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Ukraine war: Were Russian soldiers shot after surrendering?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63676446

This has been an interesting incident. I don't usually watch videos of executions so glad the BBC put some stills in here. This figure that carried out the executions looks like a civilian rather than a soldier who executed those who were surrendering. Either way, Ukraine cannot let this go unpunished as it could harm their military strategy of getting Russian soldiers to surrender. The Ukrainians should investigate this with utmost urgency and hold those who did this to account.

It also provides a way for Ukraine to again differentiate itself from Russia in upholding international norms. It may be impossible to prevent a one-off war crime incident, but it is definitely possible to stop them from becoming systematic like the Russians have allowed to occur with impunity with their forces since the start of the war.
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The U.S. military has depleted considerable stocks of precision munitions and artillery shells after providing large sums of materiel to Ukraine for use in the ongoing struggle against Russia. However, the Pentagon maintains it will not part with so many weapons that its strategic reserves are threatened.
Several sources within the Defense Department told CNN that the U.S. military is running low on some of the weapons that have been the centerpiece of aid to Ukraine during nine months of high-intensity conflict. The officials specifically named Stinger man-portable air defense (MANPADS) missiles, AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM), guided multiple launch rocket systems (GMLRS), and Javelin anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), as well as artillery shells — over 1,000,000 of which have been supplied to Ukraine from the U.S. military alone. We have done reports on the inventories of each one of these systems and the reality that the ability to replenish them quickly is problematic.
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the Army announced on Nov. 17 that it awarded Lockheed Martin another $14.35 million contract to boost production of the HIMARS...
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The war in Ukraine is ecocide. All armed parties organized and or supported by state actors are responsible.
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ibm9000 wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:31 am
The U.S. military has depleted considerable stocks of precision munitions and artillery shells after providing large sums of materiel to Ukraine for use in the ongoing struggle against Russia. However, the Pentagon maintains it will not part with so many weapons that its strategic reserves are threatened.
Several sources within the Defense Department told CNN that the U.S. military is running low on some of the weapons that have been the centerpiece of aid to Ukraine during nine months of high-intensity conflict. The officials specifically named Stinger man-portable air defense (MANPADS) missiles, AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM), guided multiple launch rocket systems (GMLRS), and Javelin anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), as well as artillery shells — over 1,000,000 of which have been supplied to Ukraine from the U.S. military alone. We have done reports on the inventories of each one of these systems and the reality that the ability to replenish them quickly is problematic.
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the Army announced on Nov. 17 that it awarded Lockheed Martin another $14.35 million contract to boost production of the HIMARS...
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Possible Drone Boat Attack on Russian Port
by Dan Parsons and Tyler Rogoway
November 18, 2022

Introduction:
(The Drive) Unconfirmed footage of what is claimed to be a Ukrainian 'kamikaze' drone attack on Sheskharis Harbor in Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk has been published online by Russian media outlets.

The video appears to be from a closed-circuit television camera system that is trained on the harbor over a road. Cars can be seen driving across the frame before an explosion occurs pierside on the far side of the harbor.

It is impossible to see what sort of craft was used in the attack. A second clip — which comes after the first in the video embedded below — shows another angle of the blast.

Ukraine already has deployed the low-slung drone boats, which resemble kayaks and have a claimed range of about 500 miles, in an unprecedented attack on the Russian Navy's base in Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean Peninsula last month. Through a crowdfunding campaign, Ukrainian authorities hope to raise money enough to buy 100 of the black uncrewed surface vessels.
Read more here: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ ... sian-port



The War Zone examined the drone boats’ capabilities in depth in this previous piece:https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u ... reak-cover
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caltrek wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:35 pm
Here is a link to the cited article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u ... ons-stocks
Thanks, Caltrek. If more of us help ibm9000, perhaps he can learn how to use a forum. :P
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Massive explosion hits Russian Gazprom gas pipeline amid suspicions of sabotage linked to Putin's wa
Source: Daily Mail
An enormous explosion has hit one of Russia's major gas pipelines, sending flames and smoke billowing into the sky above and prompting fears it was a retribution attack for Vladimir Putin's continued invasion of Ukraine.

The fireball was visible for miles in every direction after hitting about 14 miles east of St Petersburg, the nation's second largest city and Putin's hometown.

One source said: 'Everything is automatic there, and such explosions by themselves, without external influence, are impossible.'

The blast is believed to have hit the main gas pipeline belonging to Gazprom Transgaz SPB, and could have potentially impacted up to one million people.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... raine.html
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Iran will help Russia build drones for Ukraine war, Western officials say
Source: Washington Post

After weeks of savaging Ukrainian cities with Iranian-made drones, Moscow has quietly reached an agreement with Tehran to begin manufacturing hundreds of unmanned weaponized aircraft on Russian soil, according to new intelligence seen by U.S. and other Western security agencies.

Russian and Iranian officials finalized the deal during a meeting in Iran in early November, and the two countries are moving rapidly to transfer designs and key components that could allow production to begin within months, three officials familiar with the matter said in interviews.

The agreement, if fully realized, would represent a further deepening of a Russian-Iranian alliance that already has provided crucial support for Moscow’s faltering military campaign in Ukraine, the officials said. By acquiring its own assembly line, Russia could dramatically increase its stockpile of relatively inexpensive but highly destructive weapons systems that, in recent weeks, have changed the character of the nine-month-old Ukrainian conflict.

Russia has deployed more than 400 Iranian-made attack drones against Ukraine since August, intelligence officials say, with many of the aircraft used in strikes against civilian infrastructure targets such as power plants. After being forced to abandon Ukrainian territory its forces captured early in the war, Moscow has shifted to a strategy of relentless air assaults on Ukrainian cities, using a combination of cruise missiles and self-detonating drones packed with explosives to knock out electricity and running water for millions of people.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... cret-deal/
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weatheriscool wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:49 pm Massive explosion hits Russian Gazprom gas pipeline amid suspicions of sabotage linked to Putin's wa
Source: Daily Mail
An enormous explosion has hit one of Russia's major gas pipelines, sending flames and smoke billowing into the sky above and prompting fears it was a retribution attack for Vladimir Putin's continued invasion of Ukraine.

The fireball was visible for miles in every direction after hitting about 14 miles east of St Petersburg, the nation's second largest city and Putin's hometown.

One source said: 'Everything is automatic there, and such explosions by themselves, without external influence, are impossible.'

The blast is believed to have hit the main gas pipeline belonging to Gazprom Transgaz SPB, and could have potentially impacted up to one million people.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... raine.html
This needs further corroboration as I have only been able to find this story in The Daily Mail
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