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lomzus
Mar 18, 2009
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1660634695506305028

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1660635180632096768

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1660637314203242498

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1660640624708661250

lomzus fucked around with this message at 15:05 on May 22, 2023

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lomzus
Mar 18, 2009
https://twitter.com/region776/status/1660650813742522371

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




:lol: poo poo did they really pull a Stalingrad on the Russian army? :allears:

So now you have an exhausted army besieged and surrounded in rubble?

zone
Dec 6, 2016


Excellent. Burn and break everything that's useful to the Russian army on the way out.

poor waif
Apr 8, 2007
Kaboom

TulliusCicero posted:

:lol: poo poo did they really pull a Stalingrad on the Russian army? :allears:

So now you have an exhausted army besieged and surrounded in rubble?

It's at best aspirational, there's not much indicating an encirclement is particularly close from what I've seen.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/AlexBondODUA/status/1660644621397917698
There is no panic. In Belgorod there were only mobilized.

weg
Jun 6, 2006

Reassisted Retrogression

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/AlexBondODUA/status/1660644621397917698
There is no panic. In Belgorod there were only mobilized.

Are these Russian partisans fighting in Russia on behalf of Ukraine?

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



zone posted:

It certainly looks like a big diversion. Terrorist Strelkov also thinks so on his telegram channel, referring to it as a "cheap and cheerful" method of diverting forces and embarrassing Russia at the same time. And it gets worse:

https://twitter.com/reshetz/status/1660634281104818176

e: Tatarigami (UA reserve officer) also had this to say
https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1660637838923161603

Uhhhh, is Russia having an Insurrection while getting its rear end kicked in a poorly thought out war? :stare:

Because holy poo poo history repeats itself every time if that's the case

Splorange
Feb 23, 2011

TulliusCicero posted:

Uhhhh, is Russia having an Insurrection while getting its rear end kicked in a poorly thought out war? :stare:

Because holy poo poo history repeats itself every time if that's the case

Unlikely - and definitely not a popular insurrection - but this should cause a good amount of confusion and force to divert resources.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

weg posted:

Are these Russian partisans fighting in Russia on behalf of Ukraine?

These guys are far-right Russian nationalists who were fighting in the Ukrainian army.

free hubcaps
Oct 12, 2009

Ha! Just like the time the usa let the first air fleet fall into our devilish trap at pearl harbor

Molothecat
Jul 25, 2007

Wrath, hate, pain, and death!

zone posted:

These guys are far-right Russian nationalists who were fighting in the Ukrainian army.

Is there actual proof of this? I'm filing this under "we'll know in about 30 years."

Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray

Molothecat posted:

I didn't want this beautiful post to be lost to time. a reminder of the good times

'lowly dirty south American' please leave big Boi and Lil wayne out of this!

lomzus
Mar 18, 2009
https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/1660651446646321156

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

weg posted:

Are these Russian partisans fighting in Russia on behalf of Ukraine?
Russian partisans fighting in Russia on behalf of a Russia free of Putin.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/rien4djri/status/1660656160221847552
The idiots actually went through with it

e; f b

DiomedesGodshill
Feb 21, 2009

Kaliningrad, declare independence while no one is looking!

weg
Jun 6, 2006

Reassisted Retrogression

zone posted:

These guys are far-right Russian nationalists who were fighting in the Ukrainian army.


Cugel the Clever posted:

Russian partisans fighting in Russia on behalf of a Russia free of Putin.

Ah ok. I guess regardless of who they are, chaos for Putin is a good thing.

Hell even if they are far-right nationalists, they probably deserve a better leader than Putin.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
All these bridges we are blowing in our territory should show the world we are winning handily

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



zone posted:

https://twitter.com/rien4djri/status/1660656160221847552
The idiots actually went through with it

e; f b


steinrokkan posted:

All these bridges we are blowing in our territory should show the world we are winning handily

:lol:

Why the did the Russians just torch their own supply/ reinforcement line?

Is the Russian Strategic/ tactical training just playing CSGO or something?

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

TulliusCicero posted:

:lol:

Why the did the Russians just torch their own supply/ reinforcement line?

Is the Russian Strategic/ tactical training just playing CSGO or something?

I think about the sharp decline of CSGO player activity someone posted in the first month or two of the war a lot

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

weg posted:

Ah ok. I guess regardless of who they are, chaos for Putin is a good thing.

Hell even if they are far-right nationalists, they probably deserve a better leader than Putin.
I 100% agree that we should be very careful about who the group actually is and not give them too much benefit of the doubt (or resources, for that matter). If they are lovely right-wingers who somehow got themselves twisted around into opposing Putin's particular flavor of right-wing authoritarianism, then best to let the two groups destroy each other.

Dravs
Mar 8, 2011

You've done well, kiddo.

TulliusCicero posted:

:lol:

Why the did the Russians just torch their own supply/ reinforcement line?

Is the Russian Strategic/ tactical training just playing CSGO or something?

This would imply they have forces remaining to be supplied.

weg
Jun 6, 2006

Reassisted Retrogression

EorayMel posted:

I think about the sharp decline of CSGO player activity someone posted in the first month or two of the war a lot

At least Counter-Strike prepared them by giving them plenty of practice buying their own gear before the round starts.

Lord Harbor
Apr 17, 2005
Bruce Campbell: You've stolen my heart, but you'll never take my freedom
Nap Ghost

TulliusCicero posted:

:lol:

Why the did the Russians just torch their own supply/ reinforcement line?

Is the Russian Strategic/ tactical training just playing CSGO or something?

We have almost no information about what's going on right now. My guess would be that the Russian lines in this area are so thinly manned that they can't risk even a chance of Ukrainian troops advancing because they'd blow right through the Russian defense, so instead they err on the safe side and destroy the bridges.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

weg posted:

At least Counter-Strike prepared them by giving them plenty of practice buying their own gear before the round starts.

Looks like they Rushed B

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Lord Harbor posted:

We have almost no information about what's going on right now. My guess would be that the Russian lines in this area are so thinly manned that they can't risk even a chance of Ukrainian troops advancing because they'd blow right through the Russian defense, so instead they err on the safe side and destroy the bridges.

:lol: if this a raid that turns into a loving pocket in the line because Russian forces are spread that thin on the border.

Spearhead push all the way to Moscow

Dravs
Mar 8, 2011

You've done well, kiddo.
Rereading that, it seems that they have destroyed the bridge on the Belgorod side of the town. Have they just abandoned this town to Russian partisans? Are they pulling a "didn't want that town anyway" maneuver?

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

TulliusCicero posted:

:lol: if this a raid that turns into a loving pocket in the line because Russian forces are spread that thin on the border.

Spearhead push all the way to Moscow

IMO this is how the war will end. Not so much with Ukraine pushing Russia out, but with Russia disintegrating and pulling out of Ukraine to deal with internal strife.

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1660603041182101505?s=46&t=6HOSYVrXffESMo0NlyR0Lg

Icept
Jul 11, 2001
lmao at russia immediately folding and pulling bridges at even the first hint of unrest

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Deteriorata posted:

IMO this is how the war will end. Not so much with Ukraine pushing Russia out, but with Russia disintegrating and pulling out of Ukraine to deal with internal strife.

Probably not going to happen

Rust Martialis
May 8, 2007

At night, Bavovnyatko quietly comes to the occupiers’ bases, depots, airfields, oil refineries and other places full of flammable items and starts playing with fire there

Took me a second but

:rubby:

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




Russians do have a proud history of invading their own country, so this checks out

:hmbol:

Everything is so dumb

beer_war
Mar 10, 2005

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1654194394809917441?s=20

Belgorodians yearn for freedom

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Dravs posted:

Rereading that, it seems that they have destroyed the bridge on the Belgorod side of the town. Have they just abandoned this town to Russian partisans? Are they pulling a "didn't want that town anyway" maneuver?

Tonight on POCCNR 1

Olga skabeeva: “we didn’t want belgorod anyway. It is the Mobile, Alabama of Russia”

lomzus
Mar 18, 2009
https://twitter.com/albafella1/status/1660664654891216908

zone
Dec 6, 2016


Monke might have run away from Moscow.

lomzus
Mar 18, 2009
https://twitter.com/JupiterQuirinus/status/1660662743932997632

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Keisari
May 24, 2011

I will lol so hard if this is just Ukraine pulling a reverse "donetsk separatists" as a diversion for heir counteroffensive.

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