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

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Orangeade said:
I thought this story written by a comedian. Who tf gives grenades as a present?!
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Isn't that the second high ranking individual taken out by a grenade given as a present during this war? I'm sure I remember it happen before but I can't remember whether it was a Russian or a Ukrainian.
 
Malevolence said:
Low-level Ukrainian Mi-24V and Mi-8 operations
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A couple of interesting points.

1: Ukraine didn't use the Mi-24 prior to the war, they were donated to them by Poland and the Czech Republic about a year ago.
2: Teaching a pilot who flies transport helicopters to pilot a gunship is harder than teaching a MiG/Su fighter pilot to fly an F-16.

The USA need to get a move on.
 
ubersonic said:
A couple of interesting points.

1: Ukraine didn't use the Mi-24 prior to the war, they were donated to them by Poland and the Czech Republic about a year ago.
2: Teaching a pilot who flies transport helicopters to pilot a gunship is harder than teaching a MiG/Su fighter pilot to fly an F-16.

The USA need to get a move on.
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Ukraine could really benefit from having a Blackhawk's, fast and manoeuvrable they are ideal to dipping in and out of hot spots. I was hoping after the US gave way on the F-16's they would also consider supplying Blackhawks as well, maybe in time.
 
Shoigu and his subordinates report the "destruction" of Western equipment that was never supplied and the "liquidation" of more than the Armed Forces of Ukraine received.

The Russian Defense Ministry twice (in September and October) reported the destruction in Ukraine of a US M198 howitzer, which was never delivered to the AFU.

The Conflict Intelligence Team project drew attention to this.The AFU uses the American howitzer M777. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the last such howitzer was destroyed back in March 2023 - based on the total number of guns delivered, writes the Ukrainian publication Focus. However, the Russian military continues to regularly report on the destruction of the M777 - in the past week alone, such reports appeared every day, from Monday to Thursday.

Even pro-Russian sources recognize the Defense Ministry's lies about the number of destroyed equipment. "Voennoe Obozrenie" wrote back in late 2022 that the Defense Ministry "destroyed" 44 HIMARS systems, while the AFU received only 40 such vehicles. "It does not turn out well - minus four HIMARS systems nightmare the entire defense line and objects in the rear" - ironizes the author of the publication.

Shoigu himself gives unrealistic figures. In October, he told about the destruction of 24 Ukrainian aircraft in 5 days, and later brought this statistic to 37 airplanes for the whole October. At the same time, according to the Oryx project, confirmed losses of Ukrainian military aviation amounted to 77 aircraft during the entire time of the Russian invasion.The destruction of 24 (and 37) planes is another fiction by Shoigu and the Russian defense ministry, says military analyst Yan Matveev. "In the realities of this war, even one or two downed airplanes appear quite quickly on photos and videos - both in Russian and Ukrainian channels, the analyst pointed out. And here they allegedly shot down several dozen, and there is not a single confirmation, not a single photo of the wreckage.

Putin is also confused about the amount of Ukrainian equipment: in September he spoke about the loss of 18,000 armored vehicles to the AFU, and in October he suddenly reduced this figure almost 10 times, to 1,900 armored vehicles.
 
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Interesting article from politico about a Polish lorry drivers' blockade of key transport routes from Ukraine.

The article makes a few points about how difficult this is to resolve in the short-term, how the blockade works and why the Polish drivers are doing this.

www.politico.eu

Ukraine fumes as Polish truckers block border crossings

It’s the second clash between Poland and Ukraine following a dust-up over agricultural imports.
www.politico.eu www.politico.eu
 
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The concentration of air defense might be the big sign here.

It might be a sign they will try bridge the Dnipro soon.
 
Russia knows exactly what it's doing

Why does Russia drop a small bomb that causes minor damage on a ship instead of using torpedos to sink it? If the ship is such a huge threat then it should be sunk. What Russia is doing is playing mind games to try and scare ships into not picking up Ukranian grain

If these ships were actual military targets Russia would be doing its best to completely destroy and sink them, yet it's not - all civilian ships that have been attacked were minor attacks to scare ships away. This is a war crime in international water
 
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