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Up to date summary of equipment supplied to Ukraine from the US. Staggering amounts. PDF - 3 pages.
smithsb:
Staggering amounts.
I have heard that Russia is still kind of a large country that is not easily cowed.
Except for those who surrendered or left the country. Some of them understand the process.
Canon fodder
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Profit
Magiver:
Canon fodder
I Thought that was Catholics?
Cannons with shorter barrels.
Strangeness continues:
Wagner private military company chief Yevgeny Prigozhin met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin after his short-lived mutiny at the end of June, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
Putin held a meeting with more than 30 military commanders on June 29, and Prigozhin also attended, said Peskov during his daily call with the media.
I guess Prigozhin could have been brought to the meeting in chains or a gimp suit.
It’s not cheap to defend the world.
Link NATO will boost defense spending to help back Ukraine but the math is tricky. Just ask Luxembourg | AP News
In an abrupt about-face last year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that his government would spend an additional 100 billion euros ($109 billion) on defense, including on the purchase of high-end U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets.
But under NATO’s spending requirements, little if any of that money can yet count toward its 2% target. Equipment orders aren’t enough. Only when contractors are finally paid can the money be added up.
Estimated Russian dead has reached 50,000.
Link New data shows how many Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine | AP News
Despite such challenges, Mediazona and the BBC’s Russian Service, working with a network of volunteers, have used social media postings and photographs of cemeteries across Russia to build a database of confirmed war deaths. As of July 7, they had identified 27,423 dead Russian soldiers.
“These are only soldiers who we know by name, and their deaths in each case are verified by multiple sources,” said Dmitry Treshchanin, an editor at Mediazona who helped oversee the investigation. “The estimate we did with Meduza allows us to see the ‘hidden’ deaths, deaths the Russian government is so obsessively and unsuccessfully trying to hide.”
This struck me as a fairly balanced analysis of six possible ways the conflict might end.
Trapped in Ukraine with No Victory: Putin Opened Pandora’s Box (msn.com)
Russian Submarine commander shot dead
Some reports suggest that his submarine might have been responsible for a missile attack on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which resulted in the deaths of 27 people, including three children.
Since Zelenskyy met Erdogan this weekend Turkey has:
a) withdrawn it’s opposition to Sweden’s accession to NATO.
That was one very successful diplomatic visit.
Russian TV tonight has been demonising Turkey and Erdogan.
Askance
July 10, 2023, 11:45pm
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I think Türkiye was told “if you ever want to join the EU, you drop this NOW”.
Gorsnak
July 11, 2023, 12:04am
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Do you have a source on this? I’ve speculation to that effect, and it wouldn’t shock me, but to my knowledge there’s nothing official at this time.
Chronos
July 11, 2023, 12:32am
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What exactly would this mean? If Russia attacks a grain ship, Turkey will attack the attackers? That could be one Hell of an escalation.
Ukraine is borrowing a trick from Russia and using their (possibly copious) stockpile of outdated heavy air defense missiles as long range ballistic missiles.
Russian forces for a year now have been firing newer S-300 surface-to-air missiles at Ukrainian cities. In principle, there’s not a lot of difference between a surface-to-air missile and a surface-to-surface missile. And there are qualities of the S-200 that lend the SAM to the ground-attack role.
Turkey controls the entrance to the Black Sea. If the pipelines in the region are cutoff that leaves tankers.
Fiendish_Astronaut:
Since Zelenskyy met Erdogan this weekend Turkey has:
a) withdrawn it’s opposition to Sweden’s accession to NATO.
That was one very successful diplomatic visit.
Zelenskyy is one hell of a diplomat.
Also, I’m wondering if on some of these diplomat missions some sort of very convincing intelligence is being shared.
Of course they are.
What does Erdogan get for these bold statements? There’s always a price.
Two smaller articles: an opinion piece on Wagner and Putin , and Australia is sending what looks like a pretty badass surveillance plane to help Ukraine.
France to send long-range missiles, similar to UK’s Storm Shadow, to Ukraine:
The French version, known as SCALP, has a range of about 250 km (155 miles). Macron said the delivery would adhere to France’s policy of assisting Ukraine to defend its territory, implying that Paris had received assurances from Kyiv that the missiles would not be fired into Russia.
France to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles | Reuters .
Another Russian general reportedly killed:
A top Russian general has been killed in the war in Ukraine, according to an advisor to the mayor of Mariupol.
Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov was reportedly killed near the Russian-controlled port city of Berdyansk in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Petr Andryushchenko wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday.
A number of Russian general officers[a] have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of 28 November 2023, Ukrainian sources claimed that 16 Russian generals and 1 admiral had been killed during the invasion, while Russian sources have confirmed 7 deaths. Although seven of the Ukrainian claims were rebutted, the loss of even two general officers is rare. The scale of these losses is unprecedented since World War II. This has been attributed to Russian senior commanders goin Russi...
It’s a good thing NATO woke up and increased spending in 2014.