Russian losses and the General Staff’s report

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Generally continued high losses for Russia. Artillery is somewhat lower than the average in recent months as it has been between 60-70 but it is still quite a high number.

  • 1230 KWIA
  • 3 Tanks
  • 1 AFV
  • 49 Artillery systems
  • 1724 UAVs
  • 10 UGVs
  • 477 Vehicles and Fuel tanks
  • 6 Special equipment
  • 7 Cruise missiles

Ukrainian General Staff Report (the shortened version)

  • 249 combat clashes
  • 80 air strikes
  • 235 KAB/CAB
  • 8,682 kamikaze drones
  • 3,070 shells (53 from MLRS)

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83 thoughts on “Russian losses and the General Staff’s report”

  1. 205

    Unchanged Russian offensive pressure. Increase in Ukrainian offensive pressure, as well as ratio and total.

    N Slobozhansky 3↘️, S Slobozhansky 8↘️, Kupyansk 6↗️, Lyman 21💥↗️, Slovyansk 28💥💥↗️, Kramatorsk 0, Kostjantynivka 15💥↘️, Pokrovsk 33💥💥↗️, Oleksandrivskij 6, Huliaipole 30💥💥, Orikhivsk 0, Prydniprovskij 0,

    Localized 150, Unlocalized 99↗️, Total 249↗️, Ratio unloc/loc 0.7↗️.

  2. MXT

    ** NASA Firms detects a fire in Kerch at the Kuban Transition Point.

    The objects of the cable transition across the Kerch Strait include underwater cable lines along the bottom of the Kerch Strait and transition points on both banks of the strait (a transition point on the Taman Peninsula and a transition point on the Crimean Peninsula).

    On the side of the Taman Peninsula, there is a platform of the transition point, a section of the 220 kV cable line from the Kuban Transition Point to the water’s edge, an access road to the transition point, and a 10 kV power line for supplying the transition point’s own needs.

     

    https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3mpfptqcfvc2k

  4. MXT

    The 20-year-old Swede who was sentenced to prison for association with the neo-Nazi terrorist group Maniac Murder Cult (MKY) was recruited by a man whom Ukraine links to Russian intelligence, reports SVT Nyheter.

    MKY is part of the violent Com network. The group’s leader started a new extremist group in December 2025 which, according to SVT, advocates the total extermination of humanity.

    Ukraine’s security service SBU states that Russia systematically uses the group’s Telegram channel to recruit minors for terrorist attacks.

    The leader has also been in contact with the 15-year-old Swede suspected of several car fires in Ängelholm in order to gain respect within the sadistic network 764.
    https://omni.se/terrordomd-svensk-varvades-av-misstankt-rysk-agent/a/6qlgA8

    1. 205

      “The group’s leader started a new extremist group in December 2025 which, according to SVT, advocates the total extermination of humanity.”

      Ai? Maybe age limit?

        1. 205

          Yes, it was a bit far-fetched: but these are quite young people we are talking about: 20 and 15 respectively. At the same time, Chat-GTP has been available for about the last five years, when the leader was only about fifteen. Say a freaked-out AI/misprogrammed etc. gets the idea that humanity is “in the way.” Wouldn’t the boy’s room be an ideal place to start indoctrinating young people to form a cult/movement with the purpose of exterminating humanity? Maybe the AI hacked the Kremlin and got hold of its playbook?

          1. MXT

            Ah, so that’s what you were thinking!

            Not at all crazy as a conspiracy theory and would probably work well as the basis for a book or movie!

            1. 205

              Still strange: the goal to exterminate humanity, surely deviates from most extreme ideologies we know? Possibly cults, but not political.

              Possibly some extreme variant from the environmental movement?

              1. MXT

                Well, sure it is a strange goal to strive for, but it doesn’t surprise me that much. There have been quite a few suicide cults, and that’s just as crazy.

                All sorts of strange ideas spread, and it doesn’t seem to matter how stupid they are, there are always some who allow themselves to be indoctrinated.

                Then, of course, AI is a huge risk, maybe not so much in terms of them being behind it, but rather how much more effective it is to spread misery via AI for those who want to. They just keep getting better and better and harder to detect as well.

                The best AI-generated music is hardly distinguishable from real music today, and films are starting to get there too, as are texts when the sender has really made an effort so that it doesn’t feel like AI (there is AI that helps with that as well). 

          2. MacMelmac

            But you have to give them credit that they want to wipe out all of humanity, i.e. including themselves. That is unique!
            Are they campaign workers for the Satanic Initiative?

  7. MXT

    ** ‘Saving Kyiv Regime Is Not Our Plan’: Putin Rejects Ukraine Proposal To Limit Long-Range Strikes

    In brief: Putin said Russia will press ahead with its goal of capturing four Ukrainian regions, rejecting what he called a Ukrainian proposal to limit long-range strikes as part of a potential de-escalation. He claimed the plan would ease pressure on Kyiv’s forces and insisted Russia would not halt its offensive. **
    https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79184

  9. MXT

    ** ✈️ Russia’s largest air carriers are grounding nearly 20% of their fleet due to a lack of spare parts and repairs. According to Kommersant, 130 of 673 aircraft are grounded at 11 airlines, which account for over 90% of all Russian passenger traffic.

    Experts say the normal summer downtime is up to 10% of the flight crew due to scheduled maintenance. Excluding Aeroflot Group, which accounts for half of the major airlines’ fleet, eight carriers are grounded, with nearly a third of their fleet—93 of 322 aircraft. **

    https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mpg5dqv2ws24

  10. MXT

    ** Russian forces killed 25-year-old police officer Roman Komarov with guided aerial bombs during a civilian evacuation in Kharkiv Oblast on 28 June A second officer is in intensive care. It’s the latest in a series of Russian strikes targeting evacuation operations **
    https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mpg57tgr2y24
    https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/29/russian-airstrike-kills-police-officer-during-civilian-evacuation-in-kharkiv-oblast/

  17. johan No.1

    Do I have God against me, I checked the weekly forecast where I live in Sweden and it looked like this?

    Do all of you others have summer weather?

    It would be typical if I go on vacation in a few weeks and it becomes mid-summer now when there is acute heat stress and a red alert.

    At least I avoid a high municipal tax to save the climate

    1. MXT

      Today’s weather:

       

      But on Thursday the rain will come and then it looks more or less like it does at your place.

      Going on vacation on Friday.. 🤷‍♂️

    2. MXT

      I think you should head down to Europe and monitor the weather there instead:

      “After breaking temperature records in countries including Germany and the Czech Republic, the heatwave that has hit Central Europe will move eastward over the coming days, reports Bloomberg. Red warnings for extreme heat have therefore been issued in countries including Slovakia, Romania, and Serbia.

      Large parts of Eastern Europe have, however, already been plagued by the heat for several days. Already over the weekend, Hungary’s only nuclear power plant was forced to reduce capacity because the water from the Danube River – used to cool the reactors – was too warm.

      According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization WHO, the heatwave has caused over 1,300 deaths in Europe since June 21.”
      https://omni.se/varningar-i-osteuropa-nar-extremhettan-drar-vidare/a/16RGlB

      1. johan No.1

        Just checked where I usually stay in Portugal, 22 degrees today and a Portuguese person would usually think that is too cold.

        Didn’t we have this discussion last year and you studied the weather maps closely to show that I was the anomaly?

        Now I also live in the Caribbean where low 30 degrees is completely normal 😀 I understand that it might be hard to take in but the country works great June – August despite the killer heat.

        If it gets hot for a few weeks, is it really a problem?

        When I was growing up, approaching 30 was the summer dream. Imagine not having to lie on the bathing rocks and as soon as the sun went behind a cloud you started to freeze. Then it was midsummer and you forgot the crappy weather for a few weeks. Those were also different times when topless was the highest fashion so more than the weather, that drew people to the beach of course.

        —

        I want to claim that the problem is something else – Europe has mismanaged its electricity production to save the climate so we don’t have air conditioning as standard. If we had that, no one would have died from heatstroke at all. I am sitting here in the Caribbean in an air-conditioned office and apartment and feeling like a prince.

        —

        A suggestion – let’s completely ignore Swedish weather and focus on southern India and Kuwait for the climate crisis instead so the discussion is not destroyed by all the countries and places where it is not warm at all.

        When I worked in Kuwait it was around 50 degrees in the hottest months and it took a toll on the energy to do the rounds on the project. The funny thing is that you don’t sweat at all then so you don’t realize how quickly you get dehydrated.

        —

        So I read the newspapers this morning about the killer heat and thought to check how warm it was where I live, got a bit surprised actually 😀

        I think that the type of air conditioning that gives cooling in summer and heating in winter should be standard for heating also in Sweden but unfortunately the electricity prices make that impossible. 

         

        1. MXT

          Sure, it is possible to survive at +50 degrees just as well as it is to survive at -50 degrees, but when areas where that is not normal are heading there, what do you think will happen?

          The weather in Sweden is not really something to worry about, I can agree with that.

          I have no problem with 30 degrees (except when I foolishly work in the garden) and even if we broke the record in Lund or wherever it was with a few more degrees, that does not mean disaster in any way. That was not something I intended to convey. 

          That it sometimes reaches 40 degrees or more down in Europe is of course not a disaster either (except for those who die, of course) but it is that we are now starting to get it every year that shows where we are heading. We should normally be heading towards an ice age now.  

          Access to cheap electricity and AC to avoid sweating is of course nice but that is really not the problem.

          The big problems will be maintaining farming and animal husbandry with drought and lack of fresh water. Then problems also increasingly arise in the other direction with an increased number of floods, landslides, etc. It is already statistically proven that this is becoming more common.

          But, OK. Right now it is unusually cold in southern Australia, so everything must be completely normal!!

          If you do not understand the problem when the heat rises and records are constantly being broken, and the problems it brings in the long term (or, it has already started), it is clear that you do not think climate change is something to worry about.

          Heat is nice!

          1. MacMelmac

            Weather and climate….. A heatwave is not the same as us going under. We need to look at how it looks over time. If we were to break the heat record from 1947 (or whenever it was from) several years in a row, or have little rain during winter and spring for several years, then we are in an upward trend that is worrying.
            The summer of 2018 was warm, dry, and long and was said to be proof of climate change; it has not been exceptional again until this year. So you probably have to look from an even longer perspective.

            One of the big problems for Sweden is that our houses are not built for either high heat or a lot of rain. Like Spain and others, we have replaced lawns and gravel with concrete, asphalt, and tiles. The rain cannot go anywhere, and it gets extremely hot in the summer.

            1. MXT

              Of course, it is so that individual records say nothing about the climate, but when there are many places and cities every year breaking new records, it is still a trend. Weather and climate interact in such a way that the same city breaking new records every year is very unlikely.

              Breaking a record from 1947 can easily be perceived as proof that “look how warm it was back then,” and that is true to some extent as well, but for records to be broken, there must also be “perfect” weather conditions, and those have occurred throughout all times.

              It is the number of records that is interesting.

              In Lund, which reached 36.3 degrees, a higher temperature has never been recorded since measurements started there in 1753. That therefore does not mean it was warmer in 1753, just that the measurements began then.

              More interesting, really, is the average temperature, but that is slowly but surely rising as well, and quite a few records have been broken just in the 2000s.

              2005 approx. 14.61 °C

              2010 approx. 14.70 °C

              2014 approx. 14.74 °C

              2015 approx. 14.84 °C

              2016 approx. 14.92 °C

              2023 approx. 14.98 °C

              2024 approx. 15.11 °C

              It does not look so serious, of course, since the differences are not so large, but it keeps recurring and is naturally slowed down by the oceans absorbing most of it.

              1. MacMelmac

                But you see the range where 2018 lies, that summer did not cause any noticeable big difference from other years’ ranges. Then I wonder why it is every year 14–16, but not the other years? What happened in the other ranges? Were they unchanged? Did they decrease? For me, this becomes cherry-picking and I find it hard to accept.

                1. MXT

                  Cherry picking?

                  So we are talking about global heat records?
                  They obviously are not broken every year but point to a clear trend. 

                  It’s not that we have had any global cold records in the other years, if that were the case I could agree but the fact is that the average temperature is rising.

                  It doesn’t happen completely linearly and that’s hardly to be expected either since there are many factors that influence and pull in slightly different directions but all in all it is getting warmer. 

              2. CB500four

                Well, you can’t just focus on the maximum temperatures and the number of heatwaves.

                What really matters in the long run are shorter winters, warmer autumns and springs.

                In recent years, winters have started later, and autumns have become warmer.

                I have also noticed when I have been clearing in the forest that I sometimes find Maple among the birches, they usually haven’t seeded this far north before.

                The spruces are also doing worse, summers have become drier, so the spruces have a harder time defending themselves against the bark beetle.

                Water temperatures are rising, maybe not the maximum temperatures, but the winter ice is getting thinner and the frozen period shorter. Algal blooms start earlier and last longer.

                There are many signs of change besides the maximum temperatures. 

          2. johan No.1

            My guess is that the planet as a whole is not affected, but individual geographic countries are affected. One then extrapolates certain countries’ problems to the entire planet.

            For example, our agriculture is getting better and better in the northern countries – we should actually be grateful for this? You who like wine can now buy locally grown nowadays and no longer need to burn ugly mash at home.

            Now apparently AMOC is supposed to stop according to a unanimous scientific community, and then we get an immediate ice age in Sweden, which I agree would be bad for you; I live in Angola and Portugal as well, so I am not affected, and the heat waves will probably not occur in Portugal, one can guess 😀

            I quickly googled Sahara because I wanted to show you that the desert is retreating, but it was not natural but through enormous planting programs.

            Interesting in this context is that in the last 8 million years the desert has alternated from green vegetation to desert 230 times, and the last desert period is 5000-6000 years old.

            If you had lived there, it would be the end of the world, but a natural cycle, I think?

            —

            The biblical floods in the Mediterranean area were probably also experienced as apocalyptic because a large part of the world’s population lived in the area at the time?

            Yes, then we have “man-made” and that is unnecessary, the Russian Aral Sea, all the plastic in the oceans mainly from Asia, all the oak forest that was cut down in Europe for ships and early industrialization.

            Such things are good to focus on – for example, all the chemicals in American food which are proven not to be good to ingest at all and where we in the EU are significantly better off. Such things are very good.

            —

            I do not oppose being environmentally friendly at all, just that one chooses to crash countries’ economies to save the climate (Germany) when China increases its emissions even more so the total becomes a sharp increase anyway.

            Then you know I like nuclear power until we have reasonable alternatives but environmentalists do not like that. Interesting in this context is that the solar power technology we have today does not work well in “too hot countries with a lot of sun”.

            Wind power is nowadays an economic bomb, not many companies are profitable there.

            —

            There is a big difference between making sensible efforts like with the ozone for example or tearing down things that have large side effects completely unnecessarily and could have continued to generate prosperity for many years to come.

            Then I am absolutely against justifying higher taxes to save the climate when it is totally unclear exactly what the effects will be. Somewhere it is subordinated to “doing good” but it has not escaped me that the big capitalist investment banks are involved with all their tentacles in Northvolt, Stegra and many other environmental projects. Ultra-capitalism which also goes bankrupt and our pensioners have to foot the bill, when is that ever okay.

            Today it is crystal clear that what we in Europe have done to save the climate has been nullified by China’s emission increases, and that the only thing that has happened is that we have shut down our production and buy Chinese instead – that is directly stupid.

            But it is praised.

            —

            So a nuanced debate would be appreciated, fortunately more and more countries in Europe have on their own abandoned climate goals that have completely lost touch with reality – that does not mean we should not do anything and green technology is advancing even if we in the leading country Sweden did not even manage to manufacture our own car batteries or CO2-free steel.

            Now, moreover, some American ultra-capitalist has taken over Northvolt since we could not manage it ourselves?

             

             

             

            1. MacMelmac

              I don’t understand why people compare with the pre-industrial era? Why not even earlier? When the dinosaurs lived?
              We have to compare with the time before the country’s standard of living took off, that’s the only thing we can compare with if we want to remain a prosperous country.

              I remember when we were taught in school that the desert was expanding, but it turned out to be propaganda from the countries around the Sahara so they could get subsidies.
              https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/718046

              It feels strange as a Swede to throw food scraps and, for example, mango peels into the same bin as paper and packaging here in Spain. But they actually separate quite a lot. (We should teach them to make biogas from food waste; in this heat, it would have started already in the bin on the street). In several places, they recycle used cooking oil. They don’t bother with nonsense about clear and colored glass (not like apartheid Sweden that separates it), they take care of that later. No cans have deposit, and yet the majority end up in metal recycling.

              By the way, I can confirm that my plug-in hybrid not only charges worse in cold climates but also in warm ones. (I noticed this at home during the week before we left, before the heatwave hit.) Good luck with that transition if you don’t start with AC (instead of just a heater) in Southern European countries.

              1. CB500four

                It is probably the dinosaur era that the greens are aiming for when nature is to be restored.

                What I don’t see anyone taking into account when they compare the climate with proxy data from ancient times is that the world literally looked different.

                The continents were closer together or farther apart, ocean currents were different, depending on vegetation the oxygen levels were different.

                Sometimes, if there were larger uniform continents, there were large deserts, etc.

                Volcanic eruptions were more common and stronger, in Siberia we had the Siberian Traps, which was a partial cause of one extinction, and in India there was a similar eruption later. Toba exploded 74,000 years ago and almost wiped out humanity.

                But….. Never before during millions of years, despite volcanic eruptions, has the carbon dioxide level increased as rapidly as during the last 150 years…. That cannot go unnoticed.

                 

              2. MXT

                If you are going to draw conclusions about possible human impact and what it causes, it probably doesn’t make much sense to compare with periods before humans even existed? 

                Then it is probably mostly the sensible living environment for us humans that is interesting?

                Nowadays, people actually usually go back about 800,000 years, that is as far as the ice cores can take us, further back it is harder to get data on how carbon dioxide levels and temperatures looked.

                We humans appeared about 300,000 years ago. 

                Of course, you can go back to the Earth’s beginning (when humans would not have survived at all) and point to that and say “look, it has been worse before, so it’s probably no danger”. 

                Or you can point out that in a few billion years the sun will fry us anyway, so it probably doesn’t matter what we do.

                Sorry, now I’m being a bit sarcastic.

                That thing about desertification is of course interesting, and shows how different interests can cause trouble, but just because that happened in that case you can’t conclude that everyone lies about everything even though unfortunately it is quite common.

                The tobacco industry bought scientists who certified that cigarettes were not harmful (in some cases even healthy). The same lobbying happened regarding leaded gasoline and in the last 20-50 years the oil industry has fought hard to buy scientists and to discredit climate research. 

                Then of course there are those who try to make money on the transition as well. That has pretty much always been the case.

                But the majority of all scientists (who have knowledge in the subject) agree and hardly any of them have interests in green technology.

                Moreover, the effects of climate change are becoming increasingly clear and it is happening faster. When the effects are small over time and the frog is boiled slowly, you don’t notice it until it’s too late. That is why it is difficult to get people to take it seriously.

                Then I can agree that not all efforts are sensible. Especially when it comes to recycling, I think waste sorting is just a bad way to try to shift the costs onto private individuals who have to spend enormous amounts of time.
                Better sorting after collection would have been a much better model. Especially since people still throw wrong things in the wrong bins so the problem exists anyway.  Of course it costs and requires higher fees or taxes but I am convinced it would be significantly more efficient in the end if you counted all the time spent.

            2. MXT

              You are like Russian disinformation, spewing out so many arguments that one can hardly bother to respond. 😄

              So if you believe that the Earth is globally balanced, just that one area is currently a bit warmer while another is colder and everything evens out, then you do not believe in the research and the measurements being made, nor that this is a climate crisis. Then it is of course difficult to have a nuanced debate.

              But I can try.

              If you don’t believe there is a problem, there is no reason to do anything. But then the argument that China is the big culprit falls apart, because in that case they are not doing anything wrong. But it still sounds like you think they are doing wrong and therefore we must also do wrong?

              But I agree that it is foolish of us to buy cheap Chinese goods without imposing climate requirements. It will cost us twice. Both with the climate and with our inability to compete, but I believe the solution is rather to impose those requirements because it is necessary. Not that we ourselves ignore them.

              When it comes to some tax money being spent, that is not so strange, is it? It is a matter for all Swedes. Most test subjects prefer to benefit their own economy and gladly shop from Temu.

              Unfortunately, not all projects succeed, but that has probably always been the case.

              But if you don’t believe the climate is becoming a problem that will cost us enormously more, then you naturally do not want to contribute to any investments at all.

              At the same time, it sounds like you think investments are partly right?

              Sure, some regions will temporarily get better. Nice for northerners to avoid going to the Mediterranean, and then it is of course no problem if others suffer from drought and famine because it evens out? Some get better and then it doesn’t matter that others get worse?

               

               

              1. 205

                “You are like Russian disinformation, spewing out so many arguments that one can hardly bother to respond.”

                I thought MxT wouldn’t be able to respond to that wall..!

                1. MXT

                  It was close, then I didn’t quite manage to finish polishing the comment either, something else came up.

  18. MXT

    Off-Topic, anyone surprised?

    “Donald Trump bought shares worth up to 5 million dollars in the stun gun manufacturer Axon two weeks before the immigration authority ICE announced that they wanted a five-year contract worth 220 million dollars that seems tailor-made for Axon, writes CNBC.

    ICE does not mention Axon by name, but procurement experts tell CNBC that the specification in practice only fits the company’s stun guns.

    There is no evidence that Trump was involved in the procurement or that Axon knew about his stock purchase. But ethics experts say the timing of the purchase raises questions.

    – There are no conflicts of interest, says White House spokesperson Anna Kelly to the channel.”
    https://omni.se/trump-kopte-aktien-kort-innan-ice-s-elpistolskop/a/5pRzgE

    1. johan No.1

      Everyone does that, including all our politicians, and rarely do you get caught.

      But making market-influencing statements where insiders (the Trump family and a few others) take positive or negative positions only to reverse them within a week after families and a few others have taken new positions is far from okay, it is criminal.

      They crash the whole world for quick cash.

      But you rarely get to the USA 😀

  19. MXT

    Is Putin on his way to flee Russia? 😂

    “An unusual convoy of three Russian ships is traveling through the Kattegat between Denmark and Sweden on Monday, reports DR. One of the ships is the superyacht Graceful, which has previously been described in international media as President Vladimir Putin’s private pleasure yacht.

    At midnight, the convoy passed the Great Belt in Danish territorial waters. At the current course and speed, the ship is expected to pass Skagen around 2 PM.

    Graceful has had its AIS transmitter turned off since August 30, 2022, shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since then, the ship has been invisible in open ship tracking but has been observed near Saint Petersburg in the Baltic Sea.

    The Danish Navy and the German Coast Guard have taken turns following the convoy since Sunday morning. There is no information about its final destination.”
    https://omni.se/putins-lustjakt-kryssar-i-kattegatt-efter-tre-ar-under-radarn/a/Rjoww2

    1. johan No.1

      No, even though it would have been fun 😀

      It seems like the FSB (the old KGB) still has a strong grip, so if Putin goes down, it will just be some new dictator.

      What is needed is a revolution – that no one can control.

  20. johan No.1

    Hey guys – water shortage at the fronts in Ukraine and the killer heat are on their way there 😍😍😍

    Maybe it will be the water shortage before the fuel shortage and I was right again as always?

  21. johan No.1

    Why is it warmer north of Stockholm MXT than south of Stockholm when the heatwave is down in continental Europe?

    Are the heavens against me also in this matter 😶

    1. johan No.1

      You seem to be getting 18 degrees in about a week MXT from your place, you’ll have to soak up the sun and warmth as long as you can 🤣🤣

      1. MXT

        Hard to avoid absorbing the heat. Sitting here and sweating a little, the AC at work can’t keep up so it’s just over 25 in the office but I shouldn’t complain, it will get cooler soon.  

        Yesterday I have only myself to blame since I was foolish enough not to take it easy!

  23. MXT

    Russian soldiers at the front in Ukraine survive on average 20–35 minutes after being deployed into combat. This is written by Oxford professor Peter Frankopan in an essay in Foreign Policy, referring to the exile Russian media company Astra. According to Astra, whose information comes from Russian military bloggers, it takes on average between ten days and three weeks from the time new soldiers are enlisted until they die at the front. “This is largely due to the extraordinary shift in combat technology and tactics – especially the way drones have become the primary killing machines in this war,” writes Frankopan. At the end of May, the British intelligence service GCHQ told The Guardian that about half a million Russian soldiers have been killed so far during the war.

    https://omni.se/a/k0mGr6

  24. MXT

    Off-Topic, Chinese AI

    “China has taken a step closer to the US in the AI race. According to security researchers interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, a new Chinese AI model can now compete with the leading American models in cybersecurity. AI company Z.ai’s model GLM-5.2, released earlier in June, is reported to perform as well as Anthropic’s AI model Mythos in certain scenarios when it comes to finding security vulnerabilities in software. However, it does not match Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s models in other tasks.”

    https://omni.se/a/0p3leJ

    1. MacMelmac

      Clearly, they are focusing on that exact part. You can hope that someone uses it against them, hacks Xi’s email account, etc.

      We will probably have bigger problems soon than just heatwaves; those damn bastards will try to ruin Europe.

  25. MXT

    Poland and Sweden have signed the Polish purchase of three Swedish Blekinge-class submarines from Saab during a ceremony on Monday. – With our combined capabilities, the Baltic Sea has never been so well defended, says Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) at a press conference in the port city of Gdynia alongside Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The deal is worth 47 billion kronor, according to a press release from Saab. Poland announced at the end of last year that it had chosen Sweden as a partner in its upcoming submarine program, competing with several European and Asian actors. The first delivery from Saab is expected in 2031. In the meantime, Poland will lease an older Swedish A17-class submarine. The A26 submarine type was ordered in 2015 and is not yet completed. The Swedish navy is expected to be able to launch the submarine in 2028.

    1. MXT

      “The Polish purchase of three Swedish A26 submarines from Saab is a ‘very important deal’ to secure long-term production. This is stated by Saab analyst at Handelsbanken Daniel Djurberg to TT. – Now Saab is entering a phase where it can expand and hopefully increase the margins in this business area. It is an important piece of the puzzle, he says. Djurberg points out that the submarine is the result of extensive development work after Saab bought back the shipyards in Karlskrona, Malmö, and Muskö just over ten years ago. Now the company can ‘get paid for the enormous investment,’ he adds. Saab rises around 3.5 percent on the stock market and is trading in the top tier of the large-cap index OMXS30. The analysis firm Pareto states that the order is about 80 percent larger than their previous forecast, writes Finwire.”

      https://omni.se/a/V6j3zr

    2. MXT

      “Saab’s submarine deal with Poland involves hiring “a number of hundred new employees” within the company’s naval division Naval. This is stated by Saab’s press officer Ulrika Langels to TT. “We have already grown significantly over several years and continue to see a need to recruit new employees,” she writes in an email. In Lund and Helsingborg, it is primarily engineers, while more sheet metal workers, welders, mechanics, and electricians are prioritized in production in Karlskrona. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) stated at a press conference that the deal will create “thousands of jobs,” of which 7,000 will be in Poland.”

      https://omni.se/a/9podeE

  26. MXT

    Ukrainian drones crashing on NATO territory is a price worth paying in order to be able to strike Russian oil refineries and military bases. This is what Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna tells the Financial Times. – Of course, we are not happy about these incidents. But we are not telling Ukraine to stop. This hits Vladimir Putin’s lifeline, he says. Ukraine has escalated its drone and missile attacks against Russia over the past year. Russia has in turn responded by intensifying electronic jamming and other countermeasures, which has caused some Ukrainian drones to go off course and crash on NATO territory.

    https://omni.se/a/vrnKbp

  27. MXT

    Off-Topic, HD goes against Trump.

    “The Supreme Court of the United States has decided to allow laws in several states that permit late arrival of mail-in ballots to remain in place. This is reported by the Wall Street Journal. In several states, mail-in ballots postmarked no later than election day can be counted even if they arrive a few days later. In Mississippi, there is a deadline of up to five business days after election day, which was the rule the Republicans wanted to have invalidated. Since the coronavirus pandemic, the number of mail-in ballots has increased sharply, and about one-third of American voters now vote by mail. President Donald Trump has long been a sharp critic of mail-in voting and has repeatedly claimed that the system increases the risk of election fraud, even though he himself has voted by mail, writes the Washington Post.”

    https://omni.se/a/wrnQko

    1. MXT

      And again.

      “The US Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s appeal of the verdict in the case involving author E Jean Carroll. Trump was ordered to pay five million dollars in damages for sexual assault and defamation of the plaintiff. The president launched a fierce counterattack when Carroll claimed that he raped her in a department store in 1996. In 2022, Trump accused the author of lying in a social media post. Among other things, he wrote that “the woman is not even my type.” Trump and his lawyers argued, among other things, that the judge in the case allowed evidence that was too old. The Supreme Court gives no explanation as to why the appeal is rejected.”

      https://omni.se/a/PdnAeJ

  29. MXT

    😵‍💫 Putin increases the number of his security guards for the fourth time during the war

    The maximum number of employees of the agency that protects the dictator and his family will increase to 812 people.

  30. MXT

    Vlad Vexler’s view on Putin and the Baltics.

    “It’s often said that Putin couldn’t possibly attack the Baltics because he has nothing to gain from invading a NATO country. This

    confuses two things. Putin may have little to gain from invading a Baltic country.

    But he knows, and we know, that he could have a lot to gain from attacking a Baltic country as a low threshold challenge to Article 5.

    Once you understand that the goals of this enterprise do not need to be military success but the generation of political crisis in Western democracies, and specifically political crisis around support for Ukraine, then it becomes a perfectly plausible plan B for Putin to consider.

    Could Putin do it? He is risk averse in general, but in his mind an attack on the Baltics would be a risky, necessary and defensive step. As the full scale invasion of Ukraine shows, these are steps he can take. Therefore, our placeholder for Putin’s chances of attacking the Baltics should be 50/50.”

    https://bsky.app/profile/vladvexler.bsky.social/post/3mpgrxqnwck2r

      2. MXT

        Vlad came with 50/50 which must mean that he really has no idea.. 

        I think it is 5/95 so if that happens I admit that I was 95% wrong.. 😄

      3. Bal

        Putin needs a defeat that can be sold. NATO tried to conquer Russia but we kept them outside our borders. Great victory! I am your father of the nation.

  32. MXT

    🔥 The kill zone for the occupiers in the south is getting wider!

    The sea drones of the Barracuda unit deliver reconnaissance UAVs to areas that were previously inaccessible. FPV crews destroy the enemy on the Tendrivska Spit and along the banks of the Dnipro.

  33. Pehr

    Europe has become the favorite punching bag of the USA and President Donald Trump since Trump returned to the White House in January 2025. But after decades of close security policy cooperation with Washington, Europe is now increasingly investing in its own defense, “and the USA would be wise to prepare for that change,” write Marina Henke, Iren Marinova, and Till Knobloch in an analysis in Foreign Affairs.
    According to a new survey from the European Commission, 77 percent of Europeans consider Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to be the greatest threat to the continent’s security.
    “This feeling of insecurity is reinforced by the fact that many Europeans now realize they can no longer rely on the USA,” the authors write in the analysis.
    And the weaker the USA’s defense guarantees become, the more Europe needs Ukraine. This is written by Liana Fix and Paul Stares at the think tank Council on Foreign Relations in an analysis in Foreign Policy.
    “And the more justified Ukraine’s demands for something in return become, such as full EU membership,” they write.
    The authors argue that even a future NATO membership could become relevant if the alliance is led more by Europe, with a smaller or completely absent American role.
    “Ukraine still lacks France’s and the United Kingdom’s nuclear capabilities as well as their air and naval forces. But when it comes to the fight against Russia, no European country is stronger.”
    https://omni.se/a/OkW7bb

  34. MXT

    Good morning!

    1350 KWIA

    1 Tank

    6 AFVs

    71 Artillery systems

    1 Air defense system

    1952 UAVs

    13 UGVs

    492 Vehicles and Fuel tanks

    2 Special equipment

    Slava Ukraini!

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