Russian invasion of Ukraine

[YUPPIE]

None of this matters because Russia has the ultimate coercion tool in case things go absolutely FUBAR. But given their ability to wage this war within the estimate of some years, that's not even close to happening.

"Some years" is a long time.

[Corvus]

Those are the officially released figures, so who knows just how bad it really is.

The car sales one has another factor as well - prior to sanctions they imported a lot of western made cars. Now the largest share of sales are the inferior Lada. No one really wants them, especially those in Moscow or St Petersburg, but it either that or a Chinese made car. And the Lada is winning that option.

Russia had a lit of artillery and it is dying fast, especially their self propelled and long range guns. They have been seen to be transitioning more to shorter range mortars as their long range guns get taken out, and those are even more vulnerable.

Ukrainian guns are more accurate and their self propelled ones are much faster at shoot and scoot, leaving them less at risk. The Ukrainians are also much better at counter battery work. The sacked russian general complained about the lack of counterbattery ability they had and how Ukrainian artillery was wrecking them.

The way it is going, Ukraine may soon have artillery equality, if not superiority to russia, just like some reports indicate they may have with tanks.

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The russian state TV hack ended with Swan Lake, which everyone in russia knows what it means.

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Russian reports are saying a section of the Crimea bridge is down.

[Azadina]

None of this matters because Russia has the ultimate coercion tool in case things go absolutely FUBAR. But given their ability to wage this war within the estimate of some years, that's not even close to happening.

"Some years" is a long time.

Oh? What's that? Are you invoking the N word again?

[jonnysensible]

russias dogshit logistics going to get even shitter

[YUPPIE]

No torture depicted. But here is a good glimpse at what Putin puts you if you do not fight in Ukraine

You get sent into dark pits and corridors to languish in filth and darkness until your will breaks.

A Russian soldier convicted of insubordination was among a group of conscripts who accused their superiors of locking them up in a cellar in eastern Ukraine after they refused to fight, subjecting them to unsanitary living conditions and an insufficient diet, according to a report by an independent Russian news outlet.

The conviction of soldier Yevgeny Frolov in the far-eastern city of Spassk-Dalny on July 13 came days after new video footage emerged purporting to show Russian soldiers in Ukraine placed in captivity for refusing to go to the front line with insufficient equipment and support.

"We are locked up in this pit for refusing to go to the front line," a man out of frame can be heard saying in the video, which shows men in camouflage lying in a dank cellar-like room with crumbling walls.

"There are no commanders that would take us to the front line. There is no equipment, evacuation teams, radios. We are just thrown into the woods like dogs," the man adds in the video, which was published by the independent Russian Telegram channel Astra on July 8.



Relatives of the conscripts shown in the video from the cellar released last week told Astra that they had been unable to contact the soldiers after the footage was released online.

[Deus Mortis]

Do you guys think this will buff out? /s For those not aware the picture is of the Crimea Bridge.

[Gabriel]

Do you guys think this will buff out? /s For those not aware the picture is of the Crimea Bridge.

Haha. Stupid gay-nazi-jews think this will stop the glorious russian army? They'll just fill in the gap with NOOOOOKS!

[korijenkins]

even if it's in collaboration with Putin or whatever, Putin is being made to look like a bitch by Erdogan publicly more than once now.

Public image as a strongman is important to Putin, so it's not a small deal when this man does things like making him wait for him or publicly saying things that absolutely go against his interests.

I mean, Xi also made him look like a bitch. So did Kazakhstan's president. It's basically over for any perception of Putin's competence as a leader as well as his international respect. Russian media and random bozos on twitter might fellate him, but virtually the entire rest of the world knows the country is a joke.

Putin genuinely needs Turkey's middle of the road approach more than Erdogan needs anything from him.

[Iphie]

Do you guys think this will buff out? /s For those not aware the picture is of the Crimea Bridge.

Just some paint, good as new.

[MCMLXXXII]

Do you guys think this will buff out? /s For those not aware the picture is of the Crimea Bridge.

Russian watercylce launch platform.

[Corvus]

Not sure bridges, even in russia, are meant to look like this.

https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/s...21838857814018

[Marcellus1986]

Hey look everyone, I found Ulmita’s favorite band:
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1...533139456?s=20

[Nymrohd]

Hey look everyone, I found Ulmita’s favorite band:
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1...533139456?s=20

Ulmita is just your run of the mill NATO-hating, Russia fellating Greek. It is not at all uncommon to encounter this view here. Greeks have varying valid reasons for not particularly loving the West (what with them inflaming the civil war with the UK in 1944 and the US joining in 1947 placing in power and supporting collaborationists (IDEA, a society with extensive representation in the military) whose legacy remains today in the Greek Neo-nazi movement with local CIA officers maintaining close relations with the colonels of IDEA who later went on to cause the Greek Junta.
So yes, NATO's only interest in the region was to suppress the communists (and lumped together with them the vast majority of the heroes of the Greek WWII resistance) and later chose to be entirely ambivalent when both the King and Karamanlis inquired about their response to a coup.

Now why they like Russia, I have no idea. Russia has never actually done much for us. Decent tourism and export market?

[Corvus]

Video from the bridge shows traffic is out in both directions.

https://twitter.com/junolocal/status...149491200?s=20t

[Gabriel]

Video from the bridge shoes traffic is out in both directions.

https://twitter.com/junolocal/status...149491200?s=20

Lmao get fucked.

[Gorsameth]

Didn't Russia move a lot of air defence to the area after the last strike?

Guess they didn't prove quite effective enough.

[Corvus]

Didn't Russia move a lot of air defence to the area after the last strike?

Guess they didn't prove quite effective enough.

It was done with naval drones reportedly. Guess the dolphins didn't work either.

[Iphie]

It was done with naval drones reportedly. Guess the dolphins didn't work either.

Dolphins are an allied unit, of course they'd betray the Neo-USSR.

[Devonitar]

Dolphins are an allied unit, of course they'd betray the Neo-USSR.

Does that mean squids will patrol the bridge now?

[Saradain]

Dolphins are an allied unit, of course they'd betray the Neo-USSR.

Alliance as a concept is entirely alien to Nazi Russia! Nice day to read news indeed. Where is my hat trick to make the entire bridge collapse? Make the rats drown or to swim back to Naziland!