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On the surface it looks to be around 3 of the breaching Leopards the Finns gave, 2 Bradleys, 2 Leopard 2A6's, ARV, MaxxPro and some other Ukr vehicles. There are also questions about the photos being edited.

Nah. Nikki Haley isn't even really running to be President. The likes of herself and Time Scott are running to be Trump's Vice-Presidential nominee.

Will he have a bunga bunga funeral? It would be highly fitting.

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And if that happens, then there will be a cooling down of the US/EU relationship. If Putin wins in Ukraine, you can bet what ever you like, he's not going to stop there. We might have to fight him here in the EU. Plus He will support China if it comes to war over Taiwan. No, I think that the military in the US who know exactly the situation is with Putin will have powerful say in what happens with US military support for Ukraine.

Well at the very least, if he (Putin) is not already focused on his own mortality, Berlusconi's demise will remind him of it!! And put the frighteners on him ( and apparently, death is something that he fears...with good reason, considering his murderous destructive life)

thats wrong on so many levels...really have to be some class of a bollix to do that but then again the chief fukchead in the kremlin is that class of a bollix...sooner the russians are pushed out the better,cant see putin lasting to much longer either when that happens,id say his gangster mates will push him out one of those wild handy open windows..

Novodarivka abandoned, looks like the Russians will end up retreating to the first main defence line in this sector.

It's great to see all the experts in dam engineering convert their talents to AI image generation over the last week.

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Lads, don't pretend that you can definitively spot Photoshopped or AI images, and don't pretend that checkers can definitively spot them either. You and they can spot some, you and they can't spot others, and you and they will report false positives.

I've been working professionally with Photoshop since 1994 in graphic design, photo retouching and processing, and compositing, and while there are of course tell-tale signs of cloning, compositing, the liquify tool, etc. a lot of what people claim to be those tell-tale signs in an image can be compression artifacts, noise anomalies, low resolution. In my view, that image is too low quality to make any kind of determination for it's veracity - in isolation - either way.

I ran that image though the manipulation detection tool Forensically, that uses Error Level Analysis, Clone Detection, Component Analysis and a few other methods to detect photo manipulation. It shows no manipulation at all for this image. Now before anyone gets too excited, I also ran an image where I used the new AI tools in the latest Photoshop Beta to remove two birds from a picture I took myself of them fighting on a lake. It reported some cloning - but in places in the image that actually were not touched at all. The bits of the image where the birds were actually removed passed undetected. What this tells me is that these tools are completely unreliable when AI image manipulation is used.

I then ran the image though Maybe's AI Art Detector on Huggingface. It came back with it being 76% artificial. Now before anyone gets too excited, I then ran some images that I 100% know have not been AI generate or manipulate in any way though it. One of them came back as 91% AI - even though I know for a fact it is a 100% legitimate documentary photograph. AI image detection tools are unreliable.

This image is very low resolution and it looks like it was originality noisy as hell, then de-noised and over-sharpened, and there's a hell of a lot of compression artifacts in it - all of which you might expect from the low spec video camera in a surveillance device, but which could also be used after the fact to homogenise the image and disguise AI generation, cloning or compositing. It can only be taken on face value, and you'd need a higher quality image, the original video clip, or other independent images of the same scene to verify or discredit it.

I'm not saying the image is fake, I'm not saying is isn't. What I'm saying is that anyone who - when looking at that image in total isolation - makes a determination one way or the other is relying on confirmation bias more than any possible objective analysis, because the image in itself isn't high enough quality to do any objective analysis.

Fake or not, it says an awful lot about how bad the Russian defence is that they have to recycle different views of the same incident at the same location several days ago, over and over and over again to convince us that Ukraine is being "hammered". It's almost as if they have absolutely no other footage of things going badly for the Ukrainians.

It appears now there's a threat of an ammonium plant in Crimea being targeted by the Russians.

Just because...divilment.

Chatter is also children have been moved to Crimea from the occupied areas.

Hopefully nothing happens. But Putin's army could be trying the or else card again.

An explosion at the plant could have ammonia gas covering the region.

The Sherman was the worst tank ever. Did well in the far east though where it could hide in the dense growth.