Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

[Spitfire9]

Zelensky (a Israeli Ukrainian) is very succesfull in emptying Western taxpayers pockets.

I admire him.

But the Ukrainian people (not Zelenskys people) will curse him every day for exterminating millions of Ukrainians, especially the male population.

Sounds like you think it is the Ukrainian armed forces that have been exterminating people in Ukraine. Wake up. Reality is vey different to your dreams.

 

[Lool]

It is normal for Russia to have more Ukrainian bodies than Ukraine has Russian bodies, because the areas where the latest battles have been fought have come under Russia control. Even if there were 10 Russian dead for one Ukrainian, Russia would still be able to “collect” more Ukrainian bodies sinply because they are in control of the land where those people died.

So this exchange tells us nothing about the real rate of death on the frontlines.

Also, you are citing a Twitter account that calls Ukrainians the “Kiev Junta”, so the credibility of that information is zero.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1847283800210018553

 

[Lool]

Sounds like you think it is the Ukrainian armed forces that have been exterminating people in Ukraine. Wake up. Reality is vey different to your dreams.

Actually regardless of Scott's ridiculous reasoning, it is actually true that Zelensky's approval ratings hit rock-bottom. This is why Zelensky refuses to conduct new elections because he knows that he is losing it 100%

As for why the people hate him, it isnt because of exterminating Ukrainians directly but rather indirectly.....
1- The high echelons in Ukraine have become more bold to the point of publicly embezzeling state money

2- The high echelons in Kiev carry out club and night parties every day while other cities in Ukraine are being ravaged by the Russian orcs day and night

3- Electrical outage in Ukraine reached up to 16 hours per day in some cities which is just outright ridiculous while Winter is on the way..... ofcourse it is because of Russian strikes but Zelensky after 2-3 years of warfare and he still cant protect his own infrastructure

4- Zelensky have been promoting Ukraine's performance in the war while in reality Russia is slowly but surely getting closer to its goals while half of Ukrainians left the country and the other half nearly lost 10-20% of its male population

Zelensky promoted his victory if the allies helped him, sadly even with the help of the so-called allies, Ukraine wont win. It is just impossible for a failed state of 30 million citizens to defeat a nation of 140 million citizens that has its own advanced domestic military capabilities and tooooons of natural resources that pour billions of dollara into its state coffers every day

 

[Iskander]

North Koreans (10,000) in the Russian Primorsk change into Russian military uniforms, receive ammunition and head to the Ukrainian front. Is this already World War III, or should we expect the arrival of the Iranians and Chinese?

Russian-Ukrainian War on Instagram: "Footage how North Korean soldiers receive Russian equipment. Recently received footage that is no more than 72 hours old. This is the Serheev training ground in the Far East of Russia."

13K likes, 945 comments - ukraine_defence on October 18, 2024: "Footage how North Korean soldiers receive Russian equipment. Recently received footage that is no more than 72 hours old. This is the Serheev training ground in the Far East of Russia.".

www.instagram.com

 

[SilverMachine]

Zelensky not holding elections during wartime isn't in-and-of-itself unusual, that's normal wartime stuff for any besieged country. Even the banning of other political parties - while not great - I feel you can justify in the short-term, anyone even remotely less "fuck you!" toward Russia.

But it's a matter of how long he can keep that up. When all hope's lost for the war (I wouldn't go as far as to say *all* hope is lost for them *yet*, but they're certainly approaching that), he's going to have to release his grip on power and go to the people for a mandate, should they want him continuing in the role.

The North Koreans...ehh, it's hard to say really. I wouldn't really fear them much man-for-man as far as troop badassery, these aren't their grandfather's generation with the practical combat experience, but...they could become a big problem as far as expendable cannon-fodder. If it's only 10 000 guys for now, not that big a deal, but yeah, if it expands to 5, 10 times that, Ukraine could be in some fuckity shit even more than they are now. Kim says "jump" and these guys are gonna jump, even if it's suicidal, for them refusing to advance is suicide too, whether it's Putin or Kim who executes them for it.

Wave attacks have been pretty effective against Ukraine, and having a whole new source of grunts for that could be pretty game-change-y, especially with Ukraine's manpower crisis and recent strategic blunders like Kursk. 10 000 NK guys isn't anything to panic about yet, but if it's just a foot in the door and many more are coming, yeah, eep.

 

[Ryder]

Nk troops will most likely serve as Russian Asian troops. Even if NK soldiers are there they can disguise them.

 

[UkroTurk]

Nk troops will most likely serve as Russian Asian troops. Even if NK soldiers are there they can disguise them.

They are being said to be 11000 .

 

[Relic]

Two new military aid packages aid packages for Ukraine announced over the last 24 hours.

Canada announced a new military aid package for Ukraine valued at $47 million usd. The package consists of the following:

- C7 Assault Rifles
- Small Arms Ammunition
- Drone Coalition Funding
- F-16 Pilot Training Funding
- Ukrainian Military Personnel Funding
- Internet Technology Military Funding

The Netherlands announced a new military aid package for Ukraine valued at $46 million usd. The package consists of the following:

- Military Reconnaissance Drones

Canada announces new military assistance for Ukraine - Canada.ca

Today, at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defence Ministers’ meeting in Brussels, the Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, announced $64.8 million in military assistance to Ukraine.

www.canada.ca

Netherlands to provide Ukraine with $46 million in reconnaissance drones

The Netherlands will purchase reconnaissance drones worth €42.6 million ($46.3 million) from the local company DeltaQuad and transfer them to the Ukrainian Defense Forces, the Dutch Ministry of Defense announced on Oct. 18.

english.nv.ua

 

[Relic]

France announced that they will use $325 million worth of interest from frozen Russian assets to provide Ukraine with the following military aid package:

- 12 CAESAR 155mm Howitzers
- ASTER Air Defense Missiles
- AASM Guided Bombs
- 155mm Artillery Shells

France converts € 300 million of frozen Russian assets into Caesar howitzers for Ukraine - Euromaidan Press

Paris will finance 12 Caesar howitzers along with critical military hardware, including 155mm shells, Aster missiles, AASM guided bombs, and Mistral missile systems.

euromaidanpress.com

 

[Relic]

USA has agreed to loan $20 Billion usd to Ukraine for their military needs as part of the G7's promised $50 Billion usd that will be donated prior to the end of 2024. The loan will be paid back using interest garnered from frozen Russian assets. A portion of it will also be forgiveable after an undisclosed period of time.

90% of the funds are earmarked for military use and 10% of the funds are to be used for humanitarian purposes.

$20 Billion usd (plus another $30 Billion usd from the remainder of the G7) buys A LOT of military hardware in the West's continued process of destroying the Soviet stockpile that Russia's Army is burning through at an incredible rate.

US to allocate $20 billion to Ukraine as part of G7 aid from Russia's assets - FT

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newsukraine.rbc.ua

 

[Rooxbar]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1848015599466627255

 

[Soldier30]

Rare footage of a swarm of Russian kamikaze drones "Geran-2" has been published, the video was published by a resident of the Poltava region of Ukraine. Earlier, something similar was recorded in the Odessa region of Ukraine. Mass production of drones "Geran-2" has now been established in Russia. It also became known that the Russian army began to equip drones with Luneberg lenses, they are installed on the drones "Gerbera" and other models. Luneberg lenses are made in the form of a plastic ball and wrapped in foil, their use allows to increase the EPR of the drone. A drone with a Luneberg lens becomes the most contrasting target and air defense missiles are primarily aimed at them. This method allows to distract air defense forces from the "Geran-2" drones and deplete the ammunition of the missiles of the air defense systems of Ukraine.

 

[Woland]

US announced a new $400 mil PDA package:

• Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition;
• 60mm, 81mm, and 120mm mortar systems and rounds;
• Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) missiles;
• Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
• M113 Armored Personnel Carriers;
• Satellite communication equipment;
• Small arms and ammunition;
• Grenades and training equipment;
• Demolitions equipment and munitions;
• Equipment to protect critical national infrastructure; and
• Spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.

Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine

The Defense Department announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs.

www.defense.gov

 

[Woland]

The US is preparing to provide Ukraine with $800 million to finance drones manufactured in Ukraine.

Source: Zelensky evening address. https://t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official/12136

 

[Relic]

The US is preparing to provide Ukraine with $800 million to finance drones manufactured in Ukraine.

Source: Zelensky evening address. https://t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official/12136

This type of funding is critically important. It's much more expensive for USA defense contractors to build drones and ship them to Ukraine than it is for Ukraine to build them domestically. Ukraine has noted for months that it's own defense industry has significant spare capacity to create drones, armored personnel carriers, anti-tank weapons and mortar / artillery rounds, among other things. That said, they don't have the money to fund all of these products domestically and need outside funding. What they do have is the manpower and facilities to create these weapons of war.

I've been saying for some time that countries such as mine, that are running out of weapons that they can send to Ukraine from our own stockpiles, should be sending hundreds of millions of dollars per month to Ukraine to supply their own own domestic production. This is a refreshing donation by the USA. Spent properly, this will produce tens of thousands of attack drones of various types. This is an extremely cost effective way of continuing to support the West's main goal of destroying Russia's armor and their quality artillery and air defenses. $800 million usd is peanuts for USA, but it goes a hell of a long way when spent in Ukraine.

 

[Relic]

Per the latest fact sheet for Ukraine USA has donated 900 M113 APCs to the Ukrainian military. Per the Oryx Website, 164 of those units have been destroyed, damaged and abandoned by Ukrainian Forces, with a small portioned captured by the Russians as well.

What's vitally important is that Ukraine is building a stockpile of armored vehicles in their brigades as they get into the teeth of their mobilization efforts. USA has thousands of M113s that they can send as they replace them with newer APCs. Continuing to send them in batches of 100-200 at a time, slowly building Ukraine's numbers up near 1000 in service, is critically important to overcoming the attrition this war is causing.

The M113 can't be the only armored vehicle this is done with, however. USA has hundreds of spare of Bradley M2-ODS in storage. Ukraine has had 106 of the 300 units that USA has sent destroyed, damaged and abandoned in combat. Ukraine needs 300'ish of these powerful IFVs in active service, which means USA has to keep sending in large batches to keep up with attrition. At least 200 more units throughout the fall / early winter are in order. The same is true with Stryker APCs and Maxxpro / Cougar MRAPS.

 

[UkroTurk]

Turkish national defense minister meets Ukrainian foreign minister
Yasar Guler and Andrii Sybiha discuss bilateral, regional defense and security issues

Turkish national defense minister meets Ukrainian foreign minister

Yasar Guler and Andrii Sybiha discuss bilateral, regional defense and security issues - Anadolu Ajansı

www.aa.com.tr

Sybiha discusses defense cooperation with Turkish Defence Minister

During his trip to Türkiye, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha met with Defence Minister Yasar Guler.

"I was pleased to meet with Türkiye’s Defence Minister Yasar Guler. We discussed expanding our mutually beneficial defence cooperation, as well as specific joint projects that strengthen our defence industries. I thank combat general Yasar Guler for his solidarity with Ukraine," Sybiha said on X on Monday.

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interfax.com.ua

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[Relic]

British Defense Minister John Healey confirmed that Britain will contribute $2.9 Billion usd to the G7's $50 Billion usd loan to Ukraine. The first tranche of that loan will be disseminated prior to the end of 2024.

Healey noted that the entirety of Britain's portion of the loan will be used for Ukraine's military purposes. Specifically, a portion of the British funds will be used to build long range Ukrainian attack drones that can strike targets in Russsia proper.

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www.reuters.com

 

[Soldier30]

Russian kamikaze drones "Geran-2" now pose a serious threat to military and industrial facilities in Ukraine. Many means are used to combat them, but even this is not enough. Ukrainian media published footage of the interception of a Russian drone "Geran-2" by a Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force.

 

[Soldier30]

The Ukrainian army has deployed American-made M1A1 SA Abrams tanks in the Kursk region of Russia for the first time. The video shows an M1A1 Abrams and an M2A2 Bradley IFV from the 47th separate mechanized brigade "Magura" in the village of Novoivanovka in the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region. It is not clear from the video who is being fought. Meanwhile, the squad commander of the 21st separate mechanized brigade of Ukraine, Alexander Tymoshchuk, reported on the situation in the Kursk region. According to him, 350 Ukrainian soldiers entered the Kursk region, 40 people left the Kursk region alive, and now there are 15 soldiers left alive. Interview in Telegram in Ukrainian.