Ukraine has to deal with the fact that there is a flood of North Korean and Iranian missiles and ammo coming in. Their chances of defending against that on the front lines is questionable. So obviously they are trying to get it at the storage depot sites and train transfer sites to block delivery. That is probably the correct plan for what they have to work with. The attacks on these remote sites, as always, forces their military to respond to Vlad's demands that more aerial defenses be put there. Fine, but they don't have more aerial defenses. They have to rob other areas which leaves those areas more vulnerable too. Crimea I am looking at you. The target this time, though, is significant. A military arsenal, worth almost £30m ($39m), has seemingly gone up in a series of explosions. NASA reported a series of heat sources from satellite imagery. A light-magnitude earthquake was even reported in the surrounding Tver region. The head of Ukraine's Centre for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, said on Telegram that in addition to its own ammunition, including Grad rockets, Russia had also started to store North Korean missiles in Toropets. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30lp1qq6pzo
Combined Ukrainian and Russian military losses reach 1 million, WSJ reports https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/17/7475475/ n has reached approximately 1 million. Source: The Wall Street Journal Details: The publication notes that determining the exact number of casualties in the war is challenging because both Russia and Ukraine refuse to release official data, and sometimes publish figures that many find unreliable. The WSJ reports that, according to a confidential Ukrainian estimate from earlier this year, the number of Ukrainian military casualties stands at 80,000 killed and 400,000 injured. Western intelligence estimates of Russian losses vary, with some data suggesting nearly 200,000 dead and about 400,000 wounded. Quote: "The losses are causing problems for Russia as it uses waves of poorly trained soldiers to try to advance in Ukraine’s east while also trying to counter a recent Ukrainian incursion in the Kursk Oblast," the article reads. However, the WSJ notes that these losses are more damaging to Ukraine, whose population is significantly smaller than Russia's. Quote: "Ukraine’s government, like that of Russia, keeps its war casualties secret. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in February that around 31,000 soldiers have so far been killed. Several former political and security officials said that underestimate was largely designed to placate society and help continue the mobilisation of much-needed new recruits. A spokesman for Zelenskyy declined to comment," the text reads. The WSJ mentions that, according to former Ukrainian officials, one of the significant reasons Zelenskyy avoids mobilising the key cohort of men aged 18 to 25 – typically the main component of any combat force – is that most of these people do not yet have children. If conscripts in this age group were to die or become incapacitated, further demographic prospects would be even more bleak, say Ukrainian demographers. Thus, the article notes, Ukraine resists Western calls to deploy more men into combat and has conducted only partial mobilisation. Government and military estimates suggest that the average age of Ukrainian soldiers now exceeds 43 years. To increase numbers, Kyiv is recruiting a few convicts and foreigners. The number of civilian casualties remains unknown. However, according to the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch, the Russian occupation of the southeastern port city of Mariupol in 2022 alone claimed more than 8,000 lives, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. Background: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that, as of 17 September 2024, the total losses of Russian troops in the war against Ukraine have reached 635,880 personnel.
Ruskie pundit savants are having their weekly group therapy session here. One of the usual drunks goes off the reservation and starts making a good point. Not to worry though, the moderator declared that they needed to take a break. Alexander there looks like a heart attack waiting happen, although most likely he will fall out of a window before that happens.
Obviously it much worse than to be gang banged randomly by African migrants in Malmo I hope you really enjoy your new soon to be majority black Sweden
manpower losses in Kursk are 6:1 in Russia's favor, and their vehicular losses are 30:1 in Russia's favor
This is what happens when Russians drink too much vodka. They start making up bullshiat like this and believing it. So tell us - how is Putin's three day war going? The amusing part is all comments on Twitter mocking the idiot who posted this nonsense.