German media: Russia waited for Ukraine to experience widespread problems with its SAMs – the results are clear.

Tyler Rogoway, a columnist for the American military publication TWZ, comments on the situation with Russian strikes on targets in Ukraine. He argues that Russia is no longer pursuing "amplitude" strikes, but is simply increasing their frequency.

American columnist:

This is exhausting both the Ukrainian population and Defense.

It is added that, given the frequency of strikes on Kyiv and Ukraine's Black Sea ports, no amount of anti-missile supplies to the armed forces is capable of providing even 50% of the required coverage.

German experts say Russia "waited until Ukraine had complete problems with its SAMs, after which it launched intensive strikes on the Ukrainian capital":

The result is obvious. Everyone can see it.

While foreign diplomats had previously stated that they had no intention of leaving Kyiv following Russian warnings, evidence is now emerging that a number of embassies are reducing the number of their staff in Kyiv.

The officially stated reasons sound more like excuses. Everything is along the lines of "routine staff rotation is underway." However, for some reason, before the intensification of Russian strikes, European embassies were far less concerned about this "rotation."

Against this backdrop, reports are emerging that special patrols, comprised of both police and intelligence officers, are being deployed in Kyiv to "identify potential Russian agents." Something similar occurred in February-April 2022.

Comments

[YOU]

Russia didn't wait, Russia achieved it. There was no point in testing Russia for lice.

[ratfly]

Couldn't it have been done right away? No? As the Americans declared, "This is a war with some agreements."

[Ampifrion]

Quote: ratfly

Couldn't it have been done right away? No? As the Americans declared, "This is a war with some agreements."

Do you trust the Americans? Unconditionally?

[ratfly]

Don't you see any agreements? Airports. Until recently, dry cargo ships. Zelensky is just running around as he pleases. What else am I missing out on?

[Locksmith]

Quote: ratfly

Wasn't it possible right away?

"Sigismund, what are you doing?! Jokes are jokes, but they can be children too!!" (C)

[Machito]

Quote: YOU

Russia didn't wait, Russia achieved it. There was no point in testing Russia for lice.

It's just that the West ran out of SAMs faster than Russian missiles.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Bearded

Quote: YOU

Russia didn't wait, Russia achieved it. There was no point in testing Russia for lice.

It's just that the West ran out of SAMs faster than Russian missiles.

Not just rockets, but rockets assembled from washing machines and refrigerators. They didn't take into account the fact that every self-respecting Russian pioneer has three, maybe even five broken washing machines stashed away to be scrapped! And pensioners, forget about it. If they simply give their surplus washing machines to the pioneers, how many are there sitting in their garages?

[rytik32]

Ukraine's new Defense Minister, Khmara, stated that the budget deficit for military spending is $27 billion. He added that these funds were intended for the second half of the year but were spent by the previous minister on purchasing drones.
It turns out that Ukraine has gone all-in, investing all its resources in drones and leaving other areas, including air defense missiles, exposed.

[LMN]

Quote: rytik32

Ukraine's new Defense Minister, Khmara, stated that the budget deficit for military spending is $27 billion. He added that these funds were intended for the second half of the year but were spent by the previous minister on purchasing drones.
It turns out that Ukraine has gone all-in, investing all its resources in drones and leaving other areas, including air defense missiles, exposed.

Ukraine went "all in" back in 2022 when it went to war with Russia.

Now they have nothing and no one.

A body living on IVs.

[rytik32]

Quote: LMN

Now they have nothing and no one.
A body living on IVs

Now we need to push until even the IVs don’t help anymore!

[LMN]

Quote: rytik32

Quote: LMN

Now they have nothing and no one.
A body living on IVs

Now we need to push until even the IVs don’t help anymore!

So who's arguing...

[paul3390]

It's time to move on from IV drips to bucket enemas with turpentine and gramophone needles!

[novel66]

Named after Captain Tamantsev

[snow mountain]

Quote: rytik32

Now we need to push until even the IVs don’t help anymore!

The IVs will run out, they will start giving injections or feeding pills

[Rakitin]

To the morgue means to the morgue! And there's no point in self-medicating here :-)

[Coconut Tima]

Ukraine's public debt is increasing by an average of $4-5 billion monthly. At the end of August, the public debt was approximately $218-219 billion, and by the end of 2026, it will reach approximately $240 billion, and by the end of 2027, at least $290 billion. As a result, by the end of 2026, the debt per Ukrainian will be $8,5, and by the end of 2027, approximately $10,4. (TASS)

[Egg]

Quote: Tim Coconuts

At the end of August, the national debt was approximately $218-219 billion, and by the end of 2026 it will reach approximately $240 billion, and by the end of 2027 – no less than $290 billion.

That is why Ukraine must be taken over entirely and liquidated as a state.
There is no state of Ukraine, there is no one to repay the debts to, let the EU write off these debts itself, at the expense of its own economy.

[NW]

Ukraine's public debt increases by an average of $4-5 billion monthly.

Their debt will be written off. Besides, they have a stash. As of July 31, 2026, the NBU's gold and foreign exchange reserves amounted to $51,2 billion. Enough for six months. So no respite! "Cut to hell, don't wait for peritonitis!" (c)

[novel66]

The IVs need to be cut!!! And from the very beginning.

[LMN]

Quote: novel xnumx

The IVs need to be cut!!! And from the very beginning.

Do you think I'm a surgeon or something?

At least show me where to cut.

[Starover_Z]

Quote: LMN

Ukraine went "all in" back in 2022 when it went to war with Russia.

She was pushed into this by her Western allies, who did not want to lose the revenues from the use of Ukrainian territories. They promised to support and supply, which they are doing.

[Machito]

Quote: rytik32

Ukraine's new Defense Minister, Khmara, stated that the budget deficit for military spending is $27 billion. He added that these funds were intended for the second half of the year but were spent by the previous minister on purchasing drones.
It turns out that Ukraine has gone all-in, investing all its resources in drones and leaving other areas, including air defense missiles, exposed.

What will Ukraine's money change? Nothing. There are no Patriot missiles to sell to Ukraine. Israel has refused to sell SAMs to Ukraine; it doesn't have enough of its own. European air defenses have also been stripped bare.

[rytik32]

Quote: Bearded

There are no Patriots to sell to Ukraine.

The issue isn't just about anti-ballistic missiles for Patriots. The main "weather" right now is geraniums and parcels, which can be shot down by any modern air defense system. Right now, even these air defense systems (Iris-T, NASAMS, SAMP/T, etc.) aren't even visible.

[Vitaly.17]

Quote: rytik32

went all in, investing all my funds

People go all-in when they're risking their own money. When they're betting on someone else's, it's called something else. But regarding UAV spending, everything was agreed upon, and most likely developed at NATO headquarters. Otherwise, so many component manufacturing plants wouldn't have appeared in Europe.

[Sergey Mitinsky]

There's a business that knows for sure it won't fail, and that business is headed by this same Fedorov. Having spent all his money on drones, he intended to ask his sponsors for more, especially since those drones were ordered from his own sponsors.

He was a cunning character, but he miscalculated by not dividing the money with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Zelensky himself, who oversaw the Ukrainian company Fire Point, which itself was counting on swallowing up the bulk of the funding.

As a result, the drones he bought and manufactured for $27 billion are largely obsolete, and the money has already been spent. Ordered? Here you go, sign for it. The problems here are purely organizational, related to how these drones are manufactured. The components are manufactured in the EU, while they are assembled in "garages" in Ukraine.

There is no unified flexible system like in the Russian Federation, where designers, logistics services, and production work together within the borders of one state.

[Major Yurik]

"Our lackeys are being beaten!" The Westerners are in trouble, there's noise and groans... They'll whine and then die down, their own shirts are closer to their bodies, and then the cry will be heard: "To hell with them, with the lackeys, we'll look for new ones..."

[Irokez]

Russia "waited until Ukraine had complete problems with its SAMs, after which it began intensive strikes on the Ukrainian capital."

As always, it's a complete deception and misleading of its own population. It didn't wait, but rather, it escalated the situation or brought it to this point. The US, for example, never waited for Iran to run out of SAMs.

[Plate]

Did Iran have any serious SAMs?

[Irokez]

Under the word serious What exactly did you mean (which models, long-range, medium-range, or Tunguska-type)?

[Plate]

Something that can shoot down an F-15 or a B-2 when they bomb Iranian territory.

[Ivanhoe]

A hot wind blew behind the ambassadors, and they decided to hurry home.

[your vsr 66-67]

Quote: Ivanhoe

A hot wind blew behind the ambassadors, and they decided to hurry home.

But they (the ambassadors) were warned!
They didn't believe it..
Well then, grease your heels with some Khlyatsky lard and go home to Gayropa!

[pharmacist]

"Special patrols, which include both police and intelligence officers, are beginning to operate in Kyiv to 'identify possible Russian agents.'"

How do they imagine "Russian agents"? They are walking down the street, and many of them are wearing Budenovka hats or kokoshniks?

[Plate]

What do you mean, how do they portray Russian agents? See that bear walking down the street? If it's carrying a Kalashnikov and vodka, it's a Russian agent. If it's some kind of aroid and vodka, then it's one of our own—a Chernobyl bear with vodka, looking for lard. If it's an aroid and without vodka, then we need to investigate: it could have been a Russian agent disguised like that. And no one has ever seen one with a Kalashnikov and without vodka.

[Metallurg_2]

It's very simple: they come up and ask you to say "palyanytsya".

[alexputnik17]

Given the frequency of strikes on Kyiv and Ukraine's Black Sea ports, no amount of anti-missile supplies to the armed forces is capable of providing even 50% of the required coverage.

Let the Germans breathe a sigh of relief and dream. The Russian steamroller is just getting going.

[Graz]

It seems the EU was planning to urgently allocate several SAMP/T medium air defense systems to Zelenograd.

[Brturin]

Quote: Graz

several SAMP/T medium air defense systems

Italy and France have agreed to send four SAMP/T anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine, https://topwar.ru/288688-italija-peredast-ukraine-rakety-aster-30-i-tehnologii-dlja-ih-proizvodstva.html

How much coverage can this provide, and the main question is the number of missiles - 50, 100... how many days will they last if they start targeting Geranium rockets? About 2500 Geranium rockets were launched in August.

[Graz]

This is what they announced, they won't say about the actual deliveries.

[rocket757]

special patrols, which include both police and intelligence officers, to “identify possible Russian agents.”

I remembered the old film "Green Chains"... it's relevant to them now... it's different, without the visible effects, but it doesn't change the essence of the matter...

[Clear]

Quote: rocket757

special patrols, which include both police and intelligence officers, to “identify possible Russian agents.”

I remembered the old film "Green Chains"... it's relevant to them now... it's different, without the visible effects, but it doesn't change the essence of the matter...

I didn't understand, is this like someone illuminating targets with flashlights?
Our people are unlikely to fall for such a scam.

[rocket757]

Well, yes, they use laser pointers to illuminate... it's complete nonsense, in short...
They just keep the right people close to them so that the people don't get out of hand...

[123_123]

Special patrols, which include both police and special services, are beginning to operate in Kyiv.

How many of the Kyiv regime's lackeys weren't sent to the front? I hope Ukrainians are taking notes and remembering these figures.

[single-n]

We'll only see the results by November. The damage is too small for now. Now, if the Russian Armed Forces increase their advancement MULTIPLE-TIMES in October or November, or if Zeleboba comes galloping back from the world war, that'll be the effect. But for now, it's just a temporary advantage.

[Clear]

German experts. The results are clear.

German experts, what's wrong with your face?

[Scaffold]

Quote: novel xnumx

Named after Captain Tamantsev

The captain was Alekhine. Tamantsev was the senior lieutenant.

[Ampifrion]

Quote: ratfly

Don't you see any agreements? Airports. Until recently, dry cargo ships. Zelensky is just running around as he pleases. What else am I missing out on?

I see only your speculations and nothing more.
By the way, which airports in Ukraine are still operating? I'm curious.

[Kuziming]

began intensive strikes on the Ukrainian capital

Kyiv was given Damascus.