Russian special military operation in Ukraine #22

ALAMO wrote:
Two days ago, we have morned Jean-Jaques Sempre.
He was a cartoonist who covered the Rene Goscinny novels.
Goscinny was a creator of Asterix&Obelix Gall characters, but not worse than that - he has created a Nicolaus series of books for kids.

Very sad that, the man was a genius,

I have a cache of 26 Asterix books.

ALAMO wrote:

flamming_python wrote:
Dying how? You mean tourists are not coming to popular vacation spots this summer?
It was Russians (and richer Ukrainians) that all went to these Croatia's, Italy's and Spain's anyhow.

No bro, it is a much more long-lasting issue.
And the Russians, sorry, have a minor influence to that
Europe is getting poorer and poorer.
That is the point, covered with fancy and staged stats.

Poorer and poorer with a heavy mix of societal collapse. Especially what was driven in last decade with importing people who are completely different from them.

sepheronx wrote:

ALAMO wrote:

flamming_python wrote:
Dying how? You mean tourists are not coming to popular vacation spots this summer?
It was Russians (and richer Ukrainians) that all went to these Croatia's, Italy's and Spain's anyhow.

No bro, it is a much more long-lasting issue.
And the Russians, sorry, have a minor influence to that
Europe is getting poorer and poorer.
That is the point, covered with fancy and staged stats.

Poorer and poorer with a heavy mix of societal collapse. Especially what was driven in last decade with importing people who are completely different from them.

The Covid restrictions were several nails in the tourism coffin.

Mir wrote:

ALAMO wrote:
No bro, it is a much more long-lasting issue.
And the Russians, sorry, have a minor influence to that
Europe is getting poorer and poorer.
That is the point, covered with fancy and staged stats.

Welcome to the 3rd World

I suppose that Europe is a better situation than this since I can see the indigenous populations rising
up (enough) to stop the flood of people who do not intend to assimilate. And that flood will dry up
even without any "revolution" since the increasing poverty will start to deter them. These migrants
are nearly 100% economic transplants and not refugees.

More M777 destroyed:
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/5186

2 M113 captured:
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/5181

ALAMO wrote:

flamming_python wrote:
Dying how? You mean tourists are not coming to popular vacation spots this summer?
It was Russians (and richer Ukrainians) that all went to these Croatia's, Italy's and Spain's anyhow.

No bro, it is a much more long-lasting issue.
And the Russians, sorry, have a minor influence to that
Europe is getting poorer and poorer.
That is the point, covered with fancy and staged stats.

Spoiled aristocrats. As someone in Russia wrote.

Europe is going to have to learn to live within its means. The price and availability of resources will normalize, but the EU will not be able to benefit from neocolonialism or the Euro currency's dominance as before. Its elites will have to get used to living in the world that's bereft of their benefits from American unilateral hegemony.

There are reports of the capture of the villages of Udy and Odnorobovka in the north of the Kharkov region.

We are waiting for photos or videos from the places.

if taken, then this significantly improves the position of the RF Armed Forces in the Kharkov direction.
Seems Ukies are having crisis after crisis... Basicaly beaten on all fronts. Keep them bussy boys.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/5197

US Army Admits Major Shortcomings of Anti-Tank Missiles

A US Army paper cites major shortcomings of US anti-tank weapons (Javelin and AT-4);
Under training-conditions US soldiers familiar with basic operations of AT weapons had only a 19% effectiveness in hitting targets;
This was attributed to "a lack of understanding of engagement distances and insufficient detail in planning for employment of the systems;"
Issues included lack of knowledge of arming distance of missiles & familiarization with setting up engagement areas;
Advanced training required for conceptualizing engagement area planning as well as in-the-field training;

If the US has trouble imparting this knowledge on its troops, this problem is many times worse for Ukraine. If trained US soldiers had an effectiveness of 19%, it is much lower for Ukrainian troops lacking even basic soldiering skills. This makes claims that Russia lost "3,000-4,000" tanks to US Javelins, AT-4s, etc dubious at best.
https://t.me/brianlovethailand/655?single

Belisarius wrote: There are reports of the capture of the villages of Udy and Odnorobovka in the north of the Kharkov region.

We are waiting for photos or videos from the places.

if taken, then this significantly improves the position of the RF Armed Forces in the Kharkov direction.
Seems Ukies are having crisis after crisis... Basicaly beaten on all fronts. Keep them bussy boys.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/5197

Keep them bussy. That´s the plan, baby. More and more cracks will appear. First on the frontlines and then inside the regime.

It seems Col. MacGregor was right with his "finish them off in the next 30 days" prediction.

A US Army paper cites major shortcomings of US anti-tank weapons (Javelin and AT-4);
Under training-conditions US soldiers familiar with basic operations of AT weapons had only a 19% effectiveness in hitting targets;
This was attributed to "a lack of understanding of engagement distances and insufficient detail in planning for employment of the systems;"
Issues included lack of knowledge of arming distance of missiles & familiarization with setting up engagement areas;
Advanced training required for conceptualizing engagement area planning as well as in-the-field training;

If the US has trouble imparting this knowledge on its troops, this problem is many times worse for Ukraine. If trained US soldiers had an effectiveness of 19%, it is much lower for Ukrainian troops lacking even basic soldiering skills. This makes claims that Russia lost "3,000-4,000" tanks to US Javelins, AT-4s, etc dubious at best.
https://t.me/brianlovethailand/655?single

That happens when most of your soldiers have trouble to write and read properly. Or math. 2 + 2 = something around 5,2??? 

They think it´s just like in one of this documentaries they saw on TV. You know, Avengers or Iron Man. Just take the launcher, hit the button and BOOM. 

https://www.stalkerzone.org/russian-soldiers-spare-a-wounded-ukrainian-militant-offer-first-aid/
You can say what you want, but I´m still more a fan of this behaviour.

Hole wrote:That happens when most of your soldiers have trouble to write and read properly. Or math. 2 + 2 = something around 5,2???  :

Do you have figures for how effective Russian ATGMs have been in this war in hitting targets?

Finally, they actually managed to seriously damage the bridge. With a glancing hit nonetheless.

ALAMO wrote:

First, it looks to be Kachowka - a dam in the background.
Second, it is not severe damage.
Still, those crazy hohols will stage some kind of disaster I am afraid.
But the normal world is watching&knows.

Yes, that’s the one.

Well you can’t fix this with some concrete filler - it needs engineers now.

No disaster - apparently bridge is closed and will be inspected.

I am just surprised how many attacks they need per bridge to do structural damage.

It looks like they caught Strelkov, with fake passport, trying to cross to Zaporozhye from Crimea. He would, probably, try to make some rag tag unit and start big offensive.
Guy is turning into a meme.