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I'm not sure that is the case. I posted a side by side comparison before (but messed up the embed) of the two shown stages and by the time the first bridge(s) are down, there doesn't look like there has been much if any activity from the blue crossing. I agree it looks like they also tried a bridge at yellow. It seems I don't know how to embed an image file (the box goes red when I paste a URL from an image host into it). Here's the link again anyway: https://ibb.co/rcBtbS3

A side by side comparison of the two pontoon pictures. The Russians must really have wanted to get across there. You can't see any newly destroyed vehicles on the Ukrainian side (I assume top) in the second picture, so I wonder what happened to the forlorn tanks in the first picture? The holes in the pontoon bridges are new in the second picture, however. https://ibb.co/rcBtbS3

Looking at the two pictures, I am not convinced it is the same river crossing. Edit: Actually, I changed my mind, but the picture on the twitter thread appears to be some time before the Russians tried to put the 2nd bridge up.

He mentions Wali a lot, so here is an interview with him (Google translated). It gives some perspective of the war from the point of view of a foreign volunteer, not all good. ""It's a war of machines", where the "extremely brave" Ukrainian soldiers suffer very heavy losses from shelling, but "miss many opportunities" to weaken the enemy because they lack knowledge technical military, he summarizes. “If the Ukrainians had the procedures we had in Afghanistan to communicate with the artillery, we could have caused carnage,” he believes." https://www-lapresse-ca.translate.goog/actualites/2022-05-06/retour-du-tireur-d-elite-wali/la-guerre-c-est-une-deception-terrible.php?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Just make sure to turn off the chat to spare your sanity.

More likely he is a part of trying to pacify the masses against mobilization hysteria. I guess Russia doesn't want another rush for the border.

It also seems like they aren't concerned with stopping the war completely. The translation of the email as shown in that thread: "We demand: - Release Alexey Navalny @navalny and other political prisoners. - Withdraw forces of the 249th Separate Special Motorized Battalion "South" of the North Caucasus District of the Rosgvardia and SOBR "Akhmat" from the territory of Ukraine. - Removal of Ramzan #Kadyrov from participating in the command of the special military operation in Ukraine. - Refusal to announce general mobilization of Russian citizens to replenish the special operation forces. Russia will be free!" (END OF TRANSLATION)" Assuming it is real, why would they want only those particular units withdrawn?

He also has a tweet about Starlink indicating he got it recently. I just saw another tweet where a Ukrainian commander thanks Musk for Starlink. Has Starlink now been distributed en masse to units? And how susceptible to Russian jamming will Starlink be (having read Ukrainian comments about the prevalence of jamming)?

I imagine alcohol also plays a big part in Russian soldiers' behaviour.

I read an opinion that people around Putin want the war to continue to give them time to cover their backsides after their failings. "Putin’s domestic political base consists of two rival power blocs: the intelligence apparatus and the military. Both have suffered major blows to their credibility during the war. However, as they continue to jockey for Putin’s favour, both also have a vested interest in prolonging the conflict in some form." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/20/putin-ukraine-russia-humiliated-military-intelligence-war

Teaching the Kiddyrovite.

I assumed this was trying to point out that the cages don't stop top attack missiles but looking at the picture I wasn't convinced it wasn't just a rock on top of the cage. I can't check the Twitter thread now so was this the conclusion?

It's strange. Some people in this thread have decried press taking a picture of a cat as representative of vacuous MSM manipulation. But they don't seem to mind being manipulated by a picture of the press taking a picture of a cat. That picture was a snapshot, a moment in time. I highly doubt that people who have risked their lives to actually be there would spend their whole time photographing just a cat. How do you rabidly photograph anyway? But war is conducted by humans and it is human to be drawn to life and comforted by it among such tragic destruction. Maybe it even helps with morale. Here is another thread about a cat. By an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. I suppose he should be doing more important things too than being compassionate to an innocent creature.

The Red Forest has been reported as a place the Russian soldiers dug trenches. If some are now getting sick, it would make more sense given your earlier comments.

Someone earlier had said the forest was replanted. This appears to be the case: "The forest hit hardest by the nuclear blasts was a pine plantation that stood directly in the path of the most deadly debris. Pines are extremely sensitive to radiation, and the trees turned rust-orange before they died; workers nicknamed the plantation the “Red Forest.” As part of the effort to contain the radioactive material, they bulldozed it, buried the trees in more than 5 million square yards of topsoil, and covered the area with more than a foot of sand. Then they replanted it with pines. As the new trees grew, radiation in the soil suppressed an enzyme that contributes to the classic single-stem conifer shape, resulting in an expanse of odd-looking, bushy dwarf pines." https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/08/chernobyl-fires/615067/

It was probably a drone or mine given the surroundings, but I like to imagine a guy with a RPG in the little yellow shed.

I think Haiduk posted this video earlier and I believe he said they were aimed at a drone.

We've seen videos of tiktok Chechens with beards, so let's compare a Belorusian with a moustache

Heh, yes, I should have said claimed. On the other hand, we do see debris falling from offscreen and what must be a long way above the dock (and nothing going up beforehand) as well as multiple small "explosions" rather than one big one. Or is that how Tochka missiles work?

Also, none of these explosions or their aftermath is seen in the video taken from the other side that shows the first small smoke plume from the ship. It's possible this video is from the Tochka attack that the Russians shot down a day or two ago.

Wow, it looks like the front doors are open and it is a complete inferno inside.

This was posted before this "attack". The Russians hit a shopping centre after seeing posts on social media, so the Ukrainians hit a shipping centre after the same?

Ukraine does seem to be the Tomb of the Unnamed Ground Vehicle

Blue armband at ~1:30 so could be the anti-Kadyrov Chechens

They spotted a drone...