The War in the Ukraine
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Javelin cannot defeat artillery barrage anyway... it will still hurt advancing troops but most of the operators will be dead. They cannot continue like that, it will be conscript soon that will use these weapons anyway with no knowledge more or less of how it works. It's also bulky and you are not carrying these while taking cover so it will leave ready launchers in vulnerable area of shrapnel.
Two UK citizens and a Moroccan man, who fought for Kiev, appeared before the Supreme Court in Donetsk
British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and Moroccan citizen Saadun Ibrahim attend a court hearing in Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic. © Sputnik / Konstantin Mihalchevskiy
A court in Donetsk has sentenced to death three foreign men, who served in the Ukrainian forces and fought for Kiev in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, as well as Moroccan Saadun Ibrahim, were found guilty on Thursday of acting as mercenaries and attempting to seize power by force in the DPR.
They were also accused of undergoing training in order to carry out terrorist activities on the territory of the state, which was recognised by Russia in February. Kiev, and most of the world, regards it as a breakaway province of Ukraine.
Under the laws of the DPR, the forcible seizure of power carries a penalty of between 12 and 20 years behind bars, but it can be escalated to capital punishment due to the aggravating circumstances of war time. Acting as a mercenary is punishable by a prison sentence of three to seven years.
The three men were tried on several criminal charges. They pleaded guilty to “undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities” and attempting to forcefully topple the government in Donetsk, but denied being mercenaries hired by Kiev.
The convicted men may appeal the decision in court, which they plan to do, or request a pardon from the head of the DPR. If they win the appeal, the capital punishment could be reduced to up to 25 years in prison. According to DPR laws, the death penalty is carried out by firing squad.
The three fighters were captured in or near Mariupol, a port city that the DPR claims as part of its sovereign territory. It saw weeks of intensive fighting and eventually a blockade of thousands of Ukrainian troops at a steel plant. They later surrendered to Russian and DPR forces.
London has demanded that its citizens be treated as prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. However, Britain is not formally at war with the DPR.
Authorities in the DPR have said they consider them to be mercenaries, who are not granted the same privileges as regular combatants under international law.
I think the Germans are trolling at this point...
There's still lots of platforms we haven't seen, have any of the leopards turned up yet?
You can solve any supply problem with money. Ukrainians will start accusing the west of abandoning them and they'll be forced to cough up. America just needs to print more dollars for their MIC, problem solved.
There's still lots of platforms we haven't seen, have any of the leopards turned up yet?
Remember that recent video of Ukrainian T-72M1 and YPR-765 driving to Donbas front line? Well:
Russians already captured one.
Russians already captured one.
If Russia sends 200,000 extra troops they will likely be laden with conscripts and reservists aswell. Most of their professional soldiers are already in Ukaine and the rest are kept for a minimum defensive posture against NATO, Georgia and Japan.
Reading Reddit is filled with seething cope. "We're totally gonna do this, do that, we're gonna help Ukraine even more, we're gonna..., we're gonna...."
In reality they are already doing everything they can without further harming themselves.
The javelin is an quite old military equipment and although that kind of equipment does require some specialty chips and sensors like mems accelerometers and bolometers but that doesn't seem out of reach for a fab like Skywater Technologies or Texas Instruments.
So its seems some bullshit here and they don't want to say they run out of money for Ukraine already.
No way they want to give their Iron Dome system to Russia and any blackmarket heavy bidder...