My Spirit Otter posted:

My buddy has a good story about this. He was fresh off of his recce course and his sgt asked him to draw him up a quick sketch of the area within is arcs. So being fresh off his course, he did exactly what he was taught on his course and drew a nice picture and it looked like what he saw. Said he worked on it for like 20 minutes. His sgt comes over and says "nice work, rembrandt." Quickly draws a top-down view of the area in front of him with symbols as map markers, shows it to him and says "like this, dipshit" and walks away.

Play posted:

Nice collection of three completely unrelated photos that don't even look like they came from the same place lol

The plane looks AI generated as well, or at least photoshopped. It's missing some... plane things

Cable Guy posted:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1643733388031918080

quote:

The long-awaited realistic story is reborn! (Unfortunately)
Military Enlistment Office Escape Simulator is a game that requires you to do everything you can to escape from those who are knocking on the door at the most inconvenient moment!
Starring Vovochka, who suddenly knocked on the door. Open the door or not, the choice is yours!
Solve riddles in a meme atmosphere, look for ways out, and most importantly, don't get caught!
And also, do not trust anyone, anyone can be an enemy!

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Backpacking in Lapland is a wonderful experience, probably (it's fun even when you're doing it on the FDF's dime, probably a lot better when you can make your own schedule). They also have cool special things like a cabin hotel where all the cabins have glass dome ceilings so you can lie in bed and watch the Northern Lights.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Wrestling is too brutal for my taste so pls censor

tiaz posted:

it's low resolution certainly but what plane things are missing? it's an ultralight, the seats are behind the b pillar in this shot. the only things that jump out at me as possibly identifiably missing are engine exhaust cowl (could easily be obscured by nosewheel) and rotating beacon (doesn't HAVE to be on top of the rudder, might be the white divot on the bottom)

Lammasu posted:

That is on my bucket list.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1643708854276874240
https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1643710879815401472
This cannot be a clearer sign of shell hunger, rationing, or both.

Play posted:

The tail plane looks totally wrong, incorrect shape. It also has absolutely no markings, both civilian and military planes would have that. The control yoke also looks really weird, like how AI messes up human fingers, not to mention that most of those planes come with flight sticks

Play posted:

Regardless of whether or not it is Ai or photoshop or neither, it is a shameful and obvious lie

Play posted:

The tail plane looks totally wrong, incorrect shape. It also has absolutely no markings, both civilian and military planes would have that. The control yoke also looks really weird, like how AI messes up human fingers, not to mention that most of those planes come with flight sticks

Regardless of whether or not it is Ai or photoshop or neither, it is a shameful and obvious lie

madeintaipei posted:

Thread title.

Lammasu posted:

I can't play licensed wrestling games because so many of the characters are dead. It's like it's haunted.

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

Welcome to миф.

Yle posted:

Ukrainians created an efficient way of saving the wounded -- in the darkness of the night drives a bus full of men talking about their trauma
An ambulance bus drives with wounded on board. Yle's Antti Kuronen tagged along to see how patients are cared for on the way to the hospital.

EAST UKRAINE

Night has already fallen, when ambulances appear in the middle of nowhere. We are on a large highway leading to the city of Dnipro. Next to us is a large ambulance bus. Seriously injured Ukrainian soldiers are quickly moved from small ambulances into the large bus.

The men were wounded that same day. They received first aid on the frontlines, and afterwards in a field hospital. Now they are being moved to a central hospital in Dnipro. The trip there is a couple of hundred kilometers.

The bus is equipped like a hospital ward. Six patients have been hooked up to monitoring equipment. Two of them are in a coma.

The bus travels smoothly on the highway. The road was completed only shortly after Russia's invasion. One of president Volodymyr Zelenskyi's big undertakings was the improvement of Ukraine's road network.

- Thanks to this bus our ambulances can return to their frontline duties, where they are most needed. We take care of long distance transports with the bus, explains Danilo, who is caring for the wounded.

Danilo used to be a criminal defence attorney. Before Russia's invasion he worked on major criminal cases. Now he cares for injured soldiers. Even though their injuries are very severe, they want to talk. Strong painkillers have dulled the pain.

- When the firing began, we dove into a foxhole. We took a direct hit. My left arm was shredded badly, Ruslan recounts his traumatic experiences.

Four soldiers were injured in the same attack. Ruslan's leg was also damaged.

- When I woke up, I noticed that my leg was just hanging loosely. My buddy applied a tourniquet, because I didn't have enough strength myself.

After that Ruslan lost consciousness. Thanks to first aid from field medics he is still here, alive.

- When I get a little bit better, I will go home. Waiting for me there are my wife and my small daughter. I haven't seen them in a year, because we haven't been able to take any time off, says Ruslan who served as a machine gunner at the front.



- Russians will spend hours trying to take over our trenches. They executed drone strikes, used gas and hammered us with artillery, Dmitro tells of the night's events.

Dmitro was hit with shrapnel. Artillery is the largest cause of injuries.

Russia has had the edge over Ukraine's artillery in the hard fighting in Eastern Ukraine.

- I have no idea how they managed to evacuate me. They used stretchers. It's very dangerous because there are lots of drones around. Many of my buddies were injured in drone attacks.

These men were fighting at the front lines in the Donetsk area. Some were wounded in Bakhmut. They come from different parts of Ukraine. Dmitro is from Kharkov. Also on the bus is one foreigner, Johnny. He is from a Ukrainian family from Israel, and he is only 22 years old.

- The Russians were only a couple of dozen meters away and they were firing at us from a tank, says Johnny. This is about all he can remember from the event, because he suffered a serious concussion.

- I was lucky to survive. I feel bad for my buddies, Johnny says.

The bus is continuing on its two hour journey to Dnipro, to one of the best hospitals in Ukraine. Soldiers wounded in the war in Eastern Ukraine have been treated there since 2014.

How many Ukrainians fall in combat or are wounded is not something that's discussed in public. But the number is big. According to experts Russia loses many times more soldiers in its poorly planned attacks. Be that as it may, Ukraine is still paying a heavy price.

We visited a hospital in one of the front line cities. Prior to Russia's invasion it was a place where civilians got treated. Now it's only soldiers. We weren't allowed to film soldiers as they were brought in from the front lines.

At the hospital doctors try to stabilize severly injured soldiers enough for them to survive the transport onwards to Dnipro, for instance in the hospital bus.

The hospital has three operating rooms, and sees dozens of patients every day. Sometimes more than a hundred.

The work is emotionally draining, says one of the nurses. Anna has been working at the front line hospital for nearly a year. Prior to that she was an operating room nurse.

- The difference is massive, it can't be compared. For instance the condition our patients are in when they come to the operating room. In civilian life they were clean, washed. Soldiers can be covered in mud.

- Sometimes they haven't eaten in days. Not because food isn't available, but because they simply haven't had the time.

The biggest difference is the mental stress. There are many wounded and they can't always be helped.

- You have to try to adjust. Otherwise you'll burn out quickly, Anna says.



Her younger colleague, 33 year old Alyona, also tells us about the mental side. It is hard.

- It's hard mentally when they bring in soldiers, who have lost an arm or a leg. The worst is still when they bring in someone whose life we can't safe. It happens. It is so terribly draining, Alyona says.

Both Anna and Alyona came to the front lines as volunteers.

- I couldn't sit at home and do my regular job when I knew that so many needed help, Anna sums up.

The Hospitallers' ambulance bus continues on its journey to Dnipro. Inside everything is quiet. The doctor and three medics are calmly assisting patients. Outside it's pitch black. The roads are mostly only used by military vehicles, because of the curfew.

The trips are not without danger. An Austrian volunteer was killed, when the previous bus ran at full speed into the back of a tank in the middle of the night. It was pitch black.

- Now we have an escort car driving in front of us, Danilo says.



The bus is named after the female medic who died. Its name is Avstriyka.

mobby_6kl posted:

what bridge??

Some more blessed propaganda


(myth/reality)

ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:

Yle posted:

Wagner defector caught in Sweden -- says he was there to buy cigarettes
Andrei Medvedev fled from Russia to Paatsjoki Norway on the 13th of January. He claims to have fought for private military group Wagner in Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine.

Swedish police have apprehended Andrei Medvedev, who fled from Russia to Norway in January. Medvedev says he traveled to Sweden by bus, with the intention of buying cheap cigarettes.

The situation is being reported by Swedish and Norwegian media. The original source is human right organization Gulagu.net, who helped Medvedev flee from Russia into Norway.

Medvedev has applied for asylum in Norway. As an asylum seeker he is not allowed to leave the country.

After being caught in Sweden, Medvedev contacted Gulagu.net's director Vladimir Osetškin who originally helped him flee Russia.

According to Osetškin Medvedev had traveled to Sweden to buy cheap cigarettes, because a carton in Sweden cost less than half what it does in Norway.

He was late to his bus back to Oslo and had to try to walk back. Swedish police apprehended him at the side of a road. West Swedish police confirms the arrest to Dagens Nyheter.

Sweden is a common shopping destination for Norwegians with plenty of money, and close to the border you can find shopping centers designed for norwegian customers. Swedish and Norwegian media don't mention where exactly Medvedev was doing his shopping.

Medvedev's Norwegian lawyer has confirmed his client's arrest to norwegian Dagbladet and Verdens Gang.

- He thought he was allowed to travel to Sweden. Unfortunately as an asylum seeker this was not allowed. He is sorry for this misunderstanding and hopes that he will be transferred back to Norway soon, lawyer Brynjulf Risnes explains.

Risnes says that Medvedev is being held by Swedish immigration. He doesn't think that his unlawful trip to Sweden will complicate Medvedev's asylum application.

This is not the first time Medvedev has been in trouble with the law since his defection to Norway. At the end of February he was apprehended after a fight outside a pub in Oslo.

Medvedev's defection from Russia to Norway caught international attention. He has claimed that he fought for the PMC Wagner in Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine.

If this claim is true, he is the first Wagner mercenary to defect to the West.

ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:

Yeah I'd be pretty miffed about NATO submarines too if my own Navy's most famous submarine was only that because of an incident which saw it sink and kill everyone on board. Oh and then there was Vladolf Shitler "politely declining" international assistance in locating said submarine and rescuing any possible survivors for several days because it would have ruined his holiday.

Karate Bastard posted:

Yes. Helping people is in fact gay.

As is of course the passive submissive act of receiving help.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Ah yes, the classic story. (Possibly) hosed up my asylum application by going out to buy cigarettes.

Budzilla posted:

He knows what will be waiting for him when he goes back to Russia and he decides to jeopardise it all to buy some discount cigarettes? Am I missing something here or is he that loving stupid?

BrassRoots posted:

The thrill of a bargain combined with addiction. Sounds like a hell of a thrill to me.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

I am very grateful to Yle for the quality journalism they're doing both in Russia and Ukraine. This time they embedded a journalist on an Ukrainian hospital bus to find out about the processes they use to transport injured soldiers to hospitals.

Journalist: Antti Kuronen
Link: https://yle.fi/a/74-20024893

Budzilla posted:

He knows what will be waiting for him when he goes back to Russia and he decides to jeopardise it all to buy some discount cigarettes? Am I missing something here or is he that loving stupid?

Pekinduck posted:

They even buffed up the leak lol. Unfortunately it does seem some amount of significant information was leaked if its genuine.

quote:

...

The slides, dated March 1, purport to show the timeline for the training and preparation of these nine brigades, giving the number and type of tanks, fighting vehicles and artillery pieces allotted to each of them, as well as the countries through which the equipment enters Ukraine.

The documents also purport to show rates of expenditure of Western-supplied ammunition.

One of the slides indicates that British, American, French and Latvian special-operations troops are in Ukraine. None of these governments has said it has sent troops to Ukraine.

The overall number of special forces from NATO countries is below 100, according to the document. The document doesn’t indicate whether those forces are involved in training or are involved in combat.

The documents also claim to give detailed estimates of the numbers of Russian and Ukrainian troops on the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk front lines, with Russia described as holding a numerical advantage on all three.

After initially publicizing doctored images that reversed a 2.5-to-1 fatality ratio in Ukraine’s favor to a 4-to-1 ratio in Russia’s favor, some pro-Russian commentators changed tack on Friday, casting doubt on the authenticity of the slides.

Russian military analyst Yuri Kotenok, whose Voenkor Kotenok Z channel has 420,000 followers on Telegram, suggested that the slides may have been deliberately planted by the U.S. ahead of the offensive, to mislead Russia about the true strength and readiness of Ukrainian brigades.

“Isn’t that leak part of a big deception plan against Moscow on the verge of the intensification of combat on the frontline?” he wrote on Telegram.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentag..._mobilewebshare

Budzilla posted:

He knows what will be waiting for him when he goes back to Russia and he decides to jeopardise it all to buy some discount cigarettes? Am I missing something here or is he that loving stupid?