Russian special military operation in Ukraine #37

GarryB wrote:The west has been claiming this for 23 years... how long can they be wrong and not realise... well forever if they only pay attention to western news media and sources.

Saw a BBC programme on homeless people... they only mentioned people in Hong Kong and it was only because the cost of land is ridiculous.... but HK is China so it is Chinas problem... no mention of any homeless people in any western country... only happens in China I guess. Lots of sympathy for these people in China but no mention of British or US or French people living rough because of the economy...

Do you know why there are few homeless people in Russia now? At least, compared to the period of the nineties-early noughties. Because social rehabilitation centers are being opened in Russia, where you can get help. And it will not just be a cup of soup - it will be housing, medical and psychological assistance, training. You will be helped to return the documents if you have lost them. They will help you master some simple specialty and help you find a job. Yes., it will probably be a job as a janitor, cleaner or, for example, a garbage sorter. But it will be a source of livelihood. Here is an example of the Moscow Government Center for social Rehabilitation:
https://dszn.ru/press-center/news/2875
https://vk.com/mosoblcsa

Here is an example with a list of 60 centers for helping mothers in a crisis situation:
https://foma.ru/60-priyutov-dlya-zhenshhin-v-krizisnyh-situatsiyah-html.html

The Russian Orthodox Church also establishes many social assistance centers at churches and monasteries:
https://blago-mosmit.ru/pages/marshrut-pomoschi.html

In modern Russia, being homeless, unemployed, hungry is often one's own conscious choice, and not just terrible circumstances.

However, this is a deviation from the topic of the post, so I think it's worth moving this discussion to a more appropriate section of the forum.

Pecking order created by Anglo-Saxons - inherent inferiority complex passed of as racial superiority.

until after the first Millenium after Christ, people from northern Europe were seen as barbaric and uncultured in comparison to the people living around the Mediterranean sea... The problem is that by the third century the people from Italy and Greece became too weak and lazy, and believed that it was ok to have wars and defence managed by someone else.

Russian Defense Ministry: as a result of a complex negotiation process, 63 Russian servicemen were returned from Ukraine

As a result of a complex negotiation process, 63 Russian servicemen who were captured were returned from the territory of Ukraine, controlled by the Kyiv regime. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Among the released servicemen there are persons of a “sensitive category”. Their exchange became possible thanks to the mediation of the leadership of the United Arab Emirates.

All returned servicemen are already in Russia. They receive the necessary psychological and medical assistance. The soldiers were also given the opportunity to contact their relatives.

In January of this year, 50 Russian servicemen were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime . They were delivered to the Chkalovsky airfield on an Il-76 aircraft. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stressed that they were in mortal danger in captivity.

https://tvzvezda-ru.translate.goog/news/2023241042-4GCtN.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui

Additional PzH 2000 armor.

https://vk.com/video-123538639_456295502

T-84

Italian achievements are undisputable.
They are among the few countries on the planet capable of constructing their own breed aircraft carriers.
Only the numbers matters.

We have still a good defence industry, the main problem is the mentality of the larger part of the population, the defeatist approach (like it is better that we are dependent from France and we don't have nuclear powerplants anymore, because can we imagine the risks if we managed such a powerplant?) and the total incapacity of defending our interests. Basically, after 1943, everyone who loves his country and wants to defend it from the damage from foreign states (that in most cases are our "close friends and allies" like UK, US and France), is accused of being a right extremist and a fascist (or now also a Putin lover).

Furthermore many industries related to the defence production are now partially or fully in foreign ownership, even if final assembly is still in Italy.

Anyway, the other problem is that in most cases they have a global supply chain, so it would be very easy to disrupt it.

Finally, as I have said many times, we still have a decent green water navy with probably the best multirole frigates in the western world. The problem is that they are never used to defend our own interest and sometimes were even used to transport illegal invaders (so called migrants) in our country

"Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem mea habes"

With T-84 Ukrainians really learned the lesson. It used to be a splendid tank when they were building it.
Not sure if you are aware of one very nice feature it had - the commander has his own range meter.
It is really sad how much potential and good living chances have just been stolen from those poor people...

By the way, is the tank factory in Kharkov salvageable?

I do not mean for tanks, as with Uralvagonzavod and Omsk Russia has no needs for another production site, but for trains, diesel engines, maybe cars, etc

Yeah Tu-84 was a good tank and probably better the first version of the T-90, but now the T-90M is superior to it.
Furthermore the t-84 was never produced in significant number.