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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1632013180749639681
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Mar 5, 2023 20:57
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KazigluBey posted:I can't believe America forced innocent Russian soldiers to do this... Just ask Sergey Lavrov, he definitely thinks Ukraine attacked them first when he came to India and got laughed at for his pains.
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Mar 5, 2023 20:59
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1632337547392155650 Imagine burning ambulances.
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Mar 5, 2023 21:10
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New Girkin vs. Prigozhin dropped. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1632328568398139395 https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1632413697523044354 As usual, Prigozhin has nothing concrete to offer except juvenile attempts at trolling.
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Mar 5, 2023 21:26
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tiaz 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.
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Mar 5, 2023 21:47
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Hollismason posted:So have the tanks arrived in Ukraine yet? Whats going on with that? Tanks are arriving bit by bit, but the next major offensive will be in April onward depending on the weather conditions, however Ukraine might still decide to buy further time to accumulate more resources even if conditions seem favorable.
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Mar 5, 2023 21:51
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Der Kyhe posted:Much depends on how well the Ukrainian counter attack this Spring works out. If it leads to another large-scale Russian withdrawal on some front then this might be over in a nearish future (1-2 years or so). 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.
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Mar 5, 2023 21:58
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Toxic Mental posted:lol He's really doing the "take my ball and going home" threat? I know he looks like a baby but god drat I wonder if he isn't obliquely mentioning the rumor that Wagner was reportedly told to pack their bags and leave the battlefront, and go back to Russia, around when he got into trouble with both Gerasimov and Shoigu and Putin by extension.
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Mar 5, 2023 22:19
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Der Kyhe posted:Well, short answer yes I agree. But the longer answer, the grind can work both ways, towards Dnieper or towards borders. Since Ukrainian armed forces realistically cannot go beyond the 1994 borders, there really is nothing stopping the Russian high command from keeping the grind up, even if the front goes to follow the actual borders. Eastern part of Ukraine is still completely devastated, and the manpower is something that the Russians simply will not run out of. Along with 50's 60's era gear that nobody bought off when the Soviet Union collapsed, let alone they find someone to supply them with gear. Whoever seizes the initiative after mud season ends, as Strelkov is so fond of putting it, has the greatest chance of winning the war. But as before one of the keys remains logistics - an army with poor logistics will have a hard time even holding positions, much less pushing forward to capture them. As long as Ukraine breaks the Russian logistical supply chain, preferably in at least two locations, say Kreminna and/or Volnovakha for example, Russia will suddenly find itself much harder pressed to supply its units. And that could well set up the conditions for weakened frontlines to collapse. Twenty tanks and several humvees were enough to do it in Kharkiv. It can be much more effectively repeated when mud season ends with the new western weapons, unless Ukraine fails a complete lay up.
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Mar 5, 2023 22:25
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Karma Comedian posted:The poster you are responding to is a resident of St Petersburg. It's not Ukrainian aid, it's an american army group's kit being sent home. https://twitter.com/balt_security/status/1631977563240144898
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Mar 5, 2023 22:32
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Flavahbeast posted:in a post from a couple hours ago Prigozhin alleges that Wagner is still being starved of ammo and recruits: This is unusual insofar as I've not seen something like this happen before in the Wagner vs. Regular army spat. We know that Wagner were banned from recruiting prisoners and that RuAF have taken over the job, but this is the first time we're seeing regular Wagner recruits being just taken by the regular army and dispersed among their own units.
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Mar 5, 2023 22:39
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1632179221274546177 Another bunch of unfortunate mobiks claim to have been cheated by their higher ups and forced into human wave assaults instead of being given second and third line positions. All too often the complaint of no available fire support is mentioned in such addresses recently as well.
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Mar 5, 2023 22:47
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CommieGIR posted:Scorched earth seems to be the only thing they are capable of Khodakovsky, in a very recent telegram post after yet another failed assault in the Vuhledar direction, bitterly mentioned exactly this, that Russia is incapable of any form of warfare that doesn't involve massive amounts of artillery barrages. If this runs out, either by way of shell hunger or simply too many destroyed artillery pieces, Russia will be incapable of doing any meaningful offensive actions, also according to his own words.
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Mar 5, 2023 22:49
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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1632469732417761284 .....and why does this bozo suggest that America would start a war against Mexico at all? Not to mention America has plenty of land and resources to spare of its own.
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Mar 5, 2023 23:14
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Karate Bastard posted:Yes, sorry, should have said palatable and plausible. That hope honestly went out of the realm of possibility when they began framing it as an existential war being fought against the whole of NATO while simultaneously stripping away any agency from the Ukrainians themselves, claiming them to merely be useful puppets. Random Stranger posted:The ideal option for the Russian soldier who's send into Ukraine is to surrender. Refuse to take part in the war by just quitting. It may just be for propaganda purposes, but it didn't seem that Russian POWs were treated that poorly. They received medical aid if injured, were given food and water as well, as well as leisure time. However I object on principle to the interviews of Russian POWs published for propaganda purposes.
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Mar 5, 2023 23:47
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Herstory Begins Now posted:
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Mar 6, 2023 10:49
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1632676611760726017 Attrited to the point where you have to use ancient relics as your main battle tanks.
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Mar 6, 2023 10:54
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Dwesa posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1632282678195105792 So they've already begun capturing some of these DIY technicals? That didn't take very long. The equipment situation for Russia must be more desperate than one would think.
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Mar 6, 2023 11:10
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:There’s something going on here because I see the same kind of bad faith arguments from Latin American authoritarians (they’re always trying to attack us, we’re the victims, etc etc) and their cronies on Twitter. It’s like they learn it from somewhere, or maybe all narcissists react the same way and spread it Every dictatorship makes it about existential threats, imo, so it's less about picking stuff up from somewhere than it is the fact that it's just a convenient excuse in such cases.
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Mar 6, 2023 11:22
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 Estimated loss assessments for 6/3/2023. What a senseless waste of life and equipment.
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Mar 6, 2023 11:34
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https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1632681935775453184
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Mar 6, 2023 12:04
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KirbyKhan posted:War bad Yes, invading your neighbor and outlining a plan to genocide them and destroy their cultural identity is bad. I'm glad we both agree.
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Mar 6, 2023 12:21
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Karma Comedian posted:You're right Russia should stop fire bombing civilians. "ackchyually ukraine used those schools to hide several battalions of western trained troops, check out Incel Slava Z for more information that the west is trying to bury" zone fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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Mar 6, 2023 13:06
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https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1632635703673647104 It appears Shoigu was spotted making a visit to occupied Mariupol. I wonder why?
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Mar 6, 2023 13:21
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Strategic Tea posted:Man warhammer 40k is so cool
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Mar 6, 2023 14:29
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1632723434533683200 Reportedly, up to now Bulgaria has sent a billion dollars in weapons.
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Mar 6, 2023 14:36
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https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1632622373290618881 Reportedly the purchase of ballistic missiles from Iran is on hold because Russia is afraid of having ATACMS or other long range weapons sent to Ukraine in retaliation.
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Mar 6, 2023 14:46
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steinrokkan posted:The reason the ruble is "stable" is that the central bank effectively ceased all international currency trading. So it has a nominal value, but it's fictional. There was talk that when foreign currencies were purchased on the black market, you'd have to spend thrice or four times the nominal cost of a dollar/pound in rubles to get them. But that was months ago and I don't think there's been much reported about it since.
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Mar 6, 2023 14:49
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1632727952243687426 The useless Khodakovsky appears to have finally figured out that the Ukrainians are so tenacious because they're fighting for their land and homes, and asks why Russia can't be even half as tenacious as them in defense. He also believes that Melitopol is on the table for the next offensive.
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Mar 6, 2023 15:06
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Peace can happen any time Russia and their colonial transplants in Crimea pack their bags and leave for Russia again, and pay the bill for their dumb war in full. https://twitter.com/vic_top555/status/1557376547605975040
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Mar 6, 2023 15:59
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Tigey posted:Except 'stopping the war' by 'supporting peace' won't stop the genocide - it will accelerate it as Russia moves to consolidate its gains.
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Mar 6, 2023 16:02
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https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1632705392538013701 Fascism 101: accuse the other side of that which you yourself are guilty.
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Mar 6, 2023 16:17
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Nessus posted:Why would they only leave the Lenin paintings? Would those not also be a key part of Russian history, even if perhaps ideology is a little different now? Puzzling. The point is to show the Ukrainians that Ukraine is Russia, and shouldn't have their own culture, thus the Ukrainian national art is removed. e: f;b
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Mar 6, 2023 16:32
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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1632627996673581058
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Mar 6, 2023 16:42
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HonorableTB posted:Russia's 155th Brigade is refusing to carry out orders to capture Vuhledar. They were supported. It's just that the support is now mostly smoldering wreckage in minefields because of poor tactics and recon or destroyed by counterbattery fire.
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Mar 6, 2023 17:37
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1632774531650576385 Yuriy Butusov on the defense of Bakhmut and the current situation; seems like some kind of rear guard action is going on. I hope they leave the city in time though, because a mistake here would be very costly. e: because embeds are broken  quote:Everyone who fights in the city in unfavorable conditions hopes that the time of this heroic resistance is used to create reliable, well-equipped and camouflaged defense lines to cover Siversk, Chasiv Yar, Kostyantynivka, Druzhkivka, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, the lines to which these combat-capable troops will be withdrawn in time. These will be reliably entrenched to be able to defeat the enemy. zone fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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Mar 6, 2023 18:10
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Nessus posted:You may want to get in the practice of screenshotting tweets. Twitter embeds are broken, the tweet's still there. But i'll screenshot it in a moment.
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Mar 6, 2023 18:24
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Computer viking posted:Ha, you added that image exactly in time for it to be in my quote, but not visible when I pushed the button. 's all good. I wish twitter would stop breaking embeds as often as it does, though.
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Mar 6, 2023 18:32
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Toxic Mental posted:I think probably it'd be reasonable to say "since the seige on Bakhmut started in earnest, what % of their total losses have come in that time" or something. So if it's like 30%,? If you lose 30% of your invading forces to capture one single city? That's pretty rough. Expand that over the rest of Ukraine and it's not a great situation for anyone. Wagner alone, a month ago, was reported to have suffered a total of 40,000 MIA/KIA/AWOL/too badly wounded to be fit for further service, according to intelligence agencies. And those numbers were mentioned shortly after Soledar fell. Between that and what happened/is happening now in Bakhmut with both the Russian regular army and what's left of Wagner (and whatever recruits were picked up in the interim, given that Wagner are no longer allowed to recruit prisoners) I can't imagine they have a whole lot left to add. The Russian regular army formations in the attack there on both towns also took correspondingly heavy losses, but those weren't specifically mentioned.
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Mar 6, 2023 19:01
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Blitz of 404 Error posted:Bakhmut also is extremely fortified and has extensive tunnels iirc and has been designed this way for years. It's easily possible that no cities west of Bakhmut have the same quantity of fortifications and it's not great that they're abandoning it To be fair, I'd heard that Ukraine themselves didn't believe both the towns could hold as long as they did at the beginning of the war. The intention was to buy as much time as possible (which certainly at the time wasn't expected to be 7-8 months) to build up the defense lines at Sloviansk/Kramatorsk/Siversk and other smaller lines before these cities. That's why the defensive calculus of Lyman being recaptured has helped take out at least one potential further axis of attack in the Donetsk oblast towards Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
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Mar 6, 2023 19:07
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