Moderating:
And with that, I think it is enough on the rifles. Please drop it from this thread now. You can of course start a new thread on it.
can I ask those with access to twitter to post relevant tweets of
- /tendar
- /wartranslated
- /warmonitor3
- /NOELreports
every now and then (those were good news-aggregators)
(shakes fist at Musk)
thx!!!
The reddit r/ukraine mods do a nice job screening news with Trustworthy News labels.
This link came from Reddit.
With some description of the info, please; because those of us without twitter accounts can no longer see any twitter posts.
Not liking the looks of this.
The article claims that China “…would not provide Russia with military assistance or weapons for the [Ukraine] conflict.”
Meh, better stay that way. I’m having my doubts, though, hence this posting.
China doesn’t have to provide arms to Russia. They can do exactly what the West is doing with Ukraine - convince their allies with old Soviet and Russian weapons and ammo to give them to Russia in exchange for better replacements from China.
North Korea has a gazillion artillery shells, and has now given about 20,000 of them to Russia that we kmow of. This could easily be a Chinese operation using North Korea as a cutout. Other Chinese client states could do the same.
Links on Mastodon:
thx very useful to many people…
Ukraine needs time and patience. But there is an expectation that Western support will yield results.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/europe/ukraine-counteroffensive-slow-progress-intl/index.html
This part seems important to me:
Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Maliar said last month that Ukraine was holding back some of its reserves and that the “main strike” was still ahead.
ISW also said that information published by Russian military bloggers about the situation along the front lines suggests that “Ukrainian forces are not currently attempting the kind of large-scale operations that would result in rapid territorial advances.”
There’s no way the Russians have planted this many mines over the whole of the occupied territories. At some point, the Ukrainians will get to a place where the minefields finally stop, and that will be their breakthrough. Once they can advance without too much worrying about hitting more mines, I think we’ll see a rapid collapse of Russian forces.
Can the Russians just keep laying new mines a mile down the road the whole time?
Well, they can try, but they’ll run out of mines at some point. And they’ll be under attack the whole time as well, so their efforts won’t be as successful.
Lots of nervous chatter about a potential “accident” at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Russian telegram channels announcing that Russia has learned that Ukraine intends to attack the site with missiles, and Ukrainian government sources saying they’ve seen satellite photograph evidence of explosive devices being set up on the roofs of two of the reactors.
Yes.
A twitter link is simply a blank box. About half the posts in this thread are simply a succession of blank boxes with zero explanation of what they might contain if they weren’t blank.
If you want to tell everyone about something you found on TwitFace, copy & paste the content text, not a link. If you want to post a pic or vid from TwitFace, find it somewhere else and post a link to there.
Seriously. “Let’s blow up our own nuclear power plant, to contaminate the territory we are trying to reclaim and reduce our access to electric power because … because … because … our minds works just like Russians’?” That there is some killer logic.
Pro-Russian accounts on twitter like Russians With Attitude appear to sincerely believe that Ukraine blew up the Kahovka dam as well. I can’t quite wrap my mind around it. Although come to think of it, they also believe the ‘Ukraine has been shelling the city of Donetsk relentlessly for 8 years’ lie while it appears almost entirely intact despite being in easy artillery range of the front lines. They’ll swallow this lie as well.
I couldn’t find many news reports, but there’s been a major explosion in occupied Ukraine at a town called Makiivka.
Video of big explosion:
First hand accounts from troops clearing mines.
Demining vehicles have been supplied to Ukraine. But they’re large and easy targets for drones and other Russian weapons.
Mines are horrific weapons and I understand why they are effective against counter offensives.
The Armtrac is interesting UK Tech. It’s a remote controlled tiller that unearths and destroys the mines. It can handle blasts from Anti-Tank mines.
Wow, that was a BIG boom. They must have had some ammo stored there because you can see it cooking off in chain reaction. At least some of the ammo appears to have been white phosphorus shells. A future war crime was averted with this strike.