By the third anniversary of the start of the “SVO”, the Kremlin no longer hopes to single-handedly put pressure on rebellious Ukraine. Putin needs Trump’s help. In Russia, the regime is being consolidated on openly totalitarian principles, up to prosecutorial nationalization. A neo-GULAG is being built, and under these conditions, even a formally private owner has become tired of the country’s masters. Meanwhile, bandits and vice-governors controlled by the security forces are being sent to the afterlife. And not of their own free will.
The fight continues
After taking Kurakhove, the invaders break through to Toretsk. They seek to capture Avdiivka so that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will withdraw from the remnants of the bridgehead there. The situation is difficult, and the Kremlin does not spare cannon fodder. Another New Year’s plan to capture Donbas (“access to the administrative borders”) has failed. It has been six months since the “second army of the world” tried to defeat the “Ukrainian DRG” in Kursk. We have to report not so much with victories, albeit fake ones, as with military tension.
According to the draft of the Russian Ministry of Defence, which is sure to gain force, people suffering from schizophrenia and acute disorders will become “limitedly fit” for military service. The time has come long ago – given the world-famous condition of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. People suffering from syphilis, primarily “limitedly fit”, can now boast a new degree of access to weapons: “with minor restrictions”. That’s who Putin has decided to drive through the minefields of the Donetsk region.
In general, up to a third of all clashes take place in the Donetsk region, in the Pokrovsk direction. Fierce fighting continues in the Kharkiv region in the Kupyansk area. But there is no fundamental success anywhere. Even after the capture of Kurakhovo.
In the Kursk region, Putin’s successes are limited to a strike on a school in Suzhe, where, according to the Russian leadership, the enemies of the Reich are hiding. In the persona of pensioners who accepted the Ukrainian government. At the same time, the empire is forced to endure the arson of one or another oil refinery in its rear. In early February, dozens of military facilities in the North Caucasus, Tatarstan, Saratov and Ulyanovsk regions, and especially in Astrakhan and Volgograd, were attacked by drones. In particular, the Lukoil refinery in Volgograd, the Albashneft oil depot in Krasnodar Territory, and the Gazprom-recycling plant in Astrakhan were hit.
150 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are returning for an exchange. Many of them spent more than two years in captivity. In turn, Ukrainian paratroopers have just replenished the exchange fund by capturing two dozen imperial soldiers in Kursk.
Despite the rotten talk about “negotiations” and “deals,” in reality, Trump still does not stop supplying weapons to Ukraine. Biden said the right things at the time, but, according to Reuters, he delayed the shipment. For example, by the beginning of December, Ukraine had received only 30% of the promised American armoured vehicles. This was due to fears of escalation from the Russian Federation. In any case, Ukraine continues to fight, and it would be the greatest meanness to consider this a less important factor than the “opinion” of the Kremlin residents.
Economics of the Prosecutor’s Office
However, within the Russian Federation, this “opinion” has to be reckoned with. The task is to recreate the USSR – only without humanistic demagogy, without attempts at a “human face”. In politics, ideology, and culture, hellish cruelty (softened by moronity) has long ruled. Now the dark shadow of the state’s paw covers the economy. Under the guise of inflationary money pouring in along the military-industrial complex line. So that the result is not immediately noticeable.
On 28 January, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation demanded that all shares of companies associated with Alexei Mityusov be seized in favour of the state. A year earlier, the owner, who was under investigation, left the country and was put on the wanted list. Now he is accused of theoretically being able to pass on confidential information to the Mossad, the CIA, and the Joint Intelligence Service of Saudi Arabia. The owner of the Bashkortostan chemical industry himself lives between Lithuania and Spain.
Two days later, the same authority took over “foreign control” of the Domodedovo Airport group of companies. It turns out that the entire economy is run by a citizen of the UAE and Turkey, Dmitry Kamenshchik, and an Israeli, Valery Kogan. They are completely loyal to the Putin regime, having done a lot for its economic stability. And still – these are not the times.
On the same day, three top managers of Rusnano were detained: Boris Podolsky, Artur Galstyan, and Marina Kasenkova. Chubais’ associates were accused of hiding a financial hole. In the conditions of war against Ukraine (and the world), such things are unacceptable. Money is accountable. Hiding is a war crime.
The machine has entered the regime, the speed is gaining momentum. Prosecutorial raids are today economically political. In early February, 100% of LLC “Native Fields” was transferred to the state. Allegedly because the head of the company Petro Khodykin is not only Russian but also a subject of the King of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis Charles III. Even in ancient Egypt, they knew that the pharaoh should be engaged in the export of grain. Otherwise, despotism would not be quite despotism. The Prosecutor General’s Office, together with arbitration courts throughout the Russian Federation, is engaged in correcting such nonsense.
On 3 February, it was the turn of Raven Russia, the largest warehouse operator in the “new USSR.” After the start of the “imperial ZOV,” the company separated from the British Raven Property Group. But this was not enough for the Kremlin. You can only reliably manage where there is military occupation.
Conscience and the path
But even for people who hate the evil empire, there are no options left. Resistance. And only that. The forms may be different. But the essence is the same.
The liquidation of Armen Sarkisyan in the Moscow elite residential complex “Red Sails” provoked an explosion of versions. The murdered man was a criminal authority, the organizer of the “titushki” (hired thugs – ed.), the founder of the occupation battalion “ArBat” and a friend of Apti Alaudinov, another traitor to his people. Armen Gorlovsky could have been executed by both anti-regime partisans and business competitors. Whoever it was, he did a good deed. It is worth mentioning that there was a strong “criminal” direction in the anti-Soviet and anti-Nazi Resistance.
However, President Zelensky’s modest but clear statement seems to clear up the issue. The SBU warned. But it promises nothing in vain.
Almost simultaneously with Sargsyan, another prominent neo-GULAG fighter died – the vice-governor of Primorsky Krai and commander of the volunteer detachment “Tiger” Sergei Yefremov. His car hit a mine in the Kursk region. As we can see, not all servants of the regime were destined to romantically take off in the “Red Sails”.
On 4 February, the head of the Karelian Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Artur Pryakhin, fell out of the window of his office in Petrozavodsk. The official was likely helped. The official version is suicide. Did Putin’s loyal servant really have a conscience? Whatever the case, the Kremlin leaders are unlikely to follow suit. If they are not helped. Which is what the LSR and RDK, national volunteers and anti-imperial partisans are working on,” warns Rospartizan.
Fedir Shaporenko
