Strange how the commander on the ground isn't worried.
I will take the word of the Ukrainians on this, not someone sitting on their sofa 1000's of miles away.
Lol 😂
Tell us all about your sofa
The line has barely moved in weeks, the city is still holding.
Some new Toys being put to use with an up armoured humvee ,
Horrible mileage, but pretty bad ass
It's the same old prediction day after day, week after week, month after month. It's all orc propaganda, amazing that some are actually falling for it.
I will continue to put my faith in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
I've just watched a report on a German news channel showing Zelensky stopping by at a filling station on his way to or from somewhere grabbing a takeaway coffee and chatting with troops who were there too, and having selfies taken with them. Somehow I can't imagine Putin doing anything like that, even one of his doubles. Such a contrast.
I was thinking Ukraine were keeping Russians busy there to prepare for a counter offensive in other places on the front line. However, can you image how demoralizing it would be for the Russians, if Baukhmut is one of the first liberated? Months and months and 10's of thousands dead Russians and Ukraine liberates it in a week etc...
Svastaspol harbor attack by drones ,
All three drones were destroyed before hitting any targets,one was caught in the boom /net across entrance while another two managed to skip over,
They really need to produce enough of these to attack different points of Crimea or the blacksea , Play the Russians at their own game.
How did the Russians get the UK Ministry of Defense to collaborate on the story??
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-03-06/hl6144
Rand Paul used that excuse recently that Georgia , Ukraine etc were former soviet territories and basically the US had no business helping them.
The Australian F-18s have not been bought, none have changed hands and I doubt any will. There was a recent piece in the pay-walled Australian Financial Review that said the deal was dead and even spoke with the potential buyer who said he still wanted to acquire a couple, but I doubt that's gong to happen. The planes are still in Australia and available - basically a complete modern western airforce in a box solution, suited to Ukrainian airfields, complete with spare parts and all the specialised maintenance apparatus to maintain them. All at an incredibly low cost of around $200m. If all that didn't already make them a uniquely ideal fit, they also have the highly capable AN/APG-73 radars, helmet cuing system and Israeli Elta EL/L-8222 electronic countermeasures pod, which would be handy given the high threat environment in Ukraine. And as if that weren't enough, they have advanced targeting and surveillance pods, the Northrop Grumman AN/AAQ-28 Litening.
Reznikov seems very upbeat on the topic of foreign aircraft and so does the Ukrainian Foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba. Both seem optimistic for the prospect of Ukraine getting western jets.
I think their optimism stems from discussions at the last couple Ramstein meetings, so something must have been said that we are not privy to.
Interesting that Reznikov specifically mentions suitability for their airfields, because that is a major issue as F-16s are not suited to them, and yet knowing this, most of the chatter is about F-16s.
F-18s and Grippens have strong enough landing gear they can operate from Ukrainian rough airstrips without breaking. The Australian F-18s go for $4m a piece while the Grippens cost of $85m.
Can you explain the recent assessment in the US of 2 Ukrainian pilots to determine how long it would take to train experienced Ukrainian pilots on US aircraft? It makes absolutely no sense in light of your 'no planes for Ukraine' rhetoric, so given I doubt the US or Ukraine are into pointless exercises at the moment, It's a reasonable assumption there was a point.
What? Why are you quoting me as if I said something negative that you felt a burning need to rail against?
@cnocbui Can you explain the recent assessment in the US of 2 Ukrainian pilots to determine how long it would take to train experienced Ukrainian pilots on US aircraft? It makes absolutely no sense in light of your 'no planes for Ukraine' rhetoric
My rhetoric your the one constantly bringing it up despite no movement on Western aircraft discussions ,
The assessment on flights simulators had no bearing on wether anyone is going to send modern Western aircraft,so far we got the opinion from a Ukrainan who claimed that only average pilots were sent who preformed amazingly which Is enough proof that F16s are suitable for ukraine,
Not seen any other information on it , not from the Americans or anyone else of course the Ukrainans will tell the world world they can do anything, but that not necessarily true ,
Propaganda.
With any luck, the first we hear of western jets in Ukraine will be around the first time the Russians discover the Ukrainian Airforce have them: seconds before they're blown to bits by them.
Varadkr telling it like it is today in Brussells
Be interesting if Orwell Road put out a response to that
Another day another big fire somewhere in Russia,
This time at the Yaroslavl motor plant in
Yaroslavl Oblast owned by gas which produces trucks and heavy diesel engines,
Them fags are dangerous for your health lads 🚬
Nah, Orwell Road are too busy thinking of ways to make new & more convincing Boards bot-users to sway our opinions against Ukraine. They can't be wasting time on actual embassy work like that :P
(I joke...but part of me wonders how far my joke is from the truth)
Easy solution to the DU shells 😂
Orwell Rd's response would likely be a quiet word to Varadkr to tone it down or else some Irish citizens medical files might accidenatlly be released on the interwebs.
I was wondering this myself.
Ukrainan wind farms coming on line despite the ongoing war ,fair balls to them more power generation coming along, which Will be a huge help to the sometimes struggling they have been operating despite numerous attacks on the grid and infrastructure.
Interesting few weeks ahead in Ukraine with the military build up by the UKR forces with western support and with Victory Day fast approaching, an important day in the Russian military calendar. I expect Putin has a goal in mind for Victory Day but what that is who knows. It likely means a significant escalation in fighting to come in April regrettably.
Medvedev threatens any country who executes the ICC arrest warrant for Putin. Says it would be a declaration of war
Interesting footnote to this is Putin has been invited to South Africa for a BRICS conference, but South Africa are signed up to the ICC and would be expected to follow through on the warrant if Putin headed there
He's threatening the Germans now ,he wanted hypersonic missiles to be launched at the Hague the other day,
I wonder does it have to be a government that arrests him or can citizens enact an arrest.
Doubtless they'll inform the government to be mindful of 'appropriate responses' from Russia.
I'm sure Ukrainian assassins are targeting Putin constantly, same as Russian are targeting Zelensky, one will fall eventually, Putin hopefully
"Medvedev threatens any country"
Does he do anything else these days? And then they complain "the West" is negative towards Russia.
Are they actually targetting Zelensky?
creating a martyr would probably make things harder for Russia
Slovakia has handed over 4 of the 13 mig29s it promised to give ukraine 🤣🤣.
After yielding the presidency to Putin indefinitely it seems like Medvedev just writes angry rants on telegram.
The only purpose he serves really is to echo all of Purine viewpoints and to remind others that if Putin is taken out then Medvedev might step in and pursue the same policy, so don't bother taking out Putin. Not that attempt at deterrence works at all, plenty of people would love to see Putin taken out even if it achieved nothing, such are the personal grudges against the man.
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