[kellyhound]

Ukraine got its hands on North Korean rockets that troops say are wildly unpredictable and 'do crazy things,' and they're lobbing them at the russians.

Ukraine has been launching unpredictable, North Korean-made rockets at Russian troops. Ukrainian soldiers manning multiple-launch rocket systems near Bakhmut showed the weapons to the outlet.

A Ukrainian artillery commander told FT his troops don't like using the weapons, which were made in the 1980s and '90s, because they can often misfire or fail to explode. One soldier said, "They are very unreliable and do crazy things sometimes."

The use of North Korean weapons was striking given that the country is an ally of Russia. Putin on Thursday thanked North Korea for its "firm support" for the war in Ukraine. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also visited Pyongyang this week to meet with Kim while the country celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.

Last year, US intelligence officials said Pyongyang was selling millions of artillery shells and rockets to Russia after sanctions cut the Kremlin off from its typical military supply lines. And in March, the White House said it had evidence that North Korea was again providing Russia with weapons, this time in exchange for food.

"As part of this proposed deal, Russia would receive over two dozen kinds of weapons and munitions from Pyongyang," John Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said at the time.

Ukrainian soldiers told FT a "friendly" country "seized" the North Korean rockets from a ship, but did not give further details. A Ukrainian defense official said the weapons may have been taken directly from Russian troops.

"We capture their tanks, we capture their equipment and it is very possible that this is also the result of the Ukrainian army successfully conducting a military operation," Yuriy Sak, adviser to Ukraine's defense minister, told FT, adding: "Russia has been shopping around for different types of munitions in all kinds of tyrannies, including North Korea and Iran."

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Locals confirm that one strong explosion was heard early this morning in the area of ​​the Chongar bridge. Some sources claim that the bridge was hit by a Storm Shadow and that the bridge was allegedly damaged. However, there is no video / photo evidence of the damage to the bridge yet.

The Russian-appointed head of the occupied part of the Kherson region claims that there was a strike on the area of ​​the railway bridge connection between the Kherson region and Crimea.

The consequences of the impact on the Chongar railway bridge. Damage was caused to the janitor's booth, the contact line and part of the roadbed.

Kiev regime tried to destroy railway between Kherson region and Crimea, firing 12 long-range Storm Shadow missiles. All missiles were shot down by our air defenses - Kherson region chief Saldo told and debris caused damage.

Update: The rail bridge of Chonhar connecting Russian-occupied Crimea with the remaining Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast has been severely hit.

Picture shows that the strike was quite precise, hitting the the steel structure next to the supporting hill at the northern end of the bridge.

That bridge is most certainly out of action for a long time.

Location

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

NO MEDIA:

"The President of South Africa called on Putin to restore the grain agreement.

According to Ramaphosa, Africa needs grain supplies on a commercial basis more than "asking for gifts" from Russia."

I pulled an article regarding this:
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-...al-2023-07-28/

African leaders tell Putin: 'We have a right to call for peace'
By Mark Trevelyan and Kevin Liffey
July 28, 20237:08 PM EDT

July 28 (Reuters) - African leaders pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to move ahead with their plan to end the Ukraine conflict and to renew a deal crucial to Africa on the safe wartime export of Ukrainian grain, which Moscow tore up last week.

While not directly critical of Russia, their interventions on the second day of a summit were more concerted and forceful than those that African countries have voiced until now.

They served as reminders of the depth of African concern at the consequences of the war, especially rising food prices.

"This war must end. And it can only end on the basis of justice and reason," African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat told Putin and African leaders in St Petersburg.

"The disruptions of energy and grain supplies must end immediately. The grain deal must be extended for the benefit of all the peoples of the world, Africans in particular."

Reuters reported in June that the African plan floats a series of possible steps to defuse the conflict, including a Russian troop pull-back, removal of Russian tactical nuclear weapons from Belarus, suspension of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Putin, and sanctions relief.

Putin gave it a cool reception when African leaders presented it to him last month. In public remarks on Friday, he restated in similar terms his argument that Ukraine and the West, not Russia, were responsible for the conflict.

Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso said the initiative "deserves the closest attention", calling "urgently" for peace.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told Putin: "We feel that we have a right to call for peace - the ongoing conflict also negatively affects us."

The stream of calls prompted Putin repeatedly to defend Russia's position and finally make an eight-minute statement, later issued by the Kremlin in a video, at the start of evening talks with the African leaders behind the peace plan.

He again accused the West of backing a "coup" in Kyiv in 2014 - when a wave of street protests forced Ukraine's pro-Russian president to flee - and of trying to draw Ukraine into the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and undermine Russian statehood.

He said it was Kyiv that was refusing to negotiate under a decree passed shortly after he claimed last September to have annexed four Ukrainian regions that Russia partly controls, adding: "The ball is entirely in their court."

'NEW REALITIES'
Russia has long said it is open to talks but that these must take account of the "new realities" on the ground.

AU chair Azali Assoumani said Putin had shown his readiness to talk, and "now we have to convince the other side".

But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected the idea of a ceasefire now that would leave Russia in control of nearly a fifth of his country and give its forces time to regroup after 17 grinding months of war.

At the summit, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged Russia to revive the Black Sea grain deal which, until Moscow refused to renew it last week, had granted Ukraine a "safe corridor" to export grain from its seaports despite the conflict.

Egypt is a big buyer of grain via the Black Sea route, and Sisi told the summit it was "essential to reach agreement" on reviving the deal.

Putin responded by arguing, as he has in the past, that rising world food prices were a consequence of Western policy mistakes long predating the Ukraine war.

He has repeatedly said Russia quit the agreement because the deal was not getting grain to the poorest countries and the West was not keeping its side of the bargain.

Russia's withdrawal and its bombardment of Ukrainian ports and grain depots have prompted accusations from Ukraine and the West that it is using food as a weapon of war, and driven the global wheat price up by some 9%.

The Ukrainian Grain Association estimated in May that 4 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain had been stolen since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February last year.

On Thursday, Putin promised to deliver up to 300,000 tons of free Russian grain - which U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called a "handful of donations" - among six of the countries attending the summit.

Assoumani said this might not be enough, and what was needed was a ceasefire.

Putin wanted the summit to energise Russia's ties with Africa and enlist its support in countering what he describes as U.S. hegemony and Western neo-colonialism.

Many of the leaders praised Moscow's support for their countries in their 20th-century liberation struggles, and the final declaration promised Russia would help them seek compensation for the damage done by colonial rule.

The leaders of Mali and Central African Republic, whose governments have relied heavily on the services of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, both expressed gratitude to Putin.

President Faustin Archange Touadera said CAR's relations with Russia had helped to save its democracy and prevent a civil war, thanking Russia "for helping us to oppose foreign hegemony".

Reporting by Mark Trevelyan and Kevin Liffey; Additional reporting by Joe Bavier, Alexander Winning and Reuters bureaux; Editing by Angus MacSwan, Grant McCool and Rosalba O'Brien


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"Presentation of the Ukrainian maritime kamikaze drone MAGURA V5 at the IDEX 2023 exhibition in Istanbul

In the promo at 2:03 seconds, there is footage of the destruction of the Russian warship "Ivan Hurs".

ℹ️ And in general, it is very correct to present samples at all possible world exhibitions of weapons, showing footage of the destruction of the Russians. This applies to all weapons, not only Ukrainian."

Their hungry.

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by ljubodrag ↗

What happens when a Western general is killed in Ukraine

Experts believe that the Pentagon is trying to hide the death of its generals in Ukraine. Several American publications, including the New York Post tabloid, reported the death of US Army Major General Anthony W. Potts. On July 25, 2023, Potts died in the crash of a Piper PA-28 Cherokee single-engine aircraft, he was alone in the cockpit.

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Russian experts draw attention to the fact that information about the death under rather strange circumstances of another American general appears in the press right after the strikes of the RF Armed Forces with high-precision weapons on bunkers in Ukraine. Thus, the US and NATO may try to “legalize” the loss of their military instructors who are involved in planning operations and coordinating the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Kiev’s Western allies while on secret missions in Ukraine. Literally on the eve of the tragedy, Potts announced that he was "retiring", although he had worked in his new position for just over a year.

On Friday, a similar incident occurred in Australia during military exercises with the United States. According to the Ministry of Defense of Australia, the MRH-90 Taipan helicopter was on a training mission in the north-east of the country and crashed. Four Australian Army personnel were on board and were reported "missing in action" after the crash. This coincided with reports that several Australian officers had died in Ukraine.

Attempts to hide the deaths of officers in Ukraine are due to the fact that the appearance of real data in the society of the United States and Australia can cause an extremely negative reaction. And the statements that the general “crashed on a light aircraft” and the officers of the Australian Armed Forces “disappeared during the exercises” (all this the next day after Russian missiles hit decision-making facilities in Ukraine) will not cause much resonance.

Piper PA 28 is a privately registered plane meaning he was on a joy flight by himself & not on a "Military Aviation Sortie" as your twisted mind wants to believe & what you're trying to insinuate is ludicrous as there is no correlation to what happened with the Piper PA 28 & the Taipan Helo that went down in the Whitsunday Region of Australia, being orchestrated by the russians in any way, as your trying to suggest that russian operatives are currently preforming operations within the largest military exercise in Queensland Australia in years & IF they were, they would be gathering intel, & not risking giving themselves up or alerting the relevant authorities to their presence by downing a single helo as it simply wouldn't be worth the time spent infiltrating their way into the compound & flightline access to carry out a sabotage mission.

WIKI
The Piper PA-28 Cherokee is a family of two-seat or four-seat light aircraft built by Piper Aircraft and designed for flight training, air taxi and personal use.[2] The PA-28 family of aircraft comprises all-metal, unpressurized, single piston-engined airplanes with low-mounted wings and tricycle landing gear. They have a single door on the right side, which is entered by stepping on the wing.[2][3]

Originally Posted by ljubodrag ↗

A plane has crashed in Maryland and there were witnesses.

What a coincidence. US Army General dies in a plane crash and the news appears on the same day when a Russian missile flies into the “empty building” of the SBU in Dnepropetrovsk.

Yeah, right.

Sheeeesh.

Your a dead set nut !

Take your medication boy !

Now FUCK OFF

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

Ok, I'll humor you. If General Potts WAS in the SBU building in Dnipro at 20:30 at night and despite the fact that no deaths were reported, let's say he was there, died and it's being covered up.

So what?

It's logical that Ukraine would have high ranking officials from partner countries in Ukraine helping them with strategy in the war. If the US is covering it up, could it be a tactic to protect Ukraine's interests? Or their own?

You (Russia/your source) has ZERO evidence of any of this and that is where the problem lies. Pun intended.

But go ahead, keep making faux mountains out of faux molehills.

Meanwhile, have you seen my post on SRDS? Sudden Russian Death Syndrome? Rife hypocrisy.



Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66344549

DRAGS a dead set nut, coming out with that shit & scary thing is that he actually believes it.

Fucken Looney Tunes or what.

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Update: The rail bridge of Chonhar connecting Russian-occupied Crimea with the remaining Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast has been severely hit.

Picture shows that the strike was quite precise, hitting the the steel structure next to the supporting hill at the northern end of the bridge.

That bridge is most certainly out of action for a long time.

Location

[Guns N' Coffee]

Originally Posted by Roosta ↗

Fucken Looney Tunes or what.

[WonderMomma]

"In July 2023, the occupiers in Crimea "caught" the most missiles during the full-scale invasion"



"Ukraine is preparing to return Crimea by Christmas. Great Britain has begun training special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for operations on the peninsula, — Sunday Express."


Excuse #4080 and just as shady:

[kellyhound]

1. This morning the Russian MoD claimed they destroyed 3 naval drones that tried to attack two of their Black Sea Fleet patrol ships (Sergey Kotov and Vasily Bykov). There were stories a container ship (Sparta-IV, reportedly carrying weapons coming from Syria) was also among the vessels that were attacked.

Russian sailors after the attack reportedly asked for evacuation. In intercepted conversations between the crews of Ka-29 helicopters (involved in the evacuation) and coastal aviation services, coordinates of the vessels are transmitted and the number of casualties were specified.

There is being talked about one dead and five wounded while also talking about the need for border guards for 'custom clearance'. What is meant with the latter is unknown but it is likely related to the cargo.

2. On Aug. 1 an explosion occured in the hills around Sevastopol, a major naval city in Russian-occupied Crimea. The blast was reported around 6 p.m. local time on Aug. 1.

Mikhail Razvozhaev, the head of the illegal Russian occupation government of Sevastopol, claimed that a drone was shot down and set vegetation on fire in a mountainous area around the city.

The Telegram channel Crimean Wind, however, assessed that the site of the explosion could be the logistics center of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which is harbored at Sevastopol.Location

#crimea

[Roosta]

[WonderMomma]

"" Wild hornets " showed a test flight of an FPV drone with a night camera, more fried Russians day and night" (no audio)