Looks like the remains of a KH-31/AS-17. Possibly an anti-radar version?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-31

Reported aratroop on Kharkiv. Seems very high leaving them vulnerable to ground fire.

Yes, I would agree its a KH-31

I think this was posted earlier but disappeared. Comments consensus seems to be that its the work of air defence units. I wonder if what is heard firing in the background is that air defence unit. This makes more sense than the paratrooper theory - as stated elsewhere it seems like the worst planned paradrop ever.

Russians on outskirts of Kharkiv. Not sure if that means they are surrounding and bypassing it till later or just awaiting troops for an urban assault.

Further roadblocks and geolocation confirmation further on in the thread.

https://www.defensenews.com/global/e...sian-invasion/

Pentagon studying fallback supply lines to Ukraine in case of expanded Russian invasion

Realistically what can the west do?

Shake an angry fist.

I think there's quite a lot the west can do, without firing a shot.
The question is the extent to which it's prepared to subject itself to economic pain.
Will Volkswagen be prepared to shut down it's plant in Kaluga?
Would the UK Government be prepared to confiscate private properties in London and freeze all Russian financial assets?
How about expropriating Abrahmovich's ownership of Chelsea - seizing his yacht?
How about stealing every single piece of Russian owned property, assets and roubles in our respective countries?
And on top of that - entirely locking them out of the Western Financial System?
As I said earlier - I'd be prepared to pay higher taxes and prices.

Quite a lot Tovarich and if you were really from Kernow you would know how to spell it properly!

Sky showing footage of an attack at Mariupol airport. Seems to be a strike on a radar system so I would suspect an ARM.

The ABC's Washington correspondent Sarah Ferguson, who is pretty astute, has just been on the telly here.
She says Biden is expected tomorrow to start preparing the US people for sanctions which will hurt the US economy and US hip-pockets.
Namely oil and gas sanctions and targeting more big more big Russian banks.

Perhaps we really should have had a European Army to deal with things like this.................

It sadly makes sense to fire at cities even if they do not strike them, the fleeing population will choke roads hampering the Ukrainian armies freedom of movement.

Hopes are with them all, stay safe.

The poor guy or gal whose damaged car is parked outside the Mariupol airport radar site is sadly probably dead now :(

Sanctions may help in the long term but in the short term will do squat and they are already being watered down, all the speeches about we will sanction the hell out of you if you step over the border is already reduced to smaller sanctions on this and that and will increase if you carry. Pathetic really.

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Perhaps a blockade of the Russian's only ice free port in the Baltic might help a little.

OD

Time for Boeing and Airbus to cut complete ties and support for the Russian fleet.

Lukashenko saying Belarus is not involved in the attacks, define involvement.