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  1. Wildberries is like the Amazon of Russia. It could be just a demonstration of what could happen, business as usual, or perhaps someone didn't get the memo about treading carefully. That would back up the quote above from the NYT about tensions over migration policy inside Putin’s security establishment.
  2. Yeah, which is why I was interested in the origin of the conspiracy theory. If it started in Russia and becomes prevalent there, what does it say about Russians' trust in Putin's administration? If Gerashchenko and Nexta, who aren't exactly reliable sources, are feeding grist, then it is just icing.
  3. Is it really a conspiracy theory started and doing the rounds in Russia though or is it Gerashchenko "extrapolating" from a theory put out by Nexta? Nexta don't seem to be attributing the theory to someone else. If it is from Nexta, it will be interesting to see if it takes hold in Russia and the impact it has on the sale of blue sweaters there.
  4. It's possible you were confused for another poster whose name is five letters and starts with "kra", but that's just a theory.
  5. Disgustingly hypocritical generic crap. A day and a half might not even be considered regular for this.
  6. A possible explanation is that Putin was holding off until after the election. Many posts have been written here about the societal effects of a mobilization and the negative political impacts. Now Putin is secure, an emotional attack on Russia helps to underwrite the patriotic mobilisation.
  7. Interrogating terrorist suspects on camera by the side of the road and posting it to Telegram just a few hours after the attack. They can clearly upload faster than they can drive. https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1771489334979379316 They don't specify who paid him though.
  8. Yeah, the auto-translate says that inertia carried the drone into the grad. Given both cases of changing target, I'm curious if the software has been tuned to prioritise moving targets and if that is a good thing (e.g. breaking off to chase a soldier rather than going after the high-value vehicle). And also, if this is the case and they become more common, what contraptions the Russians will come up with to try and spoof the drones - cope-cages could be joined by cope-carousels or carriage footmen.
  9. More auto-targeting drones, including going after moving targets. In the first case, however, it switches targets at the last moment.
  10. Do you have a direct link for the fundraiser?
  11. Claimed to be one of the first videos of an autonomous targeting drone. Certainly the EW looks to affect the video feed relatively far from the target, but we don't know for sure that the drone that hits the target is the same as the one at the start of the video. Either it's legit, was an incredibly lucky hit despite the EW, or the video has been edited to make it look like it is autonomous.
  12. Ironically (and aptly), plastic fruit in a bowel would look more like real fruit than actual fruit by that stage, but would still stink nonetheless.
  13. The article I linked to about the Ukrainian medical system was written by Ukrainians, based on interviews with Ukrainians, and published by a Ukrainian media outlet. We shouldn't confuse the Soviet civilian medical system with the military one. And we shouldn't assume that design and application are the same things. The main aspect of the article, however, isn't that the soldiers aren't getting treated but that they aren't getting discharged or paid due compensation as a result of bureaucracy, corruption, and inefficiency. It is easy for the system not to buckle under massive casualties when it denies those casualties exist in the first place. We have also heard plenty of first hand reports by Russian personnel about how they receive no treatment for wounds and are thrown back into the fight.
  14. It seems Ukraine still struggles under legacy Soviet systems in some areas. This article on the failures of their military medical system is a hard dose of reality - 'Abandon all hope:' Ukraine’s wounded warriors compare military medical system to the Inferno
  15. A few days to go to Putin's election and enemy tanks are prowling around inside Russia. Not sure I'd be curtain twitching with that thing outside though, but good on her for uploading it.
  16. Six hours later and this twitter post has been deleted. From the link still showing (https://t.co/DmPZ389pGD) is this rebuttal
  17. It looks like there was a smaller explosion at the waterline just before the big one - I wonder what that was about? And just before the guy turns away you can see what looks like the wake of maybe another drone (just above the orange rope), so this probably wasn't the end of the story.
  18. Ukraine is claiming another couple of Russian aircraft down, bringing the total claimed to 15. This is obviously contentious without confirmation, but this news about no Russian aircraft in the east of Ukraine for 4 hours for the first time since the war started is interesting if true. UK MoD saying that the Russian A-50 fleet is likely grounded pending investigation into what led to a second loss.
  19. This isn't the first mention I have see of war weariness in Russia, but I assume this guy moves in different circles to journalists ( https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/24/war-and-peace-russia-soldiers-ukraine )
  20. Very likely they have not heard these stories. I'm guessing your average westerner also knows very little about the nitty gritty of what is going on. Given India's relationship with Russia and based anecdotally on comments by Indians I have seen on various social media, I think a lot of Indians will have a different perception of Russia to ours. A Canadian family with a youtube channel called Countryside Acres moved to Russia last year because they believe they are freer there to express their bigoted views but ran into some problems with banking rules. They posted a video complaining about this but rapidly deleted it and then issued a grovelling response saying they weren't really upset with Russia. Freedom!
  21. What is so hard to believe? There is no shortage of stories of unscrupulous Indian "agents" scamming people by offering them lies about overseas positions. My country has deported victims of such scams, Russia puts them in front of missiles. It is a bit of a surprise that some of them managed to be discharged.
  22. I have seen elsewhere that Ukraine has prepared fortified positions on the Novobakhmutivka-Novoselivka-Karlivka line so fighting in the villages to the east of that is probably to blunt Russian momentum. It just depends how much territory Ukraine is prepared to cede and at what cost.
  23. If 10 is correct it is interesting that they weren't running with a full complement of specialists by the looks of it (only 5-6 instead of 10-11). I read somewhere that Ukraine had claimed Russia operates nine A50s in rotation around Ukraine, so it's possible they were already suffering personnel shortages, especially after losing an A50 in January. It can only be worse now.
  24. This is the best article on the A-50 situation I saw (it was written after the mid-January downing of one) - https://breakingdefense.com/2024/01/after-historic-shoot-down-why-russia-will-struggle-to-replace-its-a-50-aewc-plane/ According to it, the loss of the specialist personnel could be as significant as the loss of the plane.
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