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Post by Gabrielzakuaniandjuliet on Aug 26, 2024 12:03:39 GMT
They are pure evil cowards. And some people lap up the russian fake news that blames Ukraine for the attack. Russia dropped a missile on hundreds of desperately evacuating civilians, murdered loads, and some people are like "america bad maybe Ukraine murdered its own people" ffs. Slightly condescending way of referring to people who don't share your worldview haha. It must be nice to live in a world where anything you don't like is fake news/ propaganda though
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 26, 2024 16:05:05 GMT
Massive attack.
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 27, 2024 7:07:02 GMT
More videos of ukraine using their helicopters to take down Shaheds. Saves expensive air defence missiles at least.
Den told me the power pack we sent came in useful during yesterday's power cut.
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 27, 2024 7:08:41 GMT
Some consequences of Ukraine's strike on russian oil storage ten days ago.
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 27, 2024 8:08:59 GMT
After killing a Reuters staff member at a hotel in Kramatorsk, russia bombed another hotel used by international journalists in Kryvyi Rih.
It's possible coincidence but they've hit a lot of these hotels and Ukrainians say it's because russia wants to terrify off western journalists. They want Ukrainians to be left to die in the dark.
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Post by gawa on Aug 27, 2024 11:07:30 GMT
Ukraine attacking residential buildings in Russia.
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Aug 27, 2024 11:50:40 GMT
Don't normally do links so I hope I got this right. Just popped into my head sifting through this thread. Great song 🎵
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 27, 2024 12:10:30 GMT
Ukraine attacking residential buildings in Russia. It's near airbases, I think the drones got fucked up and went off target. If we're doing a fair and balanced reporting, I think it should be proportional. So ukraine has hit some residential buildings, seemigly all by mistake, while russia has hit tens of thousands. So a fair and balanced repoeting should ve posting 1000+ stories of Russia hitting civilian targets for every story posted where Ukraine hits a civilian target. An "interesting" thing with russia is that they've launched high precision missiles into childrens' hospitals (e.g. a Kh-101) or evacuation trains (e.g. a Tochka into Kramatorsk), but also indiscriminately launched poorly guided weapons where they know the odds of slaughtering civilians is massive. Like Kh-22s into Dnipro apartment blocks- they know the missile only has a terminal guidance system which is "hit the biggest thing on the radar", or hundreds of S-300s into cities where they know it's an anti-aircraft missile and when yeeted onto a ground target you only have a 50:50 chance of landing within half a km of whatever you programmed as the target. It's a weird mix of intentionally murdering loads of children and carelessly murdering loads of innocents. Both for no obvious military value. Unlike Ukraine's attacks.
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Post by gawa on Aug 27, 2024 13:26:15 GMT
Ukraine attacking residential buildings in Russia. It's near airbases, I think the drones got fucked up and went off target. If we're doing a fair and balanced reporting, I think it should be proportional. So ukraine has hit some residential buildings, seemigly all by mistake, while russia has hit tens of thousands. So a fair and balanced repoeting should ve posting 1000+ stories of Russia hitting civilian targets for every story posted where Ukraine hits a civilian target. An "interesting" thing with russia is that they've launched high precision missiles into childrens' hospitals (e.g. a Kh-101) or evacuation trains (e.g. a Tochka into Kramatorsk), but also indiscriminately launched poorly guided weapons where they know the odds of slaughtering civilians is massive. Like Kh-22s into Dnipro apartment blocks- they know the missile only has a terminal guidance system which is "hit the biggest thing on the radar", or hundreds of S-300s into cities where they know it's an anti-aircraft missile and when yeeted onto a ground target you only have a 50:50 chance of landing within half a km of whatever you programmed as the target. It's a weird mix of intentionally murdering loads of children and carelessly murdering loads of innocents. Both for no obvious military value. Unlike Ukraine's attacks. Maybe there could have been a military target in the apartments too? As Israel were able to use drones to target hamas in Iran. So maybe Ukraine had intelligence of a military target too? I read that the first ballistic missile tests were successful as well for Ukraine today. When do you think they'll start using them? Not sure if this source is good or not BTW (posts a load of global news) but seems to also suggest some trucks hit in Ukraine today?
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 28, 2024 20:39:39 GMT
Been crazy busy with travel but I noticed this news thing.
Russia will stop reporting statistics on its refining amounts. There's a chance they're expecting bad news because of all the refineries and stores Ukraine has been hitting.
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 28, 2024 21:04:29 GMT
It's near airbases, I think the drones got fucked up and went off target. If we're doing a fair and balanced reporting, I think it should be proportional. So ukraine has hit some residential buildings, seemigly all by mistake, while russia has hit tens of thousands. So a fair and balanced repoeting should ve posting 1000+ stories of Russia hitting civilian targets for every story posted where Ukraine hits a civilian target. An "interesting" thing with russia is that they've launched high precision missiles into childrens' hospitals (e.g. a Kh-101) or evacuation trains (e.g. a Tochka into Kramatorsk), but also indiscriminately launched poorly guided weapons where they know the odds of slaughtering civilians is massive. Like Kh-22s into Dnipro apartment blocks- they know the missile only has a terminal guidance system which is "hit the biggest thing on the radar", or hundreds of S-300s into cities where they know it's an anti-aircraft missile and when yeeted onto a ground target you only have a 50:50 chance of landing within half a km of whatever you programmed as the target. It's a weird mix of intentionally murdering loads of children and carelessly murdering loads of innocents. Both for no obvious military value. Unlike Ukraine's attacks. Maybe there could have been a military target in the apartments too? As Israel were able to use drones to target hamas in Iran. So maybe Ukraine had intelligence of a military target too? I read that the first ballistic missile tests were successful as well for Ukraine today. When do you think they'll start using them? Not sure if this source is good or not BTW (posts a load of global news) but seems to also suggest some trucks hit in Ukraine today? I'm still pretty ignorant* so will just repeat sone stuff I found interesting... Dunno how reliable. Maybe Ukraine targeted something there - but most of their drones are not Israel quality. My bets are malfunction, GPS jamming, or misprogramming. The Hrim-2 ballistics were claimed for the 2022 hits on Saky airbase. I've no idea how many they could make though, and maybe they'll fire asap to test. But Russia will react as soon as they're fired so it'd probably be best to save up a load and fire them all at once. Because if you fire a couple per week then Russia has tons of time to react and move or protect targets. Re: Odesa, I'd wait for experts to geolocate but Odesa was hit and Russia targets logistics, emergency services, bus terminals, supermarkets etc so it fits. If it *was* the intended target though, then it was probably an accurate missile that cost between $1m and $10m. *I've read strategy & technical documents on missiles and I've mainly learned that I don't know enough to be taken seriously 😂 my work means I know a bit about guidance systems and the likes though.
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 29, 2024 15:12:52 GMT
Sounds like Ukraine has lost its first F-16 😢
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Post by plug on Aug 29, 2024 18:04:19 GMT
Sadly looks like the pilot didn't make it.
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 29, 2024 20:34:15 GMT
Russian defence companies supposedly sell at a loss to russia and make money on big export markups. $13-15 billion/year from sales source. Not any more. Even Serbia is moving on from russian MiG-29s to French Rafales. That's billions in future cash russia won't get.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 29, 2024 22:30:06 GMT
Russian defence companies supposedly sell at a loss to russia and make money on big export markups. $13-15 billion/year from sales source. Not any more. Even Serbia is moving on from russian MiG-29s to French Rafales. That's billions in future cash russia won't get. The French shouldn’t be selling shit to Serbia. They’ll never fucking learn nor care.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 29, 2024 22:32:50 GMT
Sounds like Ukraine has lost its first F-16 😢 This has got friendly fire written all over it imo. I only say that as well from watching DCS videos 🤣 But every time they do a missile shoot down video there’s friendly fire as it’s hard to distinguish friend from foe on the radar. The fact that no real info has come out about it either (that I’ve seen) makes me think that even more.
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 30, 2024 21:16:06 GMT
Been crazy busy but summary from what I've seen:
- Kursk is quieter. Maybe Ukraine decided to stop and dig in or maybe they're being secretive. They have cut the bridges to another big area by the border and could go for that.
- Russia has massively cut its use of armour. They couldn't keep up that pace and need a breather.
- but Russia still has an enormous advantage in artillery, meat and dangerous glide bombs.
- Ukraine's eastern troops are utterly exhausted and the defence is crumbling near Pokrovsk and Toretsk. Russia has captured 280 sq km in a month near Pokrovsk, one of their fastest advances in ages.
Even if Pokrovsk falls, russia will be very far from conquering Donbas. But it'll all depend on what reinforcement and supplies each side gets over the next months.
The US was supposed to be sending a lot of aid this year and doing new packages next year, but because of Republicans' pro-Putin blockade, the 2024 cash is being spent slowly and Biden is keeping some back in case republicans win the election and will prevent any new aid.
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 30, 2024 21:20:07 GMT
Also russians dropped guided glide bombs on Kharkiv, hitting homes and killing a girl on a playground source. Recently the russian 155th marine brigade posted a video showing a Ukrainian head on a spike and boasting about it. Various russian units have been posting videos of their drones hunting civilians in villages throughout Kherson oblast. Russia's military Rusich unit also posted a message demanding that Ukrainian POWs be given to them so they could sacrifice them (looks like they deleted it from telegram but I have a screenshot from the time and checked myself). They previously posted footage of them torturing a Ukrainian and their leader got famous because he posted video (and boasted) of him torturing and decapitating a puppy. He also said "I'm not going to go deep and say, I'm a nationalist, a patriot, an imperialist, and so forth. I'll say it outright: I'm a Nazi." They filmed themselves doing it and they boasted about it. It's the same as the sick war crimes russians did in Bucha and elsewhere.
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Post by mtrstudent on Aug 31, 2024 13:26:04 GMT
Ukraine is working out the recon drone problem. There are other videos showing 100+ of small drone attacks on them.
Recon drones can cost up to $100k and they have guided missiles that have taken out $20 million jets or $10 million tanks. So if you can reliably take them out with $1-2k drones you're onto something.
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Post by prestwichpotter on Aug 31, 2024 23:42:39 GMT
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 1, 2024 1:50:08 GMT
Supports what I said about the shitty situation near Pokrovsk right now 😢 One of the smart guys I follow says the decisive south Donbas battle will be Kostyantinivka, after Pokrovsk. Unless Ukraine's army is more ground down than we know then if Russia has to fight for Pokrovsk, then Kostyantinivka, then the bigger cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk. Russia lost ~3,000 of their best armoured vehicles getting just over halfway to Pokrovsk, so it's hard for me to see how they could win if Harris and the Democrats take the 2024 election. Just looking at tanks, Russia has lost ~1,000 of their best T-80s and they have about ~500 left waiting at refurb garages or in storage. They don't make new ones. And ~200 of those in storage were built in Ukraine with diesel engines from Kharkiv so it's hard to imagine they're good for anything other than spare parts. Putin threw everything they could into winning 2024 and pinned their hopes on Trump. The republican blockade got tons of Ukrainians killed as well. Hopefully not too many 😢
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 1, 2024 15:38:10 GMT
Explaining the Kursk situation.
Russia has soldiers near Ukraine with a river behind them. Ukraine keeps whacking the bridges Russia sets up. There's a good chance for Ukraine to cause some very heavy casualties or force a big russian surrender.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 1, 2024 15:41:38 GMT
I don't post 99.99% of them but Russia attacks civilians every day.
If you slow it down you can see the missile looks like an Iskandr which is very accurate. It was probably targeting either the supermarket or metro station.
Russia also launched hundreds of S-300s into Kharkiv until Biden let Ukraine destroy the launchers with HIMARS.
S-300s are inaccurate, the Russians just lobbed them into a crowded city to kill and terrorise innocents.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 1, 2024 15:44:16 GMT
And some people lap up the russian fake news that blames Ukraine for the attack. Russia dropped a missile on hundreds of desperately evacuating civilians, murdered loads, and some people are like "america bad maybe Ukraine murdered its own people" ffs. Slightly condescending way of referring to people who don't share your worldview haha. It must be nice to live in a world where anything you don't like is fake news/ propaganda though I don't do that with most topics, only when things are clearly black and white. If you're spreading russian lies to blame Ukrainians for the murder of Ukrainians by russians then that's just fucking sick. There's a brutal, unprovoked war of conquest being done by Russia with mass civilian murder going on. Their lies and propaganda have been proven repeatedly beyond any doubt and I'm proud not to deny reality in the face of such sick crimes. They lied about it when they sent their troops into Crimea and Donbas in 2014, they lied about it when they shot down a civilian airliner, they lied about it when they planted a precision guided missile into a children's hospital and for hundreds of other evil crimes including when they dropped a Tochka on Kramatorsk station. At the time, Russian propaganda said they didn't have Tochkas and then two weeks later they filmed their own Tochkas. I am not a moron, I can tell that Ukrainians are not mass slaughtering Ukrainians and that Russia was launching Tochkas at the time of the attack. I fence sit a lot of topics, but not when it's this obvious.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 1, 2024 15:55:35 GMT
Russia says it shot down 158 drones last night and there's no damage to any running of anything and everything is under control.
This video seems to show a Ukrainian drone smacking into a refinery *inside Moscow region*. There's also video of explosions near airbases and a power station.
We know Russia lies about shooting everything down, but it's possible there was no serious damage.
Pretty cool they got a drone into Moscow though.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 1, 2024 16:04:18 GMT
This guy has been pretty good. The Pokrovsk situation is really bad, but it doesn't have to turn into a disaster. It's probably gonna be the decisive battle of 2024.
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Post by scfcbiancorossi on Sept 1, 2024 16:04:38 GMT
Any sign of a negotiation or is this pointless war set to continue for another few years?
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Post by gawa on Sept 1, 2024 17:21:27 GMT
I don't post 99.99% of them but Russia attacks civilians every day. If you slow it down you can see the missile looks like an Iskandr which is very accurate. It was probably targeting either the supermarket or metro station. Russia also launched hundreds of S-300s into Kharkiv until Biden let Ukraine destroy the launchers with HIMARS. S-300s are inaccurate, the Russians just lobbed them into a crowded city to kill and terrorise innocents. Not nice to see at all. Too many civillians dying on both sides. Presume this was in response to the shelling in Belgorod a few days ago and then the drone attacks on oil refineries this morning too.
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Post by hcstokie on Sept 1, 2024 18:04:05 GMT
This guy has been pretty good. The Pokrovsk situation is really bad, but it doesn't have to turn into a disaster. It's probably gonna be the decisive battle of 2024. I’m hoping that Ukraine is intentionally luring Russia towards Pokrovsk. Whilst Russia have advanced successfully, it’s all low value land and its come at an absolutely huge cost. Pokrovsk and the conjoining town to its east are larger than Bakhmut. More importantly, it’s also much broader, making it more difficult to encircle. I’m hoping Ukraine have been trading space for time and will defend the town in a similar fashion to Bakhmut. If they do, it could effectively break the Russian army. It’s difficult to know whether this is an intentional ploy by Ukraine as the flanks to each side of the salient seem to be holding firm. Hopefully it is and they bleed Russia dry whilst taking more territory in the North.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Sept 1, 2024 21:22:47 GMT
The Ukrainians need to be very careful or they could be routed.
Russias ability to suffer casualties without regard to loss of life is starting to work.
Time to start firing missiles at Russian strategic targets in Moscow.
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