Two more Russian POWs were captured while wandering the vast Kadyrovite-free #Kursk Region of #Russia.
Don’t get me wrong… Seamstressing is an honorable profession.
“Grandpa, what did you do during the fall of the Russian Federation?”
“I sewed underwear and ballistic… pic.twitter.com/U7TjPZalV6
— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) August 19, 2024
Day: August 19, 2024
Russian forces constructed another pontoon bridge over the Seym River in Kursk oblast.
Ukrainian forces destroyed it in less than 48 hours. https://t.co/K4Vogh4v2e pic.twitter.com/P50u3B45Mj
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) August 19, 2024
Several Associates of Former Hamas Political Leader, Ismail Haniyeh, including at least 7 of his Bodyguards and multiple Advisors were Eliminated today by an Israeli Airstrike on the Al-Shati Refugee Camp in the Northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/ReYh5oDf6t
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 19, 2024
According to Channel 12; the Israeli Police and Shin Bet are Investigating whether or not Iran and/or Hezbollah were involved with yesterday’s Failed Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv, for which Hamas has claimed Responsibility. With Israeli Security Services believing that Iran may… pic.twitter.com/QIomeTVJVf
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 19, 2024
UAF are exposing our continued self-deterrence. We’ve failed to help Ukraine win because of excessive fear that Russia might escalate. UAF has shown that Russia can’t/wont do much. https://t.co/ffQG7zhCc3
— Ben Hodges (@general_ben) August 19, 2024
Breaking: Far-left protesters have broken and breached the protective barrier outside the DNC in Chicago. pic.twitter.com/4Mo3K4UtiL
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) August 19, 2024
The Little Spy Agency That Can, by @SpyTalker https://t.co/QYJrWgtEAK pic.twitter.com/khzBY1BBlo
— SpyTalk: Intelligence for Thinking People (@talk_spy) August 19, 2024
A passing line about Dutch intelligence in an impressive Wall Street Journal story last week on Ukraine’s 2022 plot to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines caught my eye. And not for the first time.
Within days of Ukraine greenlighting its clandestine scheme to take out the Russian natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, “the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD learned of the plot and warned the CIA,” the Journal reported, citing “several people familiar with the Dutch report.” The Americans then tipped off Germany, the major beneficiary of the energy flow.
The Washington Post had also noted the key role of Netherland’s military intelligence agency in the probe, reporting last November that U.S. officials told Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s highest-ranking military officer, that “the United States opposed such an operation.” The Ukrainians went ahead anyway, apparently adopting the hoary adage, “better to apologize than ask permission.” But now the Netherlands will play a key role in any criminal prosecution that arises from the affair. In June, Germany issued an arrest warrant for Volodymyr Zhuravlov, a 44-year-old Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in blowing up three of the four pipelines nearly 300 deep in the sea off Denmark.
American intelligence officials who have worked with the foreign intelligence-gathering agencies of tiny Holland aren’t surprised at their reach.