Hey Russia, it's called infantry support.
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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I hate Russia but that has to either be a crutch or a photoshopped pic. No way they are actually fighting with sticks, unless they were chased away from their camp unexpectedly.
I was thinking improvised crutch, too. Dead is dead, though. Think on the positive side.
They have really been targeting artillery the last week. Perhaps a strategy for helping out at their honeypot location.
Worth noting it took 10 months to hit 100k and it is tracking 4.5 months to hit another 100k to account how crazy the last 2.75 months have been since Christmastime.
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There were reports last week of them charging trenches armed only with shovels.
Hopefully the world leading UKR social media will keep posting that car when it is seen out on the streets of Kyiv
Of course, the song the digital sign was playing was Bayraktar
KYIV, March 13 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping could wade deeper than before into Ukraine diplomacy as soon as next week, staging both his first trip to Russia and his first talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy since Moscow's invasion.
Several sources familiar with the plans told Reuters Xi could visit Moscow next week, an earlier-than-expected trip in response to a long-standing invitation from President Vladimir Putin. His plans to also hold a video conference with Zelenskiy were reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing sources, which Reuters was not immediately able to confirm independently.
www.reuters.com
Several sources familiar with the plans told Reuters Xi could visit Moscow next week, an earlier-than-expected trip in response to a long-standing invitation from President Vladimir Putin. His plans to also hold a video conference with Zelenskiy were reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing sources, which Reuters was not immediately able to confirm independently.
Xi could visit Putin, speak to Zelenskiy next week
Chinese President Xi Jinping could wade deeper than before into Ukraine diplomacy as soon as next week, staging both his first trip to Russia and his first talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy since Moscow's invasion.
www.reuters.com
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Ukraine Insists on Retaking All Its Territory Despite Some Doubts in the West
With the front lines largely deadlocked over winter, some European officials have floated the idea of the West providing security guarantees to encourage peace talks, but Kyiv argues that any concessions would encourage further Russian aggression.
www.wsj.com
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Lots of fertilizer in that video.
Remember this weekend when 1,090 KIAs were reported in one day? What that did not include was 1,500 additional "sanitary" losses that same day, which means soldiers injured grievously enough so that they can no longer fight.
www.yahoo.com
Bloodshed in Bakhmut: Russia Suffers Potentially Deadliest Day Yet in Ukraine
Serhii Nuzhnenko/Radio Liberty via ReutersBoth sides fighting over the desolate ruins of the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine have reported inflicting huge numbers of deaths on each other as the bitter bloodshed appears to have escalated to previously unseen levels.On Sunday, Ukrainian President...
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"The Grom-E1 missile is designed for engaging targets with known coordinates. The maximum launch range is 120 km, the launch altitude varies from 500 to 12,000 m, the medium flight speed is 300 m/s; the guidance is provided by inertial satellite navigation system. The guidance precision is ensured by the GLONASS and/or GPS satellite navigation systems. The missile launch weight is 594 kg; the payload includes a contact explosive device and HEF warhead weighing 315 kg. The engine is comprised of a solid fuel booster and a sustainer."
MAKS 2019: KTRV to present Grom-E1 and Grom-E2 airborne munitions
From 27 August to 1 September, the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV) will participate in the fourteenth international aerospace show, MAKS-2019, the KTRV press service reports. "The main exposition of the enterprise, integrated with the corporation, will present many examples and...
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Russia's arms export industry is collapsing
Russian military exports fell by nearly one-third over the last five years, and the long-term picture looks bleak for Moscow.www.newsweek.com
Russia’s arms industry is cratering. Exports for this lucrative part of their economy is shrinking rapidly. I suppose because of sanctions, but I also think on the field performance of their weaponry is making buyers rethink who to get their stuff from.
I think it's mainly (right now) because they cannot export anything, because they need it in Ukraine. There's zero production bandwidth for anything, anywhere else.
Russia is just one big organized crime syndicate
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Conflict between Russian MoD and Wagner’s Prigozhin reaching climax
The conflict between the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin likely reached its climax against the backdrop of the battle for the town of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast.
Russia is just one big organized crime syndicate
Conflict between Russian MoD and Wagner’s Prigozhin reaching climax
The conflict between the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin likely reached its climax against the backdrop of the battle for the town of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast.
To be fair I need to post something good about Russia
Zelensky is right. Didn’t they have a peace guarantee when they gave up the nukes? There is no way in hell that Putin’s word is worth anything and as long as Russia has nukes any peace guarantee would be just as worthless.
Ukraine Insists on Retaking All Its Territory Despite Some Doubts in the West
With the front lines largely deadlocked over winter, some European officials have floated the idea of the West providing security guarantees to encourage peace talks, but Kyiv argues that any concessions would encourage further Russian aggression.
Non-subscriber link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrain...94eg0q2hppk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://apnews.com/article/russia-u...e&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_07
The US is pushing harder to seize and liquidate the assets of oligarchs. Also, those who assist the oligarchs evade sanctions are now being targeted.
The US is pushing harder to seize and liquidate the assets of oligarchs. Also, those who assist the oligarchs evade sanctions are now being targeted.
Good, maybe they can do the same with a few of our oligarchs
Might want to back off next time.
Good footage.
Good footage.
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Yesterday or Saturday, I posted that Ukraine might be playing rope -a-dope with the Russians. This article suggests that maybe the Russian MoD is playing rope-a-dope with Prigozhin and the Wagner group around Bahkmut.
Those crazy Russians!
www.businessinsider.com
Those crazy Russians!
Russia is using one of Ukraine's bloodiest battles to decimate the Wagner Group, after its boss started a feud with military leaders, experts say
Russia's military is "likely seizing the opportunity to deliberately expend both elite and convict Wagner forces in Bakhmut," the ISW said.
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Russia Turns to Women's Prisons for Fresh Recruits – Reports
Russia has resorted to recruiting inmates from women's prisons to serve in the Russian military in a bid to make up for its growing losses in Ukraine, according to both Ukrainian officials and an independent Russian prisons watchdog.
“Last week, a train with sleeping cars for the transfer of prisoners was spotted moving towards the Donetsk region. One of the cars [had] female convicts [in it],” Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said in an update published on Monday.
Olga Romanova, the co-founder of prisoners’ rights organization Russia Behind Bars, confirmed the ministry's claims to independent news outlet iStories, noting that Russia had likely been using female prisoners to aid its invasion efforts since at least the end of last year.
“They were taken from penal colonies in southern Russia. I don’t know the exact ones, but they worked in Kushchevka [in the southern Krasnodar region],” Romanova told iStories.
As many as 100 female prisoners are believed to have been transferred to fight in Ukraine so far, according to the human rights defender, though it remains unclear if the recruitment was carried out on a voluntary basis or whether the inmates had been press-ganged into the Russian military.
In February, Ukrainian military officials said that Russia had recruited as many as 50 female prisoners from a penal colony in the Russia-occupied city of Snizhne in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The recruits were sent for “training” in Russia before being returned to Ukraine to fight, they said.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023...r-crimes-cases-against-russians-report-a80471
About the 4 minute mark, to me it looks like you may see blood on the Russian. If so he should, if he was able to, just surrendered.
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That's such a Russian move.Yesterday or Saturday, I posted that Ukraine might be playing rope -a-dope with the Russians. This article suggests that maybe the Russian MoD is playing rope-a-dope with Prigozhin and the Wagner group around Bahkmut.
Those crazy Russians!
Russia is using one of Ukraine's bloodiest battles to decimate the Wagner Group, after its boss started a feud with military leaders, experts say
Russia's military is "likely seizing the opportunity to deliberately expend both elite and convict Wagner forces in Bakhmut," the ISW said.
