Russia won't dare.

April 15, 2022
By Jeremy Herb

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (click here) told CNN Friday that "all of the countries of the world" should be prepared for the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use tactical nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine.

Putin is still trying to have it his way and be the strongest strong man on planet Earth. It is the Chinese that would say, "He is saving face." Right? I think the militaries of the Free World are more than vigilant to all the players. This entire episode with Russia has caused enormous shifts in the global understanding of what world order looks like. Putin hasn't even begun to deal with it. He is still trying to have it his way and annihilate Ukrainians. The Russians will never admit they have committed genocide in Ukraine, after all that is what war is for, to kill those that are different than Russians. Give me a break. This guy has been rampaging around the world and killing people. Even his own people are jailed and dead for opposing his regime. Someone should do a head count to all the people Putin has authorized to be killed. It is a lot. A lot.

April 15, 2022
By Michael Wasiura

The Russian army's initial attempts (click here) to take Kyiv by force have failed. However, the Kremlin has not revised its goal of regime change in Ukraine.

"The aim is the liquidation of Ukraine as a puppet of the Anglo-Saxon block," says Pyotor Akopov, a columnist for the Russian state news outlet RIA-Novosti, his comments matching those of others close to power in the Kremlin.

"Ukraine in its current form will not come out of this conflict," Akopov told Newsweek. "It will be a different country with a different leadership completely in the Russian sphere of influence."....

The invasion map looks very different today.

Aside from the sinking of the Moskva, (click here) Russia is also having to contend with strikes against Belgorod and heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine as it prepares for a fresh assault there. However, it has struck a missile factory in Kyiv it claims was used to build the missile that sank Moskva, and also appears poised to capture Mariupol in the south.

Nothing short of brilliant. They shoud paint a "Z" on the body bags when they are sent home.

15 April 2022

by Walter Finch

Ukraine has hit upon a macabre ploy (click here) of using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of dead Russian soldiers and contact their mothers.

Ukraine's IT Army, a volunteer force of hackers and activists, has used the corpse identifications to tell the families of 582 Russians that their son has been killed in Putin's war.

Even up to sending the families photos of the abandoned and bloodied corpses of their sons....

Norwegian Navy Test Missile Strike

This is the same ship that killed so many in Syria.

April 15, 2022

The Russian (click here) guided-missile cruiser Moskva rests deep beneath the Black Sea this morning.

Whether it lies there as the victim of Ukrainian missiles, Russian incompetence, bad luck or a combination of all three is unclear. What is certain, though, is that the biggest wartime loss of a naval ship in 40 years will raise troubling questions not only for Moscow, but for military planners around the world....

CNN has a very revealing look at the Moskva. Christiane Amanpour also has a magnificent interview with a Russian foreign minister. Both are very insightful work that puts sunlight on the facts as to the brutality of Putin's military. I sincerely believe the change that is all too obvious in Putin is due to the Russian communists compromising Putin's politics.

This is a huge strategic victory for Ukraine. Putin frequently threatened the use of nuclear weapons; the Moskva is why. Now, there are concerns that the nuclear missiles of the ship are sitting in water.

It could be assessed as to the presence of nuclear missiles on board by water displacement. The ship would sit lower in the water if the large missiles were on board. The conventional warhead weights 500 kilgrams. The nuclear warhead of the P-1000 is stated to weigh 350 Kt.

April 15, 2022
By Ahron Young

Anti-ship missiles P-1000 “Vulkan”, (click here) which can possibly carry a nuclear warhead were carried by the Moskva cruiser.

The sinking of the Soviet-era Moskva in the Black Sea prompted Russia to launch a retaliation against a weapons factory in Ukraine.

The defence ministry says it targeted the ‘Vizar’ plant on the edge of Kyiv, which it says manufactures Neptune anti-ship missiles....

For Ukraine on Good Friday

1 Samuel 17: 1 - 54

The world stands in awe of your thunder.