Ukraine’s British-provided Storm Shadow missiles are likely to be useless now that the US has paused intelligence sharing with the Ukrainian military, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday.
The report said that the UK is among several countries that have received orders from the US prohibiting the sharing of US-generated intelligence with Ukraine. The Storm Shadow missiles, which have a range of about 155 miles, rely on US satellite data to be fired.
Last year, Ukraine began firing Storm Shadows and US-provided ATACMS missiles into Russia, marking a significant escalation of the proxy war that risked provoking a direct clash between the US and Russia.
According to a report from Axios, the pause on intelligence sharing was focused on information that Ukraine could use to launch attacks inside Russian territory. The Daily Mail report said that the Storm Shadows have been a “critical asset” for Ukraine in its assault on Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
Besides the satellite data, the US has other intelligence capabilities inside Ukraine since the CIA has been deeply embedded in the country, a presence it began significantly building up following the 2014 US-backed coup that ousted former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
US officials have said the pauses on US military and intelligence sharing will be lifted once Ukraine shows its readiness to engage with Russia on peace talks to end the war. US and Ukrainian officials are expected to hold talks in Saudi Arabia next week.
And that's why Europe needed Gallileo but gave it away to US demands. 20 years later…
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Frequently_asked_questions_on_Galileo
https://www.japcc.org/articles/is-nato-ready-for-galileo/
https://insidegnss.com/galileo-eu-defence-geode-the-biggest-galileo-application-ever-launched/
Too technical for me but I remember perfectly well how the EU gave the USA the privilege of turning out Gallileo at whim. That was when I began realizing that maybe Europe was not sovereign.
Russia and America need to unite against the Globalist threat from Europe.
What a dumb idea.
Europe is no "threat" to anyone, except themselves. But YES, until, or if ever, "Europe" gets its act together, and behaves like the unified great power it has the potential (but not the will, or vision, or discipline) to be, the USA would be far better off simply ignoring them and concentrating its efforts on working with the real powers in the new multipolar world – principally Russia and China, but recognizing the rising influence of India and Brazil – maybe even JOINING BRICS ("BRICSUSA"??)
Military satellites perform an important reconnaissance, surveillance, and communication function in military logistics.
https://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=30&p=11
https://www.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/2197774/defense-support-program-satellites/
https://www.sda.mil/
https://spacenews.com/u-s-military-satellites-achieve-first-cross-vendor-laser-communications-link/
https://innoter.com/en/articles/us-military-space-satellites/
https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/communications-satellites
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-space-command-successfully-launches-first-military-satellite
https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/defence/military-space
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/military-satellite-by-country
https://esimotion.com/blogs/news/top-10-functions-of-defense-and-military-satellites
"Military satellites perform an important reconnaissance, surveillance, and communication function in military logistics"
Did anyone dispute this ????
An alternative, more defensive military field tactic of electronic warfare is still RADAR navigation, monitoring, especially against unmanned aerial vehicles such as drones. But probably less effective against hypersonic missiles.
The autocratic President Trump is probably preventing possible peace negotiations with his extortionate decisions regarding military reconnaissance, surveillance, or economic sanctions.
https://www.defence-industries.com/articles/advanced-radar-and-sensor-technologies-for-modern-warfare
https://www.kdcresource.com/insights-events/radar-101-the-fundamentals-of-radar-technology-and-how-it-s-shaping-modern-warfare/
https://www.spotterglobal.com/blog/spotter-blog-3/the-rise-of-radar-based-uav-detection-for-military-a-game-changer-in-modern-warfare-8
https://www.spotterglobal.com/blog/spotter-blog-3/man-portable-radars-a-vital-solution-for-modern-warfare-33
Are you telling me that America “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," was exactly what we weren't doing?
Wait a minute. If this was a "Proxy War" between Russia and the US, how can it be "Unprovoked and Unjustified?"
Ukraine's corrupt and dangerous government must be choked into submission then replaced. Trump is doing well at this. Zelensky must go.
And in the process, what happens if Russia's army finally break the Ukraine's lines and takes the capital and more? Oh I know part of the answer trump will blame Biden.
What happens? The war will end. Win-Win.
"The report said that the UK is among several countries that have received orders from the US prohibiting the sharing of US-generated intelligence" If US does want UK to share it's data, then don't give it to the UK.
We, 500 million Europeans, are begging for help from 300 million Americans to fight 140 million Russians who have failed to put down a nation of 35 million for 3 years and counting.
The maths don't add up
We Europeans are perfectly capable of stepping up
Then do it. Why have you waited for three years? If you are willing and able, then your procrastination has caused the deaths of many hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.
Russia has too but ok
"Ukraine’s British-provided Storm Shadow missiles are likely to be useless now that the US has paused intelligence sharing with the Ukrainian military."
Not necessarily ! A classic Hasbro board game from our childhoods presents a solution.
Ukraine : "B5."
Russian Federation: "Miss."
Ukraine : "Hmmm. G1."
Russian Federation : "Hit."
Ukraine : "Ah ! G2 then. That'll either sink your Ammo Warehouse or an Apartment Building. Fine either way."
Funnily ironic how the Russia supporter is whining about apartment blocks being hit
The Russian Federation tries to avoid it; the Ukrainian military would be elated to achieve such accuracy.
LOL
Please come down from Cloud 9
There is conclusive and convincing evidence that the Russian Federation has tried its best to minimise and avoid civilian casualties.
I am not convinced that Ukraine, particularly as a desperate defender, has the same ethos.
Particularly when it is abundantly clear that the nascent Ukrainian socio-political hatred for Things Russian vastly outweighs the Russian Federation kinship felt towards the Ukrainian people.
The Russian Federation fights what they believe are estranged relatives and their warfighting reflects this. The Ukrainians fight what THEY believe are subhuman, non-Aryan impurities, and their battlefield morality reflects that.
"There is conclusive and convincing evidence" in your mind. The people of Mariupol will not agree with you.
No, the evidence has been abundantly presented in news links and essays curated on antiwar.com .
No surprise you haven’t noticed.
This website is not reputable compared to…….. ISW, I am only here for the comments
ISW is not reputable at all; they are a US government funded propaganda mill.
Ok
This website is not reputable compared to…….. ISW, I am only here for the comments
The Ukrainians fought for every building in Mariupol; THEY turned the city into a battleground, and there is convincing evidence that THEY (in particular, the Azov Brigade) used civilians (almost all of whom were ethnic Russians) as human shields, refusing to allow their evacuation.
When one side decides to fight in the cities, the other side can hardly be blamed for the city's destruction. By contrast, civilian areas in Kiev, or Lvov, have NOT been targeted; only key infrastructure and military installations. Amnesty International (before they were browbeaten into submission) were honest about this; the Ukrainians have been using schools, and hospitals, and apartment buildings as shields for artillery positions, command posts, and supply dumps.
“When one side decides to fight in the cities, the other side can hardly be blamed for the city’s destruction.”
Both sides decided to fight in Mariupol. One side won, the other side lost.
You missed the point. Had the Ukrainians withdrawn, the city would not have been destroyed, Had the Ukrainians surrendered when they were surrounded, the city would not have been destroyed. Yes the Russians invaded, but the decision to try and hold Mariupol, against any strategic sense, was made by the Ukrainians. The original posters point was that the Russians have not intentionally destroyed civilian infrastructure unless it was being used as defensive positions by the Ukrainians. My comment was in regard to the silly response “what about Mariupol?” And re Mariupol, the Russians have gone a long ways towards restoring that city.
“If she didn’t want to be raped, she shouldn’t have worn that dress.”
That’s just silly. The issue is not who invaded, or that war is bad. The issue is, “do the russians intentionally destroy cities in Ukraine as some sort of terror campaign, or do they only do so when the Ukrainians fight for them”? Asked and Answered.
You identify the issue exactly.
The Ukrainians didn't HAVE to defend Mariupol.
And the Russians didn't HAVE to attack Mariupol.
The destruction in Mariupol was caused by both the Russian decision to attack it and the Ukrainian decision to defend it.
By your logic, any time a Ukrainian drone hits an apartment in Russia and kills someone, it's justified. If they didn't want that apartment attacked, they should have moved.
And you continue to miss the point.
No, I get the point:
You like the Russian regime and don’t like the Ukrainian regime. Therefore, anything the Russian regime does is correct and justified, and anything the Ukrainian regime does is incorrect, unjustified, and its fault because it “provokes” the Russian regime.
Disagreeing with the “point” isn’t the same thing as missing the “point.”
Bullshit. I responded that the Russians in general have not maliciously and intentionally targeted civilian infrastructure, and that “Mariupol” was no example that they did. Period. I said nothing about “liking” either side. Russian actions in Mariupol are no different than US actions in Fallujah or Mosul. You completely miss that point, because “the Russians invaded” So what; we “invaded” Iraq; are you therefore suggesting that every house or neighborhood we leveled was an “intentional and malicious terror attack against innocent civilians”? I despised THAT invasion too, but I am not that jaded or prejudiced as to be unable to see the difference between damage caused in combat and “bombing for fun”. If ANYONE is blinded by prejudice, it’s you.
“Russian actions in Mariupol are no different than US actions in Fallujah or Mosul.”
Exactly.
1. Wrong! Your pro-Russian, propagandistic position ignores the Russian, unfounded war of aggression on the infrastructure (energy, water, industry, residential areas, etc.), etc. of Ukraine. There is no fascism in Ukraine, but there are neo-fascist organizations like in most European countries (e.g. Hungary, Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, etc., some of them with great electoral success).
https://rd4u.coe.int/en/-/register-of-damage-for-ukraine-actively-accepting-claims-in-categories-a2.1-and-a3.1
https://kse.ua/about-the-school/news/155-billion-the-total-amount-of-damages-caused-to-ukraine-s-infrastructure-due-to-the-war-as-of-january-2024/
https://www.dw.com/en/where-do-europes-far-right-parties-differ/video-71506085
https://www.ibanet.org/The-year-of-elections-The-rise-of-Europes-far-right
https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-new-populist-map-of-europe/
https://www.politico.eu/article/mapped-europe-far-right-government-power-politics-eu-italy-finalnd-hungary-parties-elections-polling/
https://www.statista.com/chart/6852/seats-held-by-far-right-parties-in-europe/
https://carnegieendowment.org/features/radical-right-europe-foreign-policy?lang=en
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36130006 Europe and right-wing nationalism: A country-by-country guide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_nationalist_parties_in_Europe
https://ecfr.eu/publication/getting-the-european-parliament-election-right/
https://www.populismstudies.org/countries/?country=all
2. The immigrant Russian population of the Donbas region ignites a civil war of separatism, secession, which is against the Ukrainian Constitution and the Ukrainian Criminal Code regarding the norm of high treason. https://hcj.gov.ua/sites/default/files/field/file/the_constitution_of_ukraine.pdf Article 73
https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14?lang=en#Text The Criminal Code of Ukraine, Article 111. High treason
3. Russia is arguing incorrectly with regard to a territorial, military threat from Western industrialized countries, because nuclear weapons and the bomber aircraft that carry them have been stored at Turkey's Incirlik airbase since 1952 and Norway, a member of NATO since 1949, borders Russia. In addition, other NATO members such as Finland and Lithuania border Russia.
https://armscontrolcenter.org/u-s-nonstrategic-nuclear-weapons/
https://www.56ac.army.mil/Exercises/Dynamic-Front/
https://www.eucom.mil/pressrelease/42812/us-air-force-conducts-bomber-task-force-mission-to-turkiye
https://www.incirlik.af.mil/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_territorial_claims_against_Turkey
Right. I will give your (biased, ridiculous, propaganda) comment the attention it deserves; while laughing my ass off at the ignorance displayed.
What is there to laugh at in or about a war, you're disgusting, vicious, arrogant, authoritarian hypocrite!
I’m laughing at you, ya shill. Go away now.
Your answers show a fascist-oriented opinion. I do not produce advertising, but analyze the circumstances (public international law) as independently as possible, in the free formation of opinion.
And your answers show a complete ignorance of facts.
You obviously deny the facts of an imperialistic, capitalistic Russia (with an autocratic President Putin) that is driving Europe into rearmament, economic and political crisis. (Please note the electoral success of the neo-fascistic parties in Europe.)
No; I deny that you have any credibility
You repeatedly respond in a politically authoritarian manner and now even individually, personally with discriminatory, demagogic, racist traits.
Point out a single “racist” post. I’m an intellectual elitist; I have no tolerance for dummies. Maybe that’s what you are picking up on?
Self-praise stinks. You are reacting like a petty-bourgeois, arrogant, authoritarian academic who is deceiving the public.
One of your posts to Mikhailovich, for example, shows that you think racially, quote: "but most Arabs, all Iranians, most Afghans and many Berbers are ethnically "white"".
Are you acting like a Secret Service agent?
You're wasting your breath. The concept of the "open city," which both sides used in WWII, is aparently unknown to the Ukies, and to our somewhat obdurate and/or obtuse Moderator friend. The Ukies make a "festung" out of every city, town, village and hamlet, and refuse to surrender or retreat (even when the Russians leave a convenient corridor for them to do so), and then, after the course of the battle (which they lose), and their "festung" has been reduced to rubble, they post pictures of the result, cry crocodile tears, and accuse the Russians of war crimes.
I’m well aware of the concept of the open city.
The existence of that concept does not magically compel anyone to attack a city or to decline to defend a city. Both of those decisions are choices.
“I had to attack because they wouldn’t surrender what I wanted to me without fighting” isn’t just incorrect, it’s about the most fuck-silly excuse possible.
As pointed out above, what you are doing is reducing everything to the question of war or no war. Yes, at that level, you can perhaps equate Russia and the Ukraine. But the particular question at issue is the why the destruction of the cities-towns-villages-hamlets? The Ukraine is not obligated to pull back, to declare an open city, and thereby spare these built-up places from physical destruction (like the French and the Germans did with regard to Paris, and the Germans did with regard to Rome). Indeed, it serves the Kiev regimes's military purposes better to do what it does, and hunker down in the solid, masonary, bomb-sheltered, Soviet-built, urban areas. On the other hand, that being the case, Russia is not obligated to spare those urban areas from shelling and missile and bombing attacks (any more than the USA was obligated to refrain from smashing Manila in 1945, when the Japanese refused to retreat and/or declare it an open city).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
And, in fact, the success of Russia's operations depends on reducing and then taking these strongholds, just as the USA's did with respect to Manila. War is hell. Sure, we all agree, Mr. Moderator. That's why we are here, on Antiwar.com . But there are other questions too. And one of them involves the legitimacy of the Ukrainian propaganda regarding these smashed cities, towns, etc. I think that propaganda is not only obviously and utterly bogus and false, but is hypocritical, disgusting and obscene as well. That seems to elude you, with your both-siderism.
So, while you say you get it, it doesn't actually appear that you do.
I completely agree that the Russian and Ukrainian regimes (not to mention the US and other involved regimes) engage in constant propaganda — much of it false and most of the rest of it exaggerated — to justify everything they do and condemn everything their opponents do.
One example particular to Mariupol would be the bombing of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater. The Ukrainians say the Russians destroyed it, killing sheltering civilians inside. The Russians say the Azov Battalion was responsible (when they’re not claiming that it was actually a Ukrainian military base, and therefore a “legitimate” target). We may never know which side is telling how much of the truth, or which side is lying more.
But the fact remains: The Russian forces made the CHOICE to attack Mariupol, and the Ukrainian force made the CHOICE to defend it. Just like both sides continually made CHOICES that led to the war and all of the events involved in the war.
Supporters of each side will make excuses for their preferred sides’ choices, claiming they were “provoked” or even “forced” to do what they CHOSE to do.
Excuses are like assholes. They all stink.
Still missing the particular point at issue here. I’m afraid it’s hopeless.
Give some evidence
I bet most Ukrainians would disagree with you
“There is conclusive and convincing evidence that the Russian Federation has tried its best to minimise and avoid civilian casualties.”
Got any links to that “conclusive and convincing evidence?” [Note: Kremlin press releases saying “the Russian Federation has tried its best to minimise and avoid civilian casualties” isn’t evidence of either variety.]
The burden of proof should be on the accuser, no? How can the word of US State Department (USAID) funded and controlled media outlets be considered reputable? An impartial investigative body (if one can be found) would be required.
All those billions Nuland, et al spent to kick-start the Maidan and set up anti Russian "news" outlets sure didn't go to waste, based on what our Polish friend says above.
Putanic Russia will soon have to repent for their crimes
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/china/china-joining-russia-against-nato/
https://www.rt.com/news/613886-trump-peace-ukraine-support/
Other than wealthy industrialists under the CIA guise, what could be stopping the president from removing US military assets?
The US won't recoup the $300-350 billion aid package to Ukraine.
Washington can't significantly mitigate the $100 trillion deficit in unfunded liabilities or the $37 trillion US structural deficit.
In 'statistical' terms it's more 'probable' to expect a near-term global depopulation event with Ukraine or Israel as the casus belli, i.e., a nuclear exchange.
Does President Trump know this?
oh my goodness; give it a rest.
This answer shows your overall hypocrisy and warmongering.