He had a Ukrainian flag on his camo jacket and said "Slava Ukrani".
It's what Orcs do. The aim is to create confusion and generate apathy. Lord knows they've had enough practice on their own people during Putin's reign.
Until they were spotted in their 15ft moving tower and blasted to bits.
Not exactly stealthy. Handling has to be comprimised too, beyond what the tracked platform was designed for.
It's propaganda, the latest is the Russians are using shovels to attack....up there with the ghost of Kyiv.
The purpose of propaganda isn't to get a person to change their mind, it's to get the masses to do nothing out of confusion.
You are wrong…
There are many Ghosts of Kyiv. Many former elite Russian Paratroopers now to be seen with nothing more dangerous than Harps.
Right...I suppose the Russians are running out of missiles since last August too....Time to get some adults in the room and start peace talks
The purpose of this propaganda is so western citizens don't get too angry over the billions of their money being sent to Ukraine...
Its only the ones that can spin clothes over 1400 rpm, that same spin tech can control of a rocket engine...true story that
It's designed to fight or suppress from behind hardcover vs rambling across Fields going toe to toe with other armoured vehicles ,
Have a look at the WW2 praying mantis vehicle.
Or they could just order a few thousand of them from their favourite online shop and get them delivered for a few roubles, and still have change to buy a washing machine.
You don't go to the trouble of smuggling in a whole car, when all you require is the screw holding the steering wheel in place and is an item which can be bought in bulk for pennies.
Money invested to help the Ukrainians defend their land and destroy the military forces of the biggest terrorist state in the world sounds like money well spent to me so I've no idea why you are suggesting citizens should be getting angry in the west. The GDP of the USA was 23.32trillion dollars in 2021 compared to the 1.8trillion dollars for russia that year and the 17trillion dollars of the EU. Russia has taken on two economies each about ten times its size and a few significant others and had to turn to the likes of North Korea and Iran for help. Before the war russia in spite of having the largest land area of any country in the world only produced about 3% of world economic output and after the most recent war it has started with its neighbours it is likely to be in an even worse economic state. I think it really should be the tax payers in russia that are getting angry with their incompetent dictator putin although I suppose fear of being arrested and sent to die on the front lines in Ukraine helps sentiment like that be kept fairly quiet there.
So a kind of tall awkward thing meets Kraken kind of situation then..
And according to you, what would be the terms of these peace talks??
Similar,but take your average ifv and add naval guns and then kill targets- other vehicles or men or fortifications 9000 yards away,
Can you imagine how angry (and worse, a lot worse) western citizens are going to get if Putin is not stopped in Ukraine by Zelensky, and this war spreads into the west? If that happens, then you ain't seen nothin' yet in terms of expenditure, and even worse, when the body bags start arriving home.
The range is given as 2,500m, not 8,200m
Range
2.5 km effective range
1.7 km anti-aircraft ceiling
Muzzle velocity
900 m/s
Barrel life
12.000 rounds
https://www.weaponsystems.net/system/474-25mm%202M-3
https://kyivindependent.com/national/inside-a-russian-militant-army-the-story-of-a-ukrainian-forced-to-fight-against-his-homeland
Sounds a bit like, "oh shìt we're losing, time to switch sides".
Last country I heard in the exports/economy comparrison theme was Chile. They are burning gold and apparently can last another 2 years.
Another day of over a thousand Orcs eliminated - 1,060.
Are wagner operating anywhere else than Bakmut?
Seems that the salt mines are the motivation for Wagner.
Putin probably gave Wagner bosses ownership of the mines provided they can take and hold the area indefinitely.
Mines and Wagner are a common theme especially so in Africa.
Maybe. I'm not at all sure anyone has the faintest as to their export income because of the fleet of ghost ships they use to sanction wash stuff at sea. There's a good investigative journalism piece on this in relation to them stealing grain, showing satellite images of vessles all tied alongside each other at sea, transferring grain from on to another so as to avoide the sanctions taint of having a bulk grain vessel viisiting Sevastapol on the log.
The same is happening with oil. I almost posted it yesterday; now it's stolen Iron ore. I honestly don't believe the sanctions are being monitored or enforced by the US, EU and others with interdiction capabiities because they don't want to interdict ships and cargoes and ruffle feathers. I can't recall ships being stopped, or impounded. If some journalists in an office in NY can find evidence, probably without getting out of their chairs, let alone boarding a plane, then... yeah...
In the last week I saw something saying their oil and gas revenues were only down by 50%, but I doubt that's informed by monitoring ghost ships bumping into each other at sea for extended periods.
As russia gets poorer and loses more men, the general population will just hate the west more.
Will they? It didn't work out that way with Russia in Afghanistan.
I just saw documentary on sky news and plenty of people in areas around where soldiers are coming from resent the west. There's a jealousy and resentment of the west that wasn't there with Afghanistan. Soldiers caught in Afghanistan were, tortured etc, brutality was off the scale.
Meh.
They don’t add any value whatsoever to the world anyway only misery and threats of nuking us all so nothing changes.
Maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place
That's because they could still look down on Afghanistan as savages \ barbarians and the land not worth fighting for.
They resent the West and Ukraine for showing them up as the backward barbarians and savages, the pervasive corruption, the falling behind in living standards and achievements, the collapse in prestige as their much vaunted military is shown up daily ... the humiliations of the retreat from Kyiv, the sinking of their flagship. Their leader hides away in bunkers giving insane rants while Zelenskyy is lauded globally, shows true leadership and makes speeches that ring through history.
Why would they be jealous of the west? Don't they live in the bestest nation on the planet?
The US has confirmed JDAM(extended range) bombs are in Ukraine but in strictly limited numbers enough for a few strikes.
You see this time and time again.
I know it's a warzone and all that, but when abandoning a broken down tank, surely you'd have the cop on to close the hatch after you leave. At least that way you'd have some chance at recovering the vehicle and repairing it.
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