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« Reply #2350 on: July 19, 2025, 11:53:11 pm »
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« Reply #2351 on: July 19, 2025, 11:59:15 pm »
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Oleksandr Usyk brutally knocks out Daniel Dubois to become undisputed heavyweight champion

Usyk put Dubois down twice in Round 5 in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium

Darshan Desai  |  July 19, 2025  |  7:16 PM EDT



Oleksandr Usyk's greatness knows no bounds.

The Ukrainian knocked out Daniel Dubois in the fifth round of their rematch on Saturday in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in London to become a two-time undisputed heavyweight world champion.

The first fight between Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) and Dubois (22-3, 21 KOs) in 2023 was marred by controversy. A punch landed by Dubois in the fifth round of the first meeting was contentiously ruled a low blow, despite a significant portion of the boxing community believing the shot was a legitimate strike. Usyk was allowed a four-minute break to recover and went on to knock Dubois out in the ninth round.

This time, however, there were no low blows and no controversy — just a masterclass from Usyk  .  .  .

https://sports.yahoo.com/boxing/breaking-news/live/oleksandr-usyk-brutally-knocks-out-daniel-dubois-to-become-undisputed-heavyweight-champion-050001724.html
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« Reply #2352 on: July 20, 2025, 12:00:49 am »
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« Reply #2353 on: July 20, 2025, 12:02:48 am »
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« Reply #2354 on: July 20, 2025, 12:04:41 am »
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« Reply #2355 on: July 20, 2025, 08:57:09 am »
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 19, 2025

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Russian forces conducted a large series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine overnight on July 18 to 19. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 12 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from Voronezh, Kursk, and Rostov oblasts and occupied Crimea; 8 Iskander-K cruise missiles from Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; and 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles from the airspace over Saratov Oblast.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces also launched around 200 Shahed-type drones and 144 decoy drones from Bryansk, Kursk, and Oryol cities; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast; and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasondar Krai.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 208 total projectiles, including 185 Shahed-type drones, 7 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, 7 Iskander-K cruise missiles, and 9 Kh-101 cruise missiles; and that 7 cruise missiles, and 129 decoy drones were “lost” or suppressed by Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) systems. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that 5 missiles and 30 drones struck 12 unspecified locations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that the Russian strikes damaged critical infrastructure in Sumy Oblast and left thousands without power, and that Russian drones and missiles struck Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and damaged vital infrastructure.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration Head Serhiy Lysak reported that Russia's overnight strike was the largest combined strike package against Pavlohrad since Russia's initial push into Ukraine in February 2022.

Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces struck industrial, educational, and civilian infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and Sumy oblasts.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko expanded the Belarusian government's ability to provide additional vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Belarusian forces during mobilization and wartime.

Lukashenko signed a decree on July 18 that authorizes the government to seize any “means of transport,” including state vehicles and privately leased vehicles, for military use during wartime. The decree defines “means of transport” as cars, trains, ships, small vessels, UAVs, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheeled tractors, and heavy road building equipment.

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« Reply #2356 on: July 20, 2025, 08:57:35 am »
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« Reply #2357 on: July 20, 2025, 11:46:10 am »
Textbook Russia - getting their false narrative in order and pushing out their propaganda to justify an invasion of Azerbaijan.  Just like they did with Ukraine:


https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1946945697703403931
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« Reply #2358 on: July 20, 2025, 11:47:41 am »
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« Reply #2359 on: July 20, 2025, 11:49:17 am »
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« Reply #2360 on: July 20, 2025, 12:52:18 pm »
Russia is open to peace with Ukraine but insists on achieving its goals, Kremlin says




Russia is open to peace with Ukraine but achieving its goals remains a priority, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday, days after U.S. President Donald Trump gave Moscow a 50-day deadline to agree to a ceasefire or face tougher sanctions.

Peskov and other Russian officials have repeatedly rejected accusations from Kyiv and its Western partners of stalling peace talks. Meanwhile, Moscow continues to intensify its long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities, launching more drones in a single night than it did during some entire months in 2024, and analysts say the barrages are likely to escalate.

“President (Vladimir) Putin has repeatedly spoken of his desire to bring the Ukrainian settlement to a peaceful conclusion as soon as possible. This is a long process, it requires effort, and it is not easy,” Peskov told state TV reporter Pavel Zarubin.

“The main thing for us is to achieve our goals. Our goals are clear,” he added.

The Kremlin has insisted that any peace deal should see Ukraine withdraw from the four regions that Russia illegally annexed in September 2022, but never fully captured. It also wants Ukraine to renounce its bid to join NATO and accept strict limits on its armed forces — demands Kyiv and its Western allies have rejected.

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It needs to be clear to Russia that if they want a piece of Ukraine then the rest joins NATO, or we keep selling weapons.
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« Reply #2361 on: July 20, 2025, 12:59:25 pm »
“Everyone who wanted to fight is already fighting”: Top Ukrainian UAV commander prepares for war with drones, not people



“We don’t see the end of the war coming tomorrow — or likely even this year. Putin is sending more infantry than we can destroy,” Madiar stated.

According to him, the main threats include massive Shahed drone attacks, Ukraine’s shortage of mobilization resources, and the enemy’s numerical advantage.

“Everyone who wanted to fight is already fighting,” he noted.

However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already working on solutions: plans include replacing infantry with ground-based drones and building a multi-level “drone wall” to intercept everything coming from Russia.

Brovdi became the commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems in June. After taking the position, he announced he would work on the new Drone Line project, a 10-15 kilometer “kill zone” where enemy forces cannot advance without suffering significant losses.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/19/everyone-who-wanted-to-fight-is-already-fighting-top-ukrainian-uav-commander-prepares-for-war-with-drones-not-people/
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« Reply #2362 on: July 20, 2025, 01:05:53 pm »
Britain Is ‘Sleepwalking’ into a War with Russia



LONDON, UK - In a recent interview with The Telegraph, British Gen. Sir Patrick Sanders, who stood down as chief of the General Staff last summer, had a number of sobering predictions about Russia’s military threat to Britain.

He made several recommendations for what the United Kingdom should do now if it hopes to be ready for future challenges from Moscow.

Sanders said the UK needs to start by accepting that war with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces by 2030 is a realistic possibility – London therefore must prepare for hostilities with Russia within five years. Necessary first steps include building bunkers and investing in air defenses, the former Army head warned.

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« Reply #2363 on: July 20, 2025, 01:21:03 pm »
Trump's 50-day deadline kicks in Sept. 2 ... that's when every country that helps Russia gets hit with 100% secondary tariffs

Obviously, India and China  - Russia's 2 biggest supporters - won't be helping Russia anymore after Sept. 2

Plus, Russia's economy is about to implode ... lol

This Fall should be interesting!
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« Reply #2364 on: July 20, 2025, 02:28:58 pm »
India, China, and Russia will figure out a work around, legal or illegal.
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« Reply #2365 on: July 20, 2025, 02:54:03 pm »
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Russia is open to peace with Ukraine but insists on achieving its goals, Kremlin says

Are we talking the 2014 goals, the 2022 goals, or the 2025 goals?
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« Reply #2366 on: July 20, 2025, 02:54:22 pm »
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India, China, and Russia will figure out a work around, legal or illegal.

Yep.
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« Reply #2367 on: July 20, 2025, 02:57:03 pm »
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« Reply #2368 on: July 20, 2025, 03:03:41 pm »

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Ukraine could have surrendered in 2014. But we didn’t.
Ukraine could have surrendered in 2022. But we didn’t.
And we could surrender now. But we will not.

We. Are. Ukrainians. We will not surrender.

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« Reply #2369 on: July 20, 2025, 03:10:01 pm »
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« Reply #2370 on: July 20, 2025, 03:13:47 pm »
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OTD in 1945, having just liberated Lithuania from Nazis, Soviet mass deportations resumed, liberating 1000 Lithuanians from Lithuania to provide slave labor for USSR.

Within 2 years over half were dead. imagine mass deportations taking place today.

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« Reply #2371 on: July 20, 2025, 03:25:25 pm »
Yet another Russian propaganda lie put to rest:


Did NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? Gorbachev Says “No”

Steven Pifer  |  November 6, 2014

It is abundantly evident that Russian President Vladimir Putin is no fan of NATO. Indeed, he displays a pronounced—almost obsessive—antipathy toward the Alliance. He claims that NATO took advantage of Russian weakness after the collapse of the Soviet Union to enlarge to its east, in violation of promises allegedly made to Moscow by Western leaders. But no such promises were made—a point now confirmed by someone who was definitely in a position to know: Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the Soviet Union.

President Putin’s NATO Narrative

The West’s supposed violation of a pledge not to enlarge NATO has long figured as a key element in Putin’s narrative about (and against) the Alliance. In his bombastic February 2007 speech to the Munich Security Conference, he said:

And we have the right to ask: against whom is this [NATO] expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our Western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact? … I would like to quote the speech of NATO General Secretary Mr. Woerner in Brussels on 17 May 1990. He said at the time that: ‘the fact that we are ready not to place a NATO army outside of German territory gives the Soviet Union a firm security guarantee.” Where are these guarantees?

The Russian president returned to the subject in his March 18, 2014, Kremlin speech justifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea: “… they [Western leaders] have lied to us many times, made decisions behind our backs, placed before us an accomplished fact. This happened with NATO’s expansion to the east, as well as the deployment of military infrastructure at our borders.” Although it has been clear for several years that the Alliance has no appetite for putting Ukraine on a membership track, Putin went on to express horror at the prospect of NATO forces in Crimea: Russian inaction “would have meant that NATO’s navy would be right there in this city of Russia’s military glory [Sevastopol], and this would create not an illusory but a perfectly real threat to the whole of southern Russia.”

Western leaders never pledged not to enlarge NATO, a point that several analysts have demonstrated. Mark Kramer explored the question in detail in a 2009 article in The Washington Quarterly. He drew on declassified American, German and Soviet records to make his case and noted that, in discussions on German reunification in the two-plus-four format (the two Germanys plus the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France), the Soviets never raised the question of NATO enlargement  .  .  .

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/
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« Reply #2372 on: July 20, 2025, 03:28:03 pm »
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« Reply #2373 on: July 20, 2025, 03:30:52 pm »
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« Reply #2374 on: July 20, 2025, 03:34:14 pm »
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Or in other words, unconditional surrender and return to Russian rule.
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« Reply #2375 on: July 20, 2025, 03:37:55 pm »
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✈️🇺🇦 While performing a combat mission, the commander of the squadron that shot down enemy Shaheds in the Odesa region, Konstantyn Ivanovich Oborin, with the call sign "Kamikaze", died.

🕯️ 63-year-old Konstantyn Ivanovich was a pilot of Yak-52 aircraft, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, a participant in the modern war, the director of the Odssa aviation club and the head of the Union of Veterans of Afghanistan.

💔 In 2014, he personally took out 29 Ukrainian prisoners of war from the territory of "LDNR" and actively helped the ATO soldiers.



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This is the type of plane this old man piloted to shoot down drones and protect his civilian brothers and sisters:



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« Reply #2376 on: July 20, 2025, 03:39:23 pm »
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« Reply #2377 on: July 20, 2025, 03:42:57 pm »
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According to President Zelenskyy and European officials cited by Bloomberg, China has ceased exporting drone components to Ukraine and is now directing its supplies primarily to Russia.

Chinese firms accounted for 92% of all foreign-sourced components in Russian attack drones.



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« Reply #2378 on: July 20, 2025, 03:44:38 pm »
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« Reply #2379 on: July 20, 2025, 03:49:05 pm »
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Tomahawk missiles can be launched from other platforms besides planes. We launch them from ships and subs - maybe even containers. But somehow Ukraine is precluded from using those means?
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2380 on: July 20, 2025, 03:49:19 pm »
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2381 on: July 20, 2025, 03:54:36 pm »
Quote from: BobfromWB on July 20, 2025, 03:49:05 pm
Tomahawk missiles can be launched from other platforms besides planes. We launch them from ships and subs - maybe even containers. But somehow Ukraine is precluded from using those means?

It said "difficult", not 'impossible'.  The point was that Ukraine gave up all its strategic bombers in exchange for protection from invasion.  Russia broke its promise.
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2382 on: July 20, 2025, 03:56:09 pm »
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2383 on: July 20, 2025, 03:57:04 pm »
Quote from: Timber Rattler on July 20, 2025, 03:34:14 pm
Or in other words, unconditional surrender and return to Russian rule.

Yes, exactly.  Putin's stated preconditions for negotiations are Zelenskyy out, and unconditional surrender.  Insane.
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2384 on: July 20, 2025, 04:02:31 pm »
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How Russia sees the world.
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#1 History is written by winners, alpha males. It won’t remember how evil you are today, if you win tomorrow.

#2 We are Russians. God is with us. We can do no bad. But if we do, see #1.

#3 We defeated Hitler. This entitles us to anything. Even to things Hitler did.

#4 Everybody wants to dominate & exploit others. Russia is honest about it, while others play a pretend game.

#5 The evil people who run the world want what we have. We are just defending ourselves.

#6 They destroyed our empire in 1991. Now is our payback time.

#7 Global order is unfair. Now is the time to make it unfair differently.

#8 Russia is an empire. Empires are alive only when they expand. Russia’s borders end nowhere.

#9 Russia has only two permanent friends: russian army and russian navy.

#10 Today is the age of empires. Either you become part of one or you cease to exist.

#11 Becoming part of empire brings happiness. In 2000s, we destroyed Chechnya - now Chechnya is our happiest warrior.

#12 Win-win world is not possible. It’s merely an illusion, ploy invented by those who run the world. Just like the so-called “freedom” & “democracy”. We were smart enough to see through it. Others weren’t.



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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2385 on: July 20, 2025, 04:24:06 pm »
Thirty pieces of silver


From Missionary to Russian Citizen: US Man Who Spied on Ukraine Gets Putin’s Stamp of Approval

Vlad Litnarovych  |  Jul 15, 2025  |  15:54


Daniel Martindale, an American citizen getting a Russian passport, July 15, 2025. (Photo: open source)

Daniel Martindale, an American citizen who posed as a missionary while allegedly spying on Ukrainian military positions near Vuhledar, has been granted Russian citizenship, Denis Pushilin, head of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic,” confirmed on July 15.

Pushilin described the move as “the highest form of state gratitude, a symbol of special trust and respect.” Martindale reportedly received his passport at the “DPR’s” office in Moscow.

According to Ukrainian journalist investigators from Telebachennya Toronto and open-source researchers, Martindale lived for nearly two years in the village of Bohoyavlenka near Vuhledar, presenting himself as a Christian humanitarian while collecting intelligence on Ukrainian troop movements and infrastructure.  .  .

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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2386 on: July 20, 2025, 05:05:53 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on July 20, 2025, 04:24:06 pm
Thirty pieces of silver

That idiot is just going to be like the Huffmans...he'll come to regret what he has done because Russia is not what he thinks it is.
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2387 on: July 20, 2025, 07:12:07 pm »
It would have been nice if the American left in the 70s and 80s had this understanding about Russia then. They seem to now.  They owe Reagan an apology.


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#1 History is written by winners, alpha males. It won’t remember how evil you are today, if you win tomorrow.

#2 We are Russians. God is with us. We can do no bad. But if we do, see #1.

#3 We defeated Hitler. This entitles us to anything. Even to things Hitler did.

#4 Everybody wants to dominate & exploit others. Russia is honest about it, while others play a pretend game.

#5 The evil people who run the world want what we have. We are just defending ourselves.

#6 They destroyed our empire in 1991. Now is our payback time.

#7 Global order is unfair. Now is the time to make it unfair differently.

#8 Russia is an empire. Empires are alive only when they expand. Russia’s borders end nowhere.

#9 Russia has only two permanent friends: russian army and russian navy.

#10 Today is the age of empires. Either you become part of one or you cease to exist.

#11 Becoming part of empire brings happiness. In 2000s, we destroyed Chechnya - now Chechnya is our happiest warrior.

#12 Win-win world is not possible. It’s merely an illusion, ploy invented by those who run the world. Just like the so-called “freedom” & “democracy”. We were smart enough to see through it. Others weren’t.



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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2388 on: July 20, 2025, 07:45:34 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on July 20, 2025, 03:54:36 pm
It said "difficult", not 'impossible'.  The point was that Ukraine gave up all its strategic bombers in exchange for protection from invasion.  Russia broke its promise.
Ukraine still has coastal vessels, and there are the offshore oil rigs. They are very inventive and they will come up with something that works, given the chance.
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2389 on: July 20, 2025, 07:48:34 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on July 20, 2025, 04:02:31 pm
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#9 Russia has only two permanent friends: russian army and russian navy.

Both of those friends are quite diminished with the later in terrible shape.
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« Reply #2390 on: July 20, 2025, 07:54:19 pm »
Quote from: BobfromWB on July 20, 2025, 03:49:05 pm

Tomahawk missiles can be launched from other platforms besides planes. We launch them from ships and subs - maybe even containers. But somehow Ukraine is precluded from using those means?

Tomahawks sure can be launched from mobile land-based platforms...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhon_missile_system
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2391 on: July 20, 2025, 08:53:12 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on July 20, 2025, 01:05:53 pm
Britain Is ‘Sleepwalking’ into a War with Russia



LONDON, UK - In a recent interview with The Telegraph, British Gen. Sir Patrick Sanders, who stood down as chief of the General Staff last summer, had a number of sobering predictions about Russia’s military threat to Britain.

He made several recommendations for what the United Kingdom should do now if it hopes to be ready for future challenges from Moscow.

Sanders said the UK needs to start by accepting that war with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces by 2030 is a realistic possibility – London therefore must prepare for hostilities with Russia within five years. Necessary first steps include building bunkers and investing in air defenses, the former Army head warned.

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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2392 on: July 20, 2025, 11:04:36 pm »
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Detonation of a Shahed drone shot down by a Yak-52 light mobile aircraft. These aircraft are used to chase and shoot down these drones.



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« Reply #2393 on: July 20, 2025, 11:08:16 pm »
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2394 on: July 20, 2025, 11:19:21 pm »
Ukraine is purposely not attacking flak towers around Moscow.

Two reasons:

1.  With flak towers active, Moscow airspace is shut down, meaning no aircraft can take off or land at Moscow airport

2.  Russian flak is causing as much damage to Moscow as are Ukrainian drones.
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2395 on: Today at 12:36:41 am »
Quote from: MeganC on July 20, 2025, 08:53:12 pm
Russia must be destroyed.

And exactly how many lives do you want to sacrifice to achieve that?
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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2396 on: Today at 10:36:15 am »
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 20, 2025

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Russian officials continue to publicly reiterate that Russia is uninterested in a near-term solution to ending the war in Ukraine that does not acquiesce to Moscow's demands. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed on July 20 that Russia is ready to “move quickly” with peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine but that Russia must achieve its goals, which Peskov claimed are “obvious” and “do not change.”

Kremlin officials have consistently claimed that any peace settlement must eliminate the alleged “root causes” of the war and repeated Russia's original war aims to “denazify” and “demilitarize” Ukraine – terms the Kremlin has used throughout the war to call for regime change in Ukraine, Ukrainian neutrality, changes to NATO's open-door policy, and the removal of Ukraine's ability to defend itself against future Russian aggression.

Peskov’s July 20 statements underline the Kremlin's continued uninterest in good-faith negotiations with Ukraine and efforts rather to prolong the war - as ISW continues to assess.

German and Ukrainian officials assessed that Russia continues to expand its production of Shahed-type drones in order to launch even larger long-range drone strike packages that include up to 2,000 drones in a single night. Russian forces may be able to strike Ukraine with up to 2,000 drones in a single night by November 2025 should the current pattern of growth in nightly Russian drone usage continue. The head of the German Ministry of Defense's Planning and Command Staff, Major General Christian Freuding, assessed on July 19 that Russia plans to further increase its drone production capacity with the goal of launching 2,000 drones in one overnight strike package against Ukraine.

Freuding stated that Ukraine and its international partners must consider cost-effective ways of countering Russia's large strike packages, as traditional air defense methods, such as those that use expensive Patriot interceptors, are not well-suited as an anti-drone air defense strategy. Commander of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces Major Robert Brovdi stated on July 4 that Russia could launch 1,000 drones in a single strike package due to increased production and stockpiles.

Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) assessed on June 9 that Russian can produce roughly 170 Shahed-type drones per day and that Russia plans to increase production capacity to 190 drones per day by the end of 2025.

Russia has been rapidly increasing the number of Shahed-type strike drones and decoy drones in its overnight strike packages in recent weeks, with Russia's largest drone strike package thus far including 728 drones on the night of July 8 to 9.

Russia's increased production capacities in recent months have allowed Russia to dramatically increase its strike packages in a relatively short period of time. Russia rarely launched more than 200 drones per night between January and May 2025, but then increased the peak number of drones launched in one night from 250 in late May 2025, to over 700 in early July 2025. Russia's use of one-way attack drones in nightly strike packages grew at an average monthly rate of 31% in both June and July 2025.

ISW assesses that Russia may be able to launch up to 2,000 drones in one night by November 2025, should this current growth trend in drone usage continue. This forecast will be invalidated if the monthly Russian drone usage growth rate either increases or decreases from 31%. Russian forces will likely not be able to sustain such large strike packages every night, but will likely launch large strike packages followed by days of smaller packages as they are now. Western investment in Ukraine's interceptor drone development and production remains critical for Ukraine's ability to counter large-scale Russian strike packages and protect its civilian population.

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Re: Ukraine 6
« Reply #2398 on: Today at 10:40:15 am »
Why Peace With Russia is a Media Myth

Marko Mihkelson 🇪🇪🇺🇦@markomihkelson [ Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Estonian Parliament ]

When I met President Dzhokhar Dudayev in Chechnya 30 years ago, he told me that the war waged for the purpose of restoring the empire would last for another 50 years. At the time, I didn’t believe his prediction, but life has proven otherwise. Dudayev was right: until Russia is defeated in the imperial wars it has initiated, none of its neighbors - nor the free world as a whole - can feel safe. A ceasefire with them does not bring peace. Russia has proven this through its behavior since the fall of the Soviet empire. As is well known, Putin called that the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. To paraphrase: the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 21st century would be the restoration of the Russian empire.

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« Reply #2399 on: Today at 10:44:25 am »
Destroy the facilities that arm them and that program or control their guidance systems.  Destroy them before they ever take flight.
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