Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

Enligt det ukrainska flygvapnets talesman Illya Yevlash är Ukrainas luftförsvarssystem kapabla att skjuta ner ryska Tsirkon-missiler med hjälp av SAMP/T-områdets luftförsvarssystem och Patriot-system.

Russia cannot defeat Ukraine or the West - and will likely lose - if the West mobilizes its resources to resist the Kremlin. The West’s existing and latent capability dwarfs that of Russia. The combined gross domestic product (GDP) of NATO countries, non-NATO European Union states, and our Asian allies is over $63 trillion. The Russian GDP is on the close order of $1.9 trillion. Iran and North Korea add little in terms of materiel support. China is enabling Russia, but it is not mobilized on behalf of Russia and is unlikely to do so. If we lean in and surge, Russia loses.

The notion that the war is unwinnable because of Russia’s dominance is a Russian information operation, which gives us a glimpse of the Kremlin’s real strategy and only real hope of success. The Kremlin must get the United States to the sidelines, allowing Russia to fight Ukraine in isolation and then proceed to Moscow’s next targets, which Russia will also seek to isolate. The Kremlin needs the United States to choose inaction and embrace the false inevitability that Russia will prevail in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s center of gravity is his ability to shape the will and decisions of the West, Ukraine, and Russia itself. The Russian strategy that matters most, therefore, is not Moscow’s warfighting strategy, but rather the Kremlin’s strategy to cause us to see the world as it wishes us to see it and make decisions in that Kremlin-generated alternative reality that will allow Russia to win in the real world.

Resultatet av specialoperationen blev att två av FSB:s agenter anhälls i Kyiv och Odesa, enligt SBU:s meddelande.

Enligt SBU togs båda personerna fast medan de spionerade på potentiella måltavlor för Rysslands luftangrepp.
En av de misstänkta hade även fotograferat en ukrainsk värmeverk för att hjälpa Ryssland i sin bombning av Ukrainas energiinfrastruktur.

More than half the processors manufactured by Baikal Electronics are defective, multiple sources told the newspaper Vedomosti. The Russian chipmaker has struggled to meet the country’s production needs since foreign manufacturers started canceling Russian orders and refusing to ship ready supplies due to international sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.

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Vedomosti’s sources blame the shortcomings on insufficient equipment and incompetent staff responsible for circuit packaging. Baikal Electronics CEO Andrey Evdokimov acknowledged that his company’s facilities currently lack the capacity for reliable large-scale industrial assembly,