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ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki 1/ Russia is considering a return to producing low-quality gasoline to make up for shortages caused by Ukrainian attacks on its oil refineries. However, this is likely to cause damage to vehicles, which owners may find difficult to repair due to a shortage of spare parts. ⬇...

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Frodder wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:11 pm
November2019 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:09 pm I've seen reports that Ukrainian troops are beginning to surrender in large numbers, even those in the more nationalistic units.
That's not good news, do you have a link?

He's lying. He's a vatnik troll.

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:21 pm

https://twitter.com/jeffpearlman/status ... -kxoQ&s=19

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The Germans are going to transfer another Patriot system to Ukraine.

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Hang on, does this mean that hitting gas and fuel refineries actually damages the Russian war effort, meaning that those facilities are legitimate targets? They've always been legitimate targets. The US constantly bombed German refineries and ball bearing factories during WWII. The current bleating...

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ECONOMYGERMANY Three quarters - for Ukraine: German arms exports are growing Vitaly Kropman | Anastasia Shepelev 04/10/2024 In the first quarter of 2024, the German government approved exports of military goods worth at least 4.89 billion euros. Almost three quarters of German arms exports are dest...

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The airspace over Ukraine is closed. I highly doubt that is the actual route.

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https://twitter.com/delfoo/status/1778093800046448818?t=SptkDwKENt79_WQh-5JRiA&s=19 Russian diesel and petrol production has dropped by over 200,000 tons per week since the Ukrainian drone campaign began, and the shortfall can’t be offset by imports from Belarus and Kazakhstan. Hang on, does this m...

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https://twitter.com/delfoo/status/17780 ... 5JRiA&s=19

Russian diesel and petrol production has dropped by over 200,000 tons per week since the Ukrainian drone campaign began, and the shortfall can’t be offset by imports from Belarus and Kazakhstan.

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God, I wish Norm MacDonald was still alive.

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The US has approved $138m in emergency Hawk missile funding for Ukraine.

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Due to flooding in Orsk , the Voronezh M radar has stopped operating, there is a threat of flooding - media The resource of the Cheka-OGPU reported this with reference to its sources. The Voronezh M radar station in Orsk is located 20 km from the flooded Old Town , near the village of Kumak. Put in...

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https://youtu.be/2fssi3JuT-A?si=PZBWU2Gf0tdHVOz_

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openclashXX wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:59 pm
Hellraiser wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:30 pm Unsurprisingly Syrskyi has announced that rotation of long-serving troops out of the line has started.
Source? Great news if true.

Can't find the exact link due to feed moving on but it was either Euromaidan Press or Kyiv Independent.

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TBF, they're furiously researching, refining, and manufacturing budget drones and guidance systems that are capable of flying 800km into Russia and hitting distillation columns or hitting surface vessels 300km away in the Black Sea. Some highly skilled work involved there. Crippling that to send th...

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I remember reading an article about how the real victims of the war in Ukraine were the women who had to leave their homeland and faced sexual harassment. Not the men going to the front line of course… I read something similar about Trans/LGBTQA?!?/£$&#@% in Ukraine around March 2022 and I honestly...

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Unsurprisingly Syrskyi has announced that rotation of long-serving troops out of the line has started.

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The German government comissioned Rheinmetall to deliver 20 additional Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to the Ukraine. The order was placed in March 2024 and has a value in the mid double-digit million Euro range. The delivery of this new lot is scheduled within 2024. So far, Rheinmetall h...

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The Russian missile ship Serpukhov caught fire in Kaliningrad yesterday. It's reported that it's communication and automation systems were completely destroyed, so a very significant repair period will be required.

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To be clear, you general narrative, as I see it, is that a negotiated settlement can be achieved and maintained with Russia. That is dangerous in the extreme. Absolutely not. My point is that Ukraine has a stated political objective - to reclaim its 1991 borders - that is massively disconnected fro...

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The dam collapse at Orsk has shut down another Russian oil refinery.

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NATO is a combined effort. The logistics and command chains are integrated and coherent. It would be Finnish reserves, RAF typhoons & Storm Shadows, German Leo2s, US airlift, logistics, & reconnaissance, Swedish Grippens, French Rafaeles. Troops from everywhere. No one country would need to do ever...

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Also, France is one of the few countries who can sustain an expeditionary force far from home. Sure, not at the scale of Uncle Sam, but no-one can do that. France has carriers, heavy lift capacity, modern gen 4 fat jets, a radiant will equipped and sustained standing military (not territorial defen...

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Greece is looking to off-load 108 of it's older aircraft and it appears that 32 F-16C/D Block 30s have been earmarked for Ukraine. That would bring the total of F-16s to be transferred to 97.

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If Ukraine is forced to accept a loss of territory the question then is to what extent, if any, is Russia welcomed/accepted back into the international fold. I'd go with not at all, although I also wouldn't be currently pretending Russia O&G isn't being exported on a vast scale. We perhaps can't, o...

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If Ukraine is forced to accept a loss of territory the question then is to what extent, if any, is Russia welcomed/accepted back into the international fold. I'd go with not at all, although I also wouldn't be currently pretending Russia O&G isn't being exported on a vast scale. We perhaps can't, o...

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If Russia is allowed keep any Ukrainian territory WWIII will start within a decade. Any sort of Russian success will see them try again in 5 to 10 years. This is the point people keep ignoring, and what the Poles, Balts, and Czechs have been pointing out for years. At least the French have finally s...

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https://youtu.be/OJpXBF3GnpI?si=aWFeJ4nXU-hZKFfi

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It's a fairly straightforward thing to fix. Just mandate that a bench must consist of 5 forwards and 3 backs.

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https://t.me/ButusovPlus/9336 In the battles for Popasnaya and Bakhmut from March 2022 to May 2023, the Russian PMC Wagner lost 25 thousand servicemen killed. That's exactly how many mercenary badges are engraved on the monument in the Wagner Group chapel. Obviously, this figure does not include mis...

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Russians have advanced to the eastern outskirts of the city of Chasiv Yar, roughly 10km west of Bakhmut, and established a small foothold. Huge amounts of armoured vehicles and manpower being thrown at it. The city is considered strategically important because of the higher ground it's on. https://...

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https://youtu.be/r7kh1tPAa20?si=AT1lW6A5HQ2R4tBe Canadian Chosen Company volunteer doing a walkthrough of a trench assault he was involved in. Edit: this features the very famous bit of footage of a Russian soldier running into a Ukrainian foxhole then attempting to run back where he came from befo...

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The Ukrainian drone attack on Morozovsk airbase last night destroyed 6 planes and seriously damaged another 8. A mix of Su-27s and Su-34s, no breakdown on numbers of each yet but regardless that's the single worst days fixed-wing aviation loss of the war so far. About 20 KIA/WIA personnel too, but n...

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Interesting comments from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul: He says that Blinken has been a proponent of additional military aid for Ukraine (supported Poland giving them MiGs early in the war). He blames the Biden Admin's weakness on Jake Sullivan. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G...

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Turkey has withdrawn from the CFE.

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https://youtu.be/PI6viMW32bY?si=WNtSRgqv0r3Hn3t2

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Germany's Bundeswehr to receive unified operational command German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius aims to strengthen the armed forces' defence capabilities with a unified operational command and prepare for the possible reintroduction of compulsory military service, he said in Berlin on Thursday....

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https://t.me/yigal_levin/64714 Richard Vereker continues to record the fact that among the Russian losses of T-72 tanks, the number of older ones is rapidly growing. Apparently, Russian industry is unable to cover losses with tanks with modernizations, and T-72Bs removed from mothballing are sent i...

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https://t.me/yigal_levin/64714 Richard Vereker continues to record the fact that among the Russian losses of T-72 tanks, the number of older ones is rapidly growing. Apparently, Russian industry is unable to cover losses with tanks with modernizations, and T-72Bs removed from mothballing are sent in...

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https://youtu.be/WJzEXqQ47CQ?si=fVocg6ibhJEv5Hnn

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