From the Analyst, Military & Strategic

‘WE NEED THE MONEY’ AND OTHER NEWS

In an interview on DeutchWelle today Ukraine’s Alexander Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Indistries, made some interesting comments.
Firstly, that the industrial capacity to produce missiles for attacking Russia is three times higher than the money available to fund their production. He indicated that the new Danish program to direct money into Ukrainian weapons industries was extremely welcome and a vital move to ramping up production.
Another interesting aspect was the discussion on Palantisiya requiring Starlink to reach targets. Kamyshin refused to comment.

In the same article - talking about Kursk, the ex-military British Analyst  DW have used since the war began, was asked what he thought about the situation there.
He was very diplomatic of course, but it amounted to, the Ukrainians had their reasons. It hasn’t worked, Putin has decided to take the loss and the political embarrassment, and declined to stop the advances in the central front regions which are now getting very worrying in their scale.
Rather than say he thinks they were wrong and it’s a mistake, he said that it was almost certain the forces that were withdrawn from the central front to conduct the Kursk campaign were now needed there and the pressure on Ukrainian units was very great, that those facing the onslaught almost certainly wish they were there to aid them.
He also made it plain that he did think in the end, Putin has called Ukraine’s bluff, not that he used those exact words - TV people never say it that directly.

Further frontline news is depressing. The main road from
Vuhledar to Kramatorsk has been cut and the Russians have control over it. They are also on the high ground heading south west to Vuhledar now, which makes it far harder to defend.
The Russians have made sizeable gains in the north Oskil
River region.
Toretsk is in the middle of severe fighting. New York has been completely lost.
Pokrovsk is in dire danger and is just 8km away from Russian lines. Evacuations are urgent for remaining civilians though most have no idea where to go.

This morning an 8 hour long missile and drone raid involving some 200 missiles, most targeted electrical infrastructure, causing widespread blackouts and damage across 15 of Ukraine’s oblasts. It’s believed to be the largest raid ever.
Details on what was shot down and what was hit will be available in time.
It merely adds to the desperate need for Ukraine to be able to strike deeper and deeper into Russia - to hit air bases and factories, oil and gas industries and any other target that hinders Russian war efforts.
America needs to take the limits off long range weapons use now, those airfields and support sites need to be destroyed.
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