Ukraine counter offensive

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South Africa could be in a bit of an awkward position :giggle:

Putin is due to attend a summit there in August

The ICC arrest warrant technically compels all 123 countries that have ratified the Rome Statute to arrest him if he enters there territory

South Africa ratified the Rome statute :giggle:
 
South Africa could be in a bit of an awkward position :giggle:

Putin is due to attend a summit there in August

The ICC arrest warrant technically compels all 123 countries that have ratified the Rome Statute to arrest him if he enters there territory

South Africa ratified the Rome statute :giggle:
They've ignored them for heads of state before. They'll probably do it again, or warn Putin off if they aren't willing to ignore it.
 
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It's not exactly Goose Green.

They've ignored them for heads of state before. They'll probably do it again, or warn Putin off if they aren't willing to ignore it.

They will ignore it

Don’t quite see the relevance of goose green
 
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He's the one who's so fed up he's talking of going off to Africa
That might not be far enough if the counter offensive pushes Russian troops away from Bakhmut.
It was a telling picture of President Xi standing shoulder to shoulder alongside Putin this week, and China's peace proposal should be examined more closely.
Ukraine may have to make a compromise in order to end this war; allow Russia's annexation of Luhansk and Donbas to be internationally ratified, then apply for a fast tracked membership of NATO in order to block any future aggression from their neighbour.
The alternative is a long, drawn out war, more destruction and death, with China supplying assistance should Russia ask for it, just as America, the UK and the EU have done for Ukraine.
 
New Russian recruits (?) are being offered bonuses and rewards which include £530 for every kilometre gained on the front line (?)
 
A sign up bonus of 3 grand (?) and a monthly salary of 200,000 roubles
Which apparently is double the average wage / salary ??
 
South Africa could be in a bit of an awkward position :giggle:

Putin is due to attend a summit there in August

The ICC arrest warrant technically compels all 123 countries that have ratified the Rome Statute to arrest him if he enters there territory

South Africa ratified the Rome statute :giggle:

Putin will more likely die in a car jacking on the way in from Jo'burg airport.
 
Has anyone seen any reports of western tanks arriving Ukraine? They should be there very soon. Planes maybe too from neighbours.

Russia is reported by Ukraine as already using DU shells for a while. I daresay Pootin will say any uranium found is not theirs, though.
Challengers also have non DU shells.
AFAIK the Leopards don't have a DU shell, but I don't see why they shouldn't. Gemany has nuclear reactors; it's a waste product from the fuel.

It's not very radioactive at all, but still, not nice to have it vaporized and sprayed around. In Iraq they have "toxic areas" which sounds like someone being very fussy. It's used for its density, which is slightly less than that of tungsten, and the way it burns through thick armour to penetrate it - and fry the fleshware beyond.

Zelly is renewing his call for the wildly expensive A-A Patriot system. For Cruise missiles maybe rather than planes.
 
Germany is reported to have sent 18 advanced Leopard tanks, 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, and 2 armoured recovery vehicles, while discussions witht the EU in stepping up the manufacture of artillery shells and munitions for Ukraine and its own armies as part of a new two billion Euro arms package.

Meanwhile: the Russian navy has been reported firing it's fabled supersonic missiles at targets in the Sea of Japan. Just testing.
“In the waters of the Sea of Japan, missile ships of the Pacific Fleet fired Moskit cruise missiles at a mock enemy sea target,” the ministry said in a statement on its Telegram account on Tuesday.
“The target, located at a distance of about 100 kilometres (62.14 miles), was successfully hit by a direct hit from two Moskit cruise missiles,” it added.
The P-270 Moskit missile, which has the NATO reporting name SS-N-22 Sunburn, is a medium-range supersonic cruise missile of Soviet origin and is capable of destroying a ship within a range of up to 120km (75 miles).
The Russian navy’s missile firing exercise comes a week after two Russian strategic bomber planes, capable of carrying nuclear weapons, flew over the Sea of Japan for more than seven hours in what Moscow said was a “planned flight”.

No wonder the Japanese government is getting nervous, what with North Korea firing missiles into the sea, while Kim Jong Un has called on his country’s scientists to expand production of “weapon-grade nuclear materials” and build more powerful weapons, state media has reported.
According to the KCNA report on Tuesday, Kim was also briefed on an IT-based integrated nuclear weapon management system called Haekbangashoe, which means “nuclear trigger”. The system’s accuracy, reliability and security were verified during recent drills simulating a nuclear counterattack, the news agency added.

The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier arrived in the South Korean port of Busan on Tuesday after the United States conducted exercises in international waters with South Korea’s navy.
 
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Germany is reported to have sent 18 advanced Leopard tanks, 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, and 2 armoured recovery vehicles, while discussions witht the EU in stepping up the manufacture of artillery shells and munitions for Ukraine and its own armies as part of a new two billion Euro arms package.
Sure, but it's all gone silent. We nay not hear anything until Russia blows some up in a great fanfare -they'd probably blow a flock of ICBMs to get just one. Or Kinzhals if the tanks are Patriot-protected.

N Korea has big enough missiles for even fairly crude nukes now. They've been enriching U235 for a while, and there's evidence of some Pu, enrichment if only 100kgs or so. Not having a nuclear power reactor, they must be importing Pu from someone who has. They claim to have made a hydrogen bomb (fission) but that's fairly unlikely ; a) we'd have felt it it and b) it's fairly hard. Most early attempters get "fizzle" instead.
Let's hope China squashes N Korea if they go to use any nukes. It wouldn't do for the USA to obliterate that part of the world.
 
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