12 Russian soldiers killed, 10 injured.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1752780824834154918
According to RU air defense, 24 missiles were fired, 5 made it to the target.
Posted on 01/28/2024 7:12:54 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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(Russian forces on) “Crimea still getting hammered by cruise missiles right now.”
...as they should.
“(Reuters) - Hungarian opposition parties submitted a motion on Monday calling for an extraordinary session of parliament on Feb. 5 to ratify Sweden’s application to join NATO...
...But parliamentary speaker Laszlo Kover said there was no urgency for any extraordinary move to ratify Sweden’s NATO accession and suggested that opposition attempts at an extra session would be likely to fail.”
Back in normal session at the end of February.
Too bad that Orban is Putin’s bootlicker.
Belbek Crimea: Minus Su-30, 2 - Su-27.
I seem to remember many months ago that someone said, if the Moscovians were desperate, they would send in their AF and lose it. Seem to be what is happening now - in slow motion.
12 Russian soldiers killed, 10 injured.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1752780824834154918
According to RU air defense, 24 missiles were fired, 5 made it to the target.
also at
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Feeding that into my Russian to Truth translator/decoder, I get "6 missiles were fired, 5 of them struck their target".
The first MoD claim was that all missiles were shot down, and there was no damage. Then someone near the airfield posted the video of a missile striking Belbek, in a straight line with 2 other impacts, and heavy smoke rising from the area.
Sadly, France and UK don't have large enough inventories of these missiles to properly supply Ukraine. They should have thousands of them, not a few hundred. Same with Germany and the Taurus. ATACMS would help fill in the gap, at least for a while. But Europe needs to increase production of long range strike weapons, or they will have none for a larger conflict.
IMHO, that is lesson 1 from this war.
Algeria has been a big winner from Putin sacrificing Russia’s market share for natural gas/LNG - especially in terms of the percentage increase over its former sales. Boom town.
OilPrice .com reports on what used to be Russia’s market share for natural gas:
Europe’s Largest LNG Terminal Signs 10-Year Deal for Algerian Natural Gas.
“The UK’s Grain LNG, Europe’s largest liquefied natural gas terminal, signed on Wednesday a ten-year agreement that will extend the long-term storage and redelivery capacity of Algerian gas company Sonatrach at the Grain LNG terminal from January 2029.
Grain LNG, located on the Isle of Grain in Kent, is the biggest such terminal in Europe and the eighth largest in the world by tank capacity with a site that spans more than 600 acres in total.
National Grid’s Grain LNG is considered of strategic national importance to UK energy infrastructure and security of supply...
...Grain LNG is currently being expanded to store and deliver enough gas to meet up to 33% of UK gas demand.
The UK has recently seen a significant rise in LNG imports as Europe has diversified its LNG sources.
Elsewhere in Europe, Italy’s energy major Eni has been increasingly betting on Africa (Algeria) to import large volumes of pipeline gas and LNG to replace pipeline gas supply from Russia, which was Europe’s top gas supplier before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Eni has been particularly active in securing more natural gas supply for Europe from Africa and has fast-tracked projects in Africa to meet Europe’s gas demand in the absence of Russian pipeline deliveries.”
Though I agree, what is missing is overall air superiority, if Ukraine or moskava had it, missiles would not be as important
Communist Chinese economy hitting the rocks - Evergrande declared insolvent, and emergency measures underway to shore up the stock market and currency.
Seeking Alpha reports: China stocks end at five-year low as rescue bets fade amid macro concerns.
“The selloff in mainland Chinese stocks continued on Wednesday, with the benchmark CSI 300 index (SHSZ300) closing down 0.9% at a five-year low of 3,215.35, as weak manufacturing data renewed concerns over the economy.”
Reuters reports: State-backed ‘national team’ of investors piles in to support China stocks
“A rescue operation is underway in China’s equity markets with large and unusual flows into blue-chip funds suggesting a plunge by state-backed investors... analysts say the purchasing pattern points to the so-called “national team” of state-backed investors, several of whom have said recently they have turned buyers...
...Goldman Sachs defines the “national team” as government-related entities that hold domestic equities on behalf of the state. It formed in response to a market crash in 2015 and includes investors such as Central Huijin and the China Securities Finance Corp.
Analysts expect state-sanctioned stock buying can only do so much and fundamental problems such as oversupply and a lack of confidence in property ownership must be rectified to improve things.”
Reuters reports: China’s Major State Banks Defend Yuan as Stock Markets Slide
“China’s major state-owned banks were heavy sellers of dollars on Wednesday, three people with direct knowledge of their activity said, steadying the yuan as it came under pressure in currency trade as the economy remains shaky.
State banks often act on behalf of China’s central bank in the foreign exchange market...
...The state bank actions come as the yuan faces renewed downside pressure from foreigners’ rush out of China’s sinking equity markets and a globally resurgent U.S. dollar...
...Investors are gloomy about China’s growth prospects, frustrated at the lack of a large-scale rescue for the embattled property sector and exhausted by several years of underperformance.”
Kyiv Independent reports: House Speaker Johnson says Ukraine aid, border deal likely to be split
“Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, reportedly told the three leaders of Baltic parliaments that President Biden’s national security proposal that combines aid for Ukraine with border policy reform would likely be split up.
The decision, Johnson stated, would ultimately come down to the border language in the bill presented by Senate negotiators.”
Sweden and France will increase their cooperation in the fielding of anti-tank and anti-air capabilities, as part of a new strategic agreement signed this week, which will involve their defense giants Saab and MBDA.
AFP (French) reports: Europe Must Get ‘Organised’ in Case US Cuts Kyiv Aid: Macron
“French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday called on European countries to back Ukraine “over the long term” and get ready in case Washington decides to stop supporting the war-torn country...
...”We must organise ourselves in such a way that if the United States were to make a sovereign choice to stop or reduce this aid, it should have no impact on the ground”, he told reporters in Stockholm, alongside Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
“We Europeans must continue to support the Ukrainian people,” Macron said, stressing that Ukraine was a European country.
“This is first and foremost our problem,” he added.
“We have a strategic objective: Russia cannot win.”
...France is working on a new bilateral security agreement with Ukraine — along the lines of a pact agreed between Kyiv and London — that would be announced during Macron’s trip to Kyiv next month.”
The Telegraph (UK) reports: Ukraine launches massive Storm Shadow missile attack on Crimea.
“Ukraine launched a massive missile barrage against four Russian military positions in occupied Crimea on Wednesday (31 Jan)...
...The Ukrainian air force’s involvement indicated that British Storm Shadow missiles fired from Kyiv’s jets were used in the raid.
It came a day after Ukrainian forces struck a radar station used by air defence systems (near the village of Rozdolne) in north-western Crimea.
Explosions and active surface-to-air interceptors were reported in the major port city of Sevastopol and the nearby military airfield of Belbek...
...“Some time in the early spring, Russia’s offensive will be completely exhausted,” Kyrylo Budanov, head of the HUR military intelligence agency, said on Ukrainian television.
“We make a move, the enemy makes a move. Now is the enemy’s turn. It will end, and then ours will start,” he added.”
More sanctions to commemorate the anniversary.
(Reuters) - The European Commission will start informal high-level meetings with member states on Saturday on the details of a proposed new set of sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, three diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
The EU is keen to put a 13th package of measures together to mark the second anniversary of the war on Feb. 24.
The discussions that begin on Saturday are a final step before the Commission officially delivers a new package to be debated and voted on by EU countries in the Council.
The proposal is expected to focus on closing more loopholes on circumvention, especially for items that can be used on the battlefield, as well as a number of new listings on individuals and entities. One source added that some minor sectoral measures such as new import bans were also likely.”
Orban on the hot seat tomorrow.
“EU leaders will grapple with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a crunch summit meeting Thursday (1 Feb) to try to overcome his veto on 50 billion euros in financial aid for Ukraine.” (AFP reported)
ISW reports (31 Jan):
“The European Union (EU) will reportedly fall short of its promise to provide Ukraine with one million artillery shells by March 1, 2024, as European leaders call on EU member states to intensify deliveries of ammunition to Ukraine.
Bloomberg reported on January 31 that Western diplomats stated that EU partners will only deliver 600,000 artillery shells to Ukraine by the March 1, 2024 deadline.
European Union (EU) Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton stated on January 20 that the EU will have the capacity to produce one million shells per year by March or April 2024 and will ensure that it delivers the “majority” of the shells to Ukraine.”
by Warriors of the special unit "Group 13" of the Defence intelligence of Ukraine
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