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You can see what such people will do, when UKR troops were liberating Kharkiv oblast. They just fled to their beloved Russia, whith which they identified themselves. Of course, some pro-Russian part of population will remain, some will return from Europe and western Ukraine (yes, they, hating all european and ukrainian fled to the west, not to Russia). But Secretary of National Security Council Daniliov, answewring on the question of journalist "How we get along with people, whith wich we didn't leave together already 8 years?" said: "This is not about WE get along with them, this is about how THEY get along with us. This is fundamental thing. If someone is not satisfied our laws and other things, we don't keep anyone - the world is large"   

Yeah  I agree - you are starting to become irritating .  And I think as a US Citizen - I'm paying for this not you ?

This is a war of aggression. This is a war where Russia sought to annex Ukrainian territory in violation of international law (one could argue all of Ukraine). This is a war where Russia in order to facilitate the seizure of Ukrainian territory has initiated genocidal actions against the Ukrainian people. There is nothing free or fair about a referendum as the bodies of those who would have quite possibly voted for Ukraine are being uncovered, with millions displaced from ruined war-torn regions.

Thousands of people came out on protests against mobilization in many large cities of Russia. Well... Even the threat to be a canon fodder didn't wake up Russian society. Most large rally there was in Moscow, but local "creative class" (as like to say Russians) can do nothing to resist except chaunting "no war!" and сlapping, while OMON was taking them away one by one without any resistance. Even beating up of the girl, which allegedly caused her death nothing changed. Russian new-generation can't fight for the future of their land and nation. This generation of comfort life and "we are out of politics" can only to run away from Russia, but only to bring own part of "Russia desecrated" in other countries and to show own defiant arrogance to the people of theese countries.
Even most of Russian liberals and "creative class" have an opinion that all in the world have to be rotate around them. So, if the same Germany wants to recieve in the future new millions of Russians, which don't want integrate in German society and will cooperete in agressive "Russian communities" like this did previous wave of Russian migrants, driving now with Russian flags and supporting the war, so well... let Germany gives "asylum" for them. But I suppose more than 2/3 of theese people, which now assaulting border crossings and airports, posted Z and rejoiced on 24th Feb, hoping about fast Russian triumph.
Ah, I forgot. In Russian social networks many people blame in mobilisation not Putin, but... Ukraine! As if "this is all because of Ukraine continue to resist instead to accept Russian demands and make peace, so we forced to go at war"
Moscow. Chaunting "no war!"
   
Four OMONs packed a guy, but nobody try to free him - they still to clap and chaunt, OMON returns and detains other protester. 
The girl, beaten up, allegedly to the death. No reaction of protestes
And typical comment of Z-fan. I suppose, this flame patriot now on his route to Turkey, Georgia, Finland...

Why I must to participate in mobilization if I support the war and Putin? This is not fair! Let they take those, who against the war, traitors. Otherwise in the conuntry will not remain sane people absolutely! And so many traitors are bred! 
And here it "middle class" - IT employee of the bank. He said he received summons to come to enlistment office on 22nd Sep "for checking personnel data". He came and got immediately appointment that in the same day he must be departed to Naro-Fominsk [base of 4th GTD]. He never served in army, and has health category B. But in enlistment office said he is fit for service. Journalist asks him, what he will do now and man answers: "Waht I can do? I will go, elese it will be criminal case against me"
Maybe I enough sharp, but Russians lost a right to name a "nation". They just "population", which can't and don't want to change something in own country 

You gotta love these brutal russian protests that make putin scared for his life:
"Why can't you just murder all Ukrainians with supersonic weapons, why do I have to do it now?!"

No discussion here, they will have to manage that at some point. We know very well what it took to break the spiral of hate between DE and it's neihgbors, and in case of RU we are very, very far from it. IMO at this point all we could expect is that UA hate towards Russians is managed to a degree that they won't reciprocate with committing atrocities - and they are managing that pretty well IMO. Expecting anything more of them would be unfair. 
The way I see it, UA and RU will be having a kind of a Korean situation in the foreseeable future, complete with barbed wire and minefields. It is up to RU to try to change that, not on UA, and I just can't imagine them doing what it takes to normalize, not in a decade or two.

I can't imagine being angry at Kraze. I have spend all my anger on the Russians after Bucha and Irpin and everything else they did. Just as I can't imagine being empathic with Russians suffering - I have spend all my empathy on the Ukrainians.
Everytime I see someone angry at a Ukrainian, I wonder, are they angry at Russians too, or are they ok with them? Every time I see someone empathizing with Russians, I wonder, are they not empathizing with the Ukrainians?
Why don't you guys set up some tribunal, where you can decide, in safety of thousand kilometers distant armchairs, whether a particular Ukrainian is noble enough in their suffering?

I don't recall him ever saying any of that explicitly - if he did and you could provide an example, I'll be happy to admit I'm wrong.
Having them reap what they sow for me means making them feel the consequences of being at war. This is already being done, will increase in severeness and I have no problem with that.

I can say that since the beginning of the war, I have several times applied to the Venkomat with a desire to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To which I was told that people with military experience and perfect health were required (I have a chronic disease). In pro-Russian publics, the hysteria was successfully dispersed about the fact that men of military age are grabbed on the streets and taken into the army, but this is nonsense. I travel from Irpin to Kyiv almost every day and often go through checks at the checkpoint, and I have never seen anyone handed summons to the military registration and enlistment office.

This seems very relevant to the discussion of "average russian" innocence, and how it is perceived in different countries. I absolutely second Latvian approach here. Yeah, it won't buy them much sympathy from RU public opinion, pro and anti-war alike, but in the long term forcing RU civilians to face the music is the only way forward.
 

The man is from a country fighting a war against genocidal enemy. His is a different perspective. I think that this would be the case for many other forum members, if we were in his place.  War is by definition collective violence and by definition makes people guilty by association and enemies for no other reason, than their nationality. This extends to emotions about the enemy, which of course tends to be hate. 
The imperative not to say anything racist or "hate-speachy" is something for people not concerned with life or death or, yes, feelings of revenge for the destruction of their country and barbaric murder of their compatriots.   Let us respect that this is a different situation and move along. Nobody is required to support what Kraze is saying but it should be acknowledged this is something else than trolling about WW2 war crimes or Middle East ethnic issues, which the forum rules are intended to prevent.

Israel is solving the root cause by treating both soldiers and people back home, who dress and feed them equally as enemies. Who are not welcome in Israel. If some peaceful Israeli citizen dies to some enemy soldier or terrorist - Israel makes sure to retaliate in a way that makes it very clear that it's not acceptable and they can get you anywhere in the world. Right now Israel is actively fighting only in one country - Syria - that fully deserves it by supporting "Palestine", similarly to how Russia does it with their own artificial "people's republics".
How did you even get to a point of "killing all arabs" I have no idea. If you mean "killing all arabs who come to Israel riding tanks" - then sure. They should do it. They have an absolute right to do it.

My man, ANYONE, who came to Israeli land to kill and live in place of the killed, should disappear from that land by riding back home in fridges. And Israel made sure they did. And I can complete relate.

No, he doesn't say that. While you provoke him to do it

Well, I guess we know who is getting mobilized first.

Last night UKR has struck sport hall of House of Culture building in Stakhanov (Kadiivka), Luhansk oblast. Reportedly there deployed ammunition storage of Russian PMC and some number of merceneries. 
Sevral days before (some boxes under mask net outside of sport hall):

Last night:

Today's morning

 

There is another interesting Rybar post. In my previous comment I said Rybar is Prigozhin asset. Now I will show why.
Rybar likes to criticize RU military but let's check what he says about clown-zeks:
 Sounds nice for RU - RU arty is pounding UKR position in front of Wagnerites. Except reality is different - it is Wagnerites defeat and Rybar explicitly hides it (unlike with RU military Oskil defense issue).
It is easy to see the place of hits with both videos and provided coordinates - it is Lumumba street buildings that Wagnerites captured at the beginning of August (right hand side of the map next to road to Pokrovske):

So, UKR counter attacked and captured positions among these buildings.
But here is more - Rybar claims the distance between UKR positions and Wagnerites is 600 meters. Let's put this on the map:

Well, it seems UKR troops kicked Wagnerites out of town.  
But wait - there is still more to it. There is something interesting at the distance of 600 meter - outskirts of Dacha cooperative.

It looks like that Wagnerites probing attack toward Dacha Cooperative wasn't probing attack but rather retreat. Under threat of UKR counterattack Wagnerites retreated to most sensible position - Dacha Cooperative full of cottages to hide in and lots of tree lines for cover.
And propagandist Rybar using mix of facts and fiction converted Wagnerites retreat into not so glorious but still good enough advance.
Even RU Wagnerites are retreating now. The internal state of RU forces is worse than we think. Well, yes, I am being Captain Obvious here because we basically already know it.
[UPDATE] I want to add that apart from RU situation I think there was (or is) dramatic increase of UKR power at the front line. Just a month ago we talked about UKR fightint retreat and now Wagnerites were simply kicked out without much fuss. 

"Contact front - traffic lights!" is the more likely Chechen course of action here.

Captured T-72B3M tows away the captured T-90M, aka Shame Train:
 

Gotta catch’em all!
 

UKR pontoon bridge through Oskil
 

Aye hopefully it will be 'all good fun'  thanks Steve.
Aye, this battle pack is set during the fighting between the German and Soviet armies in eastern Poland during the summer of 1944. This fighting was some of the heaviest on the Eastern Front during the entire war. This battle pack presents a series of actions recreating key moments in this fighting through the perspective of the forces involved during July and August.
It’s been a real labour of love. The genesis of this battle pack was the  series of images in the photo book Kampfgruppe Mühlenkamp published by RZM and authored by Douglas Nash and Remy Spezzano. On the back of this I started work on what became the Five Days One Summer campaign which is the key campaign of this battle pack.
This battle pack would never have got anywhere without the help and support of a whole bunch of others. I would like to give a huge shout out to all those including the BFC beta testers for all the playtesting, feedback, advice and support. I am also indebted to Mr Douglas Nash for his freely given help and support in clarifying some of the details involved in several actions involving ‘Wiking’, notably the fighting around Tluszcz in mid-August 1944. If you’ve not checked out his recent trilogy “From the Realm of a Dying Sun” its well worth doing so for the background to this battle pack. Also worth having a look at is the “Operation Bagration 23 June-29 August 1944” by the Soviet General Staff which gives a ‘big picture’ view of the Soviet operations in this period.
I hope you all, as the players enjoy these scenarios and campaigns as much as I did researching and creating them. As always, I’d appreciate any comment and feedback and I look forward to seeing how this collection of scenarios and campaigns plays out for yourselves.
Cheery!

If you want to go really olde schule, Napolean used balloons for obs. At the Nile, iirc
Edit, and a few years before that - with enhanced optics!
https://www.centennialofflight.net/essay/Lighter_than_air/Napoleon's_wars/LTA3.htm

"a Russian tank is towed, near the city of Izioum, September 17, 2022. GLEB GARANICH / REUTERS"


"Damage from the Russian attack on the city of Izioum, in the Kharkiv region, on September 17, 2022. GLEB GARANICH / REUTERS"

Wow!
This ASU-85 was allegedly took from pedestal in Poltava and probably might be used by TD. Its D-70 gun is shortened variant of D-48 85 mm towed gun, which in some number used by AFU, so they both have the same ammunition. It's a question what type of 85 mm rounds remained in proper conditions.