Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital

[ExpatOilWorker]

On 8/17/2022 at 7:53 PM, rudi49jr said:

Russian tank hits a mine and turns into a clown car. Jeez, how many guys were in that thing? They’re very lucky to escape with their lives, although they probably won’t hear too well for a while, after enduring a blast like that in a small confined space.

 

 

If there are 4 mines, there could also be 5, lets find it!

 

[ExpatOilWorker]

Medivac and mine clearing at the same time. The orcs are getting good at multitasking. 

https://twitter.com/RF200_NOW/status/1560546890449530882?s=20&t=eU5sr_F22XrhoNUaistijw

[ExpatOilWorker]

Something to try if you are bored one day.

 

 

[rudi49jr]

1 hour ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Something to try if you are bored one day.

 

 

I assume they removed the detonator before doing this. Otherwise they invented a whole new meaning of ‘Russian roulette’. 

[Bkk Brian]

More massive explosions this time in the Russian Province of Belgorod and another in Crimea. At this rate Putin will be begging for a cease fire as he'll have no ammo left.........lol

 

Russia: huge fire at ammunition depot near border with Ukraine – video

Fires and explosions have been reported at military bases in Russia and Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, in the latest of a string of apparent sabotage missions deep into Russian-held territory

Fires and explosions reported at military targets in Russia and Crimea

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2022/aug/19/russia-huge-fire-at-ammunition-depot-near-border-with-ukraine-video

 

2 Russian villages evacuated after fire at munitions depot

The residents of two villages in Russia’s Belgorod region on Ukraine’s northeastern border were evacuated after a fire at a munitions depot near the village of Timonovo. The fire is the latest in a series of destructive incidents on Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine or inside Russia itself.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-moscow-black-sea-8145761d85c5302824b8386e82987ff2

[rudi49jr]

Talk about your tough old geezers, take a look at this Ukrainian pensioner who took on a Russian column. Priceless!

 

https://youtu.be/jFrgPVLjddY

[rudi49jr]

43 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

Talk about your tough old geezers, take a look at this Ukrainian pensioner who took on a Russian column. Priceless!

 

https://youtu.be/jFrgPVLjddY

I like what he says about Putin at the end of the video: (spoiler alert) that Putin shouldn’t waste any more time, take his medication, go to his bunker and rot to death there. My sentiments exactly! 

Edited August 19, 2022 by rudi49jr

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Here's a link to what I think is a fascinating deep dive article about Russian intelligence screw-ups before the war. It also touches on other intelligence services' failures. It was originally published by the Washington Post but it also appears in Stars and Stripes which has no paywall.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-08-19/russia-spies-misread-ukraine-7036228.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/russia-fsb-intelligence-ukraine-war/?itid=hp-top-table-main

 

[tgw]

3 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

I like what he says about Putin at the end of the video: (spoiler alert) that Putin shouldn’t waste any more time, take his medication, go to his bunker and rot to death there. My sentiments exactly! 

badass grandpa deserves a meme

[thaibeachlovers]

12 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Something to try if you are bored one day.

 

 

While I do not claim to know the specifics of the mine in question, some explosives are completely safe to "handle" and "bang about a bit" so long as a detonator is not in place.

C4 ( at least in my military days ) could be used to boil the kettle. Perhaps the soldier in question was trying to obtain some fuel for cooking.

 

If one can't see from the VDO that the soldier has done the same  before; perhaps many times, one isn't looking at the VDO properly. He knew exactly what he was doing.

 

 

Edited August 19, 2022 by thaibeachlovers

[Rimmer]

Ukraine war: Russia to allow inspectors at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - Putin

 

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said UN officials will be granted permission to visit and inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex.

The Kremlin made the announcement after a call between Mr Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron.

It came after UN chief Antonio Guterres told the BBC that he is "concerned" about the situation at the plant.

He said military activity around Zaporizhzhia must end and urged Moscow to grant access to inspectors.

https://aseannow.com/forum/158-world-news/

 

 

[LosLobo]

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

While I do not claim to know the specifics of the mine in question, some explosives are completely safe to "handle" and "bang about a bit" so long as a detonator is not in place.

C4 ( at least in my military days ) could be used to boil the kettle. Perhaps the soldier in question was trying to obtain some fuel for cooking.

 

If one can't see from the VDO that the soldier has done the same  before; perhaps many times, one isn't looking at the VDO properly. He knew exactly what he was doing.

 

 

The mine is a TM-62 which uses TNT. In my military days, we would only use TNT as a fire-starter as it burned a bit smoky. The CE primers that came with the TNT were better for the boiling the cuppa,

 

Edited August 20, 2022 by LosLobo

[Mavideol]

six months later and seeing the reality they came to the conclusion  555

 

According to Russia's secret service: Ukraine war is disastrous for the Kremlin - "Blitzkrieg failed"

 

According to Russia's secret service: Ukraine war is disastrous for the Kremlin - "Blitzkrieg failed" - The Limited Times (newsrnd.com)

 

[Mavideol]

Just wonder why it took so long for them to realize Vlad was/is a sic man

 

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin was so out of touch with reality when he launched the Ukraine invasion that he was incensed his troops weren’t welcomed with flowers, an exiled Russian oligarch revealed Sunday.

 

Putin Was Incensed Russian Troops Weren't Welcomed With Flowers In Ukraine, Says Oligarch

Putin Was Incensed Russian Troops Weren't Welcomed With Flowers In Ukraine, Says Oligarch | HuffPost Latest News

 

[BarraMarra]

Nice of Putin to allow Inspectors in, it gives them time to move all the military equipment offsite. Reports are also saying Russia is for want of a better word stealing Electricity by taking the power grid supply offline and redirecting it to Russia threatening to shut off Electrical supplies to Ukraine.

[Mavideol]

3 minutes ago, BarraMarra said:

Nice of Putin to allow Inspectors in, it gives them time to move all the military equipment offsite. Reports are also saying Russia is for want of a better word stealing Electricity by taking the power grid supply offline and redirecting it to Russia threatening to shut off Electrical supplies to Ukraine.

but Vlad and his cronies keep saying there are only security guards at the nuclear plant... sure they will start telling the truth and we will start to believe them, because they also said many many times they were not invading Ukraine 555

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/19/europe/ukraine-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-russian-vehicles-intl-hnk/index.html?ref=upstract.com&curator=upstract.com

Russian vehicles seen inside turbine hall at Ukraine nuclear plant

 

[rudi49jr]

Meet Aleksander Dugin, nicknamed ‘Putin’s Rasputin’, also the de facto author of Putin’s Ukrianian strategy, not to mention his hysterical rhetoric.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/12/dugin-russia-ukraine-putin/

Dugin’s daughter was blown up last night, the car bomb was presumably meant for Dugin himself (she was driving his car). No big loss for humanity, though, by the looks of it.

 

 

Edited August 21, 2022 by rudi49jr

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, rudi49jr said:

Meet Aleksander Dugin, nicknamed ‘Putin’s Rasputin’, also the de facto author of Putin’s Ukrianian strategy, not to mention his hysterical rhetoric.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/12/dugin-russia-ukraine-putin/

Dugin’s daughter was blown up last night, the car bomb was presumably meant for Dugin himself (she was driving his car). No big loss for humanity, though, by the looks of it.

 

 

Pity they missed the father intended target :

 

#Putin's Advisor Dugin: “Ukrainians need to be killed, killed, killed. I am telling you this as a professor.”

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/477282526537334784

 

[rudi49jr]

29 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Pity they missed the father intended target :

 

#Putin's Advisor Dugin: “Ukrainians need to be killed, killed, killed. I am telling you this as a professor.”

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/477282526537334784

 

Agreed. The man is as evil as evil gets, and the day he dies a horrible death can not come soon enough, as far as I’m concerned.
But I also fear the damage is done, the genie is out of the bottle now, the craziness has spread to a lot of heads in Russia, including Putin’s, so Dugin’s death probably won’t matter all that much. 

Edited August 21, 2022 by rudi49jr

[candide]

1 hour ago, rudi49jr said:

Meet Aleksander Dugin, nicknamed ‘Putin’s Rasputin’, also the de facto author of Putin’s Ukrianian strategy, not to mention his hysterical rhetoric.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/12/dugin-russia-ukraine-putin/

Dugin’s daughter was blown up last night, the car bomb was presumably meant for Dugin himself (she was driving his car). No big loss for humanity, though, by the looks of it.

 

 

He was a war apologist. Now he knows what It's like to have his child killed!

[rudi49jr]

35 minutes ago, candide said:

He was a war apologist. Now he knows what It's like to have his child killed!

Not just an apologist, but a propagator and initiator: he thought up the whole ‘theory’ of why Russia has the right to invade and occupy Ukraine, and why Ukraine doesn’t have the right to exist as a country and why all Ukrainians should be killed. If you want to talk about really nasty pieces of work, Dugin is among the nastiest. And that’s saying something, when you look at the all-out craziness that seems to have spread throughout the Russian powers that be.

[rudi49jr]

 

[rudi49jr]

Russian partisans were allegedly behind a car bomb which blew up the daughter of Aleksander Dugin, one of Vladimir Putin’s close political allies, on the outskirts of Moscow.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/21/ex-russian-mp-claims-russian-partisans-responsible-for-moscow-car-bomb

[Mavideol]

1 hour ago, rudi49jr said:

Russian partisans were allegedly behind a car bomb which blew up the daughter of Aleksander Dugin, one of Vladimir Putin’s close political allies, on the outskirts of Moscow.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/21/ex-russian-mp-claims-russian-partisans-responsible-for-moscow-car-bomb

Ukraine answer Russia for their unsupported accusations, although the adviser to Zelensky should/could have added some more details about Russia's terrorist activities, such as poisoning their own citizens (Navalny, Yulia and Sergei Skripal) , shooting down commercial airplane, killing their own citizens in Chechenya, killing/shooting Boris Nemtsov, prominent Russian opposition figure, shot dead in Red Square, blowing up residential areas in Aleppo/Syria, blowing up residential buildings in Ukraine and so much more, that's what a terrorist country does and should be listed as such

 

https://nypost.com/2022/08/21/ukraine-denies-killing-putin-ally-alexander-dugins-daughter-daria-in-car-bombing/

 

 

“Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with yesterday’s explosion,” advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said.

“We are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and definitely not a terrorist state.”

[RanongCat]

1 hour ago, Mavideol said:

Ukraine answer Russia for their unsupported accusations, although the adviser to Zelensky should/could have added some more details about Russia's terrorist activities, such as poisoning their own citizens (Navalny, Yulia and Sergei Skripal) , shooting down commercial airplane, killing their own citizens in Chechenya, killing/shooting Boris Nemtsov, prominent Russian opposition figure, shot dead in Red Square, blowing up residential areas in Aleppo/Syria, blowing up residential buildings in Ukraine and so much more, that's what a terrorist country does and should be listed as such

 

https://nypost.com/2022/08/21/ukraine-denies-killing-putin-ally-alexander-dugins-daughter-daria-in-car-bombing/

 

 

“Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with yesterday’s explosion,” advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said.

“We are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and definitely not a terrorist state.”

Until Putin made  Mafia move  Ukrainbe  rate as  No.2  corrupt  place  ! Hmmmm. So legend of South America is  distraction  ! 555

[tgw]

6 minutes ago, RanongCat said:

Until Putin made  Mafia move  Ukrainbe  rate as  No.2  corrupt  place  ! Hmmmm. So legend of South America is  distraction  ! 555

corruption is one thing, murder, torture, war crimes are another entirely.

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26 minutes ago, RanongCat said:

Until Putin made  Mafia move  Ukrainbe  rate as  No.2  corrupt  place  ! Hmmmm. So legend of South America is  distraction  ! 555

Actually, on the corruption perceptions index, Russia was rated 29 and Ukraine at 32. The lower the number the more corrupt the country is rated to be.

In fact over the last 5 years Russia has been consistently rated to be more corrupt than Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Edited August 22, 2022 by placeholder

[RanongCat]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Actually, on the corruption perceptions index, Russia was rated 29 and Ukraine at 32. The lower the number the more corrupt the country is rated to be.

In fact over the last 5 years Russia has been consistently rated to be more corrupt than Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Close cousins   either/ anyway  ! lol

[Bkk Brian]

4 minutes ago, RanongCat said:

Close cousins   either/ anyway  ! lol

Ukraine is fighting for its freedom, Russia is Empire building and carrying out mass war crimes in the process.

 

Freedom Index

Russia 19/100

Ukraine 61/100

 

For relevance UK 93/100

 

https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2022

 

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8 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Ukraine is fighting for its freedom, Russia is Empire building and carrying out mass war crimes in the process.

 

Freedom Index

Russia 19/100

Ukraine 61/100

 

For relevance UK 93/100

 

https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2022

 

That is a more appropriate metric to use.