Yesterday turned out nothing, but there’s more activity today. Testing Ukraine’s AD or launching a full scale raid?
Article behind paywall in FL La Libre Belgique suggests that Hungary’s blockage of the next tranche of the EU Peace Plan is linked to aUkraine black listing of a Hungarian Bank.
don’t be so down on yourself Arthur.
after 12 months on Blitz we’ve knocked you into some sort of shape and you’re more tolerable now
Pass the parcel on F-16. The European countries that have them may not be prepared to release them (prepared to train UA pilots); decision on supply of fighter jets rests with USA?
Not sure the USA has given approval for F-16s to go to Ukraine. That’s the first stumbling block.
The UK Gov media release of the Wallace Pistorius talks in Berlin on assistance to Ukraine makes no reference to fighter jets, but some European media reports refer to Wallace saying that it is for the US to decide.
I believe that is correct.
60 day rollover of Black Sea grain corridor, but will Russia continue to impede shipments? There is no information of any concessions to Russia on its MOU, although there were earlier hints of US flexibility on access to financing.
Following the twitter account of Ukraine Vice Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov, Russia is not alone in impeding shipments. A running account of hold ups at the Polish border, the EU Commission has been asked to intervene .
On the good news front, Ukraine and Romania have reached agreement on rail shipments to the Danube ports.
Good news. Although I suspect they would be saying that regardless of the reality.
At 1:57 I am pretty sure that is Nikolai Starikov on the panel, the guy who debated Girkin/Strelkov 8 years ago (with English subtitles).
That could be a significant development. I would be very interested in any clips with him speaking.
Starikov has a twitter account (Russian language)
That’s phenomenal - they knew he was digging for intel but didn’t cut off access. The process must be completely broken for removing access to rogue actors. Any Russian spies spotted can just keep on rolling.