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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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СОЛДАТСКАЯ ПРАВДА posted:
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Nov 30, 2022 17:13
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Corky Romanovsky posted:If 100k Ukrainian officers have been killed, how many enlisted/drafted This makes perfect sense because the afu are an elite force with only officer grade troops, no miserable sergeants or squaddies to speak of. Meanwhile the Russians have 149,999 enlisted and one general grade war chief. Ardennes posted:Admittedly, I guess they have to put something out there at some point or they let the Russians control the narrative. I think it is reasonable to assume the real number is higher but the Ukrainian government has pulled in conscripts and militia to make up the difference. Not the narrative!!
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Nov 30, 2022 17:28
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Lostconfused posted:Russia doesn't need to accept it, but with all the political games Kremlin is playing it doesn't seem like an unreasonable gamble from Ukrainian side. yeah, it makes sense that they'd try it out
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Nov 30, 2022 17:30
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Lets be generous and include non comissioned officers into the 100k count. That would be like 1m dead with a 10\1 ratio Sounds insane and the lady was probably confused. Even casualties would be an insane number
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Nov 30, 2022 17:39
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Hatebag posted:https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/balmov2.aspx?type=TOTAL I'm guessing they arrived at the 1 trillion figure by doubling Russia's foreign currency reserves. V. Illych L. posted:the LDR must be *reeling*, proportionally. this topic is a huge bummer The DPR's death figures are the only ones I think are accurate and last I looked were a little under 4000.
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Nov 30, 2022 17:43
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FF could you post pictures of the Soviet combat engineer in floats and a paddle. My friend keeps sending me pics of ski troops and I need to show him a better world.
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Nov 30, 2022 17:49
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Lostconfused posted:(from t.me/soldiers_truth/7736, via tgsa) Whats the Rosgvardiya Navy doing so far inland?
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Nov 30, 2022 17:50
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Frosted Flake posted:Russia being able to provide its own armaments while Ukraine is now totally dependant on outside actors is not a point in Ukraine’s favour. Not only in terms of the logistics, but because it’s contingent on foreign politics. Russia can provide as much arms as it wants, which may or may not be as much as it needs, while Ukraine has had its ambitions thwarted several times as MiGs, Patriots and other systems are withheld. indeed, its not a net positive long term for Ukraine to be dependent on foreign aid, but in the short term, they have been given tons of material while Russia has been pushed back. That was my point that while Russia could win this, it will take a horrific war now. The normal logistics problems multiple ammo types presents is still there, but that ammo is not being restricted, yet, and for now its benefiting Ukraine.
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Nov 30, 2022 17:54
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She meant "soldiers" and cut that line because it was realized it looks bad to reveal Russia is waging war on the ukrainian military instead of killing a million civilians like the US does any time it goes to war
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Nov 30, 2022 17:56
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Weka posted:I'm guessing they arrived at the 1 trillion figure by doubling Russia's foreign currency reserves. maybe they meant one trillion UHD? that’s like $25b USD although seems low
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Nov 30, 2022 17:58
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Based on past requests I think he meant dollars.
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Nov 30, 2022 18:34
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ughhhh posted:FF could you post pictures of the Soviet combat engineer in floats and a paddle. My friend keeps sending me pics of ski troops and I need to show him a better world. I keep deleting photos on my phone because it fills up with images and scanned pages, so I don’t have any on hand. The gear was called either PBC or PKT swimming gear. There are some pictures here.  There’s English language information available but for whatever reason it doesn’t seem to have a consistent nomenclature: “Individual floating craft of the Red Army - swimming suits PKT and MPK. In the period 1941-1945. Soviet industry produced more than 48,000 swimming suits.” So it may be called PBC, PKT or MPK, and is called variously a suit or a craft. Usually found along with other amphibious engineering equipment in English reference books. Osprey WW2 River Crossing Tactics     Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 19:17 on Nov 30, 2022 |
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Nov 30, 2022 19:10
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Slavvy posted:This makes perfect sense because the afu are an elite force with only officer grade troops, no miserable sergeants or squaddies to speak of. You don’t think the West about narratives?
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Nov 30, 2022 19:23
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If the Ukrainian Army resembles the late-Soviet Army, particularly with so much reliance on conscripts, they would have a different Officers : Other Ranks ratio. I forget which way it skewed off the top of my head, but the duration of enlistments meant they didn’t have long service professional NCOs. I think, and I may have it backwards, they had junior officers in subordinate positions that are filled here with Warrants, Sergeants and senior Corporals. Something about officer mandatory service periods being longer or something. Again, Ukraine’s personnel system is a black box, but it’s possible they’re using Soviet style ranks and positions like a Junior Lieutenant section commander. That would mean higher officer casualties than we’re used to, but not to an extreme degree.
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Nov 30, 2022 19:30
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Vomik posted:maybe they meant one trillion UHD? that’s like $25b USD although seems low $25b is basically their monthly budget at this point. $1 trillion sounds accurate for how much damage has been done but food luck getting it
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Nov 30, 2022 19:33
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Ardennes posted:You don’t think the West about narratives? I think people on the internet care about narratives, 'the west' can make up whatever bullshit it likes and the public gobble it up no matter how stupid or senseless it is.
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Nov 30, 2022 19:41
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Nov 30, 2022 20:06
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ive always wanted to go float tube fishing, they look very fun
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Nov 30, 2022 20:13
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I'd assume she were using Casualties for KIA, because that's what the average person is going to interpret casualties as, and in that case you can use the smaller KIA number instead of the larger KIA/Wounded/Captured/Missing figure. The officers bit was obviously a mistake, unless it's very easy to climb rank in Ukraine.
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Nov 30, 2022 20:31
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If there's this much confusion over what she meant that is probably the reason it was cut. (I personally think she meant 100k military personnel in total casualties, which at this point is probably close to accurate).
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Nov 30, 2022 20:33
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1598043446023012353?s=20&t=fsIdPwJkVkMe-gksvhXMow
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Nov 30, 2022 21:13
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I believe that 100k Ukrainian officers were killed .
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Nov 30, 2022 21:14
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OK can we please start a new war or something... no one at work even wants to talk about Ukraine anymore. Its like they dont even care.
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Nov 30, 2022 21:23
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You are the only troop I appreciate
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Nov 30, 2022 21:24
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the soviet tube wearing engineers could have used a rubber duck.
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Nov 30, 2022 21:26
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iCe-CuBe. posted:OK can we please start a new war or something... no one at work even wants to talk about Ukraine anymore. Its like they dont even care. Ми забули...  Tankbuster posted:the soviet tube wearing engineers could have used a rubber duck. MIsread "duck."
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Nov 30, 2022 21:43
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euphronius posted:I believe that 100k Ukrainian officers were killed . one million high ranking UA officers have been destroyed
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Nov 30, 2022 21:47
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Frosted Flake posted:Russia being able to provide its own armaments while Ukraine is now totally dependant on outside actors is not a point in Ukraine’s favour. Not only in terms of the logistics, but because it’s contingent on foreign politics. Russia can provide as much arms as it wants, which may or may not be as much as it needs, while Ukraine has had its ambitions thwarted several times as MiGs, Patriots and other systems are withheld. It's not a point in Ukraine's favor...but it is probably better than Ukraine being dependent on domestic production that is 100% vulnerable to strategic bombardment Also, there are certain "advantages" to war production being externalized to countries that don't give a poo poo about the place where the war is being fought, if the goal is to sustain attritional war as long as possible
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Nov 30, 2022 21:47
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https://twitter.com/vtchakarova/status/1597865047518515201
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Nov 30, 2022 22:05
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being stupid and credulous seems fun and bad rear end, plus you get a lot of retweets
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Nov 30, 2022 22:13
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yes, finally poland gets it's own poland to look down upon
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Nov 30, 2022 22:14
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I don't think von der Leyen knows how many Ukrainian troops have died, I think she's referring to the recent reporting in the media. The Poland Ukrainian Union, or PUU. Pronounced...
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Nov 30, 2022 22:18
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I think it's really cool that we're getting these updates from the parallel universe where this would be possible. We truly live in the future.
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Nov 30, 2022 22:19
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That seems perfectly designed to piss Lithuania off but when has that ever worked out badly
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Nov 30, 2022 22:20
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https://twitter.com/vtchakarova/status/1597350173134331906 I was looking for lovely opinions, but I assume her being a Musk fangirl is the most damming thing I could possibly find.
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Nov 30, 2022 22:20
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V. Illych L. posted:
According to one pro-Western NGO (Eastern Human Rights Defense), L/DNR had 30k KiA by August 2022 (https://meduza.io/feature/2022/07/06/zhizn-zdes-katitsya-v-hrenovuyu-storonu). Doesn't seem to unbelievable, honestly. L/DNR conscripts have been facing awful conditions, lack of training and often are left on their own. L/DNR will likely be even more severely depopulated for decades to come after this has ended
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Nov 30, 2022 22:43
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Slavvy posted:I think people on the internet care about narratives, 'the west' can make up whatever bullshit it likes and the public gobble it up no matter how stupid or senseless it is. They prefer a good one, the capture of Kherson knocked out election news.
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Nov 30, 2022 22:47
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sube posted:According to one pro-Western NGO (Eastern Human Rights Defense) ah complete bullshit then gotcha
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Nov 30, 2022 23:16
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sube posted:According to one pro-Western NGO (Eastern Human Rights Defense), L/DNR had 30k KiA by August 2022 (https://meduza.io/feature/2022/07/06/zhizn-zdes-katitsya-v-hrenovuyu-storonu). Doesn't seem to unbelievable, honestly. L/DNR conscripts have been facing awful conditions, lack of training and often are left on their own. L/DNR will likely be even more severely depopulated for decades to come after this has ended What I don’t get is - the point of the militias was deniability in the Hybrid Warfare phase, then legal clauses of the SMO and keeping the Russian public happy in the conventional phase. Alright, makes sense. Having said that, now that there’s no doubt they’re being armed and supported by Russia, the hybrid fig leaf is gone, why not arm and equip them as regular units? Previously, there had to be at least the possibility they were rag tag everyday citizens who had taken their arms and equipment from Ukrainian stores. Again, that made sense given the political and diplomatic angle. Now, though, it would be as or more politically beneficial to give them late-model T-72s, bring their units up to strength where BMPs and BTRs are concerned, fill out their support units including sappers and artillery etc. There’s no reason not to properly kit them out, as far as I can see, other than they can’t be taken out of the line for R&R until Russian regulars show up in greater numbers.
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Nov 30, 2022 23:21
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sube posted:According to one pro-Western NGO (Eastern Human Rights Defense), L/DNR had 30k KiA by August 2022 (https://meduza.io/feature/2022/07/06/zhizn-zdes-katitsya-v-hrenovuyu-storonu). Doesn't seem to unbelievable, honestly. L/DNR conscripts have been facing awful conditions, lack of training and often are left on their own. L/DNR will likely be even more severely depopulated for decades to come after this has ended Could you quote the part that says that? I'm having trouble finding it.
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Nov 30, 2022 23:24
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