WTF, NATO and outer countries with defense treaties with the US are arming Russia?
Threaten to tear those treaties up if there isn't verifiable action. Maximum pressure include ALL trade agreements with the US. Not to exclude the removal of all US equipment and personnel from said countries.
What they are talking about are multi use industrial fabrication equipment. A precision industrial CnC and fabrication machine capable of turning out products can be used in commercial goods as well as defense capabilities and in many cases you'll have a company order 2 and 1 goes to a defense plant and the other it's actual intended application. That's what they're talking about here.
At this point if NATO says something it is a lie, several USA retired military personnel that have volunteered to help in Ukraine have stated we have had boots on the ground since before the war training the Uke soldiers and medical industry. Flat out lie
There's a big difference in retired or civilian US advisors and NATO coalition forces.
WTF, NATO and outer countries with defense treaties with the US are arming Russia?
Threaten to tear those treaties up if there isn't verifiable action. Maximum pressure include ALL trade agreements with the US. Not to exclude the removal of all US equipment and personnel from said countries.
What they are talking about are multi use industrial fabrication equipment. A precision industrial CnC and fabrication machine capable of turning out products can be used in commercial goods as well as defense capabilities and in many cases you'll have a company order 2 and 1 goes to a defense plant and the other it's actual intended application. That's what they're talking about here.
KINBURN PENINSULA/ 25 NOV/ After UKR Naval Special Warfare (NSW) conducted raids, a Ukrainian political source claims ‘only three more settlements remain to be liberated’. Control of the Bug-Dnipro River estuary is vital for the operation of the ports of Kherson and Mykolaiv. pic.twitter.com/J0F755ZqCQ
For additional context, Jens Stoltenberg's comments saying that Germany's deliberation on supplying Patriots that were given to Poland to Ukraine is a "national decision" https://t.co/s8lIWx6WSf
While Minister Blaszczak's logic is sound, the elephant in the room remains: who's going to crew them? It won't be the UAF, not at least until months of training can be conducted. That leaves NATO personnel or, more likely, military contractors.https://t.co/hOUKhoC9NF
Prigozhin attacks the Russian media for regularly publishing "wishful thinking:" reports about entrances into Bakhmut, such as the August 5 entry of Wagner Group PMCs, as the aim isn't fast occupation.
Since September, the state-owned company Kazmunaigaz has started export deliveries through Georgia and Azerbaijan through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. After oil bypassing Russian ports, Kazakhstan plans to export uranium.
For additional context, Jens Stoltenberg's comments saying that Germany's deliberation on supplying Patriots that were given to Poland to Ukraine is a "national decision" https://t.co/s8lIWx6WSf
While Minister Blaszczak's logic is sound, the elephant in the room remains: who's going to crew them? It won't be the UAF, not at least until months of training can be conducted. That leaves NATO personnel or, more likely, military contractors.https://t.co/hOUKhoC9NF
Meanwhile in Russia: top propagandist Vladimir Solovyov is demanding the death penalty for Russian servicemen who abandon their military positions. He is also demanding for his staff to ban any online users who ask him to show his own heroism on the frontlines. pic.twitter.com/hbDq38mFAE
Norway will provide Ukraine with a new package of military assistance. It includes 55 thousand units of winter clothing, 30 thousand field rations, M109 self-propelled artillery systems, and spare parts for artillery.
It shows a Ukrainian drone dropping a small grenade on a group of 11 Russian soldiers huddled sleeping in a (weakly) defensive dug-out pit, on the front line east of Bakhmut. What's amazing to watch is how sluggishly - if at all - the men react.
Prigozhin attacks the Russian media for regularly publishing "wishful thinking:" reports about entrances into Bakhmut, such as the August 5 entry of Wagner Group PMCs, as the aim isn't fast occupation.
1/ In what may be a bizarre case of mistaken identity, the Russian FSB has killed a group of Russian people it claims are pro-Ukrainian saboteurs – but who reportedly appear to be Airsoft enthusiasts who were engaged in live-action roleplay of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video games. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/LOfYpWOs8x
Statement from a contract soldier in Russia's 155th Naval Infantry Brigade. He says they sustained 900 casualties near Pavlivka (450-500 KIA) over the span of 3 months, and "the brigade was almost completely destroyed" and is receiving combat replacements.https://t.co/TAELkDHH3ipic.twitter.com/ilYNnpAddA
A lot of Rob's content seems to be featuring Russian State TV and intercepted calls because there isn't much movement going on in the front due to conditions on the ground. Keep in mind that we're getting to the more brutal part of the year there.
At 1:01, Rob suggests that next week, we will start to see an evident shift in Russian morale as it keeps getting colder and more miserable. He plays an intercepted Russian phone call between a mobilized soldier on the Kreminna front and his mother. It doesn't sound great. The mobik says they were running away from a tank with thermal vision. He doesn't have the proper training nor equipment. The mobik is also told that you can't get leave unless you've been there for 8 months. All in all, it's a really heartbreaking phone call to listen to.
At 8:07, we get another intercepted phone call. He says that there are BARS (volunteer batallions) in Kreminna, and that many of them only have 7 people in each of them (???), mostly "pensioners". It's also noted that Wagner convict-soldiers were fighting alongside one of these two mobiks, but they haven't been seen in days. These guys also seem to believe the lies that Poland wants to take either Ukrainian territory of Russian territory (Kaliningrad), and that they're fighting NATO. One of the Russians openly admits they're firing phosphorous "to burn them out".
At 12:34, We get more Russian State TV with our favorite propaganda host, Vladimir Solovyov, in an unhinged rant. Somehow, he spins it around to say that Ukraine is the one killing Russians, conveniently ignoring that Russia is the aggressor. He repeats the lie that they're fighting against NATO. He exclaims that this is war and that there's no bigger valor and happiness for a man than to give his life for the Motherland. He just aimlessly yells at people running away from the war. Apparently, Solovyov lost his Italian villa and lies that he gave it up. Rob says he wishes he could have rented Solovyov's house in an AirBnB and left a dump on the floor (lol).
AT 17:40, we get another Russian State TV show. One of the speakers says he's asked when the war will end and also how long they need to put up with it. Also, another speaker says that there are Russian units that explicitly do not take prisoners. Another speaker points out that there are routine prisoner swaps, and that not taking prisoners is a war crime. Also, somehow one of them claims there are concentration camps for Russians? One of the speakers also suggests a direct attack on the British military. Another openly makes a good point that much of the projection of being open to peace talks is to put on a show to the outside world, and that that isn't serious given their goal of regime change in Kyiv.
Map updates at 26:12. Not much changing on the NE front, which isn't surprising. The weather is apparently terrible. Bakhmut is a miserable mess for the Russians as they throw cannon fodder and meat to the grinder.
At 29:18, Rob brings up the rumor that the Kinburn Peninsula is subject to a strong Ukrainian operation. I still don't believe this and would wait for confirmation. It seems he may be cautiously following Chuck Pfarrer's lead. He notes that it's an outlier in the information. Overall, it seems that Ukraine is using the current seasonal situation to soften Russia up.
Germany is set to declare Stalin's man-made Holodomor famine in Ukraine from 1932-33 a genocide
A symbolic move that will strengthen often-frayed Germany-Ukraine ties and add credibility to Germany's 2023 funding for the documentation of Russian war crimes in Ukraine
The Ukrainian people will be liberated from the neo-Nazi rulers, they deserve to live in friendship and prosperity next to their Slavic brothers, #Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov says
US has deployed in Poland a repair base for artillery, which the allies handed over to Ukraine & which was damaged during the fighting, reports @nytimes.
A third of the approximately 350 artillery pieces from partners are out of service due to wear & tear or damage – US defense
It shows a Ukrainian drone dropping a small grenade on a group of 11 Russian soldiers huddled sleeping in a (weakly) defensive dug-out pit, on the front line east of Bakhmut. What's amazing to watch is how sluggishly - if at all - the men react.
They have already accepted death. In doing so can lead to either being a very dangerous warrior or simply awaiting their chosen fate. The latter appears to be the case here. There is another wounded by grenade drone in which the drone returns after rearming and the orc had already killed himself.
Going to get worse as it gets colder but colder also means drier.
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Reports of a group of understaffed and ill-supplied mobilized personnel are dividing the Russian information space.
President Vladimir Putin falsely presented a meeting with hand-picked women as an open discussion with mothers of mobilized personnel.
An investigation by Forbes' Ukrainian service revealed that the war in Ukraine has had a serious financial impact on the Russian Federation's annual budget.
The Russian MoD may have increased the frequency of POW exchanges to soothe discontent in the Russian information space.
A Ukrainian official confirmed that Ukrainian forces killed Iranian military advisors in Russian-occupied Crimea and threatened to target Iranian military presence on Ukrainian territory.
Russian military leadership may be circulating a document stating that Russia needs to mobilize five million personnel to win the war in Ukraine, which Russia cannot do.
Russian forces conducted limited counterattacks to regain lost positions northwest of Svatove and Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations toward Kreminna.
Russian forces continued to conduct offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas, and influential Russian figures may be setting informational conditions to deflect blame for a lack of progress in the Bakhmut area.
Russian forces continued to establish defenses south of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast and around critical ground lines of communication (GLOCs) connecting Crimea to southern Kherson Oblast.
Russian sources and officials continue attempts to shape the narrative around a likely second partial mobilization while denying the potential for general mobilization.
Russian officials are continuing efforts to stimulate demographic change in occupied areas of Ukraine by deporting Ukrainian residents and replacing them with imported Russian citizens.
This footage shows at least two Russian BMPs with infantry trying to storm Kamyanke near Avdiivka from Novoselivka Druha. But the whole unit gets wiped out in a matter of minutes, leaving both BMPs destroyed in the ditch. #Avdiivka#Donetsk#Ukrainehttps://t.co/K8w857Yjt7pic.twitter.com/n9eYNVrIwH
This video is from a channel that a German acquaintance started. He's not as flashy as Speak the Truth or Denys Davydov, but I hope this may be of interest to others here for informational purposes.
Yeesh. Also, the poster got the left-side pictures wrong. Those are apparently in Passchendaele and the Somme. Still, the point remains that the situation is similar.