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Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Putin: Prigozhin's catering business has received $2 billion in the last year. These business dealings will be investigated
Based on history, anytime an investigation into one of Putin's opponents businesses is announced, that opponent gets found guilty in a sham trial and spends the rest of their days in jail
Based on history, anytime an investigation into one of Putin's opponents businesses is announced, that opponent gets found guilty in a sham trial and spends the rest of their days in jail
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Russia still attacking civilians.
Exceptions will be made for warlords with a large private army.
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Don't the Russians realise that targetting a pizza restaurant only strengthens Ukrainian resolve?
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No, they are in an SMO with Ukraine rousting out the Nazis.
in our own backyard V - on last night , maybe UK should sanction these folks like the Canadians & others have -
Boris, the Lord & the Russian Spy: Dispatches
The full story of Boris Johnson's friendship with press baron Evgeny Lebedev and his dad Alexander, an ex-KGB spy, revealing the secret fears of security services
what hostelry did boris&co receive
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Whatever it was, it clearly wasn't enough to prevent him being one of Ukraine's strongest supporters during the war.
Lets not get off topic again with UK politics. There's plenty of other threads for that.
Lets not get off topic again with UK politics. There's plenty of other threads for that.
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All-terrain chicken coop. I want one.
Soldato
Starve the Russians out. No need to waste Ukrainian lives or ammunition.
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The Ukrainians must have every road, path and goat track on their side of their Belarusian border mined and pre-registered for artillery and under 24/7 surveillance by satellite, ELINT airframes and drones.
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I doubt it'll do anything to a 'proper' minution, however Ukrainians seem pretty good at dropping grenades into hatches with hobby level drones - so I can see it being effective at that at least.
Pretty sure they already have, they have also pre blown the bridges, nearly all bridges on or near the border of Belarus are currently destroyed and won't be repaired till after the war. Without roads and bridges, northern Ukraine is very difficult to cross through the fields
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What would be the the beneifit of Wagner going all the way to Belarus to launch attack. The border between Russia and Ukraine is massive - I don't really understand why all the fighting is happening in just the east - and the rest of the border seems to be mostly uncontested.
Russia was pushed out around Kharkiv and withdrew from the north giving Ukraine a chance to build defences and at current mobilisation levels Russia has relatively limited man power compared to the scope of the war and concentrating their forces around the territory they hold.
Really you need far higher numbers for a decisive outcome as an attacker in an invasion like this - even in this day and age WW2 scale armies are still relevant.
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IMO the only advantage of Belarus as a staging post, WAS, how close it is to Kyiv.
That advantage is pretty much gone now.
Ukraine have fortififed that border which is actually a reasonable natural defence anyway. They now also have limited Western weapons that can make those highways truly deadly to pass.
Almost certainly have zerod in arty and mined to hell.
Wagner are going to be interesting to observe (as much as we can) they are Mercs, they expect to be paid. As well as the Russian state a lot of income was coming from Africa. Who precisely is going to maintain that part seems unknown.
The makeup of the Wagner forces as well, I mean the convicts for example would they sign up with the rest of the Russian forces, maybe if it was that or jail.
If they can go to Belarus to see their time out, or what all seems unknown.
I struggle to see Wagner in Belarus being more than 5-10k of troops max.
I think the Ukraine / Belarus border is going to end up as a militarised one. Just the same as Poland have done / are doing.
That advantage is pretty much gone now.
Ukraine have fortififed that border which is actually a reasonable natural defence anyway. They now also have limited Western weapons that can make those highways truly deadly to pass.
Almost certainly have zerod in arty and mined to hell.
Wagner are going to be interesting to observe (as much as we can) they are Mercs, they expect to be paid. As well as the Russian state a lot of income was coming from Africa. Who precisely is going to maintain that part seems unknown.
The makeup of the Wagner forces as well, I mean the convicts for example would they sign up with the rest of the Russian forces, maybe if it was that or jail.
If they can go to Belarus to see their time out, or what all seems unknown.
I struggle to see Wagner in Belarus being more than 5-10k of troops max.
I think the Ukraine / Belarus border is going to end up as a militarised one. Just the same as Poland have done / are doing.
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Sounds like perfect place for Putin to send all the mercs he apparently pardoned for their part in mutiny/ coup/ uprising/ whatever you want to call it.
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