Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

[Relic]

Just got back from an awesome vacation in the tropics , but I'm ready to contribute. Here is some news from today!

USA is preparing a new, $300 million usd defense package for Ukraine. The package will come from the $4.2 billion usd worth of Presidential Drawdown Authrority that President Biden's government has remaining. The full contents of the package have not yet been released, but this is what we so it will consist of so far...

- ATAM long range missiles
- GMLRS for HIMARS
- 155mm artillery shells
- 15mm DCIPM Cluster shells
- 105mm artillery shells

DOD Able to Send Additional Assistance to Ukraine Using Unexpected Army Savings

DOD announced additional security assistance for Ukraine, including artillery rounds and rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System.

www.defense.gov

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/12/white-house-aid-package-ukraine-00146487

Denmark announced a new, $337 million usd aid package for Ukraine today. Contents of the package include the following...

- CAESAR 155mm self-propelled howitzers, purchased from French defense contractor Nexter.

- 120mm self-propelled mortars systems.

- 155mm artillery shells purchased as part of the Czech led initiative.

Markante artilleridonationer til Ukraine i ny donationspakke

Ny stor donationspakke sikrer artilleripjecer og artilleriammunition til Ukraine. Det er Udenrigspolitisk Nævn blevet orienteret om i dag. Donationspakken er den 16. pakke og har en værdi af ca. 2,3 mia. kroner som finansieres via Ukrainefonden.

www.fmn.dk

Meanwhile, Poland has announced that they have joined the Czech led initiave to purchase 800,000 artillery shells for immediate transfer to Ukraine. Poland did not disclose the quantity of shells that they purchased, but a Government spokesperson noted that the quantity is significant.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767587980787482858

The Czech Republic have also uncovered an additional 200,000 artillery shells for sale on the international market, and are currently in the process of lining up a buyer for the shells, among allies to Ukraine. 18 countries were involved in the initial purchase of 800,000 155mm and 122mm artillery shells. This purchase, if secured, would bring that total to 1 million shells, all for expedited transfer to Ukraine.

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[Relic]

Belgium is pushing the EU to vote in favour of releasing up to 3 Billion Euros worth of interest produced from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, in July of this year. While the EU has not yet committed to confiscating more than 190 Billion Euros worth of Russian money that are stuck in Europeans banks, they are leaning towards sending the interest made off of those funds to Ukraine for its war effort.

By 2027 the interest profits will reach 20 Billion Euros, all of which could be released to Ukraine to support the nation both militarily and macro-financially.

Brussels aims to fast-track up to €3bn for Ukraine from frozen Russian assets

First tranche of profits from Euroclear could be available as soon as July, if EU capitals approve

www.ft.com

 

[Relic]

Full contents of USA's new, $300 million usd aid package for Ukraine have been released. The package includes the following...

- Stinger anti-aircraft missiles
- GMLRS for HIMARS
- ATAM missiles for HIMARS
- 155mm artillery shells
- 155mm DPICM shells
- 105mm artillery shells
- AT4 anti-armor rockets
- Small arms ammunition
- Obstacle clearing equipment
- Spare Parts and ancillary equipment

Note: Per Politico, ATAM long range strike missiles are to be included among the GMLRS being sent for HIMARS.

Biden Administration Announces Urgent Security Assistance for Ukraine

The Defense Department announced additional security assistance as an extraordinary measure to address some of Ukraine's most pressing security and defense needs.

www.defense.gov

 

[Relic]

USA has also announced that they will send an additional $126 million usd worth of "Foreign Aid" to Ukraine, using pools of money seperate from Presidential Drawdown Authority and USAI. This $126 million usd is ON TOP of the $300 million usd weapons package that was announced earlier. In total, USA made a fresh commitment to Ukraine of $426 million usd worth of weapons and financial assistance today.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767678844335431819

 

[Soldier30]

Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked the Russian oil refinery in Ryazan of the Ryazannefteprodukt company. A total of 3 drones took part in the attack; judging by the video, it seems that the drones did not strike at programmed coordinates, but were controlled manually. As a result of the drone strike, a fire started at the oil refinery, two petroleum products processing units caught fire, the fire area was 150 square meters.

 

[Relic]

Andrew Perpetua's visually confirmed and geolocated losses for Russia and Ukraine, Tuesday, March 12th.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767758059651088400

 

[Ecderha]

What ruzzian air defense is doing?
What air defense.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767791553035092419

 

[Ecderha]

ruzzians bought flowers for woman day.
How much money they spend?

Six billion dollars of our men’s money for these flowers flowed to The Netherlands
- ruzzian State Duma deputy Oleg Nilov accused everyone who bought flowers by March 8 of financing an unfriendly country.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767852920832135437

Also there is another FACT.
Many ruzzians keep buying flowers for graves of ruzzian rapist and murders dead in Ukraine
Most of this flowers are caming from Netherland

 

[GoatsMilk]

What ruzzian air defense is doing?
What air defense.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767791553035092419

TB2?

 

[Ecderha]

TB2?

I do not know

 

[Ecderha]

putin rapists and murderers continue to target civilians

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767801305701978254

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of the destruction of two Ukrainian Mi-17V-5 helicopters; previously the US planned to transfer helicopters to Afghanistan. The helicopters were destroyed in the Novopavlovka area in the Dnepropetrovsk region at a temporary site. First, the helicopters were hit, presumably from a 300-mm MLRS, with 3B30 cluster munitions and 9M55K5 missiles. After the helicopters were immobilized, the attack was carried out by two missiles from a Su-34 aircraft, this was reported later. As a result of the attack, 2 Mi-17 helicopters were destroyed, the third flew away. 2 pilots were killed, according to Ukrainian media.

 

[GoatsMilk]

I do not know

in the second video you posted watch the first 5 seconds, has to be a TB2. It even looks in the first video that they crashed one TB2 into the tower.

 

[Relic]

Today the European Union agreed to top up the "Ukraine Assistance Fund" with another $5.5 Billion usd for the 2024 fiscal year. This funding is seperate from the 50 Billion Euro package that the EU passed at the beginning of the year.

The Ukraine Assistance Fund servess two purposes.

1. It can be used to buy weapons directly from European manufacturers, to provide direct military support for Ukraine.

2. It can be used to reimburse European countries that agree to send existing military hardware in their inventories to Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767957602380509670

 

[Relic]

Russia has halted the export of all gasoline and diesel products for 6 month period, starting March 1st. The reason this is happening is that Russia fears domestic gasoline and diesel shortages that would drive up prices substantially, to the point that the impoverished Russian population would not be able to afford them.

The reason that a shortage is feared is that Ukraine has systematically targeted Russian refineries and associated infrastructure using long range drone strikes, taking an estimated 15% of Russia's refining capacity offline for extended period of times. This problem will only worsen for Russia as Ukraine procures an increasing number of long range drones. If Ukraine can take 25-30% of Russia's refining capacity offline, they'll start to face serious problems and gasoline/ diesel exports will have to be halted for the foreseeable future.

This is how you win a war. Russia exported 35 million tons of diesel fuel last year and 4.8 million tonnes of refined gasoline. If Ukraine can continue to devastate refinining capacity in Western Russia, the Russians will not be able to export any diesel or gasoline and all associated revenue will be lost.

Russia bans gasoline exports for 6 months from March 1

Russia on Tuesday ordered a six-month ban on gasoline exports from March 1 to keep prices stable amid rising demand from consumers and farmers and to allow for maintenance of refineries in the world's second largest oil exporter.

www.reuters.com

 

[blackjack]

some users' response from another forum lol.

electronic warfare works.

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/03...-in-autonomy-value-of-long-range-fires/?amp=1
CANBERRA — While some facets of age-old conflict have carried on into modern war, the head of the British army said that with the fight in Ukraine, the military world is witnessing what could almost be described as a “Cambrian explosion of autonomous systems” and the stunning proliferation of countermeasures used against them in real-time.

It is an “extraordinarily progressive and an almost revolutionary change in some of the character of war,” Gen. Patrick Sanders, chief of the General Staff, told an audience at a CSIS event Tuesday. “Now, not all of them are working effectively. Up to 80 percent of the drones during one period recently, simply were not getting through because of an extraordinarily contested electromagnetic spectrum and effective Russian use of electronic warfare.”

 

[blackjack]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767996033269637278

 

[blackjack]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767897579734302763

 

[Gary]

Russian ISR is getting better every day as we speak. I don't recall anything like this before.

Eventually, I think there will be a time in 1-2 years where Russian ISR will be so much improved, that Russia could send their Kalibr and Iskander accurately, in time, anywhere in Ukraine within an hour of being spotted.

And due to that, there will be times when the Ukrainians will have to move their jets and air defenses more and more to the rear. And the consequence will be painful. UMPK will likely even be more accurate at those upcoming times, and probably better ranged as well. Flying uncontested a single SU-34M could devastate an entire defensive lines, and a flight could destroy an entire fortification network.

 

[Costin1984]

in the second video you posted watch the first 5 seconds, has to be a TB2. It even looks in the first video that they crashed one TB2 into the tower.

Penguin drone....cheaper to kamikaze than a Bayraktar