Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[LeGenD]

Looks like Russian forces have taken Mariupol. This battle lasted 82 days.

I have updated relevant section in the repository thread.

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[Oldman1]

So has the Russian frigate Admiral Makarov been sunk? I was hearing reports on it a few weeks back but its suddenly gone quiet. If its true, then thats good news for Pakistan as India is acquiring/acquired those same frigates for use in the Indian navy.

@Vergennes @jhungary @Oldman1

I wouldn't know. The Ukrainian military hasn't said anything about it.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

It is laughable how the Western propagandists like to cope and spin this massive blow against them in Mariupol.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526367728176619520

Looks like Russian forces have taken Mariupol. This battle lasted 82 days.

I have updated relevant section in the repository thread.

The Russia - Ukraine War Repository Thread with Fact-checking considerations

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This was a massive blow against Judea-controlled Ukrainian forces. As usual, Judea propagandists are spinning this victory achieved by the victorious Russian and pro-Russian forces.

 

[Oldman1]

It's more like NATO and zionist regimes needed a trigger to politically legitimize the large scale destabilization of West Asia and North Africa they had been planning. To this end they activated the same types of networks they had established some fifteen years earlier to combat the Soviets in Afghanistan, and used them to obtain the pretext they needed.

The alternative scenario you imagined is too far fetched.What person in their right mind, knowing who the neoconservatives are and what the establishment elites in Washington are up to (especially after publicly expressing the belief that a "new Pearl Harbor" would enable them to implement their plans for domination), would come to believe that striking symbolic high rise towers in New York and killing many hundreds of civilians would somehow convince America's ruling oligarchy that it needs to withdraw from the Muslim world in order to have peace?

Its something people assume Americans would change their minds based on past history. Kind of like the Embassy attacks or the attacks on the Marine barracks in Lebanon in the 80s and force President Reagan to pull troops out. Or another example Pearl Harbor attack and the Japanese assume that would be enough to force the Americans to sue for peace because what they did to the Russians in a surprise attack during the Russo-Japanese War. Remember that Saddam though the same warning Americans about the Mother of All Vietnams prior to U.S. involvement in Gulf War1. So thinking killing thousands of Americans and other nationalities on 9/11 would force the U.S. to back off in the ME or change its support for Israel.

To attack the city is easy, to block the Russian force from coming south while you are doing it is hard.

Russian are digging trenches around Kherson Oblast, meaning they are taking a defensive stance. IF (That is a big IF) the people in Kherson rise up when Ukraine Military swoop in, that would not be hard to fight off the Russian, however, the single bridge connecting Kherson and Oleshky would be a problem. Ukrainian need a blocking force to block that position, otherwise it will allow Russian to come in and out of Kherson with their reinforcement.

The Ukrainian did not make any move is probably because they don't have enough manpower to perform both task. Ukraine would also need to push troop inside shelling distant, which itself would take time.

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Need more of the drones with grenades, artillery and loitering munitions to attack at night as well in the Kherson region. If they want to launch counteroffensive, it would have to be at night. And moving from one town or village to the next each night. Thats the only way in that terrain.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

Missile rain on Lvov

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526328029630320642

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526326454379761666

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526326887009726464

 

[wahhab0202]

Nations like Egypt for example are more stable than Russia

Last 2 successions in Egypt were not particularly smooth. Oil producing countries in are not seems to have political stability as good as Russia. Morocco and Algeria were in the brink of war few months back. Nigeria, Angola and some oil producing countries in Africa also politically unstable. Security threat in form of terrorism and piracy also common in this region.

 

[Oldman1]

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This just join the war in Ukraine.......

The 2S22 Bohdana 155 SPG is said to be better than M109A6, debuted in 2018, it can fire 155mm GPS guided shell from over 50km, out ranging even M777 (M777 can shoot M982 Excalibur round at 40km).

2S22 Bohdana - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There are 1 that made and is reportedly in the fight. More are said to be made with UK and Polish firm and probably with US or UK aid money for their production.

That would definitely help with focus on only one artillery model instead of a dozen variety provided by the west but they still need as much as possible in the current fighting because it will be awhile to build more of these Bohdanas. At least this is very mobile with shoot and scoot capability. The U.S. military is also interested in their own version. Don't know if they will go for more automation. Also wonder if they will include the longer barrel M777 version on the vehicle as well as stand alone.

@jhungary @F-22Raptor @Vergennes

https://twitter.com/x/status/1525448394159931394

https://twitter.com/x/status/1525448411436175360

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526214710047252481

 

[Oldman1]

@jhungary
By the way, is it possible that Poland or other countries can be Ukraine's war factories? Producing not just that artillery but provide other vehicles and equipment that Ukraine cannot produce currently, at least small arms, bullets, ammo and body armor is something Ukraine can produce and in hidden places. But for the bigger equipment Poland and other nearby countries could do it.

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526215584262029317

Macron was injured in an accident that left him in a long coma, and when he woke up after more than twenty years, he went to a cafe in Paris and asked for a cup of coffee, then asked the waiter: Please, how did the war in Ukraine end? The waiter replied: It ended well. Macron was happy and then asked him again: How much does the coffee cost? And the waiter answered: Three rubles!

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526298154114629634

 

[Oldman1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526333878788665345

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

 

[The SC]

In the first major nationalization process, Russia acquires the French "Renault" factories in the country..

@euronewsar

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526371117467828225