Russian losses

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Russia continues to suffer heavy losses in the war in Ukraine both in terms of personnel and equipment.

  • 1240 KIA
  • 3 Tanks
  • 4 AFVs
  • 73 Artillery systems
  • 6 MLRS
  • 2,305 UAVs
  • 265 Vehicles & fuel tanks
  • 1 Special equipment
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  1. MXT

    AFU reports:

    138 combat clashes
    89 aviation strikes
    270 KAB/CAB
    9,976 kamikaze drones
    3,379 shelling (42 from MLRS)
    Uncomfortably many KAB and suicide drones.
    1. MXT

      “5,000 American soldiers are to be moved from Germany within the next year, according to the Pentagon via Reuters.

      This announcement comes shortly after Donald Trump, following the dispute with Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, threatened to reduce the military presence in the country.

      The news agency writes that the decision to move soldiers appears as a statement from the American side against Merz’s claim that the US is humiliated by Iran in the peace negotiations.

      Sources tell CBS News that the decision was made because Donald Trump is dissatisfied with how allied countries have related to the US war with Iran.”

      https://omni.se/5000-amerikanska-soldater-ska-flyttas-fran-tyskland/a/Pdvx00

      “The US Department of Defense was completely unprepared for Donald Trump’s threat to move soldiers from Germany, and they were forced to quickly try to find out if the president was serious. Sources in the Pentagon tell Politico.

      – (The Pentagon) did not expect this and has not planned any form of relocation, says a source and adds:

      – But we have to take him seriously, because he was serious about it during his first term.

      In July 2020, Trump ordered the relocation of 12,000 soldiers from Germany, but it was never carried out.

      The new threat comes in the wake of a dispute with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has criticized the US war effort in Iran.”

      https://omni.se/kallor-pentagon-togs-pa-sangen-av-tysklandshotet/a/y5zM1E

  5. MXT

    Off-Topic, The Iran War

    “No other president has had to ask Congress for approval to wage war for more than 60 days, Donald Trump claimed once again late on Friday evening.

    BBC, which has gone to the historical archives and checked, writes that the situation regarding the War Powers Resolution law is a bit more complicated than that.

    George W. Bush, for example, sought and received Congress’s approval for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Barack Obama, on the other hand, claimed that it did not constitute a war when a coalition of NATO countries entered Libya in 2011. Therefore, he never asked for permission, even though the fighting lasted for seven months.

    David Schultz, professor of political science and law at Hamline University in Minnesota, notes that presidents have viewed the need for approval differently.

    – But that does not mean that what Trump is doing is right and proper.”
    https://omni.se/expert-inte-forsta-gangen-en-president-krigar-utan-att-fraga-kongressen/a/Rj1e08

    “The American president Donald Trump claims that the war against Iran is over, several media outlets report. In a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the acting chairman of the Senate, Trump writes that ‘hostilities that began on February 28 have ended,’ since no shooting has taken place since April 7 when a ceasefire came into effect.

    Since Trump did not seek Congress’s support before the attacks against Iran began, the operation according to the law should not have lasted longer than 60 days. But according to Trump’s reasoning, that time limit no longer applies if the war is already considered over.

    Previously, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reasoned in the same way, but the reasoning has been criticized by Democrats and interest organizations who argue that a ceasefire does not mean that the 60-day period is paused or reset.

    Trump announced on Friday that he had no intention of asking Congress for permission to continue the war, something that would have been necessary according to the War Powers Act.

    – No one has ever asked before […]. Why would we be different? Trump said according to The Guardian.”
    https://omni.se/trump-fientligheterna-med-iran-har-avslutats/a/2pvxlB

     

     

    1. MXT

      “Iran has submitted a new proposal for peace talks to the USA, reports Reuters citing the state news agency Irna. The proposal was handed over on Thursday evening to Pakistan, which acts as a mediator between the countries.

      What the proposal entails is not clear from IRNA’s reporting.

      The USA and Iran have been at war since the USA and Israel attacked on February 28. Currently, there is a shaky ceasefire, but negotiations for a more lasting peace have been slow.”
      https://omni.se/iran-har-lamnat-nytt-forhandlingsforslag-till-usa/a/BxrX6E

      “Iran’s latest peace proposal is a small step closer to the USA’s demands, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. According to the newspaper’s information, Iran is ready to discuss the conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz if the USA simultaneously guarantees that the attacks will cease and the blockade against Iranian ports will end.

      Previously, Iran demanded that the blockade be lifted for the country to even consider negotiating. USA President Donald Trump has not yet commented on the direct content but makes it clear that he demands more.

      – I am not satisfied with it, so we’ll see what happens, he says according to AP.”
      https://omni.se/kallor-iran-mjuknar-i-sitt-senaste-forslag-till-usa/a/43EeBo

      “Donald Trump is not satisfied with Iran’s latest negotiation proposal, the president states at a press conference during the night before Saturday.

      According to the president, Iran wants to make a deal but is struggling to agree internally. The USA, for its part, is considering new powerful attacks, the president says according to PBS.

      – Do we want to go in and just blow the hell out of them or do we want to try to reach a deal? Those are the options.

      A ceasefire has been in place between the USA and Iran since April 7. Negotiations for a more lasting peace have been slow, and Donald Trump says during Saturday’s press conference that he is not interested in an “early” end to the war.”

      https://omni.se/trump-usa-overvager-att-spranga-skiten-ur-iran/a/lnMyyL

  7. MXT

    Off-Topic, EU and USA

    “Donald Trump threatens the EU with 25 percent tariffs on cars and trucks imported into the USA. In a post on his own platform Truth Social, he writes that such tariffs will be introduced next week because the EU, according to the American president, does not follow their ‘fully agreed trade agreement.’

    ‘It is fully understood and agreed that if they produce cars and trucks in factories in the USA, there will be no tariffs,’ he writes.

    Trump gives no further details on how he believes the EU has violated the agreement that was concluded in July last year.”

    https://omni.se/trump-hotar-eu-med-hojda-bilullar/a/3pB3a0

     

    “Member of the European Parliament Bernd Lange strikes back at Donald Trump after the statement about raising vehicle tariffs against the union to 25 percent, reports Reuters.

    – President Trump’s behavior is unacceptable, says Lange, who is chairman of the EU Parliament’s trade committee, to the news agency.

    Trump’s latest statement ‘demonstrates exactly how unreliable’ the American side is, he adds, pointing to the Greenland conflict as another example.” https://omni.se/eu-toppen-om-utspelet-trumps-beteende-ar-oacceptabelt/a/3pBbJ9

     

     

    “Donald Trump’s latest threats against Europe and public criticisms of European leaders are ‘to say the least worrying,’ according to a Western diplomat Reuters has spoken to. The same source states that they are prepared for ‘anything, anytime’ from the American president.

    Another diplomat says that Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel showed how best to handle Trump. It is about reacting only after the worst storm has passed, without backing down from one’s positions. Even those who over the years have flattered Trump have been subjected to ridicule, says the diplomat.

    – Now everyone realizes that flattery doesn’t work either.

    Just in the past few days, Trump has called Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz ineffective and threatened to move American soldiers out of several allied countries. As recently as Friday evening, he stated that the EU can expect increased car and truck tariffs starting next week.” https://omni.se/oro-i-europa-nu-inser-alla-att-smicker-inte-fungerar/a/BxrKGG

    2. Lasse W

      Trump does not like Europe and Europe does not like him. Even Merz criticizes him, perhaps because he is governing together with the Social Democrats and the Greens?
      Trump probably sees Europe/EU as a political offshoot of the Democrats’ USA, and there is a lot of truth to that. It is a culture war. But Trump does not make it easy for himself with his narcissism. He wants to rule and be in the center all the time. Eventually, that becomes problematic. He should be able to delegate more to the sensible Rubio, but the concept of delegation seems unknown to him. How much longer will he stay?

      1. CB500four

        Europe is probably too far to the left for Trump, and since we in the EU are an economic competitor, in that sense we are an enemy. That we have a shared history is just something Trump sees as negative.

        One of his big problems is that he has zero ability to take criticism. Therefore, he has never learned anything from the criticism he has received. When he gets criticism, or something he perceives as criticism, he reacts by looking for a way to take revenge.

        The expression that you should treat others as you want to be treated yourself is unknown to him. When he threatens and smears others, he expects them to crawl to him.

      2. 205

        I have said from the start that it would be completely legitimate politically within the EU and according to all functioning international conventions for Europe to support the USA in the war/operation against Iran, and at least not to put a spoke in the wheel for it. But if you refrain from supporting, put a spoke in the wheel for the USA and also sprinkle salt like Metz, it would be strange if the USA did not react. Europe has more or less put a spoke in its own wheel and also begged for an American counterreaction. In foreign and security policy, Iran is an enemy. Not only to the USA, but also to Ukraine, Europe, and the entire West. A very active one at that. Just like North Korea, which sends soldiers to die in showers of ammunition from the West, including from Sweden.

          1. CB500four

            Yes, but that’s not how Trump works, for him (and Putin) it is a zero-sum game. For him, everything he has to give in a deal is a minus.

            For Trump, it’s more about threatening to fight if he doesn’t get a deal. Not about giving something to get a deal. 

        3. CB500four

          I tend to agree that Europe should help to bring an end to the war since we are quite heavily affected by the consequences of the war. At the same time, the high oil price gives more cash flow to Russia.

          At the same time, Trump should have informed Europe about what was going on. Yes, it was clearly obvious that something was happening, but as far as I understand, there was no discussion or desire from the US for a coalition. Iran deserves a beating, but it should have been planned so that it could lead to an end, and so that it minimizes collateral damage, like now with the strait.

          Then, once the war had already started, there was whining and blaming NATO for not wanting to help, and oh how pitiful the US suddenly was, and Europe were all assholes, except Orban.

          Then there were some French ships, and English ones, if I remember correctly, that were on their way to the strait to help. Then it suddenly sounded different, “we can manage on our own,” “we don’t want them here”… and so on.

          We should help the US when they are in trouble, but Trump himself deserves no help; he would never think of giving a helping hand to anyone unless he got paid in advance.

          I have certainly been affected by TDS, but I am also prepared to give him praise when he deserves it. He is a very difficult person and must have been very lonely as a child, because he lacks all the qualities needed to interact with other people. He has zero cooperation skills, does not listen to others, brags, blames failures on others, and takes credit for others’ successes, etc., etc.

            2. CB500four

              It is Putin who has explained to him what NATO is, he listens to him.

              He believes it is like the Warsaw Pact. A group of countries that are subjugated by the leading country, and must be ready to sacrifice their people when the leading country calls. No form of voluntariness.

  8. MXT

    Off-Topic, cultural news

    Jojje passed away yesterday.

    “Georg ‘Jojje’ Wadenius was a musician until the very end. Despite his 80 years, a concert scheduled for tomorrow needs to be canceled due to his passing. On the culture pages, writers are pondering how to fit such a wide and extensive career as Jojje’s into a mere column.

    ‘It was skillful, versatile, curious, and friendly musicianship for both young and old that made the nickname Jojje immortal,’ writes Dan Backman in SvD.

    In Expressen, Gunilla Brodrej recalls the great respect he had for children, and how you could really feel how much he cared. Besides being a successful studio musician who played with real greats, she writes, he was a mediator of the tender seriousness that characterizes the Swedish children’s song.

    ‘Perhaps it is precisely in this music, in the meeting between play and seriousness, that we can best understand both ourselves and our children.’
    https://omni.se/kronikor-jojjes-dod-skapar-ett-tomrum-i-svensk-musik/a/n1Lx1n

    For those of you who do not know him, here is an example of his guitar playing, and this particular song can be said to be On-Topic for this blog:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESFGGTl4adQ

     

  10. Proxima

    He was a skilled musician. By chance, tonight at 20:15 on TV 2 there is a documentary program about the history of the Swedish ballad. Many (including foreign) experts claim that the Swedish “music miracle” comes from the rich Swedish ballad tradition.

  11. 205

    Same total, localized and unlocalized as yesterday, minor changes in the number of attacks in some sectors along the front. The offensive that started at the end of April can be said to be concluded. 

    N Slobozhansky-Kursk 3
    S Slobozhansky 8
    Kupyansk 2↘️
    Lyman 13↗️💥
    Slovyansk 4
    Kramatorsk 0
    Kostjantynivka 7↘️
    Pokrovsk 27💥💥
    Oleksandrivskij 9💥↗️
    Huliaipole 18💥
    Orikhivsk 1
    Prydniprovskij/Dnipro 3

    Localized 95
    Unlocalized 43
    Total 138
    Ratio unloc/loc 0.45

     

  13. Pehr

    Saab is approaching one of its biggest deals ever, reports SVT Nyheter. Within a couple of months, a sale of up to 150 Gripen aircraft to Ukraine could be finalized, says CEO Micael Johansson.
    – This normally takes a few months, I hope it will be during this year, Johansson says without going into details about the potential value of the deal.
    For comparison, Saab sold 17 Gripen aircraft to Colombia in November last year in a deal worth 34 billion kronor.
    https://omni.se/a/q6Og9m

    1. CB500four

      Russia is stuck in the Middle Ages, “Androm till varnagel” might have worked in the small community, but not in today’s society where information spreads quickly and everywhere.

      Now that kind of behavior only creates hatred, and greater determination that the Russian must go, dead or alive.

  15. 205

    Increasingly convinced, Johan has forgotten his password. Usually not necessary, but sometimes the login is cleared. Could it be yesterday’s escapades that are causing him trouble?

  16. MXT

    Saab is approaching one of its biggest deals ever, reports SVT Nyheter. Within a couple of months, a sale of up to 150 Gripen aircraft to Ukraine could be finalized, says CEO Micael Johansson.

    – This normally takes a few months, I hope within this year, says Johansson without going into details about what the deal might be worth.

    For comparison, Saab sold 17 Gripen aircraft to Colombia in November last year in a deal worth 34 billion kronor.

    1. Lasse W

      I hope and believe that the UA is aware of this type of war crime. So that Russian commanders who give orders for such attacks can be held accountable after the war. Even after they have been relocated far beyond the Urals.

    1. MXT

      He is sitting in a corner crying because he thinks someone stole all his bags of ranch chips, when it was actually himself who ate the entire stock yesterday after downing his 12th Mariestad in frustration over the closed nuclear power plant.

       

      1. MacMelmac

        Was the SD tourettes in yesterday’s post actually intended for the neighboring blog? It almost seemed so because it fits better there.

        Regardless of what Vattenfall decided, politicians interfered and rushed the whole thing. You can’t deny that fact. Not to dwell? Does that mean we shouldn’t learn from history but just sweep the idiocy under the rug?

        We could have continued a bit longer and had more time to develop alternatives.
        But now wind power was the savior, if it doesn’t blow, build more wind power! That so profitable form of power, Not!
        Follow the money, I say! Which politicians had their fingers in the wind power jam jar?

  19. 205
     

    Tuapse is burning for the fourth time

    When fires return to the same place, they stop being incidents and become part of daily life.

    The plan at the start

    The idea was simple:

    Make Ukraine respond every day.

    • sirens
    • blackouts
    • repairs
    • loss

    If that continues long enough, something breaks.

    An emergency is not one event. It is something that does not stop.

    What has changed

    Ukraine still lives under pressure.

    That has not disappeared.

    But something else has appeared:

    Russia now has to respond as well.

     

    The repetition that creates it

    A refinery is hit.

    Then again.

    Then again.

    By the fourth strike, something changes:

    • firefighters return
    • repairs repeat
    • disruption continues

    It becomes routine.

    Firefighters at work

    Damage is not only measured in destruction, but in how often it must be managed.

    The work that follows

    Each strike creates more than damage.

    It creates tasks:

    • extinguish fires
    • assess damage
    • restore function
    • explain what happened

    And then do it again.

    The strike is short. The response lasts much longer.

    The spread

    This is not one location.

    • Tuapse
    • Perm
    • airfields far from the front

    Different places.

    Same pattern.

     

    The strain inside

    At the same time, something else becomes visible:

    • families asking about missing soldiers
    • cemeteries filling
    • explanations becoming less convincing

    This is not new.

    But it is becoming harder to keep quiet.

     

    The shift in behaviour

    When response becomes constant, behaviour changes:

    • resources are redirected
    • attention is divided
    • priorities compete

    The war is no longer only about action.

    It is about keeping up with consequences.

     

    The side that must respond everywhere cannot focus anywhere for long.

     

    The deeper change

    The original idea was:

    Ukraine carries the emergency.

    Now the situation looks different:

    Both sides carry it.

    But in different ways.

    Ukraine continues under it.

    Russia increasingly manages it.

     

    What this means

    This is not collapse.

    It is something slower:

    • more tasks
    • more repairs
    • more explanations
    • more pressure

    Repeated until it shapes behaviour.

    They Wanted Ukraine to Live in Emergency — Now They Have One Too The war did not stop. The workload changed sides.

     

    1. Proxima

      When I see the picture above, I can’t help but share a memory from Congo.
      We were loading mahogany in Matadi, which is far up the Congo River. The mahogany was to be unloaded in Europe and used for the furniture industry. We went ashore in the evening to “check things out,” as one should. We passed by a shabby eatery that apparently was called “Bar Scandinavia,” but the sign was lying on the ground, broken. What was supposed to be a house was built of corrugated iron and planks, but everything was ruined by what we thought was a tropical storm. The interior resembled the picture, though the room was probably four times larger. In the middle of the mess stood the bar owner himself, in a spotless white shirt, dazzling white smile, welcoming us while polishing the few intact glasses that remained. We asked him if a storm had passed, but he answered calmly and matter-of-factly, as if it was the most natural thing in the world: “We had a visit from a Norwegian boat last week…”
      That’s what happens when Vikings are let loose. A word about mahogany, by the way. The finest mahogany (and the most expensive) is Honduran mahogany. The interiors of passenger cabins, dining rooms, and smoking lounges were often clad with this beautiful hardwood in the merchant fleet.

        1. Proxima

          Norrmän är trevliga. Stor handels och fiskeflotta, även valfångarflotta gjorde att man träffade på dom överallt där det fanns vatten i närheten. Därför cirkulerade många historier i båtarna om detta duktiga sjöfolk. När Columbus landsteg på Bahamas 1492 var det inte en Arawakindian som Columbus mötte utan en akterseglad norsk lättmatros, något rund under fötterna, som sökte hyra. Även norska sjömanspräster fanns överallt. T ex när Armstrong tog dom första stegen på månen 1969 så mötte han norske sjömansprästen med färska tidningar från Norge. Historierna om detta sjöfolk är oändliga.🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻

      4. Rocky

        A few years ago, at the end of the season, we rented a sailboat in Turkey – a 44-footer. The boat was new for the year. But it looked incredibly worn out, and when I asked the renter what had happened, she just shrugged and said ryzzar. So that was the explanation!

  28. 205

    ⚔️AFU🇺🇦

    ⚡️⚡️⚡️A tactical group with Iskander missiles, the radar stations “Podlyot” and “MIS-M1,” ammunition depots, as well as enemy drone control centers have been hit

    ⚡️During the night of May 2, as part of reducing the Russian attacker’s offensive capability, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out attacks on a number of enemy military facilities.

    ⚡️In particular, the tactical group of the operational-tactical missile complex “Iskander” (Druzhne, TOT AR Crimea) was hit.

    ⚡️Additionally, enemy radar equipment in temporarily occupied Crimea was hit, namely: the coastal radar station “MYS-M1” (Mayak) and the radar station “Podlot” (Yevpatoria).

    ⚡️Furthermore, three of the enemy’s UAV control centers (Georgievka, temporarily occupied part of Donetsk region) and a UAV depot (Novopetrikivka, temporarily occupied part of Donetsk region) were hit.

    ⚡️Ukrainian soldiers also struck an enemy repair unit in the Kadiyivka area (temporarily occupied territory in Luhansk region) and an ammunition depot in the Ivanivka area (temporarily occupied territory in Kherson region).

    The extent of the damage is being determined.

    ⚡️According to the results of previous attacks, the destruction of an ammunition depot on April 29, 2026, at the “Kacha” airport (temporarily occupied territory in Crimea) has been confirmed

     

    1. johan No.1

      We will see a lot of pork belly 🤣

      However, the Nazi card and the threat to democracy have already been played, no one cares anymore

  30. johan No.1

    Monday there will be a post MXT so you don’t accidentally post something of your own on the go.

    There will probably be one on Tuesday and Wednesday as well.

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