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DIY-HP-LED
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To advance they need armor and trained troops, not a mob driven to the front in antique trucks! One can only imagine the artillery slaughter as the Russians try and advance in small groups under drone observation. Looks like their endless supply of manpower isn't so endless, now they need women to fight too, fight for what exactly?
Are the Russians ready for winter? The Ukrainians are and south of the Dnieper in Kherson, the soil is very sandy, there is a big sand park there you can see on maps. It takes a lot of rain to bog down in sand as compared to black gumbo and fighting in that area could go on all winter, if they can gain a stable bridgehead over the river. If they aren't, they are trying to make the Russians think they are, and it threatens Russian supply lines and the entrance to Crimea. The Russians must respond to a threat to this region and pull troops from elsewhere to do it.
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I didn't know he had a heart!
Let's talk about Putin's heart....
Let's talk about Putin's heart....
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BREAKING: Donald Trump's sinister plans for a second presidential term if he wins the White House in 2024 are leaked — and they include a stunning gift to America's enemies around the world.
According to new reporting from Rolling Stone, sources close to Trump have revealed that he is threatening to withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
NATO, and specifically the U.S.'s central role in it, has been one of the primary reasons why Ukraine has been able to resist Russia's brutal and genocidal invasion. The alliance is stronger than ever.
Trump has long hated the alliance for unclear reasons. He is suggesting that he will pull out if the other member countries refuse to ramp up their military spending — which is utterly nonsensical.
If Trump's problem is that NATO needs more funding to be more effective, withdrawing America from it would obviously have the opposite effect. It's almost as if he hates NATO because Putin hates it...
Sources have told Rolling Stone that Trump is considering an idiotic "NATO on standby" policy and that he wants to do away with its collective defense measure that dictates an attack on one member be treated as an attack on all.
Fundamentally, Donald Trump doesn't understand geopolitics, doesn't understand alliances or strategies, and he can't be allowed anywhere near such decisions.
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Pull your head out of the (Ukrainian) sand. It is the same playbook they used in Bakhmut. If you do not mind the horrific losses you can take territory. And from reports they are using their best equipment in the fight. $10 M counter battery radar taken out yesterday, T-80 tanks in the battle. They also learned Ukraine's lesson learned, throwing iron at a problem just gets it destroyed. Ukraine changed tactics utilizing infantry instead.
DIY-HP-LED
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We will see, but the Russians are taking a pounding while gaining little ground and are employing antiques and untrained troops, these are diversionary attacks to try and take heat off the south, Ukraine is defending the area on the cheap and mass killing Russians. It's not all roses, but the Ukrainians are doing far better than the Russians who are taking desperate measures. They can trade territory for dead Russians and destroyed equipment and then counter attack.
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It is not a diversionary tactic to take the heat off the south. If they were so afraid of the south, why would they not use the forces in Avdiivka there instead? The Russians may be at the rail line in the north. They do not have to take Avdiivka but just need fire control over the supply line in and starve out the Ukrainians over the winter. They do want to take it as a win to show before the elections, also on a practical level to take pressure off of Donetsk. They are taking huge losses but have been gaining ground. They may be using WWII trucks to bring in soldiers as they know if they use APC's the vehicles will get hit and destroyed. Might as well use something with no value to move the soldiers and save the iron for next year.
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Forgot to mention that it only goes as far as the length of cord you have to plug it in.
Lukashenko announced the production of the first Belarusian electric car
The Republic of Belarus intends to produce its own electric cars. This was stated by the country's President Alexander Lukashenko during a meeting with young people.
“We are moving towards having everything of our own. We will give priority here to electric vehicles,” stressed Alexander Lukashenko. His words are relayed by the telegram channel “Pul First”. The Belarusian head clarified that the development of an electric car is in full swing. Test versions of the engine and other components are already ready. The Republic also intends to attract investors for the production of equipment.
Speaking about his own production, Lukashenko indicated that the country also needs to modernize livestock breeding complexes . Otherwise, there may be a meat shortage in the country.
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Kind of funny, they came out with it in 2017.
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Lukashenko announced the production of the first Belarusian electric car
The Republic of Belarus intends to produce its own electric cars. This was stated by the country's President Alexander Lukashenko during a meeting with young people.
“We are moving towards having everything of our own. We will give priority here to electric vehicles,” stressed Alexander Lukashenko. His words are relayed by the telegram channel “Pul First”. The Belarusian head clarified that the development of an electric car is in full swing. Test versions of the engine and other components are already ready. The Republic also intends to attract investors for the production of equipment.
Speaking about his own production, Lukashenko indicated that the country also needs to modernize livestock breeding complexes . Otherwise, there may be a meat shortage in the country.
Лукашенко анонсировал производство первого белорусского электрокара
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Kind of funny, they came out with it in 2017.
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DIY-HP-LED
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Ukraine now has ATACMs and at the end of the year it should have F16s. If the Ukrainians thought it was important for other than slaughtering Russians, they would devote more resources to defending the turf. If the objective is to destroy the Russian army and its critical equipment for relatively little cost, then it is doing a very good job. The place was a Russian meat grinder for the past week or more with a lot of lost equipment, they learn, but a lot of them die before they do.
They are a slave army driven with the lash, untrained and demoralized with other troops at their backs ordered to shoot them if they retreat from certain death. They are using punishment battalions like Stalin and have such top-down control as to be nearly useless tactically and have trouble adapting to novel situations. They are still dangerous though but becoming less so by the week.
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DIY-HP-LED
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I dunno how much equipment the Russians have left, but I'll bet the CIA and Ukrainians have a fairly accurate count and it seems to me that destroying it is more important than killing mobiks, but that is happening as a byproduct of the carnage. Let them attack and let them absorb catastrophic damage with artillery and drones inflicting most of the casualties. The Ukrainians don't want to concentrate too many forces because of those big fucking glide bombs and the big hole they make in the ground. One reason why holding onto fortified positions too long is frowned upon and more mobile warfare is preferred by the Ukrainians, that leverages their training, communications and equipment.
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Shtorm-Z units are proof of extraordinary troubles in Russian army – UK intelligence
The fact that Shtorm-Z units exist in the Russian army demonstrates Russia's challenges in forming combat infantry capable of an effective offensive. Source: UK Defence Intelligence update on Twitter dated 24 October, as reported by European Pravda Details: The UK MoD noted that Russia is...
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Where do you get this?
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It is standard military practice and why fixed defenses are generally not used or troops concentrated with artillery and especially air power at play. Take that big coal tailings heap they've been defending, but is in contention, what would 3 or 4 of those glide bombs do to heavily fortified positions on top of that? It is only the lack of real airpower and extensive minefields that allows such tactics as fixed defenses and lines to be used these days. It depends on the war and what they have to fight with, lack of airpower often devolves into trench warfare with the rise of modern anti-tank weapons. Drones seem effective at trench warfare however and provide what close air support and recon there is at a tactical level.
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Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia put the Flag but not for a long time | Ukraine Strikes Back
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Ukraine Update: The new Bakhmut
At the Battle of the Somme in World War I, British troops were famously told to walk, not run, toward enemy positions on the other side of No Man’s Land. There were reasons for this that sounded ...
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Thoughts of that event were thoroughly in mind over the past two weeks as Russian commanders first sent troops forward in knots of tanks and armored transport, then a line of aging trucks, and finally on foot in an effort to capture positions near the city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine.
Just as at the Somme, the results of Russian efforts to advance have been jaw-dropping numbers of men killed and machines lost. But now, after more than two weeks of devastation, Russia finally has something to show for all its losses at Avdiivka.
On Tuesday, Russia managed to plant its flag … on a mountain of waste.
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Russia’s Air Force 'eating into' aircraft lifespans, with no easy solution - Breaking Defense
“When it comes to the Russian VKS all you can say sometimes is ‘thank God for shoddy maintenance,’” a NATO-nation military aviation analyst told Breaking Defense.
DIY-HP-LED
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It's one way to hide a body double if he has a heart attack, or maybe he had some other medical event that caused him to drop. Whatever it is, Vlad wants people at a distance for some reason.
Maybe he is telling them that when he attacks Ukraine's power system this winter and they retaliate, he will need their power transformers for the Moscow and St. Petersburg Oblasts. It will probably be a surprise though when the lights go out in Siberia as the FSB carts off the local power transformers to Moscow.
Maybe he is telling them that when he attacks Ukraine's power system this winter and they retaliate, he will need their power transformers for the Moscow and St. Petersburg Oblasts. It will probably be a surprise though when the lights go out in Siberia as the FSB carts off the local power transformers to Moscow.