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"Bro.. its background music. It isn't supposed to be groundbreaking original music. People use it for studying, Cafe background music, while cleaning the house, etc...",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do.",
">\n\n\nand they are very much different from what the original music was supposed to be.\n\nHow to say \"I don't understand the concept of covers\" without actually saying it ..",
">\n\nI know what a cover is. I also love when an artist put their own style and soul into a cover but Lo-Fi seems like low effort generic bullshit.",
">\n\nJave you heard about nightcore?",
">\n\nYou gotta give the majority of unoriginal ‘artists’ some credit, what else would they be capable of doing?",
">\n\nAs someone who somewhat enjoys lofi, I've never actually heard a \"cover\" from a lofi artist. Covers in general are never very good anyways, I think that's what you're really complaining about",
">\n\nyeah and also: If you just take an existing song and make it slower or faster, youre not a musician. Youre not even a DJ. I know you want to think that you are, but youre not.",
">\n\nI think you are missing the point of the music. Might as well say instrumental music needs more lyrics.",
">\n\nAllow me to paraphrase for confused OP. Basically, is what he is saying is the covers all sound the exact same, with no variation. Think about it this way. You can listen to the same rapper over and over and not get bored of it because every song is different. Lofi covers aren't like that. With the exception of the lyrics the all follow the same flow, notes, melody, etc.\nHope this makes sense, and I'm not taking sides, as I've never listened to lofi intentionally.",
">\n\nSomeone listens to it to enjoy not to just get busy? I think it helps to concentrate and it’s good to play on the background, it’s not supposed to be unique and fast"
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I think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do. Take a pop song, strip it back to acoustic guitar, female singer with a crackly "indie girl" voice with a curious take on how to pronounce their vowels and voila - perfect music for an advert or to automatically tug at the heartstrings. It is mostly just overdone, good examples are lost in the mire.
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"Bro.. its background music. It isn't supposed to be groundbreaking original music. People use it for studying, Cafe background music, while cleaning the house, etc...",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do.",
">\n\n\nand they are very much different from what the original music was supposed to be.\n\nHow to say \"I don't understand the concept of covers\" without actually saying it ..",
">\n\nI know what a cover is. I also love when an artist put their own style and soul into a cover but Lo-Fi seems like low effort generic bullshit.",
">\n\nJave you heard about nightcore?",
">\n\nYou gotta give the majority of unoriginal ‘artists’ some credit, what else would they be capable of doing?",
">\n\nAs someone who somewhat enjoys lofi, I've never actually heard a \"cover\" from a lofi artist. Covers in general are never very good anyways, I think that's what you're really complaining about",
">\n\nyeah and also: If you just take an existing song and make it slower or faster, youre not a musician. Youre not even a DJ. I know you want to think that you are, but youre not.",
">\n\nI think you are missing the point of the music. Might as well say instrumental music needs more lyrics.",
">\n\nAllow me to paraphrase for confused OP. Basically, is what he is saying is the covers all sound the exact same, with no variation. Think about it this way. You can listen to the same rapper over and over and not get bored of it because every song is different. Lofi covers aren't like that. With the exception of the lyrics the all follow the same flow, notes, melody, etc.\nHope this makes sense, and I'm not taking sides, as I've never listened to lofi intentionally.",
">\n\nSomeone listens to it to enjoy not to just get busy? I think it helps to concentrate and it’s good to play on the background, it’s not supposed to be unique and fast",
">\n\nExactly."
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OP does not understand the purpose of lo-fi LOL
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"Bro.. its background music. It isn't supposed to be groundbreaking original music. People use it for studying, Cafe background music, while cleaning the house, etc...",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do.",
">\n\n\nand they are very much different from what the original music was supposed to be.\n\nHow to say \"I don't understand the concept of covers\" without actually saying it ..",
">\n\nI know what a cover is. I also love when an artist put their own style and soul into a cover but Lo-Fi seems like low effort generic bullshit.",
">\n\nJave you heard about nightcore?",
">\n\nYou gotta give the majority of unoriginal ‘artists’ some credit, what else would they be capable of doing?",
">\n\nAs someone who somewhat enjoys lofi, I've never actually heard a \"cover\" from a lofi artist. Covers in general are never very good anyways, I think that's what you're really complaining about",
">\n\nyeah and also: If you just take an existing song and make it slower or faster, youre not a musician. Youre not even a DJ. I know you want to think that you are, but youre not.",
">\n\nI think you are missing the point of the music. Might as well say instrumental music needs more lyrics.",
">\n\nAllow me to paraphrase for confused OP. Basically, is what he is saying is the covers all sound the exact same, with no variation. Think about it this way. You can listen to the same rapper over and over and not get bored of it because every song is different. Lofi covers aren't like that. With the exception of the lyrics the all follow the same flow, notes, melody, etc.\nHope this makes sense, and I'm not taking sides, as I've never listened to lofi intentionally.",
">\n\nSomeone listens to it to enjoy not to just get busy? I think it helps to concentrate and it’s good to play on the background, it’s not supposed to be unique and fast",
">\n\nExactly.",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do. Take a pop song, strip it back to acoustic guitar, female singer with a crackly \"indie girl\" voice with a curious take on how to pronounce their vowels and voila - perfect music for an advert or to automatically tug at the heartstrings. It is mostly just overdone, good examples are lost in the mire."
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Couldn’t agree more. Take classic song. Reduce tempo, add twee X-Factor style voice, piano and nylon acoustic. Wait for next John Lewis Christmas advert. Done. Low effort and rubbish.
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"Bro.. its background music. It isn't supposed to be groundbreaking original music. People use it for studying, Cafe background music, while cleaning the house, etc...",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do.",
">\n\n\nand they are very much different from what the original music was supposed to be.\n\nHow to say \"I don't understand the concept of covers\" without actually saying it ..",
">\n\nI know what a cover is. I also love when an artist put their own style and soul into a cover but Lo-Fi seems like low effort generic bullshit.",
">\n\nJave you heard about nightcore?",
">\n\nYou gotta give the majority of unoriginal ‘artists’ some credit, what else would they be capable of doing?",
">\n\nAs someone who somewhat enjoys lofi, I've never actually heard a \"cover\" from a lofi artist. Covers in general are never very good anyways, I think that's what you're really complaining about",
">\n\nyeah and also: If you just take an existing song and make it slower or faster, youre not a musician. Youre not even a DJ. I know you want to think that you are, but youre not.",
">\n\nI think you are missing the point of the music. Might as well say instrumental music needs more lyrics.",
">\n\nAllow me to paraphrase for confused OP. Basically, is what he is saying is the covers all sound the exact same, with no variation. Think about it this way. You can listen to the same rapper over and over and not get bored of it because every song is different. Lofi covers aren't like that. With the exception of the lyrics the all follow the same flow, notes, melody, etc.\nHope this makes sense, and I'm not taking sides, as I've never listened to lofi intentionally.",
">\n\nSomeone listens to it to enjoy not to just get busy? I think it helps to concentrate and it’s good to play on the background, it’s not supposed to be unique and fast",
">\n\nExactly.",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do. Take a pop song, strip it back to acoustic guitar, female singer with a crackly \"indie girl\" voice with a curious take on how to pronounce their vowels and voila - perfect music for an advert or to automatically tug at the heartstrings. It is mostly just overdone, good examples are lost in the mire.",
">\n\nOP does not understand the purpose of lo-fi LOL"
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Generally agree but “Mad World” was brilliant.
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"Bro.. its background music. It isn't supposed to be groundbreaking original music. People use it for studying, Cafe background music, while cleaning the house, etc...",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do.",
">\n\n\nand they are very much different from what the original music was supposed to be.\n\nHow to say \"I don't understand the concept of covers\" without actually saying it ..",
">\n\nI know what a cover is. I also love when an artist put their own style and soul into a cover but Lo-Fi seems like low effort generic bullshit.",
">\n\nJave you heard about nightcore?",
">\n\nYou gotta give the majority of unoriginal ‘artists’ some credit, what else would they be capable of doing?",
">\n\nAs someone who somewhat enjoys lofi, I've never actually heard a \"cover\" from a lofi artist. Covers in general are never very good anyways, I think that's what you're really complaining about",
">\n\nyeah and also: If you just take an existing song and make it slower or faster, youre not a musician. Youre not even a DJ. I know you want to think that you are, but youre not.",
">\n\nI think you are missing the point of the music. Might as well say instrumental music needs more lyrics.",
">\n\nAllow me to paraphrase for confused OP. Basically, is what he is saying is the covers all sound the exact same, with no variation. Think about it this way. You can listen to the same rapper over and over and not get bored of it because every song is different. Lofi covers aren't like that. With the exception of the lyrics the all follow the same flow, notes, melody, etc.\nHope this makes sense, and I'm not taking sides, as I've never listened to lofi intentionally.",
">\n\nSomeone listens to it to enjoy not to just get busy? I think it helps to concentrate and it’s good to play on the background, it’s not supposed to be unique and fast",
">\n\nExactly.",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do. Take a pop song, strip it back to acoustic guitar, female singer with a crackly \"indie girl\" voice with a curious take on how to pronounce their vowels and voila - perfect music for an advert or to automatically tug at the heartstrings. It is mostly just overdone, good examples are lost in the mire.",
">\n\nOP does not understand the purpose of lo-fi LOL",
">\n\nCouldn’t agree more. Take classic song. Reduce tempo, add twee X-Factor style voice, piano and nylon acoustic. Wait for next John Lewis Christmas advert. Done. Low effort and rubbish."
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I love it. I can't stand songs with intros that last like 1 or 3 minutes.
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"Bro.. its background music. It isn't supposed to be groundbreaking original music. People use it for studying, Cafe background music, while cleaning the house, etc...",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do.",
">\n\n\nand they are very much different from what the original music was supposed to be.\n\nHow to say \"I don't understand the concept of covers\" without actually saying it ..",
">\n\nI know what a cover is. I also love when an artist put their own style and soul into a cover but Lo-Fi seems like low effort generic bullshit.",
">\n\nJave you heard about nightcore?",
">\n\nYou gotta give the majority of unoriginal ‘artists’ some credit, what else would they be capable of doing?",
">\n\nAs someone who somewhat enjoys lofi, I've never actually heard a \"cover\" from a lofi artist. Covers in general are never very good anyways, I think that's what you're really complaining about",
">\n\nyeah and also: If you just take an existing song and make it slower or faster, youre not a musician. Youre not even a DJ. I know you want to think that you are, but youre not.",
">\n\nI think you are missing the point of the music. Might as well say instrumental music needs more lyrics.",
">\n\nAllow me to paraphrase for confused OP. Basically, is what he is saying is the covers all sound the exact same, with no variation. Think about it this way. You can listen to the same rapper over and over and not get bored of it because every song is different. Lofi covers aren't like that. With the exception of the lyrics the all follow the same flow, notes, melody, etc.\nHope this makes sense, and I'm not taking sides, as I've never listened to lofi intentionally.",
">\n\nSomeone listens to it to enjoy not to just get busy? I think it helps to concentrate and it’s good to play on the background, it’s not supposed to be unique and fast",
">\n\nExactly.",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do. Take a pop song, strip it back to acoustic guitar, female singer with a crackly \"indie girl\" voice with a curious take on how to pronounce their vowels and voila - perfect music for an advert or to automatically tug at the heartstrings. It is mostly just overdone, good examples are lost in the mire.",
">\n\nOP does not understand the purpose of lo-fi LOL",
">\n\nCouldn’t agree more. Take classic song. Reduce tempo, add twee X-Factor style voice, piano and nylon acoustic. Wait for next John Lewis Christmas advert. Done. Low effort and rubbish.",
">\n\nGenerally agree but “Mad World” was brilliant."
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"Bro.. its background music. It isn't supposed to be groundbreaking original music. People use it for studying, Cafe background music, while cleaning the house, etc...",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do.",
">\n\n\nand they are very much different from what the original music was supposed to be.\n\nHow to say \"I don't understand the concept of covers\" without actually saying it ..",
">\n\nI know what a cover is. I also love when an artist put their own style and soul into a cover but Lo-Fi seems like low effort generic bullshit.",
">\n\nJave you heard about nightcore?",
">\n\nYou gotta give the majority of unoriginal ‘artists’ some credit, what else would they be capable of doing?",
">\n\nAs someone who somewhat enjoys lofi, I've never actually heard a \"cover\" from a lofi artist. Covers in general are never very good anyways, I think that's what you're really complaining about",
">\n\nyeah and also: If you just take an existing song and make it slower or faster, youre not a musician. Youre not even a DJ. I know you want to think that you are, but youre not.",
">\n\nI think you are missing the point of the music. Might as well say instrumental music needs more lyrics.",
">\n\nAllow me to paraphrase for confused OP. Basically, is what he is saying is the covers all sound the exact same, with no variation. Think about it this way. You can listen to the same rapper over and over and not get bored of it because every song is different. Lofi covers aren't like that. With the exception of the lyrics the all follow the same flow, notes, melody, etc.\nHope this makes sense, and I'm not taking sides, as I've never listened to lofi intentionally.",
">\n\nSomeone listens to it to enjoy not to just get busy? I think it helps to concentrate and it’s good to play on the background, it’s not supposed to be unique and fast",
">\n\nExactly.",
">\n\nI think people are realising that it is a cheap and lazy thing to do. Take a pop song, strip it back to acoustic guitar, female singer with a crackly \"indie girl\" voice with a curious take on how to pronounce their vowels and voila - perfect music for an advert or to automatically tug at the heartstrings. It is mostly just overdone, good examples are lost in the mire.",
">\n\nOP does not understand the purpose of lo-fi LOL",
">\n\nCouldn’t agree more. Take classic song. Reduce tempo, add twee X-Factor style voice, piano and nylon acoustic. Wait for next John Lewis Christmas advert. Done. Low effort and rubbish.",
">\n\nGenerally agree but “Mad World” was brilliant.",
">\n\nI love it. I can't stand songs with intros that last like 1 or 3 minutes."
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Wish we could provide more.
No country should suffer Russian aggression.
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Who didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.
Same goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.
Ukraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression."
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For those who say "Iran is already sanctioned enough":
This is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time."
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Also this is a typical "argument" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.
For each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient."
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For each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction.
It's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already."
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With other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough"
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And also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance."
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Interesting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory."
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Reports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar.
The one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously.
That level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress."
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I suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on.
But of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now."
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You just know when they announce they "killed" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile."
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United24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine
Support Ukraine Now - other ways to help
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat."
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Every responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, "holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help"
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It is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months."
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On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.
I mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.
A lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago."
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The fuck is a "foreign intelligence provocation" in this context?
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing."
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Can't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?"
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Ah, I see
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear."
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Good news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see"
] |
>
What’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot."
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>
There are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style"
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That’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators."
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"Nazi's have little love for Jews"
"KKK members not too fond of black folks"
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go"
] |
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It's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\""
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Add to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System
Quantity: 1
Shipping: Ukraine
Giftwrap: Yes
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run."
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes"
] |
>
There was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?"
] |
>
If I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.
So while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both."
] |
>
I'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit."
] |
>
We have many many programs which generally boil down to "Train the Trainer".
We have been doing this for quite some time.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition."
] |
>
This is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a "bomb shelter in Soledar".
If Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time."
] |
>
Hmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim."
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>
agreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger."
] |
>
It seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.
If I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet.
A bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option."
] |
>
Absolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.
Ukraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support."
] |
>
I just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again."
] |
>
They have different uses, pros and cons.
The wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.
The bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley."
] |
>
...wolfhound is better armored,..
I do not believe that is correct.
MRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm.
Bradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams.
Armor being "good" or "bad" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank."
] |
>
The 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.
Source: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against."
] |
>
Strelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated"
] |
>
I found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature."
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In French here
Nothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.
The French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?"
] |
>
I heared the number 30 on France24 too.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC."
] |
>
Daily DefMon3 update
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too."
] |
>
EDIT: another update:
Russian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.
Yuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:
Our troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.
Our command pays great attention to this area.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination.
Not everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update"
] |
>
Any person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.
Grew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system.
Proceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.
Became fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of.
Quite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.
It’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.
In many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”.
Putin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?
Putin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.
Putin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.
|
[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation."
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Well said
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule."
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Ukrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news
The enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.
And according to faux-Girkin:
Soledar - critically difficult, to the end.
46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.
[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said"
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I think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this.
But there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna."
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I thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.
Btw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements."
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We did.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war."
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I really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: "lack of mastery of subjects". Such an understated way to put it.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did."
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No I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it."
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From 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):
112470 (+710) Personnel
3084 (+4) Tanks
6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles
2073 (+4) Artillery Systems
434 (+0) MLRS
217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems
285 (+0) Aircraft
275 (+0) Helicopters
1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level
723 (+0) Missiles
17 (+1) Warships / Boats
4817 (+8) Other vehicles
183 (+0) Special Equipment
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion."
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I wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment"
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Im guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left."
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Putin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.
The way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger.
I agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them"
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Yep.
The world needs to move on from dictators.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy."
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Non democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators."
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I agree.
That is the definition of democracy.
Demo = the people
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed."
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Cracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people"
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How the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country
Another look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators"
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Latest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:
- "the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions"
- "AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region".
Since there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button"
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On ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there).
If that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.
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[
"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive."
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as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there
well this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.
they are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside."
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I still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon"
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Russia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?"
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are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.
And if it is: Bravo to them!
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true."
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!"
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Ukraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…"
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Absolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river."
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I feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted.
Obviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!"
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On behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :
We know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a "small man" as in small in comparison to a great man, not "small man" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry."
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The Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding."
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Do not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless.
He, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability.
This is just a pot of crap. 💩
The response of "nothing matters" or "this changes nothing" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing!
See through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans!
Remember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back."
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Agreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps."
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Several high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of).
I am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?"
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I can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The "exodus" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.
The war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.
The only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them."
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True, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a "zero," they aren't a "plus."
Combined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many "punches" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine.
I am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally."
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Live Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases."
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RU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!
World: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?
RU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!
World: Riiiiight /s
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
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">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
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That goes in line with all the "humanitarian aid" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
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">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
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">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s"
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I'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
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">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian."
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Yeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like "If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it."
If only we were that proactive.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS."
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It's disconcerting how the Russian ethos is that collapsing standards of living and hundreds of thousands of dead are a price worth paying so long as you destroy the neighbor you invaded. A cancer on the face of the planet.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.",
">\n\nYeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like \"If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it.\"\nIf only we were that proactive."
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Russia and Wagner likely in control of most of Soledar, says UK defence ministry
Russia and Wagner have made tactical advances in the last four days, the ministry says, in what it described as “highly likely an effort to envelop Bakhmut from the north, and to disrupt lines of communication”. It adds that Russia is, however, “unlikely to envelop the town imminently because Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in depth and control over supply routes”.
US considering sending Stryker armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine - report
Russia and Wagner 'likely in control of most of' Soledar, says UK defence ministry
Almost no walls left’ in Soledar, says Zelenskiy, as fierce fighting continues
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
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">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.",
">\n\nYeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like \"If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it.\"\nIf only we were that proactive.",
">\n\nIt's disconcerting how the Russian ethos is that collapsing standards of living and hundreds of thousands of dead are a price worth paying so long as you destroy the neighbor you invaded. A cancer on the face of the planet."
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
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">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.",
">\n\nYeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like \"If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it.\"\nIf only we were that proactive.",
">\n\nIt's disconcerting how the Russian ethos is that collapsing standards of living and hundreds of thousands of dead are a price worth paying so long as you destroy the neighbor you invaded. A cancer on the face of the planet.",
">\n\nRussia and Wagner likely in control of most of Soledar, says UK defence ministry\n\nRussia and Wagner have made tactical advances in the last four days, the ministry says, in what it described as “highly likely an effort to envelop Bakhmut from the north, and to disrupt lines of communication”. It adds that Russia is, however, “unlikely to envelop the town imminently because Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in depth and control over supply routes”.\nUS considering sending Stryker armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine - report\nRussia and Wagner 'likely in control of most of' Soledar, says UK defence ministry\nAlmost no walls left’ in Soledar, says Zelenskiy, as fierce fighting continues"
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Their losses in the last 24 hours are HUGE and if this major attack fails they are checkmated in the area.
Let us hope so! Slava Ukraini!
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.",
">\n\nYeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like \"If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it.\"\nIf only we were that proactive.",
">\n\nIt's disconcerting how the Russian ethos is that collapsing standards of living and hundreds of thousands of dead are a price worth paying so long as you destroy the neighbor you invaded. A cancer on the face of the planet.",
">\n\nRussia and Wagner likely in control of most of Soledar, says UK defence ministry\n\nRussia and Wagner have made tactical advances in the last four days, the ministry says, in what it described as “highly likely an effort to envelop Bakhmut from the north, and to disrupt lines of communication”. It adds that Russia is, however, “unlikely to envelop the town imminently because Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in depth and control over supply routes”.\nUS considering sending Stryker armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine - report\nRussia and Wagner 'likely in control of most of' Soledar, says UK defence ministry\nAlmost no walls left’ in Soledar, says Zelenskiy, as fierce fighting continues",
">\n\nI hope UKR was able to retreat."
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Honestly the second the onslaught stops, Ukraine should slam reserves into them and push them back in a counterattack. At some point the Russians are going to break again like they did in Kharkiv.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.",
">\n\nYeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like \"If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it.\"\nIf only we were that proactive.",
">\n\nIt's disconcerting how the Russian ethos is that collapsing standards of living and hundreds of thousands of dead are a price worth paying so long as you destroy the neighbor you invaded. A cancer on the face of the planet.",
">\n\nRussia and Wagner likely in control of most of Soledar, says UK defence ministry\n\nRussia and Wagner have made tactical advances in the last four days, the ministry says, in what it described as “highly likely an effort to envelop Bakhmut from the north, and to disrupt lines of communication”. It adds that Russia is, however, “unlikely to envelop the town imminently because Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in depth and control over supply routes”.\nUS considering sending Stryker armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine - report\nRussia and Wagner 'likely in control of most of' Soledar, says UK defence ministry\nAlmost no walls left’ in Soledar, says Zelenskiy, as fierce fighting continues",
">\n\nI hope UKR was able to retreat.",
">\n\n\nTheir losses in the last 24 hours are HUGE and if this major attack fails they are checkmated in the area.\n\nLet us hope so! Slava Ukraini!"
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I'm sure Ukraine is weighting all the options. No one is more eager to kick out Russia than them :)
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
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">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
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">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.",
">\n\nYeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like \"If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it.\"\nIf only we were that proactive.",
">\n\nIt's disconcerting how the Russian ethos is that collapsing standards of living and hundreds of thousands of dead are a price worth paying so long as you destroy the neighbor you invaded. A cancer on the face of the planet.",
">\n\nRussia and Wagner likely in control of most of Soledar, says UK defence ministry\n\nRussia and Wagner have made tactical advances in the last four days, the ministry says, in what it described as “highly likely an effort to envelop Bakhmut from the north, and to disrupt lines of communication”. It adds that Russia is, however, “unlikely to envelop the town imminently because Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in depth and control over supply routes”.\nUS considering sending Stryker armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine - report\nRussia and Wagner 'likely in control of most of' Soledar, says UK defence ministry\nAlmost no walls left’ in Soledar, says Zelenskiy, as fierce fighting continues",
">\n\nI hope UKR was able to retreat.",
">\n\n\nTheir losses in the last 24 hours are HUGE and if this major attack fails they are checkmated in the area.\n\nLet us hope so! Slava Ukraini!",
">\n\nHonestly the second the onslaught stops, Ukraine should slam reserves into them and push them back in a counterattack. At some point the Russians are going to break again like they did in Kharkiv."
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
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">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
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">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.",
">\n\nYeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like \"If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it.\"\nIf only we were that proactive.",
">\n\nIt's disconcerting how the Russian ethos is that collapsing standards of living and hundreds of thousands of dead are a price worth paying so long as you destroy the neighbor you invaded. A cancer on the face of the planet.",
">\n\nRussia and Wagner likely in control of most of Soledar, says UK defence ministry\n\nRussia and Wagner have made tactical advances in the last four days, the ministry says, in what it described as “highly likely an effort to envelop Bakhmut from the north, and to disrupt lines of communication”. It adds that Russia is, however, “unlikely to envelop the town imminently because Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in depth and control over supply routes”.\nUS considering sending Stryker armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine - report\nRussia and Wagner 'likely in control of most of' Soledar, says UK defence ministry\nAlmost no walls left’ in Soledar, says Zelenskiy, as fierce fighting continues",
">\n\nI hope UKR was able to retreat.",
">\n\n\nTheir losses in the last 24 hours are HUGE and if this major attack fails they are checkmated in the area.\n\nLet us hope so! Slava Ukraini!",
">\n\nHonestly the second the onslaught stops, Ukraine should slam reserves into them and push them back in a counterattack. At some point the Russians are going to break again like they did in Kharkiv.",
">\n\nI'm sure Ukraine is weighting all the options. No one is more eager to kick out Russia than them :)"
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Yes and no. I think Xi was indeed well aware of the invason but from what I read it seems Putin lied to Xi's face and "sold" him a limited invasion of the Donbass, not of the entirety of Ukraine. And it's pretty obvious China has been very pissed at Russia since then.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.",
">\n\nYeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like \"If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it.\"\nIf only we were that proactive.",
">\n\nIt's disconcerting how the Russian ethos is that collapsing standards of living and hundreds of thousands of dead are a price worth paying so long as you destroy the neighbor you invaded. A cancer on the face of the planet.",
">\n\nRussia and Wagner likely in control of most of Soledar, says UK defence ministry\n\nRussia and Wagner have made tactical advances in the last four days, the ministry says, in what it described as “highly likely an effort to envelop Bakhmut from the north, and to disrupt lines of communication”. It adds that Russia is, however, “unlikely to envelop the town imminently because Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in depth and control over supply routes”.\nUS considering sending Stryker armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine - report\nRussia and Wagner 'likely in control of most of' Soledar, says UK defence ministry\nAlmost no walls left’ in Soledar, says Zelenskiy, as fierce fighting continues",
">\n\nI hope UKR was able to retreat.",
">\n\n\nTheir losses in the last 24 hours are HUGE and if this major attack fails they are checkmated in the area.\n\nLet us hope so! Slava Ukraini!",
">\n\nHonestly the second the onslaught stops, Ukraine should slam reserves into them and push them back in a counterattack. At some point the Russians are going to break again like they did in Kharkiv.",
">\n\nI'm sure Ukraine is weighting all the options. No one is more eager to kick out Russia than them :)",
">\n\nYeah, I'm gonna call bullshit on them not knowing."
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I might be able to believe that if it wasn't shouted prior to the invasion by US intel what was about to happen. Sorry.
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"Wish we could provide more.\nNo country should suffer Russian aggression.",
">\n\nWho didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going. Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.\nSame goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks. Same goes for mobiks.\nUkraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time.",
">\n\nFor those who say \"Iran is already sanctioned enough\":\nThis is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient.",
">\n\nAlso this is a typical \"argument\" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already.",
">\n\n\nFor each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. \n\nIt's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough",
">\n\nWith other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance.",
">\n\nAnd also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory.",
">\n\nInteresting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress.",
">\n\nReports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar. \n\nThe one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. \n\nThat level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today. Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.",
">\n\nI suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. \nBut of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.",
">\n\nYou just know when they announce they \"killed\" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count. Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat.",
">\n\nUnited24 - donate directly to government of Ukraine\nSupport Ukraine Now - other ways to help",
">\n\nEvery responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, \"holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months.",
">\n\nIt is said that everyone assumes that the next war will be fought the same way as the last one (by which they mean that warfare evolves really quickly). On the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.",
">\n\n\nOn the other hand nobody could have predicted that Russia will be fighting this war like it's 100 years ago.\n\nI mean, there's a reason why USA's HIMARS has just a little bit more range than the Russian guns. And I like to think that the US Weapon manufacturers knew what specs would be good specs here.\nA lot of HIMARS weapon tests I've seen on Youtube has a Russian artillery gun as its target. The weapon manufacturers knew what they were doing.",
">\n\nThe fuck is a \"foreign intelligence provocation\" in this context?",
">\n\nCan't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear.",
">\n\nAh, I see",
">\n\nGood news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot.",
">\n\nWhat’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style",
">\n\nThere are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators.",
">\n\nThat’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go",
">\n\n\"Nazi's have little love for Jews\"\n\"KKK members not too fond of black folks\"",
">\n\nIt's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run.",
">\n\nAdd to Cart: U.S. Missile Defense System\nQuantity: 1\nShipping: Ukraine\nGiftwrap: Yes",
">\n\nReturns accepted until Jan 30th, 2023.\nWould you like a gift reciept?",
">\n\nThere was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.",
">\n\nIf I remember that story right, the first of those planes won't be delivered until 2026.\nSo while Ukraine may eventually get some free-or-almost-free, long-in-the-tooth jets from the Canadians, that could take quite a while. On the plus side, by the time they might get them, they'd be very much up to speed on NATO kit.",
">\n\nI'm saying Canada might offer some CF-18s in the near future if they're in decent condition.",
">\n\nWe have many many programs which generally boil down to \"Train the Trainer\".\nWe have been doing this for quite some time.",
">\n\nThis is a good update. The situation is still fluid. Sounds like the Ukrainian defenses held well enough, and hopefully reinforcements and new plans are ready.\n\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n\nThe overall Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi is in Soledar himself. He took some photos yesterday and there are some photos just coming in from today showing him in a \"bomb shelter in Soledar\". \nIf Syrskyi is personally supervising from a bunker in Soledar, I suppose the chances that Soledar will surrender are rather slim.",
">\n\nHmmm, he's a really good general - would prefer for him to be out of personal danger.",
">\n\nagreed, but having a general that close is great for morale and he might be able to call in support that otherwise wouldn't have been an option.",
">\n\nIt seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.\nIf I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. \nA bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support.",
">\n\nAbsolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.\nUkraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.",
">\n\nI just wish that wolfhound was a Bradley.",
">\n\nThey have different uses, pros and cons.\nThe wolfhound is better armored, more likely to survive mine, ied, and RPG attacks.\nThe bradley would be more capable in terms of firepower, especially anti-tank.",
">\n\n\n...wolfhound is better armored,..\n\nI do not believe that is correct. \nMRAPs have great armor protection compared to a Humvee or truck/bus. Also great compared to a ballist vest or helm. \nBradleys have fragile lingerie armor when compared to a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams. \nArmor being \"good\" or \"bad\" is relative to the class of vehicle and what weapons you expect to defend against.",
">\n\nThe 80 civilian contractors that were killed by a HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka on December 16th were not there to rebuild infrastructure as LPR officials have claimed, but rather to dig trenches.\nSource: Radio Svoboda investigation | Google-translated",
">\n\nStrelkov is a dead man walking. He'll never get what he wants, which is a great thing all around. He's pissing off a lot of people and must be becoming a liability for whoever it is that's protecting him. He might be Patrushev's creature.",
">\n\nI found no mention of the number of donated AMX-10 RC. Is that a significant one or just a symbolic one ?",
">\n\nIn French here\nNothing official yet but it would be 10 first then 30 total for the first wave.\nThe French army is waiting for the periodic delivery of the Jaguar to the active unit in order to free some AMX-10 RC.",
">\n\nI heared the number 30 on France24 too.",
">\n\nDaily DefMon3 update",
">\n\nEDIT: another update:\n\nRussian channels are spreading misinformation about the situation on the front lines. None of are troops are encircled.\n\nYuri Butusov who is currently in Soledar posted this in his Telegram channel about an hour ago:\n\nOur troops are doing everything possible, and some units are doing the impossible. Several paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade got frostbite, one of the soldiers will have ten toes amputated tomorrow, as they have been fighting in the cold for many days and remain in their positions for as long as possible. The brigade is well managed and motivated, many fighters have opened their personal count or significantly increased the number of enemies eliminated, and the 105 mm artillery is very accurate.\nOur command pays great attention to this area.\nThe command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in this area is in contact with every unit, this is crucial for control and coordination. \nNot everyone is performing well, but we will talk about problems later. Now it is important that we have significant forces in the area and every opportunity to act in accordance with the situation.",
">\n\nAny person with half a brain sees the similarities between Putin and Hitler’s personal histories.\nGrew up during a patriotic time and early in adulthood experience the collapse of that system. \nProceeded by years of hardship for their entire nation and a reduction in it’s total territory.\nBecame fervently ambitious about re-establishing the glory that the weak leaders of the past had destroyed, that an outside force had deprived them of. \nQuite literally, Putin, Hitler and many other people across history and across the entire world have developed this same deluded view of the world due to their personal history.\nIt’s a psychological development effect that happens when certain people go through nationalistic indoctrination and then in early adulthood experience the collapse of that system and the longing for the re-establishment of the past glory.\nIn many ways it resembles WWII. Putin invades Chechnya, but it’s pushed aside because it isn’t important and the territorial dispute is “reasonable”. \nPutin invades Georgia. OK, 2nd invasion, but still seems reasonable-ish and what can you realistically do about it anyway?\nPutin invades Crimea and the Donbas… OK the pattern is emerging and encroaching further into Europe.\nPutin stages a blitzkrieg of the entire nation of Ukraine… OK, now we’re at the “France never could have seen it coming!” Phase and it finally clicks that Putin won’t stop until he has East Germany back under Soviet rule.",
">\n\nWell said",
">\n\nUkrainian MoD update from just now seems to have good news\n\nThe enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Lyman directions, and is trying to improve the tactical position in the Kupyan direction. He concentrates his efforts on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, without success.\n\nAnd according to faux-Girkin:\n\nSoledar - critically difficult, to the end.\n46th Airmobile Brigade at the moment practically recaptures the heroism of 36th and Azov from this spring.\n\n[Edit] Ukrainians apparently now claim to be in control of Kuzmine, last village on the road to Kreminna.",
">\n\nI think Kuzmine happened some time back. It was posted then that Russia was shelling it and Ukraine repelling attacks there. The conclusion then was that yes they have it and are now outside Kreminna. Ukraine didn't announce it, so it's unnoticed. Though this front doesn't seem to get any attention, I'm not even sure there have been any map changes to reflect this. \nBut there's a reason Russia moved their administration staff out of Kreminna and supposedly added reinforcements.",
">\n\nI thought they removed him after the last debacle but he's back and with more power. Amazing.\nBtw not connected or anything but didn't France get rid of their head of intelligence because he failed in his job about this war.",
">\n\nWe did.",
">\n\nI really like one of the reasons given for sacking him: \"lack of mastery of subjects\". Such an understated way to put it.",
">\n\nNo I think this is right. We had the intelligence, but the interpretation was invalid because it was estimated that it would make no sense to launch the attack when acting rationale. The issue was that Putin acted irrationally based on our intelligence data, which is something that surprised us. This interpretation factor turned valid data into a wrong conclusion.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 10.01.2023 (Day 321) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n112470 (+710) Personnel\n3084 (+4) Tanks\n6154 (+7) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2073 (+4) Artillery Systems\n434 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n275 (+0) Helicopters\n1860 (+4) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n17 (+1) Warships / Boats\n4817 (+8) Other vehicles\n183 (+0) Special Equipment",
">\n\nI wonder what the boat is. If raptor class or something smaller. Anything bigger I feel we would have heard about. They don’t have many of those raptor class boats left.",
">\n\nIm guessing it’s a raptor, but I’m giddy at this point to see any new boat loss, I missed them",
">\n\nPutin is a man with no conscience. His eyes show he is loooooong past the point of human connection.\nThe way he casually lies, the complete lack of care for even his own associates, and the sarcastic way he communicates. Like everything is some kind of joke to him. He doesn't take anything seriously. People are literally killed in front of him and he just shrugs as if someone told a flat joke on a sitcom and goes right back to eating a fancy dinner. Casually threatening the nuclear death of billions as if he was ordering a cheeseburger. \nI agree with the Japanese foreign minister. There needs to be a defensive alliance for all of the world's democracies (as well as holding each other to a high democratic standard to prevent backsliding) NATO should be reformed to include countries outside of Europe. As long as monsters like Putin and Kim Jong-Un exist, then that is an existential threat to democracy.",
">\n\nYep. \nThe world needs to move on from dictators.",
">\n\nNon democracies are all illegitimate governments. The power to govern comes from the consent of the governed.",
">\n\nI agree.\nThat is the definition of democracy.\nDemo = the people",
">\n\nCracy = not crazy. Unlike dictators",
">\n\nHow the “patriotic” education system puts pressure on Russian schoolchildren: so that children are not forced to support the war, families sometimes have to simply leave the country\nAnother look at the creep of propaganda (masked as Patriotism .. what is the difference?) into the Russian education system. It's in Russian, so hit that translate button",
">\n\nLatest General Staff update from 6:00 today, in relation to Soledar, mentions the following:\n- \"the enemy continues attacking in Bakhmut, Avdiiivka and Lyman directions\"\n- \"AFU repulsed attacks in the areas of [...] of Luhansk region and Soledar, [...] of Donetsk region\".\nSince there hasn't been any definitive footage from either side or information about AFU pulling out, I'd judge the current situation as inconclusive.",
">\n\nOn ISW it said the reason why Wagner is focusing on the salt mines is because Prigozhin wants to seize them to house troops in them (as well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there). \nIf that's true and Wagner takes the mines then I reckon that there will be a new headline not long after about a HIMAR hitting the mines, collapsing it and trapping hundreds of Russians inside.",
">\n\n\nas well as some disproven theories about old WW1 weapons being there\n\nwell this might as well be true, given the state of Russian weapons.\nthey are scrapping the barrel so low that they will need WW1 weapons soon",
">\n\nI still really don't know where all the fires are coming from. It's not Ukraine, that makes no sense. Is everybody in Russia trying to cash in their insurance at the same time?",
">\n\nRussia has terrible fire safety, so frequent fires are fairly normal. We are just paying more attention. There have been rumours that a few fires set a more strategic locations are from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.",
">\n\n\nare from an internal Russian resistance, but hard to tell if that's true.\n\nAnd if it is: Bravo to them!",
">\n\nWarships/boats?! What did I miss?! Stupid sleep keeping me outta the loop…",
">\n\nUkraine sunk a Russian cutter near the Dnipro delta. So definitely a smaller boat, designed for river warfare instead of open water. Still, a good boat to sink as that’s the type of boat you’d use for a cross river raid or to interdict traffic coming out of the river.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. They’ll need to get across en masse at some point. The destruction of any potential impediment is a plus!",
">\n\nI feel given some of the recent Russian tactics of WW1 like storm assaults, me thinks the desire to and delivery of a certain cluster of munitions is highly warranted. \nObviously comes with huge detractors for the future but in all fairness, given some reports that up to 25% of Russian shells are duds a lot of clean up is going to have to happen anyway. M483A1 could be give over to be used in a defensive way or for area denial in the face of massed infantry.",
">\n\nOn behalf of the United States of America, I would like to make the following statement in regards to the remarks made by a US ambassador that the Russian embassy called “unacceptable” :\n\nWe know that it is wrong to make fun of people for their physical characteristics. Please be aware that our ambassador was not making light of the fact that Vladimir Putin is only 5'4\". What our diplomat was saying was his actions are that of a \"small man\" as in small in comparison to a great man, not \"small man\" in reference to Vladimir Putin's height, which is only 5 feet 4 inches. There have been many great men who were also short. While he is now actually known to be average height for his time, Napoleon has been remembered in history as a short man and this never stopped people from recognizing his great impact. I apologize sincerely for any misunderstanding.",
">\n\nThe Dnipro delta. Hmm. Russia is trying to keep its hold on the mouth of the river and Ukraine is fighting back.",
">\n\nDo not lose hope against Putin. His entire image, both inside his own country and the one he projects to the world, is that going against him is hopeless. \nHe, and his bots on social media, blackpill you into a sense of nihilism, hopelessness, and powerlessness. People in Russia are completely zombie-fied by this, so don't let this take root. He has this air of casual inevitability. \nThis is just a pot of crap. 💩\nThe response of \"nothing matters\" or \"this changes nothing\" is their standard answer to demoralize you. Russian forces failing to capture Kyiv and leader Zelenskyy? All part of their master plan of course! Western weapons that are causing major damage against their vehicles? Didn't feel a thing! \nSee through that crap. They ARE hurting. Ukraine IS doing serious material and morale damage. The Russian economy and industry IS straining under the sanctions and war. There IS unrest, and these DO change their plans! \nRemember that, and keep up the donations and cheerleading. Every bit helps.",
">\n\nAgreed with everything except the unrest - what gives you that idea?",
">\n\nSeveral high-ranking military and government leaders dying over the past year. Mass desertions by conscripts. Recruiting stations being attacked. Mass exodus by Russians trying to leave Russia. VPNs selling like crazy (and Russia is only blocking the internet that is negative of their invasion. So more VPNs = more people looking at info that Putin doesn't approve of). \nI am not suggesting that Russia will collapse or anything, only that there is unhappiness that can impact the war directly or indirectly in a number of ways. Mass desertions being chief among them.",
">\n\nI can understand that every such act matters, but all of those things are not nearly enough to put any real dent in the war effort. The \"exodus\" of some hundreds of thousands who only want to escape fighting is the most overrated of them all - what gives you the idea that they are really against the war? All we can say for sure that they want is for someone else to fight - to stop a war in this way there needs to be millions escaping, and that is not happening.\nThe war has gone on for this long for a reason and that is because Putin still enjoys a huge level of popularity and population lethargy (in practice the same thing) so that there is no real prospect of this insanity being stopped by Russians themselves.\nThe only thing that will really work is for Ukraine to get more and more weapons until they liberate their entire territory and then Russians (commoners and oligarchs) can deal with Putin, or not, it's their decision finally.",
">\n\nTrue, they may just be saving themselves, but that still has an effect. It removes them from the Russian workforce. It removes them as possible Russian military recruits. It removes them as a source of taxes. By simply being a \"zero,\" they aren't a \"plus.\"\nCombined with Russia's losses and the sanctions, it is still hurting them. It's just another punch, a cumulative effect. It will take many \"punches\" to make Russia stop attacking, but it is still progress toward a free Ukraine. \nI am not an expert or analyst at all, I am a regular person, so I can be completely wrong. This is just what I think by reading these news stories and press releases.",
">\n\nOperator Starsky going live in 8 minutes\nLive Q&A: Day 321 | russian brainwashers went nuts",
">\n\nRU: Look at UA killing all these civilians too! Both sides!\nWorld: What were those civilians doing, going to market or dance class in their hometown in Russia?\nRU: No, they were digging trenches in UA for our war... but they're civilians!\nWorld: Riiiiight /s",
">\n\nThat goes in line with all the \"humanitarian aid\" gathered by Russians. While the kind of things being sent to the occupied territory may count as humanitarian aid. The moment you hear that they're sending the goods to soldiers, the aid is no longer humanitarian.",
">\n\nI'm surprised the Ukrainians aren't already training at Ft Sill. Unless the ones there were only training on m777 and HIMARS.",
">\n\nYeah... This is not that surprising, but still disappointing. People keep saying things like \"If they said they are sending X then it is already on its way into Ukraine with Ukrainians already trained how to use it.\"\nIf only we were that proactive.",
">\n\nIt's disconcerting how the Russian ethos is that collapsing standards of living and hundreds of thousands of dead are a price worth paying so long as you destroy the neighbor you invaded. A cancer on the face of the planet.",
">\n\nRussia and Wagner likely in control of most of Soledar, says UK defence ministry\n\nRussia and Wagner have made tactical advances in the last four days, the ministry says, in what it described as “highly likely an effort to envelop Bakhmut from the north, and to disrupt lines of communication”. It adds that Russia is, however, “unlikely to envelop the town imminently because Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in depth and control over supply routes”.\nUS considering sending Stryker armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine - report\nRussia and Wagner 'likely in control of most of' Soledar, says UK defence ministry\nAlmost no walls left’ in Soledar, says Zelenskiy, as fierce fighting continues",
">\n\nI hope UKR was able to retreat.",
">\n\n\nTheir losses in the last 24 hours are HUGE and if this major attack fails they are checkmated in the area.\n\nLet us hope so! Slava Ukraini!",
">\n\nHonestly the second the onslaught stops, Ukraine should slam reserves into them and push them back in a counterattack. At some point the Russians are going to break again like they did in Kharkiv.",
">\n\nI'm sure Ukraine is weighting all the options. No one is more eager to kick out Russia than them :)",
">\n\nYeah, I'm gonna call bullshit on them not knowing.",
">\n\nYes and no. I think Xi was indeed well aware of the invason but from what I read it seems Putin lied to Xi's face and \"sold\" him a limited invasion of the Donbass, not of the entirety of Ukraine. And it's pretty obvious China has been very pissed at Russia since then."
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