Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Ukrainian forces are intensifying strikes against Russian fuel tankers as Russia increasingly relies on seaborne transportation of gasoline to occupied Crimea from Russia.
Ukrainian Navy Spokesperson Captain Third Rank Dmytro Pletenchuk reported on July 8 that Russia has shifted to using fuel tankers to transport fuel between Russia and occupied Ukraine, particularly from occupied Mariupol and Berdyansk ports via the Sea of Azov, to address gasoline shortages in occupied Crimea, as Ukrainian strikes are denying Russia the use of the M-14 Rostov-Crimea highway.[4]
Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) Commander Major Robert “Magyar” Brovdi reported on July 8 that Ukrainian forces struck nine Russian fuel tankers in the Azov Sea overnight on July 7 to 8, and that Ukrainian forces struck 19 Russian fuel tankers, a cargo ship, and a ferry over the past 72 hours.[5]
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported on July 8 that a Ukrainian Sea Baby naval drone struck the Suezmax-class Russian shadow fleet tanker Blue off the coast of occupied Yalta (roughly 263 kilometers from the frontline).[6]
The SBU noted that Russia previously used the Blue tanker to transport significant volumes of oil and petroleum products to circumvent international sanctions. Ukrainian forces struck eight Russian shadow fleet tankers, including Venera-3, Sanar-1, Sanar-17, Klimena, Teti, Alexei Savrasov, Ivan Cheremisinov, and Penelopa tankers on the night of July 6 to 7 in an effort to inhibit Russian gasoline transports to occupied Crimea.[7]
Ukraine’s continuous intermediate- and long-range strike campaign against Russian land transportation routes is degrading the logistics routes between Russia and occupied Crimea, forcing occupied Crimea to rely on seaborne fuel supplies to address fuel shortages.[8]
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-july-8-2026/
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Russia has found way to jam Starlink and take down Ukraine’s drones
Russia has deployed 10 electronic warfare systems to jam Ukrainian drone control via Starlink. Ukraine has destroyed two.
By Olena Mukhina | July 8, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/08/russia-has-found-way-to-jam-sta
rlink-and-take-down-ukraines-drones/
Russia has deployed 10 Starlink jammers on the front to counter Ukrainian drone strikes. Ukrainian drone commanders and pilots from the 422nd Unmanned Systems Regiment operating in Zaporizhzhia Oblast told Reuters that Russian forces are using powerful electronic warfare systems to disrupt SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet, which most Ukrainian strike drones use for guidance. Few such systems have been destroyed already.
The jamming systems are the Volna Kupol Garant (Wave Dome Guarantor), a Russian-made complex that can suppress Starlink signals over a 20-square-kilometer area, according to Ukrainian Defense Ministry adviser Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov.
Ukraine's Defense Forces identified the system and its specifications in mid-June, when the Security Service of Ukraine and the 422nd Regiment destroyed the first complex in a joint operation on 14 June.
Blocking Starlink for Russia
The Volna Kupol Garant is Russia's response to Ukraine's earlier counter-response to Russia's use of Starlink. Russia had been using illegally obtained Starlink terminals on its own strike drones, including drones that hit Ukrainian civilian targets.
In late January 2026, SpaceX, at Ukraine's request, blocked unauthorized Russian terminals. Beskrestnov called the result a "catastrophe" for Russian forces, and Russian command and control collapsed across the front. Russia is now trying to jam Ukraine's Starlink-guided drones.
Volna Kupol Garant is expensive and easy to hunt
The Volna Kupol Garant emits a signal in the same 14-14.5 GHz Starlink frequency band, targeting eight satellite channels simultaneously.
Because jamming Starlink requires massive power output, the system emits a strong electronic signature.
Each complex consists of six trailers with dish antennas that point toward overhead satellites. The report says Ukraine identified 10 systems on the front and destroyed two, with one destroyed within hours of detection.
"As soon as we struck this facility, our Starlink-equipped drones flew without problems," a 422nd Regiment crew commander with the callsign "Dyryhent" (Conductor) said.
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Originally posted by second:
Also, Ukraine wants to build Patriot missiles because the US is too slow in building them:
Oh yeah? I bet they do.
And I want a brand new genuine Ford F-150
And you want just one single person in the world to give a shit whether you live or die.
If wishes were horses, we'd never have a glue shortage.
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Ukraine May Get Patriot Missile Production License.
The Hard Part Is the 24-Month PAC-3 MSE Cycle
By Vlad Litnarovych | Updated Jul 09, 2026 13:34
https://united24media.com/world/ukraine-may-get-patriot-missile-produc
tion-license-the-hard-part-is-the-24-month-pac-3-mse-cycle-20606
Lockheed Martin’s PAC-3 MSE interceptor for the Patriot air defense system is one of the most advanced missiles in its class, and that directly shapes how long it takes to produce, Defense Express reported on July 9. https://defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/skilki_chasu_treba_na_virobnits
tvo_odnijeji_antibalistichnoji_raketi_do_patriot_i_z_chogo_vona_skladajetsja-23568.html
The reported approval in principle by the US administration to grant Ukraine a license to produce Patriot missiles immediately raises the most important question for Ukraine: when could Ukrainian-made interceptors actually strengthen the Armed Forces?
According to Defense Express, even if all bureaucratic procedures, production line creation, training, and certification were accelerated as much as possible, the missile’s own production cycle would remain a major limiting factor.
For the PAC-3 MSE, that production cycle is known to take roughly 24 months. In other words, around two years can pass between placing an order and receiving completed missiles.
The long timeline is tied to the complexity of the missile itself and the scale of its supply chain. Around 400 companies are involved in producing materials, components, blocks, and assemblies for the PAC-3 MSE, which are then brought together at Lockheed Martin’s plant in Camden, Arkansas.
Defense Express notes that the PAC-3 MSE is a highly sophisticated interceptor designed for kinetic kills against ballistic targets at closing speeds measured in kilometers per second. Producing each of its key components is a difficult technological process with its own bottlenecks.
One example is the missile’s active radar seeker. It is produced by Boeing only at its facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The seeker is one of the most advanced in its class, using Ka-band AESA technology. Even with production expansion efforts, Boeing needs around seven years to triple output.
Another example is the Attitude Control Section, which includes small solid-fuel lateral control motors. Poland’s experience shows how difficult that element is to master: Wojskowe Zaklady Elektroniczne S.A. spent around seven years preparing to produce micro solid-fuel motors.
The missile’s control systems are no less complex. These include the Guidance Processor Unit, the Missile Radio Frequency Data Link, and the Inertial Measurement Unit. At present, their production is known to be handled only by Lockheed Martin.
The solid-fuel motor is produced by Aerojet Rocketdyne, which was acquired by L3Harris Technologies in 2023. This dual-pulse motor is another bottleneck in PAC-3 MSE production, partly because of solid-fuel shortages and the long cycle required for casting and curing the propellant.
Other missile components also add complexity, including control surfaces and steering mechanisms that must allow the interceptor to maneuver at speeds of around Mach 5.
Defense Express concludes that a production license would be a major strategic step for Ukraine, but it would not instantly solve the interceptor shortage. PAC-3 MSE production is limited not only by permission and factory capacity, but also by deep technological cycles that cannot be compressed overnight.
Zelenskyy said Europe must rapidly develop its own capacity to produce anti-ballistic air defense systems and interceptor missiles, speaking at the NATO Defense Industry Forum held alongside the Alliance’s summit in Ankara.
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Russia's answer to scholars who document the Holodomor — Soviet Moscow's starvation of the Ukrainian people — is simple: ban them. In January 2026, it barred Marta Baziuk, one of 16 Canadian scholars sanctioned for studying the Holodomor.
That did not stop her. Seventy-seven days later, Baziuk helped put online a course she had spent three years building — free, worldwide, on a famine Russia dismisses as "western propaganda."
The Holodomor killed at least 3.5 million Ukrainians in 1932–33, most scholars estimate, due to a famine Stalin's policies manufactured. The present-day Kremlin still calls it a hoax.
Russia’s actions today echo the Soviet actions at the time of the Holodomor. Ninety years on, Russia is reviving them in occupied Ukraine: in Oleshky, across the Dnipro from Kherson, UN monitors say civilians have been cut off from food.
The pattern is not lost on Ukraine's leaders. "If he could arrange another Holodomor for Ukraine, he would do it," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said of Vladimir Putin in 2023, hours after a Russian drone barrage on Holodomor Remembrance Day.
Baziuk, the Executive Director at the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) at the University of Alberta, spoke to Euromaidan Press about building a permanent record of a famine Russia is still trying to erase — and why it could only be done now.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/06/holodomor-course-baziuk/
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Russian Lawmaker Says Half of Ukraine’s Population Must Be Killed to ‘Eliminate Nazism’
In brief: A Russian lawmaker said up to half of Ukraine's population should be exterminated to eradicate what he called "Nazism." The remarks mirror statements by senior Russian officials, including Medvedev and Putin, who have questioned Ukraine's right to exist and repeatedly invoked "denazification" to justify Russia's invasion.
By Julia Struck-Feshchenko | July 8, 2026, 1:37 pm
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79834
. . . “If you don’t want to change your minds, you must either be expelled from Ukraine or destroyed,” he said.
Similar statements from Kremlin officials
Russia has long relied on the “Nazism” narrative to justify its invasion of Ukraine, going as far as listing the “denazification” of Ukraine as an official war goal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly invoked the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany to justify Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, portraying Kyiv as a Nazi state in need of “denazification” – a claim widely rejected by independent experts, Ukraine, and its Western allies.
Other senior Kremlin officials have also used the claim to deny Ukraine’s right to exist as a sovereign nation.
In January 2024, former Russian President and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, denied Ukraine’s right to exist as an independent state and warned that continued resistance to Russia’s invasion would result in the destruction of the Ukrainian nation.
“The existence of Ukraine is fatally dangerous for Ukrainians... they will understand that life [with Russia] in a large common state, which they do not want very much now, is better than death. Their deaths and the deaths of their loved ones. And the sooner Ukrainians realize this, the better,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram.
Later that same month, Putin claimed that Ukraine “glorifies” Adolf Hitler’s SS units and vowed to “eradicate Nazism” while opening a memorial marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad.
“The regime in Kyiv glorifies Hitler’s accomplices, the SS,” Putin said, adding that Russia would “do everything possible to suppress and finally eradicate Nazism.” . . .
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:It just so happens that Ted Postol is full of shit:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Video analysis of waves of Iranian missile strikes on Israel show Patriot PAC3 repeatedly missing missile after missile, with an estimated interception rate of about 3%. The analysis was done by Ted Postol (MIT, Stanford, Argonne).
Dr. Postol has published video analyses of various conflicts, including conflicts in the Middle East. He has argued that video evidence shows interceptor missiles frequently failing to hit incoming ballistic missiles, resulting in very low interception rates.550
The Counter-Argument: Postol's methodologies, specifically his use of ground-level television and social media footage to gauge interception success, have been widely criticized by military analysts, industry experts, and government agencies. [/wuote}
Of course!
Do you think Raytheon and the Pentagon would agree thst their system is full
of shit?
I looked at the videos myself. I saw a crapton of missile warheads/ submunitions falling and only one interception.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
A 95%
The Patriot Air Defense System has a 95% intercept success rate with over 250 combat engagements, including the defense of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in June 2025.
Comrade signym likes to make shit up. She Trump and Jack all do that.
T
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Heres one.
Here's another. Postol spends about 25 minutes explaining how the PAC-2 and PAC-3 work, how they aim at a target etc. But videos of incoming and defense missiles start at about 25 minutes.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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The Ukraine Lesson Taiwan Keeps Missing
It’s Not the Drones—It’s Everything Around Them
David Petraeus and Clara Kaluderovic
July 8, 2026
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ukraine-lesson-taiwan-kee
ps-missing
The conflict in Ukraine, now in its fifth year, has provided extraordinary lessons about the future of war. The enormous impact of cheap, remotely piloted unmanned systems—on the ground, in the air, and at sea—cannot be overstated. But there is a danger that military strategists will look at the battlefield in Ukraine and see little more than a catalog of weapons to buy.
Although lessons about particular weapons systems are relevant, the more important lesson is about the ecosystem necessary for these new tools to be effective. Ukraine, for instance, has developed Sky Fortress, a network of 14,000 acoustic sensors that locate Russian drones by sound, even at low altitudes which radar cannot see, to provide a high-fidelity picture of incoming threats. It also has its own battle-management software systems that direct unmanned surveillance, as well as the Unmanned Services Force, an entirely new military service—alongside the army, navy, and air force—that is dedicated to drone warfare, with its own doctrine, leader development, procurement processes, and even recruiting and basic training. Perhaps most critically, the ecosystem in Ukraine also includes manufacturers that can produce enormous quantities of unmanned systems and constantly refine the software and hardware of those systems in response to developments on the battlefield.
The risk of missing this wider lesson is especially acute for Taiwan, which also faces the threat of invasion by a larger aggressor. Taiwan’s leaders and partners frequently say that the island is intently focused on understanding the nature of modern warfare, especially what is happening in Ukraine, in order to prepare for and thus deter Chinese aggression. But while Ukraine’s achievements are admired in Taiwan, that admiration has not yet produced the enormous, fundamental changes that enabled Ukraine’s success.
Indeed, it is not yet clear that Taiwan’s leaders fully understand the Ukraine lesson. Despite the current administration’s stated ambition to eventually field tens of thousands of aerial drones and well over a thousand uncrewed surface vessels, Taiwan’s legislature struck domestic drone production from the government’s special defense budget earlier this year. The opposition parties that control the legislature cited fiscal discipline as well as concerns about potential corruption in domestic procurement, but the move’s overall effect was to dramatically reduce new domestic procurement of unmanned systems and to cut funds set aside for joint development of such systems with the United States.
Even if Taiwan’s politicians can one day muster the funding for substantial quantities of drones, the island remains far from making the considerable institutional changes needed to ensure their effective employment. The gap between admiring Ukraine’s success and replicating it, in other words, is precisely the gap Taiwan has yet to close.
HOW UKRAINE REWROTE THE RULES
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukraine sank its own flagship (lest it be seized by Russia) and was left, in effect, without a navy. Yet within two years, Ukraine had driven the Russian Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol, sunk over one-third of Russia’s ships on the Black Sea, and forced the remainder of the fleet to tie up in a port as far from Ukraine as possible. Ukraine accomplished this not by acquiring traditional ships but by devising a means of contesting the sea without them: using aerial drones to find the Russian ships and maritime drones to sink them.
That experience—and Ukraine’s similar experiences with aerial and ground drones of various types, ranges, and capabilities—illustrates the most profound lesson of the war: that an overall architecture that links sensors with analysts, leaders, and shooters can enable remotely operated surveillance and weapons
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Quote:All you showed is that operators of the Patriot missiles hit the launch key but forgot to pick a target BEFORE launch.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Heres one.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
"I thought the Patriot picked out its own target," says the guy who forgot how the weapon works because he is under too much stress, has never fired the weapon before, and wasn't paying attention in class.
"Nope," says the guy who has used the Patriot to successfully shoot down missiles. "You have to sort the friendly from the unfriendly by clicking on the screen. Otherwise, the Patriot keeps going to the stars until it is out of propellant, just exactly like a bullet fired at the sky."
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