Русский корабль - иди нахуй

[BamaATL 16593]

13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"troops"

 

 

Man, yall's tailgates seem a bit depressing.  

[Pescado_Rojo 19587]

56 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Man, yall's tailgates seem a bit depressing.  

Well, the plan was to stop by the tailgate after the game and have "one or two" while traffic cleared out...

[Chad Fuck 18135]

37 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Well, the plan was to stop by the tailgate after the game and have "one or two" while traffic cleared out...

New motto?

[NorthLoop 14466]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

"troops"

 

 

It's just heat exhaustion /immamac

[MillerEP 30907]

https://www.threads.net/@evroskjold/post/C__izwWIUnl?xmt=AQGz13ShON78yMdT7OW134cSii_kg3D8TLjkJfocPYhEXQ

💥 Explosions reported in Engels, Russia, where Tu-95MS strategic bombers are based, according to Russian media.

 

https://www.threads.net/@noelreports/post/C_-4KsyNJhW?xmt=AQGz13ShON78yMdT7OW134cSii_kg3D8TLjkJfocPYhEXQ

Yesterday, Alexander Korobov, a Russian state media reporter known as "Crab," was killed in Belgorod. According to the Ukrainian GUR, he was known for his role in promoting Russian military crimes and producing propaganda for state channels like "Rossiya 1" and "Zvezda."
 

[Deej 77829]

10 hours ago, B00M said:

It’s just bullshit for fox to show their viewers so they “know” who Russia is “really” supporting. As always, sewing division. 

[Gatorubet 30720]

On 9/10/2024 at 9:46 AM, KYHorn said:

The host of the influential podcast, Ukraine the Latest, has died. This podcast has provided daily updates on the war since it started and is widely listened to worldwide. 

David Knowles, creator of Ukraine: The Latest podcast, has passed away on September 9, at just 32 years old. Mr. Knowles joined The Telegraph's editorial team in 2020 as deputy head of social media. He was later promoted to head of social media. With the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, David created the podcast Ukraine: The Latest. He and his team provided listeners with daily updates on events on the frontline and the rear. The podcast became one of the most successful news programs dedicated to the war in Ukraine. In 2024, Ukraine: The Latest won the Best News Podcast award at the Publisher Podcast Awards and had nearly 100 million downloads. David has traveled to Ukraine four times to cover the struggle of Ukrainians against Russia from the ground. He shared stories about ordinary people who suffered from Russia's aggression. Unfortunately, I did not know David personally. But he was a true friend of Ukraine. It is a great loss for us. RIP. David's colleagues plan to continue the podcast. Here is its latest episode: https://youtu.be/CwJyqfSiPYc?si=wj-bk1k0Ld3g0Qk5…

 

 Here's the brief podcast announcing his death:

 

 

they took a moment in the British House of Commons to address the importance of investigative journalism - and commented upon how sad it was he had passed away, given his contributions to public understanding of the war.  They apparently do not address those sort of subjects in the house of Commons normally, so this was seen as a extraordinarily high honor for the late gentleman.

[B00M 6734]

45 minutes ago, Deej said:

*Soeing

[BamaATL 16593]

 

 

[Gandalfish 390]

12 hours ago, B00M said:

*Soeing

Seauxing

[Eskimohorn 5682]

Boom said sewing! We have a sewing over here!

[Gatorubet 30720]

1 hour ago, BamaATL said:

 

 

<Dragnet music> TUNG- TUNG- TUNGSTEN!!

[KYHorn 17615]

 

 

A Russian counterattack in Kursk that kicked off last week hasn’t made much headway but has worsened the Russian disposition - Forbes As the media notes, not only did it fail to produce the desired result, but it aggravated the Russians' position in a potential pocket south of Korenevo. According to Forbes, Kyiv has devoted about 10,000 soldiers in the Kursk region; Moscow, in turn, has sent 38,000 servicemen, but many of them are poorly trained young conscripts. Meanwhile, the AFU has a new strategy in the Kursk region - to move quickly and encircle Russian troops. Thus, last week, the AFU broke through the Russian defenses on a new section of the Russian-Ukrainian border near the village of Novy Put. And if they can link up with Ukrainian troops on the main stretch of the Ukrainian offensive, they will cut off potentially thousands of Russians between themselves and the border.

 

 

 

Edited September 17 by KYHorn

[KYHorn 17615]

 

A confidential Ukrainian estimate from earlier this year put the number of dead Ukrainian troops at 80,000 and the wounded at 400,000, according to people familiar with the matter. Western intelligence estimates of Russian casualties vary, with some putting the number of dead as high as nearly 200,000 and wounded at around 400,000... With over six million fleeing Ukraine since the start of the war in February 2022, according to the United Nations, and Russia seizing further land, the total population on Kyiv-controlled territory has now dropped to between 25 million and 27 million, according to previously undisclosed Ukrainian government estimates."

"One of the key reasons Zelensky refuses to mobilize the key cohort of men aged between 18 and 25—typically the bulk of any fighting force—is because most of these people haven’t had children yet, according to the former Ukrainian officials. Should the recruits of that age group die or become incapacitated, future demographic prospects would dim further, Ukrainian demographers say."

 

 Yuriy Gulchuk, a marine from the 36th Separate Marine Brigade lost his ability to speak while he was in Russian captivity. Yuriy was captured on April 12, 2022, at the Ilyich metallurgical plant in Mariupol. He was twenty years old at the time. The young man reportedly spent some time in Mordovia in one of the most brutal Ukrainian POW camps. 

Edited September 17 by KYHorn

[Bevo 13897]

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put the number of dead Ukrainian troops at 80,000 and the wounded at 400,000, according to people familiar with the matter. Western intelligence estimates of Russian casualties vary, with some putting the number of dead as high as nearly 200,000 and wounded at around 400,000...

This should be proportional, right? If Ukraine has 80K dead and 400K wounded, Russia would have 200K dead and 1M wounded.

[Gandalfish 390]

5 minutes ago, Bevo said:

This should be proportional, right? If Ukraine has 80K dead and 400K wounded, Russia would have 200K dead and 1M wounded.

I would guess a much higher proportion of Russians end up dying from their wounds. but 🤷‍♂️

[MillerEP 30907]

https://www.threads.net/@meanwhile_in_ua/post/C__u1ITijKQ?xmt=AQGzCHH3sHS7a7H87jrRcdt77hFVqJq4ZRoKO8E_cd7sSQ

Breakthrough of another front | Encirclement of 3,000 enemy group
youtube.com/watch…

 

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/DAAT-Aqsc4v?xmt=AQGzCHH3sHS7a7H87jrRcdt77hFVqJq4ZRoKO8E_cd7sSQ

⚡️Meta blocks Russian state media across its platforms amid "foreign interference activity.”

The decision follows U.S. charges against RT employees for alleged efforts to influence the 2024 election, with Meta stating that Russian state media has a history of using deceptive tactics online.

[Parliament 14598]

Those Russians will be encircled just in time for winter.  Cool cool.

[MissingInAction 25556]

48 minutes ago, Gandalfish said:

I would guess a much higher proportion of Russians end up dying from their wounds. but 🤷‍♂️

Every man left behind.

[MillerEP 30907]

https://www.threads.net/@noelreports/post/DABngg8ttnm?xmt=AQGzoSbpDKRBsJh5C59H_iaIJsimEKcHzmq9e89m3YAv7w

If you ever read Russians moaning about 'Ukraine targetting civilian cars' in the Kursk region. This is exactly the example why this is happening. Russian 'civilians' stealing real civilian cars used for military purpose. Hit by the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade.

 

https://www.threads.net/@noelreports/post/DABQ0UJtUAl?xmt=AQGzh7KfsG7r1L_9ItZUTiCGsstXpFgwA_O0-WyCjZdiQA

On the Kursk front, a Russian BMP deployed troops in an open field, who were quickly eliminated by the 22nd mechanized brigade.

 

^almost 3 years in and they still haven't learned any lessons

[B00M 6734]

1 hour ago, Bevo said:

This should be proportional, right? If Ukraine has 80K dead and 400K wounded, Russia would have 200K dead and 1M wounded.

It should be but… No. Ukrainians care about, and have the ability to care for, their wounded. I’d wager Russia is like 200K dead and 400K wounded 

[Nivek 17415]

1 hour ago, MillerEP said:

^almost 3 years in and they still haven't learned any lessons

[MillerEP 30907]

https://www.threads.net/@gonzo_ukraine/post/DABFAMDqYEH?xmt=AQGzaCWrueQobh2wgJHxS2nVpKBOKidRKwtKkpkqsqSbOg

🇺🇦 Meanwhile, in #kursk
standwithukraine

 

https://www.threads.net/@reuters/post/DAA52a7s8Kw?xmt=AQGzaCWrueQobh2wgJHxS2nVpKBOKidRKwtKkpkqsqSbOg

A Russian national residing in Florida was arrested on charges of smuggling, money laundering and illegally exporting to Russia technology that could be used in drone production, the US Department of Justice said reut.rs/3XM12…

[Parliament 14598]

Florida

[Chad Fuck 18135]

11 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Florida

Florida Russia man seems like the equivalent of boas in the everglades.  

Don't ask me why those associated in my head, but they did.  

 

[InkaUtexas 26893]

5 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Florida Russia man seems like the equivalent of boas in the everglades.  

Don't ask me why those associated in my head, but they did.  

 

Cuz they are everywhere? Not native, but seem to fit in perfectly, just with an odd accent?

[Chad Fuck 18135]

20 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Cuz they are everywhere? Not native, but seem to fit in perfectly, just with an odd accent?

And are also capable of destroying all the local fauna? 

[Gatorubet 30720]

5 hours ago, MillerEP said:

^almost 3 years in and they still haven't learned any lessons

I do believe the troops with that knowledge are dead. And the NCOs with that knowledge are dead. And the lieutenants with that knowledge are now dead.    The generals in Moscow on the phone telling them what to do don’t know that, so “get in the goddamn BMP and go in that field!”

[atomheartbevo 90650]

Times Radio is just straight up trolling Russians, at least until they aren't.  They definitely hate Putin.

 

[MagicSoccerSpray 1736]

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/09/russian-military-reconstitution-2030-pathways-and-prospects?lang=en

[atomheartbevo 90650]

Long thread with lots of photos, not sure how Thread reader app would handle that, but very interesting.

 

[atomheartbevo 90650]

Speaking of tanks

 

[atomheartbevo 90650]

 

[KYHorn 17615]

There are reports that Grad, S-300 and S-400 missiles, ballistic Iskander missiles and a small stash of North Korean missiles were stored at the ammunitions warehouse in Toropets, Tver region of Russia.

NASA FIRMS shows fires on almost the whole territory of the 107th Russian arsenal.

Video above for those without Twitter

Big big booms

 

Edited September 18 by KYHorn

[B00M 6734]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Long thread with lots of photos, not sure how Thread reader app would handle that, but very interesting.

 

Since I no longer have an account, I can’t see the comments on the xitter so here this is on thread reader:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1835701547281600696.html

Edited September 18 by B00M

[KYHorn 17615]

 AZOV FIGHTERS WALK RIGHT UP TO THE RUSSIAN TRENCHES AND TAKE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS PRISONERS >>

Azov fighters walked right up to the russian trenches, pretending to be russian intelligence officers.

After abusing the russian soldiers for some time for how messy their trench was, and engaging in other small talk...
      ...the Azov soldiers fired a few shots into the air and informed the russians that they were now prisoners of Ukraine.

[SmokeyTheBear 5569]

[0xdeadbeef 1699]

I'm probably not the only one who is not familiar with every shithole russian town.  The big bada boom in Tver is 325 miles from Ukraine.  North of Moscow.

[Nivek 17415]

5 hours ago, KYHorn said:

There are reports that Grad, S-300 and S-400 missiles, ballistic Iskander missiles and a small stash of North Korean missiles were stored at the ammunitions warehouse in Toropets, Tver region of Russia.

NASA FIRMS shows fires on almost the whole territory of the 107th Russian arsenal.

Video above for those without Twitter

Big big booms

 

That's a Tuesday in @Brisketexan's toilet.  

[SydneyCarton 49504]

13 minutes ago, Nivek said:

That's a Tuesday in @Brisketexan's toilet.  

You think it's not also a Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday?

[SquishMitten 10497]

On 9/16/2024 at 12:16 PM, Brisketexan said:

"troops"

 

 

Not gonna lie, that looks like it would feel amazing for a minute

[Chopper 17432]

Toropets had the highest safety rating for storage of bombs and missiles:

[BamaATL 16593]

Alleged initial strike

 

[Gatorubet 30720]

Someone down thread on X noted that the facility was built in 2017.  Point being, the ammunition kept there was not old Soviet stuff, but their newest ammunition.    It seems like a pretty big deal to lose the whole damn warehouse facility.

And I like Putin announcing an unpopular increase in troop size at the same time Ukraine is wrecking important ammmo depots east of Moscow.

Replacing all of that ammunition is expensive and hard to do given the sanctions, and if Iranian or north Korean missiles were in there they will have to buy them a second time.   Putin’s economy will do well with this.

[Tuco 5093]

15 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Alleged initial strike

Looks pretty light out for 4:43 AM. 

[atomheartbevo 90650]

1 hour ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

I'm probably not the only one who is not familiar with every shithole russian town.  The big bada boom in Tver is 325 miles from Ukraine.  North of Moscow.

The Kremlin sure does have some purty looking buildings in it…..

[BamaATL 16593]

2 minutes ago, Tuco said:

Looks pretty light out for 4:43 AM. 

That's why I added alleged, because people get excited and tie old clips to vids very frequently.  

[Laxtonto 13302]

I’ve done some work on our large Red River ammo depot (which most are decommissioned or extremely old ordnance) and knowing how those facilities are designed, I am at a loss on how the facility can keep having secondary detonations that are leapfrogging the entire facility.

If they use any form of compartmentalization approach then storage of ordnance should be contained and this wide spread multiple explosions should not really be happening.

The most obvious point here is this level of destruction is not possible due to just a shot down UAV.

Next, either this is a complete design flaw (which is unlikely) of the facility or the Russians got caught with multiple storage doors open at once. This either implies that the Ukraine UAVs hit them when they knew large transfers of munitions would be happening, the Russians violated the most basic sets of ordnance storage mantras by essentially having multiple blast doors for several ordnance bunkers open at once, or the storage plan for these cruise missiles are as such that they are trading safety and secondary blast protection for convenience of access.

This is more than likely an act of hubris by the Russians thinking them being so far into the interior nothing could reach them. 

Also, the fact that this is the storage for much of their cruise missile production is a huge deal. Without those limited stocks of their more modern munitions any attack on the Ukrainian interior will require using much less sophisticated armaments and there mean the launch point will have to be much closer to the front. Needless to say, that is a huge problem for Russia from both a tactical and logistical standpoint.

 

[bolverk 30325]

No earth-shattering news in this piece from the BBC about Indians getting snookered to go fight at the front, but I just find this continuing saga kind of fascinating and hope to see a movie about it someday. Naivete and desperation lead to powerfully stupid decision-making.

'Please save me': The Indians duped into fighting for Russia

Last week, the Indian government announced that Russia had discharged dozens of the 91 Indians who were duped into fighting for Russian forces in the country's war with Ukraine. Several of them have since returned home, while the process to bring others back is under way. The BBC's Neyaz Farooquee spoke to some of the men about their struggles.

“I am in panic. I am not sure if I will return safely or in a box. Please save me.”
 

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This is the message Urgen Tamang, a former Indian soldier, sent to the BBC from outside a southern Ukrainian city, a few days before he was discharged from the frontlines in Russia’s war against Ukraine, which entered its third year this February.

Mr Tamang is among the 91 Indians who were forced into fighting in the war. Most of them are from poor families and were lured by agents with the promise of money and jobs, sometimes as "helpers" in the Russian army.

Instead, they were sent to the war zone. Many of them said they were stationed in parts of Ukraine under Russian control, where they had to navigate landmines, drones, missiles and sniper attacks with little to no military training.

Nine Indians have died in the conflict so far and Indian authorities say they have arrested 19 people for human trafficking.

In July, Russia promised an early release of all Indians fighting in its army, following a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Moscow, during which he raised the issue with President Vladimir Putin. The two countries have traditionally shared a warm relationship.

Forty-five of them have been discharged since then. Some have safely returned home, while others like Mr Tamang are on their way.

"I can't believe I am out of there," said Sunil Karwa, an electrician from Rajasthan who joined the Russian army in February. Posted near Bakhmut, an eastern Ukraine city that has seen intense fighting, he was at the Moscow airport waiting to board his flight when he spoke to the BBC.

Mr Karwa described scenes of deaths and destruction, a reality which hit him the hardest when a man from his neighbouring village was shot on the battlefield.

“They sent him back on the frontline 15 days after the injury and he fainted in the field. He is paralysed now,” he said.

Like him, most of the other recruits were also blue-collar workers aged between 19 and 35, who were hired by agents based in India, Dubai and Russia.

They say their contracts were in Russian, a language they didn't understand. Yet they signed it in the hope of getting better opportunities.

"The process was so quick - just a few signatures and photos and we were in [the army]," Mr Karwa said.

Raja Pathan joined the army as a last resort in February, after an education consultant deceived him into enrolling in a non-existent college.

“When I got there, I saw banners advertising recruitments for the army. By then, I had spent so much time and money that I decided to join anyway,” he said.

It was the death of two friends, which eventually pushed Mr Pathan to leave. He was released in August with the help of a sympathetic Russian commander who facilitated his exit.

Now based in Moscow, he helps other Indians escape from there.

Mohammad Sufyan from the southern state of Telangana returned to India on 12 September with five other men.

Safe in his home, he carries the trauma of surviving on the frontline. "There was little rest there and in the beginning, I couldn't speak to my family for 25 days," he said.

The most scarring moment came in February when his friend Hemil Mangukiya - an Indian man from Gujarat state - was killed right before his eyes.

“He was merely 15 metres from me, digging a trench near Krynky [in Kherson], when a missile landed,” recalled Mr Sufyan. “I put his dead body in the truck with my own hands.”

“After seeing the dead body of my friend, I didn’t have the strength for anything," he added.

After the death, Mr Sufyan and other Indians stuck there released a video pleading for help, which reached Indian MP Asaduddin Owaisi, who raised the matter with the foreign ministry. Families of the men had also appealed to the Indian government for help in bringing them back.

"It is a miracle I got back home," said Azad Yusuf Kumar, a resident of Indian-administered Kashmir, who was part of Mr Sufyan's group in the army.

“One minute you are digging a trench, and the next, an artillery falls and burns everything down. It was all a matter of luck if it fell on you or someone else.”

In February, Mr Kumar had told the BBC how he had shot his foot by mistake during training. “My commander kept saying, use your right hand to shoot, use your left hand to shoot, shoot above, shoot down,” he had said. "I had never touched a gun. It was extremely cold, and with the gun in my left hand, I ended up shooting my foot.”

Now back in Kashmir, he talks about how his commander had accused him of deliberately shooting himself to avoid going to the frontline.

"But I am lucky I did not go to fight. Four men from my camp died in an attack at that time. I could've been one of them," he said.

Though recent discharges brought relief to many, those still in Russia face growing desperation as their release is delayed.

Mr Tamang, who joined the Russian army in January, had earlier told The Indian Express newspaper through his local councillor, Rabi Pradhan, that 13 out of 15 non-Russian members of his unit had died.

The fact that he was sent to the frontline at least twice after signing his discharge letter in August heightened his fears – and mistrust in the process.

On 15 September, he was on his way to Moscow but still doubtful if he was truly heading home. “I am out, but I will keep sending you my location,” he said.
When he last texted, he had left Ukraine, hoping to continue his journey home.

 

 

[atomheartbevo 90650]

20 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

Next, either this is a complete design flaw (which is unlikely) of the facility or the Russians got caught with multiple storage doors open at once. This either implies that the Ukraine UAVs hit them when they knew large transfers of munitions would be happening, the Russians violated the most basic sets of ordnance storage mantras by essentially having multiple blast doors for several ordnance bunkers open at once, or the storage plan for these cruise missiles are as such that they are trading safety and secondary blast protection for convenience of access.

This is more than likely an act of hubris by the Russians thinking them being so far into the interior nothing could reach them. 

Or a combination of everything - also toss in corruption at some point had to mean some shortcuts were taken, even if they weren't obvious.  Maybe things were too close together or walls were thinner than they should have been.

I would bet that the Ukrainians know when transfers out to air bases are happening, or shipments from factories or other countries are coming in.

That was one helluva hit though, and doesn't seem like their normal UAVs.

Could it be their domestically produced large ballistic missiles?  Ukraine confirmed that they had tested them just under a month ago:

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/28/nx-s1-5090919/ukraine-has-successfully-tested-ballistic-missiles-that-were-made-in-ukraine

Edited September 18 by atomheartbevo