Alexander Mercouris
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Russia Captures More Bakhmut, Ukraine Mulls Counterattack; China Linking Arms to Russia to Taiwan, Russian SU35s to Iran
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Great video. Just one small point , which BTW does not alter the initial claim of EU being incapable of contesting Russian artillery shell production. Alexander quoted EU production of artllery shells of ALL types as 650,000 yearly. This equates to over 54,000 shells monthly (rather than the 5000 mentioned in video).
As Alexander mentioned however, this is dwarfed by Russian current artillery shell use of 20,000 daily which equates to 600,000 monthly – an almost unimaginable figure.
Not all artillery systems as created equally, and the Russians have been using the S27 Pion and 2S7M Malka, which are 203mm Heavy Artillery systems, which have destroyed US-made M777 155mm howitzers in Ukraine.
The Russian Defence Ministry has also released video footage of the 2S5 Giatsint-S (152 mm and 5-6 round per minute + armoured and tracked) crew engaged in counter-battery firing against Ukrainian/NATO M777 (155 mm and 2 rounds per minute and not armoured or tracked) artillery units.
I have not yet seen an image of the alleged yacht, but I agree that story is concocted nonsense.
Not THE yacht, but photographs and videos can be found of the same model (Bavaria C50 cruiser) at YachtWorld site.
As per the destruction of the MIG-17 monument, it provides opportunity & grist for a Semiotician (SP?)- (Semiotics: a study involved in analyzing symbols, gestures, words.)
The MIG-17 is a very old, long in the tooth, 1950-60s era fighter. There are abundant reasons why the Ukraine military & government would reject it & destroy it as a symbol of a proposed weapons delivery platform against advanced Russian fighters & air defenses. An embarrassment. However, as per usual, most of the news reports on this item say the Russians did it.