Forbes: Russian Planes Reportedly Dropped Mines Along Ukraine’s Safe Corridor For Grain Ships
Russian planes reportedly have mined the maritime corridor that Ukraine established in the western Black Sea in order to safeguard the export of grain to Europe and Africa.
It seems to be the first time in Russia’s 21-month wider war that the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s aircraft have deployed sea mines. Ukraine’s southern command reported the ominous development on Wednesday.
“The enemy ... dropped four unidentified means of impact, probably bottom mines, in the Black Sea ... in the direction of navigation corridors of civil shipping,” the command stated.
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Update #1: Ukraine suspends Black Sea grain corridor over threat from mines, warplanes (Reuters)
Update #2: Ukraine claims four mines dropped in grain shipping corridor by Russian air force (Trade Winds)
Update #3: Is Ukraine’s new Black Sea corridor working? Experts say it has potential (Kyiv Independent)
WNU Editor: This is an important story with huge global consequences that many in the mainstream media are not covering. I guess the Israel - Hamas war is diverting everyone's attention (for now).
No surprise. Just the idea of mines in the water is a killer. You will not be able to insure those boats or their cargo. Cheap way to help strangle your enemies economy, not that the Ukraine has much left anyway.
ReplyDeleteWe are Ukraines economy. It’s just a beggar nation now.
DeleteRussia is running low on tanks. They have ~ 3,500 good ones in reserve. That is 2 years or less at current burn rate. The T-55 and T-62 are the easiest to refurbish and get into the
ReplyDeletefield. It Is why we so so many of those.
The Korean ammo could be crap. It may depend on lot. A shelling incident n 2010 of a South Korean island should a very high CEP and dud rate. Has NORK quality improved since then?
OSINT in some cases have been using low quality images. You can bet the Western intel services have better images of the wives or Republican politicians and their counts are tighter.
Cheap shot?
After what Former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer and Brenan did to George Papadopoulos, Trump, and the rest of them?
Tanks are the easiest to figure out. Helicopters are pretty easy too. Artillery is harder. The artilleryman puzzle piece might be easier. You can encrypt and hide enrollment information, but student figure it out real quick. "Class 9 bazillion 891, we are winning comrades go and die ... I mean go and serve with honor!"
Vehicles are not broken out between fuel vehicles and other vehicles. Western intel might have analysts on that or they might be TSA agents with better pay and cameras.
(Battle of the Bugle)(1965) Colonel Hessler's Defeat
Shit movie. Or it is hard to appreciate unless you consider their budget and other constraints. Still it makes the point.
The Russians are build a new rail road across the land bridge.
Dragging Feet Joe and his master Obama are giving the Russians time to adapt. Austin's blind trust of defense stocks are doing well so he is in no hurry.
The primaries start in 2 months and 1 week and we still have the cast of The Walking Dead as the shoo in candidate on the Democrat side.
There is talk of Hillary and she popped up her ugly head. Will Obama sit still and take the demotion? Tight now he is president. Will Hillary listen to The One or will she just goose him a little and pat him on the head?
Have Russian tank aces perfected some 2D Immelmann turn?
ReplyDeleteAsking for a friend.
Attacking in a different direction?
The floggings and the fraggings will continue until the Revolution comes.
40 sec mark will blow your mind!
ReplyDeleteWhat is needed is some keyboard vatniks here at the WNU site to be inducted into the military, given their butter bars, and shipped out the same day to stiffen the spine of these mobiks.
The video is exactly 1 week old. Everyone knows this.
ReplyDeleteThe interesting part is the column had lost maybe 2 vehicles by the time the lead vehicle reach the tree line and decided to run the j hook pattern.
- They could have offloaded troops at the tree line unless the Ukrainians were already there and there were taking small arms fire.
- If they cross the tree line at the top of screen, and went another field, they would have gained 2 fields worth of ground and lost 1/3rd to 1/2 of the vehicles they ended up losing anyways.
These guys do not want to fight? I do not blame them. why should they fight for that sawed off dwarf with a bad haircut, Putin?
All you can do is show some links to a few burnt out tanks then repeat that ukie trash about having only 3500 tanks.
ReplyDeleteLast week it was repeat the lie of they have lost 500 tanks.
Let's do a reality check.
Ukies are losing both ground and manpower at an increasing rate.
How can that be so when the Russians are supposedly getting beaten?
Adiveeka will be the basic end of the ukie army. The report is that z man has put 30k worth of troops in that sector.
Russian s are determined to break that defence, just like bakhmut and maripol..
The ukies have very little indirect fire or air support. The Russians have a lot. The ukies are going to be ordered to stand their ground.
Fine.
In the great Russian tradition, the Russians will kill the majority of them by bombing the piss out of them.
Once that crum bum army is beaten to a frazzle, it will be game over for zelinski.
Give it until about next summer the donbass will be completely in Russian hands, to include karkov. Then they will decide to go further, depending on what the new ukies government say thru back channels.
The Russian turned and ran, but somehow they will win by next summer. Okay then.
ReplyDeleteWith crappy North Korean ammo wearing out or blowing up barrels rarely hitting its mark and less than a years worth of tanks left before the needle hits empty.
Sure boy.
"All you can do is show some links to a few burnt out tanks then repeat that ukie trash about having only 3500 tanks."
ReplyDeleteReread what I said.
The Russian turned and ran, but somehow they will win by next summer.
ReplyDeleteOkay then.
And when did this happen? At bakhmut? Or maybe robotina? Or maybe maripol? Yes all great ukie victories. The ukies are now in crimea and their bomber forces are hitting Volgograd as we speak, right?
You are a jack ass. And nk ammo? Might be poor might be great, who knows. but it is better than none like you are now going to get because of the Israelis
Eat this you delusional nut case. From European and Ukie sources.. NOT Russian>
ReplyDeletestart article
Russian forces have maintained an artillery advantage since the beginning of the conflict, firing anywhere from three to ten times as many shells per day as their Ukrainian counterparts, according to estimates from American and Ukrainian sources reported last year. With shortages becoming more acute earlier this year, American trainers began instructing Ukrainian soldiers to change their tactics in order to conserve ammunition.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon emptied its stockpiles of 155mm ammunition in South Korea and Israel to keep Kiev's guns firing. With Israel also asking for this increasingly rare ammo, Washington has reportedly diverted tens of thousands of shells back into its Israeli depot, having originally set them aside for Ukraine.
Nikolay Bielieskov, a researcher at Kiev's National Institute for Strategic Studies, told the newspaper:
"Unlike Ukraine, Russia is unlikely to face serious ammunition shortages in 2024. [Russian President] Vladimir Putin has already been working for over a year to put a large part of the Russian economy on a war footing. Even if this process is far from perfect, it is yielding results."
Speaking at a press conference last week, Estonian military intelligence chief Colonel Ants Kiviselg estimated that Russia has around four million artillery shells in its stockpiles - double the number that the US has sent to Ukraine since last February.
"This [means they] could continue at the current relatively low intensity of [using] 10,000 rounds per day for just over a year. Russia is capable of manufacturing between 2 and 3 million more per year."
Ukrainian Strategic Industries Minister Aleksandr Kamyshin told Politico on Monday:
"Even if the entire Western world were to mobilize its entire arms production capacity exclusively for Ukraine, "that will be not enough for this war."
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Ukraine is going to lose. And thank God. maybe the country then can throw off that evil pervert progressive liberal thing they now call a government.
Ancient American saying:
ReplyDeleteIt is not how big you are. It is how you use it.
All I hear coming from the Kremlin is "Fap. Fap. Fap. Fap..."