Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

teqniq said:
Yes it is for me too, hopefully fixed now.
Click to expand...
Other links are available. But rather than cheer when things are likely on the way perhaps better to wait for proof of postage. Plus there will be a delay between the decision, arrival and use. Given Ukrainian propensity for heavy usage beyond what can be easily supplied I wonder how long the supply and consequently the impact will last. Plus these things would be really useful to disrupt battlefield activity by the russians through destruction of hitherto unreachable (by missile if not drone) command centres and depots etc. So I'd have thought their utility less in the fighting close season,which will be upon us in the not too distant future
 
Pickman's model said:
Other links are available. But rather than cheer when things are likely on the way perhaps better to wait for proof of postage. Plus there will be a delay between the decision, arrival and use. Given Ukrainian propensity for heavy usage beyond what can be easily supplied I wonder how long the supply and consequently the impact will last. Plus these things would be really useful to disrupt battlefield activity by the russians through destruction of hitherto unreachable (by missile if not drone) command centres and depots etc. So I'd have thought their utility less in the fighting close season,which will be upon us in the not too distant future
Click to expand...
I wan't cheering. I am well aware from the article that it isn't a done deal. Also as Dogsauce points out it's giving the Russians plenty of time to move stuff out of range.
 
Any insights into the British volunteerwho has been murdered. The news reports don't seem to suggest that he was a prisoner of war who was slaughtered, so my assumption is that he must have upset somebody within the Ukrainian forces.


www.google.com

Former British soldier fighting in Ukraine found dead with hands tied

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who served in Scots Guards, had ‘passion to support freedom’, his mother says
www.google.com www.google.com
 
tim said:
Any insights into the British volunteerwho has been murdered. The news reports don't seem to suggest that he was a prisoner of war who was slaughtered, so my assumption is that he must have upset somebody within the Ukrainian forces.


www.google.com

Former British soldier fighting in Ukraine found dead with hands tied

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who served in Scots Guards, had ‘passion to support freedom’, his mother says
www.google.com www.google.com
Click to expand...
Until more information is available I'm not sure there's much to be gained through speculation.

But I am minded of the various unpleasant and unexplained deaths of several foreign fighters (Christian Würtenberg, Ted Skinner and Derek Arnold) and a journalist (Paul Jenks) in Croatia a few decades back.

balkanscrapbook.wordpress.com

Balkan Scrapbook

Cuttings, clippings, photos & films from the Yugoslav Civil Wars
balkanscrapbook.wordpress.com balkanscrapbook.wordpress.com
 
tim said:
Any insights into the British volunteerwho has been murdered. The news reports don't seem to suggest that he was a prisoner of war who was slaughtered, so my assumption is that he must have upset somebody within the Ukrainian forces.


www.google.com

Former British soldier fighting in Ukraine found dead with hands tied

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who served in Scots Guards, had ‘passion to support freedom’, his mother says
www.google.com www.google.com
Click to expand...

That the location of the body of water he was found in is not mentioned is a bit suspicious tbh.
 
  • Like
Reactions: tim
It's not as though there aren't any "behind the lines" personnel - which applies to both sides ...

Knocking off volunteers from external nations could be seen as a way to put pressure on the victim's home nation to discourage support.
And I don't think I'm being particularly cynical by saying that.
 
agricola said:
That the location of the body of water he was found in is not mentioned is a bit suspicious tbh.
Click to expand...
The article cited is perhaps not the best or most helpful, as it appears to be written by a freelance working a sub-editing day shift, reworking a report by the BBC from the previous day and fleshed out from the clippings file. They wrote seven separate stories that day, on completely different subjects. They are not a specialist in this field. There's no new information in it, and the writer has not spoken to anyone.

The timeline from the BBC report (and replicated in the Guardian) is:

26 June - Lancashire Police informed victim's mother that he had “been killed”
27 June - FCDO confirmed this
7 August - body repatriated by Ukrainian International Army
February 2024 - inquest into the death scheduled

That's it - no information on the details of the death, despite leading with “A British man who went to fight for the International Legion in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands bound behind his back.” Nothing about when this happened, when he died, when he was ‘found’, where he was found, who found him, or who provided the information to either the victim's mother or to the BBC (UIA? Lancashire Police? FCDO? The ‘local authorities’ with whom the FCDO says it is in contact with?)
 
Might have nothing to do with Jordan Chadwick, but the International Legion has had issues with Ukrainian higher ups according to one of the Legion's commanders, an American named Ryan O'leary. O'leary had a twitter account which recently has been taken down, and on it, he spent many posts telling off his Ukrainian superiors for incompetence and corruption.
 
  • Like
Reactions: tim
dilute micro said:
Might have nothing to do with Jordan Chadwick, but the International Legion has had issues with Ukrainian higher ups according to one of the Legion's commanders, an American named Ryan O'leary. O'leary had a twitter account which recently has been taken down, and on it, he spent many posts telling off his Ukrainian superiors for incompetence and corruption.
Click to expand...
Wasn‘t O’Leary one of those weirdo Walts who was never part of the military but somehow managed to give the impression they were fighting? With questions about where the money they were raising was going? Or am I thinking of someone else (and I’m not thinking of that Canadian dude who was never even there).

ETA: having done a bit of research, O’Leary is legit, part of the regular military there (since 2018). I was thinking of James Vasquez who was unmasked as a fraud a couple of months back.
 
Last edited:
Dogsauce said:
Wasn‘t O’Leary one of those weirdo Walts who was never part of the military but somehow managed to give the impression they were fighting? With questions about where the money they were raising was going? Or am I thinking of someone else (and I’m not thinking of that Canadian dude who was never even there).
Click to expand...

He's an Iowa National Guard vet with 4 years volunteering in Iraq. He's a company commander in Ukraine. He had a viral video out a short while back with a video from his helmet cam where he and some others flanked Russian trenches and was on their rear. He killed one retreating and let the other live when he saw he was unarmed. But the Russian ran back to his former position and was killed by the other Ukrainian units. I don't know what he's doing now after his "you can throw me in jail" posts.

https://www.weareiowa.com/video/new...view/524-ecb35991-c6dc-4e86-82ab-82140407d664

1694357135428.png
 
This is ingenious and funny. Yesterday there was some footage of a giant Ukrainian flag floating in the air over Russian-held areas of Ukraine, taunting the occupiers. Turns out it enraged a few Russian units who thought they’d have a go at shooting it down. In doing so they revealed their positions and were later attacked by Ukraine.

IMG_6637.jpeg
 
Dogsauce said:
This is ingenious and funny. Yesterday there was some footage of a giant Ukrainian flag floating in the air over Russian-held areas of Ukraine, taunting the occupiers. Turns out it enraged a few Russian units who thought they’d have a go at shooting it down. In doing so they revealed their positions and were later attacked by Ukraine.

View attachment 391117
Click to expand...
Psychological judo FTW. Let their weaknesses expose them.
 
Dogsauce said:
This is ingenious and funny. Yesterday there was some footage of a giant Ukrainian flag floating in the air over Russian-held areas of Ukraine, taunting the occupiers. Turns out it enraged a few Russian units who thought they’d have a go at shooting it down. In doing so they revealed their positions and were later attacked by Ukraine.

View attachment 391117
Click to expand...

That's brilliant!

This is an interesting piece from CNN about decoys being used.

“War is expensive and we need the Russians to spend money using drones and missiles to destroy our decoys”, explains Metinvest’s spokesman. “After all, drones and missiles are expensive. Our models are much, much cheaper.”

Take, for instance, the M777 155mm howitzer. The real thing costs several million dollars. Metinvest’s version costs under $1000 to make and involves nothing fancier than old sewer pipes. But – and this is the point – it costs Russian forces just as much to destroy with a drone strike as the real thing.

“After each hit, the military gives us trophy wreckage,” explains the company’s spokesman, “We collect them. If our decoy was destroyed, then we did not work in vain.”
Click to expand...

 
what next ?
inflatable tanks ...
{oh that's already been done} . . . but it works !

or leave a decoy behind when scooting after shooting ...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

platinumsage
Ukraine and the Russian invasion, Feb 2022 - tangentially related crap
28 29 30 31 32
Replies
955
Views
49K
Dogsauce
Dogsauce
tim
The 2023 Russian Coup.
51 52 53 54 55
Replies
2K
Views
65K
_Russ_
_Russ_
Dogsauce
The Russian defenestration thread
2
Replies
43
Views
4K
Dystopiary
Dystopiary
platinumsage
Ukraine invasion memes and viral content
70 71 72 73 74
Replies
2K
Views
119K
The39thStep
The39thStep
Pickman's model
Ukraine after the war
2 3
Replies
62
Views
6K
phildwyer
phildwyer
Back
Top Bottom