The Pentagon announced Friday that the US has begun training Ukrainian forces in Germany on how to use advanced military equipment Washington is providing Kyiv.
“Today, I can announce that the United States has commenced training with the Ukrainian Armed Forces on key systems at US military installations in Germany,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
Kirby said the effort in Germany is building on artillery training Ukrainian forces had received from the US elsewhere in Europe outside of Ukraine. The US has been training Ukrainians on how to use howitzers, but wouldn’t disclose where the training was being held.
The current training is taking place in Germany and two other undisclosed locations in Europe. “We’re talking about roughly three locations outside of Ukraine, and in this case, we definitely can identify Germany as a site, but there are other sites outside Ukraine … we’re just not at liberty to disclose where they are,” Kirby said.
Kirby said 160 Florida National Guard troops that were stationed in Ukraine and pulled out before Russia’s invasion will be doing the “bulk” of the training. Besides artillery, the Ukrainians will also be trained to use radar systems and armored vehicles.
The UK is the only country reportedly training Ukrainian forces inside Ukrainian territory, a move that risks provoking Moscow. The Times reported that British Special Air Service (SAS) troops were in Kyiv training Ukrainians on how to use anti-tank weapons provided by London.
The announced training in Germany comes after President Biden asked Congress for a massive $33 billion aid package for Ukraine, including $20.4 billion in military aid. Both the US and NATO have said they are prepared to support Ukraine against Russia in the long term.
Well that’s wise since US and English trainers agents and advisors in the ukraine unsurprisingly to all except themselves, are being trapped in cauldrons and bunkers, vaporized or returns in body bags but at the rate Russia is grinding down ukie forces, if they make it to the front or not, it has no effect at all.
Of course since Russian satellites will monitor the installation of howitzers, just how long the training will prove useful is moot.
Russian satellites 🤣
“Reported that British Special Air Service (SAS) troops were in Kyiv training Ukrainian”
If captured any SAS spies should be shot as such and their head delivered in a bag to Boris Johnson!
You dont shoot spies, you trade them or use them as bargain. But we appreciate your antiwar mentality.
That’s a tad harsh CT….(And ya know I love ya like my luggage!)
Though, as I think about it, there is a certain kind of appeal… (especially the part abut BJ!)
Okay, I’m in…………………….
So you are a fluffer.
DJ:
I do not fluff! I rebuff!
I’m in too, Donna, but Johnson is so hideous he doesn’t deserve to have a head himself 😉
The Bastard Brits are the most evil empire that ever existed; even more so than Amerikkka, because they had far more time to be so.
And motherf*ckers…GIVE EGYPT back all the treasure you stole by raiding the graves of their kings! How sick!
NATO is the real war party. Why is NATO fighting Russia? What interests do the Europeans and the Americans have in this war? What is it they want from Russia? This is not to save Ukraine, that is like the man said, “we have to destroy it in order to save it.”
If the Biden people believe Putin is bluffing regarding nuclear weapons, will they dare call his bluff?
So far Putin has no record of bluffing, he means what he says.
Did the Ukrainians agree to destroy their country and are they willing to die for NATO membership when they simply could be neutral?
We WANT HONEST answers, NOT DELIBERATE OBFUSCATION.
It’s very simple. U.S./UK have always wanted to conquer Russia politically because they knew they can’t militarily. And Russia has proven, with economic power they can knock US out and UK will submit.
Germany and Russia combined would be an economic powerhouse. To prevent it was one big reason to unite with Poland and the first WW. Versailles was unconditional surrender, destruction and humiliation and the soil and roots for WW II and NATO.
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 💪💪
Muscle and no brain. Not good.
Yes, from everything that we have seen so far, it does appear that the West is willing to push Russia to the point of Nuclear conflict. At this point, I don’t see how the war doesn’t escalate to become a wider war as if seems that the West/U.S. doesn’t want peace but a total destruction of Russia, and I don’t think Putin is bluffing as I believe that he has finally come to the conclusion that there is no agreement possible with the U.S. and Western nations that will take Russian concerns seriously. For Putin and Russia, there is no turning back.
More like, because of nukes, NATO is willing to push the envelope of conventional aggression.
Ramstein is in Germany and there is Grafenwoehr, the biggest US training facility in Europe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Grafenwoehr Training Area (GTA) is a United States Army training base located near Grafenwöhr, Bavaria, Germany. At 232 km 2, it is the largest US training facility in Europe.
Grafenwoehr Training Area – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafenwoehr_Training_Area
Germany is still occupied.
Germany fought to keep the 12 000 US troops in Germany Trump planned to draw down, and Biden cancelled the plan.
Its not just small to medium sized EU economies like Lithuania or Poland who want that US military base dole.
There was not much talk about it at the time for one reason, Poland or Lithuania don’t have the infrastructure that is needed. For political reasons an honest debate about it is out of the question. In truth, the troops are also occupiers, but psss, you can’t say that openly. No more than an honest debate about the political relations with Israel is possible.
I think at the time, the plan was to build up Italy as Africa was more the focus of the Great Game.
A united decision to pivot directly eastwards, taking the fight as directly as possible to Russia, had not yet been universally agreed to by the political elite.
Europe is doing the bidding of its master.
Europe is Amerikkka’s bitch like Amerikkka is IsraHell’s bitch.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE STATESMEN GONE?
Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle, Brandt, Kennedy, Schmidt, and more. Even mediocre states men/women look great compared to what we have now. Some 4 decades with no real leadership in the US.
And consider all the statesmen from the Cold War and into the 1990s warned against expanding NATO, saying no country in Russia’s position could accept that. Just like Washington couldn’t accept the USSR placing nukes in Cuba.
“Hi there I’m just gonna place this heavy machine gun in my backyard with a guy aiming it at your house, and I have attacked plenty of other homes, but if you react you’re the aggressor.”
Alas, I wish the Russians had learned from Western propaganda – in that case they’d kept it simple. I mean real simple. I mean extremely simple. Which means no long explanation about NATO, instead talk about the victims in Donbass, show pictures of young women and little girls, say their names, put them in front of the cameras. This is how you handle the war-is-my-TV-entertainment audience in the U.S.
One elephant in the room is really the
DELUSION of GRANDEUR of the AMERICA LEADERSHIP.
They are convinced they are omnipotent, an economic superpower and a nuclear military superpower.
They were bought by their corporate sponsors.
There has never been a peace treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to conclude WWII. Consequently, the successor organization of the Russian Federation and the Federal Republic of Germany are technically still at war.
Considering that Germany now has become a party in the Ukraine war by once again arming Ukrainian nationalists and Nazis, I suppose that Russia would have the right to bomb Berlin any time it choses to.
Germany considers that the 2+4 treaty regulating German reunification constitutes a peace treaty, even if it doesn’t say so expressly. If Germany takes that line, then it also has to accept that Nato should not have expanded East even by one inch, as was promised to the Russians during the 2+4 treaty negotiation by Germany and the Western allies. That promise is clearly stated in negotiation protocols of Nato and Western governments, which have recently been disclosed.
NATO members are not willing allies. Germany is not a sovereign nation, they are not acting in the best interest of the German people, the government officials are traitors of their people. Biden is spending all his time Arm Twisting NATO members as well as nations all over the globe, that even includes China and India. China knows, it would be the next target to be destroyed after Russia. It is all about US unipolar Supremacy.
Sanctions are economic warfare the US is using against friend or foe.
Sanctions are active warfare, Russia reacted to years of proxy wars against the FR.
Biden is using sanctions to starve the Afghan people to death and/or acute, irreversible malnutritional damage of the people. If that is not evil I don’t know what is.
US imperialism is evil. No debate about that. But let’s not whitewash European politicians. In a way, they bear greater responsibility for the war in Ukraine than US warmongers. Especially Russian-haters in Poland and the Baltics have escalated the conflict for years in a way the US on its own would not have done. It’s like two psychopaths who are relatively harmless on their own, but who turn into mass murderers when they join forces because they amplify each other’s dysfunction. Remember Wolfowitz and Brzezenski. Its not by chance that both are of Polish ancestry. They have inherited an irrational hatred for Russia.
So true, that is why Poland and the Baltic states were welcome in the EU and NATO. That is their contribution to the alliance, in the EU they are a burden too.
I don’t understand Finland and Sweden, why would they want to join NATO? Sweden de facto is a NATO member already, but what could they possibly gain from it? NATO would gain two wealthy partners able to help fund the war and they would also be able to sell military equipment not being neutral anymore, but why jump on a sinking ship?
Germany and Russia had a good relationship, but that is not favored by the USA and the UK.
Or more like, Germany was allowed to play the good cop while the US played the bad cop. But that game is off, and Germans show their true colours. The degree of Russophobia in Germany today is beyond belief. The bleary-eyed left-liberals just had their fantasies crushed in Ukraine.
German reunification was the original sin. I always was against it, but at the time nobody in Germany was allowed to say anything against reunification. Starting with the EU/Nato integration of the former GDR, we went on a slippery slope that led us straight to the war with Russia in Ukraine.
Western politicians have known for over 30 years that it would happen. They did it anyways. Just imagine, back in 1997, Joe Biden warned against Nato membership for the Baltic states because it would lead to confrontation with Russia. But Germany absolutely had to have its former Ostland in the EU and Nato. I’m done with European politicians. They are duplicitous and evil. They are more dangerous than hardline US warmongers.
“German reunification was the original sin.”
I always thought that the former “Germany” should have been reverted to its Congress of Vienna status after World War Two, only with the 39 states forbidden to enter into any military/defense pacts with each other that might lead to a reconstruction of the 1871 “unification.”
That is a slippery slope. Germany is in the center of Europe and shares borders with 9 nations. It has been invaded many times and it took 2 centuries for it to recover from the 30 year war. The BRD was EU’s paymaster for many years. What would Europe be like with Germany chopped up in little kingdoms?
The USA shares borders with two nations and two oceans and it spreads out like an octopus all over the globe, compare that with “little” Germany.
Just remember, Napoleon conquered Europe all the way from the West to the East to invade Russia and again on his return back to France. He had no Grande Armee left when he returned, he lost the Grande Armee in Moscow.
That is history. Now the French and Germans like each other very much.
Looks like it might be headed that way, Thomas 😐
Germany training Ukrainian troops.
Once a Nazi, always a Nazi it would seem.
This is the last days of Neoliberalism and the aging generation will do whatever they can to save it.
I certainly hope it is the last days….
Amen.
At 11 a.m. on April 26, a Kalibr cruise missile hit a secret Azov Nazi training center hidden on the site of the Zaporozhye Aluminum Plant. Up to 1,500 militants were trained at this site under the direction of 60 British mercenaries, and British SAS troops, 523 killed and 347 injured.
What’s your source?
Russian Spetsnaz unit in Kherson captured 2 Russian-speaking British SAS operatives on April 21. Is Britain at war with Russia?
NATO is about to start a war on Russia. NATO now understand that Ukraine as a country no longer exists. The proxy hybrid war has failed, now the regular units of NATO will step in. Russia has prepared for years for this option. Russia has been bleeding out NATO in the Donbass.
I hope you are ready to die for your corrupt Western oligarchies.
Deliveries of American heavy weapons which include F-16 aircraft are progressing. Ukraine is already preparing pilots for these machines. alternatively NATO will fly them. On the same day Washington announces 33 billion in aid to Ukraine they also announce that US GDP has contracted.
On the Belarusian-Polish border, there is a transfer of troops from Poland.
The SAS are probably ex-mil, retired and not in official active service.
There appear to be strict rules guiding NATO participation in Ukraine, one of them being their soldiers can’t be official soldiers anymore.
Direct conflict between NATO and Russian troops is WWIII, but sidestepping that is easy.
Azov Nazi training center 🤣
In Nikolayev,, the businessmen, politicians, fellow bandits, are negotiating with the Russian side on the bloodless surrender of the city. Nobody wants to repeat the example of Mariupol. They ask for guarantees for the preservation of assets, business and participation in the political life of the city.
In Nikolayev,, the businessmen, politicians, fellow bandits, are negotiating with the Russian side on the bloodless surrender of the city. Nobody wants to repeat the example of Mariupol. They ask for guarantees for the preservation of assets, business and participation in the political life of the city.
The U.S. has set the standard of attacking “terrorist training sites” outside the immediate war zone, e.g. Syria, Sudan and Libya. Why are not these sites legitimate targets for Russia?
Perhaps Russia should just shut down any energy supplies to Germany, now. I hope they have sweaters. I’ve heard you can use manure patties as cooking fuel. The West should be well prepared with all the BS they’ve been spewing for the last 70 years.
Russia attacking a NATO country is WWIII., just as NATO attacking Russia directly is WWIII.
Clear, concise and succinct.
I hear that there are a lot of dairy cows in Switzerland; perhaps the Swiss could sell cow pies to the Germans 😁
NATO is an offensive military alliance, not a defensive one. Take note, fools in Finland and Sweden.
The Russians will not lose this war, no matter what.
Does Amerikkka and NATO actually CARE? If so, stop sending instruments of death and START sending negotiators!
Germany says dependence on Russian oil could end in late summer
Germany could end its dependence on Russian oil by the end of the summer, according to the Economy Ministry’s latest energy security report published Sunday.
“An oil embargo with a sufficient transition period would therefore be manageable,” the report said. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Germany is prepared to support a gradual European Union ban on Russian oil from the country. The government has already agreed to an EU embargo on Russian coal.
Good thing for Putin then that he has already stolen more money than he can spend in a million years time.
Revolver News wrote about a NYT article that said “As arms pour in Zelensky promises victory in Ukraine.” A long piece by three journalists in New York and London, which was featured prominently. RN notes how the entire piece is void of facts about this “victory” and instead is based on these 34 instances:
President Volodymyr Zelensky … expressed …
Mr. Zelensky said …
Mr. Zelensky said …
The Pentagon and the State Department declined to comment
Mr. Zelensky said …
Military analysts said …
Britain’s Ministry of Defense said …
The ministry said …
Canada on Friday announced …
… after President Biden announced …
Mr. Zelensky reiterated …
… the Ukrainian defense intelligence agency warned …
It also said …
The secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said …
… The Associated Press reported.
… an aide to the city’s mayor said.
Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, said …
… Ukrainian officials said.
… said Andriy Yermak, the head of the presidential administration.
Mr. Zelensky reacted angrily … denouncing … and asking …
Photographs and video from the scene appeared to show …
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said on Twitter …
… the region’s governor said.
… the Ukrainian military claimed
Mr. Zelensky seized on a Russian general’s statement …
… Mr. Zelensky said.
Military and political analysts have cast doubt …
But the commander’s hint …
… the Moldovan government summoned …
Poland, … , said …
Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker, shared a photograph on Twitter … that she said …
… she wrote …
This is what happens to collective west everytime the amnesia from their latest collective defeat in the latest Drang nach osten kicks in.
Under Karl XII, Napoleon, Hitler and now the US doesn’t matter, we’ve seen this movie too many times and it always ends the same. It would’ve been much easier and better to just buy what we need from Russia instead of trying to steal it. Memory is short with these ones…
This is what happens to collective west everytime the amnesia from their latest collective defeat in the latest Drang nach osten kicks in.
Under Karl XII, Napoleon, Hitler and now the US doesn’t matter, we’ve seen this movie too many times and it always ends the same. It would’ve been much easier and better to just buy what we need from Russia instead of trying to steal it. Memory is short with these ones…
Wow. Great assignment if you are in the Ukrainian military – get sent to Germany.
It’s surprising that the recent Ukrainian attack on the Russian outpost in Izyum (which killed the senior Russian general Simonov) is not being covered on this website.
Good for the Ukrainians. As long as they stay in Germany, they won’t die.
Next, false flag gas attack in Ukraine. Who can see that coming?
Next, false flag gas attack in Ukraine. Who can see that coming?