Oorlog in Oekra�ne #938 F16, Mirage en Gripen?

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Op maandag 26 februari 2024 21:50 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Dit is pure bullshit.
Zelensky wilde niet meegaan in dat verzonnen Hunter Biden verhaal van Donald Trump, daarom wil Trump geen steun geven. Pure rancune weer.

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China hits back at US, EU, UK for Russia-related curbs on its companies
BEIJING (Reuters) -China firmly opposes the decisions of Britain, the European Union and the United States to impose sanctions on its companies for Russia-related reasons, its commerce ministry said on Monday.

On Friday, the Biden administration announced new trade curbs on 93 entities from Russia, China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Kyrgyzstan, India and South Korea for supporting Russia's war effort in Ukraine.

The EU had approved on Wednesday its own package of sweeping sanctions against Russia, including some against three Chinese firms and one Hong Kong-based company, while curbs announced by Britain on Thursday included sanctions on three Chinese electronics companies.

"China will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises," the commerce ministry said in three statements on its website.

The latest tranche of sanctions is designed to prevent firms around the world circumventing measures already adopted to keep Moscow from procuring military hardware or equipment needed to replenish its munitions and other military items.

Saturday marked the second anniversary of Russia's war in Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24, 2022.

China warned the European Union and Britain the measures would have a "negative impact" on economic and trade ties, but did not make use of the phrase in its statement aimed at the United States.

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Ukraine now on par with Russia in production of kamikaze drones, Minister Kamyshin says
Ukraine is succeeding both in the production of Shahed analogs and in the production of other attack drones, Minister Alexander Kamyshin said

As of 2024, Ukraine has matched Russia in the production of kamikaze drones, similar to Iranian Shahed-131 and Shahed-136, Alexander Kamyshin, the Minister of Strategic Industries, said in an interview aired during the national telethon.

"As of this year, our ability to produce such drones is no longer inferior to Russia's," he stated.

Ukraine is succeeding both in the production of Shahed analogs and in the production of other attack drones.

"Everything exploding in Russia is all ours," the official said.

Asked a clarifying question about how Ukrainian kamikaze drones are similar to Russian-Iranian drones, Kamyshin said: "In terms of the amount of explosives they carry, and in terms of range, and in terms of other technical parameters."

For the first time, the minister of strategic industries announced in November 2023 that Ukraine had started serial production of Shahed analogs. Dozens of such drones were produced every month at the time.

On February 15, 2024, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that a group of allies was going to join forces and transfer 1 million drones to Ukraine.

The next day, Kamyshyn offered Western NATO allies to purchase 1 million drones for Ukraine from Ukrainian manufacturers.

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Op maandag 26 februari 2024 21:59 schreef aTypisch het volgende:

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niks hoor
grote gedeeltes van bevolkingen geschift noemen heeft wel wat grappigs

daarom vraag ik het, ben jij geschift of heb jij het allemaal door?

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Op maandag 26 februari 2024 21:48 schreef aTypisch het volgende:

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altijd die stomme republikeinen die listig spelen he
listig politiek spelen, hoe is het mogelijk?

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Op maandag 26 februari 2024 21:54 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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De Republikeinen spelen het juist erg dom. Maar goed, ze zijn dan ook overgeleverd aan de grillen van Donald Trump.
Ze hadden eindelijk een overeenkomst om de grens met Mexico dicht te gooien en hulp te bieden aan Oekra�ne. Maar Donald Trump was tegen, toen veranderden de Republikeinen weer van mening

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Russia Presses Neighbor Over Exit From Putin's 'Mini-NATO'
The Kremlin is asking for clarification from Armenia that it had frozen its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a group of post-Soviet states considered to be Moscow's answer to NATO.

A military alliance formed in 2022, the CSTO also consists of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and, akin to Article 5 of NATO's North Atlantic Treaty, an act of aggression against one signatory is considered an attack on all members.

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Denmark drops investigation into Nord Stream pipeline blasts
Country follows Sweden in ending inquiries, saying there is not enough grounds to pursue criminal case

Denmark has dropped its investigation into the 2022 explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines carrying Russian gas to Germany, becoming the second country to do so after Sweden closed a separate inquiry.

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Leaked documents: The Kremlin elite wages a systematic info war against Russian people for billion euros
Estonia's most prominent news portal, Delfi, has obtained documents revealing how the Kremlin is ensuring Putin's election victory, building a nationwide propaganda network and internet censorship machine under the guise of an information war, and integrating occupied territories in Ukraine.

The document reveals detailed plans by the Kremlin, including a budget of approximately 110 billion rubles (about 1.1 billion euros) for activities termed "information warfare" against its society and occupied Ukrainian territories. It highlights the allocation of funds for a nationwide propaganda network, internet censorship, and ensuring a favorable mood among the population in annexed regions. Even movie and TV series content and launches are written down in detail.

For example, the document concerns one of Russia's best-known propagandists, Vladimir Solovyov. According to it, Solovyov received �15 million from the Russian state budget in 2023. For this year, the document foresaw a �30 million grant for Solovyov. A note accompanied it: "We are waiting for a meeting between Solovyov and the President."

Another example is Maria Lvova-Belova, who is the presidential commissioner responsible for children's rights. The International Criminal Tribunal wants her for the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. Lvova- Belova will receive �420,000 this year, according to documents. The comments column says that the money will be explicitly given 'for the removal of children from the area of the special military operation.' The International Criminal Court, however, considers such actions by Lvova-Belova to be war crimes.

The leak comes from the Russian presidential administration's domestic policy bloc, headed by 61-year-old Sergei Kiriyenko. When he became the youngest prime minister in Russian history in the spring of 1998, he was nicknamed Kinder Surprise for his youth and unpredictability. Now, more than 25 years later, he is called the Viceroy of Donbas because he took over the administration and reconstruction of the occupied territories during the war in Ukraine.

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Weird Fact: Mice Are Eating the New Western Military Equipment in Ukraine
Want to hear this incredibly stupid fact which is also very difficult to avoid? Military equipment – large and heavy killing machines, with thick armour, large engines, excellent off-roading characteristics – sometimes suffer from mice. In fact, tiny little field rodents can disable some machines that cost millions of euros. Good maintenance can prevent this issue or at least catch it early, but it is still frustrating that it happens.

French Lefigaro.fr reports that the defenders of Ukraine sometimes prefer to trust old Soviet equipment, because although it is old and primitive, it does not get attacked by mice as much.

Modern weaponry relies on electronic systems. Electronic systems use many different types of wires. Mice love to gnaw on wires. If you ever have had this pest problem at home, you know that a lot of plastic gets eaten. In fact, wiring sometimes is advertised as mouse-proof. Your car has a lot of wires and mice don’t eat them. It can happen, especially if the car is dormant for a long time, but it is not a common issue.

However, the Western world follows the trends it creates. Often – completely blind. For example, environmental friendliness is now talked about at every step, but does military equipment also have to be environmentally friendly? Heavy killing machines that people’s lives depend on should be designed with a particular emphasis on their impact on the environment? Would you want your home to be protected by the toughest and most effective machine, or would you accept that its fighting qualities are slightly inferior for the sake of the environment?

Because that’s exactly the problem that is being reported in Ukraine. Wires in the new Western military equipment sometimes have natural fibre insulation. For example, the plastic used to insulate wires is sometimes replaced with a corn fibre composite. Its advantages include a more environmentally friendly production process and recycling. Disadvantages – mice somehow smell that natural fibre and want to eat it. It turns out that the defenders of Ukraine have already noticed this. Although it is said that the problem is still rare, this fact itself makes Ukrainians frustrated. Heavy military equipment should not break down due to mice.

This most likely happened because cable and wire loom manufacturers produce cables not only for military equipment, but also cars and other more civilian things. And so they focus on corn fibre wires, because that is a good selling point. And the military equipment manufacturers just buy what’s available.

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Russian Army Destroyed Hangars With Corn and Damaged Sheds With Grain in Kharkiv Region
KHARKIV, OBLAST, Feb 26 — In the village of Pisochyn, Kharkiv region, the Russian military destroyed a hangar with corn and damaged two sheds with grain, said the head of the Regional Police Investigation Department, Serhii Bolvinov.

He also noted that a three-meter deep and six-meter diameter crater formed near one of the destroyed hangars. In addition, the Russian attack damaged agricultural machinery.


There is information that the Russians used S-300 missiles to attack the village. Investigators found fragments of such a missile at the hit site, Bolvinov said. Another missile hit the territory of a car repair facility, damaging a car.

No one was injured. Ukrainian law enforcement officers are investigating the hit site.

As reported, on February 25, at around 11 p.m., the Russian military launched two missile strikes from the S-300 system at the village of Pisochyn in the suburbs of Kharkiv, according to the head of the Kharkiv Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov.

Over the past day, the Russian troops launched artillery and mortar attacks on more than 15 settlements in the Kharkiv region. No casualties were reported.

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Op maandag 26 februari 2024 23:11 schreef aTypisch het volgende:

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wat heeft die trump in die 4 jaar in dat witte huis eigenlijk gedaan om vergeleken te worden met nazisme?

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Op maandag 26 februari 2024 23:14 schreef aTypisch het volgende:

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wel eens naar echte staatsgrepen gekeken?

en zelfs als dat zo zou zijn (net als samenwerken met ome putin, is dat al bewezen?): wat heeft dat met hitler en nazisme te maken?