"23 March 2023, Vice Admiral Dan Dwyer, Commander JFC Norfolk welcomed General Timo Kivinen, @Finnchod (Finnish MoD) and his delegation for discussions on #Transatlantic & #Arctic security." Finland has some serious backup now:
Posted on 03/23/2023 7:24:22 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
@bayraktar_1love 7h
A fire is reported on the territory of the Yaroslavl Motor Plant in Russia, before the fire there were reports of an explosion. - Russian media.
P.S: The plant manufactures engines that are used in many types of Russian military equipment.
@NOELreports 27m
The US will supply Ukraine with Abrams tanks from its stocks, and not produce them, as previously announced, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin clarified.
Energy markets remade
“The Golar Tundra, bought by Snam in 2022, is the latest result of Italy’s energy diversification effort. Starting in May, the unit will regasify 5 billion cubic metres of LNG annually. That’s on top of increased supplies via pipeline and another incoming regasification unit, which will allow Italy to do away with Russian imports “by year’s end”
Permission to dock. On Sunday night, the Golar Tundra finally arrived in the port of Piombino, where it will help Italy diversify further away from Russian gas. The $350 million floating regasification unit (FRSU), bought by Italian energy company Snam in 2022, can regasify up to 5 billion cubic metres of liquefied gas (LNG) per year.
This new LNG terminal, Italy’s fourth overall, will only be fully operational in May, upon completion of the connections with the national grid’s methane pipeline hub.
Not so Russian anymore. Another Snam-operated FRSU, BW Singapore, is expected to dock in the Adriatic port of Ravenna and become operational in 2024. Together, the two FRSUs are projected to convey 13% of Italy’s gas needs. That’s on top of increased supplies via gas duct from non-Russian sources, thanks to the energy security push initiated by former Prime Minister Mario Draghi and continued under his successor Giorgia Meloni.
Enterprise Minister Adolfo Urso said that these efforts are on track to allow Italy “to free itself completely from dependence on Russian gas by the end of this year.” When the second FRSU becomes operational, he explained, “we will completely zero our dependence.”
Russian gas amounted to 40% of Italy’s imports in 2021; it was slashed to 16% in 2022.
“With these ships, we will complete our autonomy, also thanks to the agreements made with Algeria,” as well as “the doubling of the TAP gas duct from Azerbaijan,” the reopening “of the historic gas pipeline from Libya,” and the gas “that will be able to arrive from the eastern Mediterranean.””
“Interestingly, Slovakia seems to have flown its MiGs directly to #Ukraine, rather than crating them up and surreptitiously trucking them over the border. So much for Russian red lines...”
https://twitter.com/GarethJennings3/status/1638961028699398147
“So much for Russian red lines...”
More and more leaders will follow Xi’s lead, and give Putin the kind of short shrift they have for their hired help.
He is making Russia inconsequential at breakneck speed.
It is going to be humiliating.
““Interestingly, Slovakia seems to have flown its MiGs directly to #Ukraine”
@visegrad24 1h
Another 9 will be sent soon.
"23 March 2023, Vice Admiral Dan Dwyer, Commander JFC Norfolk welcomed General Timo Kivinen, @Finnchod (Finnish MoD) and his delegation for discussions on #Transatlantic & #Arctic security." Finland has some serious backup now:
@NOELreports 1h
“”Ukraine is preparing a powerful counteroffensive that will shock the whole world,” said Dan Rice, adviser to the Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhnyi. Rice is an American combat veteran who last spring was appointed special adviser to the Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi.”
“Shock the whole world.”
(Desert) Storm on the Steppe...
But first, Shock and Awe Artillery and Air prep.
@visegrad24 4h
It’s poetic justice that the former Warsaw Pact states, from Estonia in the north to Bulgaria in the south, are now turning their full Soviet-era weapon arsenals against the Kremlin.
They were built to be used against the West, but Moscow became their end target.
@Tatarradio Mar 21 1992 елның 21 мартында Татарстан халкы халыкара хокук предметы буларак Татарстан Республикасы суверенлыгы буенча референдумда катнашты. Сайлаучыларның гомуми катнашуы 82% тәшкил итте, 61,4% ризалык тавышын бирде.
(On March 21, 1992, the people of Tatarstan participated in a referendum on the sovereignty of the Republic of Tatarstan as a subject of international law. The overall voter turnout was 82%, with 61.4% voting yes.)
It is official, winter is over. This means that Russia's long awaited winter offensive came and went and was smashed by Ukraine's defenses. The map on the left is 3 months ago (12/21) and the map on the right is today (3/21). Russia's military is just incompetent.
@ChuckPfarrer 5h
OFFENSIVE? UKR General Oleksandr Syrsky says that Kyiv will launch a long-awaited counterassault “very soon” now that Russia’s winter offensive has lost steam. Sources report that RU continues to lose men and materiel in fruitless assaults on Bakhmut.
https://msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-says-russias-bakhmut-assault-loses-steam-counterstrike-coming-soon/ar-AA18YRqF
Interesting point a bit of karma for sure
The fact that a lot of Soviet manufacturing was in Ukraine can’t be discounted as well
Russian bloggers say there was no offensive lol
I am sure Macgregor says it coming next week and will sweep to Berlin
Guaranteed this time for sure no really seriously this time guys….
I believe that some of the Soviet nuclear weapons were made in Ukraine.
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