Comparing consequences of an attack on Crimea by Ukraine, with the fantasy created by MAGA over FBI search. MAGA fantasy boring but deadly
My great teacher whom I knew in the U of Houston was victimized by a Trump lie which I will never forgive Trump for. Never forgive and never forget. I will hold Trump responsible for poisoning my teachers mind with this FILTH to the day I die: And this is important
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A key difference between the two ( Clinton and Trump use of documents)
Bradley Moss, a Washington-based lawyer who works on national security cases, said the cases of Clinton and Trump are significantly different.
“Trump took properly marked hard copy classified documents from the White House, shipped them to Florida, and stored them in an unsecured location at his residence,” Moss said.
The presence of classified information in Clinton’s emails was less obvious.
“The e-mails were never marked as classified because these were communications from unclassified government accounts,” Moss said.
In three instances, email chains included information with classification markers. It was never clear that Clinton was aware of the presence of that marked information, or if the classification marking was clear.
Marked information is not to be confused with emails containing unmarked information that could be deemed classified. That is a looser definition, and one that can be applied retroactively. Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, said in one case, an email in one chain forwarded a front-page New York Times story about a drone strike. Under its rules, the CIA called that classified, Blanton said.
When classified information was clearly involved, Blanton said Clinton’s “briefings were on a different system, a classified Blackberry that was managed by State Department IT people.
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It is not just apples and oranges. The stuff in the 15 boxes retrieved in the raid, were top secret and what was Trump doing with the documents ? Preparing them for Putin (which is what I think)
In the mist of this psychosis, MAGA fanatics are threatening the Judge whom signed off on the FBI raid
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Trump is trying to incite his violent far-right mob through posts on his social media platform?describing the lawful warrant as a surprise attack. The judge did nothing wrong, and the FBI and DOJ have done nothing wrong.
Donald Trump is turning to his violent mob again as he has run into a situation he can’t control.
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While this is happening, McCarthy, being a Trump robot is threatening Garland of the DOJ
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This sort of attack on an independent investigation, warned the board, would be a "disaster."
"When House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield threatened Attorney General Merrick Garland on Twitter Monday night for deploying FBI agents to search the Florida resort of former President Donald Trump, it was a political declaration of war," wrote the board. "McCarthy once swore an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, but that oath clearly means little to him as he unilaterally disregards the work of a sitting attorney general before Garland even has a chance to make his case against Trump."
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And this is happening because an informant is telling the DOJ where to find illegal documents stored by Trump
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The raid on Mar-a-Lago was based largely on information from an?FBI?confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents, two senior government officials told?Newsweek.
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Also see this
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We all presume the worst with Trump, and we’re very often proven right. But keep in mind that Trump doesn’t need to have been planning to sell nuclear documents to Kim Jong Un for this scandal to still put him in prison. It’s enough that he stole them, and refused to return them.
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While MAGA falsely calls the action on MAR A LAGO illegal, see the difference between MAGA fantasy and the Ukraine war
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Earlier on Wednesday, Ukraine said 13 people were killed in overnight shelling near Nikopol, across the river Dnipro from the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant at Enerhodar. Ukraine said the attackers were hiding on the site of the power plant, preventing them from being counterattacked.
G7 foreign ministers warned in a joint statement that Russia risked “the safety and security” of the site and called on Moscow to allow safety inspectors to immediately visit from the International Atomic Energy Agency – and to hand back the nuclear plant back to Ukraine.
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Ukraine involves real news, while the Mar A Lago is Trump psychosis generated NONSENSE with one objective. To confuse people so Trump can be free to do MORE crimes: the only thing slowing Trumpd down is
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Strzok posted a photo of legendary CIA counterintelligence official James Angelton, who was the top Russian spy hunter for two decades during the cold war.
"So much paranoia in a mole hunt, no one to trust, so much to do, so much to lose, so many walls closing in so fast," Strzok explained.
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Comparing Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s boxes of files
In the 2016 presidential campaign, chants of "lock her up, lock her up" were regular features at Trump rallies.
By:?Jon Greenberg
August 10, 2022
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Soon after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate, former President Donald Trump posted a statement decrying the “weaponization of the justice system.” He called the search “political targeting at the highest level,” and contrasted what was happening to him with what happened to his 2016 Democratic opponent.
“Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 emails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress,” Trump?said Aug. 8?on his social media platform, Truth Social. “Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable.”
In the 2016 presidential campaign, chants of “lock her up, lock her up” were regular features at Trump rallies.
While she was never charged, Clinton’s use of a private email account for exchanges with her staff during her time as secretary of state drew an FBI investigation.
Now, according to news?accounts, the Justice Department is probing Trump and the classified documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago after he left office. The Justice Department has not responded to questions about the search, so we don’t know what if anything was removed from the property.
We explore the legal risks Trump faces in a?related article. Here, we ask, how do the Clinton and Trump situations compare?
Clinton’s emails
Clinton’s email troubles started in 2014, when the?House Select Committee on Benghazi?asked the State Department for all of her emails. The department didn’t have them all because, instead of only using the State Department email system (with an email address ending in @state.gov), Clinton used a personal email address (@clintonemail.com) housed on private servers located in her Chappaqua, New York, home.
In 2014, Clinton’s lawyers combed through the private server and turned over about 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department and deleted the rest, which Clinton said involved personal matters, such as her daughter’s wedding plans.
Clinton repeatedly said she did not have any classified emails on her server, but the results of an FBI investigation found otherwise.
Of the tens of thousands of emails investigators reviewed, 113 contained classified information, and three of those had classification markers. Former FBI Director James Comey said?in 2016?that Clinton should have known that some of the 113 were classified, but others she might have understandably missed. In a sign of the uncertainty around classification,?in 2018, a Justice Department report found that the classification markings were not clear.
Ultimately, Clinton paid a political, not a legal, price for her email practices. Republicans wielded the episode against her as proof that she was untrustworthy. Trump said she was “guilty as hell” and often raised the specter of what the roughly 30,000 personal emails she deleted might have contained. House Republican leader?Kevin McCarthy?said she showed a “fundamental lack of judgment and wanton disregard” for matters of national security.
The FBI issued its findings in?July 2016. Broadly, it said classified information had been improperly transmitted, but carelessness, not an intent to skirt the law, was the cause. The issue began to fade, but it resurfaced at the end of October 2016, right before the election. Many believe that in a razor thin election, that timing torpedoed her campaign.
Trump’s documents
The details of the warrant behind the search of Trump’s residence remain unclear. We do know that Trump crossed swords with the National Archives when it was learned that he had taken official records with him when he left the White House. The?Presidential Records Act?requires that everything go to the archives.
The head of the National Archives, David Ferriero, told the House Oversight and Reform Committee?in February?that his agency had recovered 15 boxes of presidential records from Mar-a-Lago. Ferriero said they had “identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes.”
In an echo of Clinton’s email practices, Ferriero also said “some White House staff conducted official business using non-official electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts, as required by section 2209 of the Presidential Records Act.”
In 2018, about halfway through Trump’s presidency, the National Archives learned that Trump was tearing up documents, another breach of the rules. They contacted the White House counsel’s office, and matters improved.
“White House staff were attempting to tape them back together,” Ferriero told the House committee. “Although White House staff during the Trump administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records, a number of other torn-up records that were transferred had not been reconstructed by the White House.”
It is unclear from Ferriero’s letter if documents torn up before the National Archives intervened were retained. Trump said his staff had been cooperating with the National Archives at the time of the raid.
A key difference between the two
Bradley Moss, a Washington-based lawyer who works on national security cases, said the cases of Clinton and Trump are significantly different.
“Trump took properly marked hard copy classified documents from the White House, shipped them to Florida, and stored them in an unsecured location at his residence,” Moss said.
The presence of classified information in Clinton’s emails was less obvious.
“The e-mails were never marked as classified because these were communications from unclassified government accounts,” Moss said.
In three instances, email chains included information with classification markers. It was never clear that Clinton was aware of the presence of that marked information, or if the classification marking was clear.
Marked information is not to be confused with emails containing unmarked information that could be deemed classified. That is a looser definition, and one that can be applied retroactively. Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, said in one case, an email in one chain forwarded a front-page New York Times story about a drone strike. Under its rules, the CIA called that classified, Blanton said.
When classified information was clearly involved, Blanton said Clinton’s “briefings were on a different system, a classified Blackberry that was managed by State Department IT people.”
Clinton’s emails included moments when staffers wrote that for them to go into more detail, they would need to switch to a secure classified State Department system.
Moss cautioned that while some documents at Mar-a-Lago were clearly marked as classified, many questions remain, such as “where the records were originally located, who boxed them up, when Trump became aware of the existence of the records at Mar-a-Lago, and what, if any, efforts Trump took to rectify the situation once he was informed.”
The answers to those questions, he said, would help determine if anyone could be held criminally liable, and whether Trump himself faces any legal risk.
As for the personal emails that Clinton erased, the FBI said its investigation might have found some of them. Overall, the agency said it was reasonably confident that there was no intentional misconduct.
This article was originally?published by PolitiFact, which is part of the Poynter Institute. It is republished here with permission. See the sources for these fact checks?here?and more of their fact checks?here.
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https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/10/trump-supporters-threaten-judge.html
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From the same people who brought the nation the 1/6 attack on the Capitol comes let’s kill a judge and his family because he signed a search warrant for the FBI to seize criminal evidence that Donald Trump lied about and refused to turn over to the federal government.
Trump is trying to incite his violent far-right mob through posts on his social media platform?describing the lawful warrant as a surprise attack. The judge did nothing wrong, and the FBI and DOJ have done nothing wrong.
Donald Trump is turning to his violent mob again as he has run into a situation he can’t control. Trump could not stop the election from being certified on 1/6, so he tried to keep power by force.
Trump can’t stop the FBI from investigating him, so he is trying to halt future investigations by mobilizing his supporters against the DOJ and the judge.
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The monster called TRUMP has many such investigations into his conduct. All well deserved
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Mar-a-Lago search just part of one of several Trump probes
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate marked a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of the law enforcement scrutiny of the former president, but the?Florida operation?is just one part of one investigation related to Trump and his time in office.
The potential legal peril from multiple quarters comes as?Trump lays the groundwork for another presidential run in 2024. He has denied any wrongdoing and worked to cast Monday’s search as a weaponization of the criminal justice system and a political ploy to keep from another term in office, though the Biden White House said it had no awareness and the current FBI director was originally appointed by Trump.
Here’s a look at the probes underway in different states and venues:
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Monday’s FBI search came as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said. Trump himself confirmed the search publicly, with a fiery statement condemning it as “prosecutorial misconduct” and saying agents had opened up a safe in his home.
While Trump didn’t say what the search was related to, the Justice Department has been investigating for months the potential mishandling of classified information. It started after the National Archives and Records Administration?said it had received 15 boxes?of White House records from Mar-a-Lago, including documents containing classified information.
There are multiple federal laws dictating how classified records and sensitive government documents must be handled, including statutes that make it a crime to remove such material.
A search doesn’t necessarily mean criminal charges are imminent, but to get a warrant, federal agents would have to convince a judge they have probable cause to think a crime occurred.
2020 ELECTION AND CAPITOL RIOT
The Justice Department is investigating the?Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection?and efforts to overturn the election he falsely claimed was stolen, though whether the former president is a direct target of the probe remains unclear.
A federal grand jury recently?subpoenaed?the White House counsel under Trump, Pat Cipollone, and Cipollone’s top deputy, suggesting that prosecutors regard close advisers to Trump as potentially vital witnesses.
Federal prosecutors have been especially focused on a scheme by Trump allies to elevate fake presidential electors in key battleground states won by Joe Biden as a way to subvert the vote, issuing subpoenas in recent weeks to multiple state Republican party chairmen.
Authorities in June also searched the Virginia home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department lawyer who was known to champion Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
The Justice Department investigation is running parallel to a probe by a?U.S. House committee?which has held several public hearings, including in prime time, about efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss.
That House committee doesn’t have the power to file criminal charges, but legal experts have said the testimony gives prosecutors territory to explore, including the assertion that?Trump sought to join his supporters in marching to the Capitol on Jan. 6?after holding a rally or that he dismissed warnings that people in the crowd weapons.
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Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
Trump also faces multiple civil lawsuits connected to Jan. 6. A federal judge has rejected Trump’s bid to toss lawsuits filed by lawmakers and Capitol police officers, saying the former president’s words “plausibly” led to the riot. Trump’s attorneys are appealing.
GEORGIA
After his 2020 election loss, Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and urged him to “find” the votes needed to overturn his narrow loss in the state.
That Jan. 2 phone call?is part of an investigation by a prosecutor in Atlanta?which could pose a more immediate legal threat to Trump.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has said she is contemplating subpoenaing Trump for his testimony, a move that would seek to force him to cooperate with a criminal probe.
Prosecutors have already sought the testimony of Trump associates, including lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
They’ve also advised Georgia Republicans who served as fake electors that they are at risk of being indicted. They signed a certificate asserting Trump had won the election and declaring themselves the state’s electors, even though Biden had won the state and a slate of Democratic electors had already been certified.
Trump has repeatedly described his call to Raffensperger as “perfect.”
NEW YORK
New York Attorney General Letitia James is conducting a civil investigation into allegations that the former president’s company, the Trump Organization, misled banks and tax authorities about the value of assets like golf courses and skyscrapers to get loans and tax benefits.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has also long been pursing a parallel criminal investigation into Trump’s real estate dealings.
In May, James’ office said that it was nearing the end of its probe and that investigators have amassed substantial evidence that could support legal action — such as a lawsuit — against Trump, his company or both.
Trump is expected to be questioned under oath in James’ investigation this month. Two of the former president’s adult children — Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump — recently sat for questioning in the investigation.
The Manhattan district attorney’s probe had appeared to be progressing toward a possible criminal indictment, but slowed after a new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, took office in January. Bragg has said his investigation continues.
Manhattan prosecutors last summer charged the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with tax fraud. Prosecutors said Weisselberg collected more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation. Weisselberg and the company have pleaded not guilty.
Trump has denied the allegations and dismissed the investigations as politically motivated.
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whereas McCarthy threatens GARLAND for doing his JOB
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) -- (Photo by Saul Loeb for AFP)
On Wednesday, the editorial board of?The Sacramento Bee?tore into?House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for his threat to go after Attorney General Merrick Garland if he becomes Speaker of the House next year — a threat he made in retaliation for the?FBI's search?of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Florida on Monday.
In response to that search, McCarthy?tweeted, "When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts and leave no stone unturned. Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar." The board noted the irony of the demand to "preserve your documents" when Trump repeatedly?flushed protected presidential records down the toilet.
This sort of attack on an independent investigation, warned the board, would be a "disaster."
"When House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield threatened Attorney General Merrick Garland on Twitter Monday night for deploying FBI agents to search the Florida resort of former President Donald Trump, it was a political declaration of war," wrote the board. "McCarthy once swore an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, but that oath clearly means little to him as he unilaterally disregards the work of a sitting attorney general before Garland even has a chance to make his case against Trump."
"Whether McCarthy is serious or not, we should take him at his word: If Republicans take back the House in November, McCarthy would use his office to target Garland because the attorney general’s pursuit of facts is a threat to McCarthy’s pursuit of misinformation," wrote the board. "McCarthy’s threat to go after Garland if he gains power in November is even more disturbing because it would set up the Republican House leadership as agents of Trump with the goal of using their power to protect Trump no matter the evidence against him."
"Every House race in America this fall should be viewed in this context. A vote for GOP leadership in the House would be a vote to support McCarthy’s vow to use his power to fight the rule of law and defend his choice of party over country," concluded the board. "McCarthy told us what he would do if he comes to power, so for the good of democracy, we must prevent that from happening."
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And this mess was summarized by Palmer
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/what-did-donald-trump-think-he-was-even-doing-2/46582/
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What did Donald Trump think he was even doing?
Bill Palmer?|?8:00 pm EDT August 10, 2022
With the way the Feds were hounding him over it, Donald Trump had to know they were going to end up taking the classified documents by force. So why not just give them back voluntarily? It would have allowed him to argue at his trial that it was a misunderstanding and he was innocent.
There are a few competing theories. One is that Trump mistakenly thought holding onto the documents gave him leverage, and that he could perhaps trade them back for non-prosecution on other fronts. This would be clueless of him, but he never has understood how negotiations work.
Another theory is that the contents of the documents incriminate him. That’s possible. But the National Archives seems to already know what these documents are. Perhaps his plan was to claim at trial that such documents never existed, and the Feds merely pretended he stole them.
This would play into what Trump’s lawyer is vaguely implying on TV, which is that the documents were somehow planted by the government to frame Trump. If Trump had returned the documents, he couldn’t have claimed they were planted on him, right?
Yet another theory is that the documents contain compromising information on other people in government, and he thought he could use it as blackmail. There’s also the theory that he was going to sell them overseas if he ran out of cash.
Those last two are extremely serious accusations and would require proof of intent. Whoever told the Feds about the location of the documents could be close enough to Trump to also testify about what he was or wasn’t planning to do with the documents.
But regardless of intent, Trump’s extended refusal to give the documents back, even after multiple relevant government agencies confirmed to him that he had no legal right to them, should be enough to prove him guilty on a base charge of stealing them – and obstruction.
We all presume the worst with Trump, and we’re very often proven right. But keep in mind that Trump doesn’t need to have been planning to sell nuclear documents to Kim Jong Un for this scandal to still put him in prison. It’s enough that he stole them, and refused to return them.
It’s also possible that Trump took the documents, and refused to return them, for incoherently pointless reasons, and there ends up being no real explanation for it. But that would still make him guilty.
It’s also worth noting that whoever is tending to Trump these days – his lawyers, his remaining political advisers – these folks were apparently unable or unwilling to convince him to handle this document scandal in a less dumb way. So expect more dumb self-defeating moves by Trump.
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And this topped off with the coming witch hunt
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Donald Trump / Gage Skidmore.
Donald Trump may have trust issues in his marriage as he seeks to find out the mole who reportedly was instrumental in the FBI search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.
On Wednesday,?The Wall Street Journal?reported?that following a June meeting with the FBI at Mar-a-Lago, "someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club after the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes earlier in the year, people familiar with the matter said."
Following the report, prominent conservative attorney George Conway?wondered?on Twitter, "Who is CI-1?"
Under standard abbreviation in a federal court filing, "CI-1" would refer to the first "confidential information" mentioned, with subsequent CIs receiving subsequent numbers.
Peter Strzok, who served as deputy assistant FBI director running the counterintelligence division?responded?to Conway, wondering "And -2? And -3?"
Strzok posted a photo of legendary CIA counterintelligence official James Angelton, who was the top Russian spy hunter for two decades during the cold war.
"So much paranoia in a mole hunt, no one to trust, so much to do, so much to lose, so many walls closing in so fast," Strzok explained.
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compare this with the Ukraine raid on Crimea
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Ukraine air force claims up to a dozen Russian jets destroyed in Crimea raid
Attack on Saky military base in Novofedorivka on Tuesday afternoon killed one and wounded 13
Dan Sabbagh?in Kyiv
Wed 10 Aug 2022 14.38 EDT
Ukraine’s air force said it believed that up to a dozen Russian aircraft were destroyed on the ground following Tuesday’s dramatic explosions at the Saky airbase in Crimea,?which Russia said killed one, wounded 13 and damaged dozens of nearby houses.
Political sources in?Ukraine?said the country had carried out the attack – but no public claim of responsibility was made by Kyiv of the incident that one expert believes may have been the product of a daring raid rather than a missile strike.
Yuriy Ignat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force, told national television that from studying video footage of the incident, it was clear “the aircraft weapons depot was hit”. He said: “And if additionally a?dozen planes?are destroyed there, it will be a real small victory.”
The country’s air force also said on its Facebook page that “nine invader planes” had been destroyed in a short posting, although it did not specify in that message where or how it believed they had been eliminated.
Ukraine’s president, Volodoymyr Zelenskiy, referred to the attack in his latest national address on Wednesday evening. “In just one day, the occupiers lost 10 combat aircraft: nine in?Crimea?and one more in the direction of Zaporizhzhia,” he said. “The occupiers also suffer new losses of armoured vehicles, warehouses with ammunition, logistics routes.”
The claims could not be verified but the Saky airbase is home to Su-30M fighters, Su-24 bombers and the Il-76 transporter, used regularly to launch missile strikes into Ukraine and patrol the Black Sea and surrounding area.
Ukraine’s public coyness about the attack is partly designed to preserve some ambiguity about the means used, sources said, prompting broad speculation as to how Kyiv was able to strike so deep behind Russian lines, in one of the first attacks on Crimean soil since the Russian invasion began in February.
Justin Bronk, an aviation analyst with the Rusi thinktank, said that, having studied social media videos of the incident, he could see no evidence of incoming missiles and that he was “almost certain” there were “secondary explosions” of ammunition stores or fuel bunkers which were stored on or near the airstrip.
That led him to conclude that “the most likely current theory for me is that Ukrainian special forces carried out the attack by infiltrating close enough to the base to launch and guide in small UAVs [drones] or loitering munitions, to hit either parked aircraft or fuel trucks/storage”.
Other remarks and videos suggest the damage caused was considerable. Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian-appointed head of occupied Crimea, said that 13 had been wounded, 252 people had been rehoused and 62 apartment blocks had been damaged. A day earlier he had said one person had been killed.
A?social media video, geolocated to a car park near the base, showed several cars burnt out or damaged with their windows blown out, apparently from the ferocity of the blasts. Another?brief video?shows a destroyed jet on the tarmac, although it could not be verified.
The British defence secretary, Ben Wallace, told the BBC the UK was still trying to establish facts on the airbase explosions, but added that he believed it was unlikely western weapons were involved. The airbase, he argued, was a legitimate target for Ukraine’s armed forces.
Ukrainian officials have also privately briefed that the attack was carried out with homegrown weapons. One political source said that Kyiv was keen to avoid using only US-made weapons to strike in the rear, because it is otherwise feared it could prompt the narrative that the US is effectively fighting a proxy war, which the Russians could exploit.
On Tuesday,?speculation had centred around?whether the airbase had been struck by long range missiles, such as Ukraine’s home manufactured Neptune anti-ship missiles, modified to attack ground targets, from the area around Odesa, about 165 miles (265km) away.
But there have been other hints that the attack could have been a daring raid, targeting munitions or fuel. Mikhail Polodyak, a key adviser to president Zelenskiy speculated in a TV interview on Tuesday along those lines, in which he also denied Ukrainian responsibility for the attack.
“Could it be someone from the partisan movement that is gaining momentum? Of course, because the people who lived in the occupation [of Crimea] understand that the time of the occupation is ending and you need to show your position,” the adviser told the Dozhd TV channel.
The attack on the airbase has been a morale boost for Kyiv, which is seeking to demonstrate it can mount a counter-offensive in the south of the country and retake the occupied city of Kherson before autumn sets in.
Overnight, Zelenskiy talked about Crimea, but did not mention the attack on the airbase directly. “There will be no stable and lasting peace in many countries on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea as long as Russia is able to use our peninsula as its military base,” the president said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Ukraine said 13 people were killed in overnight shelling near Nikopol, across the river Dnipro from the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant at Enerhodar. Ukraine said the attackers were hiding on the site of the power plant, preventing them from being counterattacked.
G7 foreign ministers warned in a joint statement that Russia risked “the safety and security” of the site and called on Moscow to allow safety inspectors to immediately visit from the International Atomic Energy Agency – and to hand back the nuclear plant back to Ukraine.
Russia, in turn, said it had requested that the issue be discussed by the UN security council on Thursday, after what it said were, “strikes by Kyiv” on the facility – the largest nuclear power plant in?Europe.
Petro Kotin, the president of Energoatom – the Ukrainian company that owns the plant – said that Russia was trying to switch the plant over to supply Crimea with electricity, instead of Ukraine, which he described as risky.
“To do this, you must first damage the power lines of the plant connected to the Ukrainian energy system,” he said. “At the moment, the plant is operating with only one production line, which is an extremely dangerous way of working.”
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See the difference? The Ukraine situation is not one of Make Believe. Everything connected to Trump is fantasy. Fantasy, with deadly import
Andrew Beckwith, PhD