Political impacts of Ukraine war

[Good2Golf]

Putin is probably staring to worry about the scope and timing of SPIDERWEB 2.0…the St. Petersburg smoke show for Russian Davos this week was just the opening act.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/03/ukraines-st-petersburg-attack-overshadows-putins-davos/

 

[HavokFour]

Putin is probably staring to worry about the scope and timing of SPIDERWEB 2.0…the St. Petersburg smoke show for Russian Davos this week was just the opening act.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/03/ukraines-st-petersburg-attack-overshadows-putins-davos/

Old boy is trying. Claiming that it was actually a coal terminal, even though there's a ton of civilian footage out now showing the oil terminal burning bright.

 

[Good2Golf]

Old boy is trying. Claiming that it was actually a coal terminal, even though there's a ton of civilian footage out now showing the oil terminal burning bright.

Yup.

Tick tock…

 

[Good2Golf]

So during Putin’s opening speech, he said Russia refuses Ukraine’s offer of face to face talks with Zelenskyy to discuss peace settlement. Hours later, UAF throws another round of drones into St. Petersburg refineries, to add to the smokey backdrop and takes out some Ru naval vessels.

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/mass-ukrainian-drone-strikes-target-russian-military-facilities-in-st-petersburg-224502a5

 

[HavokFour]

Interesting note, Ukraine is now sending close to 10,000 drones into Russian territory per month.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

So apparently in a joint operation between Belgium and Canada, Belgium delivered some mysterious piece of Canadian equipment to Ukraine.

Belgium flew mystery Canadian weapons to Ukraine

A Belgian military transport aircraft spent an entire day flying protective weapons systems from Canadian military stocks to Ukraine, in a priority delivery that Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken announced on Sunday with enough detail to confirm the mission happened

defence-blog.com

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Either Maple Syrup or Poutine ingredients.

Maybe both…

 

[dapaterson]

Either Maple Syrup or Poutine ingredients.

Maybe both…

Has anyone checked in on the strategic maple syrup reserve?

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Seriously…I cannot even begin to guess what we have left in any meaningful quantity to give to Ukraine.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Seriously…I cannot even begin to guess what we have left in any meaningful quantity to give to Ukraine.

Rucksacks and snowshoes

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Rucksacks and snowshoes

Nope to both of those.

 

[HavokFour]

The drone strike campaign is really starting to have an effect.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2064121626879312167

 

[KevinB]

Seriously…I cannot even begin to guess what we have left in any meaningful quantity to give to Ukraine.

Based on the verbiage - they suggest AD systems -- which last I looked the CAF was pretty minimalist on at this junction.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Based on the verbiage - they suggest AD systems -- which last I looked the CAF was pretty minimalist on at this junction.

Maybe they wiped the dust and cobwebs off the old Bofors from the Kingston's and put some spit and polish on them before shipping them off?

 

[GK .Dundas]

Maybe they wiped the dust and cobwebs off the old Bofors from the Kingston's and put some spit and polish on them before shipping them off?

I suspect the Museums might sue.

 

[The Bread Guy]

PH like a sailboat, will go with the wind...
I suspect the fact that what we need for the Straights and the Gulf States is a lot of stuff Ukraine does well, and Ukraine has some needs that we can supply -- so helping Ukraine is significantly valuable.

UKR is being the bigger man here, for sure, but they should beware of “getting Kurd’ed.”