Appollo 11
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Washachemka, sasa huvi tushakuwa na upeo. Juzi Rais wa SA kawachana,,, makavu
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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Appollo 11
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Acha wafarakane,
Wildlifer
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Mkuu biashara na diplomasia ya wazungu inaendeshwa na narratives zenye misingi ya hofu. they are good in creating fearful naratives.
baa la njaa..
ukame..
magonjwa..
na mwanadamu akiwa na hofu hureact kwa pupa, na ndio wahuni hupigia hela hapo.
jana nasikia bbc wanajadili tishio la uhaba wa ngano kutokana na kufa kwa grain deal. Jamaa wa oxfam anawaambia hata hiyo deal wakati ipo haikuwa na tija kwa afrika.
jpm nilikuwa namkubali was very sensible ndio maana aliweza deal na utapeli kupitia covid.
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Upo sahihi mkuu,R.I.P JPM.Tulio nao sasa ni mamluki tu wa Western governments,hamna kitu.
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Senior White House Correspondent: Ukraine is losing badly
Russian defenses are holding up against Western armored vehicles and tanks!July 22, 2023
I was quite shocked to read a recent article by a Senior White House Correspondent rhetorically asking, “Is the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Faltering?” According to him, the answer is yes.
In other words, Russia is winning, and Western meddling has been a waste of time. Here is the entire article.
Is the Ukrainian counteroffensive faltering?
by Alexander NazaryanHopes were high throughout the spring, as a Ukrainian military equipped with Western weapons prepared to launch a counteroffensive that would reclaim land seized by Russia, which had invaded its much smaller neighbor for the second time in early 2022.
“We are getting ready for the counteroffensive, so that we can finally end this war,” one Ukrainian soldier said in late May. The counteroffensive began about three weeks later, with Ukraine making initial gains in Donetsk and Luhansk, two regions in eastern Ukraine that were illegally annexed by Russia last year.
Since then, however, the pace of progress has slowed considerably, leading to some frustration from Ukraine’s backers in the West, who hoped that the heavy weaponry and training they had provided would drive the Russian occupiers out of the country’s southeastern provinces.
So far, however, Russia’s defensive positions appear to be holding — while questions about the future of the conflict are growing.
Read more from our partners: Russia hits Ukraine’s grain for fourth day, practises seizing ships
Russian firepower and defenses are holding up
A Russian Air Force helicopter during an Army Games defense technology exhibition. (Leonid Faerberg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
By late June, it had become clear that the counteroffensive was not meeting the expectations that military and political leaders in the West once harbored. Russia simply had too much time to prepare, erecting anti-tank barriers, trenches and vast fields of mines along the 600-mile front.
Western nations, including the United States, supplied Ukraine with tanks and armored vehicles, but these ultimately did little good in the open farmlands that carpet the theater of operations.
Meanwhile, Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters pounded the slowly advancing Ukrainian columns from above. According to the New York Times, the Ukrainians lost as much as 20% of their tanks and armored vehicles during the first two weeks of the counteroffensive. Russian soldiers were reportedly rewarded with bonuses for each Western tank or vehicle destroyed.
“This is a very difficult fight, it is a very violent fight and it will likely take a considerable amount of time and at high cost,” Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, conceded after meeting U.S. allies in Belgium.
Ukraine unquestionably had the more difficult task in having to launch an offensive. As the much bigger occupying army, Russia always had time on its side. And with few allies to begin with, Russia is not beholden to donor nations eager to see progress.
“My view is that defensive warfare has benefitted from modern technology like drones, so it’s tough going to take land against even a semi-motivated enemy, especially without air superiority,” Ben Friedman of Defense Priorities, a Washington, D.C., think tank, told Yahoo News.
Ukraine has long begged for American F-16 fighter jets. Those are slated to arrive later this year, but may not make much of a difference against Russia’s fortifications — or its improving surface-to-air capabilities.
One military analyst expressed frustration with Ukraine’s “inability to conduct complex combined arms operations at scale,” referring to the logistical coordination of different types of units working in concert, in which some Ukrainian soldiers have been trained.
Since the losses of the counteroffensive’s first several weeks, the Ukrainians have settled for using long-range artillery, which doesn’t expose troops or vehicles to Russian fire. That shift has left both sides at a standstill, a dynamic that favors Russia.
Read more from our partners: A sobering analysis of Ukraine’s counteroffensive from the front
How long will Western patience hold?
A Ukrainian serviceman firing a cannon towards Russian positions at the frontline in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, July 5. (Libkos/AP)
Ukrainian military leaders were aware before the offensive began that Western allies expected a return on investment in the form of decisive victories. After all, neither patience nor supplies are infinite resources. And leadership changes in Washington and European capitals could see support for Ukraine dwindle.
The slow pace of the counteroffensive could embolden critics of aid to Ukraine, who have largely been sidelined in the United States. Thus far, both Republicans and Democrats have, for the most part, supported the defense of Ukraine. But the heavy losses of recent weeks are a reminder that Russia, which defeated both Hitler and Napoleon, may have no asset more valuable than sheer persistence, even as human and economic losses mount.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, turned into an icon by the Russian war, has pleaded for patience. “This is not a movie,” the former actor said as the counteroffensive was about to begin.
An official on the National Security Council told Yahoo News that it was too soon to make any definitive assessments. “The Ukrainians have yet to commit the bulk of their forces for the counteroffensive and they continue to probe Russian lines for weaknesses,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
“We knew this would be a tough slog and expected it to take a considerable period of time and not at all like the quick gains Ukraine had last fall in the Kharkiv region.”
Some analysts believe that the counteroffensive is proof of how difficult it will be to ever dislodge Russia from the territory it has annexed, both during its first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, and in the current war.
Should the counteroffensive fail, aborted efforts to broker peace via diplomacy could be revived. Friedman of Defense Priorities told Yahoo News that a “stalemate might lead to major political movement, such as a reopening of talks.”
Ukraine would rather wait until it has pushed Russia back much farther, so that it can negotiate from a position of strength. But that option may not become available any time soon.
Mathanzua
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HUGE PROVOCATION BY KIEV:THE UKRAINE REGIME HAS USED CLUSTER BOMBS AGAINST RUSSIA
22 JULY 2023 HITS:
News reports are beginning to flow in this morning indicating that Ukraine has used NATO (US)-supplied Cluster Bombs to strike a village inside Russia proper. The small town of Zhuravlevka, in Belogorod Russia has been hit.
The West recently supplied Kiev with cluster munitions after Ukraine promised to use them "responsibly." Once again, Ukraine seems to have lied.
UPDATE 11:33 AM EDT --
Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said “three cluster munitions from a multiple rocket launcher were fired (by the Ukrainian army) at the village of Zhuravlevka.”
The small village lies on the border with Ukraine in a region that has seen near daily cross-border attacks for months.
It was the first time Russia reported the weapons were used on its territory.It remains to be seen how Russia will respond to this attack,but it will surely be large and proportionate.
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Bulgaria agrees to send heavy military equipment to Ukraine in first for country
Bulgaria has agreed to provide the Ukrainian army with heavy military equipment for the first time since the full-scale invasion last year.Ukraine will receive some 100 armoured personnel carriers after the parliament in Sofia approved the motion by 148 votes to 52.
“This equipment is no longer necessary for the needs of Bulgaria, and it can be of serious support to Ukraine in its battle to preserve the country’s independence and territorial integrity after the unjustified and unprovoked Russian aggression,” the Parliament’s decision said.
The Soviet-made vehicles were delivered to Bulgaria in the 1980s when it was an ally of the USSR in the Warsaw Pact.
The move is arguably made even more notable by the fact that Bulgaria - a member of NATO - maintains numerous factories manufacturing ammunition for Soviet-era weapons, something that Ukraine has at times been struggling to source.
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Ex Soviet States zinaisaidia Ukraine na kulaani uvamizi, Putin ni mhalifu wa kivita.
Shujaa Mwendazake
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Okay
Lakin za USA, UK na Leopard za mjerumani hazijabadili upepo.
Je haya matakataka ya 80s yataweza?.. tena zilokuwa za msovieti mwenyewe!..
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Dah.Senior White House Correspondent: Ukraine is losing badly
Russian defenses are holding up against Western armored vehicles and tanks!
July 22, 2023
I was quite shocked to read a recent article by a Senior White House Correspondent rhetorically asking, “Is the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Faltering?” According to him, the answer is yes.
In other words, Russia is winning, and Western meddling has been a waste of time. Here is the entire article.
Is the Ukrainian counteroffensive faltering?
by Alexander Nazaryan
Hopes were high throughout the spring, as a Ukrainian military equipped with Western weapons prepared to launch a counteroffensive that would reclaim land seized by Russia, which had invaded its much smaller neighbor for the second time in early 2022.
“We are getting ready for the counteroffensive, so that we can finally end this war,” one Ukrainian soldier said in late May. The counteroffensive began about three weeks later, with Ukraine making initial gains in Donetsk and Luhansk, two regions in eastern Ukraine that were illegally annexed by Russia last year.
Since then, however, the pace of progress has slowed considerably, leading to some frustration from Ukraine’s backers in the West, who hoped that the heavy weaponry and training they had provided would drive the Russian occupiers out of the country’s southeastern provinces.
So far, however, Russia’s defensive positions appear to be holding — while questions about the future of the conflict are growing.
Read more from our partners: Russia hits Ukraine’s grain for fourth day, practises seizing ships
Russian firepower and defenses are holding up
A Russian Air Force helicopter during an Army Games defense technology exhibition. (Leonid Faerberg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
By late June, it had become clear that the counteroffensive was not meeting the expectations that military and political leaders in the West once harbored. Russia simply had too much time to prepare, erecting anti-tank barriers, trenches and vast fields of mines along the 600-mile front.
Western nations, including the United States, supplied Ukraine with tanks and armored vehicles, but these ultimately did little good in the open farmlands that carpet the theater of operations.
Meanwhile, Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters pounded the slowly advancing Ukrainian columns from above. According to the New York Times, the Ukrainians lost as much as 20% of their tanks and armored vehicles during the first two weeks of the counteroffensive. Russian soldiers were reportedly rewarded with bonuses for each Western tank or vehicle destroyed.
“This is a very difficult fight, it is a very violent fight and it will likely take a considerable amount of time and at high cost,” Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, conceded after meeting U.S. allies in Belgium.
Ukraine unquestionably had the more difficult task in having to launch an offensive. As the much bigger occupying army, Russia always had time on its side. And with few allies to begin with, Russia is not beholden to donor nations eager to see progress.
“My view is that defensive warfare has benefitted from modern technology like drones, so it’s tough going to take land against even a semi-motivated enemy, especially without air superiority,” Ben Friedman of Defense Priorities, a Washington, D.C., think tank, told Yahoo News.
Ukraine has long begged for American F-16 fighter jets. Those are slated to arrive later this year, but may not make much of a difference against Russia’s fortifications — or its improving surface-to-air capabilities.
One military analyst expressed frustration with Ukraine’s “inability to conduct complex combined arms operations at scale,” referring to the logistical coordination of different types of units working in concert, in which some Ukrainian soldiers have been trained.
Since the losses of the counteroffensive’s first several weeks, the Ukrainians have settled for using long-range artillery, which doesn’t expose troops or vehicles to Russian fire. That shift has left both sides at a standstill, a dynamic that favors Russia.
Read more from our partners: A sobering analysis of Ukraine’s counteroffensive from the front
How long will Western patience hold?
A Ukrainian serviceman firing a cannon towards Russian positions at the frontline in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, July 5. (Libkos/AP)
Ukrainian military leaders were aware before the offensive began that Western allies expected a return on investment in the form of decisive victories. After all, neither patience nor supplies are infinite resources. And leadership changes in Washington and European capitals could see support for Ukraine dwindle.
The slow pace of the counteroffensive could embolden critics of aid to Ukraine, who have largely been sidelined in the United States. Thus far, both Republicans and Democrats have, for the most part, supported the defense of Ukraine. But the heavy losses of recent weeks are a reminder that Russia, which defeated both Hitler and Napoleon, may have no asset more valuable than sheer persistence, even as human and economic losses mount.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, turned into an icon by the Russian war, has pleaded for patience. “This is not a movie,” the former actor said as the counteroffensive was about to begin.
An official on the National Security Council told Yahoo News that it was too soon to make any definitive assessments. “The Ukrainians have yet to commit the bulk of their forces for the counteroffensive and they continue to probe Russian lines for weaknesses,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
“We knew this would be a tough slog and expected it to take a considerable period of time and not at all like the quick gains Ukraine had last fall in the Kharkiv region.”
Some analysts believe that the counteroffensive is proof of how difficult it will be to ever dislodge Russia from the territory it has annexed, both during its first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, and in the current war.
Should the counteroffensive fail, aborted efforts to broker peace via diplomacy could be revived. Friedman of Defense Priorities told Yahoo News that a “stalemate might lead to major political movement, such as a reopening of talks.”
Ukraine would rather wait until it has pushed Russia back much farther, so that it can negotiate from a position of strength. But that option may not become available any time soon.
Ikweli mchungu huu
D A E M U S H I N
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Kuna kaunta offensive nyengine inakuja, hii itajumuisha michango ya vifaa vya nchi 50.
Hivi dunia ina nchi ngapi?
Ukishapata jawabu basi fahamu nchi 50 zinapigana na urusi
Hayo si maneno yangu wala si maneno ya mpumbavu
Hivi dunia ina nchi ngapi?
Ukishapata jawabu basi fahamu nchi 50 zinapigana na urusi
Hayo si maneno yangu wala si maneno ya mpumbavu
kilwakivinje
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Atalipoteza kwa lazima
Ukisema nchi 50 basi ongeza na sinazomsaidia urusi kama iran na n.k au urusi hasaidiwi?
Armageddon is here brother. I never thought that it'd come in my lifetime.
Wanachofanya NATO ni kusafisha maghala yao ya silaha kwa kuondoa obsolete equipment zisizohitajika dunia ya leo.
Nkuba25
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Hakuna conventional weapons ambazo Ukraine hajapewa.
Au hii ndio itakuwa Game changer?
Nkuba25
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Naona sasa hivi Russia ameamua kuichukua Oddesa....
Ukrainian channel Legitimny writes:
Literally everything is flying towards Odessa. Arrivals continue. Already more than a dozen in different parts of the city and suburbs. Now the launch of “Calibres”. Another long night awaits the region.
Odessa is being hit for two reasons:
1. Due to the cancellation of the grain deal;
2. Because of the launches of drones/ missiles from Odessa towards Crimea.
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Ukrainian channel Legitimny writes:
Literally everything is flying towards Odessa. Arrivals continue. Already more than a dozen in different parts of the city and suburbs. Now the launch of “Calibres”. Another long night awaits the region.
Odessa is being hit for two reasons:
1. Due to the cancellation of the grain deal;
2. Because of the launches of drones/ missiles from Odessa towards Crimea.
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Hivi huyu dogo issue yake ikoje???
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US Secretary of State - Antony Blinken ametoa mlio wa kuomba poo.
Anasema kwa sasa kama US itatokea wakaoma kwamba kuna uwezekano wa peace hapo Ukraine basi wao US watakuwa wa kwanza ku jump in na kuhakikisha amani inapatikana.
Yaani anasema wanataka amani itokee hata leo...
Sijui nani aliwatuma wakamchokoze Russia.
Anasema kwa sasa kama US itatokea wakaoma kwamba kuna uwezekano wa peace hapo Ukraine basi wao US watakuwa wa kwanza ku jump in na kuhakikisha amani inapatikana.
Yaani anasema wanataka amani itokee hata leo...
Sijui nani aliwatuma wakamchokoze Russia.