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It's pretty easy if your browser is Google Chrome. Just click the left mouse button and select the "Translate to ...", where ... is English for me. And then you can click the checkbox to always translate Russian or Ukrainian or whatever language is detects on the current page.

Rybar reports on a post by another milblogger claiming that Ukraine fired cluster munitions via HIMARS near Tokmok, if I'm understanding the post correctly. Take it with a grain of salt. https://t.me/rybar/49590 https://t.me/Mestb_Dobroj_Voli/7004

Now I realize this is the same podcast that @The_MonkeyKing summarized on Friday.

On his telegram channel, he provides a link to his Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/pashtetof It appears he shares the same posts on both Facebook and his telegram account. I don't have a telegram account. I just view the site in my browser on my Linux PC.

This is his telegram account: https://t.me/zvizdecmanhustu

Any idea what message Ukraine's MOD is trying to send with this video? It begins with a timer counting down from 60, shows various quick shots of Ukrainian forces in action, and ends with "The Day of Reckoning Has Come".

The Russian TV presenter and propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov, sometimes hosts Russian milbloggers on his program to provide updates from the front. If you follow his telegram channel, in addition to propaganda bits, he forwards certain updates from various milblogers. https://t.me/s/SolovievLive Anyway, some of the messages he forwarded this morning mention pressure Ukraine is asserting in these areas: https://t.me/polk105/8996 https://t.me/YUGLIVE/28973

Long, interesting article: https://kyivindependent.com/investigation-eu-inability-to-ramp-up-production-behind-acute-ammunition-shortages-in-ukraine/

I imagine Ukraine will have an empirical answer, shortly, for whether firing DPICM makes a minefield better or worse.

I did find this 1979 patent for: Surface-launched fuel-air explosive minefield clearance round https://patents.google.com/patent/US4273048A/en

In this video, at 4:18, this former UK Air Vice Marshall says that if you use enough cluster munitions, you can clear a path through a minefield.

Russian Telegrammer Rybar says: https://t.me/rybar/49499

Russian view of the fight near Rabotino: https://t.me/RVvoenkor/48939

WarGonzo speculates it's posturing with respect to the grain deal:

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:

Here's an article on that from January: https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-to-integrate-sea-sparrow-missile-into-soviet-era-buk-launchers/

And this FT article says there are a lot of such rounds. https://www.ft.com/content/f4955a0b-52fd-4f1b-8d69-bb0d4367c1aa

So then ... is this correct interpretation of their significance?

Enjoy this Russian response to the supplying of DPICM to Urkaine: https://t.me/SolovievLive/193716

Here's the cluster munitions, officially: 155mm artillery rounds, including DPICM, and 105mm artillery rounds; https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3451570/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

He basically says that the cluster munitions will help provide a bridge of additional artillery ammunition to Ukraine while America's artillery ammunition production capacity ramps up. And claims Russia's cluster munitions being used in Ukraine have a dud rate of between 30 and 40 percent. A more formal announcement will come later this afternoon when the Pentagon releases the details of the latest aid package.

I suppose other allies could chose to follow the American lead by providing cluster munitions to Ukraine as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition#Countries_with_stocks