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    Post  Firebird Fri May 05, 2023 4:39 pm

    Wipe the DECISION MAKERS off the map - whether in the Pukraine or elsewhere.
    But the place itself is half Russian, and then a mixture of Nazis, idiots, and assorted bellends.
    Killing millions of Russians is NOT what is needed.
    Striking the United Snakes or Lvov or Europe.... well that might concentrate some minds!

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    Post  famschopman Fri May 05, 2023 4:41 pm

    Nothing. Again, anyone can buy and fly a consumer DJI drone towards a commercial passenger aircraft. These incidents happen on basically every commercial airfield around the world and often just caused by people ignoring law & regulation with disregard to safety.

    There are some other things where I expected a more severe response; the confirmed delivery of Uranium depleted shells and the Nordstream incident. In essence warranted a response but lacks convincing evidence who was responsible and therefore retaliation is difficult. But accidents on the seabed can happen everywhere...

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    Post  kvs Fri May 05, 2023 5:04 pm

    What sort of response and what is it expected to achieve? The NATzO freaks are back to accusing Russia of bombing the NordStream pipelines.

    The response that Russia actually needs to engage is the one that keeps breaking down the economic control exerted by NATzO. Bombing some
    decision center in Washington does not achieve this but rather gives these lunatics more excuses and "victimhood".

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    Post  Hole Fri May 05, 2023 5:25 pm

    Progozhin's acting like a teenage girl over it for some reason.
    The only thing missing was some reporter asking a stupid quesiton so Prigozhin could respond: "Let me tell you something, brother!"

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    Post  Hole Fri May 05, 2023 5:26 pm

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    Russia is running out of tanks. lol1

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    Post  Hole Fri May 05, 2023 5:27 pm

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    Shoigu visited some part of the frontline.

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    Post  mnztr Fri May 05, 2023 5:40 pm

    Stealthflanker wrote:Seems Prighozin is malding over ammunition supply.

    However given that they're already controlling most of Bakhmut, there shouldn't be any hindrance in supplying them, also Soledar, does Ukraine only store small arms munitions there ? IF there is artillery shells why not tap into them, there bound to be 152 or 122 mm shells laying around.

    Kinda feel that he's playing Kadyrov's role atm.


    You gonna use ammo captured from your enemy? You won't live long. Good chance its spiked.

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    Post  Stealthflanker Fri May 05, 2023 5:45 pm

    mnztr wrote:


    You gonna use ammo captured from your enemy? You won't live long. Good chance its spiked.

    Do they even have a time to booby trap every single ammo crates in Soledar ?
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    Post  Hole Fri May 05, 2023 5:53 pm

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    Post  Backman Fri May 05, 2023 6:19 pm

    Partial evacuation of residents of 18 frontline settlements in the  🇷🇺Zaporizhzhia (Zaporozhye)region has been officially announced.

    This better not be the beginnings of a pullback. But just like Izyum, just like Kherson, it was hard to believe it would happen until it did. If anything like this happens here, then I'll have to assume that this war is all theatre. From both sides. It literally makes no sense.
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    Post  mnztr Fri May 05, 2023 6:36 pm

    Stealthflanker wrote:
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    You gonna use ammo captured from your enemy? You won't live long. Good chance its spiked.

    Do they even have a time to booby trap every single ammo crates in Soledar ?  

    They probably have a crate of spiked rounds ready when they withdraw. The crates themselves may be booby trapped.
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    Post  Broski Fri May 05, 2023 6:37 pm

    Backman wrote:This better not be the beginnings of a pullback. But just like Izyum, just like Kherson, it was hard to believe it would happen until it did. If anything like this happens here, then I'll have to assume that this war is all theatre. From both sides.  It literally makes no sense.
    Evacuating civilians from the frontlines where Ukronazis will attack from makes no sense? Removing potential human shields for the Ukronazis to hide behind makes perfect sense to me.

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    Post  VARGR198 Fri May 05, 2023 6:48 pm

    Gonzalo Lira kidnapped again by the Kiev regime.

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    Post  Backman Fri May 05, 2023 6:49 pm

    Edit ^ was posting that. Things are moving fast now.
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    Post  0nillie0 Fri May 05, 2023 7:36 pm

    My take on the whole Prigozhin thing is that he has run out of cheap meat for the grinder and is now losing valuable assets fighting over basically nothing. He is a businessman and he has to consider his business first. He is looking for an fast and easy way out of Artyomovsk. Given that Wagner continues to make progress just fine, i dont think they have lost combat effectiveness, and i dont buy into the whole shell bullshit.
    And honestly, how can you keep him and his forces there after his latest antics...

    They will probably be redeployed elsewhere and he will get what he wants. But i think some people high up will be looking into a way for this guy to go...

    But who knows at this point. I dont see anything positive about the whole thing.

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    Post  DerWolf Fri May 05, 2023 7:48 pm

    Counteroffensive might be imminent in a couple of hours in Zaporizhia direction, i read in twitter.
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    Post  Backman Fri May 05, 2023 8:25 pm

    Wagner is waaaay overdue for a proper rotation. So there's that.

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    Post  Backman Fri May 05, 2023 8:37 pm

    Dumbasses make a Russian designed jet the center of this media release 

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    Post  franco Fri May 05, 2023 9:10 pm


    Shamsail Saraliyev, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs of the Russian Federation , said that the Russian and Ukrainian sides exchanged the bodies of the dead. It is reported by RBC .

    The transfer of bodies 80 to 80 took place,” the parliamentarian said.

    Earlier, the press service of the Ministry of Reintegration of Ukraine stated that the bodies of 80 dead military personnel of the country's Armed Forces (AFU) had returned to the country.

    According to the message of the Ministry of Reintegration, the transfer of the bodies of the fallen soldiers is taking place in accordance with the norms of the Geneva Conventions. The bodies of Ukrainian soldiers will be handed over to their families.

    Prior to this, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov , commenting on the statement of the head of military intelligence of Ukraine Kirill Budanov, said that Russia is doing everything to ensure that Russian fighters who have fallen into Ukrainian captivity return home.

    On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a military special operation to protect Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the LPR and DPR.

    The decision to conduct the operation was the reason for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.

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    Post  Backman Fri May 05, 2023 10:19 pm

    Why was Nagasaki and Hiroshima habitable after being nuked? This whole idea that a city would be inhabitable for years from tactical nukes is scare mongering bullshit. Serbia has more issues with cancers from depleted uranium shells than Nagasaki or Hiroshima does from being nuked.

    Russia should take this into account.

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    Post  ucmvulcan Fri May 05, 2023 11:19 pm

    Backman wrote:Why was Nagasaki and Hiroshima habitable after being nuked? This whole idea that a city would be inhabitable for years from tactical nukes is scare mongering bullshit. Serbia has more issues with cancers from depleted uranium shells than Nagasaki or Hiroshima does from being nuked.

    Russia should take this into account.

    Very low yield weapons compared to today. Atom bombs can do colossal damage, spark firestorms, cause those too close to the epicenter to get cancers. Hydrogen bombs are several magnitudes more destructive.

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    Post  Backman Fri May 05, 2023 11:25 pm

    Mark Sleboda was on Brian Berletics channel today. Mark says this whole thing with Prigozhin is performance art. He says there is no way he'd get away with this if it was real. And he says that Wagners job in Bakhmut is done. They are probably pulling out to get redeployed somewhere else.

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    Post  Stealthflanker Fri May 05, 2023 11:45 pm

    Well Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Airburst, means most of the bomb's energy and radiation are "Expended" on air therefore not much of fallout can occur. had they choose groundburst detonation, there would be deadly fallout as the bomb deposited most of its radioactive content on the ground and spread them through fallout.

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