Russia - Ukraine war part ll. News and Discussions
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F-22Raptor
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The war is NOT going well for Russia. Ukraine is now the strongest military in Europe. Russia losing 30,000+ dead and wounded every month. Total stalemate at the front line. Ukraine hitting a ton of Russian AD at operational depths and smashing targets in Russia almost daily.
Putin needs to call it a day, it’s getting embarrassing for them.
Putin needs to call it a day, it’s getting embarrassing for them.
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Footage of a Russian FPV drone striking a Ukrainian naval drone of an unknown model. The video was filmed near the Kinburn Spit in the Black Sea, near Crimea. The Ukrainian naval drone is based on a boat and is armed with, presumably, six RPO-A Shmel flamethrowers. It also has the capability to launch FPV drones.
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And Moscow has the means to level Kiev if it wanted to.
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You're spamming again. Stop it.
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Scenes from Russian air defense operations during the repelling of a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow and the Moscow region on May 17-18. Pantsir-S1/SM and Tor-M2 air defense systems were used to repel the attack. The air defenses performed well, but it was impossible to shoot down all the drones. Over the course of 24 hours, the Pantsir-S and Tor-M2 air defense systems shot down over 120 Ukrainian drones. It's worth noting that defending targets across Russia is impossible, as the country doesn't have that many air defense systems. This is currently considered the largest Ukrainian drone attack. The Ukrainian army used the Bars kamikaze jet drone, the FP-1 kamikaze UAV, the An-196 Lyuty, and other models in the attack.
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Ukraine Confirms Spread of Hantavirus Among Its Soldiers
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukraine has confirmed that hantavirus is widespread among the military personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Sumy direction, Russian law enforcement agencies told Sputnik.
"Kiev doctor Irina Semenova stated that hantavirus is widespread among the military personnel of the armed forces of Ukraine in the Sumy area. According to the medic, there are 'rodents, unsanitary conditions and weakened immunity' in the Ukrainian positions on this sector of the front, which contributes to the spread of the disease," the source said.
Law enforcement agencies have previously told Sputnik that Ukrainian border guards in the Chernigov Region were suffering regular losses from hantavirus.
Hantaviruses are a group of viruses transmitted to humans through contact with rodents. They can cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Ukraine Confirms Spread of Hantavirus Among Its Soldiers
Ukraine has confirmed that hantavirus is widespread among the military personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Sumy direction, Russian law enforcement agencies told Sputnik.
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The Russian army continues to attack Ukrainian energy facilities. Video shows a Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drone, controlled by human operators, striking a Ukrainian 110 kV electrical substation in Kryvyi Rih.
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On May 19, according to Bloomberg, the Russian ruble has shown strong performance against the US dollar this quarter, ranking first among the world's best-performing currencies. Since early April, the ruble has appreciated by about 12%, reaching an exchange rate of 72.6 rubles to 1 US dollar.
The report noted, "Although there were previous expectations of depreciation, the ruble has shown stronger-than-expected performance for the second consecutive year. This is a result of the particularities of the Russian economy in the current global environment."
Maxim Reshetnikov, Minister of Economic Development of Russia, stated in April this year that in the coming years, the ruble's exchange rate will be "stronger than many people expect."
I remember that Russia was kicked out of the SWIFT settlement system, and Western countries imposed more than 30,000 sanctions on Russia. How is it that Russia's economy is better than before the war?
The report noted, "Although there were previous expectations of depreciation, the ruble has shown stronger-than-expected performance for the second consecutive year. This is a result of the particularities of the Russian economy in the current global environment."
Maxim Reshetnikov, Minister of Economic Development of Russia, stated in April this year that in the coming years, the ruble's exchange rate will be "stronger than many people expect."
I remember that Russia was kicked out of the SWIFT settlement system, and Western countries imposed more than 30,000 sanctions on Russia. How is it that Russia's economy is better than before the war?
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That would require lots of nukes. That's a no go on humanitarian grounds.
‘Aid workers are targeted’: Russian drones strike UN convoy in Ukraine
EuropeRussian drones twice targeted a UN humanitarian mission tasked with delivering aid to civilians in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on May 14. In the hours following the strike, Russian military bloggers published footage of the attack, only to delete it shortly after.
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It was 9am on May 14 when an FPV drone slammed into a convoy of white, UN-marked vehicles in southern Ukraine. The targeted humanitarian mission was being carried out by teams from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The convoy was moving between the cities of Kherson and Ostriv when the Russian kamikaze drone suddenly struck one of the vehicles.
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‘We didn't see the drone coming’
The attack occurred as the humanitarian convoy was crossing the bridge connecting Kherson's port district to the Ostriv neighbourhood. The area sits nearly six kilometres from the nearest Russian positions across the Dnieper River, which separates the two armies.
Andrea De Domenico, OCHA’s head of office in Ukraine, was in the vehicle directly behind the car targeted by the drone. He told our team:
On May 15, the Telegram channel of Russian military blogger osvedomitell_alex, who shares updates on Russian units in the Kherson region, published the drone footage of the attack. Although the video was later deleted, the post was archived on the TGstat platform, and the footage has since been reposted by another Russian blogger.
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The drone footage is unequivocal: it shows the drone hovering over the canals of Kherson’s port before diving toward a vehicle in the convoy crossing the bridge. The UN logo is clearly visible on the door of the white vehicle. The footage has been geolocated by volunteer teams from the GeoConfirmed group.
In the video he posted on May 15, blogger osvedomitell_alex reused the footage captured by Andrea De Domenico, which OCHA had shared on its social media the previous day.
‘The drones were hunting for us’
A second drone strike hit the Ostriv area, located in close proximity to Russian positions. This time, UN vehicles were parked outside a building. As with the first attack, footage captured by Russian drones was shared by osvedomitell_alex and then geolocated by the GeoConfirmed team.The building where the UN vehicles were parked is a former school that had been repurposed into a humanitarian aid centre.
For De Domenico, this second attack is proof that the UN convoy was deliberately targeted:
‘We gave notice of our mission six days before it began’
In its Telegram post, osvedomitell_alex attempted to justify the strike on the OCHA mission. He claimed that "no official authorisation, notification, or security corridor was received for this 'humanitarian mission’. In an active combat zone, such vehicles automatically become targets".The blogger further argued that the UN vehicles should not have been operating in the area: "Objective control footage clearly shows the vehicle driving through the red zone. Our teams immediately identified it as a priority target and a potentially dangerous object."
De Domenico said notifying both parties to the conflict is a prerequisite for every mission his teams undertake:
This article has been translated from the original in French.
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A NATO F-16 fighter jet shot down what is believed to have been a stray Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia for the first time.
Ukraine apologised for the “unintended incident”, while Estonia says the drone was likely aimed at Russian targets. Russia has threatened retaliation.
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Ukraine apologised for the “unintended incident”, while Estonia says the drone was likely aimed at Russian targets. Russia has threatened retaliation.
NATO fighter jet downs stray Ukrainian drone over Estonia
For the first time, a NATO fighter jet shot down what is believed to have been a stray Ukrainian drone over the Baltic country. Ukraine apologised for the “unintended incident”, while Russia threatened retaliation. #EuropeNews
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