And Ruusia probably hit the complex with missiles in a scum attack.
Good to see. Let them stew in their own sh*thole.
Wtf....it would be difficult to keep a straight face even if you were afraid of ending up in a gulag.
It's quite a sight🤣🤣
Perhaps another ship wrecked
https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1703870446112792789?s=20
if that's how dresses, I wonder what his buildings are like, seeing as how he's the minister for construction???
I bet the Moscow Michelin Man here was the inspiration for using the spare tyres to protect the Tu-95s.
I think this may have been one from last week that was damaged. Unless something else has happened to it.
Probably told them the same thing when they were in Afghanistan.....
West missed op to take out the 2 most evil people in the world, 1 a wanted criminal and the other should be put on trial for crimes against humanity "UN 2014" he killed his brother 2017.
Might have triggered nuclear war if they are as potent as they want us to believe.
But now not doing so makes them more determined to expand cooperation and to be that ultimate threat.
In the air together a plane crash would have brought real justice and an opportunity for peace.
Now we know where the rations went.
Timothy Snyder's answer to a question about Russian genocide in Ukraine.
When asked about how to stop the killing
"Asking ukrainians to give up land is asking them to give up millions of their people, and they know what happens under occupation, death, torture, rape, things that are too terrible to mention. You can't stop the killing by giving up. The only way to stop the killing is to win the war, the only way to end the war is to win the war [.....] the way to end this war is to help Ukraine to win it."
Been a busy few days so not fully up to speed, is this another ship (after the docks attack that took out the sub)?
Don't think I've heard about that one before now.
I wouldn't want to be a recent resident of Crimea because it'll be raining drones soon.
Yes, it's another ship but unclear whether it's been sunk or damaged. There is footage of what looks like a failed attack on the 14th.
It's also hard to tell how much air defence this ship was providing. It's a patrol vessel and not only was it never designed for Area Defence (only the Moskva had that), but it's own point defence is specifically mentioned as one of its weaknesses.
I have read reports that said they were after-fitting/lashing on/duct-taping air defence systems to various parts of the deck. So these vessels may have been plugging a gap.
I'm a bit confused what the Twitter author means about being a free-fly zone "under S-400 radar coverage". I thought the Ukrainians had destroyed the only land-based coastal S-400 covering the Black Sea in Crimea a few weeks ago. Maybe they mean that the S-400s further inland can still cover the Black Sea above a certain altitude. But it certainly looks like it's Novorossiysk for the Black Sea fleet for the foreseeable future and Sevastool/Crimea is no longer as valuable as it once was.
It's a fantastic piece of strategy. Instead of focusing simply on trying to sever the land bridge and Kerch bridge to Crimea, they've removed the whole motivation for Russia wanting Crimea to begin with, if it's only going to be a duck shoot for the Ukrainians. Not that that will matter a whole lot to the grunts on the ground who are there to kill Nazis. But in the same way that they conceded the right bank of the Dnipro in 2022 because it was indefensible and costing them heavily, they might in the next 12 months choose to retreat from Kherson Oblast to Donetsk and, unthinkable as it sounds, abandon Crimea.
If there is heavy snow and we get a really hard winter in Ukraine will this make the minefields passable if there is half a metre of snow on top of them
Ha...and yet the Russians want to go to the world with their army of Putin-bots and assorted fan-boys and somehow try to sell the idea that Russia aren't the bad guys in all of this?
Here's a tip to any Russia fan-boy still reading here; the "Good Guys" don't usually recruit troops with the promise that they can occupy and live in the cities of a people they intend to eradicate. It's a fairly easy way to tell the good from the bad.
They'll be harder to detect as they have heat signatures. Also, a half metre of snow is probably a light snowfall in Eastern Ukraine :) Now, if the ground freezes after that, it might make it a bit harder for the landmines to detect pressure changes and detonate. I wouldn't bank on it, you'd be playing the percentages in a game where you don't want to lose at all.
Although the region gets a lot of precipitation, the average snow depth never gets to anything significant. It's more frozen ground than alpine/nordic conditions. Which in my limited experience is a much more miserable type of cold.
my eyes!!!! make it go away!!!😵 id say he's not shy at the buffet!
I'm at a fairly fancy "all inclusive" in Turkey at the moment so that's not an unfamiliar sight for me. They're big lads who like to load up the plate.
Oh I've got a good view of Arbrahmovic's yacht across the bay too...
It amazes me that it's just floating there. Surely civilian vessels like that would be relatively easy to sink?
And so it begins...
Those records are extreme. High of 40 to a low of -30.
Yeah I was wondering that too. This one is at least tucked away, I don't know what security there is around it however the one that had me scratching my head was Melnichenkos weird looking one in Trieste. It's out in the middle of the bay and Ferries etc just go past it (about 100m) and it didn't look like to me as though there was much if any (I'm sure there is) security around it.
A scuba tank and an augur would take care of it fairly quickly ;)
Maybe abramovich has an army of defense dolphins. But they're probably corrupt too
Sure there's no end of heroes on here ready to have a pop 🤣
So what begings? Can you give a potted summary for those who might be all "Huh?" about this development?
The Nagorno Karabakh conflicts had essentially been a bit of proxy fight between the Russian-back Armenians and the Turkish-backed Azeris. Russian troops are in the area to essentially dissuade Azerbijan from rolling over the remaining ethnic Armenian areas of Karabakh. If the Russians fail in this task (which they already have been, thanks to the Lachin Corridor blockade they were supposed to prevent) this will indicate that the Russians might be unable to keep expeditionary forces running. An Azeri victory here might enbolden Georgia to take on Russian forces in thier respective areas too.
What is crap though, is that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is awash with inter-ethnic violence from both sides. Local Armenian civilians stand to probably suffer horribly under Azeri control.
This, 100%. For Ukraine its a fight to the finish. And if Putin wins, Europe and the Balkans ( aside from the other Putin inspired trouble spots in the world.) may prepare for more "De-Nazification". The Hydra has to be killed, once and for all.
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