Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Friday, April 23, 2021 3:58 PM

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Resurrecting an 11 year old single post thread.

Kill yourself, you worthless piece of shit troll bitch.

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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Russians Alarmed By Ukraine’s "Fence Post" Drone Bomb

By David Hambling | June 12, 2026

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2026/06/12/russians-alarmed
-by-ukraines-fence-post-drone-bomb/

Bombing has driven Russian forces underground into bunkers and forced them to cover roads and facilities with nets, wire cages and steel mesh. A few weeks ago, Russian reports started circulating of a new drone bomb punching through such defenses. The new images suggest that this weapon is now being produced at scale, and a Ukrainian video shows it in action:

https://x.com/igorsushko/status/2064350020917494168

These bombs differ from standard or “general purpose” bombs in three ways: they have a streamlined penetrating nose, reinforced to withstand impact; they tend to be long and narrow to concentrate force in a small area and reduce resistance; and they feature a delayed action fuse, so the bomb goes off after it has broken through protection. The fence post bomb, primitive as it looks, follows this pattern.

The nose is designed to withstand the impact force of being driven into the ground. Since fence post anchors already exist, there was no need to reinvent them. Comparison with other items in the image, notably the Tolsen 300 mm hacksaw, suggests that the design is based on a spike for a standard 100mm fence post. Commercial fence spikes are stamped from sheet metal and machine-welded, whereas this example seems to be hand-welded, and the metal appears to be thicker than a normal fence spike. If this started as a product from a hardware store, it has been heavily modified in a garage workshop.

A rough calculation suggests that, assuming a 25-pound munition dropped from a few hundred feet, the penetrator will go through a foot of hard-packed dirt or four feet of soft soil.

Bunkers are typically constructed with a log roof (more resilient than concrete), covered with a foot or more of dirt to absorb blast and shrapnel. The penetrator will go through the earth covering and may find a gap in the log roofing.

The other key feature is the delayed action fuse. Most drone bombs are impact-fused and will be set off by hitting the ground, or can be prematurely detonated when they strike a metal cage or netting. A delayed fuse means the bomb does not go off until it has penetrated.

The new bomb is significant because it poses a major threat to existing counter-drone protection. Before, drone bombers could break into bunkers, but only by bombing the same spot repeatedly, which often took several sorties. This gave the occupants time to get away before their protection was destroyed. The new weapon gives no warning: the first bomb could destroy the bunker.

Heavier dugouts may currently be resistant to small drone-dropped bombs. That now changes. The precision of multicopter bombing means that multiple penetrating munitions can be dropped to successively deepen a crater and blast a way into the best-protected dugout.

Meanwhile, hundreds of miles of Russian (and Ukrainian) roads are covered in counter-drone net tunnels, and buildings are protected with wire mesh screens. These are good enough protection against FPVs and most drone weapons, but are likely to be useless against the fence post bombs.

The bombers have smart bomb-aiming software and can hit targets, including moving trucks, and so will likely hit targets straight through the netting.

This is a particular concern for the Russians because Ukraine has a decisive advantage in heavy bombers. According to some sources, they may inflict more losses than the FPVs, which get all the media attention. For whatever reason, Russia has not yet succeeded in fielding its own heavy bomber drones at scale and so has no answer to the Ukrainian development.

The fence post bomb looks crude compared to slick factory-made munitions, with an equally crude jokey name. But the design appears sound, and it gives the Russians a real and deadly problem. Every Russian dugout and road is now under threat from this bargain basement bunker buster, and ther

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Ukraine to ask for $20B to make Russia ‘burn’

Kyiv wants to raise the money by the NATO Ankara Summit, claiming otherwise Russia may regain the initiative.

By Veronika Melkozerova | June 11, 2026 9:54 pm CET

https://www.politico.eu/article/exclusive-ukraine-to-ask-for-20-billio
n-emergency-defense-aid-at-rammstein-to-finish-off-russia/

KYIV — Ukraine wants an additional $20 billion from its allies to cement its temporary battlefield advantage over Russia, a senior Ukrainian defense official told POLITICO.

“Everyone sees that Russia is burning, and we want it to burn even more, but we need financing to do it,” said the official, speaking on condition of being granted anonymity.

The $20 billion ask will be made on June 18 at the next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, also known as the Ramstein Format, where allies organize financial and military aid for Kyiv.

The issue was raised by Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and other government officials during a series of meetings with representatives from Norway, Sweden, Germany and Canada, according to people familiar with the talks.

Allies will each be asked $2 billion to $6 billion to reach the $20 billion target, the official said, adding: “It can be aid or a loan.”

Aid for Ukraine is set to be a key issue at July's summit of NATO leaders in Ankara, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be attending on the sidelines.

Ukraine's defense budget for this year is set for 4.4 trillion hryvnia (€85 billion), and the $20 billion would come on top of that.

Ukraine spends about 40 percent of its GDP on defense, the highest level in the world.

According to the Ukrainian defense ministry, partner countries have already committed to $38 billion in military assistance for this year. The additional $20 billion would bring Ukraine close to the $60 billion in bilateral assistance target set by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

If the extra $20 billion materializes, Ukraine would use the cash for air defenses, expanded contributions to the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List, the NATO-led program where allies buy weapons for Ukraine from the United States, as well as buying more drones, ammunition, electronic warfare equipment, long-range capabilities, and direct purchases from Ukrainian defense companies.

The goal is to use the funds to continue Ukraine's increasingly devastating attacks on Russia.

Kyiv has ramped up its drone and missile technology and in recent months has launched a multi-layered campaign — from short-range drones that have made the frontline a no-go zone, mid-range drones that are pummeling Russian logistics and transport networks resulting in increasing fuel and supply shortages, as well as drone and missile attacks deep inside Russia hitting factories, oil refineries, ports and other strategic objectives.

"Ukrainian unmanned systems are successfully operating at various levels: from carrying out missions on the front lines to striking key enemy targets hundreds of kilometers deep into enemy territory," Zelenskyy said on social media on Thursday.

The senior Ukrainian official credited aid from key allies like Germany, Norway and the Netherlands for helping shift the dynamic in the war.

The Ukraine attacks have prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to call for stronger air defenses.

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Thursday denounced Ukraine's calls for more financial aid. "Every time, it’s the same old story: 'Kiev needs more money.' If one has to illustrate the term ‘political self-harm,’ this is the best example," she said.

Ukraine wants to continue gaining momentum against Russia before Moscow is able to rebalance the odds in its favor.

“The window of opportunity tends to close," warned the senior official. "Russia is fast and innovative. And if we give them time to adapt again, we might lose the only real chance to end this war with real n

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Ukraine's defence AI chief predicts 'new paradigm' of warfare

By Max Hunder | June 12, 2026 5:41 AM CDT

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraines-defence-ai
-chief-predicts-new-paradigm-warfare-2026-06-12/

Summary

• Ukraine already uses AI for multiple battlefield functions

• It aims to unify AI into a single battlefield operating system

• Kyiv says this would enable faster decision-making

• Russia also uses AI for drone and missile attacks

KYIV, June 12 (Reuters) - Warfare in Ukraine and beyond faces a paradigm shift in the coming years as artificial intelligence systems integrate into unified networks that speed up decisions on the battlefield, a senior Ukrainian official said.

Ukraine, in the fifth year of fighting a full-scale Russian invasion, is already using AI for a plethora of battlefield functions, from flying drones at targets to helping plan combat operations and crunching data on Russian missile attacks.

"AI will form a new paradigm of warfare. It's already actively doing so," Danylo Tsvok, the head of the defence ministry's AI centre, told Reuters.

He predicted AI systems would eventually be unified into a single network overseeing the battlefield, leading to a "war of operating systems" with Russia in the next three to five years, if the conflict continues.

"The system that possesses more data and better understands that data, proposes solutions — that system will gain the advantage over the other," he said.

The centre was founded in March as Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov seeks to put AI and data-driven decision-making at the heart of Ukraine's defences.

Drones, still mostly flown by pilots, have already upended the way the war is being fought.

Ukrainian and Russian troops launch thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) a day at each other. Kyiv is also trying to solve its frontline troop shortage with ground robots.

The ability of drones to constantly surveil the battlefield and hit targets with precision has accelerated the "kill chain" – the process of planning and executing a strike on the enemy. AI decision-making would speed this up even more, Tsvok said.

TECHNOLOGICAL ARMS RACE

Ukraine, whose military numbers around a million personnel, is already using AI tools in its command systems.

But Tsvok said the goal was to create a single operating system to recommend battlefield decisions all the way up from individual frontline units to strategic command.

This would significantly speed up the analysis of data from the 1,200-kilometre (750-mile) front line to allow recommendations to human commanders, he said.

The aim, Tsvok said, is to unite weapons and data systems into "one single living organism that can operate in a coordinated manner."

The technological arms race launched by Europe's largest war since World War Two, which lasted from 1939 to 1945, has attracted interest from foreign AI companies hungry for combat data to train their models and the opportunity to test their systems.

Some, such as U.S. company Palantir, have provided Ukraine with their systems. Kyiv has created Brave1 Dataroom, a project to share battlefield data with allied countries for training their software.

"This is the place where you can understand whether your system works," said Tsvok, wearing a black T-shirt and jeans.

Moscow is also developing its artificial intelligence capabilities. A senior Ukrainian air defence commander told Reuters in April he was concerned by Russia's increasing use of AI in planning drone and missile attacks on cities, which could significantly reduce the planning time for each strike.

"The question is," Tsvok said, "how quickly we build our solutions and how practically we apply them and achieve the primary impact on the battlefield from our side."

He added that the defence ministry was developing an AI-driven recruitment and HR system as pa

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