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Anonymous Leaks Russian Military Communication Frequencies – Jams Them & Plays Ukrainian Music

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There has never been a war with this level of technological involvement from the common folk.

After hacking Russian state TV channels, Russian news sites – including rt.com – and Russian government websites, now the Anonymous collective also started actively taking part in warfare by jamming Russian military communication in Ukraine.

Warfare like never seen before  

Vietnam was monkeys throwing shit compared to war in the social media age. Even the Gulf War is barely anything like this. Technology in the 90’s was clunky and limited. Not to mention Iraqi citizens had nothing close to the social media access that Ukrainians and everyone around the world do today. Misinformation is much harder to get away with, and hackers, like Anonymous, are far more skilled than any random joe in the 90’s.

Most wars until now, the narrative was written and controlled by the media and they could air what they wanted, when they wanted, to inform entire countries of people of what’s going on in the world. Now, it’s an endless feed of live updates from people on the ground.

Anonymous comes into play

And that is where the hacker collective Anonymous comes into play. Anonymous hacktivists have launched a wave of cyberattacks against Russia, with Russian TV channels hacked to play Ukrainian songs, and Kremlin government networks disabled in what the hackers describe as a cyber war against Vladmir Putin.

 

As the war in Ukraine escalates, the official Kremlin website, kremlin.ru, was affected by the outage on Saturday along with another six Russian state websites. It came as Ukraine’s vice prime minister said it had launched an ‘IT army’ to combat Russia in cyberspace.

The Kyiv Independent also revealed that hackers played Ukrainian songs on Russian TV channels and disabled government websites including that of the Ministry of Defence and Duma.

Jamming Russian Military Communication in Ukraine

The Anonymous collective has leaked Russian Army Radio Communication Frequencies and is either jamming them or playing Ukrainian music & messages on the frequencies.

Captured Russian Soldiers Say They Were Tricked Into War – Old Soviet Tactic

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The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has set up a Telegram channel with videos that it says show captured, injured, and dead Russian soldiers.

This video shows Russian soldiers being interrogated. The prisoners are being questioned by their Ukrainian captors. It is impossible to independently confirm whether the information they give is accurate. The date and location of the video has not been verified.

This is unfortunately a very common trick by nations to launch surprise attacks, using training exercises to disguise troop build-up and then suddenly wheel around and attack your target when they least expect it.

Soviets used that trick in 1968

The Soviet Union under Breshnev used the same trick in 1968 to send troops into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring – the troops didn’t know they were invading until the last day of the exercises when the tanks suddenly drove straight to Prague. And when they WERE told, their superiors lied that they were off to fight fascists instead of a fellow communist state.

Putin seemed to be trying to pull the same trick with Ukraine. Unfortunately, he underestimated Ukrainian resistance and overestimated his own troops’ resolve.

Putin’s Best Chechen Warlord Who Persecuted Gay Chechens Killed in Ukraine

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Tushayev was directly involved in the campaign of terrorizing the LGBTQ+ community in what has been dubbed Chechnya’s “anti-gay purge”.

Ukraine – One of the top warlords and close advisor to Chechen strongman and Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, was killed Saturday in the battle for Antonov Airport, also known as Hostomel Airport, an international cargo airport and testing facility Northwest of the capital city of Kyiv.

Magomed Tushayev, head of the ‘141 motorized regiment’ of the Chechnya National Guard was killed during a skirmish with the Ukrainian military’s elite Alpha Group. His death was confirmed by Illia Ponomarenko, defense reporter for Ukrainian news agency- The Kyiv Independent and was also confirmed by a spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Tushayev’s death came as Kadyrov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Saturday that Chechen fighters had been deployed to Ukraine and urged Ukrainians to overthrow their government, according to Reuters.

In a video posted online, Kadyrov boasted that Chechen units had so far suffered no losses and said Russian forces could easily take large Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, but that their task was to avoid loss of life.

“As of today, as of this minute, we do not have one single casualty, or wounded, not a single man has even had a runny nose,” Kadyrov said, denying what he said were false reports of casualties from Ukrainian sources.

“The president (Putin) took the right decision and we will carry out his orders under any circumstances,” said Kadyrov.

Tushayev, who was one of three top advisors and military commanders for Kadyrov, prior to the Ukrainian invasion by Russian forces, was directly involved in the campaign of terrorizing the LGBTQ+ community in Chechnya.

Sources with Russian-based human rights organizations confirmed that Tushayev played an unspecified role as recently as May of 2021 when human rights activist and a gay man, Ibragim Selimkhanov, was abducted from a subway station in the Novogireyevo District of the Russian capital city of Moscow by four Chechen operatives and flown against his will to the Chechen  capital city of Grozny.

Selimkhanov was questioned by Chechen security operatives, working for Tushayev, seeking information on human rights activists and independent journalists engaged in assisting LGBTQ+ people in the North Caucasus region. He later escaped returning to Moscow.

Activists from the Russian LGBT Network pressed the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) of the Russian Ministry of Justice with an official complaint about the kidnapping of Selimkhanov, which in late August of 2021, the governmental body refused to take further action.

Since 2017, human and LGBTQ+ activists noted that Chechen security operatives and other officials in the Kadyrov regime, including Tushayev sources confirmed, have rounded up dozens of men on suspicion of being gay, held them in unofficial detention facilities for days, humiliated, starved and tortured them, in what has been dubbed Chechnya’s “anti-gay purge.”

The international multiple award-winning film documentary “Welcome to Chechnya,” details the purge and also documents the experience of lesbians, whose horrific ordeals are usually perpetuated by family members in the Muslim-majority region.

Putin Disrupts Ukrainian Internet – Elon Musk Activates Starlink Internet Satellites in Ukraine

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The Billionaire Entrepreneur says satellite broadband service is available in Ukraine, as Russian attacks disrupt the internet.

SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk says the company’s Starlink satellite broadband service is available in Ukraine and SpaceX is sending more terminals to the country, whose internet has been disrupted due to the Russian invasion.

“Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route,” Musk wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

This long-exposure image shows a trail of a group of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites passing over Uruguay on Feb. 7, 2021. (Mariana Suarez/AFP via Getty Images)

He was responding to a tweet by a Ukrainian government official who asked Musk to provide the embattled country with Starlink stations.

“@elonmusk, while you try to colonize Mars – Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space – Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people!” Ukraine’s vice prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, said on Twitter.

Internet connectivity in Ukraine has been affected by the Russian invasion, particularly in the southern and eastern parts of the country where fighting has been heaviest, internet monitors said on Saturday.

While extremely costly to deploy, satellite technology can provide internet for people who live in rural or hard-to-serve places where fibre-optic cables and cell towers do not reach. The technology can also be a critical backstop when hurricanes or other natural disasters disrupt communication.

Musk said on January 15 that SpaceX had 1,469 Starlink satellites active and 272 moving to operational orbits soon.

Who Is The Billionaire That Is Donating $9 Million To Ukraine?

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Japanese billionaire Hiroshi “Mickey” Mikitani said Sunday he will donate ¥1 billion to the government of Ukraine, calling Russia’s invasion “a challenge to democracy.”

The founder of e-commerce giant Rakuten Group Inc. said in a letter addressed to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the donation of ¥1 billion ($8.7 million) will go toward “humanitarian activities to help people in Ukraine who are victims of the violence.”

In the letter, Mikitani said he was “deeply saddened” by the news of the military attack against Ukraine. He also recalled his visit to the country’s capital in 2019, when he met with president Zelensky.

“My thoughts are with you and the people of Ukraine,” he wrote, adding: “I believe the trampling of a peaceful, democratic Ukraine by unjustified force is a challenge to democracy.”

“I sincerely hope that Russia and Ukraine can resolve this issue peacefully and that Ukraine people can have peace again as soon as possible.”

Mikitani said he visited Kyiv in 2019 and met with Zelenskyy.

“My thoughts are with you and Ukraine people,” Mikitani said in his letter.

“I believe that the trampling of a peaceful and democratic Ukraine by unjustified force is a challenge to democracy.

“I sincerely hope that Russia and Ukraine can resolve this issue peacefully and that Ukraine people can have peace again as soon as possible,” he wrote.

Russia’s invasion has prompted broad financial sanctions from major democracies while individuals and organizations across the world have solicited donations to help Ukraine.

The Japanese government has also announced sanctions on Moscow including freezing assets and banning key exports such as semiconductors to organizations related to the Russian military.