The War in the Ukraine

Right_People

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As a native Russian speaker, this sounds like a mis-translation. It's way too crude to be an actual slang term IMO.

But yes, Espirit De Corps is a powerful thing, and elite units generally foster one for the purposes of morale.
"Околофутбола" is the russian one, "close to football" being the literal translation. Ultra or Hooligan are used too, but native one is the other.

In fact a famous film about ultras has that name:
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Going off-topic into slang ... :D
 

HighGround

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"Околофутбола" is the russian one, "close to football" being the literal translation. Ultra or Hooligan are used too, but native one is the other.

Yeah, I know. I'm just saying it sounds weird, so it sounds like a mistranslation. Maybe I'll watch the movie and it'll clear it up for me.
Large scale airstrike in progress again, Kiev getting hit.
It is quite strange that Russia is firing missiles on the daily now.

I'm not quite sure I understand what their objective is. If it was up to me, I would've waited until it became clear where the Ukrainian counteroffensive was going to take place, and then target the critical nodes in that area with said missiles to cripple the offensive in progress.
 

Temstar

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Kiev AD doing something interesting:

A few days ago I saw this exact same thing happen on a video in Telegram which I saved down:
watermark on those video suggest this was on 28th of May.

What causes surface to air missiles to do this? Losing track of the target after launch?
I suppose someone in Kiev is due for a 6-8 years in jail again.
 
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Yeah, I know. I'm just saying it sounds weird, so it sounds like a mistranslation. Maybe I'll watch the movie and it'll clear it up for me.

It is quite strange that Russia is firing missiles on the daily now.

I'm not quite sure I understand what their objective is. If it was up to me, I would've waited until it became clear where the Ukrainian counteroffensive was going to take place, and then target the critical nodes in that area with said missiles to cripple the offensive in progress.
They're trying to deplete Ukraine's sam stockpile so they can maybe get a chance to use more tactical airpower in defending from the counteroffensive. Frankly I'm surprised that it seems to actually be working. I guess they may have managed to sort out production bottlenecks.
 

Tam

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Record amount of kills and damages by the Lancet on May, amounting to 61 targets. I don't know if this includes attacks on the Belgorod invasion force however.


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The first day of summer and statistics by published in May, Lanzetam.
I remind you that there are May and winter shots, for example, just so it happened.
For reference:
Unknown result - it is not known whether the drone hit.
The controversial result is when it is impossible to determine whether the target is damaged or destroyed.

10 Carnation - two destroyed, six damaged, one miss, one controversial result;
6 crabs - two destroyed, two damaged, one miss, one unknown result;
1 Giacint-S - damaged;
1 M-109 - destroyed;
8 M-777 - two destroyed, one damaged, one miss, four unknown results;
1 M-101 - damaged;
1 D-30 - destroyed;
1 Msta-B - destroyed;
1 Giacint-B - unknown result;
1 RSE Burevius - destroyed;
1 RSE Uragan - destroyed;
3 PU S-300 - one is destroyed, two are damaged;
1 ZRK Buk - destroyed;
2 Osa air defense systems - two are damaged;
1 ZRK Strela-10 - damaged;
1 ZRK Stormer HVM - damaged;
1 Avenger air defense system - destroyed;
1 radar ST-68 - destroyed;
1 radar P-18 - destroyed;
1 AAN / TPQ radar 37 - destroyed;
3 tanks - one miss, one damaged, one unknown result;
1 REB Bukovel AD - destroyed;
1 M-113 - damaged
1 BMP-2 - destroyed;
1 KRAZ - damaged;
2 Humvee - one controversial result, one destroyed;
2 vehicles - two destroyed;
1 PZM-2 - damaged;
5 unknown targets - two damaged, two unknown results, one miss.

Total 61 goals, that there is a new record.
Of them:
Destroyed - 22
Damaged - 23
Miss - 5
Unknown result - 9
Controversial Result -2
 

Phead128

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Zelensky made a fatal mistake advertising its counteroffensive as something that should decide the fate of Ukraine. Now it's under pressure to deliver by own population, Biden administration and NATO.

The real fatal mistake is misinterpreting domestic propaganda for actual military strategy. Zelensky's internal propaganda is for domestic consumption, whereas the US/NATO military strategists are effectively running this war operations on behalf of Zelensky using NATO military "advisors" on the ground. NATO "advisors" essentially controls the timing of any counteroffensive, and quite frankly, NATO could careless about restoring Crimea, Donbass, or territories, they care more about dragging this war out to bleed Russia more than anything else. If it means postponing counteroffensive to dig trenches and maintain defensive posture, so be it.

Instead, Russia needs to fully mobolize atleast 1M troops, if not more. Also enter into war-time production, and take this war much more seriously than it has so far. The limited S.M.O. mindset is outdated once NATO started pouring it's resources into Ukraine.
 

Shadow_Whomel

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Kiev AD doing something interesting:

A few days ago I saw this exact same thing happen on a video in Telegram which I saved down:
watermark on those video suggest this was on 28th of May.

What causes surface to air missiles to do this? Losing track of the target after launch?
I suppose someone in Kiev is due for a 6-8 years in jail again.
6 to 8 years in prison doesn't sound too bad, better than 2 weeks of recruit training.
 
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