@Laviduce bro Ukraine and NATO should take note and learned from it, their Crimea project flopped at box office in 2014...lol
Ukrainian War Developments
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This is a real mystery. What kind of research can't be done in CONUS and must be conducted in over 300 labs all over the world? It can't be cheap....
Today's Guancha update. Although as we know not much update on the ground I find this one to be particularly educational as the guest today is someone who went to Russia for university and so has more contextual understanding that regular people. The two talked a lot about different roads in Ukraine and max speed they can support. Some interesting information according to them:
1. As Kiev is not completely surrounded, over the last week or so most of the mobile forces in western Ukraine has travelled by road to Kiev to reinforce. By their estimation there are now 50,000-60,000 troops in Kiev. However they don't have much armour so in event of a Russian attack not going well and needing to fall back the Kiev defenders won't have much of an opportunity for local counter offensive.
2. Western Ukraine is wide open and nearly undefended. They didn't talk about the troops at Brest but there could be an opportunity there.
3. Odessa is connected to Kiev by highway but is too far for the Odessa defenders to be able to make it to Kiev in a single night. By day they will be pounded by RuAF if they're on the road. So the troop concentration at Odessa is unlikely to much more than sit tight and defend the city if an attack comes.
4. The majority of the troops in Eastern Ukraine actually have two highways they could use to retreat back to Kiev, but they are even further away than Odessa. It's likely the mad dash during the first week of the war by the Russian was aimed at cutting those two roads but seen as the Ukrainian forces doesn't seem to want to retreat there's not much point in forming a pocket any more.
5. According to DNR leadership, Mariupol is probably 5-7 days away from being completely captured. With Volnovakha now completely in DNR hands the Ukrainian troops in Mariupol are really screwed and its a matter of time.
6. Kharkiv buildings are all really solidly built and can take a lot of pounding. The defenders in Kharkiv still have armour so if an assault doesn't go well and gets pushed back and the defenders come out at you with armour for a counterattack the Russians could be in a lot of pain. So siege on Kharkiv would take a lot of time.
7. Kiev is an even bigger target than Kharkiv, although its buildings are not as strongly built as Kharkiv and the defenders lack armour. Nevertheless to attack Kiev will be a slow progress and should Russians decide to attack you would see the suburbs being pealed off layer by layer like an onion in a tightening circle. Don't expect a dash straight to the middle of the city.
1. As Kiev is not completely surrounded, over the last week or so most of the mobile forces in western Ukraine has travelled by road to Kiev to reinforce. By their estimation there are now 50,000-60,000 troops in Kiev. However they don't have much armour so in event of a Russian attack not going well and needing to fall back the Kiev defenders won't have much of an opportunity for local counter offensive.
2. Western Ukraine is wide open and nearly undefended. They didn't talk about the troops at Brest but there could be an opportunity there.
3. Odessa is connected to Kiev by highway but is too far for the Odessa defenders to be able to make it to Kiev in a single night. By day they will be pounded by RuAF if they're on the road. So the troop concentration at Odessa is unlikely to much more than sit tight and defend the city if an attack comes.
4. The majority of the troops in Eastern Ukraine actually have two highways they could use to retreat back to Kiev, but they are even further away than Odessa. It's likely the mad dash during the first week of the war by the Russian was aimed at cutting those two roads but seen as the Ukrainian forces doesn't seem to want to retreat there's not much point in forming a pocket any more.
5. According to DNR leadership, Mariupol is probably 5-7 days away from being completely captured. With Volnovakha now completely in DNR hands the Ukrainian troops in Mariupol are really screwed and its a matter of time.
6. Kharkiv buildings are all really solidly built and can take a lot of pounding. The defenders in Kharkiv still have armour so if an assault doesn't go well and gets pushed back and the defenders come out at you with armour for a counterattack the Russians could be in a lot of pain. So siege on Kharkiv would take a lot of time.
7. Kiev is an even bigger target than Kharkiv, although its buildings are not as strongly built as Kharkiv and the defenders lack armour. Nevertheless to attack Kiev will be a slow progress and should Russians decide to attack you would see the suburbs being pealed off layer by layer like an onion in a tightening circle. Don't expect a dash straight to the middle of the city.
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you do know that Russian always had the capabilities to build a javelin system right? . The problem is that it cost basically an arm and a leg to fire one of this thing and reverser engineering won't solve that and most importantly budget will never allow it.
Exactly why they didn't encircled it... it deprives the east and the south of reinforcement. From the Dnieper to the east, it will be way easier for the Russian troops. Clearly still not sure if they will go west beside pounding the military with airstrikes and cruise missiles.
More contents at their Telegram Channel than the Gab -- I guess rightist Gab does not really suit their contents
Both Ukraine and Russia denied it was one of their own.
If Ukraine launched it, the least they could have done is warn their NATO financiers. Yet, it crashed with complete surprise.
Geometrically, base on the drone's stated range of 1000km, and the fact that it overflew Romania, Hungary and Croatia, it could only have been launched from west Ukraine, which is outside the Russian military presence. However, it appears to have been cruising at 700 kph, significantly below its normal cruising speed of 1000 kph. This might have been done to increase its range.
I think it cannot be completely dismissed that this drone was launched by Russian forces using a captured Ukrainian drone to probe NATO defenses. The fact that only Ukraine operates this model gives them plausible deniability.
They do it in order to tailor their research on specific ethnic groups.. guess which ethnic group was being researched in the American biolabs in Kazakhstan...
Why there is a war in #Ukraine? Read this 1997 article of the NYTimes like it was written this morning, explaining how #Russia wrongly believed the US.
The Anatomy of a Misunderstanding and false promises over NATO non-expansion.
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The Anatomy of a Misunderstanding and false promises over NATO non-expansion.
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