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Some of the Interest on the frozen assets which is about 2-3bn a year
Not the 300bn of those assets themselves, something that Germany and EUs VDL strongly resisted in handing over to Ukraine
That’s an important distinction IMHO
To put things into perspective Europe spends more than this every year still on Russian gas alone (not even talking about oil)
Its hard to shake off the feeling that there are parties and groups in Europe that want this war to continue instead of ending quickly
From my understanding, the thinking is Ukraine is going to be funded with frozen Russian assets, rather than German central funding.
The nuclear plant is in Enerhodar, south of the Dniepr and deep within Russian-controlled territory.
(apologies if I misunderstood the question).
So much for all the praise Germany got over last few pages
Some good news at least.
Edit: already posted
Russia are still full steam ahead in Donetsk with massive armoured assaults being repelled. A few videos went up on telegram today. Blow's my mind the scale of this war and the stockpiles Russia have at their disposal. Hopefully come next summer's offensive they'll have a lot less.
Only a small areas but movement. Tetkino now looking very vulnerable.
if that’s the case they aren’t following the example set by Stalin
It's all to do with roughly 100 f35s and couple of squadron of bombers (dont actually know what type us uses ) plus a **** load of guided missiles. Americans have told putin one nuke and your army will be throwing rocks for the next century
I don't think this German one has anywhere near that range
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/37132
Two questions that puzzle me
(1) is the Zapornizea ! Nuclear plant that’s under the control of the Russians surrounded by The UKr army or or has it a corridor to that part of Luhansk/ Donbas that is under its - RU - control. Am just wondering how it manages to get supplies/ soldier rotation there
That’s “a lot” of fiber, sounds like vapourware just like them Armata tanks
Because it will be WW3 if he uses nukes and that's a war Russia will last all of 10 minutes in.
Putin is scared shttless of NATO.
Apparently some of the newer russian fiber optic drones have up to 10km range , now how true that is ,,? how effective they are ? How much payload they can carry ect ect ect ,
I know both sides are working on pilotless drones too , just for the terminal phase so far , so the drone pilot indicates the target and it homes in automatically, so no extra communication with the base station and no possibility of jamming the attack run,
I have a theory that the Ukrainians have captured someone important in the Kursk region….
And by someone important, I mean the son, or family member of someone important….
Why else would the Russians be so eager to do a prisoner exchange (which is/was the 1st time they themselves initiated such a request for an exchange)…
If you had connections, and a family member was in the military, you’d do your best to ensure they weren’t sent to the front in Ukraine, so might have pulled a few strings to have them deployed in a relatively calm zone.. like the Kursk region border with Ukraine where little to nothing has happened in the 2.5 years of war so far.
Either that, or they simply want back the FSB border guards who surrendered without so much as firing a shot at the Ukrainians as they crossed the border into Russia,.. they want to make an example of them/send them to the front where death will soon follow…
a lot of their kit is just RTL chip SDR's that you can hook into a mobile phone/tablet/laptop.
Simple and effective… it's easy to differentiate between different drone control signals… or write a simple app to differentiate the control signal.
Again ? 🤣
A lot of those captured conscripts looked to be aged16-18
RT are already on it (but Ukraine must have plenty nuclear waste anyhow)-
I thought that the question asked by the RTE interviewer - during Primetime was a very silly/stupid / naieve one to ask. It was direct confrontational, etc, etc, etc. of course the ambassador is going to give a ‘NO’ answer to the Q asked, etc,etc. He could have asked the same Q but in another round about way eg given the minimal ambassadorial business between Ireland and Russia what exactly is the task/job description of all of your circa 37 odd staff . I would assume that the ‘RTE Investigates ‘ branch would have made contact with all of the relevant individuals in Gov /relevant Gov depts B4 hand to establish the level of business/level of contact before any interview with the Ru ambassador. The interview was a washout IMO
I think they are not worried mainly because the more capable drone operating units are all deployed on the Eastern and southern front, and the units available would be dealing with the Ukrainians on the front line in Kursk. The border is "defended" by poorly trained and equipped conscripts
China. They are Putins lifeline and he will lose them if he uses a nuke
@StevenToast "Now that Ukraine is making serious headway into Russian territory, doesn't Putin have a perfect excuse to land a few tactical nukes in around some key targets in Ukraine? Can someone explain why this wont happen?"
Putin fears plutonium drones going to Moscow?
Jamming drones is not particularly hard, the problem I suspect was having enough jamming equipment for this operation, but yes it’s interesting that they let journalists (we had both Italian RIA and CNN and BBC reporters crossing into Russia) in and are apparently not worried about drones
Now there are reports of drones on both sides using fiber cable rolls, but those have obvious disadvantages of extra weight and possibility to get snagged and much reduced range
Ukraine is pretty good when it comes to EWF .... I saw units equipped with uav detectors, they can even differentiate between Orlan and other drones apperantly. Ukraine captured some of the latest RU tech in Kursk as well.
Just As I thought, link dumping without having a fuckin clue as to what it means..... ohhh the humanity🤣
Let me do an interpretation, pity interpretive dancing can’t be conveyed over boards post 🙂↔️
It’s all part of grand 42D grand strategist plans with the aim of helping the CIA plant in Kremlin to kill millions of Russians and destroy and dismember Russia {politically/socially/economically/scientifically/militarily/industrially} from within
As added bonus the “ordinary Russians” have been bred to be too docile and are unable to comprehend the shape of this grand conspiracy which only works because they willingly permitted one man have all the power over every aspect of their lives.
have they figured out how to jam russian drones ?
CNN report from inside Mordor
A video of the Russian Ka-52 helicopter that was shot down from MANPADS in the Kursk region on the 10th:
Where did imply there are no aims?. Link to said post would suffiece. If you cannot find any such claim can I suggest you keep the bad faith posting to a minimum, I asked you to elaborate on that tweet because reading it it doesn't make sense to me. Apperantly it does to you, so please go ahead and discuss rather then link dump.
