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Jun 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🇨🇳 defense minister Wei responds to 🇺🇸defense secretary Lloyd Austin’s speech yesterday. China ‘firmly rejects US smearing accusations,’ and accuses the US Indo-Pacific strategy of being ‘strategy to hijack countries in our region and target one country [China].’ #SLD22
🇨🇳 defense minister appears to suggest that root cause of Russia‘s war of aggression in Ukraine is the United States. #SLD22
🇨🇳defense minister reiterates China’s nuclear “no first use” policy (NFU). #SLD22
🇨🇳 defense minister emphasizes that Russia & China have entered a partnership not an alliance. However, notes that „our relationship with Russia will continue to grow.“ #SLD22
🇨🇳 defense minister on Chinese military support to Russia: „China has not provided any material support to Russia.“ #SLD22

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Jun 13
Another great piece of reporting by @MacWBishop 👇

‘They’re Wiping Us From Earth’: Evading Russian Artillery With a Ukrainian Military Unit rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… via @RollingStone
On Russian tactics in the ongoing fight in eastern 🇺🇦: “Russian scouts move forward to probe Ukrainian positions, then call in large-scale artillery strikes when they make contact. The artillery is followed by masses of armor supported by infantry.”
“One of the biggest problems is the drones,” says “Ostap,” the nom de guerre of the 🇺🇦scout. “I hear Orlans [a type of Russian reconnaissance drone] all the time. But I almost never see them. They’re too small and too high. It’s next to impossible to shoot them down.”
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Jun 11
"Around 200 Ukrainian soldiers are now being killed every day, up from 100 late last month, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC on Friday — meaning that as many as 1,000 Ukrainians are being taken out of the fight every day..." washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/…
"The Russians are still making mistakes and are also losing men and equipment, albeit at a lesser rate than in the first months of the conflict."
"Russia is firing as many as 50,000 artillery rounds a day into Ukrainian positions, and the Ukrainians can only hit back with around 5,000 to 6,000 rounds a day, he said."
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Jun 11
U.S. defense secretary just now:

„Today, the Indo-Pacific is our priority theater of operations.
 
Today, the Indo-Pacific is at the heart of American grand strategy.“ #SLD22 Image
„The Indo-Pacific is our center of strategic gravity. That’s central to the Biden Administration’s forthcoming National Security Strategy and to my Department’s National Defense Strategy.„
„Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is what happens when oppressors trample the rules that protect us all. It’s what happens when big powers decide that their imperial appetites matter more than the rights of their peaceful neighbors.„ #SLD22
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Jun 8
The 🇺🇦 mayor of Kramatorsk: “Let me give you my professional opinion as mayor: if we don’t get heavy weapons in two or three weeks, we’re fucked.” newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…
Russian commanders are rotating forces on the frontline.
„The Russian Army has split its forces into smaller groups, which it uses, along with a sizable fleet of drones, to identify and target Ukrainian positions, hitting them with artillery and air strikes.“
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Jun 8
What the West Has Given Is Not Enough to Win, Ukraine Says defenseone.com/threats/2022/0…
🇺🇦defense minister: „We need heavy weapons, primarily MLRS. We also need artillery tanks, aviation, anti-ship complexes, new UAVs, anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense systems. We need them fast. We need them in the numbers matching the scope of the challenge we face.”
Deliberations take days and weeks, literally measured in Ukrainian lives...we need simplified and expedited procedures” to forward new and different weapons for the evolving battlefield,” 🇺🇦defense minister said.
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Jun 6
As the Russians advanced on Kyiv in late February, Ukrainian defenders enlisted a 15-year-old civilian drone pilot and his commercial off the shelf drone to pinpoint a column of military vehicles approaching the capital from the west.

globalnews.ca/news/8893672/1… h/t @SamBendett
Ukrainian forces provided the "information where approximately the Russian column could be,"the boy said. "Our goal was to find the exact coordinates and provide the coordinates to the soldiers."
“It was one of the biggest columns that was moving on the Zhytomyr road and we managed to find it because one of the trucks turned on its lights for a long time," he added.
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