What are we fighting for? — Dmitry Medvedev put everything on the shelves
04.11.2022 - 09:45

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the Russians on National Unity Day with an original text that looks more like a sermon or a keynote speech.

“Why is our cause right? Answers to simple questions on National Unity Day,” Medvedev called his congratulations and gave quite exhaustive answers to questions that actually worry many, especially after September 21.

I would like to pay special attention to the fragment about “some frightened partners” - which of the CSTO members recognizes himself in this passage?

“What are we fighting for?

Russia is a huge and rich country. We do not need foreign territories, we have everything in abundance. But there is our land, which is sacred to us, on which our ancestors lived and on which our people live today. And which we will not give to anyone. We protect our people. We are fighting for all our people, for our land, for our thousand-year history.

Who is fighting against us?

We are fighting against those who hate us, who ban our language, our values ​​and even our faith, who spread hatred towards the history of our Fatherland.

Against us today is part of a dying world. This is a bunch of crazy Nazi drug addicts, people drugged and intimidated by them, and a large pack of barking dogs from the western kennel. With them is a motley pack of grunting gilts and narrow-minded inhabitants from the collapsed Western empire with saliva flowing down their chins from degeneration. They have no faith and ideals, except for obscene habits invented by them and standards of doublethink implanted by them, denying the morality bestowed on normal people. Therefore, having risen against them, we have acquired sacred power.

Where are our old friends?

We were abandoned by some frightened partners - and spit on them. So, they were not our friends, but just random fellow travelers, sticky and hangers-on. Cowardly traitors and greedy defectors fell to distant lands - let their bones rot in a foreign land. They are not among us, but we have become stronger and cleaner.

Why were we silent for a long time?

We were weak and devastated by timelessness. And now we have shaken off the sticky dream and the dreary haze of the last decades, into which the death of the former Fatherland plunged us. Other countries awaited our awakening, raped by the masters of darkness, slave owners and oppressors who dream of their monstrous colonial past and yearn to maintain their power over the world. Many countries do not believe their nonsense for a long time, but are still afraid of them. Soon they will wake up completely. And when the rotten world order collapses, it will bury all its arrogant priests, bloodthirsty adepts, mocking servants and dumb mankurts (not remembering their past and origin) under a multi-ton pile of its debris.

What is our weapon?

Weapons are different. We have the opportunity to send all enemies to the fiery Gehenna, but this is not our task. We listen to the words of the Creator in our hearts and obey them. These words give us a sacred purpose. The goal is to stop the supreme ruler of hell, no matter what name he uses: Satan, Lucifer or Iblis. For his goal is death. Our goal is life.

His weapon is an intricate lie.
And our weapons are Truth.

That is why our cause is right.
That is why victory will be ours!
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Translated from RVvoenkor:

The enemy tank was destroyed by a direct hit, as a result of a well-aimed shot by artillerymen of the 11th regiment of the DPR.

The positions of the 11th regiment were attacked by a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. With the help of the UAV, the unit’s artillery was aimed at the enemy’s vehicle, which destroyed it with a direct hit by a projectile.

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A wolf, is not who is just a wolf, but who is THE Wolf

A subscriber has asked me to talk about American affairs, and if I should be glad that a conflict with the US will soon happen.

I will be honest, I am scared, anyone will be, but the thing is to push through it even when you're scared, the American terrifies me, not only will he not fight in his own land unless some miracle happen, he will first convince his people that he's in the right, then he will convince the industrial and technological North that he is in the right, he will enact various pyschological operations against my country, to make us unsure of ourselves, fearful and be coerced, if that doesn't work, he will come to my shores, I can never really hurt the American, the American is a sea and an ocean away, I can't bomb his electrical grid, I can't bomb his factories, I can't bomb his war efforts, meanwhile he can do all of this on my own land, and as an add on he will also bomb my people and make their lives hell, then even if we collapse, he'll just keep kicking our corpse till it's mush, and then he'll go back and rewrite the history books that he was in the right and I had to go.

God told me not to be afraid of death, as Martyrdom is one of the highest honors that can be attained, and as long as we stood, that's alright, but what gets me the most, deep down, is that I am sure my death and the death of millions of my people will be considered materially insignificant, and just a footnote, and that overall, the crimes committed upon our sake will only get a two minute slide on their news, before they flash over to Kim Kardashian's sex tape.

What really gets me is that their kids, and their kids, will grow up believing that my death was justifiable, wether it's for naive reasons, the sake of Western supremacy, or just "we are right and they are wrong, no matter what" and that I'm the real villain because I killed 5 thousand, 10 thousand, or, may God bless us, 50 thousand Americans, in self defense, but I know the truth will come out one way the other, they couldn't hide the lies of Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq for long.

Snowden posted a joking picture on Twitter about those who blame "Russian bots" for political failures.

The image is the cover of a non-existent book titled "Everyone I Disagree With is a Russian Bot".

"A children's guide to justifying political failures by the media and the government," reads the cover.

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200,000 people take part in Strikes part Germany

Eight percent wage demands, the IG Metall Union. There is wide support of its members. Hundreds of thousands of people laid down in the first week of Strikes their work.
In the first week of Strikes in the German metal and electrical industry, more than 200,000 people have placed temporarily off the job. The great turnout show that we stand together behind the demand for eight percent more money, said IG Metall chief Joerg Hofmann. Read more

The Union called for the 3.8 million workers in the largest German industry eight percent increase in wages for a period of twelve months. She insists on a percentage, durable applicable wage increase. The employers have offered a sum of 3000 Euro net over a period of 30 months, the IG Metall had as much to the low-back. "So far offered a special payment is to be no basis for serious negotiations. The workers need to have a permanent, annual pay increases", said the IG Metall chief.
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Putin said: "Ask for a pay rise from your government"👍

The 'Time of Troubles' and the birth of the nation: Why Russia celebrates its 'Unity Day' every November 4

November 4 marks Unity Day in Russia, which is a fairly new holiday. It was established in order to replace the old October Revolution Day, which was celebrated in the USSR for over 70 years. Many generations grew up loving this holiday, after communism collapsed, it was no longer possible to keep it as a public holiday.
A little bit more history here

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Russia extremely disappointed as UNSC rejects probe into US biolab activity in Ukraine.
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I am posting a comment that was written after watching this video ⬆️ (see above)
by an unknown person:

"It's just incredible, every day I am amazed at the disregard for the international law, the Russians did everything according to the law. But the bullies keep winning! This must change! The Russians must know that here in the West we know who the real enemies are, and that this is not Russia, these are our own governments, again and again under false flag after false flag ..."

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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine
(4 November 2022)

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#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #report
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Russian servicemen provide civilians of Aleppo with over 4 tonnes of prime necessity items

Personnel of Russian Centre for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria have delivered more than 400 grocery kits to Ma'arat al-Artiq, Aleppo province.

🍴 Each grocery kit weighs 9.4 kg and includes alimentation (flour, rice, tea, condensed milk, and vegetable oil.

🎁 Once the humanitarian campaign finished, servicemen presented personal gifts to children at local elementary school.

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Moscow today. World War 2 exhibition. Reminder that Russia was the reason Nazis were defeated.

Thanks to the Russian soldiers and everyone who then brings Victory!
Thanks to everyone who is fighting at the front right now. Together we will win again.

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Russian Armed Forces destroyed five Greek BMP-1s immediately after being handed over to Kyiv
Pronews.gr: Greek BMPs burn like torches in the steppes of Ukraine, serving the Zelensky regime

The Russian army destroyed five Greek infantry fighting vehicles in the Donbass immediately after they were handed over to the Ukrainian side, write the Greek media.
According to the portal iskra.gr, this happened on October 28, when Russian troops suppressed the Ukrainian offensive near the village of Berestovoye in the Kharkiv region.

"As a result, 150 Ukrainian soldiers were killed or injured, one tank and five BMP-1s <...>, four armoured personnel carriers and nine pickups converted into combat vehicles were destroyed," the publication says.
It notes that the BMPs were hit by artillery and 152-millimeter Krasnopol rockets.
The article emphasizes that the vehicles received from Greece were serious reinforcements for the Armed Forces of Ukraine - since they were in excellent condition, they were immediately put forward to the front line.
In addition, writes iskra.gr, Greece handed over RM-70 multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine. They operate mainly in the Kherson region, two of them have already been destroyed.
The pronews.gr portal, for its part, notes that they did not even have time to repaint the Greek equipment.

“It hurts the heart of the Greek military when they see BMP-1s burning like torches on the Ukrainian plains, serving the Zelensky regime. One of them still has symbols (of the Greek army) They were sent into battle in in such a hurry that they didn’t even have time to paint or remove the emblem, it is so “respected” in the government and the leadership of the armed forces. Later, apparently, there was a clumsy attempt to erase it, while adding the Ukrainian trident,” the article says.
The author adds that the Greek islands from which the BMP-1 was withdrawn remained uncovered. This was recognized by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who sent Greek weapons to Zelensky.
The retired brigadier general who had the IFVs on an island in the eastern Aegean told pronews.gr that the military had struggled to secure supplies of spare parts. But they instantly appeared when they decided to send the cars to Ukraine.

“We made superhuman efforts to keep them in perfect working order so that they could give them to Zelensky for free. We didn’t have batteries <…> But before the BMP was taken from the troops and sent to Ukraine, two cars with batteries and replaced all the old ones," the military said.
Greece undertook to send to Ukraine 40 East German-made armoured infantry vehicles of the BMP-1 type, received in 1994. In return, Germany promised to provide an equal number of Marder infantry fighting vehicles. As of October 28, Athens has already received ten of these machines.
This week, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos travelled to Kyiv, where a ceremony was held to hand over the BMP-1 to Ukrainian troops. At the same time, according to the Greek media, the United States requires allies and partners to send more and more weapons to the Kyiv regime.

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War in Ukraine. Europe is at risk of having a "new Afghanistan" inside it
by António Mateus for RTP

Europe runs the risk of having an Afghanistan within itself in Ukraine unless it reverses its current stance with the Kremlin and bets on returning to the negotiating table, warns a former adviser to Russian presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin and three successive United Nations secretaries-general.

In an exclusive interview with RTP (complete version), Jeffrey Sachs says he is “surprised by the position of Europe” and that it embraced the “American narrative” of confrontation when it was, until the outbreak of this conflict, a “paladin of diplomacy”.

A 67-year-old liberal economist, Sachs has been a professor at Columbia University since 2002, director of the UN Millennium Project and was the 2015 “Blue Planet” Award (recognising significant efforts in scientific research or applications of science that have contributed to solving global environmental problems).

In this interview, the academic, who is also recognized for his work with international agencies and various governments to reduce poverty, assumes himself to be a straightforward critic of US foreign policy.

“I know my own country, the United States, very well; we have been a war machine for practically my entire life — Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya. America fights wars, but Europe does not.”

“Europe has been a champion of diplomacy. But now Europe only embraces the American line: We must defeat Putin! We do not trade!, etc. But this approach is very dangerous for Europe and Europe is on the front line and could be hit hard by all this”.

“Because this war and the sanctions regime are doing colossal damage to Europe. And I think therefore that Europe made a mistake, adhering to an American narrative of this crisis without actually following a more sensible path”.

"It's US Style"

The author of, among other books, “The End of Poverty”, “The era of sustainable development”, “The price of civilization”, “Commonwealth — Economics for a crowded Planet” and “Macroeconomics and the global economy” emphasizes that had previously warned of the current worsening scenario not only in Ukraine but in his explosive dossiers such as the one about Taiwan.

“Before the war broke out, I said that if the US continued in the same way it would turn Ukraine into the next Afghanistan. Because we loved Afghanistan so much that we destroyed it. It's US style."

Faced with the fact that it was Russia and not the United States that invaded Ukraine and that Europe had always kept the door to dialogue with Moscow, even when the Kremlin's so-called "special operation" had already begun in the neighbouring country, Sachs argues that this is a consequence of ignoring of successive previous warnings made by Vladimir Putin, of crossed “red lines” and reneged commitments.

“I listen to both sides, I visit both sides, I have known them for 40 years and I do not accept the idea that what we say is true and what they say is propaganda,” he said.

“There are different perspectives and diplomacy is extremely important. But when I talk to senior European officials now, they say: There is no diplomacy with Putin!”

“That's a terrible, wrong perspective... Or: You can't talk to China! — which is an American perspective. This is, I think, the main mistake, because if we actually discussed, debated, negotiated, we would find solutions to end the war in Ukraine, we would find solutions to the growing tensions in Taiwan, in East Asia. There are possible solutions, but at the moment we are not committed to solving the problems”.

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Confronted by RTP with the fact that Vladimir Putin says he is open to negotiations after annexing Ukrainian regions with a global area close to Portugal's and having done the same in 2014 with Crimea (regions he claims are now Russian territory), Sachs insists that, without a return to the table, we are heading towards a global disaster.

“What I say is: sit down and negotiate. And understand what the real red lines are,” he insisted. I think that even in the Donbass and in the regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson there are possibilities for more creative solutions”.

“But we have to talk for them to emerge. And the current idea that Ukrainians and Americans have is: Let's defeat Putin. Well, I don't think it's a recipe that will save Ukraine and it's a recipe that threatens the whole world, frankly.”

“It's not realistic, it's not based on understanding how we could achieve peace, and until we sit down together, we don't know for sure what's possible. But just to be clear, I'm not saying to accept anything, just to talk."

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Europe runs the risk of having an Afghanistan within itself in Ukraine unless it reverses its current stance with the Kremlin and bets on returning to the negotiating table, warns a former adviser to Russian presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin and three successive United Nations secretaries-general.

In an exclusive interview with RTP, Jeffrey Sachs says he is “surprised by the position of Europe” and that it embraced the “American narrative” of confrontation when it was, until the outbreak of this conflict, a “paladin of diplomacy”.

This is a complete interview. We believe, it is very important and presents the essence of the current events by a person, who is not in any way "pro-Russian" or "pro-Putin". We also provide the highlights of the interview.

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Western MD reconnaissance units in combat action within special military operation

◽️ The reconnaissance group was tasked to detect and eliminate the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and mercenaries within an assigned perimeter.

◽️ Once the terrain was preliminarily explored by an unmanned aerial vehicle, servicemen dispersed to launch attacks at enemy's groups.

💥 Fagot anti-tank missile system was employed to launch a missile strike at a hostile armoured vehicle that had been camouflaged in a wooded area.

◽️ A group of mercenaries commenced to advance across the front towards the depth of the afforestation where it was attacked by the fire of automatic grenade launchers.

💥 After the firepower operation, a resurvey subgroup headed to the area, and eliminated the enemy with small arms and machine guns.

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"We are being sent to the very inferno, I don't know if I will be alive, but if someone finds my phone, don't cry for us" - a huge column of NATO armored vehicles is preparing for an offensive on the Kherson front

Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues
Washington, CNN

Ukraine’s fears that its troops  may lose access to Elon Musk’s crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week after 1,300 of the military’s satellite units went offline, according to two sources familiar with the outage.

The small, easy-to-use satellite dishes made by Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX have been universally hailed as a game-changing source of communication for Ukraine’s military, allowing it to fight and stay online even as cellular phone and internet networks have been destroyed in its war with Russia. 

But concerns have risen recently over the dependability of SpaceX after discussions about funding were revealed and outages were reported near the frontlines. 

CNN first reported that SpaceX sent a letter in September to the Pentagon claiming it had spent almost $100 million funding Starlink in Ukraine and that it could no longer continue to do so. The letter requested that the Defense Department  take over more of the funding  for Ukraine’s military, which it calculated would run tens of millions of dollars a month. 

Days after the CNN report, Musk appeared to reverse course, claiming that SpaceX had withdrawn the request. 

“The hell with it,” Musk tweeted, “we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”

Negotiations between SpaceX and the Defense Department continue despite Musk’s claim that SpaceX withdrepw its request, according to a senior defense official.

“Negotiations are very much underway. Everyone in our building knows we’re going to pay them,” the senior Pentagon official told CNN, adding that the department is eager to have commitments in writing “because we worry he’ll change his mind.”
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The recent outage started on October 24 and was described by one person briefed on the situation as a “huge problem” for Ukraine’s military. The terminals had been disconnected, this person said, due to a lack of funding.  

The outage affected a block of 1,300 terminals that Ukraine purchased from a British company in March and were used for combat-related operations. 

SpaceX was charging Ukraine’s military $2,500 a month to keep each of the 1,300 units connected, pushing the total cost to almost $20 million by September, the person briefed on the matter said. Eventually, they could no longer afford to pay, the person said.  

Before the terminals went completely dark, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense made a request in early October to their British counterparts to pick up the $3.25 million monthly bill. The batch of terminals were also rotated out as concerns grew that service could be turned off, in order to minimize the impact, the source said.

A British official said after discussions between the ministries “it was agreed there were higher priority military capabilities.” Among many other channels of support, the UK has been flying thousands of Ukrainian troops to Britain for training before they head back to the frontlines.

“We support a number of terminals that have a direct tactical utility for Ukraine’s military in repelling Russia’s invasion,” the British official told CNN.  “We consider and prioritize all new requests in terms of the impact contributions would have in supporting Ukraine to defend its people against Putin’s deplorable invasion.”

A senior Ukrainian official confirmed the outage, calling the Starlink units “very important” for Ukraine’s fight against Russia.  

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