zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1686628503595212800
Vatnik union speedrun 100% going well, I see.

GABA ghoul posted:

Really wonder what that self-diagnosed civilizational conflict is about from their perspective, considering that the Russian government tries to project an outside image of being a functioning pluralist democracy, respecting human rights and allowing a free press. What's left? Sexual minority rights? We are in a civilizational conflict over whether we should terrorize and dehumanize gay people? That's the pitch they are going with?

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There were no injuries reported from the Tuesday attack.

Dwesa posted:

Were any civilians harmed in the attacks at all? I am not counting the attacks that took place in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine or in the Russian-annexed separatist territories of Ukraine.

Alan Smithee posted:

419? Nonono 420 BLAZE IT

BrassRoots posted:

No soup? What kind of bullshit lunch is that?

Karma Comedian posted:

Sorry but this prince from Nigeria needs me to burn this building down

weg posted:

Our citizens don't hate the draft, they are simply being fooled by bad actors!

lmao

Captain Splendid posted:

Sashimi posted:

Making propaganda telling Ukrainians to surrender has got to be the most futile and useless job in the world.

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This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing data from prosthetics companies, doctors and charitable organisations.

The quoted figures are based on information from the government and medical institutions, although the number of traumatised people may be higher, as prosthetics take a long time. For example, 40-80 per cent of patients who end up in hospitals in the Zaporizhzhya region need amputations.

At the beginning of the war, the leading causes of amputations were injuries sustained during artillery and rocket attacks. Now many are injured by landmines planted along the front line.

The Houp Foundation, a charity organisation, cites data that 200,000 people were seriously wounded during the war, with about 10% needing amputations. Some people do not have their limbs amputated for weeks or even months after being wounded. At the same time, to avoid atrophy and other problems, patients need to receive new limbs no later than 90 days after amputation.

The Wall Street Journal also points out that prosthetic limbs are not cheap, with some reaching 50,000 euros. At the same time, Ukrainian authorities are paying up to 20,000 euros to the wounded. The journalists note that it is difficult for civilians who have been wounded to afford treatment.

According to First Deputy Health Minister Serhiy Dubrov, more than 30 children in Ukraine have suffered amputations because of the war.

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mobby_6kl posted:

You'd think they would at least make the effort to write it in Ukrainian lol.

HonorableTB posted:

Putin is a real piece of poo poo. Up to 50,000 Ukrainians have lost one or more limbs since the beginning of the full scale invasion. These figures can be compared with the scale of amputations in World War 1.


https://en.socportal.info/en/news/s-nachala-polnomasshtabnoi-voiny-okolo-50-tysyach-ukraintcev-poteryali-konechnosti/

A Pack of Kobolds posted:

lol, thank you for making me remember the US army spokesperson who was like, “Yeah, these Ukrainian troops we’re training are capable, quick learners and there is no adequate amount of soup we can provide for them. These guy just love their soup!”

HonorableTB posted:

It was that doctor's literal first day of work as a doctor too.

mobby_6kl posted:

Better than the last day before retirement

Arc Light posted:

The other part of that interview which stuck with me was the Ukrainian soldier's insistence that the reporter shouldn't compare their trench warfare to WWI, because it was an absurd comparison, and that line didn't really age as well.

Arc Light posted:

The Russians were close enough to yell insults at the Ukrainians, in Russian. The reporter asked one of the Ukrainian soldiers if he was worried that his conversations with his team would be overheard and used by the enemy.

The Ukrainian soldier replied that all of his troops could understand the Russians, because they had been forced to learn Russian for generations. The Russians, on the other hand, didn't speak Ukrainian because they didn't respect their enemy enough to learn their language.

Eric Cantonese posted:

I don't know if WWI is a good comparison, though. I take it you disagree.

Arc Light posted:

Different parts of the country saw radically different application of strategy and tactics, influenced by terrain and the availability of weapons and vehicles, but the lengthy battle for Bakhmut devolved into human wave attacks and artillery bombardment. That even included the use of weapons that were actually in use during the first world war. The Maxim gun, developed in the 1880s and used in WWI, put in quite a bit of work on the Ukrainian side, and I think I saw some Russian units using them as well.

But, to be clear, even without particular weapons like the Maxim gun, I'd use the comparison because the pertinent bit is the trench warfare, artillery duels, and human wave attacks resulting in significant casualties in order to move the front lines a few meters, while also turning the landscape into little more than craters, and the city of Bakhmut into ruin.

I'm not sure what other comparison would be made if not WWI, as that's basically the last major war to involve large scale trench fighting.

Arc Light posted:

Different parts of the country saw radically different application of strategy and tactics, influenced by terrain and the availability of weapons and vehicles, but the lengthy battle for Bakhmut devolved into human wave attacks and artillery bombardment. That even included the use of weapons that were actually in use during the first world war. The Maxim gun, developed in the 1880s and used in WWI, put in quite a bit of work on the Ukrainian side, and I think I saw some Russian units using them as well.

But, to be clear, even without particular weapons like the Maxim gun, I'd use the comparison because the pertinent bit is the trench warfare, artillery duels, and human wave attacks resulting in significant casualties in order to move the front lines a few meters, while also turning the landscape into little more than craters, and the city of Bakhmut into ruin.

I'm not sure what other comparison would be made if not WWI, as that's basically the last major war to involve large scale trench fighting.

mobby_6kl posted:

You'd think they would at least make the effort to write it in Ukrainian lol.


An acquaintance of mine had a brilliant idea of going to Kyiv, right now, as a tourist. He has dual citizenship but one of them is... russian. He didn't use that passport for entry but that's pretty dumb even by my standards. He reports everything being fine despite the occasional explosions and seems to be enjoying himself so far.

Alan Smithee posted:

I’m sure the language barrier is a problem when Chechen barrier troops are shooting at retreating Russians

beer_war posted:

https://twitter.com/WHOUkraine/status/1686346505991446529?s=20

Vladimir Putin continues to be a real piece of poo poo.

fatherboxx posted:

Ukrainian is fairly easy to understand to native Russian speakers.

Ukrainians would have trouble to parse speech and communication from Chechens, Buryats or other minorities in Russian ranks but i dont think Russians make significant attempts to create 100% regional/ethnic units or employ codetalkers.

Victis posted:

(lol at "native Russian speaker")

mobby_6kl posted:

They should do more of those. Seems like a bunch got himarsed yesterday on Dzharylhach island too in Kherson