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I dag er det forventet at Rep.hus skal stemme over Graham-sanksjonene. Den gikk gjennom første avstemning i går med 214-211. To republikanere stemte mot, kun to demokrater stemte for, Jared Golden og Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, som fra før av allerede er sterkt mislikt eget Jeffries & co. I Senatet gikk den gjennom med 86-11.

Ukraina ber land om å donere lokomotiver.

Dronen som ble funnet i Leipzig ble nesten Tyskland's 9/11. Deutschlands 11. September Sie war Deutschlands 9/11.

Yermak får i retten fjernet den elektriske fotlenken etter en legeerklæring om videre bruk kan medføre fare for liv og helse. Mon tro om han også er fritatt for militærtjeneste grunnet fare for liv og helse...

Interessant fra Jakob Janovksy om tanks i møte med droner. Tanks are Not Dead. They Do Need to Change Based on the lessons of recent wars, especially the war in Ukraine, many people have begun calling tanks and other armored combat vehicles (ACVs) obsolete and irrelevant. However, this shows a profound misunderstanding of the modern battlefield. In short, it is high time to take a fresh look at the design principles of armored combat vehicles, recent technological changes, and threats they need to account for, and figure out how these expensive military vehicles should be redesigned to stay effective on the 21st-century battlefield.

Interesting. Sanksjonen mot Putin & co utløper egentlig i morgen, men er i første omgang forlenget med én uke mens Frankrike (og Slovakia) jobber med å få fjernet oligarkene Mikhail Fridman og Alisher Usmanov fra listen.

Russia Is Churning Out Smart, Cheap New Weapons Faster Than Ukraine or the U.S. New Geran drones and Banderol cruise missiles are lethal reminders that Russia still has the resources and supply chains to field fresh threats, this time packed with advanced electronics that allow them to find targets accurately and evade interception. Crucially, the leap forward was enabled in large part by components sourced from China, in violation of international sanctions, say Ukraine and others, based in part on wreckage from the few shot down so far. “Here in the West, we tend to underestimate Russia, but they can go very fast from idea and experimentation to production,” said Kateryna Bondar, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Wadhwani AI Center in Washington. “This loop is something Western militaries should learn from Russia.” Moscow’s developments also directly affect the U.S. because Russia, Iran and North Korea share military know-how. Innovations from the war in Ukraine are appearing in America’s war with Iran and vice versa. Banderol and Geran-5 are both estimated to cost around $100,000 each. High-end U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles and comparable Russian models cost more than $2 million each. Western military-tech companies that have been developing interceptors for propeller drones are scrambling to create faster models. Merops interceptors, produced by a company backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and deployed by U.S. forces both along NATO’s eastern flank and in the Persian Gulf, are now being redesigned in a jet-powered version. Sourcing inexpensive jet engines for interceptors is a big challenge for the West. Chinese jet engines for Gerans cost $45,000 or less, DroneSec estimates, and defenders generally fire several interceptors at each incoming weapon. En low-cost cruise missile til $100.000 som kan avfyres fra bakkeplattformer.. Når får vi se de første dronene med stealth egenskaper?

Hellas er jo faktisk er av de landene som har litt luftvern til overs, de har 200 PAC-2 missiler som ligger å støver ned da de nærmer seg end of life. Tidligere i sommer fikk Ukraina tilbud om å overta disse (via Norge) dersom de sluttet å angripe greske skip i russiske havner, noe Ukraina takket nei til da de ikke ville gå med på betingelser, i følge parlamentsmedlem Ruslan Gorbenko. Finland var også ute i sommer og sa grensen var nådd for hva Ukraina kunne få uten at det går utover deres egen beredskap. Så er jo spørsmålet hva de andre store har til over? Tyskland, Polen, Nederland, Spania, Frankrike, UK, etc.

Kan også "bare" være en del av nattens generelle angrep mot bensinstasjoner og tog.. (selv om regionen ikke er nevn her)

Denne skal stemmes over i Rep.hus nå til uka. Hvem er de som tror Trump har beordet det?? Det er ikke noen hemmelighet at denne gangen er det flere demokrater som ikke er fornøyd med deler av lovforslaget. Noen av de ga til og med ut en pressemelding for et par dager siden. “House Democrats are rock solid in our support for Ukraine, but the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia And Iran Act would do more harm than good."

Interessant artikkel om Ukraina's tilstedeværelse andre steder i verden der Russland er. Ukraine is fighting Russia anywhere it can – even in the deserts of Africa Some 15 Ukrainian specialists have been deployed to the junta-led country in Africa’s Sahel region to assist local rebel forces who are fighting Russian troops – part of Kyiv’s mission to weaken its enemy wherever it operates. Speaking to Ukrainian soldiers and officers involved in operations in Mali and Libya, CNN can reveal for the first time the extent of these operations on other continents. A Ukrainian Defense Intelligence source with knowledge of the operations told CNN that several Ukrainian specialists were also stationed in Sudan and that troops from Chad, Niger and Burkina Faso had previously traveled to Mali to receive drone training from Ukrainian soldiers there. The Ukrainian Defense Intelligence source told CNN the point of the overseas deployments is to put pressure on Russia and undermine the notion that Moscow can be a reliable ally.

Rada'n ønsker å slå av en prat med Palantir's Alex Karp etter det fremkom at de gikk inn som investor i Fedorov's nye selskap. Palantir er allerede dypt inne i det ukrainske militæret, et samarbeid som ble ytterligere styrket under Fedorov, tror dog ikke de jobber like pro bono lenger som de gjorde i starten da de rett og slett blir ansett som for viktig. Alex Karp var forresten den første CEO'n fra et større vestlig selskap til å besøke Zelensky etter invasjonen i 2022.

Ukraine Strikes Degrade Russian Oil-Refining Industry, IEA Says Russia’s oil-processing is being degraded as sanctions prevent the refining industry from recovering from more intense and precise Ukrainian drone strikes, according to the International Energy Agency. “It now appears likely that the persistent drone strikes and the patchwork nature of repairs are having a cumulative negative effect and degrading the refining system,” the Paris-based agency said in a monthly oil report published Friday. The IEA revised down its baseline outlook for Russian oil processing over the next 18 months to around 4 million barrels a day, down 30% from levels before the invasion of Ukraine, it said. The IEA has also lowered its 2026 forecast for Russia’s crude supply forecast by 125,000 barrels per day to 8.7 million barrels per day amid lower refinery runs, it said.

Det har vært flere i det siste som har påpekt at krigens dynamikk kan være i ferd med å endre seg litt. Russia is becoming much better at waging this conflict, and Washington must recognize that it is moving toward a strategy of total war, mobilizing its factories and workforce to bomb Ukraine into submission. Defeating Russia now requires more than transferring weapons. Ukraine will need the West to allocate its collective resources on a scale sufficient to outproduce and outlast its enemy. For most of the conflict, Ukraine’s great advantage has been its ability to adapt and innovate. Russia had more soldiers, more money and a much larger industrial base, but creative Ukrainian engineers could develop a new weapon or system, test it on the front line and modify it within weeks. Its decentralized networks of soldiers, engineers and defense technology companies iterated faster than the Russian military bureaucracy could keep up. That advantage is rapidly shrinking. When Ukraine developed interceptors that could destroy Russian swarms of Shahed drones, Russia adapted by deploying faster, jet-powered Shaheds that are much harder to intercept. Russia is deploying a satellite constellation to rival Starlink, which Ukrainian drones use to strike Russian forces in occupied Ukraine. For years, the Kremlin’s strategy was to throw industrial mass at Ukrainian innovation, but now it is combining that mass with its own innovations.

Har ikke sett hele vidoen, men jeg skjønner ikke helt hvordan han kan spørre seg hvorfor ikke Russland også går etter ukrainas logistiske kjeder når de har bombet og ødelagt 2,1 millioner kvadratmeter retail warehouses, 300+ bensinstasjoner, 200+ lokomotiver, et stort ukjent antall lastebiler/trailere, anleggsmaskiner/treskere, m.m. - dette har ikke bare økonomiske konsekvenser, men også logistiske.