No problem at all. I am sure that many will be happy to put it under scrutiny and put its assertions to the test.
The War in the Ukraine
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Broccoli
Senior Member
Another SAM systems falls as victim of an drone attack.
Snake Island is being targeted quite a lot. It was also attacked some days ago
Ok this is getting spicy now. Allegedly a sat image showing the heat signature of the ship..
That sad Tor have a major blindspot :x around that building.
Pure BS The image was SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
and i wonder how SAR detects or image fire. and i found the location...
You can even find it yourself in Sentinel Hub's EO browser. Which kinda weird as the Dumskaya article DOES NOT include location.
Pure BS The image was SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
and i wonder how SAR detects or image fire. and i found the location...
You can even find it yourself in Sentinel Hub's EO browser. Which kinda weird as the Dumskaya article DOES NOT include location.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
The US is right to be worried because providing targeting data is directly being involved in the kill chain. That is arguably beyond the threshold of observer and venturing into the territory of being a direct and active participant in the conflict. At a minimum, it could give Russia legal pretext to shoot down US recon aircraft under the allowed UN legal framework around legitimate self defence.
Remember, America absolutely do not want to be directly involved in the fight in Ukraine. So what happens if Russia cites this as evidence that America is now a direct participant in the conflict and declares their air assets over the Black Sea legitimate targets? They could probably shoot down a global hawk or similar unmanned platform to prove their seriousness and what is America going to do? Sanction them so more? Start WWIII?
The current ‘rules’ of engagement in place are massively favourable to NATO and Ukraine, so it’s very much in Russia’s interests to reshuffle the deck in the hopes of getting a better hand. America would be foolish gift Putin a golden opportunity to do so.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
It’s my assessment based on the strategies being used, especially the Ukrainian attempt to hold the Donbas conventionally against an enemy with undeniable air superiority (even if they do suck badly at using said air superiority for ground attack); the many Ukrainian mobilisations; the way the Ukrainians are going through NATO supplied light infantry weapons; videos and pictures posted by Russian forces that I choose not to share on Ukrainian dead; and first hand accounts from the foreign ‘Reddit battalion’ who rabbited, which seems to be echoed by Ukrainian POWs and active units like the one you posted about a unit refusing to follow orders anymore. Although I treat these last sources as highly suspect since it mostly consists of guys speaking in Ukrainian so I cannot verify what has been said and POWs have been well documented to say whatever their captures need them say.
At the start of the war, the bulk of Ukrainian’s best troops were in or around the Donbas. I have seen no indication to suggest that has fundamentally changed. Which means it’s these best units that are now being engaged by the Russians, out in clean open field direct engagements. It does not look great for those units as far as I can see.
I don't think it was a Neptune that hit that ship. If Ukraine had them, why did it take so long for them to be used? You had Russian ships casually unloading in Ukrainian ports as if they were home ports. Not to mention the activity around Odessa. Like a lot of Russian/Ukrainian projects the Neptune seems to exist on paper only.
I'm sure it's a western missile, likely British. The British defence minister has had a conversation leaked where he talked about giving Ukraine anti ship capability and the government are saying it officially. It would explain the delay we saw as Ukrainians had to integrate the missile.