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  1. I do wonder how much impact the Ukrainian drone offensive on Russian soil has led to Russian AA jitteriness. How you could misidentify an A50 for a drone or missile though is anyone's guess, so what would these guys have thought they were actually firing at?
  2. By order of Russian MoD, we are tired of not being believed when we say friendly fire downed our planes. Therefore, if you launch AA rockets at target you must video it and upload it to internet so we can prove to decadent and ineffectual west we shot ours down.
  3. Yes, that one, where they link to Ukrainian Pravda, which says "on February 23, Ukrainian defense forces shot down a Russian A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft" - February 23, not a week or two ago.
  4. How can he be a week or two late when the plane came down less than a day ago? You seem to be referring to the A50 that was shot down in mid-January (and an Il-22 damaged). This is a second one that has come down and rumors are still swirling. Talking about missing basic things...
  5. English has ****headedness but although it can mean stupidity or being obnoxious, it doesn't really convey the idea of deliberately making decisions that are stupid. I had suggested cock up but a cock up could happen by accident rather than being a deliberate act of stupidity. There is another compound word that includes elements of the direct translation and according to the Urban Dictionary means "an extreme degree of nonsense, especially when coming from an authoritative figure" (so pretty bang on in the case of officers lining soldiers up near the front line) - s**tf**kery.
  6. Chornobaivka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Chornobaivka_attacks
  7. In British English you might call it a "cock up" (ruin something as a result of incompetence or inefficiency) but it includes a dose of British understatement so perhaps doesn't capture the magnitude of the Russian word - "massive cock up" might rectify that.
  8. With regard to being open about Russian methods, a series of billboards in Tallinn reminds people about Russkiy Mir in a dramatic, creative and in-your-face way. Gallery: Exhibition showing destroyed public space on display in Tallinn
  9. Some analysis on the Battle of Irpin River (Feb-March 2022) by the British Army Review (54 page PDF). As well as the historical analysis it looks like it would be valuable for campaign designers. Battle of Irpin River I found it on Mick Ryan's twitter
  10. Looking at my dictionary it is more like scourges (pests/nuisances).
  11. He is apparently alive and back fighting. He commented in this reddit post ( https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1aqo3gp/if_you_watched_the_combat_footage_from_chosen/
  12. EU proposes sanctions on Chinese firms aiding Russian war effort
  13. The Russians always claim they destroy sea drones before they hit, so likely evasive maneuvers to try to avoid fire. They could also be using decoy drones to draw fire while another makes an attack run. In this case it looks like three drones all hit the same spot midship. It also must be difficult to get a sense of the ship's speed through the FPV so they might have to make sharp adjustments to target especially specific points on the ship. And they also might have protocols to limit collisions between the different drones, for example holding patterns while waiting.
  14. It didn't take long Edit: but I did take too long
  15. Sounds like (one of) the go-pro guys is British and I'm sure I heard a New Zealander (possibly Australian) in there ("Oh, yup"; the guy warning about the dud grenade in the trench).
  16. That is very much the plan: Project 2025 - "Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit tens of thousands of conservatives to Washington, D.C., to replace existing federal civil service workers it characterizes as the "deep state", to further the objectives of the next Republican president" Steve Bannon calls for ‘4,000 shock troops’ to dismantle US government ‘brick by brick’ Whether they could pull it off would have to be seen. I recently saw Bannon talking again I think saying that the training of the first cadre of thousands was underway and they were going for more but I can't remember where now.
  17. Is this old footage or new? I haven't seen Trump talk about NATO for a while so why now? Or is it a staple of his rallies and just hasn't been reported on recently?
  18. That article is certainly more credible than the unlinked Telegram sources mentioned in Geraschenko's tweet. Assuming what Geraschenko said about the Kovalchuk clan is correct, neither them nor Simonyan blame Putin for the flawed interview; the Kovalchuk clan blame Gromov and Peskov (and Carlson a little bit) and Simonyan blames Carlson wholly. This makes even less sense if Putin himself is unhappy with the interview. He was in the chair and could have talked about any subject he wanted but preferred to dither on schoolbook history.
  19. Maybe, but what it does show is one of two things: the power plays among the Russian clans/factions continue; or Gerashchenko is trying to stir up trouble between the clans.
  20. Assault by Azov on three Russian positions in Kreminna forest. Video has handy overlays to understand the action better. Closed captions are good.
  21. Deal reached on 50 billion euros in EU aid for Ukraine (from the Guardian's live updates, which I don't know how to link directly, if it can be)
  22. Add one more to the pool - Ex-Google CEO’s secret startup to build Ukraine AI-powered $400 kamikaze drones
  23. Ukraine needs to start baking fresh bread all along the front line
  24. Interesting video from the POV of a Russian tank in an attack on Ukrainian positions interspersed with Ukrainian drone footage showing the same action. I assume the Ukrainians captured the tank with the camera intact. Despite RPGs flying and vehicles already knocked out, the tank wanders up to the Ukrainian trenches through the smoke and I don't think fires a shot. Warning: aftermath with bodies shown at the end.
  25. Knock yourself out - https://t.me/motopatriot/18863
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