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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭Fiery mutant


    'I'd not be betting on Russia getting their heretofore unannounced special operationswar goals.'

    I hope that's the case, just wish thru would get the finger out and supply quicker.

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    The Russians have slowly been getting their sh1t together in some regards.


    Reinforced Russian air-defense systems in eastern Ukraine are increasingly limiting the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones, undermining a key Ukrainian capability in the war. Foreign Policy’s Jack Detsch quoted several anonymous Ukrainian officials and military personnel that Ukrainian forces have largely halted the use of Turkish Bayraktar drones, which were used to great effect earlier in the war, due to improvements in Russian air-defense capabilities.


    Ukrainian officials are reportedly increasingly concerned that US-provided Gray Eagle strike drones will also be shot down by reinforced Russian air defense over the Donbas.[2] Ukrainian forces have reportedly scaled back air operations to 20 to 30 sorties per day and are facing a deficit of available aircraft for active pilots. Russian forces are likely prioritizing deploying air defenses to eastern Ukraine to nullify Ukrainian operations and to protect the artillery systems Russian forces are reliant on to make advances. However, the Ukrainian air force and armed drones remain active elsewhere, inflicting several successful strikes on targets in Kherson Oblast in the last week.


    Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 22 | Institute for the Study of War (understandingwar.org)


    Also in more negative news it looks like Ukraine lost their position on the Eastern Bank of the Inhulets River too. Near Davydiv Brid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,360 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Is that the same Trump that was impeached for blackmailing Ukraine and openly performed fellatio on Putin at every opportunity he got?

    Yep, that Orange prick is one of the many reasons we are where are today.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Without the equipment provided by London and Washington the Ukraine would already be in military collapse.


    The EU countries have sent a small portion of the overall.



  • Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Digging in isn't getting their sh1t together, it's practically giving up and relying on the waiting game. Who can hold out the longest?

    Historically stoic Russians, but city (those that count) Russians used to more Western lifestyles of late seeing such lifestyles slowly ebb away Vs Historically stoic Ukrainians fighting for their very existence supported by the West (top level - Love Island fans notwithstanding). My Money would sill be on Ukraine.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    Even a stopped clockwork Orange is right twice a day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    I said in some regards. They're not getting routed from positions like had been in the earlier days. The war has had distinct phases and failing less miserably than they had been is still getting their sh1t together in some regards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    The selling out of Europe by Merkel was so egregious, so blatant that even he had to call it out, the same with the underfunding of defense in Europe because many felt America paid the bill.


    Successive US Presidents called out these issues.


    Now Germany is going to reap Merkel's harvest and in winter all of Europe will.

    Her hope, and her master's hope is that as winter comes in the severity of the economic crisis will cause sanctions to collapse.


    She may well succeed in that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Merkel gets good press in Ireland. There is a distorted view here about her. It's not inconceivable that she was personally compromised by Russia, considering the previous chancellor was clearly personally compromised.

    Schroeder has been the Greatest security threat to Europe since the cold war. A man that had access to the state secrets of Germany and high level intel on NATO or the EU, and he defected to Russia.

    Schroeder could have Germany as a whole compromised through blackmail.

    If Obama or Trump, Blair or Cameron, defected to Russia. They'd be sending their 007 to Russia to take them out. Absolutely no question about it. Germany just diddered and pretended it wasn't a problem. Why?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,360 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Trump was famous for reading something out that was written for him and then in the next sentence going off script and completely contradicting himself, primarily because he is a fúcking idiot.

    Either way he was impeached for withholding aid to Ukraine and blackmailing it's president while heaping praise on the Putin.

    He is very much part of the reason we are we are.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    He wanted European countries to ramp up military spending.


    The Green light for Putin was the non reaction from Western Govts after Crimea and Donbass in 2014.


    Merkel was ordered to accelerate the winding down of non gas German energy sources after that and she did more than comply.


    A man she is on record in 2014 as describing as determined to destroy Europe.


    This was in motion years before Trump.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭zv2


    The whole point of the video is not Trump but the fact that the Germans were laughing at what he was saying.

    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,360 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    I imagine they were laughing at irony of the man saying it.

    You know the one sucking Peter the Great's II's cock?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭nigeldaniel


    Point to note in regards to Merkel, her grip on power had been eroding for 10 years by Germain business and hardliners in her own back yard meaning she was strong-armed into dealing with Russia. I recall seeing many photos of her looking far from happy whenever she is seen with Putin. This would be 10 years back now so I am not going to spend an hour looking through internet-land for such photos. Politics is ofter a crap job that someone has to do.

    Untitled Image

    well here is one after all...

    Dan.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Ukrainian military destroyed Pantsyr-S1 SAM at Zmiiny island- Snakes

    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Google translates...

    OK "Pivden" informs about what our military officers have received on the anti-aircraft missile-harmonic complex "Pantsir-S1".
    
    The head of the exploration Budanov confirmed that anti-aircraft guns and rocket artillery installations were deployed on the island. Vin it seems that according to the objects, fire will be fired, until the island will not be fired
    

    Bit of a leap from that to what Hob posted... maybe I'm missing something.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,499 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Now that Russia has beefed up their air defences in the Donbas and drones have a much shorter life expectancy, will this impact the effectiveness of the HIMARs when (end of month) they arrive on the frontline? How does HIMARs do target acquisition and counter artillery fire? If the US are providing intel, are they dependent on drones or do they have round the clock satellite coverage for the Donbas?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,513 ✭✭✭RGARDINR


    Just on sky news. A little while ago. Seems both sides are using inexperienced soldiers/people trained. More we were hearing it in regards to Russian military but seems Ukraine are doing the same on the front lines as well.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,427 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    I can totally believe that Schroeder was compromised and may even have been on the Kremlin payroll, but Merkel was almost certainly doing what she thought was best for the country and for Europe. She was committed to peace and cooperation and human rights for all.

    Saying that she was a facilitator for Putin's aggressive tendencies is a bit harsh. She didn't turn him into a power mad megalomaniac or modern day imperialist, he did all of that off his own bat.



  • Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's almost like fighting a war against the Russians is a tough thing.

    OF COURSE it is. The russians, want you and your kids dead or deported Mrs so they can have loyal Russians managing such fertile soil. It's not as if Zelensky may have a choice if he wants to avoid the Ukrainian populace (those left alive/not deported) saluting the USSR flag. Heartbreaking stuff, but her ire is aimed at the wrong people.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,955 ✭✭✭Nermal




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,510 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Seems there could be a massive Ukrainian assault ongoing in the east aimed at liberating Kherson at the moment. Taking advantage of the troops concentrated in the east and the end of conscript contracts on 26th. There's a media black out on everything from the east front.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭nigeldaniel


    Up dated story. Germany is late to the job but now the gas is been switched off they have no more excuses to drag their feet. I expect to see a considerable increase in military hardware being sent to the Ukraine very soon.

    Dan.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,286 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    What is South Korea doing to help Ukraine, they have a massive army, with so much top gear



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭zv2


    Why didn't they put it up there alongside Kyiv where they'd have a better chance of hiding it?

    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Both sides are depending on conscriptions to fill the ranks,and that means it will be alot of inexperienced soldiers fighting,regardless

    But when thats said,it doesnt matter how experienced you are when facing an artillery barrage or being bombed

    The difference between Russia and Ukraine is that Russia keeps their mouths shut about peoples opinion and Ukraine doesnt.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,924 ✭✭✭thomil


    The other difference is that Ukraine at least tries to cycle its units on the front line, rather than having the same troops in the trenches all the time, something that will greatly help with knowledge transfer between "veterans" and new recruits coming out of training. Granted, that's still not a substitute for combat experience or months-long specialist training, and there are areas of the front where cycling out units will be challenging to say the least. But it doesn't hurt and in the long run, might be a deciding factor. Just ask the Kido Butai.

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Quietly backfilling Canadian arms exports to Ukraine at a deep discount apparently.

    Mercantilist-first foreign policy and try to keep their head below the parapet on big-ticket geopolitical bunfights.

    But yes, they could stand to be a bit more overt in their support given they are on Russia's sh*tlist, their intimate security arrangement with the US and their corporations are persona-non-grata now anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭zv2




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  • Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thats true,also the mobilized troops of the seperatists LPR/DPR have lost 55% of their mobilized force allready,and Putin is doing a silent mobilization in the poor regions in the east of Russia,where nobody asks questions,in case of protests elsewhere.

    Ukrainian officials stated that Russian forces have already committed about 330,000 servicemen to their invasion of Ukraine without conducting partial or full-scale mobilization in Russia. Ukrainian General Staff Main Operations Deputy Chief Oleksiy Gromov stated that Russian forces grouped 150,000 servicemen into battalion tactical groups (BTGs) and other formations and involved additional 70,000 troops from air and sea elements, with the remaining personnel staffing non-combat support units.[6] Gromov noted that Russian forces committed more than 80,000 servicemen of the mobilized reserve, up to 7,000 reservists of the Russian Combat Army Reserve (BARS-2021), up to 18,000 members of the Russian National Guard (Rosguardia), and up to 8,000 troops from private military companies. Gromov did not specify if Ukrainian officials included information about forcibly mobilized servicemen in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR) in these numbers.

    This means Russia have allready sent 400 000+ troops to fight against Ukraine,and it also means they have sustained heavy losses

    50% of this force is in Severnodonetsk at the moment,the rest is spread to the north around Kharkiv and south around Kherson.

    Ukraine is basically outnumbered in the east in both manpower and artillery but still manages to hold their lines,allthough they had to move away today and restreat further west in some places.



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