The War in Ukraine

[Maxman1]

Reportedly, he used a pistol Putin had gifted him.

 

[MilEME09]

He must of made sure to stay away from windows, had to do it the old fashion way

 

[The Bread Guy]

Reportedly, he used a pistol Putin had gifted him.

Several times possibly, just to make sure - allegedly, anyway

 

[CBH99]

Canadian Roshel armored vehicle withstands direct FPV drone hit, saves entire Ukrainian special forces team - Euromaidan Press

The National Guard calls it a reminder of what Ukrainian troops survive every day.

euromaidanpress.com

 

[HavokFour]

Gotta be some misreporting here. A colonel as acting CO of a Combined Arms Army? No way.

Following up from my last reply. Perhaps the reason a Colonel was put in charge there is because the experience required for such a command is quite literally all dying. The "alternative" Generals might only have the rank due to having certain friends or family, and not any actual skills one would get working their way up the ladder.

Command Of Russian Army 'Undermined' After 16 Of Putin's Generals Killed At War, UK Says

But it doesn't look like that will deter Moscow's desire to annex all of Ukraine.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

[HavokFour]

Trump says US must send more weapons to Ukraine, days after ordering pause in deliveries

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after ordering a pause in critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv.

apnews.com

 

[lenaitch]

 

[GK .Dundas]

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It was mentioned that during his last term. That a disturbing amount of time US policy seemed to be based on what ever opinion held by who ever was the last person he talked to..

 

[CBH99]

My take on it is this...

Trump is trying to end the war - and that is a very good thing.

It's easier to be seen as a harbinger of peace when you aren't supplying weapons to either side...

Since his efforts to end the war haven't been fruitful yet, he has no choice but to send more weapons to Ukraine.


(It isn't so much a hot & cold switch being flicked - if Trump had his way they would all he sitting at a negotiating table & he wouldn't have to send any weapons. But circumstances are what they are, so weapons shall be sent after all...)

 

[Czech_pivo]

Canadian Roshel armored vehicle withstands direct FPV drone hit, saves entire Ukrainian special forces team - Euromaidan Press

The National Guard calls it a reminder of what Ukrainian troops survive every day.

euromaidanpress.com

1,700 Senators produced just for Ukraine! That's a huge number. Gives a sense of how much equipment gets chewed up in a 2.5yr war.

 

[KevinB]

Trump says US must send more weapons to Ukraine, days after ordering pause in deliveries

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after ordering a pause in critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv.

apnews.com

Apparently he never ordered a stop.

He ordered an accounting of certain munitions to verify the numbers, and a few choice folks in his DoD administration decided to shut it off.

 

[YZT580]

Apparently he never ordered a stop.

He ordered an accounting of certain munitions to verify the numbers, and a few choice folks in his DoD administration decided to shut it off.

Hegseth would have absolutely leaped at that opportunity.

 

[KevinB]

Hegseth would have absolutely leaped at that opportunity.

Yeah, but Elbridge Colby was the architect of this one, as he’s fairly myopic on issues other than China IMHO.

 

[HavokFour]

Apparently he never ordered a stop.

He ordered an accounting of certain munitions to verify the numbers, and a few choice folks in his DoD administration decided to shut it off.

Normally you'd expect a person with so many fuckups not even 1 year into the new term to get the boot right about now. Perhaps because said person is one of the very few who would go along with the bosses domestic adventures.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

A good writeup on causality evacuation issues and frontline/behind the frontline medical care.

Surviving the Zero Line

by Donald Hill

xxtomcooperxx.substack.com

 

[HavokFour]

Well I suppose it was only a matter of time. The Neptune has caught the attention of China.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1942930175487816113

 

[The Bread Guy]

I'm shocked, SHOCKED that USSR 2.0 would be capable of such things ....

Top European rights court says Russia broke international law in Ukraine

Judges also rule that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 which killed 298 people.

www.aljazeera.com

European Court Says Russia Responsible For Human Rights Abuses In Ukraine, MH17 Shootdown

Two landmark decisions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Russia committed violations of international law during its war in Ukraine and was responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014.

www.rferl.org

From the court itself:

In the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia the Court held Russia accountable for widespread and flagrant abuses of human rights arising from the conflict in Ukraine since 2014, in breach of the European Convention.

The case concerned the conflict that began in eastern Ukraine in 2014 following the arrival in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of pro-Russian armed groups, and escalated after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine beginning on 24 February 2022. It also concerned the shooting down of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in summer 2014, killing all those on board, many of whom were Dutch nationals.

The Court found that Russia was responsible for repeated human-rights violations over a period of more than eight years. This included indiscriminate military attacks; summary executions; torture, notably rape as a weapon of war; unlawful and arbitrary detentions; intimidation and persecution of journalists and religious groups; looting and destruction of private property; and the organised removal of children to Russia and their adoption there.

The Court also found that Russia was responsible for violating the right to life by shooting down flight MH17 and had added to the profound suffering of the crash victims’ next of kin by being uncooperative and obstructive in the context of international efforts to uncover the truth.

Bit more in the attached statement from the court's info-machine.

 

[GR66]

Russian drone crashes in Lithuania

A Russian Geran drone crashed in Lithuania on Thursday after crossing into the country’s airspace from neighboring Belarus, Lithuanian defense officials confirmed. The Lithuanian military said the drone entered national airspace around 11:30 a.m. local time before going down. “We can confirm...

defence-blog.com

Quote from the article that shows how real the Baltic States take the threat from Russia

The crash prompted heightened security measures in the capital, Vilnius. Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and Speaker of Parliament Saulius Skvernelis, who were meeting with reporters at Government House when the news broke, were escorted to a secure shelter as a precaution, local media reported.

Also it occurs to me that you hear very little discussion in the West about the use of decoy drones. It seems to me that this would be something that would be pretty easy to put into mass production and their use would be useful in both attriting enemy AD missile stockpiles as well as helping to locate enemy AD systems for destruction.

 

[KevinB]

Russian drone crashes in Lithuania

A Russian Geran drone crashed in Lithuania on Thursday after crossing into the country’s airspace from neighboring Belarus, Lithuanian defense officials confirmed. The Lithuanian military said the drone entered national airspace around 11:30 a.m. local time before going down. “We can confirm...

defence-blog.com

Quote from the article that shows how real the Baltic States take the threat from Russia

Also it occurs to me that you hear very little discussion in the West about the use of decoy drones. It seems to me that this would be something that would be pretty easy to put into mass production and their use would be useful in both attriting enemy AD missile stockpiles as well as helping to locate enemy AD systems for destruction.

Most of the UAS used in Ukraine are cheaper than the decoys the West uses — so in this case it’s better to get more payload drones - as really the decoys would need to be basically the same thing without a live ordnance payload / and so the only difference would be the ‘boom parts’ from the ballast parts.

 

[GR66]

Most of the UAS used in Ukraine are cheaper than the decoys the West uses — so in this case it’s better to get more payload drones - as really the decoys would need to be basically the same thing without a live ordnance payload / and so the only difference would be the ‘boom parts’ from the ballast parts.

Looking at the picture of the Russian decoy in the article they don't look like they would cost much at all if you get them made in a local machine shop rather than from a defence contractor...