re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Honestly, I think we need to focus on the evil here in our own country. Plenty of that to go around

ISW Update

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Key Takeaways:

The anticipated Russian 2024 winter-spring offensive effort is underway in the Kharkiv-Luhansk Oblast border area.

Ukrainian officials continued to deny rumors about the purported dismissal of Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi.

Russian forces appear to be continuing to violate the Chemical Weapons Convention to which Russia is signatory.

Russian Army General Alexander Dvornikov was reportedly appointed the new chairperson of the Russian Volunteer Society for Assistance to the Army, Aviation, and Navy of Russia (DOSAAF).

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev made offensive and inflammatory comments about Japan while asserting Russia’s rights to the disputed Kuril Islands, likely as part of wider Kremlin efforts to demonstrate Russia’s support of China against the US alliance system in the Indo-Pacific.

Senior Russian officials may be intensifying their attempts to frame and justify Russia’s long term war effort in Ukraine as an existential geopolitical confrontation with the West by explicitly equating the US with the Nazis.

Russian opposition sources suggested that widespread internet outages in Russia on January 30 may be the result of Russian efforts to establish the “sovereign internet” system.

The Kremlin has been intensifying efforts to consolidate control over the Russian information space in advance of the March 2024 Russian presidential election, and these efforts support the development of the “sovereign internet” system.

Russian forces recently made confirmed advances near Bakhmut and Horlivka amid continued positional engagements along the entire line of contact on January 30.

The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported that the Russian defense industrial base (DIB) can produce at least 100 main battle tanks per month and is therefore able to replace battlefield losses, allowing Russian forces to continue their current tempo of operations “for the foreseeable future.”

Russian authorities are planning to increase the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia in 2024.

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If you ask Lima they are impenetrable to everything from drones to nukes but I guess Putin’s cum has some psychedelic properties to it that make you trip balls. We all know what happened the last time the Russians, or should I say Soviets then, dumped so much money into their military while neglecting other areas of their economy. Let them keep spending, the bill eventually comes due. They will get a wrecked economy and a piece of eastern Ukraine that is now a wasteland for their efforts that they will be responsible to pay the bill on too before this war is ended at the negotiating table.

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Russian defense spending was 6.2% of GDP in 2023 and is expected to rise to 8% in 2024.

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After you go wash your hands, you can read LINK ]this or this:

MOSCOW, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his official approval to a significant increase in military spending that will see around 30% of fiscal expenditure directed towards the armed forces in 2024 as he signed draft budget plans into law on Monday.

Moscow is diverting ever more resources towards prosecuting its war in Ukraine. Spending on defence and security combined is set to reach around 40% of all budget expenditure next year.

The budget plans had already been approved by lawmakers in both houses of parliament, the State Duma and Federation Council.

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Honestly, I think we need to focus on the evil here in our own country. Plenty of that to go around

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Certainly, but the world is too small to think you can just sit in your man cave and you will be protected.

I'm pretty sure that was all debunked by end of day yesterday. It was priginally from a Russian telegram channel

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Speaking of new weapons systems hitting the battlefield, Ukraine officially has the first Skynex short range air defense battery in country and I must say, it is one badass piece of hardware.

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I wonder if Ukraine is being paid to test it in the field?

Ukrainian commander says Russian airbase in Crimea hit in attack

by Elsa Court and The Kyiv Independent news desk January 31, 2024 11:43 PM

Balbek airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea was hit in an attack, Air Force Commander General Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram on Jan. 31.

Videos emerged on local Telegram channels earlier in the afternoon showing a series of explosions in Russian-occupied Crimea. The airfield is located a few kilometers north of Sevastopol.

Oleshchuk shared a video showing an explosion and thanked "everyone who participated in the clearing the Russian presence out of Crimea."

"Ukrainian aviators will definitely return home to their native airfield," Oleshchuk said, referring to Ukraine's 204th Sevastopol Tactical Aviation Brigade, which was based at Balbek airfield before Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014.

Ukrainska Pravda reported that the attack on the airbase was carried out using Scalp/Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, citing a source in the military.

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