Dear Readers:
A couple of days ago we talked about underground warriors. Those soldiers literally live underground. Today we use the word “underground” in more of the metaphorical sense. Like that (mostly) mythical “French Resistance” movement of World War II. Which allegedly worked behind the lines and blew up Nazi trains and so on. Well, I shouldn’t scoff. Such people do actually exist in any war, sometimes they are called guerrillas or partisans, and although their efforts are not sufficient to actually win against a real army, they can certainly help the winning army quite a lot.
Which is what the Ukrainian underground Resistance is trying to do: to help the Russian army, as best they can. As with any Resistance movement, their actions become bolder as the liberating army approaches.
Here are two pieces by the same reporter, Dmitry Zubarev. This one, and this one.
In the first story, partisans attacked the railroad station at Kupyansk-Uzlovoi, in the Kharkov Oblast. Well, maybe it was just one guy. This unknown person tossed a Molotov cocktail at a group of Ukrainiain soldiers who were unloading military equipment from an echelon. As a result, three of the soldiers received serious burns and were dispatched to a medical center. This event was communicated to the press by Colonel Andrei Marochko of the Luhansk Peoples Republic. The attack caused a three-hour delay in the unloading process.
In the second story, we learn that the pro-Russian underground in Nikolaev is doing something a bit more useful than tossing Molotov cocktails: They are trying to keep the Russian army up to speed on the movements of Ukrainian troops. This, according to a man named Sergei Lebedev, who speaks for the pro-Russian underground in that city.
According to Lebedev, a whole lot of Ukrainian Nazis have started pouring into the city. They hail from two main Nazi battalions called Medvedi SS (“Bears of the SS”) and Tavr (“Taurus”). Lebedev believes that these soldiers are being quartered in private flats, or possibly they are renting out blocks of flats. The “SS Bears”, by the way, were created back in the day as the military wing of the Right Sektor political party.
The Russian army would obviously like to know exactly where these Nazis are quartered, I reckon that’s the job of the Underground to help out with that research.
To summarize from the broader picture: It seems to many analysts that the Russian High Command has (probably) decided it needs to take some of the big cities like Kharkov and Nikolaev. Therefore it can be very helpful to them to have folks on the ground, already in place, to feed them with useful information.
Awful Avalanche 
“In addition to FAB-1500 bombs [1.5-Ton], the Russian Aerospace Forces began using volumetric detonating ammunition. Due to the sudden pressure drop, they leave no chance for personnel, even if they are in cover.”
You drown in the blood hemorrhaging inside your lungs, it’s pretty mean weapon, if there is not a strong pressure barrier between you and the bombs PV wave…you’re a dead man.
Once word gets around about the use of this weapon the Galatians will have their work cut out for them, forcing soldiers conscripted from the various other ethnic/cultural groups that comprise the lands of Ukrainia, to dig in and fight for their master Übermenschen. The Galician’s tactic of using a bullet to the back of the head in order get the conscripts, of various ethnic untermensch, to fight for them won’t have the same cache once it’s clear that the frontline trenches offer no chance of survival.
Galicians…fighting to the last available untermenschen.
https://russiasnews.com/bomb-prelude-positions-of-the-ukrainian-armed-forces-in-chasovoy-yar-are-ironed-with-fabs/
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That sounds like one nasty bomb. I thought it was against the rules of war to use specifically anti-personnel weapons? This one sounds even worse than cluster bombs!
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In my mind, the worst of the worst, it’s the rapid change in pressure that ruptures lung tissue. I don’t know the legality, the US used fuel-air / CV-wave bombs in Viet Nam, Nazis against Russia, Brits/Germans/French have them.
Because such bombs will overcome the fall-back-defenses DC/London have planned to bleed Russia because of it’s decision to “slow-march” westward we can look forward to much media hand wringing and a deluge of crocodile tears over Russia’s cruelty. And honestly, there will be some truth to it, Russia is, for reasons unknown to me/general-public, choosing a methodology that destroys everything in it’s path…across a 450 mile front.
at ~3:20 you’ll see the effect in a scale that illustrates the power
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hh8es0PoRo]
BTW, I first saw fuel-air-bomb demonstrated in a science class, the fuel was aerosol’d flour…grain elevators are noted for this type of deadly explosion.
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The destruction is horrible, and it depresses me quite a lot. We need to put our thinking caps on and figure out a way to end this scourge of war.
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Thermobaric weapons are truly terrifying. They weigh more than comparable energy high-explosives, and have finicky detonation requirements (which the Russians have long figured out), but in exchange you get an extensive thermal flash and massive overpressure–enough to flatten buildings (as it is applied sideways) and delicate biological tissue alike.
They’re particularly useful as devices to clear buildings, because they act on and fill the inside as opposed to impacting walls and detonating with shattering forces.
Soviet architecture more or less minimizes their structural effects because Stalinka standards are to double as hardened combat emplacements, but in the West, a moderate detonation can flatten neighborhoods. You see this periodically in compressed gas canister explosions.
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And here I thought a resistor was a common electronic component! Partisans, as the Russian channel I follow calls ’em, are particularly thick in the Odessa region of late, apparently. They provide targeting info for the RAF. No doubt the Ukies think of them as traitors.
As for the thermobaric bombs/warheads S Brennan references, Russia has used them since the summer of ’22. The main deliverer is the TOS-1A mobile rocket launcher, whose devilish specifications can be read about on Wikipedia.
They are but titchy little devils compared to the biggies the RAF has for all its rocketry. Your Iskander, Kinzhal and Zircons, etc plus various FAB bombs can be equipped with thermobaric warheads. They are indeed macabre. Just the job for an itinerant French crack force of paratroopers assembling outside Odessa, sent by mini-man and neoliberal armwaver Macron. No doubt Shoigu advised that French chief general who phoned him the other day that such a fate was in store for the French. But Macron seems undeterred despite being advised by his military to not send troops to Ukraine.
And now, back to Youtube lawnmower and car repair videos. I find them relaxing.
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I also like those kinds of youtube videos. About people building fixing things. Or the ones about “how things work”, like, how does a sewing machine actually work? How did the ancient Romans build ropes for ship making? That sort of thing. They remind us how people used to make things, instead of just blowing everything up.
On the Odessa underground, yes, just this morning I read this piece about the Odessa Resistance blowing out the electric power for a Ukrainian military unit and drone workshop in the villages of Avangard and Khlebodarsk.
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“They provide targeting info for the RAF. No doubt the Ukies think of them as traitors”.
You can’t betray that which you don’t belong to.
Ethno/Cultural-Russians wanted to be part of Russia, not Nazi untermenschen, not pawns to be used for the amusement of DC/London’s ghoulish elite.
The civilian leadership of US began planning for the aftermath of WW II in 1943…Russia might want to consider doing the same. It looks like, the Neocolonicons, DNCers marching in lockstep with the Cheney-Repubs “hope” to extend* the war into the next US Presidents mid-terms elections when….the Hillary/Cheney/Obama/Biden administration [singular-intended] will be able to regain their power by blaming President-“Putin’s-Puppet” for “losing-the-war”, a foolish-hopeless-war against Russia that they themselves started…and prosecuted. Can’t know for sure but, it looks like the Russians are planning** to play their assigned role in neocolonicon’s power-play. I hope not but, hope’s not a plan.
* https://www.state.gov/fy-2025-budget-supporting-ukraine-and-ensuring-russias-strategic-failure/
**Maybe the Russians fighting for their freedom and lives, particularly those behind the lines in Odessa, can inspire Russia’s High Command [RHC] to think outside the box…where RHC seems, at least for the moment, contently confined.
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[*above comment] https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-seeking-trump-proof-future-ukraine-funds
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