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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 7:19am On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡️🇺🇦 Ukrainian MP: 'Four thousand billion dollars' needed for reconstruction. The UK is set to host the Ukraine Recovery Conference on Wednesday to discuss how to rebuild the country after Russia's devastating invasion. Today, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to call for investors and business leaders to "rapidly harness innovation and creativity" to help rebuild the war-torn country. Speaking to Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky News, Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko said her country is a "warzone" at the moment. She told Sophy Ridge: "Millions of children are separated from their fathers who are either fighting on the front line or are outside in countries like the 🇬🇧 UK seeking refuge while their fathers remain ready for battle in Ukraine." On the financial cost to rebuild Ukraine, she said that four thousand billion dollars will be needed. "But of course, the fighting continues, the shelling continues, on a daily and nightly basis, courtesy of Russia, and all of that causes havoc, causes mass destruction to the critical infrastructure needed for the country to run, needed for communities to live." Practically, roads are "the biggest challenge" in order for communities to be able to function, but schools and hospitals also need rebuilding.
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 7:27am On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡️🇬🇧 Britain to help Ukraine expand its cyber defences. The UK will provide £16m in funding to help Ukraine's cyber defences, Rishi Sunak has announced. It comes as 🇺🇦 Ukraine launches another counteroffensive against Russia and adds to the £6.35m promised last year. A further £9m could potentially come from international allies. The package will better equip Ukraine to defend its critical national infrastructure from crippling Russian attacks as Kyiv pushes back 🇷🇺 Russian forces from the swathes of southern and eastern Ukraine that they occupy.
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 7:28am On Jun 19, 2023 |
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by olugabbie(m): 7:33am On Jun 19, 2023 |
WrriterNig: I think these countries are just looking for opportunity to reduce the fund they spend on welfare for their citizens. In other to spend more money on their military. Russia is still struggling in Ukraine. I don't see getting involve in another war at least for the next 8-10 years. Unless if it necessary. 1 Like |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 7:38am On Jun 19, 2023 |
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by okeysoninv: 7:48am On Jun 19, 2023 |
Russian media says Valuyki in Belgorod Oblast under heavy fire |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 7:58am On Jun 19, 2023 |
Badassniggga: That's the first thing that came to my mind. Gathering 20+ countries to invade a country that can barely feed itself doesn't make you "battle-tested." It only makes you a bully. 3 Likes |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 9:05am On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡Axios reports that the 🇮🇱 Israeli Defense Minister informed his 🇺🇸 American counterpart about the decision to cancel the sale of Merkava tanks. 1 Like
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 9:39am On Jun 19, 2023 |
olugabbie: Kyiv attack was a distraction because Ukraine took it military men from the east to go protect kyiv and this made Russia to capture those four regions easily . It military 101. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Procashtips(m): 10:20am On Jun 19, 2023 |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Procashtips(m): 10:24am On Jun 19, 2023 |
Vl3ly: Have always advised the wise ones amongst them to quickly surrender once they're forced into battle. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 11:56am On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡🇺🇸 Joe Biden says US does not seek new Cold War and does not seek to oppose 🇨🇳 China by strengthening allies in a message to Xi - CCTV |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 12:34pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡The upcoming elections in 🇧🇾 Belarus will be fair, unlike elections in the 🇺🇸 United States, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko says - BELTA 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Procashtips(m): 12:35pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 12:52pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
Procashtips:They the west wanted sprint lol to reach cremia in five days now They changed to marathon lol. 1 Like |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 12:53pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
WrriterNig:those who count the vote determin who wins. 1 Like |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 1:17pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
The Russians Packed A Robotic T-55 Tank With Explosives And Rolled It Toward Ukrainian Lines Well, that's one way to use an obsolete tank. On or before Sunday, Russian forces near Marinka, in southeastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, packed what appeared to be a 70-year-old T-54 or T-55 tank with explosives, rigged it with simple radio remote controls and rolled it toward Ukrainian positions. The vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, or VBIED, didn't get very far. It apparently struck a mine then ate a Ukrainian anti-tank missile—and disappeared in a billowing cloud of smoke and debris. The attempted VBIED attack underscores the increasing desperation of Russian forces, 16 months after Russia widened its war on Ukraine. Many tens of thousands of Russia's best troops have been wounded or killed. Russian forces have written off no fewer than 10,000 of their best armored vehicles. The Kremlin's winter offensive was a bust. At the cost of thousands of lives, Russian and allied regiments finally captured the ruins of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. But that pyrrhic victory consumed the people and equipment Moscow should have devoted to shoring up its defensive lines in southern and eastern Ukraine ahead of Ukraine's long-anticipated 2023 counteroffensive. That operation kicked off on the night of June 4, as several Ukrainian brigades—some of them armed with Western tanks and fighting vehicles—attacked along several axes in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk Oblasts, as well as on the flanks of Bahkmut. The Ukrainians slowly are advancing in several sectors, steadily erasing the Russians' modest winter gains. The Russians were running out of modern weaponry long before the current counteroffensive. Now they're running out even faster—and turning to long-stored tanks and fighting vehicles and increasingly bizarre modifications of existing vehicles, including a wheeled BTR armed with rocket pods borrowed from a helicopter. After running low on modern T-72B3 and T-90 tanks, the Kremlin began pulling out of storage upgraded T-62s from the 1980s, first-generation T-72s from the 1970s and, most shockingly, basic T-55s and T-54s that rolled off the factory floor probably sometime in the late 1950s. Those four-person T-54/55s with their thin armor, crude optics and minimally-stabilized 100-millimeter guns are worse than useless in an intensive fight, especially at night. They're deathtraps for their crews. The Russians know this. They at first deployed the T-54/55s along with slightly newer T-62s as short-range, mobile artillery. A tank doesn't make a great howitzer: its gun can't angle high enough to shoot a shell more than 10 miles or so, and its optics don't allow for long-range aiming. But it's slightly better than nothing in an army that's under relentless assault and running low on things with which to fight back. That the Russians are turning to vehicle-borne IEDs is symptomatic of this poverty. The T-54/55 VBIED isn't the only one to roll out from Russian positions in recent days. Russian troops also tried ramming Ukrainian positions with an MT-LB tractor loaded up with explosive mine-clearing line-charges. An army with adequate supplies of long-range munitions wouldn't bother trying to blow up a Ukrainian position with a radio-controlled tank full of explosives. Especially considering how many anti-tank guided missiles the Ukrainians have. It's dangerous to approach within a few miles of any Ukrainian brigade. It's doubly dangerous, for the assailant, to approach slowly and awkwardly in broad daylight. But that's the only mode of travel a museum-vintage T-54/55 knows. But when a tank is so old that it can't survive in a direct fight, and also is poorly suited to its secondary role as a do-it-yourself howitzer, what else are you going to do with it except stuff it with C4, rig it up with some radio-controlled servos and send it trundling toward the enemy on a one-way mission everyone knows is unlikely to succeed? Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/06/18/the-russians-packed-a-robotic-t-55-tank-with-explosives-and-rolled-it-toward-ukrainian-lines/?ss=aerospace-defense&sh=41bf3ddb2f86 |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 3:29pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡️🇺🇸 Secretary Blinken repeated that the United States does not support the independence of 🇹🇼 Taiwan and stood by its stance of maintaining the status quo. 1 Share
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 3:31pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡The 🇷🇺 Russian government is beginning the process of unilateral withdrawal from a number of international bodies, including the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), said Deputy Speaker of the Russian Duma Pyotr Tolstoy. "We have work to do on the revision of our international obligations and contracts, which today do not bring any benefit, but directly harm our country," says Tolstoy. He stated that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a list of agreements to the 🇷🇺 State Duma, which, together with the Federation Council, will analyze and propose withdrawal. 5 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 4:15pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡🇷🇺 Russians pulled up reserves and launched an active offensive between Lyman and Kupyansk. Seems like this was unexpected and Ukrainians are in difficult situation. It was reported before that 🇺🇦 Ukrainians abandoned several positions. 6 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 4:16pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡"Welcome to China" 🇨🇳 Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with 🇺🇸 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as the pair meet in Beijing
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 4:19pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡🇵🇱 Polish President Duda signed a law prohibiting the employment of persons who worked in the country's state security agencies in 1944-1990. Those who already work in government agencies will be fired. 1 Like
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ibime(m): 4:27pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
Kingsnairaland: Russia and it's allies already controlled most of Donbass and Crimea before 2022. They don't hold the Capitals of Kherson and Zaporizhia, so what did they achieve of significance? |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ibime(m): 4:34pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
WrriterNig: Getting rid of Soviet era spies |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 4:38pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
⚡️Major fire in 🇩🇪 Germany's largest theme park. 2 Likes
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ibime(m): 4:41pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
WrriterNig: Lukashenko.lost the last election. Putin kept him him in power with Russian soldiers. |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 4:47pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 4:56pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 4:58pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
Ibime:i don't want to discuss it with you because you will end up with abuse which I don't have time for. 6 Likes |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 4:58pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
WrriterNig:let it burn. |
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 5:09pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNig: 5:12pm On Jun 19, 2023 |
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