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khwarezm posted:Now is that just killed or killed, wounded, missing and captured? Killed only.
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Just the fact that Ukranian artillery is still doing missions is incredible. The potential of Russian forces to do overwhelming counter-battery fire anywhere in theatre is something people have been fretting about for years. You don't even have to hold back when doing counter-battery, just hit the grid square.
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https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1498360815245615104 Not sure if offering roubles is compelling today.
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Shifty Pony posted:I don't get why those drones are flying around Russian assets. You'd think they would be sitting ducks for just about any sort of AA, does the Ukrainian military have something in their arsenal that that makes running radar a risky prospect? As others have said the drones are small, made of fiberglass and composites so they are hard to detect. Also Ukraine likely has anti-radiation missiles still and Russia does not have air superiority so running radar would make a big glaring target. The Russian radar is likely out of theater in Russian and/or Belarus where it is safer.
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TheSpamalope posted:said it in another thread already but it really annoys me that this idiot put himself there intentionally for his youtube channel and then took a seat that was much needed for the actual residents of the country. And this guy has been well revealed to be a former PUA who used to brag on PUA forums about dodging a rape charge and how to trick women in Eastern Europe into sex. He's done quite the job of trying to cover this up over the years, but once you know, the tendencies are quite obvious in his videos.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I know we shouldn't take the Ukrainian numbers at face value but let's assume the 5K number is halved to 2.5k soldiers killed, isn't losing 2.5% of your operational force before you have even conquered a major city a major loss in terms of man power? Western sources are claiming based on their intel sources it’s pretty accurate. Which oh boy. Makes me wonder about ukr loses though.
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Holy gently caress Russia. What does this achieve? https://twitter.com/Beliakova_P/status/1498371265094107137?t=z85oVi02_i6BiHvQWZyh_A&s=19
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khwarezm posted:Now is that just killed or killed, wounded, missing and captured? Killed. Note that the 4.5K that others are corroborating today is what Ukraine reported over the weekend, so it may just be lagging. Yes, in information warfare there's incentive to inflate your side's numbers, but if you're doing well, there's also an incentive to just post the real numbers.
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BigRoman posted:I don't think Ukraine can win a conventional war against Russia either, especially if Russia decides to just start bombing their cities to rubble. That said, the Russian federalization plan is just the death of the Ukrainian state by other means. I can imagine a promise not to join NATO, but I can't imagine the Ukrainian government agreeing to that. Yeah, I agree. It may be something that negotiators can whittle down to where it's less ruinous to the government's ability to govern, some sort of "federalization in name only" or whatever. But I think this war is going to have to go on for a while longer, with Russia experiencing more pain, before that becomes possible. This war sucks. All war sucks, but this one particularly sucks. I'm sorry, Ukraine. 
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1498360815245615104 Does that equal the 3400 they are offering Ukranian currency a month for troops? Because honestly that's loving amazing propaganda
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KitConstantine posted:Holy gently caress Russia. What does this achieve? It's for internal consumption. They know they've already torched their international relationships.
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Pookah posted:Polish and Moldovan shops in my town have been acting as collection centres for people to drop off supplies of things like baby food, clothes, bandages, charge banks etc. Honestly, the collective reaction of the West, and particularly Europe, to frame this as an attack on Us by Them, rather than by Them on some other Them, is one of the biggest differences between this and any other recent war of aggression and is a solid reason to see some hope in the long term.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Killed only. Jesus that's rough if true, in less than a week its coming close to the total American dead in Iraq since 2003.
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KitConstantine posted:Holy gently caress Russia. What does this achieve? Alchenar posted:It's for internal consumption. They know they've already torched their international relationships. Yeah, it's this. The government's desperately trying to fan the flames of Russian nationalism so they can get any enthusiasm for this war whatsoever.
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TulliusCicero posted:Does that equal the 3400 they are offering Ukranian currency a month for troops? At current rates it's a cool $50k
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KitConstantine posted:Holy gently caress Russia. What does this achieve? Oh so that's the source of what I've been seeing online of weirdos saying "All of NATO are Nazis". Russian propagandists, gently caress off!
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TulliusCicero posted:Does that equal the 3400 they are offering Ukranian currency a month for troops? Even at current trading its equivalent to 45.000 USD
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khwarezm posted:Jesus that's rough if true, in less than a week its coming close to the total American dead in Iraq since 2003. Yeah if the US suffered this many killed in action in this amount of time I... don't even know what the reaction would be. It would be truly insane.
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freeasinbeer posted:Western sources are claiming based on their intel sources it’s pretty accurate. Probably worse than we think, due to non-trivial volunteer force involved. At least I speculate so on the basis of the decision to release convicts - otherwise, I struggle to rationalize that given the concurrent development of the territorial defence force, and the international battalions. KitConstantine posted:Holy gently caress Russia. What does this achieve? Hmm, yes, gotcha'ing Germans about their history is a totally good idea. For any Americans who have never been to Germany - don't ever try to pull a Nazi joke on a German.
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The way you can tell is that Moscow is very well aware of how many people in the world speak Russian. If a statement is in English then we are supposed to read it. If it's in Russian then it's for the domestic audience.
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OgNar posted:Just woke up havent watched it yet. gently caress him. Bald and Bankrupt is a PUA weirdo sex pest that has outright said he wishes Ukraine stays poor so he can leverage having more money to take advantage of women there.
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TulliusCicero posted:Does that equal the 3400 they are offering Ukranian currency a month for troops? It would be ~170% of that as per last week's exchange rate. Currently, that stands at $46k.
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Quorum posted:Honestly, the collective reaction of the West, and particularly Europe, to frame this as an attack on Us by Them, rather than by Them on some other Them, is one of the biggest differences between this and any other recent war of aggression and is a solid reason to see some hope in the long term. I think it's massively helped by the absolutely superhuman skill the Ukrainian people have shown in using social media to present a united, coherent and extremely admirable national character. Hardly any false steps so far as I have seen.
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ReidRansom posted:Holy moly that really is just a Baofeng UV82. I have 27mhz walkie talkies from the 1970s 
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TheSpamalope posted:said it in another thread already but it really annoys me that this idiot put himself there intentionally for his youtube channel and then took a seat that was much needed for the actual residents of the country. Couldn't agree more, quite self centered of him. edit: oh it's that rapist lad, didn't make the connection. 
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Cataffy posted:And this guy has been well revealed to be a former PUA who used to brag on PUA forums about dodging a rape charge and how to trick women in Eastern Europe into sex. He's done quite the job of trying to cover this up over the years, but once you know, the tendencies are quite obvious in his videos. That sucks, I’ve been following him for a couple years now and didn’t know this.
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cochise posted:gently caress him. Bald and Bankrupt is a PUA weirdo sex pest that has outright said he wishes Ukraine stays poor so he can leverage having more money to take advantage of women there. 100% this. He also narrowly escaped a gang rape conviction in the UK on a technicality before then abandoning his wife and child to prey on foreign women. There's a subreddit devoted to uncovering the real Bald and Bankrupt, and the stickied threads should give you all the info you need https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/
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Glad to see the "Ukraine should mint NFTs to finance their war effort" takes have started appearing.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Probably worse than we think, due to non-trivial volunteer force involved. At least I speculate so on the basis of the decision to release convicts - otherwise, I struggle to rationalize that given the concurrent development of the territorial defence force, and the international battalions. Yeah, I think some of the shock over the numbers is due to the fact that we haven't really seen near-peer modern warfare like this. I imagine it's affecting the Ukrainian numbers too, we just don't tend to get Twitter videos of it. Not that the Russians aren't still taking shocking losses for the military they were perceived as being. Sir John Falstaff fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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CNN just posted Russian "numbers" https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-28-22/h_0dabd3e41af0be16ca782d4bc03db2bf quote:The Russian military claimed Monday that its armed forces have hit 1,146 Ukrainian military installations since the beginning of the “special operation,” Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, the spokesperson for Russian Ministry of Defense, said in a statement.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Hmm, yes, gotcha'ing Germans about their history is a totally good idea. For any Americans who have never been to Germany - don't ever try to pull a Nazi joke on a German. Mostly because yanks only have a very small collection of Nazi jokes and they think a work meeting is a good place to tell one. Der Führer war ein armes Schwein Er hatte keinen Führerschein
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I kind of wanna go back to the 2014 coverage of the Ukraine people overthrowing their government because their president was to friendly with Putin, which basically was the start of this whole shitshow.
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ik edit:  Interesting compilation of TB2 strikes some new ones that I haven't seen floating around. One in particular is a strike on a rail line of what look like large fuel containers: https://twitter.com/NotWoofers/status/1498372688431173633 edit: sorry forgot the nms and this was also posted a few pages back... dang the thread moves fast dominoeffect fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1498377982771359745 Evening hot air from Moscow. Blurred posted:Is it possible that the EU / US smuggled much weaponry into Ukraine in the lead-in to the war, given how prolonged and obvious the Russian build-up was? Unlikely, since the majority of the supplied weaponry, thus far, is shoulder-fired rockets. Infantry is not particularly mobile, and Russian generals are merciless enough to bomb cities indiscriminately eventually.
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fuctifino posted:100% this. He also narrowly escaped a gang rape conviction in the UK on a technicality before then abandoning his wife and child to prey on foreign women. I hadnt heard any of this, will just block it now
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surf rock posted:https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1498366362540032001 Dear lord, people, this is a good way to have your car rocketed.
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Djarum posted:CNN just posted Russian "numbers" Considering the size of the war as well as the fog of war, this may be their actual assessment of Ukrainian losses and not purely made up numbers
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JerikTelorian posted:Dear lord, people, this is a good way to have your car rocketed. Yeah this could have easily been "watch some people die"
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Blurred posted:Is it possible that the EU / US smuggled much weaponry into Ukraine in the lead-in to the war, given how prolonged and obvious the Russian build-up was? UK has been flying in instructors and equipment back in January I believe, not sure about other countries (I believe a some amount of non-lethal aid was given in the open by a couple of countries, Germany's infamous helmets being the best example).
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