Russian special military operation in Ukraine #41

if Russia allows them to move artillery that close in volume then that is already incompetence.

Russia has no control over what Kiev might or might not want to do... if they launch attacks and start firing rocket artillery from random locations to support those attacks there is not very much Russia can do except destroy the attacking troops and hunt down the enemy artillery.

If it was easy to eliminate then I would say if they didn't then that could be incompetence, but it is not... artillery generally does not reveal itself until it opens fire.

Of course from past experience they can make judgement calls... if they leave their own dead and wounded on the battlefield but seem to have enormous numbers of school buses and ambulances near the front line I would think it is an indication that they are not following the rules of war... why would they start now?

Should Russia destroy the school buses and risk hitting one filled with children being evacuated?

It is a call they have to make but they are going to be blamed for killing children one way or another anyway.

The point is that I don't think they care what western media makes of what happens... they just don't want to risk killing children because they are human beings rather than the total on the other side.

mercs are fighting under the Ukrainian flag, surely you know the difference. Yes US troops will NOT fire on Russian troops or planes inn Syria unless they directly attack US assets. There was a whole deconfliction process set up to manage this.

HATO cannot accept the invited in excuse for being there because Russia can say that the Crimean people invited them in and the people of the four new Russian regions also invited them in so all these claims of Russian invasion and Russian aggression by the west would have to stop.

I don't think they want to go that path.

Without a UNSC agreement then peacekeepers are not peacekeepers... they are a party to the conflict and therefore also fair game if both sides do not agree to their presence.

Russian forces in Ukraine have been developing an extensive series of defensive fortifications a few kilometres behind the current frontline.

They are shown below, overlaid on the latest frontline map.

Excellent work by @bradyafr
in identifying and mapping the fortifications.

And who would be interesting in creating such a map of Russian defences and publishing them on the internet?

What value does such a map have?

What damage could such a map achieve?

Russia should develop a hand held loitering drone or small ground radar unit that can watch over the heads of small troop concetrations. Something that would fit in a backpack.

You could make a hydrogen balloon that could use a small fuel cell and a power bank and fresh water to fill the balloon with hydrogen to carry a small drone in the air on a tether so you don't lose it... no need for flight controls... just control the cameras on the drone... you could fit two where one camera can be controlled by the controllers camera controllers and the other camera can be controlled by the flight controls.

Ukraine cant build buk missiles. Is there mfg'ers outside of Ukraine for them?

They likely just got lots of them from Finland who used to operate BUK.

They could get some missiles from Finland, and for sure used to have the base for rep/mod, as they modernized Georgian ones.

Ironic that former neutral Finland is probably supplying them to Kiev, while Georgia publicly refused to supply weapons to Kiev... they probably fear the US trying to get them to become a second front... and justifiably so... if the US could I am sure they would...

Ukrainian MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters on one of the roads used as an airport.

Ironically something they wont be able to do with F-16s.

So they weren't directly hit by the projectile, and from the video, it seemed far enough to cause any serious injuries, or is the projectile designed to release a sort of fragmentation blast which killed the three even from a distance?

The puff of smoke is the explosive going off, what you can't see is the metal fragments radiating out from the impact point that kills the enemy.

They might be playing possum, but I doubt it.

man the shrapnel from that mortar is pretty nasty. Its was not more then a 60mm mortar and it had a pretty huge lethal radius.

Russians don't have 60mm mortars, so unless they are using captured mortars I would say it was an 82mm mortar with a reduced HE charge and extra metal fragments for reaching out and touching...

I'm kinda feel bad now to those Ukrainian soldiers defending a building or area that being targeted by Tyulpan.

When enough of them say they don't want to fight any more this war will be over... until then...

Huh thats straight up propaganda in terms of the Zelen KIA thing, facts are facts, that's how KIA has always worked UNLESS you find the body its MIA even if you know they died as to get a KIA classification requires identifiable remains. you can go for PKIA which means Presumed Killed in Action. But that still doesn't get you a KIA status, this is how all modern armies do it.

I have no idea why someone would attempt such absurdly lazy claims, that a mere google search can debunk in two minutes.

If you wanted to push this narrative, it would have been better to say "Zelensky doesn't include MIA's, which X chances are X percentage of is really KIA. So the real KIA is far greater than known" or "Zelensky is using the literal casualty classifications to deny a family compensation even though it's obvious they died" because THAT would have been factual correct to say