Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Six years passed between Gorbachev's "Perestroika" and the unintended collapse of the USSR.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody gives a fuck, loser.
About six years will pass between Russia’s war on Ukraine and Putin accidentally collapsing Russia.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Nobody gives a fuck, loser.
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Quote:6ix, you are like every Trumptard I know. If something evil did not happen to you, it didn't happen. Likewise, when something evil does happen to you, it is not your fault, despite it being 100% your fault. Then there are the mental ghosts haunting your head. Those are the realest evils in the world, to you. Examples? Your ranting and raving about Muslims. Your fear of fires lit by Black Lives Matter rioters. Your fear of being murdered by illegal aliens. If you were Russian, you'd fear NATO.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody gives a fuck, loser.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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More than 100 civil society groups urge EU to ban alumina exports to Russia
Coalition presses Ireland to back restrictions on material linked to Russian missile supply chains.
By Peeter Helme
29/06/2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/29/eu-civil-society-groups-ban-iri
sh-alumina-exports-russia/
Their explanation for selling to Russia? We are making so much money. How can we stop? It is too much of a burden on us to stop making money.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you are like every Trumptard I know.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody gives a fuck, loser.
Nobody gives a fuck, loser.
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Sustaining the blitz: Ukraine wants to break Russia before the year ends
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Ukraine Launches Combat Bonuses of $2,200 for Captures and $330 for Enemy Kills
By Roman Kohanets | Jun 29, 2026 18:24
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-launches-combat-bonus
es-of-2200-for-captures-and-330-for-enemy-kills-20278
Ukrainian troops will receive cash bonuses for capturing or destroying enemy personnel under the first stage of a sweeping overhaul of the Defense Forces, the Ministry of Defense announced on June 29.
The awards stem from the Cabinet of Ministers Resolution, which launched an experimental project introducing additional payments for combat results, according to the ministry. https://mod.gov.ua/news/vijskovi-otrimuvatimut-100-000-grn-za-voroga-v
zyatogo-v-polon-i-15-000-za-znishhennya
It framed the payments as a way to reward front-line service members for confirmed action against enemy personnel.
The ministry set two award levels:
• roughly $2,200 for taking an enemy service member prisoner:
• around $330 for destroying enemy personnel.
The payments are disbursed at the unit commander's direction, together with regular pay, the ministry explained.
A captured enemy soldier also carries value beyond the battlefield, serving as currency in the prisoner exchanges Ukraine conducts with Russia.
The most recent swap, on June 26, returned 160 Ukrainians held since 2022, bringing the total recovered from Russian captivity to 9,606 service members and civilians since exchanges began.
The per-action awards form the newest layer of a broader military transformation set in motion the same month. https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/inside-ukraines-first-total-a
rmy-overhaul-higher-pay-contracts-clear-service-terms-and-foreign-recruitment-19766
On June 12, Ukraine began the first-ever overhaul of its military service, shifting toward a professional, contract-based force with fixed terms, higher combat pay, discharge guarantees, and equal conditions for foreign volunteers.
The first stage centers on infantry and combat brigades, pairing new contracts with clearer rules on where and how long a soldier serves.
That reform also reshaped battlefield incentives, extending per-task bonuses once limited to drone operators to infantry and assault units.
Under the new contracts, monthly pay on the line of contact averages about $6,700 and can exceed $10,000, with daily rewards tied to holding combat positions, seek-and-destroy missions, and assault operations.
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Originally posted by second:
Ukraine Launches Combat Bonuses of $2,200 for Captures and $330 for Enemy Kills
I disapprove of my tax dollars being spent in this way.
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Originally posted by THG:
Ukraine wants to break Russia before the year ends
Oh... I'm sure it does.
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Whatever You Do in Russia, Don’t Talk About the War
As Ukraine brings the war home to Russia, officials hesitate to designate shelters and blast sirens, downplaying the conflict’s consequences with euphemisms.
By Valerie Hopkins | June 29, 2026 Updated 4:02 p.m. ET
Valerie Hopkins covers the war in Ukraine and how the conflict is changing Russia, Ukraine, Europe and the United States. She is based in Moscow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/world/europe/russia-ukraine-rhetori
c.html
The war in Ukraine is a “Special Military Operation,” even though it’s the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II.
Across Russia, officials blame fuel shortages on “unscheduled maintenance at refineries” without noting a cause, as Ukrainian drones attack fuel refining facilities in the country.
And Russia’s central bank governor has talked of the “structural transformation of the economy,” as code for military spending that has spiraled and reoriented the economy around the military-industrial complex.
For years, President Vladimir V. Putin has insulated Russian society from the consequences of his war in Ukraine, using euphemisms as a psychological shield. But as the war increasingly comes home, the mismatch between rhetoric and reality is becoming a source of frustration for ordinary Russians.
For days, Mr. Putin didn’t mention the June 18 long-range drone strikes on Moscow, when Ukraine attacked with nearly 200 drones. He didn’t comment as Ukrainians promised to turn Crimea, the peninsula Russia illegally annexed in 2014, into an island by pounding it with drones and missiles.
When he appeared last Tuesday for the first time since the June 18 strikes, which were the largest in the war, he used the moment to blame the West.
“These drones, strikes on civilian infrastructure — what are they for? To destabilize society, to create uncertainty about the actions of the Russian armed forces,” Mr. Putin said. At that time, he did not address the fuel shortages in at least 56 regions, according to Mediazona, an independent Russian news outlet.
On Sunday, Mr. Putin did acknowledge fuel shortages. At a meeting of top executives and officials, he said that “systemic measures that match the scale of current challenges” must be put in place, adding that a task force was working around the clock to ensure supplies, especially for agriculture.
But Mr. Putin has not publicly delegated officials to prepare shelters or early warning systems in case of future strikes.
In the Moscow suburbs of Kotelniki and Lyubertsy, both of which came under drone attack in mid-June, the authorities said they would not disclose the locations of bomb shelters or use sirens because the country was not technically on a war footing. They would make this information public only in case of a “period of mobilization and in wartime.”
Lyubertsy’s administrator suggested that people consult a PDF that appeared on a government website with practical instructions on what to do in case of a drone attack.
The head of the Republic of Bashkortostan, a region with four million people between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains where Ukraine has attacked refineries, said his administration had decided to not always activate sirens to not stress people out, mentioning a rise in antidepressant use in Russia.
After a drone attack in the Yaroslavl region in late March killed a child and injured three adults, a local newspaper reported that the Ministry of Regional Development had not activated siren warning systems “to avoid panic and further injuries.”
Russian authorities said they shot down 213 Ukrainian drones on Saturday night, and Kyiv claimed it launched an attack on a major refinery in the Krasnodar region that killed one person. Over the same period Russia attacked Ukraine with eight missiles and 142 drones.
On social media citizens have expressed shock at official statements about why sirens wouldn’t be used during drone attacks or shelters aren’t being set up. Others complained that whi
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[Superweapon ain't that good]
Ukraine’s Flagship Flamingo Missiles Perform Solidly in Combat for First Time Ever
In brief: Ukraine’s FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile achieved its best result yet, with 3 of 5 missiles hitting Russia’s Barrikady military plant. Neither Russian nor Ukrainian official sources stated where the two missiles that did not hit the plant landed. Analysts credit improved tactics and low-altitude routing, marking a major leap after earlier poor accuracy against Russian air defenses.
By Stefan Korshak | June 29, 2026, 7:57 pm
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79225
Fire Point Director Denys Shtilerman, in a Saturday interview published on YouTube, said that building guidance systems precise enough to allow the missile to negotiate its path to a target, while flying at a nap-of-the-Earth below 20 meters (78 feet) altitude or lower, along with dense Russian air defenses, were the main reasons Flamingo missiles had failed to reach their target in the past.
All seven 2026 confirmed Flamingo attacks, including the most recent, hit targets located on the shore of a major waterway. Ukrainian planners may have decided the most effective way to use the Flamingo missile is to attack targets near and ideally along the banks of a large stretch of water, because then the missile is able to fly at wave-top altitude and is much more difficult to intercept. Flight planners need not worry about avoiding hills and tall buildings.
The main advantages of the missile, Shtilerman and other Fire Point executives have said, are that a Flamingo is designed to use discarded aircraft jet engines for power and Soviet-era aviation bombs as warheads, and so may be manufactured quickly and cheaply.
At around 14 meters (46 feet) long with a 6-meter (20-foot) wingspan, the Flamingo, costing between $500,000 and $1 million, is about four times bigger than the US military’s advanced Tomahawk cruise missile, costing about $2 million.
Fire Point executives in late 2025 claimed that serial production at Flamingo factories would produce about 30 missiles a month, rising to 200+ by the end of 2026. President Volodymyr Zelensky, in mid-February comments to Kyiv media, said that production had been set back by Russian strikes hitting a Fire Point production facility, but that manufacturing would continue and expand.
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