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Someone tell Scholz it's time to take Koenigsberg back
By air would be my guess,check out the number of flights from there to Moscow each day!
Rail?
How are they moving them from Kaliningrad? By sea or by air?
And their airbases got rocked.
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Where to go and whether to go from here? The questions in a nutshell:
Your family does not get bag of onions (no joke for family to get benefit payments the Russian government not only has to admit you died but it was in Ukraine on SMO) if you die outside Ukraine, these are the smarter Russian soldiers who think of their family legacy
Belgorod also declares an emergency, Russia says it has halted Kursk action, Ukraine claims the opposite, Biden gives nothing away...
And the number of Ukrainian soldiers is roughly the same? There seems to be little info on exactly what kind of combat is taking place. Are the Ukrainians in primarily urban areas? Is Russia bombarding its own civilian infrastructure? Or is it street fighting, if so what are civilian casualties like?
The religious divide is also a class divide Iran. Unlike other ME countries it has a large, educated, secular middle class. A lot of these people live their lives - while in their own homes - much as they did pre-revolution. I lived there pre-revolution (and a little bit during revolution - scary) and am still in contact with friends who live there.
You have developed a weird obsession with me and the BBC, I suggest you get over it. I never said the BBC is the only reliable source out there, I used it as an example of reliable journalism versus random people making wild claims on twitter. There are obviously many other reliable sources too. And BBC sometimes gets things wrong as well.
I don't see what else needs to be said about it, so maybe you can stop with the petty sniping
9-10k Russian troops in the Kursk region now. 50% reported to have combat experience, the rest are conscripts and militia.
No reason to disagree but I did just come across this posted over in politics.ie
https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1823458615925084495
No idea if it could have any real significance or if it is rather a one off ,as you might possibly expect.
I was also reading there that the local inhabitants seem to appeal directly to Putin to help them in their hour of need like they were appealing to a demi god or an emperor.
There's also the threat of being gunned down by their own [not-NKVD] blocking detachments stationed further back. The Russians must make good use of those when they're fielding penal units and the likes.
1,2 - Kamyshnoe. 3,4 - Lgov and more.
Recon or sabotage group?
There was supposed to be a group of Ukrainians were surrounded in Kursk who then surrendered. The Russian group themselves were being surrounded by a larger group of Ukrainians. The russian group then killed their captive Ukrainians and then surrendered themselves enmass to the Ukrainians. They were saying it was very difficult to take them prisoner and march back to Ukraine and not be finished with them there and then.
If it were that easy, I imagine way more Russian soldiers would have done it. As I understand it, a big part of what keeps jaded soldiers on the front is that if they were to voluntarily surrender or desert, it would leave their comrades more vulnerable, having less numbers to attack or defend with, so not wanting that guilt is a motivator. However, even if this group were to decide to surrender as one, it might bring repercussions for their families back home in terms of government antagonism or social stigma.
You've got to admire their sense of humor!!
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Literally,first shot fired and they'll surrender
Hundreds of "refuseniks" russian soldiers who refused to fight which have been detained in a camp near St.Petersburg. Have now been sent to the front line in Kursk.
This is good enough for YLYL… but sadly not allowed.
Yes, and they were war crimes, regardless of who committed them or if they were signatories or not. It's still a war crime.
which airfields?
Zelenski called it an 'exchange fund'
prisoners or land or both
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I would be surprised if he didn't try that.
I assume that would be his direction of travel.
Iran was a democratic state in 1953 but MI6 and the CIA organised a coup because they didn't like policies of the newly elected leader, I believe the root cause of the disagreement was the usual oil based one. The Shah was installed as the puppet leader and was ousted when Iran went to pot again in 1979. There's a long history of the West feckin up that neck of the woods. Iran would probably still be a democratic state if the British and American hadn't interfered all those decades ago.
Russian paranoia only grows
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