Putin starts “military operation” on Ukraine

[Playtime]

On 7/12/2024 at 1:14 AM, Ender said:

Interesting story. After the strike on the children hospital. Guilt ? or just unhappy with his colleagues.

 

 

I cant help noticing many of their pilots look like collecting .. or already collected...CPF already.

Unlike raw infantry cannon fodder,  Pilots are longest trained,  highest skill military assets that should have a constant belt.  This suggest a system that's literally not replacing itself for a good decade or 2.

[Ender]

Democrats really needs a better alternate candidate.

 

 

[Kb27]

And so, Papperger should now double weapon supply to Ukraine. And if they build Taurus or equivalent, sent them to Ukraine too, for revenge.  😁

 

US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine

US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine, according to five US and western officials familiar with the episode.

The plot was one of a series of Russian plans to assassinate defense industry executives across Europe who were supporting Ukraine’s war effort, these sources said. The plan to kill Armin Papperger, a white-haired goliath who has led the German manufacturing charge in support of Kyiv, was the most mature.

When the Americans learned of the effort, they informed Germany, whose security services were then able to protect Papperger and foil the plot. A high-level German government official confirmed that Berlin was warned about the plot by the US.

For more than six months, Russia has been carrying out a sabotage campaign across Europe, largely by proxy. It has recruited local amateurs for everything from arson attacks on warehouses linked to arms for Ukraine to petty acts of vandalism — all designed to stymie the flow of weapons from the West to Ukraine and blunt public support for Kyiv.

But the intelligence suggesting that Russia was willing to assassinate private citizens underlined to Western officials just how far Moscow was willing to go in a parallel shadow war it is waging across the west.

Papperger was an obvious target: His company, Rheinmetall, is the largest and most successful German manufacturer of the vital 155mm artillery shells that have become the make-or-break weapon in Ukraine’s grinding war of attrition. The company is opening an armored vehicle plant inside of Ukraine in the coming weeks, an effort that one source familiar with the intelligence said was deeply concerning to Russia. After a series of gains earlier this year, Moscow’s war effort has once again stalled amid redoubled Ukrainian defenses and punishing losses in personnel.

Employees work at a production line as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Defence Minister Boris Pistorius attend the groundbreaking ceremony for a new munitions factory of German defense contractor Rheinmetall on February 12 in Unterluess, Germany. 

 

The series of plots, not previously reported, helps explain the increasingly strident warnings from NATO officials about the seriousness of the sabotage campaign — one that some senior officials believe risks crossing the threshold into armed conflict in eastern Europe.

“We’re seeing sabotage, we’re seeing assassination plots, we’re seeing arson. We’re seeing things that have a cost in human lives,” a senior NATO official told reporters on Tuesday. “I believe very much that we’re seeing a campaign of covert sabotage activities from Russia that have strategic consequences.”

The National Security Council declined to comment on the existence of the Russian plot and the US warning to Germany. But, NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement, “Russia’s intensifying campaign of subversion is something that we are taking extremely seriously and have been intently focused on over the past few months.

“The United States has been discussing this issue with our NATO Allies, and we are actively working together to expose and disrupt these activities,” she said. “We have also been clear that Russia’s actions will not deter Allies from continuing to support Ukraine.”

The National Security Council declined to comment on the existence of the Russian plot and the US warning to Germany. But, NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement, “Russia’s intensifying campaign of subversion is something that we are taking extremely seriously and have been intently focused on over the past few months.

“The United States has been discussing this issue with our NATO Allies, and we are actively working together to expose and disrupt these activities,” she said. “We have also been clear that Russia’s actions will not deter Allies from continuing to support Ukraine.”

German officials declined to comment on the specifics of CNN’s reporting. But speaking on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington on Thursday, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said it shows how Russia is “waging a hybrid war of aggression” on European allies.

“We have seen that there have been attacks on factories. And this underlines once again that we as Europeans must protect ourselves as best we can and not be naive,” Baerbock said.

In a separate statement sent to CNN, the German Interior Ministry said that Berlin “will not be intimidated by the Russian threats,” emphasizing that they are fundamentally aimed at “undermining the support of Germany and our partners for Ukraine in its defense against the Russian war of aggression.”

A spokesman for Rheinmetall, Oliver Hoffman, declined to comment.

“The necessary measures are always taken in regular consultation with the security authorities,” Hoffman said.

Edited July 12 by Kb27

[Sosaria]

On 7/12/2024 at 9:27 AM, Playtime said:

I cant help noticing many of their pilots look like collecting .. or already collected...CPF already.

Unlike raw infantry cannon fodder,  Pilots are longest trained,  highest skill military assets that should have a constant belt.  This suggest a system that's literally not replacing itself for a good decade or 2.

Europeans in the 30s, 40s already look like that. It's normal. And prefer close-cropped or crew cuts. Most already start balding once turn 30.

Plus, these are bomber pilots, not fighter pilots.

[Ghgan]

 

[Jamesc]

 

[Ender]

Another useless resolution. Russia will just ignore it. 

 

 

[Ender]

Putin doesn't really care as long as russia is progressing on the eastern front of Ukraine. 

 

 

Edited July 12 by Ender

[Ender]

Hope USA allow Ukriane to use them inside Russia, or else what's the point of the 460km range. Also they should implement corrective actions on why the Glsdb failed, mainly due to Russia's getting better in jamming gps signal.

 

 

[Jamesc]

Another Russian oil depot up in smoke. 

 

[Jamesc]

70,000 Russian soldiers killed or injured the last 2 months. 

 

[Jamesc]

 

[Ender]

This Czech prez speaks the mind of small nations like us or any nations who are not super power. 

 

Edited July 13 by Ender

[Ghgan]

 

[Jamesc]

Ukraine new generals instead of throwing men to stop Russia advance

now use drones with beer cans

and thermite explosives that burns thy metal. 

 

[Jamesc]

Ukraine is not collapsing,

they are dying.

When Russian glide bombs blow up apartments

with children and mothers. 

[Jamesc]

Yes yes Russia winning!

Tell that to the 70,000 Russian soldiers died or injured for May and June.

Professional soldiers all dead or injured, reserves all dead or injured,

now is all the untrained and anyone that is breathing is sent to the front line.  

 

[Jamesc]

Yes yes Russia winning!

Thousands of Ukraine $500 drones have been wiped out by Russian tanks that cost $3 million.

Its only a matter of time before all the Russian tanks will wipe out every last drone in Ukraine!

Here is the proof of all the destroyed Ukraine drones.