This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Solid Reuters article about the failures of Russian intelligence to see the Kursk incursion coming, the bungling of the various Russian entities responsible for security, and the multi-dimensional plan the Ukrainians put together and expertly executed.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-russia-looked-wrong-way-ukraine-invaded-2024-08-17/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-russia-looked-wrong-way-ukraine-invaded-2024-08-17/
The other folks on the panel didn’t look too convinced that his plan is a solid one.
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The gift that just keeps on giving.
Off on a tangent-it really irritates me that US media still reports any of the crap coming out of Russia. All nations have propaganda during war but Russia lies about EVERYTHING.
The Obama photos don't look like they were taken in America.Don’t worry we haven’t.
The Trump one definitely looks like it was.
That's a significant difference to me, at least.
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The trump photos are probably those taken inside the White House where he infamously invited our enemies inside.
Another I hope this strange story is true.
Pansarbandvagn 302, meaning roughly armoured tracked carrier vehicle 302, is a Swedish high-mobility infantry fighting vehicle used by the Swedish Army from 1966 to 2014. Wikipedia
Armor: 23mm
Engine: Diesel, Volvo THD 100; 270 hp (201 kW)
Main armament: 20 mm automatkanon m/47D
Maximum speed: 66 km/h
No. built: 644 all variants
Secondary armament: 2 × 71mm Lyran mortars
These maps just make it all the more amazing what the Wehrmacht pulled off again and again in ‘41 and ‘42.
Maybe they can contact the ghost of Red Adair. (Famous oil fire fighter.)
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Maybe on purpose but their captioning blocks out much of the action.
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The bunker comes complete with dog.
Cannot tell if this has been verified, it has been rumored there has been a buildup of forces there.
"BREAKING:Ukraine has gone on the offensive towards Zaporozhye!"
Cannot tell if this has been verified, it has been rumored there has been a buildup of forces there.
"BREAKING:Ukraine has gone on the offensive towards Zaporozhye!"
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I think after seeing their propaganda on the war for a couple years it's still useful to report what they're saying. It's possible to decypher changes in their rhetoric.
Russia-Ukraine war live: large drone attack on Moscow as Kursk incursion continues
Good morning and welcome to our coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war. I’m Tom Ambrose.Russian air defences shot down 11 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow, “one of the largest” such strikes ever against the capital, officials said on Wednesday.
“Eleven drones were destroyed” over Moscow and its surrounding region, the defence ministry said.
“This is one of the largest ever attempts to attack Moscow with drones,” Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin added. Sobyanin said in an earlier post that no damage or casualties had been reported.
Drone attacks on Moscow are rare, with Russia saying in May it had downed a drone outside the capital, forcing restrictions to be imposed at two major airports in the city for under an hour.
Kyiv has repeatedly targeted oil and gas facilities in Russia since the conflict began in 2022, some hundreds of kilometres from its borders, in what it has called “fair” retaliation for attacks on its energy infrastructure.
Ukrainian drones attacked an oil storage facility in Russia’s southern Rostov region on Sunday, causing a large fire, the local governor said.
The blaze in the city of Proletarsk was still raging on Tuesday, with about 500 Russian firefighters working to put it out.
In other news:
- Ukraine has said large numbers of Russian servicemen – reportedly in the hundreds – gave themselves up during the Kursk offensive that began on 6 August. Agence France-Presse has visited a detention centre just across the border in Ukraine’s Sumy region.
- One 22-year-old Russian PoW – a conscript – said he and others were “simply abandoned by our command” when Ukrainian troops appeared and now he hoped “to be exchanged and go back home … to my family”. The deputy head of the detention facility, who gave his name as Volodymyr, told AFP that the PoWs were initially afraid but “came to life” after realising they were being well treated.
- Ukraine’s army chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said its forces had reached 28-35km (17-22 miles) into Russia’s Kursk region, while Moscow was moving some of its troops from other directions to strengthen positions there. Russia has formed three new military groupings to bolster security in regions bordering Ukraine, the Russian defence minister, Andrei Belousov, has said.
- The internationally sanctioned, Kremlin-linked newspaper Izvestia has quoted Russian intelligence as saying US, British and Polish intelligence were involved in preparing the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk. Voldymyr Zelenskiy has insisted Ukraine’s allies were not informed as they would have ruled out the plan as “unrealistic”; while other officials and analysts have said telling the US and others would have made it impossible to keep the operation secret, based on past leaks.
- Russia hit energy infrastructure in northern Ukraine in a missile and drone attack and caused a huge fire that released chlorine into the air, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday. The fumes came from an industrial facility that was attacked in the western region of Ternopil.
- Ukrainian forces shot down three ballistic missiles and 25 of the 26 drones launched in Tuesday morning’s attack on nine regions, Ukraine’s air force commander said. It included Russia’s fifth missile attack this month on Kyiv, the capital.
Looks like he’s rarely 5 minutes from his next shot of vodka.
"505 separate battalion of marines.24/7 we destroy enemy equipment, manpower and warehouses"
"Following strikes on the Savasleyka airfield in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast on August 16,One MIG-31K and two IL-76 aircraft were destroyed and other aircraft were damaged."
"Following strikes on the Savasleyka airfield in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast on August 16,One MIG-31K and two IL-76 aircraft were destroyed and other aircraft were damaged."
No
Then he blackmailed Ukraine and tried to stop sending them weapons aid.
Only to be overruled by the Senate.
