Things aren't looking to great for Ukraine in Donbas, slowly but surely they are getting pushed out of the Luhansk area and some forces are under threat of being surrounded if they don't pull back.
24-May-2022 00:39:23 - *U.S. Official: Quad Leaders Will Announce New Efforts on Covid-19 Boosters and Pediatric Doses, As Well As Climate, Space, Cyber
24-May-2022 00:39:23 - *U.S. Official: Quad Needs to Reinforce Itself Before Thinking About What Next Steps Need to Be, When Asked Whether Quad Should Expand Membership
24-May-2022 00:39:23 - *U.S. Official: Biden Wants to Have Candid Conversations With Modi, Build on Commonalities
24-May-2022 00:39:23 - *U.S. Official: Quad Leaders Share View That Ukraine Situation Is Serious Threat to International Order
Things aren't looking to great for Ukraine in Donbas, slowly but surely they are getting pushed out of the Luhansk area and some forces are under threat of being surrounded if they don't pull back.
Russia seems to be digging in in other areas and focussing on putting the squeeze on Donbas while Ukraine seem to be trying to break Russia's ability to fight by grinding them down and disrupting their supply lines, while not necessarily meeting them head on in every area. It is probably going to be a race to see whether Russia can push through before Ukraine can impact their ability to sustain the push.
By the looks of it Russia are just shelling Lyman indiscriminately with Msta-S, various MLRS, etc. just going 1km square sections at a time not even targetting anything specific.
24-May-2022 02:01:08 - *Japan Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Declines to Comment on Biden’s Remarks on Taiwan and China’s Reaction
24-May-2022 02:01:40 - *Japan Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno: US and Japan Leaders Confirmed That Their Basic Position on Taiwan Situation Has Not Changed
24-May-2022 02:02:10 - *Japan Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno: Two Leaders Stressed Importance of Peace and Stability in the Taiwan Strait, Key Element for Stability of International Community
24-May-2022 02:38:49 - *Japan PM Kishida: We Should Not Let What Is Happening in Ukraine Happen in Indo-Pacific
24-May-2022 02:40:10 - *Japan PM Kishida: We Would Like to Discuss Climate Change, Disaster Relief As Well
24-May-2022 02:40:24 - *Australia PM Albanese: Quad Is Standing Together for Free and Open Indo-Pacific
24-May-2022 02:40:44 - *Australia PM Albanese: Our Goals Are Aligned With Quad Priorities
24-May-2022 02:42:15 - *Australia PM Albanese: Our Government Will Invest More Money in Region’s Fight on Climate Change
24-May-2022 02:42:27 - *Australia PM Albanese: New Climate Goals Will Put It on Track for Net-Zero Emissions by 2050
24-May-2022 02:42:59 - *Australia PM Albanese: We Are Increasing Foreign Aid Budget
24-May-2022 02:47:54 - *US President Biden: I Appreciate Australian PM’s Commitment to Being at Quad
24-May-2022 02:50:44 - *US President Biden: Ukraine Is a Global Issue Not a Regional One
Dunno quite how these drones work but an RQ-4 which was doing tracks in the Black Sea squawking 7600 and seems to have aborted its mission early. 7600 is usually used for loss of communications so wonder if these drones have a system to automatically go into a recovery program on loss of communications with the operator which is being carried out here.
EDIT: Now turning back again no longer squawk 7600
Just discovered (I mean obvious I guess) that there is an active young communist party in the UK. To say they are delusional is a little bit of an understatement. That's right... because you feel things might be unbalanced in the current system, throw your weight behind the LEAST balanced and MOST corrupt system going, where most countries turn into dictatorships. Brilliant.
Discovered this due to them burning a NATO flag /rolleyes. (note, they couldn't even do that right, with the flag failing to burn completely (representing the failed assault on Ukraine IMO lol), and there is a dry grass field behind them, so they could easily have started a wildfire. Muppets.
By the looks of it Russia are just shelling Lyman indiscriminately with Msta-S, various MLRS, etc. just going 1km square sections at a time not even targetting anything specific.
I actually believe this is there new (old really) tactic. They aren't combat effective on the ground, so have to rely on softening everything, and I mean everything up first. They really don't give a **** at this point.
1) They can't decide whether they are their to murder Ukrainians or liberate them.
2) They are in it for the long haul, and it will be a slow grind.
3) Ukraine will need to get crazy with how to counter attack, like dropping in behind enemy lines, full guerilla.
4) Can only hope that pressure builds inside Russia against Putin and his cronies.
Wonder what Russia's fascination is with these Iskander missiles (aside from the tactical nuclear potential) they've apparently despatched additional brigades to each of Belarus and the border with Finland and mixed reports of whether they've beefed up the Iskander brigade in Kaliningrad or taken from it to supply the units sent to Belarus and Finish border region. On their own they don't really seem to add much.
I actually believe this is there new (old really) tactic. They aren't combat effective on the ground, so have to rely on softening everything, and I mean everything up first. They really don't give a **** at this point.
1) They can't decide whether they are their to murder Ukrainians or liberate them.
2) They are in it for the long haul, and it will be a slow grind.
3) Ukraine will need to get crazy with how to counter attack, like dropping in behind enemy lines, full guerilla.
4) Can only hope that pressure builds inside Russia against Putin and his cronies.
Yeah - there seemed to be the notion that Ukraine would put down their arms when confronted with force and to a degree welcome Russian occupation - when that didn't happen they've slowly switched back to their old ways. Unfortunately where Ukraine can't project significant presence in the air they are quite exposed to massed Russian artillery.
Wonder what Russia's fascination is with these Iskander missiles (aside from the tactical nuclear potential) they've apparently despatched additional brigades to each of Belarus and the border with Finland and mixed reports of whether they've beefed up the Iskander brigade in Kaliningrad or taken from it to supply the units sent to Belarus and Finish border region. On their own they don't really seem to add much.
Pretty much SCUD missiles. Induce more fear than anything else. They aren't accurate as far as I can tell. - Although looking it up, looks like they can fire a cruise missile.
Russian isn't going to have much of an army left if they keep this up though.
Pretty much SCUD missiles. Induce more fear than anything else. They aren't accurate as far as I can tell. - Although looking it up, looks like they can fire a cruise missile.
Russian isn't going to have much of an army left if they keep this up though.
They can be a fairly accurate platform at least on paper - the opening round of Iskander strikes against Ukraine lacked for accuracy but I think they've corrected that now - I'm not sure if that was due to lacking calibration, old data or internal sabotage - if you look at for instance airfields where they fired several of them they all were offset from the target by a peculiarly similar amount.
24-May-2022 06:00:48 - *Sulzer AG- Sulzer to Exit Russian Market
24-May-2022 06:00:54 - *Sulzer AG- Sulzer Board of Directors Has Decided to Initiate Process of Exiting Russian Market
24-May-2022 06:00:59 - *Sulzer AG- Sales Process Will Begin With Immediate Effect and Follows Sulzer’s Announcement Earlier in Year That It Had Already Significantly Reduced Business Activities In Russia
24-May-2022 06:01:22 - *Sulzer AG- Board Regrets Necessity of This Decision After Decades of Operations in Russia
24-May-2022 06:01:25 - *Sulzer AG- After Careful Review of Possible Options, Concludes That It Is Best Solution for All Stakeholders
24-May-2022 06:01:31 - *Sulzer AG- Fully Committed to Continue Supporting Its 300 Employees in Russia Through Process
'The map below is the latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 24 May 2022'
24-May-2022 06:05:52 - *UK Military Intelligence: Russia Has Increased Intensity of Its Ops in Donbas As It Seeks to Encircle Severodonetsk, Lyschansk and Rubizhne
~Full comments in Spoiler
24-May-2022 06:05:52 - *UK Military Intelligence: Russia Has Increased Intensity of Its Ops in Donbas As It Seeks to Encircle Severodonetsk, Lyschansk and Rubizhne
24-May-2022 06:40:36 - *U.S. President Biden: Discussed With India PM Modi the Effects of Russia’s War on Ukraine
24-May-2022 06:42:54 - *India's Modi: Common Steps on Defense Have Strengthened Our Relations With United States
24-May-2022 06:43:43 - *India’s Modi: Trade Ties With US Well Below Potential
24-May-2022 06:44:40 - *India’s Modi: We Share Similar Views on the Indo Pacific With the United States https://youtu.be/_RMbieddu5Q
24-May-2022 07:03:40 - *Japan PM Kishida: Quad Countries Including India Shared Concerns Over Ukraine Situation
24-May-2022 07:03:55 - *Japan PM Kishida: Quad Leaders Agreed to Cooperate Toward Denuclearisation of North Korea
24-May-2022 07:07:15 - *Japan PM Kishida: Quad Leaders Agreed on More Than $50 bln in Infrastructure Support and Investments in Indo-Pacific Over Next 5 Years
24-May-2022 07:08:06 - *Japan PM Kishida: Quad Leaders Agreed to Commit to Realising Free and Open Indo-Pacific
24-May-2022 07:09:09 - *Japan PM Kishida: Quad Framework Is Not Aimed at Targeting Any Specific Country
24-May-2022 07:11:05 - *Japan PM Kishida: Quad Leaders Exchanged Views on Concerns About Unilateral Attempts to Change Status Quo in East and South China Seas
24-May-2022 07:14:02 - *Japan PM Kishida: Quad Leaders Including India’s Agreed on Importance of Rule of Law, Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity
24-May-2022 07:16:41 - *Japan PM Kishida: U.S.-Led IPEF Is Significant As India, U.S. Are Participating
24-May-2022 07:18:18 - *Japan PM Kishida: Will Continue to Urge U.S. to Rejoin TPP
24-May-2022 07:20:33 - *Japan PM Kishida: Important to Promote Japan-Australia Defence Cooperation
24-May-2022 07:21:18 - *Japan PM Kishida: Not Planning to Take Part in AUKUS
24-May-2022 07:21:47 - *Japan PM Kishida: Plan to Cooperate With Countries in AUKUS Grouping
24-May-2022 07:23:32 - *Japan PM Kishida: Plan to Promote Cooperation With Pacific Island Countries in Areas Including Security https://youtu.be/rQ_4lXvDefs
24-May-2022 07:15:03 - *UK Transport Minister Shapps: We Are Looking at All the Different Options About Getting Grain out of Ukraine
24-May-2022 07:15:26 - *UK Transport Minister Shapps: Absolutely Essential We Do Get Grain out of Ukraine Otherwise There Could Be a Lot of Hunger and Famine
24-May-2022 07:16:25 - *UK Transport Minister Shapps: Met With Ukrainian Counterpart Last Week to Discuss Details of How to Get Grain Out
24-May-2022 08:04:21 - *Quad Joint Statement: Discussed Our Respective Responses to the Ukraine Conflict and Assessed Implications for the Indo-Pacific
24-May-2022 08:06:32 - *Quad Joint Statement: We Commit to Improving Defence of Our Nations, Critical Infrastructure by Sharing Threat Information
24-May-2022 08:07:22 - *Quad Joint Statement: Strongly Oppose Coercive, Provocative or Unilateral Actions That Seek to Change the Status Quo and Increase Tensions
24-May-2022 08:08:09 - *Quad Joint Statement: We Have Decided to Better Leverage Our Complementary Strengths to Realise a Diverse and Competitive Market for Semiconductors
24-May-2022 08:12:38 - *Quad Joint Statement: We Are Committed to Working Together to Address the Needs of Pacific Island Partners
24-May-2022 08:13:02 - *Quad Joint Statement: We Condemn North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Development, Reaffirm Commitment to Complete Denuclearisation of Korean Peninsula
24-May-2022 08:12:21 - *Biden Condemned Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in Meeting With India PM Modi, According to White House Readout That Does Not Say Whether Modi Agreed
24-May-2022 08:14:48 - *India Will Join Combined Military Forces in Bahrain As an Associate Member — White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ns-meeting-with-prime-minister-modi-of-india/
24-May-2022 08:29:18 - *Russian Defence Ministry: Russian Military Has Destroyed Ukrainian Arms Depot With Ammo for U.S.-Produced M-777 Howitzers in Donbas — IFAX
Interesting note by Brandon Herrera that some of the weapons seen in use in this Ukraine conflict were designed closer to the American Revolutionary War than to the current conflict.
Sink the lot of them russkies warships off Odessa, enough with the blockade. Africa will starve to death if this continues, pepper them with Harpoons from like everywhere. They have gone too far already
24-May-2022 09:02:01 - *Russian Security Council Secretary Patrushev: Russia’s Military Operation in Ukraine Will Reach Its Goals, It’s Not Chasing Deadlines — IFAX
24-May-2022 09:02:14 - *U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks: Confident Finland, Sweden Will Be Able to Resolve Turkish Concerns for NATO Membership
24-May-2022 09:10:20 - *Moldovan Ex-President Igor Dodon Detained on Tuesday Morning — Moldova’s Prosecutor General Quoted As Saying by Local Media
24-May-2022 09:22:35 - *Vice Chair of Dodon’s Party of Sociailists Confirms Dodon Detention
24-May-2022 09:08:12 - *Jailed Kremlin Critic Navalny Tells Russian Court: The War in Ukraine Is Built on Lies
24-May-2022 09:11:08 - *Jailed Kremlin Critic Navalny Tells Russian Court: This War in Ukraine Is Putin’s ‘Stupid War’
24-May-2022 09:14:02 - *Japan PM Kishida to Australia PM Albanese: There Is Increasing Need to Strengthen Our Partnership to Realise Free and Open Indo-Pacific
24-May-2022 09:15:06 - *Kishida to Albanese: Japan and Australia Need to Strengthen Alliance via Economic Collaboration, Defence, Cooperation on Global Issues
24-May-2022 09:17:33 - *Australia PM Albanese: See Areas of Cooperation With Japan in National Security and Defence Issues, Also Opportunities to Collaborate on LNG, Green Hydrogen
24-May-2022 09:18:09 - *Australia PM Albanese to Kishida: Would Like to See High Speed Rail in Australia
24-May-2022 09:18:31 - *Australia PM Albanese to Kishida: We Will Continue to See More Cooperation, Fundamental Stance of Foreign Policy Hasn’t Changed With Change of Govt
24-May-2022 09:24:39 - *Australia’s Albanese to Kishida: I Congratulate You and Your Government on the Strong Action You Have Taken Against Russia’s Outrageous Atrocities
24-May-2022 09:30:00 - *German Economy Ministry Sources: Germany Must Be Able to Significantly Reduce Gas in Power Production
24-May-2022 09:30:00 - *German Economy Ministry Sources: Germany to Set Up a Gas Replacement Reserve With Coal in Power Generation Sector to Run Until March 31, 2024
24-May-2022 09:30:00 - *German Economy Ministry Sources: New Measures Do Not Change Plan to Complete Exit From Coal by 2030
24-May-2022 09:30:00 - *German Economy Ministry Sources: Coal Plants to Be Activated Only in a Gas Emergency to Limit CO2 Emissions
24-May-2022 09:30:58 - *Spain’s PM Sanchez: Sweden and Finland Will Attend NATO Summit in Madrid Next Month
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