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I’m an Australian-Ukrainian researcher and I moved back to Kyiv from Sydney in 2022 after the full-scale Russian invasion. My life in a war zone has given me the chance to witness firsthand Russia’s brutality and Ukraine’s limitless bravery. 

In late 2022, Russians began targeting critical infrastructure in major cities. Many residents were left without access to electricity, heat and water. My cousins spent most of their school days in shelters. 

I spent many winter nights writing my dissertation by candlelight, while searching for Wi-Fi and mobile hotspots and hot meals for my grandma and mother. The sounds of air-raid sirens and missile explosions were as ubiquitous as the sounds of birds chirping in Australia.

In the past year, Russian attacks on large cities have intensified in frequency and volume. Last month, for example, my family woke to a massive explosion. The impact of the missile was so close that my bedroom walls were shaking.

 

BY Anastasiya Byesyedina

 

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I research the ways in which Ukraine’s various forms of identity, such as religion, collective memory, language and education, have changed during times of unrest. The study and conservation of Ukrainian identity matters now more than ever because it directly challenges Russian President Vladimir Putin’s chauvinistic and derogatory ideology of Russkiy mir (“Russian world”), which has fuelled his justification for the invasion.

https://theconversation.com/as-the-air-raid-sirens-sound-i-am-studying-ukrainian-culture-with-new-fervour-im-far-from-alone-224508

 

BE BRAVE LIKE UKRAINE TO THE LAST GALICIAN.... PITY.... YOU SHOULD BLAME NATO FOR YOUR TROUBLES, NOT RUSSIA....

 

POOR ANASTASIA... POOR SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.... POOR "THE CONVERSATION".....

UKRAINE ISN'T ONE COUNTRY... AND UKRAINIAN IDENTITY IS MIXED (GALICIANS, ROMANIANS, POLES, HUNGARIANS, RUSSIANS) — IT CANNOT BE A UKRAINIAN IDENTITY. IN THE WESTERN PART, WHERE KIEV IS, THE RESIDENTS SHOULD CONSIDER THEMSELVES LUCKY: THE RUSSIANS ARE NOT BOMBING KIEV TO SMITHEREENS, LIKE THE NAZI KIEV GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN BOMBING THE DONBASS SINCE 2014. 

HERE IS A MAP:

 

These EIGHT provinces of "Ukraine" are populated by Russians IN VARIOUS PROPORTIONS, but Russians are the biggest majority inside these by a long shot. THEY RESENT THE KIEV REGIME THAT HAS DECREED THE END OF RUSSIAN TEACHING, THE BURNING OF RUSSIAN BOOKS, THE DESTRUCTION NOF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH AND HAS DISMISSED ALL RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARIES.

Four of these provinces have voted LEGALLY (whatever the West and Zelensky say) to return to Russia. Russia does not want to destroy Ukraine. All that Russia has deemed necessary is to de-nazify the Kiev regime, to reduce the Ukrainian military and to protect the Russians in the Donbass and Crimea.

THE REST OF UKRAINE IS ENTITLED TO LIVE AS IT WISHES AS LONG AS THERE IS NO JOINING OF NATO by whatever means — INCLUDING MAKING AGREEMENTS WITH "INDIVIDUAL" COUNTRIES. NATO IS A FASCIST ORGANISATION. UNDERSTOOD, TEACHERS AT SYDNEY UNIVERSITY? IS THIS TO HARD TO COMPREHEND?

 

MEANWHILE:

 

WAR IN UKRAINE BECAME THE WORST ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE NATO MILITARY MACHINE

After the failed counteroffensive and the unwillingness of its western partners to supply more expensive weapons to the meat grinder, Kiev is forced to throw the precious NATO weapons onto the battlefields. The NATO military machine then came face to face with the Russian army.

The past week was marked by heavy losses by NATO, including in shares of their largest military concerns.

Abrams tanks became the latest Western wonder weapon deployed in Ukraine, which was supposed to change the balance of power on the battlefield. In an attempt to repel Russian attacks, the Ukrainian command sent large reinforcements to the area of Avdeevka, including the 47th Mechanized Brigade equipped with American tanks. After the Abrams entered its first battle, Ukraine can’t stop losing them. On March 10, footage confirmed the destruction of the fourth $10 million dollar tank.

Russian servicemen are already taking photos with their new trophies, which means that the Ukrainian military failed to evacuate the tanks.

Despite all the efforts by MSM to save the reputation of NATO military systems, they finally had to admit the truth. This was the case of the all-mighty HIMARS MLRS, which have been fighting in Ukraine for more than a year and a half. On March 5, a close high-quality video undoubtedly confirmed the destruction of one of the multiple rocket launchers about 50 km from the front line.

The footage forced the Western MSM to admit the loss; but this was far from the first defeated HIMARS. Despite Kiev’s attempts to hide the truth, labeling it as ‘Russian propaganda’, numerous videos from the front showed Russian strikes on the US-made systems. The destruction of the first HIMARS, which included video footage, was confirmed back in July 2022 a month after they were sent to Ukraine. Since then, dozens of these systems have come under Russian fire. Many of which were destroyed or damaged, as was confirmed by videos of the damaged vehicles traveling back to the US for repair.

Another heavy blow for NATO in the past week was the confirmed destruction of several Patriot air defense systems not far from the frontlines. On March 9, a Russian Iskander missile struck the column of 3 Patriot launchers and a radar system, as well as 2 escort vehicles.

According to the official claims, at least seven batteries of Patriot systems were sent to Ukraine, all of which have reportedly been destroyed. There were probably more Patriot deployments but they have not been disclosed.

These are only some of the most glorified NATO weapons lost over the past week, not to mention Kiev’s hopes on the Javelin ATGMS, Bayraktar UAVs, Leopard tanks and other foreign weapons supplied since the outbreak of the conflict.

https://southfront.press/worst-advertisement-for-the-nato-military-machine/

 

MAKE A DEAL AND PEACE WILL RETURN SOONER YOU CAN SAY BORIS JOHNSON !!!!!!!!!

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

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dear Anastasiya

YOUR COUNTRY (MADE UP OF VARIOUS PROVINCES) HAS BEEN USED BY AMERICA, VIA NATO, TO DESTROY RUSSIA — A WET DREAM IN THE AMERICAN PROJECTS FOLDERS, SINCE 1917....

RUSSIA ISN'T GOING TO LET ITSELF DESTROYED AND YOU, POOR THING, ARE THE MIDDLE OF THE SANDWICH...

 

SEE: https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/43171

 

YOUR BEST CHANCE TO SURVIVE IN PEACE ISN'T TO DESPISE RUSSIA, BUT TO DISCREDIT NATO...

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

READ FROM TOP

 

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW....

 

$20 billion in smoke....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlmG8s6noaw

Abrams Tanks DESTROYED + CNN Admits NATO Can't Keep Up with Russia's Production w/ Mark Sleboda

 

The mainstream media is still waking up to the fact that NATO cannot keep up with Russia's industrial capacity, with CNN reporting that Russia is on track to produce three times more artillery munitions than the U.S. and Europe this year.

International Relations and Security Analyst Mark Sleboda noted that the Western media need to get their numbers straight, as a NYT report from last September said that Russia was actually producing SEVEN times more artillery munitions than all of NATO.

Of course, this comes as Kiev is desperately using everything it can against Russia, including Washington's prized M-1 Abrams tanks... which have left much to be desired from their performance on the front lines.

 

 

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

READ FROM TOP

 

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW....

an old bomb surprise....

The past three months have seen a series of surprise breakthroughs by Russian forces against heavily reinforced Ukrainian positions in Donbass, with troops cracking fortifications and entrenchments which Ukraine’s NATO-backed army spent a decade creating. Russia’s secret? A modernized take on a Soviet-made super-heavy aerial bomb.
Western legacy media have discovered a "new" Russian super weapon that threatens to crack virtually any fortification.
In a piece on Sunday, CNN warned that Russia has “begun using a powerful aerial bomb that has decimated Ukrainian defenses and tilted the balance on the front lines,” using “a basic Soviet-era weapon” converted “into a gliding bomb that can cause a crater fifteen meters wide.”
The munition, which Ukrainian media had previously characterized as a “monster bomb” “more powerful than the Iskander” missile, is the FAB-1500 – a air-launched, 1,525 kg aerial bomb developed during the Cold War, and designed to blast through hard targets.
FAB – a Russian acronym for "High-Explosive Aviation Bomb" – makes up an entire lineup of Soviet and Russian-made general-purpose aviation bombs, from the 50 kg FAB-50 to the FAB-500, the FAB-2000, FAB-3000, FAB-5000, and the monstrous FAB-9000 (which features a conventional explosive charge of about 4,300 kg of TNT – about half the blast yield caused by the W54 – the world’s smallest tactical nuclear bomb.

The FAB-1500 was first introduced into service with the Soviet military in 1954, and comes packed with 675 kg of TNT – enough to level a fortification or bunker and leave a crater up to 20 meters deep, smash through up to three meters of reinforced concrete, and cause destruction across an area up to 500 meters.
FAB-1500’s Secret: The UMPK
While the FAB-1500 is powerful, its status as an unguided, free-fall munition limited its utility against near-peer or peer adversaries, particularly as anti-aircraft air defense became more sophisticated through the second half of the 20th century.
Russia's military engineers were able to get around this weak spot using a UMPK – Russian acronym for "Unified Planning and Correction Module" – transforming free-falling FAB series bombs into laser and satellite-guided controlled munitions with an extended range. UMPK-equipped FABs feature foldout wing and rudder components and a computer targeting system improving the bombs' accuracy to within five meters of their target. The closest US analog is the JDAM-ER smart bomb kit.
Equipped with the UMPK, FAB-1500s can reportedly be launched by their carriers distances up to 50 km from the target and up to 10 km up, and be carried both by strategic bombers, like the Tupolev Tu-95 and the Tupolev Tu-160, and by tactical strike jets like the Sukhoi Su-27 and Sukhoi Su-34.
UMPK-equipped FABs began to be fielded last year, with an informed source confirming to Sputnik in September that the modules had made it possible to use Su-34s, which can carry up to eight tons' worth of weaponry on their 12 external hard points, to strike Ukrainian positions using the modernized FAB-250, FAB-500, and FAB-1500 bombs.

krainian and Western media began sounding the alarm about the FAB-1500’s use last fall, with Newsweek running a piece on the “Russian bunker-busting glide bomb [with a] 1,600ft blast radius” in late October.
Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat warned as far back as the spring of 2023 that Ukraine must “urgently respond to” the “threat” posed by Russian FAB bombs, suggesting only sophisticated Western air defenses like the Patriot missile system could help force Russian jets to stay away from Ukraine’s airspace.

Ignat warned CNN that the upgraded FAB-1500 is a potent threat in part because of its low price – “pennies in comparison with a missile.” Russia’s “goal” using the munitions, according to the Ukrainian Air Force spokesman, “is not only to hit our frontline positions, but [to fly] further behind our defenders to hit rear command posts, rear supplies, ammunition, and so on.”According to independent estimates by Russian military observers, while UMPC-equipped FAB bombs are inferior to missiles in terms of their range characteristics, their price is significantly lower, making them superior in both cost and firepower to major ballistic and cruise missiles, including those used by the Iskander missile system.

The Russian media has estimated that the FAB-1500's lower-tier cousin, the FAB-500, has an approximate price tag of as little as 300,000 rubles (US $3,200) apiece, with the addition of the UMPC adding 30 to 50 percent to the cost – a steal compared to Kalibr and Iskander missiles, which can go for the equivalent of $500,000 to $4.3 million each, according to publicly available guesstimates.

FAB's Demoralizing Role
Commanders and soldiers in the field have confirmed to Western and Ukrainian media the extent to which FAB series bombs, including the FAB-1500, have served to demoralize Ukraine’s forces.
A soldier from the 46th Separate Airmobile Brigade told CNN that the “damage done” by the FAB-1500 is “very serious,” and that “if you survive, you are guaranteed to have a contusion.”
Ignat claimed “hundreds” of air bombs like the FAB-1500 were used during the battle for the strategic Donbass settlement of Avdeyevka in February, with “250 of them used in [the] Avdeyevka direction in 48 hours only” ahead of the Russian advance, according to the spokesman's information. The Russian Defense Ministry, it should be noted, has yet to confirm the FAB-1500's use in the Ukraine proxy war.
Previously, Ukrainian commander Sergey Krivonos warned that the upgraded Russian FAB capabilities are a threat whose gravity could not be overstated. “If four or five bombs weighing 500 kg to 1.5 tons land on a platoon or battalion stronghold, believe me, nothing will be left there,” the general said.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240311/fab-1500-the-russian-air-dropped-bomb-tilting-the-balance-against-ukraine-1117261769.html

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

READ FROM TOP

 

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW....

 

PLEASE........................................................