OldSarge Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) I don't think this has been posted, or at least I didn't see it. Looks like more reinforcements on the way. The question is what good is it if Turkey won't let them into the Black Sea? Perhaps an airlift from Syria? Quote Four large Russian warships, possibly transporting troops and combat vehicles to Ukraine, were spotted near Japan on Wednesday, the Japanese military said. The Russian amphibious warfare ships were spotted by the Japanese military traveling west, and photos of the transport ships published by Japan's Defense Ministry showed what looked to be military vehicles on the deck of one of the vessels. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/russian-tank-landing-ships-spotted-near-japan-may-be-heading-to-ukraine Edited March 17, 2022 by OldSarge Just remembered about Syria 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, Haiduk said: Pryluky town area, Chernihiv oblast. Next ambushed convoy. One MLRS BM-27 Uragan damaged, other captured. Also Tigr and T-72B3 destroyed, but maybe this is other episodes arond this town Interesting to see improvised armor to counter fragments from artillery attacks. It seems the word is getting around that the battlefield is a dangerous place. Doesn't look very effective. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Is this add-on “armor” pieces of sheet metal? Lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Just now, Battlefront.com said: nteresting to see improvised armor to counter fragments from artillery attacks. This is against small arms in ambushes. UKR troops did the same in 2014 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sross112 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 4 hours ago, John Kettler said: domfluff, Believe the domain name reflects a concern of the site operator, if that's the right term. You seem to have seized on that domain name as an excuse to reject out of hand what's on the link. Did you bother to look at what Lt. Col., Ret., Douglas MacGregor said, or have you simply rejected it sight unseen because the domain name put you off? By the way, I could've used his interview with Tucker Carlson on his show on FOX, but then I'm sure there would've been a chorus rejecting the information because a) it was FOX and, b) on Tucker Carlson's show. In the interest of giving MacGregor's important thoughts and assessments a chance to be seen. without that TV overlay, I went and found what I needed in text form instead. And still got grief over it! Regards, John Kettler Did you read the article? He goes on how the UA is done, a bunch surrounded and will probably surrender soon and they are only able to do "pin pricks" to the RA. Then he goes on how everything is going according to plan and the reason the RA is making such slow progress is they are trying to not cause civilian casualties. I don't think there was a single thing he said that coincides with what we have seen in the video evidence just here in this thread. And of course he hammers Washington and hints to all this being NATO's fault. So a simple google search on the Colonel shows that he has been on RUSSIAN TV multiple times. Starting back during Kosovo where he was against the west interfering in the area and then in 2014 saying that Russia should be able to take any parts of Ukraine it wants. Seems like an unbiased analyst that is only presenting the facts with no political agenda. (Yes, this sentence is highly sarcastic.) I wonder what his salary in rubbles is?? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarjen Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 20 minutes ago, keas66 said: Please correct me if I am wrong - but this ability for opensource sites to view/track russian/nato aircraft is only possible because the planes/jets themselves have Identification systems turned on ? If they wanted to they could turn these trackers off and remove themselves from commercial tracking sites ? Yeah, i think it is more show of force and not the doomsday. But it shows that Putin is still playing with his KGB/FSB mindgames. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacillator Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 10 minutes ago, Haiduk said: One MLRS BM-27 Uragan damaged, other captured To my eyes, that looks like a 'before and after setting fire to' the same vehicle? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) So, Ukraine released part of troops from Odesa to counter-attack in Mykolaiv oblast. Units of 28th mech.brigade advanced SE from Mykolaiv and after clashes liberated several villages. Several days ago they liberated Posad-Pokrovske village in Kherson oblast (19 km SE from Mykolaiv on M-14 Kherson-Mykolaiv road). Today this was allowed to confirm officially. Edited March 17, 2022 by Haiduk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeondTheGrave Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Thats it. Pack it in. When youve Arnie turns against you thats it. (Sorry if this was posted before) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVulture Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) Ukraine say they've regained control of Posad-Pokrovske village halfway between Mikolaiv and Kherson https://t.me/ukrpravda_news/10770 Edited March 17, 2022 by TheVulture 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, Vacillator said: To my eyes, that looks like a 'before and after setting fire to' the same vehicle? Yes. Maybe a "doubling" of losses, maybe captured Uragan driven off before photoset 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbindc Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 16 minutes ago, sross112 said: Did you read the article? He goes on how the UA is done, a bunch surrounded and will probably surrender soon and they are only able to do "pin pricks" to the RA. Then he goes on how everything is going according to plan and the reason the RA is making such slow progress is they are trying to not cause civilian casualties. I don't think there was a single thing he said that coincides with what we have seen in the video evidence just here in this thread. And of course he hammers Washington and hints to all this being NATO's fault. So a simple google search on the Colonel shows that he has been on RUSSIAN TV multiple times. Starting back during Kosovo where he was against the west interfering in the area and then in 2014 saying that Russia should be able to take any parts of Ukraine it wants. Seems like an unbiased analyst that is only presenting the facts with no political agenda. (Yes, this sentence is highly sarcastic.) I wonder what his salary in rubbles is?? MacGregor is the sort who bangs on about "cosmopolitan elites". Ignore. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Great news! The bomb shelter under Drama Theater in Mariupol survived the hit of 500 kg bomb. Now the rubbles removing have started to reach the entrance of shelter. There is still unknow about possible casualties among people which were inside the buiding and out of shelter. 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) I was an architect in a previous life. Old theatres are very heavy stone construction, including the roof. Plus the seating area of the auditorium is very strongly built. These facts plus that it was "only" a 500kg bomb are what saved anyone still alive. I'd lay odds the angled & raise seating area took the brunt of the explosion, keeping it away from the ground floor/roof of the basement and with the shock wave channeled down through the thick foundational structure. Even so, a larger bomb, or worse, a second one, would probably have penetrated. Modern theatres would just disintegrate like balsa wood. Thank goodness there's survivors at all. My Polish-Ukrainian wife was in bits when she heard - she had literally just watched a walkthrough video the shelter had released. Horrifying. Russian pilots. Scum of the f*cking earth. Edited March 17, 2022 by Kinophile 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Claimed to be another intercepted call home from a Russian soldier: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/tfwild/intercepted_conversation_between_a_russian/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) @Kinophile Did you want to see AGS-17? Here is one - the photo of serviceman of 93rd mech. brigade somewhere in Sumy oblast And here other footage of this guy - destroyed Russian column. He claims in this column was 11 trucks, 2 tanks, SP-howitzer and BTR Edited March 17, 2022 by Haiduk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosuri Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, panzermartin said: I think as he threatened, maybe a russian Kristallnacht is underway. And targeted oligarchs are fleeing? From blitz to purge in three weeks. Must be a record of sorts. Edited March 17, 2022 by mosuri 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ts4EVER Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 6 minutes ago, akd said: Claimed to be another intercepted call home from a Russian soldier: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/tfwild/intercepted_conversation_between_a_russian/ These seem a bit too easy to fake to be taken at face value. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 4 minutes ago, Haiduk said: Great news! The bomb shelter under Drama Theater in Mariupol survived the hit of 500 kg bomb. Now the rubbles removing have started to reach the entrance of shelter. There is still unknow about possible casualties among people which were inside the buiding and out of shelter. That is GREAT news. Was there one of the old Soviet shelters under the building? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kraze Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 1 hour ago, panzermartin said: Yes of course, just wanted to point that unless an agreement is reached somehow, there is no end in sight militarily There is. He's running out of cannon meat and has to pull it from areas he shouldn't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 7 hours ago, kraze said: "Marina Ovsiannikova burst onto the set live" Keep believin' Looks like that psyop was indeed targeted at the West because prior to the stunt it became known that EU was voting for sanctions on the next day that included Konstantin Ernst, an owner of the First Channel, as well as the channel itself. His hope was probably that if he shows that "not all journos are pro-war" EU will not throw the hammer down on him and his biz as those "good russians" will suffer. But EU did. And that court case against Ovsiannikova, where she was accused of all the horrors with seemingly having to serve 15 years in prison, immediately ended with... her having to pay a fine of $100. That's all folks. I was ready to give her the benefit of the doubt, but that punishment... yeah that is BS. I have had worse here in the US for less. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey_Fox Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Erwin said: "that court case against Ovsiannikova, where she was accused of all the horrors with seemingly having to serve 15 years in prison, immediately ended with... her having to pay a fine of $100." Virtually no one has commented on her incredibly mild "slap on the wrist" $100(!) fine considering how harsh the "anti Russian" laws that have been passed. There has to be a much larger story here. Either she is a very connected VIP or someone is certainly protecting her... maybe evidence of a split with Putin by some powerful people. It comes out at a week's wages of the median income in Russia. Edited March 17, 2022 by Grey_Fox 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 China is going to take the Russian Far East into "protective Custody" without firing a shot at this rate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) 13 minutes ago, dan/california said: That is GREAT news. Was there one of the old Soviet shelters under the building? I believe so. I seem to recall that the theatre is a post-war Soviet project, and these often included bomb shelters. EDIT: yes, built in 1960. Here is a photo I took in 2018: Edited March 17, 2022 by akd 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 5 hours ago, John Kettler said: domfluff, Believe the domain name reflects a concern of the site operator, if that's the right term. You seem to have seized on that domain name as an excuse to reject out of hand what's on the link. Did you bother to look at what Lt. Col., Ret., Douglas MacGregor said, or have you simply rejected it sight unseen because the domain name put you off? By the way, I could've used his interview with Tucker Carlson on his show on FOX, but then I'm sure there would've been a chorus rejecting the information because a) it was FOX and, b) on Tucker Carlson's show. In the interest of giving MacGregor's important thoughts and assessments a chance to be seen. without that TV overlay, I went and found what I needed in text form instead. And still got grief over it! Regards, John Kettler Steve already gave you a warning about spreading this stuff. I would heed that as he is pretty passionate about this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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