Topic: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] - page 304. (Read 77288 times)

Interview with volunteer Adrien Bocquet (in French), who recently returned from Ukraine and talks about a lot of interesting things, including the re-enactment in Bucha, filmed by American cameramen and about the war crimes of the Azov Nazis.

2022.05.11 Ukraine Officers Are Abandoning Their Men
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0Pg0I0oET0Rb/

I currently get my highest rated information from on-the-ground footage.  Ukraine isn't my highest priority in life so I really have not validate what Lira is saying here, but such a scenario (Zelensky/Kolomoyskyi trying really hard to get as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible dead and officers bailing) would not surprise me in the least.  Indeed, I have to wonder if some noticeable percentage of 'captured' Ukrainian soldiers/conscripts might voluntarily to switch sides.

About Lira, it's a pretty interesting situation.  It's almost necessary to assume that he is working under the protection of some elements of the internal security apparatus of Ukraine after his arrest.  (Probably before, too, for that matter.)  It's similarly certain that his reporting would not deviate radically from that which his captors/benefactors wish.  That tells me that there are likely deep fractures and a range of motives/motivations within the government.

What kind of nonsense are you talking about, aren't the children of the worst communists in power since the existence of independent Croatia? See who was the fathers of the current prime minister and this communist fool of the president who shames the state with every statement he makes.

Tito is one of the greatest criminals in history and anyone who still considers him a positivist should be ashamed. 400 000 Croats killed after WW2 are no myth, but you obviously studied history in some other schools. I am ashamed that people like you declare themselves Croats, and we know very well who you really are...

Ukraine probably consider them losing side in WW2, so thats probably reason.
Us in Croatia have similar problem, WW2 quislings are in power and try to
undermine any traces of antifascism left...we're ashamed of Marshal Tito
been a Croat, imagine that

Edited to add: This is described as a T90. One single hit and looks artillery since there is no missile trail and the guys were not in movement? Nothing alive came out - Please, do not die like this for Putin!

https://youtu.be/fPyHkrRDHgg?t=8


The switchblade is very cheap true, and you got a point on the Excalibur (still the cost is 1/20 of an average main battle tank and the kill is 99.9% certain in such an open terrain). The 300 cannot deal with a proper tank / APC and I do not know if UKR got the 600's. Even the 600 may not give full certainty of kill when hitting a modern main battletank. Also, their flight time is limited, so they are to be used when there is certainty of finding a target within their range (artillery would normally have more range). Lastly, they are slow.

To be honest, the simplest explanation may be that artillery was there and switchblades were not. I would like to see an weapons analyst take a good look at this video, I guess it will happen at some point.


So in essence the howis can fire guided missiles and reach 100 km.... interesting. By taking a look at the current map, Kherson is 100% in that range from Mykolaiv. In Russian territory Belgorod is fully in range for Kharkiv. Even less sophisticated stuff could reach the 50km between the border and Belgorod. A pity the missile launching positions in Crimea are not in that range.


The 72's are "easy" to kill compared to others, but they are tanks. If you see them, they see you. There is an interview with the guy that was with Waly the Canadian sniper that speaks about tanks being spotted but out of range of Javs and actually them being spotted by a tank and shot at.

Javs are great for intimidation (keeping Russ tank officers inside their turrets and thus less "aware"), for urban warfare and to provide infantry with some means of defence against armour. Older AT's... that is a bit of a last resource in open field.

One of my local newspaper portals claims that this is possible with a projectile BAE MS-SGP. Translated with GT.

Source

It may be interesting to note that there is speculation that the total number of howitzers is about 90, with as many as 144 000 missiles/rounds. If each howitzer had only 2 successful hits each week, it's not hard to calculate what that means on a monthly basis.

Deer in the headlights. Let's stand still, maybe they won't see us and are aiming blind at one spot. Oops, sorry guys I was wrong.
When you see that flare bursting, you know they got them good. Ammunition is cooking in there.

Another day of victory for the Russians. They'll be having their victories every day from now on.

-tell Vladimir we have another victory. We've managed to capture another village, our troops are looting already.
-at what cost?
-2 APCs, 1 Tank, one supply truck
-not great, not terrible
-and a SU35S
-Blyat!

Breaking news!  Western media releases footage, provided by high level sources from within Ukraine, from the catacombs of Avozstal showing preparations for stunning breakout and subsequent recapture of Mariupol.

Especially combating T72's, where the crew is practically sitting right on their ammo. These could be fought easily and on the cheap using older, unguided anti-tank-weapons. They need closer distance, though, which is not the most favourite in face of an army that tries to break the world record in war crimes.

These are very expensive. Not sure what the advantage is over e.g. Switchblade (speed?) but I thought it would be rare to see Excaliburs in action, maybe against juicy target like radars.

Not the most, that would be Odessa and the south coast. However, this island is very close to NATO. I admit that is nightmare to defend so what I am saying may just not be realistic.

Interesting stuff about Chief of the General Staff of Russian ARmy Vladimir Gerasimov. He wasn't seen on 9th May parade yesterday:
https://www.newsweek.com/valery-gerasimov-russian-general-victory-day-parade-missing-1704798
There is one possibilty that when he visited Izyum in Ukraine, he was wounded and now in hospital. But there is another prediction that Putin removed him from this position.

It's not just single message, it's regular thing. There is even rumour that some Russian media isn't allowed to quote Kadyrov without permission from above:
https://rus.ozodi.org/a/31835983.html

Something like Chornobaivka, right? But in general, I don't think that strategically Snake Island is most imporant object for both sides.

Is the perfect size for an early alert radar, six to eight S-400 batteries and, given the need, a few nuclear silos.

It is also the perfect size for an early alert radar, a couple of Patriot batteries and, given the need, a THAAD or some form of earlier interceptor.

Now that we are talking about it... Putin may not be as worried about having nukes near his territory, but rather having a possible current secret or future system of early interception of Nukes. Nukes are very difficult to intercept, in the late stage we are talking objects of 1m diameter going a several times the speed of sound and accelerating at several G's. In the early stage this may actually be possible. I am guessing a lot here but... could be the case.


100 km? Are you sure? Anyway, yes these are modern artillery and there seems to be very good geoloc passed to them. Now that I think of it, they may have used NATO guided shells, specific for this smaller targets. That would explain the amazing precision. They do not look like the shells that can actually kill 2 tanks with one round.


However, it is a completely different thing how the tanks react to a hit. At first, they are unlikely to know if it is artillery, a drone, an MANPAD or a Stugna-P or even a land mine. However, no matter what it is, the only thing that is clearly wrong is to sit in there. Tactical Cannon Fodder sent there by a soulless leadership.

Victory parade in Mariupol, Ukraine. 09 may2022
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UyWrfnhvkmLO/

These howitzers have a range of 24 km up to 100 km depending on the charge they use. You can hardly escape being hit in the open, and since there are mostly inexperienced soldiers in armored vehicles/tanks, they are very easy targets. If you watched the video then you can see that some tanks are trying to go forward, but one was destroyed in motion (2:50), while only a few were saved by returning to the shelter of the settlements they passed through before.

With the fact that more and more smart weapons are coming into the hands of Ukrainians and that they are being trained to use them, Russia's losses will be greater than before.

Income potential for the Ukrainian postal service too.

The island is quite small though. I wonder what happens when it's all covered in imaginary downed Bayraktars. I hope it warps through a wormhole into the Red Square.

Ooops... I took me a while to realise. Snake Island will be used as the bait for the Russian navy in the B.S. There is no intention to "re -capture" in the short term, just to make it look like it could actually be captured and destroy anything getting near by. Quite strategic giving it's proximity to Romania and other countries in the Balcans. Short of a Cuba.


This is what modern artillery does by the looks of it. This is not "barrage" or 100 shells one hit tactics nor a second world war shut and cross fingers - this is tank located, tank blasted.

There seems to be much doubt on the tank group on what to do, something like "hey looks like Boris's been hit. Let's stop right here, to present a better target ourselves".

This is the third time I have to answer this question. It seems that you are not reading this topic carefully enough before answering something here, which is generally a violation of the Politics branch rules.

US-sent M777 howitzers have finally been used, and the video shows them successfully destroying 7 of 11 Russian tanks in one convoy. I would say that this is a great result for the first time, and when the Ukrainian soldiers train a little better, I believe it will be even more precise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ZTR6yC6O4