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Der ukraninische Präsident Selenskyj hat den Botschafter seines Landes in Deutschland, Melnyk, entlassen. Das entsprechende Dekret wurde auf der Website des ukrainischen Präsidialamts bekannt gegeben.
Weitere Informationen in Kürze.
https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/eilmeldung-6589.html
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Neuer Perun
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Crime and the Donbas conflict 2014-2022 | Global Initiative
| | Since Russia first encouraged, facilitated, armed and bankrolled the rising of the rebellious pseudo-states of south-eastern Donbas in 2014, there had been a pervasive connection between crime, war and insurrection.
Despite continued sporadic skirmishes, by 2015, it seemed that the conflict had largely stabilized. A violent and confused hybrid of insurrection and foreign invasion, had led to the creation of the self-proclaimed pseudo-states of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR, respectively). ...
This was a status quo that not only encouraged criminalization, but was based on it. Industrial-scale smuggling of everything from coal to narcotics helped sustain the internationally unrecognized pseudo-states of Donbas; gangsters became militiamen; and money-laundering networks meanwhile bypassed sanctions.
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| | This report sets out not so much to recount the way that the DNR and LNR emerged and evolved, through an anarchic mix of Kremlin proxy intervention, local insurrection and gangster opportunism, but to describe and analyze the degree to which the conflict can be considered a criminal enterprise, as well as how it expanded and facilitated criminal markets from Russia and Ukraine, to Istanbul and Brussels.
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Opinion:
Shorten the war. Send 60 HIMARS to Ukraine. | WaPo
| | It has become commonplace to observe that Ukraine is mired in a “long war” — one that could last for years, according to NATO’s secretary general. That could well be correct. The war, after all, has already lasted nearly five months and continues to grind on. But I fear that by so readily accepting that there is no end in sight, we might be giving in to fatalism and defeatism. Instead of becoming resigned to a never-ending war, the West should be focusing on how to shorten the conflict by enabling Ukraine to win. ...
The U.S. military is very good at achieving tactical goals: If you tell soldiers or Marines to take a hill, they will move heaven and earth to take it. The problem is that it isn’t clear what goal the U.S. aid program is trying to achieve. President Biden recently pledged to continue supporting Ukraine “as long as it takes” to ensure it is “not defeated” by Russia. That’s not good enough. Our goal should not be averting a Ukrainian defeat. It should be enabling a Ukrainian victory. That’s the only way to shorten the war and end the suffering.
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The West Worries Too Much About Escalation in Ukraine - NATO Can Do More Without Provoking Moscow | FA
| | NATO leaders understand that they must walk this fine line between aiding Ukraine and risking war with Russia, but they have no theory of how to do it.
The German and French governments hem and haw about whether to provide Ukraine with tanks. When Poland proposed a plan to transfer MiG-29 fighter aircraft to Ukraine, the United States refused. U.S. Defense Department spokesperson John Kirby warned that it “raises serious concerns for the entire NATO alliance” and therefore was not “tenable.” Yet the United States was already shipping Javelin antitank missiles and Stinger surface-to-air missiles. Soon after, it began sending other weapons, including M777 howitzers and now HIMARS multiple rocket launchers.
What is the difference? Those weapons do more to strengthen Ukraine’s combat power than MiG-29s, so the theory cannot be that Russia reacts more strongly to policies that do more harm to its interests. Why, then, missiles and artillery but not planes? The answer is that there is no answer. It is simply arbitrary.
NATO needs a strategy predicated on a theory of what it can do to aid Ukraine without widening the war to a direct conflict between it and Russia. Lessons from past crises point to the principles that should guide such a strategy.
History shows that NATO would recklessly risk war only by crossing two Russian redlines: openly firing on Russian forces or deploying organized combat units under NATO-member flags into Ukraine. As long as NATO stops short of unmistakably crossing those lines, it can do more to help Ukraine at an acceptable risk of war.
Arms transfers and sanctions are both wholly consistent with this approach, so it is tempting to conclude that NATO members are doing all they can. They are not. They should build on current policies by dispensing with arbitrary limits on the types of conventional weapons they are providing Ukraine and expanding sanctions.
Moreover, there is a third way to support Ukraine besides arms and sanctions—one that NATO is neglecting. It is time for NATO to encourage, organize, and equip its soldiers to volunteer to fight for Ukraine. | |
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/ Shit shit shit hier ist Fledermausland
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[Dieser Beitrag wurde 1 mal editiert; zum letzten Mal von Izmir am 13.07.2022 20:29]
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Within the war between Russia and Ukraine, a war between Chechens | WaPo
| | Within a war between Russia and Ukraine is another war: between Chechens who have pledged their loyalty to Moscow and Chechens who say those fighters are traitors for joining forces with the country that bombarded their towns and cities decades ago.
Within Russia’s forces is a Chechen contingent known as the “Kadyrovites” — named after former Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov, who switched sides to join Russia in its second military campaign in Chechnya, in 1999-2000. And within Ukraine’s military are an undisclosed number of Chechens who believe this fight — stopping the Kremlin’s imperial aims — started with their homeland.
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“[The Kadyrovites are] people without any battle experience, so they’re not real soldiers,” ... “A lot of people called them the TikTok army,” Nacke said, referring to the group’s posts of themselves firing on what appear to be vacant buildings. “They exist to scare people."
Among ordinary Ukrainians, they’ve succeeded, garnering a reputation for being the most feared of Russia’s forces. Ukrainian officials say the Kadyrovites were responsible for some of the worst atrocities, such as killing and torturing civilians, in occupied areas throughout the Kyiv region.
Their actions followed a playbook Makhno knows well. During the first Chechen war, Russia’s forces surrounded and blockaded villages like Samashki, preventing civilians from evacuating and bombing them repeatedly. The strikes left craters where houses had been. In both wars, Russian forces were responsible for the torture of prisoners and summary executions, human rights groups reported.
“Whatever they were doing here, they did it to our relatives at home first,” Makhno said. “Each of us has had relatives and neighbors killed. We know this system better than anyone else. And that’s why we’re fighting here.”
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[Bandera] was living in Belgium when the war started, trying to open a steakhouse. He said he dropped everything — including leaving his wife and seven children — to join Makhno on the front line. The two men had fought Russian forces together in Chechnya starting when they were teenagers.
“I had the intention to kill 50 Orcs and then leave,” Bandera said, referring to Russian soldiers as the fictional monsters in “The Lord of the Rings.”
“But then when I came here, I realized I can’t leave until the end.”
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Allies sound alarm over plight of Ukraine’s public finances | FT
| | | Budget crisis now acute because of falling revenues and hold-ups in financial support from Kyiv’s partners | |
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Stop fighting in Ukraine: Russian soldier's mum speaks out | BBC
| | Valya is in contact with soldiers' mothers across Russia. She claims that among mothers there is growing resentment towards the authorities over who is being sent to fight in Ukraine.
"They hate the government. They hate Putin," Valya tells me. "They all want this war to end. All the mothers do.
"We're the lowest class. We're simple country folk. All the lads doing the fighting are from remote regions of Russia. Not Muscovites. There are no sons of government officials there." ...
Since speaking with us, Valya has received official notification that her son was killed in Ukraine. One more Russian soldier who won't be returning home.
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House authorizes training for Ukrainian pilots to use U.S. aircraft | DN
| | The House approved $100 million in funding to train Ukrainian pilots to use U.S. aircraft as part of the National Defense Authorization Act it passed 329-101 this week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked since March for American-made F-15 and F-16 fighter jets. But Ukrainian pilots accustomed to aging Soviet-era MiG-29s and Sukhoi planes have not been trained to use U.S. fighter jets, a process that could take months.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., told Defense News he has been in touch with the Kyiv on the matter and that he added the $100 million for training as an amendment to the defense authorization bill this week in order to facilitate an eventual shift of Ukraine’s military hardware away from Soviet-era technology.
“What we want to do is obviously send a message to authorize the process,” Kinzinger told Defense News. “There is no doubt to me that when this war ends, Ukraine is going to have to be outfitted with western military equipment. Plus, there’s just no more MiGs left and no more MiG supplies.”
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Kyiv quells fears of weapons smuggling from Ukraine | FT
| | Defence minister Oleksii Reznikov ... said he was confident that Ukraine would be given larger quantities of long-range systems, in particular US multiple-launch rocket systems known as Himars, which he described as a game-changer in the war.
Ukraine has used them in the past three weeks to strike Russian ammunition depots far behind the frontline, damaging Moscow’s artillery machine. The US had been reluctant to send Himars, which have an 80km range and GPS-guided munitions, out of concern such a move could escalate the war. Reznikov said he was confident the partners would send more, including a 300km-range version.
“I think it’s a step-by-step movement. We give them proof that we can use it with precision and sophistication and we get more, and longer range,” the minister said.
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Russia’s information war expands through Eastern Europe | AP
| | As bullets and bombs fall in Ukraine, Russia is waging an expanding information war throughout Eastern Europe, using fake accounts and propaganda to spread fears about refugees and rising fuel prices while calling the West an untrustworthy ally.
In Bulgaria, the Kremlin paid journalists, political analysts and other influential citizens 2,000 euros a month to post pro-Russian content online, a senior Bulgarian official revealed this month. Researchers also have uncovered sophisticated networks of fake accounts, bots and trolls in an escalating spread of disinformation and propaganda in the country.
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In a Flash of Fire and Shrapnel, a Smiling 4-Year-Old’s Life Is Snuffed Out | NYT
| | | A toddler with Down syndrome was happily pushing a stroller through a Ukraine park before a Russian missile landed. “I want to shout out to the whole world,” an anguished survivor of the attack cried. | |
The West Leaves Ukraine Outgunned Against Russia | WSJ Opinion
| | | Putin’s army has far more and longer-range artillery. Kyiv’s allies are helping, but it isn’t nearly enough. | |
Russia’s Invasion Is Making Ukraine More Democratic | Atlantic
| | Democracy, accountability, and the rule of law ...: in reporting on Putin’s invasion, in traveling through my country, I have heard fellow Ukrainians, without any prompting, explain these enormous concepts better than many academics.
I listened as those frontline fighters spoke of the freedom to choose who governed them and change course if need be, and the freedom to chart one’s own path in life. I heard a mayor say that his town near the Russian border was defending civilization and fighting on behalf of a world where laws mattered. A window installer in Odesa, on the Black Sea coast, told me he had learned how to fire a gun to ensure that he did not have to “live in a country where Moscow tells me whom to elect.”
This started happening so often—in bombed-out villages as well as bustling cities—that I began to understand that something deeper was under way. I watched as Ukrainians articulated their values and, more and more, I started paying attention to how they exercised them, how they interacted with the state, and how representatives of the state interacted with them.
Ordinary people have been confronted with autocracy and opted against it. They have not simply taken up arms, but made demands of their leaders. Officials have addressed citizens’ needs and requests with creative and responsive government. Activists I spoke with would complain about their elected representatives but still worked with them, reaching compromises and finding solutions. With the central government in Kyiv often overloaded and under-resourced, local administrators, mayors, and governors have had to band together and devise their own solutions.
Over time, I saw that the war hadn’t just forced us to defend our land and our freedom; it has accelerated our progress as a democracy. Ukraine was far from perfect when the war began—we struggled with corruption, mismanagement, and centralization of power. In responding to Putin’s invasion, however, we have become more democratic, more decentralized, more liberal. The Russian leader’s efforts are not merely failing in the narrow sense; they have highlighted how different we really are from Russia, and are having the opposite effect from what he intended.
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Fiona Hill: Putin’s Running Out of Time | FP
| | The very fact that we framed it like this, which we have in most of the analyses, hides the fact that Putin, himself, may also be running against time limits. He wants that we are the ones who are on the backfoot, always wondering about whether we can make it, whether we can persevere. This is part of an information war. This is the kind of messaging that’s really coming out of the Kremlin. ...
But Putin also has to get reelected in 2024. He launched this special military operation, saying it would be over in a matter of days. But this has dragged on for Russia as well. And all of the messaging from Putin saying, “We haven’t begun yet. We haven’t hit the tip of the iceberg of the carnage and destruction,” is messaging so that we will pull back because he is also concerned about the implications for the stability of his own system. By the time we get out beyond those magical depths of the winter and into next year, the impacts on the Russian economy from all of the sanctions that have been taken, irrespective of high oil and gas prices, will start to be felt.
... he’s fearful of a repetition of what happened when he last returned to the presidency in 2011 and 2012, where we had protests in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other major [Russian] cities. Putin knows that there is a lot of dissatisfaction hidden beneath the surface.
... Russia is often ripe for protests, particularly on socioeconomic issues. Putin’s going to worry about that as we get towards 2024 for another reason: There are people around Putin who believe he’s not justified in having this next set of two terms. He was supposed to end his term in 2024. He extended his ability to run again for another 12 years until 2036, which will put him into his 80s. But the more weakened he is [and] the less legitimate he appears, the less it appears that he’s popular and the more incentive there is for others to try to maneuver around him to push on succession. Putin wants to get this conflict over with. He wants to seem legitimate. He wants us to be the ones who feel that we don’t have time — when he also has a clock ticking.
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Putin’s Captives | FA
| | As the war nears the end of its fifth month, the situation in Russia suggests that a shift is beginning to take place—both in the government and in the general population. As Putin has made clear, Russia’s plans in Ukraine will proceed regardless of the economic consequences—and all indications are these will be large. For ordinary Russians, that has meant that the “special operation” is not going to be over anytime soon. Instead, they must embrace a new Russia in which it is essential to behave like a patriot and support Putin’s theatrics and not concern themselves with temporary hardships. In the new Russia, everyone is fine as long as he or she is not forced into the trenches.
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By involving Russians in the imperial project, the Kremlin is intuitively feeling around for a new kind of social contract between the state and the conformist part of Russian society. That contract should work for a while, at least for those who are comfortably removed from the war itself. The meaning of this contract is roughly as follows: the population supports the “special operation” as a campaign to protect Russian sovereignty in exchange for which Putin is not declaring a general military mobilization, only offering contract military service to those who want to fight. | |
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Neuer Perun: Die Rolle von Belarus
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womit auch. Es ergab ja von Anfang an keinen Sinn, dass Waffen die die Bundeswehr nach eigenen Angaben nicht hat, statt in die Ukraine an andere Länder liefert. nur weil sie wo anders hingehen sollen ploppen sie ja nicht plötzlich auf dem Parkplatz auf. Außer, es geht um Sachen die erst über Jahre zur Verfügung stehen werden. Mit genug Zeit kann man die Sachen produzieren oder instandsetzen.
ups. newsthread. jetzt wo er es sagt. 
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[Dieser Beitrag wurde 1 mal editiert; zum letzten Mal von Jellybaby am 20.07.2022 16:01]
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Die wollen halt alle lieber den neuesten Scheiss, statt das alte Glump, was die Regierung ihnen angeboten hat.
Hey hier, wollt ihr Marder fuer die BMP1? Puma Bruder, drunter geht nix.
EDIT ACH VERDAMMTE SCHEISSE DAS IST DER NEWS THREAD
NATO Chef sagt: Hoert mal bitte auf euch zu beschweren und helft der Ukraine, Europa!
| | "The price we pay as the European Union, as NATO, is the price we can measure in currency, in money," he said. "The price [Ukrainians] pay is measured in lives lost every day."
Stoltenberg, who has been NATO's secretary general since 2014, added: "We should stop complaining and step up and provide support, full stop." | |
https://www.newsweek.com/nato-leader-tells-europe-stop-complaining-help-ukraine-1726105
Weisses Haus: Russland installiert ueberall Proxy-Offizielle in besetztem Gebiet um das zu annexieren, wie 2014 in der Krim
| | Kirby added that the U.S. observed a similar Russian playbook in 2014 before the Kremlin annexed Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula on the Black Sea.
“Russia is installing illegitimate proxy officials in the areas of Ukraine that are under its control. We know their next moves,” Kirby said.
“We want to make it plain to the American people. Nobody is fooled by it,” he added.
The former Pentagon spokesman said that Moscow is trying to establish branches of Russian banks in order to create a path to make the ruble a default currency in the areas it wants to annex. Kirby also said that Russian forces are taking control of broadcasting towers in order to control communications.
The U.S. also believes that Moscow is forcing Ukrainian residents to apply for Russian citizenship and issuing Russian passports. | |
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/russia-ukraine-war-russia-taking-steps-to-annex-ukraine-territory-us-says.html
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| | | The International Criminal Court is aiming to put forward its first case over alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine as early as this winter, according to people familiar with the matter. | |
| | | Separately, the ICC and Ukraine are in talks about Kyiv delivering at least one Russian official -- a prisoner of war -- to the court, according to the people. The Russian official may be willing to testify against senior Russian commanders, the people said. | |
Spannend.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-20/russians-may-face-first-hague-war-crimes-case-by-end-of-year
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Kremlchef über westliche Sanktionen: Putin gesteht »kolossal viele Schwierigkeiten« ein | SpOn
| | | Eigentlich wollte er Stärke demonstrieren – aber jüngste Äußerungen Wladimir Putins lassen vermuten, wie tief die Sanktionen Russland treffen. Vor allem der träge Aufbau der Digitalwirtschaft bereitet offenbar Probleme. | |
The Hate I Feel | The Atlantic
| | I am angry that Russia might get away with what it has done to Ukraine, that my friends and loved ones are constantly in danger. But I have no way to release this emotion, so it builds.
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I watch this hunger for “good Russians” and want to scream out my window, “They are killing us! They are looting our land! They are torturing our people!” Putin may have ordered this invasion, but it is not he who is killing Ukrainians with his own hands—that is being done by ordinary Russians. They came here to kill our relatives, burn our books, and destroy our heritage. (And don’t tell me these Russians didn’t have a choice. We’re the ones who didn’t have a choice. All they had to do was disobey orders, and refuse to take part in Putin’s “special military operation.” )
Before the invasion, I had never hated anyone, but now my anger eats at me from inside. I don’t know how to live with it. I’m not even sure how I would behave around Russians were I to meet any. | |
https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1549355135364628481
| | | Fascinating article about the possible shape of a Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces by @IAPonomarenko. Defintely worth a read: | |
What would a Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kherson look like? | Kyiv Independent
Die Operation läuft offenbar schon. Gestern und heute gab es Meldungen, dass die Ukraine die Antonovsky-Brücke in Kherson bombadierte und dass diese nun für schweres Gerät nicht mehr befahrbar ist. Ferner Angriffe auf russisches Militärgerät nahe dem Nova Kakhovka-Damm.
Jet fighters, air defense for Armed Forces of Ukraine: US senators call on Pentagon to include it in assistance package to Ukraine | UA Air Force
| | Six U.S. Senators asked the US Department of Defense to immediately expedite shipments of critical military assistance to Ukraine.
The letter from Senators is published on Senator Dan Sullivan’s (R-Alaska) website.
The appeal calls on the Pentagon to consider the inclusion of fourth-generation fighters and pilot training in the next assistance package to Ukraine.
Last month, the Senators met with the Ukrainian Air Force delegation, in particular, fighter pilots and anti-aircraft missile forces officers. During the negotiations on June 23, representatives of the Senate received reliable information about the real needs of Ukraine to protect cities from air threats (bombing and missile attacks). | |
https://twitter.com/CarloMasala1/status/1549781791392808960
| | Morgen in der @DIEZEIT: Streitgespräch zwischen @merkel_wolfgang und mir.
Werden Waffenlieferungen zu riskant?
Und hier kann man es nachlesen
Werden Waffenlieferungen zu riskant?
| | | Russland kündigt eine Großoffensive an, und die Ukraine will alle besetzten Gebiete zurückerobern. Dieses Risiko einer Eskalation dürfe der Westen nicht befeuern, sagt Wolfgang Merkel. Carlo Masala widerspricht: Gerade Deutschland sei jetzt gefordert. | |
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Replik auf Appell in der „Zeit“ - „Naiver Pazifismus“: Osteuropaexperten kritisieren deutsche Intellektuelle für Waffenstillstandsaufruf | RND
| | Mit einem Gegenaufruf reagieren Politikwissenschaftler, Historiker und Politiker auf einen Appell deutscher Intellektueller für einen Waffenstillstand in der Ukraine. Die Osteuropaexperten werfen den Prominenten mangelnde Sachkenntnis in Bezug auf das tatsächliche Geschehen und „naiven Pazifismus“ vor.
Unter der Überschrift „Schwere Waffen jetzt!“ haben fast 100 Osteuropaexpertinnen und Osteuropaexperten eine Replik zum Aufruf „Waffenstillstand jetzt!“ von deutschen Intellektuellen verfasst, der Ende Juni in der Wochenzeitung „Die Zeit“ erschienen war. | |
Putin is already at war with Europe. There is only one way to stop him | Simon Tisdall, Guardian
| | | He has weaponised food, energy and refugees, spreading economic and political pain across the continent. Sanctions don’t work, a land for peace deal would be a disaster. Only the military route remains | |
Ukraine Faces Difficulties Getting Western Weapons to Front Lines | WSJ
| | Western weapons are now in action in the battle for Ukraine. But getting them into operation on the front lines is creating serious headaches for Ukraine’s military. ...
More modern and effective Western weapons, particularly long-range artillery pieces, are now in the fight. They are already making a difference, allowing precision Ukrainian strikes on important ammunition dumps, air-defense infrastructure and command centers deep behind the lines that are disrupting the Russian offensive.
But absorbing this new equipment, coming in dribs and drabs from different Western countries, into the Ukrainian army is proving a serious challenge.
“The current approach by which each country donates a battery of guns in a piecemeal way is rapidly turning into a logistical nightmare for Ukrainian forces with each battery requiring a separate training, maintenance and logistics pipeline,” said the Royal United Services Institute, a London defense and security think tank, earlier this month.
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No Western analyst argues that Ukraine would be better without these new systems. But Mr. Watling believes Ukraine’s Western supporters should draw a lesson with future supplies, for example of armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, and try to limit the numbers of different systems being supplied.
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Far from the frontline, Ukraine civilians face Russian strikes | Reuters Pictures
Experte Masala: Warum ein Waffenstillstand in der Ukraine ein Fehler wäre | Augsburger Allgemeine
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Warum der Ringtausch nicht funktioniert | Tagesschau
| | Welche Ringtausch-Verfahren sind bislang abgeschlossen?
Kein einziges.
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Warum dauert es so lange?
Die kurze Antwort lautet: Weil die Ringtausch-Länder mit dem deutschen Angebot meist nicht zufrieden sind. Das zeigt sich am Beispiel Slowenien. Es ist das erste Land, mit dem man im April zu verhandeln begann. Dafür, dass Slowenien Kampf- und Schützenpanzer (T72 bzw BMP1) an die Ukraine liefert, hatte Berlin den Schützenpanzer "Marder" und den Transportpanzer "Fuchs" angeboten - beides Auslaufmodelle in der Bundeswehr und rund 50 Jahre alt.
Slowenien schwebte stattdessen der neue Schützenpanzer "Puma" und der Kampfpanzer "Leopard" vor - also moderneres Gerät. Ein ähnliches "Ringen um den Ringtausch" gibt es mit den anderen Partnerstaaten. Das ist der Grund, warum die Ringe bislang unvollendete Halbkreise sind.
Nebenbei noch eine andere Merkwürdigkeit: Den Transportpanzer "Fuchs" verweigerte die Bundeswehr der Ukraine mit dem Argument, die Einsatzbereitschaft der Truppe würde gefährdet - an Slowenien ist sie aber bereit, diese abzugeben. ...
Mittlerweile drohen [die Verhandlungen mit Polen] nach Informationen des ARD-Hauptstadtstudios endgültig zu scheitern. In einem Fernsehinterview sagte der polnische Vize-Außenminister in dieser Woche, es gebe aus Deutschland kein "reales Angebot, das man in Erwägung ziehen könnte." ...
Welche Kritik gibt es am Ringtausch-Verfahren?
Den Satz "Gut Ring will Weile haben" unterschreiben Kritiker nicht: Es leide das Ansehen und die Glaubwürdigkeit Deutschlands bei den Bündnispartnern, insbesondere in Osteuropa, wenn sich die Dinge so in die Länge zögen, warnt unter anderem die Union. Außerdem verstehen viele Oppositionspolitiker, aber auch manche in der Ampel nicht, warum Deutschland die Ukraine nicht stärker direkt mit modernem Gerät aus eigenen Beständen beliefert, statt mit betagtem Sowjet-Material: Wenn dort gerade unsere Freiheit verteidigt werde und Russland diesen Krieg nicht gewinnen dürfe, müsse man der Ukraine doch jede erdenkliche militärische Unterstützung zukommen lassen, lautet das Argument. | |
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U.S. Air Force General Says West May Send Jets To Ukraine After All | Forbes
| | Western countries could provide the Ukrainian air force with jets and pilot training, the U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff said Wednesday, an idea that would significantly ramp up Western assistance to Ukraine as it fights off invading Russian troops—but military officials say no firm decisions have been made yet.
Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown said during an interview at the Aspen Security Forum “there’s a number of different platforms that could go to Ukraine,” including jets made by the United States, Sweden, France or the multi-country Eurofighter consortium. ...
Earlier Wednesday, Brown told Reuters U.S. officials are discussing whether to begin training Ukrainian pilots to fly Western jets, a process Ukraine claims is possible within a matter of weeks but Brown and other experts think could take months.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday the military hasn’t decided whether to start training Ukrainian pilots yet, but “we do examine a wide variety of options, to include pilot training.”
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Geld wurde für das Pilotentraining ja zuvor schon eingeplant: The House approved $100 million in funding to train Ukrainian pilots to use U.S. aircraft as part of the National Defense Authorization Act it passed 329-101 this week. (15.7.)
Zelensky Takes Aim at Hidden Enemy: Ukrainians Aiding Russia | NYT
| | In firing his intelligence chief and top prosecutor, President Volodymyr Zelensky signaled a more aggressive approach to a fifth column undermining Ukraine’s war effort.
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While Ukrainian society as a whole has rallied to the country’s defense, Russian sympathizers are reporting the locations of Ukrainian targets like garrisons or ammunition depots, Ukraine’s officials say. Priests have sheltered Russian officers and informed on Ukrainian activists in Russian-occupied areas. One official said collaborators had removed explosives from bridges, allowing Russian troops to cross.
The issue was cast into sharp relief on Sunday night when President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed two senior law enforcement officials, saying they had not been nearly aggressive enough in weeding out traitors. It was the first major reshuffle of his brain trust since the war began.
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Großbritannien liefert Drohnen und Geschütze an die Ukraine
| | 13.59 Uhr: Das Vereinigte Königreich hat der Ukraine weitere umfassende Waffenlieferungen versprochen. Laut Verteidigungsminister Ben Wallace sollen in den kommenden Wochen hunderte Drohnen sowie Panzerabwehrwaffen und Artilleriegeschütze geliefert werden. Dazu zählen mehr als 20 Panzerhaubitzen vom Typ M109 sowie 36 Geschütze vom Typ L119, an denen ukrainische Soldaten derzeit in Großbritannien ausgebildet werden. Hinzu kommen Artillerieaufklärungsradar und 50 000 Schuss Munition für alte Artilleriegeschütze aus Sowjetzeiten.
»Der Umfang und die Bandbreite der von uns bereitgestellten Ausrüstung demonstrieren die Stärke unserer Entschlossenheit«, sagte Wallace einer Mitteilung zufolge. Großbritannien ist einer der größten Waffenlieferanten für die Ukraine. Der scheidende britische Premierminister Boris Johnson hatte der Ukraine beim Nato-Gipfel Ende Juni weitere 1,2 Milliarden Dollar Militärhilfe zugesagt. Die gesamte britische Militärhilfe seit Kriegsausbruch wuchs damit auf 2,8 Milliarden Dollar an. Nur die USA unterstützen Kiew noch umfangreicher.
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Medienbericht: Russland bremst bei Rücknahme der Gas-Turbine
| | 21.46 Uhr: Die fehlende Turbine für die Gaspipeline Nord Stream 1 soll nach ihrer Wartung in Kanada angeblich in Deutschland feststecken. Das berichtet die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters unter Berufung auf Insider. Russland habe die Genehmigung für einen Weitertransport in das Land noch nicht erteilt, sagten demnach zwei mit der Angelegenheit vertraute Personen der Agentur. Die Turbine, wegen deren verzögerter Rückführung nach russischen Angaben weniger Gas durch die Pipeline fließen kann, sei am 17. Juli von der Logistikfirma Challenge Group von Montreal nach Köln geflogen worden. Es sei unklar, wann die rund zwölf Meter lange Turbine nach Russland gebracht werden könne. Es könne Tage oder auch noch Wochen dauern, sagten die Insider Reuters zufolge.
Bisher habe Moskau nicht die notwendigen Dokumente für einen Import der von Siemens Energy gebauten Turbine zur Verfügung gestellt. Russlands Energieriese Gazprom, deren Tochter Nord Stream AG die Turbine gehört, nennt seinerseits fehlende Unterlagen als Grund für die Verzögerung. | |
Russland und Ukraine streben Abkommen zu Getreide-Exporten an | SpOn
| | | Während die Getreidelager in der Ukraine gefüllt sind, müssen Millionen Menschen anderswo hungern. Über gesicherte Korridore unter Aufsicht der Türkei und der Uno sollen nun blockierte Güter ausgeführt werden können. | |
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| | Polen hat die Bundesregierung im Zusammenhang mit dem geplanten Ringtausch für Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine scharf kritisiert. „Die deutschen Versprechen zum Panzer-Ringtausch haben sich als Täuschungsmanöver erwiesen“, sagte Vize-Außenminister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek dem „Spiegel“ (Freitag). Aus polnischer Sicht seien die deutschen Angebote inakzeptabel, so dass man nun auf die Hilfe anderer NATO-Partner setze.
Zunächst hätten die Deutschen den Polen Panzer angeboten, „die älter waren als diejenigen, die wir der Ukraine gaben“, sagte er. Diese Offerte sei „nicht zu akzeptieren, denn wir haben kein Interesse daran, den Zustand unserer Bewaffnung zu verschlechtern und unsere Soldaten auf Gerät aus den Sechzigerjahren zu schulen“.
Angeboten worden sei „eine symbolische Anzahl Panzer“, sagt der Vize-Außenminister. „Das kann man schwerlich als ernst zu nehmenden Vorschlag werten, nachdem wir der Ukraine über 200 Panzer in zwei Monaten geliefert haben.“ Deswegen rede Polen lieber mit anderen NATO-Partnern, „die wirklich bereit sind, uns dabei zu helfen“. Nach seinen Angaben erhält Polen bereits jetzt Panzer aus den USA und Großbritannien. | |
zu Recht sind sie angepisst möchte ich anmerken.
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Wundert das wirklich?
Nach der kompletten Kommunikation der letzten Monate?
Mich überrascht, dass überhaupt Panzer angeboten wurden...
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News hier, achtet wieder mehr drauf bitte.
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| | Russland und die Ukraine haben mit den Vereinten Nationen und der Türkei ein Abkommen über die Ausfuhr von Millionen Tonnen ukrainischem Getreide auf dem Seeweg vereinbart.
Die Vereinbarung sieht laut UNO-Angaben unter anderem ein gemeinsames Kontrollzentrum in Istanbul, engmaschige Durchsuchungen der Schiffe und gesicherte Korridore im Schwarzen Meer vor. Auch der Export russischen Getreides und Düngers soll durch das Abkommen erleichtert werden. Es gilt demnach zunächst für 120 Tage, soll jedoch verlängert werden. | |
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/abkommen-fuer-getreideexport-auf-see-unterzeichnet-104.html
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US-Regierung prüft mögliche Kampfjet-Lieferung
| | Die US-Regierung zieht eigenen Angaben zufolge die Lieferung von Kampfjets an die ukrainischen Streitkräfte in Betracht. Allerdings handle es sich um "Sondierungsüberlegungen, die nicht in naher Zukunft umgesetzt werden können", wie der Kommunikationsdirektor des Nationalen Sicherheitsrats, John Kirby, sagte. Es gehe hierbei um Flugzeuge US-amerikanischer Bauart und nicht um Maschinen aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion.
Der Betrieb moderner Kampfflugzeuge sei "ein schwieriges Unterfangen", sagte Kirby weiter. Berücksichtigt werden müssten auch Faktoren wie die Ausbildung der Besatzungen, die Instandhaltung oder die Lieferung von Ersatzteilen: "Eine ganze Versorgungskette" sei notwendig, um ein Flugzeug in der Luft zu halten. Die USA würden die Ukraine im Kampf gegen die russischen Truppen aber so lange wie nötig unterstützen. | |
| | | Die US-Regierung gab zudem weitere Waffenlieferungen frei. So sollten vier Mehrfach-Raketenwerfer vom Typ Himar, 6.000 Artilleriegranaten, Fahrzeuge und 580 Phoenix-Ghost-Drohnen an die ukrainischen Truppen gehen. Mit den Waffenlieferungen im Wert von 270 Millionen Dollar steigt die Gesamtsumme der von den USA zugesagten Militärhilfe für die Ukraine seit Beginn des Krieges auf 8,2 Milliarden Dollar. | |
https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1550604379404877825
| | The Pentagon is *not* discussing providing Ukraine with fighter jets for the "immediate fight" there with Russia, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters today.
That said, the U.S. is involved in a larger discussion about Ukraine's future military needs, official said. | |
Russia and Ukraine agree to reopen Odessa, easing a food crisis | Economist
| | Grain prices fall. But can the deal hold?
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Many wonder whether the deal is too good to be true. “I struggle to see what’s in it for the Russians,” says an executive from a big agricultural-products trading firm. After all, Mr Putin has broken previous ceasefire agreements in Ukraine. And why would he throw Ukraine an economic lifeline when his forces are struggling to inch forward on the battlefield?
Alexander Gabuev of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an American think-tank, argues that Mr Putin’s U-turn is largely a response to pressure from friendly countries in and around the Middle East—not least Turkey, which now serves as an important economic channel between Russia and the outside world. “When it comes to the Kremlin’s geoeconomic war against the West,” tweeted Mr Gabuev, “Moscow still has plenty of sharp objects in its toolbox beyond grain exports—and gas is the most powerful one.”
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Für Weizenausfuhr und Luftfahrt: EU lockert manche Russland-Sanktion wieder | ntv
| | | Nicht nur in der Ukraine sind Millionen Tonnen Weizen blockiert, auch der Export aus Russland schwächelt. Um eine Nahrungskrise abzuwenden, entschärft die EU nun zum Teil die Sanktionen gegen den Kreml. Auch die Wartung russischer Flugzeuge wird wieder erlaubt - das sorgt für Kritik. | |
| | Zudem entschärft die EU ihre Sanktionen gegen die Luftfahrt. Die Wartung von Flugtechnik werde wieder erlaubt, heißt es in dem Papier. Davon dürfte auch die größte russische Fluggesellschaft Aeroflot profitieren. Weil die EU Wartungen zuvor verboten hatte, verloren viele russische Maschinen ihren Versicherungsschutz und konnten nicht mehr abheben. Russische Airlines nutzen fast ausschließlich Flugzeuge der westlichen Hersteller Boeing und Airbus.
Der Militärexperte Carlo Masala kritisiert die teilweise Rücknahme der Sanktionen gegen die Luftfahrt scharf. "Ich verstehe nicht, warum wir Aeroflot nicht grounden [niedergehen] lassen", schreibt er auf Twitter. "Die Sanktionen wirken und dann nehmen wir sie zum Teil wieder zurück."
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Inside Ukraine’s open-source war | FT
| | | Digital networks are helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion. Will they also reshape the future of conflict? | |
| | The issue at stake is how combatants organise themselves. The Russian military still appears to operate in a hierarchical manner — even though it has potent cyber-hacking and misinformation capabilities. The Ukrainian army, by contrast, gives decentralised teams considerable autonomy to make decisions and innovate, and soldiers communicate directly with their peers in different units.
So, one way to frame the war between Russia and Ukraine is as a contest between lateral networks and vertical hierarchies. Just as tiny Silicon Valley start-ups can disrupt legacy companies by using agility, speed and bottom-up innovation, the Ukrainian army is trying to compensate for its inferior size with an entrepreneurial spirit and engineers steeped in coding, hacking and video games.
“What the Ukrainians have done with networks is striking, but that approach is completely antithetical to how someone like Putin operates,” Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion and Russian dissident, told me. Or as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt observes: “Russia is playing a hierarchical war — top-down generals are planning the usual stuff. But Ukraine is playing a networked war. | |
| | The engineers also hacked different communications systems, tested ways of flying drones and posted artillery targets for each other on shared coding platforms and specially designed apps. “It’s networked,” observes Schmidt. “[One unit] posts the open-source co-ordinates of a tank, say, and then another group unknown to the first goes [to the co-ordinates] and deals with the tank.”
... this iterative innovation process goes well beyond drones. As soon as western governments offer military hardware, the network of Ukrainian engineers hack it to make it easy for them to operate. “What is critically needed now is modern software-enabled weapons like Himars [long-range missiles],” Perimov explains. “If we get it, we have more than enough specialists who can tackle and adopt it fast.”
As evidence of this, he points out a post that recently appeared on the LinkedIn platform, advertising an engineer job for “a result-orientated and self-directed person” who wants to work with Himars. It claims to pay a salary of $7,600 and $10,000 a month. “Maybe it is a joke,” chuckles Perimov. “But maybe not — we [engineers] are all used to using LinkedIn anyway.”
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[Dieser Beitrag wurde 1 mal editiert; zum letzten Mal von Herr der Lage am 23.07.2022 2:10]
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