I don't think so. It just implies the Ukrainians can keep hitting military affiliated targets in Russian territory, even more so now after obtaining HIMARS and ATACMS.
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I don't think so. It just implies the Ukrainians can keep hitting military affiliated targets in Russian territory, even more so now after obtaining HIMARS and ATACMS.
Yes and no. It's a refinery close to the front. That carries some value because it makes it easier to supply your front. But in itself, as far as I know, it is just a normal refinery. And obviously it is within reach for Ukraine.
Russia has trouble distributing refined oil products for months now, especially into regions close to the front as a lot of trains moving in that direction are needed for military supplies and block the rails for civilian transports. Hitting that refinery just makes these problems worse.
In fact Russia has even banned exporting gasoline for these reasons.
What a BTR can do to a village 
Apparently Ukraine hit a Russian SU57 jet, the most advanced fighter jet Russia has. Russian milblogger channels also confirmed it.
Came here to post this. That airfield is almost 600 miles from the front lines. Great to see.
This won't be well received in Africa, where Putin has been trying to make friends and gain influence.
I wonder if this means that they simply used a Storm Shadow which they were not allowed to use before, or if they really were able to fly closer to Russian airspace than before. The latter would be the better scenario as it would indicate a massive depletion of Russian air defense assets in the region, but the former probably is more likely.
Takes them down to 31 total.
Not sure if Britain has ever put restrictions on use of Storm Shadow?
Other possibilities below, though would still have to get fairly close to Russian border, at altitude, to use a glide bomb.
I'm inclined to agree since its highly improbable Russian air defenses are not functioning given that they have historically had some of the best air defense technology in the world; especially their SAMs.
Interesting thread from the ISW on Russian force regeneration and pace of operations
Zelensky's shake up of government personnel not going down well with Western backers.
Russia loses a SU-34.
Finally. Up to now, due to effective Russian Propaganda, Azov despite being one of the most experienced brigades in Ukraines armed forces, has been barred from using US supplies.
do you think this was the right decision? Do you think it was propaganda and not reality
I’ve met some of the original founders of Azov.
Absolute pricks. The one good thing to come out of this war is that those nazis mostly got gunned down in Mariupol
We were having a chat about Ukrainian politics and a few of them said they followed something called vanguardism and another unironically said he was an “esoteric hitlerist” whatever the feck that means
Probably it's now okay to do that and was the right thing to not be too closely affiliated with them before. As you said, most of their true Nazis etc are probably dead by now as they slowly transformed into a more regular unit.
They're still working closely with National Corps. Almost all changes were purely image stuff for their rebranding, the only one of actual consequence is that they had to stop taking foreign fascists in. Even Biletsky is back in the army after having to play politician for a while.
Well there's certainly no argument about its roots. Its a long way from its founding however and the far-right elements were pushed out long ago. I don't have your insight of course, but if the the trolls seem to struggle finding much to discredit them from within the last 8 years, and they have thousands of people working on it full time, then its a good indication. Except that badge of course, they probably should have done away with that for the sake of global PR, but I suppose it holds meaning to them as a symbol of Ukrainian Nationalism.
It was those pricks that prevented the actual embodiment of modern Naziism from annexing Mariupol back in 2014. Neo-Nazi groups around the world don't support Ukraine, they are rooting for Russia. They certainly don't volunteer to put their lives on the line defending a city with significant Jewish history.
Of course its the right decision.
U.S. Army Officer Confirms Russian A-50 Radar Jet Was Shot Down With Patriot Missile
https://www.twz.com/land/u-s-army-o...-radar-jet-was-shot-down-with-patriot-missile
I'm guessing that noone has opened that article.
If they had, there's no way they wouldn't have commented on the author's name
I'm guessing that noone has opened that article.
If they had, there's no way they wouldn't have commented on the author's name
Interesting to see that this apparently is a tactical approach the German Bundeswehr is used to and trained the Ukrainians on while the US had no clue what was going on during that training. Didn't expect that detail to be honest.
I wouldn't read too much into it.
SAM Ambushes are pretty common tactics, it's just everyone does it slightly differently. The US method is to usually turn off everything for days at a time, whilst another battery operates much deeper into their own lines, after a while the opponent EW&S suites think the sky is clear and start sending in mass sorties, suddenly during one of those the second SAM turns on and there's dozens of enemy planes that are sitting ducks.
Yes, but what surprised me is that US troops apparently were close enough to see this drill happen, but weren't aware of what/why they did it. I would have expected them to be familiar with each others approaches if they are working that closely together. After all both are part of NATO and are expected to fight together if it comes to it.
Little Dmitry Medvedev's latest attempt at looking like a political hardman.
Not sure how that would protect the bridge itself. Once the Ukrainians figure out a suitable attack path and time, they are no doubt going to hammer it with ATACMS.
ATACMS might not be very effective against such buildings... naval drones which destroy the foundations of the bridge can do much more severe damage than ATACMS. Besides that Russia has moved a lot of air defense in the area to protect it against ATACMS etc.
Yeah good point. Also, they only go about 190 miles, which would be hard to get them close enough. The obvious solution would be to do with with drones or as an inside job.