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Jonnyboy

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On 21/08/2023 at 23:14, badgerx16 said:

What, like the TELEGRAM thread is response to the death of a 6 year old Ukrainian girl in a missile strike, where someone put up a fake advert for childrens' shoes "no longer needed", and got over 40 thousand likes?

Or perhaps the video chat on mainstream Russian TV where they discussed how to deal with Ukrainians ; If they don't want to be Russians then shoot them, beat them around the head with rifle butts and knock their teeth out to change their minds, or deport them all to Poland.

Then again, maybe the gleeful news item about the successful strike of a ballistic missile on a theatre in Chernihiv, killing or injuring over a hundred people ?

 

There you go, I have saved you the bother.

None of that is propaganda, it is just unpleasantness. Plenty of which I have seen online from Ukrainian people, British people and a whole host of other nationalities.

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badgerx16

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14 minutes ago, Jonnyboy said:

None of that is propaganda, it is just unpleasantness. Plenty of which I have seen online from Ukrainian people, British people and a whole host of other nationalities.

So, point out where this '90% Ukrainian propaganda' exists on this thread, rather than, as you put it, "nastiness".

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Jimmy_D

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45 minutes ago, cloggy saint said:

It takes a special kind of cunt to take out ten people in order to take out one. Why couldn't he have stuck with the classics, nerve agent, falling out of a window, or just good old fashioned suicide by gun shot?

Looks like it was at least six of the top leadership of Wagner on that plane. Relatively little collateral damage by Putin’s standards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings

It’s extremely unlikely, but after the recent repeated drone attacks on Moscow, there’s a chance this was actually accidental friendly fire by a trigger happy air defence operator, with absolutely no chance of anyone believing that’s what happened.

Shows you just how far Russia have fallen though, that bringing down a private plane is unsurprising to the extent it was practically expected that something like this would happen.

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Lighthouse

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57 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Mad Vlad trolling Prigozhin's family...

https://news.sky.com/story/putin-sends-condolences-to-family-after-prigozhin-death-in-plane-crash-12946736

Sadistic f*cker isn’t he? Not that I have any particular sympathy for Prig or any of his family, who I’m sure lived quite comfortably off the back of millions of dead Syrians, Africans and Ukrainians. Proper Game of Thrones stuff this.

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1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

Sadistic f*cker isn’t he? Not that I have any particular sympathy for Prig or any of his family, who I’m sure lived quite comfortably off the back of millions of dead Syrians, Africans and Ukrainians. Proper Game of Thrones stuff this.

I hope the cunt compensates the poor families of the crew

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Jimmy_D

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Unconfirmed reports tonight from Russian sources of an extremely rapid Ukrainian advance/Russian retreat in the Tokmak direction on the southern front.

No guarantees of course, but if it’s accurate, might be that Ukraine have something of a breakthrough into an area behind a defensive line that’s far less defended.

Between Ukraine’s hitting of logistics lines in Crimea that have massively stretched Russian resources so that they can’t defend in depth, and the reserves Ukraine still haven’t had to commit, might be a very interesting 24-48 hours ahead.

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21 minutes ago, andypen said:

Reports on the live UA map that Ukraine have made an amphibious landing in western Crimea. Remains to be seen but if true it gives Russia another headache.

Nothing absolutely conclusive, but it’s been claimed by Ukraine, and Russia are claiming it was prevented rather than that it didn’t happen.

Also a separate operation reportedly took out a S-400 AA system in Crimea.

 

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Weston Super Saint

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9 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

Sadistic f*cker isn’t he? Not that I have any particular sympathy for Prig or any of his family, who I’m sure lived quite comfortably off the back of millions of dead Syrians, Africans and Ukrainians. Proper Game of Thrones stuff this.

Another couple of days to wait yet though, don't forget he's been 'killed' in a plane crash before and then, like Jesus, re-appeared three days later.

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On 23/08/2023 at 23:55, cloggy saint said:

It takes a special kind of cunt to take out ten people in order to take out one. Why couldn't he have stuck with the classics, nerve agent, falling out of a window, or just good old fashioned suicide by gun shot?

Of course it's alright when we assassinate 10 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani

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Weston Super Saint

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66713476

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North Korea's Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin, a US official has told the BBC's US partner CBS.

The two leaders will discuss the possibility of North Korea providing Moscow with weapons to support its war in Ukraine, the official said.

What could possibly go wrong?

Does this mean Russia still has absolutely shit loads of its own weapons, they're just being kind to North Korea?

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1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66713476

What could possibly go wrong?

Does this mean Russia still has absolutely shit loads of its own weapons, they're just being kind to North Korea?

Russia is already using North Korean artillery shells. Also, there is evidence that Russia is having to use older, less effective, artillery systems taken from storage due to losses on the front line. Presumably the NK stuff is, in theory, more up to date than this, ( but as to the quality....... )

( Ukraine has been using Iranian shells that have been seized during attempts to smuggle them to the Yemen civil war. The US intercepted them and passed them on as they are the correct calibre for Ukraine's Russian guns ).

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34 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Video of a Challenger 2 destroyed by heavy artillery during the Ukrainian advance - the first ever total loss of a Chally2 to enemy fire.

Crew survived apparently which is better than the T-** tanks.

Read also only 3 of the NATO tanks are actually out of commission/blown up since being handed over. Rest have been dragged back and repaired.

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2 hours ago, skintsaint said:

Crew survived apparently which is better than the T-** tanks

Read also only 3 of the NATO tanks are actually out of commission/blown up since being handed over. Rest have been dragged back and repaired.

Crew survivability is an important concept in Western tank design.

Oryx reports 3 each of Leopard 2A4 and 2A5 destroyed, with 3 2A5 damaged and abandoned - might wel be recoverable if the UA advance past them later in the campaign.

Russia on the other hand reports almost all of the Leo's destroyed, and probably claims a few Abrams, in advance of their actually being deployed.

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Jimmy_D

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The shipyard in Sevastapol was hit, likely by Storm Shadows/Scalp missiles.

At least one ship and one submarine damaged, likely beyond repair.

Seems probable that Russia’s ability to defend Sevastapol has been compromised by losing control of the oil rigs in the Black Sea, which were used as a base for advanced radar and AA capabilities.

 

If Ukraine can force the Black Sea fleet to use a different home base, it’d be extremely difficult for Russia to continue supplying the missile cruisers  that have been targeting civilians at anywhere near the same rate.

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44 minutes ago, Jimmy_D said:

The shipyard in Sevastapol was hit, likely by Storm Shadows/Scalp missiles.

At least one ship and one submarine damaged, likely beyond repair.

Seems probable that Russia’s ability to defend Sevastapol has been compromised by losing control of the oil rigs in the Black Sea, which were used as a base for advanced radar and AA capabilities.

 

If Ukraine can force the Black Sea fleet to use a different home base, it’d be extremely difficult for Russia to continue supplying the missile cruisers  that have been targeting civilians at anywhere near the same rate.

They hit the 'plane with MANPADS? Isn't that what trump wears?

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Further information about the attack on the dry dock in Sevastopol is emrging - there are claims that satellite images show the bow of the Kilo has been blown off. Other pictures show the superstructure of the landing ship has been destroyed;

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It has been suggested that some of the AAA defences had been withdrawn to boost the defence of the Kerch bridge.

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2 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Further information about the attack on the dry dock in Sevastopol is emrging - there are claims that satellite images show the bow of the Kilo has been blown off. Other pictures show the superstructure of the landing ship has been destroyed;

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It has been suggested that some of the AAA defences had been withdrawn to boost the defence of the Kerch bridge.

 

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