This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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"At night, drones attacked the Smolensk region of the Russian Federation.The Avangard plant, which produces solid-fuel rocket engines, could have been hit there.The local governor stated that Russian air defense allegedly shot down 5 drones over the region."
Very graphic warning.
Very graphic warning.
Poland remembers. Poland isn't going to approve of a terrible deal made by Trump. Poland knows that Russia will move their eyes to their borders if the US goes wobbly. They are also buying a lot of US gear. Gear they could buy elsewhere.
"This is sounding familiar. A Russian channel about the current actions in the Kursk region:There is no need to panic and sow discouragement in the Kursk region. These are military actions, here it happens that somewhere we are advancing, somewhere we are retreating in order to win a big battle."
"According to Russian sources, Ukrainian units are also attacking towards Tetkino, Kursk region. This village sits right on the border with Ukraine, surrounded by the Seym river. In the initial stage of the Kursk operation, Ukraine tried to encircle it by blowing up bridges, but failed."The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also attacking in the Tetkino area, where the enemy is trying to squeeze our garrison from two sides. There is a high probability (if they bring additional forces into the battle here) that we will soon lose Tetkino."
800K is coming soon.
That number just bottles the mind and gives me the sads.
It is refreshing to read that Uke Air Power is involved offensively. Let’s hope the arrival of Mirages will boost capability.
Russian air defense is much like the rest of their military and country in general - trash.
"(Ukraine) received 90 Ai-Petri Electronic Warfare Systems in 2024. MP Petro Poroshenko reported that the last eight systems of this year were handed over to the army on New Year's Eve.Systems include Starlink, EcoFlow charging stations, generators"
I hope Taiwan has been paying attention to the ‘Seadoos with Sidewinders’ development.
Drones attack Russian air defense system in Kursk.
Those sanctions will last all of two weeks….
Ukraine war briefing: Fierce fighting reported in Russia’s Kursk region amid new Ukrainian offensive
Moscow’s forces coming under heavy pressure, according to Russian military bloggers; blasts heard near Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant. What we know on day 1,047- Russia says Ukraine has launched a new attack in the Kursk region of western Russia where Russian troops have been trying to eject Ukrainian forces for the past five months. Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday its forces were beating back the Ukrainian forces but Russian military bloggers reported fierce fighting and some said the Russian side had come under heavy pressure. Ukraine’s general staff said 42 combat clashes took place on Sunday in the Kursk area, with 12 continuing. The head of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, Andriy Yermak, posted on Telegram that there was “good news” from Kursk, adding: “Russia is getting what it deserves.” Russia’s ministry said Ukraine attacked around 0600 GMT near the village of Berdin with two tanks, a mine-clearing vehicle and 12 armoured combat vehicles with paratroops. It said two Ukrainian attacks had been repelled. The battlefield reports could not be independently verified.
- The Ukrainian army did not comment on the operation, simply saying in its daily report that fighting was under way in the Kursk region without elaborating. Zelenskyy said on Saturday that in two days of battles near the Kursk village of Makhnovka, “the Russian army lost up to a battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers and Russian paratroops”. Ukraine launched a cross-border raid into the Kursk region last August and Russia’s army has since recaptured only about 40% of lost territory. Ukraine’s new offensive comes as both sides seek to strengthen their negotiating hand ahead of US president-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House on 20 January, with Zelenskyy hinting that land around Kursk could play a part in any peace deal. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Monday that Ukraine’s position in Kursk was “important” for any future negotiations.
- Zelenskyy said security guarantees for Kyiv to end Russia’s war would only be effective if the US provides them, and that he hoped to meet Trump soon after his inauguration. He said Ukrainians were counting on Trump to force Moscow to end its war and that Russia would escalate in Europe if Washington were to quit the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) military alliance. In an interview with US podcaster Lex Fridman published on Sunday, the Ukrainian president also renewed his call for Ukraine’s Nato membership.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency reported hearing loud blasts near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant on Sunday, coinciding with reports of a drone attack on the plant’s training centre, the head of the nuclear watchdog said. It had not yet been able to confirm any impact, Rafael Mariano Grossi said, adding that reports said there were no casualties or impact on equipment.
- One person was killed and another wounded in Russian shelling of the city of Nikopol in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday, local officials said. Downstream along the Dnipro River, at least six people were wounded when Russian troops shelled the city of Kherson, the Kherson region’s capital. Moscow sent 103 drones into Ukraine overnight to Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, with Ukraine’s air force saying 61 drones were destroyed and 42 lost, likely due to electronic jamming. Russia’s defence ministry said 61 Ukrainian drones were shot down in western Russia. No casualties were reported but Rostov’s regional governor, Yuri Slyusar, said residential buildings and cars were damaged by falling drone debris.
- Dozens of sea mammals have been found dead since last month’s Russian oil tanker spill in the Black Sea, a dolphin rescue centre said as authorities raced to contain the disaster. The spill began on 15 December, when two ageing Russian tankers were caught in a storm off the Kerch Strait linking Crimea to southern Russia. One sank and the other ran aground, pouring about 2,400 tonnes of a heavy fuel oil into the surrounding waters, authorities estimate. Russia’s Delfa centre, which rescues and rehabilitates dolphins, said on Sunday it had recorded 61 dead cetaceans – a type of aquatic mammal that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises – since the incident.
Ukraine war briefing: Fierce fighting reported in Russia’s Kursk region amid new Ukrainian offensive
Moscow’s forces coming under heavy pressure, according to Russian military bloggers; blasts heard near Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant. What we know on day 1,047
I certainly hope he really is a knucklehead.
