Fog of War is at its peak in the middle of active combat.
All we can do is sit back, pray for them, and donate:
https://war.ukraine.ua/donate/
You are looking at it from the experience of the West, a democratic and free thinking tradition, how ever imperfect.
They are coming from a century of Communism and now with facial recognition tech, media monitoring etc.
Things are not going well for Ukraine with the counter offensive which has been underway for weeks. They've not made significant gains anywhere and are now seemingly having a rethink on their tactics. Which is a good move when things aren't working but what's worse for Ukraine is the narrative leaking in to western media that this is not going well. Politicians, particularly in the US and Germany, will have to hold the line with the public that support levels need to be maintained.
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Well that's clearly made up.
They got War Gonzo?
It seems that it's just someone who looks like him but the consensus is that Pegov would never be in a trench on the front lines so almost certainly not actually him.
Inclined to agree. Any of us would look like that after spending x months in the trench with no running water and shaving kit in the pocket. :D
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/06/17/denmark-ready-to-provide-ukraine-with-f-16-jets-danish-defense-minister-says/
F-16s a step closer.
The main impediment now is training up the pilots and sorting out who is going to maintain them and where they will be able to take off from (apparently their air-intake is so strong that the runways have to be clean of any debris).
People forget how much a state can control people now. The Stasi and the likes needed legions of collaborators and true believers to maintain their authority. Now they can reduce- but not yet eliminate- the weakest link in the chain and aren't so reliant on people who might get ideas of their own and have a measure of control and access to people's communications that were science fiction in the Soviet era.
I'm sure the Mick Wallaces of the world will point out programmes like Prism as an example of the West doing the same, but as things stand, I'll take Western mass surveillance over Russian or Chinese any day of the week.
The F-16 is particularly prone to hoovering up debris as its single intake is lower (down under the cockpit) than a lot of its contemporaries which have intakes higher up either side. But they're not expected to operate out of barely prepared forward air strips or anything.
Not that I'm an expert on Russian trenches, but isn't that very deep for a trench? Aren't they supposed to be able to shoot at the enemy from there?
The deeper the trench, the better it protects. For firing, you can step up.
You may have a point there but many of them actively support Russia in public. If they can't condemn it they could at least stay quiet.
Mordor has been burning for the past week or so
It's burning again in Moscow.
Fire on Ryazansky Prospekt near the Stakhanovskaya metro station.
For the posters really concerned this guy was dead/badly injured
Cue the usual posters asking for proof of life, like him holding up this mornings edition of the paper as there's no way to verify the date on the video etc....
Expression on the face of the Orc at end.
Poor old Kermit. Try harder Vatnik.
From todays FT
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition activist, urged his countrymen to join a new information campaign against the war on Ukraine as he stood trial on charges that could keep him imprisoned for decades.
On Monday, a rare trial behind closed doors started in Melekhovo prison, 250km east of Moscow, where Navalny is jailed. The highly usual proceedings are part of a draconian crackdown on wartime dissent that Navalny says will probably leave him behind bars for at least as long as Russian president Vladimir Putin remains alive. The charges of “extremism” brought against Navalny in April carry a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
“The most important thing is this trial’s form: it’s a trial inside a prison,” Navalny wrote in a message that his supporters posted on his website. “Putin isn’t shy about jailing innocent people or scared that a crowd could break me out . . . he’s scared of what I have to say. Even if it’s obvious words everyone already knows.”
H said he wanted to use call centres outside Russia, as well as social media and messaging apps, to create a “truth machine” that would reach out to Russians and convince them to change their views on the war.
Navalny is only able to openly challenge the war in his court appearances and letters written from prison — but he said he had tested out the idea on his own guards, who had “begun to think about it and start doubting”.
Russia deploying new unmanned tanks filled with high explosives taking a page out of the Iraqi insurgency playbook except with tanks instead of cars and vans .......
drink up fcukers
Apparently that was a captured Ukrainian tank used by the Russians. It was blown up by a Ukrainian rpg. At 1:07 you can see the rpg being fired.
Hit a mine then finished by rpg.
Sometimes the most obvious things still need to be said out loud-
.i.
Or the IRA.
Google Patsie Gillespie.
Jesus not even volunteers , just stapped in and told your doing it
Saw an article earlier about other false death allegations from the moskovytes getting a funny response from Budanov.
More air defense up and running.
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