Russian special military operation in Ukraine #54

I would think there are a few North Korean artillery systems they might want to test on real targets and that Russia might currently lack due to observing the limits of the INF treaty which now no longer applies.

Equally I would think North Korean officers might find some front line experience to be useful, learning how HATO fights and their communications would be valuable for them in their own defensive preparations.

And further there will be a lot of young North Korean men who might want good honest labour to earn good money for their families and themselves, and being trained to build rail lines and roads and perhaps aircraft production would be valuable skills they could take home to North Korea.

There are lots of areas that Russia and North Korea can work together to make both of their countries better and safer.

Russia has plenty of food for export so there is no reason for North Korea to suffer from famines, both food and food growing technology and techniques can be passed on to help them feed themselves and perhaps export food too.

Helping North Korea grow and develop does not hurt Russia at all, and a happier safer feeling North Korea is better for everyone except the west who thrive on conflict and suffering.

There is so much both sides can work on together. It wasn't that long ago NK was the more developed and growing of the two Koreas.

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:
People in the west buy this stuff, which is why the Ukrainian Armed Forces are doing their "calculations" this way these days as well.

People in the west are buying this stuff because it is a part of the racist agenda they all share.
Remember that most of the Nazi higher command made a turn and only a few years later formed the core of the new Bundeswehr.
A NATO alliance member.
They have published tons of memories, and all of that was an obligatory lecture for the other westerners, because "they fought the Soviets so know best!".
And that was a problem.
They didn't.
They have just lost huge.
Process of whitewashing started already when the war was still ongoing.
The "Stalin hordes" concept was nothing new.
To support their own version of events, they have inflated the numbers to absurd level.
None of it withstands fact checks, but it does not matter.
Westerners want to hear this crap because it makes them feel better.
When in the end it turned out, that the Red Army's objective losses were on par with Germany - most of them were simply shocked.
So much shocked that deny these facts.

Just look at the ongoing UkroWar.
We have a very similar scenario and processes.
Westerners want to believe in things.
Ukraine is a small, innocent democracy being gang raped by the Mordor horde of orcs.
It stands bravely and kills them by thousands, yet it will be drowning in orc blood.
But hey, they were winning! And still will win!

I was presenting the detailed numbers a few weeks ago, but the core of the problem is that all the western bibliography repeats the same dumb arguments.
The Red Army was outnumbered when the Barbarossa started. Seriously outnumbered.
Reich was being supported by most of Europe in both resources and manpower.
They have absorbed the waste stocks of war supplies from all conquered countries.
Only Czechoslovakia increased the number of tanks they had over the pre-war limits.
Skoda facility in Pilzen produced more military gear than the whole of the United Kingdom.

kvs wrote:I have my doubts about supplies of 152 mm shells from NK to Russia.   NK needs those shells for its own needs since it looks like WWIII is around the corner.
Russia is not short on production.    I think that there are all sorts of deals with NK including ICBM tech, but shell supply to the Ukr front is not one of them.
Perhaps this was a symbolic slap at South Korea for supply shells to the Ukr front via the USA.  
   

NK has piled stocks of ammunition they have been producing for 70 years.
All that ammo has some shell lifetime, and after that becomes unstable.
It is getting dangerous to operate.
The disposal process is costly and energy-consuming.
You need to melt down the TNT that was poured into the shell body at the production.
NK is, mildly saying, not in the best economic shape.
And in a serious energy deficit due to UN sanctions.
If you ask me - I highly doubt if they have ever bothered to dispose of it properly.
Which makes their warehouses overloaded - as easy as that.
Before 2014, Ukrainian "ammunition depots" were piles of rusty shells accumulated without any protection, in open air.
They didn't have enough warehouse infrastructure to accommodate the giant stocks left after the dissolution of the SU.

Giving old stocks away, de facto resolves this problem.
Those trains and ships don't go there empty.

The same applies to Iranians. A quadruple hike in sea transport on the Caspian.
What is there in all those containers, that required four time the numbers?
Apples?

ALAMO wrote:
NK is, mildly saying, not in the best economic shape.

Compared to whom?  Europe?  

NK might not be a neoliberal capitalist engine like SK, but I think the stories of NK ramshackle economy and technological backwardness are akin to the stories the feckless West has long told about Russia.  Same motivations, same authors, same paymasters.

Based on the collapse of Western narratives in Ukraine I think its safe to say that the "establishment wisdom" over the DPRK will also prove to be embarassingly wide of the mark.

IMO China and Russia should both pressure Kim to enact economic reforms.

IMO Garry should ba this clown above.

Big_Gazza wrote:
Compared to whom?  Europe?  

Compared to countries that don't face energy shortages and electrification rate is higher than half of the population.
So yes, accidentally it might be "Europe" in general.

A friend of mine visited Pyongyang two years ago.
Blackouts during the day were usual practice.
Sometimes there was no electricity all night long.

But I guess you have much better and closer observations.

IMO China and Russia should both pressure Kim to enact economic reforms.

North Korea is a sovereign country. China and Russia have no right to tell NK what to do... it is simply not their business to tell a neighbour how they should run their country.

If NK asks they can give advice and follow that up with support and aide, but NK has to want help first.

IMO Garry should ba this clown above.

If I banned members for their opinions then this would be the MiG-35 club... and probably very very quiet.

I like the MiG-35 but I am not a child, I understand that some people don't like it, or think it is just a smaller less capable Su-35 and they don't need both.

But actually it is different from the Su-35 and has different equipment which actually makes it better in some respects, but the critical area is operational costs where it has a significant advantage that would allow them to operate three or four times more aircraft for the same operational costs, or the same for less.

Compared to countries that don't face energy shortages and electrification rate is higher than half of the population.
So yes, accidentally it might be "Europe" in general.

A friend of mine visited Pyongyang two years ago.
Blackouts during the day were usual practice.
Sometimes there was no electricity all night long.

But I guess you have much better and closer observations.

I seem to remember California having similar problems while at the same time NOT being under economic sanctions by the entire western world.

Perhaps they want a floating nuclear power plant... how much 152mm artillery shells would pay for that... I am guessing a lot.

Lots of countries around the world are having problems with electricity shortages because the new solar and wind generation projects they all started don't seem to be living up to the hype.

Europe might not be having blackouts like North Korea, but they are destroying the planet by powering up coal fired power stations to prevent blackouts.

Since the beginning of this year, in 77 days, aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces have dropped more than 3,500 aerial bombs on Ukrainian positions, which is 16 times more than in 2023, said Deputy Minister of Defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Ivan Gavrilyuk.

Near Marinka, 18 VSU officers surrendered at once

Ukrainian fighters from the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade surrendered near the village of Georgievka. The VSU soldiers came under artillery fire during a rotation and realized that the best decision would be to save their lives.

The group commander contacted the Russian command and asked not to shoot.

Russia's Battlegroup Yug troops shot down a Ukrainian attack helicopter in the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) area

The air defense forces of the Battlegroup Yug destroyed a Ukrainian attack helicopter in the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) area using a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, the division commander of the anti-aircraft battery with the call sign "Tikhiy" (Quiet) told Sputnik.

The Buk (9K37) military anti-aircraft missile system is designed to destroy aerodynamic targets under radio jamming, flying at speeds of up to 800 meters per second at low and medium altitudes, and at ranges of up to 30,000 meters.

"They gave us an instruction from the command post to detect an enemy vehicle. The height of it was somewhere around 500-600 meters. We calmly 'took' it, escorted it about 10 kilometers, already knew it was coming at us -- and as soon as it entered the target zone, we destroyed it," said "Quiet" of the downed Ukrainian helicopter.

The commander said the target was destroyed at a distance of about 7-8 kilometers from the line of contact. The hunt for this target had been going on for quite some time, and the Ukrainian helicopter was ambushed. "According to our information, it flew on 'dodgers' (armament) so, most likely, it was an attack helicopter. We were hunting for this target for quite a long time. Surveillance and warning means were also deployed. In the end we solved the problem comprehensively and managed to hit the target," said "Quiet."

Western media makes rare acknowledgement of heavy Ukrainian losses



Business Insider, a US media outlet, offered a rare bit of candor on the Donbass proxy conflict with an article acknowledging heavy Ukrainian losses in the northeast.

The reporting by way of the UK’s Times of London featured testimony from a Ukrainian fighter identified as “Lemur.”

“We can barely hold the line, let alone move forward,” a Ukrainian soldier confided of efforts in the crucial Kharkov region. “We are losing so many people, there are so many bodies we can’t even bring them all back.”

Russia has made gains in the area after liberating the southern city of Avdeyevka last month. Crucial to the country’s success is its air superiority, allowing Moscow to wipe out Ukrainian fortifications with glide bombs, the Western media noted.

The newspapers, citing observers, hope for F-16 fighter jets to arrive in Ukraine to enhance air-to-air capability of the Kiev regime, but the much anticipated aircraft from Western backers aren’t expected to arrive for several more months.

Follow the link for more details (https://sputnikglobe.com/20240319/media-makes-rare-acknowledgement-of-heavy-ukrainian-losses-1117417702.html)

Western delusions shattered: Putin's firm stance on Ukraine highlights NATO's impotence

Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst joined Sputnik’s Critical Hour and explained Putin’s approach to a possible battle with NATO, as French President Emmanuel Macron has toyed with the idea of putting boots on the ground—a sentiment his Western counterparts have vehemently rejected.

“This business about Macron and some of the European leaders saying, 'oh, my God, we can't let Putin win in Ukraine,' it doesn't really square with what's reality here because there is no way to prevent Russia from winning in Ukraine except by use of nuclear weapons,” said McGovern.

“The Western press has taken to accusing Putin of threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons,” McGovern added. “[But] he has not raised the issue of tactical nuclear weapons. It's the US that is raising this, which makes me suspicious,” the analyst stressed.

“In my view, the whole name of the game is to keep it going without an obvious defeat until November, so that Biden has some reasonable prospect of not having to run having lost a war,” he said.

“For Russia, Ukraine is an existential issue; for the West, it is not. And [former US President Barack] Obama added that, by giving weapons to Ukraine, that would be a bad idea because that would give them the idea that they could prevail against a much more powerful Russia,” the former CIA analyst said.

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Russian Buk-M1 missile system shot down a Ukrainian attack helicopter

The hunt for this target had been going on for quite some time, a helicopter of the Ukrainian forces was ambushed in the Artemovsk area.

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GarryB wrote:

I seem to remember California having similar problems while at the same time NOT being under economic sanctions by the entire western world.
Perhaps they want a floating nuclear power plant... how much 152mm artillery shells would pay for that... I am guessing a lot.
Lots of countries around the world are having problems with electricity shortages because the new solar and wind generation projects they all started don't seem to be living up to the hype.
Europe might not be having blackouts like North Korea, but they are destroying the planet by powering up coal fired power stations to prevent blackouts.

California's blackouts are because of the prehistoric electrical grid and overwhelming consumption.
They have problems because everybody is turning on AC units.
Judge on your own how close is that to NK daily issues.

Spectacular and accurate hit by an LMUR guided missile on the position of Ukrainian FPV drone operators.

https://t.me/intelslava/56117

Orlovka has been liberated!

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the village of Orlovka, west of Avdeevka, was liberated today.

The remaining forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the western outskirts were cleared out.

The battles for Tonenkoe and Berdychi are still ongoing. Next - Semenovka.

Seoul Says

In the past Seoul claimed that Kim killed some uncles and girlfriends.
Only for them to show up alive later.

Record-breaking NATO base to be built near Ukraine border

In range of P-800 missiles. 
Great to hear that Romania has no other problems on hand. 

A quadruple hike in sea transport on the Caspian.

There is a lot of stuff that roughly 250 million people on both sides
of the little pond could need.
Keep in mind that both countries just set up a new payment system
and connected their banks. That made business a lot easier which always
leads to greater trade numbers.

California's blackouts are because of the prehistoric electrical grid and overwhelming consumption.

The first major blackouts in California happened thanks to Enron.

NK famines are biowarfare by Uncle Swineshit. He pulled the same attacks in Cuba and the USSR but failed. If NK could not manage
agriculture, then we would know all about it since it would be an ongoing crisis. Instead we have these very peculiar sporadic events
that one could try to link to weather but don't fit too well. NK has problems, but NATzO and aligned countries are not objective
observers.

Ouch, that will hurt ...

We have a resident of this forums who traveled to NK.  He can give insight.

That said, the whole NK economic disaster of the early 90's was a factor of natural disaster (earthquake) that devastated the agriculture industry and the Soviet unions collapse.  NK stagnated since then.

They still have a ton of industries that work. These are goods, especially in form apparel that would work very well (especially silk).  NK could also be a place for Russia to help produce machinery and other tech. NK can get a lot out of this deals with Russia while Russia can get cheaper products.

A decision has been made to relocate about 9,000 children from Belgorod region to other regions due to shelling by the AFU, Governor Gladkov said

Eugenio Argentina wrote: Spectacular and accurate hit by an LMUR guided missile on the position of Ukrainian FPV drone operators.

The non Telegram version

Ouch, that will hurt ...

Look like RBK´s.