Running Newsticker for the War in Ukraine

NATO strong

This is some next-level stuff

 

NATO strong

Also some next-level stuff

 

Truly a ****-show

 

If at first you don't succeed, fake, fake fake it

 

Almost cost-prohibitive

 

NATO strong.

G-d bless the USA

 

New Ukraine military package is largest yet, Pentagon says
Ukrainian forces are launching a counteroffensive aimed at reclaiming the southern city of Kherson.
By Karoun Demirjian

The Pentagon on Monday said it is sending Ukraine an additional $1 billion in military assistance, including tens of thousands more munitions and explosives — the largest such package since Russia launched its invasion in February.

The announcement comes as Ukrainian forces undertake a counteroffensive aimed at reclaiming the southern city of Kherson. The operation is seen in Kyiv and in Washington as a vital bid to prevent the Kremlin from making good on its vow to absorb occupied territories via planned referendums. Senior U.S. officials have denounced Moscow’s annexation plan as a “sham.”

The new security assistance package includes ammunition for the high-mobility artillery rocket systems known as HIMARS and 75,000 howitzer rounds, as well as mortar systems, surface-to-air missiles, Javelin anti-armor missiles, Claymore mines and demolition explosives. It pushes the total U.S. military support for Ukraine past $9 billion since the war began, officials said. . . .

 

Russian Offensive Campaign ...

Key Takeaways

• Reporting of a likely falsified Russian statement distracts from the real risks of a Russian-caused nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Russian forces continue to conduct attacks from and store military equipment near the plant’s nuclear reactors, likely to play upon Western fears of a nuclear disaster and degrade Western will to provide additional military support to Ukraine.
• Russian forces conducted ground attacks northwest of Slovyansk and northeast and southeast of Bakhmut.
• Russian forces continued ground attacks northwest and southwest of Donetsk City.
• Russian officials postponed reopening the Antonivskyi Bridge after a Ukrainian strike damaged the bridge and nearby construction equipment.
• Russian forces are deploying less-professional occupation forces and increasing pressure on Ukrainian populations in occupied areas. . . .

Russian forces continued focusing efforts on maintaining their current positions and preventing Ukrainian advances along the Southern Axis on August 8.[24] The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Russian forces continued shelling civilian and military infrastructure using tank, tube, and rocket artillery and intensified aerial reconnaissance using UAVs along the entire line of contact.[25] Russian forces also conducted airstrikes on Lozove and Andriivka, both on the eastern bank of the Inhulets River, and Olhyne, located along the northern part of the T2207 highway.[26] The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Russian forces also conducted airstrikes in Prechistivka, Volodymyrivka, Novomykhailivka, and Poltavka.[27]

Russian forces continued to target settlements in Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Odesa oblasts with artillery and missiles. Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces launched two Kh-59 cruise missiles at Kamianske and continued shelling Nikopol, Zelendolsk, Marhanets, and Velika Kostromka, Dniprotrovsk Oblast.[28] Russian forces also continued shelling settlements on the outskirts of Mykolaiv City but did not launch any strikes directly on Mykolaiv City.[29] Odesa officials reported that Ukrainian air defense forces shot down four Russian Kalibr missiles fired from the Black Sea.[30]

Ukrainian forces continued targeting Russian military positions and ammunition depots in Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts. Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov reported that Ukrainian high mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS) strikes destroyed a “significant amount of” Russian military equipment and manpower concentrations in industrial districts throughout Melitopol at night on August 7-8.[31] Fedorov also noted that Russian forces transferred a significant part of their air defense systems from Melitopol to Kherson during the week of July 31-August 7.[32] Ukrainian officials confirmed that Ukrainian forces struck the Antonivsky and Kakhovka bridges at night on August 7-8.[33] Russian Deputy Head of the Russian Occupation Administration in Kherson Oblast Kirill Stremousov stated that Russian officials will postpone reopening the Antonivskyi bridge, scheduled for August 10, due to the damage to construction equipment near the bridge.[34] Ukrainian Southern Operational Command Spokesperson Vladislav Nazarov reported that Ukrainian airstrikes hit two Russian strongholds in the Kherson and Berislav districts and that Ukrainian indirect fire destroyed a Russian ammunition depot in Charivne, approximately 65 km northeast of Kherson City on August 7.[35] . . . .

 

US Pledges $5.5 Billion in Fiscal, Military Aid for Ukraine. President Joe Biden has authorized another $1 billion in security assistance to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion. The new package includes High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems munitions, NASAMS surface-to-air missile defense ammunition, and M113 armored medical transports. Biden also approved $4.5 billion in fiscal aid for Kyiv to fund government needs including pension payments and healthcare costs. Axios Reuters US Department of Defense

 

US Obtains Warrant to Seize Russian Oligarch’s $90 Million Plane. US federal prosecutors have been authorized to seize a $90 million Airbus plane from sanctioned Russian oligarch Andrei Skoch. The plane, which is in Kazakhstan, is the latest Russian luxury asset targeted by the US Justice Department Klepto Capture Task Force following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Skoch, a member of Russia’s Duma, was initially sanctioned in 2018 for alleged ties to Russian organized criminal groups. He then faced more sanctions over the Ukraine war. CNN Reuters Wall Street Journal

 

Heavy Fighting in Eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s military says it is holding against Russian shelling in areas around the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk and added that Russia is trying to inflict “maximum losses” on Ukrainian forces in the area to prevent their transfer to other fronts. Around the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian troops report they are advancing towards Russian-occupied Izium. In southern Ukraine, Kyiv and Moscow continue to blame each other for fighting around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. While both sides have called for IAEA involvement to prevent a potentially disastrous accidental strike on the plant, Ukraine and Russia both say the other is preventing such efforts. Reuters RFE/RL

 

Ukraine Says Captured Russia-Backed Hitmen Targeting Top Officials. Ukraine’s SBU domestic security service said Monday that it had arrested two people working for the Russian GRU who were planning to kill Ukraine’s defense minister and chief of its military intelligence agency, as well as a Ukrainian activist. Both suspects were arrested in the northwestern city of Kovel. The SBU says the suspects – one from the Luhansk region and the other from Kyiv – were offered up to $150,000 by their Russian handlers for the murder of each of their targets. Reuters says it has been unbale to verify the claims made by Ukrainian officials and so far Moscow has not commented. Reuters RFE/RL

 

Russia Says Still Facing Kaliningrad Transit Issues. The governor of Russia’s Kaliningrad says the Baltic exclave is already exhausting limits imposed by the EU for sanctioned goods it can transport across Lithuania from mainland Russia or Belarus. Governor Anton Alikhanov says vital goods including cement, steel, fertilizers and antifreeze are now impossible to import due to the limits. The quotas were imposed as part of a July deal to allow the land transit of some goods as a limited exception to EU sanctions. Reuters

 

World
The Daily Beast
Ukraine Claims Responsibility for Massive Blasts at Russian Base in Crimea Despite Kremlin’s Story

 

From your good source:

“Video of the explosions at the Black Sea Fleet’s Saki Airbase in Crimea. https://t.co/l016uLeoif pic.twitter.com/pPTlzX2gKn

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) August 9, 2022

The diverging stories over the cause of the air base explosions join a growing list of disputed events in Ukraine in recent weeks. Both Kyiv and the Kremlin blamed each other as being responsible for internationally condemned explosions at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, at the weekend. And both belligerents pointed the finger at one another for an apparent air strike on a prison in Olenivka which left dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war dead.

Independent analysts looking at footage of Tuesday’s blasts in Crimea have also raised questions about the Kremlin’s latest story. Open-source intelligence analyst Oliver Alexander was particularly curious about two explosions appearing to erupt at almost the same time, despite being some distance apart. “They’re almost simultaneous, those two explosions, so I don’t really think that would be an accident,” Alexander told The Daily Beast.” It would be very unlikely, unless they happened to happen at exactly the same time.””
THE DAILY BEAST, Ukraine Claims Responsibility for Massive Blasts at Russian Base in Crimea Despite Kremlin’s Story, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE, Towering columns of smoke and flame were seen rising from the airfield on Tuesday. By Dan Sadden-Hall, 8/09/22.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukrai...ase-in-crimea-despite-kremlins-story?ref=home

 

video of things going boom..... Twitter



apparently post boom video.... Twitter

 

Amen

 

Hmmmm

 

NATO strong

 

Realities of war

 

Realities of war.

 

Part of the USSR plan.

 

Intransigence.