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Blinken says Poland sending fighter jets to Ukraine gets a 'green light' from US
CBS's "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan asked Blinken if Poland, a member of NATO, intended to send fighter jets to help Ukraine during an invasion by Russia if they would have the support of the U.S. and whether he was concerned that it would heighten tensions in the region.

"That gets the green light. In fact, we're talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to backfill their needs if in fact they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. What can we do? How can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes that they're handing over to the Ukrainians?" said Blinken, who is currently in Moldova, Ukraine's southeastern neighboring country.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, echoed Blinken's remarks while appearing on ABC's "This Week."

"We have been in close consultations with the Polish government, as well as with our other NATO allies on this issue. We have not in any way opposed the Polish government providing these jets to Ukraine and we’re working, as you noted, to see how we can backfill for them," she said.

When asked if U.S. fighter jets might be provided to Poland and other NATO allies, Thomas-Greenfield said those discussions are still ongoing.

Jets won’t help, Stingers etc are the proper defense, more economical, easy to conceal, easy to use.
RIP Colonel Oksanchenko

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Kerowacked said:

Jets won’t help, Stingers etc are the proper defense, more economical, easy to conceal, easy to use.

Famed Ukrainian fighter pilot 'Grey Wolf' killed over Kyiv

Colonel Oleksandr Oksanchenko, a legendary Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker pilot known as the Grey Wolf, was killed in combat over Kyiv Friday night.

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RIP Colonel Oksanchenko

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C130 transports are the most valuable of all soon air America/Ukraine will be flying arms deep into the country near the fighting areas. They will fly at low level at night through safe corridors and land on highways and partisans or army units will be waiting. One plane load of an arms "package to a town will make a huge difference. This would include hundreds of assault rifles lot's of ammo, anti tank and AA missiles, plus other weapons and supplies. Soon the Ukrainians will be operating a dozen day and night delivering arms packages all over Ukraine, even in the east and south. There is a NATO transport loaded to the gills landing in neighboring NATO countries every hour and truck convoys going deep into Ukraine are facing little problem so far too.

This looks very bad for Vlad, when the Ukrainians we see bare handed are armed to the fucking teeth with old soviet weapons from NATO stores and they've got plenty, there will be a lot of dead Russians. These weapons can use captured Russian ammo and many older men are veterans who are familiar with these weapons, they are cheap too, the Russians even paid for them!

captainmorgan said:

Trump mused to donors that we should take our F-22 planes, "put the Chinese flag on them and bomb the shit out" out of Russia. "And then we say, China did it, we didn't do, China did it, and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch."

Jenius, the dear leader has ended the war if the world will only listen.

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Sounds like something DIY would say.

AntoMaria7 said:

Updated March 6, 3:34 p.m. Kyiv's largest children's hospital was hit by a rocket. It is a hospital for children with cancer, and now 150 children have remained in the hospital's shelter. Among them are children who lost their parents after they died in the 11 days of war.

I don’t understand how despicable and vile and ughhhh i don’t have words for this

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Russian forces are off the leash. Treating civilians as combatants, using bombs like terrorists and looting wherever they go. People talk about Russian international policy as 19th century. I'd describe this action as 5th century BC. Putin will have to close his borders after this. To keep people in.

Fogdog said:

Sounds like something DIY would say.

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I saw the other day the Russians were still using analog unencrypted radio communications and even amateur radio operators in Europe are fucking with them. Anybody with $40 SDR can listen in and plenty are, it's like an 1890's army up against one from 1920 in a conventional war sense. NATO communications are based on the work of the legendary Gordon Welchman digital encrypted and secure, among other things.

Vlad's army is a Potemkin village with some elite units IMHO.

The Vladimir Putin administration warned today that Ukraine's neighbors, especially Romania, would not allow Ukrainian military aircraft to be stationed or used in conflict with Russia. 00:18 Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said that states neighboring Ukraine, especially Romania, had allowed some Ukrainian fighter jets to be stationed. Igor Konashenkov referred to Romania and other states bordering Ukraine, but did not mention the latter, according to the Associated Press and the daily Le Monde.

pampam

AntoMaria7 said:

The Vladimir Putin administration warned today that Ukraine's neighbors, especially Romania, would not allow Ukrainian military aircraft to be stationed or used in conflict with Russia. 00:18 Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said that states neighboring Ukraine, especially Romania, had allowed some Ukrainian fighter jets to be stationed. Igor Konashenkov referred to Romania and other states bordering Ukraine, but did not mention the latter, according to the Associated Press and the daily Le Monde.

pampam

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Fuck Putin, he will be dead soon, so will we if we don’t stop him

DIY-HP-LED said:

I saw the other day the Russians were still using analog unencrypted radio communications and even amateur radio operators in Europe are fucking with them. Anybody with $40 SDR can listen in and plenty are, it's like an 1890's army up against one from 1920 in a conventional war sense. NATO communications are based on the work of the legendary Gordon Welchman digital encrypted and secure, among other things.

Vlad's army is a Potemkin village with some elite units IMHO.

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That’s the disinformation channel for the credulous

The mad midget won't stop at Ukraine, next up will be Moldova then Romania.

Kerowacked said:

Jets won’t help, Stingers etc are the proper defense, more economical, easy to conceal, easy to use.

Famed Ukrainian fighter pilot 'Grey Wolf' killed over Kyiv

Colonel Oleksandr Oksanchenko, a legendary Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker pilot known as the Grey Wolf, was killed in combat over Kyiv Friday night.

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RIP Colonel Oksanchenko

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Jets can be used to attack ground forces. Tie up the supply lines.

it’s starting to become like one black mirror episode putin psychosis edition

More than 4,300 detained in Russia during anti-war demonstrations
Authorities detained more than 4,300 people who participated in anti-war demonstrations across Russia, Reuters reported on Sunday.

An independent protest monitoring group said that 4,366 Russian residents from 56 different cities had been detained, according to the news service, which added that Russia’s interior ministry said about 3,500 protesters had been detained. The ministry reportedly added that more than 5,200 residents participated in the demonstrations.

"The screws are being fully tightened - essentially we are witnessing military censorship," Maria Kuznetsova, a spokeswoman for the monitoring group, told the news service.

"We are seeing rather big protests today, even in Siberian cities where we only rarely saw such numbers of arrests."

Multiple videos posted on social media showed thousands of demonstrators chanting "No to war!" and "Shame on you!" toward the Russian government.

Reuters noted that Russian authorities arrested a similar number of protesters in January, 2021 who demanded the release of Alexei Navalny. The opposition leader was arrested by Russian authorities upon arriving in the nation after he recovered from a nerve agent poisoning attempt.

zeddd said:

That’s the disinformation channel for the credulous

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They Russians put out fake frequencies, but others soon corrected it. I'm sure they have encrypted communications, just not much of it apparently.

AntoMaria7 said:

The Vladimir Putin administration warned today that Ukraine's neighbors, especially Romania, would not allow Ukrainian military aircraft to be stationed or used in conflict with Russia. 00:18 Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said that states neighboring Ukraine, especially Romania, had allowed some Ukrainian fighter jets to be stationed. Igor Konashenkov referred to Romania and other states bordering Ukraine, but did not mention the latter, according to the Associated Press and the daily Le Monde.

pampam

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Ha, that is great news.

Fuck Konashenkov. Good for Romania. Russia has bases in Belarus. Ukraine has bases in Romania. That means access to spare parts, trained mechanics, fuel, safe quarters for pilots, everything needed to keep Ukrainian jets in the air. There is nothing Russia can do about it. Soon, more jets will be winging their way from Poland.

AntoMaria7 said:

The Vladimir Putin administration warned today that Ukraine's neighbors, especially Romania, would not allow Ukrainian military aircraft to be stationed or used in conflict with Russia. 00:18 Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said that states neighboring Ukraine, especially Romania, had allowed some Ukrainian fighter jets to be stationed. Igor Konashenkov referred to Romania and other states bordering Ukraine, but did not mention the latter, according to the Associated Press and the daily Le Monde.

pampam

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Romania is a member of NATO, game over, he might as well threaten Germany or France.

AntoMaria7 said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1500553480548892679

it’s starting to become like one black mirror episode putin psychosis edition

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They have been working on this for some time. There had been talk that it would not be that effective but we will see. They want to have the same controls China has.

Republicans are using the upcoming government funding deadline to SUPPORT Putin by BLOCKING aid to Ukraine. The GOP is the party of Putin.

Desperate Russian Rear-Area Troops Are Armoring Their Vehicles With Wood Logs

Ukrainian roads have quickly become a killing ground for Russian convoys moving through hostile territory amid a reportedly worsening logistics situation. While losses of heavily armored tanks and armored personnel carriers to anti-tank weapons are piling up, far less fortified vehicles are vulnerable even to small arms fire. Losses of light and unarmored vehicles trying to ferry men and materiel to advancing Russian forces are also increasing. As a result, Russian drivers have gotten creative in fortifying their trucks for the deadly roads leading ever deeper into Ukraine.

Images of Russian KAMAZ trucks appeared Saturday showing logs stacked on the front bumper as additional improvised armor. Crews even managed to retain their distinctive “V” markings seen on Russian vehicles in the sector. Other vehicles use wood boards and junk metal to protect their most vulnerable frontal areas.

The three vehicles look to be carrying PMP pontoon bridge elements, a valuable logistics asset and one of the Ukrainian forces’ preferred targets alongside fuel trucks. A PMP bridge was likely set up over the Pripyat River in the Belarusian side of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the final days leading up to the war.

The logs themselves appear cut from trees right behind the vehicles and are likely intended to protect the trucks’ radiators from small arms fire. The last thing any Russian vehicle crew wants is to survive an ambush only for the truck to overheat and break down nearby.

This is far from the first instance of Russian troops trying to improve their vehicles’ armor for their invasion of Ukraine. At least one captured T-72 tank had sandbags on its turret in a vain attempt to augment its explosive reactive armor blocks. Russian units have also carried logs onboard as a means to help vehicles escape the suffocating mud long feared by observers as a threat to the Russian military's off-road operations. This is in addition to the cage-like improvised armor that began appearing on Russian tanks before the invasion in an attempt to counter-drone and anti-tank guided-missile attacks.