Tag: moscow
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History, on this day : c’est la Bérézina !
a well understood French exclamation On November 26, 1812, near Borisov, Belarus, begins the last battle of Napoleone Buonaparte’s campaign in Russia. A 600,000 strong army, about 300,000 French, 150,000 Germans and Austrians, 100,000 Poles, other Europeans, has invaded Russia on June 24. The 500,000 strong Russian army was retreating, luring and harassing the invaders…
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Daily pictures : US missile fell in NATO non-member Ukraine, killing people
Since October 10, 2022, Russia is conducting large scale missile and drone strikes against command and communication centers, power plants and other energy facilities, except nuclear ones, all over Ukraine. Amid a new onslaught on November 23, Ukrainian media are writing that anti-air defenses NASAMS and IRIS are working in Kiev. Footage and photos surface…
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History, on this day : 80 years ago, operation Uranus
when the European fascist armies lost WW2 The battle for Stalingrad is the climax of WW2. After a failure in front of Moscow in January, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) targets southern Russia in June. The planned goals are the oil fields in the Caucasus. On the north flank of the offensive from Ukraine, the…
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Russian forces are retreating to the left bank of Dnieper river, are leaving Kherson
chronicle On November 9, 2022, Sergey Surovikin, the military commander of the special military operation for liberation of Donbass, demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, reports publicly to Sergey Shoigu, Russian defense minister […] Kherson cannot be fully supplied and function. Russia did everything possible to ensure the evacuation of the inhabitants. Kiev strikes at the…
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Daily pictures : Semyon Pegov has been injured
On October 23, 2022, a PFM-1 Lepestok (petal) anti-personnel land mine injures Russian reporter Semyon Pegov, near Vodyane, Donetsk People’s Republic. He is still carrying his foot and is still reporting when evacuated to the rear. After his operation under spinal anesthesia, he is conscious but his leg does not work, according later to the…
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Daily pictures : clarification on Western terrorism over Ukraine
On October 20, at about 11:00 pm local time, the Ukrainian artillery deliberately shells the pontoon ferry pier which is adjacent to damaged Antonovka bridge, a dozen km upstream downtown Kherson, on the right bank of Dnieper river. Four civilians are killed, 13 are injured On September 27, the inhabitants have approved with a large…
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Ukrainian attack against Crimea bridge
chronicle Between Taman peninsula and continental Russia, to southeast, Crimea peninsula, to northwest, Kerch bridge is a major Russian line of communication, for military and civilians, which has been completed in June 2020 On October 8, 2022, at about 6:05 am, local time, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) explodes on the bridge. Unless a…
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Space intelligence around Ukraine
In the evening of October 4, 2022, photos and videos appear on social networks, about strange light pillars, several in Belgorod (1st and 2nd pictures), through various angles, at least one in Moscow (3rd picture), about 600 km to the north. Others are reported later in Omsk, about 2,250 km east of Moscow, then Murmansk…
