Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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What's that Shit Golem?
I wasn't paying attention to you.
You should get used to that now.
Because nobody is ever going to take anything you ever say seriously again.
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There Are A Few Hundred Russian Tankers On The Black Sea. In Five Days, Ukraine Droned More Than 70 Of Them.
Ukraine's counter-logistics campaign goes to sea.
Jul 11
https://www.trenchart.us/p/there-are-a-few-hundred-russian-tankers
Hundreds of Russian tankers ply the Sea of Azov and the adjacent Black Sea, hauling fuel between Russian ports and Russian-occupied ports in southern Ukraine and Crimea.
On July 7, Ukraine’s drone force finally started hunting the tankers. By day five of the counter-tanker effort, the Ukrainians had hit and damaged no fewer than 76 ships including tankers and even tugboats sent to assist damaged tankers.
“To be clear, 76 tankers comprise a massive fraction of Russia’s shadow fleet” of unregistered ships, RAND analyst Michael Bohnert explained. “At this rate, in two weeks, there will be next to no Russian tankers in the Black Sea.” https://x.com/mbohnert/status/2075958146409898308
The attacks on tankers are part of a wider effort by Ukrainian deep strike forces to starve Russian forces in occupied Ukraine, and especially in Crimea, by striking their supply lines at a depth of a hundred miles or farther.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THGR, if the F-35 is so awesome, why does it need an upgrade?
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Wow, Ok. Think computer and then see if you can understand that upgrades are newer more advanced technology. The jet was designed to do this. It continually improves.
T
And another thing I think you've missed comrade. The Russians are focusing on taking ground, be it a little at a time. The Ukrainians are not trying to take land; they are focused on killing a thousand Russians a day. Get it?
T
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What's that Shit Golem?
I wasn't paying attention to you.
You should get used to that now.
Because nobody is ever going to take anything you ever say seriously again.
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Here's one for you too, Ted.
I don't want my little screen bitch to feel left out.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THGR, if the F-35 is so awesome, why does it need an upgrade?
Wow, Ok. Think computer and then see if you can understand that upgrades are newer more advanced technology. The jet was designed to do this. It continually improves.
And another thing I think you've missed comrade. The Russians are focusing on taking ground, be it a little at a time. The Ukrainians are not trying to take land; they are focused on killing a thousand Russians a day. Get it?
So, Ukrainians are killers?
Well. They're not doing a very good job.
AFA "upgrades" are concerned: You haven't addressed the fact that the F-35 still has hundreds of flaws. Literally hundreds. Seven are CRITICAL. I'll bet you dollars to donuts the "upgrade" isn't an upgrade, it's a FIX.
Looking at all the weapons we gave Ukraine - Javelins, Abrams tanks, Strykers, M113 APCs, Patriot systems, HIMARS, Bradleys, F16s, M777 artillery and rounds, radars etc etc... the one thing that stayed in the fight longest was the HIMARS.
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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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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THGR, if the F-35 is so awesome, why does it need an upgrade?
Wow, Ok. Think computer and then see if you can understand that upgrades are newer more advanced technology. The jet was designed to do this. It continually improves.
And another thing I think you've missed comrade. The Russians are focusing on taking ground, be it a little at a time. The Ukrainians are not trying to take land; they are focused on killing a thousand Russians a day. Get it?
So, Ukrainians are killers?
Well. They're not doing a very good job.
AFA "upgrades" are concerned: You haven't addressed the fact that the F-35 still has hundreds of flaws. Literally hundreds. Seven are CRITICAL. I'll bet you dollars to donuts the "upgrade" isn't an upgrade, it's a FIX.
Looking at all the weapons we gave Ukraine - Javelins, Abrams tanks, Strykers, M113 APCs, Patriot systems, HIMARS, Bradleys, F16s, M777 artillery and rounds, radars etc etc... the one thing that stayed in the fight longest was the HIMARS.
Ah... They go by the Triple A Game publisher rules.
Just put any piece of shit out there, and we'll try to fix what we can after everyone paid for it.
And yes. The Ukrainian Nazis love killing.
And Democrats love Nazis.
Democrats also love murdering people.
This making any sense to anybody yet?
Is the Dawn Cometh?
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What Is Happening In The Sea Of Azov?
Phillips P. OBrien
Jul 12, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/i/206655330/what-is-happening-in-
the-sea-of-azov
The Sea of Azov was supposed to be a Russian lake. The Russians have controlled every inch of the coastline along it since the full-scale invasion in 2022, and access to it is through only one narrow channel called the Strait of Kerch (thus the Kerch Bridge), which runs between Crimea and Russia.
Now it is anything but a Russian lake. Over the last few weeks, in a sign that their campaign to try and isolate Crimea is continuing to ramp up, the Ukrainians have greatly accelerated a campaign to sink or damage Russian-controlled shipping in that body of water.
The strategic importance of the Sea of Azov is not hard to discern by simply looking at a map. With road and rail communications to Crimea down significantly, and the Russians wary about using the Kerch Bridge too much for items such as fuel, trying to get supplies to Crimea by ship becomes the only reasonable alternative. The Ukrainians themselves are stating that at least one part of this campaign is part of the Crimea “switch off” operation to isolate the peninsula.
However, that is not all. Azov is often the first place where stolen grain from Ukraine and Russian grain itself is shipped out into the world market. It is estimated that up to a quarter of all the grain shipments that are controlled by Russia head through the Sea of Azov.
Finally, there are some oil shipments that heads through Azov to the world as well. As global sanctions against Russia in this area seem to be doing little to reduce shipments of Russian oil, Ukraine is using its “kinetic sanctions” to do the job instead.
For a small body of water, the Sea of Azov is of very high strategic importance for Russia, and keeping it protected should be a very high priority for the Russian military.
However, clearly they are struggling in this area. Over the last week, at first with very little fanfare, the Ukrainians started to methodically gear up a campaign against Russian shipping. Using both air and sea drones, stories started emerging of a series of Ukrainian strikes against Russian-controlled vessels in Azov. Here is a video with footage of some of the attacks.
Note: The UAV (air) attacks seen in that video show that the Ukrainian tactic seems to be to go for the bridge of the vessels. I’m guessing that they do not always want to destroy the vessel outright, but they do want to cripple it so it cannot be controlled. However, this is a guess for now. Sea drones, obviously, would be a different matter.
The ramping up of the attacks is pretty obvious when you look at it in chart form. I put together this chart of the attacks claimed through July 11, when the Ukrainians said that they attacked 28 vessels.
And this was how the types of vessels attacked were described by Ukrainian official sources:
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Unmanned Systems Forces Commander Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, the targets included 21 oil tankers, four tugboats, two cargo vessels, and one specialized dredging vessel. Ukrainian officials said the extent of the damage is still being assessed.
So while oil tankers dominate the list, the Ukrainians are clearly trying to shut down a range of vessels in a clear statement to the Russians that the Sea of Azov is not to be considered a safe place for any shipping. That message seems to be getting through, as it is now claimed that the Russians on July 10 forbade any new traffic to move through the Kerch Strait between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. There is no indication when the Russians plan to relax that restriction—and if the attacks stay at the present level (or the capability remains and the Russians do not develop the ability to protect shipping) then it can be assumed that the body of water will remain functionally closed.
So, using air and sea drones, the Ukrainians have turned the Sea of Azov into a U
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Trump Gifts Putin Time
Phillips P. OBrien
Jul 12, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/i/206655330/trump-gifts-putin-tim
e
You would not be forgiven for believing that Donald Trump had some Damascene conversion last week and switched sides from backing Russia to backing Ukraine. There was enough reporting on this that it almost seemed believable. The key reason, as I mentioned in the piece yesterday, was Trump’s verbal statement (not followed up yet, it must be said) to provide Ukraine with some kind of license to make some part of a Patriot anti-air system. This announcement was far less clear the more you look into it.
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Note, the more you try to find details on this, the murkier it becomes.
What has happened, of course, is that Trump is trying to verbally associate himself with the Ukrainian cause as it becomes clearer to even him that the Ukrainians are doing much, much better in the war than he had ever imagined possible. Here was how one Wall Street Journal story summarized what Trump is hearing.
Quote:Of course, what Trump has actually done is make no promises about anything concrete and if you read his words, he seems to be implying that Ukraine might eventually get this license instead of getting any new supplies made in the USA. Here was how he said it:
President Trump, who last year told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he held “no cards,” praised the country’s ingenuity and its long-range drone capabilities on Wednesday in an amiable encounter with the Ukrainian leader at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s summit in Turkey.
Trump is being shown U.S. intelligence reports about Ukraine’s new strike capabilities and has been impressed by them, while the Russian public increasingly wants the war to end, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Those assessments explain why Trump is talking more positively about Ukraine compared with last year, the officials said.
“We’re going to give a license to you to make Patriots. That’s pretty cool. This way, you can’t complain that we’re not giving ‘em enough…We’ll give them the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to do it.”
In other words, “stop complaining that we are not shipping you more Patriot interceptors as the Russians bombard your cities and economy with ballistic missiles. We will give you the ability to make your own.”
The only problem with this is that it will most likely take years until Ukraine can actually make Patriot interceptors, if they eventually do get the license. The most optimistic forecast I received from a Ukrainian source is that they believe that they could do it in a year, but most believe that is very optimistic.
The only problem with waiting for years is that bombarding Ukraine with ballistic missiles is a key and growing Russian priority now. The Russians have put far more effort into building these systems just as the US has been slow-walking new Patriots to Ukraine. The scale of the ballistic missile assault facing Ukraine is sobering.
Here is a quick summary of what we are seeing:
• Scale of the escalation. Russia’s monthly ballistic missile launches have roughly tripled year-over-year — 28 missiles in a comparable month a year ago versus around 70+ now. January 2026 already set a record of 91 ballistic missiles in a single month, and Russia has sustained a high tempo since. These attacks are certainly set to increase significantly next winter when they can do the most damage.
• Interception rates are falling behind. The problem of the deprivation of Patriots in a nutshell. Ukraine intercepted about 89% of all aerial threats in June overall (drones, cruise missiles), but only 40% of ballistic missiles. Ballistic missiles interceptions seem to require Patriot interceptors—and the Ukrainians had to admit on July 6 that they had none or almost none, left.
• Notable Recent Russian Ballistic Missile Attacks:
June 2: 33 Iskander-M bal
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Zelensky urges energy sector to speed up winter preparedness
by Dominic Culverwell | July 12, 2026 6:01 pm
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-urges-energy-sector-to-speed-up-w
inter-preparedness-asap/
. . . Ukraine is underprepared for the coming winter and has failed to secure funding for its 5.4 billion euro ($6.2 billion) energy resilience plan.
Officials have warned that this winter could be even harsher than the last, when prolonged blackouts and heating outages pushed millions of Ukrainians into a humanitarian crisis during sub-zero temperatures as Russia targeted Ukraine's energy facilities.
One of the main problems is the lack of reforms at state-owned energy companies, which provide the majority of Ukraine's energy supply. Zelensky announced an overhaul of state-owned energy companies last November following a corruption scandal at state-run nuclear operator Energoatom.
In a separate statement on July 12, Zelensky said the transformation of state-owned companies must be "accelerated" to strengthen Ukraine's resilience. Companies such as Energoatom have failed to implement meaningful reforms, the Kyiv Independent previously reported.
At the same time, Zelensky praised the performance of state-owned oil and gas companies Ukrnafta and Naftogaz, saying both had met their national performance targets despite repeated Russian attacks. He thanked Naftogaz CEO Serhii Koretskyi for his work and said they discussed ways to further strengthen Ukraine's resilience.
The president also spoke with Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov about implementing resilience measures and winter preparedness plans. After Kharkiv received recognition for its readiness last winter, Zelensky suggested the city's experience could help other Ukrainian cities and communities.
Kyiv, by contrast, was widely criticized for its handling of the energy crisis. Rather than taking responsibility, Mayor Vitali Klitschko and the central government traded blame, while the capital remains underprepared for the coming winter as the dispute continues.
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