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From April 2022
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Hey hey, my question is related to the upcoming counterattack that Ukraine wants to launch in the spring. We all now that in Bahmut and Soledar the Nazis had enormous losses which are also unsustainable. Does this mean that the new mobilised will have to fill the gap in Donbas instead of attacking Zaporozhie?

A : The Ukrainian Armed Forces are facing a serious shortage of manpower. As a result, Ukrainian men and even Ukrainian teenagers are literally kidnapped from bars, streets, resorts, hotels, and public transport. The newly mobilized Ukrainian boys will definitely be sent to the Donbass meat grinder for political purposes and propaganda. I personally don't believe that Ukraine has the strength to attack Zaporozhye at this moment; however, if NATO secretly sends its Polish army, then there could be some chances of a counteroffensive near Zaporozhye. 

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From Colin
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How do you see the Transnistria situation developing?

Life has been quite unaffected in Priednestrovie (get used to its real name. Transnistria is a word of romanian origin that has never been used to describe the region before the region was occupied by the nazis. Nothing that will get you beaten in Tiraspol, but adopting this as the english translation in the name sounds bit of a provocation) during the SMO except for the period in April/May where Ukraine was threatening with drones and sabotage. Ukraine is one of the biggest suppliers of food and products for the region. It would be unwise for Ukraine to open another front with the situation they are facing and provoke Priednestrovie out of neutrality, but they did several unwise things before. What is worrying is the lack of alternatives from Russia to answer in case they go barking mad. The peacekeeping contingent there is small, and the Priednestrovian army was made to fight Moldova, not a large country armed to the teeth by the richest countries of the world. The population there is essentially russian, and Ukraine certainly wouldn't be nice to them.

Even if the chances of something happening are small, Russia needs to develop a plan for it. It is something that I have been alerting since the SMO started. The retreat from Kherson made choices even worse. They could bomb the Ukrainian and Moldovan armies with the airforce, but eventually an invasion of Budzhak by the sea would be needed to stabilish a land corridor.

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👆👆👆Addendum
Such an attack, if it happens drastically changes the picture. The first time, Russian troops would be attacked on the territory of another state. That opens the door for retaliatory attacks. Chances of defending Transnistria are nonexistent, at least, by the information we have now.

From Benjamite Okagbare
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I hope any negotiation with Ukraine will cover those in the Donbass and the recent annexed territory?

Answer : In my opinion, any negotiation with the West is a death sentence for the future of Russia. I am not promoting the deaths and suffering of millions of people, and I am deeply saddened by all these deaths and injuries, but if Russia stops here, the West will provide all kinds of weapons to the Kiev regime. And as Ben Wallace has already declared, the Ukrainians will be trained on fighter jets. Then, may be, they will be provided with nuclear weapons, and we all realize that the West doesn't keep its promise. They will attack Donbass, Crimea, and even Belgorod and Kursk within the next five years (if there's a negotiation or peace deal this year).

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Question

Hello SLG team, don’t you think that Russia is actually getting fixed in Bakhmut ? Despite the losses, Ukraine still has the city and will always find fresh meat to fight there and for the next defense line that Russia will make months to pass. Odessa moment seems very far to me and winter will be over in few weeks means that we will not see any big progress on other fronts ?

Answer

Shtrafbats or better known as PMC Wagner are sent to the area to do exactly what they need to do. To take losses and inflict losses. And they are good at what they do. To put it simply, their role is to kill. They are efficient. Proof of that is that AFU is forced to send its best-trained units to hold the lines there. Those units were prepared to attack, in Ua offensive, not to fight Verdun type of battle. The attrition rate is high. Ua high command will have to think over how much it is willing to sacrifice there. It's a bad situation for them. They are losing elite troops. If they retreat, the path to Slaviansk and Kramatorsks is open (although they will stage the same type of defense there.

From Romanian Activist

Why does it take so long for Russia to take Bakhmut

Answer: Wagner Chief Prigozhin has already indirectly answered this question many times. The Ukrainian Army and NATO keep sending freshly kidnapped Ukrainian boys from the streets, and every day new ones are sent to Bakhmut. Prigozhin says that Bakhmut is needed to paralyze the Ukrainian army. Russia's slow and methodical approach toward Bakhmut is actually weakening the Ukrainian army. And Prigozhin has publicly asked Zelensky to fight till the end and requested him not to withdraw the Ukrainian army from Bakhmut. Perhaps Prigozhin and other Russian military analysts believe that it's easier to destroy the Ukrainian forces in one city rather than fighting them on different fronts. 

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Question

what is the likelihood of this war ending in stalemate and freezing indefinitely with no possible winners?

Answer

None. Freezing of conflict is out of the question. Although Ua human reserves are high, they are not infinite. Also, as was already answered, freezing will only benefit West and Ua. This is actually an if-if situation for both countries. If Ua loses, it will collapse. If Russia loses, it will cease to exist. This conflict is existential. And Russia didn't play all its cards yet. Pray the God that it will not use those from the last shuffle.

Question

Okay, on a serious note - Russia has always had a great way of responding to provocations and offenses, therefore, here I am asking... what are the possible ways for Russia to respond to what happened to the Nordstream pipeline?

It has been quite a long time since it happened, so Russia must be developing a brutal answer if I'm not mistaken.

Answer

There are many ways. One is cutting the cable for internet and communications in the Atlantic Ocean. That would solidly hamper the economy of Europe and the USA. Not to mention financial transactions. The damage would be in hundreds of billions of dollars. If we want to do the similar, the Mexican gulf is there. Will it happen, your guess is good as mine.

From Tarrr Garrr Tosin
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How capable is the SVR in sabotage actions in western Ukraine. We've seen the SBU do this many times in the past year, planting bombs in vehicles of mayors in Russian-controlled territory and even doing same to Dugina in Moscow. Shouldn't the SVR go after the political leadership of Ukraine covertly by making Zelensky isolated and frightful. If the SBU could, they'd do the same to the Kremlin leadership, with the aid of their western sponsors.

Answer : In my view, bombing a civilian mayor's or a journalist's car is an act of terrorism. This is a crime, and this must not be done by anyone. The Russian authorities, unlike the corrupt and terrorist Western governments, are civilized and disciplined; they understand that killing civilians (even Bandera-loving civilians) is a crime, and the Russian army and the command have always acted in a humane way in this conflict and have even saved the lives of Ukrainian civilians who have taken part in sabotages and anti-Russian activities. We have seen many videos published by the Russian Zaporozhye authorities where the Russian army has simply expelled the anti-Russian civilians who were taking part in SBU-organized sabotages, while the Ukrainian army has tortured and killed the civilians who have even received humanitarian aid from the Russians. That's the difference. NATO-controlled authorities are terrorists; Russia is not a terrorist state. However, there's an unpopular opinion (not my opinion) that some Russian officials believe that such possible acts by the SVR will lead to provocations and more terrorist acts in Russia, or perhaps there will be more assassination attacks on Russian officials. 

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Question

The us wants to destroy Russia as Putin and Medvedev has said in the past few days. They continue to arm zelensky and his clowns. Shouldn't Russia hit them hard once and for all so that there is noone to use those western weapons? I am not saying to kill them all, maybe to cut off all supply lines, if it is tactically possible or something.

Answer

Ukraine's western border is long. Weapons can be smuggled everywhere. So, cutting off supplies is only possible if Russia would turn to ash the source. I imagine many of you wouldn't like that. Zelensky and company are symbols. By killing him (them) we would make martyrs of the ideology which would become almost religion. By defeating them, Russia would brake the spine of a "free world and liberty" as Biden said.Russia intends to do just that, one way or the other.

Question

Recently it's been repeated quite often in western media that there is a huge number of death among Russian and wagner army. I understand that lots of it is propaganda. However, is there any truth to it? Is there any chance tha Ukrainian army has found some success in somewhere?

Answer
Haven't you heard? AFU killed 200k Russians and only suffered casualties when that huge wall of bodies collapsed and buried Ua soldiers. Jokes aside, there are losses in the Russian army as well as in Wagner. It would be silly to think otherwise. However, attrition is much smaller. The ratio is approx 7- 10: 1. You don't have to trust me. Does all those graveyards with flags and forcible mobilization on the streets you could see in the videos and elsewhere are looking like the moves of the winning side?

Question

Is there a concern in USA regarding recent accidents in different factories, railways...? Does any of the americans think that it is sabotage?

Answer

Well, they certainly look to me as sabotage. But who is the culprit, I don't know. Remember, certain nazi is arrested in USA for organizing a network to do terrorist attacks on the US infrastructure. Maybe his buddies are running around still. Or, Russia is involved in some way. But, I would put my money on no1. Targets are relatively small and not essential. I assume Russia would hit something more valuable.

From David Sanchez
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How real are the chances of a nuclear war due the war in Ukraine?

Answer : I don't see much chance of a nuclear war; nuclear weapons are primarily used for bringing people to the negotiation table, forcing them to accept your demands, and also protecting the governments of nuclear power countries from color revolutions or coups. There's an opinion that is mainly voiced by the Western media that when all military resources of the Russians are exhausted, they will probably use their nuclear weapons, but I don't think this is going to happen, and certainly the Russians are not going to run out of missiles or any other conventional weapons, but according to the statements by Stoltenberg, Scholz, Wallace, and Borrell, NATO may run out of conventional weapons. And remember that the Western neocons like Nuland, Blanket, and Stoltenberg have no ethics and no mercy; they can do anything and go to any extent to fulfill their power hunger. So NATO may use their nuclear weapons at some point when they find their defeat to be inevitable. 

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Over the last weeks we have heard from President Putin, Mr. Medvedev, and Shoigu that the very existence of Russia is being threatened. Russia has an explicit military doctrine to answer existential threats. This begs the question if the doctrine is toothless or if Russia in reality isn't in danger...

Answer
Russia is not so much existentialy threatened at the moment. But that can change quickly. Putin signalized that in his speech when he mention an attack on strategic Ru facilities.
Is it toothless? I hope we will never see the response. Why? Because, in that case, we intend to bring you all to hell with us. I can't be more explicit than this.

❗️ The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the "principles of a just peace" in Ukraine

According to the voting results, 141 countries voted in favor, seven against and 32 abstained.

The document calls on the Russian Federation to stop hostilities and withdraw its troops from Ukraine.

Yeah right now😁

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About the possibility of the current industrial accidents in the US being sabotage: I severely doubt it. The fact is that the US neglected their basic infrastructure for quite long, and this is specially the case in the case of railways. It is no secret how precarious they are. For a long time, Western countries believed they could simply abandon those key components of the economy and rely on a society where half of the country works clicking on a computer and the other half sells coffee to them. We are seeing the consequences of that.

IMPORTANT !!

⚡️ The Kiev regime steps up preparations for an invasion of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic

◽️ As previously reported, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will perform this provocation in response to an alleged attack by Russian troops from Transdniestrian territory.

◽️ The Russian Defence Ministry currently reports on significant accumulation of Ukrainian military personnel and hardware close to the Transnistria–Ukraine border, the deployment of artillery at firing positions, as well as an unprecedented build-up of UAV flights by the Ukrainian Armed Forces over Transnistrian territory.

◽️ The implementation of the plotted provocation by the Ukrainian authorities poses a direct threat to the Russian peacekeeping contingent legally stationed in Transnistria.

◽️ The Russian Armed Forces will respond adequately to Ukraine’s impending provocation.

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Question

Why ugledar is such a problem? What is happening there?

Answer

Ugledar is like a big fort on the hill that dominates its surroundings. It's hard to approach, but Ru marines managed to do that. They suffered losses, which are not small but they remained combat worthy. Now, we're slowly grinding and eliminating AFU fire positions and fortifications, which last long. I can say that Ru is stuck up there. Until reinforcement arrives. If arrives.

Question

Today was another day of horrific terrorist attacks on Donetsk. 4 paramedics and an ambulance driver killed who were part of a rescue squad to attend to another shelling victim. When and in what manner Donetsk becomes safer?

Answer
Partially when Avdeevka falls.
Fully, when AFU is pushed significantly. They can always strike with HIMARS. We saw that they often target nonmilitary objects. Only proves that they got plenty of rockets to throw them like that or they want to make such an impression.