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‌Def Mon (Twitter)

RT @shashj: Off the charts level of institutional vandalism this past week. Kennan Institute long gathered superb Russian military expertise at a time when the subfield was not terribly fashionable. DOGE & co actively destroying DoD intellectual capacity in their mindless rampage.

Dan (Twitter)

Chasiv Yar, 06.03.25.
Donbas Batt,🇺🇦NGU 18th Slovyansk Bde show new and clearer scenes of the mass🇷🇺BMD-2 attack along the railway, which they repulsed alongside🇺🇦24th Mechanised Bde.
The film shows 7 of the 12 BMD-2 destroyed/abandoned that day, incl. 1 previously undocumented. https://twitter.com/moklasen/status/1897732793805005194#m

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

Пятиминутка русофобии
t.me/ombr_63/1152 t.me/Ci4team_4mb/340 t.me/shershni68/513 t.me/official24ombr/997 #RussianUkrainianWar

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

@__zinchenko: "Воїни 6-го полку Сил спеціальних операцій “Рейнджер”", пишут, что есть, по крайней мере

Ukraine Battle Map (Twitter)

@secretsqrl123: It’s not enough to support an entire military logistically; they need tanks, IFVs, helicopters, artillery, ammunition, electronic warfare systems, tens of thousands of drones, and hundreds of fighter jets. You won’t be getting that with 10,000 or 20,000 troops, most of which will be ground troops with vehicles stationed 150km from the frontline. It’s not enough to defend even 5% of Ukraine. To defend Ukraine well, at least 300,000 additional troops are needed directly on the front.

They could have a couple dozen tanks with these peacekeepers, but that won't do anything when you compare that to a Russian military with 800k troops. At the end of the day, they would just withdraw since they would be outnumbered, too far from the front, and not obligated to defend Ukraine anyway.

The point is that they are a deterrent to invading a city like Kyiv. They won’t be getting into a full-scale war with Russia when Russia invades again. Even if Russia invades, they would be far from the border, and even if they were on the front, it wouldn’t be enough to defend properly.

The #1 problem for Ukraine in the war is its number of soldiers compared to Russia. Even well-equipped Ukrainian troops—tens of thousands of them— are needed to slow gradual Russian advances on just one front, let alone 10,000. If 10,000 Ukrainian troops were only on the Pokrovsk front, the whole front would collapse, and Russia would reach Pavlohrad. The peacekeepers won’t stop Russia from invading again, and Russia is set on doing that, which is why Russia does not want Ukraine in NATO because then other countries would be obligated to defend Ukraine even if 1 km2 gets occupied, but peacekeepers won’t be doing that.

The Lookout (Twitter)

RT @MT_Anderson: Great update as usual by @KaptainLOMA, if you don't follow him, you should

🚨UPDATE🚨
It would appear 🇷🇺Admiral Golovko is back patrolling just outside the anchorage in Tartus

Spotted on Sentinel 2 on 15 Mar 2025 ~12km NW of the piers
@Schizointel https://twitter.com/KaptainLOMA/status/1901229061017354402#m

Ukraine Battle Map (Twitter)

@secretsqrl123: The US isn’t sending any troops; they are dumping it all on Europe. UK and France are sending +10,000 troops; if Ukraine gets lucky, maybe several thousand more. Those troops will be stationed in Lviv, Kyiv, and Odesa. Let’s say Russia invaded Sumy after a ceasefire; those 10k peacekeepers (not enough to defend 5% of the frontline) aren't going on directly to fight the Russians; even if they did, it wouldn’t be enough, and the UK and France won’t be getting into a full-scale war with Russia. The peacekeepers are there as a deterrent and in insignificant numbers.

Those peacekeeping missions would likely stay in large cities like Kyiv and Odesa while Ukraine would be forced to defend the entire frontline from Russia.

It should have already happened; US, UK, French, and German troops should have been sent to Lviv and Odesa during the war, but it was seen as an escalation. Do Germany, the UK, and France have a lot of troops? Yes, they do.

Will even 10% of them be sent to Ukraine after the war? No

Would they get into a UK and France full-scale war at the cost of their soldiers when Russia invades Ukraine again? No, because they are not obligated to, and there wouldn’t be enough of them to stop Russia, and they would be in large cities far from the frontline.

Russia does not want peace; they are intent on invading Ukraine again. They get to keep all the territories they occupy, get to equip their military again, get sanctions taken off by the US, and they also know that the peacekeepers will not be defending Ukraine. It’s too little, and not enough, than what Ukraine needs to stop Russia.

Ukraine Battle Map (Twitter)

@kett_dean @secretsqrl123: No, that’s the opposite of what I am describing. And you described it perfectly, they are there to maintain a presence far from the front and monitor. They won’t be putting their soldiers to fight against Russia when Russia invades, they will simple withdraw or stay in Kyiv/Odesa

Dan (Twitter)

@klinger66 @Rebel44CZ @WritingFates @lost_warinua @GeoConfirmed @UAControlMap: thanks for your great work as always.

Dan (Twitter)

Just to clarify my first tweet, the new BMD-2 loss above means that 13 BMD-2 are now recorded as destroyed or abandoned in this attack on 6th of March.

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

Работа пилотов "Кліма-Team" "Птахів Мадяра", части 1-4
(полное видео на 15+ минут тут t.me/robert_magyar/1057 или тут https://youtu.be/Frj0B3--Odk?si=kL-5OwMZKv2aczw6) #RussianUkrainianWar