Tag: mines
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[Sharing] 33 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik
On this day, 80 years ago, the Soviet troops started their assault on Königsberg while the 3rd Ukrainian front was breaking through Nazi defenses around Vienna, Austria [end] Related April 5, 2025: 34 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik April 4, 2025: 35 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik April 3, 2025: 36 Days to Victory Day…
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[Sharing] It’s Official: Ukraine Conflict is British ‘Proxy War’ – Kit Klarenberg
On March 29th, the New York Times published a landmark investigation exposing how the US was “woven” into Ukraine’s battle with Russia “far more intimately and broadly than previously understood,” with Washington almost invariably serving as “the backbone of Ukrainian military operations.” The outlet went so far as to acknowledge the conflict was a “proxy…
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[Sharing] Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice – Big Serge
The Zaporizhia Summer Blockbuster It has been a while since I published anything long-form commenting on the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, and I confess that writing this article gave me a modicum of trouble. Ukraine’s much anticipated grand summer counteroffensive has now been underway for about eighty days with little to show for it. The summer…
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[Sharing] Who is Responsible for Ukraine’s Failed Counteroffensive? – Scott Ritter, Sputnik
On a normal summer’s day, the road to Rabotino would be empty, save for the odd combine tractor and the vehicles driven by farmers and their families as they tend to the fields of crops they had planted in spring. The summer’s heat would reflect off the horizon, creating glimmering mirages, while the still air…
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[Sharing] Ukrainian Counteroffensive’s Second Week Ends in Failure – Scott Ritter
Operation enters the second week of Ukraine’s long-awaited and highly touted counteroffensive, some basic conclusions can be drawn even though the fighting continues, and will continue to rage, for some time to come. First and foremost, the counteroffensive gambit has failed. While there is still considerable combat strength left in the Ukrainian military, including more…
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[Sharing] Strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant – Russian MFA
Chronology The first information about the Ukrainian military mining the dam and hydraulic structures of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant appeared as far back as September 15, 2014. Reports by the Voenkor.Info agency indicated that Ukrainian sappers began installing engineering ammunition at these facilities in order to prevent the Novorossiya separatists from gaining control over…
Nicolas Cinquini 