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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 10:58 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Even los van opperkneus Scott Ritter, Zelensky heeft afgelopen februari nog 31.000 Oekraiense doden gecommuniceerd... De VS hadden het over een kleine 70.000..

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 13:35 schreef Joppiez het volgende:

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70k doden (ookalweer van een tijd terug, kan nu best ergens tussen de 80k-90k liggen) klinkt bij mij best aannemellijk.

De vraag is dan, hoe veel zijn er "uitgeschakeld", dus niet meer (in de toekomst) geschikt om te vechten?
Ik denk dat het wel aannemelijk is dat de totaalsom uitgeschakeld (inclusief dood) ergens in de 150-200k range ligt. Bij de Russen ligt dit aantal schat ik in de 400k-500k range.

Naar mijn mening is dit voor Oekraine al een zeer pessimistische scenario, want deze getallen betekenen natuurlijk dat Oekraine eerder tegen een muur aanloopt dan de Russen. Oekraine moet minimaal 3 a 4 Russen uitschakelen per gesneuvelde Oekraiense.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 13:36 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Da's aan de Oekra�ense zijde inclusief burgers dacht ik. Bij de Russen is dat aantal te verwaarlozen.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 13:45 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Zweden, Finland, Nederland, Estland en het VK hebben nu allemaal gezegd dat door hun geleverde spullen gebruikt mogen worden op doelen in Rusland. Klopt dat?

In de VS is men bezig om die toestemming te krijgen. Status pending.

Itali� en Duitsland zijn nog tegen.

Wat hebben Frankrijk en Polen gezegd?

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 16:46 schreef Cilantro het volgende:
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Zou mooi zijn maar er is geloof ik nogal wat weerstand tegen dit idee.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 16:46 schreef Cilantro het volgende:
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Zou mooi zijn maar er is geloof ik nogal wat weerstand tegen dit idee.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 17:10 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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En of het �berhaupt zoden aan de dijk zet gezien de staat van de krijgsmacht.

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En of het �berhaupt zoden aan de dijk zet gezien de staat van de krijgsmacht.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 16:46 schreef Cilantro het volgende:
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Zou mooi zijn maar er is geloof ik nogal wat weerstand tegen dit idee.

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Eight EU countries support Ukraine’s integration into the European defense industry
A group of eight EU countries advocates Ukraine’s integration into the European defense industry.

Militarnyi reported on this.

The Danish Ministry of Defense stated that this Danish initiative had been supported by Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Poland.

On the initiative of Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, the defense ministers of these countries sent a joint letter to the European Commission, the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, the European Defense Agency and other European countries regarding Ukraine’s integration into the European defense industry.

In the letter, the ministers proposed four specific areas of EU cooperation with the Ukrainian defense industry.

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“Together with seven other defense ministers, we plan to prepare an EU action plan for Ukraine’s integration into the European defense industry as soon as possible. Among other things, it should ensure Ukraine’s access to the EU defense industry and defense innovation programs. A strengthened Ukrainian defense industry is important for Ukraine – and for our security of supplies in Europe,” said Troels Lund Poulsen.

The joint letter also emphasizes the need to build up equipment maintenance capacities in Ukraine through industrial partnership.

“To make this happen, we need to create a good EU framework for building long-term and strategic industrial partnerships between Ukrainian and European companies,” says Poulsen.

The Minister noted that Denmark had taken the first step and decided to invest directly in the Ukrainian defense industry.

In April, the Danish government announced an additional military aid package for Ukraine. According to the report, the decision provides for the allocation of DKK 200 million for investments in the Ukrainian defense industry.

Danish MPs and government representatives were shown samples that can be purchased as part of military assistance to Ukraine.

In May, the Danish government announced a new military aid package that included air defense systems and funding for the transfer of F-16 fighter jets.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 13:35 schreef Joppiez het volgende:

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70k doden (ookalweer van een tijd terug, kan nu best ergens tussen de 80k-90k liggen) klinkt bij mij best aannemellijk.

De vraag is dan, hoe veel zijn er "uitgeschakeld", dus niet meer (in de toekomst) geschikt om te vechten?
Ik denk dat het wel aannemelijk is dat de totaalsom uitgeschakeld (inclusief dood) ergens in de 150-200k range ligt. Bij de Russen ligt dit aantal schat ik in de 400k-500k range.

Naar mijn mening is dit voor Oekraine al een zeer pessimistische scenario, want deze getallen betekenen natuurlijk dat Oekraine eerder tegen een muur aanloopt dan de Russen. Oekraine moet minimaal 3 a 4 Russen uitschakelen per gesneuvelde Oekraiense.

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Spiegel: Baltic states and Poland name conditions for sending troops to Ukraine
The Baltic states and Poland do not rule out sending their troops into Ukraine. However, this could happen under certain conditions.

The German publication Der Spiegel reported on this.

According to the publication, this may happen if Russia achieves significant success on the frontline due to insufficient assistance from the West.

Spiegel claims that at a conference held in the Estonian capital last week, unnamed Baltic MPs warned German government officials about the consequences of Berlin’s policy regarding the war in Ukraine.

It regards the German side’s unwillingness to provide long-range weapons to Ukraine, as well as the prohibition of strikes by Western weapons on military targets in Russia.

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Der Spiegel claims that representatives of Poland and the Baltic states warned Berlin:

“If the Russians achieve a strategic breakthrough in eastern Ukraine, they will not wait for the deployment of Russian troops on their borders and will send troops to Ukraine themselves.”

The publication writes that “this will mean that NATO will become a party to the war,” and notes that this is exactly what German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden fear.

In early March, Poland’s Foreign Minister said that the discussion of Western troops in Ukraine was useful for influencing Russia.

A week earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron said that “we cannot rule out” the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine. He later added that his resonant words had been carefully considered.

Czech President Petr Pavel also believes that Europe should not limit its ability to support Ukraine. He called for expanding forms of assistance, including the possible presence of foreign troops in Ukraine.

And a week ago, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that some countries had already sent their instructors to Ukraine to train the Ukrainian military.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 17:54 schreef Joppiez het volgende:

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Grappig altijd die tegenspraak.

Dan is de NAVO oppermachtig, Rusland gaat heus niet aanvallen enzo. En de volgende dag is het weer een zwak clubje wat zichzelf niet kan verdedigen.

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1st Assault Battalion recruits volunteers in prisons

Officers of the 1st Separate Mechanized Battalion “Da Vinci Wolves” named after Dmytro Kotsiubaylo showed how they recruit volunteers in prisons for the war against Russia.

Dmytro Savchenko, a battalion officer, spoke about working with prisoners.

“We jumped into this process and addressed the prisoners in the most understandable language… After all, we were on the other side of the barricades and knew the patterns and algorithms. And our prisoners are much more ideological than the nasty PMC Wagner,” says the author of the photo.

In his post, Savchenko published a photo in one of the penitentiary institutions during the recruitment of prisoners.

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On May 17, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed Law 11079-1 authorizing the mobilization of certain categories of prisoners into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The draft law was initiated by the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, and supported by the Ministry of Justice.

The law allows for the conditional early release of certain categories of convicts who have expressed a desire to be mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine and sign a contract by a court decision. Previously, convicts could not join the army.

In exchange for the possibility of parole after completing their service, volunteers convicted of minor crimes will be able to join the Armed Forces. However, a prerequisite has been set: no more than three years of their sentence should remain until the end of their term.

According to the draft law, prisoners for the following crimes cannot be mobilized:
• against the foundations of national security of Ukraine;
• intentional murder of two or more persons or combined with rape;
• sexual violence;
• those who have a criminal record for committing criminal offenses under Articles 152-156-1 (crimes against sexual freedom), 258-258-6 (terrorism), part four of Article 286-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fatal road accidents while intoxicated), unless such convictions have been canceled or removed in accordance with the procedure established by law;
• those who have attempted to kill law enforcement officers;
• those who committed particularly serious corruption violations;
• those who held a particularly responsible position regardless of the article of the crime (ministers, deputies, their deputies, assistants, etc.).

In an interview with The New York Times, Justice Minister Denys Maliuska said that as of the end of the month, almost 350 prisoners had already been released.

According to Maliuska, the judiciary is already reviewing most of the 4,300 applications submitted by volunteers so far.

He added that about 20,000 such applicants, including those in pre-trial detention centers, could be recruited.

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‘Putin’s patience snapped’: Insiders marvel at Russia’s military purge
Under new defence minister Andrei Belousov, FSB is tackling corruption aggressively with serious implications for Ukraine

_{Andrei Belousov (left) has been charged with reducing corruption within Russia’s military. Photograph: Dmitry Harichkov/Russian defence ministry Press Service/HAND/EPA}

In the weeks since Vladimir Putin sacked his longtime defence minister Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s FSB security service has pursued a series of high-level corruption cases against a deputy minister and department heads in what many insiders are now calling a purge in the defence ministry.

Andrei Belousov, the technocrat economist appointed to replace Shoigu, has a mandate to reduce corruption in the defence ministry and streamline military production for a long war against Ukraine that could largely be decided by industrial output.

But former defence and Kremlin officials, ex-officers and foreign observers have said it was likely the exit of Shoigu and loss of his protection that has allowed the FSB, the Russian security department responsible for internal investigations, to take down powerful officials in a power struggle that could have knock-on effects for how Russia fights the war in Ukraine.

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“The FSB finally got their teeth in the defence ministry and general staff,” said Capt John Foreman, the UK’s former defence attache to Moscow, who said he believed the arrests could continue after “Putin’s patience had finally snapped”.

“Shoigu and Gerasimov provided a buffer, but now Putin decided he had to do something,” he said. “Shoigu kept the FSB largely away from the ministry throughout his tenure, there were very few arrests. Once the FSB has their teeth in you, who knows how far they will go.”

Throughout the war in Ukraine, Shoigu and Gerasimov have come under fire from pro-war advocates for the military’s setbacks and their failure to eradicate pervasive corruption within the armed forces. Last summer, this dissatisfaction reached its peak when Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner paramilitary group, initiated an unsuccessful rebellion against the military’s leaders.

Interagency rivalries run deep in Russia, and Shoigu’s ouster may have given investigators in the FSB and investigative committee an opportunity to dust off criminal cases against the top brass in an effort to seek promotions and praise.

“It’s the dream of any investigator to put a real live deputy minister of defence in prison, it’s cool, it’s the dream of a lifetime,” said one former Kremlin official. “You get new epaulettes for that, a promotion, some kind of award. You can earn a reputation for that.”

In the case of high-level prosecutions, the official said, Putin would probably be informed before an arrest was sought. But, the official added, he said it was unlikely the corruption cases were being initiated by the Kremlin itself.

In the span of a month, four top defence officials were arrested on corruption charges, marking the most significant crackdown in the defence ministry in years. The purge began on 23 April with the shock arrest of the veteran deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov for suspected bribe-taking.

Addressing the recent series of arrests, the Kremlin on Thursday denied any suggestion of a crackdown within the defence ministry.

“The fight against corruption is consistent work,” the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. “It is not a campaign, it is constantly ongoing work.”

Ivanov was a long-term confidant and protege of Sergei Shoigu. His detention is believed to have laid the groundwork for Shoigu’s dismissal, who was subsequently replaced as defence minister by Belousov.

In the weeks that followed, additional high-ranking officials were detained. These included Yuri Kuznetsov, the head of the ministry’s personnel department, and Vadim Shamarin, the head of the communications department of the Russian general staff. Hours after Shamarin’s arrest on Thursday, Russia’s investigative committee also reported detaining another defence ministry official – Vladimir Verteletsky, who headed a division in the state defence procurement department of the ministry.

While the Kremlin announced earlier this month that Russia’s top general, Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff, would retain his position, the arrest of Shamarin, a direct deputy of Gerasimov, could weaken the general’s standing within the military hierarchy.

“The probability of Gerasimov’s dismissal has gone up. I would sell my shares in him right now,” said Foreman.

A former defence official said the arrests showed that the balance of power had swung in favour of Russia’s security services, while its military appears in disarray.

“The FSB’s department of counterintelligence operations (1st division) is becoming increasingly powerful. They currently hold all the cards and are tightening the screws,” said the official, who worked closely with Ivanov and Shoigu.

“It is not that Belousov’s arrival led to the purges, but the departure of Shoigu and his strongmen resource that enabled the arrest,” the official continued. “Shoigu in the end was a silovik [member of the security elite] and had their backing.”

Russian prosecutors have also gone after a senior general best known for his criticism of Shoigu and Gerasimov.

Maj Gen Ivan Popov, who commanded the 58th Combined Arms force, said last summer that he had been fired after he brought up problems on the battlefield, including the lack of counter-battery fire, and deaths and injuries the army was suffering from Ukrainian attacks. Popov, who Russian media said stood accused of stealing 100m roubles (�868,569) of metal, was arrested on Tuesday and placed in a pre-detention facility.

Gleb Irisov, a former Russian air force lieutenant who left the military in 2020, said he had spoken with an FSB source before the arrests who told him that the purge in the defence ministry would be prompted mainly by its failures in Ukraine.

“Under Sergei Shoigu, the defence ministry became heavily influenced by his personal network,” said Irisov. “From senior commanders to lower staff, key positions were filled with Shoigu’s picks – friends or friends of friends. He even created numerous deputy positions specifically for his allies.”

Those have included a reported mistress of Sergei Shoigu’s who headed companies that earned millions of pounds from contracts with the defence ministry.

Irisov said he regularly discovered substandard equipment in the military, including lightbulbs that melted at supersonic speeds while flying Russia’s modern Su-35 air-defence fighter, as well as shoddy trucks and air defence systems unable to shoot down modern drones. He said in part their deficiencies were the result of corruption under Shoigu.

“The overall quality of the military suffered because funds were routinely embezzled,” he said. “Military exercises often existed only on paper, as the allocated money was siphoned off.”

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SOF operators attacked Russian positions in the Kharkiv region and captured prisoners

^{SOF operators during the battle in Kharkiv region. May 2024. Frame from the SOF`s video}

Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully raided Russian positions in the Kharkiv region.

Militarnyi reported on this.

Footage of the combat work of the Ukrainian Special Forces was shown by the press service of the SOF.

During an attack on the positions of the Russian invaders in the middle of a forest or a forest plantation, operators of the 8th Separate Special Forces Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used small arms in close combat.

Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces also used hand grenades and disposable grenade launchers to destroy the invaders in dugouts and trenches.

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⚡Харківщина. Оператори ССО України здійснили успішний наліт на ворожі позиції

The SOF said that the enemy had not had time to recover before operators of the combat group of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had already been at their positions.

^{Russian prisoners in the Kharkiv region. May, 2024. Frame from the SOF video}

As a result of successful combat operations in the Kharkiv region, 11 Russian soldiers were killed and three were captured.

“As our comrades say, in such situations, the main thing for the enemy is not to give up, because then they will have a chance to survive and return home someday, and not become military fatalities,” the SOF said.

On May 10, Russian invasion forces began their assault operations in the north of the Kharkiv region and are now trying to capture the city of Vovchansk. However, the Ukrainian soldiers are repelling them, destroying the invaders’ infantry and military equipment.

^{Stryker armored personnel carriers of Ukrainian paratroopers in Vovchansk. May, 2024. Ukraine. Frame from the 82nd Brigade`s video}

The beginning of the Russian assault, although relatively quick, was partially halted by Ukrainian troops who were sent to this area.

Due to the prompt actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, they managed to break some units and capture Russian soldiers, who will be exchanged for Ukrainian soldiers in the future.

^{Captured Russian soldiers in the Kharkiv region. Photo credits: Shaun Pinner}

Battles for individual settlements in the border area and urban battles in Vovchansk are ongoing, where the Russian invaders are trying to gain a foothold.

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Biden calls Putin "brutal tyrant"
US President Joe Biden referred to Vladimir Putin, the head of the Kremlin, as a "brutal tyrant" while discussing Russia's assault against Ukraine.

Source: Biden in his address to graduates at the US Military Academy at West Point, as reported by European Pravda

Details: During the speech, the American president confirmed the unwavering support of the United States for Ukraine in the war with Russia.

"We are standing strong with Ukraine and we will stand with them. We're standing against a man whom I've known well for many years, a brutal tyrant. We may not, we will not walk away," Biden said.

Biden emphasised that the US will continue to give weapons and train the Ukrainian military, but he ruled out sending US soldiers to Ukraine.

"There are no American soldiers in the war in Ukraine. I'm determined to keep it that way," he said.

Biden added that Putin was "certain that NATO would fracture."

"Today the greatest defence alliance in the history of the world is stronger than ever," he said.

In February, US President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a "crazy son of a bitch" during a fundraising event in San Francisco. The Kremlin has labelled these words a "disgrace".

In March, Biden called Putin a thug.

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FPV drone hit the Uragan MRL at a distance of 25 km

^{Hit of the Russian Uragan MRL by a Ukrainian FPV drone, May 2024. Photo credits: "Adam" tactical task force}

A Ukrainian FPV drone hit the Uragan multiple launch rocket system at a distance of 25 kilometers from the combat line.

The Adam tactic group published the footage of the defeat.

Aerial reconnaissance of the 79th Air Assault Brigade discovered a Russian BM-27 Uragan MLRS at a firing position 25 kilometers from the front line.

The Russian artillery system was destroyed by the pilots of the Adam tactic group’s drones, who successfully hit the Russian system using an FPV drone with a powerful warhead.

“This multiple rocket launcher came to a firing position and managed to launch three missiles… There was no detonation after the hit, so it was most likely already empty, but given the warhead on the drone, it will need to be repaired!” the soldiers said.

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FPV-дрон уразив "Ураган" на відстані 25 км [Травень 2024]

The Uragan MLRS can use HE-FRAG, chemical, explosive or scatterable mine submunition equipped rockets and can engage targets within a range of 35 kilometers, so it is often used by the invaders to fire behind the front line for counter-battery or mining purposes.

However, given the location of the destroyed vehicle, it can be assumed that it was firing at Ukrainian positions located directly on the line of contact.

A 25-kilometer zone in the rear of the enemy has already become operational for strike drones thanks to the development of FPV drone technologies and communication technologies.

The area of operation of the FPV drones covers all possible firing positions of such Russian artillery systems as D-20 and D-30 howitzers, 2S1 Gvozdika and 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled guns, and Grad multiple rocket launchers. In addition, to operate deep into Ukrainian territory, Uragan MLRSs are also forced to enter this zone.

^{Ukrainian FPVs hit a Russian Grad-1 MRL. March, 2024. Frame from the video of the 100th Mechanized Brigade}

A week earlier, a Ukrainian HIMARS destroyed a Russian transport and load vehicle with ammunition for the Uragan MLRS.

The Ukrainian military used the US HIMARS rocket system to destroy the vehicle. Its precision-guided munition hit the vehicle.

The vehicle’s crew and other invaders who were nearby were probably killed or injured.

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Dutch counterterrorism agency on high alert for signs of Russian sabotage
The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) is on high alert for signals of Russian sabotage in the Netherlands. It’s working closely with the police and security services to quickly identify signals of subversive operations and disrupt them, the NCTV told the Telegraaf after a series of suspected sabotage incidents in other European countries.

In November, construction workers in Karlsruhe, Germany, found an explosive during maintenance on a high-voltage pylon, the local authorities announced on Friday. A forensic investigation determined that it had been buried at the high-voltage pylon, which is within a few hundred meters of a NATO kerosene pipeline, no more than 18 months earlier.

Two men were also recently arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting to sabotage a military base, according to the newspaper. Poland reported disrupting at least one network of agents plotting to sabotage the country’s rail network. Two men are standing trial in the United Kingdom for a fire in a warehouse containing aid supplies for Ukraine. And Sweden is investigating several mysterious train derailments,.

The NCTV expects Russia to also target the Netherlands, a spokesperson told the Telegraaf. Russia “deploys various hybrid activities against the Netherlands and our allies. That includes espionage and pre-positioning for sabotage of vital infrastructure and attacks,” the agency said “The NCTV takes this threat very seriously and works with all Ministries, intelligence and security services, and the police to collect signals where such threats may occur.”

The Netherlands puts a lot of effort into preventing these types of threats, the NCTV said. “The government has a wide range of instruments at its disposal for this purpose and is committed to increasing resilience against hybrid and other state threats.”

According to the military intelligence service MIVD, Dutch internet cables, gas pipelines, and wind farms at sea are vulnerable to sabotage. “Russia is secretly mapping this infrastructure and undertaking activities that indicate espionage and preparations for disruption and sabotage,” the MIVD said in its annual report. Sabotage in the Netherlands itself is “conceivable, as long as such attacks can be carried out in secret. It could be useful for Russia to prepare for physical disruption and sabotage.”

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:12 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
Zou zo'n sabotage actie, als daar wapens of explosieven bij gebruikt worden, een artikel 5 kunnen opleveren als deze succesvol is?

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'It has gone very far:' EU countries voice exasperation over Hungary's vetoes on Ukraine aid
Hungary continues to veto EU military assistance to Ukraine, preventing member states from getting their donations partially reimbursed.

Foreign affairs ministers of the European Union did not mince words on Monday when expressing their exasperation about Hungary's long-running veto on military assistance for Ukraine, covering �6.5 billion.

"It has gone very, very far," said Lithuania's Gabrielius Landsbergis.

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The blockage began a year ago when Budapest refused to endorse a �500-million tranche under the European Peace Facility (EPF), an off-budget tool that allows member states to obtain partial reimbursements for the military equipment they send to Kyiv.

The dispute, which has caused a great deal of frustration among EU diplomats, was exacerbated after member states reached in March a hard-fought deal to top up the EPF with an additional �5 billion, designed to be rolled out until the end of the year.

Hungary's veto on the �500-million envelope has affected two others of the same size, amounting to �1.5 billion in total. The impasse also means the next �5 billion cannot move forward, creating an across-the-board obstruction of EU aid. As a result, countries have shifted to bilateral donations that bypass Brussels.

The delays have become an embarrassment for the bloc, as Ukraine battles a new hard-hitting offensive by Russian troops in the northeast region and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleads with the West to step up supplies of weapons and ammunition.

On Saturday, Russian air strikes against a supermarket in Kharkiv killed at least 16 people and left 65 injured, according to local authorities.

Frustration grows
"We cannot accept that a single country, which also signed in favour of this amount a few months ago during a summit between heads of state, is now blocking this crucial aid for Ukraine," said Belgium's Hadja Lahbib, upon arriving at the meeting.

"We must absolutely assume our responsibilities and do what is necessary to help Ukraine militarily," she added.

Her Estonian counterpart, Margus Tsahkna, said that "every time" ministers come to Brussels, they are faced with Hungary's vetoes on "very important initiatives."

"We have to take down the (blockage) in the meaning that we have to convince Hungary. But it's crucial that Ukraine needs this kind of support," Tsahkna told reporters.

Latvia's Baiba Bra�e said the EU's political unity should translate into "actual, practical deliverables" and lamented a "number of issues" being held up in the Council.

"We expect those member states to relent," she said.

Lithuania's Landsbergis delivered the most scathing assessment, decrying the Hungarian attitude as a "systematic approach towards any efforts by the EU to have any meaningful role in foreign affairs." The minister referred to Ukraine's accession process and Georgia's "foreign influence" law as instances in which Budapest attempted to derail collective decisions.

Prime Minister Viktor Orb�n has defied the Western consensus by conducting overt Russian-friendly policy and demanding concessions to water down sanctions.

"It's not case by case. And we have to start talking about this," Landsbergis said. "I know that in some cases it might look as a non-diplomatic thing to do because, you know, we're kind people and polite people."

'A problem of human lives'
The reasons for the veto have baffled officials in Brussels. Budapest initially refused to approve the �500-million tranche because Ukraine's anti-corruption agency had blacklisted Hungary's OTP Bank as an "international sponsor of war."

The designation infuriated Orb�n's government and triggered a spat between Budapest and Kyiv, with Brussels awkwardly caught in the middle.

OTP Bank was eventually removed from the name-shaming catalogue but Hungary kept its veto firmly in place, arguing it needed unconditional guarantees it would not happen again. On Monday, Foreign Minister P�ter Szijj�rt� upped the ante and claimed Hungarian companies were "systematically discriminated against" in Ukraine.

Szijj�rt� acknowledged a "huge row" with his German, Lithuanian, Irish and Polish colleagues had taken place during the meeting and vowed to stand his ground.

"We continue to insist on the need to make peace, to stop the senseless killing and to prevent the escalation of this war, so we have not and will not contribute to the release of another �6.5 billion to finance arms shipments to Ukraine," he said.

Diplomats have rolled their eyes at Hungary's reasoning, which they see as capricious and unfounded. They now fear the EPF obstruction could derail the new agreement to use the extraordinary revenues stemming from Russia's immobilised assets.

The project could raise between �2.5 billion and �3 billion annually, 90% of which would go into supplies of weapons and ammunition for Ukraine.

While Budapest did not block the legal deal on immobilised assets, it could still use its veto power to thwart the release of fresh money.

At the end of Monday's meeting, Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief, said that any move should be "proportional with the issue at stake" and called on Hungary to break the gridlock, which has led to "seven legal texts pending of approval." He noted that Budapest had secured an "opt-out" clause to ensure its national contributions would not finance any sort of military equipment bound to Kyiv.

"We cannot let the European Union's military support for Ukraine be taken hostage by other decisions which have nothing to do with this specific issue," Borrell said.

"Ukraine needs the arms now, not next year," he went on. "This delay can be measured in terms of human lives. It's not a financial problem. It's a problem of human lives."

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:12 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://nltimes.nl/2024/0(...)gns-russian-sabotage
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Zou zo'n sabotage actie, als daar wapens of explosieven bij gebruikt worden, een artikel 5 kunnen opleveren als deze succesvol is? En natuurlijk de link met Rusland bewezen kan worden.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:12 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://nltimes.nl/2024/0(...)gns-russian-sabotage
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Zou zo'n sabotage actie, als daar wapens of explosieven bij gebruikt worden, een artikel 5 kunnen opleveren als deze succesvol is? En natuurlijk de link met Rusland bewezen kan worden.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:26 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Nee, want 'escalatie'

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:43 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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Nee, daar zijn we te schijterig voor. Dat durven we niet om zoiets.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:12 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://nltimes.nl/2024/0(...)gns-russian-sabotage
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Zou zo'n sabotage actie, als daar wapens of explosieven bij gebruikt worden, een artikel 5 kunnen opleveren als deze succesvol is? En natuurlijk de link met Rusland bewezen kan worden.

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Ukraine Employs Autonomous ULTRA Cargo Drones for Military Operations


Ukraine operates British Windracers Uncrewed Low Cost Transport (ULTRA) cargo drones.

According to Janes sources, the Ukrainian military has been using ULTRA UAVs since 2023.

“UAV has been conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and supporting resupply for the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2023,” the report said.

The CEO of Windracers did not specify the quantity of ULTRA drones provided to Ukraine.

“The UK Ministry of Defence procured the aircraft on behalf of the Ukrainian armed forces, supplying it as aid,” the publication stated.

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A source told the Janes that ULTRA purchases are part of a UK support programme of �325M ($413M).

ULTRA is a powerful UAV with a maximum takeoff weight of 450 kg and an internal cargo compartment of 100 kg.

According to the company, a set of sensors for reconnaissance can be placed in the compartment.

“ULTRA is capable of carrying a payload of 100 kg at a distance of up to 1000 km,” the developers explained.

Windracers emphasized the autonomous capabilities of the system, saying that it allows UAVs to perform missions at night. The drone is capable of working for more than 12 hours.

“Windracers drones fly autonomously, they are controlled by our Masterless autopilot system,” the developers add.

Безпілотник Uncrewed Low Cost Transport (ULTRA)

The Masterless system is designed and patented by Distributed Avionics, a subsidiary that also provides UAV communications from anywhere.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:43 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Dat is het mooie aan artikel 5. Die volgt namelijk op een escalatie van in dit geval Rusland. En de landen in de NAVO zijn verplicht om aan deze oproep gehoor te geven. Al is de mate waarin zij helpen voor elk land zelf te bepalen natuurlijk.

Dus zou een gewapende sabotage actie een artikel 5 kunnen opleveren.

Zou bijvoorbeeld Polen een "ammunitie opslag" ergens kunnen plaatsen. Deze slecht beveiligen, en deze informatie aan Rusland, en alleen aan Rusland, door kunnen spelen om een artikel 5 uit te lokken.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:46 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Milrem Robotics Opens New Ground Drone Production Facility

^{THeMIS UGV by Milrem Robotics. Photo from the company's page}

Milrem Robotics, a company that supplies Ukraine with ground-based drones, has opened a new facility in Tallinn.

The new plant will increase the company’s production capacity by five times, the company said in a press release.

The company stated that many end-users were satisfied with the results of testing the robotic vehicles and are preparing to launch high-quantity procurements.

The increase in production capacity will prepare the company to participate in future tenders.

“Also, the growing use of UGVs in Ukraine shows a clear focus and importance of unmanned ground systems,” the company’s press release reads.

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^{The new plant of Milrem Robotics. May 2024. Estonia. Photo from the company’s page}

The new facility allows the company to manufacture more than 500 units of its operationally proven, multi-mission THeMIS Unmanned Ground Vehicle annually.

The THeMIS is already part of robotics programs in 18 different countries internationally, eight of which are members of NATO.

THeMIS UGVs are also assisting Ukrainian soldiers in the war with Russia.

Last year, EDGE Group PJSC, a company headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, acquired a controlling stake in Milrem Robotics, an Estonian company that develops robots and autonomous systems for military use.

^{A THeMIS UGV in the demining version is being prepared to transport an unexploded ordnance in Ukraine. Photo credits: Milrem Robotics}

Milrem Robotics signed an agreement with the JSC Ukrainian Defense Industry (Ukroboronprom) to start forging next-generation multi-domain robotic defense systems.

Ukrainian defense companies will be involved in the integration of their defense technology, such as weapon systems, electronic warfare and mine-clearing equipment with Milrem’s robotic vehicles to meet the requirements of the armed forces.

^{The THeMIS Milrem Robotics UGV in Estonia. 2020 is the year. Photo credits: sakala.postimees.ee}

In addition, the parties are considering the manufacturing localization of robotic systems developed by Milrem Robotics in Ukraine.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:51 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Ik denk dat de vraag eerder is of artikel 5 aangeroepen wordt dan of er gehoor aan gegeven wordt.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 19:16 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:59 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Dat is ook zo. Vandaar het voorbeeld van het uitlokken van een artikel 5. Dus een actie opzetten waarvan het doel is om een artikel 5 uit te lokken.

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A massive fire broke out in a Russian port

A large fire has broken out at a Russian grain terminal in the port of Azov, Rostov Region.

This is reported by local telegram channels.

The port of Azov is one of the oldest in Russia, located on the banks of the Don River.

On its territory, there is a terminal for the transshipment of agricultural products, two grain and two oil terminals, as well as a fish factory.

It is reported that in this port, the Russians load most of the Ukrainian grain they stole from the occupied territories.

The port of Azov is one of the oldest in southern Russia. It is the gateway to the inland water transportation system.

This system runs through the Volga-Don Canal, further to the Caspian Sea, and through the Volga River.

Then it passes through the system of northern rivers, the Volgo-Baltic and the White Sea Canal to connect to the Baltic and White Seas.

Earlier, it was reported that China secretly hid an unknown ship in its port.

This ship was delivering weapons from North Korea to Russia.

In recent weeks, it delivered weapons to Russian ports at least 11 times.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:43 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
Al is de mate waarin zij helpen voor elk land zelf te bepalen natuurlijk.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 18:50 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Elke raket of drone die omringende landen neer kunnen halen is er 1 minder die (meestal burger-) doelwitten in Oekra�ne kunnen raken.
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Polen heeft al aangegeven hier serieus over te gaan nadenken. En als zij akkoord gaan om dit te gaan doen (met hun eigen materieel) dan zullen er ongetwijfeld meer landen volgen. Waardoor het daarna niet lang zal duren (hoop ik) dat ook vanuit andere NAVO landen materieel ingezet zal kunnen worden.

Het zou dan zelfs uiteindelijk ook kunnen dat bijvoorbeeld een Nederlandse Patriot, en Nederlandse straaljagers hier aan gaan meewerken. (Nederland zie ik sowieso al als 1 van de landen die voorop in de rij zouden gaan staan).

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:57 schreef Anton91 het volgende:
Ik lees weer dat dit vermoedelijk een ATACMS is. Hoeveel hebben ze van die raketten gekregen en nog belangrijker misschien... Kan de VS dit in voldoende aantallen blijven leveren?

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 21:22 schreef oheng het volgende:

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ATACMS e.d. worden niet meer geproduceerd, maar geupgrade uit oude voorraad.
Maar aangezien de VS 20 per maand kon maken, is 10 upgraden per maand haalbaar.

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How many ATACMS are produced?
It isn't exactly clear how many ATACMS the U.S. has, but Lockheed said in 2018 it had produced more than 3,850 and over 600 had been launched in combat. Lockheed has also produced the weapons for countries, including....

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 21:12 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Ik denk dat geen enkel Navo land behoefte heeft aan oorlog met Rusland, dus artikel 5 bewust uitlokken lijkt mij geen realistisch scenario.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 21:19 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Thoughts and prayers, Gr Groet, jake sullivan.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 21:49 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 21:49 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:59 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Dat is ook zo. Vandaar het voorbeeld van het uitlokken van een artikel 5. Dus een actie opzetten waarvan het doel is om een artikel 5 uit te lokken.

Dat er gehoor gegeven moet worden aan een artikel 5 staat buiten kijf. Als aan de voorwaarden voldaan wordt. Al zou in bepaalde grens gevallen er eerst nog wel flink over gedebatteerd gaan worden natuurlijk.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 21:34 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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De lijn van in welke mate NAVO landen hulp willen bieden aan Oekra�ne wordt steeds een stapje verlegd.

Er wordt nu serieus gediscussieerd (en ook al toezeggingen gedaan) over het gebruik van materieel en zo geleverd door NAVO landen op Russisch grondgebied. Een aantal landen hebben dit al toegezegd (Zweden/UK)

Ook wordt er gediscussieerd over het stationeren van soldaten op Oekra�ens grondgebied om bepaalde taken over te nemen. Zoals het beveiligen van grenzen met bijvoorbeeld Wit-Rusland. Of het bemannen van luchtverdediging ver van het front af. Frankrijk is het eerste land wat openlijk heeft toegezegd om soldaten te gaan trainen op Oekra�ens grondgebied. Terwijl eerder al was toegegeven dat er landen waren die dit al heimelijk deden.

Dan is er ook nog de discussie die gaande is over het neerhalen van drones en raketten boven Oekra�ens grondgebied door de NAVO, of in elk geval door NAVO landen. Hier is Polen al serieus over aan het nadenken.

Tevens heeft de NAVO aangekondigd dat er twee scenarios zijn waarin zij direct betrokken zullen worden bij de oorlog in Oekra�ne. Een grote doorbraak van Rusland aan het front en/of wanneer er een ander land direct bij betrokken wordt. Denk aan een Wit-Rusland die een front opent en mee gaat aanvallen.

Ook zijn er een aantal NAVO landen die weten dat zij ��n van de volgende landen zijn die Rusland zal aanvallen indien Rusland de oorlog in Oekra�ne wint. Dit zijn de Baltische Staten. Voor hun is het dus extra belangrijk dat Oekra�ne de oorlog niet verliest.

Landen in de NAVO (en dus de NAVO) hebben inderdaad geen behoefte om in een directe oorlog met Rusland te komen. Maar als wij Rusland laten winnen zal dit haast onvermijdelijk worden (Als het niet over een paar jaar is dan is het zeker wel in de volgende 20 jaar).

Dus totaal onrealistisch is het uitlokken van een artikel 5 niet. Maar zo ver is het slechts een gedachtegang van mij. Maar het feit is wel dat Rusland op dit ogenblik op zijn zwakst is, en dat zal niet altijd zo blijven.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 22:39 schreef kurk_droog het volgende:

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In lees heel veel onzin in dit topic. Artikel 5 is geen automatisch iets of gehoor aan geven. Een land kan beroep doen op artikel 5 en daarna bepalen alle landen samen of ze een reactie willen geven in welke aard dan ook.

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As a russian, I'll try to translate this bunch of random messages:
• A pack of dogs attacked me
• My hands... You won't see anything (probably about dogs attacked her)
• Some man has asked me aggressively
• He came from the back and asked me if I was filming HV line on camera
• I said that I wasn't
(some noise XD)
• Damn, screw it
(SOME WEIRD SCREAMING)
• where is this damn shelter

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Translation: It’ll happen soon. The tank is going to get fucking hit. I see it! You dumbasses fucking leave! Everyone is going to get fucked.
(After the explosion)
NO FUCKING WAY!

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 22:39 schreef kurk_droog het volgende:

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In lees heel veel onzin in dit topic. Artikel 5 is geen automatisch iets of gehoor aan geven. Een land kan beroep doen op artikel 5 en daarna bepalen alle landen samen of ze een reactie willen geven in welke aard dan ook.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 22:49 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Ik heb nergens gezegd dat een artikel 5 een automatisch iets is.

Maar het NAVO handvest zegt duidelijk dat een aanval op 1 land een aanval op alle landen is. En dat bij het inroepen van artikel 5 iedereen verplicht is om te helpen. Maar dat elk land zelf invulling kan geven aan hoe zij dit doen. (en ja hier zal natuurlijk overlegt over worden)

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Sweden: Ukraine Has the Right to Defend and Use Weapons For Targets Inside Russia, According to International Law
The Minister of Defense of Sweden P�l Jonson stated, in a commentary to Hallandsposten newspaper, that Ukraine can use Swedish weapons to strike targets on Russian territory.

When asked about Sweden’s stance regarding Ukraine using weapons provided by Sweden to hit Russian territories, the Minister said, “Ukraine is exposed to an unprovoked and illegal war of aggression by Russia.”

“According to international law, Ukraine has the right to defend itself through military actions aimed at the enemy's territory as long as the military actions comply with the laws of war. Sweden stands behind international law and Ukraine's right to defend itself," Jonson added.

Joe Biden’s administration is now actively debating whether to ease the US ban prohibiting the use of US weapons to hit military targets inside Russia, allowing Ukrainians to hit missile and artillery launchers located directly on the border. According to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, military targets such as these inside Russia have made it possible for them to move forward and gain new territories in the Kharkiv region.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 22:52 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Ja, en ondertussen worden er explosieven naast pijplijn installaties in duitsland gevonden, maar nothing to see here, move along.

russen opgepakt in duitsland, no biggie, maken we geen woorden aan vuil.

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Russia Allegedly Conducts Sabotage Operations in Europe To Disrupt Military Supplies to Ukraine
According to the New York Times, US intelligence officials suspect Russia of low-level sabotage operations across Europe. These operations, primarily arson or attempted arson, have struck various targets, including a warehouse in England, a Polish paint factory, Latvian homes, and an Ikea store in Lithuania. Officials believe this is a coordinated Russian effort to undermine public support for Ukraine’s war effort.

Beyond the arson attacks, authorities have arrested individuals suspected of being Russian operatives, planning attacks on US military bases in Europe.

Though seemingly random, US and European security officials believe these acts form a unified Russian strategy. Their goal: to slow weapon shipments to Ukraine and create the perception of growing European opposition. Officials believe Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, is conducting this campaign.

Despite the lack of immediate disruption to weapons shipments and the seemingly unrelated nature of many targets, some security officials suspect a deeper motive.

It is suspected that Russia might be trying to compel European countries into tightening security across the entire supply chain. This, in turn, could lead to increased costs and a slowdown in deliveries.

Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former US intelligence officer and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, suggests Russia’s strategy might be to undermine European commitment to supporting Ukraine. “Russia’s strategy is one of divide and conquer,” according to Kendall-Taylor. While the success of this tactic remains uncertain, she emphasizes the critical need for a unified response from both Europe and the United States to effectively counter these sabotage attempts.

“Right now, it’s not a very costly strategy for Russia because we are all responding separately. That is why it is important that over time, we collectivize the response.”

Warnings from NATO and European leaders of a covert war have been on the rise. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas recently described Russia’s actions as a “shadow war” against Europe.

Additionally, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the arrest of 9 individuals suspected of carrying out violent acts, including beatings and arson attempts, on behalf of Russian intelligence.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 20:54 schreef Anton91 het volgende:

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 22:39 schreef kurk_droog het volgende:

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In lees heel veel onzin in dit topic. Artikel 5 is geen automatisch iets of gehoor aan geven. Een land kan beroep doen op artikel 5 en daarna bepalen alle landen samen of ze een reactie willen geven in welke aard dan ook.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 22:49 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Ik heb nergens gezegd dat een artikel 5 een automatisch iets is.

Maar het NAVO handvest zegt duidelijk dat een aanval op 1 land een aanval op alle landen is. En dat bij het inroepen van artikel 5 iedereen verplicht is om te helpen. Maar dat elk land zelf invulling kan geven aan hoe zij dit doen. (en ja hier zal natuurlijk overlegt over worden, en ook zal er eerst gekeken worden of er �berhaupt wel van een artikel 5 sprake is.)

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 22:59 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Natuurlijk. Maar ja, doet een land er een beroep op, en weigeren andere landen iets wezenlijks te doen kun je NAVO wel opdoeken. Waarom zou je dan nog lid blijven?

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Poland unveils new Iron Curtain to protect Europe
Anti-tank ditches, bunkers and minefields planned for 434 miles of Belarus and Russia border by 2028

Poland has unveiled plans for a line of anti-tank ditches, bunkers and minefields along its borders with Belarus and Russia.

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, announced a 10 billion zloty (�2 billion) defensive line to make Nato’s eastern flank “impassable to a potential enemy”, earlier this month, but provided few details.

Visualisations released on Monday show a network of concrete anti-tank “hedgehogs”, palisades and steel barriers integrated with earthworks along 434 miles of frontier.

Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland’s defence minister, told reporters: “The ‘East Shield’ deterrence and defence plan is the largest operation to strengthen the eastern border of Poland, the eastern flank of Nato, since 1945.

“It will be a combination of terrain conditions with fortifications and modern technology.”

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1. Steel barrier
2. Integrated block engineering
3. Pallisades
4. Resistance socket
5. Anti tank ditch
6. Reinforced steel hedgehogs
7. Planned minefields
8. Deepened drainage ditch

He added that the government would also apply for European Union funding for the border wall. Work will start this year and should be completed by 2028.

East Shield, dubbed the “Tusk line” by Polish media, has been billed as a deterrent to discourage attack from Russia. The plans are said to be in collaboration with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

It is separate from a border wall built to keep out migrants trying to cross from Belarus. The plans show a deep network of bunkers, trenches and tank traps. Mines would only be laid if war appeared imminent.

Poland shares a 130-mile frontier with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and a 170-mile border with Belarus, Russia’s close ally.

The border with Belarus has become a security flashpoint, with thousands of migrants and refugees, mostly from the Middle East, crossing it into Europe.

Mr Tusk has dubbed this a “hybrid war of migration” facilitated by Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus.

“Those are not refugees, those are less and less migrants, families, poor people needing help,” Mr Tusk added. “In 80 per cent of the cases, these are organised groups of men, aged 18 to 30, very aggressive.”

As the weather warms, Poland is seeing an increase in crossings, up to 200-300 a day in May. Poland was part of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact during the Cold War but joined Nato after Communism fell in the 1990s.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 22:02 schreef skysherrif het volgende:
https://t.me/gostrikartuzy/324

Jezus, hoe kalm en snel deze rus er een einde aan maakt...

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:01 schreef kurk_droog het volgende:

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Dat is dus niet zo, nogmaals zal als een land aangevallen worden er een beroep op artikel 5 gedaan worden waarna de nato als geheel bepaald of het inderdaad een aanval op allen is en wat de reactie moet zijn.

Dus nogmaals, het is geen automatische trigger.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:05 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Ondertussen is volgens mij Polen al een tijdje bezig met zich serieus voor te bereiden op een oorlog in hun en mogelijk onze (de NAVO) toekomst. Niet alleen hebben zij een enorm aantal nieuwe wapens en materieel besteld, ook zijn zij druk bezig met hun grenzen zwaar te beveiligen.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:03 schreef kurk_droog het volgende:

bij elke scheet

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:14 schreef Cilantro het volgende:

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Ik zou dat stuk grens met Litouwen ook maar meepakken. De russen rijden anders zo om die fortificaties heen.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:14 schreef Cilantro het volgende:

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Ik zou dat stuk grens met Litouwen ook maar meepakken. De russen rijden anders zo om die fortificaties heen.

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Ukraine’s 79th Brigade Neutralizes 8 Russian Armored Vehicles in Donetsk Region

Ukrainian troops repelled a Russian assault near Novomykhailivka, Donetsk region.

The 79th Air Assault Brigade said they had neutralized eight Russian armored vehicles.

“The Russians once again attacked with their equipment and once again got wrecked: 2 tanks and 6 armored vehicles with enemy infantry remained on the battlefield, not reaching our positions,” the military said.

The Brigade added that this time they managed to neutralize at least 80 Russian soldiers.

“The paratroopers of the 79th Separate Tavrian Air Assault Brigade sent more than 80 Russian soldiers, who wanted to earn 200,000 roubles by killing Ukrainians, straight to hell,” the military added.

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Біля Новомихайлівки десантники знешкодили 8 бронемашин � Ф

According to the Deep State map, Novomykhailivka is completely under occupation, but the Russian invaders are trying to advance further.

During the battles near Novomykhailivka, the soldiers of the 79th Separate Tavrian Air Assault Brigade inflicted significant losses on the Russian invaders.

Recently, Yaroslav Chepurnyi, a spokesman for the 79th Air Assault Brigade, said that very heavy fighting is taking place in the area.

“These battles can be called all-out, because the enemy is completely destroying our positions, smashing them with artillery systems and FPV drones. If the enemy captures positions, we also destroy them,” said Yaroslav Chepurnyi.

According to him, Novomykhailivka looks like Mariinka, which the brigade defended for more than a year. Mariinka settlement was almost completely destroyed by the Russian soldiers.

“And now the same thing is happening in Novomykhailivka. Considering that the houses there are small, one-story, many have walls made of clay, and are very easily destroyed, it is no longer a settlement there, but a field,” the press officer added.

He added that the enemy’s forces are very powerful. The active phase of fighting for this settlement began sometime in late last fall. During this time, more than 300 units of enemy equipment were destroyed, and 10 Russian military units took part in the assaults.

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90 countries confirm participation in Peace Summit
Zelenskyy said he continues to work with leaders for broader representation

Over 90 countries have confirmed their participation in the Global Peace Summit to be held in Switzerland on June 15-16, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a joint briefing with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S�nchez.

"Currently, 90 countries have confirmed their participation, and we are continuing to work with world leaders for a broader representation," the Ukrainian leader said.

Zelenskyy thanked S�nchez for confirming his participation in the Peace Summit.

"This summit will be the first real opportunity to achieve a just, reliable peace. Not just a pause between Russian strikes, but real peace. At the summit we will see who in the world really believes in international law and is ready to defend it," the President said.

The head of state stressed that any leader "who does not want the continuation of the war and further Russian aggression can demonstrate his true commitment to peace at the summit.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:16 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Met de fiets of hebben ze nog voertuigen?

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:06 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Is dat deze voor telegramloos volk alhier?

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:34 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik weet niet wat er geraakt is, maar het fikt lekker.

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Stupa
Korean shells.
Bitch. The fucking mouth of these Korean fucking shells. These pieces of shit with cum were made by armless, legless disabled people with hydrocephalus syndrome, who only had a fucking mouth among the available means of production.
These cross-eyed fuckers have not mastered such a simple, but such an important part of the apparatus as a skirt. Why do you have to take this piece of slimy shit as if you were taking your beloved woman by the ass after 5 years of separation.
Precise weight distributions that do not differ from projectile to projectile? Fuck you!
You can only shoot from this piece of gloomy North Korean genius with a rope and armored armor. Why? Yes, because this chthonic fuck can tear apart not only the Ukrainian, but also your own fucking gun.
And the most important. Solid oil. Oh fuck These festering fuckers didn't spare the grease. For the glory of grandfather Nurgle, these shells tributaries are simply coated on top down to the bottom with this evil solid oil. And him needs to be cleaned off. How? A rag and solarium. For what? To make this shit already through the shot did not make the ureter from the trunk
chronic alcoholic with prostatitis and prostate adenoma.

Same bullshit with charges. Everything is done through the devil's asshole, in which apparently these shells are removed, simultaneously smearing them with hellish shit. The weight distribution goes to hell, all the walls are plastered with paper, apparently from North Korean political newspapers from 1987, and generously smeared with Kim Jong Il's dristots of the same years. The charge plug is made in the same way as usual to fuck off and get lost, there is no convenient rope, no fucking way.
In short, the person responsible for supplying this crap, unworthy of being called shells and charges, is clearly a representative of the LGBTQ+ community with a clear bias towards hard BDSM.
I don't know how else to explain why this crap ended up in our country in the first place. I will take money so that your signature does NOT end up on this piece of squalor.
Phew. I spoke out. Thank you for your attention. I'll go brew some chamomile, I need to heal my
nerves.
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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Vergeet niet dat het ook een optelsom kan zijn wat een land presenteert bij een artikel 5. Een land kan ook tien van dat soort 'scheten' neerleggen. En dan is het dus ineens geen klein bier meer, want dan weigeren is toestemming geven aan Rusland zo door te gaan.

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Explosions ring out in temporarily occupied Luhansk, Russians write about attack – photos, videos

Explosions were heard in temporarily occupied Luhansk on the evening of 27 May, followed by a fire in the city.

Source: Leonid Pasechnik, Russia-appointed head of the occupied part of Luhansk Oblast; ASTRA; local media

Details: The so-called head of Luhansk Oblast said that the city was hit by cluster munitions, which caused a fire.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, law enforcement agencies and medics arrived at the scene. Information on the damage and casualties is being established.

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Explosions rang out in temporarily occupied Luhansk, the occupiers write about the attack.
Video from local audiences

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Baltic officials say they could send troops to Ukraine without waiting for NATO if Russia scores a breakthrough: report

^{Baltic officials say they could send troops to Ukraine without waiting for NATO if Russia scores a breakthrough: report}

• Baltic officials told German representatives they might send troops to Ukraine, Der Spiegel reported.
• The report says their condition for moving in troops is if Russia achieves a breakthrough in the war.
• The warning was part of an argument for Germany to up its support in Ukraine, the outlet reported.

Members of parliament for the Baltic states warned German officials last week that their governments were poised to send troops to Ukraine if Russia achieved considerable gains, Der Spiegel reported.

The German outlet reported Sunday that the Baltic officials issued the warning while speaking with representatives for Berlin at the Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Der Spiegel neither named any of the officials nor identified which countries they represented but said they raised concerns about German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's current policy toward the war.

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Scholz has been denying Ukraine permission to use German-supplied weapons in strikes on Russian soil, in line with Washington's stance of not allowing Kyiv to use donated weaponry for attacks beyond Ukraine's own borders.

Der Spiegel reported that the Baltic officials were concerned that such policies created a half-hearted attempt to help Kyiv and might allow Russia to gain the upper hand in Ukraine.

They said that if Moscow did gain significant ground in eastern Ukraine, their governments and Poland could move troops into the conflict zone even before Russia deployed its soldiers on their borders, the outlet reported.

The officials' argument, Der Spiegel reported, was that treating Moscow with restraint could backfire and instead create an escalation.

^{Soliders taking part in the combat shooting exercises of the Lithuanian army and the French-German brigade at the General Silvestras �ukauskas Training Area in Pabrade, Lithuania, earlier this month.PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images}

Like Ukraine, the Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — were previously part of the Soviet Union.

They've been some of NATO's most vocal members in pushing the rest of the alliance to intensify support for Kyiv, fearing that Russian President Vladimir Putin may seek to continue his conquest in the region if he seizes Ukraine.

Together with French President Emmanuel Macron, they've repeatedly hinted that they aren't ruling out sending NATO troops to Ukraine.

Officials in Estonia recently signaled the possibility of deploying its troops to fill non-combat roles and free up Ukrainians to fight on the front lines. There are concerns that such actions could escalate the conflict quickly into a direct war between NATO and Russia.

A spokesperson for Estonia's defense ministry told Business Insider the country wasn't discussing deploying troops to Ukraine for active combat roles.

"Tomorrow, the EU defense ministers will discuss the expansion of the EU training mission EUMAM, which until now has trained Ukrainian combatants on EU territory," the spokesperson said, referring to the European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine. "The discussion will mostly focus on the quantity of personnel to be trained. However, it may also touch on the location of the training."

When contacted by BI, a spokesperson for Poland's ministry of national defense said: "We are not considering the idea of sending Polish soldiers to Ukraine, so it is difficult for us to comment on such media reports."

Press services for the defense ministries of Latvia and Lithuania didn't immediately respond to requests for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular business hours.

Why Russia's western neighbors are getting skittish
The concerns reported by Der Spiegel have come after Russia launched a renewed assault in northeastern Ukraine, striking the city of Kharkiv and capturing several settlements in the surrounding region.

Military observers say the Kremlin can't take Kharkiv with the resources it's deployed there so far, but Russia has been shelling the city and inflicting civilian casualties.

On the main front in the east, Ukraine has been struggling for months to hold back a grinding Russian advance after its supplies from the US began to dwindle.

The aid has resumed after months of stalling in Congress, but Kyiv says Western equipment often arrives too late to turn the tide of the war because conditions keep changing.

^{A Ukrainian serviceman entering a trench at an artillery position of an American M777 howitzer in the direction of Kreminna, Ukraine, in April.Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images}

Russia meanwhile stoked alarm among its neighbors last week with a draft proposal from its defense ministry to change its maritime borders with Finland and Lithuania in January 2025.

The draft was uploaded to Russia's registry of laws on Tuesday but was later removed.

On Thursday, Tallinn officials said Moscow had removed 24 of 50 buoys marking Russia's borders with Estonia on the Narva River. The officials said Russia had been contesting the buoys' locations.

On Sunday, six NATO nations — Norway, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — said they'd construct a unified "drone wall" with unmanned aerial vehicles and more advanced technologies to strengthen their borders.

Their concerns aren't just centered on a full-scale Russian invasion. Finland, for example, said Russia had been trying to overwhelm Finnish border officials with waves of migrants trying to enter its borders.

Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia share land borders with mainland Russia, and Poland and Lithuania share land borders with Belarus, a close ally of the Kremlin.

Correction: May 27, 2024 — A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Poland was once part of the Soviet Union. This story has also been updated to reflect comments from the Polish and Estonian defense ministries.

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Russian authorities confirm detainment of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna

^{A demonstrator holds a sign picturing Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, currently detained in Russian-occupied territory, for World Press Freedom Day 2024. (National Union of Journalists of Ukraine Press Service)}

The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who went missing in August 2023, is being detained in Russian-occupied territory, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) reported on May 27.

Volodymyr Roshchyn, Viktoria's father, received a letter from the Russian Defense Ministry confirming his daughter's captivity.

"According to available information, Roshchyna Viktoria Volodymyrivna ... has been detained and is currently on the territory of the Russian Federation," the letter said.

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Volodymyr Roshchyn shared the letter with NUJU and also contacted the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to verify the Russian Defense Ministry's claims. The ICRC confirmed that Roshchyna was being detained, but said they had no access to her at present.

Roshchyna disappeared on Aug. 3, 2023 while reporting in Russian-occupied territory. Her father received the defense ministry's letter on April 22, 2024. According to Roshchyna's family, letters to Russia's Investigative Committee, Prosecutor General's Office, and Ombudsman remain unanswered.

Roshchyna has covered Russia's full-scale invasion for multiple Ukrainian news outlets, including Hromadske, Ukrainska Pravda, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).

In March 2022, Roshchyna was detained for 10 days by Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers while leaving Berdiansk in the direction of Mariupol. As a condition of her release, she was forced to record a video saying Russian forces had saved her life.

The International Women's Media Foundation awarded Roshchyna the Courage in Jouranlism Award in 2022.

Roshchyna's family told NUJU that they filed a request the Russian proxy prosecutor's office in occupied Mariupol. They were told that no case had been opened against Roshchyna.

BBC Russia reported in January 2024 that thousands of Ukrainian civilians in Russian captivity are detained without charges, trials, or access to legal counsel.

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:18 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Ik mag inderdaad hopen dat de Suwalki gap ook beveiligd wordt. Maar wat ik ook begrepen heb is dat de Baltische Staten ook hun grenzen flink gaan beveiligen (in lijn met dit plan hoop ik). Al blijven zij natuurlijk wel een zwakke plek. Daar zij gewoon niet de economie hebben die Polen heeft.

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Poland to restrict movements of Russian diplomats, Moscow promises retaliation
Poland will impose restrictions on the movements of Russian diplomats in response to Moscow's "hybrid warfare," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told journalists in Brussels on May 27.

In response, the Kremlin has pledged to take "retaliatory measures."

Relations between Russia and Poland have deteriorated severely since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, bringing war to Warsaw's border.

"I just announced a Polish decision in connection to Russia's participation in hybrid warfare against the European Union, including Poland: a restriction of movement for Russian diplomats in our country," Sikorski said after meeting with EU counterparts in Brussels.

According to Sikorski, Russian diplomats will only be allowed to travel within the province to which they are assigned. The restrictions will apply to all embassy and consulate personnel, with the exception of the ambassador.

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"These are national decisions, but we have evidence that the Russian state is involved in authorizing sabotage in our country as well. We hope that the Russian Federation will treat this as a very serious warning," Sikorski said.

At least 12 residents of Poland have been arrested in recent months for spying or planning to commit acts of sabotage within Polish territory on behalf of Russia. The Polish government in late May arrested nine members of a Russian spy ring in connection to alleged sabotage plots.

In response to Sikorski's announcement, Russia will seek "retaliatory measures" against Poland, Russian diplomatic spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.

The Polish government is "overrun by Russophobia," Zakharova said.

Russia's Ambassador to Poland, Sergei Andreyev, said that Warsaw's decision was not officially communicated to the Russian embassy and that "no explanations have been given in this regard."

The New York Times reported on May 27 that Russia is ramping up sabotage operations across Europe in order to undermine military aid to Ukraine.

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The EU imposed sanctions against the Russian influence network led by Medvedchuk
The European Union followed the Czech proposal and added two individuals and a company to its sanctions list related to Russia's war in Ukraine. Source: Radio Prague

The Czech Republic-based pro-Kremlin website Voice of Europe and the two men behind it, Viktor Medvedchuk and Artem Marchevsky, were added to the Czech Republic's own sanctions list in late March after the country's counterintelligence uncovered an influence network in which they were involved, including payment money for European politicians.

The Foreign Ministry in Prague on Monday described the EU's decision to follow the Czech Republic's lead on sanctions as a success for Czech diplomacy. It said the country was ready to “cut off even more Russian tentacles at the European level.”

As a reminder, Michal Koudelka, head of the Czech Security Information Service, said that the current security situation is the most critical since the end of World War II.

He warned that the actions carried out by the Russian military in Ukraine and Palestinian extremists in Israel could occur in their region, so aggressors, especially the Russian Federation, should be considered a direct threat to the Czech Republic.

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Three collaborators to face trial for torturing teenager in Kupiansk district
Three men who tortured a minor during the temporary capture by the Russian invaders of the Kupiansk district in the Kharkiv region will stand trial.

The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office approved and sent to the court an indictment against two men, 28 and 33, over collaborative activities (Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and violation of the laws and customs of war due to a prior conspiracy by a group (Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and a 28-year-old citizen under Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

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The three defendants are residents of the Kupiansk district. According to the investigation, during the occupation of the community, the 33-year-old defendant became deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the "Department of Internal Affairs of the Temporary Civil Administration of the Kharkiv Region."

In turn, the 28-year-old accused assumed the position of acting assistant precinct inspector of the "department of precinct police inspectors." The third suspect is a 28-year-old unemployed resident of the district.

In the summer of 2022, a 16-year-old boy was returning home in a settlement of the Kupiansk district. At that time, a car approached him, from which three armed defendants, dressed in military uniforms, got out.

They dragged the boy to the car by force and took him to the torture chamber set up in the premises of the Kupiansk district police department. The victim was kept there for 16 days.

The men tortured and abused the teenager: they put a gas mask on his head blocking his airways and forced him to squat and do floor push-ups. Also, the culprits systematically beat the child, almost did not feed him, and instead of drinking water, they gave him technical water.

They ordered the boy to clear the rubble caused by Russian shelling and forced him to wash the cars of the Russian military.

The accused tried to obtain information from a 16-year-old boy about pro-Ukrainian citizens and participants in the Anti-Terrorist Operation/Joint Forces Operation (ATO/JFO) in the Kupiansk district.

The accused have been declared wanted. They will be tried in absentia in the Chervonozavodskyi District Court of Kharkiv.

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North Korea has failed its attempt to place a second suspected spy satellite into orbit as the rocket carrying a claimed-military reconnaissance satellite exploded during the first stage of flight, according to state media KCNA. CNN's Will Ripley has more.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 00:28 schreef skysherrif het volgende:
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Klein draadje, krasnorivka terug innemen zou echt heel goed voor het moraal zijn.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 09:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Zet ze maar op de shitlist. Het is nou genoeg geweest. Dat land heeft de helft van de hulp die de EU sinds 2022 wilde sturen tegengehouden.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 09:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Zet ze maar op de shitlist. Het is nou genoeg geweest. Dat land heeft de helft van de hulp die de EU sinds 2022 wilde sturen tegengehouden.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 09:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Zet ze maar op de shitlist. Het is nou genoeg geweest. Dat land heeft de helft van de hulp die de EU sinds 2022 wilde sturen tegengehouden.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 09:58 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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En dan te bedenken dat dat land het grote voorbeeld is voor GeertGOD.

We're fukked.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:06 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Kom eens met die bron dan uit het regeerakkoord dat de steun voor Ukraine wordt gefrustreerd?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:08 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Oh 1000x excuses. Ik had er het woordje 'ideologisch' tussen moeten proppen.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:16 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Kan je ook laten zien dat die bewering van je op waarheid is berust? Ben echt benieuwd waar de pvv hongarije steunt mbt ukraine.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:06 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Kom eens met die bron dan uit het regeerakkoord dat de steun voor Ukraine wordt gefrustreerd?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:28 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Over de PVV maak ik me niet druk. Steun voor Oekra�ne is populairder bij een ruime meerderheid van de bevolking en van de Kamer.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:53 schreef Ulx het volgende:
- Tsjechi�
- Estland
- Letland
- Litouwen
- Finland
- Frankrijk (levert langeafstandswapens)
- VK (levert langeafstandswapens)
- Polen
- Zweden
- Nederland (Levert F16's)

Momentum groeit...En WIlders kan -mocht hij er nog over dromen- het nu wel vergeten om hulp te stoppen. Dat is politieke zelfmoord.

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(nu nog) tegen:
Hongarije
Itali�
Duitsland
VS
Slowakije

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:05 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Tijd voor wat paardenhoofden in bedden.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:59 schreef AgLarrr het volgende:

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Hier hoeft toch geen consensus over te zijn? UA mag nu met YPR's de grens over. Hopen dat de Abrahams die voorop moet ook mee mag..

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:59 schreef AgLarrr het volgende:

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Hier hoeft toch geen consensus over te zijn? UA mag nu met YPR's de grens over. Hopen dat de Abrahams die voorop moet ook mee mag..

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:23 schreef Cilantro het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:05 schreef StateOfMind het volgende:

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Ai, als die ingezet gaan worden is het gespeeld vrees ik, over en uit voor Oekra�ne 😬

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:28 schreef polderturk het volgende:
FUCK !!!

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:18 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Gaap.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:28 schreef polderturk het volgende:
FUCK !!!

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Op maandag 27 mei 2024 23:23 schreef Cilantro het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 10:28 schreef polderturk het volgende:
FUCK !!!

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:30 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Uit je onderbuikje dus.
Duidelijk.

Niet van die rare dingen zeggen als je geen bronnen hebt.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:37 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Het is toch geen groot publiek geheim dat Wilders een strak gevoel in de broek krijgt van het beleid van Orban?
De formatie moest er notabene voor stilgelegd worden omdat meneertje zo nodig naar cpac in Boedapest moest afreizen om daar een lulverhaal op gaan hangen.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:42 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Qua houding over de eu misschien, maar waar steunt pvv hongarije inzake ukraine dan?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:43 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Dat hebben VVD en NSC mooi tegen weten te houden inderdaad.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:45 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Hoe weet je dat? Heb je daar ook bewijs van? Iets met notules, bronnen, perslekken ofso?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:36 schreef StateOfMind het volgende:

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Als je geen poot meer hebt om op te staan, zou ik er geen been meer in zien
Ik zou dan steen en been klagen bij de leiding.
Of hopen dat de leiding niet met het verkeerde been uit bed is gestapt, dan kun je proberen een wit voetje te halen.
Wel subtiel blijven, want anders schiet je jezelf in de voet.
En dan kun je je beter uit de voeten maken.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:42 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Qua houding over de eu misschien, maar waar steunt pvv hongarije inzake ukraine dan?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:46 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Wat zit er achter dit gezuig joh? Heb ik je held beledigd ofzo?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:53 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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https://www.pvv.nl/nieuws(...)tenlands-beleid.html
https://www.pvv.nl/nieuws(...)aan-met-rusland.html

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:55 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Kijk, dit is tenminste duidelijk. Wel vraag ik me af wat de datum is van deze artikelen.

Want dit is zijn recente standpunt:
https://nos.nl/collectie/(...)over-militaire-steun

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:59 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het staat nog steeds op hun website. Maar goed, het maakt niet uit. Wilders is niet in de positie om wat tegen hulp te doen.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 11:55 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Kijk, dit is tenminste duidelijk. Wel vraag ik me af wat de datum is van deze artikelen.

Want dit is zijn recente standpunt:
https://nos.nl/collectie/(...)over-militaire-steun

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 12:56 schreef AchJa het volgende:
Gezien de huidige retoriek over steun, trainers, wapeninzet etc. mag je toch wel voorzichtig concluderen dat Oekraine er een stuk slechter voor staat dan dat er in het gros van de berichtgeving geschetst wordt.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 12:56 schreef AchJa het volgende:
Gezien de huidige retoriek over steun, trainers, wapeninzet etc. mag je toch wel voorzichtig concluderen dat Oekraine er een stuk slechter voor staat dan dat er in het gros van de berichtgeving geschetst wordt.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 13:40 schreef oheng het volgende:
Wat is het "gros van de berichtgeving"? Volgens mij schetste "de media" doom en gloom over het Kharkiv offensief. Er is verder geen causaal verband tussen "steun, trainers, wapeninzet" en de situatie aan het front.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 13:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Hoorde jij positief nieuws dan?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 13:58 schreef AchJa het volgende:

Dat de OTH radars aan worden gegrepen is ook een teken aan de wand. Die voegen vwb het front niks toe. Daar zit dus ook een strategische bedoeling achter.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:09 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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De VS doet ontzettend moeilijk over opblazen van een vliegveld 35km van de grens met wat toestellen die bommen op Kharkiv gooien, en tegelijk geven ze de opdracht zulke radars op te blazen? Ik betwijfel dat. Zelenskyy kan de VS dan heel simpel in enorme problemen brengen. Dat die OTH radars worden uitgeschakeld dwingt Rusland volgens mij gewoon hun Beriev A-50's binnen schootsafstand te brengen. Ze zullen toch iets moeten gaan doen om iets op tijd te kunnen zien aankomen. Het lijkt me eerder een Oekra�ense beslissing.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:11 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Die radars hebben niks met het vliegverkeer te maken. Dat zijn waarschuwingsradars voor inkomende intercontentinale raketten.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:11 schreef KomVissen het volgende:
https://www.ad.nl/buitenl(...)t-zelensky~a0a8a63b/

Waarom staat er in de hoek een jaartal van +- 50 jaar geleden?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Opstijgende F16's zijn onzichtbaar op die dingen?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Opstijgende F16's zijn onzichtbaar op die dingen?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 13:58 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Natuurlijk is daar wel een verband tussen.

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Goed lezen wat ik schrijf, het is nog beroerder dan de berichtgeving, ik heb nergens een waardeoordeel gegeven.

Dat de OTH radars aan worden gegrepen is ook een teken aan de wand. Die voegen vwb het front niks toe. Daar zit dus ook een strategische bedoeling achter.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Opstijgende F16's zijn onzichtbaar op die dingen?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:28 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Deze OTH's kunnen niet voorbij de horizon zien door de kromming van de aarde. Ik weet de exacte cijfers niet, maar bijvoorbeeld op 1000 km afstand kunnen ze alleen zien wat hoger vliegt dan 10km.

Zoiets.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:28 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Deze OTH's kunnen niet voorbij de horizon zien door de kromming van de aarde. Ik weet de exacte cijfers niet, maar bijvoorbeeld op 1000 km afstand kunnen ze alleen zien wat hoger vliegt dan 10km.

Zoiets.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:11 schreef KomVissen het volgende:
https://www.ad.nl/buitenl(...)t-zelensky~a0a8a63b/

Waarom staat er in de hoek een jaartal van +- 50 jaar geleden?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:28 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Deze OTH's kunnen niet voorbij de horizon zien door de kromming van de aarde. Ik weet de exacte cijfers niet, maar bijvoorbeeld op 1000 km afstand kunnen ze alleen zien wat hoger vliegt dan 10km.

Zoiets.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 12:56 schreef AchJa het volgende:
Gezien de huidige retoriek over steun, trainers, wapeninzet etc. mag je toch wel voorzichtig concluderen dat Oekraine er een stuk slechter voor staat dan dat er in het gros van de berichtgeving geschetst wordt.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:38 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Nee, ze gebruiken de reflectie van de ionosfeer om juist wel lager/verder te kijken.

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https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTH

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Opstijgende F16's zijn onzichtbaar op die dingen?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:45 schreef AchJa het volgende:
Overigens staat er in Oekraine wel een hele bekende OTH radar, de Duga die ook wel de Russian Woodpecker werd genoemd omdat de halve wereld last had van dat signaal.

Russian Woodpecker - The Radio Signal That Wreaked Havoc Around The World

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doega

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:45 schreef AchJa het volgende:
Overigens staat er in Oekraine wel een hele bekende OTH radar, de Duga die ook wel de Russian Woodpecker werd genoemd omdat de halve wereld last had van dat signaal.

Russian Woodpecker - The Radio Signal That Wreaked Havoc Around The World

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doega

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 15:03 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:
Nog geen drone op Poetin's paleis dus?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:57 schreef Ulx het volgende:
O ja, dat ding uit S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 15:09 schreef BEFEM het volgende:
G�rard depardieu zeker.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 15:06 schreef oheng het volgende:
De russische media melden dat ze al een Fransman gevangen hebben genomen, en 1 gedood.

Linkje van de gevangen Fransman ben ik kwijt. Van een of andere russische krant, niet RIA.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:39 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Omdat DVR's 1 keer neergezet worden en er vervolgens nooit meer iemand naar komt kijken, laat staan onderhoud plegen. Je kunt ook relatief vaak virussen op ze vinden, want de mannen die die dingen neerzetten vinden wachtwoorden maar "lastig en ingewikkeld". Natuurlijk moeten ze wel toegang hebben tot het internet dmv portforwarding, want dan kun je gezellig thuis urenlang naar je beveiligingscamera's kijken.

Drie keer raden welke Fokker ingehuurd wordt om zulke puinzooi op te ruimen.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:57 schreef Ulx het volgende:
O ja, dat ding uit S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 15:23 schreef StateOfMind het volgende:

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5 September deel 2
En meteen op Game Pass

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 15:06 schreef oheng het volgende:
De russische media melden dat ze al een Fransman gevangen hebben genomen, en 1 gedood.

Linkje van de gevangen Fransman ben ik kwijt. Van een of andere russische krant, niet RIA.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 16:14 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Jean-Paul Belmondo zeker?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 16:14 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Jean-Paul Belmondo zeker?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 15:26 schreef stalybridge het volgende:

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Wordt een drama launch, maar waarschijnlijk wordt hij uitgesteld (waarschijnlijk uiteindelijk een jaar of 2)

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Russian POWs get to make phone calls home. Ukrainians don’t. A growing movement wants that to change
FAR WESTERN UKRAINE (AP) — Precious few choices are available to Alexander, a 26-year-old Russian soldier, since his capture: Clothes, meals and the hours of his day are rigidly accounted for in the camp for prisoners of war.

But Ukraine allows Alexander to call home to his family in Kursk, a Russian city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Ukrainian border, and he says that has kept him grounded.

It is a lifeline unavailable to Ukrainian POWs. Now, infuriated Ukrainian families are demanding an end to the phone calls imprisoned Russian soldiers get to make.

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“To be able to talk to your loved ones is worth a lot. I’ve already been in prison for almost a year. I’m losing my mind,” Alexander told The Associated Press during a recent visit for several news outlets to Ukraine’s main POW camp, as he completed his work shift. “People are not made of steel.”

He said the brief conversations, closely monitored by his Ukrainian captors, pulled him from the brink of despair – even though for him and all Russian POWs, the calls are growing rarer by the week.


For imprisoned Ukrainians, calls are nonexistent and even letters rare. Families usually learn their fate only when comrades freed in exchanges bring back word.

The last such exchange was Feb. 8. In all, 2,988 members of the Ukrainian military have been exchanged for Russian prisoners of war, according to Ukrainian government figures. Neither Ukraine nor Russia has said how many POWs there are in all. Russia’s Ministry of Defense did not respond to written requests for comment on its policy toward Ukrainian POWs or the Russians held in Ukraine.

Ukraine has regularly opened its main POW camp to the Red Cross, the United Nations and international journalists. In late April, The Associated Press visited the site in western Ukraine, a full day’s journey from the front lines where the men inside were captured. The visit took place on the condition its precise location not be revealed.

Access to Russian sites where Ukrainians are held is severely limited. U.N. reports based on post-release interviews have found that the majority of Ukrainian POWs are subject to routine medical neglect, severe and systematic mistreatment and even torture. The same reports have found isolated reports of abuse of Russian soldiers, mostly during capture or transit to internment sites.

AP did not see any other internment sites. AP could not verify treatment of prisoners generally, or treatment at the main site outside its five-hour visit.

A few Russian POWs talked eagerly and at length with AP journalists, though most refused to speak at all. Guards stayed far from journalists during interviews. Prisoners gave only their first names.

THE MOVEMENT TO END THE CALLS
Over three weeks, families of Ukrainian POWs gathered more than 25,000 signatures for a petition to stop Russian POWs’ calls home and sent it to the government, which quickly rejected the demand in late April. The families, who say their pain is being ignored in favor of keeping Russian prisoners comfortable, are appealing.

Their movement is gaining momentum beyond POWs’ immediate families, with protests growing by the week.

Under the Geneva Conventions, POW privileges include regular communication home in the form of letters and cards at least twice monthly. Ukraine has gone beyond that by allowing for the 15-minute calls since the start of the war, in hopes Russia would reciprocate.


In rejecting the families’ petition, the government cited the convention but also said the calls can only help protect captive Ukrainians.

The conversations, a government statement said, show Russian soldiers there is nothing to fear by surrendering.

“This will help to increase the number of prisoners of war, which will make it possible to release more defenders of Ukraine who are captive in the aggressor state,” the statement said.

Alexander Vlasenko, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine, declined to comment on the disparity in access to phone calls for the POWs. The Red Cross organizes much of the communication, but Vlasenko said unlike letters, phone calls are up to “the goodwill of the parties.”

The families’ anger and the petition rejection come amid widespread reports of mistreatment of Ukrainians in Russian captivity.

INSIDE THE PRISON
While POWs are far from the fighting, the war still reaches them. Air raid sirens sounded four times during AP’s visit. During each, the men lined up in pairs with their hands clasped behind their backs, submitted to a brief pat-down, and trudged with their heads down into basement shelters until the all-clear.

POWs who are not wounded work during the day. Among the tasks: fabricating plastic Christmas trees, building garden sheds, ripping pallets into kindling, and sorting metal in the junkyard. Others are responsible for meals.

When POWs pass guards, their hands must be behind their backs. When they rise from meals, they must shout “Thank you” in Ukrainian in unison. Like many Ukrainians, the guards largely speak and understand Russian, but the prisoners rarely speak or understand the language of their captors.

The calls take place in a small upstairs room overlooking a church and treetops. On the desk is a monitor and small logbook for detainees to write their name, date of the call, location and time elapsed. All the detainees who spoke to AP said they treasured the brief conversations, even knowing they were monitored.

An injured POW who said he’s been in the camp since January told AP about two phone calls – one to his wife, with no answer, and the other to his adult daughter. He wouldn’t give an opinion about whether it’s fair for the Russians to have access to calls while the Ukrainians don’t.

“We’re feeling bad here, and they’re feeling bad there. Only the leadership is winning in this situation,” said the prisoner, whose name AP is withholding for his safety. “We lose every time. We’re pawns. Pocket change. Everything they want to do, they do. I can’t even have my own opinion.”

FAMILIES’ PAIN
For Anastasiia Savova, news of her father hasn’t come since December 2022. She last spoke with him eight months earlier, as he and fellow Ukrainians defended Mariupol, the port city seized by Russian forces early in the war.

Through a returning POW, she learned her father’s health was deteriorating. But she also heard about how proud he was of her, how certain he’d been that she was fighting for his release. She longs to hear from him directly and said she’s furious her government isn’t listening to families like hers. She wants the calls to stop if Russia won’t reciprocate.




“We thought that this step would help us to connect with our loved ones, that the Russian Federation would make it possible to call them,” she said. “But unfortunately, Russia didn’t go along with these rules and norms.”

Without contact, she said, families are afraid their men will lose hope when they need it most. Some of her deepest fears, though, are more personal: “I am very afraid of forgetting his voice.”

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Poland calls on the EU to start negotiations on Ukraine's membership before Hungary's presidency
Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski says that negotiations on Ukraine's membership in the European Union should begin in the first half of the year before the EU presidency passes to Hungary in the second half, which could block the decision on Ukraine.

Negotiations on Ukraine's membership in the European Union should begin in the first half of the year. This was stated by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in Brussels, UNN reports with reference to Polish Radio.

At the same time, Sikorsky noted that in the second half of the year, Hungary will take over the EU presidency, which blocks many decisions regarding Ukraine.

"It would be good to start this during the Belgian presidency, because we cannot count on Hungary's excessive goodwill," the foreign minister said.

Sikorsky was also asked if the talks could start on June 25.

"It would be good, but I would not give my head to fight back," the minister said.

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During a meeting with media representatives before the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine has done everything instrumentally and operationallyto open negotiations with the EU in June.

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Russians made a towed gun from the remains of BMP-1

Russian craftsmen have started to make towed guns from the remains of BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles.

The Telegram group “Russia no context” showed a test of a similar trailer gun.

The invaders took a 73-mm 2A28 Grom smoothbore gun from a BMP-1 and mounted it on a wheeled base.

The Russians probably took the wheeled base from a 2B9 Vasylok automatic mortar. The guns could have been taken from infantry fighting vehicles destroyed in Ukraine.

The 73-mm gun includes two types of ammunition: armor-piercing PG-15V and high-explosive OG-15V.

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� осіяни з залишків БМП-1 зробили колісну гармату

The range of the gun’s direct shot is 750 meters, and the maximum range in a parabolic arc is 1300 meters.

“A maximum range of 4 kilometers from closed positions is possible if the crew is well trained and adjustments are made from a drone,” the report said.

The Russian military will likely use the wheeled version of the 2A28 Grom gun to support infantry and in defensive operations.

However, high-explosive fragmentation OG-15Vs are in short supply, and the use of armor-piercing PG-15Vs will not cause significant damage to Ukrainian positions.

The barrel of the 2A28 weapon is a monoblock. The barrel is screwed into the breech, which has a wedge bolt.

To keep the bolt in the open position and remove firing cases, ejectors are installed in the breech, the operation of which is clearly visible in the published video.

In 2021, the Ukrainian manufacturer of special automotive equipment, Research and Production Association Practika, demonstrated the BMP-1M armored vehicle with the Spys-Syntez remote weapon station.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 13:42 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Begrijpelijk, het zullen er niet heel veel worden en de teller voor de F16 staat nu op iets van 80 stuks. Dat daar de focus op ligt is niet heel vreemd. Maar wel jammer.

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Activity of Russian troops sharply increased on Kupiansk front – General Staff
Activity of the Russian forces on the Kupiansk front almost doubled during the day.

Source: General Staff report as of 19:00

Quote: "The number of combat clashes on the contact lines of the Russian-Ukrainian war has increased to 83 since the beginning of the day. Russian occupiers are making every effort to break through our defences.

The enemy's activity on the Kupiansk front increased sharply, almost twice over the course of the day. It has not decreased on the Pokrovsk front, either. Ukrainian troops are taking measures to hold their positions and destroy the enemy's offensive potential."

Details: There are no major changes on the Kharkiv front. The Russians keep trying to improve the tactical situation in the areas of Vovchansk and Lyptsi. They dropped 22 guided aerial bombs in the north of Kharkiv Oblast on Sunday.

On the Kupiansk front, six out of 21 combat clashes have continued since the beginning of the day. Hostile assault operations continue in the areas of Novoiehorivka, Petropavlivka, Berestove and Hrekivka. The Russians carry on with their airstrikes – two more took place in the areas near Bohuslavka and Shyikivka.

On the Lyman front, fighting continues in the area of Terny. The situation is under control.

On the Pokrovsk front, 31 combat clashes have taken place so far. The Russians, supported by aircraft, are focusing their main efforts in the areas of Novooleksandrivka, Sokil and Umanske. It also conducted three airstrikes near Skuchne and Novoselivka Persha.

Rusians continue to launch guided bombs and rockets on the Vremivka front, near Staromaiorsk, Urozhaine and Olhivske. The number of combat clashes has not changed there.

On other fronts, the situation did not change significantly.

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Russia may launch psychological operation about opening new front from Belarus, Kyiv warns
The Russian government could launch a new psychological operation about a potential opening of another front on the state border with Belarus, Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation reported on May 27.

Russia launched a new offensive on May 10 in northern Kharkiv Oblast. Moscow's forces had reportedly managed to advance as far as 10 kilometers (6 miles) into the region but had been halted by the first line of defense.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 26 that Russian forces are also forming another grouping of troops near Ukraine's northern border amid the ongoing offensive in Kharkiv Oblast.

Ukrainian officials have not yet announced any information about a potential offensive, specifically in northwestern Ukraine, which borders Belarus.

The Ukrainian Security and Defense Council's Center for Countering Disinformation forecast the launch of a new Russian psychological operation about opening a new front in the region, aiming to "stir up mass panic" in Ukrainian society.

"We expect a series of provocative statements by the top leadership of Russia and Belarus threatening Ukraine soon," the statement said.

Belarus has been a key ally to Moscow and supported Russian aggression against Ukraine, though it has not committed its own troops directly to hostilities.

Russian forces launched an attempted invasion of Kyiv from Belarus in early 2022 but suffered a defeat and were forced to pull back.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 19:57 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Vind je het niet vreemd dat het niet oekraine zelf is, die vraagt het e.e.a. uit te stellen?

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For the first time, Iran supplies Russia with latest aerial bombs – Bild
According to expert R�pcke, the use of such aerial bombs may indicate a "new level" of military cooperation between Tehran and Moscow

The Iranian Mohajer-6 drone that crashed in Russia's Kursk Oblast was probably carrying the latest Iranian Qaem-5 guided aerial bombs, reported Bild, citing the words of military expert Julian R�pcke, who commented on the video from the crash site.

The newspaper noted that the drone was probably supposed to attack Sumy Oblast, but did not reach the target and crashed.

According to R�pcke, the use of such bombs may indicate a "new level" of military cooperation between Tehran and Moscow.

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The Qaem-5 has a tele-guidance system and can be equipped with various types of warheads. Its declared range is up to 40 km, with a minimum operating altitude of about 3 km. Iran adopted the system in August 2019.
Developed by Iranian company Qods Aviation Industries, the Mohajer-6 was put into mass production in 2018 and is considered Iran's most successful export drone. This drone is designed for both reconnaissance and combat operations. It has a maximum takeoff weight of 600 kg, a wingspan of 10 meters, and a top speed of 200 km/h.

In September 2022, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that it had shot down a Mohajer-6 drone for the first time. After that, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stripped the Iranian ambassador to Ukraine of his accreditation and decided to reduce the number of diplomatic staff at the Iranian embassy. The last time such a drone was destroyed was on September 2.

In July 2023, the then Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said that he did not rule out the possibility that Iran could transfer Mohajer-6 UAVs to Russia as part of its military assistance.

On November 21, 2023, the Southern Defense Forces announced that a rare Iranian Mohajer-6 drone was downed over the Black Sea, which Russia had launched at Odesa Oblast.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 20:08 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Zit Oekra�ne niet in die coalitie dan?

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The announcement comes in Brussels after Jonson had "intensive talks" with other countries in the air defense coalition that helps Ukraine with both aircraft and air defense systems.

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Russia is already using its new rocket system Drakon: What should be known about this weapon?
The Russian multiple rocket launcher TOS-1 is an extremely dangerous weapon. This ugly thing is capable of firing rockets with thermobaric warheads, which cause devastating explosions. It has 24 barrels mounted on a T-72 / T-90 tank chassis. Russia used the TOS-1 extensively in Ukraine, but, thankfully, the defenders of Ukraine managed to destroy many of these launchers.

^{Older TOS-1 systems in a parade in Moscow. The main disadvantage of this type of weapons is their limited range. Image credit: Aleksey Toritsyn via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)}

Russians revealed their TOS-1 for the first time in 1999. The first weapon of this breed was the TOS-1 Buratino. The West definitely paid attention, but some disadvantages of this weapon were immediately evident.

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You may notice that other Russian multiple launch rocket systems are not mounted on tank chassis. Why is that? Well, the TOS-1 needs extra protection, because it needs to be very close to the contact line. The TOS-1 Buratino has a range of just 3,500 metres. In other words, it operates while being in the range of artillery systems, mortars, drones and other weapons. The improved TOS-1A Solntsepyok, which entered service in 2003, is better in this regard, but even its range is just around 6,000 metres. These kinds of multiple launch rocket systems definitely need a great deal of armour protection. Especially because they cannot be camouflaged very well.

Russian multiple launch rocket systems TOS are referred to as heavy flamethrowers. When launching rockets, these systems engulf themselves in flames and destroy fortifications and peaceful Ukrainian cities with thermobaric warheads. But the range is improving. Russia has started using the new multiple launch rocket system Drakon, Die Welt reports. “With these terrible weapons, Russia reaches a new level of brutality,” writes the German publication.

The system, named TOS-3, is more powerful and, most importantly, has a significantly greater range (up to 15 km) than TOS-1 and TOS-2 (4-6 km). This means it can avoid Ukrainian drones a bit easier.. Earlier models of TOS (Buratino, Solntsepyok, Tosochka) have a much shorter range and are very vulnerable. Ukrainian drones are constantly destroying Russian TOS systems because they are relatively easy to find and reach.

Like its predecessors, the Drakon can launch rockets with thermobaric warheads. One salvo can turn several blocks into ruins, but it also destroys fortifications and bunkers.

The defenders of Ukraine still haven’t spotted the TOS-3 Drakon, but they are ready to hunt them down as soon as they come. All TOS launchers are extremely dangerous and can deal a whole lot of damage. The defenders of Ukraine always try to destroy them as soon as they are spotted. It is one of the priority short-range targets.

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Belgium signs security deal with Ukraine, pledges $1 billion in aid this year
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement in Brussels on May 28, the Presidential Office announced.

Belgium becomes the 11th country to sign such a deal, along with Spain, the U.K., Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Finland, and Latvia.

Zelensky arrived in Belgium one day after his trip to Spain, where he signed the security agreement with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Under the agreement, Belgium will allocate at least 977 million euros (around $1 billion) in military aid for Ukraine in 2024.

The document also says that Belgium will supply Kyiv with 30 F-16 fighter jets by 2028, with the first planes expected to arrive already this year.

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The country announced in 2023 it would supply Kyiv with its F-16 jets but the exact number was unclear until today. Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway also pledged to donate their F-16s to bolster Ukraine's Air Force.

Apart from the fighter jets, the agreement focuses on Ukraine's other key needs, including air defenses, artillery, and armored vehicles, De Croo said during a press conference after the signing ceremony.

The two parties agreed to cooperate in the defense industry, intelligence, cyber security, and countering disinformation.

The Western European country further pledged support for Ukraine's peace formula, EU and NATO aspirations, sanctions against Russia, compensation for war damages, bringing the aggressor to justice, and using seized Russian assets for Ukraine's needs.

"Today Belgium signs an agreement on security cooperation and long-term support with Ukraine," De Croo said on X.

"President... (Volodymyr Zelensky,) you need the right tools to protect your citizens. We are very determined when it comes to our support."

"I thank Prime Minister De Croo, his government, and all Belgians for their unwavering and long-lasting support for Ukraine," Zelensky said.

The Belgian Foreign Ministry said last week that its Ukraine fund had allocated 1.7 billion euros ($1.9 billion) for military and humanitarian assistance for Kyiv in 2024.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:41 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Ze kijken in een vaste richting, deze kijkt naar het westen. Of ze nou vliegtuigen ergens in het VK zien opstijgen is niet zo interessant natuurlijk.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 20:27 schreef ExTec het volgende:

Ik heb ergens gelezen dat ze effectief gebruikt worden om te constateren dat er ergens iets is, zodat ze daarna doelgerichter, met andere radars, kunnen kijken.

Dat is plausibeler dan dat de escalatie schijtlaarzen in het witte huis aan het voorsorteren zijn op een nucleaire first strike.

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Ukrainian Defence Forces received modernized Buk-M1 air defense systems

^{Modernized 9A39 launcher of the Buk-M1 system with Sea Sparrow missiles, May 2024. Photo credits: Air Command East}

The Ukrainian military received modernized Buk-M1 anti-aircraft systems with integrated Sea Sparrow missiles.

The press service of the Air Command East released the photo of the equipment.

The photos capture the service of anti-aircraft gunners next to a 9A310M1 self-propelled launcher and a 9A39 launcher of the Buk-M1 system.

The upgraded systems were equipped with compact launch containers for RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles, hidden by camouflage nets in the photo.

The layout of the missile launch containers on the system’s munitions is unknown, but the self-propelled launchers can carry up to four missiles. Presumably, the process of loading them takes place with the help of a vehicle with a crane.

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^{Modernized 9A39 launcher of the Buk-M1 system with Sea Sparrow missiles, May 2024. Photo credits: Air Command East}

Modernization project
The decision to integrate somewhat outdated Western RIM-7 anti-aircraft missiles into the Soviet Buk-M1 systems was made by the Ukrainian military due to the depletion of stocks of original 9M38 anti-aircraft missiles.

The project to modernize the systems was developed jointly by American and Ukrainian engineers and first implemented in metal in the United States last November. At the same time, they underwent their first successful tests at one of the American training grounds.

According to Yuriy Ihnat, the Air Force spokesman at the time, this modernization limited the system’s potential due to the missiles’ lower performance.

“They [protect], albeit at a small radius. Sea Sparrow missiles will be able to help protect critical infrastructure facilities in the first place,” Ihnat emphasized.

Indeed, the RIM-7 has much more modest capabilities: the missile is capable of hitting air targets at a distance of up to 20,000 meters and up to 15,000 meters in altitude. At the same time, the scarce 9M38s were capable of intercepting targets at a distance of up to 32,000 meters and an altitude of up to 20,000 meters.

However, it is possible that Ukraine could have received more advanced ESSM missiles, which were designed to be launched from the same installations as the Sea Sparrow. They are capable of intercepting air targets at a distance of more than 50 kilometers and at an altitude of 23-25 kilometers.

^{RIM-162 ESSM launch. Photo from open sources}

One of the main problems with the integration of Western missiles with a semi-active homing head into Soviet air defense systems is the targeting radar, which, due to different frequencies and signal processing computers, cannot guide RIM-7 missiles.

There is currently no public information on how the engineers adapted the Buk systems to the new missiles, but such modernization is not new. For example, as part of a project to modify old Kub systems, the Czech company Retia upgraded them with software updates and changes in radar frequencies, which helped with targeting and guidance.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 20:33 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Ik hecht net wat meer waarde aan de uitleg van Reisner.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 20:44 schreef ExTec het volgende:

Nee, first strike van het laffe volk van wie je niet eens op rusland mag schieten, da's pas geloofwaardig.

First strike h�?

Dit om kegelen faciliteert alleen dat. Je voorkomt hier niet mee dat rus zelf zou beginnen met die wapens, nee, het geeft de VS een grotere kans om (relatief) ongezien ICBM's af te schieten.

Als die wil er zou zijn, zou je dan niet beter gewoon tegen oekraine kunnen zeggen: hey, leg jij dat land maar gewoon in puin met de ATACMS die je nog hebt, wil je er nog meer? En: hoe snel kan je mensen klaar hebben staan om F-35s in ontvangst te nemen? Enzovoort enzovoort.

Maar ze zijn niet alleen aan het dwalen in het witte huis, ze zijn ook nog te dom om bovenstaande te snappen?

Volstrekt ongeloofwaardig, dus.

En misschien moet jij wat minder waarde hechten aan dat land wat van boven naar beneden bekend staat als een dependance van de FSB.

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WSJ: Russia aims to produce 6,000 Shahed-type drones a year in Tatarstan
Russia plans to produce 6,000 Shahed-type drones per year, in addition to surveillance drones, at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on May 28, referring to a contract leaked by the Prana Network hacker group.

The Russian military has been using cheap but effective drones to attack Ukraine since fall 2022. Western media, such as the New York Times, has reported the cost of each Shahed-136 drone to be as low as $20,000.

Russia is reportedly ramping up domestic production of its own version of Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones, relying on Chinese components and Iranian technologies.

Moscow signed a deal with Tehran to build the domestic drone plant in late 2022 in Tatarstan, obliging to partly pay $1.7 billion in gold bars, the WSJ said.

The terms of the deal were revealed in February by the Prana Network, which claimed to break into email servers associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Russia aims to reach the production level of 6,000 Shahed attack drones a year at the Alabuga facility, while the factory was already ahead of its production schedule in April, the WSJ said. It has produced 4,500 Shaheds, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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Russian personnel are currently learning to operate the drones in Syria with instructors from both the Revolutionary Guard and Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, according to Ukraine's military intelligence and a former Syrian officer with conflict-monitor group Etana.

The factory in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone also produces reconnaissance drones, such as the M3 Albatross, which have collected detailed photographic intelligence on Ukrainian positions and movements on the front line.

The domestic-produced drones also helped to repel Ukrainian attempts of incursion into Belgorod Oblast on the countries' shared border, the manufacturer claimed.

Russia yet needs skilled workers to assemble drones to ramp up its production further, the article read. Moscow started to recruit specialists, mainly young female students, in Africa, according to the WSJ.

Russian businesses offered African students a skilled job paying three times the wage at home, with airfare, free accommodation, and a university diploma to join the work-study program.

Over a thousand women have gone to the Alabuga free zone from all over Africa, while an additional thousand students will likely join in 2024, the WSJ said, citing Ugandan officials.

The Ukrainian military regularly attacks Russian facilities in the Tatarstan Republic.

In April, Ukrainian forces struck production facilities in Yelabuga, where the Alabuga Special Economic Zone is based, and Nizhnekamsk. The targets were an oil refinery and a manufacturing facility for the Shahed-type attack drones.

Soon after, on April 17, a factory in Tatarstan producing bomber aircraft for the Russian military was also attacked by Ukrainian drones, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) source told the Kyiv Independent.

Another Ukrainian attack against Russia's Tatarstan Republic was carried out on May 23.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 14:28 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Deze OTH's kunnen niet voorbij de horizon zien door de kromming van de aarde. Ik weet de exacte cijfers niet, maar bijvoorbeeld op 1000 km afstand kunnen ze alleen zien wat hoger vliegt dan 10km.

Zoiets.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 20:47 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Goed verhaal, lekker kort ook.

Verder interesseert me jouw mening vanaf deel 1 al bijzonder weinig.

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Ukraine can use Belgian F-16s only on Ukrainian territory, Belgian PM says
Belgian arms which are to be supplied to Ukraine under the recently signed security agreement, including F-16 fighter jets, are intended for use only on Ukrainian territory, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said during a press conference on May 28.

"Everything which is covered by this agreement... is for the utilization by the Ukrainian defense forces on Ukrainian territory," De Croo said in response to a journalist's question about whether Ukraine will be able to use Belgian F-16 jets to down Russian planes in Russian airspace.

De Croo and President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the security agreement earlier on May 28, under which Belgium pledged to provide Ukraine with 30 F-16s by 2028, with the first of the aircraft expected to arrive by the end of this year.

Ukraine is yet to receive the first of the dozens of F-16s pledged by Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway.

De Croo's statement comes amid a growing discussion among Western allies about whether to allow Ukrainian forces to strike military targets on Russian soil. Ukrainian officials have complained that the restrictions prevented Kyiv from attacking Russian forces amassing near Kharkiv Oblast earlier in May with advanced weaponry.

Several countries, including Lithuania, Czechia, Finland, the U.K., and Sweden, as well as NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, called on the allies to lift the ban on strikes on Russian territory with Western arms.

U.S. officials, as well as German and Italian ones, have repeatedly said that they do not support or encourage Kyiv's strikes with the Western-supplied arms inside Russia.

The New York Times reported on May 23 that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken favors ending the ban, but it remains unclear whether his proposal will gain support in the White House.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 20:55 schreef ExTec het volgende:
Putin hijacked Austria’s spy service. Now he's going after its government

Deze is hier, ik dacht, verleden topic al de revue gepasseerd, allicht interresant voor mensen die wel willen weten hoe oostenrijk er voor staat.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:00 schreef ExTec het volgende:
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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:05 schreef havanagila het volgende:
Sowieso. Of Oekra�ne nou eigen wapens (die ultralights vol explosieven bijv.) of gedoneerd spul gebruikt. Vage shit allemaal.

Willen ze nou dat Oekra�ne Rusland eruit trapt of de oorlog zo lang mogelijk uitsmeren om Rusland te verzwakken.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:11 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Spionage...

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Attack of foreigners on the Polish-Belarusian border

A Polish soldier was injured today after being stabbed by a foreigner trying to cross the barrier on the border with Belarus. A few hours earlier, Border Guard officers were injured during an attack by migrants. One of them was hit with a broken bottle, another was injured after being attacked with a dangerous tool to which a knife was attached.

Today, around 4:30 a.m., a Polish Army soldier was injured near the border in the area of ​​the Border Guard Post in Dubicze Cerkiewne. The incident occurred during an attack by a group of about 50 foreigners who threw branches, tree limbs and stones at Polish patrols. When migrants tried to forcefully cross the border, one of them stabbed a Polish soldier. A Border Guard officer provided first aid to the injured person. During this time, the foreigners continued to behave aggressively, attacking the injured person and the officer who was providing assistance. The injured man and the officer were protected by cars. The soldier was taken by ambulance to the hospital.

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Other dangerous situations occurred at the border in the area of ​​the Border Guard Post in Białowieża. A Border Guard officer was attacked with a broken bottle. He suffered facial injuries and was taken to hospital. Earlier, in the area of ​​responsibility of the Border Guard Post in Dubicze Cerkiewne, during an attempt to illegally cross the border by a group of 9 foreigners, one of them injured a Border Guard officer in the arm. The attack involved a stick with a knife attached to it. The officer took away the dangerous tool. He received medical treatment at the hospital.

Almost every day, Border Guard officers face aggression from migrants trying to cross the Polish-Belarusian border. In recent months, attacks by foreigners on services protecting the Polish-Belarusian border have intensified; four border guards were injured. Migrants throw stones, branches, bottles, carry dangerous tools with knives, and shoot with slingshots. Company vehicles are also damaged, including: windows are broken and the bodywork is destroyed.

Atak cudzoziemców na polsko - białoruskiej granicy

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:14 schreef ExTec het volgende:

Je mening interesseert me bijzonder weinig

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Unnamed country orders ammunition for Skynex system

The unnamed European country has ordered hundreds of thousands of ammunition for the Skynex air defense system.

The German concern Rheinmetall announced that the classified country would receive AHEAD 35mm munitions.

This is an order worth many millions of euros, with a six-figure quantity of ammunition to be delivered.

“The total value of the order is in the range of three-digit million euros,” Rheinmetall said.

The use of programmable 35-mm AHEAD ammunition developed by Rheinmetall for this purpose is significantly cheaper than similar systems based on guided missiles.

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In addition, it is impossible to deflect or influence the 35mm ammunition with electronic countermeasures after it is fired.

It is likely that this ammunition is intended for Ukrainian air defense, which is equipped with Skynex systems.

Back in 2023, Skynex systems were put on combat duty in Ukraine.

Skynex is designed for short-range air defense. The system is capable of shooting down drones or cruise missiles with 35mm ammunition.

The 35mm Oerlikon Mk3 cannon used in the Skynex air defense system has an effective range of 4000 meters and a rate of fire of 1000 rounds per minute.

The gun module is equipped with an X-Band tracking radar that provides an autonomous target acquisition function, making targeting simple and fast.

Система ППО Skynex від Rheinmetall [2021 рік]

In 2024, German company Rheinmetall signed a contract to supply Skynex systems to an unnamed European customer. Deliveries will take place throughout 2025 and will also include Rheinmetall HX all-wheel drive trucks with a 6�6 wheel configuration as system carriers.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:17 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Misschien moet je alles eerst eens rustig gaan lezen voordat je commentaar levert.

Deze maar even direct linken dan: https://www.bundesheer.at(...)st-reisner-antwortet

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 19:14 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1795317822564040931

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Russia Actively Recruits Mercenaries in 4 African Countries

^{A fighter of the Central African Republic in Africa against the backdrop of the Russian flag. December 2022. Photo credits: Barbara Debout/AFP/Getty Images}

Russia has created a special unit that recruits mercenaries in several African countries.

The press service of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine stated that mercenaries are offered $2,000 for signing a contract.

“They promise a monthly allowance of $2,200, medical insurance, and Russian passports for the soldier and his family members,” said the Ukrainian intelligence officers.

A specially created unit under the Russian Ministry of Defense is recruiting Africans to participate in assaults on Ukrainian soil.

“The aggressor state of Russia has significantly intensified its campaign to recruit foreign mercenaries for the war against Ukraine,” the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine stated.

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^{Captured Russian invaders with an African mercenary. Photo credits: Army TV}

It regards recruiting manpower in Central Africa, particularly in Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, and Uganda.

A large number of citizens of Asian and African countries are now fighting on the side of the Russian army.

Foreign mercenaries are being trained on the territory of the Russian Federation and then sent to Ukraine.

Russian special services are also actively recruiting citizens of Syria, Nepal, and Central Asia.

^{A Russian mercenary of the Wagner PMC in the Central African Republic (CAR). Fall of 2022. CAR. Photo credits: Russian media}

Africans have also been recruited for the war in Ukraine in previous years. But now, due to the Russians’ heavy losses at the front lines, they have begun to be actively deployed to the combat zone.

Previously, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that Russia was forming groups of mercenaries to be sent to Africa. Recruitment is also carried out in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular in Crimea.

“Moscow sees the purpose of sending the relevant contingent as expanding its influence in Africa,” the intelligence officers said.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:14 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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En het lijkt mij dat wanneer dit soort wapens gebruikt worden er met scherp geschoten mag worden. Dit heeft niks meer te maken met immigranten die illegaal de grens over proberen te komen voor een beter bestaan. Dit is gewoon een poging tot moord/doodslag. Terwijl het duidelijk is dat dit soort gedrag vanuit Rusland en Wit-Rusland bevorderd wordt.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:23 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Misschien moet je dat voortaan zelf doen?

Zodat je niet hier met een tweet komt die je nu ineens moet gaan nuanceren?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:45 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Ik ga er een beetje vanuit dat het onderwerp ansich gelezen wordt... Maar niet dus.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 20:27 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Ik heb ergens gelezen dat ze effectief gebruikt worden om te constateren dat er ergens iets is, zodat ze daarna doelgerichter, met andere radars, kunnen kijken.

Dat is plausibeler dan dat de escalatie schijtlaarzen in het witte huis aan het voorsorteren zijn op een nucleaire first strike.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 20:33 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Ik hecht net wat meer waarde aan de uitleg van Reisner.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:46 schreef Straatcommando. het volgende:
Heren..

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 21:52 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Ik ga er ook vanuit dat wat ik post gelezen wordt:
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Plausibeler dan.

En daar reageer jij niet op met: ja, maar dat zei die helemaal niet, dat kwam hier pas, nee, alleen:
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Het wordt natuurlijk wel een beetje een vreemde bedoening hier, als jij hier halve desinformatie post, en de rest maar geacht wordt daar de waarheid uit te gaan destileren, en ook alleen daar op te reageren.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:07 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Ik post een tweet die verwijst naar een stuk van Reisner wat ik dus gelezen heb en vervolgens heb jij het over compleet wat anders en dan ligt het plotseling aan mij?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:09 schreef TLC het volgende:
https://nos.nl/artikel/25(...)ruiken-zoals-hij-wil

Ik vraag me af hoe dat zal gaan als Oekrainse soldaten aangevallen worden als ze met westerse soldaten samenwerken ; rennen die dan snel weg om te schuilen of zo en laten ze de Oekrainers achter ?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:15 schreef ExTec het volgende:

Nee, ik heb het niet over "compleet wat anders", ik reageer op wat er in een tweet staat die jij post.

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Poland faces seasonal labor shortage as Ukrainians seek better jobs
Polish employers face increasing difficulty in recruiting workers for seasonal jobs, despite the potential to earn 5,000 to 9,000 zlotys ($1,270 to $2,300) during the summer in Poland, the Migration Platform EWL reported.

Traditionally, Ukrainian citizens came to Poland for seasonal work in the summer. However, they are now choosing Western European countries due to higher salaries and more open labor markets following Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Poland’s Central Statistical Office released data on the average salary across the country for the first quarter of 2024, which stood at 8,147.38 zlotys ($2,000), reflecting a 14.4% increase compared to the previous year.

“You can now earn up to 9,000 zlotys ($2,300) in seasonal jobs,” said Mariana Semenyuk, Recruitment Director at the EWL.

“This typically involves short-term work in the agricultural sector, where wages are tied to working hours and productivity. Such work is suitable for people accustomed to physical labor. It is mostly chosen by Ukrainians who live in rural areas and have their own farms.”

Seasonal work can also include jobs in construction or logistics warehouses for clothing packaging, she said. With the approaching sales season, the logistics industry is seeing a significant increase in vacancies.

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Polish employers offer jobs in manufacturing, the automotive industry, and the service sector, all of which experience a rise in vacancies during the summer season. However, there is a shortage of workers across these sectors. Employers in the service and hospitality industry are particularly struggling to find workers for salaries of 6,000 zlotys net ($1,530), while the transportation sector faces a significant shortage of drivers, estimated to be between 150,000 to 300,000.

“Poland has been experiencing such a serious labor shortage during the summer season for the second year in a row,” Semenyuk said.

Read also: Tallinn is hosting major conference on investing in Ukraine - live broadcast
“This is due to the fact that Ukrainians, who traditionally came to Poland for seasonal work, can now earn two to three times more in Germany, the Netherlands, or other Western European countries.”

There were 50,500 vacancies in Poland as of March. The annual Occupational Barometer survey indicates a labor shortage in 27 professions this year, including trade, industry, healthcare, and social assistance. Even law enforcement agencies and schools are experiencing a shortage of personnel. Poland’s unemployment rate remains consistently low at 2.9%, the second lowest in the EU, the EU’s statistical office Eurostat said. The data from Poland’s Family Ministry, which has a different calculation methodology, the unemployment rate is 5.1%.

To address the labor shortage, Poland is recruiting workers from Asia and Latin America. While Ukrainians remain the largest group of registered foreign citizens in Poland’s Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), the proportion of workers from Asia and Latin America is steadily increasing.

The study “Migration 2.0. Poland in the Global Fight for Talent from Asia and Latin America,” conducted by the EWL Foundation in collaboration with the Center for East European Studies at the Warsaw University, said that young men aged 18 to 35 from Asian and Latin American countries are now filling vacancies that were previously occupied by Ukrainian citizens. Over the past two years, the number of work permits issued to Asians and Latin Americans in Poland has almost quadrupled.

About 4.3 million Ukrainians are currently living in EU countries, including about 860,000 adult men, Eurostat database estimates suggest. Of these, Poland has granted temporary protection status to 950,000 Ukrainians, the second highest number after Germany.

Polish protesters began to restrict traffic on the border with Ukraine on Feb. 20. Trucks were blocked at the Medyka-Shehyni, Dołhobycz�w-Uhryniv, Zosin-Ustyluh, Korczowa-Krakivets, Hrebenne-Rava-Ruska, and Dorohusk-Yahodyn checkpoints.

Farmers put forward numerous demands, including abandoning duty-free trade with Ukraine and fully closing the Ukrainian-Polish border for trucks.

Polish farmers concluded their blockade on April 29, but the Ukrainian economy suffered significant losses.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:25 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Ik heb het over het artikel zelf he. Anders had ik Reisner niet genoemd of wel dan?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:31 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Waarom post je die tweet dan?

Je had ook gewoon de link uit deze kunnen posten, immers.

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French, German leaders say Ukraine allowed to strike inside Russia
PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) – France and Germany’s leaders said on Tuesday Ukraine should be allowed to hit military sites inside Russia from which missiles were being fired at Ukrainian territory, but not other targets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West earlier in the day that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine use Western-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia, which he said could trigger a global conflict.

“We support Ukraine and we don’t want escalation, that hasn’t changed,” French President Emmanuel Macron said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Meseberg, Germany.

“We think we should allow them to neutralise military sites from which missiles are fired, military sites from which Ukraine is attacked, but we shouldn’t allow them to hit other targets in Russia and civilian or other military sites in Russia.”

Scholz said he agreed with Macron and that as long as Ukraine respected the conditions given by countries that supplied the weapons, including the United States, and international law, it was allowed to defend itself.

“Ukraine has every possibility under international law for what it is doing. That has to be said explicitly,” Scholz said.

“I find it strange when some people argue that it should not be allowed to defend itself and take measures that are suitable for this.”

Over two years into the deadliest land war in Europe since World War Two, as the West considers what to do about Russian military advances in Ukraine, Putin is increasingly evoking the risk of a global war, while Western leaders play it down.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the Economist that alliance members should let Ukraine strike deep into Russia with Western weapons, a view supported by some European members of the transatlantic alliance though not the United States.

In Germany too, there is some resistance to the idea, with fears of an escalation into a wider conflict likely to play a role in upcoming local and state elections in the formerly communist east of the country.

Scholz has refused to provide Kyiv Germany’s long-range Taurus missiles, which could potentially reach Moscow.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:33 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Ik zit mobiel atm en deze optie was de meest makkelijke.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:39 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Maar je had het artikel heus gelezen, maar het was makkelijker om een tweet met desinformatie te posten, no biggie, want het gaat om wat anders, dan de link naar het artikel wat je heus gelezen had?

Helder.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:43 schreef oheng het volgende:
De ATACMS op de Luhanks luchtmachtbasis was waarschijnlijk o.a. een aanval op een mobiele radar (reddit link). Misschien een Mobium?

Langzaamaan wordt rusland blind gemaakt.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:43 schreef AchJa het volgende:

Maar goed, je hoeft me niet te geloven natuurlijk, dat is verder aan jou.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 13:58 schreef AchJa het volgende:
Daar zit dus ook een strategische bedoeling achter.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:28 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://english.nv.ua/bus(...)market-50422551.html
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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:49 schreef ExTec het volgende:

Of hebben jij en die FSB trekpop dat soms ook niet gezegd, bedoeld?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:50 schreef ExTec het volgende:
Goed nieuws, trouwens.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:02 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Wie is die FSB trekpop nou weer dan? Reisner?

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De rest ga ik niet eens meer op reageren want ik blijf niet bezig. Je hebt je uitleg gekregen en je doet het er maar mee.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:49 schreef ExTec het volgende:
Maar wat was precies het strategische dan achter die over the horizon radar omkegelen? En van wie uit?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:04 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:
Je zou toch zeggen dat Oekra�ne zo nu onderhand wel even moet gaan winnen?

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Op donderdag 23 mei 2024 22:13 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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Wordt toch wel echt tijd hoor dat Oekra�ne gaat winnen aan de X posts te zien. Maar het zit er nog niet echt in.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:13 schreef ExTec het volgende:
Ja?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:24 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Er is iets ernstigs mis met je.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:26 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Ik ben vervelend to the point.

Je zielige "ik ben volstrekt uitgeluld, ik ga maar op de man spelen" mag je voor je houden.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:29 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Ondat wij Baudet hebben is Swillens een FSB trekpop... Dat is jouw niveau nu. Echt kerel, laat je nakijken.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:34 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Misschien moet je dat artikel wat ik gepost hebt eens lezen.

Dom vergelijk. Onze *IVD's zijn niet geinfiltreert door de FSB.

En mongolen in de politiek hebt je werkelijk overal.

Je moet jezelf eens na laten kijken.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:38 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Nee hoor. Jij komt voor de zoveelste keer weer met crap aan.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:43 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Nee, er zijn meerdere artikelen van politico geweest over de perikelen in oostenrijk.

En vanzelfsprekend bakken andere publicaties, zal het beperken tot de eerste zoveel.

https://apnews.com/articl(...)0646ee1952bf8949a43f

https://www.euronews.com/(...)ltration-across-euro

https://www.independent.c(...)recard-b2525122.html

https://www.lemonde.fr/en(...)andal_6668207_4.html

https://www.ft.com/content/bd74a542-3ce3-44de-a93a-36dc5929912b

Maar lemonde, independent, ft.com, allemaal crap h� Meneer Achja?

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 00:03 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Dus zijn de officieren van hetzelfde laken een pak toch meneer Extec?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:04 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:
Je zou toch zeggen dat Oekra�ne zo nu onderhand wel even moet gaan winnen?

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 00:09 schreef ExTec het volgende:

Hebben we het over gehad, ik geef aan waarom dat waarschijnlijk is. Als jij aannemelijk kan maken waarom dat niet zo is, hoor ik het graag.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:09 schreef TLC het volgende:
https://nos.nl/artikel/25(...)ruiken-zoals-hij-wil

Ik vraag me af hoe dat zal gaan als Oekrainse soldaten aangevallen worden als ze met westerse soldaten samenwerken ; rennen die dan snel weg om te schuilen of zo en laten ze de Oekrainers achter ?

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 00:21 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Hoeveel zijn er nu feitelijk opgepakt in Oostenrijk, laten we daar maar eens mee beginnen.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 22:53 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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En als ze bij de EU komen gebeurt dit in het kwadraat.

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 00:33 schreef ExTec het volgende:

Geen idee. Ik heb niet geteld, jij wel?

Hoezo, is er geen corruptie als het minder dan 5 zijn, en meer dan 5 wel ofzo?

Of is het net zoiets als dat als er geen criminelen gearresteerd worden, dat als bewijs dient van dat er dan ook geen misdaad is?

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 00:46 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Nog maar een keer, hoeveel? En omdat er een aantal zijn opgepakt moet Reisner dus wel een "FSB trekpop" zijn...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Reisner

Als je dat iemand al aan wil smeren moet je toch echt met een beter verhaal komen dan wat je onderbuik je vertelt.

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 01:01 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Ja, ik heb uiteengezet dat die staat feitelijk gecompromiteerd is.

En behalve een vermoeddelijke vereenzelviging heb je blijkbaar geen enkel argument waarom die gecompromiteerde status zich niet tot het oostenrijkse leger zou uitstrekken.

En ff ten overvloedde; niet alles is cartoonishly zwart-wit, de persoon kan prima ter goeder trouw zijn, maar bv structureel een bepaalde kant opgeduwd worden, bepaalde foute informatie krijgen, goede niet, etc.

Wat er in het pentagon gebeurde onder bush junior/Golfoorlog 2, zogenaamde link tussen bin laden en irak, analysten kwamen met iets wat cheney niet uitkwam, afgekeurd, opnieuw. This kinda shit happens. Let op: ik schets hoe het corrumperen van welwillenden kan gebeuren. Ik zeg niet dat precies dit voorbeeld ook op hem van toepassing is.

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 01:09 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Kortom, je hebt nul bewijs dat hij een "FSB trekpop" is.

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En het is niet aan mij om argumenten te verzinnen waarom hij dat niet is, jij doet een beschuldiging en wie stelt bewijst.

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Georgia parliament overrides president to pass Kremlin-style ‘foreign agents’ bill, defying Western pressure

Georgia’s parliament has voted to override the presidential veto of a Russian-inspired “foreign agent” law, defying fierce protests at home and criticism abroad.

Tuesday’s vote to bypass the objection of Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, whose powers are mostly ceremonial, was widely expected and clears the way for the parliament’s speaker to sign the bill into law.

The ruling Georgian Dream party has for weeks tried to force through the “foreign agent” law, likened by critics to a measure introduced in Russia to stifle dissent.

The Georgian law, which has passed each of its three rounds of voting in parliament, would require organizations in the former Soviet country that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “foreign agents” or face crippling fines.

Georgian Dream argues the law is necessary to promote transparency and resist “pseudo-liberal values” fomented by foreigners, but its critics have said it could derail the country’s bid to join the European Union and tip it into the Kremlin’s orbit.

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“The European Union deeply regrets that the Georgian Parliament decided to override the President’s veto,” the bloc said Tuesday in a statement, saying the law “goes against EU core principles and values.”

The United States last week sanctioned Georgia, implementing a new visa restriction policy in response to the repressive law and crackdowns on protests.

“As a longtime supporter of Georgia and it’s Euro-Atlantic integration, I’m deeply concerned and disappointed by the passage of the foreign agents bill and the rapid political shift taking place in the country, which is at odds with the wishes of the Georgian people,” US Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, said in a statement introducing the legislation.

Responding to Tuesday’s vote, Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said it marked “a very sad day” for Georgia and the rest of Europe.

“The passing of this law effectively puts Georgia’s accession to the EU on hold, with no benefit for anybody,” he said.

Natalie Sabanadze, Georgia’s former ambassador to the EU, described the government’s attempt to pass the law – just months before scheduled parliamentary elections – as a “coup d’etat.”

“The Georgian government is clearly siding with the Putinist, anti-liberal forces of the world” Sabanadze told CNN. “It’s turning into an instrument in the hands of Russia. I cannot speculate. I have no idea whether they’re working on Russia’s instructions, but they certainly are fulfilling their interests.”

Tuesday’s vote nearly completes a process Georgia’s government began 14 months ago. Georgian Dream tried to pass the same law last year, but was forced into an embarrassing climbdown after a week of intense protests, which saw citizens waving EU flags buffeted back by water canons.

In a move widely seen as an effort to reward Georgia’s citizens – of whom about 80% support joining the bloc – the EU granted it candidate status in December.

But the government reintroduced the same bill in March and this time refused to cave to public pressure, despite a month of renewed protests.

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Macron says Kyiv should be allowed to ‘neutralise’ Russian military bases, prompting Putin warning
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that there would be “serious consequences” if Western countries allowed Ukraine to use their weapons to strike targets in Russia, as sought by Kyiv.

The warning came as French President Emmanuel Macron said Kyiv should be allowed to “neutralise” Russian military bases from where Kremlin troops are firing missiles into Ukraine, and as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the world not to tire of the war.

Putin’s comments came after some NATO members as well as the alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg have called to allow Ukraine to use their arms to step up attacks on Russian soil, after more than two years of war.

“This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences,” Putin said during a visit to Uzbekistan.

“In Europe, especially in small countries, they should be aware of what they are playing with,” he said, noting that many European countries had “small territory” and a “dense population”.

“And this factor, which they should keep in mind before they talk about striking deep into Russian territory, is a serious thing,” he said.

He added that even if Ukraine’s forces carried out the strikes, responsibility for them would lie with Western suppliers of the weapons.

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Putin also said that while he believed Western military instructors were already in Ukraine operating undercover as mercenaries, any move by countries to send them officially would be another “escalation” and “another step towards a serious conflict in Europe, towards a global conflict”.

Ukraine’s top commander announced Monday that talks were being held with France on sending military instructors to the country.

Putin warned that “we will do what we think is necessary regardless of who is on the territory of Ukraine”.

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said after a meeting of EU defence ministers in Brussels that European countries remained split on sending military instructors to Ukraine.

Countries including Germany oppose taking a step they fear could potentially drag them closer to direct conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia.

EU countries have trained 50,000 Ukrainian troops outside the war-torn country under a bloc-wide mission set up in 2022.

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Zelensky has been pressing Western allies to provide longer-range missiles and other material for striking deeper into Russia in a bid to cripple its military and industrial capacity.

With the Russian assault now in its third year, Ukraine is also pleading for more weapons for its outgunned and outnumbered troops, notably seeking help to address its lack of air defence systems.

So far Kyiv’s partners have demanded that their arms not be used to attack Russian soil, which Kyiv forces have instead been doing with local-made explosive drones.

But France’s Macron said that “We think that we should allow them to neutralise military sites where missiles are fired, from where... Ukraine is attacked,” but that “we should not allow them to touch other targets in Russia, and obviously civilian capacities”.

Zelensky, on a European tour to keep arms and support flowing to his embattled country, urged the world not to get tired of the war, saying it would play into Russia’s hands.

“It is very important for Ukrainians that the world does not get tired... that the world understands that it cannot get tired of the war launched by the aggressor,” Zelensky said in Portugal during a tour of several European capitals.

“Otherwise there will be no justice, otherwise the world will change, otherwise the world will be changed by people like Putin,” he said.

Zelensky is also trying to whip up support for a peace conference due to be held in Switzerland next month, without Russia, and on Tuesday urged US President Joe Biden to attend.

“If (Biden) is not present, it will be just like applauding Putin: personally applauding and doing so standing,” Zelensky said at a press conference with Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.

Putin is “very scared” of the peace summit aimed at agreeing the terms needed to end the conflict, Zelensky said, adding that “He has been trying to thwart this summit and continues to do so”.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said any such conference was “hopeless” without Russia’s participation.

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Ukrainian PM reveals results of talks with allies in Prague
Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has outlined the three topics raised at an informal meeting of some of Kyiv's allies – the leaders of Czechia, Poland, Latvia, Denmark and the Netherlands and a representative of the US – in Prague on 28 May.

Source: European Pravda, citing the Ukrainian government

Details: Shmyhal said the meeting’s attendees discussed the Czech initiative to supply Ukraine with artillery ammunition, which has already raised more than �1.6 billion, and agreed on the need for the shells to be delivered as soon as possible.

The second issue was the provision of air defence systems for Ukraine, including Patriots, and the delivery of F-16 fighter jets, which Kyiv expects to receive this summer.

The allies also discussed how to assist Ukraine's defence industry, including setting up joint ventures, "transferring technologies, constructing new businesses in Ukraine, and financing Ukrainian manufacturing".

Shmyhal also thanked the European Union for setting up the Ukraine Assistance Fund under the European Peace Facility (which has not yet been launched due to Hungary's veto) and discussed the upcoming Peace Summit in Switzerland with the allies.

Quote: "I am confident that our high-level talks today will have a very positive outcome for Ukraine on the battlefield and in terms of achieving a just peace," he concluded on Telegram.

Background:
• Earlier, European Pravda reported that Czechia had arranged a meeting between the leaders of some of the countries taking the lead in supplying weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which would focus on the supply of ammunition and permission to hit targets in Russia.
• Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced at this forum that the first batch of artillery shells to be supplied under the Czech-led initiative would arrive in Ukraine "in the coming days".

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Central Asian countries afraid to take part in Peace Summit due to fear of Kremlin – Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that some Central Asian countries are afraid to take part in the upcoming Peace Summit due to fear of the Kremlin.

As Zelenskyy noted in an interview with Central Asian media journalists, "today, none of your countries can have either a military or strategic alliance with Putin."

"You are all under attack 100%. Today, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and other structures are an opportunity to influence your countries. Your countries today do not influence the policies of the Kremlin and Russia. Russia is larger, economically and militarily it is stronger than your countries. And this is always for them maximum opportunity to limit your independence," he said.

"Therefore, I believe that your states have ties at the level of leaders with Russia precisely because they are trying to balance. They are afraid of Putin," the president said.

However, as he noted, this is not just an example of countries in Central Asia or the Global South. This, he said, trend has been observed throughout the world for a long time.

"Everyone found a balance with the Russians, with their policies – economic, military, and so on, so as not to awaken the beast. But the fact is that the beast does not ask anyone: it wakes up when it wants," Zelenskyy said.

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At the same time, speaking about the leaders of the Central Asian states, the President of Ukraine expressed the conviction that they are more [leaning] in the Russian direction because of fear of the Kremlin.

"Here's an example: we are doing the Peace Summit, some first steps. They are like the first steps of a small child – very unstable, but it is crucial that they are supported. These are the right steps, they are definitely forward, they are definitely towards peace. They are definitely not to war. We invite leaders, absolutely freely, and all the leaders who did not sit at the same table before. Some imposed sanctions, others did not. We invited everyone, including leaders [of countries of Central Asia]. We want to see everyone at this summit. What's scary here? The only thing that's scary is that Putin won't be there. Everyone. tanks on one of the countries of Central Asia? Because of this, it's not enough. Then tell me, what are those who don't join afraid of losing something? They're afraid of losing even the relationships they have with today's Kremlin war," Zelenskyy said.

He also said "the economy, sanctions – where your countries or political leaders balance – will not give anything."

"What will they win? Money? Well, today it's there, tomorrow it's gone. The day after tomorrow you found some kind of energy alternative to oil and gas. And those who make money from oil and gas will stop making money. But the values are friendship between people, respect – they are eternal. I think these moral values are essential," the head of state said.

Zelenskyy also said Ukraine expects the participation of the leaders of Central Asian countries at the Peace Summit, since this event is about peace and dialogue.

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A 40-kilometer section was completed on the Estonian-Russian border
On the control line between Estonia and Russia, the second, almost 40-kilometer-long section has been completed, which means that more than 60 kilometers of the green border are ready, and preparations are currently underway to cover the first section with monitoring equipment, as well as for the construction of the last section.

The second constructed section of the line of control between Estonia and Russia runs from the Luhamaa cordon to V�mmorsk. The 40 kilometer long area is located on hilly and sometimes very swampy terrain. The change is big compared to before.

"To be quite honest, there were places here where even the border guards who had been working for years didn't know exactly where the border was," said Paavo Mikson, head of the Piusa cordon of the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA).

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The new, completed section also includes border post 121, where the case of the robbery of Defense Police officer Eston Kohver took place, after which the construction of the eastern border began. On Tuesday, journalists from the New York Times and Politico had also come to see the modern external border of Europe.

However, a great field of work still lies ahead. "Above, closer to Lake Peipsi, construction work is already starting. Here are the sections that will follow right away - the design work has also been completed, we are in the process of construction procurement. And it is expected that this contract will be signed at the beginning of next year," said PPA General Director Egert Belichev.

Until now, areas that would have changed after the ratification of the Estonian-Russian border agreement were not taken into account when building the border strip. Since the probability of concluding a border agreement is decreasing, it has been decided that the entire control line will be covered with border infrastructure.

"As for Saate's boot, we have already found this decision, this money, and preparations are being made there, so to speak. And then we have two more sections, so to speak, where, I think, we have to make a fundamental decision that we will also do these sections, because they are currently waiting for construction, so to speak, and it is not planned there," said Interior Minister Lauri L��nemets.

At the same time, the monitoring equipment is pending, the first part of which should be in place in the fall. In addition, the need for drone surveillance and detection technology has emerged as a new challenge.

"For most of the border, the technical side should be ready by the end of 2025. And as far as drone detection and monitoring and anti-drone control are concerned, these amounts are a bit over 10 million euros. But let's say this way, in the perspective of the next 10 years, I think we should do it," L��nemets said.

So far, a little more than 60 kilometers of the Estonian-Russian control line have been built.

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Russia Claims ‘NATO Training for Nuclear Strike on Russian Territory’
After Russia’s recent nuclear weapons drills, the Head of the FSB Border Service blamed NATO in an interview with RIA Novosti for preparing to attack Russia.

^{Vladimir Kulishov, Head of Russia’s Border Service pictured with China’s Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Beijing on Nov. 21, 2019. Photo: China Ministry of Defense}

General Vladimir Kulishov, First Deputy Director and Head of Russia’s Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Border Service said that NATO was stepping up its training close to Russian borders, which included nuclear drills, in an interview with the Ria Novosti news site on the occasion of Russia’s “Border Guard Day.”

“Near the Russian border, NATO’s reconnaissance activities are increasing, the intensity of operational combat training of the alliance’s troops is growing, during which scenarios for conducting combat operations against the Russian Federation, including the launch of nuclear strikes on our territory, are being worked out,” he said.

Kulishov went on to say: “The situation requires taking appropriate steps to protect and secure our borders.”

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He also spoke about the efforts having to be made by Russian border guards to defend against attempts, by what he termed “Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups,” to infiltrate Russian territory in the Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod Regions as well as the Crimean Republic. He said that in 2023, more than 5,500 attempts to enter Russia by “international terrorist and extremist organizations,” and “special services and armed formations of Ukraine,” had been prevented.

Kulishov said the number of missile and artillery strikes on Russian territory is increasing and drone attacks on Russia’s military, transport, energy and social infrastructure are becoming more intense.

He made these comments on the day after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Western nations to lift the restrictions placed on Kyiv in the use of its long-range weapons.

Stoltenberg said some states within the alliance had lifted restrictions on providing specific weapons to Ukraine, though others had not and called on those continuing to limit their arms supplies to reconsider their position in light of the “nature of the fighting taking place in Kharkiv.”

He said: “By having too many restrictions we are tying one hand of the Ukrainian armed forces behind their back because they are reducing their capability to defend themselves,” adding, “these are national decisions, not NATO decisions.”

In turn the Kremlin’s Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told Izvestia “that NATO is flirting with military rhetoric, increasing the degree of escalation and falling into military ecstasy.”

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused Stoltenberg of “exceeding his authority... [and he] has already been besieged by NATO members themselves,” in reference to a statement by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, that Ukraine should use Western weapons only within its own territory.

Ria Novosti said that Russia had no option but to react to the increasingly bellicose statements by certain NATO nations, which included comments by French President Emmanuel Macron on the possibility of direct intervention in the Ukrainian conflict and the report by Germany’s Der Spiegel on Sunday that the Baltic countries and Poland had “warned” Germany that they could send troops to Ukraine if the situation develops unfavorably for Kyiv.

The news site said that the recent non-strategic nuclear weapons drills in the Southern Military District were carried out on the orders of President Vladimir Putin, as he felt the latest NATO pronouncements were triggering “an unprecedented round of escalation of tension that requires special attention and measures.”

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Poland's Surprise: Troop Deployment to Ukraine Possible!
Poland's Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, has suggested that Poland should not dismiss the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday. However, Sikorski did not specify the potential role that Polish troops would play in Ukraine.

While Ukraine's NATO allies have committed to offering financial and military assistance to Kyiv to defend against a potential Russian invasion, they have generally refrained from considering the deployment of troops to Ukrainian soil.

In response to a question about Poland's readiness to deploy troops to Ukraine, Sikorski stated that it should not be ruled out. He emphasized the importance of keeping Russian President Vladimir Putin uncertain about the intentions of NATO countries.

Earlier in February, French President Emmanuel Macron also acknowledged the possibility of NATO sending troops to Ukraine, highlighting the evolving discussions within the alliance regarding potential military intervention.

It seems the French will send some troops to Ukraine sooner rather than later. Read more about it here.

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Mette F. comes with a clear message
Ukraine can use Danish weapons on Russian territory

Danish arms deliveries to Ukraine
Denmark allows its arms deliveries to Ukraine to be used for attacks on Russian territory if it is in accordance with international law.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen emphasized that the use of weapons on Russian targets is permitted when it happens within the rules of war, as Ukraine defends itself against Russian aggression.

This position was confirmed during an international meeting in Prague, where Denmark, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands discussed cooperation. However, the issue of weapons use still divides Ukraine's Western allies.
^{This fact box was generated by Labrador AI and proofread by a journalist.}

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Danish arms deliveries to Ukraine may be used to attack Russian territory, as long as the use is within international law.

This is what Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) says to TV2 News on Tuesday evening.

- You are welcome to use what we have donated to Ukraine, also outside of Ukraine - that is, on Russian targets - if it is within international law. Nato's Secretary General was very clear on this issue a few hours ago, that it is within the rules when you wage war because it is Ukraine that is being attacked by Russia, says the Prime Minister.

The announcement comes after Frederiksen co-hosted an international meeting in the Czech capital, Prague, on cooperation between the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Denmark on Tuesday.

Splitting Western Allies
The issue, which she is now addressing, is dividing Ukraine's Western allies.

Some countries demand that their arms aid be used only on Ukrainian territory.

NATO's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, said earlier in the day that the United States and the NATO countries in the EU should reconsider the ban on Ukraine attacking targets in Russia.

Ukraine wants arms deliveries to be used, for example, to hit Russian supplies that are on their way to the front line.

Mette Frederiksen says in the interview with TV2 News that she agrees with the Ukrainian assessment that you cannot defend yourself if "you cannot be allowed to do something the other way".

In the interview, Mette Frederiksen says that she does not want to go into concrete examples and scenarios.

^{Denmark's Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, on Tuesday co-hosted an international meeting in the Czech capital, Prague, on cooperation between the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Denmark. Martin Divisek/Ritzau Scanpix}

Couldn't agree
On Tuesday, during a meeting in the Belgian capital, Brussels, the EU's defense ministers failed to agree on the issue.

Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign affairs chief, told a subsequent press conference that self-defense strikes against military targets on Russian territory "are a legitimate act under international law when done in a proportionate manner".

- But it is also clear that it is a decision for each individual member state, emphasized Borrell.

Leaning on Mette Frederiksen
In a statement, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, supported the Danish prime minister's statement.

- We think that we must allow them to neutralize military areas from which missiles are launched and basically the military areas from which Ukraine is attacked, says the French president.

- We must not allow other targets in Russia to be hit, civilian targets for example, or other military targets, adds the president according to the news agency dpa.

At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened Europe with "serious consequences" if Ukraine is allowed to use long-range weapons donated by Western allies on Russian territory.

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Ukraine downs 13 Russian kamikaze drones overnight Wednesday
Russia’s invasion forces launched 14 one-way attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type at Ukraine overnight Wednesday, May 29.

Ukraine downed 13 of those, Ukrinform reports with reference to the Air Force Command.


All drones were launched from the Primorsk-Akhtarsk region in Russia.

“Fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force, mobile fire groups of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, and electronic warfare units were involved in repelling the enemy air raid,” the report reads.

The UAVs were shot down over Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, and Rivne regions, the Air Force Command wrote.

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 23:04 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:
Je zou toch zeggen dat Oekra�ne zo nu onderhand wel even moet gaan winnen?

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Op dinsdag 28 mei 2024 20:39 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Despite war raging in Ukraine and countries like North Macedonia, Georgia and Moldova desperately seeking to join the EU, there’s one member country that won’t be helping to defend Europe anytime soon.

That country is Ireland.

Despite bearing responsibility for 16 percent of the EU’s territorial waters, and the fact that 75 percent of transatlantic undersea cables pass through or near Irish waters, Ireland is totally defenseless. And I mean completely unable to protect critical infrastructure, or even pretend to secure its own borders.

Think I’m exaggerating?

Well, Ireland’s “navy” of six patrol vessels is currently operating with one operational ship due to chronic staff shortages. Over one month of naval patrol days were cancelled in the 12 months prior to March 2024 due to staffing shortages. Pay and conditions are so bad that entire classes of Naval Service graduates are being bought out of their contracts by private employers seeking their technical skills.

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 07:04 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)veto-intl/index.html
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Geen verrassing dat het parlement de veto van de president weggestemd heeft, dat lag in de verwachtingen. Al vraag ik mij af of deze wet ook tegen Russische bedrijven en organisaties geldt. Het zou namelijk wel grappig zijn als Russische bedrijven en zo massaal boetes gaan krijgen.

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 09:10 schreef Cilantro het volgende:
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Frustrerend voor Oekra�ne dit.

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 08:33 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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In het kader van onderzeese kabels is dit artikel van Politico ook wel interessant:
Ireland’s the ultimate defense freeloader
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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 09:52 schreef Perrin het volgende:

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Manman, tekenend weer. En echt schandalig zo onverantwoordelijk.

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 08:31 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Word je nou nooit eens moe van deze act? Na 2,5 jaar kennen we hem onderhand wel.

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 09:03 schreef polderturk het volgende:

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Waarom is deze wet zo slecht?

De VS heeft een wet die hierop lijkt

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Op woensdag 29 mei 2024 11:02 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Olala!