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Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,131 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Ghislane Maxwell said Epstein had recordings of Trump. I suspect that's what Putrid has. I recently tried to work out where Epstein's money came from and drew a credibility blank. He went from teaching maths in a secondary school to supposedly someone paying him well over $100m to manage their investments of a few billion. I don't buy it. That rate of pay seems insane. Another source of 'income' seems to have been 'loans' from JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank who both paid several tens of millions as settlements where they didn't admit guilt or involvement and the money was just to leave them out of the fallout.

    I suspect Epstein ran a blackmail scheme for the FSB/Mossad and big Business, and that that was the real source of his money. Ghislanes father, Robert Maxwell supposedly had 'connections' with Mossad and the KGB.

    Notice how super keen Trump has been to support Israel and Orcistan.

    Water sports would never be blackmail material given how actual rape charges, sexual assaults, the Stormy Daniels affair and multiple criminal convictions did nothing to dent his political career. I have always thought that only pedophilia, murder/manslaughter or tax crimes would be sufficient to blackmail Trump. All three wouldn't surprise me, unfortunately.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭poop emoji


    Russian official offering Musk political asylum in Russia now

    I am sure they be fine with all the drug taking



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,131 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    2 helicopters and possibly another Iskander destroyed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,285 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    In a completely sane and rational move.


    Proposals emerging in Russia to adapt Tu-214 Airliners into bombers/ALCM launch platforms.
    Important to note that to date, only 2 Tu-214 civilian variants have been completed along with multiple military variants including Airborne Command post, Treaty Observation, ELINT, Comms Relay and Flying Lab variants.
    The older Tu-204 variant exists in larger numbers but given the scarcity of civilian airframes in Russia?
    Is even less likely to be converted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,835 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Kerch Bridge.....again .

    Edit: not a successful strike.

    Post edited by TheValeyard on

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,131 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    It doesn't 'have' to anything. It will only end when the Orcs have sufficient motivation to stop their barbarism.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,569 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    The ghost of Litvinenko claiming Putin is a paedophile just won't disappear. The more time goes on, it's still there.

    Now Trump getting pulled down with Putin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,635 ✭✭✭zv2


    Yes, Putin seems to have Trump totally locked down. He is in such a bind he is going to do something very self destructive soon.

    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭ilkhanid




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,205 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    I wonder who got to Piers Morgan, that man hasn't said the word '' Ukraine '' in many months, not a whimper from someone who was Ukraine 24/7 before, a huge supporter, travelled there, saw it first hand, and suddenly , boom silence is golden, even with recent MASSIVE events



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭interlocked


    UAF made significant advances in Tetkino, operationally encircling Russian units

    In the Bilopillya direction, Ukrainian forces have made significant progress in Kursk Oblast over the past few weeks, and in recent days achieved a localised breakthrough.

    Initially, after a series of failed attacks, Ukrainian forces, under extremely heavy air, artillery and drone cover, managed to break through the international border and entrench on the westernmost street of Tetkino. Russian counterattacks managed to claw back some of the houses, but Ukraine was able to bring in sufficient supplies from the village of Ryzhivka in Sumy Oblast, and the Russian attacks bogged down.

    Once this foothold was secured and positions consolidated, attacks were resumed on the Tetkino train station and surrounding houses on Lenina and Pristantsionnaya Streets. After multiple days of fierce fighting, Russian forces were finally knocked out of the area of the train station and took up defensive positions on and near Frunze Street. Russian VDV forces then began counterattacking at multiple points in the Ukrainian defence, however, all attacks were repelled with losses.

    With this solid foothold in Tetkino itself secured, separate assault detachments began crossing the border to the forward Russian trenches in the two parallel treelines southeast of Tetkino. Heavy airstrikes with glide-bombs were carried out on Russian positions on the frontline, while glide-bombs destroyed command posts and forward troop concentration points further back in Tetkino. This softened up the defence and allowed for infantry to begin storming the Russian positions.

    Once the first halves of the two treelines were captured, Ukrainian forces branched off to the north and captured the water treatment facilities and gained a foothold on the adjacent treeline. That treeline was then captured, while the other assault detachments pushed further north, occupying further positions under heavy air cover.

    In the meantime, Ukrainian FPV drones constantly monitored the supply lines in and out of Tetkino, and struck Russian movements in and out of the village. A lack of Russian electronic warfare simplified this process significantly for Ukraine. This in turn made resupplying Russian troops in and around Tetkino very difficult and eventually resulted in Russian soldiers having to shorten the line of contact and pull back into the town itself.

    Ukrainian forces immediately began occupying the largely empty positions around the village, including seizing the previously uncaptured treeline south of the settlement, and entered the outlying houses and agricultural building. Once positions were secured on Ulitsa Street in southeastern Tetkino, Ukrainian forces then launched a sudden attack north, from one of the treelines, crossing the tributary of the Seym River, and capturing part of the next treeline and the first houses of the village of Popovo-Iezhachi. This village is what supplies Tetkino, and once Ukrainian soldiers managed to physically cut two of the roads, Russian forces in Tetkino found themselves in an operational encirclement.

    The Russian garrison has since pulled back further towards the centre of the village, with Ukrainian forces occupying further positions on Frunze Street and the main street. At the same time, with the area open, Ukrainian forces pushed into the forests along the international border northwest of Tetkino, consolidating their positions there.

    A large grey zone has formed in Tetkino, with neither side holding a permanent presence in parts of the village. Unless Russia brings in reinforcements from the rear, it's likely that Tetkino, along with at least part of the garrison, will be captured.

    ~36.80km² in favour of Ukraine.

    Are you concerned, Brickster??



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭eastie17


    I believe this is the start of the plan to get Vance into the big chair which has been the plan all along. Trump is a useful idiot, albeit a very dangerous one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,644 ✭✭✭brickster69


    Good to see you using a reliable source of information, at least you should understand better the reality of the situation on the battlefield where all this will be decided.

    My main concern would be that Russia is now producing twice as many Iskanders as Lockheed martin's global annual production of patriot missiles and no one has any spare to send.

    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,685 ✭✭✭rogber


    When do you think that's going to happen if it hasn't happened yet? In the meantime innocent people keep dying



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭poop emoji


    It’s a pity they don’t produce enough toilets to contain all the smelly 💩 and offer basic levels of civilisation



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,685 ✭✭✭rogber


    Massive attack on Kharkiv over night. Several dead. The Ukrainians should be an eye for an eye at this stage and let citizens in Moscow or Petersburg get a taste of the same. Speaking to someone from Moscow recently who with disgust said vast majority there do not care at all about the war or even support Putin



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,835 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,835 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,834 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Clearly wasn’t shot down by an F16 as that would have been RedLine number 57 crossed and WW3 would have started by now…..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Bitcoin




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Bitcoin


    More good news. A large force of orcs have been encircled within ruzzia.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Bitcoin


    putler responding to the loss of over a third of his bomber fleet in exactly the way you'd expect. He's killing women and children by firing rockets into civilian apartments. Exact same tactics his zionist pals ins israel are using in Palestine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭EmergencyExit




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭firemansam4


    I've agreed with you on many things in the past on this thread, however I do wonder what the point is you are trying to make here?

    How does this war just stop? Ukraine are in no position to win it at the moment, and Russia has absolutely no intention of stopping anything unless there is a full surrender and capitulation from Ukraine. They have made it clear that it is the only conditions they will accept for peace.

    So if you suggest this war should just stop are you suggesting that Ukraine should fully surrender to Russia now? Because there is absolutely no other option Ukraine has at the moment. Either keep fighting, or surrender to Russia's demands.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,170 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Thats because the majority have never been given a say in what happens in Russia, and they have seen what happens to anyone who complains or puts themselves in the firing line or makes any kind of a fuss.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,170 ✭✭✭jmreire


    One small point, Russia itself is in dire financial and other straights. So its not all a one way street. The next few months will see how long Putin can go on like this for, especially heading back into the winter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,170 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Ukrainians sourround a Russian position within Kursk.

    https://x.com/i/status/1931094732232626323



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭pummice


    Sky News reporting Ukraine have shot down an Su-35 in the Kursk area.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭poop emoji


    You won’t get an answer, and if you do it probably be along the lines of blaming the EU again like was done few pages back and defending Trump, whose administration shares the same false concern rhetoric of “ain’t it terrible why doesn’t this war just go away” while literally doing nothing to help

    Tho to be fair to @rogber at least he tries to make concerned noises, unlike our President who is still stuck in his 1970s Soviets are goods guys world view and avoids mentioning this war and instead critiques those who try do anything about it

    Post edited by poop emoji on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,918 ✭✭✭Rawr


    And an excellent point to highlight. Although I’m sure our resident Russia apologists delight at telegraphing their «concern» about the various caldrons popping up in the Ukrainian countryside while wringing their hands about an unlimited supply of Iskanders (while also hiding their smiles at the idea), but they forget one critical element to all of this.

    Just like the human body, you can throw your fists about in the fight but it’s all worthless if your spine is gone. That is what the Russian Federation face, they face losing the logistical and financial spine they need to function. Without it, there’s no value to the amount of Soviet-era weaponry or consripts you throw into a war. Without a functioning state behind them, all you’ve got is a field full of worthless scrap and discarded directionless men.



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