Running Newsticker for the War in Ukraine

Time Is on Ukraine's Side, Not Russia's
Phillips O'Brien, The Atlantic



The Ukrainians will win if they keep getting better weapons. Read More

 

Another case of Russians storing ammunition in a place not built for storing munitions. This time in a cultural center. What was the cause this time ? 1- Was the Marlborough man smoking again? 2- Spontaneous combustion? 3- Those big bad Zaporizhian Kozaks from the 18th century time traveling? 4- Or just Muskhailiy —————- ing up? Pick one !

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Russian state media: 3 killed, 13 injured in Belgorod explosion

From CNN's Uliana Pavlova and Sharon Braithwaite

Three people were killed and 13 injured by an ammunition explosion in Belgorod, a Russian region bordering Ukraine, Russian state media TASS reported, citing the country’s emergency services.

A fire broke out early Sunday in a cultural center in a rural area of Belgorod, which led to the explosion of ammunition stored inside, according to TASS.

The state media reported earlier that at least 10 Russian soldiers were injured in the blast. It’s not clear if any servicemen were among those killed. “

 

Germany did say the Marders are on the way. So is Christmas of 2023. Germany is so tentative and can’t make a decision. They are the nuinskas of Europe. Nuinkas is a Ukrainian word for a whiner or mamby pamby. Someone who does not know whether to ————- or go blind.

 

Yes weapons that for the most part are needed yesterday but Ukraine is given good weapons tomorrow. It is like torturing the Ukrainians getting them to almost at the point to win but never there or on time. It is as if the west is going through the motions but is afraid to let Ukraine win. No weapons to stop the long range attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure. Ukrainians are told how brave they are but no jet fighters for you because Putin will be mad at us ( west).

 

Ukraine Conflict Updates
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 15, 2023

Click here to read the full report.

Key inflections in ongoing military operations on January 15:

• Ukrainian officials specified that a Russian Kh-22 missile struck a residential building in Dnipro City on January 14, killing at least 25–30 civilians.[29] Ukrainian officials clarified inaccurate reporting that Ukrainian air defenses may have caused the destruction to the building, noting that Ukraine does not have the capability to shoot down Kh-22 missiles.
• Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin awarded medals to Wagner Group forces for the capture of Soledar, likely in an ongoing effort to frame the capture of Soledar as a Wagner accomplishment rather than a joint effort with the Russian Armed Forces, as the Russian Ministry of Defense previously claimed.[30]
• The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian ground assaults near Makiivka and Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast.[31] A Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces are transferring Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) off-road vehicles from Russia to Luhansk Oblast, possibly for use in combat.[32]
• Russian sources claimed that Russian forces finished clearing Soledar and attacked Ukrainian positions to the north, west, and southwest of the settlement.[33] A Ukrainian source reported that Russian forces captured a mine west of Soledar near Dvorichchia on January 15.[34]
• Russian forces continued to attack Bakhmut and areas to the north, east, south, and southwest of the city.[35] Russian forces made marginal territorial gains southwest of Bakhmut near Andriivka.[36]
• Ukrainian Kherson Oblast Military Advisor Serhiy Khlan stated that Russian forces increased their presence in occupied Kherson Oblast and that some Wagner Group forces arrived in Kherson Oblast.[37] Russian occupation head of Kherson Oblast Vladimir Saldo claimed that the restoration of the Henichesk-Arabat Spit bridge improved Russian logistics into occupied Kherson Oblast.[38]
• A Russian servicemember reportedly detonated a grenade in a building where Russian soldiers quartered in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, possibly in a fratricidal act of resistance against mobilization.[39] A Russian source reported that the grenade attack killed three and injured 10 mobilized personnel.[40] . . . .

The Kremlin retains its maximalist goals to seize all of Ukraine, despite its poor conduct of the war to date. The Kremlin has been slow to effectively fix its flawed invasion for almost a year and has repeatedly opted for short-term solutions such as: repeatedly cycling through theater commanders and retaining a fragmented command structure, introducing crypto-mobilization campaigns as opposed to full-scale mobilization, failing to control the Russian information space by allowing different pro-war factions to partition the information space, and consistently disrupting the Russian military’s chain of command. The Kremlin’s apparent new attention to Russian military failures will not allow the Kremlin to fix its conduct of the war in the immediate term if at all, and the flaws in Russia’s original campaign design — and the subsequent losses incurred — will be difficult to replace.

Russian forces remain dangerous, and Ukraine requires sustained support. Ukraine requires further and timely Western support to adequately prepare for the Russian COAs for 2023 outlined above. Ukraine’s Western allies will need to continue supporting Ukraine in the long run even if a Russian decisive action in 2023 fails, as the Kremlin is nonetheless preparing for a protracted war. The West must continue its support to Ukraine’s efforts to defeat Russia’s invasion — and must do so quickly. The Russian military, as the saying goes, retains a vote on the course of the war despite its weaknesses and is actively setting conditions for major operations as the war enters its second year. . . . .

 

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.....excuse or reality....??......or are the Germans just worried that the Ukrainians may kill some squirrels or damage some twigs if they use them in the field.....

.....it doesn't take into account Bundeswehr operational stocks and the issue is more about getting German agreement for other nations to transfer anyway....

 

I read that Germany was ok with other countries transferring Leopard II tanks.
German any always a dollar short and a day late. I do thank them for the Marders that will hopefully come to Ukraine in maybe two months or so hopefully.
Will the resignation of the German defense minister hold up the Marders? It seems as if anything holds up weapons from Germany to Ukraine.

 

No sure where exactly this belongs but President Zalensky coined a new and very appropriate word - “ruscism” as a sister of Nazism.
See - https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/speeches

 

NATO Chief Says Ukraine Must Be Provided More Heavy Weapons. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg suggested that more shipments of heavy weapons could be headed to Ukraine. Stoltenberg made the comments to German media outlet Handelsblatt daily where he also said that the Ukraine war is at a ‘decisive phase’ and stressed the importance of providing Ukraine with the weapons it needs to continue to survive as a nation. Al Jazeera

 

Ukrainian Death Toll Rises to 40 Following Russian Missile Strike in Dnipro. Rescue workers continued to search for survivors following a Russian missile strike that destroyed an apartment building in Dnipro on Saturday. Ukrainian officials say that 30 deaths from the strike have been confirmed. The attack is the deadliest single incident in the war since September, and came during a significant missile campaign over the weekend by Russia which also targeted regions near Kyiv and Kharkiv. Ukrainian military officials say that a total of 33 missiles were fired by Russia on Saturday and that Ukraine’s military destroyed 21 of them. Ukraine’s air force says that the missile that destroyed the building in Dnipro was a Kh-22, and that currently Ukraine’s military does not have a system capable of defeating that type of missile. Reuters Associated Press Wall Street Journal Deutsche Welle

 

Belarus and Russia Begin Joint Military Drills. Russia and Belarus began joint military drills on Monday, a move that is causing concern of a potential new offensive in the Ukraine war. The exercises, which Minsk says are defensive in nature, will run from Jan 16- Feb 1 and will include all of Belarus’ air fields according to the Belarusian defense ministry. Reuters

 

Ukraine Calls for Creation of Cyber UN Organization for Collaboration. Ukraine’s top cyber official says the world needs a Cyber United Nations type of organization where civilized countries can share information and collaborate on cyber defenses. Yurii Shchyhol,head of Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection said in an interview with Politico that cyber attacks will continue and could become as powerful as conventional attacks and that countries need a hub where they can share information and make decisions about cyber defense. Politico

 

That's what Rheinmetall have said several times before. They said they have around 20 something Leo2 and 88 Leo1 they could get combat ready for Ukraine. However, they need the OK from the German government and it'll take time, quite a lot of time - especially the Leo1 needs upgrading - and Ukrainian crews would have to be trained first of course. This is Rheinmetall, not the German government.
Bundeswehr stock, as you say, is a different story. I don't know how many Leo2s the Bundeswehr could do without and send to Ukraine once their crews are trained. But the more important thing is the German OK for other governments to send some of their Leo2. Poland, Finland, possibly Spain, have already signaled the would provide some of their Leos.
The funny thing is that a lot of people think the German government are sitting on their behinds doing nothing. IMO, this is mainly due to bad communications. By absolute numbers, German military aid to Ukraine (2,3 billion €) is 4 times bigger than what France (0,6 billion €) has sent so far. https://www.ifw-kiel.de/de/themendossiers/krieg-gegen-die-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
Based on what I've read, the OK to send Leo2 to Ukraine hasn't been given yet but seems to be a matter of a few days. Good thing the defence minister left office today, absurdly incompetent.

 

'Russia's Rambo,' once a Putin favorite, says he'd now fight for Ukraine and feels 'nothing but hatred' for his

 

I think Lambrecht left because of the upcoming decision on the Leo.
Besides of being utterly incompetent

 

I totally agree that the German defense minister, whatever her name is was incompetent. She is the turd brained piece of crap who at the outset of Russia’s war against Ukraine said that she will send them ( Ukrainians) 5,000 helmets.

Heard that RheinHelmutArbitenSchlapenKlap said the helmets would not be ready until April 1, 2025.

 

Reality, limy, just the facts. For squirrel killing and breaking twigs the Ukraine get a dozen or so old challengers from Charly.
They don't know **** where to service them, once those oldies are in the Ukraine.

 

Perhaps it is better that Ukraine get one or two types of armoured vehicles rather than half a dozen that they need to learn about independently. #2cents

 

That's the point, there are just 2 parties that have to make up their mind. That's the US and Germany, either Leo or Ab, just because of the huge logistic problems. The M1A with its turbine engine is a logistic nightmare and is such a fuel hog.
There are plenty of Leos around in the EU, in what conditions I do not know. Poland got Leo2s, so they know how to service them and join a border with Ukraine. So, the Leo is the choice and Germany has to waive the export license, so EU countries can donate around 100 tanks, or more. It should be 1 tank and then NATO has to throw all its powers behind it to make it possible, as fast as possible.

The UK and its Challenger is a flat out joke and a propaganda play, 14 thats it?

 

The Ukrainian military has show that they have mastered how to function weapons systems. Ukrainians are an educated people who think out of the box and have also shown that they can adopt and innovate. Ukrainian Air Forced wowed the Americans air force how quickly they adopted US missiles to old SOVIET ERA MiG 29s. That is one example. One type of tank would make it much easier to maintain so of I would agree. The issue I have is that Ukraine does not have the time to wait while certain. Embers are tied up with red tape. The situation calls for cutting through red tape. If laws need to be changed then change them.

 

I had to report your post for it’s arrogant insulting message.

 

Yes the one overall important issue is that Ukraine needs weapons to survive and act as the “wall” between the barbarians of the East and Europe.

 

My pleasure, you deserve it, well done.

 

I don't think it's a joke. I think they're quite serious about giving large amounts of offensive vehicles.


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