Spring has arrived in Ukraine – with late March temperatures an unreasonably high 17C (63F) along much of the frontline in the east. It means it is possible to declare, definitively, that the Russian campaign to knock out Ukraine’s power grid has failed, and whatever happens next in the war, its people will not be frozen out of their homes, as was once feared when the bombing campaign began on 10 October.
The reality, of course, was the missile strikes on key infrastructure had been largely abandoned at the end of January, with Russian missile stocks at 10-15% of prewar levels, according to Ukrainian estimates.
(25-03-2023, 07:41 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Update from Ukraine 25/03/23. It time for Wagner fighters to run away to Africa. To fight against who?. 
https://youtu.be/TjKpPXON4uk
Why Wagner fighters run to Africa, when the war is in Ukraine..........................?
(25-03-2023, 07:47 PM)debono Wrote: [ -> ]Why Wagner fighters run to Africa, when the war is in Ukraine..........................?
Russian
Mercenaries Are Pushing France 1st, out of Central Africa and also Those Like China and the US. The Wagner Group.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/18/rus...al-africa/
(25-03-2023, 07:47 PM)debono Wrote: [ -> ]Why Wagner fighters run to Africa, when the war is in Ukraine..........................?
The republic was one of just 14 countries to vote against a 2022 United Nations resolution calling on Russia to pay war reparations to Ukraine. The
Central African Republic.
Now China is in...Africa too.
CAR, has signaled its plans to be a lasting importer of Russian grain and foodstuffs. A visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Mali’s foreign minister pledged to deepen economic ties between the two countries—and blasted Western efforts to sanction Russia. When a coup brought a new military faction to power in Burkina Faso last fall. Prigozhin statement congratulating the coup plotters and their struggle against “colonialists.
(25-03-2023, 08:27 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Russian Mercenaries Are Pushing France 1st, out of Central Africa and also Those Like China and the US. The Wagner Group.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/18/rus...al-africa/
They prisoners fighters and their soldiers try to kill many like those from China and others countries to size their land, their gold and many things. Same like in the old days. The Brit and US try to steal.
(25-03-2023, 07:47 PM)debono Wrote: [ -> ]Why Wagner fighters run to Africa, when the war is in Ukraine..........................?
Russian
plans for nuclear weapons in Belarus ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ – as it happened after Xi / Putin talk.?.
(27-03-2023, 11:16 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Russian plans for nuclear weapons in Belarus ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ – as it happened after Xi / Putin talk.?.
US, Putin, Xi and a few others smaller players, all is playing with fire.
https://youtu.be/6e_8saeGHQc
The reality is that the Kremlin understands this war as an existential threat – by its own warped definition. Vladimir Putin is acutely aware of the fact that his regime is now in grave danger, with all the world’s powers either against it – like the U.S. and EU – or unwilling to explicitly ally themselves with Moscow – such as India and China.
Of course, it is only Putin’s regime that is in danger. Russia will survive. It’s huge. It spreads across 11 time zones. Trying to destroy it would be a fool’s errand, and neither Ukraine nor NATO has any intention of doing so.
But Putin’s own power over Russia, his “Russian world” ideology, and the fantasy of a Great Russia regaining its erstwhile influence over much of Europe and Asia are rehearsing their last gasps.
A prominent pro-war Russian military blogger has been killed in a blast in a cafe in central St Petersburg, Russia’s interior ministry has said. Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, had more than 560,000 followers on Telegram and was one of the country’s most influential military bloggers. The interior ministry said 19 people were injured in the blast on Sunday.
Saw a video of a Ukrainian soldier. He say he and many others are "tricked" into being deployed to Bakhmut from other regions. Some units within 1 hour landing in Bakhmut, 4 dead 6 injured. Troops deployed from other regions into Bakhmut casualty rate can be as high as even 90-95% that will never make it back alive. Even if can go back will be severely injured.
Another video a Ukrainian soldier chop off his thumb,index,middle finger still get callup and deployed to frontline. The army fixed some wire from his "fingers" to the gun trigger so he can fire his weapon. Siam callup by chopping off fingers don't work. I think should be chop off an entire arm (both of them) and see if still can get callup and be deployed to frontline or not.
mud is the most important
when it dries out it is Time to launch attacks.
(10-04-2023, 09:23 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said that if he had acted according to a certain security protocol at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, he would probably have been captured.
Source: Ukrainska Pravda's podcast
Details: According to Reznikov, the secure command post of the Ministry of Defence, where the minister was supposed to go with his team, was located in Hostomel. As it later became obvious, Russian forces had launched a powerful attack on the city, including a massive troop landing.
Quote: "The command post that was assigned to my staff was located, you'll laugh, in Hostomel, in a protected place that was the first to be ambushed. Theoretically, if we had moved there in at least a day or two, I would have had half of the ministry there. Almost captive. 
In Hostomel, came the Russian soldiers to capture the airport story.
https://youtu.be/ppGvpthc11g
(10-04-2023, 09:39 PM)singlon Wrote: [ -> ]mud is the most important
when it dries out it is Time to launch attacks.
Hostomel airport changed hand afew times
https://youtu.be/1uhUDSELSNw
(15-04-2023, 08:17 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]As many as hundred of tanks is entering Ukraine to help fight Putin soldiers. Can Ukraine maintain and optimally use its Western tanks?. Future Ukrainian counterattacks. They May Be Old but can Still Outshoot the Russians - Leopard 1 Tanks. Dozens of Danish and Euro Cold War-tanks might reach Ukraine in time for Kyiv’s long-awaited offensive, and probably they’ll be a match for anything Russian they might come up against.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/15808
Keep those Leopard tanks coming to help in the war against Russia.............
(15-04-2023, 08:40 PM)debono Wrote: [ -> ]Why did the Americans not send their Challenger tanks to Ukraine.............?
UK on Britain’s Challenger 2 main battle tanks and is training of Ukrainian to drive tank, crews completed and went back Ukraine since the UK announced in January that it would send 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, the ministry said in a statement.
Spring is bad for the war, after snow melts, soldiers have to walk in mud, tanks also have trouble advance in mud
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(25-03-2023, 07:11 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]As the weather turns, so too does talk of a Ukrainian counterattack. Kyiv’s forces are gradually taking delivery of previously promised western tanks, fighter jets, fighting vehicles and other munitions, and some of them have been freshly trained in Britain, Germany and or from Poland. But the country’s second important commander, Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, surprised most observers when suggested, on Thursday, that place for a counterstrike could be in or around Bakhmut itself.
As Russian observers hunt for clues of a spring offensive, Ukraine’s land forces chief suggests an unlikely strategy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/m...nterattack
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, visited Ukrainian troops on Tuesday in Avdiivka, Donetsk region, his office have said. Zelenskiy listened to commanders’ reports on the battlefield situation and gave awards to soldiers, it said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...ns-restart
(20-04-2023, 10:17 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]A mysterious flash that lit up the skies over Ukrainian capital Kyiv generated much speculation. Officials in Kyiv said they suspected it was a Nasa satellite falling to Earth but US space agency told BBC it was still in orbit.
Ukrainian air force suggested the flash might have been a meteorite. The air force seemed confident it had not been caused by a Russian air attack - an event all too familiar since the invasion last year.
Nasa space satellite falling to Earth," US space agency had announced earlier that a retired 660-pound (300-kg) satellite would re-enter atmosphere on Wednesday. The RHESSI spacecraft, used to observe solar flares, was launched into low Earth orbit in 2002 and decommissioned in 2018, Nasa.
Rob Margetta from Nasa's Communications told BBC, satellite was still in orbit at the time the flash was observed, and would re-enter Earth's atmosphere during the night.
Nasa and the US defence department continued to track RHESSI... 
Alien! Alien visiting Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65331823
Moscow bombs own city of Belgorod Strike by Russian warplane on city leaves crater 20 metres wide and injures two people. While
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy is invited to Nato summit in Vilnius in July.
Zelenskiy said Nato needed to invite Ukraine to become a member and give a timeframe for accession. “There is not a single objective barrier to the political decision to invite Ukraine into the alliance,” he said. “And now, when most people in Nato countries and the majority of Ukrainians support Nato accession, is the time for the corresponding decisions.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...g-conflict
(10-04-2023, 09:39 PM)singlon Wrote: [ -> ]mud is the most important
when it dries out it is Time to launch attacks.
Slovakia transferred all 13 pledged MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, the Slovak Defense Ministry said on April 17.
"The transfer was conducted by land to ensure the utmost security." Slovakia joined Poland as the only countries that provided Ukraine with Soviet-made fighter jets. Earlier, Poland pledged 14 MiG-29s to Ukraine.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...ttlefield/
(17-04-2023, 01:25 PM)lvlrsSTI Wrote: [ -> ]Spring is bad for the war, after snow melts, soldiers have to walk in mud, tanks also have trouble advance in mud
Cleaning up Russiain and Wagner fighters.
https://youtu.be/j3LYSjXaQxw
(25-03-2023, 07:11 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]As the weather turns, so too does talk of a Ukrainian counterattack. Kyiv’s forces are gradually taking delivery of previously promised western tanks, fighter jets, fighting vehicles and other munitions, and some of them have been freshly trained in Britain, Germany and or from Poland. But the country’s second important commander, Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, surprised most observers when suggested, on Thursday, that place for a counterstrike could be in or around Bakhmut itself.
As Russian observers hunt for clues of a spring offensive, Ukraine’s land forces chief suggests an unlikely strategy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/m...nterattack
A police chief in occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol, who defected to Russia has been killed.
Oleksandr Mishchenko died when an improvised device exploded at the entrance to the block where he lived.
There have recently been reports of heightened Ukrainian partisan activity in the region. Melitopol's exiled mayor said the dead officer was a traitor.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65414836
