Here we go again-Ukraine once again

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Russia is likely to be renewing its efforts to advance into the Donetsk region, the UK's Ministry of Defence says.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned of "Ukraine fatigue" setting in after returning from his trip to Kyiv on Friday.

Johnson also said that Ukrainians "deserve" to host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcast Union said the UK would host instead of this year's winners.

During his nightly address President Zelensky said that paramedic Yuliya Payevska, aka Tayra, has been freed from Russian captivity.

She had been captured, along with her driver, in Mariupol in March, where she had been helping evacuate injured soldiers and civilians.

The Ukrainian president also welcomed positive steps being taken as the European Commission recommended Ukraine for official candidate status in its bid to join the EU

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Italy says Russian gas supplies reaching it are down by 50%.

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Russia exists in a "virtual multiverse" (my term, not the author's term in the following article). And it is obscene that many in the west care so much for leaving Putin the option to "save his face". This simply is irrelevant to Putin, since Putin is not about being linked to reality where he would need to save his face, but about flipping between different narrations about his self-created realities as he sees fit.



https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-folly-of-off-ramps

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Originally Posted by Skybird

An Ukrainian brigade general said they have lost 1300 IFVs, 400 MBTs and 700 pieces of artillery. That equals losses of 30-50% of their equipment. He desperately urged the West to send way more heavy weapons.
The Russian losses likely are significantly higher. The difference: the Russians can replace them, the Ukrainians cannot.

Russians can replace them, but that takes time in stock is damaged so takes time to repair. Russian already send material that exploded when it didn't was the time to exploded or material have faults that make them dangerous because of corrosion. Oleksiy Danilov, very high up in Ukrainian national security, is calling out officials for inaccurate loss claims of Ukrainian forces. My guess is they realize they were being a little alarmist and losses were not so high as people were being led to believe. They may be exaggerating the numbers to build political pressures on the west to give more arms.

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Kiev wants to resume peace negotiations with Moscow by the end of August. This is what Ukrainian chief negotiator David Aratchamia told American broadcaster Voice of America. In the meantime, Ukraine will carry out counterattacks on the Russians, the negotiator said. This, he said, will give his country a better negotiating position.

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A U.S. government plan to deliver four large drones to Ukraine that can be armed with missiles has been called into question, according to insiders. The plan is said to have been paused out of concern that the sophisticated equipment could fall into Russian hands. At issue are four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones. The surveillance and radar equipment on the drones - if Russia gets its hands on them - could pose a security risk to the US. This was allegedly overlooked when the deal was struck.

Press agency Reuters reported earlier this month that the sale had already been approved by the White House. Whether the deal will still go through is currently being discussed within the top echelons of the U.S. Department of Defense. The drones in question cost around ten million dollars (over 9.5 million euros) each, according to government documents.

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A doctor much loved among Ukrainians has been released by the Russian army. Using her bodycam, Yulia Pajevska recorded human suffering during the siege of Mariupol. She had been arrested in the port city three months ago. It is unclear why she was released. According to her husband, Pajevska is on her way to a hospital in Kiev. It is not known how she is doing medically. Her husband is mostly happy that she is no longer detained. "I actually don't know what to say," he said emotionally.

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Russian Escalations in Syria Risk Direct Conflict With U.S., Military Officials Warn
AL-UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar—Russian forces have conducted a series of operations against the U.S.-led coalition in Syria this month, including one this week at a strategically located base in the southern part of the country, U.S. military officials said.

The Russian actions have alarmed U.S. military officials, who are concerned that a miscalculation might escalate into an unintended conflict between the U.S. and Russian forces in Syria. Tensions between the two countries are already high following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February and American efforts to arm the Ukraine military to defeat Russian forces there... https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian...d=hp_lead_pos9

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Clown Lukashenko declared that Belarus will protect western Ukraine from Poland: "We cannot allow the Poles to encircle us at all. That is a dangerous option. And I once said: if the Ukrainians will ask us with the Russians to help them to keep their integrity, we will do so".

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The modern cannons that may make the difference in Ukraine
"Hard pounding this, gentlemen, but we will see who can pound the longest.” Thus spoke the Duke of Wellington on the afternoon of the battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon’s guns were pasting his troops. Those words come to mind as the war in Ukraine descends into an extended artillery duel, focused on the Donbas, in the country’s east. Phillip Karber is a former American marine who now leads the Potomac Foundation, a research and policy outfit in Virginia, and who regularly visits the war’s front lines to study the fighting. He reckons Russian artillery barrages are now responsible for about 80% of Ukrainian casualties. Figures on the other side are no doubt similar... https://www.economist.com/science-an...nce-in-ukraine