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Posted: 7/24/2024 9:20:57 PM EDT
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ISW assessment for July 24th.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-24-2024 |
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Posted: 7/24/2024 9:40:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/24/2024 9:43:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By heavily_armed:
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Posted: 7/24/2024 9:51:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By heavily_armed:
The only appropriate reply is to have a B2 drop roses on the Kremlin at 3 AM. Little notes attached saying "We <3 you too Vlad!" |
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Posted: 7/24/2024 10:29:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MFP_4073: we should have offered them every A-10 we had they'd be flying them by now Fixed. Russia started building up on the border in March of 2021. They said it was for 'exercises,' but by late July of 2021, it should have been apparent - given Putin's consistent rhetoric over the years and the big 2019 manifesto - that this was going to be the Big One. Had we sought to arm up Ukraine in 2021, maybe Putin could have been dissuaded. I think it's more likely that Putin would have accelerated his timetable, but getting the pipeline of obsolete US weapons systems flowing at that early date would still have been a help to Ukraine. |
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Posted: 7/24/2024 10:59:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GoldenMead]
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“Today’s Intrusion by Chinese H-6 “Badger” Strategic Bombers near the Aleutian Island Chain off the Coast of Alaska, is the First Incident ever where an Aircraft of the Chinese Air Force entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). After being Detected, the Bombers were Intercepted by U.S. Air Force F-16s and F-35s from Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, alongside CF-18s with the Canadian Air Force who are also Stationed at Elmendorf under NORAD Air Defense Command.
A Squadron of Canadian CF-18s arrived at Elmendorf a few weeks ago, to assist with NORAD Operations over Alaska.” Looks like we are beefing up Alaska’s defenses. It’s a big deal that this is the first time the Chinese have sent their Strategic Bombers that close to Alaska. More info on it: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/norad-fighters-intercept-russian-chinese-bombers-near-alaska/ |
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Posted: 7/24/2024 11:13:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Didn't Russia hit the factory where they were building Neptunes early in the war? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Originally Posted By Dracster: They've had several flavors of long range missiles in various stages of testing for 10-15 years. They really buckled down after 2014 and the Neptune became operational in 2021. The initial 2022 strikes probably set them back a bit. But, They've shown themselves to be pretty resourceful with adapting and overcoming. Didn't Russia hit the factory where they were building Neptunes early in the war? They claimed to have (and it’s possible) but that was never independently confirmed. IIRC they put the number at 18 Neptunes destroyed, without providing any justification for the number. |
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Posted: 7/24/2024 11:22:24 PM EDT
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Drone exchange again tonight.
⚠️ Sevastopol - loud! Let's clarify https://t.me/atypicalday/36726 ⏺OPERATIVE INFORMATION 💬 Tonight, a large number of regions of Ukraine were attacked by enemy UAVs! In particular, Kyiv was also targeted by enemy drones. During the extreme air alert, the occupying drones entered the capital from various directions, but all were destroyed by the forces and means of air defense (type and number of strike drones - in the reports of the Air Force). As of this moment, there is no damage or casualties in Kyiv. Operational summaries are updated and clarified. You can sincerely thank the air defense soldiers for their excellent work. But at the same time, no one should forget about the implementation of personal safety measures. Don't ignore the warning signals! When an air alert is announced, always go to the shelter! Keep yourselves! ▫️ Serhii Popko, head of the KMVA https://t.me/VA_Kyiv/7055 |
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Posted: 7/24/2024 11:26:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: 10:10 
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Posted: 7/24/2024 11:27:12 PM EDT
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Russia still being Russia.
 https://www.baikal-daily.ru/news/20/482518/ |
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Posted: 7/24/2024 11:36:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/24/2024 11:39:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GoldenMead: “Today’s Intrusion by Chinese H-6 “Badger” Strategic Bombers near the Aleutian Island Chain off the Coast of Alaska, is the First Incident ever where an Aircraft of the Chinese Air Force entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). After being Detected, the Bombers were Intercepted by U.S. Air Force F-16s and F-35s from Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, alongside CF-18s with the Canadian Air Force who are also Stationed at Elmendorf under NORAD Air Defense Command. A Squadron of Canadian CF-18s arrived at Elmendorf a few weeks ago, to assist with NORAD Operations over Alaska.” Looks like we are beefing up Alaska’s defenses. It’s a big deal that this is the first time the Chinese have sent their Strategic Bombers that close to Alaska. More info on it: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/norad-fighters-intercept-russian-chinese-bombers-near-alaska/ Lot of stuff will go unnoticed China got away with theft of nuclear submarine secrets a couple years ago and that news didn’t even make the front page or get discussed at all here in GD when I posted a thread |
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Posted: 7/24/2024 11:42:54 PM EDT
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The Russian police, not the courts, will decide in the future on the expulsion of foreigners
A deputy of the State Duma of that country proposes to pay local citizens who reveal the location of migrants. Moscow 24 Jul 2024 - 18:56 CEST The Ministry of Internal Affairs, not the courts, will henceforth take the decision in Russia to expel illegally staying aliens. The State Duma approved the new policy on the treatment of migrants in third reading on Tuesday, July 23, a rule that is complemented by cash prizes for citizens who betray. From now on, according to the law, the police will be able to decide independently on the expulsion of immigrants. This, the Russian legislature said, will reduce the costs associated with transporting "guests" from neighboring countries to the courts, and quickly deport those who have broken the law, local media reported. The new provision will affect migrants who have no legal grounds to stay in Russia. Foreigners who fall under this regime will not be able to change their place of residence in the country without permission, as well as travel outside the region or drive vehicles. During the session of the body, Sergei Karginov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, proposed awarding monetary prizes to Russian citizens who reveal the places of residence of illegal immigrants. According to the Russian site Pg12, which referred to Karginov's Telegram channel, he said he had sent his proposal to the Minister of the Interior of the Russia Federation, Vladimir Kolokoltsev. Specifically, Karginov suggested rewarding a sum of 100,000 rubles (almost $1,200) for informing about the location of migrants, which, he said, will help uncover illegal "migration networks" and create a barrier against the flow of illegal immigrants, who, he said, cause increasingly violent crimes. The regulations approved by the Duma for the expulsion of irregular aliens extend the list of reasons on which migrants can be expelled from the country. From now on, according to the law, foreigners are obliged to take care of the environment, "respect the diversity of lifestyles in Russia," as well as "traditional spiritual and moral values." Violation of these rules can lead to deportation. At the same time, it is envisaged that a register of controlled persons will be created, which will contain information on those who are subject to restrictions arising from this condition. The new measures were presented to the Government of the Russia Federation on March 29, following the terrorist attack on the Crocus Shopping Center, near Moscow, in which almost 150 people died. Numerous Cubans have been fined and expelled from the Eurasian nation in recent months, after being detained in an irregular situation. The rule of staying for a maximum of 90 days in Russia every six months, as well as the visa exemption to travel to that country, is welcomed by many Cubans, who go to the Eurasian nation to do shopping tourism, work or looking to emigrate, even using Russia as a bridge to cross into Europe. However, growing xenophobia and the terrorist attack on Sunday, June 23, against places of worship in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, in the far south of the country, in which at least 19 people were killed and 25 injured, pushed for the tightening of control measures on foreigners. https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1721840160_56210.html |
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Posted: 7/24/2024 11:45:51 PM EDT
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Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine’s drones
Ukraine hopes its new drone command will help it regain the upper hand Vadym sukharevsky is used to a seat in history’s front row. Ten years ago, in April 2014, his machineguns were the first to fire in Ukraine’s anti-terror operation, as the initial phase of the armed struggle against Russia was known. At the time, Ukraine’s forces were under a strict “no fire” order, even as Russian proxy fighters ran amok in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk. But the then lieutenant had little hesitation when it became clear that the enemy was preparing an ambush. “See it, shoot it,” he told his soldiers at the time. His fast thinking is credited with saving a dozen lives. The phrase is now embroidered on the gaming chair that swivels at his new command desk. Freshly installed as the head of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, the first position of its kind in the world, Colonel Sukharevsky is shaping history once again. The 39-year-old commander has long stood out as a new type of military boss: a technological whizz, whose focus on electronic warfare and drones as a battalion and then brigade commander caught the attention of those at the very top. But now he must deliver across the board in the fastest-developing arena of war. He must do so against a much better resourced enemy, backed by Iran, North Korea and probably China and in a uniquely challenging environment of jamming and other electronic warfare; and with a low and uncertain budget. He believes he can do it. His new command office in downtown Kyiv hums with the chaotic buzz of an underfunded startup. The air smells of fresh paint, coffee and shisha tobacco, to which Colonel Sukharevsky appears addicted. Wires, drone-boxes and computers lie scattered over the floor. Swords, an extensive collection of daggers, and Warhammer models, which he glues together in spare evenings, complete the eccentric image of a modern-day Cossack hetman. Speaking quickly, his sentences punctuated by an infectious laugh, Colonel Sukharevsky recounts how he became obsessed by the potential of unmanned systems in the Donbas in 2014. He realised that he needed eyes in the sky to help guide artillery. His actual drone war started in 2016. “Soon, I wasn’t firing a single mortar without the sights of a reconnaissance drone. By 2017 we were using uavs to drop grenades.” He later observed the Russians were adopting his tactics, a pattern that persists today. Russia’s full-scale invasion marked a step change in drone warfare. “February 2022 was the start of school for everyone,” says Colonel Sukharevsky. Initially it was Ukraine that got ahead, developing an army of cheap, small drones to counter Russia’s overwhelming artillery and missile advantage. That has since changed. Now, enemy drones outnumber Ukrainian ones six to one. But superior tactics and innovation still keep Ukraine competitive. Ukraine tends to be first in developing and adopting new technologies, driven by a policy of diversification. Russia’s advantage in mass production means it can adapt and scale up much faster. The pace of change is frenetic, with feedback loops meaning that some software is updated every few hours. By the time Russian drones reach the front lines, Ukraine has sometimes already developed counter-measures, Colonel Sukharevsky claims. “Quantitatively Russia is ahead, but qualitatively we are keeping them at parity.” Ukraine hopes its new drone command will help it regain the upper hand. Colonel Sukharevsky says Western military leaders he has spoken to since his appointment on June 10th are impressed by the scope of his new role. “It’s the most decisive change in military organisation since the creation of air forces in the beginning of the 20th century,” he says. “Ukraine was the first.” Yet changing strategies within the current system will be far from straightforward. Not every Ukrainian commander is ready to embrace the new vision, and much of the job will be about bringing together disparate cultures inside the army, some of them Soviet legacies. He says his organisation will take about a year to fully form. Colonel Sukharevsky says drones will not overturn the fundamental principles of warfare. The primary role of artillery or infantry are undiminished, he says: “Military operations still depend on combined arms, and other kinds of troops will continue to be just as important.” Drones will serve as a complement to traditional forces, offering better reconnaissance and more precise strike capability at a reduced risk to soldiers. The commander dismisses headlines promising “killer drone swarms” operating independent of human control. Yes, Ukraine already employs ai to optimise functionality—for example if the link between drone and pilot is lost. But the use, he says, is specialised and limited. “As a commander I will never relinquish the bulk of decision making to artificial intelligence… in the distant future we need such a decision, we’ll look at it carefully. But you don’t need ai to create swarms.” Colonel Sukharevsky says Ukraine’s problems are far more immediate than this theoretical discussion. The world has changed: Russia has aligned itself with other tyrannies, and its drone programme is benefiting from the tie-up. Ukraine is an “outpost…standing between the civilised and authoritarian world”, but is not sure what it can expect from its backers. Funding for drone innovation is insufficient. “We are fighting for our freedom, but we don’t have any idea of the resources we have to get us there.” He jokes that he has two predictions for the direction of drone warfare: one bad and the other fairly bad. “We are the ones already in the trenches. You can’t scare us. But the rest of the world? They might be in for a rude awakening.” ■ https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/07/22/vadym-sukharevsky-the-man-in-charge-of-ukraines-drones |
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Posted: 7/25/2024 12:23:13 AM EDT
[Last Edit: CarmelBytheSea]
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More China military in Europe https://www.newsweek.com/china-navy-ships-arrive-russia-st-petersburg-navy-day-1929417
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Posted: 7/25/2024 12:54:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
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Posted: 7/25/2024 1:05:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/25/2024 1:09:02 AM EDT
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Shouvalov
Do I consider the coming war with a global enemy (NATO or other forms of the Western coalition) the right decision? Every officer has an opinion that he is allowed to keep to himself. The question here is different: such a big war is inevitable. That is why the agreement in the form of a “truce” will be constantly disrupted: the more the global enemy can prepare, the more profitable it will be for him. Likewise, the longer we punch a concrete wall with our foreheads, unwinding our own military resources on the Ukrainian bridgehead, the more profitable it will be for the future global enemy. Military force is used where it was not possible to achieve the desired goals by all other means. It is no longer possible to come to an agreement with Ukraine by definition, but there is no option to add military force given the current introduction. Understand it as you wish, something else is important here: the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine and the continuation of hostilities there are equally disastrous options for us. In the current conditions and with the current introductions. Meanwhile, the global enemy is doing its job: on the night of July 18, the Russian Black Sea Fleet conducted exercises to protect military infrastructure in the waters of Lake Donuzlav. At the same time, the enemy struck there - appreciate the cynicism of the situation. We won’t talk about our losses, but it makes no sense to deny that they were there. For the average person, this microscopic episode of the war is uninformative, but believe me: it is in such episodes (let’s add here attacks on nuclear threat response facilities) that the enemy’s plan lies. The correct political attitude on 02.24.22 would have been enough for the military to complete its task. With the resources that we had then and against the resources that Ukraine had, the task was feasible. It didn’t work out with the political conditions, and now we have come to today’s point. Judging by everything that is happening, the West is well aware of the inevitability of an imminent military clash with us. And they are getting ready. They prepare at an accelerated pace, with mistakes, but in greenhouse conditions. What are we doing at this time? I don't know anymore. We have turned on the mode of military annihilation with Ukraine. Any tactical success on our part will lead to an immediate increase in assistance to Ukraine, any tactical success on their part will lead to an immediate weakening of this assistance. Because the West doesn’t need a strong Ukraine exactly as much as it doesn’t need a strong Russia - we are one and the same for them, so maintaining the current impasse is justified for them. Our army, in the current realities, has done more than was possible. And he will do a lot more. The coming big war with the West, with any negative input for us, does not bode well for them. Even taking into account the fact that our situation is even worse (and will only get worse). I am now looking at the situation in one of the Caucasus regions. We already won there once, now we can’t choke on the fruits of such a victory. Now very soon they will try to feed us another “victory”. Well, then a big war will follow. But it seems to me that I will no longer be able to see its outcome. Serve, you fool, you'll get a badge. By the way, I have a lot of badges. https://t.me/shouvalov/210 |
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Posted: 7/25/2024 1:20:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/25/2024 1:41:21 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/25/2024 2:15:57 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Prime]
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An MI-28 helicopter crashed in the Zhizdra region. A task force and rescuers are working at the crash site
https://t.me/Shapsha_VV/12002 Both crew members of the Mi-28 attack helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which crashed in the Kaluga region, were killed. Unlike the Ka-52 Alligator, the Mi-28 is not equipped with a crew ejection system. #Russia https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/138277 https://ria.ru/20240725/mi-28-1961857534.html  ❗️ A helicopter of the new anti-drone unit crashed in the Russian Kaluga region The Defense Ministry said that the crew was killed. The number of people on board, as well as their names, the ministry did not name. The Mi-28 crew usually consists of two or three people. The cause of the crash is called engine failure. During the flight to the point of deployment, the crew detected a fire in the cockpit, writes Mash. According to the telegram channel, the helicopter was returning from a combat mission in the Bryansk region. 
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Posted: 7/25/2024 2:19:49 AM EDT
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In Russia, a complex of "hunting" for operators of FPV drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been created
Developer Stanislav: a complex for hunting for operators of FPV drones "Cobra" has been created MOSCOW, July 25 - RIA Novosti. In Russia, a complex of "hunting" for Ukrainian operators of the Cobra UAV has been developed, made in the form of a pocket game console, the developer of this product, the creator of the mobile electronic warfare system "Breakwater" Stanislav (full name is not given for security reasons) told RIA Novosti. "We have developed and have already begun testing the Cobra complex, which is designed to search for enemy UAV operators. The development is capable of calculating the signal of the calculations of UAV operators of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their repeaters and plotting their coordinates on the map in real time. The product is made in a mobile form factor, outwardly it is essentially not much different from a handheld game console like PSP, which makes the Cobra convenient and easy to operate," he said. According to the developer of the Cobra, the relevance of this invention is due to the fact that today UAV operators are one of the most priority targets at the front, while it is extremely difficult to detect them. Currently, the Cobra is being prepared for experimental combat operation in the NVO zone, after which the system will be finalized and go into mass production. https://ria.ru/20240725/kobra-1961847933.html |
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Posted: 7/25/2024 2:22:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/25/2024 2:31:58 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/25/2024 2:42:09 AM EDT
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Sports, national identity, and the role of ultras in national defense.
The long-awaited premiere! We present a new part of the documentary series "Resistance and Unity", in which famous Ukrainian athletes, coaches and bloggers tell: How does high-achieving sport shape national identity? How did Russia try to influence the Ukrainian and international sports community? Can sport be "out of politics"? See about this and other things in the project of the Main Directorate of Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Media Center "Resistance and Unity. Athletes explain how not to lose the future."  ?????????? ?????????, ?? ?? ???????? ????????. ??????? ?? ??????? https://x.com/StratCom_AFU/status/1816361025874112845 Tomorrow, the 2024 Olympics will start. 140 athletes will represent Ukraine. 487 Ukrainian athletes will never again be able to compete - they died since the start of the full-scale invasion. Over 4,000 more Ukrainian athletes are defending Ukraine today. 📹: Suspilne
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Posted: 7/25/2024 2:46:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prime: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTTt3aFWUAEfl6b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
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2 of my past units emphasized weather into operational planning and wanting subordinates to pay attention to how significant of a factor weather was |
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Posted: 7/25/2024 2:55:22 AM EDT
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Also worked with USAF weather personnel back when I was in with 19th SFG. The first time I ever saw gray berets
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Posted: 7/25/2024 3:04:58 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/25/2024 3:11:36 AM EDT
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The Illicit Flow of Technology to Russia Goes Through This Hong Kong Address
Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine. Many were shipped through a cluster of shell companies in Hong Kong. By Aaron Krolik and Paul Mozur Aaron Krolik and Paul Mozur spent more than a year investigating how restricted technology flows to the front lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine. July 25, 2024 Updated 12:34 a.m. ET From a nondescript seventh-floor office at 135 Bonham Strand near Hong Kong’s financial district, at least four companies are operating with a shadowy mission: facilitating the illicit trade of Western technology to Russia. Shell companies at that address have acquired millions of restricted chips and sensors for military technology companies in Russia, many of which have been placed under sanctions by the U.S. government, according to an examination by The New York Times. The companies have names like Olax Finance and Rikkon Holding. Their office, with a faded 704 number on the door, appears unoccupied. No one answered during a visit last month. An ad for air-conditioning hung in the crack of the door. Yet the companies are a crucial link in a chain connecting U.S. research laboratories to Chinese factories, Russian arms makers and the battlefields of Ukraine — and a sign that the U.S. government and tech giants cannot control where their technology goes. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, nearly $4 billion of restricted chips have poured into Russia from more than 6,000 companies, including those at Hong Kong’s 135 Bonham Strand, according to a Times analysis of Russian customs data, corporate records, domain registrations and sanctions data. The analysis examined nearly 800,000 shipments of restricted electronic goods into Russia since mid-2021. Even as the West sought to cut off access to semiconductors through trade restrictions, Russia established such a robust parallel supply chain that it imported almost the same number of critical chips in the last three months of 2023 that it did in the same period in 2021, according to the analysis of Russian customs data. The reliance on China for many of these chips also deepened, with transactions that were historically settled in U.S. dollars now increasingly executed in Renminbi, according to the analysis. The ability of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to flout Western trade restrictions has been one of the failings of the U.S.-led response to the war in Ukraine. Rather than become economically isolated, Russia has emerged from more than two years of conflict emboldened in its attacks against Ukraine. Russia’s technology imports begin with U.S. chipmakers selling their products to international distributors. The chip companies are not legally required to track where their goods go from there. Russia has then turned to the international distributors — which are in Hong Kong, China, Turkey, India, Serbia and Singapore, according to The Times’s analysis — to maintain a steady supply of tech. Some of the middlemen companies are part of longtime networks of offshore firms owned by Russian businessmen. At 135 Bonham Strand, four shell companies are owned by oligarchs linked to Russia’s military industrial base, according to The Times’s analysis. The speed with which the shell companies have sprung into action has overwhelmed Western regulators. As soon as one supplier is ferreted out, new ones sprout in its place, sometimes with the same owner. Some of the companies operate in the United States’ backyard, including one Russia-linked firm fronted — apparently unwittingly — by a Latvian-Canadian retiree in a two-story house in a Toronto suburb. A Commerce Department spokeswoman did not directly address how Russia had flouted trade restrictions and said U.S. export controls meant that “Russia is increasingly unable to meet its heightened wartime demand in the face of shrinking supply and is paying more for what it does get.” A Treasury Department spokeswoman said the agency had expanded its efforts to penalize those trading with Russia and supporting its war efforts. Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn’t respond to requests for comment. China plays an essential role. As the world’s leading assembler of electronics, it imports huge numbers of Western components and turns them into consumer electronics. Chinese firms can easily channel those supplies to Russia, industry experts said. In a statement, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it didn’t provide weapons or equipment to any party in the war in Ukraine. “What the United States should do is reflect on its responsibility for the Ukraine crisis rather than shirking responsibility to China,” the ministry said. With limited domestic manufacturing capacity, the United States has little option but to continue sending chips into China for manufacturing, packaging and assembly. “The tide has shifted,” said Elina Ribakova, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Washington think tank. “We have lost control of chip production.” Western Chips in Russian Missiles On July 8, a Russian missile tore into a children’s hospital in Kyiv, killing two and injuring 10, including seven children. The Kh-101 long-range cruise missile fired into Kyiv was laden with electronics from American chipmakers that had been restricted by trade controls, according to Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention. One important chip in the Russian missiles was the Field Programmable Gate Array, or F.P.G.A., made by U.S. companies such as Advanced Micro Devices and Intel. The chip is used in fire alarms, internet modems, missiles and drones to process data at lightning speed and is banned for sale to Russia. Since the war began, Russia has imported more than $390 million in F.P.G.A.s, according to Russian customs data. The shipments are just one sliver of the Kremlin’s efforts to sidestep sanctions and maintain supplies of critical technology. The Kremlin has long understood its reliance on Western technology to be a vulnerability. In 2020, Russia tried to kick-start domestic chip production with a plan to bolster electronics manufacturing over the next decade. Those efforts largely failed. Instead, Russia cultivated relationships with large U.S. semiconductor manufacturers, importing chips from companies such as Intel and electronics distributors like DigiKey. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, those ties were upended. The U.S. government swiftly announced sweeping restrictions to hamper Russia’s ability to acquire crucial technologies. “Russia’s access to cutting-edge U.S. and partner country technology will halt,” Thea D. Rozman Kendler, an assistant secretary of commerce, said at the time. Western companies soon exited Russia. Their products did not. Russia speedily reoriented supply chains, seeking out friendly countries and ports willing to service its ships. Transshipment hubs popped up in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco. The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on companies and individuals in those countries. China emerged as the dominant chip supplier to Russia. According to the Semiconductor Industry Alliance, 29 percent of all semiconductors pass through China. Texas Instruments, which makes chips found in the Shahed and Lancet drones — two of Russia’s deadliest military-grade drones — has a chip assembly and testing factory in the central Chinese city of Chengdu. Micron Technology, another U.S. chipmaker, fabricates chips in Xi’an. F.P.G.A.s flow in huge numbers to Chinese manufacturers, which put them in products that are sold globally. In emailed responses, AMD, Texas Instruments, Micron and Intel said they opposed the use of their technology by Russia and that they complied with U.S. export controls. “In the first few weeks of the war, there really was something of an expectation that these were going to be crushing measures,” Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said of the sanctions. But “we underestimated the difficulty of the U.S. to actually enforce in a market like that.” The Russians of 135 Bonham Strand In 2008, Alexey Chichenev, a Russian businessman, took control of a company called Saril Overseas based in Hong Kong. It was one entity in a growing portfolio of shell companies at 135 Bonham Strand, led by Mr. Chichenev, a Russian expatriate in Hong Kong, and his partner, Mikhail Vinogradov. Over the next decade, the pair began managing nearly a dozen shell companies with names like Syssoft and Toren Limited, which worked in international property development and trade, according to news releases and the companies’ websites. One Bonham Strand firm, Olax Finance, said it had helped finance a water purification project with Costner Industries Venezuela, a company owned by the actor Kevin Costner. Mr. Costner’s publicist did not respond to requests for comment. The firms at 135 Bonham Strand used byzantine offshore ownership structures that intersected with holding companies in the British Virgin Islands and Cyprus, according to corporate registration documents. Shares of the companies were transferred like baseball cards between Russian businessmen with addresses in places like Vienna, Tel Aviv and Paris, according to Hong Kong corporate registration records. Two companies at 135 Bonham Strand, Rikkon and Midicon, were owned separately by Andrey Kozitsyn and Igor Kudryashkin, the former directors of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, an industrial conglomerate in Russia, according to public records. The Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company has ties to Mr. Putin, weapons manufacturing and Russian organized crime, according to the Treasury Department and publicly available documents. The Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company did not respond to a request for comment. It’s unclear whether Mr. Kozitsyn and Mr. Kudryashkin are still affiliated with the company, and they could not be reached. In 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea, Mr. Kozitsyn and Mr. Kudryashkin transferred ownership of Rikkon and Midicon to Mr. Chichenev and Mr. Vinogradov. By 2022, Mr. Chichenev and Mr. Vinogradov controlled at least 11 companies at 135 Bonham Strand, according to Hong Kong’s corporate registry. Only two of those companies, Kvantek and Superchip, sold chips to Russia before the war in Ukraine. But as restrictions and sanctions set in, more jumped into action, according to The Times’s analysis of Russian customs data. One Business Address; a Growing Web of Supply Lines Saril Overseas, for one, had no record of exports to Russia until six months after the war began. Its first shipment, in July 2022, was a batch of F.P.G.A.s valued at $95,000 and made by AMD. Saril Overseas later expanded its trade to several Russian companies. By this year, it had sold nearly $9 million of restricted semiconductors, according to the analysis of Russian customs data. At least one of the shell companies, Kvantek, has since shut down its website and appears to have ceased operations, according to The Times’s analysis. In an interview at the door of his Hong Kong apartment, Mr. Chichenev said he did not know who was behind the companies and had forgotten how they were transferred to his name. “You see, it is a friend of my friend in Moscow, so they asked me to help them,” he said. Mr. Chichenev said he was contacted because he lived in Hong Kong, working as the director of a separate company. He said he was not a tech expert and simply helped get chips from the United States and Taiwan to China. “It was out of my control,” he said. “I just made payments to the U.S. or Taiwan.” His 135 Bonham Strand companies were being shut down, he added. “At the moment, I just enjoy life,” he said. “But before, yes, we had several companies, but now everything is closed.” Mr. Vinogradov did not respond to emailed questions. Colin Cohen, a lawyer based in Hong Kong whose firm, Boase Cohen & Collins, is listed as the secretary on many 135 Bonham Strand companies, declined to comment, citing client confidentiality. One beneficiary of the continued tech flows was Staut, a Russian military electronics supplier. In July 2023, the Treasury Department imposed restrictions on Staut to cut it off from U.S. technology. That posed a problem for the 135 Bonham Strand companies, which had sold over $21 million in restricted chips to Staut. Yet within months, several Bonham Strand firms had shifted their shipments from Staut to two new companies, Chipdevice and Leningrad Microwaves. While appearing independent on paper, Chipdevice and Leningrad Microwaves shared ownership with Staut and another Russian military electronics supplier, Fregat, according to Russian corporate records and domain registrations. Chipdevice and Leningrad Microwaves have received over $17 million in restricted chips since the war began. By late last year, the United States had placed Chipdevice and Fregat under sanctions. Leningrad Microwaves remains unaffected. Last month, the Treasury Department also designated Mr. Chichenev and several of the 135 Bonham Strand firms for economic sanctions. It has not take action against Mr. Vinogradov. Still, the U.S. government remains at least a step behind. Since the war started, the Office of Foreign Asset Control, an agency in the Treasury Department that administers the U.S. sanctions program, has designated at least 4,234 Russian individuals and companies for economic restrictions, according to OpenSanctions, a sanctions data provider. A Retiree’s Suburban Home On the porch of his house in a leafy Toronto suburb, Edward Poberezkin, a 67-year-old Latvian-Canadian retiree, recently recounted his connection to a company that had shipped restricted technology to Russia. A decade ago, Mr. Poberezkin said, a businessman from Russia paid him a nominal fee to register as an “agent for service” for Alburton Enterprises, a company based in the British Virgin Islands. The registration made Mr. Poberezkin and his home the designated addressee and address for official documents for Alburton’s Canadian headquarters. When a Times reporter visited with questions about Alburton this month, Mr. Poberezkin said he was “very surprised.” The company has shipped more than $9 million in restricted technology to Russia since early 2022, according to The Times’s analysis of Russian customs data. Mr. Poberezkin, who is Alburton’s only publicly listed director, said he had not heard from the company or received any mail related to it in nine years. “I do not have any contact with the Russian government,” he said, adding that he did not know how his name or address were being used and did not know Alburton’s work. He said he intended to remove himself as the company’s Canadian representative. While Mr. Poberezkin’s story couldn’t be independently verified, it was characteristic of Russian efforts to pull in businesspeople — some of whom may be unwitting and who often have a background linked to Russia — to sidestep sanctions, experts said. That Russia-related businesses dared to do it in a major city of a U.S. ally illustrated how unabashed their evasions could be. A Canada Border Services Agency spokesman said it could not provide details about Alburton’s operations. Alburton has other international links. In 2019, it shipped thousands of pounds of electrical cables to Russia through Levitus Trading, a company in the British Virgin Islands, according to the analysis of Russian customs data. Levitus was once the sole owner of Olax, a company now owned by Mr. Chichenev at a familiar address: 135 Bonham Strand in Hong Kong. Reporting was contributed by Adam Satariano, Tiffany May, Alexandra Stevenson and Vjosa Isai. Methodology To calculate Russia’s imports of restricted chips, The New York Times analyzed Russian customs data from a company that gathers global trade information from governments worldwide. The company asked not to be named in order to preserve its access to sensitive trade data from Russia and other countries. The Times verified the customs data through interviews with experts, crosschecks against other data providers and interviews with companies included in the data. The Times specifically looked at data on electronic goods that fell within an international trade classification denoted by the numbers 8542.3. That category includes chips that the U.S. Commerce Department has designated as sensitive goods. The United States restricted those products from Russia in 2022 after the war in Ukraine began. The Times analyzed all Russian imports of such goods between July 1, 2021, and Jan. 4, 2024. Each trade record included the name of the importer, the exporter, the brand of chip, its value and its number of units. That information was used to calculate aggregates. Shipment values were calculated based on the exchange rate at the date of trade. To discern whether any of the exporters had been placed under sanctions by the United States, The Times compared the Russian customs data with U.S. Treasury sanctions designations using information from Open Sanctions, a sanctions data provider. The Times reviewed hundreds of corporate filings from Hong Kong and Ontario, as well as public records compiled by commercial services, to determine the owners of the shell companies. The Times also reviewed documents from the Panama Papers, a collection of leaked financial documents published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Paul Mozur is the global technology correspondent for The Times, based in Taipei. Previously he wrote about technology and politics in Asia from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul. More about Paul Mozur https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/technology/russia-sanctions-chips.html |
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: 2 of my past units emphasized weather into operational planning and wanting subordinates to pay attention to how significant of a factor weather was It is often dramatically underappreciated. |
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Posted: 7/25/2024 3:50:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FreefallRet: Testing our reaction time Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FreefallRet: Originally Posted By heavily_armed:
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Posted: 7/25/2024 4:14:04 AM EDT
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 ????Sniper team “RONIN” ??Team leader INTERVIEW ??  ??? ?? ????: ???-???? «??-??????????????» ????????? ??? ??????, ??? ???????.FPV-?????-Team |
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Posted: 7/25/2024 4:28:26 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/25/2024 6:17:28 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/25/2024 6:18:31 AM EDT
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Pilots are Ok, both of the them were killed in accident. 
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Posted: 7/25/2024 8:25:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryTime to move the company out of there, there is a pattern.  |
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Posted: 7/25/2024 8:59:46 AM EDT
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Am I confused or are the orc drones launching from the same area AGAIN?
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Posted: 7/25/2024 9:01:26 AM EDT
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This was obviously posted with a delay, russians already know that some of our drones fly at <500mhz and this is likely a temporary solution for a few months. A new one is already there and being tested as well, but will be published with a significant delay 🤫 
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Posted: 7/25/2024 9:04:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GoldenMead: “Today’s Intrusion by Chinese H-6 “Badger” Strategic Bombers near the Aleutian Island Chain off the Coast of Alaska, is the First Incident ever where an Aircraft of the Chinese Air Force entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). After being Detected, the Bombers were Intercepted by U.S. Air Force F-16s and F-35s from Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, alongside CF-18s with the Canadian Air Force who are also Stationed at Elmendorf under NORAD Air Defense Command. A Squadron of Canadian CF-18s arrived at Elmendorf a few weeks ago, to assist with NORAD Operations over Alaska.” Looks like we are beefing up Alaska’s defenses. It’s a big deal that this is the first time the Chinese have sent their Strategic Bombers that close to Alaska. More info on it: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/norad-fighters-intercept-russian-chinese-bombers-near-alaska/ Weren't there f22s there not too long ago? |
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Posted: 7/25/2024 9:35:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Time to move the company out of there, there is a pattern. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLYsFt8WgAA1N5C?format=jpg&name=large They hate it when you program plc's with end times, and they don't catch it, and add the program into their fakes.
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Posted: 7/25/2024 9:36:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By doc540: Am I confused or are the orc drones launching from the same area AGAIN? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/183309/1000015514-3276439.jpg It’s an area protected by the U.S./West as “off limits” for Ukraine to strike. |
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