Andrei Martyanov
REMINISCENCE OF THE FUTURE
Of Note.
Vladimir Saldo, the acting governor of Kherson Oblast, made today a crucial admission.
Translation: Reports that the Ukrainian military allegedly accumulated a 60,000-strong group of troops for an attack on Kherson are not true, said Acting Governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo. “Over the past four days, the operational situation in the theater of military operations in the Kherson region has remained unchanged, the parties are building up forces, but the words of the Ukrainian side about the accumulation of 60 thousand troops for an offensive on Kherson are a deliberate false stuffing,” wrote Saldo in his Telegram channel. He explained that the Russian military is preparing to fight back, and more and more mobilized people are arriving on the spot, more people are joining volunteer armed groups in Kherson, these are “all people deeply motivated and strong in spirit.” “People are looking in vain for answers about the fate of Kherson in media information and bloggers’ opinions, it’s all the same well-known information in different interpretations,” the acting head of the region concluded.
The progressive diminishing of the size and combat efficiency of the VSU (Ukrainian armed) forces who non-stop try to probe, with disastrous for them losses, Russian defenses along the whole front line is just one of the indicators of a dramatic decline of the force as a whole. Having said all that--it doesn't mean that there will be no major fighting around Kherson. VSU and its handlers from Pentagon and NATO understand the huge importance of the Russian bridgehead on the right bank of Dnieper, so they MUST attack before Russian reserves in the area are fully accumulated for the drive towards Nikolaev and Odessa. That explains all this hustle with the "dirty bomb" and military "genius" Petraeus proposing the "multinational force" in Ukraine. All of it is because of this:
UkroNATO winning.
Exercises of Russian strategic deterrence forces
President Vladimir Putin watched the annual exercise of land, sea and air strategic deterrence forces from the Situation Room. Russia's armed forces practised the tasks of a massive nuclear strike in response to a nuclear attack by an enemy.
Mr Putin heard a report from Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. The Kremlin said a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile from Plesetsk and a Sineva ballistic missile from the Barents Sea had been launched at the Kura test site in Kamchatka. Also used were Tu-95MS long-range aircraft, which launched air-launched cruise missiles.
The exercise tested "the preparedness of military command and control bodies and the skills of the command and control personnel in organising the command and control of troops". "The tasks envisaged in the strategic deterrent force exercise have been fulfilled in full, with all the missiles reaching their targets, confirming their specified characteristics," the Kremlin said.
The last time strategic deterrence force exercises (include hypersonic and nuclear weapons) with ballistic missile launches were held on February 19. Mr Putin watched them with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko. On 27 February, the Russian president ordered the Ministry of Defence to put Russian deterrence forces on special alert. This was done in response to "aggressive statements by high-ranking NATO officials.
Both times, Russia notified the US in advance of the plans to conduct the exercises. Yesterday, 25 October, the Pentagon said it would monitor the manoeuvres. In September, Vladimir Putin spoke about Russia's right to use nuclear weapons if its territorial integrity is threatened. The European Union threatened that a nuclear attack on Ukraine would "provoke a response" whose power would be "militarily great".
Editor's Note:
The exercise was at least reported on major US networks. Here's NBC:
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday monitored drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces involving multiple practice launches of ballistic and cruise missiles, the Kremlin said.
Concludes Martyanov: "Just to remind some people that it is better to be reasonable when it comes to real war. So, that gives some impression of what is coming for (former) Ukraine..."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR / SOURCEAndrei Martyanov is a world-class military analyst who cut his teeth as an officer in the Soviet Navy.
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