True enough, it has been mooted for an extremely long time though with nothing happening. Was kind of curious if something changed e.g. have they been assured they will get some of the modern jets they are ordering much quicker, or allies in NATO will backfill 1-1 for low or no cost etc.? but I suppose that may emerge eventually.
Chinese people already illegally leasing land in Siberia, which Russians are too lazy to do anything agriculturally with, always hoping for oil/gas/minerals to be found, this Chinese presence will grow as Russia stays engaged with Ukraine and one day a deal will be done for same, permanent.
More comedy,and warped views...oh and a nuke threat too!🙄
So putin can meet "Ordinary" people in Mariupol,but can't meet Xi at the airport?
Probably busy with the gymnast bird and all the kids she is having with, up to 4 now and counting, an ego like his leaves a lot of massaging or maybe to late in the evening for a Chinese.
You might actually be surprised .
I remember coming across an fv432 parked beside a school here in Dublin, nobody seemed to know where and when it appeared
Putin selected creame of sum Yung guy for lunch ....
Vlad still dancing the involuntary jig
I wonder if Xi visited in person just to see what condition Vlad is actually in
It's fake.
12 months later and they are still only getting delivered German Maraders
Interesting.
Styrofoam
That's going to trigger one or two
Great video here on what went wrong in the first 10 days of Russia's (official) invasion.
Some highlights:
Putin did not want Ukraine to learn where Russian forces would move into Ukraine. Therefore, many commanders on the ground did not even know they would be invading Ukraine until the last possible moment. It was somewhat effective, but only in the sense of not allowing the exact plan to get out too soon. It left much of Russia's ground forces badly unprepared, psychologically if not physically.
The Battle of Hostomel Airport was crucial to Russian objectives. If the Russians had been able to hold this airport, they'd have had a way to fly heavy armour into Kyiv's vicinity pretty quickly, instead of trying to get their tanks and artillery to the city via that disastrous convoy, which wasn't even really an organised convoy, so much as several armoured divisions trying to take the same road at the same time with no planning.
The Russians had only planned a military operation of around 10 days and didn't have the logistics in place when it became apparent that the conflict was going to last significantly longer than that.
The siege of Mariupol is potentially representative of what the Russians could have done if they'd had done proper planning.
Flying weather laboratory per the twitter thread. Made from styrofoam. Student project in all likelihood.
Pity.
Yes,
"Flying laboratory". is the translation of the message written on it.
Yeah I got it wrong like many experts and said so early on. What's your point? Better than constantly being constantly wrong about "Putin's nearly dead/Russia's going to run out of ammunition next month/Crimea will be freed soon" despite zero evidence.
And who are these socalled experts?Colonel Mcgregor?
And what exactly have been reported wrong?
A counter-offensive has begun in Bakhmut...
I've read that even many members of Putin's "cabinet" weren't aware he planned to invade and only found out at the very last moment. This is what happens when you have a totalitarian dictator running the show.
Jesus. I'm in the middle of me meatballs and pasta...
Must have been a fluke failure.
Maybe not such a fluke.
Sorry, it was a reference to Cormac McCarthy's The Road, before anyone thinks it came from my own imagination.
I believe the UK has said they will possibly send them some Typhoons to make up for them, which would make a lie of their previous excuses to Ukraine that they had too few themselves so couldn't spare any.
'Oh what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive. '
Reliability is measured over hundreds (or thousands) of launches. A single (claimed) failure of a missile that is under development is not a good counter-point to hundreds of successful launches of deployed systems. Regardless, if a nuclear exchange was to take place in the immediate future, the Satan-II would not be used, as it is not deployed yet.
"Up to 60% failure rate" is a dubious and unsourced claim. In any case - it is an apples to oranges comparison. Due to the duration and intensity of fighting in Ukraine, Russia have been pulling all kinds of obsolete and mothballed missiles from storage. Many of these are indeed unreliable due to age or storage conditions, we know this, it is no great relevation. Some have been used purely as empty decoys.
In a nuclear exchange, no side will be pulling mothballed ICBMs from storage. Mothballed ICBMs don't exist, and in any case a prolonged nuclear conflict where you need to scrounge more missiles is highly unlikely to occur. A nuclear exchange would be short, two strikes at most.
The question to ask is whether the actively deployed missiles (and warheads) are reliable. Assuming they are not is very dangerous.
I don't think they did,
The UK has about 100 typhoons and 30 in storage , which some cover nato patrols others are in med ,4 I believe in the Falklands,and some in the middle east,
The UK won't be reducing their capabilities to send aircraft to Poland which the poles don't fly or operate
The Norwegian Armed Forces have announced the delivery of eight Leopard 2 tanks and four support vehicles to Ukraine.
In addition to the eight tanks and support vehicles, Norway is also providing funds for ammunition and spare parts
Earlier, the Norwegian parliament approved a multi-year support programme for Ukraine worth almost €7 billion.
Norway really are being very generous and helpful.
Thats nothing, you should see what Solovyov's sidekick, Margarita Simonyan has on her menu.........or on second thoughts, better not!!!
The nr of these half buried in Grozny, you would not believe. Also lots of unexploded mortar rounds and the streets were littered with bullet cases of different calibers.
Several US navy riverine patrol vessels announced in the latest aid package,
Fast , light,and can carry some serious firepower (.50s,M134 miniguns,MGL ,M60s) to help special forces units inflil and exfil along Ukrainans inland waterways,
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