The War in Ukraine

[HavokFour]

Might be a sign Russia has started running out of (willing) steam. The next 2 quarters will be interesting to see.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1957437072748269617

 

[daftandbarmy]

Might be a sign Russia has started running out of (willing) steam. The next 2 quarters will be interesting to see.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1957437072748269617

That's the great thing about conscription - we won't take 'no' for an answer!

 

[KevinB]

Might be a sign Russia has started running out of (willing) steam. The next 2 quarters will be interesting to see.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1957437072748269617

They had to drop enlistment bonuses due to the economy - but Vlad will just find more distasteful people (asiatic Russians, North Koreans, Chinese etc ) to prop up the RuAF

 

[The Bread Guy]

They had to drop enlistment bonuses due to the economy - but Vlad will just find more distasteful people (asiatic Russians, North Koreans, Chinese etc ) to prop up the RuAF

Is Kadyrov & his merry band of Chechens running out of resources to help in the fight? There’s another gang that can set the bar quite a bit for distastefulness, for sure.

 

[HavokFour]

Is Kadyrov & his merry band of Chechens running out of resources to help in the fight? There’s another gang that can set the bar quite a bit for distastefulness, for sure.

Blew it all on Cybertrucks they can no longer use, if I were to make a guess.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/business/chechnya-kadyrov-musk-tesla-cybertruck-disabled

 

[GR66]

Russian troops use American flag in Ukraine attack

Russian forces launched an assault on Ukrainian positions in Zaporizhzhia under the cover of both Russian and American flags, according to a report from the defense news outlet Militarnyi. The incident took place near Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhzhia region, where Russian troops attempted to...

defence-blog.com

You'd think this kind of thing would piss the Americans off....but these days who knows?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Russian troops use American flag in Ukraine attack

Russian forces launched an assault on Ukrainian positions in Zaporizhzhia under the cover of both Russian and American flags, according to a report from the defense news outlet Militarnyi. The incident took place near Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhzhia region, where Russian troops attempted to...

defence-blog.com

You'd think this kind of thing would piss the Americans off....but these days who knows?

Probably crewed by volunteers from the USA

 

[KevinB]

Probably crewed by volunteers from the USA

Not cool.

Besides all the Americans who went to do that seem to have been anal raped and killed by their loving Russian friends.

 

[MrWhyt]

Besides all the Americans who went to do that seem to have been anal raped and killed by their loving Russian friends.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Not cool.

Besides all the Americans who went to do that seem to have been anal raped and killed by their loving Russian friends.

My apologies... I was just watching Wilmer (4.45) wave Old Glory in the ruins of a Ukrainian town and got confused I guess...

 

[HavokFour]

Surprise FPV's strike again.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1957786559706452349

 

[PrairieFella]

Surprise FPV's strike again.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1957786559706452349

Helluva way to start the day

 

[YZT580]

Might be a sign Russia has started running out of (willing) steam. The next 2 quarters will be interesting to see.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1957437072748269617

and maybe it has reached the casualty point where everyone has a neighbour or a friend who will never come home again and has decided that the bonuses aren't worth it.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Is Kadyrov & his merry band of Chechens running out of resources to help in the fight? There’s another gang that can set the bar quite a bit for distastefulness, for sure.

I am hearing the Chechens are unhappy and not wanting to play. I suspect he does not want all his followers killed off in the meat grinder and wants to keep them for the post war festivities.

 

[KevinB]

I am hearing the Chechens are unhappy and not wanting to play. I suspect he does not want all his followers killed off in the meat grinder and wants to keep them for the post war festivities.

He bailed out several months ago, the cosplay stuff he was fine with, but the real fighting made them squeamish.

and maybe it has reached the casualty point where everyone has a neighbour or a friend who will never come home again and has decided that the bonuses aren't worth it.

He still will get North Koreans, Chinese and a bunch of folks from Africa, Latin and South America who are either duped or need money.
Plus while volunteer conscript soldiers may be drying up, he re-wrote the rules to allow conscripts to serve in New Russia (the territories he claims from Ukraine).

 

[Kirkhill]

Actually you can absolutely demolish the Russia gas sector with 8-10. Due to sanctions they are having a extremely tough time fixing what the Ukrainian strikes have done already.
That is their piggybank for the war -- kill it, and Russia doesn't have the ability to generate much foreign currency.

2 More for the Drone factories: While that would be able to be repaired it would really crater the drone production for several months.

4 for the Kerch Bridge (2 each side, Road and Rail): Both symbolic (severing the land bridge to Crimea), but also would cause issues with the supply of forces along the occupied regions by the Sea of Azov (Kherson, Crimea, Zaporizhzhia, and southern Donetsk, especial when combined with:

4 for the Volga-Don Canal (1 to the entry and exit locks, and 1 to each Lock 8 and Lock 9): Not only would this seriously degrade Russian forces south (think Georgia) It would also sever the Sea of Azov to Caspian Sea channel (which is a large logistics channel for supplies from Iran) and cause further issues to Russia proper.

- I would avoid targeting anything near China - which would be nice, but would involve flying over folks who may not appreciate it - and risk making the squeeze a lot more than the juice.

Now admittedly that basically creates an atmosphere of simply slowing their economy and ability to project UAS - but doesn't help with the manpower issue -- that would also require renewed support from the Coalition of the Willing for AD, C-UAS, more Rockets and Artillery ammo etc .

How many vodka/anti-freeze/hydraulics fluids plants are there?

Couldn't they be considered military targets as well?

 

[HavokFour]

How many vodka/anti-freeze/hydraulics fluids plants are there?

Couldn't they be considered military targets as well?

They've been attacked before:

Ukraine drones target Russian alcohol plants, Russian officials says

Ukraine overnight drone attacks caused an explosion and a fire at an ethanol manufacturing plant and damaged two other alcohol producing enterprises in Russia, Russian officials said on Tuesday.

www.reuters.com