Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

[zectech]

Called it... Putin was toying the Ukrainians. Plans to crush the Ukrainians next year to force Ukraine into Russian peace terms.

General Staff: Russians to mobilize up to 700,000 soon​

According to Ukraine’s General Staff, the Kremlin is about to start a large-scale forced mobilization in Russia proper and the occupied territories of Ukraine, targeting to conscript 400,000-700,000 people.

General Staff: Russians to mobilize up to 700,000 soon - Euromaidan Press

Russia is preparing to announce a large-scale mobilization due to heavy losses suffered on the frontlines.

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Said for months years that Russia has the ability to destroy Ukraine, waited to use full might until 2024 election season, primary and general.

This is not only more Russian election interference. Putin not only wants Biden to appear weak. Putin wants to catch Europe with their pants down, totally unprepared. Had Russia taken Ukraine in 2022 with a million Russian soldiers, decisively destroying Europe's largest land army in terms of equipment, Europe would have had nearly 3 years to rearm and get nukes. Russian delays in destroying Ukraine gets Europe with their pants down and then Europe would be vulnerable to Russian attack having not rearmed.

I waited for US to give Ukraine enough weapons to destroy Russia. I waited for a European rearmament.

Russia wants to invade Moldova:

Russian General Lets Slip a Secret Plan to Invade Another Country and Seize Ukraine’s Entire Coastline

Artyom AnikeevAs Russian troops tighten their grip on the strategic port town of Mariupol, their strategy is finally becoming clear. Russian military commander Rustam Minnekaev now says the second phase of President Vladimir Putin’s “special operation” is focused on establishing a “land...

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Russia could invade NATO Europe if successful in Ukraine:

Russian General Admits Ukraine Just a 'Stepping Stone' to Invade Europe​

MSN

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A peace that gives Russia parts of Ukraine is a victory of Russia, and endangers European neighbors because if Russia is not crushed in Ukraine, Russia plans for more wars and annexations irregardless of how much Russia wins of Ukraine. A Russian victory is the catalyst of Russia invading NATO Europe.

Worst case scenario, Ukraine loses. That means Europe has 1 1/2 years to rearm. Europe wasted over 1 1/2 years. Do you really want to listen to Trump tell you "I told you so, Putin and me used to talk about a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and I thought Putin could invade further." Do you really want to listen to this as Russia occupies you.

Weapons defend nations.

I shared this video many times. Europe needs to rearm.

The view that if Europe rearms it would provoke Putin to a general mobilization blew up in your face. That was told to you to get Europe into another Putin trap. The first trap was the energy natural gas pipeline trap. The next trap was telling Europe to stay weak, strength would provoke Adolf Putin. Russia has prepared for war for about a decade, Europe has been deceived into weakness. The solution is rearmament, stockpile ammunition, get nukes. Self-sufficiency and self-reliance in every aspect of European economic, political, military and societal affairs.

Europe has the economic capacity to blow away Russia in terms of rearmament. Though Europe probably needs 5 years to do so, Europe had ~3 years with Biden. Now it is less than 1 1/2 years.

The best opportunity to rearm is not only the soonest, it is when you are fully protected by pro-EU Biden and Democrats (under the shield of Biden, Europe could have done a massive rearmament). Europe was offered Putins head on a platter, and said "no thank you, we would rather not rearm".

 

[Mohsin A]

Zelenskyy talks about compromising with Putin on this CNN interview with Fareed Zakaria.

Which answer most people question why Ukraine don't want to talk to Russia to end the war.

https://x.com/narrative_hole/status/1701321576635834440?s=20

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1701165744732397958?s=20

 

[Mohsin A]

https://x.com/squatsons/status/1700690126530306145?s=20

 

[Mohsin A]

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1701131751815336335?s=20

https://x.com/narrative_hole/status/1701262454318059544?s=20

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1700970785555218532?s=20

https://x.com/narrative_hole/status/1701319993403617466?s=20

 

[Mohsin A]

https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1700900683514323039?s=20

 

[Mohsin A]

LMFAO!!!!

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1701342963597553725?s=20

 

[zectech]

Though drones are susceptible to EW, that is why you have artillery too

(Above post is from Feb 2023)

Apparently, not a problem for Ukraine...

Ukrainian company spends $2.7 million on assembling fleet of electronic-warfare resistant drones for military​

The main feature of the new drones are the innovative technology used in them that is resistant to electronic warfare, allowing them to attack the enemy deep behind the front line.

Ukrainian company spends $2.7 million on assembling fleet of electronic-warfare resistant drones for military

The Ukrainian company Cosmolot has reported the delivery of the first 15 Punisher attack drones to the Ukrainian military.

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[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1701387607966367857

https://twitter.com/x/status/1701379994675523613

https://twitter.com/x/status/1701406005060390965

 

[Soldier35]

Footage of a Ukrainian Kirpi armored vehicle hitting a mine has been published. This episode of the battle took place in the area of the village of Novomayorskoye. After the armored vehicle was damaged, the soldiers who got out of it came under Russian artillery fire.

 

[Soldier35]

The Russian Tunguska-M1 air defense system shoots down a Ukrainian Fury UAV. Reportedly, a 2K22M1 air defense missile system shot down a Ukrainian Fury UAV. The Fury UAV has a range of up to 50 km and reaches speeds of up to 130 km/h.

 

[Soldier35]

The Mi-28 helicopter destroys the UJ-22 Airborne UAV of Ukraine. Footage of a Russian Mi-28 helicopter pursuing a Ukrainian UJ-22 Airborne UAV. The UJ-22 Airborne drone is produced by the Ukrainian company Ukrjet and reaches speeds of up to 160 km/h, we have information about it on our channel. As a result of a short air battle, the Ukrainian UJ-22 Airborne UAV was destroyed by a 30 mm 2A42 automatic cannon mounted on a Mi-28 helicopter.

 

[FourMikeEcho]

Btw your deficit claim is false.
President Obama had the largest deficits. By the end of his final budget, FY 2017, his budget deficits totaled $6.781 trillion over his eight years in office. That's a 58% increase from President George W. Bush's last budget

Fact is obama was by far the worst, well that was until Joey entered the chat.

Feel free to read this as well

False claim Trump increased debt more than any president | Fact check

The total federal debt increased more under the Obama administration than it did under Trump, according to government data.

www.usatoday.com

Oh and here’s your cruise ship comment debunked too.
During a tour at the CDC on Friday, President Donald Trump said that the experts he consults, including Vice President Mike Pence, want to take people off the ship. However, Trump said that he didn't want the passengers raising the total case count in the US.

"I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault," Trump said in a Fox News interview.

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But Trump said that he left the decision to the experts even though he disagreed with them.

"It wasn't the fault of the people on the ship either, ok? It wasn't their fault either, and they're mostly American, so I can live either way with it," he added. "I would rather have them stay on personally, but I fully understand if they want to take them off. I gave them the authority to make the decision."

How’s China handle the virus, lock people in their apartments. How about Italy, let them die because their health system is trash….but how dare trump say words.

We can get back to Ukraine now or just keep posting fake news and I’ll keep posting about 45.

Apologies to everybody else that I keep on exchanging Trump information to bust myths (or at least attempt at it). But it is an extension of Ukraine issue so it has to happen here.

RoadAmerica, I never said Trump had the worst deficit. I said it economy in his time was no better or worse in terms of overall economic indicators. Its likely that you hear a lot of 'this was the worst under Trump' as default in your other interactions that any thing on Trump that you hear or read you take it under the same lens.
1. Economic indicators I sent (employment, GDP growth) were comparable to administrations before.
2. Deficit jumped in his time as it did in prior Presidents: Obama you are right 58%. Trump 33%. Bush: 57%
Regardless of who is President, the deficit is going in one direction. Its up. People living longer, needing social security well past the prediction models, and medicare past the amounts they paid into it. And then it gets exacerbated by stimulus programs or philosophy on tax cuts, but it keeps accruing
3. It is impossible for anybody's life to have dramatically changed because deficit was going up. It's a given in US politics.
4. If you want to address deficit then start killing the older people in your streets so they are not drawing on social security and medicaid. Till then, life goes on.
5. Your life was no better under Trump than it is now or will be under the next President up until a President addresses these macro fundamentals
6. As for inflation under Biden: US is not an exception. It's a global phenomena where inflation has kept going and finally now under control. In less fortunate countries, this means they eat less. In the US drive slightly less in the big SUVs and pick-up trucks if that sensitive. Otherwise go get a second job as there is record unemployment.


As for the COVID comments on Trump, yes I watched all the press briefings in full. May be on Fox they were censored because they were humiliating:

1. Here is the cruise ship Grand Princess conference:

'I like the numbers where they are, I don't need the numbers double because of one ship'... this is the compassion for those stuck on the ship, and complete lack of understanding that this virus will not get stopped by holding off people on a ship.
I was talking about Trumps on selfishness and competence, not his people (the experts). The fact this crossed his mind shows what a corrupt selfish person he is.

2. Bleach comment: yes also I watched the whole thing and the cringe worthy look from Deborah Brie about what she had to endure from her boss about this amateurish comments. Imagine the trillion $ Pharma industry that by virtue of innovations and grants from the NIH has already prototyped MRNA technology, somehow Trump thinks talking to his coordinator that 'she is going to test it'. Magically from speaking on the podium ' by testing it' his wish will come true.

In the end Trump deserves credit for championing the vaccines and getting it done and Biden has given him credit, so stop talking about some magical heal light technology.

If heal light had any chance of being real, that would have been the solution rolled out instead of jabs. Of course you would have still had MAGA states denying 'light' treatment but at least we would have known heal light had some scientific reality vs. a Marvel comics figment of imagination

 

[aviator_fan]

Putin, the guy that can't even go to Africa, and travels around Moscow by train, goes and meets the only friend he has. And that friend is from a country where only 26% of the country has access to electricity, and the leader also traveling by train.

Looks like this brotherly love, and also propulsion back to the 19th century is happening faster than the assertions I have made on this forum about Russia putting itself back decades industrially. Its as if cars/airplanes don't exist, and train shuttle diplomacy is the way to gol


North Korea gives the only thing it can, artillery shells

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Russia before an expected meeting with Putin

North Korea's Kim Jong Un is expected to hold a meeting with Russia's Putin, which sparked concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow's war in Ukraine.

www.cnbc.com

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Russia before an expected meeting with Putin​

Published Mon, Sep 11 202310:43 PM EDT

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A file photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin meets North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un on April 25, 2019 in Vladivostok, Russia.
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Joined by his top military officials handling his nuclear-capable weapons and munitions factories, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia on Tuesday, where he is expected to hold a rare meeting with President Vladimir Putin that has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
North Korea’s official news agency said Kim boarded his personal train from the capital, Pyongyang, on Sunday afternoon, and that he was accompanied by unspecified members of the country’s ruling party, government and military.

Jeon Ha Gyu, spokesperson of South Korea’s Defense Ministry, said in a briefing that the South’s military assesses that Kim’s train crossed into Russia sometime early Tuesday. He didn’t elaborate how the military obtained the information.
North Korean state media showed photographs of Kim walking past honor guards and crowds of civilians holding the national flag and flowers, and also of him waving from his green-and-yellow armored train before it left the station. Kim’s delegation likely includes his foreign minister, Choe Sun Hui, and his top military officials, including Korean People’s Army Marshals Ri Pyong Chol and Pak Jong Chon.
A group of senior officials were at the station to give the leader a “hearty send-off,” according to the Korean Central News Agency, which did not specify whether the train had crossed the border. Citing unidentified Russian regional officials, Japanese broadcaster TBS reported that Kim’s train crossed the border and arrived in the border town of Khasan.
A brief statement on the Kremlin’s website on Monday said the visit is at Putin’s invitation and would take place “in the coming days.” KCNA said the leaders would meet — without specifying when and where.

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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Putin and Kim will lead their delegations in talks and could also meet “one-on-one if necessary.” He added that Putin will host an official dinner for Kim.

The talks will focus on bilateral ties, Peskov said. “As with any of our neighbors, we feel obliged to develop good, mutually beneficial relations,” he added.
A possible venue is the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, where Putin arrived Monday to attend an international forum that runs through Wednesday, according to Russia’s TASS news agency. The city, located about 425 miles, or 680 kilometers, north of Pyongyang, was also the site of Putin’s first meeting with Kim in 2019.
The visit would be Kim’s first foreign trip since the Covid-19 pandemic, which had forced North Korea to enforce tight border controls for more than three years to shield its poor health care system. While Kim has shown to be more comfortable using planes than his famously flight-adverse father, he has also used his personal train for previous meetings with Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and former U.S. President Donald Trump, reviving a symbol of his family’s dynastic rule.




Associated Press journalists near the North Korea-Russia frontier saw a green train with yellow trim — similar to one used by the reclusive Kim during previous foreign trips — at a station on the North Korean side of a border river.
The train was seen moving back and forth between the station and the approach to the bridge that connects the countries, but it had not crossed the bridge as of 7 p.m. local time, or 1000 GMT.
Citing unidentified South Korean government sources, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that a Kim-Putin meeting is possible as early as Tuesday.
The Yonhap news agency and some other media published similar reports. South Korea’s Presidential Office, Defense Ministry and National Intelligence Service didn’t immediately confirm those details.

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U.S. officials released intelligence last week that North Korea and Russia were arranging a meeting between their leaders as they expand their cooperation in the face of deepening confrontations with the United States.
According to U.S. officials, Putin could focus on securing more supplies of North Korean artillery and other ammunition to refill declining reserves as he seeks to defuse a Ukrainian counteroffensive and show that he’s capable of grinding out a long war of attrition. That could potentially put more pressure on the U.S. and its partners to pursue negotiations as concerns over a protracted conflict grow despite their huge shipments of advanced weaponry to Ukraine in the past 17 months.
“Arms discussions between Russia and the DPRK are expected to continue during Kim Jong Un’s trip to Russia,” said White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson, using the abbreviation for North Korea’s official name of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “We urge the DPRK to abide by the public commitments that Pyongyang has made to not provide or sell arms to Russia.”
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Washington will monitor the meeting closely, reminding both countries that “any transfer of arms from North Korea to Russia would be a violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions,” and that the U.S. “will not hesitate to impose new sanctions.”
North Korea has possibly tens of millions of artillery shells and rockets based on Soviet designs that could potentially give a huge boost to the Russian army, analysts say.
In exchange, Kim could seek badly needed energy and food aid and advanced weapons technologies, including those related to intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear-capable ballistic missile submarines and military reconnaissance satellites, analysts say.

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There are concerns that potential Russian technology transfers would increase the threat posed by Kim’s growing arsenal of nuclear weapons and missiles that are designed to target the U.S., South Korea, and Japan. Based on North Korean state media photos, Kim’s delegation possibly includes Pak Thae Song, chairman of North Korea’s space science and technology committee, and Navy Admiral Kim Myong Sik, who are linked with North Korean efforts to acquire spy satellites and nuclear-capable submarines.
Kim Jong Un also seems to be bringing Jo Chun Ryong, a ruling party official in charge of munitions policies who had accompanied the leader on his recent tours to factories producing artilleries and missiles.
After decades of a complicated, hot-and-cold relationship, Russia and North Korea have been drawing closer since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The bond has been driven by Putin’s need for war help and Kim’s efforts to boost the visibility of his partnerships with traditional allies Moscow and Beijing as he tries to break out of diplomatic isolation and have North Korea be part of a united front against Washington.
While using the distraction caused by the Ukraine conflict to ramp up its weapons development, North Korea has repeatedly blamed Washington for the crisis in Ukraine, claiming the West’s “hegemonic policy” justified a Russian offensive in Ukraine to protect itself.
North Korea is the only nation besides Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of two Russian-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine — Donetsk and Luhansk — and it has also hinted at an interest in sending construction workers to those areas to help with rebuilding efforts.
Russia —along with China — have blocked U.S.-led efforts at the U.N. Security Council to strengthen sanctions on North Korea over its intensifying missile tests while accusing Washington of worsening tensions with Pyongyang by expanding military exercises with South Korea and Japan.



The United States has been accusing North Korea since last year of providing Russia with arms, including artillery shells sold to the Russian mercenary group Wagner. Both Russian and North Korean officials denied such claims. But speculation about the countries’ military cooperation grew after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made a rare visit to North Korea in July, when Kim invited him to an arms exhibition and a massive military parade in the capital where he showcased ICBMs designed to target the U.S. mainland.
Following that visit, Kim toured North Korea’s weapons factories, including a facility producing artillery systems where he urged workers to speed up the development and large-scale production of new kinds of ammunition. Experts say Kim’s visits to the factories likely had a dual goal of encouraging the modernization of North Korean weaponry and examining artillery and other supplies that could possibly be exported to Russia.
Some analysts say a potential meeting between Kim and Putin would be more about symbolic gains than substantial military cooperation.
Russia, which has always closely guarded its most important weapons technologies, even from key allies such as China, could be unwilling to make major technology transfers with North Korea for what is likely to be limited war supplies transported over a small rail link between the countries, they say.

 

[Solidify]

Ukraine offensive could have only 30 days left - US Army chief​

Ukraine offensive could have only 30 days left - US Army chief

Gen Mark Milley tells Laura Kuenssberg the autumn weather will make Ukraine's manoeuvres much harder.

www.bbc.com

Trump will end this war in 24 hours

Biden has totally destroyed itself under creepy Joe

Trump was against wars and the world was more stable

yes he was horrible to reporters who in turn waged war against him but in terms of ending global conflicts even with the hardest ones like North Korea he was successful

the arms manufactures were clearly not happy

Spot on Correct.

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1701294909167128894

Russian losses now exceed 12,100