It doesn't really matter to me why he was arrested. My interest is in seeing any wealthy, powerful, influential Russian person who travels to a country whose tax money is supporting Ukraine's defense, arrested on the spot and held as bargaining chip against Russia... Shouldn't have left Russia...
France 🇫🇷 has arrested Russian billionaire, Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov. The Russian was arrested in Paris on numerous charges. One can only hope they freeze any funds he has in Europe and confiscate them to help pay the bill for Ukrainian military aid...
NSFL... The work of the 79th Air Assault Brigade and the 47th Mechanized Brigade this week against the Russians invading Ukraine. Some of these kills are extremely up close and personal. It reminds you that the Russian military, while completely guilty of their invasions and war crimes, is...
New military aid package from USA 🇺🇸 announced today. A fairly standard package consisting mostly of the staple weaponry Ukraine uses. The package is valued at $125 million usd and consists of the following:
- Counter drone systems
- Counter drone munitions
- ATACMS / GMLRS for HIMARS
-...
Lots of news today...
Ukraine struck and destroyed the Russian ferry in the port of Kavkaz that Russia has been using to transport rail cars worth now supplies to Crimea.
Ukraine struck the Marinovka air base in the Volgograd region, destroying an ammunition storage facility and several...
Several days ago Ukraine struck the massive Russia oil storage facility in Proletarsk, Rostov Oblast. This facility is one of Russia's largest and it was only built a few years ago. The facility continues to burn, with additional storage tanks catching fire. 22 of the 44 storage tanks have...
Ukraine struck a Russian S-300 battery in Rostov Oblast. The fate of the entirety of the battery is not known, but at least some components were struck.
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 announced that it is purchasing 51 radars for Ukraine, sensitive enough to detect drones. Delivery of the drones will be done in batches, starting in Q4 2024.
You need armor and artillery to conduct offensives. There is no reality in which Ukraine can take the offensive to Russia if it doesn't have sufficient armor to go on the offensive.
Both sides are losing loads of armor and artillery to drone strikes and counter battery fire. Defended land is...
Germany 🇩🇪 announced the delivery if new military aid to Ukraine. The package consists of the following...
- 1 IRIS-T SLS air defense system
- 14,000 155mm artillery shells
- 10 unmanned surface vessels
- 26 Vector reconnaissance drones
- Explosive ordnance
- 6 High mobility engineers...
Right now is a critical time to ensure that support for Ukraine continues. Mobilization is in full swing and Ukrainians continue to train in large numbers, both I'm Ukraine and across Europe. That said, this remains a high attrition war for both sides and Ukraine is going to require fresh...
Another Russian column tried to advance near Kurakhovo and Ukraine's 79th Brigade was waiting for them. Russia attacked with 3 MBTs and 23 armored vehicles of multiple varieties...
Waiting for video confirmation to confirm, but Russian Telegram is buzzing about another large Rusian convoy being ambushed and destroyed by a HIMARS strike. Apparently this time the ambush took place near Korenevo as Russian tried to bring in reinforcements.
Politico is reporting an extremely important development. The Biden administration 🇺🇸 is "considering" sending JASSM cruise missiles to Ukraine to be used by Ukraine's newly acquired F-16s.
Why is this an important development? Two reasons.
1. This reporting means that JASSMs WILL be...
Germany 🇩🇪 has announced that they will deliver the following additional components of military aid to Ukraine by the end of 2024.
2x IRIS-T SLM Air Defense Batteries
2x IRIS-T SLS Air Defense Batteries
10x Gepard Air Defense Systems
30x Leopard 1A5 MBTs
12x Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers
4x...
Ukraine 🇺🇦 received another tranche of macro financial funds from the EU, totaling $4.6 Billion usd.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-receives-42-billion-euros-eu-prime-minister-says-2024-08-13/
My dude, I'm well aware that Ukraine is enduring losses. They lost 5 BTRs and a number of troops near Giri. They've suffered lost MRAPS, strykers, Bradleys, Marders and artillery... You don't go on the offense and not suffer losses. That's not how peer on peer war works.
But Ukraine now has...
Food for thought. In 6 days Ukraine has taken 80% as much land in Russia as Russia has taken in Ukraine throughout the entirety of 2024. Ukraine has lost a handful of armored vehicles and very few personnel. Russia, on the other hand, has lost tens of thousands of soldiers and thousands of...
1967 border with relevant land swaps that allow Palestine to be a continuous country and Israel to keep some of the important lands that they've won through war. Finally, a DMZ line separating Israel and the "new" Palestine... That would be my ideal scenario.
