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Hurts to lose tank operator/crews though. With the new tanks. Their safety will be better
lots of ifs >

This is what'll happen if instead of an offensive out of Zaph towards Melitopol, it's a big push across the Savtoe-Kreminna road.
It's a longer harder road to the end state of such an attack.  But taking the city Lugansk would flank the entire Donbas and the Ukrainians could quite plausibly push down to Azov Sea along the border. >

very early on in the invasion i heard from pediatric colleagues that they took over portions of the children’s hospitals when there were no official casualties.  The Russians don’t care. >

Keep those coming. I think we'll get a lot of announcements for equipment systems already present in Ukraine, just in steady volumes on an incremental basis. >

Denmark is also sending Caesars >

NGL, Boris has been going hard doing some high profile influencing/ambassador style work, still contributing to the UK as a public servant, despite no longer being PM. >

I think the guy is a disgrace and is almost singularly responsible for fucking the UK over by being the face of the Leave campaign in the EU referendum. That said, he has been amazing on Ukraine from the outset and I think people should respect him for that. >

I'm not British so I'm wondering why you think that? Personally as a Canadian I always saw Nigle as the face of Brexit. The way its always seemed to me is the previous 2 leaders got ousted and Boris came in while the process was already well underway. Didn't really know.he was super involved in the leave campaign prior to the popular vote on it. >

Boris was pretty popular and had cross party appeal in 2016 (he was elected mayor of london, which is very left leaning). Think of him as an Arnold Schwarzanegger type who was governor of Cali despite how democratic it was. He had enough pull to bring across many people who didn't really care one way or another initially
During the referendum debate he was personally ambivalent (he famously drafted two conflicting editorial pieces, one pro brexit and one against) then he through his lot in behind leave because he (correctly) saw it as a route to power as mainstay of the leaders in the Conservative party were pro remain. By winning the Brexit vote he made them persona non grata opening up a pathway to him becoming prime minister. >

Worth noting that modern armies consider units that sustain 30% casualties to be combat ineffective. >

Good. We need to make sure this stuff gets shut down. I can understand a well-educated (key word) difference of opinion on a certain issue, but a flat-out lie…? Yeah, that stuff needs to be shut down. >

Yeah, there's definitely a difference. And, BTW, that identical tweet has now been posted by dozens of other accounts, so it's even more obvious that it's an operation, not just ignorance. >

It'd be great if they would finally send some ATACMS. Get Russia to fear the safety of its ammo dumps and logistics hubs again and force them to relocate them even further behind their lines, making resupply and logistics even more difficult. >

ATACMS are large enough to be spotted by Russian AA and shot down.
Now, if you could sync those launches with HARMs to pick up on the AA radar, oh boy you got a stew going.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about HARMs to know if that's feasible. >

Not possible with jury-rigged MiG-29 launch platforms. They appear to only be able to attack pre-briefed, known targets. This is definitely possible, and is actually part of the intended role, of the HARM when it's launched from a NATO jet and particularly the F-16, which has access to the HARM targeting system.
People talk about the F-16 being valuable to Ukraine in an anti-aircraft role, which is true, but it's also one of the best SEAD/DEAD platforms available. Alternatively, the EA-18G Growler (a derivative of the Hornet) would be a similarly cheap, effective electronic warfare platform to support that kind of mission. I don't think Ukraine will ever be given those, because the electronic warfare equipment on them is *really* sensitive (in the enemy intelligence sense). >

Horrible stuff. :( >

What they need to do is build up a consensus for a United European Defence Force that is geared primarily towards continental security from the likes of Russia. It's obvious that regardless of WHO comes after Putin that Russia is going to be at best an unstable country if not an outright Fat Korea sitting on Europe's Eastern Flank into the future. No European Country can fight this alone. >

I would like this treatment for a T-14 if it will ever reach the front >

Turn it into sauna better >

Finland already changing nato culture for the better! >

Good on Norway. All countries should do this to show Putin we're in it for the long haul. The billions will keep flowing to Ukraine, for years if necessary, while Russian economy contracts. >

Yes. Exactly. >

So weird how Iran sending missiles and long-range drones to Russia is a nothingburger to politicians, but sending a plane is akin to spitting in Putin mom's grave. >

Iran are already a sanctioned international pariah. Also, they are getting bombed by Israel as a thank you. So not exactly a "nothingburger". >

Makes you wonder if the volunteers using their psychic powers against Russia are ever going to see recognition. >

Naw!  It’s the witches!😁 >

The Witches of Chelyabisnsk ! I can just imagine the movie   staring Putler, Alina Kabaeva, Maria Zakharova....and Cher ! >

Those count! Put them on the board! Move that needle from 8 to 13. Or more! >

We’ll probably see them on the board tomorrow. Remember, it tends to lag a little. >

In Ryazan region of Russia a case is opened against a woman for writing "Putin is a killer" in the toilet stall of a shopping center >

Russia is completing it's morphing into a bigger North Korea.
And since Russians themselves are doing nothing to stop that, so be it. >

Which is ironic since North Korea started out as a copy and paste of Stalinist Russia, so the circle is now complete. >

"When I left you I was but the satelite, now I am the model" >

Only a model of international isolation and socioeconomic failure, Kim >

It's cholera. They have fucking cholera. It's 2023, and they have cholera.
World's second best military, everyone! >

Why should Haiti have all the 'fun'? >

Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky ;) >

Did a lot of dancing to that! (Back in the day!) >

They also can hit moving objects and are much cheaper than ATACMS
They have much less explosive power however. >

They can also turn around and hit it from the back....if you know what I mean.
And are relatively cheap (even cheaper than HIMARS), will definitely take them at 40k or so a pop over that ATACMs that are 1million a pop.
I hope they get many many of them, they could be another game changer like HIMARS >

Some of the other search terms they blocked pictures or Putin for were kinda funny. 
There was also "penis in a spacesuit" (хуй в скафандре), "the main thief" (главный вор), "who looks like a pedophile when he dies" (как выглядят педофилы, когда он сдохнет), "a strange creature waves his hands" (странное создание машет рукой), and "condom of all Russia" (гондон всея Руси). >

The contrast with similar Russian videos is insane. These guys work together, communicate, clearly show training and cohesion.
Russians just run in as a gaggle, fire wildly, and the only words out of their mouths are insults and curses. >


The creator of Rybar channel who now has a live TV program admits that Russian VDV forces lost 50% of personnel by September last year.

I'm wondering how much of the remaining VDV they lost in just the last month. Some sources claiming they were being used as front-line soldiers? >

Why wouldn't they be front line soldiers? That's how paratroops are generally used when not actually doing paratroop things, which is most of the time. They're lighter troops to punch holes in the enemy line. >

Prestige. VDV (used to) have an almost mythical reputation in Russia as these borderline elite soldiers. Being thrown into the Bahkmut meatgrinder is just seen as below them >

Sure, Bakhmut is a meatgrinder but they're offensive troops so them operating on the front lines is their whole purpose.
Bakhmut even as a meatgrinder is still a point where they're carrying out an offensive, so it makes sense they'd be there. You put your "best" troops where you want the best chance of success.
And I should mention we should be distinguishing between cannon fodder which not all troops there are, and those carrying out assaults more effectively which the VDV would be. That they're getting fucked is a whole other thing.