Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Word is that it was transporting ammunition and drones. Big secondary explosion after it burned a few minutes fits.

 

Russia-Ukraine war live: At least 13 killed and 18 injured as Moscow launches wave of missile strikes across Ukraine

The death toll from Russia’s missile attack on Ukraine has risen to 13, according to the Associated Press.

Scores of people were injured and an unknown number were buried under rubble during the roughly 18-hour onslaught, Ukrainian officials said. The death toll could rise as rescue efforts continue.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/01/ukraine-russia-congress-aid/

The Soviet Union designed the S-300, a mobile, surface-to-air defense weapons system, during the Cold War to hit incoming U.S. bombers or ballistic missiles. An S-300 can fire a projectile with a 293-pound high-explosive warhead, capable of stopping targets moving at more than 2,600 miles per hour. On Friday, Russia unleashed 14 of these deadly devices, not defensively against airplanes or missiles, but offensively at cities in Ukraine. They were part of a wave of missiles and drones that marked the largest one-day aerial attack on Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion 22 months ago.

 

Ukraine figured out how to use tanks. Russia didn’t.

Russia failed to realize a crucial element of its tank strategy was failing, an expert told Business Insider.

The error caused it huge losses — and is all the more striking because Ukraine had already made the same mistake, only to quick fix it.

The tactic in question was deploying tanks in large groups — an armored column — in the hope of smashing through enemy lines.

Riley Bailey, a Russia analyst at the Institute for the Study of War think tank, said the Russian side took much longer to realize this and stop doing it than the Ukrainians did.

Both sides, Bailey said, found that "attacking prepared positions with armored vehicles, specifically in columns of armored vehicles" has failed.

Both nations have powerful weapons that can counter such advances, leaving the tanks destroyed.

The columns are especially easy to thwart because it's obvious when an attack is coming — flat, open ground leaves few places to hide, and drones are constantly watching.

But while Ukraine quickly changed its tactics to stop using columns, Russia took much longer to do so.

It was particularly evident, Bailey said, in Russia's intense push to capture the town of Avdiivka.​

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To me that's just the latest sign that Russia is starting to scrape the bottom of its arsenal barrel. If Ukraine can hold out for one more year till this Congress changes, they'll go through the Russia army like shit through a goose.

 

Can't say the Ukrainians aren't dedicated.

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Pentagon goes to Ukraine ally meeting with no money in hand after Congress fails to act—but NATO has a $1.2 billion deal

 

According to Semafor, Mitch McConnell told Senate Republicans today that since Trump is the nominee, all action on a possible Ukraine aid/immigration deal must stop because "Trump wants to run on immigration." If Ukraine sent commandos over here to start taking out Republicans starting with the nominee, I wouldn't approve, but I'd sure understand.

 

I would approve.

 

Hungary’s Orban backs Sweden’s NATO bid, potentially removing last hurdle to accession | CNN

 

Kick Hungary out of NATO already.