What's going on in Ukraine?

[tabascoboy]

Your wartranslated link on mastodon doesn't work for me. The others do.

Just seen that his posts are visible to followers only which means an account with Mastodon also needed...

Sigh, getting harder to share info freely

[tabascoboy]

"Russia is actively using chemical weapons against our forces in the Bakhmut region," spokesman for the forces in the Tavria region, Oleskyi Dmytroshkivskyi said.

"During artillery fire, an element called Lewisite is used. There are already victims of this chemical element. Its symptoms are nausea, vomiting and loss of consciousness," he added.

The use of Lewisite as a chemical weapon was prohibited by the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Alt link: https://mastodon.social/@noelreports@ms ... 8795074110

[tabascoboy]

Russian military correspondent Alexander Sladkov claims that Russian forces have left Klishchiivka.

"We left Klishchiivka. This is near Bakhmut. It is necessary to check, and if refuted, I will be glad. If it is true, that's bad and Bakhmut will be under fire control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I can’t say a bad word about our guys who moved away. According to my data, this is again a lack of shells. I'll be glad to be wrong. You won't be strong without strength. The weak don't win."

Ukrainian soldier going by the nickname Bakhmut demon, known to be fighting in the area, refutes that the Russians have left Klishchiivka.

"They have not yet retreated, Sladkov is lying. But we created a critical situation for them. Hopefully their reserves don't make it."

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[tabascoboy]

Well, this is rich given that the RU state is quite willing to have journalists who are too critical of the regime executed

Today’s Russian papers report the brutal attack in Chechnya on journalist Elena Milashina & lawyer Alexander Nemov. Referring to the sense of lawlessness, one paper warns: “The law is the foundation of any state. Take it away…and you get chaos and destruction.”

[tabascoboy]

Tweets seem to be visible to all in Twitter again after the few wonky days

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Tweets seem to be visible to all in Twitter again after the few wonky days

While I'm seeing the linked tweet, clicking on the posters' name is still bringing up the 'log in' window on every post and no comments are appearing.

That's progress - just.

[TB63]

That'll buff out..

[Uncle fester]

Watching Age Of Tanks on Netflix and in the last episode it makes the point that Russian tanks got obliterated in both gulf wars but the Russians refused to learn anything from it and blamed poor performance by the Iraqi army.

Problems with the auto-loader were obvious then but they put fingers in their ears and sang "lalalalalalala".

https://www.netflix.com/us/title/802082 ... p=81043635

[tabascoboy]

[TB63]

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[tabascoboy]

Series of tweets with the threadreader link below for easier reading with the pics



https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1677 ... 77027.html

[Hellraiser]

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Details of the new Yank package have just come out. The headlines are:

31 155mm Howitzers (not clear whether towed or SPG)
DPICM rounds
32 Bradleys
32 Strykers
27 recovery vehicles
MICLICs
TOW, AIM-7, and Patriots missiles

[tabascoboy]

[Uncle fester]

Question.
Ukraine are going to have to drop the munitions on their own territory so what is the risk to themselves once they've dislodged the Russians?

[tabascoboy]

[Hellraiser]

Question.
Ukraine are going to have to drop the munitions on their own territory so what is the risk to themselves once they've dislodged the Russians?

Very little as the dud rate is very low. Russian anti-tank and anti-personnel mines will always be a far bigger problem.

[tabascoboy]

Good article about operations in Donets'k area,

With Pryyutne serving as a vital logistical hub, the Ukrainians aim to breach Russian defenses and ultimately liberate the settlement, expanding their control over the region. The ongoing developments in this front line suggest that the liberation of Pryyutne is only a matter of time.

Full report: https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/07/08/ ... /?swcfpc=1

[Uncle fester]

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[tabascoboy]

[Hellraiser]

The Russians bragging that the were going to pull out of the grain deal. Erdogan and Zelensky took them at their word.

[petej]

The Russians bragging that the were going to pull out of the grain deal. Erdogan and Zelensky took them at their word.

The problem with constantly threatening others and continually breaking agreements is that eventually others aren't going to keep to the agreements you have with them.

[_Os_]

The Russians bragging that the were going to pull out of the grain deal. Erdogan and Zelensky took them at their word.

The Russians are cunts and targeting Ukrainian civilians. They've gone after Ukraine's power infrastructure, but that means confined locations and Ukraine have beefed up air defence for those locations. Russia tried to send Ukrainians through winter in the cold to break them and failed. The next logical move is to try and destroy their agri industry, which is more distributed and therefore harder for Ukraine to defend. That means binning the grain export deal and bombing all grain infrastructure.

Much like their dumb idea that exporting primary resources like gas and oil makes them masters of Europe (it does not, it can be bought elsewhere etc). They're going to discover something else about markets, there's buyers as well as sellers. A lot of the African peace delegation's 10 points were about the agri sector. Most African countries don't import much wheat and don't have it as a staple (SA's staple is maize), but less wheat will raise prices generally, and there's also the fertilizer issue. Then there's the African countries which do rely on wheat (Arab countries in the north), like Egypt which was part of the African peace delegation. Egypt imports massive amounts of grain from Ukraine and Russia, when the price of bread goes up in Egypt their security services start worrying about a revolution. Which is probably why Egypt agreed to be a subordinate in an SA headed peace delegation doomed to failure, they're fucking desperate.

The thing about Egypt is they also have a massive military they're never going to use because they're never going to fight Israel and Israel is never going to fight them (well if it's happening it won't be any time soon). So if Putin goes through with this, Egypt will have a higher bread price, but will have mountains of military equipment to bargain with. Egypt will have also told Putin not to do this. Egypt has well over a thousand Abrams as just one example, way more gear than most European countries. Algeria has 500+ T-90s.

"Stop Ukraine exporting grain" doesn't work out so well, when north Africans depend on it, they're heavily armed, with the only possibility of them accessing grain again cheaply is Ukraine winning.

[Wyndham Upalot]

Bragging is zilch. Cluster demos is zilch. Wherever they're deployed is always awful. Both sides have decided long ago.

[fishfoodie]

The thing about Egypt is they also have a massive military they're never going to use because they're never going to fight Israel and Israel is never going to fight them (well if it's happening it won't be any time soon). So if Putin goes through with this, Egypt will have a higher bread price, but will have mountains of military equipment to bargain with. Egypt will have also told Putin not to do this. Egypt has well over a thousand Abrams as just one example, way more gear than most European countries. Algeria has 500+ T-90s.

"Stop Ukraine exporting grain" doesn't work out so well, when north Africans depend on it, they're heavily armed, with the only possibility of them accessing grain again cheaply is Ukraine winning.

Unfortunately they've been sucking Moscows dick for so long, that they aren't capable of changing track, & doing something that will piss Putin off.

[_Os_]

The thing about Egypt is they also have a massive military they're never going to use because they're never going to fight Israel and Israel is never going to fight them (well if it's happening it won't be any time soon). So if Putin goes through with this, Egypt will have a higher bread price, but will have mountains of military equipment to bargain with. Egypt will have also told Putin not to do this. Egypt has well over a thousand Abrams as just one example, way more gear than most European countries. Algeria has 500+ T-90s.

"Stop Ukraine exporting grain" doesn't work out so well, when north Africans depend on it, they're heavily armed, with the only possibility of them accessing grain again cheaply is Ukraine winning.

Unfortunately they've been sucking Moscows dick for so long, that they aren't capable of changing track, & doing something that will piss Putin off.

People said that about Germany too.

It's an interesting one, it's probably easier to change a country's energy mix than it is to change the staple food. If Egypt cannot source cheap wheat the country becomes unstable, they could source alternate foods but they're not going to. If Ukraine isn't exporting, the wheat that's available on the market becomes more expensive, unless more supply can be added (which a higher price will encourage). Russian agri land is poor quality, Egyptian agri land is worse. The best land that has a fully developed mechanised agri sector capable of exploiting that land is in north America and Europe. I'm not seeing anything in this equation that ends up in closer ties to Russia among north African countries. And they tend to have huge stocks of military hardware. Egypt could easily give up 400 Abrams, 100s of support vehicles, 100s of towed guns, and not even notice.

[tabascoboy]

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation

False and misleading posts about the Ukraine conflict continue to go viral on major social media platforms, as Russia's invasion of the country extends beyond 500 days. Some of the most widely shared examples can be found on Twitter, posted by subscribers with a blue tick, who pay for their content to be promoted to other users.

For details visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66113460

[tabascoboy]

Consequences arriving sans lube?

NSFW images are not gore but "adult"

New FVPENIS drones.

[tabascoboy]

[tabascoboy]

This doesn't seem like a serious attempt on the structure of the bridge, maybe just a little probing to check out the state of AD. Bridge was closed for a short time, now re-opened

[petej]

This doesn't seem like a serious attempt on the structure of the bridge, maybe just a little probing to check out the state of AD. Bridge was closed for a short time, now re-opened

If it were a genuine attack to take bridge out you would expect it to be decoys + Storm Shadow. Though they could probing the air defence to see how near a plane could get so it could launch a storm shadow.

[tabascoboy]

This doesn't seem like a serious attempt on the structure of the bridge, maybe just a little probing to check out the state of AD. Bridge was closed for a short time, now re-opened

If it were a genuine attack to take bridge out you would expect it to be decoys + Storm Shadow. Though they could probing the air defence to see how near a plane could get so it could launch a storm shadow.

RU in Crimea claiming they shot down a "Cruise missile" today, near the Kerch area...while others say it was a modified Ukrainian S-200.

[Flockwitt]

My favourite blacksmith making use of Russia's leavings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQA0YPmjKOo

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[tabascoboy]

And curiously just a few weeks after Prigozhin's little jolly towards Moscow, one of the general's he lambasted gets the boot from active command

[Sards]

And curiously just a few weeks after Prigozhin's little jolly towards Moscow, one of the general's he lambasted gets the boot from active command

Oh my word. How vokked up is the Russian army