Waterworks.

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Item # 1 and # 2 as seen at Freeper.

Dam breached the Dneiper river. Hot button item the Ukraine Conflict! Major catastrophe underway even as we speak! And the culprit is?

1. "Ukraine blames Russia for destroying critical dam"

From CNN ^ | June 6, 2023 | the article by Tara Subramaniam, Jessie Yeung, Sana Noor Haq, Sebastian Shukla, Schams Elwazer, Caolán Magee.

"VIDEO AT LINK......... Residents of Kherson region are evacuating as water levels rise. Here's what we know about the destroyed dam From CNN staff Kyiv and Moscow exchanged accusations over the destruction of a sprawling dam in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Kherson region, triggering a wave of evacuations as floods of water spilled from the Nova Kakhovka hydro-electric plant."

2. "Ukraine accuses Russia of destroying major dam near Kherson, warns of ecological disaster"

The Associated Press ^ | June 6, 2023 | the article by SUSIE BLANN.

"The wall of a major dam in a part of southern Ukraine that Moscow controls collapsed Tuesday after a reported explosion, sending water gushing downriver and prompting dire warnings of ecological disaster as officials from both sides in the war ordered residents to evacuate. Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up the dam and hydroelectric power station, while Russian officials blamed Ukrainian military strikes in the contested area."

3. "An act of Insanity as Zelenskyy orders the destruction of the Kakhovskaya Hydroelectric Dam"

 https://scotlandtoday.online | the article by Iain Muir | 6 June 2023.

"The breach could result in devastating flooding, potentially killing thousands of civilians as well as disrupting the cooling systems for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant."

See previous blog entry the World War Two destruction of the Dniepropetrovsk dam with additional embedded links.

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Shangri-La.

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Maintaining international rules-based order! Germany? East Asia? Germany?

"Germany to send two warships to Indo-Pacific in 2024 amid South China Sea tensions"

Courtesy Reuters |  June 4, 2023.

"BERLIN, June 4 (Reuters) - Germany will send two warships to the Indo-Pacific in 2024, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Sunday, amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan and over the disputed South China Sea."

SHOW THE FLAG TYPE MISSIONS! AN ARMED KNOWN PRESENCE!

"Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia's most important security conference, Pistorius said countries needed to stand up for the rules-based international order and the protection of major maritime passages.

Hardly the German East Asia Squadron from 1914 and the era of the Great War. An expression in 2023 of solidarity with American and Asian interests focusing predominantly the South China Sea.

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Chef.

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A man for all seasons? Yevgeniyy the owner and commander of the mercenary army Wagner PMC?

Consider this a borderline blog entry but still worthy of being posted.

"Wagner Head Prigozhin’s Past Life as a Children’s Author and Illustrator"

From https://www.themoscowtimes.com | 1 June 22.

"The leader of Russia’s notorious Wagner mercenary group who served nine years in prison for theft, interfered in U.S. elections and has been accused of war crimes in Ukraine is not someone usually associated with children’s literature."

"Yet almost 20 years ago, Yevgeny Prigozhin — commonly known as 'Putin’s chef' because he rose to prominence by providing catering services to the Russian president — penned a playful children’s story."

"With the title 'Indraguzik,' a made-up name, the book tells the tale of a little boy and his sister who live with their family inside a huge theater chandelier."

Devoted readers to the blog are invited to read the entire "Moscow Times" article. I pass no judgment year or nay and cannot even begin to tell anyone what to think of this, if anything.

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Culloden

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See this interesting docu-drama, the Battle of Culloden. Originally from 1964 but receiving high praise even sixty years later!

"The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart fought loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The Hanoverian victory at Culloden decisively halted the Jacobite intent to overthrow the House of Hanover and restore the House of Stuart to the British throne; Charles Stuart never mounted any further attempts to challenge Hanoverian power in Great Britain. The conflict was the last pitched battle fought on British soil."

From a comment to the You Tube video:

"Stephen Marshall 3 years ago I only saw this film once, I was an officer cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1980. It was shown in part to educate us about that form of warfare but mostly to show us how not to behave to a vanquished enemy and population."

Most particular so the events on the battlefield as begins 44:00 into the video. Scots wounded of the Jacobite army strewn about the zone of combat wounded and non-ambulatory as they say. Rebels of the Jacobite army their throats slit, shot, bashed, bayoneted indiscriminately. No mercy shewn to the defeated rebels. Done in an orderly and methodical manner, not with wild and riotous abandon.

That Duke of Cumberland [British commander] his "yearly salary" increased by £25,000 due to his command of the British army Culloden. That is equal to about £3,500,000 today! A tidy sum even for a Duke.

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Olenya.

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Kola peninsula Russian strategic long-range bomber force.

"Satellite image shows 16 strategic bombers deployed to Kola Peninsula"

"Packed to capacity: All aprons along the runway at Olenya Air Base are now occupied by Russia’s largest and heaviest combat aircraft, a satellite image from this week reveal."

From https://thebarentsobserver.com | the article by Thomas Nilsen | May 13, 2023.

Photo courtesy @MT_Anderson. Tu-95 Bear. Tu-160 Blackjack. Tu-22 Backfire. Il-78 Midas. An-22 Cock. Russian long-range strategic bomber warplanes the airfield Olenya, Kola peninsula. A very significant portion of the Russian manned bomber force moved to a point BEYOND the range of Ukrainian Tu-141 drones configured in the attack mode. 

"Located only 200 km [120 miles] from NATO-members Finland and Norway, Olenya Air Base is closely watched by military analysts. The 3,500 m [about 11,000 feet] runway normally serves a small fleet of elderly Tu-22M supersonic bombers and a few An-12 military transport planes."

YES! Beyond the range of Ukrainian Tu-141 drone in the attack mode BUT all clustered in one spot at one time, wing-tip to wing-tip it seems. Even MORE susceptible to massive damage and destruction  from attack than before? One plane goes up, a whole bunch of them go up as well?

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Perekop III.

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Herewith an extract from an article courtesy the Internet web site isegoria.net 

Crimea and the Isthmus of Perekop.

"The geography that makes Crimea hard to invade facilitates a modern-day siege"

 https://www.isegoria.net/            May 28th, 2023

"Ukraine can isolate Crimea without a costly ground offensive"

"Defending the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia invaded and annexed in 2014, has historically presented a quandary. A land invasion from the northwest — the direct route — must cross the narrow and easily defended Perekop isthmus between the peninsula and the mainland."

"On the other hand, a hostile army can just as easily block communications between Crimea and the mainland. This would force Russia to supply the peninsula either by sea or by road and rail using the 11-mile Kerch Strait bridge on the eastern side of the peninsula, which connects Crimea with the Taman peninsula in southern Russia."

Blockade, besiege, bring the Russian to heel? Frontal assault across the Isthmus of Perekop the cost in manpower and material to the Ukrainian army even if and when successful too costly for the gain?

See previous blog entries as relevant: 

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/12/perekop-i.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/12/perekop-ii.html

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S & S.

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S & S = Scum and swine.

Not so much the Ukrainian [?] drone strike on Moscow but the reaction of Yevgeniyy the owner and commander of Wagner PMC.

"Wagner boss blasts Russia’s elite following Moscow drone attack"

"Russian mercenary force boss Yevgeny Prigozhin issued expletive-laden statement criticizing failure to protect Moscow."

From https://www.aljazeera.com  |  31 May 2023.

"The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force has again criticized the Russian military and political elite following the drone attack on Moscow that injured two people, damaged property and left some furious the Kremlin had not better protected the capital city."

"In an expletive-drenched statement posted on Telegram by his press service on Tuesday, Yevgeny Prigozhin – whose mercenary fighters have played a key role in the war in Ukraine – blamed the drone attack on out-of-touch officials living in Moscow’s affluent suburb of Rublyovka."

Drone strikes Moscow seemingly do little damage. The psychological more important than the physical. These drone if launched from Ukrainian territory and can receive terminal guidance from the ground if operators [behind the lines special operations units] located within 100 kilometers [ sixty miles] of the target.

Yevgeniyy his comments more shrill and acerbic with time. Honestly I am surprised even astonished that some sort of effort [I leave it to the reader to decide what measures might be taken] to silence Prigozhin has not occurred.

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