Pebulu tangkis ganda putra Indonesia Leo Rolly Carnando (kiri) dan Daniel Marthin (kanan) berusaha mengembalikan kok ke arah lawannya pebulu tangkis ganda putra Thailand Sirawit Sothon dan Natthapat Trinkajee dalam babak kualifikasi grup Piala Thomas 2024 di Chengdu Hi Tech Zone Sports Center Gymnasium, Chengdu, China, pada hari Senin, 29/04/2024). ANTARA FOTO/Galih Pradipta/foc. (ANTARA FOTO/GALIH PRADIPTA)
Ganda putra Leo Rolly Carnando/Daniel Marthin memastikan Indonesia keluar sebagai juara Grup C Piala Thomas 2024 yang diadakan di Chengdu Hi Tech Zone Sports Center Gymnasium, Chengdu, China, Rabu.
Leo/Daniel menang atas pasangan India Dhruv Kapila/Sai Pratheek melalui dua gim langsung dengan skor 22-20, 21-11 dalam tempo 38 menit.
Di atas kertas, Leo/Daniel memang lebih unggul bila dibandingkan dengan pasangan India ini. Namun, pada awal gim pertama, kedua pasangan masih sama-sama mencari pola permainan apa yang cocok untuk menghadapi lawan masing-masing.
Perebutan angka berlangsung cukup alot, terutama pada pertengahan gim pertama, di mana Leo/Daniel dan Kapila/Pratheek saling bersaing memperebutkan keunggulan.
Bermain dengan cepat dan agresif, sang juara bertahan Indonesia Masters pun akhirnya merebut gim pertama dengan skor tipis 22-20.
“Di gim pertama memang cukup ketat, tapi kita coba pelan-pelan dan tidak boleh terbawa dengan tempo lawan dan tetap fokus,” kata Leo saat ditemui setelah pertandingan.
“Kami tidak kaget, hanya saja kemampuan mereka masing-masing juga terbilang baik. Tapi kami mencoba fokus dan lebih mengontrol,” ujar Daniel.
Berbekal kepercayaan diri setelah merebut kemenangan pertama mereka, Leo/Daniel kembali menerapkan strategi yang lebih mengandalkan kecepatan dan pertahanan yang rapat, sehingga membuat pasangan India terlihat tidak nyaman dan kesulitan untuk mengantisipasi bola dari wakil Indonesia.
Unggul jauh 17-8, Leo/Daniel semakin memperpanjang keunggulan mereka dengan meraih matchpoint lalu membungkus kemenangan gim kedua dengan skor cukup telak 21-11.
“Setelah ini, kami akan memberikan yang terbaik untuk Indonesia (pada perempat final nanti),” kata Leo.
Dengan ini, maka skuad putra Indonesia sudah dipastikan bertemu dengan runner up grup lainnya, alih-alih unggulan satu dan dua. Besar harapan bagi Tim Merah-Putih untuk bisa meneruskan tradisi medali pada ajang beregu dunia kali ini.
Dua kemenangan lainnya yang dibukukan oleh skuad putra Indonesia adalah melalui ganda putra Bagas Maulana/Muhammad Shohibul Fikri dan tunggal putra Jonatan Christie.
Sementara itu, Indonesia masih menyisakan tunggal putra Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo yang akan menghadapi Kidambi Srikanth pada partai terakhir fase grup hari ini.
An exhibition featuring dozens of Western tanks and armored vehicles captured during the Ukraine conflict has opened in Moscow. The trophy show also includes a newly arrived US-made M1 Abrams tank which was knocked out not far from the Donbass town of Avdeevka.
The display kicked off on Wednesday near the Victory Museum, which is dedicated to World War II and the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany in 1945. The exhibition, which will run throughout May, is also opening ahead of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, one of Russia’s most important holidays, which is celebrated on May 9.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that the exhibition would also include a US-made Abrams tank and M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle. The latter specializes in mine-clearing operations and is also based on the Abrams tank.
Both vehicles were captured by Russian troops during their offensive near the settlement of Berdychi, not far from the Donbass town of Avdeevka, officials said. Earlier this week, the ministry shared clips of the Abrams tank burning after being hit by two anti-tank guided missiles.
The Defense Ministry noted that in addition, the exhibition also features 32 other trophy vehicles, including a German-made Leopard 2A6 tank and Marder infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), US-made Bradley IFV, UK-made AT105 Saxon and Husky TSV armored vehicles, as well as many others.
The Defense Ministry noted that in addition, the exhibition also features 32 other trophy vehicles, including a German-made Leopard 2A6 tank and Marder infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), US-made Bradley IFV, UK-made AT105 Saxon and Husky TSV armored vehicles, as well as many others.
The exhibition also has many types of NATO-made small arms and engineering equipment on display, plus Ukrainian drones and communication systems. The show is divided into several thematic areas, with visitors having the opportunity to learn the combat characteristics of the Western-made weapons as well as how the particular equipment was captured, the ministry said.
The trophy display opened after Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said last month that Moscow’s forces are steadily pushing back Ukrainian troops.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s top general, Aleksandr Syrsky admitted retreating from several settlements in Donbass, and described the “most difficult situation” along several operational fronts.
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Houthis Claim Attacks Against Two Vessels, Two US Destroyers
Houthi supporters during a rally held in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, April 19, 2024
Yemen's Houthi movement Ansar Allah has delivered strikes on two commercial vessels, Cyclades in the Red Sea and MSC Orion in the Indian Ocean, the movement’s representative Yahya Saria said.
The spokesman added that the movement delivered drone strikes on two US destroyers in the Red Sea. According to him, the hits "reached their targets."
Yemen's Houthi group said on Monday it had launched attacks on two U.S. warships and two commercial vessels linked to Israel, in what it described as retaliation for U.S. and British involvement in Yemen.
The group, which controls much of northern Yemen, said it targeted the American warships with drones in the Red Sea. "These operations have been successful," said Yahya Sarea, a Houthi military spokesman, in a statement broadcast by the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV.
🚨🇾🇪 BREAKING: The #Yemeni Armed Forces announce the targeting of two American warships with drones in the Red Sea, targeting the ship "CYCLADES" with drones and missiles in the Red Sea, and targeting the "israeli" ship "MSC ORION" with drones in the Indian Ocean.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Central Command said it intercepted on Sunday five Houthi drones in the Red Sea in a post on social platform X.
The Houthis also claimed responsibility for an attack on the CYCLADES, a cargo vessel they say was previously blacklisted by the group for violating the Houthi ban on ships traveling to Israeli ports. "The vessel was accurately hit in the Red Sea after it left the port of Eilat," Sarea said.
In addition, the group said it attacked the MSC ORION, a ship it described as Israeli, in the Indian Ocean.
The Houthi spokesman reiterated the group's position that it would continue its operations in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean until Israel ceases its actions in Gaza.
The Houthis have escalated their maritime attacks since last November, targeting vessels they claim are associated with Israel in a show of support for Palestinians engaged in the conflict with Israel.
In January, the United States and Britain initiated a military operation by carrying out airstrikes on Houthi military sites. In response, the Houthis escalated their attacks on commercial and military vessels from the United States and Britain in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
In March, the group’s leader mentioned that the group had started expanding the attack area to deter Israel-associated vessels from sailing via the Indian Ocean toward the Cape of Good Hope.
Houthi targeted the Cyclades commercial vessel and two US destroyers in the waters of the Red Sea, its spokesman declared in a televised address on Tuesday.
US calls for Russia to hold talks on ending the Ukraine conflict seem detached from reality and ignore Moscow’s previous attempts to reach a settlement, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted on Monday that Moscow’s alleged plans “to erase Ukraine from the map… failed.” He added that he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken note of Western support for Ukraine, “gets the message, and demonstrates a willingness to genuinely negotiate consistent with the basic principles… of the international community and the UN Charter: sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence.”
Responding to Blinken’s remarks later that day, Zakharova said American politicians seem to live in a “mirror world.”
She recalled that in 2014 and 2015, Russia “showed respect for international law” by promoting the now-defunct Minsk agreements, which sought to end the bloodshed in the region by giving the two Donbass republics special status within the Ukrainian state.
Moscow has claimed that Kiev and Western countries never intended to implement the deal in the first place. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and ex-French President Francois Hollande have admitted that the primary purpose of the agreements was to help Kiev buy time to build a stronger military force.
Zakharova also noted that Moscow was ready to engage in peace talks in 2022. At the time, negotiations in Istanbul, Türkiye initially made headway, but later collapsed after what Russia claims was interference by then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who allegedly advised Kiev to keep fighting. Johnson has denied the accusation.
The spokeswoman stated that Blinken himself had proposed settling the conflict “based not on international law,” but on the ‘peace formula’ proposed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, which demands that Russia withdraw all troops from the territory Kiev claims as its own and includes several other clauses that Moscow has rejected as unacceptable.
“Everything has gone haywire in the White House,” Zakharova said.
Moscow maintains that it is open to talks with Ukraine. However, Zelensky signed a decree in autumn 2022 barring negotiations with the current leadership in Moscow. The move came after four former Ukrainian regions voted overwhelmingly to join Russia.
Zakharova should not respond to blinken's ravings, most dignified countries know, the US, UK and the western alliance will maintain their evil mission with all their cunning, spreading slander with false information spread by western media, such as BBC, WP, INSIDERS, BLOOMBERG, etc.
The Russian Armed Forces use kamikaze drones, also known as suicide drones or loitering munitions, in their modern warfare arsenal. These unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are designed to locate and destroy high-value targets, such as enemy armored vehicles, infrastructure, and troop concentrations.
The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage showing Russian servicemen from Battlegroup Tsentr operating FPV drones, destroying Ukrainian positions in the Donetsk People's Republic.
One video shows the work of drone operators in the Semyonovka area, while another shows the work of drone operators in the vicinity of Spornoye.
Footage from the cameras installed directly on the drones shows how they approach the positions of Ukrainian troops. It also shows drones hitting their targets, as recorded by UAVs nearby.
Photos: Russia Presents First US-Made M1 Abrams Tank Destroyed in Special Op Zone
In September 2023, the US confirmed that Abrams tanks had begun arriving in Ukraine. In total, the Biden administration promised to give Kiev 31 Abrams tanks.
Recently, servicemen from Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr evacuated the first US-made M1 Abrams tankfrom the front line in the Avdeyevka area in Donbass.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, on May 1 an exhibition of captured equipment will be opened in front of the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill, featuring, among others, Marder and Bradley IFVs as well as Leopard tanks for a whole month.
The Abrams is armed with a 105 mm M68A1 rifled gun or a 120 mm M256 (Rheinmetall Rh-120) smoothbore gun. Its weight is 54-66.8 tons, depending on modification and configuration.
Take a look at this captured US-made Abrams tank evacuated from the front line in Sputnik's gallery:
On March 6, the commander of a Russian military unit told Sputnik that the Russian forces had destroyed a US-made Abrams for the first time in the Avdeyevka area during a tank battle.
30 pieces of Ukraine’s Western-provided military equipment captured by Russian forces will be on display in Moscow as of May 1.
Watch US-Made M88A1 ARV Arrive at Exhibition of Captured Western Military Hardware in Moscow
The US M88A1 Hercules is a heavy recovery vehicle designed to support main battle tanks like the M1 Abrams. It is specifically engineered to recover, repair, and redeploy damaged or disabled tanks on the battlefield.
The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage showing a US-made M88A1 armored recovery vehicle (ARV) arriving at an exhibition of captured NATO weapons taken from the conflict zone.
The main purpose of the ARV is to evacuate damaged tanks from the battlefield – but it appeared to fail at evacuating itself from the front line, since the vehicle was captured by Russian forces near Avdeyevka. The exhibition of captured weapons is being organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, and will open its doors tomorrow, May 1.
Russian Air Defenses Shot Down Six US-Made ATACMS Missiles
The Russian military shot down six Ukrainian operational-tactical US-made long-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles over the previous 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
"Air defense means shot down ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, six US-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles and two French Hammer guided aerial bombs during the day," the Defense Ministry said in a summary.
Earlier, a Pentagon spokesperson told Sputnik that US President Joe Biden quietly directed his national security team to provide the ATACMS to Ukraine as part of the security assistance package announced in March, and that these munitions arrived in April.
The United States kept the ATACMS delivery secret at the time in order to maintain Ukraine's operational security, the spokesman said
Moscow has consistently warned against Western arms deliveries to Ukraine, stressing that they only prolong the conflict and cause more Ukrainian casualties.
The flow of military support to Kiev is becoming increasingly unpopular among Western citizens, but politicians continue to scare them into acquiescence with claims that Russia intends to invade NATO member states.
Russian troops have liberated the village of Semyonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Ministry of Defense announced.
"Units of the Tsentr Battlegroup, as a result of active operations, liberated the settlement of Semyonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic," the ministry said.
The liberation of Semyonovka allows Russian troops to encircle the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) around the village of Berdychi. Along the Tonenkoye-Orlovka-Semyonovka-Berdychi line, Ukrainian forces attempted to establish a unified defensive line after the liberation of Avdeyevka to gain time to build stronger fortifications in the western DPR.
The Tsentr battlegroup also defeated the formations of the 68th infantry, 23rd, 115th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade, and mercenaries of the "Foreign Legion" in the areas of the villages of Novoaleksandrovka, Arkhangelskoye, Tarasovka and Zavetnoye.
In one day, Russian troops repelled ten counterattacks by assault groups of the 24th, 100th mechanized, 142nd infantry, 98th assault and 68th jäger brigades, and the 78th separate airborne assault regiment in the areas of the villages of Leninskoye, Novhorodskoye, Ocheretino, Semyonovka, Novobakhmutovka, Netailovo, Novokalynovoye and Berdychi.
The Ukrainian armed forces suffered up to 395 military casualties near the settlements of Krasnohorovka and Kostyantynivka in the DPR in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The Yug battlegroup of the Russian armed forces improved their positions along the front line, the ministry said.
"Enemy losses amounted to up to 395 military personnel, three tanks, four armored combat vehicles, two cars, a US-made M198 howitzer, a D-30 gun, as well as a Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station," the ministry said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Vostok Battlegroup repelled two counterattacks by Ukrainian forces in the DPR, while Kiev lost up to 125 soldiers, the statement read.
Swiss Daily Speculates Russia Will Liberate Donbass ‘By October,’ Forcing Ukraine to Negotiate
As Russian forces advance steadily in the military op zone, Ukraine has been racking up battlefront failures. Facing a drastic shortage of military personnel, with growing numbers of fighting-age men dying in combat, deserting, or dodging the draft, top commander Oleksandr Syrsky recently acknowledged the “difficult” situation facing Kiev’s forces.
Swiss German-language daily Blick has speculated that Russia will liberate Donbass by October.
There is a prevailing tenor that “Ukraine will lose the war, the conflict will freeze and we will have to negotiate,” the newspaper cited an assault brigade officer hunkered down near Chasov Yar as saying.
Despite the weapons and ammunition package worth $61 billion promised by the US to Ukraine, senior officers shared pessimistic forecasts with the outlet. According to them, Kiev’s looming rout by Russia’s military can be explained by several reasons.
The Pentagon is poised to supply $1 billion in new military materiel to the Kiev regime. The package includes air defense ammo, artillery rounds, armored vehicles, and other military equipment.
Firstly, Ukraine’s military faces an acute shortage of manpower. Ukrainian brigades fighting on the nearly 1,500-kilometer-long combat line of NATO's proxy conflict are operating at 30-40% personnel strength in many places, as per the report.
“The current mobilization will not save us. Those enlisted and training now will not be with us until October at the earliest. By then we will have lost all of Donetsk,” another Ukrainian officer admitted to the publication.
Ukraine has lost almost half a million soldiers since the beginning of the special military operation in 2022, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said earlier in April. More than 71,000 soldiers and over 11,000 units of various weapons of the Kiev regime have been wiped out since the start of the year, according to Shoigu. Per the defense minister, Russian servicemen have "dispelled the myth about the superiority of Western weapons."
In addition to a new mobilization law coming into force in Ukraine from mid-May, Poland and Lithuania have announced that they will extradite conscript-aged Ukrainian men to the country for military service. But this will not be enough, another of the neo-Nazi regime’s fighters acknowledged.
A shortage of ammunition on the front has left Ukrainian troops with little means to counter advances by the Russian military. “We can hold back the Russians... but not defeat them,” another Ukrainian officer said.
Furthermore, the appointment of Oleksandr Syrsky, who is known by the gruesome nickname "The Butcher," as head of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in February has reportedly bred “tensions” on the front. Officers have complained that brigades have been sent on missions with virtually no ammunition and far too few men
Three brigades seemingly scared of Russia's advancing forces that refused to comply with the Ukrainian command's orders were reportedly disbanded. Near Avdeyevka, chaos and lack of equipment led fighters from the 115th Brigade to abandon their position, the report revealed.
Adding to the “Ukraine fatigue” in the West, there is now a new problem for Zelensky and his clique – battle weariness on the Ukrainian eastern front. And the US $61 billion will not be enough to stamp it out, the outlet summed up.
The Ukrainian military is currently in dire straits despite all the billions' worth of Western aid funneled to Kiev. Not only are the armed forces suffering a shortage of personnel, but combat fatigue is fueling a breakdown in discipline. Multiple reports in recent weeks have revealed that Ukrainian troops have been refusing to take orders from the country’s new commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrsky. As for recruitment, draft dodging in the country has soared to new heights of ingenuity. Syrsky begrudgingly acknowledged earlier in April that his forces were backing down amid the “difficult” situation at the front.
Watch Russian Forces Evacuate First US-Made M1 Abrams Tank From Front Line
In September 2023, the US confirmed that Abrams tanks had begun to arrive in Ukraine. In total, the Biden administration promised to give Kiev 31 Abrams tanks.
The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage showing servicemen from Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr evacuating the first US-made M1 Abrams tank from the front line in the Avdeyevka area in Donbass.
In March, it was reported that servicemen of Battlegroup Tsentr had destroyed another Abrams tank in the Avdeyevka section of the front line. Now, fighters from Battlegroup Tsentr have successfully evacuated the tank from the front.
Soon it will be displayed at an exhibition on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. It will probably be of better use as a trophy exhibit than fighting on the battlefield, serving as reminder for everyone of Russia's military might and prowess.
