Deepstate showing the Russian gains towards the Oskil river today at the focal point of their new offensive taking 3 more settlements. It puts Ukranian troops to the north on the east side of the river in a precarious position of potentially being cut off. They may have to abandon their positions and move to the western side of the river soon.
The Ukranian focus seems to be Bakhmut at the moment. Tough fighting going on there south of the city. They had some gains yesterday.
I was in that part of the world too at that time. All of it, in fact over time. Beautiful part of the would and lovely people too caught up in a war which brought out the worst as it does.
Some Buryat tradesmen were sent to Ukraine to work and they got put in uniforms when they got there.
The attacks on Ukrainian grain storage facilities and ships carrying grain prove that the Kremlin is willing to let millions of people in Africa starve. That would aggravate the Mediterranean people-trafficking crisis, thus causing western Europe to suffer unrest and possibly its own starvation crisis as well. Surely, that has to be justification for a NATO naval presence in the Black Sea. In that scenario, would the Russians really attack NATO warships?
Furthermore, the famine that the Russian blockade in the Black Sea will cause in Africa if a new deal is not reached to facilitate transport of grain would also lead to many African people attacking their own governments because they would have nothing left to lose. I could understand African leaders opposing the Western powers' stance on Ukraine because of the legacy of the Iraq WMD falsehood but, surely, those African leaders must know that, by associating with the Kremlin, they may be signing their own death warrants.
Article says nothing about expanding the arsenal, they're replacing decomissioned warheads and using the plutonium from them. Also says this process was set out and began in 2018, well before Putin pulled out of the treaty.
No expansion of arsenal, no new enriched plutonium so a fair difference in reality to what you are saying.
That whole article is a poorly disguised Oppenheimer promotion.
The same when I was growing up in 90's in Balkans. We were excited/scared first two months maybe, everyone in basements etc. After that we would be playing outside, sirens for air attack would go off and our parents would be yelling from windows something like: "OK kids, 10 minutes and get in, here they go again!", you just get used to it, and our parents knew if there was a danger or not based on the news
It is a tactic that they use sometimes in desperation and to some effect.
Assuming mobilisation ever stopped. I'm pretty sure they simply continued mobilising whomever they could on the sly without announcing anything.
Just by way of playing devils advocate. Ukraine also has had or continues to have restrictions on its working age males from leaving the country too. However there are a bunch of exemptions. And Ukraine doesn't seem to rushing their soldiers to the frontlines to soak up bullets and shells.
However thankfully any new wave of mobilisation won't be in time for what's happening in the field right now(several months) unless they're literally catapulted from their homes into the front line trenches. I wouldn't put it past Russia though.
Mobilisation Round Two?
They'll definitely commit a much larger force but that's a good thing.
Traffic halted at Kerch again LOL.
They definitely had a successful advance towards Cherneschchyna. Havent heard anything since, so I'm presuming they were either pushed back or destroyed.
This could lead to a complete encirclement.
Russians will either have to commit a much larger force or retreat.
He just posts propaganda. Full on Vatnik.
More success
Once you leave Moscow and St. Petersburg, this is what you get a lot of in the rural areas. When you get Putins mafia at the too bleeding the Country dry, hard to expect anything else. It also explains how and where they get their cannon fodder.
Proper breakthrough being reported in the Bahkmut being reported by some on twitter. Hopefully something comes of it and it's true.
At least you can put onions in the larder.
I guess you could argue that the Onions are more useful than a Lada. (Or whatever self-propelled rust transporter is currently described as a Lada)
Reports a KA-52 downed this morning in the east and all the crew members died.
Good news but more needed
Onions or nothing.......just the handshake. Butat least they know he's dead, which is more than a lot of them don't know. And it works out much cheaper for Putin as well.
I remember in Damascus in Syria, bombs, bombing and gunfire were an everyday and night occurrence. Go into any coffee /. Shisha house and you would find people, men and women sitting around tables reading the papers, on the internet or playing chess, over a Shisha pipe or a coffee. Then a bomb would fall, the coffee in the cups would rattle, and some times the vibrations would be felt in the building itself. People would stop briefly to see was it dangerous or not, then they would shake their heads in annoyance at the interruption, and continue on.
That's lunch, dinner and dessert sorted.
The equivalent weight of onions would cost what in Tesco, €20?
Why Ukrainian Tanks Run on Russian Oil:
"The tanks from the Ukraine are increasingly running on oil that comes from Russia . Ukraine is importing more and more diesel from Hungary and Turkey, both of which use oil from Russia in their refineries , according to the Ukrainian Customs Service."
"Although the market position of the Hungarian MOL Group and the Turkish suppliers in Ukraine was relatively good in the past, Ukrainian customs authorities only recently reported a noticeable increase in imports. The mineral oil company MOL, which is closely linked to the Hungarian state, doubled its sales to the Ukraine in the past six months."
"Since MOL sources a large proportion of Russian oil, Ukraine's war machine should now be primarily fueled with it. At the same time, companies that do not source their raw materials from Russia are losing market share in Ukraine. Because MOL has a competitive advantage over other European oil companies. The Hungarian group has a special permit from the European Union to continue supplying its refineries with Russian oil."
lol :)
Deep fried or something..
Lol
Wait 'till we get to the end of August - 2 spuds and a raspberry.
How are they all so fat if they are leaving off of sacks of onions ?
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