Senate has passed NATO expansion for Sweden & Finland. On to Biden for his signature.
And running political parties & formerly running key Western countries (or nearly so for Le Pen):95-1
Only Hawley voted NO. Rand Paul voted "Present"
Along with Corbyn more comments from Putin's stooges in the west all coming out around the same time
Trump Says Ukraine Should Have Done Deal With Putin (newsweek.com)
German ex-chancellor Schroeder says Russia wants negotiated solution to Ukraine war | Reuters
French far right leader Le Pen calls for an end to 'useless' Russia sanctions (rfi.fr)
Also sounds like Ukraine hit the Antonovsky rail bridge again tonight, shorty after Russia completed repairs. Assuming the line has been out of commission at Brylivka for the past few days due to massive damage and the need to clear UXO before getting to work on repairs even if they are done soon they likely can't get a train into Kherson City. Supply of this front by train within GMLRS range seems....quite problematic.
Along with Corbyn more comments from Putin's stooges in the west all coming out around the same time
Trump Says Ukraine Should Have Done Deal With Putin (newsweek.com)
German ex-chancellor Schroeder says Russia wants negotiated solution to Ukraine war | Reuters
French far right leader Le Pen calls for an end to 'useless' Russia sanctions (rfi.fr)
https://wartranslated.com/day-161-august-3-summary-of-arestovych-and-feygin-daily-broadcast/Important actions will start in a week.
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🇺🇦 partisans, special forces and military intel working in harmony. Every time, there is some large hit, it’s also hard work of unnamed people.
These broadcasts will become “explosive” sometime next week, when 🇷🇺 offensive starts.
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🇷🇺 is afraid of any 🇺🇦 success, that will be breaking point of morale for whole campaign. Everything is held together by illusion of 🇷🇺 doing offensive, that’s why 🇷🇺 propaganda is showing off every 100 meters of captured territory. 🇷🇺 is inadvertently announcing, that it can’t continue battle. They can continue pressure, wearing out, but they are afraid of any 🇺🇦 victory. 🇺🇦 task is to get that victory anywhere, and it’s moving towards that.
Fucking weird,There are no surprises here, but now it is officially recognized as a reality.
Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians
Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February, Amnesty International said today. Such tactics violate...www.amnesty.org
Lol, Ukrainian defenses aren't putting civilians in danger, Russian weapons are. The only thing required for less Ukrainian civilians to die is for Russia to fuck off back to their pile of dirt.There are no surprises here, but now it is officially recognized as a reality.
Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians
Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February, Amnesty International said today. Such tactics violate...www.amnesty.org
Gotta love victim blaming.
‘It’s just hell’: Ukraine says Russia has the upper hand in Donbas; U.S. approves Sweden and Finland to NATO”
CNBC headline.
What’s really telling is if you zoom back out to Ukraine as a country. The amount of territory Russia has taken after the first couple weeks is minuscule and they’ve done it while grinding their army into paste.You'll quote the article and blow up/bold the text, but you still refuse to link the source? Again, your personal annotations don't really mean much without support. It's easy, even faster, to do it in a way that doesn't get your post dismissed out of hand. Like this:
The Russian military keeps pushing in the Donbas, but without results
Making others do your legwork doesn't inspire confidence in the accuracy of your opinions. Just sayin.
What’s really telling is if you zoom back out to Ukraine as a country. The amount of territory Russia has taken after the first couple weeks is minuscule and they’ve done it while grinding their army into paste.
Everything is going according to plan. 100 days into 3 day military operation, success is overwhelming, greatest strategy ever, bestest army on planet is Russian armyLosing like a half dozen tanks, scores of IFVs, and hundreds of troops over a month to take a small village that have been reduced to rubble from your bombardments is now where the bar is for Russian "success".
What’s really telling is if you zoom back out to Ukraine as a country. The amount of territory Russia has taken after the first couple weeks is minuscule and they’ve done it while grinding their army into paste.
It’s been interesting to watch their rhetoric change. When it started the Russians were all like ‘we have no quarrel with Ukraine, we just must protect everyone from the Nazis.’ Now it’s like ‘Ukraine is a festering sore that must be scoured from the earth’.Putin when the war started: Zelensky will be killed and we will own Ukraine.
Putin now: The ruins of those four houses on the road to Bakhmut are ours for the taking with your generous sacrifices, comrades.
As a VERY loose comparison during the Battle of the Dneiper over the course of roughly four months the Soviets advanced about the distance from Kharkiv to Kiev across a broad swath of Ukraine.Be interesting to see the "real time" movement of front-lines in this conflict compared to the advances and retreats back and forth across the same territory in WW2. My impression is that that war was a much more mobile one - but perhaps I have the wrong idea of the time scales that time?
It’s been interesting to watch their rhetoric change. When it started the Russians were all like ‘we have no quarrel with Ukraine, we just must protect everyone from the Nazis.’ Now it’s like ‘Ukraine is a festering sore that must be scoured from the earth’.
I do wonder what all those people who wanted to join Russia think of being essentially a part of Russia now.The burden of the war has also fallen hardest, by far, on the mostly Russian speaking areas Putin was supposedly there to protect.
What’s really telling is if you zoom back out to Ukraine as a country. The amount of territory Russia has taken after the first couple weeks is minuscule and they’ve done it while grinding their army into paste.
And that likely wouldn't be possible today, given our weapon systems that were developed specifically to be able to combat the same tactics (long range ultra-precise explosives, able to hit supply lines 50+km behind enemy lines, AI controlled flying swords seeking bars and stars, among other things).As a VERY loose comparison during the Battle of the Dneiper over the course of roughly four months the Soviets advanced about the distance from Kharkiv to Kiev across a broad swath of Ukraine.