Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Looks like the Russians are trying to play around with Ukrainian nuclear plants.

I get they are trying to shut down the plant by draining the pools to deprive Ukraine of 20% electricity, but surely that's the like trying to stop your car by aiming for the brick wall?

The BBC telling the story of Russia's 331st parachute regiment.

Russia's on drugs. Putin, the government, the army, the veterans, the people. Only way to explain it.

But if you watch these videos on YouTube (and there are many), very few Russian speakers ever doubt their veracity. It's not just that the Russian language is being spoken in the clips but often feature Russian accents from various parts of the country, as well as regional Russian slang words or sayings that wouldn't even be familiar to a Ukrainian Russian language speaker (sometimes the video subtitles will say they can't translate what is being said or that they don't understand the soldier's terminology or accent).

Also, the conversations are often very mundane and don't have striking revelations - a guy complaining to his wife about low morale in the unit, or the quality of the food being poor, or about having a row with one of his commanding officers. It seems quite hard to believe that some Ukrainian propaganda factory is going to the trouble of producing these clips.

It's very difficult to see how out of touch, and out of sync many of these politicians are with the reality of the world. Very poor leadership from them.

Another post using Putins Disinformation strategy. Bits of truth here and there, bits of information showing us that you are on the Ukr side , bits of doubting type information , bits of half truth, bits of what if, bits of whataboutary, bits of opinions that are one sided, etc, etc, etc.

all with the purpose of sowing confusion , sowing the seeds of doubt, create division, etc, etc,etc. I, at least know what you are at.

ONE KEY thing jumped out from your post that blows ‘your cover’ with regards to how knowledgable you claim to have with all your assertions ie I assume that the UKranians have been storing recently harvested grain for years and they well know how to keep it from ROTTING unless, of course the Russians blew the roofs off the grain stores. Have you forgotten that Ukr exports a very high percentage of grain used internationally so why would it let grain rot if it is used as a very significant foreign / income earner. You again picked the WOrST POSSIBLE scenario of another aspect of the war in the broadest sense to sow some doubt , etc, etc.

HO WAIT, maybe you are right. If grain under adequate cover, ie a good roof, is left there long enough, eg 10 years + and VERMIN - of ALL types including two legged types if they get short taken- p-ss on it on a continual basis then deterioration takes place including secondary infection and maybe leading to rotting.

you are some detail with your rotting idea. Will you get up the yard and stay there until called down

PS the Ukr seem to be very good to date of getting rid of ‘vermin ‘so I do not think that wermin will be a problem for them

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/20/russia-funds-moscow-conference-us-eu-ukraine-separatists

Irish participants at the conference told the Guardian that they had no Kremlin links and were simply taking an opportunity to promote their cause. 

“Sinn Féinmember Diarmaid Mac Dubhghlais compared the eastern Ukraine conflict to the “Ireland of years ago”, arguing that the pro-Russian rebels were fighting a “fascist government” in Kiev.”

Just remember this……

Former US Defense Secretary James Mattis had this to say yesterday,

“The tragedy of our time is that Putin is a creature straight out of Dostoevsky. He goes to bed every night angry, he goes to bed every night fearful, he goes to bed every night thinking that Russia is surrounded by nightmares and this has guided him,”

So Lisichansk looks like it will be totally encircled within the next 7 days, if it does infact fall it will significantly reduce the length of the frontlines and the Russians will be able to press Bakhmut and Siversk with far more manpower too

It looks like the HIMARS were at play with the last bombardment of Snake island.

Locating them around the Odessa Oblast puts them out of reach of accurate Russian artillery but importantly within 70 or so miles of Kherson and its surrounding areas. Could be part of the reason for the Op-sec on that front as Ukraine look to put them to proper use there.

I suspect that's why Odessa is under a fresh bombardment in the last day also with blind missiles launched by Russian aircraft aimed in the direction of Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi. Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi which is 60 miles from Snake island. Goodwill gesture my backside.