TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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Putin's officials were kicked out of the conference room in North Korea.
Foreign Minister Lavrov, Defense Minister Belousov, Health Minister Murashko, and other members of the Russian delegation were kicked out of the meeting hall.
This happened because they entered the room before Kim Jong Un.
'You will have to leave the room'
'You should have told us before we came in here'
'Our leader comes in first'
Even North Koreans have more decency then the Russian delegation.
@freerussia_report
Closing the skies comes nearer
Romania decided to join the supply of Patriot systems to Ukraine.
Romania will transfer the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, according to a statement published on the website of the Romanian presidential administration. "Given the significant deterioration of the security situation in Ukraine, as well as the regional consequences of this situation, including for the security of Romania, in close coordination with the allies, the members of the Supreme Defense Council of Romania decided to transfer the Patriot system to Ukraine," the presidential administration informs.
In May, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced his readiness to discuss the provision of Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine. At the moment the Romanian Armed Forces have two similar working systems, two more are in the process of being brought into working order.
The Financial Times, citing informed sources, wrote that the United States would stop fulfilling orders from any country for the manufacture of Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems and produce them only for Ukraine until it has enough air defense systems to protect itself from russian shelling.
Germany offered to deliver another of its Patriot systems in the spring, and Biden approved the transfer of the system last week - in addition to the minimum four that Berlin and Washington had previously provided. Netherlands offered to assemble the system from components provided by different countries, and Spain promised missiles.
The leaders of Ukraine have repeatedly asked Western countries to help with additional air defense systems, as their shortage has made both frontline positions, supply routes in the rear, and civilian facilities vulnerable.
Source
@freerussia_report
Every now and then, even right wing idiots let their brains have a little exercise
Closing the skies comes nearer
Romania decided to join the supply of Patriot systems to Ukraine.
Romania will transfer the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, according to a statement published on the website of the Romanian presidential administration. "Given the significant deterioration of the security situation in Ukraine, as well as the regional consequences of this situation, including for the security of Romania, in close coordination with the allies, the members of the Supreme Defense Council of Romania decided to transfer the Patriot system to Ukraine," the presidential administration informs.
In May, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced his readiness to discuss the provision of Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine. At the moment the Romanian Armed Forces have two similar working systems, two more are in the process of being brought into working order.
The Financial Times, citing informed sources, wrote that the United States would stop fulfilling orders from any country for the manufacture of Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems and produce them only for Ukraine until it has enough air defense systems to protect itself from russian shelling.
Germany offered to deliver another of its Patriot systems in the spring, and Biden approved the transfer of the system last week - in addition to the minimum four that Berlin and Washington had previously provided. Netherlands offered to assemble the system from components provided by different countries, and Spain promised missiles.
The leaders of Ukraine have repeatedly asked Western countries to help with additional air defense systems, as their shortage has made both frontline positions, supply routes in the rear, and civilian facilities vulnerable.
Source
@freerussia_report
Finland will not resume relations with Putinistan until the end of the war.
Finland will not resume relations with russia until this country stops the war it has unleashed against Ukraine, as well as violations of international law. This was stated by Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, presenting the government's report on foreign and security policy at a press conference in Helsinki on Thursday, June 20.
In the opinion of the Finnish Government, there is "currently no immediate military threat to Finland". At the same time, Helsinki considers it "necessary to prepare for the potential use of military force against Finland". In addition, the country "expects the continuation of russian hybrid attacks", one example of which is the flow of asylum seekers from third countries on the Finnish-russian border organized by Moscow.
Elina Valtonen stated that the russian military aggression had changed the security situation and also showed the importance of having a system of international rules. The fact that Finland and Sweden have recently joined NATO will "strengthen stability in the Baltic Sea and Northern Europe and reduce the risk of the use of military force in the region," the minister assured. "NATO membership marks a new era for Finland. Finland now views its security from the point of view of NATO's collective defense, contributes to the security of the entire alliance and, together with its NATO allies, works for common values."
She expressed the hope that Russia will eventually turn into a democratic country, but added that one should not expect quick changes. At the same time, Valtonen believes it is important to preserve knowledge about russia and "support as much as possible" the conditions for the functioning of russian civil society.
Source
@freerussia_report
South Korea may start supplying weapons to Ukraine after Putin creates a 'strategic' alliance with the DPRK.
The Republic of Korea is going to return to the issue of direct deliveries of lethal weapons to Ukraine, employees of the South Korean president's office told Yonhap.
The change in Seoul's position is associated with the 'Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership' between russia and the DPRK, which was signed by Putin and Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang.
In particular, Seoul was concerned about the paragraph of the document in which the parties guaranteed each other immediate military and other assistance in the event of an armed attack on one of the parties. South Korea saw this as the formation of a military alliance between Pyongyang and Moscow.
At the same time, Seoul warned Moscow that Russia during Putin's visit to the DPRK "should not cross certain borders," said Jang Ho-jin, National Security Adviser to the President of South Korea.
The military aid clause in the new treaty almost literally repeats the text of the 1961 Soviet-North Korean agreement, said Fyodor Tertitsky, a leading researcher at Kunmin University in Seoul. "From the point of view of Seoul, what has happened now is very bad. The possible resuscitation of such an alliance agreement was discussed both here and in Tokyo as the worst-case scenario."
So far, South Korea has not supplied lethal weapons to Ukraine directly. Back in early May, President of the Republic Yoon Suk-yeol said that he intends to continue to adhere to this position.
However, South Korean weapons entered Ukraine through intermediaries. In particular, before the counteroffensive of the AFU in 2023, Seoul delivered more than 300.000 155-mm artillery shells to Kyiv by sea and air in just 41 days. This allowed Ukraine to launch 7.000 shells per day, against the 5.000 used by russian forces. South Korea also participates in ring arms exchange schemes and actively helps Poland and other countries replace Soviet weapons.
Source
@freerussia_report
From "The Analyst":
RUSSIA WAR: MILITARILY UNSUSTAINABLE? YES OR NO?
The word unsustainable comes up more often than I would to admit when it comes to Russian military practice.
Their casualties are often described that way, their use of artillery the same, the endless attacks launched by armoured vehicles, again, always unsustainably.
So how is Russia still in the war? If it’s all so unsustainable how come are they sustaining the front? 2.5 years on and the war is still raging. It’s a fair question and there are answers.
You can go back to the start of the war and you will regularly see the Russians using 50-60 vehicles, a mix of tanks and IFV/APC types of varying age and qualities.
Where are they now? It’s rare if Russia uses as many as 20. They did so the other week - twice and it grabbed headlines because nobody had seen such a high vehicle use since October last year. Most of those used were destroyed.
You have to remember that the Russians had staggering numbers of vehicles from the Cold War era in storage. Tens of thousands of them. And they have, over the course of the war, been used up and for the most part are around 95% depleted. That vast Soviet legacy has been lost, incinerated in battles with Ukraine. What is left is either unusable or parts donors for operational vehicles.
The days when they were firing 60,000 rounds of 152mm per day - and they were, have long gone. Nowadays it’s down to a max of around 10,000, if that. The reason isn’t lack of shells - they have more than overcome that problem. What they have lost is the guns and the SPG’s that fire them. Thousands of pieces have been lost. And there’s no replacements.
When you look at daily losses of Russian military equipment- something like 40% is civilian motorcycles, vans, ATV’s and golf buggies, quad bikes etc. The tanks and IFV’s and APC’s have largely vanished. This is what unsustainable looks like in the field. Because what they had is gone, losses were unsustainable and they’ve had to make do with what they can find.
They have moved their single prototype S-500 from Moscow to Kerch because 15 SAM systems were lost in a few weeks. They have nothing else. They recently moved the last of their S-300’s from the far east out in the Kuril Islands, to Crimea and are now moving them again before they get destroyed.
When Finland declared for NATO Russia built up its forces on the Finnish border. They have now gone to the front in Ukraine. Kaliningrad exclave is effectively undefended.
All of this shows decisive levels of unsustainable behaviour.
Russian expenses are financially unsustainable, industrially unsustainable - Russian doesn’t have the capability or even capacity to build new military vehicles at a pace where it can even maintain its losses. Even in manpower shortages have shown their unsustainable nature.
Last year Bakhmut took up the lives of some 75,000 jailed prisoners - almost every one of them killed in combat. There are no replacements. That is unsustainable.
It’s clear that Russia has a manpower recruitment issue and uses increasingly complex surveillance and legal methods to ensure Russian men can’t get away or hide from conscription.
They repeatedly allow poorly trained men to go into combat and fail. Despite this they wonder why their troops are such poor quality and why they’re afraid to join up and be sent to the front. It’s becoming increasingly unsustainable, but is not likely to become a crisis. The police state will always find men.
To say that Russia’s war is sustainable is simply wrong. Sooner or later the second and third and even fourth tier replacements for lost equipment will become just as impossible - and more to the point incapable - of waging war.
Such vast reserves as Russia had has squandered on this war. There’s no going back. It’s going to get worse for them. It’s already way worse than they ever imagined.
This war is unsustainable for many more reasons, but it takes time to make it visible and to have an effect you can identify. The fact we can now identify and see it with our own eyes, proves it.
Finland will not restore relations with Russia until the aggression against Ukraine stops, said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Elina Valtonen, during the presentation of the government's report on the country's foreign and security policy.
Helsinki does not expect direct military aggression from Russia but does not rule out hybrid attacks, as was the case, for example, during the influx of migrants to the Russian-Finnish border.
Valtonen also expressed her hope that the Russian Federation will eventually turn into a democratic country but added that one should not expect quick changes.
Meanwhile, "the largest DDoS attack in history" is claimed to
be carried out by the IT Army of Ukraine - the ruzzian "Mir" payment system is said to be disabled.
VTB, Sberbank, Tinkoff, Alfa-Bank, Beeline, MTS, Rostelecom, Gazprombank, MegaFon, SBP, NSPK, EIRTs and other services do not work according to the information provided.
Well I did all my shopping. Includig buying 3 of the super lighters. They were on sale for $1.70 each. These lighters are like a miniature blowtorch and nothing can blow them out.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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