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Sept 21 - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine and backed a plan to liberate parts of the country, hinting to the West he was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia.
It was Russia's first such mobilisation since World War Two and signified the biggest escalation of the Ukraine conflict.
In an address to the Russian nation, Putin said: "If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will use all available means to protect our people this is not a bluff". Russia had "lots of weapons to reply", he said.
Russia's defence minister said the partial mobilisation would see 300,000 reservists with previous military experience called up.
Putin said the partial mobilisation of its 2 million-strong military reservists was to defend Russia and its territories. The West did not want peace in Ukraine, he said.
He accused Washington, London, Brussels of pushing Kyiv to "transfer military operations to our territory". Ukraine has sporadically struck targets inside Russia throughout the conflict, using long-range weapons supplied by the West.
"Nuclear blackmail has also been used," Putin said, citing Ukraine's Zaporozhzhia nuclear power plant.
Russia said on Wednesday a large-caliber shell had damaged a technical water pipe at the plant, which is occupied by Russian troops.
Putin also accused officials of NATO countries of making statements about "the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia - nuclear weapons".
"I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and in some components more modern than those of the NATO countries," he said.
Putin restated his aim was to liberate the Donbas, Ukraine's industrial heartland, and said most people there did not want to return to what he called the "yoke" of Ukraine.
In an apparently coordinated move, pro-Russian regional leaders on Tuesday announced referendums for Sept. 23-27 in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces, representing around 15% of Ukrainian territory.
Russia already considers Luhansk and Donetsk, which together make up the Donbas region, to be independent states.
Russia now holds about 60% of Donetsk and nearly all of Luhansk.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the conflict.
Oil and gas prices also rose on global energy markets. Russia has cut fuel exports to retaliate for Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
Putin calls the Russian action in Ukraine a "special military operation" to root out dangerous nationalists and "denazify" the country.
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Left and Right merge in support of Vladimir Putin
Leaders of Italy’s Lega Party and Austria’s Freedom Party have publicly fawned over Putin.
Earlier this month, 70,000 people took to Wenceslas Square in Prague to protest cost of living increases, rising energy prices and a shortage of affordable housing.
Those who spoke at the protest included the leader of the right Freedom and Democracy Party, Mark Rutte, and the leader of the Czech Communist Party, Katerina Konecna.
While the protesters had genuine concerns, the FDP and the Communists pushed a laundry list of grievances including the nation’s membership of the EU, NATO and the government’s support for Ukraine.
We are seeing the confluence of the right and the left, falling over themselves in loud agreement, play out across Europe.
Leaders of Italy’s Lega Party and Austria’s Freedom Party have publicly fawned over Putin, portraying Russia as a bastion of sovereignty, identity, and cultural conservatism against the forces of liberalism destroying Europe.
In UK Former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn uses the Stop the War rallies to push for the west to stop arming Ukraine. Corbyn is the deputy president of the Stop the War coalition, alongside Andrew Murray, a former communist who joined Labour when Corbyn became leader.
The common theme of both left and right utterances is opposition to NATO and military aid for Ukraine.
Marxists refer to Putin as a Bonapartist.
If you read Marxist talking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the first impression is that Marxist commentators can peer through the fog of war. Guarded assessments on the conduct of the war driven by reporting are not for them. Complex military strategies are foreseen weeks and months in advance where they play four-star generals shuffling men and munitions about on gigantic maps in their pieds a terre.
Thus, Ukraine’s manoeuvring in and around Kherson in Ukraine’s southeast was a feint to distract from the real counteroffensive.
Both Left and Right see Volodymyr Zelensky as a desperate gambler who directed Ukraine’s counteroffensive through Kharkiv and Izyum all the way back to the Russian border. Reclaiming 5000 square kilometres of Ukrainian turf was not a stunningly successful military operation. The counteroffensive was a propaganda exercise designed to keep European and American arms and alms support for Ukraine in place.
The real enemy is not Zelensky but the imperialists in the West who have armed Ukraine. Marxists view the war in Ukraine as a distraction from a bigger game.
There will be heightened pressure in Western Europe to drop its support for Zelensky and Ukraine.
the right and Marxist fellows both portray NATO as the aggressor.
It was Russia's first such mobilisation since World War Two and signified the biggest escalation of the Ukraine conflict.
In an address to the Russian nation, Putin said: "If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will use all available means to protect our people this is not a bluff". Russia had "lots of weapons to reply", he said.
Russia's defence minister said the partial mobilisation would see 300,000 reservists with previous military experience called up.
Putin said the partial mobilisation of its 2 million-strong military reservists was to defend Russia and its territories. The West did not want peace in Ukraine, he said.
He accused Washington, London, Brussels of pushing Kyiv to "transfer military operations to our territory". Ukraine has sporadically struck targets inside Russia throughout the conflict, using long-range weapons supplied by the West.
"Nuclear blackmail has also been used," Putin said, citing Ukraine's Zaporozhzhia nuclear power plant.
Russia said on Wednesday a large-caliber shell had damaged a technical water pipe at the plant, which is occupied by Russian troops.
Putin also accused officials of NATO countries of making statements about "the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia - nuclear weapons".
"I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and in some components more modern than those of the NATO countries," he said.
Putin restated his aim was to liberate the Donbas, Ukraine's industrial heartland, and said most people there did not want to return to what he called the "yoke" of Ukraine.
In an apparently coordinated move, pro-Russian regional leaders on Tuesday announced referendums for Sept. 23-27 in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces, representing around 15% of Ukrainian territory.
Russia already considers Luhansk and Donetsk, which together make up the Donbas region, to be independent states.
Russia now holds about 60% of Donetsk and nearly all of Luhansk.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the conflict.
Oil and gas prices also rose on global energy markets. Russia has cut fuel exports to retaliate for Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
Putin calls the Russian action in Ukraine a "special military operation" to root out dangerous nationalists and "denazify" the country.
Auto-édit :
Left and Right merge in support of Vladimir Putin
Leaders of Italy’s Lega Party and Austria’s Freedom Party have publicly fawned over Putin.
Earlier this month, 70,000 people took to Wenceslas Square in Prague to protest cost of living increases, rising energy prices and a shortage of affordable housing.
Those who spoke at the protest included the leader of the right Freedom and Democracy Party, Mark Rutte, and the leader of the Czech Communist Party, Katerina Konecna.
While the protesters had genuine concerns, the FDP and the Communists pushed a laundry list of grievances including the nation’s membership of the EU, NATO and the government’s support for Ukraine.
We are seeing the confluence of the right and the left, falling over themselves in loud agreement, play out across Europe.
Leaders of Italy’s Lega Party and Austria’s Freedom Party have publicly fawned over Putin, portraying Russia as a bastion of sovereignty, identity, and cultural conservatism against the forces of liberalism destroying Europe.
In UK Former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn uses the Stop the War rallies to push for the west to stop arming Ukraine. Corbyn is the deputy president of the Stop the War coalition, alongside Andrew Murray, a former communist who joined Labour when Corbyn became leader.
The common theme of both left and right utterances is opposition to NATO and military aid for Ukraine.
Marxists refer to Putin as a Bonapartist.
If you read Marxist talking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the first impression is that Marxist commentators can peer through the fog of war. Guarded assessments on the conduct of the war driven by reporting are not for them. Complex military strategies are foreseen weeks and months in advance where they play four-star generals shuffling men and munitions about on gigantic maps in their pieds a terre.
Thus, Ukraine’s manoeuvring in and around Kherson in Ukraine’s southeast was a feint to distract from the real counteroffensive.
Both Left and Right see Volodymyr Zelensky as a desperate gambler who directed Ukraine’s counteroffensive through Kharkiv and Izyum all the way back to the Russian border. Reclaiming 5000 square kilometres of Ukrainian turf was not a stunningly successful military operation. The counteroffensive was a propaganda exercise designed to keep European and American arms and alms support for Ukraine in place.
The real enemy is not Zelensky but the imperialists in the West who have armed Ukraine. Marxists view the war in Ukraine as a distraction from a bigger game.
There will be heightened pressure in Western Europe to drop its support for Zelensky and Ukraine.
the right and Marxist fellows both portray NATO as the aggressor.
