The following report is by the Jerusalem Post:
According to satellite images taken by the firm, four TU-160s were detected on August 21rst and three TU-95s were detected on September 25th. There were no strategic bombers present at the airbase on August 12th.
Through ongoing Patterns-of-Life, the system indicates that Engels air base is the possible departure point of the strategic bombers detected in Olenya airbase.
The report read
Engels air base is home to Russia’s only strategic bombers stationed near Ukraine and is the home base for the 121rst Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment (121 TBAP) that flies the TU-160s and TU-95.
The bombers, capable of carrying cruise missiles and strategic nuclear weapons, have been active in the Ukrainian war since Moscow invaded in February. Throughout the war against Ukraine, the Russian Air Force has been unable to gain air superiority and has lost numerous aircraft.
According to The Drive, the regiment was awarded the honorific title of ‘Guards’- a prestigious title for Russian military units- for “mass heroism shown by the regiment’s personnel in combat operations.”
While it is unclear why the bombers have been moved to the airbase, it comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to threaten the West that he could use strategic nuclear weapons, including after he announced a partial mobilization in the country, saying that “this is not a bluff.”
Olenya airbase is located on the Kola Peninsula near Murmansk. It houses Russia’s Northern Fleet and a significant number of arms and military hardware, including tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.
According to 2020 data released under the New START arms reduction treaty between Moscow and Washington, Russia has declared 1,447 deployed strategic warheads and has the capacity to deploy “many more than 1,550 warheads on its modernized ICBMs and SLBMs, as well as heavy bombers, but is constrained from doing so by New START.
The airbase is also a major Russian airbase which an enormous strike capacity that would send a signal to the United States and NATO. The base is also out of range of Ukrainian weaponry which have been striking Russian airbases with weaponry delivered by Washington and other European nations.
Ukraine’s military intelligence spokesperson Vadym Skibitsky said in an interview with The Guardian on Tuesday that Kyiv assesses the threat of Moscow using tactical weapons against the country as “very high.”
According to Skibitsky, the tactical strikes would likely target locations along the front lines where there is a high number of people, equipment, as well as command centers, and critical infrastructure.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The nuclear hoopla continues to be perpetuated, as it has since Western media propped up this propaganda before February. But The WinePress did report not that long ago that Russian leaders have threatened the use of nuclear as a means of defense.
If I were you, I wouldn’t fret yourself over these things. The public needs to be kept in perpetual fear. Will nuclear attacks eventually happen? Probably, but focus on the things you can control and don’t get bet out of shape over this.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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2 Timothy 1:7 exactly my mind set …. it all rides on belief …. I trust the Lord who died in my place to keep all of us safe. He has given the play book to the future to those he called out of the world and unto himself.
The LORD brought me to remember proverbs 3 today what a blessing and what fair haven of rest for the weary.
God bless you and keep you in all his ways young brother and may you shine brighter each passing day in this world so many need that beacon of hope that leads to the Lord Jesus Christ our king.
Psalm 83 & Ezekiel 38 on the way to Revelation 4-20. Every hard fulfillment evidencing the equal & greater, blessed hope for those clinging to his word, & we must beware subtle deception. Will the antichrist ‘save’ Israel, & that be counted fulfillment by the false? Sweeping the antichrist counterfeit & man of sin to power? It matches the hard right pre-Vatican II coming in, forcing conformity, establishing ‘official’ and ‘allowable’ ecumenical, paganized idolatrous humanist witchcraft Christianity of the Babylonian order. Their bogus ‘dark’ and ‘light’ clash & violent union the ‘healing’, the synthesis, of paganism. Dialectics, witchcraft.
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Then that final war of the time of Jacob’s trouble when the kings of the east drive west. The Lord gathering the nations to their judgment. There is no darkness in him, & he has divided light & darkness, & pronounced woe on they who call good evil and evil good, who merge the two in fornicating union, calling it ‘balance’, ‘healing’, ‘salvation’ of the type of those who do evil that good might come, antichrist.
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However much of it we see, & hard as it is…it simply means this age is drawing to its close & we must watchfully stand. I wanted to quote 1 Peter…but the whole of it applies. we who were not a people but now are…& with Jews according to the flesh one with us in Christ, (1 John 5, Ephesians 2, 1 Corinthians 10:32) & it’s hard to limit quoting just part of Peter when the whole applies.
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1Pe 5:8 ¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1Pe 5:9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
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1Pe 5:10 ¶ But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1Pe 5:11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.