The War in the Ukraine

More helis at work, from the 5th of June.
Another 8 hits.


Ukraine reportedly launched another offensive to try to capture the village again.

2handedswordsman said:

Is it somewhat strange John Deere's doing agricultural work in the middle of a battlefield? I think it is. Judging from a video i saw on telegram those things seems to be wheeled cannons AMX or Stryker type

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Whatever, it's not the first time that Civilian vehicules have been taken for military ones. In the hunt for Scud launcher in Irak, multiple fuel trucks where destroyed.

Waste of missiles, their sight system are not very good too... but on IR is more difficult to get identification.

Atomicfrog said:

Whatever, it's not the first time that Civilian vehicules have been taken for military ones. In the hunt for Scud launcher in Irak, multiple fuel trucks where destroyed.

Waste of missiles, their sight system are not very good too... but on IR is more difficult to get identification.

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Let's remember that concrete pylon that the Russian defense ministry and its propagandists claimed was a Ukrainian barge

Mistakes happen, but the Russian MoD is incapable of leaking information, instead convinced that people are dumb enough to believe their "proofs"

Sheleah said:

Let's remember that concrete pylon that the Russian defense ministry and its propagandists claimed was a Ukrainian barge

Mistakes happen, but the Russian MoD is incapable of leaking information, instead convinced that people are dumb enough to believe their "proofs"

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The assumption that people are dumb is the core pylon of every propagandist. Anyways, a Russian youtuber who i follow years before, nowdays escaped to Georgia, uploaded yesterday a video claiming that a digital conscription mail came to his inbox. Is that for regular conscription or is there a second round of mobilisation going on? Anybody knows anything about?

Im not sure if this is on or off topic, anyways, it is interesting to know the backstory of Wagner commanders

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Here is a snippet of interest from a relatively generic article.

The United States government has intelligence that is leaning towards Russia as the culprit of the attack on the dam in Ukraine, according to two U.S. officials and one Western official. President Joe Biden’s administration was working to declassify some of the intelligence and share it as early as Tuesday afternoon.

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Details about the plan, which have not been previously reported, were collected by a European intelligence service and shared with the CIA in June 2022. They provide some of the most specific evidence to date linking the government of Ukraine to the eventual attack in the Baltic Sea, which U.S. and Western officials have called a brazen and dangerous act of sabotage on Europe’s energy infrastructure.

The European intelligence reporting was shared on the chat platform Discord, allegedly by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira. The Washington Post obtained a copy from one of Teixeira’s online friends.

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And people wonder why I don't trust my own country's intelligence, because they're not reporting objectively on the war. They are presenting the , completely subverting the so-called "democratic process". How can myself and fellow Americans decide if they want to support specific foreign policy decisions, when we are being lied to?

The article gets even worse.

But despite any reservations the CIA might have had, the agency communicated the June intelligence to counterparts in Germany and other European countries, officials said. The European service also shared it with Germany, one person said. German intelligence personnel briefed lawmakers in Berlin in late June before they left for their summer break, according to an official with knowledge of the closed-door presentation.

Officials familiar with the European report conceded that it is possible that the suspected Ukrainian plotters might have been apprised that the intelligence was shared with several countries and that they may have changed some elements of the plan.

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So let me get this straight. Western Intelligence were notified of a potential plan to attack Nord Stream. And there is potential the people who hatched the plot were notified that Western Intelligence found out about them?

I'm pretty sure that's the kind of crime that Jack Teixeira is going to prison for. And unlike Jack Texeira, this kind of leak has potentially materially harmed a U.S. ally.

Some more details on the NPP cooling system from the IAEA, Media etc, and other collateral damage. Argicultural sector has enough water for 1.5 months with next season being problematic.

Tuesday Reservoir Level = 16.4 meters
Cooling Level Required = 12.7 meters
Water Level Drop = 2.5 meters initially + Up to 7 meters.

The water level in a reservoir near the ZNPP has fallen by 2.5 meters, Balitsky said, adding that a further reduction is possible. “We expect the drop to be even bigger, up to seven meters,” he told the Russia 24 TV channel. The water is critical for cooling the reactors and spent fuel at the facility, thus preventing meltdowns.

Balitsky denied that such a development could “affect security in the area or in our regions on the whole in any way.” He also said that the current water level near the ZNPP is “non-routine” but still “acceptable.” The head of the International Atomic Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, also insisted on Tuesday that “there is no immediate risk to the safety of the plant.”

He added that the water level in the reservoir was “at around 16.4 meters” on Tuesday morning but was still falling. “If [it] drops below 12.7 m then [water] can no longer be pumped to cool the station,” Grossi warned, adding that “absence of cooling water … for an extended period of time would cause fuel melt and inoperability of the emergency diesel generators.”

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And people wonder why I don't trust my own country's intelligence, because they're not reporting objectively on the war. They are presenting the

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, completely subverting the so-called "democratic process". How can myself and fellow Americans decide if they want to support specific foreign policy decisions, when we are being lied to?

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So let me get this straight. Western Intelligence were notified of a potential plan to attack Nord Stream. And there is potential the people who hatched the plot were notified that Western Intelligence found out about them?

I'm pretty sure that's the kind of crime that Jack Teixeira is going to prison for. And unlike Jack Texeira, this kind of leak has potentially materially harmed a U.S. ally.

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The US was likely saving this information for when they want to pressure Ukranian government to sue for peace, the war has not yet reached a point where it is against US interests. With the leak that leverage went out the window.

We now know where the 15 Gepards that the German government promise come from.
( The Gepards that Qatar brought for the air - defence of the World Cup are the full version one's ).

The General Staff revealed the number of people mobilized from Donbass​

Deputy Chief of the General Staff Burdinsky: Donbass sent 80 thousand mobilized troops​

Deputy Chief of the Generalof the Armed Forces of the, Colonel-General Yevgeny, said that almost 80 thousand people were called up from the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in the fall of 2022.His words are quoted by.

"79,800 people have been called up from the DPR and LPR to mobilize," Burdinsky said.

He noted that about two thousand units of vehicles were also delivered to the troops from these republics.

Burdinsky added that from November 10 to December 2 last year, the commission of the Ministry of Defense carried out work on including military commissariats of the republics of Donbass in the Russian Armed Forces.

Burdinsky alsothat the partial mobilization carried out last fall made it possible to form more than 280 military units in the Russian army.In addition, hechanges in the structure of the Armed Forces this year.Two military districts will be formed in Russia.We are talking about Moscow and Leningrad.

On June 1, that he did not see the conditions under which a new wave of mobilization would be needed. According to him, this issue is currently not being discussed in the State Duma, since there is no urgent need for mobilization. He stressed that it is necessary to mobilize the economy and people, but not the military.

Tank cookoff after being hit by rpgs