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“Putin continues to focus entirely on war and rearmament, no one can ignore this,” the German chancellor said in a speech to the Bundestag.

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It seems quite unlikely Hezbollah is going to cede any territory over to the Israelis for a new buffer zone


The risk of escalation between Hezbollah and Israel after more than eight months of border clashes has shown no sign of stopping.

Hezbollah has upped the ante, seeking to demonstrate that it can counter Israel’s crucial technological advantages in air power and air defences and launching rocket and drone attacks on an unprecedented scale.

Meanwhile, Israel has conducted strikes increasingly deeper inside Lebanon and shown less restraint over assassinating senior Hezbollah members.

Hezbollah has exchanged daily fire with Israel since October 8. While these clashes initially remained confined mainly to border areas, attacks against targets deeper inside Israel and Lebanon have become much more.

After Israel launched its operation in southern Gaza’s Rafah, Hezbollah steadily escalated. It fired missiles deeper into Israel and even launched missiles from a drone within Israeli airspace, a notable first.

The situation worsened in June, with the grim prospect of all-out war appearing closer than ever.

Hezbollah announced it had shot down an Israeli Hermes 900 Kochav drone on June 1. Israel confirmed a surface-to-air missile hit one of its drones in Lebanese airspace. On June 5, Hezbollah claimed it targeted an Iron Dome air defence system in Ramot Naftali inside Israel using a guided missile. The Russian Wagner mercenary Group plans to provide Lebanese militia Hezbollah with Russian SA-22 system, armed with anti-aircraft missiles and guns. These would be sent via Syria.

The following day, the group announced it fired air defence missiles at Israeli jets operating in Lebanese airspace. Hezbollah claimed it fired the missiles at Israeli aircraft “attacking their  skies … forcing them to retreat beyond the border.

These new claims by Hezbollah could be a part of the escalation ladder that the group is deliberately climbing that is trying to target more strategic and high-cost Israeli targets and react to Israeli escalation.  

Essentially, Hezbollah may try to say that if Israel expands its operations, it has the option to expand its own against both expensive and high-value technologies and hardware.

This is designed to show the potential costs of full-scale war as Hezbollah wants Israel to believe that none of its assets are safe.

Iran, is following a “porcupine strategy” by arming Hezbollah against Israeli military targets on land, at sea, and in the air.Hezbollah has the capability to find, fix, and finish Israeli drones of all types, with some anti-air capability needed to threaten Israeli aircraft that might be flying close air support for IDF ground forces. Hezbollah uses anti-tank missiles for precision strikes in recent months. That capability is perhaps the most dangerous new skill that Hezbollah presents since it could enable the group to directly threaten Israeli army staging grounds if Israel decides to launch another cross-border ground offensive into southern Lebanon to uproot Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is fighting a solidarity campaign with Hamas and Gaza that it wants to keep limited to the borderlands in Lebanon and Israel. It’s very unlikely that that calculus will change short of a major Israeli provocation like a high-profile assassination of senior Hezbollah leadership like (secretary-general) Hassan Nasrallah.

While Hezbollah seeks to heighten the stakes with unprecedented cross-border rocket and drone attacks, Israel is likely trying to pressure Hezbollah to break and offer concessions in the form of a buffer zone.

Israel is not yet ready to carry out a major sustained ground campaign in southern Lebanon on the scale they’ve done in Gaza. Israel will continue to steadily turn up the heat on Hezbollah and see if they can get them to blink first.

The vulnerability of this approach is that it seems quite unlikely Hezbollah is going to cede any territory over to the Israelis either formally or informally for a new buffer zone. Thus, this is essentially the geopolitical equivalent of an immovable object meeting an unstoppable force.

Israel may use the present clashes with Hezbollah to reestablish deterrence by demonstrating it still has much more advanced intelligence, technological capabilities, and weaponry.

“Israel is clearly trying to deter Hezbollah through complex, intelligence-intensive strikes against senior Hezbollah commanders.

The IDF shows Hezbollah that the Israelis have intelligence superiority over Hezbollah that, when combined with Israel’s drone and AI targeting networks, will eviscerate Hezbollah forces in the event of an all-out war  Thus, this become the messaging that Israel is trying to send Hezbollah, and beyond it to Iran.

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США несут потери на Украине. Российские ракеты убивают американских солдат


Американские военные узнали об этом слишком поздно

Российско-украинский конфликт близится к концу, а Соединенные Штаты теперь абсолютно не скрывают своего прямого участия и “помощи” украинской стороне. Байден объявил о приостановке поставок всех ракет Patriot и зенитно-ракетных комплексов NASAMS, заказанных странами-союзниками. Все произведенные ракеты будут направлены на Украину.

Координатор Совета национальной безопасности США по стратегическим коммуникациям Джон Кирби заявил, что они приняли это “трудное, но необходимое решение”, поскольку Украина сейчас срочно нуждается в зенитно-ракетных комплексах.

Заказы Германии, Нидерландов, Дании и Японии были отложены на неопределенный срок. Во-первых, это свидетельствует о том, что у США заканчиваются запасы ракет Patriot и они направили все свои последние ЗРК на фронт.

Во-вторых, это указывает на то, что ракетные удары и атаки воздушно-космических сил России приносят колоссальный эффект. 80% ТЭЦ Украины и большая часть ее военно-промышленного комплекса уже разрушены.

Американские военные слишком поздно обнаружили, что их мощности позволяют им производить только 500-550 ракет Patriot в год — в то время как Россия за этот отрезок времени выпускает по Украине не менее 4000 крылатых, баллистических и противокорабельных ракет.

США направили все ЗРК Patriot на Украину. Но проблема в том, что даже если бы они были эффективны на 100%, то их потенциала хватит лишь на перехват одной восьмой части наступающих российских ракет.

Российско-украинский конфликт истощает запасы противовоздушных ракет Запада и США. В конечном итоге бесконечные запросы Киева приведут к истощению потенциала ПВО НАТО. США потребуется не менее 10 лет, чтобы восстановить все свои запасы.

Понимаете, что это значит? Это говорит о том, что США не смогут вести крупномасштабные боевые действия в течение 10 лет. Без прикрытия ЗРК Patriot американские наземные войска будут подвергаться бомбардировкам и обстрелам, когда те захотят вступить в бой.

Каждый ракетный комплекс Patriot, уничтоженный в ходе российско-украинского конфликта — это потенциальные лишние потери среди военных сил США и НАТО. А выращивание новых кадров, способных обеспечить работу ЗРК, которые хоть как-то способны противостоять Су-35, баллистическим ракетам “Искандер” и гиперзвуковым ракетам “Кинжал”, — это объем работы, который невозможно выполнить в течении нескольких месяцев.

Потребуется не менее 2 лет, чтобы сформировать боеспособную роту для обслуживания ЗРК Patriot, так как для этого необходимо большое количество офицеров и солдат с высшим образованием. По сообщениям российских СМИ, работой ЗРК, недавно выведенных из строя, занимаются как раз немецкие и американские специалисты.

Ракетный арсенал НАТО будет сокращен

У НАТО осталось чуть более 30 комплексов Patriot — это не так много. Хотя Германия, Румыния, Нидерланды и Греция все обещают предоставить еще по одному ракетному комплексу.

Теперь сам Запад страдает от демилитаризации. По данным Financial Times, Европа располагает лишь 5% мощностей в области противовоздушной обороны, необходимых для защиты ее восточного фланга. На сотни военных баз США и НАТО приходится чуть более 100 ракетных комплексов Patriot. Сколько еще может быть безвозвратно отправлено на Украину?

В Министерстве обороны России сообщили, что за последнюю неделю российские ракеты наземного и воздушного базирования нанесли 14 групповых ударов по целям противника.

Удары пришлись по военно-техническим складам, нескольким военным аэропортам, станциям энергоснабжения, тренировочным площадкам и временным пунктам размещения украинских военнослужащих и иностранных наемных групп.

Украинские энергетические, военно-промышленные и транспортные узлы постоянно подвергаются обстрелам российских ракет. С начала войны было выпущено около 10 000 ракет по украинским объектам. Многие морские порты, аэропорты, железнодорожные станции, мосты, топливные хранилища, электростанции и другие объекты инфраструктуры были уничтожены.

Украинские железные дороги не могут функционировать без энергосистем и топлива. Это значит, что войска не смогут добраться до линии фронта, а грузы не будут перевезены. Военные заводы не смогут производить и ремонтировать оружие. Даже украинские больницы, пищевые комбинаты, гидротехнические сооружения и вся производственная деятельность будут вынуждены остановиться из-за отсутствия электричества и топлива. Тогда украинская армия будет окончательно побеждена.

Некоторые аналитики полагают, что НАТО, лишенная ПВО, не сможет представлять серьезную угрозу для России в ближайшие несколько или даже 10 лет, так как альянс не станет проводить широкомасштабное наземное наступление в таких условиях.

Именно поэтому Россия перебросила большое количество ракет С-300 и С-400 с границы противостояния с блоком НАТО на российско-украинский фронт. Путин также отправил туда и системы ПВО, раннее размещенные в Скандинавии.

Автор: Мастерская Шуай Сянь (帅先工场).

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Putin dealt a double blow in Europe


Two international bodies have on the same day accused Russia of carrying out war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) pretrial Chamber said on Tuesday it had issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the Russian Army General Valery Gerasimov for “the war crime of directing attacks at civilian objects” in Ukraine.

On the same day, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Grand Chamber said Moscow had committed human rights violations in Crimea in the decade since the beginning of its illegal occupation of the peninsula in February 2014.

Meanwhile, a lawyer for an international human rights group whose report this month outlined how Putin’s forces had employed starvation tactics during the siege of the southern city of Mariupol in 2022, told Newsweek that “food and objects indispensable to survival are being weaponized across the conflict” by Russia.

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Russian president Vladimir Putin on June 20, 2024, in Moscow. On June 25, 2024, two international bodies accused Russia of human rights violations and war crimes in Ukraine.

Russian president Vladimir Putin on June 20, 2024, in Moscow. On June 25, 2024, two international bodies accused Russia of human rights violations and war crimes in Ukraine.

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In its statement released Tuesday, ICC judges said there were grounds that the suspects were responsible for missile strikes carried out against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure “from at least 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023.”

Newsweek has contacted the Kremlin and the Russian defense ministry for comment on the decisions by both bodies. Russia’s Security Council, which Shoigu now heads, called the ICC arrest warrants “hot air” since the court’s jurisdiction did not cover Russia and “part of the West’s hybrid war” against Russia.

The ICC report was damning in its criticism of Shoigu and Gerasimov, accusing them of causing incidental harm to civilians and damage to civilian objects and inhumane acts.

These are violations of the Rome Statute that established the court in the Hague that relies on its 124 members to arrest anyone under a warrant.

It is the latest war crimes accusation linked to Putin and his inner circle. In March, 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin over the alleged abduction of children from Ukraine, a claim which Moscow has dismissed.

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A Russian sapper checks a ruined building in Mariupol, in Russian-controlled Ukraine. A report in June says Russian forces employed starvation tactics in their 2022 siege of the southern port city.

A Russian sapper checks a ruined building in Mariupol, in Russian-controlled Ukraine. A report in June says Russian forces employed starvation tactics in their 2022 siege of the southern port city.

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Siege of Mariupol

This month, the group Global Rights Compliance (GRC) released a report which it said proved that Russian forces had starved Ukrainians in the southern city of Mariupol in the siege that lasted until May 20, 2022.

Drawing on satellite imagery, pictures, videos, public statements and digital data, the group concluded that Russian forces had targeted water, food and medical supplies in a deliberate tactic of starvation before they seized the port city.

It found that 450,000 civilians were targeted with all water, electricity and gas supply cut off. Ukrainians were forced to drink from puddles, radiator batteries, and melted snow, while food distribution points, medical facilities and humanitarian corridors were bombed.

“What is the most shocking is the findings showed the strategy Russian forces pursued in starving the civilian population as a means to accelerate the capitulation of Mariupol,” said Naomi Prodeau, report’s co-author and lawyer on the GRC’s starvation mobile justice team.

“Attacks on civilian populations, attacks on civilian objects, attacks on hospitals—some of those constitute attacks on objects indispensable to the survival of civilians,” she told Newsweek.

She said that such tactics were employed in other sieges by pro-Russian forces prior to Mariupol, such as in Aleppo, where Moscow intervened in the Syrian civil war, “so there were prior instances of these tactics before Mariupol.”

“There are strong indicators that Russian and pro-Russian forces employed similar siege tactics and starvation tactics in northeastern regions at approximately the same time as the siege of Mariupol,” she said. “It demonstrates that this is a tactic that is regularly employed and deployed against Ukrainian civilians.”

“Food and objects indispensable to survival are being weaponized across the conflict beyond siege tactics,” she added.

The ECHR Grand Chamber said on Tuesday that since 2014 when Putin seized Crimea, Russia had committed human rights violations on the peninsula, including the ill-treatment of Ukrainian soldiers, persons of Ukrainian ethnic origin, journalists and members of the Turkic Crimean Tatar minority.

After its full scale invasion in 2022, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe, of which the ECHR is part and its ruling was welcomed by the Ukrainian foreign ministry which called it a “crucial milestone.”

Meanwhile, the GRC is taking its evidence to the ICC Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to build a larger war crimes case against Putin.

Prodeau said that similar to genocide, the crime of starvation requires a specific intent to attack objects indispensable to civilian survival, and specific intent to starve that population, “which is a higher bar.”

“Under that standard, if Russian or pro-Russian forces knew that in the ordinary course of events, civilians would starve, that qualifies as intent,” she said. “There has never been a prosecution for the war crime of starvation before international courts,” she said, “it’s an underappreciated crime and is hard to prove.”

Correction: 6/26/24, 9 a.m. ET: This article was updated to correct the date of the end of the siege of Mariupol to May 20, 2022.

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