From: slider@anashram.com

Ukraine and the world are still on high alert as Vladimir Putin shows off Russia's strength and experts warn Russia's withdrawal was a
'psychological technique, an element of hybrid warfare'

Russia paraded its firepower today as experts warned a withdrawal from the border with Ukraine was political theatre.

In a deliberate show of strength, Vladimir Putin’s forces displayed their combat readiness at sites across the vast country.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-parades-firepower-experts-warn-23971496

Residents in Rostov-on-Don, close to the border, witnessed “spooky lights” later identified as infrared guidance on a Russian warplane, deployed to
deter attacks..

A video showed a 600-strong troop deployment from the Northern Fleet live firing in Astrakhan in southern Russia, in drills involving surface-to-air missiles.

Other footage aimed at displaying the Kremlin’s battle-ready weapons
showed Tu-95 strategic missile carriers in Amur region, artillery fire
from warships in the Pacific, and army drills in Leningrad region.

Defence minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered tens of thousands of troops
back to their bases by May 1 and Moscow said the troop withdrawal from
Crimea, annexed from Ukraine in 2014, had begun.

But analysts fear that the precarious Ukraine border is teetering on the
brink of fresh conflict and an incursion by Russia.

A similar pullback happened in 2014 before Russian-backed rebels took
control of swathes of Donbass.

Eugene Magda, of the Institute of World Politics in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv said: “Russia deployed its troops too deliberately to say that it was
trying to organise an invasion.

"This is a psychological technique, an element of hybrid warfare.

“The only question is what will be the scale of Russian intervention - whether it is wider than in Donbass or not.

“I think that Russia tested the reaction of the Ukrainian leadership and
the West.

"This is far from the end of the act of this military-political drama,
because Russia’s strategy to subjugate Ukraine has not disappeared.”

Oleksiy Melnyk, co-director of foreign policy and security programmes at
the Razumkov Centre in Ukraine, said only 10% of the total 100,000 troops
were actually leaving.

“This does not mean that we can exhale,” he warned.

Meanwhile Russia claimed to have turned away an American spy plane from
its state border amid increasing tensions.

### - so it's not over yet then eh?? (really laffing)

but then was hardly likely to be huh...

this quote for example:

"A similar pullback happened in 2014 before Russian-backed rebels took
control of swathes of Donbass."

iow: no one really knows wtf they's doin' now hehehe...

could be this, could be that, all depends on what happens next i suppose?

but fuckin' with russia is like fuckin' with a hornet's nest!?

so why do it??

are we 'really' THAT bored & fed-up with the lockdowns that even a war
with russia is preferable to sitting at home watching tv?

are we nutz or wot???

imho yes! :D haha :)))

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