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This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

The only bad thing about this is it probably takes an expensive anti aircraft rocket to knock down a relatively inexpensive drone-right?

Russia's Eleron-10 makes its last flight The Ukrainian Army keeps eliminating
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The only bad thing about this is it probably takes an expensive anti aircraft rocket to knock down a relatively inexpensive drone-right?

Russia's Eleron-10 makes its last flight The Ukrainian Army keeps eliminating
🇷🇺
.
I don’t think it would be so intact if hit by a good missile. Maybe it is one they electronically jammed so it lost the ability to fly and it was just falling from the sky…
 
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Russia doing horrible Russian things, like firing tank rounds filled with 1,000 razors/nails that disperse into civilian homes. I suppose the upside is when Russian tanks are hit, their crews might be shredded to bits before they are incinerated.

 
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The only bad thing about this is it probably takes an expensive anti aircraft rocket to knock down a relatively inexpensive drone-right?

Russia's Eleron-10 makes its last flight The Ukrainian Army keeps eliminating
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"Expensive" is relative here.

Cost in real rubles or dollars? Yes
Cost in "ability to replace"? No

When Russia cannot replace its drones, they become far more valuable in terms of "real costs".
When something becomes "irreplaceable", its essential value is far far higher, and not in dollar terms.


If Russia was capable of "flooding the zone" with drones and continuously replacing them, then your point is spot-on. They could "outspend" using fewer $$/rubles.
 
"Expensive" is relative here.

Cost in real rubles or dollars? Yes
Cost in "ability to replace"? No

When Russia cannot replace its drones, they become far more valuable in terms of "real costs".
When something becomes "irreplaceable", its essential value is far far higher, and not in dollar terms.


If Russia was capable of "flooding the zone" with drones and continuously replacing them, then your point is spot-on. They could "outspend" using fewer $$/rubles.
Just another facet of NATO adeptly reinforcing and militarizing Ukrainians’ rights to simply exist. Send more please.
 
Just another facet of NATO adeptly reinforcing and militarizing Ukrainians’ rights to simply exist. Send more please.
...and start clearing out the Odessa port and creating a safe corridor for grain shipments.

Any Russian asset anywhere near it, or that fire any missile toward Odessa or a military asset keeping the corridor open gets obliterated. Wherever that missile came from - no discrimination, just obliterate the Russian asset wherever it was.

Go hard, and go fast. Putin's done, so let's avoid a massive food shortage worse than we're already in for.
 
Russia is getting smote mightily.
CNN is reporting, as have others, that up to 1/3 of the invading infantry force has been neutralized. Slava Ukraini



Britain's defense ministry.
In its latest defense intelligence update, the ministry said Russian forces had sustained heavy losses in their Donbas offensive and that "under the current conditions, Russia is unlikely to dramatically accelerate its rate of advance over the next 30 days."
The ministry assessed that the offensive has "fallen significantly behind schedule. Despite small-scale initial advances, Russia has failed to achieve substantial territorial gains over the past month whilst sustaining consistently high levels of attrition."
"Russia has now likely suffered losses of one third of the ground combat force it committed in February," the ministry added on Sunday.
It is unclear how the ministry has arrived at that assessment. Russia is thought to have committed about 100 battalion tactical groups to the offensive in eastern Ukraine, but Western officials say many of these groups are under strength.
The UK intelligence assessment says delays in Russian operations will "almost certainly be exacerbated by the loss of critical enablers such as bridging equipment and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance drones."
"Russian bridging equipment has been in short supply throughout the conflict, slowing and restricting offensive manoeuvre. Russian UAVs are vital for tactical awareness and directing artillery but have been vulnerable to Ukrainian anti-air capabilities," it adds.
"Many of these capabilities cannot be quickly replaced or reconstituted and are likely to continue to hinder Russian operations in Ukraine."
Some background: In the past week, Russia has lost substantial bridging equipment while trying to cross the Siverskyi Donets river. The Russians have tried and apparently failed to put several pontoons across the river in an effort to encircle Ukrainian troops. Satellite imagery analyzed by CNN shows at least three bridges were destroyed this week and the Russians sustained heavy losses. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military claimed to have substantially degraded Russian drone capabilities
 
Russia is getting smote mightily.
CNN is reporting, as have others, that up to 1/3 of the invading infantry force has been neutralized. Slava Ukraini



Britain's defense ministry.
In its latest defense intelligence update, the ministry said Russian forces had sustained heavy losses in their Donbas offensive and that "under the current conditions, Russia is unlikely to dramatically accelerate its rate of advance over the next 30 days."
The ministry assessed that the offensive has "fallen significantly behind schedule. Despite small-scale initial advances, Russia has failed to achieve substantial territorial gains over the past month whilst sustaining consistently high levels of attrition."

It is unclear how the ministry has arrived at that assessment. Russia is thought to have committed about 100 battalion tactical groups to the offensive in eastern Ukraine, but Western officials say many of these groups are under strength.
The UK intelligence assessment says delays in Russian operations will "almost certainly be exacerbated by the loss of critical enablers such as bridging equipment and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance drones."
"Russian bridging equipment has been in short supply throughout the conflict, slowing and restricting offensive manoeuvre. Russian UAVs are vital for tactical awareness and directing artillery but have been vulnerable to Ukrainian anti-air capabilities," it adds.
"Many of these capabilities cannot be quickly replaced or reconstituted and are likely to continue to hinder Russian operations in Ukraine."
Some background: In the past week, Russia has lost substantial bridging equipment while trying to cross the Siverskyi Donets river. The Russians have tried and apparently failed to put several pontoons across the river in an effort to encircle Ukrainian troops. Satellite imagery analyzed by CNN shows at least three bridges were destroyed this week and the Russians sustained heavy losses. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military claimed to have substantially degraded Russian drone capabilities
What I have been reading is Russia has lost about 1/3 of its operational army. Not what is in Ukraine but overall. And it gets worse when you factor a lot of it was some of there best operational equipment and better “trained” battalions. Oh and they are running out of missiles too. Basically another 2-3 weeks of this and half the Russian army will be gone. And the entire military will be broken at that point and unable to rebuild, let alone build to what they should have been with tech from this millennium. The great and fearsome Russian army lost to a non NATO county in a war front about the size of eastern 1/3 of Texas in a span of 2.5 months. It is one of the most stunning defeats of a superior power by an underdog in world history, both modern and ancient.
 
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What I have been reading is Russia has lost about 1/3 of its operational army. Not what is in Ukraine but overall. And it gets worse when you factor a lot of it was some of there best operational equipment and better “trained” battalions. Oh and they are running out of missiles too. Basically another 2-3 weeks of this and half the Russian army will be gone. And the entire military will be broken at that point and unable to rebuild, let alone build to what they should have been with tech from this millennium. The great and fearsome Russian army lost to a non NATO county in a war front about the size of eastern 1/3 of Texas in a span of 2.5 months. It is one of the most stunning defeats of a superior power by an underdog and world history, both modern and ancient.
As my old buddy Jerry would phrase it, “This is an ace whupping of “hysterical” note.
As you say, we are witnessing a “most stunning defeat(s)”.
And, the back story may yet be the loss of territory by the russkies (I see you in Georgia and Transnistria among others), along with even more generational poverty in the homeland.
Could this tipping point help yield leadership to the next generation and push Russia into a less confrontational model?
 
And, the beat goes on.
The decades long spy conflict between Russia and the West is intensifying over the Ukraine war. But what are Russia's intelligence services suspected of doing and how will their officials' expulsion from capitals affect Putin's clandestine overseas operations?
When Russia first targeted its military forces on Ukraine in 2014 it also unleashed its intelligence services on the West - from interfering with the US elections using cyber attacks to poisonings and sabotage in Europe.
But in recent months the spy war has intensified as Western countries have sought to hit back and inflict lasting damage on the ability of Russian intelligence to carry out covert operations. This is symbolised by the unprecedented expulsion of 500 Russian officials from Western capitals.
Formally, these officials are described as diplomats, but the majority are believed to be undercover intelligence officers. Some will have been carrying out traditional espionage - cultivating contacts and recruiting agents who can pass on secrets - something Western countries do inside Russia too.
But some were believed to be carrying out what Russians call "active measures". These range from spreading propaganda, to more aggressive covert activity. Poland said the 45 Russians it expelled were involved in actions to "undermine the stability" of the country.


Since 2014, Western intelligence agencies have been working to identify Russian spies involved in such activities. One of those is GRU Unit 29155 of Russian military intelligence, which is believed to be tasked with sabotage, subversion and assassination.

It took nearly seven years to find out the unit were behind a huge explosion that tore apart an ammunition depot in a Czech forest in October 2014. They included some of those later involved in the UK's Salisbury poisonings of 2018.
The same team also tried to poison an arms dealer in Bulgaria who had stored weapons in the Czech depot - one theory was that the blast and poisoning was linked to his supply of weapons for Ukraine where the conflict had just begun.
Members of that unit were also involved in getting pro-Russian leaders out of Ukraine in 2014. It remains closely watched by Western intelligence.
 
"It looks like Lieutenant John McClane's cigarettes if that (Crystal Jungle) is still making mischief in this time at the Gloria Jeans factory in Rostov-on-Don."



 
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China has a lot of mouths to feed. A global food shortage is a huge problem for them.
They get a lot of food from the West, not Ukraine. What could leverage them is the fact that they’ve tried to be the best buddy of so many countries around the world in order to buy votes in the UN. Will Xi risk the backlash if he lets people suffer in those countries?
 
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