Russian special military operation in Ukraine #40

Wagner reached the sparkling wine factory

Some M777´s had minor technical problems

BMP-1 switched sides

Sure, but I repeat what I stated before: This level of lying by the west is our (mankinds) way out of this shit.
Let them claim what they want if it helps to avoid a small nuclear exchange.

People from all over Russia send packages to the guys in the SMO zome:

New hat for Bandit

Some sources on Twitter claim a Ukro Su-27 was lost to a Geran-2 last night.
The drone has more aerial kills than the whole F-22 fleet. 



Modernised BRDM-2´s on a train

DW interviewed a Ukrainian soldier in Bakhmut:

Journalist: "How do you cope?"

Soldier: "It's scary. I think about the tens of thousands dead."
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/51166

With the furnaces running the smoke will concentrate closer to the furnaces than to where they are standing... assuming some sort of ventilation system operates there.

This means it should be smokey near the burning metal but not smokey over where the VIPs were standing, and it makes more sense to assemble the VIPs in places that are well lit and less smokey too.

I don't think this is worthy of faking either... this is not Putin and Shoigu on the front line shooting nazis using PKPs and shovels.  

Well, it also shown that Russians were able to adjust to localized production for most and import from elsewhere.

Yes, they are not the backward hicks and drunks portrayed in western productions, which is why the west really does not understand them at all.

Few people hunt in the west because food and clothing can be easily attained from shops for money, but if things changed and the shops were taken away most of the western population would likely starve because even if they all had rifles and ammo and knew what they were doing there is no enough wildlife in the west to feed the entire population unless you start eating cats and dogs and rabbits and everything else... and even then we would struggle... which is why I think most zombie end of the world fantasies are stupid... some gun owners think it would be amazing because they would be heroes and because they had guns they would be safe, but of course it would be like living in medieval times... knowing what you had in a good life now is not the same as being able to create it without its very important components like electricity and even a functioning sewerage system, and personal hygiene standards... and you are likely to be burned as a witch when you cross people of the time with power.

The west has been cutting Russia off from resources and technology they used to get from the west, but Russia has grown and developed and improved and educated itself and has upped its game and now is world class in areas they were lacking before... including areas that were stolen from them with the splitting up of the Soviet Union (ie optics and vehicles from Belarus, and engines and rockets and other things from Ukraine), or were sabotaged like civilian airliners and a range of promising engines that were killed to continue cooperation with the west or to keep Ukrainian products viable like the An-70.

The gradual application of sanctions by the west has allowed Russia to develop in specific areas at specific times rather than having to deal with everything at once... food production was left until 2014 when EU food imports got banned because to do that before then would add food production development costs in time and people and energy to other problems before then... spreading the problems out made them less damaging to the Russian economy and they were better able to deal with issues as they came up... now Russia is a food production centre that exports food in large quantities, and the same applies to other areas now too because they have developed their own technology and equipment to get things done.

No one could possibly suggest Russian tank makers have much to learn from cold war western tanks captured on the battlefields... they will likely take them apart and inspect their construction and design, but I doubt they will learn a lot from them at all... this is an enormous shift from 20 years ago when everyone was calling Russian tanks junk.

Kremenaya-Svatovo area


Bakhmut