Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

[harris]

Soviet is dangerous to china, Russia is not.

if Russia be defeated, a lot of countries in Europe and the middle aisa will arise to replace Russia, it will disaster.

 

[Iskander]

Soviet is dangerous to china, Russia is not.

It's clear

if Russia be defeated, a lot of countries in Europe and the middle aisa will arise to replace Russia, it will disaster.

It's unclear.
Do you mean that the USSR, which Putin wants to revive, will be beneficial for Europe and Middle Asia?

 

[harris]

It's clear

It's unclear.
Do you mean that the USSR, which Putin wants to revive, will be beneficial for Europe and Middle Asia?

Russia can bring principle and order to the middle asia.
China don't care Europe, Europe is nothing.

 

[Passenger]

If China do not care Europe, why there is a program called "the Belt and Road".

 

[Passenger]

I donot think Putin(or Russia leadership) is going to revive CCCP, Russia is not controlled by a single willpower, same as other country. I also donnot think Russia is going to fail this war. Russia had not ask for help to China(Even anyone has great willing to sell them weapon), the cooperation still keep in economy relationship, same as the relationship with Ukraine.

 

[Iskander]

Russia can bring principle and order to the middle asia.
China don't care Europe, Europe is nothing.

Europe is nothing?
Compared to what?
It considers itself the center of the universe, but to you, that's nothing...
There's France, a rich country with its own military traditions and, among other things, 200 nuclear warheads.
The UK is also a nuclear power. Incidentally, they recently decided to allocate a trillion US dollars for military needs until 2040.
There's Germany, which even earlier decided to allocate almost the same amount for the same purposes.
In the last century, the Germans fought for six years, practically without allies, against almost the entire world!
Colleague, Germany's GDP alone is probably greater than the GDP of all of Africa and... Azerbaijan combined
I don't know about today, but a century ago, when the Germans began arming themselves, all of Europe trembled with fear for a long time.

What principles can Russia bring to Central Asia? A hundred years ago, the Russians decided to "make the whole world happy," not just Central Asia, by introducing "the principles of communism," and they ruled half the world. True, the Russians later admitted they had lost their way, taken the wrong path. That's when all their followers told them to go to hell.

What kind of order can the Russians establish in Central Asia? The same one they're establishing in Ukraine? I don't understand what you mean.

Are you familiar with the Russian order?

What's wrong with the people of Central Asia? Are you even familiar with them? I've lived half my life in Russia and Central Asia.
I'аm interested in your opinion.

 

[Soldier30]

A Russian soldier's battle scene near Seversk in the Donbas. The video shows a Russian soldier destroying a Ukrainian bunker using a TM-62 anti-tank mine. It's worth noting that this method is also used in the Ukrainian army.
After the bunker is destroyed, a Ukrainian FPV drone arrives. The soldier repels the drone's attack with small arms fire. The drone's battery is presumably damaged.

 

[Soldier30]

The Russian army continues to attack Ukrainian energy facilities. Videos show drone strikes on Ukrainian transformer substations, wind turbines, and other energy facilities. The locations of some of the facilities are shown on a map. Russian kamikaze drones, such as Geran-2 and Gerbera, Lancet drones, and FPV drones, were allegedly used in the attacks.

 

[Iskander]

I donot think Putin(or Russia leadership) is going to revive CCCP, Russia is not controlled by a single willpower, same as other country. I also donnot think Russia is going to fail this war. Russia had not ask for help to China(Even anyone has great willing to sell them weapon), the cooperation still keep in economy relationship, same as the relationship with Ukraine.

It seems to me that you, like most of our esteemed forum participants, rarely visit Russian information resources due to your lack of knowledge of the Russian language. I've heard that the Chinese internet is completely disconnected from the global one, and perhaps that's why you can't closely follow events within Russia. And why should the Chinese even care about Russia? After all, it's not (yet) capable of threatening them. But we, small countries—unfortunately located near Russia for centuries—are always on guard.
Such is our fate.

For 600 years, the Russians enslaved each nation individually, gradually and inexorably destroying all significant centers of power along their entire perimeter, across Eurasia.

In Russia and its immediate vicinity, rarely does a nation retain its national independence, its identity, its language, its culture, or even its history. Look at the map: only three peoples neighboring Russia—the Chinese, the Persians, and the Turks—have managed to preserve their independence. And even then, they ceded significant territories and populations to the Russians.

For centuries, unable to resist Russian madness, we perceived it as a natural disaster.

Many of these small peoples, in principle, would not object to existing in the same state with a larger and more powerful nation. Perhaps this is the natural order of things on Earth. Why not?! Take a break from our sinful world and look at the Universe.
Strange, but the same order exists—all the small planets revolve around some larger one. And we humans find this natural.

But listen, we are not soulless planets, aimlessly wandering in an infinite Universe.
We are people. We are nations.

We are not Russians. For us—Finns, Lithuanians, Latvians, Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Armenians, Georgians, Turks of the Caucasus and Central Asia—everything that is natural for Russians is unacceptable.

Every time the eternally restless, eternally hungry Russians bring to power some madman with ambitions similar to those of Bonaparte, wars, murders, famine, and devastation descend upon all of Eurasia. This has always been the case.
This is the perilous situation we all find ourselves in today

 

[Yasar_TR]

Stay on topic .
All off topic posts are deleted.

 

[harris]

China Russia and Brazil are nature partners

Russia and Brazil need Chinese technology
China need Russian and Brazil resource

it is reasonable for china to support Russia.
If Europe can support Ukraine,why brics can't support Russia?

Trump is also sick of the double standard of Europe. if Europe want to fight, go on pls, but you will never win.

Compared with USA and china, Europe is nothing and useless.

 

[Iskander]

China Russia and Brazil are nature partners

Russia and Brazil need Chinese technology
China need Russian and Brazil resource

it is reasonable for china to support Russia.
If Europe can support Ukraine,why brics can't support Russia?

Trump is also sick of the double standard of Europe. if Europe want to fight, go on pls, but you will never win.

Compared with USA and china, Europe is nothing and useless.

During Hossein Obama's second term, the United States decided to begin a redistribution of its forces, identifying the Pacific region as a priority for protecting its national interests. While this became clear during President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the United States in 2015, signs of this had already been present at the turn of the millennium. Even then, experts predicted that China would overtake the United States economically by 2020 and militarily by 2025. At that time, China's economic growth was incredibly rapid, several times greater than that of the United States.

If we consider all of this from the perspective of US national interests, there is nothing surprising: in an incredibly short time, China has become a true giant, challenging Washington's hegemony worldwide.

Sooner or later, all of this was bound to happen.
The rapprochement between the United States and Russia should have happened long ago! To avoid the long-overdue alliance between Moscow and Beijing.

Serious disagreements between Washington and the EU surfaced back in 2003, following Washington's decision to occupy Iraq.
Through no fault of the Americans, the Europeans, beginning in the 1990s, destroyed their military industries, thoughtlessly sold off their armored fighting vehicles without producing replacements, disarmed and downsized their armies, and so on.

I even remember this somewhat absurd incident from that time: the Netherlands decided to get rid of its top-notch Leopards, several hundred of them. Outside Europe, many countries immediately wanted to acquire these Leopards.
And now the Netherlands wants to lease 18 Leopards from Germany.

Europeans have long been warned of the danger posed by Russia. Russia was then implementing its first State Program for the Rearmament of the Army. But, alas, no one there, except Poland, took it seriously.

Yes, if you were referring to the current dire security situation in Europe, I agree with you.

As for the geopolitical preferences of your country, Brazil, alas You're right: every state chooses its allies based on its own interests.

 

[harris]

During Hossein Obama's second term, the United States decided to begin a redistribution of its forces, identifying the Pacific region as a priority for protecting its national interests. While this became clear during President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the United States in 2015, signs of this had already been present at the turn of the millennium. Even then, experts predicted that China would overtake the United States economically by 2020 and militarily by 2025. At that time, China's economic growth was incredibly rapid, several times greater than that of the United States.

If we consider all of this from the perspective of US national interests, there is nothing surprising: in an incredibly short time, China has become a true giant, challenging Washington's hegemony worldwide.

Sooner or later, all of this was bound to happen.
The rapprochement between the United States and Russia should have happened long ago! To avoid the long-overdue alliance between Moscow and Beijing.

Serious disagreements between Washington and the EU surfaced back in 2003, following Washington's decision to occupy Iraq.
Through no fault of the Americans, the Europeans, beginning in the 1990s, destroyed their military industries, thoughtlessly sold off their armored fighting vehicles without producing replacements, disarmed and downsized their armies, and so on.

I even remember this somewhat absurd incident from that time: the Netherlands decided to get rid of its top-notch Leopards, several hundred of them. Outside Europe, many countries immediately wanted to acquire these Leopards.
And now the Netherlands wants to lease 18 Leopards from Germany.

Europeans have long been warned of the danger posed by Russia. Russia was then implementing its first State Program for the Rearmament of the Army. But, alas, no one there, except Poland, took it seriously.

Yes, if you were referring to the current dire security situation in Europe, I agree with you.

As for the geopolitical preferences of your country, Brazil, alas You're right: every state chooses its allies based on its own interests.

Turkish long-standing national policies are to decouple from Asia and integrate with Europe, as well as to emerge as an independent pole in the Middle East. However, the international political and economic landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace. Turkey needs to re-examine its relations with Europe and its position in the global economic chain. Only after a comprehensive assessment can it make the right choices.

We are currently in an era of unprecedented global changes in a century. If Turkey seizes this opportunity, it could truly stand out in the Middle East. Yet this requires rigorous analysis to identify its strategic allies. Who exactly should they be?

 

[Iskander]

... If Turkey seizes this opportunity, it could truly stand out in the Middle East. Yet this requires rigorous analysis to identify its strategic allies. Who exactly should they be?

Brazil?!
Or Mexico?

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of a Russian Tornado-S multiple launch rocket hitting a temporary deployment point for the 106th Territorial Defense Brigade of Ukraine. The video was filmed near the village of Huliaipole. The Tornado-S missile strike destroyed the temporary deployment point for the Ukrainian army.

 

[blackjack]

Large news dump.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/23384269

Sobyanin announced the upcoming launch of the production of photonic integrated circuits in Zelenograd​

Used in transceivers, FIS can transmit data at speeds in excess of 100 Gbps, reducing power consumption by up to 10 times and reducing device size by up to 20 times

Editorial Board of the TASS website
13 March, 04:05
MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin inspected the Moscow Center for Photonics on the territory of the Technopolis Moscow Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Zelenograd (Alabushevo site) and said that the production of photonic integrated circuits will begin by the end of 2025.

"Technopolis Moscow is the country's largest special economic zone, which implements a number of key areas of our country's technological independence. In particular, projects such as pharmaceuticals and microelectronics are being implemented here in Zelenograd," Sobyanin said on Thursday.

The area of the Moscow Center for Photonics is 26.7 thousand square meters. The created capacities will allow the production of up to 100 thousand products per year.

"And now we have begun to develop another unique, key area for our country - the development of photonics. On behalf of the President, a project is being implemented to build a plant for the production of photonic integrated circuits. The building has been built, equipment is being supplied, commissioning is underway. I hope that by the end of the year we will receive new products that are unique for our country," the mayor said.


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Used in transceivers, FIS can transmit data at speeds in excess of 100 Gbps, reducing power consumption by up to 10 times and reducing device size by up to 20 times.

"The products manufactured here will increase the speed of data transmission by 50-100 times, which is critically important for telecommunications, including the creation of fifth-generation communication networks (5G) based on domestic equipment, space communications, as well as the implementation of projects in the development of artificial intelligence, biomedicine and other high-tech industries," the press service of the mayor's office says.

About the SEZ​

The Technopolis Moscow Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a territory with a special legal status, which has a preferential business regime for investors. The SEZ was created in 2006, but its active development began after the transfer of the project to the Moscow government in 2016. For eight years, the Technopolis Moscow SEZ has become the largest in Russia both in terms of investment and the area of operating enterprises.

Currently, more than 220 high-tech enterprises are localized in the SEZ, of which 120 have resident status. More than 22 thousand jobs have been created.

Four intersectoral clusters have been formed in the Technopolis Moscow SEZ: pharmaceutical, electric vehicle construction, photonics and microelectronics, unmanned aircraft systems.

https://iz.ru/2002944/2025-12-05/v-moskve-otkrylos-proizvodstvo-fotonnykh-integralnykh-skhem

The Moscow Photonics Center, the world's only production of photonic integrated circuits based on three technologies, has opened on the territory of the Technopolis Moscow SEZ in Zelenograd. The start of the enterprise was given by the Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Anton Alikhanov and the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin.

The products that will be produced at the photonics center will become the basis for the introduction of 5G technologies in Russia, the development of unmanned vehicles, and the construction of new data centers, Sobyanin said in his channel in MAX. Photonic integrated circuits are characterized by compactness and energy consumption, high speed of information transmission and processing. In addition, they make it possible to reduce the cost of the final product compared to foreign analogues by up to 30-50%.

Sobyanin stressed that Russia will become a technological leader thanks to the creation of a critical information infrastructure. "And due to the transition of new generation data processing centers to the domestic component base, Russia's technological sovereignty and a high level of security and stability will be ensured," the mayor added.


The center is equipped with modern high-tech equipment. In the first quarter of 2026, the Moscow Microelectronics Testing Laboratory is expected to start operating here. It will replace 70% of the services of foreign laboratories, which are necessary for the development of most high-tech industries.

For the first six months, production will work in test mode. From June, up to 500 thousand products per year should begin to be produced here. In the future, the Moscow Center for Photonics will launch the production of optical modules that simplify the connection of network equipment to fiber-optic communication lines, the mayor said

 

[Soldier30]

The second high-quality footage of the Russian 2S7M Malka self-propelled howitzer in combat in the Donbas. In the video, the Malka self-propelled howitzer fires at Ukrainian army positions in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, presumably near Pokrovsk. The 2S7M Malka self-propelled howitzer, with a 203mm caliber, was developed in the USSR in 1986.

 

[Spitfire9]

0.1% year on year GDP growth in the Russian economy in November. Not a surprise to anyone who has been tracking the economic impact of the war.

https://uk.investing.com/news/economy-news/russias-gdp-growth-slows-to-01-in-november-93CH-4431276

My guess is that the Russian economy is starting to contract rather than entering a phase of near zero growth with attendant high inflation.

 

[Relic]

Romania and Crotia have become the latest two countries to join the PURL initiative to purchase weapons off USA for Ukraine. Romania is making an initial contribution of $59 million usd, while Croatia is donating $17.5 million usd, bringing the combined total to $76.5 million usd.

The following 24 countries are now part of the PURL initiative and will make contributions throughout 2026 and beyond: The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Finland, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia, Poland, Australia, Greece, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Croatia.

$4.3 Billion usd worth of PURL packages were purchased from Sep-Dec 2025. USA is looking to sell Ukraine $15 Billion usd worth of weapons in 2026 through their Western allies, more than tripling the initiative.

PURL: New Participants and Contributions in 2025

Romania will join the group of states financing weapons purchases in the United States for Ukraine’s defense under the Priority Urgent Requirements List (PURL

theukrainianreview.info

 

[Soldier30]

The use of Russian FPV interceptor drones in combat in Ukraine and the Donbas. The FPV drones used in combat include VT-40, Prince Vandal Novgorodsky, and other models, including those controlled via fiber optic cable. Technical information is available. The exact filming location is not disclosed. The video features Ukrainian reconnaissance and conventional drones, manufactured in Ukraine and other countries. Information on some models is available on the channel. The video shows Ukrainian drones such as the Leleka-100, Shark drones, Leleka-100M2, Shark-M, G-25, Shark-M, Bulava, Darts, Shark-M, and SH-2.