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?
Think you need more than transistors and diodes for military hardware,most likely high end chips thats not easily obtained on the black market
Indesit V. Exocet.
Russia have captured East Bakhmut but it's incredible Ukraine still holds the rest.
They says its 7 dead orcs for every Ukrainian,so thats probably why
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
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
Again with the squirrels
They blew the bridges over the river in the center, which gives them a bit of a buffer to work with. Also the more built up part of town is on the West bank, which gives the AFU more cover to work with. I believe the East bank is more residential making advance harder without getting hit by snipers, but also more difficult to defend.
What’s more interesting is how they are somehow holding back the two pinser movements to the south and north. Is it that the AFU are throwing everything at it? Are the Wagners out of steam? or is it a bit of both? (or neither)
Seems to have been set to spin cycle
As long as it's red squirrels?
UK here... can't find squirrel on the menu anywhere
We like the red ones. Eat the grey fcukers.
Russian Evening News: "UK runs out of squirrels to eat"
lol. Hope it's true.
Infernal Affairs.
It's definitely one or the other, neither, or both. That just about covers all possibilities in existence.
Same here, will keep looking and update when/if I find any.
As an aside does grey taste better than red.
Assembled in China. If they are using western chips, they could be supplied by a third party preassembled on boards. Samsung may get suspicious if their board vendor sent 1000 units to the Chinese company and only 800 washing machines were produced etc...
There's been photos taken of downed Russian drones with western chips which should have been sanctioned. It's been well documented. On the chips taken from white goods, there's been no actual photo evidence etc... But highly suspicious with the drastic increase in white goods being sent to Russia. Breast pump sales up over 600% in Kazakhstan despite the birth rate falling.
You need a bit more advanced than washing machine chips for missile guidance and seekers,,thermals for tanks and ballistic computers for fire and control systems for tanks.
Yeah, this whole Nordstream thing is well dubious at this point. That Hersh article was so full of holes it could pass for the pipelines themselves but I would not be surprised if the US was behind it as I wouldn't put it past them, or Russia for that matter. Both had good reasons to blow it. The lack of co-ordinated investigations with different parties refusing to cooperate with each other and no results beyond "yep it was explosives" doesn't inspire confidence. I suspect a few somebody's know and it will get out, but not yet. This latest the Ukrainians did it sounds just as bogus as Hersh's take. More actually, because the Russians or Americans could actually do it, but how the hell could some "pro Ukrainian group" plan and execute such an operation far from home, with no navy or air support in the area and in an area well watched by different nations? And to what end? Me bollix frankly.
How many pages has the distracting bollocks about chips from washing machines been running for?
Who ever blew it up did a great service to Europe, pity they didn't get all of it.
Latest update from Tom Clonan in the Journal on the current situation especially the fight for Bakhmut
Also outline of a possible Defence pact with Ukraine:
Some NATO sources have indicated that short of NATO membership, a permanent ‘Defence Pact’ might be negotiated with Ukraine – alongside accelerated membership of the European Union. Some have gone so far as to state that some of these measures might be explored or announced at NATO’s annual summit in July of this year.
A certain new account that has appeared 'fully formed' is driving all that crap. I wonder why??
100% right, sure who do we think we are ? Us westerners with our fancy houses with running water , electricity and in door toilet facilities ! Losing the run of ourselves we are !
The life of hardship that these "Tough" russians enjoy, never done any of them any harm...yes their average life span is less than ours due to lack luster healthcare facilities and rife untreated disease being common place, poorer sanitary conditions and high rates for alcohol and drug addiction.....but....theyre happy...why....because theyre enduring all this to help their motherland and they see plainly every day that their dear leader is suffering the same as them.
Hi multimillion dollar superyachts, his multiple "Palaces" and his billions in undisclosed wealth and his wrist watches worth 100s of 1000s of dollars are all only for show, to make the west jealous, he is just the same as his dear people deep down.
What a country !
As always, the solution to Bakhmut depends on NATO. Flood the place with cluster bombs, mlrs, fragmentation shells, blast it off the map.
Yes either the US or some combination of the US and British special forces, the motivation being to remove Russia's bargaining power. By blowing it up, Russia can't turn on and off the taps and manipulate certain EU countries.
There was at one point while sanctions were being imposed, Russia flipped the agenda. Rather than the West sanctioning the purchase of Russian oil, Putin managed to flip the narrative in such a way that it seemed to many that Russia was doing the limiting. If we remember, at one stage, Russia would only sell oil in Roubles and was being (on the surface) very picky about who they would sell to. In reality of course they were bluffing and were desperate to sell oil to anyone but they succeeded for a time in hiding this.
The best way to thwart them therefore was to blow up the Russian tap thereby taking away their bargaining chip. This worked and in time the particular EU country started supporting Ukraine in a less lukewarm way and indeed eventually allowed other countries that had bought their tanks to give them to Ukraine. The brilliant thing was that they were able have Russia themselves take the blame for the explosions.
I don't think it in any way served Russia's strategic interests as a country to have the pipeline blown up but I have read it suggested that Putin may have done it to secure his position at the top. Less likely a usurper might take over and use it as a bargaining chip.
I thought we werent going to talk about chips any more lads ?
Trust you to put a "spin" on it !
Putin seems quiet at the moment
His forces seem only to be carrying through existing orders
We're not hearing about large scale missile attacks on cities
Hopefully he's already been bypassed
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