The War in the Ukraine

Russia accuses British Navy Of Nord Stream "Terrorist Attack". Earlier in the week, Russia also accused Britain of helping Kiev create a dirty bomb. Of course, Britain denies both accusations, calling them "Russian propaganda and disinformation".

Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

The Russia intends to draw the international community's attention, including at the United Nations Security Council, to a series of terrorist attacks committed against the Russian Federation in the Black & Baltic seas, highlighting the UK's involvement.

Russia's defense ministry on Saturday issued a statement charging that the British Navy blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, in what marks the first formal and direct accusation leveled against the UK over the major incident which put Europe's energy supplies in doubt.

"According to available information, representatives of this unit of the British Navy took part in the planning, provision and implementation of a terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on September 26 this year - blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines," the ministry said, though without specifying any evidence.

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Russia suspends its participation in the grain deal after attacks on ships of the Black Sea Fleet — Russian Defense Ministry

At some point when you're removing a whole level of senior management, it cease being a military problem and became a political one. It's not totally the military's fault that they were made to fight in a war they weren't prepared/given the resources for.

Slovenian T-55's on the way to Ukraine

Statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the "Black Sea initiative" for the export of Ukrainian food

On October 29, the Ukrainian armed forces, under the cover of a humanitarian corridor created as part of the implementation of the “Black Sea Initiative” to export Ukrainian agricultural products, launched massive air and sea strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles against ships and infrastructure of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at the naval base in Sevastopol.

In connection with the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces, led by British specialists, directed, among other things, against Russian ships that ensure the functioning of the specified humanitarian corridor (which cannot be qualified otherwise than as a terrorist attack), the Russian side cannot guarantee the safety of civilian dry cargo ships participating in the "Black Sea Initiative ”, and suspends its implementation from today for an indefinite period. Corresponding instructions were given to Russian representatives at the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul, which controls the transportation of Ukrainian food.

It is now being reported that Lapin himself handed in his resignation on his own volition after recent waves of negative reports about him.

Chilled_k6 said:

Russian T-72 tank with a burner mounted behind it. Was this posted before? Anyway, I thought this was a pretty crude but interesting way of messing with the infrared imaging system of Anti-tank missiles.

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Wow that tank is probably used at the front of the column, that amount of slat armor is just asking to receive ATGM. Even sandbags on top of the turret slat...

tankphobia said:

Allegedly footage from the drones on the attack, the counter-measures seems questionable? Admiral Makarov may have been struck.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586346340610707458

If the RuAF have been underperforming this war, the Russia black sea fleet is busy outcompeting them on that front...

In the part 2 video we do see some countering fire from light weapons, but not at the volume that you would expect to repel such suicide speed boat esq attacks.

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might not be from the same drone boat? Found a clearer view from that HI Sutton tweet.


It looks like the Russians actually spotted the drone and were in pursuit for quite awhile, judging from the change in daylight. I can't imagine it's that hard to shoot....some weird stuff going on.

tankphobia said:

Allegedly footage from the drones on the attack, the counter-measures seems questionable? Admiral Makarov may have been struck.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586346340610707458

If the RuAF have been underperforming this war, the Russia black sea fleet is busy outcompeting them on that front...

In the part 2 video we do see some countering fire from light weapons, but not at the volume that you would expect to repel such suicide speed boat esq attacks.

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Here's more point of view videos.


So obviously I'm not pro-Russian but I like to look at the war tactically of what I would do if I was in charged and what are the possible consequences and the one thing that has bothered me is that Russian air force has not taken out unmanned ISR aircraft. It's like the Russians are afraid of the US response which is mistakenly misplaced. I'm willing to bet a years salary the US will not respond militarily to their downing of an unmanned ISR aircraft. All this does is makes Russian military look more inept than it already looks.

My orders would be 2-4 Mig-31's at 50k mach 2+ firing R33 at Globalhawk and problem solved. Am I missing something here? The only thing that I can think of why Russia doesn't take out these unmanned ISR aircraft is because they may know they are likely protected by lurking F-22's or F-35's. Other than that there's no reason why they shouldn't go after them.

It's obvious the war is not going well for Russia when they clean house getting rid of senior commanders

So lets summarise it.

There was an attack by an USA manufactured and shipped drone, using USA satelites to control it and using the USA drone data for targeting.

What business Ukraine had with this attack ?