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Balaklava Bay Submarine Base

Balaklava, Crimean Peninsula

This defunct USSR submarine station is located underneath Balaklava Bay in Crimea. 

Photo by A_Lesik/Shutterstock

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Swallowtail Castle in Yalta, Crimea, UKRAINE

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Genoese fortress in Sudak, Crimea

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— Balaklava, Sevastopol, Crimea

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WASHINGTON — For years, the United States has insisted that Crimea is still part of Ukraine. Yet the Biden administration has held to a hard line since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, refusing to provide Kyiv with the weapons it needs to target the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia has been using as a base for launching devastating strikes. Now that line is starting to soften.

After months of discussions with Ukrainian officials, the Biden administration is finally starting to concede that Kyiv may need the power to strike the Russian sanctuary, even if such a move increases the risk of escalation, according to several U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive debate. Crimea, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, is home to tens of thousands of dug-in Russian troops and numerous Russian military bases.

White House officials insist there is no change in position. Crimea, they say, belongs to Ukraine.

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This Week in Prophecy: Hostage Exchange, Black Sea Weather, Red Sea Pirates, Venezuela Invading?

Zephaniah 2:4-5 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted. Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left. Here is the latest from the Gaza Strip. The…

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Shocking Revelation: UK Allegedly Assisted Ukraine In Bombing The Kerch Bridge

In a stunning turn of events, evidence has surfaced suggesting that the United Kingdom may have played a covert role in helping Ukraine carry out the destruction of the infamous Kerch Bridge linking Crimea to mainland Russia. The bridge, which serves as a crucial link between the Crimean Peninsula and Russia, was targeted last year in an attack that caused significant damage and raised tensions…

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125 km mit GLSDB (ground-launched small-diameter bombs - bodengestützte Bomben mit geringem Durchmesser) statt der 70 km, die die bisher zur Verfügung gestellten Raketen erreiche. Damit kann die ukrainische Armee im NATO-Krieg gegen Russland demnächst in russisches Territorium hinein treffen, inklusive Krim. So haben es die US-Kuratoren des Krieges entschieden.

Damit überschreiten sie eine weitere „rote Linie“ (diese roten Linien dienen mittlerweile nur noch als Maßeingeit für die nächste Eskalationsstufe); sie ignorieren nicht nur die sehr expliziten russischen Warnungen, sondern setzen sich absichtlich und provokativ darüber hinweg. Russland hat deutlich gemacht, welche Folgen ein möglicher Angriff auf die Krim haben wird:

„Alexander Formanchuk, der Vorsitzende der Krim-Bürgerkammer, äußerte sich in einem Interview mit der staatlichen Nachrichtenagentur RIA Novosti.

"Jeder Versuch, die Krim zu beschlagnahmen und an die Ukraine zurückzugeben, wird sofort zu einem thermonuklearen globalen Konflikt eskalieren. Russland wird dies nicht verzeihen", warnte er.“

Der stellvertretende Vorsitzende des russischen Sicherheitsrates und frühere Präsident Dmitri Medwedew äußerte sich ähnlich.:

„Die gesamte Ukraine, die noch unter der Herrschaft Kiews steht, wird in Flammen aufgehen."

Dem ehemaligen Präsidenten zufolge könnte Moskau im Falle von Angriffen "tief in Russland" alles Mögliche tun, die Antwort wäre "schnell, hart und überzeugend". Medwedew betonte, Russland setze sich keine Grenzen und sei je nach Art der Bedrohung bereit, alle Waffentypen, einschließlich der Potenziale zur nuklearen Abschreckung, im Einklang mit den russischen Doktrinaldokumenten einzusetzen.“

Unterhalb der anscheinend von den USA angestrebten nuklearen Eskalation erklärt Russland die simple militärische Konsequenz aus der neuesten NATO-Eskalatiom: je tiefer die NATO-Raketen in russischem Territorium einschlagen können, umso weiter wird Russland die ukrainischen Truppen nach Westen verdrängen.

Die NATO gleicht dem Kampfhundhalter, der seinen besonders hässlichen Kettenhund auf den Nachbarn abrichtet und ihn im Radius von dessen Kettenlänge des Nachbars Garten verwüsten läßt. Nun droht er dem Nachbarn, die Kette des Hundes noch einmal zu verlängern, damit der Hund auch das Haus des Nachbarn selbst angreifen kann. Der Nachbar seinerseits macht dem Kampfhundhalter die klare Ansage, dass er den Hund erschießen wird und ihn, den Halter, samt seinen Gehilfen gleich mit, wenn dieser Fall eintreten sollte.

Weiter will ich die Analogie gar nicht ausspinnen; der hässliche Kettenhund jedenfalls ist der ukrainische Nazismus, der Kampfhundhalter mit dem Faible für aggressive, blutrünstige „Listenhunde“ ist das Kriegsbündnis, in dem das amerikanische Imperium seine Vasallen und tributpflichtigen Leibeigenen versammelt hat, um seine feudale Welt zu beherrschen.

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Extrait du journal de propagande Signal du 2 juillet 1942 – Campagne de Crimée – Péninsule de Kertch – Mai 1942

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The Crimean Bridge - RUSSIA

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Crimea Bridge Closed Due To Drills #crimea #ukraine #russia #eu #europe...

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Yuri Gagarin on vacation in the Crimean peninsula (1961)

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1968: An abandoned Crimean Tatar house after Stalin deported the entire population in the 1940s and colonised the peninsula with russians.

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The grenade

The grenade (grenade is likely derived from the French word spelled exactly the same, meaning pomegranate, as the bomb is reminiscent of the many-seeded fruit in size and shape. Its first use in English dates from the 1590s.) as we know it today is not a modern invention - on the contrary, it has its origins in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

First grenades appeared in the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire not long after the reign of Leo III (717-741). Byzantine soldiers learnt that Greek fire (a mixture of sulphur and oil), a Byzantine invention from the previous century, could be thrown at the enemy not only with flamethrowers but also in stone and ceramic vessels.

Byzantine " Greek Fire" Grenade, c. 800-1000 AD

With the invention of gunpowder in Song China (960-1279), weapons known as ‘thunderbolts’ were created by soldiers packing gunpowder into ceramic or metal vessels with fuses. In a military book from the year 1044, the Wujing Zongyao (Collection of Military Classics), various gunpowder recipes are described in which, according to Joseph Needham, the prototype of the modern hand grenade can be found.

The grenades (pào) are made of cast iron, are the size of a bowl and have the shape of a ball. They contain half a pound of ‘divine fire’ (shén huǒ, gunpowder) inside. They are sent by an eruptor (mu pào) towards the enemy camp, and when they arrive there, a sound like a thunderclap is heard and flashes of light appear. If ten of these grenades are successfully fired at the enemy camp, the whole place goes up in flames.

Grenade-like devices were also known in ancient India. In a Persian historical account from the 12th century, the Mojmal al-Tawarikh, a terracotta elephant filled with explosives was hidden in a chariot with a fuse and exploded as the invading army approached.

These encrusted hand grenades were washed up from a 17th-century pirate shipwreck, Dollar Cove, in the coastal Gunwalloe district of Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula

The first cast-iron bombs and shells appeared in Europe in 1467, where they were initially used in the siege and defence of castles and fortresses. In the mid-17th century, infantrymen known as ‘grenadiers’ emerged in European armies, specialising in shock and close combat, usually using grenades and engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat. But grenades have also been in use at sea since the 17th century. They were used to inflict as much personal damage as possible below deck after boarding a ship by throwing the grenades underneath.

After the middle of the 19th century, grenades were used extensively in the Crimean War and the American Civil War. Before they changed in design and function to be used in the trenches, especially in the First World War and later. They are still in use today.

Forbes, Robert James (1993). Studies in Ancient Technology

Thomas Enke: Grundlagen der Waffen- und Munitionstechnik

David Harding (Hrsg.): Waffen-Enzyklopädie

Bertram Kropak: Die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Handgranaten. In: DWJ Deutsches Waffen Journal. 1970

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Ukrainian saboteurs who are alleged to have poisoned and killed 46 Russian soldiers are on the run in annexed Crimea after a shoot-out with police, a local report says. Two young saboteurs who had poisoned members of the Russian military in Simferopol and Bakhchisarai fled when authorities attempted to detain them in Crimea, Telegram channel Kremlin Snuffbox said on Tuesday. The police went to apprehend the female suspects at a private house in Yalta but were surprised to find them "well armed" and "well prepared," the post said.

The saboteurs opened fire and fled the scene in a car, and authorities do not know their current whereabouts. Three officers were killed and two were wounded in the shoot-out, a source in Russia's Federal Security Service told the Telegram channel. It was reported in December that members of a Ukrainian partisan group called Crimean Combat Seagulls poisoned and killed 24 Russian soldiers after lacing their vodka with arsenic and strychnine. At the time, Snuffbox quoted unnamed sources as saying that "two nice girls" tricked the unit in Simferopol, Crimea, into drinking the vodka, per the Kyiv Post translation. In another incident, saboteurs killed 18 and hospitalized 14 Russian personnel in Bakhchisarai, Crimea, by putting arsenic and rat poison in pies and beer, Kremlin Snuffbox previously reported. Russian military personnel stationed in Crimea have been asked not to take any food or any drinks from strangers and to detain any suspicious young women who approach them to prevent further incidents of poisoning. Business Insider could not independently verify the report. There were also been reports of two mass poisonings of Russian troops in Mariupol in 2023. Acts of sabotage by Ukrainian resistance and partisan groups are used to harass Russian soldiers in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014, and other occupied territories, and supply intelligence for Ukrainian strikes on military installations.