Gpig

Neat story, I'm sure Mykhailo would make a fine warrior in any era. 🙂

This also is reported by several sources already. Deep strikes inside RU controlled areas are really getting ubiquitous lately. This port is around 85km behind the line of contact.
 

Several sources now claim that. 
 

That change in rhetoric is really great to hear:
 

There are 35 Yugoslaviam made BVP M80A's on their way to Ukraine from Slovenia. These were Yugoslavian knockoffs from Soviet BMP -1's. In exchange US gave Slovenia founds to buy military material from them. Good bussiness for both countries (dependance on spare parts).
Up to 50 Yugoslavian made and upgraded T-84 tanks are in the pipeline to be sent too. Not sure how thise would compare to Oplots. 
Slovenia already sent lots of kalashnikovs, helmets, bullet proof vests and other military equipment to Ukraine but I am now really happy we upped the ante. 
I personally delivered lots of medical equipment to Ukrainian embassy here. Now I am at peace.
 
 

I am betting on Zelensky
As a small aside, the word commonly used for the peace/appeasement/surrender monkey party is dove, not pigeon. But I think I like pigeon much better. 🤣
 

Lithuania enforces EU sanctions on goods to Russia’s Kaliningrad (msn.com)

Just wanted to clarify that the earlier quip about the average age in here was not meant as a joke at the expense of anyone's age or the group in general... I just meant to say that I can relate to feeling old, but didn't want to joke too much about that myself when I'm younger than a number of folks "in the room" as it were.
(And yes, I probably worry too much...)

No surprises indeed. Given Wagner's track record, I half expect them to quietly consider a criminal record a sign of the kind of people they're looking for...
(I'm having trouble not picturing the scene in Blazing Saddles where Hedley Lamar is recruiting new henchmen... )

I've been playing Combat Mission on a mac since 2000, you'll be happy to know.  (They make a version of the game for Windows/MAC)

Edit:  Oh! And welcome to the thread 
 

Oh.
I looked only at the Steam version.
Ok, I have a purchase to make.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm . . . looks like it drove up on the guard-rail and got high-centred. Mobility kill?
Edit: The driver rolling up on a well marked verge might have something to do with the 420 stencilled on the turret side

I've just passed to this page and read THIS. Guys, I though this was just a joke, but now my heart is melted down and I can't reject this gift. Though, I feel myself awkward... and also huge gratitude to all of you and Kinophile personally for idea     

Incredible.
Haiduk's in for a hell of a surprise when he gets back on his pc...
FUNDED!

$1500 to get him a new laptop. Amazing. Thank you, everyone who donated.
 

Thanks ) Just became some more of work, my wife turned back and often occupies PC because her work, also it's hard to live three months 24/7 as war news translator, so I took small vacations 

I still want video of the meeting where they figured that out. It is the world historical example of smart people doing doing stupid things.
As far as the bolts on the howitzer goes anyone who had ever turned a wrench in the mud, or far worse snow, would have made very sure there were only three sizes, and had a rock solid place on the gun to clamp a set. They should all be simple accessible hex bolts where an adjustable wrench would do in a pinch. I used to work on ski lifts for a living, I have seen unpleasant bolts in bad, frozen, 50 ft in the air places. Never once been happy about it.
edit: I am quite certain incoming fire would not improve the experience.

Just signed into the forum to say thanks to everyone contributing to this thread.  Found the thread a few weeks ago and have been soaking up every comment.  Absolutely fantastic and informative content.  Bluntly, my domain expertise in this arena is fairly insignificant to most in this thread so I'll be fairly quiet.  But absolutely appreciate the content.
 

It is and I was wrong, I'm happy to say. 😉
Fortunately my Mother taught me  not to gamble. 😀

Definitely agree the two front war was a big factor. I'm currently reading Phillips Payson O'Brien's book How The War Was Won, which looks at World War II (especially the Anglo-American air and naval campaigns) from the perspective of equipment losses before, during and after production and deployment, as well as strategic mobility. It makes a very interesting counterpoint to the argument that "the Red Army really won the war." He also has some interesting points about the importance of Lend-Lease (e.g. Soviet aluminum production was heavily dependent on access to U.S. bauxite).
Bringing that back to the current conflict, a parallel can be made with the impact of sanctions on the Russian side vs. foreign aid to Ukraine.
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Minor correction to my earlier reply to @Gpig: Strike Fighters 2 does have some Canadian content (other than being able to put Canadian marking on planes we never flew, which is possible) without third party mods: a merged install with SF2 Europe (CMCW style World War III scenario) and the expansion pack for SF2 Israel, which adds the F-51D, allows you to fly a Canadian Mustang in a late 40's to mid 50's scenario.
*Ahem* back on topic...

I've noticed that too, and I think you're right about the reason... I do remember the old Jane's/EA Fighters series flight sims back in the 90s had Canada as a selectable nationality (I'm trying to remember, but I think the correct national insignia actually showing on the aircraft was a new feature with the NATO Fighters expansion for ATF) and the F-18 was a flyable in it. But all the Canadian aircraft I had in Strike Fighters 2 were (fortunately very good) freeware mods off of CombatAce. The current smartphone game spinoff of the SF2 series does feature a CF-18, however. Beyond that, things are better on the naval side as both the Harpoon and CMANO/CMO franchises have done pretty well on including Canadian units.

Very well said. That emotional buffering of time definitely seems to be a thing for impersonal shots of aircraft, ships or structures exploding where one is aware on an intellectual level that people are dying. However, there is a threshold of obvious human suffering past which it never gets easy to watch, no matter how old and grainy the footage. Nor should it...
I recall hearing that during World War II, it was often said that "the Canadians dress like the British, talk like the Americans and fight like no one else on Earth."

The idea that Russia has to lose in some dramatically obvious way in order to lose decisively never ceases to amaze somebody like me who has seen the US lose in both Afghanistan and Vietnam without ever losing a single battle. 

Since I remember, for sure before this war started, I had a rule not to watch videos where people explicitly die or are hurt, and have in general abide by this, as it is just too disturbing for me and serves no point. I'd by default react with revulsion to stuff like this.Yet this one somehow just slipped through the filter - and this is really what exposure to violence, even through very indirect means like videos does to a person, desensitization kick in without you even noticing it. I don't know how to feel about it really, for sure it's disturbing 😕