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Anti-ship missile for Ukraine?: „Harpoon” missile could solve the port blockade
Anti-ship missiles to Ukraine?
„Harpoon” missile can solve the blockade of the port
05/19/2022 9:36 PM
The naval blockade in the Black Sea significantly slows down Ukrainian trade. American experts are sure that the Russian fleet can be defeated with special anti-ship missiles. So far, however, there are logistical obstacles.
According to informed sources, the United States wants to send modern anti-ship missiles to Ukraine so that it can break the Russian blockade of its ports on the Black Sea. Two types of missiles are currently being discussed, as Reuters has learned from three US government officials and two congressional employees who did not wish to be identified. These are Boeing’s „Harpoon” with a range of up to 300 km and the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) missiles from Kongsberg and Raytheon Technologies with a length of 250 km.
According to the naval expert at the Hudson Institute, Brian Clark, 12 to 24 such missiles would be enough to threaten Russian warships and persuade the government in Moscow to end the blockade. This affects, for example, Ukrainian grain shipments to the world market. According to the British Ministry of Defense, Russia has about 20 warships – including submarines – deployed in the battle zone.
The Russian Navy has already suffered great losses in the Ukraine war, in particular, the sinking of the cruiser „Moskva”, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. According to Clark, larger Russian ships could be in danger if Ukraine acquired advanced weapons. Yet President Vladimir Putin has stuck to the blockade: „They have nowhere to hide in the Black Sea.”
The German armed forces also have „Warriors”
In March, during the NATO summit in Brussels, it became known from American circles that the delivery of anti-ship missiles to Ukraine was being discussed. It was said at the time that they „started working on it”. In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked NATO member Portugal to extradite Harbin. The German army also owns the weapon system.
According to informed sources, now there are a number of countries that would be ready in principle to send such missiles to Ukraine. However, no one wants to be the first to do so for fear of Russian reaction if a warship is sunk by a missile owned by that country. One government official told Reuters there was now a „well-resourced” country that might be ready to deliver first. Then other countries can follow suit.
According to previous information from the United States, there are many obstacles and fears regarding the transfer of stronger and longer-range weapons to Ukraine. These include long training times, difficulties in maintaining systems and concern that the Russian armed forces might control them. It also fears an escalation of the conflict. There are also technical difficulties, because „Harpoon” is not intended for launch from the ground.
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Russian propaganda describes US military aid to Kiev as meaningless. The delivery of weapons appears imminent.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov needed 47 seconds on Monday to downplay the new US aid package for Ukraine: “Basically, the situation on the battlefield does not change anything. The Russian Armed Forces are improving their position.” This dynamic is completely understandable to everyone. American money will not This will only increase losses on the Ukrainian side.
Moscow remains more confident than ever of victory, even though the US House of Representatives agreed to provide $61 billion to Ukraine after a five-month conflict. Senate confirmation is a formality; The first containers loaded with missiles and missiles should be ready for transport in Germany. But the Kremlin and its media are chanting as if they are going to Russia.
Russia announced that it had captured the Leopard 2.
Russia wins and wins, Russian media reported. „Leopard 2” was captured and the village of Bogdanovka was finally occupied. People are celebrating the downing of a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter-bomber, according to state TV station Piatej Kanal, the 591st enemy aircraft destroyed since the start of the „special warfare operation” – even though Ukraine actually had fewer than 130 fighters. Airplanes at that time.
Moscow military expert Viktor Litovkin confirms that the ATACMS missiles that the United States is now delivering to Ukraine “are like rifle bullets to an elephant for us.” ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 300 kilometers would certainly have been suitable to hit the Crimean bridge, at a cost of three billion euros.
But according to aif.ru, the United States will spend at least 80 percent of the aid to Ukraine to restore its weapons reserves. “Even the money that reaches Kiev has to be repaid,” says State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. The United States is forcing Ukraine to wage war to the last Ukrainian and ultimately bury its economy.
American film fits the narrative
No one in Russia is discussing the consequences of delivering new precision projectiles to Ukrainian front-line forces in conjunction with the combat drones they already use extensively, in their spring offensive in Donbass. “Western experts agree that neither long-range missiles, nor aircraft, nor anything else can help the Ukrainian army,” the “life.ru” portal reported. It does not provide any quotes.
Russia's public political sector operates like a propaganda brigade, striving at all costs to maintain its narrative that the invincible Russian war machine is slowly crushing all forms of resistance. “It seems as if they are ready to turn all logic upside down,” says a liberal political scientist in Moscow, anonymously. Former President Dmitry Medvedev is already calling for a devastating civil war in the United States. Medvedev clearly saw the American film “Civil War,” which is now showing in almost every cinema in Moscow, as “the end of the empire.”
Russian media repeatedly quoted the newspaper „Global Times”. She wrote that Russia had the resources to deliver the „final blow.” But he did not mention that the Global Times is an English-language newspaper affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, and that the author of this sentence is actually an Italian expert.
On the other hand, the loyal press hears nothing about the article published by the Chinese-Russian political scientist Feng Yujun in the Economist newspaper. And that Yugun believed that the defeat of Moscow was inevitable. He cites the “cocoon of information” into which Vladimir Putin has fallen due to his long dictatorship as one of the reasons. The Kremlin lacks reliable intelligence, and the state's leadership operates under a system that lacks an effective correction mechanism.
Given the lack of open and controversial discussions, the entire political public in Russia is likely to suffer from this problem.
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The Russian army is approaching the town of Chasiv Yar, located on the front line in Donbas, in several sectors of the front. Moscow's losses are not only enormous here.
Chasev Yar – What these photos of the Ukrainian war in Russia suggest is pure speculation. Ultimately, the Kremlin regime promotes murder and death as if the population were behind the “special military operation,” as the attack on Moscow’s western neighbor is called, which violates international law.
Ukraine War: Russian soldiers complain of heavy losses
Anton Herashchenko, Advisor to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and former Deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine (2019 to 2021), shared a video of three Russian soldiers from the front on X (formerly Twitter) which was a blast for the regime of Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin.
In this video, the three men, recognizable by their Moscow Army uniforms, complain vociferously about the heavy losses Russia has suffered against the Ukrainian armed forces and about the allegedly devastating conditions in which they have to fight against the defenders. In the pictures, they appear completely surrendered and terrified.
Casualties in the Ukraine War: Russian soldiers reported many corpses
“We can't do anything, we're just cannon fodder. We've been bombed with all kinds of weapons,” one Russian soldier says in the video from a makeshift hole that was supposed to serve as a fire shelter. Another soldier talks about potential casualties in her unit: “There were 19 people out today. Zero left. They're all gone.” The other soldier continues, cataloging the nature of the Ukrainian bombing: „Cluster munitions are a nightmare. „It's the second day they've been shooting at us with cluster munitions.” He explains that the Ukrainians, using cluster munitions, prevented them from returning to their company.
„There's no contact with anyone, we don't have anything. Why were we thrown here?” One soldier explains, and the other replies: “There are bodies everywhere.” They both look very disappointed while the third soldier depicts the sad scenario. They say that when they were „dumped” into the area, their armored personnel carrier was set on fire with all their supplies and equipment. The tank was „shot down immediately.” They have no shovels to dig trenches. “No water, nothing,” one soldier explains. “If we hadn’t been bombed, we could have gone out and filmed how many boys were lying and lying and lying,” says the other. „Here in this forest.” And also: „Everything is covered with corpses.”
If we had not been bombed, we could have gone out and photographed how many men lie and lie in this forest.
Russia's heavy losses: Putin's army nevertheless advances towards Chasev Yar
At the end of April 2024, their report from the front lines is in line with Western observers' assessments of the military situation in the Ukrainian war, as the United States launches $61 billion in new military aid to Kiev. In several parts of the Donbass frontline, Putin's forces are nonetheless approaching the „fortified city of Chasiv Yar” (formerly population 13,000), according to the US news magazine. Newsweek The small town is five kilometers west of Bakhmut.
An indication of the current course of the war: the Ukrainians actually wanted to retake Bakhmut from there, which was evacuated in May 2023, but the Russian army has long since begun to attack here – as in many places. According to the report, the Ukrainian military recently warned that Russia wants to advance from Chasev Yar to Kramatorsk and Slovyansk. The large city of Kramatorsk, with a population of about 150,000, is the Ukrainians' central logistical point for the Donbass front due to its large train station and well-developed rail network to Kharkiv in the northeast of the country.
The town of Chasiv Yar is on the front line in Ukraine: Russia suffers heavy losses in Donbass
However, Chasev Yar is “strongly defended” and located on a hill, the British Ministry of Defense explained in an assessment of the situation on Sunday (April 22): “Russian ground forces are making slow progress in the area.” Institute for the Study of War (ISW) However, he wrote in an analysis that the invasion of Chasiv Yar “would enable Russia to penetrate the belt of operationally important fortified cities in Ukraine.”
Chasiv Yar and Kramatorsk are of great military importance not only to the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, but also to the neighboring city of Kostyantinivka, which once had a population of 70,000. high Newsweek Kostiantynivka is the „backbone of Ukrainian defence” in the Donetsk region. The city is located approximately six kilometers southwest of the besieged district of Chasiv Yar. It remains to be seen how the expected deliveries of several US 155-meter artillery shells will affect the front line in this Ukrainian region. (evening)
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Despite the temporary injunction, Supreme Court decision and harsh criticism: British Prime Minister Sunak wants to adhere to the controversial deportation agreement with Rwanda in all circumstances.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to ignore orders from the European Court of Human Rights regarding his asylum deal with Rwanda. This was stated by the conservative politician at a press conference in London shortly before the start of new discussions in Parliament on his deportation law. Sunak said that he does not believe that his country is contravening international law.
The asylum agreement with Rwanda stipulates that migrants who have arrived illegally should not be given the opportunity to apply for asylum in Great Britain. Instead, regardless of their origin, they should be brought to Rwanda and apply for asylum there. There are no plans to return to Great Britain. The British House of Commons approved the law in mid-January.
The first plane is scheduled to take off within twelve weeks
According to the government, the regulation aims to prevent people from making dangerous journeys across the English Channel in small boats. “Once the law is passed, we will begin the process of deporting those scheduled on the first flight,” Sunak said. The first plane is expected to take off within ten to twelve weeks.
The government had previously announced the first departure for the spring semester. Sunak said commercial charter flights had been booked for deportations. In addition, hundreds of clerks and judges were selected to handle potential lawsuits.
They met until the law was passed
The only flight that was supposed to take off to Rwanda was stopped at the last minute in June 2022 by an injunction from the European Court of Human Rights. A year later, Great Britain's highest court declared the asylum agreement illegal.
The deportation law now aims to overturn this ruling. The draft law is currently pending between the House of Representatives and the Senate, as most of them have reservations about it. However, Sunak instructed his party's MPs in both houses to sit on Monday for it to be passed. He ruled out making any concessions. “There is no answer or question, these flights will take off to Rwanda,” the Prime Minister said.
Criticism from almost all sides
The opposition, as well as human rights activists, strongly criticize the project. But the deal is also controversial among Sunak's Conservatives. Hardliners within the Prime Minister's Conservative Party say the government's bill does not go far enough – and the Conservative Liberals, in turn, fear that Great Britain will violate international law.
„Praktyk żywieniowy. Guru bekonu. Irytująco pokorny entuzjasta zombie. Uczeń totalny”.
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