Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

[editor]

Another 'fire' has broken out. LOL.

Russia's defence ministry said the fire broke out at a temporary ammunition storage site near the village of Maiske (or Mayskoye in Russian) at around 06:15 Moscow time (03:15 GMT) and that the cause was being investigated.

Ukraine war: Russia blames sabotage for new Crimea blasts

An arms depot is hit a week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on another military base in Crimea.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Artaxerxes]

What is offered to Russian pensioners?

Expenses trip to Ukraine, rifle supplied must bring own camo and swag bag

 

[manji]

it's never going to end well

Cannon fodder.

 

[Pickman's model]

It will all be over by Christmas.

no, no it won't. the tail of this war will last as least as long as that in vietnam.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Ivan will go to town on any partisans they find.this is telling the world that they don’t have control of their own turf. It’s not a massive leap of imagination to see old school collective punishment on residents being introduced

 

[The39thStep]

no, no it won't. the tail of this war will last as least as long as that in vietnam.

Good news for the war boffins on here as that will probably involve new weaponry to get excited about

 

[Pickman's model]

Good news for the war boffins on here as that will probably involve new weaponry to get excited about

i was thinking of the people dying from eg asbestos poisoning and land mines

 

[TopCat]

i was thinking of the people dying from eg asbestos poisoning and land mines

That hardly helps the war effort.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

If your going to report on what Wagner Group are doing, you should probably remove the geo tags from your pictures in case Ukrainians are watching ready to put them into HIMARS.

And we return to war correspondent Sergey Sreda. Having left the Wagner Group base in Popasny he tweeted, “I was warmly received. Troops told me a few funny jokes” and geotagged the photo. In a few minutes he realised what he just did and quickly deleted the post, but it was too late.

Ukrainian Army used the geotag to give a bunch of mercs a ride of the Valkyries.

There are reports from a few to a hundred dead and wounded. Angry tweets and Telegram messages calling Sreda “worse than Ukranazis” and “who needs enemies with such a friend” prove that the war correspondent’s geotag was successful.

What is normal in Russia, but weird in other places?

Misha Firer's answer: For the celebration of Town Day, Oleg Borovskoy, mayor of Sayansk (Irkutsk Oblast) dressed as a tsar. Public officials wore costumes of commoners - men in muzhik shirts and babas in national headdresses. The tsar with his entourage walked down the road to greet his subjects....

www.quora.com

 

[two sheds]

I've immediately regretted a couple of emails I've sent but fucking hell

 

[spitfire]

In the process killing one of Gray Zone/Wagners leading Telegram channel owners.



Who is definitely not a Nazi.



TILL VALHALL!

 

[elbows]

It's going to be a tough winter across Europe that's for sure. I so hope when this is all over they some lessons are learnt regarding our energy supply. But I doubt it.

In the short to medium term most of the painful lessons will involve the demand and demand destruction side of the picture.

I've pencilled in winters of discontent before only for the bullet to be dodged, but this one seems to have a lot more savage potential of coming to fruition.

 

[Dystopiary]

The disproportionate amount of people from ethnic minorities being sent to fight in Ukraine has been talked about before.
Sadly not surprising then that those people are experiencing the highest combat losses according to Russia's own official data.



BBC article in Russian:

Всплеск смертей офицеров: что известно о потерях России в Украине к концу июля - BBC News Русская служба

 

[emanymton]

Kosovo stops import of electricity and begins energy rationing

Power blackouts after wholesale prices soar as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

If only thise bastards in Ukraine had just given up and let Russia win, eh?

 

[spitfire]

Dunno about you lot but on my behind the lines SOF missions I would always bring a bag full of Nazi memorabilia. Just in case like. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail and all that.

 

[TopCat]

If only thise bastards in Ukraine had just given up and let Russia win, eh?

I thought the article worth posting. It's the first European country to cut electricity supplies because of high prices rather than Gazprom refusing continued supply. The first but unlikely to be the last. Plus it's telling as we invested resources in Kosovo, it was the big thing then but not so much now.

 

[editor]

Dunno about you lot but on my behind the lines SOF missions I would always bring a bag full of Nazi memorabilia. Just in case like. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail and all that.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Some fire and explosion.

 

[David Clapson]

Does anyone follow this guy doing mine clearance? Mind boggling https://twitter.com/tipofthespear42

 

[Artaxerxes]

Given the number of nazi pin badges, memorabilia and good old fashioned tattoos that have given away members of the US police and woodworking contestants this is true.

I assume they get a subscription to something, probably one of those HISTORY OF WW2 mags that litter Smith's and go out of business in 6 months

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

This was a brand new Russian radar and optical complex. It's job was detecting and recognizing aerial objects....




Destroyed by a Ukrainian drone...

 

[Pickman's model]

Dunno about you lot but on my behind the lines SOF missions I would always bring a bag full of Nazi memorabilia. Just in case like. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail and all that.

if i was raiding a house like that I'd be really wary that something like a picture of bandera would be booby-trapped. It's the sort of thing I'd leave behind with a nice surprise for raiders who might move it without thinking

 

[Dogsauce]

The disproportionate amount of people from ethnic minorities being sent to fight in Ukraine has been talked about before.
Sadly not surprising then that those people are experiencing the highest combat losses according to Russia's own official data.



BBC article in Russian:

Всплеск смертей офицеров: что известно о потерях России в Украине к концу июля - BBC News Русская служба

There is some suspicion that reporting of deaths in Moscow is suppressed, as the home of the elite and ‘decision makers’, so likely to be more casualties from there than is known, but even with this it’s mostly people from the regions bearing the brunt of it.

The various ‘volunteer battalions’ currently being formed around the country are offered a decent up front payment and salary, so are primarily attracting the poor and desperate, those in debt etc. On the shoulders of the poor as usual. The worst part is that the state is often not delivering on these salaries, which is causing discontent.

 

[A380]

if i was raiding a house like that I'd be really wary that something like a picture of bandera would be booby-trapped. It's the sort of thing I'd leave behind with a nice surprise for raiders who might move it without thinking

You wouldn't have to worry about booby traps behind pictures you had put up yourself not ten minutes before...

 

[Dogsauce]

If your going to report on what Wagner Group are doing, you should probably remove the geo tags from your pictures in case Ukrainians are watching ready to put them into HIMARS.

Not sure if you’re mixing up different attacks - the Wagner HQ photo locations were easily identified by clues such as the building address on a sign in the background, not sure if they were geotagged. That was also the one where the ‘Reverse Side of The Medal’ blogger guy was alleged to have perished (though suspect if the blast didn’t get him former colleagues not known for their compassion and forgiveness might have had a hand in his demise)

If not then then they’ve made exactly the same mistake with the regular Russian army HQ in Lysychansk which went boom a couple of days ago.

 

[Pickman's model]

You wouldn't have to worry about booby traps behind pictures you had put up yourself not ten minutes before...

The two sentences from different perspectives.

 

[Raheem]

You wouldn't have to worry about booby traps behind pictures you had put up yourself not ten minutes before...

Think you might be overestimating them.

 

[Yossarian]

Wonder if Putin's next step will be re-education camps to teach ungrateful Jews to appreciate his anti-Nazi efforts.

Ukraine war: Thousands of Jews quit Russia amid fears of persecution

Around 20,500 Jews out of an estimated 165,000 Russian Jews, have moved to Israel since March.

www.bbc.com

 

[David Clapson]

A Russian paratrooper has published his invasion story and gone on the run ‘I don’t see justice in this war’: Russian soldier exposes rot at core of Ukraine invasion ‘They turned us into savages’: Russian soldier describes start of Ukraine invasion

 

[TopCat]

Wonder if Putin's next step will be re-education camps to teach ungrateful Jews to appreciate his anti-Nazi efforts.

Ukraine war: Thousands of Jews quit Russia amid fears of persecution

Around 20,500 Jews out of an estimated 165,000 Russian Jews, have moved to Israel since March.

www.bbc.com

Have they done that before?