I wonder does the idiot realise the provocation could be him being killed on camera?
The Russian command is planning a provocation on the border of Ukraine and Belarus in the near future. Propagandist Vladimir Solovyov should arrive there and will fabricate a "picture" for the Russian media.
It's facetious / presumptious to quote a news report on France 24?
I can't tell if you're being facetious , but that's a pretty massive presumption?
They can't be stopped partly because of their ballistic nature, but they equally might have taken out a hedge somewhere.
Seems like a good possibility.
I saw an interesting fundraiser by a Ukrainian unit. It was for two large 6 rotor ukrainian made drones costing $30K each. One image showed someone cradling a 120/155mm artillery shell, so I presume this drone is supposed to be able carry and drop one of these. I have seen specs for crop spraying drones that can carry 20kg so it's probably a 120mm projectile.
That would do some damage.
Pity he did not take a few officer's out as well while he was at it.. Maybe next time?, if it becomes fashionable.?
France24 news was just on stating the truth about the Kinzahl missiles. They said 6 were fired in this latest attack and that explains why this was worse than previous ones, because Ukraine can not intercept them so presumably all 6 hit their targets.
JDAM?
Yes, I'm afraid the Russians can defend against prosecution with large measures of Whataboutery (But they will never escape the contempt they have earned from civilized people. They will be despised for centuries to come).
If China has their eye on Siberia, I should think they'd be as well not to take it over as such, but continue the current trends of Chinese populations establishing a greater presence there and buying up land to farm and exploit natural resources on. It would achieve much the same kind of thing for China without playing a potentially world-ending game of chicken.
So desperate. Be great if this spreads through more troops:-
What was on the Iranian shipment that was fired into Ukraine? 8 drones.... That are usually flown into Russia. I don't think the Iranian shipment of weapons had any bearing on the timing of the latest mass missile attack.
They're like incoming missiles, for Beasty in the air defence to deal with.
Please excuse the comparison to the real horror show being perpetuated by Russians.
I'm siding with the Iran shipment was late or later than expected.the whole Russian military is disjointed and playing different tunes
Either the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, Iran's shipment took a week, or the Ruscists really were caught on the hop by a Ukrainian attack and they needed that week to prepare their strike.
China receiving enriched uranium from the Russians , this isn't great news some will say it's for energy production,but I think even the unwashed will know it's going into weapons,
Sleepy, I can assure you that I do not support terrorist regimes with my recreational travel either. Far from it. I presume that you are speaking about a grass-roots style popular rebellion? Irish Rebellion type? Not going to happen in Russia unfortunately, I've explained to you what Putin has done and will do again when or if large crowds gather in Russian cities to protest, never mind if they appear to be actually carrying weapons. Should a crowd appear with weapons, the streets would run red with their blood. Putin signed a presidential decree in 2016 creating a new National Guard, whose specific mandate was first, to protect the President ( Putin) and second was dealing with internal public order. ( Translation: Protests ) These troops will not be going anywhere near Ukraine, or any place else either. There are approximately 450'000 troops in the Guard, and they are completely separate from the Russian Army, are best paid and equipped and sworn to loyalty to Putin, and they are under his complete control. So to get to Putin, rebels will have to deal with the National Guard first,
The only one's who could realistically rebel ( as you put it) would have to be a branch of the military, who could plan and execute a military style coup in the Kremlin.
How's many accounts are you running
I think you're the last person to be harping on about morality
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Some people have nothing to do and all day to do it.
He will be playing a different tune then,for sure
Well, I’m thinking it’s either he get’s cracking as a Cyber «Musician» or he’ll promptly get demoted to regular Wagner «Musician», handed his piss-poor / rotting Soviet surplus gear and get bussed down to his next perfomance near Bakmut…where I hear the locals give skaving reviews :P
The best part is that they had the guts to say its a few isolated cases,i wonder how many cases like this you havent seen in Russia and the seperatists states in Ukraine with forced mobilization.
Even before and in world war 2,people who tried to get away from the draft wasnt very popular amongst their fellow soldiers.
Another one...
Ukraine recently asked for volunteers for a high risk assault force. They got 20,000 applications. Another unit they were forming got 8,000 applications. They concluded their recent mobilisation effort on 2 days.
Horrors of mobilisation - what a laugh. Sure there are people who try to avoid it, but that applies in all countries, just ask Mr bone spurs Trump and Mr George Bush, I'm in the National Guard, you can't take me...
You just joined to tell me that old news,Igor,impressive
Is this your fifth or sixt profile?
You never get tired of making new profiles for Prigozhin
Has anyone seen the Irish lad all over social media and news sites spouting all sorts of Russian propaganda?
Think he’s married to a Russian.
His latest stunt is to stand on the halfpenny bridge and shout Russia Slava and post it on TikTok.
Hes probably our mutual friend that does be on here.
Bakhmut needs more soldiers for 4 hours
That's efficient!
Projection THE post, step away from the BBC and Sky News.
In Odessa the horrors of mobilization continue … Bakhmut needs more soldiers for 4 hours .,.
twitter. com/mylordbebo/status/1633599636119199748
To remain ignorant when all the facts are available is sinful and yet board is willfully ignorant, speaks volumes for the moral compass of posters here that are pro Ukraine.
So having to remove the upgrades makes them pointless, given how long that will take. Not to mention them being just more of the same and not better.
Anyway, as I said, I'm basically just relaying what Ukrainians themselves have said and I have managed to find what I previously read, so since I am not to be believed, then perhaps the spokesman of the Ukrainian Airforcce can persuade people:
01.03.23
The representative of the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat Yuri Ignat notes that technology plays an important role in the war. That is why Ukraine really needs F-16 fighters.
He said this on the air of the national telethon "Unified News".
Ignat notes that the F-16 has passed the stages of deep modernization, and therefore can withstand the enemy in the air at the level and deliver high-precision long-range strikes. Unfortunately, Soviet equipment cannot do this, but Ukrainian pilots "squeeze everything possible."
"Our MiG-29 against the Russian Su-30 aircraft is the same that we will sit in a trench with one Makarov pistol, and they with three machine guns or machine guns. Theoretically, we will try to resist them, but it is clear that the number of weapons, and most importantly - technology play a decisive role, so we need F-16 aircraft that can really play an advantage in the air and allow us to quickly de-occupy our territories, "the representative of the Air Force said.
According to him, the F-16 aircraft is universal and multi-purpose, and therefore can be part of air defense. In addition, the fighter can deliver missile and bomb strikes at a great distance.
"An aircraft where there is no air defense and anti-aircraft weapons can block those areas and destroy air targets. This practice is used all over the world. In particular, this aircraft has a wide range of weapons of everything that NATO countries use. It can be the carrier of such missiles as "Harpoon", which are designed to destroy surface targets. Therefore, order can be quickly restored in our sea," said Yuri Ignat.
Transfer of the F-16 to Ukraine
On February 24, US President Joe Biden ruled out the possibility of transferring American F-16 fighters to Ukraine, saying that they were "not needed now."
Democratic Congressman Adam Smith notes that the transfer of F-16 fighters to Ukraine would be a "stupid use of resources." After all, in the best case, the United States would be able to deliver only a few such aircraft within a year.
In turn, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives, Michael McCaul, says that the F-16 may appear in Ukraine at a "decisive and turning point" of the war.
Meanwhile, CNN, citing its own sources, reported that the United States will not block the supply of F-16 fighters to Ukraine by allied countries, if they make such a decision. Washington is allegedly not against this from international partners.
While he and Ukraine go on about the F-16, I think that is because they are aiming low in the hope they might stand a better chance of at least getting something. I am confident that if they were offered F-18s or F-15Cs, they would prefer those.
The same person in another article described the problems the F-16 would pose, namely their rough, Foreign Object Damage prone airfilds and delicate landing gear. The undercarriage of the F-16 is too delicate for Ukrainian airfields. To use them they would need to surface at least one airfield with smooth bitumen. If they got F-18's or Grippens, they wouldn't need to undertake this huge task and they could use all their airfields, not just the upgraded one, which would probably become a prime target.
Given The US wouldn't object to F-16s being transfered, there's a good chance the same would apply if Australia were to ask to transfer it's 40-45 surplus F-18s.
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