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    Rokossovski reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Oleshky about hour ago or more.
    According to other info as if Russians already retreated from the town under UKR artillery fire, but UKR troops didn't enter to the town yet
     
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    Rokossovski reacted to billbindc in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    If I were the sort of army that had been planning a push south from Zaporizhizhia, husbanding my resources while corroding the Russians West of the Dnieper, it would be entirely in keeping with that strategy to force Russia to take defending the entire line of the river seriously. 
    Personally, I'm not that sort of army. But you may know of one.
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    Rokossovski reacted to Kinophile in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Btw,  taking bets on how soon before Zelensky appears in Kherson... 
    I say by Sunday. 
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    Rokossovski reacted to dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Alot of brave people have died in trenches, and in worse ways. Many of them had not the slightest plan of being a soldier on 2/23. I think we should send them every single piece of gear they can physically crew to try to keep that number as low as possible.
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    Rokossovski reacted to chris talpas in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I think history will reflect favourably on Biden.  He has effectively lead the western response and the sharing of intelligence on Russian intentions prior to the Feb invasion blunted any surprise.  The courage and determination of the Ukrainian people have been an inspiration.  They have earned their place in the drivers seat of their self determination.
    Zelensky, at least to this external observer, has been a great leader. He has been relentless in his pleas for support to the world.  He is held in high regard amongst the public.
     
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    Rokossovski reacted to fireship4 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Fans of Joseph Wright of Derby may appreciate this photograph I found via @WarMonitor3, hosted by the NYT, captioned by him as 'Bakhmut, 58th Brigade':

     
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    Rokossovski reacted to dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Someone asked for the translation. Short, No training, no food, no gear, worse than no leadership. Didn't think being treated like that rated dying for Putin.
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    Rokossovski reacted to sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    time to start dealing with Swiss banking laws then.  How neutral are they really? hhmmm 
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    Rokossovski reacted to womble in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    As someone with a cancer diagnosis, it's fairly clear that's not as true nowadays as it was when it killed my mother... Some cancers, or late diagnosis have very poor prognosis. Pancreatic's one of those. But as a general statement, it's no longer true.
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    Rokossovski reacted to Beleg85 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    By the way, staying within Air defence topics, I had very interesting conversation lately with one US soldier who happen to station in my city and was moved from Bahrain. He was very into technical details and claimed that most Iranian drones of Shaheed series can have problems if really deep winter comes, as they were designed to be used in Persian Gulf area only. Reportedly Iranians regularly loose them on tests even in higher parts of Zagros mountains.  There was some specifics details (sorry, I am not tech guy ) about supposedly batteries working bad in very low temperatures, not able to generate enough heat, which may lead to some subsystems switching off. I am curious if he may be right.
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    Rokossovski reacted to Artkin in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I hate this guys thumbnails so much that I will never watch one of his videos
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    Rokossovski reacted to Letter from Prague in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    So when Russia says "we are evacuating people from Kherson" are they talking about collaborators and Russian soldiers or is this the new euphemism for forced resettlement they always did, that for some reason Western media still reprints as "evacuation"?
    Also, I want to make that bad joke about, Finland is build a border wall - will the make Russia pay for it? 😀
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    Rokossovski reacted to Taranis in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    "A Ukrainian soldier takes cover as an airborne warning siren sounds during a Russian drone strike, October 17, 2022. GLEB GARANICH / REUTERS"


    "Firefighters intervene following a drone strike on buildings, in Kiev, October 17, 2022. EFREM LUKATSKY / AP"
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    Rokossovski reacted to dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    The news blackout makes good military sense, but bleep me it is crazy making. Game bone maybe? pretty please? sugar on top and an open ended pre order? We just pay you now and all you have to do is throw a bone a week?
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    Rokossovski reacted to dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    It is very clear that Starlink is a brilliant piece of work technically. The only problem is that Musk owns it, and he is losing his bleeping mind, twitter at $44.20 a share being exhibit A. The Pentagon should either buy it outright, or "encourage" Musk to sell it to one of the major defense contractors who has experience with overcharging the government while creating the minimum possible drama. There is enough drama just now.
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    Rokossovski reacted to sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    The best part of this was the actual name of the exercise - The Indestructible Brotherhood
    Even Monty Python wouldn't have come up with that.
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    Rokossovski reacted to billbindc in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I’m in the missile camp for two reasons: 
    1. Russia wouldn’t want to admit that Ukraine has a heavy long range missile. 
    2. Ukraine wouldn’t want to admit it has a heavy long range missile.
    Thus, every other explanation under the sun will be posited, claimed, hinted at and asserted.
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    Rokossovski reacted to danfrodo in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I'm open to whatever truth comes out, if any, about the Kerch bomb.  RIght now mostly looks like truck bomb.  but that's not conclusive, so internet is going nuts.  What Steve said does carry some weight -- if RU says it's truck bomb, there's good chance it's not truck bomb.
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    Rokossovski reacted to chrisl in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    A truck bomb is almost as easy as blowing up a fuel train if there's a war on.  Especially if one of the belligerents is Russia.
    They're shipping tons of stuff across the bridge to support the war.  It wouldn't be that hard to either identify a shipment of explosive stuff, like HE shells, and stick a GPS trigger in with it, or just fabricate some paperwork that says there's *supposed* to be a truck bomb in the back.  It wouldn't say "Truck Bomb, Qty 1" but "200 rounds of 152 mm shells" or something like that.  Russia isn't very computerized - the IDs people use are largely typed or handwritten.  Shipping docs are likely all typed and handwritten.  There's probably not some easily accessed databased to check all shipments, or some kind of protocol for calling to check if a truck is full of good bombs or bad bombs (the evil bit isn't set in the data record).  Sometimes the easiest way to hide something is in broad daylight.  When the logistics system is already broken, it's even easier.
    It would certainly be easier to blow up an oil tank car.  You could even put charges with GPS triggers on a bunch of tank cars in random places east of the bridge this week and just make sure they have a couple weeks worth of battery. Some of them are likely to end up burning on the bridge. Put them all in different locations on the cars, because once one goes up they'll start searching that spot on all the cars.
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    Rokossovski reacted to LongLeftFlank in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    The nuns of Bayeux have woven swiftly....
     
     
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    Rokossovski reacted to Canada Guy in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    There was a terrible oil rail car explosion in Canada a few years ago. The blast radius was 1km and was devastating incl destroying 30 buildings.
    Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-Mégantic_rail_disaster
    I cannot see this getting better for Russia.
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    Rokossovski reacted to FancyCat in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Wow. It's all screwed up.
     
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    Rokossovski reacted to LongLeftFlank in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Yeah, no problem lol, just drive along the tracks, then pick your way on foot past the fully laden tank cars that haven't caught ablaze yet, and train your hoses on the.....
     
    (Perhaps if we built this large wooden badger)
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    Rokossovski reacted to FancyCat in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Magnificent video. Hey, there's still a road span fine. Sounds like a great evacuation route....
     
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    Rokossovski reacted to Harmon Rabb in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Happy birthday Vlad. 😉
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