By Yevgeny Krutikov, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The problem of interpreting the war from the Russian point of view is that the Russian military does not signal its punches, make idle threats, believe its own propaganda, or make money on click bait. The Stavka never leaks.   By contrast, Russian open-source commentators […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The news from Odessa, the third city of the Ukraine and its leading port, is there is almost no news. This has strategic significance. It means there is no Russian plan for a battle for Odessa, no artillery, missile, air, or naval attack on the city. The Odessans know this, and […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reveals that the Ukraine has become a thieves’ paradise  in which  corporate loan defaults are written off;  embezzlement from banks is not traced;   the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) no longer audits the country’s bank liabilities and reserves;  and the IMF admits […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Until capitulation in war, the winning side is the one that learns fastest. The loser is the slowpoke. In Washington, the turnover of staff inside President Biden’s White House has been so rapid, the learning process for the new staff has been almost as retarded as the incapacity to learn has […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The military operation on Monday night which fired munitions to blow holes in the Nord Stream I and Nord Stream II pipelines on the Baltic Sea floor, near Bornholm Island,  was executed by the Polish Navy and special forces. It was aided by the Danish and Swedish military; planned and coordinated […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The US Army’s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has been firing several hundred million dollars’ worth of cyber warheads at Russian targets from its headquarters at MacDill Airforce Base in Florida. They have all been duds. The weapons, the source, and their failure to strike effectively have been exposed in a new […]

by Editor - Monday, September 5th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The action the Lithuanian government implemented over the weekend to stop Russian trains carrying sanctioned cargos into Kaliningrad is regarded in Moscow as a long anticipated move, prompted among Lithuanian officials by the British government. The initial Lithuanian embargo action has been followed by a second one this week extending the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The ruling issued on July 3 by Dutch district court judge Hendrik Steenhuis (lead image, right) requires the Russian defendant, Lieutenant-Colonel Oleg Pulatov (centre), to prove his innocence with evidence prepared by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU). By the standard announced a month earlier by the Russian Foreign Ministry, this is […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 5th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The presiding judge in the trial of the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 announced on Friday afternoon that he will not allow the evidence of Major-General Igor Konashenkov and other Russian Defence Ministry officers on the Ukrainian Army’s possession of the BUK missile alleged to be the weapon which shot […]

by Editor - Friday, July 3rd, 2020
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  By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Joe Biden’s campaign for president, as well as his defence against charges of corrupt influence peddling and political collusion in the Ukraine, are being promoted in Washington by the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk (lead image, right) through the New York lobbyist, candidate adviser and pollster, Douglas Schoen (left). This […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 6th, 2019
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