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Thanks a bunch @Haiduk!

Here is a report today that Russia has not advanced in the last 24 hours: https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3422728-vijska-rf-za-minulu-dobu-ne-prosunulisa-na-zodnij-dilanci-frontu-arestovic.html You may need to use Google Translate. (Duplicate but translated below)

Are the Ukrainians spiking the tires?

How are you holding up @Haiduk and our other Ukrainian family. I really appreciate all the comments you are sharing in the thread. I want you to know that everyone I know here in the USA stand behind you and Ukraine. We are glad to see reports of weapons and intel flowing into Ukraine. I hope you can see some signs of them arriving this past week. Please stay safe, you and your families. I really hope NATO can find a reason (and the guts) to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Even with the risks of WWIII. I believe it could make all the difference. A stealth no-fly zone would see Russian aircraft mysteriously disappearing off of the scopes and force Russia to keep its Air Force grounded. Just my honest opinion.

Frontal hit of a Mi-24 by what looks like a MANPADS. Maybe filmed from a drone?

Have we seen any pictures of the new Russian BMPT "Terminator" being used or is that too new and not operational yet?

Who holds off an invasion for a sporting event? China must have asked them to hold off.

Do you think the large amounts of Stingers/MANPADS flowing into Ukraine will help reduce the Russian air force? Its gotta take a toll on their Helicopters and SU-25(like) aircraft. It can reach out and touch someone up to at least 10,000ft.

Russian friendly fire or Ukrainian friendly fire?

It takes time to shutdown a reactor. It has to cool off. If you shell it and destroy its ability to cool itself you get a Fukushima, right? Yeah. It makes no sense @danfrodo. Maybe Russians think completely differently than Westerners but this is nothing but a Quagmire for Putin and Russia. The Russian people are getting lied to and many are completely buying Putin's story. They will be sorry once Putin can't cover up what's going on.

So we are at page 100. What kinds of equipment, functions, capabilities have we witnessed that need to be included in the next release of Black Sea? - Move command to advance backwards as a shield for infantry. - Reduction in effectiveness of Russian armor or increase in effectiveness of Western AT weapons. - Ukranian Partisans. - ...

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Ah. Thanks!

Is she a reporter? The Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, is quite a looker and got tough on Putin. They are sending arms now I read. You are distracting me @LongLeftFlank! Actually trying to keep up with this thread is distraction enough.

Dang, Page 71! I’m still reading page 60! Lots to catch up on.

Don’t ammo dumps go up looking like a fireworks stand? A lot of explosions after the first explosion

Why so @Aragorn2002? I understand Sweden staying neutral, but why Finland?

MANPADS/Stingers at work:

Ran out of reactions today. +1 to what many of you are saying.

This is another view of the fighting. The car that got ran over had accidentally entered an ambush zone. I’ve read that the driver miraculously survived. The truck that got ambushed didn’t fair as well. Chaos of a war zone. It is fairly intense so please don’t watch if these kinds of battle scenes upset you.

This is not the venue for those types of inflammatory images. I’m sure old Warty wants nothing more than to disrupt this thread and get it shut down. @BFCElvis

Fighter shot down?

I watched this attack on a live feed. Or one just like it. It goes on and on and on. Terrifying.

I would like to thank all of you for being so civil and keeping this thread on track. I’m really proud of you guys. I really can’t believe this. It’s surreal. Putin has stayed one step ahead of the West up until today. I think that his actions today have overstepped his power to pull off. Although it looks like he is having many early successes, it’s going to turn into a quagmire for Russia. So many people are going to lose their lives for this megalomaniac. If NATO gets involved the loss of life will be shocking. A part of me, though, really wants NATO to come to the aide of Ukraine. Hopefully we can continue to arm and train the Ukrainians and make it too costly a war for Russia. Some of the fighting reminds me very much of CMBS. Instant death from out of nowhere.

I’ve never seen anything like that before. I wonder if those missiles were fired after they passed over if they would have been effective. That last helicopter looked like a KA attack helicopter.