zone posted:

Anyone that thinks capturing Bakhmut and Soledar and the nearby towns will be some gigantic "victory" for Russia will probably get extremely frustrated at finding out they have to repeat it all over again along the next defensive lines. And there's enough room to repeat this process as many times as needed. Remember that with the capture of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk last year the whole Russian offensive culminated, forming the conditions necessary for the Kharkiv and Kherson offensive.

zone posted:

The bottleneck for this war is russian materiel rather than their numbers of soldiers under arms. They're already resorting to making strange Frankenstein's monster type technicals, such as the MT-LB with the naval gun mounted on top. The rate of losses of tanks and IFVs don't even match their rate of restoration or production per year even if you only use Oryx's list of battlefield equipment losses. Within another year, I would find myself surprised if Russia has anything approaching an actual land army left.

Arc Hammer posted:

So when bakhmut falls, then what?

Arc Hammer posted:

So it'll be a nothingburger "victory" that Russia will hail as a decisive blow against the Commie Nazi Ukrainians while the reality is they've captured seventeen square feet and Field Marshall Ivan moves advances his vodka cabinet two inches closer to Kyiv.

Turtle Watch posted:

I agree that lady’s vacation being ruined in the war is not worthy of much sympathy. I just wanted to clarify what was meant more broadly by saying things such as “Russian colonists go home”. The resources that have been posted here are interesting, and I understand your specific meaning better. The kind of eliminationist rhetoric I was referring to is possibly just the kind of nonsense raving you can hear from any random person on twitter and not especially representative.

EorayMel posted:

In spring, Altai red deer horns, or antlers, grow at an enormous rate of several centimeters a day. At this moment the antlers are not yet ossified, they are soft and full of blood. Extract from these horns is said to have a therapeutic effect (people supposedly benefit from antler baths), so there is a whole industry for the extraction of pantocrine . For this purpose, red deer are tied or clamped on a special machine, lifted so that they hang helplessly, and the living horns are cut off — often with an ordinary hacksaw. Animal rights activists compare the experience of animals to the torture of pulling out a person’s fingernails.

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Sergei Shoigu, the then head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, was the first person in the Russian elite to become interested in antler baths. In the mid-2000s, Shoigu brought Putin to Altai for the first time, convincing him of the benefits of this treatment, which supposedly improves the cardiovascular system and rejuvenates the skin . On one of his trips, Putin, who was starting to think more about his health, immersed himself in a bathtub containing an odorant extract from blood-filled deer antlers. An acquaintance of the president claims that he had been warned that there is no conclusive evidence of the benefits of antler baths. But Putin liked it, and since then he has revisited Altai multiple times .

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1633116933041037317
There was an attempt

HonorableTB posted:

Pro-Ukrainian group? How could the CIA do this

Cthulu Carl posted:

gently caress, count it anyway. One (1) Armata: Captured.

zone posted:

You say this, and then apparently even Russian tankmen think the same too. Those who tried out the Armata said categorically they refused to trust their lives to that rattletrap. They'd sooner go to the front in T-62s than an Armata. This was from last month by the way.

Karate Bastard posted:

It was totally Luxembourg.

HonorableTB posted:

Anyone ever play that old PC game Beachhead/Beachhead 2000? Endless waves of enemies doing amphibious and air assaults on your position and all you have is a machine gun nest with some cannon and stuff.

Getting reminded a lot of that when hearing about these human wave attacks. Russia treating the mobiks like the Imperial Guard lol

hemale in pain posted:

I've learned from star wars nerds that they intentionally made Dukat very explicitly and obviously evil in that episode because idiots kept liking the brutal war criminal because his actor was too charismatic

Power Khan posted:

When you need to make a bigger boom and all you got right now is these defunct roombas

https://twitter.com/VictoriaIakove1/status/1634215848742379521

HonorableTB posted:

Hahaha holy gently caress partisans set a Su-27 on fire at the Central Corner air base in Artyom, Primorsky Krai.


Just a burning jet, nothing else

https://v.redd.it/r266pa82uyma1

Outrail posted:

Mining for explosives

HonorableTB posted:

I assumed those were rocks coming out of that mine

but that's high explosive isnt it

HonorableTB posted:

That's pretty incredible. I guess not all explosives are like Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane

Arc Hammer posted:

How are communications being handled in a world of cell phones? Back when the war started there were all those articles about Russian soldiers utterly failing at Opsec because they kept texting and calling people on their mobile phones that they were somehow allowed to bring into combat.

With Ukrainian partisans possibly blowing poo poo up in occupied regions, are they coordinating using mobile devices as well or would they have a more secure line of communication to avoid getting sniffed out?

HonorableTB posted:

It certainly did not help that the Russians at Makiivka and Avdiivka were doing public broadcasts on Telegram from inside those buildings all the way up until the HIMARS hit em

zone posted:

Tatarigami has always cautioned everyone to maintain and measure expectations, and insists to never underestimate even an opponent as weak and corrupt as Russia. Even Strelkov said they still have enough gas in the tank to prosecute the war for maybe another year, if at most. Until that mark is reached at least, Ukraine should still give 100% toward the war.

Telsa Cola posted:

I have absolutely zero idea, it may be yesterday, so this isnt a gotcha, but whens the last time we actually applied/arrested someone like that.

Dr. Quarex posted:

Also like, Finland going from somewhat tolerating Russia to becoming NATO's longest border with Russia by far is going to be pretty intense huh

free hubcaps posted:

It's mainly cuz the US would be sending a bunch of 'MURICAN military officers to stand trial at the Hague and that doesn't sit well with the military for obvious reasons

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1636796841898708992
Putler's throwing a tantrum about being given the status of a common criminal.

Jonny Nox posted:

That reminds me. Russia is still camping soldiers in the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

Yes they shell the local town from there.

No, Ukraine is not allowed to return fire.

Splorange posted:

If there's a medically safe way to eat a hat meant to be worn that isn't meant to be edible, I'll eat it or then eat the ban.

Point is, the russian people are apathetic as gently caress and have nothing to ideologically to coalesce around.. he's too chickenshit to kill himself - so he's likely going to die of whatever rear end cancer he has or be murdered by someone in his inner sphere.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1637049769951477763
I wonder if they're still upset that Turkey didn't permit the sale of uniforms and body armor to them, lol. Funny how anyone that doesn't lick their boots is "historical Russian territory" but OK, whatever lets you idiots sleep at night

Tigey posted:

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

Denmark's in NATO. Denmark is also where Lego is headquartered.

Lego should make modular war drones, is what I'm saying.

Out of recycled plastics...

golden bubble posted:

They must be very desperate to start doing this to residents of Moscow, people who's lives sort of matter by the standards of the Russian elite.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

The second one is especially interesting, because I had forgotten that in early days the rhetoric from some circles was that whatever we do, we must help Putin not lose face so he has a graceful exit from the situation, and a year in that sure didn't help.

Barry Bluejeans posted:

If they wanted to take aim at France, it certainly seems as though the easy thing to do would be to twist the ongoing protests as the natural consequence of weak liberal western governance, at least then they'd have actual footage to back up their bullshit. But maybe the propagandists are so scared of the Russian public revolting that they don't want to make the barest reference to people marching in the streets, I dunno.

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

It's also almost a certainty that DU rounds have been being fired by both sides since the start of the war since a lot of the punchier Soviet surplus and newer Russian 125mm rounds were DU.

zone posted:

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if catapults start appearing somewhere on the field at this point. We've already seen both mobiks and the so-called republics' soldiers shown using bows and crossbows. Then there was the talk about being sent into hand to hand combat with trench shovels.