@Trollstoy88 Defense Express reports Russia used new 1,5t glide bombs in Ukraine for the first time. Controlled PAB-1500VS are equipped with inertial and satellite navigation systems and are capable of circumventing highly protected targets. They can be launched 40km from the target.
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Well Owais, the reason the Crimea's defenses are being built up has nothing to do with Ukraine, but everything to do with the war. Whenever a US President, especially a Democrat, says we are not going to send our young men and women to do a job someone else's men and women should be doing, it invariably means our idiots in Washington will be wasting American lives in the conflict they said they would never get directly involved in. We saw this in WWI, Korea, Vietnam, and now this. I think the Russian high command is fully aware of this trend and so if Wagner and anti terror outfits can do the job, and they are, then the main army can be positioned in Belarus and at the border with the Baltic states to protect from US attack there. Now when does this escalation come? Well, my guess would be in 2024 so we all probably have a year or so.
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Russia probably expects Erdogan to lose the election (by fraud, of course) and for a new Soros-approved regime to open up the Bosphosrus to an invasion fleet doing its bit for NATzO.
If these satellite photos are real, then we are talking about WWIII. But they may be fake or misinterpretations. There is not going to be a D-Day style landing on Crimea. There will be nuclear warheads flying first.
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The Duran showed pics from fortifications build in Crimea. It seems they are real. But their is a simple explanation, half a year ago or so there was an order from VVP for increased security measures in different regions of Russia. The MoD and civilian administrations had to act accordingly. If this order would be expanded to all of Russia we would see such installations on Sachalin or in Murmansk.
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Europe was never liberated in 1945 by America, they have just been another occupation force, if they were asked to leave they wouldn't Germany in 2019 requested the other half of gold stored in the US federal bank was returned to Germany 750 tons, the US has put up obstacles for it to be returned to Germany, and most of the gold they had returned to Germany was not the gold Germany had sent to the US federal bank, American has imposed sanctions on 40 countries and taken the assets from many of those countries stored in the US fed, at it's peak in the 1970s the federal bank held over 12,000 tons of gold currently it hold just over 6,000 tons ... America essentially has Germany and many European nations that have gold in the US federal bank over a barrel, America passed a law in congress given them the power to grab assets from other countries in the federal bank
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Spartan armored personnel carriers purchased in England, like many other foreign weapons, are delivered to Ukraine in civilian trucks. https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/46952
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Before levelling everything in Bakhmut , once encirclement complete , then better to leaflet the area and offer any troops left leniency , if they surrendered and put weapons down . Give directions as to safe corridor . Once Ukrs troops surrendered , then photograph and fingerprint them and release , providing they sign agreement not to attack Russians . If they return , then no leniency this time .
To tell them which corridors to use you pretty much have to broadcast it to everyone and there will be plenty on their side who will shoot any fellow soldier using those corridors and blame that on the Russians.
Would need to be clear in the information provided that the corridors will be monitored and anyone detected firing on anyone using those corridors will be destroyed too...
But letting them leave should be part of the plan too.
If they want to surrender then certainly let them do so and try to protect them and help them to do so.
One thing that puzzles me is that the number of Pukraine/Washington controlled regime "crippled" is basically less than the number dead. Whereas don't we "normally" expect the figure to be 1 to 3 or 1 to 5 etc?
So, I wonder... is the number "serious long term injury" or "crippled" actually substantially higher? Or has the Washington regime been absolutely absymal at treating its injured? Who knows!
High survival rates in modern war is normally because of quality healthcare on the battlefield... which might be lacking on this battlefield... so people left in the field to die because there is no one left to drag them to safety perhaps.
Marinka
On the positive side is that the 10 years from now photos and videos of this area are going to look amazing... not sure I can say the same for the Kiev photos though.
I don't see why pro Russian places should suffer and Scumopolis gets away scott free!
The difference is that in 10 years time these places are going to look modern and cared for and even happy...
Two Ukrainian pilots are in the U.S. for training assessment on attack aircraft, including F-16s
https://t.co/j8mDelC8DJ
PR bullshit or they will actually go ahead with it?
Russians have a term about soldiers who don’t officially “exist” in certain conflicts, like Wagner in Africa and Libiya. “IchTamNiety” - roughly translates into personified form of “they are not there”
Maybe soon we will see IchTamNato. I highly doubt NATO will be able to cook pilots any time soon
Talking about pilots - fighterbomber published another insane video from Russian side
https://t.me/fighter_bomber/11258
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Filatov on equipment. How reliable it is is unknown?
https://tgstat.ru/channel/@FilatovCorr/946
I left the LBS, I resume correspondence on nightlights, teplokam, kamikaze drones and more ....
On the LBS, losses from a lack of night vision devices, from a lack of thermal imagers and a sooooo huge lack of modern optics .... unjustified death of personnel ... and it just so happens that I correspond not only with sellers, but also with manufacturers.
The general picture of how the state system of procurement and supply of the army with the latest optics works.
The company participates in the demonstration of optics at the MO test site in the fall (CBO is already underway). The equipment passed all tests. Only after 4 (!!!) months was the order signed by the deputy minister on the purchase. The division of the Ministry of Defense responsible for concluding the supply contract - the department for the purchase of special equipment - came into contact only in February (!). In the process of a short communication, we discussed the issue of an advance payment of 70%. Two weeks later, the company clarifies the progress of the contract. Answer: we wrote a refusal report for you because of the high advance payment, they say we do not pay more than 30% of the advance this year. If you agree to 30%, then go through the whole procedure again starting with the customer. A curtain.
#Bakhmut/#Artemovsk is almost encircled. The O0506 road through #Khromove is unusable due the blown up bridge. The bridge over T0504 road was blown up as well. The last way, how the Ukrainian forces can retreat is through muddy fields. https://t.me/intelslava/45420
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You guys were talking about possible Chinese supplies of weapons like artillery shells. Well the Chinese switched to 155mm artillery like you said, but the Chinese still have thousands of 152mm towed artillery in storage, and all the ammo for them. Plus their industry is known to produce other calibers for export if the customer demands it. So quite likely they could produce new shells if it came to it. They also produced the Type 83 152mm SPG in the 1980s and those should all still be in storage as well.
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So UA has lost big time and is currently withdrawing what they have left, while incurring even more casualties, but they still set aside the time/effort to blow up the Soviet memorials in their wake, just out of spite.
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The destruction of the bridges in Artyomovsk looks like the Kiev regime wanted to prevent escape by its own soldiers: fight until the last man. This is consistent with their approach to the war so far. No amount of cannon fodder is too dear and every last bit of real estate must be secured. But Russia gets accused of using human waves...
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nomadski wrote:Before levelling everything in Bakhmut , once encirclement complete , then better to leaflet the area and offer any troops left leniency...
Here's a better idea: how about they carpet bomb the whole place, save themselves the hassle and offer them sweet absolution of death?
Way too many Nazis aren't dying, that oversight needs to be rectified
I have one observation @re the border penetration in the Bryansk region.
They have targeted the local clinic.
Killed random people in civilian car.
While they were making vids, obvious stress is visible, because there is heavy gunfire in the background.
So my conclusions are as follows.
They have tried to stage a Budionnovsk-style terror attack, by taking over a medical facility. Didn't manage, because of the small scale of the operations.
It was just a PR action to be exploited later among the brainless audience they can reach.
FSB/National Guard/Border Service was on their tail physically minutes after the intrusion, they were forced to run like headless chickens.
This is quite good evidence of how things changed since 1995.
A much more supported enemy is capable of making some pathetic - objectively - actions, only to run away because Russkie forces are on their tail, hungry for hunting season.
And the whole forest area where they withdrew, was generously sprinkled with every barrel in the neighborhood, so some of them will give their best to the soil for sure.
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