Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @FRHoffmann1: If Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG missiles are approved for use inside Russia, it will be interesting to see whether Ukraine can utilize their full range of 540 km or if they will be restricted to the export version's maximum range of 250 km.

As I've noted before, I find it unlikely that Ukraine received the range-restricted export version. Additionally, I am unaware of any credible evidence suggesting that the French or British baseline missiles were physically or digitally limited in range before delivery.

However, I can fully see the United States arguing that strikes should be limited to a smaller radius within Russia.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @FRHoffmann1: Hardened shelters primarily protect against fragmentation-type area-effect warheads, forcing adversaries to target them individually.

Considering NATO's unilateral disarmament of much of its cluster ammunition, neglecting HAS construction was a fully rational decision. https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1833532698574655942#m

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

❗️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Not content with just sending this key report to Congress 3 months late, the Biden Admin has also submitted it entirely in classified form, violating the law twice over.

This reporting requirement provides for classified components and annexes for sensitive information, but the main report was requested in unclassified format so that a broader range of stakeholders could be read into what President Biden's plans are. The war has gone on for 2 and a half years and we need to know how the Biden Admin is going to live up to their commitment to support Ukrainian victory.

It's extremely concerning that they give Russia advanced notice of every key weapon systems that Ukraine gets but refuse to be honest & transparent with Congress.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

Here is the full clause from the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024:

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@casualdiot: Unlikely. They can make the Committees go into a SCIF to read it.

‌Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @michaeldweiss: Somehow missed this. The Latvians have opened criminal proceedings against ex-MEP Tatiana Zdanoka on the back of @InsiderEng's investigation into her ties to the FSB:

Rob Lee (Twitter)

@Arthuro802: Yes, but that’s pretty well acknowledged.

Rob Lee (Twitter)

Video of Russian air strikes on a bridge in Pokrovsk.
https://tttttt.me/warhistoryalconafter/183755

Ukraine Battle Map (Twitter)

RT @CrimsonInquiry: So the Russians don’t want to negotiate when the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 military is on their territory.. But they expected Ukraine to negotiate/capitulate when Russian 🇷🇺 soldiers are on *their* territory. That is quite something! https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1833400202641711353#m

Def Mon (Twitter)

Black line is still August 19th, blue is the current UA line. There have been a few changes but nothing major.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @Sasha_Etkind: what are they hiding — the strategy or the lack of it? https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1833544396341649788#m

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

My initial expectation was that they would quickly submit a bare bones report in an attempt to placate Congress and make this a non issue. Instead they have called further attention to it by submitting 3 months late and hiding the whole report behind classification in contravention of the law.