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UK defence secretary Ben Wallace has repeated the assertion that it is legitimate for Ukraine to target logistics within Russian territory. He told viewers of BBC television in the UK in an interview:
If Ukraine did choose to target logistics infrastructure for the Russian army, that would be legitimate under international law. It is certainly the case that Britain is assisting and finding artillery for Ukraine, which it is mainly using within Ukraine on Russian forces.
Reuters reports he said British weapons were unlikely to be used to strike Russia from Ukraine, as Ukrainian forces tend to use mobile launchers while the British army would deliver them from the air or sea.
Earlier this week Russia warned the UK after armed forces minister James Heappey expressed a similar view. Russia’s defence ministry said: “We would like to underline that London’s direct provocation of the Kyiv regime into such actions, if such actions are carried out, will immediately lead to our proportional response.”
The UK defence minister Ben Wallace has suggested that the UK will be supplying Ukraine with weaponry that can strike Russian naval forces in the Black Sea. He told Sky News earlier:
We have said we will source and supply, if we can, anti-ship missiles. It’s incredibly important that grain that affects us all, the food prices, does get out of Ukraine. It can’t control the Black Sea. It’s not theirs anymore. And therefore making sure that Russian ships are not used to bombard cities is important.
In an address to lawmakers in St Petersburg earlier on Wednesday, Russian president Vladimir Putin warned any countries attempting to interfere in Ukraine would be met with a “lightning-fast” response from Moscow.
The Russian president said the west wanted to cut Russia up into different pieces and accused it of pushing Ukraine into conflict with Russia, adding:
If someone intends to intervene into the ongoing events (in Ukraine) from the outside and creates unacceptable strategic threats for us, then they should know that our response to those strikes will be swift, lightning fast.
Russian troops would not hesitate to use the most modern weaponry, Putin said:
We have all the tools for this — ones that no one can brag about. And we won’t brag. We will use them if needed. And I want everyone to know this.
We have already taken all the decisions on this.
Vanhaa on, mutta aina tyhjää parempi.”Indianan kansalliskaartin sotilaat valmistelevat M113-panssarivaunuja Ukrainaan lähetettäväksi”
Vähän erikoinen lähde tuossa guardianin jutussa. Muutaman ilmastohätääntyneen ajatusallas joka tähän asti on julkistellut CO2-raportteja Intiasta ja KIinasta, onkin yhtäkkiä seurannut tarkasti kaikkea energialiikennettä Euroopassa ja tietää sovitut toimitushinnat kullekin kuljetukselle? Vaikka tietäisi tarkat määrätkin ei niitä kaikkia millään spottihinnoilla liikutella.Russia doubles fossil fuel revenues since invasion of Ukraine began
Country receives about €62bn from exports of oil, gas and coal in two months, with Germany the biggest importerwww.theguardian.com
The US Naval Institute (USNI) reviewed satellite imagery of the naval base at Sevastopol harbor, and concluded that two dolphin pens were moved to the base in February at the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has a history of training dolphins for military purposes, using the aquatic mammal to retrieve objects or deter enemy divers.
The Sevastopol naval base is crucial for the Russian military, as it sits in the southern tip of Crimea which Moscow seized in 2014. According to the USNI’s analysis, many of the Russian ships anchored there, while out of range from missiles, are potentially vulnerable to undersea attacks.
Ukraine had also trained dolphins at an aquarium near Sevastopol, in a program born out of a Soviet-era scheme that fell into neglect in the 1990s.
During the cold war, both the US and the Soviet Union developed the use of dolphins whose echolocation capabilities can allow them to detect underwater objects such as mines.
The US has spent at least $28m maintaining its own troops of dolphins and sea lions – which are also trainable – to potentially help with conflicts.
The Sevastopol program was resurrected in 2012 by the Ukrainian navy, but the mammals fell into Russian hands after the 2014 invasion of Crimea. Ukraine unsuccessfully demanded the return of the animals, and RIA Novosti reported that Moscow planned to expand the scheme.
“Our specialists developed new devices that convert dolphins’ underwater sonar detection of targets into a signal to the operator’s monitor. The Ukrainian navy lacked funds for such know-how, and some projects had to be mothballed,” one source told the Russian news agency.
Two years later, the Russian navy announced plans to buy five more dolphins, launching a bidding process for a 1.75m ruble – about $21,000 – contract to deliver dolphins to the Sevastopol base by the end of the summer. It is unclear whether the dolphins believed to be in Sevastopol today are the same ones that came out of this contract.
Satellite imagery from 2018 revealed Russia also used dolphins at its naval base in Tartus, Syria during the Syrian war.
Dolphins are not the only ocean creatures that Russian military may have trained. A beluga whale spotted off the coast of Norway in 2019 was believed to be trained by the Russian navy. Fishermen reported a beluga whale wearing strange harnesses, which may have held cameras, harassing their boats, pulling on straps and ropes from the side of boats.
Niin kuulostaakin, mutta luulen että sukeltajaa ei naurata?
Three weeks since his release, Volodymyr Khropun still looks visibly shaken by the trauma he's endured. A Red Cross volunteer, he was captured by Russian forces, and deported to Russia.
On 18 March, Volodymyr was driving a school bus to the village of Kozarovychi, about 40km (25 miles) north-west of Kyiv, to evacuate a few civilians who were stuck there amid the fighting. When he tried to convince Russian soldiers to let him pass their checkpoint, they detained him.
For the first few days he was kept in the basement of a factory of a village nearby, along with other civilians, 40 people in a 28 sq m (300 sq ft) room.
"We were beaten with rifles, punched, and kicked. They blindfolded me and tied my hands with duct tape. They used Tasers and kept asking for information about the military," Volodymyr said.
"One of the soldiers was very young, almost a child. He used Tasers on people's necks, faces, knees. It's like he was having fun."
After being held for nearly a week in Ukraine, they were transported to Belarus.
"They thought we couldn't see, but I saw the villages we were passing, Ivankiv, Chernobyl and then I saw us crossing the border," he said.
Eilisen luvuissa miehistö luvut +300, tänään +400, reiluun kuukauteen on tullut vain 100 ja 200 lisäyksiä. Korostanee laajamittaisen hyökkäyksen alkamista. Muilta osin ei suurta muutosta tasoon.
No, ainakin tunnetun laulun mukaan esim. talitintti on pieni lintu.Tuolla muijalla on ollut jo ajat sitten uusia seikkailuita kiikarissa, viime aikoina ehkä jo suurennuslasinkin alla. Tai jonkun.
Molopää sotarikollinen tulee olemaan vielä pitkään poissa leikeistä.
Mainetta hankkinut mimmi taas on vapaa kuin _tavan_ lintu ja tiedättehän millaisia ne ovat...
Tuskin sinuakaan sukeltajana naurattaisi jos kohtaisit itseäsi kaksi kertaa painavamman sukeltajan joka on vedessä about sata kertaa sinua ketterämpi ja pystyy pidättelemään vähintään 10x pidempään hengitystään kuin sinä? Joo, sulla on se harppuuna ja sillä toisella ei, mutta jos se toinen yllättää sinut, etkä osu, niin häviät vesipainissa ihan huolella. Etenkin jos se toinen on jotenkuten koulutettu kohdistamaan hyökkäyksiä sinun hengitysvälineisiin.Mitä ihmettä?
Sinälläänhän näissä eläinkunnan edustajien värväämisissä Venäjän laivaston riveihin ei ole mitään yllättävää, koska niin kuin Ukrainan sodassakin on nähty, ryssän maavoimissakin palvelee vaikka kuinka paljon täysiä elukoita.Russia deploys trained dolphins at Black Sea naval base, satellite images show
Two dolphin pens were moved to the Sevastopol harbor base in February, concluded the US Naval Institute’s reviewwww.theguardian.com
Ukrainan pitäis hankkia Sinijalkasuulia ja varustaa ne kranaatein meriuhkaa varten.Sinälläänhän näissä eläinkunnan edustajien värväämisissä Venäjän laivaston riveihin ei ole mitään yllättävää, koska niin kuin Ukrainan sodassakin on nähty, ryssän maavoimissakin palvelee vaikka kuinka paljon täysiä elukoita.
Korruptio rehottaa !Ukrainalaiset twiitin mukaan yrittävät lahjoa itselleen pääsyä mukaan taisteluun. Venäjällä taitaa olla asiat hiukan toisin.
Onhan tässä selvä tappioiden kiihtyminen:Eilisen luvuissa miehistö luvut +300, tänään +400, reiluun kuukauteen on tullut vain 100 ja 200 lisäyksiä. Korostanee laajamittaisen hyökkäyksen alkamista. Muilta osin ei suurta muutosta tasoon.