Russian special military operation in Ukraine #16

ALAMO wrote:It is not a case that they don't know, just a fact.
The currency ratio is not a sign of something being right or wrong.
Now Russia's current account is flooded with the currency that is being converted. So the ruble will strengthen, as the mass of the conversion is enormous, and now is being made inside the Russian monetary system.

Hole wrote:

JohninMK wrote:

If Ukraine believes that it has finished with its Khakrhiv offensive, having reached the border in several places, & can now safely move troops to the critical battle in the Donbass, it is mistaken.[/i]

Since when can "Ukraine" move troops safely?

GunshipDemocracy wrote:Ghost of Kiev?

Mir wrote:

ALAMO wrote:It is not a case that they don't know, just a fact.
The currency ratio is not a sign of something being right or wrong.
Now Russia's current account is flooded with the currency that is being converted. So the ruble will strengthen, as the mass of the conversion is enormous, and now is being made inside the Russian monetary system.

A strong currency will definitely benefit the man on the street and it will be good for imports as well. Too strong a currency will have a negative effect on exports though once it has to compete with cheaper products from foreign countries like China. Getting Rubles for oil and gas exports will be very beneficial for the economy as a whole.

ALAMO wrote:

Hole wrote:
New advanced lightweight all-terrain wheeled transport system delivered by the west, pricetag: around 500.000$ without extras

Now the new NATO lend&lease numbers adds !

LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday said it was using a new generation of powerful lasers in Ukraine to burn up drones, deploying some of Moscow's secret weapons to counter a flood of Western arms.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018 unveiled an intercontinental ballistic missile, underwater nuclear drones, a supersonic weapon and a laser weapon.

Little is known about the specifics of the new laser. Putin mentioned one called Peresvet, named after a medieval Orthodox warrior monk Alexander Peresvet who perished in mortal combat.

Yury Borisov, the deputy prime minister in charge of military development, told a conference in Moscow that Peresvet was already being widely deployed and it could blind satellites up to 1,500 km above Earth.

He said there were already more powerful systems than Peresvet that could burn up drones and other equipment. Borisov cited a test on Tuesday which he said had burned up a drone 5 km away within five seconds.

"If Peresvet blinds, then the new generation of laser weapons lead to the physical destruction of the target - thermal destruction, they burn up," he told Russian state television.

Asked if such weapons were being used in Ukraine, Borisov said: "Yes. The first prototypes are already being used there." He said the weapon was called "Zadira".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mockingly compared news of the lasers to the so-called wonder weapons that Nazi Germany unveiled in a bid to prevent defeat in World War Two.

"The clearer it became that they had no chance in the war, the more propaganda there was about an amazing weapon that would be so powerful as to ensure a turning point," he said in a late night video address.

"And so we see that in the third month of a full-scale war, Russia is trying to find its 'wonder weapon' ... this all clearly shows the complete failure of the mission."

Almost nothing is publicly known about Zadira but in 2017 Russian media said state nuclear corporation Rosatom helped develop it as part of a programme to create weapons-based new physical principles.

The invasion of Ukraine has illustrated the limits of Russia's post-Soviet conventional armed forces, though Putin says the "special military operation" is going to plan.

Borisov's remarks indicate Russia has made significant progress with laser weapons, a trend of considerable interest to other nuclear powers such as the United States and China.

Using lasers to blind satellites was once a fantasy from the realm of science fiction, but the United States, China and Russia have been working on variants of such weapons for years.

Besides the benefit of burning up drones, blinding reconnaissance systems has a strategic impact too as satellites are used to monitor intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying nuclear weapons.

Borisov said he had just returned from Sarov, which is a centre of Russia's nuclear weapons research. He said a new generation of laser weapons using a wide electromagnetic band would ultimately replace conventional weapons.

"This is not some sort of exotic idea; it is the reality," Borisov said.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:Russia is pumping a lot of money in different projects now no wonder this works like a spinning wheel for the whole economy.  BTW if Ruble gained +20% value against USD this also boosted economy by 20%

Hole wrote:


What to do with all those western donations? Maybe someone in Africa or Western Asia (Middle East) could need some of these weapons.

Hole wrote:


What to do with all those western donations? Maybe someone in Africa or Western Asia (Middle East) could need some of these weapons.

Firebird wrote:My criticism from before 2014 has been this.
Russia tries to parry the punches, til its worn out. But doesn't punch the aggressor itself.
Thats sometimes akin to punching a knife rather than a knifer.

The knifer being the United Snakes and minions. The knife being Bandera-stan.
So my question is... how does Russia best defend itself against the knifer?

With 780bases around the World, there is no shortage of targets... and enemies of America to arm/"help in the battle for liberation from Western imperialism".
But does anyone have an idea what preferred tactics might be?