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Russia begins Invasion of Ukraine
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Hudo
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The real open source aficionados.
murmulis
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Well, yeah - they definitely don't want to use a closed source OS that's made in the USA.
PuppetMaster
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The game Lemmings is based on bad information that Lemmings are prone to mass suicide. An idea popularized by Disney in a film where they staged a scene of the animals jumping to thier death.
Really the real lesson you should take from Lemmings is that you should not believe everything you hear.
Lemming - Wikipedia
Liljagare
Gold Member
Russian AA/artillery unit received 6 Tunguska air defence vehicles from MoD, likely from long conservation followed by major repairs - as a result, all six vehicles are dysfunctional.
In the full version of the video, the reporter states that upon reception, three vehicles were running but after a 30-km march all broke down with major suspension problems, another two suffer from armament control system malfunctions, and a sixth is too dangerous to even start.
None of the six transport-reloading vehicles (TZM) were functional either.
mstdn.social
In the full version of the video, the reporter states that upon reception, three vehicles were running but after a 30-km march all broke down with major suspension problems, another two suffer from armament control system malfunctions, and a sixth is too dangerous to even start.
None of the six transport-reloading vehicles (TZM) were functional either.
NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@noelreports@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Croatia offers its railway network and ports in the Adriatic Sea for the transportation of Ukrainian food by alternative routes due to Russia's blocking of the "grain agreement," — State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia Frano Matušić
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Crazy to think in this day and age Russia continues to engage in an unwinnable war that does nothing but degrades both countries, Russia more so due to the fact that its now forever associated with war crimes and atrocities, such a pity the Ukrainians couldn't get a major break through and are now in a war of attrition, hopefully something breaks soon and personally i don't have any issues with cluster munitions going to the frontline to be used on Russians, yes they are an awful weapon that lead to civilian deaths down the line but people are forgetting that Russia has lobbed so much ordnance into Ukraine, mined so many fields that Ukrainians will be suffering this for years and if these bombs wreak havoc on the front lines and kill, maim and fuck up the orcs en masse then I'm all for it
Hudo
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As a military expert (I have played some games by Paradox) and an expert on Russian culture (I have played Metro Exodus), I can say that the only winning move for Russia is to get your troops back home and just declare victory.
rofif
Banned
The worst part is that they do that and will keep doing that ad there is nothing anyone can do or is willing to do
6502
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Ukraine war: Russia strikes Ukraine grain after ending sea deal
Attacks on Black Sea ports destroy 60,000 tonnes of grain and damage infrastructure, officials say.
www.bbc.co.uk
These bastards just want the world to burn. It's about time Nato sent some carriers and support to secure the seas and skies over Ukraine.
winjer
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As usual, Russia attacks civilian targets instead of military targets.
Ukrainian farmers will suffer because of this action by Russia. And the rest of the world as well, especially poorer countries.
We can expect price increases for grain and a lot of people in poor countries won't be able to afford to eat.
Thanks a lot Putin, once again you proved yourself to be a complete bastard.
Ukrainian farmers will suffer because of this action by Russia. And the rest of the world as well, especially poorer countries.
We can expect price increases for grain and a lot of people in poor countries won't be able to afford to eat.
Thanks a lot Putin, once again you proved yourself to be a complete bastard.
BlackTron
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"It is a crime that is pointless from the military point of view"
Liljagare
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US announced another aid package:
Phoenix Ghost and Switchblade Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
Precision aerial munitions;
Counter-UAS and electronic warfare detection equipment;
150 fuel trucks;
115 tactical vehicles to tow and haul equipment;
50 tactical vehicles to recover equipment;
Port and harbor security equipment;
Tactical secure communications systems;
Support for training, maintenance, and sustainment activities.
www.pravda.com.ua
Ukrainian F-16 pilots will be trained by the private company Draken International. The company published a recruitment ad stating that the military instructors would work at the Borc Feteşti military base in Romania.
Now all the conditions have been created to return Bakhmut, said the commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi.
"At this time, all the conditions have been created for us to return this city, but with ten times less losses (than the Russians — ed.). Because, in general, the location of Russian troops currently resembles such a bow, which is concentrated in Bakhmut. And they are in such a semi-environment. Well, you just can't help but use it," he said in an interview with the BBC.
Phoenix Ghost and Switchblade Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
Precision aerial munitions;
Counter-UAS and electronic warfare detection equipment;
150 fuel trucks;
115 tactical vehicles to tow and haul equipment;
50 tactical vehicles to recover equipment;
Port and harbor security equipment;
Tactical secure communications systems;
Support for training, maintenance, and sustainment activities.
NASAMS, shells and equipment: US announces US$1.3 billion in new military aid to Ukraine
The US Department of Defense has announced a new package of military aid to Ukraine with a total cost of US$1.3 billion.
www.pravda.com.ua
Ukrainian F-16 pilots will be trained by the private company Draken International. The company published a recruitment ad stating that the military instructors would work at the Borc Feteşti military base in Romania.
Now all the conditions have been created to return Bakhmut, said the commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi."At this time, all the conditions have been created for us to return this city, but with ten times less losses (than the Russians — ed.). Because, in general, the location of Russian troops currently resembles such a bow, which is concentrated in Bakhmut. And they are in such a semi-environment. Well, you just can't help but use it," he said in an interview with the BBC.
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NoLootBoxDev
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Liljagare
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#Germany has [delivered] a new military aid package to #Ukraine. It includes:
• 10 #Leopard 1A5 tanks;
• 20 MG3 machine guns for tanks and armored vehicles;
• 1035 x 155mm artillery shells and 2064 x smoke rounds;
• bridge system and 12 trailers;
• 10 radars;
• 16 Zetros trucks;
• 100,000 first-aid kits
https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/military-support-ukraine-2054992
Gp1
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That probably the amount of artillery shells that Ukraine spends in a hour of combat.
Almost obligatory reading.
A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine's Counteroffensive From The Front
A military analyst just returned from touring the Ukraine front and has offered his blunt take on how the counteroffensive is really going.
www.thedrive.com
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NoLootBoxDev
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I guess another one? He was a piece of shit.
NoLootBoxDev
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Do you think china cares?
THE DUCK
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Been thinking about this, now that Nato has mutiple large borders (Finland), they should mass a huge amount of troops along the border to force Russia to divert a large portion of its forces away from Ukraine.
Take no aggressive action.......just force them to waste resources.
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Liljagare
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Those are SMART rounds, the regular ones go in the EU shipments.
Ukraine could be getting F-16s way ahead of schedule
Ukrainian pilots are set to begin training to fly F-16s in August or September this year, but the country does not yet have any of the fighters.
www.newsweek.com
THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
this really is how world wars start, posturing
lucky for us tho most the world are too fat to be called up these days.
Nah, all the world wars were actually started by someone invading. Wwi was Austria in retaliation of an assisnation, wwii was Germany invading Poland.
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winjer
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That is something I also wonder.
For example, the USA and South Korea used to act huge military drills, during the harvest season, near the border with North Korea.
Because North Korea is an under developed economy, it still relies heavily on manual work in the harvest season. So they have to send most of it's army home to help with the harvest.
But with the USA and South Korea doing military drills near it's borders, North Korea had to keep it's army on high readiness during this time. So they could not send most men home for harvest season.
This really hurt North Korea's economy, because a significant part of their harvest was lost.
Curiously, this was also the reason why WW1 started a month after the start of the July crisis.
von Hötzendorf, as usual, sent his men home in July to help with the harvest. When the Austrian-Hungarian government decided to go ahead with the invasion of Serbia, Hötzendorf had to tell them to wait a couple of weeks.
This from a man who had made 23 official requests in 1913 alone, to the Emperor, to invade Serbia. And when he got his permission, he couldn't do anything.
Germany and the ussr invading Poland lets not let the Russian they were the good guys in ww2 lie persist
They not only invaded Poland in cooperation with Germans. They were also helping them in the other ways. Economical cooperation was massive. In the first year, Germany received form USSR one million tons of cereals, half-a-million tons of wheat, 900,000 tons of oil, 100,000 tons of cotton, 500,000 tons of phosphates and considerable amounts of other vital raw materials. The Soviets also helped Germany to avoid British naval blockades by providing a submarine base, Basis Nord, in the northern Soviet Union near Murmansk.[211] That also provided a refueling and maintenance location and a takeoff point for raids and attacks on shipping.[211] In addition, the Soviets provided Germany with access to the Northern Sea Route for both cargo ships and raiders though only the commerce raider Komet used the route before the German invasion, which forced Britain to protect sea lanes in both the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Also, even without cooperation with Germans they would not be good guys. Soviets killed even more people (well mostly their own "citizens") than Nazis.
Also, even without cooperation with Germans they would not be good guys. Soviets killed even more people (well mostly their own "citizens") than Nazis.
Liljagare
Gold Member
So many signs of the F-16 being, finally, fast tracked now. Hope it is true, and that they can also get some longer range stuff, yesterday.
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/110756970019365159
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/110757217719309954
Another video.
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/110756970019365159
Crimeaanother ammo depot down.
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/110757217719309954
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/110757246536545002
Another video.
delirium trigger
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Most leave the role of Italy out … to be honest .
winjer
Gold Member
The death count on Italy's hands during WW2, pales in comparison to the death toll and crimes that Russia and Germany committed.
In great part due to the utter incompetence of the Italian army and Navy. But also, because they were not as fanatics and evil.
But the thing is, no one paints Mussolini and his regime as good and heroic. Unlike what happens with the Russia.
The reality is that Stalin and the Soviet Union were as bad, if not worst, than Hitler and the Nazi regime. And for many years they were allies.
Germany could not have developed weapons like they did, if not with the strict collaboration of Russia. Germany could not have rearmed without all the oil and materials supplied by Russia.
I am not talking about how big their role was , but Italy clearly sided with Nazi germany in the early years and also annexed countries .
Wildebeest
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Mussolini wanted to ban pasta, so don't try to tell me he wasn't that evil.
winjer
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Yes, Italy joined Germany, after 1938.
But Russia was allied with Germany even before Italy joined in with Germany.
Liljagare
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Russians get away from it all ... with a holiday to a warzone
Ukrainian drone attacks do little to put off Russian tourists eager for a summer getaway, as bookings remain unaffected by conflict
www.telegraph.co.uk
According to a journalist-investigation, Russia mobilizes diabetics, sends them to the front without even providing insulin. They’re supposed to be in a category that is called, “fit to serve, with restrictions,” which is supposed to mean that they serve in rear. Nope, off to the front. Without insulin.
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
That probably the amount of artillery shells that Ukraine spends in a hour of combat.
Almost obligatory reading.
A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine's Counteroffensive From The Front
A military analyst just returned from touring the Ukraine front and has offered his blunt take on how the counteroffensive is really going.
Excellent and sobering article, not what I want to be reading tbh, although this struck me as rather amusing
Gady however was quick to emphasize that “no Western type of military can really do this sort of combined arms operations at scale, with the exception of the United States. But even the United States Armed Forces would have a very difficult time breaking through these defensive layers because no Western military in the world currently has any experience in breaching the types of defenses in depth that the Russians put up, in the south and east of Ukraine.”
Ahem, the Americans would've established Air Superiority and would then B52 the absolute shit out of the defensive lines, if the Americans got involved and by god I wish they would, they'd make mincemeat out of those cunts, as it stands the West simply needs to keep up the support, if it's going to be a war of attrition then Ukraine will eventually win
Liljagare
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"Sweden, Finland, Netherlands assist in restoring power in Kherson after dam destruction"
euromaidanpress.com
Maldives need to be wingclipped, all those offshore accounts and now this:
asia.nikkei.com
Sweden, Finland, Netherlands assist in restoring power in Kherson after dam destruction - Euromaidan Press
Kherson Oblast Military Administration reports that Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands have provided 37 transformers and 5 kilometers…
euromaidanpress.com
Maldives need to be wingclipped, all those offshore accounts and now this:
Maldives: Small island nation with big role shipping chips to Russia
$53m of chips transited Indian Ocean country 1 year after invasion, data shows
asia.nikkei.com
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I bet putin gets a kick back from every Russian mail order bride sold to China, the level of cruelty and callousness toward his own people is mind boggling...maybe putins trying to purge groups he deems undesirable. Given how vile his leadership is that would make senseRussians get away from it all ... with a holiday to a warzone
Ukrainian drone attacks do little to put off Russian tourists eager for a summer getaway, as bookings remain unaffected by conflict
According to a journalist-investigation, Russia mobilizes diabetics, sends them to the front without even providing insulin. They’re supposed to be in a category that is called, “fit to serve, with restrictions,” which is supposed to mean that they serve in rear. Nope, off to the front. Without insulin.
What is difference? They are probably not supposed to live long enough to need it. Typical Soviet/Russian tactic is "scouting by battle". You just send horde of disposable soldiers - recruits without experience, penal troops or sick people - on the enemy positions. Yes, most of the will die, but ensuing fight will reveal enemy fire stations and their range. Why bother with inteligence, when You can just use most abundant, but not most valuable, Russian resource, aka people.Russians get away from it all ... with a holiday to a warzone
Ukrainian drone attacks do little to put off Russian tourists eager for a summer getaway, as bookings remain unaffected by conflict
According to a journalist-investigation, Russia mobilizes diabetics, sends them to the front without even providing insulin. They’re supposed to be in a category that is called, “fit to serve, with restrictions,” which is supposed to mean that they serve in rear. Nope, off to the front. Without insulin.
Liljagare
Gold Member
‘It’s guns versus butter’: Russia on the brink as Putin’s war chest empties
Kremlin's fortunes crumble as oil profits plunge and the workforce flees conscription
www.telegraph.co.uk
Wonder what will break first in this mess?
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
‘It’s guns versus butter’: Russia on the brink as Putin’s war chest empties
Kremlin's fortunes crumble as oil profits plunge and the workforce flees conscription
Wonder what will break first in this mess?
Good question.
Liljagare
Gold Member
"Putin Signs Law Raising Age Of People In Military Reserve By Five Years "
www.rferl.org
Not that they usually live to retiring age..
Putin Signs Law Raising Age Of People In Military Reserve By Five Years
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law raising the maximum age of people in the military reserves by five years.
www.rferl.org
Not that they usually live to retiring age..
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