Elmar Bijlsma

I'm back. Week ago Kyiv and Kyiv oblast were under heavy attack of Shakheds. More than 30 in one launch. Alas at least five could breakthrough and hit several important substations in Kyiv, so our quarter for three days had only five hours with a power supply,mostly at the night. First day we also hadn't a water and heating. Latter was repaired on second day after the strike and this was in time,because we had -5 at that night. 
In other days electricity appeared some more, but anyway mostly at the nights or at the morning for 2-3 hours. So, we had opportunity to cook something and charge our phones. Several times we heated food in large can with dry spiritus and kept it in heating bateries. We were very angry, when have seen other districts around us with a light at the evening, but our several quarters were almost in full darkness.
Special thanks to Kinophile and other for notebook - it has powerful battery, so it's using as powerbank too ) 
Without electricity all cell towers around were either dead or had  so big abonents load, that internet almost didn't work. Sometime I cought Starlink, deployed by Emergency Service, but it was too far and connection was unstable - about 1-2 minutes. Single place,where I can catch cell phone internet was subway and streets, having power supply. But I had too much work out of my workshop, so almost hadn't time to track   news thoroughly.
At last at weekend, maybe in honor of Christmass our quarter got almost 24hours power 
Damn, I have to read a week of forum )

Reading Murz's piece and coming across his bit describing the Russians as a cargo cult made my day. If you'll excuse me, I will be doing Sarah Chalke's "Told you so" dance from Scrubs.
 
His whole piece just confirms it. They are too often doing what they are doing for the sake of doing it. Shelling the Ukrainians because that is what you do in a war, without understanding fully what you are really meant to be doing with it. A bit of a problem if you are running out of shells and tubes.
Full frontal infantry attacks, because they are supposed to be winning and winners can attack directly to the front and we need the headlines about us winning. If it was good enough for Zhukov, it's good enough for us now.

Reading Murz's piece and coming across his bit describing the Russians as a cargo cult made my day. If you'll excuse me, I will be doing Sarah Chalke's "Told you so" dance from Scrubs.
 
His whole piece just confirms it. They are too often doing what they are doing for the sake of doing it. Shelling the Ukrainians because that is what you do in a war, without understanding fully what you are really meant to be doing with it. A bit of a problem if you are running out of shells and tubes.
Full frontal infantry attacks, because they are supposed to be winning and winners can attack directly to the front and we need the headlines about us winning. If it was good enough for Zhukov, it's good enough for us now.

Reading Murz's piece and coming across his bit describing the Russians as a cargo cult made my day. If you'll excuse me, I will be doing Sarah Chalke's "Told you so" dance from Scrubs.
 
His whole piece just confirms it. They are too often doing what they are doing for the sake of doing it. Shelling the Ukrainians because that is what you do in a war, without understanding fully what you are really meant to be doing with it. A bit of a problem if you are running out of shells and tubes.
Full frontal infantry attacks, because they are supposed to be winning and winners can attack directly to the front and we need the headlines about us winning. If it was good enough for Zhukov, it's good enough for us now.

Reading Murz's piece and coming across his bit describing the Russians as a cargo cult made my day. If you'll excuse me, I will be doing Sarah Chalke's "Told you so" dance from Scrubs.
 
His whole piece just confirms it. They are too often doing what they are doing for the sake of doing it. Shelling the Ukrainians because that is what you do in a war, without understanding fully what you are really meant to be doing with it. A bit of a problem if you are running out of shells and tubes.
Full frontal infantry attacks, because they are supposed to be winning and winners can attack directly to the front and we need the headlines about us winning. If it was good enough for Zhukov, it's good enough for us now.

Reading Murz's piece and coming across his bit describing the Russians as a cargo cult made my day. If you'll excuse me, I will be doing Sarah Chalke's "Told you so" dance from Scrubs.
 
His whole piece just confirms it. They are too often doing what they are doing for the sake of doing it. Shelling the Ukrainians because that is what you do in a war, without understanding fully what you are really meant to be doing with it. A bit of a problem if you are running out of shells and tubes.
Full frontal infantry attacks, because they are supposed to be winning and winners can attack directly to the front and we need the headlines about us winning. If it was good enough for Zhukov, it's good enough for us now.

Yeah. That half arsed, bare minimum approach is very notable.
Meanwhile, I cannot count how many times I've seen footage of Ukrainian dug-outs that are neat and tidy, have a stove, oven and, occasionally, a sauna. And all of it looking rather nice, as if straight out of a home improvement advertisement.
One of these sides will get through winter better then the other.
Uhm... courts are supposed to act neutral. It's kinda the point of them existing.
And they were not at all so shy at pointing the finger as you claim. They were very clear about exactly where the BUK came from, who did the logistics and in fact went out of their way to point that the DPR was under Russian control.
Not really sure what more you want from a criminal trial, but I like the thorough and dignified way they went about things.

Yeah. That half arsed, bare minimum approach is very notable.
Meanwhile, I cannot count how many times I've seen footage of Ukrainian dug-outs that are neat and tidy, have a stove, oven and, occasionally, a sauna. And all of it looking rather nice, as if straight out of a home improvement advertisement.
One of these sides will get through winter better then the other.
Uhm... courts are supposed to act neutral. It's kinda the point of them existing.
And they were not at all so shy at pointing the finger as you claim. They were very clear about exactly where the BUK came from, who did the logistics and in fact went out of their way to point that the DPR was under Russian control.
Not really sure what more you want from a criminal trial, but I like the thorough and dignified way they went about things.

Yeah. That half arsed, bare minimum approach is very notable.
Meanwhile, I cannot count how many times I've seen footage of Ukrainian dug-outs that are neat and tidy, have a stove, oven and, occasionally, a sauna. And all of it looking rather nice, as if straight out of a home improvement advertisement.
One of these sides will get through winter better then the other.
Uhm... courts are supposed to act neutral. It's kinda the point of them existing.
And they were not at all so shy at pointing the finger as you claim. They were very clear about exactly where the BUK came from, who did the logistics and in fact went out of their way to point that the DPR was under Russian control.
Not really sure what more you want from a criminal trial, but I like the thorough and dignified way they went about things.

Yeah. That half arsed, bare minimum approach is very notable.
Meanwhile, I cannot count how many times I've seen footage of Ukrainian dug-outs that are neat and tidy, have a stove, oven and, occasionally, a sauna. And all of it looking rather nice, as if straight out of a home improvement advertisement.
One of these sides will get through winter better then the other.
Uhm... courts are supposed to act neutral. It's kinda the point of them existing.
And they were not at all so shy at pointing the finger as you claim. They were very clear about exactly where the BUK came from, who did the logistics and in fact went out of their way to point that the DPR was under Russian control.
Not really sure what more you want from a criminal trial, but I like the thorough and dignified way they went about things.

Yeah. That half arsed, bare minimum approach is very notable.
Meanwhile, I cannot count how many times I've seen footage of Ukrainian dug-outs that are neat and tidy, have a stove, oven and, occasionally, a sauna. And all of it looking rather nice, as if straight out of a home improvement advertisement.
One of these sides will get through winter better then the other.
Uhm... courts are supposed to act neutral. It's kinda the point of them existing.
And they were not at all so shy at pointing the finger as you claim. They were very clear about exactly where the BUK came from, who did the logistics and in fact went out of their way to point that the DPR was under Russian control.
Not really sure what more you want from a criminal trial, but I like the thorough and dignified way they went about things.

Yeah. That half arsed, bare minimum approach is very notable.
Meanwhile, I cannot count how many times I've seen footage of Ukrainian dug-outs that are neat and tidy, have a stove, oven and, occasionally, a sauna. And all of it looking rather nice, as if straight out of a home improvement advertisement.
One of these sides will get through winter better then the other.
Uhm... courts are supposed to act neutral. It's kinda the point of them existing.
And they were not at all so shy at pointing the finger as you claim. They were very clear about exactly where the BUK came from, who did the logistics and in fact went out of their way to point that the DPR was under Russian control.
Not really sure what more you want from a criminal trial, but I like the thorough and dignified way they went about things.

Yeah. That half arsed, bare minimum approach is very notable.
Meanwhile, I cannot count how many times I've seen footage of Ukrainian dug-outs that are neat and tidy, have a stove, oven and, occasionally, a sauna. And all of it looking rather nice, as if straight out of a home improvement advertisement.
One of these sides will get through winter better then the other.
Uhm... courts are supposed to act neutral. It's kinda the point of them existing.
And they were not at all so shy at pointing the finger as you claim. They were very clear about exactly where the BUK came from, who did the logistics and in fact went out of their way to point that the DPR was under Russian control.
Not really sure what more you want from a criminal trial, but I like the thorough and dignified way they went about things.

Yeah. That half arsed, bare minimum approach is very notable.
Meanwhile, I cannot count how many times I've seen footage of Ukrainian dug-outs that are neat and tidy, have a stove, oven and, occasionally, a sauna. And all of it looking rather nice, as if straight out of a home improvement advertisement.
One of these sides will get through winter better then the other.
Uhm... courts are supposed to act neutral. It's kinda the point of them existing.
And they were not at all so shy at pointing the finger as you claim. They were very clear about exactly where the BUK came from, who did the logistics and in fact went out of their way to point that the DPR was under Russian control.
Not really sure what more you want from a criminal trial, but I like the thorough and dignified way they went about things.

Yeah. That half arsed, bare minimum approach is very notable.
Meanwhile, I cannot count how many times I've seen footage of Ukrainian dug-outs that are neat and tidy, have a stove, oven and, occasionally, a sauna. And all of it looking rather nice, as if straight out of a home improvement advertisement.
One of these sides will get through winter better then the other.
Uhm... courts are supposed to act neutral. It's kinda the point of them existing.
And they were not at all so shy at pointing the finger as you claim. They were very clear about exactly where the BUK came from, who did the logistics and in fact went out of their way to point that the DPR was under Russian control.
Not really sure what more you want from a criminal trial, but I like the thorough and dignified way they went about things.

I can’t see why Ukraine would be excluded from the investigation but, in the meantime, is there any evidence to base that “very big suspicion” on?  Sounds like unhelpful speculation to me.  And I’m not buying NATO being that desperate to avoid an Article 4: nothing is going to force NATO to escalate any further than they want to or feel is appropriate anyway…
It’s at times like this that I’m reminded that it’s always ok to say “I don’t know”, especially when the alternative is baseless and potentially harmful speculation (in either direction).  We don’t know, yet, what the missile was. Waiting for the investigation to conclude is what we need to do.

Twitter is its usual deranged self and calling for Article 5 which is of course disproportional. But the bar for supplying ATACMS just dropped, I think.
 

Of course, as expected "Polish mercenaries" in RUS propaganda already breached the barrier bewteen cartoon in TV and crossed into reality like this girl from  "The Ring".
Keep calm folks, if confirmed UA will have new candies in near future.

Twitter is its usual deranged self and calling for Article 5 which is of course disproportional. But the bar for supplying ATACMS just dropped, I think.
 

My guess? No-one wants to have to order the pull out only to find out afterwards he is the one this defeat is being pinned on. So we get this song and dance where everyone is shown to be on the same page.

Well guys, at last I got this!  Symbolically in the day of Kherson liberation ) 
Thank you @Kinophile for this initiative and enough "family diplomacy" in resolving of sudden obstacle on "last mile" 😀
Thank you @Battlefront.com - Steve, your "bribe" ) will be worked out ))))
Thank you all, who donated anonymously
Thank you, all other, who just have been reading and support our country - first two months were some nervous and psychologically hard, so this my 24/7 "marathone" here was giving me some emotional relief. 
 

My guess? No-one wants to have to order the pull out only to find out afterwards he is the one this defeat is being pinned on. So we get this song and dance where everyone is shown to be on the same page.

Ukraine may be slow rolling Kherson just to kill as many Russians, and as much Russian artillery, as possible. As long as the Russians are stupid enough to feed meat to grinder AFU just cheerfully stands there and turns the handle.

20 minutes of footage plus long explanation of what was going on in this reddit thread.  Ex French FL guys serving with the International Legion, Foreign Service Group-Alpha in Severodonetsk.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/yf78x4/international_legion_battle_of_severodonetsk_8/