Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2
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Losses of Leopards and Bradley’s have slowed considerably over the last week. Ukraine has adjusted their tactics.
Diana Panchenko is wanted by ukrainian SBU and resides outside ukrainian controlled territory. In other words, she is a pro russian puppet spreading disinformation like the US ordering Ukraine to “invade” Donbas.
This is just another attempt to control the narrative by Putin. In a couple of years Putin is going to give us all yet another history lesson, after reading all the “documents” carefully, and tell us all how he and Russia was trying to save the world once again from nazism and fascism.
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I remember during the beginning phase of the Azerbaijan-Armenia war.
Azeri armor was getting absolutely slaughtered during the initial offensive in Armenian held territory, it even gave the impression that Azerbaijan was on the verge of losing a war that it had just begun....
That was until the Azeris readjusted, after which it was almost entirely a one sided affair where Armenian troops kept having to fall back over and over again due to heavy losses until the war was over and it was clear that Azerbaijan had won the war.
The "second army of the world" is now using ISIS tactics lmao
' The moon of Alabama,. An excellent, independent source of information on the war.
The failure of the Ukraine counter offensive.
The failure of the Ukraine counter offensive.
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Failure? With the new Bradley package, Ukraine still has 95% of its offensive armor capability.
This is going to last months
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Russia admits Storm Shadow missiles are a nightmare for Putin's forces
Yevgeniy Balitsky, Moscow-appointed head of currently occupied Zaporizhzhia region in Ukraine, said the weapons are causing 'trouble' for Russia's invading forces.
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Russia admits Storm Shadow missiles are a nightmare for Putin's forces
Yevgeniy Balitsky, Moscow-appointed head of currently occupied Zaporizhzhia region in Ukraine, said the weapons are causing 'trouble' for Russia's invading forces.
Russia admits British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles are a nightmare for Putin's forces and harder to deal with than US HIMARS
- Close Putin ally Yevgeny Balitsky, Moscow-appointed head of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region in Ukraine, said the weapons are causing 'trouble'
- His words confirm that the British missiles have been a game changer for Kyiv
PUBLISHED: 03:49 EDT, 15 June 2023 | UPDATED: 05:48 EDT, 15 June 2023
Russia has admitted that British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles are causing a major problem to Vladimir Putin's forces.
Yevgeny Balitsky, Moscow-appointed head of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region in Ukraine, said the weapons are causing 'trouble' and are even more problematic for the Kremlin's armies than the US-supplied HIMARS systems.
His words confirm the impression that the long-range Storm Shadow has been a game changer for the Ukrainians as Kyiv launches its counteroffensive.
'They certainly give us trouble with their missiles, I must say, especially Storm Shadow,' said Balitsky.
'We've somehow learned how to shoot down [US-supplied] HIMARS.
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'But the [British-supplied] Shadow ones are even harder. They arrive, and have a bigger radius. So it's a problem for us.
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'In fact, our air defence is having a hard time with [Storm Shadow].
'It shoots them down, but there's only a 50 per cent chance of the missiles being shot down.'
He added: 'Out of four, three have recently reached us.
'Sometimes two make it. The missile is modern, although it is not the newest, but it is fast enough, it flies properly. I mean, at different speeds, at varying altitudes, changing modes, so it is not easy to shoot down.'
Britain announced the supply of Anglo-French-designed Storm Shadows to Ukraine on May 11, answering a long-time demand from Kyiv for long-range missiles to help defend their territory against Putin's invading armies.
This week there were reports that a Storm Shadow missile killed Major-General Sergey Goryachev, 52, in a strike in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Other senior Russian officers are also believed to have been killed.
He was Chief of Staff of the Russian 35th Combined Arms Army, and is one of 11 generals reported to have died in the war - and the first this year.
A Storm Shadow six days ago hit a Russian military HQ close to Henichesk on the Arabat Spit, near annexed Crimea.
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A leading Kremlin crony of Putin's - deputy PM Denis Manturov, 54, had departed minutes before the strike.
'A Storm Shadow missile hit a few minutes after his departure,' said one report.
Storm Shadows have also struck occupied port cities Berdiansk and Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, say reports. And the £2.2million-per-unit missiles were used to target Luhansk in the occupied Donbas.
The GPS-guided ground-hugging missiles with a 450kg warhead have a range of around 155 miles. The missiles allow Ukrainian forces to strike deeper into Russian-held territory than was previously possible.
Storm Shadow is a low-observable, long-range, air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace previously confirmed the missiles had been used by Ukraine on May 18- but declined to give further details.
He said the missiles gave the Ukrainians the ability to strike Russian command and control centres which had been moved further behind the front line to keep them out of range of the rocket artillery systems the West had supplied to Kyiv.
Ukraine is the only country to be publicly supplied with these missiles by the UK.
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Britain also became the first country to provide long-range precision missiles to Ukraine with the delivery.
They were also suspected to have been used this month when Russian MP Viktor Vodolatsky sustained injuries after an attack on May 15.
The missiles were used for the first time operationally by UK forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where they were tested by the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron.
The RAF and the French Air Force have used them against Isis. Britain also used them against Syrian forces in 2018.
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UAF is facing heavy losses. Even if it's not reported in western media, the soldiers on the frontlines would know the real situation. It's understandable that many would choose to surrender.
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Ukraine army should conduct more night attacks. The Russians lacking of night vision gears.
Ukrainian military member looking in a thermal weapon sight during advanced training in military tactics on September 11, 2022, in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Ukrainian crews train on ex-Norwegian Leopard 2s.
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Ukrainian crews train on ex-Norwegian Leopard 2s.
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Sprinter isn't a good source on anything considering he's proven to have purposefully spread false information.
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where do you get these funny ideas?
