War

Portrait of the invader: Understanding the Russian soldier

One hundred days of all-out war has been plenty of time to get acquainted with the Russian troops.

Their lackluster combat performance, artillery barrages against cities, treatment of civilians, intercepted messages home, and interviews with dozens of civilians around Ukraine allow one to put together a mosaic portrait of the invaders. It’s not a flattering image.

Many of the soldiers are dirt-poor and badly educated, with many growing up without access to modern amenities. Many joined the armed forces because they have no future in their backwater towns. The majority have bad training, low morale and no faith in their poorly-maintained equipment and their callous or incompetent officers.
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TWO GENERALS KILLED IN ONE DAY! THE RUSSIAN INCOMPETENCE IS NOW UNIQUE IN MILITARY HISTORY || 2022

How Can US Artillery Hope to Stop the Russian War?
125,440 views Jun 7, 2022 The American Military sent their long range precision strike artillery called the M777 or better known as the Triple 7. The question is what capabilities does the M777 howitzer cannon have that aren't already present in Ukraine?

@ $195,000 USD a pop for 2 drones and a controller, they are a tad expensive when compared to a DJI min @ around $400 USD.


What can a Black Hornet drone do?
4,731,922 views Feb 5, 2022 The latest Pd-100 Black Hornet 3, which FLIR Systems also calls the Personal Reconnaissance System (PRS), weighs less than a tenth of a pound and is just under seven inches long. The complete system comes with a docking station for two drones that keeps them protected when not in use, as well as a hand-held touchscreen device and a controller. The most obvious difference between the Black Hornet Nano and traditional UAVs like the Global Hawk, MQ-9 Reaper, and new Loyal Wingman, is the size. Prox Dynamics AS, the Norwegian company responsible for creating the Black Hornet, made it its mission "to develop, produce and sell the world’s smallest and most advanced" UAV. At just over the size of a soldier's finger, the miniature unmanned helicopter seems to have delivered on that promise.

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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation convicted Zelensky of spreading fakes
Ukrainian nationalists tried to hide behind Orthodox shrines as their “shield”, retreating, burned it, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to shift the blame for this to the Russian side. This was stated in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“According to local residents, a large-caliber machine gun mounted on an armored car set fire to the newly built in 2009 wooden monastery of All Saints of the Russian Land with a burst of incendiary ammunition. Thus, Zelensky, with his statements about the allegedly deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of Ukraine by Russia and the demands to “exclude Russia from UNESCO and the UN for this,” once again lied not only to the Ukrainian people, but to the entire world community,” the Defense Ministry said.

The agency clarified that the Russian military did not allow damage to historical and Orthodox monuments on the territory of the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra. To confirm this, the Ministry of Defense published a video.

Минобороны РФ уличило Зеленского в распространении фейков

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So they burned the building they were hiding behind? Does that make sense? Or that the Russians bombed it as they do so the Ukrainians can not use it as cover?

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I remember reading about that monastery in a large magazine style book I used to have called Shelter. The monk or carpenter who built it used nothing but a hatchet style tool for the whole thing. Pretty sure that's the one but it's been 40 years since I saw the book.

Fuck Putin! Slava Ukraine!

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I remember reading about that monastery in a large magazine style book I used to have called Shelter. The monk or carpenter who built it used nothing but a hatchet style tool for the whole thing. Pretty sure that's the one but it's been 40 years since I saw the book.

Fuck Putin! Slava Ukraine!

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The first monastery did look like log cabin construction, I think I saw it in the video. It was destroyed by the Russians and it was rebuilt to the recent version. A guy that I worked with told me a story once about up north in the mines a worker got hurt in the mine and he was given stuff to do topside. He was told to open up a part of a wall and hang a door as he had sort of carpentry experience, he used to build the timber supports in the mine. When he was done with the door it was perfectly hanged but a little rough looking (don't remember the details). Rather than using regular carpentry tools he used what he was used to working with, his axe.

Put an M777 on the shore line and pound the shit out of snake island, it's only 20km from shore. 20 or 30 rounds should kill anything there or render them useless to do anything important.


Ukraine War: the war within a war for Snake Island
24,287 views Jun 8, 2022 Defence and Security Analyst Professor Michael Clarke explains why the Russians are fighting for control of the small Snake Island in the Black Sea.

Ukrainian Forces May Have To Retreat From Severodonetsk: Governor
Ukrainian troops may have to retreat from the eastern city of Severodonetsk which is being shelled by Russian troops "24 hours a day", the regional governor said on Wednesday.

"It is possible that we will have to retreat" to better fortified positions, Lugansk governor Sergiy Gaiday said in an interview on the TV channel 1+1.

"No one is going to surrender Severodonetsk even if our forces have to fall back to better fortified positions," Gaiday added.

The strategically important city is the focus of Russia's offensive after their forces were repelled from other parts of Ukraine following the February invasion.

Its capture would allow Russia troops to push deeper into the eastern Donbas region and Ukraine's de facto administrative centre there, Kramatorsk.

Gaiday said that fierce fighting was ongoing in Severodonetsk, an industrial city with a pre-war population of around 100,000 people.

"Our forces are fighting for every inch of the city," he said.

With all the talk of how good the Ukrainians are and the new equipment and how the Russians are so disadvantaged in moral and pulling up old equipment, point enough artillery at an area and your odds of repelling an attack is pretty good.

Lavrov outraged by Zelensky's ultimatum on negotiations
The demands of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, which he put forward to start negotiations with the Russian Federation, are a frivolous approach. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Larov after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu.

“Zelensky’s demands for the start of negotiations with Moscow to withdraw Russian troops behind the line on February 24 is a frivolous approach,” Lavrov said at a briefing after a meeting with Cavusoglu, which was broadcast on the Rossiya-24 TV channel. Lavrov also noted that the special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine is going according to plan and achieving its goals.

On February 24, Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine . After that, the parties held negotiations, but did not come to a solution to the issue. Earlier, Zelensky said that Ukraine would return to discussions with Russia only after the return of all its territories. He expressed his readiness to meet only with Russian President Vladimir Putin and only if they discuss the end of the special operation, RT reports .

Lavrov gave Ukraine a promise on a special operation
Russia is ready to guarantee that it will not use the situation to continue the special operation if Ukraine clears mines from ports in the Black Sea. This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Larov after a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

“Russia guarantees that if Kyiv clears the ports, Moscow will not take advantage of this situation as part of a military operation. Moscow is ready to issue guarantees for unblocking ports in one way or another,” Lavrov said at a briefing after a meeting with Cavusoglu, which was broadcast on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

Ukraine has mined ports in the Black Sea where grain is stored, because of this there is no way to take out products from there. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin also promised that the Russian army would not attack the Ukrainian military while clearing ports. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced its readiness to clear the ports if the Russian Federation withdraws forces from there and gives security guarantees for commercial convoys that export grain. Russia has been conducting a special operation in Ukraine since February 24 to liberate Donbass.
Deputy Zhuravlev called a way to stop the shelling of Russian villages
The shelling of Russian villages and Donbass will stop as soon as Russia pushes back the Ukrainian troops at a sufficient distance. This was stated in a conversation with URA.RU by Alexei Zhuravlev, First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

“In order not to shell our villages and cities, we need to drive the enemy away to a distance from which he will not be able to do this. This is logical. The same is connected with the shelling of Donetsk. In my opinion, we need to stop playing a special operation, and wage a full-scale war with the Ukrainian Nazi state. They do just that, wage a full-scale war. And not only them, but all of Europe. What they don't hide. And we are conducting a special operation,” said Alexei Zhuravlev.

According to him, it is beneficial for the West that what is happening in Ukraine is delayed. “The special operation will take years, and this is exactly what the Americans need. They sleep and see it. Some say that supposedly prolonged conflict is not good for their economy, but this is not true. They profited from the war during the First World War and the Second World War, ”said the deputy. He stressed that Russia should not play according to the US plan.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired dozens of shells from the BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system at the center of Donetsk. As a result , five people died and 20 were injured. Once again, the village of Tetkino in the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region was shelled. Other settlements in the border regions also fell under Ukrainian fire. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special operation in Ukraine on February 24. He emphasized that its goal is to protect the inhabitants of Donbass.
Colonel Matviychuk named the next goals of the Russian Federation after Svyatogorsk
After taking control of Svyatogorsk in the DPR, the Russian Armed Forces should head for Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. This opinion was shared by a military expert, retired colonel Anatoly Matviychuk, in an interview with URA.RU.

“Svyatogorsk is a city that interrupts the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk-Artemovsk highway covered by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a matter of fact, we cut it and surround the grouping. We have almost completely cleared Severodonetsk, leaving only the industrial area, and then Lisichansk. We finish off the groupings settled there and then we will go to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. We will finish them off,” Anatoly Matviychuk explained.

The military expert added that after Kramatorsk, the Russian Armed Forces could go to Kharkov and Odessa. “God forbid we now reach the border of the center of Kramatorsk, and then we'll see how the situation will develop, but I think that's the way it is - Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa. Odessa and Nikolaev are the next task,” Matviychuk emphasized.

Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the liberation of a significant part of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics along the left bank of the Northern Donets, in particular, the cities of Krasny Liman and Svyatogorsk. A special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine began on February 24 . According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the decision was forced, its goal is to protect the inhabitants of Donbass from genocide. The task of the second stage of the special operation is to establish complete control over the Donbass and southern Ukraine.

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With all the talk of how good the Ukrainians are and the new equipment and how the Russians are so disadvantaged in moral and pulling up old equipment, point enough artillery at an area and your odds of repelling an attack is pretty good.

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They also put a lot of that artillery in range of the Ukrainian 155mm guns. I don't think the point is to hold the city, just suck the Russians in with a minimal of Ukrainian losses and a maximum of Russian ones. They need the city for political purposes and the ground is not in their favor. I believe the overall strategy here is to continue wearing the Russians down the most efficient way they can, while the Russians are attacking through an urban environment. The Russians appear to be critically short of infantry and are using artillery to smash everything in their path, so it's stay and get smashed or move. However while they are doing the smashing, the Ukrainian guns on the heights using counter battery radars and drones are steadily picking off the Russian guns that are in range.

I figure withdraw and let the Russians advance under artillery and mortar fire rained down upon them as they move through the city. Perhaps even counter attack again when they chewed them up enough, or let them have it while shelling and mortaring the city from across the river. It will be another month at least before the Ukrainians are ready to begin their offensive phase IMHO and there is lot's more to wear down and destroy while they are still attacking. They know the Russians objectives and the roads and areas they want to take, so I image they prepared their way for them.

MP Fedorov proposed to revoke the recognition of Lithuania's independence
United Russia deputy Yevgeny Fedorov submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the abolition of the resolution of the USSR State Council "On Recognizing the Independence of the Republic of Lithuania", which states that it is illegal, the document is available in the Duma database.

The resolution of the State Council of the USSR is illegal, since it was adopted by an unconstitutional body and in violation of the requirements of a number of articles of the USSR Constitution, the explanatory note to the draft says.

According to the deputy, the Law of the USSR "On the procedure for resolving issues related to the secession of a union republic from the USSR" was violated, since a referendum on secession from the USSR was not held in the Republic of Lithuania and a transitional period was not established to consider all controversial issues.

The author of the bill also recalls that the Constitution of Russia was supplemented, in particular, by Article 67.1, which states that "the Russian Federation is the legal successor of the USSR on its territory."

"In March 1991, in accordance with the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 16, 1991 No. 1910-1 "On the organization and measures to ensure the holding of a referendum of the USSR on the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", a referendum was held in the country, at which a decision was made on the preservation of the USSR as a single state," the explanatory note also says.

Moscow thinking it needs a land bridge to Kalingrad? What about Latvia?

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MP Fedorov proposed to revoke the recognition of Lithuania's independence
United Russia deputy Yevgeny Fedorov submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the abolition of the resolution of the USSR State Council "On Recognizing the Independence of the Republic of Lithuania", which states that it is illegal, the document is available in the Duma database.

The resolution of the State Council of the USSR is illegal, since it was adopted by an unconstitutional body and in violation of the requirements of a number of articles of the USSR Constitution, the explanatory note to the draft says.

According to the deputy, the Law of the USSR "On the procedure for resolving issues related to the secession of a union republic from the USSR" was violated, since a referendum on secession from the USSR was not held in the Republic of Lithuania and a transitional period was not established to consider all controversial issues.

The author of the bill also recalls that the Constitution of Russia was supplemented, in particular, by Article 67.1, which states that "the Russian Federation is the legal successor of the USSR on its territory."

"In March 1991, in accordance with the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 16, 1991 No. 1910-1 "On the organization and measures to ensure the holding of a referendum of the USSR on the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", a referendum was held in the country, at which a decision was made on the preservation of the USSR as a single state," the explanatory note also says.

Депутат Федоров предложил отозвать признание независимости Литвы

Депутат от "Единой России" Евгений Федоров внес в Госдуму законопроект об отмене постановления Госсовета СССР "О признании независимости Литовской Республики",... РИА Новости, 08.06.2022

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Moscow thinking it needs a land bridge to Kalingrad? What about Latvia?

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It will be hard to do anything with a destroyed army, depleted precision munitions and almost everything else. Kaliningrad will eventually have a meaningful referendum and I doubt Russia will be in their future. They are NATO members, so they might as well attack America, Poland would jump on the Russians and Belarusians first and ask questions later while invoking article 5.

looks like Dmitry Medvedev is sparking the same tone as his master Pooty........



keep in mind if Pooty passes, this will prolly be the next in line....he's already served as pres once already

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I don't think the point is to hold the city, just suck the Russians in with a minimal of Ukrainian losses and a maximum of Russian ones.

The Russians appear to be critically short of infantry and are using artillery to smash everything in their path, so it's stay and get smashed or move. However while they are doing the smashing, the Ukrainian guns on the heights using counter battery radars and drones are steadily picking off the Russian guns that are in range.

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The Russians have fought every war since WWII (and probably before) by flattening cities. This is how they do things. A minimal of Ukrainian losses? 50 men a day dead and hundreds injured?

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The Russians have fought every war since WWII (and probably before) by flattening cities. This is how they do things. A minimal of Ukrainian losses? 50 men a day dead and hundreds injured?

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Yep, a minimal in a 1000km front war that is being intensively fought. The Russians are doing most of the attacking and the Ukrainians know where and when. Where the Ukrainians do attack, is where the Russians are weak and I believe they are taking a lot more casualties than the Ukrainians. I also think the Ukrainian injured are getting better medical treatment, in western Europe if required. In the recent case their infantry was sucked into urban warfare and the Ukrainians appear to be making the best of limited resources, but those resources are increasing weekly now. In the meantime maneuver and wear them down, use your guns to eliminate as many of theirs (and crews) as you can and anything that comes in range of the 155mm guns.

I have no problem with wearing down the Russians, however it should be done at less cost to the Ukrainians in terms of blood and time. I dunno if the larger purpose is to suck the Russians in for destruction by making them think they have a chance, or if there is a larger purpose. I'm assuming it's the American and NATO's larger strategic purpose, the destruction of the Russian army, so that they cannot project power onto their neighbors, the more of their military destroyed the better. In the meantime don't spook them or provoke them, just let them bleed out on the fields of Ukraine.

With sanctions they can't replace the equipment they lose, especially the advanced weapons and their economy is crippled, more so in the future. Manpower is even an issue, if they want to create an armed horde and try to draft men en masse. The oil wealth and oligarchs distorted their economy and stifled initiative at home along with corruption. The modern arms industry is like a lot of others, lot's of different things are made in lot's of different countries. Even small countries that are part of the global economic system can make very advanced arms that they can sell to other nations and use themselves. They just buy the technology they need, like sensors and electronics, or even designs, from other places.

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Ukrainian Forces May Have To Retreat From Severodonetsk: Governor
Ukrainian troops may have to retreat from the eastern city of Severodonetsk which is being shelled by Russian troops "24 hours a day", the regional governor said on Wednesday.

"It is possible that we will have to retreat" to better fortified positions, Lugansk governor Sergiy Gaiday said in an interview on the TV channel 1+1.

"No one is going to surrender Severodonetsk even if our forces have to fall back to better fortified positions," Gaiday added.

The strategically important city is the focus of Russia's offensive after their forces were repelled from other parts of Ukraine following the February invasion.

Its capture would allow Russia troops to push deeper into the eastern Donbas region and Ukraine's de facto administrative centre there, Kramatorsk.

Gaiday said that fierce fighting was ongoing in Severodonetsk, an industrial city with a pre-war population of around 100,000 people.

"Our forces are fighting for every inch of the city," he said.

Ukrainian Forces May Have To Retreat From Severodonetsk: Governor

Ukrainian troops may have to retreat from the eastern city of Severodonetsk which is being shelled by Russian troops "24 hours a day", the regional governor said on Wednesday.

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With all the talk of how good the Ukrainians are and the new equipment and how the Russians are so disadvantaged in moral and pulling up old equipment, point enough artillery at an area and your odds of repelling an attack is pretty good.

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how much artillery do the russians have left? how many more mortar rounds and rockets do they have? they don't have access to many of the sources of parts they used to have, and don't have access to many of the raw materials they used to have to make their own...


i have no idea how many artillery rounds they have stockpiled, but i do know they have very limited facilities and materials for producing more...
and the stockpiled ones, as mentioned in the article above, have a definite shelf life, so how many more days of indiscriminate shelling can the russians pull off? they used up to 4000 a day on one city in Syria...if they have a million shells stockpiled (which i doubt) at 4000 a day that's 250 days worth...in reality they probably have half a million stockpiled, and at least 10% of those are crap, so 450,000 shells, at a rate of 2000 a day is 225 days worth...they're already half way to that. many videos that have been dissected by experts point out that there is little to no air burst damage in recent shelling, which indicates that those primers and fuses, which are the most delicate, have all gone to shit, and the russians have no way of replacing them.
the russians NEED to do what they're going to do before they run out of both munitions, and the men to use them...and i don't think they can beat that clock

Hold my bear! - How russia managed to loose reputation, influence and become North Korea 2.0
712 views Jun 8, 2022 From "demilitarization" to fight against NATO (yes, they think so). Here are the main mistakes of russian geopolitics during the last 30 years And Ukraine should become the LAST russian mistake

Roger A. Shrubber said:

how much artillery do the russians have left? how many more mortar rounds and rockets do they have? they don't have access to many of the sources of parts they used to have, and don't have access to many of the raw materials they used to have to make their own...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1517959080547168256

i have no idea how many artillery rounds they have stockpiled, but i do know they have very limited facilities and materials for producing more...
and the stockpiled ones, as mentioned in the article above, have a definite shelf life, so how many more days of indiscriminate shelling can the russians pull off? they used up to 4000 a day on one city in Syria...if they have a million shells stockpiled (which i doubt) at 4000 a day that's 250 days worth...in reality they probably have half a million stockpiled, and at least 10% of those are crap, so 450,000 shells, at a rate of 2000 a day is 225 days worth...they're already half way to that. many videos that have been dissected by experts point out that there is little to no air burst damage in recent shelling, which indicates that those primers and fuses, which are the most delicate, have all gone to shit, and the russians have no way of replacing them.
the russians NEED to do what they're going to do before they run out of both munitions, and the men to use them...and i don't think they can beat that clock

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But the West's cupboard is not endless either. The Russians are going to try to keep all of Donbas and capture the land up to and including Odessa. Actually I posted an article from Russia (was it yesterday or the day before?) giving the coming objectives. And after the capture teritorys will have their referendum to join Russia, which they will all vote to do.

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But the West's cupboard is not endless either. The Russians are going to try to keep all of Donbas and capture the land up to and including Odessa. Actually I posted an article from Russia (was it yesterday or the day before?) giving the coming objectives. And after the capture teritorys will have their referendum to join Russia, which they will all vote to do.

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yeah i saw that article, it was very giggle worth....i do understand what your saying here, but you really have to look at the dynamics....

1: logistics is getting real bad and getting worse
2: troop moral is wanning big time, cause of no food, clothing etc etc
3: 13 Generals are dead and other upper more in other rankings....
4: with an estimate of 32000 dead and more than likely 3 times that wounded.....make it hard for Russia to regroup especially when now pooty is all in
5: decention in the ranks at home and also arson of major buildings, including recruitment centers....
6: to take Odessa< russia would have to use landing craft with that there is one problem anti-ship missles and other MSLR vehicles....