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Some stuff here today.  Interesting piece about RU payola to folks in EU to spread propaganda.  I've seen reports (let's call this rumor for now) that Mike Johnson is getting campaign funds from a lobbying group funded by an RU oligarch --  I don't know this will turn out to be true, we'll see.  When we saw Tucker C, Sen. Rand Paul, et al, spewing RU talking points verbatum (sp?), it does make one wonder.  And some RU stuff blowing up -- a lot of RU stuff.  I am shocked at how I can now laugh at men being killed.  Even completely untouched by this war I am becoming jaded.  I am glad these RU soldiers won't be able to cause more murder and mayhem, but I am still surprised at how callous I have become.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/31/2232580/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Russia-s-biggest-armored-assault-of-the-war-ends-in-bavovna?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
On another subject, I lit into SFHand in an earlier post.  Probably too much.  Working 60 hr week (literally) and I take a couple minutes to pop in to get some UKR news and I have to wade thru that nonsense.  Kinda made me testy.  

Putin's invasion plans were formulated on Hunter Biden's laptop.  They were created while he and George Soros were vacationing at Jeffery Epstein's place at the same time that Hilary Clinton was discussing a marketing plan with Epstein to use a Pizza place as a front for child trafficking.  I seem to remember this was close to the same time Jewish Space lasers were lighting up California forests because we hadn't properly raked them like they do in Finland.  I remember all this because right about then I was sticking light bulbs up my anus to kill Covid.
See it all makes sense now right?

Syrsky continues saying the right things...
Reform is very much on his mind. He seems to have the combat vet's intolerance of REMFs, especially in an existential fight like this one. 
https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3845632-oleksandr-sirskij-golovnovnokomanduvac-zsu.html
Damn right too. 

Interesting visualization of a propaganda projection process. 
 

Range several hundred kilometers.
Please note the high quality tail fin art.

Moscow death count 133.
...So ISIS has basically killed the personnel of a VDV rifle company (in the theoretical event of a full mobilisation). Largely military aged males, and likely above the mean for education and patriotic fervour.

Cheap-thing-takes-out-expensive-thing is not exactly a fresh hot take. Kipling was writing about that well over a hundred years ago.
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_arith.htm

Pavlo Narozhnyi , the founder of "Reaktivna Poshta" and a military expert, gave an interview to the French publication Le Grand Continent.
 

I can't recall either Kh-101 hit something in the darkness or not. But realy mosty of strikes on Kyiv with these missiles were on the dawn
 

Putin very visibly blamed US in his speech ("by hands of Kyiv regime"- note, Ukraine is only triggerman here) and in Russian imperial psyche it is not disgraceful to be smashed by superior Yanks. In other words, it was planned and executed by CIA- earlier US warnings will only support this line of thinking. They are read as threats rather than genuine information, even if we actually know now they were taken seriously in many places in Russia:
https://twitter.com/PjotrSauer/status/1772268163775840437
I am pretty sure that as time goes by we will see more "evidence" and propagandists in Russia and abroad will gradually work on minds of populace. 1-2 years from now heads of half of them will be in this strange, shadowy place Kremlin loves to be in- "Who knows, it's mysterious matter, everybody lies but most probably it's foreign agents".
Unless more similar acts will follow on behalf of IS-K, and fast, original simple message of islamic terror will be bended, broken and reforged dozen times. Also Kremlin propaganda will be multi-directed like always: Margo Simonyan, Solovyov and other scum will work on Ukraine trace (latter probably soon find out extra lead to UK anyway), Putin will wrestle with heroic geopolitical fight with USA (UA is beyond his dignity), Kadyrov will keep unruly parts of muslims for their faces and perhaps only Lavrov will have new tool to show how Russia suffers from US-sponsored jihadi menace, with wink sended here and there that perhaps they could use it as platform of further cooperation like proper empires should do.
Things will then likely gradually go back to its natural life cycle in Muscovia. Tsar is taking care fo its flock at the Kremlin, evil nazis are in Ukraine, globalists interests kept outside and their domestic opposition assets jailed. Like God commanded.

How to take out the Kerch bridge?

Covertly hijack a nearby Russian ship?
 
 

The beeb has done its verify thing on the narrative coming from the Kremlin: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68657383

It's because they are all familiar with the default Combat Mission UI and think that rifles should be green. They are probably wondering if it turns yellow when the owner is injured.

I've noted before my intimation that the full reform of the Ukrainian military is where its true strategic victory lies - and not into the standard Western /NATO model but true reform that keeps what works from the old, Soviet model combined and transformed into a unique hybrid. I suspect that a military which reflects the the nature of and enables the latent power of the transformed society it springs from will be finally secure from Russia. 
As an inveterate autocracy, with the particular geography it contains, Russia will only ever have the type of military it's ever had - mass and power. 
Ukraine, being a society that is something more and different, has a generational opportunity to create a unique defence force. 
 
 

Now that Putin has admitted that ISIS did it, and we axiomatically know that he lies when he speaks. That means, that we now know that it has been an inside job! No more proof needed!
Just kidding. Of course, it was Ukraine. Obviously, neo-Nazis work together with Islamists. The world is explained so easily.

Now that Putin has admitted that ISIS did it, and we axiomatically know that he lies when he speaks. That means, that we now know that it has been an inside job! No more proof needed!
Just kidding. Of course, it was Ukraine. Obviously, neo-Nazis work together with Islamists. The world is explained so easily.

Now that Putin has admitted that ISIS did it, and we axiomatically know that he lies when he speaks. That means, that we now know that it has been an inside job! No more proof needed!
Just kidding. Of course, it was Ukraine. Obviously, neo-Nazis work together with Islamists. The world is explained so easily.

Now that Putin has admitted that ISIS did it, and we axiomatically know that he lies when he speaks. That means, that we now know that it has been an inside job! No more proof needed!
Just kidding. Of course, it was Ukraine. Obviously, neo-Nazis work together with Islamists. The world is explained so easily.

Damn! What a huge BOOMs I heard! At least three. Russians launched something fast from Crimea and this something tried to hit center of the city and probably Kyiv hydro energy plant north from the city. My wife has seen SAM launches. This couldn't be Iskander -  too far for Crimea, either N.Korean sh...t or Onix-M (800 km). Reportedly all missiles were intercepted, debrises of onе of them fell down in central part of Kyiv. 

Rare footage of tank vs. tank battle in this war. One UKR tank of 53rd mech.brigade as claimed hit three Russian tanks near Tonen'ke village (Avdiivka area). As for me that which marked on the video as "2" and "3" is the same tank. 
 

Weeeeeeeee! 
 

Scheme of today's missile strike. 
Red - Kh-101, purple - Kh-59, yellow - Shaheds, green - Kh-22, blue - Kinzhal, orange - ballistic (Iskander/S-300) 

It was strongest attack since the end of 2022 with heavy consequenses.
Russians used in mass those types of misisles, which can't be intercepted by more weak AD of eastern cities. 
This was posted here today, but I repeat if somebody skipped it:
63 Shaheds - 55 shot down
2 Kh-59 - 2
12 Iskander-M - 0
22 S-300 - 0
40 Kh-101 - 35
5 Kh-22 - 0 
7 Kh-47 Kinzhal - 0 (according unconfirmed info one Kinzhal, passing north of Kyiv oblast on route to Khmelnitskyi, was engaged with Patriot missile, but interception wasn't successful)
 
Most bad situation in Kharkiv - the city was hit with 20 S-300 missiles from Belgorod  and remained completely out of electricity
In Zaporizhzhia except GES-1 and GES-2 hit (GES-2 got heavy damages, GES - hydro energy plant), which were hit with 8 different misiles, about 450 private and multistorey buildings got different damages
On the photo - aftermath of missile impact in private cottages district of Zaporizhzhia

In Khmelnitskiy also missile and Shaheds caused destructions and civilain deaths 

Total number of victims - 5 killed, 3 missed, not less 30 wounded.
At the evening Russians launched one more Iskander-M on power infrastructure object near Odesa. So, in 8 oblasts of Ukraine there were partial electricity cutting off 
 
 

Good points from guy from intelligence specialising in Russian securty topics, naturally just observations, not analysis despite first sentence:
https://twitter.com/Maciej_Korowaj/status/1771250686065328470
MASSACRE IN MOSkVA - own analysis All the following assumptions are based on my own experience and observation of open Russian sources. The first factor is a lot of "good filming" of materials and the speed of appearance on the Russian network strongly reminds me of the информационный каскад "information cascades" way of promoting information by the Russian services... Let us remember that the Russian network is heavily controlled by Moscow. Another is the time of carrying out the operation, i.e. right after the president's post-election position was established, which indicates that it would not cause image problems during the elections. The actions of the Russian services and the means used to control the situation indicate that these services were very well prepared for this particular operation (which is not the Russian rule). I noticed the lack of the typical "healthy nervousness" in the operation of special units, which indicates that they were previously ready for this type of operation... I estimate that if this was an operation of "Putin's opponents" or "armed opposition" it would have had a greater impact during the elections... than now From a cold perspective, this points to "False Flag" operations and of course there are questions about how it will be sold in the media in Russia and around the world... The Russians are building tension and the message is spreading to the world. Best regards and thank you.   It may not be relevant who is perpetrator, but how Kremlin plans to use it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/shooting-blast-reported-concert-hall-near-moscow-agencies-2024-03-22/

Quick tinfoil hat take:

Putin secures election 'legitimacy'
Peskov says it's no longer a Special Military Operation, it's a War
Terror attack in Moscow
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Mobilisation