Russia President is trying to sell that the Ukraine was involved in the Moscow terror attack…
If not the Ukraine?
Then the West….
Not ISIS-K, which has claimed credit for the attack….Kharkiv has wide spreak power outages after the first big Russian effor to knock out Ukraine energy infrastructure….
Zelensky is replacing more of his countries National Security leadership….
Poland (NATO) is saying it may move to intercept drones and missile traveling across it’s airspace enroute to Ukraine…
As reported here….
After a NATO military excesise in Norway?
Russia is worried about its Northern flank….
A question of Putin’s OVERALL Goal in the current conflict…
Is Russia just after conquering the Ukraine?
Or?
Is Putin STILL thinking of his origanl goal of trying to get the old Soviet Union back thru military and psych-ops actions that would try to keep a reluctant American President and Republicans in Congress from giving Ukraine in further military help?
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In Kharkiv and parts of the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region, 200,000 residents have gone without electricity since last Friday’s attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure. Emergency power outages have also reportedly been introduced in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa.
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, sacked the secretary of Ukraine’s national security council and replaced him with the head of his foreign spy agency on Tuesday in a new shake-up that follows the overhaul of the military high command last month. No reason for the changes was given.
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Nato is considering shooting down Russian missiles that stray too close to its borders, Poland’s deputy foreign minister, Andrzej Szejna, told Polish media outlet RMF24. Szejna said that “(Russia) knew that if the missile moved further into Poland, it would be shot down. There would be a counterattack.” Poland’s armed forces said that Russia violated Poland’s airspace at 4:23am (0323 GMT) on Sunday morning with a cruise missile launched at targets in western Ukraine.
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The director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said, without evidence, that the US, Britain and Ukraine were behind Friday’s Moscow concert hall attack, in which at least 139 people were killed, state news agency Tass reported. He was also quoted as sayingthat the number of accomplices in the concert hall attack would increase past the current number of 11 detainees. Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council and a close Putin ally, has said that Ukrainewas “of course” behind Friday’s deadly attack on the Moscow concert hall, despite Kyiv denying any involvement in the shooting, which Islamic Statehas claimed responsibility for.
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A Russian court on Tuesday remanded an eighth suspect in custody over the attack on the Moscow concert hall, officials said. The court’s press service said the latest suspect to be remanded was a man originally from the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, AFP reported. Officials said he was ordered to be held in detention until at least 22 May, without detailing the exact accusations against him.
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The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, accused by Russia of spying, has had his pre-trial detention extended by three months to 30 June, a Moscow court said. The latest decision to extend Gershkovich’s pre-trial detention “feels particularly painful, as this week marks one year since Evan was arrested and wrongfully detained,” Lynne Tracy, the US ambassador, said. “Evan’s case is not about evidence, due process, or rule of law. It is about using American citizens as pawns to achieve political ends, as the Kremlin is also doing in the case of Paul Whelan.”
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Russia is trying to expand its forces in the north-west of the country, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said in its latest intelligence update, adding that most of Russia’s troops remain dedicated to fighting in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian security officers arrested two people suspected of acting on behalf of Russia as they tried to blow up a railway line used to supply weapons to the east for Kyiv’s war effort, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Tuesday. The detainees, identified as residents of the Kyivand Kharkiv regions, planted an explosive device by the line in central Poltava region and planned to detonate it remotely, but they were caught red-handed by SBU officers, the statement said….
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Mar 26, 2024 – ISW Press
The notion that the war is unwinnable because of Russia’s dominance is a Russian information operation, which gives us a glimpse of the Kremlin’s real strategy and only real hope of success. The Kremlin must get the United States to the sidelines, allowing Russia to fight Ukraine in isolation and then proceed to Moscow’s next targets, which Russia will also seek to isolate. The Kremlin needs the United States to choose inaction and embrace the false inevitability that Russia will prevail in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s center of gravity is his ability to shape the will and decisions of the West, Ukraine, and Russia itself.
Mar 26, 2024 – ISW Press
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that the Crocus City Hall attackers originally fled toward Belarus not Ukraine, directly undermining the Kremlin narrative on Ukraine’s involvement, possibly to head off questions about why the attackers headed toward Belarus in the first place. During a visit to Belarus’ northwestern Ashmyany raion on March 26, Lukashenko reported that the Crocus City Hall attackers may have been planning to escape Russia’s Bryansk Oblast to Belarus, but that Belarus introduced a heightened security regime that forced the attackers to change course towards the Russia-Ukraine border. Lukashenko stated that the attackers “couldn’t enter Belarus” and praised high levels of cooperation between Russian and Belarusian special services for leading to the attackers’ arrests.