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West Admits Jets for Ukraine will Take Years + US Sanctions Blocking Syrian Earthquake Relief

The New Atlas
Feb 12, 2023

Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for February 13, 2023 + US sanctions deliberately compounding Syrian earthquake relief efforts:

- US rep admits US sanctions and occupation of eastern Syria are to prevent reconstruction for use as leverage following Washington’s failed proxy war;

- Russian missiles & drones targeted Ukraine’s power grid inflicting heavy damage nationwide;

- The missile/drone strikes included an unmanned naval drone targeting a bridge in Odessa;

- Western governments and analysts admit that it will take years to send Ukraine NATO jets;

- Any appearance beforehand means NATO pilots are posing as Ukrainian pilots;

- CNN claims captured “Wagner” fighters say Russia is suffering heavy losses, CNN suggests 80% of the 50,000 Wagner recruited have died, been injured, or are captured;

- This suggests only 10k Wagner fighters are outfighting/surrounding Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut;

- CNN used US-EU supported front “Russia Behind Bars” to back claims in report, a similar tactic used during the US proxy war in Syria;

References:

WaPo - Lifting sanctions on Syria won’t help earthquake victims:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...
Archived version with original headline:
https://web.archive.org/web/202302101...
US DoD - Dana Stroul:
https://www.defense.gov/About/Biograp...
Hands off Syria - “Dana Stroul, Biden official, boasts that Washington "owns" one third of Syria” (2019):
https://youtu.be/FSE3FWKFp4g
FT - Russia launches fresh missile bombardment on Ukraine (February 12, 2023):
https://www.ft.com/content/3b3433fb-7...
Reuters - Ukraine says three major regions can avoid power cuts after attacks (February 11, 2023):
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/...
Telegraph (UK) - Russia strikes key Odessa bridge with first use of drone boat:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-new...
War on the Rocks - UNFOLDING OFFENSIVES AND COUNTER-OFFENSIVES IN UKRAINE:
https://warontherocks.com/2023/02/unf...
UK Gov - PM extends Ukraine military training to pilots and marines as President Zelensky makes first visit to the UK since Russian invasion (February 8, 2023):
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm...
Reuters - 'No magic wand' in Ukraine war, says UK's Wallace on question of supplying jets (February 3, 2023):
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/...
Air & Space Forces Magazine - Romania Is a Model for Training Ukraine’s Pilots to Fly F-16s (August 2022):
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/rom...
Reuters - Ukraine says pilots would need six months for F-16 combat training (January 27, 2023):
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/...
CNN - ‘Just to survive’: Wagner fighters recount the horrors of battle in eastern Ukraine (February 2023):
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/12/eu...
CNN - UK sanctions British blogger over videos from Ukraine (July 2022):
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/27/uk...
US NED - 2019 Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellows:
https://www.ned.org/events/reporting-...
Bloomberg - When Russian Officials ‘Nightmare’ Your Business, You Can Lose Everything—Even Your Life (2018, admission Russia Behind Bars sought EU funding):
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featur...
Khodorkovsky - What is Open Russia?
https://khodorkovsky.com/what-is-open...