Warfare Russia/Ukraine War

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Russian invaders fired 18 missiles at Mykolaiv region this morning

S300 missiles for ground attack - not something I thought we would see

Desperation

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Thanks to everyone who replied. I have looked at the last few pages. I don't even know what to say in essence.

Probably, I can make only one remark... As an ordinary resident of Russia. Still, many abroad do not understand what this war is for the inhabitants of both countries. On both sides, there are people who wish death on thousands of other people, entire nations because of a national trait (like one mustachioed Austrian artist, huh?). But it's sea foam, it's in plain sight. And for many ordinary people, this is precisely the civil war. A terrible echo of the terrible 1990s.

For many people, each side is not an amorphous mass, painted in the colors of the national flag. Like looking from across the ocean. On the one hand - a childhood friend Seryoga, your cousin Zhenya, your garage neighbor Vasya. On the other hand, your other friend, your other brother, and your other neighbor, with whom you fried meat and drank beer a week ago, and now he put on his old military uniform and took a machine gun. Everywhere your acquaintances, friends, relatives, even their names are the same.

I myself am half Russian, half Ukrainian. My relatives live in Ukraine - grandfathers, aunts, cousins. My relatives live in Russia - grandmothers, uncles, my sisters. There are many relatives everywhere. And now they are separated. Someone was blown away in the first months, someone cursed their own brothers. But who is to blame for this, and when did it start? Not on February 24, not in 2014... This started thirty years ago, and now we are just reaping the fruits of it.

I do not condemn anyone and do not call for anything. I'm not going to agitate you, one dick you are all adults (and, I hope, for the most part - adequate) people. Some are as old as my father. I just want to say that it is always important to look at yourself from the outside, I will write in caps - STAY HUMAN. If you look into the abyss for a very long time, the abyss will start looking into you. You have to be able not to become the one you fight against. This applies to everyone. And that includes you, my dear foreign friends.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

P.S.

Read Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front. Nothing has changed in the last hundred years. Only the main difference is that now relatives and friends can meet on the battlefield, and not a former German schoolboy and printer from Paris.

Everywhere is the same. And we are no exception. And your countries are no exception. This idea greatly simplifies life and discourages the desire to execute entire nations. Still, it would be nice for some оn this forum to understand this. If someone's emotions are raging after my words, think about the Vietnam War. In general. About the attitude of society and the soldiers themselves to it, to these social upheavals.

Мир очень прост, он слишком прост.
И сможешь ты простить,
Что за тебя поднимут тост,
Но сами будут пить?
И нечего тут рассуждать,
Раз Родина зовет.
А иначе твоя же мать тебя и проклянет.
//
The world is very simple, it is too simple.
And can you forgive
Who will raise a toast to you,
But will they drink without you?
And there's nothing to argue here
Once the Motherland is calling.
Otherwise your mother will curse you.

P.P.S. During these months I have already managed to see dozens of people who wanted to massacre every Russian, right down to the baby. Just because they are Russian. I hope you have the mind and strength not to give them free will. If you give them power, who will say that after the Russians they will not want to massacre another 100/200/300 "not such" million people?

Peace to your home, friends. From all my heart.

 

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Surprised it hit the ground near the car than actually striking the car - odd

 

[Sinex]

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given current developments, I'f favor Kigiz citizenship over Russian (and I have no ideological stuff here, just economic fatcts)

Cant see anyone but the poorest of Africans joining in on the denazification?? number, then again, the Russians don*'t like blacks so much. Tough call finding people.

Then again, the losses in material throttle the need for people, so it might work out in some weirdo way.

Btw. in 1 week Russia managed to capture one coal power plan apparently, that's WW1-style progress. Retreat is imminent unless Ukies are suddenly starting to behave like idiots (possible as well)

 

[Sinex]

In its first half, it examines whether the Russian armed attack launched on 24 February 2022 is compatible with the rules of international law

no need for a study on that, rthe result is blatantly obvious. Minor sidekick: a lot of western military actions of the last 70 years also followed the rules of the strongest instead of the ruke of the law. Don't think it's a good subject for the thread,

 

[drax]

The world is very simple, it is too simple.

"Oh how did it come to this, brothers and sisters?" you may poetically ask, while it's the Russian troops that are unpoetically killing Ukrainians and Russians alike on Ukrainian soil, not the other way around.

There is probably no one answer to this question, but I have a few suggestions: 20 years of finely tuned state propaganda, hitting all the right notes, consolidating the society behind a man that has turned out to be a murderous cretin who compares himself to Peter the Great while gambling away everything Russians have achieved in the post-Soviet era. The Nuremberg you never had, now self-inflicted.

 

[BravoZulu]

The US Department of Defense is donating 580 Phoenix Ghost kamikaze drones to Ukraine as part of an additional security assistance package valued at $270 million. The Phoenix Ghost is speculated to have capabilities similar to AeroVironment’s Switchblade drone, but its full potential is still undisclosed, according, to Air Force Magazine.

 

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Surprised it hit the ground near the car than actually striking the car - odd

a miss? an assassination?
nevermind. its designed for a focused blast towards soft targets...

 

[RL64RL]

a miss? an assassination?
nevermind. its designed for a focused blast towards soft targets...

Maybe you had to be there, but regardless of what transpired, it’s amazing that one individual ran away, and 1 or more people drove off in a vehicle — leaving the wounded to fend for themselves.

 

[TheKiwi]

Maybe you had to be there, but regardless of what transpired, it’s amazing that one individual ran away, and 1 or more people drove off in a vehicle — leaving the wounded to fend for themselves.

"Wait here, I'll go get help". Drives off never to return...

 

[Junglejim]

"Oh how did it come to this, brothers and sisters?" you may poetically ask, while it's the Russian troops that are unpoetically killing Ukrainians and Russians alike on Ukrainian soil, not the other way around.

There is probably no one answer to this question, but I have a few suggestions: 20 years of finely tuned state propaganda, hitting all the right notes, consolidating the society behind a man that has turned out to be a murderous cretin who compares himself to Peter the Great while gambling away everything Russians have achieved in the post-Soviet era. The Nuremberg you never had, now self-inflicted.

All the post of his went down the drain soon as the first Russian boot hit Ukrainian soil.

 

[HorniePonie]

P.P.S. During these months I have already managed to see dozens of people who wanted to massacre every Russian, right down to the baby. Just because they are Russian. I hope you have the mind and strength not to give them free will. If you give them power, who will say that after the Russians they will not want to massacre another 100/200/300 "not such" million people?

Peace to your home, friends. From all my heart.

Here at the Finnish-Russian border we still have quite a lot of daily Russian visitors and also residents. It's still very hard to see these individuals as "the enemy" and I haven't really met much hate among the people I hang around with either.

Putin and his war are hated through and through though.

Peace to you too.

 

[Junglejim]

Gone to collect his blood money in person

Collaborator needs to be jailed on return from Ruskia - but the Jerman's don't have the balls or will for it

It's only collaboration if Germany and Russia are enemies.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Irán megállapodást írt alá Oroszországgal, amely előírja az orosz repülőgépek alkatrészeinek és felszereléseinek szállítását, valamint a repülőgépek javítását és karbantartását. Ezt a Mehr ügynökség jelentette az Iráni Polgári Repülési Hatóságra hivatkozva. A megállapodást iráni látogatása során írta alá Oroszország közlekedési miniszter-helyettese (Mehr nem nevezi meg), aki találkozott az iráni polgári légiközlekedési hatóság vezetőjével, Mohammad Mohammadi-Bakhsh-val. A felek megállapodtak abban is, hogy az Oroszország és Irán közötti járatok számát heti 35-re emelik.https://meduza.io/news/2022/07/27/iran-budet-remontirovat-rossiyskie-samolety-i-postavlyat-komplektuyuschie-dlya-nih?fbclid=IwAR3RgLDcJqFJ2eeJTUXxSSRZwLFUQhPSWTHW7so

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Several Ukrainian and Russian sources report that the Antonivsk bridge has been shot again by the Ukrainians, the damage is so extensive - but with surgical precision - that it is practically impossible to cross it with anything. Chief collaborator Comrade Stremousov is hysterical. TASzSz:

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Vitaly Hulyaev, the Ukrainian commander of the 28th mechanized brigade, was killed in a Russian artillery attack on July 23rd. It seems very likely that the Russians attacked a command center, since it has since been revealed that Lt. Col. Oleksandr Deineko, Lt. Col. Sergienko Valentyin, and Lt. Col. Vitaly Bondarev also died in the attack.

 

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[BCNTM]

Several Ukrainian and Russian sources report that the Antonivsk bridge has been shot again by the Ukrainians, the damage is so extensive - but with surgical precision - that it is practically impossible to cross it with anything. Chief collaborator Comrade Stremousov is hysterical. TASzSz:

Ruskis not got anything that can stop them

 

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have they done the pontoon bridge as well?