Running Newsticker for the War in Ukraine

No I did say that only only Russians are enemies. Russia as you obviously are aware is the current enemy of record.

 

I am not convinced that sanction have been very effective. I could be wrong , I was wrong once. LOL !

 

Zalensky’s attendance at G7 is important and I hope it will garner good results. I am sure it pizzes off Putin since it should result in continued and more tangible support for Ukraine.

 

Here's some baseline information. The F-16 is quite capable, but it is not a new design.
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon

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by K Slayton — The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United ...
First flight: 20 January 1974; 49 years ago ...
Number built: 4,604 (June 201

 

Totally agree that surface to air weapons are the crucial need at this time. They would not only protect Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure but also needed to protect Ukrainian surface troops , supplies and equipment. The destruction of Russian missile ability by Ukraine would really be key but Ukraine’s allies are not keen on Ukraine using Western weapons on Russian soil. Ukraine needs to get at the Russian missile assets through sabotage and special ops and partisan activity. That takes a long sustained time span but time is not on Ukraine’s side.

 

That is only a couple years after we would shut down really active participation in Vietnam where our most advanced fighter was the F4 Phantom II which first flew in the 1950’s.

 

....neither is anything the Russians have....my assumption is that it'll be the Block 50s they'll get which are perfectly good for them, these will have all the integrations for the air launched weapons/bombs they'll need.

 

.....oh and by the way....at the end of the report you'll see some aircraft....an F16 and an F15 flying into a valley....this valley's in Wales and its on the A487 going to Machynlleth its a designated low flying area called the MACH LOOP (or CAD WEST)...there's a pub called the Cross Foxes which is well worth going to as you can sit in the beer garden with these bloody jets about 10 feet above your head screaming down the road into the narrow valley head. Usually it's mostly F15s out of Lakenheath but there's quite a mixture going through there....anyway.....that's enough nerd stuff for the moment....

 

...and Wagner is now in charge of a pile of rubble....



you can imagine the comments as the camera is switched off..."hmmm...okay now what boss....????"

 

Anna from Ukraine hates ruZZkies as much as I do.
F-16 fighter jets are coming.

 

Hatred of the Moskhailiy alone is not the answer to stopping them and sending those Nazi turds ack to Moskva.

 

It's not the only answer but it's useful.

 

I understand it’s an emotion many of us Ukrainian Americans have just as Ukrainians from Ukraine have. Ukraine is my ancestral home both of my grandfathers were sent to Siberia by the Russians one survived the other did not. My hatred for the Moskhailiy is great. My job as I was growing up was to teach my teachers and professors that Ukraine was not Russian in fact Ukraine’s history and culver is an older than that of the Moskhailiy. I was born in another country but not in Ukraine.

 

the youth of Western countries do not know who Putin is
how, Ukrainians do not know who the president of Mongolia is
they think that Putin is the prime minister, not the president
confuse the words Putin and pudding
they do not know what the Kremlin is
they don't know who the mayor of Moscow is

 

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Ukraine Conflict Updates
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 20, 2023

Click here to read the full report.
Key Takeaways

• Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin declared victory in Bakhmut City on May 20 and announced his intent to withdraw from the city on May 25.
• Prigozhin’s claimed victory over the remaining areas in Bakhmut is purely symbolic even if true.
• Ukrainian forces continue pressuring Bakhmut’s northern and southern flanks.
• Wagner forces are unlikely to successfully conduct a controlled withdrawal from Bakhmut while in contact with Ukrainian forces within five days without disrupting the Russian MoD’s efforts to prepare for planned Ukrainian counteroffensives.
• Russian conventional forces likely will still need to transfer additional forces to the Bakhmut direction even if Wagner mercenaries remain in Bakhmut.
• Russian forces targeted Kyiv Oblast with Iranian-made Shahed drones on the night of May 19 to 20.
• US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated on May 20 that the United States may agree to transfer modern combat aircraft to Ukraine, including the F-16, on the condition that Ukraine does not use them to strike Russian territory.
• Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar reported that Russian sources are falsely alleging that high-ranking Ukrainian military commanders have recently died, likely to demoralize Ukrainian forces and to portray Russian forces as constraining Ukrainian counteroffensive capabilities.
• Russian forces continued limited ground attacks in the Kreminna area.
• Russian forces continued to conduct ground attacks on the Avdiivka-Donetsk City line.
• The Washington Post reported on May 19 that a Ukrainian commander stated that Ukrainian Special Operations forces conduct raids in east (left) bank Kherson Oblast but that Ukrainian forces do not hold stable positions there.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) is incorporating mobilized and conscripted personnel into its own “Veterany” private military company (PMC), leading to discrimination and conflict.
• A Lithuanian official publicly accused Russia of attempting to hold international children hostage in occupied Crimea as “human shields” against a future Ukrainian counteroffensive. . . . .

Ukrainian forces struck the Mariupol airport on the night of May 19. Geolocated footage shows four Ukrainian rounds striking the Mariupol airport area, and some sources speculated that the strikes hit a Russian military concentration point.[31] Some Russian sources speculated that Ukrainian forces used Storm Shadow missiles to target the airport area.[32] Ukrainian forces last struck Mariupol in February prior to the delivery of the Storm Shadow missiles. Some sources speculated that Ukrainian forces used Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDBs) in those strikes.[33] Russian milbloggers amplified geolocated imagery of smoke trails and claimed that Russian air defenses intercepted two additional rockets or missiles on the morning of May 20.[34] The milbloggers claimed that Ukraine targeted Mariupol in order to commemorate the anniversary of the Russian capture of Mariupol on May 20, 2022. . . .

The Washington Post reported on May 19 that the Ukrainian commander of the operational group of Kherson troops, Brigadier General Mykhaylo Drapatyy, stated that Ukrainian Special Operations forces conduct raids in east (left) bank Kherson Oblast but that Ukrainian forces do not hold stable positions there.[35] Drapatyy reportedly added that Ukrainian assault units train twice a week for operations to cross the Dnipro River using boats and pontoon bridges, and The Washington Post reported that Ukrainian forces have begun constructing pontoon bridges that could be used to transport heavy weaponry across the river.[36] Drapatyy reportedly stated that Ukrainian forces may use islands in the Dnipro River delta to launch operations on the east bank and claimed that Ukrainian forces control 90 percent of the islands through physical, visual, and artillery means.[37] Drapatyy reportedly highlighted the fact that Russian forces are worried that Ukraine is preparing for active operations in the Kherson direction and that they have recently begun fortifying their defenses in the rear and planting more mines on the east bank.[38] Drapatyy's statements are generally consistent with previous Ukrainian officials' comments about the continued but limited nature of Ukrainian operations on islands in the delta and on the east bank.[39] The Washington Post reported that Russian positions on the east bank are up to 4.8km away from the Dnipro River, although ISW has not observed visual confirmation of this reporting.[40] Geolocated footage published on May 20 indicates that Ukrainian forces are operating in additional areas on Cherkesky Island (26km southwest of Kherson City).[41] . . . .

 

Reuters
Biden unveils new $375 million military aid package for Ukraine

 

Jets to Ukraine: Crucial questions over supplying F-16s to Kyiv

 

SHO?

 

Ukraine Conflict Updates
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 21, 2023

Click here to read the full report.
Key Takeaways

• Wagner Group mercenaries likely secured the western administrative borders of Bakhmut City while Ukrainian forces are continuing to prioritize counterattacks on Bakhmut’s outskirts.
• ISW previously forecasted that Wagner offensive operations would likely culminate after months of attritional urban combat, and it is unlikely that Wagner will continue fighting beyond Bakhmut at its current depleted state.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Wagner Group and the Russian military on May 21 for capturing Bakhmut.
• Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin predictably claimed the victory over Bakhmut City entirely for himself and his forces.
• Russian reactions to the claimed capture of Bakhmut illustrate an increasingly growing divide between the Kremlin’s domestic presentation of the war and the ultranationalist milblogger community’s coverage of Russian operations in Ukraine.
• US President Joe Biden stated on May 21 that the US will train Ukrainian pilots on fourth-generation aircraft, including F-16s, to augment Ukraine’s defense capabilities in the long term.
• Former Russian officer Igor Girkin’s “Club of Angry Patriots” social movement opened a St. Petersburg chapter with an inaugural event on May 21.
• Russian forces continued limited offensive operations northeast of Kupyansk and south of Kreminna.
• Russian forces continued offensive operations on the Donetsk City-Avdiivka frontline but have not made any verifiable territorial gains.
• Ukrainian forces reportedly conducted a deep strike against a Russian headquarters at an airfield in Berdyansk, Zaporizhia Oblast, with a Storm Shadow missile.
• Chechen Republic Head Ramzan Kadyrov claimed that seven regiments and four battalions from Chechnya are operating in Ukraine as of May 20.
• Russian occupation authorities are reportedly intensifying filtration measures in occupied Ukraine to find Ukrainian partisans. . . . .

Ukrainian forces reportedly conducted a deep strike against a Russian headquarters at an airfield in Berdyansk, Zaporizhia Oblast, with Storm Shadow missiles on May 21. Ukraine’s Strategic Communications Center reported that Ukrainian forces struck an unspecified Russian headquarters in Berdyansk on May 21.[55] Geolocated pictures show smoke rising in the direction of the Berdyansk airfield.[56] Russian milbloggers reported that Ukrainian forces struck the mess hall at the Berdyansk airfield with a Storm Shadow missile in the early morning on May 21.[57] Battle damage from the strike is unclear as of this publication; one prominent Russian source reported that the struck mess hall had already been vacated by the time of the strike’s impact.[58] A Russian source reported that Ukraine’s recent deep strikes against the airfield in Mariupol on May 19 and the airfield in Berdyansk on May 21 are part of a new Ukrainian effort to “thin out” Russian aviation stationed along the Sea of Azov Coast.[59] Berdyansk is a coastal town on the Sea of Azov and is located about 100km from the frontline — well outside of the operational range of US-provided HIMARS. . . . .

 

Ukraine pushes to surround Bakhmut in a new aim of ‘tactical encirclement’
Ukrainian forces have been reduced to small footholds in the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut but are making moves to extend the fight.
By Adam Taylor and Anastacia Galouchka

 

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Ukraine aims to encircle Bakhmut as Russia says it captures city

 

Another one bites the dust.

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The Daily Beast
Russian Deputy Minister Dies Suddenly After Slamming ‘Fascist Invasion’ of Ukraine

 

Ironic that “ Kucherenko” “ the minister of Russia who died “ mysteriously” had a classic Ukrainian name. Of course there is Riznikov Defense Minister of Ukraine has a Russian name. Over the years Ukrainians had been sent to Russia by the Czars or Russian Soviets or went there to survive the Russian related famine in Ukraine . Some foolishly went there in the 18th century to the Kuban. Riznikov may be from a Russian family yet was born in Ukraine grew up there and is a Ukrainian patriot. Or a variety of other reasons that some Ukrainians have a Russian name. Anyway Kucherenko was apparently a man with a conscience. RIP he was a good Russian. I know it sounds odd coming from a child of Ukrainian patriots but I have said before that there are some good Russians. Some are fighting Putin as we type.

 

"Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions."