RogerdeLluria
Staff Sergeant
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Is Russia spying more – or are more spies just being caught?
Expulsion of diplomats amid Ukraine war has limited Russia’s options, with west’s focus now turning to deep-cover ‘illegals’
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Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
My guess is with an open conflict in progress, CI is a bit more attentive.Is Russia spying more – or are more spies just being caught?
Expulsion of diplomats amid Ukraine war has limited Russia’s options, with west’s focus now turning to deep-cover ‘illegals’www.theguardian.com
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Cool!
Again, I have to point out that it is an active battlefield so hardly the time for doing cleanups. That said, work is happening in the rear areas where practical and the need is recognised. I know that I have personally donated to funds to support said mine clean ups.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I had made a side trip to Phnom Penh to visit a friend a few years back. He was temporarily assigned to assist mine clearing operations with UN forces in Cambodia.
RogerdeLluria
Staff Sergeant
- 1,320
- Jul 5, 2015
RogerdeLluria
Staff Sergeant
- 1,320
- Jul 5, 2015
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
MiG-31 crash
www.businessinsider.com
Videos capture Russian MiG-31 jet bursting into flames before it crashed into a lake
The latest incident, which the pilots survived, comes just days after another jet accidentally bombed a Russian city.
www.businessinsider.com
ARTESH
Chief Master Sergeant
I wish I could help too! Specially that my country is also effected by these ruthless undead stealth killers.
-1 a/c for possible use in Ukraine. Need more accidents of this kindMiG-31 crash
Videos capture Russian MiG-31 jet bursting into flames before it crashed into a lake
The latest incident, which the pilots survived, comes just days after another jet accidentally bombed a Russian city.
RogerdeLluria
Staff Sergeant
- 1,320
- Jul 5, 2015
The west is wasting billions in weapons for Ukraine.
We should allocate some budget for vodka for Russian pilots. And some more for cigarettes, you know those smoking accidents help too
Escuadrilla Azul
Tech Sergeant
- 1,711
- Feb 27, 2020
Was in Murmansk, long way off.
Escuadrilla Azul
Tech Sergeant
- 1,711
- Feb 27, 2020
More in fighting in Planet Putin
www.thedrive.com
Ukraine Situation Report: Wagner Boss Slams Russian Government For Lack Of Ammo
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, says Russians are dying needlessly in Bakhmut because of the lack of ammunition.
www.thedrive.com
Escuadrilla Azul
Tech Sergeant
- 1,711
- Feb 27, 2020
Thumpalumpacus
Major
April 27 (Reuters) - The anti-tank ditches near Ukraine's occupied southeastern town of Polohy stretch for 30 km (19 miles). Behind are rows of concrete "dragon's teeth" barricades. Further back are defensive trenches where Russia's troops will be positioned.
The defences visible in satellite imagery taken by Capella Space are part of a vast network of Russian fortifications sweeping down from western Russia through eastern Ukraine and on to Crimea built in readiness for a major Ukrainian attack.
Graphic: How Russia has heavily fortified swathes of Ukraine
Thousands of Ukrainian troops have been training in the West to use different military assets on the battlefield in a combined way ahead of a counteroffensive Ukrainian officials say will come when its forces are ready.
Reuters has reviewed satellite images of thousands of defensive positions inside both Russia and along Ukrainian front lines that show it is most heavily defended in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and the gateway to the Crimean Peninsula.
Six military experts said the defences, mostly built in the wake of Ukraine's rapid autumn advances, could make it harder for Ukraine this time and that progress would hinge on its ability to carry out complex, combined operations effectively.
"It's not the numbers for the Ukrainians. It's can they do this kind of warfare, combined arms operations?" said Neil Melvin, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). "The Russians have shown they can't do it and they've gone back to their old Soviet method of attrition."
A Ukrainian counteroffensive could change the dynamics of a war that has slowed into a bloody battle of attrition and military experts say the length of the front could stretch Russia's defences.
If Kyiv can wrest back control of the south, it could regain unimpeded access to its Black Sea export routes at a time when Russia has signalled it may slam the grain corridor shut.
Ukraine may not receive another large injection of armoured hardware from the West any time soon, which is putting pressure on Kyiv to retake as much land as possible in case military support begins to wane, military experts say.
"We've cleaned out most of the stocks in the West," said Melvin. "It's going to take some years to rebuild. I think this is (Ukraine's) big opportunity to press on."
www.reuters.com
Still plenty of airplanes left!
The defences visible in satellite imagery taken by Capella Space are part of a vast network of Russian fortifications sweeping down from western Russia through eastern Ukraine and on to Crimea built in readiness for a major Ukrainian attack.
Graphic: How Russia has heavily fortified swathes of Ukraine
Thousands of Ukrainian troops have been training in the West to use different military assets on the battlefield in a combined way ahead of a counteroffensive Ukrainian officials say will come when its forces are ready.
Reuters has reviewed satellite images of thousands of defensive positions inside both Russia and along Ukrainian front lines that show it is most heavily defended in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and the gateway to the Crimean Peninsula.
Six military experts said the defences, mostly built in the wake of Ukraine's rapid autumn advances, could make it harder for Ukraine this time and that progress would hinge on its ability to carry out complex, combined operations effectively.
"It's not the numbers for the Ukrainians. It's can they do this kind of warfare, combined arms operations?" said Neil Melvin, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). "The Russians have shown they can't do it and they've gone back to their old Soviet method of attrition."
A Ukrainian counteroffensive could change the dynamics of a war that has slowed into a bloody battle of attrition and military experts say the length of the front could stretch Russia's defences.
If Kyiv can wrest back control of the south, it could regain unimpeded access to its Black Sea export routes at a time when Russia has signalled it may slam the grain corridor shut.
Ukraine may not receive another large injection of armoured hardware from the West any time soon, which is putting pressure on Kyiv to retake as much land as possible in case military support begins to wane, military experts say.
"We've cleaned out most of the stocks in the West," said Melvin. "It's going to take some years to rebuild. I think this is (Ukraine's) big opportunity to press on."
Russia digs in as Ukraine prepares to attack
The anti-tank ditches near Ukraine's occupied southeastern town of Polohy stretch for 30 km (19 miles). Behind are rows of concrete "dragon's teeth" barricades. Further back are defensive trenches where Russia's troops will be positioned.
www.reuters.com
Still plenty of airplanes left!
RogerdeLluria
Staff Sergeant
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- Jul 5, 2015
In the last few days I noticed an increased partisan activity. And that is only what is available in the news.
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GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
*if* Russia didn't have it's head up it's ass, they would have their air assets in Ukraine where they're needed, instead of putting on "shows" of force (aka "training flights) in the Baltics or off the West Coast of the U.S.MiG-31 crash
Videos capture Russian MiG-31 jet bursting into flames before it crashed into a lake
The latest incident, which the pilots survived, comes just days after another jet accidentally bombed a Russian city.
As the bombs fell on Mariupol, nine-year-old Yegor's diary became a place of refuge
This Ukrainian boy has seen things no-one should see — particularly when they're nine years of age. His experiences during the invasion of his country are chronicled in his diary.
www.abc.net.au
Italian reporter hurt, Ukrainian fixer killed in Kherson ambush
Reporter Corrado Zunino for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica is injured and his Ukrainian fixer killed in an ambush in southern Ukraine, most likely by Russian snipers, the paper writes on its website.
www.abc.net.au
