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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1632255175963340801 I thought this was interesting and hadn't seen it posted in the thread yet, a reminder that Ukraine isn't just relying on old Soviet hand-me-downs but actually has a competent defense industry of its own that hasn't stopped innovating.
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https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1635385999504330757 It feels noteworthy if members of the Serbian government are calling for sanctions on Russia. Haven't they pretty consistently taken Russia's side on most issues, and vice versa, so far? Presumably they're starting to see Russia as the wrong horse to bet on, but it'll be interesting to see if more traditional Russian allies eventually start following suit.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:mildly NSFW but Wagner Group is now apparently advertising on PornHub. Considering that Wagner is a sanctioned entity, is taking Wagner's money to advertise not... super illegal?
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https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1638879219257147394 Yet another large fire in Russia of potentially strategic importance. Was there ever any revelation as to whether the ton of big, industrial fires in Russia in 2022 were down to sabotage, carelessness, overwork due to the war or simply more reporting on accidents happening in Russia now that no one liked them any longer?
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Hekk posted:You have like 4 posts in 633 pages of this thread. You don’t get the benefit of the doubt when driving by with questionable link only replies. Not having encountered this Jack Murphy guy before, is he known for particularly bad or poorly-founded takes? Because reading that post I get very strong feelings of "why the hell would they let YOU know about this? this seems like something that no one would be telling anyone about if it was happening."
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Action-Bastard posted:Was it an ambush video? Close encounter in an urban environment? I seem to recall video of a BTR-4 whomping the hell out of another armored vehicle in pretty close conditions, pretty sure it was a tank and not an APC/IFV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnHdNPYsEes EDIT: For anyone thinking of clicking on this, I don't see any gore or dead folks in it, so it should be a safe watch, only materiel gets visibly hosed up unless I am very blind.
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https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1639930464352849921?t=CHdYHa6trpOy5a4oQZTgwQ&s=19 Since the embedding appears to be busted, the salient part: "Russia moving Katyusha rocket launchers on ZIS-151/ZIL-157 trucks from the 1940s-1950s, led by even older ZIS-6 trucks from the 1930s."
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1640688733253951490?s=20 In lighter news, some of the more deranged Russian propaganda claiming that North Korea is about to provide them with almost a million troops. I think it's unlikely enough to be considered comedy.
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It's hard to say exactly how notable he was, but he was EXTREMELY unrepentant about Russian war crimes, glorying in how it was awesome that they could "rob and kill everyone they wanted" because they were in charge now. https://twitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1575850093995257856
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Is anyone here interested in this kind of stuff? I've been posting these translations in the GBS thread, but if this thread would be interested as well I can post them here too. I'd always be interested in reading translated articles that might otherwise not hit the major English-language news outlets, assuming they're interesting, factual and/or funny.
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:the three US officials aren't talking to reuters about who's responsible for posting the images to discord, but they have a reasonable guess as to why those images exist at all Considering mentions that some of the numbers in the leaked data do not seem to line up with publicly available or stated data, and look like they've been intentionally altered, what are the odds that this leak is intentional disinformation to confuse the Russians?
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quote:“He’s a smart person. He knew what he was doing when he posted these documents, of course. These weren’t accidental leaks of any kind,” the member said. lmao
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For that matter, does Russia actually have any major opposition figures aside from Navalny, who's almost as hardline as Putin is? Like is there actually anyone over there who'd be likely to represent a major improvement if Putin decided to jump out of a window tomorrow and the throne was up for grabs?
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Couldn't Russian vessels just be barred from the national waters of NATO members? They could still do some bullshit, but suddenly considerably less.
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golden bubble posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/politics/jack-teixeira-leaks-russia-ukraine.html Is there even the faintest chance that he'll ever see the outside of a prison again?
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M_Gargantua posted:A-10s and F-14s suck. I think you're missing an extremely important point which is that the F-14 looks super rad and thus I believe it belongs at the top of the chart.
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In Ukraine news... https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1650085240113692673 Word is that the Ukrainians have crossed the Dnieper and pushed back the Russian forces on the east bank past another, smaller, river across a pretty wide front.
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my kinda ape posted:Put the 30mm cannon on a drone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmkXw3GLZ64 Go to bed Dahir.
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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1652155232896286720 https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1652165036134080515 Ukraine apparently hit an oil refinery in Sevastopol with a UAV this morning, current reporting is that the blaze has consumed almost a square kilometer and is still going strong, the pictures look proper apocalyptic.
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BrotherJayne posted:Regardless, if the casualties are anything like the UK or UA figgies, hopefully there is a front wide collapse and peace before the end of the year I don't think we're getting peace even if Russia is pushed back to the internationally recognized borders, I expect the Russians are going to keep lobbing artillery shells and missiles at Ukraine even afterwards.
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https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1653456888971837462quote:In the Bryansk region, Russia, the railway track was blown up again. Three explosions occurred near the Snezhetskaya station while the train was moving. As a result of the explosion, 8 wagons overturned. There were 70 carriages on the train in total. Things are still blowing up in Russia it seems.
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Is this just the worst false flag attempt to whip up more popular support against the dastardly Ukrainians?
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orange juche posted:If Russia is running around screaming that Ukraine did it, something doesn't smell right with the attack. Russia wouldn't want to give off the vibe internally that they're somehow weak to Ukraine flying drones into their loving capital and hitting the Kremlin, so the only way it makes sense is it's FSB trying to shake international support for Ukraine by claiming that this is an aggressive strike against Russian territory. I feel like it would be more of a Kremlin play to make an argument to their own people that the Ukrainians are the aggressors and thus the war has to continue, because I can't imagine anyone abroad buying it.
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Borscht posted:Someday Ukraine will have a functioning IFF system...someday Official word seems to be that the operator lost control and they blasted it out of the sky to be safe.
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https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1654432674633613312 https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1654448035445784576 Looks likely that Ukraine has succeeded in blowing one of the "invincible" Russian hypersonic missiles out of the air. The evidence seems pretty strong.
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https://twitter.com/KpsZSU/status/1654803125667090437 If I recall right there was some debate whether the Patriot was actually as good as it was supposed to be, since it apparently had some teething issues during early deployments. I guess this at least settles the issue that it's solid as an anti-missile system.
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https://vxtwitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1654906638350835720 There's absolutely no way this is anything but a placebo, right?
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Deteriorata posted:"Age restricted content. Log in to view." Okay, that makes no sense, it's literally just video of a Russian tank with ERA on top of its defense gazebo.
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Somaen posted:Navalny absolutely does not promote russian nationalism, I'm tired of arguing this, he promotes a centrist liberal "let's adopt good policies like they have in the west so we have a functional society". Source: russian, follow navalny and what his team is doing He did have that "you can't just give Crimea back!"-statement that people try to apologize away as misunderstanding or mistranslation but which really to me just reads as "no, Ukraine ain't getting Crimea back, its ours now lmao."
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https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1655846812723412992 Apparently it was a sadly denuded 9th of May parade, more or less void of tanks, IFV's and APC's and with the entire VDV also conspicuously absent according to reports. https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1655831503882932224 https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1655850586867113988 This person did the hard work of counting what exactly showed(and failed to show). Oliver Alexander posted:The flyover is expectedly cancelled. As no rehearsals had taken place, this was a guarantee.
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They don't even need to knock it down, just ripping apart the railway or the roadway and making it clear they can reach it consistently will make it a lot less useful as a route of military transport and be yet another big propaganda blow.
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A.o.D. posted:ISW is reporting that ARF just gave up roughly 3 square miles of Bakhmut. Not that there's anything with holding there anymore, that's still a sizable reversal given the pace of conflict over the past 5 months. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/16865 According to the Kyiv Post it's a sizeable counterattack that did not end well for the Russian side, it'll be interesting to see if it's just part of the general ebb and flow around Bakhmut or whether it's part of the supposed major counterattack that's going to happen in May. According to Prigozhin, who has every motivation to understate his losses(unless he's still trying to convince everyone that Wagner just needs more ammo and this is what happens when they don't get it), Wagner lost 500 troops in the counterattack.
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https://twitter.com/chriso_wiki/status/1656565436773793792 I mean I know we weren't far away already but the Russians have now truly entered beyond the realm of parody.
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https://twitter.com/IntelDoge/status/1657067703889166342 Fun new toys found in the Ukrainian inventory. Lots of armchair theorizing going on about how it's going to make Russian air defenses cry, which seems accurate since it was apparently used in connection with a Russian repair point getting blasted with pinpoint accuracy in the Russian-held parts of Luhansk.
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https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1657368124788809728 Speaking of "in range," it seems like pretty big news that some Russian aviation now isn't even getting over the border before coming crashing down burning. Feels like the first time we've seen that outside of technical failures. There are also some unconfirmed rumours the downed helicopters were specifically carrying artillery unit officers, which it would seem like a pretty big coup for Ukraine to blow up since the biggest threat Russia has going for it appears to remain their artillery numbers advantage. https://twitter.com/KilledInUkraine/status/1657362337626484736 quote:“According to an army source based in Klintsy, one of the helicopters was carrying officers from two artillery brigades and inspectors from the group headquarters who were flying to inspect the location of artillery units. There is no confirmation of this information yet.”
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https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1654883303835443200 https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1657411064194007041 Speaking of the war and also thundering. What the gently caress is wrong with that community?
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GD_American posted:Ukrainians aren't saying. I figured there'd be some grand pronouncement of the long awaited spring counter-attack, but they're being cannier than that. When they counter-attacked near Kherson they spent two months saying it was happening any day now, and then they said nothing when it actually happened. Meanwhile: https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1657700493605453825 Content: Russian soldier(?) bragging about how they have the world's best sniper rifles, followed by a pan to conscripts practicing with Mosin-Nagants.
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Lum_ posted:Zelensky was Very Very Unhappy about being asked about it. "hey mr. president can you comment on these super-sensitive, top-secret documents we got a hold of?" I can see why he'd be annoyed with them, especially since they don't seem willing to drop it after the first time he tells them to gently caress off. Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/polidemitolog/status/1657894637065969669?t=2ao7FcixUgwdQ0tLFrKWyw&s=19 This sort of thing is why I sometimes wonder if the leak was intentional, full of truths that wouldn't do too much harm, along with a bunch of half-truths to confuse the Russians and their allies, because this is just way too good to be true.
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Hyperlynx posted:As much as I love the F-16, I found the above very convincing (not that I'm an irl plane-flier, military or otherwise). I'd be very interested to know why they decided to go with the F-16 after all! Assuming that analysis is correct, it might be something as simple as the volume of available planes. 4500 F-16's have been produced over the years, while under 200 Saab Gripens have been made.
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