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Quick writeup on the Crimea op, should be an intersting one to watch throughout the day. https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/24/crimea-landing-ukraine-military-special-operation-russia-war-19388629/ quote:Ukrainian special forces have staged an audacious landing in annexed Crimea, according to Kyiv’s military intelligence.
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Aug 24, 2023 10:58
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Its just a pinprick raid but its still damned impressive considering they have no navy and don't have air superiority. Balls of steel.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:02
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Congrats to President Putin for being the first authoritarian ruler to execute a political enemy with an anti aircraft weapon.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:03
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So I'm assuming that the Ukrainian forces aren't in Crimea and are back in Ukraine? Can they make a large scale amphibious landing on the west coast of Crimea?
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Aug 24, 2023 11:05
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Willo567 posted:So I'm assuming that the Ukrainian forces aren't in Crimea and are back in Ukraine? Can they make a large scale amphibious landing on the west coast of Crimea? No. They don't have a navy and no air superiority.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:07
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By the sound of things this seems like it was a bit of a run and gun operation. 10 Ukr troops sailed in, conducted some sort of raid and then evacuated the area before Russia could muster a response. Who knows why they carried out the raid in the first place, but whatever their reasons they seem to have been successful.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:10
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Willo567 posted:So I'm assuming that the Ukrainian forces aren't in Crimea and are back in Ukraine? Can they make a large scale amphibious landing on the west coast of Crimea? Absolutely not. No suitable ships to transfer and supply sizeable army, not enough long range artillery to provide fire support, under Russian air superiority? It would be suicide. Commando raids? Sure why not, it keeps Russians busy, but actual large scale amphibious landing is impossible.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:11
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Splorange posted:No. To be fair, neither does Russia (effectively speaking)  pablo gbscobar posted:By the sound of things this seems like it was a bit of a run and gun operation. 10 Ukr troops sailed in, conducted some sort of raid and then evacuated the area before Russia could muster a response. Some kind of reconnaissance most likely, or maybe they're just stirring up poo poo and keeping Russian forces guessing. Honestly, do they really have to do much to keep Russia jumping?
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Aug 24, 2023 11:12
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Elden Lord Godfrey posted:Congrats to President Putin for being the first authoritarian ruler to execute a political enemy with an anti aircraft weapon.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:17
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pablo gbscobar posted:By the sound of things this seems like it was a bit of a run and gun operation. 10 Ukr troops sailed in, conducted some sort of raid and then evacuated the area before Russia could muster a response. The area the Ukrainian SF reportedly landed in has a pair of radar stations (Nebo-M and a Kasta-2E2) near-ish to the coastline.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:22
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Stubear St. Pierre posted:It'd be a good plot twist but I would imagine they were going by more than just the flight plan to verify he was on it Even better plot twist was this was the plan and then they shot down the wrong plane and killed him anyways.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:27
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Elden Lord Godfrey posted:Congrats to President Putin for being the first authoritarian ruler to execute a political enemy with an anti aircraft weapon. Putin isn't the first, Kim Jong Un executed some staff with anti-aircraft guns a few years back. He might be the first to actually use them against a flying target.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:28
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Elden Lord Godfrey posted:Congrats to President Putin for being the first authoritarian ruler to execute a political enemy with an anti aircraft weapon. Well, there had to be an easier way? Why shoot a plane when you can execute him after landing? What is the reasoning behind this
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Aug 24, 2023 11:31
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bratwurst massage posted:Well, there had to be an easier way? Why shoot a plane when you can execute him after landing? What is the reasoning behind this No need to trust anyone at the base staff except missile firing guy who you, uh, don't tell about whose on the plane.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:34
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bratwurst massage posted:Well, there had to be an easier way? Why shoot a plane when you can execute him after landing? What is the reasoning behind this Pushing the plane crash or accident angle domestically, perhaps? Too early to tell, I think.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:35
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https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1694657260453019722
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Aug 24, 2023 11:36
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Maybe it's not just killing an opponent, but sending a message? You have to admit that being missiled out of existence is one heck of a spectacle.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:37
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If you believe any of the poo poo that comes out about North Korean executions.
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Aug 24, 2023 11:40
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yeah, no south korean news service reported on that unlike americans, south korea has an actual ability and inclination to read the poo poo the northerners put out
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Aug 24, 2023 11:43
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CoffeeQaddaffi posted:The area the Ukrainian SF reportedly landed in has a pair of radar stations (Nebo-M and a Kasta-2E2) near-ish to the coastline. Many people saying this! https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1694624127720587377?t=hJd7hxDZ2nMr1mzAKmEaJg&s=19
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Aug 24, 2023 11:52
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https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1694595570029957449 Everywhere I only see fonts collapsing 
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Aug 24, 2023 12:09
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Aug 24, 2023 12:18
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Aug 24, 2023 12:23
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She can't keep getting away with this!
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Aug 24, 2023 12:26
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weg posted:She can't keep getting away with this! If Semen Hydenko could keep doing it, Hillary Clintenko can do it even more easily
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Aug 24, 2023 12:29
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More hot news from telegram, this time from Colonel Shuvalov:
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Aug 24, 2023 12:40
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Russia uses the American date format or was that translated as well?
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Aug 24, 2023 13:03
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Aug 24, 2023 13:08
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zone posted:More hot news from telegram, this time from Colonel Shuvalov: Im going to guess its translated since everything else is. Could be fake but it would be the first time there is some downtrodden tone message from some higher up. I love all these types of broadcast - i have no idea if its just the translation but poo poo like 'catastrophy is inevitible' and 'its too late' is loving hilarious to read. It's not too late, you all just go home and everyone lives. Everytime someone wants to say it Putin's fault, they have to dial it right back. These people are career soldiers, they know how the system works and they know where the problem is, but they skirt around the language and end up with a big 'welp and it cant be helped' tone.
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Aug 24, 2023 13:14
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freelop posted:Russia uses the American date format or was that translated as well? No, they use the day/month/year format, but I'm not sure why it was translated this way. Maybe in the original post it was also written like that.
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Aug 24, 2023 13:14
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numptyboy posted:Im going to guess its translated since everything else is. Could be fake but it would be the first time there is some downtrodden tone message from some higher up. I don't believe this person is an actual officer, but a blogger named after a historical figure (but they could be both!).
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Aug 24, 2023 13:22
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1694671975786971173#m
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Aug 24, 2023 13:27
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Putin is a real piece of poo poo.
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Aug 24, 2023 13:30
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Sedgr posted:Putin is a real piece of poo poo. I'm working on the theory that he is several shits held together with gaffer tape. It's the intestinal worms that are calling the shots though.
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Aug 24, 2023 13:32
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Elden Lord Godfrey posted:If you believe any of the poo poo that comes out about North Korean executions. Lmao that this is all it took for you to come rushing out in defense of North Korea of all places. It's not even the most audacious or hosed up assassination/execution North Korea has done. Kchama fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Aug 24, 2023 |
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Aug 24, 2023 13:53
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It's incredibly shortsighted of Prigozhin to not prerecord a message in the case of his assassination.
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Aug 24, 2023 13:53
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Our work here is done.  ----------------- Lovely Independence Day for Ukraine, knowing Putin he will have missiles/drones on the way. 
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Aug 24, 2023 13:57
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Kchama posted:Lmao that this is all it took for you to come rushing out in defense of North Korea of all places. I have studied North Korea and worked on it as part of a job and the poster you quoted is correct. There's no evidence that the two ministers were executed by anti-aircraft guns, and knowing North Korean execution strategies, it doesn't make sense that they'd take all that time to set up and load the gun when taking them out back immediately and shooting them with a regular rifle will do. Beyond that, Joongang Ilbo is well known to be pretty wild about North Korean claims It's not defending North Korea if you're just correcting misinformation on them. They're horrific enough with what we actually can verify without having to make up poo poo about them
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Aug 24, 2023 13:58
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I can't find more details on this yet, but they had in the range of ~50 MLU F-16s, and have already received a significant portion of the F-35s they are replacing the F-16s with. This could be a significant quantity of airframes.
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