It’s extremely difficult to interdict a railroad.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...-toughest/
(02-06-2024, 02:31 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Last month, Russia launched an offensive on Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, opening up a new front to the war. Ukrainian officials said, however, that fighting in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine blazed on or intensified following the start of cross-border attacks on Kharkiv.
Ukrainians finally got green light to proceed from U.S. Hours Later on Friday. U.S. supplies HIMARS Opened Fire, targeted Belgorod, attacks on base for Russian targeted Belgorod, a base for Russian attacks in northern Ukraine.
(02-06-2024, 03:10 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:
Zelenskiy arrives in Singapore for Shangri-La Dialogue. SINGAPORE, June 1(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy arrived in Singapore for Shangri-La Dialogue conference on Saturday, where he planned to meet U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin & discuss support for his country in an address to delegates.
After arriving at conference venue in a motorcade amid heavy security, Zelenskiy said in a statement on social media platform X that he had come to gather support from Asia-Pacific region for peace summit planned for June 15-16 in Switzerland.
"Global security is impossible when world's largest country disregards recognised borders, international law, & U.N. Charter, resorts to hunger, darkness, nuclear blackmail," the statement said, referring to Russia, which invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Statement said Zelenskiy planned to hold several meetings, including with Singapore’s President Tharman Shanmugaratnam & PM Lawrence Wong, Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta, Austin, and Singaporean investors.
A U.S. official said Zelenskiy and Ukrainian Defence Minster Rustem Umerov would meet Austin "to discuss the current battlefield situation in Ukraine & to underscore U.S. commitment to ensuring Ukraine has what it needs to defend itself against ongoing Russian aggression".
The International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), which organises security conference, said Zelenskiy would participate in a discussion session on Sunday entitled "Re-Imagining Solutions for Global Peace and Regional Stability".
Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Russia is trying to disrupt the Switzerland peace summit, which he hopes will generate support for the withdrawal of Russian troops and the restoration of Ukraine's 1991 borders.
Reuters first reported his planned trip to Singapore on Friday. Its Zelenskiy's 2nd trip to Asia, In May 2023, he attended G7 meetings in Japan. As Ruzz
begun assaults against Ukrainian lines & stepped up missile attacks in recent weeks as troops have made gains in Ukraine's east & south, as Kyiv's allies accelerate shipments of munition & other arms. The Russia has not attended the Shangri-La Dialogue since the invasion.
US approved $61 billion aid to Ukraine, such as Patriot missiles & ATACMS precision ballistic missiles - already arrived. On U.S. President Joe Biden informed Ukraine it can use U.S. weapons to strike targets across the border into Russia that were being used to attack areas around Kharkiv, a city in Ukraine's northeast. Russian Putin has warned NATO members allowing Ukraine to fire their weapons into Russia & once again raised the risk of nuclear war.
Austin, spoke earlier on Saturday @Shangri-La Dialogue, his remarks support for Ukrainian forces pushing back against Russia's invasion for more than two years showed that countries around the world could rally in the face of aggression.
Shangri-La conference, held annually in Singapore by International Institute of Strategic Studies for last 21 years,. Coming soon: Latest news & expert analysis state of the global news with Reuters. Thomson Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/zelenskiy-...024-06-01/
(31-05-2024, 02:50 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Ukraine’s ATACMS Rockets Are Severing Russian Supply Lines Into Crimea. But The Last Line Is The Toughest.
It’s extremely difficult to interdict a railroad.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...-toughest/
(04-06-2024, 11:41 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Continue from...above
Particularly, pay attention to the photo taken from the roof of the 92N6 radar, the component of the S-400 system. Two launchers in the distance destroyed and the support vehicles damaged. One of the latter could well be a command vehicle, the exact identification is difficult by this photo alone.
Landing such a hit on the launchers means a complete destruction since the solid fuel in the loaded anti-aircraft missiles burns them inside out. The real conundrum is the condition of the cornerstone of this system — the 92N6 mobile radar station. Here we should look closely at the radar antenna, just the part within the view was pierced over fifty times (as highlighted in red in the next photo).
Defense Express / Looks Almost Fine: S-400 Takes a Hit from Ukrainian HIMARS Rocket
These holes are the result of the GMLRS warhead filled with tungsten balls blasting everything around with fragmentation. Defense Express earlier explained what happens when a GMLRS rocket explodes and why you cannot hide from it. For a reminder, here's a video:
Getting hit with such a fragmentation blast leads to a guaranteed incapacitation of the radar which S-400 cannot operate without. The station needs to spend a long time in repair, if it's even reasonable to attempt considering the character of damage. After all, the main element of the radar is pierced across its entire working area. That is all while the system may appear unaffected to the eye or to the satellite. A similar case occurred before, when fragmentation of an ATACMS missile fired by an M142 HIMARS left a visually unharmed russian helicopter honeycombed with tungsten.
Based on this evidence, we can expect another S-400 anti-aircraft missile defense system counted out as eliminated. The russian forces are currently using their S-400s to patch up holes in the air defenses leaving them open to a strike at a relatively short distance from the front or the border.
Also, this originally anti-air systems are being used for regular shellings of the Ukrainian cities within their reach by spitting out missiles to fall along a ballistic trajectory.
(06-06-2024, 11:11 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Ukraine Voices Frustration Over Slow Pace of F-16 Pilot Training. By end of this year only 20 Ukrainian F-16 pilots are expected to graduate, half of the number needed to man a full squadron of 20 fighter aircraft.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33882
(08-06-2024, 08:38 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Responding as millions of people flee war in Ukraine. The intense fighting and shelling have led to 7.8 million people leaving Ukraine becoming refugees across Europe.
Within Ukraine, over 6.5 million people remain displaced by the war. MSF teams had been working in eastern Ukraine and have now suspended our usual medical activities, including our HIV and tuberculosis programmes.
(08-06-2024, 09:03 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: As war continues across Ukraine, people flee, teams are responding to a severe humanitarian crisis, both in Ukraine and in neighbouring countries. Where in KYIV & Surrounds - July 2024, city of Kyiv, we began to provide physiotherapy services in a hospital managed by Ministry of Interior. There are approximately 200 beds entirely dedicated to war-wounded people