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First F16 down. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0532n9pdko.amp

One source of information I follow on Ukraine is Willy OAM, an aussie soldier with an inoperable brain tumour who served in Afghanistan and volunteered in Ukraine. Now back home he reports on the war through his Telegram and YT channels. Though he’s in principle pro Ukraine given that he fought on their side, his reporting is most definitely neutral, showing successes and failures of both sides as they happen. In addition, he’s got a wealth of contacts in other foreign volunteer fighters there on the ground. He sifts through all Telegram channels, war mappers,… and does an excellent job distinguishing fact from fiction. All the other channels on Telegram and YT are biased and in effect propaganda. The pro Russian channels only report Russian successes and Ukrainians striking civilian targets and vice versa for the pro Ukrainian channels. Willy OAM is the place to be if you want to have a rough idea of what’s really happening in this war. That and Redditt.

Looking like commanders are retreating in Donetsk - makes a lot of sense why die needlessly if you are overwhelmed and have lost you best units to Kursk, and the war may finally be coming to some sort of conclusion. The land is broken, the remaining inhabitants are likely pro-Russian , have an armistice - allow both sides to beleive they have won, then build massiven defeces and re-arm. It works both ways. But to the last Ukrainian isn't a policy. Ukaraine can hold it's head up high they haven't lost morally and they have forged a new albeit smaller nation state and the world can move on and best of all the killing stops and we can go back to discussing the cheapest beer and breakfasts in Pattaya.I'm afraid this isn't the Lord of the Rings and Sauron doen't die or at least not yet.

Et tu David ? David Axe has turned....reports talk of postions held since 2014 have been overun without hardly any opposition.Kursk is increasingly looking like the reckless gamble of a player who is nearly out of chips. Zelenskiy is screaming for help but his 'allies' plod on with their own agendas with problems of their own at home. The point is Russia has a lot of land they're willing to give up, which they did in WW2 to survive it, forcing the Germans to maintain long, costly supply lines. They evacuated the citizens in Kursk and stopped the incursion's progress for the last week. They'll probably take the land back, but they're not in a big rush to do so. NATO never wanted Ukraine to win it was just showing Russia how a costly a future war would be like. Anything more came as a bonus.They will in the background suing for peace not escalation. Trump or Harris - will be the same. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/08/28/if-ukraines-invasion-of-russias-kursk-oblast-was-a-diversion-it-has-failed/ One generous reading of Ukrainian strategy in Kursk is that the invasion was meant to draw Russian regiments away from the east, relieving the pressure on Pokrovsk. In that sense, the invasion of Kursk may have been a diversion. If so, it failed. “The offensive in the Kursk region not only failed to prompt the redeployment of some Russian forces from Donetsk, but also exacerbated the shortage of [Ukrainian] personnel in the region,” the pro-Ukraine Conflict Intelligence Team concluded. Instead of rushing its best troops into Kursk to blunt the Ukrainian advance, the Kremlin scraped together a motley counter-invasion force, including many young and poorly trained conscripts. These reinforcements have slowed but not halted the Ukrainian invasion. More importantly for Russian strategy, they’ve allowed the Kremlin to keep its eastern forces intact.

Ukraine’s Deep Strikes Into Russia Hitting Faraway Targets Will Not Tip the Balance of the War. To be a game changer, Ukraine would need to combine these strikes with tightly coordinated ground maneuver on a scale that its forces have been unable to master so far in this war.-FOREIGN AFFAIRS https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/false-promise-ukraines-deep-strikes-russia With that in mind, Kyiv’s partners should now ask whether the modest military benefits are worth the escalatory risk. The answer will turn on assessments of the likelihood of expanding the conflict and on the risk tolerance of Western governments and publics. The latter is ultimately a value judgment; military analysis alone cannot dictate where to draw the line. What it can do is forecast the battlefield consequences of policy decisions. If the West lifts its restraints on Ukrainian deep strike capability, the consequences are unlikely to include a decisive change in the trajectory of the war

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-economy-shows-solid-growth-despite-ukraine-war-sanctions-2024-08-28/ MOSCOW, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The Russian economy has shown solid growth in many sectors while unemployment remains at a record low, new data showed on Wednesday, prompting officials to hint at a brighter outlook for the year despite Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine. Driven by military production, industrial output rose by 3.3% in July compared with a 2.7% increase the previous month, and by 4.8% since the start of the year, compared with 3.1% growth in the same period in 2023. A preliminary estimate for gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the first half of the year stood at 4.6%, compared with 1.8% for the same period last year.

An eye for an eye will leave everyone blind.

https://archive.is/U7mCW Zelensky says Kursk offensive is collateral in a victory plan Zelensky’s peace plans have often seemed overly ambitious. Last year’s ten-point proposal demanded that Putin withdraw from all Ukrainian territory and reaffirm Ukraine’s borders. These terms were unrealistic given Kyiv had no major victories on the frontline since the liberation of the Kharkiv region and Kherson in 2022. With so few details available on Zelensky’s new plan, its practicality remains uncertain. But even if Zelensky’s plan is rejected in Washington, allies will have to rethink their vague commitment to support Ukraine ‘as long as it takes’ – or the war will go on forever. Svitlana Morenets is a Ukrainian journalist and a staff writer at The Spectator. She was named Young Journalist of the Year in the 2024 UK Press Awards

This thread is sort of pointless - you have an agenda for sure but attempting to discredit a whole country for the whole of their history isn't really on. Last time I looked Thailand had only invented Som Tam but I assume you live there. You would be better off helping the Ukarainian supporters on the war threads and attacking Putin not the country.Also if we accept that catastrophic climate change is coming down the tracks at a rate of knots the most technologically advanced share the majority of the blame - so backwards Russia is less to blame that good old Uncle Sam who uses about 25% of the world's resources with 5% of the world's population.

That was Google Gemini AI I suggest you take it up with them !

Julian Ropcke Defence Corrrespondent for Der Bild and uber all in Ukrainiain supporter is one of the brave souls that calls it as he sees it. You won't ever see this on the r/Ukraine sub. Either that or he is a deep cover Putin shill - he is German after all. The subtext of his honesty is I think the same as Zelesnkiy cries - things are desperate we need our allies to go all in or at least stop handcuffing the use of high tech weaponery to strike deep within Russia or Ukraine will lose the war.

It is not a court of law. Their job is to help lead to shape the narrative - which in the UK's case is following US foreign policy in lock step.

We're in shovels territory once again literally unbeleivable propaganda. Pilots - the airfields can resupply fuel and ordnance but water is off-limits. I don't beleive I've just watched this. Apparently we were incapable of supplying our land forces in the Falklands War with drinking water outside of the beachheads. Diarrhoea was rampant. We learned quite a few lessons from that - not least of which was it doesn't stop you winning.

Russia is dropping 750 FABs a week according to Zelensky - New York Times https://archive.is/95iuG A 152-millimeter artillery shell — which Russia fires by the thousands every day — contains a bit more than 13 pounds of explosive material. A commonly deployed glide bomb, the FAB-1500, is packed with more than 1,300 pounds of explosives. Since the bombs do not use propulsion or give off a detectable heat signature, they are hard to spot. They can be launched from Russian warplanes dozens of miles behind the front lines, relatively safe from Ukrainian air defenses. When Russian planes fly closer the front, soldiers said, they are protected by Russian surveillance and attack drones that saturate the skies, searching for Ukrainian soldiers armed with portable antiaircraft missile systems.

I'm a massive fox lover I feed and take care of them in the UK - they are shy and paranoid creatures rightly so around humans but are more intelligent than cats or dogs.. They helped to breed friendly foxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist) His decades-long effort to breed domesticated silver foxes was described by The New York Times as “arguably the most extraordinary breeding experiment ever conducted.”[1] A 2010 article in Scientific American stated that Belyayev “may be the man most responsible for our understanding of the process by which wolves were domesticated into our canine companion

A Brief Overview of Russian Inventions Russia has a long history of scientific and technological innovation. Here are a few notable Russian inventions: Transportation and Technology Helicopter: Igor Sikorsky is credited with inventing the modern helicopter. Radio: Alexander Popov is often considered one of the pioneers of radio technology. Rocketry: Russian scientists and engineers played a crucial role in the development of rocket technology, including the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. Tank: While the exact origin of the tank is debated, Russia's Tsar Nicholas II is often associated with early tank development. Science and Medicine Periodic Table: Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table of elements. Vitamin 😄 Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov, a Russian surgeon, is credited with isolating vitamin C. Stem Cell Research: Russia has made significant contributions to the field of stem cell research. Other Notable Inventions AK-47 Assault Rifle: The AK-47 is a widely used assault rifle designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. Matryoshka Dolls: These iconic nesting dolls originated in Russia. Tsar Bomba: The world's most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated was designed and tested by the Soviet Union. Trotsky - my avatar.

This is the non-nuclear nuclear option warning that Putin sent to Ukraine yesterday. There is some dispute whether that is possible. https://www.newsweek.com/kyiv-dam-hydroelectric-power-plant-russia-missile-1944417 Sergej Sumlenny, founder of the European Resilience Initiative Center, a German think tank, said on X that the Kyiv dam holds 3.7 billion tons of water. "So a breach of Kyiv dam would kill thousands of civilians in Kyiv and nearby towns. Russia must be stopped by force. Now," he wrote. Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council's Center for Countering Disinformation, confirmed the strike but said that "destroying [the dam] with missiles is impossible."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/27/pokrovsk-quickly-packs-up-russian-invaders-close-in Though Maryna is sure she is doing the right thing, it is not easy to give up what you know – “I just feel pain,” she says – and she worries that many other local people have not decided to quit. “Still a lot of people are staying, and they do not understand they could die. It is too dangerous, especially if you have children.” It is not clear what life awaits them in Rivne, where they will be received as displaced people.

Never forget the Russians can inflict and take ruthless. staggering amounts of casulaties and pain that we can only have nightmares about and they don't flinch. Stalin died as a result of natural causes Putin will no dount go the same way. Putin will soon turn his war machine on Britain The Kremlin holds us responsible for its failures and will, at some point, attempt to exact its revenge Ben Wallace https://archive.is/Y3BwI As I left I remember commenting to General Gerasimov that I was struck by how his military doctrine had “swapped mass for readiness and mobilisation”. At that moment another General leaned over to add: “and ruthless intimidation”. The mask had slipped. Most telling of all was the comment from General Gerasimov to me in the hallway. “Never again will we be humiliated. We used to be the fourth army in the world, now we are the first or second. It is us and the Americans.”

Massive Russian strikes hit Ukraine for second day - BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg1lpe26ylo The latest attacks are being seen as an attempt by Moscow to reassert its control over the conflict after Ukraine's recent gains of territory in Russia's Kursk region. Russia has been targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure since early on in its full-scale invasion, which began in February 2022. In recent months it has renewed its campaign of attacks on the power grid, causing frequent blackouts across the country.

Medevev apart from being a nototious alcoholic is taken seriously by literally no-one.

With today’s strikes, Russia is intending to bring ordinary people in Ukraine back down to earth with a bump – reminding them, and politicians in western capitals, that the Kremlin still has the upper hand in this war - BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg58p0d55dt The message from Moscow: make no mistake, Russia can still inflict misery on the Ukrainian population whenever it chooses.

As ever the superb Gideon Rachman calls it straight - I had the privilege to hear him speak live earlier this year and there is no better journalist alive today. Unfortunately for Z he doen't get the free pass that Israel gets and felt it at it's most acute when Netanhayu gave him the brush off when he wanted to make a post October 7th solidarity visit. Ukraine has crossed Moscow’s and Washington’s red lines Zelenskyy is prepared to ignore Russia’s nuclear threats. But the Biden administration is still wary of escalating the war - Gideon Rachman -FINANCIAL TIMES https://archive.is/WsAW2 In the aftermath of the Kursk incursion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has been contemptuous of the restraints that America has placed on Ukraine’s war efforts, denouncing the “naive, illusory concept of so-called red lines regarding Russia, which dominated the assessment of the war by some partners”. That view, said the Ukrainian president, has now “crumbled”. But has it? The difference between the caution in Washington and the risk-taking in Kyiv reflects not just a difference in analysis about how far Vladimir Putin can be pushed. It is also a reflection of a subtle difference in war aims. At the start of the conflict, President Joe Biden set his administration two goals. The first was to support Ukraine. But the second was to avoid world war three. If forced to choose between those two aims, the US would clearly choose the latter.

Zelensky concedes that Russia has dealt heavy damage to Ukraine's energy sector. He appeals for European nations to reach consensus and start shooting down enemy missiles over Ukraine, just like they did in the Middle East. He has now repeatedly called out the US (leader of NATO), the UK (the most war hawkish nation) and France (strategic leader of Europe) for failing to meet his expectations, in terms of weapon deliveries, air defenses and now consensus on escalation. If these three are letting him down, what hope does Ukraine even have? When the US used to boast of bombing countries back to the stone age it wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now.

Many are run by the army hence they don't want legalisation.I know of at least 2 in Pattaya - my wife asked what they were when we noctied folks going into an large anonymous buildings - 1 just of Sukhumvit Road the other on Theprassit Road.