This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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I'm always kind of shocked that Russians are parking their aircraft on open ramps.
All our European bases and every NATO country base I've ever been to have hardened shelters for aircraft.
I always assumed the Russians had the same because of the cold war....apparently not.
I also wonder how much corruption has to do with this-pay for nice shelters and get corrugated steel over a wide ditch.
Chinese truck or Russian vodka!
"Traffic on the M2 "Crimea" highway section towards Moscow is blocked The preliminary cause of the accident is brake failure in the Chinese Howo truck"
"Traffic on the M2 "Crimea" highway section towards Moscow is blocked The preliminary cause of the accident is brake failure in the Chinese Howo truck"
Even more on the oil depot attack.
"Today, October 7, the 72nd birthday of the Russian war criminal, the Ukrainian government presented him with this cake in Feodosia, temporarily occupied Crimea.All that remains is for the occupants to manage to extinguish the candles."
"Today, October 7, the 72nd birthday of the Russian war criminal, the Ukrainian government presented him with this cake in Feodosia, temporarily occupied Crimea.All that remains is for the occupants to manage to extinguish the candles."
I tried to explain this sight and thread to someone the other day. 72,000 posts and still going. I am still happy we have folks on here supporting Ukraine.
Thanks for all your efforts on delivering news on here because mainstream media is not really giving much attention to this.
Thanks for all your efforts on delivering news on here because mainstream media is not really giving much attention to this.
"Ukraine attacked two key Russian airfields in Crimea overnight, according to reports from the peninsula, as Kyiv says it targeted a major Russian oil facility to the east of Crimea.
Up to 15 explosions were heard close to the Saky air base at around 11:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, a prominent local Telegram channel reported.
Further explosions were heard an hour later, according to the channel. It separately claimed that a fire broke out at the Belbek military airfield on the outskirts of Sevastopol. Russia partially bases its Black Sea Fleet at the port city in southern Crimea.
Newsweek couldn't independently verify the reports and has reached out to the Ukrainian military and the Russian defense ministry for comment.
In a statement published early on Monday, Kyiv's military said its forces had struck an oil terminal in Feodosia overnight, a major facility that it said Moscow had used to supply its armed forces.
Feodosia sits on Crimea's eastern edge, close to Russia's Krasnodar region linking the annexed peninsula to mainland Russia.
Ukraine has doggedly targeted Russian oil facilities in the hopes of cutting the Kremlin off from resources propping up its war effort. On Friday, Kyiv attacked an oil facility in Russia's Voronezh region bordering eastern Ukraine.
Kyiv has also persistently homed in on Russia's air bases, repeatedly attacking the Belbek and Saky airfields and other facilities on the peninsula, like the Dzhankoi airfield to the north.
Russia has used Crimea, which it has controlled for a decade, as a staging ground for its attacks on mainland Ukraine. Kyiv has vowed to reclaim Crimea."
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https://www.newsweek.com/crimea-belbek-airfield-explosions-fire-ukraine-1964710
Up to 15 explosions were heard close to the Saky air base at around 11:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, a prominent local Telegram channel reported.
Further explosions were heard an hour later, according to the channel. It separately claimed that a fire broke out at the Belbek military airfield on the outskirts of Sevastopol. Russia partially bases its Black Sea Fleet at the port city in southern Crimea.
Newsweek couldn't independently verify the reports and has reached out to the Ukrainian military and the Russian defense ministry for comment.
In a statement published early on Monday, Kyiv's military said its forces had struck an oil terminal in Feodosia overnight, a major facility that it said Moscow had used to supply its armed forces.
Feodosia sits on Crimea's eastern edge, close to Russia's Krasnodar region linking the annexed peninsula to mainland Russia.
Ukraine has doggedly targeted Russian oil facilities in the hopes of cutting the Kremlin off from resources propping up its war effort. On Friday, Kyiv attacked an oil facility in Russia's Voronezh region bordering eastern Ukraine.
Kyiv has also persistently homed in on Russia's air bases, repeatedly attacking the Belbek and Saky airfields and other facilities on the peninsula, like the Dzhankoi airfield to the north.
Russia has used Crimea, which it has controlled for a decade, as a staging ground for its attacks on mainland Ukraine. Kyiv has vowed to reclaim Crimea."
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https://www.newsweek.com/crimea-belbek-airfield-explosions-fire-ukraine-1964710
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Sneak a few of these over to Ukraine.
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Nervy
"Lithuanian customs officers discovered military uniforms and camouflage nets on passenger trains traveling from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Moscow, the Delfi outlet reported on Oct. 5.
Kaliningrad Oblast is a small but heavily armed territory lodged between the Baltic Sea and NATO members Poland and Lithuania.
Lithuanian authorities are regulating the railway connection segment that runs through their territory and connects the exclave to Belarus and Russia.
During inspections, Lithuanian authorities intercepted four shipments of various military items loaded onto passenger trains between Sept. 27 and Oct. 2, Delfi wrote.
The shipments included five pairs of military camouflage trousers and several camouflage nets for masking weapons, which were found at the Kybartai train station near the exclave's border.
Vilnius believes that the shipments were intended for use by the Russian Armed Forces deployed in Ukraine. The items will be sent to Ukraine as military aid.
Vilnius has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine since the outbreak of the full-scale war, leading to the sharp deterioration of relations with Moscow.
Another incident on the Kaliningrad-Moscow railway occurred last week. One carriage of a train that arrived at the Kena checkpoint at the Lithuanian-Belarusian borders displayed the letter Z, a symbol commonly used by Russian invasion forces in Ukraine.
Another carriage displayed an inscription calling Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, a "Russian city."
The Soviet Union annexed Lithuania along with other Baltic countries in World War II, with the nation declaring independence only in 1990."
Read also: Belarus Weekly: Lithuania urges ICC to investigate Lukashenko for crimes against humanity
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"Lithuanian customs officers discovered military uniforms and camouflage nets on passenger trains traveling from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Moscow, the Delfi outlet reported on Oct. 5.
Kaliningrad Oblast is a small but heavily armed territory lodged between the Baltic Sea and NATO members Poland and Lithuania.
Lithuanian authorities are regulating the railway connection segment that runs through their territory and connects the exclave to Belarus and Russia.
During inspections, Lithuanian authorities intercepted four shipments of various military items loaded onto passenger trains between Sept. 27 and Oct. 2, Delfi wrote.
The shipments included five pairs of military camouflage trousers and several camouflage nets for masking weapons, which were found at the Kybartai train station near the exclave's border.
Vilnius believes that the shipments were intended for use by the Russian Armed Forces deployed in Ukraine. The items will be sent to Ukraine as military aid.
Vilnius has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine since the outbreak of the full-scale war, leading to the sharp deterioration of relations with Moscow.
Another incident on the Kaliningrad-Moscow railway occurred last week. One carriage of a train that arrived at the Kena checkpoint at the Lithuanian-Belarusian borders displayed the letter Z, a symbol commonly used by Russian invasion forces in Ukraine.
Another carriage displayed an inscription calling Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, a "Russian city."
The Soviet Union annexed Lithuania along with other Baltic countries in World War II, with the nation declaring independence only in 1990."
Read also: Belarus Weekly: Lithuania urges ICC to investigate Lukashenko for crimes against humanity
Lithuania confiscates military goods from Kaliningrad-Moscow trains, gives them to Ukraine
Lithuanian customs officers discovered military uniforms and camouflage nets on passenger trains traveling from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Moscow, the Delfi outlet reported on Oct. 5.
"3rd Operational Brigade of the National Guard NSU "Spartan"In the direction of Kharkov the enemy advanced an advanced group which tried to approach the Ukrainian positions"
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...edented-role-of-occupying-army_6728388_4.html
"The Ukrainian offensive in Russia's Kursk region on August 6 was a risky gamble. But it has notably enabled Kyiv to regain the initiative and boost troop morale despite the Russian advance into Donbas. The armed forces now claim to control around 1,000 km2, and to have "stopped" the Russian counteroffensive, although Moscow says it has regained ground. With this operation, Ukraine is taking on a role unseen since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022: That of occupying army.
The law of war is clear: "Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army," states Article 42 of the Hague Conventions. "From a legal point of view, this is effectively a military occupation," said Oleksandr Merezhko, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament.
However, the member of the governing coalition and professor of international law would prefer to use "another term" for the Kursk operation. "The word 'occupation' has too many negative connotations," he said. "Russian occupation is a crime because Moscow is the aggressor, whereas Ukrainian occupation is a response to that crime." (MORE)
After Ukraine's incursion into Kursk, Kyiv assumes role of occupying army
For the first time since the beginning of the invasion, Ukraine has taken up the position of 'occupier' in this Russian region. The army knows it must remain above reproach if it is not to jeopardize the country's European integration and the support of its allies.
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Ukraine war briefing: Hypersonic missile targets major Ukrainian airbase
- A Russian hypersonic missile struck the area of Ukraine’s major Starokostiantyniv airbase on Monday morning, Kyiv said. The latest strike on Starokostiantyniv in the western Khmelnytskyi region came a day after the Dutch defence minister said the Netherlands would supply Ukraine with more F-16 jets in the coming months. There were no civilian casualties and no damage to critical infrastructure, said Serhiy Tyurin, governor of Khmelnytskyi.
- Two Kinzhal missiles were shot down in the Kyiv region overnight into Monday, the air force said. Debris came down in three Kyiv districts, but no major damage or casualties were reported after air defences engaged incoming targets, city authorities said. Yurii Ihnat, a Ukrainian air force spokesperson, said: “Despite the fact that it’s getting harder, despite [Russia’s] improvements and the use of new tactics, today we have two shoot-downs … They are learning from their mistakes and from our mistakes. They are improving their technology so that we are able to shoot down fewer of them.” Ukrainian air defences also shot down 32 Russian drones and a further 37 were lost on military radars, suggesting they had been disabled by electronic warfare, the air force said.
- Kyiv said Russian attacks had killed three civilians overnight into Monday: two brothers aged 35 and 38 in the eastern region of Sumy and a 61-year-old woman in the southern Kherson region. In the city of Kherson, the governor said a Russian strike had wounded 19 people and damaged an educational facility and various residential buildings. Ukraine also said a Russian attack had killed one person and wounded seven – including children aged two and 13 – in the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast.
- Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the eastern Ukraine frontline city of Toretsk, Ukraine’s military said late on Monday, less than a week after the fall of the bastion town of Vuhledar. “The situation is unstable, fighting is taking place literally at every entrance [to the city],” Anastasiia Bobovnikova, spokesperson of the Operational Tactical Group Luhansk, told Ukraine’s national broadcaster. “The Russians have entered the eastern outskirts of the city.” There was no immediate comment from the Russian defence ministry, which said earlier on Monday that its forces inflicted damage to manpower and equipment near several settlements in the area, including near Toretsk.
- A Russian ballistic missile hit a Palauan-flagged civilian cargo ship in the port of Odesa on Monday, killing one person, said Oleg Kiper, the head of the Odesa region, in the second such attack in recent days. “A 60-year-old Ukrainian, an employee of a private cargo handling company, was killed. Five other foreign nationals were injured.” A Russian missile strike also damaged a civilian Saint Kitts and Nevis-flagged vessel loaded with corn in the Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi on Sunday, Ukraine’s restoration ministry said.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the war was in “a very important phase” as the Ukrainian army works hard to hold the bigger Russian forces at bay in the east while also holding ground in Russia’s Kursk border region, which it captured two months ago. Ukraine needs to “put pressure on Russia in the way that’s necessary for Russia to realise that the war will gain them nothing,” Ukraine’s president said. “We will continue to apply even greater pressure on Russia – because only through strength can we bring peace closer.”
- Russia’s defence ministry claimed the capture of Grodivka, a settlement in the Donetsk region close to the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. There was no independent confirmation. Last week, Ukraine’s army said that it had withdrawn from the mining town of Vuhledar also in the Donetsk region, handing Russia one of its most significant territorial advances in weeks.
- A Russian court has sentenced a 72-year-old American citizen, Stephen James Hubbard, to six years and 10 months in prison after convicting him in a closed-door trial of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine. Investigators said Hubbard, a native of Michigan, served in a Ukrainian territorial defence unit in the eastern city of Izium, where he had been living since 2014. He was captured by Russian soldiers on 2 April 2022, and pleaded guilty, said the Ria news agency, quoting the Russian prosecutor.
- In interviews last month, Hubbard’s sister Patricia Hubbard Fox cast doubt on his reported confession, telling Reuters he held pro-Russian views and was unlikely to have taken up arms at his age. He moved to Ukraine in 2014 and lived there for a time with a Ukrainian woman, surviving off a small pension of about $300 a month. He never learned Russian or Ukrainian, and had few connections to local people, she said. The US embassy in Moscow said it was aware of the detention of an American citizen, but declined further comment on Monday.
- More details emerged after Ukraine confirmed attacking the Feodosia oil terminal in occupied Crimea over Sunday night, causing a huge fire that burned into Monday. Russia’s defence ministry claimed 12 Ukrainian attack drones had been downed over the peninsula overnight, out of a total of 21 deployed by Kyiv against Russian targets including six over Kursk region, and others over Belgorod, Bryansk and Voronezh.
- A Ukrainian sabotage operation damaged a Russian minesweeping vessel in Russia’s Kaliningrad region and put it out of action, Ukraine’s military spy agency, the GUR, said on Monday. Water had entered the engine of the Alexander Obukhov Alexandrit-class minesweeper through “a mysterious hole” in a gas pipe, the GUR said. “The ship, which was based in the city of Baltiysk and was supposed to go on combat duty, was seriously damaged.” There was no immediate comment from Russia. The GUR and a pro-Kyiv Russian military group claimed responsibility earlier this year for an arson attack on a Russian warship in the Baltic Sea in April.
- Ukraine will not extend its gas transit agreement with Russia after it expires at the end of 2024, the Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, has told his pro-Russian Slovakian counterpart, Robert Fico, during talks in Ukraine. Shmyhal said that Kyiv understands the “acute dependence” of some states including Slovakia on the Russian gas supply but “Ukraine’s strategic goal is to deprive the Kremlin of profits from the sale of hydrocarbons which the aggressor uses to finance the war”. Shmyhal said Ukraine and Slovakia had agreed on the creation of an eastern European energy hub aiming to utilise large Ukrainian gas storage facilities. Fico said Ukraine’s government had confirmed it remained interested in using its gas and oil transit systems after the deal with Russia expires. Fico opposes Ukraine joining Nato but has said he supports it becoming an EU member.
- Russian state media company VGTRK, which owns and operates the country’s main national TV stations, came under a cyber-attack on Monday that a Ukrainian government source said Kyiv’s hackers had caused coinciding with Vladimir Putin’s 72nd birthday. The website of VGTRK, the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, was not loading early on Monday and its Rossiya-24 news channel was not available online. A Ukrainian government source said: “Ukrainian hackers ‘congratulated’ Putin on his birthday by carrying out a large-scale attack on the all-Russian state television and radio broadcasting company.” The Kremlin confirmed the attack.
Ukraine war briefing: Hypersonic missile targets major Ukrainian airbase
Russian attacks hit civilian cargo ships in Ukrainian ports; Moscow claims capture of Grodivka on way to strategic Pokrovsk. What we know on day 958www.theguardian.com
As pointed out some North Koreans have been killed there already but any infusion of fighting units should draw an actual response from the West. Maybe make a couple of their freighters just disappear.
Take 'em out. If N. Korea thinks they can get involved, I hope S. Korea uses their bunker bomb.
I know this stuff is a little off limits in this thread but I get a little chuckle
And also per the Washington Post -
Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but are being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.
Follow up from an earlier attack on huge ammo dump.
"The consequences of the detonation of the arsenal of the 719th Artillery Ammunition Base (military unit 57229-41) of the #Russia near #Kamenny ( #Tikhoretsk District, #Krasnodar Krai Oblast) after the attack #Ukraine with drones."
"The consequences of the detonation of the arsenal of the 719th Artillery Ammunition Base (military unit 57229-41) of the #Russia near #Kamenny ( #Tikhoretsk District, #Krasnodar Krai Oblast) after the attack #Ukraine with drones."
The reason Hungary's Russian-stooge leader Orban is holding up the EU's 38bn to Ukraine until after the US election is, of course, because if Trump is elected, he will cancel all US donations to Ukraine when he gets in office in January.
That's Trump's plan to end the war: Cut off all US and EU (through Orban) aid so that by next summer Ukraine will be virtually defenseless and subsequently be overrun by Russia.
If Harris gets elected, look for Orban to let the aid go through as Russia will look to make real concessions to end the war and sanctions.
