Because there’s money to be made?
What country has it? (Link does not work for me).
Turkey.
"This is the 71-meter Victoria, the flagship of Putin’s personal ‘flotilla’ in the Black Sea. One month ago, it left port at Sochi and sailed to the Tuzla port in Istanbul for repairs "
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Parts of Moscow Oblast without power as explosions hit energy plants.
Several areas in Moscow Oblast including the entire town of Lytkarino are without power after explosions were reported near electricity substations early on Nov. 23 , local Russian media report.
https://x.com/kyivindependent/status/1727511826848502103?s=46&t=A5S-z5IJslFoC5SVN0Jodg
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I guess this is to give themselves some capability against the Ukrainian cruise and ASM missiles that have wreaked havoc on the Black Sea fleet.
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Caught dropping a log in the wild, no hiding from the FPV drone
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1727620156367495355
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Russian losses per 23/11/23 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff.
+1130 (!) men
+20 tanks
+36 APVs
+33 artillery systems
+3 MLRS
+2 AD systems
+15 UAVs
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“A russian Acacia SPH”
I bet he was a charming companion in the trenches.
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Russian losses per 24/11/23 reported by the Ukrainian general staff.
+1100 men
+30 tanks
+32 APVs
+31 artillery systems
+2 MLRS
+4 AD systems
+1 UAVs
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Others will know much better than l, but l see something of a contradiction in action. Observers and analysts say Ukraine’s counteroffensive has stalled, and yet the number of Russian casualties is at times twice as high as it was before UAF started their push. Can anyone reconcile this apparent difference?
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Ukraine is still pushing and they now have greater strike capabilities, so whilst the offensive didn’t achieve a decisive breakthrough like at Kharkiv last year, they are still atritting Russian forces. They have shifted from a large scale push offensive to a system of small-unit bite and hold tactics. This means they are doing Company-sized assaults in a more slow, deliberate manner where they focus in on specific objectives such as a certain trench or feature and then overpower it with firepower and armour support. It’s not reported, but the Ukrainian losses in the last few months have been very large as well. They do have a much better medical support system than the Russians though.
The Russians have also been making some counter-attacks in limited areas and they tend to be more reckless with the lives of their troops.
There’s simply no way either side can achieve whatever they interpret as success without paying the bill in blood and equipment.
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More Air defence.
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Russian and Chinese executives discuss Russia-Crimea tunnel project
KYIV — Russian and Chinese business executives with government ties have held secret discussions on plans to build an underwater tunnel connecting Russia to Crimea in hopes of establishing a transportation route that would be protected from attacks by Ukraine, according to communications intercepted by Ukraine’s security services.
The talks, which included meetings in late October, were triggered by mounting Russian concerns over the security of an 11-mile bridge across the Kerch Strait that has served as a key logistics line for the Russian military but has been bombed twice by Ukraine and remains a vulnerable war target.
The negotiations underscore Russia’s determination to maintain its grip on Crimea, a peninsula that it annexed illegally in 2014, as well as Moscow’s growing dependence on China as a source of global support.
Constructing a tunnel near the existing bridge would face enormous obstacles, according to U.S. officials and engineering experts who said work of such magnitude, probably costing billions of dollars and taking years to complete, has never been attempted in a war zone.
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