Here we go again-Ukraine once again

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Dargo

Ukraine’s Drone Spotters on Front Lines Wage New Kind of War [...]

Yeah .. problem is Russia still has more ammuniton and people willing to die for the cause.
Ukraine can do losts of precisison strikes ok, but this will not stop the sheer masses from Russia trying to flood Ukraine.
1. Ukraine runs out of russian ammunition for their hardware, i guess it will not be able to restock it from Russia.
Ukraine has way too few western military hardware, and ammo.
2. If Ukraineever looks like winning (it does not, at this moment), Russia will mobilize. In this case Russia will just bury the whole Ukraine with the dead bodies of russian soldiers, and win. They did it before.

I hope someone can prove me wrong.

[Aktungbby]

No need to prove U wrong. Putin, as I pointed out in the 170 pg's of this thread, is doing a marvelous job mismicromanaging his war to restore the post WWII Soviet bloc. NATO is unifying and expanding. Like operation Foxley to assassinate der Furhrer; curtailed, as ol' Adolf, in his Polish Wolf's Lair was an asset to the Allies war efforts, we can't afford to lose Vlad the rapist too soon. Winter will be along shortly...perhaps 'twill be old Boney and Adolf in reverse as General Winter assumes command. They'll need those truck crematoriums to stay warm?!! And, as stated previously, there's a lot of pissed off babushkas with dead conscript sons who R hard to keep silent. The leading cause of death on earth is other people...usually one's physician: this war will end with Vlad's demise; probably from medical issues; saving him a one-way trip to the Hague and a war crimes gibbet. All of this is moot however, as civilization on the spinning mudball is scheduled for ending ca. 2040 anyway... or so the Grays inform me.

[Catfish]

^ oops well, there goes my idea of improving house and living .. but then living in the area you are, enclosed by wildfires, on a geological active fault and not to forget all this wine threatening your health, should tell something about man's determination to get on against all odds


Russian Defence Research Expert on AFU performance, the effect of Western weapon supplies.

"interview with Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, founded in 1997. Pukhov is quite closely affiliated with the Russian Ministry of Defence and is a member of the board of experts within the government of the Russian Federation."

"Ukraine: Gladiator fight

Journalist, expert of the PRISP Center Pyotr Skorobogaty spoke with the director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies Ruslan Pukhov about the difficulties that the Russian armed forces are currently experiencing on the Ukrainian frontline, what consequences the supply of Western equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine will lead to, and whether Western military corporations will be able to increase the production of arsenals."

https://wartranslated.com/russian-de...apon-supplies/


It is not all correct what Pukhov says, russian tanks do have reactive armour theoretically, it is just that someone decided to take the money and put some paper in the "reactive" boxes, instead of charges..

[Skybird]

Russian troops allegedly wired power units of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant with explosives. This was announced by the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security at the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy on Monday afternoon. The commander of the troops stationed at the power plant, Major General Vasilyev, is reported to have said that they are now ready to blow up the NPP at any time. "This will either be Russian land or scorched earth," Vasilyev is quoted as saying.


This is a clear and present nuclear danger to the safety and wellbeing of the people living all across Europe. If Russia starts to blow up nuclear installations intentionall to cause more Chernobyl, I rate this as an attack with nuclear devices against all Europe. It is a reason to go to war.

[mapuc]

A thought about this war and Taiwan.

Right now A lot of material is being shipped from USA to Ukraine.

When and if China turn their exercise into real war and attack Taiwan-Will USA then concentrate on Taiwan and let Europe handle Russia by them self ?

Reason to my thoughts is(Said by some military expert) USA may be a superpower however they aren't strong enough to fight Russia and China at once. That is conventional warfare.

Markus

[Skybird]

I doubt the US can fight two major wars at the same time anymore. They claimed this 20, 30 years ago, but I think that is no longer doable for them. In the Ukraine the US is not directly engaged, but their deliveries of ammunitions, especially smart weapons, will suffer.

The US of course will deny the loss of the two-war capability, and claim they still could do it. But then many still claim that a war with China would be hard but still be won by the US - another thing I do not take for granted anymore.

Missiles and smart weapons will be consummed in quantities like popcorn in the first showing of the latest Star Wars movie. The quesiton is who has the bigger stocks - China or the US. I say: at the time China seriously starts a war at the time of its choosing: China.

[mapuc]

Would we see American conditions, you know in the end of the 60's and beginning of the 70's where there was huge demonstration against the Vietnam war, in Russia as the death toll grow ?

Stories like his are taboo in Russia, where the wrenching grief of many families is buried beneath the triumphant bombast of state media. The war is portrayed as an existential struggle for survival, against “Nazis” as well as NATO, and a virtual news blackout about the bloody toll underscores Kremlin anxiety about the durability of its manufactured support.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...r-deaths-toll/

Markus

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by mapuc

A thought about this war and Taiwan.

Right now A lot of material is being shipped from USA to Ukraine.

When and if China turn their exercise into real war and attack Taiwan-Will USA then concentrate on Taiwan and let Europe handle Russia by them self ?

Reason to my thoughts is(Said by some military expert) USA may be a superpower however they aren't strong enough to fight Russia and China at once. That is conventional warfare.

Markus

Taiwan is about 17 times smaller than Ukraine, it will be mainly an air, naval war.

China Manpower:
Active personnel: 2,185,000
Reserve personnel: 8,000,000
Available for military: 385,821,101

Taiwan Manpower:
Active personnel: 290,000
Reserve personnel: 2,800,000
Available for military: 5,883,828

Invading will cost a lot, but china can get air and naval superiority than the numbers of infantry will be on the side of China do not think the US risk too much also it will be too late to react.

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Would we see American conditions, you know in the end of the 60's and beginning of the 70's where there was huge demonstration against the Vietnam war, in Russia as the death toll grow ?



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...r-deaths-toll/

Markus

No the sons and fathers of Moscow, St Petersburg are not dying only the poor southern unterRussians and the people that have demonstrated can not even lift their finger on the red square without being arrested and thrown in jail Russians have not suffered enough yet to revolt.

[Dargo]

The Pentagon announced the allocation of additional military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $1 billion.

Capabilities in this package include:
– Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
– 75,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition;
– 20 120mm mortar systems and 20,000 rounds of 120mm mortar ammunition;
– Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
– 1,000 Javelin and hundreds of AT4 anti-armor systems;
– 50 armored medical treatment vehicles;
– Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
– C-4 explosives, demolition munitions, and demolition equipment;
– Medical supplies, to include first aid kits, bandages, monitors, and other equipment.

[Dargo]

• At least 27 military systems use Western-designed components
• RUSI found 450 components sourced mainly from Western firms

Russian military systems depend highly on microelectronics components designed and produced in the US, Europe and East Asia, according to a report published Monday based on an examination of the remains of equipment used by the Kremlin’s forces in Ukraine. The report by the Royal United Services Institute in London inspected 27 weapon systems including state-of-the art cruise missiles and drones that were used since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February. It found at least 450 foreign-made components that were critical to their operation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ch-report-says

[Jimbuna]

Kremlin reports that Putin will not attend or speak by videoconference at UN General Assembly

"No. There are no plans to travel or intervene," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Russian news agency TASS when asked about the matter.

Later, the official portal of the Russian government published a statement saying that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will be in charge of leading the Russian delegation to the meeting.

Along with Lavrov, the delegation will include Deputy Foreign Minister Serfei Vershinin, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Gregori Karasin, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia, and Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutski.

A group of advisors from Foreign Ministry departments related to humanitarian cooperation, non-proliferation of weapons, legal sectors or specializing in new threats will also attend.

[Jimbuna]

Russian forces occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have turned the site into a military base to launch attacks against Ukrainian positions, the head of Ukraine's nuclear power company says.

Petro Kotin told the BBC the threat to the plant was "great", but that it remained safe.

For days, Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for attacks on the site, Europe's largest nuclear plant, raising concerns of a major accident.

The complex has been under Russian occupation since early March, although Ukrainian technicians still operate it.

Over the weekend, Ukraine accused Russian forces of attacking the Soviet-era site, saying two workers were taken to hospital with shrapnel injuries and that three radiation sensors had been damaged.

Mr Kotin, who heads Enerhoatom, said 500 Russian soldiers were at the plant, and that they had positioned rocket launchers in the area, claims that cannot be independently verified.

"They [Russian forces] use it [the power plant] like a shield against the Ukrainian forces, because nobody from Ukraine is going to do something," Mr Kotin said.

"The Ukrainian Armed Forces know that these are Ukrainian personnel and this is a Ukrainian plant and there are Ukrainian people [there] so we aren't going to kill our people, our staff and damage our infrastructure."

The plant's staff, Mr Kotin said, were working under pressure and in danger, and some had been captured, beaten and tortured.

He said Russia's plans were to disconnect the plant from Ukraine's grid and eventually connect it to Russia's system.

Oleksandr Sayuk, the mayor of Nikopol, which sits on the opposite side of the Dnipro river, told the BBC last week that his city was under Russian shelling "almost every night", and that the attacks were being carried out by forces at the nuclear plant.

The tensions have led to growing calls for international inspectors to be allowed to visit the site.

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, said "any attack [on] a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing", while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia's actions as "nuclear terrorism".

"There is no such nation in the world that could feel safe when a terrorist state fires at a nuclear plant," Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address on Sunday night.

Russia, however, denied the accusations, and blamed the Ukrainian forces for the attacks. The country's defence ministry said a high-voltage power line had been damaged as a result of the shelling.

The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think-tank, said last week that Russia was using the plant to play on Western fears of a nuclear disaster, "likely in an effort to degrade Western will to provide military support" to Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62469740

[Jimbuna]

Russia's military could be unable to operate the high-tech weapons and communications systems it has been using in Ukraine if the West were to tighten export controls, says a report.

Almost all Moscow's modern military systems depend on western-made microelectronics, says the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) report.

Moscow has found ways to bypass sanctions and export controls.

If the loopholes are closed, Russia's military might be permanently degraded.

Researchers for Rusi, a UK think tank, spent months in Ukraine, examining 27 of Russia's most modern military systems, either captured, brought down or abandoned by Russian troops.

They discovered at least 450 different kinds of unique, foreign-made components, most built in the US but also in other Western countries.

Products from familiar brands, like Sony and Texas Instruments, are turning up on the battlefield in Russian weapons systems. There is no suggestion those firms have been complicit in sending components to Russia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62464459

[Jimbuna]

US provides new $1 billion aid package to Ukraine: ammunition for HIMARS and NASAMS, 1,000 Javelins, 50 medical vehicles - Pentagon

The U.S. Defense Department has authorized a new $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine.

As informs Censor.NЕТ, it was reported on Pentagon's website.

Reportedly, the military aid is envisaged to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs. It will be supplied from the stocks of the U.S. Defense Department.

Capabilities of the new package include:

Additional ammunition for HIMARS;

75,000 rounds of ammunition for 155mm artillery;

20 additional 120mm mortar systems and 20,000 rounds of ammunition for them;

Ammunition for NASAMS surface-to-air missile systems;

1,000 Javelin and hundreds of AT4 antitank systems;

50 armored medical vehicles;

Claymore anti-personnel ammunition;

C-4 explosives, explosive ordnance, and explosive equipment;

Medical supplies, including first-aid kits, bandages, monitors, and other equipment.