They're dealing with most other logistical problems, I'm sure that if they needed it, they would get logistical help from allies to cope with potential large numbers of Russian POWs (it's not WW2 so numbers would not be extreme)
CNN good enough?
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Pure guess work. According to Twitter Putin had two weeks to live about a year ago and Russia was running out of missiles and drones about 8 months ago. Twitter was sure Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was going to be attacked within 24hrs last week. It's all fog of war nonsense.
Twitter is akin to the lad who's brother's friends sisters cousin who's a taxi driver said.....
could be something to that...needs more bodies to the meatgrinder..
Thousands of pieces of information on Twitter about the war have turned out to be true. Some of it is, of course, nonsense. It depends on source and a spectrum of quality.
Indeed there is fog of war, and also with this conflict there is natural support for Ukraine, which produces a lot of it's own hopium and wishful thinking. Most of which is understandable considering what's happening.
The military people on Sky News are suggesting it was a Russian false flag. Think of the Moscow bombings.
Are you even reading the articles you're posting? Or are you just hoping that no-one else will when you deliberately misrepresent them to score internet points?
From the article you posted:
"However, the US has not been able to reach a definitive conclusion on who was responsible and only assesses with low confidence that a Ukrainian group may have been behind the incident"
Vs what you said :
"US intelligence community acknowledged it as likely genuine."
Try harder next time.
most of information turned out to be true, or somewhat true. Well, a sentence - Kiev will be taken in 2 days - was pure gold that wasn't even lad who's brother's friends sisters cousin who's a taxi driver said.....
You still wonder about beliefs of this tovarisch?
I had to stop following that lad after he was claiming that nuclear weapons were about to be deployed at one point.
I don't know much about him.
I don't. Always quick to ask for sources never quick to supply them. Or when they do, the sources at best don't really backup what they claim or at worst outright contradict it. I've had him on ignore for a while and I remember why now.
its the impossible task ive been given 😁 on that what better way to enter a city?or a heavily guarded compound?most cities have a network of tunnels...some are open to rivers/the sea...
I disagree. The majority of stuff on Twitter is pure rubbish. We live in a world where people want to be seen to be in the know and yeah occasionally they are but more often than not they aren't.
That's what you get for taking a headline as the story when the headline says the opposite of what the article says.
In the intellegence world "low confidence" means it didn't happen. (Or more accuratly, they just don't know)
Any proof it was a false flag? No didnt think so.
heres another from Reuters indicating the same thing: US believes Ukraine was behind it.
They have "low confidence" that a Ukrainian group was behind the incident - compared to what, ultra low confidence it was a false flag? The very fact that intelligence officials are stating that Ukraine may be behind it based on intercepted comms and not instead running with the Russian false flag angle speaks volumes.
Not ruling anything out, but I would believe the Ukrainians are (of course) behind it.
Very smart move.
Of course Putin will milk this for propaganda, but indeed it does make the country look a hell of a lot more vulnerable.
ATACMS to Ukraine apparently being discussed by the US. Range 300km and easier to launch (uses HIMARS).
Low confidence: Low confidence generally means questionable or implausible information was used, the information is too fragmented or poorly corroborated to make solid analytic inferences, or significant concerns or problems with sources existed.
I wonder has tendency of US and other Western countries backing them to be queasy about that kind of action inside Russia been diminished somewhat by the behaviour of Russia/Putin over past +1 year of constant escalation?
Also, If Ukraine is doing this stuff I (edit: would not be) surprised - it would always get more likely to happen as war goes on, if they can develop these capabilites themselves. It must be in military/civilian leader's minds what Russia has been inflicting on them, and that will affect decisions. I wonder what would Kyiv (or some of the other big cities) be like right now if 50 % of all this shít the Russians have been flinging at them for months was finding the target instead of so much being shot down?
I think reports about what US intelligence believes have, by definition, no value whatsoever. It's the nature of intelligence services that there's no way of knowing if what they believe is what they say they believe.
you can say with justification that it will make the Russians more skittish too.....one thing people getting bombed and killed in another Country, but its a different kettle of fish wen it stars to happen at home. Sure, Putin will milk it propaganda wise for all its worth, but also, it will cause a lot if unease amongst rank and file Russians. All is definitely not well in the Russian paradise.
For weeks various drones were filmed over Moscow and not the dji quad or multirotors either,
Would put it past the Russians, to go the false flag route ,if it's not a false flag it's a likely internal issue
This is ruSSian paradise
Do you mean Baba Vanga, the blind seer?
Paraphrase: "We didn't do it but i bet it'll happen again soon". 😘
Honestly I do think its possible the attack is Ukranian in origin. However I'd be reasonably confident that any civilian casualties would be as a result of their drones either being shot down/ GPS jammed/ or flight error. But this is war and if Moscow was worried about Muscovite civilian deaths they could stop all this nonsense by lunchtime today. Of course they won't.
It does however force Moscow to continuously redeploy their AA systems away from the frontlines. So even if all the drones are intercepted it should be a net win for Ukraine.
I always wondered if Baba Yaga was sung about in Weile Weile Waile.
no, baba Yaga
Most likely the drone attack on Moscow was carried out by Ukraine, using a domestically produced drone made in an artisan workshop. This is the simplest explanation.
People have been envoking/predicting "false flags" constantly during this conflict. Have any come to pass?
If this is the case (that it was Ukraine) then it will be used again. It's unlikely that they would manufacture eight drones and then simply abandon the design. Ukraine's Western allies do not want Western weapons used to attack Russia but they have no problem with Ukrainian weapons doing so.
They most likely had military targets which they simply failed to reach. Ukraine are not stupid enough to believe that crashing drones into apartment blocks will achieve anything.
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