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I guess, unless they have zillions of ammo and they don't care, they should at least try to hide them somehow. On the other hand we probably don't get a clear picture of the material losses from distant fires and columns of smoke. (they might not be as huge )

Good points. Yes, it makes perfect sense thanks for the insight. I was wondering whether the HIMARS has a penetrating mod, in my mind most MRLS are "soft" explosives. And I rembered the theater in Mariupol that people hidden in the lower basement survived a direct hit from aircraft strike iirc.

Will facilities like underground parking lots in malls etc be enough to stop arty and MLRS from hitting storage. I doubt there are so many and large enough in eastern Ukraine though...

If I were a prisoner and get drafted in the fight I would propably organize with others and try to escape towards the enemy lines with the first chance and probably earn my life and freedom. And that's a plot worth a movie I think

How sizeable do you think these forces are inside Russia? They can make a whole secondary army for instance? If they are not that many its not that big deal.

I don't think BFC has complete control over steam sales. They have their own algorithm there. It's rather unfair of you to blame the developers.

Yes, probably for joining a US team too. I don't think though he will end up in Donbas.

Oh my, how did he end up in there, is there a possible way out for him? Maybe for the right amount of money

Re the prisoner thing. To be totally fair, Ukraine did this as well in the early days of the war

This is very intense, seems they are in a hurry to advance or not?...I dont think its logical for RU to pause and wait for UKR to strengthen their artillery even more.

Yes very probable it seems . But to be honest that kind of patriotism is not only russian exclusive, the most vocally patriotic are sometimes the most draft dodging everywhere. But truth is the Russians I have met have an indirect way to express themselves, like they need to hide something, soviet evasive decoding? Oh well don't remind me of this story

Flag waving from space. Strange, these were apparently the same people that were dressed in Ukrainian yellow back in February. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/04/russian-cosmonauts-display-flag-of-occupied-luhansk-region-on-iss-ukraine

Man, it won't be fair in the future to use these against infantry. Sides must agree, either drones or people. And our favourite strategy games will be reduced to artillery and drone shoot em up

Yes good points. I guess Russian empire, the communist party, Soviet Union etc has always been like that, so people involved and have a clue, should not be surprised.

Does anyone else get a feel that Girkin behaves like a hurt narcissist being rejected and ousted from what he would love to take part in. He sounds really bitter and while his points are valid he is constantly painting a very grim picture of the battlefield for RA even now that a major hub was conquered. Not that he couldn't be right, it is just the vibe I get from him.

Life in the frontlines is tough . I wonder how many more fake accounts exist.

I don't have the deep tactical understanding some posters here demonstrate but just wondering. If Kramatorsk and Slavyansk fall inside July with a repeat of Siverodonetsk pattern (quite possible given the momentum now) , do you believe Ukraine can still challenge Russian dominance in Donbas. Seems almost a finished case to me. These are the most well prepared and dug in lines UKR had and there are no significant terrain features beyond these. I see Russians sealing the ground all the way in SE until Dnipro before winter comes. Russia can't achieve a big superiority in infantry numbers but so far it doesn't really matter when your hammer is really big (arty) and you only need to clear shattered force remnants and isolated pockets. Ukraine is also in a transition phase and soon it will be relying solely on western systems but you can't build a truly effective army in few months with random systems getting into the fight bit by bit. (And also getting destroyed bit by bit before making a difference). You have to use a big solid force at once to achieve big gains. No significant tank force and no air power is also a very limiting factor. From what I can tell at least UKR has been using its new arty systems very carefully and I haven't seen many reports of destroyed m777 or Ceasars, or someone can enlighten us on this. This might be encouraging for UKR side as it could gradually acuumulate a sizeable arty force with preserved and newly trained units and suddenly present this at the battlefield.

Thank you! I had very faint memories of this film, from some 30 years ago, incredibly I rediscover it here. +2 for Pola Raska

Amazing! Thanks Huba. I've watched many old war films from the soviet era and I find them very well crafted, (with actually not so much party propaganda as well).

In some scences you can see soldiers with AK-47 rifles or IS-3 tanks That's nothing compared to the M47s as King Tigers in the (around the same date - 1965) battle of the bulge movie!

This looks pretty interesting and well executed for its age, I searched the title, Pancerni and pies or smth. Mini series. Maybe we could find this somewhere online. Looks indeed like the kind of movie that haunts you as a little kid. Das Boot (in mini series) was the one for me. I was so excited when it was re-eleased as directors cut to the cinemas 20yrs later. Edit : Another old B&W polish film came to mind, one with the Warsaw uprising and many sewer battle scene. Any luck with that?

Wow, they must be thinking they are all incredibly lucky to escape out of an outdated, smoking T 62. Unless it was an engine failure

Yes, I thought that somehow they would have tweaked the sensors to enhance accuracy for ground use but didnt bother (and propably didnt anticipate they would be using the 60s Kh22 in this conflict)

Apparently they have been reported Tupolevs with Kh22 operating in Ukraine, since May. Probably they are destocking their large quantities. If they can't hit a factory how they were supposed to be used against moving and armed ships?

It's a worrying scenario. North Korea might look cartoonish in comparison right now, but imagine that with the size and weight of Russia. In regards to comparison with Germany, pre WW2 Germany was pretty weak as well. And a more "normal" western country before getting sick with the national socialism poison. It didn't take many years to become what it became. Russia is a lot crazier country as it is, a mystery in a riddle as Churchill had once said and any prediction of where this will lead "contained" for a few years is risky. All these years, having relatives that went through the WW2, civil wars, dictatorships etc I have been thinking how incredibly lucky our generation was and the thought that all this was an temporary illusion comes from time to time. I hope we are not the unluckiest ever but maybe it's just my pessimistic self again.