I mentioned this last night, and now more solid reports have emerged. Basically, Ukraine and Russia are taking turns striking each other’s warehouses and distribution centers with missiles and drones. However, the brunt of the damage and chaos is being felt only by one side—Ukraine.
Zero Hedge has a solid article explaining the dynamics:
A Russian drone struck a Ukrainian Defense Forces ammunition storage site in the village of Myla Friday evening, just west of Kiev. The resulting fire and hours of secondary detonations killed at least 37 people, injured dozens more, damaged around 50 residential buildings and a care home for the elderly and disabled, and forced the evacuation of hundreds. Among the dead was the local community head who had gone to help.
In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ¹the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” The first impact, he said, hit a depot storing shells, mines, other munitions, and drones that “definitely shouldn’t have been there” – while prosecutors in Kiev opened a criminal investigation into the legality of storing explosives next to civilian housing. This is the second such incident in two months. A July strike on a depot in nearby Vyshneve produced similar secondary blasts, deaths, and later detentions of state defense-company executives.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the Myla site held components and launch boosters for long-range drones. It also claimed strikes on Flamingo cruise-missile related facilities in the Kiev region and on the ports of Mykolaiv and Izmail. Social-media claims that Patriots were stored there remain unconfirmed by official Ukrainian statements.
Here comes the fact that few in the west understand:
Friday night’s blast came amid a multi-day Russian campaign of jet-powered drones and missiles that has produced near-continuous air-raid alerts over Kiev and hit warehouses belonging to supermarket chains, postal operators, retailers, and logistics firms. Ukraine Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi told reporters that, “roughly speaking,” about 90% of the food-logistics infrastructure used by major retail chains (large distribution centers serving networks such as Fora, Silpo, NOVUS, and Varus) has been destroyed.
[…] Both sides have been systematically striking each other’s logistics and dual-use commercial infrastructure. […] Zelensky’s government has framed its own long-range strikes as a way to force Russia to negotiate. (more)
You can hit centralized Russian distribution centers and not accomplish any material impact to the people of Russia. However, if you hit centralized Ukraine distribution centers, chaos and crisis quickly surfaces for Kiev residents.
The why is not complicated.
Metropolitan Russia, home to more than 75% of the population, was set up around the concept of govt planned precincts.
Each few buildings you will find a generally useful grocery store, a bakery, a coffee shop, a pharmacy, a utility store, tobacco, produce shop etc. all within immediate walking distance.
EX. Bread is made in each bakery; made, not just taken out of a box. Actually made.
They set it up that way a long time ago during the Soviet era. Now, over time stores are different, but the planning never changed. The people of Russia also operate Dacha Gardens all over the urban sprawl and suburban areas.
“Gardening as provided food for the people of Russia for over 1,000 years, starting as mainly subsistence or survival gardening and evolving into an independent, self-provisioning model between the Bolshevik Revolution and World War II and continues into today.”
Ukraine, we are told – even by former Defense Minister Federov, was convinced by western intelligence analysis that destroying the roughly 200 online Wildberries distribution centers it would cripple the Russian consumer economy.
Increased strikes did not yield the desired results.
Who in their right mind thought destroying regional Russian online warehouses would have some great impact? Russia is analog in a digital world.
However, conversely in our westernized, centralized, corporate consumer structures and logistics, we built distribution economies on centralized production and cost-efficient distribution, vis-a-vis Kyiv or Brussels etc.
Ex. The western bread for a hundred locations is made in one centralized or regional facility. Boxed, shipped and distributed for maximum efficiency and profit.
Bombing Russian distribution centers doesn’t have any impact on the precinct level operation. But taking out westernized regional hubs and distribution centers in Kiev can create immediate chaos.
That’s what we are seeing now.
Honestly, this is not complicated to analyze. These are two completely different economic and logistic models. One is centralized (Ukraine) and one is decentralized (Russia). Attacking the logistics of a decentralized system creates no substantive impact. Attacking the logistics of a centralized system creates major impact.
I think part of the reason the western news doesn’t make sense is because western media don’t understand Russia or pretend not to know things.
Apparently, the same applies to western intelligence.
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[¹People are starting to suspect that Director Ratcliffe told his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin where the ammo was stored.]
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ¹the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” “
Terrorist 101 playbook:
Use civilians as “human shields”.
Ukraine = Hamas when it comes to using civilians as human shields.
Z continues to use Ukrainian soldiers (kidnapped off the street or otherwise in the military) to stay in power. Why can’t idiots in the West, and the MSM, see this?
That cokehead globalist puppet Zelenski has lost control over the Ukraine population. If these Russian attacks cripple Ukrainians basic necessities as intended, the Zeester will be looking for a personal exit before his own people introduce him to his last day
Shucks Deplorable, I didn’t see your post and posted the exact same analysis. My bad.
Russia is pretty much unbeatable. Ask Napoleon and Adolf. The place is GIGANTIC.
Remember when Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan were a part of Russia?
Not so hard when you take it on piece at a time.
The British have plotted to divide Russia up for several hundred years.
Now it looks like not-so-great Britain will be consolidated into a califate.
Less Britain
Minor detail and you need to reread what really happened … those smaller nation-states you named ALL “broke away” after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
The USSR was actually a form of Federation that included those states. Those states were actually referred to as “Breakaway Republics” for some tme after the USSR fragmented.
NOBODY took anything.
Canada is gigantic too. Size matters but it’s not enough.
[¹People are starting to suspect that Director Ratcliffe told his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin where the ammo was stored.]
Especially given the past 80 straight hours of successful strikes . . .
0.o
I think he did tell him… Russia and the U.S. ally up to defeat Ukraine, EU, NATO and the globalist system.
I’m Team USA and Russia.
You are truly a breath 0f Sunshine and count me in also.
“Ukraine, we are told – even by former Defense Minister Federov, was convinced by western intelligence analysis”
How much are these dufuses that work for “western intelligence” being paid?
Me thinks some more cuts need to be made, because they do not know diddly-squat.
They are mostly British, with a sprinkling of Sea Eye Ah, and Froggie Crauts.
There is a powerful lesson in this sentence…
Sorry! I put that first sentence in the quotation html, but for some reason it didn’t work, and I don’t see an option to edit or delete.
You have to look for the little gear at the bottom and to the far right of your comment. Clicking on that will bring up the option to edit, which is only good for about 10 minutes, OR until someone else replies to your comment.
There is an edit button – it’s the little gear-gizmo below your comment, near the right margin. We are able to edit for about 4-5 minutes after posting. (Hover over the gear and a little manage comment/edit drop-down appears)
Similar model as the internet, and more specifically, the Tor network.
Redundancy.
“¹People are starting to suspect that Director Ratcliffe told his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin where the ammo was stored”
Perhaps Director Ratcliffe should cut off the targeting data and assistance that Ukraine is receiving from the west. As far as I know, other members of the “five eyes” do not own very many (if any) satellites up there.
exactly. i do not understand why we keep pretending not to be a primary participant in this war. oh to be a fly on the wall when the former republic of the US came to lecture them yet again….
russia knew where that depot was, and almost certainly let it go because of where it sat. but their patience has worn thin.
the intentional visibility of the visit, the sudden vatican visit, the new euro idiot proclamations, the russians publishing the list of sites where drones are made in europe/uk, our inability to defend against missile attacks since we blew it all in iran, weak sanctions that dont take effect and no one is going to abide by, the asymmetric bombing that just occurred, the unprecedented bond moves no one is paying attention to…
we are all just guessing about the legendary meetup… but to me, it seems a lot more obvious that its a coordinated push to try one last time and convince russia to stand down as the west come to the realization that the entirety of ukraine civilization is about to collapse. and with it, NATO and the former republic of the US’s impotence is on display for all to see.
winners do not ask for mercy and ceasefires.
the non-western powers smell the blood in the water.
A scary alternative
My neighborhood is analog in a digital world,,,,,,,,,
Beware the Bear that lurks behind the Urals…feed him gun powder and blood, then poke him on the nose isn’t wise.
” Zelensky said ¹the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” This is the second such incident in two months. A July strike on a depot in nearby Vyshneve produced similar secondary blasts, deaths, and later detentions of state defense-company executives. ”
Once an exception, twice a pattern.
Zelensky is a murderous war criminal with NATO co-conspirators. They do not give a damn about the Ukrainian people and loss of life.
Gibbs’ rules:
There are no coincidences.
Ukes absolutely put it there on purpose, betting that russia’s restraint would keep them away. and it did, for a long time. but there is no freaking way russian intel did not already know EXACTLY where that stash was.
Traveling again—-thank you for all you do to bring us these timely updates and unique insights.
I don’t understand why Russia doesn’t take down Ukraines power grid, and keep it down.
Surely a country that for so many years has been ready and able to go to war with the US should be able to knock out Ukraines electrical and gas supplies, or are they afraid of the bad press of causing millions to be without light or tv?
i think for the same reason they have held off pummeling kiev and a bunch of ammo stashes hidden behind the skirts of their civilians.
PDJT just being the peacemaker before Z et al pushes the bear too far until he won’t be further pushed and instead pushes the button.
an alternate theory: we have it backwards… russia called on us to provide the CIA rats of the US and euros one last chance to stop this insanity before their red line is crossed. and in the days since, they have walked and talked exactly what they meant with massive bombardment, calling up a million soldiers, and pronouncements that they WILL strike targets outside ukraine, and we have no defense.
check out the pics of tens of thousands fleeing every day now.
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/more-speculation-re-ratcliffes-moscow
While not the main focus….
This statement is propaganda in its most blatant form:
“In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ¹the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” The first impact, he said, hit a depot storing shells, mines, other munitions, and drones that “definitely shouldn’t have been there” – while prosecutors in Kiev opened a criminal investigation into the legality of storing explosives next to civilian housing. This is the second such incident in two months. A July strike on a depot in nearby Vyshneve produced similar secondary blasts, deaths, and later detentions of state defense-company executives.”
Wanna bet why those munitions depots were located near civilian residences? Same reason Iran stores munitions in mosques and near schools. Litte Z man is lying through his teeth with that statement.
The USSR created ’15 minute cities’.