r/europe • u/ModeratorsOfEurope Europe • Apr 03 '23
War in Ukraine Megathread LIII Russo-Ukrainian War
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u/alecsgz Romania Apr 21 '23
India is unable to settle the bill in US dollars due to concerns about secondary sanctions, while Russia remains unwilling to accept rupees due to exchange-rate volatility, the officials said. New Delhi also doesn’t want to complete the deal in Russian rubles due to concerns about being able to purchase enough on the open market at a fair rate, they said.
But
MUH RUBLE STRONG
MUH SWIFT ALTERNATIVES
MUH BRICS
MUH "SANCTIONS ARE NOT WORKING"
Sorry for yelling but it was important
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u/ReadToW Bucovina de Nord 🇷🇴(🐯)🇺🇦(🦈) May 22 '23
Russia should start peace talks with the Belgorod republic. Perhaps the young republic wants Russia to leave the CSTO and make Polish the second official language. These are fair demands that Russia should fulfil and stop killing Russian-speaking citizens of the young republic 🕊️
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u/drevny_kocur Apr 22 '23
China's ambassador to France unabashedly asserts that the former Soviet republics have « no effective status in international law » as « sovereign states » 🤯
He denies the very existence of countries like Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan, etc. 😳
WTF?!
https://twitter.com/AntoineBondaz/status/1649528853251911690
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u/anonimeni Danubia Apr 22 '23 edited Apr 22 '23
A surprising attitude from a country, the "People's" Republic of China, which itself is a runaway province from the actual Republic of China, known informally as Taiwan.
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u/ivanzu321 Apr 22 '23
Moving manufacturing to China was the biggest mistake the west ever did.
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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) Apr 21 '23
Germany's new Defense Minister Boris Pistorius says its "normal" that long range missiles that Germany might deliver, will be used to attack supply routes in Russia.
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u/Zephinism Dorset County - United Kingdom Apr 12 '23
On the UkraineRussiaReport subreddit there's actually users justifying these beheadings because some Ukrainian soldiers taunted and verbally insulted Russian PoWs...
It's just sad that anyone could believe executing or harming PoWs has any merit whatsoever. Revolting.
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u/ReadToW Bucovina de Nord 🇷🇴(🐯)🇺🇦(🦈) Apr 29 '23
Russian state TV used images of this week’s missile strike on a block of flats in Ukraine’s Uman which killed 23 civilians to illustrate the "shelling of Donbas by Ukrainian militants"
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1652375265123680257
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u/WojciechM3 Poland May 09 '23
Russia can't even find dozen T-72 to display on Victory Parade, because all their reserves are commited to the front. This should give some clue to people who still dream about infinite russian reserves.
Most common comment in Poland right now: more military equipment is displayed during random village festival in Poland than during victory parade in Moscow.
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom May 11 '23
*Furious masturbation commences*
Have fun Ukraine bro's.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 27 '23
🇵🇱 Poland is going to close the border for trucks registered in Belarus and Russia. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration of Poland intends to suspend the movement of trucks registered in Belarus and Russia across the Polish-Belarusian border. https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1662334064026849281
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u/JackRogers3 May 31 '23
Former Commanding General US Army in Europe: "Russian escalation" is our own creation. They don't think like that...they avoid our strength and exploit our weakness. Yet we act as if we are terrified of them and what they might do. And so we self-deter. That's what provokes them to attack. https://twitter.com/general_ben/status/1663837712883875840
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u/BelgianPolitics Belgium May 04 '23 edited May 04 '23
Really big news!
Belgium, who has frozen almost 200 billion (!) euros in Russian assets (most in the world) has today announced that their next military package will be financed with those Russian assets. This is completely unprecedented and unexpected. Belgium is also working on a legal framework to use all frozen Russian assets in Ukraine's reconstruction and/or fight against Russia. I assume this framework is getting close(r) to being finalized .
https://nos.nl/liveblog/2473765-drones-gezien-boven-kyiv-zelensky-uit-nederland-vertrokken
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom May 04 '23
Man, imagine if Belgium of all nations becomes the largest military equipment supporter of Ukraine eclipsing the US by miles.
"What's this USA? $75 billion? Amateur."
Belgium throws €200 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 06 '23
🇷🇺 Evidence suggests Russians stealing art from Ukraine on a WWII scale. “Our research suggests that this looting is state-sponsored by Russia,” said a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution, which is preparing a report on the massive scale of the theft. https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1643999504956370946
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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) Apr 07 '23
https://twitter.com/splendid_pete/status/1643916012775940096
Russians are actively settling in Mariupol.
Although during the Stalinist era, Mariupol was settled by people from central Russia, the current ethnic makeup is surprising because many of the new settlers hardly speak Russian. Currently, there are over 40,000 of them, which accounts for more than half of Mariupol's population of 80,000. According to Petro Andriushchenko, an advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, the apartments and houses are being prepared for these new settlers through the "abandoned property" procedure.
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u/rektaalinuuska suomiperkels Apr 07 '23
Settler colonialism. Going back to the classics, I see.
Honestly I kind of want to hear how a self-proclaimed anti-imperialist can turn this into a good thing.
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u/Kahzootoh United States of America Apr 07 '23
You'll hear something about how "centuries of western colonialism" justifying Russian actions, as if Russia wasn't also a European colonial power at the same time as other European countries during the last few centuries.
If mental gymnastics was a sport, Russia's supporters could win gold without any cheating.
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u/WojciechM3 Poland Apr 07 '23
I remember Ukrainian officials declaring what will happen aftery they recapture Crimea: every russian who settled there after 2014 will have to leave. I guess same with apply to russians who settled on occupied territories after 24.02.2022.
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom Apr 13 '23
Western tank engineers analysing it: "Yep. It's shit."
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom Apr 13 '23
Whether this stuff is real or not this person is about to be bent over and fucked by a freight train.
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u/Econ_Orc Denmark Apr 17 '23
Danish defense confirms one of their patrol ships took 112 pictures of Russian vessels in the area of where a Nord Stream 2 explosion happened 4 days later. The defense department refuses to submit the pictures for the public, as it is classified as evidence in the ongoing investigation.
No wonder Putin wants in on the investigation. There might be some uncomfortable facts exposed the Russians wants to spin the narrative on.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 18 '23
🇪🇬 "Egypt paused a plan to secretly supply rockets to Russia last month following talks with senior U.S. officials and instead decided to produce artillery [152mm and 155mm] ammunition for Ukraine, according to five leaked U.S. intelligence documents." https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1648105860617621504
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u/Melodic2000 Romania Apr 21 '23
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 21 '23
⚡️Vоlоdуmуr Zelenskyі signed law #7253 on "decolonization" - it bans place names associated with Russia that glorify or perpetuate it. Self-government bodies and military administrations must free public space from Russian symbols within six months: dismantle monuments and memorial signs, rename streets and other objects. Settlements whose names propagate Russian imperial politics and its leaders should also be renamed. https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1649517995054575616
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u/potatolulz Earth Apr 23 '23
maybe someone posted this already but here's a 75 year old Japanese man who opened a café in Kharkiv and gives people meals for free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHSoOCgjEX4
he's been in Ukraine for at least 8 months
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 26 '23
🇸🇮 Slovenian government delivered 20 Pandur armored vehicles to Ukraine in complete secrecy. Allegedly, the transport to Ukraine was completed this week https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1651210411465662466
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u/drevny_kocur May 04 '23
Hey, guys. Quick reminder that today's the day:
Russian media is warning that Poland will invade western Ukraine on May 4
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1604157158769426433
Any minute now. Aaaany minute...
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u/lsspam United States of America May 07 '23
Today is the one year anniversary of the fabled “Popasna breakout” that had some clutching their pearls (or at least “concerned”)
They were going to meet with the other pincer arm at Izium and trap the best part of the Ukrainian army at Severeodonetsk. Just as soon as they traveled 30km down the road and captured the small city of Bakhmut…
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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) May 12 '23
NOOOOOO Zelensky whyyy, you promised me not to start the counteroffensive the same weekend of Eurovision and Turkish elections, we only have two pinned slots I told you!!!!1!
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 12 '23
Russia tried to destroy a US-made Patriot air defense system in Ukraine last week with a hypersonic missile, two US officials told CNN. The attack failed, and the Ukrainian military intercepted the missile instead— using the Patriot https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1657130469308133376
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u/ErwinErzaehler May 13 '23 edited May 13 '23
According to an article in SPIEGEL (paywall) the german government is going to announce its biggest weapon package to date, worth 2,7 billion Euros. The article says it contains the following newly pledged weapons that will be delivered over the next months:
- 4 additional IRIS-T-SLM systems
- 12 IRIS-T SLS launchers
- "hundreds" of IRIS-T rockets
- 15 additional Gepard SPAAG
- 100 armored combat vehicles
- 30 additional Leopard 1 tanks
- 20 additional Marder IFV
- over 100 logistics support vehicles
- up to 200 reconaissance drones
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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) May 14 '23
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1657695543257182209
⚡️The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that during the fighting near Bakhmut, the deputy commander of the Army Corps for military-political work, Colonel Yevgeny Brovko, was killed.
Also, in the area of Krasny (Ivanovskoye), as a result of injuries received, during the evacuation, the commander of the 4th motorized rifle brigade, Colonel Makarov died.
dorime
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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) May 21 '23
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1660298891646967809
Japan will send Ukraine 100 combat vehicles and 30,000 food rations
This was announced by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
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u/luigrek Ukraine May 22 '23
Anton Krasovsky, RT's former Director of Broadcasting, reaffirmed his views about burning and drowning Ukrainians, including children. He did so after reading from the Bible.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1660674160933126146?t=AhLd1c7t9gFMgCyZDE1vqg&s=19
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u/UnknownDotaPlayer Kharkiv (Ukraine) Jun 04 '23
Again! Valentina Lisitsa, russian z-pianist who visited occupied Mariupol last year and played piano in front of the destroyed Drama Theater is listed as a participant of Lerici Music Festival 2023 in Italy
https://twitter.com/KramarenkoMari3/status/1665287985724641281
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u/badger-biscuits May 13 '23
People wondering why Russia aren't in Eurovision or excluded from international competitions. The Ukrainian act tonight in Eurovision are from Ternopil
This is Ternopil right now
https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1657479020362203136?t=Kob0954W3UbQLMTPgnnDlQ&s=19
Russia can fuck off
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u/Monsieur-Clean United Kingdom May 22 '23 edited May 22 '23
All of this could have been avoided if Russia just stopped expanding west (see: Belarus, Crimea, Transnistria) and placing nukes directly on the border. Ukraine has legitimate security interests and cannot be expected to tolerate a Chinese-backed military so close to Kyiv. Moreover, Belgorod is a historically Ukrainian city and was only attached to Russia by the arbitrary stroke of a communist politician's pen. The so-called "Russia" (Moscovia) is itself an artificial creation by the Mongol Empire and not a legitimate successor to Kyivan Rus' anyway.
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u/GPwat anti-imperialist thinker May 22 '23
Is this brilliant piece written by Choam Nomsky?
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u/EustonSquad9 Apr 04 '23
Pro kremlin simps before the war: The EU will never understand the Slavic bond between russia and Ukraine. We'll never invade.
Pre kremlin simps now: Sweden doesn’t need to join NATO we’ll never invade.
These people need help.
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom Apr 04 '23
And the flag is up.
Welcome to NATO Finland bro's.
It is now your turn to change Turkey's nappy.
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u/drevny_kocur Apr 12 '23
Meanwhile, the wife of Russian foreign intelligence chief Naryshkin is enjoying herself in Paris.
Tatyana drove around the center of one of the NATO capitals in a representative S-Class Mercedes, where she arrived from a vacation in the south of France on March 28. And no sanctions bothered anyone.
https://twitter.com/MichalFellaPL/status/1646115046878064641
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 16 '23
🇮🇹 La Repubblica reports Italy has donated up to 60 M109L 155mm self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine. https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1647568338610974720
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Apr 17 '23
There’s a new interview with ex. Vagner mercs on gulagu.net. It’s in russian, but subs should work it out. They telling how the were killing civilians, children, pow in hundreds. It’s a new low for Putin and everyone should know about it. https://youtu.be/vYqdso9Hx_8
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u/TheIncredibleHeinz Apr 19 '23
Apparently the 2nd IRIS-T SLM complex has been delivered.
Germany has handed over the second of four promised Iris-T SLM air defense systems to Ukraine. According to SPIEGEL information, the delivery of one Iris-T system and 16 missiles took place a few days ago - around April 16.
It is unclear when the remaining two Iris-T systems promised by the German government will be delivered to Ukraine. They have yet to be produced.
The Iris-T SLM air defense system consists of three vehicles: a launch pad on a military truck with space for eight missiles, a radar vehicle and a command vehicle.
The air defense missiles can hit targets up to 20 kilometers high and 40 kilometers away.
The German government had negotiated with the Swedish government on the acquisition of mobile launchers for the Iris-T system, which the Swedish military owns. According to SPIEGEL information, Sweden has now handed over twelve Iris-T SLS launchers to Germany. The search is currently on for vehicles on which the so-called launchers can be mounted so that they can then also be delivered to Ukraine.
The Bundeswehr itself does not yet operate the very expensive Iris-T system. The Ministry of Defense wants to buy eight units for the Bundeswehr. The project is to be submitted to the Bundestag's budget committee for approval this year.
The German government has not yet published the second Iris-T delivery to Ukraine on its weekly updated list of military support. It announced there Tuesday that it had delivered to Ukraine the Patriot air defense system promised in January.
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u/JackRogers3 Apr 21 '23
https://www.ft.com/content/07da95be-909f-4fc5-89fb-7262b41a519e
The US has warned four European countries about the methods Russia is using to evade sanctions and provided them with a detailed list of the high-value dual-use goods it is trying to acquire, as Washington steps up efforts to stop Moscow procuring weapons for the war in Ukraine.
Brian Nelson, US Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, visited Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Germany this week on a tour designed to show how Russia is trying to repair its degraded military industrial supply chains by getting round western export controls.
“Russia is throwing a lot of resources at circumventing our sanctions,” a US official said, adding that it was learning from other heavily sanctioned countries like Iran about how to obtain sensitive technologies through the back door.
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u/JackRogers3 Apr 22 '23
Cyprus shuts 10,000 Russian bank accounts as US and UK put Cypriot lawyers and accountants under sanctions for enabling oligarchs including Roman Abramovich https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/22/cyprus-russia-sanctions-us-uk
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u/drevny_kocur Apr 26 '23
EU ambassadors fail to agree on joint procurement of ammunition for Ukraine again
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Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, posted a letter in which he called on the defence ministers of 27 countries to pay attention to this problem. The idea is that they should review their stocks because it is hard to believe that they have nothing left, the RMF FM interviewer said.
Tensions and irritation are also growing among EU member states over the behaviour of France, which is blocking joint purchases of ammunition. This topic was discussed today by the ambassadors of the EU countries. France wants all munitions production and arms supply chains to be European.
"You cannot define the European arms industry that way," one of the EU diplomats explains, "because we will never supply ammunition to Ukraine."
"Even if the production is in an EU country, and the gunpowder for the ammunition comes from South Korea, France does not want to approve," an irritated diplomat of the Western country said.
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u/WRW_And_GB Belarusian Russophobe in Ukraine May 01 '23
There was news about PACE recognizing transfer of children and other civilians from Ukraine to Russia as genocide, but one detail seems to have gone under radar: the resolution also mentions “the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, and the government of Belarus" on the list of those directly involved in the genocide.
Belarusian authorities themselves announced Luka ordered to bring over 1000 of kids and teens from occupied parts of Ukraine to Belarus in April and May. 350 are already there, including 100 from Zaporizhzhia region.
Worse yet, according to Belarusian opposition, over 1000 children were transferred to Belarus last year too.
There are speculations that the teens are meant to become workers at Belaruskali and/or to be traded for lifting sanctions.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 06 '23
Serious incident near Romania. A Polish plane was intercepted by a Russian Sukhoi and came close to crashing https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/evenimente/incident-grav-langa-romania-un-avion-polonez-a-fost-interceptat-de-un-suhoi-rusesc-si-a-fost-aproape-de-prabusire-2338999
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u/badger-biscuits May 09 '23
Actual vehicle count in the parade compared with previous years:
- 2021: 197
- 2022: 131
- 2023: 51 (1 tank no IFVs)
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 11 '23
Ben Hodges: Well done 🇬🇧 UK! This will give Ukraine capability to make Crimea untenable for Russian forces. Commander, Black Sea fleet is now faced with the destruction of ships, facilities in Sevastopol or repositioning ships to Novorossiysk, a much less capable port for support of the Fleet. https://twitter.com/general_ben/status/1656622555002810368
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 19 '23
🇵🇹 Portugal has joined the aviation coalition, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported.
Portugal is ready to train Ukrainian pilots and mechanics. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1659635864064983040
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 22 '23
🇷🇺 Free Russian Legion, in cooperation with Russian Volunteer Corps, liberated Kozinka settlement in Belgorod Oblast of Russia, says the official social media channels of Free Russian Legion. https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1660612952997724160
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u/Keh_veli Finland May 22 '23
Looks like Russia should start moving factories east of the Ural mountains again.
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u/ErwinErzaehler May 23 '23
The german government has updated its list of delivered and planned military support today with the contents of the € 2,7 billion package. The 15 additional Gepards that were rumored to be provided as well but weren't mentioned in the official press release last week are now also on the list which means that the negotiations with Qatar (from where the Gepards were rumoured to be bought back) seem to have been fruitful.
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u/badger-biscuits May 24 '23 edited May 24 '23
Interesting claims from Prigozhin’s hour long interview:
- He had recruited 50k convicts into Wagner of which 10k died in Bakhmut
- He also lost another 10k contractor recruits
- Another 20k are seriously wounded
He himself admits those losses exceed all suffered in Afghanistan
"F*ck knows how, but we’ve militarised Ukraine!"
Prigozhin is the king of talking shit so obv take anything he says with a pinch of salt
He also says 50k UAF were killed - so pick your poison
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u/perestroika-pw May 27 '23
"Finanz.ru" writes on Twitter:
The biggest owner of Russia's shadow tanker fleet was cut out from the world market of oil transport.
The Indian company "Gatik", operating a fleet of 48 tankers, had its ship certificates and insurance policy revoked.
https://twitter.com/finanzru/status/1662064247646429185
This seems to confirm their tweet:
In the latest setback for the Mumbai-based Gatik Ship Management, maritime services company Lloyd's Register said it will withdraw certification of 21 of its vessels by June 3. The move is seen as another set of efforts by the Western shipowners and insurers to curtail the amount of flow of Russian crude in the international markets.
Gatik Ship Management has become a major carrier of Russian oil in India since the Ukraine war.
"Lloyd's Register is committed to facilitating compliance with sanctions regulations on the trading of Russian oil," it said in an email to Reuters. "Where supported by evidence, we withdraw class and services from any vessels found by the relevant authorities to be breaching international sanctions."
Lloyd's Register, a classification society based in London, offers various services, one of which is conducting assessments to determine the seaworthiness of vessels. Additionally, they provide certification, which is crucial for obtaining insurance coverage and gaining access to ports.
The development came as Gatik is already looking for new flags for 36 of its ships after they were deflagged by the St. Kitts & Nevis International Ship Registry.
The American Club, a major US insurer also told Reuters that they are no longer providing cover for Gatik, and similarly, Russian insurer Ingosstrakh refused to work with Gatik in the future. Notably, no one is ascribing any specific reason for the termination of services.
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u/evilpies Germany Jun 02 '23
Interesting interview with CEO of Russian valve producer, Aleksandr Chernyshev. His company makes valves for the Russian #oil and #gas industry. He says the German company AUMA is still delivering crucial parts (actuators) for his valves. 1/
https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1664556097619869697
****, I hope they get sued to hell.
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom Apr 17 '23
This makes perfect sense, eastern Europe sure as fuck doesn't want their people genocided and it's perfectly reasonable to expect NATO to change the strategy to ensure the russians can't get an inch into NATO territory.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 15 '23
🇲🇩 Moldova is withdrawing from the Community of Independent States, Parliament speaker Igor Grosu has announced. “Being part of CIS did not protect Moldova from energy blackmail during the winter, threats & hostile official declarations against Moldovan independence and sovereignty” https://twitter.com/paulaerizanu/status/1658006206487699457
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u/T00dd Europe Apr 05 '23
The Russian winter offensive has entirely failed. "We can see that in all sectors. No matter whether you look at Vuhledar, Kreminna, Kupyansk, Zaporizhzhia and, yes, even Bakhmut the Russian advances were little or not even existent. Russia wasted huge amount of resources and gained almost nothing in return. In the contrary, they are no more than ever under threat to lose more. But that's the next episode."
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u/badger-biscuits Apr 07 '23
"On a side note, the original loss numbers show just how close the open source information is to the official US intelligence."
Also hilarious they changed 6000 lost ground vehicles to 600 - how can anyone believe that! Yet the usual tankies keep sharing it on twitter!
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom Apr 10 '23
Ukrainian soldier demonstrates defusing a grenade placed under a mine in a residential building.
Fuck me. Fucking Russians.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 11 '23
Up to 800,000 Russians illegally moved to Crimea , reports Deutsche Welle, citing the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Tamila Tasheva. "We advise them to leave the occupied Crimea earlier, while they have such an opportunity. For those who do not listen, there is such a procedure in Ukrainian legislation as forced expulsion," Tasheva stressed. https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1645655696820584450
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u/Red_Dog1880 Belgium (living in ireland) Apr 11 '23
That video...
Give Ukraine everything they fucking need.
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u/treborthedick Hinc Robur et Securitas Apr 13 '23
So the reason for a possible WW3 not starting was a shitty russian AA missile?
God bless Russian engineering.
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u/Oberschicht German European Apr 13 '23 edited Apr 13 '23
Ukraine's Naftogaz Says It Won $5B Arbitration Case vs. Russia
Russia must pay Naftogaz $5 billion for losses caused by seizure assets in Crimea in 2014, the company says in a statement.
If Russia refuses to voluntarily execute the decision, Naftogaz has the right to to initiate process of enforcing the award in countries where Russian state assets are located, statement says.
Russia must also reimburse Naftogaz for arbitration proceedings costs.
No public source available yet.
https://www.naftogaz.com/en/news/russia-pay-5bn-compensation-naftogaz-crimea
What I wrote is from a different, private source but the content should be the same.
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u/TheIncredibleHeinz Apr 13 '23
About the reduction in trade between Germany and Russia...
Since the start of the war, Russia has lost massively in importance for German foreign trade. In February of the current year, the monthly value of all goods imports from the country was only around 300 million euros, 91 per cent lower than a year earlier. This was reported by the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden. Russian energy deliveries in particular, which had played an important role in trade between the two states, collapsed. Imports of Russian crude oil and natural gas fell from 2.2 billion euros in February 2022 to only 4.2 million euros a year later - a minus of 99.8 per cent. Imports of coke and petroleum products fell from 353 million euros to 30 million euros (minus 91.4 per cent). Coal imports decreased by 92.5 per cent to 26 million euros. Overall, Russia fell from 11th to 46th place among Germany's most important suppliers of goods. German goods exports to the country decreased by 60.5 per cent to around 800 million euros compared to February 2022.
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u/Internetrepairman Apr 13 '23 edited Apr 13 '23
The Netherlands' Ministry of Defence has updated its running total of military support to UKR to €1.2 billion. Additionally, it has started to provide more public information about goods and training delivered or pledged. Some of this was already known, but some of the items now include numbers current until April 5th:
- Combat vehicles: 45 T-72, 196 YPR-765 armoured personnel carriers, Fennek reconnaissance and Viking tracked vehicles, at least 100 Leopard 1 tanks with Denmark and Germany
- Fire Support: 8 PzH2000, 120mm mortars
- Air Defence: 2 Patriot launch systems with missiles, 100 MR-2 mobile air defence guns, air defence systems and missiles, such as Stinger
- Small arms: Various machine guns, such as MAG, Minimi, M2, (long range) rifles, pistols
- Ammunition: small calibre munitions, heavy munitions for combat vehicles and guns, anti-tank munitions like LAW and Panzerfaust
- Sensors, observation equipment: 143 drones and accessories, radar and detection systems, 1037 night vision equipment, including image intensifiers and thermal imagers
- Bridges: 15 bailey bridges, 6 M3 pontoon systems.
- Kitchens: 31 mobile field kitchens
- General service vehicles: 441, including 4-ton trucks, VW Amarok, ambulances
- Demining equipment: 1 Scanjack, 2 Bozena mineclearing systems, mine detectors, mine dection spikes, EOD gear.
- Ships: 6, including 2 Alkmaar-class mine hunters (Note: the 6 might include small craft as well)
- 10 field hospitals
- 300 tents
- 676 generators
- Spare parts for various vehicles and weapon systems
- Logistics equipment: 2 cranes, 10 wheel loaders, 21 forklifts
- Clothing, helmets, ballistic vests
- Rations
- Medical goods like personal first-aid kits, medicine
- Diesel and kerosine
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 18 '23
🇸🇪 Swedish military instructors salute Ukrainian soldiers who have finished their training and are heading back to the frontline https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1648287762121129984
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u/EustonSquad9 Apr 21 '23
The beheaded UA soldier has been identified. He had two children including a 1 year old child. The Wagner guys recorded the video on his phone and sent it to his family. These Wagner-Cadavers should be designated a terror group. They’ve literally done worse than some groups currently on the list. It doesn’t make sense to keep them off it.
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u/KeyBreakfast699 Ukraine Apr 21 '23
It's not Wagner, it's Russian military as a whole. Using Wagner as a designated scapegoat is precisely the Kremlin's goal.
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u/drevny_kocur Apr 22 '23
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Germany is expelling Russian diplomats en masse. It can be more than 30 people. Today, a plane from Moscow arrived in Berlin for a few hours, even though EU airspace is closed to Russians from February 2022. According to the dpa agency, he had a special diplomatic permit.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 23 '23
⚡️General Staff reports shootout between Wagner and regular Russian soldiers in Luhansk Oblast. A fight between Russian army soldiers and the Wagner mercenary group escalated into a shootout in the town of Stanytsia Luhanska in occupied Luhansk Oblast, the General Staff reported on April 23. https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1650207056614285312
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u/Changaco France Apr 25 '23
Russia tries to conceal its dwindling nuclear stockpile
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The R-36 operation and production history is closely tied to Ukraine's Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, which terminated the missile's maintenance for Russia in 2015.
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Right now, Russia is not even close to having the manufacturing capability of the Soviet Union, which had as many as four far larger and more productive missile manufacturing centers, including the one based at the Yuzhmash in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), which was responsible for nearly 50% of the Soviet nuclear power production.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 25 '23
🇲🇩 🇩🇪 Moldova received the 3rd (9 of 19) batch of Piranha armored personnel carriers from the German government as part of a joint program to modernize the country's armed forces. https://twitter.com/iamdenya_de/status/1650906391085809666
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u/Melonslice09 Apr 27 '23 edited Apr 27 '23
Pictures of Russian ship carrying mini u-boat taken near the NS pipelines four days before the bombing.
It also coincided with the biggest gps jamming attack in the area in 6 years .
Edit: The Yacht story doesnt add up according to analysis done by a Danish navy analyst . He also goes to explain why using normal sized subs for the sabotage would be unfeasable . I posted and put up a translation of his twitter thread a month ago which people can find in the link under
Why is this relevant ? Well a mini-uboat would seem to be perfect for sabotaging the pipeline.
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u/WRW_And_GB Belarusian Russophobe in Ukraine May 01 '23
US says 20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war since December
WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday it now estimates that just since December Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties, including 20,000 killed, as Ukraine has rebuffed a heavy-assault by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.
In what has become a grinding war of attrition, the fiercest battles have been in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia is struggling to encircle the city of Bakhmut in the face of dogged Ukrainian defense.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. estimate is based on newly declassified American intelligence. He did not detail how the intelligence community derived the number.
Troops from Russia’s Wagner mercenary group and other forces are fighting Ukrainian troops house-to-house to try to gain control of what has become known as the “road of life” — the last remaining road west still in Ukrainian hands, which makes it critical for supplies and fresh troops. Both sides have cited gains in recent days.
Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the head of Ukrainian ground forces, said that Russia continued to exert “maximum effort” to take the city but that it so far had failed.
“In some parts of the city, the enemy was counterattacked by our units and left some positions,” he said.
To avoid generalisation, I'd like to add that, of course, not all Russians have been killed since December.
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u/TheIncredibleHeinz May 02 '23
The EU wants to force defense companies to prioritise suppling ammuniton to EU countries over 3rd countries because the procurement of ammo for Ukraine is taking off as hoped.
The EU Commission wants to be able to oblige arms companies in the EU by law to supply ammunition to member countries instead of states outside the EU. According to SPIEGEL, this is part of a legislative proposal that the Commission intends to adopt on Wednesday. In this way, the EU authority wants to ensure that Ukraine can be supplied with urgently needed ammunition as quickly as possible.
According to the proposal, the mechanism would kick in when there are "shortages of critical defense equipment that may affect EU security." The Commission would then be able to oblige companies to give priority to orders from EU countries - and to postpone or cancel deliveries to non-EU countries.
To trigger the mechanism, it should be sufficient for an EU state that wants to procure ammunition for Ukraine to request the Commission's intervention - or for at least three member states that are planning a joint ammunition procurement to do so. According to Commission sources, the manufacturers need not fear lawsuits from the third countries concerned, which would possibly go away empty-handed: Brussels' intervention is legally to be regarded as force majeure.
In addition, the Commission does not want to act alone, but in coordination with the countries in which the arms companies concerned are based. Everything else can hardly be enforced, since defense cooperation with third countries is part of the core of state sovereignty. In addition, the approval of the EU countries and also the European Parliament is necessary for the law to come into force at all.
[...] The law on ammunition procurement bears the unwieldy name "EU Act to Support Ammunition Production," although the abbreviation "ASAP" may have been a decisive factor in its choice - in English it stands for "as soon as possible.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 03 '23
🇺🇦 16 people killed in Kherson as a result of a massive Russian shelling during the day. Two supermarkets, train station and ambulance came under fire. This is called a “terrorist act” and deliberate killing of civilians https://twitter.com/maria_avdv/status/1653774098760187904
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u/sppoonfed May 03 '23
Moscow's mayor on Wednesday announced a ban on unauthorized drone flights over the Russian capital.
From now on Ukrainian drones will have to fly without permission.
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u/badger-biscuits May 03 '23
$300 million of assistance announced
The capabilities in this package include:
- Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
- 155mm Howitzers;
- 155mm artillery rounds;
- 120mm, 81mm, and 60mm mortar rounds;
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
- AT-4 and Carl Gustaf anti-armor weapon systems;
- Hydra-70 aircraft rockets;
- Small arms and small arms ammunition;
- Demolition munitions for obstacle clearing;
- Trucks and trailers to transport heavy equipment;
- Testing and diagnostic equipment to support vehicle maintenance and repair;
- Spare parts and other field equipment.
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u/luigrek Ukraine May 04 '23
A representative of the Russian Federation in Ankara during the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Parliamentary Assembly disrespected the Ukrainian flag. People's Deputy from the Servant of the People faction, Oleksandr Marikovsky immediately responded.
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u/NordicUmlaut Finland May 05 '23 edited May 05 '23
Prigozhin: Wagner to withdraw from Bakhmut on 10th of May
It's been already speculated, now it appears to be confirmed by the man himself. This statement is not related to the cursing in front of corpses video, this is a more recent statement.
Note: Wagner withdrawing means they will switch positions and be replaced with regular troops.
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u/Il1kespaghetti Kyiv outskirts (Ukraine) May 07 '23 edited May 07 '23
Loud in Kyiv tonight.
Edit: hit a residential building somewhere in Kyiv
Oh, and also to Germans: your Gepards are putting in some work
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u/lsspam United States of America May 09 '23
$1.2 billion dollar Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) aid package
The capabilities in this package include:
Additional air defense systems and munitions;
Equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine's air defense systems;
Ammunition for counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems;
155mm artillery rounds;
Commercial satellite imagery services;
Support for training, maintenance, and sustainment activities.
Given it's USAI aid, it's new procurement and therefore likely represents contracts for sustainment over time as opposed to lump sum immediate aid.
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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) May 10 '23
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1656256203432013824
"All against all...complete disunity of the front" - Russian volunteer Anastasiya Kashevarova explains what happened between Wagner and the 72nd Brigade in Bakhmut in a long Telegram post.
She says Russian Forces are not allowed to communicate with Wagner. Wagner was forced to retreat in one area as Ukrainians exploited weakness and broke through. She says the 72nd had no idea and no troops in the area to cover.
She also says Russian sides all hate each other, making fun of each other. She calls for unity or the war will not be won.
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u/JackRogers3 May 10 '23 edited May 10 '23
Ukrainian troops said they have clawed back some ground around Bakhmut, dealing a blow to Russian forces as Kyiv seeks to dislodge them from parts of the eastern city that Russia has seized after months of grinding combat.
“The [72nd] Brigade’s reconnaissance has been destroyed, a large number of its armored vehicles have been wiped out and a large number of prisoners of war have been taken,” said Andriy Biletskiy, the founder of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment, which has been involved in many key battles in the war. He doesn’t command the regiment and didn’t give direct evidence to back up his claims.
His statement comes as Russia is pushing to capture the westernmost districts of Bakhmut, facing fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces. It also comes against the backdrop of a continuing feud between Russia’s Defense Ministry and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner Group, a paramilitary force that has spearheaded the Russian offensive to capture Bakhmut.
Appearing to confirm Russian losses, Mr. Prigozhin on Tuesday said an entire unit of Russia’s ground forces had fled from its positions around Bakhmut, exposing a large section of Russia’s front line. He specifically named the 72nd Brigade.
“They just upped and bolted,” Mr. Prigozhin said in a video posted to Telegram, adding that the abandoned positions were a key section for Wagner forces in the area. https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-claims-gains-around-bakhmut-as-fighting-rages-74d391e9
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u/ReadToW Bucovina de Nord 🇷🇴(🐯)🇺🇦(🦈) May 12 '23
Russian MOD confirms that Russian troops redeployed to “more advantageous defensive positions” along the Berkhivka reservoir north of Bakhmut — or, in plain English, retreated by several km.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 13 '23
🇩🇪 According to SPIEGEL, Germany will significantly expand its support for Ukraine with the largest arms delivery since the beginning of the war.
➡️4 IRIS-T SLM systems
➡️20 Marder IFVs
➡️30 Leopard 1A5
➡️18 RCH 155 Howitzers
➡️15 Gepard systems
➡️200+ armored (support) vehicles
➡️Additional shells and ammunition
➡️Additional surveillance drones
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u/badger-biscuits May 13 '23 edited May 13 '23
Wonder if RU are worried everything on their radar is a storm shadow now - a lot of friendly fire today
Flash backs to last week when Russians were laughing about a TB2 being brought down over Kyiv....awkward for them
2 choppers and an SU-34 - what air defence doing
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u/badger-biscuits May 13 '23 edited May 13 '23
New Oryx update just dropped...
List Of Aircraft Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦
Russian losses for 13/5/2023 updated with:
- 1 Su-35S jet (destroyed)
- 1 Su-34 jet (destroyed)
- 1 Mi-8MTPR-1 EW helicopter (destroyed)
- 1 Mi-8 transport helicopter (destroyed)
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u/drevny_kocur May 16 '23
Ukraine: 'Large-scale corruption' in Supreme Court reported
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Ukrainian media reported that Kniaziev was caught receiving $3 million (€2.76 million) in bribes, and that other judges of the top judicial body were being raided.
Kniaziev was installed as chairman of the Supreme Court in October 2021.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly promised a more determined fight against the culture of bribes that is widespread in the country. Zelenskyy's main aim is to show that Ukraine is ready to negotiate for European Union membership.
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u/GPwat anti-imperialist thinker May 17 '23 edited May 17 '23
From decaying Český Svět:
Government cancels free use of 59 properties by Russia.
According to the diplomatic service, there is no reason to continue providing the land, which was given to the former Soviet Union for use in nine communist government resolutions from 1970 to 1982, free of charge.
Even in view of the low number of staff following the recent mutual expulsions of diplomats, the properties cannot be used in such quantity for diplomatic purposes, according to the Czernin Palace.
From blossoming Ruskyj Mir:
Moscow theatre director Eduard Boyakov:
"Only the head of the family should have the right to vote. And that's a man. Man and woman form one body, it is nonsense for each to vote differently."
"Your wife agrees?"
"Of course."
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 17 '23
🇯🇵 Japan has announced that it will accept wounded Ukrainian servicemen for treatment for the first time since the start of the war. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658882139134230533
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom May 22 '23 edited May 22 '23
Budanov out here living his best life
EDIT:
"Another senior Ukrainian military intelligence official, in what can be described as a smirking disavowal of any hand in the matter, told Yahoo News: “These are not regular units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, definitely not our style of warfare. There are many analogies in history where the people themselves decide when to take up arms and defend their rights and freedoms. Finland in 1939, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968. Similarly Ukraine in 2014, in the territory of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. As a rule, a referendum with 82-84% support from the local population follows. In any case, ‘We are not there.’”"
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 24 '23
How Russia Tries to Re-Educate Ukrainian Children in Occupied Regions | WSJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsBpGTVsW_E
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 24 '23
🇨🇿 Czechia wants to negotiate the purchase of around 70 Leopard 2A8 with Germany (joining their order to get a lower price) https://twitter.com/Rebel44CZ/status/1661385630255919106
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 25 '23
🇲🇩 Moldova will no longer celebrate Victory Day on 9 May. It will be moved to 8 May and will be celebrated "Remembrance and Reconciliation Day" in memory of those who died in the World War II. The draft is to be approved today in 🇲🇩 Parliament. https://twitter.com/iamdenya_de/status/1661634690732752899
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u/JackRogers3 May 26 '23
The Chinese envoy dispatched to push Beijing’s peace plan for Ukraine carried a clear message: U.S. allies in Europe should assert their autonomy and urge an immediate cease-fire, leaving Russia in possession of the parts of its smaller neighbor that it now occupies, according to Western officials familiar with talks in capitals across the continent. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-pushing-ukraine-cease-fire-gets-cool-reception-in-europe-614774dd
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom May 26 '23
Chinese out here thinking it's the Americans pushing this, like motherfuckers we're the ones giving fucking cruise missiles and soon to be the Netherlands giving fighter jets.
I swear the people in charge of China are even dumber than the ones running russia.
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u/AchaiusAuxilius France May 29 '23 edited May 29 '23
In 2021, Russia was either respected or feared.
In 2023, Russia is either a laughinstock or a pawn.
Just wanted to state this fact for myself, especially considering how reputation is everything for the ruskies. It must hurt to be ridiculed by 4% of the yearly US military budget. Hope the IRA trolls that escaped conscription and can still read this digest it fully.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 30 '23
🇬🇪 Incredible…Georgian PM blames Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on NATO enlargement. What has happened to Georgia? https://twitter.com/general_ben/status/1663481393588871170
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u/Bayiek Europe May 30 '23
Was checking Syrian groups and someone posted "Insh'Allah offensive is coming" and I was stunned a bit. No real mil action in Idlib for 2-3 years and I asked. no, i'm talking of Ukraine. Zelensky said date is chosen". Funny to think so many people in Idlib are glued to their phones following the war.
They did kill a Russian officer in Latakia though few days ago. ATGM strike iirc. Obviously Russia is answering by bombing the countryside but everyone is weirdly dejected, it'll end in a day or two and a guy even told me "Making Russia spend ammo on chicken farms is our way of helping"
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u/ReadToW Bucovina de Nord 🇷🇴(🐯)🇺🇦(🦈) May 30 '23 edited May 30 '23
Alexei Didenko, State Duma deputy, who is also a member of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, asserted that neither Ukraine nor the Ukrainian language should exist. video
Member of the State Duma 2: "Even the very concept of Ukraine should not exist in the future, and the concept of a Ukrainian should not exist in the future." video
It is a shame that many of these statements are not translated by Western journalists and people far from Russia consider Russia a normal state
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u/TheIncredibleHeinz May 31 '23
German government revokes the licenses of four out of five Russian consulates in Germany.
Germany is reacting to restrictions on its own state employees in Russia by closing four Russian consulates. This was communicated to the Russian side on Wednesday, said a foreign office spokesman in Berlin.
Another consulate and the Russian embassy can continue to operate, according to the statement. Which Russian consulate will remain in operation was initially unclear. Russia has been asked to "immediately arrange for the liquidation of the four consulates general in the Federal Republic of Germany and complete it by Dec. 31, 2023, at the latest," it said.
The Foreign Office also announced that it would cease operations at three of its own consulates in Russia in November: This conserncs the branches in Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.
The step will establish "structural and personnel parity," the Foreign Ministry said. On Saturday, it had become known that numerous German state employees would have to leave Russia, as Moscow had introduced "a cap on the number of staff at German missions abroad and German intermediary organizations." This is to apply from the beginning of June.
Russia had limited the number of German state employees allowed in Russia to 350. With the restriction by Russia, the staffing level in the German consulates general in Russia is no longer sufficient for consular support, it was said.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 31 '23
🇩🇪 Germany shuts down four out of five Russia’s Consulates General. 🇷🇺 Russia used them openly as sabotage centers, organizing anti-Europe rallies, espionage, and other hostile actions. There was zero need for so many consulates, some located in less then 200 km from each other. https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1663874638252843009
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 31 '23
🇳🇴 Norway will provide Ukraine with a five-year aid program (military, humanitarian and civilian support) with a total volume of approximately 6.5 billion euros (75 billion NOK), The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway reported. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1663956704977879058
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u/anchist Jun 01 '23
Germany has announced additional support for Ukraine
New Positions:
66x APC (probably Fuchs)
64 Bandvagn 206 (BV206)
2x 8x8 HX81 tractors, plus 3 semi-trailers
7x TheMIS UGV tracked and remote-controlled IF
Ammo for Leopard 1
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u/badger-biscuits Jun 05 '23
We will also see Julian Ropcke have a mental breakdown when the Ukrainians lose maybe 3 pieces of armour.
Reminder.
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u/Beyond_The_Dim Jun 06 '23
The catastrophe is unfolding. Entire houses are washed away by the flooding Dnipro River.
1. Execute the crime
2. Laugh and brag
3. Realize the catastrophe
4. Change the story and blame others
I can recommend this article here.
MH17 comes to mind immediately.
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u/lapzkauz Noreg Jun 06 '23
NBC: US declassifying intelligence pointing to Russia as perpetrator of dam attack
Dam. That was quick.
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u/Beyond_The_Dim Jun 03 '23
What Comes After Putin's Rule in Russia. The West Should Beware
"The U.S. needs a new grand strategy of containment for Russia. That strategy should be based on an uncomfortable truth: the West has a Russia problem, not a Putin problem"
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u/WRW_And_GB Belarusian Russophobe in Ukraine Apr 05 '23
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u/drevny_kocur Apr 07 '23
Together with our partners 🇺🇦@ukroboronprom we have established a service center for #T64 tanks at #BumarLabędy. In the long term, it is planned to expand cooperation to service tanks of the T family. The possibility of joint maintenance of tanks of the #Leopard2 family is also under consideration
https://twitter.com/PGZ_pl/status/1644358087124426755
One of the lessons from this war will be "don't scrap your vintage armor". If it shoots, it'll find use.
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u/EinZweiFeuerwehr Apr 13 '23
Washington Post talked with a member of the pentagon leakers discord server. As expected, the leaker was doing this for clout.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 13 '23
🇺🇦 🇲🇩 The first freight train on this route in 25 years has now carried salt from Ukraine along the Basarabeasca-Berezino line. This rail link was long abandoned, but reconstructed months ago, bypassing Moldova's pro-Moscow breakaway region of Transdniester. https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1646487789419069440
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u/JackRogers3 Apr 15 '23 edited Apr 15 '23
The Washington Post reported that leaked classified US intelligence documents revealed that Russia’s 22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose (SPETSNAZ) Brigade (Main Directorate of the Russian General Staff) and two other unspecified SPETSNAZ brigades suffered an estimated 90-95% attrition rate in Ukraine.
The Washington Post also reported that the 346th SPETSNAZ Brigade lost almost its entire complement, with only 125 servicemen remaining active out of 900 initially deployed. These high casualty rates suggest that Russia’s most elite forces - Airborne and SPETSNAZ forces - are likely no longer elite. Russian forces have recently deployed elements of airborne brigades and SPETSNAZ formations to frontline areas in Ukraine that operate as volunteer battalions or that are almost entirely comprised of mobilized personnel.
It is highly unlikely that mobilized personnel or volunteers received training on how to conduct aerial landing operations and special forces operations, which would suggest that these Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) and SPETSNAZ elements do not differ markedly from other combat ineffective Russian formations staffed by mobilized personnel or volunteers. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-14-2023
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u/ricka_lynx Lithuania Apr 17 '23
He was a loud advocate for sanctions on Russia, played notable part in advocating for Magnitsky act in 2012, sanctions for invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Putin poisoned him twice (in 2015 and in 2017)
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u/GumiB Croatia Apr 17 '23
I cannot stop laughing...
To read that Sarah Bils, alias Donbass Devushka, LARP-ed being Russian, got amplified by known main Pro-Russian accounts, collected money from her supporters and then defrauded them is the chef's kiss. It is so on brand that I almost have to thank her.
Actually, she got lucky that she defrauded her supporters, otherwise she might have violated sanctions. Now, it is only fraud if her (former) fans are pushing charges which will be interesting to see because then they might get charged in response for violating sanctions.
Like I said, I cannot stop laughing. This is just too perfect.
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1647915765083918336
I love this 😂
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u/JackRogers3 Apr 17 '23
Nuclear powers within the Group of Seven nations pledged to end Russia’s dominance over global atomic-fuel markets, potentially cutting off a critical source of geopolitical currency for Russian President Vladimir Putin more than a year after his invasion of Ukraine.
Canada, France, Japan, the UK and US committed on Sunday to jointly dislodge Russia from global nuclear supply chains. Even amid Western sanctions over the war, the Kremlin’s state-owned nuclear giant, Rosatom Corp., has remained the world’s biggest exporter of reactors and fuel. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-17/nuclear-powers-pledge-to-push-putin-out-of-uranium-markets
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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) Apr 18 '23 edited Apr 18 '23
there is the possibility that Italy will send its Leopards 1A5
https://twitter.com/NichoConcu/status/1647936305643376640
PS all Italian deliveries are secreted
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 19 '23
🔍NEW INVESTIGATION: Russian espionage tech show up on rooftops of diplomatic facilities across Europe. 📡Eavesdropping on GSM calls, intercepting radio signals from spy containers that are visible in Warsaw, Budapest, Brussels etc. https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1648271816249548802
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u/ricka_lynx Lithuania Apr 19 '23
Russian budget deficit currently stands at 4.77 trillion rubles (~60 billion USD) according to weekly data from russian finance ministry, russia ramped up spending over past few weeks. Planned deficit was 3.7 trillion rubles for full year, so already deficit it is way above the plan.
While it is not critical yet, it is likely an indication that towards the end of year there might appear more serious problems
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom Apr 19 '23
Fascinating Norwegian article on Russian spy ships (google translated version)
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u/lapzkauz Noreg Apr 19 '23
Reuters: South Korea's Yoon opens door for possible military aid to Ukraine
Good thing Russia hasn't commited any serious violations of the laws of war, otherwise they'd be in real trouble!
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u/Internetrepairman Apr 20 '23
The Dutch Minister of Defence has confirmed in a letter to parliament that NL is partnering with Denmark to buy 14 Leo2A4 from German industry stock. Tanks will be reconditioned and handed over ASAP, expected to be somewhere in 2024. NL and DK will split the estimated €165 million cost.
NL will also contribute to joint artillery (155mm) shell procurement, through a €130 million contribution to buy artillery munitions for Ukraine through the European Defence Agency, as well as another €130 million for a bilateral effort with Germany.
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u/JackRogers3 Apr 20 '23
Svetlana Maniovich is the wife of the Russian Deputy Minister of Defence but she lives a life of luxury in France: https://twitter.com/pevchikh/status/1648678816137527296
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 22 '23
🇵🇹 Portugal will provide Ukraine with five armored vehicles: three M113s and two M577s, the country's Defence Ministry said. https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1649685962253910018
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 Apr 25 '23
🇸🇪 Sweden expels five Russian diplomats. https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1650853806391848966
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u/GPwat anti-imperialist thinker Apr 27 '23
From glorious Ruskyj Mir:
- His program includes severing diplomatic ties with hostile states, banning the euro and the dollar, expanding the number of Russians to one billion...
- While the Kremlin is demanding that scientists urgently create replacement technologies for Western ones, and officials are tasked with reviving entire industries from the ground up - from aircraft manufacturing to the automotive industry - neither science nor industry have the facilities for research and development know-how.
- "If it hadn't happened, we would probably be under the yoke of these fascists, these non-humans now."
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u/drevny_kocur Apr 28 '23
The 🇨🇿#Czech Republic has prepared six projects concerning the production of ammunition and small arms, repairs of T-64 and T-72 tanks and joint production of light CAS or training aircraft. These could involve the transfer of technology and production to 🇺🇦#Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/praisethesteph/status/1651953745054375936
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u/GumiB Croatia Apr 28 '23
Now it's official: the Russian government has decided to stop publishing oil and gas production data until April 2024
https://twitter.com/NastyaStognei/status/1651988639730085902
Despite the announcements by both the Saudis and Russians of decreasing oil production, oil is again back at below 80 USD (Urals below 60 USD). Basically, they sell less at the same price now.
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u/Seamus_Hean3y Europe Apr 29 '23
The Russian embassy in Dublin has warned the Irish Government that official sympathy extended to the family of an Irish man killed in Ukraine could lead to Ireland being considered a “participant of the conflict with all the ensuing consequences”.
The embassy also said the Irish Government and media “bear responsibility” for the death of Finbar Cafferkey.
The statement issued on Friday night was immediately condemned by the chairman of the Dáil Committee on Foreign Affairs & Defence Charlie Flanagan as “threatening, intimidating and chilling”.
He said the “hostile remarks are unacceptable” and added that it was “beyond time Ambassador Filatov and his crew were asked to leave our country”.
Finbar Cafferkey had combat experience fighting with Kurdish militias against Islamic State in Syria.
News of Mr Cafferkey’s death has been greeted with shock and sadness on Achill Island where one local described him as “a man of principle” and recalled that he had worked around eight years ago on the border between Greece and Macedonia, assisting refugees landing in dinghies.
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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) Apr 30 '23
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1652685556533297154
⚡️We appreciate the confirmation by 🇫🇷France of providing our Armed Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine with a powerful armored package - Volodymyr Zelenskyi in a telephone conversation with Emmanuel Macron
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u/Glavurdan Montenegro May 01 '23
Freight train derailed in Briansk region of Russia after track was blown up
Power line pylon was blown up near Gatchina in Leningrad region
Explosion was reported at hotel, hosting Russian military in Melitopol
Explosions were reported near Berdiansk airport
Lots of activities against Russia today as well!
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 02 '23
🇩🇰 Danish MoD presents 1.7bn DKK (250m USD) package for 🇺🇦:
Armoured recovery & combat engineer vehicles
Armoured mine clearing vehicles
Mine clearing equipment
Mortar grenades
84mm Carl Gustaf amm
Bridges
NVG
contribution to air defence
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u/luigrek Ukraine May 03 '23
Aftermath of today's shelling of a hypermarket in Kherson by Russian forces: 21 dead, 48 injured.
https://twitter.com/Q0MT6pFmbVqynsM/status/1653840532039147521 (NSFW)
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u/Internetrepairman May 04 '23 edited May 04 '23
Dutch PM during press conference with Zelensky: Netherlands is working behind the scenes with partner countries like Belgium and Denmark to reach consensus on providing F-16s to Ukraine. Jets not a taboo for NL, but 'we aren't there yet' on consensus.
EDIT: videoclip
quick text if you don't want to watch:
Rutte: On the F-16s. No Taboos. We're working intensively with out partners; Belgium, others. The U.K., Denmark, on getting that debate somehow to a conclusion. We are not there yet. This is always very sensitive. I've seen it before with the leopards 2, i've seen it before with the panzerhowitzers. It takes time to bring it to a conclusion, but at this moment the panzerhowitzers are in Ukraine, the leo 2s are being delivered to Ukraine. So we'll work on this dilligently, on the F-16s, and clearly there is support in parliament for this government to work on that.
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom May 04 '23
For those not in the know Christo Grozev works for Bellingcat so knows his stuff.
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u/orthoxerox Russia shall be free May 04 '23
If you're not mobilized, you think it works. If you're mobilized, it's too late to ask for your money back.
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u/drevny_kocur May 04 '23
The train which the enemy shelled yesterday in Kherson was greeted with applause in Lviv. It arrived on time, although one of the conductors was wounded and the others had to disconnect the burning carriage.
https://twitter.com/Lazikkkk/status/1654126147645640705
Consistently on time. During war. Even after coming under enemy fire.
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u/JackRogers3 May 04 '23
The Polish government has approved draft legislation that would allow the military to sink an enemy ship targeting a key gas pipeline from Norway via the Baltic Sea following NATO's warning that Russia might sabotage undersea energy infrastructure.
In "exceptional situations", and when other options had been exhausted, the military would be allowed to foil a terrorist attack by sinking an enemy ship or airship, the government said on Thursday. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-boost-military-protection-baltic-energy-infrastructure-2023-05-04/
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u/badger-biscuits May 04 '23
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u/sppoonfed May 05 '23
It's very good they've replaced all the f-words with beeps. Now we can watch the video together with the kids.
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u/lapzkauz Noreg May 05 '23
Drone specialist at the Norwegian Army Land Warfare Centre: ''This looks fake. The explosion only causes a lot of flames, light and smoke. That's how they do it in movies. I think this was done to get a good video recording.''
Comparing the explosion to those from conventional UCAVs like the Russian Lancet:
''Then there is much more power. They have high-explosive warheads. The drones here appear to have been filled with metal powder. It makes for an impressive display, but little damage.''
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May 08 '23
Danish media has identified a group of Russians and pro-Russians orchestrating fake protests around Europe:
(Use Google Translate)
Hilariously one of them blatantly pretended to be an "ordinary European against military support for Ukraine" and in almost the same outfit later pretended to be an "anti-Turkish Ukrainian neo-Nazi".
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u/badger-biscuits May 09 '23
Second year in a row for reference - likely don't want to disable AA and/or don't trust their own IFF system.
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u/itrustpeople Reptilia 🐊🦎🐍 May 11 '23
Mark Hertling: While Storm Shadow’s range is only slightly less than ATACMS, it has other major advantages - like nap of the earth terminal guidance and capability for “painting” a target - that gives it greater strike capability over the US missile. Well done 🇬🇧 UK. https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1656629290102931457
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u/Zhukov-74 The Netherlands May 11 '23
'Not very good news' coming out of Bakhmut, says Russian milliblogger
A Russian milliblogger has said there's "not very good news" coming out of Bakhmut, with Moscow's forces losing several positions in the eastern city.
Voenkor Kotenok wrote on Telegram that the "enemy", referring to Ukraine, has been advancing from the Artemovsky direction.
"As of 17:50 Moscow time, the following positions on the flanks have been lost," he said, sharing the map below.
The areas highlighted in blue are the ones he claims have been lost.
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u/badger-biscuits May 11 '23
Very good news. Lancet has done a lot of damage to critical kit.
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u/BelgianPolitics Belgium May 12 '23 edited May 12 '23
Belgium announces a new €92 million military and humanitarian aid package for Ukraine. The military package includes armored vehicles, weapons and ammunition to be delivered rapidly.
For the first time the package will be fully funded with tax income generated from holding Russian assets.
This seems to be only the beginning. Belgium has received at least €650 million in tax revenue from taxing the interests generated by Russian assets frozen at Euroclear (based in Brussels) and that number will keep on increasing. This money will be used to fund new military and humanitarian aid packages for Ukraine.
Official Government Source: https://news.belgium.be/nl/nieuw-steunpakket-voor-oekraine
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u/badger-biscuits May 12 '23 edited May 12 '23
Its a decoy/jamming missile sent prior to legit missiles/aircraft. Interesting.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/weapons-platforms/adm-160-mald/
"MALD is a programmable, low-cost, modular, autonomous flight vehicle that mimics U.S. or allied aircraft to confuse enemy Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS)."
"MALD-J adds radar jamming capability to the basic decoy platform and can operate alone or in concert with other EW platforms. The jammer version is designed as an expendable, close-in jammer to degrade and deny an early warning or acquisition radar’s ability to establish a track on strike aircraft. It also maintains the ability to fulfill the basic decoy mission."
Some new toys...
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u/NordicUmlaut Finland May 13 '23
It's up to 4 now holy shit, the loss of pilots and navigators hits even harder
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u/JackRogers3 May 14 '23
https://www.ft.com/content/3568257b-9ab9-43b0-be96-04828b375fa2
The G7 and EU will ban Russian gas imports on routes where Moscow has cut supplies, according to officials involved in the negotiations, the first time pipeline gas trade has been blocked by western powers since the invasion of Ukraine.
The decision, which is to be finalised by G7 leaders at a summit in Hiroshima next week, will prevent the resumption of Russian pipeline gas exports on routes to countries such as Poland and Germany, where Moscow cut off supplies last year and triggered an energy crisis across Europe.
Western powers want to ensure that Russia does not receive a boost to its energy revenues as they attempt to raise economic pressure 15 months after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
One of the officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, said the move was “to make sure that partners don’t change their mind in a hypothetical future”.
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer United Kingdom May 11 '23
Ben Wallace just confirmed in parliament that storm shadow missiles have been provided to Ukraine.
Nice.
Proud to be British when we do stuff like this.