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Their system is bad and corrupts many Russians but I don't recall anyone saying every single Russian is bad. 'Russia' is bad and many Russians are bad/corrupted.

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The caption is wrong, it's not Excalibur. It's a HIMARS missile (one filled with ball bearings) on a BM-21 .

I'm sure this has happened before, but I can't recall a time when a single individual Russian position was hit with HIMARS and recorded.

I saw that clip on Twitter just hours after the attack. Quite horrible death actually, guy shouts "papa, papa", then disappears under water and literally seconds later lifeguards arrive by boat. I usually enjoy watching ruzzkies getting killed in Ukraine, but didn't like that clip.

(Note: i was at that beach just 2 months ago, this might be the reason why my brain reacts differently)

Did you know that destroying dams was a war crime, before this latest incident in Ukraine? I didn't.

As anyone who lives within the sphere of influence of Great Britain, ie those who have frequent access to its newspapers, its TV, its politicians pronouncements I have certainly heard of The Dambusters. I know the tune. I have seen the movie. I have seen English (and Scottish) football supporters taunt fans of German teams by stretching out their arms as pretend aeroplanes and humming the Dambusters March just to remind them of how things used to be.

The Dambusters are celebrated as heroes. Brave Warriors who carried out a precision raid with innovative weaponry on the infrastructure of an evil empire. When the last of the participating crew members died a year or so ago there was almost a period of national mourning for a genuine war hero.

Now we hear that that sort of thing is a war crime.

I think it's fair to ask in such situations: What about that?

I think there may have been 1 other video that I can think of with a HIMARS strike with the BB's. Definitely a rare occurrence to see the strikes.

Now imagine 12 of them exploding over the frontline at once!

The only thing that stops Putin from being another Stalin is the fact that Russians have had a taste of democracy. Putin has too much catching up to do before he gets Russia back to the real bad old days.

The Dam Busters movie was released in 1955. 68 years ago. The world has moved on since then, even if you haven’t.

Vladimir Putin has turned the world against Russian people.

The poor lad was probably trying to escape Putin's clutch in Egypt with his father. But with this war and gratuitous violence and war crimes by the various arms of Russia that people just say to hell with that they must be all scum since they just follow as sheep and carry out the crimes for Putin.

It's going to take a long time for the blood and suspicion to wash away from Russian people.

There's a scene in Band of Brothers where the German townspeople are made at gunpoint bury the dead from a concentration camp.

The world will need to see Russian people go through similar. They won't be burying dead. But overthrowing Putin would be a start.

Agree 100% - He sounded quite young and you could here him calling his father as he was being literally eaten alive in front of everyone - Nope - I simply couldn't find that funny or deserved, Russian or any other nationality.

Goodness me. It's almost as if the UAF didn't throw in the towel after losing a few Bradleys and Leopards?! Maybe they weren't listening to all the gloomlords on talk forums? But that can't be.

They're throwing away their chance to negotiate with this kind of ridiculousness.

In all seriousness though I'm truly hoping stuff like this will demoralize the Russians on the forward lines into collapsing and retreating. I'd much rather both sides not get into months and bloody months of carving each other up.

Oh I dunno. I can think of at least one fat little goblin who deserves it.

I see Paddy Cosgrave's mate is over in Russia, working for RT by the looks of it.

Presumably he'll be discussing Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian civilian targets at a later date

It's important to remember that Russia is drawing from a finite source of reserves.

Every tank, every APC, every artillery piece, every launcher that is destroyed is not going to be replaced. Other than by obsolete reserves.

Ukraine, on the other hand is getting superior equipment, and pretty much endless ordnance from the US.

The tragedy is the loss of Ukrainian lives, because they didn't get it in overwhelming numbers before the offensive.

Russia will be destroyed because of this war, and the world will be a better place for it.

It's fucked up. 23 year old Russian who's probably living in Egypt to dodge the draft. If it was some Russian soldier who's been trying to kill Ukrainians recently maybe I wouldn't care.

Imagine you're his father raised him from a baby and you're seeing that all ripped apart by a shark while he shouts your name. Another angle showed a woman in bits on the beach probably his mother. One of the most horrific deaths ever floated around twitter you'd have to be heartless to celebrate that.