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Special Thread: Yanayojiri Mgogoro wa Ukraine na Urusi. Nini chanzo na hatma ya mzozo?
Special Thread: Yanayojiri Mgogoro wa Ukraine na Urusi. Nini chanzo na hatma ya mzozo?
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Odessa inateketea huko 💥💥💥
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Ufaransa kumfuta mchina Kwa kisingizio Cha kumshawishi china[emoji1179][emoji1179][emoji1179][emoji1179][emoji1179][emoji1179]
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit China from Wednesday, hoping to dissuade Beijing from supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine but without alienating a crucial trade and geopolitical player.
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit China from Wednesday, hoping to dissuade Beijing from supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine but without alienating a crucial trade and geopolitical player.
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HAMV zimegeuka screpa 🤣🤣🤣 wafanye haraka wazilete Tandale huku biashara ipo
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Tumewajibu NATO na FINLAND
🇷🇺❗️In response to Finland's entry into NATO, Russia will strengthen its military potential in the north-western direction - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko
🇷🇺❗️In response to Finland's entry into NATO, Russia will strengthen its military potential in the north-western direction - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko
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Au tuzipeleke kuuza kiwanda cha chuma kwa Mchina pale Mikocheni Industrial Area tupige hela 😀😀😀
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Wazilete Dar tu biashara ipo 🤣
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NATO tunaomba mrejesho wa challenger 2, Leopard 2, na abram 1. Tumechoka na ngonjera zenu saizi mnashangilia Finland kujiunga NATO wakati silaha zenu mmezificha kule Ukraine Russia Ni mbabe NATO wanatembea mikia yote ikiwa imefyata.
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Wakati NATO wanafanya huo upuuzi Putin hakuwa madarakani kama raisi. 🤣🤣🤣
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Russia-Ukraine war: Battle for Bakhmut not over, says US official
Ukrainians have not been repulsed from the city, White House official John Kirby says, refuting the Wagner Group’s claims.
Published On 3 Apr 20233 Apr 2023
The battle for Bakhmut is not over and Ukraine is still fighting hard for the town, according to a White House official.
John Kirby, a spokesperson for the United States National Security Council, told reporters on Monday that Ukrainians have not been repulsed from the city, adding that an additional assistance package for Ukraine could be expected this week.
His remarks came hours after Ukraine also said that Russian forces were “very far” from capturing Bakhmut and that fighting raged around the city administration building where the Wagner Group of mercenaries claimed to have raised the Russian flag.
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NATO hiyo yenye vichwa Zaidi ya 30 vyote upepo? Kwa Sasa NATO Haina maana Tena Ni Bora Russia alianza ile SMO ili tumejua udhaifu wake tulikuwa tunamwogopa bure tu. BRICS ndio umoja wenye nguvu kwa Sasa US amejivunjia heshima yake.
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Here's the difference. Wakati mataifa mengine yalisaka na yangali yakisaka makoloni chini ya mwavuli na kivuli cha URAFIKI, Russia yeye anatafuta urafiki wa kweli kwa lengo la ukombozi.HII IMEM COST MRUSI...
Wakati wenzake wanaanzisha umoja baada ya vita vikuu ya pili vya dunia mwaka 1945 yeye akajifungia ndani kutengeneza technologia zake kwa lugha yake.
Wenzake wakati lugha zao wanahakikisha zinasambaa Africa na ulimwenguni kote yeye akajifungia ndani kufanya mambo yake kwa siri.
Sasa haya yote yanam cost...leo hii unaanza kusaka marafiki wapi na wapi ndugu? lugha yako yenyewe hakuna hata mwafrica anaingea huo urafiki unafanyikaje? baki na Belaruz - Mchina, Mkorea na Muhindi si wa kutegemea hata kidogo
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko are close allies [File: Vladimir Astapkovich/Sputnik/Kremlin via Reuters]
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Ukraine mocks Russian claim to have captured mining city of Bakhmut
This photograph taken on March 26, 2023, shows a Ukrainian T-72 tank fires at Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Sergey Shestak | Afp | Getty Images
Ukraine scorned Russian claims to have captured the eastern city of Bakhmut on Monday, saying its foes had raised a victory flag over "some kind of toilet" while combat was raging.
The battle for Bakhmut, a mining city and logistics hub, has been one of the bloodiest of the conflict, now in its second year, with many casualties on both sides and the city largely destroyed by bombardments.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary force spearheading the siege, said on Sunday his troops had raised a Russian flag on the city-center administrative building even though Ukrainian soldiers still held some positions.
"From a legal point of view, Bakhmut has been taken," he said in a video on Telegram. "The enemy is concentrated in the western parts."
Prigozhin has previously made premature claims.
Ukraine's military said fighting was still raging around Bakhmut's city council building, as well as in several other nearby towns.
"Bakhmut is Ukrainian and they have not captured anything and are very far from doing that," Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesperson for the eastern military command, told Reuters.
"They raised the flag over some kind of toilet. They attached it to the side of who knows what, hung their rag and said they had captured the city. Well good, let them think they've taken it," Cherevatyi added by telephone.
— Reuters
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Warusi wanajitekenya na kucheka wenyewe...
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Lugha ya mtu aliyeshindwa tayari. Why waseme ^Russian forces,^ badala ya kujisemea wao wenyewe kwamba wako umbali kiasi gani ^from recapturing Bakhmut^?
NB: Hatuungi mkono vita, tunafurahia ukombozi wa dunia! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Counter offensive is around....
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Peter Beaumont
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Tue 4 Apr 2023 05.00 BS
In an anonymous muddy field somewhere inUkraine, the country’s defence minister crouched in the commander’s hatch of a British Challenger 2 tank, one of the first three of 14 to be delivered to Kyiv.
In a maroon jacket and matching baseball cap, Oleksii Reznikov gave a thumbs-up as he thanked the UK for the delivery of the system.
It is not only Challenger main battle tanks that are arriving. In recent weeks a steady flow of donated armour has been arriving in Ukraine. German Leopard 2 tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, US Strykers and Cougars, scores in number, have been shipped discretely, with more to follow.
The sudden influx of new armour, as well as the accelerated training of Ukrainian crews to operate the vehicles in the UK and elsewhere, comes ahead of the expectation – raised by senior Ukrainian officials – that they may soon be in action as part of the country’s anticipated spring offensive.
And while over the winter Ukraine’s president, Volodmyr Zelenskiy, had been pressing for 300 main battle tanks as well as other vehicles and modern fighter jets, the much more modest numbers that have so far arrived is fuelling speculation over how that armour may be used in the coming weeks and months.
Surrounded and outgunned, Ukraine’s tank crews prepare for battle of Bakhmut
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With Russia’s own recent offensive in the eastern Donbas region apparently petering out with minimal gains and heavy losses, not least around the key eastern city of Bakhmut, there is little expectation that Ukraine has the resources for the kind of large-scale armoured thrust that Russia itself failed to carry off at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine.
Instead, analysts – including former British tank commanders – anticipate a counteroffensive, or counteroffensives, similar to those that took large amounts of territory from Russia in the late summer and autumn around Kharkiv oblast and in the country’s south that led to the retaking of Kherson.
A Javelin missile is fired from a US Stryker infantry carrier vehicle in Fort Carson, Colorado. Photograph: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images
And while they point to the south as the most likely theatre for a spring counteroffensive, they caution that Ukraine’s effective employment of misinformation and deception in last year’s fighting make feints and so-called demonstrations likely.
Among those who have been considering what the new armour arriving in Ukraine may mean for the war is Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, who served as a tank commander with 14th/20th King’s Hussars in the first Gulf war before going on to command the UK’s Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment.
For De Bretton-Gordon, one of the most significant aspects of the accumulating western armour in Ukraine is the psychological aspect.
“Psychologically, it is hugely positive for the Ukrainians and negative for the Russians. If we are just talking about numbers, then on the face of it 50 to 60 modern western tanks in Ukraine is not necessarily a gamechanger.
“I’ve said in the past that you would need a minimum of 100 for a big punch, and Ukraine has been talking about needing 300.”
Despite that, De Bretton-Gordon believes the superior capabilities the tanks offer in comparison with most Russian main battle tanks that have been deployed in Ukraine, and the more effective Ukrainian tactics, will make a difference.
“Let’s not forget that these tanks are in addition to the [Soviet and post-Soviet era] T72 tanks Ukraine already has, and they are arriving for a military that has been well trained in manoeuvre warfare and at a time when it is very clear that the Russians are incapable of anything but frontal attacks.”
In particular, De Bretton-Gordon says, the ability of Leopards to stand off and fire at greater range, and superior armour in comparison with many of the tanks being fielded by Moscow, may give them an edge. They also have a better ability to operate cross-country in comparison with the lower-clearance Russian tanks and fight effectively at night.
A Ukrainian tank in the frontline area near Bakhmut. The new tanks are superior to those currently used.Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
With the relatively small numbers available, the question is to what use they will be put.
“Armour works best in a shock action breaking [enemy lines],” says De Bretton-Gordon. “They will want to concentrate firepower rather than disperse it.
“That’s where I think western armour comes in with the rest of the Ukrainian armour following. What feels most logical is something more limited, like breaking the connection between Russian-occupied parts of the Donbas and south.
“I can see them wanting to create a widening gap and dislocating the Russians by driving a couple hundred-mile route through that area [south and east of Zaporizhzhia].”
Stuart Crawford, who served as an officer in the 4th Royal Tank Regiment, also believes while there are not enough tanks and other western armoured vehicles arriving in Ukraine to make a dramatic difference, they may be useful in a more limited counteroffensive, again pointing towards the south.
“It can’t be the classic punch-a-hole followed by an expanding torrent approach. It’s going to be more localised. And if you are looking at it from a strategic point of view the clear thing that has been talked about is an offensive south from Zaporizhzhia towards Melitopol.”
He adds: “The quality of the tanks arriving is superior to most of the stuff of Russian and Soviet/post-Soviet origin currently being used on both sides.”
Crawford is also sceptical of suggestions that having so many different weapons systems coming from different sources will necessarily cause maintenance and logistical problems.
“If you look at the experience of the allies in Normandy in 1944 they had a vast array of equipment from different sources, and still managed.
“But logistically, it probably makes sense to put all the Leopards into the same organisation.”
Where Crawford does see a gap, however, is in the potential lack of air support.
Neither side has achieved overall air superiority, which is why the Ukrainians have been so vocal in asking for US F16 jets, which are widely available, because without air superiority ground forces cannot move easily.
As well as the tanks, Crawford sees the arrival of armoured infantry carriers such as the US Strykers as also being highly useful on a “battlefield so dominated by artillery”.
What does seem clear from Ukrainian statements, and Russian defensive preparations, is that whatever Ukraine is planning to do with its new weapons will be revealed sooner rather than later.
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Tank tactics: how might Ukraine use its influx of western armour?
Experts say weaponry will give Kyiv a psychological edge against Russia but is not enough for a ‘big punch’
Peter Beaumont
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Tue 4 Apr 2023 05.00 BS
In an anonymous muddy field somewhere inUkraine, the country’s defence minister crouched in the commander’s hatch of a British Challenger 2 tank, one of the first three of 14 to be delivered to Kyiv.
In a maroon jacket and matching baseball cap, Oleksii Reznikov gave a thumbs-up as he thanked the UK for the delivery of the system.
It is not only Challenger main battle tanks that are arriving. In recent weeks a steady flow of donated armour has been arriving in Ukraine. German Leopard 2 tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, US Strykers and Cougars, scores in number, have been shipped discretely, with more to follow.
The sudden influx of new armour, as well as the accelerated training of Ukrainian crews to operate the vehicles in the UK and elsewhere, comes ahead of the expectation – raised by senior Ukrainian officials – that they may soon be in action as part of the country’s anticipated spring offensive.
And while over the winter Ukraine’s president, Volodmyr Zelenskiy, had been pressing for 300 main battle tanks as well as other vehicles and modern fighter jets, the much more modest numbers that have so far arrived is fuelling speculation over how that armour may be used in the coming weeks and months.
Surrounded and outgunned, Ukraine’s tank crews prepare for battle of Bakhmut
Read more
With Russia’s own recent offensive in the eastern Donbas region apparently petering out with minimal gains and heavy losses, not least around the key eastern city of Bakhmut, there is little expectation that Ukraine has the resources for the kind of large-scale armoured thrust that Russia itself failed to carry off at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine.
Instead, analysts – including former British tank commanders – anticipate a counteroffensive, or counteroffensives, similar to those that took large amounts of territory from Russia in the late summer and autumn around Kharkiv oblast and in the country’s south that led to the retaking of Kherson.
A Javelin missile is fired from a US Stryker infantry carrier vehicle in Fort Carson, Colorado. Photograph: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images
And while they point to the south as the most likely theatre for a spring counteroffensive, they caution that Ukraine’s effective employment of misinformation and deception in last year’s fighting make feints and so-called demonstrations likely.
Among those who have been considering what the new armour arriving in Ukraine may mean for the war is Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, who served as a tank commander with 14th/20th King’s Hussars in the first Gulf war before going on to command the UK’s Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment.
For De Bretton-Gordon, one of the most significant aspects of the accumulating western armour in Ukraine is the psychological aspect.
“Psychologically, it is hugely positive for the Ukrainians and negative for the Russians. If we are just talking about numbers, then on the face of it 50 to 60 modern western tanks in Ukraine is not necessarily a gamechanger.
“I’ve said in the past that you would need a minimum of 100 for a big punch, and Ukraine has been talking about needing 300.”
Despite that, De Bretton-Gordon believes the superior capabilities the tanks offer in comparison with most Russian main battle tanks that have been deployed in Ukraine, and the more effective Ukrainian tactics, will make a difference.
“Let’s not forget that these tanks are in addition to the [Soviet and post-Soviet era] T72 tanks Ukraine already has, and they are arriving for a military that has been well trained in manoeuvre warfare and at a time when it is very clear that the Russians are incapable of anything but frontal attacks.”
In particular, De Bretton-Gordon says, the ability of Leopards to stand off and fire at greater range, and superior armour in comparison with many of the tanks being fielded by Moscow, may give them an edge. They also have a better ability to operate cross-country in comparison with the lower-clearance Russian tanks and fight effectively at night.
A Ukrainian tank in the frontline area near Bakhmut. The new tanks are superior to those currently used.Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
With the relatively small numbers available, the question is to what use they will be put.
“Armour works best in a shock action breaking [enemy lines],” says De Bretton-Gordon. “They will want to concentrate firepower rather than disperse it.
“That’s where I think western armour comes in with the rest of the Ukrainian armour following. What feels most logical is something more limited, like breaking the connection between Russian-occupied parts of the Donbas and south.
“I can see them wanting to create a widening gap and dislocating the Russians by driving a couple hundred-mile route through that area [south and east of Zaporizhzhia].”
Stuart Crawford, who served as an officer in the 4th Royal Tank Regiment, also believes while there are not enough tanks and other western armoured vehicles arriving in Ukraine to make a dramatic difference, they may be useful in a more limited counteroffensive, again pointing towards the south.
“It can’t be the classic punch-a-hole followed by an expanding torrent approach. It’s going to be more localised. And if you are looking at it from a strategic point of view the clear thing that has been talked about is an offensive south from Zaporizhzhia towards Melitopol.”
He adds: “The quality of the tanks arriving is superior to most of the stuff of Russian and Soviet/post-Soviet origin currently being used on both sides.”
Crawford is also sceptical of suggestions that having so many different weapons systems coming from different sources will necessarily cause maintenance and logistical problems.
“If you look at the experience of the allies in Normandy in 1944 they had a vast array of equipment from different sources, and still managed.
“But logistically, it probably makes sense to put all the Leopards into the same organisation.”
Where Crawford does see a gap, however, is in the potential lack of air support.
Neither side has achieved overall air superiority, which is why the Ukrainians have been so vocal in asking for US F16 jets, which are widely available, because without air superiority ground forces cannot move easily.
As well as the tanks, Crawford sees the arrival of armoured infantry carriers such as the US Strykers as also being highly useful on a “battlefield so dominated by artillery”.
What does seem clear from Ukrainian statements, and Russian defensive preparations, is that whatever Ukraine is planning to do with its new weapons will be revealed sooner rather than later.
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Tangu jana tuna waambia wanashindwa nini kurecord video wakiwa Bakhmut bado hatupati majibu mnakuja na ngonjeraUkraine mocks Russian claim to have captured mining city of Bakhmut
This photograph taken on March 26, 2023, shows a Ukrainian T-72 tank fires at Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Sergey Shestak | Afp | Getty Images
Ukraine scorned Russian claims to have captured the eastern city of Bakhmut on Monday, saying its foes had raised a victory flag over "some kind of toilet" while combat was raging.
The battle for Bakhmut, a mining city and logistics hub, has been one of the bloodiest of the conflict, now in its second year, with many casualties on both sides and the city largely destroyed by bombardments.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary force spearheading the siege, said on Sunday his troops had raised a Russian flag on the city-center administrative building even though Ukrainian soldiers still held some positions.
"From a legal point of view, Bakhmut has been taken," he said in a video on Telegram. "The enemy is concentrated in the western parts."
Prigozhin has previously made premature claims.
Ukraine's military said fighting was still raging around Bakhmut's city council building, as well as in several other nearby towns.
"Bakhmut is Ukrainian and they have not captured anything and are very far from doing that," Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesperson for the eastern military command, told Reuters.
"They raised the flag over some kind of toilet. They attached it to the side of who knows what, hung their rag and said they had captured the city. Well good, let them think they've taken it," Cherevatyi added by telephone.
— Reuters
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Warusi wanajitekenya na kucheka wenyewe...
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Hizo video mmeachiwa nyie mabingwa wa propaganda, wenye nchi yao wapo 'field'...
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Hiyo idadi igawe kwa tatu, then chukua robo ya jawabu utakalopata. Hao ndio askari ambao labda kwa mbaali tunaweza kusema Russia kapoteza.
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