I can understand not wanting to part with a Patriot system, but the chances that Russia will attack Spain or Greece anytime in the foreseeable future are remote.
That’s a hell of a smoke screen.
The “Kommuna” salvage and recovery ship may have survived.
The Ukrainian armed forces claimed to have hit Kommuna while it was sitting in port in Sevastopol on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula over the weekend, but also said the "nature of the damage is being verified." It is still possible that the Russian ship suffered some degree of damage, such as from shrapnel, which is not visible in the image from Planet Labs. Whatever the case, the vessel definitely remains afloat and intact.
A video had emerged yesterday appearing to show a ship in this part of Sevastopol on fire following a Ukrainian strike. Observers have already noted that this could have been any of several other ships ablaze based on the vantage point from which the footage looks to have been shot. The satellite imagery from Plant Labs does not appear to show any other ships to either side of Kommuna with clear scorching or other indications of fire damage, either.
Those Chinese golf carts aren’t good for much when kamikaze drones zero in on them.
WARNING: Video shows Russian soldiers getting hit by drones.
Russia’s assault against Kharkiv continues unabated.
This looks like something from a WWI movie.
Novomykhailivka has been a Russian armored graveyard but they are slowing taking the town.
An update on the situation in Chasiv Yar west of Bakhmut:
Myroshnykov «What is currently happening west of Avdos and in the Chasika area is a maneuverable defense.The point is to inflict the maximum possible fire damage and losses to the enemy, and not to gnaw to the last for some villages.
It is obvious that the departure BEYOND the channel in the Chasika area is a matter of time. The advance of the enemy to the south of Ivanivskyi poses a huge threat to Klishchiivka. After all, this is its northern flank.
Also, the occupier is accumulating near Kurdyumivka - I think that activation is possible soon. This is already the southern flank of the Klishchiivka-Andriivka section.
But in order to start acting there, the occupiers need to advance as far as possible from Majorsk. What has not yet been done to the required extent.
The global questions are whether we will be able to hold the line along the canal in the direction of Chasik, and also whether it will be possible to prevent the occupiers from entering the Karliv reservoir.
A lot in the future depends on the solution of these problems on our part.»
Another 730 Russians off the battlefield.
Another careless smoker.
Yep. Fucked is correct.
This is a long thread that explores Ukraine’s balloon bombers. The thread provides a lot of technical details.
Snyder says that Russia needs to lose this war for there to be a chance to have a “normal” Russia. He points out at the end that every time Russia has lost a war — the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War and Afghanistan — it led to reforms in Russia.
I guess this means he earned a ticket back to the front.
Kadyrov has more lives than a cat. I’ll believe this when he’s in the ground.
Russia loses another of its big ass Tulip mortars.
This highlights the importance of investigative journalism — holding the feet of people and corporations to the fire.
The Bradley is one of the success stories of this war along with HIMARS, ATACMS, Storm Shadows, IRIS-T and Patriots.
Russian soldiers aren’t going to be able to swat these down with sticks.
Josh Hawley needs to check his facts as well as his spelling.
Oh, c’mon, a little radiation in the water never hurt anyone, right?
Gosh, if only Russia had spent as much money on infrastructure as it is spending on war.
Tyumen is east of Yekaterinburg in Siberia.
No Olympic truce.
Ridiculous that it took this long.
Let’s hope he comes home soon.