Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

During landing would suggest, if a catastrophic strike (i.e. no ability to safely crash-land the aircraft), a high chance of pilot death also?

OPW price around 4,500,000.

That should read 105 million euro btw, I was wondering how big an area was being defended with 100K-odd euro fortification systemks

When the party crashers have overstayed their welcome…

OPW price around 4,500,000.

GAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonder is that real? The constant zooming out and the fact that they stop firing at it. Be cool if Aliens decides to pop down and **** up Moscow

What could it be?

Yeah, most likely a Helicopter with Lights on the Blade tips.

Nate

Evidence suggests that russians mistook their helicopter for a Ukrainian strike UAV which coincided with a real drone attack in Naro-Fominsk

In the small russian town of Naro-Fominsk, adjacent to Moscow and located about 400 km from Ukraine, local air defense forces most likely shot down an allied helicopter on the night of April 10, after mistaking it for a Ukrainian one-way attack drone.

:-)

Praise the lord.

When U.S. President Donald Trump paused military aid to Ukraine last month, the man described as his "spiritual advisor," Pastor Mark Burns, backed the decision.

This week, Burns is urging him to send Kyiv more tanks, fighter jets, and air defense.

"I now believe that supporting Ukraine is America first," he told the Kyiv Independent in an interview on April 9.

Burns's dramatic shift in stance comes after a trip to Ukraine where he witnessed the atrocities committed by Russia first-hand, visiting the site of a missile attack in Kryvyi Rih, which killed 20 people, including nine children.

The Kyiv Independent spoke with Burns to find out more about his visit, and why he's now urging everyone to "throw politics out the window" and back Ukraine.

Editor's note: The interview has been edited for language and clarity.

The Kyiv Independent: Can you describe what has caused you to change your stance on Ukraine?

Pastor Mark Burns: Obviously being on the ground in Ukraine has changed my opinion significantly. I am on record as being one of the staunch opponents of supporting Ukraine.

But it took me being in Kyiv, being at Bucha, seeing the atrocities that have taken place, innocent lives being killed, executed, and knowing the nearly 700 religious institutions have been intentionally targeted by the Russians, and 20,000 children have been kidnapped and deported back to Russia, not including the 1.3 million children that are unaccounted for.

When you hear these atrocities… It changed my perspective significantly. I now believe that supporting Ukraine is America first.

If I didn't believe the Krasnov allegation, I would be quite hopeful that this might bring about change for the better.

NSFW. Contains images of Orcs possibly dying.

I think he may be realising that Putin has played him like a fiddle. He is even taking the piss out of him about tariffs. And the only way he fragile ego can deal with it is to not mention Russia at all and pretend its not real

Well he knows he'll have to 'mention the war' again soon enough but if he reaches a determination that Putin isn't serious about peace there will have to a drastic change of course but it's hard to execute that with the tariff stuff going on…

Am I imagining this or have I been seeing stuff for years about that military project failing + falling apart in acrimony + how it will waste loads of money and never produce an aircraft? 🤷‍♂️ Going to make a crude generalisation but I do get suspicious of stuff like that if it is in UK media.

They seem to me to have such a grá for idea of France and Germany (and by extension the EU of course) failing and in permanent crisis mode. It's catnip for all levels of the UK press, from Express and the Daily Mail right up to the FT and the Economist.

(edit: I don't really know anything about this programme beyond the name + it exists and is on the go for several years, but I'd imagine there is some fire lit under both France and Germany at political level now to make it work and get flying aircraft out of it asap, when you have Trump cratering US relations with all European allies, and brown nosing Putin.)

He's too busy manipulating markets to help the rich make billions at the expense of the dumbf**k rednecks who voted for him. Ukraine seemed too much like actual work for him so he just turned to something more fun and the media followed.