Here we go again-Ukraine once again pt2

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Dargo

Germany Not sure, maybe only with production for this.

No chance, keine, none, rien, nada, that Germany sends troops that start firing on Russian troops. Rule that scenario out. Its the German WW2 guilt thing, and it is cult and religion over here.

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by Skybird

No chance, keine, none, rien, nada, that Germany sends troops that start firing on Russian troops. Rule that scenario out. Its the German WW2 guilt thing, and it is cult and religion over here.

It is older than WW2 Germany wanted to bring Russia into Europe for a long time (and for their own gain off coarse) result always was that Poland and Ukraine suffered.

[Dargo]

Karma iza biaach


Before the war, majority of the state budget was stolen now those kleptocrats steel more they know their future is uncertain so every war budget stolen is their insurance to survive these are not the few the whole chain is robbing Russia.

[Dargo]

From Wear to Warfare: Explaining and understanding the Lifespan of Artillery Barrels

Recent criticism of Western-supplied equipment to Ukraine and the industries that produce it has characterised this equipment as “boutique”; i.e. a luxurious, over-engineered item with a lengthy manufacturing time. This narrative is also commonly found to promote the notion that inflated budgets and poor performances are inherent within manufacturing industries. Moreover, some critics have blamed Ukraine’s allies’ inadequacies in producing more ammunition and vehicles on these same manufacturing complexities. Along with addressing this criticism, we will examine why many pieces of artillery have been removed from the battlefield for repair.

Barrels are an essential component in weapon systems, guiding the ammunition through a long narrow cylindrical tube. Barrels are divided into three sections from the breech face: the combustion chamber, bore, and the muzzle. The graphic below illustrates a typical gun barrel design, depicting components such as the breech, bore, and muzzle [1]. The figure also shows a cross-sectional view of a gun barrel that depicts the grooves on the inner surface of the bore. https://tochnyi.info/2024/01/from-we...llery-barrels/

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UN top court can rule on Ukraine case against Russia

The UN's top court has said it has jurisdiction to hear a case brought against Russia by Ukraine.

Kyiv brought the case at The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ), days after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Kyiv accuses Moscow of falsely using genocide law to justify its brutal invasion which continues.

Russia says it intervened in Ukraine to prevent a genocidal attack on ethnic Russians in the eastern Donbas region.

Ukrainian representative Anton Korynevych welcomed the decision.

"It is important that the court will decide on the issue that Ukraine is not responsible for some mythical genocide which the Russian Federation falsely alleged that Ukraine... has been committing since 2014 in Donbas," he said.

While the case centres on the 1948 Genocide Convention, Kyiv does not accuse Moscow of committing genocide in Ukraine.

Instead, it says Russia violated the genocide treaty by resorting to it to justifying the invasion.

Ukraine maintains there was no risk of genocide in the east of the country, where it had been fighting Russian-backed forces since 2014.

It adds that the genocide treaty does not, in any case, permit an invasion to stop an alleged genocide.

Moscow argues Ukraine is using the case as a roundabout way to get a ruling on the overall legality of Russia's military action and has asked for it to be thrown out.

A record 32 states have filed submissions on the issue.

More than two dozen European states, as well as Australia and Canada, have backed Kyiv by giving formal statements to the ICJ.

On Friday, judges said the ICJ had jurisdiction to rule on Ukraine's request for the court to declare that Kyiv has not committed genocide.

However, judges will not rule on whether Russia's invasion or recognition of the independence of areas in eastern Ukraine amount to a violation of the Genocide Convention as those claims fall under different international laws.

The ruling is an important procedural step, which means the case continues.

The 1948 UN Genocide Convention defined genocide as crimes committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such".

ICJ rulings are legally binding but cannot be enforced by the court itself.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68182620

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No more easy deals for Russian convicts freed to fight

Russia has been releasing prisoners to fight in Ukraine for more than a year, originally offering them a pardon and freedom after six months, even if they have been convicted of a violent crime.

But the BBC has discovered this deal is a thing of the past. Now, they no longer get a pardon, face tougher conditions and instead of going home early, they must fight until the end of the war.

"If you sign up now, be ready to die," writes a man called Sergei in a chatroom for former Russian prisoners fighting in Ukraine.

He says that since October he's been part of a new type of army unit with the name "Storm V" which convicts are now being assigned to.

"Before you could wing it for six months. But now, you have to make it until the end of the war," he writes.

When the mass recruitment of Russian prisoners started in the summer of 2022, it was led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, once the head of the Wagner private military group. Prisoners were offered a clean record, full pardon and allowed to go home after six months on the battlefield.

Before he died in a plane crash in August, Prigozhin said that almost 50,000 Russian prisoners had been dispatched to the front line under this deal - similar figures have been cited by human rights activists. Thousands of those prisoners died, but others, including dozens convicted of violent crimes returned home, with some going on to re-offend and even commit murder.

The Russian military took over the scheme in February 2023, initially offering the same incentives as Prigozhin.

But the arrangement meant prisoners released to fight could go home after six months and were in a more privileged position than regular soldiers. That upset men who had been mobilised and their families.

Now, new conditions for prisoners redress that balance and are far stricter.

From reviewing messages in chatrooms and speaking to fighters and relatives, the BBC can confirm that Storm V troops are currently serving along the front line, from Zaporizhzhia in the south of Ukraine to Bakhmut in the east.

One woman from the Transbaikal region in Russia's Far East, who wished to remain anonymous, told the BBC her husband was recruited into one of the Storm V squads at the beginning of autumn 2023. She would not reveal what crime he had committed, but said it was "a serious charge".

She said they made the decision together that he would fight in Ukraine, believing it would result in a quicker release.

"This February would have been 15 years since he was sentenced. He had another four to go," she said. "Conditions in the prison were OK. He could have continued to serve his sentence, but this was the only way to get him home quickly."

She said his contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence was for a year, not six months, as it was for previous prisoners. And when her husband's time is up, he won't get a pardon and won't be able to go home immediately as the contract "will be automatically extended".

Posts on social media from other Russians whose relatives are serving in Storm V units indicate they too will have to stay on the front line until the end of what Moscow calls its "special military operation".

Prisoners are warned about this when they sign up, and it follows a September 2022 decree by Vladimir Putin which essentially means that when a contract expires it can't actually be terminated and is renewed.

Now the only way for prisoners to get a full release is if they get a state decoration, become incapacitated, reach the maximum age limit, or if the war itself ends.

Instead of a pardon, former prisoners now get what is described as a conditional release at the end of their time with the army. That means if they are found guilty of committing a new crime their sentence will also reflect their previous convictions.

President Putin is also no longer involved in personally signing pardons, which means fewer unwelcome headlines in the media about him pardoning people convicted of murder and sex crimes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68140873

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WOW a kill/wounded ratio 1:20 in Ukraine favour



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[Dargo]

Avdiivka will fall even with this kill ratio that is no problem, it is not that important (The strategic importance of the town, like Bakhmut, is incidentally minimal Avdiivka makes up barely 0.1 percent of Donetsk's territory.), it served/s its purpose destroying Russians and main cause because they lack the ammo to hold it no matter how great the losses, Russia just keep coming, literally crawling over the bodies of their fallen companions. "The enemy is only 1,200 meters from the entrance to the city and keeps attacking. Over six hundred aerial bombs have been dropped on the city in the past four weeks. The devastation is enormous."

No Russian advances at Kupiansk, despite media report on troop concentration

Russian troops make no gains in Kupiansk as mobilized reserves replace losses, Ukraine military says, despite the media-reported Russian buildup of 500 tanks and 40K personnel. There have been no reported advances by Russian troops in the Kupiansk sector, and the mobilized reserves of the occupiers appear to be used to replace their losses, according to the Ukrainian militaryÂ’s remark regarding a media report on the concentration of Russian forces in the area.

This clarification came from the spokesman of Ukraine’s Khortytsia Operational and Strategic Grouping of Troops in response to Forbes’ report about the concentration of 500 tanks, over 600 combat vehicles, hundreds of howitzers, and 40,000 occupiers in the Kupiansk sector, northeastern Ukraine. “This information is not new. I have been reporting on the enemy’s troop numbers in the Lymansko-Kupiansk direction since the autumn, with a total strength of 110,000. If we can break it down by directions, the number remains relatively constant in the Kupiansk direction,” stated spokesman Illia Yevlash on Ukrainian TV, according to Liga... https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/02/...concentration/

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Vladimir Putin: Many Russians see no alternative candidate as election looms

In an exhibition hall opposite the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin walks onto a stage.

There's rapturous applause, a standing ovation.

No surprise there. The invited guests - many of them Russian celebrities - are officially supporting Mr Putin's candidacy in the presidential election in March.

The Kremlin leader is running for a fifth term in office. The audience here is only too pleased.

"[Putin's] an extraordinary leader, the most courageous and wise person," gushes filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky.

"The Russian people have never been so united in their support for their president," claims singer Nadezhda Babkina. "And anyone who tries to prevent that will fail."

The idea behind the event (and this high-profile celebrity support) seems to be to show that candidate Putin is in a league of his own: Premier League Putin.

Keep in mind, though: this is a league he created and of which he's in charge. Russia's political system is Mr Putin's political system; his rules of the game; his election. Mr Putin's most vocal critics have long been relegated. They're either in exile or in prison.

Which makes elections here rather predictable.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68155986

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Zelenskyy: 'Time for renewed army leadership,' commander-in-chief Valeri Zaluzhny may stay on

Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief of the Army Valeri Zaluzhny will not be fired by President Zelensky after all. The latter says he met with Zaluzhny today to discuss "the necessary renewal of the army" and "who can be part of the renewed leadership of the army." "The time for this renewal is now," says Zelenskyy, indicating that there will indeed be changes at the top. But Zaluzhny himself will remain "on his team," Zelenskyy said. In recent weeks, rumours in Kyiv have been buzzing about a possible dismissal of Zaluzhny. According to several Ukrainian, as well as American media, Zelenskyy allegedly asked the four-star general to resign, which the latter refused. The rumours about the resignation of the immensely popular general already earned Zelenskyy considerable criticism. That may be why he has now decided to keep Zalushny at the top of the army after all.