NPR

laurent wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:34 pm

tc27 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:24 pm I had written off Bakmut but the latest news is more optimistic.

It's very Fluid though
This guy has reliable sources usually.

Flockwitt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:12 am Mixed messages about Bahkmut but Ukraine has just banned journalists and humanitarian aid from going in which is not positive.

laurent wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:08 am

Flockwitt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:12 am Mixed messages about Bahkmut but Ukraine has just banned journalists and humanitarian aid from going in which is not positive.

That's a few days old (before the recent push). There was most likely too much chatter (and the Russian target civilian volunteers) .

Land forces at Kola reduced to one-fifth, Norwegian Intelligence says


"The land forces on Kola are reduced to a fifth of their original numbers before the invasion of Ukraine," says Chief of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, Vice Admiral Nils Andreas Stensønes to the Barents Observer. He warns that the consequence is a Russia which may lower the threshold for nuclear escalation, also near Norway.

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Tears are flowing to the Pechenga River from young widows and children as names of fallen soldiers are telegrammed north from Vladimir Putin’s battlefields in Ukraine. The bloody fate of the men that just over a year ago were based near Russia’s peaceful border with Norway and Finland is much worse than previously known, according to a report issued on Monday by the Norwegian Intelligence Service.

1,500 troops are killed. Maybe more.

The men with the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade had their training camps along the Pechenga River; at 19 km, in Loustari and in the village of Pechenga. All are less than an hour’s drive from the border with Norway.

In late 2021, the first orders were given to load up tanks, armored vehicles, guns, artillery, and other gear onto railway wagons at the train station in Loustari. Soldiers were ordered into passenger railroad cars.

Exercise in southern Russia, they were told.

On the night of February 24, Putin ordered his military commanders to invade Ukraine. A few hours later were vehicles from the 200th Motorized brigade rolling towards Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, just 30 kilometers south of the Russian border.

Putin’s soldiers were met not with flowers, but fierce resistance.

In the early stage of the war, the 200th Separate Brigade from the Kola Peninsula lost two battalion tactical groups. The Barents Observer reported about 645 killed during the first month, while other reports hinted the numbers of casualties were higher.

Before schools started in the Murmansk region last autumn, regional authorities launched free meals for pupils whose parents were killed or wounded in Ukraine. At the time, 1,274 children qualified, a strong indication of the wave of deaths among fathers who would never again see their children become students.

The Norwegian Intelligence, which since the second world war has kept close eyes on the military ups and downs in the Pechenga region, says in its FOKUS 2023 report that about three battalion groups, with 3,000 soldiers, were sent to the battlefields.

“About half is lost,” the report concludes. That is 1,500 dead soldiers.

The Northern Fleet has in addition lost up to 100 tanks and armored vehicles.

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fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 2:21 pm I wonder how long it'll be before someone decides to take advantage of >95% of the Orcs army committing suicide in Ukraine ?

Another Long read

Frop.E wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:29 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 2:21 pm I wonder how long it'll be before someone decides to take advantage of >95% of the Orcs army committing suicide in Ukraine ?

Another Long read

Never, that would be insanity.

PornDog wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:00 pm

Frop.E wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:29 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 2:21 pm I wonder how long it'll be before someone decides to take advantage of >95% of the Orcs army committing suicide in Ukraine ?

Another Long read

Never, that would be insanity.

That would depend on who the someone is and what manner of advantage it is they are taking.

Obviously Norway invading Russia would be insanity - but Georgia or Maldova retaking control of their borders may be less so. And then you have a plethora of internal republics with varying degrees of allegiance to Moscow. Not all together likely I don't think, but not beyond the realms of possibility either.

Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream

On the surface Seymour Hersh's story looks passable, but as you dig deeper it has more holes than the Nord Stream pipeline.

I would like to preface this post by stating that I will not be making any conclusions on who is responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in this piece. While I have my suspects, all publicly available information regarding the explosions is circumstantial and there is none that conclusively points to a specific culprit. The purpose of this post is to debunk the claims made in Seymour Hersh’s Substack post titled “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline” using publicly available information.

In regards to Seymour Hersh’s past, both his time as a Pulitzer Price winning journalist in the 1970s and his recent factually incorrect takes on the Syria gas attacks and Skripal poisoning, I will let people like Eliot Higgins who worked on these cases give their opinion. This post will solely focus on the claims made in the recent Substack post.

The tl;dr summary

Seymour Hersh’s story would have been a lot harder to pull apart, had he decided to be more sparing with the details instead of going into depth with meaningless details that make little sense. A simpler story could have been believable, but this piece of Tom Clancy fan fiction is subpar.

Finally, through this entire detailed account there is one key thing Seymour Hersh neglects to mention or provide reasoning for. If Biden launched this operation with the express purpose of destroying Russia’s ability to supply Germany with natural gas, why only blow up three of the four Nord Stream pipelines? Why leave one of the two Nord Stream 2 pipelines intact, when they were the ones that Russia was able to open up at a moments notice.

https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blo ... ershs-pipe

A top Russian official has been found dead after an apparent fall from her high-rise apartment in St Petersburg.

The body of Marina Yankina, 58, the head of finance and procurement of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Western Military District, was found by police under the windows of the tower block in the Kalininsky district, according to reports.

Russian Telegram channel Mash and other Russian media outlets reported that documents and other items belonging to Yankina were discovered on the 16th-floor balcony of the building.

Her death came a year after she demanded on-air apologies from anyone who suggested that Russia would invade Ukraine accusing strategists in London and Washington of playing a “scary, strange, wild” political game.

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:49 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:12 pm

A top Russian official has been found dead after an apparent fall from her high-rise apartment in St Petersburg.

The body of Marina Yankina, 58, the head of finance and procurement of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Western Military District, was found by police under the windows of the tower block in the Kalininsky district, according to reports.

Russian Telegram channel Mash and other Russian media outlets reported that documents and other items belonging to Yankina were discovered on the 16th-floor balcony of the building.

Her death came a year after she demanded on-air apologies from anyone who suggested that Russia would invade Ukraine accusing strategists in London and Washington of playing a “scary, strange, wild” political game.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/r ... 60924.html



Now she'll never receive the highest award that Ukraine can award for services to the State

According to the German Federal Prosecutor's Office, German citizen Carsten L. was arrested on Wednesday on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge of the Federal Supreme Court on December 16.

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:38 pm This relates to an arrest made in December last, there are always scum seeking to profit from treachery

According to the German Federal Prosecutor's Office, German citizen Carsten L. was arrested on Wednesday on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge of the Federal Supreme Court on December 16.

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 5:47 pm

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:32 pm

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 5:53 pm

https://files.catbox.moe/iim0yh.mp4

That's the longer version. It's pretty mad

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:32 pm

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 5:53 pm

https://files.catbox.moe/iim0yh.mp4

That's the longer version. It's pretty mad

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:45 pm

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:32 pm

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 5:53 pm

https://files.catbox.moe/iim0yh.mp4

That's the longer version. It's pretty mad

Bizarre

It's like the Orcs missed the last century or so of warfare.

At least in the American Civil war, they had artillery, to support the infantry, & then in WWI they added machine guns, & tanks.

In that video we see a single Orc getting between fighting holes, & getting slaughtered like a steer because he was all on his lonesome, & there's zero support ; no machine guns, no artillery, no tanks, not even an AFV.

The Orcs are so fucked.

_Os_ wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:16 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:45 pm Bizarre

It's like the Orcs missed the last century or so of warfare.

At least in the American Civil war, they had artillery, to support the infantry, & then in WWI they added machine guns, & tanks.

In that video we see a single Orc getting between fighting holes, & getting slaughtered like a steer because he was all on his lonesome, & there's zero support ; no machine guns, no artillery, no tanks, not even an AFV.

The Orcs are so fucked.

I've watched a few times, he sends RPGs into a BTR at the start and kills some guys. That's why he's throwing grenades in that direction to take out any stragglers hiding around the destroyed BTR.

He takes on a mounted infantry attack on his own and kills them all.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:44 pm

_Os_ wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:16 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:45 pm Bizarre

It's like the Orcs missed the last century or so of warfare.

At least in the American Civil war, they had artillery, to support the infantry, & then in WWI they added machine guns, & tanks.

In that video we see a single Orc getting between fighting holes, & getting slaughtered like a steer because he was all on his lonesome, & there's zero support ; no machine guns, no artillery, no tanks, not even an AFV.

The Orcs are so fucked.

I've watched a few times, he sends RPGs into a BTR at the start and kills some guys. That's why he's throwing grenades in that direction to take out any stragglers hiding around the destroyed BTR.

He takes on a mounted infantry attack on his own and kills them all.

Well I see RPGs getting fired, but I can't see what they're being aimed at, & I can't hear the rumble of engines, or someone on them rattling away on any muzzle flash they see from these BTRs ?

The lack of any signs of anyone firing on him is kinda jarring.

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 8:51 am

_Os_ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:39 am His TikTok has higher resolution of the first 2 minutes:
https://www.tiktok.com/@_lost_generatio ... 8060643590

Mr."_lost_generation", is who he is. Quite funny there's other vids of him manically defending other trenches with all the firepower he can get, and comments are mocking him for firing at nothing. And then 'nothing' emerged from the trees speaking Russian and carrying an AK and now he's the Ukrainian Rambo meme.

Video gone. Presumably because of the death and shit