Ukrainan konflikti/sota

When senior British officers visited Moscow in the days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the chief of the Russian general staff, Valery Gerasimov, boasted that he commanded the second most powerful army in the world. A week into the conflict, however, the Russian military has been performing abysmally. The gap between Russian military expectations and its actual performance shows what it has and has not learned over the last 14 years of military modernisation, and how it is likely to continue its war in Ukraine.

After its unsatisfactory combat performance during the invasion of Georgia in 2008 the Russian military embarked upon a sustained programme of rearmament. Russia poured around $159bn a year into its armed forces when measured on the basis of purchasing power parity (PPP). That has created a force with a vast fleet of modernised main battle tanks, artillery, air defences, and long-range cruise and ballistic missiles. Whereas in the cold war the Soviet army expected to depend upon nuclear weapons to win any high-intensity conflict, the modern Russian army aspired to fight with speed and precision.
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Russia’s callousness towards its own soldiers is undermining its combat power | Jack Watling

In past conflicts Russia could hide small scale casualties, but not any more, says Rusi research fellow Jack Watling
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Jack Watling is research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute
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ajs178 kirjoitti:
Onko tämä vain arvelua, vai onko varmaa tietoa/lähdettä? Eikö sitä voitu ohittaa, jos kerran löydettiin?
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Ukraina on ohittanut ja ohitti sen Georgian Bukeista, jotka yllättäen purivat vanjan koneisiin. Itse luulisin, että on ohitettu Suomessakin. Apua olisi varmasti siihen saatu Ukrainasta, jos itse ei olisi osattu.

Syy kai eläkkeelle siirtoon on ohjusten polttoaineen vanhentuminen. Uusia ei haluta ostaa.

Ja epäilen, jos jouduttaisiin kriisiin, niin luultavasti ne otettaisiin käyttöön... Ei niitä käsittääkseni ole vielä stenattu?
 
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ddude kirjoitti:
Menee vähän itse konfliktista ohi mutta huhhuh että näitä Putleriin uskovia asuu ihan Suomessakin.
FB:n Venäläiset Suomessa ryhmässä paria poikkeusta lukuunottamatta KAIKKI on sitä mieltä että Venäjän oli pakko hyökätä koska natsit. Lisäksi armeija ei ammu siellä siviilikohteita.
Mä jotenkin ymmärtäisin jos noi asuis Venäjällä mutta asuu Suomessa, puhuu englantia tai suomea eikä tiedonsaantia rajoiteta.
Mitä v***ua?!?
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Täytyy ottaa huomioon pari muuttujaa. Ne viisaimmat jotka ovat sotaa vastaan ovat hiljaa, koska monella on sukulaisia Venäjällä ja olisi joskus tulevaisuudessa kiva käydä heitä tapaamassa. Mutta, jos olet esittänyt kriitiikkiä "operaatio pullopersesiasta" sinut voidaan laittaa vankilaan suoraan passintarkastuksesta. Tämä tuli vasta eilen viralliseksi, mutta on ollut käytäntö jo pitkään.

Mutta siitä huolimatta, varmasti yli puolet Suomen venäläisistä on Putinin toiminnan puolella, puolella olemisesta voi pitää ääntä ilman pelkoa, toistaiseksi. Supo kyllä tarkkailee näitä fanaattisimpia Putin faneja.
 
Keir Starmer has called on the Conservatives to sack their co-chair, Ben Elliot, for being “at the heart” of links between the party and Russian money.

The Labour leader said Elliot should step back from his role or be removed after revelations about his firm’s Russian business and the Tories accepting donations from wealthy Russians or companies linked to Russia.

Elliot has been chair of the party while it has taken donations from Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Vladimir Putin’s former finance minister, and Aquind, a company co-owned by the billionaire Viktor Fedotov.

Neither is subject to any sanctions and the Conservatives have previously said in relation to Chernukhin and Aquind that all donations were “properly and transparently” declared in line with electoral law. Chernukhin, who has British citizenship, has condemned the invasion of Ukraine and called Putin’s regime “despotic”.

Elliot is also co-owner of Quintessentially, a “concierge” service for the super-wealthy that has counted many Russians among its clients, including reportedly Roman Abramovich, the Chelsea owner who has also faced calls from Starmer for UK sanctions to be imposed on him.

Quintessentially this week deleted a webpage detailing its presence in Russia, with about 50 staff in the country.

An archived page version said: “Quintessentially Russia has nearly 15 years’ experience providing luxury lifestyle management services to Russia’s elite and corporate members. Our office employs over 50 lifestyle managers, each of whom has completed a specialised training programme. They work around the clock 365 days per year to provide personal concierge services to each member. From restaurant bookings to backstage concert access, a bespoke luxury lifestyle is at our clients’ fingertips.”

A spokesperson for Quintessentially said the group “completely condemns President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine” and was monitoring its member base to ensure it was not servicing any individual or corporate body on sanctions lists, confirming that there were none so far.
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Starmer calls on Tories to sack co-chair Ben Elliot over party links to Russia

Firm Elliot jointly owns offered ‘luxury lifestyle management services’ to Russian elite
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“We are in an economic war,” he said. “One of the things we should do in the economic crime bill is that we should require British citizens not to hold posts on the boards of companies which the government believes have a link with Putin. They should certainly not be in receipt of large sums of money from such companies.”
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Xi won’t back away from Putin because to do so would lead to much embarrassment and humiliation at home – a non-starter, especially in this key year ending with the 20th Party Congress. Yet, standing by Putin, and supporting overtly the weak Russian economy associates China firmly with a pariah state and erodes such trust and credibility in China’s statecraft. China’s list of friends globally isn’t that big or impressive anyway.

With strong leverage over Russia now, China can help its beleaguered neighbour, which, with its main banks excluded from the global financial system, its foreign exchange reserves frozen, and firms and persons subject to sanctions and asset freezes, has become a vassal state of China. It can buy much more energy and resources, and subject to ubiquitous sanctions laws, make loans, provide funds via currency swap agreements, trade in yuan, and supply semiconductors and other technology goods.

Yet, China will have to be careful to calibrate an image which isn’t overly accommodating, and reminds the world both that it can be an agent for important public goods, such as peace-broking in Ukraine, and that it wants the global system to remain relatively open.

Remember that, unlike Russia, China’s ambitions depend on a relatively open world economy in trade and technology, and on global and regional institutions which it would like to re-shape to suit its own interests. This is all at risk now if democracy-supporting nations choose to push a Russia-supporting China further away – or if China doubles down to insulate itself. China was certainly shocked how the EU, in particular, and the US came together purposefully and forcefully to freeze Russia out of the system. China’s continuing dependency on key western technologies and markets remains, despite acts of decoupling and self-reliance. It would certainly not want to risk being in the cross-hairs of a Russia-type financial war over, for example, Taiwan.
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China has little to gain but much to lose as Russia’s ally | George Magnus

The uneasy friendship and ties that bind China and Russia counter long-standing issues of mistrust over the years
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hansai kirjoitti:
Pohjanmaan uutisissa(eilen) juttua että poliisin passipalvelut on ruuhkautuneet, kun ihmiset uusivat passejaan siinä pelossa et joutuu lähteen maasta..
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Ettei olisi ihan koronan vuoksi menneet vanhoiksi, ja nyt niitä uusitaan, kun tilanne helpottaa ja kesällä halutaan matkustaa?
 
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