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Russia begins Invasion of Ukraine
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This is the world , sadly .
Liljagare
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Storm in occupied Crimea leaves half a million people without power.
Storm in occupied Crimea leaves half a million people without power
Almost 500,000 people in occupied Crimea have been left without electricity after a storm hit the peninsula.
www.pravda.com.ua
Liljagare
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Russian Soldiers' Wives Protest Against Putin: 'We Got Screwed!'
www.newsweek.com
Russia has failed at the largest airshow in the Middle East. Russian arms exporter didn't report signing any deals at the event.
Russian soldiers' wives protest against Putin: "We got screwed!"
The wives of mobilized Russians published an appeal criticizing the Kremlin for betraying the public.
www.newsweek.com
Russia has failed at the largest airshow in the Middle East. Russian arms exporter didn't report signing any deals at the event.
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Liljagare
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Finland to close entire border with Russia effective tomorrow
svenska.yle.fi
"Ukraine's strikes against Russia are not revenge. We strike only at strategic locations, we have the ability to launch 300 drones," National Guard reserve major Oleksiy Hetman said.
Regeringen stänger hela östgränsen – asyl endast vid flygplatser och hamnar: ”Oundvikligt”
Hela gränsen mot Ryssland stängs i två veckor.
svenska.yle.fi
"Ukraine's strikes against Russia are not revenge. We strike only at strategic locations, we have the ability to launch 300 drones," National Guard reserve major Oleksiy Hetman said.
Susurrus
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Finland to close entire border with Russia effective tomorrow
Regeringen stänger hela östgränsen – asyl endast vid flygplatser och hamnar: ”Oundvikligt”
Hela gränsen mot Ryssland stängs i två veckor.
What took them so long?
Lukaku's First Touch
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Whats taking the whole western world so long. I wouldn't have allowed a single Russian in after the start of the invasion.
Gp1
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Storm in occupied Crimea leaves half a million people without power.
Storm in occupied Crimea leaves half a million people without power
Almost 500,000 people in occupied Crimea have been left without electricity after a storm hit the peninsula.
Chittagong
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It’s truly incredible to witness.
2013-2014 - tens of thousands of young men from Pakistan, Iraq, Morocco arrive through all of EU to Finland over the Swedish border. Everyone: “We have a dream! Finland is open! We have space and can manage you!
2023 - tens of young men from Pakistan, Iraq, Morocco arrive through all of Russia to Finland over the Russian border. Everyone: “Shut the border! Build that wall!”
Ironbunny
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The same pundits here are still crying for humanity and telling us to keep the border open. In fact one of the brain dead representative said that the best way to counter Putin and ruZZia is to let more people in and open more ways to get in Europe. Thankfully our goverment changed before this shit started to happen.
Tams
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It was always incredibly naïve.
Not to tempt a forbidden topic, but these people were never going to integrate and assimilate. But these days you can get shouted at for even saying that apparently you shouldn't have to integrate and assimilate into another country you move into.
Liljagare
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Russia replacing Ukrainian population in occupied territories by importing 100,000+ Central Asians.
english.nv.ua
It is reported that last night, Ukraine attacked Saki air base in occupied Crimea, specifically the 43rd Aviation Regiment. Preliminary reports suggest over 30 Russian servicemen were killed.
Ukraine’s SBU Blows Up Freight Train in Rail Tunnel Deep Inside Russia.
www.kyivpost.com
#Russian forces continued offensive operations along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line, near #Bakhmut, near #Avdiivka, west and southwest of #Donetsk City, the Donetsk-#Zaporizhia Oblast border area, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast but did not make any confirmed advances.
Russia replacing Ukrainian population in occupied territories by importing 100,000+ Central Asians
In a move reminiscent of the great forced migrations of Stalinist Russia, Russia has shipped over 100,000 Central Asians to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center (NRC) reported on Nov. 29.
english.nv.ua
It is reported that last night, Ukraine attacked Saki air base in occupied Crimea, specifically the 43rd Aviation Regiment. Preliminary reports suggest over 30 Russian servicemen were killed.
New Ukrainian Security Service special operation: last night, there was an explosion on the Baikal-Amur Mainline, namely in Sievieromorsk, which is located in Buryatia.Ukraine’s SBU Blows Up Freight Train in Rail Tunnel Deep Inside Russia.
Ukraine’s SBU Blows Up Freight Train in Severomuysky Rail Tunnel Deep Inside Russia
Kyiv Post sources claim that the Russians are using the railway to transport military supplies from China. At least four explosions struck the train, they added.
www.kyivpost.com
#Russian forces continued offensive operations along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line, near #Bakhmut, near #Avdiivka, west and southwest of #Donetsk City, the Donetsk-#Zaporizhia Oblast border area, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast but did not make any confirmed advances.
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Chittagong
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Operation in Buryatia is insane, that’s like going from LA through hostile territory to New York to blow shit up. Sounds like a high value route to disrupt.
Liljagare
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Russian infantry uses ‘cocoons’ to covertly move across the terrain
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russian-infantry-uses-cocoons-to-covertly-move-across-the-terrain/
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russian-infantry-uses-cocoons-to-covertly-move-across-the-terrain/
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/...ver-unacceptable-truckers-blockade-at-ukraine
Lots of bad news recently that I think is indicative of where the war will go this winter. I don't think the frontline will collapse but Russia will likely make noticeable gains in the east. The trucker protest is just one of many circumstances that are not in Ukraine's favor.
Liljagare
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The Ukrainian military has said Russian attacks on town of Avdiivka had halved over the past 24 hours, largely as a result of heavy losses. “The coking plant (on its northern outskirts) is controlled by the Ukrainian forces. Enemy forces are trying to make their way inside, but are suffering losses in infantry and equipment.”
Ukrainian Army Received Five Thousand FPV-drones
Ukrainian Army Received Five Thousand FPV-drones
Ukrainian military received a pack of five thousand kamikaze drones within an Operation “Unity” project, a collaboration between the UNITED24 initiative and fundraiser of the Come Back Alive foundation and monobank.
gwaramedia.com
The Ukrainian military has said Russian attacks on town of Avdiivka had halved over the past 24 hours, largely as a result of heavy losses. “The coking plant (on its northern outskirts) is controlled by the Ukrainian forces. Enemy forces are trying to make their way inside, but are suffering losses in infantry and equipment.”
Ukrainian Army Received Five Thousand FPV-drones
Ukrainian Army Received Five Thousand FPV-drones
Ukrainian military received a pack of five thousand kamikaze drones within an Operation “Unity” project, a collaboration between the UNITED24 initiative and fundraiser of the Come Back Alive foundation and monobank.
Unfortunately the Russians have plenty more young men they're willing to throw into the grinder
winjer
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Maybe not as much as one would think.
The Russian government has been recruiting mostly from non-ethnic Russians and prisoners. Leaving out most of the ethnic Russians, especially around Moscow and St. Petersburg, to avoid civil unrest near these centers of power.
But the population of men of non-Russian ethnicity and from prisons is drying out.
Liljagare
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"Baba Yaga Is A Giant Ukrainian Drone That Drops Bombs At Night"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...nt-ukrainian-drone-that-drops-bombs-at-night/
"Ukraine Has Formed A New Tank Brigade"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/12/03/ukraine-has-formed-a-new-tank-brigade/
Pretty much what people already know but nice to read the detail. In summary it was overestimating to begin with and then underestimating once they dug in.
● Ukrainian, U.S. and British military officers held eight major tabletop war games to build a campaign plan. But Washington miscalculated the extent to which Ukraine’s forces could be transformed into a Western-style fighting force in a short period — especially without giving Kyiv air power integral to modern militaries.
● U.S. and Ukrainian officials sharply disagreed at times over strategy, tactics and timing. The Pentagon wanted the assault to begin in mid-April to prevent Russia from continuing to strengthen its lines. The Ukrainians hesitated, insisting they weren’t ready without additional weapons and training.
● U.S. military officials were confident that a mechanized frontal attack on Russian lines was feasible with the troops and weapons that Ukraine had. The simulations concluded that Kyiv’s forces, in the best case, could reach the Sea of Azov and cut off Russian troops in the south in 60 to 90 days.
● The United States advocated a focused assault along that southern axis, but Ukraine’s leadership believed its forces had to attack at three distinct points along the 600-mile front, southward toward both Melitopol and Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov and east toward the embattled city of Bakhmut.
● The U.S. intelligence community had a more downbeat view than the U.S. military, assessing that the offensive had only a 50-50 chance of success given the stout, multilayered defenses Russia had built up over the winter and spring.
● Many in Ukraine and the West underestimated Russia’s ability to rebound from battlefield disasters and exploit its perennial strengths: manpower, mines and a willingness to sacrifice lives on a scale that few other countries can countenance.
● As the expected launch of the offensive approached, Ukrainian military officials feared they would suffer catastrophic losses — while American officials believed the toll would ultimately be higher without a decisive assault.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/04/ukraine-counteroffensive-us-planning-russia-war/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...nt-ukrainian-drone-that-drops-bombs-at-night/
"Ukraine Has Formed A New Tank Brigade"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/12/03/ukraine-has-formed-a-new-tank-brigade/
Pretty much what people already know but nice to read the detail. In summary it was overestimating to begin with and then underestimating once they dug in.
● Ukrainian, U.S. and British military officers held eight major tabletop war games to build a campaign plan. But Washington miscalculated the extent to which Ukraine’s forces could be transformed into a Western-style fighting force in a short period — especially without giving Kyiv air power integral to modern militaries.
● U.S. and Ukrainian officials sharply disagreed at times over strategy, tactics and timing. The Pentagon wanted the assault to begin in mid-April to prevent Russia from continuing to strengthen its lines. The Ukrainians hesitated, insisting they weren’t ready without additional weapons and training.
● U.S. military officials were confident that a mechanized frontal attack on Russian lines was feasible with the troops and weapons that Ukraine had. The simulations concluded that Kyiv’s forces, in the best case, could reach the Sea of Azov and cut off Russian troops in the south in 60 to 90 days.
● The United States advocated a focused assault along that southern axis, but Ukraine’s leadership believed its forces had to attack at three distinct points along the 600-mile front, southward toward both Melitopol and Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov and east toward the embattled city of Bakhmut.
● The U.S. intelligence community had a more downbeat view than the U.S. military, assessing that the offensive had only a 50-50 chance of success given the stout, multilayered defenses Russia had built up over the winter and spring.
● Many in Ukraine and the West underestimated Russia’s ability to rebound from battlefield disasters and exploit its perennial strengths: manpower, mines and a willingness to sacrifice lives on a scale that few other countries can countenance.
● As the expected launch of the offensive approached, Ukrainian military officials feared they would suffer catastrophic losses — while American officials believed the toll would ultimately be higher without a decisive assault.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/04/ukraine-counteroffensive-us-planning-russia-war/
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Hopefully they won't start to press yakuts women into sevice or something else deranged along those lines
Bitmap Frogs
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Reportedly russia is going to recruit 170k additional soldiers.
Keep grinding them down, Ukraine. Given enough time even the wind will break down stone.
Keep grinding them down, Ukraine. Given enough time even the wind will break down stone.
FunkMiller
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Yeah, the US pissing its britches over air support and long range missiles fucked the counter offensive before it even began. Surprise, surprise.
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Forsete
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Polish security chief: NATO Eastern Flank states have 3 years to prepare for Russia attack
Estonia and other nations which make up NATO's Eastern Flank, along with the alliance as a whole, have a three-year window in which to avoid war with Russia, according to the head of Poland's National Security Bureau (BBN). Other expert estimates from European NATO member states put the...
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Europe better take this seriously and not miss the golden opportunity to defeat Russia in Ukraine as soon as fucking possible.
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Clearly part of the blame lies with Ukraine's military leadership. They decided to spread out their forces and attack along 3 different fronts. If they had just focused on the Melitopol direction they would have had more success, and could have at least reached tokmak.
This is one instance where they should have listened to the U.S.' advice.
Unfortunately they might not get another chance for a major counteroffensive like this one. Republicans are going to vote no on the next aid package because of disagreements on U.S.' southern border
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Darius87
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no sane commander would send it's majority of forces in minefield under helicopter and fighter jet fire without air support even concentrating such large amount of armor and infantry isn't possible without getting noticed by enemy, if you remember start of counteroffensive was failure then ua got in smaller groups and started moving forward very slowly, it would have been disaster if they would done what you said many more losses and situation would be quite different now, so it's good thing they don't listen U.S advice.
Liljagare
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Nutso numbers again..
On December 5, 1994, the leaders of Ukraine, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation signed the so-called Budapest Memorandum in Budapest.
On this day in 1998, Ukraine and the United States signed an agreement to eliminate Ukraine's 44 heavy bombers and 1,068 X-55 cruise missiles.Ukraine has gone through many disarment programs being promised peace and security instead.
Worth thinking about though as years later, some wonder whether the country might have pursued a different foreign policy course had it retained nuclear arms. This was not, however, a real option. Soviet nuclear warheads had relatively short shelf lives, and Ukraine lacked the infrastructure to refurbish the warheads, build new ones or produce needed elements such as tritium gas. At enormous cost, Ukraine might have maintained a small number of weapons for a time, but their reliability and safety would have come under increasing doubt
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Going in smaller groups didn't exactly negate the minefields and allow them to make much progress.
Congregating all their forces on the same axis could have at least allowed them to widen the bridgehead in robotyne and potentially penetrate more of the defense lines around it. Then they would have at least created a better foothold for future attacks.
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Darius87
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It did negate massive casualties and armor loss that's why they changed tactics.
maybe but at massive cost which not worth it, what they really needed apart fighter jets and long range missiles is way more breaching, anti-mine armor.
MisterFalcon
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There are very limited supplies of such vehicles as breaching massive minefields miles deep and under enemy fire would never be done by a NATO force. There would first be an air campaign for months until the enemy forces were destroyed to a point where you can send in engineers on foot into those minefields to slowly clear them out.It did negate massive casualties and armor loss that's why they changed tactics.
maybe but at massive cost which not worth it, what they really needed apart fighter jets and long range missiles is way more breaching, anti-mine armor.
Another point the Ukrainians are blamed for is not training their combat veterans on NATO gear but new recruits. So they were supposed to take all their experienced forces off the frontlines and hope the Russians keep quiet for a year and not attack the rookies now holding the line too hard while the good soldiers train in the West. Another dumb argument from strategists who never had to plan for a battle where defeat in the field meant losing the war. If the US had lost the entire force sent to D-Day, Vietnam or Desert Storm, Washington would not have been conquered a week later. It would have been a disaster but not an existential one.
The good thing is that now all those inexperienced soldiers on Western gear are combat veterans. They can teach others on what works and what does not and do it in realistic ways and not on a German training ground with 25 meter deep minefields and drones not allowed because of regulations.
Liljagare
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Be Ready for the U.S. Congress to Abandon Ukraine Funding – and Possibly for 'NATO Joe' Biden to Press the Big, Red Button and Put Frozen Russian Assets to Work.
eurasianology.substack.com
Be Ready for the U.S. Congress to Abandon Ukraine Funding – and Possibly for 'NATO Joe' Biden to Press the Big, Red Button and Put Frozen Russian Assets to Work
The Fewer the Remaining Options to Fund Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, the More Obvious the Choice to Sledgehammer Putin’s Sovereign FX Piggy Bank to Pay for ATACMS, Patriots, Javelins, Bradleys & More
eurasianology.substack.com
Lukaku's First Touch
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This is just
People saying that Russia would go even further in Europe are dumb imho. I'd make it clear that even if the US exits Nato with a Trump win, we wont hesitate to send a nuke Russia's way if only one soldier steps over the border.
fucking disgusting... no words for what the republicans are doing. I fear for 2024. People in Ukraine should be worried.Be Ready for the U.S. Congress to Abandon Ukraine Funding – and Possibly for 'NATO Joe' Biden to Press the Big, Red Button and Put Frozen Russian Assets to Work.
Be Ready for the U.S. Congress to Abandon Ukraine Funding – and Possibly for 'NATO Joe' Biden to Press the Big, Red Button and Put Frozen Russian Assets to Work
The Fewer the Remaining Options to Fund Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, the More Obvious the Choice to Sledgehammer Putin’s Sovereign FX Piggy Bank to Pay for ATACMS, Patriots, Javelins, Bradleys & More
People saying that Russia would go even further in Europe are dumb imho. I'd make it clear that even if the US exits Nato with a Trump win, we wont hesitate to send a nuke Russia's way if only one soldier steps over the border.
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Liljagare
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Russian forces may be suffering losses along the entire front in Ukraine at a rate close to the rate at which Russia is currently generating new forces.
“Looking closely at Putin’s recent speech, it’s clear he’s more confident & willing to escalate the flames of war beyond Ukrainian borders. Dismissing his statements as mere propaganda…as was done in 2021, would be a mistake.”
“Looking closely at Putin’s recent speech, it’s clear he’s more confident & willing to escalate the flames of war beyond Ukrainian borders. Dismissing his statements as mere propaganda…as was done in 2021, would be a mistake.”
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Lukaku's First Touch
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Which domestic consequences? The russians are obedient dogs.
Air raid in Ukraine: Russia has launched missiles at the Kharkiv, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Forsete
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In times like these, I think Sweden should have developed the nuke.
First video of Archer being used in UA. Living its best life, doing what it was designed to do, killing Russians.
www.svt.se
First video of Archer being used in UA. Living its best life, doing what it was designed to do, killing Russians.
Här används det svenska vapensystemet Archer skarpt i Ukraina
Det svenska artillerisystemet Archer används nu skarpt i strider i Ukraina. SVT:s Ukrainateam besökte ett förband som använder systemet – och var med vid en eldgivning.
www.svt.se
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Liljagare
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Russian military bloggers report that the North Korean ammunition is very unevenly produced. Even coming from the same production lot, it is obvious that deviations in the charge compositions and powder can be seen. It is very poor quality. Targeting and hitting becomes a game of luck. This comes after reports of production deviations of the shells in terms of manufacturing tolerances which were too much outside acceptable parameters and causing barrels of Russian artillery to explode.
Russian military bloggers report that the North Korean ammunition is very unevenly produced. Even coming from the same production lot, it is obvious that deviations in the charge compositions and powder can be seen. It is very poor quality. Targeting and hitting becomes a game of luck. This comes after reports of production deviations of the shells in terms of manufacturing tolerances which were too much outside acceptable parameters and causing barrels of Russian artillery to explode.
The MIGS they will be getting will have the same problem, that is how these countries roll
Russian military bloggers report that the North Korean ammunition is very unevenly produced. Even coming from the same production lot, it is obvious that deviations in the charge compositions and powder can be seen. It is very poor quality. Targeting and hitting becomes a game of luck. This comes after reports of production deviations of the shells in terms of manufacturing tolerances which were too much outside acceptable parameters and causing barrels of Russian artillery to explode.
In a shocking turn of events a country that cuts itself off from western technology produces trash technology
Looking at Russian losses, I continue to be floored by the Russians disregard for their own lives
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