Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Poopymonster]

Wasn't that changed a couple of years back though? I recall there being a bit of a stink about it.

The Finsn would be fools to not have those buildings scoped, scanned, and ready to do to the building what Reynal did to his defendant.
The Finns do not strike me as fools. Especially not regarding Russia.

[Saradain]

Wasn't that changed a couple of years back though? I recall there being a bit of a stink about it. I do disagree with the visa thing, especially for those russians that live in border villages. There's little love lost between me and russians but as I told a friend of mine: we don't need to be friends but there's no reason for hostility against regular people. (As long as they get lost at the end of the day.)

For that one particular case at very least, yes. I believe it had a helipad built in the property, hidden within thick forested part, with ground-walls ensuring there is no visibility to the said helipad from the ground level, at least, when passing by.

At least finnish authorities are confiscating anything from the "tourists" that has usage in military applications, probably based on the sanctions. So I can concur that russians indeed manage to abuse any loopholes and mistakes of hospitality towards them.

Russian people should definitely feel the consequences of their supported genocide. It would only serve to turn them against their masters.

The Finsn would be fools to not have those buildings scoped, scanned, and ready to do to the building what Reynal did to his defendant.
The Finns do not strike me as fools. Especially not regarding Russia.

Finns are no fools military-wise when it comes to the russian border. Our politicians though, include some individuals who happily repeat Kremlin propaganda and become the useful idiots. I wouldn't be surprised if they lobbied the said property sales and possibly even delayed any kind of changes towards the whole ownership business.

[Lahis]

The Finsn would be fools to not have those buildings scoped, scanned, and ready to do to the building what Reynal did to his defendant.
The Finns do not strike me as fools. Especially not regarding Russia.

Oh there are plenty of fools around who only saw the money and then there is are the proper traitors who live, breath and spew Kreml's propaganda.

[Voidism]

The label says 300km. Not 150.
Just do a quick search MGM-140 ATACMS.

But If they got them delivered or not? Idk.

But its a clear defensive war, so my stance is simple; ukraniane is allowed absoluetly anything.
And Im of the opinion that we should supply them with anything they should require.

In terms of targets every russian is a viable target, there are no actions ukraine can take that will shift my opinion on the matter.
They could start striking soft civilian targets inside russia proper and I would react positivly to it.

No. ER GLRMS has a 150 km range. So far Biden has explicitly said no to ATACMS. They are discussing it though.

I think they should be able to strike anywhere. Including in Moscow if they so wish. Legit targets are legit.

[Saradain]

No. ER GLRMS has a 150 km range. So far Biden has explicitly said no to ATACMS. They are discussing it though.

I think they should be able to strike anywhere. Including in Moscow if they so wish. Legit targets are legit.

And it wouldn't even be a war crime - Kremlin is not a civilian location!

They launched many strikes on Kyiv, Ukraine should do same for Moscow, and specifically Kremlin.

[jonnysensible]

lol @ russian air defense

[Edge-]

Man, the war is coming for those Russian tourists just trying to enjoy a nice day at the beach in territory annexed by Russia : (

WHY CAN'T THEY ENJOY A PEACEFUL DAY INSIDE A COUNTRY CURRENTLY BEING INVADED BY THEIR OWN COUNTRY?!

[Gorsameth]

Speculation flying around that it may have been drones that attacked the airbase.
I assume their range isn't that huge so it would mean there are teams inside Russian territory launching these attacks.

[Iphie]

Nothing happened at the Airbase in Crimea, just a small accident with some bombs:

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/s...10780180447235

[Corvus]

And that's just a parking lot outside the airfield. Satellite from 4 hours before the attack showed at least 37 jets and 6 helicopters on the ground there. Including some of their most advanced stuff. Hopefully a lot of them are at the least damaged.

And why isn't Amnesty protesting Russia putting a millitary airfield right beside tourists on holidays?

[Rustedsaint]

Read one tweet saying there was one fatality in that “accident”

[Edge-]

And why isn't Amnesty protesting Russia putting a millitary airfield right beside tourists on holidays?

Ukraine ain't cutting checks, yo.

Seriously, I generally support the AA cause, but they're continuing to eat lots of well deserved shit sammiches for that bullshit that they still haven't apologized for. I just hope they can find some humility and apologize, because they do quite a bit of actual good work from what I know.

[Corvus]

They went the politicians sorry not sorry route. We are sorry if people got angered by our report (but we aren't changing it.)

[Iphie]

Read one tweet saying there was one fatality in that “accident”

If that is the truth then they are VERY lucky. That could've easily be many more.

I did see that tweet as well though, 1 dead 5 injured.

You know, russia can't even admit that Ukraine did this because, according to their OWN propaganda, russia has destroyed all HIMARS systems and ammunitions. Well done...

[Zaydin]

Speculation flying around that it may have been drones that attacked the airbase.
I assume their range isn't that huge so it would mean there are teams inside Russian territory launching these attacks.

Or the frontline has pushed close enough to Crimea that they can take off from Ukrainian territory and start hitting Russian military targets in Crimea.

If that's the case I would expect the Russians to evacuate the Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol so they don't lose what's left of their fleet.

[Corvus]

If Russia is saying it, it's a lie.

At least 1 su-24 looks to be destroyed and given it was in a line of 6 planes parked side by side there is a good chance the others are damaged, if not destroyed as well.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1557082387087081473

[Edge-]

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-du...-spokesperson/

Unsurprisingly, Steven Segal seems to be stanning for big daddy Putin.

“It definitely looks like a rocket,” Seagal is reported to have said.

I know he's an action star and worked as a cop and shit, but is he an explosives expert as well?

Apparently not -

“The experts could not definitively say what caused the damage, but they pointed to a lack of shrapnel marks and craters and only minimal damage to internal walls in the available visuals of the aftermath,” the Post reported. “Instead, there were visible signs of an intense fire, which is at odds with damage caused by the most common HIMARS warhead.”

However...

“The interesting thing is that one of the killed Nazis is a Nazi who just started talking a lot about Zelensky,” Seagal added, “and that Zelensky is responsible for the orders about torture and other atrocities that violate not only the Geneva War Convention, but are also crimes against humanity.”

Russia just loves them some fictional Nazi's still, though.

[Zaydin]

So I snarked about it in the past, but it has finally come true: Russia is so desperate for bodies to throw into the meat grinder in Ukraine that they are recruiting convicts from prisons with offers of pay and freedom in exchange.

[Iphie]

It wasn't us, says Ukraine. (Cue "It wasn't me" by Shaggy)

Ok let's entertain that thought, if it wasn't the Ukrainians then who was it? Partisans as they suggest? Or, not impossible, it actually was russian incompetence, which they also suggest. Fact is an airbase got taken out and rather than capitalising on it the owner says 'my bad'!

[Kante]

If Russia is saying it, it's a lie.

At least 1 su-24 looks to be destroyed and given it was in a line of 6 planes parked side by side there is a good chance the others are damaged, if not destroyed as well.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1557082387087081473

They were actually fairly spaced out according to sat images, so the Russian version ( that changed couple of times ) of ordnance mishandling and then fuel depot fire is bullocks to be honest.


It was probably not ATACMS, Ukraine had a decent program for missiles and cruise missiles like the Hrim-2 SRBM 280-500km and Korshun Cruise Missile with ranges up to 700km (which is pretty much a copy of a Soviet Kh55 which Ukraine has the know how to manufacture) funding is available so is the technical data and with war time there is hardly any bureaucracy or they simply converted Neptunes (280km) to a land attack variant, long range strike capability without any backlash from Russia towards the West.