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RT are already on it (but Ukraine must have plenty nuclear waste anyhow)-
A lot of those captured conscripts looked to be aged16-18
Again ? 🤣
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.
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…
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,
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.
That’s “a lot” of fiber, sounds like vapourware just like them Armata tanks
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
I don't think this German one has anywhere near that range
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/37132
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
if that’s the case they aren’t following the example set by Stalin
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.
Some good news at least.
Edit: already posted
So much for all the praise Germany got over last few pages
The nuclear plant is in Enerhodar, south of the Dniepr and deep within Russian-controlled territory.
(apologies if I misunderstood the question).
From my understanding, the thinking is Ukraine is going to be funded with frozen Russian assets, rather than German central funding.
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
This is a depressing update. I wish it weren’t true, but it’s not surprising. Lately, Germany were dragging their heels on funding the war. They slashed their budgeted donations by half there about a month ago. They are using the excuse of interest rates from frozen Russian investments going towards the war instead. But Germany were the main country in opposition to giving this money. They feared reprisals from Russia. Russia were suspected in sabotaging the water supply in two German military bases during the week. They started factory fires. They performed cyber attacks on the government back in May. They hacked the phone calls of top German defence members where they discussed the possibility of the Taurus missile being used in Ukraine and publically released them to embarrass them. They released the private German conversations on the Brit’s sending Storm Shadow engineers to ukraine that annoyed their allies. This is bad for the rest of Europe because Russia will see this as a win that they engineered. They will assume the same will work with other countries too.
Finally a bit of good news down South
East to forget UAF are loosing ground as the Russians advance while all the focus is on Kursk
I know was said US would destroy Russian equipment in Ukraine if nuke used in Ukraine but would it be same case if Russia used low yield nuke on Russian territory? I would of thought be classed as something different In that case or no nuke is a nuke no matter where used?
What would Putin using let’s say a 10kt bomb (Hiroshima size) in Kursk accomplish? Especially militarily?
Lets say we go with Filatovs 12000 Ukrainians in Kursk claim, that’s average of 10 Ukranians per each of 1200 km square they captured, they are obviously not all bunched up in one spot, so they kill between a dozen and few hundred soldiers at most. Ukrainians will probably just shrug, they have whole cities and towns that look like nukes have went off over them in last three years
https://remm.hhs.gov/zones_nucleardetonation.htm
And the there are towns full of Russian civilians, how does Putin nuking Russians go down in Russia, no amount of control of media hide such an event
And that’s before we get to how can this be delivered, a silo or land vehicle or submarine launch could be misinterpreted, gravity bomb could risk the plane being shot down, so that leaves ballistic missiles but now going forward NATO will have to shoot down any missile launch from Russia in case its nuke
A simple question for anyone thinking on the topic
So Putin pulls the trigger, and then what?
All of this before we get to their buddies in China who made it clear this is the biggest of red lines for them, without Chinese indirect support Russia is toast
I was just watching this clip that might answer it better than I could
This would be big but there's 2 Korenovo separated by a stream there so maybe they've only taken the first one. Would be the biggest settlement they control if this falls.
Today on “ordinary Russians”
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/s/4qHClo8UE4
"We raped 3 boys, 5 girls, 6 women, and shot them" - a captured Russian occupier tells about his group's atrocities in Avdiivka.
Good for the exchange fund
More on the nuclear bluff being exposed for what it is
There is a lot of crossover these days between what counts as a drone (suicide drone) vs guided missile.
Tethered drones are certrainly a thing, though normally in the hundreds of meters, not kilometers. Fibre guided long range drones, however, (or missiles, in conventional terms) with ranges in excess of 10km, with either lock-and-track or manual control guidance isn’t exactly new technology, see the US EFOG-M of the 1990s, cancelled in the post-cold war cutbacks. Brazil offers the FOG-MGM at 20km. Serbia’s ALAS is entering service this year, data is sketchy, but could be up to 25km.
The Germany report is depressing if true. Hopefully just a blip and not the end of the story
Opinion piece by ex-British Army guy harking back to WWII and Japan, but interesting in its way, too.
https://archive.ph/W6S8D
