Harvapartio
Majuri
Rheinmetall aikoo toimittaa Ukrainalle prototyyppejä tykistön ammuksista, joissa on 100 kilometrin kantama.
Puolukan Alla
Kersantti
Mihinkähän minimerimiinaan mahtoivat ajella?
Itse asiassa, onko sellaisia edes olemassa, vai olikohan kyseessä joku viriviripatenttijokimiina, eli VirVirPatJokMiin2024?
Jep. Ja silti niitä riittää. Voihan se olla että se on putinille sama vaikka uhrais 3milj ryssää ja ryssille sama vaikka sen verran kuolis, koska vain voitolla on väliä. Ja voitto on kaikki muut paitsi tappio.
tienvarsipummi
Kenraali
Ordnance of the Week: YaRM Anti-Landing Mine — Bomb Techs Without Borders
Background and Purpose The recent destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine has resulted in the uncovering and displacement of potentially thousands of landmines and anti-amphibious mines used in and along the Dnipro River. Among the most hazardous of these mines is the YaRM anti-landing mine.
www.btwob.org
Tornihuhun mukaan Ranskalla olisi 100 legioonalaista Ukrainassa. Ja suunnitelmissa 1500 vahvuus. Saa nähdä onko vain tornari. Oli miten oli niin saapahan ryssä mietittävää. EDIT: twiittaaja poistanut twiitin. Jätän kuitenkin.
France secretly sent its military to Ukraine - ex-Pentagonist Stephen Bryan
According to him, about 100 Foreign Legion soldiers from the 3rd French Infantry Regiment were stationed in Slavyansk to support the 54th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
They provide artillery and surveillance. In total, it is planned to send around 1,500 legionnaires to Ukraine.
This information cannot yet be confirmed and should therefore be treated with a certain degree of caution. But it cannot be ruled out either. Elysee is silent.
France secretly sent its military to Ukraine - ex-Pentagonist Stephen Bryan
According to him, about 100 Foreign Legion soldiers from the 3rd French Infantry Regiment were stationed in Slavyansk to support the 54th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
They provide artillery and surveillance. In total, it is planned to send around 1,500 legionnaires to Ukraine.
This information cannot yet be confirmed and should therefore be treated with a certain degree of caution. But it cannot be ruled out either. Elysee is silent.
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StepanRudanskij
Respected Leader
Jenkithän jo ilmoitti sotilasneuvonantajistaan Ukrainassa. Briteillä on varmasti ainakin teknistä porukkaa paikalla (Tiedustelutietojen jakaminen ja Storm Shadow ym vimpaimet). Liekö tämäkin tahallinen vuoto, että ranskiksetkin on paikalla. Ihan kohta lentää ensimmäiset F-16:t Ukrainan rintamalla, taivaalla ovatvarmasti jo lennelleet. Brittien lupa mäiskiä brittiaseillakin pitkin emäryssälää tuli just. Lyhyessä ajassa on taas monta pienempää askelta otettu. Joku vois sanoa, että kohti suoraa yhteenottoa.
Ohjus-tiedustelija
Kenraali
Puhut nyt aivan eri mittakaavan asioista, ainakin minä puhuin näistä nähdyistä parilla vaunulla kokeiluista (niiden analysointiahan alkuperäinen postaus kritisoi), ei mistään läpimurtoon tähtäävistä isommista yrityksistä (ne oli ihan erikseen ja pieleen meni vaikka tasat oli varmasti tiedossa). 1-2 vaunulla jos lähdetään vähän kokeilemaan, niin mittakaava on niin pientä, että yksittäisen sinkomiehenkin piileskely poterossa/pusikossa voi muodostaa jo jonkunlaisen "puolustuksen tasan". Ei tuollaista voi likimainkaan aukottomasti selvittää etukäteen (esim. nähty CV-90 menetys video). Ukrainassa vielä tuntuu olevan ainakin paikoitellen km kaupalla ei kenenkään maata vastapuolten välillä joten "puolustuksen tasa" näin pienessä mittakaavassa voi elää hyvinkin paljon jo tuntien sisällä niissä pellon reunojen puusoiroissa.
Näinhän se menee meillä/teoriassa paperilla. Toiminta Ukrainassa on aika kaukana ns. rauhanajan joukkojen kaavioista ja erilaisista tehtävä vastuista. Tuolla nähdään nyt enemmän tai vähemmän sekalaisilla pumpulla tehtäviä pistoiskuja asemia vastaan, ryssällä matkustaa väkeä vaunujen kannet väärällään ja kun liike pysähtyy joko määränpäässä tai sitä ennen, niin väki leviää ympäristöön kuin paska tuulettimeen, ei kukaan todellakaan voi erotella onko kyse ns. ps-jääkäreistä vai vaunujen suojamiehistä
Puhumattakaan että vaunujen suojaksi ja asemien vyöryttämiseen olisi jotenkin varattu eri miehet. Mukana matkustaa tyylillä x jalkaväkeä joka toimii sitten miten toimii...Onko tällaista jaottelua edes järkevää oikeastaan ottaa esiin Ukrainan sodan yhteydessä? Ukrainalaiset toimivat koordinoidummin, mutta erittäin vahvasti epäilen että heilläkään olisi jaoteltu vaunujen suojamiehiä ja ns. ps-jääkäreitä erikseen, eiköhän ne toimi tilanteen mukaan. Videoiden perusteella hyvin usein vaunut pudottaa miehet asemien viereen ja ajaa kauemmas (ryssät kokonaan pois paikalta
). Tst-vaunut käyvät usein ihan yksinään kurmottamassa jotain etuvartioasemia tms. Jalkaväkeä ei ole mukana yhtään, aina ei edes toista vaunuparia
Pointti: toiminta / kokoonpanot on käytännössä tuolla hyvin kaukana meidän rauhanajan vastaavista.
Teoriassa näin, kaikella tällä on vaan hyvin vähän tekemistä Ukrainan sodan kanssa.
Puolukan Alla
Kersantti
No sieltähän se tuli kuin apteekin hyllyltä.Ordnance of the Week: YaRM Anti-Landing Mine — Bomb Techs Without Borders
Background and Purpose The recent destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine has resulted in the uncovering and displacement of potentially thousands of landmines and anti-amphibious mines used in and along the Dnipro River. Among the most hazardous of these mines is the YaRM anti-landing mine.
En osannut ajatella maihinnousuhommia lainkaan tuota viteota katsellessani.
Kiitoksia!
Isoalaviiva
Majuri
Huhuja tai ei, mutta näyttää ryssiin uppoovan
vesitiivis
Kersantti
Toisessa maailmansodassa eli siinä venäläisten Suuressa Isänmaallisessa sodassa, jota laajasti arvostettu ja rakastettu Stalin oli innokkaana aloittamassa, kuoli 26 milj. venäläistä. Se on ja oli venäläisen historia käsityksen mukaan ilmeisesti hienointa ja upeinta mitä Venäläisille on tapahtunut. Venäjä pelasti maailman ja tätä uljautta ja sankarillisuutta muistellessaan nykyvenäläinen herkistyy, saattaa joku syrjäkylän ukko ja akka jopa tirauttaa muutaman kyyneleen.
Kenties on niin, että venäläisille iso määrä sodassa kuolleita on suuri arvo itsessään. Mitä enemmän ruumiita, sen sankarillisempaa ja siksi sitä parempi. Kärsimykset, sodan järjettömyys tai edes sodan lopputulos, liekö niillä suurtakaan väliä?
Sodan tässä vaiheessa, kun näin pitkälle on jo päästy, voi olla, että tärkeintä on enää kirjoittaa ikuisesti elävää venäläistä sankaritarinaa Putinista ja hänen taistelustaan pahaa vastaan. Ja voiko Putin silloin mihinkään kuusinumeroiseen lukuun ruumiita tyytyä? Eiköhän seitsemän numeroinen luku olisi parempi ja ensimmäisen numeron olisi hyvä olla vähän isompi. Muuten on vaarana, että historia tuomitsee koko kolmen päivän erikoisen näpertelyksi ja heikkoudeksi eikä Putinin sota olisi yhtään mitään Stalinin saavutuksiin verrattuna.
Antares
Respected Leader
Hyvin mahdollista että Ukraina tuhosi ryssän Iskander-M laukaisulaitteita ja kenties jopa ohjusten varaston eilen Krimillä, työrukkasena väitetysti ATACMS ballistiset ohjukset:
Low resolution satellite imagery shows large scorch marks at location where large fire was spotted in FIRMS data.
According to local Russian Telegram channels, Iskander TELs were destroyed during a strike in Crimea on May the 4th.
45.44425522, 33.71956784
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Viitattu NOELSreports twiitti eiliseltä:
Overnight, Ukraine reportedly attacked Crimea with ATACMS.
While Russia's MoD claims it shot down all 4 of them, Russian local channels start to spread information that 2 Iskander launchers and a warehouse with ammunition were destroyed.
Low resolution satellite imagery shows large scorch marks at location where large fire was spotted in FIRMS data.
According to local Russian Telegram channels, Iskander TELs were destroyed during a strike in Crimea on May the 4th.
45.44425522, 33.71956784
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Viitattu NOELSreports twiitti eiliseltä:
Overnight, Ukraine reportedly attacked Crimea with ATACMS.
While Russia's MoD claims it shot down all 4 of them, Russian local channels start to spread information that 2 Iskander launchers and a warehouse with ammunition were destroyed.
Antares
Respected Leader
Ranskalainen OSINT-tili kirjoittaa "muukalaislegioona Ukrainassa" huhuista näin:
For some reasons there’s a wild campain of misinformation being spreaded on social medias claiming that there’s french troops in Slaviansk, and that they’re soldiers from 3rd Infrantry Regiment or 3rd Legion Infantry regiment
On both cases it’s stupid AND false and was written by people who barely know the french army :
- First one doesn’t exist anymore and was dissolved in 90's
- Second one is only deployed in French Guyana
I find funny and interesting that these reports have been spreaded on french twitter and ending on russian channels rn
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Olga Lautman puolestaan muistuttaa ryssän ikiaikaisesta tyylistä käydä informaatiosotaa:
France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront - Asia Times
Russia’s information warfare continues. A known tactic of Russia’s is to place propaganda via Westerners in foreign media outlets so that they can ‘surprisingly’ have their propaganda verified
The author Bryen is known for his hyperbolic analysis in favor of the Kremlin such as Ukraine will fail and why should the West bother supporting a lost cause. Of something feels off always look at the previous articles of the author
https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/
By STEPHEN BRYEN
MAY 4, 2024
An honor guard from the French army's 6th Battalion stands at attention as they await the arrival of Lt. Gen. Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, commander of Joint Forces in Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Shield. The soldier in front is holding a 5.56mm FA MAS rifle, equipped with a bayonet.
France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère).
In 2022 France had a number of Ukrainians and Russians in the Foreign Legion. They were allowed to leave the Legion and, in the case of the Ukrainians, return to Ukraine to join Ukrainian forces. It isn’t clear if the Russians returned home.
The Legion today is run by French officers but the rank and file are all foreigners. Under the curren anonymat (being anonymous) a volunteer who joins the Legion can decide whether to keep his given name or adopt a new one. Legionnaires serve for three year terms, after which they can ask for French citizenship. If a legionnaire is wounded, he is entitled to gain French citizenship without any waiting period. There are no women in the Foreign Legion.
Troops of Third Infantry Regiment French Foreign Legion in Africa
The initial group of French troops numbers around 100. This is just the first tranche of around 1,500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine.
These troops are being posted directly in a hot combat area and are intended to help the Ukrainians resist Russian advances in Donbas. The first 100 are artillery and surveillance specialists.
For months French President Emanuel Macron has been threatening to send French troops to Ukraine. He has found little or no support from NATO countries outside of support from Poland and the Baltic States. Allegedly the US opposes sending NATO soldiers to Ukraine (other than as advisors).
One of the questions to immediately arise from France’s decision to send soldiers from its 3rd Infantry Regiment is whether this crosses the Russian red line on NATO involvement in Ukraine? Will the Russians see this as initiating a wider war beyond Ukraine’s borders?
France itself does not have many troops to put on Ukraine’s battlelines, should the French government want to do so. According to reports, today France cannot support an overseas deployment of a full division and won’t have this capability until 2027 at the earliest.
The decision to send Foreign Legionnaires is, itself, a peculiar French compromise. France is not deploying its home army and, besides the small number of officers, the men sent are not French citizens.
France’s decision has two meanings, beyond the obvious one of potentially triggering a pan-European war.
First of all, it allows Macron to send troops to Ukraine and act like a tough guy without encountering much home opposition. That’s because no French army soldiers are being sent and there is no consequent conscription or other measures in the offing. This clearly reduces the potential fury of Macron’s political opponents.
French Foreign Legionnaires in the desert. Photo: Vanity Fair
The second reason is Macron’s anger at seeing French troops, almost all from the Legion, getting kicked out of Sahelian Africa and replaced by Russians. Control of Francophone Africa, and the riches it provides to French politicians, has been broken by the revolt and revolution in Africa and a decisive tilt to Russia – either directly or through PMC Wagner (the Wagner Group). now clearly under Vladimir Putin’s direct control.
This “humiliation” is felt in the Élysée Palace and particularly by Macron who, his opponents say, has lost France’s influence and harmed France’s overseas mining and business interests.
A particular blow is in Niger, an important supplier of uranium to France. France gets 70 percent of its electrical power from nuclear power generators. Global uranium supplies are tightening and prices rising. With Russia and Kazakhstan, along with Niger, on the top of the heap in terms of supplying uranium for nuclear reactors, France has a home economic security problem. The US decision to ban Russian uranium (but probably not realistically, in the next few years) the Russians could deal a serious blow to France and the United States by cutting off supplies.
French Troops Departing Niger
Given the risk of losing access to uranium, or at least enough of it to supply France’s reactors, Macron has to hope that his troop deployments to Ukraine won’t trigger a Russian embargo on sales to France.
It isn’t clear how the Legionnaires can help the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians know how to operate artillery, and they have sophisticated intelligence support, some of it generated by their own FPV drones and spies and some of it thanks to US and other NATO intelligence and surveillance assets supporting Ukraine.
Anyway, the Ukrainian issue is not about how to use artillery but where the ammunition is supposed to come from. Ukraine continues to complain it lacks adequate supplies for 155mm howitzers.
The decision to put the Legion soldiers in Slavyansk is extremely provocative and goes against statements from the French side, including Macron, to the effect that if France sent troops they would replace Ukrainian army units in western Ukraine who could, therefore, be moved eastward to fight the Russians. As Slavyansk is on the front line, this French image of a soft deployment is turning into a war with Russia directly.
A key question is how NATO will react to the French decision to deploy. As France is acting on its own without NATO’s backing, the French cannot claim support from NATO under its famous Article 5, the collective security component of the NATO Treaty.
Should the Russians attack French troops outside of Ukraine it would be justified because France has decided to be a combatant, and forcing an Article 5 vote would seem to be difficult if not impossible.
Of course, NATO members individually could support the French, either by sending their own forces or by backstopping the French logistically and in communications. For example, there is no way Foreign Legion soldiers can go to Ukraine without passing through Poland. Will the Russians see this as evidence they are at war both with France and Poland?
Right now no one can answer any of these questions with any degree of certainty. It is unlikely the Russians will long tolerate a buildup of French army troops, even if they are Foreign Legion soldiers. What Russia will do in response is not certain.
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Stephen Bryen served as staff director of the Near East Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a deputy undersecretary of defense for policy.
This article was first published on his Weapons and Strategy Substack and is republished with permission.
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And like clockwork this breaking news’ is in all Russian media.
Of course Russia forgets to mention that Ukraine is a sovereign country and can invite any country they choose.
It’s none of Russia’s business and they are the genocidal sociopaths that are not welcome
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For some reasons there’s a wild campain of misinformation being spreaded on social medias claiming that there’s french troops in Slaviansk, and that they’re soldiers from 3rd Infrantry Regiment or 3rd Legion Infantry regiment
On both cases it’s stupid AND false and was written by people who barely know the french army :
- First one doesn’t exist anymore and was dissolved in 90's
- Second one is only deployed in French Guyana
I find funny and interesting that these reports have been spreaded on french twitter and ending on russian channels rn
-
Olga Lautman puolestaan muistuttaa ryssän ikiaikaisesta tyylistä käydä informaatiosotaa:
France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront - Asia Times
Russia’s information warfare continues. A known tactic of Russia’s is to place propaganda via Westerners in foreign media outlets so that they can ‘surprisingly’ have their propaganda verified
The author Bryen is known for his hyperbolic analysis in favor of the Kremlin such as Ukraine will fail and why should the West bother supporting a lost cause. Of something feels off always look at the previous articles of the author
https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/
France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront
Will the deployment of a Foreign Legion unit commanded by French officers trigger a wider European war?By STEPHEN BRYEN
MAY 4, 2024
France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère).
In 2022 France had a number of Ukrainians and Russians in the Foreign Legion. They were allowed to leave the Legion and, in the case of the Ukrainians, return to Ukraine to join Ukrainian forces. It isn’t clear if the Russians returned home.
The Legion today is run by French officers but the rank and file are all foreigners. Under the curren anonymat (being anonymous) a volunteer who joins the Legion can decide whether to keep his given name or adopt a new one. Legionnaires serve for three year terms, after which they can ask for French citizenship. If a legionnaire is wounded, he is entitled to gain French citizenship without any waiting period. There are no women in the Foreign Legion.
Troops of Third Infantry Regiment French Foreign Legion in Africa
The initial group of French troops numbers around 100. This is just the first tranche of around 1,500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine.
These troops are being posted directly in a hot combat area and are intended to help the Ukrainians resist Russian advances in Donbas. The first 100 are artillery and surveillance specialists.
For months French President Emanuel Macron has been threatening to send French troops to Ukraine. He has found little or no support from NATO countries outside of support from Poland and the Baltic States. Allegedly the US opposes sending NATO soldiers to Ukraine (other than as advisors).
One of the questions to immediately arise from France’s decision to send soldiers from its 3rd Infantry Regiment is whether this crosses the Russian red line on NATO involvement in Ukraine? Will the Russians see this as initiating a wider war beyond Ukraine’s borders?
France itself does not have many troops to put on Ukraine’s battlelines, should the French government want to do so. According to reports, today France cannot support an overseas deployment of a full division and won’t have this capability until 2027 at the earliest.
The decision to send Foreign Legionnaires is, itself, a peculiar French compromise. France is not deploying its home army and, besides the small number of officers, the men sent are not French citizens.
France’s decision has two meanings, beyond the obvious one of potentially triggering a pan-European war.
First of all, it allows Macron to send troops to Ukraine and act like a tough guy without encountering much home opposition. That’s because no French army soldiers are being sent and there is no consequent conscription or other measures in the offing. This clearly reduces the potential fury of Macron’s political opponents.
French Foreign Legionnaires in the desert. Photo: Vanity Fair
The second reason is Macron’s anger at seeing French troops, almost all from the Legion, getting kicked out of Sahelian Africa and replaced by Russians. Control of Francophone Africa, and the riches it provides to French politicians, has been broken by the revolt and revolution in Africa and a decisive tilt to Russia – either directly or through PMC Wagner (the Wagner Group). now clearly under Vladimir Putin’s direct control.
This “humiliation” is felt in the Élysée Palace and particularly by Macron who, his opponents say, has lost France’s influence and harmed France’s overseas mining and business interests.
A particular blow is in Niger, an important supplier of uranium to France. France gets 70 percent of its electrical power from nuclear power generators. Global uranium supplies are tightening and prices rising. With Russia and Kazakhstan, along with Niger, on the top of the heap in terms of supplying uranium for nuclear reactors, France has a home economic security problem. The US decision to ban Russian uranium (but probably not realistically, in the next few years) the Russians could deal a serious blow to France and the United States by cutting off supplies.
French Troops Departing Niger
Given the risk of losing access to uranium, or at least enough of it to supply France’s reactors, Macron has to hope that his troop deployments to Ukraine won’t trigger a Russian embargo on sales to France.
It isn’t clear how the Legionnaires can help the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians know how to operate artillery, and they have sophisticated intelligence support, some of it generated by their own FPV drones and spies and some of it thanks to US and other NATO intelligence and surveillance assets supporting Ukraine.
Anyway, the Ukrainian issue is not about how to use artillery but where the ammunition is supposed to come from. Ukraine continues to complain it lacks adequate supplies for 155mm howitzers.
The decision to put the Legion soldiers in Slavyansk is extremely provocative and goes against statements from the French side, including Macron, to the effect that if France sent troops they would replace Ukrainian army units in western Ukraine who could, therefore, be moved eastward to fight the Russians. As Slavyansk is on the front line, this French image of a soft deployment is turning into a war with Russia directly.
A key question is how NATO will react to the French decision to deploy. As France is acting on its own without NATO’s backing, the French cannot claim support from NATO under its famous Article 5, the collective security component of the NATO Treaty.
Should the Russians attack French troops outside of Ukraine it would be justified because France has decided to be a combatant, and forcing an Article 5 vote would seem to be difficult if not impossible.
Of course, NATO members individually could support the French, either by sending their own forces or by backstopping the French logistically and in communications. For example, there is no way Foreign Legion soldiers can go to Ukraine without passing through Poland. Will the Russians see this as evidence they are at war both with France and Poland?
Right now no one can answer any of these questions with any degree of certainty. It is unlikely the Russians will long tolerate a buildup of French army troops, even if they are Foreign Legion soldiers. What Russia will do in response is not certain.
-
Stephen Bryen served as staff director of the Near East Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a deputy undersecretary of defense for policy.
This article was first published on his Weapons and Strategy Substack and is republished with permission.
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And like clockwork this breaking news’ is in all Russian media.
Of course Russia forgets to mention that Ukraine is a sovereign country and can invite any country they choose.
It’s none of Russia’s business and they are the genocidal sociopaths that are not welcome
-
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Ev. Kurtz
Kersantti
Alkavat mennä Mad Max -autojen suuntaan nämä postapokalyptiset designit.
Kilroy
Kersantti
Hyvä noiden ryssien julkaista valitusvideo omalla naamalla.. se tietää tuossa maassa varmaa pääsyä etulinjan miinantallojiin, pääsee maa eroon turhista valittajista.