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Sadly, Ukrainian F-16 pilot Pavlo Ivanov killed during combat mission today

Captain Pavlo Ivanov, a 26-year-old Ukrainian F-16 pilot, was killed on 12 April while performing a combat mission, the Ukrainian Air Force announced. The Air Force said in their statement: “We express our deepest condolences to Pavlo’s family. He died in battle, defending his homeland from occupiers.” The military noted that F-16 pilots perform combat missions almost daily across various fronts under incredibly challenging conditions, providing fighter cover for aviation strike groups and attacking enemy targets. “Ukrainian pilots work at the maximum of human and technical capabilities, risking their lives each time they perform combat missions. Pavlo was one of them,” the Air Force statement readі.

And in an update, President Volodymyr Zelensky has posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to 26-year-old F-16 pilot Pavlo Ivanov, who died in combat.

RIP Pavlo Ivanov. Heroiam Slava

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/04...lo-ivanov-killed-during-combat-mission-today/

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The Netherlands announced €150 million for Ukraine's air defense needs (I-Hawk system).

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I've been waiting for this one to hit the mainstream news. I've seen a few comments on this now and then, but now we are seeing a little more visibility.

Ukraine working on its own analogue of Patriot air defense system​

Ukraine’s defense sector and government are working on their own project to develop an analogue of the Patriot air defense system. Currently, the Patriot is supplied exclusively by the United States and remains the only system capable of intercepting Russian ballistic missiles, states Ukraine’s Minister for Strategic Industries Herman Smetanin during a conference on the defense industry’s performance in 2024. As for other countries around the world capable of producing similar systems, the minister noted that such producers do exist, and Ukraine is already engaged in negotiations on partial localization. “The United States has partners with whom it co-produces these systems. We’ve held a number of negotiations with manufacturers of similar systems, including the Patriot, regarding partial localization of their production in Ukraine. These talks are ongoing, and active work is underway,” Smetanin added.

With continued US military aid uncertain and no new shipments of Patriot missiles other than a few from Germany, this is important, as the Patriot is the only system that can intercept ballistic missiles successfully. With the pro-Putin Trump displaying increasing hostility and hate towards Ukraine, and condoning Russian terrorist attacks on the Ukrainian civilian population, Ukraine's continued access to military aid flowing from Washington is in doubt. If Ukraine develops its own air defense system, this would ease Kyiv's independence on the likes of the U.S. for the protection of its population centers and vital infrastructure.

Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine's commander-in-chief, told Ukrainian media on Sunday that work was "underway" to manufacture a domestically-made air defense system, adding Ukraine had been a producer of control systems for anti-aircraft systems during the Soviet era. The Ukrainian army chief said it was crucial for Kyiv to produce its own defenses now that Russia is using new weapons against Ukraine, like the experimental Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile Moscow fired at a Ukrainian military facility in November. Ukraine does not yet have a system that can effectively fend off this type of attack, Syrskyi said. "This encourages us to create our own air defense system, which would be not just an air defense system, but also an anti-missile system," he said. The commander said he hoped the Ukrainian-developed system would be as effective as the U.S. military's Patriot system.

Ukraine has been doubling down on efforts to make its own weapons, from millions of drones per year to cruise and ballistic missiles. Ukraine's defense minister, Rustem Umerov, said earlier this month that Kyiv plans to spend a record $35 billion on weapons in 2025, more than half of which will be funded by Ukraine's allies. Umerov said in a separate statement this month that the U.K. will fund Ukraine's production of air defense systems and long-range weapons. The UK are no slugs in building defebse systems - BAE is one of the world's leading military industrial companies - and with the UK, and perhaps Germany, also working with Ukraine, they may well rapidly develop an analog of the Patriot that will be as capable and effective - and made in Ukraine. There'd certainly be a big European market for such a system....and reverse-enginerring and cloning the Patriot would be quite the accomplishment, besides meaning Ukraine would not be at the mercy of a crazed and genocidal buffoon in the White House.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/worl...TS&cvid=47dc1875f6804de0b17d5cda1fc8e6ff&ei=2

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Trump envoy: Ukraine could be divided like postwar Berlin​


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General Keith Kellogg suggests UK and France could lead western zone of control in interview with The Times​

https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2F82c5c0fc-d2f2-45f3-b66d-e96a89d75a02.jpg?crop=1600%2C900%2C0%2C0&resize=360
General Keith Kellogg and, right, how his plan for Ukraine might look
Samuel Lovett
, Washington

Friday April 11 2025, 8.00pm BST, The Times

President Trump’s envoy to Ukraine has said the country could be partitioned “almost like Berlin after World War Two” as part of a peace deal.
General Keith Kellogg, a leading figure in US efforts to end the three-year war, suggested that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country as part of a “reassurance force”, with Russia’s army in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone.

Kellogg, 80, said the Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro river, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through Kyiv, would “not be provocative at all” to Moscow. He said Ukraine was a big enough country to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire.

“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War Two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a US zone,” he said.

“You’re west of the [Dnipro], which is a major obstacle,” Kellogg said. He later clarified that America would not be providing any ground forces. He suggested that a demilitarised zone of 18 miles could be implemented along the existing lines of control in the east.

More here: https://www.thetimes.com/us/america...kellogg-general-ukraine-envoy-trump-ldjprpzxt
 
Artillery hunting stats and drone tactics – shoot-and-scoot is becoming scoot-and-die

This has been sort of a secret, but widely known in the Ukrainian military media/milblogger community, but now that the Russians are talking about it I guess it’s OK to put it out in English. The data point actually is open source, to wit in the past three months Russian artillery losses have shot up dramatically, in the Kursk and Donetsk sectors in some months by a factor of three. How did this happen?

On the tech side, what’s been happening is that the Ukrainian drone battalions – these are the bigger units fielded by the ZSU, like mobile artillery – appear to have reached a critical mass of two types of aircraft needed to take over airspace 15-20 kilometers (9.3-12.4 miles) behind Russian lines. One is observation drones big enough to carry the fuel for extended flight time but small enough not to be easily spotted and engaged by Russian air defense systems. Ukraine makes an airplane-type drone (Shark) and a flying wing-type drone (Hrim) that do that. Although there are never enough, word from the front is, drone units usually have enough of these aircraft around to patrol their sectors fairly thoroughly. The second piece of the drone equation is that the Ukrainians have shifted from buying rolls of fiber optic cable to make attack drones invulnerable to jamming, to manufacturing the cable rolls themselves. This has reduced the cost and increased quantities of attack drones capable of flying deep (like, up to 20 kilometers - and now up to 40kms) behind Russian lines trailing a fiber optic cable making the pilot’s instructions impossible to jam.

Then there is the operational piece. In the ZSU, drone unit deployments are no longer seen as up to low-level commanders and sort of nice-to-have but not a proper battlefield tool, but instead are just a conventional combat support unit (the US military jargon would be “force multiplier”) that a chain of command thinks about how to use rationally and for which commanders set priorities using intelligence and staff work.

In the Donbas sector, which is the bailiwick of Joint Forces Khortytsia, commanded by the now several times-promoted General Mykhailo Drapatyi, the chain of command decided that the best way to use drone units assigned to it, and to take advantage of good numbers of observation drones and fiber optic-equipped strike drones, was to hunt Russian artillery. So, the Ukrainians see where the gun goes to hide, at times they literally follow its tracks...According to the Russian rah rah milblogger Dva Majora, the Ukrainian drone pilots are taking advantage of Russian army doctrine that calls for the gunners operating an artillery piece to shift locations immediately after firing and once at their new hide, camouflage their gun as quickly as possible. This has been standard drill for most of the war, for artillery for both sides.

However, in recent months, in the Donbas sector, the Ukrainian drone presence above the places the Russian artillery hides, and from which the Russian artillery drives to firing positions to do the traditional shoot and scoot (this tactic dates back to the Napoleonic Wars at least), is near-total. So, the Ukrainians see where the gun goes to hide, at times they literally follow its tracks, and if they can’t find it in the woods or bushes then they scour the surroundings and look for signs of habitation like trash and – I’m not making this up – disturbed leaves or discolored dirt.

Once the Ukrainians figure they have a probable target, they call in a strike drone. Usually the first hit blows away enough leaves and branches or building roof etc., to make clear whether or not a gun is actually there. If it is, see above, there seem to be enough drones to hit found targets.

The stat is Ukraine destroyed 1,644 Russian artillery pieces and mortars in March alone. In just one sector.

The Nemesis 412th Regiment Destroyed 17% of All russian Artillery Losses in March​

Nemesis launched a full-scale hunt for russian artillery systems, hitting a total of 282 howitzers and guns in March out of 1,644 russian artillery systems taken out by Ukrainian Defense Forces during that month. “In March, the Defense Forces inflicted the greatest losses on russian artillery since the beginning of the full-scale invasion,” the Unmanned Systems Forces reported. It is also worth noting that at the beginning of March, the Nemesis regiment reported the destruction or disabling of more than 1,500 russian howitzers and guns. “The enemy’s mass deployment of towed artillery remains one of the key problems that the soldiers of the 412th Nemesis Regiment are addressing,” the unit noted. Earlier this year, Nemesis fighters were also the first to strike a North Korean Koksan self-propelled gun, which appeared on the front line in January.

As for other targets Nemesis actively engages, it was reported earlier this month that the unit had destroyed 100 enemy tanks over the course of a year, with the highest number - 28 tanks - destroyed in the Starobilsk direction. Since its formation, Nemesis has destroyed russian military equipment worth over one billion dollars, with particularly valuable targets including enemy air defense systems such as Buk, Tor, and Osa.

https://en.defence-ua.com/news/the_..._russian_artillery_losses_in_march-14161.html
 
Rightguide said:

Trump envoy: Ukraine could be divided like postwar Berlin​


exclusive

General Keith Kellogg suggests UK and France could lead western zone of control in interview with The Times​

https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2F82c5c0fc-d2f2-45f3-b66d-e96a89d75a02.jpg?crop=1600%2C900%2C0%2C0&resize=360
General Keith Kellogg and, right, how his plan for Ukraine might look
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Trump and crew can do or say whatever they wish. The final word is up to Ukraine. Like it or not Ostrich.
 
Fuzzy1975 said:
Trump and crew can do or say whatever they wish. The final word is up to Ukraine. Like it or not Ostrich.
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Neither Kellog or Witkoff, or Trump for that matter, are particularly relevant now. Ukraine just needs to keep stringing Trump along until one of three things happen
- Trump makes it so obvious he's sucking Putin's cock that everyone walks away from him, (most likely) or
- Trump finally realizes Putin is playing him for a sucker and gets on board (least likely)
- Trump throws a tantrum and walks away from Ukraine AND Russia and leaves them to sort it out (somewhere in between)
 
https://en.topwar.ru/262568-vybit-r...u-situacii-v-lysovke-k-jugu-ot-pokrovska.html
The Russians continue to apply pressure as the Ukrainians are forced to abandon positions and without "fresh" meat the situation is deteriorating....... lucifer continues to harvest hapless souls.....
After reading this information, After a while one begins to realize, Zelensky is a genocidal mad man.....on the level not witnessed since the horror of the Chinese leader Chairman Mao
With Zelensky's legal presidential authority expired in May of last year and with banned elections, Zelensky is a brutal, black hearted dictator in every definition of the word😡
 
Buffalogurl said:
https://en.topwar.ru/262568-vybit-r...u-situacii-v-lysovke-k-jugu-ot-pokrovska.html
The Russians continue to apply pressure as the Ukrainians are forced to abandon positions and without "fresh" meat the situation is deteriorating....... lucifer continues to harvest hapless souls.....
After reading this information, After a while one begins to realize, Zelensky is a genocidal mad man.....on the level not witnessed since the horror of the Chinese leader Chairman Mao
With Zelensky's legal presidential authority expired in May of last year and with banned elections, Zelensky is a brutal, black hearted dictator in every definition of the word😡
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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/04/8/7506501/

Guess it's whoever propaganda you choose to believe. Myself I take both with grains of salt,but Ukraine's do tend to have geo locate back ups, where as Russia will use photo's from Dec 6th 2024....
 
Buffalogurl said:
With Zelensky's legal presidential authority expired in May of last year and with banned elections, Zelensky is a brutal, black hearted dictator in every definition of the word😡
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None of the above is true.

"By mid- to late 2024, the Verkhovna Rada was holding quarterly votes to extend the period of martial law in 90-day increments with President Zelenskyy's subsequent signature, voting to extend on 23 July to 9 November, and again on 29 October to 7 February 2025.[45][46] This trend continued in 2025, with the Verkhovna Rada voting again on 15 January to extend martial law to 9 May.[47]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Ukraine

But hey, you're a putin ass bitch, so believe what you wish....
 
Buffalogurl said:
https://en.topwar.ru/262568-vybit-r...u-situacii-v-lysovke-k-jugu-ot-pokrovska.html
The Russians continue to apply pressure as the Ukrainians are forced to abandon positions and without "fresh" meat the situation is deteriorating....... lucifer continues to harvest hapless souls.....
After reading this information, After a while one begins to realize, Zelensky is a genocidal mad man.....on the level not witnessed since the horror of the Chinese leader Chairman Mao
With Zelensky's legal presidential authority expired in May of last year and with banned elections, Zelensky is a brutal, black hearted dictator in every definition of the word😡
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Zelensky's authority has been reviewed and approved by Ukraine's Parliament every six months. It is next up for review in May where it is expected that they will renew and approve another six months. Until Russia ceases their invasion, there is no possible path to a fair election.
 
Buffalogurl said:
With Zelensky's legal presidential authority expired in May of last year and with banned elections.....
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Excuse me? There are NO banned elections. As above, martial law has been extended by the Rada in 90 day increments. The Ukrainian Constitution is very specific that there will be NO elections while the country is at war. The same as the UK and many other Allied countries during WW2.

You really need to stop listenimng to Tucker Carlson and other Russian propaganda outlets.
 
And as for slaughter LOL -

Frontline report: Ukraine’s elite brigade decimates half Russian battalion in single day​

Update from the Borova direction, Kharkiv Oblast.

Here, the Russians launched a hurried counterattack to try and halt the Third Assault Brigade’s advance. However, the attack failed desasterously, as the elite Ukrainian unit turned the Russian assault into a massacre, shredding nearly half a Russian battalion in one day alone. The Ukrainian goal is to undermine the upcoming Russian spring offensive towards Borova and ***** by launching a crushing counterattack to eliminate the Russian bridgehead over the Zherebets river, which the Russians planned to use to launch their offensive. The Russians understood the critical nature of the situation, so they launched a hurried response across the frontline to stop the Ukrainian advance. Due to the shortage of armored vehicles, Russian forces were forced to rely solely on infantry, saving their limited armored reserve for the final offensive itself. Additionally, the marshy riverbanks and lack of viable crossing points forced Russians to deploy makeshift pontoon bridges meant to allow large groups of infantry to make it across and overwhelm the Ukrainian defenses.

However, due to the makeshift bridges’ proximity to Ukrainian lines, Ukrainians were able to detect, target, and destroy them almost immediately. This prevented the Russians from moving large numbers of soldiers across the river, leading to insufficient forces for an overwhelming series of assaults. However, most importantly, due to the sudden appearance of several makeshift infantry pontoon bridges, Ukrainians immediately understood that the Russians were planning a large pure-infantry response, allowing the third assault brigade to get the appropriate defenses ready for battle. Looking at the battlefield, we can see there are only a few interconnected tree lines connecting Russian lines to the Ukrainian positions. However, the Third Assault Brigade had established strong defenses here, locking down and preventing any Russian infiltration attempt through them, as these defenses proved insurmountable in the previous months of Russian attempts to do so. For this reason, Russian commanders decided to launch their attacks across open fields instead, assuming that the losses, while high, would still be lower than if they tried to take on Ukrainian defenses head-on. This level of insanity hasn't been seen since the Japanese kamikaze attacks of World War 2. It reeks of the same level of desperation.

To avoid immediate and complete destruction, Russian soldiers used tactics specifically meant to reduce casualties to drone strikes by keeping a large distance between them and only moving in pairs of two soldiers at a time. This was done to minimize the risk of mass-casualties to a single strike, forcing Ukrainians to use many more drones to eliminate single targets, increasing the chance of Russian soldiers making it across the fields alive. Unfortunately for Russians, Ukrainians had enough drones in reserve, as they released a 2-and-a-half minute compilation of close to 100 individual FPV drone strikes. However, as the assault force consisted entirely of infantry, Ukrainians deployed specific 5 to 7-inch large kamikaze drones, which are very fast and agile due to their small size. While their agility was high enough to allow Ukrainians to hit the smaller targets individual Russian soldiers presented, they still carried enough explosive payload to achieve the desired effect. Ukrainians also deployed reconnaissance drones to observe the effectiveness of the kamikaze strikes, armed with drone-dropped grenades to finish off any misses. These drones could also point out targets for the FPV drone operators, allowing for maximum efficiency during the defense.

During the Russian assault, Russians lost over 229 soldiers, nearly half a Russian battalion in one day. During the whole week of Third Assault Brigade operations, they managed to eliminate a total of 446 Russian soldiers, 16 artillery pieces, dozens of armored vehicles and trucks in the rear, and 10 makeshift bridges Russians deployed to facilitate the crossing. Overall, the Third Assault Brigade has successfully thwarted the Russian attempt to salvage their bridhead across the Zherebets river, allowing for a continued push to eliminate and clear the remaining Russians from the area fully. As the destroyed crossing points likely forced Russians to commit soldiers already present in the bridgehead to the suicidal assaults, Russian defenses will be weakened, and Ukrainians might be able to exploit Russian weaknesses to finish their operation before Russians can re-man their positions.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/04...cimates-half-russian-battalion-in-single-day/

 
ChloeTzang said:
Excuse me? There are NO banned elections. As above, martial law has been extended by the Rada in 90 day increments. The Ukrainian Constitution is very specific that there will be NO elections while the country is at war. The same as the UK and many other Allied countries during WW2.

You really need to stop listenimng to Tucker Carlson and other Russian propaganda outlets.
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Aah...yes....90 days, not six months. The media really should be amplifying when they extend next time.
 
Says it all. No harsh words for Putin over the deliberate terrorist attack on civilians by Trump.....

Trump defends Putin over Russia’s Palm Sunday attack on Sumy: ‘It was a mistake’​

Donald Trump has said he was informed that Russia’s missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy was a “mistake”. Two Russian ballistic missiles struck Sumy on Sunday (April 13), killing at least 34 people and wounding at least 117 in one of the war’s deadliest terorist strikes on civilians. “I think it was terrible, and I was told they made a mistake, but I think it's a horrible thing,” the US president told reporters on Sunday evening.

It's not hard to condemn a blatant and deliberate terrorist attack on civilians but that scumbag Trump can't even manage that.
 
Ukraine has offered to buy $50 billion worth of US military equipment, including 10 Patriot systems.

BUY - which is exactly what Trump said he wanted.

Now let's see what Trump does. If he fails to respond or declines, it's obvious he has taken Putin's side. He's been put on the spot and it's time for him to pony up. Is he Putin's ally, or is he actually what he says he is - a businesman.

For my money - Trump will demand it as a down payment on the previously sent items...or say sorry, no new arms sales until Ukraine pays off their debt first. He's find a way not to sell to Ukraone, which will make it obvious where he is - sucking Putin's cock. I would be overjoyed to be proved wrong.

It's very important that even if Trump accepts, Ukraone take delivery before paying over a cent - because Trump is quite liable to simply steal the money and change the terms in his head. The man cannot be trusted as far as he can be thrown.


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A missile strike on civilians isn’t “a mistake”—it’s a test, and when a US President responds with regret instead of resolve, it sends a signal louder than the explosion.

Trump and his advisors clearly misjudged the situation from the very beginning. They really assumed Russia was ready to settle for a frozen frontline and understood that continuing the war would only lead to more human suffering without real gains. Based on that belief, they pressured Ukraine to accept the current lines as new borders and took NATO membership off the table, convinced that NATO expansion was the root cause of the war.

Only now are they starting to realize that Putin doesn’t care about human lives, and NATO was never the issue. The real reason for the invasion was Russia losing influence over Ukraine – and the war has only accelerated that.

Trump has painted himself into a corner. His promise to “end the war in one day” no longer holds up, now that it’s clear Russia isn’t seeking compromise. Worse, by signaling that it’s acceptable to work with Russia and that sanctions will eventually fade, he has prolonged the war. The market has certainly responded – Russian stocks rallied, giving the regime renewed confidence and financial relief. In trying to present himself as the one who could quickly solve the conflict, Trump has only made it worse, and I doubt he even realizes this.

And now he just comes across as weak.

And THAT is assuming he is not actively on Putin's side, which there is a strong case for assuming based on his behavior and statements. Where he goes with this $50 billion offer to buy from Zelensky will determine the answer to that one.

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