Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Go on Ukraine. Was delighted to hear of these strikes today on Russia. Well done Ukraine.

Now for the inevitable nonsense later from the orange Buffoon and the evil dictator in Russia.

apart from not telling The US/Trump , it is amazing that VZ / Ukr army were able to pull it off given that the country still has a good number of Russian sympathisers and suchlike - and maybe some of them could be still in the Ukr army - incredible achievement given the odds against it happening

He probably use this as an excuse to give a squadron of B52s to Russia or … Alaska back

That George Galloway is some cnut

Please summarise or paraphrase what they're saying. I'd rather not give them the traffic by googling them

Ukrainian officials still going with the 40 number. Could be true or it could be noise with these negotiations about to start today.

What I know is Ukrainian channels are now lowering the number of actual destroyed or damaged.

From Denys Davydov one of the biggest Ukrainian telegram channels and YouTubers:

"The first satellite radar images of one of the airbases attacked yesterday - "Belaya" in the Irkutsk region. Three Tu-95MS were destroyed, another one was damaged. And also four Tu-22M3 were destroyed (presumably). That is, at just one airfield, the losses amounted to 8 strategic bombers. "

He goes onto say

"At the "Olenya" airbase, the destruction of four Tu-95MS and one An-12 was also visually confirmed during a drone flyby. This means that Russia's estimated losses after yesterday's attack are 12 stratobombers and one transport aircraft."

So I guess he's saying 13 aircraft from 2 of the airfields. I guess it's very possible more will be confirmed destroyed later from the other 2.

5 airfields in total were hit in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions.

It'll be interesting to hear the damage reports from the other 3.

You are correct but what they'll end up doing is buying Chinese airframes which were based off the Tu designs and convert them. Hopefully not before this war is out.

This attack ultimately will take more Russian money And send it to China.

Edit:

New polish president elected. He should be similar to Duda.

I'm reading he is pro US/NATO, eurosceptic, willing to support Ukraine (but not sending PL troops there). Domestic policy is a difficult and complicated story. The rest is white noise.

Also. Another airbase hit

A bit of speculation: over the course of the last month, Ukraine reported hitting an awfully high number of air defense systems positioned relatively close to the frontline (i.e. in the occupied territories and in the oblasts on the other side of the border.

I wonder if they'd learnt that units were being pulled away from the distant airfields with a view to providing cover for the supposed upcoming summer offensive? Maybe they encouraged such a re-deployment with all those small-but-disruptive attacks around Moscow and elsewhere that brought air travel to a standstill. If that's the case, then Ukraine are definitely applying a level of strategic planning that's obviously tailored to a long war, and really marks them out as a superior military force compared to those on the other side.

It would also suggest that Russia doesn't have much left in their depots that's worth deploying. Whatever they need to (try and) outlast Ukraine will have come be bought from other countries - they'll have gone from being one of the worlds major arms exporters to one of the biggest importers in three short years.

every lorry has to be stopped and searched in Russia now, which will have an awful affect on logistics and man power. Another bonus.

The Orcs are busy closing stable doors. I wonder if they will also turn off mobile networks near everything of importance. I hope so.

Russians we're complaining they'd no warning during a recent drone attack because the authorities shut the mobile network's down.

They'd been shutting down quite a lot recently so maybe Russia was fearing an attack like the one yesterday. After all the Ukrainian operatives were using the Russian mobile network.

Why would China sell them strategic planes that can be used to nuke their own cities (they must be as delighted about this as the Ukrainians as a potential enemy is defanged for price of a single BYD car)? It’s one thing to sell drones it’s another to sell strategic bombers

Hell they not even selling them passenger planes

Same China from whom Russia stole a million square miles of Chinese far east (that 4-5 Ukraines in size!) and remains annexed to this day with valuable resources and empty living space next to densely populated Chinese heartlands

Just ask @brickster69 about “Chinas century of humiliation at hands of European empires”