Arms Expert: Russia Quick to Threaten #Nuclear Strikes in Regional Conflicts
https://news.usni.org/2016/06/28/arm...eid=6679afe424 …
Arms Expert: Russia Quick to Threaten #Nuclear Strikes in Regional Conflicts
https://news.usni.org/2016/06/28/arm...eid=6679afe424 …
This story gets even wilder: an FSB officer beat up a U.S. spy under diplomatic cover in front of U.S. embassy??! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...6b1_story.html …
Heavy Fighting Reported Near Debaltsevo This Afternoon
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-863/#14396
17:12 #Rovenki @ZlbRvnk New fuel train arrived to oil depot, line of fuel trucks there since morning, &still go, no tank-wagon already there
17:34 #Yasynuvata @GirkinGirkin As rain stopped, battle in the area of #Promka began
After weeks of steady escalation, reports of battle underway in E #Ukraine; Kiev forces pushing toward Debaltseve. https://twitter.com/novostidnua/stat...40347130318848 …
UKRAINE: Heavy fighting reported along frontline towards #Svitlodarsk-#Debaltseve. Reports Ukrainian Military on the offensive. -
16:45 #Svitlodarsk UA positions @kazarin13 Separs' cannons don't cease at all
16:47 D-30, 152mm, 80mm, 120mm, 122mm, tanks are working
Reports fighting began Luhans'ke near #Debaltseve at 5AM & Ukr forces pushed back. WIA & KIA
https://inforesist.org/smi-boi-pod-d...tozhili-vzvod/ …
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50 Kerch hospital employees in Russia annexed Crimea dumped their jobs over low wages, deteriorating work conditions
http://qha.com.ua/m/read.php?id=161770&lang=ru …
Lenin Sovkhoz (farm) outside Moscow reports record numbers of people willing to work for food (berries)
http://govoritmoskva.ru/news/84108
Memo to NATO: Wake Up Before Putin Turns the Black Sea into a Russian Lake
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...NwIVik.twitter …
Kremlin Donbas Proxies launch Russian-style ‘fight against Ukrainian extremism’...
http://fb.me/CBkyjGYC
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 06-29-2016 at 03:23 PM.
Serious fighting is now ongoing near Debaltseve....EVIDENTLY triggered by a Russian ground attack since 0500 and then UAF pushed back and just kept going......
"We have the real full-scale war here near #Svitlodarsk and #Lohvynove"
https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/748161161263198208 …
16:43 [#Debaltseve area] @rechnikato about 11 wounded in the 54th brigade
[unconfirmed]
16:42 [#Debaltseve area] @rechnikato "25th batt.&54th brig. didn't enter #Lohvynove, were near it, dropped back for now, RU arty went crazy"
16:21 #Horlivka #Kalinovka @Xykalinovka Batlle in #Lohvynove direction doesn't cease, booms are audible all the time
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 06-29-2016 at 03:30 PM.
Russian Nuclear Strategy
Here is a June 27 panel from CSIS
I fell asleep attempting to watch it more than once, so for those who are interested, the folks at the USNI broke it down...
According to panelist Nikolai Sokov, Russia's nuclear doctrine, prompted to a large degree by Operation Allied Force in Kosovo is: "Threaten to use nuclear weapons against any major power that may try to block Moscow from having its way in a regional conflict."
Sokov also noted that in addition to the more recent simulated nuclear strike on Sweden, Russian exercises simulated strikes against Diego Garcia (2003) and Guam (2007).
This is interesting as when one adds the Hainan Island incident, the Russian invasion of Georgia and lack of high-end military investment (e.g. F-22), it becomes clear that the GWB Administration was utterly weak in the face of high-end political and military competition and sacrificed American prestige and capabilities in order to further low-end wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Now you are getting it.........Originally Posted by Azor
Dokuchaevsk: heavy fighting
pic.twitter.com/aLti6phGRb
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/29-june...heavy-fighting
21:31 #Izyum @IzumLLllah Helicopter went towards #Kharkiv, probably transporting the wounded
OSCE:We haven't got any notification on sapper works near Shirokine as Russian side claimed
pic.twitter.com/bDoovd2OfT
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/29-june...n-sapper-works …
21:40 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [ok.ru]
"#YuESS can hear freq explosions from the south" "#Oleksandrivka listens to the south, powerfully"
Svitlodarsk UA positions: "We have the real full-scale war hear near Svitlodarsk and Lohvynove"
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/29-june...real-fullscale …
Svitlodarsk: No electricity in entire Svitlodarsk, single projectiles hit closer and closer
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/29-june...re-svitlodarsk
21:34 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] "#Tekstilschik can hear non-stop rumble fr/NW"... "#Zaperevalna is listening to far heavy booms"
Russian militants accounts reporting on some Ukrainian tanks+infrantry activity near Debaltseve
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/29-jun
UA mil intel reports,2 trucks with ammo,1 with spare parts for mil equipment and 7 tanks with fuel arrived from RU http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/29-june...ucks-with-ammo …
Several Ukrainians wounded, 1 reportedly killed in fighting near Debaltseve
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/29-june...edly-killed-in …
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From the Jamestown Foundation
Roger McDermott: Putin Bluffs on Challenging NATO
"Following the Brexit, Putin can now rely on attempting to exploit a greatly weaker EU, but he is unsure about the future strength of NATO or transatlantic resolve. In addition, the ability of Russia’s defense industry to fully deliver on the high ambitions of military modernization remains somewhat open to question."
Jörgen Elfving: Russia’s June 2016 Snap Exercise
"The exercise seems to have been partly a command-post exercise (CPX), partly a mobilization drill. The latter part might not in reality have been all that comprehensive, but it still seemed to be an important test of the developing mobilization system as well as the basis for further development and another step toward building Russia’s military capability."
Combined Rus-militant forces fired 66 times upon Ukr troops over last day. 28 attacks in Donetsk sector, 21 in Mariupol - ATO press center
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