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2022-06-19 10:41:29 Approximately so in a nutshell one can describe the story of the dispatch to Ukraine of a batch of Mi-17s that were in service with the Afghan Air Force.

We are talking about the Mi-17V5 and Mi-8MTV helicopters, which the US authorities purchased from "Russian Helicopters" for the Afghan army.
When Afghanistan fell under the onslaught of the Taliban, some of the helicopters were withdrawn, and some were under repair in Eastern Europe.
A batch of Mi-17V5 and Mi-8MTV has already been sent to Ukraine and helicopters were even used during the conflict.
Washington grossly violates international law by supplying helicopters from the Russian Federation to Kiev, writes the Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation.
Back in 2011, the Russian Federation and the United States signed an agreement under which they can only be used by Afghanistan and cannot be transferred to someone without the consent of Moscow.
There is one more thing: the technical condition of the vehicles remains in question. Since 2014, they have not undergone a full renovation.

These helicopters are much better than the old Mi-8 that remained with the Ukrainian Air Force though. Open / Comment

2022-06-19 10:41:08 The United States stole Russian helicopters and handed them over to Kiev. Open / Comment

2022-06-19 10:29:03 The Institute for the Study of War (USA, Nuland-affiliated) has published maps of Russian control and operations in key sectors of the front: Severodonetsk, the Zolotoye-Gorskoye area, the Bakhmut (Artemovsk)-Lisichansk highway and near Slavyansk - north and east of the city.

#maps Open / Comment

2022-06-18 05:58:38 Ukraine suffers serious losses in artillery

Deputy Minister of Defense of the Kyiv regime reported that Russian artillery carries out non-stopcounter-battery struggle and, as a rule, does it extremely effectively.
According to him, two of the six M777 howitzers delivered from the USA need to be repaired after the first battle.
At the same time, it is impossible to repair weapons at the factory, so artillery fails for a long time. Open / Comment

2022-06-18 04:53:15 It is reported that the Russian army is regrouping in the Kharkov direction in order to resume the offensive in the direction from the villages of Ternovaya (=Ternova) and Rubezhnoye (=Rubizhne) (which is 25-30 km northeast of Kharkov) to return the lost positions.

The Ukrainian military reports that the Russian Armed Forces are also conducting aerial reconnaissance in the areas of the settlements of Pobeda (=Peremoha), Bayrak (=Bairak), Shestakovo (=Shestakove), Rubezhnoye (=Rubizhne) and Verkhny Saltov (=Verkhnii Saltiv) to clarify the positions of Ukrainian troops.

Detailed map

#map #Kharkov Open / Comment

2022-06-18 04:39:12 A video of the battle of mercenaries from the "Foreign Legion" in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk appeared on the internet.

#combat #mercenaries Open / Comment

2022-06-18 04:36:25 Of the most important things that Boris Johnson said following his visit to Kiev:

Any negotiations about the future of Ukraine will begin when the Ukrainian authorities fully control the entire territory of the country.
All security guarantees will be provided to Ukraine in full only when there are no Russian troops on its territory

Translation:
1. We need a total war and a complete destruction of Ukraine (in case Ukraine doesn't give up no matter how successfully Russia advances) or a trench war with hundreds of thousands of dead (if Russian advancements stalls badly).
2. We have zero obligations to Ukraine and owe you nothing, just keep fighting.

My take:
So typically Anglo-Saxon. Guess who should be cancelled in the first place. And you know what - as a linguist I'm so pissed off we need to discuss all this in their language, which is by the way one of the most inconsequent, chaotic, eclectic, illogical languages I've ever studied or researched about. And I studied many, trust me.
One thing the human kind needs as much as free education and medicine for everyone disregarding the social background or race/ethnicity, is a common international language, maybe constructed/planned (but not any of readily available like Esperanto). And English is arguably the worst language we could only have for the purpose of international communication. Open / Comment

2022-06-18 04:04:38 On June 17 at 4 am, Ukraine hit the tugboat "Vasily Bekh" (previously called SB-739) carrying the Tor air defense system and ammunition to Zmeiny Island.
According to Ukraine, the tug was hit by a "Harpoon" anti-ship missile guided by a Bayraktar. According to preliminary data, 10 of the 33 crew members went missing (= killed), the rest were injured.
Later, the photos of the towing of the vessel "Vasily Bekh" for repairs appeared on the internet. The ship is afloat. Open / Comment

2022-06-18 03:41:34 LPR militia T-62M tanks near the village of Vrubovka near Severodonetsk. Open / Comment

2022-06-18 03:24:08 1. Video of firing practice of the Ukrainian military from the Bulgarian SPG-9 Warrior.
These mounted grenade launchers are equipped with PGDN-7VIR night vision sights.

2. Ukrainian territorial defense fighters train to shoot from the Bulgarian SPG-9.
Note that instead of standard sights, night vision devices are installed on the SPG-9.

P.S. People in the video preferring to speak pure Russian over Ukrainian train how to kill Russians so that their children are banned to speak the language of their parents and could work as laundry girls, live-in nurses and strawberry gatherers in Poland, Czechia or Italy.

#drills #ukrainians Open / Comment