War in Ukraine

They are being trained...to die. Big problem for the North Koreans is they only get to do it once.

 

I’ll try to answer your question seriously (even though this is a darkly humorous subject). They would “want” to go back to protect their families from reprisals. The mistake the one NK who can speak made was to half-ass his answer. Something along the lines of “I really want to stay in Ukraine, but I’ll go back if I have to.” To channel Mr. Miyagi, you need to be “karate, yes” or “karate, no” on this one. “Karate, guess so” will get you the worst-case scenario. If you’re going to say you want to stay in Ukraine, you had better be all in and just accept whatever consequences that might mean for yours back home. Or the complete opposite: you better say there’s no place like home, North Korea is the Worker’s Paradise, and you’ll swim back if you have to. Otherwise, you might just find yourself back in North Korea with all of the consequences that would go along with defection.

 

No hard evidence for NK soldiers. But on Too Hot this war has morphed into the Ukro-Korean War.

 

North Korean Soldiers Taken Alive by Ukraine

Video and analysis of the interrogation of the North Korean -- er, Asiatic Russians who only speak the North Korean dialect and lie their assess off that they're from North Korea -- occurs from about the 2:00-10:00 mark.

North Korean Soldiers were Captured in Kursk - This is What They Revealed about the Russian Army

This video is pretty good, too.

 

Interesting read. Russian drone operator took out a North Korean SAM. Significant as nobody knew NK SAM were in Ukraine and Russia air defense must be really strained if they are relying on NK sams

Russia blows up its own North Korea-made SAM in Kursk "friendly fire"

 

Surely, that was just a Russian SAM system with Asiatic features …

 

Looks like a Russia is killing North Koreans who are fighting for Ukraine. Can we just call this the North Korean War ?

 

Though reduced to fighting with shovels, Russian troops have Ukraine scraping the bottom of the barrel for manpower …

 

If putin needs Sams from NK he is struggling

 

this one says a NK mobile TOR missile system coupled with a radar system on board

and the russian drone operators posted the video claiming victory...doh


Russia welcomes North Korean air defense system with precise drone strike

The publication highlighted how unusual the beleaguered system looked - which might have been the cause for Russian forces' confusion, and its swift elimination as a result.

"It combined a large wheeled chassis with radar and launchers from the Tor missile system," the journalists wrote.

“The modified North Korean Tor was so unusual that the Russians apparently didn’t recognize it as their own. Russian drones spotted the North Korean vehicle and promptly struck it — wiping it out.”

To make things even more embarrassing, Russian troops proudly published footage of their glorious attack on their supposed enemy’s vehicle.

 

Serious response (even though this is funny): that is not necessarily the case. That system is probably a normal part of that unit's table of equipment. Let's say the DPRK deployed an infantry division to Russia. That division might have an organic number of low-altitude air defense systems that would not necessarily be tied into Russia's integrated air defense system. The Russian incompetence in this case, assuming it was incompetence, was failing to provide its own units with a recognition brief for equipment that is not standard to the Russian armed forces. In the U.S., we regularly fight as part of a coalition, so we are constantly drilling our people on what the allies have and what it looks like from various angles, in daylight, on night-vision, and in infrared. I will bet a failure to do that is closer to the truth of what happened here.

 

more damage to the cash machine. sanctioning the shadow fleet should have happened long ago. biden was more worried about driving up energy prices than he was choking the cash flow

Ukraine is targeting the compressor stations on Russia's last major gas export pipeline.

Putin's Energy Empire Suffers Triple Blow

 

Europe committing suicide by Russia ?

 

Sure, you have "evidence" and "credibility" on your side. But how can that compete with propaganda and the Twitter-verse?

 

Phone taps reveal depth of crisis among Russian forces in Ukraine

First time I've seen this open-source. This is one of the methods we use to measure not only the morale of rank-and-file Russians but also to confirm casualty numbers.

 

Ukraine has been using a U.S. "V-BAT" recon drone that is apparently impervious to Russian jamming since last June.

Alien-like US spy drone dodges Russian jamming, powering Ukraine’s defense

 

Ukraine completes a massive drone attack on infrastructure at Engels-2 air force base in the Saratov region 400 miles from the border. This is the second time in a week that Ukraine has attacked this facility. The attack damaged oil storage facilities on the base. The base is used by Tu-95 and Tu-160 bombers.

In other news, Ukraine used drones to attack a chemical plant in Bryansk that made artillery and rocket ammunition.

The attacks are part of what Ukraine is calling its "largest attack of the war" against Russian military facilities.

Ukraine says it carried out its 'largest attack' on Russian military facilities with missiles and drones

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...ukraine-peace-deal-is-months-away-2025-01-15/

• Summary

• Trump advisers are quietly backing away from the campaign promise to end the war on Day One
• New extended timeline - months, not days or weeks - recognizes intractability of conflict
• Putin sending mixed messages about readiness to resolve the conflict

Shocked, shocked I tell you.

 

Translation: Russia is implacable in its demands and there’s not a damn thing Trump can do about it notwithstanding his campaign boasts.

 

Grim, a nation dying …