Biggest News:
https://southfront.press/ukrainian-court-recognized-zelenskys-decree-on-mobilization-as-non-binding/
And here's the official ruling: https://youcontrol.com.ua/en/catalog/court-document/112988151/
This illustrates how cucked Germany is as they aid the very country they say is responsible for what would otherwise be a declaration of War via NATO Article 5:
https://www.spiegel.de/international/investigating-the-attack-on-nord-stream-all-the-clues-point-toward-kyiv-a-124838c7-992a-4d0e-9894-942d4a665778
Pringles, the troll of legends lives!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12456817/Prigozhin-alive-plotting-revenge-Putin.html
Whoopsie:
It's Against The Law To Speak Of Casualty Numbers In Ukraine, Not Kidding
Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar earlier released a statement warning that those who release casualty numbers would be liable to criminal prosecution.
"Why is this data secret?" she asked rhetorically. "Because during the active phase of the war, the enemy uses the number of dead and wounded to calculate our likely further actions… If the enemy has this information, they will begin to understand some of our next steps."
From today's BBC article where they claim 70k:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66581217
TTLU:
Lithuania Joins DoomFrenz:
The Doominghard:
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2059588/corruption-and-wild-mobilisation-ukraine-vows-to-shake-up-military-enlistment-system
The MSM keeps on dooming:
The Russians have advanced to within a few miles of the city, and on Friday the top Ukrainian general in the East called publicly for more reinforcements to hold them back.
“The Russians seem to be making some progress” around Kupiansk, Ukraine’s defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, acknowledged during a news conference on Monday.
Ukrainian officials have been saying for months that civilians needed to leave the area and in early August, they declared a mandatory evacuation for 11,000 people remaining near the front lines in the Kupiansk district.
But most of those residents appear to have defied the order. Only some 1,400 people, including 343 children, have left, according to Oleh Syniehubov, the head of the regional military administration.
Since June, Ukraine has been on the offensive, trying to drive a wedge southward into Russian-occupied territory, splitting and severing Moscow’s supply lines. One Ukrainian thrust is aimed at the city of Melitopol and another at the city of Berdiansk, both in the Zaporizhzhia region, but each has advanced only a few miles in the face of elaborate Russian defenses.
At the same time, the Ukrainians have made some gains to the west of those battles, in the Kherson region, and to the northeast, around Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, which the Russians have fully held since May.
Still haven't breached the first line of defense, which it took them 3 months to reach and the Russians advanced more in the last 6 weeks in Kupyansk, meanwhile the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians are seemingly waiting for Russians to come as they refuse to evacuate and despite the UkRetards attacking around Bakhmut for almost 4 months straight they haven't taken even one settlement.
The cringe level retardation of Ukretards:
"They can choke on our tears. Let them see how much we cry, and this will be their punishment."
Soon Retards in 50 year old planes will burn, but that is if they can reach the Russians:
“The idea of F-16s flying over the front lines and breaking the stalemate is just not viable - it’s just too dangerous,” said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Russian air defenses are very formidable.”
As effective as it is, the F-16 demands much more maintenance than the average Soviet-era fighter, and that would be as challenging for the Ukrainians as flying the platform.
Cancian told CNN that F-16s need 16 hours of maintenance per flight hour. At a cost of nearly $27,000 per flight hour, it is also expensive to fly.
“There are tens of thousands of parts on an F-16,” Cancian said, “and that pipeline has to go into Ukraine, so when the plane lands and you taxi it into the hangar and you have to go fix something, the part is on hand.”
A report by the US General Accounting Office last year ranked the F-16 as one of the most difficult US Air Force planes to maintain: it had not met its mission goals in any of the previous 10 years.
US officials have been cautious about both the impact that the F-16s will have in Ukraine and the scale of training involved.
Gen. James B. Hecker, commander of US Air Forces Europe, says that the plane won’t be in Ukraine until next year. But he told a media call this month that “it’s not going to be the silver bullet, [that] all of a sudden they’re going to start taking down SA-21s [Russian surface-to-air missiles] because they have an F-16.”
Hecker said real proficiency on sufficient numbers of the aircraft “could be four or five years down the road.”
US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall echoed that assessment, saying the F-16 “will give Ukrainians an increment of capabilities that they don’t have right now. But it’s not going to be a dramatic game-changer.”
If the Russians enjoy some success [blowing them up], said Cancian, the Ukrainians and their allies would see a bad narrative unfold.
“People recognize that you lose equipment, but if you lose it very quickly, very visibly, then people get discouraged,” said Cancian.
The last publicly acknowledged loss of an F-16 in combat was an Israeli plane downed by Syrian air defenses (provided by Russia) [S200, lololol!] in February 2018.
Ukrainian pilots, flying an unfamiliar aircraft in more heavily defended airspace, will face a much greater threat from more advanced Russian air defenses, including the S-400, Russia’s newest and most capable surface-to-air missile system.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/europe/ukraine-f-16-fighter-jets-intl/index.html
What they don't talk about is how long it takes to train Ukrainians to be able to carry out the exhausting 16 hours maintenance for that 1 hour of flight time, let alone the repair which is even more intensive and specialized and requires special tools much like the regular maintenance.
Then there's this:
It's Ovyr: Ukraine May Be Winning, WSJ Dooms, Russia Sanctions Working, Not
Dreizin Dump, 1 Million Dead Sim Cards, Strategic Culture Article And More: Truth Bombs Via MoA
I Told You It Was Ovyr: Time Dooms Hard on Kivv
It's Ovyr: Post Ukraine’s Failed Main Thrust
Kivv Is Screwed: Fall Of The Dictatorship
Humiliating Failure: 6 Weeks Of Trying To Reach The Russians' First Defensive Line
The Begining Of The Ovyr, Is Ovyr
Russians Have Only 50 Lancets Left!
They Need More Money, You Pleab!
Doomed: Kivv Independent Investigation Spells End Of Kivv Regime
Clowns Of Kivv Pause The Counter-Offensive That Hasn't Started, Again
FAIL: Repeat Of The Massive Catastrophic Failure By The AFU In Early June Just Happened Again!
Head Of AFU Claims The Success Of Their Current Counteroffensive "Is Not Feasible At All"
West Signalling End Of The Gravy Train For Kivv
Is This True?! Proob Pause, Oryx Cope Quits, Zaluzhny Demoted/Fake, Kupyansk Offensive?