Sweden loses again in Poltava

 

The Battle of Poltava (1709) was the decisive victory of Peter I the Great of Russia over Charles XII of Sweden in the Great Northern War. The battle ended Sweden’s status as a major power. It was fought north and west of Poltava, west of the Vorskla River, in Ukraine, between 80,000 Russian troops under Peter the Great and the general Prince Aleksandr Menshikov and 17,000 Swedes under Charles XII. 

Poltava is currently one of the most important military installations of the Ukrainian forces in the Donbass region near the Russian border. Since 2014 the US-NATO has been helping Ukraine create various military strongholds throughout the Donbass. But these days the Russian military is pushing Ukraine out of this region. 

Inside Poltava were numbers of US-NATO advisers/mercenaries, along with Ukrainian forces, teaching various high-tech war fighting operations. On September 3 Russia hit this key training center & military barracks facility with two Iskander missiles. More than 500 were killed and hundreds more were wounded.

The strike on the 179th training center of the Signal Troops military institute in Poltava—officially called the Poltava Institute of Military Communications—was particularly grievous for Ukraine because it appeared to house not only a vital drone-technical program, but valuable Swedish instructors for the upcoming transfer of Swedish AWACS planes, billed as future ‘game changers’ that would work in coordination with the recently delivered nuclear capable F-16s to decimate targets in Russia from afar. 

The Swedish instructors, are at the center of the story. This was validated by a post from a woman who says her mate from Sweden’s Linkoping University perished in the Poltava attack:

Reports that Swedish 'instructors' among Ukrainian and other NATO soldiers killed in Russian strike, allegedly working to train Kiev cannon fodder pilots on Swedish-supplied AWACS aircraft.

Among the 'students' were several foreign instructors from Sweden - they were also killed. Britta Ellwanger, a foreign volunteer who was with them, writes about this. A few months ago, Sweden announced the transfer of two ASC 890 AWACS aircraft to Ukraine, and accordingly the Swedes trained future specialists on these planes.

On May 29th, 2024, the Swedish Ministry of Defense announced that two Airborne Surveillance and Control aircraft (ASC 890) will be sent to Ukraine, in the 16th military support package. 

 

 

Sweden has tried to take out Russia 14 times since 1475 with little success. Now here in 2024 Sweden has joined the US-UK-NATO attempt to break Russia into pieces. So far it's not working but many fear that the western war mongers could go nuclear in a desperate 'Hail Mary'. 

Swedish PM resigns

Now, only a day after the Poltava strikes reportedly wrecked the entire Swedish-Ukraine program, Sweden’s FM mysteriously resigns:

HELSINKI, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Wednesday he will step down next week after almost two years in office, during which his traditionally non-aligned country joined NATO.

"It is with a mixture of sadness and pride that I have today informed the prime minister that I will leave the post of foreign minister at the opening of parliament next week," Billstrom, a member of the conservative Moderate Party, said in a post on X.

Ukraine collapse near

Just yesterday it was announced that a huge shakeup in the Ukrainian government had also occurred.  Here is the list of those who were pushed out. This indicates growing instability inside the Kiev government that is now illegitimate due to the fact that Zelensky has refused to allow national elections even though his term in office has expired. The Ukrainian parliament has also passed their time in office without having to stand for reelection.

All the people who resigned in Ukraine in recent days:

➡️Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba;

➡️ Minister of Justice Denis Maliuska;

➡️ Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin;

➡️ Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets;

➡️ Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna;

➡️Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk;

➡️ Deputy head of Zelensky's office Rostislav Shurma. 

 

All in all things are looking badly for the western anti-Russian operation. They've wasted lots of taxpayer monies, harmed their own economies, lost access to relatively cheap Russian natural gas, ruined their image with most of the Global South nations, and most importantly lost their national sovereignty to Washington who has used NATO and the EU as minions to be thrown at Russia.

Have these western characters learned not to attempt to destroy Russia? Looking at Sweden's 14 wars (now make it 15) aimed at Moscow it would seem that the EU bloc are very slow learners....

Bruce