Really good piece in the AP concerning weapons shortages. Major challenges and decisions ahead.
Can you provide evidence of your claims that:
It's not that I'm doubting you. Just that I haven't heard either of those things so would like to know where I should be gathering that kind of info from.
That’s not good.
If true, the horde is done - finished.
❗️ RF agrees to a personal meeting between Zelenskyi and Putin.
"Russia does not refuse the meeting between Putin and Zelensky, but it is impossible to hold it without preparation," Peskov said.
No, not that bit, this:
Intelligence data:
Russia has already exhausted the reserves of combat-ready battalion-tactical groups
▪️ Hidden mobilization continues in the Russian Federation at the state level. In the Belgorod and Rostov regions, new units of occupation troops are being formed on the basis of conscripts and mobilization resources, which are being sent to the territory of Ukraine.
The most depressed morale is among servicemen of the 1st and 2nd army corps from the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
The end of the existence of the Russian Federation is approaching
It certainly isn't.
If Russia decided to attack NATO countries, I seriously doubt it would end up as an artillery duel, which is the vast majority of arms supplied to Ukraine.
The article doesn't even state what weapon shortages there are. Hardly NATO tank shells, bombs, ATACMS, cruise missiles as Ukraine haven't received any yet.
Interview with Ukrainian intelligence official. Good Q&A that goes through a lot of talking points, including the russian "withdrawal" from kherson.
The want to give appearance of weakness in kherson, in actual fact they are strengthening military positions.
"The want to give appearance of weakness in kherson, in actual fact they are strengthening military positions."
None so blind as those who will not see
Russian Ministry of Defense: forces and measures prepared for the detonation of "dirty nuclear bomb"
Doesn't mention which side will use it
It's possible the Russians will resort to something like that and flood Europe with millions more refugees.
Ah the glass less than half full commentary. Maybe there's some truth in it, maybe not. But it's curious how often you trade in this type of post.
... ditto
It also says that they are preparing to enable a rapid withdrawl if the defence strengthening fails.
- Recently, Surovikin said that in Kherson "difficult decisions can be made." What did he mean?
– They understand that Russia is going to lose both global and local on the ground.
If he can say about a global loss that "it's none of my business", but for a local one, it is Surovikin who will be responsible.
He is preparing the ground so that if a decision is made to surrender the city, or they are simply knocked out of there, so that the ground is prepared and somehow smooth it all out.
But at the same time, I can't tell you that they are fleeing Kherson right now. No, there is no such thing.
– We also saw the statements of the occupation authorities that they are going to "evacuate" the population to the Left Bank of the Dnieper. What is happening in Kherson now?
- In many aspects, this is an information operation and manipulation. There are certain facts. For example, they are withdrawing Promsvyazbank and other financial structures that the Russians have brought there.
Moreover, as they withdraw and take out cash, servers, the so – called occupation authorities, transfer – they transfer-all non-walking, seriously wounded people are taken out, they try to discharge those who can walk from hospitals as quickly as possible, and they conduct this crazy information campaign that "we care about people" and so on.
That is, they create the illusion that everything is gone. At the same time, on the contrary, they are bringing new military units there and preparing the streets of the city for defense.
In other words, they understand that if we take at least control of the kakhovskaya dam, which is now the only fully functioning transport artery, they will need to make a decision very quickly.
Either leave the city very, very quickly and leave, or they risk finding themselves in the same situation that our units in Mariupol previously found themselves in. The situation is slightly different, but conceptually it will be very similar.
And now, realizing all this, they are preparing the ground so that, if necessary, they can get out of there very quickly. However, they are not preparing to leave now, they are preparing for defense.
I agree .... To me It would make sense to keep the Russians occupied at Cherson and open a front to reach the sea of Azov between melitopol and Berdyansk via Tokmak
Israeli Minister of Defense Gantz told his Ukrainian counterpart Reznikov that "due to operational limitations faced by the State of Israel, Israel will not provide weapon systems to Ukraine"
every Israeli weapon is either in use or they are just too paranoid that their enemies will somehow get their hands on their prize weapons
Reminds me of a certain post telling us how Russia still had 10,000 tanks, thousands of fighter jets and 4 million men to throw at Ukraine.
The wall of text - got a purpose?
I'd love to see something like that happen. Especially if it collapses as quickly as the front Kharkiv did. Cutting the landbridge is even more important with the damaged Crimea bridge.
Israel don't want to piss off the Russians due to the Syria situation - they also likely do not want their air defense systems put to the test in the field either against Iranian drones. If the results were, less than stellar, it may embolden the Iranians to start flooding their proxies with Shaheds to attack Israel.
A response to your inane platitudes
after you were confronted with information you didnt seem to like or want to believe. The source is right there in front of you, in a detailed interview with a Ukrainian Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. Even he admitted that the Russians are not militarily withdrawing from Kherson, but are infact strengthening defensive positions. The withdrawal is of their civil administration staff and infrastructure in case they lose kherson, but they are moving more weapons east of the dnieper to reinforce the city
LOL!!!!
Thanks for that. Interesting interview. It didn't provide either of the citations that I requested though.
Israel is a not dissimilar to Russia, in that you can tell they are lying if sounds are coming out of their mouths.
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Israel has actually already supplied two ID batteries to the US Army.
I think the real reason they won't supply it is because they want to be paid for it and there is a strong expectation that it should be donated.
@timmyntc Also they have a pontoon bridge now running the entire length of the antonovsky bridge, underneath it.
The same pontoon bridge that was blown to smithereens the other day
That is a nonsensical argument. If Ukraine defeat the Horde, the Syria problem ceases to exist. Nothing could be more in their interests than aiding in the dissolution of the Orc' abiity to continue it's suppport of Assad.
Russia and Israel cooperate in Syria to a certain extent. They have dedicated phone lines in the region connecting a Russian airbase in Syria with an Israeli command center in Tel-Aviv. Russia also still operates some S400s in Syria, which currently do not target Israeli planes, but could if relations worsen between the two.
Lastly, Russia presence in Syria is actively displacing Iranian influence there, which is the biggest fear to Israel. Israel do not want Russia to leave Syria for fear that Iranian influence will take its place, which is far more hostile to Israel.
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attends the Crimean Platform Summit in Zagreb, Croatia
interesting concept, a nations conference missing the Rulers (aka RF) of the place
Putin is trying to create a humanitarian disaster as his forces are losing
The inflatable ones they use in Crimea
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