Stop in the name of the United Fruit Company!

In every decent country, they would stop traffic over that bridge.

It is actually worse. Two Admiral Grigorovich class frigate have been heavily damaged by Ukraine. So Russia only has four undamaged blue water capable commissioned ships, which have not been laid down by the Soviet Union.

Also 650,000-1,300,000 Russians have left Russia, since the full scale invasion started. Add to that fewer migrants moving to Russia and you have another massive issue for the country.

The other big potential one, is that most quote the Russian statistics on them. However those include parts of Ukraine. The population of Russia would shrink by millions, if those go back to Ukraine.

There are 232 days left this year. That would mean 2827 casualties per day. I doubt this is going to happen this year. Still a lot of dead and seriously wounded.

Really important for Germany, since the US just cut off the sale of Tomahawk.

Drones are just another form of ammunition in this case. Dropping something like a torpedo from the air against some ship makes sense, as damaging a ship underwater is obviously a good idea. That is hard to do if you attack from above. Launching flying drones from a drone boat also is sensible, as it allows you to attack land targets. In the case of Ukraine it also allows different directions of attack. Land to water is really not a good idea, as you need to drive to the coast and then also need deep enough water to actually have the water-based drone be able to swim.

Ukraine is launching air based drones from water based drones.

Honestly they should attack air defence.

No need to wait, when you can just watch the last one. Notice the lack of a driver too.

Omsk was last hit 26.0.8.2024, Moscow 11.03.2025 and Taneco 11.01.2025. The largest ones also have multiple production lines. So they can still operate, but at reduced capacity. Ukraine should try to shut down as much refinery capacity as possible and export. So Russia has to close oil wells and has fuel shortages. The country is massive after all, so it takes a lot to transport fuel throughout it.

The main issue, are the non Russian state leaders. If the Chinese believe you attacked Xi for example.

If you kill Putin, that would bring in a new leader. It is hard to say who exactly and more so what he will do. That might be nuking Ukraine, but also making a peace deal, to bring in Western money.

Last year Xi was watching the parade. Attacking him was certainly problematic. That is still a problem, but with other leaders. So you would need a precise attack with a long range weapon. I believe 2024 Ukraine was unable to do that(except Storm Shadow, but they did not control that).

We might see it this year. After all soldiers are a military target.

Refineries hit over a year ago, will probably be repaired though. Ukraine needs to hit them more frequently.

Plenty of ships pass the strait and this is kind of to be expected. Especially the UAE, but also other Gulf countries have been key places for money laundering. They allow Russians in and do not ask many questions. Mordashov also probably has contacts to Iran, so he can make these sort of deals.

It is just insane that the last tank losses reported in this were on Thursday…

What is even crazier are the casulties. The casulty numbers are in the lower range of Russias losses during WW1 today. That is with a much older population, which is already in structural decline.

The April drop represents a total decline of up to 600,000 barrels per day compared to late 2025 levels. However, the news agency noted that a monthly decline would not necessarily mean an annual production decline.

That is roughly half the consumption of Italy, just as a comparison. The entire EU is at 10.5million barrells/day

It can also be an increase in Ukraines range. If for example AA and jammers have been destroyed in sections of the front, you would expect longer range Ukrainian attacks.

Musk cut Starlink This matters as electronic warfare can ground a drone very cheaply and quickly.