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opinion piece but interesting perspective. Russia’s transformation into a wholly-owned subsidiary of China is now complete (yahoo.com)

I was counting more on them being corpses.

getting across is only part of the problem and the easier part. Supply across that river is going to determine whether you should even bother.

you know, that is almost believable... i mean look at Charles....

Russian soldiers reportedly looting homes in Belgorod Oblast (yahoo.com) "They are living in our houses, leading an ugly lifestyle, leaving alcohol and other things as garbage and dirt, polluting toilets and houses, personal belongings and property are stolen,” another local resident told Meduza. “An ATV was stolen from our garage and how it is often spotted in the vicinity.” Reports of Russian soldiers looting Russian residences has become commonplace in Belgorod. "We live in the village of Nova Tavolzhanka,” another social media user, claiming to a resident of the village, wrote. “Today, on June 14, we went for the first time to check our homes. Two houses are damaged, the doors are broken in, the windows are also broken... All things inside turned upside down in search for small precious items, and a portion of them were stolen. We saw vandalism in another house: the TV set is broken, the furniture is torn up. Soldiers are obviously living in the house. We have found two bikes that were stolen earlier from our neighbors, in our yard.” Alcoholism wave hits top officials and elite in Russia ‘like never before’ amidst war, media reports (yahoo.com) Verstka reporters recently interviewed several sources connected to the Kremlin, the Russian parliament, and regional authorities. All these sources confirmed that a significant number of employees from government agencies, government officials, and particularly public politicians and “members of the elite” have been “getting plastered much more” over the past year. “Governors skip meetings, and indulge in banned substances,” noted one source. “Meetings are disrupted, and they attend events while intoxicated. Guests from Moscow used to despise excessive drinking in other regions, but now they drink like there’s no tomorrow.”

‘More where that came from’ — Freedom of Russia Legion shows off raid near Belgorod, announces new missions (yahoo.com) Russian volunteers announced another raid in Belgorod Oblast on June 1. On June 4, they again stated that they were engaging in battles in the suburbs of Shebekino in Belgorod Oblast. On June 7, the RVC fighters reported that they had completely controlled the Russian village of Nova Tavolzhanka for a week.

nah it is just perspective. it is like an Escher drawing. It can be up and down at the same time, receiving the bribe whilst giving the bribe at the same time,

well they are definitely going to be weaker if RA artillery is getting hammered now.

just for reference Submarine Cable Map

Russia has lost so much money due to the Ukraine war that it's now trying to raise $4 billion by slapping a windfall tax on its oligarchs (yahoo.com) Russia is preparing to tax companies that made more than 1 billion rubles in profits since 2021. The levy is expected to raise about $4 billion, a high-level finance official told RBC TV. Russia posted a first-quarter deficit of almost 2.4 trillion rubles amid the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin is feeling the pinch from its war in Ukraine, so much that it's imposing a one-time windfall tax on large Russian companies and their oligarch owners. Russia approved a draft bill to slap up to a 10% one-off windfall tax on large Russian companies, according to a Tuesday announcement by the country's finance ministry. It's targeting companies that annually made more than 1 billion rubles, or $11.9 million, in profits since 2021, per the announcement. This levy could raise about 300 billion rubles, or $3.6 billion, in taxes collectively, Andrei Belousov, the first deputy prime minister, said in an interview with RBC TV, Interfax reported on Tuesday. Belousov told RBC that the companies themselves proposed the taxes, according to Interfax.

Sorry, just back from the emergency room. I rolled my eyes so hard they were stuck staring at my eyebrows. (which I also asked them to trim as they really needed it). By that logic they should have immediately just said, "yep Moskva is on the bottom of the Black Sea." I mean after all it wasn't like she was going to return to port right?

Says there is video but not on the page The joy of liberation – Navy shares video of liberation of Donetsk Oblast’s Makarivka (yahoo.com) This one has video Ukraine Claims Recapture of Makarivka in Donetsk Oblast (yahoo.com)

One small problem with Putin's declarations. The ... err SMO has been expanded... to Belgorod.

Following the exposure in New Zealand, it seems Russian disinformation is facing additional challenges. Large-scale disinformation campaign about Russia’s war in Ukraine exposed in France (yahoo.com) Fake internet pages impersonating media and government sites, as well as hundreds of fake URLs on social networks are spreading Russian war propaganda, says a report by France’s Service for Surveillance and Protection Against Foreign Digital Interference (VIGINUM). There were 355 active web domains publishing pro-Russian content or masquerading as publications from Europe, the USA, and the Middle East, from June 2022 to May 2023. In France, 58 fake articles were discovered in four media, including the influential newspapers Le Monde and Figaro. In one case, a site resembling the French Foreign Ministry wrote about a fake “security tax” to help Ukraine.

it is all relative. For Russia this is big. When you have little to celebrate you make the most of what you've got.

The US is sending depleted-uranium ammo to Ukraine capable of piercing Russian tank armour, report says (yahoo.com) The US is set to approve depleted-uranium tank shells for Ukraine, the WSJ said. The shells are capable of blowing up Russian tank armor. There were doubts over providing the shells for environmental and health reasons. The US is sending depleted-uranium shells to Ukraine that are capable of penetrating Russian tank armor, the Wall Street Journal reported. For several months the Biden administration has been debating whether to provide the shells to Ukraine following concerns over their environmental and health impacts, the outlet reported. But an administration official said that there were now no major obstacles to providing the ammunition.

Russia comes up with new ways to cover up its losses in Ukraine (yahoo.com) Upon a request from the Russian Defence Ministry, the government of the Republic of Khakassia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation, has ceased publishing obituaries concerning soldiers killed in Ukraine to diminish the Russian army’s death count. Source: Sibir.Realii (Siberia Reality), a Radio Liberty project, citing sources in the Khakassian government Details: A source told journalists that the Khakassian government’s press service no longer publishes information about soldiers and Wagner Group mercenaries killed in Ukraine because independent Russia media are using this information to establish the Russian army’s death count. On 26 April 2023, the Khakassian government published the last obituary for a soldier killed in Ukraine – Dmitry Ivanov, a Supreme Council representative who fought with the Wagner Group near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. There is a large discrepancy between open-source data and the information provided by the Russian Defence Ministry, which has not disclosed Russia’s total losses since September 2022. At the time, Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu claimed that only 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed in Ukraine. Meanwhile, BBC Russia and Mediazona journalists reported, based on open-source data, that over 25,000 Russian soldiers had been killed. Journalists believe that the most conservative estimates of Russia’s losses in Ukraine indicate 50,000 soldiers had been killed, while the total number of military personnel who can no longer fight due to injury or who have been killed is at least 225,000.

lol c'mon guys, start a new thread on what rounds size is best and stopping power. The UA isn't using those.

i dunno, seems offense and defense could get quite blurred.

Or just give them a set of GPS coordinates. Identifying a target shouldn't be any different on "offense" versus "defense" Essentially you are just saying "deploy minefield at these coordinates. So now a major artery for the enemy is getting interdicted.

couldn't you just as well us them on offense? Have all your AI gopher/pig rooting UAV mines slip into enemy territory and just wreck the backfield?

then we'll have AI controlled units that are designated to keep a road section clear so they go hunting the mines. I think I'll not be overly excited at CM:Watch the Ai do all the stuff while you play minecraft or something

Funny cause given the same situation the RA has been unable to do as much in 8 months as the UA has done in a week. I'd slow down and catch a breath. You'll be needing to make a lot more excuses for Russian failure over the next weeks and months, no sense in wearing yourself out now. Another possible reason for the lack of fires. Russia bans use of large quantities of ammunition due to self-detonation – General Staff (yahoo.com)

oooh yeah One of my favorite scenarios is Circle the Wagons. It isn't the "slow game of recon, suppress, and advance that is MOUT" but rather a wild bare knuckle fight.

Kadyrov mercenaries sign contract that Prigozhin refused to sign with Russian Defence Ministry on camera (yahoo.com)