Russia invades Ukraine - 2 - from 4 May 2022

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Yep.

The only thing I’m keeping an eye on is those exercises along the border.

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This was interesting

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Netherlands providing further financial support via a €100 million loan to IMF to pay UA public sector wages.
Financial aid has also been provided to Moldova to support UA refugees.

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Not saying it’s an unreasonable assumption put forward or that I’m ungrateful for the post, but f me dead I do go green every single time I see anything from Sky News :face_vomiting:

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There’s your problem right there, watching anything on Sky News. I am happy to say l have never watched anything on it, as a result l am not at all stressed.

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Surprisingly, UK Sky News has some of the consistently best expert commentators about the war of any media I’ve seen.

Aus Sky News is pure unadulterated sewerage though.

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Australia one of 40 countries to participate in the Lugano Conference on Ukraine Recovery, which will involve a series of conferences fleshing out reconstruction.
In addition to Europeans, US and Canada, South Korea and Japan joined with Australia
Lugano Declaration available on
kmu.gov.ua

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Thanks Benny

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Great thread on Russian logistics and HIMARS.

TLDR - it takes 3 hours to load a Russian truck and 3 hours to unload due to not using containers / forklifts. Trucks can do 1 run a day. Pulling supply dumps beyond HIMARS range extends the truck route beyond the 1 day round trip range.

Once all the ammo dumps are hit with HIMARS, the next targets will be the ammo trains. These are easy to find and will cause massive damage to rail infrastructure that will need to be constantly repaired.

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New term (for me) - loitering munitions, AKA suicide drones.
To be supplied by UK along with artillery systems.
Reports of interception of Russian missiles fired from Black Sea.

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Another great thread on the supply starvation approaching for the Russians.

This is critical to understand any coming Ukrainian counterattack. Around Kyiv the Ukrainians starved the Russian forces of supply and then counterattacked very effectively when the Russians were running out of ammo. Expect a repeat.

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Any truth to this for those in the know?

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Considering that Bhutan is a landlocked country on the northern border of India, with no navy or Air Force…

I suspect that’s a very very unlikely event.

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