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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted on 11/4/22 at 11:21 am to GOP_Tiger
Posted on 11/4/22 at 11:21 am to GOP_Tiger
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I don't think the full details of this aid package have been released yet.
Since it's USAI it is the beginning of the contracting process for the following.
Unlike Presidential Drawdown authority (PDA), which DoD has continued to leverage to deliver equipment to Ukraine from DoD stocks at a historic pace, USAI is an authority under which the United States procures capabilities from industry. This announcement represents the beginning of a contracting process to provide additional priority capabilities to Ukraine. Capabilities include:
Funding to refurbish HAWK air defense missiles for inclusion in future Presidential Drawdown packages;
45 Refurbished T-72B Tanks with advanced optics, communications, and armor packages;
1,100 Phoenix Ghost Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;
40 Armored Riverine Boats;
Funding to refurbish 250 M1117 Armored Security Vehicles;
Tactical secure communications systems and surveillance systems; and
Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.
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Posted on 11/4/22 at 11:34 am to cypher
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1588278849774956545
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The destroyed road spans of the Crimean bridge have now been dismantled.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 11:52 am to StormyMcMan
“#Putin signed a decree on a one-time payment of 195 thousand rubles to mobilized, reports Meduza. Earlier he said that 195 thousand rubles was the minimum monthly payment to the mobilized.
This equates to roughly $3,130.00 USD”
So $10,000 to 300,000 conscripts to surrender would cost $3 billion?
It wouldn’t work in reality for a number of reasons but I do somewhat wonder why we couldn’t just buy off the remaining Russian army on the West Bank of dniper.
Could $1 billion dollars fund a one time payment, amnesty and resettlement of 15,000-20,000 Russian soldiers still on that side of the river and turn over kherson city to Ukraine without a fight? The psychological impact of that outcome as it trickles through the remainder of the Russian ranks would be wild.
This equates to roughly $3,130.00 USD”
So $10,000 to 300,000 conscripts to surrender would cost $3 billion?
It wouldn’t work in reality for a number of reasons but I do somewhat wonder why we couldn’t just buy off the remaining Russian army on the West Bank of dniper.
Could $1 billion dollars fund a one time payment, amnesty and resettlement of 15,000-20,000 Russian soldiers still on that side of the river and turn over kherson city to Ukraine without a fight? The psychological impact of that outcome as it trickles through the remainder of the Russian ranks would be wild.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 12:28 pm to ned nederlander
I like it. 
Posted on 11/4/22 at 12:29 pm to ned nederlander
from The Kyiv Independent...
Russian forces impose 24-hour curfew in occupied Kherson
Kirill Stremousov, the head of the Russian proxies in occupied Kherson Oblast, announced the curfew on Nov. 4, according to Russian state-controlled media RIA Novosti. Stremousov cited the need to defend Kherson from so-called “terrorist attacks.” The Russian occupation government stepped up the deportation of local residents from Kherson Oblast on Nov. 1 amid Ukraine’s continuing counter-offensive. Russia ordered up to 70,000 residents within a 15-kilometer zone east of the Dnieper to be resettled deeper into the region.
Russian forces impose 24-hour curfew in occupied Kherson
Kirill Stremousov, the head of the Russian proxies in occupied Kherson Oblast, announced the curfew on Nov. 4, according to Russian state-controlled media RIA Novosti. Stremousov cited the need to defend Kherson from so-called “terrorist attacks.” The Russian occupation government stepped up the deportation of local residents from Kherson Oblast on Nov. 1 amid Ukraine’s continuing counter-offensive. Russia ordered up to 70,000 residents within a 15-kilometer zone east of the Dnieper to be resettled deeper into the region.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 1:53 pm to MountainTiger
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Here's a video that says Russia destroyed a Chechen special forces battalion in a friendly fire incident. LINK
They couldn't have been a very skilled Special forces battalion if they got wiped out by the Russians.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 1:58 pm to Chromdome35
Those concrete piers don't look to be in great shape either.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 3:39 pm to Jim Rockford
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Those concrete piers don't look to be in great shape either.
The piers appear to be in good shape, very slightly discolored at most. The ones over I-610 to Hwy 225 in Houston looked worse after a tank truck fire caused the span to be replace in the mid 80's. the span was more substantial than the road here seemed to be.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 3:44 pm to Chromdome35
Just some minor damage, amiright? That rail span doesn't look all that hot either.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 3:49 pm to Chromdome35
I hope that juuust when they’re ready to reopen the bridge, the Ukes hit it again.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 4:18 pm to SDVTiger
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How many more days till the Russians run out of food like you claimed previously
Food, ammunition, socks, guns.
Do you read anything besides this board?
Posted on 11/4/22 at 4:26 pm to GOP_Tiger
That’s a big deal for Ukraine. 90 T-72s will outfit an entirely new armored brigade at a time where Ukraine needs armored vehicles in any form but tanks are obviously the cream of the crop. The M117 is a great vehicle that will greatly help with Ukraine’s preference for fast attacks to get behind the Russians front lines and into their rear areas. The only downside is they are wheeled which is normally a plus but right now in the muddy season they really need tracked vehicles. We have so many old M113 APCs that I do t know why we haven’t sent Ukraine a shitload of them. They are outdated for our forces but compared to the Soviet APCs being used by both sides they are more than fit for service and we could actually send them 1,000 of them and it end up being a bet positive for our defense budget so you wouldn’t have to spend anything more on upkeep on them and you’d also be giving Ukrainian infantry some sense of protection when moving at the front. The M113 also comes in so many variants from just a basic APC to a battlefield ambulance, an anti-aircraft variant as well as types with anti tank weapons or grenade launchers mounted on the top. It just seems like a no brained to me for us to be able to get rid of equipment we no longer want or need while at the same time helping Ukraine beat back the Russians. I’d also be pulling out any M119 105 mm howitzers we might have in storage and aren’t using anymore and send those. Artillery is artillery. It doesn’t have to be our M777s to be effective. I’m also a little surprised we haven’t sent them any Bradley’s either. We have an abundance of those. Obviously Abrams just aren’t a wise choice to send as the Ukrainians would need a lot of time to learn how to operate and maintain them, especially their engines, but Bradleys run on diesel engines which they already are well versed in working on.
This post was edited on 11/4/22 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 11/4/22 at 4:27 pm to DJFord
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socks
Even if you are soaked putting on dry socks is a gift from the gods.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 4:29 pm to SDVTiger
Let me help you:
The Times of London
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Hours after western officials warned that Russia’s army is facing another humiliating defeat in Ukraine’s south where Russian forces have abandoned their positions, Putin said those living in Kherson should flee.
Russian commanders are said to have fled the frontline, leaving “demoralised and leaderless” conscripts to face a Ukrainian advance. Analysts predict a Ukrainian victory by the end of the year.
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A clip on Telegram shows a Russian-installed official telling civilians “everything is fully under control” as he appears to be fleeing in a car. Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Kherson military-civilian administration, insisted that life was “continuing as normal” despite filming the video from the front seat of a car with the back obscured by suitcases and bags.
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The officials said Russian forces were running low on ammunition and the Kremlin was importing artillery shells from North Korea. After Putin ordered 300,000 men to be conscripted, freshly mobilised troops were turning up on the front line without weapons. “In Kherson, most echelons of command have withdrawn across the river leaving demoralised and leaderless men,” an official said.
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Kyiv’s military intelligence accused Russia of looting solar power plants from Kherson and forcing people out of their homes so soldiers could move in. Russian troops were reported to be dressing as civilians and stealing cars as well as taking children from boarding schools in Kherson to Crimea, where they were being housed in a “psychiatric hospital”.
The Times of London
Posted on 11/4/22 at 4:44 pm to mmcgrath
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That rail span doesn't look all that hot either.
Stress relieved steel!
Posted on 11/4/22 at 5:26 pm to DJFord
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Kyiv’s military intelligence accused Russia of looting solar power plants from Kherson and forcing people out of their homes so soldiers could move in. Russian troops were reported to be dressing as civilians and stealing cars as well as taking children from boarding schools in Kherson to Crimea, where they were being housed in a “psychiatric hospital”
This morning there was a pic on twitter of them ransacking the Kherson art museum.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 5:35 pm to Jim Rockford
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This morning there was a pic on twitter of them ransacking the Kherson art museum.
It’s a Russian tradition. After the end of the Cold War, Putin (who was working in east Germany as a KGB spy) returned to what is now Saint Petersburg with a washing machine.
Today he is worth over $200 billion.
But Zelensky is the money laundering thief….
This post was edited on 11/4/22 at 5:36 pm
Posted on 11/4/22 at 5:36 pm to DJFord
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This morning there was a pic on twitter of them ransacking the Kherson art museum. It’s a Russian tradition. After the end of the Cold War, Putin (who was working in east Germany as a KGB spy) returned to what is now Saint Petersburg with a washing machine. Today he is worth over $200 billion. But Zelensky is the money laundering thief…. This post was edited on 11/4 at 5:36 pm
Both are true.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 5:41 pm to Warfox
I love this snippet from the Times story:
Someone will make a hilarious black comedy about this Russian fiasco like The Death of Stalin.
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A clip on Telegram shows a Russian-installed official telling civilians “everything is fully under control” as he appears to be fleeing in a car. Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Kherson military-civilian administration, insisted that life was “continuing as normal” despite filming the video from the front seat of a car with the back obscured by suitcases and bags.
Someone will make a hilarious black comedy about this Russian fiasco like The Death of Stalin.
This post was edited on 11/4/22 at 5:43 pm
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