The Kharkov Partizan Underground Speaks Out

Sourced from @ordinaryczarizm Telegram Channel

The Russian underground in Kharkov was able to get in touch with us. Abandoned Russians. Theirs is not the most popular opinion among Russian pro-freedom activists.

However, while we don't care about the turbo-patriots, we do care for the the abandoned Russians. To not publish this appeal would be an abomination on our part.

Hello, I'm a Russian partisan. That is my profession.

Idiots write about the rightness of bombing Kharkov because there are no Russians left here. Other idiots write that no sabotage in the rear of the Ukrainian troops is taking place, blaming this lack of activity on the Russian population of the city.

Someday, I'll go on the air of @ordinaryczarizm, where I'll explain everything in detail. About Dolgov and Surkov, about the money promised, which never came, about the "handlers" and all the rest. Then you will fuck off and understand why Kharkov has become a sterile and dead city, sacrificed to Ukrainian statehood.

My words and authority will corroborate it, and I will present ironclad evidence. That's when, if I survive, you will understand who is a paid pig and who is a real Russian man. It will be even harder than it is now, but Russians eventually will be hoisted as liberators.

Let me answer the question that people who have nothing to do with the Russians or partisanship are trying to answer. Why is there no resistance to the AFU in the rear?

In 2014 and 2015, a group of Kharkov activists were harassing all the Ukrainian scum - blowing up military enlistment offices, sawing down rails at AFU depots, and even beating up Ukrainian activists. And then a certain handler came along, offered money and ruined everything - ditched, cheated and sold out. Then the remnants of the guerrillas were forced to stop working with the Russian Federation, and without support the guys were scattered by life--torture by the SBU, beatings by the Azov youth (an organization banned in Russia - ed.), emigration, death or life in fear. I have not forgotten that, I remember the names and the methods too.

After the most passionate people were killed and intimidated, it was the turn of medium-sized Russian organisations--clubs, newspapers, parties, circles. All this was destroyed legislatively, institutionally, and radically.

I kept a small correspondence with Yegor Prosvirnin for a long time, and also wrote to Bulba Prestolov in the post just before the war. Then I got in touch with the Ordinary Tsarism guys. That is actually almost all that connects me to Russia now.

Now we are the eyes of the Russian army and intelligence for half a year, because we want to change our country and live in Russia.

We are under bombs, often without light, water, some of us have lost our homes. We go on because we believe in Russian people.

We have not risen up, not because "Odessa and Kharkov were silent", but because the post-Soviet security services work for the enemies. We will not be silent because the war has taken away our relatives and loved ones, our prosperity and peace of mind.

We will destroy our enemies and we will get our Motherland. We will destroy the army that was killing the Russian people. We have nothing more to lose, so there is no reason for us to keep silent either.

Will the fact that we are sitting without electricity, communications and in the cold make you feel better? Will there be more intelligence? Will the AFU lose something?

No. The West has perfectly equipped them with generators, and they will make any building with independent heating theirs. By doing this you are making our lives harder, you are losing our last supporters. Why couldn't it have been done in summer, when the AFU was preparing counterattacks, training at the training grounds, and in Kharkov itself was repairing equipment?

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The Kharkov Partizan Underground Speaks Out

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Now there is so much new Western equipment that Ukrainians can afford to abandon the Kharkov military-industrial complex.

Why don't you hit the Zhytomyr region, where there is a publicly known firing range? And on Kiev? There are already too many of these "why's".

However, I have not lost hope and faith in the Russian people. We will win sooner or later. And I am ready to lay down my life for the sake of it.

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The Georgian leadership can organize a nationwide referendum and ask the question: "Do Georgians want war with Russia? 

Such a statement was made in the office of the ruling party Georgian Dream chairman George Kobakhidze. "Let the people say whether they want to open a second front in Georgia against Russia," Kobakhidze stressed. And he promised that the authorities "will act as the people say".

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A short primer on Moscow Ring Roads, which I typed up on another forum in response to a question and excerpt here without further supplementation:

1) There are four ring roads around Moscow. They allow vehicles to transfer from one side of the city to another with relative ease (if not blocked by traffic jams, which is why four have now been constructed). The Moscow metro is built the same way--with now three ring lines.

2) If the army is on the move, they need to close the roads to traffic, to allow it to pass.

3) It had not happened in recent memory that any of the ring roads in Moscow had to be closed in order to allow troop passage.

4) Essentially, ring roads are key elements of Soviet city and military planning. Nearly all major and minor cities have some form of them. In smaller cases, they are known as military bypass roads.

@Armia_Armata reports about the strikes on the Ukrainian energy grid:

Regarding the aftermath of the strike on Kharkiv. TPP-5 is de facto out of service. The consequences of the blackout have been partially offset by the redistribution of other generating capacity, although claims that all of Kharkov and the region are fully connected are lies--not everything has been connected yet, as locals are constantly reporting. But it is obvious that the main lines will be connected.

Accordingly, on the agenda is a simple question--what was it--a one-time demonstrative strike in the style of "one step forward, two steps back," some kind of warning (perhaps the addressee is not even in Ukraine), or just a feather duster. I would be interested to see how this story develops and I guess I'm not the only one. For, of course, it was all beautiful and spectacular, but the real systematic and complex effect is possible only if the process is systematically repeated.

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@RVvoenkor with a Donbass SitRep:‼️🇷🇺 Our troops repel enemy attacks, stabilizing the front—report from Donbass

▪️ The Ukrainian forces are attempting an offensive on Krasny Liman in small groups from the direction of Brusovka and Stary Karavan settlements. Artillery shelling continues on both sides. Allied forces suppress enemy attempts to traverse the Seversky Donets.

▪️The enemy tried to go on the offensive near Shchurovo, our troops repulsed the attack.

▪️The enemy tried to attack near Yampol, unsuccessfully.

▪️Allied Forces thwarted three separate attempts by the Ukrainian army to cross near Svyatogorsk. The main goal of the enemy is to prevent the front line defences from being built along the Oskol river. Our reinforcements are being pulled into the area. The enemy operates in small groups, limited in ammunition.

▪️Allied forces are on the outskirts of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut). The fight for every metre of the city continues. The enemy has serious fortifications.

▪️The Ukrainian forces continue artillery shelling of Gorlovka. An attempted Nazi offensive from Dzerzhinsk was foiled.

▪️ An attempted offensive by the enemy was prevented in the Peski and Pervomayskoye districts. The Allied troops were able to advance in this sector of the conflict.

▪️ The situation in Marinka and Ugledar remains unchanged. Artillery shelling continues.

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From @SashaKots: Confirmatory video from Krasny Liman. The head of the administration is in the town, participating in the distribution of humanitarian aid to civilians.

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These personal humorous musings from me provoke absolutely undue hysteria from the marginalized fringes in the Chat. Accordingly, I will abstain from them in the future. What would it take for some people to remember to be respectful to the admins of this Chat? Sigh. 😁

Our pilots continue to send greetings and have asked that we report that they struck a cluster of AFU equipment and manpower near Izyum an hour and a half ago.

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On Strelkov and Donbass

GB: Not everything below (well below, keep scrolling) I agree with, including the historical parallel, but, generally, this is a very good take from Caesar that provides a thorough event-by-event overview of Strelkov’s involvement with the Donbass Russian Spring. It should be noted that one of Strelkov’s only true spiritual allies from afar in Donbass was Aleksey Mozogovoi, a staunch Communist to the bone, who defended Lisichansk and Severodonetsk against overwhelming Ukrainian forces, just like Strelkov did with Slavyansk (Mozgovoi, in fact held out even longer than Strelkov did, but, then, he was never quite completely encircled).

These two men and their acts of resistance are fundamentally the only things that enabled the formation of the DPR and the LPR. While the two brothers-in-arms (though not in politics) continued their struggle, acting as barriers against the surging Ukrainian military campaign, the Republics could organize in relative safety, though even that chance was nearly missed due to some infighting. After coming to Donetsk, Strelkov antagonized nearly all of the rest of the forming political cadres, openly accusing them of sabotage, complacency, and corruption.

Those who were organizing in Donetsk and Lugansk, while Strelkov and Mozgovoi fought in, respectively, the Slavyansk cauldron, and the Severodonetsk salient, had much more powerful allies in Russia. Mozgovoi declined to enter the political fray and remained with the Prizrak Brigade (currently fighting in the Kherson theatre), only eventually and tragically to be assassinated by the Ukrainian SBU. I have been and laid flowers to his grave in Alchevsk.

Strelkov had greater ambitions and took control of the DPR military organization—he acted as the de facto Military Commandant of the Republic, even though others superseded him in the de jure political hierarchy. Those cross-border friends that the Donetsk political corps had, eventually made it clear to Strelkov that he was an impediment to Russia’s goals in Donbass. Faced with this, he left for Russia. After he left, weapons and supplies began flowing much more freely from Russia to the LPR and the DPR.

Strelkov was the one who started the brilliant campaign that would lead to the Southern Front Catastrophe of the Ukrainian forces in 2014—eventually leading to the near-liberation of Mariupol, stopped only at the last possible moment—and scored several critical victories. The Southern Front Catastrophe is a gleaming example of Russian military’s operational tactics and strategy completely confounding the American command’s strategic plan (yes, even back then the Americans were in the driver’s seat of the Ukrainian military).

The Ukro-American strategy involved the Ukrainian forces slicing through the Repulbics’ defences, splitting them from each other (along the Svetlodarsk-Debaltsevo arc), piercing through to the border, and surging along the borders, cutting off Donbass from Russia. The plan resulted in a devastating defeat of the Ukrainian grouping and set the stage for the Republics to strike back, creating multiple cauldrons, to push the Ukrainian army back, and, well, to survive (and nearly take Mariupol back in the process).

Strelkov may have started the campaign; however, others are remembered—deservedly—as those who prosecuted the plan to fruition and brought it to a tangible victory over the Ukrainian army (a victory that, in turn, led to the Minsk I and II Accords). Those others are Zakharchenko and Khodakovsky, and Strelkov’s deputies, such as Motorola, as well as Givi and others.

It is only after his return back to Russia that Strelkov betrayed his political views and affiliations as a Tsarist, a monarchist, and generally a reactionary conservative, when he formed a political organization and started expounding on his vision for Russia (to be clear, he is not calling for the restoration of the Romanov dynasty).

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I had translated a vast number of his briefings, interviews, and writings before his departure from Donbass, and I saw very little evidence of his politics. He remained focused on the matter at hand—the defense of the Donbass people.

PS. There is a lot more to say. For a genuine historical perspective, go to Slavyangrad.org and read Strelkov’s briefings, interviews, and reports from the earliest date onwards. The above was written on my phone, purely from memory, without reference to primary materials.

PPS: I have tried not to litter the text too much with square brackets, only elucidating a few key points.

Without any further pontification, here is Caesar’s take, unredacted, with only some spelling corrected.

Who is Strelkov?

The modern Otto Skorzeny on the Russian side. The first minister of defense of the DPR. He is also a well known Russo-imperialist or perhaps a monarchist as well as a Eurasianist.

He has more than 20 years of military experience. He first fought in Transnistria in 1991, then in Yugoslavia, and in Chechnya. He resigned from the FSB as a colonel in 2013.

In 2014, during the Maidan riot, he sneaked into Crimea, and help bring Crimea back to Russia. It is still not very clear of his role in this event. Some claimed he played a major role, but there are also sources that suggest that he was not that important in this event.

He then sneaked into Donbass, Slavyansk, in early summer of that year, where people were starting to turn against the Rada. He captured the local police buildings and told the people there that he was the special envoy of Kremlin [GB: He may have strongly implied that, but it’s unclear whether he actually claimed this].

He also claimed that the Russian military will soon come to end the chaos of Maidan and restore the order. The Slavyansk locals were convinced by him, and followed him into battle against the Rada. But the Russian army never came, and he led his army break out from Slavyansk after AFU encircled the city [GB: He fought for nearly two month, if memory serves me, in operational encirclement, and then left as the cauldron was being shut].

It is still unclear if he was lying to Slavyansk people intentionally, because there are sources that claimed that Kremlin actually had a scrapped plan to overthrow the Rada and send Yanukovych back. If such a claim is true, then probably he is the sacrifice on the chessboard.

Or perhaps he was just lying [GB: If anything, he may have been trying to draw Russia into the conflict by making it politically unpalatable for the Kremlin not to come to his rescue].

He took his battlion or brigade-sized force [GB: The 1st Slavyansk Brigade, as they came to be known], then went to Donetsk, where DPR was forming at that time.

He became the first defence minister of DPR, and continued to lead the fight against the Rada and AFU. In mid-August, he was informed that the Russian military would come to aid, and he should hand over everything then return to Moscow. He fought his final battle in August, encirled and annihilated an AFU unit near Shakhtersk, and then left Donbass forever. Most of the AFU brigades were utterly annihilated during that winter, but that is another story.

Lots of people in Donbass never forgave him for various reasons (lots of people still respect him as well). Some thought he was a traitor or a coward who started everything and then ran away. Some believed he was a ambitious careerist or opportunist, who brought about thousands of death. There are also many other valid accusations, but whatever the case, without him, probably there won't be DPR and LPR today (or perhaps DLPR would still be there, who knows).

After he returned to Moscow, he thought he was betrayed by the Kremlin for not letting him finish the fight in Donbass and restore the whole eastern Ukraine. After the Minsk agreement was signed, he felt to be betrayed even more, because he knew that Ukraine would never respect the deal.

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He then became a lifetime enemy of the Kremlin [GB: Well technically, for a long time he continued to be an acolyte of the belief that the Tsar is never at fault, it is only the elites who fool him, but he eventually abandoned that notion], always criticizing them over the Donbass issue. Until now, he has been the "father of all doomers". But fairly speaking, he was proven to be correct for many times.

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