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China's playbook. Appease both sides for as long as you need them. I'm pretty sure this phonecall was just a big waste of time.
Isn't that literally every country when it comes to geopolitics? Nobody is supporting Ukraine just to be nice, it benefits them all in some way.
Nato (the west) supports Ukraine because we need to stop Russian imperialism, for the safety of Europe and democratic world in general. China only supports for their own power and money reasons.
edit: First footage of the Patriot system operating in Ukraine
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This sort of thing is more of a giveaway that something is a foot than not. The Russians must surely have their antennas up.
If the US or NATO can drive a wedge between Xi and Putin, then it will be worth it. Even if that wedge isn't a big one, it will help to further isolate Putin by cutting him off from his biggest ally.
Pretty impressive numbers. Ukraine also trained 8 new brigades themselves, that makes 17 new brigades (around 100.000 men) in addition to those already deployed, ready for a counter offensive with western weapons and training.
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Do we have the numbers for amount of men? This sounds like a bit too much? I think the west trained around 40k soldiers which would mean around 4.5k men for every brigade. So if we follow that, I would expect somewhere around 60k men.
So, who's been paid to turn a blind eye?
UK company set up in name of top Putin official in Ukraine
Volodymyr Saldo, a Kremlin puppet in the Russian-occupied territories, listed as firm’s owner, despite being under sanctions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...t-up-in-name-of-top-putin-official-in-ukraine
UK company set up in name of top Putin official in Ukraine
Volodymyr Saldo, a Kremlin puppet in the Russian-occupied territories, listed as firm’s owner, despite being under sanctions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...t-up-in-name-of-top-putin-official-in-ukraine
Yeah, I had the number of brigades wrong in my head. According to Reuters, Ukraine trained 40.000 storm troops in 8 new brigades, so around 5000 men/brigade. With that information, the 9 additional brigades trained in Nato countries should field around 45.000 troops. So together around 85-90.000 men in 17 brigades? We don't have official numbers of course, but I still think it will be close to a 100.000 new troops trained and armed with western weapons and armor.
It's UK policy to turn a blind eye to company registrations. No checks are ever done, you are free to fraudulently set up a company in whatever name and info you want for £12 and 24 hours. The only person ever prosecuted for such a thing was the guy who did it using the info of politicians, to prove a point.
Yea, it's decent numbers and 100k properly trained and equipped Ukrainian soldiers are probably worth 2-3x the amount of Russian ones, at least in the Southern Ukraine where they will not have much experience. The biggest worry is that of course Russia had a lot of time to prepare and they probably mined the hell out of fields/roads.
Don't forget those 100k are only the newly formed and trained brigades. They have even bigger numbers deployed all around the front and they will take part in the counter offensive as well. If I remember correctly the Russian invasion force back in february 2022 was around 200-300k strong. I'm sure that Ukraine can field similar numbers in their counter attack. This upcoming battle will be brutal.
The invasion force was 200K but they've mobilized since then and last time I checked there are about 350K Russians in Ukraine now, including Wagner and newly mobilized.
Minus those KIA, MIA and injured I guess?
Yeah. And Russia can't keep all soldiers on the front lines. They need military presence in every town they take, especially bigger towns like Melitopol where the resistance is strong. If Ukraine can break Russian defense lines in some places, they will fall apart is my feeling. Especially because most of them have neither motivation, nor the training. We saw that already last year. As soon as Ukranian forces broke through, Russians started running.
It will be more difficult now of course, because Russians have several defensive lines now, but still. With the right tactic and equipment, everything is possible.
They will need 2 or 3 times the amount of RA troops for the offensive, for sure. But no one knows how many troops UA possesses or is ready to deploy. People have to take account of their reserves getting used to defend those cities along with weapons/ammunitions. Do we know if any of the NATO-trained troops participated in defending those cities? If so, the availability of troops have a different outlook as well.
A Russian navy ship equiped for subsea operations was photographed in the area of the Nord Stream blasts 4 days before the explosions.
On Russian gas exports in 2023:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/business/energy-environment/russias-gas-exports-2023.html
Next time that prick comes around, I hope someone will make it sink.
New wave of terrorist attacks all over Ukraine which will probably be followed with - "we're ready for negotiations, sadly Ukraine and the West are not".
Air defense is getting better and better. But sadly one residential building was hit again.
Yes, in the town of Uman. UA probably held AA defense there... (that's what you'd hear from prorussians).
These are just the guys trained with outside help right?
Shocked I am, utterly shocked.
I think around 40k have been trained abroad and around the same number have been training in Ukraine https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...-brigade-troops-counter-offensive-2023-04-05/
Yeh so plus the 700k or so already active, but perhaps less trained (on nato gear at least) troops. Sounds like the assumption is that these guys trained with outside help will be the counter-offensive force.
Another one for The Hague 
fecking terrorists.
fecking terrorists.Another one for The Hague
22 and search still ongoing. Orcs boasting they hit all designated targets, and this happens while russia is chairing a UN security council.
"U.S. Wires Ukraine With Radiation Sensors to Detect Nuclear Blasts"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/science/ukraine-nuclear-radiation-sensors.html
A silver lining in all of this is it shows Putin's desperation and it makes him look doubly evil before the world when the story is amplified as it has.