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At Bakhmut and Avdiyivka directions Russian army shelled Andriyivka, Verkhnokamyanske, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Avdiyivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Nevelske and Pervomayske of Donetsk region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

RuZZia to continue to bomb Ukraine. They just promised the UN they would.

This why I made a post earlier, find this daily update as as being unbiased and straight to the point

Ukraine needs to take out 90% missiles not 75%.

Russia will try to exploit civil disruption on all parties here and I hope they fail.

Putin's alliance if it could be called that, looks like toast, and I would not call lucky Luck Lukashenko of Belarus much of an only alliance left as Luka is just like a certain former US president called Don Don, ie. all talk and no trousers. We can expect some serious ramp-up of rhetoric from the Kremlin over Christmas to disguise their isolation. The CSTO is Russia's way of preserving its sphere of influence in the former Soviet Union. But in reality, it's a paper tiger - it's just not fit for purpose.

I thought about posting that vid, but got a warning for something far less graphic mostly just showing a wounded Kadyrover. I wanted to draw attention to my previous sledgehammer dropping idea, as a little way into the vid one of those grenades is a direct hit on a head.

These orcs seem to be lying in foxholes with the corpses of their fellow filth, as some of the figures don't move whatsoever when a grenade goes off next to them, or while their frozen colleagues are very slowly attempting to move away. Are they already dying of exposure in those holes? Even the live one's seem half dead and near incapable of moving quickly.

I think we're watching the slow death of Russia. In five years time, I suspect Putin will be long gone and the current authoritarian dictatorship will be part of history. I've no idea what will replace it but no country could survive as a pariah state on the international stage for too many years (North Korea is a complete one off culturally and socially, a very different place to Russia).

He's fascinating to watch but a strange character. He tends to be at the extreme end of the Russian talk show guys - it's all crazed rhetoric ("let's nuke Berlin and Washington" etc). You'd wonder how he ever got into such an exalted position on TV, he's more like an angry radio shock jock.

This is why I get very annoyed by Biden and Boris and the EU, because all of them spout platitudes about supporting Ukraine to the hilt but then actually don't. I am very grateful for what assistance they are giving, have no doubt, but ask yourself why was Poland supplied with the Patriot missile system by the Us and the UK sent probably the worlds most capable and sophisticated medium range air defence system - Sky Sabre - to, you guessed it; Poland.

This ratchet up nonsense has to stop. Germany just supplied Ukraine with the IRIS-T air defence missile system, for which Ukraine is no doubt very grateful for, but just stop with the BS excuses.

This is fine, Poland are buying it, but they aren't without electricity and under constant bombardment by missiles. I am not forgetting they have done so much, but the situation in Ukraine is getting dire, while the lights and heating in Poland are fine.

Hey Boris; they don't need it, but Ukraine does. They extended this loan back in October. AFAIK there are only three of these systems in existence - 2 in the Uk and this one lent to Poland. It's better than Israel's Iron Dome system and actually incorporates a good chunk of the software used in Iron Dome.

I hope this isn't yet another instance of Israel having a veto on what the UK can do with what is mostly their system, just because it uses some of their tech. It wouldn't surprise me, though I haven't seen any public statements on the matter. If their were any investigative reporters left in the Uk not camping outside Meghan Markle's residence, perhaps they could ask the Defence Secretary a probing question or two as to whether the Uk has sovereignty over it's own defence resources, or have they sold that to Israel?

Germany were kind enough to send Ukraine multiple, very useful mobile Gepard air defence systems to Ukraine, but they are constantly running out of ammunition for it because the Swiss are another shi​​t-hole 'neutral' country and happen to be the ones who make the ammunition for it, and have blocked countries that have huge stockpiles of ammo from sending any to Ukraine. Meanwhile the shunts are very happy to break the sanctions with Iran and have never stopped trading with them.

Analysis of downed Iranian drones have shown that all their most important components come from the US and the west in general.

I may be jumping to conclusions, but after just reading an eye opening piece on how Switzerland profits from it's 'neutrality' by trading with sanctioned regimes without seeming to cop much criticism or flack as it does so very quietly, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find some Swiss companies acting as buying agents for Iranian drone components.

The SBU found more than UAH 8 million in cash from an official of the Lviv City Council and her accomplices, who are suspected of illegally transporting conscripts abroad

The organizer of the scheme is the head of one of the district departments of social protection of the department of humanitarian policy of the Lviv City Council, and her accomplices were employees of a medical institution.

I guess corruption in Ukraine might be less going forward, than it has been in the past. A much needed cash injection for the war effort. Bertie would probably be looking at that lot and drooling uncontrolably and wondering does he know anyone who he could hit up for brown paper bags in bulk, but his memory...

NATO Secretary General: The alliance does not have instructors on the ground in Ukraine

I marked my video with a warning and got told to not to emebed it, and as I said, it was mostly about a living breathing person who was wounded and only a body or two at the very end. Good thing I didn't post the one of a kadyrover having a touriquet applied and where one of his colleagues is holding his hand, passes it to another who tosses it away.

The US does have personnel on the ground accounting for all the weapons to ensure none are going astray.

Why should the Swiss be punished for their neutrality?

Who's punishing them? They get incredible benefits from the EU and other countries, without complying with the obligations other countries sign up for to get the same benefits. These benefits they don't pay for just need to be withdrawn. It's not punisment to withold something from those who haven't paid.