The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on November 20 2022

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Russian Federation special operation, 20 November. Main:

▪️ The Russian military has destroyed four US-made M777 Ukrainian artillery systems that were shelled in the Belgorod region;

▪️The Russian Defence Ministry reported Ukrainian shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant on 19 and 20 November – Ukrainian troops fired over 20 large-caliber artillery shells at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant as well as at the power line powering the plant;

▪️The radiation situation in the Zaporizhzhya NPP area remains normal; the consequences of damage caused by shelling will be clarified after experts from the IAEA and Rosatom survey the plant’s territory;

▪️The IAEA director called for an “immediate cessation” of shelling at the Zaporizhzhya NPP;

▪️Russian aviation destroyed an engine assembly shop for Ukrainian air force aircraft at Motor-Sich in Zaporizhzhya;

▪️The Russian Federation’s MOD reported that the Russian military destroyed some 50 Ukrainian military personnel in the LNR and Kharkiv region;

▪️ Kiev lost up to 50 servicemen trying to counterattack Russian positions in the southern Donetsk region;

 ▪️Ukrainian authorities said they would study a video of the killing of Russian POWs in the village of Makeyevka;

 ▪️The Russian Duma said, after the head of the Ukrainian presidential office statement, that if Ukrainian troops attempted to launch an offensive in Crimea, they would receive a “final crushing blow”.

Dmitry Medvedev writes :

Sometimes you have to respond to the enemy’s statements in more than just diplomatic or somehow allegorical terms.

I answer,
There are various cockroaches breeding in Kiev’s insectarium, constantly threatening to “return Crimea.” The aims are clear: to cheer up the tame insects around and to show the owner of the insectarium that they are still very capable of running after a piece of food. It’s almost like the favourite cockroach, Janissary, in the play “On the Run” by the famous Kievanist Mikhail Bulgakov.

So I want to remind them of the indisputable facts:

1. Kiev is the capital of ancient Russia.
2. Kiev is a major little Russian city within the Russian Empire.
3. Kiev was the republican capital as part of the USSR.
And finally, Kiev is simply a Russian city where people have always thought and spoken in Russian.
To be perfectly clear, what and how should be returned…

ZNPP shelling, destruction of HIMARS, and Sunak’s first visit to Kyiv. Collected the main events around Ukraine on November 19-20.

The course of the operation

◾️The Russian military thwarted Ukrainian attacks in the Krasnolimansky and Kupiansky directions, with Kiev’s losses exceeding 160 dead and 20 pieces of equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

◾️ The ministry also said two more HIMARS multiple rocket launchers were destroyed near Kramatorsk. Near the border, a Ukrainian artillery division shelling the Belgorod region was hit by fire, and four M777 howitzers were eliminated, the Defense Ministry said.

◾️ The Defense Ministry said it destroyed an engine assembly shop at the Motor Sich plant in Zaporizhia.

Situation around ZNPP

◾️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces resumed shelling the Zaporizhzhia NPP after a two-month break, the Defense Ministry said. On November 19-20, the Ukrainian military fired at least 25 shells at the plant, one of which hit the roof of Special Building No. 2, where nuclear fuel is stored.

◾️ IAEA chief Raphael Grossi had a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron after the new shelling of the ZNPP, the BFM television channel reported. Grossi later said he planned to travel again to Russia and Ukraine to ensure the safety of the plant. According to him, the organization’s inspectors will make a detour around the ZNPP on November 21, “if the situation allows,” so far, according to their information, the plant “has been affected,” but the reactors have not been damaged.

◾️The acting governor of Zaporizhzhia Region Yevgeny Balitsky dismissed Energodar Mayor Alexander Volga, who headed the city in the summer, and banned him from the region, a source in the regional administration told us. Volha himself, however, said that he was on vacation.

Video of the shooting of Russian prisoners

◾️The Ukrainian authorities will “study” the video of the shooting of Russian prisoners by the Ukrainian military in Makeyevka on LNR territory, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine Olga Stefanishina said.

◾️After the video was published, the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case, and the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded that international organizations condemn the shooting of Russian soldiers and conduct a thorough investigation into what happened.

Sunak’s visit to Kiev

◾️New British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Ukraine for the first time, where he held talks with Volodymyr Zelenski. The British prime minister’s office announced a new batch of military aid worth £50 million ($59.5 million) to Kiev, which will include “new air defense equipment, including anti-aircraft guns, radars and equipment to combat drones.” Total military aid from London, according to Sunak, has already exceeded £3 billion ($3.57 billion).

◾️Ukrainian military personnel being trained in Great Britain will be given lighters with the Bandera salute and the trident, an element of the Ukrainian coat of arms, as part of the winter aid package.

Air defense supplies to Ukraine

◾️France has handed over Crotale anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine, which it promised to allocate in mid-October, Strana reported.

◾️Kiev received all 30 Gepard self-propelled air defense systems promised by Berlin, the German embassy in Ukraine reported.

#Rumours
After talking to all sources we found out that there are no offensives at the moment.
Both sides are fighting positional battles, with mini raids that are more like probing the “line”.
Preparations are taking place on both sides.

All of the Presidential Office’s rubbish about an attack by the AFU in Zaporizhzhia oblast is currently a rubbish dump.

Most likely they are trying to shift the information focus because of the numerous problems inside the country and to knock down the trade case about a behind-the-scenes agreement, according to which Zelensky should “concede” something and start a negotiating track, moving to a freezing of the conflict.

Albert Naryshkin, author of the Telegram channel @Rogandar The US explained to Zelensky that they will not go to war with Russia: they have Ukraine for that!

Another miracle has happened in Ukraine: an ‘additional’ president has appeared there by the name of Yermak, who now ‘steers’ behind Zelensky when necessary and corrects him when he says something that has been approved by his senior comrades. Because the “main” president has lost confidence after the missile incident in Poland.

Thus, on Sunday Yermak suddenly decided that it was in vain for his boss to talk about proposals for a “temporary truce” from Russia. Apparently, Washington felt that with Ukraine’s energy system rapidly deteriorating, Zelensky was sending signals that he was tired and wanted to take a break. Which they immediately released Ermak, who said there would be no pause and the “counter-attack” would continue.

“We have not had any official statements from the Russian side about any talks, any negotiations,” was what Yermak said.

The fact is that Mr. Zelenski was not other than expanding his mind again with something and began to speak out of the blue. But, as is customary with “creative personalities”, he started attributing to his opponent what he himself needs!

“Russia is now looking for a short truce, a respite, to regain its strength. Some might call it the end of the war. But such a respite will only make the situation worse,” he said during his speech at a security forum in Halifax, Canada.

Now, as mobilized citizens are being trained and sent to the front, the Russian forces are being replenished, so the country does not need the “respite” that Zelensky speaks of.

So all this is needed by Zelensky himself, who has been chasing people by the thousands to slaughter – for what? So that Biden can report before the election that he stuck a flag in Kherson? Biden still couldn’t, but the AFU is only now beginning to understand a simple truth: so what next? Every millimeter in Kherson has been shot, it is deadly to be there, and it is impossible to cross the Dnieper!

But after the incident with the missile in Poland, the Washington bosses became very nervous about Zelensky’s initiatives and are now keeping a very close eye on their “lazy and wicked slave”, because he allowed himself to be provoked and tried to manipulate his master, trying to impose a war on the States, which they were not going to start!

Indeed, what else could the story of the S-300 missile that fell in Poland be but a provocation? Such missiles are designed to destroy air targets, and if they do not capture their target, then they automatically self-destruct in the air – precisely so that then such debris would not fall to the ground! The explosion of the missile’s warhead on the ground meant only one thing: someone had deliberately switched off the self-destruct unit.

Someone in Ukraine was counting that if they fired a missile at Poland, the US would simply not dare to blame Kiev and would be forced to play along with Zelensky’s version of “a strategic missile X-101 fired at a NATO country”.

That’s what Bankova was planning – they wanted to draw the US and NATO more closely into this conflict.

But the US is an empire with a long history of governing such recalcitrant vassals. They quickly and easily deployed the whole combination: say, yes, the missile is Ukrainian, but it is not Kiev’s fault, it was defending itself poorly, it was Russia’s fault anyway – and they didn’t have to get involved anywhere. Although Zelensky fanatically tried to insist on his version to the very last…

Now, the “servant of the people” should get tense: Washington does not forgive such things, they will be working with him for a very long time.

Washington will not hesitate to reach out to the “servant of the people” because such things cannot happen in Washington and they will work with him for a very long time.

The Zelensky regime’s strategy is to drive Ukraine into chaos

Reports that Ukraine has been offered a “soft ultimatum” to go to negotiations in exchange for stopping the destruction of the energy infrastructure show a misunderstanding of the logic of the Ukrainian authorities’ actions. It is a mistake to think that the risk of collapse of the energy system and plunging the country into chaos for several years is a weighty argument for the Zelensky regime. This would be true if Ukraine was run by people interested in its development and prosperity. In the face of such a threat, they would look for compromise.

Ukraine is governed by those who would rather kill the country as a whole just to do maximum harm to Russia. How it will affect peaceful citizens, surrounding countries, etc. they do not care. Expecting these people to accept arguments like “make peace, or else it will be worse” is a bit strange. “It will get worse” is part of their strategy

There are reports that there are now many arrivals in the Kherson area.

The SBU has suspicions that there are many hidden Russian spies left in the city, as the Russian Armed Forces are hitting the exact location of AFU equipment.

The humanitarian situation in the city itself is very difficult, with no heating, water and light.

High-precision air force strikes on Motor-Sich workshops – what does the loss of the Zaporizhzhya plant mean for Ukraine?

The night bombings in Dnipropetrovsk, the results of which the SBU is trying hard to hide from the general public, are in fact an indicator of changed tactics in selecting targets for “calibration”. Over the past month, we have witnessed the most massive high-precision SSU strikes, with 90% of the targets hit being energy infrastructure.

Recent attacks, however, targeted one of Ukraine’s main systemically important enterprises. And the choice of this target has several reasons.

First, Motor Sich is one of the leading enterprises in manufacturing, servicing, and repairing aircraft. First and foremost, we are talking about the Soviet-made Mi-8 and Mi-24 combat helicopters. Taking into account that these machines are supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces as part of the lend-lease, the destruction of the Zaporizhzhya plant will create big problems for maintaining these machines in airworthy condition.

Secondly, Motor Sich is well suited to the mass production of industrial gas turbines that can be used to generate electricity. In light of recent events, the demand for such systems in Ukraine is very high.

Thirdly, it should be said that until recently Motor Sich and its subsidiaries were not exposed to any fire. We cannot be 100% sure, but the recent detention of its director Vyacheslav Boguslayev by the SBU on charges of treason and collaboration with Russia may also have been one of the factors that influenced the choice of this particular target.

Due to the total prohibition by the SBU to publishing the consequences of the Russian strikes in the public domain, it is difficult to say how successful the nighttime cruise missile launches were. Let’s not rule out a scenario in which the missiles will again fly toward Zaporizhzhya.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine [20 Nov 2022] ‘Today’

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I am writing to you from Odessa, a Russian city that has its own tragic history, its own Khatyn, when neo-Nazis burned the innocent in the House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014.  I want you to share this letter with your subscribers.  So that those who doubt understand who and what is being fought against.

 The situation is tense.  Phones are checked at checkpoints, where they are looking for subscriptions to Russian TG channels.  Whoever they find, a group immediately arrives, where they begin to sort it out.
 And, as you understand, they deal with the use of psychological pressure and physical force.
 In Odessa yesterday and today people went out to picket against the power outage.  The security forces and the SBU arrived… dispersed.  Some were detained and already in the department engaged in brainwashing and intimidation.  Blatant Nazism in its purest form.

 And there are many such situations.  Any dissent is suppressed, punished and considered imagination and lies.

 The struggle is against the whole hell, which, in the face of the collective West and the Ukrainian authorities, wants to tear apart the spiritual bonds of Holy Rus’.  They want to destroy culture, morality, rewrite history for themselves and force all of us to think the way they want.  Any dissent is punished by prison and general contempt.  People were intimidated.  They banned the teaching of the Russian language in schools, they ban Russian classics and broadcast music in Russian in media resources.

 Now in Ukraine, Russophobia is spreading to the full – hatred of everything Russian.
 The canonical Church in Ukraine is under the occupation of the Kyiv regime.  It is deprived of all state rights and protection.  Temples are seized, priests and laity are beaten, searches are made at the clergy and episcopate of the UOC.
 All this is being done in agreement with the authorities, who, together with the schismatics with the “bird”, want to liquidate the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

 Russia has laid on its shoulders a very important mission – to help the inhabitants of Ukraine, who find themselves in difficult conditions, freeing settlements and cities in order to give people hope for a normal life.

 This is the cry of the soul of a man who cares!  This is the cry of the soul of a man who prays with all his heart that Russia will free Ukraine from this Nazi yoke, from slander and untruth, from fear and hopelessness.
 Most Odessans understand this and are waiting for peace to come and South Palmyra to return home to its native harbor!

 Well, you can’t do anything with the fact that Odessa is a Russian city.  Nothing.  Everyone understands this.  Neo-Nazis in particular.  They are now crushing Odessa, that the majority here is for Russia.

 God with us!
 The truth is with us!