Does that mean they were dudds?
Maybe, but a Ukrainian media site had an interesting perspective on the large number of fires and 'accidents' in Mordor: https://news.obozrevatel.com/ukr/russia/rosiya-gorit-i-vibuhae-hto-priklav-ruku-do-divnih-np-i-scho-bude-dali.htm
Burn and escape
In Russia, not only military and infrastructure facilities are burning, but also shopping centers, markets and cafes. After a large-scale fire in Khimki (part of the urban agglomeration of Moscow), Kirill Sazonov, a Ukrainian blogger, political expert, and now a volunteer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wrote that he was sure that these were not Ukrainian DRGs.
"An airfield, an aircraft factory, infrastructure, everything military or related to the military industry is possible. Market in Khimki? Definitely not. We will not waste resources on such facilities. Unlike the aggressor, we use resources wisely and with surgical efficiency. Nevertheless, in Russia last year a lot of factories and shopping centers, markets and warehouses have been burning. Partisans? Don't laugh. I think the owners themselves, who have not yet grown to sanctions, get rid of property in Russia for the sake of insurance. Even with a kickback, it is now much more interesting for them to get insurance and dump them from this "beautiful" country – where they will be allowed," Sazonov believes.
His version is confirmed in the Russian Federation. It turned out that many civilian objects affected by fires were insured for huge sums that fully cover the losses of the owners.
According to estimates by the OSINT community Molfar, more than 400 mysterious fires and "cotton" were recorded in Russia last year. At the same time, every tenth fire was recorded in the Moscow region. Three and a half months of 2023 have already shown that there will be a new record.
That article also has an interesting update on the explosion and fire at the FSB headquarters in Rostov some months ago. Apparently they recovered a Ukrainian drone and took it to HQ to examine, and it woke up and completed it's mission and went boom, killing 3 special forces Orcs.
A glorious Trojan horse moment.
I wouldn't bet on that.
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has cast doubt on Ukraine's long-held aspiration to join Nato.
His intervention came after the bloc's boss, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Friday that "all Nato allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a Nato member".
Mr Stoltenberg has consistently said Kyiv will join Nato in the medium term, once the Russian invasion is over.
But Mr Orban was quick to express his surprise at the latest claim in a one-word tweet on Friday afternoon.
"What?!" the Hungarian prime minister exclaimed, reacting to an article on Mr Stoltenberg's comments.
Imagine everyone on the bus just got dropped off at the front line :-D
Orban holds a card in nato along with Erdogan,
Sweden aren't nato members despite being prime candidates thanks to Erdogan who still hasn't said a thing about planned Ukrainian attacks on Russian forces in Syria with Kurdish forces help,
Last thing we need to see is the Turks pivoting towards putin
Another few incidents like this, and they'll think that they are on the front line !!!
That post above about Russian business owner's burning their properties to claim insurance is far more plausible then partisans. Especially places that don't aid the war effort.
NATO will keep the ship steady for now but I hope there's a reckoning after this war ends. Hopefully they create a NATO 2.0 and disband the old one. New members can join as long as they get a 75% vote. Everyone free to leave if they don't like it. That would soon end the power of rogue's like Hungary and Turkey. Currently they're entirely at their mercy.
The fact Sweden of all countries can't get in shows how easily this defensive alliance is to sabotage.
That's kind of how NATO works already, Orban will pretend he has power about it, but reality is that he won't. They just don't say the quiet part loud (EU operates very similarly).
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Multiple missles hit karkhiv,
Possibly From the black sea fleet that moved into positions yesterday
It’s ABSOLUTLY pure nonsense that Ukr cannot target any kind of a missle launched from any ship - even if positioned in any part of the Black or any other sea. I understand that this is because of American policy. The same should go from any land based missle launcher in Moscovy itself. It’s the same as having YOUR TWO HANDS tied behind your back. As things stand Moscovy can bang away from its own territory deep into Ukr territory and the UKr can do nothing about it
But it's not as if they Ukrainians don't have the ability to launch Anti ship missles like they did with the Moskva,or were they someone else's missles,
But I still Don't understand why they haven't put air defenses closer to the black sea to deal with Russian missles approaching from the black sea which seems to be the main route for Russian missles
Prigozhin criticizes Putin-
British Intelligence update on Ukraine as of Apr. 22 - Ripe News (theripenews.com)
New Bayraktar drone with a Ukrainian engine test flights continue. Recorded flying at 630km/h.
It’s a pity that your research was not more thoroughly carried out. It was a Scottish kilt and not a Tu-tu
Area looks like wetlands/marsh.
Good luck trying to dig a trench or assault a town from. All preregistered too likely.
If they can maintain a foothold and push on from there they could continue their advances into Kherson. Some recent gains should bolster even more support. Success has many fathers…
That's not a Russian bot, it's just someone who thrives on the replies and attention (troll) honestly ignore and they will get bored .
It’s a bit of a catch 22. Common forum wisdom is to ignore a troll on the thread and leave them without oxygen. However in this conflict trolls now spread a Kremlin narrative either by direct instruction or indirectly via various forms of influence on them.
The goal is to either change our views on Russia, or leave unchallenged views of Russia on the thread that other forum members might take on board. It’s tiresome, repetitive, and almost always results in the poster being deleted, but I feel that it is always worth challenging the Russian position, if anything to ensure that it doesn’t just stay up unchallenged like they would want.
Can everyone please try and avoid giving the re-reg troll the oxygen they crave. Just report and we will delete their content
There are a few reports of UA landing on the east bank of the Dnipro
Russia seemed to unleash artillery on them.
Excellent Right on the heels of Norway turfing out 15 spies.
It's at least another 2 years away from production,it's safe to say it won't be seen in Ukraine anytime soon probably not at all
We should be doing the same, except our lot want to be seen as the nice lads, too afraid of ruffling feathers and making hard decisions.
That's a given; the important bit is the Ukrainian made engine, which along with their use in a Turkish cruise missile and the building of a Bayrakter production facility in ukraine, reduces any incentive for slime ball Erdogan to stab Ukraine in the back.
That won't stop Erdogan at all ,
Turks have been buying and developing foreign technology then announcing their own engines will be used aka rebranded other companies engines ,
Like there selling point the first jet powered drone,no it's not ,
The first drone to take off and land on rough ground runways it's not ,
The first drone to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, it's not,
Most likely this drone will not be in service outside of turkey
On today’s episode of Cnocbui says Black, Gatling says White…
I think the HSE hack was an Orc government operation and that they are holding the country hostage on pain of releasing everyones personal info online. It might also explain why Ireland has done so little interms of actually assisting ukraine, apart from a lot of chest thumping about helping refugees, which in itself isn't really a cost so much as a large economic stimulus to a myriad of Irish businesses, like hotels, shops, etc, etc.
According to the Kiel Institute tracker, Ireland ranks 31 in total committments as a percentage of GDP and it's beaten out by Fuc*ing Hungary in 30th spot. Hungary absolutely thrashes Ireland in humanitarian assisitance, being in 9th place (%GDP) vs Irelands's 19th.
Ireland has just had the largest budget surplus in the EU in absolute terms, not as a percentage, so one of the richest countries in Europe with a government awash with money, could easily afford to do more.
My goodness, that must be a first for this conflict.
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