Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Ukrainian TG chatter seems to indicate that some RU/LDNR combined offensive has begun. On the DNR front, a push northwest towards Gulyaypole, on the LNR front Kreminna has been taken and they're pushing on Kramatorsk.
Some says there's stuff in motion in both the Kharkov and Kherson regions too.
Guess it'll clear up over the day what's going on.
Russian sources say there is indeed a very rapid advance going on on the eastern bank of the Oskil reservoir, Kharkov region. Heavy fighting in Pisky-Radkovsky now, about 40km north of Slavyansk.
This meanwhile they're also advancing from straight east towards Slavyansk/Kramatorsk, as noted in Kreminna.
On the "southern front", Malinovka just east of Gulyaypole has reportedly just been taken too. So is the "pincher" actually happening now after weeks of talk and alleged preparations?
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Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Most of what's been written in the past hour here or so is quite painful to read. Just saying. What's the point of infantile name-calling and stuff, anyway.
When people who all are supporting the same side - Russia - start arguing with each other and name-calling it can be assumed that the war is not going very well for Russia.
If Russia was conducting this war with a successful manner and clearly winning the Russian supporters would be in a good mood and patting each other to their backs and giving high-fives.
So HOLE, KVS, SERBERUS, BIG GAZZA, AIRBORNEWOLF, PAR FAR, GARRY, etc and I are fools, while you know the real truth? Okay ! That's right, that's why we have a ban on all Russian state media on youtube, as well as popular bloggers such as Yuri Podolyaka and Mikhail Onufrienko. Why, why are the channels of ordinary civilians on YouTube, which speak in favor of Russia, blocked? I will not even comment on everything else that the West bans and how it treats Russia. Therefore, we need to trust the Western media and prepare for the upcoming attack on St. Petersburg and Moscow. Is that so ?
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Isos wrote: The drive is a retard news channel. How would they know what happened ?
FFS. You are grade 1 stupid if you regard everything the Drive puts up as drivel. Clearly your ability to sort the wheat from the chaff has become degraded.
Did I quote any Drive editorial words?
They the were words of posters, you know, a bit like you and me, scouring the Interweb for relevant comments.
Russia is doing a slow and careful operation, to avoid civilian casualties and try not to destroy too much Ukrainian infrastructure. Thinking that this is not winning the war is a mistake. Or worse, an insidious criticism to attack Russia. As much as some throw tantrums, the operation will continue as the Kremlin wants. Four crazy cats on a forum aren't going to change that. Knowing the social composition of these forums and their arrival, I can say that they do not have the slightest impact on public opinion. So it is better to dedicate yourself to trying to analyze objective information and stop spending time with Byzantine discussions.
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The Ministry of Defense published a list with the data of the dead Ukrainian military
The Russian Defense Ministry has published a list of Ukrainian soldiers who died during a special operation.
MOSCOW, April 18 - RIA Novosti. The Russian Defense Ministry for the first time published a list of Ukrainian servicemen who died and were seriously injured during a special military operation. In total, according to the military department, the irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amount to 23,367 people. "Documents at the disposal of the Russian Ministry of Defense also testify to a large number of deserted servicemen, wounded and missing," the ministry's Telegram channel said.
The published data relate to military unit 3057, which includes the neo-Nazi Azov regiment, against whose militants criminal cases have been initiated in Russia. The lists compiled in Ukrainian indicate the surname, name and patronymic, rank, position, date of birth, circumstances of death and location of the body or the nature of the injury and diagnosis.
There are 386 names in published documents: 122 dead and 264 wounded, two of whom subsequently died. Among the wounded there are senior officers, including Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Gavrishenko, who was wounded in the shoulder on March 4 during the fighting in Mariupol, as well as Lieutenant Colonel Gavrushenko, whose reason for the loss of combat readiness is indicated as "a gunshot wound through the middle third of the left leg, hemorrhagic shock III degree."
https://ria.ru/20220418/voennye-1784053723.html
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British prisoners turned to Johnson with a request to exchange them for Medvedchuk
The captured British turned to Johnson with a request to exchange them for Medvedchuk
MOSCOW, April 18 - RIA Novosti. Two British citizens who surrendered in Ukraine turned to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a request to assist in their exchange for opposition Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
"Mr. Boris Johnson, my name is Sean Pinner. As far as I know, Viktor Medvedchuk is being held in custody and Aiden Aslin and I would like to be exchanged for him. We would be grateful for your help in this matter. I am being treated well, I I understand the situation I am in. We are being fed and given water. I ask you, on my own behalf and on behalf of Aiden Aslin, to facilitate the exchange for Medvedchuk," the captive Pinner said on air on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
For his part, Aslin added that he considers it important that the British prime minister heed the call of Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko to exchange them for her husband.
"If Boris Johnson really cares about British citizens, as he says he does, then he will help put pressure on (Vladimir) Zelensky to do the right thing and get Viktor back to his family and us back to our families," he said. Earlier, the wife of the Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, Oksana Marchenko, appealed to the relatives of British citizens who were captured by the military of the DPR and the Russian Federation with a call to turn to London and exchange them for her husband.
https://ria.ru/20220418/plennye-1784076544.html
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Isos wrote: The drive is a retard news channel. How would they know what happened ?
FFS. You are grade 1 stupid if you regard everything the Drive puts up as drivel. Clearly your ability to sort the wheat from the chaff has become degraded.
Did I quote any Drive editorial words?
They the were words of posters, you know, a bit like you and me, scouring the Interweb for relevant comments.
At the part where it says the sailor called his mother crying you should have figured out it's a bullshit story made up by ukrainian or western fanboys.
Not relevent to post the drive, even less sope random comment that are clearly made up stories.
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British prisoners turned to Johnson with a request to exchange them for Medvedchuk
The captured British turned to Johnson with a request to exchange them for Medvedchuk
MOSCOW, April 18 - RIA Novosti. Two British citizens who surrendered in Ukraine turned to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a request to assist in their exchange for opposition Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
"Mr. Boris Johnson, my name is Sean Pinner. As far as I know, Viktor Medvedchuk is being held in custody and Aiden Aslin and I would like to be exchanged for him. We would be grateful for your help in this matter. I am being treated well, I I understand the situation I am in. We are being fed and given water. I ask you, on my own behalf and on behalf of Aiden Aslin, to facilitate the exchange for Medvedchuk," the captive Pinner said on air on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
For his part, Aslin added that he considers it important that the British prime minister heed the call of Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko to exchange them for her husband.
"If Boris Johnson really cares about British citizens, as he says he does, then he will help put pressure on (Vladimir) Zelensky to do the right thing and get Viktor back to his family and us back to our families," he said. Earlier, the wife of the Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, Oksana Marchenko, appealed to the relatives of British citizens who were captured by the military of the DPR and the Russian Federation with a call to turn to London and exchange them for her husband.
https://ria.ru/20220418/plennye-1784076544.html
Two mercs for a fully fledged, fully legal elected politician. You have to laugh.
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There were shots of the destruction of the command post of the brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Iskander
MOSCOW, April 18 - RIA Novosti. The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video recording of the launch of a ballistic missile of the Iskander-M operational-tactical complex at the command post of a mechanized brigade of the armed forces of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of the work of the crews of the Iskander OTRK to destroy the command post of the mechanized brigade of Ukrainian troops
Podlodka77 wrote:Yes, it is, because Banderistan was destroyed both militarily and on every other level; economy and infrastructure. The only thing they win on the field is Nazism. Write to us nicely now, how and with what will Ukraine harvest this year ? Where do they get their fuel from ?
My only criticism is for you to answer to that obvious and retarded troll, instead of putting him on cosmic ignore for your and our peace of mind. For the rest, agreed, anyone with a functional brain can understand that it you are hit deep in the rear non stop, see your industrial, logistic, military capabilities being destroyed, your economy collapse and your armed forces be annihilated, while the enemy's rear is working full steam and keeps sending fresh troops, pumping weapons and supplies and making billions on an overheated commodity market, your are going to lose, period. And the West making this struggle longer only makes sure Russia will be able to defeat the ukronazis for good and not only temporarily.
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Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Ukrainian TG chatter seems to indicate that some RU/LDNR combined offensive has begun. On the DNR front, a push northwest towards Gulyaypole, on the LNR front Kreminna has been taken and they're pushing on Kramatorsk.
Some says there's stuff in motion in both the Kharkov and Kherson regions too.
Guess it'll clear up over the day what's going on.
It seems indeed to be the case, if you follow the briefing by MoD, intensity of the operations and numbers of destroyed ukie military are increasing for the last few days, plus the front starts moving in the South again.
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There were shots of the destruction of the command post of the brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Iskander
MOSCOW, April 18 - RIA Novosti. The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video recording of the launch of a ballistic missile of the Iskander-M operational-tactical complex at the command post of a mechanized brigade of the armed forces of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of the work of the crews of the Iskander OTRK to destroy the command post of the mechanized brigade of Ukrainian troops
Those Ukrainian command posts which they use an Iskander on, are that mobile command posts like several vehicles with tents and an antenna park like our brigade in the eighties (which had several M577 vehicles).
This because I read somewhere on this forum that in the past some buildings in the then Soviet Union were reinforced for civil defense use and that Ukraine is using these reinforced buildings now for command posts which also is the reason for so-called ''civil casualties''.
Even if Putin wanted to, he's not going to trade the foreign POW's for a Ukrainian politician as the Banderites would simply kidnap more people from Medvedchuk's politcal party and use them as barter for all the NATO assets Russia ends up capturing in this operation.
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Serberus wrote:Very Short clip of Moskva cruiser with what appears to be a tug boat nearby.
https://t.me/toporlive/12989
In time, when this picture is taken, she is not have any power, spray is coming from tug boat. And if you zoom picture you can see two - three "like a holes" form big one to my eye is looking how smoke is coming out. And that "holes" are between bridge and chimney. I am puzzled, what is stored there, there are two AK630 and what else is there?
Ukronazis from the 110th Territorial Defense Brigade note the advance of Russian troops along the Gulyaipole-Velika Novoselka line in the direction of Pokrovskoye.
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British prisoners turned to Johnson with a request to exchange them for Medvedchuk
The captured British turned to Johnson with a request to exchange them for Medvedchuk
MOSCOW, April 18 - RIA Novosti. Two British citizens who surrendered in Ukraine turned to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a request to assist in their exchange for opposition Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
"Mr. Boris Johnson, my name is Sean Pinner. As far as I know, Viktor Medvedchuk is being held in custody and Aiden Aslin and I would like to be exchanged for him. We would be grateful for your help in this matter. I am being treated well, I I understand the situation I am in. We are being fed and given water. I ask you, on my own behalf and on behalf of Aiden Aslin, to facilitate the exchange for Medvedchuk," the captive Pinner said on air on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
For his part, Aslin added that he considers it important that the British prime minister heed the call of Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko to exchange them for her husband.
"If Boris Johnson really cares about British citizens, as he says he does, then he will help put pressure on (Vladimir) Zelensky to do the right thing and get Viktor back to his family and us back to our families," he said. Earlier, the wife of the Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, Oksana Marchenko, appealed to the relatives of British citizens who were captured by the military of the DPR and the Russian Federation with a call to turn to London and exchange them for her husband.
https://ria.ru/20220418/plennye-1784076544.html
Two mercs for a fully fledged, fully legal elected politician. You have to laugh.
And that's all Russia is prepared to offer
Broski wrote:Even if Putin wanted to, he's not going to trade the foreign POW's for a Ukrainian politician as the Banderites would simply kidnap more people from Medvedchuk's politcal party and use them as barter for all the NATO assets Russia ends up capturing in this operation.
Medvechuk is a big fish and these 2 particular clowns can barely even be called NATO assets
The fact that the proposal was forwarded by a captive indicates it's Russia's offer
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