It is offcourse with rifles thats designed for longer range,with longer barrels and specialised iron sights
And not atleast bigger targets,thats 45”x45”
A human torso however is not easy to hit at that range without a variable scope
FWIW, we use ACOGs on our DMRs. It's still an infantry squad weapon, not a sniper rifle.
Obviously to most sane people an end to a war that has taken 100,000 Ukrainian lives would be a good thing? Not here it seems.
Name one person in this thread that has said ending the war would be a bad thing. Just one.
I'll be blunt, I for one couldn't care less about keeping the moral high ground.
If I were in Ukraine as a civilian, before the war, I'm pretty sure I would not intentionally wish any bad on Russian civilians per say, BUT when I would have seen their dismissiveness, their indifference to my suffering at their leaders hands, seen family members shot, tortured or raped and see still see the main overtone in Russian civilian society range from indifference to others wanting to "Drive a stake through Kyiv"..THEN I would, as a civilian wish equal or more retribution against those people.
On the other hand, If I was a Ukrainian serving in the military, being bombarded day in day out, having friends and fellow soldiers killed alongside me in trenches and also seeing what the Russians were doing by bombing the cities we came from, I make no bones about it, and I couldn't give a single f**k what you think of my position, but I would have zero hesitation in meting out as much barbarism, pain and cruelty to any Russian soldier I came upon, I would have ZERO mercy on any of them and would ensure, till my last breath that I killed and maimed as many of them as was possible.
I'm pretty sure most, if not all serving military in Ukraine would now at this stage, be of a similar mindset as myself.
Its war, its dirty, its messy and while it lasts, it reduces normally civilized people back to living on basic instincts...kill or be killed. Thats the sad reality of it.
Now you can come back and say how terrible it all is, but it's very easy for you to pontificate about how Ukrainians shouldn't put themselves on the same level as the Russian scum but imagine living nearly 10 months in the Ukrainians shoes and imagine then, in all honesty whether your moral high ground would be that important to you.
So that's my "real opinion" on it all, I don't hide it from you or anyone else, why would I? I couldn't care less what you think of my opinion, you are nobody and nothing to me.
They're not suppressing anything the way they are shooting. It's a tiktok video.
Strange isn't it, how interested you are in those reports, yet weeks later still can't bring yourself to understand the basics of the Budapest agreement and what's going on.
Very easy to be 'lost' when you want to be 'lost'.
Donbas is part of Ukraine. They were shelling it because Russian backed separatists were there, armed and holding the territory - in violation of the treaty supposed to establish the ceasefire.
Prior to the war? That was part of the war.
The war that started when Russia, in clear violation of the Budapest agreement, attempted to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty and invaded it.
The new Russian AK12 standard issue rifle is interesting because they made it look more modern but didn't actually improve any of the problems with it. So it's accuracy has the same problems as their old AK74.
Doesn't matter what scope you put on it, it won't hold zero due to how the scope is mounted.
What's interesting is why make a gun more modern looking and not actually improve it in any meaningful way. Seems symptomatic of the problems within the Russian military in general.
Then they are sending conscripts into combat with no training. But even before that, their troops seemed to be poorly trained. So any accuracy conversation is moot. Regardless of the equipment.
"Officers" likely refers to all soldiers and is just lost in translation. However many here also dispute the 100k dead + wounded as if the head of EU is totally uninformed on the matter.
She also gave a separate figure for civilians (20k) in that interview.
But yet you don't know that the figures are varifed.
It's that simple and I don't think anyone outside of the Ukrainans know
Regardless of how well informed she was. I doubt either side has accurate numbers. Often decades after a conflict they are still inaccurate.
The information is not required to see how brutal this war is.
So, you're going to cherry pick the mistranslations to suit your own agenda... right, we'll probably not pick up on that at all at all at all.
As for civilian deaths - considering the war crimes Russia is commiting I'd think that's on the low side.
What are trying to say Grumpy? That Russia was quite right to invade so as to 'protect' the citizens on the Donbas region. That Russia was right to seize & annex Crimea to protect the citizens there? That's where you're headed, hypocritically hiding behind an anti-war stance. Maybe go spin your delusions elsewhere.
Cherry picking how?
The mistranslation as stated by EU deputy was that it erroneous said 100k dead, when they should have said 100k dead + wounded.
The only place any doubt was cast on the 100k figure itself is here.
It's quite simple Furze. Grumpy clearly supports the irredentist, revanchist, neo-imperial Russian fascists. Sometimes we don't need to tie ourselves in knots trying to explain the obvious.
There are vids showing recruits each being a hand grenade to use in case of capture, and told to take out at least 7 of the enemy, seems this Russian was only carrying out instructions, but with his gun. The Ukrainians took the only course of action open to them.
That's how your interpreting what they meant
Watched the first few minutes. She introduced her guest mentioning he was the author of a book titled Scapegoating Russia (or something like that). I thought to myself - hmmm I wonder what his opinion is going to be 😂 and yep, I was right. Of course he believed it was a war crime. He is clearly an American version of Wallace and Daly so his opinion isn't valid. Didn't bother with the rest of the video.
Meanwhile a Russian base has been over run near kreminna ,and to think some people get excited when Russian forces move ten meter's towards bakhmut
Another suspicious package is detected at the Ministry of Defense of Spain
Spain has entered the fray
Ukraine's armed forces are really loving the new high-end Military hardware they now have to use.
Very precise M777 Howitzer. Years ahead of the old soviet era Msta B. Once he claims his team hit 300 Russian soldiers with 9 shells. He does not say killed 300, just hit 300, so it's fair to assume they were mostly wounded and a few killed.
The estimated civillian deaths in Mariupol alone are 22,000, so she's maybe taking her tea cup to madam zorbash in the Romanian section to have the sediment read to get the figures she's been spouting.
Nope the clarification/correction was 100k dead to 100k casualties (roughly (my figures) 25k military dead and 75k military wounded/out of action (temp or perm)).
You seem to want to think it's 100k dead and more wounded. To think that you'd have to ignore the ACTUAL clarification released.
This is kind of careless of Putin... to lose so many Generals/Colonels... has he looked in the Kremlin library? Maybe that's where they are hanging out.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-russian-military-losses-ukraine-b2234798.html
Where have I said that its not 100k dead and wounded? Each of my posts has said 100k dead and wounded as per the EU clarification.
The post of mine you replied literally says 100k dead + wounded (i.e. combined) - 25k dead and 75k wounded fits exactly with what I've said.
The only people disputing that figure (100k total casualties) are others in this thread
'The mistranslation as stated by EU deputy was that it erroneous said 100k dead, when they should have said 100k dead + wounded.'
Okay, I get you now. But, re-read what your wrote... slowy... 100k dead... and wounded. To me that was interpreted as you saying there was 100k dead. Plus wounded.
They are not clarification from the eu they are estimates from outside sources.
We did this yesterday
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Looks like the swiss are trying to show they aren't pro russia .
It's been the best month of the war for the Orcs so far:
Officially: in November, the Rashists suffered the greatest losses in all 8 years of the war!
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Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and eternal memory to those who gave their lives for Ukraine!🇺🇦🙏
Swiss being Swiss will probably just keep the money 🤣
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