Ukraine may be allowed to manufacture the Patriot surface-to-air missile – Russian losses

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There are rumors that the USA may grant Ukraine permission to manufacture Patriot missiles. So far, I have only seen this mentioned on Omni, which in turn sourced it from Iltalehti. Of course, it would be very good for Ukraine if they received that permission, so let’s hope it happens.
Then again, it is probably a long-term solution. It will likely take some time to get production started; moreover, the missiles are expensive and therefore probably costly to manufacture, and presumably some components must be purchased from the USA. Hopefully, Ukraine can once again show that they exceed expectations and get started quickly. One advantage is, of course, that they will gain insight into how to build that type of missile. I wouldn’t be surprised if they later develop their own version that costs a fraction to produce.

News from Omni regarding the shortage of Patriots:
“There is a serious shortage of air defense missiles in Ukraine, according to the country’s military. Because of this, the Ukrainian defense could not protect itself against the ballistic missiles that Russia fired at Ukraine during the night leading into Monday, several media outlets report. BBC writes that a total of 23 ballistic missiles were fired, and all hit their targets. At least 15 people have been killed and many more are reported injured, according to authorities in the capital Kyiv.
According to Ukraine, several ballistic missiles hit civilian targets. ‘Since they fail to achieve their objectives on the battlefield, Russia is increasingly targeting its ballistic missiles at residential buildings, resulting in innocent civilians dying,’ writes Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on X.”

Russian losses

Slightly lower losses than yesterday; what stands out is that 37 X-101 cruise missiles were shot down. Russia also fired 21 ballistic missiles (Iskander) yesterday, and unfortunately all reached their targets.

  • 1200 KWIA
  • 9 Tanks
  • 5 AFVs
  • 57 artillery systems
  • 5 Air defense systems
  • 2129 UAVs
  • 15 UGVs
  • 399 Vehicles & fuel tanks
  • 5 Special equipment
  • 37 Cruise missiles

Summary from the Ukrainian General Staff

  • 255 combat clashes
  • 95 air strikes (871 missiles)
  • 267 KAb/CAB
  • 9,556 kamikaze drones
  • 3,110 shells (26 from MLRS)

SLAVA UKRAINI

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74 thoughts on “Ukraine may be allowed to manufacture the Patriot surface-to-air missile – Russian losses”

  1. MXT

    ** Ukrainian missiles strike Russian airport, energy sites, as blackout reported in bordering Belgorod Oblast.
    Belgorod and the Belgorod district were subjected to a massive missile attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine last night,” Governor Alexander Shuvaev said. **
    https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-missiles-strike-russian-airport-blackout-reported-in-bordering-belgorod-oblast/

    ** 💥 Russia: Belgorod is without electricity, water, and gas. Ukrainian drone swarms took out electrical substations and more importantly the Linear Production facility for Natural Gas Main Pipelines. The pipeline is part of the Unified Gas System in the region. 6 billion m³/year. **
    https://bsky.app/profile/igorsushko.bsky.social/post/3mpzudfshdk2d

  6. 205

    An increased Russian every-other-day push for increased pressure while the Ukrainian fell back around 100, a level that has continued to act as support/floor since the beginning of May.

    N Slobozhansky 10💥↗️
    S Slobozhansky 6↘️
    Kupyansk 1
    Lyman 24💥💥↗️
    Slovyansk 24💥💥↘️
    Kramatorsk 0
    Kostjantynivka 34💥💥↗️
    Pokrovsk 36💥💥↗️
    Oleksandrivskij 5
    Huliaipole 14💥↘️
    Orikhivsk 3↗️
    Prydniprovskij 0

    Localized 157↗️
    Unlocalized 98↘️
    Total 255
    Ratio unloc/loc 0.6↘️

    1. alfaomega

      I didn’t really see that coming, thought Rubio was a bit better than that. FIFA is a joke and should be stripped of all power over football. A referee’s decision should not be able to be changed through phone calls from one corrupt person to another, and they don’t even try to make it look good, instead T goes out and brags about having fixed the whole thing. Disgraceful.

    2. fedtmule

      What!! Is Rubio CUBAN?
      What the hell is the American intelligence service up to?
      First, they let a Russian become president, and now a Cuban as Secretary of State.
      What’s next? A Norwegian as defense minister, maybe…..
      Good heavens, where is the world headed….

    3. MXT

      Well, he probably knows the football rules better than Collina.. 😀

      “Fifa’s head of referees, the former top referee Pierluigi Collina, defends the Brazilian referee Raphael Claus, after Donald Trump called him “very suspicious,” reports Reuters.

      – He is an experienced and highly respected referee, and we continue to have full confidence in him, says Collina in a statement.

      Claus chose to send off the USA star player Folarin Balogun in the round of 16 match against Bosnia-Herzegovina. Fifa later decided to postpone the subsequent suspension following pressure from Trump, a decision that has received harsh criticism.”
      https://omni.se/collina-forsvarar-domaren-efter-kritiken-fran-trump/a/e7OJ89

  8. alfaomega

    Omsk yesterday was great! Less good is that the USA is withdrawing troops prematurely according to Johan’s post yesterday. The Baltics are starting to worry me a bit, the buildup of the defense is going way too slowly.

    1. MXT

      Well, the fact that they can reach Omsk is really big. Of course, it depends on whether they can repeat it, but just having gotten there once must make many people there in Russia start wondering how on earth this will end..

      I’m mainly thinking about the oligarchs who own the industries there, but ordinary people panicked immediately with long queues at gas stations even though there hardly had been any fuel shortage the same day.

  9. maggan

    Omsk is what we all (at least I) have been waiting for. Hopefully the final nail in the coffin. Now fuel supply in ryz must become really problematic. Who should be prioritized:

    x Average Ivan in Moscow or St. Peter
    x The peasants
    x The army in Ukraine

    Probably not an easy choice for putte. Delightful!

    1. MXT

      Yes, the fuel shortage is going to get even worse!

      Then I look forward to continued attacks on their war industry. There is both petrochemicals that manufacture for the defense industry but also factories that produce military vehicles, etc. 

      Saw a post about some farmers supposedly choosing to shut down operations and instead make money by selling off the diesel stocks they had. Of course, it can only be a rumor, but quite telling if it’s true. They know that when it’s time to refuel, it will be difficult to keep the operations running.

  10. MXT

    You have probably already seen it, but here are some from Omni about Global Eye:

    2Nato’s Secretary General Mark Rutte confirms at today’s summit in Ankara that the defense alliance will begin formal negotiations with Saab to purchase up to ten Global Eye aircraft from the Swedish defense company.

    Global Eye is a reconnaissance system developed by Saab and placed on aircraft from the Canadian company Bombardier.

    At a press conference in Ankara, Saab’s CEO and Group President Micael Johansson states that the price for each aircraft is not yet finalized, as it depends on the features they will be equipped with. However, Johansson estimates that the price tag will land at 400–450 million dollars per aircraft, corresponding to about 4 billion Swedish kronor.

    In a press release, Saab confirms that the company will begin formal negotiations regarding procurement, support, and maintenance with NATO, but that no contract has been signed or order received at this time.
    https://omni.se/bekraftat-nato-koper-global-eye-fran-saab/a/K8Gz47

    “NATO’s purchase of the reconnaissance aircraft Global Eye from Swedish Saab is a slight setback for the American defense industry. This is the view of military expert Johan Huovinen in an interview with the news agency TT.

    – It will be a small embarrassment for the Americans, he says, referring to the fact that until now it has been the USA that has supported the military surveillance systems in the Western world.

    The system that is now to be replaced by Global Eye has existed since the 1970s.

    – It is an old system. The new systems see more and better, Huovinen tells TT.

    Global Eye has been developed by Saab and is placed on aircraft from the Canadian company Bombardier.”
    https://omni.se/militarexperten-liten-nasbranna-for-amerikanerna/a/Pd0ob0

    ” ‘A feather in the cap’ for Sweden. This is how DN’s defense and security reporter Bo Torbjörn Ek describes the deal where NATO will buy up to ten reconnaissance systems of the type Global Eye from Swedish Saab.

    ‘The NATO deal is the latest scalp for the Swedish defense company,’ writes Ek, emphasizing that NATO chose Global Eye over the American Boeing’s reconnaissance aircraft E-7 Wedgetail.

    SVT’s foreign reporter Christoffer Wendick shares the same view and describes the news as ‘a real hit for Sweden’ – but also for the Canadian company Bombardier, which manufactures the aircraft that Global Eye is placed on.

    Wendick also mentions the ‘advertising value’ that the deal entails.

    – When the world’s most powerful defense alliance buys so many aircraft, this can boost sales to other countries that have shown interest, Wendick says.”
    https://omni.se/analys-global-eye-affaren-ar-en-succe-for-sverige/a/43W79G

    “The Stockholm stock exchange is trading cautiously during the morning. The large-cap index OMXS30 is down 0.1 percent at 11:30. The broad index OMXSPI is essentially unchanged.

    Asian stock markets traded mostly down on Tuesday. It was particularly heavy in South Korea, where AI concerns contributed to a sharp fall in Samsung Electronics, despite a record result.

    NATO and Saab confirm that formal negotiations will be initiated for the defense alliance to purchase up to ten Global Eye aircraft. Morgan Stanley also raises the recommendation for the defense company to overweight from underweight. The stock rises around 5 percent. … …”
    https://omni.se/stockholmsborsen-ser-ut-att-oppna-oregelbundet/a/Wv8jjG

    1. maggan

      Don’t the collectors usually come in the middle of the night? I think he will be quiet. If he complains, we might need to explain why we are choosing a more reliable supplier, and that doesn’t reflect well on the person in question.

    2. CB500four

      Now he has probably started to get going, complaining about Greenland and how much he has helped Europe with Russia without getting anything in return, and he might as well pull all troops out of Europe, sort of. And if it weren’t for Turkey, with its strong and good leadership, hosting the meeting, he wouldn’t have come at all.

      Source, iltalehti

  12. Pehr

    ** Ukraine’s President Zelensky and Estonia’s Prime Minister Kristen Michal signed a drone agreement between the countries.

    As a correspondent for Interfax-Ukraine reports, the signing ceremony took place in connection with the defense forum held on July 7 as part of the NATO summit.

    “I am glad that today we signed a drone agreement between our countries. Thank you for the enormous support to our people throughout all these years,” Zelensky said, calling the signed agreement an “important step” and a “signal of trust.”

    He also thanked Estonia for supporting Ukraine’s path to the EU and NATO.

    Michal emphasized in turn that Ukraine must become a member of the EU as soon as possible.

    The drone agreement is a multi-year international cooperation program initiated by Ukraine, aimed at exporting Ukrainian defense technology and attracting investments. It enables joint weapons production, exchange of combat experience, and long-term financing of the Ukrainian defense industry.

    https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1182911.html

    1. MXT

      As CB500four writes..

      “USA’s president Donald Trump had barely landed at the NATO summit in Ankara before he directed criticism at several European NATO countries. After repeating his statements that the Danish territory Greenland should instead be governed by the USA, he attacked Italy, France, and Germany. – We spend hundreds of billions of dollars and they are not there for us, but we have always been there for them, he said according to The Guardian. A large part of his criticism concerns that European countries did not help during the USA’s warfare against Iran. Trump again threatened to stop helping Europe financially and to call home American forces from the continent. The Guardian notes that Trump did not bring anything new, but that the statements “show the attitude he has ahead of tomorrow’s NATO meeting”.” https://omni.se/a/RjKzrd

  13. MXT

    🔥🔥🔥 Today, Commander of the SBS reported on the destruction of 8 tankers of the Russian shadow fleet, which finances the war, – Exilenova

    ❗️Objective control footage, shot from a very close distance.

    1/3

    2. CB500four

      Wow, that’s how they should be dealt with. Should do the same with those in the Baltic Sea, before they are filled with oil of course.

      Imagine if some Ukrainian drone accidentally strays into the Gulf of Finland and snaps them when they are lined up waiting to enter port. They don’t need to sink them, just immobilize them,

  15. johan No.1

    This is roughly how I interpret the situation –

    Europe is starting to gain SERIOUS momentum and in 2-3 years we will be what Russia would interpret as an existential threat to them. Our rhetoric (which should be even more aggressive) is uncomfortable for Putin now and his tentacles to prevent what we have set out to do are in many cases severed.

    USA and China don’t like this either, Europe is supposed to be compliant consumers, not at war at all.

    Ukraine is just a long downhill slope now for Putin where he can either tie himself to the mast and sink with the dinghy or try to come up with something else. 

    I will bring this up in a post soon because at the fronts there is nothing but Christmas cheer, OPSEC prevails but I still get direct info from Zelensky.

    —

    USA is preparing the ground for a weak Baltics, they are pulling out all units and promising new ones, which are not there yet.

    Same with UA Patriot license, we calm down but interceptors in the tubes are a year or two away.

    What I expect from Trump at the NATO meeting is something about the Patriot systems in Eastern Europe, that they are urgently needed elsewhere.

    HIMARS if there are any left will probably disappear as well?

    —

    My marker for conflict in the Baltics has just kicked in – the heavy battalion in Estonia. It happened completely without fanfare or announcements and about two months before they were supposed to rotate out anyway according to Google AI. 

    —

    Putin has several choices to make and if he has decided yet I do not know. Poland’s outburst some time ago was “we know what plans you have, don’t try.” Poland has Nawrocki as president and he is pro-Russian – you can guess what laws they have about going to war 😀

    Now Putin must make a couple more moves before it becomes open conflict, if it does – the Baltic fleet cannot just lie at the quay.

    We will see some movement of operators on the Russian side of the border which is what the Baltics will see and warn about but in terms of “few”. Sabotage also increases together with drone overflights, protests and government crisis where fringe parties start arguing about everything possible.

    And the last – Ukraine will warn about units preparing to move at the northern border, but they can never be sure where they are going.

    —

    Putin will until the last say that they are moving them to Belarus or will “roll over Kramatorsk”.

    They are probably already threatening the Baltics but all that rhetoric will also start against us. “You have no missile defense or defense against Gerans, don’t test us”.

    Maybe a false flag?

    —

    Trump’s task is partly to pull away everything he can from the Baltics, Poland and Germany and now it’s really only fighter jets and air defense left as far as I understand of what Putin doesn’t want there?

    He hasn’t managed to get the Canada-led brigade but there is some suspicion that Spain’s heavy battalion might disappear, I have checked for that but haven’t seen anything.

    Then he must try to convince Europe that a ceasefire in Ukraine is necessary so the pressure on Russia eases even if it is only temporary for a month or two.

    His last task which finance in the USA is always eager for anyway, is to use the upcoming 2008-style financial crisis to hit Europe as hard as possible economically. It’s actually enough just to stop exporting LNG to us and we will crash 😀

    A combo where China holds back what we need for our industrial production would otherwise make us crash if that wasn’t enough?

    —

    This is what I believe we have ahead of us and even if Putin starts looking over the abyss he still has some bites left I am pretty sure of. 

    —

    Part two will naturally be the following – Putin promises on his honor that the Baltics was his last move and offers us all the oil and LNG we can eat at a “peace discount”, and Trump does the same from the USA. For peace in our time we avoid all trade tariffs (which he pulled out of the hat), we get “bail-outs” (after the financial crisis he created), all American units come back immediately (which he pulled away) and the LNG/oil tap is turned on again (which he shut off).

    But if we choose war we get nothing – then tariffs increase and no one will sell LNG to us at all.

    China is certainly in on a corner too.

    Somewhere there we will all get a receipt for who it is we have chosen for our governments 😀

    —

    We avoid all this if we bury our light infantry in eastern Baltics today.

  16. johan No.1

    Trump praises Erdogan as a “great buddy” but the rest of NATO and Europe have “completely betrayed him in the Iran war”.

    Question to the thread – as far as I know, Turkey hasn’t done a damn thing to help the US in the Iran war?

    Anyone who needs more to understand that Trump is working a few steps forward here, all the fuss with us is created for a purpose.

    1. Pehr

      Trump’s allies must stop taking the hits – it’s time to beat him with his own weapons
      Sean Bell, retired Air Vice Marshal, former combat pilot in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and military analyst, joins Maddie Hale from the NATO summit in Ankara to analyze Trump’s pressure for increased defense spending within NATO, Ukraine’s fight to get more Patriot missiles, Russia’s latest setbacks on the battlefield, Trump’s relationship with Putin, and the escalating conflict between Trump and Giorgia Meloni.
      https://open.spotify.com/episode/1CQorMnfbHT52URthfPEdr?si=lCvOBXoZSoq80UmbO9z28Q&utm_source=copy-link

    1. CB500four

      Hmm, apparently there is someone here on the blog who usually argues that Estonia is in the danger zone 🙂

      I tend to believe more in Lithuania and a corridor to Kaliningrad, but now that it is being presented, I am probably more convinced that Estonia could be the target.

      Finland can be pressured with drones, etc., to not help Estonia, but there will be no invasion of Finland, there are few roads, lots of forests, lakes, and wetlands.

       

      1. johan No.1

        RU’s plan is probably to conduct the training of the mobilized soldiers up there at the border with Finland to tie up Finland.

        Belarus is already tying up the defense of Poland and Lithuania.

        Poland also has a pro-Russian president who will delay everything for some week.

        If you don’t have the capability, it is always about relativity, so you reduce the opponent’s capability instead when you still achieve your goal.

        The USA, those bastards, have always been at the forefront, so when they pulled out, there is a huge hole in the defense.

  19. johan No.1

    How are you doing in the “killer heat” MXT?

    Can’t find anything in the newspapers and I’m trying to look at the camera to see how the garden is drying out in the heat, but there seems to be something wrong with the camera because it looks like a downpour of the decade.

    Also, something is wrong with the app because the indoor temperature is down to 16 degrees in July, probably need to replace something.

    3. johan No.1

      Well, it’s the same as usual, the moment it gets warm the world is ending and then everyone forgets about it when they have to make ice rinks and seal the roof for all the water that comes in after the rains.

       

      1. MXT

        Your observation that it is only the media that exaggerates could of course have been a reasonable argument against the idea that we are heading towards an increasingly warmer climate. 

        BUT considering that the Earth’s average temperature is slowly rising with new records, even if it does not happen every year, and that even the shorter periods of extreme heat occur more often, last longer, and also constantly break new records in different places, it is therefore not just about the media exaggerating.

        You are not stupid, so I suspect that you have simply gotten stuck trying to find arguments that align with your belief so that you can avoid admitting to yourself that you are wrong.

  21. Pehr

    IOC stands behind terror, torture, and rape.

    Sports Minister Jakob Forssmed (KD) is furious about the IOC’s decision to allow Russian athletes to compete in the Olympics.
    – A deplorable decision that normalizes Russia’s war of aggression, he says to TT.
    Jakob Forssmed says that Russian sports are closely connected to the Russian state apparatus, and that the timing is terrible considering the recent attacks on civilian targets.
    – Ukrainian athletes and coaches are among the victims of such Russian attacks, he says.

    https://omni.se/a/d4MRLo

  22. 205

    Topic: snake

    ”Social media is also filled with images of up to 900 snakes – some venomous – that escaped when a facility in Hengzhou collapsed in the heavy rains. In a video, people can be seen in waist-deep water trying to catch the snakes with bamboo sticks.”

    First Corona, now venomous snakes 🇨🇳 🐍 🦠

  23. johan No.1

    I thought the Danes would send another battalion to Latvia, but it is only the one that will rotate in after our battalion leaves.

     

     

  24. johan No.1

    CB500four,

    The only chance for Putin to succeed somewhat is to keep Poland out.

    Germany and Poland have both promised to defend Lithuania to the last Lithuanian soldier, the mechanized brigade is half in place, and Poland is practicing to keep the Suwałki Gap open.

    Belarus is now projecting threats as much as they can when Lukashenko is not projecting friendship so that Zelensky won’t ignore him.

    The Germans, Poles, and Lithuanians need to have defense along the line Lublin, Bialystok, Vilnius, and possibly up to Daugavpils?

    Then they need to defend the Suwałki Gap and against Kaliningrad.

    That is good enough for Putin because he has no intention of setting foot south of the Daugava…

    As soon as it blows up, civilians from Estonia and Latvia will drive south, making it even harder to move around.

    —

    There, Poland and Germany probably think they have done their part once they have gone on the defense.

    Since not a shot will be fired from Belarus or Kaliningrad, it is up to Poland how they want to proceed, but they have a president who is commander-in-chief and who likes Putin. I’m not so sure they will run over Kaliningrad, but we’ll see.

    —

    Putin also stays away from the Gulf of Finland to avoid making Finland angry, and since a few hundred thousand Russians are training in bases along the Finnish border, Finland feels they have also done their part.

    If it blows up, the shipping lanes past Denmark will be full of sinking rusty container ships, and the Russian navy is out, so then it is up to Sweden and Denmark to take one for the team and save Latvia and Estonia from occupation. Some expeditionary force can probably always be sent over to us from the UK; we can probably forget the USA 😀 But it is our ships that have to run the gauntlet. Airborne landing – is it likely? I don’t think so.

    Exactly how we shall get anything over to Estonia and Latvia I leave as an exercise for others, since we choose to be reactive, then the Baltic Sea is full of drones, the two Russian submarines, the dozen or so decent surface ships they have, Russian aircraft, and Russian operators on Saaremaa with both anti-ship missiles and air defense in addition to the drone weapon.

    We’ll probably take a quick look at the digital situation map, then HSE will go through the roof and say unacceptable, too high a risk for a workplace accident here, and the Work Environment Act applies even to soldiers. Probably Sweden will say that we take full responsibility for Gotland, and when Denmark realizes that they can get away with something like that, they will say that Bornholm shall become a fortress.

    If we by any chance manage to land anything, it will probably be in Ventspils or Liepaja, and then it is damn far south of the Daugava – maybe that’s what we do because then we have “done our part.”

    —

    Alternative two is that now, since the window is open, light units move in that dig in in eastern Baltics, and if war breaks out, it breaks out. You know what I think we should do by now.

    —

    Ukraine got through 2022 with violence and sheer luck; if Belarus had rolled toward Lviv from the north and Hungary from the south, it could have ended anyway — apparently the signal when Kiev fell was as stupid as Putin is, and both kept their fingers on the trigger because it’s always the pals who betray.

    There was nothing wrong with Russia’s combat aircraft at all, but he chose the wrong opponent.

    Maybe that’s why Orban fired all 100 higher officers during 2022 or 2023 because they never attacked?

    Lukashenko is just trying to survive.

    Given how things went in 2022 when Merz suggested that Ukraine should give up so everything could return to normal, it is easy to see that Europe would have directly accepted fate-compli.

    —

    I actually can’t decide if it is cowardice and fear of Putin’s actual capabilities—the drone weapon, missiles, subversive activities, and the AC he can deploy against the Baltics—or if we are just gambling that nothing will happen because it has gone this far so far—I don’t know which is worse, but it can only be one of those two options.

     

    1. CB500four

      So, is all the talk about Russia planning an attack on Poland actually a maskirovka? I thought it sounded a bit risky, even though they have a Russia-friendly president, I don’t think the people are particularly Russia-friendly.

      Someone wrote here earlier that a sign that something is underway is that the Russian navy is moving out of the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea will become a no-go zone for all parties if there is a war, only submarines can move unseen.

      I also don’t understand why the Baltics are not already fortified. All bridges and roads over waterways towards Russia should be blown up, or at least mined, and drone units should be ready along the entire stretch.

      The fact that the US has rotated out its troops prematurely is worrying. Putin probably still has Trump’s ear apparently, even though Trump has pretended to ramp up rhetoric against Russia recently. 

      You would think Putin would have learned by now that war no longer pays off, but his own life probably depends on him continuing. He won’t survive a loss, and even though the loss is inevitable, it is not confirmed as long as the war continues.

       

    2. 205

      “Where are we headed?” You hear the host’s voice in På spåret as the drone in First Person View weaves over Datjor, closed gas stations, and overgrown fields that have not been able to be harvested when it has not been possible to get diesel for the agricultural machines.

  28. 205

    off-topic: Paris

    You have to search thoroughly in the news feed if you want to follow up on how the heatwave in Paris has gone. Well embedded in an article in DN from today, you find that it ended at the end of June.

      1. MXT

        You laugh, but that is exactly what is worrying, that we are getting extreme heatwaves where records are broken every year. 

        It is completely natural that there are no reports about when they are over. 

    2. MXT

      Do you seriously mean that you think it is strange? When has the media or anyone at all ever been interested in reporting on the normal state of affairs?

      “Today in Gävle, nothing out of the ordinary has happened. No car accidents or traffic jams. There have also been no robberies or murders. No controversies over political decisions. The weather is completely normal, everyone has working electricity and garbage collection is functioning.”

      Or..

      “There is NOT a forest fire ongoing in Värmland!”

      They report on what stands out, an extreme heatwave in this case. But later on, of course, it might be different, when there is extreme weather everywhere we might read:

      “PARIS HAS NORMAL TEMPERATURES TODAY
      Despite midsummer, Paris today has what we would previously have called normal temperatures around 25-30 degrees while the rest of Europe’s cities as usual have extremely hot weather.
      Such low summer temperatures have not been seen in Paris since 2037.”

      The next time we get an extreme winter or at least extremely cold days (because that will come), they will report on that as well.

  29. 205

    117 Russian, 102 Ukrainian attacks for a total of 219 combat engagements at 10 PM tonight. With one third of the day remaining, this is a high daily figure according to tomorrow’s report from AFU.

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