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The WORLD today..
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Imposing air interdiction..
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

The enemy has increased the intensity of the use of aircraft to destroy the vital infrastructure of the settlements in the area of active hostilities.

▪️ In the Volyn and Polesia regions, Belarusian units intensified reconnaissance, in particular in the border areas of the Gomel region. There is still a threat of missile and air strikes against targets on the territory of Ukraine.

▪️ In the northern direction, the enemy continues to bomb settlements and infrastructure facilities in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions. And carried out bombings in the regions of Boyaro-Lizhache, Oletsia, Bunyaken, Herki, Grimayash and Maravi.

▪️ In the direction of Slobozansky, the enemy is fighting to preserve the occupied borders in the direction of Kharkiv and to prevent our troops from entering the state border.

▪️ A group of hostile forces is preparing to resume the offensive in the Slavic direction. And the occupiers carried out artillery bombardment on the areas of the settlements of Vernobyl, Debrevne and Duvinke.

▪️ In the Belgorod region, the enemy deployed operational and tactical Iskander-M missile launchers. In addition, the enemy is increasing the logistics system and repair bases.

▪️ In the direction of Donetsk, the occupiers are trying to break through the defense of our forces and reach the administrative borders of the Luhansk region

▪️ The enemy launched air raids on civilian infrastructure in the regions of Vropivka and Bakhmut.

▪️ The enemy did not conduct any active hostilities in the direction of Lyman. He shot at infrastructure installations in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlements of Liman, Ozren, Zakitny, Dibrova and Serebryanka.

▪️ In the direction of Severodonetsk, using mortars and artillery, the enemy fired at the positions of the defense forces along the entire line of contact, and concentrated efforts in the direction of the settlements of Severodonetsk and Lysechansk. The enemy launched offensive and offensive operations in the Oskolonivka, Bordivka, Shedrichchev and Smolyaninov regions. The attack was repulsed, the enemy suffered losses and was forced to retreat to the ancient positions.

▪️ In the direction of Bakhmut and with the support of artillery, the enemy tried to improve the tactical situation in the areas of the settlements of Trebela, Lebov and Vasilivka, and the fighting continued.

▪️ In the direction of Avdiivka, the Russian occupiers incurred losses in the area of the Krasnohorivka settlement.

▪️ In the direction of Kurakhev, the enemy launched attacks in the Marinka region, but they were unsuccessful. He shot Novomykhailivka and Volodymyrivka. He carried out air strikes on the settlements of Mikkelsky and Katrinivka

▪️ In the directions of Novobavlovsk and Zaporizhzhgi, the enemy tried to gain a foothold on the occupied border, bombing the positions of the defense forces and civilian infrastructure.

▪️The enemy did not conduct any active hostilities in the South Bug area. He concentrates his main efforts on maintaining the occupied frontiers, carrying out reconnaissance and engineering activities for the sites. The defense forces' positions were bombarded with mortars and artillery. Increases the air defense system.

▪️ The situation has not changed in the direction of Besarabian.

▪️ Over the past 24 hours, 9 enemy attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk were repelled, 5 tanks, 4 artillery systems, 10 units of armored combat vehicles and 2 enemy vehicles were destroyed. One Orlan-10 aircraft was hit by air defense units.

▪️ Anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force shot down two cruise missiles, and attack aircraft destroyed 12 units of enemy military equipment


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Viet said:
You are clueless. the US never runs out of money if they need money they just print the money. Same for most countries in the world. UK, Japan, Vietnam China, India, Pakistan, you name it. Even Russia. If Putin wants to pay his fighting soldiers in Ukraine he prints rubles.
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It doesn't works like that, BTW, with a $25 trillions GDP, they have some margin before getting bankrupt
Paul2 said:
As of now, Ukraine really needs not the talk about hundreds of units of Western weapons, but thousands to break the wave.

Even with lend lease signed, there are physical limits to how many weapons US can bring to Europe. And it will still be an absolutely massive logistic operation, with rail from Poland having to work non-stop.
The easiest way would be to just give US army equipment in Europe to Ukraine, and replace it later from CONUS.
Aviation is desperately needed, but well, pilots will have to be trained in an extreme hurry.

Bayraktars ran out of ammo, and Turkey has since stopped sending new missiles after shipping 2 reloads. They seem to have ran out of stock themselves, and now there is talk of getting Azerbaijan sending part of its ammo stocks. Bayraktar was the thing which held Russian artillery at bay in first weeks of the war, but can't now because no ammo.
Antiradiation weapons are a need of the day to let Ukrainian manned aircraft fly above MANPADs ceiling
TBMs, and MRBMs are required to go after big fat targets like HQs, and bridges
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You obviously have no issues what freaking weapons stockpile is NATO, especially the Yanks... The cumulated military budget is about 2 thirds+ of Russia's GDP !!!!
It would be even bigger if I was in charge of mil budgets at EU level since I advocate a 2% minimum spending for all EU countries... It'd mean a boost of about $150bn

You're really underestimating the US logistics, there are more than a cargo airline company dreaming to have something like that... In fact, I think that EU should enter as a shareholder in some of these companies rather than developing an USAF-like cargo fleet : we don't have the same needs as they're around 800-1000 overseas bases and it's an extension we don't feel like doing, but, at the same time, every time a fast deployment was needed, it was a headache... Having companies like DHL becoming dual-use ones would be rather clever, they may even start using A400M, it would be great to start a mass production of An-225 unless Airbus is into correcting the terrible mistake of not making a cargo version of the A380... Now, you know, it'd take only 6-7 days to a giant CMA/CGM or Maersk container carrier to move 200,000-250,000t of freight from the USA to St.Nazaire, Marseille, Antwerpen or Rotterdam.

Antiradiation weapons are not necessary at all: France did the biggest of the SEAD over Libya while having fully stopped to use these since end 90's, hey, you're speaking about networked air defences, with these things, they cut the targetted radar while another takes the relay, at least, it's what they'll get if Russian/Soviets ARMs can be obtained, the latest AGM-88 is not integrated on MiG-29/Su-27/Su-24/Su-25, in such case, OK, there is also optical targetting.

Aviation wouldn't be an issue if some had more brain or history knowledge : all that would be needed would be applying the Flying Tigers principle. Was I in MacRon's seat, UkrAF would probably already long have 3 squadrons like that :
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I'd come with a deal of my style with Zelen : order 8 squadrons, get 3 immediately, just prepare Ukrainian passports and ids for the pilots : Ukraine has a foreign legion, let's add an air branch (and secure the biggest Rafale export contract at the same time. Add full backing for immediate entry in the EU+NATO once the war is over... This is called a non-null sum game AKA win-win)...

54 units means the same operational capability as 171 F-16s : in intensive use, these would allow 600 sorties per 24h (!!!) and even without the F4 upgrade, you can already come enough close to a S-400 to drop glide bombs on it, moreover, even Russian and Israeli weapons have been integrated on India's demand... Let's have these operate from roads in Romania, Slovakia, Poland, the Orcs won't even understand what is happening, something that maybe Putler may remember from the time he was 15 years old and Israel demolished the Soviet-equipped Arab armies in 6 days... Israel only had 60 Mirages.

I think Dassault may be able to fast track the integration of the BAT-120LG, time to put the racks for 18 of its parent-bomb, the BAP-100, out of the closet... This 35kg LGB would be rather nice for CAS. Biden surely can provide CBU-94/105 in numbers (each can demolish 40 tanks or vehicles) as well as huge numbers of JDAMs and Paveways. I pest on the cretin that ordered only 100 Apache ALCMs and the cretin in Germany who cancelled the order : with 100 units, there are only means to demolish 16 runways 400km deep into Mordor or Isengard and there are 37 in need to see their foundations ruined...

I'd love to see Zelen doing a nightly speech thanking a non disclosed country for the contract for 152 jet fighters (8 squadrons + 8 spare aircraft) and the immediate delivery of 54 units, and for having trained UkrAF pilots (LOL), "and, to celebrate the event, we just offered some fireworks to my great friend Vladolf Putler, I've just received a bulletin confirming that the Crimean bridge has just been blown, the Black Sea fleet has been transformed into a restaurant franchise for the hammerhead sharks, air defences as well as airbases and the HQs in Crimea have just been demolished, then declaring Ukraine a no fly zone and a no drive zone in occupied areas...
By no drive zone, I mean THIS :
Mark my words, it wont take more than a single raid with CBU-97 or CBU-105 to send a clear message to the tankies : go back to Mordor or star the Nature Channel documentary "The Russian Tank - an endangered species. Nature documentary narrated by Richard Attenborough"
 
jhungary said:
Actually, the situation in the East is going Ukrainian way.

Right now the only offensive Russian are doing is toward Severodonetsk, which means the 2 axis(es) we have been talking about since like 2 weeks ago. Izyum axis and Donetsk axis. The problem is, they are having supply issue with Izyum and Donetsk front would take weeks if not months of reconstruction before they can be move on as a combat force, that is if they have enough men to do so after 80 days in Mariupol. At this current rate, the Russian offensive is stalled on this and the realistic goal (for now) for the Russian is to simply take Severodonetsk, but then they are running into the same problem they have been facing in Kyiv, stiff resistance and supply problem, also, for the Russian to be able to encircle Severodonetsk, you would need to cross the Don river. Which is harder to do than when they are in Kyiv.

My appraisal of the situation is, either the Russia will fail in severodonetsk or they will take severodonetsk but will blunt their Eastern Advance, there are no way Russia can change the matrix unless they are able to raise more troop, and that is the problem here, conventional estimation suggested they have used up 50-70% reserve in this, they still need them to defend Russia, which mean they are going to have manpower issue in the coming months.

Another thing we can see from the recent Russian Assault is that they are small unit action, company size force break out of Popasna trying to link up with the force in Severodonetsk. That tell me two things.

1.) Russia is not willing or not able to risk majority manpower to do this.
2.) Russia is having unit cohesion issue

Most of the last 2 weeks were Ukrainian trading space with time, that probably lead to Russian using smaller scale attack so not to lost a bulk of their combat power on this delay action. Which I can say Ukrainian is doing it job at least for now.

But if you are talking about a general Ukrainian counter offensive, then yes, they will need thousand of heavies and an airforce.
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Yes, I am talking about the war as a whole.


Twist it, or turn it, they have 7 field armies on their soil, whom they now attrite at a rate of 0.5-1 battalion per week. Russians replenish at around at around the same rate for cannon fodder, and still have massive artillery advantage.

Russians cannot replenish things like pilots for tanks, and aviation, but for everything else, it's fine for them.

Even if they will be reduced to infantry, armoured cars, towed, and mortars, they can last for a really long time if they decide to dig in now. And "dig in now" is exactly what they are doing now.

The need for disruptive sideway pushes, and attack on enemy rear to prevent that is very obvious.
 
The SC said:
Why is the Russian uranium card more dangerous than cutting gas for Europe?

Europe highly dependent on Russian uranium for nuclear power plants - report​


https://www.cleanenergywire.org/new...t-russian-uranium-nuclear-power-plants-report
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Time for fastbreeders like Superphénix and make nuclear fuel a renewable energy

Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of natural uranium during 2020.
  1. Kazakhstan: US$1.7 billion (56% of natural uranium exports)
  2. Canada: $1.0 billion (33.6%)
  3. United States: $214.3 million (7%)
  4. Ukraine: $80.3 million (2.6%)
  5. Netherlands: $13.5 million (0.4%)
  6. South Africa: $8.5 million (0.3%)
  7. Germany: $1.5 million (0.05%)
  8. France: $777,000 (0.03%)
  9. Sweden: $644,000 (0.02%)
  10. Egypt: $265,000 (0.01%)
  11. Switzerland: $121,000 (0.004%)
  12. Russia: $77,000 (0.003%)
  13. Malaysia: $23,000 (0.001%)
  14. United Kingdom: $17,000 (0.001%)
  15. India: $10,000 (0.0003%)
WHICH RUSSIAN URANIUM ???? FRANCE EXPORTS 10x MORE URANIUM THAN RUSSIA !!!
BTW, if ever it's 93.5% enriched uranium (military grade), you don't even get 2kg for $77,000
:cheers: Prosit for your 85 Rubles BS post !!!
 
Raffie said:
You meant naZis liberating Mariupol from the troops of Jew Zelinskiy I suppose... because...
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Meet with Wagner PMC :
Russian neo-Nazis in the ranks of Wagner PMC
Death of a mercenary unveils the neo-Nazi roots of Wagner
Wagner PMC leader Dmotry Utkin has funny tattoos...
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Russian "Orthodox" church : 100% naZi, 0% Christian : calls for genocide, baptizes even nuclear weapons. The "patriarch" is an ex-KGB and Putler's buddy...
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Rehearsal of May 9th, 2022 Parade St. Petersburg has a 4th Reich smell
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HEIL PUTLER!!!
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That is some shit at another level that I am not going to bother to bust it. It was the Russians who defeated NAZIs in World War II while they lost 25 million people. When you sacrifice that huge number of people in order to defeat NAZISM, then come and talk. Otherwise, whatever photo-shop you did over there is just rubbish.
 
Paul2 said:
Yes, I am talking about the war as a whole.


Twist it, or turn it, they have 7 field armies on their soil, whom they now attrite at a rate of 0.5-1 battalion per week. Russians replenish at around at around the same rate for cannon fodder, and still have massive artillery advantage.

Russians cannot replenish things like pilots for tanks, and aviation, but for everything else, it's fine for them.

Even if they will be reduced to infantry, armoured cars, towed, and mortars, they can last for a really long time if they decide to dig in now. And "dig in now" is exactly what they are doing now.

The need for disruptive sideway pushes, and attack on enemy rear to prevent that is very obvious.
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Ukraine is currently training 100K new recruits. Expect a large counteroffensive by autumn.
 
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Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of natural uranium during 2020.
  1. Kazakhstan: US$1.7 billion (56% of natural uranium exports)
  2. Canada: $1.0 billion (33.6%)
  3. United States: $214.3 million (7%)
  4. Ukraine: $80.3 million (2.6%)
  5. Netherlands: $13.5 million (0.4%)
  6. South Africa: $8.5 million (0.3%)
  7. Germany: $1.5 million (0.05%)
  8. France: $777,000 (0.03%)
  9. Sweden: $644,000 (0.02%)
  10. Egypt: $265,000 (0.01%)
  11. Switzerland: $121,000 (0.004%)
  12. Russia: $77,000 (0.003%)
  13. Malaysia: $23,000 (0.001%)
  14. United Kingdom: $17,000 (0.001%)
  15. India: $10,000 (0.0003%)
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It would be great to get the source for this.
 
F-22Raptor said:
Ukraine is currently training 100K new recruits. Expect a large counteroffensive by autumn.
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And how many Russia is training.. 1 000 000!?

Not saying this for love of Russia or hatred of Ukraine.. but rationally Ukraine can not win this was.. it can resist but it can't win.. as simple as that.. it made a big mistake attaking its own Russian speaking citizens (most likely pushed by those who wanted a war in that region proposing some vague promises).. and now it will pay for it.. simple.. just try to swallow and digest that NATO does not wish a war with Russian.. can Ukraine wage it really!???

Gomig-21 said:
It would be great to get the source for this.
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That is natural Uranium.. it is possible.. but the the articles are talking about Russian Enriched Uranium..

The guy is apparently confused !
 
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