The Ukes had some fun that was also a gift to Western Europe, as they identified 600 Russian spies working in the region. NATO counterintelligence is having a busy day.
Meanwhile, peace talks continue in Turkey. Though remember this: The Soviets had a tactic called “maskirova.” It’s just basically using one tactic to mask another. The Colonel Green thing. Well, the Ukrainians are using it against the Russians. The Ukes know that every day the war goes on they get stronger and Ivan gets weaker. So they pretend to talk about peace while attriting the Russians to death. More fun!
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FNC: “Ukraine’s defense intelligence ministry released a list of more than 600 alleged Russian spies working in Europe in an apparent attempt to burn them and weaken Russia’s intelligence operations across the continent.
The intelligence wing of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine released the “list of employees of the FSB of the Russian Federation registered at the address: Moscow, St. Bolshaya Lubyanka” on Monday. The FSB is the successor agency to the KGB, Russia’s notorious spy arm.
The list, released in Russian and apparently unavailable on the English version of the ministry’s website, provides names, phone numbers, passport numbers, “registration addresses,” license plate numbers, and occasionally financial details for 620 alleged Russian spies. In a few cases, the list includes a home address.”
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“Today we have good news,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday. “Our defenders are advancing in the Kyiv region, regaining control over Ukrainian territory. Irpin was liberated. Well done!”
“I am grateful to everyone who worked for this result. The occupiers are pushed away from Irpin. Pushed away from Kyiv,” he added. “However, it is too early to talk about security in this part of our region. The fighting continues,” the Ukrainian president said.
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⚡️Ukraine shoots down 17 Russian aerial targets.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces report having destroyed eight planes, four UAVs, three helicopters, and two missiles.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 28, 2022
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These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of March 29, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/TLXYZlPYF3
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 29, 2022
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“Every time our president makes a personal attack on Vladimir Putin, I cringe because Putin is paranoid,” former Soviet sleeper agent Jack Barsky said during an interview. “In his mind now, it makes no sense to negotiate whatsoever because come peace, then he will be hunted down.”
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Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and at least two senior Ukrainian officials were poisoned following a meeting in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv earlier this month. Abramovich and the two senior members of the Ukrainian team began experiencing symptoms that included red eyes, constant and painful tearing, and peeling skin on their faces and hands, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby announced Monday that the U.S. is sending six Navy EA-18 Growler aircraft to Spangdahlem Airbase in Germany “to bolster readiness, enhance NATO’s collective defense posture and further increase air integration capabilities with our allied and partner nations.
“These growlers, as those of you who are familiar with the platform know, are equipped for a variety of missions,” Kirby said. “But they do specialize in flying electronic warfare missions, using a suite of jamming sensors to confuse enemy radars, greatly aiding in the ability to conduct suppression of enemy air defense operations.”
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“Most of the cruise missile strikes that the Russians are launching are coming from inside Russian or below Russian airspace,” a US defense official commented. “I mean, it’s remarkable what the Ukrainians have been able to do with the air defense systems that they have available to them. And that’s why we’re going to have to try to replenish them as best we can. ” The official added that the U.S. is seeing more Russian military activity in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
“One of the things that we think they want to do is cut off the Donbas for the sake of cutting off the Ukrainian armed forces that are there, pinning them down so they can’t come to the defense of other places,” the official said.
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Good show Ukraine awesome work
The activity in the Donbas is also a tactic to draw more Ukrainian forces from the areas in which they have succeeded in penetrating, surrounding, and punishing Russian movements, elsewhere. It is an age-old battlefield tactic. I am certain the Ukrainian military is already aware of this.
If a quarter of the spies are real that will hurt and could lead to more revelations. What a mess but give the Ukrainians credit for their David-like defense against the giant; something a good portion of the people living the dream here said they wouldn’t stay and do. They’d be in the way anyway and probably whining about something they perceived as a slight or they didn’t get.