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T-90A also can throw a turret
 

I'd love for this topic to be about the war and not a coffee house academic discussion about the differences between the political Left and Right. 

Russians: Let’s setup up our battery here!
Ukrainians: Ni.
 

Some about the scale of usage of commercial drones. This is statictic of one volunteer fund Back-and-Alive: 
Translation: "copters" are flying away very well. From 1500, which we have bought at the beginning of March, only about 200 left [in stock]. Yesterday we have bought AUTELs [AUTEL EVO II - most popular now model in force structures] on 75 millions UAH [this is 1500-1800 drones] and Baltic "Atlases" are expecting soon. 

Sappers  of 95th air-assault brigade ambushed with IED two Russian T-72B in Izium area
 

The figure of the "leader" is also quite different in both, a fact often lost on us "liberal minded" people who just see despotism in both cases. To give you an example, an old joke / metaphor, originally told (I think) by Slavoj Zizek:
In Nazi Germany, let's picture Hitler holding some kind of horrible speech against the Jews and with all his standard stuff. At the end, some party member stands up and says: "Mein Führer, that was a nice speech, but some of the stuff you said was simply wrong." Then another guy stands up and says: "How dare you criticise the Führer? Don't you know that he leads Germany by provenance? We don't challenge those who lead us into a greater future in the fight against the Jews etc. etc. etc." After the session the first guy would be sidelined and the second guy would have some shiny new medals and titles.
Same scenario with Stalin: The first guy will be put on the next train to the Gulags, but guess who will be already waiting there? Guy number 2. Why? Because Stalin is not REALLY the leader, of COURSE you can criticise comrade Stalin, we are among equals here... BUT MOST SMART PEOPLE DON'T DO IT. The act of pointing out the reality of the situation (Stalin is a strongman) is in itself treasonous.
The "God" of fascism is a two-part one: The leader and the "People", whoever that is. The "God" of communism is history, or more exactly the inevitable march of it towards communism. If you believe that (and this is my personal big beef with Marx, I think this is where he falters in his analysis), then all responsibility is taken from those in power, because they can rationalise any evil they do by claiming that it is in service of "historical necessity". Basically "who cares if I have caused a few million people to starve, this was a historical necessicity and I just acted as its agent."

Thats nuts, the tank is facing towards them and doesn't see them? Theyre so close!
By "nuts" I mean CMBS Russian tanks would have killed my guys lllooooOOOOONNNng before they got that close, and absolutely from the front. I torture myself into knots trying to maneuver to hit MBTs. And wtf is with all the unsupported tanks in this war? I learned really hard and really fast after the very first game of CMBS - dont leave tanks alone.

Another NLAW kill?
 

One down. 120+ to go...

Worthy thread here, on the Kherson front:
The repetition of the RuAF experience at Chornobaivka AB will eventually cause a similar Melitopol AB bug out.  The big game the Aerorozvidka are waiting for are the RuAF mechanics, tool & spare parts in the trucks leaving the Melitopol AB.
With those gone the RuAF loses the ability to generate enough air interdiction sorties in the South to stop a AFU general offensive by it's mobile mechanized brigades crossing the Dnieper.
This will force Russian ground forces out of their fortified positions to deal with the Ukrainian mobile formations
Then the real trap will be spring.
You see, the real Ukrainian killing force isn't their mobile brigades.  
It is the light infantry ATGM & Drone supported mortar teams who are listening to compromised Russian radios.
If the Ukrainians play their cards right this is the recipe for a Russian Army general collapse & rout to Crimea.
The reason I'm laying this out ahead of time is due to the fact the Russians are helpless to stop  it.
The only counter to light infantry the way the Ukrainians are using it is more Russian air mobile light infantry in helicopters.
The Russian name for that is the VDV.  Which was p--sed away trying to take Kyiv
 
 
 

April unfolding.... 
1. Those gunships gonna make big trouble out on the open steppes.  More MANPADS! 
2. Reach out and touch someone.... 
3. Count 'em! Battle of Britain numbers here. 
 
4. Yup
 
 
 
 
 

Good one of a Ukrainian ATGM team in action:
Handful of guys, ATGM, pre-prepared ambush site.

Russian Embassy in Dublin about to run out of heating fuel.
The Embassy's heating runs on diesel but no-one is willing to sell to them. The Russian Ambassador, Yuri Filatov, is asking the Irish Foreign Ministry to look into this into this "clearly discriminatory case". I wonder how much diesel the average diplomatic bag holds because I don't see them getting it any other way.

At 0:40 the BTR firing aims in the tanks direction but then shifts back and fires another burst, as if it hadn't seen the damn thing. Panicky or damaged optics, maybe.
tbh I'm surprised the UKR tank is unsupported and alone. They seem to move a bit so seems functional. Also its odd seeing them miss, like  watching a WW2 film. I'm so used to m1A2s and their 1 shot/1 kill, esp at that range. An abrams would have slaughtered all those BTRs. 
Still, good work; thats a motivated and smart crew for sure.

Some people were asking where were the Ukranian armored units. Well, some incredible battle footage of a single ukranian tank engaging a whole column of russian BTR80A/82A and some tanks has recently surfaced:
Impressive stuff. Seems like situational awareness and proper spacing is an alien concept to russian commanders.

Here is a recent example of Ukranian armored units recorded in combat. 
Althought the tweet is from today, the video was first released on the 27 of March, mind you

😳
 

WOW!
 
 

Our army couldn't have this "battlespace info cloud" and information superiority without people support and civil volunteers work. Here the usual day of one of largest volunteer fund of new Ukrainain politic (and showman) Serhiy Prytula (on the photo)
Translation: We bought 1000 pads for 8 million UAH, afterwards theses pads will go to ArmySOS [other volunteer fund, which developed software for information combat system] - there their golden men will setup "Kropyva" soft ["Kropyva" - information combat system, which became most universal and useful for all ground forces] and will return to us. Artillery, recons, HQ will become more happier and for "rusnia" this will bring more pain. And all this thanks to your donations
Or this: New party of "Hell rides" coming soon! Already drive to Ukraine! Soon much more AFU units will get wheels to drive orcs out!
 

A little bit of good news