The Russians have gone in

[oldbrownhat]

Panzers v Russians, Round 2.

And from Round 1:
War-damaged Russian tanks to go on display in Polish square to highlight 'atrocities'

Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said this week that there are plans for similar exhibits in other European capitals such as Berlin, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon.

“We will help ensure that Russian tanks end up in Europe, but in the form of wreckage,” Reznikov told Polish Polsat TV News Sunday.​

Ukrainian servicemen collect destroyed Russian tanks outside the village of Dmytrivka, in Kyiv region, on June 20, 2022 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/AFP via Getty Images

 

[ddixie884]

I hope the world doesn't get too busy to care what happens to those people or they may end up being the victims of another great famine. I think it would be the third one for Ukraine..........

 

[boykinlp]

Story here

The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for US$103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel...

...Previously, the most ever paid for a Nobel Prize medal was $4.76 million in 2014, when James Watson, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962, sold his...

...It was Muratov’s idea to auction off his prize, having already announced he was donating the accompanying $500,000 cash award to charity.

Muratov has said the proceeds will go directly to UNICEF in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine. Just minutes after bidding ended, UNICEF told the auction house it had already received the funds....​

Wow, that is fantastic. Isn't this what you call "putting your money where your mouth is"?
Larry

 

[oldbrownhat]

Wow, that is fantastic. Isn't this what you call "putting your money where your mouth is"?
Larry

Or perhaps, "Putting your money where your medal was."

 

[DWalt]

There is a feature article about Russian and Ukraine snipers and rifles in the American Rifleman that arrived today.

 

[Onomea]

This is discouraging:

Western Move to Choke Russia’s Oil Exports Boomerangs, for Now


How Russia Is Making More in Oil Sales Now Than Before the War - The New York Times

 

[Absalom]

This is discouraging:

Western Move to Choke Russia’s Oil Exports Boomerangs, for Now

That’s true, but it’s only half the picture. It was always clear that the Russian oil could relatively easily be rerouted to Asian customers and that the oil embargo was not going to have any decisive impact by itself.

The story is quite different when it comes to gas, the second pillar of Russian energy income. With Russia lacking the infrastructure for large-scale LNG conversion, this is entirely dependent on pipelines, and most of those lead to the West.

There is a single pipeline headed to China which shipped 16.5 billion cubic meters in 2021. They recently signed a contract to add another pipeline that would add another 10 billion cu.m., in several years.

In comparison, the European Union last year bought 155 billion cu.m. through pipelines. So any revenue lost there (Germany has cut Russian gas imports almost by half since February) can hardly be made up by switching the gas to another market.

Obviously, the Ukrainians would have preferred the dramatic gesture of a total gas boycott. However, Western leader seem to have concluded, likely correctly, that the economic shock of that would be politically not supportable, and in the long term, Ukraine will be better off with a strategy of assistance that is actually sustainable and doesn‘t flame out due to a lack of popular support.

 

[UncleEd]

Briefly gleaned from news
reports:

British intel says Russia is
suffering nearly unsustainable
casualties in the eastern offensive.

American intel says Ukraine is
suffering nearly unsustainable
casualties in the eastern offensive.

 

[venomballistics]

Briefly gleaned from news
reports:

British intel says Russia is
suffering nearly unsustainable
casualties in the eastern offensive.

American intel says Ukraine is
suffering nearly unsustainable
casualties in the eastern offensive.

basic translation ... they are at war.

 

[ladder13]

They don’t call London, Londongrad, for no reason.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Just days after the first group of Ukrainians completed training on the HIMARS, and the first launchers arrived in-country, this photo purports to show the first HIMARS rocket launched there in combat.

The US supplied portable counter battery radar units were also shown to be operating there now. Teamed with HIMARS, they should be a potent combination.

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[bigwheelzip]

This is a test. I'm not familiar with Twitter, but wanted to try and share this video. It's of the first use of those HIMARS.

In case it doesn't play, it's from General Valerii Zaluzhnyy, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army.
He says "These weapons are in the good hands, dear Americans! To be continued."

Sorry, I needed to delete the video.

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[Onomea]

Here's an optimistic view of the war:

Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities, Western assessments predict

Small shifts in territorial control matter less than the overall balance of forces, which analysts say could shift back in favor of Ukraine in the coming months.


https://wapo.st/3HQ5ZSE

 

[bigwheelzip]

Here's an optimistic view of the war:

Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities, Western assessments predict

The Belorussian railroad workers, who have been working against Russia, have stated that Belorussian military stockpiles are being sent to Russia.




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[Onomea]

The Belorussian railroad workers, who have been working against Russia, have stated that Belorussian military stockpiles are being sent to Russia...

Makes sense. Hopefully, Belarus's military stockpiles will soon be exhausted as well.

 

[UncleEd]

I wonder if in the Russians' offensive
in the east they may be wasting a lot
of artillery by pounding over and over
the same areas where the Ukrainians
have wisely pulled out.

To flatten so many urban blocks and
literally leaving very little to nothing
standing takes a lot of ammunition.

 

[biku324]

They (Russians) had a lot of Cold War munitions. They're burning through it pretty fast for not much gain.

 

[venomballistics]

They (Russians) had a lot of Cold War munitions. They're burning through it pretty fast for not much gain.

Therein lies a critical hand in the poker game
Could be faking a pair of suits sitting on a straight here

 

[ladder13]

Looks like some worry.


Russia-Ukraine war: Baltic nations push for change at NATO summit

 

[Onomea]

The Baltic states request to move from NATO's trip wire security policy — get overrun and we'll help ya out eventually — to beef up NATO defenses to make any invasion painful for the Russians immediately is reasonable and appropriate given current circumstances.

Make it so.