Kraft
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28 minutes ago, pintere said:
Did that one Russian at the end (he had no weapon) really just run into the Legionnaires‘ trench and surrender? I didn’t see what happened to him after he hopped in.
He didnt surrender, he and his comrade were in panic and tried to flee but werent aware the other trench had been taken already, once he realised he ran back and got shot and killed by the guy wearing the gopro at 15:11 in the video
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Also since I cant edit my original post anymore, just an innacuracy on my part, these arent international legion they are 'chosen company' international volunteers who are integrated into 59th. Canadians, Americans, a Swede and a japanease fighter. Also while Im at it, if translations dont work the fighter who got shot by the Machine Gunner (in the head?) Survived but was badly wounded.
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Incredible footage of the international Legion working with 59th MechBrigade storming a russian trench
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4 minutes ago, Haiduk said:
No, this "monarcho-imperial-nazi" was captured in Luhansk oblast. He was a serviceman of elite 1st tank regiment of 4th "Kantemirovskaya" tank division.
Oh I did not know there was another neo nazi group operating
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25th Air Assault Brigade captured
a live Rusich member (Robotyne-Verbove?)
In case you missed the signs
, its a neo nazi group. They cut off the head of a PoW with a knife, then removed his hands and filmed themselfs for evidence(censor.net, not a direct link to the video).Their (ex?)leader Yan Petrovsky is currently held in Finnland and not being extradited for fears his treatment would be below skandanavian levels. -
"Ukraine’s Pokrova Spoofing System Tells Shaheds To Get Lost" - Forbes
Most likely active since 3rd of February.
QuoteOn February 3rd, the Ukrainian Air Force’s official Telegram channel noted that 11 Shahed had been shot down the previous night, and “In addition, at least seven attack drones did not reach their targets and were lost locally.”
QuoteShahed drones are well protected against electronic warfare. The current version have the Russian military Kometa-M navigation unit, a digital antenna array allowing it to identify and exclude jamming signals. According to the makers drones with Kometa-M can still find their way when the jamming is tens of thousands of times more powerful than the satellite signal.
The Shahed also has a backup inertial navigation unit or INS. This works even when there is no satellite signal, but drifts rapidly over time. The backup system provides accurate navigation for perhaps one minute – long enough to hit a target protected by a local jammer, or fly through a band of jamming before it can recover a satellite signal.
Spoofing is much harder to detect than jamming. If the spoofing signal is relatively subtle – gradually moving further and further away from the real location – the drone will have no way of telling that it is being spoofed, but will end up some distance from the target.
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1 hour ago, Kinophile said:
Wot?
I know people will meme like they did with the ali express dragon teeth but if they are filled with something and welded good luck getting past that in whatever maneuver phase one finds himself in.
Oh and I bet its mined.
I forgot to add, anti tank ditches made by the usual digging vehicles can be overcome with bridge layers or some heavy duty earth movers fairly quickly. This frankenstein construct seems immune to that.
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CNN claims as many as 15000 Nepalis joined the russian army
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/10/asia/nepal-fighters-russia-ukraine-families-intl-cmd/index.html
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11 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
No he didn’t. In fact he was to afraid to be seen as “afraid” and Biden had to do it. And then he derided Biden for making the hard decision. It is political theatre.
From 13000 to 2500 soldiers stationed when Biden took over, according to wikipedia.
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13 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
Well first off, they are already there:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_136388.htm
So he would have to pull them out - which looks a lot like running away and one thing Poppa T does not like is looking weak and scared. And as soon as the shooting starts and the US takes casualties the whole discussion becomes moot - PAX Americana and all that.
But he did that in Afghanistan and his base loved him for it. I am sure putin would encourage redeployment early enough to avoid awkward situations.
Putin would likely stay local and limited in scope, not try to reach Berlin, so it would be fairly easy for the commander in chief to avoid having troops in that area, long enough for facts to be made.
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6 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
Didn’t the US pass a law where a president cannot unilaterally pull out of NATO or somesuch? Oh ya, here it is:
I am legitimately curious how Donald Trump could be forced to send troops against his will, as he does not uphold the law per se. Especially if he has majority republican support
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5 hours ago, Zeleban said:
Offensive? Through what means? Ukraine now receives only about 10% of the aid it received last year. And that help turned out to be insufficient for the offensive. Everyone is well aware of this, especially the generals. Currently, the front line is held only by FPV. And as we see near Avdeevka, as soon as the weather does not allow the effective use of FPV, the Russians manage to break through the front.
I'd add that through the last months, losses have been higher than replacements. With little to no pledged armaments
An offensive cannot happen this year or it will end in an even greater disaster that could upset the balance swiftly.
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36 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
than a declaration that a potential future US president it going to abandon article 5.
Worry not because he has verbatum said just that before, removing unecessary doubts.
Specifically mentioning the small NATO Eastern border countries, he would not help.
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24 minutes ago, pintere said:
I‘m beginning to get the impression that the actual city fight for Stalingrad was indeed a bloodbath, but clearly not a German one… At the very least it clearly shows that urban combat doesn’t necessarily produce higher losses for the attacking side
I read a book by Anthony Beever (dont know his repuation) a decade ago in which he claimed the 13th guards rifle divisions that arrived to Stalingrad river bank had at the end of fighting ~300 out of 10000 of the original soldiers left.
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3 hours ago, Fernando said:
Infiltration tactics, with well-trained small storm groups bypassing strongpoints and enveloping them, and use of artillery in intense but short bombardments, designed not to destroy the enemy but to incapacitate them. This made it possible to break the stalemate of trench warfare. Right now, in the context of the war in Ukraine, there seem to be NO new ideas.
Im not trying to get pulled into this discussion too much but there have been significant changes in the way infantry attacks due to the prevelance of artillery, drones and low amount of soldiers.
These sort of small groups were already used to great effect by wagner more than a year ago, attacking with just small squads of 5-8, a waste for artillery and without drones they still manage to overcome small group defenders often enough. Progress is just at a snails pace.
There can be no "breakthrough" as the front is not static because of massive fortifications but because of the all seeing drone, that relays the location of any significant gathering and minutes later that gathering is gone, unless ofc republicans decide to block shells.
Not much you can do about drones atm, besides crawling 2km through a sewer pipe or dig tunnels as russians did - both times surprising defenders.
Until jammers are widespread on vehicles and infantry can be given a chance to clear mines somehow, the bog continues.
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110th. russian assault being destroyed.
Some new footage, I think? Definetaly less cuts than whatever ends up on twitter I think. There will be another part showing all the casulties
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Interview in german, automated subtitles not really great though
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12 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
With that attitude, Ukraine should just surrender now because it's totally hopeless/pointless to continue.
I don't agree with that assessment, therefore I think there are things that can be done. We've only just started talking about what 2024 might look like. The rough shape of it is Ukraine on the defensive and being prepared to counter Russian offensive moves, such as Avdiivka, in a way that racks up Russian dead far in excess of Ukrainian dead.
As I've been saying since this war started, this always has been and always will be about killing enough Russians to make the war stop. Maneuver warfare offers nothing of value to Ukraine this year.
Steve
I am not arguing for attrition or maneuver.
My point is, if a change is needed in leadership/innovation and a non-political decision needs to be made who is best to replace what makes him the best pick?
Obviously we dont know enough inside details among the generals for a fair assesement but I am also questioning whether this was a non-political decision with that aim to begin with.
But I also dont want to slander with the little information I have which is why I deleated my original comment.
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49 minutes ago, LongLeftFlank said:
Is that in fact what happened? (Tatarigami seems to agree with you, btw, but he wasn't there either. And his primary gripe AIUI seems to be that Bakhmut should have been ceded about a month earlier once it encountered diminishing returns).
...or were there now and then some positions that simply had to be retaken? and the guys who got shot up doing that are unhappy.
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Hurtgenwald has been mentioned before, but the sad travails of the 'Bloody Bucket' don't extrapolate to the 'average' GI experience in NWE.
To be fair, I do not know how much of this defense was up to him and how much it came politically "hold at all costs". Same with the counteroffensive which I think after week 2 should/would have been called off but I am 100% certain this was politically not seen as an option.
As for Bakhmut there are many reasons why street fighting evened the playing field between wagner convict mobs and defenders. Personally I have never seen so many dead defenders in russian channels than during the city fighting, especially including Soledar and afterwards, even if I 'account' for this being the biggest battle of the war, towards the end I would say it was 1:1 dead for both sides (not overall)
Trying to supply this nightmare over a road that several times fell into enemy hands and caused dozens of vehicles to be picked off didnt help. Maybe associating him with this is wrong, as it may have been a political decision to hold but I dont see how this grinder and his repuation in any way makes him a better candidate to solve the issues under shell shortage, russian ewar, fortifications/minefields, endless russian assaults and lack of vehicles/...
We will see.
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10 hours ago, cesmonkey said:
Watch at your own risk:
I find it interesting that instead of creating a propaganda piece for americans to consume with simple talking points, he spends it on a repetition of his bent-history lesson starting in 900AD.
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I dont think Zaluzhny needed out, he clearly understood the reality of the situation and what needs to be done to change it.
Without being given the necessary capabilities there is no way to even judge performance.
I think there will be less of a concern for casulties going forward, which I completely disagree with.
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5 hours ago, Holien said:
Nadezhdin use for us is an indication of the problems Putler is facing.
He was never going to win, but he was needed to make a sham election "look" like an election.
The fact he has been pulled speaks volumes about Moscows lack of control of the sham.
This is a misunderstanding of russia.
He was pulled *exactly* because everyone should see that putin is the big dog who can make people dissapear in foreign countries, remove them from ballots, or drop them out of windows. There was and is never any attempt at being subtle when you suicide reporters with several shots to the back of the head.
Making it fail because not reaching pathetic number of signatures just to drive home the point
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41 minutes ago, billbindc said:
When talking about Zaluzhny and Zelensky, it's important to take note of the mobilization issue:
It's pretty clear that the general with his ask of 500,000 men has little understanding of the political problems such a step could cause. That's why you don't let generals over rule politicians.
Mobilisation needs to happen sooner rather than later. Not acting because its unpopular is just brushing issues under a rug until the issue spills out and someone pays for it, either because mobilised dont get full training to hurry them to the front or formations that are spent and need rest having to stay despite worsening performance and dropping morale because russia outnumbers everywhere in men, machine and ammo.
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New Ukrainian fixed wing drone with jet engine, claimed 300km range
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
in Combat Mission Black Sea
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SBU caught a spy trying to relay shipbuilding(/drone) information to russia and iran.