The partial meltdown of Ukrainian defensive strains appear to have been no less than quickly solved, and whereas Russian forces maintain making features all around the frontline, they’re solely incremental.

In the meantime, Kiev is once more excelling in the one entrance that they have been ever victorious on: the mainstream media.

So, they make border assaults and incursions which are suicide missions with none strategic or tactical significance – however hey, PR stunts is all that’s left for them.

In the meantime, whereas it arises that French President and neo-warmonger in chief Emmanuel Macron has lengthy mentioned sending troops to guard the Black Sea port of Odessa, an assault lays naked the rising presence of western fighters within the nation.

In keeping with Russian sources, a big group of Western mercenaries was destroyed in a hypersonic Iskander missile assault on the Mriya sanatorium, in Odessa.

It’s estimated that about 100 mercenaries have been killed within the assault, with greater than 100 wounded.

Unsurprisingly, the MSM is all-too-ready to consider the model coming from Kiev, that each Russian missile all the time struck a kindergarten or a pet kennel.

They solely say {that a} Russian ballistic missile assault struck a ‘residential area’ in Ukraine’s Black Sea port metropolis of Odessa.

Reuters reported:

“Two Iskander-M missiles fired from the Russian-occupied Crimea peninsula broken civilian infrastructure and gasoline and electrical energy provide strains within the southern metropolis, regional governor Oleh Kiper stated on nationwide tv.

A medic and a rescuer have been killed by a second missile after dashing to the scene to deal with folks harm within the preliminary strike. Ten folks had suffered severe accidents, Kiper stated.

Native officers and nationwide police stated police have been among the many lifeless, together with no less than two senior officers. A former deputy mayor of town was additionally killed.

[…] A 3-storey leisure facility was destroyed within the assault in addition to no less than 10 non-public homes, the southern army command stated.”

However Ukrainian Telegram channel painted a more true image:

‘Dumskaya’ Channel writes that within the Mriya sanatorium at Kovalevsky’s dacha, the place the strike came about, mass occasions have been nonetheless held with army personnel.

“The barracks in Nikolaev, Desna and Yavorov, the arrival of the 128th in Zarechny – aren’t there sufficient such instances to grasp as soon as and for all: even within the deep rear it’s unattainable to pay attention personnel, to carry any type of mass occasions with them?

There’s a German proverb: Was wissen Zwei, wisst Schwein (“What two know, a pig knows”). However there are clearly not two right here – most likely the entire district knew that some type of army or police had settled within the leisure facility. And the enemy shortly included the item within the record of precedence targets. It was sufficient simply to attend for the suitable second, after which it got here…

What number of extra folks should lose their lives earlier than we be taught to watch primary security measures all the time and in every single place? The query, as they are saying, is rhetorical.”

Slavyangrad additionally reported:

“Iskander destroyed a base in Odessa with leaders and militants of a Nazi battalion.

Ukraine tried to go off at present’s strike as an assault on a peaceable facility, however native media reported that among the many lifeless:

Tsunami battalion commander, ex-deputy police chief and ex-deputy mayor Alexander Gostischev.

Army Sergei Tetyukhin, ex-deputy mayor, who left the mayor’s workplace and mobilized in November 2023.”

However why is Odessa now in such preeminent spot within the conflict?

Simplicius the Thinker wrote:

“NATO can’t let Russia seize Odessa for a mess of causes.

NATO was constructing essential naval bases there in an effort to totally neutralize Russia’s Black Sea Fleet sooner or later
It could enable Russia to completely landlock Ukraine, thus ruining NATO’s final remaining puppet-state’s probabilities of being a army thorn in Russia’s aspect
The above alone would enable Russia to dominate world wheat markets as Ukraine would have little methods to export its grain
It could enable Russia to create an unbroken land hall to Transnistria which might catalyze into an excellent larger ‘domino-effect’ collapse of NATO destabilization plans, permitting Russia to completely resolve the PMR challenge and create a fortress within the area

In brief, it’s completely apocalyptic for NATO to lose Odessa.”

Within the meantime, the French paper Le Monde tells us that Macron, as early as February 21, at a closed dialog on the Elysee Palace, stated: “In any case, in the coming year I will have to send some guys to Odessa.”

It was simply 5 days after this incident that Macron publicly introduced the opportunity of sending troops from France to Ukraine.