This is not MadMax. This is the MEDIVAC for Oleg Gubal Mobile Hospital Complex 100% funded by #Romanian donors on my Facebook page. This Vehicle is 90% ready. Tires will be changed. It will be anti-mine NATO standard protected. This will take the wuunded from 0 line. Thread: 1/N
This is the logistical vehicle. I know, right? Terminator 2 movie Peterbuild? Same model. Just that this is armored and will have 6 beds for medics. Kitchen. Satinization for surgery tools used in the Emergency Room (below). Generators room. All armor is NATO standard 2/N
Since Ujraine has lots of rivers and bodies of water: This is a speed boat for crossing rivers, modified for wounded soldiers. Stay with me here: 3/n
This is the "Emergency Room". It has double NATO standard armour. Spevial developed pneumatic suspentions. Thisnwill stay around 15 to 20 km from the front lines to receive wounded soldiers from the MEDIVAC. It was a capacity of at 30 surgeries a day. That's 30 lives saved 4/n
That means 900 people in a month will be able to stay alive and see their families again. 2700 in 3 months. And those are the low expectation numbers. 5/n
Inside it there is state-of-the art medical equipment. Not for simple interventions, but for vritical and conplex ones. I have no expertise in this domain, but people with expertise say this is quite an amazing achievement in thensense of the conplexity of the equippment. 6/n
All of this cost around 130.000 euro and all was croundfunded on my facebook page and managed by autorota.com.ua Charity Fundation (one of the few ones i trust) created by Misha, a Ukrainian-Romanian soldier who is supervising the project. 7/n
If i could do it, you could do it too. This is an unique project and will serve a radius of about 25km (50 km lenght of the front lines). So we need more. Retweet this if you want. Or crouwdfund yourself. Angel, the paramedic with the idea want to offer its know-how to anybody8/n
After the wounded will be stabilisd in the "Emergency Room" they will be taken by Intensive Care Ambulances to the nearest hospitals that i purchased from Romanian donors too. Fron 3 to 5 ambulances will serve this Mobile Hospital Complex. 9/n
Spread the word! Let people known what regular fellas can make a huge difference in this war! This complex is planned to go into it's first missions 2 weeks from now in Bakhmut/Avdiivka area.
After Realitatea TV, Romania TV was also fined by CNA - the National Audiovisual Council - for the media lynching to which I was subjected. Romania TV (Romania's biggest news channel) received a more symbolic fine of 5000 lei for Victor Ciutacu's (pro-Russian) program because my image rights were not respected and because I was accused of various facts without any evidence being presented. If I was accused of being a 'terrorist' on Realitatea, I was accused of being a 'mercenary' on Romania TV on the same evening.🧵👇
2/15 These two fines, the one against Realitatea TV (Anca Alexandrescu show) and the one against României TV (Victor Ciutacu show), demonstrate what we have been warning for a long time: we are in a hybrid war on Romanian territory.
3/15 Russia, through television stations with relatively large audiences and controlled by thieves and fugitives (Romania TV is controlled by the fugitive Sebastian Ghiță, currently in Serbia allied with Putin, and Realitatea TV is run by Maricel Păcuraru, a convicted criminal whose daughter is running for President of Romania with pro-Russian speeches), and what they want to win is not territory, but our minds.
The Night Summary. Day 999 (18.11.2024 at 03:45 RO/UA time):
The US has lifted restrictions on Ukraine's use of long-range missiles, mainly ATACMS. Immediately after the announcement, France and the UK announced the same, and here we are discussing Storm Shadow.
What do these decisions mean and what impact could they have on the war?
I wrote on September 12 about the impact of these capabilities on warfare, when the first serious public discussion of such a thing was first seriously discussed. 🧵👇
2/18 Since you most probably still don't feel like reading two posts this morning, I briefly reiterate here some of the main ideas from then:
- Storm Shadow/Scalp-EG cannot hit the Kerch Bridge.
3/18 The ATACMS missiles that have been delivered to Ukraine are the ones that deliver cluster munitions, they don't have a unitary warhead, so they can't be used against the Kerch Bridge (I bring this up because a lot of people expect this);
- These capabilities, if used intelligently, will put Russian commanders in a dilemma as they will have to make risky decisions, which could lead to increased mismanagement of the conflict;
- (at that time) These capabilities can take out of the "game" quite a lot of airfields,
1/16 I was asked on Digi24 what Trump's new mandate means for Ukraine. I answer what I think in more detail here:
1. Donald Trump:
President Trump is poised to be a President who will have through the Republican Party absolute control of the Administration and the Congress if the House of Representatives is also won (and it looks like it will be) by Republicans. That means his ideas will be more easily implemented than Obama's or Biden's. But even this political configuration does not guarantee that his vision on Ukraine and Russia will be implemented 100%.
2/16 First, we need to consider what the people Trump worked with in his first term are saying about what he understands from this war and what he understood from the illegal annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Donbas. Trump, according to people close to him, doesn't understand anything about the art of war, doesn't understand what it takes to win a war. He is instead interested in his image as a strongman who "solves" US enemies. He wants to go down in history as the man who saved the US and took it to new heights of world greatness.
3/16 And even if he doesn't understand the war, he nevertheless relies heavily on advisers who manage to convince him that his personal interests and those of the Trump family first and foremost, Trump's favorite lobbyists and close cronies, are aligned with their proposals and US interests.
If one of the president's people convinces him that it is personally beneficial for him to support Ukraine, he will. If it convinces him otherwise, he won't, regardless of the consequences, the number of deaths or international laws broken.
1/13 Little guide to reading the results in Rep. Moldova (this is to protect you from heart attacks when the first polling stations are counted):
1. The Central Electoral Commission website will crash at the beginning of the vote count, i.e. tonight and tomorrow morning (Ro/Md time).
Tip: If you've managed to access it, leave the window open, that the numbers update automatically.
2/13 If you refresh during rush hour, you won't catch the slot and you'll be in for a shock.
2. The percentages you'll see as counted are percentages of Minutes counted. That is, sections counted. Be careful, these are not percentages of votes counted, as there was confusion in Romania, but also in the Republic of Moldova and everyone was wondering how the referendum was lost when it was obvious that it was not.
3/13 Tip: When you want to see that the counting has started, don't look at the percentages shown on the website, look at the number of votes processed out of the total turnout and then you will see how many percent really counted.
1/18 Strategically, in the long term Russia has lost the war, but Ukraine may lose it in the short term militarily
I. Two years ago, when I was still on the Eastern Front (Kharkiv Oblast), I used to say that Russia strategically lost the war. Why? 1. Politically:
It did not achieve its main political goal: political decapitation of Ukraine, changing the democratically elected political leadership with a puppet leadership already prepared from the Kremlin.
2/18 President Zelensky refused the US offer to flee, he stayed in Kyiv and this changed not only the history of Ukraine, but the history of the whole of Central and Eastern Europe, with (positive) consequences for the whole of the Collective West.
Also politically it managed to put Russia in the most ungrateful international position in its modern history. Never was Russia viewed with such hatred as it is now in most parts of the globe. During the Cold War, Russia at least had many communist allies/partners.
3/18 The Warsaw Pact stands at least in part, evidence to support this claim.
One important thing Russia has lost politically is the trust and respect of the common people. Yes, the leaderships of Hungary and Slovakia are pro-Russian, but if you ask Hungarians in Budapest what they think of Putin, you will see that no other leader in the world has a lower favorability rating than him. This is probably the case in all the world capitals. Don't think that ordinary Chinese in Beijing like Russia.
Zelensky said: NATO or go back to being a nuclear power! The tabloid Bild published an article the same day quoting Ukrainian government sources as saying "if we are given the order, in 3 weeks we can build a nuclear bomb". Kyiv denied that such a discussion had ever taken place. Informative🧵
2/38 I promise a feast of interesting information:
The really important question is, would, can Ukraine (re)become a nuclear power? Let's begin:
1. How did Zelensky's statement come about?
In 1991 Ukraine inherited the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal, surpassed only by the USA and Russia.
3/38 In 1994, in Budapest, Ukraine signed a memorandum committing it to give up its 1900 nuclear warheads along with its delivery capabilities (missiles), launch equipment (strategic bombers, launch silos, etc.) and almost 4000 tactical nuclear bombs.