Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

[Soldier30]

Footage of the strike by the Russian kamikaze drone "Lancet-51" on the Ukrainian radar P-19 "Dunai" near Novoukrainka. The Soviet mobile two-coordinate radar P-19 was adopted into service in 1974 and is designed to detect airborne objects at a range of up to 160 kilometers and an altitude of up to 6,000 meters. As a result of the strike by the drone "Lancet", the radar P-19 was destroyed, the crew servicing the radar was not harmed.

 

[Relic]

Details of the $2.4 Billion usd USAI component of the aid package from USA have emerged. Note that this is separate from the $5.55 Billion usd PDA aid package announced simultaneously.

Biden Administration Announces New Security Assistance Package for Ukraine

DOD announced a significant new security assistance package to ensure Ukraine has the tools it needs to prevail in its fight against Russian aggression.

www.defense.gov

 

[SilverMachine]

Zelensky/Trump meeting was hi-fuckin-larious.

 

[Relic]

Another Russian GRAU ammunition storage depot was struck by Ukrainian drones during the night. This time it was in Kotluban in the Volgograd region. Massive Explosion and fire raging. This is the third significant stockpile in Russia proper to be destroyed in a week. Russia is having massive issues with air defense coverage.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1840245828516012415

 

[Soldier30]

Episode of a recording of a Ukrainian soldier talking about the situation in the Kurakhovsky direction and a trip on a Ukrainian-made Kozak-7 armored vehicle. The group was hit by drones, the Kozak-7 armored vehicle was damaged, they tried to evacuate it at night using a BTS-4 tracked armored tractor, a Soviet-made vehicle developed in 1965. The soldier died in the Kurakhovsky direction during the assault. The General Staff of Ukraine called the Kurakhovsky direction the "hottest".

 

[Soldier30]

An episode of a battle in the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region of Russia. The video shows an attack by FPV drones, models unknown, of the 106th Tula Airborne Division of Russia, on a column of the Ukrainian army. The column consists of an American-made Stryker armored personnel carrier, two BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles and a Soviet-made BREM-1 armored recovery vehicle. The mechanized unit of the Ukrainian army was moving towards the village of Vesyoloye. The video is shortened, the dead servicemen are cut out

 

[chibiyabi]

Sanctions were supposed to have a devastating effect on the Russian economy. Oil and gas production was supposed to drop lower and lower due to the withdrawal of western expertise and specialist equipment. That has not happened, in part because equipment has been ordered by other countries then shipped to Russia. Revenue from oil and gas sales was supposed to be restricted by the price cap imposed by the west. That has happened - Russia has to discount the price to sell to new large customers India and China.

India and China have increased exports to Russia, in part to fill the demand that was previously met by imports from the countries now sanctioning Russia or production of their products in factories in Russia. China and India do not want to be paid for their exports to Russia in rubles. This means that Russian importers are having to sell rubles to buy currency acceptable to Indian and Chinese suppliers.

Sanctions on banks dealing with Russia mean that it is difficult for countries buying from Russia to actually pay for what they are buying. Example: India could not pay Russia for the S-400 SAM system it bought.

The list of problems this war is causing Russia goes on and on. Central bank base rate near 20%, inflation rate near 10%, loss of labour by industry to the army and weapons production meaning other factories cannot be run to their production capacity, production of Russian airliners last year a grand total of zero etc etc

maybe it said by people who said that bashar assad will throw to moscow when Turks and US coalition start involve in syrian conflict, not me.

 

[Relic]

Denmark announced that it will invest an additional $680 million usd into Ukraine's domestic defense industry. The money will be split into 4 avenues...

- Domestic Missile production
- Domestic ATGM production
- Domestic Attack UAV production
- Domestic Artillery production

Previously, Denmark funded the production of 18x Bohdana 2 155mm howitzers, which have entered service in the Ukrainian military.

Initiatives like these are vitally important. Ukraine has additional capacity to produce weapons much more cheaply than in the West, however, they need help from foreign funding the support both R&D and production. Ukraine needs more countries, such as mine, that have virtually run out of useful weapons to give Ukraine, to simply donate sums of money to facilitate domestic manufacturing. $5 Billion usd per year injected into Ukrainian domestic defense production would go a long way given the relatively small cost of production and labour in Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1840649250075467903

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of the attack of the Russian FPV drone "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky" on the Ukrainian tank "Leopard-2A6" of German production. The drone is controlled by the fiber-optic system "Groza-Leska", which allows it to remain invulnerable to electronic warfare. The consequences of the drone's strike on the tank are not shown, the tank itself has a protective canopy, the so-called barbecue, made of mesh. The FPV drone "Vandal" can carry a payload of 3.5 kg. The drone is controlled by a fiber-optic cable at a range of up to 20 km. The video was filmed in the Kursk region of Russia.