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The Biden administration has made a "substantial offer" to bring two American detainees home from Russia, the US secretary of state has said.
Reports suggest Moscow is interested in exchanging basketball star Brittney Griner for convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout.
Secretary Antony Blinken said he would raise the matter in a call next week with Russia's foreign minister.
Mr Blinken and Sergei Lavrov have not spoken since the war in Ukraine began.
Both the White House and the Department of State declined on Wednesday to disclose details of the proposed deal.
According to CNN, the US hopes to trade Bout for Ms Griner and fellow American Paul Whelan, who was convicted of espionage in 2020.
The New York Times reports that the US last month offered Russia to swap Bout for Ms Griner and Whelan, and that President Joe Biden had approved the offer.
The vehicle - a self-propelled artillery piece with a huge barrel pointing south towards Russian-held territory - is a French manufactured Caesar, one of the growing number of sophisticated Western weapons that can now be spotted moving along country lanes throughout Donbas.
Dmitro, and many others here, believe they are helping to turn the tide against Russia.
With a deafening blast, the Caesar fired the first of three shells at what Dmitro said was a Russian infantry unit and several artillery pieces 27km (16 miles) away.
"We're much more accurate now. And we can hit them much further away," he said, with a grin. Within a minute, the artillery team had fired two more shells, and the vehicle was already moving away, fast, before Russian artillery had a chance to track its position and return fire.
In recent weeks Ukrainian civilians and soldiers have watched, often gleefully, as drone footage and other videos uploaded on to the internet appear to have shown a series of massive explosions in Russian-held territory.
It is widely reported that these are large ammunition stores, kept far behind the frontlines, but now within reach of the newly arrived Western weaponry, including American Himars and Polish Krab howitzers.
"Listen to that silence," said Yuri Bereza, a bearded 52-year-old commanding a volunteer unit tasked with defending Slovyansk. For well over an hour one recent morning, on a visit to a network of defensive trenches east of the city, not a single explosion could be heard.
"That's all because of the artillery you've given us - because of its accuracy," said Bereza. "Before, Russia had 50 gun barrels for every one we had. Now it's more like five to one. Their advantage is now insignificant. You could call it parity."
But Bereza, like Dmitro, emphasised that Ukraine needed far more Western weaponry in order to launch an effective counter-offensive.
For now, Western governments have refused to send officials, or contractors, into Ukraine to help with military recruitment and training efforts. A handful of private organisations are operating here, independently.
"It's a drop in the ocean. But it makes a difference, on a small scale," said Andy Milburn, a retired US Marine colonel, as he watched a training session.
He stressed that his Mozart group had "zero" contact with, or support from, the US government, but he criticised Western nations for a "squeamish" and "short-sighted" refusal to engage more directly.
"It's ridiculous. But these guys have lost so many people that they just don't have [enough Ukrainian instructors]," he said. "The West needs to plan for that now."
Plans to cut the size of the British Army must be abandoned at a time when "open war" is taking place in Europe, UK MPs have said.
The cross-party Commons Defence Committee said the Ministry of Defence and military leaders risk looking "arrogant and unwilling to learn lessons" unless a major defence review is redrawn.
MPs said they were "especially concerned" about plans to cut the Army by 9,000 troops in the Integrated Defence and Security Review, published in March 2021, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Both these events were "seemingly dismissed as insignificant", even though the last 12 months had shown the government was "manifestly not prepared" for a major international crisis.
The Ministry of Defence said it would adapt its stategy and response to "meet emerging threats and challenges".
We’ve got a bit more on the Ukrainian counter-offensive near Kherson, in the form of an intelligence update from the UK Ministry of Defence
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In line with what we’ve reported, it says Kyiv’s campaign to recapture the region is “gathering momentum” and adds that Ukrainian forces have likely established a bridgehead south of the Ingulets River, which forms the northern boundary of Russian-occupied territory.
It says Ukraine has used its new long-range artillery to damage at least three bridges on the Dnipro river – including the Antonivskiy bridge we’ve already heard about. Russia relies on the bridges to resupply its forces in the areas it controls, the intelligence update says.
The Ministry of Defence concludes that Russia’s 49th Army stationed on the west bank of the Dnipro river “now looks highly vulnerable” and that the city of Kherson is now cut off from the rest of the territory controlled by Moscow.
Russian-installed officials in Kherson are claiming that the Ukrainian attack on a key bridge in Kherson "will not affect the course of hostilities in the region".
The head of the local occupying administration, Kirill Stremousov, told reporters that the attack on the bridge complicated the lives of local residents but played down its wider strategic significance.
Western military sources say Ukraine’s campaign to retake the Kherson region is gathering pace after it destroyed a key bridge into the city with long-range artillery.
Thousands of Russian troops are now in danger of being cut off from the rest of the occupied territory in southern and eastern Ukraine.
Military sources said Kherson was the nearest thing Russia has to a “jewel in the crown” of its occupation, and losing it would seriously undermine the nation’s attempts to portray the invasion as a success.
Lauantaina vetelin omat matemaattiset arvioit noista jotakuinkin noille puolleen sisältämällä koko "venäjän puolen", eli uskon että olet oikeassa.
Katoin samaa ja luin kommentit ja katoin taas.. Evt.Mut siinähän lukee et kyseessä ois vanha kuva?
Ei. Koska noi järjestelmät on suunniteltu taistelevan kärjen tueksi. 35mm kantama on +3km. Tietysti jos risteilyohjus lentää just ylitse, niin sit voi.Pystyisikö sillä viimein Ukrainaan tulleella Gebard systeemillä torjua näitä risteilyohjuksia, ennen kuin osuvat siviileihin?
On mielenkiintoista että putlerinistanissa homma pyörii mielikuvitusten ympärillä ja meillä faktoissa. On melkein kuin koko valtio menettänyt järkensä ja johdossa on puoli kuollut papparainen jolla on illuusio omasta suuruudestaan. On naurettavaa että hänen ympärillä on joukko megalomaneja ja heillä on päämäärä, mutta toteutus on kokonaan korruption syömä.Kun tämä tapahtuu, avaan pullon ja nostan maljan:
@ctg: Military sources said Kherson was the nearest thing Russia has to a “jewel in the crown” of its occupation, and losing it would seriously undermine the nation’s attempts to portray the invasion as a success.
Apple's internet traffic took an unwelcome detour through Russian networking equipment for about twelve hours between July 26 and July 27.
In a write-up for MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security), a public interest group that looks after internet routing, Internet Society senior internet technology manager Aftab Siddiqui said that Russia's Rostelecom started announcing routes for part of Apple's network on Tuesday, a practice referred to as BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking.
BGP is the glue that links multiple networks together to form the internet. Unfortunately, the protocol is too credulous. When an autonomous system (AS) – a group of networks managed by a single entity – announces routes for groups of IP addresses (IP prefixes) that it does not own, internet traffic will generally adapt to those routes if the rogue announcement isn't filtered out.
Some bad route announcements are accidental and a result of something like a configuration blunder, and some announcements are straight-up malicious.
For example, in 2018 cyberthieves used BGP hijacking to meddle with Amazon's Route 53 DNS service and redirect internet traffic from a cryptocurrency website to a phishing site hosted in Russia.
The redirection of Apple's networking traffic began about 2125 UTC on Tuesday, according to Siddiqui, when Rostelecom’s AS12389 network began announcing 17.70.96.0/19, which is part of Apple's 17.0.0.0/8 block and is usually announced as part of the larger 17.0.0.0/9 block.
Juu hyvä kun spottasit nuo kaksi typoa; DPR jäänyt laskuista ja yksi nolla liikaa....
Sinulta taisi jäädä DPR:n tappiot laskematta mukaan? Kirjoitat että ovat tiedottaneet yli 8 000 kuolleesta. Muistaakseni DPR:n joku "viranomainen" julkaisee kuolleet ja haavoittuneet ehkä kerran viikossa? Kirjoitat että peilasit LPR:n tappiot suhteessa näihin lukuihin, mikä on varmasti hyvä arvio. LPR:n tappioiksi arvioitu 6 800 + 10 200. Tässä pitäisi varmaan olla omalla rivilliään DPR:n kuolleet 8 000 + haavoittuneita jossakin suhteessa?
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Toinen mikä hieman särähti silmään on PMC:n osuus, olisiko noin suurta määrää? 100 000 kuulostaa hyvin suurelle numerolle ... tällöin voisi puhua muutamasta tuhannesta, arvaisin että enintään 10 000.
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Tämä 11 kpl hiljennettyjä putkia lämmittää mieltä. Näin kun saisi joka päivä.
Medvedevin houreita sodan lopputuloksesta: koko Ukraina vallataan ja liitetään ryssälään, paitsi Kiovan seutu:
Dmitri Medvedev julkaisi kylmäävän kartan, jossa väittää Ukrainan kohtalon näkyvän: ”Todellisuudessa käy näin”
Dmitri Medvedev väittää, että Ukrainasta jää sodan päätteeksi jäljelle ainoastaan pieni, Kiovan kattava alue.www.is.fi
Russia's departure from the International Space Station (ISS) program isn't exactly imminent, it would seem.
On Tuesday (July 26), Yuri Borisov, the new head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, announced that the nation planned to leave the ISS consortium "after 2024."
That statement contains quite a bit of wiggle room, and it appears that Russia is going to take advantage of it. The nation intends to remain an ISS partner at least until its own space station is up and running, a milestone that's not expected until 2028 at the earliest, Reuters reported (opens in new tab) on Wednesday (July 27).
"We're not getting any indication at any working level that anything's changed," Lueders told Reuters. She described the human spaceflight relationship between NASA and Roscosmos as "business as usual."
"We, of course, need to continue operating the ISS until we create a more or less tangible backlog for ROSS," Solovyov said in the Roscosmos interview, as Reuters noted. (The Roscosmos piece is in Russian; translation provided by Google.) "We must take into account that if we stop manned flights for several years, then it will be very difficult to restore what has been achieved."
Juu hyvä kun spottasit nuo kaksi typoa; DPR jäänyt laskuista ja yksi nolla liikaa.
Tuo PMCiden määrän arviointi on hankalaa sinänsä, että kaikki lähteet ovat venäjäksi. Koetin kaivaa esille käyttämiäni lähteitä, mutta kuten jo tuossa postauksessani mainitsin, niin suuri osa painunut historiikin viidakkoon.
Lisäksi kukaan ei "virallisesti" pidä kirjaa PMC:iden tappioista.
Katso liite: 63898
Кто и как набирает добровольцев на военную спецоперацию на Украине
Как разные структуры, в том числе ЧВК Вагнера, набирают желающих принять участие в военной операции на Украине. Как их готовят, сколько платят и на решение каких задач ориентируют — разбирался РБКwww.rbc.ru
Tämä lähde kertoo siitä, että huhtikuussa Wagner (pelkkä wagner siis) olisi lähettänyt +8k itsessään, ja kärsinyt +3k tappiot.
https://ru.slovoidilo.ua/2022/04/21...teri-ukraine-ubity-3-tysyach-naemnikov-grozev
Tämä lähde puhuu noin 12k tappiosta PMCiden keskuudessa toissapäivältä.
https://www.currenttime.tv/a/romano...ye-zaverbovany-na-voynu-ukraine/31960111.html
Toinen telegrammikanava puhuu noin 11500:sta kuolleesta PMC:stä viimeviikolta:
Katso liite: 63899
Tuota tavaraa kyllä löytyy, mutta on aika shaibaa kahlata sitä läpi kun ei itse osaa edes kyrillisiä.
ps kävin korjaamassa typot ja linkkasin samalla tähän koska extra-listaus sourceja.
According to information published by the German Newspaper "WELT" on July 22, 2022, Ukraine would be interested in acquiring eleven German-made Iris-T SLM air defense missile systems which could be partly financed by Germany.
On June 1, 2022, the Army Recognition editorial team reported that Germany will provide Ukraine with the German-made IRIS-T air dense missile system manufactured by the company Diehl Defence.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Germany has always shown certain restraint in supplying offensive weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces, but in the case of the IRIS-T SLM, this weapon system is considered such as a defensive weapon that can be used to protect the city and people of Ukraine against aerial and missile attacks conducted by the Russian armed forces.
The IRIS-T SLM is a mobile surface-to-air defense missile system that was designed and developed by the German company Diehl BGT Defense. The missile can be used to counter and destroy aerial targets such as aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, guided weapons, air-to-surface missiles, anti-ship missiles, anti-radar rockets, and large-caliber rockets. It can be also used to destroy unmanned aerial vehicles at very short and medium-range distances.
The IRIS-T is a German-made short to a medium-range infrared homing air-to-air missile that was developed to intercept fast-moving and miniature targets, such as air-to-air/surface-to-air missiles and air-to-surface/surface-to-surface missiles and rockets, UAV/drones, and cruise missiles.