Comments by "PNH 6000" (@PNH-sf4jz) on "The Russian Dude"
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I think that you need to check both your time-stamp {12:07} and the highlighted text from which Artem is reading. I think that you will find your interpretation is incorrect. Following is a transcript of Artem's presentation and the highlighted text to which he referred, between 11:50 and 13:07 . Given Shoigu's figures, most of what Shoigu said was ludicrous, no matter which figure was referred to.
11:51 Since the beginning of the month, Kiev {Kyiv} has lost over 13.7 thousand men {when the Ukrainians spoke of Just several hundred crossing} 12:10 and some 1,800 units of arms and equipment.{in just one month in one small direction} "Many Ukrainian servicemen realize the senselessness of attempts to break through our defense and surrender" 12:20
12:20 The Supplies of missile and artillery arms to the troops have increased 4.9 times since the beginning of the year, of armor - over three times, of unmanned aerial vehicles -16 times, and destructive means - 12. 12:30
Artem: "I mean he absolutely leads in a separate, completely different world from the rest of us guys. It looks like because these numbers he's getting is just absolutely from nowhere. 12:43 But the good news is that as soon as Shoigu acknowledges the total defeat of Ukrainians and absolutely victorious Russians,it actually means good news, it means that Ukrainians are winning. 12:55 And this is pretty good. Well, there you have it. Guys, if you do like this type of daily updates, can you please subscribe to my channel? It only takes one click. 13:05 thank you so much my patreons for your support and see you tomorrow. 13:07
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@davidhowse884 Thanks for your response, David.
I would not be at all surprised to hear that either or both Prigozhin and Utkin were still alive and opening up a new operation in an African or another countrry somewhere else.
While Prigozhin was the face of Wagner PMC in Ukraine, the other operations in Mali, Lybia and elsewhere still continued to function in the way that Wagner is known for. That means that there are possibly a number of command echelons operating independently, while responding to and responsible to a centralised command centre of operations. Hence, I believe, the value of Prigozhin and Utkin to the Kremlin.
Some months before Girkin/Strelkov was imprisoned, he was talking of his possible assignment and involvement in a possible insurgency in Kazakhstan. If it is believed that Prigozhin and Utkin are both dead, they cannot be charged with crimes by the ICC. This means that they are still free to travel under alias's without fear of being arrested on charges initiated by the ICC, in the way that Putin and Lvova-Belova now are confined to only a few countries.
Consequently, I think it unlikely that there will be any change in the Mali, Libyan, the Central African Republic and any other operations.
Best Wishes PNH Peregrine
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The following extracts are offered in date order, from oldest to most recent. They give some indication of the Extent and type of Wagner PMC activities and operations.
"Wagner was rewarded by its allies with access to natural resources. In 2020, a Wagner-linked company, Midas Resources, gained control of the Ndassima mine in the Central African Republic, whose previous owner estimated that it might contain as much as $2.7 billion in gold. {4 days ago}"
"Colonel Sadio Camara (Camara), a Malian national, is Mali’s Minister of Defense. Colonel Camara planned and organized the deployment of the Wagner Group in Mali. In 2021, Camara made several trips to Russia to solidify the agreement between the Wagner Group and the Malian transition government to deploy the Wagner Group to Mali."
In late December 2021, Wagner PMCs took part in a large-scale military operation against ISIL cells in the Syrian desert.
"Written Submission {PDF format} on Wagner’s Activities in Libya Submitted by
[Organisation name redacted] (WGN0014)
Note from the Foreign Affairs Committee: The details of the organisation that provided this evidence have been redacted on request, prior to publication. May 2022
"On 31 May 2022, Human Rights Watch stated that information from Libyan agencies and demining groups linked the Wagner Group to the use of banned landmines and booby traps in Libya. These mines killed at least three Libyan deminers before the mines' locations were identified."
How many soldiers does the Wagner Group have? White House officials estimate the private mercenary group employs around 50,000 soldiers - most of them believed to be assigned to Ukraine. Of those, 40,000 are thought to be convicts who have been employed from prisons in Russia.
24 June 2023
Mali: "Since then, Wagner — a paramilitary group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former hot dog vender turned warlord — has been implicated in hundreds of human rights abuses alongside the country's military, including a 2022 massacre that killed 500 civilians. Human Rights Watch's new findings add to the grim toll. 24 July 2023"
"Wagner Group personnel have engaged in an ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity, including mass executions, rape, child abductions, and other brutalities in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali.
26 July 2023"
"In early 2023, the Biden Administration designated Wagner a Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO), citing, in part, abuses in Africa. U.S. officials have accused Wagner of using gold from Africa to finance operations in Ukraine, and of seeking to move weapons via Mali for use in Ukraine. 3 Aug 2023"
"The United Nations reported that Malian troops and their foreign security partners, believed to be part of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, are using violence against women and other human rights abuses to spread terror as part of the decade-long conflict between the government and insurgency groups. 11 Aug 2023"
"The Polish government is reported to have said there are between 3,500 and 5,000 Wagner mercenaries in Belarus. They are thought to be based at military camps in the south of the country, at Tsel and Brestsky. The Belarusian defence ministry says they are training the country's territorial forces.
6 Sept 2023"
"Wagner was rewarded by its allies with access to natural resources. In 2020, a Wagner-linked company, Midas Resources, gained control of the Ndassima mine in the Central African Republic, whose previous owner estimated that it might contain as much as $2.7 billion in gold. 4 days ago"
The Elusive Figure Running Wagner’s Embattled Empire of Gold and Diamonds.
Following Prigozhin’s death, business school grad Dmitry Sytii is working to preserve the group’s multibillion-dollar African operations.
By Benoit Faucon and Gabriele Steinhauser
Updated Sept. 21, 2023 10:58 pm ET
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Ukraine has sunk more than a fifth (20%) of Russia's reinforced and supposedly "invincible" Black Sea Fleet. Before the large-scale invasion, it contained 70 ships.
In the spring of 2022, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation consisted of 70 ships; since then, Ukraine has destroyed 15 ships and a submarine, plus other smaller ships and boats, and the Black Sea fleet headquarters building. Russian propaganda, with the usual expansiveness and propensity for using superlatives, called the Black Sea fleet "invincible," but after the destruction of the cruiser Moskva, it "forever departed from the shores of Ukraine." and has since retreated from Sevastopol to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, 400 km East of Sevastopol.
Russian Naval Ships and Submarines (29, of which: destroyed: 15, // damaged: 7, // to be identified: 7)
-- 1 Project 1164 Slava-class guided missile cruiser: (1, Moskva, sunk)
✅>> "Moskva"
-- 1 Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette: (1, B-802 'Askold', destroyed)
✅>> "Askold"
-- 1 Project 21631 The Buyan-M-class corvette (1, 'Velikiy Ustyug', “significant” damage)
✅>> "Velikiy Ustyug"
-- 1 Project 636.3 Improved Kilo-class submarine: (1, B-237 'Rostov-na-Donu', damaged beyond economical repair)
✅>> "Rostov-na-Donu"
-- 1 Project 1171 Tapir-class landing ship: (1, BDK-65 'Saratov', destroyed)
✅>> "Saratov"
-- 5 Project 775 Ropucha-class landing ship: (1, 'Minsk', damaged beyond economical repair) (2, 'Novocherkassk', destroyed) (1, damaged) (2, 'Olenegorsky Gornyak', damaged) {'Caesar Kunikov', sunk}
✅>> "Minsk"
✅>> "Novocherkassk"
✅>> "Olenegorsky Gornyak"
✅>> "Caesar Kunikov"
-- 1 Project 22870 rescue tug: (1, SB-739 V'asily Bekh', destroyed)
✅>> "V'asily Bekh'"
-- 1 Project 12411 Tarantul-III-class corvette: (1, R334 'Ivanovets', destroyed)
✅>> "Ivanovets"
-- 1 Project Natya-class minesweeper: (1, 'Ivan Golubets', "slightly damaged
✅>> "Ivan Golubets"
-- 1 Project Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship (1, 'Ivan Khurs', "slightly" damaged)
✅>> "Ivan Khurs"
-- 1 Project 02510 BK-16E high-speed assault boat: (1, destroyed)
-- 2 Project 11770 Serna-class landing craft: (1, destroyed) (1, damaged)
-- 1 Project 1176 Ondatra-class landing craft: (1, damaged)
-- 5 Project 03160 Raptor-class patrol boat: (1, destroyed) (2, destroyed) (3, destroyed) (1, damaged) (2, damaged)
-- 1 Stenka-class patrol boat
-- 1 Project 02510 BK-16E high-speed assault boat: (1, destroyed)
-- 1 Project 640 small patrol boat: (1, destroyed)
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Russian Initiated Wars or Those in Which They Participated
Afghanastan
Afghan_War 1979 to 1989. Afghanastan
Between 562,000[49] and 2,000,000 Afghans died in the war, while millions more fled from the country as refugees
The war contributed to the fall {and dissolution} of the Soviet Union:
-- undermining the image of the Red Army as invincible,
-- undermining Soviet legitimacy, and by
-- creating new forms of political participation in Russia
Battle_of_Grozny
The 1999–2000 battle of Grozny was the siege and assault of the Chechen capital Grozny by Russian forces, lasting from late 1999 to early 2000. The siege and fighting left the capital devastated. In 2003, the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on Earth. Between 5,000 and 8,000 civilians were killed during the siege, making it the bloodiest episode of the Second Chechen War.
It is really amazing that we see the same types of events, statements and aggressive military action, time and time again.
List of wars involving Russia since dissolution of USSR in 1991
1991–1993 Georgian Civil War
1992 Transnistria War
1992 East Prigorodny Conflict North Ossetia-Alania
1992–1997 Tajikistani Civil War
1993 Russian spillover into Azerbaijan
1994–1996 First Chechen War 1999 War of Dagestan
1999–2009 Second Chechen War
2008 Russo-Georgian War
2009–2017 Insurgency in the North Caucasus
2014–present Russo-Ukrainian War
2015–present Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
2018–present Central African Republic Civil War
Other sites that I check, that may also be of interest are:
History of Ukraine
Transfer of Crimea in the Soviet Union
Transfer of Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSRU 1954
Ukrainian sovereignty referendum 17 March 1991
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Another typical example of Russian reflection, as if they were looking in the mirror.
It is interesting when I look up a story from memory as an alegorical example comparing stories to real life, in this case, Russian actions and performance, I often find that the story is a Russian folk-tale.
In this case, it was the story of the queen and the mirror, with the mirror only daring to tell the queen what she wanted to hear, that she was "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: A Russian Folk Tale"
The story immediately came to mind when I read the comment by #bobbybawbager stating that "the West which has been bullying and stealing from Africa for 100s of year's.", which most in the Free World would consider to be a reflection of Russia's own behaviour toward other countries.
Another appropriate Russian folk-tale is the story, reflecting Russia's actions, of the frog and the scorpion crossing the river.
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Anyone using the word "facts" or, even more so the word "FACTS" at the end of their statement is usually a Russian/pro-Russian shill, troll, sympathiser and supporter, speking the russian language of "Vranyo" or even "lozh".
Australian Institute of International Affairs
"Do the Russian people, restricted from the global internet, really trust state media? This is a question we may be able to answer with a proper understanding of the Russian concept of vranyo."
"The Russian Federation initiated its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. By early March, the Russian people had become cut off from the global internet. This was just one part of Vladimir Putin’s effort to return Russia to the days of the USSR, when the only news outlets available were The Truth (Pravda) and The News (Izvestia). Russians over 50 will recall the joke that of these two choices there was no news in The Truth and no truth in The News. Even at the height of Soviet power, the people could still think for themselves. So, what do Russians believe today?"
What is Vranyo?
"Vranyo plays an important role in defining the relationship between the Russian people and their state. The best way to understand vranyo is to contrast it with another Russian term, lozh. Both lozh and vranyo translate as “falsehood,” but there is a meaningful distinction. Lozh is a genuine lie: one party says something recognisably false while expecting to be believed. Vranyo, by contrast, describes a story told that both sides know is untrue but nonetheless is responded to as if it were the truth. In Part Four of Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, General Ardalyon Ivolgin spins Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin a tale claiming to have convinced Napoleon to retreat from Moscow. Myshkin knows the story is false and Ivolgin is likely aware of this fact, yet Ivolgin tells it with a straight face and Mishkin smiles and plays along."
"Unlike lozh, vranyo is a two-way street. The vrun (liar) does not expect to be believed, just listened to respectfully. Does Ivolgin himself believe what he’s saying? Yes and no. Though the vrun may initially be aware that their vranyo is a falsehood, they can become convinced by their own lie mid-tirade, a phenomenon Russian scholar Ronald Hingley labels as the “take off.”
"Perplexed by the universality of vranyo in Russian society, Dostoyevsky suggests in his 1873 essay Something about Lying that Russians are “afraid of the truth.” Truth can be “insufficiently poetic,” or “too banal,” while fiction is “fantastic and utopian.” Through vranyo, both the vrun and the victim replace truth with fiction. Dostoyevsky also lamented that “wholesale Russian lying suggests that we are all ashamed of ourselves.” The vranyo game can allow the players to throw off this sense of shame. Life becomes better when everybody agrees to replace an unhappy reality with a more agreeable one."
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