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
This family is getting a lot of attention. But I think of the others too.
Eternal Memory
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Last night, in the Ukrainian town of Mykolaivka, Russians struck a hotel with a FAB-250 aerial bomb.
Two animal rescue volunteers were killed.
Video credit: Radio Liberty
Not much left of the hotel.
According to the anonymous Military Analyst:
AMERICA ISN’T CHANGING ITS MIND
Nothing says ‘no’ more clearly than the SecDef Lloyd Austin repeating the same thing America has been saying for weeks.
The Russians have moved their aircraft so you don’t need ATACMS (and by default anything else) supplied by the West to hit their airbases.
And then have your own efforts pushed back at you, ‘because Ukraine clearly has weapons of its own that can reach those targets anyway’. So you don’t need our stuff and the risk of escalation we think comes with it.
There is no way the US is crossing that line this side of an election and I’m not sure it will even after it.
They’re not bothered about Ukraine using anything it makes domestically- that’s their business. But at the moment they are using the ‘over my dead body’ approach to frankly tell the Ukrainians they are fed up with being asked and they won’t change their minds, so let it go.
Zelensky was at the Ramstein meeting in person and it was clearly a message delivered to him to stop embarrassing the administration by asking for what he is never going to get.
The Americans are so intransigent over it I can’t help but wonder if the Russians have actually made it a red line the Americans believe this time.
History will tell us eventually.
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Germany will provide Ukraine with 12 additional PzH-2000 self-propelled howitzers in 2024-2025
⚡️Lithuania has fortified part of the border with the Kaliningrad region with mines and concrete barriers in the shape of “dragon's teeth”
📍Russia's Uralvagonzavod has shipped a new batch of T-90M Proryv tanks to the Russian army
📌The Ukrainian company Besomar has developed an interceptor drone to shoot down Russian drones
17 IRIS-Ts will boost Ukraine’s air defenses but it’s still not enough, experts say
Ukraine's continued requests to Western allies for more air defenses were answered in part this week, with the announcement that Germany has ordered an additional 17 IRIS-T air defense systems for Kyiv.
And the timing couldn't be more critical – an ongoing campaign of aerial strikes on Kharkiv, devastating attacks like that on Ukraine's largest children's hospital in July, a strike on Poltava earlier this week that killed at least 55 people, and an attack on Lviv the day after, repeatedly highlight the shortcomings in the country's air defenses.
But according to experts who spoke to the Kyiv Independent, while welcome, the IRIS-Ts will be unable to protect from something that has become an increasing concern in recent days – Iranian ballistic missiles.
💥Ukrainian officials now reporting that the ammunition depot destroyed by Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia's Voronezh region last night also contained 7 North Korean ballistic missiles.
Detonations lasted for several hours.
7 down, 193 to go.
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The 1A is the older model, but still very powerful.
🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany and its partners will hand over 77 more Leopard 1A5 tanks and 12 howitzers to Ukraine
At Ramstein, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that the allies want to hand over additional Leopard tanks to Ukraine as soon as possible.
Germany will also provide 12 Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzers. Half of them will be delivered this year and the rest next year.
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❗️CNN has released a video showing Russian soldiers allegedly killing three Ukrainian soldiers during a surrender in August in the Pokrovsk direction
Prosecutor General Kostin tells CNN that his office is investigating 28 executions of prisoners since the beginning of the war, in which 62 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed.
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The burial of the family killed by hypersonic missiles. The missiles hit a mere 3 minutes after the air raid siren went off. Only the father survived
Overnight with explosions that rattled every home in Kyiv, Russians tried to blow up the Ukrainian Parliament with Iranian drones.
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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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