Again with the squirrels
NYT article suggests pro-Ukrainian group behind the NS pipeline sabotage. Very light on details. Speculates it could be Ukrainians or Russian nationals who operated freely. No details on how they did it, or funding, or much else.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/politics/nord-stream-pipeline-sabotage-ukraine.html
22 hr 43 min ago
NATO estimates Russia lost 5 times more soldiers in Bakhmut than Ukraine
NATO intelligence estimates that for every Ukrainian soldier killed defending Bakhmut, Russian forces have lost at least five, a military official with the North Atlantic alliance told CNN on Monday.
The official cautioned the five to one ratio was an informed estimate based on intelligence.
The official spoke to CNN on the condition they remain anonymous because they are not allowed to discuss this intelligence. Despite the favorable ratio, they also said Ukraine was suffering significant losses defending the city.
Ukrainian officials have repeatedly claimed they were inflicting heavy losses on Russia as Moscow tried to take Bakhmut.
“Our defenders inflicted significant losses on the enemy, destroyed a large number of vehicles, forced Wagner's best assault units to fight and reduced the enemy's offensive potential,” Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukraine’s land forces said after a visit to Bakhmut on Sunday.
The Institute for the Study of War also said Russia’s efforts to capture Bakhmut had significantly deteriorated its capacity for additional offensives.
“The Russian military will likely struggle to maintain any subsequent offensive operations for some months, giving Ukraine a chance to seize the initiative;” it said on Monday.
"at least"
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-06-23/h_265c92682c57b8228fbbf082fb3b6888
They says its 7 dead orcs for every Ukrainian,so thats probably why
Russia have captured East Bakhmut but it's incredible Ukraine still holds the rest.
Indesit V. Exocet.
Think you need more than transistors and diodes for military hardware,most likely high end chips thats not easily obtained on the black market
Perhaps as the side winning the war Ukraine are in the stronger negotiating position in prisoner exchanges?
Or the Russians are harder pressed to hold and feed Ukrainian POWs?
How did this work out? 130 Ukrainian's for 90 orcs. An orc could never be worth more than a Ukrainian.
Prisoner of war exchange sees 130 return home to Ukraine. Earlier, a Russian news agency reported that 90 Russian prisoners of war had been returned from Ukraine. Russia's defence ministry claimed this afternoon that they were returned after "talks", the RIA agency said.
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-ukrainian-defences-in-bakhmut-under-severe-pressure-as-russia-makes-further-advances-crowds-laugh-at-sergei-lavrov-12541713?postid=5575985#liveblog-body
How is that number possible? Hope she's wrong.
Last I saw it was around 16,000, which is appalling in itself.
Currently, scientists from the Yale School of Public Health are continuing to verify the Russian institutions and Ukrainian children taken there, because they admit that there are many more of them now than was confirmed at the time of the publication of the report. Thus, according to the latest data of the National Information Bureau, 16,200 children were abducted from Ukraine, while only 307 have been returned.
This is not a country that should have a seat on the UN security council or still be in the G20 or any other such groupings.
I think I would literally break my bollix from laughing if that happened. Although, I'd say Putin would do a Mussolini type rescue if it came to it.
This is where all the washing machine parts ended up!😂
..or earlier
You posted this:
"We have reports from Ukrainians that when they find Russian military equipment on the ground, it’s filled with semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators,” Raimondo told a Senate hearing, noting that she recently met with Ukraine’s prime minister."
This is second-hand account and it poses more questions than it answers. Specifically what military equipment is "filled" with semi-conductors? How does one look at a semi-conductor and divine that it was taken from a dishwasher? Maybe it's got suds on it or smells of lemons?
This is an anecdote.
The Source was the Ukrainian intelligence service which examined Tanks and missile wreckage.
That appears to be coming from the Ukrainian side.
As usual, it ain't the high command dying out there so they'll keep going as long as it makes some strategic sense. Hope it pays off too, the waste of life is horrendous
I explained the origin of this myth already. It emerged during the semiconductor shortage, in its first incarnation had nothing to do with Russia. ASML CEO Peter Wennick claimed that unnamed electronics conglomerate were buying washing machines to harvest components from. It was never proved or named and became an industry joke.
A few months later it was applied to Russia because it tied in nicely with the "stolen washing machines" (which was probably true) and the growth of exports to Russia's neighbours. It started with washing machines, then fridges and finally "Russia is using chips from dishwashers to fix it's tanks".
Russia's neighbours imported more white goods in 2022 than 2021 because:
I wouldn't believe a word out of the mouths of Wagner or the Russian military. Propaganda and the only logical tactic is to seek to restrain them, reduce them and then crush them.
He was "Tymofii Shadura, a military serviceman from the 30th Mechanised Brigade."
Damn that's rough:
Is this realistic at all?
Wool or colours?
Ok ok. Other than the video footage of an enemy drone landing on the aircraft, satellite photos showing something wrong with the plane after the attack, and now Lukashenko admitting an attack took place - what evidence do you really have an attack took place? 😂
Details: Lukashenko continues to insist that the Russian aircraft did not suffer any significant damage other than "scratches and one hole in the hull".
Quote: "We showed you this plane. As I was told, it even met the president [Lukashenko – ed.] when I was returning from Beijing. However, we asked the Russians to take this plane for maintenance and send us another one. That's what happened."
Proven right twice in one day... Now I just wan't Australia to announce it will send it's 40+ F-18s to Ukraine. One of the good things about them is no taint of NATO to them.
Yeah, it's completely washed out.
The Ukrainians know what they are doing in Bakhmut. I will keep my faith in them and not random talking heads.
Reality always trumps logic.
“We have reports from Ukrainians that when they find Russian military equipment on the ground, it’s filled with semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators,” Raimondo told a Senate hearing, noting that she recently met with Ukraine’s prime minister."
'Took out of' does not mean purchased the same type from a shop. Given the sanctions, I would strongly suspect that no US manufacturer or patent owner is going to let a new customer suddenly start buying in bulk or even let existing customers significantly increase their orders. The US have tightened down to the point of if the manufacturing equipment uses US software.
It can't be as easy as people think otherwise the Ukrainians wouldn't have found canabalised chips or specifically stated that practice as being their source.
The other smoking gun is that Orc allies have dramatically increased their purchase of white goods this past year, like Kazakstan. That is simply not going to be beacuase of a sudden huge increase in consumer spending power or a sudden desire to wash their dishes using a machine and replacing their fridges.
At first glance, Russia shouldn't be able to acquire the most sensitive tech on the lists. With only very basic domestic technology, the Kremlin has relied on key players in the U.S., the EU and Japan for semiconductors as suppliers over the past years and these should be out of grasp thanks to sanctions. The difficulty would emerge in whether an intermediary country such as China were to buy technologies, then sell them on to Moscow. In extreme cases, Russians appear to be clawing chips out of household appliances like fridges.
Weeks earlier, Brian Nelson, the Treasury Department's top sanctions official, traveled to Turkey and the Middle East to deliver similar messages.
Sales of Western-made smartphones, white consumer goods, and other technologies to Russia’s neighbors have surged over the past year in one of the clearest signs of how Moscow is circumventing restrictions. The goods are then exported to Russia, where they are sometimes gutted for their chips.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-economy-western-sanctions-evasion-tighten-loopholes/32306647.html
Just because you think something seems illogical and therefore conclude isn't happening, doesn't mean that real world exigencies will agree with you.
I don't know where the chip on your shoulder originated, but life is too short for me to engage with it.
The orcs are destroying themselves in human wave meat attacks against the Ukrainians and you are proposing that Ukraine withdraw.
In case you haven't been watching the front line around Bakhmut hasn't moved in a week. The orcs are running low on manpower and ammo. I don't think they really need your "advice", they seem to be doing just fine without it.
What exactly are you adding to the conversation here, besides primary school insults to a person who's posts you've obviously never bothered to read?
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