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Edited June 24 by MagicSoccerSpray

[NorthLoop 14,181]

1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

Ukrainian somehow not taken out by the grenade gets 3 Russians with his grenade

Video of the soldier describing the situation cannot be embedded for some reason:

https://x.com/albafella1/status/1804879630672765203?t=guzgf5SsU26x9nQ2ZdW2Qg&s=19  

 

Subtle headshot at the end as he's passing through. 

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https://www.threads.net/@nickmelnick.osint/post/C8maG6LowjT/?xmt=AQGzDEerzb33Fc88FSBA-UQYFEjsaVy0JqmEStGdhk5A_Q

A single Ukrainian FPV pilot unit eliminated 180 Russian occupiers in the spring/summer of 2024.

The enemy continues to suffer catastrophic losses.

🫡Third Assault Brigade

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8mWfV6tNrm/?xmt=AQGzs4eZ4uHRYH0HPX-h-ySwZedSL8qCFIGru6giW1tcBg

EU blocks access to 4 Russian media outlets.

The EU Council approved a ban on June 24 on access within the bloc to four key Russian state-run or controlled media outlets. The measure will go into effect the following day.

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https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8mfG2xt5Zg/?xmt=AQGzZrNX0mafwahILC1UZNg01YRTQSiP3jCCn5j0LhtgJQ

️Ukraine to receive profits from Russia's frozen assets in 2 tranches starting next week, Borrell says.

"We have a process in order to make this work quickly. The first tranche of money will come next week, in July. The second will come some months later," Josep Borrell said during the press briefing in Luxembourg.

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8mDM3etF7F/?xmt=AQGzjkio8Cy5iivAghDi9IaxEEIJUdRBZZjBXiw_Z97SDA

Russian subsidiary of Bank of China stops accepting payments from Russian banks, sources say.

The Russian subsidiary of the Chinese state-run Bank of China has stopped accepting payments from Russian banks, the state-controlled media outlet Kommersant reported on June 24, citing unnamed sources.

[Parliament 14,240]

1 hour ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

How far intro Russia is (was lol) that site?  

[Chad Fuck 17,659]

37 minutes ago, Parliament said:

How far intro Russia is (was lol) that site?  

I had to look it up myself.  It's western Crimea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluton_(complex)

 

[Bevo 13,565]

24 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

I had to look it up myself.  It's western Crimea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluton_(complex)

 

 

So, not in Russia.

[KYHorn 17,014]

 

 

 Money talks:

Serbia has sharply increased its military production, and its defense enterprises have switched to working in three shifts to produce weapons that go to Ukraine, sources familiar with the situation in Belgrade told Kommersant.

According to them, this happened two years ago, immediately after the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian army in Ukraine. During this time, Kiev received 800 million euros worth of weapons from Belgrade, but not directly, but through intermediaries, the Financial Times found out .

“Yes, we export our weapons. We cannot export to Ukraine or Russia, but we have many contracts with Americans, Spaniards, Czechs and others. What they do with it in the end is their business,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told the newspaper. According to him, even if he knew for sure who the Serbian weapons ultimately ended up with, it “wouldn’t concern him.”

He noted that Belgrade today has a “golden opportunity, since its weapons are cheaper than Western ones” and Serbian arms exports could grow even more.

Before this, the Reuters agency wrote about the supply of Serbian weapons to Ukraine , which published a secret Pentagon document entitled “Europe: a response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” It followed that Serbia, although it refused to train the Ukrainian military, agreed to supply weapons to Ukraine or “has already supplied them.”

The then-current Minister of Defense of the country, Milos Vucevic, responded to this by saying that “Serbia has not sold and will not sell weapons to either the Ukrainian or Russian sides.” “Someone obviously wants to destabilize our country and drag it into a conflict in which we will not participate,” he said.

As Kommersant’s sources explained, the Serbian authorities in this situation “are primarily afraid of a harshly negative reaction from Moscow,” which previously expressed concern about arms supplies to Ukraine.

“If the Serbs knew that weapons were coming to Ukraine even through third countries, this cannot be regarded as a friendly step,” said Vladimir Dzhabarov, head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs.

Moreover, after the start of the war, the Serbian authorities repeatedly declared support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine and voted at the UN for several resolutions “condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine.” However, Belgrade has not yet joined the US and EU sanctions against Russia.

[bolverk 29,655]

[InkaUtexas 25,861]

Serb version of the AK was a damn fine weapon.

[Ghost of LL 15,531]

23 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

 

6 hours ago, Bevo said:

 

 

I would much prefer they turn their anger towards the Russian government as opposed to churches and synagogues.

In Russia, there is no separation of church and state.  The Russian Orthodox Church is explicitly and emphatically an organ of the Russian government.  And its "priests" are government agents who are frequently directly employed by the FSB.  So they not only disseminate government propaganda, they also inform on their parishioners (and, in an area like Dagestan, probably on other members of the community).

So don't think of a Russian Orthodox priest as akin to a Catholic priest in Austin.  He's much more analogous to an imam in Saudi Arabia.

[Brisketexan 105,064]

1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

 

 

 Money talks:

Serbia has sharply increased its military production, and its defense enterprises have switched to working in three shifts to produce weapons that go to Ukraine, sources familiar with the situation in Belgrade told Kommersant.

According to them, this happened two years ago, immediately after the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian army in Ukraine. During this time, Kiev received 800 million euros worth of weapons from Belgrade, but not directly, but through intermediaries, the Financial Times found out .

“Yes, we export our weapons. We cannot export to Ukraine or Russia, but we have many contracts with Americans, Spaniards, Czechs and others. What they do with it in the end is their business,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told the newspaper. According to him, even if he knew for sure who the Serbian weapons ultimately ended up with, it “wouldn’t concern him.”

He noted that Belgrade today has a “golden opportunity, since its weapons are cheaper than Western ones” and Serbian arms exports could grow even more.

Before this, the Reuters agency wrote about the supply of Serbian weapons to Ukraine , which published a secret Pentagon document entitled “Europe: a response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” It followed that Serbia, although it refused to train the Ukrainian military, agreed to supply weapons to Ukraine or “has already supplied them.”

The then-current Minister of Defense of the country, Milos Vucevic, responded to this by saying that “Serbia has not sold and will not sell weapons to either the Ukrainian or Russian sides.” “Someone obviously wants to destabilize our country and drag it into a conflict in which we will not participate,” he said.

As Kommersant’s sources explained, the Serbian authorities in this situation “are primarily afraid of a harshly negative reaction from Moscow,” which previously expressed concern about arms supplies to Ukraine.

“If the Serbs knew that weapons were coming to Ukraine even through third countries, this cannot be regarded as a friendly step,” said Vladimir Dzhabarov, head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs.

Moreover, after the start of the war, the Serbian authorities repeatedly declared support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine and voted at the UN for several resolutions “condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine.” However, Belgrade has not yet joined the US and EU sanctions against Russia.

TLDR; to the Russians, "you got Serbed."

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https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8l29ontkht/?xmt=AQGzCg0QRsERG0Sixy3JGbULAuvL7jY0CtWVtb7S7eLTYg

EU Council announces 14th round of sanctions against Russia.

The EU Council announced on June 24 that it had adopted the 14th round of sanctions against Russia, aimed at tackling the circumvention of existing measures and to further restrict profits from Russia's energy industry.

https://www.threads.net/@ghostoflviv_/post/C8mtoijpM1-/?xmt=AQGzkwehj7WM-Nr8QsJ-mKK7Qwtqu6MF5E3l6NYVJ9ZI2A

NII Platan near Moscow is on fire. The building is one of Russia’s main defence electronics producers.

In this building, components are made for fighter jets, nuclear munitions, S-400 air defence system, and various other guided munitions.

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2 hours ago, Bevo said:

 

So, not in Russia.

Nerp.

Be a whole lot cooler if it was.

Still pretty cool though.

Edited June 24 by Chad Fuck

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https://www.threads.net/@ghostoflviv_/post/C8mv-rNppvN/?xmt=AQGzECEqGCFlcYNh2AHxlipS5cyZfl_J_jfQ7mfc16fpWQ

Successful Ukrainian HIMARS strike on Russian Special Forces from Vologda

Reports that atleast 18 were killed, including the Commander of the 16th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade.

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8m1hIFta6w/?xmt=AQGzdwva4nR5mOVIOD4Qey4Dwds-O_gHq2AFZ92_2JlTeg

️Work on 15th sanctions package against Russia to 'start immediately,' Finnish FM says.

The EU Council adopted the 14th round of sanctions against Russia on June 24, aimed at tackling the circumvention of existing measures and further restricting profits from Russia's energy industry.

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https://www.threads.net/@jtperreault/post/C8nPIfsJCjF/?xmt=AQGzKIzL3tkpEN74p0s7T6PBaOiND3Cl8RbmkRhE7BYilw

The EU tightens the screws on Russia:
https://apnews.com/article/russia-eu-sanctions-ukraine-war-lng-gas-c56cf96fd7930a12044f36a36984607b

^this is good because Russia just announced their LNG exports were topping out in Europe last week.


https://www.threads.net/@ghostoflviv_/post/C8nS8COyD3w/?xmt=AQGzrcqzNB02L3WEUuhNqacLk7iGHF4_Y89qUvIyozydeg

More footage from Belgorod

Woahhhh Blyat!

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So we have a large increase in attacks by Ukraine on a lot of strategic targets (not just the dishes), and at the same time we see a large increase in other countries providing munitions.  We also see the EU working to get a huge amount of Russian money into a Ukrainian hands quickly, and the US is loosening restrictions on weapons use inside of Russia.

I know many think that all correlates with our elections in November, but those thing things above appear to be coming on the heels of another large Russian conscription effort earlier this year and the current Russian offensive (based around that conscription effort) that appears to be fizzling out. We are seeing a big uptick in videos of individuals and groups of Russians being killed, Russian vehicles being destroyed, Russians resorting to non-military vehicles again for supply runs, etc. etc.

And we’ve seen a shitload of anti-air being taken out in the last 30 days.

I’ve gotten my hopes up before, so I’m ready to be disappointed again, but it feels like the Russians have just about hit their culminating point with this latest offensive, and the F-16s haven’t even entered the arena.

 

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6 hours ago, MillerEP said:

including the Commander of the 16th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade.

 

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Haven’t been paying attention to this account, but they are chugging through officers.  27 alone in the last week.

[KYHorn 17,014]

The EU remains very pro Ukraine- just elected probably the most staunch supporter of Ukraine to the to foreign affairs position- much to Putin's dismay. 

 

Juicy. 

On June 21, 2024, a strike was carried out on the 726th Air Defense Training Center in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, by two cruise missiles, likely R-360 "Neptune." The center, which trains personnel to use various UAVs, suffered significant damage. The strike killed instructors and technical personnel from Yelabuga, destroyed ~20 Shahed-136 attack UAVs, ~50 Lancet attack UAVs, and ~40 ZALA reconnaissance UAVs. There is no reported information about military personnel casualties. 

Edited June 25 by KYHorn

[WhatTheBuck 28,775]

Foreign affairs poison? Sounds dangerous. 

[KYHorn 17,014]

I believe this is the consensus on the cause of the civilian deaths in Crimea. Russia is of course feigning shock and horror after they (intentionally) hit a large residential building in Ukraine a couple days ago.

Russian air defense reportedly shot down an ATACMS cluster munitions variant in occupied Sevastopol 2 days ago. The amount of submunitions hitting the water/beach and how they are dispersed (wider than usual) seems to confirm the missile was downed.

This beach is only 5km away from Belbek Military Airbase, actively used by Russia. Russian authorities reported that 4 people were killed and 153 injured although that cannot be concluded from this footage.

 

 

 

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https://www.threads.net/@kyivpost.official/post/C8oxVuYofLN/?xmt=AQGzzSmIJ348GcQMUB3eAZHASydl1rW0xOhpx5evXpzTJw

️BREAKING: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov.

They are suspected of war crimes, including attacks on civilian and energy facilities, as well as crimes against humanity, committed between October 10, 2022, and March 9, 2023.

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/C8o5kHZtBq4/?xmt=AQGzxlaZxtizKT6Xi2e9_l30i5oB2QetCR6BhEaxXffNcw

European Court of Human Rights finds Russia guilty of violating human rights in occupied Crimea.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Russia guilty on June 25 of committing a "pattern or system of violations" of human rights in occupied Crimea since the peninsula was illegally annexed in 2014.

 

Edited June 25 by MillerEP

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With all these hits on Russian air defense can we presume the UKA thinks they can make the skies safe for their new kickass American F16’s?

[Chad Fuck 17,659]

8 minutes ago, Parliament said:

With all these hits on Russian air defense can we presume the UKA thinks they can make the skies safe for their new kickass American F16’s?

Maybe not entirely, but safer than before. 

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ETA

And with that they can just make it RAIN bombs and Storm Shadows and air to ground missiles?

[Chad Fuck 17,659]

15 minutes ago, Parliament said:

ETA

And with that they can just make it RAIN bombs and Storm Shadows and air to ground missiles?

I think that's our fondest hope.

Sidenote, seeing all this shit blowing up on the Russian side of the border just warms the cockles of my heart. As I've said before, 2 years too late, but damn it feels good. 

I can't wait until major rail junctions are getting destroyed, fixed, destroyed again.  

And I haven't forgotten that the Ukrainians have said the Kerch bridge is going away this year.  Seems like a lot of groundwork is being laid for that. 

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38 minutes ago, Parliament said:

With all these hits on Russian air defense can we presume the UKA thinks they can make the skies safe for their new kickass American F16’s?

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1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

I believe this is the consensus on the cause of the civilian deaths in Crimea. Russia is of course feigning shock and horror after they (intentionally) hit a large residential building in Ukraine a couple days ago.

Russian air defense reportedly shot down an ATACMS cluster munitions variant in occupied Sevastopol 2 days ago. The amount of submunitions hitting the water/beach and how they are dispersed (wider than usual) seems to confirm the missile was downed.

This beach is only 5km away from Belbek Military Airbase, actively used by Russia. Russian authorities reported that 4 people were killed and 153 injured although that cannot be concluded from this footage.

 

 

 

Fuck’em. Don’t vacation in an active war zone your country invaded. 

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[George 491]

It’s piss…

[InkaUtexas 25,861]

Turks must love their decision to blow off US weapons for Russias crap.

[Nivek 16,921]

30 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Turks must love their decision to blow off US weapons for Russias crap.

Must refrain... must refrain... fuck it,

That's no one's business, but the Turks!

[Chad Fuck 17,659]

Turks must love their decision to blow off US weapons for Russias crap.

Erdogan has been awfully quiet on this topic lately.

[KYHorn 17,014]

The US is close to lifting the ban on US military contractors in Ukraine to help with maintenance and repairs of US systems.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/politics/biden-administration-american-military-contractors-ukraine/index.html

Spoiler

Biden administration moves toward allowing American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine

By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN

 

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The Biden administration is moving toward lifting a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine, four US officials familiar with the matter told CNN, to help the country's military maintain and repair US-provided weapons systems.

The change would mark another significant shift in the Biden administration's Ukraine policy, as the US looks for ways to give Ukraine's military an upper hand against Russia.

 

The policy is still being worked on by administration officials and has not received final sign-off yet from President Joe Biden, officials said.

"We have not made any decisions and any discussion of this is premature," said one administration official. "The president is absolutely firm that he will not be sending US troops to Ukraine."

Once approved, the change would likely be enacted this year, officials said, and would allow the Pentagon to provide contracts to American companies for work inside Ukraine for the first time since Russia invaded in 2022. Officials said they hope it will speed up the maintenance and repairs of weapons systems being used by the Ukrainian military.

 

Over the last two years, Biden has insisted that all Americans, and particularly US troops, stay far away from the Ukrainian frontlines. The White House has been determined to limit both the danger to Americans and the perception, particularly by Russia, that the US military is engaged in combat there. The State Department has explicitly warned Americans against traveling to Ukraine since 2022.

As a result, US-provided military equipment that has sustained significant damage in combat has had to be transported out of the country to Poland, Romania, or other NATO countries for repairs, a process which takes time.  US troops are also available to help the Ukrainians with more routine maintenance and logistics, but only from afar via video chat or secure phone-an arrangement that has come with inherent limitations, since US troops and contractors are not able to work directly on the systems.

 

Administration officials began to seriously reconsider those restrictions over the last several months, officials said, as Russia continued to make gains on the battlefield and US funding for Ukraine stalled in Congress. Allowing experienced, US government-funded American contractors to maintain a presence in Ukraine means they will be able to help fix damaged, high-value equipment much faster, officials said. One advanced system that officials say will likely require regular maintenance is the F-16 fighter jet, which Ukraine is set to receive later this year.

Companies bidding for the contracts would be required to develop robust risk mitigation plans to mitigate threats to their employees, an official said.

The discussions follow a series of decisions the US has made in recent months to try to help Ukraine beat back the Russians. In late-May, Biden gave Ukraine permission to strike targets inside Russia, near the border with the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, with US weapons-a request the US had repeatedly denied in the past. Last week, that policy appeared to expand once again, when National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Ukraine could counterstrike anywhere along the Ukraine-Russia border using US weapons.

 

Current and former officials familiar with the discussions about deploying contractors to Ukraine emphasized that the policy change will not result in the kind of overwhelming American contractor presence there that existed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, it would likely result in anywhere from a few dozen to a couple hundred contractors working in Ukraine at a time.

"This would be a much more focused and thoughtful effort to support Ukraine in country," said retired Army officer Alex Vindman, who served as the director for European Affairs on former President Donald Trump's National Security Council.

Vindman has been pushing the administration to lift the restrictions for nearly two years and said the administration has been working on a plan to ease the restrictions since earlier this year.

"Ukraine is an ally," Vindman told CNN. "The US has keen, critical national security interests in supporting Ukraine, and there are plenty of risk mitigation measures."

 

[Parliament 14,240]

Has Erik Prince picked a side?

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On 6/24/2024 at 8:40 AM, MagicSoccerSpray said:

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As you may know, yesterday, Ukraine hit Russians NIP-16 Deep Space Communications complex which sent Russians comms into a meltdown.

NIP-16 was designed to communicate with spacecraft beyond the Earth orbit. The facility became operational in 1958, even as late at 2014 the site had 235 staff members. Up until yesterday, NIP-16 was not only used for space exploration. But most likely also satellite imaging and communication with its government and military satellites, something which has recently been offering to North Korea as a trade off for weapons. 

The word on the street is that Russia only had 4 of these sites, one of which is now taken out, if 3 more of these were hit, Russia would lose contact with everything above orbit. 

This was a devastating blow dealt to Russia and there is no doubt Putin hit the wall with this news. Not only does it affect their communication, visibility, military capability, It significantly reduces Russia’s already outdated space exploration capabilities, which was previously at an acceptable level, but struggled after the introduction of Space X abilities and cheaper alternatives for countries, given them a better option than relying on Russia to get cargo and satellites to space. 

To be clear, this site, is another main reason why Crimea has remained so important for Russia to keep their grubby and slimey hands in control of Crimea. 

A massive knife in the side for the Russians.

On 6/24/2024 at 10:34 AM, Parliament said:

How far intro Russia is (was lol) that site?  

Not exactly sure what they hit, bit it appears to be 2 radio-telescope sites and the Command Center.

On 6/24/2024 at 11:12 AM, Chad Fuck said:

I had to look it up myself.  It's western Crimea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluton_(complex)

 

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Pluton is a system of deep space communications and planetary radar in Crimea. It was built in the Deep-Space Communication Center area near Yevpatoria in 1960. 

The Pluton complex was the world's highest capacity deep space communication system prior to Goldstone in 1966. It supported all the Soviet space programs until 1978, when the Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope was built and the Pluton became a backup for it. (These are all within 10 miles of each other and may have been damaged/destroyed).

In 1961, it performed one of the world's first radar detections of the planet Venus. In June 1962 it performed the world's first successful radar detection of Mercury. It performed successful radar detection of Mars in February 1963, and of Jupiter in September–October 1963.

On 19 and 24 November 1962, the words "MIR", "LENIN", and "SSSR" were sent in the direction of the star HD131336 in the constellation Libra. These messages are the first radio broadcasts for extraterrestrial civilizations in the history of mankind.

After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the complex was under the control of the Russian Aerospace Forces. Ukrainian intelligence believes that work on modernisation started to occur in 2017. The exact reason is unknown, some suggest it is part of the Russian ballistic missile early warning system or support the operation of the Russian GLONASS system.

On 23 June 2024, it was attacked by five Ukrainian fired ATACMS missiles. Later satellite pictures showed damage to the complex, while NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System confirmed a fire was burning at the facility. 

23 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Nerp.

Be a whole lot cooler if it was.

Still pretty cool though.

It may not be in Russia, but it's role seems to be a critical piece of Russia's Deep Space communications, and communications with the various earth orbit satellites.  

16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

So we have a large increase in attacks by Ukraine on a lot of strategic targets (not just the dishes), and at the same time we see a large increase in other countries providing munitions.  We also see the EU working to get a huge amount of Russian money into a Ukrainian hands quickly, and the US is loosening restrictions on weapons use inside of Russia.

I know many think that all correlates with our elections in November, but those thing things above appear to be coming on the heels of another large Russian conscription effort earlier this year and the current Russian offensive (based around that conscription effort) that appears to be fizzling out. We are seeing a big uptick in videos of individuals and groups of Russians being killed, Russian vehicles being destroyed, Russians resorting to non-military vehicles again for supply runs, etc. etc.

And we’ve seen a shitload of anti-air being taken out in the last 30 days.

I’ve gotten my hopes up before, so I’m ready to be disappointed again, but it feels like the Russians have just about hit their culminating point with this latest offensive, and the F-16s haven’t even entered the arena.

It looks like Ukraine is regaining the momentum it had before the US influenced "Tom Herman Turtle-ing" of the UK war effort. The near open season on Russian war related infrastructure will pay dividends well beyond the immediate benefits to Ukraine.

Sanctions will prevent Russia from monetizing the oil & gas production and reserves in a manner that lets them build and rebuild critical assets. The secondary influence of the sanctions on China will further reduce Russias access to critical $$$ needed for their own rebuild.  

6 hours ago, KYHorn said:

The EU remains very pro Ukraine- just elected probably the most staunch supporter of Ukraine to the to foreign affairs position- much to Putin's dismay. 

Of all the good things I read to get caught up, this may be the best news. (Okay, maybe second best; Putin playing footsies with North Korea, and bringing South Korea and Japan to the table is muy bueno).

Prime Minister Kaja & President Ursula were very outspoken out of the gate in their support of Ukraine, and have consistently maintained that posture. The supposed leaders of the western world have cowed down to the "what's in it for me?" mindset, at the expense of the slaughter of innocents in Ukraine.  I realize those protectionist and isolationist ideals probably get you re-elected, but good v. evil should never be an issue. 

Thomas Jefferson would be proud as fuck for them, as am I.

Thank you all again for the contributions and insights you bring. 

[Nivek 16,921]

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

Has Erik Prince picked a side?

He did a long time ago.  His. 

[bolverk 29,655]

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

Has Erik Prince picked a side?

Well, he did have that meeting in the Seychelles with one of Putin's buddies to establish a back channel for communications with the Kremlin, and he also offered his services as a subcontractor to Wagner in Africa. 

[Armybrat 40,822]

Russian shoots wounded comrade….

https://www.funker530.com/video/nsfw-russian-soldier-executes-wounded-comrade/

[Deej 76,754]

Guy should have pretended he was a washing machine. His comrade would have loaded him in the next available transport. 

[Macanudo 12,975]

8 minutes ago, Deej said:

Guy should have pretended he was a washing machine. His comrade would have loaded him in the next available transport. 

Without a dick, isn't that what he pretty much is?

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[SurlyGator 865]

In the shooter's defense, it was by request of the shootee.  Better than bleeding out from your crotch.

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