Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by THG:
EV's are looking better, now that Trump has the cost of gas going through the roof.
Until rates for electricity go up.
AFA Russian logistics across "the front" collapsing...
• Crimea is not "the front". Ukies have made life more difficult for the civilian population in Crimea, but that hasn't stopped Russia from moving forward across the entire front, including in the south.
• If drone attacks on roads and bridges were enough to collapse an army, Kiev would have collapsed two years ago. Ukraine's "drone wars" are irritating but not strategic.
It does look as if Ukraine is planning some sort of media incursion, sending in a relatively small contingent as deep as possible to video themselves planting flags. They'll be wiped out, just like the Kursk offensive, the 2023 southern offensive, and the ridiculous plays for Rabotyn and Krynky were wiped out.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Flamingo missile used rarely and with limited success despite ‘aggressive’ promotion – MP Rakhmanin
June 9, 2026, 05:31 AM
https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-rarely-uses-fp-5-flamingo-missile
-says-mp-50614650.html
The FP-5 Flamingo missile is being used only rarely and not very successfully, despite the “very aggressive promotion” around the weapon, Serhii Rakhmanin, a member of the Ukrainian parliamentary committee on national security, defense and intelligence, said in a Radio NV interview on June 8.
“They (the Fire Point company — ed.) are also the creators of a project that, at least for now, has not been very successful, one called FP-5,” Rakhmanin said.
“It is better known to the public as Flamingo. If I’m not mistaken, they also made a lot of promises to us — both about the number of these missiles and the quality of their use. The statements and the real-world use differ significantly.”
Commenting on Fire Point’s statement that it plans to create ballistic missiles capable of striking Russia as early as this summer, the lawmaker said a cruise missile is theoretically easier to develop than a ballistic one. He added that he would be “the first to applaud” if the company managed, “while making it into the Guinness Book of Records,” to create a ballistic missile from scratch.
“But for now, apart from statements, we have nothing else,” Rakhmanin added.
“If it happens — great, we’ll discuss it. For now, there is only a statement. A statement must be backed by concrete things, concrete steps. So far, even the FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile is used extremely rarely and not very successfully. They explain this with objective reasons, they explain why it is so, and what they plan to do to make it more successful, more widespread, more effective. But for now, we state the fact: there is a product called FP-5 that received crazy, very aggressive promotion, but the practical results differ significantly from what was promised.”
Strikes using Flamingo missiles:
On May 5, the OSINT project CyberBoroshno reported that an FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile struck the front section of the main building of the VNIIR-Progress plant in Cheboksary, Russia, at an angle. JSC VNIIR-Progress produces Kometa anti-jamming navigation modules, which Russia uses in drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
On March 28, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that Ukraine’s Defense Forces had struck the Promsintez plant in Russia’s Samara Oblast with FP-5 Flamingo missiles.
On Feb. 21, the General Staff said Ukraine’s Defense Forces had hit the Votkinsk plant in Russia’s Udmurt Republic with FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles. The plant manufactures Iskander-M, Topol-M, Kinzhal, and Yars missiles. It is located more than 1,300 kilometers from Ukraine’s border.
On Feb. 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a previous Russian strike on the manufacturing plant had caused a delay in scaling up production of Ukrainian Flamingo missiles.
Overnight into Feb. 12, a series of powerful explosions was reported in Russia’s Volgograd Oblast. Reports said a missile strike and fire hit a military arsenal in the settlement of Kotluban. The same day, Fire Point co-owner and chief designer Denys Shtilerman showed the launch of FP-5 Flamingo missiles toward the arsenal in Kotluban.
On Feb. 5, Ukraine’s General Staff said the Defense Forces had carried out a series of strikes during January 2026 on a hangar-type building complex at the Kapustin Yar test range in Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast, where medium-range intercontinental ballistic missiles undergo pre-launch preparation. The attack used long-range strike systems of Ukrainian production, including the FP-5 Flamingo.
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Two articles by same author on same subject, written a year apart:
[2026] Russia’s Greatest Defense Has Always Been Its Sheer Size. Ukraine’s New Drones Just Took It Away
By Harrison Kass | June 9, 2026
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/russias-greatest-defense-has-alway
s-been-its-sheer-size-ukraines-new-drones-just-took-it-away/
Ukraine has reportedly established what some observers describe as a “logistics lockdown” across occupied territories using domestically produced mid-range strike drones capable of hitting ships, bridges, fuel depots, airfields, and refineries.
The Ukrainian strategy has shifted, in part, from trying to destroy Russian units at the front to focusing on destroying the systems that supply them.
And increasingly, the drone war is evolving from tactical support for ground forces into something like a strategic air campaign designed to affect Russia’s war economy.
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Harrison Kass is a writer and attorney focused on national security, technology, and political culture. His work has appeared in City Journal, The Hill, Quillette, The Spectator, and The Cipher Brief. He holds a JD from the University of Oregon and a master’s in Global & Joint Program Studies from NYU. More at https://harrisonkass.com
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[2025] Russian and Ukrainian Drones Have Changed Warfare Forever
By Harrison Kass | June 29, 2025
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russian-ukrainian-drones-change
d-warfare-forever-hk
The proliferation of drone warfare has had an immense psychological and strategic impact on both Russian and Ukrainian troops.
The ongoing war in Ukraine has highlighted the evolving application of weaponized drones in warfare. Both sides have become increasingly dependent upon drones, the tactics of which have evolved over the course of the four-year conflict.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
EV's are looking better, now that Trump has the cost of gas going through the roof.
Until rates for electricity go up.
Right?
Good luck feeding your little pussy pseudo-car when AI has a killer appetite.
California can't even keep the fucking lights on during A/C season half the time. I don't even understand how any fools like Ted and Second think for a moment that this technology is even viable unless we put nuclear power everywhere.
They still think that electric coming from their sockets is Hogwarts Magic.
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Ukrainian Flamingo missiles strike military plant in large-scale attack on Russia, Zelensky confirms
By Volodymyr Ivanyshyn, Tania Myronyshenaune | June 10, 2026 1:45 pm
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-oil-refinery-nearly-800-kilometers
-from-border-reportedly-struck-by-ukrainian-drones/
Ukraine's General Staff later identified the target as the VNIIR-Progress plant in Cheboksary and confirmed a fire at the facility.
The VNIIR-Progress plant, which has been sanctioned by Ukraine, the U.S., and the European Union, produces satellite navigation receivers and Kometa antennas used in Shahed-type attack drones, Kalibr cruise missiles, Iskander-M ballistic missiles, and guided aerial bombs.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
EV's are looking better, now that Trump has the cost of gas going through the roof.
Until rates for electricity go up.
AFA Russian logistics across "the front" collapsing...
• Crimea is not "the front". Ukies have made life more difficult for the civilian population in Crimea, but that hasn't stopped Russia from moving forward across the entire front, including in the south.
• If drone attacks on roads and bridges were enough to collapse an army, Kiev would have collapsed two years ago. Ukraine's "drone wars" are irritating but not strategic.
It does look as if Ukraine is planning some sort of media incursion, sending in a relatively small contingent as deep as possible to video themselves planting flags. They'll be wiped out, just like the Kursk offensive, the 2023 southern offensive, and the ridiculous plays for Rabotyn and Krynky were wiped out.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Yes, electric costs could be a problem. However, the American voter can insist that these large data centers have to provide their own power. Too late to help us but building them in the low temperature of space may be the best way forward. Cooling the chips is a lot of the problem. And they are having some success dealing with that.
As for the rest of your post regarding Ukraine; wrong. You, are heading for a major clash with reality.
T
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Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
EV's are looking better, now that Trump has the cost of gas going through the roof.
Until rates for electricity go up.
AFA Russian logistics across "the front" collapsing...
• Crimea is not "the front". Ukies have made life more difficult for the civilian population in Crimea, but that hasn't stopped Russia from moving forward across the entire front, including in the south.
• If drone attacks on roads and bridges were enough to collapse an army, Kiev would have collapsed two years ago. Ukraine's "drone wars" are irritating but not strategic.
It does look as if Ukraine is planning some sort of media incursion, sending in a relatively small contingent as deep as possible to video themselves planting flags. They'll be wiped out, just like the Kursk offensive, the 2023 southern offensive, and the ridiculous plays for Rabotyn and Krynky were wiped out.
----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Yes, electric costs could be a problem. However, the American voter can insist that these large data centers have to provide their own power. Too late to help us but building them in the low temperature of space may be the best way forward. Cooling the chips is a lot of the problem. And they are having some success dealing with that.
As for the rest of your post regarding Ukraine; wrong. You, are heading for a major clash with reality.
T
Maybe we can make ALL the big companies generate their own power.
Maybe we can make pigs fly.
Maybe we can make you less of a worthless, brainfucked faggot.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
EV's are looking better, now that Trump has the cost of gas going through the roof.
Until rates for electricity go up.
AFA Russian logistics across "the front" collapsing...
• Crimea is not "the front". Ukies have made life more difficult for the civilian population in Crimea, but that hasn't stopped Russia from moving forward across the entire front, including in the south.
• If drone attacks on roads and bridges were enough to collapse an army, Kiev would have collapsed two years ago. Ukraine's "drone wars" are irritating but not strategic.
It does look as if Ukraine is planning some sort of media incursion, sending in a relatively small contingent as deep as possible to video themselves planting flags. They'll be wiped out, just like the Kursk offensive, the 2023 southern offensive, and the ridiculous plays for Rabotyn and Krynky were wiped out
Yes, electric costs could be a problem. However, the American voter can insist that these large data centers have to provide their own power. Too late to help us but building them in the low temperature of space may be the best way forward. Cooling the chips is a lot of the problem. And they are having some success dealing with that.
As for the rest of your post regarding Ukraine; wrong. You, are heading for a major clash with reality.
The way I understand it, THGR, is that Russian military staff and policy planners view the SMO as a series of related probabilistic differential equations. Everything happens at a rate, each with its error band:
Russia marches forward at a certain rate.
Russian loses military and economic capability at a certain rate.
Ukraine loses at a certain rate.
EU economies decline at a certain rate.
USA weapons stockpiles are used up at a certain rate, and produced at a (lower) rate.
Popular opinion changes at a certain rate.
Some rates are linear, some are higher order, occasionally they experience a step change, like the introduction of new technology like drones or the change of a particular government or the opening of a new front.
I don't have information needed to make accurate predictions. But this is war, and losses are inevitable on both sides. The question is, who is losing more faster? AFAIK it's Ukraine and the EU.
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Quote:Moscow’s latest car bombing shows Putin’s generals who the real target is
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I don't have information needed to make accurate predictions. But this is war, and losses are inevitable on both sides. The question is, who is losing more faster? AFAIK it's Ukraine and the EU.
Ukraine has combined assassinations with bombings in a bid to break the logistical spine of Russia’s war effort, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
Wednesday 10 June 2026 10:43 EDT
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-assas
sination-car-bomb-moscow-kremlin-b2993149.html
General Davydov, head of the Kremlin’s missile and artillery wing in the ministry of defence, was a prized trophy for Kyiv’s covert operators.
“Hard-targeting” the Russian general is also a triumph of psychological operations – reinforcing the already well-understood feeling that none of the Kremlin’s nomenklatura are safe.
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Today, 10 June 2026, marks the 1,568th day of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine — the same number of days that World War I lasted.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/10/russias-full-scale-war-against-
ukraine-has-now-lasted-exactly-as-long-as-world-war-i-1568-days/
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