Taranis

This afternoon, there was another short briefing at the Pentagon where Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Colin Kahl answered a few questions:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3452000/under-secretary-of-defense-for-policy-dr-colin-kahl-holds-press-briefing/

Here are some quotes:
On Ukraine's counter-offensive:

On the delivery of cluster munitions:
 

Well, seems like there needs to be done something...
 

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1677512839215427584?s=20

How about this one?
 

There was talk of some ingenious solution to use AIM-7 on Buk SAM launchers.

Wouldn´t have expected that from Erdogan. 
 Erdogan: Ukraine deserves NATO membership.
 
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1677432588883853312?s=20

Not a single one. CV90 vids a few, but none localized.
 
https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1677366855810392072?s=20

Russian artillerists demonstrated an excellent case of friendly fire on Orikhiv direction. These are interceptions of Russian conversations while it happened. I've made a translation for you.
 
I wonder if this is the usual Russian incompetence? Or if Ukraine is starting take advantage of Russia's abysmal coms situation and feeding in bad orders. It would be rather special if the battery was talking to someone it thought was Granite, and he was calmly saying repeat mission, your killing them. Of course who them is is rather important.

not surprising 

Dutch gov is fallen. Might have, might not have an impact on the F16 coalition. We will see.
 
Kabinet gevallen, geen akkoord over asielmaatregelen (nos.nl)
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1677392171685519378?s=20
https://twitter.com/vonderburchard/status/1677391922602582031?s=20
Live: Kabinet-Rutte IV gevallen • Ministerraad om 21.30 uur, daarna persconferentie (volkskrant.nl)

To add, later in the Q&A section:
Kofman states provision of cluster munitions is the single most decisive thing the US can do in the short term and will have a significant effect on the battlefield. 
It is not necessary to take the efficiency of the DPICM into account for their significance. The significance comes from the million(s) of new shells being available for the Ukrainians. This takes them off from the "shell hourglass" and enables Ukraine to approach these offensives with more freedom.
Of course, he included a snarky comment on how Europe was the main obstacle to this provision and also the main reason for the need to make this provision, given the Europeans made the needed artillery production decisions only 13 months into this war.

Actually, I haven't any confirmation about that.
In backgrounds are French Army vehicles so not really a proof....

Actually, I haven't any confirmation about that.
In backgrounds are French Army vehicles so not really a proof....

Actually, I haven't any confirmation about that.
In backgrounds are French Army vehicles so not really a proof....

I don't know how taking this green could be significant in any way.
This is something I would have expected to fall within the first days or hours of the counter-attack if I was asked a couple of months ago

Russian blogger Rybar claims:
 
 

Meow!  Someone didn’t get his pistachio pudding today.

IAEA press release, part most important quoted below. So far they only have partial access to certain areas.
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-171-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine
 

The Russian telegrammer yurasumy offers another variation, in that it was the heights before the town that the Ukrainians captured, but the Russians subsequently drove them off of it ... maybe.
 
https://t.me/yurasumy/9691

https://t.me/RtrDonetsk/18786
 
 

A little off topic but still a consequence of the war in Ukraine :
The Leclerc tank undergoing rejuvenation
Source : Le Monde

A little off topic but still a consequence of the war in Ukraine :
The Leclerc tank undergoing rejuvenation
Source : Le Monde

SMArt 155 round kills T-90M:
 

Sladkov says RU abandoned Klishchiivka, but UKR telegram says no. Situation seems perilous for RU.
 

We talked about the russian military complex and its production capacity a few pages back. Meanwhile:
 
 

Ukraine forms 10th Army Corps
Newly formed Marine Corps gets rebranded
Source : https://militaryland.net/