Conquer Club

HitRed wrote:National gas price average hits new high at $4.47 per gallon
Diesel also hit its own highest recorded cost at $5.56

Putin might be loosing tanks but he’s making bank.

bigtoughralf wrote:$7.3USD per gallon in the UK

Assuming the conversion rates I googled for 'gallons to normal measurements' were accurate

Ukrainian Air Defence eliminates nine Russian cruise missiles over past 24 hours, while strike aircraft destroys two Russian ammunition depots

On 5 July, Ukrainian Air Force Air Defence eliminated nine cruise missiles, while strike aircraft destroyed two Russian ammunition depots, two of their platoon strongholds and 20 pieces of military equipment.

Source: Air Force of Armed Forces of Ukraine, Press Service on Facebook

Quote: "Air Force strike aircraft continue to attack the enemy on several strategic fronts, exterminating the aggressors’ positions with fire from the air."

"On 5 July, bombers and attack aircraft of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two field ammunition depots, two platoon strongholds of the Russian invaders, up to twenty pieces of military equipment and killed enemy troops."

Details: The Air Force Press Service reports that Russian forces launched sea-based Kalibr cruise missiles targeting Ukraine from the Black Sea on Tuesday, 5 July.

At 4:00, six out of seven such missiles were destroyed by anti-aircraft missile units belonging to Skhid [East] Air Command in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Anti-aircraft missile units and aviation shot down three Russian cruise missiles on the western front at about 20:00. They were destroyed by operational crews from an anti-aircraft missile unit and portable surface-to-air missile system. Another cruise missile was destroyed by the pilot of a Ukrainian fighter jet

by saxitoxin on Wed Feb 23, 2022 8:24 pm

This is a great move by Putin and actually will lead to peace.

There is no way the Donbas is ever going back to Ukraine. That's a simple fact of life. It will never happen.

Once we accept that, then all we're left with is an endless low intensity war that kills a few hundred people every year for no reason in small-scale skirmishes between Donbas separatists and Ukrainian forces.

With the Russian Army on the ground in the Donbas that low intensity war is now over. The Ukrainians aren't going to try to plow through Russian lines.

Literally nothing has changed with the Russian intervention except 600-700 people won't die this year, 600-700 people won't die next year, and 600-700 people won't die the year after.

How many soldiers have died?
The number of soldiers dying is sensitive information and shapes the story of how the war is going for both sides, Gavin Crowden, of casualty-recording organisation Every Casualty Counts, says.

"That is something that both sides will be very conscious of," he says.

Ukraine has given no official total of soldiers killed during the war.

But in early June, a senior Ukrainian presidential aide told BBC News 100-200 Ukrainian solders were dying in the Donbas region every day.

In April, Russia said it had killed about 23,000 Ukrainian troops.

Russia rarely discloses its own troop fatalities.

Its most recent death count was on 25 March, when it said 1,351 Russian soldiers had died since the invasion began.

In April, the UK government said about 15,000 Russian soldiers had died.

Ukraine regularly releases figures on Russian military deaths, claiming about 35,000 Russians had died as of late June.

None of these claims can be verified.

The UN has said it does not consider figures released by those involved in the conflict to be reliable.