Russian airforce dropping glide bombs again today
Nothing new ,
Saw a one boat cross a river a with a few lads in suddenly it was a beach head as part of the Big counter offensive,
Except it's been happening for months
And the same goes for every other EU country that's a net contributor to EU finances, many of which, like the Netherlands then go and contribute several more billions on top of that. I use GDP because GNI isn't used by the Kiel institute. GNI is 76% of GDP so using that doesn't improve the picture much.
Implying Irish poverty, is unconvincing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult
I am a a taxpayer and I would like to see a lot more of what I contrubute in taxes go to Ukraine. This is the most significant conflict since WW2 and it's outcome matters - a lot!
And another interesting article about Prigozhin's Wagner group.
Gogol Novel Character, MD on Twitter: "In case you want to know about #Sudan and you don’t know what Russia has been doing. Here is brief history. In 2017 Russians, using their Nazi SS #WagnerGroup bribed then leader Omar al-Bashir to let them control gold mines as Russian territory. Same as they did with mines" / Twitter
Lot of reports of a multi pronged pre-counter offensive recon in force attacks by UAF in last 24 hours on many channels.
Ireland has contributed €55 million worth of military aid to Ukraine since the Russia invasion seven months ago.
This represents Ireland’s “full share” of the €2.5 billion military aid package provided to Ukraine through the EU, according to figures from the Department of Defence.
The funding is delivered through the European Peace Facility (EPF). - Irish Times.
GDP is also not an appropriate measure, as everyone (including you) knows due to the use of Ireland as an access point to the EU market Irelands GDP is not representative of the actual wealth of the country. Multinationals just headquarter here, the money passes through. That money justs rests in our account.
Re the Russian embassy, let’s say this is hugely advantageous to Russia’s espionage…
You think the US doesn’t have a word in Leo’s shell like? If the Muscovy spies are making hay out of this base, you can be sure it’s not as advantageous as to what is being learned about the Russians.
Otherwise it gets shut down. Simples.
IMO (as was discussed here several months back) they (govt.) don't want the Irish embassy closed down. It would be if they expel a large number from the Russian one here, and Russia responds in kind. Would agree it is wrong.
Anyway, saw this on RTE (taken from Belgian state broadcaster I think?) a couple of days ago about spying + the Russian embassies around Europe.
My goodness, that must be a first for this conflict.
I think the HSE hack was an Orc government operation and that they are holding the country hostage on pain of releasing everyones personal info online. It might also explain why Ireland has done so little interms of actually assisting ukraine, apart from a lot of chest thumping about helping refugees, which in itself isn't really a cost so much as a large economic stimulus to a myriad of Irish businesses, like hotels, shops, etc, etc.
According to the Kiel Institute tracker, Ireland ranks 31 in total committments as a percentage of GDP and it's beaten out by Fuc*ing Hungary in 30th spot. Hungary absolutely thrashes Ireland in humanitarian assisitance, being in 9th place (%GDP) vs Irelands's 19th.
Ireland has just had the largest budget surplus in the EU in absolute terms, not as a percentage, so one of the richest countries in Europe with a government awash with money, could easily afford to do more.
On today’s episode of Cnocbui says Black, Gatling says White…
That won't stop Erdogan at all ,
Turks have been buying and developing foreign technology then announcing their own engines will be used aka rebranded other companies engines ,
Like there selling point the first jet powered drone,no it's not ,
The first drone to take off and land on rough ground runways it's not ,
The first drone to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, it's not,
Most likely this drone will not be in service outside of turkey
That's a given; the important bit is the Ukrainian made engine, which along with their use in a Turkish cruise missile and the building of a Bayrakter production facility in ukraine, reduces any incentive for slime ball Erdogan to stab Ukraine in the back.
We should be doing the same, except our lot want to be seen as the nice lads, too afraid of ruffling feathers and making hard decisions.
It's at least another 2 years away from production,it's safe to say it won't be seen in Ukraine anytime soon probably not at all
Excellent Right on the heels of Norway turfing out 15 spies.
Russia seemed to unleash artillery on them.
There are a few reports of UA landing on the east bank of the Dnipro
Can everyone please try and avoid giving the re-reg troll the oxygen they crave. Just report and we will delete their content
It’s a bit of a catch 22. Common forum wisdom is to ignore a troll on the thread and leave them without oxygen. However in this conflict trolls now spread a Kremlin narrative either by direct instruction or indirectly via various forms of influence on them.
The goal is to either change our views on Russia, or leave unchallenged views of Russia on the thread that other forum members might take on board. It’s tiresome, repetitive, and almost always results in the poster being deleted, but I feel that it is always worth challenging the Russian position, if anything to ensure that it doesn’t just stay up unchallenged like they would want.
That's not a Russian bot, it's just someone who thrives on the replies and attention (troll) honestly ignore and they will get bored .
If they can maintain a foothold and push on from there they could continue their advances into Kherson. Some recent gains should bolster even more support. Success has many fathers…
Area looks like wetlands/marsh.
Good luck trying to dig a trench or assault a town from. All preregistered too likely.
It’s a pity that your research was not more thoroughly carried out. It was a Scottish kilt and not a Tu-tu
New Bayraktar drone with a Ukrainian engine test flights continue. Recorded flying at 630km/h.
Prigozhin criticizes Putin-
British Intelligence update on Ukraine as of Apr. 22 - Ripe News (theripenews.com)
But it's not as if they Ukrainians don't have the ability to launch Anti ship missles like they did with the Moskva,or were they someone else's missles,
But I still Don't understand why they haven't put air defenses closer to the black sea to deal with Russian missles approaching from the black sea which seems to be the main route for Russian missles
It’s ABSOLUTLY pure nonsense that Ukr cannot target any kind of a missle launched from any ship - even if positioned in any part of the Black or any other sea. I understand that this is because of American policy. The same should go from any land based missle launcher in Moscovy itself. It’s the same as having YOUR TWO HANDS tied behind your back. As things stand Moscovy can bang away from its own territory deep into Ukr territory and the UKr can do nothing about it
Multiple missles hit karkhiv,
Possibly From the black sea fleet that moved into positions yesterday
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