The armchair Generals and keyboard commandos who criticize Russia’s military operations in Ukraine are for the most part far too ignorant of military tactics and strategy to even be considered qualified to have an opinion on the subject, so they should be silent. Don’t worry, we got this.
Question: There have been muted admissions in Western media that the United States is supplying intelligence to help the Kiev regime forces to target Russian troops. Have you seen much evidence of the U.S. and NATO providing intelligence to enable Kiev military operations?
Russell Bentley: Yes. The U.S., along with their EU and NATO henchmen, have had complete political, economic and military control over Ukraine since 2014. Every dead civilian and soldier, every person crippled for life, every blown-up or burned-down house, every psychologically traumatized child, every hungry, homeless dog and cat, on both sides, are absolutely and primarily the criminal responsibility of the genuine Nazis who own and control the U.S., EU, and Ukrainian regimes, and their militaries. The entire Ukraine war, ongoing since 2014 is in reality a proxy war of Western fascism against Russia, because Russia is the main obstacle to their objective of world domination.
The U.S. and NATO have had their Special Forces and highly trained mercenaries (including ISIS terrorists) in Ukraine since 2014. I can confirm this personally. The provision of intelligence to Ukraine from satellite, AWACS, drones, ELINT and SIGINT is a major force multiplier, as is the provision of expert advisors and instructors who also have been directly involved in frontline combat operations since 2014, which I can also personally confirm. The provision of multi-billions of dollars worth of weapons and ammo, along with Western orders to “fight Russia to the last Ukrainian”, lays bare the Western Nazis’ intent to leave Ukraine an irrecoverably failed state, just as they have done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Yemen among other countries. Ukraine is currently under genuine foreign Nazi occupation, absolutely no less than it was from 1941 to 1943. The Ukrainian army today does not “defend” Ukraine, it deliberately destroys it, on behalf of a foreign and genuinely fascist regime that controls Ukraine from Kiev, but is actually based in Washington, London and Brussels. And Tel Aviv.
Without U.S. and NATO’s continuing support, Ukraine’s quisling regime would have already surrendered, the war would have ended, and thousands of lives would have been spared. So the absolute moral, legal and practical responsibility for the start, escalation, and continuation of this war lies with them. Russia doesn’t start wars, we finish them. And we will finish this one as well, victoriously, one way or another. It is up to our enemies in the U.S. and NATO to decide how much destruction and suffering they will cause Ukraine before their inevitable political de-nazification and military defeat.
Question: In areas of the Donbass that were formerly under the control of the Kiev regime forces but are now under the control of Russian forces, what has been the reaction of citizens to the changing circumstances?
Russell Bentley: I have made multiple trips to newly liberated areas, particularly Volnavaha and Mariupol, where some of the heaviest fighting and destruction occurred. Of course, no one is happy to see their home or large parts of their city destroyed, but the vast majority, I’d say more than 90 percent, of the people there, are happy to be liberated from the oppression and occupation of Nazi terrorists. The reports of rape, robbery, murder, torture, and human and organ trafficking are legion, but these crimes have now ceased, and are now being counted and investigated, and the perpetrators will be brought to justice.
Russia is bringing in hundreds of tonnes of humanitarian aid per day, every day, and the electric, gas, and water infrastructure is already being repaired or replaced in many of the liberated cities. Meanwhile, the West sends Ukraine billions of dollars worth of lethal military aid, but not a single dollar has been sent to people in the areas that the Kiev regime still claims there are Ukrainian citizens that they are “defending”. The people of Mariupol in particular saw for themselves how Azov Battalion Nazis used civilians as human shields and even slaughtered them in order to try to blame on Russia’s alleged “aggression”. Russia has liberated them from unaccountable Nazi rapists, torturers and murderers. Russia is the only one bringing in humanitarian aid and assisting with reconstruction and repair. Of course, all sane and decent citizens in the liberated zones are very glad to see them. Only the Nazis and war criminals are not.
Question: During the eight years after the CIA-backed 2014 coup in Kiev, what was life like for the people in the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR)?
Russell Bentley: Life in a war zone is never easy. Since the people of the Donbass republics stood up and refused to submit to foreign fascist rule in the spring of 2014, they have been under constant military attack, economic blockade and political persecution. And yet we have prevailed, not only survived but thrived, in spite of very difficult conditions. By literally every metric of human life quality, from the cost of living to political freedom, the Donbass republics have fared far better than people in the parts of Ukraine under the Kiev regime.
In Ukraine, the quality of life began a steep decline immediately after the Maidan coup d’état in early 2014. After the new regime was filled with stooges hand-picked by the U.S. State Department and CIA, the Ukrainian military and Nazi terrorist battalions were unleashed against any and all Ukrainian citizens who protested against the coup. This led to massacres in Odessa, Mariupol, Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk (among many other places) along with terrorist oppression against any political dissent. Foreign Gauleiters were brought in and installed, such as Ulana Suprin, an American-born physician from a pro-Bandera family who was appointed Minister of Health, and then proceeded to gut the Ukrainian national healthcare system. U.S.-born “investment banker” and State Department employee Natalie Jaresco was appointed Minister of Finance of Ukraine and from 2014 to 2016, looted the Ukrainian treasury with impunity. The fugitive ex-President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, (who is now in prison for corruption in Georgia) was appointed Governor of Odessa Oblast (state) from May 2015 to November 2017. Under his reign, Odessa became a major hub for sex slavery and human-organ trafficking, as well as the illegal and unregulated import of toxic waste.
As elsewhere, since the Covid-19 pandemic economic disruptions, prices in the Donbass republics have risen significantly, and even more so in recent months. Wages have to some degree kept pace with prices, and some prices such as rent, utilities and fuel have actually remained static. In spite of an economic blockade by the Kiev regime and the West, the Donbass republics continue to enjoy a very normal and generally satisfactory standard of living. Medical care and education remain free in the republics, and both are of comparable quality to Russia. Wages are higher in Russia, but so are prices, so the standard of living in the republics is generally better than in Ukraine and on par with Russia’s. Russia has a strong military, economic, energy, and food security, so the republics can expect the same in the future. Practically and politically (if not officially) we are part of Russia, and expect and continue to have similar living standards.
Question: Has the security situation improved for the populace of the DPR and LPR since Russia launched its military intervention on February 24?
Russell Bentley: The most important thing to understand about the Russian intervention into Ukraine is that it was a preemptive defensive move that prevented an imminent and massive military attack by the Ukrainian army on the main cities of the republics – Donetsk, Makeevka, Yasynuvata, Gorlovka and Lugansk. All of these cities are literally on the frontlines, with the city centers a scant 10 or 12 kilometers from Ukrop military positions. Had the Russians hesitated, and the attack occurred as planned, and had the Ukrops made it into our city centers, or even into the heavily populated urban areas on the outskirts, their human-shield strategy would have been immediately implemented, and they would have used our civilian population as shields against Russia’s main military advantages, namely, Russian artillery, missile and air power.
It was (and is) also clear that the second wave of the assault forces, made up of the most ruthless Nazi war criminal battalions, were tasked with genocide and ethnic cleansing of the cities, which would have resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, through not only the ensuing urban combat but from intentional and targeted mass murder of ethnic Russians by Ukrainian “Einsatzgruppen”, exactly as the German Nazis had done in these same cities 80 years before. And it is an undeniable fact and proven beyond any doubt, that the strategy of human shields, genocide and ethnic cleansing was designed and ordered by U.S. and NATO war criminals. So the Russian intervention saved the populations of our cities that otherwise would have been doomed had Russia hesitated.
Since the beginning of Operation Z in late February, the Ukrainian shelling that has been ongoing since 2014 has significantly increased, especially targeted attacks on civilians, such as open-air markets and residential areas where our military do not operate. There has been an increase in both shelling and civilian deaths, but compared with the mass slaughter that was planned, there can be no doubt that the Russians saved our people in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Which is certainly an increase in our security.
Question: Do you think Russia should have intervened sooner than 2022 to prevent aggression from the NATO-backed Kiev regime?
Russell Bentley: Many people do, and for a while, I did too. I now see things differently and much more clearly. Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia, and as he has clearly stated, his job is to protect Russia and the Russian people. Everything else comes second. In 2014, Russia was not prepared militarily, economically, or politically for an incursion into Ukraine, because it must be understood that any incursion into Ukraine risked, and in fact, continues to risk, a full-on confrontation with NATO, which would have been, and still is, not only military but economic, political and informational. Had he overtly intervened in the earlier years, he would have fallen into the trap set for him (and Russia) by the Western Nazi powers. Putin played his hand brilliantly, avoided the trap, and intervened only when Russia was ready, and in fact, has created a counter-ambush into which the U.S. and EU have inescapably fallen.
The Russian economy may not be bigger than the U.S. or EU’s, but it is much stronger than either, even both. Russia’s economic, energy and food security ensure that it will not only survive the economic war that is already in the process of going global, but will emerge victorious while the U.S. and (even more so) the EU’s economic and political demise (if not destruction) are already inevitable.
Europe and Ukraine will face a food crisis this year that will border on famine, and exactly because the citizens allowed their rulers to design such a situation. It was the completely voluntary sanctions on Russian fuel and fertilizer by the mis-rulers of the EU and Ukraine that allowed a situation to develop wherein a loaf of bread may realistically cost 10 euros by the end of the year, and there may not even be enough bread for those who can afford it. Because the ruling class of the EU obeyed the U.S. orders to refuse to buy Russian gas, European fertilizer production has been brought to a standstill. The amount of fertilizer needed for adequate agricultural production to feed the population is simply not produced. That means that this year, there will just not be enough food for all the people in Europe. People will face drastic food shortages and price inflation and even hunger.
This all could have been avoided, easily, if the EU masters had any consideration for their citizens. They don’t. And they are not stupid, nobody can be that stupid. The only realistic conclusion is that they are creating hardship and famine on purpose. They are.
Russia is now prepared to face off with these monsters and either defeat or destroy them. Russia’s military is prepared, and Russia’s economic, energy, and agricultural sectors are prepared. Russia has cemented its alliance with China, as well as other strategic countries, such as Iran and India, and much of Africa, South America and the Middle East. Russia is ready to fight the Third World War, whether conventional or nuclear. As I have said since 2015, “As goes Donbass, so goes the world.” It is true.
It can honestly be said that Russia, under the brilliant leadership of Vladimir Putin, picked the perfect time to strike, not one day too early or too late. Anyone who thinks they can second-guess Vladimir Putin makes themselves ridiculous by saying so and only proves they are too ignorant to be qualified to have an opinion on the subject, much less state it. Unfortunately, there are quite a lot of people who fall into that category.
Question: Russia has emphasized the “de-nazification” of Ukraine as an objective for its intervention. How is that effort progressing and what will prevent the return of the Nazi influence over the Ukrainian state in the future?
Russell Bentley: The first part of the de-nazification process is obviously the neutralization of their military capabilities, the capture of the Nazis and war criminals, and the investigation of their crimes. This process is proceeding apace, and will continue and accelerate as Russia liberates more and more of Ukraine, especially Donbass and Kiev.
The trial and execution of the major war criminals is an imperative part of the de-nazification process. Examples must also be made of the minor “foot soldier” war criminals. Justice, as well as practical reason, also demands their execution. A Nazi is like a mad dog or poisonous snake, or any other unrepentant mass murderer who has acquired a taste for killing and human blood. There is no way to reason with them, there is no way to appeal to compassion or humanity that they are devoid of. They must be put out of their misery.
One of the Soviet Union’s biggest mistakes, which we are paying for now, was to allow so many German Nazi war criminals to escape to the West and continue to incubate and procreate the malignant virus of Nazism. Unrepentant advocates of Nazism, the philosophy of “herrenvolk” (master race) and “Untermenschen” (subhuman), that some people are superior, and that those they consider to be “inferior” human beings can be used as livestock or slaves, or exterminated like insects, pass this vile philosophy on to their spawn, who continue the traditions.
Whether German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s grandfather was an SS General is quite possible, but not proven. That Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather was a Nazi collaborator in Ukraine, and that Freeland continues the legacy of her Banderist predecessor is beyond dispute. She herself has openly admitted it. That some of the worst Nazi war criminals were not only aided in their escape from justice but given positions of wealth and political power in the West is likewise a proven fact. Prior Nazi connections in business or family are not just no obstacle to the entrance to elite oligarchic and political circles, in many cases, they certainly seem to be an advantage, if not a prerequisite. Just ask the Board of Directors of Monsanto/Bayer, descended from I.G. Farben, or the scions of Prescott Bush or Henry Ford. The philosophy of Nazism must be eradicated. Permanently.
Question: Is a peaceful coexistence between Ukraine and the Donbass republics possible in the future?
Russell Bentley: Yes, not only possible but highly probable. After the liberation and absolute de-nazification of Ukraine, at least as far as (and including) Kiev, the political and military leadership of the Donbass republics will take responsibility along with Russia for the political, economic, and infrastructure rebuilding of Ukraine. Ukraine was once the industrial and agricultural powerhouse of the USSR. It can again be the same in the Russian Federation. There are many fraternal people in Russia and Donbass who would be happy to see it be so, and will gladly help to make it so. Those who do not want to be a part of building the New Ukraine with us can move to whatever part of western Ukraine we might allow the West to occupy, or they can go to the EU to be immigrants and second-class citizens themselves. There may not be any more strawberries to pick in Poland, but in the EU, there will always be jobs for prostitutes and hitmen, jobs that pro-Bandera Ukrainians are naturally qualified for.
Question: Why are there two separate Donbass republics, DPR and LPR? Could they coalesce into one unified state in the future? Do you see them eventually joining the Russian Federation as Crimea did in 2014?
Russell Bentley: That there have been two separate republics for all these years is usually and superficially explained by the story that the FSB [Russian state security service] has responsibility for the DPR, and the GRU [Russian foreign military intelligence] for the LPR, and that there is a bureaucratic rivalry between them. I think there may be some factual basis for this theory, but I am sure it is not the whole story. While the regular folks in both republics have a great deal in common, there are major economic, demographic and even political differences between the two. But we are, above all, fraternal comrades, and we know we could not survive without each other.
I do not think and do not hope, that the Donbass republics will be absorbed by the Russian Federation. We will be needed here, desperately, to help build the New Ukraine, and I can say with certainty that it cannot be done without us. Furthermore, many here in Donbass are proud of our roots, and as much as we love, respect, appreciate and need Russia and its fraternal friendship and support, we would prefer to maintain our own identity, much the same as my native Texas maintains its own identity vis-a-vis the USA. I do not speak for everyone in this matter, maybe not even a majority, but I speak for many, including myself, my family and most of my friends.
Question: Do you think the U.S.-led NATO bloc will confine their proxy war with Russia to Ukraine or will the war expand to include other European countries?
Russell Bentley: Operation Z in Ukraine, while a real war, and the biggest war in Europe since the NATO attack on Yugoslavia more than two decades ago, is still at this point, mostly symbolic. The military outcome is already beyond question, and Russia can crush as much of Ukraine and its military as it wants, anytime it wants. Their gentle kid-glove prosecution of the war so far is the proof. As is the fact that while Ukrop Nazis bomb civilian targets daily, the Russian military has so far never once bombed the administration buildings or targeted specific political or military leaders in the Kiev regime-occupied areas of the Donbass republics. Likewise, political and military figures in Kiev and Lvov, domestic and otherwise, have not been targeted by Russian missiles. It appears to me there is a quid pro quo agreement in place. “War is politics by other means”, and I am convinced there is still a lot of politics going on behind the scenes that not even the most genuinely well-informed public pundits have any clue about.
The real war is economic, has already begun, and is already global, and Russia has already delivered a crushing blow to her enemies. Politically, militarily and above all, economically, Russia is ascendant, and the Nazi West is headed for its well-earned Götterdämmerung. Nuclear weapons are the wild card, and either side can use them at any time. Russia, if it perceives an existential threat; the Western Nazis could use nuclear weapons probably in a false-flag provocation, or in the demented fulfillment of their depopulation program, thinking that the oligarch scum hiding under mountains can survive a full-force nuclear exchange. Doctor Strangelove in real life…
I believe that the chances that this conflict/confrontation will end in an all-out nuclear war are more probable than not. Maybe not this year or next, but as more time passes, I think the chances increase until they become inevitable, without divine intervention or some other natural disaster that precludes the use or need for it. I hope I am wrong. But I am quite sure things will get worse before they get better.
Ninety-eight percent of Western media are professional liars and propagandists. What they write and say is almost always the exact opposite of the truth, and when it’s not, they are only using a fragment of truth, out of context, in order to deceive.
Question: Your personal journey from the United States to take up arms and fight for the defense of the Donbass back in late 2014 is quite a remarkable story of adventure. Yet the only media attention you have received from the U.S. has been to smear you as a “Russian propagandist”. What do you make of the lack of open-minded interest in your life journey from the American media?
Russell Bentley: Ninety-eight percent of Western media are professional liars and propagandists. What they write and say is almost always the exact opposite of the truth, and when it’s not, they are only using a fragment of truth, out of context, in order to deceive. Like former White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, they will lie, straight-faced, knowing that they are lying, and knowing that you know they are lying, and knowing that you know they know you know they know they are lying. Can there be a more contemptible creature on this Earth? Lord, I hope not.
These scum are well-paid “presstitutes”, but even whores have more honor, humanity, and dignity. Western propagandists are like whores who work knowing they have venereal disease, and willingly and knowingly pass it on to their clients. It has correctly been said that “respect for the truth is the basis for all morality”, and this saying is really, really true. And these Western media whores are the mortal enemies of the truth, and thus, morality. I do not pay any attention to what they say about me. Their words are like the buzzing of flies to me.
Question: Can you explain what made you decide to take up the cause of the Donbass people?
Russell Bentley: I had been following developments in Ukraine since the beginning of the Maidan protests in 2013-2014 and U.S. envoy Victoria Nuland handing out cookies to the protesters. On May 2, 2014, there was the Odessa Massacre, and a month later, on June 2, there was an airstrike by the Ukrainian Air Force (on U.S. orders) against the Administration Building in Lugansk. A woman named Inna Kukurudza was hit in the strike, and both her legs were blown off. A man came up filming the aftermath of the strike with his phone. Inna was still alive, but dying, and asked the man to use his phone to call her family. She did not live long enough to make the call. An iconic photo was made from that film of Inna Kukurudza looking straight into the camera. When I saw that photo, it was as if she was looking directly into my eyes, into my soul, and asking me personally and directly, “What are you going to do about this?” At that exact moment, I knew I was going to Donbass to protect people like Inna and to kill people like the ones who murdered her, an innocent civilian, on a nice summer afternoon. And I have done it. Six months after seeing her photo, I was in Donetsk, in the Vostok Battalion, heading to the frontline. Here is her photo. So my question to people now is, “What are you going to do about it?”
Coming here, I was not only taking up the cause of the Donbass people, who defend Donbass, and defend Russia. Who defends Russia, defends the future of humanity. And humanity includes all good people of all nations. The vast majority of people in the West these days are coprophagous zombies who are too brainwashed to ever redeem themselves. They eat shit, and have learned to like it, and are angry and offended if you suggest they change their diet. But the two percent who are not “woke”, but aware, who know history, can actually perceive reality, who understand what is at stake, and are willing to do more than hit “Like” on a Facebook page to do something about it, these are our audience and the hope for humanity. And there still is hope, because two percent in the U.S. and EU are still tens of millions of people. All good people must stick together and work together. If we do, we can still win and make a better world for everyone. And even if we can’t, let’s give it our best shot. What else better do we have to do?
Question: You have made your life in the Donetsk People’s Republic, having obtained citizenship and started a family there. How have local people taken to the “man from Texas” in their midst?
Russell Bentley: When I came here in December 2014, I honestly did not expect to live through the winter, and had good reason for that expectation. I was 54 years old, out of shape, didn’t speak Russian, coming to the small side of a big war, the People’s Militia versus the entire might of the NATO-backed Ukrainian army, the third most powerful army in Europe. But I came anyway, and it was the best move I ever made in my life. I had a hard life growing up, and spent five years in U.S. federal prison for marijuana smuggling, but I also did a lot of cool things, a lot of travel, adventure, a lot of fun, and a lot of pleasure. But the last eight years here in Donbass have been the best years of my life. I’ll be 62 years old next month, and how many men in the U.S. or EU, or anywhere, can say that at 62 they are living the best years of their life?
It took a lot of courage to come here to join the DPR army, to fight, to willingly face death, not expecting to win. I’m not bragging, it’s just a simple fact. And by doing so, I learned and proved one of the most important lessons in life: courage is the key to happiness. Because it is impossible to be happy when you are afraid. So do not be afraid. By being brave, I brought myself to the best part of my life. You can do the same.
When I came here, I had no idea or imagination or ambitions about being an “internet star” or a correspondent or anything like that. But I am a poet and singer-songwriter, I have a talent for communication and inspiration and my work with a camera and computer has had more impact than my work with a Kalashnikov or RPG. People know my work and my name and respect me in China, Australia, South Africa, South America, every country in Europe, and, of course, all over the USA, Texas, and Mexico. And Donbass and Russia. But I did not come here looking for fame or fortune. The thing that I am proudest about in my whole life is the respect and friendship of the soldiers I fought with, and the citizens I live with. They know who I am, and really appreciate me being here, and that is my greatest honor.
Question: What are your thoughts on how the Western news media has been censoring Russian media and any critical opinion on how the U.S., NATO, and the European Union bear major responsibility for creating conflict with Russia?
Russell Bentley: It proves their cowardice and mendacity. Fools hate the wise, cowards hate the brave, and liars hate the truth. The truth is being drowned in an ocean of lies these days, but the truth is still out there, and it is still the truth. It is our most powerful weapon, and that is why they fear it and try to erase it. They know a dollar worth of our truth can overcome a billion dollars worth of their bullshit and lies, so that is why we must defend it at all costs. Courage, truth, solidarity, these are our weapons. We must be ready and willing to die, and to kill who and what needs killing. We are not just fighting for nationality or a race or political philosophy, we are fighting for the future of humanity. Davai!
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Unfortunately, success at the front always entails faith in one's own infallibility and invulnerability.
After the cleansing of Popasnaya, the Wagner PMC assault groups continued their offensive in the direction of Soledar to the west. Having connected the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the defense units in Tripoli , the “musicians” opened the way to Vladimirovka for the allies along the front.
The situation on the fronts remains tense, but the successes of the Allied Forces are hard to miss:
On the Kharkov front , losses in manpower, equipment and concentration on the part of the Ukrainian troops are beginning to be felt. Today, our people were able to free Ternovaya near the state border of the Russian Federation.
Our border areas have again suffered from the chaotic Ukrainian shelling. This time, the village of Tetkino in the Kursk region fell under distribution, where, according to the governor, one person died from shrapnel. In the evening, a message came again from the Kursk region that the AFU had fired mortars at the villages of Alekseevka and Dronovka.
Upon arrival . Yasinovataya again received strikes against the civilian population by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We got to the village of the mine. V. I. Lenin. Petrovsky district of Donetsk was also shelled . Air defense worked in Kherson.
Kharkov direction - the front line has stabilized, the Russians have increased artillery pressure on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A fairly large gray zone remains between the positions of the parties, the main battles are in the area of Prudyanka and Ternovaya. South - no change.
The northern flank of the arc (from Izyum to Popasnaya) - the Russians fortified at Yaremovka and are building a crossing across the Donets between it and Dry Kamenka. Yarovaya was liberated to the east, according to available information , about a thousand enemy fighters were captured in the Krasny Liman area. Artillery preparations continue for the assault on Severodonetsk , in particular, strikes are being made on one of the three bridges to Lisichansk. Their collapse will cut off the garrison of Severodonetsk. At the moment, the enemy continues to be squeezed out of the suburbs of the city. On Bakhmutka , fighting continues for Toshkovka (about 800 enemy fighters) and on the outskirts of Gorsky.
The situation in the north of the Kharkov region :
Germany and Italy allowed gas buyers to open ruble accounts to pay for gas from Russia
From international. The Hungarian Prime Minister today compared anti-Russian measures to an atomic bomb for Europe, while Finland, meanwhile, is moving military equipment of the defense forces closer to the border with the Russian Federation.
Peace news. The exchange rate will be set in the DPR , at which the hryvnia will cost 2 rubles (instead of 2.5), and a big press tour was held in Kherson the day before, 46 journalists from different countries, including the USA and Europe, visited the city that was liberated and is about to become Russia .
Poland is preparing the ground for a potential deployment of troops to the west of Ukraine
Zelensky announced the appearance of a bill on the special status of Polish citizens in Ukraine . Its details are still not completely clear, but preliminary we are talking about a significant expansion of the rights and opportunities of Warsaw citizens on the territory of the state. According to some reports, the Poles will even be able to hold positions in the Ukrainian authorities.
Ukraine has built a new line of defense in the north, expecting an "attack by Belarus."
"The best French sniper" left Ukraine