Putin says 0 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine

[Hindustani78]

Look at Serbia, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen. That's what would happen to Ukraine if Russian air power and cruise missiles unleash on Ukraine. Ukraine won't have a chance. Not even a CHANCE. Ukraine knows this. That's why Ukraine doesn't dare to invade Crimea which was annexed by Russia.

Ukrainian Air Defenses units are on high alert.
Ukrainian anti air defense system S-300 in Odessa and deployed
Feb 25, 2015

 

[Superboy]

Ukrainian Air Defenses units are on high alert.
Ukrainian anti air defense system S-300 in Odessa and deployed
Feb 25, 2015

These are early version S-300. Su-35's jammer easily jams it.

 

[Hindustani78]

These are early version S-300. Su-35's jammer easily jams it.

Ukroboronservice to upgrade additional Ukrainian S-300PS air defence system - Airforce Technology

 

[Superboy]

Ukroboronservice to upgrade additional Ukrainian S-300PS air defence system - Airforce Technology

Ukraine has no technology.

 

[Hindustani78]

Ukraine has no technology.

Dont want to argue on that .

 

[Hindustani78]

St. Petersburg native Dmitry Sapozhnikov, who went to Ukraine in October to fight alongside the rebels, told the BBC Russian service in a candid interview from Donetsk that Russian military units have played a decisive role in rebel advances, including the operations in February that led to the capture of the transport hub of Debaltseve. Russian officers directly command large military operations in eastern Ukraine, he noted.

"Tanks and Russian units came through the LPR," Sapozhnikov said, referring to the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic on the border with Russia. "But I don't think that this is a secret anymore, everyone admits it, and the Russians admit it.… Thanks to the Russian forces, we're able to take positions quickly. We were located near Debaltseve and thinking, well, we're going to hold them in this encirclement for another month, it will drag on.… But in the end we took it in three days."

Sapozhnikov said that tank units from Siberia were aiding the rebels. His account corresponds with an interview given by an injured Russian soldier in a hospital in Donetsk to the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, in which he said that his tank unit had helped take Debaltseve.

Throughout the conflict, which the United Nations says has killed more than 6,000 people, evidence of Russian military support for the rebels has mounted.

Ten Russian paratroopers were captured in Ukraine last August, and NATO published satellite photographs showing what it described as Russian tanks crossing the border that summer. Rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko even admitted around the same time that active-duty Russian troops were fighting with his men, though he claimed that they had chosen to fight while on vacation.

He admitted the Russian military has been instrumental to their success.

"Naturally, all operations, especially large-scale ones like encirclements, are directed by Russian soldiers, Russian generals," Sapozhnikov said. "They make plans together with our commanders. I often had to go to the headquarters to provide some information."

Drafted into the army in 2013, Batomunkuev was placed in a newly created battalion last fall. The battalion's 31 tanks and their crews were sent to the border region of Rostov, ostensibly for training, but Batomunkuev said that he knew they would be sent to Ukraine.

They painted over the emblems and numbers on their tanks, removed the patches and chevrons from their uniforms, and turned in their passports, phones, and military IDs. After three months of exercises, they were sent forward one day and only realized that they had crossed into Ukraine when they started seeing road signs for Donetsk.

 

[Penguin]

These are early version S-300. Su-35's jammer easily jams it.

Number built
Su-27M: 15
Su-35S: 34

Russian Air Force – 34 Su-35S in inventory as of February 2014

So, you are saying the RUssian airforce is flying in support? With their preciously few Su-35?

 

[Superboy]

Number built
Su-27M: 15
Su-35S: 34

Russian Air Force – 34 Su-35S in inventory as of February 2014

SO, you are saying the RUssian airforce is flying in support?

It could potentially do that.

 

[Penguin]

Ukraine has no technology.

On arms trade
Behind the Scenes of Ukraine's Defence Industry

On industry

When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Ukraine was left with about 30 percent of the Soviet defense industry on its territory, including about 750 factories and 140 scientific and technical institutions. At the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union, these institutions employed over 1 million people.
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Presently, 300 enterprises, institutions, and organizations employing over 250,000 people are licensed to produce arms and military equipment in Ukraine. Of those outfits, 75 are registered as manufacturers of defense products and services subject to state secrecy, including rocket and missile technology. The state holding company Ukroboronprom, established in 2010, oversees 134 Ukrainian state-owned defense industry enterprises that employ 120,000 workers.
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The consolidation of much of the Ukrainian state-owned arms industry into Ukroboronprom—whose sales reached $1.79 billion in 2013, an increase of 17 percent on the previous year—put the conglomerate on SIPRI’s list of Top 100 Arms Producers for 2011 and 2012.
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Of the foreign countries that support Ukraine’s export-driven defense industry, one stands out. Russia was the third-largest buyer of Ukrainian defense-related products from 2009 to 2013 after China and Pakistan. There are, however, parts and services that Russia currently imports only from Ukraine. Russia’s military depends on Motor Sich in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia for helicopter engines and on the Russian company Antonov’s plant in Kyiv for transport planes. Most importantly, the Russian army relies on the Southern Machine Building Plant Association, known as Yuzhmash, in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, which designs, manufactures, and services rockets and missiles.
Some of the most important ties between the two countries’ military industries relate to Russia’s strategic nuclear forces. More than half of the components of Russia’s ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles come from Ukraine. Ukrainian specialists carry out regular inspections of Russia’s strategic missiles to certify them for service as well as supplying essential missile components including targeting and control systems for the RS-20 Voyevoda missile (known by NATO as the SS-18 Satan). At the same time that they rely on exports to Russia, many Ukrainian enterprises that manufacture defense products are also dependent on imported parts and materials—primarily from Russia.
The relationship between the Ukrainian and Russian defense industries had been bolstered by Russia’s ambitious military modernization program, on which Moscow plans to spend $720 billion by 2020. Russia’s defense spending has nearly doubled in nominal terms since 2007, and in 2014 alone it will grow by 18.4 percent. Russian enterprises, which were originally intended to fill all of the government’s equipment orders, are so “overworked,” as Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said in December 2013, that the modernization program also relies on the Ukrainian defense industry.

Read more at: http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/07/30/saving-ukraine-s-defense-industry

It could potentially do that.

The US could potentially station F-22s in Ukraine. So what?

 

[Superboy]

On arms trade
Behind the Scenes of Ukraine's Defence Industry

On industry


Read more at: http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/07/30/saving-ukraine-s-defense-industry


The US could potentially station F-22s in Ukraine. So what?

Ukraine cannot build anything TODAY. It has lost all its arms industry. So what if F-22s deploy to Ukraine? They can be shot down by S-400

 

[Penguin]

Ukraine cannot build anything TODAY. It has lost all its arms industry. So what if F-22s deploy to Ukraine? They can be shot down by S-400

You're sidestepping the point, which is that POTENTIALLY anything goes. I.e. there is nog substance to your post(s).

 

[Hindustani78]

SBU detains Russian citizen suspected of organizing bombings in Kharkiv : UNIAN news

07.04.2015
Ukraine’s SBU state security service has detained in Kharkiv a woman suspected of organizing bombings in the city, including today’s attack on the stele on Prospekt Pravda, the press center of the SBU told an UNIAN correspondent on Tuesday.

"A citizen of the Russian Federation, an employee of the so-called Ministry of Public Security of the Donetsk People’s Republic named Teresa coordinated the criminal activities of subversive groups in Kharkiv region," the report reads.

"It is known that in early 2014 she was an active member of the Kharkiv Antimaidan and pro-Russian protests. Later, she joined the militants in Donetsk, where she entered the so-called ‘ministry,’ which, under the leadership of the Russian special services, created subversive groups to commit terrorist acts in Ukrainian cities," the report says.

"On the instructions of her leader, named Dok, a woman arrived in February in Kharkiv to gather intelligence and coordinate sabotage and subversive groups," the press center said.

The officers of the SBU found an improvised explosive device, ammunition, and anti-Ukrainian symbolism at the place of her temporary residence.

As UNIAN reported earlier, a stele with Ukraine’s national flag was attacked by a bomber on Prospekt Pravda in the center of Kharkiv early on Tuesday morning. The bomb attack on the stele was classified as a terrorist act.

 

[Hindustani78]

Units of Russian army in Donbas identified| Ukrinform
KYIV, April 18 /Ukrinform/. Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Colonel-General Viktor Muzhenko has denied recent statement made by Russian president Putin on absence of regular Russian troops in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukrainian media crisis center reports.

"We have a list of all the Russian military units, which are now in Ukraine, their deployment sites, the number of personnel and weapons available to them," the chief of the General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine said.

According to Muzhenko, in January there was still no documentary evidence of direct confrontation with Russian military units, as they were mostly located in the rear of the militants. However, already in February, the regular units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation took part in the battles near Debaltseve, Chornukhyne and Lohvynove.

"Now I can say that in those battles Ukrainian army inflicted heavy losses on the Russian army, and disrupted Russia's aggressive plans for further advance. We know that now regular units of the Russian army are still in Ukraine. For example, such include 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the 2nd Central Military District Army, 8th Motor Rifle Brigade, 331st Airborne Regiment from Kostroma, 98th Airborne Division and other," the Ukrainian Colonel-General said.

 

[munchkin]

Units of Russian army in Donbas identified| Ukrinform
KYIV, April 18 /Ukrinform/. Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Colonel-General Viktor Muzhenko has denied recent statement made by Russian president Putin on absence of regular Russian troops in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukrainian media crisis center reports.

"We have a list of all the Russian military units, which are now in Ukraine, their deployment sites, the number of personnel and weapons available to them," the chief of the General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine said.

According to Muzhenko, in January there was still no documentary evidence of direct confrontation with Russian military units, as they were mostly located in the rear of the militants. However, already in February, the regular units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation took part in the battles near Debaltseve, Chornukhyne and Lohvynove.

"Now I can say that in those battles Ukrainian army inflicted heavy losses on the Russian army, and disrupted Russia's aggressive plans for further advance. We know that now regular units of the Russian army are still in Ukraine. For example, such include 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the 2nd Central Military District Army, 8th Motor Rifle Brigade, 331st Airborne Regiment from Kostroma, 98th Airborne Division and other," the Ukrainian Colonel-General said.

That's right. Russia is 30 times the size of Ukraine. No way Ukraine can survive Russian invasion. Look at Crimea. Taken over without firing a shot. Russian army stronk! The rest of Ukraine will not survive Russian invasion either.

 

[Hindustani78]

That's right. Russia is 30 times the size of Ukraine. No way Ukraine can survive Russian invasion. Look at Crimea. Taken over without firing a shot. Russian army stronk! The rest of Ukraine will not survive Russians either.

Shots were fired in Crimea.
Ukrainian officer shot dead and 1 militia killed at under-siege Crimean army base | Daily Mail Online
Armed Russian forces arrest Ukrainian army officers during an operation in Simferopol, after the crisis moves from from political to military action between the two countries, after one Ukrainian serviceman was shot dead on Tuesday

Armed Russian forces take part in a military operation at a Ukrainian military base in Simferopol, which led to the first act of bloodshed when a Ukrainian serviceman was shot dead

An armed man clears a roof of an Ukrainian military unit in the Ukrainian military base, thought to be a Russian soldier instigating an act of war on behalf of his country