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Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1497125324483616785?s=20&t=OdGb-QU8O3B7FVsAY7VGgQ

Seems bad, man.

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Mesopotamia
Apr 12, 2010
Monitoring staff have confirmed it's just heavy vehicles kicking up dust on top soil. No damage to to reactors etc.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
The Russians are pouring into Kiev with armored columns and there’s spetznaz fighting in the city

https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1497140773522923529?s=21

https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1497142223380566018?s=21

Sadly at this point it’s very likely Kiev will fall in the next 24 hours

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

bustin keaton posted:

Monitoring staff have confirmed it's just heavy vehicles kicking up dust on top soil. No damage to to reactors etc.

This is good then.
It means it is literally killing them to be there.

But bad for anyone else if it spreads in the winds.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1497144019247267841

DeliciousPatriotism
May 26, 2008

bustin keaton posted:

Monitoring staff have confirmed it's just heavy vehicles kicking up dust on top soil. No damage to to reactors etc.

I've dug through quite a few research papers on the subject of radiation cycling through the exclusion zone biosphere and can tell y'all that you don't have anything to worry about. It probably is just kicked up particulate earth thats got some radioactivity bound to it. Nobody's shooting at the sarcophagus (though a forest fire would be super not great because trees and plants are big radisotope sinks in an affected system.)

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
The Russians are onto us

https://twitter.com/asbmilitary/status/1497146494822068235?s=21

Smeef
Aug 15, 2003

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



Pillbug

jesus christ that guy is so close to it. Hell, the person photoing the guy taking the photo is several blocks closer than I'd wanna be.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1497135949180026881

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>
idk what it means in the bigger picture of things, but there is a lot of footage of knocked out armor columns floating around

notaspy
Mar 22, 2009

I am a little taken aback by Belarus' involvement in this. How expected was it? What sort of sanctions are they likely to hit with? How much of a complication is their involvement?

SonnyVasquez
Oct 17, 2012

El riesgo siempre vive!

Ola posted:

No. It's inevitable that they are going to lose it, it was heroic that they didn't lose it first time around.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

https://twitter.com/franakviacorka/status/1497094792173568022

Novaya with an as definite statement as it gets, without cowardice

DeliciousPatriotism
May 26, 2008

Herstory Begins Now posted:

idk what it means in the bigger picture of things, but there is a lot of footage of knocked out armor columns floating around

Despite this there's tons of footage of still bigger active columns. The scale of this invasion is really something, a lot is in play.

acidx
Sep 24, 2019

right clicking is stealing

bustin keaton posted:

Monitoring staff have confirmed it's just heavy vehicles kicking up dust on top soil. No damage to to reactors etc.

Yeah I'm hearing it's only 3.6 roentgen

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

notaspy posted:

I am a little taken aback by Belarus' involvement in this. How expected was it? What sort of sanctions are they likely to hit with? How much of a complication is their involvement?

Very much expected, Belarus is 100% a Russian client state without much of its own agency.

EvilHawk
Sep 15, 2009

LIVARPOOL!

Klopp's 13pts clear thanks to video ref

Active gunfire can be heard on the Kyiv livestream now, I've not been able to place all the cameras so I can't confirm where it's coming from but at least one of them is pretty central.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
pro ukranian source says that the city of Konotop in the Sumy Oblast has fallen

https://twitter.com/iaponomarenko/status/1497145823993475078?s=21

Samopsa
Nov 9, 2009

Krijgt geen speciaal kerstdiner!

notaspy posted:

I am a little taken aback by Belarus' involvement in this. How expected was it? What sort of sanctions are they likely to hit with? How much of a complication is their involvement?

Belarus is a Russian state in all but official writing, controlled by a dictator since the fall of the USSR. So 100% expected.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>

DeliciousPatriotism posted:

Despite this there's tons of footage of still bigger active columns. The scale of this invasion is really something, a lot is in play.

yeah the bigger picture is still 170,000 russians and an incredible amount of materiel

StarBegotten
Mar 23, 2016

From the BBC "Putin is not rational, says UK defence secretary, but I won't start a European war" ... if he is not rational how do you know that for sure?

acidx
Sep 24, 2019

right clicking is stealing
Safe for work. Been reported that these guys were all killed afterwards defending the island.

https://twitter.com/ASLuhn/status/1497129344887521280

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Also apparently using the white Z marking as dazzle camo like it's 1922 :q:

(I also love the use of shrubbery on turret, there are so many levels on this)

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
https://twitter.com/B_B_spear/status/1497119593038598148

https://twitter.com/The_Sourkraut/status/1497072668117454856

drunkill
Sep 25, 2007

me @ ur posting
Fallen Rib

Herstory Begins Now posted:

idk what it means in the bigger picture of things, but there is a lot of footage of knocked out armor columns floating around

Most of the Russian forces have not crossed the border yet (or at least had no since last night) something like 45% have entered Ukraine as the initial attacking forces.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011


Seems like a pretty common sight

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1497147484266717186?t=fUe4o5E_UQ6pzj-n9bqKYw&s=19

Winning hearts and minds over there, I'm sure

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

Are you happy now?
FIFA hitting Russia where it hurts.

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1497150257762873350?s=20&t=JYi3ue-CxaYFakttDz1QEg


I presume the checks for the bribe's already cleared. Any football club owners on the sanctions list?

DeliciousPatriotism
May 26, 2008

I wanna believe but its probably a testament of all the dogfighting happening at low altitude to avoid AAA systems on both sides meaning some really visible air war in parts of the country. Ukraine is quite flat after all. But I'm sure some pilots will have a lot of kills to their name by the time this is all said and done.

Recoome
Nov 9, 2013

Matter of fact, I'm salty now.

Ola posted:

I was so ready to say the video doesn't contain anything like that, like the many times that has happened already, but that does indeed look exactly like it says.

That is footage from DCS. You can see the telltale ball of soot that happens when a 29 comes off afterburners.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
Aljazeera reporting that the battle of Mariupol has begun, with intense fighting on all the entrances to the city

https://twitter.com/ajabreaking/status/1497149739166543907?s=21

Wow Russia’s firing on all cylinders today

Paracausal
Sep 5, 2011

Oh yeah, baby. Frame your suffering as a masterpiece. Only one problem - no one's watching. It's boring, buddy, boring as death.
Sorry that dogfight footage isn't real

"This footage is from DCS, but is nevertheless made out of respect for “The Ghost of Kiev.” If he is real, may God be with him; if he is fake, I pray for more like “him.”"

Ola
Jul 19, 2004

I think that shootdown video I praised a few pages back is fake by the way, DCS footage superimposed onto a panning sky. Misattribution is one thing, but it really sucks that people are doing solid, artful fakes right now. Could be that it was old, who knows.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

I figured something was up when the SU-35 disappeared but the trajectory of the missile didn't look like it went through a cloud.

\/\/\/ Yeah, unfortunately.

Young Freud fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Feb 25, 2022

mrfart
May 26, 2004

Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Comstar posted:

:nms:
:nws:

Air to air to combat low level. Was it yesterday or today?





Woah. I didn't see any ejection either.

Might be a chute actually.

It's video game footage?

edit, sorry, already been posted. Thread is loading very slowly here. I supposed because of the embedded tweets.

mrfart fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Feb 25, 2022

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
Well this sounds very grim:-

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1497152843773587462?s=20&t=FHyIJXvnhqqqWD2IqbAu-w

man poor zelensky :smith:

Budzilla
Oct 14, 2007

We can all learn from our past mistakes.


This is footage from DCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBBJ_JzV8u4

Baron Porkface
Jan 22, 2007


I was under the impression that modern jet fighters do not "see" their dogfight opponents.

Alchenar
Apr 9, 2008

Standard 'don't trust random twitter people too much' disclaimer but this guy apparently just walked to the Polsh border and the things in his direct experience are the things in his direct experience:

https://twitter.com/UkraineLive2022/status/1497106536828710912

Nothing you wouldn't expect in the abstract, but it's still gut-wrenching to see the men getting wrenched out of cars and told 'no you have to go back and fight'.


e: Lavrov speaking now 'We want to give the peoples of Ukraine a chance to self-determination without outside interference'.

acidx
Sep 24, 2019

right clicking is stealing
https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1497155173327777818

Seeing reports of large explosions in central kiev but I haven't heard anything on the livestream. :shrug:

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drunkill
Sep 25, 2007

me @ ur posting
Fallen Rib
Child soldiers are now welcome, no minimum age for recruitment/armament.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1497130688981655552

Translation:

✅ Official statement of the Commander of the Troop Forces Yuri Galushkin:

‼️ Today Ukraine needs everything. All procedures for joining TPO are simplified. Carry only your passport and identification code. There are no age restrictions.

If you have problems on the ground, please refer to this official statement.

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