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U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff said achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine is significantly more challenging than in Gaza due to the vast scope of the conflict.
 
Huyu Dogo jinga anazidi kujiongezea maadui .
Huko anakochezea Sasa ni pabaya

Macron urges EU to ditch US arms makers​

The French president has said the bloc should prioritize its own military industrial complex

French President Emmanuel Macron. © Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The EU must cut its reliance on US-made weapons and prioritize European alternatives, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. In an interview with French media published on Saturday, Macron argued that the bloc’s rearmament efforts would be more effective if member states stopped “buying American” and instead turned to the EU's military industrial complex.
His comments followed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s recent proposal to mobilize up to €800 billion ($875 billion) in debt and tax breaks for the bloc's military industrial complex.
 
17 Mar,

Up to 90% of arms, munitions destroyed in Kursk Region belong to NATO — Russian diplomat​

MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Approximately 80-90% of the military equipment and munitions destroyed in Russia’s Kursk Region belong to NATO countries, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large in charge of overseeing the Kiev regime’s crimes, said.
"The arms destroyed in the territory of the Kursk Region is probably 80-90% NATO countries’ weapons," the diplomat pointed out on the Solovyov Live TV channel.
According to him, these are military and technical supplies, ammunition, small arms, mines, shells, and multiple rocket launchers "mostly with marks of NATO countries" handed over to Ukrainian militants. "But <...> the European media was told not to notice this," he emphasized.
 

'Everything is finished': Ukrainian troops relive retreat from Kursk​

BBC News


Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Russia's Kursk region have described scenes "like a horror movie" as they retreated from the front lines.
The BBC has received extensive accounts from Ukrainian troops, who recount a "catastrophic" withdrawal in the face of heavy fire, and columns of military equipment destroyed and constant attacks from swarms of Russian drones.
The soldiers, who spoke over social media, were given aliases to protect their identity. Some gave accounts of a "collapse" as Ukraine lost Sudzha, the largest town it held.
Ukrainian restrictions on travel to the front have meant it is not possible to get a full picture of the situation. But this is how five Ukrainian soldiers described to us what had happened.
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Volodymyr: 'Drones around the clock'​

On 9 March, "Volodymyr" sent a Telegram post to the BBC saying he was still in Sudzha, where there was "panic and collapse of the front".
Ukrainian troops "are trying to leave - columns of troops and equipment. Some of them are burned by Russian drones on the road. It is impossible to leave during the day."
Movement of men, logistics and equipment had been reliant on one major route between Sudzha and Ukraine's Sumy region.
Volodymyr said it was possible to travel on that road relatively safely a month ago. By 9 March it was "all under the fire control of the enemy - drones around the clock. In one minute you can see two to three drones. That's a lot," he said.
"We have all the logistics here on one Sudzha-Sumy highway. And everyone knew that the [Russians] would try to cut it. But this again came as a surprise to our command."
At the time of writing, just before Russia retook Sudzha, Volodymyr said Ukrainian forces were being pressed from three sides

with electronic counter-measures.
Maksym said as a result "the enemy managed to destroy dozens of units of equipment", and that wrecks had "created congestion on supply routes".

Image caption,Ukrainian forces travel towards the Kursk region on a supply route in Sumy last August. By March of this year, their retreat was in full swing.

Anton: The catastrophe of retreat​

The situation on that day, 11 March, was described as "catastrophic" by "Anton".
The third soldier spoken to by the BBC was serving in the headquarters for the Kursk front.
He too highlighted the damage caused by Russian FPV drones. "We used to have an advantage in drones, now we do not," he said. He added that Russia had an advantage with more accurate air strikes and a greater number of troops.
Anton said supply routes had been cut. "Logistics no longer work – organised deliveries of weapons, ammunition, food and water are no longer possible."
Anton said he managed to leave Sudzha by foot, at night – "We almost died several times. Drones are in the sky all the time."
The soldier predicted Ukraine's entire foothold in Kursk would be lost but that "from a military point of view, the Kursk direction has exhausted itself. There is no point in keeping it any more".
Western officials estimate that Ukraine's Kursk offensive involved about 12,000 troops. They were some of their best-trained soldiers, equipped with Western-supplied weapons including tanks and armoured vehicles.
Russian bloggers published videos showing some of that equipment being destroyed or captured. On 13 March, Russia said the situation in Kursk was "fully under our control" and that Ukraine had "abandoned" much of its material

Dmytro: Inches from death​

In social media posts on 11-12 March, a fourth solider, "Dmytro" likened the retreat from the front to "a scene from a horror movie".
"The roads are littered with hundreds of destroyed cars, armoured vehicles and ATVs (All Terrain Vehicles). There are a lot of wounded and dead."
Vehicles were often hunted by multiple drones, he said.
He described his own narrow escape when the car he was travelling in got bogged down. He and his fellow soldiers were trying to push the vehicle free when they were targeted by another FPV drone.
It missed the vehicle, but injured one of his comrades. He said they had to hide in a forest for two hours before they were rescued.
Dmytro said many Ukrainians retreated on foot with "guys walking 15km to 20km". The situation, he said, had turned from "difficult and critical to catastrophic".
In a message on 14 March, Dmytro added: "Everything is finished in the Kursk region... the operation was not successful."
He estimated that thousands of Ukrainian soldiers had died since the first crossing into Russia in August.


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Nadhani na yeye anatafuta soko, sababu Ufaransa ndio nchi pekee ya Ulaya isiyoagiza Silaha nyingi U.S hasa ndege, na Military Vessel.
Hapa na yeye anatafuta soko hasa baada ya kupoteza mrija kule kwa Traore
 
17 Mar,

Russia hits Ukrainian contingent in Sumy Region with Iskander missiles​


MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Russia’s Iskander short-range ballistic missile system delivered a strike on Ukrainian troops near the settlement of Losevka in the Sumy Region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
"Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system crew hit a manpower and hardware cluster of the AFU’s 144th separate mechanized infantry brigade near the settlement of Losevka (65 km northwest of the town of Shostka) in the Sumy region," the ministry said, publishing a video of the strike.
 
kp kipanya44 said:
U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff said achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine is significantly more challenging than in Gaza due to the vast scope of the conflict
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Mwanzoni Putin aliposema yuko tayari kwa mazungumzo ulituambia kwamba Putin analilia kumaliza vita. Sasa hv mnatuambi Putin hataki vita iishe
 
Ndani ya EU, France ndio nchi kiongozi. Hivyo kuna muda anazichonganisha nchi za EU na kiranja wao US akitegemea kwamba kama EU itaachana na NATO basi France ndio itakuwa kiranja wa EU na kuchukua uboss wa US na kuanza kuwapangia wenzake nini wafanye na nini wasifanye
 
kp kipanya44 said:
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The Russian military has become “infinitely smarter” in countering the US-supplied weapons being used by Ukraine, according to Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of the private military company Blackwater.

Speaking at Hillsdale College on Saturday, Prince also expressed skepticism over claims that the Russian army has been significantly weakened in the conflict.

“The thing that the Russians are very good at is electronic warfare,” Prince stated, emphasizing that advanced American weaponry, such as Javelin missiles, HIMARS, and Copperhead guided artillery shells, often become ineffective within weeks. “It works for a week or two, and the Russians figure how to jam the navigation or the command link, and the stuff goes blind.”

Prince also pushed back against assertions that the Russian forces have been significantly weakened. “First of all, don’t listen to the idiot politicians that say, yeah, we’ve degraded the Russian army. No, we have chewed up a lot of material. The Russian army has gotten infinitely smarter.”

He pointed to the rapid improvements in Russian counter-artillery capabilities, contrasting the response time between early 2022 and now. “If you shot at a Russian, with artillery in March or April of 2022, it would take them an hour and a half to shoot back accurately. Now, about two minutes, which means if you shoot at them, you better be in your vehicle and hauling ass because they’re going to get you otherwise.”
 
The great Iskander,ikitajwa nafarijika sana.
 
The Ukrainian military is actively deploying Baba Yaga heavy drones to strike Russian positions at night. These drones can carry up to 15 kg of explosives and are equipped with thermal cameras for precision targeting in darkness. Their efficiency has made them a nightmare for Russian forces, who have dubbed them "Baba Yaga". These drones are proving highly effective, inflicting serious losses on the enemy.

#BabaYaga #DroneWarfare #UkrainianArmy #StandWithUkraine
 
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