MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Ukrainian armed forces have lost a total of 5,137 servicemen and 69 tanks since the beginning of the operation in the Kursk area, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Friday.

"In total, during the military operations in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost 5,137 servicemen, 69 tanks, 27 infantry fighting vehicles, 55 armored personnel carriers and 350 armored combat vehicles," the MoD said in a statement.

Over the past day, Ukraine lost up to 400 servicemen and 17 units of armored vehicles, including one tank, in the region, according to the statement.

Another one bites the dust

Аn enemy tank effectively eliminated by a Lancet loitering munition on the borders of the Kursk region. pic.twitter.com/0pvZtNAH33

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) August 23, 2024

Additionally, the Russian armed forces repelled and thwarted attacks by Ukrainian troops near six settlements in the Kursk Region, the ministry said, noting that Kiev lost up to 70 soldiers.

Russian forces also destroyed a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group in the Kamyshevka area of the Kursk border region over the past day, with Ukraine losing five fighters, the statement said.

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The good soldier Petr Pavel takes aim at Russia but shoots the Czech Republic in the foot

BY Declan HAYES

Each and every one of those Czech grandmothers in Pavel’s crosshairs is infinitely more honourable than Pavel will ever be, and each and every one of them has a far better understanding of Bohemia’s history.

In an ideal world, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova would not have had to upbraid Czech President General Petr Pavel, Prague’s answer to Kiev’s Clown Prince Zelensky. But this is not an ideal world and the Czech Republic, under the CIA’s good soldier Pavel, is far from a normal country.

At the heart of Zakharova’s complaint is that Pavel has claimed that, because the Nord Stream pipeline was a “legitimate target”, his mates were well within their right to blow it up and thereby send the German economy into a tailspin. I call these criminals Pavel’s mates as, if we accept that Ukraine blew it up, we need only recall that the good soldier Pavel was the first foreign head of state to visit Zelensky’s bunker after Russia’s peace-keeping forces rolled into Donbas. If, on the other hand, we agree that the United States and their Norwegian proxies committed this war crime against the peace, then we must remember that the good soldier Pavel happily chaired the NATO Military Committee, NATO’s equivalent to the Mafia”s Commission, which helps decide the overall thrust of NATO’s criminal enterprises.

For his services to NATO, the good soldier Pavel was awarded France’s Legion of Honour and National Order of Merit, as well as Belgium’s Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown, Bulgaria’s Badge of Honour and very many others, which no doubt look well on him when he puffs his chest out and plays the part of a soldier.

But Pavel is no hero. He and his wife, who is a lieutenant colonel in the Czech Army, are far less credible than The Good Soldier Švejk, the anti-hero in Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek’s dark comedy about a good-humored, simple-minded, middle-aged man who appears to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungary in World War I, but who gets into all kinds of farcical scrapes that have endeared him to generations of readers. Whereas Hašek’s great novel, which has been translated into over 50 languages, is a credit to Bohemia, Pavel’s posturing is a thundering disgrace.

First off, though the good soldier Švejk has a low opinion of the Catholic Church, he is only an inconsequential figment of Hašek’s mind, whereas the atheist Pavel and his fellow NATO sycophants are in the process of banning the Russian and Czech Orthodox Churches as part of some cock-eyed NATO plan to help Zelensky’s pogroms and curry favour with the Pentagon. If Pavel and his fellow mercenaries think outlawing religions NATO disagrees with will make an ounce of difference to the fate of Kiev’s devil worshipers, they are mistaken, as the main forces that are making the difference in Ukraine are the Russian Armed Forces, who are a much tougher nut to crack than are the elderly Czech grandmothers by the banks of the Danube Pavel is locking horns with.

Each and every one of those Czech grandmothers in Pavel’s crosshairs is infinitely more honourable than Pavel will ever be, and each and every one of them has a far better understanding of Bohemia’s history than a conniving mercenary like Pavel can ever have. I say that for two main reasons. The first reason is that they believe in something, whereas mercenaries like Pavel believe in nothing. Pavel began his mercenary career by following in his father’s footsteps and joining the Czechoslovakian Communist Party and, shortly afterwards, the Czechoslovakian Peoples’ Army. When the bottom fell out of that dodge, Pavel joined the new Czech Army, where he wormed his way up to Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces. With that, his MI6 King’s College education and NATO’s Commission gig firmly in his pocket, the CIA engineered his successful Presidential bid.

Although most other CIA and MI6 satraps could be lampooned in broadly the same manner, the Wars of the Reformation, which claimed the lives of one out of every three people in Lower Bohemia make it particularly apposite to the Czech Republic and to hired dogs like Pavel. Any Czech, whether of the Catholic, Orthodox or any other faith, would be aware of the rivers of blood that emanated from the Hussite wars, the Bohemian revolt and the 30 year war that followed it. And any Czech general or patriot worth his salt would well know that the terrible carnage of the Wars of the Reformation was, in very large measure, caused by the very large numbers of mercenaries available for hire and the exponential increase in military firepower that was concomitant with those wars, and that we see being played out again by the banks of the Dnieper.

Not the good soldier Pavel though. When not preening his whiskers in the mirror and jingling the ill-gotten gold in his pocket, this clown would wonder, if he had any moral fibre that is, how many more Ukrainians, Russians and sundry Christians his paymasters will decree must perish to keep their NATO scam motoring along.

As things currently stand, Pavel’s regime has not only used stolen Russian funds to buy hundreds of thousands more artillery shells from their NATO buddies to murder Russian civilians in Donbas with, but they have also trained thousands of Azov fanatics to murder Russian pensioners in Kursk. And, though Zakharova is no doubt unhappy with all of that, Pavel has presented Moscow with a butcher’s bill Pavel must personally atone for, not totally unlike the way Ukrainian conscripts Pavel, Zelensky and their fellow sociopaths have callously tossed onto Ukraine’s pyre. Pavel is no harmless good soldier Švejk. He is an opportunist creep, who delights in blowing up pipelines, enabling hits on children in Donbas and pensioners in Kursk, when he is not otherwise engaged in terrorising Czech church goers or talking out of both sides of his smarmy mouth.

Pavel, who now fancies himself as a statesman, is now saying that, though Zelensky’s regime might not get everything they want from peace talks with Russia, they should strike some interim deal so that NATO can regroup, further financially shake down Russia and strike at Donbas’ school children and Kursk’s pensioners at another, more opportune time. And, on top of that, this bum for hire wants the truncated Ukrainian Reich in NATO, no matter what the price, which Russia has already spelled out in words and actions that even the good soldier Švejk would understand. Because that price is all-out war up to and including the exchange of nuclear missiles in Europe, one really has to wonder if there is any hope for anywhere in Europe, when the CIA’s Lower Bohemian satrapy promotes such a loud mouthed windbag to positions of military and political prominence he is as clearly unsuited for as is the cross dressing Zelensky clown, who Pavel has helped to cause so much needless carnage by the banks of the Dnieper.

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