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It's lovely to see Russians helping Ukrainians getting out of the country. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/underground-networks-russians-helping-ukrainian-refugees-2022-05-11/

The engineer says they had one bridge, when the Ukrainians destroyed it, after failing to fix it, they tried another.

Nvm, he deleted it.

Long thread, but goddamn, Russia ain't safe in the occupied territories. Okay, you gotta click on the map image to see it, but its basically east of Mariupol, a town controlled by Russia since 2014.

Another interview with the foreign minister of Ukraine, that's pretty detailed. Looks like Ukraine wants all her land back, Crimea and Donbas. Some major confidence coming from him. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/10/ukraine-foreign-minister-us-weapons-delay-russia-00031493

No infantry mass tho. Well at least the importance of infantry has been reconfirmed in large scale warfare. I wonder aside from thinking of bad Ukrainian morale, maybe they put too much faith that their artillery and armor would run over infantry?

Interesting shift. I wouldn't doubt it is maximal legitimately, but also intended to shift goalposts, instead of a likely peace deal with some Ukrainian territory in Russian hands, the middle position becomes more pre-invasion, and the full territory becoming the maximal objective.

Interesting, the speech by Zelensky, certainly a hardening of the Ukrainian position on future peace, a direct call out to Putin, seemingly in a very 1 to 1 manner in a way. Certainly Zelensky is boasting of his ability to walk the streets of Kiev, and keen to shout out the unity of the anti-Nazi coalition. I think what is mighty insidious and appalling is that Russia has deliberately stolen the victory over Nazi Germany to push a fascist domestic and foreign policy, in effect not just ignoring but also burying the crimes of the Nazis to its own people, and attempting to do the same worldwide (thru their subversive activities, and public statements). Why it is vital to counteract them is because their basis for this war rests upon the victory over Nazi Germany. I have no doubt that Russia's erasure of history has caused deep harm to Ukraine internationally. When it decries Nazism in Ukraine, when it asserts that it is rooting out evil in Ukraine, a huge part of that relies on the narrative that Russia alone is heir to the victory over Nazi Germany, it alone is heir to the USSR's heroic stand against fascism. Removing Russia's narrative requires damaging, in a sense, "the monument to Soviet victory" precisely due to the way Russia has sought to wrap itself in this victory as a defense against all criticism. Something to keep in mind.

10 twitter posts on May 9th, Russian discourse around it and how it shapes their perception, posting vital parts, tho look at them all!

Reminder about the Russian artillery…they gotta hit the Ukrainians to be useful. Their massed artillery ain’t worth **** if they can’t kill Ukrainian artillery.

Turns out their cooperation between artillery, airpower and everything else ain't great. What we are seeing now is, unless someone can correct me, is the extent of their ability to coordinate, something that won't be fixed anytime soon or even long term.

Russian logistics ain't great....so let's assume Russia can stack the bodies on the front lines, can they handle the additional personnel incurring more strain on the supply chain? Replacement ammo, vehicles, food, medicine, fuel.... Their supply lines are shorter but I'm not sure their logistics can handle it if they are giving soldiers old near useless equipment. I can't believe there aren't semi-modern stuff laying around. It's impossible. What the hell happened to the Soviet supply dumps?

They do want to stamp out Ukrainian culture, anti-Russian activists and the political class.

So i wonder if it's deliberate that these new conscripts are equipped with crap or nothing useful. Especially if they may or may not be coming from recently conquered areas. I mean i find it unbelievable, they can't even be given a AK, they don't have any AKs to be given out? As horrible (tho not surprising) could they be hoarding weapons and equipment for Russian conscripts and just letting a form of population control/culling occur of the male population in the occupied regions?

The supply base attack was geolocated to: notably to see Ukraine being able to strike targets north of Iyzum consistently.

Adam Tooze argued that the Ruhr bombing campaign severely disrupted the German war economy, and had it been maintained instead of switching for other targets, cause a quicker end to the war. Most of the Luftwaffe and air defense was forced to defend Germany rather than being used on the eastern or western fronts. Sorry for bringing in something not directly related to the discussion but I find it mighty interesting how scholarship can shift how we see historical events, and how a idea that strategic bombing was useless is being revised once again.

Corregidor is way bigger than Snake Island, the island is only useful if you can contest or control the naval waters around it.

I hope Ukraine can manage to threaten Russian territory until Russia repatriates all the Ukrainians they have kidnapped. Also thank you God for those Russians who are helping them live and escape in Russia. https://inews.co.uk/news/putin-mariupol-survivors-remote-corners-russia-investigation-network-camps-1615516

Anything 155mm is useful, even if old as **** I would venture to say. Who knows if there's any 152mm ammo laying around in a friendly or neutral country to be purchased anymore at this point.

Uhh if what Ruser is looking at is correct, Izyum where the Russians put in a dense amount of personnel and BTGs, it's about to become a deathtrap now....now let me ask you this, two units were withdrawn from Izyum, 4th tank division and something else, does that mean Russia is already pulling troops out of Izyum and this is Ukraine pushing in or do you suppose that dense grouping of BTGs is still getting hammered?