Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2
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No need to negotiate.
After all negotiations to be done with Murica and NATO
Both shown themselves to be pariahs and liars and incapable to keep their words and their signatures worth nothing at all.
Russia should go and complete the denazification of all Ukraine and utterl demilitarise that land.
AND GO ON TO DENAZIFIED NATO AND EUROPE AS WELL.
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Are you plain stupid? They should better start denazificating their own society before stating WW 3.
Really, so are here so much blinded by ignorance, political bias and propaganda that it is unbelievable… as if all Western countries are run by Nazi-governments!
This would be equally stupid as if the West would call for the demonisation of CHina as a reason to start a war.
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That is very unfair
NATO was not made to fight against Russia
It was designed to fight against USSR + Warsaw pack
The Warsaw pack alone was over 3.2 million men
NATO has only got stronger and bigger
While USSR + Warsaw has gone
Russia is a Skelton of what NATO should be fighting
This is a very unfair fight, a very strong expanded NATO vs a very weak Russia
At the beginning the Russians suffered terribly those tanks columns were annihilated and yet NATO still couldn’t take the Russians out of the war
Russians are fast leaners and adaptive and now Russia is stronger than before
As usual Western nations tried to bully
This time they picked on the wrong kid
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How the 3 days war is going.
Ukraine war: Wave of drone strikes hits several Russian regions
Moscow says military planes were damaged in strikes on an airport and vows Ukraine will "not go unpunished".
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What is there to be angry about the TRUTH?
When all the Western countries are run by Nazi government or Nazi-like gaberment!
With Victoria Nuland and her kind taking the commanding role
And Madeline happy to have 500,000 kids killed for her vision of a good kind world for her kind
US first female secretary of state says it was worth the deaths of 500,000 children
A shocking video of America’s first female secretary of state has resurfaced after reports announced that she had died at the age of 84 on Wednesday. Madeleine Albright was asked in 1996, "We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in...
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I THINK WESTERN GOVERNMENTS ARE MUCH WORSE THAN NAZIS.
WESTERN GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE FLATTERED WHEN THEY ARE TERMED NAZIS OR NAZIS LIKE
WHEN IN TRUTH, THEY MUCH WORSE THAN NAZIS
RUSSIA MUST CONTINUE THEIR GOOD TASKS OF DENAZIFICATIONS OF UKRAINE, TO BE FOLLOWED WITH DENAZIFICATIONS OF NATO AND EUROPE IF NECESSARY
Airstrike by Russian Su-34 aircraft in the S-300 air defense division of Ukraine. Footage of a massive air strike of Russian Su-34 bomber fighters against the S-300 air defense system of the Ukrainian army has been published. The S-300 air defense division was located 12 km northeast of the city of Nikolaev. As a result of the strike, 2 launchers of the S-300 air defense system, a radar station and a combat control center of the S-300 air defense system were destroyed.
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Politics in the World DON'T work like you average folks think.
If War breaks out all over EU
Than White house will re-elect Trump irrelavant of Jail offences while bigger catestrophy is concerned..
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Ukrainian Counteroffensive Pierces Main Russian Defensive Line in Southeast
Ukrainian forces have penetrated the main Russian defensive line in their country’s southeast, raising hopes of a breakthrough that would reinvigorate the slow-moving counteroffensive.
Ukrainian paratroopers are fighting through entrenched Russian positions on the edge of the village of Verbove, a Ukrainian officer in the area said. Ukrainian forces have also reached the main defensive line to the south of nearby Robotyne village, he said. Ukraine’s military confirmed advances toward Verbove and south of Robotyne, without giving details.
Describing the advance, the Ukrainian officer held up three fingers representing lines of attack through entrenched Russian positions on the western flank of Verbove, an agricultural village of some 1,000 residents before the war. The significance of the advance is that it marks the first time Ukraine has penetrated the main Russian defensive line, an extensive system of minefields, trenches and antitank obstacles covered by artillery.
Ukrainian forces are now working to expand the cracks in the line to create a hole large enough for Western-provided armored vehicles to push through with sufficient logistical support.
“It’s like inflating a ball,” the officer said.
Ukrainian advances in recent days have led to cautious optimism among Western intelligence services that Ukraine can retake the occupied city of Tokmak, a logistical hub for Russia, according to senior Western intelligence officials.
WSJ News Exclusive | Ukrainian Counteroffensive Pierces Main Russian Defensive Line in Southeast
After three months of grinding advances in its Western-backed counteroffensive, Kyiv has accelerated its thrust along its main line of attack.
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Deceased Wagner boss Prigozhin seen in new footage ‘dismissing reports of elimination’
Deceased Wagner boss seen in new footage ‘dismissing reports of elimination’
Previously-unseen footage appears to show Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin talking about his “elimination” days before he was killed in a plane crash. The mercenary leader was onboard an Embraer private jet flying from Moscow to St Petersburg when it crashed down over the Tver region, killing...
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"The report of my death was an exaggeration” - Mark Twain.
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Ukrainian Counteroffensive Pierces Main Russian Defensive Line in Southeast
Ukrainian forces have penetrated the main Russian defensive line in their country’s southeast, raising hopes of a breakthrough that would reinvigorate the slow-moving counteroffensive.
Ukrainian paratroopers are fighting through entrenched Russian positions on the edge of the village of Verbove, a Ukrainian officer in the area said. Ukrainian forces have also reached the main defensive line to the south of nearby Robotyne village, he said. Ukraine’s military confirmed advances toward Verbove and south of Robotyne, without giving details.
Describing the advance, the Ukrainian officer held up three fingers representing lines of attack through entrenched Russian positions on the western flank of Verbove, an agricultural village of some 1,000 residents before the war. The significance of the advance is that it marks the first time Ukraine has penetrated the main Russian defensive line, an extensive system of minefields, trenches and antitank obstacles covered by artillery.
Ukrainian forces are now working to expand the cracks in the line to create a hole large enough for Western-provided armored vehicles to push through with sufficient logistical support.
“It’s like inflating a ball,” the officer said.
Ukrainian advances in recent days have led to cautious optimism among Western intelligence services that Ukraine can retake the occupied city of Tokmak, a logistical hub for Russia, according to senior Western intelligence officials.
WSJ News Exclusive | Ukrainian Counteroffensive Pierces Main Russian Defensive Line in Southeast
After three months of grinding advances in its Western-backed counteroffensive, Kyiv has accelerated its thrust along its main line of attack.
Ukraine has broken through the antitank ditch and concrete pyramids and heading for the Russian infantry trenches. Ukraine is close to a breakthrough
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US Not Running Out of Munitions Due to Ukraine Aid, Pentagon Acquisition Boss Says
Despite sending more than $43 billion in military aid to Ukraine—both lethal and non-lethal—the U.S. is not “running out” of any particular munitions or equipment needed for its own forces, Pentagon acquisition and sustainment chief William LaPlante told attendees at a defense conference in Washington, D.C.
“We’re not running out of anything,” LaPlante said in a fireside chat at the inaugural conference of the National Defense Industrial Association’s Emerging Technology Institute on Aug. 28.
“In the papers, sometimes, it says, ‘we’ve run out of X or Y,’” because of aid to Ukraine, but that’s not true, LaPLante said.
“We’re managing all of that,” he added, describing the process to identify items for Ukraine that are excess to U.S. military needs. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs review the lists of what’s being offered and what’s being requested, “and they look exactly at the effect on readiness” of providing those items, LaPlante said. If they feel there’s a negative effect, or if handing off a certain weapon or quantity of weapons increases risk beyond an acceptable level, “we won’t do it,” he said, although he didn’t cite any examples of equipment withheld.
There have been concerns in Congressthat providing large quantities of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine is emptying U.S. stocks, but LaPlante said there are enough on hand and has previously said his organization is working to shorten lead times for replenishment orders.
The real challenge has been to not simply provide equipment as requested, but to anticipate what Ukraine will need and have it moving through the pipeline so it arrives in a timely manner, LaPlante noted.
For example, Ukraine needed different military equipment for its ongoing counteroffensive than in the early days of the conflict, when it was focused on holding ground and repelling advances.
Since then, it’s been an effort of matching provision of gear to “the consumption rate,” LaPLante said, and in some cases such as artillery, those rates approximate the consumption in World War II.
Once the Pentagon identifies an anticipated need, “you have to look at all the tools … [and] find the best one” to get the aid to Ukraine in a sensible way, he said. Sometimes, that will mean exercising authority Congress has given to buy new items for Ukraine and ship them directly, while at other times it means asking another country to buy or provide it.
More broadly, LaPlante said there has been a mindset change in the U.S. defense industrial base as a result of the Ukraine war. In the past, U.S. stockpiles were geared toward short conflicts and not surges. That’s changed as think tanks and Pentagon wargamers expand the timescale of their exercises, to see what would happen if a conflict didn’t last a few weeks but a year or more, he said. When the timelines are extended, it usually leads to a shortage of precision guided munitions, especially at an intense level of effort, he said.
Although this has shown up in some previous wargames, “we didn’t budget to it,” LaPLante said, and he acknowledged that munitions have frequently been the account that gets cut when budgets tighten. Moreover, during the 20 years the U.S. was fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was a tendency to produce the minimum of high-end weapons needed for peer conflict.
The push now is to do more multiyear procurements, and LaPlante said that shows industry they can safely invest in expanding capacity.
Congress has given “tremendous support” in provisioning Ukraine, LaPlante asserted, although it’s taken “a lot of education” with some members. He expressed optimism that support will continue.
A new wrinkle in the aid to Ukraine will be sustainment, LaPlante said. The M1 Abrams tanks being provided to Ukraine “won’t work” in a few weeks if they don’t undergo certain kinds of maintenance. The U.S. can’t put its own troops on the battlefield and doesn’t want to expose contractors to that risk either, so LaPlante said the U.S. is increasingly turning to “tele-maintenance,” wherein contractors or Army personnel walk Ukrainian maintainers through the process remotely.
What’s being learned is applicable to how the U.S. may sustain equipment in future conflicts, as tele-maintenance will make it possible to reduce the forward footprint of troops and contractors.
All in all, LaPlante said the defense enterprise has done a “remarkable” job in streamlining processes to get Ukraine the gear it needs in a timely manner. Configuring the M1 tanks in a way that was acceptable to the Army—removing some gear considered too sensitive to risk Russia gaining access to it—normally takes a year and a half, LaPlante said, but the Army managed it in six months.
US Not Running Out of Munitions Due to Ukraine Aid, Pentagon Acquisition Boss Says
The U.S. isn't running out of munitions as a result of its aid to Ukraine, Pentagon acquisition chief William LaPlante said.
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