Running Newsticker for the War in Ukraine

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    Ukrayinska Pravda
    Ukraine's Armed Forces form world's first drone strike companies General Staff
    Ukrainska Pravda
    Fri, January 27, 2023, 9:44 AM EST·1 min read“

    Ukraine is forming the world's first drone attack companies as part of the Army of Drones project.
    ………Quote: "We have already selected the most professional servicemen to lead the attack companies. Each of them will receive drones and ammunition, Starlink and other necessary equipment to defeat the enemy in hot spots."

    Who says Ukrainians cannot be innovative? This is great use of technology. I wish them great success. So will the term drone them to death ever catch on?
     
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    You intended to say " The US government flat out lied". Which proves Merkel right, don't you think so?
     
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    Let’s say that an UnTruth was told. I will have to read Merkel’s statement again. I have to admit that I scanned it before.
    The frustration that I am sure Ukrainians are feeling is the same as us Ukrainian Americans and friends are which is we are tired of is that important effective weapons are either denied or are granted after being denied. We are tired of unnecessary delays. Time is not on the side of Ukraine.
     
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    My point was that if that was all the Ukrainians could get take it for a short interim time. Of course Ukraine wants the aF16 an all purpose fighter.
     
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    :)
     
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    Which of Merkels statements are you referencing. They go back to the Minsk agreement ?n
     
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    Ha ha will the one that is running be able to tow the one that is not running?
     
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    The point of the Abrams gesture was to enable the German decision. There was no way the Abrams delivery and Abrams training could have been done quickly, not to mention the specialized Abrams support requirements. The German delivery and training, however, can happen quickly, and now that the Germans are in, others who have German tanks can also send them. The Abrams gesture made all that possible, and will provide a superior system in the end.
     
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    An opinion piece take it for what it is worth.


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    Billions of dollars in military aid for decades and America still gets rebuffed on a request for some unused Kennedy-era air-defense kit because Israel is worried it might make Vladimir Putin mad


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    Scoop: U.S. asked Israel for its Hawk missiles to send to Ukraine
    Israel told the U.S. there is no change in Israel’s policy not to provide weapons systems to Ukraine.


    I am not surprised since the policy of Israel is ‘we no wanna make Mr. Wootzki Putzski mad at us.’ Of course Israel is dependent upon the Moskhailnykiy so Israeli forces can operate against Iranian terrorist forces in the Syrian theater of operations. Why not have Israel knock out the drone production facilities in Iran. He’s I am being sort of a wise arse……
     
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    https://energyandcleanair.org/publi...but-further-measures-can-multiply-the-impact/

    "Key findings include:
    • Russia’s earnings from fossil fuel exports fell 17% in December, to the lowest level since the start of the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    • The EU oil ban and price cap are costing Russia an estimated EUR 160 mn/day. The fall in shipment volumes and prices for Russian oil has cut the country’s export revenues by EUR 180 million per day. Russia managed to claw back EUR 20 million per day by increasing exports of refined oil products to the EU and to the rest of the world, resulting in a net daily loss of EUR 160 million.
    • The measures caused a 12% reduction in Russia’s crude oil exports and a 23% drop in selling prices, for a 32% drop in Russian crude oil revenues in December. Germany’s stoppage of pipeline oil imports shaved off another 5% at the end of December."
     
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    Heard parts of that but thank you for posting those points in a consolidated post.
     
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    I said that the A10 could have been useful in the opening weeks to completely decimate that 40 mile long convoy north Kyiv. The A10 has a reinforced shell to protect the pilot from ground fire. It also bombs and rockets. No the 30mm Gatling gun is not magic. It would have been effective enough destroying the supply laden Russian trucks. I also said used as an interim step.
     
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    .....indeed you did Sir!......:)
     
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    Ukraine Conflict Updates
    Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 27, 2023

    Click here to read the full report.
    Key Takeaways

    • Kremlin insiders reportedly told Bloomberg that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing a new offensive to regain the initiative that may begin as early as February or March 2023.
    • The Kremlin confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is issuing preemptive pardons for convicts who serve in Russian operations in Ukraine.
    • A visual investigation by a Russian opposition outlet confirmed that Russian authorities are deporting children from occupied Kherson Oblast to occupied Crimea.
    • Russian officials denied reported explosions near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on January 26.
    • The Russian military command is likely attempting to restrict mibloggers’ frontline coverage to regain control over the Russian information space ahead of the new offensive. These restrictions—if planned—are likely a part of the Chief of the Russian General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov’s efforts to professionalize the Russian Armed Forces.
    • Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations near Kreminna on January 26 and January 27.
    • Russian forces continued ground attacks around Bakhmut, on the western outskirts of Donetsk City, and in western Donetsk Oblast.
    • Russian sources did not report that Russian forces continued localized offensive operations in Zaporizhia Oblast on January 27.
    • Russian officials claimed that the conscription age will not change in the upcoming 2023 spring conscription cycle.
    • Russian occupation authorities are continuing to intensify efforts to integrate occupied territories into the Russian legal and administrative structures. . . .
    Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations near Kreminna on January 26 and January 27. Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrey Turchak claimed that Kreminna is the most challenging segment of the frontline due to Ukrainian attempts to break through Russian defensive lines following his reported visit to the area on January 26.[31] Turchak also claimed that Russian airborne forces are maintaining defenses in the Kreminna direction. A Russian milblogger claimed on January 26 that the 254th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment (144th Motorized Rifle Division, 20th Combined Arms Army, Western Military District) repelled Ukrainian assaults and exchanged fire at a distance of 50-100 meters from Ukrainian forces near Kreminna.[32] The Ukrainian General Staff stated on January 27 that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian assaults near Ploshchanka (16km northwest of Kreminna), Nevske (18km northwest of Kreminna), and Chervonopopivka (6km north of Kreminna).[33] . . .

    Ukrainian intelligence reported that Russian forces are experiencing significant shortages of junior commanders in frontline units in Ukraine. Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) representative Andriy Chernyak reported on January 27 that Russian forces have approximately 40 percent of junior commander positions in units on the frontline unfilled.[66] Chernyak stated that these vacancies in platoon and company commanders contribute to Russian units conducting assaults without command and proper interaction between formations.[67] A Russian milblogger argued on January 27 that many Russian military commanders continue to face bureaucratic challenges that stymie the Russian military’s ability to address problems and train new personnel.[68] Russian force generation efforts since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have likely failed to produce enough adequately trained personnel who could fill these vacancies, many of which are likely the result of high casualties. ISW has previously reported that an independent open-source investigation found that Russian officers represent a sizeable portion of confirmed Russian military deaths in Ukraine.[69]

    Ukrainian sources reported that the Wagner Group is attempting to recruit deported Ukrainian prisoners from occupied territories. The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported on January 27 that Russian occupation officials deported 3,500 prisoners from Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts to Russian-occupied Crimea, where the Wagner Group is currently trying to recruit them.[70] . . .


     
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    That last paragraph is disturbing. Yet that paragraph about the Russian army being deficient in junior officers is beautiful. Of course any deficiency resulting in a negative for Russia is a beautiful thing.
     
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    ...okay...I'm missing something....lets assume they get inducted into wagner, they're put in uniform, given a weapon and sent up to the front. SO they get to the front and then I would assume they'd shoot their unit commander and walk home...?

    I don't understand what that means in practise......
    It actually sounds like the easiest way for them to get home is join Wagner!!??
     
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    The full report (quite long) is linked.
     
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    There is in my opinion why there is a reason that it is troubling. If those inductees from occupied areas are dispersed in different units then it will be significantly difficult for them to desert the Wagner Group and live. If they were to be placed in the same units or be the vast majority in units then he’s it would way more feasible to eliminate their commanders and supporters of Wagner in their units. Numbers have power that isolated individuals do not. An individual can indeed shoot a Wagner Nazi commander but other Wagnerites will kill that good guy. So those acting as indeviduals would be committing suicide.
     
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    The Minsk not an agreement “agreement “ was some time ago. My memory tells me that there were two major meetings and Russia failed to show up for one of them. Merkel is only right in that the unintentional byproduct of an agreement would have been that Ukraine would have had more time to build up its ignored armed forces. Ukraines armed forces were decimated by The Traitor Yanukovich who we must remember was from the Party of Regions. He fractured the Ukrainian Army by dismembering it into a national guard with each Region’s governor, who is not elected but appointed by the president controls. The major contention was the details as to how much autonomy the attempting breakaway regions would have. Putin was setting it up so that the breakaway regions would be just like independent countries who could them become parts of Russia. Sound familiar. To my knowledge the Krym was not part of the so called Minsk “agreement”. Why didn’t Russia let Chechnya have what Putin wants for the break away regions?
     
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    Nice fishing but you did not hook anything.
     
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    So you confirm that Merkel was right.
     
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    Not fishing. You know that Putin cannot be trusted and he was not about to cut an honest deal, and he never will. Putin does not want to negotiate he wants Ukraine to capitulate. Putin wants to “negotiate “ with Biden. In fact Putin wants Trump to come back since Putin knows that Trump would sell Ukraine out for a simple compliment from Putin.
     
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