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[Viper 12,109]

On 11/22/2023 at 12:16 PM, KYHorn said:

Warning: video is blurred but shows him commiting suicide. The fact that this is in Moscow seems significant.

 

[KYHorn 17,057]

Is there a more ignoble way to go out than Russian with your pants down?  

 

Edited November 24, 2023 by KYHorn

[Viper 12,109]

Corporal Dahmer-ski reporting for duty

 

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1727774486756237686.html

 

 

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33 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

Is there a more ignoble way to go out than Russian with your pants down?  

[Thetexashammer 1,062]

36 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

Is there a more ignoble way to go out than Russian with your pants down?  

 

[Viper 12,109]

47 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

Is there a more ignoble way to go out than Russian with your pants down?  

 

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10 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Those guys look like partisans.

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2 hours ago, Viper said:

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I was about 75% sure I knew what that post was without looking.

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2 hours ago, Viper said:

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also pants down

[KYHorn 17,057]

Just now, elfenix said:

also pants down

Russian with another guy's pants down*

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For the rest of you that also didn’t know wtf they were talking about

 

[InkaUtexas 25,937]

Oh some of us knew. Russian Army Only Fans. 

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On 11/22/2023 at 9:45 AM, InkaUtexas said:

Not sure if it has been posted. 20 Days in Mariupol. 

 

 

That's a pretty rough watch

[BamaATL 16,593]

I bet she still dances far better than I ever could, plus she's hot

 

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[Armybrat 40,844]

On 11/21/2023 at 8:35 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

SIAP (I did look, sorta). Is this person legit?

Bad ass if true:

 

If you watch the video, the flight time of the bullet was about 10 seconds.

So, the speed of the bullet would be about 380 m/s. Surly ballistics experts, does that sound about right? Seems a little slow?

 

 

About right according to the ballistics table for the popular .338 Lapua sniper round.

 

Edited November 24, 2023 by Armybrat

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3 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

About right according to the ballistics table for the popular .338 Lapua sniper round.

 

Which is what the Canadian used for his long range hit. 

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Don't know why they are putting this on CNN, but interesting, with an Austin connection

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/politics/ukraine-power-grid-equipment-cisco/index.html

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Staring down another frigid winter and desperate to keep the lights on, Ukraine’s power grid operator has surreptitiously imported custom-built equipment designed to withstand Russian electronic warfare attacks with the help of US officials, CNN has learned.

Engineers at US tech giant Cisco spent weeks building and stress-testing the new gear in a lab in Austin, Texas, and delivered a prototype to Ukraine in the spring with the help of a US Air Force plane carrying humanitarian aid, according to Cisco.

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After Ukraine’s state-owned grid operator, Ukrenergo, quietly confirmed the new equipment worked despite Russian attacks on its GPS systems, Cisco shipped dozens of the pizza box-sized hardware kits worth an estimated $1 million to Ukraine, where they were installed across the country, Ukrenergo executives told CNN.

The new equipment, which has not been previously reported, could offer a crucial lifeline to Ukraine’s electricity grid, which remains a key target of Russian attacks as the Kremlin’s war enters its second full winter. Russian missile and drone strikes over the last two years have destroyed about 40% of the power substations and related equipment that Ukrenergo operates across the country, the grid operator told CNN.

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In a rare cyberattack that has only just been made public, hackers connected to Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, caused a power outage in Ukraine in October 2022, according to US experts. “We are anticipating them to continue, especially this winter,” Illia Vitiuk, head of cybersecurity for the Ukrainian security service SBU, said of attempted Russian hacks on power plants.

The issue that Cisco aimed to help fix, however, is caused by Russian radio-jammersthat interfere with the GPS systems Ukrenergo also relies on to manage the flow of power in Ukraine.

Always interesting how this stuff comes together

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Officials from multiple US agencies played a quiet role in getting the Cisco equipment into Ukraine, sources say. The Pentagon handled the flights, the Department of Energy helped coordinate the equipment’s delivery, and, according to Ukrenergo, the Department of Commerce arranged crucial meetings earlier this year between a handful of US tech executives and managers with Ukrenergo who were eager for new ways to defend their grid from Russian attacks.

Over dinner at an upscale steakhouse near Stanford University in February, Ukrenergo executives shared war stories with their contacts at Cisco, which has done business in Ukraine for years. Ukraine’s grid operators were facing a serious but underreported problem, they told their dinner companions: The constant GPS jamming that both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries use to interfere with guided missiles was also disrupting visibility for Ukraine’s power grid operators, who relied on GPS-based clocks to relay information about power flow from one location to another.

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Sitting at the table that night was Joe Marshall, a veteran researcher at Talos, Cisco’s cyber-intelligence unit, who listened intently as the Ukrainians explained their problem over steaks and drinks. Marshall has spent years protecting electric power systems in Ukraine and elsewhere from sabotage, but he’d never dealt with a problem like Ukrenergo’s.

After dinner, Marshall went back to his hotel and racked his brain for a potential solution. “Time was a factor,” he said. “These were people’s lives we were discussing here.” Marshall spent hours watching YouTube videos posted by an electronic-warfare expert, and also got tips from US officials and industrial cybersecurity experts at Cisco and elsewhere.

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As the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment, Cisco had resources to spare. Marshall and his team of more than a dozen engineers got to work molding a very common piece of equipment, called an industrial ethernet switch, to fit the specific needs of the Ukrainian grid.

Cisco estimated the cost of building materials and shipping of the switches to be $1 million, but the company said it donated the equipment to Ukrenergo for free.

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Within a few weeks of the dinner in Silicon Valley, Marshall and his team had a prototype developed. To see whether it actually worked, Cisco had to figure out how to get them into Ukraine.

Marshall, a former Pentagon IT contractor from Alabama, turned to a US official to find a flight that was leaving from a military base on the East Coast in April. The flight went to Germany before arriving in Rzeszów, Poland, a hub for humanitarian and military support about 60 miles from the Ukrainian border. From there, the prototypes were loaded onto a train to go into Ukraine, where they were quietly delivered to Vasyliv and his team of Ukrenergo engineers.

Seems like if the GRU was sabotaging Polish companies, that would draw a lot more attention.

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US officials familiar with the Cisco project were reluctant to discuss specific shipments out of fear of tipping off Russia’s ability to thwart them. The same GRU cyber-sabotage team that has cut the lights in Ukraine, after all, previously damaged computers at logistics companies in Poland that were servicing Ukraine, according to Microsoft.

But over the course of three months last winter, the Department of Energy “identified, procured and shipped” nearly 20 tons of electrical equipment to Ukraine on US Air Force cargo planes, the department said in February.

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Behind the scenes, US officials are often coordinating the delivery of key technology to Ukraine. The US Department of Defense is now paying SpaceX to provide its Starlink satellite service in Ukraine, the department said in July, without disclosing the price of the contract.

US flew expects to Ukraine in 2015 to study Russian attacks.

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US officials charged with protecting the US electric sector have also been studying Russia’s digital sabotage of Ukraine’s grid for close to a decade – to help Ukraine but also to ensure US power companies know how to defend against the hacking techniques.

When the GRU first used hacking tools to cut power for about 225,000 Ukrainians in the winter of 2015, according to a US indictment and private experts, the Department of Homeland Security flew a team to Ukraine to study the forensics of the attack. Another power-disrupting cyberattack in Ukraine in 2016 showed the Russians were evolving their techniques.

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That cyberattack last year in Ukraine “demonstrates the evolution of improved and faster [operational technology] threat capabilities that could be leveraged in North America,” NERC, the North American grid regulator, said in a statement to CNN, referring to cyber capabilities that target industrial equipment.

At least one of the Department of Energy’s elite research labs – which spend millions of dollars annually anticipating new hacking threats to the US grid – will be closely studying the methods the GRU used in the October 2022 hack in Ukraine, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

 

[Viper 12,109]

Reminds me of that Man Show bit getting all those people to sign a petition to end women's suffrage

 

 

Edited November 25, 2023 by Viper

[KYHorn 17,057]

Russia in a Nutshell.

 

Edited November 25, 2023 by KYHorn

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16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Don't know why they are putting this on CNN, but interesting, with an Austin connection

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/politics/ukraine-power-grid-equipment-cisco/index.html

Always interesting how this stuff comes together

Seems like if the GRU was sabotaging Polish companies, that would draw a lot more attention.

US flew expects to Ukraine in 2015 to study Russian attacks.

 

Texas are gonna keep Ukrainian power on through the winter.  Uh….

[AUS-97HORN 11,761]

2 hours ago, Parliament said:

Texas are gonna keep Ukrainian power on through the winter.  Uh….

i mean, why not, we got experience with power being down in the winter. 

we cant keep our own power on all winter, but maybe we can keep theirs up and running...

[Macanudo 12,978]

36 minutes ago, US Grant said:

Pretty serious tone change from a guy about as connected as you could get in geopolitics. Richard Haass.

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/11/21/richard_haass_we_need_to_lower_our_goals_in_ukraine_be_happy_with_protecting_80_of_the_country.html

 

"What concerns me is when people get disillusioned and increasingly come to the -- where you and I are, that as desirable as it is, it's simply not feasible. They're going to increasingly say, and we're hearing it in the House, we're hearing it in parts of Europe, why should we keep doing this? We're already stressed. We're trying to support Israel. We're worried about Taiwan. Even if we give everything we need to give or want to give to Ukraine, it still won't lead to success.

What I argue, therefore, is the United States needs to have some very direct conversations with Ukraine, with President Zelensky. Talk about reducing their emphasis on liberating land and put emphasis onto holding what they've got. In the long run, diplomatically through sanctions, yes, we can try to see the rest of their territory returned.

For right now, let's have 80% of this country saved, 80% of this country rebuilt. I would actually propose a cease-fire as an interim arrangement to expose the Russians for what they are, so we can rebuild support for Ukraine in this country.

But we've had two fighting seasons. The idea that one or two or three more years of this is going to result in success, I simply don't see it. Russia is on a war footing. They have access also to arms from North Korea and Iran. I just think, yeah, any time in foreign policy, any time in life there is a big gap between what you're trying to do and your ability to do it, you've either got to increase your means or lower your goals. I think here, the only realistic option as a tactical measure, is to lower our goals."

Yes....   Let's listen to Haass...

 

In April 2023 former U.S. officials including Richard Haas, Charles Kupchan, Thomas Graham, and Mary Beth Long, among others, were reported to have conducted unofficial meetings with Russian diplomat Lavrov.^[16] In an extensive article published by the Council on Foreign Relations' Foreign Affairs, Haass and Kupchan detailed what they termed as a "a plan for getting from the battlefield to the negotiating table." These interactions were allegedly centered on adjusting U.S. policy with the intent of facilitating Russia's acquisition of Ukrainian territory, an action that is purportedly in violation of U.S. law. The engagement of former U.S. officials in informal dialogues with Russians has led to a schism among American diplomats, foreign policy academics, and national security experts. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia under President Obama, voiced concern that conversations about potential resolutions involvement of Ukrainian representatives, could undermine the stance of the Biden administration insisting that Ukraine’s future can't be decided in backrooms: “If you’re having Track Two negotiations about how to end the war, Ukrainians have to be there,” said McFaul.^[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N._Haass

 

 

[Thetexashammer 1,062]

A while back, the Polish Ambassador to France stated that is Ukraine fails to dislodge Russia, Poland would feel obligated to enter the war. I would find it unsurprising if they did. The hate Russia with the fire of a thousand burning suns and they are gearing up their economy to put it on a war footing.

I know that some people don't believe Putin is trying reestablish Russian primacy by rebuilding the empire, but that's exactly what all the eastern block countries believe, probably because Putin has stated his clear objective over and over again.

 

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Whatever, comrade.

Edited November 25, 2023 by Podrick's Magic Cock
Crap, meant to quote the imposter with 1 post.

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5 hours ago, US Grant said:

For right now, let's have 80% of this country saved, 80% of this country rebuilt. I would actually propose a cease-fire as an interim arrangement to expose the Russians for what they are, so we can rebuild support for Ukraine in this country.

This right here shows he's either a dumbass or in Putin's pocket, or both.   Putin and his cronies (especially Russian state media) have publicly made it clear that they will not stop until they take over all over Ukraine, and that once they are finished with Ukraine, they will go after other European countries.  Putin is publicly telling everybody what he intends to do.

5 hours ago, US Grant said:

Russia is on a war footing. 

They are on a war footing, yet they've spent 21 months trying and failing to capture Avdiivka.  That's some war footing.

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9 hours ago, KYHorn said:

Russia in a Nutshell.

They really don't care about their wounded.  No surprise, Putin doesn't value their lives at all, nor do their commanders.

Also, that one Russian is going to have one helluva case of PTSD if he comes out of this alive.  But I'm hoping karma catches up to him and that he gets wounded and bleeds out as his fellow soldiers leave him to die in the middle of a battlefield.

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4 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

A while back, the Polish Ambassador to France stated that is Ukraine fails to dislodge Russia, Poland would feel obligated to enter the war. I would find it unsurprising if they did. The hate Russia with the fire of a thousand burning suns and they are gearing up their economy to put it on a war footing.

I know that some people don't believe Putin is trying reestablish Russian primacy by rebuilding the empire, but that's exactly what all the eastern block countries believe, probably because Putin has stated his clear objective over and over again.

 

As my Polish friends say, the Nazis were fucking terrible, but the Russians haven't paid for what they've done to us yet.

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4 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

A while back, the Polish Ambassador to France stated that is Ukraine fails to dislodge Russia, Poland would feel obligated to enter the war. I would find it unsurprising if they did. The hate Russia with the fire of a thousand burning suns and they are gearing up their economy to put it on a war footing.

I know that some people don't believe Putin is trying reestablish Russian primacy by rebuilding the empire, but that's exactly what all the eastern block countries believe, probably because Putin has stated his clear objective over and over again.

Poland has every right to be worried, although Moldova and Georgia would be up next (albeit Romania may be helping to take care of Moldova).  If Putin annexed Belarus in his own little Anschluss 2.0, then Poland should definitely be antsy.

Still, Putin has been sending thousands of Russians to die trying to take a town that they've been trying to take since February of last year,  which all goes back to if Russia had any ability on the battlefield to do something dramatic, we would have seen it. There's still noise about another mass mobilization after Putin's next "election", but a bunch of the economist types are questioning whether it's possible for him to do it and not fully collapse Russia's economy.  It's hard to see where it relates to how the Soviet Union was in the 80s and their economic issues, but they lost 20% of their GNP between '89-'91 due to oil issues and trade with Eastern Europe drying up, which kind of mirrors now...

Still, Russian and its mighty army and Air Force can't take the town below after 21 months.

 

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Weird seeing Bradleys in action against the enemies they were designed for

If you want to nerd out over fancy imagery:

Russia employing fewer vehicles

 

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If you want to wade into a discussion on tanks on the modern battlefield and tracked vs wheeled...Rob Lee has you covered.

 

[BearSchlong 8,093]

Had a long talk with Lt. Bearschlong over the past few days, and this conflict is causing wholesale changes in US Army doctrine. Armor and artillery is now obsolete. The future Army will travel at 60Mph on 4-wheelers and technicals under a phalanx of drones and missiles, blanketed with offensive and defensive electronic warfare systems. Light and nimble.

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25 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

Had a long talk with Lt. Bearschlong over the past few days, and this conflict is causing wholesale changes in US Army doctrine. Armor and artillery is now obsolete. The future Army will travel at 60Mph on 4-wheelers and technicals under a phalanx of drones and missiles, blanketed with offensive and defensive electronic warfare systems. Light and nimble.

Light cavalry rides again.  Will they get lances too?

[BearSchlong 8,093]

Laser blasters.

[MissingInAction 25,075]

Shit we will be going back to actual horse cavalry once tactical EMPs start getting weoponized.

[Thetexashammer 1,062]

1 hour ago, BearSchlong said:

Had a long talk with Lt. Bearschlong over the past few days, and this conflict is causing wholesale changes in US Army doctrine. Armor and artillery is now obsolete. The future Army will travel at 60Mph on 4-wheelers and technicals under a phalanx of drones and missiles, blanketed with offensive and defensive electronic warfare systems. Light and nimble.

Begun, the drone wars have.  No but really do you know how long it takes the Army to change its doctrine? Like decades. 

And nobody listens to Lieutenants.

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6 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

Begun, the drone wars have.  No but really do you know how long it takes the Army to change its doctrine? Like decades. 

And nobody listens to Lieutenants.

And it isn't what I hear from Futures Command.

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This one is for @Armybrat

1910-era PM1910 Maxim shooting at a 2020s-era drone (?).  And whoever is working the spotlight(s) is not doing too bad.  And the Maxim was actually designed in the 1880s.

A photo from earlier earlier

 

Edited November 26, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[BearSchlong 8,093]

Begun, the drone wars have.  No but really do you know how long it takes the Army to change its doctrine? Like decades. 
And nobody listens to Lieutenants.

Yes on both fronts, but no kid in their right mind is watching drone videos on Reddit thinking sign me up for that.

My son’s biggest fear is field grade and general officers with PowerPoint decks. And the 82nd is already pivoting away from human recon.

[BearSchlong 8,093]

And it isn't what I hear from Futures Command.

That's not good. As an Army parent and taxpayer, I'm hoping your intel is wrong.

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Another Lt. Colonel - his family paid a little more for Photoshoppery to shave some years off, but didn't opt for the color version.

And another light colonel

Edited November 26, 2023 by atomheartbevo

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And we are back to old junior officers (he went to some military/political school in the USSR days) - his family didn't bother paying for a fancy portrait, they just grabbed a photo from back before he shipped out to Ukraine I'm guessing.

But then we get a 24 year old with a shitty Photoshop (it's not too bad, but they didnt' bother with the background and the shadows are off.

And a 23 year-old, whose family I guess didn't pay for any photoshopped medals or a fancy background

 

Edited November 26, 2023 by atomheartbevo

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Don't argue with people who have tracked and verified over 3,200 Russian officer deaths

You could tell he was happy about being in the military

 

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"Look kids, your daddy fought and died so that we could put this plaque on the wall and a Lada in the driveway.  Don't we love President-for-Life Putin?"

Russia mobilized this 39 year-old dentist to...become a lieutenant in military intelligence and not do dentist things and instead die.

Keep eliminating the dentists, Putin, and you'll make it hard for RussianWivesWantingtoMarryWesterners.com to do their thing (but the photoshoppers will get paid).

 

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Florists are making a killing in Russia

 

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"But the Russians aren't trying to recreate the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire, no matter what Glorious President-for-Life Putin or our friends on Russian state TV say! I don't know why people get that impression!"

What is that on his shoulder?

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_flags#Monarch'_flags

And what's that patch on his cap?

"Let's work brother" ????

 

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If you follow the Killed in Ukraine account, as well as some of the other similar accounts, you'll notice that a lot of the junior officers (lieutenants/sr lieutenants) who were killed over say the last 6 months or so, were mobilized/conscripted well after the general invasion in February of last year, with many, maybe most, having been mobilized since the start of this year (or at least entering service).

This applies both to the old guys (like the retired police officer above) as well as the young guys who came out of actual, formal military schools/academies.  A lot of these older officers actually had professional backgrounds (dentist, engineers, and retired police officer on this page), which means they had "decent" jobs, and many had families (wife/kids).

I'd be curious what the data folks are making of all of this, but it's just interesting that so many junior officers who were killed over the past 6 months or so had entered service this year.  That tells me that they are losing a shitload of officers if they are having to rely on newly-minted officers to fill the junior commissioned ranks with recently-mobilized (and many are company commanders or in similar levels of responsibility), and it also means that either most of the junior officers who entered prior to February of 2022 were killed last year, or the ones that weren't, are now field-grade officers.

I mean, we know they are losing a shitload of officers (see below) as they've lost 2,100 junior officers, but it's still wild to think of how many platoon and company-sized units are relying on commanders who weren't in uniform a year ago.

I also wonder if those older junior officers that we are seeing killed were forcibly mobilized, or were lured in with promises of a decent paycheck.  A part of me thinks that the older guys probably know how bad things are, and given how many have families, were forced to join, especially since the ages have been steadily raised.  Just using the examples above, there can't be much that's appealing to an engineer or dentist with a family, or a guy who was retired.

And the numbers above are the ones that have been formally verified - the Russian government is constantly forcing people and local governments to take death notices down.

Edited November 26, 2023 by atomheartbevo

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If you follow the Killed in Ukraine account, as well as some of the other similar accounts, you'll notice that a lot of the junior officers (lieutenants/sr lieutenants) who were killed over say the last 6 months or so, were mobilized/conscripted well after the general invasion in February of last year, with many, maybe most, having been mobilized since the start of this year (or at least entering service).
This applies both to the old guys (like the retired police officer above) as well as the young guys who came out of actual, formal military schools/academies.  A lot of these older officers actually had professional backgrounds (dentist, engineers, and retired police officer on this page), which means they had "decent" jobs, and many had families (wife/kids).
I'd be curious what the data folks are making of all of this, but it's just interesting that so many junior officers who were killed over the past 6 months or so had entered service this year.  That tells me that they are losing a shitload of officers if they are having to rely on newly-minted officers to fill the junior commissioned ranks with recently-mobilized (and many are company commanders or in similar levels of responsibility), and it also means that either most of the junior officers who entered prior to February of 2022 were killed last year, or the ones that weren't, are now field-grade officers.
I mean, we know they are losing a shitload of officers (see below) as they've lost 2,100 junior officers, but it's still wild to think of how many platoon and company-sized units are relying on commanders who weren't in uniform a year ago.
I also wonder if those older junior officers that we are seeing killed were forcibly mobilized, or were lured in with promises of a decent paycheck.  A part of me thinks that the older guys probably know how bad things are, and given how many have families, were forced to join, especially since the ages have been steadily raised.  Just using the examples above, there can't be much that's appealing to an engineer or dentist with a family, or a guy who was retired.

And the numbers above are the ones that have been formally verified - the Russian government is constantly forcing people and local governments to take death notices down.

It is truly astounding. The Russians are apparently creating and then further compounding their demographic death spiral.