Paul A Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 NATO chief visits Finland as it pushes to join alliance I DW News DW News 4.48M subscribers Mar 1, 2023 Finland's parliament is holding a final debate on a bill aimed at speeding up the country's application for NATO membership. The debate coincides with a visit to Helsinki from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Speaking alongside Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, he said now is the time to allow both Finland and Sweden to join the alliance. Two NATO members, Turkey and Hungary, are still standing in the way of these memberships. As DW's Teri Schultz reports, Turkey's opposition is causing the most concern. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 Russian A-50 Blown Up In Belarus Airfield? Why This May Be A Big Setback To Putin Amid Ukraine War CRUX 1.72M subscribers Feb 28, 2023 807,585 views ______________________________________________________ Pro-Ukrainian drone 'lands on dome' of Russian £274M spy plane before explosions damage aircraft The Sun 3.73M subscribers 288,472 views Mar 4, 2023 Dramatic video appears to show the moment an audacious pro-Ukrainian sabotage team flew two drones up close to a £274 million Russian Beriev A-50U spy plane before allegedly causing it severe damage. Extraordinary footage shows a lack of airfield defences in Belarus as the small drones were able to get close to the fibreglass dome of the aircraft, housing the rotating antenna of the powerful Shmel radar complex. One drone even lands on the dome before taking off again during a reconnaissance mission. Another drone reconnoitres the Putin A-50U before the screen suddenly goes blank. It is not clear if this is the moment of detonation, and if so, the scale of any explosion. The footage is from Machulishchi military base, near Minsk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 Aussie company SYPAQ develops cardboard drones for defence of Ukraine | 7NEWS 7NEWS Australia 977K subscribers 30,191 views Mar 3, 2023 An Aussie company is playing a unique role in the defence of Ukraine. SYPAQ has developed disposable drones made of cardboard, now used by soldiers for spying, supply drops and lethal missions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 G20 audience laugh at Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov for Ukraine war claims The Telegraph 3.49M subscribers 22,117 views Mar 5, 2023 The Russian foreign minister was laughed at after saying the war in Ukraine was "launched against us". Sergei Lavrov said Russia was trying to stop the war whilst speaking to a conference audience in Delhi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Russian troops refuse to obey orders in Ukraine: 'It's complete b******t' The Telegraph 3.5M subscribers Mar 9, 2023 Russian soldiers released a video stating they are refusing to obey commands from superiors. Russia's Wagner Group has claimed to have taken "all the eastern part" of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian town where fighting has raged for weeks. Pressure has been mounting on Ukrainian troops trying to hold the town against Russian soldiers hoping to capture it no matter the cost. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner chief and Kremlin ally, said in an audio message released by his press service that "Wagner units have taken all the eastern part of Bakhmut, all that's east of the Bakhmutka river" which bisects the town. Ukraine has not yet commented, but president Volodymyr Zelensky has said the army is intent on defending Bakhmut and warned that Russians would have an "open road" into eastern Ukraine if the town was captured. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 'I'd rather be in prison' - Russian soldiers turn mutinous on their commanders The Telegraph Mar 11, 2023 Russians sent to fight on the front lines are mutinying, fighting amongst themselves, getting locked in basements and lost in the chaos of a faltering offensive, a flurry of videos and messages from inside Vladimir Putin's army show. Recently mobilised soldiers are refusing orders to face "certain death" by joining "human wave" attacks that they say are destroying entire units at a time. Some are appealing directly to Mr Putin in desperate videos, while others are standing up to Kremlin officials sent to quell the rebellion. Reports are emerging of fighters being locked underground for declining to become targets in the "shooting range" that has become the front line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 (edited) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/16/poland-fighter-jets-ukraine/ Washington Post March 16, 2022 Poland says it will be first NATO country to give fighter jets to Ukraine WARSAW — Poland will deliver an initial batch of four Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday, ramping up pressure on other NATO allies to make similar commitments. The planes are in “full working order” and will be delivered in “the next few days,” Duda said at a news conference in Warsaw alongside his Czech counterpart, Petr Pavel. The delivery would mark the first time any of Ukraine’s NATO allies have delivered jets. “We are literally sending these MiGs to Ukraine at this moment,” he said. Ukraine already has its own MiG-29s, meaning that Ukrainian pilots will be able to fly them without additional training, Duda said. In February, Britain announced that it would begin training Ukrainian pilots on fighter jets used by NATO. Both British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron have said they have not ruled out contributing fighter jets to Ukraine, but they suggested that nothing would be immediate. Edited March 16, 2023 by Paul A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Slovakia follows Poland to pledge MIG-29 jets to Ukraine | DW News DW News 4.51M subscribers Mar 18, 2023 The Slovak government approved sending 13 MIG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Friday, stepping up its military assistance to Kyiv in its fight against the Russian invasion. Slovakia is the second country to send war planes to Kyiv after Poland, which announced on Thursday it would do so. Its fleet of MiG-29 planes was retired last summer, and most of them are not in operational condition. It will send those that are operational, and the rest will go for spare parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 What keeps Erdogan from ratifying Sweden’s NATO application? | DW News DW News 4.51M subscribers Mar 18, 2023 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would start the process of ratifying Finland's NATO membership bid in parliament, saying that the country had taken "sincere and concrete steps" to allay Turkey's concerns about Finland hosting Kurds and other opposition forces who fled Turkey. The breakthrough came as Finnish President Sauli Niinisto was in Ankara to meet with Erdogan and 10 months after both Finland and Sweden applied to become NATO members in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, having remained neutral throughout the Cold War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 Norway says it has sent eight Leopard tanks to Ukraine The Sun 3.84M subscribers Mar 23, 2023 Eight German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks which Norway pledged to Ukraine have now been received by Kyiv, the Norwegian armed forces has announced. Footage released by the Norwegian military on Wednesday (March 22) showed a Leopard 2A4 tank being transported by road to an undisclosed location on an undisclosed date, before being loaded onto an Antonov transport plane along with munitions and an armoured support vehicle. Other NATO countries, including Germany, Poland and Portugal said they would deliver a total of 48 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Norway, which shares a border with Russia in the Arctic, had 36 Leopard 2 tanks in total. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 Pentagon: M1 Abrams Tanks to arrive in Ukraine by Fall Associated Press Mar 22, 2023 Pentagon: M1 Abrams Tanks to arrive in Ukraine by Fall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/30/world/russia-ukraine-news March 31, 2023 Finland Clears Last Hurdle to Join NATO, Reshaping Balance of Power Turkey’s Parliament approved Finland’s bid to join NATO, its final hurdle to membership in the military alliance. Here is what we’re covering: Finland’s accession to NATO is a diplomatic and strategic setback for Russia Adding Finland is ‘a huge plus,’ NATO’s former top military commander says. Finland’s last steps to join NATO are just paperwork. Sweden’s bid to join NATO remains blocked by Turkey and Hungary. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 Russian pro-war blogger killed in St Petersburg cafe blast Guardian News Apr 3, 2023 Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, was one of the country’s most influential military bloggers and had more than 560,000 followers on Telegram. More than 30 people were wounded in the explosion on Sunday. According to reports, a bomb was hidden in a statue presented to Tatarsky in a box as a gift during a public meeting. Russia’s Interfax news agency reported that a St Petersburg woman, Daria Trepova, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the bombing. It said that she had been previously detained for taking part in anti-war rallies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mrelwood Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 4 hours ago, DanCar said: Should we do a fund raiser and get him a bigger wheel? Absolutely! I think Sherman S or Patton should fit perfectly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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