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 Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 7:56pm On Dec 28, 2023 |
⚡Russia’s new ‘Sickle’ defense system can knock enemy UAVs out of the sky A new anti-drone system called Serp-VS5D (lit. “sickle”) has successfully been tested recently at an undisclosed location. Developed by a Rostec subsidiary, Serp-VS5D is reportedly capable of: - 360 degree monitoring of airspace for drone activity - Disrupting communications between drones and their operators, as well as cutting off drones from satellite navigation systems - Protecting designated areas from both singular drones and drone swarms 2 Likes
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:51am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡In the Avdeevka sector of the front, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting an active offensive on the northern ledge in the Stepovoye area, aviation and armored vehicles have been deployed. They report fire control of our troops (which does not mean the capture of the settlement). There are fierce battles near the coke-fuel plant. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:51am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡In the Maryinka direction there are heavy battles near Novomikhailovka. From the north, from Maryinka itself, ours also advanced, taking a number of important positions. According to enemy analysts, a critical situation is developing for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novomikhailovka. The Russian Armed Forces are attacking the populated area from three sides. 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:51am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡On the Zaporozhye front, FAB-500 airstrikes were carried out on the Ukrainian Armed Forces cluster in Malaya Tokmachka and Novodanilovka. At Verbovoye, our troops in a shooting battle repelled an attack by enemy assault groups who were trying to advance after an artillery strike with cluster munitions. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:50am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡In Krynki, Kherson region, on our bank of the Dnieper, heavy fighting continues. Our troops are reducing the enemy’s zone of control in the village, the enemy is trying to transfer reinforcements across the Dnieper under the attacks of our drones. There is mutual artillery shelling. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:39am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡A series of powerful explosions sounded at night in Kiev, and “Geraniums” were also hit enemy targets in the Poltava, Chernigov, Zhytomyr, Khmelnitsky, Nikolaev, Kherson, Odessa, and Rovne regions. Notable was the explosion of “Geranium”, which hit the Kiev apartment of the host of the enemy “telethon”. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:28am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Germany will not return fugitive Ukrainians to Kyiv for mobilization. This was stated by German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann to the Tagesspiegel. “We are trying to ensure that more people from Ukraine find employment, go to work and do not live on benefits,” he explained. Yesterday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov said that the Kiev regime plans to call to the front dodgers aged 20 to 60 who have fled to Germany and other countries. So far, only Poland is ready to extradite the Zahisniks back home from their host countries.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:27am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Zelensky was told that the Russian defense industry is slowing down According to him, Ukrainian intelligence officers told him that they saw the corresponding signals. “There was a separate report from the Main Intelligence Directorate. The enemy’s plans, the work of the Russian defense industry - there are signals about their slowdown. We will continue to help slow them down,” the President of Ukraine assures. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:27am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Several Groups of Jewish Women who were out tonight hanging Posters of Israeli Hostages in London were Attacked by Hamas Supporters and Injured; the Metropolitan Police are on-scene and attempting to Locate the Attackers. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:26am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Armenia and Russia are considering new agreements in the field of military-technical cooperation, Russia’s Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin said in an interview with TASS. “Military-technical cooperation between our countries has a long tradition and is based on the agreement of June 25, 2013 between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Armenia on the Development of Military-Technical cooperation,” the Ambassador said. “Almost all concluded contracts have either already been completed on time and with high quality, or are at the final stage of implementation. New agreements between our countries in the field of military-technical cooperation are also being discussed,” he added. “In case of some individual contracts, there are indeed issues related to the obligations of Russian enterprises to fulfill the state defense order, but these are working issues that are being resolved throgh dialogue between the relevant departments of Russia and Armenia,” the envoy stated.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:06am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Denmark has signed an agreement with the United States allowing American troops and weapons to remain permanently at the country's three military bases. Sweden and Finland previously concluded similar agreements with the United States. All three treaties have a “traditional” clause that American soldiers will not be held accountable under local laws if they commit crimes. 2 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:06am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡A second reactor at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear facility appears to be operational, according to the UN atomic agency. Yongbyon is North Korea’s main nuclear complex and home to its first nuclear reactor, with a five megawatt capacity, and has been the only known source of plutonium for its weapons programme. A second one — a light-water reactor — now also appears to operational, based on observations that warm water is being discharged from it, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement released late on Thursday. “The discharge of warm water is indicative the reactor has reached criticality,” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 9:00am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Israeli media: The Golani Brigade was withdrawn from Gaza after 60 days of fighting in which it suffered heavy losses 5 Likes 1 Share
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 8:57am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Jordan protected Israel once again. The Jordanian army shoots down a suicide drone launched from Iraq towards Eilat, Israel.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 8:56am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Heavy Artillery and Airstrikes by the Israel Defense Force on Hezbollah Positions in Southern Lebanon near the City of Naqoura, in Response to the Rocket Barrages this morning against Northern Israel.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 8:55am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡UK economy at risk of recession, according to official figures |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 8:54am On Dec 22, 2023 |
AyoII:China has for a long time being the economic lifeline of the US. Without China the US will be no better than Mexico. Japan & China are the US biggest financiers. The US is also heavily financially dependent on investments from Saudi Arabia. 11 Likes 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 8:01am On Dec 22, 2023 |
AyoII:It's the other way round. China is super reliant on Russia. From oil to gas to food to nuclear & military technology. These are the most critical needs of every nation. Russia only imports cars and gadgets from China. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 7:08am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡The German authorities have always been a “thieving people,” said Sergei Lavrov. The minister responded this way to the request of the Federal Prosecutor General's Office to the court to seize Russian assets. “Thieving used to be in this, you know, political sense, in the sense of refusing agreements, in the sense of trying to deceive someone. But now he’s thieving in the literal sense,” he said.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 7:06am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Elena Panina Director of the Institute for International Strategic Studies: The Russian MiG-31 is a shocking carrier with a hypersonic missile. This is exactly how the American publication praises the Russian fighter, but created during the years of the USSR. In relation to Ukraine, the MiG-31 is used “not as an interceptor, but as a powerful attack aircraft, which Kyiv takes very seriously.” The fact is that the Kinzhal missiles carried by this fighter “fly at very high speed and have a long flight range. Every time the MiG-31 takes off from a Russian military base near Ukraine, an air raid alert is declared throughout the country, which sometimes lasts for hours." The MiG-31 is undergoing a deep modernization to the MiG-31BM version, increasing its combat effectiveness by 2.6 times. An important detail, with the exception of stealth, in terms of flight performance characteristics, the fifth-generation fighter Su-57 surpasses the MiG-31BM, which has long been in service, only in one main parameter - flight range. 2 Likes
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 7:04am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡The oldest Russian consulate in Germany (in Leipzig) was closed today; the representative office had worked in the city intermittently since 1783. The Russian ambassador, commenting on Berlin's decision to close 4 Russian consulates by the end of the year, said that “this is not our choice” and that such a move by Germany cannot be called friendly.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 7:04am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Russia, in turn, sold China not only oil and gas, but also products - chocolates, sausages and other consumer goods, which began to appear in abundance in Chinese supermarkets. 6 Likes 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 7:03am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Chinese car manufacturers received the greatest benefits. Sales to Russia helped China overtake Japan as the world's largest car exporter this year. Chinese automakers occupied 55% of the Russian market. In pre-war 2021, they had 8%. 2 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 7:03am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Due to anti-Russian sanctions, the country's trade with Russia exceeded $200 billion this year - much earlier than planned by the two countries. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 7:03am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡China supported Russia in the war and benefited greatly from Western sanctions, - New York Times
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 7:02am On Dec 22, 2023 |
⚡Boats with dead AFU soldiers are drifting in the Krynok area. There is simply no one to clean up the symbol of meat counterattacks on one of the “hottest” areas for the Ukros. It’s interesting to know what the next batch of Armed Forces cannon fodder is thinking about as it sails past boats like these with previous suicide bombers. 4 Likes 1 Share
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 6:54am On Dec 14, 2023 |
⚡The United States has about $1 billion left to help Ukraine, 96% has already been allocated, the remaining 4% will be transferred to Kyiv in December, the White House says.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 12:09am On Dec 14, 2023 |
⚡Iran has joined Russia's PIK nuclear reactor project. It is the world's largest beam-type reactor research facility with a thermal power of 100 MW. The reactor is built to become the main neutron source for nuclear weapons and other nuclear technologies. The PIK reactor is a major asset to the Russian nuclear research community and is expected to play a significant role in the development of new technologies for many years to come.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 12:03am On Dec 14, 2023 |
⚡France is conducting tonight its quartetly nuclear exercise involving the air-component of its "nuclear diad" called the FAS (Forces Aériennes Stratégiques). This exercise takes place over a big part of France, and culminates with the simulated (or not) launch of an ASMP-A
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterNigg: 11:13pm On Dec 13, 2023 |
⚡Shock as New Zealand's economy falls 0.3% in third quarter, significantly different from consensus forecasts — NZ Herald |
