Well if they’re anything like the Wagner Group they’ll do it off their home PC and send us an email from their personal account asking if we noticed.
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You must need to to get through another round of daddy’s rapey, torture stories.
A minute’s silence for Paxi’s dad and godfather, please.
Crimea tourism not going particularly well these days. The Ukrainians have been smart to not sabotage the Kerch bridge thus far.
Not quite the right look for their Instagram feeds
whats the latest with the situation as a whole - I find it hard to keep up
Front line has been fairly static for the last several weeks except for a recent development with Russian command exiting Kherson.
Whatever happened to that convoy anyway
. It just seemed to fizzle out.https://www.firstpost.com/world/exp...sian-convoy-heading-to-kyiv-10500321.html/ampWhatever happened to that convoy anyway
Drone strikes took out the first few vehicles in the column, blocking the road, then they kept harassing it and it’s logistics chain, forcing it to disperse and rendering it ineffective.
The bridge out of Kherson keeps getting more and more fragile.
heading to Crimea?
Not sure. Getting themselves onto the “safe” side of the river though.
Has to be a positive for Ukraine.
I just wish the Russians would feck off at this stage
With the damage they’ve done to the bridge, it’s highly likely that the Russians will have to Dunkirk-esque leave behind lots of heavy equipment to get their soldiers back across the river. It would be quite the successful operation.
Only at this stage?
Mad lad, doing god's work.
Somebody asked for a summary, I'll do my best:
February: Putin's plan A to take Kyiv failed, as they didn't get to control the air bases.
March: Putin's plan B to take Kyiv was stalled indefinitely by Ukraine's resistance attacking their supply line. They weren't even able to occupy the border city of Kharkiv. They got better luck securing the southeast from Kherson to (not including) Mariupol.
April: Putin's plan B to take Kyiv failed, as their forces moved back to Russia to regroup. They somehow managed to also lose their biggest ship in the southeast front despite Ukraine not having a navy. Kharkiv and Mariupol still haven't fallen.
May: Mariupol finally fell. Though, Russia's plans to take Kharkiv were abandoned. The goalposts were moved to securing the Donbas.
June: After a whole month, Russian forces were able to take Severodonetsk. The rest of the fronts remain mainly stalled.
July: After occupying Lisichansk (the first big city west of the Donbas) the first week of the month, the eastern front got stalled. Ukraine starts a counter offensive in Kherson.
August: Ukraine's offensive in Kherson slowly advances. The port of Odessa exports grain for the first time since the beggining of the invasion. The russian occupation of Crimea is hit by Ukranian resistance for the first time as well. There's almost 40 days since the last significant russian gain.
Looking at the big picture, almost everyone (me included) overestimated the RA's power and underestimated Ukraine's resistance and the West's ressolve to intervene in the conflict.
February: Putin's plan A to take Kyiv failed, as they didn't get to control the air bases.
March: Putin's plan B to take Kyiv was stalled indefinitely by Ukraine's resistance attacking their supply line. They weren't even able to occupy the border city of Kharkiv. They got better luck securing the southeast from Kherson to (not including) Mariupol.
April: Putin's plan B to take Kyiv failed, as their forces moved back to Russia to regroup. They somehow managed to also lose their biggest ship in the southeast front despite Ukraine not having a navy. Kharkiv and Mariupol still haven't fallen.
May: Mariupol finally fell. Though, Russia's plans to take Kharkiv were abandoned. The goalposts were moved to securing the Donbas.
June: After a whole month, Russian forces were able to take Severodonetsk. The rest of the fronts remain mainly stalled.
July: After occupying Lisichansk (the first big city west of the Donbas) the first week of the month, the eastern front got stalled. Ukraine starts a counter offensive in Kherson.
August: Ukraine's offensive in Kherson slowly advances. The port of Odessa exports grain for the first time since the beggining of the invasion. The russian occupation of Crimea is hit by Ukranian resistance for the first time as well. There's almost 40 days since the last significant russian gain.
Looking at the big picture, almost everyone (me included) overestimated the RA's power and underestimated Ukraine's resistance and the West's ressolve to intervene in the conflict.
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They can't even take Ukraine, let alone the rest of Europe.
Dream on, Little Putin.
Paxi is making a good case for why Russians should be banned from Europe. At least while the war is going on.
Someone is really desperate for friends.
Considering there was talks of north Korea sending 100.000 troops I can understand why. Not going to happen though.
If they did I would offer North Korean defectors safe passage to Western Europe and see how many actually stay and fight. Would be interesting - even war torn Ukraine would show them how different life is outside North Korea.
Unfortunately Ukraine civilians will suffer for decades after the active war ends. If the land was occupied at any stage you can bet it's mined as hell.
The article itself haven't been translated to English yet, but I'd imagine that they'll do it as fast as humanly possible.
The Important Stories, Russian independent media, have learned the names of some soldiers that were responsible for the civilian massacres in Kyiv's outskirts, called them and one had confessed.
Here's the original article (you can read it using googla-translate)
https://istories.media/investigations/2022/08/15/komandir-dal-prikaz-v-raskhod-ikh/
Here's their English page where the translation will probably appear soon
https://istories.media/en/
The Important Stories, Russian independent media, have learned the names of some soldiers that were responsible for the civilian massacres in Kyiv's outskirts, called them and one had confessed.
Here's the original article (you can read it using googla-translate)
https://istories.media/investigations/2022/08/15/komandir-dal-prikaz-v-raskhod-ikh/
Here's their English page where the translation will probably appear soon
https://istories.media/en/
...Are those journalists safe?
Its rather embarrassing for the mighty Russian military to have to grovel for troops from other countries because their own military is so inept.
Yeah. Being designated as an "undesirable organisation" in Russia is a pretty good indication of trust-worthiness
Their founders, Olesya Shmagun & Roman Anin, worked on the Panama Papers archive, and got a Pulitzer for it (it was shared between all journalists involved in the investigation). They still specialise on those big investigations and so far they've been very reliable.
I think he meant whether they were safe from prosecution.Yeah. Being designated as an "undesirable organisation" in Russia is a pretty good indication of trust-worthiness
Their founders, Olesya Shmagun & Roman Anin, worked on the Panama Papers archive, and got a Pulitzer for it (it was shared between all journalists involved in the investigation). They still specialise on those big investigations and so far they've been very reliable.
Or polonium tea.
Oh, my bad. They're not in Russia, so... relatively. Most of the independent Russian media (TV Rain, Meduza, Mediazona, Novaya Gazeta Europe etc.) work from abroad as they're otherwise criminally liable for publishing pretty much anything war-related.
But we've seen that being abroad is not a fail-safe option if Putin really wants to get to you.
Novichocolate
That’s gonna be hard to do. Unless anything has changed since 2019/2020, the average Russian unit outguns the average US unit in a pure artillery battle.
Looks like another attack inside the territory of Crimea.
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There's a miltary airbase in Dzhankoy that hosts the 39th hellicopter brigade, this could be what has been targeted.
I hope someone is making artillery pieces to send to Ukraine, or at least building out infrastructure to do so asap.