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SwedishAdvocate
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The shadowy network smuggling European microchips into Russia
A rare look inside a covert Russian-led operation to get strategic technology protected by European export controls into the hands of the state
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SwedishAdvocate
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Can't find this info anywhere else, but according to Denys in the vid above (at the 19:28 mark), Germany is sending one(!) MBB Bo 105 attack helicopter to UKR. Guessing it has similar capacity as the Russian Dictator's Ka-52s... I wonder when it will be operational near the front lines...
As I understand it Germany has sold 12 units of something similar to Albania. Maybe a couple of those can be bought by the EU and sent to UKR?...
SwedishAdvocate
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Allegedly:
Rasputitsa has arrived in at least parts of UKR.
Posted yesterday on Twitter/X by:
@PStyle0ne1
Ladies and gentlemen
Here is a Russian trench
They are collecting for snorkeling equipment while we collect for FPV drones...
Rasputitsa has arrived in at least parts of UKR.
Posted yesterday on Twitter/X by:
@PStyle0ne1
Ladies and gentlemen
Here is a Russian trench
They are collecting for snorkeling equipment while we collect for FPV drones...
SwedishAdvocate
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Posted today on Twitter/X. From:
https://twitter.com/NOELreports
Allegedly:
According to Yuriy Ignat, the spokesman of the Air Force, some Ukrainian pilots, in particular in Denmark, are already undergoing training in the air with instructors on F-16 aircraft.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports
Allegedly:
According to Yuriy Ignat, the spokesman of the Air Force, some Ukrainian pilots, in particular in Denmark, are already undergoing training in the air with instructors on F-16 aircraft.
SwedishAdvocate
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During his visit to UKR, Boris Pistorius today expressed his solidarity and admiration for the people of UKR, and assured Ukraine further Military support.
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Germany Pledges 1.3 Billion Euros In Additional Military Aid To Ukraine
Germany has pledged a further 1.3 billion euros ($1.42 billion) in military aid for Ukraine that will include another four powerful IRIS-T air-defense systems as well as artillery ammunition, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced during a visit to Kyiv on November 21.
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Imagine getting trench foot in 2023. Crazy timesAllegedly:
Rasputitsa has arrived in at least parts of UKR.
Posted yesterday on Twitter/X by:
@PStyle0ne1
Ladies and gentlemen
Here is a Russian trench
They are collecting for snorkeling equipment while we collect for FPV drones...
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I’ve seen articles like these in several publications over the last few days. Seems like the establishment wants this messaging out there:
”Ukrainian front-line units are commonly 20% to 40% below full strength, said Ihor Romanenko, a military analyst and retired Ukrainian lieutenant general. “Because of the shortage of infantry, those remaining are tired,” he said. There is little scope for rest or rotation.”
www.wsj.com
www.telegraph.co.uk
”Ukrainian front-line units are commonly 20% to 40% below full strength, said Ihor Romanenko, a military analyst and retired Ukrainian lieutenant general. “Because of the shortage of infantry, those remaining are tired,” he said. There is little scope for rest or rotation.”
Tired Ukrainian Troops Fight to Hold Back Russian Soldiers: ‘They Come Like Zombies’
Russia is taking heavy casualties in the mud of eastern Ukraine as it presses to encircle the city of Avdiivka.
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Depleted Ukrainian forces fear they cannot win Russian ‘war of exhaustion’
Kyiv is struggling to replenish its battle-weary brigades, with Vladimir Putin’s men aided by a significantly larger population
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navguy12
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In today’s morning newsfeed from the Guardian:I’ve seen articles like these in several publicsrions over the last few days. Seems like the establishment wants this messaging out there:
”Ukrainian front-line units are commonly 20% to 40% below full strength, said Ihor Romanenko, a military analyst and retired Ukrainian lieutenant general. “Because of the shortage of infantry, those remaining are tired,” he said. There is little scope for rest or rotation.”
Tired Ukrainian Troops Fight to Hold Back Russian Soldiers: ‘They Come Like Zombies’
Russia is taking heavy casualties in the mud of eastern Ukraine as it presses to encircle the city of Avdiivka.
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Depleted Ukrainian forces fear they cannot win Russian ‘war of exhaustion’
Kyiv is struggling to replenish its battle-weary brigades, with Vladimir Putin’s men aided by a significantly larger population
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch meets Volodymyr Zelenskiy in signal of support for Ukraine
Media mogul was accompanied by Fox News’ Benjamin Hall, who was injured while covering the war, and Jerome Starkey from UK tabloid the Sun
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SwedishAdvocate
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I’ve seen articles like these in several publicsrions over the last few days. Seems like the establishment wants this messaging out there:
”Ukrainian front-line units are commonly 20% to 40% below full strength, said Ihor Romanenko, a military analyst and retired Ukrainian lieutenant general. “Because of the shortage of infantry, those remaining are tired,” he said. There is little scope for rest or rotation.”
Tired Ukrainian Troops Fight to Hold Back Russian Soldiers: ‘They Come Like Zombies’
Russia is taking heavy casualties in the mud of eastern Ukraine as it presses to encircle the city of Avdiivka.
View attachment 992680
Depleted Ukrainian forces fear they cannot win Russian ‘war of exhaustion’
Kyiv is struggling to replenish its battle-weary brigades, with Vladimir Putin’s men aided by a significantly larger population
Similar stories about conditions on the Russian Dictator's side of the frontline are coming from Russian so called 'milbloggers'. Here's one posted today on Twitter/X by this account:
@NOELreports
Allegedly:
"Another update from Russian channel Two Majors, citing sources in the area of Krynky, occupied Kherson region.
"Hello, I would like to share my combat experience of working near the Krynky settlement. The only pluses are probably two guys from Wagner, who taught the detachment personnel a lot, including me, because of this we only get by with a load of 300 (wounded) The work takes place in very harsh conditions, especially in such weather as it is now, rain, wet snow, wind, swamps and mud. If it were not for the purchase of equipment, appropriate clothing and the help of volunteers, many people would have already fallen ill.
Let's move on. The lack of aerial reconnaissance with UAVs slows down any of our movements very much and puts the lives of our guys at risk; you always expect an ambush, because the Ukrainian recon groups are walking everywhere.
Lack of fire support from artillery and mortars. It is there, but after several shots they leave, because active counter-battery work is underway, in the forest behind us. If I’m not mistaken, there was a number of mortar crews, in total they fired about 20 mortars, when they began to fly at them, for your understanding.
The last, very problematic issue is interaction with neighbouring units. It is practically non-existent. But here again, Wagner decides, through old contacts found people with whom we are now actively working, up to the evacuation of guys in case of emergency.
In general, the picture is that the headquarters is given the wrong picture or delayed for a few days, because of which the planning is not quite successful. Well and one more thing, we have a lot of people with no experience in combat, this plus one fear in the piggy bank, the situation when a man has a weapon and he is very afraid is not pleasant, and when the commanders are alarmists and shout about recon - I'm silent."
Bah - that's nothing. Looking at that picture I was envisioning trenchnose.
????????????????? Weren't Ukrainian pilots supposed to have done that somewhere like 6 months ago?
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Dead Teslas are being resurrected in a thriving industry in Ukraine
Ukraine's wreck importers have made a name for themselves by fixing electric vehicles that have been declared total losses in North America.
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Putler is expanding his operations
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Why Putin is so Afraid of Euro Maidan? Revolution of Dignity in Brief
Freedom and dignity values [are] extremely important for Ukrainian society but are also seen as a threat to Russian population and especially Putin. A free strong developing country next to the dying Russian Empire is something Putin does not need and does not want. [...] His fear of a revolution [to] change his regime is one of the reasons of the full scale war that he started back in 2014.
Timothy Snyder has also said this fear is what motivated Putin's war.
Dead Teslas are being resurrected in a thriving industry in Ukraine
Ukraine's wreck importers have made a name for themselves by fixing electric vehicles that have been declared total losses in North America.
There is something in Slavic culture that guys buy broken appliances and cars, repair them and sell them on. A friend of mine was married to a Ukrainian immigrant PhD student. She said their driveway was always full of broken cars. She usually had to park on the street. He didn't really need the money, but he was constantly on the look out for a broken down car he could fix up and sell on. It was a compulsion with him.
I've known others from Slavic cultures that were the same.
RobStark
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You would have to pay a master electrician or equivalent $150/hr plus to fix the powertrain in the US.
In Ukraine a person with same skill set might be willing to work for $10/hr.
Plus, American car insurance companies are normally risk averse. Doubly so with electric cars. When in doubt just total the BEV.
I wounder if they are keeping NACS or switching to CCS2?
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