Russia Ukraine Update Thread - part 3

IT Army stops operation of one of Russia's largest ERP systems

"One of the largest ERP systems in the Russian Federation has stopped working due to attacks by the Ukrainian IT Army. The clients cannot use accounting services and work at full capacity," Fedorov said.

It is noted that 1C-Rarus has 150,000 users, including technology giants and war sponsors such as Tatneft and VTB. As a result, customers in shops and petrol stations cannot make payments because the cash register is not working. And this means millions of losses for the Russian economy.

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It seems that Ukraine has some nerdy soldiers as well, attacking by hacking.

Putin unleashes one of biggest missile attacks on Ukraine for a year

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian ‘terrorists’ had ‘used nearly every type of weapon in its arsenal’ and accused them of hitting a maternity hospital, school and residential buildings in the barrage.

He added: ‘A total of around 110 missiles were fired against Ukraine, with the majority of them being shot down. Unfortunately, there have been fatalities and injuries as a result of the strikes.

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While everyone is focused on "terrorist attacks" in the middle east, the same appears to be going on in Ukraine by Russia. I guess it's not good politics to cover this in the MSM.


Poland records airspace violation during night attack on Ukraine

"In the morning hours, an unidentified aerial object entered the airspace of the Republic of Poland from the Ukrainian border. From the moment of crossing the border until the signal disappeared, it was observed by the country's air defense radar systems," the press service writes.

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Apparently, Polish airspace was violated at the same time.

Careless? Or trying to test NATO's resolve?

It appears that Russia is running low on soldiers. They are now planning to recruit 16-year-olds and old men.

Russian forces plan to put 16-year-old boys on military record in Luhansk region

Over three months, the occupiers in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPP) intend to enlist 16-year-old boys for military registration, reports the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Artem Lysogor.

The respective commissions will start operating in the occupied territory of the Luhansk region from January 10, 2024.

Additionally, they are pulling in recruits from other countries, promising great benefits while their own soldiers have been complaining about not being paid.

Russians recruiting foreigners for war against Ukraine

Russia has also been involved in recruiting citizens of Cuba for the war in Ukraine, promising them high salaries, bonuses, and vacations.

Recently, it became known that Russian intermediaries are recruiting and selling Nepalese citizens to serve in the Russian army and participate in combat operations against Ukraine.

a reply to: Bishop2199

it gets worse russians have been recruiting people from countries by lying to them. Cuba recently arrested a ring of people shipping Cubans to the front in Ukraine. They claim its for work doing reconstruction then you magically end up fighting in Ukraine. Senegal also put a stop to the human trafficking. Same thing they lie and ship them to front.

Now these troops can't be effective in any way they get no training and are simply being used as meat puppets.

www.cnn.com...

originally posted by: Bishop2199
Apparently, Polish airspace was violated at the same time.

Careless? Or trying to test NATO's resolve?

Maybe trying to avoid Ukraine's air defenses with fancy missile trajectories, like U-turns for example. Ukraine would be expecting most Russian missiles to come from the east, not from the west. They used to come from the south too, before Ukraine sunk 20% of Russia's navy, but Russia kept moving their remaining missile launching ships so far from Ukraine that I don't think they are as useful in missile attacks on Ukraine any more.

It wasn't just that missile in Poland airspace that had a fancy trajectory, other missiles did too.

But I don't know what if anything NATO is going to do about the intrusion into Poland's airspace.

Nothing says winning like sending the special needs to the trenches.

a reply to: stosh64
I don't know how someone with Downs ends up on the front line.
But I'm sure the soldier with the camera didn't recruit him, and his morale seems high, which is more than I can say about the morale of Russian soldiers that seems very low.

Contrast that with the viral video by the Russian soldier who is obviously very very angry, and suffering from war fatigue, who unloads about the unfairness of his being stuck in a cold, mice-infested trench for a year and a half, while socialites in Moscow are having parties and bragging about their expensive jewelry that costs more than he will ever make in a lifetime. He also gripes about how the prisoners recruited only have to fight for 6 months then they are freed from both prison and the war. I can understand his point, he's just an ordinary mobilized soldier and they didn't let him stop after 6 months, so it sounds like he thinks he's getting worse treatment than the prisoner. He's very angry, asking when is this effing war going to stop?

RUSSIA - Putin Rages After Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine Complain About Moscow Socialite Party


I hate to tell him it will probably be at least another 5 years of war unless enough people as angry as him get behind the next dissident like Prigozhin to overthrow the current regime. This blew up and Putin had his cronies reprimand the socialites who had the parties, but the anger and war fatigue was already there, just waiting for any catalyst to bring it to the surface. If it wasn't the parties it would have been something else. As a consequence though, it looks like Putin will be further restricting the freedoms of Russians, and it already sucks to live in Russia when their economy is poor and most of the economy they do have now is focused on the war, like spending over a billion dollars on that big missile attack, which money could have benefitted the Russian people in much better ways than wasting it on missiles in a pointless and unwarranted aggression.

Russia is certainly in no position to criticize Ukraine's recruiting methods, when Russia routinely recruits worse, such as criminals who've done terrible crimes like rape, murder, and even worse, calling the war a war instead of a "special military operation". This post covers some other questionable Russian recruiting methods.

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Ukraine Now Staging Drone Attacks inside the Russian Federation Targeting Civilian Non Combatants . Let see you " Spin " that Comrade ! ................

a reply to: Zanti Misfit

It is not Ukraine it is NATO as Ukraine hasn't got a pot to p&^%% in. Baiting the Bear can only work so long before it bites you in the assets.

originally posted by: annonentity
a reply to: Zanti Misfit

It is not Ukraine it is NATO as Ukraine hasn't got a pot to p&^%% in. Baiting the Bear can only work so long before it bites you in the assets.

Seems NATO has Yet to Learn that Lesson but me Thinks it's Coming Soon...........

a reply to: Zanti Misfit

Seems NATO has Yet to Learn that Lesson but me Thinks it's Coming Soon...........

I may have misread or misunderstood your post but are you trying to infer that Russia could or even might take on NATO in direct combat.....and win?

Ukraine Now Staging Drone Attacks inside the Russian Federation Targeting Civilian Non Combatants ......

Err.....Russia has been doing just that for at least nearly two years now, why the faux outrage now?

a reply to: Freeborn

" I may have misread or misunderstood your post but are you trying to infer that Russia could or even might take on NATO in direct combat.....and win? "



Why would NATO even Think that ? Are they trying to Instigate a War with the Russian Federation ?

a reply to: Zanti Misfit

I have no idea what NATO do or do not think, I was just asking what you meant in your previous post.
I may have misunderstood you, nothing wrong with asking for some clarity, is there?

World could implement five measures after 2 new large-scale Russian attacks on Ukraine – Ukraine's Foreign Minister

・Russia launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine on the morning of 2 January. Missile debris has crashed in the Pecherskyi, Obolonskyi, Holosiivskyi and Sviatoshynskyi districts of the city of Kyiv. There were also hits in Kharkiv.

・Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reported that the Russians had launched 99 missiles of various types at Ukraine on the night of 1-2 January 2024, 72 of which were destroyed.

・Bridget Brink, US Ambassador to Ukraine, said it was "urgent and critical" to support Ukraine now in order to stop Putin amid a new Russian large-scale attack on the morning of Tuesday, 2 January.

・Poland scrambled its F-16 fighter jets due to a new Russian large-scale attack on 2 January.

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Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, is calling for world action against "terrorist" Russia in response to this latest attack on civilian targets.

Alas, war is messy.

2 January Update

Ukrainian military officials stated that overnight on December 31 to January 1 Russian forces launched 90 Shahed-136/131 drones from Cape Chauda and Balaklava (occupied Crimea); Kursk Oblast; and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai and that Ukrainian forces shot down 87 of the drones.

The Norwegian government announced on January 1 that it is permitting Norwegian defense companies to sell weapons and defense-related products directly to the Ukrainian government.

The Turkish government announced on January 2 that it will not allow the United Kingdom (UK) to transport two mine hunting ships to Ukraine via the Turkish Straits “as long as the war continues.”

Russian forces made marginal confirmed advances along the Svatove-Kreminna line, northwest and southwest of Bakhmut, northwest of Avdiivka, and southwest of Donetsk City.

More at URL above.

Cheers

a reply to: F2d5thCavv2

Thanks for the much needed update.

Hope you enjoyed your jollies.

a reply to: F2d5thCavv2

The Turkish government announced on January 2 that it will not allow the United Kingdom (UK) to transport two mine hunting ships to Ukraine via the Turkish Straits “as long as the war continues.”

We should tell Erdogan to go # himself, try and stop us.

a reply to: Freeborn

I'm well Mate and hope the same holds for you!

Cheers

3 January Update

Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner of war (POW) exchange on January 3 in what was the largest POW exchange of the war to date and the first official POW exchange since August 2023.

Russian forces made confirmed advances near Avdiivka and Donetsk City as positional engagements continued along the entire line of contact.

More at URL above.

Cheers

Ukraine's F-16 Program Receives New Boost

Norwegian Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram announced on Wednesday that Norway is sending two of the U.S.-made jets to help train Ukrainian pilots in Denmark, according to Reuters. Norway and its European NATO allies Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark have all agreed to collectively provide Ukraine with dozens of F-16s.

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The article also mentions that F-16's are no longer cutting edge technology, but, with the amount of issues that Russia has been having with their SU-34's, that seems irrelevant.