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As you may know, yesterday, Ukraine hit Russians NIP-16 Deep Space Communications complex which sent Russians comms into a meltdown.NIP-16 was designed to communicate with spacecraft beyond the Earth orbit. The facility became operational in 1958, even as late at 2014 the site…

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    For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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#81602
1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

Ukrainian somehow not taken out by the grenade gets 3 Russians with his grenade

Video of the soldier describing the situation cannot be embedded for some reason:

https://x.com/albafella1/status/1804879630672765203?t=guzgf5SsU26x9nQ2ZdW2Qg&s=19  

he says that at first a grenade landed directly under his butt, fragments entered his buttocks. but he got up and threw his grenade at them. the belt of the machine gun caught on the bolt, he untangled it and finished off the russian scum

 

Subtle headshot at the end as he's passing through. 

#81603
Radio-electronic defense industry enterprise on fire in the town of Fryazino near Moscow, Russian media sayDense black smoke is rising from the main building of the Platan Research Institute. It is reported that people may be blocked inside.There is no information about the…

 

There was an explosion in the burning building in FryazinoRoselectronics said that the building burning in Fryazino has nothing to do with the Platan Research Institute, it was transferred to private ownership back in the 1990s.The area of the fire in the building on the…
#81604
Akhmetov's Steel Front donated CB90 assault ships to Ukraine's GUR. These high-speed, maneuverable vessels, praised by American experts as "monstrously powerful," took about six months to deliver. GUR servicemen mentioned the word "Crimea" during the handover, hinting at their…

 

Russian serviceman and blogger Guzenko ("13th") shares a video from a “pigsty” in which wounded and untreated Russian military personnel are kept, from whom “disabled” regiments are formed. However, Guzenko himself describes what is happening in vivid colors - just read his…

 

#81605
Footage of the Russian Russian NIP-16 space tracking and communication center burning overnight after a successful Ukrainian MGM-140 ATACMS attack.
#81606
"The architect of Ukraine’s groundbreaking naval drone program said that the attack marked a first in warfare: The Russian ship had been disabled by a mine laid by a Ukrainian unmanned craft that had hauled it some 250 miles before returning to port." https://t.co/iU4NxEjJ3l

 

"German investigators said the cause was likely an accident. But Western security officials now say the fire was set by Russian saboteurs trying disrupt shipments of critical arms and ammunition to Ukraine." https://t.co/CoDboYEmwc

 

#81607

https://www.threads.net/@nickmelnick.osint/post/C8maG6LowjT/?xmt=AQGzDEerzb33Fc88FSBA-UQYFEjsaVy0JqmEStGdhk5A_Q

[emoji1255]A single Ukrainian FPV pilot unit eliminated 180 [emoji635]Russian occupiers in the spring/summer of 2024.

The enemy continues to suffer catastrophic losses.

🫡Third Assault Brigade

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8mWfV6tNrm/?xmt=AQGzs4eZ4uHRYH0HPX-h-ySwZedSL8qCFIGru6giW1tcBg

[emoji298]EU blocks access to 4 Russian media outlets.

The EU Council approved a ban on June 24 on access within the bloc to four key Russian state-run or controlled media outlets. The measure will go into effect the following day.

#81608

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8mfG2xt5Zg/?xmt=AQGzZrNX0mafwahILC1UZNg01YRTQSiP3jCCn5j0LhtgJQ

[emoji298]️Ukraine to receive profits from Russia's frozen assets in 2 tranches starting next week, Borrell says.

"We have a process in order to make this work quickly. The first tranche of money will come next week, in July. The second will come some months later," Josep Borrell said during the press briefing in Luxembourg.

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8mDM3etF7F/?xmt=AQGzjkio8Cy5iivAghDi9IaxEEIJUdRBZZjBXiw_Z97SDA

[emoji298]Russian subsidiary of Bank of China stops accepting payments from Russian banks, sources say.

The Russian subsidiary of the Chinese state-run Bank of China has stopped accepting payments from Russian banks, the state-controlled media outlet Kommersant reported on June 24, citing unnamed sources.

#81609
1 hour ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:
As you may know, yesterday, Ukraine hit Russians NIP-16 Deep Space Communications complex which sent Russians comms into a meltdown.NIP-16 was designed to communicate with spacecraft beyond the Earth orbit. The facility became operational in 1958, even as late at 2014 the site…

How far intro Russia is (was lol) that site?  

#81612

 

Plot twist

 

> says that russia will not exist, if Putin loses the war> supplies a shitload of weapons to Ukraine Interesting

 Money talks:

Serbia has sharply increased its military production, and its defense enterprises have switched to working in three shifts to produce weapons that go to Ukraine, sources familiar with the situation in Belgrade told Kommersant.

According to them, this happened two years ago, immediately after the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian army in Ukraine. During this time, Kiev received 800 million euros worth of weapons from Belgrade, but not directly, but through intermediaries, the Financial Times found out .

“Yes, we export our weapons. We cannot export to Ukraine or Russia, but we have many contracts with Americans, Spaniards, Czechs and others. What they do with it in the end is their business,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told the newspaper. According to him, even if he knew for sure who the Serbian weapons ultimately ended up with, it “wouldn’t concern him.”

He noted that Belgrade today has a “golden opportunity, since its weapons are cheaper than Western ones” and Serbian arms exports could grow even more.

Before this, the Reuters agency wrote about the supply of Serbian weapons to Ukraine , which published a secret Pentagon document entitled “Europe: a response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” It followed that Serbia, although it refused to train the Ukrainian military, agreed to supply weapons to Ukraine or “has already supplied them.”

The then-current Minister of Defense of the country, Milos Vucevic, responded to this by saying that “Serbia has not sold and will not sell weapons to either the Ukrainian or Russian sides.” “Someone obviously wants to destabilize our country and drag it into a conflict in which we will not participate,” he said.

As Kommersant’s sources explained, the Serbian authorities in this situation “are primarily afraid of a harshly negative reaction from Moscow,” which previously expressed concern about arms supplies to Ukraine.

“If the Serbs knew that weapons were coming to Ukraine even through third countries, this cannot be regarded as a friendly step,” said Vladimir Dzhabarov, head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs.

Moreover, after the start of the war, the Serbian authorities repeatedly declared support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine and voted at the UN for several resolutions “condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine.” However, Belgrade has not yet joined the US and EU sanctions against Russia.

#81615
23 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
BREAKING:Islamist terror attack in Dagestan, Russia against a synagogue and a church.At least 5 police officers k*lled and 1 priest beheaded.The bearded terrorists are all dressed in black and are shouting “Allahu Akbar”


 

 

6 hours ago, Bevo said:

 

 

I would much prefer they turn their anger towards the Russian government as opposed to churches and synagogues.

In Russia, there is no separation of church and state.  The Russian Orthodox Church is explicitly and emphatically an organ of the Russian government.  And its "priests" are government agents who are frequently directly employed by the FSB.  So they not only disseminate government propaganda, they also inform on their parishioners (and, in an area like Dagestan, probably on other members of the community).

So don't think of a Russian Orthodox priest as akin to a Catholic priest in Austin.  He's much more analogous to an imam in Saudi Arabia.

#81616
1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

 

Plot twist

 

> says that russia will not exist, if Putin loses the war> supplies a shitload of weapons to Ukraine Interesting

 Money talks:

Serbia has sharply increased its military production, and its defense enterprises have switched to working in three shifts to produce weapons that go to Ukraine, sources familiar with the situation in Belgrade told Kommersant.

According to them, this happened two years ago, immediately after the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian army in Ukraine. During this time, Kiev received 800 million euros worth of weapons from Belgrade, but not directly, but through intermediaries, the Financial Times found out .

“Yes, we export our weapons. We cannot export to Ukraine or Russia, but we have many contracts with Americans, Spaniards, Czechs and others. What they do with it in the end is their business,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told the newspaper. According to him, even if he knew for sure who the Serbian weapons ultimately ended up with, it “wouldn’t concern him.”

He noted that Belgrade today has a “golden opportunity, since its weapons are cheaper than Western ones” and Serbian arms exports could grow even more.

Before this, the Reuters agency wrote about the supply of Serbian weapons to Ukraine , which published a secret Pentagon document entitled “Europe: a response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” It followed that Serbia, although it refused to train the Ukrainian military, agreed to supply weapons to Ukraine or “has already supplied them.”

The then-current Minister of Defense of the country, Milos Vucevic, responded to this by saying that “Serbia has not sold and will not sell weapons to either the Ukrainian or Russian sides.” “Someone obviously wants to destabilize our country and drag it into a conflict in which we will not participate,” he said.

As Kommersant’s sources explained, the Serbian authorities in this situation “are primarily afraid of a harshly negative reaction from Moscow,” which previously expressed concern about arms supplies to Ukraine.

“If the Serbs knew that weapons were coming to Ukraine even through third countries, this cannot be regarded as a friendly step,” said Vladimir Dzhabarov, head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs.

Moreover, after the start of the war, the Serbian authorities repeatedly declared support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine and voted at the UN for several resolutions “condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine.” However, Belgrade has not yet joined the US and EU sanctions against Russia.

TLDR; to the Russians, "you got Serbed."

#81617

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8l29ontkht/?xmt=AQGzCg0QRsERG0Sixy3JGbULAuvL7jY0CtWVtb7S7eLTYg

[emoji298]EU Council announces 14th round of sanctions against Russia.

The EU Council announced on June 24 that it had adopted the 14th round of sanctions against Russia, aimed at tackling the circumvention of existing measures and to further restrict profits from Russia's energy industry.

https://www.threads.net/@ghostoflviv_/post/C8mtoijpM1-/?xmt=AQGzkwehj7WM-Nr8QsJ-mKK7Qwtqu6MF5E3l6NYVJ9ZI2A

NII Platan near Moscow is on fire. The building is one of Russia’s main defence electronics producers.

In this building, components are made for fighter jets, nuclear munitions, S-400 air defence system, and various other guided munitions.

#81618
2 hours ago, Bevo said:

 

So, not in Russia.

Nerp.

Be a whole lot cooler if it was.

Still pretty cool though.

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#81619

https://www.threads.net/@ghostoflviv_/post/C8mv-rNppvN/?xmt=AQGzECEqGCFlcYNh2AHxlipS5cyZfl_J_jfQ7mfc16fpWQ

Successful Ukrainian HIMARS strike on Russian Special Forces from Vologda

Reports that atleast 18 were killed, including the Commander of the 16th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade.

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8m1hIFta6w/?xmt=AQGzdwva4nR5mOVIOD4Qey4Dwds-O_gHq2AFZ92_2JlTeg

[emoji298]️Work on 15th sanctions package against Russia to 'start immediately,' Finnish FM says.

The EU Council adopted the 14th round of sanctions against Russia on June 24, aimed at tackling the circumvention of existing measures and further restricting profits from Russia's energy industry.

#81620
#81621

So we have a large increase in attacks by Ukraine on a lot of strategic targets (not just the dishes), and at the same time we see a large increase in other countries providing munitions.  We also see the EU working to get a huge amount of Russian money into a Ukrainian hands quickly, and the US is loosening restrictions on weapons use inside of Russia.

I know many think that all correlates with our elections in November, but those thing things above appear to be coming on the heels of another large Russian conscription effort earlier this year and the current Russian offensive (based around that conscription effort) that appears to be fizzling out. We are seeing a big uptick in videos of individuals and groups of Russians being killed, Russian vehicles being destroyed, Russians resorting to non-military vehicles again for supply runs, etc. etc.

And we’ve seen a shitload of anti-air being taken out in the last 30 days.

I’ve gotten my hopes up before, so I’m ready to be disappointed again, but it feels like the Russians have just about hit their culminating point with this latest offensive, and the F-16s haven’t even entered the arena.

 

#81622
6 hours ago, MillerEP said:

including the Commander of the 16th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade.

 

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#81624

The EU remains very pro Ukraine- just elected probably the most staunch supporter of Ukraine to the to foreign affairs position- much to Putin's dismay. 

⚡️ The EU leaders have agreed to nominate Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas to fill the post of head of Eurodiplomacy held by Borrell, DPA reported.They also agreed to nominate Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as President of the EU Commission.
Juicy. On June 21, 2024, a strike was carried out on the 726th Air Defense Training Center in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, by two cruise missiles, likely R-360 "Neptune." The center, which trains personnel to use various UAVs, suffered significant damage. The strike killed…

 

Juicy. 

On June 21, 2024, a strike was carried out on the 726th Air Defense Training Center in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, by two cruise missiles, likely R-360 "Neptune." The center, which trains personnel to use various UAVs, suffered significant damage. The strike killed instructors and technical personnel from Yelabuga, destroyed ~20 Shahed-136 attack UAVs, ~50 Lancet attack UAVs, and ~40 ZALA reconnaissance UAVs. There is no reported information about military personnel casualties. 

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#81626

I believe this is the consensus on the cause of the civilian deaths in Crimea. Russia is of course feigning shock and horror after they (intentionally) hit a large residential building in Ukraine a couple days ago.

Russian air defense reportedly shot down an ATACMS cluster munitions variant in occupied Sevastopol 2 days ago. The amount of submunitions hitting the water/beach and how they are dispersed (wider than usual) seems to confirm the missile was downed.

This beach is only 5km away from Belbek Military Airbase, actively used by Russia. Russian authorities reported that 4 people were killed and 153 injured although that cannot be concluded from this footage.

Russian air defense reportedly shot down an ATACMS cluster munitions variant in occupied Sevastopol 2 days ago. The amount of submunitions hitting the water/beach and how they are dispersed (wider than usual) seems to confirm the missile was downed.This beach is only 5km away…
Footage from CCTV cameras on the beach in Sevastopol, shot on June 23, has appeared.Four people died then, about 150 were injured.

 

 

 

#81627

https://www.threads.net/@kyivpost.official/post/C8oxVuYofLN/?xmt=AQGzzSmIJ348GcQMUB3eAZHASydl1rW0xOhpx5evXpzTJw

[emoji298]️BREAKING: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov.

They are suspected of war crimes, including attacks on civilian and energy facilities, as well as crimes against humanity, committed between October 10, 2022, and March 9, 2023.

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8o5kHZtBq4/?xmt=AQGzxlaZxtizKT6Xi2e9_l30i5oB2QetCR6BhEaxXffNcw

[emoji298]European Court of Human Rights finds Russia guilty of violating human rights in occupied Crimea.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Russia guilty on June 25 of committing a "pattern or system of violations" of human rights in occupied Crimea since the peninsula was illegally annexed in 2014.

 

Edited by MillerEP

#81628
Tonight drones targeted a Russian ammunition storage in Olkhovatka, Voronezh region of Russia. 100km from the frontline.Two drones attacked the territory of the ammunition storage at approximately 2:30 a.m. and the detonation is reportedly still ongoing.…

 

Entrance to the city has been blocked. A state of emergency in the area has been declared by the governor due to 'explosive objects'. https://t.co/WDalBmBjwk

 

#81629

With all these hits on Russian air defense can we presume the UKA thinks they can make the skies safe for their new kickass American F16’s?

#81630
8 minutes ago, Parliament said:

With all these hits on Russian air defense can we presume the UKA thinks they can make the skies safe for their new kickass American F16’s?

Maybe not entirely, but safer than before. 

#81632
15 minutes ago, Parliament said:

ETA

And with that they can just make it RAIN bombs and Storm Shadows and air to ground missiles?

I think that's our fondest hope.

Sidenote, seeing all this shit blowing up on the Russian side of the border just warms the cockles of my heart. As I've said before, 2 years too late, but damn it feels good. 

I can't wait until major rail junctions are getting destroyed, fixed, destroyed again.  

And I haven't forgotten that the Ukrainians have said the Kerch bridge is going away this year.  Seems like a lot of groundwork is being laid for that. 

#81633
38 minutes ago, Parliament said:

With all these hits on Russian air defense can we presume the UKA thinks they can make the skies safe for their new kickass American F16’s?

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#81634
1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

I believe this is the consensus on the cause of the civilian deaths in Crimea. Russia is of course feigning shock and horror after they (intentionally) hit a large residential building in Ukraine a couple days ago.

Russian air defense reportedly shot down an ATACMS cluster munitions variant in occupied Sevastopol 2 days ago. The amount of submunitions hitting the water/beach and how they are dispersed (wider than usual) seems to confirm the missile was downed.

This beach is only 5km away from Belbek Military Airbase, actively used by Russia. Russian authorities reported that 4 people were killed and 153 injured although that cannot be concluded from this footage.

Russian air defense reportedly shot down an ATACMS cluster munitions variant in occupied Sevastopol 2 days ago. The amount of submunitions hitting the water/beach and how they are dispersed (wider than usual) seems to confirm the missile was downed.This beach is only 5km away…
Footage from CCTV cameras on the beach in Sevastopol, shot on June 23, has appeared.Four people died then, about 150 were injured.

 

 

 

Fuck’em. Don’t vacation in an active war zone your country invaded. 

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#81635
Aftermath of a successful Ukrainian HIMARS strike on a Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system, Donetsk Oblast.
#81638
30 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Turks must love their decision to blow off US weapons for Russias crap.

Must refrain... must refrain... fuck it,

That's no one's business, but the Turks!

#81640

The US is close to lifting the ban on US military contractors in Ukraine to help with maintenance and repairs of US systems.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/politics/biden-administration-american-military-contractors-ukraine/index.html

Spoiler

Biden administration moves toward allowing American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine

By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN
 
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The Biden administration is moving toward lifting a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine, four US officials familiar with the matter told CNN, to help the country's military maintain and repair US-provided weapons systems.

The change would mark another significant shift in the Biden administration's Ukraine policy, as the US looks for ways to give Ukraine's military an upper hand against Russia.

 

The policy is still being worked on by administration officials and has not received final sign-off yet from President Joe Biden, officials said.

"We have not made any decisions and any discussion of this is premature," said one administration official. "The president is absolutely firm that he will not be sending US troops to Ukraine."

Once approved, the change would likely be enacted this year, officials said, and would allow the Pentagon to provide contracts to American companies for work inside Ukraine for the first time since Russia invaded in 2022. Officials said they hope it will speed up the maintenance and repairs of weapons systems being used by the Ukrainian military.

 

Over the last two years, Biden has insisted that all Americans, and particularly US troops, stay far away from the Ukrainian frontlines. The White House has been determined to limit both the danger to Americans and the perception, particularly by Russia, that the US military is engaged in combat there. The State Department has explicitly warned Americans against traveling to Ukraine since 2022.

As a result, US-provided military equipment that has sustained significant damage in combat has had to be transported out of the country to Poland, Romania, or other NATO countries for repairs, a process which takes time.  US troops are also available to help the Ukrainians with more routine maintenance and logistics, but only from afar via video chat or secure phone-an arrangement that has come with inherent limitations, since US troops and contractors are not able to work directly on the systems.

 

Administration officials began to seriously reconsider those restrictions over the last several months, officials said, as Russia continued to make gains on the battlefield and US funding for Ukraine stalled in Congress. Allowing experienced, US government-funded American contractors to maintain a presence in Ukraine means they will be able to help fix damaged, high-value equipment much faster, officials said. One advanced system that officials say will likely require regular maintenance is the F-16 fighter jet, which Ukraine is set to receive later this year.

Companies bidding for the contracts would be required to develop robust risk mitigation plans to mitigate threats to their employees, an official said.

The discussions follow a series of decisions the US has made in recent months to try to help Ukraine beat back the Russians. In late-May, Biden gave Ukraine permission to strike targets inside Russia, near the border with the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, with US weapons-a request the US had repeatedly denied in the past. Last week, that policy appeared to expand once again, when National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Ukraine could counterstrike anywhere along the Ukraine-Russia border using US weapons.

 

Current and former officials familiar with the discussions about deploying contractors to Ukraine emphasized that the policy change will not result in the kind of overwhelming American contractor presence there that existed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, it would likely result in anywhere from a few dozen to a couple hundred contractors working in Ukraine at a time.

"This would be a much more focused and thoughtful effort to support Ukraine in country," said retired Army officer Alex Vindman, who served as the director for European Affairs on former President Donald Trump's National Security Council.

Vindman has been pushing the administration to lift the restrictions for nearly two years and said the administration has been working on a plan to ease the restrictions since earlier this year.

"Ukraine is an ally," Vindman told CNN. "The US has keen, critical national security interests in supporting Ukraine, and there are plenty of risk mitigation measures."

 

#81642
On 6/24/2024 at 8:40 AM, MagicSoccerSpray said:
As you may know, yesterday, Ukraine hit Russians NIP-16 Deep Space Communications complex which sent Russians comms into a meltdown.NIP-16 was designed to communicate with spacecraft beyond the Earth orbit. The facility became operational in 1958, even as late at 2014 the site…
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As you may know, yesterday, Ukraine hit Russians NIP-16 Deep Space Communications complex which sent Russians comms into a meltdown.

NIP-16 was designed to communicate with spacecraft beyond the Earth orbit. The facility became operational in 1958, even as late at 2014 the site had 235 staff members. Up until yesterday, NIP-16 was not only used for space exploration. But most likely also satellite imaging and communication with its government and military satellites, something which has recently been offering to North Korea as a trade off for weapons. 

The word on the street is that Russia only had 4 of these sites, one of which is now taken out, if 3 more of these were hit, Russia would lose contact with everything above orbit. 

This was a devastating blow dealt to Russia and there is no doubt Putin hit the wall with this news. Not only does it affect their communication, visibility, military capability, It significantly reduces Russia’s already outdated space exploration capabilities, which was previously at an acceptable level, but struggled after the introduction of Space X abilities and cheaper alternatives for countries, given them a better option than relying on Russia to get cargo and satellites to space. 

To be clear, this site, is another main reason why Crimea has remained so important for Russia to keep their grubby and slimey hands in control of Crimea. 

A massive knife in the side for the Russians.

On 6/24/2024 at 10:34 AM, Parliament said:

How far intro Russia is (was lol) that site?  

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Not exactly sure what they hit, bit it appears to be 2 radio-telescope sites and the Command Center.

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On 6/24/2024 at 11:12 AM, Chad Fuck said:

I had to look it up myself.  It's western Crimea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluton_(complex)

 

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Pluton is a system of deep space communications and planetary radar in Crimea. It was built in the Deep-Space Communication Center area near Yevpatoria in 1960. 

The Pluton complex was the world's highest capacity deep space communication system prior to Goldstone in 1966. It supported all the Soviet space programs until 1978, when the Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope was built and the Pluton became a backup for it. (These are all within 10 miles of each other and may have been damaged/destroyed).

In 1961, it performed one of the world's first radar detections of the planet Venus. In June 1962 it performed the world's first successful radar detection of Mercury. It performed successful radar detection of Mars in February 1963, and of Jupiter in September–October 1963.

On 19 and 24 November 1962, the words "MIR", "LENIN", and "SSSR" were sent in the direction of the star HD131336 in the constellation Libra. These messages are the first radio broadcasts for extraterrestrial civilizations in the history of mankind.

After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the complex was under the control of the Russian Aerospace Forces. Ukrainian intelligence believes that work on modernisation started to occur in 2017. The exact reason is unknown, some suggest it is part of the Russian ballistic missile early warning system or support the operation of the Russian GLONASS system.

On 23 June 2024, it was attacked by five Ukrainian fired ATACMS missiles. Later satellite pictures showed damage to the complex, while NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System confirmed a fire was burning at the facility. 

23 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Nerp.

Be a whole lot cooler if it was.

Still pretty cool though.

It may not be in Russia, but it's role seems to be a critical piece of Russia's Deep Space communications, and communications with the various earth orbit satellites.  

16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

So we have a large increase in attacks by Ukraine on a lot of strategic targets (not just the dishes), and at the same time we see a large increase in other countries providing munitions.  We also see the EU working to get a huge amount of Russian money into a Ukrainian hands quickly, and the US is loosening restrictions on weapons use inside of Russia.

I know many think that all correlates with our elections in November, but those thing things above appear to be coming on the heels of another large Russian conscription effort earlier this year and the current Russian offensive (based around that conscription effort) that appears to be fizzling out. We are seeing a big uptick in videos of individuals and groups of Russians being killed, Russian vehicles being destroyed, Russians resorting to non-military vehicles again for supply runs, etc. etc.

And we’ve seen a shitload of anti-air being taken out in the last 30 days.

I’ve gotten my hopes up before, so I’m ready to be disappointed again, but it feels like the Russians have just about hit their culminating point with this latest offensive, and the F-16s haven’t even entered the arena.

It looks like Ukraine is regaining the momentum it had before the US influenced "Tom Herman Turtle-ing" of the UK war effort. The near open season on Russian war related infrastructure will pay dividends well beyond the immediate benefits to Ukraine.

Sanctions will prevent Russia from monetizing the oil & gas production and reserves in a manner that lets them build and rebuild critical assets. The secondary influence of the sanctions on China will further reduce Russias access to critical $$$ needed for their own rebuild.  

6 hours ago, KYHorn said:

The EU remains very pro Ukraine- just elected probably the most staunch supporter of Ukraine to the to foreign affairs position- much to Putin's dismay. 

⚡️ The EU leaders have agreed to nominate Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas to fill the post of head of Eurodiplomacy held by Borrell, DPA reported.They also agreed to nominate Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as President of the EU Commission.

Of all the good things I read to get caught up, this may be the best news. (Okay, maybe second best; Putin playing footsies with North Korea, and bringing South Korea and Japan to the table is muy bueno).

Prime Minister Kaja & President Ursula were very outspoken out of the gate in their support of Ukraine, and have consistently maintained that posture. The supposed leaders of the western world have cowed down to the "what's in it for me?" mindset, at the expense of the slaughter of innocents in Ukraine.  I realize those protectionist and isolationist ideals probably get you re-elected, but good v. evil should never be an issue. 

Thomas Jefferson would be proud as fuck for them, as am I.

Thank you all again for the contributions and insights you bring. 

#81644
1 hour ago, Parliament said:

Has Erik Prince picked a side?

Well, he did have that meeting in the Seychelles with one of Putin's buddies to establish a back channel for communications with the Kremlin, and he also offered his services as a subcontractor to Wagner in Africa. 

#81646

Guy should have pretended he was a washing machine. His comrade would have loaded him in the next available transport. 

#81647
8 minutes ago, Deej said:

Guy should have pretended he was a washing machine. His comrade would have loaded him in the next available transport. 

Without a dick, isn't that what he pretty much is?

#81650

 

🦅🇺🇦 Ukraine now produces more than 3000 (!) FPV drones per day,
I remember him… I will never forget him…🇺🇦💔

 

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