Russia & Ukraine

Nobert said:
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-buys-81-soviet-fighter-jets-from-russian-ally-20k-2024-4

US buys 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russia's ally costing on average less than $20,000 each, report says
Rebecca Rommen
Apr 28, 2024, 5:51 PM GMT+3

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Ukrainian SU-27 fighters escort an SU-24 front-line bomber during an air force exercises on Starokostyantyniv military airbase on October 12, 2018. GENYA SAVILOV | Getty Images
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  • The US has purchased 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Kazakhstan, the Kyiv Post reports.
  • Kazakhstan, a historic ally of Russia, is engaging more with Western nations.
  • The planes may be used for spare parts or deployed as decoys in conflict regions.
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David Cameron visited K-stan this week to continue to open trade and security relations with K-stan. You know that Vlad is not happy with that. They lean more toward the west every month.

Kazakhstan is one of Putin's biggest pains in the arse. As you will recall, after the 3-day war failed, he immediately turned to his two closest allies: Belarus and K-stan for troops and support. K-stan said no. They would not send troops and that although they were not "anti-russian" they were open to relations with relations with the West and direct trade with China, not as a puppet of Moscow. wuh, wuh, wuh??? They have also complied with the west's sanctions on China. Vlad has a problem there.

The sale of those junk planes may seem insignificant but it happens at a time when Cameron and some American diplomats have visited to work with the country to move its military planes and other equipment over to western sources over time.
Atlantic said:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Why-Chinese-Exports-to-Russia-Are-Declining.html

Why Chinese Exports to Russia Are Declining
By Eurasianet - Apr 28, 2024, 2:00 PM CDT
  • Chinese banks are imposing restrictions on Russian wire payments, affecting transactions and imports.
  • Russian imports from all sources, including China, have declined amid US threats of secondary sanctions.
  • Chinese expert expresses doubt about Russia's ability to sustain its war effort in Ukraine due to various internal and external factors.
The US threat of secondary sanctions against enablers of Russian sanctions-busting, especially China, is showing signs of crimping the Russian economy.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a three-day visit to China on April 24 with a stern warning for Beijing: the United States is ready to play hardball to prevent the continuing supply of equipment to Russia that aids the Kremlin’s war effort.

China has denied accusations that it is supplying arms to Russia. Nevertheless, Beijing appears to be taking preventative steps to assuage US concerns. The Russian media outlet Izvestia reported earlier that some major Chinese banks have imposed restrictions on Russian wire payments.

“The situation with payments from Russia to China deteriorated sharply at the end of March. About 80 percent of transactions were returned,” Izvestia reported, citing a “business community” source.

“Today sending yuan to China is a big problem. Because of this, importing equipment in April was very difficult, and this will continue in May,” the outlet cited the source as saying.

Chinese exports to Russia in March of this year were down 15.7 percent compared to the same month in 2023, Bloomberg reported. Russian imports from all sources fell by 18 percent this March.

Other nations are taking note of the secondary sanctions threat, Russian bankers say, adding it is becoming much harder for Russians to move money around. “The situation is developing dynamically and, unfortunately, is not very encouraging,” the Russian media outlet RBC quoted Andrei Kostin, the head of VTB bank, who himself is the subject of US sanctions, as saying. “The number of foreign banks that are ready to continue working with us is constantly decreasing.”

At least one Chinese expert is voicing doubt about the Kremlin’s ability to maintain its war effort and achieve its goals in Ukraine. The Moscow Times published on April 15 a summary of an interview with Feng Yujun, the director of the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, who said multiple factors were working against Russia’s war effort. Among the factors listed by Feng were: the cohesiveness of Ukrainian society in maintaining its war effort; ongoing Western support for Ukraine; Russia’s difficulties with command and control of military operations; flaws in Russian intelligence gathering; and an information bubble in the Kremlin that hinders sound decision-making.

The Moscow Times goes on to cite Feng as saying that Russia at present is “fertile ground for ‘all kinds of black swans,’ that is, various unpredictable events that the Russian government has already faced and will continue to face.”
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Xi is visiting the EU for the first time in five years. He is trying to keep his economy peppy (actually not so peppy) through all this. Not easy. He is beginning to worry about Trump too.
 
Ukraine Army Chief Admits 'Tactical' Retreat Underway

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi has just issued a new dire assessment confirming widespread international reports that Ukraine forces are getting beaten back from the frontlines.

He has confirmed that his outnumbered troops have fallen back to new positions on the eastern front, west of the villages of Berdychi and Semenivka, outside of Avdiivka - and near Novomykhailivka. Gen. Syrskyi has essentially admitted for the first time that a 'tactical' retreat is underway.

"The situation at the front has worsened," Syrskii wrote on Telegram, ironically coming just days after President Biden signed into effect a $61 billion defense aid package for Ukraine. The Pentagon has vowed to ship new weapons as fast as possible, while some Ukrainian officials have been warning that it is too little, too late.
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General Syrskyi and President Zelensky earlier in the war.
"In general, the enemy achieved certain tactical successes in these areas, but could not gain operational advantages," Syrskii said, noting too that Russia has been able to pour additional manpower into the east with ease.

"The enemy has engaged up to four brigades in these directions, and is trying to develop an offensive west of Avdeevka and Maryinka," the top Ukrainian commander said.

The statement also comes following Russia's defense ministry announcing that its forces had captured the village of Novobakhmutivka on Sunday.

The BBC has also verified that a collapse of Ukraine's defenses is underway in certain sectors of Donetsk:

He confirmed Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from some of their positions in an area of Donetsk that had formed part of a defensive line, established after Russia captured Avdiivka in February.

Much of the fighting has been taking place around Chasiv Yar, a Kyiv-controlled stronghold which Russia has been trying to reach after seizing Avdiivka.

New defensive lines had been taken up further to the west in some areas, with Gen Syrskyi conceding the loss of territory to the advancing Russians. Moscow had secured "tactical successes in some sectors," he said.

Syrskyi described that he has rotated in rested Ukrainian brigades to replace units that suffered losses in the recent assault. But he also took note of a fresh Russian troop build-up near Kharkiv in the north.
 
As the Russian man describes it, -

,, Endless convoys of AV's moving through Netherlands towards Poland for the second day ''

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As the Russian man describes it, -

,, Endless convoys of AV's moving through Netherlands towards Poland for the second day ''

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Dutch troops are "on the road again, going to places they have never been...the life I love is making music with my friends....on the road again" as Willie Nelson would say.

First time in my life I have seen three European countries get together and actually reduce regulations to make something happen. :cool:

Agreement on “military Schengen” easing troop movement signed by Poland, Germany and Netherlands

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“We need a military Schengen to move military personnel and materiel more quickly and efficiently,” tweeted Dutch defence minister Kajsa Ollongren.

“We are taking military mobility to a new level on the road to a true military Schengen,” declared Germany’s parliamentary state secretary for defence, Siemtje Möller, quoted by Polskie Radio.


https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/01...ent-signed-by-poland-germany-and-netherlands/

 
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Running out of men to press gang in Ukraine itself, they are now getting the Polish to press gang Ukrainian men who have taken refuge in Poland to force them back into the meat grinder:



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Running out of men to press gang in Ukraine itself, they are now getting the Polish to press gang Ukrainian men who have taken refuge in Poland to force them back into the meat grinder:



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Funny thing is going to happen
Ukraine really wants to extradite those people back by starting millions of criminal cases and then taking those people back by interpol or whatever

lawyers already give consultations for those ukrainians
and the main advice is to get political asylum

that will be obtained by criticising ukrainian government

it's gonna be non stop dirty waterfall from millions ukrainians who were extreme patriots starting probably in the next few days
 
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