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Obviously it wasn't a training flight, as evidenced by the video (non-stop secondaries) the plane was fully fueled and heavily loaded with bombs. It was clearly flying to the Donetsk area. At least pilots did perform the given task of bombing civilians successfully.

Probably part two of the show. She lived in Germany but her BS about how sanctions make poor russians suffer and it's all "putin's war" didn't work (and how she's in fact 100% ethnic Ukrainian and is going to change her last name to a Ukrainian one - wonder where that all went) so instead of, you know, staying in a 'safe' place - she went back to Russia. I mean russians aren't exactly about smarts (fining her $300 to make a martyr) but more about brute force so get ready for a new round of "martyr".

Karma is beautiful this season in Yeysk

They are trying to hit the power plant, but they can't seem to find it.

Admittedly hearing your own jets (and seeing them and making out silhouettes) is ultimately a very calming thing. I think I had quite a good night's sleep in a while after that. Beautiful beasts.

I travelled a bit around for the weekend. Let's say at a place I went to I couldn't quite relax in silence due to all the Su-25s and Su-27s going back and forth nearby.

In this case writing Gen Z is more appropriate than you think

It's just that there's not much to post when nothing major happens daily apart from the usual things. On Oct 10th when strikes happened in my district electricity was turned off only after missiles stopped coming (probably to do load balancing). It was off for 12 hrs and that's it, but it wasn't much of a problem, just an annoyance because I (just like many others) expected russians to do it, so I bought a portable power plant - which was enough for phones and a laptop - among other things like canned food and an oil eater. So in my case a large part of the evening was spent playing boardgames with my gf using candles and flashlights and watching neighbors using theirs too. I just didn't expect them to do it too early, when it's 15C+. Crimean bridge certainly forced them to make stupid decisions.

Those cases are due to traumas of russian occupation of half of the country during 1945-1989, which didn't just go anywhere. Nation-spanning Stockholm syndrome is a very hard thing to beat, we in Ukraine unfortunately know it all too well.

Russia is an empire. It's not a single country. Political change in an empire is impossible because anything but an aggressive, violent, despotic government leads to a very fast disintegration. And if empires can't just take and hold new lands - they start exterminating the populace until they can. Anyone in putin's place will keep doing the same. Because an emperor is as much a slave of the system as he is an owner of it. Changing a guy on the imperial throne will not stop the cycle of violence, because a weak one will simply get dethroned by his stronger subordinates. So no, no subtle way about it. Time to accept that Russia should not exist as a single entity, it has to end or millions will die.

Germany is also one of those countries that keeps letting russian "refugees" in in droves. That can't possibly backfire some time around winter.

I always find it funny how russians keep whining about "decision-making centers" because they still don't get Ukraine. They are incapable of thinking outside their old, totalitarian box and still think our minister of defense sits inside the ministry of defense and general army stuff sits in the building of general army stuff. There are no "decision making centers" to strike and it's ironic that even putin and his bros understand this, while his fanbase doesn't. And it's why I think PICs and "liberalization" won't work. Like how will they control the thing if it's private? As in not privately owned by someone closest to emperor as is the case with Rybar and other Wagner trash. Even "smarter" russians from Rybar keep thinking Ukraine is this Soviet state where everything is decided inside a single building in the center of the capital.

Hence why I say it's us or them. There can be no other outcome. Everybody who says that Russia should keep existing is explicitly taking the russian side and suggesting Ukraine should cease existing. Even if hypocritically pretending to be "civilized".

Apparently it was Kh-101. This is the precise one, they don't have many of them and these are very expensive. But it didn't hurt the bridge much. Irony is that Klitschko was criticized for a supposedly poor bridge quality.

They missed the other object too, hitting Akhmetov's tower instead (photos are public already). Their missiles are really **** at precision, but to kill civilians you don't need precision either. No objects in Shevchenko park though.

russians (not putin, people should stop pretending it's just some putin, as much as some "civilized" forum members here may not like it) simply don't know how to do it any other way. It worked in Chechnya and it worked in Syria, so must work here too.

Not the bridge. He would've exploded a few apartment blocks in Moscow, he has a track record. Bridge is a symbol. Exploding a symbol of your power on your own bday? Nah. Besides our secretary of security council kind of said "we did it" in his tweet.

Russians will never do such a thing. They are "pissed" (scared) with the conscription, but they still support the invasion and bridge itself is a Holy symbol of their victory over the evil West, which accepted the occupation. Plus dying in a truck so you don't possibly die in a war makes no sense. Not to mention a truckload of explosives isn't something a russian has at home, unless it's some military organization. And, again, the Bridge is Holy. An enlistment office? Yes. Bridge? No. Holy. Truck drivers get hired all the time. They do deliveries so often they won't care what's in the boxes loaded into the truck as long as they get paid. It's the easiest part of the plan.

russian trains do have a schedule (it's their main supply artery for whole Crimea, not just frontlines - so it's reasonable to assume a fuel train always delivers fuel through the bridge at XX:XX AM) and the truck was most likely followed by one of the cars, where the spotter was going to hit the button when the truck crosses ways with the train. I'd even say they were trying to go for exploding it at the bridge arc ideally (as you can see it's really close) but the train was faster (here you have that unpredictable train time variation)

https://twitter.com/OleksiyDanilov/status/1578636142055870464 Well.

Let's play guessing game: I'd say the likely way to do it was knowing the supply train schedule (easy enough by just watching the bridge daily) and exploiting that to fullest by hiring some unaware russian truck driver to deliver a ton of something in cardboard boxes (e.g. "washing machines") by driving out strictly at 7 AM to catch the train. And hitting the button at the right time. Now that would've been pretty "uncivilized" by western standards and I guess it means that Nobel peace prize should be taken away so only belarussians and russians share it.

That's easy to explain. You see since in their heads Ukrainians don't exist - we also don't have a language, just a weird dialect of russian. But then russians hear Ukrainian language on the radio and go like "I don't understand a word, but it sounds actually slavic not russian, so must be Polish mercs!"

Ukraine was under the russian occupation 30 years ago and russians kept repressing Ukrainians well into 1991. Ukrainians also wanted freedom and fought for it to various degrees through the whole russian occupation of 20th century. An average Ukrainian certainly didn't have the same views. It's the same as saying Czechs had the same views because they were occupied from 1945 until 1990.

I think Belarus will keep playing the role of simply tying down our forces in the north and for that they will be making statements a la "we are going to attack any day now" while keeping their troops near the border without ever crossing it. In fact that's been their modus operandi for the past 6 months. After all Lukashenko stayed in power longer than putin (28 years now) and he didn't need any "small victorious wars" to make his people love him (and belarussians do love him, have no illusions about that), just enough to keep his throne secure.

at this point in time Belarus "army" will simply get massacred once it crosses the border. They lack numbers (they can commit 20k at most, their whole standing army is 60k), don't have russians anywhere near like it was back in February and in a much much worse shape than russians are. If russians thought that gluing western tech to soviet tanks made them the top army and did just that - Belarus never left the '70s. Sure if they decide to go full in - they will be able to kill some of ours, but Belarus will cease having any army in a month (and who will be protecting their leader then?). Russians committed about 60k troops for their initial push on Kyiv when we didn't have defense lines in the north and those were their most elite. Furthermore you have to remember that HIMARS-striking Belarus is being held back only by AFU's wish, US absolutely doesn't mind every Belarus military object being smashed if there's a need, unlike when it comes to Russia.