This Is Exactly What...

... Naryshkin was talking about.  

МОСКВА, 7 мар — РИА Новости. В Карелии предотвратили теракт украинских спецслужб с участием гражданина Белоруссии, сообщили в Центре общественных связей Федеральной службы безопасности. "ФСБ России на территории Республики Карелия предотвращена подготовка террористического акта, планировавшегося спецслужбами Украины с участием завербованного гражданина Республики Беларусь 1974 года рождения, являвшегося членом запрещенного в Белоруссии националистического формирования "Полк имени Кастуся Калиновского" и находившегося в межгосударственном розыске", — говорится в пресс-релизе. По данным ФСБ, агент украинских спецслужб собирал и передавал данные об объектах транспортной инфраструктуры и органов исполнительной власти региона. В ЦОС уточнили, что преступник, действуя по указанию кураторов, изъял из заранее оборудованного для него схрона средства поражения и самодельное взрывное устройство, чтобы подорвать одно из административных зданий города Олонца. Во время задержания злоумышленник открыл огонь по сотрудникам органов безопасности, его нейтрализовали. Силовики и мирные жители не пострадали. На месте изъяли готовое к применению СВУ, изготовленное на основе пластичного взрывчатого вещества РЕ-8 (производство Великобритании), электродетонатора М-6 (производство США) и бытового таймера, а также пистолет Макарова и боеприпасы к нему. Возбуждено уголовное дело о приготовлении к теракту.

Translation: MOSCOW, March 7 – RIA Novosti. In Karelia, a terrorist attack by Ukrainian special services involving a citizen of Belarus was prevented, the Public Relations Center of the Federal Security Service reported. “The FSB of Russia on the territory of the Republic of Karelia prevented the preparation of a terrorist act planned by the Ukrainian special services with the participation of a recruited citizen of the Republic of Belarus born in 1974, who was a member of the nationalist formation “Kastus Kalinovsky Regiment” banned in Belarus and was on the interstate wanted list,” says the press release. release. According to the FSB, an agent of the Ukrainian special services collected and transmitted data on transport infrastructure facilities and executive authorities in the region. The DSP clarified that the criminal, acting on the instructions of his curators, removed weapons and an improvised explosive device from a cache previously equipped for him in order to blow up one of the administrative buildings in the city of Olonets. During the arrest, the attacker opened fire on security officers and was neutralized. Security forces and civilians were not injured. A ready-to-use IED made from the PE-8 plastic explosive (made in the UK), an M-6 electric detonator (made in the USA) and a household timer, as well as a Makarov pistol and ammunition were seized at the scene. A criminal case has been opened regarding preparation for a terrorist attack.

 

This activity will continue, and, in fact, will only increase because this is the only way combined West, especially Anglo-American part of it, are capable to do anything at all--attack civilian infrastructure and kill civilians. So, the fine line between acts of sabotage and pure terrorism will be increasingly blurred. Terrorism is the weapon of the weak, US and, especially UK, which militarily is a non-entity, are weak. Plus, the atrocity in Gaza increasingly washes away any remnants of morality, however minuscule to start with, of Washington and London who are, essentially, throwing a tantrum due to recognition of their complete inability to compete and to fight Russia conventionally. Different leagues, really. It is systemic and is endemic in economic and political systems of this version of capitalism which is done--Voennaya Mysl (Military Thought), a legendary magazine of Russian Ministry of Defense now fully recognizes the current conflict as a consequence of West's systemic failure. The process is unsustainable anymore and collapse could only be managed, not contained.

Naryshkin About "Counteroffensive". Verbatim.

Interview to Rossiiskaya Gazeta today. 

Западникам было важно раскручивать тему предстоящего украинского контрнаступления в мировом информпространстве. Придававшееся ему явно завышенное значение - это своего рода элемент психической атаки перед боем. Кроме того, постоянное муссирование данной темы позволяло евро-атлантической тоталитарно-либеральной верхушке оправдывать поставки Киеву вооружений и обеспечить единство стран НАТО, многие из которых уже изрядно устали от Украины и ее президента. При этом в кулуарах многие западные военные аналитики выражают серьезные сомнения в успехе украинской авантюры. Не вдаваясь в детали, скажу, что задачи, о которых заявляет киевский режим, оцениваются как недостижимые. Запад, непосредственно вовлеченный в украинский конфликт, прекрасно знает реальные возможности и потенциал ВСУ, в том числе в части контрнаступления.

Авторитетные представители американских и европейских спецслужб и военных ведомств не исключают, что контрнаступление может привести к прямо противоположным результатам. Гибель значительного количества прошедших натовскую подготовку военнослужащих и уничтожение техники подорвут боеспособность украинской армии. Это в свою очередь негативно отразится на устойчивости режима Зеленского. По ряду западных оценок, под угрозой в конечном итоге может оказаться сама украинская государственность.

Translation: It was important for Westerners to promote the topic of the upcoming Ukrainian counteroffensive in the global information space. The obviously overestimated importance attached to it is a kind of element of a psychic attack before a fight. In addition, the constant exaggeration of this topic allowed the Euro-Atlantic totalitarian liberal elite to justify the supply of weapons to Kyiv and ensure the unity of the NATO countries, many of which are already pretty tired of Ukraine and its president. At the same time, behind the scenes, many Western military analysts express serious doubts about the success of the Ukrainian adventure. Without going into details, I will say that the tasks announced by the Kiev regime are assessed as unattainable. The West, which is directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict, is well aware of the real capabilities and potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including in terms of the counteroffensive. Authoritative representatives of the American and European intelligence services and military departments do not rule out that the counteroffensive could lead to directly opposite results. The death of a significant number of NATO-trained military personnel and the destruction of equipment will undermine the combat capability of the Ukrainian army. This, in turn, will negatively affect the sustainability of the Zelensky regime. According to a number of Western assessments, the Ukrainian statehood itself may ultimately be under threat.

Naryshkin, being a chief spy of Russia is very measured in his statement, which is a feature of Russia's national security apparatus top officials. But West's assessments Naryshkin is talking about are absolutely irrelevant for the astonishing scale of slaughter of NATO proxies to which no person in Washington in decision making circles was ready for from the start of SMO. The issue is systemic and I cannot emphasize enough a dismay with which I react now to a recognition of a stunning, much worse than I assumed even two years ago, scale of incompetence of Western militaries who discredited themselves not just through amateur-level planning abilities, or lack thereof, but getting involved directly into what amounts to a war crime by throwing Ukie cannon fodder to be slaughtered on the scale NO US or NATO general ever saw or can comprehend. The whole world sees it now.