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LOL the Russians should be masters of this science!

Putin Cops to ‘Significant Losses,’ Inferior Weapons in Stunning War Admission (yahoo.com) In a rare admission, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Friday that Russia is sustaining “significant losses” in the war on Ukraine. “In recent days, we have seen significant losses in Ukraine, they exceed the classical figure,” he said, according to the Kremlin. The Russian president also confessed that Russian forces were dealing with artillery problems, adding in his remarks that “Yes, we still do not have enough of these modern weapons, but the defense industry, the country's military-industrial complex is developing rapidly.” The dispirited comments about Moscow’s prospects in the war come just as Ukraine has launched a series of counteroffensives to push Russian forces out of the country. The acknowledgment is a stark departure from typical messaging from Moscow. Putin and other Kremlin officials have long sought to paint the invasion as a success throughout the war, despite a stinging slew of losses and failed war plans. In March of last year, Putin claimed the operations were going according to plan, regardless of the Russian military’s failure to seize Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, in an embarrassing defeat. The 2023 Blitz Most Feared by Putin May Have Finally Begun It doesn’t appear that Putin has completely thrown in the towel just yet, though. The Russian president attempted to throw cold water on the idea that Ukraine is fully succeeding in their counteroffensive. He added, however, that the Ukrainian military may yet achieve victory on the battlefield. “It can be stated that all counteroffensive attempts made so far have failed, but the offensive potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has still been preserved,” Putin said. The Kremlin has been working to right-size expectations within Russia about the outcome of the war. Moscow recently circulated a memo to propagandists suggesting that Russia hasn’t underestimated Ukrainian forces, in an apparent effort to set the stage for a less humiliating defeat.

Can't resist- headline on that shark attack in Egypt. - Tiger shark kills Russian swimmer in 'meat grinder' attack Russians and meat grinders. it is a thing. Tiger shark kills Russian swimmer in 'meat grinder' attack (yahoo.com)

Putin should freeze war as Ukraine 'too strong', says top Russian propagandist (yahoo.com) The head of Russian state TV network RT and one of Vladimir Putin’s top propagandists has suggested Moscow should freeze the war in the face of state-of-the-art Western weaponry that Ukraine now holds. Margarita Simonyan, who has regularly called for all-out war on Ukraine, argued on prime-time television in favour of a negotiated solution and a halt to hostilities while referenda are organised in Russian-occupied territory. She presented her U-turn as a best-case scenario now that Ukraine has access to Nato-supplied weapons now being used on Russia soil and in the counter offensive. “I’ve been talking about this for the whole year. It would be so good to stop the bloodshed right now, stay where we are, freeze it and hold referenda,” she said on Vladimir Solovyev’s prime-time talk show on Rossiya 1. “Do we need territories where people don’t want to live with us? I’m not sure.” Calls for resignation Her suggestions, especially remarks about “disputed territories” in Ukraine, caused a backlash at home while some of Russia’s loudest mouthpieces of the war accused her of crossing Vladimir Putin who “officially” recognised the occupied areas as part of Russia last year. “Did Simonyan get a new boss now? Who is paying her? A referendum on Russia’s territories that she calls ‘disputed’ would be a Godsend for Western strategists,” Roman Alekhin, a Russian military volunteer and writer, wrote in a column for Tsargrad TV on Wednesday. Lesser known pro-war bloggers called for her resignation while Igor Girkin, a former Ukrainian separatist commander accused Ms Simonyan, an ethnic Armenian, of first betraying Armenia’s national interests by supporting a deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia over a breakaway region, and now trying to do the same for Russia: “We will figure things out for Russians and Russia without you.”

Russian army joins civilians in looting in Belgorod Oblast, locals say (yahoo.com) Only question- did they steal her washing machine? You know the one she got that was stolen from Ukraine.

‘Women will give birth to new ones’ — Russian Army on ordering Grad strike on Russian soldiers — video (yahoo.com) "There was no support from our side. We were under enemy shells, but no one shelled them. Also, our Grad MLR fired on us. They received the order... the coordinates... They said that our guys are there but were ordered to shell anyway. And the Grad shelled our positions," the invaders whined. The orders to shell their own troops were give by a commander with the call sign "Gyurza," they said. "Our boys were in that position... We hadn't retreated yet when Gyurza ordered to shell this area, this square of land. They told him that our soldiers hadn't left the positions. Women will give birth to new ones, he replied. He aired it by radio so as the entire battalion could hear him. Well, the remains of the battalion..." the Russian soldier said. The man complains that Russian troops have completely lost control over the current situation. "We want to address people so that they know the truth about our situation. We've held our positions with all forces and by all means. But we've run out of means... There is no support, roughly speaking, no evacuation, no rationality at all. There are no command staff here. We're abandoned. We also lack communication. Just yesterday we were holding our positions without any communication, without anything. With no orders... We spent the whole night under shelling. And we didn't know what else we were supposed to do," the Russian occupiers complained.

lol all I could think of was this

Russian Fighters Are ‘Kidnapping and Torturing’ Other Russian Fighters (yahoo.com) Wow I'm shocked! okay no not really,

So the rest are unable to keep their mental illness in check?

our space lasers are busy burning their forests in preparation....

well if they needed any kind of a boost for the army, Russia just handed that to them. I would bet the UA is in a rage right now to smash the Russian invaders.

it is all over because it is easy click bait. One unidentified source.. that is it. "The intelligence report was based on information obtained from an individual in Ukraine. The source’s information could not immediately be corroborated". So if that is all it takes. I have just heard from a source (myself) that Kiribati, a country gradually being submerged is behind it because it feels anything to disrupt fossil fuels benefits them. You heard it here first in an exclusive. Prove me wrong.

Sunflowers for Peace is doing a specific campaign for evacuees from the flooded areas. Seems the founder is from Nova Kakhovka. Support Victims of Kakhovka Dam Flood (sunflowerofpeace.com)

this is exactly the point. People suggesting Ukraine would blow the dam are viewing this in the most simplistic terms of what may or may not help Ukraine in the current military conflict. Ukraine however has to view the consequences for the nation as a whole and the cost in human lives as well as the economic consequences post war. While I could see the idiots in the Kremlin making a stupid decision on this scale, not so with Kiev.

EU member Slovenia overwhelmingly defeats Moscow ally Belarus for a seat on the UN Security Council (yahoo.com)

are you seriously asking me to go find evidence for his point? Sure, I was going to pick belly button lint, but I guess I could do this instead....

His point was, the existence of the pipeline was a leverage point to try and manage Russian behavior, ergo it wasn't in our interest to blow the pipeline. Beyond that yeah, the US like every state engages in actions that go beyond the law. Okay are we done here? Can we get back to Ukraine?

I used to be able to see those waves, but I stopped dosing when I was no longer going to Dead shows.

another damn grog. err I mean a dam grog.

seems like an excessively bad idea. If you were going to do this to disrupt a Ukrainian offensive, you'd think they'd wait till there was a verifiable offensive. Now they just suffer all the bad effects and the UA doesn't have to guess if they'd blow the dam.

betcha some bean counter in Russia is making sure his family is not compensated too.

Russia attempts to retrieve exported tank and missile components from India and Myanmar (yahoo.com)

well that'll help! Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation discovers 10 tonnes of Russian ammunition and anti-aircraft system in Kharkiv Oblast (yahoo.com)

send Venevitin a "get well soon" card with note to check for any STDs once prig is done with him.

worth a read Amazon.com: The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin eBook : Gessen, Masha: Kindle Store