Ukraine and Only Ukraine. If it isn't about Ukraine then fuck off

d'ranger

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ahem .... this is still the Ukraine thread. Feel free to start others especially since Iran is complicated and the US and other oil interests interjected and fucked with it for many years.

Now, this is a war on.
 

LeoV

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Graham remarks.
There is a big cut in the scene, could be related to arms delivery etc.
Not sure it is what it looks like it is.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denounced Graham, suggesting his comment on U.S. financial assistance was linked to a later remark that Russians "are dying" in the conflict.

But the release by the Ukrainian president's office of Graham's complete remarks showed there was no such link.

Graham remarked later; "Mr. Medvedev, if you want Russians to stop dying in Ukraine, withdraw. Stop the invasion. Stop the war crimes. The truth is that you and (President Vladimir) Putin could care less about Russian soldiers," he said.

 

LeoV

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Another missile, drone attack.
37 cruise missiles & 29 UAVs were destroyed over Ukraine last night This time, the enemy launched up to 40 air-based cruise missiles Kh-101/Kh-555 from nine Tu-95MS strategic aviation aircraft from the Caspian Sea region. From the northern and southern directions, the enemy attacked with Iranian UAVs "Shahed-136/131". In total, about 35 strike drones were used.

Has been said Russia is now able to fly the drones lower and not on a straight path anymore. Less predictable, harder to shoot down.

6 drones and at least 3 missiles got through, there will be damage and maybe wounded and or deaths.
Yesterday Ukr used missiles and drones to hit occupied area Rus troop bases.
There will be damage and deaths. Large explosions filmed.
 

LeoV

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Lukashenko alive. And Russia used Belarus to fire S300 and Iskander missiles to hit Kyiv this morning again. This month hundreds of missiles alone at Kyiv. Without tactical advantages.

Talk is a military base was hit in the west of Ukraine yesterday, Khmelnytskyi, a base used for planes. Ukraine keeps this kind of info under control, but it seems legit, multiple channels reporting it.
So they have military targets but chose to terrorize a city.
 
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LeoV

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"People's governor" Pavel Gubarev, who was used by Russia in 2014 to legitimise so called "DPR" in Ukrainian Donetsk says almost no Donetsk men alive between age 24 and 55, as Russia used them in frontal "meat storms" attack on Ukrainian positions.
He is sad.
 

d'ranger

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Anyone ever wonder why helped the USSR achieve technical excellence?
Ukraine keeps on keeping on

Ukraine has squeezed out of the US Patriot missile system a capability that the Pentagon did not think possible, military analyst says​

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Sat, May 27, 2023 at 9:17 AM CDT·2 min read


A shot of a Patriot missile battery firing an interceptor in a US Army test. The Patriot missile defense system is a ground-based interceptor able to eliminate airborne threats.

A shot of a Patriot missile battery firing an interceptor in a US Army test. The Patriot missile defense system is a ground-based interceptor able to eliminate airborne threats.US Army photo
  • Ukraine claims it has used US-made Patriot missile systems to down Russian hypersonic missiles.
  • A military expert said Ukraine's success with the weapon had amazed the Pentagon.
  • The weapons are among the most advanced surface-to-air missiles sent to Ukraine.
Ukraine's success in using the US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems to down Russian weapons has amazed even the Pentagon, a military analyst said.

Ukrainian officials have claimed they have used the weapon to shoot down several Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, which Moscow previously boasted were unstoppable.

"The United States thought for a long time, discussing whether to give us Patriots or not," Ivan Kirichevskiy, an expert at the Ukrainian military news publication Defense Express, told Ukraine's Radio NV, according to Newsweek.


"It turns out that our air defense forces with crash course training literally squeezed out of the Patriot a capability that the Pentagon did not think was possible."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had long been requesting the US to send defensive surface-to-air missile systems, which can strike aircraft, cruise missiles, and shorter-range ballistic missiles.

The US-provided systems finally arrived in Ukraine in April, with Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov tweeting: "Today, our beautiful Ukrainian sky becomes more secure."

The Netherlands and Germany also said they would send Ukraine the weapons.

It is unclear how many Patriot missile systems Ukraine has, but they are among the most advanced surface-to-air missiles sent to Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin previously called Russia's hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. "undefeatable." Insider has reported that the vulnerability of their missiles is likely a surprise and embarrassment for Russia, according to the UK Ministry of Defence.

The Patriot is the main air defense system that the US has in its arsenal, with the capability to track 100 targets from 60 miles away.

Last week, Fabian Hoffmann, a doctoral research fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, told UK's Sky News that after Ukraine recently claimed to have repelled multiple Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, Russia has "never looked weaker."

"This is a truly remarkable development," he said

Hoffmann added, in a tweet, "The fact that Ukraine was able to defend this attack is amazing, in my opinion, whether the final interception rate is 90% or 100%."
 



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