Russian special military operation in Ukraine #5

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Drone strike or guided shell

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17899587/ukraine-war-russia-british-fighter/

"British ex-Army soldier/merc goes to war in Ukraine, gets hit with rockets/helicopter fire, runs scared into the woods, gets picked up by Ukraine Territorial Defense who torture him thinking he's a Russian spy, gets released, immediately goes back home to the UK."

https://mobile.twitter.com/ASB_Military


It seems they have a backup twitter. Too bad they got hit by twitter censorship.

Russian forces in the Kiev region

Including mine clearance and bridge equipment

JohninMK wrote:Retribution can sometimes come from the most unexpected directions

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In the Darnitsky district of Kyiv, at a checkpoint, Dmitry Demyanenko, the former deputy head of the Main Directorate of the SBU in Kyiv and the Kiev region, was killed.Demyanenko was shot dead by militants of the Peacemaker Special Purpose Police Regiment.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1502044550495412228

He was shady af before the war, I wonder why he started shooting first, probably afraid of "saboteurs". Could also be power consolidation, but so far it seems another paranoid accident.

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JohninMK wrote:Retribution can sometimes come from the most unexpected directions

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In the Darnitsky district of Kyiv, at a checkpoint, Dmitry Demyanenko, the former deputy head of the Main Directorate of the SBU in Kyiv and the Kiev region, was killed.Demyanenko was shot dead by militants of the Peacemaker Special Purpose Police Regiment.

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He was shady af before the war, I wonder why he started shooting first, probably afraid of "saboteurs". Could also be power consolidation, but so far it seems another paranoid accident.

He knew too much. Very likely americans did it.

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:
Also, a Tupolev drone (141/143) seems to have flown all the way to Zagreb, Croatia. No joke. Crashed there late last night with its recovery parachutes deployed. No injuries reported, but a lot of surprised Croatian faces for sure.

This will be interesting to see what it's about. My first thoughts are 1. Ukrainian attempt to get NATO involved somehow, or 2. a Russian decoy that was supposed to bait Ukrainian SAMs but that somehow flew all the way through. It had to have been launched from Belarus in that case, as its range is not sufficient to reach Croatia from the Russian mainland. From Ukraine it has enough range.

Either way, it must also have flown through an entire NATO country in the first place (Hungary, Romania) to have reached Croatia (also NATO). So that makes me wonder about the state of the air defenses there.

Croatian authorities say the drone came from the east and crossed the airspaces of Moldova, Romania and Hungary before entering Croatian ditto and crashing in the Zagreb area. That seems to more or less rule out a Russian launch IMO, as it would have come from the Odessa oblast or so given the maximum range of the system. Even if Russian patrols might be present at the far end, the Tu-141/143 is a big, bulky system and nothing you carry along just like that.

But it also makes zero sense for Ukraine to launch one in the completely opposite direction of where the combat is, unless it was exactly that - an attempt at provoking NATO into acting. Completely bonkers idea, but I wouldn't put it past them.

Also, as noted, air defense forces of four (!) countries failed to intercept it along the way. Okay, Moldova's ditto aren't much to brag about, but the other three are all NATO and all have decent radars and supersonic fighter jets that ought to have been on some kind of alert given what's going down right now.

Perhaps the Ukrainians counted on it being shot down somewhere along the way too, instead of flying that far. Pure guesses. I expect some kind of proper briefing in time, which will hopefully help clearing things up.

Isos wrote:
He knew too much. Very likely americans did it.

There's a video in the original link posted, it's clearly Ukrainians who did it. Got into cross fire while shooting at him as well...

Isos wrote:https://mobile.twitter.com/ASB_Military


It seems they have a backup twitter. Too bad they got hit by twitter censorship.

According to their telegram this is a fake account and not theirs.

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