Ukraine - Russia Conflict

Did Germany change its mind on delivering Taurus cruise missiles?

Is America changing its mind on delivering ATACMS?

Anyway there's still some more good news:




Russia's only hope of victory is that Western assistance to Ukraine dries out. This is not happening.
 


And looks like this is what Andriy Yermak meant with his cryptic emoji:
 
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Stronger?
Economically, not.
In kind of demography, not.
Except in africa (where Wagner is unable to peace the country from islamist extremists), the russian image is fading.
So where?
In terms of military force. Look at the last 5 minutes of the video I posted to understand what I'm saying.
 
LOL, they don't know what to invent anymore:

As if there weren't thousands upon thousands of burnt-out Russian wrecks to display in front of every single Russian embassy in the world...

 

Very Rare Electronic Warfare System R-325U and the 2S7 It Was "Protecting" Destroyed Near Bakhmut​




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Confusingly, Russian order-of-battle information lumps some of these systems together as a single system or ‘complex’. For example, the Borisoglebsk-2 HF/VHF COMINT/COMJAM system includes five distinct components. These include the R-330KPK C2 system, the R-378B, R-330B, R-934B and R-325U. The number of these latter four systems in an EW Company can be scaled up or down according to tactical requirements. Our table above includes a Borisoglebsk-2 system at its full strength with a single C2 system and two each of the COMINT/COMJAM systems. The graphic below illustrates the approximate COMINT and COMJAM coverage that six of the Borisoglebsk-2’s jammers could cover.



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For example, each jammer could cover a surface area of approximately 907 square kilometres (350 square miles). As we have illustrated in our graphic above, six Borisoglebsk-2 jammers could potentially detect and jam ground-based radios across a 5,442 square kilometre (2,101 square mile) area. However, we should stress that this is by no means an exact figure. Also, military radios and other emitters like ground-based military radars will use COMSEC/TRANSEC measures and protected waveforms as a riposte. Nonetheless, Armada has learned that the R-330B and R-934B components may have some potential jamming frequency-hopping VHF radios performing up to 300 hops per second. The R-378B and R-325U are thought to be capable of jamming frequency-hopping HF transmissions at up to 30 hops-per-second. The R-330KPK C2 system can handle up to 30 jamming tasks simultaneously.
 
The only frustrating part is they only have like at best 6-8/SU-24's aircraft that can launch the shadow and scalp which means you can't launch a massive cruise missile strike.
why so few Su24 ?
In the other hand, I doubt we delivered hundreds of SCALP .....
 
why so few Su24 ?

They never had that many to begin with. The number they had before the war was just a number who knows how many were not flight worthy and then you had a few shot down and destroyed on the ground. I guess their Flankers aren't capable of carrying such a load?
In the other hand, I doubt we delivered hundreds of SCALP .....

UK likely has only delivered two dozen shadows which folks might think is way low but Ukraine doesn't have the launching platforms for a steady supply of cruise missiles.
 
UK likely has only delivered two dozen shadows which folks might think is way low but Ukraine doesn't have the launching platforms for a steady supply of cruise missiles.
I'm not sure how many they sent, but Ukraine seems to have hit about that many targets to date, assuming that all the missiles up to now were delivered by Britain.


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Yeah, much like the insurgency in Kashmir, relatively small compared to the population, basically just some terrorist attacks, which would have been countered by Ukrainian law enforcement. There was no reason for Russia to get 'sucked in' unless it wanted to insert itself there for gain.

Lol, we have killed 50,000 terrorists in Kashmir.

When you say 'residents in the Donbass' you're talking about a collection of terrorists small in comparison to the population there. How many Russian agents were already embedded among them is also unclear. Khalistan and Kashmir are part cross-border and part internal, just as no insurgency in Ukraine could have survived without a cross-border element - they can't pull weapons out of their ar5se.

There were 7-7.5 million people living in Donetsk and Luhansk. The Donbas region only has 2.7 million people. It was the deciding factor during elections.

Generally Eastern Ukrainians controlled Ukraine. But in 2010, Donbas came to power, giving them control over Ukraine. Hence the coup and war.
Similarly, West Pakistan controlled Pakistan from 1947 to 1970, then East Pakistan came to power, hence the genocide and the war.

This always happens when dissimilar people try and rule each other. In both cases, Donbas and East Paksitan rebelled.

In a more fair and just world that actually followed international law, the UAF wouldn't have invaded the Donbas in 2014, just like how West Pakistan wouldn't have been allowed to conduct their genocide in the East. But both were allowed because of their alliance with the West.

IRA - another sh!t analogy. The IRA were fighting for Irish unity not separatism on behalf of an external power, you're clutching at straws.

IRA's enemy = Britain
Donbas' enemy = Ukraine

The IRA fought for the unity of Ireland as a whole and free from British rule. Any new Donbas insurgency would fight for the unity of Donbas as a whole and free from Ukrainian rule.

I'm referring to a situation where Russia has decided to sit back.

It didn't need to be at all. The residents there could have lived happily and peacefully as part of Ukraine. It's not like Russian citizens have better rights or welfare in case you didn't notice.

Lol. This has already been discussed with A Person. The Russians are at least 20 years ahead of Ukraine and will become an advanced economy long before Ukraine will even match current levels of life in Russia.

Even without higher quality of living, you can't do much without freedom. The Russian speakers in Ukraine are not free. The impact of the language law is yet to be felt. The Russians can live in Ukraine only in a democracy, not in the current structure.

In any case, with Donbas and some other regions gone, Russian-speakers have lost all political power in Ukraine anyway. They will just be a very big minority group now.
Be quiet with this nonsense. Making Ukrainian the official language of Ukraine is not oppression. JFC, it's not like Hitler was criticised for having German as the national language of Germany, nor did the Jews complain about speaking it.

In a democracy the majority wins, the dog wags its tail, the tail does not wag the dog.

Oh, yeah? Give it a few years.