Russian special military operation in Ukraine #14

ALAMO wrote:

Serberus wrote:
I think the withdrawal from the border areas RA held in the north east that connected them all the way down to Donbas and Kharkov was a mistake. They could have been easily defended , provided a buffer, and set up AD to deal with this shit before they even reached the Russian border.

You have a gram of idea, how much ridiculous do you sound?

flamming_python wrote:

Serberus wrote:

flamming_python wrote:The Kremlin already issued a warning about striking decision centres. The warning has been ignored. It doesn't mean Russia is idle. They will follow through on their threat when a target and opportunity presents itself. A big juicy one. And no-one will have any right to cry about it

Now I don't want to hear any more about the 'Kremlin looking weak', idle threats, not following through, etc... a schedule is not provided to you, of when and where Russia should strike.

What should be fixed and immediately so however, are the anti-drone defenses in these territories. Crater any air defenses in neighbouring Ukrainian regions, and conduct air patrols for early warning and shoot-downs if necessary.

You can hide under your pillow if you want to ignore the truth, but the simple matter of it is, if you threaten to do something several times, and your enemy not only continues as before but ramps up attacks and also continues to attack civilians , yet to fail to retaliate each and every time and only continue with more threats, you sure as hell end up looking weak and indecisive.

I think the withdrawal from the border areas RA held in the north east that connected them all the way down to Donbas and Kharkov was a mistake. They could have been easily defended , provided a buffer, and set up AD to deal with this shit before they even reached the Russian border.

I think Russia has already proven it doesn't care how it looks

It just lets hard power do the talking. And those strikes will be carried out I'm confident. If you think the Ukrainians are idiots and haven't all based their generals and command centres on NATO territory or within civilian appartment blocs then you're naive. But every time such a target presents itself in the relative open, and they will - then it will be be struck without undue hesitation.

We've been over the withdrawal countless times. It's done. Now Russia has to set up a real no-fly zone on the border and past it, make sure no more drones slip through.

Podlodka77 wrote:TASS; Military operation in Ukraine
Apr 27, 09:33 (Updated 09:46)

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of a large batch of weapons from the US and the EU for the Armed Forces of Ukraine by "Caliber"
Rocket troops and artillery of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation, according to the agency, struck 573 targets during the night

MOSCOW, 27 April. /TASS/. The Russian army destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries for Ukrainian troops with Kalibr in Zaporozhye. This was announced on Wednesday by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

#Inside
Mi-6 warned the Office of the President that the Russian special services received data from the SBU database on all activists and participants in the territorial defense in Ukraine. After the entry of the Russian troops into the cities, there will be a cleansing and prosecution of all those on the lists, moles in the special services are the main problem for Bankova.

flamming_python wrote:

Podlodka77 wrote:TASS; Military operation in Ukraine
Apr 27, 09:33 (Updated 09:46)

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of a large batch of weapons from the US and the EU for the Armed Forces of Ukraine by "Caliber"
Rocket troops and artillery of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation, according to the agency, struck 573 targets during the night

MOSCOW, 27 April. /TASS/. The Russian army destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries for Ukrainian troops with Kalibr in Zaporozhye. This was announced on Wednesday by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

There's a vid of it
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/45203

And a photo
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/45382

Was wondering why they were attacking a non-weapons factory in broad daylight.

Now it makes sense

And as a bonus, check this out, straight from Ukrainian Telegram channels

https://t.me/rezident_ua/11462
All bases of activists and politicians were collected by the SBU, before the capture of the city, all servers were destroyed, but someone made backup copies and handed them over to the Russian military administration.
The mayor of Kherson, Igor Kolykhaev, says that the database of all activists in Kherson, participants in the territorial defense and anti-terrorist operation has been completely leaked to the Russian military.

“They know everything about everyone from start to finish. To them, "well-wishers" completely leaked the database to all the activists who were in the city. They turned out to have personal files for each of my profile deputy, information conditionally from the wife's pedigree to the nickname of my beloved dog.

The same applies to the defense and Kherson combatants who were in Donetsk and Luhansk, data on where they live and what they own.

Now the National Guard and the FSB are completely here, they “process” activists, “work” for ATO officers. They know about everyone from beginning to end,” Kolykhaev said.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/11481
#Inside
Mi-6 warned the Office of the President that the Russian special services received data from the SBU database on all activists and participants in the territorial defense in Ukraine. After the entry of the Russian troops into the cities, there will be a cleansing and prosecution of all those on the lists, moles in the special services are the main problem for Bankova.

What a motherload. I heard about this but I thought it was only for the Kherson region. Turns out it's for all of the Ukraine. So Russia knows straight away who all these people are and where they live. Guess they'll have to settle to living in the forest, or moving away as Russian forces advance, if they're not willing to give themselves up.

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:That ammunition depot they talk about, "near Staraya Nelidovka" - where the hell is that? Can't see anything on a map that resembles one. There's an old poultry farm there, but that's it.

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:

Still can't for the life of me figure out where that supposed ammunitions depot is located. Local authorities say the fire was put out rather quickly. Can't be a large depot, then.

flamming_python wrote:The Bayraktars are a million dollars a piece

Quite cheap really, the Turks can pump out a lot of these things as long as the money keeps flowing in

Podlodka77 wrote:ISOS, I agree with you that Baryaktar is a bucket. Our president has already said that Erdogan told him, I quote Vučić, "Erdogan promised me that we would get them across the line." The West has raised propaganda about that Turkish karst with the aim of belittling Russian military technology first in Nagorno Karabakh and now in Banderistan.

Since we can no longer buy weapons from Russia, I would now buy everything from the "rice brothers", that is, from the Chinese; J-10C aircraft, CAIC Z-10 attack helicopters, ZTZ-99 tanks, PHL-03 multiple rocket launcher beast with a range of up to 130 km, Chengdu Pterodactyl I UAV's, etc. We have good howitzers, we don't need that.

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:

Still can't for the life of me figure out where that supposed ammunitions depot is located. Local authorities say the fire was put out rather quickly. Can't be a large depot, then.

Isos wrote:

Podlodka77 wrote:ISOS, I agree with you that Baryaktar is a bucket. Our president has already said that Erdogan told him, I quote Vučić, "Erdogan promised me that we would get them across the line." The West has raised propaganda about that Turkish karst with the aim of belittling Russian military technology first in Nagorno Karabakh and now in Banderistan.

Since we can no longer buy weapons from Russia, I would now buy everything from the "rice brothers", that is, from the Chinese; J-10C aircraft, CAIC Z-10 attack helicopters, ZTZ-99 tanks, PHL-03 multiple rocket launcher beast with a range of up to 130 km, Chengdu Pterodactyl I UAV's, etc. We have good howitzers, we don't need that.

Well, looking how those eastern countries are involved in this war, Russia will smash them hard after they take Ukraine. Baltics will be annexed. Then Romania will be destroyed which will create a natural land route to Serbia.

mavaff wrote:Great thread on why Ukraine will fail when trying to invade Transnistria.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1519061432549085184.html

Serberus wrote:10 European buyers of Russian gas have opened accounts with Gazprombank, and 4 have already paid for gas in rubles.

I have seen reports of Austria, Slovakia  and Hungary agreed to pay in Rubles any info on who the others may be?