Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Harlequin said:
That wasn't a mortar round - they dont go supersonic and no whistle, you can literally watch them in flight

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also, only the `press` bloke in in a vest and hat, the others are not. If i was to hazard a guess, i would say it was something 125mm based
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I dunno like... I've been on the receiving end of 82mm mortars, I definitely remember a distinct whistle prior to impact, not a slow whistle just a short high pitched screach almost, its not the sort of sound you forget! I also wasnt suggesting the round was going supersonic, I was talking about the relationship between the firing point and the arc of the round before it lands which will shorten the time between crump and bang. In my admittedly non expert opinion it sounds too small of an impact to be 125mm as well.
Either that or age and time is getting the better of me.
I have been close to impacts of 82, 81, 120 mortars, 107mm rockets (horrible sound), 105 and 155. But never anything 125mm or any tank round for that matter... just dosnt seem right though.
 
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Grim5 said:
Head of Wagner, Prighozin says that over 20 thousand Wagner soldiers have been killed to date in Bakhmut

We're used to these big numbers now but they really are astonishing compared to recent conflicts. For example total U.S military deaths are just over 7 thousand for the gulf war, afghan war, Iraq war and Syria, all combined

And these are just Wagner losses, that 20 thousand dead doesn't even include the losses from the Russian army, or the two breakaway regions, or the Chechens

apnews.com

Head of Russian private army Wagner says more than 20,000 of his troops died in Bakhmut battle

The head of the Russian private army Wagner says his force lost more than 20,000 men in the drawn-out battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. About half that number were Russian convicts recruited to fight in the 15-month-old war. The figure was in stark contrast with claims from...
apnews.com apnews.com
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All for a city the size of Luton. Maybe we could have just given them Luton instead :D
 
Pasta, pasta, pasta he can make. Talk **** all day long as well. He gets so much press coverage, but they never show him on a Rashka tv. I wonder why.
 
steve45 said:
I dunno like... I've been on the receiving end of 82mm mortars, I definitely remember a distinct whistle prior to impact, not a slow whistle just a short high pitched screach almost, its not the sort of sound you forget! I also wasnt suggesting the round was going supersonic, I was talking about the relationship between the firing point and the arc of the round before it lands which will shorten the time between crump and bang. In my admittedly non expert opinion it sounds too small of an impact to be 125mm as well.
Either that or age and time is getting the better of me.
I have been close to impacts of 82, 81, 120 mortars, 107mm rockets (horrible sound), 105 and 155. But never anything 125mm or any tank round for that matter... just dosnt seem right though.
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Wow, I didn't realise Dundee was quite that bad!
 
Scougar said:
What I find even more fascinating is how the right wing often support Russia. Nuts.
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Its more about influencers rather than proper support.

The Right wing in the USA were all better "dead than red" in the late 50's and the cold war lasted for a long time.

Now the far right wing are the exact opposite, Tucker Carlson from Fox news and of course Trumps influence have the Right wing thinking Putin is a great guy with Trump leading the charge calling him a genius savvy and smart.

As far as I'm concerned I only think this has happened because Putin has something big on trump probably his Russian debt keeping him under his thumb.

And so because of Trumps support you then get MTG, Boebert, Jordan etc on the bandwagon trying everything in their power to stop the USA supporting Ukraine. Luckily there is enough moderate republican support to keep the support flowing into Ukraine

So I believe the right wing only really support what they support and are like lemmings just blindly following the leader wherever they take them, I hope they reach the cliff soon
 
Grim5 said:
Update to this story

The Kremlin spokesperson has warned, if Lukashenko is ever overthrown, Russia will invade Belarus and try to absorb it as it has in ukraine

www.pravda.com.ua

Putin spokesman says Russia will “liberate” Belarus if its people rise up against Lukashenko

Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov says Russia will intervene in the event of a popular armed uprising in Belarus to overthrow the regime of its self-proclaimed president, Alexander Lukashenko.
www.pravda.com.ua www.pravda.com.ua
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Can they carry out that threat? i very much doubt it.

It would mean splitting forces to send into Belarus. They would need to secure Ukraine before opening up the possibility of entering Belarus and they are a long long way from doing that and wont ever do that.
 
bris said:
As far as I'm concerned I only think this has happened because Putin has something big on trump probably his Russian debt keeping him under his thumb.
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The American Right has been flirting with ethnonationalism for a while. It's no surprise they see common ground with a fascist like Putin.
 
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