Ukraine vs Russia III

Current state of Ukrainian Black Sea ports: 0 ships inbound, 5 ships at the ports, 5 ships just left. While there aren't any headed there right now, it means over a dozen ships have visited the Black Sea ports since the Ukrainians attacked the Russian fleet at Sevastopol, and it is now a viable shipping route.

 

And it looks like Ukraine and Poland have worked out a deal for sending Ukrainian grain through Poland. It will not be held at the border, and only inspected when it reaches the destination port in Lithuania.

 

Some cool toys.



Turkish company Baykar Makina will invest $100m in three projects in Ukraine, including a drone production plant. The future plant may produce Akinci attack drones.

Here's What We Know
Baykar Makina supplies Ukraine with Bayraktar TB2 drones. The company also has a staff of 50 specialists in the country to provide support for drones. CEO Haluk Bayraktar said.

Baykar Makina already has permits for the production of Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci drones in Ukraine. Moreover, we are talking about the production of UAVs, not simple assembly. According to the CEO of the Turkish company, Ukraine has become the first country where the Turkish authorities have authorised the production of UAVs.

In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine may receive Bayraktar Akinci attack drones without waiting for production. The plant, we remind you, will be built in a year and a half. Haluk Bayraktar said that the authorities are considering the possibility of supplying Akinci.

Video in link.
https://gagadget.com/en/uav/326561-...ised-the-deployment-of-production-of-bayrakt/

 

Ukraine's social media Is top Notch!

Our Blue Birds will prevail over NIGHT.
Thank you, Belgium!
🇺🇦🤝🇧🇪 pic.twitter.com/YN76xzvMzn

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) October 4, 2023

Also Belgian F-16 to Ukraine!

 

The mayor of Novosibirsk isn't thrilled with Simonyan's proposal to blow up a nuke over Siberia to scare the West.https://t.co/7YajjHdByD pic.twitter.com/v25jA7D4fO

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 4, 2023

"Stop helping Ukraine or we will nuke Siberia!"

It's giving:

 

Pump up the jam as the soundtrack is a deep cut!

 

My life is Jean Claude Van Damme centric.

 

Hasn't the Grayzone's critique of empire ALWAYS been borderline Kremlin-centric?

Not snark... but this doesn't seem that unpredictable to me. Maybe I was missing something in the past.

 

One of the my favorite bits in "Cunk on Earth" was its use of Pump up the Jam

 

It only stopped because his latest feature release (The Last Mercenary) is Netflix only and The Eagle Path has yet to find a distributor. But I have seen and reviewed every other film he has done.

 

We need a Van Damme / Seagal showdown before it's too late.

 

That was my first thought too. AND how I knew it was Belgian.

 

Legend goes Seagal had his chance during a Hollywood party in the 1990s and backed down.

 

Not sure where to put this. Chose here as a significant falling out between turkey and the US could obviously have knock on effects in Ukraine

BREAKING:

An American F-16 fighter jet just shot down a Turkish Anka-S drone over Syria after it was deemed a threat to U.S. forces in the area.

The drone had earlier bombed SDF (Kurdish) positions.

It's the first time ever that the U.S. shoots down a Turkish aircraft pic.twitter.com/NRjFdae0kD

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 5, 2023

 

Did everybody else know that there are US forces in Syria? I didn't.

 

Guess where the US planes likely flew out from.

 

The large US airbase in Kurdish Iraq.

 

Actually I believe it out of Jordan though this is supposed to be slightly on the down-low.

 

Ukranian tank commander calls Russian factory for technical support. They were pretty helpful (from Telegram).

 

This POS calls himself a patriot….

https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1710002611309379662?s=46&t=TliWkzmpruGqYIJGOsLtZw