BREAKING: INVASION HAS BEGUN..... Putin's "3-day war"... NOW... 1 YEAR 338 DAYS ...WAGNER HEAD SAYS GROUP STANDING DOWN AFTER CLAIMS OF DEAL
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Don’t worry. Biden just promised Zelenskyy $25B more of our money to buy more stuff for Russia to blow up.At the very end of July, Ukrainian forces liberated Staromaiorske, a tiny village in southeastern Ukraine. It wasn’t a full breakthrough — at least not yet. But it was a real victory in Ukraine’s otherwise lackluster weeks-old counteroffensive.
Ukraine had tried to tamp down expectations about the counteroffensive long before it had begun. But Kyiv’s past successes and Moscow’s past failures, the deliveries of new advanced Western weapons, and a fresh crop of Western-trained Ukrainian recruits all had a lot of folks very hyped — maybe overly so — about what Kyiv could achieve.
This, despite sober analysis from plenty of observers who said this counteroffensive would more likely be a slog, especially given the impressive, heavily mined Russian fortifications along a vast front line. Experts were also uncertain how well Ukrainian troops would be able to maneuver with advanced weapons, like main battle tanks, and whether they could overcome supply and logistics challenges.
The good news is that, weeks into a counteroffensive, we have some clearer answers to those questions. The bad news is those answers were not great, if you’re Ukraine or its backers. Russian fortifications are as formidable as advertised. Western equipment can withstand a lot, but vast minefields are vast minefields, and Kyiv and its newly trained forces have largely failed at conducting combined arms operations on a large scale — that is, coordinating troops and all this different weaponry, like armored vehicles and artillery, to blitz through Russian lines. Kyiv has also suffered high casualties in its attempts to do so.
It’s becoming more and more obvious that this whole this is one giant fiasco
Deadly Surprises From Putin Lurk Under These Family Homes
A pervasive danger from Russia’s invasion threatens to wipe out entire families in an instant.
www.thedailybeast.com
Ukraine’s latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs
They are cheap—and surprisingly effective
Scots soldier in Ukraine has shrapnel lodged in throat from Russian bomb
Mechanic Adam Ennis was showered with shrapnel when his military vehicle was hit with a bomb by Russian invaders.
A shrapnel souvenir made by Ukrainian children from a Russian bomb
The EU highlights Russian barbarity by displaying a keyring made by Ukrainian children from a bomb that destroyed their school.
Video Shows ‘Captured Russian Commander Sharing Troops’ Positions With Ukraine’
Russians are reportedly furious at Major Tomov’s apparent betrayal and one pro-Kremlin Telegram account has pleaded with readers not to judge him too harshly.
Maybe this will buy us a brief respite from the weekly BRICS/end of the dollar posts
Man you beat me to it
I was three months ago old when idiots were running around scared talking about “B-b-b-briiiiiiiiiiiccccsssss, BRIIIIIIIIIIIIICS. Oh my god the dollar is melting its melting, what a world oh what a world”
“But…but…but Biden just bought more shit for Putin to blow up?” Oh wait…
Errr…better yet, me make another failed prediction then come back and rebuff and move another goalpost in 60 days.
Man you beat me to it
I was three months ago old when idiots were running around scared talking about “B-b-b-briiiiiiiiiiiccccsssss, BRIIIIIIIIIIIIICS. Oh my god the dollar is melting its melting, what a world oh what a world”
Russia Calls Emergency Key Rate Meeting as Ruble Plunges
Russia’s central bank called an extraordinary meeting Tuesday after the ruble crashed through the level of 100 to the dollar for the first time since March of last year as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on and international sanctions hit trade.
www.bloomberg.com
Russia Calls Emergency Key Rate Meeting as Ruble Plunges
Russia’s central bank called an extraordinary meeting Tuesday after the ruble crashed through the level of 100 to the dollar for the first time since March of last year as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on and international sanctions hit trade.
I don't think they have the foreign currency reserves they did at the start of this, so there may be no bottom, but we'll see.
Russia's currency hits the lowest level since beginning of the war in Ukraine
The Russian ruble has reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Western sanctions weigh on energy exports and weaken demand for the national currency.
Poland plans to deploy 10,000 troops to its border with Belarus
Poland's defence minister said Thursday that the country intends to put 10,000 soldiers along its border with Belarus. The statement comes as Warsaw worries about the presence of Russian-linked mercenaries in Belarus and migrants trying to cross the border.
7 killed in Ukraine's Kherson region, including a 23-day-old baby girl
Seven people -- including a 23-day-old baby girl -- were killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine's southern Kherson region on Sunday, the country's Internal Affairs Ministry said.
Russia downs 20 drones over Crimea following a spate of attacks on Moscow
Russia thwarted an attack by 20 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow-annexed Crimea overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.
2 Russian missiles have hit a city in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 5 people, officials say
Two Russian missile strikes hit the city centre of the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region Monday evening, killing at least five people and wounding two dozen more, Ukrainian officials said.
Huge blast at Moscow area factory adds to Russian jitters as new drone attacks are blamed on Ukraine
Russian air defences shot down two drones aimed at Moscow overnight, officials said Wednesday, in what they described as Ukraine's latest attempt to strike the Russian capital in an apparent campaign to unnerve Muscovites and take the war to Russia.
Russia mounts a massive missile and drone attack against Ukraine following its retaliation promise
Moscow unleashed a massive missile and drone barrage on western Ukraine Sunday, following through on its promise to retaliate for a Ukrainian attack on a Russian tanker.
What happens if the Russian state collapses?
The West yearns for Vladimir Putin to fall – yet this could trigger mayhem in Russia, and instability throughout Europe.
www.newstatesman.com
So which collapses first, Russia or Twitter? 
Russia Calls Emergency Key Rate Meeting as Ruble Plunges
Russia’s central bank called an extraordinary meeting Tuesday after the ruble crashed through the level of 100 to the dollar for the first time since March of last year as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on and international sanctions hit trade.
Russia's money is just fuckin dead..........
Russia's money is just fuckin dead..........
No, the sanctions are actually benefitting them as told by the idiot class on here. The ruble is fine just like the airline industry that is completely dependent on Western parts is 100% OK
No, the sanctions are actually benefitting them as told by the idiot class on here. The ruble is fine just like the airline industry that is completely dependent on Western parts is 100% OK
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Ukrainian Cluster Shells Massacred Russian Troops Fleeing Urozhaine
It was all but inevitable that the Russian garrison in occupied Urozhaine would fall. Advancing in a pulse of rapid assaults since early June, a powerful division-size Ukrainian force—including all four Ukrainian marine corps brigades—had flanked Urozhaine, a tiny settlement with a few hundred structures arrayed along three parallel north-south roads in southern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
By advancing east and west of Urozhaine, a key Russian strongpoint in a chain of them leading south toward occupied Mariupol, 50 miles away on the Black Sea coast, the Ukrainians left the increasingly desperate Russian garrison—including elements of the 37th Motor Rifle Brigade—just one way out of Urozhaine: the T0518 road, threading south into neighboring Zavitne Bazhannya and Staromlynivka.
www.forbes.com
It was all but inevitable that the Russian garrison in occupied Urozhaine would fall. Advancing in a pulse of rapid assaults since early June, a powerful division-size Ukrainian force—including all four Ukrainian marine corps brigades—had flanked Urozhaine, a tiny settlement with a few hundred structures arrayed along three parallel north-south roads in southern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
By advancing east and west of Urozhaine, a key Russian strongpoint in a chain of them leading south toward occupied Mariupol, 50 miles away on the Black Sea coast, the Ukrainians left the increasingly desperate Russian garrison—including elements of the 37th Motor Rifle Brigade—just one way out of Urozhaine: the T0518 road, threading south into neighboring Zavitne Bazhannya and Staromlynivka.
Ukrainian Cluster Shells Massacred Russian Troops Fleeing Urozhaine
Ukrainian drones watched from overhead. And Ukrainian artillery batteries took aim. What followed was a bloodbath.
www.forbes.com
Russian Kamikaze Drones: Giant New Factory, Giant New Scam?
Building drones only designed to fly one way is the perfect scam because, as long as they get into the air, poor manufacturing will never be spotted. Most of the Shaheds will be shot down anyway—at least 80% are intercepted — so who will know if their guidance systems are faulty, their engines unreliable or their warheads fail to detonate? Ukraine is careful not to allow details of damage caused by the drones to leak out. The Russian Ministry of Defence will be the last to know if their Russian-made Shaheds are duds.
These two drones inspected by CAR had design differences and Russian components which distinguished ... [+]
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Russian Kamikaze Drones: Giant New Factory, Giant New Scam?
Russia has started to build its own version of the Iranian kamikaze drones it previously imported. But plans to make thousands ring very hollow.
www.forbes.com
Ohhhhhh the fucking irony at play here
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UR-77 mine-clearing vehicle fully destroyed after being hit by a dropped grenade.
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