This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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It sure can buy a lot of drones though.Unless that 61 billion can buy more troops, we are in for a long brutal defeat.
Frontline has worsened for Ukraine, army chief says - BBC News
Oleksandr Syrskyi says Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from positions in eastern Donetsk.www.bbc.co.uk
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"In a new aid package #Deutschland handed over IRIS-T anti-aircraft missiles and Marder infantry fighting vehicles to #Ukraine"
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Uncle ATACMS is here!!!!
The KN-23 was highly likely first used in combat during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An unknown number of North Korean ballistic missiles were transferred to Russia in October 2023, according to declassified US intelligence. Based on debris left by Russian attacks on Ukrainian targets on 30 December 2023, the ring housing the control vanes have been identified as being characteristic to the KN-23 and KN-24 missiles.[29][30] The barometer on the missile was found to have a Hangul character, and various parts of the missile were stamped with the possible factory name.[1]
According to the Conflict Armament Research, 75% of components in guidance control system for the KN-23 fired at Kharkiv are based on American parts.[31]
"The daughter saw her warrior father. But only for a moment."
Odesa’s ‘Harry Potter castle’ hit in Russian missile attack that killed five
Good morning and welcome to our Ukraine blog.A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in a popular seafront park in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, known locally as ‘Harry Potter castle’, on Monday killed at least five people and injured 32, local officials said. The previous death toll was four.
The building is reportedly the residence of prominent former MP Serhiy Kivalov, who was among those said to have been injured in the strike.
Regional governor Oleh Kiper said that in addition to those killed in the attack, one man died after suffering a stroke attributed to the strike.
Kiper said eight of the injured were in serious condition, including a four-year-old child. Among the injured were another child and a pregnant woman.
“Our doctors are trying to do their best,” he added.
Here are some of the other main developments in the war:
- Nato countries have not delivered what they promised to Ukraine in time, which has benefited Russia on the frontline, Jens Stoltenberg has said. “Serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield” for Ukraine, the Nato secretary general said in Kyiv while meeting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Ukrainian officials say Russia is assembling forces for a major summer offensive, even if its troops are making only incremental gains at the moment. “The lack of ammunition has allowed the Russians to push forward along the frontline,” Stoltenberg added. “Lack of air defence has made it possible for more Russian missiles to hit their targets, and the lack of deep strike capabilities has made it possible for the Russians to concentrate more forces.” Zelenskiy said new western supplies have started arriving, but slowly. “This process must be speeded up,” he said.
- The head of the southern Kherson region said Russian shelling killed one person in the last 24 hours.
- Debris showed that an North Korean Hwasong-11 ballistic missile hit Kharkiv on 2 January, UN sanctions monitors have told a security council committee in a report seen by Reuters. The missile was most likely illegally supplied to Russia, they conclude. North Korea is accused of developing such weapons and supplying them to Russia despite being under UN sanctions for its ballistic missile and nuclear programmes since 2006. Ukraine’s allies have accused North Korea of transferring weapons to Russia for use against Ukraine in violation of an arms embargo. The US has accused Russia of launching North Korean-supplied ballistic missiles against Ukraine on at least nine occasions.
- Away from the frontline, Polish farmers have lifted blockades at border crossings with Ukraine, officials said on Monday, ending a two-month protest over farm imports and alleged unfair competition.
- Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, made an unannounced visit to Ukraine – the first British royal to travel to the country since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion.
Buckingham Palace said on Monday that Sophie, wife of Prince Edward, met Zelenskiy and first lady Olena Zelenska in Kyiv and delivered a message on behalf of King Charles III. It did not disclose the timing or details of the visit. The palace said Sophie made the trip “to demonstrate solidarity with the women, men and children impacted by the war and in a continuation of her work to champion survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.”
Russia-Ukraine war: Odesa’s ‘Harry Potter castle’ hit in Russian missile attack that killed five – as it happened
Four-year-old child and pregnant woman among those in a serious condition after strike on seafront park in Black Sea port city
Like I said, >1000 pages ago...
We should be drone-dropping fake bottles of Stoli into the Russian trenches over there with methyl alcohol in them. Let the Ukrainian troops know the secret markings of the bad stuff. Russians will swill it all down.
We keep waiting for it to happen but doubt has set in.
It's just a ball-take it back to the base and toss it around
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"Another video fact of a war crime by the Russian Armed Forces. Despite the fact that Kremlin propagandists have been claiming all day that the attack on Odessa was the work of Ukrainian air defense, this video clearly shows a cluster munition attack.- This is another premeditated murder of the city’s civilian population by the Russian Federation.- Bombing of civilians can only occur as part of terrorist acts. The goals of such actions on the part of Russia are aimed at creating chaos and panic among the civilian population in order to destabilize the situation in the country and sow panic.- How much more proof is needed that for Russia the civilian population of the country is of no value. For them, the end justifies the means. Putin does not spare his own population, not to mention the population of other countries.- This should be taken into account by everyone who calls for a diplomatic settlement of the war."
"2 comrades were traveling, saw the drone and immediately hid in a ruined house. The drone followed, not sure if the comrades were okay. Clip of Brigade 47 in the direction of Avdiivka, Donetsk."
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The F-16 turns 50 years old this year crazy. Once in Ukraine these will have to be in hardened storage because they will immediately by the subject of trophy attacks by Russia.
