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The Eastern Border

War in Ukraine: Episode 134

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Situation on the front with Girkin’s view about the future – and news from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, post-Soviet countries with traditionally close ties to Russia, who are now experiencing difficulties. Uzbekistan – because Russia can’t (or won’t) help them anymore, Kazakhstan – because they’ve chosen to turn to China as their strategic partner, to get away from Russia, and that brings it’s own set of problems.

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0:00.0

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0:13.0

Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border. Now, you'll laugh, of course, but I managed to hurt myself once again.

0:21.3

That was because I didn't sleep for so many hours that was a bit insane,

0:27.1

managed to somehow, I don't know, squeeze my back or something.

0:29.9

It hurts a lot.

0:31.6

I can only live with painkillers currently.

0:34.6

In the end, it was all for basically nothing since the communications from the Russian

0:39.2

side when they're actually going on an assault are unreliable and weird, and I just ended up

0:45.0

calling my friends anyways, and it's a mess. But in general, I have some news for you today,

0:51.2

of course, and not only about Ukraine. Today I have two interesting news from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

1:00.0

Because you see, Stans were also a part of the whole Soviet bloc and they concern some things that could be relevant very recently and show some interesting aspects of this whole war.

1:15.3

But let's start with what's happening on the front lines.

1:18.1

And here I'm using Igor Girkin after some time, and he also gives some, you know,

1:22.8

advice on the future, at least how he thinks so.

1:25.3

But this comes from the whole situation because,

1:29.9

well, he turns out, after everything is checked, still the most reliable source.

1:36.8

On the Kupiansk and Krasnulimansk directions, that's the city of Leman, he calls it Krasnulomelumann,

1:42.4

only battles of local importance and artillery skirmishes.

1:46.0

After minor tactical advances by Russian troops, the front has been unfortunately stabilized again.

1:51.0

The battles go on for individual field positions by the forces of company-level units.

1:57.0

Bahmoud is the only area where Russian troops are relatively successful.

2:01.6

In the course of mutual grinding, the Chevacca Wagner, private warfare company Wagner,

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