Eastern Europe. Earlier they wanted to supply fighter jets to Ukraine but it had to come from former Soviet states because they aren’t trained for western jets. Those jets never came either because there is no extra.
Ukrainian War Developments
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The problem is that insurgency only work well in very remote areas, the jungle, the mountains, the desert were the enemy had trouble moving forces, Ukraine is quite urbanized and flat.
If negotiations fail i think the Russians will just want to take a little more than half of the country, so Ukrainians who don't want to live in the Russian occupied part will be free to move to the European part.
We have to wait and see what happens, i hope they reach an agreement.
My eyes have been opened much further in one week on several fronts from right of property, financial hegemony to sport hegemony.
I commented previously on the supposed difficulties the Russian navy is having with Chinese diesel engines, despite the fact that Chinese marine diesels do just fine on PLAN warships. As a DF-41 TEL shows, Chinese tires work just fine handling heavy loads. Between this and the diesels, it appears that the Russian military's procurement from China consists entirely of going on Alibaba and buying the cheapest thing they can find.
No, really, you can find them on Alibaba:
No, really, you can find them on Alibaba:
500+ leased aircraft is a lot of money, up to $200 billion. Almost equals the stolen money from Russia
Yes, I think a lot of the east block countries will be secretly very happy with this. It is a repeat of the Afghan Soviet war where Egypt and Israel were able to get rid of a lot of obselete/captured stock for high prices.
Poland, Romania and the other one nearly hit the lottery. Get rid of junk Mig-29s, receive freshly refurbished F-16s for free. I bet they're still pissed about that.
C&C - seems to be heavily disrupted. Americans have had difficulty passing on intelligence.
Soldiers - I suspect many have fled in the confusion or died. Pulling men out of refugee convoys, recruiting prisoners suggests a manpower problem.
Yeah, it's too late now from what I can see. My point was that basing out of the west rather than the east would have at least stretched Russian supply lines further and shortened Ukrainian ones.
Using ethnic Russian citizens as hostages Israeli style is sickening.
Odessa seems to be establishing a formidable defense network as a large force of Russian landing ships loiters off the coast.
They’ve undoubtedly had an advantage in being able to organize more effectively than other cities that were caught off guard by the initial invasion, allowing the city to be further reinforced with military forces since they’ve been relatively left alone since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Only time will see however it’s likely they’ll be able to brunt the force of an initial landing force given Ukrainian forces most likely out number any marine landing force present in the Russian flotilla.
For reference the landing force assembled is most likely comprised of [1500-2000] naval infantry with a compliment of at-least a dozen armored vehicles. Russian landing ships can provide limited fire support however that may put them at risk to Ukrainian coastal defense batteries; assuming if any are still operational.
They’ve undoubtedly had an advantage in being able to organize more effectively than other cities that were caught off guard by the initial invasion, allowing the city to be further reinforced with military forces since they’ve been relatively left alone since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Only time will see however it’s likely they’ll be able to brunt the force of an initial landing force given Ukrainian forces most likely out number any marine landing force present in the Russian flotilla.
For reference the landing force assembled is most likely comprised of [1500-2000] naval infantry with a compliment of at-least a dozen armored vehicles. Russian landing ships can provide limited fire support however that may put them at risk to Ukrainian coastal defense batteries; assuming if any are still operational.
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