British commanders aim to have 2,400 recruits rotating through the course at any one time as they mobilise to meet a target of training up to 10,000 Ukrainian personnel every 120 days.
https://news.sky.com/story/we-see-them-as-brothers-in-arms-here-uk-training-thousands-of-ukrainian-recruits-in-england-12648559
Security Service: Russian forces attack their proxies in Ukraine. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on July 10, citing intercepted phone calls, that Russian troops had bombed a battalion of their proxies from Donetsk Oblast fighting on their side. According to a phone conversation by one of Russia's proxies, the battalion was trying to withdraw from the frontline near Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, when Russians attacked them.
Re above comments. The militia were packing it in! Total soviet WW2 idoligy.
Just another cheeky quip at Russian expense.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1546082474362654720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1546082474362654720%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
Happens in wars but less and less nowadays with better comms, Russia doesn’t seem to have better comms though.
Blue cloudless skies over Ukraine this summer. Nowhere for Russians to hide from American satellites and targetting intel. It's going to be a long summer with long-range rockets coming down on their heads. Accurate to within 5 meters.
I hope stretched Russian supply chains include shovels and lime. Bodies decompose rapidly in the heat.
I think they will need those mobile incinerators for their own troops!
Amazing how a $5 mil kit can really make a difference, it's such a shame Ukraine didn't get them sooner.
I do really hope what ever next bit of kit they will receive will be delivered faster as Ukraine has shown they can and do use NATO equipment efficiently.
A few ATACMS for the Kerch bridge to join the Moskva.
Crazy to think Russia don't have a similar bit of kit, with all their chest pumping and second 'best' army spiel etc....
Or setting one ammo train on fire ....
for those of us not so ‘military term literate’ What are ‘mil kits and ATACMS’….and what can they do..?
It really looks like the Russians can only rely on their moldy stockpiles of Soviet-era equipment to arm themselves for this conflict, and even despite the Soviet Union having supplied themselves for what might have been World War 3, that supply is finite. The worst thing about their arsenal (ignoring the nukes) are those unguided WW2-style mortars and other explosives. Those weapons have no real targeting beyond working out a firing arc (and good luck getting an idiot conscript to do that right) but they are currently plentiful for the Russians and are just as deadly as the smarter modern weapons if they land on you. My hope is that all of these recent armory attacks behind the Russian lines has made a dent in their supplies. I have a sneaking suspicion that they might not have the means to replace that many weapons without Chinese help. (And the Chinese can't really offer quality or quantity right now).
Hitting the Kerch Bridge might be possible for Ukraine, they've shown themselves to be savvy in taking on attacks behind the Russian lines. They might need to time that attack to get the best possible pay-out, because they might only get one shot at doing this. The Kerch Bridge is now the main Russian rail/road link into Crimea. There are other rail links in their occupied areas, but they snake all over the place, require repairs and are too close to Ukrainian lines to be used safely. The Russians may be aware of how tempting a target that bridge is and may have also heavily guarded it (assuming they are not absolute & complete idiots....so maybe), making any attack a challenge. I feel they should use a Bridge attack as part of any attempt to retake Kherson. Cutting the Russians off from easy resupply might prompt them to abandon the city and pull back to a new defense line.
A necessary one at present perhaps but also a reminder of just how quickly any vestiges of democracy can disappear in certain places. From their perspective that road to the EU will be steep and long.
Well, a 1M army would not be necessary but 300,000-400,000 certainly is.
Quote from the story.
"Normally you would want an operational surprise when you launch a counter-attack, so announcing it publicly is partly about forcing the Russians to have to commit resources more widely to guard against this threat."
Atacms is an American long range ballistic missile , I think it's up to 5 or 6 hundred kms range ,
And it's fired from the hi-mars system , that the Ukrainians now have ...I'll pass on the mil kits
bombarding the front line, where will this push end?
Hardly that controversial though. The country has been invaded, has lost 20% of its territory since February 24th and is under martial law.
If England was invaded, there's no way the media landscape would be allowed carry on as normal as if it was still peacetime.
Afaik the US doesn't currently have any ground launched surface to surface missiles with that range. They were banned under one is the treaties with Russia. The ATACMs has a listed range of ~200 miles
Reports of a lot more shellings today compared to usual. I noticed also an interesting call earlier today from Kiev for people in the southern occupied areas to evacuate. (To where though? They're stuck behind Russian lines)
Could mean nothing, but also makes me wonder if Ukraine are getting ready to make a push south. Perhaps the increased shelling was in response to the Russians sensing this move.
It's been used as a roadblock. Used to be on a monument.
Oh for crying out loud Russia. If it's gotten this bad maybe it's time to take a long hard look at your long term prospects in this conflict. Ukraine is getting equipped with later Cold-War Soviet tanks and are making the transition slowly over to NATO tech designed to take out more advanced targets than this. The T34 was an excellent Tank in WW2, but that was nearly a century ago!
Reminds me of the scene from the movie " Enemy at the Gates" where after been issued with 5 rounds of ammunition each, but only one gun, the new arrivals were lined up for a full frontal assault on a heavily defended German position. Then the officers set up two machine guns , and the msg was clear" Attack the Germans, and you have some chance, retreat and you have none...." maybe this was the same msg ???
This measure wont hold up their accession to the EU - When a fifth of your country is invaded by barbarians it's a necessary measure. Look at the BBC propaganda during WW2, and they hadn't even been invaded. All necessary measures required.
Yeah, when your country is on a total war footing and literally a fight for survial and existence, normal rule and law and freedoms are out the window until the situation is resolved.
Yeah, we can discuss the niceties of democracy once Russian isn't holding a rusty teaspoon to the throat of Ukraine.
There will be no accession for a decade anyway and they need to remember to undo this stuff when the war is over. History of that part of the world suggests we will need to continue reminding them.
Those TV stations were Poroshenko owned until 2021, when the anti oligarch bill was passed. There was more than a bang of Berlusconi off the arrangement and the stations were loss-making in the first instance. The stations were sold to employees, and given that they were a political money pit - it's unlikely they would have survived anyhow.
The Poroshenko situation was akin to Boris Johnson owning Sky News and agitating to be made PM day-in day-out.
Russia leans on Germany, Germany leans on Brussels, Ukraine gets shafted. No doubt related to Germany holding up 7 billion of the 8 billion finanical package that the EU put together for them.
Can we see Merkel as anything other than a Russian agent at this stage? This was always the risk with the EU, a few compromised people could stymie the whole of Europe.
Russia's Economy is Collapsing, Data Reveals (newsweek.com)
Germany is making great progress in reducing its dependency on Russian gas. I’m surprised at how far they have come already.
re your EU rant. You’re too anti EU - I immediately go to ‘what’s his angle’ when I read your posts.
But god love your persistence. Ireland has hugely benefited from the EU. The UK had notions about themselves. We know we are a small country. Unlike the UK there is zero chance agitation will bring about an Irexit. You’re wasting your time, and shoehorning your agenda into the Russian Invasion of Ukraine thread.
At the risk of derailing the thread, most of the anti-Eu, pro Irexit posters have never lived in pre-Eu Ireland. Well, I did, and for sure, they would get some shock if they were time travelled back to the pre EU Ireland.
So, no one in mother Russia can chop a spud. tut tut tut. God knows what they are stuffing into those burgers.
I'd say that has not changed..... LOL. In that part of the world ( and the Balkans) horse meat is very popular..
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