Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Thank you. (Tangent - I see they have a Nestor Makhno avatar.)
Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
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It’s just a map showing the positioning of a convoy of ships. Amusingly, however, the shape the convoy makes is apparently enough to make the age filter think it might be something rude.
Is that what it is? I assumed it was filtered for War Stuff. I've seen accounts that just tweet nature & environment stuff get marked as adult content just because they sometimes post pics that include dead animals...
I think on this occasion, since it’s really just a map, it must surely just be the vaguely suggestive nature of the outline. The confusion gave me a chuckle, anyway.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Just bloody say it, it could represent a spunking cock.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
gosub
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IRIS-T shows 100% success today, more of these systems needed, Air Force says
IRIS-T, the German-made anti-aircraft missile system, was 100% effective during Russia’s massive missile strike on Ukraine on Oct. 31, Ukrainian AirForce spokesman Yuriy Ignat said on Ukrainian national television.
IRIS-T SLM sounds like a good bit of kit
strung out
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Flavour
hang the bankers
The Russian casualty rates (according to UKR, as ever) are rising quite steadily in this new phase of untrained or barely-trained conscripts being thrown into the meat grinder. 800 a day. It's horrific. Seems to mostly concentrated in the Donetsk region.
UKR also seems hesistant to go for a full on attack on Kherson. The Russians wouldn't hesistate to enact Scorched Earth on UKR territory even if they've proclaimed it part of Russia.
UKR also seems hesistant to go for a full on attack on Kherson. The Russians wouldn't hesistate to enact Scorched Earth on UKR territory even if they've proclaimed it part of Russia.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I don't think Ukraine is hesistant on Kherson.
Russia is, I suspect, thinking in set-pieces again. They're reinforcing Kherson, because they (I suspect) are planning on the idea that they can do a classic set-piece urban defence on it, withdrawing their better troops to the city while leaving expendable conscripts to act as a fighting rearguard to slow and attrit the Ukrainian advance.
But I don't think Ukraine is going to do that, for two main reasons.
One, urban combat is EXPENSIVE on the attacker, especially against what are likely to be well-prepared defensive positions and the best troops Russia has left.
Two, their strategy to date has been based on encirclement and logistics denial. We know Russia's logistics are in a parlous state, and quite easily disrupted by HIMARS from the western side of the Dnipro - Kherson could end up being the eastern end of a pocket which Russia would struggle to resupply. So they can move into just out of range of any Kherson-based artillery, dig in, and just sit there.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were some other attack to try and cut off the western side of the Russian-held ground, somewhere west of Zaphorhizhzhia, down to Melitopol, which could have a profound effect on Russia's supply situation in Kherson. We know that Ukraine are masters of the art of maskirovka (case in point: the Kharkiv attack), and all this movement around Kherson, while significant, could be a repeat of the "dead cat" operation they did prior to pushing east up there.
All wild speculation, of course, but I'm increasingly inclined not to underestimate the cunning and art of the Ukrainian approach to war - they seem positively allergic to doing it the Soviet way, while the Russians seem incapable of doing it any other way.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
1,000 Russian soldiers killed in 24 hours as Ukraine strikes unequipped troops | 10 points
At least 1,000 Russian soldiers have been killed as Ukraine targeted unequipped Russian troops deployed on the frontlines of war. This is the largest number of casualties on the Russian side since the beginning of the war.
www.indiatoday.in
Poor fuckers
Bingoman
Well-Known Member
The US is saying Noryh Korea is covertly shipping a "significant number"of artillery shells to Russia to support the invasion in the Ukraine
news.sky.com
Ukraine war latest: Russian military 'discuss when and how Moscow might use nuclear weapons in Ukraine' - but Putin not involved
The Russian military has "discussed when and how Moscow might use nuclear weapons" - but Vladimir Putin was not involved; Russia is continuing a "covert" mobilisation, it has been claimed; Oleksandr Usyk wants to fight Tyson Fury in Kyiv; listen to Ukraine War Diaries while you scroll.
news.sky.com
maomao
普費斯
They could do that with nukes now.
not-bono-ever
meh
hearing that the Russian pontoon bridge across the Dnipro has been done again. might not be accurate but yeh. back to ferries then. its going to be a bloodbath if the russians cannot get out sharpish if needed. fucking hell.Its also gonna be crucial in getting hardware across to Kherson as well
not-bono-ever
meh
Its pretty sickening the deaths here. fuckers
not-bono-ever
meh
History reckons Cuba would have bunged in forces by now. There’s no grand plan any more is there ? It’s just like the wake up, turn on the telly to see what’s happened and make a few calls. Demand more bombs be housed across and go beck to bed
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
I think the nukes are more of an insurance against externally-imposed regime change.
I don't understand the relevance of Cuba to this situation.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Putin calls for modernisation of Russian military weapons
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the weapons used by Russia's military should be modernised.
www.reuters.com
I think you're a bit late for that, Vlad.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
after years of going on about how modern the russian armed forces were it's a sorry state of affairsPutin calls for modernisation of Russian military weapons
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the weapons used by Russia's military should be modernised.
I think you're a bit late for that, Vlad.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I don't normally repost Jimmy's tweets as I imagine most of you interested enough in this follow him but something may be afoot in Kherson.
Tactical withdrawal, leaving room for...? Or are they just withdrawing to the prepared fixed defensive line over the river. Hopefully nothing more sinister.
Tactical withdrawal, leaving room for...? Or are they just withdrawing to the prepared fixed defensive line over the river. Hopefully nothing more sinister.
not-bono-ever
meh
Maybe they don’t want to make their location obvious if it’s going to get messy
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messier
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
good to see you release your inner pedant
not-bono-ever
meh
looking at the maps, if the bridges in Kherson are knocked out, then Ivan has nowhere to go- Kherson itself is SW of the bridges- if that route is blocked or taken, then whoever is still in Kherson city has a bit of a swim to get back to the other side of the river. Im not surprised if they decide to leg it sooner rather than later
Sir Belchalot
arenicola marina
I think that the Dnipro usually freezes in January so they could leg it then if they last that long. The Ukrainians will need to be wary before entering Kherson as the dam could be blown, parts of the city booby-trapped & some Russians may be masquerading as civilians now that many of the original occupants have been moved out.
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