***Russian - Ukraine War Tactical and Strategic Updates*** [Warning on OP]
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DallasAg 94 said:
Blinkin giving the "green light," IMO is a big "so what."
Poland's issues isn't giving up the planes, they were requesting backfill F-16s to keep themselves from being vulnerable.
From what I understand, Poland is transitioning from the MIGs to US planes and this just expedites their replacement.
Arent they on a multi billion order for f35's?
Does anyone recall why Putin stopped with the Crimea back in '14?
Looks like a massive mistake in retrospect!Ag In Ok said:
Does anyone recall why Putin stopped with the Crimea back in '14?
From chef to IT expert, Ukrainian men take crash course in fighting
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chef-it-expert-ukrainian-men-take-crash-course-fighting-2022-03-06/Quote:
Before Russia launched its assault on Ukraine, Andriy Senkiv was a pacifist who blogged about sport and had never held a gun in his life.
Eleven days later, the 27-year-old Ukrainian was learning how to handle an assault rifle with 30 other men in the western city of Lviv. Among them were salesmen, IT experts, a chef and a footballer.
"It's very scary that, in the 21st century, skills that should have died out a long time ago are again in high demand," said Senkiv.
Asked if he was ready to fight and kill Russian soldiers, Senkiv said: "I won't be ready, but I'll do it."
Yaroslav Durda, 37, an IT project manager who received some military training at university, was still hoping that diplomacy or a NATO no-fly zone might halt the Russian advance.However, if the war continued, Durda said he would leave his wife and 8-year-old daughter and head to the front.
"It's our land and we have to protect it," he said.
This definitely doesn't give me a feeling of optimism. Seems like the Russians need to be crushed in the South, and quickly.Keegan99 said:
Another good thread from General RyanEleven days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. In the past 24 hours, we have seen limited Russian progress in the north and east, and another broken Russian ‘ceasefire’. Today - the war in the south, and why it matters. 1/25 pic.twitter.com/UDMXTaunId
— Major General (just retired!) Mick Ryan (@WarintheFuture) March 7, 2022
Was it? I would figure that such incrementalism in the face of a weak West worked out in his favor. It gave him a staging area for the more successful Southern theater of the war. In fact, had he not invaded Ukraine at large this time, I still question if the international community would be reacting the same way as if he just went for Donetsk and Lugansk.aezmvp said:Looks like a massive mistake in retrospect!Ag In Ok said:
Does anyone recall why Putin stopped with the Crimea back in '14?
Cruz says that advancing much beyond Crimea would/could have threatened the natural gas pipelines that Russia uses to move NG to Eastern Europe and Germany. This was the impetus behind the construction of NordStream2.Ag In Ok said:
Does anyone recall why Putin stopped with the Crimea back in '14?
IIRC they have some on order, but if they get rid of their Mig-29's now they're going to need something now in the interim is what DallasAg is getting at I think. Poland currently has F-16's in their inventory, but F-35's would take awhile to deliver.IslanderAg04 said:DallasAg 94 said:
Blinkin giving the "green light," IMO is a big "so what."
Poland's issues isn't giving up the planes, they were requesting backfill F-16s to keep themselves from being vulnerable.
From what I understand, Poland is transitioning from the MIGs to US planes and this just expedites their replacement.
Arent they on a multi billion order for f35's?
Uh they didn't. At the same time they sent unmarked Russian troops into Donetsk and Luhansk and declared independent republics setting off an ongoing Ukraine-Russia war that's been going on for 8 years until it recently escalated into a Ukraine wide conflict.Ag In Ok said:
Does anyone recall why Putin stopped with the Crimea back in '14?
Hey, They knocked out a Russian drone with a jar of pickles!
If russia attacks polish positions the no fly zone is on
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jwj said:
If russia attacks polish positions the no fly zone is on
If they attack Polish positions we need to do more than that.
JJxvi said:Uh they didn't. At the same time they sent unmarked Russian troops into Donetsk and Luhansk and declared independent republics setting off an ongoing Ukraine-Russia war that's been going on for 8 years until it recently escalated into a Ukraine wide conflict.Ag In Ok said:
Does anyone recall why Putin stopped with the Crimea back in '14?
Thank you
The only move i see right now is for the uke eastern force to retreat and fight to engage the uppercut coming from the coast. They need to keep Odessa.
Russian RBC-500 cluster bombs are showing a huge dud rate in Odessa bombings.
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) March 7, 2022
A RBC-500 cluster bomb unit contains PTAB-1M 268 submunitions and 253 (94%) were counted as duds by Ukrainian emergency services.
Note: Ukrainian Steel Balls👇👇👇👇https://t.co/QCYzvyuOGp pic.twitter.com/doVkIGUR00
I feel like this is connected and important considering Bennett was just with Putin
Israel is conducting an airstrike on Syria
— Nour E. Al-Hammoury (@NourHammoury) March 7, 2022
Irish 2.0 said:
I feel like this is connected and important considering Bennett was just with PutinIsrael is conducting an airstrike on Syria
— Nour E. Al-Hammoury (@NourHammoury) March 7, 2022
Warning to Assad to keep his butchers in his own sandbox?
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So much for any speculation about Israel brokering a Russian - Ukranian peace plan...
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Israel's way of sending a message. No longer neutral.
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⚡️50 Russian diplomats including their family members return to Moscow from New York City, CNN reports citing RIA news agency.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 7, 2022
Their departure follows a request that 12 Russian U.N. diplomats withdraw from the U.S. by March 7.
— Terry Moran 🇺🇸 (@TerryMoran) March 7, 2022
Just like the Mossad. Send a high value target out there for cover until they get their covert crap into place and ready to go. Stalling tactic. Earned them two days.Mule said:
Israel's way of sending a message. No longer neutral.
We are far into black ops now.
"In less than a week, the United States and NATO have pushed more than 17,000 antitank weapons, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania,"https://t.co/71av4yc4mh pic.twitter.com/ZALm7iEwHW
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) March 7, 2022
That's a lot of destructive power.
It depends how effective they are. If they're punching above their weight, let them stay and fight their Alamo.Ag In Ok said:JJxvi said:Uh they didn't. At the same time they sent unmarked Russian troops into Donetsk and Luhansk and declared independent republics setting off an ongoing Ukraine-Russia war that's been going on for 8 years until it recently escalated into a Ukraine wide conflict.Ag In Ok said:
Does anyone recall why Putin stopped with the Crimea back in '14?
Thank you
The only move i see right now is for the uke eastern force to retreat and fight to engage the uppercut coming from the coast. They need to keep Odessa.
If they're overwhelmed and otherwise ineffective, withdraw some, or even most, but let some volunteers dissolve back into the populace to gather intelligence, serve as a spotters, saboteurs, and insurgency commanders.
SIAP but are the Javelins strictly anti-tank or can they be used against other heavy artillery pieces?
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Any vehicle. Better against larger targets.agent-maroon said:
SIAP but are the Javelins strictly anti-tank or can they be used against other heavy artillery pieces?
Could this have been a Javelin instead of a Stinger or other manpad? I understand that under limited circumstances the Javelin can be used against aircraft.Charpie said:— Terry Moran 🇺🇸 (@TerryMoran) March 7, 2022
Today, unfortunately, many Americans have good reason to fear that they will be victimized if they are unable to protect themselves. And today, no less than in 1791, the Second Amendment guarantees their right to do so. - Justice Samuel Alito 2022
🛑🛑🛑Video from social media showing the Chornobayivka airport near Kherson (controlled by the #Putin regime terrorists) being shelled , purposely by Ukrainian armed forces, overnight #Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/WxrO5cAgKf
— Слава Україні🇺🇦 (@ignis_fatum) March 7, 2022
JB!98 said:Could this have been a Javelin instead of a Stinger or other manpad? I understand that under limited circumstances the Javelin can be used against aircraft.Charpie said:— Terry Moran 🇺🇸 (@TerryMoran) March 7, 2022
Javelin is a lot slower and is fairly smokeless.
Also the corkscrew flight path is a telltale characteristic fur many MANPADs due to the way the IR seeker works
agent-maroon said:
SIAP but are the Javelins strictly anti-tank or can they be used against other heavy artillery pieces?
" Javelin provides the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and numerous international customers with a medium-range, "fire-and-forget" missile for use against a wide array of targets including armored vehicles, bunkers and caves. The system's Command Launch Unit, or sight, performs surveillance, allowing a gunner to see targets."
https://www.raytheonmissilesanddefense.com/what-we-do/land-warfare/precision-weapons/javelin-missile
Outside Lviv station, which is thronging with exhausted refugees fleeing war in eastern Ukraine, an accomplished pianist is playing “What a Wonderful World.” It’s hauntingly beautiful. pic.twitter.com/Xm5itr8jl7
— Andrew RC Marshall (@Journotopia) March 5, 2022
Refugees still flooding into Lviv, on their way west to Poland. Volunteers and supplies also coming in, going east into the battlefields. Hard not to choke up. Godspeed, everyone.
March 5- In Ukraine's West, Lviv Makes Itself a Vital Rear Base - Spared direct attacks so far, the city has become a transit point for thousands of fleeing refugees and for men and supplies headed to the front lines.
https://archive.ph/3Zi1M#selection-909.0-913.160
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This genteel city of cobbled streets and Austro-Hungarian architecture a UNESCO world heritage site has already become home for foreign embassies and government departments relocated from the capital, Kyiv, and is the main route in for medicines, equipment and personnel. According to Western intelligence analysts, weapons are also being brought through this region across the land border with Poland.
Lviv's train station is clogged with thousands of people waiting for the four trains a day that still ply the route to Poland, and cars packed with families tail back for almost 10 miles at the main land crossing at Medyka.
Officials were bracing for tens of thousands more refugees expected to arrive Friday from a mass exodus from the capital, Kyiv, amid what refugee officials say is already the largest movement of refugees within Europe since World War II.
"We will have a humanitarian crisis in Lviv tonight," warned Viktoria Khrystenko, a lawmaker on the City Council who is helping direct the effort to support refugees. "We had 30,000 people arrive last night," she said. "Tonight we will have 100,000." There are not enough places to sleep, food to distribute and shelter for the crowds, she said.
Yet as people flee, others are returning and regrouping. Volunteers were loading boxes of supplies onto a train heading back east to Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, which has suffered heavy Russian bombardment for days. Groups of men in woolen hats and winter jackets were boarding the train, too. They had left jobs in Europe to come back and enlist in the fight, from Prague, Berlin and Warsaw, one said.
"We are at war and someone has to defend the country," said Artem Sypii, 41, a welder who had traveled back from Poland and was heading home to eastern Ukraine.
https://archive.ph/3Zi1M#selection-909.0-913.160
Apologies for going off topic, just some background on the Ukrainian flag everyone now recognizes instantly.
A beautiful reminder why Ukraine's colors are blue and yellow. pic.twitter.com/T5HNP37cda
— Steve 🍁⚓ (@redleadviper) March 6, 2022
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The blue color of the flag represents the sky, streams, and mountains of Ukraine. The yellow color symbolizes Ukraine's golden wheat fields and the richness of the earth.
Note that its Estimated that Russian Forces began the Operation with about 195,000 Troops making this if true almost 25% of that initial Buildup.
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 7, 2022
"The governor of the Mykolaiv region, Vitaliy Kim, said that Russian forces were surrendering in unexpected numbers and had abandoned so much equipment that he did not have enough military and municipal workers to collect it all." https://t.co/wR46gOrGvs
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) March 7, 2022
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