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That has no basis whatsoever and reduces the credibility of the presenter
My blog suggests what the casualties are and they match cross referenced figures.
To put it simple - Starting manpower + recruitment - casualties = current strength.
When there is agreement on 3 figures the fourth - casualties, is derived.
That figure matches credible western estimates like Mediazona.
Russia has using much more artillery fabs etc and there has been clear evidence that Many Ukrainians are being forcibly recruited, plus Ukrainians are leaving fortified positions, logically all information on the internet points to much higher Western Ukrainian causualties. At some point t NATO will have to admit this was wrong gamble on thier part.
Most of the time, Russia used massive artillery bombardments and attacked areas that they softened. They also defended with the support of enormous use of the same kind of bombardment and drone attacks. From the start, it looks like they plan to kill as many as UKN forces and weaken them while avoiding casualties from their side. While there is nothing new with this aim, which almost every side in any war wants, it looks like the main aim of the Russians seems to be that only. Taking land appears to be a secondary aim. So, they are not pressing serious offences\ even when they could only to avoid casualties.
All N weapons in Ukraine were of soviet origin and were taken back by Russia after the USSR broke up. The US has none of those to give back. Dunno what junior high school the NYT journalists failed from to come up with such absurdities.
An interesting look at Russia's new Oreshnik missile
(Please hit Like and/or Subscribe when you watch his videos, because his content is quite good)
Multiple warheads each following different trajectories to the same target -- how is this newer and different from MIRV / MARV ?
Also, is the speculation that this is a Bulava SLBM derivative plausible?
Should we perhaps look toward developing something like Oreshnik?
Look at the advantages: A single SLBM with this capability could deliver more than twice the ordinance potential of a B-52 bomber without being vulnerabie to interception. This could be make SSGN very potent and effective.
Whitehouse is apparently authorizing more missiles to be used to strike into Russian territory
American JASSM, German Taurus
Macron of France is also about to authorize new military escalation, including French troops in Ukraine
Western media now saying that Zaluzhny (Zelensky's rival) was the mastermind of the Nord Stream destruction, and also wanted to destroy Turkish pipeline infrastructure as well.
This is after Zaluzhny has begun commenting that the West lacks the ground forces to defeat Russia in a war of attrition.
Top Russian General and 500 North Korean Soldiers 'Killed by British Storm Shadow Missiles' in Devastating Attack
A top Russian general, along with 500 North Korean soldiers, have allegedly been killed by British Storm Shadow missiles in a devastating attack.
The strike launched by Ukraine on November 20 wiped out Lt-Gen Valery Solodchuk and also resulted with 18 Putin officers reported lost, with a further 18 wounded, it has been claimed.
Earlier reports suggested that a Kim Jong-un general had also been left injured in the attack as he commanded troops backing Vladimir Putin's Ukraine invasion.
Whenever there has been a significant loss on the Russian side, there have been video evidence, satellite pic, UAV pics etc etc, if it surfaces within 24 hours of the attack it is true, otherwise it is BS. Similarly vice versa
Top NATO Official Calls on Business Leaders to Prepare for 'Wartime Scenario'
BRUSSELS, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A top NATO military official on Monday urged businesses to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly, in order to be less vulnerable to blackmail from countries such as Russia and China.
"If we can make sure that all crucial services and goods can be delivered no matter what, then that is a key part of our deterrence," the chair of NATO's military committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, said in Brussels.
Speaking at an event of the European Policy Centre think tank, he described deterrence as going far beyond military capability alone, since all available instruments could and would be used in war.
Seems some NATO strategists apparently feel that in light of Russia's new missile capability, it's better not to wait for them to potentially act, but to instead hit the Russians first:
NATO is Discussing the Possibility of Preemptive Strikes Against Russia — Bauer
NATO is discussing the possibility of preemptive precision strikes on the territory of Russia in the event of an armed conflict with the alliance countries. This was stated at a conference in Brussels by the head of the Military Committee of the bloc, Admiral Rob Bauer.
He called positive the fact that NATO has changed its attitude to the essence of the organization as a defense alliance, as well as the perception that it is necessary to "sit and wait for us to be attacked" and only then react.
"It is more competent not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first," Bauer said, quoted by Bloomberg.
Things must be pretty bad for Ukrainians and West to be using modified trucks to be firing Pakistani made Grad rockets- forgets the claims of captured from the Russians- The West has probably supplied these to the Ukrainians- which means many of the Western Artillery, Air Defense, Rocket Launchers, Radars have all pretty much exhausted/ Destroyed.
if a Makeshift launcher with a Hand welded unguided rocket(which really cant be that accurate), needs to scoot like this in 2 mins at the most important front, I dont there are any of Archers/ French mobile artillery or M777's active here
British troops could head to Ukraine after fresh £225m package unveiled (aren't British troops already in Ukraine?)
looks like next drama will be 'british troops kiad in ukraine by roosi missile nato where are you' before 20 Jan https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/br ... r-AA1w8Lds
… In what might be a world-first, a Ukrainian national brigade has just launched an all-robot, combined-arms drone attack on Russian forces. The assaulting force, a mixture of ground- and aerial unmanned vehicles, was used in the Kharkiv Oblast in northern Ukraine.
According to reports, the attacking force consisted of many units that worked together like a traditional combined-arms force. “We are talking about dozens of units of robotic and unmanned equipment simultaneously on a small section of the front,” a 13th National Guard Brigade spokesperson explained.
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Regarding the actual combined-arms robotic assault, the operation used a mixture of remote-controlled aerial surveillance and minelaying drones, kamikaze ground and aerial drones, and gun-armed ground robots. This operation was also based on a smaller-scale test run on a Russian-entrenched position in September.
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* Zelenskyy said 30% of the military equipment Ukraine used in 2024 was domestically made.
* Ukraine is manufacturing more and more of its own weapons to fight back against Russia.
* Western weapons companies have also opened facilities in the country to feed its war efforts.
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Ukraine's military industry has soared since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Ukraine is making more and more of its own weaponry, like naval drones, howitzers, and glide bombs. It also manufactures its own missiles and successfully tested its first homemade ballistic missile in August.
An increasing number of Western manufacturers are also setting up operations in Ukraine. These include AeroVironment, an American defense contractor headquartered in Virginia, German arms maker Rheinmetall, and BAE, a major British defense firm.
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Ukraine has repeatedly said that it needs more weaponry and defensive gear in order to protect itself, and warfare experts have accused the West of drip-feeding aid to Ukraine rather than giving it enough to make a major difference on the battlefield.
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Soldiers fighting in Ukraine have said that the way military aid arrives can make long-term planning and strategizing a challenge.
UKR introdues powerful EW to counter Russian FPV drones. Russians already have drones with fiber optic links, but not in numbers. Terminal autonomous homing is the way I see this going forward.
5-months in and Russia still hasn’t been able to recapture occupied Kursk. Now the last hurrah … Ukraine launches further counterattack before the peace negotiations.
Tanaji wrote: ↑22 Nov 2024 23:46
Anyone making exaggerated facial expressions in youtube video profile pic automatically loses credibility in my opinion.
Doesn't have to be that way. Some of them use the exaggeration to grab the viewer's attention but many of the youtubers present content at times that MSM doesnt. If we aggregate the news and the media clips, it may help to derive a somewhat clearer picture of the situation IMO.
srai wrote: ↑06 Jan 2025 13:59
5-months in and Russia still hasn’t been able to recapture occupied Kursk. Now the last hurrah … Ukraine launches further counterattack before the peace negotiations.
Hey Bhagwan, truth from Al Jazeera no less ! What last hurrah saar? A few more hundreds of conscripts killed for a few sq kms they will hold for a few weeks at best? Why would the Russians recapture Kursk territory in a hurry? To get compliments from western media? Or they will just let the Ukrainian forces come fwd like lemmings and pick them off while minimising expending their own men and materials? Please refer back to stated objectives of the SMO. And if you pay attention and analyse the happenings as BRFites usually do, you will hopefully see there are some unstated objectives of this entire situation that no one in the west, and perhaps your worthy self wants to acknowledge.
IIRC, Kursk allows Russia to deploy DPRK troops, which they cannot inside Ukraine. Basically decreases Ukraine troops available in other theaters, while increasing available Russian troops...It seems like a good deal for Russia (and NK as they will be exposed to actual fighting)
