They are well known Russian separatists who have been documented fighting for Ukraine in several places in this war.
The idea that they are FSB plants is ridiculous.
Nice bit of intelligence work to nip that in the bud.
Given it's in the same locale, this might be linked:
Law enforcement officers have exposed an employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) in Rivne Oblast who justified Russia's war against Ukraine and denied Russia's armed aggression.
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According to the investigation, the lieutenant colonel actively produced "messages" of Russian propaganda and promoted anti-Ukrainian views.
I believe the piece is titled "Close, but no cigar, bitch"
Steel is opaque to radar waves, so the rust on a radome raises interesting questions alone. If the drone had blown up, I wouldn't have expected to see anything more, let alone damage.
It turns out that was not the bomb run, but just a reconnaisance/practice flight.
During one of the successful reconnaissance operations, the partisans claim that the drone not only flew into the territory of the guarded airfield, flew near the A-50, but even landed on its radar station (dish).
This drip-feeding of information is annoying, and slightly suspicious.
Is BYPOL actually an FSB op?
And to think bellincat know a thing about investigations unlike others out there
Well if there was a choice in the matter, that's what I would have done too, but as things were, I was still safer staying in the house than rambling around outside, especially at night. But to the family who lived there, it was all perfectly normal, no one, even the children paid them any attention.
They are already claiming it. One destroyed and another stuck in a swamp! Had suspect photos too. Highly suspect..
Table from a CSIS article estimating Russian deaths in selected wars since WW2. They're estimating 60,000-70,000 for Ukraine so far, plus another 6,000-7,000 in the Crimea & Donbas pre 24/02/2022.
Full article:
The photo was taken from a German tank training facility and shopped to make it look more recent in Ukraine
This is why I have you down as one of my most respected sources on here
For those who think a single Russian plane doesn't cause a country wide air alert.
Or that the air raid siren in Kyiv while Joe Biden was there was staged.
The Aircraft is intact the aircraft has moved recently,it's not been significantly damaged or destroyed,
We're heading to a week since the apparent attack and no evidence of a destroyed aircraft.
Putting it on the spoof shelf for now ,
Till their is some evidence from an actual credible source,who can provide evidence otherwise not some amateurs would struggle with the basics
Well Darth it's been a while
Western aggression hey !
Kind of depressing article I read yesterday on supplying tanks for Ukraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/world/europe/ukraine-tanks.html
The ones that were putting the boot into Scholz and Germany (incl. Poland) don't actually seem to be able to come up with these tanks they were itching to supply Ukraine now that the German "blockage" is cleared away.
Some nations have discovered that the tanks in their armory don’t actually work or lack spare parts. Political leaders have encountered unanticipated resistance within their own coalitions, and even from their defense ministries. And some armies had to pull trainers out of retirement to teach Ukrainian soldiers how to use old-model tanks.
The struggle to provide Leopard tanks to an embattled Ukraine is just the most glaring manifestation of a reality Europe has long ignored: Believing that large-scale land war was a thing of the past and basking in the thaw of the Cold War, nations chronically underfunded their militaries. When Russia launched the largest land war on the continent since World War II, they were woefully unprepared.Poland, which has difficult relations with Germany, was foremost in pressing Mr. Scholz and Berlin on the Leopards, and even threatened to send some to Ukraine without the necessary German permission. Like Berlin, Warsaw has some 200 Leopard 2 tanks — but it says it will provide just 14. It sent the first of the tanks to Ukraine on the anniversary of the invasion, Feb. 24, although Poland has yet to finish training Ukrainian soldiers how to use them.
Warsaw may be holding off on deliveries of Leopards until it receives new Hyundai-made K2 tanks from South Korea, meant to replace the German model, some analysts said. Poland has sent many upgraded Soviet-era T-72 tanks to Ukraine.
Kind of agree with others that we possibly approach political limits of the US aid [as regards certain classes of weaponry]. They will probably never supply Ukraine with any US aircraft or long range missiles while the war lasts that might be used on targets inside Russia, and they may slow down US tanks as much as they can as well.
If European countries want Ukraine to have these weapons quicker they will have to do it themselves and the article is not encouraging. It suggests that most of what European militaries are "supposed" to have [as regards tanks] on hand today is mainly theoretical + alot of work is needed to get these out of "mothballs" and up and running.
People have mocked the Russian military but the armies of all but a few European countries seem in just as bad or worse state for war. Without the US help + thrown entirely on their own resources (say we had ilk of Trump as President) they probably would not have been capable of any response if Putin decided to, say, take over a Baltic state or two in Feb. of last year.
Viktor Sobolev, a member of the State Duma defense committee, said that the "special operation" should be changed to a full-scale war.
"There are no more red lines. We need to destroy their communication and deliver all the necessary weapons. It should have been done already," he added.
And another piece in the justification to declare a full war puzzle is put in place.
I see he's going with the whole "Wait until we take this thing seriously. Then we'll really wipe the floor with them" routine, beloved by Tankies everywhere.
Imagine posters on here seeing an even bigger increase of Orc bodies stacking up it won't end well
This lady survived last nights cruise missile/missles attack on Zaporizhzhia ukraine,to think they are still using heavy weapons in a area housing a nuclear power plant
NATO, Article 5.
That Article undermines your argument sir! You can see what a relative handful of NATO weaponry, wielded by an army that has never used it before, has done in Ukraine. Imagine what that would do in the hands of professional NATO forces.
It really would be a three day war. 😀
But that's caused it's own problems,
They have degraded their own capabilities and defense industries based off ah sure we don't have to worry article 5 means we get defended by others , but when everyone has been caught napping at the wheel it wouldn't have ended so well
NATO would have air superiority...another big difference.
There's too much hand-wringing about this topic (it obviously doesn't matter what any of us nobodies think) but the public debate plays into Putin's hands imo.
No military expert but the way the US has been so badly needed to step up and supply the weaponry sent to Ukraine so far makes me suspect that the US and its massive military capabilities are the "glue" in the NATO structure (as regards defending Europe + "Article 5").
Despite what it looks like "on paper", the Europeans might not have done so well in practice if left entirely on their own facing a Russian attack on an EU member.
Anyway it is all academic and there is some time to fix these problems, as Russia's military is taking massive damage and probably will not be fit for more foreign adventures for a while.
Is it a bird,
Is it a a plane,
No it's super orc
No sign of western fatigue.
Incorrect ..One is stated from being near Vulhedar the other from Bakhmut
True or false, there's a clip going the rounds showing a drone flying into the airport and actually landing on the radar dome, it shows a rusty line running across the roof of the dome. It also shows a line of other parked aircraft, if true, it was a missed opportunity to do some very serious damage to Putins airforce. Pity.
The US has always been and continues to be the prime contributor to NATO and the only world military superpower; so yes it is absolutely the "glue" in the NATO structure. See the graph below.
It's certainly clear that Europe needs to beef up defence spending and capabilities but the reality is NATO is Europe's de facto defence mechanism; and NATO relies primarily on the US.
Just look at how much the US spends on defence (https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2022/6/pdf/220627-def-exp-2022-en.pdf) versus the entire rest of NATO:
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1631236382927585280?cxt=HHwWgIC80Z-2qKMtAAAA
Lithuanians trolling
It was Belarussians who carried out the "attack"; so it's likely their goals were more about rebuking Russia for using Belarussian airfields rather than actively damaging/destroying Russian property.
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