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The fact that Ukraine had 36 Bayraktars TB2, as well as a new batch of these Turkish drones, was confirmed by Reuters and CNN.

Oryx reports 34 (18+16) but let's not split hairs and assume they did have 36.

How come Russia claims to have destroyed 40+ by now? And they're still flying.
Perhaps because mini-Bayraktars, not only TB2, also got into the statistics.
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The fact that Ukraine had 36 Bayraktars TB2, as well as a new batch of these Turkish drones, was confirmed by Reuters and CNN.

Oryx reports 34 (18+16) but let's not split hairs and assume they did have 36.

How come Russia claims to have destroyed 40+ by now? And they're still flying.
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Speaking of Bayraktar, a couple of weeks ago Kremlin claimed to have destroyed 35 of 36 that Ukraine allegedly had, which is such an obvious nonsense (Ukraine never had that many; and definitely had more than one remaining). Since then they claim to have destroyed a few more. Those negative remaining drones must be some sort of spacetime anomaly, which would explain the spontaneous combustion of the ill-fated warship Grin

The fact that Ukraine had 36 Bayraktars TB2, as well as a new batch of these Turkish drones, was confirmed by Reuters and CNN.

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Ukraine has bought more than 20 Bayraktar TB2 armed drones from Turkish company Baykar
in recent years and ordered a further 16 on January 27. That batch was delivered in early March.
https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraines-defence-imports-turkey-jumped-30-fold-q1-turkish-data-2022-04-06/
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Ukraine was the first country to purchase the TB2s in 2019 and has ordered at least 36 drones so far.
Last month, its defense minister announced the arrival of a new shipment of the drones.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/11/middleeast/mideast-summary-04-11-2022-intl/index.html




The strategy of the 'defenders' did indeed seem to be to use multiple civilian buildings and keep the civilians hostage in them while doing so.  At least that's my analysis based on the footage I've seen and the pretty much universal testimony of the liberated civilians.
Source? Please, do not say it comes from any Russian Ministry pleaaaase...

Not really about the hostages, however at the end of March 2022, the Washington Post published critical statements by Western experts that Ukrainian troops were placing military equipment in residential areas.

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[...] “I am very reluctant to suggest that Ukraine is responsible for civilian casualties,
because Ukraine is fighting to defend its country from an aggressor,”
said William Schabas, an international law professor at Middlesex University in London.
“But to the extent that Ukraine brings the battlefield to the civilian neighborhoods, it increases the danger to civilians.”

[...] “If there is military equipment there and [the Russians] are saying
we are launching at this military equipment, it undermines an assertion that
they are attacking intentionally civilian objects and civilians,” said Richard Weir,
a researcher in Human Rights Watch’s crisis and conflict division, who is working in Ukraine.

[...] The Ukrainian military has “a responsibility under international law”
to remove their forces and equipment from civilian-populated areas,
and if that is not possible, to move civilians out of those areas, Weir said.
“If they don’t do that, that is a violation of the laws of war,” he added.
“Because what they are doing is they are putting civilians at risk.
Because all that military equipment are legitimate targets.” [...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/28/ukraine-kyiv-russia-civilians/




Your video on the second link shows an alleged missile attack on a high-rise building in Kyiv and its consequences. It was the success of the Ukrainian missile defense at the very beginning of the operation, a Russian missile aimed at a military facility was shot down and its fragments fell into a residential building. If a Russian rocket hit the house, the house would not have a hole in the side, but a large pile of rubble.

You can see the missile explode. It wasn't a dud, the explosion takes out 4 floors, which on the average is 12 m in diameter. 12m explosion inside a building made of concrete and steel, not bricks. Who are you trying to fool with "fragments falling on the building". By fragments you must mean a warhead that explodes on impact.


For objectivity it's better to study the answers of officials, and not forum members.
The Russian side commented on this strike. I think that independent professional military experts will be able to confirm or refute this information.

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According to a source in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation,
the nature of the damage suggests that he was hit by an anti-aircraft missile,
which is clearly visible on the video.
According to a source reported by TASS, it is obvious that the incident occurred during
the reflection of a night rocket attack on Ukrainian military facilities.
During the launch, there was a failure in the missile guidance system of the Ukrainian Buk-M1
medium-range anti-aircraft missile system, after which the missile hit the corner of a residential building.
https://rg.ru/2022/02/26/v-zhiloj-dom-v-kieve-popala-raketa-vypushchennaia-ukrainskimi-voennymi.html
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modified to serve as Russian submarine units

Modifications implemented while heroically stopping and detonating cowardly nazi missiles include new hull openings to the lower decks.
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Earlier they claimed that they had a fire that caused an ammo storage to explode and damage the ship, but whole crew was safely evacuated and all missiles were undamaged.
That Russian landing ship Orsk also had a fire a few weeks ago that caused it to sink. Probably an electrical malfunction, nothing to worry about comrades. Definitely not a missile strike!

Maybe some rogue welders caused it.

Both Orsk and Moskva were modified to serve as Russian submarine units. The crews are currently undergoing in-depth training.
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Earlier they claimed that they had a fire that caused an ammo storage to explode and damage the ship, but whole crew was safely evacuated and all missiles were undamaged.
That Russian landing ship Orsk also had a fire a few weeks ago that caused it to sink. Probably an electrical malfunction, nothing to worry about comrades. Definitely not a missile strike!

Maybe some rogue welders caused it.
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I think it was like this. The national police of Ukraine entered the city and staged a cleansing operation, killing first comers without blue armbands (- Boн пaцaны бeз cиниx пoвязoк, мoжнo пo ним cтpeлять? - A тo, бля!), and especially "collaborators" with white armbands. Then, in the propaganda department, they decided that it was possible to make a good picture on this and blame the Russians.
From this video, I hear ''пoпpoбyй'', not ''A тo, бля!'' Any way, this video proofs nothing. And today I saw reports on Telegram from Mariupol that Russians forcing civilians to wear white armbands. Though, I'm not sure how reliable information it is

The Ukrainian military has hit the Russian cruiser Moskva by Neptune missiles, causing serious damage to the warship.

BTW allegedly that's the infamous "Russian warship" from the early days of the war.

Edit: unconfirmed report of distress signal and eventual sinking. ~500 people on board ("completely evacuated" is likely bullshit too) and a massive blow to the Black Sea fleet and to Putin's ego.
Finally this Russian warship reached it's famous point of destination. It's big hit for pride of Russia. Just in 2020 it completed repair and maintenance, probably worth of millions. According to Forbes, worth of this warship is $750 millions!
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The missile cruiser "Moskva" sank while being towed to its destination in a storm due to damage to the hull received due to a fire from the detonation of ammunition. This was reported on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

I hope our Kremlin friends finally got their propaganda material on this unfortunate event and will share it in this thread. They've been weirdly avoiding this topic so far.

Earlier they claimed that they had a fire that caused an ammo storage to explode and damage the ship, but whole crew was safely evacuated and all missiles were undamaged.
That Russian landing ship Orsk also had a fire a few weeks ago that caused it to sink. Probably an electrical malfunction, nothing to worry about comrades. Definitely not a missile strike!

Putin got a report that Moskva was destroyed.  Before they could explain that it was a ship, not the capital, he lost consciousness.

Remember those yachts being seized around the world... a couple of those is worth roughly as much as that missile cruiser. Isn't it amazing how during Putins reign "individuals" were able to amass such wealth but the state can't build any new warships of that size and is using 40-years old Soviet ships with defense systems that can be defeated by a Turkish drone.
As far as I remember Sergei Pugachev, a former friend of Putin, said that the reason for the state of the army is the reason why they have all this wealth. Putin and "his people" sell everything the Soviet army had to offer and use the money for their own benefit. They even stripped electronics and sold it for scrap, which is why many Russian tanks in Ukraine looked like homeless people were living inside. That's why Putin could afford that enormous complex on the Black Sea coast.
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Two missiles sent. The best evidence that it was an Ukrainian attack are the reports of the rest of the ships moving further away from Ukraine, as reported by US and verifiable by OS Int. That is a fuc**ng ton of money.

Remember those yachts being seized around the world... a couple of those is worth roughly as much as that missile cruiser. Isn't it amazing how during Putins reign "individuals" were able to amass such wealth but the state can't build any new warships of that size and is using 40-years old Soviet ships with defense systems that can be defeated by a Turkish drone.

Speaking of Bayraktar, a couple of weeks ago Kremlin claimed to have destroyed 35 of 36 that Ukraine allegedly had, which is such an obvious nonsense (Ukraine never had that many; and definitely had more than one remaining). Since then they claim to have destroyed a few more. Those negative remaining drones must be some sort of spacetime anomaly, which would explain the spontaneous combustion of the ill-fated warship Grin
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Your video on the second link shows an alleged missile attack on a high-rise building in Kyiv and its consequences. It was the success of the Ukrainian missile defense at the very beginning of the operation, a Russian missile aimed at a military facility was shot down and its fragments fell into a residential building. If a Russian rocket hit the house, the house would not have a hole in the side, but a large pile of rubble.

You can see the missile explode. It wasn't a dud, the explosion takes out 4 floors, which on the average is 12 m in diameter. 12m explosion inside a building made of concrete and steel, not bricks. Who are you trying to fool with "fragments falling on the building". By fragments you must mean a warhead that explodes on impact.


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The third video shows a missile attack on the building of the Kharkiv city administration, where at that moment a gathering of nationalists was taking place. These data were obtained and confirmed by Russian intelligence from several sources. The Russian special services have long hands, I recommend that the militants of the national battalions do not gather in groups of more than 20 people and do not stay in one place for a long time. The range of the Kalibr missile is more than 2500 km, the range of the X-101 missile is more than 5500 km, the range of the Iskander missile is up to 500 km, the high-precision missile can be struck from the sea, from the air or from the ground at any point in Ukraine at any time.

And that missile left the building standing instead of a "large pile of rubble".
Every time Russians kill civilians it's blamed on nationalists. Apparently nationalists are everywhere in Ukraine and that includes women and children.
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Ammunition detonated on the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva cruiser, the ship was seriously damaged, the crew was completely evacuated, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

If this spontaneous detonation sounds like bullshit, it's because it most likely is bullshit. The "ammunition" that detonated was apparently delivered by a Ukrainian "Neptune" missile.

The Ukrainian military has hit the Russian cruiser Moskva by Neptune missiles, causing serious damage to the warship.

BTW allegedly that's the infamous "Russian warship" from the early days of the war.

Edit: unconfirmed report of distress signal and eventual sinking. ~500 people on board ("completely evacuated" is likely bullshit too) and a massive blow to the Black Sea fleet and to Putin's ego.

Two missiles sent. The best evidence that it was an Ukrainian attack are the reports of the rest of the ships moving further away from Ukraine, as reported by US and verifiable by OS Int. That is a fuc**ng ton of money.

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The strategy of the 'defenders' did indeed seem to be to use multiple civilian buildings and keep the civilians hostage in them while doing so.  At least that's my analysis based on the footage I've seen and the pretty much universal testimony of the liberated civilians.
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Source? Please, do not say it comes from any Russian Ministry pleaaaase...

From a source I normally trust, except when they claim that taxes are too high, residents from Yahidne, south of Chernihiv were kept as shield for Putin's troops.

They claim that some Russian soldiers were kind of helpful, even escorting them to grab water, clothes or take some fresh air (that is, apart from having them kidnapped in basements in which people did die of suffocation and the rest had to live with the corpses. Some were not even a year old), but others were threatening. However they did shoot a father and an 12yr old daughter when they tried to escape town.

However, the Buddhist Tuvan troops (Tuva religion) ... that was a different story. They raped, treated with violence, drunk a lot and did not let them out of the basements ever.

All of them looted laptops, branded clothes, phones,... Just vulgar thieves.

Soldiers had been given "kits" explaining them why they were in Ukraine.

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Does Putin have a heart attack? An emergency ambulance helicopter flew out of the gray area.

There was also a Norwegian medical helicopter up north near Murmansk apparently taking someone from Russia to Norway.

But some people following this regularly say that this isn't particularly unusual. Perhaps nowadays it attracts more attention because of the war and the fact that air traffic has declined significantly due to sanctions so the 7 aircraft are more noticeable.

Speaking of heart attacks, where's Shoigu LOL.

Edit - finally MOD confirmed the conversion of their Black Sea flagship to a stationary submarine:

The missile cruiser "Moskva" sank while being towed to its destination in a storm due to damage to the hull received due to a fire from the detonation of ammunition. This was reported on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

I hope our Kremlin friends finally got their propaganda material on this unfortunate event and will share it in this thread. They've been weirdly avoiding this topic so far.
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It seems that something serious is being planned, since 7 special aircraft with top management urgently took off from Moscow (apparently).

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Does Putin have a heart attack? An emergency ambulance helicopter flew out of the gray area.

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Damn, that's rough, be.open can get 15 years for spreading fakes about the glorious Russian military.
One regularly praises me, the other cares about me - in order to avoid unnecessary disappointment for the participants in this discussion, I must make a public statement that I have a woman and I'm straight, sorry.
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The third video shows a missile attack on the building of the Kharkiv city administration, where at that moment a gathering of nationalists was taking place.

Was the meeting taking place in those cars driving in front of the building? Because that's where the missile hit. And what happened to the "bases and firing positions"?

I may be wrong, but on this particular issue, be.open's message contradicts the statements of the Russian side, which denies any involvement in this missile attack.

Damn, that's rough, be.open can get 15 years for spreading fakes about the glorious Russian military.
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I may be wrong, but on this particular issue, be.open's message contradicts the statements of the Russian side, which denies any involvement in this missile attack.
Perhaps my memory has betrayed me with someone, only a little more than a month has passed since then, but it seems that it was a very long time ago.

By the way, here is the answer of the Russian fighters to the video that you recently posted, with Adriana Kurilets in the title role.
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The third video shows a missile attack on the building of the Kharkiv city administration, where at that moment a gathering of nationalists was taking place.

Was the meeting taking place in those cars driving in front of the building? Because that's where the missile hit. And what happened to the "bases and firing positions"?

I may be wrong, but on this particular issue, be.open's message contradicts the statements of the Russian side, which denies any involvement in this missile attack.
The following is a quote from the official Moscow media "Vesti" with an English translation.

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March 02, 2022

Russian Armed Forces are not connected with the explosion in Kharkov

[...] The rocket flew into the center of Kharkov from the west. And there, for example, the 107th rocket artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is located, which prevents the Russian forces from blocking the city. And this unit is armed with "Smerch" - multiple launch rocket systems. The Alder missile is also compatible with these complexes.

[...] And it doesn't fit into the version about the Russian missile the fact that the day before in the very center of Kharkov a gathering of volunteers was announced who would like to join the ranks of the infamous Azov battalion. But before the event, the area was empty.

"Probably, from the point of view of the Russian army, if they knew that at 10 am there would be a gathering of nationalists, it would probably be more logical to carry out this operation not at 8 am, as it was shown on the video, but at 10:20 - 10:30, in order to destroy as many Ukrainian representatives of the Azov battalion as possible with one blow", - Oleg Noginsky, an expert at the Scientific Center for Eurasian Integration, expressed his point of view.

And, although a whole day has passed, the Ukrainian side has not yet demonstrated fragments of a shell that arrived in the city center. Although they usually don't miss such an opportunity and, on the contrary, are in a hurry to talk about the evidence, especially if the markings are preserved on the fragments.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on today's incident in Kharkov, but the department regularly emphasizes that the Russian military doesn't hit civilian targets.
https://www.vesti.ru/article/2683751
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Speaking of which, apparently Ukrainians have a "base" and/or "firing position" in every fucking building in Mariupol, Russians bombed all of them, and still can't take the city. Is there perhaps a bit of a problem with this "bases and firing positions" nonsense?
Do not worry about Mariupol, I think the captured marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will make a feasible contribution to the restoration of the city. I'm more worried about Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, judging by the concentration of troops on both sides, the battle for Donbass will be epic and very soon.
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The third video shows a missile attack on the building of the Kharkiv city administration, where at that moment a gathering of nationalists was taking place.

Was the meeting taking place in those cars driving in front of the building? Because that's where the missile hit. And what happened to the "bases and firing positions"?

Speaking of which, apparently Ukrainians have a "base" and/or "firing position" in every fucking building in Mariupol, Russians bombed all of them, and still can't take the city. Is there perhaps a bit of a problem with this "bases and firing positions" nonsense?

The strategy of the 'defenders' did indeed seem to be to use multiple civilian buildings and keep the civilians hostage in them while doing so.  At least that's my analysis based on the footage I've seen and the pretty much universal testimony of the liberated civilians.  You know, the 'millions' which Russia for some reason 'kidnapped' thus accounting for why they ended up behind the lines of Russian protection.  I've heard a few say that the Russian did try to avoid shelling the lower floors out of deference to the human shields held there, and some visual evidence seems to substantiate this.

I cannot help but be somewhat impressed at how the Russians are prosecuting this 'special military action' so far based on what I can see and verify.  It's what I would do if I where aiming for the outcome that I suspect the Russians actually want, but I am surprised that the execution is as good as it seems to be.  It's pretty hard to control military units, and especially in the 'staged but real' atrocities against Russian POW's and over-the-top Western media propaganda.  People who think that this make me a 'Putin Fanboy' or whatever are welcome to do so because they are such ignorant bottom-feeders that it means zero what they think.

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The third video shows a missile attack on the building of the Kharkiv city administration, where at that moment a gathering of nationalists was taking place.

Was the meeting taking place in those cars driving in front of the building? Because that's where the missile hit. And what happened to the "bases and firing positions"?

Speaking of which, apparently Ukrainians have a "base" and/or "firing position" in every fucking building in Mariupol, Russians bombed all of them, and still can't take the city. Is there perhaps a bit of a problem with this "bases and firing positions" nonsense?
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