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Old 30th July 2022, 06:05 AM   #2681
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
Gazprom stops Latvia's gas in latest Russian cut to EU

Russian energy giant Gazprom says it has suspended gas supplies to Latvia - the latest EU country to experience such action amid tensions over Ukraine.

Gazprom accused Latvia of violating conditions of purchase but gave no details of that alleged violation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62359890
According to Czech media, they refused to follow Russian absurd games with Rubbish rubble.

Originally Posted by a_unique_person View Post
The casualties were the armed forces, not civilians.
That was absurdly large massed inaccurate artillery fire (that was the only way they could hit something). Not any more. After HIMARS arrival magnitude of Russian shelling sharply decreased.
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Old 30th July 2022, 07:29 AM   #2682
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Originally Posted by a_unique_person View Post
The casualties were the armed forces, not civilians.
Still just pointing the boom end in the right direction and firing a lot.
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Old 30th July 2022, 09:14 AM   #2683
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Originally Posted by Klimax View Post
According to Czech media, they refused to follow Russian absurd games with Rubbish rubble.



That was absurdly large massed inaccurate artillery fire (that was the only way they could hit something). Not any more. After HIMARS arrival magnitude of Russian shelling sharply decreased.
Once the NATO countries sort out alternatives, do the Russians really think they're coming back as customers, ever? No NATO nation will want to expose their economy or their people to the vagaries and whims of a basket case like Russia.
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Old 30th July 2022, 09:32 AM   #2684
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Originally Posted by eerok View Post
Still just pointing the boom end in the right direction and firing a lot.

There is more to it than that. Otherwise the artillery would have been destroyed long ago.


The are reports from Ukraine Artillery crews that they can only fire off a few rounds before they have to relocate. They must have something more than basic cannons in operation to be able to do that. Also, the Russians don't control the airspace but neither does Ukraine.
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Old 30th July 2022, 09:57 AM   #2685
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Originally Posted by a_unique_person View Post
There is more to it than that. Otherwise the artillery would have been destroyed long ago.


The are reports from Ukraine Artillery crews that they can only fire off a few rounds before they have to relocate. They must have something more than basic cannons in operation to be able to do that. Also, the Russians don't control the airspace but neither does Ukraine.
The firing off a few rounds before relocation is (normal) tactical strategy to mitigate losses. Counter battery fire really is a thing, after all. For all Russia's faults, they've held a notable advantage in pretty much all kinds of equipment for the entire war, especially on the artillery front.
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Old 30th July 2022, 10:14 AM   #2686
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Originally Posted by Aridas View Post
The firing off a few rounds before relocation is (normal) tactical strategy to mitigate losses. Counter battery fire really is a thing, after all. For all Russia's faults, they've held a notable advantage in pretty much all kinds of equipment for the entire war, especially on the artillery front.
Indeed and it has been attempted since WWI at least
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Old 30th July 2022, 10:44 AM   #2687
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Originally Posted by a_unique_person View Post
There is more to it than that. Otherwise the artillery would have been destroyed long ago.


The are reports from Ukraine Artillery crews that they can only fire off a few rounds before they have to relocate. They must have something more than basic cannons in operation to be able to do that. Also, the Russians don't control the airspace but neither does Ukraine.
It is standard to fire then move. Once you fire you give away your position to the enemy and they will fire back 'counter batter' it is called. That's why most modern artillery is self propelling so it can get away quickly and when it arrives at a new position it can shoot within a few seconds of arriving.

Here is a film of the Archer self propelling gun doing 'shoot and scoot'

It is in action 14 seconds after arriving, first round away at 23 seconds, third round away at 40 seconds and underway again after 70 seconds before the first round has reached it's target.

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NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup in Lithuania. Dutch self propelled artillery doing 'shoot and scoot' missions.

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British M270 MLRS doing 'shoot and scoot' (reduced power training rockets)

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Old 30th July 2022, 11:05 AM   #2688
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Originally Posted by jimbob View Post
Indeed and it has been attempted since WWI at least
In late WW2 operators on radar fire control sets on British AA batteries noticed they could see mortar rounds coming in, the fins acted as reflectors. Some sets were procured by the field artillery and used as dedicated counter battery sets.
Dedicated mortar-locating radars were developed after the war and in common use by the 60s. Radar capable of tracking artillery shells didn't appear until in to the 70s with the British 'Green Archer' system that used a fan shaped beam rather than the traditional cone that has a limited field of view. USA developed 'phased array' systems in the 80s which was the next jump forward.

In the British and US army the counter battery radars have authority to send target details to counter-battery fire units and order them to switch their targets and fire. It means they can react very quickly.

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Old 30th July 2022, 11:11 AM   #2689
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
Gazprom stops Latvia's gas in latest Russian cut to EU

Russian energy giant Gazprom says it has suspended gas supplies to Latvia - the latest EU country to experience such action amid tensions over Ukraine.

Gazprom accused Latvia of violating conditions of purchase but gave no details of that alleged violation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62359890
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According to Czech media, they refused to follow Russian absurd games with Rubbish rubble.
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Once the NATO countries sort out alternatives, do the Russians really think they're coming back as customers, ever? No NATO nation will want to expose their economy or their people to the vagaries and whims of a basket case like Russia.

If there is a means for rich people to get any richer, they'll take it. Ethics, morality, legality, national interest? All that don't mean much to the super rich. They'll go back to Mother's teat if it if profitable.
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Old 30th July 2022, 12:06 PM   #2690
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Originally Posted by crescent View Post
If there is a means for rich people to get any richer, they'll take it. Ethics, morality, legality, national interest? All that don't mean much to the super rich. They'll go back to Mother's teat if it if profitable.
Not even they can bypass ban on it.
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Old 30th July 2022, 12:29 PM   #2691
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Originally Posted by Klimax View Post
Not even they can bypass ban on it.
Not now. But if the fighting stops, they'll start pushing very hard to end the ban. They'll use the same justification as before, claiming that doing business with Russia encourages Russia to moderate itself.

That's a crap argument, but it makes rich people richer, so they'll run with it.


On another subject, here's an analysis of the bombing of the prisoner barracks. For reference, Russia is running with a conspiracy theory claiming that Ukraine hit the barracks to prevent the Azovtal fighters from testifying about Ukr government human rights abuses and war crimes. A separate Russian ct is claiming that Wagner group did it to prevent the fighters from being returned to Ukraine in a prisoner swap (claiming that Wagner did it sort gets the Russian government off the hook).

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Olenivka POW massacre thread 🧵:

1) it wasn't a GMLRS rocket
2) it was a thermobaric weapon
3) russia staged it and did so (as usual) incompetently

Firstly: keeping POWs so close to the front violates Article 19 of the Third Geneva Convention making it a war crime.

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Secondly: Olenivka is about 15 km from the frontline. Striking a target so close to the front with sparse and expensive long-range GMLRS rockets, when one could use 105 mm artillery rounds that cost around 0.4% of a GMLRS rocket makes no sense.

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Thirdly: Olenivka has been a well known DNR POW and concentration camp for years (and a penal colony for decades). So much so that the wives of the POWs knew about it. One needs to be a delusional russian troll or propagandist to believe Ukraine would strike this target.

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In short: russia staged it. russia never wanted to return the Azovstal defenders to Ukraine, where they would receive a hero's welcome. Executing them would result in war crime charges and endanger russian POWs in Ukrainian hands.
At the same time HIMARS gave Ukrainians hope,
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so russia decided to stage the murder of the POWs as if a GMLRS rocket had killed them to dampen the Ukrainians' joy at HIMARS.
The russians did the same with CAESAR: shell Donetsk city, then blame it on CAESAR by presenting russian artillery fired 152 mm shell fragments.

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But, like in Donetsk, the russians stages the "rocket attack" incompetently, because none of them knows how a GMLRS works.

This is the building that was hit in Olenivka. It's made from concrete bricks with a thin tin roof... and it still stands (!!).

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Thanks to russia I can show you what a GMLRS missile does when it hits a building: walls blown out, concrete ceilings shattered, rebars ripped apart, everything smashed and thrown around, and no fire damage (!).

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If we compare a real GMLRS impact to the staged one in Olenivka - there the explosion was so weak the beds didn't even move an inch, not a single brick was blown out, the steel pillar is undamaged, but there is massive fire damage.

BUT

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But the ultimate proof that this was not a GMLRS rocket is the lack of an impact crater. This photo shows a GMLRS impact crater. At Olenivka - none.

GMLRS M31 rockets hit a target at a 90 degree angle with Mach 4+ to smash through roofs and detonate inside (and also

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to smash the secret guidance system, GPS components, and sensors at the tip of the missile). The tin roof of the building in Olenivka is too weak to smash in and trigger a GMLRS rocket, therefore there would have to be an impact/detonation crater in the middle of the room,

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if a GMLRS rocket had struck. There isn't.

Also M31 GMLRS rockets contain 51 lb of PBX-109, a mix of 64% RDX and 20% Aluminium and 16% HTPB/IPDI plastic fillers. The Aluminium is used to increase blast effects, but it is not a thermobaric weapon that burns a target out.

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If a GMLRS rocket had struck Olenivka there wouldn't be any burned bodies inside... the blast would have ripped everyone apart, not burned them alive.
A thermobaric weapon burns victims, while leaving bodies intact.

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Olenivka was NOT hit by a GMLRS rocket.
russia used thermobaric a weapon to burn the POWs in their sleep. The fire damage to building and victims, and the missing impact crater and the lack of blast damage proves this.
This was premeditated murder, just like at Katyn.

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I was asked what my theory of events is: likely the russians locked the doors, fired RPO-A Shmel or MRO-A thermobaric munitions inside through the windows, then waited until everyone was dead.

Both of these weapons have been in the arsenal of the DNR since 2014 (left pic).
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If there is a means for rich people to get any richer, they'll take it. Ethics, morality, legality, national interest? All that don't mean much to the super rich. They'll go back to Mother's teat if it if profitable.
I assume there will be individuals who go back to doing business with Russia. Countries though won't expose their economies to Russian retaliation. They'll find alternatives.
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I assume there will be individuals who go back to doing business with Russia. Countries though won't expose their economies to Russian retaliation. They'll find alternatives.
Well, if Russia is pacified enough like say Russian army no longer existing, I won't mind getting back in business. There are still things I'd like to get from Russia. (Old Soviet-era computers like IBM PC clones or nice products that were sold on Etsy, - for some reason nobody else makes them; maybe with some exception by Chinese...)
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If there is a means for rich people to get any richer, they'll take it. Ethics, morality, legality, national interest? All that don't mean much to the super rich. They'll go back to Mother's teat if it if profitable.
Except it increasingly isn't giving the ever improving economics of renewables, not to mention there are plenty of large powerful companies who have suffered because of this and have an incentive to protect their profits by reducing their dependence on oil and gas, where a spike in prices is never very far away.
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The are reports from Ukraine Artillery crews that they can only fire off a few rounds before they have to relocate. They must have something more than basic cannons in operation to be able to do that.
That's standard operations for artillery. You don't need anything particularly advanced to engage in counter battery fire.
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That's standard operations for artillery. You don't need anything particularly advanced to engage in counter battery fire.
Rapid response after a few shells requires good equipment, communications and motivated men.

Russia is still very dangerous.
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Rapid response after a few shells requires good equipment, communications and motivated men.

Russia is still very dangerous.
Russia is very dangerous! In fact, it's due in part to being incompetent. They're mad and lashing out at every level. It's why their soldiers commit war crimes. It's why Putin keeps feeding his own people into the meat grinder!
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and yet the Russian equivalent is conspicuous by it's absence.

Scott Ritter said "Yes, you may kill more Russians. But that’s it. They will keep all the territory they have captured,”

He's already wrong on that.
Anything using Scott Ritter as a source needs to be taken with a large grain of salt given his often wrong and politically motivated commentary. He will side with anybody that pays him.

Also needs to be taken with a disinfectant given his personal conduct.
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I think they would prefer to outright destroy the bridges, but, as far as I'm aware, HIMARS missiles aren't powerful enough for that.

They can punch a hole clean through them that looks about 50cm wide. Enough holes and the bridge is going to be unusable. The only problem is they cost $100,000 each.
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They can punch a hole clean through them that looks about 50cm wide. Enough holes and the bridge is going to be unusable. The only problem is they cost $100,000 each.
You really need a lot of holes for that to be effective. There are tanks that lay short bridges that will cover a fair number of holes quite well as long as the piers are still mostly in place.
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Rapid response after a few shells requires good equipment, communications and motivated men.

Russia is still very dangerous.
Even blind man swinging arms while randomly moving can be dangerous.
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You really need a lot of holes for that to be effective. There are tanks that lay short bridges that will cover a fair number of holes quite well as long as the piers are still mostly in place.
You have to really keep an eye on loading of the bridge. Antonov's bridge is out of order after only about 12 holes.
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A good indication that Russia are desperate and know that they can't win is the use of their missiles on random civilian targets in cities away from the fighting.

If they could identify useful military targets along the front or in rear support areas they wouldn't be wasting precision munitions on cities.
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In other news, celebration of Navy Day in Crimea has been cancelled.
The reason given by Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev was an alleged Ukrainian drone strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...hq-2022-07-31/

I'm amused by the Russian reaction. "Ukraine decided to spoil Navy Day for us," as if this was undeserved. Now Putin is going to St Petersburg to celebrate the occasion after the Ukrainians forced its cancellation in Russian occupied Crimea. It's too bad they didn't kill an admiral.
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A good indication that Russia are desperate and know that they can't win is the use of their missiles on random civilian targets in cities away from the fighting.

If they could identify useful military targets along the front or in rear support areas they wouldn't be wasting precision munitions on cities.
Here is a short clip on PBS. They report on a strike with several missiles on a toy factory.
Sounds bad, eh?
But the UA military actually DID use that factory to house and store some troops and equipment - and they said that the missiles hit with super precision . like 50-cm-precision.
As a result, something like 40 Ukrainian soldiers died.
They said they suspect that a cleaning lady gave a hint to the Russians.

This was not a random strike on a random civilian target. This was a precision strike on a military target housed in a previously civilian building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTXeFWDG4FA

I think it is stupid and dangerous in the extreme to assume the Russians are weak, bumbling idiots at everything they do. Underestimating the enemy is a sure recipe for losing a war.

The story told by a small handful of posters here of Russia blindly swinging punches like a drunkard and committing crimes all the time, and Ukraine striking precisely with clean hands and winning winning winning is a silly fantasy. I wish you experts would drop that silliness.
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Here is a short clip on PBS. They report on a strike with several missiles on a toy factory.
Sounds bad, eh?
But the UA military actually DID use that factory to house and store some troops and equipment - and they said that the missiles hit with super precision . like 50-cm-precision.
As a result, something like 40 Ukrainian soldiers died.
They said they suspect that a cleaning lady gave a hint to the Russians.

This was not a random strike on a random civilian target. This was a precision strike on a military target housed in a previously civilian building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTXeFWDG4FA

I think it is stupid and dangerous in the extreme to assume the Russians are weak, bumbling idiots at everything they do. Underestimating the enemy is a sure recipe for losing a war.

The story told by a small handful of posters here of Russia blindly swinging punches like a drunkard and committing crimes all the time, and Ukraine striking precisely with clean hands and winning winning winning is a silly fantasy. I wish you experts would drop that silliness.
That's one out of how many imprecise or civilian strikes? Many times they publish video of allegedly precise strike, but you can't tell what the they are even trying to hit.
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Originally Posted by Oystein View Post
Here is a short clip on PBS. They report on a strike with several missiles on a toy factory.
Sounds bad, eh?
But the UA military actually DID use that factory to house and store some troops and equipment - and they said that the missiles hit with super precision . like 50-cm-precision.
As a result, something like 40 Ukrainian soldiers died.
They said they suspect that a cleaning lady gave a hint to the Russians.

This was not a random strike on a random civilian target. This was a precision strike on a military target housed in a previously civilian building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTXeFWDG4FA

I think it is stupid and dangerous in the extreme to assume the Russians are weak, bumbling idiots at everything they do. Underestimating the enemy is a sure recipe for losing a war.

The story told by a small handful of posters here of Russia blindly swinging punches like a drunkard and committing crimes all the time, and Ukraine striking precisely with clean hands and winning winning winning is a silly fantasy. I wish you experts would drop that silliness.

One of the problems is that there is a significant number of people living in Ukraine whose loyalties lie with Russia.
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Old 31st July 2022, 04:11 AM   #2709
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That's one out of how many imprecise or civilian strikes? Many times they publish video of allegedly precise strike, but you can't tell what the they are even trying to hit.
Exactly. We can't tell. If the Ukrainians don't say what the likely target was (and why would they?) then all we can do is infer that the Russians aren't wasting their precious stock firing blindly into cities. Some may miss. Some may be intercepted and fall just anywhere. But a proportion will be hits on legitimate targets, quite likely given away by intelligence provided by civilians. It doesn't take many pro-Russian people to cause a lot of harm.
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Originally Posted by Oystein View Post
Here is a short clip on PBS. They report on a strike with several missiles on a toy factory.
Sounds bad, eh?
But the UA military actually DID use that factory to house and store some troops and equipment - and they said that the missiles hit with super precision . like 50-cm-precision.
As a result, something like 40 Ukrainian soldiers died.
They said they suspect that a cleaning lady gave a hint to the Russians.

This was not a random strike on a random civilian target. This was a precision strike on a military target housed in a previously civilian building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTXeFWDG4FA

I think it is stupid and dangerous in the extreme to assume the Russians are weak, bumbling idiots at everything they do. Underestimating the enemy is a sure recipe for losing a war.

The story told by a small handful of posters here of Russia blindly swinging punches like a drunkard and committing crimes all the time, and Ukraine striking precisely with clean hands and winning winning winning is a silly fantasy. I wish you experts would drop that silliness.
and yet they are conducting the war as though they have no real strategy or even tactics.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
and yet they are conducting the war as though they have no real strategy or even tactics.
Says you.
I see less and less reason to take your assessment as worth anything
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Originally Posted by Oystein View Post
Says you.
I see less and less reason to take your assessment as worth anything
So what is their strategy?
What tactics are they using?

here has my assessment been wrong so far?

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What is up with reports that Ukraine is placing mines in cities?
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What is up with reports that Ukraine is placing mines in cities?
Which cities?
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Originally Posted by BobTheCoward View Post
What is up with reports that Ukraine is placing mines in cities?
The mortar strikes with Soviet butterfly mines in Donbas? Just when Russia has been doing some really poor false flag attacks?

I see no reason why Ukraine would waste resources doing that, but can see a reason why Russia or its proxies might.
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The mortar strikes with Soviet butterfly mines in Donbas? Just when Russia has been doing some really poor false flag attacks?

I see no reason why Ukraine would waste resources doing that, but can see a reason why Russia or its proxies might.
Is Ukraine denying it?
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A good thread on the Russian massacre of POWs at Olenivka

https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1553346547739410432
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Originally Posted by BobTheCoward View Post
Is Ukraine denying it?
Have you tried to find out?
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
and yet they are conducting the war as though they have no real strategy or even tactics.
They have a strategy. Seize the South to connect Crimea so there is a direct land connection.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
and yet the Russian equivalent is conspicuous by it's absence.

Scott Ritter said "Yes, you may kill more Russians. But that’s it. They will keep all the territory they have captured,”

He's already wrong on that.

To add to what Doubt wrote, any source that uncritically quotes Ritter about the Ukraine war has at least two strikes against it to begin with.

Here's a great series of videos exposing Ritter, using his own words, as the pro-Putin shill he is. I've given timestamps for a few lowlights.

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04:00 Kyiv attack was a brilliant feint.

09:26 The Ukrainian National Police carried out the Bucha massacre.


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16:00 Zelenskyy owns a $35 million house in Miami.

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13:48 Ukraine is losing 600 to 800 dead per day.

17:00 Ukraine is taking 20 casualties for every Russian casualty.

17:45 Because it's a "special military operation" and not a war, Ukraine is not legally allowed to strike back at Russia.

18:15 The "special military operation" was "designed to punish Ukraine for its criminal activities in the Donbas for the past eight years."


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13:50 "What is Ukraine known for, other than corruption and Nazis?"

19:30 ". . . sending 40 billion dollars to a Nazi regime without any accounting."

30:00 Diatribe against Finland for allegedly violating spirit and letter of treaties pledging neutrality, while ignoring numerous Russian treaty violations.

Also, here's a Newsweek article that tells you all you need to know about Ritter's credibility.
Last year, Ritter wrote an article for Russian state media about his regrets at the demise of the former Soviet Union.

Ritter has also long been suspected of being recruited by the Soviets "who honey potted him, with a woman he would eventually marry", U.S. former intelligence officer and Newsweek editor-at-large Naveed Jamali tweeted on Thursday.

Jamali said Ritter met his wife in 1988 while in the Soviet Union doing weapons inspection. His wife Marina Ritter was part of a group of "young girls" introduced to American inspectors. The New York Times reported that the FBI continously questioned Marina, because the agency believed she was a former KGB agent. Ritter described the investigation into his wife as "harassment".

That same Times report mentions that Ritter was found on a Yahoo chatroom by a Pennsylvania police officer hunting down sexual predators online. The officer was posing as a 15-year-old girl, who Ritter allegedly said that he liked her "very much" but didn't want to get in trouble. Ritter shared more explicit messages with the girl and masturbated in the online chat. After the officer said that is was the "15-year-old girl," Ritter turned himself in, guilty on six charges, including unlawful contact with a minor.
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