The West’s failure to send weapons to Kyiv is helping Putin win his war.
Just ask a Ukrainian soldier if he still believes the West will stand by Kyiv “for as long as it takes.” That pledge rings hollow when it’s been four weeks since your artillery unit last had a shell to fire, as one serviceman complained from the front lines.
L’Europe ayant oublié depuis des années ce qu’est une vraie guerre, les Français qui viennent combattre pour Kiev ne comprennent pas ce qui les attend, estime auprès de Sputnik Afrique un reporter de guerre français ayant l’expérience du conflit dans le Donbass, après une nouvelle frappe russe contre des mercenaires français.
On April 3, 2024, a group of mujahideen from the Caucasus affiliated with Syrian jihadi group Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), released a nine-and-a-half-minute video in Russian.
The Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow claimed by the Islamic State (IS) was the deadliest in Russia in two decades, leaving at least 143 dead and almost 200 injured. In its immediate aftermath, several analysts and commentators questioned if the Islamic State had made a bloody comeback.
At the peak of the group’s power, the Islamic State held large swathes of captured territory in Syria and Iraq equal in size to the United Kingdom under its control. It declared its self-styled caliphate in June 2014 and held territory until March 2019.
An important distinction has been long overdue in the making, as pertains to a topic of much confusion and misinterpretation to a great many people.
There’s an inherent misconception about the conceptual differences between Soviet/Russian military systems (read: weapons) and those of NATO/Western equivalents. Endless debate has been made not only about which side’s weapons are ‘better’, but the doctrinal purpose behind their respective philosophies.
Introduction
On March 22nd, 2024, a terrorist attack on the outskirts of Moscow resulted in 133 deaths and more wounded at the moment of writing of these lines. It took place before the concert of rock band Piknik at Crocus Center, a band that had been banned in Ukraine (2016) after performing in Crimea.
Les déclarations du président Macron sur la possibilité d’une entrée des troupes françaises en Ukraine sont prises plutôt à la légère par l’opinion publique patriotique russe. Une fois que les contingents de l’OTAN seront sur le territoire de l’Ukraine, non seulement de facto mais aussi de jure, cela signifiera le début de la partition du territoire dans des conditions extrêmement défavorables à la Russie, ce qui signifie une défaite stratégique dans la réalisation des buts et objectifs de l’opération militaire spéciale.
Les prétendants
Il importe peu de savoir si l’attentat contre le public du concert du Crocus City Hall de Moscou a été préparé par Daech avec ou sans les Ukrainiens : ces gens ont l’habitude de travailler ensemble.
Cela dure depuis trois quarts de siècle, mais n’est toujours pas intégré dans la conscience collective : les «nationalistes intégraux» aujourd’hui au pouvoir à Kiev travaillent de concert avec la Confrérie des Frères musulmans et leurs milices, sous la supervision des services secrets anglo-saxons. Leur fonction fondamentale est de lutter contre les Russes.
Five years ago this month, a U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militia ousted Islamic State group fighters from a village in eastern Syria, the group’s last sliver of territory.
Since then, the organization that once staked out a self-proclaimed caliphate across Iraq and Syria has metastasized into a more traditional terrorist group — a clandestine network of cells from West Africa to Southeast Asia engaged in guerrilla attacks, bombings and targeted assassinations.
The suburban Moscow concert hall assault last Friday that killed more than 130 people was the deadliest attack inside Russia in 20 years. It raised major questions about the capabilities and ambitions of the terror group that U.S. officials believe was responsible: ISIS-Khorasan, or ISIS-K, an affiliate of the self-declared Islamic State that emerged in Afghanistan.