Russian invasion of Ukraine

[alach]

I almost feel bad for them. They are so conditioned with lies, misinformation, and a false history their entire lives they cannot not end up being propagandists themselves. It's crazy how many European countries history teach about Russian incursions or invasions, that Russians call liberation. Poland, Bulgaria, Czech or Slovakia etc etc.

Speaking of which, anyone see the latest putin propo/campaign commercial where he heroically pilot's a Russian bomber.
I think they called that behavior a napoleon complex.

[Jessicka]

I almost feel bad for them. They are so conditioned with lies, misinformation, and a false history their entire lives they cannot not end up being propagandists themselves. It's crazy how many European countries history teach about Russian incursions or invasions, that Russians call liberation. Poland, Bulgaria, Czech or Slovakia etc etc.

Britain walking nervously past trying not to draw attention.

[Odinfrost]

Welcome to NATO, Sweden. May Putput shake in his insecure boots

[Edge-]

NATO just got access to a ton of badass Nordic metal, they should investigate new anthems or theme songs or something

[Iphie]

Belgium could do with some humility and gratefulness to russia

I don't even know anymore.

[alach]

Belgium could do with some humility and gratefulness to russia

I don't even know anymore.

Exactly what I was talking about, they are being brainwashed with this. Now we look to the US election to see if they choose the same future.
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US has spent about $20 million to maintain superyacht seized from a Russian oligarch
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/06/p...ion/index.html

I don't understand why this happens? Just give it to Ukraine to sell and be done with it.

[Deus Mortis]

No, it doesn't.
Yesterday, ukrainians blew up a bus full of civillians in Kirovsk, Luhansk oblast.
And it's just one most recent example.
Ukrainans are killing and terrorizing the supposdely their own compatriots on almost daily basis.
Or they are killing and terrorizing Russian people in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Either way, they are killing civillians.
Because if there's one thing Ukrainians are good at, it is fighting civillians. Wolyn poles would attest.

The bus hit a mine in Russian controlled territory. I assume this is why you didn't give a link and just spewed your usual bullshit.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/...ukraine-a84361

Seven people were killed on Wednesday in separate incidents in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk under Russian control, Moscow-installed authorities announced.

Five civilians were killed when the bus they were traveling in hit a mine and two more were killed by alleged Ukrainian shelling, authorities said.

"There was a tragedy in the city of Kirovsk in the Luhansk People's Republic — a bus traveling to a cemetery exploded on a mine," Governor Leonid Pasechnik said.

"Five people were killed," he added in a comment on social media.

[Iphie]

US has spent about $20 million to maintain superyacht seized from a Russian oligarch
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/06/p...ion/index.html

I don't understand why this happens? Just give it to Ukraine to sell and be done with it.

It's that peskky due process thingy we're beholden to. Annoying, yes, but better than just selling it.

[Makabreska]

Belgium could do with some humility and gratefulness to russia

I don't even know anymore.

I wonder if Pootie is at the point where he actually believes all this drivel.

[Iphie]

I wonder if Pootie is at the point where he actually believes all this drivel.

I was talking to a buddy of mine and I wondered if he's just deliberately taking the piss just to see how far he can get before someone calls him out on his bs, because this is far out even for him.

[Makabreska]

I was talking to a buddy of mine and I wondered if he's just deliberately taking the piss just to see how far he can get before someone calls him out on his bs, because this is far out even for him.

Well, all this shit he spouts is what is being taught in Russian schools and museums, soooo...

[Iphie]

Well, all this shit he spouts is what is being taught in Russian schools and museums, soooo...

Yes....Fomenko's new chronology, it's true, but I don't think that ever mentioned Belgium. XD

[Gabriel]

I was talking to a buddy of mine and I wondered if he's just deliberately taking the piss just to see how far he can get before someone calls him out on his bs, because this is far out even for him.

This is 100% what he is doing. I was talking about it earlier also I think.

In Russian culture the person who can tell the biggest obvious lie is the person in charge. Putin is just daring everyone else to do something about it, because if he gets away with the lie, he continues being the top dog.

[Wilian]

In some good news that have been on the short lately out of the aviation- and fleet hits of late, the funding for 800 000 155mm artillery shells from outside EU/US have been met according to Chezh president and deliveries can begin in few weeks. A shame it took west this long to dig up this ammunition which led in major artillery disparity in the field and can be credited as one of the prime reasons Russia's obtaining of initiative on multiple fronts recently. Too late but at least this time in reasonable, meaningful numbers that can shift the balance again.

[Iphie]

In some good news that have been on the short lately out of the aviation- and fleet hits of late, the funding for 800 000 155mm artillery shells from outside EU/US have been met according to Chezh president and deliveries can begin in few weeks. A shame it took west this long to dig up this ammunition which led in major artillery disparity in the field and can be credited as one of the prime reasons Russia's obtaining of initiative on multiple fronts recently. Too late but at least this time in reasonable, meaningful numbers that can shift the balance again.

The problem was also that France and Germony wanted to keep it in house, which isn't terrible idea but not if the production isn't there yet.

That said, we should probably get producing now as well so we aren't relying on the US and whoever is in charge there.


Ok, that's it, that's the end of pootie:

Moscow suspends the sale of alcohol

Riots, I'm telling ya.

[George]

The problem will be fixed really fast. Nobody wants a sober population in Russia, not the government and not the people themselves.

[Dontrike]

A golf course is missing some of its carts 'cause Russia is using them to attack Ukraine. Something something "Russia is strong" something something turnip please. (The accompanying video in the article is also a fun watch as RuZZians get taken out.)

It’s reckless, if not insane, to deploy an open-top, unarmored all-terrain vehicle—in essence, a heavy-duty golf cart—in combat just a quarter mile from the front line.

But two years into Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, Russian commanders are at least reckless if not not insane. Apparently this weekend, a Russian unit—possibly the 488th Motor Rifle Regiment—attacked positions held by the Ukrainian 60th Mechanized Brigade in Yampolivka, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.

A Russian column including what appeared to be MT-LB armored tractors and at least one T-90 tank motored west toward Yampolivka. That itself wasn’t unusual. What was unusual was what else was in the assault group.

Several Desertcross 1000-3 ATVs. The Chinese-made Desertcross is an 85-horsepower ATV. It’s the kind of thing you’d find at a construction site or on a farm. It’s not the kind of thing you’d ride into battle, as it lacks armor and weaponry.

But as Russian vehicle losses exceeded 10,000 late last year, the Kremlin bought 2,100 Desertcrosses for $17,000 apiece—and shipped them off to Ukraine. While it makes sense for Russian regiments to use the ATVs as utility vehicles in rear areas, it doesn’t make sense to load them up with infantry and add them to assault groups.

That’s exactly what some callous Russian commander did this weekend. And with predictable results. As the assault group closed to within a quarter mile or so of the outermost Ukrainian positions, the 60th Brigade peppered the group with cluster shells then plucked at it with explosives-laden drones.

When the smoke cleared, the T-90 and several Desertcrosses lay wrecked among a lot of dead Russians.

It’s hard enough for a 51-ton T-90 or 13-ton MT-LB to survive an unsupported daylight dash through an artillery and drone kill-zone. It’s impossible for a 1.5-ton Desertcross.

But when your regiment lacks any other means of transporting infantry to the line of contact, and you’re not terribly worried about casualties, you might risk it. And that’s how we make sense of the senseless decision to roll a bunch of golf carts into battle.

Russia’s unrelenting attacks all along the front line since last fall—attacks that have cost it thousands of vehicles—might create the impression that the Kremlin has equipment to spare.

It does not. The nearly half-million-strong Russian force in Ukraine has been losing at least 500 tanks and fighting vehicles a month for several months, according to Oryx. And with Russian industry struggling to produce more than 400 new BMP infantry fighting vehicles and around the same number of new T-72 or T-90 tanks every year, the balance—thousands of fighting vehicles and tanks—must come from Russia’s stocks of ex-Soviet vehicles, left over from the Cold War.

These stocks by definition are finite. And if the current rate of loss continues, the Kremlin could run out of tanks and BMPs in the next 18 months. Which explains, if not justifies, some Russian colonel’s decision to pile infantry onto open-top ATVs and send them into combat behind his regiment’s last few armored vehicles.

[Ulmita]

Macron told the national secratary of the French communist party that Kiev and Odessa are red lines and if the Russians were to reach those he would send army:
https://twitter.com/WarWatchs/status...27415991890133

[Saradain]

Macron told the national secratary of the French communist party that Kiev and Odessa are red lines and if the Russians were to reach those he would send army:
https://twitter.com/WarWatchs/status...27415991890133

Allegedly told. Gonna need other sources for confirmation.

[Ulmita]

Allegedly told. Gonna need other sources for confirmation.

https://www.lindependant.fr/2024/03/...e-11810700.php