This is Not Good. Kyiv is about 120 miles from the Belarusian border.
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Ukrainians are intercepting Russian units in Ukrainian uniforms and vehicles with Ukrainian markings.
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It’s traditional to gather an alliance first.
Kazakhstan, one of Russia’s closest allies and a southern neighbor, is denying a request for its troops to join the offensive in Ukraine, officials said Friday.
Additionally, the former Soviet republic said it is not recognizing the Russia-created breakaway republics upheld by Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, as a pretext for its aggression in Ukraine.
An amazing response. Sweden donating weapons absolutely blew my mind.
Meanwhile, the UK response has been as poor as the EU’s has been good.
Only ‘immediate’ family, which does not include parents or siblings.
I wonder if tye UK/US/Aus will be eager to pick up refugees from Ukraine en mass. At least Aus and UK have a lot of stories about labour shortages. Also doesn’t hurt they are white, and would cause less resistance than bringing in the same number of African residents.
I saw something about NYC inviting Ukranians here. My neighborhood has a lot of Ukranians in it, and the neighborhood next door is known as Little Odessa. So I assume we will get refuges here, and they are more than welcome.
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The UK will not be eager to do so.
Why do you think that?
Can anyone recommend a book-length or so treatment of what modern militaries are composed of, and the roles those components play? I feel like I’m reading about loitering munitions and smart artillery and heavy mechanized infantry, and I have sort of a guess about what all that is and what it does, but it’d be nice to have more context and maybe not think of everything like it’s WWII.
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@Baelnor Mostly because our government runs on an explicitly racist, xenophobic platform, and reducing immigration, despite the fact we need it quite desperately, also means not taking refugees. We will take a few, but since 2014, IIRC we have accepted around 30 Ukrainian refugees.
@rinelk Understanding Modern Warfare by A Bunch of Guys is pretty good. It’s slightly annoying to study as different countries do things differently with different kit and doctrine, but it’s not at all difficult.
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Speaking of drones, there’s some choice hits on Russian convoys currently circulating.
The Ukrainians are using Turkish-built TB-2 drones with PGMs, with minimal loadout to ensure maximum loitering time, encourage care when engaging targets, and the fact they probably don’t have enough munitions to send them out with a full loadout and engage everything they see, repeatedly.
There’s a good strike here, targeting Buk SAMs, and it shows that there are deficiencies in the Russian’s AA and EW capabilities. According to their reputation, the drone should have never have been able to operate thanks to Russian jamming. They don’t seem to be doing any. Lacking that, the drone should have been detected and shot down, the Russians have no shortage of AD systems, including ZSU and Tunguska, which are pretty formidable on paper, and should be ideal for short-range work against drones.
The Russian logistics are looking incredibly shitty. Their convoys are incredibly vulnerable and are not even up to defending themselves. Perfectly good vehicles are being abandoned and Russians are being picked up in some real comedy antics.
Whatever they were planning for, it wasn’t fighting a war.
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Maybe they just really wanted to get in on the freedom convoy trend while it was still hot
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I feel like anyone that’s been paying attention since Russia sent its citizens across the Volga with 1 rifle for every 2 soldiers should have known that Russia’s strength isn’t really in its military personnel/tactics/equipment…
Stop doing Enemy at the Gates, it’s not history!
No, no, no, it’s from the original Call of Duty!
Put point taken, I’ll stick to real facts.
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