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"All I know is that I know nothing" Owner of @IslanderWORLD s Pro sanity, and allergic to the dying Empire's forever wars. https://nitter.cf/t.co/m1p71g1rue

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My account @IslanderWORLD just got suspended. No reason given. Over 100m views in the last 4 weeks. I suppose speaking truth to power is not permitted on X. I poured my heart and soul into this account.
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๐ŸšจScott Ritter Says Don't blame Russia for Ukraine War Russia did everything possible to prevent this war. The explosive truth about the conflict in Ukraine: "We know for a fact this war began in 1948 when the CIA took over the Gehlen Organization"! According to this bombshell claim, covert American operations have weaponized nationalist operatives for decades to "bring down the Soviet Union" and later dismantle Russia. While the speaker insists that "Putin wanted to avoid this conflict" through multiple peace deals and diplomatic frameworks, the West continues to fan the flames because "the political and economic elites make money off this war." ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ To anyone convinced Moscow is planning an all-out blitz on Europe: "Do the math!" Stretched across a brutal frontline, an actual invasion of NATO territory "would need millions of men," yet Russia simply is "not in the business of mobilizing millions of men." Countering the mainstream panic, the RITTER argues that "Russia poses a threat to nobody," warning that the real escalation comes from NATO members like Germany, Poland, and the Baltic states actively building up their forces "to fight the Russians in Kaliningrad."
๐ŸšจScott Ritter Says Don't blame Russia for Ukraine War ๐ŸšจRussia did everything possible to prevent this war. ๐ŸšจThe explosive truth about the conflict in Ukraine: "We know for a fact this war began in 1948 when the CIA took over the Gehlen Organization"! According to this bombshell claim, covert American operations have weaponized nationalist operatives for decades to "bring down the Soviet Union" and later dismantle Russia. While the speaker insists that "Putin wanted to avoid this conflict" through multiple peace deals and diplomatic frameworks, the West continues to fan the flames because "the political and economic elites make money off this war." ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ To anyone convinced Moscow is planning an all-out blitz on Europe: "Do the math!" Stretched across a brutal frontline, an actual invasion of NATO territory "would need millions of men," yet Russia simply is "not in the business of mobilizing millions of men." Countering the mainstream panic, the RITTER argues that "Russia poses a threat to nobody," warning that the real escalation comes from NATO members like Germany, Poland, and the Baltic states actively building up their forces "to fight the Russians in Kaliningrad."
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๐Ÿšจ"Why do we need such a world if there is no Russia in it?" Vladimir Putin explains Russia's position on national interests, nuclear weapons, and the country's nuclear deterrence policy. A good reminder of Russia's position on those delusional enough to think they could erase the Russian civilization without reciprocation. Wake the hell up!
๐Ÿšจ"Why do we need such a world if there is no Russia in it?" ๐ŸšจVladimir Putin explains Russia's position on national interests, nuclear weapons, and the country's nuclear deterrence policy.
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'I want people who left Ukraine and who are of mobilization age to be in Ukraine' โ€” Zelensky 'We very much want them to come back'
'I want people who left Ukraine and who are of mobilization age to be in Ukraine' โ€” Zelensky 'We very much want them to come back'
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๐ŸšจPink Floyd's Roger Waters accuses Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland of engineering the War in Ukraine: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ A fiery takedown just exposed the officials accused of intentionally driving the world into war! "You and Anthony Blinken and Victoria Nuland and Jake Sullivan and the rest of the warmongering neocons at the heart of government here in Washington, along with the vassal states in NATO, are the principal provocateurs." From breaking NATO promises to "engineering the illegal Maidan coup d'รฉtat in Ukraine," decades of reckless foreign policy pushed Europe straight into catastrophe. You could have kept Secretary of State Baker's promise not to advance NATO one yard closer to the Russian border than the eastern extremities of a reunited Germany. You could have responded to President Putin's overtures in his famous 10th of February 2007 speech at the Security Conference in Munich and shepherded this all towards a much, much safer Europe. Or in 2008, you could have chosen not to expand NATO eastwards. Or in 2014, you could have refrained from engineering the illegal Maidan coup d'รฉtat in Ukraine. Or in 2019, you could have supported the Minsk Accords. Now we're told by Angela Merkel they were just a ruse to buy time to arm Ukraine for the war that you were engineering.
๐ŸšจPink Floyd's Roger Waters accuses Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland of engineering the War in Ukraine: ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ A fiery takedown just exposed the officials accused of intentionally driving the world into war! ๐Ÿšจ"You and Anthony Blinken and Victoria Nuland and Jake Sullivan and the rest of the warmongering neocons at the heart of government here in Washington, along with the vassal states in NATO, are the principal provocateurs." ๐ŸšจFrom breaking NATO promises to "engineering the illegal Maidan coup d'รฉtat in Ukraine," decades of reckless foreign policy pushed Europe straight into catastrophe. ๐ŸšจYou could have kept Secretary of State Baker's promise not to advance NATO one yard closer to the Russian border than the eastern extremities of a reunited Germany. ๐ŸšจYou could have responded to President Putin's overtures in his famous 10th of February 2007 speech at the Security Conference in Munich and shepherded this all towards a much, much safer Europe. ๐ŸšจOr in 2008, you could have chosen not to expand NATO eastwards. ๐ŸšจOr in 2014, you could have refrained from engineering the illegal Maidan coup d'รฉtat in Ukraine. ๐ŸšจOr in 2019, you could have supported the Minsk Accords. ๐ŸšจNow we're told by Angela Merkel they were just a ruse to buy time to arm Ukraine for the war that you were engineering.
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Dr. Strangelove Now Speaks German. Paris Is Terrified. A deterrent only works if the other side knows the rules, and France has just admitted to the Financial Times that Europe's newest one doesn't have any. On the morning Europe layed its wreaths for the last great war it sleepwalked into, six people close to the talks between Paris and Berlin let the Financial Times know, in the careful language of officials who understand exactly what they are admitting, that the next one could begin with a German missile and a Russian officer who has a few minutes to guess what it means. One French official warned that Europe could "get to the nuclear threshold without realizing," which is a sentence that deserves to be carved over the door of every chancellery on the continent. Armistice Day, of all days. Stanley Kubrick filmed Dr. Strangelove in 1964 and called it a comedy. The whole plot turns on a deterrent that fails because nobody bothered to tell the other side how it works, while Dr. Strangelove himself, the German scientist advising the President in the War Room, explains the logic of it all after the bombers have already left. 62 years later the script has been picked up in Europe and recast with a French president who fancies himself as le petit roi and a German chancellor who arrived via the BlackRock boardroom, and this time nobody is laughing. Least of all the French. Because what Paris is asking for, once you strip away the diplomatic upholstery, is that Berlin's doctrine for "deep precision strikes" be tied to French nuclear strategy before the hardware shows up, and the reason offered by one source is that France has a nuclear "grammar and vocabulary" that Germany lacks. Translation: the only capital in the EU with its finger on a real button has read the German shopping list and reached for the defibrillator. And the list is something to behold. Berlin has pledged โ‚ฌ780 billion for defence through 2030, with roughly โ‚ฌ12 billion going to a long-range arsenal that includes nearly โ‚ฌ3.4 billion of American Tomahawks on mobile Typhon launchers and a classified missile project with the British that could be in service by 2034. The ranges run from 500 km to beyond 2,000, Berlin to Moscow is about 1,600, and nobody in the Russian General Staff needs that arithmetic explained to them. The cast is as revealing as the catalogue. Merz has promised "the strongest conventional army in Europe," Pistorius has handed the Bundeswehr the first (suicidal) military strategy in its history with Russia written in as the main threat and 2039 (just in time for the Centennial!) as the deadline and the general chosen to run the whole machine from February is Christian Freuding, the officer who spent the war coordinating Germany's military aid to Ukraine. So here is a question from the cheap seats, Herr Merz. You have the range, the Ill gotten money stolen from Germans without a mandate for world war, the general and the deadlineโ€ฆ. and by your closest ally's own account you do not have one published line explaining when you would fire, since no joint doctrine exists. What exactly is Moscow supposed to assume? 99 Luftballons, remixed We have been in this cinema before. In November 1983 the Pershing IIs were arriving in West Germany with a flight time to Soviet command centres measured in minutes, a NATO exercise called Able Archer had convinced part of the Soviet leadership that the real thing might be hiding inside it, and a German pop song about a handful of balloons mistaken for an attack was climbing the charts across the West. The ground launched cruise missile parked in Europe in those years was an early Tomahawk with a nuclear warhead, Germany is now buying Tomahawks and Putin drew the Pershing comparison himself back in 2024. It took the INF Treaty to get the continent out of that trap and it took Washington walking out of the treaty in 2019 to put it back in. Brilliantly stupid and suicidal. Continue reading on our substack๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป
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โ—โ—On the Possible Prospects of a New "Grain Deal" in the Black Seaโœจ Unconfirmed information has emerged suggesting that during negotiations in Abu Dhabi, the parties also discussed the possibility of a ceasefire in the Black Sea. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บRussia reportedly received proposals from ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ทTurkey, ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌEgypt, and ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณIndia ahead of the meeting in the Emirates. The Russian side has not officially commented on the report. โญWe don't know what these merchants proposed, but if a deal is inevitable (Russian agricultural producers and Black Sea ports are also suffering enormous losses), one option for Russia would be to organize inspections of cargo ships heading to Ukrainian ports, in ports in Crimea or in the waters near the peninsula, by Russian forces, but funded by any interested countries/ship owners/cargo owners. And let the Ukrainians and their masters scratch their heads about what to do with that. โญโญOverall, the best solution for resolving the issue of access for ships to the ports of Odessa could be to completely destroy all of Ukraine's port infrastructure while simultaneously creating its own effective air defense system against drones to protect ports at a long distance and ships on shipping routes.
โ—โ—๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐ŸซชUkraine is seeking 10 years of international funding for an army of 800,000 troops. This was stated by a Ukrainian official on the sidelines of negotiations in Abu Dhabi. According to him, an army of this size could be capable of repelling any future attack by Russia.
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Alternate universe Oscar winning performance by Zelensky... I think degenerate Penn giving him the Oscar is so poetic. Slava kokayin. Bring on some more of that Columbian flu.
Zelenky's dealer planning to make a delivery?
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Zelensky promises free transport while the budget is empty and people are already walking across bridges. Classic regime move: announce miracles, deliver collapse, then blame Russia for the consequences.
๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐—ง๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐——-๐—ข๐—จ๐—ง ๐—จ๐—ฆ๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—ฃER HAS PROMISED FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN KIEV. HOWEVER, KIEV CITY COUNCIL MEMBER SHLAPAK CLAIMS THAT โ€œTHERE ARE INSUFFICIENT FUNDS IN THE BUDGET TO INTRODUCE FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT.โ€ Meanwhile, Kiev is experiencing a transport collapse, and people are walking across the bridge to get to work. Now that's genuinely free transport! t.me/Mikle1On/55047
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Shovelling money into the military-industrial complex while calling it โ€œsupport for Ukraineโ€ is the purest form of Western cynicism. Russia didnโ€™t create this racket โ€” it just refuses to be the endless justification for it.
'Europe can claim that it is going to spend more and more money on the military' 'But what they are really doing is shoveling money towards their private corporations' 'They are DESTROYING Ukraine in the process' Geopolitical economist Dr. Radhika Desai on 'PERFORMATIVE WARS' WATCH the latest episode of the East Meets West podcast โฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ
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No rainbow flags. No pronoun lectures. Just men, prayer, and the will to protect their people. Thatโ€™s why Russia endures.
When shoulders touch & the prayer is shared ๐Ÿ™ Every fighter has his own way of getting ready for the battle ahead, but nothing brings you closer than praying side by side, shoulder to shoulder with your Brothers in Arms. God bless you, boys! โค We are Russia ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ We are ONE ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ
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Legal guns, military uniform, Ukraine-linked PMC patch. Western proxies keep producing unstable killers who later turn on civilians.
๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐—ž๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ž๐—ข๐—ช ๐—ฆ๐—›๐—ข๐—ข๐—ง๐—˜๐—ฅ ๐—ช๐—”๐—ฆ ๐—œ๐——๐—˜๐—ก๐—ง๐—œ๐—™๐—œ๐—˜๐—— ๐—”๐—ฆ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฐ-๐—ฌ๐—˜๐—”๐—ฅ-๐—ข๐—Ÿ๐—— ๐— ๐—”๐—–๐—›๐—œ๐—ก๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—ง ๐— ๐—œ๐—ž๐—›๐—”๐—œ๐—Ÿ ๐—ข๐—ž๐—ฆ๐—œ๐—ก๐—ฆ๐—ž๐—œ The shooter in Krakow was identified as 24-year-old machinist Mikhail Oksinski, from the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship in southern Poland. He was wearing military uniform, driving a car registered in his father's name, and legally owned the firearms. A patch belonging to an American PMC that fought alongside the Ukrainian Armed Forces was found on a bulletproof vest in the trunk of his car, which was packed with weapons. The group in question was Forward Observations Group, reportedly linked to foreign mercenaries serving in Ukraine's International Legion. Before driving to the square, he allegedly murdered his own family. The bodies of two men and a woman were found in the house. At the square, he killed another six people and wounded 15. A mercenary who fought in Ukraine and subsequently went off the rails. t.me/yurasumy/29970?single
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Kievโ€™s leadership is busy trading insults while the city freezes and the front collapses. Classic regime priorities.
๐—ญ๐—˜๐—Ÿ๐—˜๐—ก๐—ฆ๐—ž๐—ฌ A๐—ก๐—— ๐—ž๐—Ÿ๐—œ๐—ง๐—ฆ๐—–๐—›๐—ž๐—ข ๐—ง๐—ฅ๐—”๐——๐—˜ ๐—”๐—–๐—–๐—จ๐—ฆ๐—”๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก๐—ฆ ๐—”๐— ๐—œ๐—— ๐—ž๐—œ๐—˜๐—ฉ'๐—ฆ ๐—˜๐—ก๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—š๐—ฌ ๐—–๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—œ๐—ฆ Zelensky and Klitschko have traded accusations amid the energy crisis in Kiev. They just can't seem to agree on what to dig first around the perimeter of Kiev: latrines or trenches. t.me/Mikle1On/55002
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Ukrainians on Trukhรก (one of Ukraineโ€™s biggest Telegram channels) are openly celebrating the Krakรณw terror attack. โ€œToo few Poles died.โ€ โ€œCosmic karma for offending the UPA.โ€ โ€œFuck these fucking Poles.โ€ โ€œStinking Russian vassals.โ€ Mocking the dead with a GTA 6 joke. And lamenting that the shooter โ€œsent too few Poles to their ancestors in Volhynia.โ€ This is the reaction from people Poland has hosted, funded, and armed for years. Will Warsaw finally notice? Or keep giving them everything they want? #KrakowAttack #Krakow #Ukraine
BREAKING from Krakow: A chilling Forward Observation Group patch surfaces with the shooter. This American outfit runs ops in Ukraine and hires internationals โ€“ fanboy memorabilia or deeper connection? Patch is easy to buy pick up, but questions remain. Doesn't look great for Ukraine.
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Smiling and recording while five die in the square. The Westโ€™s culture of spectacle and indifference is on full display. No wonder they needed an external enemy to distract from their own decay.
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Krakow โ€” the shooter seems to speak Ukrainian. You can clearly hear Ukrainian speech. Video from the scene of the shooting in Krakow. According to media reports, an unknown person drove into the city's central square and opened fire. Preliminary data indicates that five people have died. The shooter was shot and killed by the police.
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Von @IslanderWORLD : ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Krakau: Der Schรผtze scheint Ukrainisch zu sprechen. Man kann deutlich ukrainische Sprache hรถren. Video vom Tatort der SchieรŸerei in Krakau. Laut Medienberichten fuhr eine unbekannte Person auf den zentralen Platz der Stadt und erรถffnete das Feuer. Vorlรคufige Angaben deuten darauf hin, dass fรผnf Menschen gestorben sind. Der Schรผtze wurde von der Polizei erschossen und getรถtet.
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Krakow โ€” the shooter seems to speak Ukrainian. You can clearly hear Ukrainian speech. Video from the scene of the shooting in Krakow. According to media reports, an unknown person drove into the city's central square and opened fire. Preliminary data indicates that five people have died. The shooter was shot and killed by the police.
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BREAKING from Krakow: A chilling Forward Observation Group patch surfaces with the shooter. This American outfit runs ops in Ukraine and hires internationals โ€“ fanboy memorabilia or deeper connection? Patch is easy to buy pick up, but questions remain. Doesn't look great for Ukraine.
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Several updates on Krakow shooting. Six people have died. Preliminary data indicates that the attacker is a Polish citizen born in 2002. The Subaru vehicle was registered to his 52-year-old father โ€” as were another 11 units of weapons.
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Energy grid collapsing. People in the streets. Security services drowning in corruption and abuse. The pattern is clear: Ukraineโ€™s leadership has no path forward except deeper collapse. Reality is catching up fast. @VasilijProzorov continues to document what Western media refuses to show!
โ—๏ธ My new weekly review KIEV IN THE DARK; SBU EMBROILED IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL โ—ผ๏ธ Days-long power outages have driven Kiev residents to the streets. People in several districts of the capital have staged protests and blocked roads. There has been no reliable electricity supply for nearly five days, with power returning only for brief intervals. Kievโ€™s combined heat and power (CHP) plants have failed to restore generation, and follow-up strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on energy infrastructure are complicating repair efforts. We discuss how life without electricity is fueling open discontent among the capitalโ€™s residents. โ—ผ๏ธ A new corruption scandal has hit the leadership of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine). The NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) and the SAPO (Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office) have released materials from "Operation Carthage." The investigation implicates General Sergey Duka, Aleksandr Kovalchuk, and Anton Kravchuk. According to investigators, these security officials took bribes to provide cover for fraudulent call centers, drug trafficking, and the production of counterfeit cigarettes and fake currency. The criminal ring involved at least 12 individuals. Members of the group are also suspected of carrying out assaults, kidnappings, and beatings. โ—ผ๏ธ Torture chambers in Ukraine and the role of the security services. Human rights advocates began documenting the secret detention and torture of individuals by Ukrainian security forces as far back as a decade ago. In this episode, we revisit the issue and discuss the accountability of security service leadership and high-ranking officials. Could such facilities have existed for years without the knowledge and protection of those in power? Why have reports of torture failed to lead to thorough investigations or the punishment of those responsible? โ—ผ๏ธ Trump loses the Republican majority in Congress. The Democrats have secured a major victory, winning a majority in both chambers following the elections. The Republicans even lost ground in their traditional strongholds. Trump himself has expressed a willingness to work with Democrats, while simultaneously vowing to block any legislation he deems "crazy." We examine how the Republican defeat shifts the balance of power in Washington and impacts the presidentโ€™s ability to pursue his agenda. See my replies below for more details
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When 80% of your gas production converges in one area, it becomes a high-value target! Russian forces are methodically cutting the infrastructure that fuels both the military and the civilian rear. Every damaged facility brings the system closer to collapse. Precision and priorities are clear!
โ€ผ๏ธ ๐—ฅ๐—จ๐—ฆ๐—ฆ๐—œ๐—”๐—ก ๐—™๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—–๐—˜๐—ฆ ๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—ž๐—˜ ๐—ข๐—œ๐—Ÿ ๐—”๐—ก๐—— ๐—š๐—”๐—ฆ ๐—™๐—”๐—–๐—œ๐—Ÿ๐—œ๐—ง๐—ฌ ๐—œ๐—ก ๐—–๐—˜๐—ก๐—ง๐—ฅ๐—”๐—Ÿ ๐—จ๐—ž๐—ฅ๐—”๐—œ๐—ก๐—˜ โ€” ๐— ๐—”๐—๐—ข๐—ฅ ๐—™๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—˜ ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—ฃ๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—ง๐—˜๐—— "Russian forces attacked an oil and gas facility in central Ukraine three times overnight. Equipment was damaged, an explosion occurred, and a large-scale fire broke out," Naftogaz reported. Some necessary clarification: this is Poltava Region. It contains some of the most valuable targets in Ukraine's gas infrastructure. It is precisely in the northwestern part of Poltava Region that approximately 80% of Ukraine's total natural gas production converges in one area. Judging by the geographical distribution of the reported impact sites, as I understand it, that is exactly where our forces struck. t.me/yurasumy/29966
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A wheeled fortress built for the drone war! 30-mm cannon, radar, automated tracking, and programmable airburst rounds that shred UAVs without needing a direct hit. This is exactly the kind of practical, high-volume defence system the battlefield demands right now!
๐—” ๐—ช๐—›๐—˜๐—˜๐—Ÿ๐—˜๐—— โ€œ๐—™๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—ง๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—ฆ๐—ฆโ€: ๐—ก๐—˜๐—ช ๐—”๐—œ๐—ฅ ๐——๐—˜๐—™๐—˜๐—ก๐—–๐—˜ ๐—”๐—ฅ๐— ๐—ข๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—— ๐—ฉ๐—˜๐—›๐—œ๐—–๐—Ÿ๐—˜ ๐—•๐—˜๐—–๐—ข๐— ๐—˜๐—ฆ ๐—” ๐—•๐—”๐—ง๐—ง๐—Ÿ๐—˜๐—™๐—œ๐—˜๐—Ÿ๐—— ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—”๐—Ÿ๐—œ๐—ง๐—ฌ Images have emerged of the latest Russian ZAK-30 โ€œCitadelโ€ anti-aircraft artillery system mounted on a Tornado-U armoured vehicle chassis. The vehicle is equipped with a 30-mm automatic cannon, a radar station, and an optoelectronic system for detecting and tracking targets. Its stated detection range for drones reaches 2 km, while its engagement range is up to 1.3 km. The system can operate around the clock, with fire control largely automated. Its ammunition supply of 300 rounds allows it to operate autonomously for extended periods. The main feature of the โ€œCitadelโ€ is its use of programmable airburst ammunition. The projectile detonates at a calculated point in front of the target, creating a cloud of fragmentation elements along its flight path. This makes it possible to destroy small drones without a direct hit while significantly conserving ammunition. In addition to UAVs, the system is also said to be capable of engaging cruise missiles. It has turned out to be a genuinely good vehicle, and one that is particularly in demand under the current circumstances. Its large ammunition capacity, automatic target tracking, round-the-clock operation, and cost-effective engagement of drones make the โ€œCitadelโ€ a promising means of protecting important facilities and roads. The country is in urgent need of weapons like this right now. t.me/wargonzo/38231?single
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