Khodakovskiy is a soldier risking his life by assaulting fortifications .Martyanov is a boomer on a desk. Im leaning towards trusting the former
I tend to trust those that have a proven record of being trustworthy... a soldier on the front line does not see the big picture and likely does not know what other soldiers are doing let alone what is supposed to be achieved... for all we know he is being told to say this to make it appear there are problems in the Russian military... or maybe there just are.
It really shows how cowardly and evil America and co are to force others to fight their proxy wars for them. Esp when they categorically know those soldiers are being killed in vast numbers.
They have a long history of recruiting "allies" for their conflicts... coalition of the willing sounds so much better than cannon fodder resource of the stupid and gullible...
Or their name in short hand... Suckers...
But it's not just being mentioned by the Ukies is it. Multiple channels and sources were spreading the fakes, rumours and panic-mongering.
Same as what happens here... lots of members jump the gun and assume it is all real and the sky is now falling and critical people tell them... so what if it is real... this is war... you can't expect to have no problems at all, or no mistakes... and then other more patient members find those initial posts are refuted and post the real story here.
Sadly the same actors playing the same roles over and over so the doom sayers never mention they were wrong and post corrections... they almost forget the corrections and continue on like the Orcs are winning... hense their DS badges.
US secret talks seems real but only a part of the administration is for it. That's only some propositions to Ukrainians with no coordination with russian side.
Russia will never accept it. Minimum is to take all Donbas. Below that Putin is dead. They won't forgive him for the losses if he takes only that low territory. They barely moved into ukraine if you compare the borders from before the war.
The talks are secret because the US does not want the world to know Kiev is fucked and that the US is trying to find a way out for them so they can keep using them for bio weapons testing and as cannon fodder meat shields to counter Russia in Europe.
They can make any offer they please... I rather doubt Putin is listening till he has what he wants.
I suspect the Americans are starting to realise Russia can keep this all up a hell of a lot longer than the US can, and that Putin is essentially correct when he said the longer you leave the peace deal the worse the terms are going to be for Kiev... which actually creates a sense of urgency for the west because what they wanted they had with the Minsk agreements which are totally off the table now and wont be coming back.
All that nonsense aside....how good is this, the self loading is awesome as is the folding in after use. My favourite clip of this conflict thus far. It's the tidieness of it.
Cheap simple command guided missiles carried by Hinds in the 1980s... it carries a mix of Shturm and Ataka missiles with 600mm or 850mm of penetration out to 5-6km repectively.
Cheap and simple with good mobility on an MTLB artillery tractor chassis.