One Hundred Million Ukrainian Tanks Destroyed!
Posted on 01/12/2024 7:03:08 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
And how do you know this?
Round 2 in Yemen now.
Interesting development. The 10 bombers just landed unexpectedly at a different base. Might be issue with the heating.
Weird things happening at Olenya airbase now. Russia trying to land 10-11 strategic bombers at the base that already has 10 strategic bombers parked there. There’s no normal reason for them to have 20+ bombers at one base.
Could be EW. Now reports the bombers didn’t land and are continuing to the cruise missile launch lines.
One possible reason is air defense resources.
I believe the ruzzia's long range SAMs (S300, S400, S500) are not effective against drones.
The most effective system against drone is radar guided AAA, such as Flakpanzer Gepard, which are short range systems.
It could take 20 to 30 of these to protect an entire airfield.
Perhaps ruzzia believes it is better to park all the bombers at one base then station all of their radar guided AAA at that base.
“According to the Russian Defense Ministry, since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed a total of 567 Ukrainian warplanes, 265 helicopters...”
...Out of the 201 that were in the Ukrainian Air Force, which included their jets, helicopters and training aircraft.
13 Tu-95Ms on their way to the launch lines. Cruise missile launches expected in about 1 hour or so. No Iranian drone attacks in advance to draw out Ukrainian air defenses this time. No MiGs with Kinzhals in the air yet.
“No Big Russia Offensive in Ukraine in 2024, Igor Girkin Predicts”
Newsweek reports:
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine is developing in “a very bad way,” but a “broad offensive” is no longer planned in the spring or summer, former Russian military commander Igor Girkin has predicted.
Writing in a letter from his prison cell, which was published on his personal Telegram account on Thursday, the Russian nationalist—who has been highly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s handling of the war—suggested his nation’s forces would be short of men needed to mount any large-scale attacks until mobilizations restarted.
“There will be no mobilization yet—until the ‘elections’ for sure,” he wrote in Russian. “They will try to patch up ‘holes in the ranks’ and new units at the expense of prisoners and contract soldiers.”
Girkin, who also goes by Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, added: “In turn, means that in the spring we will have no one and nothing with which to attack (and if mobilization is not carried out in the spring, then there will be no one in the summer).””
X-101/555/55 cruise missiles launched towards Ukraine from over the Caspian Sea.
Do you believe these numbers, if so what is Ukraine fighting with
Tanks lost almost equals total Muscovite tanks stored land active
Russians launch Shahed UAVs from northern Ukraine
TETYANA OLIYNYK — FRIDAY, 12 JANUARY 2024, 22:41
“Russian forces launched Shahed-type drones from the north of Ukraine on the evening of 12 January.
Source: Ukraine’s Air Force on Telegram
Quote: “Shahed UAVs recorded flying through Sumy Oblast in the direction of Chernihiv Oblast.”
At 22:01, the air-raid warning was also issued in Poltava Oblast.
At 22:35, the Air Force reported that Myrhorod is under threat as well.
At 22:41, the air-raid warning was issued in Kyiv Oblast.
At 22:48, the military spotted a missile moving towards Okhtyrky, Sumy Oblast.
Background: On the evening of 12 January, an air-raid warning was issued in a number of oblasts of the country. In addition, Ukraine’s Air Force reported the take-off of a Russian Tu-22m3 bomber from Shaykovka air base (Kaluga Oblast).”
Cruise missiles to enter Ukrainian air space in 30 minutes.
One Hundred Million Ukrainian Tanks Destroyed!
Kyiv in 3 days! Bring your parade uniforms!
...until Ukraine joins NATO...
ISW reports (12 Jan):
“Ukraine and the United Kingdom (UK) signed an agreement on bilateral security guarantees pursuant to the G7’s July 2023 joint declaration of support for Ukraine. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on January 12 and signed the UK-Ukraine Agreement on Security Cooperation.
The agreement covers joint efforts supporting Ukraine’s future accession to NATO, including comprehensive assistance to Ukraine to protect and restore its territorial integrity, preventing new Russian aggression against Ukraine, and supporting Ukraine’s integration into certain Western institutions.
The agreement also states that the UK government will work with its domestic defense industrial base (DIB) to help develop Ukraine’s own DIB.
The UK is the first country to sign a final agreement with Ukraine on the basis of the G7’s July 2023 joint declaration of support for Ukraine, and at least 24 non-G7 countries have joined the declaration.” (The USA has been engaged in talks with Ukraine on a similar agreement)
Surrender Putin and your war monger Muscovites
Wish list for when the new US funding is approved?
Reuters reports:
“Ukraine’s ground forces commander said on Friday (12 Jan) that Kyiv needed more military aircraft for its war effort, such as U.S. A-10 attack jets to support infantry and planes that could fire long-range cruise missiles...
...”It is for destroying land-based targets: tanks, artillery ... everything that counters the infantry,” he said.
Sirskyi added that attack helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache and AH-1 Super Cobra, as well as the UH-60 Black Hawk, could also play an important role...
...Despite near-stalemate along a frontline some 1,000 km (620 miles) long, Syrskyi, who oversaw the defence of Kyiv in early 2022 and Ukraine’s lightning counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region later that year, said future breakthroughs were still possible.”
“In Sign of Solidarity, New French Foreign Minister Heads to Ukraine”
Reuters reports:
“France’s newly-appointed Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne is on his way to Ukraine, his first official trip, three diplomatic sources said on Friday, as Paris looks to reassure Kyiv of its support as the war with Russia nears its second anniversary...
...”It’s a positive signal that he has made Kyiv his priority so soon in taking his position,” said one diplomat...
...France is working to complete a bilateral security guarantee accord with Ukraine at the start of this year to help boost its finances and defences against Russia with a view to deterring Moscow from future aggression.”
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