Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Meanwhile, in REAL NEWS...
Russians captured the slag hill just outside of the Avdiivka coke plant,
Twenty minutes in comrade.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Meanwhile, in REAL NEWS...
Russians captured the slag hill just outside of the Avdiivka coke plant,
THUGR: Twenty minutes in comrade...
Well, I went to 20 minutes in and what I saw was that Kiev used a $3000 drone to attack a stick with cloth on it. FWIW, Russians replaced the flag, this time with the unit flag below and the Russian flag above so nobody could claim it was an old picture taken from a new angle.
A tank was fired on, the crew escaped.
And....??
This is the same place where Kiev claimed to have destroyed 57 Russian armored vehicles. I binned that claim along with Kiev's other claims.
Meanwhile, according to Ukrainian TG channels, Zelenskiy is stripping the front elsewhere to reinforce Avdiivka, and Russia is extending the "cauldron" to encompass more and more Ukrainian troops. Supposedly 30,000 Ukrainian troops there.
If Ukraine isn't careful it could be a turkey shoot...
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Ukraine's Sudden High Air Losses Likely Caused By New Russian Missiles
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I am not sure how valid this is but I am sure it is relevant:Quote:
Victor vicktop55 @vicktop55 - 16:58 UTC · Oct 24, 2023
Military expert Vladislav Shurygin: The Pentagon has become sharply concerned about the suddenly increased effectiveness of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
In two weeks, the Russians staged a real massacre in the Ukrainian sky. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost at least 10 of their aircraft (according to other sources, 14).
Moreover, all of them were shot down far from the front line and outside the radius of Russian air defense systems, as well as outside the standard radius of Russian fighter missiles. Those pilots who were able to eject reported that until the moment their planes were hit, they did not receive warning information about the attack from the appropriate warning systems.
The Americans believe that the Russian Aerospace Forces have acquired new missiles capable of not only hitting targets at a great distance, but also, after launch, independently pursuing a target without illuminating it from the aircraft’s radar, using a radio signature to guide it (the target).
Now Americans carefully check this information and consider it critically important. Since, if it is confirmed, it means that the Russians have acquired a weapon that will neutralize all the advertised advantages of their new main fighter, the F-35.
Vladislav Shurygin is indeed a Russian 'military expert' who has had various appearances on Russian talk shows.
The claim that there is 'a real massacre in the Ukrainian sky' is valid if the recent daily reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense are near to reality. I for one believe they are.
MORE AT https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/ukraines-sudden-high-air-losses-
likely-caused-by-new-russian-missiles.html#more
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Quote:A quote from the article: "If this is even near to the truth it is a catastrophic loss rate for the Ukrainian air force."
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ukraine's Sudden High Air Losses Likely Caused By New Russian Missiles
The claim that there is 'a real massacre in the Ukrainian sky' is valid if the recent daily reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense are near to reality. I for one believe they are.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/ukraines-sudden-high-air-losses-
likely-caused-by-new-russian-missiles.html#more
More likely this is a Russian load of bullshit. Here is a different story that is very likely to be true because Russia executed Russian soldiers by the millions during WWII. Stalin's motive? Make the other soldiers fight. Stalin was killing more Russians than Hitler was:
White House says Russia is executing its own soldiers for not following orders
The White House on Thursday said Russia is executing soldiers who have failed to follow orders and threatening entire units with death if they retreat from Ukrainian artillery fire.
It’s a development that U.S. national security officials believe reflects Russia’s morale problems 20 months into its grinding invasion of Ukraine, said White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-executions-soldiers-white-ho
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As an UNFRIENDLY REMINDER of how wasteful Russia is of its citizens:
Unlike the US in all wars of the 20th and 21st centuries, Russia does NOT keep a list of every soldier who dies because Russia does NOT give a damn how many millions of its citizens die for the Tsar or Stalin or Putin. Back in 1990, Russia had killed 62 million of its own citizens as proof Russia does NOT care who dies.
From the book Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 by R. J. Rummel
Download the free book from http://libgen.is/search.php?req=R.+J.+Rummel
https://www.amazon.com/Lethal-Politics-Soviet-Genocide-Murder-ebook/dp
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1 61,911,000 Victims: Utopianism Empowered, 1917-1987
2 3,284,000 Victims: The Civil War Period, 1917-1922
3 2,200,000 Victims: The NEP Period 1923-1928
4 11,440,000 Victims: The Collectivization Period, 1929-1935
5 4,345,000 Victims: The Great Terror Period 1936-1938
6 5,104,000 Victims: Pre-World War II Period 1939-June 1941
7 13,053,000 Victims: World War II Period, June 1941-1945
8 15,613,000 Victims: Postwar and Stalin’s Twilight Period, 1945-1953
9 6,872,000 Victims: Post-Stalin Period, 1954-1987
Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 by R. J. Rummel
Download the free book from http://libgen.is/search.php?req=R.+J.+Rummel
https://www.amazon.com/Lethal-Politics-Soviet-Genocide-Murder-ebook/dp
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Why do you bring up irrelevant history?
A) Russia is not the Soviet Union
B) Putin is not Stalin. Or Hitler for that matter.
Head out of ass, m'kay?
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Quote:Are you unaware that the faulty thinking of the Confederates did not die with the surrender of Lee's Army? That was mostly because everyone was pardoned for all their crimes by President Andrew Johnson, who also happened to have owned slaves.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why do you bring up irrelevant history?
A) Russia is not the Soviet Union
B) Putin is not Stalin. Or Hitler for that matter.
Head out of ass, m'kay?
After Reconstruction ended, the Confederates went right back to their old ways, except worse, because they weren't punished. How does that concern Russia?
Nobody important was punished in the Soviet Union for any of their crimes. By the way, Signym, tens of millions of Russians were murdered by big-shot Russians. Nobody important was punished for that 70-year-long murder rampage where at least 100 times more people were killed than during the USA's Civil War. That has left an indelible mark on the soul of Russians. They know that big-shots can murder less famous Russians with complete impunity.
Russian authorities have likely coerced Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) into joining a “volunteer” formation that will fight in Ukraine, which would constitute an apparent violation of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War. Russian state media reported on October 27 that the “Bogdan Khmelnitsky” volunteer battalion “recruited” roughly 70 Ukrainian POWs from various Russian penal colonies, has begun training, and will deploy to an unspecified area of the front line upon completion of training.[17] Coercing POWs into combat would be a violation of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, which stipulates that “no prisoner of war may at any time be sent to or detained in areas where he may be exposed to the fire of the combat zone” and shall not “be employed on labor which is of an unhealthy or dangerous nature,” as ISW has previously reported.[18]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-october-27-2023
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Speaking of indelible marks on souls... how's yours doing lately?
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Quote:Per usual, you misunderstand the simplest things. I am literally, not figuratively, surrounded by Trumptards who would fit perfectly into the unethical Confederacy. They have the same racist attitudes, the same overinflated egos, and the same too-lazy-to-do-their-own-work ethics as a Confederate Colonel who owns a couple of dozen slaves. These Trumptards are every bit as likely to cheat in business, break contracts, and finagle as Trump or the Confederates did. They got that way because they weren't punished for rotten behavior. Neither were the Russians who stole Eastern Europe, lost it, and are now in the middle of stealing Ukraine.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Speaking of indelible marks on souls... how's yours doing lately?
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Desperate for Air Defense, Ukraine Pushes U.S. for ‘Franken’ Weapons
By Lara Jakes
To meet the demand, the U.S. is producing so-called FrankenSAM systems that marry advanced Western weaponry with Soviet-era items still in Ukrainian stockpiles.
Oct. 28, 2023, 5:03 a.m. ET
With winter approaching, Ukrainian officials are desperate for more air defenses to protect their power grids from Russian strikes that could plunge the country into freezing darkness.
So desperate, in fact, that they are willing to experiment with a monster of a weapons system that was the brainchild of Ukraine and is now being pursued by the Pentagon.
Americans officials call it the FrankenSAM program, combining advanced, Western-caliber, surface-to-air missiles with refitted Soviet-era launchers or radars that Ukrainian forces already have on hand. Two variants of these improvised air defenses — one pairing Soviet Buk launchers and American Sea Sparrow missiles, the other marrying Soviet-era radars and American Sidewinder missiles — have been tested over the past several months on military bases in the United States and are set to be delivered to Ukraine this fall, officials said.
A third, the Cold War-era Hawk missile system, was displayed on Ukraine’s battlefield this week for the first time, in an example of what Laura K. Cooper, a senior U.S. defense official, had described this month as a FrankenSAM “in terms of resurrection” — an air defense relic brought back to life.
Together, the FrankenSAMs are “contributing to filling critical gaps in Ukraine’s air defenses, and this is the most important challenge that Ukraine faces today,” said Ms. Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia policy.
Almost since the start of the war, Ukraine has tinkered with commingling offensive weapons — its aging Soviet-era stockpiles and the ones it has gotten from the West — in unexpected but, in many cases, successful ways. American military officials spoke admiringly last year of Ukraine’s ability to “MacGyver” its arsenal, a metaphor for the 1980s TV show in which the title character uses simple, improvised contraptions to get himself out of sticky situations.
The FrankenSAMs project is now trying to do the same for Ukraine’s air defenses.
Over the past 20 months, the West has supplied a range of air defenses to Ukraine, including state-of-the-art Patriot and IRIS-T systems, tanks fitted with antiaircraft guns and more than 2,000 shoulder-fired Stinger missiles.
This past week, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany announced that his government would provide Ukraine with three more batteries of sophisticated air defenses, including another Patriot system, as part of what he called a nearly $1.5 billion “winter package.”
“As winter approaches, we are putting up a protective shield against renewed Russian attacks on energy, water and heating infrastructure,” Mr. Scholz said on Tuesday. “This is because it is becoming apparent that Russia will once again use cold and energy shortages as a weapon against the civilian population.”
The air defenses are part of the close to $100 billion in military aid that Ukraine has received from allies since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. The United States, which has already sent more funding for weapons than any other single nation, is considering donating $60 billon more as part of a new Biden administration emergency spending plan.
On Thursday, the administration announced another $150 million in military aid for Ukraine, a package of weapons that included additional munitions for three kinds of air defense systems — including Sidewinder missiles for one of the FrankenSAMS.
Now that it has Western tanks, armored vehicles, air defenses and long-range attack missiles in its arsenal, and with fighter jets on the way, officials said Ukraine largely needs more of the same weapons it has already received as opposed to systems that have yet to be sent.
FrankenSAMs are a mix of both. The program’s origins date to late last year, when Ukrain
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