USA vs Russia...Because Ukraine can't defend itself.

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Putin Faces Pressure in Russia to End War With Ukraine​

President Vladimir Putin is facing increasing pressure to broker an end to the country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine as a growing contingent of his country's citizens have begun to question the benefits of the war against the sizable losses experienced on the Russian side. "The Kremlin's tight control over traditional media sources continues to influence Russian support toward the military operation, especially among those who most trust television news, major print sources, and the radio," analysts for the Chicago Council wrote in a post announcing the findings. "Russians who trust these news sources are more likely to express strong support for the war than those who turn to more-independent outlets." Since the group's last poll in March, there has been a 16 percent drop in the number of Russian citizens who believe the country invaded as an act of "self defense"—as Putin claimed—while the number of respondents unsure of the country's motivations has risen sharply.

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A shot of a Patriot missile battery firing an interceptor in a US Army test. The Patriot missile defense system is a ground-based interceptor able to eliminate airborne threats.

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A Patriot missile battery from the US could create new headaches for Russia in Ukraine and throw a wrench into its terror campaign​

• Ukraine is reportedly slated to receive a US-made Patriot missile defense battery.
• The Patriot is the main air defense system that the US has in its arsenal.
• Its delivery will make new headaches for Russia, which continues to launch missiles and drones at Ukrainian cities.

As Russian forces continue to fire missiles and drones at Ukrainian cities, the US appears to be getting ready to ramp up security assistance in a way that would allow Kyiv to better defend itself against threats from raining down from above. A Patriot battery typically consists of eight launchers armed with four interceptor missiles and support systems like a power vehicle, a radar set, and a control station. An interceptor missile can fly up and eliminate targets at altitudes up to nearly 80,000 feet. These systems have been deployed across Europe and the Middle East.

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Zelenskiy says Ukraine preparing for all defence scenarios​

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that protecting Ukraine's borders was a "constant priority" and that his country was ready for all possible scenarios with Russia and its ally Belarus. "Protecting our border, both with Russia and Belarus - is our constant priority," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. "We are preparing for all possible defence scenarios. "Zelenskiy made his remarks on the eve of a visit to Belarus by Russian President Vladimir Putin's amid discussion of a possible new offensive by Moscow and suggestions it could originate in Belarus. In his address, Zelenskiy issued a new appeal to Western nations to provide Ukraine with effective air defences. He also said his forces were holding the town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, where some of the fiercest fighting has been seen.℅it's

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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 300 of the invasion​

Vladimir Putin has travelled to Belarus to meet the Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, as fears grow in Kyiv that Moscow is pushing its closest ally to join a new ground offensive against Ukraine. Putin described the talks as “very productive” and insisted that Russia has no interest in "aborbing" anyone, adding that unspecified “enemies” wanted to stop Russia’s integration with Belarus. Lukashenko said high level Belarusian-Russian negotiations covered “the entire range of matters concerning Belarusian-Russian relations”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Georgia on Monday to allow its jailed former president to go abroad for treatment to safeguard his health.
Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, was initially credited with implementing reforms. He was later sentenced to six years in prison on abuse of power charges his supporters say are politically motivated.

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US and Iran clash over Russia using Iran drones in Ukraine​

The United States and its allies have clashed with Iran and its ally Russia over Western claims that Tehran is supplying Moscow with drones that have been attacking Ukraine.

The United States and its allies clashed with Iran and its ally Russia over Western claims that Tehran is supplying Moscow with drones that have been attacking Ukraine and the U.S. accused the U.N. secretary-general of “yielding to Russian threats” and failing to launch an investigation. At a contentious Security Council meeting Monday on the resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers, the United States and Iran also accused each other of responsibility for stalled negotiations on the Biden administration rejoining the agreement that former President Donald Trump pulled out of in 2018. Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani insisted Iran’s negotiating team exercised “maximum flexibility” in trying to reach agreement and even introduced an “innovative solution to the remaining issues to break the impasse.” But he claimed the “unrealistic and rigid approach” of the United States led to the current stalled talks on the 2015 agreement, known as the JCPOA.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy arrives at White House as Russian defence minister calls for military to be expanded to 1.5m​

• Volodymyr Zelenskiy has made his first known foreign trip since Russia invaded Ukraine more than 300 days ago, traveling to the US on a high-stakes visit to secure support for his war effort well into next year. The Ukrainian president was filmed travelling with cars outside Przemyśl railway station in Poland.

• Zelenskiy later flew to Washington DC for meetings with the US president, Joe Biden, at the White House and to address politicians in Congress. While in the air, Zelenskiy tweeted that he planned to strengthen the country’s “resilience and defence capabilities”.
• The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has announced an $1.85 billion (£1.53 billion) in additional military assistance for Ukraine, including a transfer of the Patriot air defence system. The assistance includes a $1 billion drawdown to provide Ukraine with “expanded air defence and precision-strike capabilities” and an additional $850 million in security assistance, Blinked said in a statement.
• The Kremlin has said nothing good will come of Zelenskiy’s trip to Washington and that Russia sees no chance of peace talks with Kyiv. In a call with reporters, the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that continued western arms supplies to Ukraine would lead to a "deepening" of the conflict – something that could backfire on Kyiv, he warned.
• The US is reportedly considering formally designating Russia as an “aggressor state” with lawmakers waiting to receive President Zelenskiy’s approval of the proposal when he addresses Congress tonight. The Biden administration has been working with Congress over the last several months on legislation that would formally designate Russia as an “aggressor state”, multiple sources have told CNN.

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Using conscripts and prison inmates, Russia doubles its forces in Ukraine​

Despite heavy combat losses over ten months of brutal war, Russia now has more than double the number of troops poised to fight in Ukraine as it did when it invaded in February, including thousands of convicts released from prison and conscripts from a controversial mobilization drive this fall. According to a new U.S. assessment, the Wagner mercenary group, which fights alongside regular Russian troops in Ukraine, in recent months recruited 40,000 prisoners from all over the country into its ranks. Together, with 300,000 new conscripts and 20,000 volunteers, Russia’s force is now more than double the 150,000 initially allocated to what President Vladimir Putin termed a “special military operation.” The larger Russian force, even after losing an estimated more than 25,000 killed in action and tens of thousands more wounded, backs up Putin’s oft-repeated pledge to press forward until his military objectives in Ukraine are met, even as military experts widely question the level of preparedness and morale among recent recruits.

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Full Lists of the Demands Russia, Ukraine Have Made to End War​

Both Russia and Ukraine in recent days have discussed the subject of peace negotiations over the 10-month-old war in Ukraine. First, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday in an interview with a Russian state TV outlet that he is "prepared to negotiate some acceptable outcomes with all the participants of this process." He added that "it's not us who refuse talks, it's them." On Monday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba spoke with the Associated Press about hopes of holding a "peace summit" in February, with the goal of ending Russia's ongoing attacks on his country. "Every war ends in a diplomatic way," he said. "Every war ends as a result of the actions taken on the battlefield and at the negotiating table."

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Ukraine turning the tables on Russia, close to using 'strike drones' to counter attacks: Live updates​

Ukraine is fighting drones with drones. Russia has relied on Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles as part of its campaign to destroy large segments of the Ukrainian power infrastructure, and the invaded nation is starting to turn the tables. Ukrainian officials have made veiled references to using their own drones in attacks on Russian military bases in recent weeks, including a thwarted strike Monday near the Engels air base, more than 370 miles from the border with Ukraine. The 1,400 UAVs Ukraine has purchased are meant mostly for surveillance and intelligence gathering, but the country is close to developing attacking drones that can fly suicide missions and hit targets, the country's chief technology minister said." The next stage, now that we are more or less equipped with reconnaissance drones, is strike drones,'' Ukrainian digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fedorov told The Associated Press. “I can say already that the situation regarding drones will change drastically in February or March.”

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Russia Pledges to 'Never' Run Out of Rockets After Launching Massive Strike​

Russia's Ministry of Defense pledged that it will "never" run out of missiles after the country launched a barrage of missiles in Ukraine earlier on Thursday amid the ongoing war in the Eastern European country.
The ministry was responding to claims by Western intelligence and military that Moscow is struggling in its fight against Ukraine, The Moscow Times reported. "We will never run out of Kalibrs," the ministry said on Telegram in an apparent reference to the missile strikes it launched in Ukraine as a response to an explosion on the Kerch bridge connecting the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in Russia to with the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine claims Putin considering closing Russian border; Kyiv hit by missile strikes​

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[Oerdin]

Russia has now had to resort to targeting civilian apartment blocks. The reason is anti-missile systems are now guarding most electrical sites as well as water system sites. Of 79 missiles fired at utilities sites on Saturday only 12 made it through. That is a pretty small perfect age.

Since they are not getting much joy against government, military, or public utilities Russian is just finding civilian apartment buildings to blow up.

 

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian defence ministry says 63 servicemen killed in Makiivka​

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Images are coming to us of the humanitarian mission Black Tulip to exhume bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Yampil. Artur Simeiko 26, can be seen cleaning a credit card found on the body of a fallen Ukrainian soldier. Black Tulip searches, exhumes and retrieves bodies of both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers on the battlefield. The bodies of the deceased Russian soldiers they find are exchanged for the bodies of deceased Ukrainian soldiers to return to their families, Reuters reports.

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The suspected mastermind behind the removal of a Banksy mural in a Ukrainian town could face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty, Ukraine’s interior ministry has said. Reuters reports that the artwork, depicting a woman in a gas mask and a dressing gown holding a fire extinguisher, was taken off a wall in the town of Hostomel on 2 December, according to officials. The ministry announced on its website that the man it believes orchestrated the operation had been handed a “suspicion notice”. The artwork by the renowned British artist had been valued at over 9m hryvnia ($243,900), the ministry statement said.

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Russia, shaken by Ukrainian strike, could step up drone use​

Emergency crews on Tuesday sifted through the rubble of a building struck by Ukrainian rockets, killing at least 63 Russian soldiers barracked there, in the latest blow to the Kremlin’s war strategy as Ukraine says Moscow’s tactics could be shifting. An Associated Press video of the scene in Makiivka, a town in the partially Russian-occupied eastern Donetsk region, showed five cranes and emergency workers removing big chunks of concrete under a clear blue sky. In the attack, which apparently happened last weekend, Ukrainian forces fired rockets from a U.S.-provided HIMARS multiple launch system, according to a Russian Defense Ministry statement. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Kremlin’s forces since the war began more than 10 months ago and an embarrassment that stirred renewed criticism inside Russia of the way the war is being conducted.

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[Oerdin]

Supposedly, Putin is going to go for one final role of the dice to see if can pull a win out of the hat. The plan is marshall law and total mobilization, get together an army of 1 million, and then try to push south from Belarus to take Kiev.

I am not sure how he will arm, equip, and supply an army of that size (he can't do that for the current forces) much less actually train them to be useful, but, it might work. I don't see Ukraine ever surrendering and even occupied areas will just turn into Afghanistan style never ending unconventional war. I guess this is really Putin's only choice at this point other than defeat.

 

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US to send Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine​

The United States plans to send Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine in a new security aid package expected to come Friday, U.S. officials told ABC News Thursday. The White House confirmed the plan to send the vehicles later in the day in a readout of President Joe Biden's call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. During the call, Olaf made his own major pledge to Ukraine, saying his country will send Marder infantry fighting vehicles as well as a Patriot air defense system. This will be in addition to a Patriot battery the U.S. committed to Ukraine in late December to help the country thwart Russian airstrikes. The announcements come a day after President Emmanuel Macron announced that his country would be sending armored combat vehicles to help Ukraine in its fight. A U.S. official told ABC News on Wednesday that Bradleys were on the list of equipment being considered. Later that afternoon, President Joe Biden confirmed it when asked by a reporter.

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Russia Plans to Attack Churches During Putin's Christmas Ceasefire: Ukraine​

Ukrainian officials are warning of potential Russian attacks on churches located within occupied territories in association with Orthodox Christmas services, as Russia has reportedly already broken its own proposed ceasefire. Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, also the minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, wrote on Facebook on Friday that she has received warning that Russians plan to attack in the midst of religious services being conducted on January 7—the day Christmas is celebrated in Orthodox churches.

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[Oerdin]

50 Bradley's isn't nearly enough. Ukraine asked for 700 fighting vehicles and is only getting 150 months from now. The reality is Putin is going to declare martial law, close Russia's borders to prevent men escaping, then order full mobilization and full war time footing. We will probably see a million to two million Russians drafted.

Ukraine needs to get it's forces up to match so it can defend itself. NATO needs to be flooding Ukraine with everything we can give them because the Russian war plan calls for invasion from Belarus, Belarus joining, and a push for Kiev. Ukraine needs massive new trench systems built and every man who can hold a gun. Westerners need to train 10 times as many Ukrainian forces and give them everything possible. All gloves off.

 

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