WSJ News Exclusive | Russia Recruiting Syrians for Urban Combat in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say
Moscow is looking for help from foreign fighters to take cities including Kyiv. The move points to a potential escalation of fighting in Ukraine.
Translation:The government has provided a list of countries that are unfriendly to Russia including
Taiwan
View: https://twitter.com/rianru/status/1500785501309222912?t=PaUpigjK1I8BjWBrHO7EGA&s=19
The government has approved a list of countries unfriendly to Russia. It included, among other things:
Australia, UK, EU countries, Iceland, Canada, Liechtenstein, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, Korea, San Marino, Singapore, USA, Taiwan, Ukraine, Montenegro, Switzerland, Japan
Rumor kitchen again
A Su-34 with a Commercial GPS clamped into Dashboard ?!
View: https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1500858799497924612
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Zelenskyy 'not scared' to sit down with Putin in bid to end Ukraine bloodshed
Ukraine wants direct talks between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia's Vladimir Putin, after a third round of negotiations between representatives of the two sides stalled.www.abc.net.au
It sounds as if the Russians are offering a 2015 status quo antebellum in return for a couple of promises that probably don’t have to be kept. No demilitarization of Ukraine, apparently. If anything, this is quite a good deal. Ukraine gets rebuilt at the expense of American and EU taxpayers and a short term lie or pious fiction about not joining the EU or NATO is all it costs. As if a clause in the Ukrainian constitution counts for much.
Obtaining a 2014 status quo antebellum doesn’t seem to be attainable for Ukraine. I don’t see any maneuvering warfare, just static defense, despite a supposedly intact Air Force with a majority of its airframes operational and an Army with an intact fleet of tank and armored vehicles, with remarkable few official losses.
That's first. Then the real crux is probably controlling Kherson enables moving up and down the river to connect them to the Kiev salient.This is scary. It looks like the retaking of Chernihv puts significant Ukrainian forces at risk of envelopment.
For folks struggling with the geography of the Russian invasion, I think the Institute for the Study of War has a very good map. They define control in the conventional maneuver warfare sense -- the Russians can keep Ukrainian ground forces from moving through the territory but not necessarily prevent all opposition there.
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Institute for the Study of War
The military situation on the ground has not changed significantly in the past 24 hours. Russian forces continue to mass for renewed offensive operations east and west of Kyiv, west of Kharkiv, and toward Mykolayiv-Odesa but have not yet initiated newwww.understandingwar.org
As some here already know, I´m in Europe. Inflation here has been similar (slightly less) then in the US over the past year, and since the start of the war inflation is now higher then in the US. The price of gas today (to heat houses & buildings, and not to be confused with the liquid people in the US put in the tanks of their cars) is 20 times higher then a year ago