Markus86

Not the smartest thing, to operate a drone over enemy territory with a video tour of your military base saved on it.  
 

Some scenes from Mariupol:
Hard to understand, how it is possible to conquer a city. Fighting from room to room, floor to floor, building to building, underground, limited possibilities for artillery/air support.  

Recent post of the embassy of the Russian Federation in London, hours after the POW massacre in Olenivka:
 

Wow ... you leave me speachless. You really expressed your sympathy for this dead child in such a nice way. 

Wow ... you leave me speachless. You really expressed your sympathy for this dead child in such a nice way. 

Wow ... you leave me speachless. You really expressed your sympathy for this dead child in such a nice way. 

Strange that two of the named countries range 5th and 6th of the top 12 donors. 
If the current support given, is the best every country can do, that's another question ...   

I couldn't believe that this really is a picture of Bonnie and Clyde. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde ... 

I couldn't believe that this really is a picture of Bonnie and Clyde. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde ... 

Pretty sure it's rubbish. There were several Ukrainian drone / aircraft attacks on the Russians on snake island,  the videos of which were in this thread.  But a Ukrainian attempt to actually land forces to recapture the island, aside from making absolutely no sense given Russian air and naval superiority (there's no way they expect to hold the island) - there's no evidence that such an attack was attempted. Nothing from the Ukrainian side about it.  No video or anything else from the Russians. And competely implausible claims of numbers from the Russian side. 
Unless Russia manage to come up with some actual evidence, I'd ignore it as "total b$*%@ocks"

I think the key part of that article is that it refers to the Russian MOD as the source, so I'm betting it is twisted and has a scale of unbelievability to it.
What does match up is the sinking of a couple patrol craft, air strike on island structures, a landing craft and SPAA destroyed and zapping of a helicopter while unloading troops. All these things were done to the Russians and not by the Russians so they may be trying to spin the defeat. @Haiduk advised that the Ukr Navy only has a single landing craft so it is hard to lose 3, but Russian MOD has killed the entire Ukr Air Force twice now so that matches.
With that being said, there was a lot of attention being paid to Snake Island by the UA forces a couple days ago. Then rumor of one of the aircraft involved in the bombing went down and a release advising of a very senior UkrAF helicopter pilot being killed on a combat mission. So the story probably has some validity in that Ukraine's forces likely did take some losses on operations in that area, but I think the scale is out of whack.
As for an attempt to retake the island it doesn't make a lot of sense. We had a little discussion on it yesterday and it would be symbolic but not a sustainable position. I could see where the TB2 strikes and air strikes were setting the stage for an assault and I could see the UA clearing the island, planting a large flag of Ukraine on it and then leaving, but not trying to reoccupy it at this point. So it is possible they were going to attempt to land some forces by helicopter and took losses but you'd think if they had an invasion force wiped out there would be pictures or videos all over Russian media. 
So possible but not probable and most likely exaggerated losses.

Gimme a break. May he burn in hell with the rest of them. Any pity was buried alive with those children under the theatre and the ones who terrified and filthy under Azovstal.
**** him. I hope it was agonizing and he was in despair the entire time.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/04/satellite-image-pinpoints-russian-cruiser-moskva-as-she-burned/
 

Translation from the source: 
Heroes of the Airborne Forces and the Army of Russia!!!
Participants of the special military operation were awarded state medals. awards

Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
Colonel-General Alexander Fomin in the branch of the 3rd Central Military Clinical Hospital named after A.A. Vishnevsky of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation presented state awards to wounded Russian servicemen who distinguished themselves during a special military operation. Nine Orders of Courage were awarded.

At the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after N. N. Burdenko, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, awarded eight servicemen of the department - two medals "For Courage" and six orders of "Courage".
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Strange russian PR work. Showing some unhappy young men, missing arms and legs. I wouldn't feel motivated. 

Translation from the source: 
Heroes of the Airborne Forces and the Army of Russia!!!
Participants of the special military operation were awarded state medals. awards

Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
Colonel-General Alexander Fomin in the branch of the 3rd Central Military Clinical Hospital named after A.A. Vishnevsky of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation presented state awards to wounded Russian servicemen who distinguished themselves during a special military operation. Nine Orders of Courage were awarded.

At the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after N. N. Burdenko, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, awarded eight servicemen of the department - two medals "For Courage" and six orders of "Courage".
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Strange russian PR work. Showing some unhappy young men, missing arms and legs. I wouldn't feel motivated. 

Translation from the source: 
Heroes of the Airborne Forces and the Army of Russia!!!
Participants of the special military operation were awarded state medals. awards

Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
Colonel-General Alexander Fomin in the branch of the 3rd Central Military Clinical Hospital named after A.A. Vishnevsky of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation presented state awards to wounded Russian servicemen who distinguished themselves during a special military operation. Nine Orders of Courage were awarded.

At the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after N. N. Burdenko, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, awarded eight servicemen of the department - two medals "For Courage" and six orders of "Courage".
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Strange russian PR work. Showing some unhappy young men, missing arms and legs. I wouldn't feel motivated. 

Translation from the source: 
Heroes of the Airborne Forces and the Army of Russia!!!
Participants of the special military operation were awarded state medals. awards

Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
Colonel-General Alexander Fomin in the branch of the 3rd Central Military Clinical Hospital named after A.A. Vishnevsky of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation presented state awards to wounded Russian servicemen who distinguished themselves during a special military operation. Nine Orders of Courage were awarded.

At the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after N. N. Burdenko, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, awarded eight servicemen of the department - two medals "For Courage" and six orders of "Courage".
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Strange russian PR work. Showing some unhappy young men, missing arms and legs. I wouldn't feel motivated. 

John, just stop it already. You've more than earned the right to be called out on your citing of dubious sources that are full of BS. If you don't appreciate the label, then slow down, step away from the keyboard, and CRITICALLY THINK about the information being presented.
And, you want to know why you can't be taken seriously? Let's take a look at that page you just linked to, called "Moon of Alabama." At the top of the page it says it's the recipient of the "Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism." Okay, so what's this all about? Hmm...
...oh yeah, look another dubious news source:
https://www.google.com/search?q=serena+shim+award&oq=serena+shim+award&aqs=chrome..69i57.3701j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
It looks like this illustrious Serena Shim Award is given to pro-Assad content creators and was created by a pro-Assad group in 2019. You do know about Assad, right? Surely you know about what he's done through the years, Mr. Threat Analyst?
But hey, don't take my word for it - Bellingcat wrote a whole article about this dubious group:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/30/pro-assad-lobby-group-rewards-bloggers-on-both-the-left-and-the-right/
John, John, John, once again you've shown that the websites you quote from frankly suck.

Couldn't find another source or confirmation yet. 

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Germany indeed is a special case. I suspect even if the funds were increased tenfold Germany would still not have a properly equipped and maintained army. I understood that this was one of the main points of criticism about raising the spendings. Just buying more stuff won't change the errors in the current system. 

What sense would it make to fake this picture? 
There are videos of this scene: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2630677/Video-Devastation-bridge-collapses-Irpin-Putin-maniac.html 
Btw it took me 2 minutes to find the first videos. 

What sense would it make to fake this picture? 
There are videos of this scene: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2630677/Video-Devastation-bridge-collapses-Irpin-Putin-maniac.html 
Btw it took me 2 minutes to find the first videos. 

What sense would it make to fake this picture? 
There are videos of this scene: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2630677/Video-Devastation-bridge-collapses-Irpin-Putin-maniac.html 
Btw it took me 2 minutes to find the first videos.