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Dwesa posted:that article is from April There's been nothing since then to suggest any change to the Russian military's predicament, though. It's the Russian military, for crying out loud. They are ridden with sloth, corruption, neglect and incompetency at every level, top to bottom. There's a good reason that the Russian armed forces is the byword of mockery and contempt.
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Jul 4, 2023 08:32
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CommissarMega posted:"Remember, no Ukrainian." I've heard it described usually one of two ways: as different as Dutch is to German, or as different as German is to English. Maybe it's somewhere in the middle?
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Jul 4, 2023 08:33
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I feel like there has been Russia will run out of ammo articles every few weeks and yet they still can outgun Ukraine easily. One Ukrainian soldier, when asked about the ammo situation, said that what Russia considers "low stock" or "unsustainable" for artillery bombardments is still basically an excess of what they (Ukrainians) have to work with. They're firing less than they were before, but there's still a lot to go through and many ammo dumps that need to be destroyed.
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Jul 4, 2023 08:36
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Autisanal Cheese posted:I've heard it described usually one of two ways: as different as Dutch is to German, or as different as German is to English. As a person who speaks Dutch, German and some Russian, I'd say that Russian and Ukrainian are way closer than German and Dutch are, and German and English are more different still.
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Jul 4, 2023 08:43
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students in Ingushetia can choose between diploma and mobilisation order or no diploma and prisonquote:1/ Colleges in the Russian republic of Ingushetia are issuing diplomas only if the students accept a mobilisation order at the same time. If they refuse, they face being imprisoned for up to two years. ⬇️
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Jul 4, 2023 08:57
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Russia is just kind of evil.
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Jul 4, 2023 09:06
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god please help me posted:Russia is just kind of evil. More like forever stuck in the worst parts of the 20th century.
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Jul 4, 2023 09:10
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CommissarMega posted:"Remember, no Ukrainian." all Slavic languages are pretty close and have a high degree of intelligibility, but no they are very much not the same language. the real tricky Slavic language to parse for a speaker of the others is Sorbian.
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Jul 4, 2023 09:15
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Splorange posted:More like forever stuck in the worst parts of the 20th century. One of my favorite bits from Steven Colbert is when he went to Russia and was clearly followed by FSB and whatnot and he talked about it afterward where he's like "It pretends to be like the West. So you get this real sense that it's just another european city. But then something insane happens and you realize oh, no, it's not."
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Jul 4, 2023 09:20
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fizzy posted:There's been nothing since then to suggest any change to the Russian military's predicament, though. It's the Russian military, for crying out loud. They are ridden with sloth, corruption, neglect and incompetency at every level, top to bottom. There's a good reason that the Russian armed forces is the byword of mockery and contempt. Knock knock Whos there The russian military (Thats it, thata the joke)
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Jul 4, 2023 09:38
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1676125554506964992 Terrorist Strelkov says that the situation near Bakhmut is deteriorating and they urgently are asking for reinforcements there.
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Jul 4, 2023 09:40
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https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1675520563073220610 War time social media sure is a thing. Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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Jul 4, 2023 09:41
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1675520563073220610 oh my god
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Jul 4, 2023 09:58
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/bradyafr/status/1675898648499044352 Hmm those capacitors need replacing.
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Jul 4, 2023 09:59
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1675520563073220610 "Why are you bloodlusty bloodlust ghouls cheering, that
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Jul 4, 2023 10:01
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I feel like there has been Russia will run out of ammo articles every few weeks and yet they still can outgun Ukraine easily. Maybe they're running out of pipes?
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Jul 4, 2023 10:03
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NoiseAnnoys posted:all Slavic languages are pretty close and have a high degree of intelligibility, but no they are very much not the same language. Western slavic feels really distinct to eastern slavic languages to me. I don't speak any of them fluently but know a little Russian and can understand quite a bit of Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Macedonian through that. But Polish is completely unintelligible to me. Do native Polish speakers have an easier time understanding Russian and vice-versa?
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Jul 4, 2023 10:11
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kemikalkadet posted:Western slavic feels really distinct to eastern slavic languages to me. I don't speak any of them fluently but know a little Russian and can understand quite a bit of Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Macedonian through that. But Polish is completely unintelligible to me. Do native Polish speakers have an easier time understanding Russian and vice-versa? Polish is pretty distinct even in West Slavdom. It’s kinda weird phonetically (retained the nasals from OCS and earlier, for example) and orthographically, but vocabulary wise once you get over the sound changes isn’t that hard to parse for most Slavs. The animacy/virility declensions are weird tho. I spend a lot of time here working with Ukrainians adapting to writing in Czech and it’s crazy what they instinctively understand from Ukrainian but also what basic declensions and grammar they struggle with. animacy rules, participles, and counting are the big ones, since nearly every Slavic language does it slightly differently.
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Jul 4, 2023 10:18
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kemikalkadet posted:Western slavic feels really distinct to eastern slavic languages to me. I don't speak any of them fluently but know a little Russian and can understand quite a bit of Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Macedonian through that. But Polish is completely unintelligible to me. Do native Polish speakers have an easier time understanding Russian and vice-versa? Regardless of the words they share, which seems to be quite a lot, don't ever tell a Polish person that it sounds similar to Russian unless you want a black eye.
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Jul 4, 2023 10:25
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I feel like there has been Russia will run out of ammo articles every few weeks and yet they still can outgun Ukraine easily. Russia has domestic artillery shells production. They are never gonna stop having artillery shells to fire at Ukraine. When someone says they are running out they mean that their stockpiles are getting low and their shell usage converges on their production rate. I have no idea why this causes so much confusion all the time. Some kind of language barrier thing? Does "running out" have a much narrower meaning in English than in other languages?
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Jul 4, 2023 10:35
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Maybe they're running out of pipes? Russia is indeed also running out of artillery platforms. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...sh=7b28005531ab Russia’s Is Sending Its Heaviest Artillery Into Ukraine, And It Is Getting Destroyed Russia’s giant 240mm self-propelled mortars are appearing in increasing numbers on the battlefield in Ukraine – and getting destroyed just as fast. The presence of this lumbering beast of war may be a sign that Russian artillery is increasingly overstretched and they are resorting to obsolete weapons with a poor chance of survival. The 2S4 Tyulpan (“Tulip”) is the largest mortar in use in the world today. It is mounted on a tracked, armored vehicle, much like most modern self-propelled artillery, but rather than a long-range cannon it carries a huge, short-range mortar. The Tyulpan was first produced in 1959 and the last one rolled off the production line back in 1988, making it around 45 years old now – still younger than many of the tanks now in the Russian front line. ... Modern artillery fire missions are often described as ‘shoot and scoot,’ in which vehicles fire a few shots and then rapidly change position to avoid counter-battery fire. This is vital for survival in high-intensity conflict like the current one in which both sides deploy artillery-spotting radar and drones are constantly looking for guns firing behind enemy lines. The Tyulpan is poorly suited to this type of warfare as it takes around 25 minutes to prepare for firing, and fires just one round per minute. The Paladin can fire its first round within sixty seconds of halting, and can fire a burst of eight rounds in one minute before moving on. The heavy mortar’s short range also means it has to be placed well forward and into the zone where it is more likely to be spotted and can be targeted by enemy weapons further away. The Tyulpan resembles medieval siege gun, brought up to gradually batter down fixed defenses over a prolonged period. It is a specialized weapon not adapted to modern mobile warfare , and so was not much seen in the early stages of the war. Ukraine destroyed the first Russian Tyulpan in May 22, and Russia lost a total of nine in the year up to this June. In June however, a spat of videos appeared of Tyulpans being hit. Oryx, meticulous recorder of Russian losses, notes four in June. which suggests that the rate of loss has increased by 600% in one month. A recent video from the end of the month may show a fifth Tyulpan being destroyed which would indicate an even steeper rise, and some may have been destroyed which have not yet identified. ... There are other signs too in the casualties they take that Russian artillery is being degraded. On Twitter, Richard Vereker has analyzed open-source intelligence on Russian losses compiled by Warpsotting and looked at the changes month by month. Losses of 152mm artillery pieces, which are the mainstay or Russia’s artillery and which have previously suffered the highest losses, have dropped below the smaller 122mm caliber weapons for the last two months. This may be an indication that, after losing more than 300 152mm self-propelled guns and 170 towed 152mm guns, Russia is starting to run low. (Or, perhaps even worse for them, they may be running out of 152mm ammunition). The early phases of the war were marked by Russia’s massive superiority in artillery, sometimes described as a seven-to-one advantage in artillery pieces. That advantage is disappearing fast if it has not already gone, and Ukrainian forces are now using artillery like the German-made 155mm PzH 2000 and truck-mounted 155mm Caesars as well as U.S.-supplied HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems. It is hard to get reliable information on the state of the war. But based on the available information on casualties, Russia’s heavy mortar losses may be the first signs of serious problems with its artillery.
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Jul 4, 2023 10:38
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kemikalkadet posted:Western slavic feels really distinct to eastern slavic languages to me. I don't speak any of them fluently but know a little Russian and can understand quite a bit of Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Macedonian through that. But Polish is completely unintelligible to me. Do native Polish speakers have an easier time understanding Russian and vice-versa? I'm not a linguist but you can actually that some languages are kind of on a spectrum like Czech->Slovak->West Ukrainian->"standard" Ukrainian->Russian where each adjacent one is reasonably close to the other but the farther you go, the fewer similarities there are.
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Jul 4, 2023 10:40
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Autisanal Cheese posted:oh my god
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Jul 4, 2023 11:02
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mobby_6kl posted:I doubt it, Polish is indeed pretty far from Russian but knowing some slavic languages does help pick up the other languages with less effort. they’re all essentially part of the same spectrum. Macedonian and Bulgarian are in some ways the most grammatically distinct (number of tenses, dropping of noun declension, more fixed word order), but you can still get a lot of the basics. my old ocs/comparative Slavic professor thought that Slovak was the most “central” for what it’s worth, but it also has some of the most dialectical variation, and that’s not even getting into the Rusyn, Ukrainian or Hungarian speaking areas. But this is also why language politics get so intense here- because the ease of intelligibility tended to encourage these weird assimilation movements among the dominant Slavic language speakers of the area: e.g. Russians trying to eliminate Ukrainian for centuries, the Slovenská otázka in first republic Czechoslovakia, BCS, etc.
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Jul 4, 2023 11:08
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mobby_6kl posted:I doubt it, Polish is indeed pretty far from Russian but knowing some slavic languages does help pick up the other languages with less effort. When I visited Slovakia, I randomly browsed a magazine that was in the car and suddenly realized that I understand nearly everything that was written there. Written Slovak language is very similar to Belarusian except its Latin script, not Cyrillic.
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Jul 4, 2023 11:10
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I feel like you can kind of understand the gist of the topic when hearing Russian and Ukrainian as a Pole. You also giggle a lot when reading Czech.
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Jul 4, 2023 11:18
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Ukraine has stated that the main thrust of the offensive would be occuring today (July 4th) and as early as a week ago was stating that the offensives main force had not been invested into the effort yet. They've tried smaller frontal assaults that they didn't go so well. Russia has built up formidable defensive lines, and there's no point in organizing suicidal runs on them. You'll likely to see slow, grueling attrition battles over the coming months instead of large scale maneuver warfare.
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Jul 4, 2023 11:22
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1676147149929689090 Another unfortunate accident happened in one of the occupiers' warehouses near Yakymivka in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast.
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Jul 4, 2023 11:27
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1675520563073220610 lmao
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Jul 4, 2023 11:34
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mmkay posted:I feel like you can kind of understand the gist of the topic when hearing Russian and Ukrainian as a Pole. You also giggle a lot when reading Czech. yeah, czech is kinda ridiculous, as much as i love it. but to be fair, czechs giggle a lot at Polish with things like szukać sounding exactly like šukat, which are 100% not cognates.
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Jul 4, 2023 11:41
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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1676096503176110080 Russian political experts aren't really that good at being experts
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Jul 4, 2023 11:44
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Tai posted:https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1676096503176110080 The French rioting over an injustice is the same as our supposedly loyal leader of a deniable army of mercs turning against his master and nearly overrunning your country's capital. We are very smart. - Russian "experts", maybe
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Jul 4, 2023 11:50
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Well it's definitely gonna take some convincing lmao
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Jul 4, 2023 12:01
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1675520563073220610 
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Jul 4, 2023 12:05
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Oh man have the French shot down 7 military aircraft already? I knew French protesters were hardcore.
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Jul 4, 2023 12:06
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mobby_6kl posted:Oh man have the French shot down 7 military aircraft already? I knew French protesters were hardcore. All I can picture is French rioters wheeling the nose and cockpit section of an F-35 into a colossal guillotine.
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Jul 4, 2023 12:09
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I don't speak either Ukrainian or Russian, but all the Ukrainian speakers I've ever heard talk about the subject have insisted that the two are quite distinct, with Ukrainian sharing almost as many similarities with e.g. Polish as it does with Russian. Although I suppose they have a vested interest in saying that, since the Russians have been attempting to exterminate the Ukrainian 'dialect' for centuries, including currently in the occupied areas. The Soviets also deliberately tried to make the two languages more alike by imposing Russian vocabulary wherever they could. It really is a remarkably resilient language to have survived to the present day, and this war has given it a major prestige boost, with many reports of Russian speakers switching to it in significant numbers. Turns out that insisting their nation and language don't exist can rub people the wrong way. Another win for genius Putin 
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Jul 4, 2023 12:45
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Finally some evidence of a storm shadow that didn't make it's target. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1676170491684438016
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Jul 4, 2023 12:51
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Pablo Bluth posted:Finally some evidence of a storm shadow that didn't make it's target. can we pleases link pictures directly for those of us without a nazi hellhole account? we can't pretend the website actually works anymore, so
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My Spirit Otter posted:can we pleases link pictures directly for those of us without a nazi hellhole account? we can't pretend the website actually works anymore, so   https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/110655175480590957
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