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Putin Says U.S., NATO Moves In Black Sea 'Serious Challenge' For Russia
President Vladimir Putin has called U.S. and NATO activities in the Black Sea a "serious challenge" for Russia, which has asserted additional naval rights in the region since seizing Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
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President Vladimir Putin has called U.S. and NATO activities in the Black Sea a "serious challenge" for Russia, which has asserted additional naval rights in the region since seizing Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
"The United States and its allies in NATO are carrying out unplanned exercises in the Black Sea," Russia said on the state's Vesta TV channel.
"Not only is a rather powerful naval group involved in these exercises, but also aviation, including strategic aviation.
This is a serious challenge for us."
For any of you interested in war, see below for an analysis on how Ukraine has deployed its artillery i.e. those big guns that can fire 40 km away. Basically they dispersed their artillery (since counter fire is always a problem), then using a locally created app, assigned targets for guns. This has the effect of reducing reaction time to minutes, compared to hours for Western militaries. Think of something like a food delivery app, except it's Ukrainian artillery & Russians, not delivery drivers & hungry customers. Video is in German, but use the auto-translate feature: seems to work well.
Have heard the term "Flying Tank|" for a while but I never knew that it really existed until I saw this Russian tank "flying" ...
Russia is replacing its sunken Moskva cruiser with Admiral Makarov, an Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate, to lead its Black Sea fleet.
The frigate is said to have shot down a Bayraktar TB2 drone on April 12 during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
After the loss of Moskva, Russia was expected to choose a new flagship to maintain fleet command and control.
Admiral Makarov, which was navigating in the Black Sea since 2018, was considered as the most suitable option for assuming flagship duties.
Russia claims victory in Mariupol as last Azovstal fighters surrender
Russian authorities claim that 2,439 Ukrainian fighters surrendered in Azovstal by Friday, ending the siege of the southern seaport's steel mill.
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Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000 civilians feared dead.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin the “complete liberation” of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol — the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance — and the city as a whole, spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Friday.
There was no immediate confirmation from Ukraine.
Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti quoted the ministry as saying a total of 2,439 Ukrainian fighters who had been holed up at the steelworks had surrendered since Monday, including over 500 on Friday.
The weight of the turret is about 4-5 tons and as you can see it is going up in the air for at least 100 feet due to the sympathetic detonation of the tank munition positioned around the turret perimeter in the autoloader. The sympathetic detonation of the munition is caused by the new antitank weapons that defeat armor with explosively formed projectiles.
A fire broke out at a premier Russian aerospace institute involved in research on Russian warplanes on May 21.
Footage on social media shows smoke billowing into the air at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute’s (TsAGI) substation.
The fire at TsAGI, 69km southeast of Moscow, is the latest in a string of mysterious fire outbreaks in Russia amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
There were no reports of casualties from the inferno, which was suppressed by firefighters within an hour.
Unlike some Western tanks which are protected using Chobam / Kavlar type of armor, the Russians seems to be relying heavily on exterior Explosive Reactive Amour (ERA) protection, which in theory should stop AT weapons from penetrating the main armor and set off the stored ammunition inside from exploding, but here seems this system is failing big time on mass scale hence allowing inside explosions and spectacular tank explosions.
Life imprisonment for Russian soldier tried for war crimes in Ukraine - News Rebeat
Convicted of the murder of a 62-year-old Ukrainian civilian in the northeast of the country on February 28, Vadim Chichimarine was sentenced to life imprisonment.The court decided to find Chichimarine guilty and sentence her to life imprisonmentsaid Judge Sergei Agafonov on Monday. The...
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The court decided to find Chichimarine guilty and sentence her to life imprisonmentsaid Judge Sergei Agafonov on Monday.
The 21-year-old soldier watched the proceedings in silence and showed no emotion while reading the verdict, the Reuters news agency reported.
A soldier can kill another soldier, but not an innocent civilian.
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A Russian diplomat resigns: ‘Never have I been so ashamed of my country.’ (Published 2022)
Boris Bondarev, a counselor at the Russian mission in Geneva, quit in a rare example of an official breaking with the Kremlin over its war in Ukraine.
A diplomat in Russia’s mission to the United Nations in Geneva quit his post on Monday, expressing shame over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and describing it as a crime against both countries.
Boris Bondarev, a counselor in the Russian mission since 2019 who described himself as a 20-year veteran of Russia’s Foreign Ministry, announced his resignation in an email sent to diplomats in Geneva on Monday.
His resignation is the most high-profile gesture of protest so far made by a Russian diplomat over the war in Ukraine.
“For 20 years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on Feb. 24 of this year,” Mr. Bondarev said, referring to the date that President Vladimir V. Putin sent Russian forces into Ukraine.
“The aggressive war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine and in fact against the entire Western world is not only a crime against the Ukrainian people but also, perhaps, the most serious crime against the people of Russia,” he added.
Luhansk Governor claims Russia has intensified attacks on Severodonetsk to capture the city. Ukrainian forces claim to have repelled 11 enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the past 24 hours.
Russia claims its Kalibr missiles destroyed a large batch of west-supplied weapons in Ukraine.
According to the Guardian, over 50 experts linked to the Syrian military’s notorious barrel bombs are in Russia .
Meanwhile, Russia’s space agency chief said Moscow will deploy its new RS-28 Sarmat Intercontinental Ballistic Missile systems into combat alert by fall.
Former head of British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 says that Putin will not be the leader of Russia by 2023.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for "maximum" sanctions against Russia during a virtual speech Monday to corporate executives, government officials and other elites on the first day of the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland.
He said sanctions need to go further to stop Russia's aggression, including an oil embargo, blocking all of its banks and cutting off trade with Russia completely. He said that it's a precedent that would work for decades to come.
"This is what sanctions should be: They should be maximum, so that Russia and every other potential aggressor that wants to wage a brutal war against its neighbour would clearly know the immediate consequences of their actions," Zelensky said through a translator.
He also pushed for the complete withdrawal of foreign companies from Russia to prevent supporting its war and said Ukraine needs at least $5 billion US in funding per month.
"The amount of work is enormous: we have more than half a trillion of dollars in losses, tens of thousands of facilities were destroyed.
We need to rebuild entire cities and industries," Zelensky said, coming days after the Group of Seven leading economies agreed to provide $19.8 billion US in economic aid.
Looks like the next episode of "The Greatest Tank Battles (History channel documentaries) will feature tank... vs Electrical bikes...
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